As a deal is struck with the separatists. Renewed fighting in donetske as the Government Forces try to take back the ukrainian city. Welcome to the news hour. The people of gaza are running out of safe havens. For days now, following warnings from the israeli army, thousands have been heading into gaza city. But the city now is under heavy attack. These images are from al aksa hospital where israeli shells landed monday afternoon. Doctors say much of the hospital is now nonoperational. From israel army, our Administration Unit and surgical ward and are female and male under attack, the bomb is in our hospital now and operative units under attack. We cannot do anything here for our patients and for our injured peoples. Our correspondent Nicole Johnston joins us and as night falls, nicole, you can see the damage from street level. Whats your assessment . Yes, we did that just before it became dark. We drove to the outskirts of shujayea, the area that have been hit. An area of gaza called
Its really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where youre going to eat. Tonight its pretty hectic because of the snow outside and theres not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybodys kind of coming in. In just a decade, the number of People Living in new yorks homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. Its a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. What we see today the homeless that we see the exodus from this city, families doubling, tripling up, the rent skyrocketing. This has been a crisis thats been cooking for 20 years. Why are so many in new york homeless . This week, fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands from their homes. Were on our way to the south bronx to new yorks only Intake Center for homeless families. More than seventy percent of people in the citys shelters are families with children. Home
More than a week ago police in new york arrested two women on charges in relation to a bomb. The women were inspired by a designated terrorist group that the United States targeted in yemen. Both were targeted by an undercover investigation into homegrown terrorist plots, in philadelphia, a woman was arrested on charges that she tried to join i. S. I. L. , another group, that america is targetting in iraq. Details in both cases are unfolding, they involved joint federal bureau of investigation and local police. In some circles the joint task force comes under intense criticism. Since 9 11, 40 of the budget has been allocated to counterterrorism organizations. The number of confident ial plots have risen to 15,000. Its been said that it creates and has phoney terrorist plots so the federal bureau of investigation can justify counterterrorism. Those efforts have achieved some successes, but the question is at what cost . Reporter when it comes to funding effort to root out terrorism the
You are the most important part of the show. Join the life conversations on twitter ajrealmoney. This was a huge week on capitol hill where decisions and discussions that affect the economy and your money again took center stage. Congress voted to increase the debt limit and extend the Borrowing Authority of the United States government to march 2015. Lawmakers pushed through the legislation ahead of a nasty winter storm that ended up shutting down washington, d. C. Failure to act, though, would have brought our economy to a grinding halt if the United States started to default on its debt obligations. So this may be the donothing congress at least on raising the debt seal, washington dysfunction did not get in the way. Americas economy and your prosperity are better for it. Americas economy was very much on the mind this week of janet yellen, the president s nominee to be the chair of the federal reserve. She was plain spoken and easier to follow than past fed chairs. For homeowners a
The anguish their parents are feeling right now. In london with all of the latest in rome including decision time. People in Eastern Ukraine get ready for a crucial and c controversial refer endsum. Medical records suggest an al jazeera journalist on Hunger Strike could die without urgent treatment. The African National congress has officially been declared the winner in south africas general election. The anc has fallen just short of a twothirds minority taking 62 of that vote. It secured 249 seats in the national assembly, losing 15 seats. Thats the lowest number its held in 20 years. Leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, picked up less than a quarter of the votes but it actually made the biggest gains in parliament, securing 89 seats, 22 more representatives than the last election. And thats the highest number it has ever held. President jacob zuma says terror. Tod today marks the 20th anniversary of the day on which president Nelson Mandel a a was the first. We dedicat