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labour day, increase in sick days by president obama. i signed a new law requiring federal contractors who allow employees to work on our contracts to earn up to seven sick days paid a year and stood up to unions holy war. accept them as ministers women ordained at an illegal ceremony leaving them facing excommunication from the catholic church plus. strike up the band. grammy winner shares his music, mission, message after witnessing the rise of the u.s. flag rise over the embassy in cuba. which begin on the border between hungaria and serbia. at this hour, thousands of refugees are being stopped making the journey to europe. tensions boiled after os refugees clashed with police. some got through, and started walking authorities the capital budapest. andrew simmonds is on the border with more on the clashes and tensions. reporter: families following in the weary footsteps of thousands. any hope that there ll be a refugees exodus into austria and germany i ....
plight of americans that just can t afford to stay in their homes. severe weather in texas, tornados leaving behind a trail of destruction. this one in west central texas touching down before nightfall. you see the path of turned up earth, a grim reminder of the dividing line between that which is saved and that which is destroyed. some houses exploding. nothing left but scattered breeze and debris. some blown away. only the foundations remaining. cameras catching this man standing on a second floor porch after the tornado moved through and destroyed the rest of his house. dramatic scenes coming out of texas good evening storms tearing through the central part of texas. it appears that the west of the town off cisco was one of the hardest hit. emergency crews saying one american mass been killed. storm chasers capturing pictures of that tornado. it could be morning before we know the true extent of the damage, and the danger not over yet. more severe weather into th ....
and a teen shot by a colorado classmate has died. tonight barack obama says the u.s. will try to rescue americans in south sudan. gunfire abankruptly stopped evacuations in bor earlier. nicole johnston has more on the situation. the crisis in south sudan is becoming even more dangerous. the government is sending troops and tanks to jonglei to take on the rebels. it says renae gayed soldiers have taken control. gunfire hit three u.s. military aircraft as they were about to land and evacuate american citizens from the town. four u.s. servicemen were injured. in the middle of this are civilians looking for protection. 35,000 are camped out in u.n. compounds in bor, juba and other places. bor is a strategic location within south sudan, and within the crisis both factions and the government forces are using it as a point they want to dominate. however, even the united nations was a target. on saturday it held a memorial service for two indian peacekeepers killed ....
nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. let s bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. is international aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. it is starting to trickle through. we are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. it s piling in and being distributed to areas in need - particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. but the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the - the regions from there that are hard to reach. many of them are still cut off. there is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. there are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. we travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks ....
renewed protests in ukraine. the anger is forcing the country s current president to cancel a foreign trip. protesters fought with police outside a government building in the east. hundre hundreds surrounded the security services headquarters. they threw eggs, then stones and a firebomb. meanwhile a similar scene in the eastern city. pro-russian supporters fought with riot police. demonstrators broke through barricades into a building, replacing a ukrainian flag with a russian one. we have more on the growing unrest. pro-russian protesters stormed the building, having marched down from the symbolic lennon square. a small group were able to get inside the building, standing on a balcony, and calling on thousands that were gathered outside. the riot police line is holding firm, not letting people inside. what people want is varied. some people want to join moscow. others want autonomy for the region. waving a flag, a new flag created in the region of donetsk. indicati ....