Election that could put the far left into power. From london, to sydney, to san franciscan journalists around the world have stopped work and called on egypts government to set our colleagues free. It was a year ago today that peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. Andrew simmons has their story. Reporter al jazeeras doha news center marking an anniversary the staff here and in the rest of the world find hard to absorb. It is now one year since a phone call to the news desk reporting the arrest three of the networks journalists in cairo. Then 12 months behind bars. For just doing their job. Right across the world there were newsroom vigils and protests outside egyptian embassies. A trial in cairo had failed ocome one any evidence to incriminate the staff or associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. All the charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed were false. Bahers wife spiking f
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because
In addition to being conyers mayor, the mayor is the churchill factor. Thats incredibly nice of you. What did you learn from Winston Churchill about what people want in their leader . Well churchill, the guy made the most incredible series of mistakes. His early career was studied with disasters of one kind or another. But he always came back from them and he always stuck by what he believed. And actually, as you will discover in this book if you need to analyze all of his catastrophes, you can see how he was very often on to something. Oftentimes he simply got it wrong. The big takeoff from churchill was he had the big colossal moral strength and on a scale its hard for any of us to imagine. Yesterday i went to see the Aerospace Museum and we looked at that flyer built by orville and Wilbur Wright that flew 800 feet. Its incredible that only ten years after that flight Winston Churchill was getting up in contraptions of absolutely terrifying primitiveness made of basically canvas and
Also worsening tonight. In iraq, the radical isil has driven one and a half Million People from their homes, leading the United Nations to declare it a level three emergency. That is the highest and worst level. The Obama Administration meanwhile has sent a team of special operations groups to iraq to assess how to evacuate the thousands of refugees trapped there. The troops are on the Mountain Range for roughly 24 hours in a move the critics say seems an awful lot like boots on the ground. Something the administration has insisted we would not see. When asked about that at a brief survey today, the advisor tried to draw an extinction. These are 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in iraq. Theyre there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off the mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort again to get them to a safe space. There are a range of ways for doing that, we havent made decisions about how to carry out that mission because