And extraordinary work that goes on around the world from people who the public dont really know very much about. Politicians and society tends to be rather cynical about journalism. But i see enormous bravery, enormous challenge, great courage going on to surface things that the public really needs to know about. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalists have to get involved with all sides of the conflict in order to get the story. It takes a very fearless journalist to get up every day and say, you know what . Im determined to continue my profession, even though i may have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. [radio] line em all up. Come on, fire i came here in 2003, i came to cover the usled invasion, i got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started. And i stayed for the next couple of years working on and off. I came because i thought the war was going to be covered pretty heavily in the western media from the position of emb
Free as the hunt intense fizz for the fan spenintense fizz the man that beheaded james foley. And a funeral for Michael Brown, the family aprosecutors for peace. And the system shut down by hackers. A cleanup is underway in napper california, where a 6. 0 earthquake damaged homes and water mains, sending hundreds to the hospital. Schools are closed to give building inspectors a chance to survey the damage and grape harvesting has been suspended. Crews are working to restore power to those without electricity since early sunday morning. Lets go to melissa chan in downtownnapper, one of the hardest hit areas. How bad is the damage . Economic losses of up to a billion dollars. Thats painful. In the short term, Power Outages at its worse, it was 70,000 households who didnt have power. We have seen the power crews working. Theyve brought it down, 5,000 are without power. Theres 90 with power. Its still a state of emergency. It is dark where we are, this is downtown napper. Take a looking at
Good afternoon, the first person diagnosed with the ebola virus in the United States has died. Thomas duncan passed away in texas succumbing to what has been called an insidious disease. Screening will begin at five airport. We wait for the latest of course on ebola concerns. First to ash har quaraishi where duncan was being treated. There was an indication of a slight improvement in duncan improvement, what happened. On monday he remained in stable yet critical condition. He was undergoing treatment with that investigational medication. His liver levels had improved. They declined over the weekend. But that could truck wait they said. His vital signs were getting better. The fever was down. They had a plumber of hope that things were taking a turn for the better. He passed away around 7 51 p. M. Local time. We spoke with a spokesman earlier about what might have gone done. Its likely that the organs were not keeping up with the infection. You know at the end its very tragic as to what
An International Chemicals Watchdog Group reports on Syrian Chemical Weapons stock piles. The aim is to get rid of the arsenal by next year. And a major lawsuit has been settled. American airlines has agreed to pay 135 million to Financial Services firm cantor fitzgerald. 658 cantor employees died in the attack. Al Jazeera America is next. Sir charles, the round mound of rebound. He is one of the best players and biggest personalities to ever play the game. Basketball star Charles Barkley was a dominant force on the hardwood, but hes also known for his entertaining and sometimes controversial commentary, from sports to politics and social issues, he everything. I sat down with the nba legend termed Emmy Award Winning analyst when he was in new york. Well, with the nba season starting, i know you are in hand demand. First of all thank you for taking some time to talk to al jazeera. I remember years ago when you were still playing, it seemed like you were almost offended as people only s
People only saw you as an athlete because you thought there was more to who you were as a person. I tell these guys, basketball is what you do. Its not who you are. You should never the notion that what you are looking at, whether you are a ball player or a baseball player, that minimizes who you are. Uhhuh. Its what you do. You know, its not who you are. The motion that you let a sport event dictate the type of you know, like thats all i am right. I have known that from the beginning. I hope to be a good person. Lets talk about racism south. Uhhuh. It was beyond the jim crow era but it was very segregated in parts of the south when you grew up. Yes. You have obviously evolved beyond that environment, travel traveled the world. Where do you see this racism . One of the greatest things i did, i wrote a book x amount of years ago called what the who is afraid of a large black man. I have had 30 Companies Made make my booed mandatory writing. I wanted to write a positive book on race beca