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after another round of raids in brussels. it is with irreplaceable loss in mind that we will renew our vow to come together against a common enemy in order to keep our people safe. secretary of state john kerry offers u.s. help and condolence he as americans are confirmed among the dead. holy observances. pope francis leads good friday services in rome. and in jerusalem, and music history in the make, hundreds of thousands gather in havana for the first ever concert there by the rolling stones. good evening i m antonio mora, this is al jazeera america s international news hour. tonight we begin with big developments in the fight against i.s.i.l. the pentagon says u.s. special forces have killed another member of i.s.i.l. s cabinet. defense secretary ash carter today says i.s.i.l. s finance minister died in a raid later this week. hajji imam as he was known was second in command. aimed at retaking mosul from i.s.i.l, helped by u.s. air strikes and peshmerga combat tr ....
about it, we own up to it and podle like presidenapology liked in this case. solving overcrowding, freeing thousands of federal inmates, a closer look at a controversial statistician. plus, sphiefer survivor story, . rapists cause rape. we talk to aspen maddis about the journey that changed her life.first came the attack and air strike on the doctors without borders hospital in afghanistan. then an admission by a top american commander that the united states carried out the strike. then an apology by president obama. who ordered it? who is accountable? mike viqueria is in washington. mike. john in the days following attack, five days since the attack president obama and the white house insisted they were going to wait for results of a pentagon investigation before casting any blame. but the day after his top commander in afghanistan accepted blame before a senate panel on tuesday president obama picked up the phone and made a rare gesture. five days after an att ....
of nearly 2.5 million volkswagen diesel cars, the growing scandal over emissions. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m del walters. a major reversal from the white house. the president today talking about withdrawing troops from afghanistan. saying the u.s. will now only keep handful of bases open through 2017. he says the decision is vital to maintaining security in the region. just under 10,000 troops will stay on through most of next year. he will cut that number to 5500 troops by the time he leaves office. our national security correspondent jamie mcintyre joins us from the pentagon. and tell us more about the new strategy and just what prompted this change? reporter: well, there is a well-worn phrase here at the pentagon, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. in this case the plan was the president s plan to get all u.s. troops out of afghanistan by the end of his term, leaving just a small force at the embassy, the enemy was a res ....
morning i m stephanie sy. and i m delve walters and breaking news out of afghanistan powerful 7.5 earthquake striking near the northern city of of jarm and 2:00 p.m. local and 5:00 on the east coast. felt hundreds of miles away in pakistan and india and in the capitol. 11 school girls dead, nine injured in the province in northern afghanistan. we felt the earthquake here in the capitol kabul 250 kilometers south, southeast of the epicenter in the hindu mountains. it s very difficult right now, communications across the country very difficult and telecommunications are down in some areas. we are just hearing those first reports of injuries in towakan and the most powerful earthquake anyone here has felt ever. it went on for about a minute and people ran out into the streets and not only here in this residential area but also in the very busy areas of town, the big shopping centers emptied out and people running out in the streets as cars shook, we have not heard my ....
new zealand against australia kicks off in three hours time. all the build up coming later this news hour. let s start with the russian plane carrying 224 people which crashed in egypt relatives have been gathering in the airport looking for news of that flight. president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences and declared a day of morning. there are no survivors. the airbus belonging to metro jet airlines took off shortly before 6:00 a.m. local time. the aircraft carrying 224 people including seven credit members was headed to st. petersburg in russia. 23 minutes into the flight, though, the plane disappeared off radar screen. russian news agency says that the pilot reported technical problems and asked to change his root. the plane is believed to have crashed 35 kilometers in the coastal area of el arish in the sinai peninsula. we ve not yet started an investigation. a specialized team will start one very soon. the airline was carrying 217 on board. ....