This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Investors seem to be catching their breath this hour. Reversing earlier huge losses on u. S. Stock exchanges. The dow right now is down 177 points. A big change from the open where the dow fell more than a thousand points. It was in response in part to the sell off in china. Oil prices plummeting, too, theyre now at a sixyear low. Ali velshi joins us to try to put son context and perspective on this whole thing. Down more than a thousand points. Now down 150normally we would not be talking about a dow that is down 1 . There have been a string of down days, that would make us want to talk about this, but when the market opened it opened in such velocity. Now as you said it was in response to what happened overnight in shanghai and asian markets. In america the dow closed down more than 500 points. I could tell that it was closing with such velocity and heading down that it was only the closing bell that would stop
Long or short, shall be devoted to your service. More than semore than six decades on the thrown. Queen elizabeth is the countrys longestserving monarch. Hello, tacklic europes refugee crisis is a matter of humanity and human dignity. Thats according to the president of the european commission. Hes calling on the states to agree to agree to provide homes for 160,000 refugees by next year. The critics say it wont be enough. He warned half a million refugees have entered this year mainly from syria and libya. Tens of thousands have made the dangerous journey across the m mediterranean sea. The last four million syrians living in turkey, lebanon, jordan, iraq and egypt. Another group of weary people cross the board of th border of macedonia. The European Parliament has been discussing how to cope with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have already made the dangerous journey. For the commissioned president the task ahead is clear. But he needs to sell it to politicians and people a
And more than 500 million books sold. Best selling author Jackie Collins has died. Good evening. Im Richelle Carey. We begin tonight with the arrival of pope francis in havana, where its a historic trip to cuba and the United States. The pope ended his first day with an evening on the town. After dinner he spent a few hours greeting 30 to 40 preselected guests. This wrapped up a long day filled with much pomp and circumstance. We have reports from havana. Hope francis touched down here in havana and met with raul castro of cuba discussing a variety of topics most likely the normalization of relations between the United States and cuba, something that pope francis helped to forge. He also met with castro is to discuss some of the religious issues here in cuba. They would close down churches and confiscated property. So there is a long road ahead in terms of relationship between these two parties, thats most likely one of the issues that pope francis will take on as he travels the island
Peace talks between the government and the opposition. Well look to the u. N. To work on both front steadily asman dated and play a bigger role in consolidating opposition groups coordinating International Counter terrorism efforts and other areas. The International Community should render cooperation and support and assist and compliment the mediation bisect general ban kimoon and special envoy in a constructive way. The i. S. S. G. Should build on its previous efforts and continue to support the u. N. Mr. President , since the outbreak of the syrian crisis, chinas all alone held all along held an objective and a just position and participated in the settle. Of the issue. China does not have or pursue selfish interests on the syrian issue. No matter how we vote for or against the goal is always to avoid war and turmoil. Give the Syrian People stability give peace a chance and make political settlement possible. What we are trying to do is to uphold fundamental and longterm interests o
Attacks against women on new years eve. A warm welcome to the program. The u. N. Said at least 400,000 syrians are living under siege, completely cut off with no access to food or to medicine. It said that both the government and opposition are stopping supplies. The u. N. Said that the Islamic State in iraq and the levant h has4 million syrians have been registered in egypt, iraq, jordan, lebanon and turkey. Many refugees camps are seen snow in this last week. Well, those who have left to seek safety in europe are now struggling, of course, with freezing temperatures. Medics say theyve seen a spike in illnesses amongst refugees in the balkans. In lebanon here is caroline malone. A protest on the border between syria and lebanon less than 10 kilometers away, there are syrians and lebanese marching in solidarity for those who are suffering nearby. We came to lebanon because of the regime airstrikes. They destroyed our opens. They burned our fields. There is nothing left. The people fled