Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy, thanksgiving has come and gone and black friday is in full swing. Some of the biggest chains have been open for hours. Toys r us and, walmart and target opened hours ahead of the midnight start on black friday and macys opening on thanksgiving evening for the first time in the 155 year history. The retailers want to makeup for the shorter span this year between thanksgiving and christmas and, walmart has protests with workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions and patricia is at Roosevelt Field in new york. Sorry we do not have patricia now. We will tell you a little bit about black fridays history. Thanksgiving thursday may have given black friday a run for its money this year. Some of the nations biggest chains started the Holiday Shopping season on thursday. Kmart welcomed shoppers at 6 00 a. M. , toys r us, target annual mart opened before the usual start on friday. Retailers say they need to time beca
Keep up protests against the government. More than 1,000 demonstrating inside the compound. We start in pakistan where the military has a new boss. Lieutenant Raheel Sharif takes over as the new army chief, considered to be the most powerful job in the country. These are the pictures from the ceremony where Raheel Sharif was installed a while ago. He took over from general Pervez Ashfaq kayani. Perhaps the new challenge is the threat from the tribal north. The Pakistani Taliban and others continued to attack the armed forces. Then theres drone attacks in the northwest. Attacks on the western border with afghanistan is a challenge. Things are expected to get worse after troops pull out. Theres a traditional rivalry. Thais have improved. Border skirmishes in kashmir has continued. How is the new man portrayed and seen . Are they concerned hell be different . Everybody expects a continuity as far as policy is concerned. That is, of course, the deployment of the military as you right fully
[ music ] we begin in the middle east where millions of Syrian Refugees are spread across the region, many facing the misery of a freezing winter away from home. Many have been living in terms for more than a year and are treading low temperatures and conditions that are fast approaching. More than 2 million refugees have been forced to leave their country. 90s are living in lebanon, turkey, iraq and egypt. Well go to jordan in the largest camp for refugees. First a report from a Northern Iraq camp. Its early morning. The women in this refugee camp prepare food. They have been cooking outdoors since the summer. That will have to end. Winter has some, and with it plunging temperatures and rain. This woman wonders what shell do when its too cold to cook outside. I make an effort to cook every friday. With the rain we wont be able to do this. This small treat will be taken away from us. Preparations to get the camp ready for winter are well under way. Drainage systems are being put in pla
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Fighters inside its borders. And all the world cup news including Mario Balotelli making headlines as italy beats england at the world cup. Iraqi soldiers appear to be holding back in advance of sunni muslim fighters north of the capital baghdad. According to media reports, Government Troops re took two downs. Fighters control the key cities of tikrit and mosul. The army has been joined by a flood of volunteers after a call to arms from a top cleric. Rebel fighters have taken a number of towns. A sunni fighter continues offensives in iraq. The video shows them celebrating the capture of mosul. Its a secondlargest city, taken on tuesday. The reuters newsagency shows courthouse and Police Station set fire to after prisoners released. The United States is beefing up its naval presence in the gulf. The george h. W. Bush is moving from the northern arabian sea and two vessels equipped with guided missiles. Imran khan is in baghdad. Fighting is going on, there has been heavy clashes in cal a