On a suit like this can mean the difference between life and death in fighting it ebola. I will explain in a moment. We begin in turkey where 46 hostages held by the Islamic State rather by isil returned home today. The circumstances of the release are still unknown. Al jazeera has the latest. Reunited with their family. Their release marked the end to the turkish governments hostage crisis. After isil overral mosul in june, they included diplomatic staff, children and special forces police. People wearing blackoutfits with faces covered with black vails entered. They assured us they were not going to harm us. They took all of our belongings and told us to leave and go into the street. The group arrived at the capitol. Today is not only a Celebration Day for you and your families. It is a very significant day. All of our days in future, we hope they will be as good as this one. We will never experience such a sadness ever again. The no ransom was paid and it is reported there was no ar
Not close. And four years later in an environment that is more hostile, kay hagan comes pretty close to winning a senate seat despite 125 million being spent, and she did that in large part because we turned out tens of thousands of more of the most disenfranchised people in the country in a state where republicans shortened the early vote period from two weeks to one week and eliminated a lot of the easilyaccessible voting sites for africanamericans and for young people. Thats the lesson that democrats have to take. Theres no question there are a lot of disappointed democrats and my message to them is take a few days, have a drink or two, get a little bit of rest, pick yourself back up because theres an election in two years and thats what we should be looking at over the next couple of months for what is going to definitely be another election cycle. The one candidate for president to did go to campaign with gary peters is the senator elect. What is next for you . I think i have four
Accused of using her email accused of blocking transparency no more bombs for a month, the columbian government is to suspend air strikes, and say the halt could be extended if the marxist rebel group renege. Reporter for the First Time Since the talks in 2012 the president agreed to a reduction in military operations to the rebels. To help deescalate the conflict i have tried to order the armed forces. To cease bombardment. A surprise move for a present that has been steadfast in continuing the war. A tangible result in a negotiation. Back in disease, the f. A. R. C. Announced an indefinite ceasefire, putting an end to their attack on the town and infrastructure. Now comes a limited reduction in facilities which will be subject to review in a month. Another step was reducing the impact for negotiations. While it continued in cuba. The columbian military will serve the right to continue air raids. The government is confident enough that the talks you are moving forward and could be ent
Some of the victims of high grade heroin flowing into the United States the young and cambodia. The electric difference meaning that vehicle is running silently, a silence youd hear if not for the thousands of other vehicles it has to share the roads with making on environmental difference whilst at the same time making a profit. Good evening, thank you for joining us on al jazeera. Im stephanie sy. And im antonio mora. We begin in iraq where iraqi forces are forcing i. S. I. L. Out of tikrit. Government officials said their forces retook large parts of the city and drove the group out of alla la. The iraqi and shia militias are preparing for an assault should the joint offensive proceed, Similar Missions in other cities will continue. Junioredons King Abdullah spoke to his people today. In the u. K. A new airline law aimed at preventing citizens joining i. S. I. L. The tikrit offensive is the largest against i. S. I. L. Its a combination of iraqi and shia militias. There are concerns
Kouddous. We will also get an update on Abdullah Elshamy. [indiscernible] my responsibility if anything ever happens to me. We will speak with his brother Mohammed Elshamy. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is in crisis as sunni militants seized more towns and now set their sights on the capital baghdad. In the past few days, Al Qaedalinked rebels have seized control of mosul, iraqs second largest city, as well as tikrit. The sunni militants now control a territory that stretches from the eastern edge to fallujah and now the Northern City of mosul. Their advanced has cost a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing some 500,000 people in mosul alone. Mosul fell in part because u. S. Trained iraqi forces abandoned their posts. Maliki has reportedly urged the u. S. To carry out airstrikes in recent months, but the Obama Administration has declined request so far. We will have more on the crisis in iraq aft