Countries come close to running out of snake bite antidote. U. S. President barack obama is due to announce that American Military presence in afghanistan will be extended. Its a dramatic shift in strategy. It originally aimed to withdraw most of the 9,800 strong force by the end of next year, but military leaders have been pushing for more u. S. Support especially after taliban fighters captured kunduz city for three days last month. Afghan forces have continued to fight the taliban in several areas. The u. S. Is expected to keep 5500 troops in the country when Obama Leaves Office in 2007. Jennifer glasse joins us live from kabul. Talk us through how this is going to work now, jennifer. At 9,800 u. S. Forces are going to stay through much of the rest of next year. They were supposed to start drawing down at the beginning of 2016 but will stay through the end of 2016, drawing down to 5,500 in be 2017, so thats a big change. Its the second time this year that president obama announced a
U. S. President barack obama is due to announce in the next hour that American Military presence in afghanistan will extended. His original aim was to withdraw most u. S. Forces by the end of next year. Jennifer glasse is in kabul. How is this going to work, jennifer . Reporter well, jane, the 9,800 u. S. Forces that are here now are going to stay through most of 2016 and then as the at the end o next year, theyll make a decision on the pace of how to draw those down to 5,200 u. S. Forces. The extension of forces here a reflection of the growing taliban insurgency or the fight against the taliban here. But also there is the fact that u. S. Forces will remain in bases around the country. The original plan was to draw down to a small force of a thousand by 2016. But instead those forces will remain in bases around the country. Here north of kabul in the east of the country, and in kandahar to the south. So not just the numbers, but also a presence of u. S. Forces around the country. What
Out of the president ial race. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Mexico is bracing for a major category 5 hurricane heading for the pacific coast. It is being called the strongest hurricane on record in the hemisphe hemisphere. Translator its better to protect than regret. Mexico has shut two key cargo ports, both are in the direct path of patricia, a lot of villages have also been evacuated. Nicole mitchell has been tracking this. When is this storm expected to make landfall . Within the next 12 hours, and its uncommon for these storms to get this intense, to a category 5. The winds are 200 miles per hour, the pressure setting a record as well. But were definitely going to continue to watch this move inland. Even if it loses some intensity, it has already welled up the water. Were seeing high surfs and other problems. All of the models pretty conclusive. This is mountainous terrain. Just behind that, its going to be possibly up to a foot of rain cons
Hillary clinton is back on the campaign trail this Morning Hours after a marathon capitol hill hearing that lasted late into the evening and she was there to answer questions about the 2012 benghazi attack which left four americans dead, by most accounts the hearing produced little new information and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. And im delve walters and clinton answering about the diplomatic out post and at times those asking questions turned on each other for the very reasons of the hearing itself. Make sure the entire record is correct. That is exactly what i want to do. Go ahead. Im about to tell you i move that we put into the record the entire transcript of Sidney Blumenthal, we will release the emails, lets do the transcript. That way the world can see it. A motion. The motion is i second it. We are not going to take that up at a hearing. Reporter al jazeeras libby casey was on capitol hill as the former secretary of state answered those questions for hour
I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catastrophe report released, Global Natural disasters in 2014 combined to cause economic losses of 132 billion. 37 below the tenyear average of 211 billion. With immediate global priorities such as the upheaval in the middle east and syria and iraq to a resurgent russia in Eastern Europe and abroad we should be focusing our resources on countering global terrorist threats with humanitarian assistance, democracy promotion and Embassy Security measures. The only reason i can see the administration wants