This is alJazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tens of thousands of refugees looking to start over in europe have more options this morning. Germany announced it has the ability to take in half a million Asylum Seekers each year for several years to come. Germany expects to receive 800,000 people this year alone. That is four times higher than its 2014 total. Germany has been insisting other european nations take in their fair share of refugees, as well. We are live in vienna, where thousands of refugees have been arriving. Weve seen you on the train, at the train station as they have streamed into that country. Describe how they are being treated in austria. Every man, woman and child refugee that i have spoken with has said they are being treated very humanely here in austria since they arrived in vienna. When they get off the trains, they are greeted with applause by aid workers and volunteers, volunteers and translators walk around with signs
Who came in second last time. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. It has been raining again in houston, and flood warnings are back from many rivers there. At least 17 people were killed by the fast rising waters that struck there and in oklahoma over the last few days. In the small town of wimberley between austin and san antonio searchers are looking for 11 missing people. Officials say they tried to warn people about what turned out to be a 46foot tall wall of water that came down the river over the weekend taking everything in its path. This used to be where a tree stood. This is the hole that the roof left behind as it was up wood wood rooted. You can see the direction that the water traveled and the force of the water that actually sheered the bark clean over of the tree stump there. And of course, homes in the way were knocked off its foundation in a distance there. You can see the white degree of what remains of what once was a house. Another hom
Blame for failing to stop isil as the Group Threatens to expand its reach. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. The waters are start to go recede in tax but the aftermath of the deadly flooding in decades is just beginning to sink in. There are 17 people confirmed dead in texas and oklahoma and 11 still missing including eight from two families whose Vacation Home was swept away in a raging river. We have the latest. A mess does not begin to describe what Mother Nature left behind muddy water as far as the eye can see in texas, 400 homes badly damaged some knocked off their foundations. In houston, 2500 abandoned cars and trucking litter the roads. It was bare and our cars floating. We helped them get their cars out and when i looked over, i said our cars are fleeting. It was wild. For some, the loss was bigger. Michaels father died trying to help a driver whos car was filling with water. My dad was a hero, he was helping himself get out
says its troops are still fighting there. ah, i ve sammy s a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, police in germany, begin removing the loss. climate activists protesting against the expansion of a coal mine. a new study finds exxon mobil publicly down, play climate change. despite that science is predicting global warming from fossil fuels during the 19 seventy s. china s expos shrink in december as global demand fulls on de mining hopes of a global economic recovery this year. now russia says it s captured the eastern town of solid off a kia is denying that saying to be a fighting is still ongoing chance drive, it has more from outside. bah, moot in ukraine s dumbass region. we have just come out of van mood and we spent the morning in there with ukrainian special forces. they were pretty candid in their sorts. they said that they believed if it hadn t fallen solid are that is then it was going to imminently full. and they said that they were very few
a special counselors appointed to investigate classified documents found at president joe biden s home in his former washington office. ah, hello i marianna massey in london, you re watching out jesse or else coming up on the program. you are assigned to say last year was the 5th war, missed on record with the last 9 years, the hottest since pre industrial times. ukraine says its troops are holding out and sold are despite the altered ashley s wagner group, claiming to have taken the east in town. thousands of somalis reilly against al chabarise in a rare protest against the group after years of violence. ah, hello and welcome to the program. we ve been falling at developments out of washington for the last couple of hours. yes, attorney general merit garland announcing the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president job biden s handling of sensitive government documents. now biden has confirmed this a 2nd set of classified documents for or found this time i