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Afghanistan is on his first visit to the United States since taking office. A trip aimed at repairing and rebooting relations. Japans defense minister is Standing Firm on moving a u. S. Air base in okinawa. Jen nakatani says in order to suspend relocation work wont change anything. Translator i was not aware of any problems in the procedures leading up to the survey. So the governor will continue with the plan. Nakatani says he wants people in okinawa to understand that its important to move the...

Passed a landmark bylaw recognizing samesex partnerships as the equivalent of marriage. Families of japanese citizens abducted to north korea in the 1970s and 80s are still hoping to learn about the fates of their loved ones. Officials in pyongyang pledged last may to launch a new investigation into what happened to them. But they failed to deliver reports on their progress. So japanese leaders have decided to extend economic sanctions for two more years. Cabinet ministers approved the extension...

For a u. S. Air base. And baristas share their techniques for making coffee taste and look good. Militants have seized most of the Palestinian Refugee camp in syrias capital damascus. Theyve set off an intense battle with Government Forces. And theyve trapped thousands of People Living in the camp. Fighters with the Group Islamic state and an al qaeda affiliate defeated another armed group and took over the camp. Syrian Government Forces fought back using fighter jets to drop barrel bombs. Pales...

Lucy off tonight. Lets get right out to dave kinchen live at the seen of that fire in west chester tonight. Dave . Reporter this fire left behind so much destruction take a look behind me you can see the debris and all of the sideing here. Two apartments destroyed. Many others that were damaged by this fire. In fact we spoke with the woman who made it out of that first floor apartment just in time. Skyfox flies over the seen of fire devastation at the winter brook apartments in west chester ches...

Fire devastation at the winter brook apartments in west chester chester. A two alarm fire destroyed two units and held firefighters at bay for more than a half an hour as they took on the flames. Very fast, yes. A lot of smoke a lot of flames. Reporter penny says she was paying bills in her first floor apartment when the alarm went off upstairs. I look out and saw smoke. So iran back in and got the cat. Reporter spunky is the cats name and hes okay. It was just the two of them living there. Its ...

A ten. I did. It was ten worthy. G i saw how breezy it was and thought it was is a a nine. You dont know how i agonize over this number of day. We will turn nine upside down and give you a six today. Maybe a seven because it is so mild but we have win and rain and later on, some thunderstorms. We will go with the six, 60 degrees, 13 miles an hour wind, out of the warm South Southwest and sunrise happens at 6 42. We do have a few areas of showers, right now, we have a lot of cloud cover but in ch...

And now scott barnes from the Basketball Committee will give the duke blue devils the championship trophy. Coach, its all yours. Congratulations, coach. Were very proud of you. On behalf of the committee. Mike i can speak . Its all yours. Mike first of all, i want to say exactly what mark mentioned. We beat a great team Great Program and one of the best guys in coaching in bo ryan so congratulations to wisconsin. I want to i want to thank the city of indianapolis all the volunteers all the many ...

And now scott barnes from the Basketball Committee will give the duke blue devils the championship trophy. Coach, its all yours. Congratulations, coach. Were very proud of you. On behalf of the committee. Mike i can speak . Its all yours. Mike first of all, i want to say exactly what mark mentioned. We beat a great team Great Program and one of the best guys in coaching in bo ryan so congratulations to wisconsin. I want to i want to thank the city of indianapolis all the volunteers all the many ...

Theatres this weekend. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im morgan radford. The Obama Administration is preparing to announce on sunday that it has met its deadline to improve healthcare. Gov. Today is the Obama Administrations selfimposed deadline to have its healthcare. Gov web site up and running for the majority of americans. It was shut down late friday for overnight repairs, and the goal was to handle 50,000 users all at once and to reduce errors. Whether it can handle the capacity wont be pu...

Picture in a moment. Lets take a look at what were seeing right now, the Dow Jones Industrials down 220 points, thats a loss of about 1. 5 . The nasdaq composite down nearly 2 at 4025 and the s p 500 in that pullback load that we were talking about, and january 15th was alltime high for the s p at 1848 and change. So right now 1754 would mark a 5 pullback, and people are wondering whether this is an entry point, do you wait and see . Friday is the jobs report, traders talking about the fact that...