Francis holds an open air mass in the occupied west bank city of bethlehem. Plus. Im Andrew Thomas in tasmania australia, on an experiment to chip and track bees. They hope to find out why bee numbers worldwide seem to be in terminal decline. Now polls opened across ukraine where 35 million are being asked to choose the next president. The interim government urged everyone to cast their ballot. Prorussian separatists threatened to block voters. Well be live with Hoda Abdelhamid who is close to donetsk. First, this report from nick schifrin, from the ukranian capital kiev. Reporter a record turn out is expected for a vote, deciding not just the state of ukraine, but the state of relations between russia and the west. 17 candidates are in the running. The ones in the lead want closer ties to the european union, not something that russia wants. These elections were called after Viktor Yanukovych fled the country and was deposed by parliament, and it is about what ukrainians want. Translat
Faces a billion dollar bill to repair flood damage. And the crisis in ukraine is hitting the big screen at the cannes film festival. But first, an attack on a busy market in china killed more than 30 people, and wounded 90 others. The Chinese Government is condemning what it calls a terrorist attack, the capital of xinjiang, an autonomous region where muslim separatists have been blamed for previous bombings. Reporter its the worst act of violence in the troubled region of xinjiang in years. Two s. U. V. S driven into a busy market as assailants threw explosives. They crashed head op, one vessel exploding. Witnesses said there was at least 12 explosions. Its not known who was responsible, but violence has been blamed on uighur separatists. The security chief said hes intensify a crackdown against the arrogance of terrorists. Thursdays attacks took place a few weeks after a bombing at a train station that killed three, injuring 79. This area was quiet since mass riots in 2009 killed alm
You should all be behind bars. Its as simple as that. Plus iraqs oil under threat. We are live in the oilrich north with the u. S. Secretary of state is trying to smooth things over. And. [ cheering ]. Brazil fans celebrate as their team soars to the top of their group. Three al jazeera journalists gaoled in egypt for doing their job are serving the first day of their sentences. Peter greste and Mohamed Fadel fahmy have been given seven years in prison. Baher mohamed 10 years. The australian Prime Minister told parliament he will be in touch with his egyptian counterparts to bring peter greste home. The pros campaign continues. Al jazeera and bbc staff will hold a vigil 24 hours after the verdict thats in the next hour. And peter grestes parent about the heartache of hearing the verdict. First this from patty culhane. The world heard, the moment journalists in egypt learnt the cost of doing their jobs. Peter greste 7 years. Producer Mohamed Fadel fahmy 7 years. Producer Baher Mohamed 1
Relationship with the polish government, one of our greatest supporters in the nato alliance. We recall that 70 years ago people were willing to fight back against the not subsidies, rise the nazis, rising out of the sewers of a warsaw ghetto, to be able to fight them off with sticks and stones and outofdate weapons, to be able to liberate, to liberate poland from nazi oppression and miles away in places like dacau, auschwitz and others, there were the death camp. Were one year away from commemorating commemorating the liberation of the death camps. We know that as those people marched out of those death camps, they made their way into palestine, which became the state of israel. We were the first nation to recognize the necessary and rightful place for israel to exist as an independent government, and forever and a day the homeland for the jewish people so that they would be safe from terrorism and what occurred. So i am for this whole iron dome supplemental, and we need to do it. But
Copy of which weve obtained saying that on monday and tuesday the students of that high school will be staying at home doing Virtual Learning. This is the time during which the School District and the school will figure out their next plan and theyll be telling those families on tuesday whether Virtual Learning will continue. To give you context here, they started with all the students inclass three days last week. Had already planned ahead of time to have the students at home thursday and friday to see how that first week went, and that same week is when one of the students who was on our air talked about the fact that she took pictures of what their passing time looked like in hallways when changing classes. During that time you saw very crowded hallways and that went viral on the internet. The superintendent responded to that photo saying, yes, it looks bad, but the full context is that those hallways may look like that during passing time when youve got more than 2,000 students in