Man shotded for revenge in social media. We begin in tun easy i cant. The home of the arrestash sprivening where polls are about to close in a historic president ial vote. The Runoff Election is the final step in tunisias transition to full democracy. Voters are treeing between two candidates. Cray i didntyearold asepci is for the tunnis party, an establishment figure he is shown as the revolution. He is a wellknown former human rights activist. He took a third of the vote in this update. Increasing throughout the days. This is the third time tun easeians take to the poll in less than two months. There is a bit of prestige related to the turnout. However, there is still strong feelings for those supporting both sides. Issues relating to, to the economy as well as freedom. Tunisian politics are at the top of the agenda. Those who are supporting the almost 90yearold regime, they are doing so because he has a lot of experience. Experience that. He is a liberal. His politics and has manage
John kerry has met with protest leaders from ukraine today saying that the u. S. Support what he calls their fight for democracy. Tense tens of thousands of ukranians are demonstrating across the country. The battle puts the u. S. And russia on opposing sides. Jennifer glasse has been following the story and joins us live from kiev. So far what has come out of oppositions meeting with secretary kerry . As you can probably hear behind me, demonstrations go on day and night, 24 hours. Music playing right now. In munich, the opposition leaders got the kind of rhetoric they wanted from the u. S. Secretary of state. And european leaders. They want support. But they say they want concrete support. And one of the leaders said the problems the reasons are clear. He places the blame firmly on the president. Just one person who is responsible for all escalation, who can easily stop the escalation, is the person the president of ukraine. You have absolute power in his hand. And he has absolutely
That have long been created there. So any action that we may take to provide assistance to Iraqi Security forces has to be join booeedby a serious and sincere t iraqs leaders to set aside sectarian differences, and account for legitimate interests of ale of iraqs communities and to continue to build the capacity of an Effective Security force. We cant do it for them. In the absence of this type of political effort. Shortterm military action, including any assistance we might provide, wont succeed. So this should be a wakeup calm. Iraqs leaders have to demonstrate a willingness to make hard decisions. And comprises on behalf of iraqi people in order to bring the country together. In that effort, they will have the support of the United States and our friends and our allies. Eyeye rockseyiraqi neighbors he responsibility. Nobody will benefit from seeing iraq descend in to chaos, but ultimate i its up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems. Indeed, across the region w
The philippines, but there are fears for its future. As we start in pakistan, the Army Launched a series of air strikes targetting foreign fighters in the north. The military says more than 50 fighters linked to the gag have been killed in north waziristan. The air strikes are in response to an attack by the Pakistani Taliban. Uz beck fighters say they carried out the assault which was killed at least 30 people. We are joined live from there now. Kamal, we have seen a statement in response to the Pakistani Taliban, to the air strikes. What has it been saying. What they have been saying is theres a number of civilian casualties that the ministry has gone on an indiscriminate bombing campaign. There has been swift reprisals. The military, on the other hand, is saying that they had credible reports that a large number of uz beck fighters were present at the location at the time of the attack. It took place at 1 30am. Most of the fighters on the ground belong to the uz beck community from
Tonight president obama will talk to the nation and his fifth annual state of the Union Address, this has been a tough year for the president , according to the latest news the approval rate 46 , 50 of americans say they disapprove of the job he is doing, that is the lowest number ever heading into the state of the union, now during the speech, he will announce his intentions to use his powers to raise the federal minimum wage for contract workers right now 7. 25 an hour, he wants to raise that to 10. 10 an hour. That is just one of a number of issues he wants to outline. Lisa, already the president getting push back. He is indeed. He was asked House Speaker was asked about that move to raise the wage, and the speaker said today they wont accomplish anything. The president has the authority to raise the minimum wage for those dealing with federal contracts. Lets understand something. This is effects not one cant contract. It only effects future contracts with the federal government. Ho