Health organization predicts that the virus could be degetted by worlds end. And in sport, the final golf major of the year. Right now rory mcilroy and Jordan Spieth are on course and Dustin Johnson are leading the field on six under par. Our top story fighters from the Islamic State in iraq and the levant say they are behind a huge blast in baghdad. The explosion tore through a crowded market killing at least 55 people. 200 more are injured. We have reports now from the iraqi capital. In the blink of an eye the scene turned from mundane to murderous. As sum search for surviveas some search for survivors others find the dead. Many iraqis knew this would be the work of isil. It was the third attack by the group in as many days. Underscoring just how tenuous the security situation here is. Dozens were killed, and dozens more injured. Deepening sectarian lines at a time when their government is asking iraqis to work together. A call that has asked leaders for reform. It is unclear how the
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
From paris with me, catherine nicholson. New calls for mercy or rate at badawi, asy for raif he is awarded the sakharov priz e. A promise of revenge in pakistan, the Prime Minister vowing to track down the taliban attackers who killed 150 people at a special our school a year ago today at official are at a Peshawar School a year ago
How can someone like that be entirely at large in the community. Australias Prime Minister asks why the attacker wasnt an a police watch les. And jeb bush announces a bid to run for president in 2016. In pakistan, 142 people have been killed in an attack on a school by the pakistani taliban. The dead include 132 children. Police have described how gunmen wearing suicide vests entered the classrooms and started shooting students where they sat. A siege lasting several hours, ended with the deaths of all of the attackers. Nick ole johnston reports. Reporter it was an attack many in pakistan had feared would eventually come, the blowback, as the taliban takes its revenge on the army for launching a military campaign against it. But no one thought the target would be a school, and that dozens of children would be killed in the shootout between soldiers and fighters. At least six armed men tomorrowed into the Peshawar School while senior students were sitting for exams. Translator we ran to
Election that could put the far left into power. From london, to sydney, to san franciscan journalists around the world have stopped work and called on egypts government to set our colleagues free. It was a year ago today that peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. Andrew simmons has their story. Reporter al jazeeras doha news center marking an anniversary the staff here and in the rest of the world find hard to absorb. It is now one year since a phone call to the news desk reporting the arrest three of the networks journalists in cairo. Then 12 months behind bars. For just doing their job. Right across the world there were newsroom vigils and protests outside egyptian embassies. A trial in cairo had failed ocome one any evidence to incriminate the staff or associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. All the charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed were false. Bahers wife spiking f