Dilemma hurting the highlands in malaysia so supporters of the pakistani politician imran khan are blocking supply routes into afghanistan for a second day. They say theyll stop nato trucks passing through northwest tabbing stan until the u. S. Stops its drone strikes. As we said in the openers, small but effective these protests. Indeed, very effective. Just to tell you, in the last few minutes the members of the provincial assembly from the Islamist Army have gone to the u. S. Consulate where they loged a protest alert against the continuation of the drone strikes. As you can see the Party Workers are on the roadblock. Just to give you a little bit of an explainer, they are blocking the points two critical entry points into the province. What you see behind me is a large checkpoint manneded by the Islamist Army. What they are doing is making sure that none of those container trucks that are passing through the last point before they enter into pakistans tribal areas on the way to the
The first round of peace talks with the words concludes with no tangible results. The president says the time has come for the county to overcome its sense of guilt so over the Second World War i become open to sending troops to poetics and its still a single console will be visiting to National Security token munich germany and its allies should not deny help to others when crimes against humanity is taking place. Un secretary general ban ki moon at the council on saturday to show more Global Leadership but its a pretty easy issue for jenna has a new poll today showing three quarters of people here are hostile to such an. It is looking for more than five decades delegates from around the world have been meeting at the Munich Security Conference to discuss International Conflicts. One major issue to emerge from fridays talks with germanys roman bronze. It said the approach to the german presidency laughing cow called for his country to play a bigger role in International Conflicts inst
Disappearing honey bee. The american soldier held in afghanistan for nearly five years has been freed. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was 23 when he was captured by the taliban in 2009. Now, 28, he was handed over to a u. S. Special Operations Team this morning. In exchange for his release, five detainees from guantanamo guantbay were transferred to the custody of qatar. Randall pinkston is joining us. Tell us more about sergeant burgdahls case. He was a private first class when he held infell into the happened near the border with pakistan. Tonight, he is finally, on his way home. Freedom came. Officials say at 10 30 a. M. Eastern time saturday, special Operations Forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead surveillance and intelligence executed the operation. The exchange took place in eastern afghanistan. 19 Taliban Forces were present, but there was no confrontation, no gunfire. Defense Officials Say bergdahl was able to walk to u. S. Forces and communicate with them. He is
Its muscle over asian neighbors, destabilizing the entire region. We think they should address the problem. The community at odds with one of its longtime employers. Why it says the coal company is refusing to clean up its contamination. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. I am John Henry Smith. The white house is trying to figure out how to get the Veterans Affairs department back on track. Friday, the president nominated an interim secretary after Eric Shinseki resigned. The deputy secretary sloan gibson will take over until president obama nominates a new chief. Shi shinseki was under pressure after a new report showed the va was covering up long wait times. A report of how the scandal unfolded. A few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered me his resignation. With considerable regret, i accepted. Until friday morning, Eric Shinseki was head of the va. Several weeks ago, reports said phoenix va hospital was lie to go headquarters about how long patients had to wait to see a
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