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State of iraq and the levant. Raising wairng awareness, or al. The. Hole there welcome to the program. The Nigerian Government wants to extend emergency rule in three northeastern states for another six months. President Goodluck Jonathan who faces reelection in february is asking parliament to approve a continuation of Emergency Powers to fight boko haram. The president first declared a state of emergency in may last year in adamawa, borno states. Joining us live from abuja in nigeria. Just rem...

Going to school. The mobile peace price is awarded. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im david shuster. We begin with a new death toll from the ebola virus. The World Health Organization says 4,000 people have died in west africa from the current outbreak. That is more than the reported number of cases. World leaders say the spread of the virus has outpaced the worlds response with only a quarter of the 1 billion requested by the United Nations now funded. Paul brennan reports...

After clashing between police and far right rioters on Independence Day. Hello, nigerias president Goodluck Jonathan has confirmed he will seek another ter term in office when lexes are held in february. He announced it one day after 47 people were killed nay suicide bombing at a school. As he nears the end of his first term, the president faces mounting criticism. This includes his failure tackle the boko haram armed group which is responsible for thousands of deaths, mainly in nigerias northea...

Sporting ernts coming up plus you could see the difference in the second half. It was not football anymore. It was a struggle for life. Lashing out a team for his teams performance. Details in about 45 minutes time. The search for the missing airasia passenger plane has been called off for the night. The plane was caring 162 people when it went miss okay sunday morning. It left indian e i cant at 5 20s local time en route to sing a pour. It lost contact with air Traffic Controllers 45 minutes af...

Ill have the latest sports fuse, the day of 2015 is one to forget for chelsea, well tell yo you why they are only just top the premier league. Egypts highest court has order add retrial for three al jazeera journalists who have been in jail for more than a year. Its sited procedure flaws in their original trial. But the three remain in custody and its not clear when they will be back in court. Mohamed fahmy and peter greste were arrested on the 29th of desks 2013. They were falsely accused of ai...

Rescued. And greece snap election, could put the far left saritha 52 power. Saritha into power. From london, to sydney, to san francisco. 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 feels hard to absorb. It was one year since a ph...

Challenge as unique community is facing in preserving its history. Thank you for joining us. The russian Opposition Leader has been detained by police, for breaking his house arrest tries to attend a protest in moscow. Around 1,000 people attended the rally with dozens detained by russian authorities. He had called on supporters to join on unhorsed protests after he and his brother were convicted of gauze the judge gave him a suspendedded sentence, but his brother was jailed for 3 1 2 years. Pet...

Ceremony. And how american researchers are trying to save birds from their biggest killer, windowpanes. Hello, we begin in asia where a search and rescue operation is due to resume in the next couple of hours for a malaysian passenger jet. It disappeared over the java sea with 162 people on board. Air asia flight qz8501 left indonesia at 5 20 a. M. Local time. Its destination was singapore. But it lost contact with Ground Control 42 minutes after take off. Just before that, the pilot had request...

By floods in malaysia. So then a resolution calling for israel to end its occupation of palestinian territory by 2017 has been rejected at the United Nations Security Council. It needed 9 votes to pass but only got eight. Here is how the vote played out the country that his voted in favor of the resolution were china, franz russia, luxembourg chad, chile argentina and jordan. The two states that voted no, the United States and all stall australia. United nations were among nine stations that abs...

Plight of journalists around the world, from imprisonment to death for doing their job. Four copies of the magna car at a on display for the first time in 800 years. Good evening and welcome to the International Hour on Al Jazeera America. Im antonio mora. And im stephanie sy. We begin in ukraine. A dozen fighters killed in less than 24 hours. And many more over the weekend. Promising to boost their forces to 100 thousand to combat government forces. The white house is weighing its options and w...