Chinese leader xi jinping starts a three day state visit to russia on wednesday, at the invitation of president vladimir putin. Its the second meeting between xi and putin since april and shows the two countries are becoming increasingly close. President putin has expressed support for chinas ambitious belt and Road Initiative the huge Infrastructure Project costing more than 1 trillion and connecting 65 countries. But the two sides have more than that in common. The chinese economy is under pressure after washington raised tariffs on 200 billion worth of chinese exports in the continuing tade war between beijing and washington, and russia is also under pressure because of western sanctions over its actions in ukraine. So, with both leaders keen to escape these pressures, trade between china and russia hit a record high last year of nearly 108 billion. Energy is especially important with russia now chinas Biggest Energy supplier. The power of siberia is a 4,000km pipeline project that
Voters. Deadly outbreak. Theres no risk to the water supply from legion airs disease. Officials try to calm fears after the alarming spread of legion airs disease in new york city. Lobbying onslaught. This is not about me and its not about pam a. Its about the team. President obama and Binyamin Netanyahu make duelling appeals to the American Jews for and against the Nuclear Iran Deal good evening, im antonio mora. This is al jazeera america. We begin out west in california where at this hour. 20 million firefighters are are burning. The rocky is the largest, its on assumed more than 65,000 air. Jacob ward has the story from lake country california. Reporter these firefighters come from all over the world. This captain drove 6,000 miles, he was checked in and assigned a task. We are headed to interstate 20 near the biggest priority of the rocky fire. Yesterday the fire jumped highway 20, burning north, burning 32 acres, bringing the fire to a total of 65,000 acres and 65 contained. Ther
A plan to bring uber and lyft for Los Angeles International airport hit a roadblock, l. A. X. Would be the largest to allow the on demand companies. City leaders want to look at the proposal and background checks. Yesterday, the taxi industry released documents revealing four uber drivers ticketed at l. A. X. Have criminal back grounds that with bar them from operating a cab. Firefighters have gained ground on a clear lake fire but could have hotter temperatures today. The rocky fire burned 69,000 acres bigger than sacramento at 30 percent contained. 43 hems and 53 outbuildings are destroyed. 7,000 structures are threatened. Thousands are people are not able to go home. We are getting tired. Real tired. This is like our third time, third time living in that area. We were prepared. We knew what to do. We are still worried. Cal fire helps to have the fire kind by monday because of the nonstop efforts ofabilities attacking the flames from the sky. Cornell bernard reports. Cal fire air tan
6 00 and through hayward traffic is light. I will town around so you can check out northbound traffic along the film it. It is lighter. Other parts of the pay area are not so great. The bay bridge toll plaza shows the top of the screen there is traffic that is heavy and stacked and packed away from the maze at 15 minutes into San Francisco. Part of that is due to the accident still blocking the car pool lane northbound 880 before bridge. Hopefully that will be cleared. Workers are busy at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco gearing up for outside lands that attracts thousands and the biggest names in music and comes with headaches those for the neighbors. Amy hollyfield has a preview. Kristen, there is a box office but this should be a convey it window during three day weekend because the three day concert is sold out. It is sold out and it happened quickly. Workers are ready to go hosting big names in music including elton john and sam smith. In is the 8th year in Golden Gate Park. Some
Down on visitors to the so called crossroads of the world as the nearly 12 thousand pound Waterford Crystal ball made its minutelong descent. Many greeted the new year with kisses, while some shed tears. Nats. You may kiss the bride. Others got married. While the mayor and his wife kicked up their heels. Revelers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather. And encountered tight security. More than 6 thousand heavily armed uniformed and Undercover New York City Police officers searched and guarded the crowd. With memories of recent terror attacks in San Bernardino and paris fresh on their minds, many admitted they were nervous. we were skeptical about coming out, it was great. Im glad we took the chance. Weijia jiang stand up once the ball dropped, the crowd wasted no time leaving times square. And an army of sanitation workers moved in to clean up. Crews removed tons of confetti and debris left behind by partygoers. Planning for new years eve 2016 weijia jiang, cbs news, new york. Michelle Mort