Hello, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Mass evacuations in the Central African republic as thousands of muslims flee the conflict. The sectarian violence has plagued thousands on both sides. Now there are fears of genocide. Troops from chad have stepped in. Soldiers led a convoy of nearly 500 vehicles. Along the streets of bangui christians cheered the departure of the muslim convoy and the mob attacked a man that fell off a truck, hacking him to pieces. At the hague the International Criminal Court Prosecutor announced an investigation into war crimes. Among many of those crimes theyll investigate killing, rape and sexual slavery. Its now day two of a three day cease fire in holmes. 80 residents have been evacuated as part of a deal between the government and opposition groups. Women, children and the elderly have been allowed to leave. Men between the ages of 15 and 55 will not be evacuated. Aid workers say they are ready to take in a months supply of food. Theres an estimated 2500 people trapped in homs. In bosnia outrage over high unemployment fuelled protests. Friday marked the third day of unrest, where 25 of the people do not have jobs. Government buildings, including the president s were ransacked and set on fire as thousands took to the streets. The protests are spreading. Thousands of people across the country are taking to the streets, and between the uneasy standoffs with riot police there have been clashes. More than 50 have been injured, including police. The targets of the protesters anger have been government buildings and factories, which laid off thousands of workers, particularly in the northern town. Tuslan. A local government building was set on fire. There has been demonstrations in sarajevo and other hearse. Its a sign of the economic unease over the lack of progress since the war ended in 1975. In some parts of the country unemployment stands at record levels, the highest in the balkans. Bickering leaders in place through a power sharing system created under bosnias peace deal are seen as ineffective and corrupt. The tusla protesters included workers made redundant when state run companies were sold off. They have been joined by students and hardup families. Well, the drought situation across the west has changed in terms of what is happening now. We have a lot of rain as well as snow. This makes a dent in the drought. It will not fix the drought. As you can see across washington, oregon and california, we are getting plenty. That will last through the weekend. Lets look at the snow situation in oregon. Some locations saw 10 inches in 24 hours. We expect another 10 inches in some of those locations. By the end of the weekend we are looking at 23 feet, especially in the Higher Elevations of california. Lets look at the snow all the way through idaho, to parts of montana, and northern california. For seattle the temperatures have been coming up over the last couple of days. Look at the fiveday forecast. Saturday, sun, monday, tuesday, wednesday it will be raining, but coming back towards normal as we go to tuesday. For california, rain and snow to the north. Youll get some, but its not going to be much at all. Forecasts on seat. Down across the valley. We expect rain. Up to the Higher Elevations. The snow pack will get a hefty influence of snow there. Los angeles on saturday, your high about 65 degrees. The temperature warming up. No rain coming into play there at all. Across texas. Ice, rain, snow up here. Towards the north temperatures at dallas. You are warming to 56 degrees, and on sunday coming up to 62. A look at the big drop as we go towards the beginning of the week and rain and snow on tuesday at 34. Thank you so much. Employers held back on hiring. 113,000 jobs were created, up from 75,000 jobs in december. Unemployment dipped a notch, its the lowest in more than five years. We have more from washington. If there was bad news in the economic respect, youd never know it from listening to the president. The first friday is the day we get a jobless report. The president , his aides, will accentuate the positive. There is more work to be done. Not so today. The president you get the sense that the white house feels that the economy is turning the corner for good. The president travelled to michigan, he was there to sign the farm bill but talked about the jobless numbers. Unemployment is now the lowest its been since before i was elected. The Companies Across the country intended to hire more folks in the months ahead. Thats why i believe it can be a break through year for mens. The top economic aide, jason furman, the chairman of the economic advisors was on ajam and spoke to ray suarez, he warned about a shutdown, but a debt ceiling crisis could be coming. Republicans have not decided how to proceed. Furman reminded us that unemployment benefits, long term Unemployment Insurance lapsed at the end of the year and wants congress to pass that. That is not going anywhere, and its a vote shy. We have a great opportunity, we have a budget deal. If we handle the debt limit properly, then we have a stage for greater certainty, and greater ability for the private sector to move ahead and drive the economy. What about the republic leadership. John boehner says where are the jobs . , that is is a mantra. He pushed for the keystone pipeline, saying it would mean thousands of jobs and poked the administration an trade, major initiatives in congress, and democrats are holding those off. Americans that dont earn enough to put food on the table are facing more cuts. President obama travelled to Michigan State to sign a farm bill trimming funding for food stamps by 1 thats 8 billion. Republicans are pushing for more cuts. We are introduced to one of 50 million americans by bisi onileere, who relies on food stamps every day. 28yearold kasha works parttime as a hostess at this diner in michigan. To help make ends meet she took on a second job. That is not enough to pay all the bills. Sometimes not enough to buy food. With Something Like food, it adds a different level of stress to not know how you are feeding your family. She is one of many that rely on food stamps. 200 a month buys her groceries and a peace of mind. With the passing of a farm bill. Old fears are setting in again it will be hard. Really hard. Here is why. The law will take away 800 million in food stamps every year. That could cut expenses nearly in half. This woman is among 850 households seeing food stamps reduced by 90. People in washington d. C. And 15 states including michigan will be hit hard. The new bill eliminates what some lawmakers call a loophole, allowing those states and d. C. To increase benefits. Reduction in food stamps will be tolling. We are serving more than we can serve. Karina heads the food bank area in michigan. She said it will hurt the elderly and vulnerable. Food banks working with limited resources will have to find ways to serve more people. Kasha is weighing the options she has. I cant imagine, not just for myself, but my friend that have families, trying to stretch the budget further. A future millions of americans will share. Dairy farmers across the country see the farm bill as a sign of relief, overhauling the Subsidy Program limiting milk production. One dairy farmer tells us those restrictions almost cost him his family farm. There was very little help from the government in the past. There are subsidies, and what they paid were ridiculously not helpful. This Program Looks Like it could be helpful. Well have to purchase margin insurance. The margin of the milk price over feed cost will be assessed by the u. S. Da, and if the margin falls to narrow, well have margin insurance that we purchase. So its probably a good thing. Well have to try to fit into this with the operation, where we process part of the milk. We produce, i am sure well fit in. He was able to save his farm when he found an investor to pay off the bank. Caught on camera surveillance shows the moment that one man shot another over texting in the movie theatre. Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman Hollywood comes to new york to say goodbye. A judge in florida denied bail for a former Police Officer accused of gunning down a father. It highlighted the use of guns in public and stand your ground laws. We have the video from inside the theatre. It was supposed to be an ordinary afternoon at a movie theatre north of tampa. Before the movie a man was dead and two wives were devastated. Prosecutors say 43 yearold chad oulson was texting his babysitter. His 2yearold was sick. The theatre was empty. Curtis reeves sat behind oulson and told him to stop texting. The surveillance appears to show oulson throwing popcorn. Oulsons wife was shot in the hand. In an interview with police after the shooting Curtis Reeves said he shot because he was scared. Reeves said he was hit with a cellphone. Prosecutors dispute that and say there was no sign that impinge but Curtis Reeves pride was hurt. Curtis reeves attorney said the case hinges on selfdefence. Its too soon to say whether use the stand your ground law, but cited it several times in court. The trial date has not been set, but a Pretrial Hearing is scheduled for march 12th. Hollywood stars gathered to say goodbye to Philip Seymour hoffman. The oscarwinning actor was found dead from a suspected heroin overdose. Theres a battle raging in the state of oregon dividing members of a tribe. Allen schauffler explains that tribal leaders are deciding who is in and who is out. Where highway 18 rises out of the valley, 11,000 acres of reservation is home to a family feud. Gary and 78 relatives got a letter from their tribe. There was an error in my enrolment and i have to prove i belong. Williams is one of few grand ron who lives on the reservation. We met this group as they held a backyard prayer session and laid out plans for staying in the tribe. Im angry and hurt. I want to stand up and fight for what is right. They are card carrying members of the confederated tribes of the grand rom, dating back to a treaty signed by the chief. He died, hanged by the army before the tribe was formed. That could be enough for disenrolment. Why is this happening. Greed is a possibility. If i want to speculate, it could be. This is the money source. The tribes profitable spirit of the win casino provides millions for social programs and direct per cap ita payments to tribal members 3,000 5,000 a year. This is a national issue. We have seen them on the east coast, in california, and certainly in the west. Native american law expert ron white ner tracks disenrolment efforts to the rise of tribal gambling, but cant say casino money is causing it here. The push from the gaming revenue provided a reason for tribes to look closely, for who is eligible to be enrolled and who is not. The grand rom government denies that is happening saying it is part of a plan to strengthen the tribe and make sure those that receive benefits deserve them. Requests for an interview were turned down. They wont have a tribe at all. The family fight goes on. One site saying prayers for the outcome, the other saying little publicly about what is behind it all. The enralment battle comes at a time when tribes are profiting from casino. A movie about men who saved artwork from the nazis. And 8,000yearold footprints discovered in europe. Big news in baseball. Alex rodriguez had a change of hard. Arod dropped his lawsuits against major league baseball, and everyone. And will accept a suspension for the upcoming season, including playoff games. He will forfeit his 25 million salary that he would have made and will be 40 years young when hes eligible to return in 2015. The league issued this statement now, the Players Union issued a statement saying earlier tonight i got a chance to speak to a sports attorney. The big question why did arod drop the charges. He claimed he didnt do anything wrong . The problem with arod continuing with all of these lawsuits is some point in time he would find himself under oath in a deposition and would have to say officially whether he had used substances that triggered the suspension. Unfortunately theres a mountain of evidence suggesting that if he had said that he may have been subject to perjury. Can arods attorneys develop a strategy to get back on the field . No. The fact that he filed would be evidence against him if he came back and challenged it. This is the end of this drama. Alex rodriguez accepted his suspension and will not play the postseason games and his attorney said he will not return spring training. Thank you ross shimabuku. Its the true story behind the movie in theatres. The monument men were art curators and historians, volunteering for military service to rescues treasures from the nazis. Another mission was under way between museums. The Monuments Men bills itself as a band of brother. George clooneys characters leads a crew that knows more been michael angelo. Sam epstein, the character, was inspired by harry eplinger. Born in germany, his family fled for america in 1938, the day after his bar mitzvah. They recommended that we leave that afternoon. Travelling on saturday, thats the way conditions were. He would return to germany a 19yearold private. When heading for the front, an officer discovered he was fluent in german. He said, good, sit in the chair and this guy will tell you what to do. That was my entry into the Monuments Men. He spent much of the rest of the law plundering through works stashed in salt mines. The goal return them to their rightful owners. This is one of the works rescued by the Monuments Men. It was in the collection of louie rothschild. The entire collection was looted another side of the story played out above europe. Allied bomber pilots had maps of targets to hit, and more than 700 maps like these, drawn up by a team working in the frik art reference library. The maps are to make sure the buildings were not destroyed or bombed. Thats exactly right. They were distributed to the air corp so the bombing pilots would not hit the Leaning Tower of pis a. Without the efforts, the Leaning Tower of the pisa may have been reduced to rubble. It was made by a decision to safeguard, rather than destroy. I believe its the only time a country at war bent over backwards to preserve the treasures of the enemy. For harry. Being a monuments man is a source of patriotism. For a brief period of time in civilisation, a company adapted a policy not to take things, but return them to their rightful owner. I, as an american, am proud of doing that. Proud of an effort that saved millions of Cultural Treasures from the most destructive war in history. In england archeologists found footprints believed to be 800,000 years old. We spoke to bill kim ble who talks about what that discovery means for human evolution. The scientists who authored the paper report the discovery of footprints made by some of the earliest inhabitants of Northern Europe. In particular great britain. Roughly 800,000, 900,000 years old. They represent a small number of different individuals, some of whom they infer to have been young and others adult, based on the size of the footprints. They have a series of footprints helping us discern how early europeans moved about the landscape, the sorts of behaviour in terms of foraging they may have been engaged in, about their height and weight, which we can tell from the footprints. They are not the earliest footprints. These are some of the earliest. Footprints outside of africa are rare. It sheds light on what early population will be like. We have the ability to take a step closer to the individuals who were walking on the landscape in this part of Northern Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago. One step closer because we dont have to rely on their fossil or archeological remains, for example, but instead can see where the feet hit the ground, so to speak. And to learn something about their body weight, the size of their strides, how fast they might have moved during various types of behaviour, like foraging or moving from place to place. Apparently the footprints include young and older individuals and something about social structure of the early europeans. Each of the prints needs to be studied in great detail and compared to the footprints in other places at other times. In order to make sense of them in the context of the scheme of human emotion. Preserving the prints presents a challenge for scientists. Game under way for the Winter Olympics , and now you are looking at live pictures out of sochi russia. Im Morgan Radford. See you again at 4am eastern. The stream is up next. With lethal in jection drugs in short supply, plan b can be firing squads, gas chambers or electric chairs. Gx Lisa Fletcher is out
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