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ALJAZAM News March 31, 2014

Hope to search for the missing jet liner. Aand obamacare in the week ahead. Tonight news out of washington, many expected but did not want to hear the death toll rose again late this evening from that massive mudslide. Three more bodies were found. Authorities now say 21 people have been killed when the mountain moved more than a week ago. Hundreds are still searching for missing. Our Tanya Moseley joins us from darington washington. Tanya whats new tonight . There was a bit of a weather break. The enormity of the issue, the debris field in some areas is as high as 75 feet. Armed with garden tools, rescue teams tediously sift through mud searching for the missing. The family members that i have spoken to i think have a very mature, real sense of wanting to have hope. And wanting to find that miracle. And we have provided them and are providing them every opportunity to find that miracle. Were looking for that miracle out there right now. Four or 500 people are out there looking for that miracle. Sunday, washington governor jay inslslee and brett daughert. Search team up to their arm pits and have been there for week looking for victims. We have a fatality Recovery Team that works with the medical examiner to process them. That special team flew in saturday from colorado. They are now assisting in the effort of recovering the dead. In some case he searchers have only recovered body parts. Volunteers are also looking for possessions. So far theyve discovered hundreds of pictures. A lot of people you know they lost their homes. They lost friends and family. And so to be reunited with some of their physical belongings if thats found out on the slide is a really important thing. We all know how what memories, wonderful things like photos can bring for peern and to reunite for a person and so to reunite that with the person is a really important part of this effort. Dan is one of the nearby residents offering what he can to comfort this communities. Sunday morning he drove three hours to give away coffee for free. I had to be up here in person instead of giving away something for somebody. I wanted to make them smile. Governingoverning inslee is g for federal relief. They are hoping for Better Weather tomorrow and tuesday. They say that today, the weather really helped them in the Recovery Efforts but flooding is a real issue around 530, the main entry way into oso be, washington. About and also, they are hoping to have a new crew come in to help those men and women who have been there all week. Jonathan. Has there been any calls for aNational Tracking system for mudslides . There is no National Tracking system for mudslides. Up until now crews and experts have been using Mapping Systems and there is technology now available for that. But there really has not been theres been no call to action. And those tracking systems can cost alternative tens of milliof dollars. Tanya moseley life for us in darrington, washington. The meeting in paris began with so much hope but hours later, the authorities agreed, they are no closer to solving the issue in ukraine. Pulling back from the border, something russia doesnt seem willing to do although it insists it will not invade ukraine. Any pull back of the very Large Russian force that is currently massing along ukraines borders. And tonight i raised with the foreign minister our strong concern about these forces. We believe these forces are creating a climate of fear and intimidation in ukraine. All right, nadine baba is there. John kerry outlined a number of objectives which he said he shared with Sergey Lavrov. Including free and Fair Elections, and steps to protect the various minority groups in ukraine. But i think its clear that the u. S. And russia do have a very different vision of how a democratic ukraine, what it would look like, russia wants to see a federal system. Thats something Sergey Lavrov have made clear. He wants to see grawrt autonomy for greater autonomy for various regions. That would be good for parts of eastern and southern ukraine where there are many russian speakers, where there are many strong ties historically and culturally with russia and United States and its western allies are very keen to see the may president ial elections followed by parliamentary elections. But theyre very happy to see the current players people who were formerly in the opposition against president yanukovych taking part. And they see that as the democratic wave thats coming through ukraine. However, its not clear whether russia will actually Start Talking to those people in kiev. Because so far they have rejected it as illegitimate. What they want to see is some kind of recognition with the u. S. , they have problems dealing with those individuals they want to see, more respect being shown to the russianspeaking part of ukraine. The u. S. Has been stressing that theyve talked with russia about how to pull back the tens of thousands of Russian Troops on ukraines border that they say have gathered. But theres no word from john kerry on exactly how or when that might happen. Nadim baba in paris. Russia said it would like russian speaking areas of ukraine to have more independence and more power. That is seen as trying to weaken ukraines new government. Not optimistic the west will reach a deal with russia. I got the impression that no progress was made what whatsoever. We seem to be speaking different languages. Russia seems to be speaking a language of force and making demands of its rights over its neighbor. The United States seems sob speaking the language of deescalation. But russia is really making demands that cant be made but nonetheless it seems to be making the force to achieve. One of the objectives is to try stretch tout time line a little bit so it can consolidate the gains it has already made in the crimea and that it can deescalate the move towards higher levels of sanction he and higher push back. Putin has already taken the military instrument out of the box. Hes been willing to use it. Hes taken the extraordinary step of annexing part of the territory of a neighboring country. Its very hard to escalate to those levels and one deescalated and things back to normal hard to go back to them. If russia feels if aggrieved, these are territories that rightfully belong to russia, populations that rightfully belong inside russia now is the time they are going ostrike. And we have to be very, very worried about these scenarios. Meanwhile, the pentagon has sent its to be negotiator, phillip breedlove, to nato. It is concerned about russias Troop Movement along the border. Now crimea is under total russian control and troops are being told to leave. Jennifer glasse has more from being sevastopol in crimea. They didnt think it would end like this. The deputy are Prime Minister tries okeep credit feelings high, russian soldiers are on watch and ukrainians have to leave. He has lived here more than a decade. Unlike the russian system, ukrainians usually nerve one place for a long time. They settled here, they bought property and now they have to leave everything, even their property, behind. The soldiers worked hard to stay. The ukrainians faced unarmed and demand he it be returned. The russians fired in the air and after negotiations a few ukrainians were allowed to return to their jobs. The uneasy standoff lasted over two weeks. Then the russian he kidnapped the commander and held him for five days and he refused. He was released and told to return to ukraine. Many were reluctant to leave crimea, a great place to live, basically ukraines equivalent of florida. It offered the best alternatives in the navy, but not anymore. The ukrainians are forced to be choose between russia and ukraine. They would be returned to their commander and continue to serve ukraine. As for our commander, im confident we will rebuild. Russia wasnt built in a day. We will continue to fight for whats ours. Mikhail says its been a difficult time. He marched next to russians in parades and many were friends but he says hes not bitter. Translator im not angry with anyone. They are military men, we are military men and we all have to obey our orders. Like so many others, mikhail and his family face uncertain future in ukraine. New homes and new jobs. Jennifer glasse, sevastopol, crimea. On sunday crews covered nearly 100,000 square miles in the ocean. Its been three weeks since the malaysian jet disappeared. Australias Prime Minister promised to step up efforts. We owe it to everyone to do whatever we reasonably can. We will search for quite some time to come. And as i said, the intensity of our search and the magnitude of our operation he is increasing, not decreasing. Many families now venting their age are as weeks passed without any sign of their loved wufns. Some have refused to believe malaysias events. Across the malaysian capitol vigils were held this weekend, people released balloons with name cards. They hoped it would bring some relief to the grieving families. It may be three weeks but we just like everybody else are not giving up hope that we can find this missing mh 370, this missing flight. We will find them and i hope we will not give up. We feel very unhappy and distressed too. It must be worse for them. This is just to give them encouragement and you know try and support them. It is monday this australia, 20 planes and ships are now searching the remote seas of the southern indian ocean. A new ship fitted with a black box detector and an underwater drone will soon join that search. Linked to dozens of deaths, gm facing congress about how it thanld be recall. Details on a new class in miami. Also 92 days behind bars in egypt. Will three wrongfully imprisoned al jazeera journalists finally get their day in court . The apologies are official closed in turkey, the Prime Ministers party is well ahead. The leading akp party is leading in most cities with nearly half the vote. Prime minister erduwan has faced charges of corruption. Reporting in the capitol. Be erduwan and his act Party Thousands of supporters gathered outside in a very jubilant scene, receiving the Prime Minister as he arrived in the capital ankara. , in fact increased their lead compared to the last time turks went to the polls in similar elections in 2009. These elections were billed as a referendum on the popularity of errduwan. He has been vindicated as far as he is concerned, as he told the cheering crowds waiting in the bitter cold. The challenge is whilst he has won, he is the priement prime mf a divided cuj. There icountry. There is a Large Population that didnt vote for him and his party. Whether people are waiting to see is whether this victory will further encourage him to continue the way he has been governing this country or a more reconcile yconciliatory way to e proas protests. Protests. Gun shots, a University Student is dead and several others, demonstrators are supporting students who have been arrestor back owfd credit d president morsi. Al jazeera continues to call for the release of Baher Mohamed, peter greste and Mohamed Fahmy. Hashama moba rarvetion has more. Heading back to court for a third time. Al jazeera journalists peter greste acknowledge Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy are held for assisting a terrorist organization. The case has received worldwide attention. It is first time egypt has prosecuted journalists on terrorism charges. In the last Court Hearing the detained al jazeera journalists appeared in a cage dock wearing white prison uniforms. They stressed their innocence and called for international support. We didnt do anything wrong. The Al Jazeera English reporting team was detained at their hotel by Egyptian Security services on december the 29th and taken to cairos high security tora prison. Mohamed fahmy is suffering from a dislocated shoulder, an injury he received just before arrested. Fahmy has received only limited treatment and is barely able to move his arm. Members of peter grestes family are commuting from australia for hearings. Two weeks ago the family received a letter from egyptian president ad mansour endin indig he wanted the trial to end soon. Assured peter greste would get a fair trial. Received a a force [ al jazeera rejects all the charges and continues to call for the Immediate Release of all its staff. Hasham average bara al jazeera. Two spanish journalists are free tonight after being held in syria for six months. It was an emotional journey. A rogue Al Qaeda Group kidnapped them as they tried leave syria. It is unknown if the men escaped or were freed. Spain will not say whether there were a ransom. Nine be others and 10 journalists remain missing. Talk about making two separate fixes but it did nothing. Gm will Face Congress tomorrow. Kimberly you you duchardt has more. How scufts at the biggest auto l maker waited more than a decade to respond. Congress is also wondering had a the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration which analyzes crash data knew about the problems that date back more than a decade and what they did about it. A memo released sunday by house investigators indicates that the Highway Safety regulators declined to open a formal investigation into the gm ignition even after receiving field reports about the problems. The memo also revealed the ignition supplier told gm in 2002 before any of the vehicles hit the road that the system did not meet auto maimers specs. New nothing about the defective swimps until switches until january 31st of this year, yet the recall only happened february 10th. Two weeks later he recalled an additional 738,000 vehicles and on friday it added another 824,000, bringing the total number of vehicles to more than 2 million. Barra released this statement trying to locate several thousand switches in a population of 2. 2 million vehicles and distributed to thousands of treerms isnt practical. Retailers isnt practical. We expect getting the new switches into all the vehicles. Gm is also feeling heat from federal prosecutors. The Justice Department is now examining whether General Motors is criminallily liable of failing to dispose of problems in all vehicles. Federal bailout protected the auto maker from civil suits. Kimberly duchardt, al jazeera. Apple says samsung stole the technology to allow the a person searching on the web to tap on the number to also call the number. Slide lock the use on the Iphone Samsung fired back saying apple is speeding up data transmission. Wants to pay 40 for each samsung device Running Software allegedly developed by apple. This year miami is seeing its share of political scandals. Outraged by the culture of corruption, a local college is now offering future students classes in corrupt government, could you believe it. Be you be. Christina puig has the can story. Unfortunately, politician he have become a bad word and we need to make it a good word again. We need to make it about the servants and both parties need to Work Together to encourage better people to run for office. Reporter a group of professors will select a handful and mentor them during a six month nonpartisan fellowship. Messages, one is dont forget your ethics and dont forget who you were to serve if you ever rab foran for office. Close attention to the intricacies and potential pitfalls of campaign fundraising. Youre carrying around checks, your Campaign Treasure y left it in the car and forgot to make a deposit. Politicians work for people. People dont work for politicians. Just last year dade county had three sitting mayors indicted for state and federal corruption schemes. So the Candidates Academy seeks to train a new crop of public service. Marissa gutierrez warns the smoke filled rooms o of politics past, hes gearing up for his Reelection Campaign this fall. Ive already texted a few of my Campaign Workers and told them some of the ideas ive gotten from here already. When you forget that youre an average person and you only work there for permission of the voters, can you get lost. The academy wants its students to know that politics is more about resolving issues and of course power can and doing corrupt. Christina puig, al jazeera, miami. We look at how obamacare has fared so far, its failure and successes,. Also, state is demanding people on food stamps be tested for drugs. The cost and situations surrounding it next. Arwelcome back to Al Jazeera America. Here are the top stories this half hour. Its not up to us to make any decision or any agreement being regarding this, it is not up to us, its up to ukrainians. John kerry is calling for free and Fair Elections in ukraine. He met with the russian fortunate minister for several hours in paris. In washington that death toll in Washington State has risen from 3 to 21. The washington governor toured the scene. Over 50 are still missing. Australias Prime Minister says hes putting no time limit on the hunt for the missing flight 370, which vanished three weeks ago with 270 on board. 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