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surveillance program. france s president tries to focus on the economy. and ukraine plans a new law to crack down on protests. the eu says it is deeply concerned. all right. we are going to go straight to the state department in washington, d.c., where u.s. secretary of state john kerry is taking questions on syria. let s listen in to what he is saying. what we may be able to do to increase the pressure and further change the calculation, and i think we have made that clear to the russian foreign min and others, nor are other players short of an ability to have an impact here. so i think they can bluster, protest, put out disportions, the bottom line is we are going to geneva to implement geneva 1 and if assad doesn t do that, he will invite greater response from various people in various ways over a greater period of time. so i m not particularly surprised that he is trying to divert this. he has been doing this for months, trying to make himself the protector ....
syrias efforts days ahead of peace talks. and france s president tries to focus on the business of government despite more allegations about his personal life. and stifle decent angering kiev as the government moves to crack down on protests. barack obama has been outlining changes to u.s. surveillance programs that were criticized both in the u.s. and overseas. the methods of the national security agency wasser posed by edward snowden who used to work for the nsa. obama said the government will be changing the way it handles what is called metadata, information about who is calling whom from where and at what time. a court ruling will now be necessary. an independent panel will be set up which looks into terrorism cases, and the u.s. president promising that his country would no longer be eavesdropping on the heads of states of close friends and allies. [ applause ] reporter: this was a speech about restoring trust in the u.s. government s ability to monitor the ....
the governor of georgia today says he is responsible for the grid lock that stranded thousands during the snow storm that cause add real mess. in the south, governor nathan deal also admits his state not adequately prepared and vows to prevent fit happening again. i am not going to look for state gov. i am the governor. the buck stops with me. i accept the responsible for it. and that s what the public can expect from our office. at this time, that would be a parking lot behind you. yeah, tony, good evening, and indeed, it s a nightmare on any day of the week, and of course the traffic behind me on i-75 north, outside of the major suburbs, would be wall-to-wall at the 6 p.m. hour. and that,, it has been get your car off the road and try to get your life back in order. and the politicians are still pointing a blame at each other. yet the governor made the deal coming out and saying he s going to take the blame for the whole situation past 48 hours. that s interes ....
come here. reporter: the new face of hunger, why a growing number of young people need help. and inmates learning to be entrepreneurs, the transformative program that puts them on a new path. welcome to al jazeera america, i m stephanie sy, the growing unrest in ukraine is getting the attention of u.s. leader, secretary of state john kerry is expected to meet with key opposition leaders this weekend and next week assistant secretary of state victoria nuland travels to kiev to meet with both sides and come a day after reports of potential u.s. sanctions against ukraine. russia has stalled on a promise $15 billion bail outto ukraine and also new allegations of human rights violations being levelled against the ukrainian government, a new report says police attacked dozens of journalists and medical workers during antigovernment protests and our jennifer glasse has been covering the protest from kiev and good morning and how serious are the allegations in this human ri ....
i want to tell them that your opinion is not opinion of all ukraine people. reporter: the monks and the people on the streets of kiev don t represent everyone. no, way. reporter: and happy birthday facebook, and ten years old and is it too uncool for the children at school? so a land marked trial focusing on the ruwanda again size is underway this france, the former captain is facing a paris court with crimes against humanity. 800,000 people were killed in the genicide, but france is criticized for helping the rulers at the time and we will go live to paris after this report. they have made it their life s work to try to identify suspects allegedly involved in the ruwandi genicide, bringing the first case of its kind to france and he was part of a family. translator: it s the truly historic trial because it s the first one and secondly also because it concerns someone i would say was this a relatively high position. reporter: it s almost 20 years since r ....