This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Global markets are reeling this morning at chinese stocks take another plunge. U. S. Futures falling sharply now with the dow poised to open down about 3 . Lets look at the numbers. The shanghai composite wiped out all gains for the year, its largest fall in that market in eight nears. The nikkei tumbled four and a half , hitting a five month low. Australia had its worst one day sell off in four years, markets plunging wiping some 40 billion u. S. Dollars off the books there. European stocks are hurting, too, in london, down two and a half , germanys Main Exchange is off 3 . Adrien brown has more on whats behind this from beijing. It is another turbulent day for asian stock markets. Shanghai, the worst performing is down more than 8 , the biggest single day drop in many months. The government before the market opened has said that it was going to use billions of dollars from a state pension fund to p
A new ford mustang, brilliant new kind of car. A major milestone for the ford mustang, celebrating a half century of one classic car. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. The battle in ukraine taking place in different fronts. 300 armed accept are a i was attacking in mariupol. Men tried to use molotov cocktails to storm the base. This attack comes as ukrainian soldiers failed to gain control of four eastern russian cities, russian tanks forcing them to surrender. Diplomatic talks are underway right now in geneva. Aljazeera is there with more on todays summit. The positions of the Foreign Ministers gathered here in geneva are as hard to reconcile as their different views of whats happening in ukraine. You have ukrainians, the americans and the europeans accusing moscow of stirring up unrest, sending in intelligence officers, possibly special forces, troops to take over the local administrative buildings and create unrest that might possibly justify a military
So far this year, of cases are too many. San francisco main library opened only eight years ago and the building has been plagued with violence, drug use and deplorable conditions its become a magnet and homeless. They started tearing pages out of books and slamming things down. It doesnt happen every day. The mayor sent this letter to the city librarian saying he wants to restore the library to a safe place for families, he is spishlly with opening of a new teen center here, next year. Were going to welcome more kids and families next year. They wanted to see changes before that opened the commission will consider implementing tougher security measures including adding two more positions to its current force of 19 officers recommendations include stronger penalties. Were focusing on the mostagreejis behaviors that are illegal so physical violence, sexual misconduct. Exhibiting those behaviors in the library. If you brought in a weapon your Library Privileges would only be sus sended 3
Owe do that. A San Jose Police officer accused of rape pleaded not guilty today the 38yearold was charged three weeks ago. Documents say the womans dna was found on the bulletproofed vest investigators are still working to find out what caused a massive fire in downtown san jose this weekend. Homeless people have since lived in this building for a family of five barely escaped a fire in fremont. The department tweeted this photo. A neighbor says she heard an explosion before seeing the flames the fire started in the garage. Two of the family dogs died. Breaking news out of oakland a pit bull attacked an animal control officer. The officer was bitten and witnesses say the officer was bleeding and taken to the hospital. We have a picture of the dog Officials Say its a 3yearold male pit bull a last effort to save Doctors Medical center requires folks to vote on another parcel tax. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony joins with us the story. Opponents say the folks here have some of the highe
The victims. Well, you are up very early or up late or up late. You might be finishing this sunday night. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im victor blackwell. Nice to see you yes, good to see you. Im christine romans. Its monday, april 14th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. And it may be early, but still a lot to get through this morning. We begin with breaking news in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Its now been 38 days since the boeing 7 77 went missing and this morning officials are switching their strategy, preparing to launch an unmanned submarine to look for wreckage on the ocean floor after admitting they have not heard any other sounds that could be from the black box pingers. They have not heard any other sounds in a week. That subs movements will be slow, it will be painstaking, the process covering just a few miles a day, as the search zone has widened again, and the head of the search revealed overnight that they found an oil slick in the ocean that could be conne