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Welcome Uhuru Kenyattas president home. We look ahead to 2016 as roy hodges england prepares to face the worse team in football. Kurdish forces are engaged in a battle to defend kobane, in northern syria. They are fighting street by streeght, and house by house to stop i. S. I. L. Occupying the town on the turkeysyria border. Fresh air strikes have been carried out against i. S. I. L. Positions. Thats offered respite to some, but it is not safe. There has been calls for an internationally enforced buffer zone in syria to protect the area close to the turkish border. N. A. T. O. s secretarygene...

How pope francis gets a warm welcome in the latest leg of his tour. Now the United States and britain say they are working on a special initiative to help tackle the boko haram armed group in nigeria. The killing of hundreds of people last week was a crime against humanity. Amnesty international has released images of what it says is the devastating images of those attacks. This was on the 2nd of january. All around you can see streets and clusters of buildings. Here is the same time from january 7th. An estimated 3,000 homes schools, and clinics have been destroyed. Its a similar scene three ...

Thousands of flights grouped and the grounded and the worst is yet to come. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im tony harris. Well have more on the storm. First, well begin with the battle of i. S. I. L. Syrian kurds say i. S. I. L. No longer controls the strategic city of kobane. Kurdish forces hold 90 of the city. Located on the turkishSyrian Border kobane was an unofficial front line. Thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers took on the group. Retaking the city came at a great cos. Cost Nick Schifrin has the report. Reporter for four months kobane was the u. S. Number one ...

Undermine her. Were getting reports that a siege at a Popular Hotel in the libyan capitol is now over. Earlier i spoke to al jazeeras correspondent who was on the scene in tripoli. The situation is very tense here where the attacks happened that killed four persons including a Filipino National and three libyans and injured 11 people. Now Security Forces here are besieging the hotel. They say the operation to free the hotel and free the hostages inside the hotel is over and now they also say that they have managed to rescue eight american nationals who were inside the hotel when the attack fir...

For millions of children, a snow day. The European Union moving closer to imposing more sanctions on russia. And escalation infighting in ukraine. Latvias president says the eu is likely to expand the list of those facing asset freezes and visa bans. Vladimir putin says ukraine is responsible for the violence. European finance ministers willing to work with greeces new government if the new Prime Minister drops his demands for the countrys debt to be written off. Europe may extend the deadline for greece to qualify for its next aid package. Word of another government intelligence Gathering Pro...