consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. czech >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm jonathan betz with the top stories. >> a bus explodes on the egyptian border - all caught by security cameras. >> white the talks stop in geneva - citizens wait for help. >> protests at city hall. plus... >> i can't see you any more. do it now.

>> >>.."gravity" blows them away, winning the last major award right before the oscars. >> in egypt at least three were killed and 13 hurt when their bus exploded in the sign side pennsylvania, two koreans and the driver killed. the bus, carries tourists from south korea was travelling from mann aftry from central sinai. >> today's attack appears to be a turning point for the armed groups in sinai. there's fears there could be more attacks on tourists in egypt. the bus was gutted. you can see how big the plume of smoke was.

earlier every single person on the bus was injured. i spoke to the head of the tour company that facilitated this tour. he believes the bomb was placed in the bus, under the driver's seat, that it was planted in st. katherine's monastery, a popular tourist destination. the reason he believed it was planted there is the bus was there and made no stops between the monastery and the israeli border. after the attack israel closed its side of the border and egypt the same. there has been no claim for responsibility. armed groups have been waged in a campaign of violence since mohamed morsi has been captured. targets have been security police and service, until today. we haven't seen tourists targeted for eight years, which

is why they are feeling this is a shift in strategy, and they could attack softer, more vulnerable targets. >> the trial of the deposed egyptian president has been delayed again. he and 35 others are charged with espionage and terror attacks. lawyers cannot hear the proceedings from inside a glass cage. the trial has been adjourned until later this month. >> it's the 50th day of detention for al jazeera staff, mahmoud ahmadinejad -- mohamed fadel fahmy, peter greste, and mohammed badr have been charged with having ties to muslim brotherhood. a terrorist group. al jazeera denies the charges. >> millions in limbo, struggling

to survive. >> it's a diff situation here. people are angry, saying they are kicked out of their tents, they have nowhere to sleep and the army is not allowing them to leave the area. i'll bring in a man that's been here for a few days and he can explain to you what it's like for syrians at the camp. thank you for givingous your time. can you explain what it is like for you here. >> you see and all the world see our situation here at the camp. it is without cover. people are sleeping on the earth, under the rain. no more food.

you have one time for the food. the institution here -- situation here is too sad for our people. please, if the world can help u we are human. we are not animals. if no way to help your animals. european union especially, you see so many families stay under the sky, on the earth. you see the kids, the children. this area is cool. we need decent - where is the

decent -- >> what do you say to the people that say they speak for the syrian people sitting in geneva, with the americans, who can't figure out how to speak to each other? >> those people are not dealing with us. those people staying and they are getting a big salary. we stay here without food, without water, without - please, from the people, from the people in the world, please help us. we need our country. we need our house, houses. we are not happy, but no other way to do

>> thank you very much for that, a direct ms edge - that's a very direct message from the mouths of people living what is described as a hell, and nothing is being done. it gets cold here at night, and many people don't have a place to say. no roof over their head, they are straight and they want something to be done and they don't know when they can go back home >> a small up to in sweden has become a safe haven for refugees for wars like loik and syria. it's -- iraq and syria. it's due to the open door policy. >> mohammed was on the verge of an adult life in damascus. with a degree in engineering he was poised to start a new job. he feared he would be arrested

like his cousin after they attended an opposition rally. he fled. he takes swedish language classes in the evening. >> we have to start from scratch again, learning new language, society and laws. >> mohammed is one of thousands of syrians that fled to sweden. many syrians end up south of stockholm. now, 90,000 citizens, 30,000 are immigrants. that puts strains on local services. >> we don't have enough housing. that's the big problem, i would say, for the refugees. they stay with relatives. the bell rippings for a -- rings for a successful call at a call center. they provide training and jobs for immigrants.

down the haul is classes -- hall is classes on how to keep accounts and pay taxes. schools hired extra counsellors to deal with the process of the law. 90% of children at the school have an immigrant background. they hold 20 of parliament's 349 seats and are anti-immigrant. >> we want to lower immigration to sweden with at least 90%. that's a big change. people coming from syria get permanent residency automatically, which is responsible. support for restrictions on immigration is growing. the swede ush democratic party -- swedish democratic party wants to stop the policy.

more and more are joining them and they hope to increase the vote coming up in the autumn. >> moving to ukraine, where protesters pulled out of kiev. demonstrators have been occupying it for months but agreed to leave it the government dropped charges against activists. >> a handshake to seal the agreement under the watch of international observers. the occupation of city hall came to an end. >> it is two steps. both sides made a step to each other. both made a compromise. >> as the activist vacated a building they declared they'd be back if the government didn't live up to their end of the deal. >> we want a peaceful solution. we don't want violence. >> it's been two months sips the

protesters swept into city hall. the deal was to leave if the government dropped all charges. an attempt to stop the crisis that paralysed the country and left president viktor yanukovych weakened. some activists are unsure how the future of the protests would play out. >> translation: it's hard to consider this a victory or a defeat. innocent perhaps, the protest is words it. the protest erupts following a decision to abandon a european union pact and deal with russia. it may not signal the end of demonstrations. support is popular, the protestor, with a broader movement for humans rights.

>> joining me from washington is james, the deputy director of the american institute in ukraine. thank you for being was. >> what do you think of making the move, protesters pulling out of city hall. is this the end of the opposition movement. >> i don't think it's the beginning of the end of the opposition movement. it could be a baby step. we'll have to see what the follow through is from the government side about dropping the charges. there's no sign that the polarization politically in ukraine is resolving himself. there's news there could be a march towards the parliament, demanding constitutional changes. i saw a report, it was upconfirmed that the opposition was declared a parallel government administration. at the time time as vacating the

city hall could be the negotiation of a development. there were other developments that could be the case. >> the government seems to be trying to make concessions. they are offering amnesty to people arrested. do you think this will be enough to calm the anger in the streets? >> that's doubtful. i think you put your finger on a major difficulty. the government is in a position where it can make concessions, but other than liquidating itself and resigning, is there any more that they can be confident t the political leadership of the opposition parties don't control the people in the streets. it's hard to know what kind of binding promises can be accepted by the opposition, no matter what concessions the government makes. >> how does it end? there's talk of a new prime minister. do you think that could be

enough? >> i think it could be and should be if there's some way to get control over the opposition movement and for them to see themselves that if ukrainians are going to stay in one country or avoid what some point to as an incipient civil war situation, that concessions from the government side have to be met by a reasonable compromises by the opposition. >> james with the american institute in ukraine. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> the mayor of florence has been tapped to become italy's newest prime minister. matteo renzi is 39 and is expected to be asked to form a new government tomorrow to overhaul a troubled economy. the former prime minister lasted 10 months. chinese bloggers are asking the u.s. to fight internet censorship, to tear down the

great firewall of china, and find out whether american companies helped chinese government set up the controls. >> a nepal airlines crane has crashed. the small plane took off when it lost contact. it's feared all 18 on board were killed. authorities blame snow and rain. >> tiny insects posing a threat to lives and livestock. why scientist are taking to the sky, fighting flies with more flies. >> i'm at the miami boat show. we'll go behind the glitz and glamour to show how this industry is creating thousands of

>> 11 people have been pulled from a closed mine near johannesburg much the me dug into an abandoned gold mine and were trapped. illegal mining is common in south africa. workers live in abandoned shaft. the workers have been handed

over to the police. >> now to a disease affecting millions of humans in africa, caused by a fly, and there's no vaccine for it. we talk about how the united nations is tack lipping it in an -- tackling it in an u.n. conventional way. >> this is the latest effort to combat a destructive disease. this floods the bloodstream, causing victims to die a painful death. it affect livestock. humans suffer from it. >> translation: if the stock is sick, we can't make money. >> all attempts to get rid of the disease have failed. until now. health officials from the united nations believe the solution is in the box. inside are flies responsible for spreading the disoos. these fly -- disease. these flieses were bred in vienna.

they received enough radioactive radiation to make them sterile. >> these will not be able to mate. this will eradicate the tutsi fly and the disease. >> this is a multi-million operation. during this flight every 20 seconds a box of sterile flies are dropped. by 2016 it's believed they'll be wipe youed out. >> the -- wiped out. >> the united nations feels it's a need intervention. scientists don't know what the eradication of the tutsi fly will do to the echo system. >> we only know what they do to the animals. we know little on what is happening to the rest of the ecosystem. what is the role and function of the flies on the wildlife.

do they have a certain control or population control measure or not, we don't know. >> u.n. officials believe the benefits outweigh the risks. farmers will no longer need to rely on handouts. the plan is to expand the project to africa's eastern coast, an area trees the size of the united states. >> an outbreak of measles in connia is forcing sick children to be guarantee teed at a camp. >> this mother grieves for her son. she buried him on thursday. he had been sickly since he was an infant. when he got measles, it weakened his immune system so much he could not fight an attack.

>> he was my only son, i have no husband and i thought he would be the one to get us out of here. he's gone. at the refugee camp in kenya sick children have to be guarantee eend in the camp hospital. the outbreak has been worsened by the flow of refugees from south sudan. fleeing from the conflict. >> where you deal with a situation where you have many people come into a camp, one of the biggest public health concerns is a measles outbreak. the important thing is we are identifying cases and are sponing to that. >> these 2-year-old twins were admitted two weeks ago. their mother noticed the symptoms. they were feverish, eyes red, got a rash and were weak. >> every child under 15 years in

the camp is targeted in an emergency vaccination that began on wednesday. 50,000 children in all. it's an exercise that's going to extend beyond the boundaries of the camp to the kenyan community and to the boarder of south sudan, where the refugees are coming from. the refugees have been screened and vak sin aid against polio and measles, they have to be screened for a second time, monitored and vak inated again. >> humanitarian organizations admit this is an uphill task. >> well, hackers have broken into the fundraising website kick start. the company did not say how many account were compromised.

is it did say credit card details were not stolen. the company is encouraging users to change their passwords. >> florida is experiencing a boom in boat building. it isn't driven by millionaires. >> it's billed as the premier boat show. if you are in the market for the latest in floating palaces - this is the place to be. more than 2,000 boat makers from across the globe gather in miami to showcase the best money can buy. >> here we are on a 25 cpr, 145 feet, probably one of the largest yachts in show. this is a jack usee comfortably accommodating 10 guests. boating is a pastime enjoyed by millions in the u.s., making it a job creator.

the boating industry employs under 340,000 people in 35,000 businesses. there are 88 million people that go recreational boating. despite the numbers, times have been tough. the recession hit the industry hard. companies went under and manufacturing was down by a staggering 80% much the backbone of florida's economy is making a slow and steady comeback. >> it's a comeback driven by boaters that meant manufacturers managed to survive. the workforce is small but highly skilled. the marketing director says they hope to hire staff. >> without them, we have no boat. they are the most important aspect of what we are doing. there's a hot of skilled labour out here. when the recession hit and the market fell out there were a lot of people hard up because they

couldn't take care of their families. >> with new orders there's a sense much confidence. those employed by boat makers, it's welcome news. >> really happy. i can make it and put food mon my table every day. >> despite the glitz and glamour, it's not the wealthy driving growth, it's enthusiasts with modest means. >> nice to be on the water, without question. >> still ahead on al jazeera america. anger in venezuela. protesters venting their frustration. >> three months after haiyan swept the philippines we visit the vulnerable survivors - the children. sh

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at the top stories this afternoon.

in egypt three were killed, 13 hurt when a bus exploded. here is the security camera footage of the attack. two south korean tourists and their driver was killed as the bus was waiting to cross the border. protesters moving out of the ukraine. part of a deal to end months of unrest. >> diggers trapped in mines, digging illegally. they have been handed over to police. >> protesters rally in the streets of venezuela again. people are angry at the soring inflation and high murder rate. it was a contrast from the protest in the capital. >> rachel lef jip son follow -- levinson followed it all. what are the protesters demanding? >> well, these protesters are part of the opposition movement.

they want the president not to be in power. the opposition is split. the rally was one emphasising nonviolent message. they are tired of president nicolas maduro, who was democratically elected, and want him to give up power. >> has the president shown an indication that he might do that, meeting the demands? >> the president stood his grouped. again, he -- ground. he was democratically elected. half the people in venezuela voted for him. people may be not hope with the way that he's leading the country. he has shape no intention of changing the way he conducts his policy. if anything, he has become more firm and some would say having a crackdown on the opposition.

>> how fragmented is the opposition movement? how many factions are there? how is it affecting the overall process? >> the opposition movement has never really been unified. that's a problem throughout the whole, if you will, chaff as, nicolas maduro rein. -- chavez, nicolas maduro rein. they backed someone in the last election that lost by 2%. basically into two different sides, one side that follow enriquo, who is a moderate, if you will. and the other side, which seems to be following lopez, who is encouraging the student protests saying voting is not enough, we need massive civil disobedience to force the government to step

down. we'll have to see how the two sides play out. >> live in caracas, venezuela. thank you. >> lingering ash and volcanic eruption in indonesia is raising health concerns, causing breathing problems around the area for some. it spewed ash 10 miles into the air, four killed, and 50,000 in government shelters. >> southern britain is suffering its worst flooding in decades. severe storms killed two people yesterday. jennifer glasse has the latest from cornwall. >> for weeks the sea pounded the coastline of cornwall, washing away sand dunes and sinking boats. the village is home to the southern port. here they have a healthy respect for the ocean. >> that will take you off your feet and wash you away. >> here the waves got so big, they destroyed a car. it's the roughest weather anyone can remember.

>> it's been a stressful couple of weeks. we had bad weather since christmas, before christmas. last wednesday was a bit extreme. >> that's when the sea broke some of the 2-time wooden beams that were supposed to protect the harbour. they washed into the poured, helped to sink 10 boats and dammed a dozen more. >> it's the first time the harbour has been empty since it was built. i don't know what date it was, it's 100 years old. >> this port started 100 years ago, but didn't open since 1825. it took 15 years to build the refuge. it's been a difficult winter for the fisherman, along the cornish coastline. some have not been able to fish for two months. >> it will take a few weeks before the harbour can reopen. then, there's no guarantee that the sea will cooperate. >> major flooding in england, and you say it is to do with the

jet stream. >> it's the driving force. the storm is pushing to the west, heading to the atlantic. the reason why they see a significant amount of storms is we have seen an increase in the movement of the actual jet stream. he's meandering a bit. when you have the cold air across the north, and warmer air across the south, it squeezes the jet stream, causing it to move quicker. that's what we see. the movement pushing the storms out of the west. it's mindering over the last several years, and getting waller across the arctic. we are looking at the jet extreme moving around, bringing in storms across the south. with the latest storm pushing across the north-east you can see the area of low pressure spinning. it will gain strength and momentum. and head towards the uk. that is caused by the jet stream. another storm is making its way into the north west, bringing

snow across the cascades. there's a winter storm warning in effect. it looks light in nature. you can see a patch of rain pushing in, causing heavy rain. that includes the squamy pass. i90 - be careful, could be 2.5 feet of snow. >> in the north-east the snow will take a brother until tuesday. tonight, a few late effect snow showers. be careful, and i-90s, it could see scattered snow showers. winter storm warnings disappearing across the north-east. the foot of snow that fell across portions of maine, we see wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour. that could diminish visibility, especially along i-95. >> today marks 100 days since

typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. 6 million children have been affected. we talk to the vulnerable survivors. >> this ripping is a source of comfort for -- ring is a source of comfort for this 14-year-old survivor. it is all he has left of his mother, losing his parents and his siblings during the typhoon. >> translation: i just pray that hopefully they are happy and watching over me. >> he is grateful he found relatives to take him in. many others like him haven't. >> three mondays after typhoon haiyan, and many are living in evacuation centres like this one. 6 million children have been affected by the storm. humanitarian groups classify 500,000 of them as highly vulnerable. meaning they have no guardians or come from severely affected

areas, where capacity for recovering is poor. the children face the danger of not just being exploited, but abandoned by caregivers. >> they may end up in the street. the children may become a liability to the community. >> a reality that, irrionicly this 14-year-old escaped, thanks to haiyan. she and four siblings live in a government care facility after social workers found them after the storm. their parents abandoned them years before. "i am happier because someone is taking care of me", she says. they are getting an education now. only a small number of the vulnerable survivors have been helped. there is much still to be done. the rain no longer frightens

him. he is hopeful about the future. he feels his family is with him always now, and one day he says he just might be happy again. >> 60 miles north-east of los angeles, a ground breaking green movement is under way with 300 days of sunshine lancaster california is one of the first countries to require solar panels on new homes. we have information on the small town getting national tapes. >> i don't -- attention. >> i don't want to wait for the reviews. >> this mayor is a man on a mission, powering his city's residents through the power of the sun. he drives an all-electric tessler, and was the first person in lancaster to install solar panels on his 4500 square foot home. >> this month by electric bill should be about $3.

>> under his leadership the city installed thousands of solar panels at city hall, the passages jermenting their open -- generating their own electricity. >> all of the city's buildings, 97% of electricity comes from solar. >> they have been installed at lancaster's 2500 schools in an effort to reach the internet goals. that means producing electricity as it consumes. >> lancaster generates 1.5 megawatts of electricity, saving $50,000 a month on utility. paris's nation has gone behind that. lancaster is the first city in the nation to make residential solar panels mandatory. >> it was something that the building industry did. they spoke against about it for 3 minutes and then said "we really agree with you." in fact

one of the nation's largest builders has made solar panels a standard feature at 30 communities in southern california. this resident and her husband bought solar panels. >> we put panels on to offset use im. >> southern california's rate is 16%. the mayor says edison has not embraced the movement in his city. >> they are supposed to act like they are in favour, they resisted it every step. >> edison denies that saying the utility is a leading purchaser of renewable energy, 20% of its portfolio coming from the renewable sources. >> lancaster plans to go a step further, producing and selling solar power. what i see is a day that we are not connected to the grid and serve at a model for that. >> a model that will see the sun

set on high number prices - one solar panel at a time. >> authorities in new mexico are investigating a radiation leak. there's no danger to people and the voirpt. the leak is -- environment. the looek is at an underground site in federal new mexico. workers have not tested positive. it's unclear what caused the leak. >> nuclear power, and the danger of radioactive waste, fusion research. last year a controlled nuclear fusion reaction has made last year, a big step of reaching a source of clean sustainable energy. joining us from vancouver is from general fusion inc, doing

its on research or nuclear fusion. thank you for being with us. we had an announcement that a break through on fusion has been made. if i understand it, it means it's a process releasing more energy than it consumes. how big of a deal is this? >> it's a big step forward. have you to create conditions, and you have to put a lot of energy. in this case they fire a large laser system at a small pellet of fuel. only a small fraction gets into the fume. the amount of fusion was more than what was absorbed. that was an important step. this is the first time they did that. >> what does this look like in the long term, what are the implications, what does this mean? >> well, fusion has been something that we pursued for a

long time. the reason is that if you look at lopping-term -- long-term norge sources it has a -- energy sources it is atractive. we have enough fusion on earth for hundreds of millions of years, it can be produced 24 hours a day, seven days aweek. in renewables we get rid of intermittent problems. and it's green. we don't produce waste. if you think about the long term fusion, if you had an energy source providing number for society ci, this is a good contender to replace fossil fuels. >> how far aware are we from having fusion as a reliable number source? >> well, that's always the toughest question to answer. if you go back a year and look at what the national emission facilities was doing, there was a lot of handringing at the time.

they haven't achieved the progress, and the scientist and therapy. fast-forward they've had strong progress. that's the nature. time goes by. that said, it tends to be something that goes on under the raid or. people don't talk about fusion as an energy source, even though a lot of progress is happening. compared to what most think, it's a lot closer than people believe. it's something that could be an energy source that we should consider in the coming years. >> closer than we believe - within our lifetime, the next century, 10 years. >> certainly within our lifetime. different projects have different time scales. we are working away at an opportunity that hopefully will lead to an easier bath to commercially viable fusion

energy. it depends on some of the early steps and what happens in the years ahead. >> promising stuff. thank you for your time today, from general fusion inc. >> still ahead - results from sochi. jessica taff is up next with the latest from the winter games.

>> across the atlantic, signs that one of the world's great economic centres are in recovering. london's comeback will be welcome new, we look at what is leading the rebound. when san francisco went looking for a place in europe for a start up. she decided a move from silicon valley to the silicon valley

roundabout. it earned the nickname because a lot of international tech firms are moving in, especially from the u.s. because london is booming. recovering from years of recession. the mayor says his city is pulling all of victims with it. that could mean good news. the two countries do about 2 million of trade and have a trillion invested in each other. >> the head of the british american business association says american ties are a maimer part of the comeback. >> the u.s. business is an important part of the recovery story. if you look at the basic numbers on u.s. investment, historically, actually, on any basis, on any year u.s. asbestos are the most significant investors in the country. 25% of all invest. comes from the u.s. every year. it's the leading source of

investment. >> that's a free trade deal in negotiation between the u.s. and the e.u., which could be worth billions more. it could be in jeopardy if the u.k. votes to leave the union. >> if you are making a long-term investment and rely on access to the european market for your products. you would think twice about coming to a country which may - not probably, but possibility be in the european union and in the single market. >> for online businesses, that is not an issue, and she urges her colleagues to come over. >> for me, i have trends that have start-ups in the u.s. they asked how the london launch goes, i say, "you need to come here immediately." with the economic powerhouse that is london, there's no doubt that uk and the u.s. will lead a

robust exchange. >> the u.s. has a history of pulling together in a hardship. that is as true as ever. >> well, i'm glad the economy is doing better than the sports teams. they have only one one gold medal. one gold, but you know, how many golds have either one of us won. i will not play judgment. hopefully the u.s. men will get gold. yesterday we talked about the americans thriller. tj oshie was the hero. today team usa picked up where they left off. it was still kessel's turp to shine, becoming the first american in a decade to score a hat-trick in a tournament. he led the team past slough aprilia. ryan miller making his first start of a game. the w gives the americans an automatic spot. they'll mace the winner between

the chubb lick on monday. we see it has a tendency to turn athletes into superstars. ask tj oshie, after his dom innocence in the team usa shoot-out. the 27-year-old is six meals from the cap aidan -- canadian border. >> this is called hockey town usa, warode produced seven medallists. as you learn from banners and signs, tj oshie and gg marvin are in sochi now. a big thin for a town with fewer than 2,000 people. >> everyone talks about tj and gg, look where they are now. the whole community is proud of them and what they have done. >> hockey is everything here. for decades people loved a game that is not nearly as popular in

their countries as baseball and basketball. longer winters are a proud tradition. isolated locations play their part. >> it's a quiet place to live. not too much traffic. plenty of excitement at the local arena. bands fire up the crowd. the high school girls defend a 5-year winning streak. the coach says it helped to live in a hockey mad town. >> do you have the backing, the coaching, the available ice time. do you have the tradition. is it possible, can you believe in it. i think we have the right environment. henry bouche, it would agree. he won silver with team usa in 1982. at that time he got a message from his home up to, half a

world away. . i remember getting a telegram from everywhere in the world. it was six feet long and all the names of the people that i knew from the small town. talk about having a lux in your throat. >> in an age of emails, skype and media, it's easier to support players who are far away. that's what the people of hockey town will do for the next two weeks. >> two teams divided loilt oils. not when -- loyalties. not when they take to the ice tonight. that's when every player is a home-town hero. >> and this may be a good sign of things to come to. no u.s. men's hockey team won olympic gold without a player from that town. one of the best skiers op his last leg had one day for the

record. 36-year-old bode miller became the oldest alpine skier to win an olympic medal when he wills his way to bronze. it gives the six med as a record for us. so here is what the results look like. andrew wi berg grabbed the silver. bode miller had the bronze. you look at the - how things worked out at the medal count. bode miller tied for bronze. it's funny, you look back. bode miller is the old man on the mountain. he was the young kid in salt lake city. >> great britain only has one medal. >> why are you rubbing it? ? >> shocker. good at soccer and golf. >> the red carpet was out in london for the bavta award. the british equivalent of the oscars. "12 years a slave" won best

film. "gravity" for best director, and outstanding british film. it is the last big awards ceremony before the academy awards in los angeles. at the berlin film festival a chinese thriller "black coal, thin ice" took the coveted golden bear award. >> "black hole, thin ice" [ cheering ] >> a dream come true. that's the director's take on winning the top gong in berlin. this love fest a long way from the violence of the murder mystery "black coal, thin ice", following an overweight detective on the trail of a serial killer. the actor put on many kilos and it secured him a best actor. best actress was for a real in

"little house", showing family life in tokyo during world war ii. the audience prize went to an yooeth film following the story of a 14-year-old girl's abduction and rape, and murder tripe after killing the man who abducted her. >> the silver bear goes to... >> while the film boyhood may not have taken the top award, american richard linklater got the nod for best director, his coming of aim tale using the same ak force over a 12 year period, filming for a couple of days every year for 12 years. is there there has been a number of screenings, kicking off the european festival circuit. the line up has some criticism. usually it's known for an aipt hollywood outlook. some said it was a let down,

focussing on films from the u.s. >> american director screened on opening night, winning the grand jury prize. every scope has a famous face, and it will be a film that didn't need to get an audience. >> there'll be more on show sunday might when the red carpet is rolled out for the bavtas. >> looks like good movies. timely venice is swarmed with a walking dead. hundreds of zombies ran and stumbled through the streets of the city with ripped costumes and fake blood, followed by the zombie hunters. it kicks off a festival. that's the show, head lines after the break.

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york. in egypt three were killed and 13 hurt when a bus exploded in the sinead peninsula.

two south korean tourists and their driver were killed as the bus crossed the border. >> protesters are moving out of the occupied buildings as part of a deal reached with the government in the hopes of ending months of unrest. in south africa 11 people have been pulled from a collapsed mine. they were digging illegally. they have since been handed over to police. >> hackers broke into the website kick starter and stolen users information. it did not say how many customers accounts were compromised, but credit card numbers were not stolen. the director was among the biggest names to use the site. in sochi, the u.s. men's ice hockey team beat slovenia 5 to 1. the netherlands leads with 17 medals. russia tied with 16 each. america has four gold, four silver and eight bronze.

>> i'm jonathan betz, i'll be back in an hour with more news. "america tonight" weekend is up next. you can find us online, go to al jazeera america. gooech and thanks for -- good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen, and you're watching "america tonight," the weekend edition. we start with california, running dry. the northern part of the state is seeing some showers, it won't