>> the russian president accuses the west of seeking to dismantle russia and says he won't allow it. >> as vladimir putin speaks, the chechnyaen city burns. >> this is aljazeera live from hour headquarters i in doha. also on the program: >> 83 arrests in new york, protests after a grand jury does

not indict a white cop who choked a black man to death. >> waiting for a rocket to launch to mars. >> president vladimir putin has said he won't allow the west to dismantle russia like ugoh he laugh i can't. in his address to the nation, the russian penalty said u.s. foreign policy and defended his country's actions in ukraine and crimea. >> parts of the chechnyaen capitol resembled a war zone as armed militants took over a publishing house under heavy fire from security forces that surrounded the building. >> the attack looked carefully timed to steam the headlines from president putin's address to parliament.

with the president arriving at the grand kremlin palace with his traditional entrance, this was going to be a difficult speech. the economy battered by sanctions and fall of the price of oil, he addressed the war in ukraine, but the president was combative, accusing the west of wanting to see russia broken up, dismantled, he said. >> despite the fact we have been treating our enemy was yesterday as close friends and allies, the support of separatism of russia from abroad, including the political and financial one through intelligence services was absolutely obvious and there is no doubt they would love to see the yugoslavia scenario collapse and dismemberment for us. this has not happened. we did not allow it. >> he said the military stream see of russia's armed forces must be guaranteed. national pride and sovereignty

were a necessary condition for russia's survival. as the ruble continues to fall as he he spoke, putin said the central bank's decision to allow the ruble to fall did not mean it was giving up influence recovery the rate which has fallen 40 cents over the dollar. he announced special measures to protect small businesses that he believes will help lead the economy out of recession. as far as crimea is concerned, he he addressed the foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his countries survival. aljazeera, moscow. >> a senior u.s. commander confirmed for the first time that fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant of running training camps in libya. it is feared political turmoil could provide federal tile ground for violent groups to

spread. hundreds of fighters are undergoing training in camps in libya. >> the u.s. is set to approve $5 million to fight isil. videos show peshmerga shooting an isil fighter. you may find parts of our report disturbing. >> an isil fighter lice on the ground, captured by kurdish forces in a battle south of kirkuk. they should take him prisoner. instead what follows could be described as a war crime. a peshmerga fighter shouts he's still alive, so the fighter on the left opens fire, then the others follow suit. >> in another video, given to us by a peshmerga fighter, they are seen dragging the bodies of an isil commander and fighters around after the battle. the brigadier general at this peshmerga forward position said his fighters do adhere to

conventions rewarding prisoners of war. >> as peshmerga, we are always trying to operate under international law and protect the lives of soldiers at war. >> we challenged it, saying the peshmerga have been filmed filmd killing captured isil fighters. >> that's also true. they ask us to come to them or approach us in civilian clothes, then detonate suicide bombs. >> these peshmerga soldiers south kilometers south of kirkuk said they aren't fighting a regular army. i saw forces will to blow themselves up, and cannot take chances. they are manning the only gateway that allows people in isil controlled areas to come to kirkuk. >> the bridge in the distance is now the isis front line. this is how close the fighters are to this peshmerga forward position, about this corn stand flow of people going from kirkuk

back to their homes makes the fighters here jumpy. >> the peshmerga don't know if there are isil sympathizers among them. one man said it was well where he lived, but when the camera was shut off said there was no life under isil. >> the peshmerga are keeping the gateway open to help the people in the conflict to show they are a humanitarian force. this image will be damaged if they don't eradicate rogue pressner abuse. >> the yemen faction of al-qaeda is threatening to execute a u.s. journalist taken hostage more than a year ago. the photographer, luke somers was kidnapped in 2013. a u.s. mission to free hostages failed. they also said he would be killed in three days unless unspecified demands were pet me.

>> peter grerka was awarded a journalism award. he's been held in an egyptian prison with two other journalists for 341 days now. all say they are in sent and simply doing their jobs. they are appealing against their convictions. >> in the u.s., a new york police officer who was seen choking a man to death will face an investigation, that's the pledge drop the u.s. department of justice after a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges. 83 people were arrested in protest following that decision. you might find the images in the report disturbing. >> these are eric garner's final minutes, suspected of selling single cigarettes on the street, a crime in new york, police officers wrestled him to the ground. the police claiming no chokehold

was used, garner was never in distress. the video says that's not true. >> i can't breathe. >> peter cries several times and then falls still. a coroner ruled his death a homicide by chokehold and throat compression. choke holds have been banned since 1993 but are not illegal. his family condemned the decision. >> somebody that get paid to do right did wrong and he's not held accountable for it, but my husband's death will not be in vain, as long as i have a breath in my body, i will fight the fight to the end. thank you. >> garner's killing happened weeks before the police shooting in missouri of michael brown, an unarmed of a attorney teenager. a grand jury declined to indict that police officer, as well. as the garner decision was announced, almost immediately protestors took to the streets. the demonstrations were catered, loud and disruptive.

president obama spoke after the judgment was announced. he insisted this isn't a black or white problem, but an american problem. >> i'm not interested in talk, i'm interested in action and i am absolutely committed as president of the united states to making sure that we have a country in which everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law. >> the nation's top law officer said there will be a federal investigation. >> prosecutors will conduct an independent, thorough, fair and expeditious investigation. the department will conduct a complete review of material gathered during the local investigation. >> president obama announced a task force into police be, although one of those appointed is accused of brutality as police chief of washington, d.c. the presidents called for more funding for police body cameras,

but the garner case illustrates that even those feel they have a clear cut case of police brutality caught on camera, enough to bring a police officer to trial. >> let's look closer in the grand jury system in the united states. the grand jury's job is to decide whether to bring criminal charges. it doesn't decide guilt or in sense, but whether someone should be put on trial. after 23 people randomly chosen from the community make up the grand jury and they work with the prosecutor to gather evidence. if the jury decides not to indict, the prosecutor can still demand a trial, but they have to prove to a judge that there is a strong enough evidence. grand jury's are currently used in about half of the states in the united states. jason johnson is a political science professor in ohio, saying political leaders need to reexamine the grand jury system. >> the fact that you have these consistent cases of white police

officers and unarmed minority men dying at the hands of these officers but there's no trial or investigation, there's a tremendous amount of anger in the united states. there's an inherent conflict of interest when you have a prosecutor who may have current cases or past cases that are dependent upon police officers and then called in to actually investigate and possibly indict a police officer. if an indictment was successful in ferguson or here in new york, there's a possibility that previous cases that were done with these officers may have to be reopened and questioned, so there's an inherent conflict of interest and that's the other reason why structurally, president, mayor, government and political leaders need to look at how the grand jury works especially in the case of minority death. >> experts from the united nations say 2014 is likely to be the hottest year ever. if temperatures continue to rise, they'll beat all previous record and be a big impact on the world's glaciers and sea levels.

more than 190 countries are involved in talks in lima. >> california in the middle of a record breaking drought until yesterday when it received 10 center meters of rain following a storm. >> a powerful pacific storm slammed drought-stricken california, drenching some areas with over 10-centimeters of rain. parts of the county north of san francisco were deluged, a sinkhole opened up in san francisco itself, while cars were submerged in san jose and streets flooded in san diego. ventura county, home to mudslides are prone to evacuation orders. heavy equipment cleared roads ever have mud and rocks and late down sandbag barriers. >> it will take more than one storm to reduce the drought. many reservoirs are near record

lows and government officials begging californians to save water. aljazeera, san fncisco. >> still ahead on the program, they are still waiting in florida, high winds have delayed the launch of the orion spacecraft, but they could be just minutes away. >> plus, south africa's oldest leader tightened his grip.

>> welcome back. russian president vladimir putin accused the west of trying to dismantle russia. he also defended his foreign policy particularly in ukraine during his annual state of the nice address to parliament. the speech comes hours after 10 police officers were killed in chechnya. a publishing house was stormed and set on fire. >> the united states senior law officer said there will be an investigation into the death of eric garner, put in a chokehold by police in july. a grand jury did not bring criminal charges against the officer. >> afghanistan is on the agenda at a conference in london. the government relies on foreign donors for two thirds of its annual national budget. this has been the bloodiest for

civilians since the war began more than a decade ago. let's go live to london. tell us about what is happening in the conference. >> it's another conference, the 12th in as many years of international donors and political personalities around the world gathering this time in london, but yet again the agenda the same, how to reinforce afghanistan, how to ensure its future. this is a moment in its recent history of transition, the new president and they've executive partner here pitching their vision for the future of afghanistan. they are also represented or joined by several dozen members of afghan civil society organizations, because there is a fear at this crucial moment that the international community particularly in terms of the donor community is threatening to abandon and target afghanistan at the moment when it needs its help more than

ever. i am joined here today by a senior member of the civil society delegation from afghanistan. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> to what extent do you and your community fear the international community is about to turn its back on afghanistan? >> the fear is there, and that is why we ever around more than 50 delegates here to actually pass the to the international community and high afghan delegates about the future of the country. we would like to encourage the international community to not alone leave the afghan people alone and support them as usual and get them out from the cries where we are now. >> what are some of the achievements of the last 10-12 years, difficult years, but there are achievements, what are they and how should they be

protected? >> well, there's no doubt that billions of dollars have been poured into afghanistan. we ever achievement and compared to the money that we have, for instance now we have a young democracy in afghanistan, had elections, three times in afghanistan. we have women's rights, we have human rights there. we have women who can call for their rights today. we have girls going to school. we have women who are going to clinics openly. there are many achievements, we have roads, all the major roads are built and people can travel. unfortunately, one of the big things wimp is the security has not opinion improved. for that, we are here with all the other delegates together to actually call on the international community to actually do not forget afghan people and improve the way for actually basic living conditions for the afghan people in

afghanistan. this is a transition point, turning point, security provided by the international community coming to a conclusion, the sense that this is a country that is going to stand on its own two feet more than it has done for the last decade or so and there's great fear amongst many that the international community is growing weary with the problems of afghanistan at a moment when it needs all the help it can get. >> simon, thank you very much. >> there's growing speculation that zimbabwes 90-year-old president could be replaced by his wife. he used his speech to congress in the capitol to criticize his current deputy, accusing him of undermining his authority. some believe his wife could benefit from the shakeup.

>> he says that he's convinced she tried to unseat him, saying she used a witch doctor to unseat him. maybe she will try and come back later in the party or rally supporters to strike a deal with the opposition. his wife's plan is highly expected she will be to women's leader, people also wonder her next move. is she eyeing to take over from her husband, people concerned about the future of the party, the future of the country, more importantly the economy with that where is the country going

with no clear successor named. >> more than 6,000 people may have died from ebola in west africa and that number is rising. in sierra leone, the president insists it's still open to visitors. >> workers at an ebola treatment center get ready to treat their patients. this part of the capitol is a high risk area for the disease. here, each person suffering from ebola is given a special diet. >> every place in what was given the same diet was you have difficulty to swallow, you have patients with sore throat, with very little appetite, so based on the different condition of the patient, each would need a different diet. >> just over 40% of all people diagnosed with ebola in liberia have died from it. the world health organization

says the number of new cases here has been stable for several weeks, but in sierra leone, the number is rising. the w.h.o. said transmission remains intense in the capitol, freetown. the president of the world bank gave an upbeat assessment. >> sierra leone must emerge from the ebola epidemic much stronger than it was before the ebola epidemic. we can build infrastructure, train people to be community health workers. there's much we can do in responding to the epidemic. >> the government stressed that the country should not be defined by its ebola experience. >> sierra leone is still open for visitors. we are still safe here fighting ebola. the full course is for us toize late ebola and not isolate the revert of the country. >> the international efforts to find a cure or treatment is

being stepped up. teams across the globe are looking into anti viral drugs, while another is investigating how to use the blood of survivors as a potential therapy. >> it's probable that these treatments will work, but we have to check that the human body can tolerate them, the treatments must not be toxic. >> more than 17,000 people have contracted ebola in this outbreak, and the rate of infection is still rising in place. >> a rocket carrying nasa's hopes of return to the glory days of space flight is waiting to blast off in florida. the mission is touted as the first step in deep space exploration, but time is ticking with less than half hour left in today's launch window. live to andy gallagher at the kennedy space center for us.

several delays and about 20 minutes left now in the launch window. is this going to happen today? >> well, time is dwindling fast. we've get 15 minutes before they can do a final four minute countdown and we have an engineering problem wimp is more serious than a boat in the water or high winds which can die down. this is a changeable situation. nasa could announce we're good to go, but at the moment, it's liking less likely than this morning, but certainly a lot of anticipation here at nasa. this is the start of a new era for the space agency, the capsule will orbit the earth twice, go 14 times higher in orbit than the international space station and is basically a stress test for the space capsule. engineers will monitor the mission, this first mission, testing the heat shield.

it will go through various parts of the atmosphere where radiation is very high. this is an unmanned test flight. it will be fib years before there are any astronauts aboarded that. it is hoped that astronauts will be taken to close earth asteroid and potentially the planet mars. this is the start of a new era for nasa and many, many hopes pinned on this small vehicle, which carries a lot for the future. >> this is called nasa's next giant leap, of course if it happens, when it happens. tell us how the people there working at nasa are excited about this program, because times have been a bit difficult for them lately. >> definitely. i followed most of the space shift launches for the last years and towards the end of the program when you knew the shuttle was going to retire, it felt like the end of an era. morale was low, people didn't

know he what would happen next and the orion program was announced. yesterday i spoke to the nasa administrator who said this was huge. he got teary talking about the occasion and what this program could represent. it is a huge leap forward. this is deep space exploration. it's beyond anything human kind has done before. the potential to go to mars could open up new horizons or everyone, so there is a lot riding on this mission, but safety is a big priority here. if there's any engineering problems, if the wind reaches a certain speed, everything is shelved. we'll have another window hopefully tomorrow, but time is definitely running out here. >> less than 15 minutes left for that window and for that spacecraft to launch at cape canaveral. if it does, we will bring you the live pictures here, of course. thank you oh so much for now. >> from science fiction to the prehistoric, london's natural history museum is unveiling a

nearly complete dinosaur skeleton, now open to the public. >> meet see fee, she is 150 million years old, a vegetarian from north america and she's a stick sour russ. >> it gives us a huge amount of information about the anatomy. >> she was a teenager on the cusp of adulthood when she died. there is no sign of catastrophic injury. it's almost impossible to tell if a dinosaur is mail or female unless eggs are found inside the bones. the donor wanted to name it

after his daughter. >> sophie is the size of a large elephant or small rhino but would have acted like a cow, grazing just to feed her massive body. >> the facile is an absolute bonanza for scientists. soon to be published, a scientific article on how much it would have weighed. how did the leg muscles work, how fast did they walk and how strong were the plates and what were they used for are questions. >> the most common one is maintaining body temperature, losing or gaining heat very quickly. another option is for defense. >> it's not only scientists who will benefit. she is likely to inspire a new generation of paleontologists.

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