he was ousted in a 2006 military queue and is now living in self imposed exile. on thursday anti-government protests continue sit-ins on plan to restart demonstrations friday. the opposition group's base is the urban middle class. thaksin's support is rooted in the farm bill with generous aid programs to win elections. with deep seated issues unresolved, the lull on the king's birthday is unlikely to last long. we'll be watching the situation in bangkok as it develops. >> tra, thanks. "the washington post" is reporting u.s. intelligence acts are reaching beyond their country borders to monitor cell phones. it says staff at the national security agency are not just intercepting calls but also tracking the movements of phones around the world. the paper cites documents leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. it says agents collect 5 billion records every day on cell phones across the planet. the report says agents use that information to track people of interest and identify their associates. u.s. government officials say nsa personnel are trying to prevent

that is what generates the queue message. you are able to window shop, a much more sophisticated tool than you had in the past. we are confident that the number of people who are successfully navigating the system is improving, and has improved significantly. >> your presidents are -- what assessor said that you probably w -- >> he scored the touchdown. >> he did. [laughter] >> he said that it will be explicable that somebody involved in the creation of the website does not get fired, or a group of people do not get fired. do you agree with that? on, and i are focused know this is what robert said in that interview as well, that it is important to focus right now on making sure the necessary fixes to the website are made so that it functions for the vast majority of users. that we continue to make a permit so that these improvement can be made. issues on personnel are not something that we are focused on right now when it comes to making the affordable care act work for the american people. we want to make sure that millions

that e-mail queue is new, and so is this. a page of complete jibberish that popped up after simply clicking apply now for coverage. look at all those question marks. the white house says repairs to the site are being made and the administration says they have now isolated a problem that had been tripping up 834 forms which sent an applicant's information to insurance companies. >> more than 80% of the 834 production errors were actually due to one bug that prevented a social security number from being included in the application. >> reporter: officials claim a 90% success rate at healthcare.gov, but some experts are skeptical of that statistic. >> what we're seeing are points that are clearly politically driven. clearly they are designed to soothe the nerves of people who have been asking questions. >> reporter: back in october, "consumer reports" told people to hold off on enrolling, but they are now satisfied with the fixes that have been made and are urging the uninsured to sign up quickly. >> when the troubles first start

we're going to put you in this queue and get back to you when we're able to deal with this. so the white house is saying that eventually these people will be able to enroll, but i pressed jay carney. are these people basically being moved from one line to the other. take a listen. >> moving them into other lines? the goal is obviously to enroll more people, right? >> ed, i would point you to the fact that more people are visiting the site and are able to effectively go from beginning to end when it comes to enrolling than was the case in october and in november. >> reporter: so we should point out that it appears in the preliminary numbers that more people are enrolled in november than in october because obviously a really bad start. so you would expect the numbers to go up, but insurance companies and the industry issued a new warning today saying the whole, entire back half of the system where payments are issued and insurance companies get the enrollment information is not built out on the website and the saying it's not y threw up a clear to them that the people who are

, i'll sleep here and then join the queue tomorrow.es. and then maybe you can provide me with snacks and something to drink. [ laughter ] >> and he did go on to vote. mandela's casket will remain there until being taken to his home village on sunday. we talked to the first african american ambassador to south africa about how he was treated as a black man from the u.s. in south africa, and talk about mandela's unique role in history. >>> there was somewhat of a security lapse at yesterday's memorial service for nelson mandela. the sign language interpreter turned out to be a fraud. he stood foot away from all of the world leaders including president obama, signing as they spoke. but the signs had no meaning. how he got there. why he did it, and who he is, is still unknown. tim is in atlanta. he is our al jazeera national security tribute for. tim good afternoon. can you hear me? >> yes, i can hear you now. sorry about that. a few technical difficulties. yes, well obviously it has raised a few questions as to security, but the gentlemen

they're not in queue. because amazon would make no money if they were in queue. the problem here is they built a technology that was not ready to support a legislation that, frankly, is not a good piece of legislation. so neither side of it works. and i'm with the president. this is more than the website. people should wait for the other effects which sadly are going to be deleterious to our economy. >> you probably remember president biden saying this about obama care. the truth is, we're going to fix it, god willing. now the vice president is going to china in the middle of this health care drama. why is biden nowhere to be found when there are major obama care deadlines? do you buy into it at all, david, that he's trying to keep his hands clean or democrats are trying to help him keep his hands clean in case he decides to run for president and now he doesn't want to have anything to do with it even though he called it a good you know what kind of deal when the president signed it? >> is there an element of that? possibly. likely going to china has very little

station in volgograd right near the metal detectors usually this is where lots of people gather in the queue. for the latest reports it is believed that thirteen people have been killed and dozens of others have been injured in this explosion the national anti terror committee says that most likely the blast was caused by a female suicide bomber the whole train station has been blocked right now investigation is taking place in force we'll be bringing you the latest there as we get them. of course and it's just two days after another explosion in southern russia isn't please tell us more about the previous one and this iteration in the region in general all right just a few days ago a car exploded in the city of. killing three people and actually in the same city or just in october. female suicide bomber detonated her. inside a bus killing six including herself and injuring over thirty others so sadly russia is still showing to be quite a volatile region where unfortunately these sort of attacks do take place very often and are becoming unfortunately a common event. live from central moscow

the queue is stretch way out of the gate moving well over a kilometer down the road. people waiting patiently to get on the buses to see mandela's body. in 1994, there were scenes like this when south africans went to the polls, when south africans went along, casting a vote, putting nelson mandela and his government in power. here we have people waiting in the line. this is like 1994, isn't it? people went to vote for mandela, and now they get to go see him. >> we are very blessed to be part of this group celebrating the life of nelson mandela. he has been a great man to the country and to the world. and we believe that for us to be part of this is one of the things that will come in many many years. thank you. >> reporter: so looking as well, here you are almost behind bars, rather like nelson mandela was for so many years. >> if there's one thing that he gave us, it's freedom. freedom to live our lives, and give us a future. so the very least we can do is come today and pay our respects. >> reporter: thank you so much. just some of the tens of thousands of people w

instead, getting the message that it's just too busy and they have to wait in a so-called queue.'s deadline has been extended through tomorrow. yet another delay. to accommodate the high volume and supposedly different time zones across this nation. chief white house correspondent ed henry live for us in washington. ed, yet another last-minute delay. it is so confusing. what can you

last time in this country there were queues like this was in the elections 19 years ago. it is fitting, perhaps, that the queues form once again to pay the final respects to the man who gave all here the vote. >> the high court in australia revoked a law allowing gay couples to marry in the capital territory. the legislation came into effect over the weekend. some activists say the ruling could be viewed as a legal step forward. >> legally married last week, now told it's not valid. australia's high court struck down the landmark flaw that allowed the country's first gay weddings to take place. >> this is personally devastating. in less than a week we have been married and unmarried. at least on a legal level. >> to cherish into love. >> more than two dozen gay couples tubing their vows since saturday when the legislation name in effect. the decision provide for the possibility of gay marriage in the future. >> there was some confusion before today as to whether the national parliament had the power to make laws for same-sex marriage. that's been clarified. the high court

the queueing system was activated. 129,000 people were sent to the queueing system. on the 24th, christmas eve, 880,000 total people visited the site. here's deputy press secretary john ernest. >> the website was sturdy, it stayed up, and people were able to shop for website options. >> the administration says it is now devoting itself to the actual implementation of obama care. that is where the critics say we can expect to see much more problems on the rollout of the website itself. congressman tom price is himself a physician. sees some of these problems beginning to manifest themselves across the country. he certainly sees it in the atlanta area. >> when i talk to doctors that i used to practice with in the city of atlanta in the metro area, four of the major hospital systems are not even going to be on the panel, not even going to have the access. the patients don't know that yet. the hospitals know that but the patients don't know that yet. these are the kinds of hidden secrets in this program that are supposed to make it work from a financial standpoint. it ma

tomorrow the queue, you know, spills over into christmas eve. people are getting ready to do a lot of really busy things with family coming over. >> the other thing is they've seen so many delays happen that maybe they don't feel the pressure that something will actually happen to them if they don't go to it. the other thing is, just because you sign up doesn't actually mean that you have coverage. >> right. >> right? nobody's really paid -- not very many people have paid premiums. >> we don't know what that number -- there's so many numbers that we don't know. we don't know what percentage of these risk pools are made up of the young, healthy people that they need to make them sustainable. we don't know that number. we don't know the percentage of signed up or enrolled people who've actually paid that first month of premiums which is required to actually be covered on january 1st. we've heard estimates. 10%, 15%, 20%. but we don't really know. you know, they've extended that deadline, too, to the 10th of january for people to actually pay. sign

despite a long history of queue attempts the army is currently refusing to take sides. >> translator: i don't have much hope for the meeting because i don't think they will accept the invitation. the armed forces chiefs want a new election but we don't want that. >> yingluck received a warm welcome in the north of thailand offered on monday to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections. yingluck supporters strong in the northeast making her the most likely winner of the poll due in february next year. when in government her brother thaksin brought in policies to support farming communities there. however, middle class city dwellers who formed the bulk of the protest movement are calling for the establishment of an unelected council to appoint thailand's next leaders. with that said, protest leaders have yet to make a formal announcement on whether or not they will back the election. that's it for our update. i'm in bangkok. >>> south koreans are heading into winter worried about how they will power their homes and businesses. their country has seen remarkable growth in the past coup

oh by the way for his play dota that the repeated queue up at this though. but over the eyes of the bottom. publish your hair but for more fruit to put it which joined the mission of august on frozen and two has indicated it would be far more reluctant to take part in such foreign deployments in the future as it concentrated on more than i think its defenses tome. in all this cousin broug a small memorial ski boat for an end to the policy be used on sending soldiers to fog of reliance because of high costs. baucus on after all i need to supply you with us by us led forces in a contest on the fourth and one attacks but a lot. supporters of tickets not in non coms focused on the geeky himself an enrichment night. i need to supply trucks from boxing want one of the meetings in the kind with the crumpled in studies used lightly. it's getting zeitgeist the us led forces in the next time the pti control it's one of the two meet bob simon porter points. he was funny to some diced and efficiency names seventy percent of supplies for thousands of foreign troops icons

if you go on healthcare.gov this morning, you will find yourself waiting in a queue. they do now, as part of their technical fix, have a queueing system that will hold your place in line and get back to you. nonetheless, the site overwhelmed as we entered the peak pertain for people who want to enroll before january 1st. at this clinic in philadelphia, the queue clinic, hakeem has been helping people sign up. he says it is night and day on the site. over the last few days, he says, it's been very smooth and he's been able to help people sign up online start to finish and for a time has felt like he's making progress. >> it tax like two minutes to get the results. this is what ear eligible for, would you like to enroll, and choosing a pair, some plans and premiums. it works very well now. so it's exciting that people can come in and in like, half an hour, find insurance. it's rewarting. >> a sort familiar with the situation says in fact over the last month about 100,000 people have been able to select plans on the troubled healthcare.gov, as they've made improvements.

the website did not crash. >> that is why we built that queueing system. so that we would improve the experience of those users who visited the site over what they experienced back in october. >> reporter: visits to the site are expected to skyrocket has december 23rd nears. that's the deadline for americans to buy insurance to ensure coverage at the start of the new year. now today is apparently the first day of a three-week push by the white house to push this affordable care act. the president will be pushing a different benefit of the affordable care law each day, up to that december 23rd deadline. anne-marie. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. >>> well, vice president biden starts his visit to asia amid a territorial dispute between japan and china. he meets with the japanese prime minister today. biden arrived in tokyo yesterday and was greeted by the new ambassador to japan caroline kennedy. biden says the u.s. is deeply concerned about china's just established air defense zone. it covers a group of islands claimed by japan. biden tr

that's why in the game that people in the queue for the princeton to sign the unclean lips before the auction. hard to teach them of the liturgy of the members said that the bac is not science of guns under the state's crisis. moncton borrow you who might have on his own mind on the whole lot of us all about the time to toss in some hours from my problems inside the city can bottle up on this promise some of the responders to polka band. most of the home of the spots open to the seaside the superdome. on the spot market in the countryside. was i putting too much of a woman who bought these as the coconut cents. bodyguard i was recently got about six p lucky that got me back to the sea project in the northern province of body out. we have a ripple the dotted line is stepping up attacks on the hook days ahead of presidential elections due in a pinch when t for teen fattening security concerns as forty troops today to withdraw from the country by the end of next year. but cavity to until i get to see project the audubon still in god and show them. the booklet and equal in blogging the pr

revolution down with the government which to prison that's what we've been hearing at the queue protests for weeks but a possible default or economic collapse is not the talk of the town behind the barricades let's you assess the r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. police in kiev her previous they're tempted to clear the streets of processed accounts to make way for traffic in the city center the move sparked criticism from foreign politicians washington go yes far as threatening sanctions against ukraine's government and stephen cohen a professor of russian studies at n.y.u. he believes the involvement of u.s. officials could have serious consequences i'm not surprised but i am disgusted that members of the united states government are standing in queue. and a very dangerous and fateful moment for ukraine addressing crowds of protesters as though they are. state department officials in united states are the leaders of this opposition in effect we are contributing to the tensions in the street and i feel that if we are more violent. that these american fishel with the and also the european

customer and to queen's university in bathurst are joined by professor ag in and get people queue for joining us on the program this evening to see you have an interesting insight into that meant that mom dad and his his political savvy. newton fast transition to democracy here's what i meant it was remarkable person in his strategic oh four for the third. his calculation of the key you will see he understood very well the dream negotiations stalled the nineteen ninety the afp was in the position of enormous strength and could compete in terms of government the men he persuaded his colleagues that that was the case. so call the party whose job was both keeping control of his own tv in the aisles of reaching across to others that i can manage that balancing act for him. trials where both color and the d backs period between nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety four and the colts. they broke down and that many times how did he keep the show on the road this is where. most of the sometimes by standing up to his own constituents and famous the few winters stadium in because it didn't fa

the court that on wednesday the secretary general the queue and young dairy industry association with the development the content of production ran to fifty percent of individual farmers would exit from the mark in the next five to ten years but developing branches of the temple. the very time consuming process the new branches might not come soon enough either. dawn predicted up to my kindle shortage the next two years. that means no price will continue to go up under the assumption the current elemental hits the market. the poisonous milk powder scandal got a tiny people start paying more attention to pick a dairy product. the resources of the raw milk might be the most important focus of the sticky problem. according to market insiders that the directors of intensive management of milk resources might end up doing better with mass consumers the individual. just a small number of calif cannot make a huge difference to the market even though the treaty of failing the dairy industry none of the complaint help they can protest mechanic ocean. to most end up quitting. with more foresigh

that's why they get that people in the queue for the pens to sign the unclean lips. before the auction. hot cd key. one of the liturgy of the members said that the bac is not science of guns under the state's crisis. moral tomorrow you who might have on his own mind about a lot of us all that good and its prospects of ours from my problems was like this you can bundle up when the storm that's the most hopeless of evidence published a book about it. most of the home of the spots open to the seaside the superdome. on the spot market that he couldn't pitch that was all that within two months at a walmart to buy these as the coconut cents the cover. i was recently got about six p lucky that got me back to the sea project in the northern province of body out. we have a ripple the dotted line is stepping up attacks on state workers ahead of presidential elections due in a pinch when t for teen fattening security concerns as forty troops today to withdraw from the country by the end of next year. but cavity into until i get to see project yvonne still get caught and show th

online is all what i do. >> all the way. >> not queueing up outside.the a public holiday, boxing day, everybody's off. >> no excuse. >> good to see you. >> stand in line. >> i did not know, rosy educated me, the a big tourist thing. >> we saw that. very international. >> yeah. >> thanks so much. rosy and michael awesome explainer. >> boxing day. >> all about it. >> nothing do with the boxing. >> al qaeda, gaining ground in iraq. now the u.s. is sending help. d" ♪ [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 70% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. >>> welcome back to "around the world." a couple stories we're following now. chaos in egyp

thi queues. concentric rings greater distances than you think from where the event is going to take place. >> because this is happening in russia any special security concerns there? >> i think the only special consideration is we will be traveling there, our teams will be going there, people from around the world will be attending, tourists may not be dissuaded from it, but intelligence agencies will be sharing information to try to deter these in future. >> errol southers thank you for joining us. >> thank you sir. >> before the world cup kicks off in re oh, authorities are trying to clean up shanty towns known as favelas. as al jazeera's rachel levin reports, critics say any success have come at a cost. >> heavily armed brazilian elite security services, attempting to gain control of poor communities in rio, ruled by drug lords the for decades, called passive reunification, world cup and olympics are coming. but after the military operation a hard partly for people like captain marciel rocha.

the slightest interest in ukraine in a bizarre case of life imitating george clooney just jumped the queue bandwagon reading ukraine's speech from a script to the side of the camera apparently written for him by a state department ghost writer to all of you in the square in kiev. we here in the united states have great affinity for those seeking democracy. splotch what does george clooney know about the economics of ukraine nothing there's a cia manual for regime change and it's being followed to the letter my people on the payroll of western organizations and governments cia regime change manuals a few decades ago were being dropped over democratic countries but was subservient enough propaganda booklets like these under the euphemistic name the freedom fighters manual was scattered across nicaragua instructing citizens how to sabotage their country by cutting telephone lines leaving taps on and chopping trees on to highways the cia's document publicly of means to terrorism it carefully avoids the word assassinate in print calling to quote neutralize the country's police judges and govern

>> what i think is important to note is that the queueing system, the more sophisticated improved queueingtem, is a feature designed to improve the user experience. >> it has its good days and bad days. >> reporter: obama care enrollment assistant edwardo, who is working to sign people up in virginia, said the site is still too slow. >> today, we thought it was going to be better, but we already encountered some issues at this location where the website was not working properly. >> reporter: another problem, insurers say some of the enrollment files they're receiving from healthcare.gov still contain missing or inaccurate information. >> what we want to avoid is a situation where people think they're enrolled but their application has not been processed and their coverage hasn't actually begun, and they don't find that out until they show up to the doctor's office. >> reporter: republicans complained it will be hard to tell if obama care is ever fixed. >> it's about getting good information and of course, it's harder when the administration decides to cover this up and mislead and to chang

they're being thrown into this queue and then eventually they're going to enroll. here's jay carney. >> this day -- >> the goal is obviously tone role more people. right and. >> absolutely. >> if they're still waiting -- >> ed, i point you to the fact that more people are visiting the site and are able to effectively go from beginning to end when it comes to enrolling, than was the case in october and in november. >> so the question is whether people are just being thrown from one line to another, and finally, whether or not they're going to be able to enroll because this one deadline has now passed in terms of quote-unquote fixing the web site, but there's a new one that jay carney acknowledges which is january 1st when some people have to start getting new coverage under the affordable care act, and the question is, if they can't get all the -- can't get through the process and what will happen to people who are trying to get insurance but can't. >> this visiting the site thing is analogous to if i went to the weight watching web site multiple times, then my diet

was sent into that queueing system.e's white house deputy press secretary josh earnest. >> millions of people are taking advantage of this opportunity to get access to quality affordable health care. what the team has been focused on is making sure as they transition to the new health care coverage that that transition is as smooth as possible. we have put in place a team of experts who are working through the holidays to try to minimize that inconveniencnconvenience. >> we understand that the president was briefed on these new numbers. we would assume he has got to be pleased with them. and that the glitches have been largely removed. critics expected this in large part. they say the bigger problems with obama care lie down the road. here's republican congressman tom price of georgia who himself is a physician. >> folks in obama care and the affordable care act believe they've purchased something that they haven't really purchased. they're going to have a health care coverage with fewer doctors, fewer hospitals, fewer

park rangers will get the queue from a radio call. this was supposed to be the first year of the event since the beacon was renovated. >>> bad weather in the sierra foothills is causing pg&e to staff extra crews today as well. pg&e is concerned about a repeat of snowstorm four years ago that left thousands of people in the plasterville area without power for days. people are currently stocking up at hardware stores. >> i have actually decided to test some new equipment i have for camping. so i have set up my tents and i will sleep there and make sure it works. >> law enforcement are also urging drivers to slow down and be cautious of icy roads and black ice. snow could drop to 1,000 feet by sunrise tomorrow. elevations above 2,000 feet could see three to eight inches of snow. >>> the port of san francisco is sell chemotive bricks that will be use -- commemorative bricks that will be used at the port. the port says the money will help cover park costs including benches for visitors. a neighborhood activists says it will help pay off th

we have to queue the whole day and are not sure we'll get it. >> it's an essential part of daily life. for many indonesians water is a luxury item. it's a huge part of daily income to buy it. even then, it's too dirty to drink straight away. this is the source of the water, and millions of others in jakarta. after being processed it reaches 40% of households and is undrinkable. the government and water companies admitted that ageing equipment and facilities, polluted rivers and mismanagement are reasons why indonesians have no access to drinking water. >> if you talk about mismanagement i don't want to comment. i do want to say we have lived up to our targets, we have doubled our customers in 15 years, but the government has not given us enough useable water sources. >> yon -- indonesians who have access say it's not good quality. the government admits something as crucial as water was never a priority. >> translation: if you ask me why it has not been fixed the water system should have been fixed 30 years ago. the problem is classic, coming down to a matter of budget allocation. >> t

hundreds of people from fox and eighty as a baby to queue outside the site for treatment. counts except head on any given day since i moved to the good sense of the hominid been making this a good piece on north avenue. doctors up on some thai fruits idc predicted that they don't give in. that was organized with another patient a good aussie couple in front insomnia by the dentist what sort of hinted that can then be put into keeping on basic rights. so enough said they'd easy since i can't seven iits. the medicine its descriptions of necessity information on what issues would come by to combat it on the twenty twelve proper support and committing to child survival from this review was launched. it examines global trends and child mortality noting rapid progress in reducing child death. data released by the un interagency group for child mortality estimation shows that globally the number of deaths for children under five fell from nearly twelve million in nineteen ninety two an estimated six point nine million in twenty eleven. it is in the world. also on the head and mak

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in downtown pratoria, people queue up in long winding lines wait to go board three buses to head to whereelson mandela's body lie instate. the crowd at the bus stop is cheerful and there is occasional singing. [♪ music ] >> reporter: but there is less of a street party atmosphere than we've seen in the last few days. it's time to say good buy now in person. the union buildings are the seed of south african build. two decades ago this was the place where the country's first black president was inaugurated. [applause] >> reporter: among the thousands making this trip today, billy, on a personal journey. >> i was there in 1994. now today i'm going to complete what i started in 1994. i'm going to pay the last respect for my president. >> reporter: people have just a few seconds besides the coffin. no picture taking is allowed. this good bu goodbye is brief. >> there is no problem. although he looked different today. he looked huge. we are used to seeing him on tv. today we saw him live. >> reporter: in the crowds flooding down from the hill stop we find billy, and the two seconds with madiba

we have to queu th queue the why and not even sure we'll get it. >>> it's an essential part of life andgood health, but for many indonesiaians, it may be too dirty to drink straight away. this is the source of her water and millions of others in jakarta. after being processed by water companies it reaches only 40% of households in the capital and it's still undrinkable. the government and water companies admit that aging equipment and facilities polluted rivers and mismanagement are the main reasons why many indonesiaians have no access to drinking water. >> if you talk about mismanagement i don't want to comment. but i do want to say that we have lived up to our targets. we have doubled our customers in 15 years but the government has not given us enough usable water sources. >> so even indonesiaians who have access to tap water complain about its quality. they say it's often unusable for cooking food, washing clothes, let alone for drinking. and despite paying one of the highest water tariffs in south asia, something as crucial as water was onever a priority. >> translator: if you ask

we have to queue for the whole day and we are not sure we'll get it.t's an essential part of daily life. water is a luxe item. it played a huge part and even then it's too dirty to drink. >> this is a source of water much after being processed it reaches only 40% of households in the capital and it's still undrinkable. the government admits that polluted rivers and mismanagement are the main reason why indonesians have no access to drinking water. >> translation: if you talk about mismanagement i do not want to comment. we have lived up to our targets and we doubled our customers in 15 years. the government has not given us enough useable water sources. >> even indonesians with access to tap water complained about its quality. they say it's unusable for washing food or drinking. most people are forced to buy bottled water. the government admits something as crucial as water was never a priority. >> translation: if you ask me why it has not been fixed the water system should have been fixed certain years ago. the problem is classic, it comes down to all

they will form long queues over the next three days to pass by the body and pay their respect.he crowd here chanting songs, gathering themselves for the journey up to the union buildings. an emotional moment, of course but very much in the vein of the celebration, after the death of mandela, six days after he died. guys i'm with al jazeera, tell me what this means to you, what do you feel being here? >> this day today means i'm free. i put it right by my heart. that's where madiba was, right by my heart. his legacy continues on. viva madiba! i have never seen a country coming together here because of one person. recognition building, history in the making. >> thank you very much. well, there you have it! the sentiment of the crowd here. celebration, song, it will go on all day for the next three days here in pretoria as they make their way up towards the union building. >> the u.s. has approved $60 million in defense equipment for foreign forces in central african republic. two french soldiers were killed on monday night as they tried to disarm local officials. french president

the faithful are queueing, but there is a growing sense of participation, because to proside over it- all there is one special pope. he went from being a little-known archbishop from argentina to time magazine's person of the year. everyone recognized his chosen name as pope, francis. from day one he proved to be just as humble as his namesake. he became known as the people's pope. he dodged security to be with his flock, and was especially interested in the well-being of the displaced, disabled and children. on his first trip back to south america, he received a hero's welcome. 3 million people came to see him, turning coca cabana into a catholic wood stock. francis became a word wide icon, but an accessible one. he spoke freely to reporters, answering tough questions on homosexuality and the role of women in the church. many catholics around the world will look back as 2013 as an dramatic your when a church marred by scandal was rejuvenated by pope francis. >>> urgent space station repairs at the hands of two astronauts. a live picture is there. ♪ >>> welcome back. today marks the

they've been waiting half the night at the front of the queue. how iannot put into words feel. i'm over the moon. >> the forecast of rain has prompted some elegant designs. >> we are very fashionable. >> thank you. >> inside the world cup stadium, and moviesion songs a list -- and vuvuzelas. nelson mandela means different things to different people here, even those born after democracy arrived. >> everyone came together for one man. the fiery young activists celebrate the militant who launched an armed struggle. but the mood here is intimate, like a family gathering. it is striking how many people here actually met the man. >> when you are in the presence of mandela, you think you are in the presence of a god, and yet, he treats you like you are the god. arrived.he famous a warm embrace for mandela's ex- wife and his widow. then come icons from africa's liberation struggle and some controversial he still in power. in all, more than 100 world leaders resident and past -- present and past. denmark's prime minister poses with self he -- selfie some colleagues. the relaxed atmosphe

people had gone into the site, landing in a virtual waiting room that holds their place in an on-line queue. but if the front end remains slow, the insurers say the big problem is the back end of the marketplace, the actual planned enrollment system continues to generate faulty information. >> the health care plans are receiving enrollment files that have problems, including missing or inaccurate information. and in some cases, they are not receiving the health care files at all. >> reporter: in many cases, they have to enroll them by hand. >> having the complete enrollment information is essential for coverage to be able to begin on january first. >> reporter: the state and federal exchange have generated more than 230,000 confirmed elections through november 30th. insurers already back logged trying to process the applications, worrying that they won't be able to handle the new surge and get them processed in time for coverage to begin january first. the insurers say they have now fixed the major flaws with the insurance files on healthcare.gov. and they expect that now the process will g

the tree towering of the basilica, the faithful are queues, but to preside over it all, there is onepecial pope. this was a whirlwind year for the pope. he went from being a little known bishop to time magazine's person of the year. when he appears on the balcony after the election only a few recognized him. everyone recognized his chosen name as pope, francis. from day one he proved to be just as ample as his namesake. he became known as the people's pope. he was especially interested in the well-being of the displaced, disabled, and children. on his first trip back to south america as pope he received a hero's welcome. 3 million people came to see him. francis became officially a worldwide icon. but an accessible one. he spoke freely to reporters, answering tough questions on homosexuality and the role of women in the church. if christmas is a day for remembering, then many catholics around the world will look back at 2013 as a dramatic and eventual year when a church marred by scandal was rejuvenated. >>> pope francis also wished his predecessor a merry christmas. pope francis pai

they've been waiting half the night at the front of the queue. how iannot put into words feel. i'm over the moon. >> the forecast of rain has prompted some elegant designs. >> we are very fashionable. >> thank you. >> inside the world cup stadium, and moviesion songs a list -- and vuvuzelas. nelson mandela means different things to different people here, even those born after democracy arrived. >> everyone came together for one man. the fiery young activists celebrate the militant who launched an armed struggle. but the mood here is intimate, like a family gathering. it is striking how many people here actually met the man. >> when you are in the presence of mandela, you think you are in the presence of a god, and yet, he treats you like you are the god. arrived.he famous a warm embrace for mandela's ex- wife and his widow. then come icons from africa's liberation struggle and some controversial he still in power. in all, more than 100 world leaders resident and past -- present and past. denmark's prime minister poses with self he -- selfie some colleagues. the relaxed atmosphe