♪ >> johannesburg or joburg or jozi.th africa, and the economic powerhouse of the country. southwest of johannesburg, soweto. originally an acronym for southwestern townships. now the area is considered a suburb. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> in 2010, south africa played host to the world cup. the black jacks who played for the opening celebration are a soweto based band. they are also, not surprisingly, soccer fans. ♪ ♪ >> we're here on game day. a grudge match in a country where soccer approaches religion. you can feel it in soweto or rather you can see it as everywhere you look, people show their love for the local orlando pirates or for the johannesburg kaiser chiefs. mawilies inn. a typical local joint in soweta. the perfect place to talk about a game, drink yourself silly over the results of a game, or just have a very fine local style meal. it is, however, a little hard to find. there are a lot of places like this? i mean, this used to be the garage or the carport, right? >> yeah. definitely. >> in what was

debora patta it in johannesburg. and tpeers part of the problem is the fear and misinformation surrounding ebola. >> reporter: we are talking about a region with conflicts. it is more terrifying than war. many parties won't go for treatment and refuse to go into isolation wards believing that is where people go to die. in some instances families have broken into treatment centers to free their relatives. there have been reports of health workers being attacked accused of bringing ebola into the country rather than trying to treat it. and, of course, it doesn't help that aid workers often wear full protective gear, which only adds to the fear. >> brown: and, debora, what are the governments of these countries doing? >> reporter: in sera leone security forces are going door to door looking for infected people and encouraging them to go for treatment. in liberia, ebola survivors are doing much the same thing trying to get the message across that going into an isolation ward is not a death sentence. both countries have d

we go to martin nkosi in johannesburg. what happened?unds pretty alarming to everyone who flies, of course. >> very much so, geeta. i've just been talking to the spokesman for south african air ways and he confirmed to me that this incident occurred over the kuala lumpur air space on a flight from joe hahannesburg tog kong. 165 passengers were on the plane, 20 people injured, as you just mentioned, three of them are the crew, and two of those 20 who were injured have been sustained serious injuries. they have been taken to local hospitals in hong kong. the captain of the flight radioed ahead at hong kong airport saying he would need emergency services and that's how the emergency services were waiting on the tarmac when the flight landed. it was an a-340, an airbus a-3400 plane. >> i presume if people were strapped in, that happens when you hit turbulence, there is some kind of warning. do we know what happened? were people thrown around? must have been thrown around quite badly. >> yes. faa says this was a weather-related occurrence. th

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>> reporter: it's something we seem to hear about more and more, like this recent flight from johannesburgleast 20 passengers injured, two seriously. pilots say they're experiencing more turbulence over the skies in the u.s. in recent years. >> the incidence of turbulence encounters is increased. it may be counterintuitive but statistically the incidence of injuries as a result of that is decreasing. >> reporter: hoff credits technology for the decrease in injuries with turbulence below the jet stream, better radar systems warning pilots of rough air at lower altitudes but higher up along the jet stream williams says clear air turbulence can't be detected. he predicts the frequency of reported clear air turbulence to double by mid-century and increase in intensity of the shaking by 10 to 40%. >> every flight i get on gets choppier and choppier and it's just been really the last month of flying. >> so that flight that i was on, it's the sort of thing you almost want to think twice about even asking for a glass of water without having it spilled all over you. it was a very uncomfortable flig

something that happened at a nightclub, the blade runner's family says he was accosted by a man in johannesburg, he started it by aggressively questioning about his murder trial. it's man says that pistorius was drunk and insulted his friend and proded his chest. diane sawer will have more on the growing crisis in the middle east, watch that following "action news" at 6:00. >>> stormy weather brought down a tree, a huge one and closed roads in a neighborhood. an uprooted tree is entangled in there in wires, that cause tropical disturbance to be closed from brandywine creek. the crews were cutting it down today and all of that cause aid power outage for 28 customers. but the power should be restored any minute. >>> lets get an update on the highways tonight. >> matt pellman is in the traffic center, a very busy place. >> that is for sure, we can't catch a break on 95 southbound this afternoon, but we are on the brakes as we travel through the girard point bridge by the airport. we had the broken down truck and then the heavy rain came through and then a crash on 95 southbound by the airport, kno

for example, planes travelling from johannesburg to london fly over a warring regions of africa. mr 17 flying at 37,000 feet. >> it is subjected that the higher planes fly the lower the risk from the ground fire. the greatest safety is not flying over the war zones and sometimes that comes with higher costs. >> it is all about money. what determines a route of flight is bay the airline by the dispatch the shortest line between two points. >> between two points where hundreds of people lost their lives. aljazeera. >> keeping a watch on the northwest and a cold front is approaching but little rainfall associated with that. we have a number of wild fires on going. going to central washington and the fire has destroyed a lot of area. we are dealing with the dry part of this time of the year across the northern rockies and the west and unfortunately no rain in sight. the winds are continuing to gust throughout the day on into sunday as well and the winds are continuing to fan the flames and unfortunately that is not helping with the battling of the blaze. it is causing probleming with

in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead. but it is not soon enough for the jostled passengers last night. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >>> a navy commander who disappeared more than 60 years ago will have his ashes scattered in monterey bay. commander albert sebode and others died in 1952 when their plane crashed into an alaskan glacier.

in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg en route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit his head on the top of the roof. >> reporter: turbulence can form in the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator in miami. where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> reporter: on average, 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them, not wearing seat belts. there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. in fact, most pilots learn about it in their headset, of pilots reporting it ahead of them. in the hopes, a laser that gives them a 60-second warning that a rough spot is say head. but not soon enough for jostled passengers. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> it's interesting. the expert that matt talked to tells us, as violent as it is, and dangerous as it is for people, the airplane won't fall out of the sky. >> it never makes me feel any better. i get freaked out. can you believe that it says, ironical ironi

mortimer was born near johannesburg in 1923. her parents were jewish immigrants from europe to g started writing early, was married, and became a mother. -- from europe. she started writing early, was married, and became a mother. she joined the african national congress and supported it by hiding activists from police. in justice was a major theme -- injustice was a major theme in her work. >> my characters, drawn from the life around me, were experiencing the political pressures and the rising force of the liberation movement. >> her books were frequently banned because of their criticism of apartheid. but outside of south africa, she became a superstar. her books were translated into dozens of languages. in 1991, she received the nobel prize for literature. gordimer was one of the first people nelson mandela visited when he was let out of prison. >> it is up to us to now move on, to fulfill further the freedoms, the lack of racism, the terrible inequalities that he had begun. >> we have to take a short break. coming up, two y

more from johannesburg. >> thabo meb ebbingy was president when the arms deal was seened. it was a $5 billion upgrade to south africa's hardware. it meant the country would have new frigates, helicopters and fighter jets. the deal and the people involved has been dogged by corruption allegations. two served prison terms for accepting bribes from international arms companies, including a former financial advisor to the current president. charms against zuma were dropped before he became president. it's been 15 years since the deal was done. lawyers representing opponents to it at the inquiry say sav caps deserve to know the truth. >> we are hoping people will be held accountable. the public - it's for the public to know what happened. so we can investigate these things, and make sure that people who were responsible for a wrongdoing during the arms deal itself, will be held to t account. south africans were told it would create tens of thousands. some shacks were destroyed here last week, as the people living in them were evicted. they have no land, and no homes. they said

people on a flight to hong kong were hurt when there was severe turbulence on the flight from johannesburg and here is the damage where people were known to their seat. some hit the overhead compartments. the turbulence hits as they passed over malaysia. 20 were hospitalized. two suffered serious injuries. >> russian officials arrested two subway worry after a train derailment yesterday in now. 22 people were killed and 150 others were badly injured. the track foreman and the assistant are accused of criminal negligence for improperly wiring switches where the accident happened. >>> >> meteorologist mike nicco has a busy day with the weather. >> tracking drizzle this morning and more on the way. i am not sure she want sun with all the humidity. it is uncomfortable. i will tell you when the temperatures will climb coming up. >>> a central valley hiker's miraculous story of survival: this man survived a week in the wilderness with no food, no water and a broken leg. >> keeping teen drivers safe. four things to keep in mind before their kids get behind the >> covering walnut creek, burlingame

in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead. but it is not soon enough for the jostled passengers last night. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >>> a navy commander who disappeared more than 60 years ago will have his ashes scattered in monterey bay. commander albert sebode and others died in 1952 when their plane crashed into an alaskan glacier.

for example, planes traveling from johannesburg to london often flyover warring regions of africa losingitude it -- using at albuquerque toot it is a safety net. malaysia airlines was a thousand feet above. the safest path is to avoid flying over conflict zones, however that option sometimes comes with higher costs. >> this is all about money. what determines a route of flight is by the airline, by the dispatch, is the shortest line between two points. >> reporter: between two points, where hundreds of people lost their lives. al jazerra. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: good saturday to you. checking out the weather across the country it's quiet, from the central west. we are seeing most of the active weather across the u.s. where it is a soggy day for your afternoon plans especially across the southeast in the ohio valley where it's been raining all day long. we will see a few hit or miss showers across mainly western washington as the frontal boundary tries to slide in, but where we need the rain unfortunately doesn't look like we'll get it. we are still dealing with a anybody of wild fires acro

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he served in johannesburg, beijing and tokyo. i'd like to invite my colleague to make any opening statement he would like before i invite our nominees to make their opening statements. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i met with two of you in the last little bit in my office, look forward to your testimony, and thank you for your service. >> i'd like to welcome our nominees and encourage you to take the time to introduce your families and friends who we all know are an essential part of your service in government. mr. heflin? >> it's my honor to be here today as the president's nominee. i'm grateful to president obama and secretary kerry for this tremendous vote of confidence and this opportunity to come before you, i wish to acknowledge my daughter sarah, who is here with us today. she's currently a junior in tennessee. and lived in six countries growing up. her first posting started when she was eight weeks old. i regret my parents didn't live here long enough to be here today. they devoted their entire lifetimes to public service.

nadine gordimer died yesterday in johannesburg. she was 90.each-goers came under attack in central russia over the weekend when hailstones shot from the sky. swimmers ran from the river and took cover as best they could. children screamed as the hail pounded them but no one was seriously hurt. the air temperature dropped 30 degrees in just a few minutes. >> now celebrity sightings in only what, yes, that's warren buffett, not that surprising, only what is his hometown. but look who's with him. paul mccartney, the beatle and the businessman had dinner last night. and this is tom white, a news celebrity after friends snapped the photo and posted it on-line. we like tom's t-shirt it says find your anchor. amy van dykeen rouen was a role model as an olim pin-- olympian. she becomes one again as she faces a new challenge. her story is next. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!" they

ceiling where a passenger hit his head. 20 people were hurt two of them seriously on the flight from johannesburg to hong kong. one witness reports a baby flying out of a bassinette and being caught by her mother. >>> a 9-year-old girl found unconscious near a menlo park swimming pool died. the pool is in an apartment complex on sharon park drive. emergency crews try to revive her before bringing her to stanford hospital. police think it was an accidental drowning. >>> there were no injuries at a chevron refinery plant small fire this morning. it started after oil leaked from a processing line. but it was still an eerie reminder of what happened two years ago at the refinery when an explosion sent clouds of toxic fumes into the air and thousands of people to the hospital with health concerns. >>> a new tesla at half the price. the electric carmaker reveals its cheaper alternative. what could you get for about the price of a prius. ♪[ music ] >> a rude rebuttal. you have to see this protective dad's new spin on a radio hit. but too often in san franc's and chase in stockton. thiss where that high

deborah patta, cbs news, johannesburg south africa. >> glor: more than five million americans currently have alzheimer's. that number is expected to increase dramatically in the decade ahead. today researchers announced the promising result of a study on a new test to pick up that disease years if not decades in advance. and they're looking for the sign in an unusual place, the eye. don dahler has more. >> reporter: these bright dots are proteins called beta amyloids visible in the retina of a patient diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. beta amyloids are typically found in the brain and have been known to be linked to alzheimer's. dr. james galvin is a neurologist at new york university langone medical center. >> what makes it unique is that the retina is actually an extension of the brain. and so we think that a lot of the pathology that is occurring in the brain may also be occurring in the retina. >> reporter: australian researcher sean frost tested 40 people using a liquid form of curcumin-- the natural substance that makes curry yellow. curcumin sticks to beta amyloids allowing doc

in all 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg en rout to hong kong. passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> most of them hit their heads on the top of the roof. >> reporter: turbulence can form even in the calmest of conditions. caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> so which part of the plane would feel the worst? >> the very back of the airplane. >> reporter: there's no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. in fact, most pilots person about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. a new detection system is in the works using lasers in hopes of giving pilots up to a 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead. but not soon enough for the jostled passengers last night. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> matt, thank you. >>> tonight back here at home, more than 90 passengers are just back on dry land telling their tales, trapped in a floating casino on the water. emotional family reunions on shore after their boat ran aground stranding everyone overnight, no bed

in all, 20 injured as the south africa airways flight crossed the equator from johannesburg in route to hong kong. some passengers evacuated in cervical collars. >> hit their head on top of the roof. >> turbulence can form in even the calmest conditions, often caused by pockets of air. we flew in a simulator today in miami. >> where would you feel the most turbulence in a flight like this? >> in the back of the airplane. >> on average 23 passengers are hurt a year. most of them not wearing seatbelts. >> there is no specific instrument alerting pilots of turbulence ahead. most learn about it on their headset from the reporting of other pilots ahead of them. >> a new detection system is in the works using lasers in the hopes of giving pilots a 60 60-second warning that a rough spot is ahead. but it is not soon enough for the jostled passengers last night. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >>> a navy commander who disappeared more than 60 years ago will have his ashes scattered in monterey bay. commander albert sebode and others died in 1952 when their plane crashed into an alaskan glacier.

she died peacefully at her johannesburg home in the presence of her children. that's the prize winning author nadine gordimer. we'll have more on her life later on al jazeera. much more to come on this news hour. for the first time, the church of england is voting whether to allow women to become bishops. plus, australian journalists are calling for th to intervene on journalists jailed in egypt. >>> and the world cup. celebration in germany live in per lynn. >> the banking citigroup has agreed to pay $7 billion in fines to the u.s. government. it follows an investigation into mortgage backed securities sold by the bank in the lead up to the 2008 crisis. it was charged that citigroup tried to hide the defects of the risky loans. we go to rosalind jordan, ross, what are the basics of this deal. >> reporter: well, analysts had been thinking that perhaps citibank would pay at most $3 billion for basically making the subprime mortgages to u.s. homeowners and then turning around and selling those same mortgages in the form of investments to investors who ended up lo

team says he was approached inside a johannesburg nightclub and the man asked him questions about the trial and the argument ensued but nothing physical. coming up on the "today" show, jeff rossen has more on how the olympic star was allowed to be inside that nightclub. >>> and ugly mess for the miami police department as two officers get into a big fight that all started with a routine traffic stop. take a look at the video there. a city police officer pulled over a car for speeding not knowing the man in the car was a lieutenant in the same police department. the two guys fight with both of them down on the ground. the dash cam in the officer's cruiser captured the conversation with his supervisor afterward. the lieutenant was dressed in plain clothes and confrontational. he had no idea the map he pulled over was another officer. >> he's plain clothes dude, plain clothes, plain car. i ran the tag and it don't come back. it come back, it come back to a rental agency. >> the officer has been placed on paid leave. the lieutenant is still working this morning. >>> 95% of the roads in d.

she passed away in her johannesburg home.he was 90. >>> still ahead, the ring argene >> welcome back. now, the football world cup is over and germany's winning team has been crowned. but brazilians are still assessing whether the event was a success and more importantly, whether it was worth the cost. lucia newman reports from rio de janeiro. >> the giant fan fest on copa cabana beach that welcomed more than 9 million footballers is fastly faring. from an organizational -- fastly disappearing. >> from an organizational point of view, the stadiums were ready in pooh 96 of time. the visitors were able to enjoy the sporting festivity. there were clashes between anti-world cup protestors. >> lenin used to call religion the opiate of the people. in brazil it is football and carnival. >> reporter: according to polls, the majority of brazilians that went from supporting the cup to criticizing it changed again. >> that's an important legacy. the money spent on the cup wouldn't have been earmarked for health education and housing anyw

. >>> 0 people are injured and two are critically after a south africa flight from johannesburg to hong kong hit severe turbulence. these perks show -- pictures show a hole overhead after a passenger hit the ceiling so hard after the jet flew over malaysia. medics were waiting to assist. there were 165 passengers on board. >>> don't be surprised when you head out this morning, you could be hit with something on the windshield we. >> drizzle this morning and deep are marine layer at 3,000' with the flow at 16 miles per hour wind at fairfield and live doppler 7 hd is picking that up, and temperatures are mild again. 62 in milpitas and otherwise we are at 63 to 66 throughout the south bay and look at the home 60 but for novato and bodega bay and half moon bay in the upper 50's but dry at 280 and 17 and san jose but, clouds this morning, temperatures this afternoon will be spot on if oakland at 72 and the rest of us from 1- to 4-degrees cooler-than-average. >> 49 bart trains are on time and ace train one and three on time and five, too, is joining the group. we will look at what is happenin

some flights over conflict zones include london, johannesburg. atlanta to to dubai.sey to deli. it crosses afghanistan. let's go outside where the meeting is held or will be taking place. michelle is there. great the to see you. the airlines at the moment are basically responsible. that's how it's left now. responsible to decide what is safe and not safe. airlines will say, hang on. we're not security agencies. right? >> you're hearing airlines whether malaysia or others saying hang on a second, we need help making these kinds of decisions. there's a growing concern they get information from countries. people want to know how do countries make decisions. is it some case by case situation? should there be more transparency? that's what the aviation chief behind me will be discussing today. how the current existing protocols that already exist work more efficiently. at the moment, the airmen will meet. this is a clearinghouse for notifications. then the airlines can decide whether or not to act on that or other information they gather for themselves. the question is ar

we are live in johannesburg. bring us up to date with what's going on in the court. >> the former president gave an hour's worth of evidence and since then, he's been cross examined. he's had some success, i think in trying to convince the commission that the deal was necessary. he said there was a constitutional obligation on the government to make sure the country was defensible, so the military hardware under apartheid had been left to a state of disrepair. he said it needed to be upgraded. he said it was difficult to reach a balance between what to spend on the military hardware and what to spend on things like house and social spending and housing and things like that. it was a difficult balance. he said it's been very difficult under cross examination for the lawyers to get any traction, any momentum going, because they are constantly interrupted either by the judge leading the commission or by his lawyers. this part of the inquiry is really only about how much should they have cost it and whether they were

planes traveling from johannesburg and london often fly over warring areas of a using altitude as a safetyet. a thousand feet above closed air space. >> reporter: conventional wisdom suggestion the higher the planes fly, the lower the risk. but the safest path is to avoid flying over conflict zones. however that option sometimes comes with higher costs. >> this is all about money. what determines a root of flight is by the airline, by the dispatch is the shortest line between two points. >> reporter: between two points where hundreds of people lost their lives. al jazeera. >> well, the european equivalent of the faa you're low control said it is rejecting any flight plans that involve travel over ukraine. the closure of the air space over ukraine will effect 300 flights a day. flights are flying way north of ukraine on its way to malaysia. but this is worth noting. look at malaysian airport 17 yesterday. you're quite familiar with this. you've seen it several times on tv. when it crashed it went right through the conflict in ukraine. but these other lines. this is the same fligh flight's p

family members said she died yesterday at her home in johannesburg. >>> customers help restrain a man yielding a large knife inside a restaurant. >> as i was holding his hand, he was still trying to like stab at us. >> how the violence continued, even after police arrived. >> a powerful sea breeze is sealing off the bay area heat. how soon temperatures will spike back up. >> after the break, allergic to apples? an 11-year-old's strange reaction to his ipad. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he's our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab >>> a flight carrying deported mothers and children from the u.s. arrived in honduras today. many are expect today follow in the coming days. an official with homeland security said the u.s. border is not open to illegal migrants

he joins me from johannesburg, south africa. first of all, our condolences. you and your family holding up? >> yeah, it's been pretty rough. you know, watching the plane go down on cnn before we were notified by the malaysian authorities, it's been quite a trip. i have to say. you know, my mother was the one that called my sister while she was sleeping in malaysia to say listen that, flight hasn't made it. and it was clear it was amsterdam, malaysia. the odds of us getting it wrong was 100-1. so you know, it's like a really bad movie gone wronging >> shane, your sister was married to cameron. he was a father. he was a helicopter pilot. what do you think about when you think about him? >> you know, cameron was larger than life. i know that most people say that about the people you know, that pass kind of you know, unexpectedly but this man was a lifeguard on the beach. he was a helicopter -- in a rescue chopper pilot. he really was larger than life. you know? he's what i would consider a high value south african kind of citizen. he just was. wherever he went i

terrifying experience it was for the 165 passengers on board south african airways flight 286 from johannesburghong kong when it landed in hong kong, emergency crews and ambulances were rushed to the scene. you see them there and you can sense some of the severe weather of the injuries. head and neck injuries as you said, 20 passenger, three crew members were hospitalized and this, this is what it looked like on board. passengers thrown around by severe turbulence slammed into the ceiling. that hole punched in the overhead compartment was made by a passenger's head of the other ceiling panels cracked. most of the damage at the back of the plane. many passengers were sleeping and some not wearing seat belts. the turbulence lasted for several minutes. we are told by passengers one of them saying it was like the end of the world. just a really frightening flight there. >> terry, i know you've been looking into how new planes will have new technology to deal with this turbulence. >> reporter: it's amazing, george. i was at the air show here in england yesterday, one of the major air shows in the wo

. >> nadime gordimer died in her sleep at her home in johannesburg, south africa on sunday. she was 90 years old. alice coachman, the first african-american woman to win an olympic gold medal has died in albany, georgia at the age of 90. coachman won gold for the high jump at the 1948 london games and was honored at the white house before returning to the segregated south. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the next phase of the violence that killed nearly 200 palestinians in gaza is in flux today with a cease-fire still on the table. on tuesday, the egyptian government proposed a temporary halt to violence in the reopening of gaza's border crossings, followed by talks in cairo a long-term truce. israel security cabinet has endorsed a proposal, but hamas has yet to officially respond. the hamas military wing has rejected the pact as a surrender, saying the cease-fire fails to meet any

oscar pistorius getting into a fight at a popular johannesburg nightclub. his cousin says "the blade runner" was approached by a man who was aggressively questioning him about his murder trial. that man says the former olympian was drunk and insulting his friend and family. it is not yet clear whether this incident will affect the pistorius murder trial. >>> florida police arrest a tampa bay woman after she left her 19 month old daughter in a car while she stopped. that parking lot was 92 degrees at the time. woman says her daughter was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her up. >>> opening arguments underway in the up state new york trial of a man accused of leading police on a two county car chase while a bicycle he hit, dangled, dying from his pickup truck ladder rack. jenna: 20 people killed as subway derails in moscow. at least 150 others hurt. investigators are ruling out a terror attack and looking at several other possibilities to explain why this train jumped tracks during rush hour. amy kellogg with the latest from london. amy. >> reporter: jenn

he sat in a cubicle for the last summer and turn would come from johannesburg. he flew out to afghanistan. the summer intern before that was about to go back to the democratic republic of. if he actually was intimidated it wasn't anything you could actually see. and my memory after a quiet first few days the first meeting mike said to me was go screw yourself. i can't room or why he said that but i remembered our friendship started then. basically for 10 years we said variations back and forth to each other through e-mails and stuff like that. one of the things mike had an eye for and that things were discussed in the cafeteria and "newsweek" were things that would cause trouble for the magazine. it might surprise people that in 2002 mike talked a lot about rush limbaugh and glenn beck. mike told me about glenn beck. glenn beck in 2002 had been a national radio for six months but we'll be talking about the news of the day about the american taliban or enron and mike would insert into the conversation what went back thought of it. who is glenn beck? i don't care

20 passengers and crew have been injured as severe turbulence hit their plane, traveling from johannesburgo hong kong. emergency workers there were waiting for the plane. they took the injured off to hospital. the flight hit turbulence as it flew over malaysia. the pilot told the authorities in hong kong they needed help as soon as they landed. >>> want to take on board as well, in the world of comics, there has been a move likely to rather shake it to its foundation. the superhero thor is to change sex. the hammer wielding thunder god first appeared in a marvel adventure in 1962. the company now says a new series is being written with a female thor. it is part of an effort to attract more women and girls to superhero comic books. girl power lives on. it would seem. >>> stay with us, coming up in the next half hour on "gmt," after more violence in east ukrai ukraine, the european union is considering at least the possibility of further sanctions on russia and indeed on pro russian rebels. we'll hear how the conflict is also spilling over the border into russia. that's coming up in the next

i had a conversation with a man of johannesburg and said the problems in his province, he found solutionso from an individual of cameroon, had a conversation with for the first time on campus. faith was at the university of texas in austin and she learned so much from her cohort about digital media and how to use it and that's going to accrue to the benefit of young south africans this need the skill sets. >> the friendship program has been renamed in honor of nelson mandela. you got to south africa shortly before he died and saw that painful transition. >> yes, yes. >> one generation to the next. >> remarkable time. obviously, we all know that president obama and three of the former presidents came down because this was a once in a lifetime, remarkable leader but i think that the 500 young people in that room yesterday and the 50,000 young africans who applied to get into this program really are grabbing the torch from mandela and his generation and saying that this will, indeed, be an african century in partnership with americans. >> faith, how painful is it to you to see the terror in

there is a rolling series of protests that have taken place around the world from johann johannesburgnts around the world actually being very supportive of israel, but the populations around the world, and even some governments like turkey, being very harshly critical. >> reporter: no, that's right. first of all, israel dismisses completely any reaction from the turkish government. whatever israel does, the turkish government will always be against. that's just a terrible relationship between the two countries. that doesn't really count as far as the israeli government is concerned. they're really concerned about growing pressure from governments and calls from, including the united states, to on the one hand backing israel's right to defend itself but questioning the results of that defense. you're right. there are protests by the public all around the world, but inside israel, if anything, the public support for the operation i wouldn't say is growing, but it's very stable because israelis feel it's bad. they don't like the civilian loss of life in gaza, but they feel it's now or ne