i'm john hendren in the u.s. state of indiana where they're trying to do something about the dwindling number of young former. u.n. secretary general antonio get pettish has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of at least seventeen palestinians shot dead by israeli forces in gaza more than a thousand unarmed protest as were injured by israeli gunfire in a moment we'll have the latest from the united nations where the security council has met to discuss the death but first the honeyed on what happened in gaza. it was supposed to be a peaceful day but as an armed protested march towards the border fence. israeli soldiers opened fire. sharpshooters were deployed but palestinians frustrated by the endless siege to live under undeterred. israeli commanders say they issued warnings against approaching the border fence. we will never shoot one bullet against anyone who stays away from the security wall we have wanted to join the last few days that everyone who tries to violate the israeli sovereignty

john hendren is live for us in washington john give us a bit more about this george nader gentleman and what indeed this could mean to the whole probe well it seemed until now like the miller probe has focused like a laser on connections between the trumpet ministration of the trump campaign and russia now we've learned that miller is asking about the united arab emirates specifically about the role of george nader and whether any em roddy's have tried to buy influence with the trump campaign at the time that they were later able to use by perhaps funneling money into that campaign somehow now nader is an interesting individual he's a guy who's been at the fringes of american diplomacy for years the clinton administration used him as a back channel to negotiate with syria back in the ninety's and now he is said to represent the crown prince of mohamed bin ziad and mahler's people are asking what exactly role he played and what has happened since then the. president trumps view he has changed he has supported saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in a diplomatic dispute with qatar which of course

saying there is clear evidence russia tried to help in the twenty sixteen election that speak to john hendren in washington john why does the committee say it's ending its investigation willfully this is the report that came out it's just a short one by the house select committee on intelligence as one of three investigations into possible collusion between the trump campaign and the government of russia there's also one in the senate and of course there is the one of the independent counsel's investigation headed by robert mueller well this one is ended concluding that there was no evidence of collusion the committee said that in fact these are the majority of republicans on the committee the democrats won't even see this report for several hours now they say that the russians appeared to take active measures to try to meddle in the u.s. election but that they showed no preference for donald trump in doing so that flies directly in the face of u.s. intelligence reports u.s. intelligence officials have testified before congress on the record saying that in fact the russians did meddle in the

around six hundred votes with several hundred absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted john hendren has more now from washington. it was a race that shouldn't have been close it all and that makes connor lamb the new hope of the democratic party it's a little longer than we thought but we did it the you did it when you did it. in a nail biter the young charismatic former marine and republican state legislator rick's a cone finished in a near dead heat in a special election for a u.s. congressional seat in pennsylvania that traditionally leans republican and we're going to keep fighting and don't give up and we'll keep it up room that has democrats believing they can retake congress with an empty trump bump donald trump won the district by about twenty percentage points in two thousand and sixteen analysts say this election could be a sign of things to come this really will be seen as a referendum on donald trump and democrats are going to take the are going to take that as an indication an early indication that the november results could be very good for them and they're going to be

possible bombs still out there john hendren reports from austin. the confrontation with the main suspect ended as dramatically as it began police cornering then firing on him in a hotel car park as he tried to drive away then a deadly detonation police say the twenty four year old man set off killing himself as members of the austin police department swat team approached the vehicle the suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle knocking one of our swat officers back and one of our swat officers fired at the suspect as well he had been a person of interest seen on video and mention by witnesses police knew his car the bombs had no set patterns some were random some were targeted five hundred federal state and local police are still scrambling to unravel three mysteries are there other bombers other other bombs waiting to explode and why he did it for weeks austin has been a city on edge the mysterious bombs in the state capital city killed two people and injured four others people are scared. you will be too. you know random packages explosives. f

have shown a close race despite trump campaigning twice for republican breaks acoa let's bring in john hendren in washington for is john why is this election being so closely watched. well foley this is a bellwether election at least that's how both parties are looking at a canary in the coal mine for the mid-term elections later this year in two thousand and eighteen and then the presidential elections in two thousand and twenty democrats are energized they feel like they are making progress they have lost five recent special elections for the u.s. house but in four out of five of those cases they have gained ground in the past couple of years and they think they have the perfect candidate here and connor lam is a young and energetic ex marine he is running against a republican but his views are much closer to the republicans than is usual in a race like this that has really worried the republican party they're worried they're going to lose the u.s. house of representatives and they have pumped ten million dollars in there compared to one point seven million that the democratic party has put

austin the twenty three year old stay at his car into a ditch and then broom self up on wednesday john hendren has more from the bomber's home town of pflugerville texas. after a three week manhunt the austin package bombers latest victim was himself his motive still a mystery the suspect is deceased in a final confrontation with officers who had tracked him down to a suburban hotel police say twenty three year old mark anthony condit detonated an explosive leaving him dead his parents at a loss to explain it a series of questions unanswered we don't know where this suspect has spent his last twenty four hours we also have not fully been able to rule out whether or not there were any other accomplices may be a part of this who still pose a danger police did reveal one surprising discovery on the bomber cell phone was a twenty five minute recorded confession detailing each of six explosives he made leaving police confident none are still waiting to detonate we can account for each and every one of them police say he paired batteries ordered online from asia with everyday products he bought at a

has a major military base let's get more on this now our correspondent john hendren is joining us live from washington a very detailed report in the new york times jon what more does it say about george neither and what he might have been trying to do here. that's right elizabeth the article describes nodders role from the one nine hundred ninety s. when he was a lebanese american businessman who was also used as a back channel to negotiate with syria by syria by the clinton administration and then he kind of disappeared from the diplomatic world in the early to thousands when he was apparently in iraq drumming up business for blackwater blackwater is run by erik prince who is the brother of betsy to voss the education secretary so there is another time there he has been a frequent visitor to the white house over the past year he's talked to jerrod cushion or and he has talked to steve bannon that is significant because cushion has been seen by u.s. intelligence officials as particularly vulnerable to influence by israel the united arab emirates mexico and china so this suggests a coup

went door to door across the city of mt pleasant as they search for the missing nineteen year old john hendren reports. a domestic dispute turned deadly police say when a university student killed his parents and fled leaving more than one hundred police officers on a manhunt he should be considered armed and dangerous if your opponent mr davis campus police at central michigan university say they took nineteen year old james eric davis jr to a hospital thursday night due to a drug related incident on friday morning the parents who came to take him back to suburban chicago for spring break were dead police could not say why. eric davis sr was a former army national guard officer and part time policeman who had served in iraq his wife was a cancer survivor the shooting put the university on lockdown leaving students behind closed doors helicopters and police cruisers scouring the area for a wanted gunman the gunman left no note no explanation in the shooting coming just two weeks after another nineteen year old gunned down seventeen people at a high school in florida increases pressure on presi

temporarily exempt from the new levies while negotiations continue on a regional trade agreement john hendren reports from washington. a defiant donald trump fulfilled a promise that helped make him president the american steel aluminum industry has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices it's really an assault on our country. the qs ing china and other countries of dumping cheap steel in the us market in an attack on american industry he said punitive tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum many of the countries that treat us the worst on trade and doing military are our allies as they like to call them. so we just want fairness the controversy old plan would take effect in fifteen days exempting canada and mexico as they renegotiate the north american free trade deal with the u.s. and reserving the right to change the terms for other countries which aging thing some of the steelworkers that helped put trump in the white house over his promises of protectionism is going to bring steel back. at his own protectors that's been over a hundred million dollars and alone in kentucky in gra

senate has moved on to banking reform leaving all proposals for new gun restrictions on the shelf john hendren al-jazeera dale city virginia. indian prime minister nuri and french president many want. the international alliance in new delhi the summit aims to reduce the walls dependence on fossil fuels by exploring the availability of solar energy the idea was first proposed on the sidelines of the twenty fifteen paris agreements on climate change representatives from forty five nations are attending events. well antarctica's been described as one of the most remote and treacherous places on earth much of its rich biodiversity has yet to be fully documented and the second part of our antarctic series we look at the european union's campaign to protect the desolate meets him joined a greenpeace scientific expedition to the what i'll see. the captain's eye view of voyage as the icebreaker optic sunrise pushes through into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost an montera tree a few ships venture this fall altie has already made an attempt this antarctic summer but was foiled by ice because ri

of opposition trump remained a man of steel tariffs yes of that even if you needed to sign them john hendren washington. still ahead on al-jazeera joined the league signatories to a major asian pacific trade deal other countries to fight protectionism. kenya's president and his main rival raila odinga promised to work out their differences. hello again look at the weather across asia and in northeastern parts of asia we've had a really active frontal system pushing through japan bring you some very warm very moist air up from the south but on the northern side pulling in some cold air which is resulted in snowfall but certainly tokyo seen a fairly wet twenty four hours eighty one millimeters of rain that system now clearing right through so we've got brighter conditions through saturday so we could have conditions temperatures dropping quite a bit and a pretty chilly up in sapporo there but mata cross the korean peninsula beijing's temperatures not looking too bad there at fifteen degrees celsius moving the forecast on twenty four hours we get of the weather system moving across the sea of j

john hendren is live for us in washington d.c. so john tell us a bit more about this george nader and what indeed needs to the whole. well the more probe is now looking into the connections between the u.a.e. and the u.s. specifically with george nader they're looking at whether money was funneled from the u.s. into the trump campaign head of the election and whether there has been undue influence by the u.a.e. at a time when the u.s. policy has tilted toward that nation netter himself a is a lebanese american businessman who's been on the fringes of diplomacy for many years he was used by the clinton administration is a back channel with syria in the one nine hundred ninety s. and then after the iraq war began in two thousand and three he was pushing business for blackwater that's the business this security business run by erik prince erik prince just happens to be the brother of betsy device that was president trump's education secretary now prince is has also been named in news reports as trying to form an unofficial back channe

why donald trump jr went there the democrats are going to declare victory no matter what show ok john hendren live for us in washington d.c. john thank you. the federal appeals court has upheld a ruling in the u.s. state of texas allowing police to ask people if they're in the country illegally the law takes aim at so-called sanctuary cities which have been targeted by president trump for defying his immigration crackdown he's been in california examining wall prototypes for a proposed project to restrict illegal immigration from mexico and also has more from san diego. president trump toured prototypes near the us mexico border guided by border protection officials he seemed to like several of the eight concrete and steel monoliths he criticize the existing border barriers as inadequate attributing enormous physical strength to migrants but getting over the top is easy it is of like professional mountain climbers who are credible climbers they can find some of these will be on the spot inspection came despite the fact that the long promised border wall as done been funded by congress nor by

has a major military base well let's get more on this now our correspondent john hendren is joining us live from washington this is a very detailed report by the new york times john what else does it have to say about george now there and what he might have been trying to do. well it's nader is a lebanese businessman who came here was very involved in negotiating on the clinton administration with syria and then sort of disappeared in the early two thousand that was a time when he was apparently doing some business for the company then called blackwater run by erik prince. for generating contracts in iraq and now he has become the focus of the moeller investigation a focus i should say of the miller investigation because that has many prongs they are looking into whether money came from the united arab emirates into the trump campaign and they're looking at what kind of influence the u.a.e. is had through nutter or others involved in this particular business now he is apparently something of a name dropper and he says that he is close to mohamed bins i had the crown prince of and that

well john hendren is live for us in washington d.c. hi there john so who is this man and what does it mean exactly for the mobile. well julie george nader is a thorn in president donald trump side at the moment trump has been telling everybody there's been no collusion and he has been talking about how this is going to be smaller investigation should be winding down by now but instead we see mueller expanding the investigation to include the u.a.e. and to do that he's looking at george nader and his role specifically whether there was any effort to peddle influence to buy political influence in the u.s. campaign presumably by funneling money into the trump campaign nader is a lebanese american businessman who has been a shadowy figure in american diplomacy for many years back in the ninety's the clinton administration used him as a sort of back channel go-between to negotiate with syria well now he is said to represent the crown prince of abu dhabi the effective leader of the u.a.e. and he is a subject nader is of the miller investigati

senate has moved on to banking reform leaving all proposals for new gun restrictions on the shelf john hendren al-jazeera dale city virginia. antarctic has been described as one of the most remote and treacherous places on earth much of its rich by diversity has yet to be fully documented and the second part of our antarctic series we look at the european union's campaign to protect the desolate region that plant joined and greenpeace scientific expedition to the what i'll see . the captain's eye view of all voyage as the icebreaker arctic sunrise pushes through into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost unknown territory few ships venture this far altie has already made an attempt this antarctic summer but was foiled by ice cap to try to we were way through. to get it down into the wealthiest try and reach before the beginning of what would be protected very looks like opening in here least for. yes probably just. a long war that. finally we break through into the isolated area of the proposed site tree at the moment i checked on the. satellite charts this morning and there's some one of

search for any other devices he may have left behind in trying to find out what his motive was john hendren al-jazeera austin texas. a police officer in the u.s. state of minnesota has been charged with demurred with murder for shooting an unarmed australian woman last july one hundred nor shot forty year old justin damon while responding to a nine one one call about a possible sexual assault near her house prosecutors say he abused his authority to use deadly force. russia's foreign ministry says britain may have orchestrated the nerve agent attack on a former double agent britain accuses the kremlin of poisoning surrogates cripple and his daughter two weeks ago twenty three russian diplomats were expelled from the u.k. on tuesday russia is also expelling british diplomats for ok on tuesday russia is also expelling british diplomats from moscow laurie chalons has more from moscow. what a rather interesting event has been going on in moscow this afternoon a roomful of ambassadors or dorell representatives invited to the foreign ministry to basically hear the russian perspective on this case

senate has moved on to banking reform leaving all proposals for new gun restrictions on the shelf john hendren al-jazeera dale city virginia israeli soldiers have shot dead a palestinian man following a confrontation involving jewish settlers near the west bank city of nablus both sides are blaming the other for the violence israeli military says soldiers at the scene used quote rot dispersal means and live rounds one other person has been injured but it's unclear whether they were shot by soldiers or. it's. libya's coast guard says several hundred migrants are being rescued as smugglers took advantage of cum seas to launch a flurry of boats towards italy two hundred fifty two people were picked up in two separate rescue operations and taken back to tripoli a third boat was spotted and taken to italy by an ngo mission who has six hundred thousand migrants have crossed from libya to italy in the past four years. japan's trade minister has sought an exemption from u.s. import tariffs on steel and aluminum and called for calm headed behavior the e.u. japan and the u.s. have been holding trade tal

in tariffs yes even if you needed a reminder to sign john hendren washington south korea and japan are condemning the terrorists to south korea as one of the biggest exports of steel to the us. we would actively consider filing a complaint to the world trade organization with agreement between major countries the trade minister kim already discussed this with the european union trade commissioner. could do with it is extremely regrettable that the measures were decided i believe there is a concern that a broad trade restriction mechanism on the grounds of national security could disturb not only the us but also the global steel and aluminum markets including those in the asian region and it could also cause a grave impact on economic relations between allies japan and the us as well as the multilateral trade system overall and the global economy. out of the trade deal trump didn't want to be a part of the trans-pacific partnership has been signed in july and what's being hailed as a powerful move against protectionism the revised deal will reduce tariffs for eleven countries and connec

s reading writing and arithmetic here in sydney they've added a fourth responder john hendren zero sydney ohio. zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary elections since robert mugabe was removed from office will be held in july president. said he hopes of old will be violence free and transparent he became president last november to military coup help and mugabe's nearly four decade long grip on power. now artists musicians and poets from around the world have been trucking to lahore for pakistan's first ever be an alley the art festival aims suppress pakistani on a global stage to my high to has a story. this is a horse forged beer knowledge art french. art lovers in. place once known as lotus guarded by the british in the mid nineteenth century it has since been renamed you know garden after pakistan's founding father. is rejecting musicians entertain the audience with glass. and to allow trip roll. but outside the music. and some will still registers find their hard to reduce the rhythm of the drop everything is so wonderful and almost fantastic and so you know to be participati

republican because its longtime republican congressman that is resigned because of a sex scandal john hendren is in washington d.c. so. the race as we said is too close to call but what does that even tell us about the results that this particular race is too close to call. you know it's a nail biter of a race that was never supposed to be won as you point out donald trump had this district by twenty percentage points just two years ago the democrats didn't even field a candidate last time around and now it's too close to call there are over there's more than ninety nine percent of the votes in these are all electronic votes so not a lot of mystery less than three and a half hours after the vote and yet out of about two hundred fifteen thousand votes cast we're looking at about eight hundred votes difference that means the absentee ballots may decide this one and one county that was planning on counting its absentee ballots tomorrow that's washington county is now saying that they're going to count them tonight because it's just that close and it was never supposed to be that way connor lamb

gun laws state by state john hendren al-jazeera chicago u.s. president donald trump says he'll impose steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and he's announced a twenty five percent levy on steel imports and a ten percent tariff on imported all the many a while meeting industry officials at the white house tops promising to rebuild the steel and aluminum industries saying other countries have treated them on fairly for decades christensen only has more from new york. president trump's decision to raise tariffs was not unexpected and not without criticism this is an issue that he talked about on the campaign trail when he. promised to bring back business from china and rip up what he considered bad trade deals he met earlier on thursday with representatives of the steel industry who complained that imports in their business have flooded the market and lowered prices what was unexpected in this announcement however were the specific details that the president let slide as the meeting was coming to an and the twenty five percent increase

senate has moved on to banking reform leaving all proposals for new gun restrictions on the shelf john hendren al-jazeera dale city virginia. now david been at as the former president of the students for concealed carry and he says americans feel like they need guns because they cop trust the government to protect them. unfortunately we're not able to trust the system and we need look no further than florida's realize that you have the police were called to that shooter's home thirty nine different times you had teachers and the school officials who were aware of his the danger that he posed the school kids in that school were joking that he would be the next person to shoot at the school if anyone did you have the f.b.i. who was given specific reports about this person you have the mental health of the social workers he didn't do anything and you had an armed deputy actually multiple armed deputies who showed up and didn't go into that school so i don't blame the students for being upset i don't blame the teachers are being upset but i think that the ability to protect yourself especially whe

s reading writing and arithmetic here in sydney they've added a fourth responder john hendren al-jazeera sydney ohio. and again i don't have a problem in the headlines i want to say are that i'm a person has celebrated his landslide victory in russia's presidential election thanking thousands of supporters in moscow potence projected to take seventy six percent of the vote ballots counted some observers have reported widespread violations including ballot boxes being stuffed. it's very important to maintain this unity to attract those who could have voted for overcome today it's we have to stand together shoulder to shoulder we have to think about unity not about differences we should think about the future about people about the future of our country we have destined for success. kurdish fighters in syria's north west and a fleeing region have valid to fight on after the main town was taken by turkish forces and their allies turkey launched its operation to clear the on klav of kurdish y.p. g. forces in january the syrian government has released a video said to show president bashar asa

job hoping one day this farm will be running full time as it did for the past four generations john hendren al-jazeera rochester indiana the site's vice captain of australia's cricket team has apologized for his role in the ball tampering scandal david warner has been banned for twelve months has spoken at an emotional news conference in sydney in the past half hour the last of the three disgraced australian cricket has to from top order full of joy to my family. specially my wife and daughters. your love means your love means more than anything to marry i know that i would not be anything without you. i'm very sorry for putting you through this and our promise that i'll never put you in this position again. this is al jazeera these are the top stories at least seventeen palestinians have been killed and more than a thousand were injured after being shot by israeli forces during landay protest in gaza an emergency meeting of the un security council is discussing what's now the bloodiest ing gaza since twenty fourteen. we condemn this massacre we demand that it stop immediately and those who

into super farms some agricultural states are trying to change that but face a hard road ahead john hendren reports from the farm state of indiana. the weather might be frigid this time of year but the prospects for the american agriculture industry are bright commodity prices are healthy fueling the multibillion dollar industry but here in the plains of the indiana heartland in across the u.s. the fortunes of one of its pillars the american family farmer are fading you see more and more of the farms you know slowly slowly doing going away there's going to be fewer farmers in the county every year at an average age of fifty eight farmers here are getting older and as massive farms some corporate owned keep swallowing up smaller ones they're getting fewer i do believe a woman meant to come back to the family farm and continue on along so my dad dan and kelly snipes are part of an indiana state program to get more young people interested in farming we have fewer and fewer people who have been involved in farming for the day just one percent of people are farmers so we have a growing disconnec

to a junkie that in john hendren report saying we have imposed these tariffs in recently nation they're not yet imposed they already they are ready to be imposed should the time the rise of the the need arise but they haven't yet put them into practice and we have just come back actually from a news briefing with the european commission vice president of jobs and competitiveness and he told us that frankly we're not actually they're not actually crystal clear as to exactly how president trump's potential exclusions exemptions from these tariffs might actually work out the terrace will be imposed for another two weeks there is going to be a lot of discussion between now and then in fact here in brussels on saturday tomorrow the e.u. trade commissioner to see the amount strong you heard here in the report of the sound bite from i just now she will have talks here in brussels with her u.s. counterpart robert lighthouse and with the japanese trade minister as well it was supposed to be a meeting a trilateral meeting talking about overcapacity in the steel industry it's going to be now about

and john hendren in the u.s. state of indiana where they're trying to do something about the dwindling number of young farmers. and in sport he's being called the japanese babe ruth find out how he deigned to end his major league baseball thank you. there's no shortage of spring showers in our forecast over the next couple days system very mobile making its way in from the atlantic lots of cloud and right any places still some snows in spring snow sunny a possibility then so there is of low pressure rolling from the atlantic that's where the moderate comes through some i was of low pressure up towards the baltic states as well that's been producing some snow ahead of that system temps in moscow still how struggling to get above freezing we're at around twelve celsius in warsaw snow there over the alps this and snow that just around southern parts of scandinavia as you can see but richard double figures of towards that western side if you have london getting up to eleven celsius thirteen in paris similar values as

should be on the table should be an option for discussion now the report that we just heard from john hendrentalked about the gun show new paul i tell us about your view on that and can background checks be thanked if if so many gun sales are in them tick. well again i have to make a subtle distinction there's technically no gun show gun show loophole i think you were put in that distinction but what we're talking about is private sales in other words i have cash to you and you have begun to me but it's illegal for anyone to sell to a criminal or someone who's otherwise unable to get a gun under the law but if you're a vendor you do have to do a check so it end criminals less than one percent of criminals incarcerated study by the f.b.i. it obtained their firearms through private sales like that so the question still is with this work right most of the mass shooters in this country have not purchased their guns at gun shows the criminals are going to exchange cash and do that anyway whether on the black market or they might steal their firearms so i think any policy needs to be thought throug

disputed the claim saying there is clear evidence russia tried to help in the election as ring in john hendren in washington d.c. john the committee says it is ending its investigation. as rightfully the committee says they interviewed seventy three people saw more than three hundred thousand documents and they said they simply just didn't have evidence of collusion i should point out that this is the republican majority same party as the president as you pointed out the democrats strongly disagree with that so the majority says that the russians did interfere with the two thousand and sixteen election but they say there was no preference for donald trump that is a departure the u.s. intelligence community is united and has publicly stated they believe that the russians did intervene on behalf of the drum. and there is the parallel investigation is this investigation winds down there is the parallel investigation by the special counsel robert mueller he has already indicted thirteen russians and several members of the trumpet ministration including four top officials in this committee intervie

there is clear evidence russia tried to help trump in the twenty sixteen election that speak to john hendren in washington d.c. john so the investigation by the republicans of course is separate from the mole investigation why does this committee first of all say it's ending its investigation. well foley this is the extraordinary document the conclusion of the house select committee on intelligence and it concludes that after seventy three witnesses more than three hundred thousand documents there was no evidence of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the government of russia that is they say that russia took active measures to interfere in the election but they say there is no evidence of the russian government was specifically trying to show a preference for donald trump so what exactly the aim of this russian campaign was according to this committee we don't know and we won't find out until tomorrow tomorrow u.s. time march thirteenth that's when the democrats will get a hold of this draft copy of the order report that won't come out in its completion until april they do s

blast that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle let's get more on this now from john hendren who is live for us in austin texas so john a major development in this case but still a lot of questions that remain unanswered. that's right what we do know is that as you saw there with the police talking that the man believed to be responsible perhaps not the only person responsible has been found and that he detonated a device as he tried to move his car when police were near him they had not confronted him but they were approaching him what we don't know still is his motive we don't know whether he has accomplices we don't know whether there are other bombs packages that are making their way through this city we had found today one was at a fed ex shipping center the other one was at another fed ex shipping center that one here in austin in balad one was located by police we believe that one of the reasons they caught this man was a they had video surveillance of him and they also had some witness reports so they knew they were looking for they knew what his car looked like and t

nine votes that is it but several hundred absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted john hendren has more from washington d.c. . it was a race that shouldn't have been close it all and that makes connor lamb the new hope of the democratic party it's a little longer than we thought but we did it was the year you did it when you did it. in a nail biter the young charismatic former marine and republican state legislator rick's a cone finished in a near dead heat in a special election for a u.s. congressional seat in pennsylvania that traditionally leans republican and we're going to keep fighting and don't give up and we'll keep it up we were all right we won that has democrats believing they can retake congress with an eighty trump bump donald trump on the district by about twenty percentage points in two thousand and sixteen analysts say this election could be a sign of things to come this really will be seen as a referendum on donald trump and democrats are going to take. going to take that as an indication an early indication that the november results could be very good for them

the state the small but say the latest and flint as not related but let's get more on this now john hendren is joining us live from austin to tell us about this latest incident john. i do apologize we will be speaking to john and just a moment but first we have a report from him. police in texas say they are hunting for a serial bomber we are working under the belief that this is related to the other bombing incidents that have occurred in our community over the past week and a half package bombs in the state capital austin killed two people injured four others people are scared you would be too you know random packages explosive people dying for no reason i'd be scared to on tuesday a fifth package exploded at a courier distribution center in the city of shirts near san antonio a package had been traveling along the automated conveyor when it added have exploded. one employee that was standing near the explosion later complained of plaintive ringing in the ears. she was treated and released we were very fortunate that there were no injuries police say the eventual destination of that packa

turn to donald trump who picked the farm state governor mike pence as his running mate but as john hendren reports now from pence's home state of indiana many now regret that choice . in a word greg gunther says american foreign policy is found when i was young there are family farms all around one hundred sixty four hundred acres and they've largely all disappeared. fifty to ninety percent of them are gone here in the indiana plains home of vice president mike pence farmers in their rural neighbors voted heavily for donald trump. and there's a late comer. now many farmers especially smaller scale producers are suffering buyer's remorse chump administration had an awful lot of support from rural america and my expectations was that trump was going to support all classes of farmers there some rules that would would give small farmers family scale agriculture a chance and he hasn't made any of those kind of deals for us trump is focused on slashing regulations we think we can cut regulations by seventy five percent maybe more but big farmers complain that trump the deal maker has been a deal

to search for any other devices he may have left behind and try to find out what his motive was john hendren al-jazeera austin texas. a suicide bomb attack by killed at least thirty three people in afghanistan it happened just a day off to the head of the u.s. military joseph dunford visit to the capital kabul most of the dead were reportedly young people celebrating the new year all no ruse. reports. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a burden see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghan celebrating no ruse the persian new year. even a suicide bomb went off just stood behind us and we saw nothing but terror. because you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this suicide bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was this who said bomber able to get access to this area but the suicide attacker. added his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are un