>> getty images ceo jonathan klein. we will see more of his company's best images of the year tomorrow at this time. >>> a series of deadly attacks in iraq. this time the bombers targeted christians celebrating christmas. details ahead. >>> the california con fdor was one on the threat of extinction. i'll show you the latest threat to their survival and what's being done to save them. >>> back to "al jazeera america." here's a look at the top stories. >>> all they want for christmas is electricity. more than half a million people across the u.s. and canada have spent the day without power. fierce ice storms knocked out the service days ago. utility companies say they are making progress, but snow and strong winds are slowing down efforts. >>> the united nations says aid agencies will need at least $166 million over the next three months to help people displaced by the fighting in south sudan. the u.n. says thousands have died since the violence began ten days ago. >>> egypt's muslim brotherhood said the interim governme

jonathan klein is the ceo of getties images and talks about two pictures from boston's marathon bombing. >> when one is looking at photos of the year, you have to say what were the big events of the year. the second thing is what is the right image or immings to illustrate the big event. clearly the boston marathon was an amaze r maizing event. it was shocking and took everyone by surprise. this is interesting because there's no one in it, no people in it, but it makes you think about the people who were killed or injured or areaed traumati d traumatised -- or otherwise traumatised and brings home the fact that this was almost personal and a tine brings this across. boston's year was back-ended by the marathon run and the red sox winning the world series, and yet this happened. what followed was two or three days of activity. suspect were hunted down, one killed, one arrested. which is another part of the story which we could have shown. we chose this picture. i refer to another picture in another part of the story. there's a wonderful photo to show a different side of the story. an eld

jonathan klein shares the story behind some of those photos. >> every year unfortunately there are aatural disasters, and this one in the philippines was enormous. i think it's one of the largest of its type to hit land. this photo is very strong. it says it all. having just one person in the photo, i think is also very powerful. he has captured the light just perfectly. and the light and the smoke, i would have thought a few minutes or seconds later just wouldn't have been as good of shot. it really shows in my mind the devastation. although what dan said coming back from there, he said what surprised him most of all is people were optimistic, and there was hope and people were looking forward, even though as you can see from the photo there was just carnage. it couldn't be more dez -- desolate. this photo taken by a russian photographer who spents a lot of time with putin. i always think he must have a very interesting life. in this particular case he is taken by surprise. here is a topless woman demonstrating in favor of women's rights. it is a funny photo. angela merkel is also t

joining us to talk more about this is the co-founder of getting images, jonathan klein.how do you even begin to choose the best images coming from getty when you think of the tens of thousands of news events, entertainment events and sports events that you kpocover? >> it's a very tough task. i think the first thing we do is we decide what were the major events, and then within that can we finds an iconic image which represents that event better than any others? that's where it gets hard. what you want to do is you want to select an image which brings across all the different aspects of the event and put that in front of people. in some cases it won't be the world's greatest photo but it will be the photo which encapsulates the event. in other events it's another photo. >> let's run through a sampling. we'll put them up on the screen and talk about them. one of the events, whether they admit it or not, they paid attention to is the birth of the royal baby. the duke and duchess of cambridge. this is when they're leaving the hospital for the first time, right? >> yes, abso

getty images ceo jonathan klein. those are two photos from the events covered. >> the spirit of giving got an energy boost at starbucks. more than 400 star bucks customers bought it forward by buying coffee for the person behinds them. on christmas eve, and i should say christmas day the store in knewing tonne of $45 surplus. lucky customers will receive free coffee this morning. >> being eight, an age of innocence, honesty and hope. in the latest in our series "being eight" we need a kit from california making life a little little sweeter for the homeless doing it one cup at a time. >> like others his age, jackson evans, eight loves christmas. >> do you want blue on it? >> the sweets the decorations, and the chance to have fun. but this 8-year-old knows not all kids enjoy christmas the way he does. >> it was, "homeless kids don't have toys, i have a lot of stuff. i want to give them something for fun.". >> i said, "i want to help the homeless." and she said, "fine, fine", >> jackson set up a cool-aid stand and sold

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