john henry smith has been tracking the story throughout the evening. what's the latest? >> police officers from neighboring departments had gathered outside the ferguson police departments in case protests got out of control. just after midnight, things did get out of control in a most frightening way. >> journalists and a protesting crowd were beginning to disperse when suddenly at midnight, shots rang out. witnesses counted three to four shots fired. >> as we were about to pack our cameras up, we hear what we thought were fireworks you were the street. turns out happened three more times, it was gunfire. we saw the muzzle fire from a gun on top of the street, so we just all ducked down and once we ducked down, we saw the cop was shot next to us. >> the shots wounded two officers. neither was a ferguson officer. a 41-year-old officer from st. louis county was shot in the shoulder a 32-year-old officer was shot in the face. st. louis county police chief said the shots came from behind the protestors across the street. >> i would have to make an assumption right now that

john henry smith is here. good morning what can we expect to hear from the defense? >> we'll start with what you cannot expect. you can't expect the defense to make the case that the now 21-year-old dzhokar tsarnaev was not involved n bombing. they conceded that point on day one. they will present that he was manipulated by his brother. they'll counter arguments from the prosecution. jurors heard emotional testimony about the bombing deaths of a 23-year-old and 29-year-old. the jury saw more images of the younger tsarnaev seeming nonchalant in the aftermath of the attack. the prosecution finished up reminding jurors with this picture that even if dzhokar tsarnaev wasn't the matter mind. he did purposely leave a kettle bomb right next to young martin richard. the chief examiner testified that it ravaged the boy's body. >> several jurors openly cried as they looked at autopsy photos of the little boy. several male jurors put their hands to their faces at they looked at the photos. the last question asked was how old was martin richard. the answer was he was eight years

. >> >>> i'm john henry smith. breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. two officers have been shot outside the ferguson, missouri police department after a protest was winding down. it happened around midnight local time. 44-year-old officer was shot in the shoulder and 32-year-old in the face. no word on their condition at the time. more on the warnings and shootings outside the ferguson, missouri in a few minutes as al jazeera continues from our studios in

john henry smith, al jazeera >>> the justice department is suing an oklahoma university. lawsuit alleges southeastern oklahoma state university discriminated against a transgender professor and then fired her after she complained. attorney general eric holder says the suit is intended to target unjest prejudices against transgender americans. in iraq the country's prime minister says his forces are moving closer to full control of tikrit. troops have retaken neighborhoods in the southern and western parts of the city and are now just battling a group of isil fighters holed up downtown. u.s.-led air strikes joined the fight in tikrit last week >>> todays with the world's largest drill is getting a tune up. crews in seattle unearth the front end of the bertha drill on monday. it broke down 15 months ago stalling seattle's multibillion dollars highway project. >>reporter: we're talking 4 million bounds worth of cutter head drive assembly and main bearing. that's it right now seeing the light of day for the first time since december of 2013. this is a project that's been goin

. >> >>> i'm john henry smith. breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. two officers have been shot outside the ferguson, missouri police department after a protest was winding down. it happened around midnight local time. 44-year-old officer was shot in the shoulder and 32-year-old in the face. no word on their condition at the time. more on the warnings and shootings outside the ferguson, missouri in a few minutes as al jazeera continues from our studios in doha. ..including chelsea crashes out. beaten - a dramatic night at stamford bridge >>> four years of killing, four years of destruction. four years of civil war in syria. and the united nations has failed to act. failed to protect civilians from the consequences of war, say 21 leading aid agencies. while the international community looks on barrel bombs are falling on communities like this in aleppo. crude weapons killed indiscriminately. a u.n.-backed report says the war cost syria $200 million, and plunged most of its people into poverty. the u.s. estimates $220,000 have been killed so far. $7.5 m