Converts. Act of faith. Parents of 43 misterying mexican students dismantle their camp after a new screesive unit is to begin. Financial crisis, apuerto rico warns theres no money left for future loan payments. Good evening. This is Al Jazeera America. We begin in iraq where the special forces is based. The pentagon says the number of those forces is about to grow because it will deploy what it calls an attack to carry out strikes against iraq an syria. Another country, the German Cabinet proved a plan to provide support to the members of the u. S. Led coalition. That needs to be approved by law makeser. President obama is urging turkey and russia to redirect their energies towards i. S. I. L. He warned the kremlin against getting bogged down in civil war the way it did once in after afghanistan. Reporter the United States is intensifying the war in iraq and syria in the hope that it will eventually lead to talks of peace. Next, in full coordination with the government of iraq, were de
Lebanese army exchanged prisoners with alnusra fighting in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the Lebanese Army received the body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. Translator it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. We are here in alnusra controlled territory. We are witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers, the release of these soldiers were mediated by qatar and efforts by alnusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. This is the convoy of the Lebanese Security forces bringing nusra prisoners to be exchanged coming from i. S. I. L. For the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. Translator god has blessed us and we would like to thank alnusra. Translator we thank everybody who helped broker the deal and thank alnusra front for helping a lot and also thank the lebanese government. Translator im a pr
Thanks for joining us. Im mike hydeck, shes meteorologist allyson rae. Calls in gaithersburg. You can sleep in, watches from the comfort of your bed. Not so much tomorrow morning when have to get up and go to work, its going to be a cold one. Cold today as well. Are frost in freeze advisory, freeze warnings in place for areas in purple. Frost advisory for areas in purple through this morning and everybody is under a freeze watch for later on tonight because tonight is going to be even colder. We are looking at the end of the growing season so if you have not brought your sensitive plans in last night, its pretty much too late. We are going to see a colder night tonight, try to save them and bring them in. Temperatures will drop from freezing if not below for everybody as we head through tomorrow morning. We are about 10 degrees colder than we were this time yesterday. Its chilly. If youre getting up to go for a morning jog or head out to your morning services, head out with a jacket. A
Plus wiki leaks founder has been vindicated. Im rob reynolds in california. Will el nino solve californias water problem . We begin in Northern Syria where thousands of people are leaving villages in aleppo province, herding towards turkey. Diplomatic talks on ebbing the war in syria are on hold, and now saudi arabia says it is ready to send in Ground Troops. Syrian Government Forces backed up by russian air raids have stepped up the offensive to the east of aleppo. Opposition fighters have appealed for help as their main supply route to turkey has come under pressure. And large numbers of syrians are making their way towards Turkish Border. This report from zana hoda. Reporter the suffering is growing, tens of thousands of syrians are again on the move. Those who have arrived to the Turkish Border are not being allowed in. They are from the northern countryside of aleppo. Many arrived on foot. Many came with nothing. There is no safe area for these people as the government pushes ahea
Okay. We dont know what those are, but hopefully when we get the first pictures of the crash, we will bring them to you here on al jazeera. Just a bit more on what we know. The plane was last seen on radar some 80 kilometers west of the ukrainian city of donetsk. Ukrainian interior Ministry Official is saying that this plane was brought down by a ground to air missile. Lets cross over to Rory Challands now. Rory it was the Interfax News Agency that first reported this plane crash. What more do we know at this stage . Well, interfax wouldnt tell us the name of the source that had given them off of the information. So a lot of things are still very murky about this crash, but we do know this is going to be a huge game changer for this conflict, the conflict going on at the moment between the Ukrainian Army and prorussian separatists. Already the finger of blame is starting to be pointed backwards and forwards. The Ukrainian Government is hinting that it is the rebels. The rebels themselv