72hour humanitarian truce. And humanitarian support or encoursion they send trucks to wartorn Eastern Ukraine. So we begin in iraq where two battles are unfolding one political and one a humanitarian disaster. In baghdad a new Prime Minister has been nominated to replace Nouri Almaliki and he has the support of the United States and iran but they call it a violation of the constitution. Meanwhile we have Kurdish Forces backed by u. S. Air strikes continuing their battle against Islamic State fighters in the north. Thousands of people have fled their homes in fear of Islamic State fighters advancing on their towns. And we have a repetitive of the u. N. General of iraq and ahead of the u. S. Assistance mission there and is live from bulgaria and good to speak to you and we see Nouri Almaliki growing increasingly isolated both within and outside iraq, what is he likely to do next . Well, first let me say the political process has moved forward there is a new nomination for a Prime Ministe
And hampered by the inferno and freezing temperatures. And we will go inside an environmentally friendly factory that makes less garbage in a year than a normal home makes in a day. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy and we have breaking news out of egypt and there has been a series of deadly explosions in and around cairo, the first happened this morning outside of a Police Station in downtown cairo and four people were killed and dozens were injured there. State television says witnesses saw a gunman opening fire on surrounding buildings. A second explosion near a metro station left at least one person dead and a third blast targeted a Police Station near the pyramids in giza and no casualties there and this weekend is the third anniversary of the massive up rising of the American Spring that toppled the president mubarak. Peace talks are underway in Geneva Switzerland and no facetoface meetings will take place today between the Syrian Government and oppo
Brazil where the biggest staterun company here is facing corruption allegations at the highest levels. And pictures from Eastern Ukraine showing how tense the situation there is getting. This is prorussian gunman are not leaving the building they seized over the weekend and have barricades and stockpiled the weapons and ukraine soldiers are posed on the outskirts of the city. And the ukrainian crisis is straining relations between u. S. And russia, a phone call between barack obama and putin has been described as frank and obama accused putin government of supporting armed groups in Eastern Ukraine and asked him to are draw troops from the border and 40,000 are thought to be camped there and obama warned putin they will have costs on top of targeted sanctions in place and the russian president says accusations that moscow is interfering are unfounded and turning the tables he called on the United States to prevent the blood shed. These are some of the sorts of things obama is talking a
And this 2000yearold tomb was recently lucid and asking how this could have happened under the nose of the people. We are getting reports from nigeria increasing the death toll which is now at at least 35 People Killed in a bomb blast at a busy bus station and no immediate claim of responsibility of the explosion that happened on the outskirts of the capitol and on sunday 60 people were killed by gunman in Northern Nigeria and this was this borno state and we can speak to our correspondent on the phone and at the scene of the latest explosion at the bus station and what are you seeing . Reporter its absolute chaos here and thousands of people are at the scene to see what happened and from eyewitnesses we managed to make contact with here on the ground is that many people were out this morning and boarding buses in the center and its a place where thousands if not tens of thousands of people live and work in the capitol and you take the bus about 5 kilometer ride in the capitol and ther
Melt, we will have the latest report on Climate Change. Irans foreign minister is looking to break the deadlock on the longrunning Nuclear Dispute within a year, the prospect of a settlement came after the highest level meeting between the United States and iran since its revolution in 1979. Iran and six world powers have also held talks at the united nations. Kristen reports from new york. Reporter it was perhaps the most highly anticipated entrance at the general assembly, foreign minister mohamed joined the permanent five members of the Security Council and germany hoping to enyears of deadlock and sour relations. The president of u. S. Secretary of state john kerry made the highest level meeting between the two countries in decades. The european policy chief Kathryn Ashton said the talks were substantive. A change in the dynamics engaged with that and all had an opportunity to put their points of view and the atmosphere was a very positive one. Reporter they discussed an ambitious