Making their final arguments before the Iowa Caucuses, the republican president ial candidates took to the stage in des moines last night but attention was on the one person who was not there, welcome to your world this morning, im stephanie sy. And im delve and we are three days away from the first contest in the election itself and trying hard to focus on issues but as al jazeera tells us their attention kept turning back to the frontrunner. Reporter im an maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly and ben you are a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way. The big elephant wasnt in the room but it didnt stop them from taking shots at the missing frontrunner. I miss donald trump and he was a frontrunner and had a loving relationship and in between the tweets i kind of miss him and wish he were here. With that out of the way it pivoted to who would make the best president and newer sierran ben carson tried to make the case before th
We want to go outside of washington to get your take. How confident are you in president obamas Foreign Policy . 202 5853880, 202 5853881, interests. Join the conversation on facebook. Com. Here is the headline in the wall street journal this morning, front page above the fold, pressure is upped on putin. Here is what the president had to say at the white house yet. We emphasized our preference to resolve this issue diplomatically, but that we have to see condition greet actions and not just words that russia, in fact, is committed to trying to end this conflict along the Russia Ukraine border. So far russia has failed to take any of the steps that i mentioned. On top of the sanctions weve already imposed were therefore designates selected sections of the russian economy as eligible for. And we are blocking new financing of russias most important banks and energy companies. These sanctions are significant but also targeted, designed to have the maximum impact on russia while limiting a
Can and will be defeated. And lockdown in sierra leone amid concerns the ebola Virus Outbreak may be more widespread than expected. The u. S. Secretary of state, john kerry, is warning of a global tragedy unless a deal on climate is reached. International negotiators have been in peru for the past two weeks to try to hammer out a treaty. In that summit will not wrap up on friday as expected, as longrunning issues threaten a deal. Nick clark joins us from peru east capitol, lima, the summit has been extended. What is the likelihood of all members reaching a consensus . Reporter well, they all want consensus of their own, but whether or not theyll get it remains to be seen. Its all about this draft text that is causing all of the problem. They have been working at it all week. It has been hacked down to 7 pages long, and now some are saying it is too small. It all resolves around this aimold argument about the fact that developed nations want developing nations to shoulder more of the bl
Musicians hoping new visa rules will rocket them to international status. We begin in london where air traffic has just been restored after a technical failure lead to air space restrictions. Flights had been grounded. But now flights have been resumed. Lets go to neve barker who joins us live from london. Do you know anymore of the cause of this power outage . Well, the british air Traffic Control now say the problem has been fixed. They are pointing the finger at a computer glitch. Initially they said a power outage may have been responsible for the suspension of flights across the british capitol. Nows out of the citys second largest airport is that flights are able to now land and takeoff. But there could well be severe he days. Similar story for the largest airport here in london, and some of the other airports as bell. This is exactly the kind of wobble that air Traffic Control and airports done want to have only a couple of weeks before the holiday season. We know some of the ai
Trade unions advance strike over labor reform plus. We meet the musicians hoping new visas will rocket them to international stardum. We begin the news hour in iraq where the finance minister has told al jazeera that mosul holds the key to defeating the Islamic State of iraq and lavonte and we will go to jane and she is live from the capitol baghdad, swha the finance minister been saying, jane . He has been saying with other iraq officials that they are on the defensive with reconstituted forces in battle with them but i. S. I. L. Holds the key city of mosul and its the capitol of their self declared state and its where they are acting as a de facto government and say its a long, long fight and cautioned against being hasty in retaking mosul but the man that is actually from mosul saying that planning is imminent and could happen before we think and what could be the biggest urban fight. I think the key is mosul. And its where mosul Security Forces collapsed or evaporated and this is w