Bowl is being plaid in new jersey, unfortunately. There you have it, folks. The battle line has been drawn, and that line is the hudson river. New jersey wants the world to know the super bowl isnt happening in new york. Just moments ago the United Nations mediator gave an update on the ongoing syria peace talks in geneva. He says he will meet jointly with two of the syrian parties on monday. Lets listen to what he had to say. In the morning we had discussed humanitarian issues. We talked a great deal about heal health. You know, that the center of the city has been under siege for a very, very long time, and now i hope that were approaching a solution for at least the civilians in homs. What we have been told by the government side is that women and children in these besieged area in the old city are welcome to leave immediately. The other civilians are also welcome to leave, but the government needs a list of their names first. So were going to inform our people in damascus we have a
Syria third large he is city is an urban battle field for the past six years. Many civilians are cut off with little aid, and they would agree to that on the conditions assistance needs to reach areas where theyre also under siege. The opposition tried to secure the release of prisoners. It presented the names of tens thousands of detainees. We give priority to women and children and the most vulnerable detainees. For example, the people who have illness or they need medical care. We give priority for that. Given in return, as i mentioned earlier, the Free Syrian Army has only fighters, they dont have civilians or reporter there has been little tangible progress on the humanitarian front, and the toughest issue of political transition has still not been discussed. The talks over the past two days focused on what u. N. Envoy brahimi called confidencebuilding measures. They were supposed to create a positive atmosphere before hard bargaining begins on monday. Its about full executive pow
And a standoff ko continues in ukraine as they have three buildings. And they will stop an out break of bird flu. And volgograd and now pakistan and the olympic torch travels through some of the most dangerous regions. And a third day of syrian peace talks is getting underway in swiss land and the chance of a breakthrough looks slim. They want to talk about president bashir alassad handing over power but his team has other ideas and that is a day after the two sides made some progress, a deal on a safe passage for civilians and it would take place in palms in the early stages of the up rising there and s. In c says its time to move talks forward and this is what they had to say late last night. Tomorrow, we will Start Talking about transition to democracy and clearly the regime is not enthusiastic to talk about that and they are trying to use delay tactics, trying to go into details about information that cant be verified. Reporter and from the syrian peace talks, in geneva, now, james
Dashed. The concession syrias opposition says it never agreed to about a city devastated by war. The unrest is spreading in ukraine despite concessions from the countrys president protesters are taking to the streets in a growing number of cities. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Another major blast of Winter Weather is sweeping the country this morning. A crippling blizzard in the midwest on sunday is followed by sub 0 conditions in many of the same states and areas like chicago already covered in snow could see an extended cold spell of 48 hours or more below 0 and the arctic air is moving into Southern States where they are not used to the conditions and normally mild states like texas and louisiana could see snow and a temperature plunge of 3040 degrees andy is live in chicago where schools are closed because of the deep freeze and andy good morning and how does it feel out there . Cold, stephanie. We are just now starting what could be a 60hour stre