This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. There are new developments at this hour concerning the San Bernardino, california attacks. There are reports that criminal charges will be filed today against a friend of the suspects. He has been under investigation since those attacks. He bought the two assault rifles that were used and authorities said he gave them to farook and his wife before they killed 14 people. Authorities saying marquez admitted that he and farook discussed an attack as far back as 2010. Tomorrow the president will be traveling to San Bernardino. The white house says he will meet privately with those who were injured and also with the families of those killed. And this may be one of the reasons why. A recent pew pole suggesting that terrorism and isil are on americans minds. Confidence in the government sharply falling. 46 say they are doing well, when it comes to preventing another attack, that is down from 72 in december of 2014. Right now th
Diplomates meeting this morning at the u. N. Trying to hammer out a plan to end the war in syria. They hope today to get International Agreement on a roadmap to stop the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. And im del walters and meeting bringing key players except Syrian Opposition and as we are told there seems to be some Sticking Points as well. This is being pulled together as you know on quite short notice. Reporter the last two rounds showed a new found result among powers. Build on the burst of diplomatic momentum and seeing they will lead down a path again to a political transition. Reporter the groups third meeting will continue to try to nail down a realistic nationwide ceasefire in syria whi negotiating a political resolution. The ultimate goal is to hold u. N. Nationwide elections to allow the Syrian People to choose their next leadership. Translator key points no matter how strange it seems corresponds with the plan and
Driverless cars. Welcome to your world, im stephanie sy im del walters. Calm on the streets of baltimore. Small groups demanded justice after a judge declared a mistrial in the case against a Police Officer. William porter was the first of six officers to go on trial. Jurors were deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. John terrett is live in baltimore, it appeared protesters heeded the calls for calm, didnt they . Seemed to have done. It looked as if the city got off lightly. There was a serious but small scuffle outside the courthouse when news of a mistrial came through yesterday. The protest continued around the city hall area, and then the protesters moved up to west baltimore, and there was a large rally close to the c. B. S. Which was burnt out. Driving around the city, walking here, we have been up early, and there are police men everywhere. Thats the difference, the Police Service got a jump on this, rather than being caught on the hop which happened since last april. They w
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im del walters. Closing arguments underway right now in baltimore. That is where a Baltimore City Police Officer is on trial for his alleged role in the death of freddie gray. Officer William Porter is were you ever six charged. John terrett has more from baltimore. William porters attorneys rested their case on friday after putting their client on the stand. The baltimore Police Officers faces Involuntary Manslaughter and three other charges in the death of freddie gray whose neck was broken in custody in april. Counterclaims made by prosecutors is that freddie gray was having difficulty breathing and porter simply ignored his pleas for help when he was in distress in the back of the police van. Porter denied that gray told him he could not breathe and testified that when he checked on gray, he showed no sign of injury. Had he been injured, i would have called for a medic, porter said. When asked why he didnt secure gray with a seatbe
Hollande is arriving for a meeting with the president. Gdp revised up to 2. 1. Caseshiller is out on your screen. Our road map this morning, the latest on the fight against isis including angry remarks from putin after that russian jet was shot down by turkey. And a couple more deals, nothing like yesterdays major deal. But 2. 5 billion Semiconductor Deal and a billion dollar acquisition in the food business. Shares of tiffany down big. First up, concerns about geopolitics weighing on futures. This russian warplane was shot down by turkish jets along the syria turkey border. The turkish Prime Minister said his country had the right to respond when its airspace was violated despite repeated warnings. Putin said this event is beyond the normal framework of fighting against terrorism. Of course our military is doing heroic work against terrorism, but the loss today is a stab in the back, carried out by the accomplices of terrorists. I cant describe it in any other way. In about an hour fr