Trains bound for germany, the migrant crisis dividing europe. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city, im John Henry Smith, president obama will walk on a glaser later today, part of his trip to alaska and there to talk about Climate Change and push for a stronger u. S. Presence in the region. The president will ask congress to speed up construction of new ice breakers in an effort to compete against russia and china in strategic arctic waters. Right now the u. S. Only has two worker ice breakers compared to moscows 40 and first on the president s agenda the Warming Arctic waters and the urgent need for action, libby casey has more from anchorage. Reporter president obama delivering a warning at the beginning of alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet and called it stark and is not a problem in the far off future, its a problem here and its a problem happening now. He said its already impacting infrastructure, and community, health and the future. If those tre
President , john f. Kennedy. For a generation of americans the death of president john f. Kennedy was a touch stone, every one know where they were in dallas 50 years ago today and the shooting and aftermath viewed by millions and carried the news around the clock and a half century later the nation is marking the moment that changed our nation and al jazeera will have continuing coverage of the somber anniversary all day long and later in the hour we will look at the final days of jfk and how reporters captured those moments. Plus we will focus on an unique photography exhibit that has snapshots of his presidency from beginning to end. Very good friday morning and welcome to al jazeera and stephanie si has the morning off. We begin with a historic power play in congress, Senate Democrats passed the so called Nuclear Option, the landmark vote limits the use of filibustering to block president ial nominees and democrats say the move will engridlock in washington and allow president obam
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