Helping build a democracy after a revolution. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. President obama in a few hours will be heading to oregon where he will meet with victims and families of last Weeks Community college shooting. Overnight, there was a shooting at Northern Arizona universitys flagstaff campus. The school is confirming one killed, three others and the shooter in custody. No word yet phon a motive. The president has been making a passionate call for gun control off the the shooting, but he is expected to stay away from political talk today. Gun rights activists plan a protest. There is pushback in roseberg to the president s position on gun control. The protest has a body art fundraiser that has put more than 5,000 in a fund for victims. I dont think we can even really fully understand what has even happened yet, everyone has a need to act in a participate. I feel this is one of those ways we can do that. At the Community Co
Israel and the palestinian territories. Acts of terrorism. Paying ransom. We needed to disclose that they actually paid. The Italian Government denies exchanging money for hostages but documents exclusively obtained busy al jazeera tell a different story. And the Nobel Peace Prize go to. The tunisian dialogue quartets. The group credited with moving the country forward after the arab spring uprising. Good evening, im antonio mora. This is Al Jazeera America. We begin tonight with the Obama Administration abandoning its effort to train moderate syrian rebels. Pentagon officials admit the 500 million Training Program failed to produce real results against i. S. I. L. The program was widely criticized for only training a handful of combat ready rebels, american Officials Say the resources will now be used to equip and establish troops already fighting i. S. I. L. As russia continues its box bardment in the war torn country. Killed 200 i. S. I. L. Tighters in the latest air strike. Mike vi
People smugglers. And were on north koreas border with china to find out where a once strong relationship is increasingly strained. At least Six Palestinians have been killed by gunfire from the israeli army as they demonstrated along the border between gaza and israel. Gaza medical forces say another 70 have been wounded. Tension has been rising after a series of stabbings in israel and the palestinian territory in recent days. Hoda abdel hamid is in ramallah. What is the situation at the moment . Reporter well, things have slowed down now just because its dark has settled in, but i have to say that throughout the day, we have been witnessing quite intense clashes and no matter how much the israeli army tried to push back to protesters, well, they bureaucrat determined to stand their ground, and so they did. They actually throughout the afternoon spread even further. A certain point past the israeli armys position here in ramallah on the north edge of the town. And then there were als
Violent protests have spread from the occupied west bank to gaza. The Palestinian Ministry of health says in october, 14 have been killed by Israeli Forces and around a thousand injured. Four israelis were also killed in a series of stabbings and shootings. Hoda abdel hamid reports. It took six days to rush to body of the teen abler, his funeral was a show of solidarity and defiance. Defiance that later turned into violence. Palestinians took their anger into the street. Here on betel on the Northern Edge of ramallah. Many muslims suspect israel is seeking to change the rules governing the holy site which allows jews to enter the exowpped but nocompound but not. This was denied by Prime Minister netanyahu. After several hours there is no sign of the situation easing up. Actually the palestinians youth were able to spread out in those fields, past the positionest of the israeli army. Now, similar clashes were happening elsewhere, in the west bank. And also in gaza. The violence was the
The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting syrian rebels. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program we are looking at different ways to achieve basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, to enable capable, motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremism. Tom ackermann joins us live from washington. A stark admission there. Why now . Whats behind this decision . Its clear that this program has been a failure almost from the tart. The commanding general admitted to senators a couple of days ago that the objective of achieving a 5400 man fighting force by next year was unatainable, because of the tight requirements to make sure they werent getting isil infiltrators into the ranks. There was no unity in the units themselves. That was clear when a Splinter Group captu