Before Vice President joe biden arrived in the country for talks. Problematic plan the expulsion of news is prohibited a proposal to send refugees back to turkey in exchange for more e. U. Aid money could be illegal. Escalating tensions. Translation government will continue to make efforts to sanction and put on north korea south korea imposes new sanctions on north korea as the president there prepares an arsenal good evening. We begin al jazeera Americas International hour in the u. S. With politics and another round of president ial primaries. Weve got winners in two of the four races. Hillary clinton has won the mississippi. Bernie sanders is holding a lead in a race that is too close. On the Republican Donald Trump was the big winner in both. David shut terror joins us with the shuster joins us. Reporter all of those attacks on donald trump, where they have come from, they have done nothing to his march. He has 14 state contests. Contest number 13 was in the state of michigan. The
Abdeslam. And in cuba the communist island nation prepares to welcome the first u. S. President in almost 90 years. So a suicidebomber has set off explosives on turkeys shopping street killing five people. It follows a bombing from just last weekend. First, we are brought uptodate with exactly what has happened. Another bomb goes off in turkey. This time in the heart of istanbul in the middle of the city wes busiest shopping district. It is an also a major tourist destination. Istanbuls governor was at the scene shortly after the blast. A suicidebomber blue himself up in front of the district governorship building and killed three people and wounded 21 others. Three of them were in critical condition. One of them has just decide in hospital. A detailed investigation is being carried out by our colleagues. Paramedics were quick to arrive and took people to nearby hospitals. Although no one has claimed responsibility government officials have launched it to the armed pkk, which has been
U. S. Democratic president ial hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have faced off in a televised debate south korea says pyongyang is threatening to suspend all exchanges and economic agreements with the south. The news agency is reporting that north korea plans to lick date assets to south korean forms in the industrial zone. It is in response to tougher sanctions imposed by the south korea after Nuclear Tests and rockest launch earlier this year reporter this is a further degeneration in the relationship as though it could get any worse. The North Koreans have announced that all economic agreements between north and south will be invalid and south korean assets in the north will be lek dated. This affects especially the industrial zone. This is a collaborative project whereby more than 100 companies have assets in north korea employing some 50,000 workers there. This has been closed since last month. With this announcement the North Koreans are saying that the assets there wi
Drowned trying to reach greece from turkey. And documents containing recruitment details of thousands of isil fighters. And trudeau and obama hope to revive the relationship between their countries. And two of the forcest rivals will face off for the first time in the last 16 of the europa league. The u. N. Special envoy to syria has told al jazeera that he is more hopeful than ever that peace can be achieved. Ahead of the meeting, he has been speaking to our diplomatic editor, james bayes. This is a crucial moment for syria. It is almost five years since the start of the war, were almost two weeks since the start of the cessation of hostilities. There have been violationed, but also a significant reduction in the violence, and of course talks between the two main sides are supposed to be taking place here in geneva, so far neither side has turned up for those talks. Despite that the u. N. Special envoy is upbeat. Certainly higher than ever before. For three reasons. The first one, we
A draft resolution concerning Sexual Exploitation abuse. And today the heads of the u. N. Humanitarian agencies issued a statement saying after five years of a brutal and senseless conflict, more than a quarter million of syrians have been killed, and over happen of the population have been forced from their homes out of fear and want. Some 4. 6 million are existing without aid or food. In the past few weeks, the humanitarian chiefs add we are seeing signs of momentum, fewer bombs are falling, humanitarian access has opened up in some places, negotiators are preparing to come together and talk a general summation there for events happening at the United States in new york and also geneva during the course of the next few hours, that spokesman for the u. N. Body there, referencing the war atrocities that are said to have been committed in south sudan, the subject of that damming report from u. N. Human rights campaigners. Let me remind you, as we begin this news hour here on al jazeera