we know our current president is one. you know he is not even an american we need this question. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m ere. donald trump is under fire from critics on both sideings of the aisle today. folout from a campaign event gone awry last night. he declined to interrupt a member of the audience. randall pinkston reports. we re going to have some fun now. because instead of making a speech, which i have been doing over and over and over, i want to take questions. reporter: he was taking questions from the audience at a rally in new hampshire. one of the questions now making headlines. okay. this man. i like this guy. one of the problems in this count i try. it s a called muslims. we know our current president is one. you know he s not even an american. trump tried to deflect the question by chuckling, but the unidentified man continued. we have training camps where they want to kill us. that s my question, when can
his post in afghanistan. good evening, i am antonia mora, this is al jazerra america. tonight saudi arabia and its gulf allies is launch ago offense enough yemen and the u.s. is lending sport. mike viqueira joins us now from washington. miming, how much of a role do we know the u.s. is playing? reporter: well, there is late-breaking news on that front. it s certainly a dramatic escalation and a volatile part of the world. and though, antonio the u.s. isn t joining in these strikes strikes that are led by saudi arabia and 10 other gulf nations, the united states is lending its full support. the sound of bombs filling the night skies over the yemeni capital of sanaa that evening. the announced attacks coming a few hours earlier in the washington. the message delivered by is saudi arabia s ambassador said the use of the force was a last resort but a necessary one. the objective is to defend the legitimate government of president hadi from the take over attempts by the ho
hedge, i m ray suarez. when the united states invaded iraq americans had to learn and quickly about what they had gotten in to. once the revered and feared dictator saddam hussein was overthrown why would muslims start bombing each other and start destroying religious shrines. did the kurds to the north and shias to the south who suffered terribly under saddam hussein consider themselves hockey iraqis at all. now that a sunni guerrilla army is seizing the territory and initiative from a shia-led government we have to look at the splits and tears at iraqi society again and we have to look at the wider set of surpris pressure pushing on iraq. the sunny militias are fighting iran s allies, the shia who run things in baghdad. any action that we may take to provide assistance to iraqi security forces have to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by iraq s leaders to set aside sectarian differences. president obama said friday he s weighing options for military interven
humor helped her survive? i was ham and cheese served on a platter. i recently spoke to her in new york. the book starts out with your early years, with your tia, your all the, who you loved and who took really good care of you. at some point, your mother, who you didn t realize was your mother, comes and gets you from tia s house and puts you in a catholic children s home and that s when you first started experiencing abuse. the book is filled with so many painful stories it s hard to recount all of them. how difficult was it for you to go back mentally and recount paper? the good thing is, is that i have done the hard work in regards to going to get help, to seeking therapy. i had thought because i was successful and i had a lot of money, i had a great career, that i had risen above all of the issues. and i realized probably around in my early 30s that i had not. so, prior to writing the book, i had done extensive sessions of therapy because i didn t want my past to w
islamphobic. after all, avoiding the word terrorist for fear of offending your viewers implies that your viewers see themselves in those actions. weird. he also said and i quote one person s terrorist is another person s freedom fighter. it s old. but what does it mean? i mean, are these jihadists jihading for freedom? do freedom fighters kill children for watching soccer? i m thinking maybe we should help van meek with alternative names for terrorists. how about savages? maniacs? future executives at al jazeera? anyway, this is no different than christiane amanpour who still has her cnn job somehow after referring to the paris killers as activists. for them it s just easier to fight the language than terror. it s why the media focuses on mean words rather than deeds. as men are being thrown from buildings to their deaths for being gay and women are being murdered for adultery, where s the left? they re busy dissecting bobby jindal s speech for islamohatred which shows you