Authorities in china to take part in rare protests. A new round of talks to try and end the syrian conflict are due to get underway in geneva in a few hours time. Diplomats are hoping to build on a true which is in force. The Syrian Government has agreed to attend but the foreign minister said it will not discuss the presidency. The main opposition parties will be there. The Syrian National coalition and an affiliate with the free syrian russian. Russia wants the kurds to be involved but they have not been invited. A Meeting Needs to take place without any preconditions. Reporter putting up preconditions contradict the fundamentals we came upon. It is an all syrian meeting without any foreign intervention and without preconditions im joined by our senior political analyst. The en special envoy says he wants to talk about the feature of Bashar Alassad but even before the talks begin, so how would you rate anything positive coming ou this time . Staffan de mistura is giving himself a lot
Plus. Reporter who wants to live in a place where everything is difficult thats the question to many people of greenland. Thats the question theyre asking. We look at the problems contributing to a worrying exodus we start this news hour with breaking news out of turkey. A bomb has exploded in a major shopping and tourist area in central istanbul. Not far away from taksim square. The investigation very much live and ongoing. We under three people have been killed. Several more were wounded. Turkey has been rocked by five major bombings since july last year, including attacks a week ago in the capital which killed 35 people. We have an eyewitness on the line. You were talking to us a few minutes ago. Can you rerack that conversation for us so we know exactly what happened. Take us through what you experienced. Actually, i got scared because this is the first time ive been in a situation like this you were telling us that you saw 100 plus people, i guess it would be fair to say running f
Theyre experiencing the worst nonhurricane flooding the state has ever seen. President ial candidates are out in full force today, campaigning ahead of another crucial tuesday in the race for the white house. Tomorrow, candidates will fight for two winner take all states, florida and ohio, which have huge delegate counts. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city, im richelle carey. Governor john kasich of ohio is campaigning in a state in hopes of securing its delegates. Former president ial candidate mitt romney, joining on the campaign, first time romney has campaigned on behalf of a republican candidate so far. Roxana saberi is there. Roxana tell us why its so important. Richelle, 140 delegates is up for grabs. To beat Hillary Clinton by a small emergency Bernie Sanders is hoping. On the republican side 66 delegates is up for grabs, winnr take all. A new poll suggests trump and kasich are tied with 38 . If kasich wins it will be a little harder for donald trump to secure
Cross fire of west africas conflicts. Protesters have filled the streets of several brazil cities and furious about the latest allegations against president Dilma Rousseff and named her predecessor silva as chief of staff, an appointment critics say its to shield him from prosecution and we report from rio. Reporter tens of thousands of brazil people are on the streets and some gathered at the president ial palace and others across the city, the appointment of mentor and predecessor silva meant to restore public trust but it has done the opposite and is was credited of lifting millions of poverty is charged with fraud and money laundry with regard to an oil company and taking the cabinet post gives him serial immunity but Dilma Rousseff said that was not why she gave him the position. Im sorry he is coming and he is going to help and we are going to look at returning to fiscal stability and controlling inflation. Reporter shortly after she said that a federal judge who was leading a wi
The peaceful giants caught in the crossfire of the conflicts in west africa. Were going to bring you breaking news concerning syria. Our diplomatic editor james bays has just left the meeting in geneva. James, what else do we know . This was a briefing on the humanitarian task force which is part of all the process here in geneva, the idea at a meeting of International Leaders in mine nick was to take out of the main negotiation process this desperate need of people in besieged areas to get help to them. One of those besieged areas is an area that is besieged by isil. Theres no way to get convoys in there, isil will not allow the convoys in there. A short time ago, we were hearing from the humanitarian advisor to staffan de mistura, the special envoy. He explained more about trying to air drop aid to isil. He said their tests hadnt worked and he ordered new parachutes. He then explained that they had to do these High Altitude air drops because the danger the air drops faced and he rais