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the pentagon and taiwan say beijing put surface to air missiles on a dispute island and it happened as president obama was meeting with south asian world. welcome to your world. i m stephanie sy. i m del walters, china s foreign minister says the western media is hyping the issue but does not deny the presence of the missiles. it s been detected on woody island. they are claiming the island and china is building on it. reporter: china s response bears scrutiny. the foreign minister in a statement said western media was hiving or manufacturing stories, but did not deny that the ad took place, as they say, two surface to missile batteries has been deployed on the island. translation: i hope that media everywhere, including those in western countries will bring your attention to the lighthouses that we have built on some of the islands in in the south china sea. which have been very useful in ensuring the safety of the pagers in those water passengers in those wate ....
angolan deal and freed from prison. we begin with the expanding fight against isil. u.s. warplanes bomb an suspected training camp in libya. 40 people were killed al jazeera national security force jamie mcintyre is at the pentagon with more. tony, pentagon officials say that the overnight strike does not represent an expansion of the full scale war against isil in iraq and syria, into libya as well. this was a chance to take out a major isil player and many recruits in a single blow. this is all that was left of a farmhouse and other structures in a rural area of libya after a pair of u.s. air force f-15s flown out of a british air base in london, along with unmanned drones in the region attacked what is described as an isil training camp the in the early hours on friday morning. it was targeted based on intelligence suggesting the fighters there were planting external attacks on u.s. and other western interests in the region. i think it s fair to say that this g ....
this is al jazeera live from new york city. i m stephanie sy. in about an hour, president obama will make his case for closing the guantanamo bay detention center. that ho long been a promise made during his first campaign eight years ago. the plan presented to congress today will likely call for transferring some detainees to u.s. soil, sure to provoke a fight with lawmakers who oppose that move. some lawmakers are already speaking out against the plan. they did so yesterday. how difficult will it be for the administration to convince congress? almost impossible. the obama administration says it s going to try. they say look, congress asked for this plan, and so they re submitting it on the deadline that it s supposed to be submitted. they hope it will start a conversation about whether or not there s a way to bring some of the detainees at guantanamo who can t be tried and can t be transferred to other countries to the united states so that they can close guantana ....
welcome to your world this morning i m stephanie sy. and i m del walters and the gop caucusing there today. and donald trump say he is the frontrunner but it s very unpredictable and we are live in las vegas outside of what will be the gop caucus headquarters and good morning and what in particular explains the trump phenomenon in nevada? well, stephanie i think you hit on a very interesting point which is the unpredictability of the state and has a population of 3 million and expect 30-40,000gop caucus goers later today and that is not that much as percentage of republicans which means the state has been unpredictable in the past when it comes to polling, now having said that though donald trump has a comfortable double digit mark over cruz and rubio and what some supporters had to say from monday night rally. he gives us what we need and financial stability and strong military and need to feel secure when we get on an airplane, when we go out to anything in la ....
this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m del walters. just moments ago, the president laying out his plans to close the guantanamo bay prison. for many years it has been clear that the detention facility at guantanamo bay does not advance our national security. it undermines it. this is not just my opinion. this is the opinion of experts. this is the opinion of many in our military. it s counterproductive to our fight against terrorists. reporter: president obama made that campaign promise to close guantanamo bay when he was campaigning back in 2007 and before taking office, pointing out that both sides agreed on closing the prison when he took office, but said the issue has since become highly politicized. jamie mcintyre has more. reporter: three of the points, i think are fairly non-controversial. one is to continue the transfers of of prisoners, and there are 35 detainees at guantanamo who have already been cleared for transfer, and they may be ....