Politically charged performance at the super bowl. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im lori jane. The candidates are out stumping for votes this morning in New Hampshire. Theyre trying to lure undecided voters. Tomorrow is the first primary of the president ial race and the latest polls just released this morning showed the front runners with big leads. A new New Hampshire poll had donald trump 20 points ahead. There is a tie between ted cruz and marco rubio. John kasich and jeb bush are tied for third. Marco rubio is still defending his debate performance after a con tin Shoes Exchange with governor Chris Christie. Barack obama knows exactly what hes doing. Im going to say this every chance that i get. Barack obama is trying to change america. Donald trump and jeb bush continue to take shots at one another. This morning trump said every time jeb attacks him he, quote, melts like butter. Trump criticized the former governor for having his Mother Campaign for him. Po
Good morning and welcome for your world, im del walters. Im stephanie sy and no response from syria to try to end the fighting there and secretary of state john kerry and counterpart Sergei Fedorov reached a deal late last night. Not take in effect until next week and may not stop the bombing in the country but the temporary plan could have a longterm end to syria civil war and provide much needed humanitarian aid. We are chairing the ceasefire component, the ceasefire ultimately, not at this moment but the objective is to achieve a durable, longterm ceasefire at some point in time. Reporter important Rebel Coalition welcoming the deal this morning and they say if the fighting actually stops it will go back to the negotiating table in geneva. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon this morning and what does this deal do and what does it not do . Well del if you woke up in syria this morning you might not notice much difference and, in fact, just hours after this agre
We guide them and tell stories about how life used to be how an american entrepreneur helped to transform panamas capital from a den of thieves to a tourist oasis. Good evening, im antonio mora, this is Al Jazeera America. Russia and iran may be on a collision course over what to do in syria, both are strong allies of syrian president Bashar Alassad, but the kremlin officials says keeping Bashar Alassad in power is not a matter of principle for russia, which appears to be at odds with the head of the Republican Guard who said tehran is more committed to moss at. Russians used coordinates supplied by the opposition. They have invited opponents to moscow for talks with Syrian Government representatives. The state department denounced the talks as premature. Today they confirmed u. S. And Russian Military flames miles from each other over syria, but it was intention am. Part of a Communications Test to avoid air accidents. Al jazeeras paul beban has more russia has long been syrian presid
Okay. That is the russian French Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. He is speaking in russian at the moment. When he goes back to english, well dip back in. I want to bring in al jazeeras National Security contributor. We just got a lot of developments on syria in the last 20 minutes, doug. Lets begin with the announcement that president obama has authorized fewer than 50 special operations troops in syria. A lot of pushback from the media in the White House Press room asking whether these are indeed combat troops or at least equivalent to. I think well see a lot of playing gotcha on boots on the ground. Were already seeing the president s prior statements being brought up, and whether this is or is not combat. I think that. Hides the fact thats troops are going to be there on the ground in syria, and this was change our commitment to what is going on. We can have discussions about what is combat and what is not. And quite frankly it depends on the role these troops decide to play, if the
This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. One of the heros of the war in afghanistan receiving the nations highest military honors. It happened just a short while ago at the white house. President obama honoring captain Florent Groberg at the white house. He spotted and tackled a suicide bomber. As you can see, then the tears began to flow. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintyre is live at the pentagon. Good morning, jamie, tell us more about flo groberg. Reporter an interesting story. Is flo groberg was born in paris. He lived there until he was 11 years old. He moved to the United States with his family. He attended high school here outside of washington where he ran track and was a track star at the university of maryland. I had a chance to talk to him a little bit yesterday and along with his mother, and his mother told me that he called her after the september 11th attacks, and said he wanted to serve his country. He finished college. Enlisted in the army and in order