This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Diplomats are meeting in new york trying to end the civil war in syria has raged on for five years. They hope to hammer out an International Agreement detailing how to stop the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. The meeting is bringing together diplomats from 12 nations, but the Syrian Opposition is not at the table. Al jazeeras courtney keely has more. This is being pulled together as you know on quite short notice. The last two rounds of vienna talks showed a new found resolve among world power. We hope fridays meetings will build on the momentum we are seeing and lead down a path again to a political transition. The groups third meeting will continue to try to nail down a realistic nationwide ceasefire in syria while negotiating a parallel syrian led political resolution. The ultimate goal is to hold u. N. Monitor nationwide elections to allow the Syrian People to choose their next leadership. In key points, no matter how strang
We begin with what could be a big blow to i. S. I. L. , the u. S. Military said 10 i. S. I. L. Leaders will be killed in air strikes, including a person link said to the attacks in paris. The news coming a day after iraqi forces drove i. S. I. L. Fighters from the center of ramadi. 70 miles from baghdad. The u. S. Says one of the i. S. I. L. Leaders killed in syria was linked to the paris attacks last month that killed 130 people, and for which i. S. I. L. Claimed responsibility, the pentagon says this man, this 17yearold. Killed in a u. S. Drone strike in syria on Christmas Eve, had been in contact with this man. The 28yearold a bud, killed in a police raid in a paris suburb, the leader of the cell that carried out the series of attacks. Threes three of the 10 killed by drones and jets weres to be in some way connected with paris attacks. And allegedly were planning additional attacks. These were individuals working to strike the west. They want to strike in europe or the homeland. It
There are Widespread Evacuations in missouri this morning as hundreds of homes face the threat of flooding. The state governor is calling in the National Guard as rivers and streams from swelled to unprecedented levels. Welcome to your world this morning. Im stephanie sy im del walters. Al jazeeras correspondent is live in valley park missouri. How prepared is the state to handle the flooding . By all accounts, del, as well as can be expected. They are used to flooding in the area. Take a look. Its a major intersection that would be busy off internet 34. You see the water, this is the river that has flown over the banks. We see a highway flown over. As high as it looks now, and we are guessing 56 feet. Its getting higher. More by four feet, cresting by tomorrow. Theres the threats and the waters still rising. Along the rising windows, neighbours are lining up with sandbags. Some suburbs submerged. We need help. We really need help. We are saving my house now. Reporter hundreds of roads
Paris attacks last month that killed 130 people and for which i. S. I. L. Claimed responsibility. The pentagon says this man, 27yearold charaffealmandela ouadan has been in contact with this man, Abdel Hamid Abaaoud who was killed and said to be a leader of the cell that carried out the attacks. At least three of ten killed by u. S. Drones and Coalition Jets were said to be attacked in some way to the paris attacks and were said to be planning additional attacks these are individuals who were specifically working to strike the west. They want to strike in europe and in our very own homeland. It is important that people understand that as long as those external attack planners are operating, the United States military will hunt them and we will kill them. Reporter the pentagon says in the threeweek period this month Coalition Air strikes based on u. S. Intelligence targeted ten separate i. S. I. L. Operatives, killing two on december 7, one on 8th two more on 9 sids and five more on 10,
Such a ban. Well have the full report tonight. Also, Bernie Sanderss campaign accusing Democratic Party leaders of trying to undermine his white house bid, and to boost that of rival Hillary Clinton. Theyre angry that the dnc denied sanders access to their own voter data after a sanders staffer improperly, quote, end quote breached the clinton files. The leadership of the Democratic National committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. We are determined to win this campaign and win this campaign by talking about the issues that are important to the American People. To do that, we need our data stolen by the dnc. Lou incredible, isnt it . The republican National Committee Communications Director slamming the dnc for trying to protect hillary and ensure she continues onto her coronation. John spicer saying its troubling to see the dnc engage in such heavy handed favoritism benefitting Hillary Clinton, a pattern which will continue tomorrow night with another debate del