with refollowing for you. >> it is in nobody's interest to see the continuing bloodshed and collapse that is taking place inside that country. >> president obama tells iran and russia to get in line to help the people of syria. tough talk coming during the official state visit by the president of france. telling them continuity is key. and a wait in another winter wallop, southern states now bracing for

the worst. >> . >> both president speaking earlier at a joint news conference just a short while ago. mike was inside the room, and he said about syria and iran. >> in particular, dell, i was struck by the tough talk from both of these men, president ilan and obama on the situation, it was known that the french were upset with the president's last minute decision, president obama's last minute decision, we said should say at the end of last summer, in the rose garden when he announce there had would be no military strikes as many would expected. french war planes were on the runway, of course, in favor of that deal.

the president says society is crumbling, president obama says he characterized the regime at these peace talks that started just two weeks ago at belligerent. and he said that chemical weapons deadlines have been missed in that program, that the russians have in fact brokers. he also talks about the humanitarian crisis and is very critical about the russians blocking movement at the united states for so called humanitarian corridors to bring aid, relief, and evacuation of many refugees within syria. hoar is the president. >> i'd say they are concerned about the well being of the syrian people, when they are starving civilians. >> and that it is not just the syrians that are responsibility, the russians as well, if they are blocking. that is an example of the work that we are gene inching in right now. >> reminded everyone in

the room, and a worldwide audience, that is not simply about aid, but about regime change. within syria as well. barack obama reminded us of our position. we were prepared to resort to force, but we found another negotiation. we made it possible for part of the chemical weapons stock pile to be destructive, but we haven't found a political solution. >> of course france part of the p five plus one agreement there, tough sangs on iran, six months now to come to some sort of permanent agreement to reduce the program, but

in the meantime, the controversy there as the ceo's appears to be looking for an opening to do business with iran. >> oh world leaders have been listened to. so a question from the frenching press, it was very interesting, actually. the question is you, president obama, have become very close with president ilan, they seem to be very close on other issues. syria, libya, for example, do you now like france better than you liked great britain, i'm paraphrasing but that was the essential answer, and this i president obama's answer. >> first of all, i have two daughters. and they are both gorgeous. and wonderful. and i would never choose

between them. and that's how i feel about my outstanding european partners. all of them are wonderful in their own ways. >> and so the context of the question really was okay, so will you now stop spying on france as you agreed to stop spying on great britain, and the president clarified and sideway were never going to stop spying in each respective country where they are allied or not. jeff agrees that some sort of surveillance has to go on, the president had said in his speech on n super bowla reform last month, that world leaders like americale would not be eaves dropped on, and for his part with regard to the n super bowla spying said that mutual trust has been restored. mike also pointing out

that he has four. >> on whether to increase the governments borrowing. they have insisted that every dollar of new borrowerring is replaced with cuts in the budget. to define cuts and reforms that are greater than the increase in the debt limit. i am disappointing to say the least. >> and republicans had tie add vote to a measure that would restore some benefits. janet yellen spent most of her day testifying before congress and her first pub label comments as chair, the economic recovery is far from complete despite a drop in unemployment. john is on capitol hill, and what else did you

manage to glean today? >> i tell you what, this has turned into a four hour marathon. he told her it was going tock a long meeting she said she would stay all day, they said that wasn't necessary, because they have a vote to go to. we have the midterms in november, and so there's a lot of political grand stand going on, we have seen a lot of that in spades here today. here is an example, he is republican from texas, he is the chair of the house financial services committee, and right off the bat, through janet he became attacking the obama administration, for miring red business, or business in what he call add red tape taxation, take a listen. >> despite being almost five years into the so called obama recovery, we still see millions of our fellow citizens ink employmented, or underemployed. shrinking middle income paychecks, and trillions of dollars of new unsustainable debt.

>> janet yellen has been the two main topics here p p on the issue of jobs she agreed that we have two pretty weak jobs reports so far. and we need more -- get a real handle on the direction the economy is taking but she said she did agree that more needs to be done to stimulate job growth, but most especially here at the congress. take a listen. >> too many americans remain unemployed, inflation remains below our longer term objective, and the would recollect of making the financial system more robust, has not yet been completed. >> and on the issue of the stimulus, the federal reserve has been pumping 85 billion-dollars into the economy every month, they now road that back with two decreases. two decreases first from 85 million, now 65 million. saying several times today that the feds were predicting modest growth, going forward, and if

indeed modest growth is what with we get, then she is committed to growing back that stimulus. >> breaking that glass ceiling is the first woman to head the fed, it seems like the gloves were all, no honeymoon for the new chairman. >> no, there was no honeymoon. it was right in off the bat. the first question from the chairman was really quite painful, and attacking the obama add miles per hour vague. what job has she done. doesn't want to scoop the market, they don't like being scooped. and they have done this. so the dow has reacted ascoreddingly, it's been up by 1.5%. and i think it's worth bearing in mind that where we are at the moment, the federal reserve will meet again, in march, and by the time they get to that meeting there will have been

another jobs report. so we will have another better idea of what the health is right now. >> john on capitol hill, thank you very much. and as you indicated the dow is up right now, it is up in triple differents up 184 points p dow right now encouraged by her comments, fed chair janet yellen that she will continue the current policies. placing for east blast of weather, georgia trying to get ahead of the storm. the brunt of the system isn't expected to hit the atlanta area until wednesday, but storm preps are ready in full gear. president obama and georgia's governor have already declare add state of emergency. 88 counties there could be effected, hundreds of flights across the southeast have already been cancelinged. with go now to find out how bad the storm will be. >> 24 could be bad because we are looking at a lot of ice.

there's some moisture moving through now. still p twoing over the southern plains there, is pulling a lot of moisture in, on top of there, which is above freezing now. these numbers will be key, because over the next 24 hours we get cold air coming in, warm air being pulled up from the south, here is rain developing, but where it is cold enough it is either snow if it is all snow, or if that snow goes through warmer air and melts no longer snow, and then it falls into air which is below freezing that a where you get the sleet and freezing rain. very heavy here. as it goes into the colder air in georgia that is significant icing occurring and this is hours of it happening between wednesday, late morning and throughout the afternoon, and evening. eventually lit be clearing out, but we are looking at significant icing a quarter, half an inch, or more. >> dave, thank you very much. a run in president taking a few jabs at the u.s. today, he continues the theme that iran will decide it's future, not the west or any outside forces.

going on to say may had nothing to fear, despite they testified to two new missles. now during that time, he seized american hostages holding him inside the embassy for 444 days. a look back at the compound, for a rare look inside. >> stop in time. the former u.s. embassy still stands. mostly unchanged, since 1979. the same old equipment curtains and green paint. machines and old phones even the famous paper shredders all relics of a time when enemies were friends. although the building hasn't changed much,

relations between the u.s. and iran are starting to. ebb boo ham was a revolutionary, and a student. now he is a leading voice for reform. >> people don't live in conflict. >> in november 1979, 1 of the men who took over the embassy, and held 52 americans hostage. he says he was motivated by the believe that the u.s. was trying to sabotage the revolution. the attack led them to cut ties with iran. i don't agree with those that say that occupying the embassy is a resolution. at times there has within good relationships. >> the revolution succeeded but it came at a cost. bloodshed and painful sanctions. now the u.s. and iran are

facing the challenge of putting 35 years of hate behind them. and against us lambic countries and continue sanctions against iran, it is very difficult to say the relationship is a good one. >> last year, a temporary nuclear deal high level meetings and a phone call between the u.s. and iranian presidents broke 35 years of official silence. whatever comes of the softening in the relationship between the united states and iran, some will never be convinced that these two enemies should put the past to rest, and one of then ares is exactly what happened in this building, the old embassy. what it was, what it is, are two very different experiences it continues to represent. al jazeera, tesh sean.

>> it appears that there is a seoul suv vier very of a military plane crash. it happened earlier today. is death toll has been revised downward. 78 people were onboard, and 77 of them were killed. the sole survivor is being treated for severe injuries. and the president of al jazeera, now declaring three days of mourning. shirley 10, 1 of the most popular child stars has died. known for her curly locks she won the hearts of millions with her singing and dancing. she started acting when she was just three, going on to star in more than 40 films. she died at her california home, at the age of 85. coming up on al jazeera america, jury deliberations on hold in the case of former new orleans mayor we will explain why after the break. and advocates are calling

for more security along the u.s. border, but one person with duel citizen ship trying to remind people that there was a time when both sides lived together.

had a gun and feared for

his life. dun has been on the stand all day, this is him right now live he is charged with fist degree murder, he is pleading not guilty. many comparing this case to the case of trayvon martin where a white man shot and killed a black teenager. an unexpected turn of events corruption trial of former new orleans mayor. supposed to deliberate for a second day, but they won't resume now until tomorrow. outside the courthouse, what happened? the case has always been the case of the missing juror. now, many people thought that after the jury was deliberated for three hours yesterday, that they would come back and sometime today. deliberate for a little while, but the jurors never showed up, at least opinion hour, so the judge said they will have to go home and come back tomorrow. there is no word whether they found that juror, or whether they had an

alternate. they have four right now, prosecutors with r in the courtroom this morning sort of milling about waiting obviously anticipating a verdict, that happens to back to the drawing board tomorrow, but they do have to bring an attar nate that means they will have to start jury deliberations all over completely. so that's going to be a big speed butch. >> do we know at this point in time what is on the line if ray is found guilty? >> yeah, there's a lot on the line, it was a big surprise to many people that he didn't take a deal, considering the fact that six other people had been convicted or pled guilty to charges involving his case. instead he chose to go to a trial, and let a jury take it in their hands if he is found guilty of all 21 counts he can be facing more than 20 years in prison but the jury will gauge each separately. ben lemons for us, thank

you. >> in washington state exclusions have now been put on home. imposing a moratorium, saying equal justice under the law is the primary responsibility. and in death penalty cases he says i am not convinced equal justice is being served. he added there are too many flaws in the system, when the ultimate decision is death, there is too much at stake to accept an an imperfect system. >> now a person who called both the u.s. and mexico home is using a gap in the fence to teach visitors about local history. heidi joe reports from the border. >> .

>> the duel u.s. mexican citizen runs the museum on the mexican side of the border. and teaching the areas history to americans over these wide open spaces is alfredo's favorite part of the job.

to you like it. >> no. >> just about 50 feet on the other side of this line. but since we can't cross here. we will have to fake a drive toen a personal port of entry. >> along the way the fence. he says he hopes he will never see this. finally we are back, steps from where we started. a walk through the door transports us, where the boarder was a community of free flowing cultures. >> look at this, the american -- and the rio grande, in the northern side the soldiers mexican, revolution. they have shown how things have changed. >> have those fences all

been here. >> no, i baptized in the rio. >> in 1985, no fence. no fence. according to the border patrol, it is a real concern. patrol members say there are five to 10 attempted illegal entries per day. >> if you look at the terrain, plenty of places for somebody to hide and try to come in. >> without a sense, the border patrol uses cameras and agents. agents who get roped into a history lesson too. changed so much from where it was 100 years ago. does it make you miss the pass. they understand that world he is so admires can only be found in his books. he hopes the next chapter

doesn't include more tensions. when you come back, the sweet sound of music, that multimillion dollar violin, taking center stage.

jazeera america.to am al these are your headlines this hour. hours to be exactz her first public message chair, the federal reserve says -- far from complete. instead of drawing unemployment. the line-up she has to say, and the dough now up one honeypot 5 points. that she will stay the course on the policy.

both presidents speaking at a news conference. the large part of the southeast aren't taking any chances. officials say they are prepared this time, unlike two weeks ago, when a storm shut down the city. declaring states of emergency, 88 counties effected and a lot of people wanting to know how much. >> lit be key and dropping down to the freezing mark that's when you get the ice. cold enough for all snow here. here is what to expect.

you have that icing coming down, with north carolina through south carolina to atlanta. just to the west of that, we are seeing the storm end, but enthis it will really intensify off the coast of north carolina. so one half inch or more of ice, six to eight-inches of snow here. the storm then develops. it moves up the coast, but not before causing problems in south carolina, georgia, but that colder inch, that marked there anything above that's where you get significant power outages. and then moves north, here it comes up the coast, and the track is just off the coast, puts heavy snow right along, i 95, ice transitioning to rain, as you get closer to the coast. this will be throughout the day on thursday. really keeping the intensity early thursday,

to, i 95, from philadelphia and new york, then up through new england, thursday afternoon and evening. now the snowfall amounts this is a foot to more -- a for or more. inland, but right along, i 95, that's where you see that transition from photo rain. so the track will be key, seeing how far inland that warm air makes it. you look at that track closely that will have an impact on the snow. as. >> thank you very much. we leave you with the sweet sound of music, a special performance in milwaukee, the star a 300-year-old violin. now this is the one that was stolen last month, said to be worth as much as $5 million. police recovered the instrument, and last man

the man who it was stolen from, played before the milwaukee symphony orchestra, the violin, and the violinist both given a standing ovation. thank you for watching al jazeera america, in new york, 101 east is next. accusations of the state confiscating children, to forced abortions. today it is being blamed for a declining fertility rate and a major gender imbalance, with more than 30 million men, to women by 2020. i'm steve chow on this edition of 101 east, we ask if the days of china's one child polices is coming to an end.