spokesperson... >> how can we learn from the past? and create a better future? an al jazeera america special report race in america all next week part of our special black history month coverage on al jazeera america >> is this is al jazeera america live from new york new york city. i'm richelle carey. here are the top stories. deadly riots at a soccer match outside a cairo stadium. secretary of state john kerry jordan pounds i.s.i.l. targets for the third day in a row. their aim to wipe the group off the plan. we look why women are still not

getting money they deserve. we begin tonight in egypt where a riot broke out sunday night outside a major soccer game. tom mathson filed this report. >> come to watch a premier league game between zemelac and enppi. but some do not have tickets for the game. some people have accused the police of using violence to pacify the crowd. the police deny this. it appears in the confusion a stampede occurred and many people died from suffocation. >> we need to look at how it was handled tonight.

the way the police dealt with the violence and allow is egyptian blood has become so cheap and how are fans being killed so easily over a football match. >> egypt is no stranger to football violence. in 2012, 72 people died. al masri attacked rivaled supporters. 21 people were sentenced to death for their part in the violence. >> the big question to me at this particular moment is what lessons can be learned from this particular tragedy? how can this tragedy be prevented in the future? this is not the first time, as you know. >> as fans spilled on to the pitch when the match was killed off, the egyptian prime minister held a meeting to try to determine what exactly happened. but even then, the premier

league has decided to suspend play until further notice. >> known as the ultimate tra ultrawhite knights have a reputation for violence. took part in the 2011 violence as muslim brotherhood was outlawed. two al jazeera colleagues will be retried starting monday. they were sentenced to seven and ten years in prison. last week peter greste was rg released and sent back to australia, it is unclear why whying

fahmy and mohamed were not. john kerry carried further restrictions quote impossible. more from munich and its pifnt pivot towards tehran. >> from talks about ukraine delegates discuss ukraine. mohamed sharif stressed this is now time to reach a deal. >> sanctions are a liability you need to get rid of them if you want a solution. unless particularly some politician he, unless they come to the realization that sanctions are a liability and they need to be lifted, we will

not see a solution. but we have made good headway in resolving even that. >> also discussed was the upheaval across the middle east. with the u.n. rg secretary-general being cofe anan took the stage. >> muslim world's erstwhile greatness on the contemporary, history teaches us that closed societies are the ones that decay, open societies are the ones that prosper. iraqi prime minister called on nations to helping fight the rise of i.s.i.l nonin arabic as dash. >> it is not only threatening iraq, it is threatening the region, it is threatening the whole world at the moment. as far as i know, we are the

only country that have armies on the ground, fighting dash. >> reporter: the three day conference brings together some of the world's most influential players. behind the scenes and behind closed doors most pressing security issues acknowledge hoda abdel hamid. al jazeera. >> plans for the summit emerged this weekend on a conference call between he be angela merkel, francois hollande, petro poroshenko and vladimir putin. >> hopes of the meeting on monday in minsk are rising. however the russian he aren't fully signing up yet. we can listen now to some comments that vladimir putin

made in sochi earlier on sunday. >> translator: conversation with colleagues from kiev, berlin and paris in the so-called normandy format has just ended. we have agreed we will try to organize the same type of format with heads of state in minsk. we will hopefully agree in some positions which we have agreed very intensively in certain days. >> nobody has said, we agree because there are clearly some details that have to be thrashtd out first. much of that will happen in berlin on monday where deputy foreign ministers meet there. then tuesday in minsk there will be a meeting of the contact group including the osce, and the donetsk people's republic and the luhansk people's republic.

the main topic is going to be a ceasefire how that can be brought in. the terms of the minsk memorandum which was agreed back in september of last year, and also the degree of autonomy that will be granted to the separatist areas of luhansk and donetsk. what western leaders will be looking for from russia is for the kremlin to peuntd, for putin the bring influence to bear. he can have as many high level agreements as he wants but if the separatists don't stop fighting then it means nothing. and russia and the separatists will be hoping that the ukrainian army will pull back and that is the responsibility of petro poroshenko. >> rory challenge reporting. the renewed violence have also forced thousands of civilians from their home. shipments of humanitarian aid

being shipped from kiev and moscow. ukraine government has opened a distribution center in luhansk. today hundreds of cars and trucks were lienld up at lined up at a border crossing near donetsk. now to the middle east where jordan announced today it has bombed i.s.i.l. locations 56 times in the last three days. ing the head of the affairs says this country is determined to destroy the group. has dramatically stepped up attacks in the past weekly. it follows i.s.i.l.'s burning to death of a jordanian pilot. part of a u.s. coalition other arab nations are stepping up in support of this battle. osama ben java reports. >> these are said to be targets belonging to islamic state of iraq and the levant that jordanian jets are continuing to

hit. hundreds of strikes in the last few days after a captured jordanian pilot was murdered by i.s.i.l. also known by the arabic acronym of dash. >> we successfully destroyed more than 19 targets. after that, the war again dash is going to continue. we are determined to achieve the objectives of this war. and not only to degrade dash capabilities, we are going to destroy dash. >> the general said the u.s. coalition has conducted 7500 missions since the air strikes began. yornd has participated participate -- jordan has participated in nearly 20% of thing attacks. the united arab emirates is sending a squadron of its jets.

while the u.k. is reportedly sending troops in an advisory role. the whole campaign i could comment on that, is too slow, doing too little, very constrained sort of thing. we need to open up, we need to increase the sortie rate six to eight sortie per day. she need airplanes she ask even for you know rbvs, you know, remote vehicles but we didn't get predator and didn't get it from now because of the bureaucracy of the state department the pentagon. we need these things they can inflict a lot of damage. >> that support would be crucial to keep the momentum against i.s.i.l. in the places like the town of beji. it's a tough fight for iraqi

troops backed by shia militias. a suicide bombing killed several iraqi soldiers. i.s.i.l. remains defiant. it's continued to post more videos of killings online. these men were reportedly killed in the i.s.i.l. controlled parts of leach in syria. i.s.i.l.'s priority has propped up the international response against the group but the ongoing international air strikes vent been able to defeat it. osama ben javid, al jazeera. >> authorities say they foiled a plot to attack civilian and military targets across the country and interior minute strideministryspokesman says. u.s. marine who disappeared from a base in iraq mean decade ago is said to face trial tomorrow.

his defense attorneys insist he was kidnapped in 2004 before ending up in lebanon but they have not been able to present any witnesses. prosecutors said he fled his post because he was unhappy with his deployment and the way american troops were trading iraqis. his trial will take place in camp lejeune, north carolina. politicians say the democrats in the senate are refusing to pass the bill because it contains a amendment that derails president obama's executive action on immigration. jay johnson says improving improving proorve -- approving the budget is a big gill. >> at airports at ports so to just say well, we'll just make them come to work, without pay first of all is a real challenge for the working men and women of

my department. second it means furloughing at least 30,000 of our department and cutting back very significantly on our operations. our operations to pursue homeland security. >> so if a shutdown does happen, essential workers would still be on the job. that includes the secretly service tsa border protection airport security will still be in place along with the coast guard. in all about 2,000 of 200,000 will still be reporting to work. coming up. we're going to discuss whether compromise can be reached and which party has more to lose politically. but up next the latest numbers on president obama's approval ratings and new england prepares for yet another massive snow storm. we'll tell you which area will be hit the hardest. hardest.

>> more americans approve of the job president obama is doing now than just two months ago. a new poll by the associated press found 47% believe the

president is doing a good job leading the country. that number was at 41% in december. approval of mr. obama's work on the economy also jumped from 41 to 45% and just half of those surveyed say they approve of his handle on unemployment. one topic not covered in that poll closing the gender wage gap. in his last two state of the union addresses the president urged that "real money" patricia sab sab bapatricia sabga has the story. >> more than half a century later there's plenty of evidence a gender wage gap still exists says american association of university women leftie ah motz. >> in a perfect world i could say nope, it is a big lie but it

is affecting lots of women these days. >> as of 2013, the typical woman working year round in the united states earned just 78% of what a man did. but some take issue with that number including the heritage foundation answer rowena bacca. >> the are wage gap all but disappears. >> the big number does fail to capture many nuances. take education, for example. as of 2009 women one year outer of college earned on average just 82% of what their male peers earned. too blunt an analysis you say? controlled for hours worked, education, employment major and children and one-third of that gap some some 7%, still exists. the question is why? >> once you have controlled for all these other variables and

literally this is a sophisticated regression analysis it is most likely discrimination that is responsible. >> women tend to negotiate less aggressively than men if they negotiate at all. it could be a significant contributor why some women's wages lag behind their male counterparts. >> we know it could be a double edged sword for women we have very special names for aggressive women in today's culture. >> in this year's state of the union, president obama called for congress to address the gender wage gap. >> this congress still needs to pass a law to make sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work. >> the paycheck fairness act the bill designed on obama's watch has repeatedly stalled in congress. >> it is a bad bill in guise. it purports to help woman but

would make them more of a legal liability for companies. >> they canned afford to do business without women. >> and with women now the sole or primary breadwinners in 40% of u.s. households with children under 18 closing the gender wage gap will continue to be an issue not just for women but for the broader economy. patricia sabga, al jazeera, new york. >> women working full time jobs face a wage gap in every state of the union but the widest was in louisiana while new york had the smallest. new england is bracing for its third major snow storm in three weeks. officials have started lowering speed limits and closing schools for monday morning. heavy snow is expected to start falling this evening. boston's northern suburb could get as much as two feet while

maine, vermont and new hampshire are expecting up to three to civilsixinches. remember ca stevenson is here. rebecca. >> parts of ms. minnesota massachusetts up over maine and vermont. parts of new york and long island as we get overnight tonight. we are going to have difficult travel due to the snow and parts of the northeast central pennsylvania will have that ietiony mixicymix. through monday before that changes back to snow. winter warnings and advisories are out. we are planning for the icy mitigation to cause problems at airports it already is, in

fact la gard gawrd la guardia and into new england. heaviest snow massachusetts to new england. that's where you're going to total up by tuesday morning that's how long those warnings are in place all the way to tuesday morning the total will come up to 12 inches or more. the west, the rain acknowledge accommodation down very heavily we got a system that's pushing through northern california today, you could see we have an intensity of thunderstorms tracking east of san francisco right up into the mountains of california. so that very heavy rainfall easily running down and causing additional flood concerns. the total amounts of rainfall expected to be an additional three inches at its most in the storm and then it will track up to the wesh western washington and

oregon. plenty of active weather but our ice the biggest concern richelle. >> thank you rebecca. bomb threat phoned in before suspects stormed the gate and assaulted workers. they're calling it a case of domestic terrorism. >> the investigation revealed this a male suspect crashed his truck through security gate entered the compound, broke into the building and once inside attacked coast guard personnel. he was subdued and then arrested. >> officials say the victim suffered minor injuries. it is unclear what the man's chesman'smotive is or did he acted alone. dean smith hall of famer passed away last night.

he was known for breaking down racial barriers in sports. he was the first college coach the recruit black players in the 1960s and give them scholarships when the south was still segregated. dean smith was 80 years old. more than a half a 03 after martin luther king's i have a dream speech, what it means to be black in the united states today. that is at 8:30 eastern 5:30 pacific. join us about for a conversation, on twitter acknowledge @ajam #branding black. nuclear weapons for the government some are dealing with toxic waste left behind. "america tonight's" joie chen visited one of those communities, apollo, pennsylvania. >> in the allocate lit 1950s a

local steel minimum was taken over by a company contracted to build nuclear bombs. patty amino lived across the street. >> apollo once upon a time was a nice town but then this industry came in. we didn't know. >> people didn't know? >> people did not know, they didn't know, they were clueless. and communities like this. >> patty amino left home to join the navy. by the time she came back 20 years later some had begun to worry about the health risks of having a nuclear plant and its waste so close by. her father asked amino to check it out. >> you thought the government would do the right thing? >> i thought government would do the right thing. >> over the last 20 years amino has dug up 3 million documents that chronicle illness cancer

death in the valley. babcock and wilcox paid out $92 million in settlement money to about 200 residents though neither it nor the government ever admitted any link between health issues and what is buried here. >> i frankly don't believe that anybody did anything wrong. but the regulations were, as they were. so was it a good idea? i can't say. i wasn't there. >> mike helbling is the project manager for the army corps of engineers the latest organization to manage the site, now defunct atomic energy commission but in the decades since then the issue has become something of a hot potato for the nuclear regulatory system, the ns arch and a host of other federal and state agencies. the fear is that the government

would let this become a ghost town rather than deal with it. lock the gates. and leave the waste buried here, frozen in time. >> as long as i have a breath in my body, i'll continue to fight until we get justice. >> joie chen reporting there. coming up on al jazeera america the business of having babies, from gender selection to three-parent children scores the aplaysing jet lucrative field of genetic science. and why the canadian government is paying for heroin for drug addicts. addicts.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here's a look at your top of stories. a riot in jeement killed egypt killed at least 40 people today. riot broke out ahead of a

egyptian premier club match. the fighting in eastern ukraine has sparked need for a new ceasefire agreement. talks begin had minsk on monday. jordan says it has bombed 56 i.s.i.l. targets since monday. jordan has stepped up air strikes in syria and iraq since it learned i.s.i.l. burned a jordanian pilot to death. three parent babies. medical procedure could prevent dozens of children from inheriting dangerous deceases. the mother's egg is fertilized with the father's sperm in the lab, and surrounding the nuke surrounding

nucleus is mitochondria. the result a three parent baby, dna from the donor parent accounts for less than 1%. >> essentially with mitochondrial transfer, allow you to use energy wisely. but the only difference is that this is passed on to the next generation. >> britain's upper board will have to approve before it's passed. field of reproduction, john terret takes a look at the field of babies has no shortage of customers. >> it is a miracle of are science. the first test tube baby was born in 1978 and since then,

invitro fertilization has been fairly routine. that's turned what was once cutting edge science into a huge and hugely lucrative business. it's also a business that is growing quickly. worth around $9 billion a year right now and expected to grow to about 21 billion by the end of the decade. on average, would be parents pay 12,400 for a single treatment in the u.s. the high cost has spawned a medical tourism industry with couples traveling to countries like thailand and israel, where prices can be as little as one-third what they are in the u.s. now britain is trying to pass a law which would allow babies to be created from the genetic material of three people. growth adds urgency ever longer

list much details technically already possible to scan an embryo's entire genome. but made to order designer babies makes more than a few people uncomfortable. in this conflict between science, ethics and commerce, the number and complexity of customers is only likely to grow. john terret, al jazeera. >> doctor, we appreciate your time. we are clearly able to create life medically but not actually cure infertility. why not more progress in that area of just curing infertility? >> well, couples who have problems having a baby because of infertility could be having that problem because of a range of difficulties. it could be something on the male side or the female side. it could be thes ofeggs of the

woman. it could be the uterus, getting the embryo implanted. this is beginning of the science. we hope there will be much much more research done in the upcoming years oso we could help people and understand why many people are having problems having children. >> would you agree that the perception is far more often the issue is with the woman but as you mentioned sometimes it can be the man as well. >> absolutely. there is male infertility problems problems ton female side. one of the difficulties is a lot of men in a couple who can't have kids will be the wife, henry viii, if i only found the right woman and it might have been a problem on his side. >> how pervasive if this?

how many couples deal with this on a yearly basis? >> millions around the world. 10% of all couples are infertile. in the united states elsewhere and of course the number is higher than that of infertile people because a lot of women are fertile when they're 28. but they want to have a career and they suddenly wait until 38 or 40 to have children and they have difficulties. similarly you have single women single men gay couples have children so many many people around the world particularly in western countries who are looking to use these new tedges. technologies. >> this is big business. how much is made in this area? >> billions of dollars. this is a multibillion dollar industry and a multinational business. india for instance has a large business of women renting their

wumswombs. if i want to pay to carry a child it's $100,000. in india, it is a 10th of that. you have people going to other countries et cetera. >> renting wooms. what else is being discussed in scientific circles? >> if a woman is pregnant we could take blood from her arm her hand and we could look at the entire genome of the fetus. we undoubtedly would be able to find mutations that would be associated with the kid eventually having breast cancer or perhaps we'll find genes associated with risk of autism or alzheimer's. and of course many of these conditions won't affect the kid for years. we might find genes associated with intelligence or homosexuality or blond hair blue eyes and people may say i want to abort my fetus because i

don't want x be it risk of breast cancer, terrible diseases that would kill the child but there's a slippery slope and a gray area here. >> as you discuss those things it seems like there are so many things that need to be worked out, whether it's business or law or ethics, it continues to evolve. >> we just heard that great britain has approved research on the mitochondrial area, many much us think that needs to be revisited. but we have to remember, this is helping many many people who want to have kids, have kids. there are issues that we as a society need to be discussed. if there is a line to be drawn where is it drawn and who draws it. >> doctor thank you for joining

us. >> my pleasure. >> doctors are providing are addicts with the drug. allen shawferl traveled schauffler reports from british columbia. >> kevin thompson one of the city's five to 8,000 intravenous drug users. he also knows where he's getting his next fix. not on the streets but from this clinic where he does a high quality heroin injection. methadone never worked for him and repeated rehab tries failed.

>> i'm looking for a vein. when you do it, it's a big warm hug, out of bed your mortgage hugs you squeezes you and really tight. >> reporter: the patients here are considered so severely addicted giving them the drug they crave is the best and cheapest way to protect them and those around them. >> getting the free heroin, you know, it's even better. want me smashing your car or robbing, hurting you or something glrm similar programs have been run in europe for years and many studies show keeping people like kevin on an even keel not chasing discreet drugschasing streetdrugs may pay off. not everybody sees the benefit. jim o'roarke runs vision

society, abstinence based rehab for severely addicted criminals. >> is that a way to deal with them? >> bye-bye, let's give them more. >> by giving them heroine are we giving up on them? >> this is a treatment that will not -- will engage people not otherwise engaged in care. if we can't engage people in care some will die. >> kevin says getting a regular supply in a clean million medical apply has stabilized his life. >> it's been a part of my life and adjustment and i love it too much. >> 26 patients are currently receiving heroin, another 94 have been approved, but their drugs haven't arrived at the

clinic yet. >> that was allen schauffler reporting there. up next on al jazeera america australian prime minister tony abbott faces a challenge to his authority. and red light district right in the center of roam. and why some fear opening up the diplomatic doors to cuba will cause more of a divide with its people. people. >> if you feel tired, would you turn around and come back? >> our teams find out first hand how treacherous the migrants journey can be. >> we make them take a trip of death >> it is heartbreaking when you see the families on top of the rail car borderland continues only on al jazeera america

>> australian prime minister tony abbott is still in power after a confidence vote today 69 in favor 39 against. calling in question many of abbott's policies, including

granting a knight hood to britain's prince phillip. so abbott survived the confidence vote, it wasn't even close. >> well, richelle i think it was quite close. the vote was 61 to 39. these are his own parliamentary colleagues. his mps who work alongside him in parliament. his supporters said that they expected an overwhelming majority. around 80 of those that had confidence in him. the fact that 39 of his colleagues out of 100 voted saying they had no confidence, they preferred any other candidate than him suggests he's a wounded prime minister. he has fieived this survived this vote. this isn't over yet the prime minister may face a further

challenge some days or weeks down the line. this is not a resoundingsoundingsounding ambassadorsmentambassadorsment -- endorsement. >> andrew how did it get this bad? >> that's a good question. australia's economy has ticked away relatively well. china is not growing as fast as it was and australia is very reliant exporting its commodities to china. many of those commodities such as iron ore have hit the bottom. tony abbott had said when he came to power that he wanted to return the budget to surplus an absolute priority, that isn't going to happen. he also needs to get legislation through the senate and there he

doesn't have a majority. he has to rely on cross benches people from other parties to get their support. and getting coast cutting through the senate is impossible and clearly clearly australia's budget is not on track. at the same time acknowledge australia's gft government is gas-prone. over the mh-17 disaster, he was going to shirt-front vladimir putin, he was actually not going to shirt-front vladimir putin. that phrase raised ridicule. he ordered a knight hood to prince phillip of britain. this is supposed to be an award to top australians to award one from the queen's husband is out of step. tony abbott those sorts of things in the background aren't

helping him. not doing well in opinion polls. they suggest opposition labor party is likely to win majority. polling showing that situation is getting worse. he's also not seen as a very collegiate or collaborative prime minister. colleagues feeling left out of the loop. a strange place to be. they could get rid of him even if this time he has survived. >> tony abbott is not out of the woods. thank you andrew thomas. red light district still a few miles from the vatican. goal would be to establish a safe zone for sex workers and to encourage them to stay in one area. under the plan, certain streets in downtown rome would be designated part of this red light district. supposed to enter a trial period in april. opening diplomatic doors between

u.s. and cuba would come at a cost. it may deepen the dive from its people. as al jazeera america correspondent david arioso reports. it's caused a deep division. >> for restaurant owners in cuba, this is the picture of progress. live music free flowing rum and high class of clientele who are not just foreigners. in this area of havana cubans also dine and drink. and dealing with notions of rich and poor a new and historic shift in u.s. policy could dean.deepen the divide. this is one of the top private restaurants in havana and it's really just amazing you could see it like this.

only a couple of years ago it was a brick wall shrouding this. it was a secret enclave for dignitaries and traveling foreigners. now you could see showcasing what they have, emblam emblem attic. atatic.inside a dish that cost $22 equivalent of two months salary. a generation that has been off limits to most cubans. but the island's emerging priervet sector has left -- private sector has left customers like these with a little more cash to spend. but drive just 15 minutes down the road to old havana and the story is much different. for many of those who live here and still depend on compensation from the government, the

opportunities are grim. >> translator: we're in the lower class. you understand? the middle class has much more opportunity to get involved in the tourism here. from the outside everything is normal but on the inside there are social differences here. >> reporter: on the bottom rung are those like alberto who earns about $20 a month sweeping floors in a nearby hospital. his family which includes everyone from alberto's 92-year-old mother to his one-year-old daughter rely on the government paycheck to survive and his new u.s. investment pours into the island. cuban communism could be entering a new era of haves and have nots. a market that fidel castro wanted to avoid. major infusion of american financing and remit answers.tances. that could do what no other

administration has managed to accomplish in more than half ocentury. transform cuban communism. david arioso havana, cuba. >> another setback for spacex. we'll have details in we come back and gold rush, why miners are drilling deep into the ocean floor. also. >> you start to get too tired or let the demons in your brain overreact and people start misjudging. >> so many sign up for this brutal trek across the frozen tundra. tundra.

>> the many anticipated spacex launch was scrubbed today due to a tracking error.

an unmanned falcon 9 rocket was set to launch today at cape canaveral. the ultimate aim for spacex is to monitor million miles away in space that could disrupt our lives on earth. there is a new gold rush happening deep under the ocean. sciencescientists say they believe precious met's exist there. phil torresing reports. >> there are people who are interested in harvesting the resources at the bottom of the sea floor. how can economics assure that that is done responsibly? >> it is absolutely essential to have academia monitor industry does want to do their work in an environmentally conscious method because the result of not doing it that way are huge fines.

and which cut into their profits. >> it was the discovery of hydrothermal vents that gained the interest of privately mining companies, similar to hot springs on land it's where hot temperatures quickly cool forcing a chemical reaction between sea water and rocks forcing copper anding zing to form mineral deposits on the sea floor. >> the discovery of hydrothermal vents was liberating. thisreliance,. >> two worms and white giant crabs that thrive about this hostile environment in complete darkness. as part of this scientific mission i had the opportunity to investigate these hydrotherm am vents firsthand by diving 10,000

feet under the sea board alvin a small submarine run by the woods hole oceanographic institution. alvin has been in service since the 1960s and became an international superstar when it dove on atlantic and brought pictures of the sunken ocean liner to individuals for the first time. diving to the ocean floor in alvin in my experience it is the tip of a lifetime. you can follow the entire scientific mission we engaged in and find out firsthand how scientists are planning to mine the ocean floor at 5:30 eastern 2:30 pacific. >> temperatures 40° below zero, for the yukon arctic race.

it can go up to 430 miles through flowy wilderness. andrew lack shows us how competitors prepare. >> minus 30° 30° celsius. training in waterfront park. in the early 20s they are very fit and regularly run marathons and triathalons. >> we are holding hands and enjoying the romantics of the trail. minus 40, and snuggling up in a sleeping bag. >> i'm starting to be scared a little bit but actually looking forward to it as well, yeah, it will be a nice experience. >> that's your house? >> yes. >> if sleds they drag carry food shelter and safety gear to help them survive unimaginable

extremes of cold. >> i know if my head would led me down, i could be, you know, if your head leads let's you down there's no way to keep going. >> as we head norts the wind is blowing in our face. >> shelly teaches the mandatory survival clinic. discussing fears and the burden of being alone at night in deep winter. >> it's not going to be your fitness that takes you out of the race, but something else. you make a poor decision or you start to get too tired or you start to let the demons in your brain overreact and people start misjudging. >> it is a race yes. but safety is everything. that's why organizers make sure people have all the right equipment and put first timers through mandatory cold weather training. a final test outdoors before the race begins. first timers lighting stoves, pitching tents and make a fire.

all the things they'll spend the next week or more having to do to stay alive. they'll call satellite devices as well to call for a rescue but the key is to be self-sufficient so they won't have to. >> primary for their safety, and as crew out there i want to be able to say that the people out there can handle themselves and don't have to risk anybody's life rescuing somebody who did something foolish or wrong. >> this is what it came down to, surviving the long dark arctic nights somehow. this is truly one of the coldest and toughest athletic events in the world. daniel lak lack, near white horse the yukon. >> healthy partying habit? yes carnivale in buenos aires

attended today's march demonstrating that, wait for it, you can have joy without a hangover! thanks for watching. i'm richelle carey. the news continues now with my colleague thomentd. >> i'm thomas drayton, and i'll get you caught up on the top stories. dozens are killed in egypt, in cairo outside a stadium no more extensions as iran's nuclear programme and stalled negotiations take center stage on the last day of the munich summit jordan pounds i.s.i.l. targets for the third day in a row. the aim is to wipe the group from the map. in "the week ahead" - we kick off our series "race in america" what it means to be black in