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>> they are due to receive their awards in the norwegian capitol, oslo. that will happen next month. month. >> repairing relations, president obama welcomes israel's prime minister to the white house. the iranian tension still hanging over those talks. >> calling for change, students an faculty at the university of missouri getting ready to walk out of classes, as they demand the school's president step down. >> facing a judge, two louisiana police officers are due in court in connection with the shooting death of a 6-year-old.
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this is aljazeera america live in new york city, i'm del walters. we are tracking a developing story coming out of jordan this morning opinion three people, including two americans were shot and killed by a jordanian police officer, opening fire inside a training center near amman. that center is used to train security forces. al jazeera has more from amman. after a jordanian officer reportedly opened fire inside a training center in amman. a south african was also killed before the gunman took his own life.
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he was killed after the attack by jordanian security forces, although we have heard other reports suggesting that he shot himself and committed suicide following the attack. now these instructors, the foreign instructors are contracted by the jordanian public security department to train jordanian policemen, as well as other arab police forces in the region. jordan is known to have a strong army and police force, and is also a safe country, so this training center is also used as a hub for countries to train with u.s. funds. these trainers, the foreign trainers, including the americans were in jordan to train from what we understand from officials around 116 palestinian policemen and as well 16 lebanese policemen. the state department saying they are looking into the reports and working with jordanian authorities. the pentagon telling aljazeera america none killed were members of the u.s. military. >> israel's prime benjamin netanyahu is in washington this morning. he'll be at the white house for
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his first face-to-face meeting with president obama in more than a year. the conversation could be contentious. netanyahu expected to asked president for more military aid. that request comes amid increasing violence between israelis and palestinians. this morning, a palestinian woman was shot and killed in the west bank, officials saying she tried to kill israeli security forces. libby casey is in washington d.c. are the president and the prime minister expected to say eye to eye on any issues? >> they hope to find some common ground or at least thaw out the tension between these two world leaders. it may have been more than a year since they met, but prime minister netanyahu has been in the united states back in the spring. he addressed a joint session of congress. he accept that had invitation without even notification the white house and during that visit, he did not meet with president obama. the white house didn't extend an invitation. that was really a low point in
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that the prime minister's purpose was to rally against the iran nuclear deal. well, that has gone through, so his attempt to get congress to really push back hard failed. now, these two leaders have to come together and it's an opportunity to try to make some amends here. the prime minister will be pushing the united states for more military funding. right now, israel gets $3.1 billion a year. they would like to see more over a 10 year period. now, the white house for its part also has some political hopes from this meeting. president obama has gotten some flak from democrats for not having a better relationship with the prime minister, because democrats want to make sure that they do have a solid pro israel relationship or perception going forward especially as they prop for the 2000 syncom pain. >> the peace process or some say lack thereof, any chance of jump
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starting peace talks between israel and the palestinians? >> white house officials admit at this point that they do not really hold out hopes that a peace deal will be reached during the remainder of president obama's time in office, january, 2017. they would still like to see some movement. one thing they hope to get from prime minister netanyahu is a commitment for a two-state solution. last spring, he walked that back as he was in the midst of a campaign season. he has said he does still support a two-state solution, but the white house would like a firmer commitment. right now, it's especially critical not just because they will be watched closely in this meeting today, but also because of recent violence in the region. >> libby casey, thank you very much. >> as soon as this week, the pentagon accounted issue a plan to close the u.s. military
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center at guantanamo bay, officials telling the associated press they plan naming seven sites in the u.s. as possible alternatives, including the centennial prison in colorado. moving them requires congressional approval, which lawmakers say is unlikely. the university of ms. ms. good morning board is meeting to address growing calls for the university president to resign. graduate students and faculty members threaten to walk out and the football team won't play unless the president quits. >> we all made this decision as a team no not talk to the media. you're not going to hear much from the players. >> african-american students accusing the president of the school of failing to respond effectively to several i wants on campus of racism. paul beban has more. >> protests aren't usually part of the college football
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playbook, but racial tensions on the campus of the university of missouri may put football season on hold. the team says they are refusing to take the field in a show of solidarity with the graduate student on a hunger strike. saturday night, the school's black student government tweeted a picture of black players linked arm-in-arm with jonathan butler. he said he's willing to die unless university president tim wolfe resigns. he has been under fire for a tepid response to a string of incidents on campus, included racial slurs at black students and a swastika in feces on a wall. dorm bathroom wall. >> we've had lots of conversations, including conversation with protestors where they came in and they asked questions and i expressed my position. >> i don't care what you're doing. i want you to move. we're standing in solidarity with jonathan butler. i'm not here for a press conference. i want you resigned.
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i need to you leave. >> on thrsday night, when wolfe spoke with students again, he was shouted down. >> is this because you don't believe you have the equal opportunity for success? >> back in october, butler led a protest that stopped the school's homecoming parade. on thursday, butler told the washington post that he was exhausted and had pain all over, but that his suffering was worth it. the campus in columbia has been on edge since the shooting of michael brown in ferguson, just over 100 miles from the school. a number of the black students enrolled are from ferguson, a predominantly black community. columbia is predominantly white. on sunday, the football coach declared his support for his team, a photo on twitter showing players black and white is captioned "we are united." paul beban, al jazeera.
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>> missouri playing brigham young on saturday, if the players decide to strike and the game canceled, it would cost the school more than a million dollars. >> myanmar celebrating a landslide victory. the party headed by aung san suu kyi has won all but one seat in parliament. military incumbents promises they will accept those results. they have been in rule since 2011. >> the team investigating the crash of that russian plane over egypt seems to be more convinced that it was a bomb that downed the plane. one team member telling reuters he is 90% certain of it. the noise heard in the final second of the cockpit recording appeared to be an explosion. they say the plane appeared to have broken up in midair while it was being flown on auto pilot. all 224 onboard were killed. >> the jet taking off from sharm el-sheikh, new report shows several security gaps in the
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airport. the associated press told the airport has a broken baggage scanner and lacks passenger screening. officials say bags filled with drugs or weapons were allowed through for a small bribe. the season's latest tropical storm is headed to the bahamas. kate has winds of 40 miles an hour. it is the seventh named storm of the atlantic hurricane season, which ends this month. >> yemen is dealing now with it's second deadly cyclone in a week hitting the coast with winds of 127 miles an hour. two were killed, another psych loan last week killing nine people. getting ready to say goodbye to a little boy shot and killed by police. the officers responsible are getting ready to face a judge. >> mill len yells marching on washington. what they want to see happen in national politics.
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>> two louisiana stated police officers will face a judge this morning, charged with second degree murder in connection with the death of a 6-year-old boy. the funeral for that little boy being held this afternoon and there are a lot of questions surrounding his death. al jazeera's jonathan martin is live for us in new orleans this morning. what have police said led up to the shootings? >> good morning, it's been five days and police still really don't know answers to some of the big questions first, though, why these officers began chase on this s.u.v. they want to know why the officers opened fire on the vehicle. so far, police have told us that these two officers have not been cooperative, have not given a
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lot of information information to investigators. it is body camera from a third officer responding to the scene is the key information so far in making these arrests, police say. >> louisiana state police moved quickly to arrested two police officers for killing a little boy and wounding his father. investigators say 6-year-old jeremy was strapped in the front seat, his father christopher pugh at the we'll of the s.u.v. in a police chase tuesday night. jeremy was killed, his father wounded and the two officers opened fire on a dead end street in louisiana. >> both those individuals will be booked on one count of second degree murder and one count of attempted second degree murder. >> initially, grown house and stafford were placed on leave while police poured over 911 calls, conducted eyewitness interviews and reviewed the
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crime scene. >> we took body camera footage. i'm not going to talk about it, but i'm going to tell you this, it is the most disturbing thing i've seen. >> police have not explained why greenhouse and stafford were accusing pugh. initial reports that police were trying to serve a warrant turned out to be false. authorities say hugh had no outstanding warrants. >> i don't know what he was thinking. he didn't do nothing wrong. >> nothing is more important than this badge we're wearing. that badge has been foreign issued. >> state police say pugh was unarmed. >> the 6-year-old is being laid to rest today in mississippi. meanwhile, his father is still in the hospital. he is in the hospital in serious condition at this point. >> jonathan, who are officials there talking to as part of the
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investigation? there are conflicting reports from people who witnessed the shooting. some saw the vehicle back in toward officers, others say that was not the case. the officers, they want to speak with the two officers charged. they haven't been cooperative. we could learn more in court today. the father is still heavily sedated in the hospital with gunshot wounds to his lung and head. he is not able to speak to investigators. hopefully they'll find out more from him when he is better. this is a massive manhunt underway in texas for whoever shot a judge sitting in her driveway. the 51-year-old judge wounded friday night outside her home in austin was seriously injured, but is expected to survive. police say it's not clear whether the shooting was related to her work as a district judge in travis county. >> i would love to report that we had somebody in custody and
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that i could eliminate those concerns. the truth is that at this point, we don't have somebody in custody. >> the judge is a former prosecutor appointed to the bench in 1999 by govern george w. bush. >> today, the republican presidential hope was are gearing up for their fourth debate in milwaukee tomorrow. low polling numbers knocking chris christie and mike huckabee beoff the main strange. dr. ben carson is pushing back against claims that he embellished his life story, saying the media is paying extra attention to him trying to knock him out of the race. >> there is no question i'm getting special scrutiny, because, you know, there are a lot of people very threatened and they've seen the recent head-to-head polling against hillary and how well i do and they're worried. >> carson's closest rival donald trump helping "saturday night live" achieve highest ratings in
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four years. protestors marched outside the studio over trump's stance on immigration. >> senator bernie sanders said the race needs to be more about the positions of candidates and less about their personal lives. >> i think it might be a better idea, i know it's a crazy idea, but maybe we focus on the issues impacting the american people and what candidates are saying rather than just spending so much time exploring their lives that 30 or 40 years ago. the reason so many people are turned off to the political process i that i has a lot to do that we are not talking about the real issues impacting real people. >> amanda covers politics for the huffington post and explained why senator sanders wants to talk about the issues. bernie sanders has wanted to focus on issues.
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if you look at what he talks, he doesn't even talk about his own biography much, it's more about the issues like income and equality that he finds are most important. focusing on issues is problematic for ben carson that are wacky about green storage facilities and on other issues, he really hasn't put out any positions. if you do that, as well, focusing on issues for ben carson would be problematic. >> you write books, layout facts and when you run for president, people are going to look into them especially when you are a candidate like ben carson, whose entire run is basically based on entire rise from poverty to be this famed neurosurgeon. if you look at what john kerry had to go through, he had to defend the fact that he was in vietnam and earned a purple heart. these questions are completely
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natural, but ben carson blaming the media is what conservatives like to do and what the base likes. >> millions of millennials are coming of able in trial to cast their ballots in next year's presidential election, hundreds walking out of class today to march to washington, d.c. they want politicians on both sides of the aisle to help move the country forward. >> a new generation of voters are descending on the nation's capital to demand their voices be heard. here is a youth collection called our generation, our choice. these are students who have come today because they demand change on race, on immigration and on climate change. they are not just going to tweet or snap chat. they're going to march to the white thousand in an act of civil dice obedience because they say lawmakers need to hear them so they have proactive solutions to all these problems they say are intimately
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interconnected. >> the representatives aren't representing the people who voted them in so we are taking action to get them to follow our lead instead of following the lead of the corporations and big money they actually represent. >> the millenials are not the social media obsessed group of people, that we are very much aware of the issues that are plaguing our country, plaguing the world that we live in and that we are determined to make a change and the only way that we can actually see change is if we implement it ourselves. >> you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern here on aljazeera america. >> we're getting a new sense today of the effects of claims change, the united nations saying greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hitting an all time high last year. climate change is found to have pushed more than 100 million people in extreme poverty over the next 15 years. they say that's because of the predicted decline in crop production. >> a cool or cold approach to
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>> an vehicles underway in mississippi, the ground caving outside an i hop in meridian east of jackson. it swallowed up more than a dozen cars. witnesses heard a loud boom before the hole opened up. 15 feet wide, 50 feet--600 feet long, amazingly there were no reports of injuries. some of the cars didn't fare too well. >> authorities in nevada investigating a fatal case of cryotherapy, the treatment that uses extreme cold to relieve pain. hermela aregawi found not everyone agrees the therapy works.
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it's the latest trend between health and beauty. a growing number of cryotherapy centers in the united states claim their service does offer medical benefits, claiming it boosts energy, relieves pain, can jump start weight loss and even help with depression. >> there is nothing in the literature to show it helps with depression. >> the concept of using cold for injuries is centuries old. athletes have long used ice to help their muscles recover, but whole body cryotherapy isn't something you can do at home. clients pay $50 to $100 to step into a chamber and freeze for three minutes. it is pumped with liquid nitrogen, cooled down to negative 240 degrees fahrenheit. the machines aren't approved by the f.d.a. the agency said the f.d.a. regulates whole body cryotherapy when the manufacture promotes the device for medical purpose claims.
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centers across the u.s. certainly do market the procedure's medical benefits, and they're the ones who have direct access to the public. the f.d.a. told us it can take action against the centers, as well, but couldn't confirm whether it was currently conducting any investigations. >> is it fair to say there's pretty much no regulation? >> it is absolutely, there is no regulation. >> that's been the reality so far. a recent death in nevada is calling this into question. 24-year-old chelsea, who worked at a las vegas cryotherapy center was found dead in a chamber. she may have been doing a cryotherapy session by herself. the state of nevada has now expanded the inquiry into the industry. the center employees insist it's safe, as long as clients are healthy and supervised. i went to cryo life in new york city to experience the therapy for myself. >> you're going to feel pins and
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needles all over your legs. >> it was like standing inside an air conditioner. i did start to feel my toes getting numb, so i did the minimum minute and a half. i can't say that i noticed a difference, but many cryotherapy enthusiasts across the country insists its benefits are real. >> your body feels invigorating, the energy just flows. it's tingling and wonderful. >> a feeling they say is enough to keep them going back. hermela aregawi, al jazeera, new york. >> big changes could be on the horizon for school buses, requiring seatbelts on buses across the country. the federal government, state school districts and bus manufacturers need to work together to make it happen. there are six states that require seatbelts on buses. outfitting the bus us could cost
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$2.5 billion. >> it was called the most important beatle guitar ever to hit the auction blocks. this morning it's the most expensive. john lennons guitar selling for $2.4 million, four times what auctioneers thought it would fetch. it was used in hits like i want to hold your hand and she loves you. it disappeared after a concert in 1963. the new owner wants to be anonymous. part of the auction proceeds going to a charity that was founded by lennon and his widow, yoko ono. >> the news continues live from doha next. you can always check us out by going to aljazeera.com where we'll have the very latest on the shooting of those two u.s. personnel in jordan. stay with us.
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