star. both his parents were killed by the hiv virus, and he grew up in a shack. now he ride with a professional riding team. from the school bus he goes to the home that he shares with his grand mother. his mother tied when he was a child. >> there is lots of violence. that that's why i chose to be at the academy. it takes me away. >> last year he was stabbed in the back by a gang member who thought he was someoneless. he feels much safer on a bike training with friends who all have the same dream. the academy kids say that they're dormed that life's obstacles will not ruin their futures.

al jazeera. >> ahead of tomorrow's big winner take all contest. >> the only plan b available is return to war. >> the opposition in government arrive for another round of indirect talks to end syria's war. [ sirens ] >> a car bomb kills three dozen people. now the government is going after those who they say were responsible. officials in louisiana say they're experiencing the worst non-hurricane related flooding that the state has ever seen.

>> presidential candidates are out in full force campaigning ahead of another crucial tuesday in the race against th for the white house. tomorrow florida and ohio with huge delegate counts, this is al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. governor john kasich from ohio is campaigning in hopes to secure the delegates there. former governor mitt romney who spoke out against donald trump is backing kasich. it's the first time that romney has campaigned on behalf of a republican candidate this election season. roxana saberi, tell us why ohio is so important. richelle on the democrat side 143 delegates are up for grabs and we're looking to see if they'l saunders will beat

clinton. and it's a small margin. this is the only large state this week holding a primary where it seems lining donald trump is vulnerable. a new poll shows that donald trump and john kasich are tied for first place at 38%. if kasich wins here in ohio, it will make it harder for donald trump to secure the republican nomination before the convention is held here in july. if he loses, kasich said that he'll drop out of the race. >> so the impact of romney now on the campaign trail, tell us more about that. >> well, romney is not expected to endorse john kasich for the nomination. but he is--this is the first time that he's campaigning along side republican nominee in this cycle. will it make a difference? let's go back to 2012 when the republican primaries were held here in ohio, and mitt romney

was running. he did win the primary, but when it came time for the general election he lost to president obama. >> let's talk more about columbus. the democrats discuss their strategies against donald trump. what are they? >> well, many accused donald trump of inciting violence and that he has created an atmosphere that led to the clashes in chicago. hillary clinton calls trump bigoted, and sanders called him a pathological liar and both claim to be better candidates to beat donald trump in november. >> i'm the only candidate who has gotten more votes than trump. i have 6,000 more votes than donald trump. [applause] and i am building a broad-based, inclusive campaign that i think is the best way to defeat him,

by convincing people that this is really the highest stakes elections they've ever been involved in. >> and he can be exposed at many, many levels. not the least of which, this is a guy who is a billionaire but does not believe that we should raise the minimum wage above $7.07 an hour. this is a guy who believes that climate change is a hoax. >> surveys suggest, richelle, that bernie sanders is trailing hillary clinton in ohio by double digits. voting begins tomorrow morning at 6:30. >> all right, that's roxana saberi on the campaign trail in cleveland. thank you. let's go now to robert ray, who is live for us in ol' where do the republicans stand in the republican race in florida right now? >> well, you know that donald trump has the lead, and a brand

new poll out in, and it shows that trump has a significant number. ted cruz at a low 14 and governor of ohio john kasich 10%, pretty much not registering. this is different from the cbs poll that came out yesterday that had senator marco rubio in third, cruz in second and trump still in the lead. but clearly marco rubio's game to lose here. i think he's quite nervous. that's why he's spending so much time in the state and getting volunteers out there getting the word out that he's the best kind. he seems optimistic but still frustrated with the leader donald trump. let's listen. >> i will campaign as long and as hard as it takes. we're going to the white house. we're going to win this

nomination. [ cheering ] >> yes, marco rubio trying to be as knowledgized as he possibly can. last year he spoke to volunteers and said we're still in this game. we still have a chance to win florida. don't listen to the polls. we'll talk to the t. on the second super tuesday tomorrow when all these numbers come out. but right now trump in the lead. >> let's talk about the democratic side. many expect. >> well, hillary clinton has a lot of foot on the ground in florida. she's likely to get the hispanic vote. there are 4 million hispanics alone and most likely the women's vote here in, with

bernie sanders trailing halfway hyped, so it looks like hillary clinton will grab the delegates in this important state of florida tomorrow. but the real flight is this g.o.p. race with trump, rubio, cruz and kasich. kasich not even coming to the state. he's in the home state of ohio, but rubio putting out the full court press today and into the tomorrow. richelle? >> all right, robert ray thank you. a reporter has resign over the company's response to her claim donachie' donald trump's campaign manager assaulted her. she wrote that she can't stand by a yo an organization that can't stand by her. the campaign manager grabbed her arms so hard that she bruised. the campaign are denouncing her

allegations. >> one day before illinois voters headed to the polls, the first round of layoffs began at this plant in chicago. >> i have a daughter in college. and we have to scramble to figure out what we're going to do. >> nabisco's parent are moving half the plant's 1200 jobs to mexico rather than renovate this 60-year-old facility. the move is drawing fire from presidential candidates on the left and right. >> when a company decides to leave like ma busines--nabisco is leaving, and they've gotten tax benefits to stay there, i'm going to claw back those benefits. >> you have to stop it, folks. i know how to stop it. >> the economy is front and center for mai many illinois

voters this election year. the unemployment is 6-point%. higher than the national rate and higher than other surrounding states in th area. president and ceo said cheap labor in china has siphoned some of his business, but he said an even bigger problem for him is the high cost of doing business in illinois. he says while the state struggles under a massive $6 billion budget deficit his income taxes, property taxes and workers compensation costs have all increased. he said that makes it tough for him to consider adding workers to create badly needed jobs. >> if i could move my business i would move it tomorrow but it will take $1.5 million to move a factory this size. >> but that's what some companies are doing.

>> this building is only 30 minute drive. >> two years ago thi they moved the family's 35-year-old company from the chicago suburbs to east chicago, indiana. 270 jobs went with it. $15million in incentives and more favorable business climate sealed the deal. >> we did everything we could to stay there, but it just didn't make sense for us to do it. >> michael lucci from the non-profit illinois institute fear that more manufacturers will leave if illinois does not balance it's budget and create reforms. but he also i thinks that washington to create a more even playing field. >> we've always been the most innovative country in the world. but let's make it that businesses can hire, grow and expand here. >> voters in illinois will support the candidates who they believe offer a solution to the state's sluggish commie.

diane estherbrook, chicago. >> and stay with us for continuing coverage of tuesday's primaries. we'll bring you complete results beginning 7:00 p.m. eastern. the justice department wants to put an end of jailing those with unpaid fines. the report found that residents were locked up if they didn't pay fees. the civil rights say that it happens in local courts across the country. flooding in louisiana has now been formerly declared a major disaster and has left three people dead and thousands of homes damaged. a louisiana international guard said that it's the worst non-hurricane flooding the state has ever seen. on sunday president obama signed a disaster declaration to bring federal aid to victims. nicole mitchell has more on the

wet weather and what we can expect going forward. >> the good news to the flooding, the moisture lifts off. but there is so much moisture already that it will take especially the rivers a few days to get back to normal if not longer. in the meantime most of this mice tour ha moisture has moved to the great lakes in the northeast. there is widespread moisture including on the northern side. now this clears out in the day and a lot of moisture from the great lakes and through the mid-atlantic northamption ward. i mentioned the snowy side of this anywhere from northern vermont to maine we could see a mix of rain and sleet and maybe up to an inch of snow.

as i mentioned there are cooler temperatures in the northeast with all that moisture. new york's 48. and warning temperatures that will continue to go down through the rest of these afternoon hours. a lot of warm air in the midsection of the country and we're cooler to the west because of the moisture we've had here. that playings california over the weekend. we're start to go dry out a little bit. all that have moisture is moving interior and could cause more snow for higher elevations. >> more than two dozen people are recovery from an amtrak train collision overnight. five cars came off the track in kansas. it is unclear what caused that derailment. there were 128 passengers on board at the time. injuries were not life-threatening. two suspect are in custody after a police officer was shot dead in subur suburban

washington, d.c. he died in a shootout in maryland. the officer was four days shy of his 29th birthday. the police say the attack was unprovoked. the witness said that the gunman was pacing outside of the station and just started firing. the fbi is helping to investigate. up next a virginia man fighting for isil is captured in iraq. also in syria, hoping to build on a fragile truce, how bashar al-assad's fate may have an potential impact on a deal for peace.

>> a man has been detain who is super virginia. he was picked up in northern iraq. he told officers he was a former isil fighter and wanted to turn himself in. state department officials tell al jazeera they're working to confirm those reports. in geneva a new round of

talks to try to end the war in syria. diplomats are hoping to reduce the violence during truce. they hope all sides are really to layout a road map for syria's future. as diplomatic editor james bays reports said that talks are off to a smooth start. >> he said that they'd had an useful meeting bot, they said it was an useful meeting but then talked about what had a happened in the meeting. it was mainly procedural issues that they had been discussing. now this is understandable in a big diplomatic gathering like this. you're going to talk about the procedure, a word they like to use here, the modalities of going forward and that's the way you're going to do things. but i do think that it raises some suspicions. the main government negotiator was the government negotiator just a few weeks ago when people were here when the talks barely

got started because of an increased and bombardment of russian allies and he was the chief negotiator two years ago when they never got beyond the agenda in argument over what order they would discuss things in. this has clearly been in the pass the syrian government tactic to argue about the agenda and never get down to the substance he said he wants to get very quickly to the substance and he wants to get to the mother of all issues, which is political transition. that, of course, takes you to who is going to lead syria to new elections in 18 month's time and whether assad could be part of that or not. >> james bays in geneva there. secretary of state john kerry said that all sides must work together. and a new report from unicef is shedding new light on the toll

that syria's war has taken. one-third of syrian children have only known war their entire lives. >> so today there are about 10 martin luther king children in syria and in the region and there is almost one-third of these children one in three children who are under five years old. what does it mean? it means that one in three children in the region today, one in three syrian children have known only war. have known only bombing, and only known fear, displacement and depravation. this is a situation getting worse and worse for children in that region. >> unicef adds an 8.4 children are in urgent need of humanitarian need in syria or neighboring country. officials in turkey say they've arrested 11 suspects tied to a suicide attack. a car bomb exploded in a major transportation hub in ankara. 37 people were killed, dozens

more hurt. today turkish police carried out raids in the south detaining suspected kurdish fighters they believe helped to carry out the attack. we have more from ankara. >> the second car bomb to hit the heart of turkey's capital in less than a month. the blast ripped through the square, a densely populated transport hub when early evening crowds had gathered and the aftermath was chaotic. there was a woman sitting behind me. her seat just blue away. something hit me here. there was a car. i believe it was a black car. five or six people died. somebody speared me through here and i have one in my arm. >> in february 29 people mainly military personnel were killed in a suicide car bomb attack claimed by a group calling itself the freedom falcons. as a result the country had been on a heightened state of alert.

>> tight security measures were taken. instructions were given. terrorist attacks cannot be prevented 100% in any country. >> turkey is now facing multiple security threats as it is engaged in a war on two fronts. now, with the fighting still to come the country worries and waits as concerns about the overall security situation in turkey grows. al jazeera. >> palestinian teachers being recognized as the best teacher in the world for promoting peace through play. >> in the occupied west bank they gathered to watch the ceremony for this year's global teacher prize. when the winner is announced a few thousand kilometers away,

celebrations broke out. an educator from ramallah accepted the prize as a win for all teachers. >> you are the power. you are the true power. believe in your ideas. work on them. challenge the world. convince people of your ideas so you can spread them and you will find yourself here. >> she grew up in a refugee camp in bethlehem. she has written about this approach in a book entitled "we play and learn." she received honors from her colleagues and the palestinian minister of education. >> this is a victory for explain which adds the palestinian flag on the international map of knowledge. >> the award from the foundation comes with a $1 million prize. she said she'll use some of the money to promote her educational efforts and to support her fellow teachers in the palestinian territory.

al jazeera. >> when al jazeera america returns, the world famous iditarod is marred by a drunk driver. and grocery shopping with your smart phone. a v swedea supermarket in sweden has no employees.

al jazeera america. >> facebook's ban on private gun sells is not stopping owners from selling on the site. six week ago the company announced companies ma may no longer sell on facebook. they post images of their guns and buyers september private messages to make a deal. the author of the deal explain

why it's challenging for facebook to crackdown on gun sales. >> the problem for facebook is that it doesn't know what users don't tell them. in other words, facebook doesn't have a team of people going out to try and find examples of these sales taking place. they only know about them if users notify them. and the issue with that, and the challenge is that there is no incentive for a gun owner or gun enthusiast in one of these groups to report to facebook what is happening in their groups. there really no active enforcement of it. it's only when they have been made aware of a specific gun sale that they will take action. >> facebook has not commented publicly but some anti-gun groups say they may approach organizations to find out how to better enforce the rules. a the police say that a man intentionally drove a snowmobile into two dog teams in the ey

iditarod race. >> he had competed a nice of drinking when he smashed a sho snowmobile into two dog teams. one of the dogs were killed and two others were injured. >> just so sorry that this had to happen to him. >> we wanted to come down and give jeff our condolences. it was very tragic of what happened. we're all in shock. >> something like this kind of affected the whole community. >> the associated press reported that he claimed not to remember the incident, but a state police spokesman said that the snowmobile driver turned around several times appearing to speed up against the second drivers' sled. >> i turned around because i was concerned about them.

>> one of her dogs was injured in the crash. >> it's really depressing and it makes me really emotional. i really don't want to talk about it because i keep going back to it in my head. >> he's being held on suspicion of assault and reckless driving among other criminal offenses. the iditarod will continue for another week or so, and both races said they're committed to seeing their teams through. >> a business owner in sweden has opened the country's first unmanned convenience store. customers use a phone app to open the door and when they have the items they want, they scan the items in the store. he was inspired when one late night he needed baby food and had to drive 20 minutes to the nearest shop. his employee-less shop is open 24/7, and in case you're thinking about stealing there are security cameras on 24 hours a day.

i like that. keep it right here live on al jazeera. he. >> this is a moavment of truth.d of talks in geneva to try to end the conflict in syria. hello there i'm julie mcdonald, this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. refugees stranded in greece wade a flowing river in a desperate attempt to reach macedonia. an al qaeda group says it carried out the attack on the ivory coast. we are in hong kong where