we have been shunned for saying no to the cut. >> reporter: f g.m.is illegal, but age-old traditions take precedent over the law. girls as young as two have it done. because she hasn't, some adults occurs her. saying that she is impure and dirt dirty. >> we don't really talk about it between us. >> reporter: charitiess organized village for ums, getting to speak out against the practice. they explain these have nothing to do with islam. local artists say to denounce those saying the health consequences the procedure has. despite all these efforts, the practice continues. it takes place away from town deep in the countryside. >> reporter: we're on our way to meet a woman that continues to circumcise young girls. she has been doing it for the last 20 years. she knows it illegal but parents continue to bring their daughters to her to get the procedure done. she receives two bars of soap, 6 kilos of rise, a chicken and $3 in payment for each cut. >> translation: this is our job. this is the only way to support our families. >> reporter: it is the mothers

we don't want anything that says that g.m. is scary or g.m. is bad. and i pointed out there are advantages of genetic modifications and there are disadvantages. i agree there, too. let's not put a mark on a package that's pejorative. and the industry says we don't want anything on the front of the package. it takes up space. it may suggest that there's something scary about this if you're putting it on the front of the package. okay, fair enough. let's not put it on the front of the package. i completely accept that point. and then the industry says there are several different ways we could do this. we'd like flexibility. absolutely. let's have flexibility. so i've put together a bill which hits all these key points that the food industry has raised. it is a a-state solution -- it is a 50-state solution. there is nothing on the front of the package. there is nothing that's pejorative and it gives the type of flexibility that the industry has talked about. they're allowed under the bill i've put forward to proceed to put initials behind an ingredient i

in was hard for people to accept that we said no to the cut >> reporter: f g.m. is illegal, but age-old traditions take precedent over the law. girls as young as two have it done. because she hasn't, some adults curse her saying she is impure and dirty. >> i know who has it done, but we don't really talk about it between us. >> reporter: charity form ums getting leaders, mothers to speak out against the practice. it is explained that they have nothing to do with islam. it encourages young girls to denounce those who continue to mutilate the young girls explaining the health procedures. despite all these efforts, the practice continues. it takes place away from town deep in the countryside. >> reporter: we're on our way to meet a woman that continues to circumcise young girls. she has done it for 30 years. she knows it is illegal but people continue to bring their daughters to her to get the procedure done. >> reporter: for each cut she receives two bars of soap, six kilos of rise, a chicken and three dollars in payment. >> translation: it's not just tradition. it

jeanette: and we were told earlier this morning, this is the g.m. and he headed down to assess the situation himself nerd, it couldn't have delays day in and day out. as far as details on what caused this, we're expectingabc jummy: thank you. major delays to tell you about for drivers in anne arundel county. a tanker truck carrying 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel overturned between route 3 and 197 south and route 175. the driver was rushed to the hospital with what we're told are serious injuries. hazmat crews are on scene to maintain the spill and clean it up and no word on when the road will be reopened. jamie sullivan has a look at how all of this is impacting so much going on out there.jean repairs. the ng from reston to boston. expect delays. down barlow road with the investigation between matthew henson avenue and allen dale road. keep in mind that is both directions and are currently blocked. clear along the beltway and no big problems for you either on d.c. on the freeway. keep in mind, midday roadwork on the inner loop of the beltway taking ou

it's one of the many changes as the new metro g.m. announces a huge management overhaul. up, and metro has struggled to regain the public's trust after the tragedy at l'enfant plaza. aboutld is very candid all of these issues. he says, none of this explains a five-year slide in rail ridership which requires more in-depth analysis to fully understand. he goes on to propose a long list of changes including reliability, finding ways to save customers money, and simplifying fares. to ridests so much metro but there's always issues with the metro. there's always delays. >> it's usually on time. it's running a little late this morning. jeannette: he also talked about percentage increases for fares. we should learn more details about that and the other changes coming up in less than you can watch him outline the transit systems future. we will carry that speech live at 1:00 on our sister station, news channel 8. it is the beginning of a beautiful work week. temperatures will get close to 80 degrees in the next few days. jacqui jeras has a look at the forecast. jacqui: we are so

there's no going back >>> the public seems to be afraid of g.m.rganisms because they don't know much about them >>> they have fascinating mitigation strategies to keep on top of how they're doing. they're starting in a remote place and see what happens there. when we have a better understanding of how these animals impact the environment we can take it elsewhere >> we have all seen jurassic park, all right? >>> they will naefr leave the island >> this mosquito has spread all over the world. it is piggy backing on humans, but still an island is a relatively safe place. these issues raise a tonne of questions which we here at techknow, we're going to stay on top of. that's it for this episode. see you next time. dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow us on social well. >> pushing the boundaries of science. >> we are on the tipping point. >> we can save species. >> it's the biggest question out there. >> it's a revolutionary approach. >> we are pushing the boundaries. >> techknow is going to blow your

area who has ties to g.m. making aleun, will be free agent visit to the redskins. sanhistory goes back to fran, when he was with the 49ers. i will say this. is pretty much just a name now. haven't seen him do much in the past recently. guys, in the studio. >> also the small matter of as well.ed >> a lot going on. >> quick look at the forecast for tomorrow. morning.prinkle in the then becoming sunny and plefns. lot more toave a say about the weekend outlook when he joins you at 11. >> david muir coming up next. >>> tonight, the assault at a trump event. new images of a trump supporter going after a protester. the punch caught on video. and what that trump supporter said right afterward about what he'll do next. as ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich prepare to take on trump tonight. >>> breaking news. the deadly storms hitting right now. the flooding now

they're supposed to make you live in fear, but i refuse to >>> it's just after ten g.m. t, 11 o'clock in the morning in brussels. there have been a series of explosions in the belgium capital. two of them have happened at the international airport. one of them at a key metro station. according to the belgium civil defense, 21 people have died. this is what we know so far. two explosions have gone at the airport in brussels. local media says one went off inside the departure area and another exploded outside the terminal building. there has been an explosion at the metro. the subway has been closed. the airport haseen evacuated. flights cancelled. the station has been closed and train services stopped. belgium is now at maximum security alert at level 4. the belgium prime minister has been reacting to the news. he says: >>> al jazeera's imran khan has a report. >> reporter: this video was taken just a few moments after the explosions at brussels airport. eyewitnesses say they felt the blast at the airport. >> we just looked at each other and i said let's go this way. it w

company, really heavy lifting roles, i'm really proud of general motors. style especially comingthe g.m. recall and how you were able to really transform the company. >> culture change is something you don't do overnight. but that was a verytuation that had tragic consequences. and so we wanted to make sure everybody knew how seriously we take safety and how committed we are to becoming the safety the team and the way the men and women of general motors rallied to do what needed to be done when we were faced with that that issue, i was so proud. and so we've really just used that to accelerate. right now i'd say i'm more impatient. but i think it's the team. >> absolutely. so clearly making major inroads, how does general motors stackompete differently against traditional technology companies? >> i think what you have to look at is the strength that general we have scale. we have a lot of technical capability. women who design the bold -- the to scale. aspects of the bold is a technology platform. not only is it electrification. we believe we're leadingsell cost perspective which benefi

it is 0500 g.m.t midnight here as we continue our coverage of super tuesday, the most crucial part of this extraordinary presidential election. donald trump and hillary clinton have the momentum, others have picked up delegates. hillary clinton has won in massachusetts. she has texas, ar ken sa,

saying he would never talk to g.m. jeff -- again. he also had comments about how he felt he always had to carry the load in colorado. he was even critical of the team's spring training facility. come parg it to a country club where players get too comfortable. >> yeah, i think it's the we have a nice place here and proud of it. our guys are mentally tough can they compete -- and they compete, yeah, i have no issue with our guys being soft. or country club-ish. our guys are the opposite of that. >> broncos safety david bruton our guest, talking about his upcoming free agency. >> good guy on, and off the field, hey,,, ,, hmm hmm hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike they've all come to look for america [ cheers and applause ] all come to look for america all come to look for america i'm bernie sanders, news tonight, near the lourie at alameda and dayton. firefighters may be getting the upper hand on this, not as much smoke visible. we have >> pelley: on the eve of super tuesday, trump clashes with black lives mat

meteorologist mike nicco is on the rooftop and it is g.m. out, is it still cool? >> it is cooler than yesterday. it will be cooler tomorrow morning, and by tomorrow afternoon that warmer wet is beginning to start taking over. you are still giving me a ride, right, to pbwc? i thought so, we will be this and judge natasha. did you see the sunrise? i captured it for you, this is the exploritorium camera at pier 15. get used to seeing this the next couple of mornings, but for maybe inland where it will be foggy and there will not be so many clouds around bay the next couple of days but right now we are seeing a few radar returns over the high elevations on either side of the santa clara valley. and it is right along the cost the next couple of hours into the santa cruz mountains our best chance of a stray shower as we move into the afternoon, it will translate over into the east bay hills and into to north bay mountains, and you can see the clouds starting to develop as we look northbound across the golden gate bridge so isolated shower and sunshine today and cooler t

before you criticize maybe the g.m. knsomething we don't know. a byden henn, a career ght.idway throhhe first period getting the fers on the ard. eame tied at 1-1. a now 2-1 flys in the second schenn again, his 20th goal o the season. that matches his career high. 3:00 later, goal number three for brayden schenn! his fst carr hat trk. the flyers hg on win 5-3. and pittsrgh wins as well and thes fers remain 3 points bac of the final wild card sp. >>> you heard the saying winning isn't anythg it everythg in. andeep anye on nerlens noel. and thetreak might be or a in the third, schmt. andhe sixers out score the wizards 34-19 in the quarter and aga thetreak mig be over, but "mig "requesti" "not a stro. andhe sixers lose for t ninth strghtime 116-109. >>> still ahead the phillies wi a former numr one orall pick onhe rter lking to regainis form. >>> a hearing from ♪ trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, drive to your local car buying center. and three, walk out

in the exit polls in michigan last week, 55% of those voting in the g.m.feel trade takes away jobs but you are on record supporting trade democrats. >> i am a free trader supporting nafta and it is important countries in asia are interfaced against china. >> are you telling voters in ohio nafta and the pacific trade tell are good? >> first of all, 1 out of 5 memberships are connected to trade. i was in a plant in dayton, ohio where the chinese invested half a billion in employing a thousand ohio workers, in a plant invested by the germans. we have a lot of people investing in our state. that is why we are up over 400,000. it is not just free trade it is fair trade. i have been saying we need an expedited process. i said it in the debate expedited process when people try to rip us off and sure the american worker i will move to block their imports. in 2001 i helped to grant the trade restraints that our steel companies needed a chance to breath. fair trade but free -- free trade but fair trade i will act against trade violations. >> fax has a video of hilla

. >> my parents came here to the u.s. for a better life, but people 2230 hours g.m. but people say i don't belong here... i'm an american too. >> al jazeera america - proud to tell your stories. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> libya's new unity government promises to rebuild and reconcile the war-torn country. hello. welcome. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha. colombia ends closer to ending 50 years of political violence. u.s. is sending tore transaction and troops to europe in terms of what it calls russian aggression. working nine to five on the line, it could be the end of the 35 hour working

seem to confirm is that the plane initially tried to land at around 1.40 russia time that ask 11.40 g.m. t where it aborted that attempt and then it went into a holding pattern, circled over the area for about two hours after trying that second attempt. that's when we have the different version of events. earlier it was said that the plane crash landed in the sense that it went down in altitude but was off the runway but the tail clipd the ground and the kraen crashed. a second version confidely quoted according to the control tower, is that actually during the second attempt the plane went down from an altitude of 9,000 metres to 4,000 metres and after that went into a freefall and nose-dived and crashed. again, not on the runway, but 50 to 100 metres off the runway. at this stage investigators will look into the black box to know exactly what is happening. all of this is speculation at this stage. we do know that they found the voice recorder. they're looking for the data recorder >>> >>> how the flight crew decided to react to the weather is probably the most likely cause here. >> re

what happened, but what we do know is that the crash happened at 3.50 in the morning, moscow, 0350 g.m. t. the plane first attempted to land and then it had to pick up altitude again and then stayed up there in the air for about two hours. it circled that airport ten times during those two hours before attempting a second landing. when it attempted that second landing, it and it failed and was trying to pick up altitude again because the position where it crashed between 50 to 100 metres to the left of the unway. it appears according to the initial statement by the investigators here in russia while it was trying to land the second time, the tail end of the plane clipped the ground and that's when it crashed and you see that big explosion that was caught on that cctv camera. investigators are on the site right now. they're cysting through the-- sifting through the debris. it spreads over 1 kilometer. we will get more throughout the day about that and once they find the black box they will be able to figure out what really happened on that plane >>> what do we know of the people who wer

that is going to take place here in paris today, there's going to be a news conference at about 11.30 g.m. t where the two leaders will come together and tell us what they've come up with. essentially it seems that they're going to - the predictions are that they're going to try and form some bilateral common plan which they can agree on in advance and present to the e.u. turkey meeting on monday. i don't think it's any coincidence as well that the president met with the prime minister daichd cameron-- gaved cameron on thursday. that too was a bilateral meeting. you can see all these bilateral meetings emerging together as the big meeting of all the european allies taking place on monday >>> thank you. that meeting comes as thousands of people are gathering at the greece-macedonia border. refugees blocked a railway line in procetested at not being let in. >> reporter: we're not prisoners she says, we are humans. we escaped from i.s.i.s. and we came to you. pleas that have become more desperate as each day goes by. if there was any hope that the bottleneck at the border would be solved in

you can see that report in full on al jazeera's 101 east which airs first later today at 2230 hours g.m. t. antarctica's ice might be melting faster than thought. sea levels could rise over half a metre this century. results are challenging the u.n. climate panel's forecast where the sea level rise from the melting was estimated to be significantly lower. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, america's cold war in the caribbean is fast coming to an end. the united states and cuba are taking steps to end more than half a century of disagreement. yet the embar go is in place. cuba is in the throes of change and the relationship with the

before you criticize maybe the g.m. knows something we don't know. brayden schenn, and career night. midway through the first period getting the flyers on the board. the game tied at 1-1. and now 2-1 flyers in the second period. schenn again, his 20th goal of the season. that matches his career high. 3:00 later, goal number three for brayden schenn! his first career hat trick. the flyers hang on to win 5-3. and pittsburgh wins as well and thes flyers remain 3 points back of the final wild card spot. >>> you heard the saying winning isn'tnything it is everything in. and keep an eye on nerlens noel. and the streak might be over and in the third, schmidt. and the sixers out score the wizards 34-19 in the quarter and again the streak might be over, but "might "requesti" "not a st. and the sixers lose for the ninth straight time 116-109. >>> still ahead the phillies with a former number one overall pick on the roster looking to regain his form. >>> and hearing from villanova after the cats fall in the latest basketball poll. where should you start when yo

g.m. said it sold more s.u.v.s, but overall its sales dropped just 1.5%. in just a few hours after an american record 340 days in space. he and russian cosmonaut mikhail kornienko will touch down in kazakhstan. nasa will compare kelly to his earthbound twin brother to see how long-term space flight changes the body. today, the rolling stones said that they will play a free concert in havana on march 25. that would be three days after president obama's visit there. i know it's only rock 'n' roll, but castro's cuba once jailed people for listening to it. and a high school team learned a hard lesson on the hardwood-- don't celebrate too soon.he burilville appeared to win the rhode island state title when one of its players stole the ball and tossed it in the air with time running out. teammates stormed the floor, but turns out, chariho caught the just enough time to score the winning basket. their turn to celebrate.sand coming up next, larry sanders casts a super tuesday vote for his little brother. >>this portion of "the cbs evening news" is sponsored by cia

it is 0500 g.m. t midnight here as we continue our coverage of super tuesday, the most crucial part of this extraordinary presidential election. donald trump and hillary clinton have the momentum, others have picked up delegates. hillary clinton has won in massachusetts. she has texas, ar ken sa, alabama a, tennessee and georgia. ps is head in minnesota and colorada. he has won in vermont. donald trump is still in the lead in massachusetts, tennessee, be that as it may ageorgia and virginia with the biggest price in texas has gone to the senator ted cruz who also won nobodying. marco rubio is projected it-- won oklahoma. marco rubio is reprojected to win. the super tuesday results should help make the situation a little cleare clearer. >> the supporters of ted cruz who won in his home state and oklahoma but fell short of donald trump in all of the other contests. he is looking more and more likely to be the republican nominee for the president of the u.s. >> we're going to be in trouble if he does >>

all i wanted to know was is there a g.m. ingredient. but now i have to take a picture. i have to go to a web site. i have to negotiate the information on the web site. all i needed was a little symbol right here. it doesn't matter what the symbol is. it could be g.m., it could be g.e., it could be a t. for transgenic, that's what brazil uses. it could be a happy face. just something that consumers knew that's what that symbol stood for. that would allow them to check it very quickly and very easily. a q.r. code is even more diabolical because when you use your phone to take a picture of this and go to that web site, they track some of your information. you have to give up your privacy. i have to give up my privacy to find out if there is a g.e. ingredient in the food i'm eating? no, no way, no how, just wrong. an invasion, an overreach of the federal government asking me to give up my privacy by having to take a picture of this. and envision now whether this is really practical in any way. not only it might take half an hour to go through those three different q.r. code

assault is one too many, the company said that they have upgraded a number safety features including g.miver accountability. >> today, two of three federal and current san francisco deputies who are accused of staging a jailhouse fight club are back before the judge, the former deputy sheriff and current deputy will enter pleas. >> former first lady nancy reagan will lie state at the library this weekend so the public can pay respects. fancy reagan died yesterday at age 94 from congestive heart failure leashing a long legacy of grace and achievement as her friend barbara walters told stephanopolis on "good morning america". >> there was a charm, an elegance, wonderful artists were brought to the white house and i will remember most that she was dignified, elegant woman. a credit to her husband's legacy. >> nancy reagan will be buried this week at the reagan library in simi valley next to her husband. tributes are flooding essential media. official president jimmy carter said she will be admired for strength of conviction and lifelong devotion to her husband. the california republican par