donald trump reinforces . he is willing to be a commander of chief, not the pope or the pastor in chief. he want to keep americans safe and do what has to be done, make the hard decisions that americans are wanting to be challenge. >> and someone like donald trump has an amazing ability to tap into public sentiment each if the policy description is absurd. how important is it to be accurate as to tapping in the voter range. knowing where the voters are, really is an important quality. he is doing it better now, and has for the last 8-9 months. republican or democrat. and seems to understand how the voter feels, and respond in a way that captures the imagination. they've been leading in the polls since summer time. they have been able to talk about issues, talking about so many different topics, and what they will do to fix the problems that americans face. whether or not he could do them. even talking about what he could do. and leaning on the background as a business c.e.o., he's able to come to the attention

yes, donald trump is making these points. he has the support maybe nationally of 30 to 35% of republicans. this is not a prevailing view in the republican party, the notion of the president lied or the notion that it was a mistake. there has always been a segt that tends to be more isolationist. this is a larger segment that we're seeing now, but i don't think his national support was because of his views on iraq. it is mostly on immigration and other issues. i wouldn't take what he said at the debate last week as being a shift of the party on foreign policy >>> one of the thing in trying to look-- trouble some in looking back on this time, people were saying a lot of things and the administration coal essed around one version of events and everybody believed this. this there were things that people who were expert in that part of the world, people expert in the history of the conflicts there, when people heard, for instance, the suggestion that suddam's intelligence apparatus had met with muham mad ala in europe, we scoffed

donald trump is facing criticism from david duke. donald trump said he wasn't family with the group but on friday he said he disavowed the endorsement. the ceasefire in syria has ended with days of violations. hostilities have not been stopped. russian aeroplanes carried out 26 attacks today. in greece today more than 3,000 migrants arrived. 350 had to be rescued by patrols. greece's migration minister warns up to 70,000 migrants could be trapped in the country in the coming weeks >>> it is sunday night and time for our regular look at the week ahead. on wednesday, the supreme court will hear arguments in a landmark case for abortion rights. a women's health center in texas is challenging a law that requires clinics to meet standards. it requires doctors to have admitting privileges attend local hospitals and requires clinics to meet same standards to an emergency room. it will keep abortion clinics safe for women. critics say it will reduce access to care. half of the clinics in texas has been forced to close because they were unabl

in our panel fears over donald trump presidency. and my final thought on america's double standard when it comes to double rights. i'm ali velshi. this is third rail >>> apple computer resisting a court order to open an iphone used by a shooter in a terror attack. >> there's no limit to what the government could require apple to do if it succeeds this way. this is a pandora's box >>> when it comes to terror, some tech leaders say apple cannot demand absolute privacy for its users >> i do believe there are sets of safeguards where the government shouldn't have to be completely blind >>> joining me now is the vice president of intelligence at stratfor a global security and intelligence consulting form. good to talk to you. the headline of the financial times said that bill gates supports the f.b.i. in its battle with apple. bill gatess told bloomberg that's not how he feels about it. he was just making the point that in this specific thin slice of what the f.b.i. wants apple to do, apple can do that without compromising its principles

not for donald trump. marco rubio and donald trump are complete opposites, trump being the outsider and rubio has been in the senate and what the g.o.p. really wants. this will be interesting. it will be a cage match. don't expect marco rubio to take a negative approach to this. he has stayed on an even line throughout this. i'm sure going forward on super tuesday will be the same, just to use this momentum to allow donald trump to say whatever he wants to say. a lot of the voters supporting marco rubio they're hoping donald trump does something outrageous, maybe more outrageous than he has done in the past, so they can take him down >>> thanks for that. moving on to talk about senator ted cruz who was hoping that he would win that evangelical vote there in south carolina and have a strong second place finish. in the end he has tied neck and neck with marco rubio. lisa stark is in colombia. >> this place has cleared out as well, but it was packed earlier with cruz supporters. as the night went on, he came

however, when she compares donald trump to ted cruz, she feels that donald trump would be a better president, hence possibly being able to sort of loosen her views on -- on the importance of the religious right in this election, in this caucus time, because she wants to win. and i think you are seeing that more and more all over iowa. >> does that mean purity tests are out? that these voters are being more strategic, more nuanced in the way they assess campaigns. >> one misunderstanding of evangelicals is that they are identity voters, meaning they want one of their own. and i think what you are seeing in the race is they are maybe nostalgia voters. [ laughter ] >> i think they see in donald trump someone they believe can restore to them, i think, a world that they have lost. right? they believe -- 72% of white evangelicals say american culture and society as changed for the worse since the 1950s. so they look back to a cultural mythical golden age, and when trump says we're going to protect christianity and make america great again. this hearkening back to a golden era that i think a lot of

. >>> donald trump looking for another win in nevada. >>> in flibt, michigan, the city and state agree to fix the city's pipes, but residents say neither side is actually doing anything. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm del walters. just moments ago, the president laying out his plans to close the guantanamo bay prison. >> for many years it has been clear that the detention facility at guantanamo bay does not advance our national security. it undermines it. this is not just my opinion. this is the opinion of experts. this is the opinion of many in our military. it's counterproductive to our fight against terrorists. >> reporter: president obama made that campaign promise to close guantanamo bay when he was campaigning back in 2007 and before taking office, pointing out that both sides agreed on closing the prison when he took office, but said the issue has since become highly politicized. jamie mcintyre has more. >> reporter: three of the points, i think are fairly non-controversial. one is to continue the transfers of -- of prisoners, and there are 35 de

donald trump said the comments were disgraceful. getting on a plane is popular in the asia-pacific region. passenger numbers are at a five year high. enough well trained pilots are squares to find-- scarce to find pilots. >> reporter: growing middle-classes and new markets are pushing industry numbers up. last year the number of passengers here grew 8% more than anywhere else in the world. a soaring demand for more flights means the need for more airports. industry leaders say if governments remain focused on global standards there's no reason why growth should come at the expense of safety. after the u.s. aviation regulator in december downgraded thailand's rating safety that is in issue. >> there were wake-up calls around the region where the u.s. faa found that thailand and other countries around the region where they're having to work to step up to the plate >> reporter: many new airlines have taken to the air. that is causing established airlines to rethink how they operate. in financial trouble thai airways is in the middle of

i think the answer is a vote for donald trump is not really about donald trump. i think that there is a deep well of people who are so angry at the status quo that the washington establishment seems to work for washington but it doesn't work for them. there's a lot of that vote on here. you find it on the back rows in the old towns where the plants are closed. i think you will see a lot of that vote come out for donald trump and it is a way to send a message to washington. they seem to be doing it tonight in record numbers >>> you think the turn out this time from what you're understanding, the turn out is pretty strong >> a couple of things. 59,000 absentee ballots today. in the republican primary, that is roughly how many votes were cast in both the democratic and republican primaries in 20088 and 12. we have seen areas that have doubled up their numbers by noon. so doubled their number by 3 o'clock. clearly we will see a record turn out. well over 700,000 people >>> it has been a nasty campaign. you see a lot of the moderates going after each other, ted cruz,

there is no dismissing donald trump. just three days before the south carolina republican presidential primary, this polling shows that the no holds barred real estate tycoon and reality television star is simply crushing his rivals. the monmouth university poll, 16 points ahead of the number 2 candidates, texas senator ted cruz, meanwhile, senator marco rubio of florida rounds out third at just 17%. for months now the media, the pundits and much of the republican party refuse to believe that donald trump last ochance to capture the presidential nomination. no one this crazy and politically incorrect has the staying power to web the party ticket once the primarying season begins. the chorus of talking heads arrayed defense him who wanted to believe he was finished when he lost the iowa caucuses to ted cruz by 3 points, they were i don'wrong. are since then he has won the new hampshire primary and well could have done the same thing in south carolina this saturday. other states who have primaries an caucuses on supertuesd

chris christie did endorse donald trump yesterday. trump wept after his compete fors, cruz and rubio. >> i am not taking money from the lobbyists and from the special interests and donors. everybody else, if you put rubio up there and he is president, they will say, mr president in between sweating. can you imagine rubio negotiate withing putin and he walks into the room and pouring sweat and putin says, man what is wrong with that guy? >>> meanwhile marco rubio had one of the busiest days of really all the g.o.p. contenders. he held a rally in georgia before travelling to alabama a. he ended his day in arkansaw. most noted blee today was this change of tune we saw, these attacks on donald trump >> the other night he was worried about the lines around the state. what he needs to be worried about the lines around his eyes from his horrible spray tan. today he said he wanted to sue me. he is going to sue me. he should sue whoever did that to his face. that's who he should be suing >> after we pass the tax and abolish the irs >>> ted cru

we've got to talk about donald trump here. entrance polling from nevada showed that he won 45% of hispanics who voted in the republican caucuses to which he claimed he is number one with his panics-- hispanics. your thought >> it is completely false. you just cited that his unfavorable ultimately rating is skyrocketing. it is over 80%. we have never seen a candidate with that negative from the latino community before. they feel he is not somebody who share their values. he will vote against them. just the limited number in the nevada that he won a few of them means he is in a position to take the latino vote. he is going to drive them away from the republican party and that's something they have to be careful about >>> clearly he is getting votes from the latino community so what is drawing them to him? >> well, i would say it's probably the same thing. if you look at african-american voters, yes, they vote 90% democratic and 10% republicans. that's not something to be proud of. the number of voters in nevada that voted for do

but that is the challenge of donald trump. the longer-term challenge is what do you stand for as a party. are you holding on to this memory of a country that was whiter and was more protestant. donald trump's campaign slogan might as well be why do i have to press two to hear it in english. >> wow. okay. we're going to end it there. thank you very much as always. >>> president obama is again defending his right to nominate a new justice for the supreme court. >> i'm going to do my job. we are going to go through a process as we have done in two previous supreme court vacancies, to identify an outstanding candidate that has impeccable legal credentials and would bring the kind of ability and compassion and objectivity and legal reasoning to the court that, you know, the highest court in the land demands. >> the president also says he hopes congress will uphold the constitution and consider his nominee. republicans have repeatedly said they will not hold a vote on any nominee he puts forward. >>> meanwhile the president is meeti

going to randal who is at the donald trump headquarters in south carolina literally waiting for donald trump, a triumphant donald trump to come out and address supporters. >> talking about those missteps that he has made, he made one less than 24 hours ago when he was referring to a myth, actually, about general john blackjack perjing and whether or not he killed some muslim pows back in world war 1. it didn't happen, but donald trump told the story again and it had no impact at all on the election returns topped. an interesting point that we haven't mentioned yet tonight, since 1980 in every south carolina presidential primary the winner here goes on to win the nomination. now, there was one year when it was an conception, but this is a good harbinger of victory for donald trump. another interesting point, the normally the state leadership likes to line-up behind a winner, but here in south carolina the republican party was scattered all over the place. governor hailey endorsed marco rubio and another one endorsed bush. only the lieutenant governor endorsed trump. it will be interesti

we talk about donald trump not being thought of as no.1. marco rubio has finished in third, in fifth, in second and in second. people will be asking that when are you dropping out. >> we've both been talking to republican officials here. we will talk about that later. ranchts ndall back to you >>> thank you. donald trump has more delegates than all of his component combined. marco rubio and ted cruz are trying to knock donald trump from his perch. the stakes are high and the snow is ticking >> five days to go and this debate will be crucial. it is seen as a latch ditch effort for the candidates to make their mark and nothing short of a show down is expected tonight >> >> we love nevada. we love moved. thank you. >> reporter: after a big win in nevada and a third straight victor him, donald trump is expecting a sweep on super tuesday. >> we weren't not expected to win too much and now we're winning, winning, winning the country >> reporter: marco rubio and ted cruz are scrambling to stop trump in his tracks. for cruz that means his home stat

. >> donald trump goes on damage control over support from a former leader of the k.k.k. >>> this is a sad day for everybody in this room, a sad day for law enforcement. >> a soldier due in court, accused of killing a rookie police officer on her first day on the job. >>> if they nominated hosts, i wouldn't even get this job. you'd all be watching kneel patrick harris right now. >> chris rock takes aim at the lack of diversity in hollywood as tinsel town celebrates its biggest night. >>> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. the candidates who want to be president are making their final pitches today before millions of people in 12 states before they head to the polls. voters will make choices in primaries and caucuses on super tuesday. for democrats, 865 delegates are up for grabs, nearly a third of those needed to win the party's nomination. for republicans, 595 delegates are at stake, just under halfway to the gop convention. we begin with heidi zhou castro live in dallas. good morning. 155 delegates at stake, the accident is extremely important for

donald trump with 33%, ted cruz with 32%, rubio 13%. and then you go to the democrats -- again, these are very, very early numbers, but hillary clinton -- this is 7% reports from iowa, 53% for hillary clinton, 46 for bernie sanders. you had some interesting numbers that you were seeing david. >> i was just looking at the latest from the state. there is something like 90% of the numbers still to come, on the republican side thi think -- they have reported in, i think nine counties. so it goes to show that some of these smaller counties, they do report much faster than the rest. the key is going to be in some of the larger cities like des moines, the largest ones that do take longer to tabulate the votes both because the precincts are more crowded and because turnout is higher, that's where the numbers are going to shift. so it's interesting to talk about the first 10%, but not that significant. >> was donald trump do better in rural areas? in >> we'll see. if i'm donald trump i'm playing down the expectation right now. you have got to pl

marco rubio, donald trump and hillary clinton. all three of them are making final pushes in the state. marco rubio was here on sunday. hillary clinton was at several events, and donald trump is currently speaking to a crowd ated at radford university. he had more to talk about when it came to supporters here. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> i'll be campaigning in new york. i love new york, okay? i will be campaigning in new york. if we win new york, it's over, you understand because we pick up so many delegates. we're also doing really well in michigan. >> and del, one of the other reasons that virginia is important is that it traditionally has a make up now demographic make up very close to the national picture. it's one of those places that these candidates can look to in terms of how well they do here and how that may translate moving forward as they get closer to the november election. >> what are the polls saying about just who is leading? >> well, recent poll from newport university shows that donald trump has

hillary clinton, donald trump and marco rubio. and none of those candidates are taking for granted super tuesday and what it means here in virginia. all are campaigning here. donald trump who was here last week returning again. he'll be speaking at a rally hillary clinton also speaking around the state today and marco rubio arrived on sunday when he spoke to supporters and again continued to criticize the g.o.p. frontrunner donald trump. >> this has been a very different election year, and things have worked out in ways no one has anticipated. as a result today the republican party, the conservative movement, the party of lincoln and reagan is on the verge potentially of nominating a con artist to be the nominee for president. >> and del as we were talking about earlier virginia is also a good litmus test for those candidates. the demographic make up in the state very closely matches that of what was happening in the national election back in '08 and 20/12, and it's a good indication of how these candidates would fare. >> what abo

donald trump getting a ringing endorsement from former rival, chris christie. the most significant endorsement from the republican front runner. al jazeera, heidi zhou-castro is in text, heidi, 155 gop delegates up for grabs in texas pz what's th.what's the state oy tonight? >> reporter: you're absolutely right, paul. texas with the sheer number of delegates certainly is a hard fought prize. there was no fighting on the stage shared with donald trump and chris christie christie was one of trump's harshest critics, probably one of the few who could equal frumple trump i trud rhetoric. >> i'm proud to be here to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. >> a former political rival is throwing his support behind donald trump. >> i've gotten to know all the people on that stage and there is no one who is better prepared to provide america with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than donald trump. >> reporter: this is a very different chris christie, than christie the presidential candidate. >> this is not a real est

donald trump former leader of the obama wasn't born in america. he told right wing radio quote alex jones: maybe trump was channelling a scene from francis's god father two but he wasn't telling the truth because the owner of that luxury ranch where he died told reporters that when he was found. conspiracy theoryists like alex jones that they killed scalia, they're the worms of body politics. they feast on accusations that only appeal to a paranoid fringe. all it takes now is a keyboard and a bizarre dream for anyone to find these. the case in point are the awful people who hide behind a computer scene and claim that the sandy hook massacre was staged, a twisted effort to push gun control laws. these truthers not only revictimize the victims, but they also fuel mistrust of the government and society, especially at a time when we don't need any more of that. regarding this trumped up controversy, the justice own son said this week that our family just has no doubt that he was taken from us by natural causes and we ask others to accept that and pray

other than donald trump. i'm not saying that he's not a frontrunner, but he's a frontrunner where there's enormous candidate support from the other side that goes against him. that's all. he has to get 51%, and not 34%. >> what's next in the road to south carolina? stay with us. it's "inside story". >> you're watching "inside story". i'm ray suarez. what's next? the road out of new hampshire and onto south carolina. bernie sanders won among women. he won among young voters, he won among all voters except people who makeover $200,000 women over 65. cornell belcher and burke and fund are with me. and is it time to regroup for hilliary clinton. >> it's time to regroup and shakeup. let's be clear. what happened in happen ham and what was iowa, you look at what's problematic. he won among segments in new hampshire, in the campaign in 2008. he won in segments of new hampshire where she killed obama. the counties of rochester, and same with the lectorate. he's competing and beating her there. you have to have a shak

ted cruz and donald trump. ted cruz is perhaps the most hated republican in washington by his own party and donald trump the ultimate outsider. bad news that you have two people at the top and a fourth ben carson coming in there as well who has no political experience, again the republican party's looking for their antedote, their closing behind, now it looks like trump, cruz and rubio. john. >> if you put cruz and drurchl and ben carson together, so-called outers, you've got abig portion of the polling in iowa. >> 65% wanted soabl who was either hated by the establishment and hated in the senate or two political candidates no political experience. that's why the republican leaders and the party apparatus are so nervous about the direction and anger that the republican party has. >> by the way ben carson is going to florida getting ready to leave iowa i guess after he saw the results. or maybe he planned it already. >> where a lot of people go to die, john. >> or have fun. >> or from campaigns, too. >> you had

donald trump won with the hispanic vote there. is that something the democrats should be concerned about? or is the electorate there very unique. >> i think it's something the republicans should be concerned about. think of african americans it wasn't really matter who wins the african american vote in a republican primary. but interesting he won that vote with the number 2 and 3 candidates being cuban americans. and what that tells me is while we in america, particularly non-latino america, have this construct of latinos, in the real world there's a big difference between mexican american in nevada and cuban american in florida, texas or anything else. and what we saw for mexican americans the fact that someone comes from cuba and has a very different life story, simply does not resinate with them. and what that means if you thought that marco rubio was going to be a silver bullet in play in the general election, it is not going to happen. it's bad news for ted cruz and marco rubio, not so bad for hillary clinton or bernie sander

back and fourth between donald trump and the pope? >> nothing surprises me with donald trump, he's been doing different things that should have knocked them down. aside from coming in second place in iowa, he has been invincible with his base. he can say and do what he wants, and that can stay there. it's not a surprise to me. particularly in south carolina, where there's not that men down there. if we talk about pennsylvania, michigan. maybe he shouldn't take on the pope. in south carolina, it doesn't play the same way. he has seen in iowa, that he can get the vote, hang on to that and keep the momentum in south carolina. in some regards, to listen, i can separate my religion from my secular views in regards to keeping america safe. trying to spin that, people that are dealing with immigration issues in the state. eventually he is going to head to the states with a large catholic population. could it cap the long run? >> there are states that are further down the road in regards to the map as to who is voting when and how many delega

one-by-one, but when they're splitting the vote, that that allow sz donald trump-- allows donald trump could come in. that is why it is power that marco rubio should get in so that he says if you don't get behind him donald trump will be voted in >>> what are people angry about? >> they feel that the republicans took the house of representatives, they took the u.s. senate and they then capity lated-- capitulated to obama and this is pervasive throughout the party. it has spilled over into the overall environment to the extent that donald trump is just tapping into a very emotional feeling among our base and it is prop propelling him to the front of the field. the party is divide among multiple candidates so that is why donald trump is in first play place >>> why do they say capitul tashgsed to the obama administration. we're seeing the fight over the justice appointment to the supreme nobody is doing that to obama, surely? >> the number one issue according to exit polls out of iowa was the national debt. what most voters are upset with are the congress lifted the debt ceiling and did s

some even fearful, but are their concerns about president donald trump overblown? >> if you believe the polls it is going to be hard to stop donald trump. >> full-on pink in the establishment to stop donald trump at this point >> i think it's the end of the republican party >> i think he is frankly dangerous for the u.s. >> donald trump is a bully, a pathological liar appeared a dangerous people. >> he is sending out a message not good >>> a strategist and a partner in the november team of political form. a congressman and my next guest. you know him donald trump well. you were on celebrity apprentice. i confronted him at an event. he is very charming. should we be fearful of a donald trump presidency as much as you don't like the guy? >> let me start by saying i'm not going to vote for him. i don't want him to be president, but i am in the very small minority of people who is not quite as afraid of donald trump as president as i am of him actually being able to win it. because i don't agree with ted cruz on anything except for that i don't think donald trump is as

, donald you do not want this job. this does not play to your skill set. if the speaker of the house does poafses onpost office one of yos you cannot fire him. >>> what does that say when things go sideways in the oval office, what do you do, go up to the residence and say i'm not plagues? he's rewriting the book of american politics because he's providing strong leadership that's not dependent on the status quo. >> reporter: christie's endorsement comes on the final day before the week of the super tuesday. >> your ties and the clothes you make are made in china and mexico. >> reporter: and rubio kept hitting fighting for his political life. >> you're a lousy businessman. >> i know nothing about bankrupting four companies. >> it's interesting now that donald says he will appoint justices who will defend religious liberty, but he's given money to jimmy carter, joe biden, chuck schumer, harry reid. >> former presidential candidate senator lindsay graham joked that his own party will be responsible for electing a preside

we are not talking about donald trump, something that has not happened in months. what happened to the trump campaign in iowa? >> there are a lot of people that are going to say maybe he should have gone to the debate the other night. a lot of people will say the turnout hurt him, that the youth vote, there are reports that say now that the youth vote went for cruz and rubio not trump. when we talk about the youth vote, we are talking 17-29. they got 11.4% turnout for the youth vote. that is only the second time in iowa caucus history it has gone over 4% to give you an idea. it is important to realized that the youth vote people thought would go to donald trump showed up early for cruz and rubio. >> michael, thank you very much. hillary clinton declaring victory in iowa despite her slight lead there. now she is in new hampshire where she will start campaigning at a get out the vote rally. bernie sanders proving that he is no slouch. what does that mean for hillary in new hampshire, since it is practically bernie sanders back yard. >> well, it is indeed, you know, d

donald trump have said words would have made news media squirmed. they failed to question in the run up to the invasion. >> george w. bush was right about saddam hussein hiding weapons of mass destruction. >> and what he failed to point ultimate. no wmds turned up and the war went from bad to worth. >> we have lost 4,000 american men and women. >> big names in american journalism is got take kindly to what was said. >> last night adopted a lie. and people died. >> commentators will come out saying it's a hard left theory, proven over and over from reports, from the bush administration, because then you might expose the lie. >> it's a stinging indictment that takes donald trump to make the statement. >> there were no weapons of mass instruction. the media is complicit in perpetuating a clean up. and do not implicate themselves in a decision to go forward. they may place blame to the front pages for the "new york times". not on the structure of the newspaper. >> the noougs was like a lot of institutions. they draw the line at bad notice, put criticall

donald trump had a theory about a different way to win iowa. a campaign not obsessed with hitting all of the counties. and not concerned with a long presence on tv and radio. trump relied heavily on free media, and didn't start to spend much until close to caucus night. he even skipped the last debate in the race. ted cruz used something closer to a play book drawn from recent history. mike huckabee and rick santorum who worked hard, became fixtures on christian talk radio, and spent a lot of time in iowa. in a deeply fractured field, 28% was good enough to win, and maybe good enough to slow down a trump train the polls said could be unstoppable. >> and while americans will continue to suffer, under a president who has set an agenda that is causing millions to hurt across this country, i want to remind you of the promise of scripture. weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: marco rubio was also testing a different model for running in the entire primary season. he conservatived his cas

>>> donald trump wins big in nevada as marco rubio and ted cruz fight it out for second place, is donald trump unstoppable heading into super-tuesday. >> tornados tearing through the south killing three, millions more in their path awaiting the next move. >> closing guantanamo, concerns about the plan to shut the prison >>> warnings about the zika virus, authorities revealing more than a dozen cases in the u.s. may have been sexually transmitt transmitted. >> we weren't expected to win too much. now we are winning, winning, winning the country. [ cheering ] >>. >> and soon the country will start winning, winning >>> trump celebrating a win. i'm del walters, welcome to your morning. stephanie has the day off. donald trump had a decisive victory with close to 60% who caucused. marco rubio barely beating ted cruz for second place, ben carson, john kasich in single digits. melissa, what is behind the big win by donald trump? >> well, whenever we had the chance to speak to nevada voters, their eyes light up. there's a sense of exhilaration that he's breaking the rules of politics. [ chanting

senator to come out and endorse donald trump. he's picking up a lot more support here and if you look at any of the safety and national polls, they show donald trump winning outright. some polls show him with an 18-20 percentage point lead over his rivals. who will finish in second and third place remains to be seen, a tossup between rubio and cruz. rubio has picked up endorsements here. >> hillary clinton winning by double digits, wider than anybody expected in south carolina. can she expect the same in alabama. >> she's certainly hoping to pick up the same sort of support. yesterday she spent time as a small historically black college from the far from here in birmingham. she really is hoping to pick up that same support specifically among the black vote. when she was at that college, she spoke about. >>> like minimum wage, support for historically black colleges, reforming the criminal justice system. she's again hoping to pick up some of that same support. she is leading across the southern region. there are a lot of southern

donald trump? >> it would be very, very difficult for the establishment. if he gets the votes or the delegates he need needs in primaries and caucuses across the country, to go in and have the establishment rip that away from him or even try would be very, very bad for the republican, very damaging for the establishment. he has been talking about it all along. it would play into his hands. i don't think they will do that. i do this think they're going to press, if they content get this out of his hands by 15th or in the next couple of weeks, it is a done deal. i think they're pressing hard to see if they can do that. the best shot is to have donald trump win texas and make this a head to head race between marco rubio and trump >>> okay. thanks so much. we will have more analysis to come. for now, i'm adam may in new york. be sure to stay with us. our correspondent is live in dc with a special town hall meeting speaking to millennial speakers. goodnight for all of us here in new york. >>> america vo

polls suggest that donald trump has a big lead. michael shure has more for us. >> on the heels of a big victory for donald trump in south carolina, he and the other competitors move on to nevada. it's a place where ted cruz and marco rubio are trying to get second place coming out saying we are the candidate to vote for. >> reporter: the first group much republican presidential candidates are flooding the nevada. this marks the first time the incendiary donald trump will face voters in a state with a significant latino population. university of nevada associate professor david demoi sees why trump is popular here. >> he has a populous message, fed up with the establishment politics. they are angry at the democrats, obama and the left. >> nevada polling is imprecise but suggested trump has a leafed of as much as 26 points over the nearest rival. the contest marks the first time the 2016 field is without jed bush. marco rubio proudly treated the endorsement of nevada senator dean heller. another conservative to the team. senator dean

. >> a little more contrite, donald trump last night. bernie sanders enjoying support in new hampshire. how tough is it going to be for hillary clinton to overcome sanders lead? >> it's true, sanders has a big lead in the polls here. he's almost like a native son. he is from neighboring vermont, the long time senator from vermont. don't count out hillary clinton. the clintons are well loved here in new hampshire, especially because and eight years ago, you may remember that hillary clinton behind barack obama here when she made her first run for the presidency and she ended up pulling out an upset and beat barack obama here in new hampshire, but of course we know who went on to get the ultimate nomination. >> it was that motion speech she gave in new hampshire. >> absolutely. >> thank you very much. >>> the world health organization has declared the zika outbreak an international emergency. the agency said it's because the disease is spreading roup hidy and may be linked to an alarming spike in birth fee effect in newborns. scientists ar

who agrees with donald trump? >> i don't think it is christian or catholic to put up barriers of any sort >> reporter: donald trump likes things big, big buildings, big publicity. donald trump issued a statement that if he-- he is surprised in this campaign. saying things no others will say and finding support among american voters >> i don't think it's un-christian t i think it is more protecting their country. each country is protecting themselves. >> reporter: you agree with donald trump? >> somewhat. i'm sad to say, but i kind of do. >> reporter: donald trump will soon find out whether joining a spat with one of the most powerful religious leaders comes with a penalty at the ballot box >>> the pope suggested that women exposed to the zika virus could use contraception. the general teaching is against birth control. an australian town has been overrun with tumble weed known as hairy panic has spread across big parts near the victoria new south wales border. as the wind pick up it got worst >> we've got a table

that's what donald trump sells. he defys everybody, the establishment of the republican party, the press, he defies commonsense sometimes, the pope, but there are a lot of republican voters out there who are in a defiant mood. donald trump is winning with about a third of the vote, but he has got a split opposition against him. the theory is that if one of them gets out, the other may become the anti-trump. some of those voters could go to trump and the polls show he is ahead right now and his performance in south carolina can only help. then he will be on a path to a nomination. he won a big victory in new hampshire, which is a north-eastern state and he won in south carolina which is a conservative southern states. two different states and he won them both >>> police in the u.s. state of michigan has detained two people. in relation to six killings in kalam azoo. bashar al-assad said any truce will come with conditions on a ceasefire. he said turkey should not exploit any break in hostilities. from the opposition

the texas senator defeated donald trump to win in iowa. picking up the most votes ever recorded by a republican in the caucuses, more than 51,000. marco rubio came in a very close third. on the democratic side be it is a tie. hillary clinton and bernie sanders mate history with a very tight margin, the difference a fraction of a percentage point. state department officials have not declared a winner just yet. al jazeera's michael shure is live in des moines. when are we expecting to actually know more about who won the democratic race? it's really close, the closest in state history, i believe. >> yeah, it's hard to get a whole lot closer than the two of them are right now, sometime today i expect they'll come out with final numbers. the delegate totals will favor hillary clinton while the raw number, the number of people that came out to vote will probably at least according to the sanders campaign favor bernie sanders, but this was about defining the narrative after this, hard to argue that anyone did better than ted cruz here in iowa la

the pope is being doled that donald trump. donald trump is a very nice person. and i am a very nice person. and i am a very good christian. because the pope said something to the effect that maybe donald trump isn't christian. okay. and he is questionable my faith. i was very surprised to see it, but i am a christian. and proud of it. for religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. i am proud to be a christian. and as president i will not allow chestianty to be consistly attacks and weakened unlike what is happening now with our current president. >> the question now is whether or not this will have an impact, very public spat between donald trump who is the republican front runner and the pope who spokes on behalf of hundreds of thousands of catholics around the world, whether or not this spat will have an impact on a very important and presidential nominating contest that is comings up this weekend, in south carolina, donald trump is leading there, and i have to tell you after covering u.s. politics for 34 years i don't think that this will h

donald trump a favorite target. this blast is from ted cruz >> i'm ted cruz and i approve this message >> look. i got the pump action figure >> what does he do? >> he pretends to be a republican. >> reporter: with polls showing cruise in second place. donald trump counter punched earlier this week before pulling the spot >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> what kind of map talks from both sides of his mouth, on national television and still denies it? >> reporter: donald trump stopped this add, he did not stop his attacks using questions. how can he be a christian when he lies so much and so dishonesty. >> reporter: some question donald trump. >> if you ask donald trump where he stands on abortion, he is not pro-life. me is not pro-family. checkout his credentials. he owns strip clubs. he is not. i don't see how people can even vote for him, i'm sorry. >> reporter: this was a chance for voters to compare the candidates. retired military officer is concerned about foreign policy. >> everybody wants the

not donald trump, not ted cruz. so, in effect, joining forces with the likes of chris christie and others. and knock him off the perch and declare victory and stuff. evidently that has taken toll judging by what they have seen on the republican side. we have seen bernie sanders. they show on the screen, we are in a high school gym. that's a gym nearby, shooting hoops with a lot of young people. they allowed a lot of young people, indicative of the support that he has seen across new hampshire, the demographic route, fired up. trying to make the point in a visual way that the support is young, vital. tired of the status quo. tired of politics as usual. that is the theme that we are willing to hear from bernie sanders when he takes the stage. we expect that to happen shortly >>> mike viqueira, concurred new hampshire at bernie sanders headquarters. one of the places to be tonight >>> i just want to toss to the panel. what does hillary clinton say tonight. >> with bernie sanders talking about a revolution, people are b

thank you >>> donald trump u.s. presidential bid is celebrated as he wins in l.a. >>> you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, obama gears up for a fight to push through the closure of guatemalan bay. european companies accused of selling surveillance equipment to egypt that could be used to clamp down on dissent. you've heard of the u.n.'s blue helmets. we report on the white helmet volunteers pulling people out of the rubble in syria's biggest city. u.s. republican candidate donald trump says he is growing more confident of winning his party's presentation nomination after a caucus vote victory in the state of nevada. it follows consecutive wins in new hampshire and south carolina. early indications are that marco rubio came second in nevada, but it is not clear if he will be are trump's main challenger with ted cruz a close third. here is some of what donald trump had to say >> we weren't expected a couple of months ago to win this one. you know that one, right. we weren't. of course, if you lis