Battle for New York between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders heats up

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders assailed each other over their judgement and experience before a rowdy crowd in a high-volume debate days before a crucial New York nominating contest for the US presidential election.

In their fifth one-on-one debate, Ms Clinton and Mr Sanders showed the mounting pressure of their marathon White House race with a series of heated exchanges on Wall Street, guns, and other issues that featured the two of them shouting in unison while an evenly split crowd roared its support.

“If you’re both screaming at each other, the viewers won’t be able to hear either of you,” moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN warned at one point at the debate in Brooklyn.