♪ ♪ welcome to al jazerra america. i am stephanie sy. here are the top stories at this hour. a 7.2 magnitude earthquake has rocked a island in the philippines killing at least 20 people, including four children who were killed following a stampede. several buildings have collapsed. the quake was centered about 35 miles underground. annaan al quada suspect accusedf taking part of the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in east africa is expected to be arraigned in new york city. he was captured in a u.s. special forces raid in lip i can't on october 5th. court documents allege as early asinine 93 he began plan ago tacks with other al qaeda figures against the u.s.

with the debt ceiling den deadline just two days away per operative mick at this ideal will be reached. there are re several plans on te table. and the nsa is collecting millions of contact lists from percentage e-mail and instant messaging accounts according to documents leaked to the washington post by former nsa contractor edward snowden. many of those accounts reportedly belong to americans. those are the headlines. "america tonight" is up next on al jazerra. >> on america tonight - a very different death penalty debate than you've heard before. is quality control needed in the executioner's final cocktail. >> we are not talking about whether the person will wake up with an illness.

person. >> also - shut down, day 14. the key players step up. are they closing in on an end to the impasse? >> and the price of progress. a pennsylvania community blessed by newfound riches faces tough choices about their future. sides. >> yes, the coal mine there and the fracking up there. >> good evening, thank you for being with us. i'm joie chen. we begin with a new term on a

long-standing issue - the death penalty, 30 people have been executed in the united states by lethal injection - a toxic cocktail of drugs are injected into the prisoner. drugs to stop the muscle and heart have other uses as well. pharmaceutical companies create them and doctors give drugs to help patients in other situations. therein lies a moral dilemma for drug makers. the debate led to a shortage and questions to the justice system about how to deliver the ultimate penalty. america tonight gets our report from correspondent chris bury. >> in 1990 warren hill was serving a life sentence at georgia state penitentary for killing his girlfriend when he beat a fellow inmate to death. he was sentenced to die. it took his lawyers 23 years to exhaust his appeals. prosecutors eventually prevailed. a final date for hill to be put

to death was set for past summer, july 19th. the method lethal injection. on the eve of his execution hill's lawyers scrambled up the steps of the courthouse. they'll trial a last tactic, a legal hale mary, demanding the state reveal what drugs it planned to use to kill him. >> georgia's stock of the lethal injection drug expired six months earlier. state officials refused to reveal what they planned to use. georgia is not alone. states across the country are running out of key drugs used in executions. it is no fluke. the pipeline is running dry because of a london-based anti-death group called reprieve. they launched a campaign to stop european and american-authorised manufacturers selling sodium thiopental and another leethal injection drug pentobarbital for executions.

>> we worked with companies. they didn't know their drugs would be used in executions. happening. >> mayo fao, reprieve's deputy director says the companies were afraid of the stigma associated with executions. >> it's an ethic al, pr and commercial problem. >> by 2011 a danish company lundbeck and hospira haired in illinois decided to stop shipping the drugs to american prisons. state prison officials scrambled to obtain drugs from unapproved specialty pharmacies overseas. nebraska was preparing for its first execution in decades. inmate michael ryan was sentenced to die for a 1985 double murder. after 34 years of unsuccessful appeals, his execution date was march 6, 2012.

>> at nebraska state penitentary prison officials were unable to require the drugs for the first scheduled execution after abolishing the electric share. the chief farmcyst tells us she was ordered to obtain it outside the country, meaning it would rules. >> diane booker, who left her job in 2011 asked us not to show her face. >> what exactly did your boss ask you to do? >> acquire sodium thiopental by any means possible. >> you took that to mean... >> outside the united states, any country that would sell it to us. >> because it was not legal here. >> the left manufacturer in the yes. >> what was your response? >> if you can get it overseas, you can't use it, it's not fda approved. . >> the former top pharmacist at the prison said corrections officials ignored her

suggestions and obtained the drug from india, without fda permission. >> did they bypassour pharmacy to do it. >> absolutely. >> was it illegal? >> yes, it was. >> diane booker's she was fired after speaking out. nebraska officials would not comment on her termination. >> booker was vindicated by a federal court ruling in july finding sodium thiopental and other drugs must come from companies registered with the fda and be reviewed for safety. after the ruling nebraska's supreme court put a halt to pending executions. nebraska and other states finding foreign sources drying up are scrambling for ways around the shortage. >> missouri had planned to use a drug called propofol, the powerful anaesthetic that killed michael jackson for an execution later this month. that drug, used in surgery, has never been tried in an execution. missouri's governor ordered a

stay, after missouri society of anaesthesiologists asked the state to reconsider, fearing the controversy could cause a shortage of propofol for medical purposes - to save lives. advocates of the death penalty aopponents of capital punishment are playing political games by focussing on lethal injunction drugs for political issues uch. >> people are putting pressure on pharmacies not to supply the drugs. there's no good reason for them not to. it's a matter of people not agreeing to the law looking for enforcement. >> some states like georgia are fighting back. the state tried to keep its plans secret. lawyers for convicted killer warren hill argued the public would have no way of knowing how the state was executing prisoners, or if the lethal concoction was safe. >> this would be the first

execution using a compounded pharmacy-produced dose of pentobarbital. it is not fda approved. that's a new factor here. >> the prosecution scoffed at those safety concerns. >> they are alleging that their threatened harm is he could receive pentobarbital, it would cause him harm. we are talking about 5,000 milligrams of pentobarbital. 200 to 300 are used to put you under for, you know, surgery. 5,000 milligrams - we are not talking about whether or not this person is going to wake up with an illness. we are talking about killing a person. so whether there's a contaminant in it, whether you could go into shock is irrelevant. >> finally the prosecution released one document - a heavily redacted lab report. but the state's insistence on secrecy backfired.

>> the court is aware... >> judge gail tuson ruled that georgia's attempt to make state secret on the drugs was an improper attempt to bypass the courts and ruled that warren hill would likely prevail with his claim that georgia's secrecy law is unconstitutional. hill's lawyers celebrated a huge legal victory. it was a victory for reprieve. they plan to keep the pressure on by exposing the compound to. >> compound pharmacies don't adhere to standards that the manufacturing industry have to adhere to. you have a clear discrepancy in potential quality of the drugs you have. when it comes to quality control in terms of the ingredients and the process leading to an execution, if you make it secret. you are in grave danger of causing an execution that could be tortuous. that is unconstitutional, even in the u.s. >> for condemned inmates,

including warren hill in georgia and michael ryan in nebraska, the campaign against capital punishment stalled their executions and forced prisons across the country to the edge, skirting the the law to carry out the ultimate punnicment. >> that report from correspondent chris bury. following up in new york, deborah denn, a law professor at fordham university, and has written on the u.s. lethal injection practices joins us. i appreciate you being with us. i want to talk about the misconceptions about the death penalty, and how it is applied. the kinds of drugs that are used, and how it's administered even. is it normally done by a physician? >> no, it's not done by a physician. we don't know who is doing the executions. typically it can be a volunteer in a prison. i did surveys showing that. we don't know. that is secret as well.

>> the kinds of drugs used - there is not a federally mandated mix, for example. >> absolutely not. these are state-run agencies that are drugs. >> particularly in the case of florida, you mentioned previously that the mix is the sort of thing that americans might find shocking. >> well, they might find it shocking on a number of levels. first of all, these are drugs that could not be used to oouthanise an animal. that would be cruel. these are drugs not used to kill anyone ever, and so they have no idea how this is going to affect the person, and number three, we don't know the people who will be applying these drugs - what is their training, et cetera. it's a high risk procedure. >> there was a prosecutor in chris's report who raised that point though, that, you know, the attempt here is not to help a patient get well when these drugs are used. if the outcome is the same, does

it matter what products you use. >> absolutely, that prosecutor, assuming that people die when the drugs are injected into them, but we don't know that. it's a big unknown. when you have unskilled people injecting even a large supply of drugs, we have instances where a drug doesn't enter the system because they are leaking out of somebody's arm. there's problems where we don't know that people get the drugs. >> i remember a time when the electric chair was part of the lexicon in terms of death penalty use. at the time lethal injection was introduced, that it was to be more humane. >> it was supposed to be more humane. from the get-go, lethal injection has been problematic. from the first execution. the problem was initially there was so much secrecy involved that attorneys couldn't get enough information to challenge. we are seeing the same secrecy now.

>> talk to us about the problem of state's, local jurisdictions having to go abroad or to compounding pharmacies. talk about the challenge here of making sure that you are getting what you intend to get. >> there has been a nation-wide drug shortage in the united states generally. adding to that challenges showing as the report says, 2011, 2010, that these manufacturers were being revealed, they don't want to sell the druction to the department of -- drugs to the department of corrections, and they can't go to europe because they are not fda approved. they are backed into a corner. the new strategy for them is to go to compounding pharmacies. they are problematic. there is no fda regulation of compounding pharmacies, and state regulations are highly variable. there's little oversight. in addition to the fact that

compounding pharmacies are not supposed to be making drugs for this particular purpose. they are supposed to be making drugs for people who have an individualised problem with a drug. in other words, an ingredient is missing or something like that. and they are doctor prescribed. >> let's talk about a solution for the states. is there a way for them to go forward. whatever you think about the death penalty, there's someone's obligation to carry out the instructions of the state. >> it's hard to know what states are going to do. this is the same story representing itself. every time state's try to use a new drug, there are high risks associated with the drugs. they are typically inmate problems with the drugs, and we see problems and executions. when the pharmacy is revealed, there's litigation in the pharmacy, and it ends up not wanting to provide that drug. it's gone over and over, repeating itself. >> we appreciate your coming in

and giving your insight. fordham university law professor deborah denn. >> after the break - some new signs of optimism. will congress and the president rescue the government from defaulting on its debt. if not, what is the worse that can happen? we rain down the looming debt ceiling and get this is the 900-page document we call obamacare. it could change costs, coverage, and pretty much all of healthcare in america. my show sorts this all out. in fact, my staff has read the entire thing. which is probably more than what most members of congress can claim. we'll separate politics from policy, and just prescribe the facts.

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in the way and take us part the default deadline this many economists, not to mention government officials at the white house warn could be catastrophic. behind the scenes a lot of activity. if you were in the capital it's an exciting place to be. mobs of us followed mitch mcconnell, harry reid back and forth. they did a shuttle diplomacy. democrats met with democrats, and republicans with democrats. everywhere said the right thing, that they were close to a deal. there's two main points - funding the government through january 15th, raising the ceiling until mid february, when we'll have to go through the exercise again. it would take the country through the holidays and break a 3-week-old deadlock. if it passes the senate and the house - it's a big if. the same divisions that brought us to the brink are still existing.

if you look at what tea party republicans, conservatives, are saying in the hour, there's no guarantee that there. >> if republicans are not willing to set aside some of their party san concerns to do what is right for the country, we stand a chance of defaulting. >> perhaps tomorrow will be a bright day. we are not there yet, we hope it will be. >> we saw president obama. he has a message policy that he's following. he went to martha's table, feeds the homeless, he went to business. people there were volunteering, furloughed government workers, pressing the point, trying to keep the pressure on as negotiations continue. >> so what goes on tonight? is there more conversation tonight? >> this is the way washington works. negotiations are a sensitive point. we learned that the president

called the congressional leaders in the white house for a meeting. almost as quickly the meeting was cancelled, not because there was an impasse or continuin imparks but they were making -- impasse, but they were making progress in the talks. they didn't want to blow the deal. all-important meetings between the house republicans, and senate republicans. they'll go through the detail and see if it will fly. >> a delay on the group event, cumbiyah event. is there an indication that the back? >> today the problem was it was not soup yet. the president will call them back. a big danger - i said this at the top - is house republicans,

and what will they do. the clock is ticking. the senate, if they have the votes, they can do anything. they don't have the votes right now. if you do the tick tabbing in the procedural rigger mar owl going into senate proceedings, it could take us past the thursday deadline, october 17th deadline, past the time the government can take the measures from possibility defaulting on the debt. then the house is a separate question. we are by no means, as a nation, out of the woods yet when it comes to this crisis. >> mike viqueira, our white house correspondent, staying up late with us. we need more education about the debt ceiling education, many of us have questions and confusion about the term and what it means to the economy is and us, our personal economies. joining us is professor peter morici, economist at the smith school of business, to help us

get through the answers. >> people toss the language around as though we understand it. we want to make it clear what we are talking about so all of us can get a bit of education on this. we have given you frequently asked questions - the first one - what is the debt ceiling? >> it's a statutory limit on the amount of u.s. bonds that may be outstanding. each year the government borrows money, adding to the debt. there's a statutory limit as to how much that debt can be. >> we say deficit debt, they are not interchangeable terms. >> the deficit is how much is taken in each year. the debt is the accumulation of that over all years. >> question number two - there's a lot of misconinterpretation about this - who holds this debt? i hear often people say the chinese hold all of our debt. is that true? >> no, there's $17 billion in debt - sorry, trillion in debt.

about $5 trillion is held by the government, the social security trust fund, for example. the $12 trillion held by the public - some by the chinese, japanese, a lot by foreign central banks because they back their currency with dollars. the rest investours - mutual retirees. >> it's not simply. when you look at the graphic it's sorted out in different ways than people expect. >> there's no majority holder. >> question number three - is the debt going up. >> absolutely. there's a $750 billion deficit this year. billion. >> when we hear from the white house, this notion that the debt ceiling increase is to pay off debts that have been incurred, is that true or false. >> not. the existing debt finances money

spent that wasn't raised in taxes. the to raise the debt ceiling is necessary for the president to spend more than he takes in. if you don't raise it, it comes down to a balanced budget. the white house prefers not to put it in those terms, they don't want to say they are not interested in a balanced budget. >> question number four - who gets paid? >> that is a good question. >> people said, "can't we decide to pay veterans benefits or social security? >> the government takes in 80% of the money it needs to cover expense, the rest is broaded. it comes down to what 80% of the 100 do you pay. we can pay the interest on the debt and not default. it's not mandatory that we default. it's $23 million on the debt held by the public. the rest will have to be apportioned out. it could come down to, if you like, paying everybody $0.80 in the government.

the government employees get four day as pay instead of five. social security 85%. one way or another it will be spent. can we set priorities. absolutely. unless priorities are set, they hold the money. he doesn't pay bills at all. in paying bills he's deciding or setting priorities. he said over and over i can't set priorities. it's nonsense, he'll set priorities, he'll take the money in and not spend at all. operation. >> i can do it for them, they don't want to. i'll do it for $1 a day. it's not hard. jacob lieu is the chief financial officer of the united states. if he was the chief financial officer of g.e. he'd find a way. maybe g.e. could loan them a chief financial officer so we could have a competent treasury secretary. for him to say he can't prioritise is to say, "i'm not

up to the job." >> we heard from madam lagarde from the international montry fund - a lot of serve. >> what is the global fall out debt? >> jacob lieu can pay the interest and use scare tactics to shake down the house. if they get up thursday and friday morning and say guess what, we have a back-up plan. this is how we are going to see that the debt doesn't default. if people make the interest payments, as they roll over existing bonds it will calm markets. if they do something like i'm afraid barack obama is going do, that is everybody gets 80%, i'll pay 80% of the interest - we'll be in default. at this point the bond holders around the world, the central banks, chinese what have you lose confident, will demand higher interest and the structure of debt around the

world collapses because everything it indexed off the u.s. debt. it's considered to be trouble free, risk proof. all other bonds are set against the u.s. debt. they pay more interest. >> certainly a lot to learn in the whole thing. we should go back to your class and study. thank you very much professor peter morici from the university of maryland, with us. >> coming up here on america - the government shut down departmenting local governments coast to coast, but particularly here in the nation's capital. how are we facing it? we'll break out the local government situation and the shutdown coming up next. that's all i have an

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snoop welcome back. we turn back to the partial government shutdown. it can be argued that the district of columbia has been harder hit than other u.s. cities. due to

an 1870 law, the anti-deficiency act, dc's budget is subject to congress. locally raised tax dollars koog be spent with the approval of capital hill. dc mayor claims hospitals are affected and a multi-million payment to the transit service. >> vincent orange is in our studio. explain this to us. a lot of people around the country have trouble understanding how the dc budget is related to the federal government. i know your experience is in finance, you are a cpa and a lawyer. means. >> it's relatively simple. the district of columbia money. >> tax receipts. >> yes. collection of revenue. it comes from dc residents that pay taxes.

now, imagine you have $7 billion this your pocket, your money, but you can't spend it. >> it's our money. >> we made the money. we can't spend it until congress approves the budget. it's like every other city in america, every other state. they are able to control the funds. that's the reason why last year the citizens of the district of columbia passed a law called budget economy giving us control to spend our dollars and we would not be subject to the federal budget process. we are caught up in something we have no control of. what makes it hurtful is that we don't have a person in the heptives. we don't have -- house of representatives. we don't have two senators advocating on our behalf. we are on the sidelines, yet we have $7 billion in our pocket. we can pay our bills and take care of the citizens in the district of columbia and provide

the federal government services. >> we do have non-voting members. >> they have nothing to trade. we have no representation in the senate. although we provide $21 billion in federal tax revenues to the federal government, we are larger than wyoming and ver month, we pay more taxes than 19 other states, we do not have a full voice in congress. we are held captive, on the sidelines while they are working out the issues. >> how tourists might see this in the district is interesting. we noticed in the last few days after the president's suggestion that some states in new york ponied up money so the statue of liberty could be reopened. utah hoped up money to the federal government, so its national parks could be opened up. in the district you don't have the authority to do that? >> we don't have the authority to do that. we are disappointed right now with the entire process, because

there was a resolution to provide the district of columbia the opportunity to spend our money, yet it's caught up in the political debate. unfortunately majority leader reid and president of the united states, president obama did not agree to that resolution being passed, which would free us from the federal shut down. with us being democrats and those being the democratic leaders, we are hurt by that. mayor gray was right, to stand up and advocate on behalf of the 630,000 citizens in the district to say, "that is our money". >> how much does it cost to run the sydney. >> $20 million a day. >> what is paying for that? i don't see garbage piling up. >> we have a rainy day fund. we had about $140 million that we are utilising now, and there may be additional funds.

emergency funds will come to an end and we'll be back to the dollars - we have them, but they haven't been aprop rited and if we spend we'll be in violation of federal law. >> bills will be paid that are due tomorrow, out of the emergency fund. >> that's correct. we are holding payments to the medicaid providers, we are not issuing tax refunds, and have not made payments to the metro. we have to be selective in what we pay. there's a limited amount of dollars available from the doing si fund. it's an emergency fund. this fund was not designed to run the entire government, and make all the payments. we are doing - making those payments necessary to keep the government afloat. at the soiment... >> you made decision, what about child care. >> metro, medicaid, tax refund

issues. if you hit the lottery today you can't get paid until we get our allotment of dollars, aappropriated dollars. >> the mayor said all my employees are essential, that's what keeps things moving. >> the mayor indicated we are essential employees. we are not going down that path at the moment. that would be a different avenue. central employees, we can spend our dollars, but we are not sure that we are on safe ground with that particular position. right now we are spending our contingency funds, which has nothing to do with the definition of what is essential. we say it is an emergency, something that does not happen. >> how many days? >> maybe a week. everything will come to a head unless the federal government gets their act together. i'm told that we are on the verge of a break through... >> we heard that. >> that the democrats and

republicans are talking and the white house, hopefully they'll dom to a solution -- come to a solution. we want everyone to know that the district of columbia is not a federal agency, we are not a national parks service, we are the district of columbia, we money. >> a lot of people say the outside. >> absolutely. the district of columbia are doing well financially. >> i appreciate you being with us. dc council member vincent orange with us tonight. >> coming up - energy independence - but at what cost. we'll talk about that. i'll visit with one pennsylvania community that has been split over fracking and its effects. that's next. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? >> they share it on the stream. >> social media isn't an after-thought, it drives discussion across america.

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nearly two million muslims gathered to play on mt arafat marking the beginning of handling. al jazeera's correspondent joins the people on their journey. >> this is the mount of mercy, it's been the focal point of arafat, where pilgrims spend the day in prayer and contemplation. >> for muslims arafat is a reminder of the day of judgment when they believe they'll stand on a plain similar to this for a final judgment. this is why arafat is considered the highlight of handling. wherever you go here, you will see people invoking god and seeking forgiveness. this man came from the u.s. of jewish ancestry, raised a

christian, he converted to islam two years ago. all pilgrims here wear the simple white dress, all markers of social status disappearing. >> a friend of mine who started learning about islam was not herself a muslim, but started teaching me things. i started with that. more. >> he hopes once he gets home, he'll try to convince family and choice. >> my family has concerns and issues. they recognise that i have a deep connection with god, with the one god and believe that people have no idea what islam

is. originally from texas he lives in california. his biggest challenge is the changed misconceptions in america about islam. >> it's unfortunate that the media in the states has portrayedi islam as it is. there's no connection between terrorism and islam. >> as the day draws to an end many continue their prayers in the spot where millions say prove et mohammed delivered his last surman. he hopes to visit more countries islam. >> that report from correspondent. >> finally we'll take a look at war photography. there's a new exhibit taking visitors on a journey through two senturies of armed

conflict - what do the photos leave out and what is their ultimate purpose. >> the exhibition describes the relationship between this subject war, and the role of photography in communicating about what happens during the war time. it's a story of 185 years of history of from the mexican-american war to the present day. how important or critically important the photograph is in crystallising moments that may not be seen by people who never experience war at first hand. >> i'm louie palu, a photo journalist. i spent up to five years in kandahar, afghanistan, covering the war there. i think that photos are kind of like a double-edged sword, right. on one hand you can engage with the critical crucial topic and not be traumatised relative to

being there with the photographs of war. really, the two key things that i realise that are missing from a photograph are the true experience of combat. number one, is smell. the smell of death, and the sound of war, the screaming, holerring, gunfire, explosions. i'm trying to give an entry point for people to learn. if you just traumatise people, it negates that. >> photography to a great extent by defining events and a single image runs the risk of oversimplifying something that actually has origins that cannot be contained in the image. joe rosenthal's photograph for the associated press of the raising of the american flag on mt. suribachi is a fascinating story. it became an important image for the u.s. military to shore up american support for the war

effort which was flagging at the time. what's often not told is the story of the men who raised the flag, and who through no intention of their own, became symbols of american triumph. several of them, the ones that survived were taken off the island, came back to the united states and were forced to march around the country being symbols of american history. >> what bothered me about the photograph, as much as i think it is important - i don't know who any of marines are raising the flag. i thought, "who are the guys?" are they anonymous gis. i want to know their names, where they are from. when they might have been killed, who did they do back to. >> the photograph we chose to be the signature image in washington is a portrait of a marine sergeant by louie palu. it's

a simply port rate. a view may overlook it. but if you look closely what you viewer sees is the experience of war in a single expression. the portrait shows a soldier who returned from patrol. the marine is exhausted, has sweat and dirt caked on his face, and his eyes look vaguely haunted. in a single glance louie palu summed up the seriousness of war, what it is, more generally speaking for generations of combat. >> i felt like i wanted to engage personally and psychologically with the people i was photographing. i had been toying with portraits, i wanted photographs that look at you, and that you confronted looking at them. >> there are many photographs of war that have been forgotten because they are too visually pleasing. on the other hand, images that resonate that last over time,

that stay in our minds are perfectly composed. they have elements of what we regard as beauty. our eyes are drawn in. even though it might show something horrifying, if it shows it in a distinctive, unusual and beautiful way, it can have a greater hold on our imagination. no single image will change the reality that war happens. on the other hand, what we found is that the presence of images that show events otherwise unknown, otherwise unrecorded and undepicted can change how wars unfold. you never know when, but at some point an amazing symbolic image will be made. we often assume that photography lost its unique power in the age of video, but we have found again and again over the last century is that photography

retains the special power. >> some incredible images there. that exhibit was at the brooklyn museum starting november 8th. a reminder to viewers. on tuesday, we'll continue our series on the fracking view. we'll go to west texas, home to one of the largest oil and zas producing areas. we'll show how the boom could make some towns go bust when it comes to order. >> if you want to comment on a y stories log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. tell us about what you have seen and what you'd like to see. join the conversation on facebook or twitter. thanks,ave a good night.

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