>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy, in new york. here are the top stories we are following. the indian diplomat whose arrest caused an uproar is in indian u.n. headquarters in new york. secretary of state john kerry expressed regret for the woman's treatment. she was arrested and strip searched. she is charged with visa fraud and underpaying an employee >> recommendations were delivered following the n.s.a.'s tackics, calling for an end to storing telephone conversations. >> the senate ends three years of parliament gridlock, easing

spending cuts for the sequester and could prevent a government shut down for the next two years. the president is expected to sign it. >> a woman from stone mountain georgia came forward as one of the two mega million lottery winners, and also to a clerk in san jose, california. because of the lottery rules differing, the store in georgia will not get a bonus, it will have to settle for publicity. >> for more news online aljazeera.com.

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you joining us to talk about it. >> time to see what is trending. >> this week the crossword puzzle turns 100 years old. the popular pastime was born in 1913, when one was published in the new york world, a majoro newspaper at the time. it started in new york city and spread to the rest of the country. simon&shuster published their first book in 1934, printing 136 copies much more were published and 2 million were sold. it was one of the top 10 nonfiction best sellers. on the facebook cage, carol said: >> to celebrate, you can download a crossword puzzle at

the website aljazeera.com. >> i used to torture myself every day. >> i never finished one. >> i have, but not the friday or saturday new york times ones. straight ahead - new lottery winners are counting their blessings. could the winnings be a curse? research shows vaguations could make you earlier. and baseball rocked by the concussion crisis. will the moves to protect players work?

>> this week's megamillions jackpot generated a lot of buzz with the second largest prize, a whopping $636 million, and two lucky people won - in georgia and another in california have the winning tickets. does hitting the jackpot lead to a life of blisz or make you doomed to failure. i'm joined by kent sepkowitz, contributor to "the daily

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>> the stated goal of the olympics is to g a peaceful and better world. politics gets in the way. president obama snubbed russian president vladimir putin for the second time in four months, declining to attend the olympics, sending a delegation with no high-level officials, and appointing two openly gay athletes, sending a pointed

message do russia after antigay laws. joining me now is daves zirin, the sports editor for the nation and host of the edge of sports show "game over", what was your rejection when you heard obama sending billy jean king and two-time olympic hockey medallist caitlin cahol. >> two reactions. the first one was wow. honestly, because you're not just talking about two people who are part of the l.g.b.t. community. in billy jean king, you are talking about a legendary sports and social justices activist. someone that reeked around issues to women's reproductive health and using her position as an athlete and tennis great to advocate for the position. in billy jean king's statement where she accepted the invitation to be part of the delegation, she said, "i'm going there to make sure that the sochi winter olympics are a

place where all people's rights are respected." in september billy jean king said she was hoping for a john carlos moment at the sochi winter olympics, that is a direct reference to one of the two protesters on the metal stand in 1968. that was amazing. in and of itself it was an aggressive act. this has to be said, it's my number one concern in looking at the issues, what will it mean for l.g.t.b. people on the ground in russia after the smoke has cleared and after everyone goes home. >> article 50 of the olympic charter says no kind of demonstration or political... : >> now, you mentioned john carlos, you wrote about the importance of what john carlos and tommie smith - when he raised their black-fisted hands.

should gay athletes ignore the charter and demand against the l.g.b.t. community. >> there's article six. that said that no sporting event should abridge people's rights when it comes to - this is the quote - race, religion, gender, politics or otherwise. l.g.b.t. activists pushed the ioc, the international olympic committee to say that otherwise means sexual orientation, under the umbrella of otherwise. you have two things in contradiction to each other. the second thing is the person openly gay, lesbian woman, caitlin cowan is someone who is part of the article six committee, which has been pushing, advocating for the ioc

to take a stronger stand. this was an aggressive act in a high-stakes game of diplomatic chicken against a country where they are seeing more advocating than ally. >> this is about human rights, as you mentioned now in the future. young men and women spend their lives working for the moment to represent the country on the world stage. the controversy over the antigay laws an overshadow the accomplishments. >> there will be the dominant story. but the responsibility is on the shoulders of the international olympic committee in terms of making sure it took place in sochy and on the shoulders of vladimir putin. that's their parliament voting

unanimously. to ask whether they are l.g.b.t. allies. to ask them to pretend they are on a her matticly sealed planet where the world of politics does not exist is asking them to be less than human. >> let's turn to the ongoing crisis of the head injuries in sports. in week it was announced that another athlete suffering from degenerative brain disease, and this time it was a baseball player, ryan freel, who played for various teems, was reported to have nine or 10 concussions during playing days. most understand the big contact sports. football, hockey happening there. in baseball? >> look, i mean baseball is in the embryonic stage of addressing this. the medical center where ryan

freel's brain was investigated, chris lewins ki made the point that baseball charts - they are not at the point where they are charging concussions, there's no reliable data. one thing they'll say is that concussions are absolutely endemic to football. concussions are almost certainly endemic to hockey. baseball is a sport where it's not necessarily endemic. ryan freel. in made him a fan favourite. he played with outramous style. tried to take out catchers at home plate. that's the tragedy. that behaviour that fans love will have to be kur sailed. >> home-plate collisions, they are looking to ban those.

do you see other rule changes that baseball is making that will help? >> i don't at all. the collisions at home plate have gone down a great deal in recent years because catchers play the position in a different way, doing the sweep tag, trying to catch the ball in front of the plate. that is public relations. if you look at the conaccusations that ryan freel had. the worst one he had, he was taken out on the field, after being clocked in the side of the head. at some level when you talk about social behaviour. these things will happen. >> let's move on, super bowl 48 will be at met life stadium. the obvious concern about a game play is the chance of snow. not to worry the n.f.l. floated the idea of moving the game to a different day if a major snow

tomorrow is predicted. why did they pick a north-east stadium without a dome? >> it was part of a rush. the n.f.l. stands with the families, it was part of that mood in the country, now it's $, it's hilarious that the n.f.l. is trying to cover its behind. let's be honest. i love the super bowl . i watch it on tv. i would love to watch it. it would be amazing. the super bowl is like woodstock for the 1%, where the corporate big wigs come in. there's no event in the united states that have more private jets. that's an fta fact. >> got to leave it there. we are running out of time. show is over.