the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. this is al jazerra america, live from new york city, i am jonathan betz with today's top stories. the attorney general prepares to influence a major expansion in rights to game couples. demonstrators voiced their anger over the toxic chemical spill in west virginia. also the terrible toll the conflict in afghanistan is taking on women and children. and the latest from bosnia where anti-government protests have turned violent. ♪ ♪

marriage equality is about to take a big step forward in the eyes of the federal government. tonight attorney general eric holder will announce a major policy shift for the justice department. he'll issue a directive granting equal status to all married couples including same-sex couples. holder is giving a speech tonight in new york where courtney has more. what is expected tonight? >> reporter: well, jonathan, he's expected to make news. now, they are doing sound checks behind me so you can already tell that this is going to be quite the celebratory evening. it's a fundraiser for a known game rights organization. now, the news that he is going to be making tonight is he's going to be announcing, the slid identification of the department of justice policy aimed at irradicating the discrimination of same-sex couples with federal law. the three key points are under the criminal justice system the accident same-sex couples will

enjoy the same legal rights as heaheterosexual couples in termf not having to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases, being able to file bankruptcy. again we are having the sound check, also he will be announcing a lot of news. as you can tell they are already getting the sound system ready for his remarks, jonathan. >> so celebration expected there tonight, courtney. it's been a big year obviously for game rights activist this is past year. hour significant are these changes? are you getting any early reaction from activists there? >> reporter: it's big news. people here already have smiles on their faces and gearing up for a big party. this comes off the back as you remember of the supreme court declaring it uncon unconstitutio degreed al benefits to same-sex couples last june, this is a continuation to reright rules to lessen discrimination. and holder is quite a game

rights champion. you'll sigh a big, packed ballroom this evening. >> without question. we'll have more on our later shows tonight. thank you. thousands of marching for civil rights in north carolina. it's called the moral march. the group's organizations posted photos online at today's rally? raleigh. they are mad at new policies like voter i.d. laws which protesters call immoral and uncons tugsal. more than 900 people were arrested at last yi march. although it did remain peaceful. in west virginia residents are still worried their without sport safe. they filed a competition against the department of health. hundreds of people marched today angry about the chemical spill last month that cut the water off to 300,000 people. andy joins us live from charleston, west virgina. andy, what happened at the protest today? >> reporter: well, it got noisey for a while, jonathan. health officials say despite the odd smell of licorice in the

water it is still safe. the demonstrators who don't buy it have now turned their anger away from the company that caused the chemical spill towards the company trying to manage it. hundreds of people marched saturday from a charleston church to the city's water company. last month, they were furious at freedom industries for causing the chemical spill. which shut off access to water for 300,000 charleston residents. but today, they are protesting the water company, accusing it of not providing enough compensation for the he is special of losing their water the th organizer of the rally sd 14 schools were close aids couple of days ago because of smelly water there is no con phipps defense the problems have been fixed. >> who do you trust is the community question right now? we get such cringe re contradicu things from day-to-day. i was told it was safe to take a hour and i can did and i got

infections. >> reporter: the tide is turning for local politicians who have long supported businesses like freedom industries. >> marches like this hopefully will show them that industry may be their gravy train but there are other industries who really wants to be here and who really want to do a really good job for our state. >> reporter: these folks say the protests will continue. >> this is a place worth fighting for. >> reporter: those demonstrators are each mailing a list of their demands to the water company, each putting them in an envelope that each contains a piece of black licorice, jonathan. >> okay, andy live for us in charleston tonight. thank you. west virginia towns not affected by the chemical spill now too are in need of water. seed or grove rushed to help during the crisis, it shipped water for neighbors unable to use their taps, but all that demands how now strained the system. >> the reservoir tanks are down to next to nothing. they have been serving everyone for a month. and now they need help. >> the town hopes to truck in water from other counties to

help refill their own supply. ivon supreme leader did not hold anything back when he said the u.s. would overthrow iran's government if given the chance in a very blunt speech told a crowd of air force officers that america is living when it says that it's friends with iran. he cautions officials economic recovery may not come from sanctions relief. offered in that nuclear power deal. the supreme leader was speaking at a ceremony for the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution. more and more civilians are being killed in afghanistan. a u.n. report out today says not since 2009 have so many women and children there been attacked. al jazerra's jane ferguson has more now from kabul. >> reporter: it's people like this who bleed the post in conflict. civilians, shot, blown up and battered by two warring sides. a teen aimer was simply standing too close to a suicide bomber last week.

>> translator: there was an explosion, it threw me and i was unconscious. after that i got up and was very dizzy. i fell down again. i couldn't see. >> reporter: he is part i've growing number of civilian casualties here. according to a u.n. report released on saturday, 2013 saw an increase across the board of civilians being injured or killed compared to 2012. most of the casualties were caused by anti-government versus says the report. the taliban say they don't target civilians and reject the findings. when civilian casualties increase that, of course, includes children, children like here, around 11 years old injured in a bombing where she's from. but in this ward even younger than her is her here, we think she's around two years old, injured in the head by a bullet. one of the very young victims of afghanistan's war. 561 children were killed in the fighting last year. those in charge of this hospital

in kabul say women and children are dieing more because the war has changed. once a cat and mice game with foreign forces as they leave the taliban is confidently engaging afghan forces and the intense battle grounds are flanked by villages, farms and schools. assassinations are also on the rise says the u.n. targeted killing of civilians, these are anybody who is not directly participating in the hostilities is a very serious thing. it may amount to a war crime under humanitarian law. >> reporter: but people here don't care who pulls the trigger or why. to them, life is trying to survive the relentless march of this continuous war. jane ferguson, al jazerra, kabul afghanistan. an aid convoy was taxed in sear ye today. state tv says four red crescent workers were hurt in the of h.o.m.s. one truck shot.

a mortar shell landed near another. there are con nibbling reports about who is responsible. the fighting cut short the three-day seize fire reached yesterday so aid could be delivered. earlier today 80 people were evacuated, more expected to leave throughout the week as part of the deal. in bosnia after days of protest, there was relative calm in the streets, people have been protesting the government since wednesday. who hundred hurt after police used batons and tear gas to fight protest he is setting the capital afire. tim friend reports from air area owe. >> reporter: the anger here is still growing mainly aimed at politicians who the country blaine for the country's economic crisis. >> not past 20 years, 25 years, we are suffering from our government, we are not doing anything, we are just, oh, my god, we are live in a bad country but nobody does anything.

>> reporter: unemployment is at a record high. the worst figures in the balance cans. while neighboring countries have made economic progress, bosnia has stagnated. overnight, violence erupted. the targets were government buildings, and factories which had laid off thousands of workers. in central sarajevo. government archives and other important documents were destroyed in the blaze. protesters were out on the streets again on saturday, this time demonstrating peacefully. sarajevo has not seen violence like this since the end of the war in 1995. some of these buildings have stood since the hungarian empire, but now they have been severely damaged but the anger of the crowd. some politicians admit that the public have been let down by an unwheeledding system of government. >> this is an outcry of the people of bosnia. no matter where they live to

basically bring the judgment over the politics that has been -- that has produced these problems over the last 20 years. and this is basically -- this has a revolutionary connotation in terms of that people are really dissatisfied, they want changes, and they are aware that if they don't go out on the streets and basically do something physically about their destinies, that these politicians won't do much for them. >> reporter: the government has called some of the protesters hooligans. but even those who did not take part in the violence say that they can understand why it happened. and pressure is growing on ministers to take immediate action to somehow revive the economy. tim friend, al jazerra, sarajevo. >> and joining us now live from sarajevo, director of social overview service, it's a sarajevo-based think thank you

live there and i am curious how is it there and how why spread is the anger? >> well, this was definitely the biggest and the widest spread protest that we have seen and the biggest event since the end of the war. we have seen things developing in sarajevo, today after the horrible day of violence yesterday, today the situation has calmed down a little bit. but there are still protests going in several places and what is interesting and encouraging is that we have seen people in places like sarajevo gathering and cleaning the place with the message to politicians we are cleaning our mess, so should you. >> so explain to us, then what is the source of all of this anger? where is this coming from? >> well, the anger is coming

from a cal accumulated frustrats after many years of political crisis which had a terrible impact on the economic and social situation especially since the last elections in 2010 when specially in the federation, essentially political scene did he since grated in to an all-out war with almost every political fraction shun fighting each other in various combinations which has logged the reform process. and further enforced european union to belong to -- block funds in the amount of some 50 million euros for the country. >> do you get the impression by what you have seen in recent days that bosnia is possibly on the brink of a revolution? >> it's really difficult to say. and the situation is definitely unpredictable. new protests are scheduled for tomorrow and for monday.

i would like to say that bosnia herzegovina does not have much of a culture of civic engagement, this is part of the reason and part of the frustration that people did not have a normal communication with politicians, now what we are seeing as a result of this is over the three regional government were forsed to resign so we are interesting into in a known territory. no one knows who will take over the power in some of these regions as a monday. and how the protesters will continue, they have come up with some very concrete demands, regarding the establishment of new governments. but a part of the problem is that the country facing new elections in october, so it is highly unlikely that the country could have early elections in the next two weeks or months because it's too close to the october elections.

>> a lot of unknows there. thank you. with social services in sarajevo. thank you for your time today. to the ukraine now where restlessness is knowing. thousands of people faced government wrote testers many of fed up with months of revolz, they squared off against a police barricade but it did not turn violent. they immediate with one man who says he won't leave until the government does. >> my name is victor, i am from political party people's movement of ukraine. i am here from [inaudible] from november 2000 for 10 years. in this huge are living 20 people. it's our headquarter. headquarter. >> reporter: so where do you sleep? >> yes, yes. here our people is -- are sleeping.

are sleeping. >> reporter: it looks very comfortable. >> no, ma'a comfortable. comfortable. >> state in state. state and kill. we have our police, our army, [inaudible] service, and our people are on this barricade all day. ukraine is historically is the part of europe and we will be with europe. we hope that parliament take decision which we want. >> reporter: if they do not take a decision, which you want -- >> no, no, no. we will stand here to victory. we will stand here to victory. >> one of the many voice says in ukraine today.

disturbing news about an american missionary being held in north korea. the. not all winter games in sochi. a competition of ice and snow. that's ahead on al jazerra.

♪ ♪ well, apparently athletics sunday enough to win a gold medal in sochi. al jazerra has more on the technology behind the games. >> becoming an olympic athlete takes years of train, the blood, sweat, and tears and dedication, does an athlete need more than that to win it all? now that the olympic games in sochi are underway, we'll see how technology is playing a role and giving athletes that edge to bring home the ultimate prize, a gold medal. joining me now is jenny editor of popular science. in preparation of the went every games the u.s. team worked with engineers, scientist to his develop the ultimate technology. now, did the u.s. have do that to be competitive with other countries? >> they do the olympics have become somewhat of an arms race, teams working with district scientists and engineers to make their technology the best. the place you really see that is

in the winter games because they are so rerights on equipment, like skis, snowboards and skill skeleton sweats. >> olympic skiers have been training in the high-tech winds tunnel what does that do? >> you don't get much practice in the middle i've jump. what though is go signed a wind tunnel where they stand there and practice their form and see which parts of their former actually creating the most drag and adjust their bodies. the u.s. team found a wind tunnel near their home base in utah and retrofitted it to practice in it. built ski bindings in the middle of the floor and projects the drag data where they can see it. they can practice all they want and take what they learned to the gee jumps. >> snowboarders have a reputation of being chill but are very competitive when you been it. this year the members are wearing a device tracking their g force and speed and velocity, what is this device. >> it's actually made by

catapult sports called the mini max s4 and they strap it to their butts when doing training hundreds in the halfpipe it has an excelling romster and measures their g-force. it lets them figure out how to adjust their form to get the maximum speed which will make them -- their tricks even brith and that's what snowboarding is all about, it's all about going big. >> we'll have much more on the story coming untonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. including how the u.s. bobsled team has been working with bmw to create the ultimate driving machine. as for the action on the ice, the first gold medal awarded at the sochi games went to an american snowboarder. if you said shaun white, wrong answer. i am talking about sage kotsenburg, the 20-year-old kid from park city utah had to qualify earlier in the day in the slopestyle competition which is making it's a olympic debut. but when he qualified he tweeted whoa, how random is this, i made the finals of the olympics. not only did he make it, he

captured a gold med and did so with a trick that he's never done before. kotsenburg calls it the holy grail. four and a half rotations while catching some serious air and he nailed it, scoring a 93.50. cat sen berg saicot sen said bee decided it do it half way through his run because he says i do random stuff all the time. that's who i am. hey, lady is. the women's hockey team 532nd in the game, hillary knight scored the first goal for the red, white and blue as the americans win 3-1 against a very good finland team who captured the bronze medal four years ago. team usa will continue qualifying against switzerland on monday. one of the hot topics of the sochi games has been about the awful, awful hotel conditions from yellow water to missing light bulbs and door knobs that do not open. don't believe me. check this out. american bobsledder johnny quinn had to bust out of his bathroom because apparently he got locked in after taking a shower.

so, quinn, decided to go incredible hulk and use his bobsled train to go breakout. it helps that quinn also use today play football in the nfl and cfl and hopefully he will be good to be once the bobsled competition starts on february 16th. that's a big hole. but he's 6-foot. 220. >> locked in the bathroom sabotage maybe, i wonder. >> maybe. >> and you know, we were saying earlier it looks like the summer olympics out there, frankly the weather is so nice in sochi. >> meteorologist: it's beautiful. do you want to go there with me? >> let's go. >> meteorologist: very mild this time of year. not saying that sochi is the warmest playing to ever host the winter olympics and temperature is very comfortable. this is a look at each the main umaintain us terrain and the events are held in the high he have elevations where they are pecks a little bit of snow as when he had in to monday and tuesday down in the city of sochi which is right along the coastline the black sea there which helps to mitigate the cooler temperatures which you are used to.

but mild temperatures expected the next couple of days, temperatures going to be in the upper 50s, pushing 60. right around sochi. light rain as i said expected in sochi and a little bit of light snow to dust the mountains in the higher elevations and as i already said it's the warm he had city to ever host the winter olympics according to nasa. we have more snow to talk about on the west coast of the sr*r are very good news after exceptionaexceptional levels of. pineapple express the river the moisture pushing in out of the hawaiian islands travels further air cross the east and northern california, right now winter storm warnings in effect, that's snow falling across the sierra all the way from y yosemite park which is gorgeous in the went time especially when it's covered with snow down in to king's canyon and the spread i stream of moisture not looking to quit. winter storm warnings in effect we could see anywhere from two to three feet of needed snow, so this is great news. that rain coming down also along

i-5 in northern california all wait towards fresno. now, remember that the ground has been very, very dry. and so with all of that sunshine, some of the oils from the roadways have been seeping up to the surface when you combine that with the rain that's when we see a lot of accidents out west, so please be careful in you are traveling just a little bit further towards the east it is cold, jonathan. back to you. >> cold indeed. as you know, it has been a harsh winter and it is not over yet. but not everyone is complaining about the snow. some actually find it inspiring. al jazerra'al jazerra reports f. >> reporter: the winter games may sochi, but for these artists in chicago, the competition is heating up. 27 teams both foreign and domestic are taking part in the sixth annual international snow sculpting competition. >> we have a number of teams from warm-weather climates and they practice with sand. so it's pretty amazing how they practice to get prepared for this event.

>> reporter: each of the 15 professional and 12 student teams begins with a 10 by eight by eight solid block of highly compressed snow. >> well, we have to tap it up like we are doing here, and we use the other can to compress it. and then we continue that over and over and over. >> reporter: the better the snow compression the easier it is for sculptors to work with. from there, the teams begin the process of chipping away at the snow block. some use small clay models to help good the painstaking process of creating their arctic sculptures, everything from monitors to the abstract. while a balmy 30 to degrees fahrenheit is ideal to building snow men may seem great to snow scumming, that'sculpting, that'. the single digit temperatures are better. under 10 degrees is better for us. last year we were at about 32 degrees and we had a collapse the day before judging and we had to rebuild. >> reporter: this year mike and his wisconsin team are fairing

better, with their death moth discuss the trusculpture. the freezing temperatures are a drastic change from their hometown of mexico. >> yeah, it's okay. it's okay, because we are moving and the sun is shining and everything is okay. >> reporter: so for these artists with the competitive streak and a penchant for the frigid it's all part of the fun. and with palm trees knit middle of thmidin themiddle of two winn complain. still ahead in america, the over and under on the minimum wage we'll take closer look at what americans are actually making. plus a spanish princess makes history in court.

and welcome back to al jazerra america. here say look at our top stories this half hour. justice department is giving more rights to game couples,

tonight the attorney general is expected to announce the department will grant full equal treatment for same-sex married couples in the federal court system. this move would provide marital privilege and couples living in states that do not recognize game marriage. violent protests in bosnia saturday marked the fifth dave protests in that country where 25% of the people do not have jobs, government buildings ransacked and set on fire as thousands took to the streets. now aid workers injured in homs this voids the three-day seize fire reached on friday. rebels and the syrian government are pointing the fink at one another for the out break in violence. ray new jobs report showed many americans are making more money. overage hourly earnings up 2% to $24 an hour. millions still make less than minimum wage patricia has more. >> let's go, let's go. >> reporter: training to trade

up. this program by the northern manhattan improvement corporation teaches young adults construction trades that can may $50 or more an hour, substantially more than the 7.25 an hour 23-year-old single mother tanisha anderson used to earn. >> being on minimum wage was like -- it's like you was living day by day almost, you had to budget and things and it's like i never really -- i never really thought that it would be as hard as it was. >> reporter: the program gets calls daily from applicants like anderson trying to escape an inflation-eroded wage floor that hasn't been lifted in almost five years. >> america deserves a raise. and there is overwhelming consensus. the people are ahead of the -- some of the politicians here in washington, across an ideological spectrum. people understand that you can't make end me on 7.25. and that we should reward hard work with a fair wage.

>> reporter: advocates argue increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would have positive knock ons throughout the economy. lifting wages further up the scale. increasing output by $22 billion. and creating roughly 85,000 new jobs. president obama has turned up the pressure on congress, using his executive powers to raise the minimum wage of federal contractors to 10.10 an hour and placing retailers like costco for [inaudible] creasing employee pay bought government prompting. but opponents arc hiking the minimum wage could harm small businesses and lead to job losses. >> now, there is a law of demand which is also called common says that says the higher the price of anything the less people take of it. and it applies to workers as well. >> reporter: while congress debates, tanisha anderson will keep working toward a better paying job. patricia, al jazerra, new york. anti-immigrant bias in

housing is nothing new but a landmark case in new york could become a mod the for communities who are fighting it. al jazerra's kalin ford has more on that. >> reporter: ever since he came to the united states from honduras 19 years ago, juan antonio has called farmingdale home. >> translator: i have liked this community since i came here but finding housing has been a problem. >> reporter: he set until a low income housing complex in 2004 then told they had to leave. >> we were kicked out early one october morning because there was an emergency, but it is a small emergency to have evacuated everyone. that same night my friend christina contacted profess ore stephon and that's how the long fight began. >> reporter: he and his law students took on the case for free, suing the lan authority make repairslandlord to makerefr when they found tud it was tagger towed for other area.

>> the people were tagger ned the area. the latinos 78 the building was sold to make way for they can luxury apartments, that year stephon took the case to federal court. >> we sued to be able to get comprehension for the clients, for being evicted from this building. but we also sued to force the village to replace the 54 units of housing that had been destroyed for low income people. >> we are working for the people of this community, looking after their lawns, looking after the irrigation systems for their homes. so if they don't want them in the community, but they want them to be doing the work for them. >> reporter: the case stretched on for more than eight years. >> i never imagined that in my second year i would be given assignments on complex housing discrimination civil rights case. >> reporter: right before it was due to go to court the case was

settled. the settlement garn fees 54 units of affordable housing will be built but they won't be guaranteed housing here where they once lift. farmingdale's mayor helped broker the settlement which includes undisclosed compensation for the nine plaintiffs. >> farmingdale is and will continue to be a model for affordable housing, we believe that 10 to 20% of the projects that come in to the vellum should be affordable and work fours hog. >> reporter: that means staying in the community where he has worked and lived for decades. >> translator: it's hardening that the authorities have finally taken us in to account. they know we contribute to the community just as there are professionals here, we day labor ares are also part of the working life of the town. >> reporter: a town that will include affordable housing for years to think come, thanks for the perseverance of the nine immigrants, kalin ford, al jazerra, farmingdale, new york. state capitals across the

country law makers are dealing with an unexpected dilemma of budget surplus, two dozen states are taking in more than spending. sometimes much more. new york now enjoys a $2 billion surplus. these states are in the black for a variety of reasons, north dakota's revenues grew as it's a gas and drilling industry expanded in some places suhr sus was the result of higher taxes joining us now from san francisco is david crane with the stanford ins doubt of economic and policy research. we hear these numbers, surplus sounds good, what does this tell us about the economy overall? >> good afternoon, jonathan. it depends on the state. so, for example, in california, where i am, the fact that the state has more revenues is mostly a function of the stock market going up 30% last year. and real estate markets doing well. and that's because california taxes capital gains at ordinary rates. and a lot of the income that the state gets is based upon unpredictable stock and real estate investment market. which is why governor brown

rightfully has said don't spend it, because it's highly likely toy vanity wait over the next year. other states oftentimes the revenues do reflect an improving economy because their tax systems are more closely a tuned to their economy. but that's not the ca us in california. >> so is that a real concern that this is short-lived, they might be back in to a deficit? >> well, there are two concerns, one is that in states like california, again, not all states are like california and very dependent upon capital gains, but the other big concern is that governments get to use a unique form of accounting that nonprofits and corporations and others do not get to use. they get to use something called cash-base budgeting. for example this year in california, the state expects a four plus billion dollars surplus but that's because the not recognizing more than $6 billion of costs. it's not paying contributions for retirement benefits, that it's otherwise required to pay. but by not paying them, they don't have to record those

aspenses, so that's really the bigger problem. and that's not true just for california. it's true of many states across the country. >> so are you saying that these numbers are not as encouraging as they might be and that these states are using accounting gym it's icgimmicks to make it looke they are larger surpluses than they actually do? >> yes. two things, the revenues are at risk because they are not dependable and secondly that the expenses aren't being fully recognized and so therefore there aren't really surpluses and that's why former chairman of the federal reserve fall voelker and former lieutenant governor of new york who form a commission on the state budget crisis their number one recommendation on that commission of which i was a member government should be forced to use the same acting of everyone else and that would allow the problems to be recognized immediately rather than pushed off. the real consequence by the way is for the next generation, by not recognizing the expenses today, by saying we have a surplus, when we really don't, what happened is that those

expenses accrue interest and grow and become very large liabilities for the next generation. >> so meanwhile there has been a debate in state capital as cross the country i about what to do with all this money, should they spend it, put in rainy day funds, what do you think is the best course of action? >> in a state like california they should use the money to pay down debt. the rainy day fund this california which is otherwise a good idea would earn 1%, money that just goes in to a bank account. the debt that they are not paying down related to the expenses that they are not recognizing accrues interests at rates as high as 7 1/2 person, one of the liabilities they are not paying in california is for the teacher pension fund, that liability they are not paying is over $3 billion it grows at 7 1/2% a year that's where they should use the money and the governor recognizes that. there is another big liability toy rostislav he tire-y health care, another $3 billion. [inaudible] krugeinning kruger r

and a half percent. >> we'll see if the lay makers agree, david crane. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. new information in the case of kenneth bay the american missionary jailed in north career has been tr-pbs ford now to a labor camp. he has been held for more than a year after being se sentence toy 15 years of hard labor. he's accused of trying to over overthrow the state. some u.s. law makers on the ground humanitarian mission to cuba. the congressional delegation an american serving 15 years there, and they toured the detention center in guantanmo bay. bail refused for a father killing in a theater for texting it. the hearing shows surveillance video from inside the theater. >> reporter: it was supposed to be an ordinary afternoon at a movie theater north of tampa. but before the movie even started, one man was dead and two wives were devastated. prosecutors say 43-year-old chad

olsen was textng his babysitter during the previews. his two-year-old daughter was sick. the theater was empty, but prosecutors say curtis reeves sat down behind olsen and tapped him on the shoulder and told him to stop texting. then reeves we want to get the manager. when he returned he continue to argue with olsen. the surveillance video showed in court appears to show olsen throwing popcorn. then you see reeves reach for his pistol and shoot. reeves shot olsen once in the chest and killed him. olsen's wife was shot in the hand by the same bullet. witnesses say she had her happened on her husband's chest. in an interview with police immediately after the shooting, reeves said he shot because he was scared. reeves says he was hit with a cell phone, prosecutors dispute it and say there was no sign that anything but reeves' pride was injured. olsen's wife spoke to the reporters after the judge denied bail. >> i am very happy and relieved by the judge's ruling i have no

doubt in my mind that it was the right decision. >> reporter: reeves' attorney says it hinges on self defense, his client had been assaulted. he said it's too soon to say whether he will use the controversial stand your ground law as a defense but sited it several times in court. that aal jazerra, dade city, fl. new testimony in yet another florida case put the stand your ground law back in court. a crime scene investigator said that nine bullet holes were found in the suv in which teenage are jordan davis was killed back in november of 2012. the man on trial is 47-year-old michael dunn, not him, who is white accused of shooting an african-american teen after arguing over loud music, dunn was carrying a 9-millimeter handgun for which he had a concealed pep are weapons permit. prince christina appeared in court in spain to face accusations of fraud and corruption it's the first time in history a member of the

spanish royal family has been involved in a criminal investigation. more from spain. >> reporter: no royal fanfare for the duchess as she approached the court on saturday morning, princess christina appears calm, almost cheerful as he entered the courthouse greeting the press on her way insides. on the other side of the building, there was little sympathy for her plight. republican demonstrators gathered outside this is within scandal that has fueled anti-monarchy feeling in the country. >> what spaniards are living say comedy. we are being defrauded by the monarchy, what we need is food and jobs. >> translator: we as citizens need to take some responsibility because corruption is a symptom of society's failure to deal with it. >> reporter: this is the out cool of a second attempt to question the duchess about her finances. she is suspected of tax fraud and money laundering at the company she co owned with her husband. he, in turn, is accused of using

his nonprofit organization to embezzle public funds, investigate ares have allegedly undercover billings to the companying, for their mansion as well as privates dance classes at their home. her lawyer said that she had been looking forward to this day to prove her innocence. the involve of princess christina in one of the most high profile corruption scanned little in the country has been a blow for the monarchy i, even though the royal household has tried to create a distance between them and the rest of the royal family. floss doubt the damage has been done done and will take an enormous amount of every effort to try to reverse it. >> translator: the public doesn't tolerate corruption, stealing funds or ta*bgs fraud d all of this has been reflected. this is why this case has left the public disenfranchised from the royals. >> reporter: it's left many angered in light of how the

financial crisis here as affected the lives of ordinary people. that members of the royal family were allegedly involved in such cases has only increased dissolution. with the country's establishment. >> beatle mania again descend odd new york city. marking the 50-year anniversary of the fab fours visits to the u.s., the beatles flew to the states back in 1964 met by thousands of screaming fans, days after they touched down they made their first u.s. television appearance in five decades later a plaque was unveiled at jfk airport with fans singing a lot to the cover bands. and when the beatles arrived in the u.s., vinyl records were king back them. the music business went digital long ago but vinyl never fully went away. now as jonathan reports, it's making a come back. >> in this location the first beatles seven-inch in america was presses. >> reporter: it's the largest vinyl record plant in the u.s.

for more than 60 years united record pressing in nashville was been making is examine distributing vinyl all over the world. 30 hydraulic presses push out one album every 30 seconds. >> it seems like magic a little bit. but the whole process is a science and a skill as well as an art. >> reporter: cds all but killed the lp industry 30 years ago but final sales have turned a corner in 2013lp sales increased by more than 30%. of course, while the trend is up, the number of vinyl albums sold is still a tiny fraction of music sales. and for what is behind the resurgence, audio files have always said music just sounds better on vinyl. >> few would debate that it's the best sound experience. >> reporter: but there is also a revival of the appreciation of the object itself. from the cover to the inside sleeve, albums put art at the forefront of the musical experience. >> those people who prefer having something tactile and

want that optimum listening experience, are the people who have gone back to vinyl. >> jack white solo album blunder bust in 2012 was the highest selling vinyl lp in the united states that year. >> reporter: jack white on lps is nothing new, he started his label third man records five years ago and since the beginning, albums have been a key components. >> it's always been on vinyl. so we have never stopped. this isn't new to us. >> reporter: what is new is that while album sales are climbing, digital music downloads are diving. in 2013, for the first time since the dawn of i itunes digital sales fame. on demands streaming, online radio and to a much smaller degree, vinyl all corrected to the decline. final is so hot in the albums are moving so fast, the record store just expanded adding one here in nashville. it's not just records flying off shelves, turntables are hot commodities too. >> it's fairly addicting i find once a sale somebody a turntable they are in here every week.

>> reporter: most vinyl releases come with a digital component giving collector the analog sounds they enjoy with the convenience they love. showing once again vinyl has staying power to keep on spinning through generations to come. jonathan martin, al jazerra, nashville. >> what's old is new again,. still ahead on al jazerra america, the real men behind the new movie monuments men. we'll tell you about the artwork they saved from the nazis. plus an extraordinary discover any england, human footprint thoughts to be 800,000 years old.

>> with al jazeera america. it is the true story behind a movie out in theaters. during world war ii the monuments men were art curators and historians who volunteered to help rescue artistic

treasurers from the nazi. another mission was also underway not in the battlefields but in the museum. >> it's the one thing we can't allow. >> reporter: the monuments men builds itself as the true ahead men viewers of a bands of brothers on the greatest treasure hunt in hint. george clooney's character leads a crew who knew more about michelangelo than military tactics. the character of sam epstein played by dimitri, was inspired by harry, at 88 years young, he's one of the few living members of the monuments men. born in germany, his family fled for america in 1938. the day after his bar mitzvah. >> the >> the rabbi recommended that we leave that afternoon for a ab eye to tell a jewish person to travel on saturday is a sync but that's the way the conditions were. >> reporter: he would return to germany a 19-year-old u.s. army

private and ended up with the monuments men by accident when heading for the front an officer discovered that he was fluent in inner man. >> he said, good, sit down in that chair and this guy next to you will tell what you to do. and that's my entry in to the monuments men. >> reporter: he would spend much of the rest of the war sorting through thousands of plundered works of art stashed in salt mines deep underground. the goal return them to their rightful owners. so this is one of the works rescued by the monuments men. >> it was indeed. it was the collection of lou i nathaniel rothschild and his entire collection was looted. >> reporter: but another side of the story would play out high above europe. alied bomber pilots of maps of targets to hit. but they also had more than 700 maps like these, drawn up by a team working in the frick art reference library in new york. so these maps are literally to make sure these buildings didn't

get destroyed or bombed. >> that's right. they were distribute today the air corp. so that the bombing pilots would the not hit the leaning tower of pizza. or not hit the mother church of franciscan order. >> reporter: without the efforts, the leaning tower of pizza might have been reduce today rubble. >> thr-rl 54 bombings rates on pizza alone, the fact that the tower and the cathedral are still standing is something of a miracle. >> reporter: a miracle made possible by a war-time decision to safeguard rather than detroit. >> i believe it's the only time that a country at war bent over backwards to preserve the cultural treasures of the enemy. >> reporter: for there y, being a monuments man say source of patriotism. >> for a brief period of time in civilization, a country adapted a policy not to take things, but to return it to their rightful own are. i am american and am very proud

of doing that. >> reporter: proud of honest that saved millions of cultural treasurers from the most destructive war in history. all, al jazerra, new york? great story there. most history. in england archeologists have found footprints believed to be athlete 800,000 years olds, samardzija spoke with bill kimble from arizona state university about what this discovery means for human evolution. >> the scientists who have authored this paper today are reporting the discovery of footprints made by some of the earliest inning lab tats tans of northern ube europe and in particular great britain. roughly 800,000, perhaps a little over 900,000 years old, they represent a small number of different individuals, some of whom they infer to have been young and others adult. based on the size of the footprints. together they have a series of footprints that help us discern how early europeans moved about

the landscape, the sorts of behavior in terms of finalling they might have been engaged in, about their height and weight which we can tell from footprints. they are by no means the earliest footprints of human ancestors but these are the earliest in our. footprints outside o of africa e very rare. we have the ability to take one step closer if you will to the actual individuals who were walk on the grounds landscape in this part of northern europe hundreds of thousands of years ago, one step closer because we don't have to rely only on their fossil or ar archeological refi, but instead can actually see where the feet hit the ground so to speak. and to learn something about their body weight, the size of their strides, how fast they might have moved during various

sometimes of behavior like forging or moving from place to place. apparently the footprints include both young and older individuals. perhaps something even about social structure of these early europeans. each of these prints needs to be studied in great detail and compared to the footprints that have been found in other places in other times in order to make sense of them in the context of the scheme of human evolution. >> our thanks to bill kimmel from arizona state university. quite a history there. more headlines when we come back after this quick break. >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here. >> truth seeking... al jazeera america's breakthrough instigative documentary series. over a year after the bengazi attacks, chaos in the streets...

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grant full equal treatment to same-sex couples. providing for couple not in state recognizing them. the group's organizers posted images online of today's rally in raleigh. mad the new policies like majorityism d. laws. violent protest no bosnia saturday marks the fifth day of unrest in at that country where athlete 25% of the people do not have jobs being government buildings ransacked and set on fire as thousands of people took to the streets there. four aid workers were injured after their convoy was attackeded in homs voiding the three-day seize fire reached yesterday. rebels and syrian officials are pointing the finger at each other for the out break of violence. iran amounts supreme leader said u.s. would overthrow their

government in given the chance. he told a crowd of air force officers america is lying when it says it's friends with iran. a am jonathan betz back in an hour with more news, but "inside story" is up next. >> it's taken us a day to trek to the small village of mulatos. we are up here in the mountains, and this is where colombia's war has continued, where the government has pushed the paramilitary, and they're at war. we have come to meet a group of activists.