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nightclubs and hobnobing with andy warhol. >> and went from a museum to art. ♪ good morning and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm morgan radford live from new york city. after months of turmile they are out for yanukovich's arrest and tapping the former speecher as the interim president but the defiant yanukovich says he is still in charge and calling parliament's decision illegal and jennifer is in kiev with the still unfolding situation. jennifer, yanukovich lost the control of the army and support this weekend and now there is a

warrant for his arrest and what exactly do you know about that? >> good morning, morgan. from the intense to independent square we have more news about yanukovich's movements in the last few days, this is coming from the interior minister and he says that yanukovich left in the early morning hours of saturday and he was supposed to attend a meeting of a political party and did not attend that and we heard from him on television and went to donask which is a home region where he was governor and tried to leave there bi-plane but stopped by border guards and he is in crimea and he stopped and a president on the run here and as you said morgan now a wanted man. interestingly we get that from the blog and facebook page and they do not have a press survey

set up in the past 24 hours there is a lot of change here. this is the parliament and wasted no time saying the yanukovich era is over and gave the presidential powers and voted out the former government. as european observers left the building the people thanked them for helping with change. the streets had been closed for weeks and they come to terms with reality here and they realize how much it costs. she is near the spot where the first protesters were cherokeed last month between where she stood and demonstrators and trying to stop the violence. >> translator: those boys here with me at the beginning i cannot find them and they are not here and i cannot bring them back. >> reporter: a shine for each of the lost at the spot where they fell and people call them heros and vow the sacrifice will not be in vain even though much of the country's future remains

uncertain. [chanting] and some have to be reminded this is a day of mourning and not time to revel in change. people poured into independent square, the site where it all began three months ago. >> 50% said and 50% unhappy because we have little victory but the battles continue. >> reporter: new battles in the country's south. and pro-russian demonstrators try to prevent the ukraine being raised and the divide between the country's east and west are a concern with the hope divisions can be bridged with no more blood shed. first working day here in kiev, the first time people are back, heading back to work here and even on independent square people are coming in and out and

there is very much here a very somber mood as the country really this is the first day of its new future, morgan. >> reporter: speaking of the new future alexander is in ukraine and is this a temporary post or is he a challenger to klitschko? >> he is a placeholder and safe pair of hands and we saw parliament move quickly and voting to give him presidential powers and he led the parliament through dismissing minister by minister the entire government and want to give a sense that it was stable and a sense there is no power vacuum but i'm not sure he is a power player right now and klitschko pulled herself out of prime minister and one of the favorites and a top deputy and she feels she has a hand in

power and may be eying a run for the presidency, those elections scheduled for may 25 here. >> reporter: we will be on the look out and jennifer glasse is live in kiev this morning and thanks for being with us. the development in kiev prompted some backlash in ukraine and the area is a stronghold for viktor yanukovych and al jazeera's david reports from the region in karkiev. >> reporter: standing high and proud in the scare, a statute of lennon by demonstrators to protect it and stand by the historic links with moscow. the region's governor walked with them telling them to be peaceful and resists the tide of rebellion sweeping out from here. >> translator: we are not going anywhere. do not trust anybody. today i'm still the governor. i will not resign. >> reporter: the words were in russian. this is one of the heart lands of support for viktor yanukovych

and his whereabouts are a matter of intense speculation but if he is seeking sanctuary this would be where to find it and it was their votes that got him democratically elected and the governor has been elected from the headquarters and kiev square has taken route even in the city and arming themselves with sticks and batons and molotov cocktails being carried into the building. tensions grew throughout the day with police being used to keep the two sides apart. events moved so quickly they should now perhaps be called progovernment protesters because it's their people who are ruling here. in the crimeon city south of ukraine violent clashes broke out when they broke up a demonstration staged to honor the memory of those killed in kiev. scenes like these are spreading.

on sunday night the standoff continued with a mirror image of months of demonstrations on independent square. but here they want to turn towards russia and keep their backs to europe. the statute of lennon and they are gathering in the square to protect. no denying the divisions are getting deeper and the situation is getting is dangerous. the occupiers of the governor's headquarters are determined to stand their ground and may be heavily out numbered here and feel history is now on their side. david with al jazeera. >> reporter: we now have breaking news out of egypt where the country's prime minister announced the cabinet resignation in a televised address and he took over back in july and led to the removal of mohamed morsi and the move paved the way for cici to declare

presidency. they are calling for a national peace conference this week and looking to end three weeks of rioting and violence that already claimed 11 lives and they are up set about high unemployment and high crime rates and over the weekend there were reports that the government blocked access to the internet so the president is claiming this holding is just a part of an attempt to unseat him. meanwhile thailand's embattled prime minister left bangkok and she is at an undisclosed location about 90 miles away, antigovernment protest intensified on sunday, three people were killed in a grenade explosion in the capitol and 20 have died since demonstrations began in november and they are demanding the prime minister step down. a memorial service was held for afghan service killed in an attack by taliban and 21 soldiers died on an attack in the post in the eastern kunar

province and the worst in years and soldiers were kidnapped that day and it came as the taliban had talks of exchange of u.s. prisoners. uganda president signed a severe antigay bill into law. it increases punishment for what the government calls homosexual offenses. homosexuality is already illegal new ganda but the new law will punish first-time offenders with 14 years in prison and aggravated homosexuality can lead to a life sentence and anyone who promotes it or talk about it without condemning it will be put to jail. >> he is homosexual and has aids and is double difficult and it's illegal so we changed his name and hidden his face and this provides services for people with hiv like sex workers and gay men and he comes here to get

life-saving drugs and worried the new law will make that impossible. >> i won't be coming here because i don't think the government will allow us to be here or to access medicine because they think the hospital is promoting us, which is not true. >> reporter: here in parliament the antihomosexuality bill was passed in december after years of discussion and increases jail time for homosexual acts and says medics and teachers must report homosexuals or they will go to jail too and the president said he signed it into law. [cheers] it's widely supported here and attracted heavy criticism from abroad especially uganda financial and military supporter the u.s. and president barack obama said he shouldn't sign it but that won't go down well at home. government minister threatened to resign over it and uganda population is one of the fastest growing in the world he is

concerned it could be reversed if everybody is homosexual. >> it's a western hiv, aids. it is -- it wasn't in terrorism and fighting left and right to wipe out the humanity is all that is left of it. >> reporter: religion is important to people new -- uganda and you can buy paraphernalia and they have populations that support the antihomosexuality bill but in reality the law is rarely enforced and few people go to court or jail and unlikely the new law could be enforced either but gay activists say the rhetoric around it has made life difficult and dangerous and

contradicts health call codes and health policies and legal experts say it's unconstitutional but they are a tiny minority and others say it's a disruption of corruption and lack of services and paul and others like him can only hope the politics will not cutoff the medicines that keep them alive, mr. webb. >> reporter: and that originally had the death penalty for acts and removed once the u.s. and other countries were against it. washington is condemning violence in northern nigeria and helping to track down the culprits and john carry say they will provide anti-tesh rhythm for a threat against boco and linked to violent attacks all throughout the country and accused of killing more than 100 people in the state of borno and called the attacks cowardly and have no place in our world. the u.s. will seek the

extradition of king pin, the suspected drug lord was arrested in mexico this weekend. and he faces federal changes in seven u.s. districts and named public enemy number one in chicago and wanted for drugs and in texas cocaine and pot and money laundrying and it's not clear if he will face an american court. >> this linked seven homes and he is known as shorty to capture and when he was left behind the risk of capture multiplied. mexican marines found him in the resort here. they found an arsenal of grenades, rocket launchers and guns but he was unable to get to them in time. on the run for 13 years and still the boss of the world's largest criminal organization he

seemed almost too powerful to catch and he was almost at a mythical status and had songs and detailing exploits and ways of evading the law and about his capture and it was designed perhaps to send a message that drug lords are not untouchable. under the last government many believe his operations were tolerated. a former federal prosecutor said the arrest is a potent symbol and triumph for the president and not enough on its own to break the cartels. >> translator: the strike is an important one. however what matters is the government's willingness to strike at the financial operations and maintain social programs to steer kids away from organized crime. >> reporter: but skepticism runs

deep and what is the government's message the violent country will not be safer. >> translator: he is one leader and in the end it's an hydra and you cutoff one head and two grow back in the place. >> translator: we are very corrupt country and the government does not practice democracy. >> reporter: the cartel's business is here and known to pay off officials. the last time he was jailed he escaped from a high-security prison after bribing guards and u.s. prosecutors are seeking extradition to face charges there. an official at mexico attorney general office told al jazeera he must face justice here first in a country who paid the highest price in the long drug war, al jazeera in mexico city. >> reporter: it's believed to be connected to drug sales in as many as 54 countries.

and much of the country is in for another cold snap this week and for the forecast we bring in our forecast ebony. >> reporter: i'm the bearer of bad news after a spring-like weekend but not what we will find this week. we will find a progression of the cold air making its way to the south and east as we get through the next couple of days. in fact, wednesday is our coldest day of the week. this is a look in chicago where temperatures are going to be falling to 20 today and down in the teens on tuesday and get to wednesday and low teens and where we will stay as we get through the entire workweek and we will be well below average typically this time of year and chicago mid and upper 30s and that is the case and 10 and up words of 20 and in the areas in the northwest where we are dealing with snow. we are not expecting to see a lot of accumulation with that and had rain through the parts of the northeast and cleared the

coastline but getting the north, northwesterly flow off the lakes and that is where the snow will pile up and here in parts of new york and especially north of syracuse is where we could see up words to a foot of snow and localized area could see snow and widespread activity moves to the area and watching a disturbance moving across the great lakes and watching low pressure from the mid atlantic and up the coastline and throw moisture in our direction so possibly 2-4" in spots. morgan? >> thanks so much. look a little more closely at that bowl of cheerioss and a lot of people actually make some of your favorite breakfast cereals have been locked out of work for months now, a look at the big labor dispute happening at kelloggs. plus meatballs laced with poison randomly left on a city street

and someone may be using them to hurt dogs. nba jason collins makes history on the hard court and what it means for other openly gay athletes following in his footsteps.

to driving under the influence of drugs and daughter of late senator robert kennedy and robert cuomo and she crashed into a tractor-trailer in new york and she kept on driving and when she was found she failed a sobriety test and took a sleeping aid instead of thyroid medication and she is willing to plead guilty when her trial begins later today. an out pouring of support for a young guilty abducted and killed in missouri. thousands of people lined the streets of spring field to pay tribute to hayley owens and a middle school football coach has been arrested, wood, and they found her body in trash bags in

his basement. if convicted he will face the death penalty. dog owners in san francisco are warned to watch out for poisonous meatballs and found in the neighborhood where one dog died last summer and another one was sick after eating similar meatballs laced with rat poison and they are hidden in the grass so the dogs can see them before their owners do. >> this cannot be happening n again, let's not have another trauma up here. >> who would do that? it's the cruelest thing in the world. >> i'm furious because you take it out on dogs, who would take this out on dogs? >> reporter: police collected some of the mystery meatballs over the weekend and now being analyzed to see if they were also laced with poison. a labor dispute at a kellogg's plant in tennessee is entering the fifth month and are at a stalemate after labor negotiations broke down and as

al jazeera john than martin reports more than 200 workers have been locked out of the building. >> after 53 years on the same job davis never thought it would come to this. >> no matter what we are going to stick together. >> reporter: the 72-year-old is normally inside the kellogg plant managing the production of fruit loops and everyday for the past four months she has been outside on the picket line, the cereal locked out davis and 200 coworkers and not allowed back in the building until the union has a new contract and using replacement workers from a staffing agency to keep the plant operating. >> we don't have anything to negotiate because all they want is casual help and alternative work and we're not going to go for it. >> reporter: the workers make an average of $28 and do not contribute to the health insurance premiums but to cut costs kelloggs plans to change

the union contract for future hires and increasing temporary workers and paying them $6 less an hour with different benefits. a kellogg's spokesperson said we need to improve the coast structure and flexibility because it's not sustainable and puts at risk the long-term viability of memphis operations but they say a contract with more casual workers means her hours will be cut or worse forced out altogether. >> they are not going to take these middle-class jobs that there is very few good ones left in this city and we're not going to let them take it. and put casual help in here. >> reporter: with neither side budging kellogg not only locked out the employees in october, it cutoff their health insurance. >> it's hard for me to see my coworkers losing their homes and automobiles and their children not having insurance, that is hard. kelloggs was a family to us.

to have this happen to us, it's like losing a child. >> reporter: the company says it wants to setting on a fair and competitive contract but the workers say the only way they see this ending is for the national labor relations board is to say the lock-out is illegal and violates the contract with the union and an nlrb representative told al jazeera that looking in the charges is on going. memphis, tennessee. >> reporter: analysts say kellogg is holding out for a similar result as caterpillar and are reducing worker compensation packages and in the end they won. they are speeding up "the stream"ing service and will connect to broad ban and allowing them to go to netflix

customers but did not have to pay for the connections and could put pressure on verizon and at&t to follow suit. samsung is expected to unveil the latest galaxy smartphone at the world congress in barcelona today. the devices have surged in popularity and the s 4 topped 40 million in global sales and that's just six months after launching last april. samsung also took the wraps off of two watches with fitness features. on wall street they are reluctant to make moves and the dow is down one point and the dow opened at 16103, s&p 500, 1836 and nasdaq is 4263. asian markets were in the red after chinese home prices fell for the first time in more than a year and european stocks are mostly lower at this time. consumers are paying more at the pump.

the average price of gas jumping 12 cents a gallon in two weeks and the average nationwide for a gallon of regular is $3.41. the unrest and the oil producing nations of venezuela and south sudan tributed to the rise in prices. despite opposition in korea military drills underway and their only drills will house this year's war games are different from previous years. the difference between u.s. and russia after the uprising and how it could impact the two super powers. >> i don't have time to really think about history right now. i just have to focus on you know, my jobs. >> reporter: that is jason collins taking the court as the first openly gay professional basketball player. how it could impact sports all across the spectrum. >> reporter: and michael sam

breaking down barriers and will be at the combine and hoping to land a j-o-b.

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>> best ways to cope... my husband was like a single father... >> my mother said: "take care of dad" on al jazeera america ♪ good morning to you and welcome back that al jazeera america, i'm morgan radford and these are our top story, the u.s. and south korea started drills near the korean peninsula and that is despite demands from north korea to stop and the north says they were invasion and realleviation threaten to cancel family reunions going on several days and craig is live in hong kong and what exactly goes on during these drills? >> well, these exercises are held every year and there are two exercises this year, the first code named key resolve

which involves computer-simulated drills and the second is code name for eagle and that involves military exercises, air, naval and ground military exercises and both seoul and washington insist they are defensive in nature and playing out various scenarios of a north korean invasion and north korea say they are invasive and it threatened in the past nuclear attack when the exercises are being held. >> defensive or invasive is what we see and last year north korea was threatening nuclear attacks but it has been relatively mild in comparison and why the sudden change? >> well, north korea is interested in opening dialog with the u.s. and also at this time there are these family reunions going on. these are reunions by families split in the korean war in

1950-53 and they have not been held for three years and they were cancelled because of the exercises and break down with dollar with the u.n. and threatened to cancel them this year but the u.s. said it may tone down party exercises but not involving aircraft carriers or bombers north korea said these programs could, in fact, go ahead. the family reunions are still going on in north korea. >> reporter: what is china saying about this? it's the only ally so what is their response to all of this? >> well, that is craig morgan but china has been weary of this in the past 12 months since un has come to power and a bit of a maverick and executed his uncle's family months ago and the uncle was close with

business interest in beijing and china is weary of north korea's movements at the moment and trying to foster increased ties with the u.s. and the u.s., in fact, to that end invited china to military exercises in thailand a few days ago, the first time it has done it and shows both the u.s. and china are willing to collaborate on strategic security issues in this part of the world. >> reporter: and craig is live with us. the foreign minister will meet with nato officials this week and will discuss the fate of ukraine and the growing divisions between moscow and the west and court -- we look at that. >> the west laerns to europe and the east looks to russia and that is ukraine now but a familiar feel. germany after world war ii and part of the reason that nato was

created. and the lord summed up the purpose as to keep the americans in, the russians out and the germans down. now the crisis in ukraine has amplified the old tension between russia and the west and the soviet union collapsed 20 years ago but nick burns a former u.s. ambassador to nato saying the atlantic alliance is essential for europeans and u.s. alike. >> it has a territorial defense of the continent and since 149 and the most successful alliance in modern history. >> reporter: with the end of the cold war the solve yet-led war saw nato go down and more joined to 2004 and countries that are allies and part of the

soviet union itself. >> and you can imagine what putin is doing in bolgaria and poland and that is not possible. >> reporter: they moved into areas beyond the natural mandate like afghanistan and helping victims of hurricane katrina and it's helping the rivals distresss vladimir putin. >> he thinks it has hemmed russia in. that the fight over the status of ukraine is in some ways a fight to retain russian influence in its broader zone. >> reporter: but charles of the council on foreign relations said it was nato's role in the removal of moammar gadhafi that soured russia on nato. >> the russians were very upset because they felt that nato took

advantage of a u.n. resolution to topple a regime and it moved the goal posts and putin declared it the recertain -- resurgence and exploiting for political purposes. >> reporter: that embrace of pride may have an alliance and it may look like the past and i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: and the cofounder and director of the european leadership director is joining us from london and the president yanukovich is wanted for police for mass murder and what kind of message is the government sending with this warrant for his arrest? >> well, i think it's clearly

reflecting the anger of many people in ukraine about the events of particularly last week but also the events for the last few months. but a message is a very, very dangerous one because at the moment the new revolutionary government if we can call it that in kiev is doing things which make it look more and more difficult to find compromises with those parts of the country and those communities, russian-speaking communities in the country who may have a slightly different view of this. few crane is to stay together as one state the internal politics of this needs to be patched together. yes, somebody needs to take responsibility for the deaths of last week and saying the yanukovich warrant is understandable and a need to seek compromise. >> reporter: you mentioned compromise but the events of the last few months and now the parliament has presidential power what is next? do they choose between the eu and russia? >> well, i think everybody outside of the ukraine needs to

work very hard to make sure they don't have to make that kind of fundamental choice. it's very dangerous to say to a country you must make a fundamental choice when the country is very divided and the question you ask if i may say so is slightly premature and today in ukraine there are russian-speaking minorities in crimea who are reportedly joining armed malitia and it's not clear ukraine will stay together as a single country and cannot take the country for granted at this stage. >> reporter: you say people out of the country have to do work so they don't face the decision and what type of work do you mean? >> well, i think on the economic side of things and the ukraine economy is in a great deal of trouble at the moment and a need to have a dialog with russia about having a space that expands from lisban and portugal

on the pacific coast of russia and we need to take ukraine off the hook and work with ukrainians to deep enthe trade and economic ties both with the eu and with russia. >> reporter: you mentioned taking them off the hook in russia, how much influence does russia really have on the east of ukraine which we know is a strong support for yanukovich suppor supporters. >> there was a u.s. aid poll in december of ukrainians asking which direction they wanted to turn in and that was a divided vote, 34% said they wanted closer ties with russia and the other closer ties with the eu and this is not a fridge minority we are talking about here, this is substantial part of the population and everybody needs to work internally and outside of the country to stop

talking in terms over fundamental choices one way or another. there is a win-win offer here. if the european union and nato and russia can work together for a supportive environment for ukrainians themselves come together. >> win-win and thanks for the cofounder and director of the european leadership network and win-win and susan race is talking about the remarks she made at the diplomatic was attacked in 2012 and at the time she was ambassador to the u.n. and she described the attack as a result of a spontaneous demonstration and the comments were an issue during the presidential campaign with republicans saying the obama administration was down playing the attack in benghazi and they say that is not exactly the case. >> i commented this was based on what we knew on that morning was provided to me and my colleagues and indeed to congress by the

intelligence community and that has been well validated in many different ways since. and that information turned out not to be 100% correction. the notion that somehow i or anybody else in the administration misled the american people is patently false and demonstrated. >> reporter: she has no regrets of what she said in the aftermath of benghazi and christopher stevens and others were killed in the attack. historic weekend in sports and we are right here with the details, ross? >> it was a landmark moment in los angeles with jason collins going hollywood, 35-year-old colin was the first openly gay player to lace it up in the sports league and signed a ten day contract with the brooklyn nets and entered in the second quarter against the lakers and they gave him a nice ovation, 7 foot center played 11 minutes

and got two rebounds and a steal and no points but played solid defense answer that is fence and why he was signed and after the game jason collins reflected on this historic night in sports. >> i do understand there is significance but at the same time there are other athletes, robby rogers, michael sam, male athletes who are active, all of us, you know, it's about being an athlete and going out there and winning and competing and player hard and it's just that's what it's about. >> reporter: over at the nfl combine michael sam addressed the circus on saturday about coming out and today will showcase his skills on the field and missouri will be tested in the 40-yard dash and shuttle run and football related drills to see how he stacks up against the

competition and you cannot measure a person's heart and desire and wants to get judged bisexual orientation but michael sam the football player and we are in indianapolis at the nfl combine and providing us updates throughout the day on al jazeera america later in the day and hopefully the topic and it's news but hopefully one day it will not be news. >> look forward to hearing later in the day. for more on the first openly gay player we are joined by gerrad max and he made it clear where his focus was and we will pull it up in the control room. >> i'm thankful for the opportunity and that's why i work so hard, why i train the way that i do. i'm focused on trying to learn the plays, trying to learn the coverages of the game plan assignment and i don't have time really to think about history.

>> reporter: and only focusing on the plays is he down playing the importance of his contract? >> maybe but the truth is he is there to play a basketball game last night and who has time to think about where do i sit in the historical sense. he knows he is a historical figure and there is nothing but to get ready for the lakers which they beat if first time since 97. >> reporter: the decision to sign jason was basketball decision and needed increase insees and with experience and size we felt it was the right decision for a ten-day contract. was this a basketball decision? >> can it be a win-win and the nets might be suited more than any team and handle it in the right situation and that is where jackie robinson started with the brooklyn dodgers and you can find ways for the nets to maximize this but they needed

a big man and collins played great minutes last night and an integral part. >> reporter: if it's a win-win why not give him more than ten days? >> this is unique with nba, after january 5 they can sign players to ten-day contracts and can sign two ten-day contracts before offering a contract for the rest of the season and it's kinds of a neat deal. >> trial period. >> trial period and let getting part-time work before full time benefits. >> reporter: like a freelancer almost. >> reporter: jason collins and the nets know him spending time with the team and the team mates he has and many played with him before, this is a perfect situation and the nets, whether there is any ulterior motive, they needed a big man and suited for him.

>> he was asked about michael sam in the press conference. do you think having an openly gay nfl player will effect how they are treated in the locker room and perception? >> i think it spoke volumes because i expected the crowd to erupt and it came and it went. there was applause, they were respectful to him, it was a celebration and moved on. so many people say to me is this really a story, do we need to hear about this? i think we are getting to the point where do we really care. as somebody who is gay i don't want it to be a story, why is it a story, we are talking about sports and has nothing to do with the other side. >> reporter: speaking of this issue of respect nfl passes a law saying we cannot have racial or homophobic slurs and do you think it will go to other

sports? >> it may be but i don't want it to be a fear of gotcha where people don't want to get caught and we don't want the league to be one where the words go around because we will be looked at as bad folks and let's not use this language because it's not appropriate and not respectful and there are words that get thrown in sports on a regular basis that are not appropriate for living rooms or classrooms. >> reporter: they are still used. >> they are still used and the league is trying to cut down on that and nfl said first a 15-yard penalty and then ejections for players. i guess there is a time and a place. >> reporter: you don't think this is the right time? >> it is the right time but for what reason is it being done on a football field, can fans hear what is being screamed out and if one fan is yelling at another in the sport of competition, i don't know, i'm not quite sure where i sit. >> you don't think it's wrong. >> reporter: it's wrong and the words are wrong and cannot send

a message but if we don't hear it and if it's on the field sometimes microphones pick it up. >> reporter: if the tree falls in the forest it did not happen, if the fans cannot hear it. >> no, i think it sounds a bad message and if words are used on the field they are likely to be used out in the field and someone may pick up on it and it may be policing policy rather than helping it out is what i'm trying to say. >> reporter: thanks for joining us. the death of the oldest known survivor of the holocaust and her remarkable story now a oscar nominated film and what caused her to live in the camp. >> a subway tunnel looking like ninja's. >> reporter: what is blight is now considered art and we will go back to the beginning of the graffiti movement right here in new york city.

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>> it's a different ukraine, the good morning to you and welcome back to al jazeera america, the oldest holocaust survivor dies at 110 and does not have the dark days defy the rest of her life and snow and rain across the country and we go to ebony. >> this is a look across the country and a few areas we will hone in on where we are finding the rain and snow and starting off in the northwest. where we see the same pattern as we have gone through the weekend and snow and rain have come in across washington and oregon and idaho and montana and the same pattern will happen through the day. and rainy day for you in the mountains and we are expect to see the snow piling up from the cascades to the rockys tough for travelers and midwest light snow showers coming in mainly across

nebraska and missouri and the wind off the lake and up state areas of new york take a look, we will continue to see that fetch and really dump some snow into northern areas of new york and up words to a foot in localized areas and stormy weather as we hang out across central florida. >> thanks. the oldest known survivor of the holocaust has died and she spent two years in a nazi concentration camp but it was the joy of making music that kept her going and we have a look at her very remarkable life. >> reporter: she lived through humanity but always saw beauty. >> i'm full of joy in my house for instance, i am the only one who is laughing. nobody laughs here. >> reporter: and she spent two years in the terror seized

concentration camp in the check republic and 3300 jews were killed there over the course of world war ii and she was allowed to perform as a pianist. >> i knew we will play and i proceeded every weekend, play, it can't be so terrible. the music, the music, the music is the first place of art. >> reporter: upon the death at 110 alice summer was the oldest known survivor of the holocaust inspiring story and captured in the lady number 6 and the film is nominated for an academy award this weekend. >> music is a dream. music is a dream. >> reporter: gerald with al jazeera. ♪ the film is the best short

documentary. from the subways of new york to museums graffiti has come a long way and painting over murals and white washing the walls and the response is to go back to where they came from. she is known as sharp and returns to his stomping grounds, the lower east side and the birth place of the graffiti movement that began in the 70s, on the corner of ridge and stanton stands a building and once home to monitor and close friend martin wong and he took the renegade teenager under his wings. >> it has emotion and the neighborhood changed a lot but for the most part it still retains creative energy. >> reporter: and writers used spray paint as tools, the city was their canvas, from subway cars to station walls peppered with vivid paintings, a powerful

form of self expression and shelter here of a collective of artists and activists. street art emerged from below ground and went to mainstream and two worlds collided. >> dressed up like hoodlums and bums and going to subway like ninja and the next weekend we are fashion plates and going to fancy party and hobnobbing with andy warhol. >> reporter: they are painted by the 1980s downtown scene. >> martin bought the painting from some kids who stole it who knew he was a collector of graffiti art. when he found out it was an futura i want one of his paintings and think he paid $200 for it. >> reporter: and martin wong saw the cultural value of his

friend's work and before his death in 1989 martin donated his collection of street art to the museum of new york and it has taken 20 years but now it showcases the evolution of g graffiti from the shadows and now loved world over and there was a frenzy after his works began mysteriously appearing all over new york just last year and the respect and desire to preserve it is far from universal and most recently a developers decision to white wash five points which is a mecca for artests pitted them against big business and years after the birth graffiti has powerful feelings among those who embrace it and happy to see it go back to where it came from, under ground. the new city as canvas exhibition runs through august at the museum of the city of new york. and dell walters has what we

will follow in the next hour. >> at the end of the first hour is what we are follow, an arrest warrant for ukrainian president viktor yanukovych and the acting interior minister is wanted for the murder of peaceful civilians and the white house squares off with the supreme court at issue that cuts carbon emissions at plants and military exercises between u.s. and south korea underway despite objections from north korea. a mysterious illness has effected some people like polio and are partially paralyzed and the second african/american to earn the title and talks about how he became one of the nation's top wine experts. a cool air mast will settle in north and east and we will have the temperatures you can expect. the news continues and dell

and i are back in 2 1/2 minutes. don't go anywhere. the country moved on, and he no locker matters.

>> ukraines former president is a wanted man, an arrest warrant issued for victor yanukovych. >> a greenhouse gas showdown, it could put the brakes on the e.p.a.'s ability to act without congress. >> those joint military drills between the u.s. and south korea underway despite north korea

claiming they are rehearsals for an invasion. >> every time you break down a barrier is another chunk of time. >> one man overcame his adversity with a knowledge of fine wine. >> good morning, welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. ic morgan radford. ukraine is starting another chapter in its history. president viktor yanukovych is out and there is a warrant for his arrest. >> the parliament calling an emergency session tapping former speaker as the countries interim president. however, yanukovych is defiant saying he is in charge calling parliament's decision illegal. jennifer glass joins us from kiev. the president losing the support of the party over the weekend.

now there is a warrant for his arrest. what do you know about that? >> that's right, del one join me here from the edge of independence square. president yanukovych we know is on the run. the prosecutor is preparing a warrant, police looking for him. we have a little more information about his movements over the past few days that from the new interior minister. he says that yanukovych left kiev early saturday morning, first he went to one of his political bases to meet with leaders of his political party, then went sunday to another political base where he was governor. he tried to leave the country from there on a chartered plane but turned back by border officials. the last known whereabouts, he wrote a public letter to his guards releasing them from duty. very much a man on the run this morning, this after parliament sent haim clear message that his

presidency is over. >> the acting president of ukraine is this a temporary post or is he a challenger now. >> the feeling is he's very much a place holder, a safe pair of hands to show there is no power vacuum, that ukraine goes on and willing and able to take on business at usual. we have the e.u. foreign policy chief here in ukraine today to talk about ukraine's role in europe. ukraine wants to move forward, get past this, doesn't want there to be any pause. its economy is in freefall and it really needs international help. he is a safe pair of hands to guide things through parliament. he is an aid to the former jailed opposition leader, now in

the government, who does not want to run for prime minister again but maybe eyeing a role for president. he is her aide so feels like she has a hand in power, but the challenge for power will start really in the next few weeks. >> jennifer glass as she has since day one joining us live from kiev. thank you very much. >> thailand embattled prime might bester left bangkok, saying she's at an undisclosed location about 90 miles away. this after anti-government protests intensified sunday when three people were killed. 23 people have died since november when protestors demanded the prime minister step down. >> venezuela's president is calling for a national peace conference looking to end three weeks of rioting that have claimed 11 lives. as rachel levin reports, bad economy and high crime has people taking to the streets.

>> they are frustrated and angry, fed one what they feel is a government that doesn't listen to them. nearly three weeks ago, students in venezuela ignited a protest movement that is spreading across the country. some want the government to change, while others want to change the government. >> we always dreamed that venezuela will advance instead of regress. we don't build here. security is terrible, we have food shortages, now we feel for the first time that our dream of a different country might happen. >> with 15 years of presidents chavez most of these students have never known any other system of government. so far, their cries for change are mostly resonating with the upper class and people who have historically always supported the opposition. >> even in this neighborhood, where the president enjoyed almost full support, people have

similar grievances, mainly high inflation and soaring crime. >> many here have benefited greatly from social programs chavez funded with oil revenues, free medical care, better schools and government housing. students are getting a free university education, thanks to hugo chavez. they have not gone to a single protest and have no plans to do so. >> they don't know what they want. they say they are protesting because they can't buy flour and milk and wait in line at the market, but the truth is they don't want maduro. it's the same old story. >> the opposition leader warned the students that the movement has little chance of succeeding if it doesn't spread to other sectors of society. >> i asked those who are protesting not to lock yours up with your own people.

what good does that do? who you are going to convince by locking yourself in on your observe streets when everybody there is already convinced? >> how many people hear his call might determine the future of the movement. caracas, venezuela. >> three u.s. diplomats and several journalists have had their press credentials revoked. the penalty said that is all an attempt to unseat him. >> recent violence in northern nigeria, a group accused of killing more than 100 people. secretary of state john kerry called the attacks cowardly saying they have no place in our world. >> the pentagon is looking to

shrink the army to preworld war ii levels. chuck hagel is expected to announce budget cuts today. the cuts include eliminating an entire class of air force attack jets, but some members of the congress say they will try to block that proposal. the army's peak following the 9/11 attacks it had 570,000 troops fighting two wars in afghanistan and iraq. president obama pledged to end both wars reducing troop levels to 490,000. after today's proposal, the numbers will foul between 440 and 450,000, the smallest u.s. military since 1940. >> also today in washington. the supreme court set to hear a case determining how much power the federal government has when it comes to regulating emissions from greenhouse gases. this power has been challenged twice before in the last seven years. >> president obama's vow repeated during his state of the union to act on his own when congress won't gets a challenge

today. >> over the past eight years, the united states has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on earth. that's why i directed my administration to work with states, utilities and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump in the air. >> that is what 17 republican led states and energy groups will argue against in front of the supreme court, saying the president and the environmental protection agency are over stepping their authority, by passing congress when it comes to limiting carbon emissions at power plants nationwide. it's round two in a fight dating back to 2007. in that prior decision, the e.p.a. says the supreme court granted the agency power under the 1970's clean air act to regulate air pollutants that cause climate change. groups like the u.s. chamber of commerce will argue the e.p.a. is overstepping its authority. it claims the 2007 decision was limited to regulating emission the from vehicles, not factories.

>> the shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen overnight, but the debate is settled. climate change is a fact. >> a fact the obama administration says that gives it the right to extend its reach to so-called stationery sources like power plants, which the e.p.a. says are the largest source of emissions and pose the greatest risk to human health. republicans, however, say keeping the regulations would result in the costliest and most in truce i have measures ever attempted by the executive branch. both sides admit any decision will be largely symbolic because the e.p.a. has other ways to regulate pollution. >> libby casey joins us from washington. what are the real world repercussions of this case? >> this has been in affect for three years. the e.p.a. says any plants, companies that are building new plants or modifying old ones have to limit the amount of air pollution or greenhouse gases. we are talking about coal fire

powered plants, chemical facilities, oil refineries, the e.p.a. went narrow on this saying the regulations really only pertain to the larger plants. they could have gone bigger and targeted smaller plants, mom and pop operations, but the e.p.a. said this is what we're targeting, big plans that emit the most. because of that, it has a fairly narrow scope. when we say the supreme court rule, which should come this summer, it will only relate to some plants, not all across the country. that's why people are saying this is in many ways symbolic, because it will be one of these things that both sides can use to argue their point. if the obama administration wins, they can say look, we have some authority. if the republican led states and some of the companies win, then they can say that, you know, we have more of an argument an our side against the barack obama pushing forward with its own regulation. >> what about the industry, do they support the case against the e.p.a.?

>> of course many do and they're involved in this, some of the larger plants. some say hey, the e.p.a. could have gone farther and targeted smaller plants. it didn't, so we feel ok with how this stands. there is also one company that filed a friend of the court brief supporting the e.p.a. it said we have instituted these new changes in our plants and it has not been a problem and made good economic sense for us. it's not as clear as industry against the administration. >> libby, thank you very much this morning. >> so don't get used to it. the spring like weather in some parts of the country this weekend won't be sticking around. for more, let's bring in our meteorologist. >> even as army as this morning, you will feel that drop in our temperatures across many years of the northeast. i just want to show you the timing of it all as we go through the day today. this is 3:00 this afternoon. notice all that blue shading, the cold air that is going to continue to drop southward in

the next 24-48 hours. by wednesday, our cold effort day of the week for most areas as that cold air movers into the southern plains with highs in the 40's for dallas. we were just in the 70's. we are going to be dealing with 40's. in philadelphia, certainly an area with the spring like warmth over the weekend where we climbed to 57 yesterday, so above average numbers. now we are going to drop well below by 10 degrees. upper 30's monday, mid-30's for tuesday. we could be talking a little snow mid week. the winds will be an issue, kicking up throughout the day, as temperatures fall, it's going to feel colder to your skin as you step out. you do need the heavier jacket getting into the afternoon, mean mild this morning. we have snow showers out there and mainly with the westerly flow off lake ontario, could see six to 10 inches north of syracuse. this system is bringing light

snow into parts of the midwest. back to you. >> a memorial service was held for afghan soldiers killed in a taliban attack. twenty soldiers died on an army outpost and seven soldiers kidnapped. it's the worst blow to government forces in recent years coming just as the taliban suspended talks over a possible exchange of u.s. prisoners. >> national security advisor susan rice is speaking out defending the remarks she made shortly after that talk on the u.s. compound in benghazi in 2012. at the time, she was the ambassador to the united nations. she described the attack as the result of a spontaneous demonstration. those comments became a contentious issue during the presidential campaign, the republicans saying the white house was down playing the attack. rice it is that's not the case. >> i commented that this was based on what we knew on that morning, was provided to me and my colleagues and congress by the intelligence community. that's been well validated in

many different ways since. that information turned out in some respects not to be 100% correct. the notion that somehow i or anybody else in the administration misled the american people is patently false and i think that that's been amply demonstrated. >> she said she has no regrets about what she said in the aftermath of the attacks. four americans, including ambassador chris stevens were killed in that attack. >> we're fog a developing story out of egypt where the countries interim prime minister announced his cabinet registration in a televised address. he took over at interim trial minister after the removal of president mohamed morsi. nicole johnson joins us live to tell us exactly what that all means. what can you tell us about the interim prime minister's announcement? >> first of all, he didn't actually detail in his address why the cabinet was resigning,

so is still waiting to get more information about it. we do know the interim prime minister will continue to run that cabinet up until a new one is appointed. what's important to note is what's been going on in egypt over the last few weeks. it's been quite unstable interns of protest and strikes. there's been a lot of strikes by organizations to do with doctors, pharmacists, factory workers, as well as public transport workers, so there has been quite a bit of unrest on the street and this could be the interim president's response to that growing instability. >> you mentioned the instability of the past two weeks. could this then pave the way for the army chief to prepare his candidacy for president? >> that's right. that's really the million question at the moment. now, we don't know yet whether the head of the military, the defense minister general assisi

is resigning. if he wants to run for president, he will have to resign. if he is resigning, this would enable him to go ahead and run for president. we're expecting elections to be held in april, so it would be very timely. >> all right, aljazeera's nicole johnson in doha, thanks for joining us. >> head lines around the world, the denver post saying colorado wants to clear the air adopting strict rules for oil and gas companies, requiring leaks to be detected and fixed. it means they have to capture and install 95% of emissions including methane. >> that means they get the energy bill and protect the environment and health. >> a lot of companies not too happy about that. >> japan said fukushima power plant workers will be checked for exposure.

>> after a disaster, you're finding out that the workers who worked on the cleanup now find themselves facing the risk of cancer, already 33 case cases detected. >> in workers under age 18, young kids. >> a battle over same sex marriage in michigan, about whether kids raised by same sex parents are worse or better than children raised by other parents. >> why doctors in california are having a pretty hard time figuring out this disease. it's already affected at least two dozen kids. >> plus south korea kicking off those joint military exercises with the u.s. despite the opposition from north korea. we'll tell you what it can mean

for those relations between divided neighbors. >> $2 trillion is our big number of the day, and what global leaders are now pledging to help the world's economy.

>> now to today's big number, $2 trillion, that's how much the top economies pledged to add to the global g.d.p. over the next five years. >> the announcement was made at the g-20 meeting in sydney this week. they plan to increase investment and creating tens of millions of new jobs. the group accounts for 85% of the global economy. >>, to aljazeera america. also a medical mystery in california, some children coming down with a polio like virus and partially paralyzed. >> first let's look at temperatures across the country. >> it's going to be a cooler one for some down right cold over the eastern u.s. the midwest has dropped down to minus one in minneapolis, 13 in

chicago. it felt mild in new york city, 35, temperatures starting to fall a bit, 39 in washington, d.c. don't expect much of a warmup. we enjoyed a nice above average weekend, but now reality sets in, the colder air returning and temperatures kind of holding settled as we go through the day, so only 33 in portland, 36 in boston, new york city 37. do group that heavier coat or jacket as you make your way out into the upper midwest. temperatures much cooler than our average low temperature. we drop to 16 below zero in minneapolis, right now at minus one, it feels like minus 16 in fargo, feeling the cool air there. dallas will get to 60 before the much colder air settles in mid week. >> medical researchers in california are concerned about a miss citious illness that mimics polo.

>> aljazeera's erika pitsie joins us now. >> the department of health is involved. >> they are working with the c.d.c. in atlanta to investigate what they call an emerging infection. these infections possibly caused by a virus are suspected of paralyzing nearly 25 young children, all within a single year. public health officials do not know why. some of the symptoms include sudden severe weakness that comes on sometimes after a mild respiratory sickness. in at least five cases, the children lost the ability to move their arms or legs, which dangle like empty balloons. scans of the patient's spinal cords show patterns of damage similar to those found in polio sufferers, which is disconcerting to doctors, because polio's been eradicated for decades in the u.s. a neurologist said what we are seeing now is bad, the best case

scenario is complete loss of one limb, the worst all four limbs with respiratory in sufficiency, like the old polio. they know definitively that it is not polio, because in all cases, the children were vaccinated. he said whatever it is, it is very rare. they urge parents if there is a sudden onset of any symptoms, go to a physician immediately. >> what do doctors think it is? >> they're grappling with it, investigating saying it could be a family of viruses that includes polio, as well as a milder hand, foot and mouth disease that is common in young children. no vaccine for this. >> has it happened initials? >> yes, reported cases in australia and asia. as for the u.s., these california researchers said that the reason why he feels there are no other reported cases is no one is looking for it.

it hasn't been around a long time. it will be interesting to see if the c.d.c. gets involved if they see more cases. >> in business news, netflix is hooking up with comcast to speed up it's screaming service but it's unclear that that might mean to customer costs. they will pay to connect directly to its brad band network allowing it's content delivered directly to comcast customers. they have similar deals with cable vision cox but don't have to pay for the connections. this could pressure other broad band providers to follow suit. >> knee kia is taking the wraps off the low cost smart phone in barcelona. the new x phone will allow google android operating system rather than windows. it is weeks away from completing the sale of its hand held business to microsoft.

it's not yet clear what microsoft will do with the phones once the deal is done. >> retail earnings the focus on wall street, the weather adding to the sectors challenges, one analyst saying retailers are under pressure because consumers are still suffering. >> job gains have been fairly mediocre over the last two months and wage gains have been pretty much flat. there is improvement, but it's very modest. >> home depot and target among the retailers set to report earnings no week. wall street looking to open higher, do you points up after snapping the winning streak. >> overseas, asian markets in the red after chinese home prices eased for the first time

in more than a year. european stocks mostly higher. >> lawmakers in ukraine are working to restore order following weeks of deadly protests. what the road ahead holds and looks like for that divided country. >> u.s. and south korea moving ahead with war games despite demands by north korea to back off. how that could affect family reunions taking place between the two countries. >> from rough city streets to a five star restaurant, the youngest somalier in the world. >> to the court, where men and women compete. >>

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>> i'm del walters. >> ukraine's president viktor yanukovych said he is still in charge but is a wanted man. >> one man's passion for cooking helps him escape his neighborhood and become a top wine expert. >> the british da cabinet meeting in scotland, all about scotland said desire to become an independent country. first, lawmakers in ukraine moving quickly to form a new government. the opposition controlled parliament calling an emergency session sunday, tapping former parliament speaker as the country's interim president. there's spill overfrom months of unrest. anti-government protestors now guarding government buildings and patrolling the streets of kiev. nick shiffrin reports they now control the countries fate. >> if you want to leave kiev in a hurry, you have to go through 24-year-old on the left and the 36-year-old on the right. >> have you ever done security before? >> no. >> have you ever done security

before? >> this is the very first time. >> for the last three months, they fought the government. they feel they won and to the victors go the spoils, the local airport. their goal is to crack down on protestors. they check passengers against picture of the most wanted, not the police's most wanted, their most wanted. they want to be the conscience that keeps order. >> are you trying to find people president obama enact punishment. >> of course not. we are citizens. we want order, we want the law. >> when the real police arrive, the volunteers shoe them away. >> this police, just three days ago, they were ready to shoot us just because we stay here. this is hypocrisy. >> you probably heard of rosy the riveter. the caterer, every member of the opposition is till helping. they feel the fight isn't over. >> if i'm doing my best and i'm

the average person, then probably everybody else is probably doing their best and if everybody is doing their best, then we are just -- we have to win. >> in the heart of kiev, the police have evaporated. the rag tag bands known as the hundreds are in charge, even in the seat of power. >> this is the court yard of parliament, the future of the country is being decided inside. outside, you see one of the main opposition leaders giving a speech, and even here, his security are the citizens brigades. >> a professional service their not. their head protection designed for construction workers, or in this one's case, snowboarding. despite the do-it-yourself armor, they have a command structure. >> to reboot the system. >> yes. >> the politicians seem to realize that. >> the people control us, because they move the government away, and a new government back

will move us. >> down the block, they control the cabinet office. to some it may seem a building as important as the pentagon is guarded by boy scouts. >> do you feel you replaced the police in kiev? >> definitely not, but we do hope that the police will get replaced. >> his day job is in i.t. he said his clients can wait. what can't wait is what he called ukraines third revolution. >> what is done here changes us all. for years to come, anything that is not right, we'll make sure that we work to make that right. >> for that, the public thanks them. they people the volunteers will protect them and their futures. nick shiffrin, aljazeera, kiev. >> andre is the executive board member for ukrainian congress committee for america and joins us now. i asked you a second ago, is it

that corrupt? >> yes, it is, the people have been tired of the corruption, the amount of money that yanukovych and his family, the clan has gathered. his son, a dentist has a net worth of $6.5 billion wimp he has amassed in the last five years. >> that's a lot of fillings. >> you're right. >> i want to show you something mentioned sunday, national security advisor susan rice speaking, take a listen to what she had to say. >> it's not in the interest of ukraine or russia or europe or the united states to see the country split. it's in nobody's interest to see violence return and situation escalate. >> we hear talk about the west being associated with the e.u., the east with russia. some say it needs to be a divided country. your thoughts on that. can there be a united ukraine talking to both russia and the e.u.? >> yes, absolutely. the ukrainian people are united in this in a generational divide. we are not talking about

russians versus ukraineens, we are talking about a soviet identity dying off year by year. >> but not yet. >> not yet. if you talk about odessa, yesterday there were 4,000 mourners who demonstrated for the people who died. others as well are protesting for the spirit of democracy. what you see holding the line are people who have banners not of the russian flags, but of the soviet flag. just on your footage yesterday i saw in front of the statue of len anyone, the slava glory to the soviet army, they're talking about a past that does not exist. >> is there a sense that they are owe posed to the european union or those who live in the east are afraid of the old soviet union? >> it's propaganda. it's people like the russian

foreign ministers talking about the war of 1709, this is some kind of polish swedish conspiracy theory. these are all stories told to people who are frightened in the east and they've been for years about nato and that's why not engaged in this process. the younger people have been involved in the process, want a better future and that's happening now. >> we have seen this before, libya, egypt, where there are popular uprisings in the street, a call for democracy, there is stepped up efforts to get either the united states or european union involved and two years later, chaos. are you concerned now about ukraine? >> everybody's concerned. yesterday, our pop star who's been on the stage every day for the last 90 days put out a tweet saying i'm very scared about having deja vu in the orange revolution where there was a change of power and things went downhill again. we are talking about people

trying to keep the spirit going. there was a post up that said instead of pictures of the president, we should have pictures of the dead in everybody's office to remind them what we're fighting for here, a better future for ukraine. we're not fighting for having ourselves to become popular politicians. >> there has been an arrest warrant prepared now for viktor yanukovych, the president. can you move forward when you get ready to put the former president on trial who was also very popular in the eastern part of ukraine. >> absolutely. this was the problem in 2004 and 2005. in this country people might understand the analogy of richard nixon. he resigned and did not seek further power -- >> the court pardoned him. >> after that, nixon did not run for any further political office. what happened in 2004-2005 is that yanukovych was allowed to not be prosecuted for trying to steal the election and other

crimes that happened at that time. point web decided to run for prime minister, rebranded himself with western political consultants and achieved the status of prime minister and easily the presidency after that. so what has to happen now is definitely a prosecution of this man for crimes against humidity. this is not just a problem in ukraine anymore. there have been whisperings in hague about a tribunal having the crimes prosecuted by them. >> the executive board member for the ukrainian congress committee, thank you for joining us. >> ukrainian americans are voicing concerns about their home land's future. demonstrators gathered outside the ukrainian consulate in new york on sunday. over in chicago, protestors wore black and read the names of those killed during demonstrations in kiev. >> i'm happy, but i'm scared. i hope the new government, that they put in, is the right people

that they put in and we don't go through this another five or six years down the road. >> now they're trying to put up a temporary government, which will then allow for the elections to take place in about two months and then in fact, get rid of all of the dead and commie wood that's there. >> when the consulate general came out to address the crowd in chicago, he was booed. >> the u.s. was issued a new travel alert for americans going to ukraine, the state department telling them to change plans or lie low if they're in the country already. the warning says in part: >> while the transition has been largely peaceful, there is still a potential for violence. >> there are new allegations the n.s.a. stepped up its efforts, the german newspaper saying leaders in germany are now watched, coming less than two months after the white house

band the n.s.a. from spying. germany is pushing for a new spy deal with washington. >> the u.s. and south korea started military drills near the korean peninsula. the exercises went ahead despite demands from north korea to stop. the north said these drills are rehearsal or an invasion. they threatened to cancel family reunions that have been going on for the last several days. we are joined live now from hong kong. what goes on during these drills? >> these are annual drills. they are held at the behest of the u.s. and south korea purely as not only a show of strength from the u.s. as it moves towards the asia pacific region and south korea, which wants to ward off a north korean threat, but both countries say that they are beautiful defensive, that

they are not aggressive and that these drills actually look at various scenarios of a north korea invasion. there are two separate drills that are taking place, one code named key resolve, involving computer simulated drills. the second is bold eagle in two months, involving drills of military and ground exercises. >> it looks like we lost the feed there. craig leeson reporting from hong kong. >> despite tensions between north and south that you heard craig talking about, family reunions are still taking place. today, 360 people from south korea met with relatives in the north for the first time since the korean war in the 1950's. those were planned last year as the north began calling for better ties with its neighbor. >> uganda's president signed an anti gay bill into law today. homo suit is already illegal,

but this increases punishments for what the government calls homosexual offenses and the punishment 14 years in prison. aggravated homosexuality will lead to a life sentence. anyone who propose it or talks it without condemning it is a crime. >> the u.s. wants a captured mexican drug lord to face charges in his country. he was arrested after 13 years in hiding, believed to be behind illegal drug sales in 54 countries. federal prosecutors will seek his extradition to the u.s., guzman facing charges in seven american cities, including chicago, san diego and texas. >> an outpouring of support for a young girl abducted from her missouri home and killed. thousands of people lined the streets of springfield to pay tribute to 10-year-old haley

owens. they held a concert and benefit with all proceeds going to a memorial fund. police arrested a middle school football coach, craig michael wood. they say her body was found inside a trash bag in his basement. if convicted, he faces the death penalty. >> a 65-mile stretch of the mississippi river is shut down, crews cleaning up an oil spill created when a barge collided with a tugboat outside new orleans. the barge began leaking crude into the water. authorities closed the river to keep the oil from spreading. officials say it won't affect the drinking water and no one was hurt. the cause of the collision is under investigation. >> right now athletes are heading home from the most expensive olympics ever but for russia, the games were about a resurgence on the world stage. we look at the legacy of those sochi games. >> the winter olympics finished as they started, wit with a celebration of what it is to be

russian, but where as the opening ceremony was self defined, the closing ceremony was through european eyes from an italian screen writer. there was much to say about these olympics for some particularly in the west, they were the home -- the terrorist games -- $51 billion. they were even the dog-killing games. it wasn't just foreigners, pussy riot risked whippings and arrests for a protest video. a spotlight was shined on the many allegations of corruption. >> it's easy to forget that the olympics are actually a sporting competition, particularly when they come with as much political baggage as the sochi games. on the sporting front, it's the host nation who are on top of the world. >> despite the disappointments of russia's men's hockey team,

russian athletes finished the competition in first place on the medals table, so president vladimir putin is proud. there's nothing like victory to boost the national mood. >> putin made no attempt to hide it, he said that this is the olympics devoted to the resurgence of the russian nation so for him, it was extremely important to do this sort of national building effort through sports. >> global events can always spoil a big party. ukraine's on going crisis has overshadowed these games to a certain extent. ♪ >> once the circus leaves town the people in this region will answer the question was it all worth it. aljazeera, sochi. >> in two years, the 2016 summer

olympics will be held in rio de janeiro. >> so much concern about these olympics. good to see the thing's started, finished. morgan has been talking about this all morning, men's and women's basketball league play against each other. >> we could all be on the same team. >> i would win. [ laughter ] >> all you have to be is 18. there's no age cap, del. it's the mixed basketball association, equal pay for equal play. the men and women both get paid the same amount of money in the league. emily drew has the story. >> this is harry, and this is heather. they're raising small children, working full time day jobs and both play professional basketball in the same league. >> it's kind of a new experience, because most of the time you're playing with men, you play all hard.

>> they moved to kentucky to play for the mixed basketball association, formed by the harlem globetrotters. >> i think it will be an exciting brand of ball because of the unknown. >> dr. howard, defined the globetrotter model to a new franchise of ball. he imagined co-ed teams around the country playing each other. >> you see a man versus a woman the same size who may win. >> the players make $25,000 a year, a solid offensive for athletes. heather is a single mom from the bronx and says the money helps, but says she's there for the love of the game and to prove a point. >> giving girls the same opportunity, the same -- that same spark to want to do this and we're showing them that it can be done. >> the first two teams both in new jersey practiced together and both men and women are

adjusting. >> forget that they're 6'6", 250 pounds, so i've definitely been chucked a few times. i get back up. >> i haven't been dunked on yet by a female. if that happens, i'm quitting. >> tonight's the first game night. it starts with three women and two men on each side. that flips every quarter. women have a point advantage from the three-point men's arc, women get four points. >> this is how the game looks. the quarters with more men are faster, a bit rougher. there are plenty of mixed gender fouls, charges, and checks. the score stays tight the whole time until the end, when the north jersey jammers take the end over the north jersey ballers 95-93. >> we quickly showed them we can hit this nba three and that we can run just as fast as them and kind of run laps around them

sometimes. >> when it comes to getting dunked on by a girl. >> i'm walking out, taking my shoes off, i'm leaving. i'm deuces up and i'm out. [ laughter ] >> emily drew, aljazeera. >> the league will have teams from new jersey as well as california and even hawaii. i would have no shame in my game if i get dunked on. >> i have knee problems. >> you have knee problems. >> elbow problems. >> see i later, ross. >> it is the highest honor in the world, not anchoring with ross, the young man who's overcome adversity to become a master sommelier. >> how some brazilians are getting ready for their world famous carnival. >> lawmakers in congress move closer to the mid materials. what they might accomplish, if anything, as some members fight to keep their jobs. >> heavily armed,

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>> this is a live look at new york city on this monday morning, a sunny start to the work week, but it is going to get colder and get colder soon. >> that's right, del, good morning and welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm morgan radford. the young african-american man breaking ground with his passion for fine wine. >> first, where the snow is around the country today. >> in a few spots we're watching for rain and snow is into the northwest where it's been pretty persistent throughout the weekend. the pattern is going to be the same, another area of low pressure, tracking and when it does we're going to see snow north cascades, northern rockies, some areas up to a foot but as you get into the lower valleys that's where we're only

expects a sowm of inches but seattle and portland all rain. the midwest triggering light rain and snow showers across nebraska into missouri and we have rain to clear the coastline and into the northeast watching lake ontario is where the snow will pile up, just a narrow band of snow could actual 10-inches in syracuse. >> china will combat its status as the top carbon emissions in the world. an aggressive cut in the use of coal is needed, pledging to limit the number of cars on the road and close factories. there's been a publish backlash, people complaining about the dirt eight air and water damaging their health. >> swine flu is back this year hitting people pretty hard. a new report says that people between 18-64 make up 61% of

h1n1 related hospitalizations. that's double the number in the past three years and health experts say people in that age group of less likely to get vaccinated. >> before stillens are cleaning the streets before this weekend's carnival, meant to purge sins before lent. more than 5 million people expected to take part this year. >> carlton mccoy sentence your average wine lover, 25 years old, one of the young evident in the world to become a master sommelier and second of a attorney to ever accomplish that very rare feat. his love of wine flows out of every single pour. >> the snow's perfect, scenery phenomenal, an awesome day for hitting the slopes, but this 29-year-old isn't your typical ski bum. when he's not on the slopes on his day off. >> this is a nice old bottle.

>> carlton mccoy is hard at work as the world's newest and youngest master sommelier. >> i love it. >> sommelier is the highest level you can arrive to. >> every time a black person does something like this, you break down a barrier. >> he works in the little nell restaurant in aspen. carlton calls it disneyland compared to where he grew up. washington's d.c. ana cost so neighborhood. >> i was robbed at gunpoint twice before i was 15 years old. >> his grandmother was his life raft. >> my mom passed away when i was two years old, i was pretty much left with my grandmother, because my dad was addicted to drugs and lived that lifestyle, so never around. >> his grandmother taught him to

cook and his skills taught the eye of the organizedders of a culinary program in washington, d.c. he excelled and soon became interested in the art of wine. >> when you wake up this morning, you don't think can i pay my rent, is there gas in my car, you start reciting regions and sub regions. it's like remembering your child's name, you would never forget it, right? it means that much for you. >> this passion for wine is contagious, especially when he trains others. >> you got to be selfless and take yourself out of the situation, work harder than you think you possibly can. >> next, carlton hopes to open his own restaurant or winery. tamara banks, aljazeera, aspen, colorado. >> the little nell is known for tapping some of the world's top wine experts. ten of their experts have worked on the property for over 10

years. >> these are stories we are following at the end of our second hour, an arrest warrant issued for ukrainian president viktor yanukovych, the country's acting in terrier minister saying he is wanted for the mass murder of peaceful citizens. >> the white house squaring off with the supreme court over the environment, cutting emissions at power plants and factories. >> military exercises between the u.s. and south korea now underway despite the north's objections. just ahead, a fight for independence in the united kingdom. what's driving scott landed new push to break away from the u.k. >> former president george w. bush choked up talking about military veterans, his new mission, taking care of those coming back from battle. >> a much colder air mass will settle in across the mideast and north. >> the aljazeera morning news continues, back with you in two minutes.

>> ukraine's former president is now a fugitive in his own country, the arrest warrant issued after a revolution leaves the nation with an uncertain future. >> a revolution of a different kind taking shape in the united kingdom, the hot commodity behind scotland's push to break away from the u.k. >> a quick fiction for a sick child, but a new warning about walk in clinics. >> may day on final approach,

how birds wrecked a small plane in midair. >> it is now 3:00 p.m. local time in kiev. welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. after months of turmoil, yanukovych is out, now a warrant for his arrest. the opposition to control parliament calling an emergency session tapping former speaker as the country's interim president. however, yanukovych is still defiant saying he is in charge, calling parliament's decision illegal. russia voicing its dissent, calling the situation a threat to its interests. jennifer glass joins us with more. tough talk coming out of russia,

now they say they are not pleased. how is this going to affect the country going forward? >> you know, del, those words are going to be very worrying. the news agency saying russia considers the situation here uncertain, with drew its ambassador for consultation, saying the uncertainty threatens russia's interests and citizens. it said that the country's decision to recognize the current government here, the opposition that took power yesterday is "an aberration" saying the prime minister would have to renegotiate the gas agreements with the current government. that is a clear threat, that is worth $10 billion, crucial to ukraine's industry here and this is the kind of thing the ukraineens have been concerned about, that russians will try to get involved. they are wary, the soviet history makes them wary of their involvement here. these words coming out of moscow

are going to be certainly a very worrying sign to the people here. >> yanukovych losing the support of the army and party this weekend now. there's that arrest warrant that is being issued. what is the situation there on the streets of kiev? >> you know, yanukovych very much a man on the run, the parliament made very clear that his era is over replacing his entire government. it is the first working day since the terrible tragedy last week, the terrible violence here last week to essentially shut down the capitol. it was a ghost town here, but we went around kiev early this morning and the streets are busy, bustling. this is the edge of independence square, the busiest i've seen independence square on a weekday in a very long time. there was a funeral here earlier, many people coming to pay respects to those who died on the shrines dotted around the square. there is a feeling of a new yen

here, the courts open after a week of being closed. so, i think, you know, ukrainians are watching and waiting. i've asked what they think of the new government, they said wait and see. we hope it will be better. they plan to stay on the square until they know that the change is permanent and they've got the new ukraine they've been fighting for. >> thank you very much. >> thailand said embattled prime minister has left the capitol city, saying she is about 90 miles away as an undisclosed location. three anti-government protestors were killed when a grenade exploded sunday. twenty have died since demonstrations began in november. protestors are demanding the prime minister to step down. >> venezuela is calling for a national peace conference this week, looking to end three weeks of violence claiming 11 lives. over the weekend, there were reports the government blocked access to the internet.

the president claims the demonstrations are part of an attempt to unseat him. >> uganda's president signed an anti gay bill into law increasing the punishment for what the government calls homosexual offenses. it is already illegal in awe began da. first time offenders face 14 years in prison, aggravated homosexual a life sense. anyone who talks about it without condemning it can be sent to prison. we talked to a gay man living in fear in his homeland. >> he's gay and has aids. in awe began da, that makes life doubly difficult. homosexuality is already illegal. this clinic provides services to people with a high risk of h.i.v. infection. he comes here to get life-saving drugs but worries the new law will make that impossible. >> i don't think the government

will allow us to be here or to access anything, because they are made to think that the hospital itself is promoting us, which is not true. >> here in parliament, the anti homosexuality bill wad after years of discussion. it increases jail final for homosexual acts and said medics and teachers must report it or they'll go to jail, too. the president said he'll sign it into law. >> i will sign the bill. [ applause ] >> it is widely supported here, but attracted heavy criticism abroad, especially the main financial and military support we are be the u.s. the president said he shouldn't sign it. the government minister has threatened to resign over it. although the population is one of the fastest growing in the world, he's concerned that could be reversed if everyone becomes gay. >> homosexuality is a malignant

cancer with h.i.v. aids. it wasn't until recently be the war which you are fighting left and white. it can wipe out the whole humanity. what will you be left with? >> here you can buy paraphernalia outside of church to support the bill. the existing law is rarely enforced, few people go to court or jail, and it's unlikely that the new law could be fully enforced, either, but gay rights activists say the rhetoric sounding it which has gone on for years has made life increasingly difficult and dangerous. >> medics say the bill contradicts ethical policies legal experts say it's unconstitutional but they're a tiny minority.

others say it's a detraction from widespread corruption. >> malcolm webb, aljazeera. >> the death sentence was removed after international outrage. >> an american prisoner killed after opening fire on prison guards, serving a 24 year sentence for a murder in maryland back in 1997 fled to israel shortly after that killing. now his case briefly creating tensions between the u.s. and israel and led to a change in israel's extradition laws. the israeli police say he shot three prison guards on sunday before special forces killed him. >> we are getting a look inside the look of suspected drug king upon guzman, arrested at his ex-wife's home in mexico city after 13 years on the run. authorities say he was almost

able to evade arrests trying to escape through a trap door into a network of underground tunnels. some in mexico wonder if that's enough to stop the countries drug problems. >> what matters is the government's willingness to strike at the cartels financial operations and maintain social programs to steer kids away from organized crime. >> the u.s. is seeking to extradite him. he faces charges in at least seven american cities, including chicago, san diego, and new york. it is believed his cartel has supplied drugs to as many as 54 countries. >> say so long to the warmer weather across the country. it's about to get colder. good morning. >> good morning. it motor certainly is. we are already feeling it into the mideast and midwest. through the next couple of days, next 48 hours, we expect a big cooldown as the arctic air mass building south and southeast.

with the cold front, one shot moves through then a reinforcing shot mid week and latter part of the week. this morning, 5-12 degrees colder than yesterday. cleveland, 12 degrees cooler. it's 11 degrees cooler in pittsburgh. this morning, widespread 30's across the area. you factor in the wind, this morning, not too bad, but it does have it feeling a little more like we're in the upper 20's around new york city. we'll get a westerly wind flow transporting moisture in. with that, we are talking snow, but it's going to be very localized. that's where we're going to see the heaviest amount here just north of syracuse, six to 10 inches of snow can be expected as we get moisture off the lake interacting with the colder air. most areas in the surrounding vicinity will only see about an inch or two. now as we get into mid week, that's when we're talking more widespread snow. we'll watch a cold front across the great lakes and an area of

low pressure tracking very close to the coastline from the mid atlantic and as it heads northeast kind of parallelling our coast across new england, it's going to throw moisture back in. we are expecting to see snow, a few inches, certainly a good bet. through the week ahead, temperatures are going to stay cold. that's going to be the main story, but here across the deep south where we had severe weather over the weekend, looks like things are quieter. we still have that trough hanging out across central florida, meaning more showers and storms through the afternoon hours. >> medical researchers in california are concerned about a mysterious illness in children mimicking polo. doctors have called in the california department of health. >> the california department of health has also called in the centers for disease control in atlanta to investigate an emerging infection. it is possibly caused by a

virus, suspected of paralyzing 25 children in a year. public health officials do not know why. some symptoms include sudden severe weakness coming on after a mild respiratory sickness. in five cases, the children lost the ability to move their arms or legs. scans of the patient's spinal cords show patterns of damage similar to those found in polio sufferers, which is particularly disconcerting to doctors, because polio has been eradicated for decades in the u.s. >> a neurologist in stanford said what we are now seeing is bad, the best case scenario be the loss of one limb, the worst all four limbs with respiratory insufficiency, like the old polio. the doctors said they do know that it is definitively not

polio. in all cases, the children were vaccinated. he said whatever this is, it is very rare, urging parents who notice a sudden onset of symptoms to go see a pediatrician immediately. >> are there other areas seeing theout break? >> australia, asia, other places outside of california. a lot of places aren't checking to see if this could be this infection, so we'll see what happens. >> thank you very much. >> it is dualing cabinets in scotland, the country set to vote an a referendum to decide if the country remains in the u.k. the u.k. cabinet is meeting, as well, only the second time in 90 years they have met in scotland. david cameron's cabinet traveling to scotland while top scattish officials hold their own meetings, both talking about oil. what's the significance of the energy sector in this election?

>> >> well, alongside currency, the north sea oil and gas industry is one of the key battle grounds in the debate for scottish independence, just to put it in context, the industry, the oil and gas from the u.k. continental shelf is worth over $100 million to the u.k. economy in its current production every year. both sides of the independence debate want to maneuver to best exploit this. cameron is pro scotland staying in the u.k., saying that the u.k. can best exploit this esource because it's a larger economy, with a stand the shocks of a volatile international madty. the first minister of scotland says scotland can take care of its own affairs, it would follow in norway's footsteps, exploiting its resources by

creating an oil fund. it would channel some of the funds to seat up this and it would then invest shares internationally. this debate is very, very essential to the outcome of the referendum. >> the scottish first minister saying the race is getting tighter. can we expect more large scale gestures from the british government? >> we think the strengthening of rhetoric lately, saying that if scotland leaves the u.k., it also walks away from the pound. now first minister said that he wants to maintain a sterlings own so he can stay in that realm of the economy, but david cameron that said he's going to fight with all that he has to stay, encourage people to stay

in the u.k., so no doubt we are going to see over the next months him continue in that vein. >> it is america's busiest shipping has been r. channel, a major stretch completely closed right now, shutting down 65 miles of the mighty mississippi. >> george w. bush getting choked up on national t.v. what's weighing on the former penalty's mind and what he says he's doing about it. >> cooking doesn't have to be hard. it seems very fancy but can be very easy to do. >> it is an ordinary cooking show with an extraordinary mission, the battle these t.v. chefs are fight, food. >> aging america... the sacrifice growing children endure, to care for their parents >> i left my job as a lawyer... >> best ways to cope... my husband was like a single father... >> my mother said: "take care of dad" on al jazeera america

>> welcome back. former president george w. bush getting choked up on national t.v., what caused his emotional outburst, but first a check on your forecast. >> the cool down, we are going to feel it across much of the east, at least most areas will. here's a look at today's highs. we're seeing blue shade, inc.

across the great lakes heading into the northeast where we just experienced 60's just yesterday. southern plains will feel that cool down. this morning, 30's and 40's, 62 in san antonio, dallas close to 60 today, 40's by wednesday. we'll see another southerly flow bringing that warm air back in. unfortunately, the upper midwest will stay cold. >> a memorial service for soldiers killed by the taliban, killed at a remote army outpost. afghan officials are investigating reports that foreign intelligence agencies were involved. >> the can i go of 21 afghan soldiers as they slept at a remote outpost seems to be the worst single blow to government forces in the last three years. they would have had little chance as their base, close to the border with pakistan was overrun by what the government says were hundreds of taliban

fighters. >> the attack was organized from the other side of the border, and it was very intensive. the army defended their country until the last drop of their blood. >> the defense minister accused a foreign intelligence service of helping plan the attack. he didn't name pakistan, but the inference was clear. >> since the beginning of the year, more than 80 afghan soldiers have been killed in combat with the taliban, a measure of the challenges this army faces as it looks after the security of its own country without nato forces. >> the air support that nato would have once provided wasn't available this time. this man's son had been a soldier for more than three years. he was the only breadwinner, his father says. there's been an outpouring of

public sympathy for these soldiers and their families and fears the army is poorly equipped. all this may have helped prompt this public memorial. it was a first for the afghan early, which is normally reluctant to publicize is growing list of casualties. >> seven soldiers were also kidnapped in the talk, the taliban suspending talks of any exchange with u.s. prisoners. >> former president george w. bush making veteran affairs a personal priority got emotional talking about returning service members with post traumatic stress disorder. >> i get slightly emotional talking about the vets because i'm in there with them. but i'm also -- my spirit is always uplifted when i visit with vets. i say there is no self pity. we've got a society incredibly

comfortable, people saying woe is me, not our veteran committee. they say what can i do to continue to serve. >> president bush will work with a coalition of private and non-profit companies to encourage employers to recruit and retain veterans. >> shrinking the army to preworld war ii levels, budget cuts expected to be announced, including eliminating air force attack jets. some members of congress will try to block those proposal also. at the army's peak, it had a combined 70,000 troops fighting two wars in afghanistan and iraq. president obama pledged to end both of those wars, reducing troop levels to 490,000. after today's proposal, those numbers will drop to 440,000-450,000, the smallest military since 1940. >> a stretch of the mississippi river is shut down as crews celine an oil spill, created when a barge collided with a

tugboat outside a new orleans town and began leaking crude into the water. authorities closed the river to keep the oil from spreading, saying it won't affect the drinking water and no one was hurt as a result of the crash. the cause of the collision is now under investigation. >> t.v. cooking shows often boast celebrity chefs, elaborate competitions and recipes almost impossible for most of to us recreate. a new on line show focuses on quick nutritious cooking, aimed at a very specific audience. >> how is everybody doing today? >> cooking well to help cure cancer. shot before a live audience, this program features nutritious, desirable food and when cancer treatments cause fatigue, easy to prepare. >> cooking doesn't have to be hard. chefs in the industry make it seem very fancy, but it can be very easy to do. i think i'll try to present that. >> we need to get that protein.

>> the hosts make the food, explain ingredients and answer questions. a starter, breads, main course and dessert all for a patient who might normally open a tin, defrost something bad for them or not eat at all. >> easy to make, the ingredients are easy to find and it's something that people see us do and think wow, it's that easy, it doesn't have to take a lot of effort and it's going to make me feel better. >> fussy eaters, food allergies, vegetarian within the program cater to say all with variations offering replacements for most ingredients. these two patients say the chef and nutritionist have transformed their lives. >> she's sheiking education into it when we're not looking, i think. >> and we're listening to that education at the same time, but it's not like it's just thrown at us, because we already are feeling sick, you don't want anybody to tell you don't eat this and don't eat that, because you're already upset about

everything else. >> time to eat, the best part of the show. not everyone tasting here today is a patient or caregiver. some just like the food, it's aimed squarely as those getting cancer treatment, getting new ideas into them almost by stealth. >> they don't want to come to programs all about the cancer and side effects. they want to come to programs that are going to help them move forward with life, i am prove quality of life and live well. >> as cancer treatments improve, medical science is looking beyond clinics and hospital beds and finding that food can help people cope with the disease that was once literally a death sentence. aljazeera, toronto. >> the mayo clinic said cancer extremes often change taste buds. one way to do that is cook with sauces, marinades and seasoning. >> clearing the air in washington. can the federal government regulate greenhouse gas emissions. some fighting it all the way to

the supreme court. >> congress under sunny skies in washington coming back from winter recess. what tops the agenda and will they actually get anything done? >> all of a sudden, the windshield explode understand and stuff was flying everywhere. >> he was bleeding from the head and losing altitude. the object that nearly killed the pilot of a small plane. >> michael sam breaking down barriers in the nfl, showcasing skills in the combine.

>> it seems there's a fourth quarter offense here bradford's to obamacare. the republicans are watching it to see if it gets worse, the democrats operating it gets better. nobody wants to talk about it, but that's the big issue in the mid terms. >> the republicans want to talk about it, they want this to be the third he leaks in a row on obamacare. now they say, let's go for two out of three. that's since the rollout of

obamacare last foul was such a disaster with the website and all the problems people had signing on. republicans think that they can make this the issue this year. they want to do away with a mandate, they want to keep medicare advantage plans, they want to make a lot of changes to obamacare, which they think the voters will go for. what democrats are counting on is more and more people signing up, insurance companies holding down premiums and the prom becoming more pop as people who could not get health insurance before suddenly find they can get it with federal subsidies. >> is there a concern on capitol hill that the latino vote will be disregarded. >> usually the latino vote is fairly small in the mid term. democrats are trying to stir it up on the issue of immigration reform. latino leaders complain to president obama has deported record numbers of latinos as

part of his program showing he's tougher in immigration reform. the numbers are frightening particularly for republicans, because they worry if they don't get enough la tone know vets, they could be writing it off, 100 years ago, a huge wave of immigration and republicans really wrote them off and those voters became the basis of the new deal. republicans could be making the same mistake again. >> bill snyder, joining us from washington, d.c. this morning, thank you very much. >> as congress debates that possible immigration reform legislation, a lot of people deported in mexico are living in an abandoned hotel transformed into a migrant camp. those who live there are facing slum-like conditions and subjected to regular harassment from police. many don't want to go back to their hometowns and are plan to go cross the border once again

back into the u.s., while some stay in the camps, other find refuge in nearby sewers, bridges and makeshift shacks. >> the millster exercises with south korea and the u.s. went ahead. the north threatened to cancel family reins if those drills went ahead, but they are taking place. today, 360 south careens meeting with relatives from the north for the first time since the korean war in the 1950's with that those were planned last year as the north began call for better ties with its neighbor. >> less than a week after being bought by facebook, what's app is making more headlines, the messaging company saying it will introduce voice service in the spring. no advertising will be added to the service. what's app has almost a billion users worldwide. >> in what may be a sign of things to come in the sable industry, netflix will pay comcast to speed up its

streaming service, the deal coming a month after the net new really aty regulations. netflix will connect directly to comcast's broad band network. >> the men's warehouse is suing its rival for blocking efforts to buy the company. meanwhile, it is upping its offer to $6 a share, but joseph a bank would have to end its recent agreement to buy eddie bauer. >> retail earnings the focus on wall street this week. the harsh winter weather added to the sectors many challenges, one analyst saying earnings are being driven by intense cost cutting. >> corporate america has been squeezing more profits from the same level of business, so profit margins have been at record levels, while revenue or sales growth has been fairly modest. >> home depot and target among the retailers set to report their earnings this week.

wall street looking to open higher, the dow futures up 30 points. here's where we stand: >> over seas abmarkets in the red after chinese home markets eased for the first time in more than a year. european stocks are mostly higher. >> the turmoil in ukraine, venezuela and south sudan hitting drivers in the pocketbook, the gas prices jumped 12 cents in the past two weeks. the developments in those countries caused wholesale prices to zoom and are expected to go hire, regular unleaded $3 further one. >> sports, a big day in the nfl combine. we have the details. >> it's a week-long interview for nfl hope was at the combine. michael sam addressed the media service about coming out, but

today will showcase his skills on the football field, tested in the 40-yard dash, shuttle run and football related drills. basically, it's to see how he stacks up against the rest of the competition because nfl teams are big on stats. one thing you cannot measure, a person's heart and desire. michael sam is hoping he gets judged as a football plier. we are at the nfl combine in indianapolis. we'll provide updates later in the day. >> banning the n. word in the nfl, the league is considering a 15-yard penalty for players using the n. word. the rule is expected to be passed at owner's meeting, saying he wants this word pleased from the parking lot to the equipment room to the longer room. we want it eliminated completely and pleased everywhere. >> it was a landmark moment in los angeles, jason collins going hollywood. the 35-year-old became the first

openly gay player to lace it up at one of the four major u.s. sports league, signing a contract with the brooklyn nets entered the game in the second quarter against the lakers. the fans at the l.a. staples center gave him a nice ovation. he played 11 minutes, collected two rebounds, a steal and no points, but played solid defense and that's why the nets signed him. brooklyn won 108-102. jason collins right field on this historic night in sports. >> i do understand that there is a significance, but at the same time, there are other athletes robby rogers, michael sam, male athletes who are active, all of us, you know, it's about being an athlete. it's about going out there and winning, competing, playing hard, and it's just -- that's what it's about. >> switching gears, the daytona 500 was scheduled to start in

the afternoon and did. 35 laps in, motor nature rained on the race, causing a six hour delay. all good things come to those who wait. under the lights, zoom zoom, kyle busch led the drivers back on the track. lap 145, the 43 car flies into danica patrick and buckle up, because the go daddy car slams nose first into the wall. danica would walk away from the wreck. she finished in 40th place. when all was said and done, nascar's motor popular driver, dale earnhardt, jr. would take the checkered flag, capturing his second daytona 500, but hits first since 2004. junior also snapped a 55 race losing streak. >> racing since 2004 and it's the greatest feeling you can have as a driver in nascar on a single event, single day, just

trying to explain that feeling to people. i've been trying to tell people and it's hard to put into words. it's such a great feeling, that you want to do it again. >> he pocketed $1.5 million by winning. >> that's a feeling i want to have, too. a $1.5 million payday, i'll race four that. >> a rare moment on video, bird flying through the windshield of a small plane over the skies of florida happened saturday afternoon near fort meyer, the pilot flying a single engine plane when a bird smashed through the cockpit. >> 22nds later, all of a sudden, the windshield exploded and stuff was flying everywhere. i wasn't sure if the bird was in the plane with me. >> the bird slams into the windshield. weber was able to steady the

plane, landing shortly after the impact escaping with just a scratch on his head. >> there's a new warning from doctors, why they say you shouldn't take your children to those walk-in medical clinics. >> she was full of life, all the way up until she passed away at the age of 110. how does holocaust survivor refuse the let the dark chapter stop her from making beautiful music. day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america

>> voters in massachusetts are divided over a proposed casino. protests were held. it will bring gambling and other vices to the town. an initial plan was approved by

60% of the voters there but lacked support of residents of nearby boston. supporters say it will create 4,000 jobs and boost tourism. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. also straight ahead, a new warning about taking your children to walk-in clinics. first, we have a quick check of your forecast. >> heading out across the west, you could encounter travel problems thanks to the snow coming down into the mountous areas but it's going to be slick spots on the roadways thanks to rain from seattle to portland. the midwest, light snow across nebraska, across northern areas of missouri. as we get into the northeast, just off of lake ontario, a narrow band could dump 6-10-inches of snow around syracuse. >> from the subways of new york to art museums around the world, graffiti has come a long way. how a unique groove of artists

in new york are leaving a lasting impression with their work. >> aaron good stone returns to his stomping grounds, new york city's lower east side, the birth place of the graffiti movement that begin in the 1970's, the tenement building once home to his mentor, an artist who took the renegade teenager under his wing. >> this is an important place, evoking emotion. the neighborhood has changed, but still retains its creative energy. >> an energy that fueled a culture of opposition. writers used display points as tools, the city their canvas, subway walls, a powerful form of self expression. they all found shelter here, a collection of artists and activists, street art emerge from below ground and went

mainstream. the two worlds collided. >> dressing up like hoodlums and bums and going into a subway tunnel like ninjas, and the following weekend, dressing like fashion plates and hobbing with people like andy warhol. >> graffiti writers became mini celebrities. >> martin wong bought the painting from kids who stole it who knew he was a collector of graffiti art. he was like oh, my god yeah, i want one of lenny's paintings. i think he paid $200 for that. >> while many view it as urban blight and still do, martin saw the cultural value of his work. martin donated his entire collection of street art to the museum of the city of new york. it's taken 20 years, but now an exhibit showcases the evolution

of graffiti from its origin in the shadows to a form admired the world over. renowned british street artist created a frenzy after his works began mysteriously appearing all over new york just last year. respect for the form and a desire to preserve it is far from universal. a developers decision to whitewash five points trigger add new debate pitting artists against big business. years after its birth, it is still provoking powerful feelings among those who embrace it and those happy to see it go back to where it came from, underground. aljazeera america, new york. >> the new city canvas exhibition runs through august. >> the oldest known survivor of the holocaust has died at 110. she spent two years in a concentration camp but says it was the joy of making music that kept her and a lot of others

going. while there, she was allowed to play the piano for her fellow prisoners. >> i said where we can play, it can't be so terrible. the music, the music. music is a place of art. >> the film on her life called the lady in number six is nominated for best documentary in the academy awards. >> walk in health clinics are a convenient stop, but some doctors say parents should get a second opinion. >> when your child gets sick, do you go to the pediatrician or the corner drug store? >> come on in. >> the american academy of mediatrixes moms and dads should avoid drug store clinics and stick with the pediatrician who for theres a relationship with families over time and detect subtle problems that might otherwise be missed.

>> we see children from birth through able 21 sometimes older, so we have an understanding of that child and that family dynamics. >> dr. james lot of lynn wrote the newly released policy statement, reaffirming its long stance that doctors specifically train to care for kids should be the ones to treat them. >> our nurse practitioners provide quality care with no appointment necessary and most insurance accepted. >> many moms and dads agree drug store clinics are convenient, offer extended hours and in some cases are less expensive than a doctor's office visit. a representative for c.v.s. said its clinics play a complimentary rolen health care and do not replace a pediatrician. a walgreens representative agreed. pediatricians acknowledge they must evolve to meet busy schedules. >> it is incumbent upon us to be

available and make ourselves more available than probably we used to be. >> any parent knows childhood illnesses rarely phytanately into office hours. >> that was erika edwards reporting. 20% of patients are between 18 months and 18 years of age at walk-in clinics. >> i'm del walters in new york, thanks for watching. we leave you with live images from the capitol of ukraine where an arrest warrant has been issued for former president viktor yanukovych.

u.n. including comparisons to the nazis, we'll ask former u.s. am bam door tambassador to the u.n. how does hillary clinton compare to john kerr he. kerry. plus a reporter allowed to cover the extremist. and dick cavett on the newton show host. i am antonio mora, welcome to "consider this." here is more a whose ahead.