>> go behind the scenes at pldge al >> al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. bulldozers and bare hands pulling debris from washington state. >> if russia continues on its course sanctions will deepen. >> president obama warning russia unless it negotiates with world leaders. and objects found on satellite that may be linked to

missing malaysian flight 370. >> president obama is now in rome where he will meet with pope francis. the president said russia must not be allowed to run roughshod over its neighbors as it's done in the ukraine. mike viqueira has more now from brussels. >> reporter: well, it's day three in europe for president obama making the case to european leaders and european citizens that they have to remain vigilant in the face of russian aggression. if it means enduring economic pain in terms of sanctions, if it comes to that, if russia escalates this crisis then the case is well worth it. in a broad speech lasting 35 minutes to a group of young be

belgiums, he invoked freedom and democracy. let's listen. >> russia's leadership is challenging ruths that only a few weeks ago seemed self-evident. that in the 21st century the borders of europe cannot be redrawn with force. >> reporter: now that speech that the president gave to young belgiums here in brussels was similar in town to other speeches he has given in other speeches on race and the islamic world. he countered arguments accusing the west of a double standard. 1998, the kosovo's independence. the in iraq the invasion of american forces in 2003. in both cases the president disagreed in full with the invasion of iraq where the attack on iraq in desert storm, but both were mandated by the u.n. and u.n. votes. he left the door open for

diplomacy with russia even in the face of their aggression and their posturing and positioning on ukraine's border with the build up of russian military forces. >> we want the russian people to live in security, prosperity and dignity like everyone else, proud of their own history, but that does not mean that russia can run roughshod over its neighbors. >> reporter: the president's three days in northern europe has come to a close. he'll stay in europe heading to rome on thursday morning meeting with pope francis. >> mike viqueira reporting for us. as the politicians talk and stack up the sanctions that divide in crimea is growing. minorities are progressively being edged out nick spicer reports from the crimean capitol. >> reporter: only a handful of the traditional silver smiths remain. forging the filigreed finery for weddings, gifts between bride

and group. he was part of the deportation to uzbekistan that killed half of the tatars, and he returned to his homeland in a newly independent ukraine. now it's back to the old masters in moscow, he feels. >> the referendum was illegitimate. that's not just my opinion. the whole world knows it, but what can we do? we didn't go and vote. we never intended to. 95% of crimean tatars boycotted it. we didn't want it to happen, so what could we do? >> reporter: what they might do is call for a referendum of their own for joining ukraine or outright independence. a risky move in a land where russia shows it's ready to use it's military to get what it wants. >> reporter: sadvladimir putin d the rights of the tatar would be respected, but this sign that

was in the tatar language was now removed replaced with a russian one. the tatar tv is still on air but it's owner is accused of being an islamist bent on terrorism. they say the authorities don't like the news they do showing troops that are there and showing that it was easy to vote multiple times in the referendum. >> i'm afraid of the situation happening to us if we don't show the news they want, the current position of the channel management is if we come under too much pressure we'll drop politics and cover cultural subjects. >> reporter: a retreat but the best way to keep alive a culture history has shown to be fragile and precious. a gift to be kept largely out of sight. nick spicer, al jazeera, s sevastopol.

>> osama bin laden's son-in-law will spend the rest of his life in prison. john terrett, quickly, what are the details? >> reporter: tony, good evening from the federal court in lower manhattan, the voice of al-qaeda has been silenced at the end of the three-week trial far shorter than anyone expected. sulaiman abu ghaith, the 48-year-old kuwaiti is now spending life in prison in a federal facility here in the united states. the prosecution maintainingingmaintaining thathr al-qaeda appearing in videos for al-qaeda and talking about storms of planes being used as bombs coming to the united states. he said you've got the wrong man. those videos are simply religious videos, nothing more. after five hours of deliberation the jury now disagrees with the defense. he'll spend life in prison, and these federal charges when they

get a case like this where the defendant is convicted they tend to throw the book at them, tony. >> you know, john, the defense attorneys have asked for change of venue for a real reason. was the conviction ever in doubt that the case was heard in new york city a few blocks away from the world trade center site? >> reporter: it was ten blocks away from there, and i know that the feds were very concerned about this, particularly as sulaiman abu ghaith was the son-in-law of osama bin laden. in the end, though, the feeling is that the trial was fairly conducted. the judge did not take grandstanding from either side. the trial did not go quite as we expected. there was no evidence presented by the ladies and gentlemen allk mohammed. there was no link from osama bin laden's driver. there was testimony brought by

prosecution by two convicted terrorists one here in new york, the other eye period on video link from london. and to everyone's surprise the shocker was that abu ghaith testified. and when he testified he appeared to be calm and reasonable. he gave lots more information than he needed to in answer to some of the questions, something that people think may have harmed him throughout the course of this trial. immediately after the verdict was handed down the prosecution hopes to bring some comfort to the victim's families of 9/11, but stanley cohen, the attorney for sulaiman abu ghaith, said he would be back in court appealing this verdict because he said he thought that the trial effectively had been conducted in secret. one other note, tony, attorney general erik holder said he thought that the trials held of this magnitude could be a carried out fairly in cities like new york. that plays in the ongoing

argument of people of this magnitude should be tried in military tribunals at guantanamo bay or in federal courts like this one. >> in washington mudslide covered a town and authorities say at least 16 people have died. and that number will rise much higher. we are also getting a look at a dramatic rescue. take a look at this. a four-year-old boy just after saturday's mudslide alan schauffler is just north of the slide area. he joins us now from the city of darington, washington. alan, rain was a factor yesterday. what are crews up against today? >> reporter: yes, the weather was a mess yesterday. it made that really difficult, made that gruesome work harder in places that were quick sand-like before, it became goopy been. where it was clay, it made it slick. it made it difficult.

but they're catching a break today, tony, it's been dry all day in the slide area. that's expected to last another couple of hours. but tonight and beyond it's going to get wet and it will be very difficult. you see what these folks are dealing with out with what they call the piles, remember this is a debris field involving 25 or 30 houses. so there is electrical gear, propane tanks, septic tanks involved. hazardous materials that might have been in cars and sheds, so a very, very dangerous place to be and a very dangerous place to hunt for the victims of this catastrophe. they did identify eight more victims, eight more bodies yesterday. they have not been able to recover them, so the number of dead is guaranteed to go up. >> alan, so five days now since any new survivors have been found and rescued. how is this town, this community, this county holding

up? >> reporter: well, they're holding up by basically just putting their shoulder to the wheel and pushing. they're holding up by getting together and working together and supporting each other. that's really the only way to put it. they've had tremendous help from all over the region. from even farther afield there is a gentleman here from across toronto 3,000 miles away to see what he can do to help. >> i'm from pennsylvania, scranton, pennsylvania. i'm here because i'm here to help. >> you have to be out here to find them. i don't like knowing that they're up there still missing. >> reporter: that's kevin rice, his cousin is missing. three of his cousin's kids are missing. the little boy that was pulled out just a couple of hours pulled to safety after that mudslide hit is alive. that's some of the video that we've been seeing today that is released, that little boy pulled to life. that's one of the high points in what has been a very leak couple

obleakcouple of days. we talked to a couple of hire fighters who have been out there since this hit. the high point when they find the victims, the bodies, they know they can bring some families out there some answers about what has happened to their loved ones. the low points are when they find personal effects like a baby's book or that kind of thing that they choke up and it gets them down. >> allen schauffler for us. darington, washington. there is cautious optimism in the search of missing malaysian fly 370. satellites spot objects that could be missing plane debris from the flight. >> reporter: the latest sighting came from a french satellite of 120 objects venue over strewn 4

square mile area in the indian ocean. what is interesting, they have found roughly in the same area where satellites have spotted other possible debris from the missing plane, satellites from china, france, and from australia. this is the same area where planes and ships have been looking for debris from the plane. unfortunately so far they have not managed to retrieve any debris from the ocean. they cannot say conclusively that there is a match with 370. australia is in charge of the search in the southern indian ocean. it's a multi national effort including nations such as japan, new zealand, the u.s. china, australia, of course. and the prime minister of australia says notwithstanding, the failure to find the plane so far they'll continue to everyone. >> i have pledged to the prime minister of malaysia for australiaen cooperation in the

recovery and investigation operation. the crash zone is about a close to nowhere as is possible to be, but it's close for australia than to anywhere else. >> reporter: 12 planes went up today, found nothing, they will try again tomorrow. >> randall pinkston reporting for us. americans who don't have health insurance will have a little more time to get it. the white house is extending the affordable care act to help people whose applications have been held up on the website. jonathan betz is here with how many have actually signed up at this point. >> we're still talking about the website, another extension for people looking to get health insurance. the big deadline is being pushed back to mid airplane. the white house originally hoped that 7 million people would sign up for insurance under the affordable care act. but after all the problems with the website has lowereddic the expectations to 6 million

people. since it started in october it has grown at a pretty good clip. 5 million people have enrolled. still a million short of what they would like to see. for every ten people who signed up the white house would really like four of them to be young healthy adults that will really help make the affordable care act work. so far the obamacare has been attracting two young people for every ten that sign up. which could become an issue down the road. although the numbers overall do show a big turn around from that disastrous launch with that in mind the white house wants to give more people more time who have had trouble signing up. >> every time there is a deadline, it seems to move. >> reporter: yes, eventually there will an deadline. >> thank you. a new report says one in 15 hospital patients have caught an infection. the center for decease control said that in 2011, 700,000

patients developed an infection during hospital stay. causes of infection include hands that are not properly washed and equipment that is not properly disinfected. coming up on al jazeera america, a big decision for college football players. northwestern's players can form an union. and a look at why female veterans are more likely than any other group to wind up homeless when they come back from battle. r

a federal judge made the decision that melee loud unionization of college athlet athletes. >> the decision by the national relations board which qualifies college football players as

employees of the schools thus opening the way for them to unionize. now attorneys for the players argued that college football is a commercial enterprise that relies on players' labor to generate billions of dollars in profits each year. judge peter orr said their scholarship was tied to their performance was the reason for granting them union rights. when one considers the common law of definition of employee, ncaa argues against such such claims. >> are these athletes looking to unionize. >> it's not about being paid. a lot of people think they're trying to get paid. what they're trying to do is not get paid. if they were paid they would no longer be amateur athletes an in the eyes of the ncaa and could not play. but they're looking for

guaranteed coverage of sports-related medical expenses, insure better procedures to reduce head injuries and letting players pursue sponsorships. not a salary but sponsorship. this ruling only effects players at northwestern university, but players at other schools could follow suit and make their own case to unionize. >> remember when e.a. sports, the athletes, the college athletes were on the covers and the college said what is going on here? >> yes, the ncaa was making money off games and video games but the players were not getting any of that money. e.a. sports settled and they're still fighting. >> and these kids are saying can

i get money to take my girlfriend out. >> i went to school on an scholarship. my wages were not limited. i could get a job. but on athletic scholarships your wages are limited throughout the school year. >> ukraine crisis is impacting wall street once again. the dow worried that russia may be punished with further sanctions. let's get more on this with "real money's" ali velshi. you're looking at this issue on your program at 7:00 p.m. but why should we worry about what is going to happen to russia. >> reporter: the only thing you should worry about economically, you should worry about a lot of things when counties go into other countries but economically is if russia ends up in recession. but the world bank thinks it

might. it could push russia's economy, the eighth largest economy in the world into recession. tony, if that happens that would be felt far beyond the country. as a big economy russia invests and buys things that other countries make. investors are pulling money out of russia because they fear tighter sanctions. then wants their money stuck in russia and then there is the issue of russian retaliation. there is not much it can do to the united states but it can effect american companies operating there, and cut off gas supply to europe and those economies start to weaken and we all know what happens when europe starts to weaken because it's a massive consumer market. russia is the second largest exporter of natural gas and third largest exporter of oil in the world. if russia tightens up

economically. it's not that isolated and we'll feel it. >> there are other hot spots around the world. what other issues should investor be focusing here? >> there is a whole bunker of them in emerging markets. we have stuff in thailand going on. argentina with government issues. we have middle class people in venezuela and turkey and brazil, by the way brazilian economy larger than russias, they're all challenging their ruling order. middle class people tend to be more demanding than the lower class. they wanted more sophisticated demands and some of the governments are not in a position to do it. currency control, interest rates hikes and it's making everyone jittery. by the way, if you're well diversified you probably have mutual funds in these emerging markets, so it effects you as

well. and the big one is china. we're starring to see slowdowns there. lots of stuff to worry about and i'll connect the dots. >> what else are you working on. >> reporter: stuff you were talking to michael yves about, the college football unionizing at northwestern. the financial impact of that that feels like a huge decision. >> reporter: it was late in the day, and i thought this is a top. >> okay. we'll see you at 7:00 on al jazeera america. "real money." here is an eye-popping number for you. more than $1 billion, that will get your attention. that's how much was wiped off the market value of the company behind candy crush when it went public. tanking 16% in its new york debut. it may be an one-trick pony. $1 million nissan vehicles in the united states are being

recalled. the carmaker said the software problem could prevent front passenger airbags from deplo deploying. as more women take on combat roles in the military they're coming home to a very different battlefield. female veterans are more likely than any other group to end up on the streets and in shelters. that's part of our series "homeless in america." carol ann mckinley explains why this might be happening. ♪ amazing grace >> you wouldn't expect someone living in a car to be singing a song of home. but erica thomas did not give up hope, even when this car is all that she had. >> this is the back of the burlington coat factory. this is where i slept for many

of the nights. >> a navy veteran who spent four years on board u.s.s. ronald reagan. >> i was building bombs. it's heavy lifting and tugging and pulling, there is flo room for cry. >> reporter: the tears game later when bomb building did not translate to a civilian job. she was forced to move in with her mom. when that house flood her home became her car. >> it was devastating to me. >> reporter: the fastest growing population, female veterans. their numbers are growing as women rotate through the military. nearly half of them were victims of military sexual trauma. >> so the assault occurred when i was 25. >> reporter: in 1990 orlinda marquez was an officers on the military fast track until she was sexually assaulted. severe ptsd set in when the army

blamed her. she is now 100% day disabled. >> the president, congress, everyone has made it clear that this is a national embarrassment. >> reporter: the v.a. said that it is addressing the unique problems which lead female vets into homelessness. >> female veterans do present with more depression, anxiety disorder and trauma, ptsd. these all sort of combine to form almost a perfect storm that does put these women more at risk. >> reporter: the veteran's administration is playing catchup and is now building housing for women with children and those who live alone including homeless facilities with locked quarters integrated by gender for safety. >> this is my room. my bed. no more sleeping in the car. [♪ singing ] >> with the help of the g.i.

bill erica will graduate with an accounting degree. >> i feel like nothing can stop me. i'm a train forcing through life. >> reporter: with thousands more women like erica coming home from war the v.a. promises to end homelessness by 2015 is going to be a challenge. carol mckinley, al jazeera, denver. >> pope francis and president obama will meet tomorrow coming up how both are taking on economic inequality. >> i'm roxana saberi in myanmar, a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy. i'll introduce to you a man who came here to teach monks english and found out they had a lot more to learn.

. >> new mexico attorney general is investigating the albuquerque police department after a shooting. it happened just hours after 2,000 people rallied against the police department.

albuquerque police have been under intense scrutiny for its use of force. heidi jo jo castro with the lat. >> reporter: they were out here to protest the shooting of a homeless man james boyd. as for the shooting of alfred redwine. they received a call from redwine's neighbors saying that he had pointed a gun at their children. now his sister said that was a false report. so the police arrived at the house where redwine was inside, and witnesses captured the altercation on a cell phone

camera. we'll show this to you now but we warn you it is graphic. now as you're watching that, the police chief of albuquerque police department did tell reporters last night that it was redwine that had first fired at officers, and then officers were returning fire, shooting him, killing him, shooting him in the chest. most witnesses we spoke to today who saw the shooting said that redwine was not armed. he was only holding a cell phone. redwine's sister told al jazeera she had seen it all 50 yards away. she was on the line with her brother when it happened. she explains what happened when he stepped outside of the door. >> i heard the shots, and i seen his chest. he went like that and he fell

back. i seen his shirt turning red, i knew they used lethal rounds on him, and a lieutenant promised me he wouldn't. he promised me he would use no non-lethal rounds, and he lied. >> albuquerque police are holding a press conference as we speak. we'll bring you those updates momentarily. as you know this department has been under scrutiny. the department of justice has been looking at their use of force now for a year and a half, and of course that second to last shooting of james boyd, the homeless man who was being arrested for illegal campings that brought outrage among community members. the department of justice was in town meeting with family members of past police shooting victims, 24 total, in the last five years. we're told that that investigation at the federal level is still going forward. >> they now likely have a new

case to consider. president obama is in rome and is scheduled to meet pope francis tomorrow. both are tackling a shared goal of ending poverty but in different ways. mike viqueira has the story. >> reporter: at baltimore's our daily bread catholic charity they have not missed a day in 32 years feeding, teaching, sheltering, helping the poor get back on their feet. >> i'm not hungry any more and my mind frame changed. hopefully i can get a job and start working. >> reporter: pop francis was able to bring the focus back to this mission through his action and his words, critical of the gap between the have's and have not's. that gap between rich and poor in america has continued to grow.

now the widest since 1928. it's an issue the president has turned into a central theme. >> the combined friend gap betwn mobility. >> the the pope is popular. many say he represents a major change in the church. the other, the president is not. he's at an all-time low. the pope welcomes the president's message on inequality but worries that politics will muddy the issue. >> it can be interpreted. i can't hear what you're teaching because of what you're doing makes too much noise.

so i think we have to put our money where our mouth is. the church has to do that. the government has to do that. >> reporter: they've witnessed it firsthand. >> the energy around service is unbelievably more focused, a greater increase, and frankly a greater joy in coming together and to make a difference in the lives of people. >> reporter: the plight of the poor, a shared message when the president meets the pope. >> as myanmar opens up to the west it is facing great obstac obstacles. it ban when three men were convicted of raping a buddhist woman. roxana saberi traveled to myanmar and met an american who

is caught in the middle of this deadly conflict. >> got a chance to experience some things that few people will ever. i spent two days inside of a buddhist monk monastery. there was another american there, jack rendler, he moved to myanmar to teach the monks english but found out they had a lot more to learn. [ bells ringing ] >> reporter: morning at the monastery begins with medication and today a chance to meet their guests. but the prayers here are for everyone. they ask for love and happiness for all. >> we should learn how to live in peace and how to live together. >> reporter: but buddhist mobs have chased people from their homes. in some cases killed them. the inspiration for this violence is this man, u

president wirathu. he's called the face of terrorism. he claims that muslim also change the country and the buddhist way of life. >> good afternoon. >> last year jack rendler left his home in minnesota to teach young monks english. but he realized they wanted to learn much more. >> what were they curious about? >> the first question was what is the difference between human rights, freedom, and democracy. >> jack had his students write essays, the subject, how human rights apply to myanmar. they're taking turns to read out loud. let's listen in:

>> the students seem to understand the concept but some see muslims in me air man are the exception. >> john in a became a monk at age eight. we asked him what he learned about human rights. >> do you believe that all people in myanmar should have the same basic rights? >> yes. >> every race, every religion should have the same rights? >> yes. >> but then we asked him about u president wirathu, thwirathu. he has compared muslims to dogs. >> he is a hero to me. >> he is a hero to you?

>> yes. >> why do you like him? >> why do i like him? yes, he always preach about the muslim, and buddhist, how different we are. we have a chance to get married four wives. if they do like that, in 50 years myanmar will disappear in the world. >> how these monks define human rights matters to the future of myanmar. >> monks are regarded in this society and in this culture as the keepers of the ethical and moral flame that is at the heart of the buddhism. [ bells ringing ] >> every day the monks of the kaungsuwai monastery file through the nearest village. the people here live in shacks, they own very little, but they give what they can to the monks. >> i donate food every day to do

a good deed to reach heaven. >> 12 of the monks will graduate from the monastery this month. whatever path they follow jack hopes that remember his lessons and spread tolerance and understanding. >> jack just flew lack to minnesota where he works for amnesty international. he hopes to return to the monastery but that depends on his health because he has multiple slow sclerosis. >> he's doing good work. how does the government respond to the fighting that's going on between the buddhist and the muslims principally? >> well, the issue is sensitive over there. a lot of officials don't like to talk about it. but the president has come out and said he does not consider some of these muslims called rohingya, citizens the country and has asked for help to deport them. >> i spoke to t. kumar about how

this could effect muslims. >> this is going to determine, if it's manipulated, that's the fear, most of them thing that minorities. that's one of the issues. when it comes to rohingya muslims they're not even considered citizens. they're completely treated like aliens and have been abused by everyone in myanmar, not only the government, but everyone. >> so t. kumar, i have to tell you that i've been following this story for the last couple of years, and i've been stunned by the levels of violence. here's what i want to know. i know all of these conflicts have flash points, but how have

buddhist been able to reconcile their non-violent beliefs against their forceful opposition against the muslims? can you explain this to me? >> it's a mystery to all of us why peaceful, you know, all religions are peaceful. it's not buddhist, the civilians who are using violence or preaching violence. it's the religious leaders. >> yes, yes. >> who are leading this. that's what surprises us and also the government is not acting against that. so there are two angles to it. one is the buddhist monk who are taking the lead in attacking, abusing muslims because of their religious reasons, and also the government is turning the blind eye or the leaders are not

speaking out. >> now let me stop you there, and let me put a question to you about aung san suu kyi, the nobel laureate. we understand that she is a politician, but does amnesty international count itself among the individuals and groups disappointed that aun g san suu kyi has not spoken out for morsefully about this at this point. >> the person who received nobel peace prize should have some more authority and strength to speak out against abuses that happen against anyone because of their religion or ethnicity.

so we are disappointed. and we hope she will correct her path and at least let her speak out. >> our thanks to t. kumar with amnesty international. it's been less than a year that the military removed egyptian president mohamed morsi from pow. we have the story of the man who has become egypt's most powerful official. >> after three years of upheaval in egypt this is the man that could come out on top. abdul al sisi has announced his bid for presidency. his am applications were first revealed in this tape recording in which he spoke of decades of nightly dreams of being president. >> in one dream a voice told me we will give you what we have not given to anyone else, and in

another dream i was with the president, and he said to me, i'm sure you will be president of the hubble. then i replied, i also have always been sure that i would be president of the republic. during a recent trip to russia president vladimir putin endorsed his bid even before it was publicly announced. >> i know that you, respected mr. defense minister, have plans to run for president. >> al sisi has his supporters at home, too. relatives that rose from obscurity to prominence, the coup followed a wave of protest manically by the muslim brotherhood.

in what is described as a revolution of june 30th. weeks of bloodshed followed with morsi's ousting, and thousands more arrested for protesting against the military takeover. the military kept morsi in jail and banned the muslim brotherhood, eventually declaring it a terrorist organization. as the nation descended into violence al sisi was given more powers. a week half after morsi gave him rank of field general he become general. egypt remains deeply divided society polarized between those who want to return to civilian rule to maintain the january 25th revolution is hijacked by the military and those who think that stability

even under a military ruler should remain priority over a democracy. >> falling asleep at the wheel seems to be the cause of a chicago train crash this week. maria ines has more on that story. that's where the train ended up on the escalator. >> reporter: that's right, and the operator of that train that crashed at o'hare airport said she fell asleep at the controls. in this video released by the "chicago sun times" monday's crash left 32 people injured. the operator told investigators she had dozed off once before passing by a station stop in february. also a piece of emergency equipment may have malfunctioned prior to the crash. in texas the rescue of a construction worker captured on video from a building across the street. the worker found himself trapped as the building was engulfed in flames as he was trying to climb to safety. look at what happened next.

>> oh, my god! [ screaming ] >> incredibly the worker and firefighter were not hurt when the building collapsed and the investigation of the cause is underway. in pennsylvania a woman who was abandoned as a baby inside a burger king restroom has reunited with her birth mother. the 27-year-old went on facebook to ask for help to find her birth mother. the mother came forward and met with her daughter this week. de prill said it was pure joy to meet her mother. she said that she was raped while traveling abroad and hid the pregnancy from her parents. she didn't want to take her to a hospital because they would ask questions. >> you hope that the reunion is a good one. there are issues to work out here. >> there are, but katherine deprill said she's happy to meet

her mom. >> told to do something in peer go they have to do something in return.

only on al jazeera america >> you know, it is a new approach to helping stop alcoholics were becoming a nuisance. am deamsterdam is using the barr system. people get beer for keeping the city screen. >> this is coen, a former postman he once walked the same streets delivering mail. coen, an alcoholic, is cleaning the streets while also trying to get clean. he's part of an unlikely crew of garbage collectors, all struggling addicts who spend half the day on the streets

picking up trash. in exchange the city offers th them--peer. five cans to be rationed throughout the day plus a warm meal, tobacco and ten euros. it's part of an unconventional dutch program that keeps addicts working. instead of loitering in the local park where many are known to get drunk and start fights or yell at passersby. >> have you ever been one of these people who yelled at got in fights because of alcohol or while you were sitting there before you were in this program? >> well actually yes. >> she oversees the total of 20 people in the two groups as they clean the city shifts. she also distributes the beer. she's a supervisor but also a support system helping those who relapse, need outside assistance or struggle to stay on track. >> the goal is not that the street is getting cleaner.

it's that they have more self-respect because they have something to do. >> coen has been in and out of clinics and detox, but his sel self-proclaimed progress with this project is exactly what the local district mayor hoped for when she agreed her district would help fund it in 2012. fatima elatik said problems in the park had gotten prayed bad. even though giving alcoholics more alcohol is controversial, she says she was willing to try anything. >> we through everything we had at them, every project, every law, every fine, every opportunity to, you know, fine them for disturbances, but you know, just fining them isn't curing the problem. it's just targeting the symptom. >> elatik says she already has witnessed changes in the personalities of participants like a man named fred. she remembers visiting him in the park months ago.

>> he looked like a bum, somebody you wouldn't give any attention. nowadays he walks around, he's proud of himself. >> do you think this program is helping you? >> yes, it is not easy. i fighting every day. every day when i go--break open, and i standing before the mirror, every day i tell to myself, fred, try. do not drink this day. >> only time will tell whether these men can kick their habits. in the meantime they have a job to do, a place to be, and a chance to change, which is enough to bring them a new sense of self-respect. lori jane gliha, al jazeera, amsterdam. >> i brought the do. si-dos on the set with me. why? because the woman who has he would a girl scout cookies sales record for decades said she has no problem giving up her cookie

crown. she set the record in the 1980's but just lost it to 12-year-old katie francis from oklahoma. she sold more than 18,000 boxes. >> there are three ingredients to the cookie sales. it takes lots of time, commitment, and asking everybody i see. >> it's very time-consuming and takes a lot of energy, and a lot of adrenaline. [ laughing ] but it's a lot of fun, too. >> katie said she wants to sell 20,000 boxes by the end of this month. the do. si-dos won't last until the end of the month. the day's top stories next on al jazeera america.

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at the day's top stories. the death toll from the mudslide in washington state is at 16, but that number is expected to rise. rescuers are not giving up the

search and continue to dig through th for survivors and b bodies. the president spoke at a summit for european leaders in brussels and addressed the continuing tension between eastern and western powers. >> russian leadership is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed self-evident. in the 21st century the borders of europe cannot be redrawn with force. >> 121 objects have been spotted by satellite, but they are far from sure. but officials say it is their best lead to the missing plane. it is an historic ruling that could change college sports. the national labor relation board said northwestern university football players who received full scholarships to big ten schools qualify as

employees, and can form an union. the school said it plans to appeal the ruling. those are the headlines. i'm tony harris in new york city. real money with ali velshi is next on al jazeera america. >> russia's problem is your problem, too. same goes for turkey, brazil, china. i'm looking at the tangled web that is our global economy and what it could do to your bottom line. also the labor ruling that might change the face of college football forever. plus you want jobs? i got jobs. i'll tell you about an industry that is booming right now in america, and how you can get in on the action. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money."