>> thank you. >> the show may be over, but the conversation continues on the website or consider this. >> welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters and these are the stories we're following for you today. after visiting with the pope, the president meets with italy's prime minister, and they are about to meet with reporters, and we'll bring it to you live. in the ukraine, the imf pledges billions of dollars in loans. >> our first two weeks was hell. we were just wandering around trying to find someplace to sleep, to bathe and everything. >> it is the island paradise that's not so sunny for the

homeless. president obama is in italy at this hour, and he met earlier with pope francis at the vatican, and now he's meeting with the italian prime minister, and the two plan to hold a news conference shortly. we'll bring it to you live. meanwhile, mike viqueira is there. and the president is making news today regarding the nsa. >> that's right, the nsa program, you remember back in january, the president proposed changing that metadata collection program, a so-called 215, named after a section of the law that enumerates that the intelligence community can collect phone records from virtually every american and keep them for five years, at least that's how the

intelligence community interpret today. obviously a lot of people disagree. with the controversy around edward snowden last year, the president finally in june making that speech, and the department of justice promising to look at it and today announcing his findings, he's going to end the metadata collection of phone records, and he's going to ask the phone companies to do it. he's not going to ask them to keep it for five years, but as long as they keep regular phone records now. and he's going to allow the intelligence community to come to this secret fisa cord to keep permission each and every time they want to investigate a particular phone number or chase a bad guy associated with that number, and we should add, del, that this is going to have to go through congress, and there are already competing proposals in congress, and it's by no means a done deal. >> both men meeting with the pope at the vatican and

exchanging gifts as a tradition, and do we know what they gave each other? >> it has been a day of ceremony, of pomp, of pretty pictures as the president makes his way around the eternal city. he began the day with his first-ever meeting with the pope, pope francis, and there's no question about it, president obama hopes to bask in the reflected glow of the pope, and some of what we heard about in his papacy, now a year old. it has been a tradition for the pope and the president to exchange gifts, and of symbolism there as the president presented the mope with two medallions, symbolizing bringing the northern and the southern hemisphere together. and the pope, one of the main things that he wants to show to president obama with the gap between the rich and the poor, and he presented president obama

with the joy of the gospel, a paper that the pope presented and wrote that got a lot of attention and was a renewed focus from francis on the plight of the poor. >> and president obama opposes e pope opposes the affordable care act mandate about couldn't session. and did he bring that up? >> whether it came up, whether pope francis brought it up, i think it's likely that he did. remember that the affordable care act does not require churches to require the insurance. it requires contraceptive aid, but religions affiliated with catholic organizations, hospitals for example, would be required to do that, and it's part of the supreme court case back in washington that was heard, the hobby lobby case a

couple of days ago, del. >> before we let you go, the heeg with the italian prime minister, matteo renzi. >> that is underway right now, as a matter of fact, del. when he left the vatican, he met with georgia politano. and a lot of the guards in the very ornate outfits, coverage here on italian media, wall-to-wall, and this is a very big deal wherever one president goes, any american president, and he's meeting with repsy in that bilateral meeting, and when they do, we expect to see that. >> now to the crisis in ukraine. russian president, rad vad, saying that russia will now set up new credit card companies that will rival visa and mastercard, and russia's central bank is already working on it. the u.s. cutting off companies

that use russian banks, last week, russia demanded ukraine pay back $11 billion that he loaned them. and now the international monetary fund saying that they will loan ukraine as much as $18 billion. and setting them on the right track. in his address today, saying that there's an aid package as well. libby, do we know what's on the table? >> we do, del. the senate is poised to pass legislation today that would pass $1 billion in loan guarantees for the ukraine ran government. and $150 million in direct aid. the house passed two weeks ago a loan that had different loan guarantees and it's different than what the senate is doing today. and it goes farther because ever sanctions. sanctions on russians and ukrainians, who are seen as corrupt or attacked protesters, or who facilitated the takeover of crimea.

the house working on its own version of sanctions but it has been fairly slow going because the story has been evolving over weeks, and del, only poised to act now. >> so it sounds like the house and the senate are eager to impose the sanctions but what has been the holdup? >> very much so. there has been a fight over changes in the imf, when it should be a direct assistance account or an emergency account. this is something that the u.s. has been trying to do for years and the democrats supporting it, but the republicans are against it. they feel that the way that the money is divvied up with the imf weakens the u.s. influence, so though the senate could likely pass t. it's unlikely to get through the republican-led house. they went on a stalemate. this week, what has changed, and broken things through, is majority leader, harry reid from

the senate has agreed to ditch it now, and voted for sanctions on 80 ukrainians and sanctioning russia. >> right now, the u.n. assembly is vetting on on whether or not to condemn russia for its actions in crimea. they called it illegal, and it failed the security council because rush 'vetoed it. >>it. >> she wants to run in may but needs approval from her part. tymoshenko. why so many live there, it was a risk of catastrophic landslide. allen is in washington, and we understand that the government has called for an examination of that very issue.

>> that's right, governorinsly y wants them to go back and see the procedure of what happened on saturday. you ask why people live in this area, and it's something that occurs around the country. well, it's spectacular country, and a lot of people here said that they knew the risk, and people who lived in the area knew the risk and refused to leave. it's a gorgeous part of the world. it's about a 70-mile drive into one of the marriage cities, into everett. but because of the landslide blocking the highway, it's even more remote in terms of getting to the real world and jobs and things. people at the site still trying to find the victims and dealing with a lot of questions about exactly what the county knew

about this landslide and the instability of the slope uphill from all of the homes that got wiped out. >> what kind of progress are we expecting today as far as the search? i know it has been raining on and off. >> it has been raining and it rained hard overnight. we know there were work crews on sight overnight, but not looking for victims, they stopped doing that. they have been working on clearing the road on either edge of the mile-long pile of mud that has blocked state route 30. and they will be back out today with dogs and human personnel as well. here's what some of the emergency managers are saying about the risk, big events just happen. sometimes large events that nobody sees happen. this event happened. i want to find out y i want to

understand why. i want to understand the dynam a potential small earthquake behind it that shook it loose. and i don't have those answers right now. >> they have gone back and checked the seismic records, and about ten days before this slide, there was a small earthquake, just a 1.1. maybe not something that you and i would feel if we were in the neighborhood but right at the slide site and it's something that might have set this thing off. >> allen, thank you very much. the focus of the investigation into the missing malaysian flight 370 now back on the captain. a malaysian official said that the captain is solely responsible for the crash. according to that high ranking officer, there's no evidence of mechanical failure or hijack being.

they have seen more remnants in the south indian ocean, and this has not the first time that the captain has been the subject of suspicion. >> before the plane veered off-course, they prompted the investigators to focus on who in the cockpit had the ability to turn off the transponder and turn the plane in a different direction, and the finger blame began to be turned toward the senior man in the cockpit, zaharie ahmad shah. they found the deleted files on shah's flight simulator. and they turned them over to the fbi. and the director of the fbi was asked if he had the analysis prepared. >> i have teams working literally around the lock to try to exploit that, and i expect it to be done fairly shortly, within a day or two. >> the pilot has many defenders,

including the ceo of malaysia airlines, who said that his record of the company has been exemplary. and others deny that he would have deliberately crashed his plane. so far investigators have not connected him to a terrorist group, but there are reports from an anonymous group that a government opposition leader had been convicted and the pilot was upset about that. >> as we have been reporting, bad weather in australia today. and again, they're chasing down the strongest leads yet. what can you tell us about the new satellite images? >> new satellite images from thailand. 1700 miles southwest of perth, australia. the pictures were taken on monday, and that's just one day after another promising lead announced yesterday, 120 objects from a french satellite, 100 miles away. what the authorities have not

figured out yet, whether both satellites were taken images of the same group of debris. and what they don't know if it matches, and so far no match. >> randall, thank you very much. hawaii, little known fact, has the third largest homeless population per capita in the united states, and now it's trying to solve that. >> beyond hawaii's fetching white sand beaches and rocky shores, tucked away in the shadows, along oahu's coast, a sight that is not found in any guide book. twinks is one of hawaii's homeless. she agreed to take me on the tour of the camp where she and hundreds of others live. >> how long have you been here? >> i've been here going on 11 years now. >> through a maze of makeshift

shelters, we find drinkle's tent, a jumble of ruins, patched together with tarp and tent polls. >> it looks like you have a living room, a sleeping area, a kitchen and a bathroom. >> life isn't easy. twinks describes it as living among thieves, but it's the only home she's got. >> i never thought that i would be here this long, but it became home for me. for me it's reality. >> 271 people live in this camp. 38 of them are children, and there are at least eight camps just like this one all along the waianai coast. closer to home, tents and more families living on the streets. like tabitha and tracy and their two-year-old daughter. >> because we got evicted, we didn't have an address, and so

we lost the welfare, so we can't pay for anything. and our first two weeks was hell. we were just wandering around trying to find someplace to sleep and bathe and everything. >> by some estimates, there are more than 17,000 homeless people statewide, making hawaii's homeless population the third largest in the country per capita, thanks to low wages and high housing costs. >> though it's a beautiful place to live, the cost of living is outrageous and that's a major contributing factor why there are so many homeless here in the state of hawaii. >> and it's only getting worse, admits hawaii's governor, neil abercrombie. >> not only is it more visible, there are greater numbers, and the seriousness of it. >> reporter: to that end, aber crombie has crotted aionc ill on homelessness, trying to get people off of the beaches and

into transitional housing. >> we are trying to rehabilitate apartments, for example, that have been abandoned and getting people into shelters. >> easier said than done, according to the director of the health center. >> the saying goes, the longer you're homeless, the harder it is to be placed into how doing. twinks, she has been there for a decade. and people are stuck in the mindset. this is home to me. >> for thousands of people, this is what home in hawaii looks like, under the streets, along the freeways, and on the shadows of the shore. oahu, hawaii. >> we're following breaking news coming out of spain. there are local media reports saying that there has been a plane crash off of the canary islands. the reports say that the plane simply fell into the sea. no word on the number of

passengers or the type of plane. when we learn that information, we'll bring it to you live. coming up on aljazeera america: china saying that it has changed it's one-child policy, and that could have a huge impact on the country's economy. and as we head to break, these are live pictures of the mall in washington d.c. 2,000 flags being raised to awareness of military members who died by suicide this year.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america. we're going to take you live to rome right now, that's the italian prime minister, mateo renzi speaking, there's no translation for the italian prime minister who is speaking, though for a while he was speaking in english, but that's not the case now, so when the president begins to speak, we'll go back to the news conference

and bring you the president's comments live as we expect him to comment on the situation in ukraine. crime scene relaxing it's one-child rule. it has been in effect since the 1970s. now parents can have two children if neither parent has no other siblings. >> at home in beijing, she enjoying the center of attention of her adoring parents and grandparents. with her mother now six months pregnant, she's about to get a sibling. because both her parents come from one-child families, they already qualified under existing rules to have a second child. and doing so means not subjecting their daughter to the loneliness that they endured. >> they can share things, they can help each other and play together. >> most of us suffered the one-child policy, because all of

us don't have brothers and sisters. >> reporter: now, under the new laws, if only one parent is from a one-child family, the couple will qualify for a second child. opening up the prospect of a mini baby boom. it's expected to result in possibly 2 million births a year, and that will mean a greater demand on hospitals and kindergartens. but it's expected to provide relief in the long-term for a one-child generation, burdened with looking after aging parents on their own. the social consequences of the one-child generation are well-known, as are the designs of most couples who want more than one child. the parents here in the cities face the same financial dilemma when it comes to making the decision on that second child as parents anywhere else. in their small apartment, he has child minding duties with his wife.

she has siblings, but he's from a one-child family. so they now qualify to have a second child. but they won't have one. bringing up baby xang will cost them $200,000 over the next 18 years, and they see the single child option as offering the best chance for the best start in life. >> my wife had to share things with her siblings, but as an only child, my parents could spend everything on me. i want my son to have the best education and love. >> it is a conundrum for parents, and at least now they have a choice, where before there was none. >> wall street seems to be seesawing between plus and minus this morning. the dow right now is actually up

about 2 points. the market is reacting positively to a big jump in consumer spending, driving the growth in the last three months. the congress reporting that the gdp rose at a faster than expected pace in the quarter, rising 2%. a lot of economists expect it to hit 3%. meanwhile, a drop-in job reports is expecting hiring to come up. unemployment fell to the lowest levels in four months. a new boss at microsoft is stepping into the spotlight. expected to make a big announcement this afternoon. many believe that the chief executive will offer a new version to work on apple's ipad. when we come back, on aljazeera america -- >> if you hold onto it, it will rip your hands wide open. and on top of that, they have to look out for the mother croc. >> hunting crocodile. a booming crocodile population.

>> that is italian prime minister, matteo renzi. and he has been speaking now for approximately 10 minutes. most of the news conference has been in italian, but however, there's translation provided to the president, and our mike viquera has been traveling with the president and mike, have we been given a heads-up on what the president is saying in >> reporter: well, there is going to be a news conference, and there will be from the italian press, and two questions from the american press, similar to what we saw two days ago from the leather lands. you see this young man, matteo renzi, he has only been the prime minister for two months in italy. clearly basking in the spotlight with president obama, who has been received here by the public wherever he goes. i can tell you, wall on wall

coverage on italian television, the motorcades, and with pope francis, del, you had asked me, did any of the issues there have been surrounding the president's healthcare, and obamacare been anticipated because of the controversy requiring religious-based organizations like catholic hospitals to cover contraceptives, and now we have the president, and i believe he's going to take it from prime minister renzi. >> your italian friends, you're able to continue the discussion. my day started with the great honor of meeting his holiness, pope francis i. and like people around the world, i've been incredibly moved by his compassion, and his

message of inclusion. and i was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities that we all have to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded. and i was extremely moved by his insights about the importance of us all having a moral perspective on world problems, and not simply thinking in terms of our own narrow self interests. of course it's wonderful to be back in rome. one of the truly great cities of the world. i should point out though, that while this is our first official bilateral meeting, i already had the chance to welcome matteo renzi to the white house. he came as a group of mayors, back when he served as the mayor of florence. and i look forward to the opportunity to welcome the prime minister back, this time as

prime minister. i also want to say that i had a wonderful meeting with my good friend, the president. and i think that italy is lucky to have such an extraordinary statesmen to help them guide the country through some challenging times. italy and the united states share extraordinary bonds, and we're proud of the italian-americans who made extraordinary contributions to our country. italy is one of our closest allies, and i made clear throughout this trip that our partnership with europe is our foundation with asia and the