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 this is al jazeera. hello and welcome from me david foster. these are some of the stories we are covering in detail in the next 60 minutes. ukrainian special forces sent to confront these armed men in the east who have taken over a police station. >> the untreated wounded in iraq's fallujah as medical supplies are running out and civilians are playing the price. >> put on lock-down in libya, my grant did behind bars with no signs of when they will be

freed. the united states denying it used the heart bleed computer bug to spy on more people. we are just seeing the first online pictures that have been posted of an escalating standoff in eastern ukraine. gunmen have taken a police station in slavia. kiev has said it is sending in special forces. we understand, in fact, they are on their way. let's go to the very latest. hoda, there are many pockets of resistance and confrontation around that part of ukraine at the moment, but the potential here for some kind of serious escalation is pretty clear >> reporter: certainly. it is a difficult situation because just yesterday, the prime minister had gone to

donesk and was trying to calm the situation down. he had promised that there would be no violent crackdown on protester. he had begun to offer some concessions even though they have not beenlelized yet. these have surrounded that police building. its not clear who was inside that building at that particular time. it was early morning from what we understand, but it is a police building so presumably, there were some servicemen inside. they still haven't identified themselves. but when you talk to people hear about it and you ask them who they are, they will tell you these are people who don't like the authorities in kiev. they have taken over this security building behind me and they will probably have those exact same demands. >> okay. so we are waiting for the special forces to arrive there. it remains to be seen what attitude they take when they get there but the view, a similar

situation in evidence. you have been able to assess the personal situation and the protests where you are. there is support for those protesters inside. these are people who feel completely alienated in kiev. they view them as fascists who are too close to the e.u. and the u.s. there is a lot of fear if they dip closer, well, then, you must be hearing them calling on russia. the protesters inside are holding at this particular time negotiations with a delegation that came from kiev this morning. they say at this stage, there are three main demands. the main one is the promises of constitutional amendments that

would lead to more autonomy from the government in kiev to become legal, actually, that they actually happen. also, they say we have been hearing about amnesty. for the moment, we look at that as empty promises to make us leave the building if those amnesty promises turn into a decree, then maybe there is a hope for them to leave the building and a third thing that they want and they keep on specifying is that they want to have their southeastern army as they call it. they say it will be under the command of the national army, but here, in this region, it will be under local command. a lot of the people outside of the building say, yes, they agree with that. >> i was just talking to a lady who said that she thought that it was a first step. but eventually, she would like for this region to join russia.

>> it's reminencent of the early days of the ukrainian crisis when protesters stood. here, they are against a new ukrainian government. it's been a week since the takeover of the main security building by pro-russian supporters. like elsewhere in the east, a referendum on federalists is their main demand. but with every day that passes, the list gets longer. now they also want the formation of a southeastern army but this is not crimea and beyond the encampment, there is little sem pathy for the protesters. the majority of people look at kiev rather than moscow. >> this is crazy. these are unemployed people who have nothing to do. they are employed paid by russia. they represent less than 1%. if they want a referendum, there must be more than six months or russia will rig the ballots.

>> protesters have seen a large amount of weapons that were inside the security building. >> the government has warned several times that it would retake the building by force if they don't evacuate. a deadline has come and gone, and there has been no action. perhaps because the authorities in kiev know that this could be a very risky operation. >> the encampment is gradually growing around the building. families and sympathizers who vow to protect those holed up inside. >> if they try to remove us, all hell will break loose. they have a lot of weapons. we don't have them here but we can get them quickly. >> several defense lines are in place. stones and malatov cock tales if need be. many are praying that day will never come. al jazeera. now to iraq where the city of fallujah has been under the control of anti-government groups since the start of the year. the government is saying it will do whatever is next to rid the

city of the fighters. but for the people caught in the middle, life is difficult and increasingly unsafe. maria marianea hahn reports. >> fallujah has been under siege for more than three months. the government doesn't have control here that belongs to fighters linked today al-qaeda as well as tribes that are against the government. life is difficult and dangerous as fight just getting to the hospital is the a risk. >> this must have been some sort of mortar or art i willery shell. my brother is injured, too. >> many people have left the city to escape the fighting. for those unable to leave, the conditions are difficult. doctors appealed to the outside world for urgent help. >> i urge all available medical staff to come to the hospitals here to help in case there are more emergencies. we are running short of staff.

>> and they say they are running out of medicine, too. maluj a lies just 60 kilometers from baghdad, but it's a long way from the central government's hold on power. prime minister nuri al maliki has promised a full-scale military offensive meaning there is little hope of a reprieve any time soon. >> now to a doctor based in baghdad. what is the problem here? doctor? is it that fallujah is a special case because of the conflict that's going on there, or is there a dirth of medical supplies and availability of help across iraq? >> i think the situation is very much related to fallujah, itself, because like any conflict zone, there are always difficulties in providing medical and health services to the people in conflict zones. >> is it to do with the fact -- i'm sorry. i thought you had finished.

is it the fact that people cannot get in and out or that the supplies, themselves are just not available? >> it's related very much to the human resources working in health facilities in conflict zones. many of them find it very difficult to work in these areas and some of them usually leave the place and, therefore, there is always shortage of human resources, and the same thing with time. it's difficult to the maintain equipment, medications available to the disposal of medical doctors to be provided to the patients because it's always difficult to the transfer these medications and equipment to the conflict areas. >> are you rotating the doctors and other medical staff in and out of fallujah, or are you having to rely perhaps on volunteers who are prepared to go into what is an increasingly dangerous place?

>> mainly, we are depending upon physicians and medical staff, health staff who is already working there. of course, some of them, for three months. some of them left. some did not go back to fallujah. definitely, there is a shortage of staff there? >> would you care to answer a more general question, dr.? the skype line is breaking up now and then. so apologies for that. but would you answer a more general question about the condition of the health services in iraq? since the conflict ended, if one can say that, have things got any better at all for people in your profession and for those on the receiving end, the patients? >> well, since 2003, iraqi doctors have been in some many occasions targeted. some have been killed. some have been kidnapped and, therefore, many have left the

country. nevertheless, we have more than 15 million a lot of young medical doctors working. the annual public budget had been raised from 2003 from 1 billion to 6 billion. >> okay. doctor ambori, thank you very much indeed for that difficultwies our communication but nothing like the difficulties it appears you and your colleagues are facing. thank you very much. now to the reason why many of us are having to change our computer passwords. heart bleed, a software bug which potentially allows attackers to read the passwords for popular websites such as facebook and twitter. now, there are some dienlz that they were pulling out data for surveil answers. heartbleed is a glitch in the security of websites which you

you may or may not have heard of called "open ssl." it's designed to protect sensitive data such as e-mail, passwords, credit card information. when certain website addresses begin with the letter https, a company by this green closed pad lock, they are supposed to be secure. but heartbleed crates an opening making the sites vulnerable to the attack, potentially exposes sensitive data and up to two-thirds of the world's websites. it's a imagine problem. it's believed to have been around for at least two years and in canada, at least, they have shut down now a series of websites. >> more than three quarters of canadian taxpayers filed oim online through the website canada revenue agency. but anyone attempting to beat the deadline got firsthand experience of the heartbleed

bug. >> on wednesday, the agency shut its web file services down and now the government has suspended internet sites of other departments that use open ssl en description. canada says they are a precaution, no security breaches have been detected. >> doesn't mean they haven't happened. given the scale and scope of this, it affects the vast market of servers on the web around the world. it's only a matter of time before we discover that at least some of them were compromised along the way. the mathematics absolutely point us in that direction. >> the list of internet firms hit by heartbleed is growing. google, facebook and others say they have fixed the bug. others are race can to do so. canadian and international banks are so far saying they are not affected but the news that networks and hard work made by cisco and juniper could be infected meaning this is one of the biggest olbermann security

vulnerabilities for all time. >> this is really a watershed event in internet security, the straw going to break the camel's back. security, we need to pay a lot more attention to it. we haven't been in the past. >> needs to change and it needs to change now. >> once the shear size of the problem is determined, the really hard work begins. finding the breaches that occurred, discovering what data was taken and how it may have been used. we will be hearing being heartblied for weeks, probably months to come. now, the st. an identity theft expert. people must monitor their online accounts closely when there is smoke, there is fire this is the holy grail. for them not to say anything

would be a huge slab in the face to the computer security community as well a lot of people are currently upset that the rumors are that someone or a group has come forward leaking this. whether or not it's true, that remains to be seen. over the coming weeks, whoever it is that has essentially dropped this dime, they are going to need to be revealed. they are going to have to come out in order for the truth to be told. >> on a scale of one to 10, this is an 11. this is a big deal. consumers, it's always a good idea to change passwords. it is said that, you know, right now might not be the best time because you might have to change it in a few weeks. change your passwords now. if you have to change it again in a few weeks, do so. mon tore your accounts very closely at this point. >> coming up on this news, sweeden extremely sour, a fight over sugar cain. the president blamed for the deaths of farmers.

we take a look at a bike ride around brazil raising money for charity. it's time for the kickoff for the ball world cup. a former masters champion making his move for a second title. we have that from augusta. the rest of the news with sports with farah. hundreds of african migrants who have tried but failed to cross the mediterranean on their route are being detained in libya. they say they have not been allowed out of prison for weeks. they have no idea when they will be released. andrew simmons reports from garyan how their long route has ended behind bars. >> they want to know when or if they will be set free. for now, there doesn't appear to be an answer. some say they have been detained for more than a year. this man from aratraya says he

has been held in various centers since 2012 and it's grim. >> i didn't see any what you call respect for human beings here. >> this, you might think, is how it should be. some freedom of movement, an open door. the vast majority of the people here, that's more than 250 men, they are on lockdown most of the time. some of these men haven't been outside for two to three weeks. >> i couldn't get the sunlight. i couldn't make exercise. it's bad for me. >> there are 10 men who have special permission to be outside most of the time and they help out. but the guards who didn't appear to be very attentive say they can't organize regular exercise sessions mainly because they don't have proper security. >> isn't it inhumane the way these people are being treated? >> translator: humane or not, it's not for me to decide. i am just a man doing the best i

can under the circumstances. i am not mistreating or hurting anyone. we do what we can, but the state isn't helping us. >> reporter: the detainees get regular meals and occasional medical attention. the guards say conditions aren't what they should be because they are pourly resourced and short-staffed. but many of the men here are uncertain about their rights and don't know what's going to happen next. andrew simmons, al jazeera, absharda detention center, libya. >> iran says it's going to appeal against a decision by the united states to reject a visa for iran's u.n. ambassador. the united states objects to him and his links with the seizures of hostages in 1979. but as the host government of the united nations in this new york, the united states apparently is obliged toish

visvis to issue visas to diplomats. >> we continue, here at al jazeera to demand release of the three journalists detained. they are falsely accused of providing a platform to the muslim brotherhood and they have been behind bars for 105 days now. abdullah al shami has been held without trial since last august. he has been on hunger strike for the last 82 days. al jazeera rejects all of the charges. hundreds of demonstrators, student demonstrators in tie with a are calling for the resignation of a senior police official. the demands came after anti-chinese protesters were removed from parliament against their will. they occupied it for several weeks. in opposition to a trade deal with china. australia says it is planning to

use a sub mercible in the deep-watermercible in the deep-wat deep-water. nol new ping signals have been detected and the search is likely to last a very long time. on friday, mr. abbott said he was confident that search crews had heard signals from the jet which disappeared five weeks ago? >> given that the signal from the black box is rapidly fading, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so that we can locate -- so that we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible. once that's been done and i don't want to speculate on when that might be. it's our intention to employ the submercible which will conduct a sonar search of the sea bed and,

based upon the search, attempt to get a visual. >> people in the australian say that queensland are set in the damage course of cyclone ita. it is categorized as a category 4 storm. no reports of injuries or death yet. no major structural damage. cook town, hundreds of residents there spending the night in an evacuation center. >> there is property damage. there are roads on one of the pubs and houses that have suffered that sort of damage, a lot of fences down, power lines down, trees down, down at the waterfront, pontoons that have been smashed up pretty badly. >> as we join steph for the forecast, you can see it's across north and down the eastern seaboard. >> it is huge. i have the satellite as it made landfall.

that the will show how powerful it was. you can see a well-defined eye there. >> that's an indication that it's an organized storm and has been able gain immense strength. we saw winds gusting up to 240 kilometers per hour as it made landfall. you can see it to the north of cook town. they are a little furtherser toward the south. it is where we are seeing the worst of the winds and the strongest of the rains at the moment. now, it's over land. it has lost a lot of its organization. there is no eye to be seen there. >> gives us an indication as well that it has lost a lot of its strength. what goes up must come down. all of the moisture it sucked up from the sea, now, it is dumping crosses the northeastern parts of australia. we are seeing a lot there at the moment. we are going to see more as we head through the next few hours. it's working its way steadily towards the south but it's basically running along that coastline. that means it won't reintensefy into a sigh colon but it is still going to give us a battery

with the strong winds but also, and the main problem further south. it's going to be with the immense amount of rain. so we are going to see plenty of wet weather nothing area as we head through the next few days. it's only as we head through monday that that wet weather finally, begins to pull away and then things there will calm down. now, another place in australia we have seen a lot of heavy rain recently has been down in the southeast. it has been wet. we are seeing flooding here as with well. >> system is moving away from us. as we move through sunday, a couple of showers around sidney. this time t look new zealand where we see weather system, david. >> thank you very much indeed. two of the world's leading humanitarian figures told us here at al jazeera, the world must not give up on the children of syria. unicef's director had a chance to sit down with rosalind jordan and they discussed the employee

at deployment of peace keepers to the central african republic. >> what we need to do is to urge the u.n. as much as possible to accelerate this employee at deployment. they have announced that they would start right away. the more they can bring this dmroichlt forward, the betteplo? >> as with kind of a collectioning of communities, ats muslims are forced out -- and by the way, i think it's something like 10,000 a week are fleeing now into camaroon. despite being shot as they are trying to leave. this is having a profound impact on the future of the society because if you get a society, then, which is on the one hand christian and the other side muslim and many large numbers of muslims outside, they are you are going to see potentially another bosnia where the two communities are at war with each other. so we've got to act. we've got to act quickly.

>> if south sudan just -- is south sudan just as bad, just as dire and just as ignored as car is? >> different because on the -- in terms of the fighting because these are two organized groups basically, not highly organized but still organized with their own political agendas. and so, perhaps, there is somewhat better hope there would be a diplomatic solution here and pray god it happens sooner. but the scale of the humanitarian disaster is huge. >> when south sudan became an independent country, that was a part of the sudan the that was most neglected with very low indicators of human development, with education, healthcare. so a country was born with the elements of failure and that for the international community

meant then and neemeans now thae need much more intensive engagement in helping the country to step on its feet. >> when talking about south sudan, russia and china were called out for not living up to their moral obligation. they noted they are wealthy countries but not stepping up to the plate. can it be argued that this covers all sorts of conflicts? >> very simple: more wealth, more responsibility. and we have to work on lifting up that sense of responsibility among the countries that are emer emerging as stronger economic powers. >> let's not forget governments, especially in democracies but really all governments reflect the public opinion in their countries. so we have to find ways to keep pubs from not just becoming fatigued but almost giving up. and i can understand why now

syria is in its fourth year. you might begin to say: this is hopeless. it's never going to be fixed. so why should i care? you should care because, first of all, every child who dies is a child who dies whatever the country -- whatever the situation. we give up on this because of the particularly fatigue, then, we are giving up on human beings and especially children that we all care about. >> yes. stay with us if you can. in a few minutes, about four or five minutes' time, we will be looking at how difficult life is for syrian children when they come to go to school in jordan. >> that's later on in the al jazeera newshour. we are off to colombia where a man has been arrested for dousing a woman with acid. we request why the attacks on many other women have gone unpunished. >> manny "packman" pacchaiu.

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it is in the donesk region. doctors in the iraqi city of fallujah have aepeeled to the world. they say they need urgent help. the city has been under the control of anti-government groups since the start of the year. the iraqi government saying it will do whatever is necessary to force the fighters out of the city. u.s. national security agencies denying that it knew about the software bug called "heartbleed" and used it to spy on people. computer users are being advised to change passwords on popular websites such as facebook and twitter. >> let us hear from mikel mikela winetski who told us only a small amount of the population in the east of the country support moves to separate from ukraine and form a republic. >> what prime minister is doing is full filling the promise that was made while just behind me

when one of the calls of the revolutionaries was to, in fact, decentralize the country and to change the constitution in such a way that dictatorship becomes impossible and the way that's done is by decentralizing things like budget did, et cetera. that's being spun as some sort of concession to the separatist. what et cetera doing is full filling his mandate. the separatists in their own regions according to the polling data that has just come out of ukrainian and western poling companies have no more than 20s % support. 80% wants to stay in ukraine and 20% that is at least considering some sort of federalization or separatetism. >> that's not enough to create any kind of indigenous. change without, of course, external involvement, which is really what's going on. i mean,

obviously, these sep rat test movements are being funded and organized by russia. there is a vote that is coming at the moment called the presidential election, and if, in fact, in the eastern regions, the separatist candidates receive a large mandate, that will be considered to be effectively a referendum. but it's very dangerous to have the ability to have, you know, some sort of regional refer enda at a whim when you have 20% of the population that wants it. it's very expensive. >> from ukraine to syria and all of this amongst it, 110,000, maybe more, syrian children have had to be en rolled in jordan's state school there. there, they get a free education. there are tens of thousands of others who are prevented from enrolling. f forb forbidden. now, shimili will tell us why. >> all of the children are syrian refugees, learning how to

read and right for the first time. they are no longer eligible for regular schools because they have been displaced by the war in syria. he has been out of school for three years. he is hoping this will put him back into school even if it means being the oldest student in his class. >> being out of school has made me miss my peers and friends. i could only remember a quarter of the subject i studied. >> br the conflict only two centers provided catch-up education programs to jordanians now there are 25 centers teaching mostly syrian refugees. the u.n.'s organization for children, unicef said children sometimes dr out of school because their families have other priorities? >> parents are not going to tell you directly but in many cases,

it's about livelihood. children are required to bring livelihoods to the family. child labor is an issue. >> that's why this year, unicef is asking for an additional $30 million to support education for syrians in jordan. >> around 70,000 syrian children in jordan are out of school and need urgent, informal educational opportunities like the ones provided here. there are many reasons why they are not in school. some parents need their children to work to ease their financial burden and some keep their their children at home to protect them from a society where they don't feel integrated or safe. >> wila now lives in jordan's northern city of erbet. she spends most of her time helping her mother around the house. she has never been to school and should now be in the 1st grade. their mother won't allow her daughters to walk to school.

>> i am afraid my daughters will get lost on the way to school or that a stranger will approach them and convince them to go with him. we have heard stories about girls being kidnapped near schools. >> syrian children are among some of the hardest hit by their country's war. many who have been forced to drop out of school not only lack a sense of purpose but also feel hopeless. al jazeera, aman. >> people who have been the victims of acid attacks in colombia say they want the government to actually implement a law or law that's already been passed to restrictatsid sales and to increase the penalties. at least five more people have been attacked in the last two weeks. hundreds have been attacked in the last decade. from bogata, alex andra reports >> reporter: when she refused to work, a man attacked her with acid. it burned her neck, arms and

shoulders. >> i started screaming and screaming, as if crazy. i can't -- my god -- describe it. i would scream and throw water on me, all the "t's" water i could find and i would see pieces of skin falling off. >> her husband left her soon after and with the attacker threatening her daughters, she ran away to the columbian capitol looking for help. >> it was humiliation after humiliation. my friends would say my mother was a monster. now, we are alone, my mother and sisters, but we help each other to survive. >> more than 900 people have been takd with acid over the past 10 years. most are poor women who face constant discrimination. they can't find a job or the money to get surgery. >> sulphuric acid sales aren't

regulated. they can be found in hardware stores or supermarkets. it's not considered a serious crime, attackers only face short prison terms. >> bogata council woman says a mix of machismo, a history of violence and impunity are part of the problem. colombia's congress passed a law last year that would increase penalties but it hasn't been implemented. this might change following a high-profile case in the city. >> we are leaving these people alone. now, an upper class girl has been attacked, and i regret it absolutely, but we see the political system reacting. one wonders if we have first class and second class victims in this country. >>. >> poncy was reported by a neighbor reported obsessed with her. in sharp contrast to previous cases, the president offered a 40,000 dollar reward.

the culprit was soon arrested. congress promised to implement the law next month. previous victims like mereda are wondering if they will ever receive justice. al jazeera, bogata. >> in peru, a state of emergency has been declared in the andean region. the volcano that has been throwing up clouds of ash, huge rocks, some as big as 30 send you meeters across. as a result, hundreds of peoplev been forced to leave their homes. in mexico, the hunt is on for the leader of the knights templar drug cartel. a reward is being offered for the capture. so far, he has evaded police and v vigilantes from the state of mishwakan.

>> mexican soldiers and vigilantes are on a man huvent both groups are searching mountains looking for mexico's most-wanted man. the head of the knights templar cartel. no months, jose has been working to bring down the cartel. now, he is considering quitting the movement. the top leaders might fall. others will take their place and form a new cartel. >> the government is concerned vigilantes, thousands of armed men cop take the plates. >> that's one reason they are aim to go disarm them. the self defense groups as they call themselves say they won't put their guns ahead until the head of the knights templar and his did he at this are brought down. it's these rugged mountains where gomez, the last leader standing of the knights templar cartel has been holed up, where he has been trying to avoid the push to bring him to justice either dead or alive. >> the answer to just how gomez

could evade capture for years is clearer. this man, the former govern is being investigated over allegedly holding private meetings with gomez and other cartel leaders. it points to a possible high level of corruption providing the protective cloak gomez has needed. many hope for an end to the stand-off between the cartel and the authorities. farmhand abel loya used to work at this now empty ranch, a ranch built with state money. it was a depot for hey and cattle and a venue for rodeos and cock fights but the ranch became known for wild parties and barbecues hosted by cartel leaders. >> the vigilantes won't let us into the ranch. there is no more work so we have to wait. nobody tells us what is happening. nothing. >> the fortress now stands idle.

on a visit earlier this month, the president promised to bring security and jobs back to this violent and impoverished state. >> push to bring down the leader, as long as he remains at large are skeptical that leaders are out to catch their prey. it was 10 years ago that the number of farmers in the philippines were shot dead as they protested at a sugar estate owned by the family. nobody was convicted. from talak province in the north of the philippines? >> this is the place they once called home. they vividly remember how armed men hired by the sugar plantation they once worked for stormed into their home and drove them away.

they say they want to own the land their family had been farming for generations. although this rebate incident may have been painful, their have toing struggle has been a long one. it began almost 10 years ago when they survived an attack that killed at least seven farmers during a protest against the sugar estate. florida worries that the continued harassment of farmers may lead to more violence. they to harass and place us. it's our life. we will fight for it. we stand united. >> she blames it all on this man. his family owns the sugar plantation. he was the congressman of the district of the proof ince. akina says he only owned less

than five % of the total estate and has given up those shares when he was sworn in as president. he insists his government remains committed today providing a long-term solution to the problem. >> he did give instructions that government programs to support farmers should continue even after land distribution. >> but for florida, this is not enough. she says they want justice, especially from a man whose mandate is to protect them. >> this is reports of after report that filipino farmers are even worse off compared to asian counterparts because government land distribution targets are not being met. >> the supreme court has ordered the family of the akino to redistribute the vast plantation

to poor farmers ruling they have the right to own their ancestors' land but here, they say that justice is too slow and no matter the promises, they believe their struggle with the land owners still represent the darker side of the akino's legacy jamelle, tarlak province, northern philippines. >> the palestine marathon. it attacks thousands of runners from all over the world but not it sees from the gaza strip. why israel has denied a visa to the palestinian olympic runner, nada al masari. >> the race from the best of the east as the season winds down. stay with us for that. this many people that have perished. >> lost lives are re-lived... >> all of these people shouldn't be dead. >> will there differences bring them together, or tear them apart. >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves. >> which side of the fence

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2 months from the world cup in brazil. an englishman cycling from one stadium to another to raise money for charity, here is his story. >> my name is andy smith. i am a british touring cyclist here in brazil to explore this amazing country and have a bit of an adventure. and plan to visit every football stadium. i guess my goal is to discover brazil. i travel through 12 cities,

through multiple states, through all of the countryside and highways and coastline and mountains in between to see the towns, villages, cities and meet the people. the world cup is something pretty special, particularly here in brazil. to see it for real, up close, it's absolutely stunning. i want to go inside and see the pitch. i am not sure i can help at a time england team wilk but i like cycling across the country where the temperature is probably going to get hotter in the north. i hope they will be inspired to play better. we will celebrate in rio after the final when we win. it will be a memory to take for the rest of my trip and i hope to come back and see the final.

who knows? >> now to a more genteel sport. >> bubba watson has opened aup 3-shot lead at the halfway mark of the masters. alise reports. >> difficult conditions for the second round. t it calls for a man with experience. bubba watson stood alone at the top of the leader board. five straight birdies on the back 9 helping him to 7 under with a surrouround of 68. try to hit the greens and that means you are hitting your tee shots well. that's all i am trying to do is just hit the greens. my tee shots are good. two putts, maybe throwing a birdy. >> that's what i have done the last two days. it's worked out so far. >> his closest challenger is

john senden 3shots back. the australian produced a round of 6 i can't that included six birdies? >> with the position i am in right now, i believe that i can go out there tomorrow with the belief that i can, you know, hang with the leaders and play my game and do my job well. and do my best. >> come pat trian adam scott in contention, faurth shot baurthen a tie for third. phil mikelson will be absent from the weekend line-up for the first time since 1997. the three-time champion missed the cut by a shot. there was no hiding for rory mcelroy either. his round included two double bogies but he just made the cut at 11 strokes off the lead, a lot to make up on bubba watson

heading in to moving day. elise holman, al jazeera. >> here again is how the leader board stands. bubba watson at 7 under three clear of john sundan scott is joined in third by bjorn and jordan speith. barcelona will need to put the disappointment of their champions league exit behind them on saturday. barca were knocked out by athlet co mad drilled drilled. they can't over take their rivals have victory over lowly again ada. >> i see what happened. we understand there is no time for grieving. what happened happened hand now we must focus on what's next. >> real madrid will look to keep themselves in the title races they host on saturday. real are currently three points off of the top. arsenal can take a step toward their first trophy in 9 years later on saturday.

the gunners will start as heavy favorites in their semifinal against wigan at wembley. >> we are favorite. yes that doesn't mean you will win. you win when you produce a great performance. we have in this competition produced top-quality performances and just let's continue to do that. >> our top team on the premiership and last year, in an impressive way that can be possible. >> meanwhile, there are six games being played in the english premier league on saturday. they will all take off at 7 minutes past the hour following a minute of silence to honor next week's 25th anniversary of the hillsboro disaster. the 1989 fa cup semifinal

between liverpool and nottingham forest was stopped before 96 people lost their lives. manny pa mannypacchou waved in. it attracted as many fans as the fight itself. there is a lot of interest regarding saturday's bout. packman was beaten by bradley in 2012 and in a seven-year rein as welterweight champion. >> i am happy to be in las vegas. i am thankful to the fans who came here today and tomorrow, i have to give it back, pay them back a good fight. and, of course, a victorious fight. >> i have been my whole life, underdog. i know when you don't have any food in the refrigerator. i am happy. i am happy to be here. but even better, tomorrow, when

we get it on, me and manny. >> back on top of the nba's eastern conference standing, lebron james scored 36 points to lead the heat to a 98 to 86 wind over the indiana basers. ray allen on the sport sheet for the heat of less than a week left in the regular season. miami lead the pacers by a half a game in a race for the east's top seating. atlantaa hawks moved final to claiming the play-off spot. they beat the brooklyn nets. millsap had 27 ebb points to lead to a win. >> dallas stars have clenched their first nfl play-off birth to meet the st. louis blues to fill a wild card spot. the stars enter the stanley club playoffs in the western conference. world champion mark markowis

topped time sheets in both the morning and afternoon sessions in austin, texas. the defending champion was decati rider. he has won the season opening race in quatar two weeks ago. now, the marathon day known as the toughest foot race on earth has concluded in morocco t add to go his 2011 title, the six day marathon across the saharan's desert. the final stage was won by fellow moroccon. >> i have truly achieved something. there are a lot of rivals and a lot of champions. i am very happy to have won. >> much more on master's and a whole lot more on the website. for all of the latest check out aljazeera.com and how to get in

touch with our team using twitter and facebook. that's your sports. back to you. >> not all of the sport because we are talking now about the second palestine international marathon, 3,000 athletes taking part as they didn't include, though, one palestinian olympic athlet. he was not an loud a visa to travel to the occupied west bank. from bethlehem, this report by aiti aitia. >> they were on their mark, they were set and they ran their hearts out. the second annual pal style marathon attracted thousands of runners from all over the world. palestinians, internationals and some israelis who support the cause. >> the woman who founded the rates wanted the world to see palestinians in a different light. >> there is a physical wall, but there is a wall of not understanding each other. and i think that in my country and in many other european countries, we have a wrong image of palestine.

we always hear the bad stories. >> it's a concept that the palestinians here support. >> i want to say we are normal people like you and i and people all around the world and that we want peace, that we can come together in an ent and show that this is the most beautiful place, the birthplace of jesus. we are all about peace. >> the race began at the church of the nativity. runners through refugee camps as they ran alongside the security fence. what many have named the apartheid wall. they saw occupation first hand. the organizers faced many challenges, not least of which was finding a stretch of palestinian land to krrun the race. in the end, they settled on 22 kilometers of road around which competitors ran two laps. another challenge was trying to get permits for runners in the gaza strip including palestinian olympian nada al massari.

>> i can't participate in the tournament in my own country. if i considered running from here to bethlehem, it would take me two to three. i have traveled to the end of the world, china, japan and the united states. inside my own country, it's very difficult. >> in a statement an israeli government official said it is supported by the palestinian authority amend is tainted by political shades which delegitmize the state of israel. they don't want it to overshadow the fun. >> palestinians and supporters, it was more than a race today. it was a celebration. and as with any celebration in the west bank, it involved a lot of music and a lot of dancing >> reporter: more than anything, it was a chance to show s solidarity and peace during a time of continued strive. in the occupied west bank. >> thank you for your company during this al jazeera newshour. i will be back with another couple of hours.

for the me and the rest of the team, bye-bye.

a show of defiance as armed men in eastern ukraine seesize police building. >> a ball of fire. everybody screaming. >> collision course, why some say a fed ex truck was in trouble when it crashed into a bus killing 10 people. the pope asks for forgiveness on behalf of priests

who sexually abused children. >> vegas has a perm missive atmosphere. this is good for artists because you have to feel like you can do anything. >> sin city takes a gamble on getting people into art galleries. good morning to you. welcome to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford live in new york city. with the yukraine on the brink f another crisis, "the wall street journal" says the u.s. supreme allied commander has asked that nato beef up its military resources adding f-16ing fighter jets and kiev is compromising in a stand-off in the east. they have offered pro-russians

more power and said they can keep russian as a second official language. kiev officials say armed beginmen have seized a police station today. al jazeera continue verify the authenticity of this video but hoda has more >> reporter: what we know so far and we can confirm is that that police building has been surround by men in fatigues and carrying weapons. they have not identified themselves so far. what is not clear is whether they entered the building. presumably, they have, and also, were there mr. people in that building. it is a police building. so presumably there are some policemen on duty there. it's not clear whether they were allowed to leave or like what happened in this building, some did join those protesters and armed men. this is a situation that is

developing and as we understand it from the interior ministry, security forces local to the government are on their way there to solve the situation. it might not be very easy because you have some popular support like you have in this place. then it would be a very difficult operation that would risk some bloodletting. that is one thing the government is trying to avoid at all costs. >> officials from the u.s., europe, russia and ukraine will all meet in geneva next week to try to broker a solution to this crisis. coming up at 7:30, we will go live to kiev to discuss a possibility of a diplomatic solution in ukraine. the white house is refusing an iranian diplomat enter into the u.s. hamid leti is linked to the siege in tehran. now, the u.s. has notified the united nations andhan that he won't be granted a visa to travel to new york where he was

supposed to serve as rapp's ambassador to the u.n. jay carney says the decision to bar him won't play a role in current talks involving the nuclear program. tehran said it will appeal to the united nations. >> charred remains are all that remains where a fed ex truck collided with a tour bus. while investigators search for includes, 10 families prepare funerals. new information emerging now about some of those victims. >> marissa and mari were inseparable up until the moment they boarded different tour buses headed to the same college they planned to attend together next fall. >> we wanted to see which fit best best. >> marissa was one of the five students who died. her tour bus slammed head on by a fed ex truck that had crossed the median.

a very large explosion. >> the drivers of the truck and the bus also died along with three chaperones who were taking the teens to visit humble state university. others were injured in the fiery crash while others managed to escape. >> a ball of fire. 'ball of fire. >> the students were all part of a program for low income families. many would be the first in their families to attend college. >> it's just a matter of seconds where you could die or live. >> that's a life experience. i don't wish it to anyone. >> the ntsb is trying to figure out just what caused that fed ex driver to cross the grassy median and hit the bus filled with teens. >> the ntsb mission is to determine why this crash happened. it is not just about the what but the why. >> why allows us to issue safety relations to prevent these kind of crashes from happening in the future. >> the los angeles times is reporting the two witnesses said

the fed ex truck was on fire before it hit the bus. the ntsb will investigate for up to two weeks but it will likely take much longer than that before we actually know what caused that crash. in his strongest language yet, pope francis addresses the damage caused by priests who molest children. he calls their actions evil and is asking for forgiveness. >> he has been outspoken on the role of catholic priests who abuse children. now he has gone further at a meeting with members of a catholic children's charity. >> i feel compelled to take on all of the evil which some priests, quite a few number, obviously not compared to the number of all of the police to personally ask forgiveness for what they have done having sexually abused children. it is a personal moral damage made by them but they are of the church. >> thousands of cases of abuse by priests have come to light

over the past decade around the world. soon after his election last year he said the church's credibility was at attastake. >> policies like moving pedophile priests to new parishes rather than firing them or reporting them to the police had not ended. >> the issue has taken place, the preservation of the reputation of the church and the protection of the perpetrators above children's best interests. bringing together clerics and lay people including and abused survivor. >> just to look at the procedures that should be in place for zero tolerance of this evil the abuse was then, back

then. pope benedict xvi defrocked priests. for victim's groups, that's the tip of the iceberg. >> we would like to go back to the position we were when pope benedict was the pope and get back into dialogue with the bishops. certainly this pope has made a lot of very impressive soundings. it will come with more criminal prosecutors and financial compensation for victims. francis is not the first pope to issue such an apology. in 2010, pope benedict xvi said many to the many irish catholics who suffered sexual abuse in the past. he went a step further. he said sanctions must be imposed on those who are

responsibility of such a crime. now, many victims of sexual abuse by priests around the world will hope that their abusers will be finally, brought to justice. al jazeera, vatican city. >> during his remarks, post francis said the church must be strong in handling of abusive priests but he didn't specify what sort of punishment they would face. kansas city police are searching for a serial shooter preying on drivers. they say they can connect 12 of the 13 accidents to one gunman. .3 drivers have been wounded since the shootings began on march 8th. none were life-threatening. he apples to be targeting cars on highway exit ramps. >> australians breathing a sigh of relief after a cyclone didn't live up to the hype. ida blew through queensland downgrading overnight from a category 5 to a category 1.

>> it was like a freight train on top of us. we were fine. everyone is safe. >> meteorologists say the storm will weak been as it continues to move south. >> good saturday morning to you. i am meet roth ebony dion. i want to take you into australia where we are tracking tropical cyclone ida. as you can see, it's picking up a lot of rainfall as had heads off to the south and east. it will move out to sea. as it does, we will see it becoming extra tropical. we are seeing quiet conditions across the northeast where we dealt with showers overnight. it's the middle of the country that we will be watching as we go through the day. light to moderate rain showers around deluth, it's raining now

but that will change to a little bit of snow. we are seeing some of that along the northern tier but it is falling as light snow. >> intensity will pick up as we go through the day. we are watching out for not only the wintry weather back out into colorado. we are expecting about two to four inches around deluth. we will see heavier snow piling up here across the rockics of colorado and, also, other mountain ranges. >> that's why we do have a number of advisories in place throughout the day. it's mainly going to be a saturday evening and then into under morning. event. so early in the day, high temperatures still very mild, all across this area. >> cooler air is going to come pouring down behind the pats front. that's what's really going to drive our temperatures down and allow that rain to change over to snow, not only for min society awe but back into colorado and wyoming as well. in advance of the storm system, it is very warm and so we are dealing with the threat of severe weather later today around des moines back out toward kansas city the main

threat with this will be damaging winds. >> we can see winds in excess of 50 miles per hour with some of the stronger storms but also very large hail, maybe hail in excess of an inch or possibly even upwards to two inches. >> will be across parts of kansas. so we will be watching out for that today and then also into sunday. it will shift a little further south including parts of oklahoma city, actuals you will be need to be on the lookout. >> thanks ebony. australia's prime minister is standing by his comments at that picks detected in the indian ocean trans from flight 370. tony abbot said he is confident the sounds picked up four times are from the plane's black box but the most recent sound on thursday was not from the plane. mr. abbot says with electronic signals fading fast, it could be a long time before that jet is actually found. >> we have narrowed down because

the search area, trying to locate anything about a thousand kilometers from land is a massive, massive task, and is likely to continue for a long time to come. >> those batteries powering the plane's data recorder only last about 30 days. the cia coming under fire as richelle carey complains a leaked because of controversial interrogation tactics. >> ta picture of extreme tortur methods during the bush administration. it offers new insight into the cia's use of enhanced techniques. the findings say they might have been illegal even under the definition of torture tour set by the department of justice at

the time, waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, confinement, slapping detainees. dianne feinstein hinted at what it records? >> brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. it chronicles a stain opinion our history that the must never be allowed to happen again. >> the washington based mcclashey news service published 20 findings. the report is more than 6,000 pages long. the first of them being that interrogation techniques did not effectively assist the agency in acquiring intelligence or in gaining cooperation from detainees. >> it goes on to say the agency misinformed the public, the bush administration and congress about the necessity of their tactics. and said the cia employed techniques on detain easy that were not authorized while wrongfully detaining others.

>> over all, the findings could be clued the agencies actions were more extensive than what it originally reported. feinstein said the senate beliefs the number of prisoners affected is far greater than the cia first acknowledged. >> the nsa is denying a report that it knew about a critical security bug before it went public. according to bloomberg news, the agency was aware of the so-called heartbleed bug for two years. the report says the nsa exploited that glitch to gather intelligence. bloomberg says the agency employs more than 1,000 expert to selling for similar bugs to steal passwords and sense tifr information. the nsa. the report is wrong. a changing of the guards: president obama has notnated the white house budget director as the new health and human services secretary. she would replace kathleen sebelius who resigned on friday. al jazeera mike vaqeira has that story. >> for embattled kathleen

sebelius, the controversy was worth seeing it implemented. >> this is the most meaningful work i have ever been a part of. in fact, it's been the cause of my life. >> praising sebelius, pompom said after the disastrous rollout, the final score on healthcare.gov speaks for itself. >> there are 7 and a half million people across country that have the security of health insurance. most of them for the very first time and that's because of the woman standing next to me here today. >> we have had many employees here in front of this committee. you have to ask yourself: are these being purposely misleading or are they really not that smart? >> sebelius had defied repeated calls from her head, mostly from the republicans who saw the broken website as a chance to attack the affordable care act. >> medicare advantage in line for fee for service would destroy the program. >> she didn't help her cause when she seemed to gunplay the

technical problems as the website repeatedly crashed. she admitted failures and took the blame? >> hold me accountable for the debacle. >> to replace her, the president no, ma'minated civ i can't burwa harvard gad wat and rhodes scholar. she was confirmed by the senate for the job. the vote: 96 to nothing. this time, the going will be rougher. though they lack the votes to reject her, republicans will use her nomination as another chance to attack healthcare reform. in a statement, mitch mccome said, in part, secretary sebelius may be leaving, but the problems with this law and the impact its having on our constituents aren't. obama aware has to go, too. standing alongside the president and the departing sebelius, burwell welcomes her potential new role. >> uh-huhbeled, honored and excited by the opportunity to

build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. >> burwell previously worked at the top levels of major foundations including president of wal-mart. >> the white house released tax returns for president obama and the first lady. according to the document, they are their combined income for 2013 is more than $450,000, a 21% drop. while the smaller take home pay, money donated to chair at this shank not to mention the obama paid nearly $100,000 in taxes to uncle sam. speaking of taxes, instead of a tax refund this year, hundreds of thousands of americans may be getting stiffed. the treasu tree department is sending each a letter saying the government is taking their refund to settle old debt. the thing about it is these aren't their det. it's money the government overpaid their parents decades ago. so we spoke with washington post senior editor mark fisher who

broke down how this all works. >> they say you are responsible if your parents received an over payment from, say, social security benefits going back decades and there was a one-line change that was slipped into the farm bill back in 2008 that slofb the government to go after these debts. people well who were overpaid the money are often dead. the government is going after their kids. now, in some cases, the kid got benefits. in the other cases, they didn't their policy is to go after the kids in birth order although we have run into a number of people who were not the oldest child and they still are having tax refunds taken i tried to find out who originally created this change in policy. social security says go talk to trea treasury. treasury says talk to congress and congress says it must have come from somewhere in the

bureaucracy. we are trying to find the original culprit. who do you go to? a number of senators and congressmen are coming forward demanding this policy be changed so it's up to them to make that change. we will see if that happens. >> this year, the government has confiscated about $19,000,000,000 in tax refunds. earthquakes and controversial drilling. planned pollution we will tell you why the tinge town with contaminated air and water killing the people who live there.

>> nicaragua has been rattled by a second earthquake in 2 now, hours. this one bigger than the first has a magnitude of 6.6. so far, there are no new reports of injuries or damage but in the first quake, one person died of a heart attack and 40 people were injured. i am morgan radford live in new york. speaking of earthquakes, a connection is being made between

the practice of fracking and minor tremors. let's see what temperatures we can expect to see across the country. >> i think we are in for a treat this morning. a lot of areas across the eastern u.s. will be warming up. nots seeing 20s and 30s out there. the only place i found colder temperatures across northern areas of north dakota and into minnesota, an area that's expecting foe no entermemphis where 59, 50 in chicago. now, that surge of warm air is coming up from the south here across the northeast. we are not only expecting it this weekend but into next week. temperatures are going to be running 10, upwards to 20 degrees above average. as a ridge holds in place. underneath that, expecting low 70s, cleveland topping out

around 52 into washington, d.c. 72, 73 an fillply. around dc, the chair blossum festival. >> geologist say recent earthquakes in ohio were most likely don'ted fracking. it's the very first time they have will he linked earthquakes and the controversial drilling practice and now investigators believe sand and water injected into the ground, which is a by-product of fracking as pressure and that that pressure causes these tremors. nearly a dozen quakes hit one town in northeast ohio last month and that was before an operation was shut down jake ward explains how fracking works. >> there is a fair amount of controversy around the use of hydraulic fracturing, which is

known as "fracking." we should define what it is. it is used in places where a company wants to pull oil or natural gas out of the earth but where that stuff is trapped inside a layer of earth or rock that's too pressurized to pull the oil or natural gas out easily between 5,000 and 20,000 feet like a mile, sometimes three miles below the surface. and then the well changes direction and becomes horizontal. at that point, a perforating gun, water, sand and chemicals is pushed at high pressure into the rock. the perforating gun forms cracks along the length of the well. the water is puffed again and eventually the area around the well is basically forced to become porous and ready to give up gas or oil. the water comes back out, pulled back out and the oil or gas follows right after it until horizontal pipe has a steady

supply of oil or gas flowing into the well. it's a nifty process technically but critics site several problems: one is that fracking takes a lot of water, an incredible amount, anywhere from 1 to 5 million gallons per well. it can be 8 million gallons over the life of the well. the other is that even though the process uses chemicals, less than 1% of the total involved. those tend to involve known c carcin 0 jeningz. it should remain sealed off hydra hydraulically from any nearby aquifer but thecerting a pretty unstable place and current regulations don't force fracking operations to reveal all of the chemicals they are using. so testing for those chemicals is limited. we don't know all of the chemicals to test for. finally, the incredible force of fracking asking trigger bigger earthquakes. in december of 2010, a fracking operation began outside youngstown, ohio, right after that, youngstown, which had

never had a recorded earthquake in its history experienced 109 small earthquakes, six of which were felt by the local population. one was as big as 3.9 on the richter scale. it's that sort of possible seismic fracking connection that has experts worried. >> fracking may be to blame for the surge in small earthquakes in oklahoma where part of the state has already seen more than 100 so far this year. we won't check out the casinos but the culture and fine art. >> all of these people shouldn't be dead. >> will there differences bring

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authorities are trying to figure out just what caused a deadly freeway collision in california. ten people died. five were teenagers on their way to tour a college campus. plus pope francis is announcing priests who sexually abuse children and asking fo for forgiveness. he took responsibility for what he called the evil of child sexual abuse. he said the church will impose sanctions but didn't outline punishment. >> armed gunmen have sees add police station today. they say special forces are on the way to remove them and al jazeera has more. >> they are pro-russia protesters. we have seen between 15 and 20 men inside that building outside this we will. some if not all of them are armed. this is more serious than we are seeing in other regions in recent days. these men are well armed.

they have professional grade weapons. there are a couple of hundred people gathered outside behind me. we weren't able to go live from inside the situation. it's too tension. as you mentioned, the enter minister, special police forces to come here to deal with this situation playing out right now. we understand the first option is negotiation. the second option very much on the table is the use of force. people here have been chanting on and off, referendum. they say they don't want a referendum on becoming part of russia but giving them greater power or autonomy for the donesk region. the that has been a demanned echoed across the east where we have spent the last few days. we have pro-russian protesters. they want the republic of donesk accepted to be ougautonomous, t

legitimate power of the region. >> joining us to discuss the latest on the situation in ukraine is terris cruise co at the university of alberta. he joins us this morning. good morning to you. let's talk about the situation in eastern ukraine? >> good morning. >> where armed gun men are now taking over a police station. is this situation quickly spiraling out of control? >> only up to a point. local security forces are obviously either incompetent or maybe being paid off or simply don't care about what's happening. so there has to be some inside collusion involved here. one can't explain in any other way. secondly, the donesk region known as the donbas is the only region which is similar in terms of its very soviet and not just

pro-russian. it's soviet identity to the. it's not the case it has similar at this to the crimea. russia is involved here. these are professionally trained people. these are not your average every day protester who they professional weapons. they are well trained. i don't think engineer is losing control in the sense the east is going under because the protesters have failed throughout southern ukraine. the opinion poll published yesterday. a report showed federalism or separation and move to go join russia have actually very small support even in the east. >> i want to go back to something you just said, though,

terence. you mentioned the incompetence and the inside conclusion. there are a number of things here for example in the neighboring region to the east. sorry. to the west of donesk, a proceed-euro oligarch has managed to keep everything under control in his region. sep rattists have not undertaken these violent acts. the conclusion is a local of oligarcs, the 50 twelthiest people in the world, he is afraid because he is one of the sponsors of viktor yanukovych. he wants to use the protests bargaining with kiev. also, we have still of all of

the ukraine security forces is only the military who have had 20 years of cooperation with nato and a partnership for peeft who have been reformthey have t refused to shoot protesters, to become involved whereas police, security service, prosecutor's office are in effect soviet institutions, bloated, incompetent and corrupt. to give you an example, i am british, the british -- britain has a population of 63 million and has a police and prison force of 120,000. ukraine has 48 million portion and a police force of 300,000. guess who i would want to meet on a dark alley. it's because there hasn't been any reform. these are incompetent, corrupt. they can be easily bought institutions. it's a mixture of, i think,

insider support from local oligarchs who are afraid of the new people in pour in kiev and generally corruption of the police. >> you have mentioned security forces. according to the "wall street journal," the u.s. supreme al liberaled commander asked nato beef up its resources. if nato sources enter an intense stand-off, is that going to exacerbate the situation in such a way that really a confrontation will become inevitable? >> well, it's a difficult question to answer because on the one hand, it is a fact whether we like it or not that put an only respects force and it doesn't respect the european union which it sees as week. on the one hand, it's good that nato and the u.s. is adopting a

tough line. nato forces are not going to come into ukraine to support any ukrainian defensive operation against the russian invasion. t ukraine is a member of nato. ukraine does have 20 years of cooperation with nato in the partnership for peace. it's one of the most active members of that. also, ukraine and nato signed in 1997 the charter of cooperation which does involve security guarantees. so, i wouldn't be surprised if there are things like intelligence sharing, maybe some covert other types of covert support coming from the u.s. and nato, but we are never really going to know much about this. certainly, there is a lobbying, particularly in the u.s. from people like senator mccain for the u.s. to supply defensive military hardware such as anti-tank, anti-aircraft weapons. i think the russian forces, it's difficult to know if they are going to come now or in the

future. i believe that an intervention by russia is going to happen. it's just a question of when. we don't know when it's going to happen. but russia and vladimir putin, in particular, certainly would like to do things such as increase tension in ukraine, increase violent protests as a way of disrupting, delaying or cancelling the may 29th presidential e elections. putin does not want those elections to go ahead or be seen as legitimate in the eyes of the population. >> research expert at the university of alberta joining us from kiev this morning. thank you for being with us. >> brazil, squatters fight with police after a court orders the e conviction of nearly 5,000 people. >> they cleared out the abandoned buildings.

some residents through rocks and malatov. some pepper spray. authorities are trying to clean up slums known as provela, the world cup coming in june. the tarlac province is owned by a few wealthy families. >> this is the place they once called home. florida and her husband vividly remember how armed men hired by the sugar plantation they once worked for stormed into their home and drove them away. they say they want to own the land their family had been owning for generation. though this rebate incident may have been painful, their struggle has been a long one. it began almost 10 years ago when they survived an attack that killed at least seven

farmers during a protest against the sugar estate. florida worries continued harassment of farmers may lead to more violence. >> translator: they continues to harass us and displace us. land is important to us. it's our life. we will fight for it even if it means more of us will die in the process. we stand united. >> they blames it all on this man. the president's family owns the sugar plantation. when the killings happened, akino was the congress man in the district. akino says he only owned less than 5% of the total estate and has given up those shares when he was sworn in as president. his government was committed to providing long-term solution. >> he did give instruction that

it should continue. >> for florida, this is not enough. they want justice from a man whose mandate is to protect them. >> this report of rebate progress, filipino farmers are the poorest in the country. they are even worse off compared to their asian counterparts because government land distribution targets are not being met. >> the supreme court has ordered the family of the akino to redistribute to farmers ruling they have the right to own their ancestors' land but here, they say that justice is just too slow and no matter the promises, they believe there is their struggle with the land owners still represent the darker side of the akino's legacy. jamil, al jazeera, northern

philippines. >> about a quarter of the population in the philippines is below the poverty line. an american contractor imprisoned in cuba has ended his hunger strike after 8 days. he was protesting his detention. he wants the u.s. and cuban governments to resolve his case. the 64-year-old was working the internet access. he was sentenced to 15 years accused of being an american spy. despite ending his hunger strike, he said there will be more protests to come. the town of mossville louisiana is one of the most polluted places in the united states. kimberly halket blames racism for the health hazard. >> dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town for seven generations. she fears she will be among the

last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residents of mossville. >> the blood levels of those residents was elevated three times that of the united states population. >> dioxin is a known cars inogen. felix and others blame more than a dozen chemical plants have allowed into mossville for contaminating their community. most of the 500 residents living here are african-american. >> born and raised. >> at the townhall, residents shared stories of suffering, accused the chemical plant owners of what they call environmental racism you can't have people taking advantage of a small minority community. why can't we have clean water? >> i have seen people die, you know. i am afraid of that. i don't want to have to sleep in it. i knew i would. i would have to sleep with a gas mask on. >> state officials deny they

pose a health threat and though they showed there would be rise of toxins in the air. they allowed the south african sassol to build one of the biggest chemical plants in the western hemisphere in mossville. >> the new chemical plant is expected to spew millions of topics of greenhouse gasses into community. >> sassol says it's not a bad neighbor. it's offering to buy up some but not all of the homes that will surround the new plant. state officials say residents shouldn't live in fear as toxic emissions rarely escape. >> the data that i have accumulated since the late '70s demonstrates how frequently it crosses the next line and goes into the community and the bottom line. is they seem to ignore it. >> dorothy felix and others are demanding it the state provide a toxicology clinics?

>> so the health could be monitored, they could be testified for other chemicals that might be might be present in their bloodstreams so that they will have an idea of what their health problems are, what they are suffering from, what their families are dying from. >> they say science is on sar their side even if politics are not. kimberly, mossville, louisiana. >> the company behind the new chemical plant has proposed a home buy-out plant. 98% have expressed interest myanmar, several newspapers published blacked out front pages coming after a reporter received a year in jail for disturbing a public servant. critics say journalists have been unnecessarily arrested or jailed in the last four months reporters without borders ranks myanbar. meanwhile, al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of the journalists jailed in

annee job description prison for 104 days. the case against peter gueresta and mohammed was adjourned until later this month. all three are falsely accused of providing a flplatform to the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera denies these charges. >> the once common childhood disease thought eradicated in the united states, doctors say parents who don't vaccinate their children could be making a deadly mistake. >> here. >> kimberly a cuellar o never had her children vaccinated for measles. she is concerned early childhood vaccines may do more harm than good. >> i think that it's a decision that a parent has to mace make based upon their family's needs. >> now, she is visiting her family doctor to get his advice about measles. >> i am still considering the vaccination. >> what's completely eradicated,

measles is back. about 50 cases have turned up in california. other states hit include new york arizona and massachusetts. at least 375 cases have been found in canada's british columbia province. the disease is caused by a vir u.s. immigrants or travelers from parts of the world where the disease is common have reintroduced it to north america. but the current outbreak is gaining ground because thousands of parents all over the u.s. have opted not to vaccinate their kids. some of them think vaccines are linked to autism even though numerous scientific studies have thoroughly debunked that vaccine. >> the mmr vaccine is good at keeping people safes guessing measles. so when we have disease from an illness that's vaccine preventible, it's important to us. >> the concept is called herd

immunity, by maintaining those who are at risk don't catch. measles is a highly contagious vehicle illness. >> measles can be fatal in extreme cases. doctors are telling all parents: make sure your kids get that shot. rob reynolds, al jazeera. >> measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus that normally grows in the cells lining the back of the throat and the lungs. symptoms include fever, run ny knows, could have and even a rash all over the body. each year, measles kills an estimated 165,000 people all across the world. >> the push until las vegas to make art the next big business. we will show you the garage that's driving up the price to park.

good morning to you. welcome back to sarsz. i am morgan radford the city known for slot machines and elvis weddings is known for art. first, a check on we think with ebony dion. >> we are off to a quiet start. things will change as we go through the day. a lot of moisture out there. all of that moisture continues to increase. we are going to see an increase across areas in the deep south. eventually, it will increase along the lower mississippi valley as well. the area of concern here across the upper midwest and down into the midwest as well, that is an area of concern for strong to severetorms later today. what we are dealing with mainly as we head into the northeast is exiting rainfall. it will end up being a nice day, dry weather and warm temperatures. morgan? >> thanks so much, ebony. when you think of las vegas, you probably think of slot machines and elvis weddings but as

melissa chan reports, some are trying to redefine sin city and turn it into a hub for the arts >> reporter las vegas where people flock to indulge but generally not to appreciate art. we are in las vegas patrick duffy supported the art scene and shows us works, home-grown and global. he won't deny the arts have struggled here the las vegas art museum closed in 2009 during the recession but he remains optimistic. >> we have about 2 million people that live here every single day of their life we are going to gather some of those tourists to be interested in our galleries and institutions. >> some tourists have made their way off of the strip one block from the city's main drag is marty walsh is gallery. the current exit ribs off the

city's neon signs. >> they aresponding to the color, bright lights, not necessarily the lifestyle here but really the color. artists saying sin city inspires. >> what happens here stays here vegas has a perm missive atmosphere. this is good for artists because you have to feel like you can do anything he says out here in the desert, you can work in a low-profile studio while drawing on the city's high-profile glitz. >> it never escapes your mind it's there as you work. >> the belagio hotel. some tourists drop in but it's not why they come to vegas. >> strippers, alcohol. >> cocaine. >> no. and like, you know, like a good time. >> good time? >> out with your girls.

>> cut loose. forget your problems? >> definitely not art. >> not art. sorry. >> you can go to a museum to experience art, or the art can come to you. >> that's what's happening in las vegas city center complex which carries a large collection of comp temporary and modern art including this one by henry moore. bring it to the people and perhaps someone will pause to appreciate the art here david grimes synthesizes color to wall puzzles. he can't imagine being anywhere else but here. >> don't under estimate las vegas. there is a lot of culture here random bizarre culture. >> that comes off of the casino floor and is remade into cool, ton temporary art. melissa chan, las vegas. >> do you have a few million dollar to spare? because if so, this 13 carat

flawless diamond can be yours for nearly $25 million. it will go under the hammer at cristics and is currently on display right here in new york. but what makes it so special? well, blue diamonds make up less than 2% of the entire world's diamond production. a rundown garage has been sold for almost a million dollars in london. >> that's more than three times the average price for an entire house. paul brennan reports on the steep price some are willing to pay just for a place to park. welcome to not perhaps london's most desirable area but far from being the worst. if recentents are to be believed, this isa what some people say is a bubble. chronic property shortage, a property in this area was sold earlier this week for $922,000. it wasn't one of these handsom

townhouses. it was a redundant garage space owned by the local council currently uninhabitable, just 64 square meters, 14 and a ha$14 a thousand dollars per square meter. you are looking at the most expensive garage space in britain. it has a permanent execute guard outside it. property prices have risen 18% in the past year. compared to 2011, prizes have risen 24%. the average property price in this area is $687,250. most are apartments and houses that sell for a premium averaging in the region of $1.6 million. >> so buying a garage for $922,000 and then converting it into a $1.6 million house would create a handsome profit for a developer. >> you see a lot of people that sell their property and make a huge profit and bank a lot of

money and buy a bigger house. you will find the market as it spreads out from london, it will affect all parts of the country. >> the local counsel which sold this garage is delighted at the windfall. cruttics say the extraordinary property inflation, particularly in the london market, is simply detached from reality. the average londoner's salary is 61 and a half thousand dollars. when your average person can't even afford to live in a garage. paul brennan, arsz, south london. >> at the ends of our first hour, here is what we are following for you this morning. a developing story out of ukraine as armed men believed to be pro-russian military ants sees a police building. >> investigators say it may take time before they determine what caused the crash between a fed ex truck and a bus carrying high school students. >> the pope asked for forgiveness on behalf of priests

who sexually abused children. temperatures will climb well above average in the east. i will show you how long it will last before the cold air returns. >> i am morgan radford. don't go anywhere. al jazeera is back with you in just two and a half minutes.

then a ball of fire, everybody screaming. >> at least 10 people killed in a fiery bus crash. what witnesses are saying about the fed ex truck that hit it. plus target practice on the interstate. a series of highway shootings that are being linked to just one suspect. >> we need to be responsible for how other human beings are being treated, especially people with visibilities, people with mental illness in our system.

>> critics call it inhumane but prison guards say they have no other option. controversy over treatment of people with mental illness. >> moms staying home. it may be bad news for the economy. >> welcome to al jazeera america. charred ground is all that remains on the side of a california enter stain where a fed ex truck collide with a tour best killing 10 people. five why high school seniors going to tour a college campus investigators searched for 10 funerals. new information now about some of those vehiclictims. >> marissa and mari were inseparable up until the moment they boarded different tour buses headed to the same college they planned to attend together next fall. >> we wanted to see which one fit the best and that's why we were going to go soo this one. marissa was one of the 5 students who died on highway 5

in northern california. her tour bus slammed head on by a fed ex truck. >> saw a very large explosion. they died along with three chaperones tacking the teens to visit humbolt state university. others were injured while others managed to evening ape. >> just a ball of fire. and then a ball of fire. everybody screaming. >> the students were all part of a program at the college for low income families. in fact, many of them would be the first in their families to attend college. >> it's just a matter of seconds where you could either die or live, and that's a life experience. i don't wish it to anyone. >> now the ntsb is trying to figure out just what caused that fed ex driver to cross the grassy median an hit the bus filled with teens. >> why this crash happened, it is not about the what but the why. >> why allows us to issue safety repsz to prevent these kind of

crashes from happening in the future. >> the los angeles times is reporting that two witnesses said the fed ex truck office fire before it hit the bus. ntsb will be investigating for up to two weeks. it will likely take much longer than that before we know exactly what caused that crash. in ukraine, kiev officials say armed gunmen have seized two buildings in the eastern city of slovansk authorities say a police station was attacked by six men in camouflage whoe believed to be pro-russian. kiev officials say special forces are on the way to remove them. we will have a full report just ahead in the next half hour. three weeks after the washington state mud slide, search crew still trying to find seven missing people. the death toll stands on the 36 and they have all been identified.

search efforts have again hindered by the rain and risk of flash floods. president obama will be travel to go oso on april 2nd on 6th to meet with those acted by the disaster. the landslide is nearly a mile bearing the residential area in its path. kansas city police are still searching for a serial shooter praying on drivers. they say they can connect 12 of the 13 incidents to one gunman. .3 drivers have been wounded since the shootings began on march 8th. none were life-threatening. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius resigned on friday. some say sebelius is taking the fall for the failed rollout of that website. >> a good buy was marked by

problems. >> unfortunately, a page is missing. >> kathleen sebelius was a respected former governor, a smart operator but will be remembered for the disastrous roll out of policypom's affordable care act even if the president hopes her legacy may be different. >> what kathleen will go down in history for is serving as the secretary of health and human services when the united states of america finally, declared the quali quality of affordable healthcare coverage is the right of every single citizen. >> it was seen as the president's biggest domestic achievement, the launch was hit by tech anical delays. sebelius was blames and critics called for her resignation. >> hold me accountable for the debacle. >> the law is expanding health insurance to 48 million americans who have none while many people are now covered or seen costs dropped for better coverage. others had plans cancelled or

changed. a tax penalty to be paid. many object to having to. it will be a key issue in the mid-term e legs in the united states. the white house is exceeding target did for people to sign up. sebelius's resignation walks all over what should have been a good news stories. >> sylvia math wells burwell has been nominated to take over. she is regarded as a good manager. >> thank you, mr. president. >> something the white house considers important as the healthcare law moves into a new phase. alan fisher. >> burwell previously worked at the top levels of major foundations including president of wal-mart. >> detailing acts of brutal torture. someone linked thefiedings of the senate intelligence committee. the group was investigating the spy agency's techniques used on

terror suspects. the report says torture methods like water border were more extensive than the cia originally reported. >> the results, i think, were shocking. the report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation it chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. this is not what americans do. >> the white house and the cia are now deciding what, if anything, they will sensor before the full summary is released to the public. the nsa is denying a report it knew about a critical security bug before it went public. according to bloomberg news, the agency was aware of the scald heartbleed bug for two years. they say they exploited that glitch to get intelligence and says the agency employs more than 1,000 experts to search for similar bugs in order to steal passwords and other sensitive

information. with the nsa's response, the report is simply wrong. >> iran says it will appeal directing to the united nations. barring a diplomat linked to the 1979 siege in tehran. the white house says he will not be granted a visa to travel to new york where he was supposed to serve as iran's new ambassador to the u.n. spokesman jay carney says the decision to bar him won't play a role in current talks involving iran's nuclear program. >> attempted murder charges against a 9 month old baby in pakistan have been thrown out. the case generated international outrage and many used it to point out the failed legal system of the country. an entire family had been arrested for throwing rocks at police who were trying to collect an overdue gas bill. it showed the infant being finger printed and arraigned in court. the baby's grandfather and three uncles face charges.

pope francis is speaking out about priests who sexually abuse children using his strongest language yet. the pont i have calls their actions evil. it is alsofor forgiveness. >> he has been outspoken on the role of catholic priests who abuse children. pope francis has gone further as a meeting with catholic children children's charity. i feel compelled to personally take on all of the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all of the priests to personally ask for forgiveness. the church is aware of the damage. it is a personal moral damage made by them but they are men of the church. >> houses of cases of abuse by priests have come to light over the decade around the world soon after becoming leader of the world's roman catholics last year. saying the church's credibility was on the line. in february, a united nations

report implied the vatican was not serious in tackling the problem. it said policies like moving priests and not firing them have not ended. the preservation of the reputation of the church an the protection of the perpetrators above children's best interests. some believe the report failed to acknowledge steps the church has taken. recently pope francis set up a special vatican committee bringing together clerics. procedures that should be in place for zero tolerance for this evil. how to look after, you know, the abuse was then, back then. the pain is now. >> in these last two years as pope benedict xvi, francis's predecessor, for victims groups that's nothing compared to the size of the problem. for many activists, the proof it

is getting tough will be more criminal prosecutionses and financial compensation. >> during his remarks, pope francis said the church must be very strong in its handling abusive priests but he didn't specify what sort of punishment they would face. australians breathing a sigh of relief after a cyclone they thought would be the worst in three years didn't live up to the height. downgraded from a category 5 to a category 1. ida left behind destruction but there are no reports of serious injury or damage. on top of us. we are concerned and everyone is safe. nobody got hurt. speaking of meet roblths, look look at what mother nature has in store.

>> taking a close-up look at ida, it has weakened down to a tropical storm but rain that's still going to be an issue for this area of northeastern australia as the system continues to make its way off tost south and east. now, as it does continue to move in that general direction, notice thousand close it is. it has the capability of pulling in moisture. >> that's going to keep the rain going and eventually, within about the next 48 hours, that is when it's going to weaken, becoming an extra tropical system and then it will be out to sea and no longer a threat to this area. now, here across the u.s. is a pretty quiet start. the only exception is across the upper midwest. >> that's where the rain is am coming down. places around duluth, that is where we are going to see rain changing over to snow because it's warm for now. but temperatures will be changing. as they drop, we are going to see that rain switching over to snow. not expecting a lot but about 2 to 4 inches exactly here around the arrowhead. see a littles more.

the main threat here will be rain, possibly even a thunderstorm later. let's hone in on the snow. we head back out to the west into the rockics of colorado. we are expecting snow here in wyoming. some areas could end up with about a foot. went othwnether -- winter not o yet. close to 70 degrees in denver. >> will change as the air pours down from the north behind our passing frontal boundary and in advance of that front where we will keep that warm air in place. with the winter weather, we are looming with severe weather. kansas city, des moines, watching out for hail as we head into the afternoon and evening. it's going to push aelths from the west riding up along this front and will be in the warm sector, in the warm moist area. once we get the warmth and

moisture as well as instability, that's going to trigger more storms and the threat of severe weather will expand a little bit more into parts of the lower mississippi valley around tulsa, oklahoma city, even dallas, you will need to be on the lookout because we are doing to throw in the threat of isolated tornados. morgan? >> thanks, eboni. ufrn kel sam might be taking your tax return for something your parents did. hillary clinton dodging a shoe. there it goes at an event in las vegas. we are learning t. >> you call tech support. it's not that simple when you are 250 miles above the surface of the earth. [ grunting ]

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responding to commands. astronauts may have to go for a space walk. they say the 6-man crew is not in danger. instead of a tax reif you would, hundreds of thousands of americans may be getting stiffed. treasury department is sending a letter saying the government is taking their refund to settle old debt. the funny things is these aren't their debts. it's money the government overpaid their parents decades ago mark fisher broke down how this works. >> they say you are responsible if your parents received an over payment from social security benefits going back decades and there was a one-line change that was slipped into the farm bill back in 2008 that allowed the government to go after old debts more than 10 years old. previously, if it was older than 10 years old, you were scot free. now they can go after you. since these debts often go back decades action the people who originally were overpaid the money are often dead.

so the government is going after their kids. in some cases, the kid got benefits. in other cases, they didn't. >> doesn't seem to bother the government either way. their policy's to go after the kids in birth order although we have run into quite a number of people who were not the oldest child and they were having their tax refunds taken. >> i tried to find out who originally created this changed policy. social security says, go back talk to treasury. treasury says go it talk to congress and congress said it must have come from somewhere in the bureaucracy. we are trying to find the original culprit. who do you go to? a number of senators and congressmen are coming forward demanding this policy be changed. it's up to them to make that change. we will see if that happens. >> this year the government has confiscated about $19,000,000,000 in tax refunds. the white house just released tax returns for president obama and the first lady. according to the document, their combined income for 2013 was more than $450,000 which is a 21% drop from the previous year.

smaller take-home pay, strained to about $60,000 not to mention the obama's paid nearly $100,000 in taxes to you know kel sam. we can now place a face behind the woman who through a shoe at hillary clinton this week. las vegas police arrested allison ernst and charged her with disorderly conduct. authorities said she tried to run for the exit while clinton was speaking at a recycling conference. there she goes. this isn't the first time she has been in the news t colorado officials say she was also escorted from a courtroom during the james holmes trial. it's the alleged gunman who shot and killed .12 people in a colorado movie theater. sources say ernst was obsessed with him. ambassador to japan caroline kennedy went for a ride on a high-speed train. she was the guest of honor for the testing of a magnetically

elevated train being developed in japan. it's expected to reach speeds in excess of 300 miles an hour and make a 200 mile trip in just 40 minutes. president obama has been a proponent of high speed trains but it may be years before it becomes a reality. this specific one isn't expected to be operating until 227. owners of a furniture chain in germany apologizing for selling dozens of coffee cups featuring a picture of adolf hitler. not realizing there was a faint image of a nazi era stamp and had a swastika on the back. the chain has taken them off of the shelves. about 175 were sold before customers reported the issue. it may be spring, but don't tell those folks over in romania. a thick blanket of snow hit eastern romania. march comes in like a lion and

goes out like a lamb. >> that's in theory. the weather quickly warmed up and turned the snow to rain. it probably won't even be on the ground for too much longer. right now, ebony deon is here with a look at the national forecast. >> morgan, we are talking about the warm temperatures we will feel all across the northeast. a beautiful day. make sure you take add rantage of it. the warmth will stick around until early next week. head out aroundbot. 66, 67 in albany, 71 degrees around new york city. we will really feel the heat building around our nation's capitol. the cherry blossom festival is this weekend. 73 and all the way up to 80 degrees by sunday. we are expecting a mid-week cooldown as you can see over the next 5 days. we will have the rain coming in on tuesday 65 degrees and as we dry out wednesday, highs back into the mid 50s. across the southeast, 70s, 80s showing up here around savannah,

good looking day, 80 degrees before the rain comes in. southeast is going to tun soggy and stormy. we are watching storms here across the upper midwest. look at how mild it will be. 76. colder air will be moving in this direction and across southwest, we are still feeling the heat. 90 degrees today in phoenix. morgan. >> thanks, ebony. still et toe stabbing, life in prison for a texas woman who killed her husband by stabbing him 25 times in the face with a 5-inch still et toe heel. the jury decided to give the maximum sentence and prosecutors say it was a vicious murder filled with rage. >> my uncle was a good man. he was kind, praying for everyone all the time. yeah. he didn't deserve what happened.

>> she cried in the sentencing and said she never meant to hurt her husband. speaking of crime, a federal judge is ordering california's department of correction to change its treatment of the mentally ill. in its ruling, the judge said the use of pepper spray and isolation cells is a horrific violation of constitutional rights. we must warn you, the video you are about to see is pretty difficult to watch. al jazeera's jennifer london has more from sacramento. >> in the california state prison system, they call this a forceable extraction the. >> inmate a as this mentally ill prisoner is called has refused medication. he is dirty and screams after being doused with pepper spray. this is inmate "i." guards say he, too, refused orders to take medication.

so force was needed to remove him from his cell. >> they were trained to do just what they did. but that is what is horrific for me. no one was disciplined for that. they acted according to the rules. >> michael bean served as lead counsel representing the 35,000 mentally ill inmates in the class action lawsuit against california's depart of corrections. during the lengthy trial, six graphic videos aired showing what has been a violation of the inmate's constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment? >> we need to be responsible for how other human beings are being treated, especially people with disabilities in our system. i think people are revolted by what they saw. >> the videos and photos like this one showing inmates in cages were all part of bean's case but it's not just the use of force inside the prisons that was challenged in court.

>> here at the california medical facility outside of sacramento, mentally ill inmates are not getting the treatment they need. doctors have testified that here, inmates are held in isolation group group therapy, the use of day rooms or access to prison yards. >> about this weekts ruling, prison officials said this kind of treatment is sometimes necessary. >> sometimes things don't go the way we like them to go. a mentally ill inmate in turn violent. it's situations like that, they are allowed to escalate to the point of using pepper spray. >> the aclu of southern california says mentally ill inmates have had their rights violated for decades. >> those videotapes are very, very troubling but there are a lot of other issues going on, too, about not getting adequate care and not having proper suicide prevention protocols and so on. >> there needs to be an attitude change, a real commitment by the state to really fix these

problems. last december, prison officials said they were making changes including investing in new facilities and staff. now after this week's ruling, the department of corrections will need to take greater steps to ensure all inmates, especially the mentally ill are treated failure. jennifer london, al jazeera, sacramento, california. >> the mentally ill make up more than 25% of california's prison population. >> armed gunmen seizing a police station in ukraine, this after pro-russian activists refused to leave ukrainian government buildings. the government in kiev is saying now. there needs to be justice because it seems to me a cold-blooded, calculated crime. >> a crime she says committed by american border patrol agents. the young man gunned down for allegedly is making its family furious. >> i started screaming and screaming as if crazy.

i can't -- my god -- describe. >> a crude weapon shattering lives in south america. it costs less than a dollar. it's available on the shares of nearly every single hardware store. the chemical and the crackdown in colombia. >> al jazeera america presents a breakthrough television event. border land. six strangers. back to mexico. experience illegal immigration up close and personal. this many people. >> lost lives are relived. >> all of these people shooting me dead. >> their differences bring them together or tear them apart. >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves. only on al jazeera america

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personal responsibility for what he called the evil of child sexual abuse saying the church will enforce forceful sanctions. new video just in this morning from ukraine where officials say armed gunmen have seized two buildings in the eastern city. one is a police station. the other, a security service headquarters. police say six men in camouflage believed to be pro-russian militants attacked those buildings ukrainian police say the men have seized hundreds of guns inside the police station. officials in kiev are now sending special forces to remove them. al jazeera's ken vanell has more. >> they are pro-russian protesters. we have seen between 15 and 20 men standing around outside as well. some if not all of them are armed. this is more serious in recent days.

these men are well armed they have professional grade weapons. we have seen snipers. we weren't able to go live from inside the barricade because of the situation right now is too tension especially because as you mentioned, the interior minister has ordered special ukrainian special police forces. t there is an option on the use of force. people here are having -- chanting on and off, referendum. they say they don't want a referendum but what they do want is a referendum giving them power or autonomy. there has been a demand that's been echoed across east. we have spent the past few days in donesk where protesters are in control of the state administration building. they want the same thing. they want it to be autonomous

and the legitimate power of the region. >> ken venal australia's prime minister is standing by ms. comment that ping is detected in the indian ocean are from missing malaysian flight 370. tony abbott said he is sure they are from the black box but the most recent sound was not from the plane. with electronic signals fading fast, it could be a long time before that jet is actually found. >> we have narrowed down very considerably narrowed down the search area, but trying to locate anything four and a half kilometers beneath the surface, about a thousand kilometers from land is a massive, massive task, and it is likely to continue for a long time to come. >> batteries powering the

plane's data recorder only last about 30 days. >> in brazil, squatters fight with police after a court orders the eviction of nearly 5,000 people. more than a thousand police cleared out the abandoned buildings while some residents threw rocks in protest. police responded with tear gas, stun grenades and pepper spray. authorities are trying to clean up slums ahead of the world cup in june. in just the past two weeks, five people have been attacked with sulphuric acid in colombia. up until now, authorities have done little to stop such attacks but a high profile case in bogata is prompting action from the government. >> whenp. >> when ffrita refused to work, he burned her neck, arms and

shoulders. >> i started screaming and screaming as if crazy. i can't -- my god -- did - -- describe it. i would scream and throw water on me, all of the water i could find and i would see pieces of skin falling off. >> her husband, with the attacker threatening her daughters, she ran away to the columbia capitol looking for help. >> it was humiliation after humiliation. my friends would say my mother was a monster. now, we are alone. my mother and my sisters, but we help each other to survive. >> more than 900 people have been attacked with acid. most are poor women who face constant discrimination. they can't find a job or the money to get surgery. >> sulphuric acid sales are not regulated. this bottle cost a little over 1 usd and can easily be found in hardware stores or regular

supermarkets and since using it as a weapon is not considered a serious crime, attackers only face short prison terms. >> bogota council woman says a mix of machismo, a history of violence and impunity are all part of the problem. columbia's progress passed add law that would increase penalties. it hasn't yet bin implemented. this might change following a high-profile case in the city. now up ter class girls had been attacked. i regret it absolutely. we see the political system reacting. one wonders we have first class and second class victims in this country. >> nat al i can't was attacked by a former number reportedly obsessed with her. in sharp contrast to previous cases, the president.

congress promised to implement the law next month. the previous victims are left wondering if they will ever receive justice. >> these kinds of attacks aren't just commonplace in colombia because each year, 150 women are attacked with sulphuric acid. >> nicaragua has been rattled by a second earthquake in 24 hours. 6.6, so far there were no reports of injuries or major damage. one person died of a heart attack and 200 people were injured. >> one measured a 6 dot 1 magnitude and left hundreds of homes damaged? >> you legal crossings along the southwest border of the united states have increased dramatically. the "new york times" says the border patrol made 91,000 arizona in the rio grande valley

over the past six. there has been a string of shootings involving border patrol agents and paul beeban is on the ground. a boarder town that straddles arizona and mexico. a dusty cross and faded plastic flowers marked the spot where they died, gunned down in his hometown of nogales, mexico. this is the story of a boy, a boarder and a wall of silence. sometimes shortly before 1.130 p.m. on october 10th, 2012, the 16-year-old remember he was hit by a bullet. as he fell face down, eight more shots hit him in the back. at least one border patrol agent fired from somewhere around here on top of this cliff in arizona

through the fence, down into the street, down into mexico. why? border pat tro says jose antonio was throwing rocks at them. at least one eyewitness said he was walking down the street, even if he was throwing rocks, was shooting him an inappropriate response. was he a threat to armed agents up on the cliff behind fence? elena is an american citizens. she lives on the arizona side of the fence? a few minutes away from where her grandson was killed. >> there needs to be justice because it seems to me a cold-blooded, calculated crime. to me, it's a crime with no justification because he wasn't doing anything. geoffs walking. he wasn't doing anything.

almost a year and a half after the fatal shooting, the border patrol has at last formally responded to jose antonio's family. >> this is the claim, his mother. >> the american attorney showed me a letter he received dated march 14th. >> your clients claim to not be attributed to a wrongful or nect act or omission on the part of the united states customs. it's over as far as they are concerned. >> he says the border patrol took four minutes to make this call to mexican authorities. >> let's listen to that call. >> he says the delay suggests indifference to the fact a mexican boy had been shot. >> if they are worried about somebody being hurt, you don't wait four minutes because obviously, the shooting had

stopped. aricelli said the letter from the border patrol is an outrage. >> i think they are mad. they are wrong. it, it was an assassination and at no point did my son shoot at them. he didn't have a we hope. for me, it wasn't murder. i think a murder needs to be paid for. justice has to be dealt with. people can't go around killing people and have impunity. >> setting aside the unanswered questions of the case, border patrol agents do face assaults with rocks. this memo went out to agents a week before the letter to jose antonio's family. it says agents have been attacked with rocks more than 1700 times since 2010. 43 times, they responded with deadly force killing 10 people. >> take cover and not shoot unless they are in imminent danger of death or serious

injury. with all of this in mind, the question remains: is shooting ever an appropriate response to rocks? despite the border patrol's letter to jose antonio's family, both the department of justice and the f.b.i. they wouldn't talk about the case or use of force policies. >> people feel like they are stonewalling. there is a lack of information, a lack of transparency. how does that ascthe job? >> well, it doesn't really affect it too much because we don't have any control over the investigation. i explain that to people. but overall, once that investigation is pending, we are out of it. you know, like i said, we cooperate fully with the investigative agency but as far as giving information to the public, we can't do that. >> surveillance cameras tower over the intersection where hose an antonio was killed but whatever images those cameras caught that night haven't been released. >> translator: show me the video where my son throws rocks.

even with that, they didn't do the right thing. i want to see the video. i want to see where my son hurts them. it's a pain inside me that will be there until there is justice, until i know who killed my son and i know he has been judged. only thing will i be able to think that all americans are border patrol agents aren't bad guys. paul beeban on the u.s. next co border, nogales. >> this sundays, al jazeera america will debut a new originally series called "borderland" tracks six americans retracing footsteps of my grabs who died trying to cross into the u.s. authorities in again e are using thermal cameras to stop the spread. ebola set up at the air port to measure the boy temperatures of out going americans. health officials say they are looking for anyone with a temperature over 100 degrees.

it had a spread to liberia. the world's leading organization on climate change will release a major report tomorrow. drafts are generating a lot of criticism. the report is a scientific guide to help governments, businesses and individuals take action to slow down global warming. al jazeera's jacob ward reports on the new ideas trying to save the planet. >> the amount of car bo bon dioxide has spiked by 40% since the industrial revolution. and the latest error by the inter governmental panel on climate change lays the blame almost entirely at the feet of human beings. experts agree that the priorities prior to should be reduce our emissions. what happens if we can't? one is to pull carbon dioxide back into the air. the device removes c 02 directly. t the company claimed this could have an impact on the entire planet.

>> first thing to understand about carbon by objection a i'd removal is there is no cheap and easy fix there. >> they involved infrastructure that's pretty much at the same scale as our energy system. >> ultimately, the son is what's warm -- sun is what's warming up our planet. some have suggested blocking the sunlight out and reflecting it back into space. cloud brightening as its called is the process of basically filling a cloud with particles. what we do is enhance a natural processes that's already there. to form clouds. >> inwhich he hadbly fine water vapor it e vap rates quickly as you can see. what you don't see are the salt part of cells left behind. >> when the technology, would you take it up in a plane? >> you would use a ship. a fleet of about a thousand or 2000 for the entire planit.

a reflective cloud around the entire planet. the idea is based upon something that happened in nature. >> the poster child for solar engineering is the eruption. >> 1991 eruptioin in the philippines spewed millions of tongs of sulphuric. >> almost a refarren hoot. if that had been kept in the stratos fear, that would have been enough to upset all of the global warning this century. we need a small fleet of airplanes, maybe ten or 12. i see this as in case of an emergency. some worry having that option is going to en can you know us. the way we always have. scientists also worry tinkering with nature could have unforeseeable and dangerous

consequences. we need to adopt energy efficiency, employ renewables and remove the subsidies from fossil fuels. >> in an age of so much innovation, the idea that we could reverse climate change through technology is extremely attractive. the truth is we only barrel understand what geo engineering might do to the planet and the skies all of us must share. >> according to documents of the report, china accounts for a quarter of global emissions. more moms are choosing to stay home with their kids and it sounds like good news for the next generation, but it may be bad news for america's economy. we will talk to the author of "mommy wars" in our weekend conversation. plus, she called it a pimp. a bobcat behind bars in legal

limbo. that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance.

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like my child. he is like my baby that is now in jail and doesn't know that anybody loves him. he is just all alone. >> a new jersey woman is waiting on a blood test for her pet bobcat. she has been told by a judge that she can only keep rocky if he is a hybrid cat since it's illegal to keep a bobcat as a domestic pet. he was taken to the zoo after it escaped from general income's home. >> feels that this, in fact, may not be a hybrid cat and that it may be a pure bread bobcat in which case no right to that animal. >> it's not fair.

i think it's truly. >> it will take about a week for rockic's blood test to come back. welcome back to al jazeera al jazeera america. >> i am morgan radford live in new york city. a new study released shows an interesting shift in american demographics. more mothers are now staying home. the pew research center found 29% of moms with children under the age of 18 either stayed home or worked from home last year. >> that's up from about 20% back in 1999. don't be deceived by the headline. it doesn't mean that the era of june cleaver and donna reed is now returning. it shows more disturbing snapshot of the american economy. jo joining us is leslie morgan steiner, author of mom mcmorries wars and most recently the baby chain. she joins us from washington, d.c. this morning. thachdz for being with us. >> what was your reaction when you heard about this latest study? were are more mommies staying

home. >> it's misleading to say that more moms are staying home. the most interesting part of this study is the headline. it implies that after decades of working, moms have come to their senses and they are going home back where they belong. the truth is that the vast majority of moms work. we work today, we worked tep years ago. we worked 100 years ago. en if you are staying home for no pay, you are still working really, really hard. so the thing that intrigues me the not about this is the -- that moms are under a immediamedia spotli the spotlight tends to make us feel judged and like every single decision we make in terms of motherhood is the wrong one. >> really? what about men, though? because the pew points out economic factors say a growing share of stay at home mothers, 6% in 2012 compared with 1% in 2000 say they are home with their children because they

can't find a job. but has the recession hit men stronger? >> yes. the recession hit men and dads type of harder. which is interesting in and of itself. the fact that more moms is staying home is driven in many ways by the fact that we have a recent influx of asian and latino mothers who stay home in higher percentages and, also, simply by poverty because over a third of stay at home moms live at the poverty level. >> mean they can't afford to work their hourly salary does not cover howell child care. it's not a choice. it's not moms are saying i want to stay home. they are saying i have to stay home. >> jut to reiterate, they are saying the economy so bad, to pay out child care would be more expensive than money i would make if i entered the work force. >> not at a time economy. it's not going to change as the

economy gets better. the moms living in poverty don't have the educational level to have a salary that covers child care and also in this country, we have really an epidemic of a lack of quality affordable child care that allows moms at the lowest end of the economic spectrum to work no matter whether we are in a recession or a moving -- booming economy. >> we have talked about moms, dads. what about the kids? how does having more stay at home moms affect the children? >> a lot of people have a prejudice that having a mom at home is good for kids. in many times, that's totally true. what i found in mommy wars and my other research is that they really want their mom to be happy. any kid, what they will tell you when you ask, what do you want in your mom's life? i want my mom to be happy. for some moms, that means staying home.

for some, it means working or combining a mix of the two. sometimes working. >> before we go, i want to go back to something you touched upon earlier. you described the media spotlight as being harsh. do you think public opinion has changed in recent years regarding women who do choose to stay home? >> in terms of giving moms a choice, and supporting whatever moms do, yes, public opinion has become much more sympathetic and generous to mothers no matter your choice. it doesn't always feel like that to us because what moms need is support, not scrutiny, not more media scrutiny. the type of scrutiny that dads never get. it makes us feel under the spotlight and judged and what we need is emotional support. people telling us that we are really good at what we are doing and practical support like more affordable quality child care. >> why don't you think dads get it? >> because i think that there is a lot of press disagainst

mothers and if some ways, the spotlight on mothers is good because it means that we care so much about motherhood and how chin are raised in this country. but every single study that comes out about parenthood tends to be about moms. are we breast feeding long enough? are we taking good enough care of our children? and it's not fair to dads. it's also not fair to moms. there are a lot of dads incredibly involved parents today. i think they deserve a little bit of recognition and spotlight, too. thanks, leslie morgan steiner, author of mommy wars. she joins us this morning. leslie, it's been a pleasure. right now are our meet roth miss ebony dion joins us with a final check of the national forecast. >> we are going to see some warm dry weather across the east but we have some changes taking shape across the middle of the current tree. >> that's an area of concern as we go through mainly the afternoon and evening hours.

here across iowa and kansas and even missouri, eventually a little further south as we head into the weekend. right now, things are a bit on the quiet side with the exception being across minnesota where we have light to moderate rain showers and some pockets of heavy rain falling near deluth. snow trying to take shape here along the northern tier. >> will get going in to the later part of the way. wintry weather as the storm system moves in. watching here across the west because we have a winter storm watch around the denver area and much of the rockies into wyoming. high elevations are expecting to see snow showers. southwest, more. as an area of low pressure, that will continue to track from the southwest into the central plains by the end of the weekend. >> that's what's going to help trigger that strong severe storms down texas, louisiana for sunday today we are mainly expecting a lot of cloud cover to move in. a push of moisture, lots of

cloud cover already in place across some areas of the deep southwest and as we go into the weekend, it's the middle of the country that will have all of the action from snow to a chance of strong storms. morgan? >> thanks, ebony. an american contracto in prison in cuba has ended his hunger strike after eight days. alan gross was protesting a detention and he wants the u.s. and the cuban government to resolve his case. the 64-year-old was working to set up internet access on the island when he was arrested. he was then sentenced to 15 years, accused of being an american spy. despite ending his hunger stri, he says there will be more protests to come. >> do you have a few million dollar to spare? if you do, this 13 careat die monday can be yours for $25 million. >> will go under the hammer at cristies and is on display right here in new york city. what makes it special? blue diamonds make up less than 2% of the entire world's diamond

production. that will do it for this edition of al jazeera news. i am morgan radford. you can get the latest information online at aljazeera.com.

>> it is very good to have you along at this news hour. here are some of the stories that we're covering in detail over the next 60 minutes. taking over government buildings in eastern ukraine, and the government sends in special forces. the fallujah is still under seize where doctors are running out of medicine, and people are dying. diplomatic stand off, iran said it will appeal against a decision by the u.s