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marked the occasion by a procession through jerusalem. "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. you can always get the latest news at our website online, aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight": tough choices in south korea. desperate parents cling to hope their children are alive in the submerged ferry, while survivor's guilt claims one victim and rescuers warn retrieving the vessel will prevent the saving of any lives. over my head is the kindu ice ball, the first hurdle in
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the everest climb. as you know 13 guides died there last night. >> this time they gave their lives. and the long trip home. the biggest carnivore ever to hit washington, d.c. arrives at his big new digs. and reminds us of a country cousin in a who dun init mystery in the one who nearly got away. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. even as parents continue to pray for an unlikely miracle the first interview of crew members in the south korean ferry disaster painted a terrifying picture of confusion and instructions, that may have made the disaster worse.
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the vessel upside down and submerged nearly 48 hours since the first cry for help. 29 are dead, almost 270 remain missing. at least 179 passengers were rescued. captain remains under arrest. rough seas and cold goes on. the u.s. navy says it will send salvage specialists to help. what we know from "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar. is. >> reporter: with hundreds of passengers trapped below. this is the time the captain decided to abandon ship. that order previously given to passengers to wait where they were. for families of the missing it was another long day. filled with grief and frustration. there has been so little news from divers inside the ship.
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families hold out hope that their missing, most of them high school students could still be alive in pockets of trapped air. they have to hurry to rescue survivors says this father. the number of survivors will reach its limit today. and all families and rescuers know the water is cold, and if there are survivors, they will not last much longer. the keel of the ferry fell below the sea. it is still unstable, posing risks for rescuers. divers did manage to find a way into the ship and reached the submerged cafeteria where so many were believed trapped. they did find several bodies huddled together. they continue to search through night. it is difficult and dangerous. >> the current is too strong. it's so strong that divers get swept away in moments. it's too strong. >> reporter: huge cranes have been brought in preparing to raise the ship.
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one will be placed on either side of the seawall. once the cables from both cranes have been lowered divers will tie the ends together. next both cranes will begin the lifting process. as the boat is lifted it will slowly be rolled onto its side to raise the vessel. rescuers know that it will possibly kill any survivors left inside. they agreed to not raise the ship until families agree. that could take days or more. investigators are trying understand what caused the ship to roll. the ship does not appear to have struck anything on the water. they are focusing on a, quote, sharp turn the ship made apparently when the captain was not at the helm. the transcript of the conversation between the ferry and the control, five minutes after the first radio indication anything was wrong, in that five
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minutes, the tilting of the ship made it quickly to become difficult to move. incici tamura is a maritime expert. the ship was modified by a an extension to the left. >> would have made the center of gravityeen even higher. in this sense, i think it would have made it hard tore balance the ship. >> many ships of this sort of age will have modifications of this type to increase capacity or one or two other things. it's not unusual. in this particular case, it will have affected the stability by a small amount. >> reporter: that is one of many avenues to be investigated and raises questions about the safety of modifications made to other ferries and passenger ships. one more tragedy today, the body
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of the vice principal of the school in which most of the students attended was found hang from a tree. it survives the tragedy not the guilt. >> it looks like that death was a suicide? >> i believe so. they found a note saying the situation was horrible. he will be cremated. >> they are trying get the numbers today. >> 20 of 29 crew members survived. three fifths of the passengers did not. that tells you the amount of preparedness of the crew. the area is a narrow channel, complex area to navigate. yet a third mate was at the helm. it should have been the captain
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there. >> so many children on board. high school students on board. sheila macvicar thanks very much. righting a ship after the infamous costa concordia. the 114,000 ton vessel back into an upright position. the crews used massive pulleys tanks to roll the ship over, at a cost of more than $800 million. on what it will take to raise the korean ferry back up, professor of maritime engineering, we appreciate you being with us. sir, for a lot of us it's hard to understand it's not just a matter of shipping this -- flipping this ship back over. >> no, it's not, it's a very
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difficult task and preparation is absolutely essential. it's not thing you do at a drop of a hat. >> why is it so difficult? help us to understand. is tonight part the size, the weight, what is it that makes it so difficult? >> well, okay. the first thing is, everything depends upon the weather. so any time that the weather gets bad, any time the wind is blowing, this location has very bad currents. that makes it very difficult to work. and sometimes it makes it impossible. the second thing is, we're talking about a massive structure. thousands and thousands of tons. iin fact, the ferry is considerably smaller than the costa concordia and even so it displaces over 10,000 tons in my estimate. so now, we're talking about very large weights that have to be shifted. they have to be shifted very
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carefully. and you have to be careful you don't shift it in such a way that you cause more damage and, in fact, make the situation worse. >> so you were present for the uprighting of the costa concordia. are there any similarities that will take place here? it was further away from shore, the korean ferry. >> yes, and unfortunately today, the korean ferry, the ship is still moving apparently and now it's entirety underwater. the costa concordia was never entirely under water. it was basically beached on a large rock. to this is going to make it very difficult. because the ship no only has to be uprighted but it last to be refloated. the costa concordia what -- basically they rolled it into position but they didn't have to make it float. >> so by refloating -- assemble so this is a tough situation. -- >> so this is a tough situation.
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>> so by refloating you have to bilge out the water or what happens? >> at some point you have to either lift it or make it float. and i see that they're bringing heavy-lift cranes into position. they play have enough capacity to lift it eventually. right now i think what they're properly most concerned about is stabilizing it in place. keep it from moving any further. and then, they'll have to do an assessment to determine what the best method is to get it back up. >> very difficult work ahead. dr. richard burke, state university of new york maritime college, we appreciate you being here. after the break on "america tonight." a scientific break through. cloning humans. this time, it's real. but already, raising new alarm about whether it's right. and later, on everest. >> the biggest tragedy of this is it's the very beginning of the season. and to lose this number of people, at the very beginning of
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dr. jane goodall talks to john seganthaller >> i started with a notebook, and a pair of secondhand binoculars. which was all i could afford... >> and reveals the remarkable human nature of chimpanzees. >> they have a dark side, and that made them more like us than i had thought before. talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> known as the world's most famous sheep, in the 1990s. dolly became the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. and now in what is being hailed and feared as a break through in stem cell science. massachusetts researchers, have created embryos in a laboratory
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which are clones of the two men. now these embryos were used to make stem cells from which scientists could grow any kind of tissue or organs. yet those could grow into humans. the massachusetts scientists have made it clear they don't intend to do that. nearly half have banned all forms of human cloning. the ethics about cloning humans, dr. marci darnofsky joins us. what is the concern here doctor, we're not trying to clone human beings but what are we worried about? >> well, i think the concern is that this area of research has been going on now since dolly the sheep as you said which was announced in 1997. and when that announcement was made president clinton felt it was so urgent that we set policy about human reproductive
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cloning, that is creating cloned human beings, that he asked his bioethics commission to give him a report in 90 days. they did. they said human reprotective cloning was a bad idea. congress tried to pass laws to prohibit that use of technology and yet were unsuccessful. it didn't happen. >> so right now there is no federal overriding policy that says you can't create humans even though it's sort of left to the individual teams to say look, we're not trying to do that. >> well, that's right. and unlike the united states, more than 60 countries around the world have managed to put laws on their bucks sake that this particular -- books saying that this particular application is against the law, it's prohibited. we really need the united states to step up and take that action. president obama in 2009 when he lifted stem cell research, said that human reprotective cloning
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was not only dangerous but profoundly wrong. we'll have to have the united states to join the dozens of other countries who have done this. >> usually, how we do that is by money, the federal government is behind much of the research that goes on. isn't it the way to control scientists or rogue scientists developing and trying to clone humans? >> well, unfortunately it is not adequate. this research for example was conducted with private funding and what we've seen over the past, what, 17 years, is that there unfortunately are some probably headline seeking scientists and fertility doctors who would like to try to clone a human being. so even though in every opinion poll you take you get numbers in the 90% or higher of people who say they don't want human cloning, and most reputable
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scientists will say or when pushed will say they don't want to clone human beings. >> the risk is out there. >> they don't but we actually need to put some teeth behind that. >> thank you for being with us. marci darnofsky, center for science and technology. gm has been taking heavy fire or the slow recall of cars with potentially faulty ignition switches. a car with a potentially fatal flaw, until lawsuits force its hand, if it sounds familiar it may be because of the man who launched the very first big campaign to give drivers more safety and strength behind the wheel. >> the corvair delivers the goods like no other compact car can. >> the chevy corvair, the heavy car in the 1960s. but gm's vehicle ran smashing
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into controversy. as a yng consumer advocate ralph nader tracks in his 1965 book, "unsafe at any speed." a later study disputed nader's conclusions but today nearly 50 years after the publication of his first book, nader says. >> their fit and finish is better and millions of lives and injuries have been spared as a result. >> now nader is watching another generation of gm leaders face another round of tough questions over a design flaw and a delayed recall. >> i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in that program. >> now, at 80, nader seems less the flame thrower and more
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likely to seek out the silver lining. >> you must be awfully disappointed to go 50 years later and be back at the same company and back at the same issues of safety and safety questions being hidden. >> disappointed but i expected it. regulatory laws for health and safety always have to be renovated, improved, adequately budgeted, corporations always have to be watchdogged. every once in a while a tragedy can lead to stronger laws, passing through congress, better budgets for enforcement, more lifesaving standards. i think that's what we're dpog get out -- going to get out of this gm tragedy but gm has got to pay adequate compensation for fatalities and the injuries before and after the bankruptcy. its whole global image is in peril. >> his new book, he's written or co-awe oco-authored several, nar
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emphasize is collaboration and what he sees as real opportunity. >> it's really simple. if we want to get something done in this country we got to bring left-right together on areas they already agree on. for example to revise the patriot act and civil liberties dom get rid of corporate welfare and david murphy bloated military budget and revising the trade agreements. >> do you think there are areas of real agreement left and right you have opposite mist on that? >> already. in 1983, we stopped the breeder reactor in tennessee, that the atomic energy commission was sponsoring. it was considered unbeatable. and once we got left right together in congress we won. >> do you think the american public though shares your optimism? on many things americans feel we
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are powerless. how do you go about empowering people to stand up to corporations, to governments? how do you do that? >> down the abstraction ladder to where people live and work. on main street and elm street u.s.a, they may call themselves republicans and democrats, but they want good schools, clean air, fair wages, they want to have their social security preserved, full medicare for all. look at the polls. the polls have huge consensus behind major redirection in this country. once you go up and you end up in congress and the state legislature and money and campaigns flow that's when you get gridlock. >> nader don't forget has some experience with the national political machine. he's run for president five times. >> it's time to go beyond that. roll up our sleeves and mobilize a movement that tells them what to do!
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>> most recently in 2008. >> you have spent your life watchdogging, writing, talking to people. and running for office. >> yes. >> on many occasions trying obring these issues to light. what's next for ralph nader? >> it's in that book unstoppable. i want to bring left-right together on the areas they already agree on but they haven't moved it into action. that means people in congress. that means people throughout the country. because my message sometimes startles people and here it is: abased on american history and the progress we've made it's a lot easier than we think. that our biggest opponent is our sense of powerlessness. >> so in that sense of empowerment do you want to run again? >> dialing for same commercial campaign dollars, it secludes other opponents from the
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debates. >> on both sides? >> it harasses third party candidates from even getting on the broot to -- the ballot to give voters a choice. if we want voters to have a choice, we have to have different candidates and different proposals on the ballot. we've documented that in lawsuits and books. it's sometime for other people to do it. we've got to get more voices on the ballot. >> it won't be yours i guess. >> we'll keep the voices going on books like this, "unstoppable." >> ralph nader, thanks. >> thank you. >> splak into a roadblock, whether the people who have do live with it on the ground. also ahead, tragedy at the top. an extraordinarily deadly day on everest. challenge of leading the way, for others to conquer the mountain.
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>> the new space race is here >> there are people right now who will walk on mars >> it could be a big payday for corporations >> the same companies will be controlling your life in space. >> who will conquer the cosmos? >> these men believe the universe is theirs for the taking >> fault lines... al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> they're locking the doors... >> ground breaking... >> we have to get out of here... >> truth seeking... >> breakthrough investigative documentary series space inc. only on al jazeera america >> and now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight." smoked out, los angeles's ban on e-cigarettes starts saturday. vap-ers will not be allowed to puff on their e-cigarettes in public places. a series of highway
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shootings over the last six weeks, the 26-year-old serial shooter blamed for at least nine incidents along integrate corridors. three people were injured by the attacked. jewish citizens, demanding they register or be conditioned citizenship. appearing in donetske, pro-russian separatists, clearly haven't bought in. al jazeera's jackie roland is in donetske. >> pro-russian demonstrators here in donetske are rejecting the agreement in geneva, say it does not apply to them because they weren't a party. they are not required to are are comply. they are afraid if they left the buildings they could find themselves arrested straight away.
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meanwhile in kyiv, the authorities appear to be holding out an olive branch to the demonstrators, would pave the way for increased autonomy, and rather than having government imposed on them by kyiv. and there's been a warning, suggesting that they misunderstood what was agreed in geneva, the subtext of what moscow was saying is kyiv also needs to make concessions. so while there are demands people here in the east in donetske and to leave public buildings, there is a warning that inspectors would expect to see an end to the demonstrations of the independence square in kyiv by pro-russian
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demonstrators who have had barricades in the square for several months now. >> it is a place that inspires records but headed into high season for climbing moult everest, the deadliest day on the mountain. a view from on top of the world from "america tonight"'s sarah hoye. >> reporter: officials are calling it the deadliest accident on mount everest. at least 12 sherpa guides swept away at the beginning of the climbing season. sherpas had headed out to secure climbing ropes when the avalanche struck. better weather conditions last month, all were accounted for. two of the injured were in critical condition in a kathmandu hospital. >> the experience was great, going well and then suddenly there was a huge thud.
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for a few seconds i thought wow, this is going to take me out. we got covered by this enormous cloud of snow and snow dust. >> reporter: there was an ice ball directly under base camp 2 where the sherpas were. an nbc crew was there. >> the first hurdle in the climb of everest above base camp. our plan was to leave last night along with the sherpas, we delayed for 24 hours, so we're still down here safe. the biggest tragedy is it's the beginning of the season. to lose this many people at the beginning of the season, may be the end of the season. >> 80 nepalese guides, lost their lives since it was first scaled by sir edmond hilary,
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many years ago. up on the mountain the local master mountaineers are, relations can fray. last yeerm a massive brawl erupted after insult and accusation he of mistreatment. >> with hundreds of climbers reaching the summit in peak season each year the number expeditions might also be fueling frustrations. >> i would say for a pure mountaineer everest is too crowded. you might choose another mountain. everest is really commercializized. >> sarah hoye, al jazeera. >> the lure and danger of mt. everest, to get a better understanding of the risk the sherpas and the climbers turn to climb everest, paul romero, paul
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we appreciate your being here and incident like this so very tragic, so many lives lost, does it change any reflection that you have that it's an appropriate place for someone who is well prepared as the sher pas clearly were? >> pleasure to meet you, pleasure to be on tonight. >> indeed the respect and the admiration for the men, the sherpas that really build the entire experience and entire encounter of what climbing in the himalayas, is about, these men are the most hardworking physically fit human beings on the planet. the particular section of the route, i stootd stood where this happened. these guys are up at 2:00 in the morning, have their boots on at 3:00, before most of the
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westerners are awake and working hard, working hard, their head down in the ground, cold dark night, dropping off a load, heading back, this is the experience these guys are doing day in day out. >> it's not just cold either is it paul, it may be very windy at points. >> it can be windy, certainly. this very part where this disaster occurred today, what's really happening at this part is the most technical and dangerous and unsuspecting, unpredictable dangers. the most high objective dangers are at this portion of the route. it's incredible. >> why is it? why is it so dangerous there? >> these routes, they have just -- right where this encounter happened, they just spent four to six hours climbing almost a thousand meters, 800 meters through ropes and climbing through kundu ice fall which is the most technical
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dangerous regions of climbs of all the himalayas, and thousands and thousands of kilos and hectares of ice. they were just doing business as normal and that was what happened today. these ancient seraks, ice released off the west wall, west buttress of everest and it could lapfully time of day any time of year. incredible tragedy. >> this is the time of year when the season begins, the high season begins on everest. i just want to underline you know for people who come to adventure, to challenge themselves, it's one thing. for sherpas though this is a way of life, a way of making a for them a good living. >> these sherpas have worked long and hard to gain the prestige that they have. it's actually a prestige to be a sherpa and to be in the lead and to be working on these camps
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amongst these expeditions. these are the highest regard he men in all the country. to understand the physical output and the exertion they put in, these expeditions can be 60 to 70 days long and they workday in and day out hauling their body weight, hauling their body weight on their back up to prepare these camps for their clients tremendous. >> such a difficult challenge and so much personal sacrifice. paul romero thank you for giving us your insight. are illegal immigration, dead border runners, prem us of al jazeera's new series borderland, which premiered this week, two cast members travel to el salvador, where there's a
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clash of opinions. >> retired u.s. marine randy stuffelbean. >> it's going to be revealing as well as cool. >> what i'm here to do is find out why she was maybe in the situation she was in. and so we're here to hear the story. >> like many undocumented salvadorans, myra was deported back to a country almost unrecognizable to her. in the 1990s, the united states began deporting members of street gangs back to el salvador, resulting in street violence now considered one of the most dangerous places on
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earth. somewhere between 10 and 15 people are murdered in the capitol every day. within hours of arriving, randy and alex are confronted with the reality of the shocking statistic. >> two hours in. we come upon a body. and apparently got taken out some gang violence something like this. but it's there right in the street. >> knowing this is the kind of violence that is so prevalent in the culture, are you telling me that it's okay to just open the borders and let them all run into the united states? >> i wouldn't say it's the violence of the culture and i wouldn't put that on the backs of the people that are coming and trying to live a better life. >> it is a point of this culture to the point that people can just walk by and then keep on going. >> you don't have a right to look at a situation and then make judgments about it. because in reaction to this day you're justifying reasons to build up a border.
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>> i understand it's the result of a system that is so totally failed these people but it has so affected them that it's in the culture and that we are talking that these people that are committing such violence- >> you're saying -- >> i understand that at the same time there is going to be people that are just committing absolute violence. >> you're saying there's a greater potential of violence. >> much greater potential, as if we don't have fluff violence and we're going obring in even more? >> you can see borderland on sunday night and again on wednesday on al jazeera america. after the break, the return of the natives. one of the america's businessest residents ever finds a new home in the nation's capitol. why that's important to the tourists and to protect the t
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consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> in washington, it's the time of year for swarms of visitors to tour the facing's capitol and this week was also moving day for a new very big resident. the new arrival at the smithsonian museum of history is an old one, 66 million years old, dubbed the nation's t rex,
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one of the most complete fossils found. the t rex got a lift via fedex, a 2,000 mile trip that was much easier journey than one of another tyrannosaur whose search for home was a lot more complicated. the great gobi desert in southern mongolia covers half a million square miles and is home to countless long extinct life forms. one of those turned up for sale in new york city. >> i got an e-mail on a friday night about 6:30 in houston, basically said there's a dinosaur that's been stolen from the gobi desert. it's going to be auctioned sunday at 2:00 in new york. is there anything you can do legally to stop it? >> at stake the impending and
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illegal auction of one tarbosaurus betar, a smaller cousin of tyrannosaurus rex. a slightly smaller cousin. >> little bumps on bones or the way teet are shaped or the architecture of the skull. these all tell us this is a betar. >> all the travel he ended up, the batar, he went from there to here? >> to gland to florida to texas to newark. >> that is one well traveled dinosaur. >> when the auction announced the sale of the batar, the auction company had discretion.
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>> we think this could be ours, could you show us the provenance? heritage auctions said buzz off, no. it was very fortunate that the auction house that was selling the dinosaur was texas-based because i'm licensed in texas and as it turns out there are things i can do. >> it was the first of many coincidences which would play a role in the saga of batar. serendipity, loose lips and a lot of dumb luck. >> tell us who you are and what your role is. >> i'm the president of mongolia. >> that is president elbidorge to you. >> can you tell me why the dinosaur is important for mongolia? >> because that is our national treasure. i think dinosaur that is part of our heritage.
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>> to rescue this layer taj, painter had to -- heritage painter had to act fast. >> we have tools in our tool belt but a really tough thing odo on a friday night is to find a judge that will hear the temporary restraining order application. >> a colleague of painter's found one in dallas. in the middle of the music festival at 10:00 flit. >> i get a phone call from an attorney that doesn't ever call me. he says here's the deal, i have a friend of mine who is went to law school with me, he is the private attorney of the president of mongolia. they are going to file a motion for the prevention of a sale of a tyrannosaurus batar. i immediately hung up.
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>> once it's done that meant the imminent and irreparable harm. you can't go down to your walmart and get another one and replace it. >> i heard bit when i got the auction catalog. >> what did you think? >> i said look, this is here in new york, i can't believe these guys are doing this. >> i thought the most prudent thing was to go to new york. >> you went into the auction house? >> there were like 300 items in the auction and the marquee item was the tyrannosaurus. 28 feet long, 12 feet tall he's there, he or she in the auction room. >> the auction didn't go well. >> we're walking around, overheard an official of heritage auctions talking rather loudly, saying we're not going to follow the order. they tell someone on the phone with whom we now know was the
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buyer. we're going to go ahead and do it but subject to the court's ruling we're going to do the auction. >> the sale of the next -- >> so we hauled called the judge on his cell phone, you need to tell them -- >> i told mr. painter to remind them this was an order not a suggestion. >> you are the guy at the wedding who said, stop. >> that's right. >> you are a big guy. >> that's true. i dial my phone, a blackberry, a dinosaur of itself. >> the judge -- >> signed the restraining order that you're about to violate and he wants to explain why. >> okay. well you need to walk out -- >> the puzzled auctioneer says it's finished and the guy on the phone bought it.
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>> for how much? >> $875,000, that is -- >> so what is this 70 million year old mongolian fossil creating this big fuss? batar and his cousin t rex were the most fearsome dinosaurs that roamed the earth. >> batar is the asian representation of this. >> do we know why they have such little arms? >> no, there is enormous speculation. >> they have these large legs but tiny little arms. >> they couldn't touch themselves. they couldn't go like this. >> but they could have eaten all the other little dinosaurs around them. and probably did. >> probably did. >> plon goaplon goalmongolia lat
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engaged in this looting of their land. we started to see illegal excavations there but it's only recently that mongolian government has recognized it as a real problem and engaged to stop it. >> if it's something in your borders the cub condition last the right to make those laws and to have those laws followed and ripped respected. >> if you take the element of the dinosaur away from it, what is troubling to me, is the fact we could smuggle a 28 by eight foot are anything. >> the auction purchaser withdrew, with the dinosaur moved to an undisclosed location in queens, teams from united states, canada and a delegation in from mongolia identified him or her as 100% mongolian and
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then another lucky break. >> the mongolian delegation went back to their hotel in queens and an official from the mon goamongolian ministry of cultur, this guy from mongolia takes a picture with his iphone and e-mails it to me, says i think this is the smuggler. they take this photo and i sent it to mongolia and the police take it out in the. >> greg: obi desert door to door and they find someone who says yes, that's mr. eric. >> this guy? >> this guy is mr. eric and they go to the computer and find photos of this guy in the gobi desert in mongolia with a hammer and sickle dicking in the dirt looking for dinosaurs. >> meantime the dinosaur was placed under arrest.
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>> it's an old legal concept, you you actually are trying to sue to return an asset, a piece of property. you put it in the name of the property. it's called united states of america versus one tyrannosaurus batar. it is a place where the -- a case where the government sued a dinosaur. that's a first in my experience. >> from that point we were able to secure the civil complaint, able to secure a warrant, the dinosaur. would we be able to seize it? in december 2012 we had it in our possession. >> also in their possession a search warrant. the [ ayes ] immigration and customs enforcement went straight to the place of mr. eric, eric procapi. >> even better than that were the items we were looking for or at least part of the items we
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were looking for were actually getting delivered on the day we were there. >> talking about weird coincidences. of all the times the delivery truck were to show up, when the agents were there looking for dinosaurs, here is another one. >> what we were able to did is say thank you to the delivery driver, take the boxes, that helped us greatly. >> eric prokapi pled guilty to why conspiracy and smuggling. he is currently awaiting sentencing. the temp judge has been formally recognized by the government of mongolia for his service. [applause] >> around so after less than a year in new york, tyrannosaurus batar was flown back to
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mongolia, first class. and today, batar is traveling again. but this time to temporary museums inside mongolia. >> so there was a rush that the people were so amazed that -- at the success, they love the dinosaur. their her hero, their batar. >> the government is rebuilding the lenin museum to house their newest hero, the batar. the last one could have been genghis khan. >> that is a very good lesson to other people in mongolia, to young generations. you have to fight for had in mongolia, have something valuable. >> truly a fitting end. and by the way: the translation for the monday goa plon the mon
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aires. following the path of the pope. lucia newman. >> he looks like a rock 'n' roller from head to foot. only the priest's collar gives him away. father cesar and the sinners, uses music to preach music love and the word of god. whether he's rehearsing with his band or hosting his nightly radio program, this 50-year-old catholic priest has become the modern faith of an old clump chh thank you to the pope. >> he never gave me a parish. he let me study record and play in public. he always said he believed in exploiting people's different talents. >> on his radio show called calm
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down, father cesar intertwines can music and life. >> during the dictatorship in argentina, rock media denounced what the mainstream media did not. it awakens people. >> father cesar and the sinners have already recorded two albums with controversial songs abandoned love, dedicated to pursuits and toprostitutes. >> the motorcycle and the cathedral, this cathedral, the former arch bobby.
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arch bishop. >> influencely recorded song. it speaks of bringing a motorcycle into the cathedral. a metaphor for the pope's belief in opening the church's doors to all people of goodwill. and to spread that message, he's recruited men like father cesar. a new breed of disciples. >> that's it for us here on "america tonight." remember if you would like to comment, log on to aljazeera.com/americatonight or you can join the conversation on twitter or on our facebook page. good night.
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