tv News Al Jazeera April 21, 2014 6:00am-7:01am EDT
6:00 am
timeframe. >> we're looking at the risks, rewards, and dangers of high frequency trading >> there are no rules or regulations >> all this week on the new expanded real money with ali velshi helping you balance your finances and your life. now an hour, starting at 7 eastern / 4 pacific only on al jazeera america >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello, you are watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha and i'm julie and the top stories, political moves in syria a date has been set for the presidential vote. >> the ukrainian government is not doing anything to stop the crisis. >> russia accuses ukraine of violating an age old peace agreement for failing to stop the violence in the east. more bodies recovered from the submerged ferry as the south korean president likens the
6:01 am
actions of the crew to murder. and we speak to the father of an al jazeera journalist behind bars in egypt on hunger strike and no sign he is getting out soon. ♪ syria syria has a date for presidential elections and the country wide vote will take place on june the third but syrians living outside will be able to pick the president on may the 28th and we will go to dana who is on the turkey syrian border and da na war going on i syria and why is the election taking place, now? >> well, first of all the second term of the syrian president bashar assad will take place and should take 30-60 days prior to the date but this is a message from syria telling the world
6:02 am
there is still a state, it's functioning and its people want bashar al-ashadow -- a to stay and people are displaced and how will they reach voting centers and the government does not control the whole country and they lost a lot of territory but government officials are saying this time it's going to be an election in the sense that in the past there was only one candidate on the ballot paper. this is what it is like in rebel areas in syria. it's not clear how an election can be held here. but in government-controlled neighborhoods a campaign to reelect bashar assad is underway and he has not nominated himself but he said he will if the people want him and that is what people are asking for, at least that is the message from those who take part in rallies
6:03 am
organized by suppoers but there are some people who do not want him as a leader and it's up rising against the rule. >> translator: who should i vote for? the man who killed many people? >> reporter: even if some of the millions of syrians who left the country or are internally displaced want to cast their ballot they will not be able to. the government cannot hold elections in territories outside its control raising questions on the credibility of the electoral process. the syrian government says this time the vote will be different. over the past four decades syrians could only choose to support or oppose parliament's nomination of assad and before him his father. now parliament happen proved laws to allow candidates to run for the post but not anyone can stand for election. one of the conditions is that they must have lived in syria for the past ten years. that means most of assad's opponents and even the
6:04 am
officially tolerated ones are excluded from the race and some formed a government in exile and members are not interested in competing with a man they want out of power but they are not able to prevent the vote. >> the mistake of the opposition was that they have not an executive body like a government that is actually providing a service for the syrian people. and where he actually controls some militarys as they are functioning and that has been his advantage. >> reporter: he may remain in power but opposition and allies will not accept the election as legitimate or free and fair. whatever happens one things is certain the poll wants the divided country and it won't end the war. >> a lot of people won't be able to vote, most of the main opposition figures will not be able to stand and how will the election have any credibility? >> well, that is exactly what
6:05 am
the syrian government's opponents are saying how can this be credible. syrian officials say the vote can be held and talking about the possibility of people reaching government-controlled areas and going on the front lines but this is going to be impossible and not just that people are fearful of authorities and many say why should we trust any election which is taking place under the supervision of authorities we rose up against from the beginning. we have to remember that people rose up against this regime because they thought their freedoms were suppressed and one candidate allowed to run for elections and political dissent is not allowed and they warned this would complicate peace efforts because the geneva communication called for free and fair elections after the sides agree on a transcript irrelevant body and the message from the government is we are not interested in the geneva process and we are running a country and some of this is
6:06 am
especially since it made a lot of battlefield gains over the past few months. >> thanks for that dana. and syria's children have become the forgotten victims of the civil war according to save the children. 5 million syrian children are in need of urgent help and more than a million of them are refugees and at least 10,000 children have been killed, 1 in 3 children have either been hit or shot at. and we have this report. >> reporter: and he now lives on a farm with his three children. he had to move here after syrian jets destroyed his house and all three have a disorder that stunts their growth. >> translator: look at my son, he is 13 but he looks five years old. >> reporter: and his cousin also needs medical care for cerebral palsy and there are no
6:07 am
hospitals nearby and going to aleppo is too dangerous. >> translator: they are going for treatment but now we cannot because of war. >> reporter: the civil war has nearly crippled syria's healthcare system and what is left is becoming too expensive. >> translator: i used to buy one group hormone injection for $20 but now it's $100 and i have no means to pay for my kids' treatment. >> reporter: government is accused of targeting hospitals in areas controlled by the rebels. the u.n. says the syrian government is using denial of medical car as weapon of war and agencies warn half of medical personnel have left syria. activists say dozens of doctors have been tortured to death in prisons because they treated injured rebels and shortage of hospitals means people built these make-shift clinics and this center looks after the
6:08 am
eastern providence. >> translator: we preform c-sections 24 hours a day and deal with emergency situations and there is a lack of personnel and medicine and equipment. >> reporter: but centers like this are rare. many field clinics are using old clothes as bands and people have died because of frequent power outages and there are reports that patients were hit on the head to knock them out because there was no anesthetic. the shortages of hospitals and supplies meant a rise in cases of polio, meningitis, measles and other preventable diseases in children and as it ranges on for children the prospects of a healthy future are bleak, i'm with al jazeera. >> that is peter who is the regional media manager for save the children and joining us from beirut and good to have you with
6:09 am
us and the health situation is becoming far more critical and issues like dying of preventable diseases and lack of incubators for babies and it's only going to get worse. >> it's really depressing since we raised the all langford parkway more than a month ago precisely on the reports you have been reporting about and issues you are reporting about we seen no developments on the ground and now it's almost two months since u.n. resolution has been passed which calls for access for aid workers and aid delivery inside syria and again there has been no development there, things are only getting worse. >> and what is the problem? i mean, as you say the u.n. adopted a resolution to get more medical aid into syria, why is that not happening? >> well, there is clearly not enough pressure on the warring parties. we expect the international community to make a step up in the diplomatic action so that
6:10 am
the warring parties have respect the international convention and humanitarian law and it's not an opti option to respect that when you're at war. we don't expect the war to just end but there are civilians who need humanitarian aid right now. to give you an example in aleppo alone where there were 3,000 doctors before the war and the last count was around 36 and 60% of the syrian hospitals and the medical aid facilities have been destroyed or badly damaged and they cannot function. we are witnessing a total collapse of the health system with paramount results and children who are mamed and handicapped forever and children who are dying because of lack of vaccinations which could prevent normal diseases which would otherwise not be there. polio you mentioned earlier in the report and measles, they
6:11 am
have been e regard kate e e e d e-eradicated and now they are in the region. >> and the children are the worst suffers and not only polio but being shot at and injured and having to under go operations without anesthetic and in some cases there has been no way to save their lives. >> yes, and there are -- we have also had doctors telling us that they had to am -- amputate lip -- limbs and doctors had to use iron bars to knock out their patients because of lack of anesthesia. this is the situation we are dealing with inside syria right now and it's not getting better. let me tell you, the more time passes the worse it's getting.
6:12 am
>> and this is a grim and depressing picture and share your hopes it does improve, from save the children there in beirut. the latest political tug of war between kiev and moscow the foreign minister is blaming ukraine for not listening to opposition in the country and sergei fedorov said they should take responsibility for actions and attempts to isolate russia will fail. >> translator: claims are increasing with regards to the southeast region of ukraine, buildings, posts, but the government is not doing anything in order to stop the causes of this deep problem of this crisis within ukraine. the right sector has virtual ly half a year been controlling and
6:13 am
its influence in the southeast using violent means at the beginning of the events, there are streets which have not been un block unblocked and they are continuing with protests. >> let's go to peter sharp live from moscow for us and peter moscow remaining defiant there and sergei fedorov saying they violated the agreement which was reached last week. >> that's right, reached last week against all odds really, the conference was in geneva, four-party talks and no one thought they would go anywhere but this was signed by the parties on thursday. it called for the pro-russian separatist forces to move out from the buildings that occupied and asked the streets to be cleared and asked in kiev for
6:14 am
the independent square there to be abandoned by demonstrators. all these points made by sergei fedorov this morning at a news conference holding kiev responsible for the state of the talks at the moment. don't forget we had on sunday night an attack which left 2-3 russian-speaking demonstrators killed at this check point and he sergei fedorov and foreign ministry say this is another example of kiev's failure to reign in its nationalist right wing armed supporters. he also said that it's time that the united states recognized the responsibility it had after it was involved in the formation of the government in kiev. but he did mention about pending sanctions which have been threatened by the white house and saying do not put those in effect yet and just have a look
6:15 am
and see what is happening in this country before you go and do that. >> peter, thanks very much for that, peter sharp in moscow and peter was saying ukraine military said there was a shooting on sunday between the army and pro-russia activist and one person killed at a check point in the town south of dansk and two people detained and let's go to dansk and we know the vice president joe biden will begin a two-day trip in ukraine and coming at a sensitive time following the shootings that happened yesterday and overnight. >> reporter: certainly, this is coming at a very sensitive time and the vice president is supposed to meet both with the acting president and also with prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk and turchinov and i think it will alternate protesters and
6:16 am
since the beginning a bone of contention is they find the government in kiev is illegal because it removed viktor yanukovich who you have to remember is from this area, from eastern ukraine and also it looks so much westward to find support and that is something that is alternating more and more people here. then you have flash points where you have isolated attacks like the one you just mentioned, the one that happened yesterday and then earlier in the weekend and these little, and they are still isolated cases, but they start piping up and certainly if it continues like in the tensions will rise considerably in this area. >> thanks very much indeed in donsk there. and we have more to come here on al jazeera including. >> with illegal fishing and one
6:17 am
day the people will no longer be able to fish even in the territorial waters. >> reporter: u.n. warn says fish stocks are being depleted by unregulated foreign trollers. >> i'm in boston and one year on from the marathon bombing a traditional event takes on a new look. >> plus all the sport, we will find out who is up and down in the nhl playoffs. ♪ south korea president condemned the actions of the captain and crew of the sunken ferry as an act of murder. four more crew members have been arrested as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the wreckage and harry faucet reports from jindo. >> reporter: the man in cross hairs of anger like no one else in south korea and from 2010 it
6:18 am
shows the captain at the helm of another ferry on the same route. >> translator: as long as you follow the directions given by crew attendants i think the ferry is safer than any other transportation. >> reporter: four years late their is what hundreds of passengers did, obeying instructions to stay put as the ferry sank and the captain was among the first to be rescued and in south the vice president spared nothing in condemnation of the captain. >> translator: above all the conduct of the captain and some crew members is wholly unfathomable from common sense and an act of murder that cannot and should not be tolerated. >> reporter: she demanded a full investigation into how there was approval to add a deck and extend operating life by ten years but here the focus remains for emergency crews on speeding up recovery effort and trying to get as many bodies back to shore as possible.
6:19 am
the first clear morning since the ferry went down and dive teams were hoping to make the most of the improved conditions and among them is a special forces veteran and one of south korea's divers and prepared for the grim, difficult task of pulling day's old bodies from the sunken wreck. >> right now they are wearing life jackets and it's hard to bring them out and we need a knife to cut the bodies out. >> reporter: aimed at getting the bodies and a familiar process for rescue crews and police of the dock side. each one brings with it a grief that is shared and deeply personal, i'm harry faucet in jindo. >> we will spoke to adrian brown and we have seen a steady stream of bodies being recovered from the ferry and bring us up to
6:20 am
date and is there any hope that somehow, somewhere there could be survivors left on that ferry? >> reporter: well, you know, you speak to some family members and you really realize there is a dilemma that is dividing the families at the moment. one group says we want the salvage operation to begin before the bodies start to decompose but other families say we don't want to risk moving the vessel in any way in case we injure somebody who still might be alive and there are people who hold out hope that a survivor could be in an air pocket somewhere but i have to say that is a long hope and this is a full on recovery operation and bodies have been brought ashore but not as many as yesterday but divers have been able to enter the restaurant area and they think that is possibly where some of the survivors might have been if indeed they are still alive. so that is the focus of the
6:21 am
operations at the moment. the other area where they think there might possibly be survivors or bodies is the games room but they have to move carefully as harry pointed out in the report and take the life jackets off and also you have to remember this is a crime scene and they have to be careful not to dislodge what might well be used as evidence. >> thanks very much indeed for that and we are updated from jindo there. now, al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of its journalists in prison in egypt and fahmy and may home and greste are falsely accused of providing a platform for the muslim brotherhood and behind days 114 days and the case adjourned until tuesday and al jazeera rejects the allegations against the staff and the fourth al jazeera journalist in detention has been held without trial since last august. he has been on hunger strike for
6:22 am
the last 91 days. and we sent a letter from prison describing feelings as he enters the 250th day in jail and writes i have a responsibility on my shoulders to complete documenting stories of people here as much as possible and to stay stead fast, the tales are from all egypt cities and all levels of society and everybody here talks about injection 'tis they suff -- injustice they sufd and thank you for coming in to speak with us and those words from your son, very brave words and how does it make you feel to hear those? >> and it makes me feel that what happened to my son and to other journalists of al jazeera is very bad and from this position i call western in
6:23 am
europe, america and now you want to give to the authority and how can you say the election and do this and this and the journalists in jail. >> you want the western powers including u.s. to do more about freeing them. >> yes, because now if they believe that the situation in egypt will change and journalists are in jail, it can't, who will watch the election and the many journalists in jail, who will watch it. >> your son's case is particularly troubling because he has been in jail without charge and without trial. what is happening to him? >> my son is more than 251 days without going to court.
6:24 am
and they cannot tell us what is the crime that he did and 90 days in full hunger strike. and they say what he did is not to him as abdullah but offender of all journalists or free the journalists so from this al jazeera english i call on free journalists, free human rights watch, free international organization to see this egyptian authority to make connection with them to the journalists. >> there has been a massive global campaign to try and put pressure on the egypt authorities and do you think
6:25 am
some countries should do more and the pressure will have an effect on the egyptian government? >> i think if they have to say to one to effect egyptian authorities he will do that. if international society respect the freeing of journalists and the media, they can do it with them. they should brace and do something to egyptian authorities to release the journalists in egypt. >> our thoughts are with your son and other journalist whose are in egypt prison and thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> now the boston marathon is scheduled to be run on monday. security is increased for the first race since last year's bomb attacks that killed three people and allen fisher reports.
6:26 am
>> reporter: the memorials from the boston marathon bombing are not hard to find, some dramatic and some simple and all emotion. images from one year ago are seered in the memory and two bombs went through the crowd as it was nearing an end and hundreds were mamed and injured and the city is not giving up for the event, a celebration of unity and recovery and attempt to banish the shadow of 2013. >> police along the marathon and twice as many as last year and 500 of them will be under cover and thousands of volunteers dealing with management and security and first aid, for a very traditional event this will be a very different boston marathon and more surveillance cameras this year too and more people watching for something unusual. >> the standard has been changed. there is no doubt that security around large events we are seeing more officers deployed,
6:27 am
more cameras, more command in control and more communications capabilities. i expect that will last for some period of time. >> reporter: the manhunt for the bombers lasted days and it's alleged two did it and one died in a shoot out and the other on trial for his life and experts who analyze the bombing on the days after say boston is a lesson for other places. >> you start with the way the event will work and operate and look like and then you add security. and you add the security in a way that doesn't disrupt the event as you wanted it to be. >> reporter: there will be around 36,000 runners this year, more than normal and many ran last year and many more wanted to be here for this. and she was the first woman to officially run the boston marathon and covered the event for local media for four decades and says what happened here changed events around the world. >> there is much more security
6:28 am
and it's annoying sometimes and go to the start and you have to have a clear plastic bag or throw your clothes away but we run to be free and fi fearless d that is what it takes and that is what we will do. >> it changed in a few moments and when runners crossed the finished line this year it won't just mark the end of the race but the end of what has been a difficult year, i'm with al jazeera in boston. >> clearly important day in boston and let's get the weather with richard and how is it looking for the runners, richard? >> the boston marathon is the combination of the spring marathon season for europe and for the united states of america. we have obviously seen the fine weather conditions we had in paris earlier on this month for their marathon and we can go forward the london marathon and what they have in common is sunny and what you want is nice cloudy skies and that is what we
6:29 am
had in manchester marathon around this month. and he is happy and he is in front and he had a qualifying time for the boston marathon and boston are what serious runners are interested in and it has a history and the oldest continuous marathon in the world. it started in 1897 and it's one of the world's six majors. so until we get in the autumn season and look at climax in with chicago and new york boston is the big one. at the moment weather conditions are looking fine and the time over there is maybe half past 6:00 in the morning and temperature is 3 degrees celsius and by the time the women start at 9:32 and men at 10:00 and it will stay sunny and finish at 11-12, great running conditions. >> more to come on the news hour including. >> called by the government
6:30 am
6:32 am
jazeera, the top stories and syria's parliament announced a date of presidential elections that will take place on june the third while syrians living outside is on may the 28th presidential candidates have a week to formally submit their applications. russia's foreign minister accused the ukraine government of violating thursday's geneva agreement and not containing violence in the east of the country and sergei fedorov said attempts to isolate russia will fail. the president of south korea compared the actions of captain and crew of the sunken ferry to an act of murder and four crew members have been arrested. 15 rebel fighters killed in a military operation in iraq providence and the three-day offensive targeted fighters from iraq known as the isil. the government is battling isil fighters for towns in enbar and
6:33 am
died and fa -- faloosia has been under attack and sealed off entrances. >> they are moving south to a province where they regroup to go back in and iraq says over the last three days they had an intelligence-led operation using helicopters and ground troops to kill 50 isil fighters in the province and they say these fighters were some of the more hard-core elements of the isil. however, this is just coming from the iraqi army and we have no other sources confirming this and it's being scorn over in parts of baghdad and certainly among opposition politicians who say this is an example of
6:34 am
sectarianism and no proof given and these fighters were indeed of the state of iraq. as we get closer to elections expect to hear announcements on operations like this and works well for the prime minuister wh said he will be tough on security and clearly security is one of the very big issues for the iraq campaign. >> a week until the parliamentary election and the first since withdraw of troops in 2011 and despite warnings that violence could effect the poll they agreed to go ahead with the april 30th vote. >> translator: all the political parties are in agreement that the election should happen at the time and date and weather religious, political, tribal or other. >> a court in kuwait suspended the publication of two newspapers for what is under mining, national interests and they published reports of what they say is a tape recording in
6:35 am
which a coup plot is discussed and an editor says they will contest the ban and continue to update the paper's website and they were ordered to stop discussing the subject. libya deny that he has been released and he is back in the capitol tripoli and kidnapped on tuesday but the congress says they expect him to be released shortly. >> translator: we confirmed information that he is well, in good health and safe place, conditions are known. and there are negotiations with them by mediators and in the next few days this matter will be resolved. >> over a week of fighting have forced more than 5,000 people from their homes and many sought shelter at a make-shift refugee camp in the northern state.
6:36 am
the u.n. has been providing them with emergency shelter and food. rebels are fighting for autonomy and the fighting appears to be under mining, attempts of a cease fire. >> translator: fighting was going on outside my villain -- villain i -- village, i do not dare to go back to the village now. >> and he died at the age of 85 and he was a close aid to opposition leader and challenged military rule and there is a national democracy and he spent 19 years in prison for activism and released in 2008 and had many freedom awards for his work. the latest barrel bomb attacks in the largest city killed at least 50 people according to opposition activists and this picture which cannot be
6:37 am
independently verified shows the aftermath in the neighborhood of aenvelope po and sierran forces are dropping bombs on rebel held areas in aleppo and a thousand killed and they are im precise weapons and cause extensive damage. 20,000 residents of a district of damascus are in danger of starving to death and that is the warning from the u.n. and the camp housing palestinian refugees is on the outskirts of the capitol and a key battleground in civil war and no food delivered there for 12 days and aid supplies have run out and people are already reportedly resorting to eating leaves and animal feed. the u.n. relief from work agency says it needs to deliver at least 700 food parcels per day at the camp and since the start of the year it has 100 packages
6:38 am
a day and in resent weeks it has worsened and no food has been able to get there and we have a spokesperson and says there is food waiting to be delivered but they need secure access to get it to the people. >> reporter: this is the zero hour and a food parcel lasts for ten days and it's over ten days and now we have zero and people are facing a serious threat of hunger and there is a very complicated situation on the ground and do not forget this is an unarmed humanitarian agency and one which unprecedently, certainly among other groups in this kind of work in this conflict we have had 12 members of staff and 12 colleagues has been killed delivering aid and it's a dangerous situation and it's ready and we have food in the warehouse in damascus and we can take it in and what we need
6:39 am
the is security and absta st sul access because people are going hungry with every passing minute and we want to see action and if they want to get chemical weapons and there is a resolution and they are being eliminated because hundreds were facing a threat from chemical weapons and it's thousands and tens of thousands facing threats because of lack of food and we need the camp and it's logical they should act and must live up to the hopes of the family fath father's with the u.n. that this sort of thing would not happen, succeeding generations would be safe from war to close the chapter and today that is what the people need. gambling is illegal in pakistan since 1947 but have not stopped book makers from thriving and at times even the police are complicite.
6:40 am
>> it's pakistan's favorite pass time and when there is a major cricket match they watch on big screens or anywhere else they can. and although it's illegal some people place bets in the hopes the national team will win big. >> translator: i was really confident pakistan would do well, but it's not looking so good, god willing i won't lose the $50 bet i made. >> there are hundreds of shops and book makers here and during big sporting events like this they rake in millions of dollars in i'llicit proceeds. we were given access to book makers out outside of a hotel room taking bets and when the match is over they will pack up and leave easily making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
6:41 am
gambling was outlawed when pakistan was petitioned in 1947 and 30 years later the laws were revised when parliament prevented the prevention of gambling act and the penalties are $10 fine and up to one year in prison. given the relatively lax punishment and poor enforcement illegal betting thrives and the police are accused of being involved in and protecting bookings and he says it's a problem. >> they are badly paid and find it difficult to make end meet and some get involved in illegal activities like this, not all but some. and when we learn of it we deal with them harshly. >> reporter: but clearly it's not enough to prevent illegal book makers like these from making big profits, i'm with al jazee jazeera. >> the rich fish stocks in the
6:42 am
waters are under threat from foreign trollers and that is according to the u.n. and little of the catch is processed locally and it's having a devastating impact on the local fishing industry. >> in the early morning heat and humidity the main fish market comes alive. it may be one of the poorest countries in the world but atlantic ocean off the coast is rich with fish. and they have just returned from four days at sea and says the biggest problem is government taxes. >> translator: we are so tired of this. i can't make any money with my work. we use so much effort but then we have so much expenditure and so many government taxes to pay. >> reporter: like many fish
6:43 am
fishermen he would like to export the fesh but there are no proper facilities here and cannot compete with foreign trollers so he has to make due with the local market. this is the biggest fish market here in here and people are trying to get best prices but it doesn't translate to much money at the end of the day. life has become harder since 2012 when the military staged a coup ahead of a presidential runo runoff. >> translator: the government has done nothing for us. we buy a lot of fish but sometimes we don't even get customers, many times we don't make our overhead costs. >> reporter: perhaps unknown to them is a bigger threat, the u.n. is concerned that unregulated fishing with foreign trollers will deplete fish stocks in the government territory waters.
6:44 am
>> greatest fish stock in the region because of mangroves but that is under threat with forest cutting, with i'll -- illegal fishing and some day they will not be able to fish in the tore tear waters. >> reporter: and he hopes the government can protect fishermen from what he calls unfair competition. more to come here on the program including how thailand is looking to the sun to power its demand for energy and in sport this golfer earned a million dollar pay day and that is all coming up, with andy.
6:45 am
>> our current system has gone very far awry... >> there's huge pressure on the police to arrest and find somebody guilty >> i think the system is going to fail a lot of other people. >> you convicted the wrong person >> i find that extraordinarily disappointing... >> to keep me from going to jail, i needed to cooperate. >> the evidence was inaccurate >> they still refuse the dna >> somebody can push you in a death chamber >> it's not a joke >> award winning producer and director joe berlinger exposes the truth. from the inside... >> a justice system rum by human beings, can run off the rails. >> some say there's justice for all, but they're not in the system.. >> it shouldn't be easy to just lock somebody up and throw away the key >> ...nightmarish alternative reality, sometimes you can't win... >> an original investigative series.
6:46 am
al jazeera america presents the system with joe beringer only on al jazeera america welcome back and tributes pouring in for american boxer who died on sunday at the age of 76 and he was a symbol of racial injustice for his wrongful murder conviction and 19 years in prison before having them overturned and we have more on the man known as the hurricane. >> in 1966 boxing was one of america's top sports and ruben was one of the best and grew up in new jersey and took up the sport serving in the army and proin 1961 and speed and power in the rink ring earning him
6:47 am
the name hurricane and all that changed in june of 1966 when carter and a friend john artist were arrested in new jersey charged with murdering three people in a bar, convicted by an all white jury on the basis of questionable testimony he proclaimed his innocence and demand for a new trial attracted supporters including bob dillan who wrote the song hurricane to draw attention to his plight. >> here comes the story of hurricane and the man who thought took the blame. >> what you are seeing is a person who has been raped of his freedom for 9 1/2 years. what you are seeing is a person who has become blind in the p penitentiary for lack of medical attention and what you are seeing is a person who has been without his wife and daughter fore 9 1/2 years for crimes that
6:48 am
he would not, did not commit. >> reporter: he won a second trial but convicted a second time and most celebrity supporters went away but he continued to fight to clear his name and eventually the cause was uncovering proof that the prosecution suppressed evidence. in 1985 after 19 years in prison a federal court cleared his name ruling carter and arrist had been convicted on racism and not reason and he moved to canada and spent his life to clear names of other wrongfully convicted men and women. >> for society to move forward sometimes we have to go back and cleanup those mistakes that keep appearing in prison. >> reporter: he wrote an article for new york daily news asking them to open a case of a man in prison since 1985, the
6:49 am
year carter set free and he was on his death bed and he says if i find a heaven after this livly be surprised and on my own years on the planet i lived in hell and in heaven for the past 28 years and he was 76. let's get the sport now and here is andy. >> the spurs looked to be taking their regular season from in the pl playoffs with the best regular season record and beat them 90-85 in game one of the series. in eastern conference playoffs miami heat and lebron james had 27 and 9 rebounds and adding 23 and miami winning 99-88. >> we started to get more into our groove at the end of the first quarter even though the score board did not translate but more competitive and more
6:50 am
thought to our offense and we were still coming up, empty but we were getting the type of shots we wanted, defense was better than the second quarter and a sustained effort other than the first part of the third quarter but i was better. >> the trail blazers beat the houston rockets and scored 46 points and it was 122-120 and chicago bulls losing to a lower ranked team beat by the washington wizards 102-93. and man chechester must win the title and liverpool by 9 points going into monday game and liverpool after 3-2 win over everton and everton 2-0 and more pressure on united manager da d
6:51 am
david. >> everybody knows we are on track to make changes and do some different things and the thought changed and rebuilding and will get to things we want to do but today there are things that are not good but some things were good. >> barcelona aa aa aaf -- avoi lost just about keeping them in the spanish title race and we report. >> three consecutive losses across three competitions and barcelo barcelona's last chance could not have slip ups but they had four to play for and not about to hold back. and messi had a 19th minute opportunity and the golf keeper frustrating them once again before the break and half time and visitors brought the
6:52 am
deadlock in the 50th minute. messi remained a shadow of the best and bars low -- barcelona was in the 77nd minute strike. and just two minutes later their title ambitions were back on track and messi the scorer from the dead goal. the 2-1 win easing the pressure on the club for another week at least. and in contention for the fourth and final champion league spot and gotting a goal against granada before going on for a 4-0 victory and i'm with al jazee jazeera. >> and they are 3 points behind 4 points and atletico is at the
6:53 am
top and madrid are a couple points behind but have a game in hand. the league is being decided with celebrating the fourth title win and is second behind porto and a 2-0 win claiming this trophy for a 3 third time. >> and reached the final of the cup and semi finals of the rupa league and could be more silverware on the way for them. in argentina striker showed he has plenty to offer, the 35-year-old here smashing in a win against teague and securing a 1-0 win. and matt had a victory at the rbc heritage event in south carolina and after leading most
6:54 am
of the final round he squandered his chance putting on the 17th and pulled a shot for birdie and had a 1-shot win and more than $1 million in prize money. >> hit the shot i wanted to and went out and took a good read and knew it would break right to left and played it right to the hole and heard the crowd go crazy when it disappeared and i went crazy myself, it was an incredible feeling. top seeded boston and the red wings and had 18 shots in the first period after managing 25 in the entire opening game which they lost and they won't 4-1, game 3 of the best in 7 series is set for detroit coming up, on tuesday night. and a tough day for tampa camp ton and briefly left the game after being hit on the head there and canada won 3-2 and
6:55 am
leaves the team 3 down in the series. and plenty more of course on our website and messi's goal for barcelona that keeps his hopes alive in spain the top story and al jazeera.com/sport and details how to get in touch with us on twitter and on facebook. okay. plenty more sport from me later on but that is harry for now. >> and thanks for that. and tie la and t and tie thailand spent years with solar energy and countries across asia are looking to follow thailand's lead and scott sent us this report from the city there. >> reporter: thailand is known for its plentiful sunshine and fuels tourism and feeds the industry but now thailand is on the path to become a global
6:56 am
leader in capturing the sun's strength to power the nation and with gas and cole there are clear good things for the environment and they reduce energy imports from the southeast asia neighbors. >> as thailand develops and grows and supports economy they are looking for reliable sources of energy they can control. i don't think there is any country in the region athat hasa 10th of that much power. so thailand is probably 20, 30 times ahead of competitors. >> reporter: for years thailand's government has been aggressively aggressive to expand solar polar and it's 2:00 for the 600,000 cells at the farm and do not push a huge amount of electricity in the grid, only enough for 70,000 homes but government and investors hope the concept, a mid size solar plant will help
6:57 am
decentralize the nation's power grid and means smaller communities can generate their own power. the cost of pb-solar cells is half after what it was just two years ago and the majority are manufactured in asia and adding to a rapid expansion and next year it will double but the next step to r the industry the government is thinking small. >> they want to see how to promote and adopt solar technology on a smaller scale so whether it's urban situation on top of rooftop or industrial park. >> reporter: meaning households and businesses installing their own solar cells giving the people of thailand having a district hand pushing for more energy independence, i'm with al jazeera in thailand. >> and that is it from the news hour for now, for me and all the team in doha good-bye for now
7:00 am
>> south korea's president calls a ferry captain's actions tantamount to murder, the captain and crew under arrest as victims are pulled from the boat. >> vice president joe biden shows support for ukraine after violence threatens an international deal to end the crisis. >> we have more police officers, more uniformed police officers, more plain clothes police
123 Views
IN COLLECTIONS
Al Jazeera America Television Archive The Chin Grimes TV News Archive Television Archive News Search ServiceUploaded by TV Archive on