continues to beat its own ridership records. so happy birthday to amtrak. that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, sayonara. rocked by a latests yeah explosion. crisis in ukraine, russia's grip now tied with the east, and the nato leader now calls the emelin an enemy. >> may day demands angry crowds across the globe, choose today to take to the streets. from the ashes how a crack down on the taliban is creating new opportunities

for young pakistanis. and the silk solution, new medical possibilities using web fighters fibers from spiders and goats. >> . >> we begin with ex-treatment violence late today, at least dozen people killed in an explosion just outside the capitol. witnesses say a car bomb went off near the check point. no one has claimed responsibility but the armed group has targeted the city before in it's fight against western influence, a rough francelation means western education is forbidden. tonight's attacks come two weeks after suspected boca gunman kidnapped 200 nigerian school girls. >> what we know speaking to

the authorities is that there was a vehicle that was apparently layden with explosives that went off not far from a check point that was been manned by military, and police. they have been on high alert, because just over two weeks ago there was a blast in the same area that killed 75 people. we have also managed to make contact with resident who is have been in touch with, who basically say the entire year has now been quartered off by the authority. two emergency workers are on the scene trying to recover people who have been injured by the blast. and we also know speaking to locals in the area, that they have also been ask sod stay indoors while the misconduct stop and search in the area, to try to discover who may have been behind this blast. it does look like the group. of boko haram. and they have claimed

responsibility for similar attacks in the past, we know speaking to the authorities there will be a full investigation and how this could have happened given the fact that this was a heavily fort fied area. >> reporting now, we will have more on the violence, the country's minister talled to al jazeera about the effort to find the kidnapped school girls. that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. moscow and kiev, celebrated may day with parades and displayed of national pride, all of it because of the crisis in ukraine. >> tens of thousands of russians marched in time square, like nothing seen since the soviet era. >> in kiev, as ukrainians were displaying their patriotism, the military called the a military draft. but today, may day celebrations turned violent, ukraine's president said the region is now out of control, and admitted that it was nearly lost.

we go right to denesk, and barn by phillips reports. >> yet again, ukraine's police were overwhelmed. they were trying to protect the prosecutors office, and for a short period, they kept the pro russian crowd at bay. but they soon retreated under a garage of missiles. >> they sheltered in a car park at the back of the building this is them, cowering under their shields. the protestors move in, grabbing shields and helmets from the policeman, the police are led away, one by one. the chance of fascists and shame. they are terrified. the police armor vehicle approached, and then retreated. as the crowd threatened to attack it. by now the crowd has taken over the building they storm the prosecutors office, because they say it

supports the gov in kiev which they do not recognize. >> and so the photographs of government officials go up in smoke, the police are nowhere to be seen, and the protestors are firmly in control of another building. this is one more example, of how the authority is collapsing in eastern ukraine. we caught 12 protestors. wearing their newly seized gear, do they have any intention of giving it back? >> if they don't then they will keep it. and the pro russian march have started peacefully, they are in high spirits. plus many supporters of a united ukraine are now too afraid to take to the mistakes. we bump into the mayor, elected before the crisis, harangued by all sides. cautious, about what should happen next.

the referendum should take place. the official commission, we hope this is the decision that she will make. in early may, they say they won't wait any longer and they will see that nothing will stop them. >> know prow rug protestors got another boost of confidence today. >> the draft can boost that to 1 million troops. about 40,000 are now stationed at ukraine's border and moscow is taking every opportunity to show it's strength.

reports from red square. of course may day is an annual event here, but this time it's different. and that's because for the first time since 1991, the year that the soviet union finally fell apart, the mayor of moscow has allowed people to come here and rally in red square. where members of the bureau, the place from vladimir lennon lies but it is a return to huge displays of patriotism and nationalism. now this comes against a back drop of events in ukraine, where russia stands accused by the west of permenting separatist violence, that's something that people here are very conscious of. >> what the west is doing is very silly. there's no need to go to

war with russia. >> i don't know about them, but crimea is historically russian of p i think reclaiming it was the just thing to do. >> i am for it. and very happy about it. these are all members of a labor movement, here in russia. and, of course, may day remains basically a celebration of workers. but these celebrations are much larger than normal, and they are a chance for people to show their pride in being russian. now nato issued a warning today, that nato officials said russia must be viewed as more of an enemy not a partner, nato is strengthening it's presence, and it has recommitted to russia's border, u.s. officials held

war games and the baltic a few weeks ago, and the obama administration is said to be considering deployments to apology land. ambassador, welcome. >> i just want to ask you about this new senior memberring say that the united states nato should treat russia as more of an enemy than a partner, is that the right approach? >> i think it was a mischosen word, maybe enemy is not the exact word. but what he was referring to is that for the past 15 plus years really since 97, we have looked at russia as a partner that nato create add permanent council. we have an agreement with russia. respect for territorial integrity, respect for sovereignty, and all the things that russia has done in the past few months have violated all of those

principles so that idea of seeing russia as a partner is now not something you can do any more. >> unsettled pictures today. when you heard about talks in geneva, did you ever imagine, and this was just a few weeks ago, did you ever imagine this would escalate to the current point? >> absolutely, i did. >> really. >> . >> i thought the talks were a charade. while it is permenting on the ground. putin does not have any serious pressure. they are organizing local militias he has tens of thousands of troops on the russian side, and he is going to continue to try to break up ukraine, grab these territories and exit to russia.

and also close to rug president vladimir putin, talked to him today, how important is angle merkel in this process? >> she is critical to any european response. there needs to be a transatlantic, response, and in fact, i would argue proactive steps not even just responding but on the european side of the relationship, germany is the key player. let me talk a little bit about the state department told us earlier this week, that there in juneson with the e.u., but you know, there are real erequests about whether or not germany and the united states and the e.u. are all together on this, what do you think. >> right. >> i think you have to look at it in difference pieces. in terms of the analysis, this is clear russian aggression against a neighbor, intervening militarily, we have exactly the same analysis. the difference is begin to come up is what do you do

about it. the quite is willing to go down the road of very tough sanctions against them in order to create some pain on the russian economy. and putin directly to get him to want to change the policies. >> what else -- >> go ahead. >> with the union is not so sure about putting in place the tough sanctions. they feel a plow back because of the relationships and we tried to stay together, meaning that the combined package is less than it should have been. >> so if the e. u. won't go for it, what else and president obama do? >> i think they do have to keep pushing for tougher sanctions. our common line has been if they persist they will be there, but they are persisting. so we have to get out in front, and i think a lot of leadership is necessary to help convince the europeans that now is the time. i would add, that there does need to be uncertainty in putin's mind about what kind of response we would make. thus far, all of the steps you mentioned, the bat

execution procedures air policing the exercises in poland, these are all aimed at reassuring existing members are we have a treaty obligation to defend them. what that does is tell russia on the other side of that, where there's not a treaty member, like ukraine, like georgia, russia as a free hand. kirk, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> fens of thousands of people took part around the world today. in turkey, eases stainable clashed with antigovernment protestors.

more than 1100 people were killed in that disaster, the protestors dend maaing improved safety standards. may day was marked another way in another u.s. is city today. seattle's mayor says he wanted to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. and food 90ly after the months after months they came forward. which has irritated some people that have been pushing very hard for reform of minimum wage laws here in the city. but it isn't an increase in the minimum wage. that would take that minimum to $15 an hour, in three years, for big companies that's companies with 500 or more employees in as long as seven years in smaller companies. so it isn't exactly $15

right now, let's get it done. the mayor called it a difficult political compromise and a victory today. but the loudest voice in the 15 now chorus said no way. low beige workers will get a $15 raise. one of the great issues of our time.

>> and allen, what about the may day rallies this year. >> . yeah, we have is one going on in the park just behind me, john, a figure about 1,000 to 1500 people there, these have been real problems in the past, we have seen a lot of confrontation with police. we have seen vandalism, arrest, they tend to spiral out of control. when we get a serious anarchist element mixed in, so far we have heard of no issues nothing serious at all. we do have two different events planned. for later on today. police will be keeping a very close eye on that, and there is a huge concentrated police presence in downtown seattle right now. >> all right, allen, thank you. u.s. military is seeing sudden increase in reports of sex is wall assaults. the pentagon says they were up 50% last year.

>> to actually prosecute these allegations. now, out of the more than 5,000 complaints that were filed, just 838 people found themselves going before a counter marshal, to answer for the charges, and about 140 people found themselves administratively punished or discharged from the military. that might seem like a small number of cases, but the military says that it has to follow military justice rules. some of the cases that were brought happened before the alleged victims came into the military, and in other

cases they are just wasn't enough evidence to substantiate trying to actually prosecute the alleged perpetrators. that said, the pentagon is unveiling a new effort to try to get even more people to come forward, as well as to try to get everybody who is in uniform to take responsibility for the problem with sexual assault is. the defense secretary said that it's not enough to wear the uniform, but rather you have to uphold the values of the u.s. military as welt. >> as rosalyn jordan reporting. a revealing report tonight about sexual assault on college campuses. according to the justice department study, one out of five women have been sexually assaulted while at college. you can find a list of schools named in the record. up next, the confrontation, an israeli soldier

videotaped pointing a gun at palestinian teenagers the day-to-day challenges facing teenagers like these. >> and broken promises a landfill in their backyards, what is supposed to be removed instead it's growing bigger and smellier every day.

government war climbed attacks a busy area, more thank 30 civilians were

killed dozens more injuries. following develops in syria from neighboring bare route. >> it's a popular market area, a residential area, two buildings were destroyed and many shops were set on fire. it comes one day after a similar attack by the government war plane, that fired a missle into a different neighborhood in eastern aleppo, over there, the missle hit children's school, and ten children were killed as well as eight more adults. it seems that the government is intensifying it's campaign to try to regain more control, over more areas in the city of aleppo, ahead of presidential elections set for june 3rd. back to you, john. >> a controversial announcement today from israeli prime minister.

he said the law would legally anchor steal as the nation's state of the jewish people. reaction from israel's palestinian community was swift. one arab lawmaker said the proposed law is racist in nature, about 20% of israel's population is palestinian. video of israeli soldier aiming a gun at palestinian teenagers is going viral. it was posted on youtube, by a palestinian activist group. >> the soldier was reassigned after the video was posted.

troops are praising the actions saying he showed restraint after being taunted by the teens. palestinians say that confrontation is not isolated. >> starts his day with the same worries as any 15-year-old. he has to fix his hair just right. has to deal with a pesky little sister. he has to remember all his books. >> science, english. >> and perhaps most importantly, he has to say goodbye to his mother, before he starts his walk. but that is where the similarities end. ahmed lives on the outskirts of the west bank a largest city, it is 99% palestinian, but israelis control security, so every morning he passes israeli

soldiers who allow to question and even detain him. it has happened before. the same check point he just went through. they have really settled the tension sween the israelis here is always high. >> and for 20 years it has been divided. >> walked into a mosque just a few blocks from here, and massacres 29

palestinians, the israeli military then divided the israelis from the palestinians, not by restricting the settlers but by restricting the palestinians and creating this giant ghost town as a buffer zone whether all the palestine january shocks had to close. >> on this strict, israeli soldiers patrol and local palestinians are only arrowed to walk up to a certain point. you have been arrested three times. >> you ever talk to them? >> no, never. >> .

>> and after all the check points and all the tension, ahmed arrives at his destination, this is his daily walk to school. al jazeera. >> now to iraq, it could be several weeks be ever the final iraq election results are in. is reporting 60% turn off, the prime minister called it a slap in the face of those threatening to disrupt voting. 14 iraqis were killed after voting got underway, top nye korean officials talks about his countries efforts to find dozens of kidnap school girls. and strong as steel, and flexible too, talk live to tex know phil tor press about the magic of silk.

jazeera america, much more to come this half hour.

the threat of genocide secretary of state kerry arrived from talks aimed at ending the brutal violence in south sudan. a brighter future of children whose schools were destroyed by the taliban, are now able to return to class. toronto's mayor entered rehab after new videos surface. with home made bombs and stones. and may day celebrations turn vie rent. ukraine's him tear president announced that the east was out of control. the pentagon says reports of sexual assault in the military rose 50% in 2013. the defense department said the spike is because if military is taking steps to encouraging victims to report abuse. defense secretary said authorities suspect is the problem is still under

reported. nigeria has been rocked by an explosion, at least a dozen people were killed outside the capitol, a car bomb went off near a police check point, it was close to the same location as the blast two weeks ago that killed 70 people, so far no one has claimed responsibility, but the armed group has threatened new attacks. that is the same group suspected of kid p thatting 200 girls two weeks ago. on the ground in the capitol. >> these protestors are demanding that the government rescue at least 190 girls from a school in north eastern nigeria. they are four rouse at the government's response to the kidnapping. there's been confusion, over the number of girls abducted and miss information about the efforts to find them. the government admits it is

still not sure exactly how many girls were abducted. but says it is doing everything it can to rescue them. the armed group bo ca raton is believed to be behind the kid p thatting. >> there are conflicting rothers consigning the number i thought the government has concerned more about getting these girls out of their place where they have been hidden by this sect members rather than indulge in the game of trying to cut numbers, that is appearing to be coming from very many sources. >> this response is likely to make the parents and relatives of the girls more angry. local human rights grouped say some of the girls may already have been sold off, and forced to mary the fighters. the government is adamant lit find them and crush boko haram.

two armed group is responsible for recent attacks. that killed 75 people, just a few days before the girls were abducted in the north. >> what would have happened for the government has not inter screened and checks into the exploits of these back members. and also, reflect on the possibility that there is collision of the situation. will keep protesting until the girls are found. >> the nigerian military won't give us any details on what it is doing to find the missing girls for security reasons, but they say an operation is

underway to try to get them back as soon as possible. the families say time is running out. >> talks begun in ethiopia between the government and rebels part of a fresh effort to end the civil war. secretary state john kerry is there as well, brokering an agreement to send peace keepers to south sudan, thousands have died in an on going epic violent confrontation, and more than a million people have been left homeless. >> there are very disstubbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic tribal targeted nationalistic kill agos taking place, that raise serious questions and were they to continue, in the way that they have been going, could really present a very serious challenge.

to the international community with the issue of again side. >> joey chen standing by to tell us what is going on in america tonight at the top of the hour, joey. >> good etching, tonight on our program, we continue our series dirty power, the nuclear option and a new view from unlikely allies. battling it out are opponents and converts. those who have is gone from now nuke to pro nuclear energy, even some top environmentalists are now among their ranks. despite some early worry these activists say there is plenty of evidence there is no reason to fear nuclear. >> many of us have fought for some time to have nuclear acknowledged as a green source of energy. it is a very environmentally benign source of electricity generation. >> correspondent wrapped up our dirty power series with

a look at what is new nukes coming up the top of the hour, we will see you then. >> all inmates are accounted for, after last night's appearance gas explosion, the blast partially leveled the county central booking facility, two inmates were killed, more than 150 injured were treated and released. officials are looking into whether the explosion was related to yesterday's severe flooding. studying spiders may sound scary, but scientists are doing just that, trying to ice lite and recreate the spider's silk gene, they say the potential for such light resell yep fineser endless. >> they are nature's most masterful architects. genius at structural design. their silk, though just a fraction of the size of a human hair, is stronger than steel and more powerful than kevlar. >> you have called spider silk the ancient bio material for the future. what do you mean by that?

>> spiders have been around for roughly 600 million years. so what can you use your spider silk for? >> one area we focus a lot on is medical products. people are looking at it for car tires bike tires they are looking at it for air bags. >> so how do you get from a single strand to a world wide web of synthetic silk. five good place to start at at the spider lan of the university of california at river side, where they are isolating the black widow silk gene. >> we are like natural historians of the spider, and we are trying to figure out exactly the blueprints for making that. what is amazing is you have this transformation from liquid inside the spider's body and when it is outside the spider's body it is instantly a solid fiber. >> we are going to set up the manual silking. >> yes, this is a person black widow. >> first we stun the spider with carbon dioxide and

then ever so gently taper down. >> so this will go right across. >> a little the top part of the hour glass. >> now we are ready for silking. >> so joining us now is tex know contributor, and phil, i know you love spiders. >> i do. >> what was it like to extract the silling from a spider? >> i have worked with plenty of spiders but i have never actually taken the silk out by hand. it was fascinated. what we were targeted is called the drag line silk. it is the strongest silk that a spider can make, and it is the one that scientists have been eyeing to make something special with. >> how long is the black widow stunned? is. >> we had a good three or four minutes for me to strap it all down and make sure the tape was in place before it woke up. >> you wouldn't want the black widow to wake up. >> you would not. that is try. >> once they isolated the silk so what's next? >> the big issue with this spider stilling is that you can't harvest enough of it from spiders themselves. so what they have been

doing is making artificial spider silling and is the way they do it is through some very impressive science, they take a spider gene, and they put it into something like a goat, or a plant, or bacteria, and those animals from able to make enough for potential commercial use. >> what is it going to be used for? >> medical industry is the big one that people are looking at. already they are prototypes for artificial cartilage, sutures all sorts of things not to mention things like tires bullet proof vests any industry you can think of, probably a use for spider silk. >> 24 sounds like a fascinating story, you have something else to tell us about, a segment on designer produce. >> yes, we do. it is looking at monsanto, they have had p.r. issues what they are doing is taking their genetic knowledge and applying that to traditional breeding. what they are coming up is tasty and healthy vegetables that will be in your grocery store soon. >> phil torres, thank you

very much, and for more on the science, be sure is to tune in for the latest episode of techno. catch 30 optime 4:30 pacific time, a new take on not my backyard, people who bout their homes in india a decade ago, were promised the garbage dump next door would go. but it is still there. it is a daily score, collect toronto city council trash, to be taken to a landfill, but like most cities it is a process that's still doesn't keep the area clean. leaving many garbage piles like this, a common site in neighborhoods. for people living here, it has become a health hazard. >> the essential is very powerful. >> these residents say when their homes were built in 2004, they were assured this landfill one of three

in mumbai would move. but instead, it's been growing by about 2500 metric ton as day. one third of mumbai's daily waste. people here refuse to leave, saying the location is ideal, the garbage makes it difficult. >> it smells even worse than it looks. even a slight breeze pushes the stench across this whole area. lesses living next to the dump this isn't even the worse of it. >> scrap pickers burn garbage looking for metals adding to the health problems people here face. >> the brockty is very very dense, it becomes very difficult to breathe. >> some say the solution is ending the landfill system. sr using natural bacteria found in mammal stomachs to break down garbage and recycle the waste into usable come posts. operating in 43 sites across india, he says his methods aren't become used

here because of the costs involved something he says is short sited when compares to future costs. >> so it is a lewis lewis situation, rather than a win win sitwigs. >> the city says the problem is they are stuck in a 25 year contract with private companies to clean up the landfill in a similar manner. but just three years into the contract officials are doubting the private companies capabilities. >> there is deficiency on that aspect. the capability to get this technology and the capabilities to run them. >> mallian residents say the contract should be cancel sod that a bet err solution can go forward. but that won't happen any time soon, leaving people here feeling as if the city's garbage problem is being dumped on them.

al jazeera, mumbai. >> and coming up next, back to class, the massive effort to rebuild hundreds of schools destroyed by the taliban. and rob ford's new crisis as troubling new images service.

showers in florida.eing two the next story what is happening down here in california. now today, the temperatures in santa anna get up to 98 degrees, that broke an all time record for this date. the previous record was 85, we are looking at low humidity, coupled with that that means with have very high fire net for the region. so red flag warnings are in effect, so we will be seeing this for the next day or so, temperatures tomorrow in los angeles we

do expect to see a high of 94-degrees so is we will be watching this very very carefully, and also up towards san francisco a little bit of a break, you were warmer now down to about 71-degrees so 94 in los angeles but watch what happened here in the steal planes from saturday into saturday, and also into sunday, notice this area, p we expect to see temperatures into the low 90's in that area, some of the highest temperatures this weekend,s that a look at your national weather, the news with john is coming up right after this. >>

pakistan has been on the front line in the fight for education, after decades of battling some communities are now turning the resouthers to rebuilding schools and opening their classroom doors to everyone. reports from the swat valley, in northern pakistan. this footage, captures the moment that the taliban

bomb blew up a school in the valley. during the two years the armed group ruled the northern region, it destroyed more than 400 schools many of them for girls. the reason the group said at the time was similar, the primary and secondary incity fusions were providing education that was too western and nonislamic. today the situation is very different, more than 350 schools have been reconstructed with the help of foreign governments and international aid agencies. she says she is happy to be back in the classroom. >> when the taliban was in control, they made us so afraid, i didn't go to school for two years. now they are gone, and we can get an education without fear. >> but the taliban isn't entirely gone from the valley, and it hasn't

stopped targeted girls who want to learn. last october, education activists was shot in the head on her way home from school, in the main town. the armed group said it attacks her because she was anti-taliban and secular. there are other obstacles preventing all children in the valley from getting an education, although most of the schools have been rebuilt, there still isn't enough room for all students. >> frankly, we need more schools and morel chews. there are so many students we just can't cope with the demand. >> it is clear many here are determined to learn, and although the threats of violence is very real, the facts so many young people come to classes is a sign of just how much has changed in the valley, since the end of taliban rule.

elana was born in pakistan, she focused on advocate. elana, welcome. >> thank you. >> hi. >> you work with a lot of the children and communities in pack span, are families scared to send their children to school especially girls? >> i say they are in some areas probably in the northwest frontier and some of the villages in the swat valley where the taliban are still quite prominent. they are scared. the taliban is insisting that their education is against -- islamic religion. and a lot of these parents are even ill lit rate and they carry on believing that concept. so they do whatever they can to try to stop the kids from going to school. is the afghanistan military doing enough to protect the schools as well as the pakistani military? >> because they are

targeting schools i think what they are fearing is children who become educated and then literate enough to know that tall ban's concept of education is correct, and of course imlamb promotes education. is she views a a hero. >> she is by many, but unfortunately there have been certain groups some lobbying groups that have portrayed her to be puppet of the u.s. is. her book was banned by the government in pakistan itself, you couldn't obtain a copy, unless you ordered it from abroad, but i think a lot of the girls look up to her, and use her as an icon, and want to go to school and see her as an inspiration. >> so when we look at pakistan, we look at the country, is this a small

section or small segment of the population that's effected bly this when it comes to education, or is it much larger? >> if you look to the north, where the northwest are funded, the swat valley province, you will see no many girls in education. more so i would say the government needs to install a lot more institutions and a lot more schools for girls. there are just simply not enough buildings to house girls education. at the same time, i think the culture in the north is very different, where a lot of the parents in the south may promote education, for the girls to go to school brass in the north they prefor for them to stay at home. >> so it is a cultural bias, against girls against women, that impacts the education system, so how does that change? is it going to help -- is outside help going to change.

i think international groups are doing fantastic work. for girls education, promoting girls education, but the problem lies within the tribal culture, which is in the north, which is restricting girls from even leaving the house, or staying at home, and doing innings that they think are appropriate for women. such as cooking looking at their sibling to education isn't promoted enough, and i think the government needs to step up and have some sort of incentive to promote girls education in the north regions. thank you for sharing your story, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> in the u.s. the national teacher of the year gets an an from the president.

he teaches in bat moore, his work preparing students for college led to 98 college admissions in the past two graduating classes. the real action campaign of toronto mayor is on hold tonight. he is suspect ised of abusing alcohol and drugs, again. screen grabs from a video seen by journalists who say it chose the mayor smoking something in a pipe. the self-is professed drug deal claims it was crack cocaine. a step lucked by his older brother. >> i encouraged, my brother to take this time for himself. and for the sake of his family. many people believe they

can handle any problem by themselves. >> nobody is going to cover me. >> but ford is also in trouble for offensive remarks about women, ethnic groups and gay people, made on an audio tape obtained by another local newspaper. >> he denied it until last november, and then this stunning revelation. >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. am i an addict, no. >> after that he promised to clean up his act, give up drinks and lose weight. not long after that, more reports of him making offensive comments. experts say that's classic addicteddive behavior, and the mayor needs to consider stepping away from the public eye for a long time. he managing to keep things together for a short period, i wouldn't be surprised if things don't change, that it will happen again.

>> toronto city council stripped the mayor of most of his powers and he has been largely a figure head since then. is this' been an active police investigation, it is fair to say he has survived scandals that would have destroyed other politicians so are the latest evidence end his career? >> if he does want to make a come back, there's enough time, i doubt, how that his ability to change the damage that has been caused by this most recent, i think most damaging set of events is something he can recover from. >> as the major starts rehabilitation, many here are hoping attention will now focus on the october election, on policies and challenging facing the city, and not the antics and addictions of one of the contenders.

who is fighting for military vets and their families over clean air and water at the u.s. supreme court. plus the dangers of edible marijuana, and what is being cone so stop nose that consume the drug from becoming victims. tonight's freeze frame is out of spain, yeah it is may day today. and this may day rally did not stop these fourists from snapping a selfie of demonstrators burning a crash container. headlines coming up right after this.

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activists with the syrian observe is story for human rights say government forces dropped three crude barrel bombs. nearly two dozen were killed in an air strike on a school in aleppo yesterday. the attacks have increase nearby dams to the past two weeks. ahead of the june 3rd presidential elections. reports of sexual assault in the military rose sharply last year, up 50%, the pent gone assured the increase the a vigorous campaign that motivates victims to report abuse. the blast partially -- two inmates were killed most of the 150 injuries were treat shown the divisions releases. officials are looking into whether the edge motion was related to yesterday's severe flooding. seattle's mayor says he wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. the pay hike would be faced in over the next seven

years. that's the news at this hour, joey chen is next with america tonight, remember, you can always get the latest on aljazeera.com, and i will see you back here at 11:00 eastern tonight. on american tonight, extreme, or routine? >> we have been through tropical storms and hurricanes, like ivan and dennis back to back, and we still did not have is this much water. >> wind, water, and what is left. after days of stormy weather batter the eastern half of the country.