turns its attention away, rangina said that she fears that it will only bring darker days for the land that her father loved and died for. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters, these are the stories we are following for you. india choosing a con vo trover shall leader. steelworkers in eastern ukraine fighting to retake their town from pro-russian forces. and a botched auto recall.

we begin with dancing in the streets of new delhi, 550 million people casting their ballots selecting the country's next prime minister. his name is narendra modi. ♪ >> reporter: a new political chapter in the world's largest democracy. welcomed with a loud bang and a burst of color. at the headquarterers in new delhi, victory celebration started early. party supporters gathered to celebrate the victory. >> translator: i'm so happy with the people, and i bow to you and i thank you for all of the love that you have shown me. sisters and brothers, i am thanking you from the bottom of

my heart. i respect and salute you. ♪ >> reporter: before the first results were announced the party held prayers in anticipation of a good performance, but most bjp supports viewed the final tally as a mere formality. they described the party's win as a new start for the country. >> translator: we used to look to the west for support and development, but now we're going to be the kind of country that people from other countries turn to for support. >> translator: we respect all religions. modi will take care of people from all states. he has done it before and he will do it again. >> reporter: in stark contrast the leading congress party's office was deserted. this result is the worst in the party's history. >> translator: we respect the decision that has been made.

but we also wish and we hope that in the future, whosoever government will be formed, they will do the best for the country. i will congratulate the new government. >> reporter: as the outcome of more than a month of polling became clear, a victory wall set up by the bjp filled up quickly. this the first in that a non-congress party has won a majority on its own. the bjp called on indians to vote for change. they have done just that. so who is modi? the answer to that question is as complex as it is compelling. erica wood takes a look at the man who will lead the world's largest democracy.

>> reporter: he is the son of a poor tea seller, something he reminded voters of time and time again. the humble background set him apart from his main rival, a rival from a wealthy political diynast dynasty. but has history is not without controversy, he is a self confessed hindu national list and has close connections to a right-wing group that is considered to be the bjp's idealogical mentor. but it's an alignment many indians are prepared to brush aside. >> the persona of a heard has become larger than the identity of the party. and the party is being identified by that man. so it's a kind of in not india, i think largely, it's a kiekd of

a modi wave. >> reporter: modi served as the chief minister of his state. he had many economic successes there, but some controversy too. at least a thousand people, mostly muslims were killed in riots in 2002. divisive too was his policy on fighting armed groups, and his announcement in april on how he would deal with illegal immigrants ehs specially those from bangladesh. >> translator: came may 16th you bangladeshies better be packing your bags and preparing to leave. >> reporter: but he has still been able to present himself as the common man. his voters are hoping he can

deliver on his election promises, and build a government free of corruption, despite his controversial past, it's his future indians are looking to. less clear whether washington will roll out the welcome mat for indian's new prime minister. as erica wood explained nine years ago modi was denied a visa to enter the u.s. >> no individual automatically qualifies for a u.s. visa. u.s. law exempts foreign officials including heads of state and heads of government from certain -- for certain potential inadmissibility grounds. trade negotiations between the u.s. and india will likely top modi's agenda. the nigerian president canceled his visit to the village where the 276 girls were

kidnapped. jonathan now is heading to paris attending an international security summit convened by the french president to discuss boko haram. and there has been a major about face from the u.s. state department concerning boko haram. the state department admitting it waited too long to put the group on its terrorist watch list. and now says rescuing those abducted girls is a top priority for the u.s. and kimberly reports, the u.s. says finding those girls is getting harder. >> reporter: at a hearing on capitol hill, senators reiterated the united states commitment to finding the more than 275 kidnapped schoolgirls. the u.s. says one of the biggest obstacles is not the abdoctors but the government.

>> it took too long for the government to accept assistance. >> reporter: the girls were abducted one month ago from their school. despite escalating attacks, u.s. firms claim the nigerian government has done little. >> a greater concern is the capacity of the government's failure to provide leadership to the military. they don't have the capabilities, training or equipment that boko haram does. >> reporter: u.s. officials are always troubled by consistent reports that the government's own military is equally guilty of gross human rights violations. >> during operations against boko haram have been widely documented and we cannot and do provide assistance when we have credible information that those units have committed gross violations of human rights.

>> the state must demonstrate to its citizens that they can protect them. when soldiers kill and detain innocent people, mistrust takes root. >> reporter: that mistrust is growing, with daily protests. there is fear in the u.s. that the wave of anger could spark sectarian violence. and the biggest threat to the schoolgirls may not be boko haram, but instead an incompetent nigerian government. in libya fierce fighting raging now between armed groups. the fighting is underway in the eastern city of benghazi. benghazi is that city where four americans including ambassador chris stephen were killed in 2012. nigeria has evacuated its ambassador after a threat.

a bomb went off in kenyan at a bus stop and at a crowded market. so far no one has claimed responsibility. in turkey, in ukraine, thousands of workers have retaken control of the city. steelworkers joining forces with police to push out the pro-russian forces. men in heard hats have been clearing ahold the barricades and cleaning up the debris. >> reporter: i'm outside the city administration building. the building quite clearly bares the scars of several occupations by separatists, but the separatists have now left the building, and now we have a group of about 100 locals that have come here because they are upset about a memorandum that has been signed.

they say they were never consulted. they didn't know anything about it news trickled through. and they are absolutely not happy with it. it comes as local steelworkers have organized their own patrols, civilian patrols. they are going around with police, trying to keep peace in the area. these patrols were being urged to take part to create a sense of piece in the city. the separatists have left many of the buildings in the region. it appears mostly calm now. the real issue now is calming the locals who say they are not being talked to in this entire process. meanwhile in turkey the effort to rescue those trapped coal miners continues. the death toll now 284. officials say 18 people are still trapped more than a mile underground.

363 people have been evacuated. and tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of that country. evacuation orders are being lifted in southern california even though some wildfires continue to burn there. firefighters putting out some of the nine fires that broke out on tuesday. those flames consuming 15 square miles in san diego county. they may have also claimed a life. firefighters say they found a badly burned body outside of carlsbad late yesterday. 13 people died because of those faulty switches in chevy cobalts, now gm has benefit with a $35 million fine for the botched recall. bisi onile-ere is live in detroit, and bisi the size of the settlement already being

criticized. so will losing $35 million affect the way that gm does business? >> well, del, just to put it into perspective, the fine is less than a day's revenue for the auto maker. the transportation department said point blank that had they acted sooner, lives could have been saved. the payout is now owed to the government. it's a record payout, and the maximum penalty under the law. general motor's troubles began earlier this year, when it waited more than a decade to report problems with its ignition switch in millions of its vehicles. it's a defecting that is being linked to over a dozen death. general motors was found to be very well aware of the risk but

did nothing about it. >> these penalty should put all auto makers on notice that there is no excuse, and zero tolerance for failing to northfy the federal government when a defect puts safety at risk. >> reporter: the ceo released this statement saying . . . now as part of the settlement, general motors has always agreed to make internal changes to improve their safety. and gm is still under investigation by two congressional committees as well as the justice department and the auto maker could face criminal charges. >> bisi thank you very much. it has been 60 years now since the supreme court decision that brought about an end to

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only on al jazeera america ♪ tomorrow marks a milestone in u.s. history. it is the anniversary of the landmark 1954 court decision, brown versus the board of education of topeka. on that day 60 years ago, the supreme court ended segregation in u.s. schools. classrooms across the country were being integrated. today's schools across the country are actually being less integrated. a study finding that some black students in the northeast are once again attending schools that are all black. the situation is the same for hispanics. but that's not the case in washington state. there is a school system that reflects the world, and as sabrina register explains.

it's complicated. >> reporter: foster high looks like most schools across the u.s. students arrive by bus, skateboard, or on foot. getting in a quick chat with friends before the bell rings. but there is a difference. the 3,000 students in this district speak 80 different languages and dialects. there is no pork served in the lunchrooms to accommodate the many muslim students. >> my best friend is half filipino, half white. i have friends from nepal, people from somalia, ethiopia, everywhere. >> reporter: the diversity is one of the reasons connor says he wanted to attend foster high. it is following one national trend. 25% of the students in the district are hispanic, but only 15% are white. far fewer than the rest of the

country. and the greatest difference, asian pacific eye landers make up a third of the population here. one reason it is attracting immigrants and others is affordable housing. this boy came here four years ago from a refugee camp in nepal. >> i was never out of the refugee camp before. and when i came to foster i saw a lot of people from all over the world, people i never knew about. countries that i never knew about, and i was really nervous at the first time. >> reporter: school staff say there is little friction to be found among the students, but having so many different cultures in one district does come with challenges. >> over the past three years we have built and trained an interpreter pool. >> reporter: here there are not only linguistic barriers but

cultural barriers to overcome. the district has community liaisons who make home visits and plan school events. the extra services cost more which the district pays for through a combination of state funding, federal funding, and grants. but not knowing what populations will enroll in the future forces teachers to change their thinking. >> you have to be willing to change and grow. >> reporter: the origin eventually fades into the landscape. >> it didn't matter what language you speak, or where you came from. >> reporter: and in this, the most culturally diverse district in the country, they could be from anywhere. the other story everybody is focusing on right now is your weekend weather forecast and for that we turn to dave warren.

good morning. >> yeah, some areas need a lot of rain, others need the rain to move out. first off the fires in california. there is that wind blowing offshore, the santa ana winds that really brought in the dry air and kicked up the temperature. we have cooler weather coming in today just slightly. much cooler weather expected this weekend. the wind direction changes, but it's dry. no raining come in and no rain predicted. almost up to 90 in southern california. low-pressure is moving in. it was the high-pressure that caused that wind to blow offshore but now the change. there is the cooler air approaching from the north. the wind coming onshore, and now you are getting a marine layer developing. but that's the change in wind

direction, and the cooler air coming in, so that is the one thing that will be changing, no rain predicted. here is some light rain coming in in the pacific northwest but still dry. a lot of rain coming down all at once as this line pushes through, but here is the back edge, it is already moving through d.c. and parts of virginia. still the heavy rain will cause flash flooding and continue to move through the northeast over the next 24 hours. rain could come down, one or two inches in a short period of time. so flooding could occur quickly. we are getting a tidal flooding with that south wind, and here is the rain increasing with the river flooding. you can see the potomac does climb above this stage by this weekend. that will be a problem throughout the weekend.

but the heavy rain for now will be clearing out in the next few hours. well, there are new charges facing aaron hernandez. he is already in jail on murder charges. but the boston da has added two additional charges of first degree murder. a boston tv station says the entire dispute started over a spilled drink. and donald sterling sent the league a letter say he won't pay the fine and rejects his lifetime ban and threatens the nba with a lawsuit if the punishment isn't rescinded. the league's 29 other owners have taken the first steps to force him to sell his franchise. he has owned the clippers now for 33 years.

and a florida hospital has given a second patient in the u.s. to contract the mers virus. all workers have also tested negative. the patient spent 12 hours in the hospital's emergency room before moving to isolation. worldwide there have been 600 confirmed cases of merss, 117 people have died. i received enough apparently to vaccinate 100 million people, which was alarming. >> saving a life by using one deadly disease to defeat another. ♪

welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. these are your headlines at this hour. in india, opposition candidate, modi has been elected as the next prime minister.

india is the world's largest democracy. ukrainian steelworkers joining forces with police to push out pro-russian forces. general motors is being fined for its handling of the chevy cobalt recall. they received a $35 million penalty today. faulty ignition switches have now been linked to 13 deaths. a massive vaccine of the measles virus may have cured a woman of cancer. >> reporter: stacey has gone from hopeless to history maker. for ten years she endured a cancer often called incurable. now her case has doctors using words like cure.

>> we recently have begun to think about the idea of a single shot cure for cancer. and that's our goal. >> reporter: she has tried nearly every applicable chemotherapy drug, nothing worked. and then this doctor tried a bold expeer meant. he injected here with a massive dose of the measles vaccine. >> i received enough to vaccinate a hundred million people which was alarming and i was happy to hear that after the fact. >> in this case the mayo doctor say the measles virus binds cancer cells together and kills them. >> certainly it got people's attention and a lot of people are talking about it. what we have to bear in mind is

that these data are very early, a single patient. we don't have enough details on what other treatment the patient had. what we are seeing really is the headline, and the devil is in the details. >> reporter: one thing is concern, doctors have confirmed that stacey is now cancer free. for her that is historic enough. john hen dren al jazeera. >> and finally a pioneer in broadcasting signed off today. barbara walters signed off today. ending a five decade long career. she and yes, she did ask the head of state once if he were a tree what type of tree would he want to be? and yes, my mother's name is barbara, but no, we are not related and good-bye. and we want to thank you for

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