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>> girls are not sexually attracted to me. there is a major problem with that. a major problem. >> that's a problem that i intend to rectify. [chuckles.] >> those eerie words from the suspect of the deadly rampage in california. near the university of california in santa barbara. witnesses say some random shots were fired by the driver of a bmw. a lawyer says that roger's family actually called the police just a few weeks ago when his youtube videos mentioned murder. brian rooney joins us live from santa barbara. brian, what can you tell us

about what's happening so far? >> reporter: isla vista is the off-campus student residential area. it's paradise for students there. on a friday night, there would be a lot of people on the streets. so this started about 9:30 last night when the black bmw pulled up in front of a group of people and the driver opened fire. in the next couple of minutes, there were a lot of police in the area. they always are on the weekends. and there ended up being nine locations where shots were fired. the gunman ended up dead in his car. the police have not identified him officially azle i don't want roger, but they are looking at his youtube posting that we just heard a clip from, things that he said on his facebook, that girls were not interested in him and he was despairing about that. but it was the youtube posting yesterday that -- in which he just posted a direct threat about what he was going to do -- attempt to do.

>> i haafter i have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, i will slay every single person i see there. . >> he had actually said he was going to start by shooting up a sorority house. that did not happen. he started in the street. morgan? >> brian, you say police haven't officially identified elliott rogers as the suspected shooter, but what more do we know about him? where is he from? what have his parents said thus fa far? >> reporter: he comes from the los angeles area. his father is in the movie business and his family's attorney, they have identified him ahead of the police. they said, yeah. >> our son. and the attorney spoke to the press. >> the family believes that the child was, in fact, the perpetrator. they have not seen the body. they have not seen anything. nobody would do the types of

things that happened last night unless there was some form of mental illness. >> that's as a generic statement. more specifically, this child was being treated by multiple professionals. the child was diagnosed at an earlier age of being a highly function aspergers syndrome: it's very sad s obviously he was diagnosed ahead of time. they knew that he had problems: he was treated and diagnosed early as having aspergers. joining me live. brian action thank you so. >> joining me now is political psychologist bart rosi from naples, florida. from your vantage point, do mass shooters share similar traits in situations like this?

for example, is there a co composite profile? >> first off, nice to be with you. yes, there is a profile. the profile of the shooters is very consistent. usually, a lot of internal anger that generates into a retained anger, as psychologists call it and moves into a rage where they want to strike out at the world or strike out at mother and the world, and it's a very similar pattern for most of the shooters. they feel that they are not part of society. they don't -- they are on the outside looking in and you can hear with this shooter that he is kind of on the outside when it comes to women. he is probably, as a lot -- has a lot of self doubts and with early aspergers, they have problems socializing. so, he probably had issues socializing, being with his peer group, a lot of personality issues here. >> those problems you mentioned, i want to go back to what you said about this internal anger. there is a youtube video we saw

allegedly of this perpetrator threatening to kill others. what exactly is behind the need for public declarations and manifestos like this? what purpose do they serve psychologically for the shooter? >> the shooter has a way of venting, if you will. the shooter has a way of projecting himself and expressing himself and his rage and anger with this type of manifesto or with some type of statement. it's you believe when the person is at the outer edge where he is really ready to strike out. and they strike out, of course, and they have the manifesto or statement about their intentions. >> okay. but then that brings us to this next point, the debate over so-called media glorification. what do you say to those who say if the media -- it's the media's fault for bringing attention to the mass shooters. is it not something to be talked about or is it something we need to address and raise awareness about? >> we of course need to talk about it. certainly the media shouldn't be blamed for bringing attention to

this. this is something that we need to deal with as a society. in the u.s., we need to deal with mental health. how are we going to deal with it if we don't talk about it? i don't think we need to glorify the person or maybe even mention his name. >> that's a whole other issue. but certainly, we need to discuss it and deal with it. and we need to change the face of mental health in this country. what needs to happen >> in my view as a political psychologist. i think we need to have programming in the middle school and high school that involves parents so that we can understand what mental health is, what psychologists can do with cognitive behavioral treatment, why that's important, how suggestive it is and most professional golfers have a psychologist but we are afraid to take our kids to a psychologist. live via skype from naples,

florida, thank you for being with us. 3 people are dead after a shooting in perilous where officials say a shooter parked a car outside that building, walked inside, and just drove off a fourth person was seriously wounded. authorities say one suspect so far has been detained. police say they cannot rule out anti-semiticness in that sho shooting. >> in jordan, the pope called for an urgent and peaceful solution and met christians displaced by the very conflict. nick schifrin is following the pope's visit from iman. syrian refugees are 1/5th of jordan's population. what exactly does the pope's visit mean for them?

>> a good question. the syrian refugees are not only one-fifth. population but, in fact more than that. the crisis that france wants to highlight is massive. some 100,000 syrians are leaving their country area month. by the end of the year, the largest since world war ii. france spent most of the day actually talking about the syrians he said there was an urgent need to end the war. he focused as you said on refugees. he met syrian christian refugees. they hofrancis talking about th will help. they admit there is no guarantee of that i spoke to one and he said i hope this changes but i don't think it will. i am moving my family to canada. i would rather become a refugee

again than risk moving back. >> nick, which is interesting because everyone is talking about the monumentalnate of this visit but the truth is, the popes predecessors made trips to the middle east so how is this visit by pope francis any different? >> francis is continuing his two predecessors' visits with two very big exceptions. first, he is flying directly from here to bethelehem. he will be the first pope to enter the west bank directly rather than going through israel. what is clear is that pope francis and the vatican is endorsing the idea of a state of palestine. you look at the agenda. it says state of palestine. talk to his aides. abass. they feel this is an endorsement for their state. on the other side, doing something var according to israeli officials in jerusalem

going to mount hertzel. >> that's the tomb of the forefather of israel. israeli officials say by going there giving a long and sordid history is directly. they say that means he is endorsing their rights to the land. so clearly, pope francis trying to take things further than the two predecessors. >> nick schifrin joining us live. thank you for being with us. the pope's schedule is certainly jam-packed. next he will travel to bethlehem where he will visit the church of the nativity as nick mentioned. he will fly to tel aviv to be welcomed by the israeli. after that, he goes to jerusalem where he will visit the western wall and meet the mufti of jerusalem and fly back before returning home finally to the vatican. tomorrow could be a monumental day for the future of ukraine. sunday's presidential election is set to take place, the first since the ousting of prime

minister victor yanukovych. ukrainian forces and pro-russian separatists have each engaged in a series of deadly clashes this week. for more, bring in dana lewis live in kiev. dana, it's just past 1:00 a.m. the election is hours away. what is the atmosphere like there on the ground? are people confid he want that they do, in fact, know which way this election is going to swing? >> reporter: well, morgan, it certainly depends upon where you are on the ground. i mean i think when you look at eastern ukraine, separatists continue to try to sabotage the election out there. to a large degree, they seem to be having some success. they continued attacks on ukrainian army checkpoints, pulled polling box out of a polling station in donetsk today and destroyed them election workers are talking about intimidation. the interior ministry is saying that of the 34 electoral districts in that area, that probably only about half of them

are going to be able to be open tomorrow. we are actually hearing some reports from russian media today saying that there was an attack in slovyansk on foreign journalists, an italian journalist and his translator were hit by gunfire. they may be dead. we are trying to get confirmation of that. a french photographer was wounded in that. as you look at ukraine as a whole nationally, the voter turnout is expected to be very big tomorrow and, of course, the leading contender for the presidency right now is billionaire petro poreshenko. >> in a kiev suburb this campaign truck blairs the message: give a gift to ukraine and elect petro. his supporters and polls say the 48-year-old has victory in the bag. on the last day of campaign, meeting with several eu foreign

ministers, he already talking like ukraine's elected leader. >> russia lost the battle for supporting terrorists. >> he is the candy man. the king of chocolate stores and factories, one like many of ukraine's wealthiest businessmen seems to have built his busy empire in an honest and transparent way. criss-crossing the country, he has promised it all. he says he will rebuild the economy and turn ukraine away from russia towards european prosperity. and security, he says he will rebuild the army to deal with russian separatists who refuse to lay down weapons. he tells us amnesty for some but not all. >> direct talks with people in the street who are armed in the east? >> the terrorists that you call them. >> people are on the street of the east, we are willing to have a talk. people with their arms not. >> he has somehow emerged

unscathed from a long history of politic. it's a former government minister including trade and foreign affairs. when the violent demonstrations broke out in kiev, he was one of the first officials to go to the street. he supported those fighting for regime change. he has publicply denounced russian interference and doesn't rule out ukraine one day joining nato. >> if the security questions were rising up, if the instability will not stop after presidential elections, who knows? >> but ukrainians are in no mood for false promises. time is running short. whoever wins this election has russia to deal with. in these -- these demonstrators who want a massive government overhaul. they won't wait long. at this tent camp, they honor those who were killed by police bullets. this was the first gunned down in violence. this weekend, his father visited the at the present time where he lived and he told us, of course, i didn't want him to be here. but he told me he would stay

until victory or he would pay with his blood. his close friend, i have a n warned: he must deliver or demonstrations will begin again. he predicted they will be more serious and more violent. >> literally put ukraine's next president under the gun. >> reporter: morgan, you know, a lot of ukrainians will tell you on the street they want to see this election done and over with because they believe it's the first step towards bringing about some stability here, poreschenko. he is popular. the question is: will he be able to take this in one round? he needs 50% of the vote plus one. otherwise, they will have to go to a second round. >> will be another election a month from now. we will know tomorrow, morgan. >> joining us live in kiev. thanks for being with us. meanwhile, in parts of eastern ukraine, pro-russian rebels are closing polling stations and intimidating potential voters. there may be an impact on the legitimacy of sunday's election.

the latest from donetsk. >> reporter: in the town of masiksa, there will be no elections. the only polling station was sealed off a few days ago. it's on the orders of the donetsk's people's republic says the local deputy. >> translator: in this territory, there will be no presidential elections. they were cancelled. how can people vote in a neighboring country? >> pro-russian separatists are determined not to let anyone reach a ballot box and have detained the head of this commission. just to make sure that the polling stations couldn't be moved somewhere else in this town, they have burned all of the pork from posters on how to cast ballots to copies of the electoral law, credential cards for monitors and registration forms for voters. >> dozens of polling stations in the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk have been taken over. no campaigning. the few posters of presidential candidates that could be seen on the streets have now been

removed. any show of support towards kiev. was quickly silenced. >> we met natila in a park away from his workplace. he is one of the few people left, still trying to save election day here. >> because at the moment, it's very important. usually, i speak russian but now i am speaking ukrainian as a matter of principle to show our position, to show that there are people who want peace and unity for this country. >> reporter: unity is ever elusive. the run-up to the election has been marred by blood and violence with militias attacking each other. armed men were seen on the streets in a show of force. to keep order in a new republic they say. for many, it sounds more like intimidation. perhaps one of the biggest threats to the election is the lack of inthusiasm among those who still regard the east as

ukraine. >> translator: vote where? there are no places to vote. even if i voted, it would be against all of the candidates. it's just the same people who caused this mess. >> reporter: frustration is common here people feel trapped in a place where it seems that every move either side makes simply inches east he were ukraine closer to a stalemate. here, there will be no winner. al jazeera, dondon. earlier, i spoke with urash, a spokesman for the activist movement. i asked him about the troubles that residents are facing in eastern ukraine. just ahead after tomorrow's election. >> east right now is in a problematic position, indeed, dondon, a hotspot and you have a difficult situation with the elections with the lack of preparedness in most of the electoraltations and poles and what we are seeing is that most peop , it's not about accepting the electionls and

what we are seeing is that most , it's not about accepting the electi election. it's about them having lost the ability to express their opinion. it's clear here many people would want to say and would want to express their own view on how ukraine should be governed and who should govern it. these separate wafts their own as far as referendum deprived them of that right unfortunately. >> irag said while tomorrow's vote is important, it's just the first step toward victory in ukraine. meanwhile voters in egypt are choosing a new president this weekend and the man leading the poll is a retired military chief. he says ties with the u.s. will get stronger once the elections are over and he let an overthrow of egypt's last elected president last july. he has imprison hundreds of members of the muslim brotherhood. this is the 148th day three access journalists are being held in jail in egypt. and our core respond event peter grest ia are all accused of

conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. their trial has been suspended until june 1st. honoring american veterans this memorial day weekend. we will show you a unique tribute to the servicemen and women who died in vietnam. fighting the federal government, anger in utah over washington's control and their wide-open spaces.

this memorial day weekend, a group of nevada ranchers say they are going to saddle um for what they are calling a grass march. >> that's a 70 mile horseback ride to protest government grazing rules. now, this is just the latest challenge to how the government is managing public lands out in the west. in utah, for example, more than 57% of the state is under federal control. al jazeera's paul beeban joins us live from salt lake city. paul, what exactly is the point that these ranchers are trying to make here? >> well, good afternoon, morgan. the point they are trying to make is that the federal

government, according to them, is intruding on their lifestyle, oppressing them. hear words like tierney tossed around. these people want to use the land the way they see fit, not the way the government sees fit. >> as you hike down into recapture canyon, one of the first things you notice is the silence. >> we are just barrel inside the closu closure. and we have come to our first archeological site. >> all around, there is evidence that ancient native americans called this place home. >> this is what we call an out door museum. it's, you know, it's a special place where there is remains of the past. >> recapture canyon is protected public land administered by the federal bureau of land management or blm. in 2007, the blm closed the canyon to motorized vehicles can something that didn't sit well in the nearby town of blanding where locals don't want to be

told what they can or can't do in the canyon. on may 10th, the roar of engines once again filled the air as all terrain vehicle riders took an illegal spin through recapture. >> scenario years into the process, it's absurd. the blm should be embarrassed. >> bill boyle runs the san juan record, the local paper here and says, people in these parts are fed up. >> say "yes" or "no," for heaven sakes but don't drag it out for scenario years or you are going to have a situation that happened here, which is local people frustrated feeling they have been disenfranchised, taking matters into hair hands. >> san juan county commissioner organized the protest ride. >> the protest is not about recapture the canyon. it's certainly not about atvs. it's about the federal government, the blm in particular particular that is willing to criminal eyes people. >> the blm's challenge is that it just can't be all things to all people but that it is exactly what it's supposed to

do: balancing competing demands for resource development, conservation and recreation across the west but with hundreds of millions of acres at the agency's disposal, it seems like there is not enough to go around. juan palma is utah's direct offer of the blm. >> you hear over and over again. things are being taken away from us, access to public land. we can't ride atvs, can't graze cattle there, a sense that the government is encroaching on their way of life. >> so it isn't that we are taking some -- something away from the citizens. it's that we need to manage that for not only this current generation or for generations to come. >> up the road from recapture is the town of moab which draws tourists from all over the world and where off-road vehicles share blm land with 190 million-year-old dinosaur footprint fossils. blm archeologist rebecca hunt

foster showed me where one footprint was stolen? >> a triangular piece of rock. >> with a crow bar, pry it up? >> if somebody takes one thing, that robs it because our fosils belong to all of us as americans. >> how did you feel after this one print that was the best one was stolen? >> that was terrible. we are all upset about that. >> here, relations between the blm and locals feel more cordial and collaborative. >> that's the way things are going to have to work if the agency is going to avoid the kind of armed confrontation that grab headlines and rally extremists. >> the tension and the interest is more than just ideal okay cal. the way we use the west 100 years ago is probably not the way we are going to use the west over the next one 00 years. >> that tension you heard juan palma talking about out here, morgan has gone as far as death

threats, gunned brandished at bml agents as they try to integrate all of the competing interests. >> paul, speaking of that, in your report, you mentioned the competing demands, but paul, this isn't a new phenomenon out west, is it? why is it popping up now? >> reporter: that's right. it's been going on for more than 100 years, since the west was settled. salt lake city has significance. in 1980 when ronald rag an was running, he declared himself a sage brush rebel. it was a movement happening then. he said it's happening now. this is a recurrent cycle of grievance, push and pull, ebb and flow over the years going on as long as america was settling this territory. >> paul beban, thank you so much. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki says the add miles per hourstration will allow more veterans to get care at private

hospitals as veterans were remembered. chuck hagle and david petraeus were among those paying respects. hagle said the u.s. does have a sacred obligation to take care of its veterans. still ahead on al jazeera america, voters in europe picking a new parliament plus growing up in nigeria: how deep-seated traditions limit options for young girls. >> on techknow... >> i'm at the national wind institute, where they can create tornados... >> a greater understanding... >> we know how to design for the wind speeds, now we design for... >> avoiding future tragedies >> i want a shelter in every school. >> techknow every saturday, go where science, meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've ever done, even though i can't see. >>techknow >> is there an enviromental urgency? only on al jazeera america

sxwrarnling good evening. well, back to al jazeera america. here is a look at today's top stories. six people shot dead last night in a drive-by shooting near the university of california santa barbara. the gunman is dead. in a youtube video shot by the alleged suspect seem to indicate they were in fact premeditated. three people also dead after a shooting aftt the jewish museumn brussels. police in belgium say they have

one suspect in custodied and they did not rule out anti-semitic motives. in ukraine, the elections kick off in a few short hours. there is concern that pro-russian separatists may disrupt voting in the east. the russian president vladimir putin promised to respect the results of tomorrow's vote. >> countries are voting in parliament elections, the test since the financial crisis devastated so many economics. spending cuts have affected so many countries in spain and 30% of children live in poverty. lawrence lee september this report from the. >> of this school, 10-year-olds have been drawing what they see their country going through. a man looking through a bill at a restaurant, a woman shivering because the electricity is too expensive. cuts to the health service, children sharing a sandwich. teachers realize the chirp's parents couldn't afford to feed or clothe them properly. >> in summer, sometimes summer

clothes and summer, winter clothes. you can see them with not the right material ton in the class. they don't have pencils, don't bring pens, notebooks. >> they called in a charity for the first time in its history spending money on spanish children as it does on those in asia or latin america. they say that this is what austerity has done. >> obviously, the situation would not have taken place seven or 10 years ago. in fact, in spain, there has always been a portion of structural poverty. >> that's not the segment we are working with. we are working with a segment of the population that's been directed affected by the crisis. >> frankly any school child could understand there is a fundamental contradiction inside spain at the moment. this country may have the fourth largest economy in the eurozone but it's also got 30% child policy, the second worst in the whole of the european union, not just the euro zone.

the only place worse is romania. . >> the hotel is full of journalists, with allegations of krurnings money hidden in swiss bank accounts. >> the prime minister wants his conservative friend to be the next president of the european commission. spain, they insist will be fine. they have reconstructed aust tearty incurring fears in the money markets. >> i believe you have to have consultation with job-oriented policies. >> it doesn't appear to be working. >> you cannot have growth by accumulating deficits. >> mad rid will be in the news this weekend for other reasonses. two teams will play each other in the european cup final. you do wonder how much the elite knows of the thousands of spanish chirp being relegated to young lives on emergency

rations. the latest joke is that everyone knows the date of the european cup final but no one knows when the european elections will be. lawrence lee, al jazeera, mad rid. >> don't forget to join us at 8:00 p.m. tonight when we take a deeper look at the issues surrounding the european union election. >> that's 5:00 p.m. pacific time. the u.s. is spending 3 and a half million dollar to tie land over this week's coup, suspe suspending. they say more aid will stop if the military does not return control to elected leaders. there you have hundreds of protesters taking to the streets in bangkok because they don't agree with the way that the army has received power. >> the previous prime minister is under house arrest. t thailand's tourism industry has suffered.

scott hideler has more. >> reporter: these are not your normal holiday snapshots. last year, the city became the world's most visited tourist destination. that was before six months of political conflict leading to a coup on thursday. >> it's kind of sad because i want to see bangkok, thailand, but everything is closed at 10:00 or 9:00 or something like that. but, yeah, it's a surprise. i am here and trying to enjoy bangkok. >> since the military announced its takeover, more than 50 countries have issued warnings about travel to thailand. this will no doubt increase losses in the $30 billion a year tourist industry. an estimated 3 billion was lost during the first three months of the year. >> this is water in one of the most popular tourist spots here in bangkok. because the coup took place a couple of days ago, a lot of the tourits were here. the biggest concern for the industry moving forward is

future bookings. >> if the current decline in tourist dollars continues, this year, 40% down from the normal rate. >> i am very concerned about the future because tourism is the first industry of thailand. many of my indonesian tourists groups have cancelled their trips next month. >> one of bangkok's biggest draws is its nightlife. the military has imposed a 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew. there is no education of when it will be lifted. at this club, business is already down by 50% since the political crisis started last november. with the curfew in place, they have shut their doors. >> i can't tell about the future. just try or put all of my energy in the club, try to maintain it, try to present the great music in the club and i hope we are going to recover as soon as possible. >> but for the smaller businesses operating on thin profit margins, recovery will have to come fast. they need more tourists coming

to the sites of bangkok and fewer soldiers. scott hideler, al jazeera, bangkok. >> in south africa, jacob zuma has been sworn in for his second term as president. his party, the african national congress won a slightly raptus majority in last month's election. that was the country's 5th since the end of apartheid. for more let's go to tania page who is in pretoria. >> reporter: south africa was on show for the inauguration. peeved left home in the several hours of the morning to ensure they cleared security in time. the look at lack of sleep didn't tamper anyone's enthusiasm. >> get everything in south africa. for everybody. >> although some want more. >> jobs. >> that's the issue. and, also, the housing program. >> reporter: some of the heads of state gathered for the ceremony have been in power for

decades or are facing crisis at home. but they came from across the continent and the world to witness the president's oath in one of africa's youngest but strongest democracies. >> today marks the beginning of the second phase of a national democratic society. this second phase will involve social economic transformation. >> that transform ation is needed because 20 years after the end of apartheid in south africa is still blighted by inequality. most of the economy and land is controlled by whites who are about 10% of the population. for the crowd, this is a day to be proud to be south african. statistics including, a quarter of the working age people here are unemployed.

>> has to change to stop the slide into. >> they won the election but the majority was cut. zuma won't want to preside over more of its decline. >> they have had good policies except that it has failed at the point of implementation for most of those. at the back of his mind, he will also be very much mindful of the controversies around him and his associates. >> he has proven he can win an election. now, he must prove their support was well placed. tanya page, al jazeera, pretoria, south africa. >> nigerian president goodluck jonathan met with him on saturday. the topic: fighting terrorism in africa. in nigeria, the search for the missing school girls is not making much progress. the "new york times" reported today that nigerian troops are ill prepared, poorly trained and there is too much corruption for

them to organize. the papers say they have avoided fights with boko haram. with little explanation, that's why with little government protection, nanny nigeria are worried of another mass kidnapping. a report on just how tradition can limit the growth of young girls and what's with being done now to empower them. >> mariam says she believes she was 13 when her parents married her off. there were many things she didn't learn including her age. one of 8 siblings, the family could not afford to send her to school. she has three children of her own. they are 6, 3, and 1. she has been coming to this vocational center hoping to pick up a skill that would help her support her own family. >> i was upset i couldn't go to school. i am envious of girls who a areability. i had no choice but to accept defeat. >> this is one of the modest attempts by the government of borno state to help empower

disadvantaged girls and women. extreme poverty has meant many girls are left without education, forced into early marriages, early pregnancies and early divorce. >> as if that wasn't enough, the kidnapping by the radical group boko haram and its repeated attacks on schools is worsening what was a bad situation for girls here. >> local activists say only 4% in girls in northern nigeria complete secondary school. it's also believed more than 50% are married off before they turn 15. >> without education, the girls end up trapped in a cycle of poverty, dependence and sub serveience, what to many around the world is a simple routine of showing up for school is a daily victory here over restrictive attitudes and over the hard liners engaged in a war on education. women's rights have been involved in cam painless for

several years. they have help set up literacy and vocational programs. they say the fight is bigger than them and international donors need to step in. >> they have been at the almost 80% of schools have been burned down. if you want to go to school, it will make a big appeal now, yes, to international community in spite of the finances, this is the period when this society of borno needs their presence. >> boko haram has threatened to sell the kidnapped girls. fighters have told girls during other attacks on schools that they should get married instead of getting an education. in spite of the obstacles, mariam says she wants her daughters to go to school. it's the only way for them to have a better life than hers, she says. al jazeera, northern nigeria. >> a deadly attack on somalia's government has left at least seven people dead. it happened just beyond the gate

of the parliament building in mogadishu where a car bomb exploded followed by a suicide bomber and an armed assault. gunfire could be heard as security forces tried to fend off the gunmen. al shabaab has claimed responsibility for that attack. next on al jazeera america, a lan land mark ruling on force feeding detainees at guantanamo. coming up next.

>> it's insane... >> the borderland memorial day marathon only at al jazeera america yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the military can, in fact, force feed a gauvent guantbay prisonner on hunger strike. the lawyer for the detainee called it inhumane. >> the judge lifted the ban

because a principleser's life is in danger. he will be if he had from a tube. joining me is counter terrorism attorney that represents the inmate at the heart of this story: on thursday, a federal district court judge lifted a ban on force feeding your client. what was your client's reaction to all of this? >> well, we are very disappointed. as you can imagine. we are disappointed with judge kessler's order lifting the temporary restraining order on his force feeding because we believe with a lot of evidence to back it up that the force feeding procedures at gaupt guantare abusive and may rise to the level of torture. we are stunned by what judge kessler called the department of defense's intransigence on this matter. what happened was the day before that, on wednesday, judge kessler at a status conference on this case requested that the

department of justice and, by extension, the department of defense, work with us, mr mr. diab's attorneys on modifying or coming up with a compromise that would allow mr. diab to retain his health while not using the procedures that we allege to be abusive. we propose a series of modifications that would have allowed mr. diab to continue to be if he had. the department of defense rejected every single one of them. >> the first point, just to abrupt you for a minute, why, then, did the dod allow this in the first place if it is as abusive as you say? >> our best guess for that honestly is that the department of defense is using force feeding at guantanamo as a pun i have been measure. the department of defense has said over the past 12 years that guantanamo has been open that hunger strikes are being used as asem asymmetrical warfare.

>> they say that to this day. to detainees, in our briefs we put forth that these detainees use people like mahatma galloned e as influences the fact that they have been detained without charge without access in some cases to their families. in some cases for 12 years. so they are protesting that. the department of defense calls that asymmetrical warfare. our best guest is these are being used as punishment. >> i want to break this down for our audience. what does one actually endure when one is force fed? >> there are a number of stats. for or clients being force fed, it is being extracted for their cells. they call them forceable cell ex tracks. they send in teams of soldiers at guantanamo, burst into the

detainee's cell. it usually involves a beating of some sort. they beat them up pretty well and they take them forcibly to the forced feeding room. they put them then, the second component is a restraint chair we have argued is abusive the chair immobilizes them from head to tow. they put them in the restrict chair and put tubes down their noses. we have documented from reports that our clients have sent us how they -- some of the staff at gaupt guantbay are not skilled in the placement of these tubes. some of them -- some of them end up ramming the tubes to the back of their throat causing clients to bleed in their throats, bleed internally. they have caused a number of medical issues over the years. they use tubes sometimes that are too big for the detainees'

nostrils and once they get those tubes in, they are force feeding these detainees with an amount of liquid that is frankly enormous and far exceeds what medical procedures dictate is normal. >> so they are dragging them out of their cells, force feed can them an enormous amount of liquid you are saying would not be recommended. >> yeah. >> briefly, what then are the next steps for your client? >> well, for our client, obviously he may be force fed any day now by the department of defense. we are waiting for the department of justice in the meantime to hand over, as they have been ordered to do so videos of him being forcibly extracted and force fed so we can see exactly what's happening to him. but for us as his lawyers, we have to make sure that we can monitor him, can monitor what's going on and can make sure that

whatever -- whatever procedures they are using, that they are going to continue to use these procedures, but we are going to document everything that happens to him as best we can. we are going to present it to judge kessler at our next status conference on june 16th. >> we hope you keep us posted joining us live from washington, d.c. tonight. thank you for being with us. >> thank you fo for having me. >> the new sears called "the system" explores these cases in the criminal justice system. this sunday's episode explores mandatory sentencing. you can watch that again this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 p.m. pacific. a wildfire burning in a rugged part of arizona is expected to triple in size. the fire is just 5% contained today and crews say they will let it burn until it reaches flat areas that they can actually defend. >> means it could grow up to 36 square miles although it is still unclear just how it started earlier this week. for more on the national

forecast turn to rebecca stevenson. more on that. >> southwest staying in drought conditions. dry weather is not for everyone of we have a line of thunderstorms tracking through texas right now. these have been spawning the possibility of tornados along with flash flooding. the tornado warnings at this point are farther south into the west in texas. we have got the flash flooding warnings and watches in place. so much rain from this particular storm system that new mexico already by noon today. you had broken the record rainfall viabilities, not just broke it, shattered it by a few inches here with the new record at 4.39 inches of rain in rosswell. also getting quite a bit of rain and thunderstorms rolling through the northeast still as we have an area of low pressure moving out into the atlantic. more about low pressure because that's a big one sitting and spinning over the southwest. sure, it's bringing in much needed rain but it's on top of such dry conditions and a lot of areas that have dealt with wildfires. so, if that water just runs off fast and we've got

flash flood warnings impacting you and, in fact, we are getting snow above 10,000 feet in parts of the rockies, colorado. that's temperatures there and they are anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees below normal because of the big low pressure in the southwest. >> unbelievable. thanks, rebecca. still ahead on al jazeera america, voters in columbia prepare to elect their new president. how that vote could affect the violence, coming up next.

colombia will hold its presidential election tomorrow and it's a high-stakes election filled with drama. waves of accusations against candidates have peaked. they are claims of ties to drug traffickers. none of the candidates are expected to win more than 50% of that vote. if that occurs, a run-off will happen next month. al jazeera's lucia newman has the latest from bogota. >> from the political left to

the right, none of the candidates have overwhelming support. plus, there is one candidate who is not on the ballot, the one for whom poet and novelist has been working tirelessly >> translator: we want to give life to the vote. we needed a candidate. nobody for president. he has no face but he speaks for us. no one represents us. his slogan is: nobody gives us health. nobody gives us education or work. so let's vote for knob. . >> it's more than a whim. the constitution stipulates if 50% plus 1 of the votes are blank, new elections with all new candidates must be held. and while it's a longshot, this nationwide campaign reflects widespread discontent with the voters' political choices. >> the i amage have is that the state and the i hopestitutions

are corrupt. they don't believe in the leaders. not one. >> an alarming diagnosis for a country with so many pressing needs. according to a recent u.n. report, only syria has a larger persiang percentage of population internally displaced by war and violence. >> these people have been camped out here for more than 3 weeks. a desperate measure, they say, to try to get authorities to take notice of their plight. but even during the election season, as you can see, no one seems to be listening. they show me a video. police trying to evict them earlier this week with water canon from the plaza. i roncally, the largest voting venue. the president insists to ensure social justice, he needs another mandate to end the 50-year-old rebel war. >> there is no good one. >> that's why i am determined to end this bad war with a good peace treattock leave our children a country in peace.

>> reporter: the president's main rival, if he wins, all bets are off. >> i will be sworn in as president come august 7th. on that day, i will declare the proofitional suspension of the peace talks with those terrorists. >> reporter: the future of the pizza process is clearly hanging in the balance. polls show most citizens are even more concerned about corruption, crime, and inadequate public health and education, problems that many disenchanted columbians believes their politicians can tackle. al jazeera, bogota. >> much more on those elections coming up at 8 eastern, 5 pacific. remember to stay with us. now, when you think of yes, ma'amep, happy may not exactly be the word that comes to mind. ♪ because i am happy. ♪ because you know what happiness is to you. ♪ >> there you have it, happiness is the truth. this mash-up was created by a

group of bloggers who say their mission is to encourage civic engagement and policy change. thank you for joining us. i am morgan radford live in new york. stay tuned. >> let us bow our heads for a word of prayer. our father and our most gracious god. as this family, the murdough family and their friends, as they gather, we ask that you send your comforter, your holy spirit, your guide, to be with them. >> queens, new york. jerome murdough's family is laying him to rest. four months ago, 56-year-old jerome was arrested for