48 bucks a share it reached 5 months ago and investors realized it. i will follow this for you on a regular basis. that's our show for today. see you tomorrow. >> hi, everyone. this is aljazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. honor killing, the beating death of a woman by her father. why did pakistani police stand by and watch. >> women endangered worldwide, our special report. >> the latest threat from the nigerian leader against boko haram. >> under fire, the v.a. chief under pressure to resign.

>> into the storm, flying drones through the heart of a hurricane. >> we begin with a shocking twist in the stoning death of a pregnant pakistani woman. she was beaten to death with bricks by her own family because they did not approve of her husband. she was 25 years old. today, we learned that the grieving husband had killed his previous wife four years ago, but he never went to prison because the dead women's relatives for gave him. there are new calls for justice in this latest killing. today, pakistan prime minister ordered a full investigation. >> it's hard to imagine the horror of the woman's last moments, beaten to death outside the court by 20 members of her

family. they were furious she married the man she loved instead of an arranged marriage. she came to court to contest a case filed by her father. >> we arrived at the court after 8:00 in the morning. her family was waiting for us at the main gate and attacked us. they beat her to death and injured her husband. we filed a case with the police. her father has been arrested. >> the killing was described as totally unacceptable and government officials are ordered to investigate. >> a murder has been registered. family members are charged in the murder case, others being added to the case. >> public anger is growing at the police, accused of doing nothing to save her. the human rights advocates say their apparent indifference isn't surprising. there are hundreds of so-called honor killings in pakistan each

year, in 2003, 900 cases, but few convictions because court often cite a lack of evidence. >> it's not just the brutality that has shocked people, it's how the local media covered the case. strongly worded editorials have been published condemning the murder in stark contrast to the press where it's barely received a mention, underscoring the belief here that cases like this are a family matter and not criminal. aljazeera, islamabad. >> in india, the bodies of two teenaged girls were found hanging from a tree after they'd been raped. hundreds of angry villagers surrounded the orchard where the girls were discovered. two of the four accused tackers are believed to be police officers. it's been 45 days since hundreds of nigerian school girls were kidnapped and armed group that kidnapped the girls has attacked

again. boko haram attacked three more villages this week president northeast area where the girls were taken. authorities say 32 people were killed in the bourno region today, they tossed bombs into homes, shot residents trying to flee. the president of nigeria declared war on boko haram today, authorizing security forces to use any means necessary to get what he called the thugs. >> government will continue to do everything possible to bring them home. i'm determined to protect the democracy, national unity and political stability by winning a total war against terrorism. >> president jonathan said he will need the help of the international community and neighboring countries to defeat

boko haram. he reassured the parents of the 200 kidnapped girls that he would bring them home. the missing school girls just one example of struggles facing girls and women around the world. coming up, the crimes and possible solutions in our report violence against women. >> in eastern ukraine, pro-russian separatists shot down a ukrainian helicopter. ukraine's acting president said it was hit by anti aircraft missiles during heavy fighting in donetsk. 14 soldiers were killed. separatists were starting to hold if you know release for dozens of fighters killed on monday. >> in iraq, a series of deadly attacks rocked that country, car bombings, suicide attacks and assassinations left at least 54 people dead on wednesday. we report from baghdad. >> it's the sheer number of attacks that shocked many people, 16 across the country.

one of the worst was here in baghdad where at least 10 people were killed and more than 25 injured. >> a car bomb exploded here, carried so many tons of explosives. >> across iraq, shootings, car bombs, suicide attacks, violence is now at its highest level since 2007 and shows no signs of stopping. the government blames isil, others say it is the result of the prime minister consolidating power and alienating the people who could help battle the armed groups. >> if it is the same man getting the prime minister, getting the minister of defense and you always have the same plan, the same failure, the same power -- man power, that means there is a major failure and the major file just like the security file.

>> turned into ghost towns, the iraqi armed lead siege to flush out fighters. sources tell us that large parts of fallujah is still under the control of isil. >> groups criticize the government, saying they shelled the local hospital 16 times at least. that's a charge the government denies, but it is trying to pressure isil fighters to try to get rid of them from the area. it seems the more pressure they put on them, the more the fighters mount attacks outside anbar province. >> i see them using the same tacticallied used in iraq. many wonder if any lessons have been learned and whether security forces can do anything to stop the attacks. aljazeera. >> there were new calls for the secretary of veterans affairs to resign today. lawmakers in both parties say

shinseki should let new leadership fix problems at the medical centers. for now, the president stands by him. >> it's not just represents, but democrats increasingly calling for the resignation of eric shinseki. today at the white house, jay carney, the white house spokesman was asked repeatedly whether the president still has confidence in his secretary of veterans affairs. >> does the president right now have confidence in secretary shinseki? you told us last week he did. does he have confidence now? >> what i would point you to is what the president said when asked about his view of secretary shinseki and i don't have -- i'm not going to i am prove upon his words. >> the president has indicated he wants to wait for the full report on the v.a.'s troubles before deciding who is accountable. the interim report by the democratic's inspector general was very trouble, saying there

is systemic delays in treatment care for veterans, and it looked at the phoenix hospital where a lot of the problems have been. it found there were 1700 veterans who wanted appointments with doctor. they were not even on the official waiting list. secretary shinseki has now said he has told the department to immediately contact those 1700 vets and make sure they get the care they need. in an opinion piece in usa today, the secretary has said we are redoubling our efforts. our commitment and cam passion to restore integrity to our process and to earn the veterans' trust. shinseki in that opinion piece gave no indication that he plans to resign. house speaker john boehner was asked how he feels should shinseki go and boehner indicated he is not ready to call for that resignation. >> i'm going to continue to

withhold judgmenten secretary shinseki. is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem, help us find out what's really going on? the answer i keep getting is no. >> meantime, boehner and other republicans are shifting the blame to the white house, saying look, it's the president who is responsible. he's the one who should be held accountable for not fixing the problems at the v.a. also now senate leader harry reid has indicated that as soon as the senate returns next week, they will begin hearings on how to fix the problems at the v.a. and senator reid has indicated it may take a lot more resources. john. >> lisa stark reporting from washington, thank you. >> there were tougher questions today for the head of homeland security over a controversial immigration program. according to a document published by non-profit group 36,000 undocumented immigrants

convicted of crimes were released from prison last year. several republicans wanted an explanation, walking it a threat to public safety. >> i look at the same list you've seen, and i've seen some pretty serious criminal convictions on that list, including homicide and other things. i want to deeper understanding of this issue to make sure we are doing everything we should be doing to assure public safety. >> paul beban has been reporting on immigration issues. he's in the enforcement detention center outside of denver. >> whenever the immigration issue comes up, you know there are going to be partisan fireworks. it is so politicized with immigration reform stalled in congress for so many years and that is what we saw thursday when jay johnson testified before the house judiciary committee, very aggressive questions from republican

canningmen starting with the mass release, they're calling, 36,000 detainees who have been convicted in some cases of violent crimes. why they were reds, the secretary did not have a lot of clarification on that. looking into this question himself, saying that he was looking for more information, the department did issue a release on this, saying that as may be three quarters of these folks released were released on court orders, the decisions of judges, that they'd served their criminal sentences and holding them longer would have been a violation of their civil rights. again, the question still surrounding this, one of the other big immigration. >>, we've reported on here is the question of unaccompanied minors, this wave, surge of un accompanied minor's making their way through central america and entering the dangerous border crossing into the u.s. 60,000 minors, expected to

double again next year to 120,000. you can see that surge there. we met one of these young people reporting on the border between arizona and mexico, a child who had made his way from honduras with a couple of his cousins. he made it into the u.s. and reunited with his father living in houston, while his case makes its convey through the courts. his father undocumented, now both living in the u.s. undocumented. the immigration between a rock and a hard place, bringing these children into the country seems like the sympathetic thing to do. it's expensive to pros them, house them if they don't have relatives to be reunited with. it's also difficult to send them back to their countries of or infacing a life in poverty and violence in many cases. a lot of difficult ethical, moral and difficult questions. >> coming up next, flying into

the eye and the wall of a hurricane, how drones could change the way we prepare and react to some major storms. >> returning home, baby boomers forced to move back home with their elderly moms and dads.

>> spies apparently need jobs too, turns out many intelligence workers are using social media to find work. the data trail can be used to trace who's working on what spy program. an aljazeera.com reporter explain why spies are posting top secret information even if it could be endangering national security. >> it's a spinning door between defense contractors and among contractors. i think a lot of it is just kind of a scramble for jobs and the scramble for some of this just

really massive amounts of money that are being poured into this, especially into the contractors. >> he asked the nsa if they were monitoring job profiles of past employees and contractors. the agency of course declined to respond. >> in turkey, the court overturned a ban on you tube, the government cracking down on the site back in march after audio recordings of government officials were leaked on line. the ban sparked international criticism from human rights organizations. we report from istanbul. >> the decision by turkey's highest court to lift the ban on you tube will be greeted warmly by advocates of free speech and political independence here in turkey. the case against the ban was taken by members of the turkish bar association and also individuals who are members of the opposition party. it followed a period where the turkish government not only

successfully achieved a ban against you tube, but also twitter. why have these proved so annoying to the turkish government? since december last year, when a stream of allegations began to be released in the turkish public domain and government accused party opposed to its policies of being behind it, the turkish media largely stayed away from them. social media became the only place turks could reach allegations in some kind of substance and they mostly took the form of audio recordings where you heard the voices purr poured to be of the prime minister's family, senior political figures and such like. these, the government were pained to deny as it has continued to deny the majority of the allegations against it that unfolded from december last year. the final and most crucial moment that led to the banning

of you tube was the release of a meeting which the government did not deny. it was a high level meeting between the head of turkish intelligence services, former senior members of the turkish military discussing ways to create a pretext to get turkey militarily involved in fighting inside syria. this, the turkish government says was a violation of its ability to govern and it's ability to have discretion in matters of state. it successfully calls for the ban the prime minister had said that he didn't care what the world thought, he was going to shut down social media anyway. the court in april ruled the ban on twitter was a violation of turk's freedom of speech and expression and it seems we are yet to see the full decision that this article in the turkish constitution article 26 is also what's behind the turkish constitutional court's decision on you tube. >> the u.s. economy is shifting

in reverse. at the beginning of the do year, the gross domestic product fell for the first time in three years. the severe weather played a role. the still struggling economy is forces baby boomers to cut costs. for some, that means moving in with their elderly parents. we have the story. >> jeannine has a list of chores to do. this afternoon, she has work on the front lawn, but it's not her front lawn, it's her mother's. forty years after she did chores as a teenager be, she's back at home. >> this used to be my when i was a teenager, i grew up here, this was my bedroom. now it's my mother's bedroom. >> she now lives in the basement. struggling to make a career switch, tired of her job as an office manager, the financial crisis meant opportunities dried up and she suddenly found herself unemployed and homeless.

>> look at me, i'm in a position where i need to depend on my mother so i could have a roof over my head, because i can't even get a job. >> she is just one of many baby boomers in california who have moved back in with their parents and their numbers of growing. in the past decade, almost 200,000 older californians have moved home, a 68% increase. >> while mill len yes, ma'ams who struggled in the last few years suffer from proven job experience, the boomers suffer age bias and discrimination. >> when you're 50 or older, find ago job becomes that much harder than if you're in your went's or 30's. you still have people losing their homes, jobs and long term joblessness. >> she resisted and waited until all other options ran out before making the big move. >> i have nowhere to go, so, and she was beginning to get sick, having -- she was -- she needed

more care, she needed some company, and help. >> she now pays her way to live at home in part by fixing up the house, working on different projects. for now, she has given up, and is not actively looking for a job. >> sometimes it's wonderful. other times, it drives me nuts. >> oftentimes, the dynamics between parents and their children don't change that much from when they were teenagers. >> this morning, bedid clash. i think we're always going to clash. i'm also very -- i'm also someone who doesn't like to be told how to do things and i'm 53 years old. i'm like excuse me, but, you know, i'm not a child, i'm not a baby. >> now that her mother has alzheimer's, she has a compelling reason to stay at home. in these tough economic times, she is certainly not alone.

melissa chan, aljazeera, san francisco. >> unofficial results from egypt's presidential election are showing the country's former military chief has won. al sisi received more than 90% of the vote, the polls closed last night and the only other candidate for the presidency has already conceded defeat. the election wasn't smooth. the voter turnout was low, showing many chose to ignore it. it's raising questions about how well sisi will be able to lead. officials results are expected to be announced next week. >> let's head to washington to find out what's going to be on america tonight. >> sound that reaches beyond borders, an unusual combination of sun and song way down in the big bend of texas, where a community wrenched apart by efforts to protect the border launched protest music and it's own way of reuniting with its neighbors. the answer a surprisingly

festive border crossing, even under the watchful eyes of security agents. they call it a fiesta protesta and sounding out against what they see as injustice. >> if you go up and down the border, residents, politicians are not happy with the way it is, the status quo right now. what all these changes have brought about is just the honest people don't have a way to make a living so they have to go away somewhere. that's really sad. >> on the border and also riding on a burrow, more about the fiesta protesta. >> the bidding war for the ownership of the l.a. clippers may have ended with a record setting price tag. there are reports former mike co soft steve bomber, the executive there is prepared to buy the franchise for $2 billion. it will be the highest purchasing price ever for an nba

team. the deal needs to be approved by the clippers current owner. he bought the team for $12.5 million more than 30 years ago. >> concerns over concussions, president obama held a white house press conference today, saying athletes and coaches need to start paying attention to the risks. >> we have to change a culture that says you as yo suck it up. identifying a concussion and being ail to self diagnose that this is something that i need to take care of, doesn't make you weak, it means you're strong. >> organizers say the president's influence will result in reported head injuries. >> sunday marks the start of hurricane season and this year, scientists hope to use a new tool to study the storms and save lives. we have that story. >> this is the view from the

cockpit, as an airplane that flies into the wall of a hurricane. researchers want to improve the tools to learn more about a hurricane's intensity as it barrel to say shore, will it be a category one or three? >> our ability to tell you what it will do at landfall, as far as not where it's going to go, but as far as intensity, how strong those winds are, we're not that good at it. >> this drone is called the coyote. in august, researchers hope that for the first time, they'll be able to deploy a drone from an airplane and into the eye and the wall of a hurricane. the coyote ways seven pounds with a five-foot wind span. the carbon wings can fly with the hurricane winds and withstand them. >> with a battery life of two ours, it will measure wind speed, temperature, humidity and pressure. once the battery dice, so, too does the drone, dropping into

the ocean. researchers won't say how much each one costs, but the lab received half a million dollars in federal funding to operate five of the coyotes. at this point, it's an experimental tool used to observe. >> this device in its simplest form will give us a better representation of what actually is occurring so we can warn the people in harm's way. >> if the drones prove success have during their missions, the hope is one day they will be indispensable to forecasting a hurricane. >> aljazeera, miami. >> coming up next, our special report, violence against women. honor killings, domestic abuse, condemned to death for marrying the men they love. the challenges women around the world are facing just to stay alive. y alive.

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santa barbara, women under attack, some killed by their own families. >> how could they let this happen. society has become so sick. >> others kidnapped or abused, raped and murdered. what's being done to stop the brutality? our special report, violence against women. >> this is aljazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the headlines over the past week have been chilling, a woman in sudan forced to give birth with her legs shackled as she waits to see if her death sentence will be carried out, her crime, marrying the man she loved, a christian. >> two teenage girls raped and hanged from a tree in india. >> a pakistani bride two months pregnant beaten to death by her own family. >> in this country, women targeted by a man with a grudge against women.

the stories make them seem exceptional, but the truth is violence against women is tragically normal all over the world. we begin our in depth coverage of the global crisis with jonathan betz. >> the word health organization calls violence against women a problem of epidemic proportions, their words, 35% of women across the world are victims of violence. the united nations is focused on key issues to stop it from those so-called honor killings to child brides. one out of every three girls in this world will be forced into marriage before she turns 18 years old. that is 64 million women across the plan net. they are more likely to drop out of school and have early pregnancies. in fact, pregnancy related problems are the leading cause of death for 15-19-year-old girls worldwide. another big concern is human trafficking, as we've seen with boko haram, more kids are being sold for their bodies. 20% of human trafficking victims

were children in the mid-2000's, that number climbing. now it's nearly a third and most of those kids are by far girls. yet, these are not isolated problems. violence against women, whether genital mutilation in africa, violence against women is across the globe. >> honor killings happen when a woman is accused are bringing dishonor to her family is murdered. one case in pakistan is gaining international attention. we have more. >> a 25-year-old pregnant woman was killed after marrying against her family's wishes. she's just one of hundreds of women in pakistan who are murdered by their relatives every year. the countries human rights commission said last year, 869 of these killings took place there. the u.n. said there are at least 5,000 honor killings worldwide each year.

tuesday's broad daylight attack has shocked many. >> while this man mourns his wife, he blames the police for preventing this. she was beaten outside the court by 20 members of her family, angry she married the man she loved instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. she went to court to contest her father's claim that her husband had kidnapped her. >> we arrived at the court just after 8:00 in the morning. her family was waiting for us at the main gate and then attacked us, they beat her to death and the injured her husband. we filed a case with the police and her father has been arrested. >> pakistan's prime minister ordered his government to investigate, but these protestors say it's too little, too late. >> it happened outside the court of justice. police was right there. there were people around there and how could they let this happen? i think this shows that society has become so sick.

>> sick, they say, because the murder happened in a bustling area in pakistan's second largest city and paliers by watched. the incident is getting little coverage in the local papers, but the english paper criticized witnesses for not stepping in. they asked if it had been a man would people have intervened or has all human compassion vanished? women's rights groups say honor killings continue because society largely condones the killings. >> this happened because misogyny and a misinterpretation and abuse of so-called religious laws and a girl who married of her own choice, if she is about 18, she is legally an adult. our constitution allows it and the koran allows it. i don't see why women are being killed. >> that activist said many see

honor killings as a family matter and don't want to interfear. her father admitted to the killing. they are searches for the other suspects. >> a village in india has come together to protest two teabag sisters killed, raped and hanged from a mango tree. the village would the government is not doing enough to stop these terrible acts. we report from new delhi. >> villagers found the bodies of the two girls hanging from a tree early wednesday morning. a report from the medical examiner has confirmed that the two girls were raped and later strangled before they were hanged. now the families of the victims and villagers are directing their anger not only at the suspects in this case, but also against the police. they accuse police of initially refusing to help in the search for the two girls, then for later, not filing criminal charges against the accused. the state government has promised action in this investigation, and has already

suspended two police officers. >> now, this whole incident comes about a year and a half after the brutal gang rape of a mara medical student in new delhi. that crime shocked the country into an open debate about women's safety and led to protests and tougher laws. deli's and india said own crime statistics show that a woman is raped in india every two minutes. this crime shows despite having tougher laws in police, these kind of crimes continue to occur. >> 70% of women in india have been victims of domestic violence. a group called save our sisters is using iconic religious imagery to raise awareness about domestic abuse. the hand painted pictures show hindu goddesses with bruises and cuts. the tapestry went viral when launched last year.

some activists say they would have preferred to see normal women, not goddesses in the campaign. >> it's good to have you on the program. >> pleasure, thank you. >> let's talk about this case in india. in particular, have the authorities done enough? >> not really. i think they, you know, what we have in here is a global phenomenon of violence against women. the only way to reduce it is a societal shift, that we cannot continue to think women belong to their families and their honor belong to their families. there is an entitlement about that that need to stop. second, legal reforms and laws have to be enforced very much actually so, as a real precaution from men who commit this violence. in india and pakistan, among other countries, often the police do not do anything when they see such violence if they

are not themselves participating in that. the only way to stop that violence is when the violator have so much repercussion against the violation that the price that he can pay afterwards is bigger than his own violation, so we have to do that. >> is this about culture and religion? >> not at all, not at all. one in five women worldwide say sexual harassment or sexual assaults. time magazine this week for example have their major report on violence against women in university in america. one out of every university student in america, female university student is facing sexual harassment and souths. this is a global issue. now, we see more of it in third world issues than we see here, but that doesn't mean it's happening less in this country, also. >> the honor killing in pakistan is one of thousands every year. how many are note reported? >> we don't know how many. part of the issues with honor

killing is the family's feeling that they are entitled to kill their daughter, to protect their honor. the case in pakistan, for example, it has few issues to note. one is financial, the family simply wanted more money from the husband, and so they killed the daughter because he did not pay them more money. second is that sort of thing that she belongs to the family, she's a property of the family, so if you do not pay for her. we have the right to kill her. these are the things that we -- but honor killing is happening by the families. we do not have it reported as much as other crimes. we also have a shift in reporting violence against women. more women are speaking up right now. social media is helping, the fact that aljazeera and other news channels are talking about this issue helps a lot in raising awareness. >> how does other than raising awareness, how else does it help? >> in order to shift it, we need

to support local women's organizations who are addressing the issue. we need to address more in women's education and economic opportunities so they can stand up on their own feet. we need to educate men. we need men to speak up that violence is against your own daughters or wives or sisters. we need more men to speak up about that and when men see it and don't do anything, it's a betrayal of women. we need much more men to speak up and that includes presidents of countries, or our own husbands and brothers. we need repercussions, legal repercussions that the law needs to be implemented so the violator knows that society is paying attention to it. >> i want to go back to men speaking up. when women speak up, often they are not heard or knocked down. how can men help make a difference here? >> men are crucial in this process. the violators we are talking about are also men, but that

does not mean all men of violators. if you talk about average, if you talk about 35% of the women worldwide are violated, sexually violated, i don't know how many personal of men are violators, may be 10%, may be less. there are some studies that shows the one violator violates several women. that makes it in the vested interest of every man to say he does not represent me. he is not me. this is not a generic thing, these are small percentages of men and the they need to speak up, other men need to speak up against them. >> you say this is not about underdeveloped countries, this exists around the world, whether a country is developed or not. >> well, think about it. in america, if you have a child, a daughter or a son who are going to college, a daughter has 20% chance of being raped in

college, and this is in the united states. one in three women, as a mask in america has been raped herself. this is a global issue. the fact that we are speaking about it more, it means that we are paying more attention to it and we need to do something about it to stop it. >> it is an important issue and we appreciate was you on the program to talk about it. thank you. >> pleasure. >> in zambia, more than 40% of young p.m. r. women are married before the age of in a. the african union, a group of 54 states is calling for an end to child marriage. tanya paige reports from eastern zambia. >> exams are on many students' minds as they walk to school, but others have more grown up problems to think about. this student eloped with her boyfriend in february. >> he wanted to convince my parents we should marry. >> it's her books, not a marriage bed her parents are insisting on. they tracked her down and ended

her plans. part of a group of traditional group is trying to end childhood marriages. he calls the police and the husbands are often much older than the brides, but not this time. he's at university, she dropped out of school. >> in zambia, the leaders agreed that all the negative traditions and customs must be done away with, so basically, the woman, we are not going with a tradition. >> ruth's early marriage was also ended by the chief, who often help it is pay for the girls' school fees. >> i was missing for four days with my husband, my family was looking for me. when they found me, i was a bit scared of my dad, so i resisted at first. >> she has spoken at the united

nations about child marriage. >> the teenagers have all been given a second chance, but the chief doesn't have the resources to send them all back to school nor address what he sees is the main cause of these sorts of marriages, poverty. >> marriage offered the chance to be the head of the household. the chief intervened. now she's back with her mother. >> she was way too young. we want her back in school. >> they captain afford the $3 fee to have her readmitted to school. even with progressive leadership, poverty is holding her back. >> joining us to talk about the prevalence of child marriage is an warner, with the international center for research on women. welcome. >> thank you. >> why is child marriage so

prevalent in africa? >> child miami is prevalent in much of the developing world, one in three girls in the developing world are married before the age of 18. there are a range of reasons why girls are married early. social, cultural, economic reasons. two of the reasons that tend to cross cut many different kinds of contexts and cultures are economic and security and gender inequality, where girls have fewer opportunities to go to school, to work, to participate economically and politically in their societies. when girls are married early, they are forced into often early and high risk pregnancies. they are pulled out of school. they're not able to provide for their children or their communities, their families very well without having had an

education or chances to work or to be as healthy as they might be. just think about that. when those kind of impacts, when you have 50%, 75% of girls getting married before they've had a chance to live out their childhood and become healthy duties, that has impact on the political and social developments of entire countries. >> the african union announced it's going to tackle this issue that is that a positive sign? >> absolutely. it's a tremendously positive and encouraging sign that african countries at the highest levels are taking this on as a priority issue, and it reflects a lot of the tremendous work that's been done by grass roots organizations all over the world to call attention to child marriage. >> how do you reduce child marriage around the world? >> there are a lot of really incredible and innovative things that are going on around the

world, across the continent of africa and beyond. the first thing that needs to happen is we need to work with the girls who are most vulnerable to child marriage, the girls who are out of school, socially isolated, living in poor and rural households, provide them with opportunities to go to school, to earn skills to articulate their rights and seek opportunities for their lives. we need to target their families, their communities, the religious and traditional leaders in their communities that help make decisions on their behalf to understand the consequences of child marriage and to help develop healthy alternatives to child marriage. we need to change the legal framework, as well. >> i asked this question before in another context, but what role does religion and culture play in all this? >> religion and culture can play a role, but it's very different in different settings. the two things that are most

consistent across different contexts are poverty and gender inequality. we can address those factors, we can in partnership with cultural leaders, with religious leaders. that's happening all over the world and we are seeing tremendous progress. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> another disturbing practice against women, genital mutilation. the world health organization says today more than 125 million victims, most of them in africa and the middle east. one nigerian mother left the country to protect her daughters. we have that story. >> she fled to the u.k. in 2011 after her stepmother in nigeria threatened to subject her daughter to female genital mutilation. at the time, she was pregnant with her second daughter. she is convince'd they will be subjected to this procedure as soon as they return and she is

determine to protect them. >> i'm doing all i can as a mother to protect them so they will be proud of me, they will know i fought for them. >> after her daughters were taken to a detention facility wednesday prior to being flown to nigeria. >> she's mentally very unstable at the moment. she fears the safety of her two daughters, and herself. i've spoken to her about 10 minutes ago. she sounded very, very upset. >> she was herself a victim of this procedure when she was a girl. it is illegal in the u.k. and this year, the government has launched a crackdown resulting in the first-ever conviction. when asked about her case, the british home office issued the following statement, we believe that those who fail to establish a genuine fear of persecution should return home voluntarily. if they do not, we will enforce their removal.

>> since recognition in the u.k., she and the girls have converted to christianity and she now fears her life could be in danger if forced to return. aljazeera. >> coming up next, violence against women in america and how some men are playing a role in fighting it.

>> we've been learning about cultural practices and traditions. here in the united states is violence against women in

movies, music, in homes. we have more on domestic violence and the role men play in ending it. >> since 9/11, nearly 12,000 american women have been killed by husbands or boyfriends. to put that another way, that's more than the number of americans killed in terror attacks and troops killed in afghanistan and iraq combined. when it comes to abuse and rape, more than one in three women in the united states have been raped, beaten or stalked by someone they know. we've been reporting tonight on the global epidemic of violence against women. i asked if men can stop rape, if there needs to be a different approach to ending violence against women in america than in other countries. >> whether it be urban, rural or suburban communities here or internationally. we are deal with the same dynamics. what they look like vary on the traditions of cultures, but for us, our perspective in all

communities, violent unhealthy forms of mass describety that minimize women's humanity are the foundations of that gender based violence. >> talking about violence against women, people look at it as other people's problem or personal business. what happens in one home affects the entire community. >> let's think about a young man who is for some reason experiencing trauma or abuse in the home and likely it would be at the hand of an adult. i won't even gender who the adult might be. now that young person experienced that trauma and does not have the skills to deal or resources in the community to deal with that. now they are unleashed into the community, to school, work or traveling to and from school or work, they have an unnude experience with trauma and violence and at some point, something that's been

suppressed, finds its way bubbling to the surface. we see gun violence for bullying in school or workplace violence or relationship violence, you see boys and men unable to deal with anger, shame, fear and guilt with no skills to deal with it. individual moments of violence expand outward into other parts of their life. that ripple affect is the violence we all feel. if you multiply one neighborhood times a neighborhood times a community times a town, we see violence impacting us all every day. >> if men are the primary perpetrators of violence against women, what role should men play to end it? the movement is led by female survivors of violence. neil says men should do more. >> we're trying to incorporate into the development of boys healthy forms of strength that are beyond just physical, but that are about social, emotional

learning, and give them practiced role modeled opportunities to see themselves as men who are not limited or confined by rigid violent masculine city. >> he says the problem is not men per se, he says the problem is toxic masculinity. >> it's an important part of this story. thank you. here's an image that caught our attention today, our freeze frame that comes from pakistan where women are protesting the killing of a pregnant woman in islamabad murdered by her family for marrying a man of her own choice. we have the headlines right after this. a person

>> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> welcome to al jazeera america. here are tonight's top stories. no details in the case of the pregnant pakistani woman stoned to death by her family. her husband killed his previous wife four years ago, never tried

tort murder because that dead woman's relatives for gave him. the father of his new wife said she brought shame to the family. the prime minister is calling for an investigation. >> boko haram attacked three more villages this week in the northeast area where more than 200 school girls were cade napped. 32 were killed wednesday morning, dozens of boko haram fighters stormed through the three towns in a.t.v.'s and motorcycles. >> the head of homeland security faced tough questions today. according to a document racily published, the government released 36,000 undocumented immigrants from prison last year, all convicted criminals critics in congress say it endangers public safety.

>> america tonight with joie chen is up next. you can get the latest news on line at aljazeera.com. >> players take the field. >> where's your pain? >> right here. right here. right here.