good afternoon. welcome to al jazeera america live from new york city. i am morgan radford. here are the stories we are following just for you: a 21 gun salloot for the swearing in of the new egyptian president abdel fatah el sism si. live pictures from roam where pope francis holds an unprecedented meeting with presidents at the vatican. >> if this closed, i don't know where i would go >> residents in mainly homes worry about their future.

>> much former chief abdel fat a el sis. i is egypt's president over overthrowing mohamed morsi last july, the third president since the arab spring began. a report. . >> egypt's former army chief at the pinnacle of pour in the most populous country in the arab world. this is the moment his supporters have been waiting for. the swearing in ceremony at the constitutional court was followed by the handover. the president spelled out his plan for the future. he script will witness development at all levels.

we will solve the problems of the past and build the egypt of the future, a powerful, just, stable, peaceful and prosperous country it's the first handover in egyptts viteae when an out going president and his successor shape hands during an inauguration. leaders were there to show support for egypt's new leaders. one of the leading judges described him as the man who saved the nation from what he called the dierney of the muslim brotherhood. the army and the people united on the 30th of june, an event celebrate today. it was a revolution of the people. now that he has assumed power, the new president faces a string of delicate issues. barfed, rising unemployment, and an economy in at that timers. his inauguration was held under

tight security. the country has been beset by violence and instability since the july, 2013 coup that dmoedz mohamed morsi. he was egypt's first democratically elected president. he is now in jail facing charges of treason he has ruled out any compromise with the banned muslim brotherhood and insists restoring security will be his top priority. >> led many people to worry the current clamp down like these protesters may not end anytime soon. al jazeera the civil war in syria has created over two and a half million refugees. now, women are speaking out about being tortures and raped by government soldiers. zana hoda has that you are story. >> it has been two years. but she said she can't forget

watching government soldiers rape and kill four of her daughters. as she calls out the names of her children, the women here remember their own pain. may mariam says she can't cope without taking sedatives. locked up in government-run detoccasion centers. tortured and repeatedly raped. >> yes, raped. they bring you to the commander's. they get drunk. they invite each other to take turns. what is it you want me to say? tell me. there is nothing worse, and there are many women like me, just like my friends here it is where women from conservative societies speak openly about rape. fear is one reason. fear of being shunned by their families is another. mariam's family stoned her. had her husband left. she said she has been committedk punished for a crime committed against her.

they ha decided to break their silence since they have nothing more to lose. >> they took everything, and they did in front of my son. and now, he sofas psychological problems. >> noura was locked up in prison. he may have been too young to understand what he saw but he did watch his mother being raped. >> the prison guard came in the room. my son was on my lap. he pushed him away. my son was two years old. a two-year-old will know how to look away and face the wall. she is just as angry and part of that anger is because of how people have reacted. >> i was a virgin when i was in prison. i was 18 years old, a university student. my father left my mother because he was ashamed of me and people were looking at me with disgust. these women want more victims to break their silence and come forward so that the extent of

rape in the syrian war can be documented and while they wait for justice, they hope for some compassion from an unfor giving society. southern turkey. >> to pakistan where gunmen attacked a nato oil truck causing it to subsequently explode. it happened in the southwest part of the current try he where the truck was bound for nato troops in afghanistan. the group has yet claimed responsibility but the pakistani taliban has targeted supply trucks before just to disrupt supplies to the u.s.-led coalition. more details emerging now about bowe bergdahl's times as as a pow. he was freed by thetaltable just eight days ago and bergdahl has reportedly said he was tortured during his five years in captivity. he claims the taliban guards beat him and even kept him in a cage. he is still undergoing treatment at a u.s. military hospital in germany and lawmakers in washington meanwhile are discussing punishment for him if it is, in fact, found he deserted his colleagues.

>> i think that the department of defense needs to do a very thorough investigation. obviously those soldiers are very, very concerned and upset by it. if their account is true, they should be. you jeopardize other solids when you walk away from your post, period. and end of story. >> that's a serious, serious matter in a combat zone. it needs to be thoroughly investigated by department of defense. the administration trying to change the narrative through these anonymous or, you know, leaks to the paper about what the deal was and wasn't. none of which i found credible by the way needs to stop. they should stop all of that. we ought to have a full discussion right now about the policy implications. >> meanwhile, the f.b.i. is investigating death threats sentence to bergdahl's parents. am bob bergdahl has received four e-mails containing specific threats. the first was cents on wednesday, the same day that a home coming celebration for bergdahl was cancelled in hailey, idaho. heeding candidate to replace veterans affair secretary eric

shinseki has withdrawn his name. kcosgrove is ceo and he says he wants to keep on doing that job. white house officials approached him after shinseki resigned on may 30th. cosgrove said he is honor to be considered but he wants to honor the commitment he made to the cleveland delinic. >> a manhunt is undway for con s who used a helicopter to escape from a jail outside of quick educational background. these three men are now on the run and that is after police say a chopper landed inside or outside of those principals gates and picked up those suspects in march of last year, two prisoners at a nearby facility climbed a rope ladder into a hijacked helicopter. they were picked up a few hours later? >> the italian navy says they have rescued more than 2500 men since thursday trying to cross the mediterranean into europe.

they didn't specify the nationality but they you often include those from sub is a heron africasaharan africa in the september of america's tech industry, for some of palo alto, the dream is just too expensive. they are not leaving without a fight. al jazeera's melissa chen explains. >> palo alto, california, the heart of silicone valley where tech millionaires live and home to stanford university. in the middle of it all sits bueno vista mobile home park, one of the last places left providing affordable housing in a city that's become rich from the tech boom is. now, a developer has offered the owner millions to build luxury appointments for the valley's

growing work force. it would displace current residents. >> if this place were to close, i don't know where i would go. i don't know where 90% of these people would go. >> they work in tech but not as engineers or venture capitali capitalists. they are guardners, house coopers, cooks and nannies while they have benefited from the same economic growth, they have become its earliest casualties. for years, they have survived by paying under a thousand dollars a month in respect in a city where the median home price is now just under $2 million. buno vista home park has 400 low income residents. they want to stay here because palo alto has one of the best school districts in the state. >> for the escalante family, the school district has been transformative. erica leads the community battle against the eviction and says in many ways, it's more about access to education than a real

estate wrangle over compensation. >> my parents came from mexico, and i mean we grew up here in palo alto mostly, and i was the first one to graduate from college in my family. >> the value of dye versety has not been lost on more affluent neighbors, some of whom have joined the fight to keep bueno vista in palo alto. >> the risk of that prosperity is that we lose some of the diversity in the range of families. >> the residents of buena vista have turned this into a legal fight and have offered to buy the property as a collective. the decision now rests with city hall. >> these students will never come back if they are gone. everybody loses if the park is closed. >> property owners would not speak to al jazeera though their attorney pointed out private land owners have the right to sell their own real estate, something residents acknowledge to some extent as they face an

uncertain future with their families. melissa chen, palo alto, california. >> it is time for the 20th fifa world cup. brazil is welcoming the english, german and algerian teams. they greeted the german team with flaingdz and drums. crow air /* croatia plays on thursday. it will include all 31 teams. >> coming up on al jazeera america, we will take you live to vatican city where pope francis is holding an unprecedented meeting with theisii and palestinian presidents. plus the city that's helping parents get their kids from kindergarten all the way to college just by stashing away a little bit of cash at a time.

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who invited them to participate in an interfaith ceremony there. the vatican says the meeting is not political but the pope says he hopes this ceremony will reenerggize peace talks. nick speicer is live at the vatican. the pope explicitly said this was not a political trip. so what does this then mean for the future of those piece negotiations? >> that really remains to be scene. the pope's only ambition as he tweeted earlier was to show that prayer can be powerful, but i think he's quite a wear of the symbolic significance in the region of the gesture he is making, inviting the palestinian and israeli presidents to the vatican to pray, you will have the three figure religions of the region represent ed.

they had read text from the hebrew, christian and muslim faith did on the theme of forgiveness and peace. what it will ultimately lead to political already is not the question that the vatican is asking or that the pope has in mind. i think he is thinking of what he can do for the month areal, for the souls, if you will, of the people in the holy land, the people who are disspirited and who need a sign that peace is still something that is worth striving for. nick spicer, thanks for joining us live from vatican city this afternoon in the lush guardes of the vatican for this unprecedented meeting. thanks, nick. more than 300 boys and girls are expected to arrive in arizona at what's become a make- shift refugee camp for undo you think children. it's a boarder patrol facility in nogales. authorities are using it as a temporary clinic to examine children before they are transferred to other facilities. arizona's governor says conditions are pretty bad there

and officials have requested a shipment of medical supplies. most of those children are coming from texas where facilities are reportedly being overwhelmed with illegal immigrants. a pilot flew into restricted airspace into washington d.c. yesterday afternoon. his mistake then prompted evacuations at the capital and the supreme court. sixteen fighter jets escorted the jet out of washington and it was forced to land in north carolina where secret service agents interviewed the pilot who simply appeared to be lost. air traffic has been restricted in the baltimore washington area since 2003. a city that's helping kindergarten parents pay for college. san francisco is setting up a kids saving program for parents to take any sort of financial literacy class and as aal jazeera lisa bernard reports, it's the first city to do so. >> $59 and $0.45. >> how much we have saved up toward your college fund. >> they are among the 1600

families in san francisco taking advantage of the city's kindergarten to college or k to c program. >> they will match every dollar you save for the first $100 this year. >> san francisco is the first city in the country to provide a college savings account to children when they start kindergarten. $50 is deposited into a 529 account in the name of each child. al study at washington university say kids who have a saved account are 7 times more likely to attend college than kids who don't have 1. san francisco's treasurer says that inspired the city to start the k2 c program 5 years ago. >> what seemed to make a difference was having the account. it must have said to those kids, this is something you are able to do, maybe something you are meant to do. here is the concrete evidence of that. why else would there be an account that says, "college on it and has your name there? >> cisneros says the city spent

$6,060,000 each year. donations have brought another half a million dollars for k2c. >> adonis has an account. his parents put $50 a month into it. if a family saves consistently for six months, a $100 bonus is deposited by the city. don holloway was stunned when he looked at his daughter's savings after two years. >> i was assuming it was like $280. right? but when we looked, it was like $800. i am like, whoa. the treasurer says federal agency studies show across the country, 3% of kids in the u.s. grow up with a college savings account. he said his k2c numbers are significantly higher. >> we are at a savings rate that's 4 times higher than the national average of how many kids save for their kids' college education. >> cisneros sayss said for many families, this is their first savings account. for some, it's their first conversation about college. >> the more you know, the better life can, and so she's -- she is

listening. she is listening. >> shawna holloway wants to be a teacher. adonis wants to be a veterinarian. the city wants to help make it happen. >> lisa barnard, al jazeera, san fran sifbl 0. >> improvements are coming to tesla's model s electric car. among those changes, new software that will help the car learn its driver's habits. check that out. there is even a nav goths system that will steer drivers away from traffic jams. tesla's model s is epa rated at up to 265 miles a on single charge. >> that's the most of any electric car. stay tuned. coming up on al jazeera america, we will introduce you to a photographer whose work helped saved one of america's most famous parks.

good afternoon. welcome back to al jazeera america. live from new york. i am morgan radford. he script's new president said

he will correct what he calls the mistakes of the past. abdel fatah he will sisi was sworn in after winning 96% of the vote in last month's presidential election. radio now, looking at live pictures of vatican city where the palestinian and israeli presidents have arrived for an inter faith prayer ceremony. the pro presidents will plant an olive tree during their visit. pope francis is hosting the meeting in hopes of reinvigor rating those peace talks. sergeant bowe bergdahl claims he was tortured during his five years in captivity. an unnamed u.s. official said bergdahl says he was beaten and held in a cage by the taliban. the scales of justice often rely on eyewitness testimony. but in the american legal system, sometimes the witness gets it wrong. this week's episode of the system looks at how bad testimony can tip the scales of the justice in the wrong direction. >> every day in this country, thousands of suspects are

identified by eyewitnesses, but a shocking number of these eye witnesses get it wrong. >> the location, two gentlemen we want in to purchase drugs, gunfire ensued and the resident at this house was kill. >> when the police arrived, they were looking for the suspects in the area, two black males, one tall, one short, the witness had given that description. >> how inaccurate are eye witnesses investigation. >> study people in the research lab, about 30% of the time, witnesses in real cases who pick someone and say, yes, that's the person who committed the crime are wrong. >> what jennifer disert and other leading researchers believe is that the identification procedures used by the majority of the police departments in this country are outneeded and unscientific. >> they put me in front of a big glass window, doorlike, handcuffed me to the bench. but everybody else in the room was pushed on the other side where they couldn't see these

individuals. they could only see me. >> you can watch the full episode tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 p.m. pacific right here on al jazeera america. [sunday to you. i am meteorologist eboni dion watching a frontal boundary along the deep south. lots of moisture helping to trigger scattered showers and storms. really the same pattern that we have been dealing with the last few days. we will continue to do so even as we get into the early part of the work week. for, for you, the cluster of storms we have been watching across oklahoma into texas have weakened some as they:to roll off to the east. quite a bit of lightning with some storms that have rolled through the arkansas area. welcome to watch for the potential of strong to severe storms as we go through the rest of the afternoon into this evening. right now, the heavy rainfall in and a little little rock off to your west in dallas. storms starting to approach your area. do expect heavy downpours if

nothing else. >> that's why we are dealing with flash flooding across these areas shaded in green, even ex tedding further north into kansas where we are anticipating rain. our severe weather threat has shifted a little further sounds than where it wassied, st. louis, tornados around your area. we are going to see from the southern plains and into the southeast and for monday, some of the same areas dealing with today, we will see a repeat again tomorrow. >> includes little rock into dallas, around tussle oklahoma, strong to severe storms. the main impact will be the heavy damming wind threat as well as heavy rainfall. gradually pushing into the eastern sdmrus as well. it looks like the core will be in the middle of the country, the area shaded in red where we could end up with 4 to 6 inches off the next couple of days. >> that's why we are dealing with that flooding risk that really we have seep quite a bit as of late. now, into the midwest right now, we started off pretty well around indianapolis. the rain rolled through the

cleveland area. into pennsylvania, around the pittsburgh area, the rain is starting to move in and we will continue to see scattered showers moving off to the eat. morgan? >> thank you, eboni. one man is hoping to change the fate of the florida everglades by using his most powerful tool, his camera. over the last century, the everglades shrunk to nearly 50% of their original size. as andy gallacher reports, one man's photographs may be enough to save them. >> this gives me a lot of light clyde butcher is one of north america's celebrated landscape photographers and his work has been credited with raising awareness of the florida everglades. >> the black edge. >> but it wasn't always that way. when he first moved out here in the '80s, conservation wasn't a priority. over the decades, clyde's stunning black and white images of the so-called river of grass have helped change that. >> photography has always been a

dramatic force in change. it makes me feel good i am educating people that of the awareness of florida and that maybe this will hip protect it. >> butcher has become more than just a photographer, guided swamp walks are a way to make these ambassadors. >> that's how i found clyde butcher a lot can't come out on the swamp walk. he brings that right to the regular guy. >> he has brought a lot of people down here, and once they get here, like myself, they love the place. >> clyde butcher's unique way of processing pictures has made him one of the most sought after nature photographers in the u.s. his work is more than just a commercial success. over the years, his photographs have offered a glips into a threatened world most will never see firsthand. >> makes his entire collection a force for conservation.

>> florida's everglades needs all of the help it can get. it's the u.s.'s third largest national park often described as the most threatened. it's bin drained, polluted and developed but clyde hopes his work will help preserve it. >> 100 years from now, when people look at my photographs and they say, hum, that's commonplace? i don't see what's so special. it's still here. that would be what i would like to hear. >> andy gallacher, al jazeera, florida. renegade underground street artist banksy is going public. southernerbies is exiting 70 pieces called the unauthorized retrospective. >> that's because, well, banksy isn't vulg involve. some of the art hasn't been seen in public. some will have an opportunity to buy some of his work. the most expensive piece is priced at $840,000.

i am morgan radford. thanks for watching al jazeera america. 101 east is coming up next. for now, we leave you with a live look at vatican city on this very beautiful sunday morning. ♪ >> dadu, southern pakistan, just a few months ago.