>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. here are the stories we're following for you. a brazen attack by the taliban leaves dozens dead at the international airport in karachi. the president works to loosen the debt for college grads. a strike days before the world cup is due to start. >> more deadly violence today in

pakistan, at least four people have been killed in a suicide-bombing. today's attack followed the overnight siege at karachi's international airport. the airport was under attack for five hours, 29 people were killed including the ten attackers. >> reporter: another funeral in one of the world's bloodiest insurgencies. the talabani attack on karachi's international airport. the disaster was clear from afar as smoke covered the night sky. just before midnight the rebels had shot their way into the old terminal dressed in security force uniforms. a gun battle followed, and then the army was called in. >> security forces confronted them and killed them. they destroyed them. it's good that this operation

was over in four or five hours. >> but four or five hours is enough to bring up the question of a state of security in pakistan again. this is the country's busiest airport. last year more than 16 million people passed through here. and this is what the rebels brought with them. an arsenal of suicide vests and heavy weapons. the pakistani taliban say the attack is revenge for u.s. drone strikes last year. they say it's just gun, promising more to come. >> freed u.s. soldier captured bical tan were tortured, beaten and held in a cage after he tried to escape. the senate intelligence committee will hold a closed

door session this afternoon on the pow swap with senior officials with the obama administration. meanwhile, police are investigating three e-mail threats e-mailed to bowe bergdahl's father. the suspect shot officers as they were eating lunch and then killed a bystander at a nearby walmart, had a shootout with police and took their own lives. an important meeting is taking place in turkey. for the first time in two decades an iranian president is being received. we have reports. >> this is the first time an iranian head of state is being received in the presidential palace in ankra. former iranian president have visited turkey.

they visited istanbul. there were never high-level, bilateral meetings like we're seeing today. and they're expected to sign a number of agreements focused on boosting trade. these neighbors need each other. they need each other's markets. turkey needs iran for natural gas and oil. it relies on importing this energy source, and it is getting that from iran despite the fact that iran is under western sanctions. we've been able to skirt those sanctions paying for the natural gas using gold. that has upset the u.s. government, but for turkey there is no going back, they need this product, and they're accepting the responsible of reducing the price of natural gas and oil. so both sides are touching on a lot of different issues during this visit that really serve each other. >> egypt's newly inaugust rated president has appointed a prime

minister aiming for continuity. the former army chief is the third president in three years. sisi is the latest in a long line of ruling leaders in egypt. ukrainian president petro poroshenko ha says he wants to meet daily until issues are resolved. david chater has more. >> reporter: training on the shore of the sea that laps laps the shores of ukraine, they have joined the battalion, a special force raised by the interior ministry in kiev. they're receiving basic military

training before going to the front lines. >> reporter: just over the horizon are those are crimea. they've also come from sweden, italy, and most surprisingly some of them have come from russia. but the one thread that links all of these men is they believe in national socialism. they're all neo-fascists. this russian voluntee from the urals has adopted the name murman. >> in another turn years i will not belong in my country. we'll be like the red indians in america. >> reporter: also among their ranks we found a 52-year-old italian who left behind a wife and child to volunteer to fight for ukraine. >> for my political formation, i fight where my comrades are.

so i felt immediately at home. they let me feel at home, too. >> reporter: further east towards russia a border guard came under rocket attack overnight. this in a city that is supposed to be backing kiev. i found the separatist fighters downtown where they showed me around their fortifications in the old greek quarter of the city. >> the situation is a strain and i don't know what the future holds. in the region we have a lot of people but we have less support in our city. >> reporter: the beaches were full of sun bathers making the most of the weather, most of them seemed unaware or uncaring about the war being fought around them. but just along the coast members of the battalion were standing, too, at dusk under the ukrainian flag. the past is rearing it's head again and meeting the future of

ukraine. david chater, al jazeera. >> police used tear gas in sao paulo to break up striking metro workers. it is three days and counting until the start of the world cup. the police were called after protesters started burning garbage on the streets. >> we're outside of the metro station here in sao paolo, and you can see riot police are out in front walking any protesters getting inside the metro station. it's completely shut down because of the metro worker strike. follow me over this way. you'll see what is left from this morning when a couple of hundred protesters mostly university student activists started burning trash in the street completely blocking traffic in this major intersection. that's where riot police come in. tear gas broke the entire thing up. these student protesters were basically showing their support for the metro workers that are

on strike. the metro workers are now entering their fifth day of the strike here in sao paulo causing traffic chaos in the city just four days away from the start of the world cup in the city. >> reporting from sao paulo. president obama is due to take executive action this afternoon to ease college loan debts for millions of americans. he wants to expand a 2010 law that caps borrowers basements at 10% of their income. the order will extend police to 5 million graduates with older loans that are not currently covered. current college loans $1.2 trillion in total. over the last 30 years college tuition has skyrocketed. since 1978 tuition and fees increased 1,120%. by comparison even the healthcare rose 600%, while housing costs have gone up

375%. and food 200%. focusing on economic and voting rights issues spoke with us earlier today. >> the president's initiative is really a reflection, i think, of the fact that student loan debt has become a full-blown crisis for a lot of families in this country. it's well over 1 trillion-dollar now. ten years ago student loan debt stood at $250 billion. really kind of overnight we've gone from it being a kind of a problem to a really big problem. now what the president is doing is extending income based repayment which has been around for a while to older borrowers, those who took out loans a while ago. student loan debt is not really just an issue for recent graduates. but about a third of student loan debt is taken on by or exists among those who are above 40 years old. >> most realtors say the u.s.

housing market is on the mended, but one group of americans might disagree with that. student loans are part of the problem. we have reports on why many millennials are falling behind. >> their dream home, but this one bedroom part apartment across the street is their reality. >> if we could move tomorrow, i would. >> marcus does not see how he and his family could ever move past apartment living, student loans, not so stellar credit are factors that are keeping him from achieving the american dream. >> we don't see how we could continue to pay for the house and student loan debt and make sure we are okay as a family. so we can bring kids into the world. >> reporter: according to a

recent survey by fannie mae, 90% of millennials wish to own a home, but 36% of americans under the age of 35 actually do. that's down from 42% in 2007, and the lowest level since 1982 when the agent began tracking homeownership by age. of note the homeownership rate of this group was as high as 43.6% in 2004. real estate h expert mark bloom is well aware of the challenge that those with student loan debt issue. >> banks are less liberal with what they're giving out in terms of loans and what they're looking for in terms of credit. what that borrower has to have is usually more than what that millennial can clear. >> reporter: millennial's inability to purchase homes

could create a shift that could over time hurt the real estate market and slow the appreciation of homes on the market. >> it can stall the market. >> reporter: according to bloom to make the dream of homeownership more attainable. >> you want to pay down your debt, pay all your things on time. you want to save. >> reporter: marcus is all ears. he and his wife like to entertain guests, but-- >> in order to use the restroom, you have to go there our room to use the restroom. no privacy or nothing. >> reporter: although it may take time he's hopeful in hearing that homeownership doesn't have to be out of his reach. al jazeera.

>> a glimmer of hope, the museum's precious art work may no longer be in danger of being sold off.

>> undocumented children in the u.s. without families to live in arizona in warehouses. they join hundreds of other kids excellent in an overcrowded immigration facility in texas. governor jan brewer is said to be outraged. >> minors are being hosed in a makeshift warehouse. they're struggling to bring in mattresses and even shower facilities. >> comparing the numbers were last year and this year, it seems at the end of the year we have maybe triple that we had the last year. >> it's part of a serge of children crossing from mexico.

the recent influx of more than 48,000 traveling on their own has overwhelmed the border patrol. so last month the department of homeland security began sending immigrants from texas to arizona. arizona's governor jan brewer is outraged over what are described as dire situations at the nogales center. she released a statement calling on president obama to secure the southern border. >> in the obama administration put half the effort to secure the border our state and imagination would not be facing this situation. officials say most of the immigrants comes from central america trying to flee violence and poverty. >> border patrol has always been a good partner of the city of nogales, and they work very closely with us as a city of nogales. now as a city we need to help border patrol so they can accomplish their goals and make sure that these children are taken care of.

>> reporter: federal authorities say they will give vaccinations to the children and then they will be sent to facilities in california, texas and oklahoma as soon as the department of health and human services finds places for them. >> now these immigration facilities are filling up because of a surge in migrants from central america. in the past undocumented immigrants from mexico would be put on buses and dropped off on the other side of the border. but arranging flights back to honduras and el salvador, and if you think its tough sending them hope, getting to the u.s. is even more difficult. we followed three boys who came to the u.s. to find a better life. >> a vast remote dangerous desert surrounds the city of nogales. a tall steel fence slices through it. over the last month this

teenager and two cousins have traveled 2400 miles on foot by bus and by train to make it here to the mexican side of this border town. >> i'm 15 years old, and i'm from honduras. >> his hometown in honduras is one of the most violent cities in the world. after passing illegally in guatemala and mexico, he and his cousins traveled the beast, a dangerous and dusty free ride more than 1400 miles all the way to the border in nogales. >> the trip wasn't easy because we came on the train. we don't have water or food. you get really hungry. you're always afraid because people are telling that you someone has fallen from the train, that the train can kill

you. >> reporter: that night the three cousins stayed in a cheap hotel. in the morning he told me why they had to get out of honduras. >> there are killers. they go over to your house, they ask you for money. if you don't pay, they kill you. it's just horrible. >> reporter: border patrol agent knows how hard the last stretch into the u.s. can be. he drove us some 13 miles east of nogales where the border fence gives way to open desert. >> these people that come to the united states looking for a job, which is most of them, they're very vulnerable. >> i just want to see my dad and study. the journey didn't get to me. i feel good. but they tell me the hardest part is coming. we'll see if it's hard in a moment. >> these people don't know the criminal element that exist on the border. once out in the desert they have nowhere to go. >> reporter: axle and his

cousins could not afford to pay a smuggler or coyote to guide them. they'll hope for the best. >> i bought a really big backpack so i can fill it with a big wad of cash when i make it big over there. i'll fill it with socks and return it flush with dollars. >> reporter: we asked if we could follow them when they left. but they said that was just for them. >> the guys we stayed in touch with them. they tried to cross the border, and they said they were picked up in the night by a group of narcos who told them that that was their territory and they got robbed. now we'll try to get the details. >> the guys are hold up in their hotel room. they think that somebody might have tipped off the narcos. they feel like they stand out

because they're darker skin. they travel with backpacks. >> we just know that those people had come up in the hills and they told us that we're not supposed to be there. >> so it was--were they armed? >> yeah, they were armed. >> the narcos, the bandits, whatever they were, they took their money, their cellphones and killed their spirits. axle was so alternated that he was thinking about turning himself in to authorities, hoping they would send him home. >> members of the detroit institute of arts will join the news conference to make a major announcement about the grand bargain. the city's art work would be protected for sale. but some predators say that the art should be sold to pay the city's debt.

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>> welcome book al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. here are today's headlines at this hour. more deadly violence today in pakistan. at least four people have been killed. three of them soldiers in a suicide-bomber at a security checkpoint. today's attacks comes after an overnight siege at karachi's international airport. 29 people were killed there, including all ten attackers. the pakistani taliban is claiming responsibility. president obama is due to take an executive action in a matter of hours to ease college loan debt for millions of americans college grads. mr. obama wants to extend a law that caps student loans at 10%

of their income. it will extend release to 5 million graduates with older loans who are not currently covered. bowe bergdahl said that he was tortured by the taliban during his five years of capti captivity. there will an meeting regarding the swap that led to bergdahl's release. in somalia they're dealing with serious flooding. we have reports on the bess straight situation. they were already homeless. but now flash floods have swept through their camp making their flight even more desperate. soldiers from the a union mission to somalia has been trying to help, but their efforts are limited. for the moment there is nowhere else for these families to go. we sleep in the water. i have three children and we've

spent eight consecutive nights in the water. we're homeless day and night. we don't know what to do. if you can do something for us please do it. >> flooding comes annually, but this rain on this occasion took everyone by surprise. having to sleep, cook here increases risk for disease. >> we have no shelter or school, we're starving. we have no place to sleep. we're suffering a lot. >> the children are among those at risk. this is the grave of a child killed by the floodwater. >> the flood killed him in the second rain. too many children are dying. we don't have medicine or shelter. >> the waters will subside. the camp may eventually be moved but local officials fear more will die before relief arrives.

tim friend, al jazeera. >> a glimmer of hope for the somalia displaced. the government has located an area of higher ground for them. >> meteorologist: i'm meteorologist dave warren. it's been an active week with storm after storm that develops pretty much over the same area east of the rockies colorado and western kansas. that's the spin and line of severe weather moving through east texas. a number of reports have come in with wind and hail damage and continues to see that with this line continuing to push south. now this is the same type of storm that has been going through this area over and over the past few days. flood something a big problem. on top of the aamounts of rain we've had expecting more with about 3 to 5 inches of additional on top of saturated

ground, so the water can't go anywhere. there is flooding in western nba and kansas as the wind conditions to gust. below is western kansas. we have moisture pulled up through the gulf of mexico. over the next three days hook what happened over the accumulated rainfall in the same area talking about three to five inches of rain possible. and that area of heavy rain will continue to spread to the northeast. rain came it the northeast and now temperatures have dropped. now starting to eat up with the 76 in washington, d.c. and heating up over the southwest where hot and dry weather continues. the drought will be continued. >> if we could push the rain out west. >> too much rain in some areas

but not enough in others. >> well, elephants in thailand are showing off their soccer skills. they played a warm up match against students and here are the pictures. you're watching al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy.