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to yet... >> you can't tell the stories of the people if you don't get their voices out there, and al jazeera america is doing just that. quanitra hollingsworth this is al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton in nobodying. let's get -- n.o.r.c. let's get -- n.o.r.c. let's get you caught up on the top stories. the iraqi government launches an air offensive. >> the situation in 2003 has similarities. before i got to iran, effectively the iraqi army left the field. the iraq army retreated in the
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past. the supreme court has days to decide major cases. twist and turns - a dramatic finish to the u.s. portugal world cup match. great to have you with us. we begin in iraq where sunni rebels dealt a blow to the government. they are in charge of two border crossings into jordan and a second into syria. the latest expands the control over key areas. here is where things stand. fighters from islamic state of iraq and levant and their allies captured rutbar, giving them control of the highway to jordan. this as three others in anbar province are in their control, including alkim. they are close to adeefa, home
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to a dam. 2,000 troops have been deployed to protect it. fighting in bay any, the largest -- biany, the largest oil refinery. how are residents of baghdad beeing with the -- doing with the crisis? . >> extremely unsettled. the the onslaught that you described stunning in its swiftness and effectiveness. as for people living in baghdad day in and day out. they are used to living with the danger. >> this boy was out with his mother when a car bomb exploded outside their building. he is eight years old and has been afraid for as long as he can remember. the explosion two weeks ago
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killed 20 people. some were his friends. >> mia and hyder and hamad i nee them well. mia and jasz am were brothers. >> reporter: they were not officials or police men. they sold vegetables. living in baghdad made them a target. in carr arta a family's hopes and dreams reduced to rubble. it's an ordinary street but close to the entrance to the green zone, the home of the iraqi government and u.s. embassy. six were killed in in building alone. people are rebuilding their shops, that's what iraqis do. the question is can iraqi rebuild faster than their country is being destroyed. >> as many as 5 million left their countries but they are still leaving. those that remained are still
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cleaning up the damage. >> this man owned this shop for 40 years. he was at evening prayers at the mosque when a man parked a car, packed with ex-please is on the -- explosives on the corner, walked away and det jobated it -- detonated it. >> i heard the explosion. people would not let me go back. people were panicked. some were dead, a lot injures. >> reporter: he lost tens of thousands in the blast. almost no one has insurance in iraq. he is reopening as soon as he can. with the enslaught of fighters, some feel that baghdad could fall. on the street corner it's already fallen. thomas, iraqis have lived through a lot. on top of war, there's a threat of car bombs and the difficulty
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of every day life. these threats that they are facing with an onslaught of fighters is like nothing anyone has seen. a difficult road ahead. secretary of state john kerry blamed iran's leadership for the crisis, but said that the united states will offer help if the government pursues unity. john terrett reports on john kerry's diplomacy efforts. >> on iraq he said u.s. was not responsible. he called on them to choose leaders that will unit all of them. >> we will help iraqis to complete the transition if they choose it. they have an opportunity to choose leadership that can represent awful iran, a unity government bringing people
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together and focussing on i.s.i.l. i'm convinced they'll do so not just with our help, but every country in the region. secretary of state john kerry moves to europe, appearing in paris and brussels, talking to allies about international and local politics as they pertain to iran. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu appeared on u.s. television, he was on "meet the press", and n.b.c. he had a 2-pronged approach to the issue surrounding iraq. he told the united states do what you dam necessary to -- deem necessary to deal with i.s.i.s., but do not let iran get the upper hand like they have in recent years with countries like syria and lebanon. >> what you see in iraq is the hatred between radical shiites led by iran, and superoils led
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by i.s.i.s. and others -- sunnis led by i.s.i.s. and others. both are these are the enemy of the united states. when you have enemies in both don't strengthen either one. one of these factions, iran, can come out with nuclear weapons capability yits, it would be tragic, making everything else -- capabilities, everything else would fail. next up it president obama, recording three interviews due to be broadcast on monday. his message is that the iraqi politicians must pull the strands of their politics together to bring pass to their country. john terrett in washington. the former head of the u.s. occupation, paul bremer is calling for the u.s. to be more active on the ground. he called the u.s. withdrawal a mistake in an interview with al
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jazeera. >> what happened was nouri al-maliki took it as a symbol of disinterest. giving him a free arrange to establish an thoor tarian sectarian government. niring the force firing the guys in charge of the electoral commission. disbanding the ombuds mun. all of these things, particularly going after the sunnis, an arrest warrant for the vice president, all contributed not just in the last few weeks, but if you go back a couple of years to a progress imove to an authoritarian government under the prime minister. during the interview bremer reflected on the role the u.s. invasion had on instability in iraq. he said the 2003 military intervention was part of making iraq more inventive. >> if we ask ourselves what
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happened in 2003, what happens was by taking saddam hussein out of power, we overturned the sunni domination that had been there for 1,000 years. it was, in effect, a major political revolution. they are hard on people. they take a long time to restablilize. we are still in the restabilisation phase now, which i hope we get through. we understood that there would be people that disliked it. those that say disbanding the army created the insurgency never produced evidence. i don't dispute that some joined the resistance. to argue that that caused the resistance is not proven. turning to ukraine - anti-russian protesters stormed a russian bank. a group of ultra nationalists took to the streets marching outside a christian monastery.
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some demonstrators got into squirmishes with police. 73 years ago today nazis failed the soviet union. ukraine suffered more than a million fatalities, as ukraine paid tribute to the war dead it struggles. >> the nazi invasion of the soviet union, which began on june 22nd, 1941, claimed many lives. commemorating the losses is of significance in the form of soviet states. more than 1.3 million casualties were ukrainian, a fact not forgotten by modern leaders at the ceremony in kiev. 73 years on, peace is elusive. >> unfortunately these days the issue of war has become a reality in ukraine - the smell, the stemping of war is in the -- stemping of war is in the air.
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the day before yesterday during my visit i made a decision to give peace a chance. >> reporter: in moscow the russian leader laid a wreath at the tomb of unknown soldier. modern day event in eastern ukraine dominated the narrative. putin's support for the petro porashenko peace plan is critical to success. only a qualified endorsement has been given. the kremlin says substantial negotiations are needed. >> translation: the fact that president petro porashenko announced truces is an important element of the settlement, one of the most important elements. it would be impossible to come to terms of anything without. russia will support the intentions. in the end the important thing is a political process. >> reporter: in ukraine around 1,000 attended a ceremony.
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>> reporter: the message has been one of peace. there are inescapable parallels drawn. the current situation is ongoing. >> brothers killing brothers. i pitch to everyone on both sides. >> translation: kiev opened the wound again, a wound which is still bleeding because our parents and grandparents still remember it. >> reporter: then historical grief was overtape by contemporary bitterness. groups of militia arrived. some just teenagers, and signed up to go war. the irony could scarcely be more glaring. >> the supreme court is on deadloip to make decisions -- deadline to make decisions on a number of cases including the religious rites of corpses and freedom of speech for
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protesters. the supreme court has the power to schedule its own term, but its term is scheduled to finish at the end of this month. in april a ruling was made to ban affirmative action. justice soweder mayer opposed the ruling and wrote about it in "my beloved world", and talking about it on a.b.c.'s "this week." >> a place like apprenticeships tonne could fill the beginning freshman class with student who scored perfectly on undergraduate metrics. they don't do it because it would not make for a diverse class on the metrics that they thing are important. >> coming up in a few moments we invite you to join us for "the week ahead". we examine some major cases decided by the supreme court at 8:30 eastern, 5:30 pacific. team u.s.a. faced an o pond in
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mannous. it was a nail bitter. after beating ghana, the u.s. soccer team had a golden opportunity at the world cup against portugal. a victory would put them into the next round. ross shimabuku with the heights. this was heart-melting moments. >> it was a roller-coaster. the americans had the chaps to drop the hammer and knock portugal out the tournament. beat portugal and the u.s. progress to round 16. cristiano ronaldo from portugal in desperation mode. early the americans played sloppy defense. in the fifth minute the ball to howard. howard had no chance. america bounced back. in the 64th minute. jermain jones - the rocket - let the celebration begin. the equalizer tied it up. jermain jones scoring his first.
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in the 81st minute u.s. on the attack. the captain playing with a broken nose finds the back of the net. america was going bananas, the americans had a 2-1 lead. it appeared the americans would vans, get the three points. with seconds to go in stoppage - are you kidding me - cristiano ronaldo hit for the tying goal 2-2 draw, and portugal comes out. it was one of those moments where everybody was like - the u.s. has this, they'll vaps to the round of 16. with -- advance to the round of 16. with 30 seconds, a header and everyone is, "oh", portuguese fans exhale. here is a look where the taps had a dandy of a match. the u.s. with a 2-1 lead. now it will come down to thursday's match against germany. the u.s. need a draw or victory getting them into the next
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round, and ghana play portugal. we'll have to wait and see until thursday. both games playing smult apriliously. it will -- smult apriliously. it will be an amazing game. the teams are playing with passion. >> they are dealing with heat and humidity. they had the first water break. who noods water when you are -- needs water when you are cheering loud. andy is live in chicago with team u.s.a. fans in grand park. how are the fans feeling now? >> thomas, it's kind of a let down. all that is left that parked the park is the sea gulls picking apart the remains of what was leftment it was a raukous party. over 10,000 showed up, excited after the u.s. win over ghana. it was a huge event in chicago. we'll show you the video. we'll talk to joe gorman, a fan
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that showed up. what is your feeling like after this? >> let down, upset, robbed. 5 seconds away from making it to the next round. you have to keep hope. we played a good game. i mean, i don't think germany stands a chance. >> what was the event like itself, besides the fact of u.s. tying, what was it like for you? >> atmosphere was unbelievable. anyone here would agree with me. the number, the electricity in the air. everywhere coming together and just the unity. that is what america is about. >> will you be here thursday. >> i'll be here. >> will you be here monday? >> i'll be here. >> how is it for soccer in the u.s. to give us a soccer preps. these games, these events? >> it's taken off. anyone that shows up or is watching can see how more popular it is. see you then on thursday
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morning. thank you so much. >>. >> thank you. not just in terms of the excitement for the crowd, but it's a huge economic boost. all the vendors. those with the food, the water, the service, security, people that do the audio and visual for the big screen that we watched the game on, and the portaons, it's great business for people. the largest seller of soccer mempan dies tells us they had tripple the amount of business that they normally do. there's a growing excitement for the games. fans walking the streets with american flags draped over the soldiers. joining us from chicago. thank you. still to come on al jazeera. time is running out for the supreme court justices to rule on high-profile cases we'll discuss them indepth in "the week ahead". we are hours away of hearing the
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verdict of three al jazeera journalists detained in egypt. more on the case making headlines around the world.
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it's a tense standoff in south korea. the military cornered an army sergeant accused of killing five of his fellow soldiers. harry fawcett reports. >> the incident began on saturday night with a shooting at an outpost in the north-east of south korea. this man was known to have been an guard duty during the afternoon and the shooting began after 8:00 pm local time when he returned to barracks. five of his colleagues shot dead, seven injured, requiring emergency surgery. they are out of danger we understand. he was on the run for 18 hours, a massive manhunt. seems he came down from the mountains to the coastline and
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to this village where there was an elementary school. it was at the check point where he engaged soldiers, a platoon leader shot through the arm, injured, now the defence minister is surrounded by troops, and they are trying to persuade him to surrender. according to the rules of engagement at play, the fact that he shot first means that if necessary they can shoot to kill. we don't know much about the man beyond the background of his mental state in that he was under special assessment after not having adapted well to military life. there are reports that he was categorised in the most high risk category at one point during his 2-year national mandatory service, and it was downgraded meaning he was entitled to be deployed to a front-line zone like this and have access to guns and weapons like this the u.s. is releasing
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$500 million of the military aid to egypt. the funds were frozen since mohamed mursi was ousted. the news comes as secretary of state john kerry visited cairo two weeks after abdul fatah al-sisi was sworn in as the new egyptian president. kerry pledged the u.s. will stand with the egyptian people. egypt's new president announced new procedures paving the way for parliamentary election. abdul fatah al-sisi promised to settle it after the ouster of mohamed mursi. the new procedures due to go into effect by july 18th are expected to set regulations and a time frame. a verdict for the al jazeera journalists gaoled in egypt is expected to be announced monday. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed have been detained since december, accused of collaborating with the muslim brotherhood. barnaby phillips has the story. >> you are watching closely the trial of al jazeera staff and
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journalists in egypt. >> reporter: it's a message that resonated far and wide, that journalism is not a crime and in a free society reporters need to be able to speak to all sides. the men in the cage have paid a heavy price in defense of the right. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed respected journalists - they have been behind bars for 176 days. the egyptian authorities accuse them of spreading lies, having links to a terrorist organization. across the world many disagree and have spoken out in defense of the al jazeera team. >> we'd like to love in a world where we can go about our legitimate business, as anyone could, a doctor and lawyer. anyone co do. it's not about demack accuracy and freedom. not saying that they are above the law, but in this instance, and instances like this, if they
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are doing their job legitimately, people should not be obstructed in doing that and put in prison. campaign events took place in 30 countries around the world. more than 69,000 people have tweeted using the hashtag free aj staff. together, those people september out of total of 1081 tweets, and they reached more than 74.4 million twitter accounts. >> the al jazeera campaign attracted support from people all over the world. the challenge for any social media campaign is to translate success in the virtual world into results in the real world. turning re-tweets into pressure on on people in power. >> even the most famous of tweeters backing honourable causes don't always come out on
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top. campaigners helped peter greste's family raise 58,000 sit. and they feel it made a difference. >> egyptian authorities respond to international pressure, and we are there. the feedback from the families is knowing that that they are there with thousands gives them the strength to have the conversations. >> now, peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed wait for the court's decision. they and supporters over the world feel the case has gone on too long. once again al jazeera rejects all charges and is demanding the immediate release of its journalists, there's word former prisoner of war bowe bergdahl is out of hospital in texas. the army says his reintegration prospect is going well. he is being exposed to more people. he was captured by the taliban
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in 2009. the army is investigating an analyst on middle eastern affairs died. he was a senior fellow at stamford university. he was known to americans for his contributions on tv and print, offering guidance on struggles into the region. he was called one of the most brilliant middle east scholars of our time. still to come on al jazeera america - the future of watching live tv on your ipad. laws regarding protests outside abortion clinics. the supreme court is expected to rule. details in the sunday segment "the week ahead" after the break. and weather. >> we have flash flooding and wind gusts. coming up how a storm system which could be developing into a tropical storm is impacts weather in the south-east tomorrow.
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we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism
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welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at the top stories we are following -
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secretary of state john kerry is in the middle east to address the situation in iraq. sunni rebels today claimed more territory including a military post near jordan. thousands have fled the violence. radical nationalists took to the streets in ukraine. anti-russian protesters stormed a russian bank in kiev. a few squirmishes with police broke out during the march team u.s.a. faced an uphill battle. it came from behind leading 2-1. in the last play of the game portugal tide it up. it's sunday night, time for a look at the week ahead. tonight we discuss the supreme court and high profile cases it is expected to decide in the next few days. the issue before the court includes religious rite, freedom of speech and presidential powers. we begin with this report from
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courtney kealy. >> reporter: as it does the supreme court left the toughest decision until the end of the term. >> it's natural that it goes down to the wire for the big high-profile decision. >> reporter: the hobby lobby case, two corporations opened by families with strong religious beliefs do not want to be forced to offer coverage for contra-septemberives under the affordable care act. they contend the religious freedom restoration act protects them. amy howl, editor at a blog says a ruling in their favour could lead to a slippery slope. >> what if you don't believe in vaccinations or blood trance fusions. can the company refuse those. it could open up, depending on the ruling, some of the provisions of the affordable care act. >> we are done. recess appointments.
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the court must decide if president obama overstepped his constitutional authority when he filled positions on the national relations labour board without getting senate approval. >> presidents over the years have made the recess appointments. environmental regulation - industry groups say the e.p.a. wept. >> far changing the threshold for greenhouse gas emisses. the government will decide whether they require permits for industries that spew pollutants that cause change. if the administration loses, it is likely to retain powers to regulate emissions from power plants. abortion - a law creating 35 foot buffer zones around abortion clinics is being challenged. >> opponents of rights say it violates their right to free
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speech. >> it's unlikely after the oral argument that the massachusetts law, as it stands will survive. >> reporter: finally an unusual case is over ario, an internet start up, giving customers a dime-sized antenna allowing them to see broadcast on mobile devices for a monthly fee. >> it's said this is a violation of privacy. permitting the transition of broadcasts without paying for it. a lot of business. the court leaves the highest profile cases for the closing day of its term, this year is no exception. man of the big -- many of the biggest issues have been dealt before and will be in the future. including abortion rite, freedom
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of speech. there's a handful of new topics, such as rites and fees. and the p's recess appointment power, something used for over a century, but never questioned until now. there's a lot to talk about. we welcome stan pottinger, a former u.s. assistant attorney. jiping us from washington -- joining us from washington is a supreme court reporter from the atlantic and professor of law at baltimore. we have a lot to talk about. let's start with the national labour relations board versus noel canning. what does a soft drink plant have to do with presidential burst? >> i'll let mr ens take that, he is the expert. >> go for it mr epps. >> the national relations board governs labour unions at industrial facilities, if there is not a quorum of members of the board, they can't enforce
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labour law. republicans in the senate blocked new appointments to the board until labour enforcement collapsed. the barack obama administration seconded by saying we decided the senate is not in session, so we'll appoint people under the recess appointment clause, designed to let the government - if the senate is back at home. it's an aggressive use of power. it met with skepticism when the judges talked in january. oral arguments didn't go so well for the government in january. >> no, justices felt that this was incompatible with the constitution, because the senate said it was in session and the administration said it was not. a lawyer said "let's decide that if the senate says it's in
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session, it's in session." and that is what is likely to happen. >> what would sa ruling mean, mr pot ipinger. >> i think approximately change the picture. the issue of how much power the government can have or the white house, the president can have, verses the senate is an issue that that is never been changed. as mr ens -- eps says, the court is skeptical about expanding the power. >> they could rule that the senate is in session until it says it's not. >> i think that's right. form sometimes matters. it may be a questionable sues of the senate's power, as opposed to a reel dynamic session.
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where do you draw the line. you'll defer to what the senate believes it's doing. >> this will not have an immediate impact, will it, mr eps? >> no, it's not likely to. we have a quorum, we had rule changes in the senate so fila busters are less than a problem. if the senate changes hands in november, and president obama is facing a republican senate the recess appointment will be hot. thus it's really important to see how broad a ruling the court comes down with. >> another high profile case, hobby lobby. this started with the affordable care act. >> exactly, and in this case that requires certain employers to provide what turns out to be 20 different kinds of protection for and on behalf of women in the area of birth control. four of those, which have to do
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with the termination of a pregnancy after cop essential -- conception bothered the hobby lob lobby owners, saying it violates their religious freedom. i think the trend would have been away from their winning, but my reading - i'd like to here mr epps view, but my reading is because it's limited to four post-consense terminations -- post-conception terminations maybe it will be beyond the pale. the question is do for-profit-companies have a right to exercise religious freedoms. that is a question and it would have been an outlandish argument until the last couple of years. it worries people, not just democrats or people that favour
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the affordable care act. a number of people in the corporate world are worried about the idea that the supreme court might decide that a corporation can have a religious identity. then you'll see major corporations pressured to adopt. say that we are a christian corporation. this will be a problem for competition in the market police. hobby lobby's claim constitutionally and statutorily is not limited to any four contraceptives, and there are cases where no one believes there should be contraceptions. if hobby lobby wins, we are teeing up all sorts of issues. >> there are cases pending. >> a question will be if the court decides to move in favour of hobby lobby can they restrict it to small private ownerships,
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issues like this carved out, four out of 20, issues where the government can pick up the cost. can the court go that way and contape a decision in favour of hobby lobby or does it open the door to a parade of horrors. >> it could be a slippery slope. >> it's an issue for the court. every time they recall the question is what are the implications of the ruling. are we on a slippery slope or contained to a set of facts. i think the same question will be one we have to look at. >> do you think employers could sue hobby lobby? >> sure. i think they co sue. gends -- could sue. depend what could happen. yes, it is possible. the question of what the cost is to pick up the question is also
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one that is going to be a major issue - maybe, $300, $400 to cover this cost, or to get other insurance on her own. there's a burden placed on women if they are cut out of this coverage. >> let's talk about the copyright law. >> i will tell you that the issue as i understand it is whether one of these newer internet-based apps that we use all the time to make our lives more convent can adapt to introducing signals, storing them and transmitting them, and probably the last case that the court has decided that has this kind of implications for the entertainment world was the sony versus beta max decision in which the court cleared the way
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for the video recorder industry, had they decided the other way. we may not have been able to watch things on tebow and so forth. the stakes in money and technology is high. >> with ever changing technology doesn't the supreme court have to tread carefully. >> i think so. on the face of it it's a theft. you are intercepting the signal and broadcasting the concept. >> with tiny antennas. >> if you look at people on the streets they say "i have to buy rabbit ears", and all i'm doing is paying them to provide me with a little set of rabbit ears much after that they are bringing to me the same thing i could get if i paid for rabbit ears on the television, except i'm seeing it on the ipad or computer or smartphone. if you don't distinguish the smartphone from a television set, what is the harm.
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i suspect they'll lose the case. i understand the issue, and the other thing that one should mention is ario tried to scare people with a fear that it will interfere with one's right to use the cloud. and utility air and e.p.a. this tests the limits of federal powers. >> not really. it's not a federalism case. >> no. >> it's a case about the meaning of a federal statute. under the supreme court's previous case, massachusetts versus e.p.a. they have statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gases emitted by motor vehicles. as part of coming up with a system to regulate the gases the e.p.a. said in order to do that we have to regulate greenhouse gases emergent from stationary sources. factories and so forth, or the
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system will not make sense. the business groups say you are changing the meaning of the statute, you don't have the authority under the statute and the court will have to decide what the statute means. >> the business groups argue billions of dollars, thousands of jobs. >> the big concept is of interest to the common citizen. the big issue is money, frequently money. the question about global warming and what the e.p.a.'s limits are is what is at play, what happened when the congress passed the act. if you believe global warming can be contained, the question is how much do you want to pay for it, are you ready to be taxed. in order to do that it can't be an expansive use of your tax dollars. it can be something reasonable. that is the big picture that is playing out here.
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>> what would a ruling against the e.p.a. mean? >> i think it would mean they have to adopt different strategies to keep the total number - the total amount of emissions down. i don't think it will be the collapse of clean-air policy. on the other hand you have to remember it takes place against the backdrop of a congress that is paralyzed. we are not likely to get anything that would clarify the situation, if the court makes a mess of it. >> listening to oral arguments makes it uncertainly. what do you make of mccullan verses popely. >> i will confer to mr epps. >> start with a little background. >> in mccullan versus copley, there was a statue saying no one could come within 35 feet of a
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reproductive health facility unless they were employees or patients seeking hep or people walking through. you can't stand in front and protest, hold signs, talk to people going in and say "let me tell you why you shouldn't have an abortion", that is illegal within 35 feet of the entrance. this was done as a result of history of violence. we had john sal vi junior who murdered two people at an abortion clinic in massachusetts, after picketing. there has been auto accident, beatings in front of the clinics. the court is now trying to decide if 35 feet is too much. it's a large swath of the public sidewalk to be marked off and for people to be told they can't stand on it and talk. one of the funniest moments of the term was to see the justices trying to figure out how far 35 feet was from the bench.
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they seemed to be spacially challenged. some of them said it was all the way to the end of the courtroom, others to the front bench. you have a bunch of people who don't know what 35 feet is, who will decide whether it's too much. my guess is the law will fall. >> i was doing to say this about that when i deferred. i think you have to defer in favour of safety. the first amendment has never been an absolute right of free speech. you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre. time, place and manner mattered. if you bring a bull horn at 3 in the morning to advertise yourself as a candidate. if the police said "you can't do that." that would be reasonable. i think given the degree of vitriolic rehabilitation to women trying to exert their constitutional right to access
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to health care, in light of that i would favour and i hope the court favors airing on the side of protecting their right and still having the rights, and going up into the face of the woman to get health care. it doesn't strike me as reasonable. >> in the time moment, what case will you watch closely in the week ahead. >> the case is nervous. harris versus quin, brought by right to work organization. that is explicitly attempting to do away with contracts that public employees can have with their state employers, that permit exclusive bargaining representatives to collect dues or fees from non members of the union. when the right to work advocate was asked by justice quayingan,
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you are -- cagan, you are trying to make unions into an open shop. people i know are nervous in the public employer sector. it could be a grep aid in their bunker. >> i like riley. this is a case where we decide what the police can do with your cell phone when they stop you for running the stop light. can they take your telephone and look at it, access it, copy and use it as evidence? or do they have to get a warrant before doing that. they claim, and i think it is understandable. that if it's an emerge ent situation, you can't go to a court and get the warrant that is typical of the fourth amendment. that's been true for years about what is app emergency situation under the fourth amendment. when you are stopping someone
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driving a car for a stop light ipp fraction, and you take a beer bottle or a whiskey bottle or papers sitting next to them as a part of that stop, that's reasonable. when you take their phone or their ipad. you are taking a big hunk of their life. the court is going to struggle with this, bringing this fourth amendment concept into the 21st century ci. >> we'll watch the cases in the week ahead. thank you for joining us. let's look at some other events coming up this week - monday - u.n. security council will debate the iraq crisis, focussing on the advances on several cities and crossings by i.s.i.l. tuesday - five states hold primies, colorado, maryland, new york, oklahoma and utah. friday - ukraine's president to sign an association agreement
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with the european union. still ahead - live to rio for the exciting finishes in brazil stay with us.
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welcome back. rebecca stevenson joining us with a look at the forecast of the two words you need to know this weekend - hot and stormy. >> this is true and flash flooding. that sa big concern not -- that is a big concern not only in the midwest, but to the north. and picking up from texas eat ward. we look at the satellite, a water vapour satellite. it shows you where the moisture is, in the green area, and where
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we have the most energy. there's a storm system in the southern pacific developing in a tropical disturbance. there's a 30% chance. that's what pt storm prediction center is. look at the moisture streaming off out of this into texas, across mexico into louisiana. this is feeding a lot of humidity, which is bringing flash flooding. we'll watch this amount of rainfall closely. today in parts of texas, 4-6 inches of rain fall. we are looking closely at texas. other gauges spread across the south. we had well over half app inch. as you look at demini , it's over -- demini it's over a tenth of an inch. we'll have more on al jazeera news after the break.
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[ ♪ theme ] >> back to world cup action in brazil. we go live to rio de janeiro with more exciting matches. team u.s.a. in a thrilling draw with portugal. where does this lead the u.s. tournament. >> it's not a fascinating situation. is the united states glass half full or half empty. so close to becoming the seventh team to reach the last 16. of course, that late equalizer from portugal means the work is not quite down yet. now they need to avoid defeat against germany, and the united states managed by a former superstar. if a drawn game suits both teams, surely that is unfair. that is not really the situation at all, because both of those teams, as well as their open
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pride want to win. they'll want to win against belgium. both teams will go for it. if we are in the last few minutes. do you really want to attack and risk going out of the tournament. i'm not sure you do. >> algeria won its first game since 1982 - are they in a good position? >> yes, they are. this is a team that was struggling to score goals, this is why they hadn't won a world cup game in 1982. they managed three in 12 minutes. they are the first african team to score four goals in a world cup. this was an excellent victory for algeria and came out of nowhere in terms of the goaling they managed to score. they are a good defensive unit, a good team, the highest ranked team in the tournament at 22.
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we shouldn't be too surprised by the progress. what they have to do now is avoid defeat in their last group game against russia, who were defeated by belgium today. this is good news for african football. it's been a couple of good days for african football with the way that ghana and nigeria played. there's a lot of pride in what they have achieved here. to not have won is world cup game since 1982, and then to actually put those goals in. it shows at this world cup expect the unexpected. there has been script lating games of football. >> these players are playing with passion and the fans are excited. lee we'llings joining us. thanks. >> that will do it for this hour. thank you for joining us, i'm thomas drayton in new york. i'll be back with another hour at 11:00 pm eastern, 8 pacific.
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