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i'm not disappointed because i love the film industry.... now, behind the scenes, i'm truly a filmmaker. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm it will walters. here are the stories we're followinger you. secretary jonathan bet john kerry. and it is happened again, an, plosion at a crowded shopping center in nigeria.
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>> which begin in washington with just days to go before the recess and there are major rulers. lisa stark is live in washington, what did the justices have to say concerning aereo. >> reporter: yes, an internet start up company. the suprem justices found that the way they're working is illegal. they are selling antennas to consumers, and consumers can use those antennas to watch from their mobile devices. they said we're not providing
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the content. we're providing the antenna. the court disagreed by 6-3 ruling. the national association of broadcasters was elated in the ruling and sent a release: >> as for aerel. this could be the death nail for the company. the ceo said that this was a massive set back for american consumers. there was no plan b if the court ruled against them, and the court did. >> this was a case that pit the
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police against civil libertarians. if the police stopped you for an arrest, could they go through your cell phone without getting an warrant. the supreme court said no. that violates the amendment 6 unreasonable search and seizure. this was unanimous, by the way. chief justice said: >> they said if they arrest you and they want to look in your cell phone, they need to get a warrant first. >> lisa stark, thank you very much. secretary of state john kerry against taking any actions that would raise tensions in that country. the secretary once again
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stressed the need for an exclusive government. libby casey in washington for us. tell us what the secretary had to say today. >> reporter: he talked about the challenges in iraq. extraordinary challenges is how he described them, and the message was that there was a global incentive to help in iraq, to not let the situation spiral further out of control. he took about how a threat far away can have tragic consequences back home. >> the united states is also working to support iraq in its fight against isil. remember that isil is a terrorist army. it is not only in iraq, but threatens every country in egy middle east and in the united
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states. he addressed the question of what could be did done there and he addressed the question of what iran could do there. >> rejecting any formation of a national unity government, what was the secretary's response? >> the secretary really parsed words and said that nouri al-maliki rejected forming a national formation government, and that was not something that they discussed specifically. instead he discussed other language that nouri al-maliki used, that he would follow up to secretary kerry and the u.s. having a meeting on july 1st. and having accountability to come together. 's going to try to leave room open.
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the u.s. has incentive to let al maliki get breathing room. and secretary kerry backing an away. >> and the special forces soldiers as the president likes to call them advisers in baghdad, what is their plan? >> yes, some of them are special forces rangers, but they're on the ground trying to figure out what is happening there and try to come up with a plan for the weeks ahead. there is a 300-pe-person force that the president promised to send there. and they are trained and they are now on the ground. >> it was a rough first quarter for the u.s. economy. it change 2%.
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economeconomists say this might be a temporary setback. there has been another explosion in nigeria. this time in a shopping center. the explosion may have been started by a car bomb parked at the mall. what do we know in terms of the casualties? >> very chao chaotic and emotions are running very high. it's hard to say how many casualties and injuries there may be. there is no containment there
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were at least eight bodies. the media has been pushed back by officials who want to clear the area. there could be another explosive device planted at the shopping mall. >> make sure that you are safe, if you are not, tell us right now and we'll hang up the phone. but are we certain the device used was a bomb? >> we're not certain of that, but it does look like that. as i say this is a very busy, very popular shopping area. there has never been anything like this before. it's actually an area where a large number of electronics are sold, and the electrical system here is very good.
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so far there has been no official statement from nigeria security, military, police, the criminal investigation department about what the exact cause of the explosion was, and many people will believe that it could be boko haram, the group behind so many attacks in this country over the past several years. >> yvonne ngeda line for us by phone. please get to safety. >> therboko haram is suspected of another abduction. but the officials in m nigeria have not admitted there has been another abduction.
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andrew simmons reports. >> reporter: they tried to assure the people. he said that he shared their pain, the pain of the families. he does not confirm this mass kidnapping report, but refer to the reference in sharing pain. hwhen asked if he was going to do a thorough investigation, and he said he's going to do that. he was very critical of the military after the attack, the initial attack in which the 276 school girls were abducted.
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that criticism has subsided but it does seem that privately there is a great amount of tension between the governor and the government. the government and the federal government are in position in which it's unclear that they're moving forward. any observer would tell you that there is lack of clarity on behalf of the government. the waves of terror outside of the city are ruled by boko haram. there is a whole mess going on outside in the sense that the fabric of society has been wrecked these past few months with the most unprecedented level of violence. trying to keep that calmer, the
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government trying to do that is an immense start. >> the women who are in the middle of all this, the abducted nigerian girls. we go to a psychologist about the psychology of the girls who have been kidnapped. >> first there is the trauma of the kidnapping itself. then there is the removal from their families, and third, these girls know what these men are like. they know what they're capable of, and then there is the trauma, the rape, the torture to which they're subjected. probably started out with a great deal of hope. and every day that they're not raped and not tortured there
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will be a revival of hope. but as days and months go on there will be a state of hopelessness that will set in. depending on the coping style of each of these individual girls. they will do whatever it is that they cope. some might align with their can' captors, some will feel hopeles hopeless, some may try to run. those who try to run may be killed on subjected to more. >> they have not been rescued after so much time has been passed. >> the anger that the girls feeling anger? >> the individuals in nigeria, anger at officials in nigeria, these are children kid snapped. will they be ange angry that they had to wait so on and given up hope in a system that was supposed to assist them.
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>> that's an important question. it depends on cultural and familiaral facts, what they've been told by the government by their families. a parents' primary job is to protect these children. and for these girls to be out in the wild with these men who are probably abusive. by the way, some of their captors may only be a couple of years older than the victims themselves. there is going to be a wish to reunite with these protective loving parents, and i think that anger is overstating it. i would say like despair, hopelessness. a falling back on whatever coping mechanism they use to stay resilient. >> speaking of coping mechanisms one of the things that these children have probably grown up with is the sense that this happens in nigeria where it may not happen elsewhere.
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have they given up on the system, and will you have give up hope that these girls will have a normal life. >> it's interesting if they'll have a normal life. people may not recover trauma. just getting the patient talk about it, you have to build bridges around it, make appropriate choices in their life. there are program recovery groups that are special in scope and travel around the world helping victims of these national disasters. what they do is they help the victim get back in their bodies after the trauma so they're less dissociated and disconnected from the environment. >> dr. bethany marshall joining us from los angeles. thank you so much. the ki kidnapped girls still
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missing. will immigrants be allowed to stay?
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>> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news.
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>> being in the country feels good, she says, but she didn't come here to feel good. she came for a better future for her son and herself. border patrol hit them up after they crossed the rio grand on a raft. but what once would have been the end of their american dream is just a detour. more than 16,000 central american immigrants arriving in the rio grand valley each month. u.s. immigration officials drop off about 500 women and children at this bus terminal each day. jiménez said she had heard
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rumors that single mothers and children would be allowed to stay in the u.s. that's why she came now, she said. and ice spokeswoman said that many are screened and subject to removal but others say they see it as a free pass. everyone says the united states is helping immigrants enter, she says. what's driving the migration, the rumor that the permit allows you to stay in the u.s. and lack of jobs in central america. mothers say. hi men needs said the dangers of the journey and discomfort are small price to pay. she has not showered or brushed her teeth in three days. four blocks away from the bus terminals the mothers and children find an oasis. behind these gates is a
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volunteer-run shelter that offers food, rest and compassion. >> if i were in the same situation, and my children were starving, and my children were in danger, as a mother i would do anything to keep them safe, and to bring them to the promised land. >> reporter: catholic charities run the shelter and acknowledge that it is controversial. the judge has nothing but the word of these mothers that they'll return for the hearings. but for them all that matters is a warm shower and the journey that is head. jimenez said no more detention, now we go to our families. she'll have to make the decision of appearing in court and risk being deported or g leave and remain hidden. >> al jazeera takes a look at
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detention centers. immigrants are sometimes kept in deplorable conditions. wednesday at 8:00, 5:00 p.m. pacific time. and john terrett is here. >> the house judiciary today. grilling jay johnson, the homeland security secretary, and he made the point that this is going on the southern border at the moment with particularly young children coming on their own to try to get into the security. it is more than a security issue. it's also a humanitarian issue. >> we're talking about large numbers of children without their parents who have arrived at our border hungry, thirsty,
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exhausted, scared and vulnerab vulnerable. the principle reason they're leaving their countries are the conditions in another criticize. they are really bad. it has to be really bad for a parent willing to part company with his or her seven-year-old. >> that of course is true. republicans on the other hand not having any of that. they said look, what's going on here is obama policies are sending the signal down the line that it's okay to come to the united states now. it's okay to approach the country, and certainly the case of people who come up from central america, in particular, guatemala, honduras and el salvador. there are rules, those people have to be given a month's break, and that' before they're sent back. the economy and all of that stuff, it's been going on for years. >> separate the politics, and the numbers are staggering, not just humanitarian crisis but
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security concerns. >> security concerns are number one in the house and will be this afternoon as well. but i think one of the messages that went out from yesterday's hearing and again this afternoon is that the american people should be under no illusion that these--and it's 52,000, 30,000 over last year. none of these young people are likely to be sent back. a, it costs an awful lot of money to do that. b, you just can't send uncompanied children back to where? with who? to what? it's not going to happen. so these kids who have made it are likely to stay. you got to believe at one point their parents will be allowed to come as well. >> john terrett, thank you very much. coming up next on al jazeera america. they're cleaning up parts of the south, especially south dakota after being hit with major flooding. we'll look at whether they have anything else to worry about.
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>> secretary of john kerry talked to leaders in iraq who said no to any unity government. an explosion in nigeria that may have been caused by a car bomb parked at a shopping mall. officials have yet to confirm the number of casualties. justices say police cannot search your cell phone without a warrant during an arrest. and aero antenna illegally rebroadcasting television programming. enwe are not out of the
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woods when it comes to severe weather across the country. it has been one heck of a spring. >> just getting started. flooding is still a big problem. this is all river flooding. these larger rivers have gone above flood stage. major flooding happening in many areas. the darker green color, eastern montana, west indies, flooding that happened there with severe storm developing. this area will be seeing storms developing. dry here, we don't want any additional rain. talking about 10 to 20 inches of rain in the past month and not expected today, but the flooding is still a problem. this is major flood stage along the mississippi river around st. paul. you see these rivers slowly climb. this is not flash flooding, this
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is river flooding. here is the record stage of 26 feet, and then slowly dropping. still above that major flood stage by the middle of next week and all of these locations reporting this river flooding and showing there is major flooding happening in nine stages. this may spread south as the waterworks its way through the riverheading south. there is the flash flooding possible in western pennsylvania as well. storms will be developing, a watch is in effect. there are some flood warnings in ohio and western pennsylvania. flooding already happening with the flood watch that remains in effect. the storm continues to bring up abundant moisture. and right next to that storm you see all that moisture coming down. that's what could lead to the flooding here. more inches of rain expected over the great lakes over the next three days. that's why we had that flash flood watch in effect for two to
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four inches of rain and along the gulf coast in texas. >> dave warren, thank you very much. thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. fal"fault line" is next. >> we are in the farthest north reaches of wisconsin, in america's midwest, 200 miles from the nearest major city. it's home to the chippewa people, native american tribes who've lived here for generations alongside farmers and miners. but today, tourism is among the primary industries. >> right now we are on the coast of lake superior, which is frozen over solid.