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hope. not guilty. that's what the libyans suspected of leading the american consulate on benghazi pleaded. he is being charged in the attack that took place on september 11th, 2012, which killed 4 americans including ambassador chris stevens. he was captured south of benghazi. he arrived in washington, d.c. aboard a navy helicopter this morning. john terrett has more. >> according to multiple sources, he was apprehended in a fight two weeks ago with u.s. commanders and f.b.i. agents in libya's second city benghazi. he has been intear gated from

the f.b.i., cia and defense intelligence agency. as the ship neared at a time u.s. coastline, he was transferred by aircraft to an undisclosed location. he is facing a string of charges including killing a person in the course of an attack on a federal facility with the use of a firearm and dangerous weapons as well as attempting and conspireing to provide material support to terrorists resulting in death. more charges against him are expected to follow. president obama has already described him as one of the master minds of the attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi on september 11th, 2012, that left ambassador chris stevens and three other u.s. citizens dead. republicans have hammered the obama administration on benghazi claiming they did too little to protect the diplomatic mission and xofrd up wtcoupvered what chief has been former secretary of state hillary clinton, tipped for a presidential nominee nod. she and administration officials

have denied the g.o.p. accusations. of the many outstanding questions about benghazi, one in particular stands out: was attack prompted by an andy muslim video going viral that triggered a law scale protest in cairo. educated it was as he is slated to be cried from the criminal court system expected to be in washington, d.c. that's something we are likely to find out for sure. john terrett, al jazeera, new york. >> attorney generalra rick eric tolder says he will face the full weight of the u.s. justice stem. >> a rejukenated iraqi army is on the offensive in and around the city of tikrit that has been under rebel control. imran khan has the latest from baghdad. >> as iraq battles isil and s sunni rebels, the human cost is increasing.

people flee from the fighting as the battle for tikrit intentionfies. the united nations says thousands are escaping in fear as they say the violence takes on an increasingly sectarian nature. figures for civilian casualty haven't been officially released. there are concerns that the rebels and the rohrich army may have killed notices caught up in the battles across northwestern iraq. these armored cars are part of the first major ground offensive since this crisis began. it's trooped massed here where isil rebels began to take te territory in the northwest. on saturday, the soldiers started their ground offensive fighting their way up this road to here, the outskirts of tikrit. >> has been in the islamic state of iraq in laugh ant and the latest offensive has been doubled zero hour by some government forces. iraq's army says its in control of the outlying suburbs of regular infant tree. shia militia forces and

helicopter support. >> translator: it's confirmed that the isil leaders have started to flee. all of the intelligence information that we got today and yesterday shows the morale of the army is collapsing. >> pro-isil reports show they have brought in reinforcements and killed soldiers and destroyed 10 to 20 ramie humvees and that they have the army on the run. both sides say the fighting is continuing. >> the iraqi air force has struck targets for the first time. they likely used hellfire milingsz missiles. the americans would have begin them advice. it's not just hellfire over the skies much iraq. >> the u.s. has confirmed it's flown aircraft, lethal and non-lethal. >> we continue to fly, both manned and unmanned aircraft over iraq at the iraqi government's request, predominantly for recon sans purposes. some of those aircraft are

armed. the reason that some of those aircraft are armed is primarily for force protection reasons now that we have introduced into the country some military advisors whose objective will be to operate outside the confines of the embassy. >> despite that, isil not only controls the second biggest stiff but has mounted another display of power and shows no signs of backing down. imran khan, al jazeera, baghdad. >> joan us onset with the former "new york times" editor and lecturer at nyu. we appreciate you coming in. the enter the national crisis for independent research and policy institstewart describe a situation in iraq this way. it's pretty dire. the reports that they publish said parliament has been rendered toothless. ministries to an unprecedented

extent have nepotism and other forms of corruption, the severely criticized judiciary represents all but rule of law. isis has taken city after city. what needs to happen on tuesday? >> this is exactly why isil was able to do what it did and to gain ground in the sunni provinces. this is exactly the reason. it's political more than real military reason. so what needs to be done is first of all, you should show to the iraqi people that you are willing to change what the current situation and the iraqi state, to form an inclusive government, that will take over from mamnouri al-malaki's government. >> when you say inclusive, particularly reaching out to the sunnis? >> exactly. definitely to the sunnis and to the kurds. income, the sunnis because this is the priority now since isil

is active in their province. so the sunnis would be a number 1 priority. so this would be number 1. this is the first step. everyone in baghdad, most of the politicians are talking in this sense. they are talking in the spirit of change that we need to change with what we used to have for the past eight years of al-malaki's government. and i think this is the current thing that is fueling all of these discussions before tuesday's parliament session >> since these things did develop while nouri al-malaki has been in office, can it change whiif he is still in off? >> i don't think so. maliki has become the face of the current crisis. if he assumes office, no matter what promises he will give or guarantees he will give, no one trusts him. the kurds said they will not join a government presided by al-malaki. the sunnis will definitely not

get involved in a government with al-malaki. so i don't think so. i don't think al-malaki is able. >> will he just step down? >> i mean he will try to faiigh to the last minute. you were talking in your reported about a new offensive today by iraqi army. he will fight to sort of use or take advantage of any gains on the ground, any victory that the iraqi army can achieve. >> to say i am the guy >> this is the game he has been playing for all of the time. i am the one. i am your savior for terrorists, the man protecting iraqi and what happened in the past two weeks proved the contrary. >> while the u.s. clearly is not formed of him now, they have been his supporter for all of this time what role kate u.s. play? is this meeting happening tuesday because of the visit from secretary of state kerry office had? >> actually, it is happening. partly because of secretary k r

ker kerry's visit, constitutionally speak, they should have. they should have this meeting. but due to the -- i mean, the past persons, they have been taking a long time in forming a government and conconvening in the parliament but i think the visit of john kerry helped to expedite this and make sure that al-malaki will adhere or, you know, go boy the schedule. and his visit to saudi arabia played a role because he convinced the saudi copings to use his influence and persuade sunni leaders to cooperate. >> how much worse can they situation get? suppose nothing frothily fruitful comes from this meeting of parliament on tuesday and isil continues to take city after city, not even baghdad. just city after city. how much worse kate situation e

deescalate? >> it could deescalate. if we don't have a new government a new prime minister, a new political sprix to the current crisis, i think we will see sort of -- we have a sunni province whether we like it or not. and this will lead to, you know, the partition of the country. iraq will dissent great. >> all eyes on this meeting tuesday. we appreciate you coming in. thank you. >> former senator george mitchell is known as a skilled mediator. he has been serving under president obama's obama tony heirs asks if it began with the u.s. invasion of that country. >> the notion that conflict began with the united states, i think, is plainly false and contrad i couldn't.

now, we do have a problem. we should help. but ultimately, it is the people of iraq who will decide the future of iraq. >> the people of syria who will decide the future of syria. he jipingsdz who will decide the future of egypt. we can help. we should encourage. we should insist, especially those, and there are many who want more open, tolerant, modern regimes who want governments that provide the basic services that give people opportunity, jobs, schools, healthcare. that's what people want. and we can do what we can to help, but we cannot view this as it is the isn'ty of the united states to fix what's happening in iraq. the really tough part of dem democrake, which we are still strulling with as the greatest and the longest continuous democracy in history, the really tough part is how do you reconcile the two pillars of m

democracy: majority rules but you protect minority rights. we have a touch time with it. and those countries have a tough time with it. and you can see what's happening in egypt now, in syria now and iraq now in that context. >> you can catch tony's full k with former senator majority leader, george mitchell today on "talk to al jazeera" at 5:00 p.m. eastern. a car bomb goes off in syria. amateur video shows buildings on fire and rebels thrown across the roadway. it happened in a suburb of damascus. people were shopping for ramadan. police say dozens were hurt. rebel greats have been fighting each other in that area. ukrainian separatists have released four international monitors taken last month in the eastern city of donetsk. it comes as four members of the ukrainian military were killed despite an extension of a ceasefire deal. >> reporter: thevanian government and the -- the

ukrainian government and the east have said they will hold their fire, have ceasefires until monday, the 30th of june. the reality on the ground is that there has been more sporadic fighting favorite 12 hours, according to the official spokesperson for the ukrainian military in this part of the world, the sum total is 4 ukrainian soldiers dead and 14 soldiers wounded in three separate attacks which involved rocket launchers and small arms fire. the difficulty is verifying this because we have also spoken to the separatist side. they deny any incidents have taken place. therefore, what you can conclude is the importance of a verification mechanism. it was spoken about when the leaders of the eu met with president poor in brussels. it was underlined when this contact group of kiev russia, the osce and the separatists met here in donetsk on friday en

evening. the difficulty is setting it up in some kind of meaningful way. there needs to be a defined way to decide who has broken a ceasefire in order for the ceasefire to make sense. and at the moment, we simply don't have that mechanism. >> paul brennan reporting there. it's 100 years to the day since arch duke france ferdinand was shotded in sareavoo. it began in 1914. people commemorated that occasion. explaining how that one fateful day caused a 4-year lodge war and 16 million deaths. >> june 28, 1914. sarav saravejo. the arch duke of austria and his wife were assassinated. what could have been an isolated incident magnified because of alliances ted. italy, germany, austria and you

had the uk, france and russia as the allied forces. the battle lines were already in place. so when austria hungary invaded serbia and germany reacted by invading belgium, that was enough for britain to declare war on germany. what was a european conflict drew in countries from all over the world. german fought along two side other powerful empires. you can see the allies had support from the as far afield as canada and the united states, japan, australia, new zee rand as well. this was a tough war. make no mistake. not only was there a huge impact on people but on resources, too. the things which became the tools of war. for example, copper for making bullets was drained from the then belgium congo. trucks needed tire and steel and wood form railways, and everything was concentrated on

the war effort. on november, 1918, the war was over but there was a horrendous human toll more than 16 million people were killed and 20 million others were wounded. to think it was 20 years later that the second world war would begin. what can be said about world war i is that it did bring about change. empires fell. new countries rose a group called the league of nation's was established. it had a mission to maintain world peace, something it arguably didn't succeed in doing and something its sussex soar still battles to do for this very day. a great historyly let'son there. al the troubling statistics about a college education. >> the u.s. works to ratify the land mine treaty 15 years after the rest of the world. can a corporation restrict healthcare options for reledgeous reasons? the supreme court is due to announce their answer to that question. you are watching "al jazeera america."

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the newest global college education rankings show the united states as moving up into the top 15 but when it comes to

skills needed in the job market, we lag behind asian countries. south korea is number 1. japan is in second place and singapore is at number 3. the united states has ranked at unusual 14. thousands of college students are dropping out of college because they no longer see it as a worthwhile investment. patty culhane reports. >> it's the time of year when massive hau halls fill up with students. the occasional string of con fetty. ♪ land of the free ♪. >> the energy and excitement that is college graduation. the 7 ,000 plus graduates at the university of maryland paint an impressive figure until you realize how much other students they started school with that didn't make it to this day. according to a hash arrested study, the u.s. now has the highest college dropout rate in the industrialized world. 44% of students who enroll in a 4-year college don't graduate. people like nikara of balt march

maryland. she dropped out because she said she couldn't afford it. >> i think the cost is just expensive but if people knew they would come out and make the money that is like now, you don't. she works as a make-up artist and each week, she struggles to pay the $20,000 in student loans she still owes. in the u.s., that is no longer a large amount of school loan debt. the average cost for one year of college ranges from almost 23,000 to about $45,000. >> college costs have been rising very dram atically over 0 or 25 years but in the last five years, during the recession, we have seen tuition and fees go up dramatical dramatically. arizona, tuition fees have gone up 77% in the last five years. >> that means graduates had to take on much more debt than any

other generation and manned lin struggled to get to this day and her engineering degree. >> it's a combination of me having two or three jobs every single semester and financial aid and loans which i will be paying back starting december. >> working that much, she still owes $55,000. hers is a common story in this crowd with smiling proud parents who can't seem to take enough pictures. >> that's what many will take away from this day: memories a, and a mountain of debt. patty culhane, al jazeera, college park, maryland. >> the u.s. supreme court is due to release the final two decisions of the year on monday. the case drawing the most attention is sebelius versus hobby lobby stores. the issue: whether countries can refuse to offer contra septemberitch services as part of the health insurance plans offered to employees. the owner of hone lobby says

doing so would violate his region liunchous marines. pam lar harris was 40sed by the state of i will oil in to pay union dues even though she wasn't a union mer. the ruling could have a major impact on public employee unions. the details of both cases and their potential look at 8:00 p.m. eastern, right here on al jazeera america. we are seeing a more and more thunderstorms brew up through the midwest and farther up to the north, towards the kane addian border even, storms have been very strong. in kansas we had video caught. it looked like a tornado but it's what we call a gustnado and it's ferocious weather, dark clouds lowering down closer to the ground. there, you can see what appears to be a tornado, about it was confirmed that this was not

actually a tornado, itself. it's sort of the in-between of a tornado and a dust devil and certainly, those dust devils, you could see those across the plain states but you could see them in dry, sand areas very hot air starts to lift up to the sky. it gets a spin to it. you need a solid thunderstorm, severe thunderstorm to get a good tornado out of this. we are watching what's called al mezoscale convective complex. powerful winds expected. gusts up to 70 miles an hour in the most likely areas we will see that to stretch from texas through oklahoma, omaha and into minneapolis. the live radaver is showing a solid line into minneapolis where we don't need any more rain but it is certainly coming down here. we are watching closely parts of kansas because you are going to get the highest amount of the

wind gusts and hail. you are looking at clean-up. storms like this rolling over the same area over and over and over. and, in fact, the mississippi refer has several games, still major flood stage in the united states as a whole. we have eight gangs on our rivers here in the upper midwest amount of at major flood stage. 19 in moderate flood stage decent need more rain here and the severe thunderstorms, that's kind of -- that happens. summertime. it's the time of year. keep an eye to the sky. these spots, all of this rainfall, talking about flooding, it's impressive when you see how much rain has fallen. here, a few select cities that this is how much they are over the amount of normal rapefall for the month of june and minneapolis has got more than seven envelopes. it's all wet stretch of weather. these storms are dropping temperaturessoft we have seen them drop down to 60 degrees beyond this listen in kansas and

nebraska. while it's hot and summertime, we are going to have more on the hottest day of the year where you live in the next newshour. >> thank you. they put a man on the moon and sent robots to mars. nasa is trying to find out if a flying saucer can really fly. right now, a plan on is lifting an unmanned space ship high into the skies above hawaii. the ascent began about an hour ago. the test flight will begin when the balloon reaches the edge of the atmosphere, about 120,000 feet. >> that's when the low density, super sonic decelerator -- that's what it's called will be released to take a test drive. somewhere in the pass inc. later this evening. >> that's interesting looking there. risking their lives. thousands of latin americans cross the border into the united states every year. coming up on al jazeera america, why they take such desperate risks. also ahead: what has teachers behind me so excited? here is a hint. math, science and a little rock

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>> well, to al jazeera america. here is a look at the top stories. a libyan man suspected of leading the benghazi attack has pleaded not guilty in u.s. district court in washington, d.c. todd. he was captured by u.s. agents two weeks ago. four americans including ambassador chris stevens died in that attack. a counteroffensive against the sunni led rebel yon. government forceslion. government forces. they are fighting to retake tikrit. the ceasefire in crain is extended in monday. the violence is yet to stop. overnight four more john boehnerian soldiers were killed in the east. the president poroshenko is scheduled to speak with russia's vladimir putin. 4,000 people die every year from land mines. as many explosives are left over from conflicts.

the white house is planning to join the 15-year-old treaty that banned them. tom ackerman has more. >> reporter: since the mines band treaty came into effect in 1999, more than 40 million land mines have been destroyed. there has been a halt in new production civilian casualty have fallen from 26,000 to 4,000 per year but live mines are a menace, in kuntz and past hostile jones. the u.s. has 10 to 13 million land mines in its stock piles. up until now, the u.s. has refused to sign the treaty though it's abided by provisions and financed land mine clearance operations around the globe. >> that's mainly because the pentagon regards the mines as a deterrent to a potential north korean ground invasion into south korea. after a five-year review, the obama administration says it intends to join the international convention though it gave no time table. we know the situation on the korean pennsylvania unique camel

eng. we have pursued other solutions that would be compliant with the con ven and that would ultimately allow us to ascede to the convention antiland mine m campaigners gave it cautious approval. >> it's a good first step. we have been waiting for an announcement for quite some time. but it's not the end. there is a long way to go. we would like to see an end date for the policy review and a clear education of when they hope to accede to the treaty. we are pleased to see it. >> once signed by a u.s. president, the treaty may face obstacles in the senate which may ratify it. 80% of the world's nations have signed the treaty, champion, russia and iran have been holdouts. it's never been recognized by armed non-state groups who routinely use antipersonnel weapons like the taliban. the u.n. reports that improvised explosives devices or ieds planted guy groups fighting the

afghan government were the leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries this year. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. in nigeria, police say 11 people have died under the explosion at a brocketer in the north of the country following wednesday's blast at a mall that killed 22 people. nigeria's intelligence agency says it warned shop owners for two weeks about an impending attack. the president visited the site and said his country is facing one of its darkest periods. the country's economy is taking a hit, a report. >> this is the market, one of the bifth textile market in africa. from central african companies come here to buy or sell. which is this is where he grew up. it's the only thing he knew, trading in nigeria, importing

textiles but raids by boka haram have impacted people like him. people suffered last year. >> many but this year, the market is growing small, small. >> many of his customers from neighboring countries are staying away. only a few of them who can stand the stress of nigerian security checkpoints come to buy. >> now, i have my passport and entry visa but i suffered a lot at the hands of law enforcement agencies. i have been coming here for 15 years to buy goods. otherwise, i wouldn't come here again ever. >> with threats of violence by boka haram, many are staying away. >> means lost revenues for businesses and government. >> violence has had an impact on companies here many of them had already been heard by regular power outages and lost sales

caused by smuggling. attacks by boka haram have only made the situation worse. as a result, some industries are had to cut protection and lay off staff. he invested thousands of dollars in his textile company hoping that improved security would the bring in customers but that has yet to pay off. >> our plan to employ people fails our plan to train people, which we started virtually failed. our plan to start production in good time filed. our market's strategic plan fails. >> the lack of security in nigh year i can't means traders are looking elsewhere for supplies. buzz owners here are working and praying that these concerns disappear. as recentents have shown, no one is certain how soon things will improve. madam hadriz, al jazeera,

nigeria. as the u.s. struggles with the immigration crisis unfolding on the border with mexico, the first lady of honduras is visiting detention center in texas. she started her tour yesterday. thousands of children are being held after crossing the next co border illegally. many are from honduras. she said the scene is heart breaking. >> translator: like a mother would say, it breaks my heart, actually, to see those children and their faces, their sadness, the face of many mothers. i think this is something that shouldn't happen. we think that if we make an effort all together, we will be able to improve this situation, but we all knneed to work together. >> 52,000 children across the u.s. mexico poureder since october. 15,000 are from honduras. officials say one reason for the surge is a dangerous room oremor that fooled many parents in honduras and other countries into sending their children to

the border. a report on why many choose to make this long journey. >> on a dusty side street in san pedro, the journey comes full-circle. day and night, one to styles as many as 10 or 12 buses pull up here dropping off hundreds of dirty, dehydrated, exhausted hondurans who either got caught in mexico heading north or gave up and turned themselves in. >> a busload of people, families, women with children, entire families coming back from mexico. they were on their way to the u.s. they didn't make it. they have been brought back to this government shelter. some of them have families here to meet them and pick them up. others are here just to stay. they are going to be transported to another shelter. we saw some young children coming off by themselves. it's a chaotic, desperate scene here. >> why did they go north now? many of them told us about a rumor that's made its way south. >> translator: we went because of the permit they were giving

minors to stay there. we heard if a parent arrived with a child, they would give them permission to go into the u.s. >> we heard if we presented ourselves with our daughter to migration authorities in the u.s. when we made it to the other side of the river that they would give us a permit. the fact is there is no permit: this may have begun with a big understanding that women with children are being given when they are detained at the border. it's a notice to appear before an immigration judge in 30 days but in the meantime, they are freed with a bus ticket to stay with relatives in the u.s. jag aguilar, a family welfare worker told me hon did youas is grahami grahaming? >> about four months ago, maybe three months ago, it started to increa increase. it's been part of the increase in children traveling to the u.s.

>> part of the problem may be the so-called coyotes, criminal smugglers who charge thousands of dollars to take people north. >> the honduras government is running t.v. ads to the not trust the people spreading the rurm. >> the coyotes are taking advantage. the people profiting, making money out of the situation are those people, the coyotes. >> even jack admitted that he hadn't been completely sure whether the rumor was true or false. >> seeing these people make this kind of decision, i thought it might be true. who snows in but now i am learning it's a big lie. >> at the bus stain where many migrants again their hopeful journey, the rumors persist. a young mother we will call maria told me why she was living? >> i am looking for the american dream. she said she had heard it was easier to get in with children although she wasn't sure.

either way, she said she was going north. >> why? >> i am going to look for work so my boy's life can change. >> the lesson here seems to be rumors true or untrue won't stop someone determined to chase a dream. >> many of the my grants trying to cross into the united states wind up being held in immigration center before being deported. al jazeera's natasha gname suing over her treatment at customs centers in texas. >> maria said she was traumatized by the two weeks she spent in federal detention centers in texas in february, 2013. >> translator: i thought i was going to die. i was desperate, very desperate. i needed help and no one would help me. >> reporter: the 26-year-old undocumented immigrant is afraid to show her face on camera but she wants people to be held accountable so she is suing customs and border protection or cd. p? >> my-is not the same because i

have horrendous smears. yes deserve to go through thism yes deserve to go through this. >> she said she wore these blood stained clothes almost two weeks while detained while agents refused to provide enough feminine hiygiene products and change of clothing i felt embarrassed. no one deserves that treatment. >> maria said there wasn't enough food or water and it was so cold in the cells her lips cracked and she had to huddle with others to stay warm. she said she has a heart condition, diabetes, hypertension and depression and wasn't allowed to access her medicine. she said agents also denied her proper medical treatment, even when she passed out. finally, she signed papers, agreeing to be deported after she said agents threaten where i am prisonment. three immigrants rights groups say hundreds of others echo her story. in addition to her lawsuit, eight complaints have been filed against c bp. >> honestly, you know, i have heard so many of these stories,

we treat our animals better. >> we have asked cpb to address access and tell us its policies with regarding conditions at detention facilities. a spokesman would only direct us to this comment from a receipt news conference saying the complaints will be investigated. >> i have demonstrated my commitment to not only those types of investmentgations and the transparency but let me make a significant point: in my multiple trips with the border patrol agents, i have been watching them do absolutely heroic efforts. >> a cbb official who did not want to be named told us that the holding cells are kept at sent to 75 degrees. people are fed every six hours and sanitary products and blankets are provided upon request. the official says. the i am grants were moved out 12 to 18 hours but with the crisis of the border.

a culture of i mpugn that actually encourages that behavior? >> they don't have the right to treat people this way. someone has to put a stop to the situation. >> maria is now seeking asylum hoping to bring her 10-year-old daughter to the u.s. . >> natasha gname, al jazeera, new york. >> joining us is the communications and special projects coordinator for the new york immigration coalition. we appreciate your time. tell me more about the role that rumors are playing in this surge and how criminals are taking advantage of that. >> so the unaccompanied miners crisis needs to be thought of as what it is, which is a humanitarian crisis. >> the obama administration has described it as such? >> absolutely. the way rumors are coming about is the idea that young people are coming because they think they can stay, that they can get

deferred, that they can get some sort of an immigration status and what we as the new york immigration coalition are saying is this is false. a lot of these young people who are coming, 62,000 people since october, they are coming because of the serious crisis in their countries of origin, in honduras and guatemala. these are places with the highest murder rates in the world right now where young people are facing serious dangers including a lot of gang crime. >> no options >> no options. this is why a lot of these people are choosing to take this journey. some of them may have family members here let's say they are being taken care of by grandparents. we are saying they no longer have options to take care of their children where they are and those children are in danger and cannot go to school. these young children are choosing to take the dangerous trek through several countries. >> talk about how criminals are taking advantage of these people along the way. >> yes. so, you know, there are absolutely cases of coyotes and other types of people who are,

you know, taking advanceage of these young children. there have been cases of young girls who are being forced to take the pill before they take -- get all of these journeys because 80% of young girls are actually being raped in the process of coming to the border. >> families are spending anywhere from 8 to 10 to $12,000. >> yes. >> to make this journey. your organization held a demonstration basically a human chain outside the i am dpraings offices with solidarity of what they are going through. >> what would you like to see happen? >> we focus on immigration reform. it's a humanitarian crisis the separate from that, we have a lot of undocumented people in the united states. less than million undocumented people who are struggling to get some sort of release in the united states and those two issues are separate. the human chain demonstrations that we held today at 26 federal plaza was a way for us to tell president obama, tell the white house and to tell congress.

we have waited for a year for i am freshen reform. the 1-year anniversary since the senate passed the immigration bill through the senate. >> do you anticipate that what is happening with this surge might force the issue? >> i think that what we are seeing is that there is a serious broken immigration policy in our country and we don't even have the proper asylum an ref jopling e policies in order to deal with the surge of refugees coming to this. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much for coming in and we will continue to cover this issue. keep us posted thank you. >> still ahead, the servers that are home to the internet contain a lot more than you will ever know. we will explain what the deep web is and how it's different from the search engine.

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welcome back. a great deal of the information available on the internet is actually hidden from you. it's called the deep web. it's a place where criminals can safely conduct business and the black market flourishes but as patricia sabga explains, it has its virtues. >> the internet searched like google and yahoo is the tip of the iceberg. a growing landscape that can't be crawled indexed or retrieved. delved by the u.s. and norwegian militaries to hide communications from prying eyes, the deposit web holds mostly public data basis accessed through a search box. the national libraribrary of medicine as well as private

networks locked behind firewalls and log-ins. >> that make online communication invisible. >> the smaller but more talked about part of the deep we hope are services, anonymous pages, e-mails and forums accessed through browsers that use onion routing, waying layers of encription to make them untraceable. >> we take the traffic. three different places. not your location. >> the ability to operate anonymously makes the deep web attractive to criminals trading in illegal drugs, child bornography and unlawful content. the most not orous is silk road. shut down by the f.b.i. last year following the arrest of its alleged creator ross ulbrecht. it has reserviced as silk road

2.0. >> it put the web on the public's radar earning a reputation. it is also used for virtwould you say activities. agentvists from iran's green movement used the deep web in 2009 to circumvu vent government internet restrictions and anonymously organize protests as well as educate citizens. >> 12 hidden services are used by all kinds of people. >> also used by law enforcement investigative journalists, the military, and ordinary people who don't want their online activities monitors by the government or other outside parties. >> i think the deep web and the hedden services are a source for good. i think the future will bear that out like it has with any technology. >> patricia sabga, al jazeera new york. >> an update on our top story. the u.s. consulate appears in

court. just a few minutes ago. you are watching al jazeera america.

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documentary series venezuela divided on al jazeera america >> returning to tower top story, the throbian man suspected of leading the meghbenghazi attack pleaded not guilty in washington, d.c. today. he was captured by u.s. agents two weeks ago. joining me on the phone are national contributor jj green. you were in the courtroom for this appearance for this first hearing. can you tell us what happened? >> he walked through the courtroom wearing a dark sweat suit combination with a block hoodie on top. he looked a bit stoic. he was wearing a long bushy beard. his hair was bushy. and he sat down. the charges the were read. there was a translator translating it into him.

he said, yes. not guilty to the charges. the next court date was set as july 2nd for a detention hearing. just that quickly. >> your fop was cutting out a bit. but i do believe he has an attorney assigned phase of what's going on. >> his attorney did say during the course of the hearing that she would be representing him at least in this phase and at this stage. he spoke his wishes to the court which was to plead not guilty he faces a detention hearing on the july 2nd, a status hearing that's set for july 8th. >> that's obviously. i am sure we will here with his attorney at some stanley of this. >> did it seem to appear to be extra security. >> there was extra security.

a whole lot of extra security. it wasn't inordernant security. there were some u.s. marbles outside, part of their special operations group that carry long guns and automatic weapons. there were some precaution that were in place as far as where you could walk on the streets and which entrances you could use in the building. >> but it wasn't an inordinate amount of execute because again, there is a weekend. lots of people walking around on these streets down here. >> being in the process of his being transported here, authorities have access to question it if he chose to cooperate. for you had a he has been signed an attorney, do you think it is safe he will probably not be talking? >> i don't know if that's the case. the judge did point out to him that, you know, at any point, he could talk or not and that should be aware that he has an

attorney. i've got the feel, though, since he pled "not guilty" that he had something to say, some reason for why he is pleading not guilty. they want to go through law enforcement officials. i don't know that he wants to clam up now. we will have to wait to see about that. >> can you remind us what is the next step in the process? >> the next step is the july 2nd detention hearing even though he was remanded today to the custody of the marshalls and the federal jurisdictions here in washington, they still have to determine whether or not, you know, he should be detained pending trial. and that seems to be pretty much a no-brainer based upon the charges, but that's the next court date for him on july 2nd at 11:00 a.m. here in washington. >> is okay.

jj green, national security contributor for al jazeera. jj, thank you so much for talking to us, talking us through the process. we will have more on what is next in the process for the suspect now on u.s. oil, abu abual khattalah. >> teaching through musib. one group of educate orders teaching saplings, technology, engineering and math. here is more. >> reporter: participants drill, sand, and meticulously measure. the students here are middle and high school teachers taking part in a week-long workshop. nancy wilson has been teaching high school math mostly from text books. they don't remember it. >> the guitar building institute hopes to help teachers change that. funded through a grant from the national science foundation, the

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carried around with him for a year. >> change says one of her students was in danger of dropping out before her guitar experience. but the next thing you know, she's coming to math class every day, going to science, doing all of her other grady graduation requirements, seeing herself in a different light. . >> with the 3-year-old program given the green light for another three years in cities around the country, it's music to many years. >> sabrina register, al jazeera, lynnwood, washington washington. >> what a fantastic program. the pilot of a small plane had to find a place to land fast and ended up on the freeway. take a look at the cell phone video. this little plane is trying to steer on to the grassy path in between two roads. the pilot was carrying a advertising banner when he lost oil pressure. he tried to land safely. he did hit a car that did injure one person. the pilot, though, escaped

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