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long way, and for that we should be grateful. this is "real money," and i'm ali velshi. we'll see you tomorrow. rights. >> hello everybody and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm david schuster in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. just ahead, outrage in mariana california. city leaders are about to meet. the debate is about security concerns and humanitarian interests. we will have the latest. soaring tension necessary jerusalem. the death today of a palestinian teen has prompted more violence between israelis and palestinians in the west bank.
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the united states are urges calm. not a political solution, in iraq, nouri al-maliki says he will not stop down. the destruction of syria's chemical weapons. and world record, the grandson of jacques cousteau has emerged after 30 days under water. the lessons of his life under the sea could have huge implication for all of us. >> we begin tonight in southern california where hundreds of people in the city of marietta have lined up to literally block immigrants from coming to their city. residents and city leaders are trying to fight the transfer of undocumented immigrants to their
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city. they say it's an unfair better. jennifer london is in marietta with the backlash. jennifer. >> david this evening city officials here are holding a town hall meeting to address residents' concern and yes, the backlash over the government's plan to bring undocumented detainees here to be processed. and around town it's all anyone is talking about. every morning at vista doughnuts in downtown marietta, i joined them at how the suburban city halfway between los angeles and san diego has become a flash point in the debate over immigration.. >> who is going to pay for all this? >> they need to go back to their own homes. our government needs to be more
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forceful in taking them back to their countries and making them understand it's not going to take them back again. >> what they tried to bring to marietta this week. >> that should have been stopped at the border. >> the not in my backyard stand, moving families from overcrowded facilities in texas to this location in is marietta, reached whoamg proportions. they never made it inside. >> an angry crowd draiched in american flags and -- draped in american flags forced them to turn around. >> u.s. citizens have to pay taxes, higher taxes in order to support these people. it's just not fair. we can't take care of our own.
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grr the bus loads of. >> reporter: the bus loads of immigrant families, taken to a location further away. not at the immigrants themselves. >> we have a federal policy that's one, not being enforced and two, is broken, it's not efficient. we're really standing up against the federal policy or the lack thereof. >> reporter: back at the doughnut shop, people say they're concerned about what happens after the processing. ice, u.s. customs and immigration enforcement, where profit, custody determinations will be made on a case-by-case basis. prioritizing national security and public safety. now, the city with the motto the future of southern california finds itself struggling with what that future hold with both residents who are caught in the cross hairs and migrants in the
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center of an unfolding humanitarian crisis. the original plan was to bring bus loads of undocumented detainees here to this processing center every three days. the next scheduled arrival of buses is this friday july 4th. whether that will happen is unclear but david the mayor says if it does happen they will are ready and they will be protesting. >> jennifer, thank you. there is an emotionally and a financial reaction to the debate. just how much is this costing american taxpayers. jonathan betz is here with a breakdown of the numbers. jonathan. >> david, never before has the u.s. had so many immigrants. 11 million have arrived here illegally. these states have the most, especially texas and california. without question many schools are struggling to keep up. 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school and it
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costs on average about $11,000 a year to educate a child in america. now health care is another big concern. undocumented people cannot get medicaid but hospitals are required to treat everyone so many turn to the er for help. the federal government then spends about $20 billion a year reimbursing those hospital he for treating uninsured people. food stamps you have to be a u.s. citizen to get those. here's the catch. you have to be a citizen to get those but if your children are born here they are citizens and they get them. benefits for their children, early the cost of immigration though is very hard to calculate and of course very charged. some studies show immigrants strain the economy, others say they add to it. tracking which is very difficult, that's the reason this debate is so fierce.
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>> jebilities, thanjonathan bet. thank you. rick thank you for being on the program. what is the greatest concern you're hearing from your constituents tonight? >> the constituents greatest concern is the fact there is a lack of information coming from the federal government. so there's all sorts of rumors and innuendos, whether these children coming across are healthy or not, whether any of their parents are criminals and it's hard to refute statistics in the absence of truth. >> according to a number of studies in california, the percentage of immigrants people born outside the united states in prison is actually half what the population is in california. in other words, according to one study, u.s. born men are ten times as likely to go to prison
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than people who are born outside the united states. does that satisfy anybody in terms of how you think about the potential for crime? >> actually, i was not somebody who says that i was concerned about crime, or about disease from the children. what i said last night at the city council was, this was a concern of our residents, and that in the meeting with the border patrol, with our local congressman and our chairman of the board o board of supervisors county, the border patrol assured us there were screenings in the rio grande valley, and the screenings would be taken here in marietta. >> it sounds like you're getting reassurance from border patrol you don't have to worry about crime or disease that people might be bringing.
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>> well, the reaction is one of cautious optimism and a little bit of skepticism because the federal government in this whole process which has gone on for the last three weeks has not been forthcoming or direct and that includes to the congressmen who are working on our behalf trying to get what the policy was from the federal government. literally the policy a week ago monday was, nobody was coming and friday at the end of the day, in washington the announcement was made it's back on again. there's a great deal of skepticism that an ad hoc policy is any policy at all. >> what would you do? the united states policy is laws are pretty clear. the immigrants illegal even if they are, they are still entitled to a deportation hearing in front of a judge. it's not like the u.s. can send them across the border and say okay, you're gone. >> what i would suggest to the president of the united states is, you are coming forward to the congress with the request
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for a $2 billion in funding. since the problem exists in the rio grande valley, you ought to use that money to build a detention facility large enough to house the numbers that are coming across. you should hire enough immigration law judges so these people can be processed as expeditiously as possible. you are correct they are entitled to a hearing that's the law and we should follow the law. >> you are saying the problem is not where you live, the problem is the rio grande veam and that's where the government should be focusing their resources. what where the humanitarian effort? i know that you and your constituents can appreciate they're leaving places in central america where there are gangs and drugs and they are looking for a better life. how can we help them with that in the united states? >> well, what i would say is
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everybody who wants a wert life is entitled to try -- better life is entitled to emigrate to the united states. but there's a process that has been in our law books for years and clearly we are not paying attention to that. when you talk about a humanitarian crises we in marietta did not cause this crisis but having to deal with it. when this got shut down it was internal to right here, and they said we did not have the facilities to house these folks who are coming to the city of marietta. from a humanitarian standpoint this is a jail behind me. this jail was intended to house offenders who are mules carrying drugs from south of the border into the united states, that this border patrol facility would police up. now you're going to be putting women and children and we all sympathize with them but you're putting them in a facility by the border patrol's own
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admission was not meant for women and children. what you have is room for approximately 200 people in about five or six jail cells, 30 or 40 per cell that are spartan facilities, blank et cetera in the cosh -- blankets in the sell, no prieives at all. in terms of needing these people, they're going to be eating the quirv equivalent to f males ready to eat. >> rick, good of you to join us tonight. thanks for coming on the program to talk about this. >> you're quite welcome. you have a good evening. >> thank you. now overseas to israel. there was violence today in jerusalem as simmering tensions between israelis and palestin palestinianpalestinians erupted.
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palestinians took to the streets in response to the killing of 27-year-old mohamed anu kadir, his family says the israelis killed him in retaliation of murder of the three israeli teebs, promised that -- teens. promised that whoever was responsible will be brought to justice. over the past three weeks israeli troops searching for those three teens ultimately found murdered launched one of the largest west bank push be in years. >> there's been about two or 3,000 people here for the last hour or so listening to two messages from hamas officials, one of defiance, israeli war
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planes and gun ships have actually attacked gaza in the past few days, and showing defiance that the people of gaza are willing to come out. it also shows a solidarity against the palestinians protesting in east jerusalem, the death of a 17-year-old, showing solidarity with all of these protesters. as this rally has come forward, the violence, the israeli army says a couple of dozen rockets have been flown from gaza fighting groups into israel. israel has responded by targeted the rocket strikes. that's all they've targeted. and the fear is that if any of those missiles were to fall into israeli town or god are forbid,
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hit yen. >> unoccupied training grounds for antiisraeli fighters. residents in gaza say that israeli planes remain in the skies above them. back to the united states. communities around coaflt carolina are preparing for tropical storm arthur tonight. governor pat mccrory is preparing. kevin corriveau has the story. >> it is only four miles per hour less than hurricane strength. we have the development of this circulation right here. i want to show you from space what arthur has been looking like. over the last 24 hours it has really generated from a
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stationary storm, brought a loll of storm to the bahamas. now this is what we will be seeing in terms ever watches and warnings. as you can see all of north carolina is under hurricane warning or tropical storm warning in this area. we expenditure the storm -- we expect the storm surge to be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet. we expect this storage surge, it's been out to sea here, as you can see, by the time we get to about 2:00 a.m. on friday morning, that's when we think it's going to be just off shore of cape hatteras or this hurricane making landfall in this area. after this david the storm is going to be moving up to the northeast but a lot of rain for parts of new england. back to you.
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>> kevin corriveau, thank you. up next, maliki's defiant words lark out at rebel leaders. and syria's most dangerous weapons is now in the hands of the u.s. navy. there is a science to the destruction of chemical weapons. we will take a closer look.
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>> in iraq, prime minister nouri al-maliki says forming a new government now is not as important as battling sunni rebels. in his weekly televised speech he offered amnesty to 9/11 helping the government and now wants to know that the area is dangerous to the entire region not just iraq and syria. he lashed out at the kurds, saying in kii kirkuk.
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>> takes precedence over everything, forge a new inclusive government, something the white house has pressed him to do time and time again. today the white house went further than it's ever gone in criticizing the maliki government. the i.s.i.l. insurgents now advancing towards baghdad but also the political division within iraq itself. the white house said once again no military action is going to be happening within iraq, first american interests are threatened, or a more inclusive government is formed, for anybody who steps forward to be prime minister. i had the opportunity to ask the spokesman josh ernest, would the
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united states still reframe from military air strikes and here was his answer. >> the vulnerability of one particular city in iraq is one that's difficult for me to assess, right? but suffice it to say the reason i call it an exenl existential , what i.s.i.l. is doing is they're perpetrating terrible acts of violence but also trying to play upon these old sectarian divisions in an effort to pull the country apart. >> mike, it certainly sounds like the administration is offering a colder shoulder than ever to the maliki government, and i understand that biden and secretary of state john kerry got involved in that, what's more? >> they call for unity, president obama on the phone with the saudi king abdalla,
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trying to bring unity within baghdad among the political elite there. also you're right, vment biden on the phone with the former speaker of the iraqi parliament, an individual said to have some influence, sort of a power broker, trying to encourage whatever he can for those disparate factions within baghdad to come together. finally it was kerry, who was dealing with kurds, on the verge of declaring their full independence, that is something the united states does not want to see, david. >> al jazeera's mike viqueria, great stuff as always, thank you. many in iraq say the rebellion is not going to end until their rights are restored. zena khoder. >> he says he is a target because he is a sunni and those
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frommefrom anbar says the rebeln will not end until they're rights are restored. >> we are ready to deal with moderates shia leaders but we have been humiliated enough. >> for many are months the people from anbar protested. the government responded with force and said it was fighting militant groups. the area has been a battle ground since the start of this year. armed groups pushed the group out of the heart land in early june but representatives say the rebellion started months earlier
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in anbar. around 30,000 of them are living in the kurdish region in northern iraq. many of them stay in motels, it has been six months now and families say they have already spent most of their savings and have no choice but to eventually return to anbar, they left because of the indiscriminate and heavy aerial bombardment by the air force. the men don't want to reveal their identities, because they were serving in the iraqi air force. >> they laid down the arms when the government attacked the people but were then threatened by armed men for collaborating with the state. >> reporter: there was a time when anbar cooperated with the government to rid their province of al qaeda fighters, years later they say they regret ever
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trusting maliki. today's fault lines are not new and this family just like many iraqis fear recognition might be too late. >> an iraqi american and the author of between two worlds a memoir documenting her experience growing up in iraq under the regime of saddam hussein. thanks for joining us. as the united states continues to rebuff these maliki requests for air strikes there are growing indications that there may be a chance to if i recall the void. >> to understand that we understand why shias are acting the way they're acting. from a shia perspective they have been persecuted over decades under a sunni regime of saddam hussein.
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so the prejudice that is in iraq indeed of sunnies that believe the shias are iranians and believe the sunnies have prosecuted them. and they have conflict about iran. if iran intervene in any shape way or form in my opinion that exasperate the regional tension beyond iraq, it goes into syria, into le lebanon. i talked to friends over there and the tension is so bad there. it is something that is going to exasperate the situation. if i am iran i would want the shia population, more importantly the iraqi shia sides have all the symbolism of shiaism and would want to prerequisite these things. >> the tension that surrounds iraq, what do you make of that?
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>> well, this is -- the problem with maliki is that his core identity is that of a shia who himself been prosecuted by saddam hussein's regime. we need to create a new vision of the government and change the narrative over that. that's the elephant in the room. maliki has to leave, really, his act of faith is to me an act of december operation. he could -- desperation. he could have made so many offers to the tribal leaders and now this is too little too late. >> there's maliki trying to stay in power and the iraqi parliament that tried to meet yesterday and there was a screaming match. what do you see when there's political disarray, ant not just
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the violence? >> this is part of iraqi culture. i see it, this is a dangerous moment.in iraq more than any other historical moment in iraq, when i speak with my family friends colleagues people i work with for the first time they are scared. for the first time they are saying this is a wakeup call. we may actually divide the country and oh my god this is scary. if this strange invasion of i.s.i.s. does not create a wakeup call for rakes, particularly the parliament that need to get together and say we are one nation overall, i don't know. >> what about the humanitarian crisis that's developing? >> people are scared. i.s.i.s. promulgated laws that permitted sex plearl women who have been raped, they are -- the
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u.n. particularly is reporting the danger of 20,000 whom 20,00o have been forced into marriage with i.s.i.s. members, only people who have been displaced, my own family and friends, they are very, very scared. the christian community is very, very scared. converted into mosques when the i.s.i.s. took them over. a lot of women have been scared because of what i.s.i.s, the era where the i.s.i.s. fighter can take as many women as he wants. >> what do you think the united states should do in terms of the best course to follow? >> this may are a good time for create an international community alliance, something like that. in absence of that, russia and
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china and iran are acting, this is an opportunity for the u.s. to create an alliance from before. look, u.s. and beyond, the breakdown of iraq is going to create, will create a huge regional breakdown and a huge regional war. it is in no one's interest, i don't care who it is what country to have this region breaking down the way it is and i.s.i.s. is a threat not only for iraqis but the region and the region reflects the world. i do agree with president obama's pressure on maliki to step up and to change the government of iraq. i do agree with that but we do need stronger intervention absence of that, it could be diplomatic of intervention. absence of that is allowing more room for iran and that's a danger. >> zen rarvetion salby, the founder of women for women. thank you for being here.
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>> thank you for having me. >> deadly outbreak of ebola is the most serious they have faced. we look at options for disease. and men and women who make the world cup possible can't afford to buy the colorful balls they make but as you can see they are glad to have the work. vé
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>> this is al jazeera america. i'm david schuster. coming up: destroying syria's chemical weapons. we will explain the risky science the u.s. navy is relying on to stay safe. sarkozy strikes back. the former french about the has sharp words for those accusing him of corruption. under water, jacques cousteau's grandson talks about living 60 feet deep for 31 days. the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting this week to discuss the worst
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outbreak ofee bow of ofee ebolay have ever seen. the outbreak began in guinea in march. it has moved to sierra leone. >> officials in west africa are disposing of what they call bush meat, burning it because they think the ebola virus could be affecting people who eat it. but not everyone there agrees and distrust of doctors is why it spread. >> we have been pushed out of business. if we can't sell our meat we can't live, we want our bush meat back. >> back in atlanta, the centers
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for disease control says, the outbreak is the most serious they have ever faced. >> what is happened is the infection has now are spread to multiple sites and there is sustained transmission. >> no ebola, studying the fruit bat which they think could be the host or reservoir for the virus and other fever -- based diseases. the cdc has had response teams deployed in west africa since april including fever virus scientists and epidemiologists. those are people who chase down and identify patients. >> we know what works to control these outbreaks, active identification of patients. getting them into proper isolation and treatment as soon as possible and then more importantly following up all the people they've had contact with to monitor for symptoms to
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determine about they will become patients. >> people are crying down, they need help, they need our help. everybody is free, everybody, no one. >> as the death toll rises the world health organization is urging drastic action and the cdc says a massive effort of multiple people on the ground is required in each of the affected regions to help identify the infected and stop the spread of ebola which there is no cure and no vaccination. >> give us an idea of the customs and cultures that may help spread the ebola in west
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africa? >> preparing bodies for funeral and burial, there is direct contact with people who are infected and probably even died from ebola. in addition there is tremendous stigma around the disease, people are very afraid and that leads to myths and misconceptions. turning away from the very people who are there to help them. other health care workers have been even stoned or attacked with knives. >> it makes it more difficult to impose a quarantine which would actually help. >> yes. actually, the ly liberian president, there is tremendous fear, people are staying under the radar, so to speak. they don't want to be found and unfortunately, the best way to stop transmission of ebola is to
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prevent person to person transmission through direct contact and that does mean essentially a quarantine. >> you've worked in africa. what is the best way to solve this? there is great distrust. >> i do think ultimately the message has to get out in the right way. in a way that people understand. that they understand that they can trust what's trying to be done. and in addition, a lot of what the challenges are going to be are also with regard to resources. some of that is just manpower resources going door to door to communities to try oidentify those what we call contact tracing, identify those who have been exposed infected and having the equipment, mask, gown, gloves, ifb, to help
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administrate. >> i think they're doing the right things and they have a lot of other technical support from the world health organization and others to help them address this but again it's going to be a resource limitation and really a stigma that's going to be the big barrier for those who are concerned with this. >> ebola coming to the united states can that be transmitted very easily? >> it does require direct contact or being through bodily fluids. we should anticipate that there's going to be transmission along trade routes, the borders of these countries are very porous, we should expect the transmission in those areas. >> dr. celine, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. member states have not been able to agree on a new one, james bays has more on that
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story from the united nations. >> budget negotiations here at the united nations often go to the wire to midnight on the last day the day of the deadline. this time they've gone way beyond the wire because this was supposed to be agreed by the end of june and right now there is a crisis. there is no budget right now technically for u.n. peace keeping. it means that there's no money set aside right now for important missions all around the world in the places like democratic republic of congo, a new mission that the u.n. is supposed set up in central african republic. there's a big division between the developing world, which wants more money for the peace keepers it provides and the developed countries, particularly key western countries, that provide most of the money and say they don't
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have the money that the other countries are asking for. >> james bays. the united states has now taken possession of hundreds of tons of chemical weapons from syria. just loaded on a u.s. ship docked off the coast of italy. this is a final phase to rid syria of its chemical weapons. the army plans to neutralize the chemicals. the u.s. navy says no dangerous chemtion will be released -- chemicals will be released. our science and technology expert jacob ward ward is in the bay area. tell us why this is taking place at sea. >> david, the real complication is the ocean. the cape ray is only taking on 600 ton of cargo, that's a very
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small amount. the problem is the ocean itself. the shipping industry loses between 2,000 and 10,000 of these kinds of containers every year to rough seas and yet that's the environment that the u.s. is going to be handling some of the most dangerous chemicals in the world. >> what are some of the options for destroying the chemical weapons? >> there's only two options, david, either incineration or hydrolysis. putting the chemicals into a pressurized sealed environment, and heating them to 2700°, which renders them still toxic but not horrible. construct a building for that purpose. you're not going to do that at sea. what the cape ray is going to do is add chemicals, bleach and water to these chemicals, you're
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going to add a little bit of hot water and bleach heat the whole thing up and reduce it about to the toxicity of oven cleaner, still bad but not weaponnized. >> has anyone ever attempted this kind of thing before? >> well, that's exactly right david, that is the real issue, this is entirely unprecedented. in fact the two portable hydrolysis units were custom built for this purpose by the u.s.ing's disaster prevention agency. those 60 days where they'll be moving it around and storing it down below and moving it to another -- other ships that will move it to disposal.
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>> thank you jake very much. officially kick off again today iran's foreign minister was talking tough. in an address on youtube he says iran wants a peaceful nuclear program but would not kneel in submission. >> to those who continues to believe that sanctions brought iran to the negotiating table, i can only say that pressure has been tried for the past eight years. in fact, for the past 35 years. it didn't bring the iranian people to kneel in submission and it will not now nor in the future. we still have time to exit this spiral of escalation. try mutual respect. it works. >> the united states government says tehran has not proven its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. iran has been asked to provide
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that proof by a self-imposed deadline of july 20th. after a deadly series of taliban attacks pakistan's parliament has passed new ledges for antiterrorism. the law allows suspects to be detained for 60 days without charge. gives police the authority to shoot to kill of anyone they suspect of terrorism. gives police the right to carry out searches without a warrant. the legislation must still be signed by the pakistan president before becoming law. former french president nicolas sarkozy is accusing the government of destroying him. accused taking $70 million in illegal campaign funds. after 15 hours at the police station sarkozy appeared before a judge and denied all
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wrongdoing. sarkozy said he was being metropolitanned for -- manipulated for political reasons. >> where we stand on the political exploitation of the system today, i want to say to everyone, i have never betrayed them or never committed an act against the republic's principles or the rule of law. sarkozy has been attempting a come back since he was defeated in 2012. dploiks efforts to bring peace, foreign ministers from russia, ukraine, germany and franls met and agreed to points that would provide a assess fire. >> we shouldn't expect any significant steps and then a surprise. the foreign ministers involved
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in the talks from ukraine, russia, germany and france said there would be three way negotiations before saturday involving the armed fighters in the east of the country who are pro-russian or antikyiv. and this is something new. it remains to be seen, whether or not these fighters would be ail to engage in the response, whether russia speaks for them or any other country because they have been invited to enter into negotiations and declined the invitation. that said sanction he are still on the table and russia appears to be giving into some russian pressure, offering ukrainian border guards the opportunity to come to the russian side of the border crossings, to make sure no men or materiale was coming through. european union was still considering, they would target the energy sector in russia its
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financial sector as well as its military exports. >> nick spicer reporting. target says it respectfully requests that customers leave their guns at home. in a statement it says it wants to provide safety for its customers, target has been facing increasing pressure from a group called moms demand action. asking target to ban shoppers from carrying weapons inside stores. july 2nd, 1964. on that day 50 years ago, president lyndon johnson signed the civil right right bill into. lisa stark talks to one activist turned lawmaker about the past, present and future fight for civil rights. >> today eleanor holmes norton
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is a long time member of congress. remitting washington, d.c. but half a century ago, she was pushing for equality. and then came the signing of the civil rights act. in 1964. >> this was a monumental year. it was a year when what african americans had been trying to achieve for a hundred years began to metho mast itself. >> how much of a difference did the civil rights act make? >> it made a profound difference. to see us move from a period of extraordinary hostility to african american life to having now the first african american president in office that is a period of great change. >> as barriers came down black americans made progress. in 1964 about a quarter of
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blacks over age 25 had graduated from high school. now it's 85%. college completion rose from 4% to 21%. the poverty rate dropped from 42% to 27%. and median family income jumped. still by any measure, an equality rate remains. white americans have higher incomes. >> the metrics of opportunity can be discouraging. when you think about what it means to achieve equal opportunity in american life. >> for wade henderson, the answer is obvious. a quality education for every student. for delegate norton, the battle is to ensure what was once gained is not lost. she is working to arrive the 1965 -- to revive the voting
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rights act, a key section which was overturned by the supreme court last year. >> we see laws deliberately enacted to inhibit the right to vote. so there's no question that there's some who want to turn back the clock. >> reporter: clearly, america will never return to the nation it was 50 years ago. but it is still struggling to fulfill the promise so many fought for. lisa stark, al jazeera, washington. >> coming up: they could not hold the world cup without them. we will meet the people making soccer balls for the big tournament. > and he spent a month living and working underwater. we will dive into what jacques cousteau's grandson was trying to accomplish in a lab called ah conveyor yus. aquarius.
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>> here is a look from on top of our building from the area.
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things have cleared through. thunderstorms have cleared out, come back to the weather wall and look what did come through. that line of thunderstorms all the way from new england through parts of virginia, still going to be a problem this evening and these are the warnings that we have in place right now. where you see that dark red that's flash flood warnings. areas in parts of maine a lot of flooding going on through virginia. the northeast is dealing with a lot right now. so what do the next few days look like as we go towards the holiday weekend? arthur on the coast is going to bring rain from anywhere carolina to the north. things are looking quite nice on thursday with chicago seeing about 74°. we're going to see more rain, arthur is going to start to move away from the coast and the temperatures in new york about 81°, it is quite warm out here
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towards the west with rain showers coming into the forecast. it is going to be 105° as we go into saturday. that's a look at your weather, your news is next. >> pakistan is not known for global soccer dominance but the
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country is playing an important role at the world cup. pakistanis are making the official ball. >> it's mend to be the best football around. so high tech it can hold the same weight and shape under any conditions. the world cup brazooka is made in the pakistan city of celicut. this isn't your traditional ball, instead of 32 pieces it only has six and the panels are bonded together using heat. at first, all the world cup footballs were being made in china but there was so much demand, they turned to pakistan. >> it was required to be made in china but the design was so good and the response was so overwhelming that then, i mean, adidas the company decided that we want to have a second source
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also so we can boost our production. >> reporter: 21st pakistan was making 70% of the world's hand sewn footballs. still pakistan pumps out 40% of the footballs a year. while many of the factory workers say they like watching football they'll probably never be able to afford one. they earn $100 a month. the balls cost $160 each to buy. lubna says she's proud of her work. is. >> translator: we never imagined we would be making the world cup footballs. we are pleased and happy. >> reporter: football has never been as big in pakistan as cricket. but there's home one day one of these players will grow up to represent their country in the world cup. now, they're practicing their skills. football is a game of love. i hope that our country which
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last not yet been in the world cup will one day be in the world cup and make our nation proud. >> reporter: pakistan is known for producing great footballs. now they hope to produce good footballers as well. the oldest camp for homeless teens plus, catching in on a sneaker connection, you'll meet the teenager who has built his own company with a giant shoe collection. 11 eastern 8 pacific. the group of aquanauts spent 30 days underwater. the grandson of jacques cousteau led the mission.
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