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>> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime.
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secretary of state john kerry heads to beijing for talks. >> i was actually literally attacked from the side, heard somebody screaming. i woke up unconscious and in the hospital. >> ta rick abbu k khadea. suspects in the killing, an alleged revenge attack for the earlier murder for the murder of three israeli teenagers. our nick schifrin reports. >> the beating was brutal.
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undercover officers were striking a teenager, paper teenager. list arms behind his back, clearly unconscious but still they kick him one last time. his family sayin says the persoy are holding is tarik abu k khdi. tarik walked out of court still battered. >> i remember standing and watching the group of people and they came from the side of me and i tried to run away but then they attacked me. >> tarek's family describes him as a typical american teenager. message for tampa, he said he missed them. he got a kiss from his father and a hug from his mother.
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he was placed under house arrest but hasn't been charged with anything. >> there is no charge on him. why are you putting him on house arrest? makes no sense. i'm american. i know american law. this doesn't happen in america. >> tarek was arrested during jerusalem's worst clashes in years. they said model khdeir,'s -- mohamed khdeir's death was in protest. >> mum kidnapping. >> i'm scared to let my
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daughters to be in the street right now. >> you might think this space would be forever haunted but he wants his son to feel at home here too. >> you were born in this neighborhood. your son and wife were born in the states. will you bring your son back here? >> 100%. here i born and i need my grand kids to be born here. >> reporter: both sides will fight for this land. passions are higher than in years and tarik's beating fanned the flame. nick schifrin, jerusalem. the tension remains very, very high and the fear is that the anger is spreading from jerusalem to other parts of israel. we've seen protests in northern israel and to an extent in the south. what's happening is palestinian protesters are throwing rocks, damaging property, pulled out a
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jewish driver from his car and set his car on fire. israeli officials say they hope these arrests quell some of that anger. but mohamed's parents were asked about them just a few hours ago and they said no. these arrests will knot quell the anger. mohamed's mother saying the police will probably just ask these suspects a few questions and release them. thomas it's that lack of trust, it's that doubt among palestinians that israel will actually fully prosecute these people and vice versa, the lack of trust that israel has on palestinians to fuel this tension. >> thousands of hamas members marched over the killing of mohamed abu khdeir. , some are felt to be members of an armed fatah group.
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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says these are not part of a wider dispute. after the deaths of four teens in the middle east where do we go from here? >> we have to stop the violence immediately. this is where we need to go from here. this situation has completely escalated. it's affecting the lives of families and children. what's happening right now is horrifying and it's kind of given each of the governments on both sides the right to do this you no tit-for-tat. we need to get the violence called down and stop this cycle immediately. this is very, very terrifying. >> you mention the governments, have we reached a place where there's no trust between benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas? >> i don't think there's been
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trust for a long time. even an ounce of being able to talk to each other even impossible. there's a call for secretary kerry to come to the region immediately. i think that's a really good idea. the u.s. needs to really get its hands in here and say okay, let's everybody stop the shooting and stop the bombing at this point because further escalation is not going ohelp anyone, and the region -- to help anyone and the region is already so volatile. >> the tension between israelis and palestinians is so high. june 12th, three israeli teenagers were kidnapped, when they wering hitchhiking in the west bank. on jurc june 30th the bodies wee discovered near hebron not far from where they went repliesing. proafts took place across israeli.
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-- protests took place across israel. mohamed khdeir was found burned alive. iraqi force he push into territory now called the islamic state. while iraq's kurds try ostay out of the fight zena hoder has more on the fight. >> yet another funeral of a peshmerga fighter. wouldn't get involved in the battle between mainly shia forces and sunni armed groups. but iraq's kurds are caught up in the conflict it is nonethele. there is no official toll but kurdish forces are suffering casualties. the fighting has been fierce in this corner of diala province.
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peshmerga fighters show us the areas under their control but as this vehicle approaches our position, the fighters become uneasy. it is clear they are concerned their enemy has breached their lines. there doesn't seem to be a clear front line here. sunni armed groups which include local tribal forces are based snidinside the town. kurds say they are not fighting sunnies but what they call terrorists. the peshmerga general explained their military owiv owivet is nt just to push south. >> we not reach these mountains just yet but now we, fighting inside the islamic estate and
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the baathist states. >> now that the army has fled the kurds want this land. the battle here is about to enter its second month and it's far from over. kurdish peshmerga say they expect this to be aprolonged conflict. >> kurdish, are relative small in number and they have been ambushed. capturing jalala has been enough. holding their lines in this barren terrain may prove to be difficult enough. zena hoder al jazeera. >> being followers of the shiite
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muqtada al sadr. already been destroyed in the next month. in the midst of ongoing violence nearly 1 million people have been displaced. mostly from baghdad and nearby areas to the north where government forces are trying to drive out sunni rebels, we do have a warning some of these images are disturbing. >> reporter: on this piece of waste lan in northern iraq -- land in northern iraq, thrown the country into turmoil. they are but a drop in the ocean of the hundreds of thousands of rakes who have been internally displaced as a result. men, women and children mainly sunni whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed. this 60-year-old man from dialla
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is one of them he has three little girls and is now unable to provide for them. >> translator: there was shelling, continuous and indiscriminate shelling, from all sides. shells landed on our roofs so we should to flee. >> foad is in no doubt who's to blame. >> translator: i blame the government, those we elected. once we elected them they turned against us. they would have treated us different. >> paralyzed from the neck down. the shelling was so intense in his home town that his father had no time to grab anything else, not even his wheelchair. he picked up his son and ran. now the child struggles to cope in the being scorching heat. this is another suffering child. she is unable to move her legs.
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her mother had almost saved enough money for treatment, all that stopped with the fighting. in the camp lacking the most basic necessities. >> doctors we need an ambulance. yes, some things have been donated to us but we need much more. >> reporter: the average temperature here in july is 45° celsius but can reach over 50. the severe heat has led to two cases of miscarriages according to officials. just filming here in such heat was a challenge. but suddenly it started to pour. already starting to comb with the scorching heat, those who have little shelter by these flimsy tents now have to endure the rain which has suddenly started to pour down here. some see it as a blessing but nonetheless under these circumstances it ising even more
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suffering for those displaced. fortunately it didn't flood out the tents but there is a real risk of that happening, if it rains longer. most vulnerable suffer the most. the children despite all the hardships continue to smile are an example of just how true that is. but like little shaima, they are a testament that while conflicts can take people's lives they can knot kill people's will to live. >> the united nations says half the population of syria will be refugees or internally displaced by the end of the year if fighting continues. right now 100,000 syrians flee each month. caroline malone reports. >> rogue across a river, the syrian, people have been
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dplaised from towns and provincest, fighters from the group calling itself islamic state, formerly called islamic state of iraq and the levant. residents who haven't pledged allegiance to them have to believe. life in aleppo is no easier. volunteers at this blood bank says ongoing conflict has forced them to move to a safer location. doctor because of the displacement of the families we have had to relocate to the country side. >> reporter: in the area there's a steady stream of injured people who need it. >> we hope god will give us the power to continue this work and that people will continue to donate their blood to save the lives of those in need. >> reporter: children are also viable to the violence and offer
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suffer psychological violence because of the are conflict around us. >> my friends and i have not been able to play for two years. we are very delighted and we thank our teachers. >> reporter: here there's an opportunity for children to just be children at least for a couple of hours a day. >> the idea is to help children escape the current situation. we do not limit them to classical drawing. we teach them hand crafts and encourage them to use their natural ability. it is enjoyment for one or two hours a day. >> like so many, groups trying to help those in syria the teachers say they only have minimal supplies but they have to make do for the sake of the children. caroline malone al jazeera. >> one of afghanistan's presidential candidates have rejected the results of a runoff election before they become
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public. a commission is expected to release the results in a few hours from now. ing abdalla abdalla says the results are fraudulent as does ashraf b ghani. tomorrow angela merkel will meet with china's president. stay with us because we're going to examine the issues on the table coming up in the week ahead, about 15 minutes from now, 11:30 eastern, 8:30 pacific. the president of egypt seems
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to be. verdicts verdict had a negative effect and he wished the journalists had not been put on trial. peter greste, mohamed fahmy, and baher mohamed, sentenced up to ten years in jail. al jazeera continues to call for their immediate release. peter greste's family is launching a website where people can contribute to the campaign to free him. the family is raising money to hire a new legal team for appeal. peter greste's brother spoke about his parents recent meeting with peter in cierp. >> well, as you'd imagine it was quite emotional. it's the first time they've visited him or seen him for six months in the flesh. and they were certainly tears shed. >> florence louie, reports from australia at the announcement. >> his family is looking towards
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hiring a new legal team to appeal. peter greste together with mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were accused to aiding the muslim brotherhood designated by the egyptian government as a terrorist organization. the false evidence used in court to convict the three include video from another channel as well as greste's reports from other parts of china. their conviction triggered a global outcry. jowrnlts frojournalists united m around the world have cried for their release. using words like chilling and draconian and obscene. >> coming up. separatists call for help from moscow. we'll get the latest from eastern ukraine.
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>> opponents say those are some of the reasons he needs to be replaced. and u.s. china relations, the issues on the table as the secretary visits beijing. coming up in the week ahead.
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where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >> violence in kenya has left 29 people dead. officials say the somali rebel group al shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack near the coast saturday night. some of the victims had been hog tide and had their throats slashed. kenya's deputy president is blaming political rivals for the bloodshed. kenya's mass rally planned tomorrow. the demonstration comes on a symbolic day. al jazeera's katherine soy reports from nairobi. >> here in western kenya the crowds shout antigovernment
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slogans. must go, referring to uhuru kenyata. not shot off the forces, this is an opposition stronghold. politicians have been using are calling for a national dialogue. security, corruption, tribalism and electoral reforms top the list of issues they say have taken the country to a brink of crisis. >> executives a real instrument of power. the executives don't want to engage, so one must go beyond the confines of the legislative debate. >> reporter: the government insists any dialogue must happen here inside parliament. wants direct talks with the president. the political standoff between
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the opposition coalition has heightened tension in the country. the director of the national cohesion commission says it is not a time for grandstanding. >> it's bringing a lot of hostility among kenyans. so it's not a very good thing for this country and divided people. >> 7th july is a day many kenyans remember well. 20 years ago, police brutally broke up a pro-democratic rally. it is aing day known as saba saba, in swahili 7-7. demanding constitutional reforms. 14 people are said to have been killed by police. >> if the court coalition goes ahead with the sapa saba rally,
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it is going to be extremely difficult to arrest that kind of violence. >> reporter: many agree that issues raised by the opposition are real. they hope that the political grandstanding will not take the country back to its dark, violent days. katherine soy, al jazeera, western kenya. >> in ukraine, president petro poroshenko says his order to little bit are donetske is now in place, at least two people were killed. separatists fighters have moved to donetske. being scott heidler is there. >> hundreds of separatist fighters who retreated south are here in donetske. tired and regrouping they say they will fight on. >> i'm very glad they came here from slovyansk. we welcome them with open arms. we are confident our victory is
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not far away. since the 23rd of february i'm confident in our victory. >> reporter: a day after ukrainian forces pounded, the war is far from over. >> ukrainian president has underlined there will be no unilateral cease fire. it will happen only if terrorists unconditionally give up weapons and the ukrainian russian border is restored, after the organization for cooperation and security in europe. >> hundreds gathered to protest the military action by the central government in kyiv but elsewhere in the city usually home to 1 million people it was unnaturally empty. these are not normal times. while it might be quiet here it's very tense at the checkpoints that rick the city. they are the first line of defense for city where hundreds
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of the separatists fighterrers are now based. but for some it is about protecting something more important to them. >> translator: we are always ready to protect our home and our families. we will stand to the end. >> reporter: ll they -- although they play be ready to fight on the separatist fighters are now confident, scott heidler, donetske, ukraine. coming up an important trip to the far east, what a john kerry visit means for the u.s. and china. we're going to explore in our sunday segment, the week ahead. why the tsa is targeting cell phones and new security measures for airline passengers.
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nine killed some members of the armed fatah group. ongoing fighting has displacing families in iraq, the u.n. says they are scaling up relief operations in light of the mass displacement. egypt's president appears to be showing regret about the sentencing of three al jazeera journalists. in the jeep'ian newspaper al masri, he says he -- egyptian newspaper al masri, he says he wished they had not been put on trial. the regular week at the look ahead. secretary of state john kerry heads to china this week for annual bilateral talks. sixth meeting of the u.s. and i
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china academi economic dialogue. china holds more u.s. debt than any other country but the u.s. is a key export for chinese goods. those two facts hold the nation he together. although strange every cyber spying, beijing rejects those charges and accuses washington of hypocrisy saying it has been hacked in the past. last month, are chinese presidentpresident ji jing ping. the coming collapse of china, i asked if the dispute in the south china sea was beijing simply vying for more regional influence or testing u.s. power in the region?
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>> clearly they think the united states is in terminal decline and so they do test us and they test every american president who takes office. the other thing is china believes it has right to territory under control of others. this is from india to the south to south korea in the south. feeling pressure from beijing because china has these territorial claims which in some cases are illogical and expansive. >> what do you think of this miss li, do you come face to face with cloin? >> i would think that these territorial claims did not become an incident until just recently. this pivot announced by the obama administration. even our encyclopedia britt annnica had said those waters to
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south china sea actually belonged to china. this is coming from an american publication. i would say that some of this is really china believing that they have claims to these territories, and so i don't think that they're necessarily doing this to provoke the u.s., i think they're reacting to the u.s. pivot mostly. and this is how they're saying we've been pushed around by u.s. powers in the past we're not going olet them do this to us. >> well if the u.s. step back, will the u.s. back a regional power? >> territorial claims became an issue well before the pivot. pressed by vietnam, philippines, japan, all of these countries that are concerned about china's provocative behavior. territorial region of countries
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a thousand, 1500 miles away, and believes that the south china sea is an internal chinese lake from china's perspective. >> how would you describe u.s. chinese relations? >> i would say they are competitive and tense right now. because there are more and more issues that seem to be going unresolved. >> competitive economically? >> mostly economic, because in terms of military capabilities, china's way behind the u.s. so i wouldn't characterize that as credit competitive necessarily. but at some point in the future that also can be competitive as well. >> what do you think the china views the asia pivot? >> i see it as directed against them. i think they're right in that sense because the reason the
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pivot is occurring is countries in the region want the united states more involved. they want protection. therefore i think the chinese are right in that sense that we are looking at them and they are the target of the pivot and we need say that because we don't. >> ms. lee? >> i would agree that yes, it's targeting china and i would say that it alarmed china, i don't think this is actually helping relations, because china isn't necessarily trying to withdraw from any of these areas. and in fact, there was no major tension in the whole region. the countries in the entire southeast asia was very integrated into china's economy. these countries have a lot of trade relations with china and china also has very strong trade relation west south korea and japan. -- relations with south korea and japan. in fact they were talking about
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developing a southeast asian currency. everyone was alarmed that they were being secluded from this very dynamic region and felt they needed to have a reason to go back there and build up their military there. and they came right after we decide that we are going to withdraw from the middle east. when you try away your military from the middle east, where are you going oput it? it seemed like asia was a good idea the at the time. >> the united states didn't want to pivot. the obama administration wasn't interested in foreign policy. this was the last thing they wanted to do. you have to look at what happened. china was pushing out on these countries well before the united states even thought of a pivot. >> you have the relationship with germany, china and now you have a very interesting relationship with russia. what do you think of that? russia-chinese relations? >> i would say the more we antagonize the chinese the more
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we are pushing them closer to relations with russia. and this would be true of any other country. i mean if you are not cooperating with them, they are going to look for other ways to do business. and you know, when biden threatened south korea and said don't do anything with china well once he left they invited chi jing ping to signing deals without china. every time you say don't do this which as a big brother which is u.s. style i think it back fires. >> being secretary of state john kerry is set to meet. do you think anything will come out of that meeting? >> i don't think it will. this format really is derivative of the bush administration's strategic economic dialogue which goes back to 2006. we have 90 bilateral forums with
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the chinese, and 50 with the bush administration. clearly it's gotten worse. clearly it's not a lack of contact. we desperately want so much contact with the chinese, they are becoming more arrogant, that really has been a problem. you look at this. this is not a u.s.-china problem, this is a problem china last to almost all countries to its south and to its east. obviously the issue is not the united states, the issue is china. >> the u.s. last plenty of issues with countries around the world too. so if we're going to talk about arrogance i don't think china is the only one that has a big ego when it comes to these policies. so i don't think that -- i don't agree with your characterization of this thing. i think it's another opportunity to play to domestic audiences and say hey, you know we're
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trying our best but we're making no headway, it's their fault doing a little finger-pointing, bringing up the same agenda and not being creative about make i any break throughs. frankly i'm not sure that the other side sees this side as being sincere. if they work with them the other side is probably not going ohonor it. and so there's a very deep lack of trust going on . >> what do you see for chinese-u.s. relations? >> i think they're going to continue to deteriorate. because the things inside beijing don't allow china to maintain good relations with most other curntion. you see -- countries. >> incursions into indian-controlled territory, with jam an, the south koreans are pretty concerned about intrusion into south korean
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waters. starting to look at china in a very new light. nobody wanted to have a conversation with the united states. least of all the obama administration, the obama administration tried to have cooperative relations. when secretary clinton talked about dropping human rights because she warranted to have a better dialogue with china and that didn't work. so you know the problem right now is inside china and the political system is really in trouble. >> ms. lee, final word? >> well, i would agree that things would probably continue to deteriorate. and i think that both sides have to take responsibility for this. i think you know, gordon's very sort of okay, one-sided way of painting -- >> fact based. >> no it's not fact based. you can take any fact and there are many ways to see the same
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fact. i think honestly you never take the perspective of what a chinese official might be going to or what they're basically explaining to the americans. so unless there's a way to actually step out of your own shoes and try to understand where the other side is coming from, then you're obviously never going to improve the relationship. so it's people like yourself who are going there and having this attitude that relations are going ocontinue to deteriorate. >> maybe i'll leave it here. who has more to lose, u.s. or china? >> the u.s. had a can surplus, 126% of china's overall trade surplus. we can finance our deficits without china and we have been doing that since middle of 2011, where u.s.-chinese relations haven't continued to increase. we certainly have the high cards in this relationship. >> i would say we are just as
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vulnerable in many ways because like i said we depend on trade with china and we basically have most of our economy because we don't have manufacturing here most of it is done in china. so if we have a trade war then our consumers are going to be really hurt because we can't afford to have inflation. and when we're importing so much stuff that has china parts in it or just directly assembled by china, this is going oreally hurt the consumer when our economy is just barely gaining steam. >> we'll have to leave it there. the dialogue continues in the week ahead. appreciate your insight. in the week ahead, fortune magazine will release its rankings of the biggest nations.
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>> wednesday indonesians will head to the polls to elect a new president. passengers in elect airports will be asked to power-on their electronic devices to prove they aren't a security threat. in a statement secretary of homeland security jay johnson said the dhs continually assesses the global security environment, part of this ongoing process, i have directtsa to implement enhanced security measures in the coming days at certain overseas airnts that direct flights to the united states. by the way tsa has not said what airports will be affected. earlier i talked to j.j. dwreen, security contributor. >> common sense, just to be aware of what's going on and just to understand that here are the things ayou're going ohave to deal with. coming to the airport you're
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going ohave to turn the device on, one to prove that it does work, and that it is a functional device as it's supposed to be and that it's not some type of detonator device. and also that it's not adummy which can be stuffed -- essentially and made into a bomb. >> coming up next on al jazeera america, it's a multimillion dollar industry. charging people who can't pay their fines and threatening them with jail time. we'll tell you how it's legal. but recreational emergency set to go on sale in washington state. why officials are worried and why it might surprise you.
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bl >> al jazeera america presents >> we all live for the moment that's all i'm trying to do 15 stories, 1 incredible journey >> edge of eighteen coming september only on al jazeera america >> welcome back. debtor's prison my seem like a thing of the past. in some private contractors are making big bucks in the process. tom ackerman reports from augusta, georgia. >> oafter a minor driving
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violation, nicole thought she had paid her debt to society. after 1400 dollars of fines fees and community service. but she's still paying $35 a month to a company called >> did they threaten you you would go to jail? >> oh yes, they call my phone, that they will take me back in front of the judge, they are rude and disrespectful. >> the court ruled that no one would be locked up just because they at any time have the money to pay a fine. but that ruling is are directly ignored. the companies don't charge the government but they do impose repeated fees on those low level offenders who cannot immediately pay their fines. by letting the contractors supervise probations, the court effectively gives them the power to declare someone who is behind in their payments subject to
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arrest. by some estimates the contractors make an annual $40 million profit in georgia alone. but according to a recent georgia government audit the companies were have found to, quote, improperly extended the probation term, obtained an arrest warrant or improperly allocated to provisioner service fees instead of in court. >> people on a minor traffic stop or even licensed checkpoint get hauled off to jail. just so sentinel can get its money. it's a total abuse of the process. >> kathleen huk says, she spent 180 days in jail. the company had her arrested four years after kathleen's original fine and restitution had been paid. >> sentinel reinstating my probation without a judge's
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signature or anything doing it on their own so i would say they're doing it for profit. >> reporter: the company is appealing the local judge's decision for sentinel to repay hundreds of people. meanwhile the probation company successfully lobbied georgia's legislature to pass a law protecting their operations. >> governor of the state of georgia. >> but georgia's governor vetoed the bill, he said it would guarantee to keep their information confidential. >> the legislature in georgia has seen fit to make this a state secret. this is hugely problematic and something we hope the legislature will address in coming administrations. >> meanwhile law enforcement agencies have their own complaint with the system. the companies are forcing too many jail beds to be filled by people who are not criminals yet wind up costing the taxpayers for their room and board. tom ackerman, al jazeera, augusta, georgia. >> our original series the
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system, with joe berlinger, the power of the prosecutor and what happens when the da gets i.t. wrong. tonight at midnight on being al jazeera america. rebecca stevenson, what can we expect when we walk out the door? >> more and more humid. right now we're watching thunderstorms stop to wrap up in spots. we have got monsoon season on track. spinning showers and thunderstorms into the four corners and into the rockies for the last several days. that's going to continue into monday. what we're watching is a line of thunderstorms, and several tornadoes have been spotted in central iowa tonight. this line is along a front bringing heavier rain now into michigan. this is going to be tracking a little further to the south, little further to the east tonight. these thunderstorms slowly losing steam but then picking up again tomorrow. we're going to see another round
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of potential severe weather once again in parts of illinois and into iowa as well where we don't need more rain because we've got the mississippi rifer river in s two feet below the record flood stage and that was in illinois. keithsburg. we have video of that flooding. lot of damage from the water coming down so quickly. it was anywhere from 1 to two and a half inches of rain cowmgg down within an hour's period of time. it is going right into the river and the mississippi is continuing to reach up to that flood stage and it will be cresting in some places on wednesday and thursday. now places like clarksville, missouri, the crest of that river has been moved up one day onto wednesday now. a lot of folks in clarksville
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have pen working really hard to put the sandbags around to protect the property. let's talk about temperatures because they're getting down right hot and then we're going oadd the humidity into this. we expect to feel the mugginess in the air and slowly that air mass as it pushes eastward, will be stretching into the east, pennsylvania, new york, d.c. as we get into the course of the week. now in other words, we have a super-typhoon out just in the pacific here and just moving near okinawa tonight. >> another storm to watch out for. bad enough when you have the heat but the humidity is pure misery. rebecca stevenson, thank you. in particular human tastes are to blame for animal specious under threat. jerald tan explains why the hunt for animals continues.
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>> the use of animal parts in traditional medicine have put species at risk. rhinos are under threat because their horns are believed to relieve fevers and lower blood pressure but according to cites, the global organization that protects endangered animals it becomes less about the health benefits and more about wealth. ivory from elephants is prized by the super-rich as artwork. 40,000 kilograms were seized in africa alone. cheetahs are being sold as pets where they fetch around $10,000 each. smaller creatures are not
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overlooked either. rose wood from madagascar, highly sought for its durability and rare color, more than 100,000 tons have been seized since november. these are the 35,000 species of wildlife, regulated by cites, regulated so they don't disappear. >> coming up. they didn't win the world cup. but a hero's welcome for a losing soccer team.
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the coverage gap only on al jazeera america >> in washington state, the first legal marijuana stores are set to often on tuesday. the first license will be issued
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tomorrow. retailers will then have 24 hours to acquire marijuana for their stores. although many sellers due to an expect new demand are reportedly nervous about a reported marijuana shortage. legalized marijuana in november 2012. the los angeles clippers could are sold for a record of $2 million, depending on the results of a trial starting tomorrow. the trial which is determine whether donald sterling's estranged wife had the ability to negotiate. two doctors declared him mentally incapacitated. racist remarks caught on tape were made public in april. as the lead teams get the day off from world cup action defeated teams are returning home but in colombia there was no room nor sorrow.
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reporting on celebrations in bogota. >> reporter: the fireman's vip welcome. water over the plain bringing back if colombianing where football team. colombia didn't win but did win the country's heart. >> thank you, my team. you made us so happy. you united our country. >> reporter: nothing is typical about this team. unifying a country torn apart by decades of civil war. >> i'm so proud of my country. all my support goes to this team. >> a rising international star when colemanian player was gunned down by the mafia. for scoring a goal for his own
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team during the '94 world cup. the country is a different place. the central park was flooded with more than 100,000 fans. people were fainting and knocking down gates to get closer to the stage. >> we are like a breath of fresh air for the country and we hope to bring eun unite and unity an. that is our goal. >> one of the goals was to wear the shirt either yellow or red. anyone wearing a purple shirt was not allowed in here. everyone wore the shirt, including the president and the guerilla leaders. many here say they want the party mood to live on. the country has not had a reason to celebrate for decades. monica villa masar, al jazeeraa,
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