this is al jazerra america. live from new york city; i am tony harris with a look at today's top storieses. dozen dead and wounded at a you nate the stations school used that's shelter in gas a trying to figure out connor tests got information on migrant school children and their families and scammed them. nypd apparently using an illegal tactic, another choke hold controversy coming up. a plan to sue the president by republics moving forward. ♪

♪ israeli officials say they did not target i all nighted nations school in gaza today. gaza residents were using the school as a shelter when it was hit by several owe explosions. palestinian officials blame the israeli militarism they say israeli shells hit the school. the israelis say they are investigate the attack and suggested air and shots by hamas fighters may have caused the ex-pollutions. officials say at least 15 people killed, dozens more wounds. al jazerra's stephanie dekker has more now from gaza. >> reporter: they should have been safe. everyone here had left their homes to the supposed safety of a makeshift u.n. shelter. all our children are in the school and us too, go and see, they shelled us with rockets, there are children's body parts there is no safety, no security

anywhere. it's close to the border with israel and it's been an area that's been hit hard. when we drove here there was heavy shelling in the area. >> translator: they told us we should evacuate the school because israel should hit it. the civilians will leave. other, we should leave how do we leave. eight, 910 children per family, we waited for buses and then the shells fell on us. >> reporter: these girls have just been brought in to the hospital a steady stream of pima driving here and scenes of chaos and devastation and the people hering asking the question, why does israel target a u.n. school that they know shelters civilians and they have already had to flee their homes, you can see people are extremely upset because they say israel new this is a shelter for those who already had to flee the area because of israel's military tack takes. israel says it may have been a rocket fired from one of the arced groups here that fell

short. but no one believes that here. >> translator: before the buses came the israelis she would the school. >> reporter: the u.n. told us they have given the is rally i'mal location of all their schools and yet four were hit in the last four days. >> most of the injuries are critical injuries. they are being operated on. others we had to send to another hospital. this is a crime. what can we do? this is a crime against humani humanity. >> reporter: this is a desperate fear here, no one can make them feel safe anymore. >> again, that was stefanie dekker reporting from gaza. i remember arer i spoke with kristopher a spokesman from the united states relief and works agent say he described what happened to the u.n. school. >> reporter: welling at five to

3:00 today the most appalling carnage there was incoming. it's difficult for anyone to know whether it was the is isras or hamas or militants it's under the fog of war, that's why we are calling for an investigation, we need to find out. >> is this an area where palestinians freeing the fighting have come to seek shelter? >> yes, that is the tragedy, they had fled the fighting, abandoned their homes under fire. came to the u.n. there was a u.n. blue flag on the building they expected sank ware and i what happens? carnage. >> did israel know that there was a u.n. school in that compound? >> absolutely. they have the precise gps coordinates of that school formally given to them. just by the way as they have the precise gps coordinates of every single one of our installations across the gaza strip.

>> again, responsibility for this is an open question. but did israel ever indicate to you or anyone else in authority there, at any time that that particular school in that compound might go on its target list? >> not that i am aware of. not that i am aware of. but that isn't to say it didn't happen. what i can say is the fire, where it drew closes we then contacted the israeli army and pleaded with them for an evacuation. we never got the green light for that evacuation. and look what happened. there was carnage. >> that was kristopher speaking to us from jerusalem. all right, more now. as we mentioned the fighting has forced 10s of thousands of people in gaza to leave their homes. there are few places they can go. accord to this united nations the area shadeed in red along the borders with israel orie just a minute are restricted or off limits. gaza has a total of 144 square

miles. 40 hers of that territory is restricted or limited. nick shove inning joins us from gaza. with limited options just where to people go to get away from the fight something. >> reporter: that's the very same question that they have for you, for us, for the is reallies. look, there aren't a lot of options in such all small place, all of the people i have spoken to have gone to the schools turned shelter were already worried about their security even before the incidents tonight. the other option most people are taking is private homes, homes of cousins or friends, but those are really overloaded at this point. we were at one house here in gaza city that is usually for about six or seven people, there were eight families, 20 children, 50 people in all in that house. and i just want you to look at something tonight. right behind me, there is not a lot to look at, it's all black.

that's not because there is nothing there, tony. actually there is a burgeoning large community right on the mediterranean sea which is a few hundred feet away. but it's a blackout across much of gaza tonight. there is a huge blackout. we have been here three nights in a row, we have never seen it this black. the main power station has been damaged here so the infrastructure for all gazans regardless of whether they are in their only homes or someone else's home really is challenge the right now. and they are losing things like water, power, and food. >> so, nick, we understand we have been following it the last few days it's been kind of a flurry, right of diplomatic efforts in gaza and recent days and surrounding areas and egypt. what about those efforts that are underway right now? any headway being made? >> reporter: yeah, you and i talked about what a u.s. official told me last night, that he hoped that within about 24 to 48 hours there would be some kind of temporary ceasefire that would give senator -- sorry, secretary of state john kerry the room to negotiate a

longer term ceasefire. that same official i talked to just a few minutes ago not as bull i object at all tonight. he has said rather depressingly, frankly, that there is no progress to be reported despite the fact that kerry has been in cairo and in jerusalem and tel aviv over the last 24 hours. he hopes and most u.s. officials i speak to, hope that both sides will come to the bargaining table and both sides will agree. but both sides right now, according to these officials, are very much -- have their positions very hardened. hamas says they don't trust any assurance by israel or the u.s. or anyone else that the future will bring any kind ofism movement for the lives of gazans, notably opening up of borders and lifting the israeli siege and they want to keep fighting until they can be certain that that will happen. israel, in private conversations with officials, are saying, look, we need more time to eliminate all these tunnels, to

destroy all the tunnel that his go from gaza in to israel and so clearly both sides are not quite ready to sign any kind of ceasefire and the fear right now is, tony, if you get to sunday night, there is a very big muslim holiday here, there will be a lot of anger especially, even more so than now if the shelling continues. >> the end of the holy month of ram dawn irandom is what you arg to him nick, thank you. some perspective now on the scale of this conflict. israel says it has uncovered 31 hamas smuggling tunnels, launched about 3100 air and navel strikes on targets in gas actual the gaza health ministry says is really strikes have killed nearly 800 palestinians mostly civilians. more than 5200 people injured. united nations say more than 41,000 people have been displaced in gaza. on the is really side 35 people died since the fighting began, 175 israelis have been injured.

most of israels dead and wounded are soldiers. the israeli army says hamas has fired nearly 2300 rockets in to israel since the fighting began. the iron dome defense system has intercepted more than 400 rockets headed toward populated areas. palestinian protesters are clashing with israeli security forces in the west bank now. one person has been killed and 55 others injured as violence kicked off at the checkpoint in is reeling. the protesters say that they were marching in solidarity with the people of gaza. they are calling the demonstration the of 48,000. live on the rare just an hour ago in the middle of it and have a look. >> reporter: they are determined. i should say one has lost their lives and dozens have been injured. they are not deterred. they are continuing -- or rather determined to clash with israelis to show their anger, to show their rage on in this very holy evening.

this is one of the holiest nights of the month of ramadan, it is the night where people believe muslims believe that their prayers will be answered. and the prayers here of many of these palestinians is to bring peace to gaza, but really what we are seeing here is anger, anger in its purest form. so the crisis in gaza is also lead to go violent confrontations between left and right wing protesters in israel. activists would disagree with is israel's military campaign are increasingly being seen as traders. they say it's become more dangerous to speak out. >> reporter: an israeli student activists who no stranger to pro papalestinian antiwar protest bt says it has taken a sinister turn. >> we were first of all told that we are the cause of the arabs, things we are very used at this point. by they are saying rockets hit

our house, they hope that we -- that there is a holocaust against us specifically. >> reporter: she was at this protest in tel aviv last week when things turned ugly. you are a traitor, you are a killer this man shouts. directed at the israeli left wing protesters calling for an end to the israeli occupation. dozens were arrested that night. tensions have always existed between the left and the right in israel. but left wing protesters say right wing activists appear more organized now and that they seem to have an increasing sense of legitimacy among israelis. with pictures like these leased by the military that adds to the israeli support for the campaign in gaza. tunnels are destroyed and soldiers walk through the rubble. many israelis feel that those who are against military action don't understand the threat. >> translator: i sit and think

israelis if you want to go to gaza, go there. here in this country it is not possible to live in peace, they kill us, dig tunnel to his reach the same houses of those who support them. >> reporter: she says she will continues to protest even if her neighbors don't understand. >> the idea of israelis protesting this i think is very confusing for a lot of israelis and it's easier to categorize as traitors or people for the other side not listening to us. >> reporter: being labeled as an outsider she says is a small price to pay in the face of so much suffering u.s. u.s. carriers have resumed flight in to israel. the move comes after the federal aviation administration lifted a ban on u.s. flights in to and out of israel. a ban was put in place avila mass rockets landed close to the international airport. an australian delegation inspected the crash side

malaysian airlines flight 17. for the very first time, they joined malaysian experts there. they found more human remains and another large piece of the plane. >> for the first time the australians went to the area down the road where it seems the most intense heat happened. and the malaysians told us yesterday, the day before, that this -- the heat from that particular impact was so intense that it mel melted -- it appearo be melt approximated the a looms aluminum wings. >> more bodies arrived in the netherlands, two military aircraft carrying the remains flew in the airport today. the bodies taken to a military base for identification. ukraine's mime pinster and cabinet has announced their resignations. elected in may he said he is resigning due to the break up of his governor coalition. he said he and his ministry will remain in office until elections

in october. meanwhile a u.s. official says russia is still fueling the conflict in eastern ukraine this after separatists shot down two ukrainian fighter jets just yesterday. al jazerra with more. >> reporter: shells hit the northern suburbs of donetsk. both sides are using heavy artillery. close to people's homes. ukrainians want the city back under kiev's control. the separatist fighters say they won't let that happen. many people here have already moved to safer parts of the country. but some people say they can't leave. >> my mother is 85 years old and she can't be moved. so i have to stay and look after her. we spent the night in a shelter and there was a woman with a one-week old child there. we are all so depressed and

scared. >> reporter: what ukrainians appear to be doing is pounding separatist defensive positions trying to find a way in to the city. but one of the weaknesses for the ukrainians is it's extremely dangerous right now for them to fly in the skies above eastern ukraine. since april, separatists have brought down almost 20 ukrainian aircraft. including two fighter jets on wednesday. not far from the wreckage of mh17. the separatists are still denying that they brought down the malaysian airliner. i asked their military spokesperson whether russia is still backing their cause. >> translator: you need to understand that our enemy, the ukrainian state is using not only all of their power, but also the power of nato and that's why we ask russia to help us against this military machine. if we had the support that you are speaking about from russia, we would be in kiev by now.

>> reporter: the international committee of the red cross says this is now a civil war. the streets of this once bustling city are almost deserted. the only cars are driven by armed fighters. people here are preparing for the worst. al jazerra donetsk, eastern ukraine. there are reports an american citizen was on board a passenger plane believed to have crashed in west africa. officials say flight 5017 was on its way to algeria when it disappeared in northern mali. 116 people aboard the plane, lisa stark with more details now from washington. >> reporter: we know the plane disappeared from radar only about 50 minutes in to its flight. it had taken off from the airport in the capital there. just after about 1:15 in the morning. there were apparently rainstorms along the path and the pilots

had asked for a change of course to get around those storms. it was about 20 minutes later that the plane disappeared from radar. the jet was an 18-year-old plane made by mcdonnell douglas, it was actually leased and operated by a spanish company, swift air, but we are told the plane was in france earlier this week and had checked out fine mechanically. it was flying over north mali, apparently, when it disappeared. that is an area of unrest, but french officials say they don't think any of the groups on the ground there had any kind of weapons that would take down a passenger jet. there is a massive air search looking for the wreckage, and includes two french military jets, here is french president francois orland. >> all means will be mobilizes to find the aircraft and give the families all the information that they are asking for and our solidarity which is total and that of the whole country.

>> this is a string disasters in aviation this year no link or common cause but versus three years of very good record in aviation safety. >> lisa stark reported for us. ray taiwanese airline is blazing weather for a plane that went down while trying to land at an airport on a tiny island. it hand hours after a typhoon passed over taiwan, look at some of the wreck i believe here. crews today have been digging through all of that rubble from the plane's cab spin parts of homes that were destroyed. coming up. arizona's governor promises an investigation after an inmate spent two hours gasping for eras he died. connor tests got their hands on private information held by the government and used it to scam migrant children and their families. now the fbi is involved.

the american families of many of the undocumented migrant children are being targeted and conned. according to the fbi a group of

people got the information and contacted their relatives and tried to extort thousands of dollars in supposed fees to unite them. more on this story from dallas. >> reporter: hey, tony. well, a brief background on just how this government at works. the children after their detained at the border are transferred in the custody of health and human services which then times take to identify family members or friends of these children who are already residing in the united states to take these kids in while they wait for their court date. how the scammers you mentioned learned who the families are, learned details about each child's immigration case. and they called these families pretending to be charity workers. and asked for anywhere between 300 to $6,000 to cover the so-called fees and travel expenses to reunite the children with these families. now parents who are desperate to see their child perhaps it's

been years, even a decade or more since they have seen these children and they are in an emotional time, many of them paid without question. and the fbi tells us this hand to families in at least 12 states, alabama, georgia, virginia, new york, maryland, florida, nevada, louisiana, massachusetts, california, nebraska and new mexico. accord to this fbi it wasn't an isolated case and they are worried there could be more victims out there who haven't showed up. many of the families who are sponsors are undocumented themselves and fear retaliation by coming forward. so tony, right now the fbi is working on identifying more of these families. >> well, the world's largest retailer will soon have a new leader here in the united states all mart's u.s. chief bill simon will leave the company next year. he will be followed by greg fa ran who heads the asian unit. the exact reason for simon's departure is unclear but

wal-mart's sales have been sluggish for the last few months. the united states is the undisputed champion of fracking. u.s. oil production makes up 10% of the world's, wow, the the world's crude oil supply. imagine that just happened. ali, we are onto something here. no doubt. european leaders would like that kind of energy independence that we are talking about here. they tried to deal with some of these world issues, and i am thinking russia over ukraine. >> look, two points to this, one is that back in the days, tony, when you and i used to talk about oil prices hitting their peak prices, the u.s. produce billion dollars 5%, 5% of the world's population, produced 5% of the oil but used about a quarter of it. consumption in the u.s. has gone down and flattened. greater fuel efficiency, gas prices higher. the u.s. still used more than 20% of all the world's oil on a

daily basis, but at least contributes 10% of the world's oil. that's issue number one, issue number two is that this is why went stronger sanction on his russia because of what's going on in ukraine because we don't have any net effect of the price of natural gas. natural gas in america is a domestic commodity. in all of western europe it is an imported commodity. nobody there tracks for natural gas, there are other ways to produce it, where there is an oil well there is natural gas. europe produces some of its own but it's dependent on russia. about 30% of all of europe's natural gas comes from russia. about 15% goes through ukraine. this is the issue being, the u.s. started on this independence trek a while ago and europe has not. now they need to have this conversation, unless they do the conversation will be the same, they depends on russia. >> this level of production that you are talking about.

>> yeah. >> what could this ultimately eventually mean for the united states? >> well, there is two things to consider. one is that the u.s. definitely f r.a. cks and produced natural gas, it leads to independent independent, most of america's oil comes from canada. it's good to have a friendly neighbor with lots and lots of oil. europe doesn't have that situation, but there is lots of natural gas under the ground there they ban the fracking. what it means in the united states is you don't depend on people who don't like you to sale you oil or gas. number two, it's goods for the economy you can sell this product. as of now we can't sale most of the oil we produce, there has been a ban on it for about 40 years, a bit of a lifting of the ban in june, and there are a lot of people advocating this, saying why don't you allow america to sale its oil. in danger there if you allow all country to sale its oil using world market prices and america will see for particular benefit of all this production, but it's an interesting debate i will

talk about the on the show tonight. >> what else are you working on for the big show at 7:00? >> i have that and a great store on reverse mentoring, you think of mentoring is some old guy teaching some new kid some new tricks, we are going to talk about how the boss fight get tips from brighter minds around here. tony, you loo we look a little o the in this tool tooth so we better pay attention. we used to look the kids, and never looked as young as some of these kids look. >> how about that. ali velshi at the top of the hour on al jazerra. coming upping, witnesses say joseph wood bass gasped for air for nearly two hours before hess death. now the death penalty debate. plus the new video having the nypd under fire. the calls of excessive force ahead.

arizona's governor says she is ordering a review of an execution carried out last night. now, the procedure took nearly two hours. and it is renewing as you would expect a debate over capital punch. roxana saberi has been following this all day for us and has more. >> the aclu of arizona is calling for a halt to executions today and told me they want an independent investigation in to what happened. and i spoke to a journalist who witnessed the execution last night. he told me he saw joseph wood snorting and gasping for air. executions by lethal injection usually take about 10 minutes fox,for joseph wood it lasted at two hours. >> it was a strange thing his mouth opened like a gasp and you would see a spasm go right down his chest would lift, his stomach would convulse and then it was over and over and over. >> journalist michael kiefer had witnessed four executions before

this, but said he has seen nothing like in. >> i turned to the reporter sitting next to me and said i don't think he's going to die. kiefer says wood gasped more than 600 times before finally dieing. critics say arizona ignored clear warnings after botched executions in oklahoma and ohio. >> this is the third time in just this year that an execution has taken exceedingly long with the inmate was moving, clearly not thoroughly unconscious. not the way the state had planned it. i think this is going to require some interventions. >> all three states used controversial new mixes of lethal injection drugs khr*uz id the sedative. >> i have a feeling we foil not see that in anymore executions but who knows where they will turn to next. >> critics say these drugs are less effective than traditional drugs after the sales were blocked to the u.s. the arizona says it followed protocol and family members of

wood's victim say the convicted murderer doesn't deserve anyone's pity. >> this man deserved it. and i shouldn't even call him a man. he deserved everything he had coming to him. >> ohio said today it till plans to go ahead with an execution in september despite what happened in arizona. tony, by some count there are 17 executions scheduled for the rest of this year in america. >> all right, roxana saberi for us, thank you. wood's death is the fourth botched execution in the u.s. this year, all are being blame odd bad drugs, in january, oklahoma executed michael wilson using a cocktail of three drugs before he died. he said he felt his body burning. later in he month in ohio it took 25 minutes for the state to execute dennis mcgwire. he received the same cocktail as wood and was also heard gasping in april oklahoma spent 43 minutes trying to execute clayton lockett, officials stopped the execution but lockett died of a massive heart attack just a few minutes later. earlier i spoke with law professor mary fan and asked her

if this it is considered cruel and unusual punishment in the eyes of the law? >> well, the question is going to be in general, lethal injection crucial and unusual punishment. >> yes. >> prior the 3-drug cocktail that was in popular use before the diminishing supply of drugs, because of the e.u. decision that you mentioned, the supreme court in 2008 upheld against an eighth amendment challenge the use of lethal injection. using the prior protocol that kentucky had. now, with respect to this particular case, this is something -- this is not the usual posture of our cases. in the case the individual has died and so really this is a question for states and democracies to decide if they can stomach this risk. >> i think you are right on that. states like arizona are keeping the source, right, of these

drugs secret, journal assists and lawyers and i alluded to this a moment ago, have been suing to try to get this information made public. do the journalists have a case here in saying that to provide a safe execution, a source of the drug cocktail needs to be made public? >> the -- well, the ninth circuit seemed to agree. they issued a temporary stay. but the u.s. supreme court in this very case vacated that stay and allowed the execution to go forward. with respect -- so certainly you should be allowed to know what drugs are being used. but with respect to the source of the drugs, the state has a concern, already as you have discussed, the states have had to resort to other protocols because of sources drying up. and so there is -- there is a concern that if the source is revealed, you are going get even more sources running way, basically. >> and, again, that was law

professor mary fan. congress is moving forward with a plan to sue president obama. today the house rules committee voted along party lines to approve of a potential lawsuit. house republicans accused the president of overstepping his authority. libby casey is at the white house with the latest, libby. >> reporter: today's house committee vote gets speaker boehner's lawsuit a step closer to reality. it has one more procedural hurdle but expected to go before the full house for a vote next week right before they jet out of here for the august recess. expect it to go down along party lines just like today's vote did. at the heart of this, is the employer mandate as part of the affordable care act. that says employers' boss have his to make sure their workers can get health insurance, the obamaed administration decided not to kick that in this year, as was written in the law instead delaying it because they said employer is just weren't ready. well, that move, say republicans, including rules committee chairman pete sessions of texas is a breach and goes

too far when it comes to presidential authority. >> unfortunately the president has ignored the requirements of the contusion instead he has selectively enforced the law in some instances, ignored it at others and at times changed statuses and statutes altogether. in these ways, the president has repeatedly encroached on congress' power to write the laws. >> reporter: democrats say this is all for show, tony. we heard from democratic congressman jim mcgovern of massachusetts who railed against the move today before the very sense house rules committee. >> this has nothing to do with the law. this has nothing do wit to do we law. it has everything to do with trying to imagine some of the extremists in your party. some of the could you could you clocks talking about impeachment. >> reporter: president obama, for his heart, says this is just

a stunt, tony. >> the coo-coo clocks in your party. okay. so i know you are not an attorney, libby and i am asking to you play one on television, maybe you have talked to one. does this suit have any merit? >> reporter: well, it all depends on who you talk to. now, this is not impeach. , it does not go that far. it has to do with whether or not the white house ca roll back cak this employer mandate. the question is will a judge even take it up. will the courts everybody look at it? if they do it will be because republicans have had to demonstrate legal standing. that is republicans have to show that there is actual harm done in delaying the em although ier mandate. that would be ivon i believe, tony because republicans were against the people ier mandate to begin with. they didn't think this should have to be part of the health care law. so the courts will have to look at this, meanwhile, the political battle rages on both sides feel like they can get a lot of mileage out of this fight. >> maybe that answers the next question. if the lawsuit doesn't go anywhere, we'll all be asking you, libby, what was the point? >> reporter: well, you know,

republicans have drawn out the process, they could have brought it to the house floor much her quickly but went threw this crit mitt i procescommittee process t activity out of it. democrats are trying to base funds raise ago peels on this process saying the republicans e wasting time. one thing that did get through a requirement every quarter that congress has to show how much money they are spends on the ground this lawsuit. democrats wanted them to debt straight that every week. republicans said, no, we'll show you every quarter, they did all agree to that. many people will be watching just how much this lawsuit costs in the end. >> libby casey at the white house for us, libby, thank you. in iraq parliament has elected a new president in an effort to form a new unified government. the first president to be elected since sadam hussein was overthrown. it's largely ceremonial but is responsible for electing a new prime minister. nouri al ma'a al-maliki's police

to blame for the isil. sudan has allowed all woman once sentence today death for being courconvert to go christis left for the vatican. she and her family will stay there for a few days before return to this united states. her death sentence had been stopped but she was stopped from leaving the country until today. 12 year stan12 kaoerg stan. the proposed law violates basic human rats for the countries lbgt community. discrimination is already a fact of life there. saine has the story for us. >> reporter: we don't know her real name, she was too afraid to tell us, she asked we call her camilla. only 19, she feels percent cuted and vulnerable.

>> it's very difficult to live here if you are different. >> reporter: camilla is living as a woman in main's body. and here that all too often results in innin intolerance. >> do troops gender people it's difficult. the first problem is identification. our i.d. card you look like a man but in life we look like a women so you didn't get a job. >> reporter: because she is still a male on theism did. card she can't get a job so she turned to prostitution, extortion by the police is part of the job. still she considered herself to be fortunate a girl she was working with slit her own wrists after bein attacked by the poli. >> they took her to an empty field and one raped her and told her that she would always pay, after that she disappeared. i called her and found out ought that she was in the hospital after she tried to kill herself. >> reporter: so it's hardly surprising that members of the

game and transgender community live on the fringes of the saturday. but on the outskirts of the capital is a place where they can get help. this is a safe house where young men and women can go for informations, support, or just for feel safe for a little while. the people here ask that we hide their faces. the group has maintained a low profile for about a year now after several anti--game december strayings in the capital. and ever since the government decided to target them through legislation, ther there is a rel fear of being attack. >> it's not a question of game rights, it's a question of human rights, nobody rights will be violated it's different if you are lesbian, game, bisexual, transgender north, a person shouldn't be discriminated against. >> reporter: lawmakers say they recognizes the 10s of thousands of game men and women deserve the same rights as their fellow citizens, but in the same breath

they insist no one can be openly game in this muslim country. >> we are forced to make a crime the spreading of l.b.g.t. issues. there are several reasons for such a dissension, it is because we are a muslim country. it is against our society. even animals don't do that. >> reporter: but just a short walk a. a place about young people come to abandon inhibitions. and are judged only for their dance moves. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but when the night is over, things outside are still the same. game activists say public opinion is against them. and that the law will likely be adopted. for camille a, there is no future here, she says she will earn what she can and leave, perhaps to europe. where she says she will be accepted for who she is.

chicago police have made an arrest for the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl this pack weekend. >> tony, police say the fatal shooting stemmed from a fist fight between two teenagers. investigators say suspect tevin lee was trying to retaliate against rival gang members following the fight. the-year-old girl was playing nearby and was shot dead. police say the suspect four or five gunshots but the murder weapon has not been recovered. wild lan officials in washington and oregon are burning through their fire budgets. 26 wild fires are rage ago cross the west. firefighters agencies warn they will soon have to raid other related programs such as forest management and fire preparedness. the cost to fight blazes has gone up over the years. more than $1 billion has been spent each year since the year 2000. twitter released the gender and ethnic breakdown of its workforce. nearly 90% of the staff in the u.s. is white or asian.

men make up 70% of its entire workforce. twitter has pledge today take steps to diversify its staff. the company has been under pressure to reveal its employee breakdown. the milwaukee man who admitted he stole a stradivarius vie len has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. 37-year-old universal a hal alla completed difficulty in may to robbery. his codefendant was expected to change his not guilty plea today. instead he requested a new lawyer. place recovered the 300-year-old violin in good condition shortly after it was stolen in january. and the violin is worth, tony, $5 million. >> five minute. okay. >> very expensive. >> that's for sure, but it's a beautiful instrument. maria, thank you, see you later. still ahead, other al jazerra america, another new video shows nypd officers using an ill lowell choke hold. up next the investigation and a look at how officers walk a very

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there ain't no need for no punching. there ain't no need for no punching. so new video has surfed appearing to show a new york city police officer using a choke hold to subdue a suspect, this has been banned since the 1990s this comes after the nypd was facing serious after the death of a man. jonathan betz is here with more. >> the fallout is growing. the second time in a week new york city officers were caught on camera apparently using a choke hold. as a family buried one man who died after begging officer to his let him breathe, revelations of another incidents. >> there ain't no need for no punching. >> video posted on line by an activist apparently shows new york city officers last week

using a choke hold on a 22-year-old pana used of skipping the fair at a subway station. he was later charged with resisting arrest and dres trespassing. the two officers involved were herd. the nypd is investigating think it happened three days before this arrest made dead are headlines. eric garner died after pleading for help after officer tried to arrest him for selling illegal cigarettes. the nypd banned choke holds more than 20 years ago. the commissioner announced retraining of the city's their 5,000 officers. >> there will be a retraining of every member of the new york city police team in the weeks, months and potential years ahe ahead. >> the city has promised a top to bottom review. one officer put on desk duty. another stripped of had us badge and gun. >> the nypd has hundreds of thousands of contacts with citizens every single year, they

arrest some 400,000 people every year and yet relatively few complaints about excessive force and virtually no complaints of this sort of activity. >> in the past five years, there have been a thousand complaints of new york officers using choke holds but very few are proven true. which despite two accusations in three days, are troubling so many now garner had asthma and the medical examiner still has not determined his cause of death. but the city has promised a quick investigation, tone. >> i all right, j.b., thank you. let's talk about this with manuel gomez a former sergeant in the n.y.p.d. and former fbi special investigate e manny appreciate you being here. when you look at the video. we'll roll it again here, when you look at the video that rerecently surfaced of the six way incidents. let me just and you is that a choke hold? >> definitely in this instance. what we don't know is what

precipitationed that. >> i don't know that. but that's the outlawed illegal choke hold. the officers will have to answer for this, correct? >> one learn%. >> okay, see we are clear on this. let talk about eric garner, we'll roll the video here as well. this was an exchange, confrontation that developed overtime and we'll get to some critical moments here. we are getting in are in to the video late but as you review it, i want to give you a you moment to describe what you saw on the videotape. >> i saw the officers at the beginning following police protocol. the individual is under arrest, he was aware of that by saying you are going to arrester me. >> telling untaxed cigarettes okay or illegal cigarettes. >> correct. correct. they isolated and contained him. called for back up being that he didn't want to be a arrested and was a very large individual. when backup arrived they proceed today try to grab his arms the

gentlemen flailed, true to his word, resist ago rest, that's when the officer grabbed him from behind. the arm originally went to the chest afternoon he was pulling him back and the arm went to the floor the arm did go to the choke hold. >> let's jump to the chase here, do you see action he is sieve force here? >> i do not. i see the force necessary to make the arrest. >> gotcha. >> if gardner simply would have been let himself be arrested he would have his day in court. >> he felt harassed, why am i going through this again. >> of course. >> he feels he feels being targeted. >> of course. >> i want to get to the critical moment here in the tape that we have isolated the crit knowledge moment and we were talk about it earlier for me it's when garner is on the ground and he is expressing a condition of distress, right. >> sure. >> and h essaying, six times hek maybe ache sixth time i can't

believe. at that moment, what does the protocol, what does the book say should be the response from officers when you got a person who is down in the course of this arrest, who is expressing to you that he can't breathe. he's in distress. >> sure, need to call 911. ems. emergency medical services needs to respond as quickly as possible. >> does that mean a stop in the action while someone calls? what does that mean? iat the moment it doesn't seem like you can stop with what is going on with the adrenaline rush or do you peel someone off, what do you? >> there were numerous officers there, at some .1 of the officers did obviously make the call because seven minutes later medical team did show up at the scene. the first order, the first priority was to get this person cuff today his safety and the safety of the officers and everybody else around him. that was the priority.

>> gotcha. we are running out of time. lastly, did you see excessive use of force, did you see a choke hold in the garner case? >> i see perhaps a choke hold that happened, but not intentionally. it progressed in to a choke hold because garner was flailing, was fighting, the police -- >> and that's really important distinction for you. >> yes. >> man east, appreciate it. thank you, manny. pleasure to talk to you thanks for take this is on. coming up on al jazerra america, iraqis standing up to the islamic state and support getting their christian neighbors. we will show you how they are responding to the threat. that's neck. and then it's "real money" with alley srel vee. coming up you want real jobs we've got them. i'll tell you where they are hiring if you ever the right skills, sphrus the student becomes the teacher. i will tell yeah some chief executives arexecutives learnins half their age next on "real money."

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shakespeare knew of and his play is set by the sea in cyprus which many people believe is this place, the division brought isolation and slow decline, the once mighty walls of othello's tower have crumble the. but now something called the joint technical committee have started respiration. in early 2015 it will reopen to tourists. the joint technical committee is a rare animal for cyprus, it was established by the political leadership of both sides of this divided island. and as a result, it was quickly and enthusiastically supported by both the u.n. and european union. it's one of those rare, good-news stories that everyone is keen to promote. >> we respect who actually built the monuments. it's not just the monument of cyprus or turkey or venetians. these are the monuments of humanity. >> reporter: the committee has 17 projects, funded by

$7 million of even u. money, they need a lot more. this work is about defying 40 years of division and mistrust. to save common heritage for both sides. >> occasionally we do argue, but not across ethnic lines or community lines, but we argue about which is the best way of conserving a building. >> reporter: the work is slow and pen staking but it's a trends, creek and turkish working together. at 40 years they are spends morning time thinking about the possibilities of a shared future than about their divided pass. simon mcgregor wood, al jazerra in turkish occupied northern cyprus. and that is all of our time for this news hour, i think atone i harris in new york. thanks for being with us, if you would like the latest on any of our stories from this news hour head over to aljazerra.com. again that's al jazerra scott come. "real money" with ali velshi is

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