that's our show for today. we'll continue to report on the economic changes that affect your life. and if you see something you would like us to report on, give us a shout. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. ♪ this is al jazeera america. i'm david shuster in new york. john siegenthaler is off. war crimes a scathing new report accuses the islamic state group of ethnic cleansing on an historic scale. battle cry as ukrainian forces lost more ground, their leaders accuse russia of a full scale invasion. pleas for freedom, three americans in prison in north

korea are begging for help. five days along the border, the rural texas county is now tackling it alone. day one of our week-long special report. ♪ and from okay goes ground-breaking videos, to the web series created by star trek fans, we look back at some of the summer's best artistic moments. ♪ we begin tonight in northern iraq with the battle against the self declared islamic state. iraqi troops say they have retaken another strong hold. yesterday iraqs entered a siege north of bagdad, as iraq with

the help of u.s. air strikes gains ground, some are reporting the islamic state group of ethnic cleansing on an historic scale. they have brutally killed or abducted thousands of people and the united nations has agreed to begin an investigation. >> david thousands have been killed entire families have disappeared all at the hands of the islamic state group. it is called ethnic cleansing on an historic scale. many have fled their homes in the last month. they are rounding up men and boys in pickup trucks. one teenage survivor said they filled up vehicles indiscriminately. they lined up face down on the

ground. his cousin was killed, but he survived by playing dead. and witnesses say these scenes are happening repeatedly. they are clearly targeting civilians based solely on their religion. women and children are being kidnapped and raped. and one said we agreed to convert because they thought we would solve the problem, but pressure is increasing. can someone come to get us out of here. the islamic state group is clearly breaking international law and committing war crimes. the un has now called for its own investigation to shine more light on the atrocities happening inside iraq. david? >> jonathan thank you. joining us now is the lead author of the report. can you put in to context and perspective what you have been hearing from the victims and how that compares? >> one thing that we're seeing here is a deliberate

attempt -- successful, unfortunately, by these islamic state to drive out of their towns and villages minority communities, islamic state has been able to ethnically cleanse the area of all minorities to drive them away, to force them to abandon their home and livelihood, so what we are seeing is ethnic cleansing of an historic proportion. >> it sounds like the brutality has been hoifr -- horrific, what has stuck out in your mind? >> as always it is ordinary civilians who bare the brunt, and here talking to few survivors because of the large massacres that have been carried out by the islamic state, they

unfortunately, did not live, many people, alive, the few who survived told me that they survived by hiding under the dead bodies; that they spent hours with the bodies of their dead relatives and friends and neighborhoods on top of them. it -- you know, the only way that they could save themselves was by pretending to be dead. >> what are the immediate needs of the victims of islamic state? >> well, the result of this brutal campaign has been hundreds of thousands of people forcibly displaced from their homes. they couldn't take anything with them, so they have lost their homes. their have lost their entire live's possession. they are now living in dire condition. most of them in makeshift camps or under bridges or in unfinished buildings. they need absolutely everything.

they are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. >> the end of the report focuses on possible international legal action against the islamic state. can the group be tried in international criminal court? >> yes, of course. and indeed this should happen, but what we're seeing at the moment is a group that is particularly unresponsive to any sort of international pressure. there are, unlike many other swayings that we have seen before, even with extremist groups, this group is one that really does not care what the international community thinks; that does not engage in anyway. so at the moment everybody is hard pressed to find any sort of leverage. any sort of way to bring pressure to bare on the -- on the islamic state, their -- their affiliated

groups. >> thank you for being with us. and good luck to you. >> thank you. european leaders are stepping up efforts to contain the islamic state group. germany is sending weapons to iraq, and great britain is considering seizing the passports of citizens suspected of joining the group. phil ittner has more. >> reporter: it was the first day of the british parliament, and the prime minister stood in the house of commons and outlined a number of proposals that he has to combat the threat from islamic state fighters, a threat that is now widely accepted here in britain as being a very severe threat. the proposals that david cameron outlined including removes passports, and restricting the movement of

anyone who comes back from that conflict zone, and a program of deradicalization, to make young muslim youths who might be considering going, to find an alternative so that they won't even be incentivized to go and join radical groups in that region. the british prime minister also saying that the country continues to be shocked and saddened by the murder of american journalist james foley, and that again -- generally the eatics and beliefs of the islamic are an [ inaudible ]. >>ed a mering to british values is a duty for all of those who live in these islands. so we will stand up for our values. we will in the end defeat this extremism and secure our way of life for generations to come >> operator: he has to take

these proposals and put them in front of parliament and parliame parliamentarians. they have expressed the concern of unilaterally taking passportings from british citizens. but the threat is considered severe, something that crosses all party lines. the threat level was increased last week, and within the yated united kingdom, there is a sense that there is a very real tangible threat and something needs to be done. angela merkel stepped in front of the german parliament to explain why her government has decided to send money and equipment to kurdish fighters. that will fit out about 4,000 fighters with tanks, ammunition,

rifles, and grenades. all of this is a clear indication that the threat is very well, and something needs to be done. western leaders are also trying to tackle the crisis in ukraine. nato officials are said to be preparing a spear head rapid resistance force. over the weekend, russian president, vladimir putin raised tensions by talking of possible statehood for southern and eastern ukraine, and accused kiev of refusing to hold meaningful talk with separatists. ukraine's president is blaming russia for what he called direct and open aggression. the ukrainian government says its soldiers have come up against russian tanks, and rubble forces backed by russia are pushing back troops.

russia says it will attempt to send a convoy of what it calls humanitarian relief to eastern ukraine. >> reporter: parked up, fuelled up, ready and waiting to push on to the ukrainian border just 30 kilometers to the west. this is russia's second huge so-called humanitarian convoy, destination donetsk. the drivers at this military base told us that the vehicles have yet to be cleared by the international red cross, but that didn't stop the first convoy, and it won't stop this one either. kiev says it is not going to accept this convoy, unless it goes through the red cross checks. but i think what is very, very clear, is this convoy is going to roll, i would think roll soon. the eu said it would enforce

further sanctions. >> translator: there won't be a military solution to this conflict, which i have said from the very beginning. this is also the view of the other eu member countries. we also cannot accept russia's behavior either, and that's why i believe it's necessary to prepare such sanctions. >> reporter: that brought a more conciliatory note from russia's prime minister. >> translator: there will be no military intervention, we stand for a peaceful resolution to this tragedy. everything we do is targeted at promoting a political approach. >> reporter: in minsk, russia, kiev, the leaders of eastern ukraine separatists, met, but failed to come up with a ceasefire in the region. the focus is now on nato on

thursday. while reaffirming its members support for the embattled ukraine, and its president. peter sharp, al jazeera, in western russia. tonight in pakistan the turmoil is growing between demonstrators and the beleaguered government. today a mob tried to seize control of the state television station before being dispersed by police firing tear gas. protesters are demanding the prime minister resign, saying the elections he won last year were rigged >> the obama administration is urging israel to reverse its decision to seize nearly 1,000 acres in the west bank. they call it the biggest land grab in 30 years, says the

palestinians. >> reporter: this part of the land that the israeli government is intent on confiscating. land that has been toiled by palestinians for generations. the mayor of this village says the move makes meaningless any israeli claims that it wants a two-state solution. >> now it's in the front of the green line. it's our land. if the israelis -- they want to continue build settlement in the west bank. we're talking more than 150 settlement in west bank. more than 800,000 of settlers that live in our land in 1967. >> reporter: there has been speculation it's a punitive measure for the capture and killing of three young israeli settlers earlier in the year,

but this is more than just a punitive action. many believe lying behind the confiscation of this sland a grand plan, aimed at linking all of the settlement blocks in the west bank together. this occupies vast sways of the west bank. israeli governments have made clear that it will remain part of israel even if a deal is reached with the palestinians. now building here is constant. the settlements continue to expand, encroach on to palestinian territory day after day week after week, month after month, year after year. and what is very clear in the latest land grab which has happened just south of here, is that in these circumstances, in

this ongoing settlement growth, no part of palestinian land is safe. mike hannah, al jazeera, in the occupied west bank. we have the president of the arab american institute joining us tonight from washington. what is the reaction to israel's move? >> it is more of the same. this prime minister in particular, benjamin netenyahu, knows that he can get away with it, so if he felt his coalition was weakened, his hold has been compromised by the ambivalent way that the situation in gaza resolved it's a, he gets tough by taking land. it is theft, no doubt, and a very serious problem for the palestinians in the immediate area, who will lose their land, but also for the palestinian leadership in general that has wanted to see a negotiated

settlement, but now comes to feel that is simply impossible with this prime minister. and since netenyahu knows he can have his way with the u.s. administration, he sees no restraint. there is nothing other than we deplore it or it's unhelpful. we can weather those storms and does what he wants to do or what he feels he needs to do. >> in that particular area of the west bank, and we heard a series of nine israeli settlements, they were never planning to give the area back anyway. so in terms of the situation on the ground there is just another piece of the west banking that they will hold on, and it would be other mees that they could trade with. >> this has always been a joke. if you steal something, you

don't get the right to say, we'll keep it anyway. these settlements are illegal. they were built on land that was confiscated, that they had no right to. so it is not this notion of land swaps or the agreements that the u.s. government have made with the israelis before really have no standing in international law. so the idea that this is what we were going to keep anyway, simply doesn't hold any water. >> i don't think anybody is saying there is no fess about this, or saying that there is nothing wrong here. but i think the larger question comes in terms of future negotiations, does it change the conversation in terms of where the negotiations have to go? >> sure it does. because palestinians are weakened now. hamas emerged from this conflict, despite 2,200 people dead, they emerged somewhat boosted in the public eye.

i find it almost inconceivable that they did, but that's how it happened. the palestinian president on the other hand was weakened. this is just one more instance where netenyahu takes a step that simply says to those who want to negotiate, you really have no standing, or credibility in this situation, and makes those who stand for violent resistance app mere to be more in keeping with the palestinian mood, and so it weakened moderate, it strengthens extremists, and it certainly doesn't help the peace. >> it is very interesting to hear that you think that hamas has been strengthened by this, because a lot of people would way they were devastated by the israeli incursion.

>> of course. but in the public eye, hamas got a boost. when polled before the breakout, their numbers were very low. and now their numbers have gone up and fattah has gone down. and netenyahu who i think knows is strengthening the hands of the extremist, which he doesn't have to worry about it. it's the moderates he has to worry about. so when it came to trading prisoners, he gave a thousand to hamas, in exchange of one. and then he promised a hundred. so he looks week, and hamas looks strong in the eyes of palestinians.

that's what this land grab accomplishes, it makes the moderate leader look weaker. >> jim, thanks for being on the program. >> thank you. up next, a plea for help from three americans held prisoner in north korea. and how a small texas county symbolizes what the immigration crisis is doing to america. ♪

there was a cry for help today from three americans being held hostage by prisoners in north korea. they were allowed to hold face-to-face interviews with the men for about five minutes. kenny bay who was sentenced to several years in a north korean labor camp had message for his family. >> well, i'm sure they are very

worried about my health at this time. last month or so, my heart has been failing. >> the u.s. state department says it is still trying to secure freedom for bay and the other americans and urged north korea to release them. kenny bay's sister joins us on the phone. when you saw the interview with your brother, what was your reaction? >> it's difficult to watch. he doesn't seem like himself. for one thing, he has lost so much weight -- he himself said he has lost 15 pounds within the last month alone. and i think he is also usually a very cheerful and larger than life person. you could tell the strain of being a prisoner is taking a toll on his body and mentally as

well. >> he gave details about the situation he faces in the labor camp. let's listen. >> going back and forth from hospital to the labor camp for last year and a half. condition in labor camp is i'm working eight hours a day, six days a week, and working agriculture work to hard labor. >> terry before your brother was taken was he in the physical condition to be able to do that labor? >> like every urban american, we're not used to doing hard labor in the fields. even in good health that could take a lot of getting used to. he has diabetes. he has had a back injury that flared up again. but since being in prison for the last two years, i think it has taken such a toll on his health, he was hospitalized

three times. and this was the third time he was sent back and forth between the hospital and the labor camp. and our biggest concern is that his health -- he will not be able to withstand much more of this. >> what would you like the united states government to do? should be it a high-profile ambassador, bill clinton, bill richardson, what can they do to help? this >> i'm not in a position to speculate who this is going to take. but our position is it is time. he's signalling some sort of opening in the government. and we're pleading with our leaders. we are thankful for your ongoing efforts, but please brig him home now. whatever it takes bring them

home. >> finally it sounds like it has been treated somewhat uniquely as far as prisons. listen to what he said. >> i'm the only prisoner in the camp. i have been -- i have been the only prisoner in the camp for last year and a half. i -- i didn't have any -- anybody else in the camp, other than the guard and there was -- there was one doctor stationed in there as well. >> he is the only one in this camp. what do you make of that? >> i think the utter isolation is really heart breaking to learn about. you know, he is a very outgoing, life of the party kind of guy. he was always surrounded by friends. and the only outside contact he has is with his prison guards. >> terry chung the sister of

kenny bay, thanks for joining us. and good luck to you and your family. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. up next, five days along the u.s. meks -- mexican border, dealing with the immigration crisis with almost no help from washington. and a new piece of equipment is coming for the police in ferguson missouri. hey, jennar fuzz mike troober munny sling... awwwwww scram! i'm crust mike jubby roll bond chow gonna lean up an kiss bet.

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this is al jazeera america. i'm david shuster. john siegenthaler has the night off. coming up, the immigration crisis, what it is like for those risking their lives and for one tiny texas county struggling to respond. it's day one of our week-long report, five days along the border. plus new equipment for ferguson, missouri police officers. and one high school retires a controversial mascot, why it's holding firm on a name many call racist. ♪ the u.s. immigration officials say the number of undocumented migrants trying to

enter the united states could soon go up again. record numbers have crossed the border over the past year. all this week we are taking a closer look at the immigration crisis, the choices the government has made, and the people who deal with the consequences every day, including the people of brooks county, texas, an estimated 600 migrants pass through the area every day. the county has also become a burial ground for those who try to complete the journey. heidi zhou castro walked along a portion of the trail. heidi is live in dallas for us tonight. tell us more about your journey. >> reporter: david, we heard about just how treacherous this journey is for migrants. two to three bodies recovered a week in this brooks county desert. h but how does it really feel?

i reached out to someone who is very vested in these migrants. the guatemalan counsel sell findly accepted our invitation to walk in his countrymen's steps. it's 8:00 am, 75 degrees, and hazy. alan perez and i follow a ranchers trial two miles through desert. >> i can feel my feet sinking. >> reporter: but noon it will be more than 100 degrees. a person perspires as much as two quarters of water an hour. smuggler's cars wait to take migrants further north. when the sunrises it's

unforgiving. many are literally dying for water. there is that flag from a rancher that has placed one of these volunteer water stations out here. and this means life. the station is a barrel labeled water in spanish. the only water source for miles. it's nearly empty. people have used it before us. that tastes really good, and this isn't even hot yet. imagine when it's 110 degrees, and you have already done this for eight hours. 400 bodies have been recovered in these deserts since 2009. 19 have perished on this stretch of trail, victims to the sun, animals and ruthlessness of smugglers who leave the weak behind. >> what happens when you are the first in the line, and they start yelling somebody fell, somebody fell, do you have the heart like to do this, turn -- no, you have to keep going. >> reporter: because it's either

your life or theirs. >> yes. >> reporter: we come across a makeshift cross. that's where a young man was found dead in february. he was 28, from guatemala. >> what was he thinking when he was talking? was he thinking i want to go give my family better life? i mean, and he just died here. >> reporter: it's now mid-morning, 10:00, two hours into our walk, the temperature has already jumped 20 degrees. it's really getting rouft here. how do you feel, alan? >> i feel like i have been walking forever. >> reporter: our camera crew has gone ahead to meet us at the end of the trail. we're sweating, thirsty, it seems like no matter how much water you drink it isn't enough. finally we catch up to our crew.

>> i just want to stop in the shadow over there and wait for someone to pick me up. >> reporter: a truly inhumane way of trying to reach your dream. no one should ever try in. >> reporter: it's now 101 degrees. perez and i agree we have had enough. we get a ride to the trail's end near the highway, this is where migrants shed what little their carry. here they rest and summon up a last burst of energy. this is where we would wait for the smuggler to pick us up on the highway just a few -- a few yards over that. >> but the thing is, we just walked like -- forever, how are they going to have the strength to run over there? >> reporter: i guess we'll find out. >> yes. >> reporter: do you want to try it? >> yes. >> reporter: it's either sprint or be left behind.

those who make it this far are lucky, those who don't parrish in the sand. this journey to a new life may end before it begins. this was not even a sliver of what migrants truly experience. this is not even a tenth. yet those two miles took it out of us. this is no two miles in the park. under those conditions your human body does not operate as you would expect. and the saddest part is these migrants are given no warning. these coyotes they tell them that houston is a quick walk away, and once they collect the fee up front there is no regard for whether or not the people will survive. >> alan perez who made the journey with heidi joins us now on the phone. alan what was it like to be on

the trail? and what was going through your mind? >> thank you. good evening. it was interesting. a lot of immigrants go through this trail every day for all of this year. i was kind of nervous out there, because there was a lot of animals, and other things around. and also you could feel the -- there was a little mysterious since a lot of persons died on that trail. >> did it change -- did the experience of walking that trail change your perspective? >> yes, it did. i mean it's not the same when you have heard, and you heard the person say, oh, you know, i walk this much and i lot lost, so experience for yourself, it's -- it's kind of hard. >> a man was found dead on the trail. what was it like to contact the family? and how is that family doing? >> i called his wife to confirm that she received the body of

his -- of his husband, and just, you know, asked her how she was doing. she told me that he left five children behind. she was five months pregnant when he left. and now she struggles every day to keep them, by washing and ironing, labor clothes. she told me she barely makes $2 a day to keep their children. >> what goes through your mind when you hear about that kind of unbelievable challenge? >> a lot goes through my mind, you know, because you have -- you are blessed with the things you have, and sometimes you don't really appreciate it until you hear what other people go through. >> do people really not understand in guatemala how difficult it is to try to come to the united states? >> no, they don't understand,

because it's difficult, because of the risks of walking. they have the risk of dying, getting mugged, raped, and you know about rape, it's no longer the women getting raped, sometimes the younger men are getting raped too. kidnapped, getting extort, and get killed crimes across the border. >> the guatemala console in texas, thanks for joining us on the phone and walking the trail with heidi zhou castro. we appreciate it. >> thank you. it was my pleasure. >> our special reporting on the crisis continues tomorrow. we'll look at the many financial and moral challenges that the tiny county is facing. they are underfinanced and struggling to deal with an area almost the side of rhode island. on friday join us for a one-hour

special at 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern. after a shooting in ferguson missouri prompted protests nationwide, police have begun wearing body cameras. >> reporter: this is the latest gear for the officers. body cameras small enough to pin to their shirts with pocket-sized recording units. >> my understanding is if i activate the red line this comes on. >> the department bought some, othe others were donated through private companies. this video shows the scene of the shooting after brown was killed. if the officer had been wearing the body camera, police chief tom jackson says the video could have helped answer some key questions. >> how many shots were fired?

what was the position of the two individuals when the shots were fired? was one running away? >> reporter: brown's death lead to a week of angry protests in ferguson. prompting the government for to send in the national guard in response to violent confrontations between police and protesters. some americans petitioned the white house website for a michael brown law to require all police to wear a camera to ensure they are following procedure and deter misconduct. supporters said video would have help set the record straight in brown's case. >> instead we had a situation of he said he said. and the officer insisting he did nothing wrong. >> reporter: dash and body

cameras are being tested by a growing number of police agencies. >> a city in california experienced an 88% drop in police complaints. >> reporter: a former sheriff told al jazeera, it's something law enforcement should consider. >> i think the cameras can help, because it puts the jury and the public in the place of the officer. >> reporter: something support ers of the law say could improve trust between police and the people they serve. >> imagine the difference in the message we give police when we give them cameras to wear, rather than military equipment. >> reporter: the california city that experienced an 88% drop in citizen complains against police also experienced a 60% reduction in the use of force. in albuquerque, new mexico, which has been using body cams

for four years police fatally shot nearly two dozen people, not a significance difference from before the cameras. a high school in southern california is retiring its controversial mascot. they say it is keeping the arab nickname. roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: the mascot and then guised fans -- >> it shows the arab pride as being mighty. >> reporter: is retiring after objections that it was racist. this clip shows the mascot at a basketball game entertained by a belly dancer. now after months of talking with the school district, the arab american anti-discrimination committee says it is glad the

mascot and side kick genie have disappeared. >> reporter: the hooked nose, the beard, the growling face is very stereotypical and offensive to many. >> reporter: the mascot was inspired by the area's date palm trees imported from the middle east and north africa more than a century ago. in the 1950s there were two men, one carrying a sword and another snarling. in the 1980s he swapped his hat for a head scarf. the school will keep the arab nickname. >> we're considered the mighty arabs which gives the indication that this is a positive logo and name for us. >> reporter: it will also announce a new logo. this is one of five that are

preferred. the group hopes the new logo won't inspire another arab mascot at school games. >> it's always a dangerous thing to create a caricature out of an ethnic group. our advice does not to create mascot out of the character, and maybe we could find a way to highlight the arab heritage. >> reporter: he says he didn't believe the school meant to offend arabs, they sfrply didn't know they were offensive. david. thank you. breaking news from the pentagon tonight. the defense department has confirmed that u.s. military forces conducted an situation today against the al-shabab group. they designated the al-qaeda-linked group as a

terrorist organization in 2008. on sunday fighters opened fire on the country's intelligence headquarters in mogadishu. still ahead. >> i certainly wrote down ring go star. da, da, da. >> peter max illustrated a cultural revolution. we'll hear from him and several other talented artists next.

good evening, i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. i'm going to take you back 24 hours when we were looking at this line of thunderstorms moving through nebraska. take a look at the video that came out of da coda city, nebraska, where they saw up to 98 mile an hour winds in the area. a gas pipe was broken. power outages were widespread.

this morning the community got together and started rebuilding, but it will take weeks to get the city back to normal. this is what we were looking like. all of these yellow dots are wind damage across the region, and we're still seeing a lot of problems as we go through the rest of today. we have thunderstorms popping up right now, and we also have tornado warnings in effect. right now where you see those red dots that is here in parts of missouri and oklahoma. that's expected until the next hour so we'll be watching that area carefully.

this summer we have introduced you to some of the united states most talented artists. here is a look back with john siegenthaler. ♪ >> reporter: bold strokes, brilliant colors are the signature of peter max, and they burst with life when you step into his studio. you are known for the bright color. >> yeah, i love brightness of colors. >> reporter: this is his poster from 1967, the summer of love. it catapulted him to fame and made him a lasting symbol of the era. >> this was a sketch i made after a year or so of doing things and being with the

swammy, and the idea of love was a big idea. we have to love everybody. love the planet. love the people you don't even like. and one day, i decided to do l-o-v-e, and it become a very famous image. and i painted -- here i painted by good, good friend jimmy hendrix -- do you see him? >> reporter: i do. hendrix, the beatles, the stones, they created the soundtrack for the 60s, and max illustrated it. >> i have had up here everybody you can imagine, from mick jagger to the rolling stones the beatles, everybody has been up here. >> reporter: how did you contact with so many musicians?

>> because wood stock become the idea of a culture. and i was the artist, and i used to hang out with all of these amazing people. >> reporter: we walked by a piano you gave to ringo. >> ringo came to me and asked me to paint a piano. and the day i finished by total coincidence, ringo came up to thank me. and he said can i have a brush. and he wrote down to peter love ringo star, dot dot dot dot dot. >> you have done boeing 777. >> i have done a boeing 777. >> an ocean liner. >> the biggest ship in the world. when i painted that ship it was this big. and they loved it. >> reporter: how do you see your place in history? >> you know, i done look at it from that point of view very much. and it's like hard, you know.

it's hard to sometimes think about things that sort of like please the ego. you know? but i -- i know i became popular. i know i always wanted to bring beautiful things to the planet, and i hope it continues. ♪ >> reporter: so you come up with the music, record the music, and then you do the video, and what is the process? >> i mean, basically i -- i think we make our music and videos in pretty similar ways. we try to put ourselves in the situation with a lot of stuff to play with, you know? ♪ >> when we're in the studio, that's instruments and core progresses, and beats and lyrics, we throw a bunch of stuff together and figure out where the emotions are falling

out of it. every once in a while you get lust and fury and mellen collie. and all of these amazing things. and once the songs are there, we get to keep on chasing those creative instincts wherever we go. we can come up with any type of art project we feel like doing and chase it there. ♪ the writing is on the wall ♪ it has been forever sin we have had a good day ♪ >> reporter: needing and getting was one of my favorites. it was made originally for the super bowl commercial, but are the sounds that we hear, actually the sounds that were made while you were making that video? ♪ >> yes, technically they are the sounds that were made -- i mean that's all live -- what they call [ inaudible ] sound it was

recorded while we were filming. however, there were 20 mics in the car, so there were 7, 8,000 tracks all together. so we would carefully pick which bits we wanted you to hear. can you do an example of it actually sounded like in the car. >> it sounded like. ♪ >> reporter: tell us the job of a choreographer. >> well, for example in bullets, you immerse yourself in the research of the time. and for 1929, it is of course, the charleston. ♪ >> but also the choreography is based on the architecture of new york at that time in the '20s, and vargus girls, john held scar toons, and you see those lamps with the girls holding their balls in their

hands from the '20s, and all of the wonderful illustration. so the choreography, really is very authentic in its look of the '20s. so that's what you do first, the research, and then for me it's working on the music. we have a wonderful arranger who is very visual when he plays the p piano. so i is go in a room for him, and he takes it and opens it up for a dance. so i work it out first, and then i get the dancers in ament rool and teach it to them. >> reporter: when it comes to a big show like this, i mean the pressure to success, and the pressure to have a hit, because it's not easy to produce a show, and it's not inexpensive. >> no, it's a miracle a musical gets done. and it is different now because of the finances. everything is very expensive.

>> reporter: do you have to have a star? >> not necessarily a star. >> reporter: a tony winning choreographer. what does it take? [ laughter ] >> it takes a good story, i think. ♪ >> happy birthday, scottie. >> is it your birthday? >> well -- >> well, when we're about to be beamed on board, it might as well be. >> reporter: the lighting is the same, so is the set, but it is not the real thing. it's a new web series that is generating a new trekky following all on its own. >> reporter: do you have a special relationship with the people that actually click and put you on? and how do you communicate with them. >> well, facebook, twitter, startrekcontinues.com. what we do and a lot of people do is -- it's born out of a passion.

not out of the desire to make a lot of money, or to be famous. it's born out of a childhood, almost an innocent passion for something that meant so much to you when you were young. >> you can see how fun -- much fun we're having, and every single person on it loves this genre, this story, and so we put everything into it, and i think that's something that resinates with all of our fans. >> it's a very special program, and clearly you have made a connection with -- with -- with trekky fans outside, and also with those who may never have seen star trek before. it's great to have you on the program. good luck to you, and we'll live long and prosper. >> and to you. [ laughter ] coming up, new tonight at 11:00 pm eastern, new concerns about privacy and cloud

computing after a hollywood scandal. plus one year after the fbi called chicago the murder capitol of america, al jazeera goes south side to find out if anything has changed since that time. finally our picture of the day, comes from ecuador, the volcano was spitting ashes and stones last night. its name means throat of fire, and it is spewing ash now more than five miles into the air. amazing. i'm david shuster. "faultlines" is next. @j

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