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>> tech know, every saturday go 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. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on stories this hour. a major breach in ceasefire in eastern ukraine. president obama makes a controversial move, delaying action on immigration reform until after november elections. it's lights out in the parts of the midwest as severe weather knocks out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. in tonight's deeper look,
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detroit's bankruptcy trial and what it could mean for other troubled cities. thanks for being wher with us. we begin in the ukraine. it comes less than 48 hours since the agreement went into effect between ukraine and the pro-russian separatists. the port city of mariupul has been the scene. harry fawcett has the latest. >> this was a result of the heavy assault on the edge of mariupul. closer to the sensor, when pro-russian separatists swept in from the east. what's clear is that this
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ceasefire is true and well over, a great deal of damage inflicted on ukrainian forces positions all around this area. it could be that the russian-backed forces are trying make the most of this and move into the strategic port city. allowing a clear view of what hours earlier had been a battlefield. it was a battle waged amid the villages of this contested territory. brought to the door steps of a kindergarten, this one of three ukrainian tanks that took up location here. >> translator: how can the ukrainian army, our defenders, have hid in the kindergarten? where are they now? they have left us here to our own destiny. >> the children won't be coming back soon. children now feel sick when they
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see a soldier in the street. a few meters away, another tank lay split in two. and behind it, nervy soldiers. now no man's land between the opposing forces, the rumors were that no shells were coming. given the onslaught a day earlier the fear was understandable. this was one target, a ukrainian artillery position. late on saturday they managed to salvage one field gun and started to take it back to town. even this was a sensitive operation. seconds later the soldiers fired shots to warn us away. it was clear for them to be jumpy. the enemy making clear their losses, leaving mariupul under
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ever greater threat of are marauding forces. >> the kremlin still denies any direct military involvement in ukraine ukraine. but both sides moved closer to a truce. peter sharp has more. >> president putin believed that the latest round of sanctions would be averted by the ceasefire he helped to bring about by the ukrainian military and the rebel republics in the east, he will be disappointed. putin's credible with the west is just about exhausted. first of all we had russia admitting that there were in fact russian troops involved in the annexation of crimea. and there aren't many who don't believe russia isn't heavily involved in the fighting in eastern ukraine.
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the ceasefire, they say, is nothing but a smoke screen to avert these sanctions. so we understand the sanctions will be introduced in brussels on monday, i understand that the eu may be planning to bar russian oil companies from raising capital on european markets. now this would really hit the big boys like rosneft and gazprom. but this would hit more than 50% state ownership. we simply don't know we'll have to wait and see but there are promising repercussions. >> peter sharp in moscow. president obama will not make any decisions on immigration reform until after the congressional elections in november, he has decided. it's a direct contradiction to an earlier pledge by the president. kimberly ha halkett has more.
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in washington, d.c. >> protesters have marched for lack of will by the white house. it is a problem that's been getting worse as thousands of children from central america have been showing up in recent months at the u.s. southern border. most arrived without parents and said they were fleeing drug related violence in their home countries. the white house asked the u.s. congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the problem. but got only a fraction of that. so president obama vowed to force reform on his own and directed his top officials to begin framing an immigration overhaul. >> i expect the recommendations before the end of the summer and i intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay. >> it was a pledge reiterated last week. on friday, the president spoke at the close of the nato summit in europe.
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he again said a decision was coming. >> i'll be making an announcement soon. >> reporter: 24 hours later, a white house official said president obama had changed his mind and won't act until after the u.s. congressional elections in november. members of his own party are at risk and could lose control of the senate. >> you've got democratic candidates particularly for the senate who are very worried about keeping their seats. they've been getting through to the white house and said, don't do anything, hold on, don't do anything, because if you act on immigration reform we could be doomed. >> the delay is to ensure that republicans don't further politicize immigration reform but activists say both democrats and republicans are at fault, who failed to recognize that this is not about politics but people. >> more than 16% of latino
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voters know someone who is not here legally. >> immigration reform isn't likely to happen before the end of the year. kimberly helkett, al jazeera, washington. what's so cynical about today's immigration announcement is the president isn't saying he will follow the law, he's just saying he will go around the law once it's too late to hold his party accountable in the november elections. earlier we spoke with the spokesperson of an organization to promote social justice. >> the bottom line is, nobody can deny the fact that in the last two years, right after the elections of 2012, the issue of immigration became for the first
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time in many, many years a top issue for both political parties. they both promised to do something. we saw a lot of progress in the senate. unfortunately, the republican party, in the house, failed us terribly. they had a big opportunity, but they decided not to take advantage of that. now, the president has an opportunity to do something. what is still in my heart that is going to be the right thing is the president said, he's not going to do it now, he's going to delay it for sometime. we're going to continue working hard, we're going to continue making pressure that he does keep his promise but we're going to organize the community so they know that those who stood on the weight of immigration report, and those who have stayed on the weight of are immigration reform is the republican party. >> tell me what the next steps are as you see them. >> number one, those people who
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are eligible to vote become registered. those who registered to vote make sure they make it to the ballot box and those of us who are not able to vote yet, make sure we encourage relatives, friends and other members of our community to vote. that's what we'll continue to do. we heard a lot month about this happen. mi familia is not doing this alone. we're going to send a message that the latino comubility is in this country -- community is in this country. and we're going to demand that they do right by our community. >> calling on the united states and western europe to have more help. >> we need more help from the u.s. because without them we can't do anything. we need them. >> peshmerga forces say they've made inroads against islamic state but extra fire power is
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taking too long to get to the front lines. sue turtin reports from erbil. >> iraqi forces have made some inroads in the city of mosul, the peshmerga have taken the mountains from the i.s. and around to the north a town called teleska the fighters there have benefited from the air strikes. the next town helped by islamic state fighters, around the city of mosul, this is despite their constant calls for the nato nations to recognize that they need the weapons that have been sent to iraq. these weapons are stockpiling according to them in warehouses in baghdad, northern iraq and to their front lines. they're hoping though with this new coalition of nato countries formed after the summit in wales that there will be much more attention as to where the
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various supplies are going and this will mean that that stockpile gets to be moved you up towards them and they can benefit on the front line. >> islamic state fighters lately have been changing their tactics. in addition to armed combat the group is now increasing the use of car bombs in major iraqi cities. the deadly vehicles are used to target regions under government control. john hendren has the story. >> it is a bloody return to a time worn tactic. pitched battles against kurdish peshmerga. the islamic state group debt necessitates massive car bombs often with deadly effect. this video shows a islamic state woman disease as a muslim woman.
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>> the car left suddenly it exploded. i was injured by the glass. >> in the iraqi capital of kirkuk, several injured, including one-year-old daniel in the apartment upstairs. >> the bomb, everything -- >> glass? >> yes, glass. >> the shop may have been targeted because it owned liquor, also, because it was owned by kurdish yazidis. >> three nearly simultaneous bombs killed three and injured 127 including peshmerga troops inside this building devastating this entire neighborhood. >> our family came from batella, from ninevah province. islamic state came to our
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village and attacked and took everything. we fled from there. >> where is the security? we haven't found it. we fled because of explosions, came here and there are more explosions. >> reporter: the owner of this shop says he won't open again until the islamic state fighters have left iraq. with insurgents firmly in control of vast swaths of iraq, that is likely to take some time. john hendren, al jazeera, kirkuk, iraq. >> despite the violence we're still seeing in iraq the president of iran commented. >> if it wasn't inform the assistance of the iranian nation and the iranian government today we would not be witnessing relative security in iraq. alleys, towns, villages, saved
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by savage murderers day by day. >> speech given to thousands of residents in northern iran. at least 25 people were killed during syrian air strikes in a north central region controlled by the islamic state fighters. reports are most of those killed were slifnlwere slifntion in a d bakery -- slifns in civilians n a crowded bakery. >> captured along the l syrian border. this comes as a french journalist who was held hostage in syria said one of his captives was a jewish citizen. >> he's kept it secret a long time but after revelations in the french press he's spoken
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out. french journalist who was held captive for ten months, namush, an attack captured on security cameras. >> translator: after the arrest of amush, i was shown a number of audiovisual documents that allowed me to identify him. the authorities decided to keep this secret. >> one reason for this, was that when he and three other journalists they left other hostages behind and wanted to protect them. affiliated with the forerunner of the islamic state group who was supervising dozens of pruz centers in aleppo. he said this man was particularly feared. >> he miss treated me. i don't know if he mistreated
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other western hostages but i did hear him torturing syrian hostages in the basement of a hospital. >> namush was extradited to bell jim. says he's surprised by the latest allegations. the question of namush was never considered. >> i'm really impressed it surprises me a bit because if this turns out to be the case and with people's lives at stake why didn't someone ask him the question? >> facing trial over the killings. a bel a belgian judge is due toe over his hearing. >> the 26-year-old californian was arrested in april when he reportedly tore up his visa upon
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entering the country. miller is one of three americans detained in north korea. >> human enterovirus, 1400 reported cases of the respiratory cases mostly in the midwest but the number infected could be much higher. some states are reporting 70 new cases a day. colorado and missouri appear to be the states hit hardest. doctors are urging parents to keep their children home from school if they notice symptoms like runny nose, coughing. >> debris believed to be part of air traffic controllers lost contact. ftc. some debris was identified,
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that was consistent with, could be consistent with debris from a small aircraft that made a high impact, large impact from a high altitude on a sea surface. same location where we respondented an oil spill -- we spotted an oil spill. >> glazer never indicated there was a problem with his plane. both he and his plane appeared unconscious. the plane continued south over cuba before crashing. some economists are sounding the alarm. many could end up like detroit, broke and unable to pay their workers' pensions. we'll take a deep are look after
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>> it is saturday night and time to take a deeper look at the cities and states across the u.s. that are struggling to avoid financial collapse. in detroit testimony was heard during the city's historic bankruptcy trial this week. meantime, city employees are protesting cuts to their retirement. bisi onile-ere reports. >> when questioned by the federal judge, hill who supports the city's debt cutting plan, testifies that he believes it could work but not easy to implement. if you go into this thinking it
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will be, i believe you will fail. hill is one of 80 witnesses the judge will here in deciding whether the city's exit strategy is feasible and fair. despite a vote in favor of the plan some retirees are still holding out. detroit emergency manager kevin orr wants to cut $12 billion of debt to about $5 billion. those debts come at the expense of thousands of retirees who tend to lose 5% or more of their pension. >> the retirees should never have been included in this. the michigan constitution guarantees our pension. >> there are a lot of things we could have recommended that could improve these services that could improve the cash flow. the city has a cash flow problem. >> reporter: the plan which includes a spinoff of the detroit institute of arts, would
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also pay some creditor creditors than 10 cents on the dollar. sincora tends to lose tens of millions of dollars. >> we're going to fight to the end and not going to agree to anything short of what we want. >> and detroit as part of its restructuring, the city wants to reinvest more than $1 billion over the next ten years to tear down blighted homes and improve city services. detroit's cfo testified that unless an ambitious plan is set in place, to cut cost and improve revenues, the plan may not be there. if the judge rejects the city's plan it's back to square 1 for all involved. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, detroit. >> for a deeper look let's bring
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in kate long, a municipal market commentator. , and louise long. ladies, great to have you with us. >> my pleasure. >> ms. long, this plan is groundbreaking will determine the future of detroit. >> it will. gives assets to creditors on a reduced basis but rebuilding police and fire, the i.t. function of the city and also organizing in a way it can really provide services to the city. >> unprecedented. we haven't seen anything on this scale. >> not this well organized. >> ms. bartel, what will the judge be looking at during this process? >> the judge, in the bankruptcy code chapter 9 under which the
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city has filed, the judge is just going down a checklist. all right is the plan in the best interest of creditors? all right is the plan feasible? all right does the plan discriminate unfairly against the dissenting creditors? is the plan fair and equitable to the dissenting creditors and so on. the judge is trying to comply with the law. >> the subjects are saying not so fast, we don't want 10 cents on the dollar. >> it's not unusual to get 10 cents on the dollar in a bankruptcy. that's what the city has proposed and the judge has to take it or leave it. >> how would you get that money and they say sell the city's art. ms. long, that's going to come into factor here. 4.6 to 8.1 billion. i know the valuation is in dispute but this is going to play a major factor in the
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trial. >> the court cannot force the city to liquidate assets. >> they can't. >> that's fundamental in chapter 9. they have other assets away from the art museum. it is a negotiation process, it is happening in the court but they continue to negotiate what kind of settlement they can have. the creditors will get something. i don't believe they'll get 10 cents on the dollar but they will get much less than 75 cents, probably. >> somewhere between 10 and 75 cents. the municipal bankruptcy law can't require them to sell the assets. can they legally set ill though? >> some of it can't, some of it is coveted. but the creditors cannot force that sale so they just have to negotiate and do the best they can. >> i want to look at other places across the united states that are also fighting to avoid
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brumbankruptcy, courtney keely. >> money that should go into those funds are regularly spent el elsewhere without repercussions. experts warn it's a house of cards, that will collapse across the country. in seven to ten years. >> it's not like there's some magic fix for this. the problem's already there. we have a $4 trillion hole on the books it's only a $1 trillion problem so that there's an extra $3 trillion that someone is going to be responsible for there. and any solution is really just about apportion is the pain between different stakeholders. so taxpayers will certainly feel this in the form of higher taxes and lower services. >> if states and cities renege on promised, benefits, workers and retirees could take a financial hit. to make up the difference elected officials would have to
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raise taxes or cut services. one could argue that avoiding exactly this choice is what got governments into this situation in the first place. >> i think the number one most important thing is making these plans more transparent. the accounting that they use would send, if you were a financial officer in a private company and you tried to use this, you would go to jail the next day. it's totally fraudulent. >> critics say these public pension plans have basically been a way for mayors and governors to borrow and leave debt for the next administration. but a problem generations in the making is not likely to be solved overnight. courtney keely, al jazeera. >> ms. bartel, in the corporate world, pensions are protected from the bankruptcy code. why not here? >> that is not applicable in
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chapter 9. chapter 9 is constitutional only because it limits the extent to which the federal government can get involved in state matters. >> ms. long, some feel detroit's plan favors retirees who are getting six times that of creditors. >> there are reductions for retirees and more importantly what most people overlook is they are losing their health care, which was promised to them. this is retirees for the most part. they end up on medicaid. they are taking a loss, may not be in the retirement side but in the health care side it can be substantial for some of these people. but i do want to point out that central falls, rhode island, went through chapter 9 bankruptcy and they did cut pensions there. it varies by state law, whether these pensions can be cut. and this month we could see a
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ruling in the stockton, california bankruptcy which proposes cutting pensions. >> to break away at these untouchable pensions? >> it depends on the particular state. under the requirements of the bankruptcy code a municipality is not eligible to file for bankruptcy unless the state law explicitly allows its municipalities to file. and there actually are very few states that have made that decision, to allow their municipalities to take advantage of chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code. >> and once they file what do they have to prove? >> once they file they first have to prove that they are eligible for bankruptcy. detroit did that a year ago, in a landmark decision by judge rhodes. and it is not as easy as a corporate bankruptcy where you just file and you're in. >> there's no denying it
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ms. long unions are playing a major factor in the financial woes. >> there's no question, public unions are very powerful, they contribute to legislatures and campaigns. there has to be a counterweight. unions have an important role but it also, public the goods and public services are involved,. >> look at stockton, looking at vallejo, how does a municipality at this point, support leadership? >> some of the accounting rules allowed a lot of this stuff to happen off balance sheet. it wasn't clear what these future liabilities wore for cities and communities and public entities. but now it is. they've changed the accounting rules and it's clear, it's on the front page of the financials and it looks scary in a lot of cases where it hadn't been clear before what the numbers were.
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>> ms. bartel, are pension is archaic? a number of fighting with unions trying to get the pensions overturned. >> are pension archaic? oh my goodness. >> unions won't like that one will they? >> no, no. after all we have a whole social security system that are federal pension. a lot of detroiters are not recipients of social security. >> ms. long what does a recovery look like? >> recovery will have they have services in place, they have good fire, police, parks, schools, that would be a great recovery for detroit and hopefully all this effort through the bankruptcy process will get detroit to that place. >> no doubt respective leaders, ms. bartel what have we learned from detroit's historic
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bankruptcy? >> we've learned that even a city as great as detroit as big as detroit, as -- with so many creditors as detroit, can go through bankruptcy, can go through bankruptcy relatively quickly and we hope can emerge a much stronger financial and attractive municipality for people to liver in. >> i think we all agree we would like to see a quick recovery. >> kate long and laura bartel, thank you for having you with us for a deeper look. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> a house sized asteroid heading towards earth could create a problem for satellites circling above.
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california. the wildfires have scorched areas in central california and firefighters say they have contained 24% of the blaze. no major damage has been reported. nasa says earth will have a very close encounter with an asteroid on sunday. passing by our planet as close as satellites do. don't worry, nasa says it won't hit earth. science and technology editor jake ward has more. >> this one rc 2014, about a 60 food diameter rock, is going right by us. when i say right by us, i'm not kidding. 25,000 miles up. fortunately that's not going to make impact with our atmosphere or impact our satellites.
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there's a good 3,000 mile buffer there. now there is a system that nasa runs to detect these kinds of things has they come in. and this as troit initiative is kind of like a club for observatories. one observatory near tucson arizona picked this one on april 21st and one by hawaii observed it the same night. that's how we know exactly where it is, and why it's not going to come near us. there is in fact some danger in space. there's so many of these things going by we don't keep pretty good watch on these in the sky. there is a private live funded being initiative called the sentinel looking for in-coming asteroids, near earth objects that could have a catastrophic effect. this particular one if it would
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hit the planet it wouldn't do anything, it would break apart 60,000 feet up, some of the larger fragments would come down, they would hit pretty hard, they would hit the ocean, wouldn't tilt the axis of the earth or anything, but it's really the big ones, a couple times bigger than this one that you want to start worrying about. once it gets up to the 460 foot diameter, that's when you're looking at a mile incarcerator about 1300 foot deep that would create some environmental changes. you'd be talking about a very serious explosion. so at that point it would make sense would you want to throw a few hundred million dollars out of something incoming. this is going to pass right by us. if i were reporting on something that was going to hit, i'd have a very different look on my face. and you would see me more often. this is a close call one of many and giving scientists an
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opportunity to study asteroids in the future which is a good thing. >> our jacob ward. a severe thunderstorm has left thousands of people without power. 75 mile-an-hour winds bringing down 2,000 power lines. crews from neighboring states are on their way to michigan to help out. norms central illinois also left a -- storms in central illinois left a trail of downed power lines. at least one person was killed by falling trees. rebecca stevenson joining us very intense storms and not over yet. >> stretching across the northeast, lit up with lightning on the east coast. but it is the southwest that we've got big concerns because we're tracking hurricane norbert here. hurricane norbert went from a category 3 early in the morning down to a category 1 now and it's pumping up so much moisture
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into arizona and new mexico, near record moisture in the air. you can see from the video already what kind of damage that this has caused all along the mexico coastline. we have had a lot of flooding here, a lot of beach erosion too, but the flood concerns turned into flash flooding in places a little further inland. because it's a number of thunderstorms that are whipping through with wind damage. we've had a lot of folks coming in and getting some rest accuse from this particular hurricane. which has not moved onshore. it has just been spinning bands of very, very heavy rainfall and strong gusty winds right across the baja peninsula. now it will continue its track up towards the north but as it turns inland it's not going to be a hurricane anymore but going to continue to pump that record amount of moisture into very dry mountainous areas. the four corners, the southwest, we are going to have some trouble here. we have already got exploding
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thunderstorms dumping rainfall amounts, three inches coming down in some of these storms within an hour. elevation and dry dusty dirt, winds have been gusting 35 to 40 miles an hour in these areas. here you can see where we have the flash flood warning currently in arizona and we'll continue with these flood concerns. even in southern california, san diego had flooding and some road closures just south of the city earlier this evening. here's the wind gusts up to 35 miles an hour for phoenix. again there are stronger gusts in places especially in the higher elevations, but that rain is going to be intensified overnight into tomorrow and pushing its way into monday further north. problems in the southwest for the next few days. now let's talk about a cold front. temperatures dropping 25 to 30° tonight, behind the front that is exploding with lightning all
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along the east coast. philadelphia to new york batch of heavy showers, lot of lightning going on with these storms. cleveland had two inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours and the rain piling up in the northeast. good news is, it's relief bringing in cool dry weather. >> heard the good news. rebecca stevenson, thank you. political dissent in pakistan, prompting a world leader to postpone his visit. chinese leader ji jing chan has postponed his visit. undermines how the people sees the pakistani situation. >> only reinforces what people have been saying about pakistan that it is not stable. this is a country with nuclear weapons, it is a country that has a very, very severe problem
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with terrorist groups. so that it's something that we're all very concerned about. destabilization of pakistan would obviously be very consequently to the entire region. >> those protests i mentioned have tapered slightly. heavy monsoon rains left high water in several towns at least 128 people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed. rescue workers are trying to get people out of flooded areas before more rain in the next few days. >> translator: this is our village. a lot of damage has occurred because of heavy rain and floodwaters. rescue workers are helping us and heading to safe location. >> still ahead on al jazeera america, a receipt-hot sight in hawaii, the lava emergency
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>> a crisis on the border >> they're vulnerable these are refugees. >> migrant kids flooding into the us. >> we're gonna go and see who's has just been deported. >> why are so many children fleeing? >> your children will be part of my group... >> fault lines, al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> there blocking the door... >> ground breaking... >> truth seeking... >> we have to get out of here... award winning investigative documentary series...
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no refuge: children at the border only on al jazeera america >> tonight honda is recalling emotional 100,000 motorcycles that might have bad brakes. it's being reported that some of the brakes can drag and catch fire. the affected models are 2001 to 2010 along with model year 2012. this is the second time these bikes are being recalled for similar safety concerns. tomorrow is the first sunday of the nfl season but for one team a controversy over its name could overshadow game day. richelle carey reports. >> when the professional football team from the nation's capital hits the field tomorrow afternoon they'll be called the redskins as they have been since the 1930s.
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its owner brushes off the controversy that it's a racial slur, we'll never change the name, never. so far, schneider has never bowed to pressure. there have been protests from native american groups. even president obama weighed in. >> if i were the owner of the team i'd think about changing it. >> reporter: in june the u.s. patent office cancelled the redskins trademarks. but it's tied up in a lengthy appeal. this week the new york daily news, one of the widest circulated papers in the country, announced it was sacking the redskins. no longer calling the team by its unacceptable name. late august the washington post editorial board made a similar
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announcement. and several high profile sports broadcasters had publicly declared they would not use the name. whether or not there is power in omission is yet to be seen. overwhelming americans 71% favor keeping the name. just 9% believe the word redskins is very offensive. even if schneider changed his name tomorrow it would take time to officially change the name. washington would have to wait until its licensing contracts expired. and all revenue from merchandise is shared and the team is believed to be the third most valuable in the league. richelle carey, al jazeera. >> this weekend al jazeera america introduces a documentary series edge of eighteen. what next? alex gibbe introduces us to
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brandon anoy and angelo. >> some of the people in this series ask us some very powerful questions, where do i 70th in, how do i make a difference, how can i better my life, is there going to be a place for me when i'm out of high school. this is a place of uncertainty aand there doesn't seem to be a clear path for people to follow. >> my application process is a little different from normal high schoolers. not only do i have to apply for the colleges and get in academically -- >> yeah, that was, do that, that's pretty. >> but i also have to apply for the dance school separately and go audition to these places. >> so is there any mail for me today? >> yes, you've got one from arizona. >> woo hoo! >> i don't know. >> i want to thank you guys so
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much for accepting me for me. >> this is academy of writing university. this school is my dream school. >> california? >> a kid like hanoi who has come out as gay. his father is a very macho character that can't accept it. >> this guy is gay, we can't help you, you know this is right. >> papa, this is 2014, no one cares if you're gay anymore. >> and yet he has a forthrightness about confronting his parents that i don't think i would have the courage to do when i was that young. >> i felt really great, confronting my father saying hey just because i'm gay doesn't mean i'm weak. >> after high school, i have two
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options. whether or not i should go to ministry full time or going to college this fall. >> he's a preacher at the age of 17. and he's trying to reckon with his faith at a time when even his parents don't share it. and yet that teaches us a lot about the power of religion. >> you know i don't want to be somebody who would tell you, you can't do ministry. but i don't want to waste all the hard work you've done by deciding not to go to school. >> i think the billest challenge is how to find a way forward with a sense of both ambition and compassion. >> my parents have their plan that they want me to follow. but i'm going to do what god wants me to do before i do what they want me to do. >> just please take this curse off me. >> i am afraid i won't get it and i really won't know what i'm doing.
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looking for young plants. as soon as she spots one it only takes her a few moments to cut and peel it. then she's on her way again. she's managed to gather about four kilos of bamboo chutes. bamboo processing huts, sacks of bamboo are sold by weight. the preparation are basic and simple. the shoots are washed and sceuwashed andskewered. the whole cottage industry has sprung up because of need for these.
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but the growing unhappiness in villages. >> we told some of them that deforestation will make it very difficult for us later. the rich can build houses in bricks but the poor won't even be able to build bamboo huts. >> forest degradation could mean a loss of biodiversity. >> many locals are selling bamboo seeds to china. if this continues then bamboo forests will be wiped out. >> reporter: the people who work here know that. this place they say will probably stay open for a few years until there's not enough bamboo left. for them it is a choice of having a better life now or preserving bamboo forests for the future. florence louie, al jazeera,
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myanmar. lava from the kilauea volcano has been moving. filling in underground cracks and reappearing on the surface. 20 films were on the list, a swedish absurdist film was the winner. phil lavell has the story. >> a reflected on existence, a long title, more complicated plot. people have said all along they can't make sense of this film. it is beautifully shot but makes very little sense. nevertheless, the critics seem to like it, they gaifd it the golden -- gave it the golden lion. this one got the silver lion. a community in northern russia,
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a community who has not moved on from the soif soaft soviet era. this movie.has received a lot of attention over the last ten days. it's a documentary, it tells the story of the indonesian mass murders of the '80s. a film he shot a couple of years ago, was nominated for an oscar. tim roth described it as a movie that touched him so much that he couldn't actually vecialgz it. he said it was on the par with seeing a newborn child being born. there were 20 in competition, war and conflict was a very strong theme this year. in the end it was a rather surreal rather strange swedish film but nevertheless a very
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popular film that took the golden lion here. >> phil lavell in venice. thanks for joining us, thomas drayton, in new york. "consider this" starts now. have a safe night. the threat from islamic state terrorists, head of the c.i.a. and a former 4-star general discuss options. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this", we'll have that and more straight ahead. >> a video posted online claims to show the beheading of a second journalist by the islamic state group. >> we are sickened by this brutal act. >> it is game over for atlantic city's
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