might actually have a 2016 shot. and that is our show for today. i am david shuster on behalf of all of us at pow"power politics thanks for watching. >> this is "al jazeera america" live from new york city. i am richelle carey. here are today's stop stories. the last two americans detained by north korea are on their way back to the united states after months in captivity. president obama introduces his historic nominee to replace eric holder. next, meeting with asian leaders in beijing, one year after typhoon haiyan, the griefing continues.

the last two americans being detained in north korea are coming home. the state department made the announcement. flor washington. >> the days of life in a prison camp are over for kenneth bay and matthew miller. on saturday, north korean authorities released the two men, and they boarded a plane for the u.s. >> a wonderful day for them and their families and obviously, we are very grateful is for their safe return. i appreciate a great job on what was obviously a challenging mission. >> director clapper is james clapper, the u.s.'s director of national intelligence. in a statement, the u.s. state department called clapper key to the men's release. we are grateful to director of national intelligence clapper who engaged on behalf of the united states in discussions

with dprk authorities about the release of two citizens. >> it's not clear why clapper was brought in to negotiate or whether he had a second reason for meeting with the officials in pyongyang and the north core' ans purportedly like to negotiate with high profile diplomats. there is some speculation by releasing the men, kim jong un might try to soften his country's image. north korea faces sanctions because it refuses to stop nuclear weapons program and the u.n. execute council could refer kim and other north korean officials to the international criminal court for human rights violations. bay, a christian missionary, had been convicted nearly two years ago for trying to convert north koreans. miller was jailed earlier this year for disturbing the peace. neither man will be prosecuted for traveling to north korea, but the obama administration is

warning other americans it's not a good idea to visit. ross cylinder jordan, al jazeera, washington. >> it isn't clear yet when the two men will arrive in the united states. earlier, i spoke with isaac stone fish for foreign policy magazine and former correspondent for "newsweek." i asked him about the impact and what may have been going on behind the scenes to make this release possible. >> it seems like there has been a lot of backdoor diplomacy between u.s. government and north korea. the time something striking. it could be -- >> why now? >> very hard to say but it could be, you know, a couple of weeks after they released the other american and kerry made a forthright statement if you want to build good will, release the other two. it seems like they do want to build good will. it's happening at the same time that beijing is holding its big coming out party for the global summit called apec and doing this and distracting attention

from beijing is a slight insult against china and it seems like pyongyang is moving away from its relationship with china and closer to america. >> let's pick up on that point. where does china fit in in all of this? >> i think china has been -- the relationship between china and north korea have been very cold, especially since december when kim jung unexecuted his uncle who was seen as the china hand in the north korean administration and i think chinese seem to be fed-if he ha this idea that they have any influence over north korea and their bad behavior. it seems like they are trying to not be that involved and concentrating diplomatic injuries elsewhere. the united states seems like it's a little more willing to play ball with the north koreans and this happened. >> if this was about the north koreans gaining some good will with the international community, is that actually going to happen? >> it's hard to say. i mean, if you do something wrong like imprison two americans and then make it right, you know, do you

gain good will? >> right you are writing something you shouldn't have done in the first place. >> it's hard to say but i think they are very nervous about kim jung un getting referred to the international criminal court. there is a big report done in february by the united nations outlined a lot of human rights abuses that the north korean government has committed against their own people and it seems like, you know, north korea is not the most concerned about its international image but this report for some reason seems to have gotten them really worried. >> is there reason to believe that they would do something like this again or that they wouldn't or is it just really difficult to know when you are talking about north korea? when i say, "do something like this." i mean falsely imprison people? >> it's hard to say. they have been doing it awhile. i think it would be surprising if they stopped but predicting anything about north korea is so difficult. >> what do you think the freed -- maybe not hostages. prisoners, rather, would have to say about their experience? is there a lot of intelligence there that the u.s. will be able to gather from the two of them?

>> i think little. i think the experiences they have had would have been very circumscrib circumscribed. i think it's important to point out while hundreds of thousands of north koreans are imprisoned in gulags in atrocious conditions, these two with prisoners were not. it seems like bay was mistreated and it seems like miller was also mistreated as well. the conditions they were held in is far better than the conditions a lot of north koreans are being held in. >> a good point to make iceac stone fish, thank you so much? >> thank you. >> president obama today nominated lor eta lynch to be the next u.s. attorney general as libby casey reports, she was a new york prosecutor who knows her way around washington. >> president obama made the announcement of his new pick for attorney general with the out going ag eric holder by his side. the president praised loretta lynch for her experience as a prosecutor and for her ability to deal with politics. >> loretta might be the only lawyer in america who badges mobsters and drug lords and terrorists and still has the

reputation for being a charging people person. >> that's probably because loretta doesn't look to make headlines. she looks to make a difference. she's not about splash. she is about substance. >> loretta lynch has been able to get through 7at confirmation twice, something the obama administration is enthused about. she served as a u.s. attorney for the eastern district of ern district of new york. >> outside the president's inner circle, she does have experience with eric holder. she chaired the ag's advisory committee since early last year. there is a question of just when her confirmation would happen. well, democrats are in charge right now of senate judiciary

and the senate overall. they may start the process. but the white house says it's not going to try to ram this in before the new year. so, it may end up bleeding over into the republican-led senate. well, the incoming majority mitch mcconnell weighed in on this pick saying ms. lynch will receive fair consideration by the senate and her nomination should be considered in the new congress through regular order. so senator mcconnell pushing there for republicans to work on her confirmation process in the lead. loretta lynch, for her part, talked about the moment in time when what it meant for her as an individual to get here with the help and support of family, friends and a lot of colleagues and she reflected on the significance of being part of the justice department. >> the department of justice is the only cabinet department named for an ideal. this is actually appropriate. because our work is both aspirational and grounded in gritty reality. >> this is a land mark

nomination. if loretta lynch is confirmed by the senate, she would be the first female african-american to serve as attorney general. >> libby casey reporting there. now, the president's next move is a 10-day trip across asia to shore up -- to shore up, that is, relations with china. he leaves today for bay ching in the asia pacific economic summit. obama says focusing on chinese american relations will be a major priority during the final two years of his administration. after the apec meetings, he heads to burma and will end travels with a second trip to australia. we will have more details on the apec meeting in the newscast. >> a commander of nato troops is warning al-qaeda is still hiding out in that country. it's a startling admission considering the next was to e rad cat al-qaeda. sue turton reports from kabul. >> in puna prove incident from, an area hotly contested by the taliban, the local people here are salifists who don't believe

in board issues. it's where afghanistan and pakistan merge into one, an easy place for al-qaeda to still operate. >> as nato forces pull out of the conflict, it's top commander tells al jazeera that the group they came to wipe out is still here. >> i think there continues to be an al-qaeda presence here i think there has been a continued fight against that over the last 13 years. there has been a lot of damage on some of the 7 ario leadership. there continues to be some al-qaeda presence in afghanistan. >> was the next to eradicate afghanistan an impossible mission? >> that's 13 years ago. i think the next over time has e involved. i think that we have continued to take a hard look at them. if you are sitting in the united states, if you are sitting in ike land today, you don't worry

were xwaid al-qaeda. >> reporter: these worried. their base comes every piece of attack and they only held this ground until now thanks to nato air support. >> other only action only need is for air support for planes. whenever we go on an operation, we need to be in contact with the air. when we face the enemy, we need airstrikes because on the mountains, it's impossible to do a job in kunar without it. >> the air force isn't just needed in the fight but also to evacuate the wounded. general campbell says the afghan air force is growing in strength we continue to train their pilots, their nurses that medics to be able to perform this care. >> the new afghan president doesn't agree. he just realtime voiced his own concerns that if afghan troops were injured on the battlefield, his own air forces would for the be able to evacuate them.

>> i cannot look at a soldier in the eye to tell him i cannot evacuate him as he could die from his injuries. our her rows need a strong air force. after 13 years of conflict, nato is leaving afghanistan with the battle far from over. the most the afghan forces can hope to do is contain the taliban and the al-qaeda fighters still in the country. general campbell insists they are up to the task. sue turton, al jazeera, kabul. >> over the last 24 hours, fight against isil has intensified. a wave of explosions killed at least 48 people and injured nearly 100 others in syria, kobane, it is desolate. the city has been caught in the middle of the coalition forces against isil. what you see there is what's left of kobane, a shell of what

it once was. nearly 200,000 people have fled. in an airstrike attaching, u.s. coalition report hitting isil leaders. late last night, 10 armed isil trucks near the northern iraqi town of mosul was targeted. they would not comment on which leaders were there. isil's war tactics include more than mass discussions. it's using the media to spread propaganda. as al jazeera's charles stratford reports, the extremist group isn't the only one using the air waves as a we hope of war. >> this program is for the liberation of mosul from isil says the presenter. she says she is taking calls live on air from people sumping understand isil control inside the besieged city in northern iraq. she used to fwravt mosul. the staff left when isil entered the city in june.

they broadcast from a city in erbil. the company's ceo says the channel's mission is to spread the word that i want sil can be give feet? >> our aim as a channel is to show that isil doesn't represent anything to do with islam. we are the voice for the vulnerable in mossum. we are trying to lessen the fear about isil which propagated in the media. >> reporter: it's not justice ill that uses violent propaganda to spread its message. he had this video recently. he said it shows anti-isil militia inside mosul interrogating and shooting dead a captured isil fighter. >> wore sglifring themental of resistance and showing resistance is legitimate. there is age argument as to whether we should show these videos we need to show whoever cooperates with isil or subscribes to their ideas will be punished.

it is at this ill radio. the broadcast lotion is not known. we picked it up while parked in refugee camp. the presenter invites people living underis ill to phone in with every day problems. he advises them on random matters such as where to get drinking water or about children's education. what i am listening to here is an isil radio show that is being broadcast it shows you the efforts they are trying to make in terms of propaganda and reaching out to people in this area. this have you had yes is part of a film posted on the internet called claims of war. video showing the beheading of western journalists and aid workers has spread fear about the group. but it seems that harnessing

that fear among people and using it as a we hope of war through the media is not exclusively an isil tool. charles stratford, al jazeera, northern iraq. >> the speaker of iran's parlorpal con first his country helped the iraqi government defend itself from isil. he said iran helped iraq before any other country joined the fight. does is an honor to battle the terrorists. we do not need any propaganda for what we did there. our stanchion on this issue in the past was the same as it is today. i think there has been an awareness they have acted honestly. your honoring such action from iran's supreme leader. at least 20 people were killed by car bombs in iraq today. this is the 56 math here of a blast in baghdad.

the other bomb went off in ramadi. officials say the bombing operations resemble previous bombings by isil. five soldiers were among those killed. no one has claimed responsibility. coming up on "al jazeera america," from revolution to an arkansasy, we will go inside libya's struggle for stability. also, dine with dignity, the suicide that has re-opened

yemen, the government and reynolds falling apart deepening the country's political crisis. tensions escalated when the united sanctions prevented the former president from leaving the country. a report from the capitol, sanaa. this is yemen's former president when he was handed over power to his successor president abdullah

alsaadi in 2012. he has now sacked his long time ally from the leadership of the general people's congress, a party he formed in the 1980s in the political faxes in yemen. the deposed president has also rejected the new government, a move that is likely to deepen yemen's political divide. he accuses him of orstrating the united nations sanctions that banned the deposed president from traveling abroad and freeze his assets. yemenis are divided over the sanctions. the safrpz are wrong. domestic issues are none of the glun's business. leave us alone. they will side with the houthis.

>> they still control the c capitol sanaa. they initially said they would pull out if an inclusive government is formed. now that there is a government, it's not clear if the political tension will get better. took to the streets of sanaa, denouncing the malitias. >> i hope this new government will pave the way for the different institutions to resume activities and face the challenges we face. >> the houthis have made huge military gains over the last few months and those believe they will bargain the territory for the sake of a few ministries in the new government: they have repeatedly dismissed accusations that they are plotting to seize power. the presence of their fighters on the streets of the capitol expansion in the south raised many of the questions and their

political agenda. al jazeera, sanaa. >> two warring political faxes fail to reach a piece deal. they have been at wart for more than a year. more than 10,000 people have been killed in the fight can. the piece talks are mediated by a regional body. talks were suspended for two weeks. both sides were asked to cease hostilities in the mean time. the u.s. is considering sanctions against rifle groups to aim opposing leaders to negotiate and present the country from dividing further. the u.s. htwo rival governments been struggling for power ever since. at the center of the conflict, control of the country's vast oil reserves, just this week, gun men took control of the country's biggest oil fields and shut down production. libya also held a parliamentarily though the results were declared invalid. joining us from

washington, d.c., .7io advice for oxford analit i have a n 2011, the international community was focused on libya. the feed i can't was focused on libya. the international community shifted attention to other thing. syria, iraq, isil. what has been the result of that lack of attention? >> i think we have been in the situation before. remember afghanistan. the international community has established a reputation for itself, unfortunately, focusing on a situation and then not really seeing it through, ignoring it for a period of time and then actually having to come back and deal with it at a much higher cost in terms of lives and treasurer. i think that's the situation in libya. it actually undermines the entire argument of international intervention as a public good.

countries are now faced with, multiple precedent from afghanistan to iraq to libya. the international community will destroy a regime and bring down a government but it is unable build anything in its place. i think libya is now beginning to actually really print a global threat because isil is franchising into libya. you have now groups within libya and areas within libya that are giving allegence to isil. >> opens a new front on this confrontation with international terrorism. libya is only a couple of hundred miles at most from most of southern europe and it is a vast territory. it links into the countries of africa with their own extremist groups like boko haram and

others in chad and nigeria. i think if we ignore libya longer than this, the international community will do so at its own peril. >> let me ask you this, then: you talk about isil starting to get a foothold in libya. basically, the international community has to be able to do more than one thing at a time. if the international community is focused on dismantling isil in iraq and syria, don't they have to loop live i can't into the strategy as well? >> that's the logic. >> that's really what should be happening is that they need to pay attention to the entire sort of phenomena of isil irrespective of territory. so far, they seem to leave libya in the back burner. however, you know, libya can present them much more actually dangerous territory.

across the mid terrainian. the longest shore on the m mediterraneian, two million square kilometers of desert with vast oil underneath as well and very sparse population and it links historically and tribaly and so on with the sub is a hairan countries. he script has been arguing consistently that confronting isil in libya or some of these te terrorist groups should be a part of the overall global strategy. so far, no takers. >> there hasn't mua much of an outcry for that. >> precisely. >> that's really the problem. i think in a few years, washington is going to end up having to face this, whether it

likes it or not because if you allow this kind of problem and ignore it long enough, it jusimply festers. we know from history it evans up creating a much more dangerous cocktail. >> bottom line. now or deal with it later? 7 ario advisor for oxford analytica, thank you for joining us. for joining us.

we know back to "al jazeera america." here is a look at your top stories: north korea has released the last two americans kenneth bay and matthew todd miller are on their way back to the united states. bay was indi detention for two

years forced to serve in a labor camp. miller was detained for 7 months. republican leaders promise a fair processes but said it should wait until a new congress is seated. she will be the first black woman to run the justition department. the president travels to china today for a 10-day trip across asia. his first stop is beijing for an asian pacific economic summit. obama says he wants to improveress with the chinese government after the apec meetinganding will end his travels with the second trip to australia. the first part of the apec summit wrapped up today during the meetings, ministers agreed to forge economic growth. china's economic boom is leaving many behind with growing concern about the uneven distribution of wealth. more from beijing. >> beijing has been preparing for it mofor months spending bi you don't know of dollars and this is the result. >> pristine facilities set

amongst carefully man cured grounds already to host the cooperation forum or apec. this is what beijing will not be showing the delegates: it's grit y, poorer neighborhoods that the comic boom has largely left behind. ja chism ng shows us the two roonlz he shares with his wife and son's family, he clears garbage in his neighborhood in a city that is now home to more billionaires than any other mainland chinese city. >> they live completely different lives to united states they live in nice places and have money. but i don't know how i could live like them. >> conditions for the urban poor have been improving in recent years as a shortage of blue-collar workers for china's factories has been pushing up wages faster than for white collar jobs. it's in the countryside where the wealth gap is still the most

stark. an estimated 100 million people living in poverty. >> with the potential for social unrest, the government is acutely aware of the discontent that wealth be inequality can cause. and it's been trying to help the poor in the country side. >> such policy like social security and some policy implemented in the rural area, they are really increased income of the rural household, the more sud sid e than in the rural areas. >> he moved here from the countryside six years ago when he could no longer support his family 3 farmering. they recently got clean running water for the first time and at least now have enough to eat, he tells us, and he says, things for his children could well be better than he has had. rob mcbride, al jazeera, beijing. >> in spain, voters will take

part in an independence referendum. voters in catalona will vote on index and possibly force a constitutional crisis. al jazeera's claudia is in the capitol, barcelona. he reports most live like they are in a separate nation. ♪ >> imagine a future in which catalona becomes a nation. children from a town near barcelona certainly can. >> went catalona to be a free country, and we want the right to vote for index. >> the dream is shared by many. on sunday, catalons take part in a public could be you sultation after the spanish government blocked an official refer enda on the same day, calling it illegal. but despite the resistance, some are long flown the independence

flag. in 2012, the first mayor to declare his town free catalon territory. since then, 600 towns stopped paying taxes to madrid and sent them to catalonia's government instead. >> what the spanish government does not understand is that the more it tries to stop catalons from deciding their future, the more they will go to vote. >> while sunday's public consultation is not recognized by the spanish government, to many, it is a refer enda in all about name. given the number of catalon flags hanging from windows and balconies here, it is already clear that many support against. >> catalons have long claimed because much terrorist, culture, customs and traditions, they are a separate nation from spain. despite attempts by the government to stop them, they insist that the time for index is now.

claudia longa, al jazeera, barcelona. >> 25 years ago this weekend, thousands of demonstrators from both east and west germany began to destroy the berlin wall. >> barrier had divided the country for nearly three decades. tearing down the wall signaled the end of the cold war. nick speicer has more on that lasting moment in history. >> reporter: east germany built a war after a quarter of the position bled to west germany. in a sheefrning example of communist double speak, it said the barrier was to keep western farbists out. east german people tore the wall down and the regime on what's called the peaceful revolution. >> trinketsets and tours seem on offer everywhere. >> there is a checkpoint charlie site. the guard house isn't real. the soldiers are actos but tourists still pay $3 to get their picture taken.

>> this is another phony checkpoint located right in the middle of a shopping mall in downtown berlin, proof if any was needed that memories of the wall are good for business. the wall is a cause for reflex, of history, where the world is going now. if you are german, it's almost a place of pilgrimage. it was a wonderful thing when you are consider how long the wall has been standing. people will have to live under the communist regime, essentially locked up. so when the war fell, i was relieved that there was now finally freedom for all germans. >> for some tourists, the wall is a cause for faith in the future because so few thought a quarter a century ago that it would ever fall. >> then it came down. so, it's actually hopeful that perhaps hong kong or china or other parts of the world that are suffering such a system or a bad position is actually hopeful for them because that's an

example set. >> the fall of the wall led to german reunification, the single european currency and the treaty that created the european union. almost all of the wall is gone now. some fear it's lessons are at risk of disappearing as well. >> there is a danger of that come mraenings falling back. we have had relative stability >> november, 1989. nick spicer, al jazeera, berlin. a deeper look at the impact of that historic day is coming up later tonight. forb some, it was like watching communism literally crumble. join us at 8:00 o'clock tonight for a deeper look, the berlin

wall. 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 p.m. pacific. >> to cuba where the medical system is considered efficient. the doctors were active in fights against diseases around the world but that effort faces obstacles including finances and the country's relationship with the u.s. more from havana. >> agost i & o says medical treatment in cuba was the best thing to happen in his life. it's from angola and had an accident aged 8 which left him walking with difficulty and unable to play fwauchlt. >> the young real madrid fan says he hopes to be up and running soon. he is one of thousands of foreign patients given high quality medical care at cuban hospitals paid for by those who can afford it, free for those who can't. >> hufrm medicine is national and international. it has a spirit of solidarity written into our constitution.

orthopedic specialist went to school with fidel castro, one of the architects of cuba's health system. he treats patients from across the island, sends medics to africa and latin america and has opened hospitals across the middle east. >> probably the trong strongest element of the cuban revolution treating all cubebans and taking their expertise abroad. it's a two-way process. they are hoping by opening up the economy can action, they will be able to develop and enhance expertise like this. >> these are dr. alvarez's inintentions on display at the havana trade fair. medical services currently earn cuba billions of dollars a year. the fair is designed to attract more foreign investment and increase the sale abroad. >> cuban medics work in more than 60 countries, more than 60,000 health workers. >> cuba wid abundaren't medical

staff. equipment is often is short supply and infrastructure is crumbling. dr. alvarez blames the u.s. trade embargo, in force for more than 50 years. >> we have had to look for markets abroad for equipment and medicine. we have had to go far. it's not the same as buying medicine in the u.s. as it is in china. >> when cuba set about revamping its health system >> its aim was altruistic, to treat those in need. when with its economy struggling, it must try to sell to the world what it does best? >> agost i & o is one happy customer. daniel schiemler, al jazeera, havan a. >> last month, the former cuban president, fiddle castro wrote an op-ed calling on the u.s. and havan a to work together on the ebola front. the debate over death with dignity was rekendalled when brittany maynard took her life.

she moved to oregon, one of five states that permit assisted suicide. rob reynolds has her story. >> i hope to enjoy however many days i have left on this beautiful earth and spend as much of it. >> before she died, her video explaining her decision was seen by nearly 10 million people. in oregon where the death with dignity act has been in effect since 1997, more than 750 people have used a doctor to help them die in relative comfort. pam wall's husband, ben, was one, emaciated and in terrible pain from incurable cancer that had spread throughout his body, in may, 2012, ben wald told her he was ready to die. >> for me, it was my last gift of love to my husband because it was his choice. >> following the strict medical guidelines in oregon law, the couple consulted with physicians including dr. david grube. >> he was really sick. i went to his home, met him in his bedroom with his wife, pam.

he was competent, alert. he knew what he wanted. >> oregon law requires the terminal ill person to be mentally capable of making the decision and must take the drugs, themselves, without assistance. with a lethal dose of doct doctor-prescribed bash bit wants on hand, family and friends gathered to say goodbye. >> we sang songs read poems. i gave it to ben. he sat on the edge of the bed, tooked medication and he laid down and his last words were "thank you. "death with dignity act says it will allow those who are not terminally ill to demand physician assisted suicide and it degrades the values of the medical profession. >> dr. kenneth sthaevenz been a physician for 48 years. >> i went in to medicine to help

people. the message of those who promote assisted suicide is that doctors can do a better job with killing you than they can of taking care of you. >> dr. grube disagrees. >> suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem. the people who use death with dig any it who qualify do not have a temporary problem. they have an evened problem. they are dying. they are about to die. >> pam wald speaks out on behalf of right to die laws, including one under consideration in the u.k. >> i want everyone to have a choice. i hope britain passes this law. >> after brittany maynard's death, tens of thousands of people commented on social media. most whether sympathetic. her final personal choice played out in the most publ. coming up on ""al jazeera america"," the debate over helping the homeless. the reason a city in florida

made it illegal under some circumstances. the tragedy for mexican families who want scientific proof that missing loved ones are really dead.

generous to a fault, an elderly florida man is facing charges for being charitable. police say he broke the law by serving meals in a public park to the homeless. >> arnold abbot is 90 years old. >> arnold. arnold. >> supporters cheer him off after his run in with the law th this week after serving meals to the homeless in fort lauderdale beach. police served arnold and two ministers with a citation that requires them to appear in court. >> ig they felt guilty. >> he began feeding the homeless more than two decades ago. he formed his own non-profit called "love thy 9" fort lauderdale police say he is breaking a new ordinance. feeding locations must be more

than 500 feet away from each other and 500 feet from residential areas. fort lauderdale has joined a growing list of american cities passing or introducing similar ordinances. many argue the laws are necessary to make sure public land is being used properly and to address concerns over food safety. >> fort lauderdale's mayor says move, the meals to shelters will help the homeless in the long run. >> we are not a city that looks compassion or lacks kindness. we just feel that if someone is on the streets of fort lauderdale, we need to get them off of the street and into the right places where they can improve their situation and their situation. >> the pastor of sanctuary church points out shelters don't always offer easy access to fort lauderdale's 10,000 homeless people. >> you have people that can't make it anywhere else. they are living in this area. this is about as far as they can get. >> as for and, he plans on de defying the law and will

continue to serve meals on the beach. >> arnold and the two ministers charged face up to 60 details in jail and a $500 fine. arnold has been through this before. in 1999, the city tried to stop him from public feedings. arnold sued and won. he now plans to take the city back to court. courtney keely, al jazeera. >> the mexican government says several suspects have confessed to the mass murder of those 43 missing college students. >> as rachel levan reports, the families say they won't accept that news until they get scientific proof. >> charred bones and teeth may be all that remains of the 43 missing university students, kip nad by local police in the mexican state of guer o and turned over to a drug gang nearly 6 weeks ago. attorney general joousz jesus carom plays the video in a chilling press conference on friday. >> i know the information causes

the families sadness. the information points to a large number of people. >> in this taped confession, members of the drug gang reenact the killings, show investigators how they lined up the bodies. some were suffocated while others were shot. >> the suspect said they killed the survivors and threw them, later in the trash dump where they burned them and took turns to make sure that the fire kept burning for hours. >> if that's confessions prove to be true, this could be one of the worst massacre in decades of innocent people at the hands of local police and politicians working together with criminal gangs. >> president enrique piento who has been criticized at home and intrad for his handling of the crisis promise today pun inc. those responsible.

>> the government will do its best to clarify what happened. capturing the master minds is not enough. we will arrest everyone who participated in these abominable crimes. >> hours after the attorney general spoke, the parents of the students held their own press conference and refused to believe that their children were dead. >> i know and trust in god that they are alive. they have said many times they are dead, but we have faith that they are alive. >> they are insisting on scientific proof and that independent forensic experts from argentina analyze the dna. >> mexico's attorney general says he has sentence the dna samples to austria. the will be a matter of days if not weeks before those results are given due to the terrible condition in which these corpses were found. rachel lavin, al jazeera mexico city. >> more than 70 people have been arrested in connection with

those accident happdisappear an speak with a research prover who asked how much of a crisis this case is for mexico's president. >> i think we are confronting a before or after moment for not only human rights but democracy itself in mexico. this is the kind of crisis of no return. i think we have reached the point with the president where he is, in fact, potential continuation in the presidency may be at stake. >> local authorities and mexican government are in co lucien with organized crime. how much is that allegation been highlighted in this specific case? >> i think it's imports to stress that not only do we have very clear evidence, testimonies, film, et cetera, in materials of the participation

of local police as integral actors but the presence at the scene of the military, of if he had ram police and of state police. the national government is directly implicated in what happened and in the inability to resolve the crime to the satisfaction of its victims. >> speaking with a research professor at the university of mention co city. coming up on "al jazeera america": >> this is the mass grave. the they must be here. i feel they are here somehow. >> remembering and rebuilding one year after one of the most powerful storms to ever make landfall in the philippines.

>> i just wanted to take care of my momma... >> and no remorse... >> she giggles everytime she steps into the revolving door of justice >> she became legendary... >> the finer the store, the bigger the challenge >> al jazeera america presents the life and crimes of doris payne more than 6 ,000 filipinos were killed when a super tie phone hit a year ago.

as margo ortiz reports, anger over the government's response to that storm lingers on. the griefing doesn't stop for henry and his wife joycelyn, nothing has been more difficult than losing their two youngest children during the hurricane. >> it feels like everything just happened yesterday. i still can't face it. the kids, i still can't accept they are gone because they were in my arms when it happened until the end. >> hundreds of people came to this cemetery in the central philippine city of tacloban to look for unmarked crosses they could claim as their own. it's where most of the unidentified haiyan victims are buried. no one here is sure who is lying where. all that matters is that there is a place to mourn and remember. >> officials that march across the city early on saturday at the exact time the typhoon struck last year.

90% of this area was damaged. thousands were killed here $15,000,000,000 u.s. dollars for initial recovery work and 3 billion more has been allocated to be spent over the next six years. bureaucracy and infighting among politicians is slowing things down. >> a day before the anniversary in tacloban called for their president to step down. the city is run by a rival political family. just as hard hit to commemorate what happened and defended the pace of rebuilding. >> the strategy for building back better. we will not be caged in a cycle of destruction and reconstruction then construction and and reconstruction again. >> it's the cycle of life and dig that's foremost on people's

minds here for now. a day to remember all they have lost and pray for the strength to face the possibility that something like haiyan could happen again. margo ortigas, al jazeera, tacloban. from one storm to another, rebecca stevenson is here with your weather. >> we are watching -- this used to be a typhoon. it's ex typhoon nury, been ury, been tracking we hit our lowest point. >> could be a new record. we have to verify a lot of things first. we are seeing the storm actually push the weather into the u.s. and allow a big ridge of high pressure over the west to keep them warm and dry.

>> that's allowing a big east trough on the eastern side of the rockies. temperatures already cooler today by about 10 to 15 degrees this hour. but boy, get ready for an arctic blast because this comes in to night -- i'm sorry, yeah, well, tonight, yeah, you could get some cold lows. we will look at that in a second. touching base by the time you get to monday morning, montana and into the dakotas, we are doing to have some areas where snow fell melted and freezes overnight monday morning to school and work, have iced roadways, a big problem because we are looking for about a foot of new snow as we get through monday across parts of canada and across the continental divide. that's going to be tracking eastward. we've already got warnings and watches and special statements out for how cold it's going to be and how early snow coming in to parts of the pacific northwest all the way over in to the mid west.

arctic area as we get to monday tuesday reaching down into oklahoma the evenldz of the week reaches into the south-southeasts tuesday, wednesday morning. get going tomorrow morning with the teams for parts of montana and dakotas and high temperatures feeling quite a bit cooler. we will start this slow tomorrow. we are with all am a spectacular show of lights in the south korea ian capitol of sole, the event features thousands of lanterns made of trad it'sal hand made paper known as hanji. south cartoon kakdz and the core eye an alphabets until november 23rdrd. i am richelle carey in new york. "fault lines" is next. our website, in an hour with my colleague, thomas drayton will

join you. have a good night. >> its been six years since the financial crash that sent the global economy into a tailspin. devastating the us housing market. predatory lending and a poorly regulated financial system were at the root of the crisis. but now, housing sales in some parts of the country have picked up. >> it really started in 2010, 2011 in the wake of the housing bust and the foreclosure crisis that ensued. >> there were markets that were totally devastated. >> you had an unbelievable number of foreclosed homes. >> at foreclosure auctions like this one in georgia,