>> both sides fear there is no end in sight of this spiral of vials. this incident that you guys talked about this morning, israel forces shot a 21-year-old in the chest with live ammunition, happening right

outside hebron in the refugee camp. 200 people were protesting and palestinian officials say 53 people have been killed by israel soldiers, that's one every five days. this happened right after no major incidents with what israeli police called terror incidents, the first in tel-aviv. a palestinian man went up to an israeli soldier while he waited for a train. that soldier was stabbed arched died later that day. just a few hours later in the occupied west bank, only 20 minutes from where i am now, a palestinian man tried to run over some people, failed to do that, jumped out of his car and stabbed three israelis, including a 21-year-old who survived a very similar attack in the same spot eight years ago. many israelis are expressing fear because the number of people who have died in what they call terror attacks in the last month exceeds the number of

people killed in similar attacks over the last two years. >> this cycle of violence and revenge seems to be getting worse with every incident. are we hearing anything from israeli or palestinian leadership to calm tensions? >> i think the leadership alternates between statements that are trying to calm tensions as well as trying to defender their own people. we heard prime minister benjamin netanyahu today say or yesterday said that anybody protesting against the israeli government could actually move back to the west bank or gaza, that's a quote from him and this morning, the palestinian president abbas said they have the right to defend the mosque, the third most important mosque in islam just a few miles from here in the old city of jerusalem, so you do get some rhetoric that people on both sides are hearing that seems to encourage some of the fighting and some of the violence. >> before i let you go nick, i

want to ask you about something else. netanyahu spoke out against any nuclear deal, citing tweets from the iran supreme leader president obama make his case. what is in those tweets. >> it's fortunate to note that prime minister netanyahu spends as much time talking about iran as the attacks inside israel and the west bank. those tweets were quite complicated, a nine step process he listed about how to get the jews out of israel. he called the israel government barbaric and said it "has no cure but to be annihilated." netanyahu cited that as evidence that israeli cannot accept any kind of nuclear deal, just two weeks from the deadline for the deal, they have made progress, but not quite yet, israel is trying to stop the deal.

>> coming up at 7:20, we'll speak with former israeli official about these latest clashes, as well as the new efforts to stop them. >> in just a few hours, the last ebola patient in this country will be released from a new york city hospital. officials say dr. craig spencer has completely recovered, but it comes as the virus continues to ravage west africa. cases are on the rise in sierra leone. 500 people have died in that region. we are live outside the hospital in manhattan. it's good news for the city and also the entire country. >> yeah, you're so right, good morning to you both. twenty days in quarantine and dr. craig spencer is a healthy man once again. he is not only the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in new york, but today becomes the

first person freed of it and sent home and he's also the last american to have ebola in this country at this time. it's worth noting there are plenty of people still being monitored just in case. in a statement, bellevue hospital behind me says dr. spencer poses no health risk. >> the first person diagnosed with ebola is scheduled to be released today. he contracted the disease treating patients in guinea with doctors without borders. he returned to new york october 17. the next week, he was hospitalized after reporting a temperature of 100.3 degrees and has been in isolation ever since. part of his treatment included an experimental drug, and also blood plasma donated by ebola survivor nancy writebol. dr. spencer rode the subway, went bowling and took an uber taxi which set off a race to

find people he came in contact with. it's unclear if dr. spencer will return to his apartment where his fiancee is still quarantined. the canadian government wants high risk travelers cusp as health care workers fromming from west africa to quarantine themselves at home for 21 days. in liberia, doctors say the world must remain vigilant. >> while we are doing our best, workers should be cautious. >> in an effort to raise money to fight ebola, the song do they know it's christmas is being rereleased. musician bob geldof said a phone call from the u.n. inspired him. >> this is a particularly pernicious illness because it renders humans untouchable, and that is sickening.

>> it's 30 years since "do they know it's christmas" was a hit in the pop charts around the world. it is being rereleased. interesting to note when dr. spencer was better be he asked for a banjo to be brought into his room to pass the time. >> somehow i get a feeling he'll have a bit part. kaci hickox fought her quarantine in maine. >> that's right, she is the maine nurse who was quarantined under new laws introduced by the governors of new york and new jersey and she fought it successfully. her quarantine period it up now, 21 days and according to her lawyer, she intends to celebrate with her boyfriend not in maine but with her family and friends in boston and baltimore.

one other note, dr. spencer will give a news conference at 10:15 this morning with the mayor, bill deblasio, dr. spencer not expected to answer questions. >> john, thank you very much. >> now to beijing where president obama has been meeting with russian president vladimir putin on the sidelines. they are in china for the apec summit. they had three conversations, talking about iran, syria and ukraine. mike viqueira is in washington this morning. mike, any word if these two leaders had any breakthroughs? >> if you look at the body language of what we've seen transpire over the last 12 hours or so in beijing, it is certainly very awkward these encounters. these are not formal meetings, these are on the margins of a very large national conference, the asia pacific economic council, pacific countries meeting as they do every year this time in beijing.

as they pose for photo ops, this is when these two men get together. at the top of the agenda is ukraine. though they may shake hands as cold as it may seem on the surface, it's colder underneath, the united states very concerned now about russian activities, pro-russian separatists no eek let to u.s. officials make of the fact that they believe russia is supplying them with armment, convoys heading across eastern ukraine, there was the election derided as a sham by white house officials. the hot spots in eastern ukraine, pro-russian separatists are active and fighting continues, even after a two-month-old truce. make no mistake, very tense moments between these two leaders around this conference in beijing. >> i would imagine. there's another rivalry at the foreand that is the one between china and the u.s. apec leaders are now backing the plan from china's president

while president obama was pushing his own 12 nation trade agreement, the t.p.p. does president obama appear to be walking away empty handed from this conference? >> not necessarily. i mean, when these trade agreements are negotiated, there are a lot of moving parts here and hurdles to overcome. the president has this initiative. it's been going on for sometime now, the transpacific partnership. japan is dragging their feet, very sensitive about agricultural products including rice. they didn't expect abreast, although u.s. officials say they are making progress. china very mindful of the effort as they reward it to try to contain military growth and economic growth in the region. china is now the world's number two economy had their own initiative very much in competition for what the united states and president obama want to do, stephanie. >> mic, thank you. that trade deal has been in the works since 2008, by the way. of course everything at the

summit hasn't been smooth. coming up in our next hatch hour, we're going to talk about some of the awkward moments for president obama and others. >> isil has a new ally. it is an egyptian group. it has killed hundreds have egyptian soldiers and police officers. the move could expand beyond iraq and syria. isil is being fought for control over iraq's large effort oil refinery. iraq's new president is holding thifiest level talks between those two nations. we are live in baghdad. >> here in iraq, the implications will be none or very little. it will put the jihadi group isil into another group. there's always this rivalry

between jihadist groups within the region and internationally. you have al-qaeda and isil both vying for influence and the more groups join them, the more influence they got. where it will be a real concern is egypt, where the group have mounted terror attacks in the past and are likely to mount more. it will be of concern to israel, who have long suspected that isil fighters' eventual goal once they establish the islamic state will be the state of israel. it won't make any difference here on the ground. they won't be able to send in troops or money. isil have plenty of those things already. it is definitely a propaganda victory for the group. >> the battle for beiji continues. how important is it to reclaim control of the refinery? >> the refinery was responsible at its peak for some

300,000-barrels of oil a day. since it was taken over in june, that's disappeared, so revenue is clearly very important. also, the infrastructure. if that is damaged, it's not as easy as sending people in to rarrepair it. isil has been smuggling oil, giving them huge sums to spend on their fighting effort against the iraq early, so taking it will be crucial for those reasons. it gets rid of a revenue stream for isil and gives back a revenue stream to the iraqi government. >> thank you very much. >> the captain of a south korean ferry which sank in april has been sentenced to 36 years in prison. charges including abandoning ship. he was acquitted of a homicide charge which could have carried the death sentence. 13 other crew members received up to 20 years for their roles.

up to 300 passengers, many high school kids died in the disaster. >> a sense of surprise here at this judgment, and a sense of dismay amongst the relatives of what they see as the leniency of the sentences, in particular when it comes to the treatment of the skipper, who was observed leaving, being rescued from the ferry, one of the first to get off the ferry, even at most of the passengers onboard were below decks. many of them were told to stay there and most of them being children. he was not found guilty of homicide, that for many relatives was unbelievable. found guilty only of negligence, giving 36 years. the chief engineer was found guilty of murder for abandoning some injured crew mates, given 30 years. for the rest of the crew on trial, 13 members in all given cust toed yell sentences of between 5-20 years which as far as the relatives are concerned

was just too lenient. nobody was given the death penalty, which is only symbolic here but would have been for the relatives a very important symbol. one a relative leaving the courthouse said that the legal system had failed the victims. he apologized to the memories of the children, saying although the legal system had failed, he would ensure that the investigation, which is about to get underway would not fail them and would discover what had caused this tragedy. >> south korean officials were hope to go capture the ferry company's owner and hold him accountable for mismanagement but he was found dead in june. >> same sex marriages are on hold in kansas. supreme court justice sotomayor issued that temporary injunction monday, the state asking the high court to step in. a judge threw out the ban. not clear when or if the justice may act further on the case. >> a river of molten lava

reaffirmed its destination in hawaii, claiming its first house. >> we have the very latest with john henry smith. >> while this will be no consolation to the unlucky owner of that property, no other home is likely to burn today. >> just over a week after seeming to stall, the lava flow continues its slow trek toward the town. >> it advanced toward the private property and continued on its path. >> it claimed its first home. >> by 111th five, it touched the structure and ignited the residence, so we lost the residence this morning. we did have family members on site to document as well as to observe the loss of their long standing property that the family of many generations have owned. >> the lava destroyed a steel shack on the property. the house was worth an estimated

$200,000. it burned to the ground in 45 minutes. the occupants had evacuated prior to the lava's arrival. fifty other residents living nearby have been urged to do the same. with the lava flow moving as slow as two and as fast as 17 yards per hour, it's possible the next home in its path could ignite wednesday. >> we lost the structure by this eventual area, it's at least four to 500 yards from the next closest resident down sleep. >> a lava flow has now traveled 13.5 miles, the longest lava flow since it started erupting again in 1983. this could be just the beginning. kilaueas longest running lava flow lasted for 50 years. >> in more immediate danger from the lava is the main artery. the lava is less than 160 yards

from covering the village road. crews are racing to built alternate routes. >> john henry smith, slow moving disaster. >> at least it's slow moving, so they have time to get out. >> taking a look at a very different weather picture, snow is hitting parts of the country, including minneapolis and the great lakes. >> let's turn to nicole mitchell for the very latest on the storm. more is on the way? >> it is the same system, it just isn't over yet. we won't see the totals we saw yesterday. this is wisconsin where yesterday six inches, haven't seen the new totals from overnight, but yesterday made it into the 40's. right now in the 20's by comparison with falling temperatures, winds could blow that new snow and there is still new snow out there. you can see not quite as widespread, the u.p., wisconsin could be our bigger totals as we add to what we already have. a lot of these reports in portions of wisconsin for a foot

already of what weaver seen, some of those roads are pretty slick. here's what we're looking at on top of that, the u.p. of michigan which is a big cross country ski area, you're going to be able to wax those skis and get ready this season. that's why we have winter advisories up. the other side of this temperature, temperatures so cold, we're going to see some places like minneapolis not get above freezing possibly for over a week, which could come close to a november record for many places. a november record! >> so many days below freezing. >> that's your home, right? >> that's where i'm home, everybody's bundled up. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. >> a a palestinian as we have been reported shot and killed in the west bank. >> it happened the day after an israeli soldier and civilian were killed in two separate attacks. we're speaking live with the former general about what the increasing violence could mean. >> a major restructuring plan for the department of veteran

affairs. what the government is doing to reduce wait times for vets in need of health care. >> a rob pittedly expanding sinkhole in florida swallows a car. what's being done to protect the neighborhood people. >> $73 million. >> a small number of americans control a big part of the economy.

ski today's big number is $73 million, that's the average wealth of each of america's richest families. >> they are the top 0.1%, about 160,000 families nationwide making up that list. >> they control, though, 22% of this countries wealth, almost the same amount as the bottom 90% of the population combined. >> now to the latest violence in israel and palestinian territories. a man was shot and killed by israeli forces. officials say he had a molotov cocktail which he was about to throw. it comes hours after two israels were killed. >> the former director general of the israeli foreign ministry

joins us from jerusalem. thanks for being with us this morning. violence already rocking jerusalem and the west bank, monday, tel-aviv being hit for the first time. what he said the mood among the israeli public? >> when you say tel-aviv, don't forget, we have missiles on tel-aviv not long ago. this violence coming from east jerusalem and also inside israeli is the continuation to the violence we knew a few months ago coming from gaza, and i think this is a result of the fact that the peace talks have collapsed and there is nothing in sight, both leaders admit that they're not even trying to come back to the table, and violence is popping up. >> so since august, there have been four deadly attacks in em, three hit-and-run attacks,

leaving five israel's dead, all four of the perpetrators acting alone. are you concerned we could be seeing the beginnings of a third intifada. >> maybe five were killed now, but over 65 were killed just three months ago in gaza, so it's 70 altogether. i don't think we can separate gaza from the west bank. is it a new intifada? really hard to tell. it looks like the beginning of an intifada. if something diplomatic would pop up, if anyone on the globe, the united states, the u.n., would manage to offer a root that would put the sides together, the political leaders together again, i think if we will not have this dialogue and

if the statements coming out from ramallah and jerusalem will be as harsh as we see now, i think it will probably end up being the third ty fat da. >> i want to get to another issue. more and more western european countries recognizing the palestinian state. is that itself putting pressure on benjamin netanyahu during these very tense days? >> i think that what happened in europe so far, swedish government recognition is signaling, worrying jerusalem and signaling the beginning of a momentum. if this would go wrong and we know that it's on the tail of the irish parliament and the spanish parliament, the french parliament, if this will build up to a european consensus, israel cannot ignore it, and i

think washington will not be able to ignore it, too, so i think that's the most meaningful diplomatic move we have at the moment in the context of the israeli-palestinian conflict. i personally see that something that can bring the sides back to the table. >> joining us live via skype this morning, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> syria's president may possibly be considering a u.n. piece pro policial. president bashar al assad has said that the plan is worth studying. that's according to the u.n.-syria mediator. the two discussed the proposal during talks in damascus. more than 200,000 people have been killed in the civil war, now in its fourth year. >> a piece of history being made public. ronald reagan apologizing to margaret that much in in 1983 for not telling her about the

invasion of grenada. >> please understand it was just our fear of our own weakness over here with regard to secrecy. >> very kind of you to have rung, ronald. foreign minister thatcher took the call in her room at the british house of commons. congress was holding an emergency session. she was not in the sunniest of moods at the time. >> the new head of department of veterans affairs announced major changes on the eve of veterans day v.a. secretary mcdonald said it will undergo a large scale

restructuring. the creation of a new chief customer service officer for veterans is the biggest change. >> we want them to view us as their v.a., they know who to contact. then where to go on the website, they know what benefits are available and can easily connect with us to get the benefits and services that they've already earned and deserved. >> mcdonald has proposed disciplinary action for 40 employees stemming from the scandal. up to 1,000 others could be fired. >> we could be looking at a major rebuke to the penalty's free trade plans. >> world leaders lean towards a chinese deal. we'll have a report from beijing. >> georgia's former governor taking the stand in regard to the cheating scandal at the schools. >> for the first time, veterans day is ronoring four legged

heros. >> vladimir putin chivalry seen as a major faux pas. one of our stories caught in our global net.

>> welcome back. you are looking live at the world war ii memorial in the national mall in washington, d.c. on this glorious november day, veterans day. ahead this half hour, a closer look at sex crimes on college campuses. is the government and our schools doing enough to stop the problem? >> plus military dogs finally getting their due, honored for the first time this veterans day. john stewart talks to aljazeera america about his new movie. how a story about press freedom made it to the big screen. >> a river of lava consuming its first home in hawaii, completely incinerating the house.

it began advancing late last june. >> the last ebola patient in the u.s. is ebola free. dr. spencer will be released from the hospital today. he tested positive back on october 23. >> at the apec summit in beijing, president obama and vladimir putin have been talking about, short discussions about iran, syria and ukraine. adrien brown has the story from beijing. >> apec is over and in his detectiving remarks, the chinese president outlined his ideas for this new trading block china wants to see. the problem is the united states is proposing something similar, and so china naturally has a vested interest in making sure its proposal is accepted, because the u.s. plan excludes cline in a. earlier in the day, president obama address the business

executives here, saying he welcomed a successful china, but a chain in a that underwrote, not undermind the global order. he also spoke about the contentious issue of cyber espionage, once more accusing the chinese military and others of carrying out cyber attacks on u.s. companies, particularly u.s. defense contractors. he said that had to stop. he also worried about the business environment in china, saying that u.s. companies were being targeted by anti trust investigators, saying he wanted to see a level playing field for all companies in china. i would imagine that all that is going to be discussed in the one-on-one meeting on wednesday morning. that will mark the official start of president obama's visit to china, his second visit. essentially for china, this has been an apec all about

underlining china's economic clout. it is able to demonstrate it has deep pockets offering to fund vast infrastructure projects in neighboring countries and almost saying this is something the united states can't afford to do because of its various military commitments overseas, trust us, china, we can be your friend to help strengthen economic ties in this region. >> a former director at the office of economics at the international trade commission teaches economics at the university of maryland and joins us from washington this morning opinion good to see you, thanks for being with us. president obama said on monday. >> good morning. >> he sees momentum building for the transpacific partnership, a major trade deem between the u.s. and 11 asian nations. in all of this positive rhetoric we're hearing, we're not just hearing it from obama based on any real breakthroughs in that deal. >> there really aren't any

breakthroughs and mr. obama is facing an up hill barrel. he wants to tie together the asia pacific less china as a counter weight to china. that requires a lot of boldness on the part of, you know, places like vietnam, indonesia, malaysia and so fort. he has not shown an inclination to stand up to chinese mercantilism. this trade deal does more for china than it does the united states. >> meanwhile, china for its own part is trying to set up its own free trade zone with other asian countries. does that stand at odds with any potential u.s. deal? >> it certainly is. it's a counter offer from the chinese. we'll give you a better deal. they're in pretty strong condition. as a consequence, the u.s. economy has not been growing because of all the jobs we've lost, where as china's economy has been growing in leaps and bounds where there is a

potential market for these countries. self interest, the chinese have opened up more to places like japan and malaysia and australia than to the united states. what you've got here is economic warfare. be plain about it. the president's own moves has indicated that, exclude be cline in a when it's a february of the w.t.o. indicated it used china as an aggressor. it doesn't say so explicitly. >> china is not part of t.p.p. if that were to pass and get through congress, how would it affect american business and consumers? well it would likely shift the imports we get from china to those country. i don't know that it would do great harm. ford's got an interesting proposal that would limit the ability of these countries to manipulate their currencies the way china does which is the principle bone of contention with china. if we've got the kind of things

embedded at the tpp that we don't have with our trade agreements with china, it could be a big plus for the united states and i think congress could be brought around. >> peter, such a complicated topic, but we appreciate that survey that you just bros us. former tractor of the economic international trade commission. >> awkward moments caught in our global net. president obama may find himself in a rather sticky situation. the wall street journal said he was caught chewing gum at the same time he was greeting china's vice foreign minister. it happened as he arrived at the welcome banquet. bloggers went ballistic saying no wonder he doesn't get support. chinese blogger said it is considered i am when at your. >> chinese bloggers are going crazy. >> this other thing we alluded

to yesterday, historical tensions between china and japan have intensified. the question of whether the two leaders would meet or shake hands was a big talking point. a lot of people talking about the body language, how they looked just poll light enough, but especially the chinese president on the right, you see turns away, barely cracks a smile. awkward. >> they look to happy to be there with each other. >> russian president vladimir putin raising eyebrows of his own. the recently divers vladimir putin was getting a little too friendly with the chinese first lady. he gallantly wrapped a coat around her shoulders at an apec event. >> what is wrong with that? >> the chinese president was talking with president obama. she smiled polity and moments later slipped the coat off her shoulders. >> that cannot be viewed on any chinese website.

>> an attorney for pennsylvania ambush suspect eric frein is upset at police. he says he was prevented from seeing his client the night frein was captured. he didn't speak to frein until the following day at the prison. he is charged with murdering one state trooper and murdering another. he eluded capture for seven weeks. >> the clinic that treated joan rivers is being blasted. doctors at yorkville endososcopy failed to realize her vital signs were fading and failed to provide timely intervention. >> the former governor of georgia in court today, taking the witness stand monday was testifying about allegations of widespread keith in the atlanta public school system, an inquiry he ordered before he left office in 2011. what did sonny purdue have to

say? >> he walked into a courtroom yesterday that was fairly contentious, not because of his testimony or what he was going to see, but the fact of the matter is the judge actually called one of the attorneys a grand standing attorney, said he was walking around, this was his big moment, he was taking things way too out of control, so an interesting situation there. you kind of can't write this stuff. this is a trial that's been in the makings for years. the jury was picked in august, it went on last month. it could go well into next year and sonny purdue, the former governor, as you note, was asked questions about the situation. he said that, you know, he thought it was con purr atory. he thought that there was a pervasive impeding of public accounting, and he also gave some of his personal opinions on this atlanta cheating scandal. let's have a listen. >> that was not the right thing to do. it was not the moral thing to do and it was not the right thing

to do for these students who i felt had been cheated out of a proper education. >> he also mentioned the former superintendent beverly hall who he had more conversations with. he thought the more conversations he had with her, the more he could tell something was not right in the situation, that there was pervasive keith and some sort of coverup going on. this is a trial that's going to last for at least a few more moments. >> what exactly are the educators and former school superintendent accused of doing? >> sure. well, if you think about it like this, educators have bonuses that they get based upon kids' scores. the education districts get more funds based upon the scoring of the kids, so what they're accused of is actually doing what's called erasures, turning scores from wrong to right, literally erasing it and making the scores better so that they could increase their bonuses and get more funds into their school

district. it's a coverup that they've been accused of. dr. beverly hall, the former superintendent is actually supposedly the ring-leader, but she's not even on trial right now because she has cancer, but there are 12 educators on trial, over 35 were originally charged. they took plea deals and there are hundreds of witnesses throughout this process. >> robert, thank you very much. of course we will continue to follow this story as it develops from atlanta. >> new york city is relaxing its marijuana possession rules. starting next week, anyone found with less than 25 grams of pot will be issued a summons rather than arrested. the mayor and commissioner say it's right for the city and residents. >> we will see fewer unnecessary arrests. it will be good for new york city as a whole. it will certainly be good for new yorkers of color and particularly young people of color. there's no we go about that.

>> we will be focusing our best trained detectives on other problems. i don't want them chasing down 25-gram bags of marijuana. >> however, anyone that is caught lighting up can still be arrested. tougher penalties will apply to anyone caught near a school. >> these incredible pictures to show you from tampa. it took 15 minutes for a sinkhole to swallow this car monday. no one was injured, but six families in the neighborhood had to be evacuated as a precaution. >> it is veterans day and across the country, folks pausing to thanks those who served our country. >> we thank our nicole mitchell, major mitchell joins us, she is a veteran and joins us with some history of veterans day and some people finally getting the recognition they deserve. >> want to take the chance to say happy veterans day to all my fellow veterans out there. for the first time, military working dogs getting special ors alongside war heroes. they have served since world war

ii but since 9/11 have become a critical part of many military operations. they can change a soldier's life in a heartbeat, bombs hidden in the ground. at times like this, they are forced to put their lives in someone else's hands. >> i already lost two people in my squad, close friends of mine, due toi e.d.'s. being here, i feel i can make a different. i've got 100% confidence in my dog to find anything out here. >> those paws belong to these kay nines on the front lines, sniffing out explosives to a.k.47s. >> they can do amazing things. they can smell so much better than we can. that dogs going to be on it and discover it. they save lives. >> just like humans, not every pooch is built for combat. it takes a real alpha dog to pass the difficult training process, and to get man's best friend in fighting shape is not cheap. the military spends about

$50,000 on each one. the most famous war dog, a belgian dog like this one called cairo. cairo was deployed with the navy seals when they raided osama bin laden's compound in pakistan three years ago. canine have dangerous scenarios. >> a dog doesn't know the difference between risking his life. it's all a game to them. >> the four legged veterans also suffer the ravaging of war and prone to post traumatic stress disorder. military dogs were once treated like surplus equipment, then in 2000, president pill clinton signed robby's law, allowing service dogs to be adopted after service, giving these valiant heroes a new leash on life. >> each military working dog can save the life of between 150-200 service members and today is special for them. today for the first time, they're part of the new york

city veterans day parade and they'll even have their own float. you can keep our eye out for the dogs. >> even the handlers become close to the dogs. >> a lot of times they get priority in the adoption if they want that. >> still ahead, different topic, sex crimes on college campuses. >> a special investigation from america tonight changed the conversation, but some advocates say there's still a lot to do. >> a rare salamander with some very human straits are one of today's discoveries.

>> seven new jersey high school football players will not be tried as duties. that's the decision of prosecutors in sayerville. the students face charges of alleged hazing incidentses, at

least three accused of aggravated sexual assault and criminal sexual conduct. the school canceled all of the team's season. >> america tonight looking at sex crimes on college campuses this week. a major initiative is launched in to how the cases are handled. >> it was an america tonight special investigation that launched the changes. >> this is rebecca, not her real name. a 20-year-old k.u. sophomore who said her world changed last fall when a guy she met on campus raped her. >> i remember waking up, and he was kiss meg and then before i knew it, he was trying to have sex with me, and i tried to push him off, but i was so weak because of how intoxicated i was, it obviously wasn't effective, and i told him no, and to stop, and that i couldn't do this. >> the justice democratic estimates one in five women will be sexually assaulted in

college. >> he fully admitted to continuing to have sex with me after i said no. >> what should the university have done? >> i believe that they should have add a minimum suspended him, because his continued presence on the campus not only put our daughter at risk, but put the entire community at risk. >> a review of campus sex crime cases across the nation found victimizers rarely face expulsion, even when the university rules they are culpable in a sex assault. >> we began to think, you know, really, something needs to be done to remove this young man from this campus. >> did you know that title nine was something that could be applied, that universities could be held responsible under title nine before this happened to you, before you saw our report? >> i had never even heard of title nine before. i was one of those people that just always thought it's never going to happen to me.

>> but it did. the education democratic found rebecca's fight nine complaint credible and is now investigating the university of kansas. right now, 86 colleges and universities are under investigation. in the months since our series, the white house launched a major initiative. >> this is on all of us, every one of us to fight campus sexual assault. >> this sexual assault thing is an epidemic. >> survivors are increasingly find ways to make themselves heard. column bein a junior sarah said she has been assaulted twice. it's not easy for her to tell her story or forget the pain. >> what i need to heal, just more time and that's hard to do when your school allows your rapist to be on campus. >> more survivors are coming out of the shadows. >> rapes aren't always in back alleys. it happens in the presence of people that you love and trust.

>> joie chen, aljazeera. >> a victim's rights attorney joins us from washington, d.c., miss dunn, thank you for being with us. last may, 55 schools were being investigated over sexual violence complaints. that number is now 86. why such a huge increase in such a short amount of time? >> i think the increase in numbers is a great example of the change that is happening right now, sexual violence is normally vastly underreported crime, but we had so many series with survivors speaking out, showing their name, sharing their story and that's caused people to realize it is actually safe to report. you can come forward and yes, there are laws and people who are willing to help you. that's really contributing to the numbers. >> miss dunn, what happens to schools who fail to properly address the issue? >> under title nine, the

department of education will instigate and investigation and at the conclusion, you'll see what happens commonly is what happened just this past week at princeton, there will be a voluntarily resolution agreement. the violations occurred will be cited and come with an agreement with the school. unfortunately we are not seeing sanctions. title nine has not led not once from the history of 1972 to the present that never resulted in the removal of federal funds, wimp is the only sanction under title nine. there is one other law, the cleary act, there can be a fine of $35,000 per violation when it comes to campus sexual assaults. >> i was curious you point to the fact that the white house has managed to do something the department of education has not but we are still waiting on congress. what did the white house do and what does congress now need to do? >> absolutely, so for a long time, colleges have really asked the department of education to give guidance. you get the idea that the

persist has to be equitable under title nine. what do they specifically have to do? the white house took the initiative and decided to create basically a tool box that's available on notalone..gov giving sample policies that allow schools to still manipulate them and make them their own but gives a guideline of what this should look like on a college campus, so it's very important to colleges. >> laura dunn, thank you for being with us. we are not done, we know you are not done. >> this evening, america tonight looks at the issue. >> i go to sleep and a little while later, my girlfriend had woken up and she initiated and everything and we started having sex that night and all of a sudden, about midway through, she just loses it. >> josh's girlfriend called the police, who detained him for questioning. she said josh had forced himself on her. he said that she initiated the

sex. >> at this point, i didn't really even know that there was an accusation. it was my understanding that everything it was done and it was over. >> a full report airs this evening on america tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 p.m. pacific. >> it's a hard turn, but the weather is getting colder, and that is making its way south. >> let's bring in nicole mitchell for more details. >> all the way south into texas today to the gulf coast, not as cold as northern parts of the midwest, but it is on the move. look at these changes. these are temperature changes and not the actual temperatures, but we have dropped 50 degrees from yesterday in denver. yesterday in the 60's, right now around 10 degrees, you feel that difference this morning and that air is on the move southward. ahead of that, a little bit of a warmup. i'll have more of that in a second. look at these temperatures, houston doesn't sound bad.

we fall into the 50's over the course of the day. look ahead of this, 60's, 70's out here, so ahead of the front, there's a little bit of a warm flow. you go from 20 to 40 blow average to temperatures above having a. it's veterans day, so if you're in that warm core, it means some really nice parades and as her moneys in places like new york or birmingham, so there's a good side of it if you haven't gotten the cold air yet. >> 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month. thank you very much. >> it's time for one of today's discoveries, found in the basement of a home in slovenia after a flood. >> a type of salamander with very thin, pale skin, some call it the human fish. it is completely blind because it lives in darkness. >> it has highly developed senses of small and hearing. >> protests escalating in mexico over dozens of missing students feared dead. >> their disappearance shine ago light on thousands of others who

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join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >> two presidents coming face-to-face at the eight peck summit in china. world leaders look to lockdown a series of trade deals. >> an early season winter blast, arctic air sending temperatures plunging and blanketing parts of the country in heavy snow and more is on the way. >> up in flames, a 2,000-degree lava flow ignites its first house on hawaii's big island.

it took 45 minutes to reduce the home to ashes. >> these regimes are arresting more and more people, whether it be iran, turkey, saudi arabia, egypt, the united states has its way of putting pressure on journalists. this is happening. >> it is a dangerous profession, daily show host john stewart talking the growing dangers facing journalists around the world and his new film. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> it was a meeting behind the scenes but could have major implications around the word. the white house confirms president obama and russian president vladimir putin talked on the sidelines of the apec summit. the two presidents have been at adds over ukraine and syria. they talked about those topics and iran. >> it comes as apec leaders could offer president obama a major rebuke. their voicing another new trade plan offered by cline in a, president obama offering up a

competing plan. >> mike viqueira joins us from washington. did president obama and president tyutin make progress in beijing? >> this is one of those old school super power summits. that's how it's shaping up. they're supposed to be talking about economic matters, but president obama has now had three encounters with vladimir putin, totallies about 15 minutes, very informal style get togethers, but still a lot on the table with what's going on with iran, syria and ukraine with the escalating violence there again and that truce being broken. president obama is meeting with his chinese counterpart. the president said he wants to take the relationship with china to a new level, as they view for economic supremacy in the pacific rim. >> planting trees outside the conference during a break. that ceremony involving 21 world leaders, including president

obama and vladimir putin, who later entered the meeting together. the white house saying the two men spoke briefly about ukraine, syria and iran. apec kept up the talk about a free trade zone. the chinese president and president obama tried to exert their influence in the region. >> we need to turn common understanding into action. >> that trade proposal, which appears to be gaining support, topping president xis agenda. he believes it can spur growth and recovery. a u.s. backed trade proposal is getting attention, too, the transpacific partnership, which excludes china. no agreement yet, but president obama is optimistic. >> as president, strengthening

american leadership has been one of my top foreign policies. >> common ground was reached tuesday. america's top trade representative announced what could be a trillion dollar break through for both the u.s. and china eliminating tariffs on i.t. products. >> that will be the first major tariff cutting agreement in the w.t.o. in 17 years. >> these efforts are not always large and public. they don't always get a lot of attention, but they represent important strides in bringing our people closer together and making our economy stronger. >> with all of these trade agreements and negotiations potentially coming to fruition, one stumbling block remains.

the president needs congress to go along and with all the political upheaval in the united states, the senate changing control from democratic to republican, unclear if congress is going to go along with what the president negotiates and if he comes to an agreement, ultimately sign off on that. >> it could be different, this congress versus the one that comes in in january. with progress on the trade talks, new dialogue with russian president putin, does this count as a successful trip for the president? >> well, i mean i think the jury's still out. trade deals are notoriously difficult to come to particularly with the president. he's had this on the table since 2008. the transpacific, typically what you've seen happen historically is happening again, japan dragging their feet on agricultural products, including rice, automobiles, the chinese auto market is huge, the united states wants to get into that, but it is a very difficult negotiation, no guarantees of

success here, ultimately. >> mike viqueira for us in washington, mike, thank you. >> now to the fight against isil, the group that support from a new ally in egypt. it has killed hundreds of egyptian soldiers and police, the new alliance coming as the iraq army has reached the city of beiji, fighting isil for control of iraq's largest oil refinery. we have an exclusive report. >> when isil fights back, this happens. another few matters closer and our cameraman would have been caught in the blast. iraq forces say the battle for beiji will be decisive. >> we are now at the central enables of the city of beiji. these parts of the city are adjacent to the checkpoint, which is considered in turn to be strategically valuable. it controls the supporting

lifeline of isil stretching up to tikrit city. today, we have managed to cut isil's supporting lifeline. >> that confidence is in stark contrast to how deadly isil fighters can be. this is now the reality of the fight for beiji city center. iraqi forces and isil fighters are not at a stalemate, but it's close. isil are using increasingly deadly tactics, including suicide bombers, car bombs and snipers. >> we have seen these tactics before. isil fighters rarely if ever surrender, it's a fight to the death. beiji city is strategically very important as a territory that they're going to want to hold object to. that means this tight will be much tougher than where the isil fighters gave up territory easy, because it was on the border of the places that they controlled. beiji is very central to them and they're going to want to hold on to it. >> beiji oil refinery is

15 kilometers from here. the facility is partly controlled by isil, partly by iraqi forces, just like the city. taking them both back could be the iraqi security forces toughest fight yet. >> isil was said to receive a large portion of its funding from those captured oil refineries in iraq and syria. >> the captain in charge of a south korean ferry that sank will spent 36 years in prison he was found guilty of negligence. he avoided the death penalty, however. he was acquitted of a homicide charge. surviving crew members are spending five ore 20 years in prison. 300 passenger, many high school students died when the ferry capsized in april. >> authorities in pakistan investigating whether or not heavy fog played a role in this fatal crash, 58 people died. it was a head-on collision between a bus and truck. witnesses say most of the dead were women and children. >> there is tight security this morning in several parts of

israel and the palestinian territories. just a short time ago, israeli forces shot and killed a palestinian man in the west bank. this morning, israel is burying a woman killed by a palestinian man yesterday. nick schiffron is live in jerusalem. it seems the tension is only increasing. >> absolutely, the tension is increasing, the violence increasing and both sides fear that there is no end in sight. this morning, as you said, israel is burying a woman that it says is the victim of a terror attack. 26-year-old dahlia lemkis was killed by a palestinian man who tried to drive over her at first, got out of his car and stabbed her as well as two other israelis. hundreds of thousands of people at this funeral this morning. her sister spoke at the funeral. she said that this is proof that jews should keep living their lives, keep hitchhiking, which

is what she was doing at the time she was killed and keep living in the occupied west bank, saying this place belonging to us. of course that is increasing the tension not only here in jerusalem but in the occupied west bank where many many palestinians were protesting against israeli soldiers. >> what can you tell us about this palestinian man that was killed this morning? >> it was during one of those protests, about 200 people outside of hebron in the occupied west bank, when one 21-year-old man was not in the chest, he died 30 minutes later at the hospital. according to the israeli military, he had a molotov cocktail in his hand when israeli soldiers opened fire. this tit for tat violence is increasing. fifty palestinian people have been killed by israeli soldiers

in the west bank this year, that's one every five days. in terms of israelis, they say that police in the last month what they describe as terror attacks have killed mother people in the last month than the previous two years combined. >> nick schiffron, thank you. >> in india, eight women are dead, 30 in the hospital because of a surgical procedure that was supposed to stop them from having children. one dr. operated on 80 women in five hours at a so-called sterilization camp. we have details. >> the sterilization procedure was performed on more than 80 women this past weekend. the allegation is that all 80 surgeries were performed within a five hour period and the rushing was done in order to meet government target numbers. it was only in the last day or so that women started complaining of having a lot of pain and fever because of the surgery. now, the state health minister says the government isn't taking

responsibility until the postmortem comes out but are promising compensation to the victims' families. these camps are common in india. family planning is a big issue here. the 1.2 billion population is said to grow by 1.2% every year and set to overtake china within the next 15 years. because of that, family planning, contraceptives all the way to sterilization for men and women are found in cities and rural areas and is really being pushed by the government. >> we're told a lot of the women who go to these clinics are poor and paid to be sterilized. officials denying negligence, but four health officials have been suspended. >> the last ebola patient in the u.s. will be held from a new york city hospital. dr. craig spencer has completely recovered from the virus. ebola continues to spread in west africa. sierra leone is now the area of biggest concern.

nearly 5,000 people have died across the region. john joins us now from outside bellevue hospital in new york where dr. spencer is set to leave today. his release is a pretty major milestone for this countries handling of the virus. >> you're absolutely right. this man under three weeks ago was admitted to this hospital in a haz-mat suit and today will walk out a healthy man and able to blend back into the city of new york once more. of course he is notching up the first here. he is not only the first new york person to be diagnosed with ebola, but he's now the first person to be free of ebola and also he becomes the last american to have ebola, so the country we know is free of ebola at this time, but there are still plenty of people being monitored just in case over the

individual 21 day periods to make sure that they don't have the illness, either. bellevue hospital said in a statement this morning that dr. spencer poses no public health risk. today is a good news day, stephanie. >> we're hearing that dr. spencer may speak later, as well. >> yes. there's to be a news conference this morning at 10:15, so in about two hours from now, we're going to hear from dr. spencer, we are told he will appear on a panel alongside the mayor of new york, bill deblasio, somebody from the organization that he worked for in west africa, doctors without borders and varsity health officials, but we are also told dr. spencer will not answer any questions. then of course where he goes after that we don't know either, because his girlfriend is still in a quarantine period in the flat that they share in new york city. we don't know where he's going to go but he will be on camera at 10:15 this morning and we will report that later.

>> say hello to all the veterans passing by behind you there. reporting from bellevue hospital. >> did you see? >> i know! it looked like sweet pea behind you. >> chief justice sotomayor issued a injunction, not clear whether the justice will act further on the case. >> in hawaii, a river of molten lava consumed its first home on the big island. the lava incinerated the house, taking 45 minutes. it began advancing in late june from the volcano and scorched port of a cemetery. the next stop may be the major road through the town. >> the upper midwest feeling the wrath of an arctic blast, snow days already, flight cancellations and too many fender benders to count. >> sweeping over states from

idaho to colorado all the way to michigan. nicole mitchell has more. >> straighten the wheels out. there you go. >> on highway 10, probably about 15, maybe 20 in the ditches and so fort. >> st. cloud minnesota, one epicenter of a major arctic blast descending over the lower 48, cars, trucks, tractor trailers stuck in snow blanketing a dozen states. a semi packed with live turkeys skidding off the interstate and flipping over. locals say it's the largest prethanksgiving winter storm in 20 years. >> it's definitely a snowstorm of november, i guess, one to remember. >> this chain reaction crash sending 16 vehicles to the body shop, hundreds of crashes in just a couple of hours as the mercury plummeted. in springfield, colorado, temperatures fell from 78 degrees to 47 degrees in one

hour. colorado dropped 22 degrees in six minutes, plows and shuffles out in force across wisconsin with nearly two feet of thick wet flakes falling in just a few hours. similar scenes in south dakota where whipping wind and frigid air sent the area into a deep freeze. hundreds of flights were canceled and kids across the region jumped for joy in the news of an early snow day. >> my sister woke me up and said we're going to be lately for school and then she said just kidding. i screamed yes! >> this region we're talking about, this is home for you, so is this unusual or just par for the course? >> you know in november, it gets cold, it gets snowy, so that part isn't unusual. what might end up being the most unusual, it's more than normal, but it's going to be a long stretch of below zero temperatures. that could be the record we set. look at all the snow going by.

parts of minnesota and northern wisconsin into the u.p. of michigan, totallies are still coming in, but over a foot preed widespread. south dakota, even though clear, it's a big, wide stretch, not awill have snowplows, so still snowy roads here. minnesota has been on top of the flowing, but it's a rough go still this morning. and more on the way. the farther north you get, could still see additional places getting easily over six-inch, so it's going to stay snowy. that's why we have the winter storm aspect. minneapolis, nowhere in sight dew we get above freezing and that's not the only place, that's a long stretch and that could set a record. >> you have your skis packed, right? >> they're all ready to go. >> ice fishing with your dad, i remember that. >> president putin talks about

ukraine at the apec summit. we talk about where this conflict heads next. >> anger boiling over in mexico, riot police and protestors clashing over demonstrations over those 43 missing students. the violent confrontations at one of the countries major airports. >> imagine taking a bike ride at over 200 miles per hour, the daredevil that did that and other videos captured by our citizen journalists.

>> time now for videos captured by citizen journalists around the world. this is turkey, riot police putting pepper spray on demonstrators. activists are protesting construction of a new mosque. demonstration have been going on for a month. >> taking part in training exercises ahead of the upcoming g-20 summit. about 2,000 defense members will support local police to protect world leaders at the meeting this weekend. >> take a look at this, a french daredevil taking a bike ride at record speeds. he broke the world land speed

record clocking in at over 207 miles an hour on a rocket powered cycle. it tops his prefers record of 163 miles an hour set last year. >> glad he was ok. >> wow. >> a warning to russia's president this morning from the u.k. british prime minister david cameron saying vladimir putin could plunge the world into a cold war because of actions in ukraine. he was speaking ahead of the meeting this weekend. they will have face-to-face talks there for the first time since the ukraine crisis erupted. >> president obama and vladimir putin discussed it on the sidelines of the apec summit. russia could face more sanctions over the fighting in ukraine. >> the director of the american institutes in ukraine joins us this morning. good morning, sir. they had about 15-20 minutes,

president obama and president putin on the sidelines talking. are these two leaders people who realize they still need open other despite what i would imagine were awkward moments. >> they do, for sure. for president obama, iran is a big, big deal, reaching agreement with iran by november 24 is the deadline, is a major foreign policy thing for him, a key objective. really when it comes to getting the agreement, including overcoming the hurdles made, when it comes into implementing a possible agreement, russia's key. it's not very, you know -- this is why it's awkward, the idea of the u.s. conducting this sort of sanctions policy, sort of body slam the russian economy, yet at the same time when you need them to help you make this thing work. i think in that sense, you know, they do need each other. >> there are talks and there are tanks, unmarked vehicles, tanks,

heavy artillery head to go eastern ukraine. is this a sign that the ceasefire is over and what happens next? >> that's a good question. there's a lot of ambiguity here. the o.s.c. has noticed these trucks, i think we are moving into a phase whereas before what russia was doing prior to the ceasefire was covert information. >> this is pretty overt. >> i would call it overtly covert. >> these are russian tanks, no? >> they are unmarked and they are denying anything. >> nobody believes they are not russian tanks. >> of course not, that's exactly right. these are trucks coming in with material to support the pro-russian in surgeons and i think russia is sending a message where it was covert and denied, now it's overtly covert but still denied. i think a message is being sent to kiev and washington we will not back down. >> it means the sanctions are

not working? >> sanctions is an effort to influence russian behavior are a total flop and failure, but have another purpose than just that. sanctions are from washington's point of view of a value in themselves, a good in themselves in that they drive a wedge between europe and russia. we've been concerned about evidence between germany and russia going on up until this began. sanctions drive a wedge there. that's not bad as far as we're concerned, but influence russian behavior, what you're referring to here, the movement of tanks and material, russia is saying we will not back down. >> i go back total question i asked you, earlier this spring, anything short of military action is that what it's going to take to stop russian president vladimir putin. >> i think if we really did want to stop him from a achieving his goals in the region it would take that. it will not happen because of sanctions or through diplomacy,

either. this is life or death for them, what happens here. for us it's an optional conflict, for them it's life or death and he will not back down. >> there is no appetite for western military intervention there. thank you so much. >> in mexico, protests have turned violent over the fate of 43 missing students. riot police and demonstrators facing off in acapulco. >> those clashes left the police there hurt. >> protestors in acapulco, the latest of nearly daily demonstrations across mexico. confrontations followed, blood was spilled. some protestors getting more brazen, provoking authorities like these in acapulco. >> in guerrero state where the students were first attacked and abducted, angry demonstrators have repeatedly fire bombed cars and buildings. some protestors have attacked some of the most sacred symbols

of national power. here at the national palace where the president maintains and office, a handful of protestors set the door on fire and tried to break it down. >> but the mass movement taking shape in mexico is a largely peaceful one. it shows an enraged nation, when calling out for justice. one tired of the fact that more than 50,000 people having missing in a raging drug war. >> the people are asking for a major change, what they're going to achieve is differ to say, because in mexico, we have a political class totally uninterested in true civic participation. every time the people she out, the political class tries to shrink the movement and divide public opinion. >> today, he says it's different. perhaps the tragedy has awoken mexico. for now, the families of the 43 students and those of thousands

of other disappeared are still seeking justice in a country where that eludes so many. adam rainy, aljazeera, mexico city. >> police are questioning the mayor and his wife in connection with the students disappearance. gang suspect's had confessed to killing those students. >> the invasion of arctic air and winter weather is causing problems across the country. nicole mitchell is back with more. >> bad enough to the temperatures are as old as it is, but we still have wind gusts in the 20-30-mile per hour range. feels like minus 15 in rapid city right now, very cold. denver from yesterday to today, temperatures have dropped about 50 degrees. you feel that from above average to now. overall, temperatures 20-40 degrees below average and this is sinking all the way into texas. the one, i guess positive side of this system is ahead of it, you're getting a little bit of a warmup. we do have cities that are going

to be comfortable today, enjoy it before your bottom drops out as more of that cold air comes in. sixty's, 70's up the coastline, that starts to erode if you still have it into the day tomorrow. >> you can bring up picnic blankets on the east coast today. >> ferguson, missouri on edge, waiting for a decision on the shooting death of michael brown by a police officer. >> how authorities are preparing. >> one of the biggest retail events in the world you've never ever heard of. we have how alibaba is cashing in big time on singles day. >> daily show host june stuart is speaking out to oh aljazeera america, his new film on the challenge facing journalists around the world.

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arlington. people seat side the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11t 11th month to honor veterans around the country. ahead in this half hour, the power of on line complaints, activists changed an ad campaign by victoria's secret. >> john stewart focusing on a topic that hits home. he talks to aljazeera america about his movie and how journalists face dangers just doing their jobs. >> president obama and russian president vladimir putin spoke three times during the apec summit, discussing iran, syria and ukraine. new york doctor craig spencer is ebola-free. he is being released from the hospital today. he contracted the virus working for doctors without borders in guinea. >> parts of the u.s. are slammed by an arctic blast this morning, freezing temperatures and heavy

snow hitting a lot of areas from idaho and colorado all the way to michigan. some of seeing blizzard-like conditions and that's leading to numerous flight cancellations, school closings and accident. >> as ferguson, missouri awaits grand jury action two major players are overseas. the parents of michael brown are in geneva, speaking out against torture. the committee is looking at issues including police brutality. >> gun sales are on the rise in ferguson. a gun store owner said more residents and business owners are picking up firearms, many fearing another round of unrest when the grand jury releases its decision. we go live to ferguson this morning. usher, a lot of nervous residents ahead of this grand jury decision. what have you been seeing and hearing since you arrived? >> this is very much a community

waiting in limbo, waiting to find out whether or not the grand jury will indict darn wilson in the fatal shooting of michael brown back in august. there is no clear indication when that decision will come down. the prosecutor's office didn't expect the decision to come down before the middle of november. still as we arrived on the main strip in ferguson along west florissant avenue, most businesses were boarding their windows for the possibility that unrest would break out once again as rumors swirl whether or not that grand jury will find enough evidence to indict darn wilson. we talked with business owners about their concerns. one business owner who decided not to board up his store said it was a show of support for the community, saying that he trusts the community not to damage his property and that he has faith in god, he said. other business owners saying they have no choice. whether or not they stand with this community or not, they have to board up their businesses as

insurance companies won't pay for any damage resulting from any unrest that breaks out if they do not. >> businesses behind you are boarded up. how concerned are city officials about the spike in gun sales? >> there's been a spike between 30% to 50%, gun owners coming in looking for defense. this is something authorities are keeping an eye on. the concern if you have new gun owners that haven't been trained, the consequences of that could be something they don't want to prepare for but are cognizant of, watching and trying to prepare for that as this announcement comes possibly in the next few days and weeks. >> usher, thank you. >> let's go now to patricia bynes, a committee woman in ferguson who joins us via skype and steven king, the owner of a gun shop in st. louis. thanks for being with us this

morning. ms. bynes, do people in ferguson expect that officer darn wilson will be indicted. >> there's a history of officers going through this process when there are officer involved shootings and not being indicted, so there is not this grand expectation that he will be indicted. i think rooted in reality is an expectation that he probably will not be indicted, even though considering the circumstances, this was done in brought daylight, several eyewitnesses, but unfortunately, that is what people think is going to happen. >> i even hate to ask the question, but if he is not indicted, what happens? >> i don't know what happens. i don't have a crystal ball to be able to see into the future. i can tell you that unfortunately, the protest movement that become a lot more aggressive lately, and angry,

and more of a ho raying and intimidating people. i think that people do have, you know, a healthy fear of what's going on, considering what's happening. we just need good people to stand up, and encourage. it's going to take courage to see us through that and hopefully, people, we need that immediately. >> mr. king, are you one of those gun stores that are selling more guns and if so, is standing up with a gun the best way to handle things in ferguson, missouri. >> what we have to look at is the fact that the police are going to be so occupied with all the protestors and the possible looting or violence from riots, that the average citizen isn't going to be able to count on 911 to be their answer, and for the police to defend them on an individual basis. the supreme court has already -- >> isn't that the job of police to make sure they protect the public and not for the public to take the law into their own hands? isn't that called frontier justice? >> no, i think what we're

talking about is the supreme court has ruled two times that law enforcement is for the good of the people, not the individual, so in this case, you've got several million people living in a community that has been targeted by protestors saying that no one is safe from their violence or their outrage, so the individual people living in these neighborhoods are not going to be out fighting protestors, but they are going to stand their ground and defend their homes and their families from any type of danger that they may find. >> mr. king, you also saw a spike in sails back in august during protests. how afraid are people? >> they're scared to death, literally. in august, it was a different type of fear. they saw firsthand what people were doing in the city of ferguson, burning buildings, looting stores, they were hurting people, and they were afraid. unfortunately, at that time, it was just the ferguson community, the florissant community, north county spill overcommunity that were buying firearms. right now, it's the fear of the

unknown that's making every community in st. louis fearful that the outbreak can come out anywhere and the protestors could strike any neighborhood at any time. >> ms. bynes, i want to ask you a question and mr. king, i want to you respond on the back end. are gun sellers profiting off of people's fear and pain in that region? >> i would say absolutely, because when i look at the preparation that even law enforcement is taking, we see reports about tear gas, riot gear. i'm not seeing reports about any investment in mediation, maybe i'm missing those reports. i'm not hearing anything about not expect -- the expectation of the community not "rioting." there seems to be an investment in this narrative. while there is some healthy fear that is involved based on the unknown, i'm also quite

wondering how much of this actually is helping. >> mr. king, i want to give you a chance to respond to that. >> i think she is living in a glass bubble with her head in the sand. i believe the media has been warning people for months that, wherein, the police departments not going to be able to respond to an individual call of 911. her call -- comment of a healthy fear is exactly what these people are doing, being responsible family members, protectors of their family and their neighborhoods, they're being responsible, so they're preparing themselves, taking classes, learning how to shoot, how to defend themselves, use their guns properly and what else would they do? if they've been told for months by the media and the law enforcement community that this is inevitable, this is going to happen and politicians just like her who say there's a healthy fear for being afraid because people are being violent and they're getting more and more violent every day, if you didn't prepare, then you would be unresponsible, so i don't know how they can have it both ways. these people are coming out and

they're defending themselves or their prepping to defend themselves because they are absolutely afraid of the unknown. >> and that is where we're going to have to leave it. thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you. >> president obama is coming out in favor of an open internet in a video posted on line. the president said net neutrality is essential to the u.s. economy, calling on the f.c.c. to reclassify the internet as a public utility. the penalty said such you a move already has plenty of support. >> the f.c.c. is an independent agency and ultimately this decision is their alone, but the public has already commented nearly 4 million times asking the f.c.c. to make sure that consumers, not the cable company, gets to decide which sites they use. americans are making their voices heard and stand you go up for the principle that is make the internet a powerful force for change. >> f.c.c. chairman tom wheeler recently proposed new

regulations for internet providers, allowing deals to be cut with netflix or you tube to move their content faster. >> happy singles today. today is singles day in china. it was once an obscure holiday. it is morphed now to a holiday devoted to bachelorhood. >> it's to buying stuff and it's big business, as real money found out, alibaba has turned singles day into the biggest shopping day of the year. >> to be young and unmarried on november 11 is a day of celebration, singles day, officially known at bare sticks day for the number once. popular culture has it. the custom started in the late 1990's at universities as a way for young men to poke fun at themselves. retailers took note. >> singles day has become popular before alibaba, but it was never became big retail celebration until alibaba

promote it through its network. >> five years ago, he commerce giant alibaba held its first single's day sale. it grew to $6 billion last year and is expected to top $8 billion this year, more than black friday and cyber monday combined. pretty good for a holiday that's largely one big marketing event. turbo charged by alibaba founder. >> on singles day, the company sells all sorts of goods from clothing and electronics to furniture at discounts as steep as 90% off. the on line giant offers plenty of incentives, allowing customer to say make down payments on goods weeks ahead of time and if they finish paying for it an singles day, they get steep discounts. the marketplace processes 10,000 transactions her second acknowledge day. it is a big selling feature to investors. alibaba stock has soared ruffle

70 percent and on november 10 shot up nearly 4%. alibaba's one day sale actually lasts for 36 hours. it starts in the east with alibaba's chinese marketplaces and ends in the west with its american phase ally express. >> we reached out to alibaba for comment, but so far, the company has not gotten back to us, but this is what apec is all about, the buying power, the tremendous market that we call china and so many people with so much money. >> absolutely. when we look at why they chose this day, a single's day, people wonder, there are so many holidays, why this one? you look at the history of china and its early use of the internet, it was mostly concentrated in big cities with young folks who were college graduates or in college, they were mostly singles.

by targeting singles, they were getting a huge chunk of the internet population. >> i was reading they made $2 billion in sales in the first hour, so it's huge. that brings up the question of counterfeit goods, which has been a problem on the alibaba sites. >> it's been huge in fact. the company has made guarantees. it says if you buy a counterfeit good and you don't like it, then we will return your money. it can do this because it requires all sellers to put a deposit in an account they can use to refund money to customers. that said, some people are looking for a $2 row lex, right? >> they want the counterfeit goods. >> exactly. >> can we say this is the day stephanie was supposed to buy us something? >> i was just wonder be what they buy. i saw the video of the hello kitty blankets. if you want that, i can go on line. >> i don't have the ring yet. >> singles' day. >> you can tune in for a real money tonight. >> victoria's secret revamping

its new ad campaign following a major uproar from the on line community. >> we'll talk to a marketing cant about the power of the consumer, the power of you to make a company stand up and listen. >> june stuart talks to aljazeera america about his directorial debut shining a light on the crackdown facing journalists. >> time for today's big quote. >> on this veterans day, one former military leader heavily criticizing the u.s. policies over the wars in iraq and afghanistan: >> the man behind those words, up next.

>> who said this: >> our big quote is from retired army lt. general daniel p boulder. he said that in an op ed piece

in today's new york tiles. he played key roles in the wars in afghanistan and iraq and has been a vocal critic of the u.s. policies in those wars. >> we have a developing story, russia has now just signed on with a deal to build two nuclear reactors in iran. the agreement states it could be followed by an additional six reactors. russia and u.s. are part of the six world powers taking place in nuclear negotiations in iran. >> calvin kline features a model who is a size 10, some in the industry say plus size. that designation usually starts at size 12. the fashion label says it is inclusive for different women. >> victoria's secret on line petitions affected change.

30,000 people signed a petition walking a perfect body unrealistic and unhealthy for women. their ad now offer "a body for everybody" that's the new ad. peter is a tech marketing consultant. he's traveling so joins us via skype from chile. thank you for your time. this change.org petition led to actual change in one of the biggest lingerie companies in the world. were you surprised that they made this change? >> i wasn't. i was actually surprised they came out with the campaign as they did without thinking it through first. it's one of those things where it's a very hot button topic. the second it hits the internet and goes viral, there really is no stopping it. there is a huge powerback today, 20-30 years ago, models were bigger and the sizes bigger and they some returning and shrunk in both europe and america. the american consumer, look,

it's obvious the american consumer, we are not the size that models are in advertisements. god knows i'm not. >> the average dress size for a woman in america is a size 14. victoria's secret has never pretended to represent the every woman, but i want to take another look at that ad, which is the correction, supposedly, it says a body for everybody, right? that's the ad we're looking at, but it's the same super skinny models in the ad, so is this an empty gesture? does the appease whoever was protesting the original ad? >> i don't think it's an empty gesture, but they're going to need to do more. right now it's stopped the fire but there are embers smoldering. victoria's carries hot sexy lingerie that they've always had. what they're seeing now is a much bigger backlash much, much quicker, they're probably rethinking future campaigns.

i don't know if they'll reshoot this. they are planned months in advanced, tied to other things they are doing. it's easier to change the text, but they'll be thinking different for the next one. >> the meth totaling bag dolls were taken offshore shelves because of this organization. do social change organizations have a bigger voice than ever? do they get to speak back to advertisers in a way they never did before? >> they really do. both social change organizations as well as basically people on twitter, hash tags light up, they start a fire, people contend to continue with them. the meth dolls, they're dolls. you know, i have what's called a shaking my head meter, it was off the charts with this. this is what we're protesting? seriously, guys? the problem becomes when stores too quick to get worried and back off at the first sign of anything. sometimes you have to take a stand. i don't necessarily think there was a problem with the dolls.

it's not like we're ending world peace or defining word peace with these dolls. i really think you have to pick your battles. >> peter, we thank you for your time. i hope you enjoy santiago. >> thank you. >> i go on record saying i only read the articles in the victorias secret. >> right. [ laughter ] >> this week, the first feature film moving on from comedian john stewart's day abuse, rose water is his first film. >> the movie tells one reporters harrowing story. >> i believe my plan was called excedrin p.m. and colt .45. >> his first feature is definitely not for laughs as a director. >> i'm a journalist, covering the elections for newsweek

magazine. >> it's called rosewater, inspired by the story of a journalist from canada. he traveled to iran in 2009 to cover the countries elections. >> what are you doing? you're going to get killed, come on. >> he was in tehran documenting the riots over the outcome of the voting. while there, he was interviewed by the daily show, a comedy sketch about the elections. this is a clip shown on comedy central. >> we headed to a coffee shop off the square for a clandestine meeting with journalist. why was his country so terrifying. >> misunderstanding. >> shortly after that interview, he was arrested by iranian police, the charge, that he was spying against the country. he was jailed and there beaten and brutalized by an interrogator he called rose water because of the subsequent of this is cologne. rose water cites his appearance on the daily show as evidence. >> americans and iranians have a

lot of things in common. >> what do i have in common with you? >> it's a comedy show, stupid. >> he was forced to make a false confession on t.v. he was released after four months in prison. he wrote a best selling book about his experience, called then they came for me. from that book, the movie, one john stewart directed, offering an unflinching look at iran's war against the press. >> john siegenthaler sat down to talk about the film and also the issue of press agree dom. >> john, why did you ski to do this? >> as the definition of journalists expands, these regimes are arresting more and more people, iran, turkey, saudi arabia, egypt, the united states has its way of putting pressure on journalists. this is happening. >> a journalist covered other peoples stories, you go to prison, you write a book, you got a movie.

what's this been like for you? >> it's been a little bit strange to put it mildly, because usually when they make films about people, it's usually nelson mandela, they're usually dead to start with and they are people of mandela's stature. the good thing is i'm not dead, but i'm not mandela, so it's been weird. >> give us your reaction to what's going on with journalists around the word especially from aljazeera. >> we have a friend who does a satirical show in egypt who was arrested, who was harassed, who's been driven off the air and con no longer do his show there. this is the government that came in and said we're, you know, we're going to listen to the will of the people yet won't allow the people to speak up. they've arrested three of your colleagues. the trial is, to talk about absurdity, the evidence they present is footage of arabian

horses and bits and pieces of found footage and it has no bearing on anything. there's no accountability for what's going to happen to them. they have families that don't know their powerless to get them out. this is an ally of the united states, we give them $1.5 billion a year in aid and they're has to be a method that we can get these political prisoners that are being held in these countries, get them some visibility, and hopefully enough pressure on these regimes to get them released. there's just no purpose in it. there's no purpose in it. these people have done nothing. >> the story hits very close to home. you can see more of john's interview this evening. it is at 8:30 and 11:30 eastern time right here on aljazeera america. >> tomorrow, a deep space rendezvous as the rosetta stone spacecraft appears to land on a fast moving comet millions of

light years away. >> we'll see you tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m.

nigeria's president says he'll run for a second term even though he appears to be losing the fight against boko haram. ♪ >> i'm sami zeidan with the top stories here on al jazeera. also ahead, the captain of the south korean ferry that capsized is jailed for gross negligence. iraqi forces try to retake the country's biggest oil refinery from isil fighters. telllization surgery in