>> on "america tonight": as the city prays for an all important grand jury decision, the mayor of ferguson, missouri, one on one with "america tonight's" lori jane gliha. >> the characterization that ferguson was somehow just a powder keg ready to explode and it's a ferguson problem was what i was trying to take reception n with. the. >> an in depth look at the mayor's take on what the shooting meant to ferguson.

the pipeline washington's rush to get the keystone pipeline built. >> i've lived here all my life and things just go down. people move away and they die and that's what happens. >> and, in the moment: the streets of philadelphia, images of a community in crisis. and a photographer's mission of peace. >> good evening thanks for joining us i'm joie chen. the anticipation's been building in ferguson, missouri ahead of an announcement about the grand jury's announcement in case of darren wilson, the officer who who shot and killed michael brown, the unarmed teenager that sparked a wave of protest in

august. jay nixon, the governor, declared a state of emergency. loirnglori jane gliha interviewe mayor. >> do i want to quit? it is tough, i've committed a lot of my life already to this city. to step away instead of seeing it through doesn't make sense to me. >> reporter: what has been the hardest part of this for you? >> the hardest part has been seeing the community i've grown up in, the city that i've been on the city council for almost ten years now to see it embroiled in this kind of racial tension, this kind of uproar, i've never seen this kind of outcry, any kind of outcry really, we're the community that bucked the trend when it came to white flight. if you look at the neighboring communities around ferguson

they're 90 to 95, some of them 97% african american. ferguson is 65%, you have a large number of white residents who stayed and happy with the defort andiversity and embracede diversity. >> early on you said there was no racial divide. do you still believe that? >> i would say that i mean it's clearly raicials divides. clearly divides -- racial divides. clearly divides all across the country. a lot of it is socioeconomic, but we do see that play out, when we start talking with the communities that are frustrated to access to health care, access to communities, it does disproportionately affect african americans. absolutely there's there's a racial divide there. but the characterization that

ferguson was a powder keg ready to explode, that it was a ferguson problem is what i take exception with. i coach high school wrestling to an entirely african american wrestling team. i've never heard or seen outcry from my friends from the kids, these kids that i coach. not knowing that it's not out there in america. but i've just never seen it in our community. >> some people may look at that and go well how can you be the mayor of ferguson and be surprised that this exists or that people are this upset, or feeling this way? when you have lived here your whole life? >> ferguson is a community of 20,000 people, metro region of 2 million people. we are only about a mile and a half from the city of st. louis which has a very long and storied history of ration division, racial -- are racial division racial politics racial strife. you haven't seen that permeate

the suburbs over the past decades. never denying there are racial divides in this country. never denying that an african american even in ferguson has a different experience than a white american, probably does. we do not see that play out in ferguson. we do not see white residents and african american residents looking at each other with a cautious eye or scared of each other on a daily basis. >> in the past 100 days, mayor jaidgejames knowles small city s moved under a national microscope. michael brown's death has become a rallying cry for activists around the country. knowles says his home town has received an unfair amount of criticism for a problem that exists also outside ferguson city limits. >> the things that people are frustrated about, school systems, education funding,

health care, access to jobs, you know, i there's 25 communities among a mile radius of the city of ferguson. all of these communities have similar issues. all of these communities have transgressions that people are angry about. all of that anger is being lumped on the city of ferguson. >> what would you say is your worst moment or the most difficult part of this whole process? >> you know, there's been a few times where i felt like ferguson was alone and therefore i felt alone. one thing that i recognized from the beginning and i've kind of alluded to before is that the issues here transcend the city of ferguson. not just county issues, not just state issues, there is national issues at play. and a small community police department a small community city staff is really not equipped to deal with you know the issues that the united states has dealt with for 400

years. >> as long as this things go on go on the youth are getting more pissed. >> the mayor says he's working more with the community he loves. >> we've talked about having community oriented policing, where there's a bridge between the gap. >> my brother's keeper summit aimed at providing opportunities for young people and adults reaching their potential, particularly young boys and men of color. a police review board to improve police accountability and incentives for law enforcement officers to live and be more active in the communities they police, despite those reforms the mayor says the police department's leadership should remain the same. in ferguson, it's the city manager not the mayor who has administrative powers to hire and fire employees. like police chief thomas jackson. >> do you think that police chief, given all the criticism

that he's received and the calls for his resignation, do you think he should stay in his position? >> you are kind of asking a tough question there because the doj is probably going to put in on this i think quite a bit. the, me personally i think chief has done a tremendous job. he was the first person to promote an african american, promoted two of them to supervisor positions, to sergeant in our police department and has really worked hard to make the department very diverse even though that's a very difficult task considering the number of candidates coming out of of the candidates, of african american candidates there's not a great deal and there's quite a few law enforcement agencies that actually compete for those. >> do you think city can move forward with him in the slot he's in? >> i think they can. when the national media leaves it will be fine. if he chose to stay i think he can do that. i think he will put in the extra

time, i think he'll put in the extra effort. i think he would make -- i think he's the kind of person who would be able to bridge that gap. >> whether or not the police chief stays or goes, knowles who is first elected mayor in 2011 says he is committed to making ferguson and its surrounding communities better places to live. >> "america tonight's" lori jane gliha is in ferguson at this hour. lori jane, the question everyone has, is there any news from the grand jury? how are they preparing there? >> every time i contact the prosecutor's office, mid to late january is the time they say the grand jury's decision is coming forward. he did note that the prosecutor's office will get update ahead of it. the public will know a few hours in advance. the mayor i thought would be a little more stressed when i talked to him. he is calm because he has

learned to take each day one day at a time. in fact this weekend after he had the community event he actually went hunting to take a little bit of time for himself. focusingth at this point, moving forward, waiting any day now for grand jury announcement. >> lori jane, i'm wondering have you had an opportunity to talk with the folks on the streets there what their mood is? >> yes, you know what there is a lot of anticipation here and it's on a variety of different levels. i mean nobody really knows what's going to happen. some of the businesses have already taken preemptive steps, putting boards on their windows, one business owner put up plexy glass and bars on his windows. how to keep things peaceful, what they can do if they don't feel safe, places to go in case they're in danger. national guard we were in an interview this evening where we heard some of the troops have been called up so people are preparing on different levels.

the police have been having training on first amendment rights. i think collectively everybody that's involved in this is anticipating and waiting and wondering what's going to happen once that grand jury announcement comes forward. >> lori jane gliha, in ferguson. while the nation wrestles with the future of keystone pipeline. >> such a big deal now why wasn't it when they put appliance through here. >> and the more basic question, if the pipeline is approved will it be worth it to build? the low down from "real money" ali velshi next. and the showdown in washington had its roots in another decade. >> you do destructive things in the short run that you think is going to help but in the long

run it came back to really bite us in the ass. >> as the president moves closer to a key decision on immigration reform a look back to what led this crisis. to this crisis. the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america

>> there are few hot button political issues as controversial as the keystone xl pipeline. the senate is due to take it up. the house passed a bill backing it for the ninth time. pipeline would pump tar sands oil from canada to texas.

the route runs through several tribal nations and they've called construction of the pipeline an act of war. steel city, nebraska also sits in its path, "americ "america t" michael okwu reports on that city. >> reporter: steel city nebraska. the sign says 84 residents. the actual number is closer to 50. the elementariary school is closed. only three kids live in town. the baptist church closed. this used to be a grocery store. a bank was here. >> a building there is the old town hall, built in about 1915. that beer garden fence there, there was a hospital in there. i was born in the hospital. >> reporter: that was 70 years ago. bill she'll sheely was the steey

mayor. >> there were a few hotels, gradually people moving out. >> reporter: trains roll through every 50 minutes or so but they don't stop not anymore. steel city near the nebraska-is kahn state linnebraska-kansas ss founded in 1853. it's now back on the map. trans canada's xl pipeline would pump 800,000 gallons a day here to a place just outside of town. >> i hope they pass it, everybody in town does. >> the original pipeline built in 2010, moves east to illinois and sous to texas. the 36 inch diameter pipeline would replace the original pipeline with a more direct

route. residents predict that would be a handful of permanent jobs. drive through this tiny village and you won't see anything for or against the keystone xl pipeline. mayor sheely thinks the fear of the pipeline is overblown. >> the thing is a big deal now, why wasn't it in the '50s when they put appliance around here? >> the landscape is dotted for markers for underground appliance. >> on my land alone there's four different lines. natural gas crude oil and i've never heard any problems at all. >> l dean banahan sold some of his property to transcanada pipeline. >> the more oil that comes by rail gives me a concern. i consider the pipeline a lot safer than the railroads. >> steel city resident and retired ironworker john mcco

mccowan said. >> will help the economy a long run goes is going to create a few jobs left over from the pipeline coming through but in the meantime you got people coming through and they're saying 40,000 jobs. that's a lot of people a lot of families and a lot of kids being fed. and it's a lot of people not on welfare and sucking off the government. >> reporter: but don't look for an economic turn around in steel city. say the old timers who have watched the town's decline. >> i've lived here all my life and things just go down. i mean the people move away and they die and that's what happens. >> reporter: even so, banahan is relishing steel city's moment in the spotlight. >> i can't believe that steel city is on the map and the world news and things like that but it happened. we're kind of enjoying that part of it real good.

>> reporter: michael okwu, al jazeera. >> on the political map as well, opponents fear the environmental impact, but republicans with some moderate democrats say this program will be a job creator. tens of thousands of jobs they claim that would boost the economy. ali velshi, host of "real money" breaks down fact from fiction here. ali, what real issue how many real long term jobs, but the other, begin price of oil today the pipeline extension is even needed. >> there's much more fiction in this thing than there is anything else from all sides. there is no way i can get myself to tens of thousands of jobs. it costs virtually nothing to maintain appliance. you've got to dig and install things, very, very short term but in the long term you're talking about two to 4,000 jobs, appliance monitor themselves. there are tens of thousands of miles of applianc pipelines thar

themselves to get to the 20,000 jobs that the state department argues, it crosses an international border, it estimates that construction would create 3900 short term jobs, at most. it acknowledges that it might support another 40,000 indirect jobs. now joie, indirect jobs are the pizza people you know the people that fix cars of the people that are working on it but this nonsense of 20,000 jobs is absolutely that. i will tell you on the other side of the idea, the environmental stuff, i've been up to the oil sands, it is a filthy way to make jobs. we can solve that problem expect the issue is, when you take it out of the ground, that is where that energy should be spent, this is a argument of how it should be spent.

50 long term workers to operate the keystone pipeline, once it's up and running. if you like it support it for 50 jobs not for 20 t.j. house. 20,000. >> the business community, says look the time to make this decision has come and gone. they're now transporting l oil by rail. >> $107 a barrel made as much sense as it did, to get as much oil from canada. now we're running in the $80 a barrel range. some point you get too low. if you have got a six in front of the barrel of oil, it becomes too low to make sense to do this. we're also producing more oil in the united states than we have done in over 40 years so the net result here is we need it less than we ever needed it before. the keystone pipeline when done would take things from hardesty

alberta through united states to the gulf of mexico. because it's higher quality oil that will get exported to other parts of the world. it's not even the oil that americans would use. we are importing oil from nigeria and venezuela because our oil refineries are for that. we import tuna and we export caviar. they want this deal, the people in congress they want to get it in over president obama's expectations and hopes. they might, they might not but it's not deal that some people suggest it is joie. >> the host of "real money," ali velshi, thanks so much. ahead after the break in the line of fire. >> being shot was the best thing that ever happened to me. i got a chance to feel from growing in the streets you become number to the things that you grow up around. -- numb to the things that you grow up around. it dent affect me until i was

actually the victim. >> life and death, on the streets of one of the most violent cities. consideration the immigration policy through a look at the past. why history keeps a new generation on the run. run.

>> at the height of the cold war >> we're spies... intercepting messages from embassies, military bases... >> one of the america's closest allies... >> we were not targeting israelis... >> suddenly attacked >> bullet holes... ...just red with blood... >> 34 killed... we had no way to defend ourselves >> high level coverups... never before heard audio... a shocking investigation >> a conscience decision was made to sweep it under the rug... >> the day israel attacked america only on al jazeera america >> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america

tonight." he made it home to the states but dr. martin salia who had just arrived at a special ebola treatment facility in nebraska, died monday. contracted ebola while working at a hospital in sierra leone. a u.s. visit announced for the pope, pope francis will travel to philadelphia next fall his first trip as pope to the united states. he will attend the world meeting of families in the city of brotherly love. number of homeless children in our country has reached a record high. new report finds 1 in 30 american kids were homeless at some point in 2013. this report blames high poverty domestic violence and a lack of affordable housing. >> president obama looks close to taking action on immigration reform. proposals being worked on now would allow as many as five million immigrants to stay in the country legally, including

parents of children who are u.s. citizens. overhauling immigration was the buzz over the summer with a buzz of a wave of tens of thousands of immigrant children crossing g the border. as al jazeera's rob reynolds reports, seeds of the controversy were sewn decades ss ago. >> fearing soviet influence, u.s. president ronald reagan strongly supported military dictatorships, and right wing regimes, like jose napoleon duarte in el salvador. >> we gave them military support and a lot of things to keep shoring them up and keeping them from falling. that included turning our head the other way when they went

ahead with their death squads killing hundreds of people. >> death squads and their sympathizers, were mostly killed by soldiers and right wing death squads. many central american families tried to get away from the death squads seeking refuge in the u.s. >> we drove hundreds of thousands of people out of their countries during that time. >> their plie prescribing primes angeles. >> los angeles is the modern ellis island for central america. this is the capital of the central american diaspora in the world. >> former gang member alex sanchez's family complete el salvador at the time and settled in l.a.'s pico union neighborhood. >> the reagan era from central america is always going to be

remembered as those dark ages. >> in the barrios of la, they formed gangs of their own. sanchez helped form a teen gang. now he helps teenagers reclaim their young lives. >> i wanted to feel acknowledged. i wanted to feel like i was valuable. >> the central american gans includgangsinclude ms 13 and thh street gang identified by their tattoos. they quickly became the most lethal gangs. >> they do scare people and do crazy kinds of things, very unorthodox even for gang members. >> sanchez and others did time in california prisons. >> i ended up going to prison three times for various reasons and i -- it wasn't about learning a lesson. it was more about punishment i felt. and for us, going to pson

wasn't so much an opportunity to reform and acknowledge the wrong that we'd done. it was more about getting more reputation and credibility within the gang structure. >> reporter: in the 1990s thousands of central american convicted criminals were deported by u.s. authorities. >> they deported gang membershipmembersbut they impor. >> guatemala and honduras. >> now gang driven violence has made those countries among the most violent on earth. largely to escape that pervasive violence tens of thousands of central american children are leaving their home lands and

coming to the u.s. the majority cite fear of the gangs as the reason for fleeing. >> the anticommunist type of mentality that we had especially during the reagan era, came back to haunt us. and this is all part of a historical trajectory. you do some negative things destructive things, in the short run you think it's going to help. but in the long run it came back to really bite us in the ass. >> this is the backlash that the children are fleeing those policies. they're fleeing. and this is where they're at, at our door steps. they're saying your policies pushed me to take this desperate measure to come to your doorstep to seek refuge. >> a legacy of violence rooted in the cold war. poisoning the lives of children born decades later. rob reynolds, al jazeera, los angeles. >> and the legacy of violence

poisoning the streets of this country as well. more than 200 people died on violence in the streets of philadelphia this year making it among the most dangerous of u.s. cities with more murders per capita than ever but the violence is about much more than numbers. using instagram, photographer kevin cook demonstrates the people and their pain. "america tonight" meets the photographer. ♪ we take a turn modify change ♪ decent way to live without killing a kid. >> reporter: i'm really hoping that these photographs can serve as a reminder of the horrors of gun violence for the youth of philadelphia. we hear so much about statistics. this many people are shot and this many people are killed. but when people see a paragraph if they -- photograph they can't deny that. this is the first shooting i came to. the middle of may, thursday afternoon, two men were shot,

the first shooting i'd been at so i hung out for a bit. about ten, 15 minutes later i met camie. >> i saw this tall man, i said where are you from? he went into telling me his story and i engaged and let him know my story and this is how our friendship embarked. june 22nd it was the festival of the susquihanna and by 2:30 i realized, my word, somebody's mother, little did i know it would be me. it was a horrible thought. >> my name is terry starks. my father was on crack. everything i had ever known was my pom. when he got strung out on crack,

it hit me deep. i got shot august 31st. >> slot five times in the chest. he's really turned his life around. he was shot over a drug deal gone bad. and now, he just works in these most dangerous neighborhoods, giving back and trying to educate the youth on the horrors of gun violence. ♪ ♪ >> we wanted to create a safe haven for the children. letting them know from a community standpoint, that somebody do care about them. because a lot of kids don't get that every day. >> this is the spot where they took our son. >> and my son didn't live that type of lifestyle and the fact that i couldn't be there to help him, is tearing me up inside. i was seeing a lot of kids

getting killed from being robbed and i always wanted my son just to be alert. >> i don't even think they meant to kill him. to be honest with you. but it's just the hunger of the youth in our city. to eat at the end of the day. some people can't eat so they rob and when they rob they kill because they don't want to get caught for the robbery. and so it's just very unfortunate. >> when i went to temple university for my undergrad i was really exposed in north philadelphia. at times i thought it was very beautiful, the beautiful murals and architecture, but other times it was very sad because of the violence and the poverty. this summer terrence birdcocks was killed down the street from his home on hicks street.

his brothers walking down the street to this place where he was killed. it was hard to make pictures because how emotional the scene was. but i kept telling myself that someone really needs to see this, to understand what this has done to this family. >> it's sad because when people, you know, take people's lives they don't see the pain they put on the family. >> the day i buried my son i buried the shoes i wore. everything was dead to me. i died, i just really died. irwas just that broken and wounded. but i'm strong today. >> we did a justice walk. we had posters and pictures of him. the reward pictures of him. we did a little prayer where he fell at. with the candle. >> it's a tee shirt being printevery second. it's a grand poster every

minute, every second, rest in peace i say. ♪ culture and entertainment >> being shot was the best thing that ever happened to me. i got a chance to feel. growing up in the streets you become numb to the things you grew up around. it didn't actually touch me until i became a victim. >> maybe after i get justice get defined why he's not here then maybe i'll mourn but until then i'm just going to keep fighting for justice. >> stop the crime help the drug dealer ♪ make the president empower the resident ♪ ♪ i like a dollar never be making sense ♪

>> you are inside a protein molecule attached to the ebola virus spinning in cyberspace. >> you are inside a proteine. molecule attached to the ebola molecule. spinning in space.

it's a game called fold it. zorin popovich who developed it calls it a 3d puzzle. players all in favor all over the world participate the whole point for the 700 gamers who have tackled the ebola puzzles is to have a real world impact. dr. david baker runs the university of washington's institute for design. literacy given scientists new leads. >> we can design stuff on the computer that has never existed then in the lab be working on it in real life. >> translating that to vaccines could take years. >> coming up on "consider this," the fbi warns law enforcement around the country that the upcoming grand jury decision in the ferguson, missouri case could lead to violence. also will success in

afghanistan require teaming up with the taliban? plus americans are more concerned with alzheimer's compared to any other disease. why doesn't it get its fair share of research funding. nfl under heavy pressure from the dea. and another domestic violence case when we see you at the top of the hour. the fastest selling video game, grand auto 5, a new version features what's called first person view. immersing a player even more intensely in high speed joy rides drug deals and bloody fights played out in the game and in our report from "america tonight's" lori jane gliha. >> the cops are coming right now, get out of here. you take cover, you have to shoot everybody. i don't know where my gun is. >> and then are you going to

steal one of these vehicles? >> no, i'm going to steal another vehicle. >> reporter: even though he's a long way from getting his official washington, d.c. drivers license 11-year-old niko frank can cruise anywhere he wants to in grand theft auto 5. >> normally i'm a good driver. >> sure! >> i do kind of like doing in this game something you can't do in real life. in real life you can't kill people like this. in this game you can. >> reporter: like what do you feel like when you do that? >> that it's not very good. it is kind of fun to do some of this stuff, though. kind of like if you are a superhero in a game you can't be a superhero in real life. so it's fun to have kind of the fantasy sort of. >> reporter: the game is labeled mature and designed for ages 17 and older because of the intense blood and gore.

mature humor and nudity. but niko's mom catalina says he's sophisticated enough to throarn play thlearn to play th. >> we spoke with niko he explained that he knows that's fiction that that's not real life. niko's a very well rounded kid so we felt he was mature enough to know that that's a game. and go and apply that in real life. >> reporter: developers at rock star games spent five years and more than $260 million fine tuning the realistic graphics and developing a story line filled with sex shooting and killing. the intense production paid off, it's on track to being the best selling video game of all time. >> ists not just unpress debted

in video games, it's unprecedented in the world of entertainment. >> reporter: what makes this so popular? >> rock star doesn't make a lot of games. so when they make games they automatically garner a lot of attention. it's their star wars. theithey're known for making immersive experiences. roam around and do whatever you want. >> players can follow a story line by accepting violent missions that include robberies and shootings. >> join the party. >> or they can enter an alternate virtual world of free play in a southern california town of los santos, a is satirl look at los angeles. critically acclaimed world of

grand theft auto 5. >> this has a working like roller coaster. so i'm going to run up here and i can actually go up these stairs if i don't run out of breath. i've now spent $15 of my money to actually go on a roller coaster ride. >> it's not all violence. >> no. no. it's funny if you really wanted to bar in the story, if you didn't exist in the story you would never have to be violent. >> one thing that is the absolute best in this entire gaining, what would you say is best? >> i think is scope. the ability to do whatever you want in this game is something people are not used to. you don't go into a movie theater and sit down and say i don't want to see the end, i want to check this out. >> reporter: characters can swim play tennis and golf with their friends. they can create a movie.

>> they have created this world that is absolutely a satirical look at the united states. at politics at everything that people are into right now, there's a lot of that and i think that's really genius. >> reporter: aas enticing as t is, he would not recommend it for his own 12-year-old son. >> reporter: why do you say this is not a game made for kids? >> because it deals with serious topics and i think if you look at the is satire, for instance, that's going to go over the kid's head. you can't deliver a experience to gamers that allows them to decide what they want to do unless you allow them to decide what they want to do. this is a game unlike a lot of games that says okay be violent. >> this is an example of how realistic this game can be, and characters, i'm the guy with the club and i can beat somebody for

no reason and keep beating him and i keep using this club to hit whatever i want. >> why you keep hanging around this clown l? >> the game also contains lots of racial slurs and an opportunity for the male protagonist to receive a lap dance and touch a naked woman inside a strip club. kicked punched beaten for no reason when sofer. we wanted to know what effect it would have on the person the controller. >> we don't have any clear cut evidence that shows that there's a causal relationship between violent video games and actions that people take. >> dr. michael fraser is a new york city clinical psychologist who specializes in video game addiction. >> there are so many factors involved, factors that include personality, psychiatric history, parenting style.

>> dr. fraser says a child who already struggles with stress and social pressures might be likely to use immersive video games like grand theft auto to escape from real life. that he says could lead to hours of obsessive playing which brings its own problems especially when it's time to put the game away. >> it's almost like a withdrawal type of behavioral, they may not be spending as much time paying attention otheir hygiene, they shower less, these are games that lend themselves to those kinds of problems. >> now that grand theft auto can be played in first person mode through the eyes of the game's creators it may be harder to put down. through perspective and realistic graphics game producers are calling the lathest versions one of the most realistic worlds ever created. >> what do you say this is not a

good world for kids? >> like my mom says it depends on the kid like what they are like, their personality. >> i think a bigger question too, of all of the things we can put in front of our children why would we want to put this kind of image and this kind of video game in front of them when there's so many other things that they could engage in? >> it's about to explode and then, this goes out. >> niko says his extracurricular life is balancesand filled with sports and music. he's too busy to become obsessed with the game but will keep playing what's now considered the most popular video game in the world. >> that was "america tonight's" lori jane gliha. mark walton writes for game spot u.k. he's played the game himself not quite available but about to be. mark explain to me how different this really is. when we saw in lori jane's

report, ilt was ver it was alrey graphic very violent very sexualized. what's the difference? >> the visual upgrade. these are new consoles, the play station 4 and the x box one. you're getting a much higher graphic fidelity across these games. there are a lot of features for the people who have played the game before and the first person mode which is very different to how the game was played. >> explain that first person. you are already up close when you look at lori jane's report for example, this is really to be more immersive? >> sure. in the older version of the game, when you played the character you saw your character on screen doing the actions that you were telling him to do. in this game it's much more call of duty and you see it through eyes of the character and you only see the items that he's holding in his hands.

so for instance if you went and started to drive a car, when you got in the car you would see him opening the door from the first person and he would get in the car and drive off. >> in addition to just sort of functional things i mean it's of the supposed to give you a sense of the experience. about this version you could almost have the sexual experience that the character is having here. >> well, you know, certainly it is a more immersive game. when you are playing in the first person you know one of my take aways from it is when you play in the first person it certainly makes you think more of the sort of morals of the game. when you are more directly doing those actions you consider them more and i think that's actually a good thing for the game for some of the themes that grand theft auto has. >> talk about more about that experience you have. in a sense this was disturbing even to you as somebody who enjoys the game enjoys gaming. >> no i wouldn't say it was disturbing as such. you know certainly i enjoy this game very much. i think it is an amazing piece of work.

but if you are playing in the first person like i say you know it gives you a new perspective on things and makes you think of the actions that you're doing. and the morals behind them. you know when you are observing in a third person there's something of a disconnect. and actually that can be very different and you know, i think when you are in the first person the fact that you consider these actions and the fact that you're thinking is this violence right should i be doing this to these people is quite valid. >> do you think that children for example young people who are going to play this game will also have that sense of is this appropriate, that moral question as they play? >> well, it's difficult to answer that question because ultimately children shouldn't be playing this game. it is an adult rated game like across the world. so i would say that people that do play it, you know about my own personal experience was that people may see it differently. but i'd like to think that you know people will question some of the actions that they're doing in this game when they play it. >> mark walton is a senior

producer for game spot u.s.a, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> our final look at "america tonight." the music and the message, a new improved band aid, much more modern and current cost.

>> and finally from us, the song that put charity on the pop charts. raising millions to fight famine in ethiopia and now 30 years after the original band aid, a new band of music superstars that recorded the same anthem this time with a very different cause. ♪ it's christmastime ♪ there's no need to be afraid >> it's the same studio, the same tune, even some of the same

faces. ♪ well tonight we're reaching out and touching you ♪ >> but 30 years after the original band aid the cause even the words have now changed. ♪ ♪ >> from pop star elie goulding to the biggest boy band on the planet, most of the singers on band aid 30, most of the people weren't even born. and now they're raiding funds to fight ebola. the original single released in 1984 raised more than $24 million worldwide. it inspired similar efforts like live aid and u.s.a. for africa. with a smash hit "we are the world." >> true band aid we have been

working for 30 years but this was so immediate, it's so vicious, it's so filthy little playing and it is a plane ride away from london or birmingham or manchester or glas gow or glr europe. >> while the road to charity is paved with good intention, some people can take issue with a message. >> africa? we need to make a condition with norway, spread some warmth spread some light spread some smiles. say yes to radiate. >> band aid spurred a number of reactions. spread help to norway? ♪ >> others say ebola really is an african problem which is best talked about from an african point of view. >> the main issue is the

narrative of the song. a narrative that portrays africa as a dark continent. it revamples the idea that africa is an isolated place, where the rivers don't flow where there's no snow. >> with the w.h.o. appealing for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to fight ebola it seems like this time, every effort counts. ♪ ♪ let them know that christmastime ♪ >> and that's "america tonight." tomorrow on our program. >> so in your mind are you going to college? >> yes, i am. i definitely am. there's no not. it's not even in my mind not to go. like what, not going to college? no. i have to go. >> a young woman with great ambitions getting to go to college, though, sometimes is not as simple as learning the

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