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6 detainees from guantanamo bay have been transferred. they are now in uruguay after being held by the u.s. government for 12 years without charge. the six are the first guantanamo detainees to be transferred. four syrians, a tunisian and palestinian were among them, hold as suspected al-qaeda affiliates since 2008 and cleared for release until 2009. the u.s. government could not find a country to accept them as refugees. we are told why uruguay's president agreed to take them in. >> this is a personal campaign by the outgoing present of uruguay. he was a prisoner for 13 years under the military dictatorship that governed uruguay and feels this from the heart. he says they have what it calls

a moral obligation to take in people from other countries who suffered. he called the particular case of the six low-level detainees from guantanamo an atrocious kidnapping. uruguay has taken in refugees from the syrian conflict - they have been provided with housing, schooling and job opportunities. they were warmly welcomed by the ure aguyan people. it's not as simple with these detainees from guantanamo. there's far from universal acceptance. initial plans to accept them was shelved because uruguay was in the midst of a campaign. voters voted last week, a new president takes over in march. in the meantime they are keen to accept the first batch of prisoners - six syrians, a

palestinians and tunisian whether be given the housing, education opportunities. it's by no means cut and dried. still opposition to their arrival. >> that was daniel schweimler reporting. the latest transfer making a total of 13 detainees leaving guantanamo since november, part of a push by president obama to close the prison. thomas drayton has more on the president's initiative. >> in order to affect the appropriate disposition of people detained by the department of defense at guantanamo, and close the detention facility consistent with that. >> reporter: the new president issued an edict immediately after taking office, to close down the guantanamo bay detention camp. five years later, it is open. president obama signed an order in january 2009 to suspend military tribunal proceedings in guantanamo, he was blocked by

congress. >> america justice is what people believes separates the united states from other countries. >> later that year, in a 90 to 60 vote, the senate passed an amendment to the supplement at appropriations act, barring the funds needed for release or transfer of prisoners. the military prison, which was operational in january 2002 was established to hold and integrate what the bush administration called extraordinarily dangerous prisoners. it termed enemy combatants. >> are any of the 90 people al qaeda members? >> i would doubt it. >> since 2002 the detention center housed 779 men, including 15 minors, such as an alleged mastermind transferred from a c.i.a. black site. according to human rights watch

9 died in custody, six suspected to have committed suicide. many have gone on hunger strikes and alleged torture and sub-par living conditions. amnesty international said the united states detention facilities at guantanamo bay cuba is emblem attic of gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the government in the name of fighting terrorism. 600 detainees have been released, many without ever being charged thomas drayton reporting there. joining us from washington d.c. to discuss the transfer of the six guantanamo detainees, it's colonel davis. he is retired and is an attorney. we appreciate your time. colonel, why now with the transfers? >> i think president obama is anxious before the next two years are up and he leaves office to fulfil the pledge in

2008, when he ran for president, to close guantanamo. i don't think he wants to leave office with a legacy perpetuating for eight years what he railed against as a candidate. >> it has been all of this time. what is his legacy? surely people have been released, but it's been such a long time. these people are released without having been charged. what is the legacy? >> well, i think the legacy is pretty well set, that guantanamo will forever be known as a black mark on america's reputation. it's a question of trying to bring it to an end. it's an ongoing chapter in our nation's history, that should be an historical footnote. we need to bring it to a close, put it behind us and re-ipp vig rate our image as the champion of the law. the term has negative connotations for the u.s. we need to do better than that. >> if all the people are released by the ipped of

president obama's -- end of president obama's term, has the damage been done? >> it's been done. it's a question of do we perpetuate the damage or remediate it. the step, releasing the six detainees to uruguay is positive, there's more steps that need to be taken. a majority or half the men that are there of the 136 that remain in detention, about half of those have been cleared for release or transfer. and they have been there for the last almost five years now, having been cleared for transfer, and they are stuck in limbo. we need to continue making some forward progress. i think the president is committed to doing that. cliff sloane from the state department who negotiated the deal with uruguay is out pressing other countries to follow uruguay's leave. i remain optimistic that by the end of the administration, guantanamo may be a historical footnote. >> talk about the no longer

detainees, the gentlemen and uruguay. they are free to go and leave the country if they choose to; correct? >> correct. >> the important thing to note is i was chief prosecutor from 2005 to 2007. and my job was to review the information on the detainees, and to pursue prosecution of those we had evidence that we believe could prove that they committed a war crime. i think the best thing i can tell you about the six is i don't have a clue who they are. there wasn't enough information for their files to make it to my desk. that's an indication of the low level individuals that we are talking about. it's unfortunate back in the early days of guantanamo, the bush administration came up with a label the worst of the worst. there are some khalid sheikh mohammeds at guantanamo that meet the description, but for every one, there's dozens of men,like the six today, that

shouldn't have been there. we need to wrap up the mess and put it behind us. >> some of them are in poor physical condition. colonel davis from washington - thank you. >> my pleasure a republican congressman is defending president obama's decision to launch a special force operation to try to save the life of luke somers. it ended in the death of luke somers and pierre corky. on the sunday television shows it was agreed, the decision to launch the raid and the intelligence was good. president obama called the murders barbaric. secretary of state john kerry said event like these bring nations together against terror. >> as we were tragically reminded of american murders in yemen of lukers somers and pierre corky.

we are seeing the emergence of a regional alignment. with little in common, but a shared aversion to extremists south african officials are not blaming the u.s. for the death of corky. they had been working towards the release of corky, but he was killed yesterday. corky and somers were shot by their captives during the raid. we'll talk about how commandos train for and carry out raids like these. >> 70 afghan migrants died in the red sea off the coast of yemen. most were from ethiopia. it's the latest fatal accident involving african refugees. more than 3,000 migrant deaths at sea have been reported this year. more than the combined total of the past three years. >> syria is blaming israel for two air strikes carried out on monday. for its part israel is saying nothing about the operation. nick schifrin reports.

>> reporter: analysts believe the air strikes, if, indeed, carried out by israel, targeted missiles aimed for hezbollah, and military institutions. israeli officials refuse to confirm or deny that, and the silence is face saving allowing the government not to respond militarily. according to activists, 10 air strikes hit a warehouse outside of damascus, and multiple air strikes hit military defense and command centers as well as strikes outside the damascus air force. these are not the first strikes launched by israel into syria. on january the 4th, israeli jets targeted a convoy, believed to be targetting weapons to hezbollah. syrian state tv said a scientific research center was destroyed by israel. in may, jets attacked jets around damascus, believed to be

targetting weapons from iran. in november, a syrian air base was attacked by jets, believed to destroy russian-made missiles. the syrian government, although it promised to respond, will stay quiet militarily. the strikes are different. the scope seems to be larger and targetting more syrian military institutions than before. >> iran confirmed it launched air strikes at the request of iraq's government. >> reporter: these iraqis walking to kabula faced attack every year in post-war iraq. this will be the first commemoration since i.s.i.l. gained strength and seized large parts of the country. the ceremony marking the 40th

day of mourning since the killing 14 centuries ago, central to shia identities. shia'as have been the biggest target. the iraqi government is doing everything it can to those making the journey. >> there's a military deployment to protect pilgrims. i saw the district commander, officer and soldiers deployed along the road leading to kabula. >> iraqi forces have been backed by shia militia, many tied to iran. iran launched air strikes in iraq. after initial denials, the iranian government acknowledged that it launched the attacks at the request of the iraqi government. it's so sensitive the iraqi ministry of defense continues to deny iranian air involvement. >> if they are supporting this, there are beneficial effects. iran has clear security interests on its borders, protection of its borders and

people. i.s.i.l. is not simply a threat to the people of iraq and syria, but the people of iran as well. i wouldn't be surprised if there are images and if there's involved in the air the way there is clear involved of the iranian revolutionary guard personnel on the ground. >> in diyala province, where some fears fighting has taken place, some sunnis believe iran and pro-iranian-iraqi forces are using the battle to move out large numbers of sunnis. >> the central government in baghdad is silent. we fear there's a foreign regional agenda to change diyala. we met the prime minister and security commander, but no positive steps have taken place on the ground. >> iraqi officials say when people are ordered from their homes after security operation, it's because security forces need time to clear the area of

explosives. iran and shia militias played a controversial roll in iraq. with weakened iraqi security forces they couldn't take on i.s.i.l. or secure baghdad without them. it left the iraqi government treading a fine line between relying on iran for help, and maintaining its independence president obama is addressing questions about race relations raised across the country. demonstrators are protesting decisions by two grand juries no to indict police officers. they are staging dye-ins and mall march. president obama spoke about what is happening and how to address race relations nationwide. >> when you deal with something deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you have to have vigilance, but recognise that it will take time, and you have to be steady

that interview airs in full tomorrow night. in chicago, several churches launched protests after this morning's services. members of 100 churches marched in response to the michael brown and eric garner grand jury decisions. demonstrators shut down streets which one paster said is important to help spread the message. >> each of these protests chants "i can't breathe", and "hands up don't shoot." this is different. the cry for justice doesn't appear to be going away. [ chanting ] in new york city rain did not stop protesters from hitting the streets i cannot breathe. >> in grand central station. the grand jury's decision not to indict officers in the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. a scene played out coast to

coast, bringing comfort to garner's family. >> i'm on the 19th floor, and i see all these people and they are yelling out "eric garner", and i'm overwhelmed. >> hands up don't shoot. >> reporter: in california, a protest in berkeley turns violent. some demonstrators threw objects at police, say officials. at least two officers were injured. tear gas and smoke bombs from used to break up the crowds. some businesses were vandalized. earlier, more than 8,000 protesters filled the streets of hollywood boulevard, blocking traffic and staging a dye-in. the demonstration, named blackout hoollywood. >> in atlanta, there was another die-in. >> these are lawyers, doctors, tax-paying citizens, not just anybody.

>> reporter: in houston, demonstrators took their bull horns to the mall. the protest so big, several stores closed their doors temporarily. in missouri, the rain did not stop marchers at the state capital. the rot undera was packed with -- rotunda was packed with demonstrators who completed the journey for justice in ferguson. michael brown's mother fought back tears. >> we watched this play out unfairly, with non-transparence. we are here to ask the government and governors to live up to what we expect him to do for the people. michael brown's death will be in vain if we are angry and go home and do nothing joining to us talk about so many issues, including the grand jury decision is alice, an attorney with the neighbourhood attorney system of harlem. there's so much to talk about -

the critique of the grand jury system, race relations, the police department. let's start with the grand jury system, it's been under the microscope in a way it hasn't been before. some say it's not going what it was intended to do years and years and years ago when it was created. and some cities and counties don't use it. what is your take on the grand jury system. is that part of what the problem has been? >> i believe that it is. what people don't really understand is that the grand jury system is constitutional. >> it was in place years before the foundation of our country even, and it was originally meant to protect people from the capricious will of the government. to be a check at the beginning of the prosecutorial process when one is charge.

-- charged. >> in places like new york, it's effectively a rubber-stamp for the prosecutor's will. instead of being open and fair consistent with the rest of the adversarial system, it is a secret process in which the prosecutor controls every piece of evidence that is shown. they control the witnesses that are called, they instruct the groourors on the -- grand jurors on the law and don't have to do anything they don't want to do. they don't have to bring in exculpatory evidence or follow the rules of evidence, and what occurs is that the prosecutor then dictates in a one-sided format what the grand juriors will here and ply the law to -- apply the law to the facts they tailored for them, they ask for a decision, but ultimately the decision by the grand jury is controlled by the prosecutor. it's not a check against the

will, but rather a veneer. something that is a - it's misleading to say it's a fair process. >> do you think that that's why it's gone away in some states? >> certainly. there are states that use preliminary hearings. that's a way of doing it. you can have a grand jury that was open. in new york it was secret. we'll never know what happened in the garner grand jury. >> what started this conversation, obviously, is the eric garner case, but the mayor says it's about more than thorric garner case. -- than the eric garner case. let's listen to that. >> one case is about something bigger that has to be addressed. part of what i tried to say the night of the decision is that we have to have an honest conversation about a history of racism. we have to have an honest conversation about the problem that caused parents to feel their children may be in danger in their dynamics with police,

when, in fact, they are there to protect them. >> do you think the conversations will continue, that this is a turning point? >> i think that it is. when you see the protests in the street, in cities across the country, and in places that are not directly affected by the incidents that are happening, eric garner, michael brown, you are seeing people rise up. a popular showing and interestingly, as a personal note, i was on the subway and there was a lively discussion from people that were obviously strangers. discussing both sides of this. it's a conversation that needed to be had. it's finally being had. one of the things i think is important is because of these incidents which are horrendous. and i think almost everyone can agree that this seems very unfair. what happened to michael brown, what happened to eric garner shouldn't have happened and there should be consequences.

having the two cases close in time is making the national media, focus on all the incidents. every day there's a new incident. it's not that they have not been happening, it's just they hadn't been reported on a wide-ranging scale. >> now the microscope is on. >> instead of one snippet of news in a local paper about a young person, a person of colour being shot or hurt by the police, it's a national story. >> alice, attorney with the neighbourhood center of harlem, thank you coming up on al jazeera america - a political shift. senator mary landrieu loses her seat to a republican for the first time in 132 years there'll be no democratic senator from the deep south.

betrayal. >> they lived this incredible life. it just never occurred to me that they were living on the dime of the clients. >> greed... >> bernie was stealing every nickel but he wasn't trading anything. >> ... and entitlement. >> you took my grandchildren's future away from them.

>> i cannot tell you all or my family how proud we are to have made a big difference every day for many decades and we'll continue to do so, thank you so much. [ cheering and applause ]. >> god bless. that was senator mary landrieu, conceding defeat last night to republican rival bill cassidy. her loss signalling a shift in deep south politics, as david shuster rornings it's likely to -- reports, it's likely to impact the 2016 elections. >> reporter: the outcome of the louisiana run-off does little to change the balance of power, but completes a racial realignment with the passage of the civil rights act. there is not a single democratic governor or legislature under their control from texas to the carolinas. when she leaves congress

there'll be no white democrats representing the deep south. in louisiana, eight years ago democrats controlled the state legislature and the governorship. republicans have substantial majorities in both houses. mary landrieu is the last state-wide elected democrat. >> it's striking that she's losing against a candidate not necessarily viewed as a good campaigner, doesn't come across well on television, but he's a republican, and that is what people are looking at. and is what people are saying - vote for me, i'm a republican. it's a simple but effective message. >> reporter: with the exception of florida and virginia, where the majority was born outside the state. the silent south is solidly republican. it's a 180 after decades of democratic dominance. the shift began with the formation of the d dixie crats.

pro-segregation democrats who nominated thurman for president. he carried four states in the deep south, despite a dismal showing across the rest of the country. he became a republican later. after a passage of the 1964 civil rights act, the democratic stronghold, it weakened further. with each election since then, the number of white democratic members of congress continued to dwindle. after this year's midterms the new yorkers nicholas thompson defeated: sh it's good news for tim scott, south carolinan republican. the first african-american senator to win an election in the south since reconstruction. convincing southern white voters to not vote for the g.o.p. will be a challenge for non-republican candidates going forward. mary landrieu won 18% of white voters on election day. unlike southern democrats of old, she voted along party lines

in the senate nearly all the time. it's all a wake-up call for democrats with ties to the south like hillary clinton. because not only is clinton a participation democratic presidential candidate. she campaigned in louisiana for mary landrieu coming up, at least three are dead and a million fled from the powerful storm that slammed into the philippines this weekend. it's gas industry >> taking the country to the brink of economic ruin >> this is because of a corrupt deal to an assigned to basically support two dodgy businessmen an israeli one, and an egyptian one... >> al jazeera exposes those who made a fortune betraying an entire nation >> you don't feel you owe an explanation to the egyptian people? >> no...no.. >> al jazeera investigates egypt's lost power on al jazeera america

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many tied to iran in the fight against i.s.i.l. for the first time president obama will dedicate a full interview to racial unrest. protests, sometimes violence, have broken out after learning police will not be charged in the michael brown or eric garner killing. president obama's interview airs tomorrow six detainees from guantanamo bay arrive in uruguayan. four syrians, a tunisian and palestinians. the country accepted the prisoners on humanitarian grounds. this is the first batch of detainees to be taken to south america. they were held at suspected al qaeda affiliates since 2002 and cleared for release in 2009. the u.s. government cannot find a country that would accept them in refugees. andy gallagher explains why it is significant. >> well, it is significant. this is the largest number of detainees from guantanamo bay released into the western

hemisphere. many countries have taken a few here and there. key to understanding all this, understanding why it's taking so long to close guantanamo bay is finding host nations. the u.s. is finding it difficult to find countries and governments willing to take the men in. uruguay's president calls this a humanitarian act, saying the men will be treated as refugees. remember president obama six years ago signed an executive order to close guantanamo bay, and it's still open. at its height there were 800 prisoners in the facilitiry. it's at its -- facility. it's at its lowest level. nor on the u.s. force -- more on the u.s. forces raid in yemen. luke somers and another hostage, pierre corky, were shot by captors during the raid. both died. residents told reporters 11 were killed on the ground - a

10-year-old boy and a woman among the dead. president obama defended his decision to authorise the raid. i spoke to al jazeera's foreign affairs analyst for his take on the operation. what do you make of the fact that the decision was made for this to happen when one of the hostages was on the verge of actually being released? >> it's all about communication, and i think when we deal with communications at the geopolitical level, there are certain state agendas and we know this as well. we know that there are countries within europe happy to pay ransoms to release hostages, the u.k. o-u.k. and america have -- the u.k. and america have a policy where they do not pay ransom money or negotiate with host edges. we are seeing a review process going on with that. in terms of your question, there are various agendas, there are

various ways of dealing with hostage taking scenarios, and they differ. if the u.s. wants to go in and conduct an operation that will be the best course of action to save luke somers - unfortunately it didn't happen in this case - they'll do that. >> tell us about the group that was responsible for having the hostage. >> this is al qaeda on the arabian peninsula. we have seen the barr carric excuse accusations that -- barbaric accusations that have been occurring. they visualise it. if we go back to 2004, a chap head of a group that became al qaeda in iraq, they used the

execution of three hostages, and did it as revenge for the way prisoners were freed in abu grade by the u.s. soldiers. -- abu ghraib by the u.s. soldiers. if we go back to december, al qaeda launched a raid in sanaa, killing 52 civilians in a hospital. for the first time the head came out and apologised for that. i think there's a different mind-set between what a.q.a.p. do to manage propaganda and leverage what the demands are. but it is what i.s.i.s. are trying to do, establish the ground. they are different in the philippines a typhoon knocked out power and send people into shelter. some have died.

an area reeling from a supertif joon 13 months ago. heavy rains and flooding damaged homes and shanties. torn store signs littered the streets. scott heidler reports. >> reporter: this is edison, three weeks old, napping next to the radio. his family's connection to the outside world and news of the typhoon hagupit. edison and his mother are here, huddled in the hallways of the government building. women and children came from nearby villages, the provincial capital. >> translation: three families from my village came from the shelter. it is noisy, full of children. we always evacuate, our house may blow away. >> two days before typhoon hagupit made landfall, thousands were directed to shelters like this. the governor says it's about preparation. something he knows well. because of that he's confident

his province will have zero casualties. >> we have been prepared for this for the past 20 years. over the past 20 years, it achieved zero casualties. we made it a religion. the government is worried about the economic impact, mainly from the strong windows of the storm. they are not as strong as last year, they'll stay longer, ripping electricity lines and drivewaying property. -- destroying property. this was the only bakery open. to the owner, it was a risk worth taking >> translation: we are afraid of the typhoon, we had to work to earn something. we heard reports it would be as bad as haiyan, so we put rocks on the roof. >> reporter: the government is confident and people are prepared, no one will know the

damage to the community until the sun rises on monday morning meteorologist kevin corriveau has more on the storm. >> we are watching the typhoon across the philippines. it was from space. the strongest storm yes have seen in 2014. over there it's the philippines, we are watching the storm pushing across the philippines, the central part. it's weakened and may be an equivalent category 3 storm. we'll see it die down, but still we expect to see massive amounts of rain coming out of the storm because it's moving slowly, especially to the northern part of the storm. manila, you'll see the storm with the influence coming into play as it comes towards monday. as we go towards the united states, especially to the north-east, pushed out to sea,

we are looking at better continues. take a look at what we expect to see in the forecast as we go towards tuesday. another storm system is developing. anywhere from boston to washington - we are expecting heavy rain showers. that will cause delays at the airport. anywhere from the north, massachusetts, vermont, new york. as well as into parts of main. that will turn into know. some locations such as into parts of central new york, we could be seeing 15-18 inches. >> the korean government days it did not attack the systems. they are glad it happened. last week, it produced a film depicting an assassination float against leader kim jong un. the interview starring seth rogan and franklin will be released christmas day. north korea says the attack on sony was well deserved.

>> translation: this hack attack to the sony pictures was the people that came forward after an appeal. it can only be seen as a just punishment for evil doings. some say there are similarities between this attack and others blamed on north korea. we'll examine the rise of cyber attacks in "the week ahead", 8:30 eastern, 5:30 pacific. a ban forbidding gay men donating blood - a rule as long as they haven't had sex for a year they can donate. some are not satisfied. we are joined by a doctor from n.y.u. and a marriage and family therapist. >> a year-long ban is better than a life-time ban. what we are weighing this against is people that need

blood, dying because they can't get it. there are shortages, because you can't hold on to blood for a long time. people can die because they are not able to get the products they node. it's not just the -- they need. it's not just the red blood cells, but a lot of different products like clotting factors. >> if you think about one person, they may donate not once, but several times. >> how are your friends reacting in the gay community? do they think a year - is that fair or is it middle ground? >> no, it is too long. we have the technology to narrow down the window period. why would i be forced to wait a year to not have sex in order to give blood, when a heterosexual man can have sex with women without a condom, and he can walk in and give blood, and they'd be happy to take his blood. that is discrimination. i'm not happy about that. we'll not stand for that. >> if the change is approved,

the f.d.a. says it will be implemented in a matter of months a romanian company has become a fast-growing car-maker. sales grew 35%. workers are not thild at the company's success the production line north of bucharest almost can't keep up with demand. the economic crisis created an niche for low-cost vehicles. entry level costs cost $9,500. they generated turn over of 5.5 billion, a world away from the days when the company was state owned. >> translation: i worked under the communist system and now under the system of renault. the difference between the two is incredible.

no comparison. >> reporter: 65 cars an hour is coming off the production line, the company flatout to meet demands. with extraordinary success is a collega of how to pay the workforce. a deal was raised in the past to raids wages in line with the company's fortunes. the union wants a new deal. >> translation: multi nationals are losing center in good labour relations. we are in conflict to ensure they report the previous deal. they have forgotten the strike of 2008. perhaps we need a radical conflict now. >> it is part of the french renault group. with that comes globalized production. the top boss says wages will rise, but the union must be careful. >> we have to be wise and

patient and not accelerate too much wages increase or we have to reconsider product location from romania and other countries, that are capable of making the same cars. >> reporter: this town sits near the plant. half of the people depend on it for their livelihoods. everyone you meet has a connection with the tactry. >> translation: it is important. most of the people in this city work at the plant - relatives, friends, young and old people. i worked there for 40 years, now my wife and kids are working there. >> reporter: the dilemma for the workers, negotiate a fair reward without driving away the success story that their labour created. >> coming up on al jazeera america - a natural wonder in

peru threatened by the effects of global warming and the devastating toll seen. progress in a nation - heralds the advances women made in afghanistan, and why they are fearful it could be lost in the blink of an eye.

in peru, activists gather to raise awareness of global warming, in the middle of a 2-week climate conference in lima. delegates are working on a deal is that balances emission reductions with development goals. it is the last stop before delegates meet in paris. nick clark reports a backdrop for the summit witnesses the impact of global warming at an alarming rate. >> for centuries across the peruvian andes people relied on the melt water. here, an hour's flight from the capital, the markets are full of produce. there's a problem. the water source is disagree.

disappearing. rivers one fast, but the glaciers are melting away. this is one of the most popular places for tourism. gen jammin is a glaisiologist and remembers the glacier in its heyday when people skied here. >> it was one only glacier until the houses. >> reporter: stretched all the way down. >> yes. >> reporter: we walked where ice, hundreds of meter deep. the glassier re-seeded back to the face of the mountain. >> we are losing time because all the claysiers that is going is going. >> reporter: it's a stunning site full of danger. new lagoons of ice is forming, increasing mudslides and flooding disasters. they say it's melting at an

incredible rate that it could be gone within 30 to 40 years. across peru glaciers are disappearing. that's creating an enormous problem for those that rely on this as a water source. >> down the mountain the graps are ripening. this farmer runs an organic farm. we have seen climate changes in the last four years. there are cold winds from the mountains, plans have less resistance due to climate change. >> reporter: nicholas is working with the changes, building a reservoir to manage water supplies when the river is low. farmers across peru have started to adapt to the effects of climate change. the future here and across the

world is a looming uncertainty. >> the unsays afghanistan made progress at improving women's rights in recent years. there's a number of girls enrolling in schools, and women in parliament. there are fears that any efforts towards reconciliation in peace with the taliban could jeopardise the gains. charles stratford has more from kabul. >> reporter: this woman's husband was killed by a suicide bomber two years ago. she has seven children to support. she was given a loan by a microfinancing project for women to have an oven built. people bring her power. -- bring her flour, she makes the bread for which she is paid. >> if i buy shoes, i can't afterward to buy the children a hat. i'm grateful. if i was not taught this skill or given the money our life would be harder.

>> she leaves her children at the creche when she comes to lessons. these women are taught to read and write before learn a skill and given $100 to start a business. they come to improve their skills and pay money back with the cash earnt. >> before the women had no skills, husbands refused to let them learn. we work with the community to encourage them and help them sell products. they are more independent now. >> although the story offers a glimmer of hopes with respect to improving women's rights, there are many afraid progress that has been made will be lost. they are determined not to let it happen. >> it is one of 69 women members at afghan's perimeter. despite progress like a law to help with violence.

the government must do more with funding. >> a huge amount of money boosted security, going to education, or balance of power went to girl's education. this is a big challenge illustrating that the 60% goes to security issues. women in parliament - it's not like a priority for other government, actually. >> she has little choice but to be the sole breadwinner. her daily struggle represents a fragile beginning of independence for millions of women in afghanistan prior to the soviet occupation in afghanistan, it was a relatively liberal country. during that time afghan women made up of half of government workers, 70% of school teachers and 40% of doctors in kabul next, al jazeera goes one on

one with a woman who helped to unravel a web of lies in relation to racial fraud in u.s. history.

when bernie madoff's $50 million ponzi scheme was exposed it was apparent he was not acting alone. the woman that was his secretary for 40 years said she was in the dark. she details how little she knew about the scam and how she's trying to make it right. >> we are not one of the big guys that lost all the money. we lost our life savings, so. >> we have lost everything. i have lost everything, and you have lost everything. people have killed themselves, lost their health. >> 50 billion gone and challenge

there's allegations that this was a scint upon city scheme. >> they put money with bernie madoff. when it aim out that he screwed over ellie wisel. that was the one that god to me. this nobel laureate who had zoiffed the holocaust. and this man had stolen all this man's money. this man has stone the life and the hard work of so many people, people who were immigrants, jews, cyst jans, muslim, across the board, it's a make cos. of america. my name is elan or, for the last 35 years i was the secretary. >> there was more to the man and the crime. playing out 15 feet from my desk. >> the morning after the arrest, i had to come into work. phones were going crazy, and the

fax machines, and i remember a woman kault in, she was sob of course, didn't know how to pay the bills and didn't know what to do. just so many people. they left feeling victimized and ashamed. specialry older people. all they wanted to know is what should they do. you tried to do what you could, pretty much it was not much. >> reporter: sir, why did you do it? anything to say to your victims? >> i was going to do something about it. i didn't know what. i was going to do everything i could to help the authorities. >> i knew that i was the person that worked directly for him. and i knew in my file there had to be stuff that would be helpful. >> eleanor is the ultimate pot of gold. she is honest, show nose all the players and could teach you as

an investigator the landscape of the business. they would create a phoney spreadsheet on this phoney ib m400, and create a phoney portfolio on the spreadsheet, and each month, you know, it would show a gain, and mail them out to investigators every month. >> white collared crime distris lives. and -- destroys lives and and it can happen to any one of us. "in god we trust" airs on al jazeera america, 9:00pm eastern, 6:00p.m. pacific. today marks 73 years since the attack on pearl harbor. the attack by the japanese forces - it drew america into world war ii. 400 japanese war planes dropped bombs after 8am in the morning, killing 2400 men's, wounding another 1200. among those attending today's ceremony were four survivors.

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