educate poor children. >> schools where kids need grade teaching the most. >> can unprepared teachers make a difference? >> why are we sending them teachers with 5 weeks of training? >> the controversial release of a senate report on enhanced interrogations after 9/11, concerns its publication will cause a terrorist backlash. also why new federal guidelines on racial profiling are getting a lukewarm reception. and how unicef says 15 million children worldwide are facing unspeakable brutality. hello i'm antonio mora, those

stories and more straight ahead. >> embassies are on layered awaiting -- >> torture techniques by the cia. >> major backlash and greater security risk. >> this will cause voyages and death. >> proafts against police killings of unarmed black men. >> new guidelines banning federal law enforcement from profiling. >> the key areas are exempted. >> civil liberties groups are not happy with them. >> raging fire in an apartment building. >> tore through los angeles. >> looked like a bomb exploded. >> growing evidence that the happiest part of our lives actually begin in our 50s. >> job status, marital status. >> some of this may be biologically hard wired. >> have you had reports in the past that you had spots on x ray? >> never had x ray. >> how can we move forward? >> this may be the only chance they get. >> we begin with a high state of alert at u.s. facilities around

the world. pending tuesday's release of a summary of the senate intelligence committee's report on cia interrogations after 9/11. the summary is said to condemn techniques president obama has called torture while accusing the cia of knowingly misleading the government officials about the techniques used and the gained intelligence from prisoners . josh earnest comments. >> the release of the report could lead to further risk to u.s. facilities and individuals all around the world. that said, the administration strongly supports the release of this declassified summary of the report. >> but former vice president dick cheney insisted the interrogation program was both authorized and legal. he claimed the senate report was

a sort of cover for democrats who were too embarrassed to admit they knew details while the program was underway. former president george w. bush also praised agency officials who took part in this program. >> these were patriots. whatever the report says if it diminishes their-c their contributions to our country they're way off base. >> agency chief in the middle east and led the hunt to find osama basha bin laden after 9/11. good for both of you to join us. gary i know you agree with former president bush and vice president cheney, the information is something the american public needs oknow. why should the report not be released?

>> we've been through this before. most of this has been reported on the press. i think it's incendiary to put more information out there at a time when we're at war with i.s.i.s. i think it does put american diplomatic missions abroad at risk and evidence of that the administration has sent messages abroad through the department of state channels to prepare for a potential backlash for this. if they weren't concerned they wouldn't have sent the message. >> raha at a press conference in 2009, president obama called torture whatever legal rationales were used were mistaken. then he's insisted that he wants to look forward not backwards. when this issue is concerned he has ruled out, cia officials who have told the justice department justified. what is the purpose, what can it accomplish releasing this?

>> well, it's a basic principle of democracy that the people need to know what was done in their name by their government. that's exactly what we're talking about here. there's always a chance there's some risk bad actors overseas may try exploit our democratic principles. oversights, checks and balances. but that shouldn't stop us. the armed services committee actually put out a similar report examining detainee abuse. when we had 100,00 100,000 troon ground prosecuting a war in iraq. we can do this. we owe it to our democratic checks and balances to really examine and have congressional oversight, over the committee that is a secret agency that operates it in the dark. so we need to learn from the past and we need to have some lessons in the future. >> gary how do you respond to raja? openness do those american values require that we know what

our government has done? >> well, let's go pack to a statement that he just made, was that it was made while we had the 100,000 guys fighting in iraq and we lost thousands of people there. i don't know how much violence was increased because of the releasing of those reports. but the fact is, this could very well have been a contributing fact not loss, the injury and the death of our folks. let me say this, three individuals were water boarded because it was believed they had information of imminent critical attacks or catastrophic attacks on the u.s. the united states was very careful and the cia was careful this, we captured targets 2001 and i was involved in this, we did not interrogate them, the department of justice laid out the guidelines a presidential finding was written and the congress was briefed in the process. people in the congress that say they were not briefed are lying. they were briefed on this.

you don't do covert action without a presidential finding and a notification to the congress and that's both hipse, house permanent subcommittee for intelligence and senate committee. senator feinstein as she's leaving her position at senate select committee for intelligence. >> the bush administration walked away from some of this in its later years. so again are we relitigating something that we shouldn't relitigate? secretary of state john kerry called intelligence chair dianne feinstein, about not releasing the report, he also asked her to factor in the foreign policy implications of releasing it into her timing. so are you not concerned as gary

says that this will just give america's enemies another excuse to attack us? >> well, we always have to be concerned when there's threat damage. very few people in congress were briefed on this program and the american people were kept in the dark almost the entire time. so again in a democracy we deserve to know what the government does in our name and yes, the bush administration started walking away from this program because it wasn't effective. the vast majority of intelligence gatherers are poor base techniques are the best, torture just undermines gathering. than it we need to have a good look at the facts. we can't have it be driven by self-serving statements that authorize or participate in the

program, fictional accounts, let's have the truth on torture let's learn as a nation and let's fix policy going forward. >> gary, i see you want to respond. >> the only point i was going to make is had cia officers proceeded without a presidential finding and notification people would have gone to jail. they haven't gone to jail because people were briefed. are. >> what do you see gary other than attacks on american facilities, are you concerned that foreign countries may not want to participate? as a former cia officer, what kind of effect do you think it's going to have on the cia? >> look, that's a great question. the united states relies on multiple foreign agencies for guidance on this, our program which we assured them would remain secret they're much less

likely to cooperate with us in the future. it's a big problem. >> raja what would you like to see if this report gets released, what action do you think needs to be taken or does no action need to be stain other than making this public? >> well, you know i think this administration ought to work with the congress to make sure we never resort to these policies again. but just to, gaik engag engage in a policy of torture and abuse. in a post9/11 world, nothing should remain secret forever. american people deserve to know what was done in their name. we should be able to cooperate within the rule of law. this has caused problems for us. when they see things like guantanamo, it does bolster their ranks.

we need to look at the hard facts and what was done after 9/11, and we need to learn as a country and as a policy making apparatus and move forward. >> we'll see what this report holds, hopefully no serious consequences for americans around the world. gary and raja, good to have you with us. thank you. >> new racial profiling guidelines released, based on gender national origin and religious, in addition to ethnicity. attorney general eric holder said, widespread discitrus in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throw the the nation, it is imperative that we take strong and sound policing practices.

but the rules only apply to some federal agents and not state police, who are facing crofl and criticism in the case of the unarmed black man. permit profiling to continue at airports border crossings and immigration checkpoints. for more we're joined from our stewed ye studio in pittsburgh. he's testified at several senate hearings on racial profiling the constitution and civil and human rights. he's also the author of the work profiles in injustice, why racial profiling cannot work. david, you have bin a voal proponent fobeen a vocalproponer these standards. >> as you said in your opening the big thing here is these

rules do not at all touch state and local law enforcement. that's where the vast majority of the occasions where the americans might encounter the police, that's what they have, the state and the city. this applies to federal agencies. but they don't do the routine law enforcement work that you see on america's streets. the pro filings they might engage in generally is about immigration and national security and there are basically carveouts in the new guidelines. that activity can continue. >> i want to get to that in a minimal. but most states do have bans on racial profiling. if they're involved in a federal tasks, it's a fairly have limited situation. the hope is that this would country.

do you think this should have been issued a year ago quj. >> i don't think it will be impossible, states may do this and say this is a good plan, an example of effectively make the states go anywhere in particular. and that allows still the federal government's main profiling activities when it chooses to do that to to continue. so i don't think there's a lot of things changed. >> let's look at what attorney general holder had to say. >> we can't afford to do law enforcement on the basis of stereotypes. it undermines the political trust but

not in. >> he allows it as you are referring to he allows it to remain in effect in airmingts or maybe 100 times further. >> it's ineffective it doesn't work it blunts our efforts to do law antiterrorism or antilaw work. federal government is not united on this. there are places within the federal government probably customs, homeland security. >> they certainly don't want to let it go. the aclu is certainly on eric holder's side here but doesn't it get silly as aimps when we're looked at what has happened in the last decade or more, things

like al gore getting singled out for extra-screening twice. 80-year-old grandmother with kits. >> randomizing security, the effort would be the person who tried to get on the plane and light his shoe frens. it won't protect someone who is is a sophisticated attack ir, it is a basic test of layering the system and hopefully only one are layer of what the federal government is doing to protect us. >> in effect reverse profiling with tsa global reentry that allows people that have gone through the process so less scrunlts, today there's a level of profiling? >> i think there is, over the years we've seen are various

things come out that indicate that was true. what's important here is give the, against it but i can't give it credit for actually doing a full job. if they wanted to stop profiling in the states, they could come out real heavy in favor of a proposal like the end racial profiling act but they have not done that. and that's a real missed opportunity. what they have done is good as far as it goes. but it doesn't go very far. >> so are you convinced that profiling should not exist at all, when it comes to national security concerns? especially in light of you know, all the dangers and the warnings we've heard about foreign fighters, both americans and europeans who have passports who don't need visas into the united states who might be fighting in home? >> if you have intelligence that

indicates certain individuals or groups of individuals are involved in a particular behavior or activity it is them. if you observe behavior that is consistent with those activities, it is 110% legitimate to focus on them. what throws us off is focusing on people because of their appearance. even if that's only part of what gets done. because that duls ou dulls our focus on what is really important in a security context. that is behavior. behavior is the only thing that predicts behavior. appearance does not predict behavior. yourself you just said these people come from many countries and have many appearances. if we get distracted by what people look like , what ethnic way they look, that distracts from security. >> when it comes to policing in

our cities. david harris, good to have you with us. >> my pleasure. >> now for more stories from around the world. we begin at the hague where according to an exclusive report by al jazeera the international criminal court on monday accepted the status of palestine. the move is symbolic victory for palestine and adds to palestine statehood. becoming a nonparty observer is it allows a war crimes trial to be launched against israel. next, we head to the philippines where typhoon hagupit has left at least 27 dead and forced over

a million into shelters. torrential rain and winds over the weekend. battling the same region that typhoon haiyan ravaged last november. that left more than 7,000 dead or missing. hagupit has been down graded to a tropical storm but is expected to bring large amounts of rain coming over manila. we end in los angeles, a blaze which dominated the city's skyline was the size of a city block. the fire forced the highway patrol to shut down parts of two major freeways leaving commuters stranded in traffic for hours. there were no reports of damage or injuries. it is still unclear what caused the fire. that's some of what's happening around the world. coming up the horrifying crises faced by millions of children around the world and the consequences for the u.s. vladimir

putin's popularity keeps soaring, thanks to a are campaign. what's trending hermella? >> a seemingly viral video from afghanistan. and what do you think? join the conversation on twitter @ajconsiderthis and on our facebook page. >> a conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended... revealing... untold stories of the valor... >> they opened fire on the english officers... >> sacrifice... >> i order you to die... >> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes continues episode three: the new middle east on al jazeera america

>> never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to is such unspeakable brutality, from unicef who says 2014 last been the worst year on record for children around the world. exposed to extreme violence in many cases tortured kidnapped recruited raped and sold as slaves. and the horrors of those

conflicts are just the beginning of the challenges that the hundreds of millions of children are facing today. >> good to have you with us. this report is devastating. you highlight this terrible violence in iraq and the palestinian territories south sudan, central african republic and ukraine and especially in syria where the numbers are just horrifying. we've got thousands of children dead, it's affected more than 7 million kids including 1.7 million child refugees, you also highlight south sudan, 230,000 children there suffering from acute malne malnew transition, hundreds of children being kidnapped from schools or even on the way to schools. it is heartbreaking and these are only a few of the countries you talked about. >> that's right, major conflicts

that made the headlines this year, adds up to 15 million children, but the total is 230 million children. beyond the figures, not just numbers of how many are affected, behind every single statistic there's a child. there's a child who is not going to be able to go to school. there's a child who is not getting his or her vaccine, a child that is not feeling protected. we need to look beyond the statistics and 30 about what the future is going to be like. >> it's a total generation lost as you said it's just a few of the countries. libya somalia congo pakistan, afghanistan, yemen, and also of course nigeria, where the girld were kidnapped earlier-g girls were kit napped and remain kidnapped how do you think it's getting worse.

>> the intensity, the brew talts of these countries, that's why this is increasing. the syria conflict for example just not affecting dhirn and lives around, but all around, turkey, iraq, jordan, so the complexity of this conflict, the fact that we are seeing increasingly children deliberately targeted, not that they're collateral damage alone, we're talking about children being deliberately kidnapped. kidnapped on their way to school or from school. >> to become parts of these extremist organizations. there are real long term consequences. it's hard to believe anybody doesn't care about the welfare of children around the world. but even if the united states was looking at this from a selfish standpoint, there could be long term consequences because a whole new generation is being destroyed and being indoctrinated and brain

brainwashed into extremism. >> the chances you going back to school are probably very slim, you are never going to go back to school again. a floral citizen who is going to contribute to the development of his or her country, what future does that have for you, what future does that have for the country growing up. an entire generation of syrian children, if you don't give them the skills or education or the psychological support they need to go through the horrors that they've been going through, what's going to be the future of these children, the country or the world. >> can't go to school and hundreds of thousands of refugees who are probably not getting anythin getting resembling the education they need.

ebola has not only killed children it's orphan ed thousands. >> 5 million of children between 3 to 13 are not going to school right now because of the risk of contagion either. it is affecting their learning as well. >> what needs to be done? >> thankfully because of the chances of action, we're there unicef, with the rest of the humanitarian partners we're on the ground delivering some of the assistance that children need. because of the fact that we don't have all of the finances we need, one of the major challenges this year has meant that we haven't been able to respond in the areas that we needed to respond because of shortages of funds. central african republic for example, there is a campaign to have more than 600,000 children go back to school gradually as the situation improves within

the country, and children who are suffering from severe acute malnew transition, we're providing vac is scenes inside syria for example, there was a polio outbreak, unicef has been able to provide 68 million doses of polio vaccine to help stem the outbreak and further the spread of polio. >> it's not just the conflict, it's hundreds of millions of kids that don't have access to clean water and so many other aspects. we wish you the best in your efforts and thanks for coming in to see us. >> thank you for having me. >> turning to russia. ruble is falling, and sanctions are taking their toll and the fall of the price of oil.

vladimir putin blaming his social ills. >> this is not just a nervous reaction of the united states and their allies to our stance to the events and coup in ukraine. i'm certain if all of this didn't take place they would just come up with another reason for curbing russia's own goals. >> for more we are joined by peter onsed, nothing is true and everything is possible, peter great to have you with us. you talk about how pr is everything in russia these days how propaganda rules the day. my reaction is, it just doesn't seem much has changed from the days of the soviet union. >> you are right, a lot of this has its roots in the soviet union. they believed they could create a new person through propaganda.

that was the theory of marxism through propaganda. now there's not one ideology. there are a range of tactics to achieve certain ends. now looks and feels very different, very western. if you got the switch on russian tv it looks like your show or cnn or something. >> you call russia a country of nine time zones, where television is the only force that can unify and rule and bind. and now putin and the state pretty much control that incredibly powerful weapon. >> the first thing that vladimir putin did when he became president in 2000 was he took control of television. he got rid of the oligarchs who controlled it who could play king america make -- king maker. that's how important it is to him. >> and you also describe how it creates a fake reality, that even some of the news programs

will have fake people on the right and fake people in the left engaging in this debate so that putin somehow comes across leader. >> very much so. all of russian politics are like this. all the preliminary parties you have are essentially coordinated from inside the kremlin. not real opposition. it's like the circus. they even talk of themselves as theater. not a law making body of some sort. >> reality tv is there to distract the autopsies. you produced it but you also talk about how reality tv has an element of social control. >> various ones. let's say one of the most interesting things that the new kremlin does that the old one didn't, now a whole culture of anecdotes, they do their own sort of is a tire shows about themselves.

very carefully guided but that was one of the subtle ways they would use flarp popular structure. >> putin has incredibly high approval ratings. one of your colleagues once asked, can't you see your own government is just as bad as ours, people are believing this andy western propaganda? >> it's a very cynical almost a nillistic nihilistic view. >> is this antiwestern prop began today really propbegan

antiwestern prop antiwestern prop gandactuall prop prop ganda propganda. >> the russians feel threatened? nato is not there georgia and ukraine are getting much closer to the west and there's been all sorts of conversations about nato help to georgia which is you know -- >> russia was an empire way before nato existed. russia feels itself to be an empire. doesn't see itself as a nation-state. but the idea that it should be expansionist and great is

certainly very old. quite the opposite is true. putin like a lot of bullies he needs to be stopped and where his boundaries are and then he changes his are approach. welcoming ukraine into nato. >> even last week this terrible thing in chechnya. attacked by terrorists there, even that putin has tried to spin it to say to somehow, this is the west behind, how the west could be behind some terrorists, islam extremists is hard to believe, that somehow we're supporting islamic extremists in order to attack putin. >> this conspiratorial view, the conspiracy, they have conspiracy all the time about crazy fungi taking over the air or mystical stuff.

that's the language they use really manipulates people, people see the world as conspiracies. >> are you aware of the world order as we have known it for the past few decades do you think that there's any chance that russia will come back and find some sort of workable relationship with the west? >> it's hard to see that happen because the narrative they've chosen inside the country, it's that we're at war with the west. russia likes to see itself as the bad boy. the global vision is one that sort of hampers america and sees ad hoc loins of various authoritarian states. when they'll be able to make that transition i don't know. >> the book, nothing is true and everything is possible. the surreal heart of the new russia. time now to see what's trending on the

webb. hermella. >> ordinary photos have gone viral in kabul. one person tweeted a half-naked girl walking in the middle of normal people. where is the islamic government? a third wrote, it is an absolutely shameless situation. with reactions like these, it's hard to imagine afghan women walked around mini skirts and they were allowed to volt in 1919, a year before american women gaining suffrage. women were banned from work, couldn't leave home without a male escort and had to wear burkas.

women have been slowly able to make gain since 13 years ago. equal rights advocates had a little hope when he thanked his wife during his inaugural speech, she would play a role in advocating for women and children. many afghan men for many it was a symbolic moment that might signal widening freedoms for women in the country. but antonio, afghanistan is still one of the worst places to be considered for the rights of women. >> coming out much better on the other side. how a third of food goes to waste. why one man is trying to make a difference for thousands of people around the country who don't have health care. >> investigating a dark side of the law

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>> my name is elenor and for the last 25 years i was bernie madoff's secretary. >> an unimaginable story of 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. >> when we think of a mid life crisis what usually comes to

mind are the stereotypical images of a man buying a sports car and the onset of strong feelings of worry and doubt like those depicted in many movies including "this is 40". >> why is it 38? >> because your mom wants to be 40. let's not mention it again. >> but a growing body of research reveals going through a slump in middle age may be much more widespread than we think. are we doomed to suffer and existential crises? the summer issue of the atlantic, the real roots of the midlife crisis. jonathan, good to have you with us. it's a fascinating read. you start from your own experience in the 40s, you said you had every reason to be happy but you weren't.

that you're much happier in your 50s, in that process, all those years, what you discovered is that how happiness may be affected by age, particularly what's considered the u curve. >> it is a mystery to me why in my 40s thing were objectively going my way. i continue feel grateful many felt churlish. but in my 50s paradoxically this fog began to lift. in the force of all this, i found this literate coming out of economics on the u shaped happiness curve. it's not for everybody, all human beings are different but there's a very common pattern in human societies around the globe and for that matter even in chimps and s

orangutans. sometimes they don't know what to do about it and make mistakes >> sometimes life satisfaction declines in the first decades of adulthood and it bottoms out in the 40s and 50s and then just comes on back. >> yes, that's the most typical curve. the bottom tends to be around 45, late 40s and starting in the 50s the most scientifically robust part of all of this is satisfaction grows and grows and grows actually well into old age. >> some of it would seem like common sense, that that lower part of satisfaction with life would come in middle age when you have more stress, responsibility, you have -- your parents may be getting older and sick, you have kids who require a lot of your attention, and drain financial resources. but i guess one of the tings that doesn't seem as much like common sense is the bounce-back

sort of afterwards that you get happier as you get older. >> yeah, and this work is being done by a lot of scholars who wand to find out the effect of age per se. so what they do is adjust for things like income children merittal status, employment and they tend -- marital status employment and they seem to find the difference, that it seems to bottom out in mid life. then as you recalibrate expectations get wiser it appears actually this is a million phenomenon as you get older, you get better at regulating emotions, you get better at feeling saturated and content, less likely to fly off the handle with negative feelings, actually you start to feel more satisfied. so my message to people is, it gets better, if you're feeling low in your 40s that's perfectly normal. there's nothing wrong with you, it's probably just going to go away.

>> one of the interesting thinks you just talked about, onset of wisdom, becoming more accepting of light of and this leads to this phenomenon. this is not just an american thing, it happens all the world. >> right. it's not everywhere or every survey but this research is big data surveys. based on happiness well over 100 countries over years, around the world, this curve is not universal. nothing is universal in human life but it is very, very common. it is a standard pattern. and you see it especially in the wealthier countries where people of course tend to be healthier and live longer so they can have those satisfying late decades in life. >> it isn't clear whether there's a biological component, you mentioned apes a couple of minutes ago and you cite in the article research that found that

apes have a similar thing in their mid life. they don't seem to be as content. >> yeah, this was published just last year in research facilities where people tend, chimpanzees and oran gutans. he science here is quite new. it's plausible to see that some of this may be biological, hard wired, some of it is not common. >> people who are unhappy tend to die earlier? >> they are skewed a bit by that. people who are miserable do tend to die younger but of course you can adjust to that for that to some extent and it turns out the most scientifically robust kinds

of findings is, that people are more satisfied later in life, contrary to the theory that you get older and more feeble and bitter. you are living in the present, you feel less competitive and less judgmental of yourself, older brains are better at processing positive emotions, they're better at sort of calibrating emotions so they don't fly off the handle as much and they may actually there's evidence that age may contribute to actual wisdom. that's scientific not just folklore. >> many important messages in this piece that is certainly worth the read. jonathan roush, good to have you. >> great to be here. tens of of millions of people still don't have health care.

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>> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> america is in the middle of the holiday season and is many of us pig out today's data dive tracks how much food does not get eaten. around a third of the food that's grown is wasted every year. 2 and a half trillion pounds goes uneaten. an american family of four throws away nearly $1500 in edible food every year. that includes leftovers gone bad or food that we bought too much of. suffer yearly in store losses amounting to 43 billion pounds. that includes restaurants, serving portions that may be too large for customers to fully eat

and leftover food from buffets getting dumped at closing time. grocery store managers also tend to overorder so they don't run out of popular items. the waste is especially upsetting because 49 million americans have limited or uncertain access to nutritional food. carries do take food and distribute billions of pounds of food to america's hungry. the u.n. suggests farmers feed livestock with food that would otherwise be wasted. and a growing number of restaurants are tracking how much food their customers don't eat, and that's led some to offer smaller portions. some restaurants overseas have actually tried charging diners an extra fee for not finishing everything they order. i don't think that would fly in the u.s. coming up from helping people get the food they need to providing medical carefree of charge to hundreds of thousands

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>> even though the law was signed into law a year and a half ago, 61 million adults don't have health care insurance. charities are trying to help. a new documentary follows one group, remote area medical as it provides health care clinics free of charge to many in the country. many haven't seen a doctor in years. >> the children are sick, you have to decide whether to buy them bread or take them to a doctor. >> welcome to america. >> all of these people have been here since wednesday night. >> i worked at mcdonald's for nine hours. i've had two hours sleep. thursday night.

>> their needs are real. haven't been able to kiss my wife in over a year. that's pretty hard man. >> it's too expensive to go to a citizen 'tis. >> i need a mammogram. >> who's got number 1? >> earlier i had a chance to speak with stan brock, he's the manager of area america. you may remember him as the producer of wild america. stan, let's talk about your efforts and why you thought they were necessary. your initial inspiration were that you felt people in remote parts of the world didn't have access to medical care. >> yes, the original concept was paddle in and shoot the rapids. but when i came to this country post-wild kingdom time, it

became obvious there was a need here, and we've been doing it here for almost 30 years. >> you still do things abroad but most of your work is done here. >> about 90% here in this country all over america. >> you bring medical care dental vision care to underserved parts of the united states. this new documentary focuses on a clinic you moanted in mounted in tennessee. let's take a look at that. >> how long has it been since you had a doctor visit? >> since i was a teenager. >> teenager? >> i got black lung really bad. >> it's going to save my life. >> we're coming, we're on our way. >> such good people in this county. >> thank y'all so much! >> i can actually see now. >> how can we move forward? >> gets your heart but it's better than anything you can do.

>> so you saw people who hadn't seen doctors since they were teenagers. people who had never seen dentists. i've traveled the united states as a correspondent to some of the poorest parts and remote parts of the country and i still find that to be absolutely shocking. >> it doesn't matter where we go. you can stick a pin in the map of the united states and hold a clinic there and people come out of the woodwork. 50% of it to see the dentist, 70% of the people to see the eye doctor, in other words it's the same for both but they can't get help when they go to the emergency room. >> when you put a pin -- we're talking about major cities not just remote areas. >> oh yeah, 2009 we did about 7,000 people at the forum in los angeles and three, four weeks ago we did another 3,000 in seattle.

so it's widespread everywhere. >> and you're doing a couple of these a month. it's a major effort that you mount. >> well, we do about 30 a year yeah, not including the ones that we do overseas. >> what stories can you tell? that have touched you the most? >> oh, you know like the seven-year-old boy that in southwest virginia that had such terrible approximate with his teeth that when he sat down with the dentist he said if i start crying you keep pulling them out because i can't stand this kind of pain. and other people that have tried to get jobs like threading a needle in a machine, in a factory somewhere and couldn't pass the eyesight test. they come to us get a new pair of glasses we write them a letter they go back again they test they get a job. >> how can people help? >> we don't take any money from the government although i might add that they've never offered any.

so all of this is these five and $10 checks that come from the general public and some foundation sources. that's what keeps us growing and that's what's grown to an operation that can put 130 dental chairs in one place, 30 lanes ofize exams and see 12, 1500 people a day. >> it's a massive effort you put together when you get these clinics out there and obviously it's very important work and i'm sure many thousands of people are grateful for what you do. it's really a pleasure to see you. best of luck with your documentary and all your efforts. >> thank you very much. >> remote area medical is playing in remote cities and other areas in coming weeks. that's all, visit us at aljazeera.com/c aljazeera.com/considerthis. and you can find me

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