camera in my car. again, because it's not a set law, they could do whatever they want. >> welcome is to al jazeera america. hear from a psychologist widely believed to have designed the agency's brutal program. why he's disputing the report. a palestinian minister dies after confrontation with israeli soldiers. and a day of action over the

eric garner chokehold case. and a report regarding eliminating autism. accountability emerging after a senate report revealed harsh c.i.a. interrogation practices, many call torture. many believe criminal charges should be brought against american officials. one senator called the c.i.a. direct arrest liar and said he should quit. but despite thousands of pages of evidence it's unlikely that anyone will be prosecuted. >> reporter: senator mark udall, democrat of colorado, who sits on the intelligence committee, has long been critical of the c.i.a. and it's director john brennan saying that brennan and the c.i.a. are continue to go

willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent how ineffective torture is. mark udall said the c.i.a. is lying. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the enter great o integrity of the u.s. government is incomprehensible. the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials instrumental in the running of this program. >> it was not the first time that mark udall has called for john brennan to resign as head of the c.i.a. he called for it over the summer when the c.i.a. was accused of searching computers to compile this explosive report. they said they were not digging into the computers, and then later recanted this statement. mark udall is using his last

major moments in washington to rail against the c.i.a. >> libby, how is the white house responding to these calls for accountability? >> well, they're focusing on what president obama did when he first came in to office. he banned these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, and the president and his staffers keep pointing back to that. josh earnest was asked about further accountability, and he pointed out that the department of justice did investigate this. they closed that investigation back in 2012, and basically earnest said that it's not the white house who should be the one digging in to the past. >> there is a process in place that is administered by career professionals who did what they were supposed to do in taking a careful look at this, and they reached their own conclusions, and the president certainly believes firmly in their confidence and in the system. >> and now earnest notes that it's not the president who looks in to the criminality of what

the people in the c.i.a. may have done, but that's not enough to many critics, who say there needs to be some form of accountability. >> libby casey for us. appreciate it. thank you. there have been questions about international courts stepping in if the u.s. does not prosecute cases of torture. but that is unlikely even though the u.s. healt helped to draft and side the convention against torture. all but 31 nations signed on since it was adopted in 1984. ten nations have signed on but have not ratified the agreement. the u.s. said that the treaty only applies to actions inside it's borders. but article 5 says actions carried out in guantanamo are part of the statute.

roxana saberi spoke today to one of the men widely believed to be one of the so-called architects of the program. >> reporter: i reached james mitchell by phone in florida. he told me he could not confirm or deny if he was one of the two psychologists referred to in the report. but he criticized the report and praised the c.i.a. interrogators saying they did the best they could to protect americans. the report refers several times to two psychologists who helped the c.i.a. in the use of brutal interrogation. the report said it devised the enhanced interrogation techniq techniques including nudity, waterboarding and slamming detainees into walls. in identifying the contractors, their real names are reported as james mitching and bruce jensen, both former military psychologists. in a phone interfer interview

with al jazeera, he said they were not through in realtime and men and women in the c.i.a. without confirming or denying that i was part of that interrogation program gave their lives to support the u.s. in our conversation he refused to confirm he was one of the architects of the program. he said people think i am. i'm not acknowledging it one way or another. he talks about the benefits of waterboarding. >> does waterboarding constitute torture. you can do it in a way so the person experiences less further on. >> reporter: some threatened to quic quit but the two psychologists insist that al nashiri and other prisoners were

holding on to information. the two psychologists had no experience as interrogators, yet they personally oversaw and conducted interrogation using the techniques they had devised. mitchell said he has experience and training in interrogators, he said the c.i.a. men and women did the best they could. so i applaud them. >> reporter: he said his phone has been ringing off the hook today. the senate report said that the two psychologists began a company that took over the c.i.a. program and the c.i.a. paid them $81 million. >> roxana saberi for us. congress is running out of time to pass a bill to fund the government. the current authorization expires tomorrow night. the bill on the table right now funds most of the government through next september, but it only funds the homeland security department through february 27th, and it contains a number of controversial policy provisions. al jazeera's political correspondent michael shure,

there he is. michael, does funding homeland security for only a few months here mean we will see a battle over the president's immigration actions early next year? >> yes, it would guarantee that and it's why it's not an omnib omnibus. it is continuing bill that will take us through september of next year. you'll remember i told you this lame duck session is not going to be such a lame duck session. there is a lot going on right now. that part of it, that funding of the--the department of homeland security has everything to do with the president's executive action on immigration because it is the department of homeland security that will ultimately be in charge of enforcing that. the white house is saying you take us through february. that's fine. but we need this to go on. we know that you'll have a new republican congress in control in washington by february, and they are going to try to dismantle that and override it.

but the president thinks that, and the white house think that and he is a lot of democrats think it will be up and running already. it will be very difficult preliminarily and technically to get that stopped. >> i would be surprised if the republicans are going to take the position that they're going to withhold money from security and background checks and other elements that are critical to homeland security just in protest over the president taking executive action that is consistent with the kind of actions taken by presidents in the past. >> that's just it. you sea josh earnest saying, that's exactly what will happen, what republicans will have to support. if you want to shut the department of homeland security down, be our guest. that means there is going to be no border enforcement or processing of immigrants at all. it will be a very difficult thing for republicans to do if they're involved in that way. >> yes, it will be tough. the bill also contains policy

writers that are causing controversy on capitol hill. what are they? >> well, there are two in particular that aside from the homeland security that we just talked about, and the executive action. one of them, and i just got off the phone about senator elizabeth warren's office, this part of it, they have said they have confirmed that the senator will not support this bill should this be in it going fubbed. that's a roll back of the dodd frank regulation on derivatives training. the republicans want to tear that apart piece by piece as well. that is going to give a lot of fodder to wall street. and secondly, there is a campaign finance part of the bill. it's a rider in there that increases from $77,000 that an individual can give now--i'm sorry from $92,500 to $777,000. a huge difference in the amount of money that an individual can give to a political party. a lot of that money is restricted in the way its spent

on political conventions, on office renovations it's a tremendous amount of money for one person to give. then of course have a lot of influence in washington. >> what is the likelihood that this bill will actually brass? >> if it were up right now i would say that it's unlikely. i think the republicans are too many within boehner's caucus that don't want to see any extension. they want to deal with obama's executive action today. they don't want to put it off until february for reasons we talked about, and there are a number of democrats who won't support that, senator warren, and senator van holland said that he will not support it either because there is too much between campaign finances and the go dodd frank, it will be very tough. >> good to see you. good to talk to you. thank you. new tensions in the middle east to tell you about. a palestinian minister ziad abu aeu ein dade after

confrontation with israeli police officers in the west bank. nick schifrin with us in israel. i understand this confrontation happened during a protest against land confiscation? >> reporter: yes, that's absolutely right. tonight there is a lot of tension here, tony in jerusalem, in the occupied west bank, in are a mala where this protest took place to calm some of the tension right now we're waiting for an unusual autopsy by jordanian officials. abu ein was a popular man who died doing what he pent his life doing. >> from the very beginning this protest was personal.

palestinians demonstrating against land confiscated by israel. israeli police firing tear gas to disperse protesters protecting nearby jewish outposts. in the middle palestinian ministers, eyewitnesses tell al jazeera an israeli police officer struck him in the chest, and then put his hands around abu ein's neck. minutes later he was out of breath. >> they attacked us. a soldier tells another man to go away. abu ein dismisses him and continues with what would be his final words. >> this is the occupation and they're stopping the palestinians from their rights. they attacked us immediately before anyon anyone threw a stone or attacked them.

>> immediately after the interview abu ein feels faint. he lies down and clutches his chest. he begins to lose consciousness. they begin to administer first aid. who did this? you did this, and now you try to save him? >> the palestinians try to get him to the hospital. the protesters carry him towards an ambulance, place him on a gurney, and he would never regain consciousness. by the time his family arrived at the hospital he was dead. tonight his sister told me he decide a martyr. >> in the end he paid with his life because settlers and soldiers didn't like he raised his voice. >> reporter: defense minister released a statement saying, quote, the event in which ziad abu ein died is under investigation by the idf.

we express sorrow over his death. some palestinian officials want the coordination to end, and president mahmood a abbas called it a murder. abu ein was a popular figure. he was taken prisoner and released in a prisoner swap. >> he fight for the freedom of his country. he fight for the freedom of palestine, for the palestinian rights. >> palestinians say they're used to civilians dieing in clashes with israeli forces, but this was a minister. it was supposed to be a peaceful protest.

>> abu ein's funeral will take place tomorrow. and it will clearly be an event that will increase tensions between israelis and palestinians. >> nick schifrin for us in jerusalem. thank you. a call for action today on the steps of new york city hall. the so-called day of action comes as protesters nationwide demand their voices be heard. in light of the grand jury's decision last week not to indict the police officer involved in eric garner's death. paul beban joins us now. the group has a list of demands for city leaders. maybe you can run through just a few for us. >> absolutely, tony. right now actually behind us at this gathering and on city hall steps. russell simmons is speaking about these issues on behalf of this group calling itself the justice league nyca coalition of community groups as you mentioned that has come together in the wake of the grand jury

decision not to indict the officer involved in the death of eric garner. one of the first demands is that officer pantaleo, the officer who put eric garner in a chokehold, be fired. after that they're asking for a broad array of reform to police in the new york system. policies, community outreach to educate people and officers of how these kinds of interactions can be de-escalated. they're asking for meetings with bill de blasio, attorney general eric snyder, and governor andrew cuomo to discuss these issues. they say they're going to be here until those demands are met. >> paul beban for us in new york city, thank you. attorney general eric holder said that the justice department will investigate the deaths of eric garner and michael brown,

but most legal eggs percent say that the officers will not see criminal charges. >> reporter: the law was intended to protect newly freed african-americans from illegal treatment by law enforcement officers. recently it has been used successfully to prosecute police, and contrary to conventional wisdom of many legal experts we met a formal prosecutor who believes that it might apply to the garner case. >> i'm here to announce that the justice department will proceed with a federal rights investigation into about garner's death. >> reporter: it was the second time in three months that attorney general eric holder said that the federal government would investigate a police officer in the death of an african-american man. the federal justice system has dealt with this kind of case before. march 3, 1991, after a high-speed chase a video camera caught the police beating of rodney king of los angeles. a state jury acquitted all four officers of all charges.

>> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant lawrence m. powell not guilty. >> reporter: that verdict triggered riots in los angeles. and it resulted in a civil rights case that brought convictions against two of the officers. >> what does the federal prosecutor have to do in order to just bring charges of civil rights violations against a police officer. >> well, they have to show that the officer acted willfully to violate the civil rights, the rights to be free of unreasonable force. >> reporter: police officer panaleo's attorney said that he was resisting arrest. >> as soon as officer pantaleo

wrapped his right arm under garner's right arm and then his left arm around his neck, garner put his hands up and palms open to say that he's not fighting. he's not resisting. the immediate and very aggressive jump to a chokehold is what makes this case a federal crime. >> and what about the police defense that if garner could speak he could breathe. >> he's clearly in respiratory distress, and the officers should have taken steps to help him breathe. they should have sat him up, monitored his breathing and gotten immediate medical attention. >> leventhal said that the case against darren wilson, who shot and killed michael brown, might be tough for prosecute since there is no video, and many questions remain unanswered. but for eric garner's death in leventhal's opinion, there is no question. >> with the evidence being as strong as it is, with that video

being what it is, to me it's as clear as day that this is unreasonable, unjustifiable force. >> the investigation into garner's death is being conducted by an attorney's office in brooklyn. they would not say whether a grand jury has been impaneled to say if the police officer should go on trial. >> detroit's bankruptcy ends today. how the city aims to make good on $7 billion in debt. and protesters in hong kong told to clear out before police do it for them.

>> the c.i.a. torture report cost the government $40 million partially due to push back from the agency. now we're learning more about just how much money was paid out to run the interrogation program. thomas? >> according to the senate report the c.i.a. program called hundreds of millions of dollars to operate and in many cases the c.i.a. spared no expense telling its officers to make wish lists of what they needed, and reminding them to think big. it was a c.i.a. wish list that cost hundreds of millions of

dollars. reading through the report many amounts are blacked out, but it's clear that money flowed freely. one agent remarked that his office had more money than they could spend. they had facilities costing more than $300 million. the report highlights a payment to a country that housed a facility. a relationship that caused ongoing difficulties for the c.i.a. the c.i.a. eventually gave millions of dollars to the country after which it was reported that there was flexibility with regard to the number of detainees at the facility. among the other big cost a multi million dollar contract awarded to a company created by two retired u.s. aforce psychologists who played key roles in implementing the program. >> in 2005 the two contractors formed a company specifically for the purpose of expanding their work with the c.i.a. for '05 to '08 the c.i.a.

outsourced almost all aspects of its detention and interrogation program to this country as part of a contract valued as more than $180 million. ultimately not all contract options were exercised. however, the c.i.a. has paid these two contractors and their companies more than $80 million. >> according to the report the two men had never worked as interrogators, and didn't have a background in terrorism yet they designed most of the methods used. the report also highlights how the c.i.a. paid out $1.1 million to cover legal expenses for the company and it's employees. government investigators were told about how the c.i.a. provided millions of dollars to build and maintain secret detention sites in foreign countries, including two facilities that were never used.

suspects that were mistakenly detained were paid off after they were released and instructed not to speak about the experience. one prisoner receiving $18,000 at the time of his release. one person told investigators that payments of more than $1 million were made without any paperwork, in cash, out of boxes containing hundred dollars bills adding we never counted it. >> according to the report the checkbook was clearly wide open here. in addition to the gifts of foreign government there is was employee rewards and one case of c.i.a. officer received a cash reward of $2,500 for simply doing a great job. >> that's great to follow the money always reveals so. thomas, appreciate it. thank you. one of the psychologists you just heard thomas mention is

widely believed to be james mitchell. let's bring in vice news jason leopold. he conducted an interview in which mitchell spoke out about the inter gas station program. the whole interfere i interview is online for people to take a look and judge for themselves. why won't mitchell come out and discuss his role in the program? >> great question. he really does want to discuss his role in the program, but he is bound by a non-disclosure agreement that the c.i.a. and the justice department forced him to sign. during our interview you could tell that he really wanted to get into details, particularly allegations that he did not have any experience. allegations that he personally water borde water-boarded prisoners, but he can't talk

about that. he fears if he says anything about the program and confirms his role in the program, that he'll be prosecuted. >> does he really believe that the justice department or the c.i.a. would go after him on discussing his role in a program because of this non-disclosure when it is clear at this point that no one seemingly involved in this program is going to be prosecuted? >> he does believe that, and he believes the justice department would do that, and perhaps a criminal referral would be made. he sees this report and everything surrounding the discussions about the torture program very partisan. he sees it as democrats trying to rewrite history. he says conclusions drawn in the report is fiction. he feels if he were to break his

non-disclosure and discuss it, then the democrats in the justice department, attorney general eric holder would go after him. perhaps dianne feinstein would make a criminal referral. he has been very cautious. but he has revealed quite a bit in this interview. >> then didn't he already in violation? hhe puts the news corporation in an awkward situation. he won't talk about is in any detail but he'll criticize the findings of the report that is critical of the program he designed? >> yes, and this is a 25-minute interview. at the end of the interview he talks about what happened after 9/11, and how he made a phone call to someone who is, quote, managing his contract, saying

something should be done. the response he received was, well, how can we ask anyone to do something if you're not willing to do it yourself? he said that he was willing to help. when that statement was made he did something. this is what he did after 9/11. it leaves no doubt in my mind, certainly, that he is th the architect of the program. he has been named before by journalists and human rights groups in previous investigations that took a close look at this program, at the techniques, how the c.i.a. came to use these survival evasion resistence, how to avoid torture if captured by an enemy, and james mitchell discusses that in quite a bit of detail in this

interview. >> i'm confused by this. he was not--i'm assuming--he was not called to testify before the senate intelligence committee, correct? >> he said that he actually wanted to speak with them. he wished that they would have identified him by name because then he felt that that would give him some leverage to get the justice department and c.i.a. to close out that jon disclosure. >> jason, thank you. in amon hong kong more than two months of pro-democracy protests coming to an end. rob mcbride now reports from hong kong. >> reporter: a tank made out to trash guards the approach to this site. neither it nor the barricades will stop the police when they come.

the self-styled umbrella square is where the movement began. it is where it will likely end. on december 28th thousands surged past police lines to block one of hong kong's busiest highways. >> it's just a new day for hong kong. >> reporter: activist henry chung was among the first to protest. over two months on he's still here and waiting for arrested when the police move in. >> i do not believe in the last day. >> kelly has an eight-year-old son to return home to, and she's packing up. she, too, believes this is the start of a larger campaign, and there will be more actions. >> yes, there will be. i don't know when but welcome back. >> reporter: with the hours ticking away many hong kong people have been coming to witness and document the flurry

relinquishing cultural movement that has accompanied politics. >> it's sad that this will be lost and become history. but people's awareness of democracy has been sparked. >> as the movement becomes increasingly marred in clashes and infighting and falling support, what has started as an autumn of discontent has lumbered into a winter of dashed hopes. >> "time" magazine's person of the year is not a person at all. the magazine chose to honor all the different people who have taken on ebola. the editor write when governments were not equipped to step in individuals stepped in

to do the job. sierrsierra leone has overtaken liberia with the most ebola cases. the country has reduced the number of new cases from 100 per day to 10 per day. promising new therapy that could eliminate signs of autism. some say it could be a breakthrough. plus the journalist who used disney movies to reach out to his autistic son. plus a new policy cracking done on how players handle themselves on and off the field.

>> for the first time researchers say they can treat early signs of autism in babies as young as six months old could help eliminate signs of the disorder. here is a look at autism by the numbers. it affects one in 68 american children. children with an autistic

sibling the risk goes up to one in five. but researchers say intervening at a young age may be the answer. al jazeera's michael owe cool has the details. >> reporter: like most four-year-old boys noah likes to jump on the trampoline, playing cards games and exploring the furniture. but when he was an infant, he had his mother worried. >> he was not engaging, smiling or reciprocating. we were worried. we were sure we are going down that road. >> reporter: that road was autism, and they had been down it before. their wh two older sons are both autistic. >> noah is in a high risk group for autism because he has two siblings who have it, and he's a

boy. >> reporter: sally rogers evaluated noah when he was nine months old. detecting the tell tale early signs. not responding to his name. not mirroring her gestures. but here's where things take a turn. rogers was also embarking on a groundbreaking study to see whether intensive intervention with high risk babies might help. so she started training a small group of parents. >> they taught me how to use the songs to engage him and pause and wait for once you learn the songs, wait for him to look up at me, vocalize and be there to reinforce any form of communication. rogers and her colleagues evaluated noah and other babies every 12 weeks until they were three. the results were remarkable. >> after that first three months

of a slow down, the babies in our study turned a corner and right up into for almost every baby's normal range. >> is noah showing any signs of autism today? >> no, none. >> six out of the seven children in the study shed their autism symptoms and were hitting normal developpal milestones. >> this intervention appears to be very potent. of course, the authors are well aware there are limitations. the biggest one being there were only seven children, and that they really didn't have a large, well-matched control group. >> reporter: debra fein said that the results were promising you, but they should not be interpreted as a cure. >> a cure depends on what you mean. if you don't have an impairment in your every day function it's hard to say that somebody has autism. >> do you feel confident that one day there will be a cure,

and that cure may very well be connected to this treatment? >> i think so. i think we're getting closer. i would love to say yes. this opens a lot of doors. >> al jazeera, sacramento, california. >> many children with autism tend to focus on things like video games. and in the case of owen its classic disney movies. but his family said those movies are exactly what helped them to reach their son. in memory euro "life animated" he revealed how his family used situations to help owen connect to real life. we're live from cambridge, massachusetts. it is good to see you.

thanks for being on the program. >> nice to be here. >> what are your thoughts on this research outlined in the report. on a small number of children. five of the seven children treated with this early intervention program showed no signs of autism today. what are your thoughts? >> well look, it's a very promising, as debra fein said, preliminary. i know sally rogers. she is an eminent researcher, clinician, and really a leader, and it's going to cause a great deal of positive interests. what is interesting as i see it what we did with owen and what sally is doing with those kids, they're cousins a bit. it's identifying as early as possible that there is an issue, and then trying to live inside

the kid. create ways to pull them out. she has developed a model that seems to be effective. we have to improvise ours over 20 years, but the key is to try to help the self-directed energies of the kid be something that you can tap, grab, hold. that's what they're doing there as well as using where the kid is, the tests that the kid is doing, day-to-day life, and finding ways to connect, and find ways to appreciate interaction with other human beings early as the brain is being shaped, in crucial early days. >> how did you learn that your son owen could be reached through the characters in the disney movies? >> he is a late on-set kid.

they feel that they vanish, the autism has it's on set somewhere between 18 months and 36 months. so he was chatting away at two. i love you. let's get ice cream, and by three he lost all language. but what he loved before and after the on set of the autism was something that all kids love during that period. the disney movies. owen liked that before and after, and he would keep watching the movies over and over again and he would start to murmur gibberish. he starts to measurer just your voice for the little mermaid, and before they would say this is gibberish. they don't understand what they're saying. it's like a parrot. but when he's six and a half his brother gets emotional at a birthday party. owen is only uttering two or

three sentences at that point. he walks in the kitchen and says walter does not want to grow up like mogley or peter pan. that night we realized he had memorized dozens of disney animated movies. if you throw him a line he will throw you back the next line. he would outrun you quickly but he knew them all. the question is does he really understand what these words mean, and over time we realized he did. he had learned to understand them as owen talks about now because he watched the movies, listened to the sounds, and the vivid expressions created a decoding device for him to make sense of what he was hearing. >> there is a great video available online produced by the folks over at "the new york times" that is terrific about your relationship with your son. you know, he is a young adult now. how is he doing? >> he's doing great.

he'll always be autistic. i don't think its stalled or broken. it's a way of being. i'm not sure that we'll ever been at a place where he's cured. but he lives in a self-supported life. he paints the disney animated characters in andy warhol color spanishs. he has a job at toys "r" us. >> that's terrific. >> he's on his way to the independent life, which has always been his dream. and let me just say there are many kids coming to us who have affinities of all kinds. it could be disney, an may, black and whites of the 40's, anything. we tell parents to get in that affinity with them. learn to speak the language of that affinity and you see their underlying capabilities, and eventually you'll be able to express love to them and express that love back, and in a way you're helping them be more like themselves in an independent way rather than more like you, and

their passion we find is a pathway, they're choosing these deep interests for a reason. maybe the way their brain works and satisfied, and the key is to help them follow their own path. eventually these paths all lead to sun light. they want to connect. they use these affinities to get to you and all the things that matter. >> ron. >> it's a very hopeful time. >> what a story. what a story. and the story continues. ron with us from cambridge, massachusetts. good to talk to you. thank you, sir. still to come on the program. protesting against a tax on tap water. people in ireland are furious, and now they have folks from detroit joining their fight. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. now that a senate committee has laid bare the graphic details of inter gas station methods used by the c.i.a. after 9/11, the calls for prosecution to the operators involved and their bosses are screaming out.

was the law broken in the name of national security, and should anyone face punishment? we're live with that at the top of the hour.

>> tive tell you an embarrassing incident. the nfl announced a new personal conduct policy and it calls for tough standards and strict punishment for anyone in the league who violates those rules. >> highly anticipated. >> yes. >> and people are already criticizing it.

after admitting his mistakes in handling the ray rice i want, roger goodell promised improvement to the league's policy. he revealed what he called a revised and strengthened policy, which was approved by all 32 league owners. the league implemented the policies. appeals will continue to be heard by the commissioner and it will be an automatic six-game suspension for violations of assault, domestic violence or child abuse. it comes after several players most notably ray rice and adrian peterson. teams, players, coaches and owners including colts owners when was arrested for driving

under the influence of pain pills. >> it is better associated with the nfl. being part of the nfl is a privilege. it is not a right. the measures adopted today up hold that principle. >> while all 32 team owners endorsed the changes, the union contends any alteration should be collectively bargained. the biggest concern is roger goodell having the final say over appeals process. >> we gave that a lot of thought, and the reason is that that's the one person that understands what's important long-term interests of the game. owners can have specific interests. players can, but the commissioner is looking at the

long-term best interest of the game. that's what separates us. >> now kraft said that the owners and the commissioners they did consider using an independent arbitrator in the future, but they felt anyone could water down the league's best interest. in other words they want one of their own making that final call. >> michael, thank you. >> like i said, people already criticizing. >> yes, it is a plan to cut costs by charging for tap water. people across ireland demonstrated against the government plan and the protesters are gaining traction on social media. ines is here with that. >> reporter: yes, tony, people are protesting about this because as of 2015 households will have to pay up to $250 per

year. a group of activists from detroit traveled to ireland. >> i came to support dublin in their fight, in their fight for water pap because water is a human right. i'm living proof that your water can be disconnected. when it is disconnected, how are you going to survive on a daily basis. >> from dublin to detroit, water is a human right. >> they've been coming up with innovative ways online. >> irish water is not for sale. >> reporter: so this video has gone viral. hundreds of thousands of viewe viewers. >> this is good. this will for a while. ines, appreciate it. that is all of our time for this news hour.

i'm tony harris. if you would like information on any of the stories from this news hour, there it is, www.aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com. inside story with ray suarez is next. >> the argument about whether to release the so-called torture report is over. it's now moving to what we do with the information now that it's public. to prosecute or not. it's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. the senate intelligence