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interrogation program. there's more questions of the enhanced techniques. vernon says the agency doesn't know for sure. they were harsh, as i said, in some instanted i consider them abhorrent, and i will leave to others how they may want to label those. i tend to believe that the use of coercive methods had a strong prospect for resulting in false information. i believe they are available. the report also mentioned 26 detainees who were wrong my detained. professor margaret joins us, she is the attorney for two men detained in the c.i.a.'s detention program. and that report mentions
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them, professor. look, let's start here, we need to remind people that the report was on the c.i.a.'s rendition, you reminded me of this, rendition, detention, and interrogation program, and you don't believe the rendition portion of the program, is very complete, do you. >> that's right the fist thing i want to say the the report is an incredibly important step. we need to give credit to the senate committee that undertook the study. but it focuses very much on the black site detention. and this was this other portion, where folks were sent from one country to another, held often in proxy detention by other countries. and all of the stories that relate to those experiences are not in the report. so those pieces are missing and they are really a crucial part of the program tell me how this would have operated because you -- you represent two of the men who are mentioned in the
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report, so one of them was picked up where he was living, he is held by the authorities in a local facility, so he has local guards in a local facility, and he has american interrogators and after two weeks they send him to the rendition team now the rendition team most of us have heard of, it is a mac clad troop that cuts the man's clothes off, does a forcible body cavity search, very rough, upsetting true t maic, photographs the individual naked, they diaper them, reclothe them and shackle them and then put them on to a plane. they then take them to a black site, they took him to afghanistan, and he remained in this system for more than a year. >> and job if this is the case, with your clients and you can tell me, some of the reasons listed for this kind of rendition,
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personal relationships with former neighbors. of al quaida members. possible slander from a rival tribal faction. >> yes. this is. >> that's pretty thin. >> it is terrible. and it is a big step that we are at least hearing about some of those cases. he was tortured very badly by the jordanians before being handed to the c.i.a., and explains they forced him to sign a false confession, and that's not uncommon, so it is a huge step that we have 26 of these people being named but i believe there are more. >> i do think there are more, and particular related to the rendition program, because we don't know what standard was used to put them into the program. we don't know what was used to held them in proxy, and they never had any redress to a court. >> redress, recourse, what do you think should happen now. is there a way for us to find out, in the case of
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your clients what do you think should happen now. >> the first thing i want to say is they are extremely happy to see their names. just to have an carrying nothingment, so eight years just to get their names acknowledged. but then i think they are owed an apology. i think the u.s. government owed an official apology to them, and some kind of redress. now what form that takes. >> restitution. >> i know we always go to money. >> money is not the issue here. it is a sense of rehabilitation, re -- an ability to claim their name again. to clear themselves. and also to just say this is what happened to me. >> both of your clients are free now. >> yes, they are. >> have they been able to put their lives back together. >> to a degree. mohamed had a very successful business, his wife was pregnant when he disappear sod you can imagine the trauma, he lost his business, because he couldn't run it. and he now has had to create a new life, he has a strong family, and
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faith and that has helped him, but he is definitely traumatized and does not have the same life he did before. >> what is your reaction to the news conference, and you watched it, from the cia director. >> so i think it was very interesting no he back off from the full authoritied torture argument, i think that's a big step, however, he said things that were authorized were not torture, which i found very disturbing. and he said it could happen again, so he said look this was ordered officials and allows and it can happen again, i won't tell you what will happen in the future, that shows we need some legal prohibition so this can never happen again the techniques were legal, there was an authorization, but i totally agree with the president question shouldn't use them moving forward, how many ways do
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you want to have this. >> right techniques that had nonbeen authorized were abhorrent and rightly should be reputeuated do we need the full story. >> what we know is these so called off the booked techniques were much more wisely used and the report says very clearly, they suspect they were quite widely used. a water board being in a site where it wasn't supposed to be. and this anal rehydration, which is basically just rape, and those were not allowed however, how did it happen that it kept happening. i don't think we have the got ton the bottom of this. and for him to focus on those, is the few bad apples argument we have seen in the past. >> it's a pleasure to have you on the program. >> good to be here good talking to you, the governor is throwing his
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weight behind a petition to the supreme court to protect marriage rights of same sex-coupleses. married out of state the governor says the law is discriminatory, kentucky doesn't recognized marriages performed in states where same is ex-unions are legal. a lot of couples are fighting that. this father and son are not a legal family, at least according to the laws of kentucky. >> fathers of two kids recently lost their lawsuit seeking marriage rights. they sued the state and it's governor. when we started this, a year and a half ago, we certainly didn't think that we would be a case going to the supreme court, we thought that would be played out long before us.
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and sure enough, the other circuits have ruled in marriage equality. the 6th circuit is often called unpredictable, and it was here that michael and greg lost their appeal the appeals court upheld the bans in four states. kentucky, michigan, ohio, and tennessee. it's. a challenge, even before we had children, we had to go to extraordinary means to simulate a marriage, in terms of legal rights with children it goes to a whole different level. >> the big thing for us is to keep both of the names on the birth certificates. >> we are still prohibited from doing that. >> these are things that are important to us. >> isaiah backed up his fathers. isaiah you want to talk? >> about what. >> whatever this guy wants to ask you? this is adam. >> what is it like to have two dads in the
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state. >> kind of awesome. >> awesome dudes have been parenting me since i was three years old. and everything that i am, the reason why i am is to beautiful happen some young gentlemen. >> overall, opposition of same-sex marriage is showily fading. 50% according to recent polls. if the supreme court does not legalize same-sex marriage, kentucky advocates may have to go pack to the voters. there's mounting pressure to take up the case, and louisiana, a formal request from 30 major u.s. companies including apple, and new appeals from other couples in four states we end up going to washington, that might be a challenge for us, but we are prepared. the man accused of
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killing 12 people in went 12, will stand trial next month after a judge refused a 6th delay. the judge said, they have had enough time, prosecutors are seeking death penalty, holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. gonzales jumped the fence, and rushed the building carry as knife, he made it past several guards before being tackled in the east room. secretary of state tells diplomates climate change is real and must be changed now. to follow the u.s. and china's lead, and cut carbon emissions carry
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echos that in his speech, to climate negotiators in peru, just a short time ago. if you are a big developed nation, and you aren't helping to lead, then you are part of the problem roast assured, if we fail future generations will not and should not forgive those who ignore this moment. no matter their reasons, future generations will judge our effort not just as a policy failure, but as a massive collective moral failure of historic consequence. >> now, past efforts to increase protection have failed. that is led to new fears in peru that the abuse of tribal lands will continue. nick clark has been traveling through the amazon and filed this report. >> for thousands of years life has revolved around the vast regions network
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of waterways and rivers. it is the rich heritage of the people who have a complete affinity for the environment they live in. but now days it doesn't tell the full story. take to the air, and you will see the river and the dense canopy of forrest. then you will see the wholesale plundering of an ecosystem. >> forrest lands are being exploited in every direction, legal logging companies are manipulating agreements with tribal owners and illegal logging company operating with impunity, and the effects are plain to see. >> here huge sways of forrest have made way for the endless expanse. but then logging has opened up the rain forest, which enabled you to reach communities like this, home to the tribe, once a remote amazon village, today connected by a road to the outside world. a road built six years
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ago, by a logging company. who granted access to their land. >> all is not as well as it seems illegal loggers have been using the road to plunder the lands. people are invading our forrest. and turning it into fields for pasture, and illicit crops, it is a real problem for our community. >> . >> rights ignored the devastated effects. days now stands where once primary rain forest -- >> he doesn't know who is responsible. >> not so many years ago, these people were hunter gathering, deforrest station both legal and illegal, is changed all
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that. all the animals have gone, the loggers come in and destroy the forrest, the animals run far away, we can't hunt like we used to. >> they have benefited for the logging road, be uh the benefits have come at a price to their forrest, and to their way of life. nick clark, al jazeera, peru. >> a new study shows there are an alarming amount of plastic floating in the world's oakses. there is more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans. that amounts to nearly 270,000 tons, that's enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks. coming up, using cartoons to fight back against isil recruiters, we speak to artists working to create alternative heros and growing concerns about super bugs, diseases that become resistant to drugs jake
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ward explains how bacteria are getting better at fighting back.
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>> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really
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reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism an al jazeera correspondent has. womenned in syria. he died while covering battles in the southwest part of the country. there journalist were killed in the same area in recent days. and for aljazeera.com. colleagues at the website call daring and courageous. the group has been drawing men and women across the nobody, now some artists are using cartoons to fight back, roxanne that has more on this for us. tony, we spoke 22 artists
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the other is using animated cam tons, they say that isil has gained many young supporters convincing some of them to fight. so this trying to counter the group by creating alternative heros. >> have you thought about the need of the people, especially women and children in syria? number two, if you have, do you think that going out there to fight and potentially be killed will effect those suffering in a positive way. >> he first appeared online, trying to convince young muslims to choose peace. >> the creator of abdullah x spoke to us on condition that we didn't reveal his identity, he says the hard line messages spread through videos like this, appeal to many young muslims. >> that's the point of the narrative, it is sexy, it is cool, it does
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appeal to a disenfranchised mind set, i wanted something that would be able to counter that and be as appealing. >> so this is the story of element zero, this is the first issue we worked on. >> the 36-year-old began creating comics in 2006 after a child in minnesota where he was studying asked him if the arab world had it's own super man, it didn't, a few years later students in his native country told me al quaida leaders osama bin laden, were their heros. so he gave them his comic books for free. >> that's when i realized there's a huge huge appetite for good heros. >> including this one based on a real life jordanian daneian women's counter terrorism unit. >> this is a powerful and important story. to fight the narrative in
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the middle east. >> he speaks openly about the power of these books, sometimes at great risk. he says a few years ago on the street in jordan, extremists attacked him, leaving a long scar across his face. but he says he will keep creating new characters and the creator says many more episodes of his cartoons are on the way. >> more next week, on another p to take is current, or that will not go away, abdullah x, peace. >> the cartoons have received tens of thousands of hits on youtube, it's creator says he used to be what he called an anti-western extremist himself. niese of his packs are in arab big, but he is looking to get them translated into english. >> strong mention sags there. >> very creative. >> yeah. trials of an ebola vaccine are being stopped after test subject experienced side effects,
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they said they had mild pain in their hand hands ad feet earlier we spoke to one of the aid workers that contracted ebola in lie peer yeah. she says she was going back to help. >> it is very possible we will be going back to liberia, we aren't sure when, but we are hoping that -- and this is a possibility that we will be returning. nearly 18,000 people have been infected since the beginning of this outbreak. drug resistant super bugs can kill an extra 10 million people a year, a year, by 2050, if they are not stopped, stronger versions of the e. coli bacteria already kill some 50,000 people in the u.s. and europe each year.
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and as more time pass that is bacteria is getting better at fighting back. jacob ward explains. >> bacteria are becoming resistence to the drugs that we use to kill them. in the united states alone, at least 2 million people become infected each year with back tier yeah that are resistence, and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of those. that is a massive problem, one that dwarfs many other more visible public health threats. and there are many factors that can contribute to the problem. the fact that drug companies aren't really making new antibiotics, it is expensive and time consuming and making pharmaceuticals and a business, so this group is hoping to convince world leaders to create the drugs they need, but this a host of other factors that make bacteria ever harder to kill. antibiotic drugs are being less effective because as they are used in greeter numbers of people, they are getting more and more opportunity, to develop
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resistence. you should think of it like practice, the more it has a chance to practice on the drugs, the more they see them on the battlefield, the better they get at resisting the effects. and there are two big reasons they are getting so much practice for one thing, there's a basic misunderstanding of the role of antibiotics. there are two types of infections, viral, and bacterial. 49% of europeans across the e.u. believed that antibiotic drugs killed viruses, might kill the cold and the flu, and research shows that doctors prescribe them for viral infections too that means the drugged are being administers in people that don't need them, and that's giving the pack tier yeah a chance to adapt. in addition, antibiotics are being given in a sort of blanket way to huge numbers of farm animals
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to heche keep them healthy, we are talking millions dosed not as individuals but in large groups through their feed, and their water. that also gives the bacteria a shot at developing resistence. what we are looking at here is a crisis of management. one in which we are used drugs too much. it's not just going to be a matter of business, or livestock regulations or limiting prescriptions all of it will be necessary to keep us from inrad i have tently growing a bug that we do not have the means to fight. >> it is called driving while black, the new app that tells people how to handle being pulled over by police, but it is causing a lot of controversial. >> did you ever quit a job, because your commute to work just cost too much? have you ever ask add friend for money to help with the rent or bills? how about emergency savings? if it sounds like you,
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well, you aren't alone. despite an improving economy, millions of americans live paycheck to paycheck we'll open the ledger at the top of the hour.
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>> consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those people aimed at avoiding tense confrontations between police. inesse is back with that one.
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they hope it will improve safety and accountability, take a listen. >> the reality is, that black people tend to experience a disproportionate number of traffic stops. some stotts are for legitimate reasons. but others may are pretext stops motivated by unconscious or conscious bias. it is already create add lot of buzz. >> i bet. >> i.s. says kudos to the app, but i am mad the app is even needed.
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i can't believe i am considering getting that driving while black app. will do if this' a way to remote store recordings and you also have jackie who cretes this app is timely, but unfortunate, it is even necessary if you are wondering about the timing of this, the create ever toes told me he came up with it years ago, and it just happens to come on the heels of the recent protest they say it is called driving while black, it is something anyone can use. that's all of our tire for this news how, inside story, with ray swarez is next on al jazeera america unemployment is dropping and millions of americans are still feeling down because they say no matter how much
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they hustle, they can't get ahead. paycheck to paycheck, it's inside story. ♪ hello, i am ray swarez. to und