>> al jazeera exposes those who made a fortune betraying an entire nation >> you don't feel you owe an explanation to the egyptian people? >> no...no.. >> al jazeera investigates egypt's lost power on al jazeera america >> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. all out over a bill to fund the government. the ball is now in the senate's court to pass it. london's air space shut down over a computer failure leading to flight delays all over the place. >> it was also the most miserable, worst six months of my life. i was miserable. >> plus growing criticism over the non-profit "teach for america." why some say it's failing while

teachers and students it's supposed to help. >> we begin in washington. the senate is debating a 1 trillion-dollar bill that would fund the government through september: it narrowly passed legislation last night. but the battle over some of the bill's provisions have exposed a huge resist between the democrats and the white house. mike is at the white house for us. mike, how strained is the relationship between the white house and the resist on capitol hill? >> it is really dramatic. you can't help but come to the conclusion that this is what a lame duck presidency looks like. considering this fight over the

1 trillion-dollar spending package that will keep the government running for one year. president obama teeming up with john boehner and of all people jamie dimon, they all had reasons for getting the bill passed but that is an odd team when he consider the opposition, nancy pelosi, elizabeth warren and a vast majority of the democrats. it was put on the house floor and squeaked by. this is what bipartisanship looks like. i don't like a lot of this, but the president said this is a compromise, and this is the best we can do. let's listen. >> i've been table draft my own legislation and get it passed, that would be slightly

different. that's not the circumstance that we find ourselves in. what the american people are looking for is practical governance, the willingness to compromise and that's what it looks like. i hope it will pass the senate. >> reporter: meanwhile it has passed the house and now it's in the senate. new deadline just issued by congress, they pushed it back yet again. this has to pass the senate unchanged by wednesday if the government is not to run out of money. >> mike, you mentioned massachusetts democratic senator elizabeth warren, will she get the votes needed to block it? >> reporter: here is the source of outrage, no, it does not appear that shell. most of the hope was in the

house. the dodd-frank bill, the financial reform bill considered a hallmark major achievement by president obama supporters in his first team. this is a reflection of the 2008 financial meltdown. this would ease rules and allow financial houses and institutions to trade in derivatives using taxpayer funded money having the taxpayers on the hook if those trades go bad. many are railing against that. senator elizabeth warren is leading the charge. and so is berni sanders from vermont. he was on the floor today. >> anyone who thinks this will regulate wall street has got it backwards. wall street with its wealth, wall street regulates united states congress. you cannot see a better example of it than what is in this legislation.

>> at the white house i was able to ask josh earnest today what gives with president obama teaming up with jamie dimon with jp morgan chase. he said that they were fighting for different reasons. president obama wanted support in spite of that financial provision, and di jamie jamie dimon was lobbying for it. >> thank you. flight delays could linger in to tomorrow after london was forced to shut down it's air space because of a computer glitch. now it's reopened but not before flights were canceled this afternoon. we have the story now from heathrow airport. >> reporter: more than 200 square miles of air space had to revert from computer control to

manual control. aircraft were unable to take off from the british capitol, and the aircraft coming in had to be spaced out for safety reasons. just 50 aircraft so far have been canceled from here at heathrow. other airports were waiting to see whether they could clear the backlog without canceling the flights. but the impact will continue far into the coming weekend as aircraft which was due to arrive here and due to take off bound for other destinations are actually now in the wrong place. the air crew, of course, will be going into overtime. there is impact for safety there, and the knock on affect for the timetables will be significant in the coming hours. the cause of the outage, the national air traffic system was not a power outage that appears to be concentrating and a computer failure. but it was a technical failure, which is currently under

investigation. >> iraqi troops are making moves at this moment. they're planning to launch for an attack and take the oil-rich city back from isil fighters. the battle against the islamic state in iraq and the levant could take years, but some say the u.s. is wrong. >> when isil swept into northern iraq in june it did not just capture territory, it seized assets, property, gold and cash. from citizens, business people and banks. iraq's finance minister said half a billion dollars were stolen from mosul, tikrit and other cities. ill is believed to be the richest organization in the world. a lot of that revenue comes from iraqi oil fields. the group has retained control of major oil fields in northern iraq. from there it smuggles oil from turkey or sends it to refineries

over in syria. >> they have enormous financial resources that the soldiers and the fighters are paid good salaries, better than what we can afford to pay ours. >> reporter: that's partly because iraq has a serious financial crisis. the economy is expected to shrink this year because of lower oil output due to the war and unchecked government spending, including the number of militias popping up. but the iraqi believe five months of airstrikes and ground forces have put isil on the defensive, and it's pushing on with an attack by mosul.

>> iraqi government has set up an operational room for liberation of mosul. and this can only be done in concept, of course, in coordination of violation, not separately. but i believe it is duible doable. >> reporter: airstrikes and an army won't be enough. reclaiming iraq's third biggest city will rely on persuading sunni tribes and others who so far have been on the sidelines to fight isil as well. money has always been one of iraq's biggest weapons, but now the iraqi government is struggling with a serious financial crisis at the time it needs money most. with the falling world oil

prices the government will have to make tough decisions on cutting spending while continuing this fight. >> looking for consensus on how to clean up the climate. representatives from 19 countries are wrapping up a 12-day climate day subject in peru. there are clear divisions between developing and developed nations half of emissions come from developing nations. >> every year around this time in one country or another the seemingly endless u.n. negotiating process grinds on and on. here in lima they're trying to stop that. the rallying cries have begun for the delegates to shape up and produce results for future generations. >> i want them to step up and

say how did you have the moral courage to shake off the lethargy, lift your sights and draw the design of the future that we can accomplish. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry made a flying visit using an i am passioned advocate of climate action. >> this is not just another policy issue. measured against the array of global threats that we face today and there are many, terrorism, extremism, epidemics, poverty, nuclear proliferation. all challenges that know no borders, climate change, absolutely ranks up there equal with all of them. >> reporter: this time around there is more optimism than usual. >> i've never seen such sense of resolve that you find among people here. that would translate into something concrete. that's where people are

protecting their own turfs. >> reporter: the progress is still extraordinarily slow. one big bone of contention is how to manage contributes' commitments to reduce emissions. >> this is proving difficult because all the countries in the world are at different stages. we want to be sure, we want to be sure that rich countries in putting down what they can do, do not slide backwards. >> reporter: frequently towards the end of these conferences there is a mad rush to book hotel rooms and. catch flights. these people hope they have a detailed road map to pair miss next year. al jazeera in lima, peru. >> oil prices hitting a five and a half year low thanks to a production and projection that demands will be lower than

expected. the slump is yankeling nerves. in canada the government is bracing for a hit to their economy. >> the arrival of winter in canada is being softened this year. gas prices have never been lower. it's cheaper to go on vacation to fly to a sunny destination, but most importantly since most people here heat their homes with heating oil or natural gas, those prices are declining, too. other good effects from the point of view from the consumer, the retail sector, it's christmas shopping, holiday shopping time here. prices are lower. you're also going to have lower transport cost generally across the board. but there is another part of toronto, another part of this country where falling oil prices are not good news at all. canada is the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, and oil is a huge part of the national economy. in alberta oil prices provide revenue for healthcare, job

creation and so on. so falling prices are causing havoc there. how long they fall is key thing. if they deep falling then real trouble lies ahead. here outside of the toronto stock exchange, we've seen carnage on the floor of the stock exchange. prices have fallen by 12% since the oil prices started declini declining. this country, this city's economy, they are all dependent on the energy companies doing well, and they're not doing well at the moment. >> michael: at one point the january price for u.s. benchmark crude fell to $57.47 a barrel. but some nations, underline it, will benefit. we have reports in new delhi, for example, lower oil prices may lead to lower inflation. >> a drop in oil prices is very good news for india. it imports 70% of the energy needs.

so the government is saving a lot of money now. ordinary independence also saving money at the petrol pump. here's what they had to say. >> the prices are really coming down, and everything is coming down. >> i hope that it comes down even further. but it all depends on the international market. >> lower oil prices also means lower inflation. this is very important in india because the country has been suffering because of inflation. it's peaked at 10% last year. really hurting the middle class. so lower oil prices, lower inflation is going to provide some much-needed relief to ordinary indians. >> in japan lower oil prices are giving government officials a new shot at kick starting the economy. harry fawcett tells us how tokyo hits the fukushima disaster.

>> reporter: japan has been having to import vast amounts of energy. one trade official said that meant $38 billion a year extra government spending. this big drop in the price of oil represents a huge win fall for the japanese government, and it also represents a savings for japanese households that have been hit by rising prices of imports and rising prices of consumer tax hikes. it represents a challenge as well to the target of raising inflation. they want to see a target of 2% inflation really changing the whole situation here in japan, which has been marked by deflation for so many years. some economists say that that is not the most important thing. the most important thing is to get people spending again, and potentially this drop in the price in oil will allow them to do that. >> the falling crude oil prices fueled another drop on wall street. the dow fell 312 points.

and sapp 500 dropped 32 points. and nasdaq, 55. >> tracking the president's indigenous initiative. we're in remote area of washington. >> your christmas tree could cost more.

>> we are breaking news. three people were injured at a school shooting in portland, oregon. it happened at the rosemary anderson high school, an alternative high school, with less than 200 students. three people were taken to an area hospital. the police are telling us that the suspect or suspects involved have left the area. no one has been arrested. more details as they become available. calling a state of emergency

for native americans, president obama announced a plan to better prepare american indians for college and careers. one reservation is not waiting for the program to begin. adam schauffler is visited one the schools in washington state. he joins us live with the details, alan? >> reporter: hi, tony a slightly different tack. we went to a school system that seems to be working. state-run schools hon a reservation, and they're getting pretty good results. there may be some things that are lessons for other american tribes. [ singing ] >> reporter: the third grader sing th a different version of "12 days of christmas." the award-winning school is a source of pride. >> after i graduated i

volunteered here, i read with older students who couldn't read, i got upset about it, and i decided i wanted to do something about it. >> reporter: this is an example what have makes this 95% native american school work. a former student who cared enough to come back home and help. there are very few operational details, and no new funding sources identified in the president's generation indigenous initiative, but it stresses the importance of native culture in classes and more control of local schools in the hands of tribal leaders. much of that is already happening here. studying the original language is required. students build modern versions of ancient canoes. tribal leader sit on the school board. and broadband was brought in to the school, the school survived

on dial up internet. federally-run indian schools need $1 billion in basic upgrades. only 50% of native american youth graduate from high school. just 13% earn college degrees. >> don't depress me about those statistics. i'll show you good statistics of kids passing tests and learning their language. >> reporter: sit at lunch, you feel the optimism. they tell me the tribe expects them to succeed. >> they're pushing people to go off and go to college, but then to come back and apply it here where it counts. >> reporter: extra support is always welcome, but they made budget changes six years ago to focus on learning. >> i bear responsibility i, and this body bears responsibility to make a better future for those who come after us and the

leadership. would you rather act than wait for more outside help? >> absolutely. >> reporter: back in the classroom the next generation, moves ahead, and if current rates hold, 86% will graduate on time from high school. >> what about when you see one of your former students graduate? >> it makes me want to cry because i'm so proud. >> proud mama and proud teacher. there is no casino here. and there is likely to be no casino money and federal funding can be erratic and hard to predict. >> allen, what else does this initiative involve? >> reporter: not a lot of pacifics, we can tell you it will involve a new web side, a new web portal where native american youth can go for

educational and career opportunities. it will also involve cabinet members going out to various reservations and listening to tribal leaders about what they need. the school superintendent told us that is the one thing she wanted out of washington just listen. so a lot of that is going to be happening. also there is a big convention in the white house of native american youth next year. >> all of this comes with a price tag, but you were just saying no new funding is provided, is how is that going to work? >> it will fold in to its private-public partnerships. >> profits are growing in the christmas tree entry. as real money reports that kind of higher demand inevitably

leads to higher prices. >> thank you very much. >> andrew cole owns a four acre farm in new jersey where people cut down and buy christmas trees. he is a small player in a $1 billion industry. >> this looks like a charlie brown snoopy tree. how long will this guy take? >> from now approximately six years. >> that means the tree sold today were planted at the start of the great recession which did a number on the industry. as home fleshes increased, and fewer young people moved out of their parents' houses, the national demand for trees slowed. >> it added up, the time, material effort you had in it, you wouldn't it. you do it because you love to do it. >> reporter: in the last decade the total harvest very well by 3.5 million, surviving farmers were either very large more than 150 acres or really resourceful like andrew. >> we do landscape maintenance.

that's what we actually do for a living. >> reporter: but this is shaping up to be a very good season for andrew and the entire industry. he's on track to sell all 400 of his christmas trees. >> trees sell in general for new jersey and probably the nation are rebounding somewhat. >> we found it. 2014 trees. >> this year americans are expected to buy more than 33 million trees. >> so let's talk price. all the trees at this farm, the big ones, the little ones, $50. >> so it is somewhat related to the cost but it's basically what the market will bear. >> when it comes to christmas trees the american northwest and the state of north carolina are most productive. three out of five christmas trees are harvested in these areas. the prices demanded by farmers in these regions ripple through the holiday season. the pacific north wist christmas

tree association tells al jazeera growers are earning about $20 on every sale. that's about $2 to $3 more than last year. by the time these trees make it to big box retailers, boutique nurseries and street corners in major u.s. cities you could be paying $35 to really over $100 for a designer tree. tree producers are quickly ada adapting to evolving consumer case. because of the surge of urban households and smaller living spaces, tiny trees and all sorts of breathes ar wreaths are hot this year. >> a massive funding bill to keep the government open is one provision that is seeing a lot of backlash. it loosens the regulations on the financial industry. the same industry that helped plunge the u.s. economy into recession. and a hardening anti-migrant culture in europe leading to

people being denied basic medical care. we're back in a moment.

>> one more day to rally support passing the current bill. michael shure is live for us in los angeles. michael, good to see you. a lot of territory to cover. let's start by listening to elizabeth warren's attack on this key provision of this bill. >> this provision goes too far. citigroup is large and it is powerful.

but it is a sing private company. it shouldn't get to hold the entire government hostage to threaten a government shutdown in order to roll back important protections that keep our economy safe. >> okay, michael, so the writer that we're talking about here rolls back a key provision of the dodd-frank financial industry reform law. we get that. what was citibanks, citigroup's involvement in all this? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. some would say that they wrote the legislation. you had jamie dimon from jp morgan, the bankers were clearly behind this. they were saying that this is not good for us. and really they want to be able to do those trades, those pushes and swaps as they call them with

money that is insured by the american people. and that was part of the dodd-frank reform. we don't want them playing with this is what the dodd-frank legislation said if it involves american taxpayer dollars insu insuring those transactions because they are at the very least risky. >> how often does a member of a particular industry, in this case citibank, have a hand in writing the legislation that would govern said industry? >> well, if you are to assume that they did in fact actually do the writing, and some people said that they did. others have said no. they're part of putting it together as they often are. that's what often happens. let's say you have petroleum legislation coming in, legislation on healthcare, you'll get experts in that field to help you draft that. you'll have people in that industry working on it. and in terms of how hands on it was, i can't answer that. i do know that they had undue

influence at a late hour in the crafting of this legislation. >> so why would this particular roll back do? for example, does it roll back activity that was key to the great recession in 2008? >> well, it rolls back the restriction to that activity. it makes it so that activity can go on. it does not take away regulation of derivatives, but when you start chipping away at it, then you're afraid if you support it you're afraid that it's going to take away the whole. they want to protect every part of dodd-frank in elizabeth warren's camp. >> so we just dumped in all the vegetables and broccoli. now let's get to the meat of this. what would this might tell us about the soon-to-be-opposition party moving forward?

>> i can't believe you made me eat my vegetables first, but because the meat is really good. because now we talk about this. this is the first chapter with elizabeth warren coming out in a significant way. it was illustrious of 2015. you saw 162 americans vote for a bill in the u.s. house. by means going into 2015 john boehner will now need republicans every step of the way because of the caucus being so fractured. >> ho >> i would say that defender of elizabeth warren is so passionate about issues, not about the shutting down of the government. it's the reasons why it does or does not get shutdown. she was a major proponent of the

affordable care act, and a major proponent and one of the architects of dodd-frank. the shutting down of the government is secondary. it's what is causing that shutdown or not that she is behind. >> michael shure, joining us from los angeles half long on the vegetables. thank you. >> have a good weekend. >> pleasure, you too. the fbi is now investigating--listen to this--the hanging death of a black teenager in north carolina. it has been ruled suicide months ago, but the family is suggesting that it was a lynching. roxana saberi has been looking into this story. >> reporter: the 17-year-old was found hanging from a swing set in august. the authorities ruled it a suicide. his parents have been fighting that for months. now the fbi will figure out what really has happened. >> a male subject hanging from a

swing. >> on the morning of august 29th, lennon lacy was found hanging by a dog leash and belt in the swing set of this trailer park a quarter mile from his home in north carolina. >> he's not breathing. >> the state medical examiner ruled it a suicide based on reports from the police and count coroner. but the naacp say that the investigation was insufficient and question whether really was a suicide. in this op-ed published on friday, lennon's mother claudia writes i could not accept that then, and i still cannot now. lennon was a very shy boy. if he were going to do something like that, he wouldn't do it in such an exposed place. he was not depressed, and he was looking forward to playing in a football game with his high

school team that night. she asked, was he killed? was my son lynched? the naacp is calling fo for a federal investigation. >> we must make sure that all leads have been investigated before this case is rushed to closure and concluded as a suicide. >> reporter: they did an independent autopsy and found contradictions. he was found wearing white sneakers he didn't own. shoes that were two sizes too small, and there was nothing by the swing set that he could have used to hang himself. >> his mother said that she is compares it to the death of michael brown and eric garner. >> she said that the investigation was not thundershowethorough. she said that he was involved in a relationship with an older white woman who lived across the

street. tony. >> appreciate it. the question of how to deal with undocumented migrants goes far beyond president obama's executive order. it is a global issue. the people entering europe are a lot more diverse than the images you see of africans crossing through the mediterranean. but as lawrence lee tells us there is a rise in anti-immigrant feeling in europe, and some say the laws there should change. >> chris and jane finding a doctor happy to treat them has been more than straightforward. chris is a british citizen. he met jane in the philippines. they got married. when she got pregnant she was told she would be reported to immigration authorities. >> they said they would not be able to help us at all.

>> really stressed and worried. >> it felt hopeless. >> it was really hopeless. >> chris works in a care hope, pays his taxes yet his pregnant's wife and his baby's health was jeopardize because of the social climate that says health services cannot help immigrants. >> i think this could have long-term consequences. >> the anti-migrant culture here hardens all the time. a new law demands that stories abound of peopl people being checked at hair dressers. and it's getting harder and harder for the undocumented to enter the country to claim asylum. 2014 has been the most horrendous year. all the world's conflicts have led to the most extraordinary

upheaval of millions of people who have been displaced to other parts of the planet, yet here certainly the political will to try to bring some of those people in on compassionate grounds has seemed in shorter supply than ever before. all of this has left those who live undocumented lives in fear of authority and in a source of limbo. rights groups say children grow up not even knowing they're not british until the day comes when they have to find a job. >> there are a number of undocumented migrants children in the u.k. who have been here for years. it's very, very difficult for them to regularize their status because it's a very complicated procedure. they can't get free legal advice and representation, and the advice is not as good as it should be. >> many would regard jane as an illegal overstayer. any day the authority will tell

her whether she has to leave her british husband and british baby behind. >> backlash against the teach for america program. why some say it's doing a disservice for the teachers who work for it and the students it serves.

>> the road to teaching careers, teach for america is a non-profit group that trains teachers and places them in under served areas. but there is criticism of the program for failing teachers and students. >> reporter: it's a prestigious branding, the darling of the education reform movement, attracting the most talented college seniors in the country. one in five harvard graduates apply each year. >> i realized i wanted to teach where i was needed, not necessarily where i want to teach. >> teach for america, tfa, is called the peace corps. of this generation. they recruit recent college graduates like aaron noland, who

joined tfa in up. >> tfa was great at setting up a vision of hope of making an impact in students' lives. >> but today there is growing backlash against tfa led by some of its former alumni saying that it's not what it's cracked up to be. >> when did your enthusiasm start to fade away? >> i was in denial. i kept thinking it was just me and a couple of things that i wasn't getting. then i would be all set. but i became skeptical that i could effect that change they wanted. >> noland was placed in a magnate school in st. louis teaching science. >> how would you describe your tfa experience? >> it was an important stepping stone to where i am now, but it was also the most miserable, worst six months of my life. i was miserable.

>> why? >> i was in a position where not only was i feeling incompetent every day, my incompetence was hurting the lives of children, so it was a very heavy burden. i felt behind from the beginni beginning. i had 173 students. 100 seniors, and 73 ninth-grade students. yes, feeling overwhelmed. feeling disingenuous. you're expected to look like you know what you're doing and present yours as a confident authority figure. >> reporter: noland had pledged to teach for two years, but she resigned after six months. she's now pursuing a graduate degree in education. teach for america trained it's teachers in an intense five-week training courses and then placed them in needy school districts. a mentor of teachers said that five weeks of training is not

adequate preparation. >> what i found were kids in really bad situations. the schools they were put in were almost entirely mismanaged,er horrible places to work in not because of the students, but because of the way the supervisors and administrators were running the building. they would tell me about all the paperwork, the stress, the top-down stuff that tfa was making them do on top of the incredibly difficult job of learning to teach and teach full time at the same time. >> reporter: green also said that the commitment to teach for just two years leaves students shortchanged. just when they get to the point where they're going to be good, then these poor kids in these schools have to suffer with another novice, and then another novice, and then novice, novice, novice, not getting the education that good, experienced teachers can give.

>> the backlash to tfa came this fall. durham school district in north carolina severed its relationship with the organization after more than a decade of working together. and last year pittsburgh became the first school direc district in the country to reject the action. sylvia wilson hopes to make that decision. >> you sit on the school board. >> yes. >> you voted against teach for america coming to pittsburgh. >> i did. >> why would you do that? >> they didn't have the kind of training are teachers are required. what you need to have to become a teacher. i'm not saying that their hearts wouldn't be there. i'm not saying that a lot because there are a lot of people who really care about children, but you have to have more than that. it takes more than walking into a classroom and caring. >> if the school district is having trouble getting teachers where they're needed desperately, why turn them away. >> because so many times you

think you can walk in a classroom, open up a book and teach because people were in education themselves. doctors don't just jump in there. there are skills that you develop, and you have to have them. >> the decision to turn down tfa as a contentious one. after all studies show many tfa teachers as effective and sometimes more effective than veteran teachers. they do send teachers to the hardest to staff schools. superintendent o one school district disagreed, and insisted that the program was worth trying. >> they have strong results, comparable to traditionalcally prepared teachers. i'm not saying if given a perfect world if i can get at least five years of experience fully credentialed, traditionally prepared teacher who want that assignment, sure, that would be perfect. but i don't live in that world, unfortunately. >> teach for america was founded

by wendy cox 25 years ago. her idea was to redefine teaching in public schools by turning it into an illustrious school position rather than a safe middle class position. >> if you look at who decides to go into teaching on average you will find that it's generally not the most capable people graduating from the most selective colleges, and i think we have to change that. >> do you find it--people pushing for it or the teach for america program insulting? >> many educators feel insulted by it, knowing what the requirements are for everybody else to be hired in pennsylvania, we have very strict things you have to go through a process. you have to do that. then to turn around and say it's okay for you to not have it. come on in here and come in and step in the door, most educators find it extremely insulting.

but in terms besides the insists it depends on how prepared they are to work with the kids. >> they don't prepare the nuts and bolts of teaching. they don't do enough to prepare teachers coming from middle class suburban backgrounds to pleat the students where they are, to meet them in their culture. >> despite the criticism, tfa continues to attract the best and the brightest, receiving 50,000 applications this year alone. but a student organization, united students against sweat shops active on 150 campus are trying to bring recruitment on campuses to a halt. they claim it's damaging public education. >> teach for america brands itself as a justice organization. do you want to teach and change the world. many will join teach for america

for good reasons. but it's a broad organization, and it's a huge part of corporate indicatioization and privatization of america's public schools. >> one of the main complaints, more experienced teachers are sacrificed so teach for america teachers could come in to teach for less. >> in chicago, massive school closings, and layoffs, yet there were still positions reserved for teach for america workers. >> while more than tfa teachers were hired, tfa agreed to sit down with the members to discuss their concerns but neither party felt that that much had been satisfied. we wanted to traumatic about the criticisms, but the few minutes at this meeting was the closest we got.

tfa declined our request for an interview. >> to me if they were truly interested in improving education in the country, they would work with universities and teacher organizations to develop a plan to create career teachers, not simply two-year replacement teachers or stop-gap teachers. that's my biggest criticism. i don't want them to necessarily go away. i just want them to reform themselves to be something that i see would be truly supportive of good education in this country. >> al jazeera. >> still to come an account tweeting isis propaganda and luring in recruits. the businessman who may be behind it next. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. it was so big it earned it's own name. connie bus. it passed the house. it's in the hands in the senate, but there is not much happiness on capitol hill even though a government shutdown was averted.

special interest lies at the top of the hour.

>> police in india are investigating claims that a marketing executive is behind an influential twitter account that has been trying to lure in recruits for isil. really? >> reporter: it was a shock. but the person behind the pro-isil account could be a businessman in india.

he had 18,000 followers, i said had because his twitter page was taken down overnight. his messages were designed to encourage new recruits. messages like may allah guide and expand the islamic state. they identify the man behind the account saying that shami witness is a businessman in bangalore. >> if i had a chance to to leave all and join them, i might have. >> so you would have joined is isis, would you, if you could have done? >> gladly. >> reporter: and mehdi went on to say that he didn't think he did anything wrong or di break any laws.

well, he said that he didn't join isis because thinks family needs him. but isis slaughtered, and their family didn't need them. >> thank you. hip-hop music has grown in popularity in cuba in recent years, and now appears an u.s. agency secretly trying to use the musician to spark political change. [music] >> reporter: they call themselves los adienos. but they're more than musicians. they are part of an u.s. program politically aimed at cuba. they were to spread a message of dissent, but it's a program that

backfired. said to have been inspired by serbiaen protest concerts, it may have put some artists in danger. >> reporter: young cuban musicians were recruited into a program that had political goals in mind. it's alleged they were not told that. both contractors and cubans were detained and interrogated potentially putting innocent cuban artists at loggerhead with authorities. >> the state department said that safety of those involved was a responsibility for contractors. >> we recognize that ordinary cubans run the risk of upsetting authorities by participating in initiatives, and for that reason these programs are managed with

appropriate discretion. >> reporter: but this is not the first time that usaid have been accused of undermining cuban government. the pro-democracy faked twitter account was made by the agency. and for many programs like it are welcome. >> i believe anything that can be done along those lines perhaps not to create problems for other programs, but anything that could be done is a good thing. >> the critics say that u.s. efforts to undermine the cuban government are simply counterproductive. >> all it does is bring out the worst for the cuban regime. a government that was very repressive, but through acts like this, all it does is create more paranoia and mistrust, and incentivizing them to crackdown on all sectors of society. >> reporter: the program which

ran for two years is now closed down. those critical of it will for now only listen to cuba's real musicians. >> pope francis apparently believes that all dogs go to heaven. the pontiff was overheard consoling a boy whose pet had died. the pontiff reportedly told him, quote, one day we'll see all of our animals again in the eternity of christ. the pope's words run counter to church doctrine which says that only humans have souls and can enter heaven. a time capsule that dates back to the founding father's maintenance crews was found while fixes a water leak in the massachusetts state house in boston. it was thought to be hidden by paul revere and sam adams. crews worked for hours to remove the vas fro box and they hope

to open it next week. that's our time for this new hours. i'm tony harris from new york city. if you would like the latest on any of the stories from this news hour go to our website at www.aljazeera.com. "inside story" with ray suarez is next. . >> hey, they passed that big spending bill. thanksgiving allows the government to stay open, yay, right? but if it's such good news why do so many people in the house and senate seem so unhappy. it's inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. these most