dope from a very big operator. i think we're into something that's bigger than us, something we really can't deal with. >> they had been trafficking on behalf of the united states government. >> she could prove what she was saying. >>♪ crack in the system this is "al jazeera america" live from new york city. i am richelle carey. here are today's top stories: in new york, boston and other cities across the nation, the powerful movement resulting from the deaths of black men at the hands of police. officials arrest a man behind a popular proceed isil twitter account. also, the immigration crisis across the atlantic as people seek safety in europe. a plastic nightmare, the damaging debris accumulating out

at sea. >> protesters have gathered across country in a day that activists are calling justice for all sparked by a series of incidents from white police officers killed unarmed black men. demonstrators belief it's st systemic racial profiling. libby casey is at the protests in washington, d.c. what have you been seeing throughout the day? >> richelle, it has been a peaceful demonstration along the line of traditional mars with thousands of people, fairly modest crowds but a lot of energy, and that energy, despite the fact that there is a lot of sadness and anger over the recent death of young men, boys

and grown african-americ men wh at the namhands of police. their voices have become symbols. they are on it. -shirts. names their names are being chanted. people i talked to say they see themselves in people like eric garner, people who have died in recent months. now, this really was led here by al sharpton, another well-established civil rights leader naacp among them and al sharpton was joined today by families of recent victims. >> we didn't shoot anybody. we didn't choke anybody. we don't come to washington as shooters. we come as the shot and the choked, asking you to help deal with american citizens monwho ct breathe in their own

communities. >> reporter: the goal of today's rally: public attention, keeping momentum going on this issue but also getting the attention of lawmakers here in washington. the white house. but most people i talked to put emphasis on having congress hear them trying to change the laws and get more hands-on involvement from legislators in dealing with these police incidents. richelle. >> talk more about the protesters and what they are saying, what their message is. is it a unified message? >> reporter: today, it was here, but there are two interesting groups developing. there is the traditionalists, those from the urban league, the naacp, used to using the quarters of power to affect change and there is a growing youth group, groups like ferguson, who are doing their tone demonstrations, finding their own ways and using social media. there are plenty of young people here today. we spoke with 1, dmitrious holt a 30-year-old from washington, d.c. >> i am here basically for the

future. i know that change is slow. but the things i am hoping that will make a difference will be in place by the time my wife and i have children and we won't have to have that conversation about police officers as opposes to this is how you are supposed to be in general. it's going to take a long time, but everything has an origin or a beginning, so, hopefully, this will get the ball rolling. >> reporter: a lot of conversation about what happens next and social media is going to be a driving force for people like dmitrious hold to figure out how they keep making their voices heaand how they talk to their children, but, also, the older generation to try to gain some inspiration from them but also push them harder to try to affect change on a tighter timeline that's what's happened in the past. richelle? >> libby casey, thank you so

much. here in new york, the demonstration is being called the millions march. it's a reference to the million man march heard 20 years in washington. thousands marched toward manhattan, toward police headquarters. let's go to kourtney keely. give us an idea of how big the turnout was or is rather. >> reporter: it is going on right now, richelle. we are seeing at least tens of thousands of people. about a mile and a half long actually, downtown on fourth street all the way up to 30th street. looking about a mile and a half long tens of thousands of people in this peaceful, legal protest. there is a consortium group, million march nyc that have made this call to, to bring children, elderly. i spoke to a work who was 84 years old and she was a model and felt compelled to stop at every corner and tell the

policemen their lives mattered, too, and they were precious. there is incredible healing out here today. it's intense. you are hearing hands up. don't shoot refrain and you are seeing families, school groups out. richelle? >> courtney, it seems like a very energ etic crowd. it seems like a diverse crowd as well. >> that's interesting that you talked about the 84-year-old woman who felt the need to be out there. tell us a little bit more about the tone of what it's been today. >> reporter: you know, people are smiling when i talk to them. it's obviously, they have demands. they want the immediate arrest and daniel panteleo being blamed for the death of eric warner. this isn't a group that just is coming out here to protest. they want to see judicial action. they want an independent prosecute ors office be put in place to prosecute police crimes and brutality. but they are also coming out here in a community that's incredibly diverse, as i said,

young and old, multicolored, multi-generational, multi-racial, richelle. >> we will see how long this movement lasts. it doesn't show signs of letting. in boston, protesters gathered in fronts of the state house. the demonstration was peaceful. the refrain: black lives matter. no justice, no peace, could be heard from that crowd. much of washington was focused on the march. the senate was wrangling with a federal spending bill. they have agreed to fund the government through wednesday while they try to work through an agreement with the house on a spending measure. bi-partisan on the $1.1 trillion deal collapsed on thursday raising the prospect of, yes, another government shutdown. three separate taliban attacks have killed more than 20s people in afghanistan. two soldiers, reportedly american, were killed in an attack on their convoy near bagram air force base north of kabul. execute has been stepped up

since most troops are withdrawing by the end of the month month. an afghan official was shot and jennifer glasse filed this report. >> reporter: the taliban said it attacked a bus carrying afghan army personnel. it struck at the height of the evening rush hour. >> reporter: >> translator: we wanted to get a burgher. suddenly when we turned around, an explosion struck the bus. >> the bus was engulfed in flames with afghan army soldiers trapped inside. >> when the explosion happened, i noticed two soldiers getting out of the bus. one of them was injured on his leg. the other one jumped out of the bus window until the fire brigade arrived. the rest of the soldiers burned inside. >> afghans are concerned about the deteriorating security situation. as nato forces continued withdraw. only a small nato force will

remain next year to support afghanistan's military and police. the taliban says because international troops are remaining here, it plans to intensify its attacks as it works to disablize the new afghan government. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. german's defense ministered arrived in northern afghanistan today. you recallsla met with the 850 trumz, bonder land said they are working with the afghan forces to be able to handle the forklift without international sport. police in india have arrested a man for running a twitter account in support of isil. his twitter handle, shamy witness was one of the most widely followed english accounts. >> police in india say this is the man who's extreme posts had attracted almost 18,000 twitter followers.

they say he was leading a double life, working as a marketing executive during the day while operating a pro-isil twitter account by night. his twitter handle was shami witness. an investigation by britain's channel 4 news uncovered his real identity. >> i have not harmed anybody. i haven't broken any laws of the country. i haven't. i haven't breached any law of india. they might try to bring that charge. i haven't. i just said stuff. people followed me. and i followed them back. then we talked. >> reporter: police arrested him on saturday morning, but they say he has no direct links with isil. he is charged with a number of crimes including inciting war against india's allies.

>> he never harmed anybody nor did he facilitate any activity. you can use the word. >> not a criminal organization here. >> analysts say his arrest is not evidence of a wider, pro-isil movement in india. >> his impact may have very significant dangers in the places where he got his largest following, which is basically in the u.k. and in europe. now, in these places, he may actually end up as a tool of recruitment. >> reporter: please say he acted alone, but his posts may have been used by isil recruits who followed him on twitter. >> based upon what police say, he is an isil propagandist who collected and distributed information he found online but his tweets may now put him

behind bars for years. al jazeera, new delhi. >> isil fighters are making gains in anbar province. they cap toured a villages less than eightmize west of ramadi. a report on the fact to win it back. >> here in anbar, fighting is close range and almost personal. special forces captain hamid fires a mortar across a country road on the eastern outskirts of ramadi. he is aiming at a house where he is ill fighters are holed up. they are part of the unit trained by american special forces clearing the way for the iraqi army. sniper mohammed jabbar is even closer to the gun men. he is fighting for his country and family, including his daughter, sara, her name tatooed on her hand. >> there is less than .500 meters between us. we have air support, and with the help of god, we have the

upper hand. little by little, we are advancing. >> this is a strategic spot. on the intersection of the road to salahadin prove incident, fallujah and the south of ramadi where tribes are coordinating the fight against isil. the fighting has been fierce. this isil gunman was killed when a sniper bullet hit the rocket-propelled grenade he was about to launch. >> we talked and destroyed their hideouts. this is in connection with the 8th and 10th division of the iraqi army. we are clearing the or chards and farms. they are trapped now. >>. >> the rural area has become a battlefield. the man fighting with special forces are from the drives, hugely important to the battle. here, there is a fight within a fight, isil against the sunni tribes that have turned against

them. when this special forces team finishes the deployment, the men will go back to the air base in western anbar. they are their american military advisor is back on the bates. the fight something here. >> around baghdad, isil has been driven back by iraqi security forces working with shia malitias. this won't washing in an bar where the population is almost all sunni, tribal, and deeply suspicious of the iraqi government. tribunal leaders in anbar are calling for arms and ammunition. some are calling for help from american troops on the ground. >> likely won't happen, but it's an education of how desperate the fight is in iraq's western province. jane arraf, al jazeera, baghdad. >> the u.n. is involved in high-level talks to broker a cease fire in aleppo, syria. rebel groups are skeptical of that proposal. dine a hoader spoke to one group

that youunites rebel groups in alleppo. >> they are trying to end the fighting in al aleppo. it has been an urban battle ground for two years. the united states hopes the truce will allow aid in and possibly lay the groundwork for a political process. so far, rebels aren't convinced of the the head of the ref lulingsary command counsel which unites the armed forces in aleppo and the man to discuss a proposal but he wants more details before committing to any agreement. >> they are demanding to cease the fighting. it means the regime which has committed crimes against the people will stay. if you want to end the crisis, it cannot just end in aleppo but all over the country. we are suspicious. >> over recent weeks, the military has been closing in on rebel supply routes around the city and the opposes wants

guaranteesition wants guarante guarantees. >> there are many front lines in syria. so why does the united nations want to start it's so-called freeze plan in aleppo city? the international organization has said that it believes the city faces a serious threat from the islamic state of iraq ain te levant. an agreement could prevent an isil advance. >> but for the opposition that would mean some form of cooperation with its enemy. the government has lost control in the north of syria, but the rebels, too, have lost territory to isil in the northeast and el nusra front, the al-qaeda branch in the northwest. the commander was referring to he will nusra who's presence complicates the situation. el n complicates the situation. >> with a clear plan, we will discuss it. until that happens, we can't not discuss it with other brigades. >> they said they were ready to study the proposal but the

initiative is just that. he needs to convince the rebels that stopping the war in aleppo won't amount to a sur render. zana hodr. >> tens of thousands of iranians marched in tehran at the end of a 40-day mourning period. imam hussein was killed in the 7th century. >> escaping to jordan, jordan is ready to stop offering help to thousands of people. europe's immigration prices, wave after wave of refugees seeking a better life.

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now confirmed dead and more than 100 are still missing after a landslide in indonesia. torrential rains set off these landslides and destroyed a remote village. authorities are bringing in tractors and bulldozers to help with the rescue efforts. more than 16,000 nigh yearians across the border. the numbers of refugees fleeing to niger continue to grow. camps have bet set up across the border. most are from a nigeriantown attacked by boko haram three weeks ago. an international plea to help syrian refugees in desperate need of it dialysis treatment. they have fled their war-torn country but the cost is putting a strain on the jordanian government. more now from nasreen a nasreen al shamala. >> people with kidney failure could die. the chemical purification is a

lifetime treatment. last month, the jordanian government suspended all free heal health services at straight-run hospitals because it could no longer afford the hefty medical bills. private donors scrambled to secure enough money to provide one month of dye dialysis treatment to a small number of syrians at this private hospital in i hadbid. but unless new donations come through by december 24th, these people will be cut off from their critical treatment. desperate syrian patients in this room are calling on the international community to save of their lives. >> i left syria just because i needed dialysis regularly. i wouldn't have left otherwise. i can't afford to pay $85 a session three times a week. >> that's what i used to get. now, i am only getting two sessions a week, and my health has deteriorated. >> hallad al jad who has been working tirelessly to secure

donations says the world has to make syrian refugees with kidney failure a immediate priority. >> where are they going to go? they have no other support. they are waiting for the fate. we need the international local community to look at them. we need the international -- the world charities to look at them. >> if that's not enough, there are 18 more syrians on the waiting list here. >> it's not just refugees with chronic diseases who are struggling to get the costs of their life-saving treatment covered. some are traveling from other towns and cities to get to this hospital because an international humanitarian organization is providing free health services here. >> doctors without borders is now providing more than 80% of math earn he will care to syrians in i hadbid. the agency has been stretched after the governmentdbid. the agency has been stretched after the government after the country cancelled free health care. >> the concern for myself is

that there are people who are going without needed healthcare. our major concern is that we are fearful that if the situation doesn't change, that we may start to see an increase in mortality in the area. >> without foreign aid it doesn't look like the government will resume free medical care to syrians. in the meantime, it's these vulnerable people who will have to suffer more than they already have. al jazeera, idbid. >> healthcare is just one aspects of an increasingly global refugee crisis. the situation is especially acute in europe. right now, there are more than a million and a half undocumented migrantses living in the eu. since january, nearly 350,000 men, women, and children have tried to get to europe by boat. the journey often ends in tragedy. according to the u.n., over 3400 migrants have died at sea in 2014. joining me is judith sunderland, senior researcher of human rights watch. let's talk about this.

why are countries of the eu reluctant to accept these waves of migrants? >> i think there are many reasons. one is, of course, the economic recession throughout europe that has unfortunately given greater and stronger voice to preside t right-wing in various numerous countries in the e.u. which have preyed on people's fears and are sort of whipping up what we can increasingly call zenophobic sentiment directed at migrants and asylum seekers. governments are trying to walk a fine line between appeasing the right and people's concerns and what they should be doing, which is respecting the right of both economic migrants and asylum seekers and commit to go rescuing lives at sea. >> let's talk about the dangers of what's happening at sea

compared to actually what's happening on land. there is the attention is obviously paid to what's happening at sea. but there are thousands of more people crossing via land. >> that's right. it is right that we pay attention to the incredibly dangerous sea journey, but actually, many more people attempt to reach by land. are including to the spanish enclaves and morocco from turkey into bulgaria and grease through the bal kaningz trying to reach the european union. along those routes pushback at the borders. they face hospital i wiility an zenophobia by local possession obviously people would only go

through that and put them at risk if they were hoping to get to somebody better. so what happens for them once they actually arrive in these countries? >> that's right. well, unfortunately, in addition to problems simply reaching europe, including being turned away at the borders, many asylum seekers in numerous countries in the european union find themselves in substandard reception facilities. they face xenophobic sentiment. in greece, they face xenophobic and racist violence. they face chaotic asiylum systes in which it takes ages to process and they have a very difficult time, even once they have received some kind of protection bringing their family members who are stuck in

situations of pearl der -- per their countries to join them in europe. >> is there a country that is a model for handling this well? >> well, a lot of people point to the scandinavian countries, norway and sweeden as models, and that is, in fact, why so many people fleeing war and persecution actually have those countries as their -- as their destination. many never reach there. and there are very good aspects to their asylum systems. they are more efficient. and they are more integration measures for those who are given some kind of protection. >> certainly seems like we are at a breaking point. hopefully, we will get some solutions soon. judith sundayerland with human rights watch. thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. it's become the rallying cry of demonstrators from coast to

coast. >> it was started as a conversation on facebook. >> coming up on "al jazeera america," the woman who single-handedly started a movement tells her story.

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support two dodgy businessmen an israeli one, and an egyptian one... >> al jazeera exposes those who made a fortune betraying an >> 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 welcome back to "al jazeera america." i am richelle carey. here is a look at your top stories: huge crowds. thousands of people are rallying across the country for a day of protests. activists are calling justice for all. demonstrators have gathered in washington, d.c., new york, chicago, san francisco, detroit, seatt seattle, boston and other cities as well fighting for an i understand to what they say is a systemic problem of racial profiling by police. the senate is debating the spending bill but it has reached a deal to keep the government open. this afternoon, lawmakers approved a resolution to provide funding through wednesday. just wednesday. in the meantime, they will

continue to hammer out details of the longer term bill. police in india have arrested a man for running a twitter account in support of isil, identified as medi disbas, twitter handle shamy witness. police say it had 17,000 followers until it was shut down on thursday. >> more on our top story right now. the rallies across the nation today are inspired from stories all around the country from a variety of places. but it was a conversation online that motivated many people to hit the streets. here is a look at the hash tag black lives matter started movement. >> my name is alicia garza. i am one of the co-creators of black lives matter. >> black lives matter was started as a conversation on facebook between myself and patrice colours and opel tamedi. we were responding to the grief

and the frustration of george zimmerman being acquitted of the murder of trayvon martin and decided to create a platform to bring people together online so that they could collaborate, strategize and take action together offline. people are coming together to really demand transformation. what feels incredible about this moment is that there is a new convening and coalescing of young people and elders who are united in our quest to live in safe and healthy communities, to live in communities that are not mil tar mil supreme courtitarized. when i start seeing black lives matter in ferguson felt like an honor, a reflex of the

relationships we had built and it felt authentic, and it felt like it was bigger than us and that it was a real battle cry, that people in ferguson were fighting for their lives, and black people everywhere are fighting for our lives. >> when he sigh leaves like hands up. don't shoot, in addition to black lives matter, it 15s like a poignant reminder we have a lot of work to do to make sure that black lives have valued in this country. this moment feels different to me because we have had some experience now. there has been a lot of really powerful work that's been happening for a long time that's brought us to this moment. this isn't the first time that people have responded to police brutality, and we say that ferguson is everywhere. right? what i see for this movement

moving forward is that it gets larger and larger. and i do fundamentally believe that there will be some major transformations that happen. >> alicia garz there. in south africa, remembering nelson mandela. it's been a year since he died at the age of 85. hundreds walked arm in arm to remember him. all of the children here mandela's widow capped off the event laying a wreath at the nelson mandela statute u. he was president from 1994 to 1999. afghan women have long been denied the right to an education, a practice enforced by the taliban and its supporters. as charles stratford shows us, some women are taking matters into their own hands to make a better life for their families. >> rossa abdul begani's husband was killed two years ago. she has seven children to support. she was given a loan by a micro

financing for women. people bring her flower. she makes the bread fowhich she is paid around $0.08 per piece. >> if i buy my children shoes, i can't afford to buy them a hat. i am grateful for this project. if i hadn't been to the the skill and lent the money, our life would be even harder. >> razia often leaves her children tes kresh when she comes to her lessons. these women like her were first taught to read and right before being taught a skill and given $100 to start a small business. they come regularly to improve their skills and pay their money back with the cash they earn. >> before, these women had no skills and some of their husbands refused to let them learn with work in the community to help them sell products. they are more indent now and they don't need to ask for money from their husbands. >> although razia's story offers a glimmer of hope with respect

to improving women's rights in afghanistan, there are many who are afraid progress made could be lost. i am here to meet one woman who is determined not to let that happen. 1 of 69 women members of afghan's parlorpal, she says despite progress like a law to help protect women from violence, the government must do more through funding and education. >> the huge amount of money goes to security toward girls' education. the 60% of our national budget goes to the execute issues. womans' empowerment is not like a priority for our government actually. >> razia has little choice but to be the sole bread winner for her family. her daily struggle using the skill she learneds is a fragile

index for millions of women in afghanistan. kabul. >> a solemn day in china. chinaez about 300,000 were killed by the japanese during the 1937 occupation of that city. it's been a sore point in relations between the two countries. as adrienne brown reports, today's event included some conciliatory words. >> a deeply symbolic moment for an anniversary that resonates here almost 80 years on. the decision to upgrade the cerem ceremonwas made early this year when relations with tokyo were still at a low ebb. also present, some of the dwimingdzing number of survivors: president shi giping said the crimes committed here could never be forgotten but there was a conciliatory note. >>. >> we shouldn't hate a medication because it has a few mil tarrists. we should look to the future and

work together to contribute to peace. >> 77 years ago, this was a broken and brutalized city as inva invading japanese troops began a week-long killing spree. >> xao began tin was one of the last remaining witnesses. he their their contribution largely air brushed from official accounts. he was paraded before the local cameras but officials wouldn't allow us to talk to him staring out from these walls, photos of some of the 300,000 people china says were massacred here japan still disputes that figure saying it was at least half that number, but either way, it amounted to one of the worst wartime atrocities of the last city. >> trade between japan and china is worth billions of dollars but at times, it seems the two countries are still enemies. it's the event did here 77 years

ago that have come to define this problematic relationship. >> chinese children still learn about this episode from an early age. >> my son must know these terrible facts. >> the massacre can never be denied. history is history. >> why does japan never apologize? can chinese people ever forgive them? never. >> he was taken away by police, later released. with the president here, local officials are silencing all forms of dissent, even if they are directed at an old adverse satisfactory. adrienne brown, al jazeera, n nanjing. >> the memorial satisfied was held in bastowen where americto. the attack by nazi germany 1944 caught the allies by surprise. by the end of 1944, the germans

had been driven back. our world relies on plastics for a huge variety of products. what happens to plastic items when they are no longer useful? too much ends up floating in the occasions. solar panels. these stories next on "al jazeera america."

more than 190 countries meeting in peru agreed. climate change is threatening global populations. they can't seem to agree on how to fix the problem and who should pay for it. nick clark reports from lima on the desperate push for a draft to present at next year's climate summit in paris. >> a message to world leaders and delegates: just get something done. activists make their points outside thing inotiated holes. on the inside, the wrangling goes on and on. the confid president trying to work up a resolution before the day is out. >> we are almost there.

we don't need just to make a final effort. we don't need to take political decision. we are almost there. there are no reason to stop this process. there are no reason to postpone our decision. meetings from the negotiations, another point is made. >> it is death or climate justice. we demand in lima there should be climate justice. >> they say delegates and politicians representing individual countries have lost touch with reality? >> lima hasn't helped us enough. what is happening in the real world before actually taking to the streets, calling for real climate actions, we are seeing divestment. this hasn't ab so farred that. >> the animated debate after how

pledges to cut carbon emissions and how rich countries fail to adapt to climate change. >> past close of business and there is plenty of work to do. this conference is supposed to be about laying down a clear and concise path to paris. so far, it hasn't done that. nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. >> a deeper look at what the conference in peru has been able to accomplish. >> that's coming up tonight 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. grease peace apoljudy for a protest at the world famous lines in peru. activists created a message in huge letters at the world high tape change in the coastal desert. they are considered sacred. they depict imaginary figures etched into the ground as many as 2000 years ago. peru's government is asking prosecute orders to file charges

against activists. scientists have been able to map plastic pollution of all sizes floating in the world's occasions from 24 expeditions collected over a six-year period from 2007 to 2013. they estimated there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic trash weighing over 250,000 tons worldwide. this map shows the bulk of the debris made up of things roughly eight inches in size or larger while some of the trash is concentrated along coastlines, much of pushed by wind did, tides and currents is accumulated in the ocean. new research suggests they act as sledders, vortcies making them into micro plastics reject them across the ocean. joining me is captain charles moore of algolita research. we appreciate your time. tell us a little bit more about

how you all arrived at these numbers, the push to get these numbers for people to actually understand what's going on. >> we have been dragging nets around the ocean for 15 years now trying to get the quantity of plastics in the marine environment, and the ocean is such a huge area that we needed the cooperation of other scientists and in other countries in order to produce a global estimate, and in addition to that, we needed the help of a modeler to give us an idea of what the projected amount would be and then see if ourtrols produced an agreement with the projection. it turns out indeed the work we have been doing over the last 15 years, pulling nets around trying to figure out how much plastic is in the ocean agrees pretty well with what a modeler might expect to be there. >> you know, besides the fact that it's very unsightly, as we

were showing video as you were talking, can you tell us the harm of all of this plastic in the ocean? >> yeah. there is three major things that i like to talk about, eng tanglement, ingestion and rafting of exotic organism. en tanglement occurs at all size classes whether it's a giant whale. we often see pictures of whales wrapped in bowies and jelly and planktonic. i have pictures of jelly fish tangled up in plastic. >> prohibits feeding. it scars the animal. and it can make it so that it just dies an excruciating death unable to move about the ocean in a normal way. >> that's en tangelment. then there is ingestion, which is not just the micro plastics ingested a lot by fishes but the largest bits and bags are

ingested by a whale. a whale was breached with surgical gloves, all kind of junk inside of it. so, this scars the inside of the animal, and it trans minutes toxics absorbed from the plastic into the animal's tissue. it's a way of delivering toxics to animals in the marine environment. and then we have this rafting of for theics where you provide a new substrait. everything in the ocean is cruising to recruit. when you have these organisms recruited to this plastic, they take up the food that would have been available to the other lanktonic organisms and give such a slow ride to these organisms that they can reach new habitats that have never been populated by them before. moves about 10 miles a day and thousands of miles around the ocean. so new generations can exist. >> captain moore, the picture you just painted is actually

pretty stark. i know your organization supports a plastic-free world. how realistic is that? what are some of the realistic solutions to this? >> i don't care you can charact characterize our organization as supporting a plastic-free world. i think what we support is an ocean that's free of plastic pollution. tofr free the ocean from plasti pollution w we need to stop putting it in the ocean. we need to invest things that are easy to recycle and find the infrastructure to recycle them. >> all right, captain charles moore, thank you for joining us today. >> you are quite welcome . we are watching two separate weather systems today because the one that caused all of the very heavy rain along the western seaboard is making its way across the mountain states.

>> will bring some rain in lower elevations and the second one is out here in the pacific. >> that's the one that is going to be a big problem as we go towards the beginning of the week. take a look at your forecast map as we begin sunday. we will talk about both weather systems. here, heavy rain expected to fall across the central plains and in these bands, we could see severe weather, thunderstorms, heavy winds as well. snow in the rockies. that's going to be great for the skiers. we could see anywhere between a foot to two feet of snow and ahead of this system, high temperatures are really much warmer than average. chicago, 52. memphis, 55. memphis looking about 74 degrees. as we go toward monday, big changes here the central system begins to development. see the heavy rain to the north. we even have icing up here towards maps. >> could cause a problem in travel. the one out of the pacific. >> starts to become a problem as well. temperatures going to drop there in the pats inc. look what happens on tuesday. the air that we have seen, some very heavy rain showers is going to have a little bit of a break.

but on tuesday, then comes into play more heavy rain, more flooding, more landslides. could be a problem there. over here towards the great lakes, we are looking at a combination of rain as well as snow. >> kevin corriveau there. double trouble for folks in the line of fire in hawaii. a new lava flow inching toward the remote village of pahoa. the original flow from the killilea volume c volcano. the new flow is not an immediate 24re9 but it's only two miles away. the nether lands is testing out a new experiment in renewable energy options. it unveiled the world's first bike path built entirely of solar panels. terret basz baseley takes a look. >> the people are riding over a project that has the potential to change the way we build roads and generate electricity. >> from a distance, a stretch of

bike path like this doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary. if you examine it closely, underneath this hardened glass, see sola panels. on on a fine day, a stretch like this centimeters along produces a bad enough -- about enough electricity to power three homes. the project took mass produced alcohola pals and sandwiched them between glass and rubber and concrete. >> this version can have a fire brigade truck of 12 tons without any damage. we are working on panels for big buses and large vehicles in the longrun. panels are connected to smart meters which can optmize their output and feed electricity to street lining, electric vehicles or in to the grid. the research group spent five years developing the technology, creating slabs that were suitable for paving but dirt

repel event and tough enough to endure harsh out door conditions. >> we mehta set of coatings, which is robust enough to deal with the traffic loads and also give traction to the vehicles passing by, especially for the bicycles of course. and, also, transfer as much light as possible on to the sola cells so the solar cells can do their work. >> another project also in the netherlands has also been exploring alternative reading surfaces, a tribute to the painter van gogh, is lit up by solar powered led lights. rather than focusing on beauty. the solar road team is hoping the economics of their product will be its selling point. >> well, solar panels are designed to have a lifetime of typically 20 or 25 years. this is the type of lifetime we also want to have for these type

of slabs, which means that if you have a payback time of 15 years, afterwards, you also have some payback of the road, itself. >> makes the roads cheaper in the end. >> the team are working to refine the technology but say that within five years, they hope to offer a green and cost-effective road surface they say could pave the future. tarek becauseley, the netherlands. >> sony's cyber trouble means the show cannot go on. meanwhile top honingz are handed out in qatar. those stories next on "al jazeera america."

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release embarrassing documents stolen from sony. the f.b.i. is said to be investigating whether north korea is behind it. top names in opera were ayarded in qatar. this year's gala is a big deal not just for the performers but for the host nation as well. ♪ >> the brightest stars of the opera world lighting up doha's night sky. >> bruno pektiko who cut his teeth at the escala theatre showing the audience how it's done. the opera ausc-arizona is about encouraging new talent,

too, about this star who broke on to the opera scene just 4iers ago. and constanzo who at 23 is the youngest professional tenor in italy >> translator: with opera, it's the wrong approach that it's connected with something old and the singer has to be a a man or a woman of a certain age. i am only young, but i had the opportunity to see children coming to listen to opera at a school, and i saw the faces of the children and they loved it. so, it should be more approachable. >> in all, eight awards were handed out including the coveted baritone of the year. the caliber of talent, a coup for qatar. >> qatar wants to raise its profile on the international music scene and establish doha

as a cultural destination. organizers refuse to disclose just how much this event cost but it's clear this is seen as an investment the man in charge of attracting foreigners to this lavish venue says it's all about relationships. >> cultural exchange is one of the aims and objectives of qatar, before qatar. we do work closely with different embassies and we make sure that the cocktail of the nationalities, the events, art presence of qatar's objective is to make sure that the world is here. >> hoping the international language of music will help bridge the geographic divide, kim vinnell, al jazeera, doha. thank you for watching al jazeera america. i am richelle carey. "talk to al jazeera" featuring bruce slaughter is up next.

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