>> the untold story... >> who do you protect? >> ...of what's really going on in ferguson >> they were so angry because it could have been them >> fault lines, ferguson: race and justice in the u.s. one hour special only 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. three people confirmed dead including the gunman after a 16 hour hostage crisis in australia. pushing for a palestinian state but israel says it won't be forced into anything. and ten families connected with the sandy hook shooting, file suit. they say the rifle that was used

to kill should never have been available to the public. and we begin in sydney where a 16 hour hostage standoff is now over. authorities say that three people including the gunman were killed. four others including a police officer were hurt. australian prime minister tony abbott says his country is not immune to these kinds of acts. >> there are people in our community ready to engage in politically motivated violence. the events in martin place also show that we are ready to deal with these people, professionally, and with the full force of law. >> al jazeera's andrew thomas has the latest now from sydney. >> hostages took their moments and ran for their lives. moments later police storm this

central sydney cafe. one officer appears to throw a stun grenade, then the flak of explosive. from different areas of the scene the play out. the seize began during monday morning's rush hour. >> the phone to her ear, three police on motorcycles arrived and others on foot very quickly. she was telling them she's gone to go inside the cafe, and the automatic glass sliding doors that normally open to allow you into the cafe had been shut. she thought the cafe was closed and she saw something inside, a pan with a blue bag and what she thought was a shotgun. >> at one point a flag was held up in the cafe window, on it, a

creed, there is only one god and model is his messenger. police believe the hostage taker to be this man, man haron monis. , a man known to have written unpleasant letters to families of soldiers serving in iran. facing charges included sexual assault and be accessory to the murder of his ex wife. tony abbott described him as being politically motivated. 16 hour hostage drama drew to a close. many australians no doubt shaken by this attack and images of terror on their doorstep. >> i understand that there were a number of gun shots that were herd which caused -- heard which caused officers to move directly

to an ea, emergency action plan, and caused the crisis to be ended. >> what's not yet clear is why they suddenly felt need to end this in such a dramatic way. andrew thomas, al jazeera, sydney. >> joining us from sydney is matthew bends, a photographer, are there details available? i'm asking specifically why did police move in at the time they moved in? did they do this because of activity inside the cafe or there is also an indication there may have been shots fired inside. what are you hearing about the operation itself? >> yes, there's a lot of speculation and rumor. we've been warned not to speculate too much. what i can tell you is that

yesterday the daily telegraph received calls from hostages. while the government held their guns, they were basically saying give us police try and meet his demands. he had a load of islamic demands such as bringing in an i.s.i.s. flag into martin place. but he this is warned that if any more hostages escaped there would be an eye for an eye and he would kill another -- kill a hostage as soon as anyone else escaped. last night what we saw was hostages actually escaped. so that would have obviously put police on warning. >> all right so the new south wales commissioner, we played some of his comments earlier, said this was an isolated incident, a lone wolf attack, ask that the theory here? >> absolutely, we're looking on this as a lone wolf attack. he doesn't appearing to allied

to too many causes. he seems to be a thoroughly unlikable person, he seemed a bit crazy but he has clearly aligned himself to the islamic state. >> okay tell us more about what you've learned in all of these hours now, about the hostage taker who is now dead? >> well, what we know is that as your report said, he's very radicalized. he sent letters to the widows of australian soldiers and he's out on bail and questions are being asked as to how he can be out on bail when he's obviously going to be like this, being accessory to the murder of his ex wife. >> maybe this gets us to a broader point you can help us with. how are leaders describing the problem of awnts fightin austrag in iraq and syria? >> our leaders are standing shoulder to shoulder with yours

and it's very much the same message, you know? we're standing up for what is right. and we have to be prepared that not everyone's going to like it. >> and how much of a shock would this be to sydney, i visited many years ago, it's an amazing city. i'm just wondering this is certainly not the kind of attack that this great city would be used to. it must be a total surprise to have had this happen in that great city. >> oh absolutely. it's a total -- it's a total shock. i feel that our authorities have been warning us, and saying look, you know, the authorities are prepared, we've had threats that have been headed off, we've had police swooping before, planned attacks happened. so people perhaps slightly aware that it was going to happen but you know, suddenly new york, london, what happens there, has come home to australia. >> that's right. all right matthew beens a

reporter from the daily telegraph. thank you. fear against the muslim chunt in australia, ines is here with that story. ines. >> it all started with a passenger who removed her hajab on the train. pretty soon i'll ride with you went viral with more than 90,000 mentions in just three hours and you can see the traffic here as it was rising with more than a thousand tweets per minute at one point. and messages like, dame, who writes, if any muslim sisters in sydney needs a rai ride i can h. she says if you see me i'm ride with you. this sign on her purse as well as this gentleman here i'll ride

with you and jessica says this is who we are australia, never prouder. and anger from indonesia, thank you for helping my sisters, i'll ride with you, tony. >> a pan killed at least five relatives, looking for bradley william stone. they say the killing began at the home of his ex wife. a neighbor who saw stone, that stone took his two young daughters and left the house in a hurry. >> they didn't have any coats on or anything. they just had their pajamas on and he just said we got to go. he is like she's hurt, hurt pretty ba badly, we got oleave. >> stone's wife was later found, fine. stone is a military veteran.

a draft resolution calling for a palestinian state by the end of this year. secretary of state john kerry met with the israeli prime minister this morning to smooth over relations. before that meeting, benjamin netanyahu dismissed the possibility of accepting a u.n. deadline. >> palestinian negotiators and european, in order to come one compromise language when it comes to the palestinians at the u.n. one senior official admits that that is language that washington can accept. palestinians are hoping for some kind of vote by the end of the year, the israelis adamantly oppose that. we heard from prime minister benjamin netanyahu that this was a security threat to israel. >> translator: i highly appreciate the efforts of the u.s. secretary to prevent deterioration in the region, i

said, the attempts to force conditions on israel will only deteriorate the situation and will jeopardize israel and therefore we will fierc fiercely oppose it. >> they are still on the same page whether what they call unilateral action. they have to deal with much more diplomacy at the u.n. the palestinians are calling for a resolution that within two years would end the occupation. another resolution circulated by the french at least in draft form would call for a piece treaty within two years. what the u.s. is trying to avoid is a veto. what one u.s. official told me would be an, quote, absolute disaster. not seen by arab governments vetoing a resolution while the u.s. is asking for those arab governments in support in fighting i.s.i.l. the u.s. though does have to deal with this.

there's a lot more momentum at the u.n. to discuss palestinian statehood than ever before. >> nick schifrin in jerusalem for us. secretary of state john kerry is planning to meet the palestinian representative tomorrow. james bays our diplomatic editor is at the u.n. james where do those two proposals stand now? >> there are two proposals we know a fair bit about. we know the palestinian draft which sets that end date for occupation you heard nick talking about. there's a french draft which has an end date for the negotiations to get to some sort of peace agreement. doesn't actually set the end date of occupation. i can tell you there's believed to be also a u.s. draft but not many people have seen that, not many diplomats other than u.s. diplomats and certainly not us journalists at this stage. when you have a draft it is the

beginning of a negotiation to try and find language that potentially everyone can agree on. of course if not everyone can agree on it, it's taken to the security council for a vote, and one permanent member has a veto. i think it's having go to a meeting and a final vote still some way off. the palestinian ambassador told me was hopeful he could get it going by the end of the year. the problem is this, the palestinians can't submit something to the security council themselves. they're not a member of the u.n. just an observer. they'll rely on their arab partners, the jordanians. >> the u.n. envoy says these resolutions would not replace actual peace talks. here is the question, is there a chance in the foreseeable future of these two sides being in the same room and at the same table? >> not according to the

palestinians. the old models.of peace talks brokered by the u.s., isn't going anywhere. it reached an impasse. they say a new approach they would like to see an international approach a multilateral approach. the peace talks, the french want to hold that in paris. that's being proposed. the big question is how will the u.s. respond? some are suggesting there is division on the way forward. >> james bay s thans thank you. right now the $1.1 trillion spending bill is waiting for the president's signature. there are a lot of provisions buried in the bill and lisa stark has more from washington. >> this bill runs more than 1600 pages plenty of room to pack in provisions. you've probably heard about some of the more controversial parts

of this bill. it allows deep pocket donors to give more money to political parties. the financial provisions would have reined in the big banks. there are so many provisions we can't tell you about all of them. here are some of them, congress says, the sage grouse, they want to explore the bird's habitat. school lunch program a favorite of mrs. obama's. schools will not have to meet a lower salt standard or whole grain requirements for pasta or tortillas. farmers won't have to worry about greenhouse gas regulations on manure or clean water rules for farm ponds or irrigation ditches. second amendment defenders are celebrating the bill prohibits

regulation of lead in a ammunition. and a win for the trucking industry, it blocks new rules on truck driver fatigue. and thank you to congress you will still be able to get your mail on saturday. any government official who wants an official portrait of him or herself to hang in their office they will have to pay for it themselves. and the vice president will not be getting a raise. william rogers head of the appropriations committee says this bill roots out waste and abuse and reins in bureaucratic overreach. a different view from the head of public citizen. robert weissman says it's exactly cronyism that has the public so disgusted with washington. what the lawmakers wanted to do was pass a bill and get out of town and prevent a government shutdown. they succeeded in that. >> families of nine victims of

the sandy hook massacre sued the company that built the gun adam lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults. they say the rifle was made for military use and should not have been available for public use. roxana saberi has the story. >> nine families are now suing the company that manufactured distributed and sold the gun he used. the families say it was marketed to civilians even though the companies knew how dangerous it could be in the wrong hands. 26 people died in less than five minutes. now, two years later, families of nine of the victims are filing an unusual legal challenge. claiming adam lanza wouldn't have killed so many people if he didn't have this kind of rifle, a bushmaster destiny automatic ar 15. the complaint names three main defendants. the gun manufacturer, bushmaster, the distributor

camphor, and the retailer. the ar 15 was designed as a military weapon but the defendants have marketed and sold the gun to civilians. the suit allegation in order to continue to profit from ar 15s the defendants chose to ignore the unusual risks the rifle posed outside of armed forces and law enforcement. support laws to curb gun violence. >> this is going to take time. but it's worth it because everyday that we proceed is hopefully another life saved. and that's the goal to keep focused on. >> if you don't have one of these your home is really not complete. >> reporter: but according to a recent nationwide survey public opinion is increasingly turning against stronger control on guns.

for the first time in more than two decades the pew research center found that more americans support ownership rights over gun control. after the newtown shooting, over half those surveyed supported gun rights, in the hands of criminals and people who are mentally unstable. >> they want all manufacturers to sit up and take notice that we are filing suit and if they were to win that would be a huge warning notice. for all future mass shootings. but it's a big if because i think they have a very high bar. >> the families are seeking unspecified monetary damages but also they say in the complaint they want accountability. i reached out to the three main companies that are named in that lawsuit and none of them responded. >> you'd probably only get a statement if if anything. roxana, thank you. a history of many who

disappeared and pointing a finger in the president of mexico in the case of 43 students. and nearly 200 countries reach a deal to help climate change but is it too weak to make a real impact?

>> the disappearance of 43 students in mexico this past september kicked off an unprecedented national antigovernment movement and now a new report says more than 40,000 people have been murdered while tens of thousands of others have gone missing since president enrique pena nieto took office just two years ago. lucia newman reports now from guerrero state. >> farmers husk their corn in silence in guerrero.

vultures circle ahead, signaling the possibility of a body nearby. >> the head and body of a boy about 12 or 15, chopped up into little pieces. >> in the town of chillapa people live in terror. today it happened to us. tomorrow it could happen to you reads the sign. written by the people in this house, a fortnight ago their two brothers and three others went missing. three days after they disappeared, five decapitated and partially charred bodies were found lying right here on this road. just a few days before athat, 11 other bodies of exactly the same condition were found a few kilometers from here. the family says their lives might have been spared. they gave the gps coordinates of their brother's vehicle to the police and army soon after the kidnapping. information they say authorities ignored. >> translator: we are sure that there was negligence,

complicity or both. we know the power of the local criminal gang whose leaders are the brothers of our state congressman. >> at this church people donate food and diapers of the brother of jose mondragon. authorities say he was still alive when his body was skinned and eyeballs removed. soldiers at an army barracks just blocks away say they heard and saw nothing. in scope and style the tens of thousands of gruesome murders occurring in mexico are reminiscent not of a modern democracy but of dictatorships of decades past. what you see here is one of nine clandestine graves, a total of 38 bodies were found but the locals tell us it's a fraction of the amount of people that

have been disposed of in the surrounding hills. one of the reasons it's almost impossible to say how many people are being killed in mexico on an almost daily basis. what is little doubt about is mexicans feel under attack by organized crime and corrupt officials and abandoned by the very institutions that are supposed to protect them. lucia newman, al jazeera, chillapa, mexico. >> nearly 200 countries have reached an agreement for climate change in peru. ali velshi is here, how strong is this deal? >> not as strong as they expected it to be, but stronger, they hammered this thing out it was in lima peru.

the idea that everybody, every country that is participating has agreed to lower its emissions. nobody agreed to a particular time frame or a particular content outline but it's all in the context of the fact that these growing countries, like india, like china, do a lot of stuff with coal which is really the biggest polluter in the world and the argument that these developing nations have is that america and other countries, america hasn't been a big pusher in this. but western nations push off all their manufacturing, cheaper manufacturing to other countries and they want to demand of them they want it in a cleaner less expensive way. this on the same day tony that oil fell again closing below $55, closing at a little over $55 a barrel. 55 a barrel. this is a 50% cut in the price of oil in six months.

so the world of energy is a little topsy-turvy all over the place now. we are looking how to move forward in a world where we certainly pollute less of the world. >> i know you've read some of this. there are a lot of critics out there saying this accord was pretty watered down. why is that? >> sure because they can't get anything that's not watered down. the thinking is that if you get something of a deal i mean it really is a matter of three steps forward and two and a half steps back, we have made at least a half a step forward. everybody has to partake in this effort to reduce emissions. what's causing global warming we're still having that debate including the one we're in right now. it's a small step. the point is now we have some hope of getting a robust agreement next year in paris. >> what else are you working on for the big show? >> a lot to do with energy. one of the more interesting stories tonight is that the idea

that americans overseas are being made to pay american income tax even though they have nothing to do with it. the mayor of london is an example, he hasn't been to america since he was five years old. >> ali did you change your frames? >> oh my god i can't believe you noticed that. i did. i always get the same ones and the lady at the store said to me, you always get the same frames but she said, why don't you change it up. >> doctor, you have an iconic look. you got to warn people. >> thank you for noticing. >> the hostage standoff, why police have had an eye on the perpetrator for a while now.

>> we are learning more today about the gunman at the center of a hostage standoff in sydney australia. two hostages. four people including a police officer were hurt. australia's prime minister says this country will not be deterred by this kind of violence. >> these events do demonstrate that even country as free as open as generous and as safe as ours is vulnerable to acts of politically motivated violence. but they also remind us that australia and awnts are australe resilient and we are ready to

respond. >> al jazeera's wayne hay has the story. >> the message is that australia is open for business despite the fact that this siege took place in the heart of the business district. in fact authorities were stressing that even as the siege was taking place. that the city was not shut down that it was still open for business, despite the fact that this was obviously an seclusion zone around the building where the siege was taking place. that seclusio exclusion zone isy in place, slowly but surely we are seeing that exclusion zone being reduced in size. some encouraging signs as we look tead at the days and weeks and months ahead, as to how australians will hand the fallout. we have seen religious ethnic tension in cities like sydney in the past but we have heard a

story, about a woman riding on a train and saw another woman, a muslim woman who was preparing to remove her head scarf out of fear that she could receive some religious abuse from other people in the wake of what had happened in sydney. the woman encouraged her and to put her headdress back and said i will stay with you. now this social media campaign has been born, #i'll ride with you. given awnts som australians enct how others will handle the fallout. >> this man has been on the police's radar for some time. al jazeera's andrew potter explains. >> i write to you to offer my condolences for the loss of a member of your family. >> self declared cleric man

haron monis, reading a letter he wrote to the wife of a coalition soldier killed in afghanistan. >> i ask you give patience for that incident. >> it wasn't the only one. between 2007 and 2009, monis sent letters just like it to several families. they outraged the australian public. monis was charged and convicted. but his campaigning continued. here he stands outside another court wearing chains, claiming to have been tortured in prison. the 50-year-old is no stranger to the police or courts. he was born in iran and came to australia as a refugee. at the time of the siege he was facing charges of being an accessory to the murder of his ex wife. then there's the more than 50 allegations of indecent and sexual assault, from his time working as a spiritual healer.

the premier of new south wales, was asked was he concerned that monis was currently out on bail. >> there was a vicious horrendous attack that has taken place in the heart of our city and there are many questions that will come in the coming hours, days and week, what i can assure you is i will answer every single one of them. we will get to the bottom of events and we will do everything possible to ensure we do not see happen again in this city what we saw in the last 24 hours. >> reporter: monis always claimed the letters were purely political and tended t tended te families. andrew potter al jazeera. >> french police believe they have broken up a recruitment network for young men traveling

to iraq and syria to join i.s.i.l. >> most of the arrests were made in the southern city of toulouse. police also raided addresses in the norman d in the north and in paris. the recruitments big part in sending young men to fight for groups including i.s.i.l. in a statement after the arrests, the french interior minister said that dismantling similar organizations was now a police priority. >> it's believed that the investigation began after detectives were contacted by the mother of a young turkish man, a potential recruit. but despite this apparent success, authorities face huge challenges in preventing young men trooflg conflict zones. >> the french are government estimates that so far, it's

thought 400 are currently fighting on the ground. about 50 fighters have been killed during operations. according to specialist observers it's getting harder for police to identify potential recruits. >> translator: these days it is difficult to say what is the profile of a typical french jihad it'sist. jihadist. one man killed in syria had a perfectly average childhood. >> the often neglected suburbs have been prime recruiting grounds in the past. preventing people leaving to join armed groups but some here fear that will increase resentment and willingness to take up arms. tim friend, al jazeera, paris. >> protesters in oakland, california locking themselves to the entrance of the police department, they held up a

banner saying, "in the war on -- end the war on black people. others chained themselves, to an intersection and one chained himself to the top of a flag pole. common occurrence, a grand jury decided not to indict the officer who shot michael brown. in a fault lines investigation, went back to ferguson and discovered other cases. >> while the community was promised justice would be done we began hearing about other police shootings in the area, shootings where the case never went before the grand jury and where the officers involve were exonerated. shootings that had barely made the news. who wrote that there? >> probably one of kerry's friends. >> in rap 2013 st. louis police tried to pull over 25-year-old

kerry ball junior, kerry who was carrying an legal weapon, fled the area in his car then by foot. two othe other officers chasehy. >> the witnesses have a different story. >> ththe witnesses say the gun s on the ground. >> he turned around his hands in the air. points the gun bang bang bang bang bang, it wasn't a bang bang thing, it was stop through the gun hands up then he was shot. >> kerry never fired a shot and the lawyers told us none of the 10 witnesses questioned say kerry pointed a gun at the officers. kerry was struck at least 21 times. the family's lawyers say ballistic evidence suggest the police kept shooting as they stood over him. >> see that spot there? there it is right there.

so just come on back. >> this one as well, right? >> yes. >> that stop there. >> you need that one there. >> this is from where the officer's weapons were pointing -- >> straight down. >> so that went through kerry's body. >> the st. louis police department cleared the officers of any wrongdoing. and fbi review agreed with their findings. we requested comment from the police regarding kerry's case but received no response. in the wake of mike brown, carlos and his family are hoping for an independent investigation. the police would say you can still pose a threat if you're on the ground. doesn't matter if you're down. you can still kill a police officer. >> okay so he's down, you got four shots in him thousand is he still a threat? okay shoot him four more times, that's eight. is he still a threat? shoot him four or five more

times after that, that's 12, is that still a threat? you're deliberating and you can think of what you're doing. after four or five shots yeah caught up in the moment but the continuing onslaught of the shots means you're thinking now, you have time to deliberate, time to stand down. >> sebastian walker joins us from san francisco. sebastian how many cases similar to kerry's have you heard about? >> tony that is one of the most eye opening parts of the toy store. the more we kept hearing about other shootings that hadn't received the same amount of attention you'd be surprised at the number of people we met in those communities that either had a relative or somebody they knew had been shot by the police, there had been around 49 officer-involved shootings in st. louis county out of the last ten years. and out of one of those not one has led to an officer

indictment. that's what the community had, the incidents may, people hadn't even heard of in a national level. so it's definitely something anecdotally you hear all the time if you go to these communities and speak with the residents. >> i know you put in all the requests. were you able to speak to any police from ferguson or nearby municipalities? >> the ferguson police department refused our request for an interview. we also asked the st. louis city police department and the st. louis county, all of those declined our request. there was only one municipality that agreed to take us on a ride along on patrol. that officer's perspective he didn't have any sense at all in disproportionality of stops and arrests and shootings by police. he had no concept that this is something the data shows is definitely skewed towards african americans being far more likely being stopped and

searched by police than any other members of the community. it's pretty interesting in speaking with an officer of that level and kind of informed us in terms of the bigger picture there. >> kind of makes you wonder what kind of community he was living in. i'm curious particularly because of the demonstrations so huge in so many communities. what did the people say about erieric garner? >> the incident happened just weeks before michael brown was killed. protesters, tamir rice, akai girlie, diana stanley-jones, this is something that we heard with you know a problem that was

affecting communities all over the country. demonstrators were using those names and very, very conscious of those cases that had started to get national attention and that's something that kind of developed over time in the course of making this domary, this really sparked the more national movement raising awareness of these other cases. john corfoot in ohio, very familiar to the names we heard on the streets. we used to hear the names right when we were covering the protest. >> sebastian walker for us from france this evening, sebastian, thank you. for more on the tensions surrounding ferguson, check out the fault lines special. 9:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 pacific, on al jazeera america. >> there are signs former florida governor jeb bush will

join the run for president. david schuster is here to talk about that. >> jeb bush gave a revealing interview this weekend in florida. listen closely. >> as i thought about if i'm capable of running and serving i looked back at my previous campaigns in the eight years i got to serve as grove. it reminded me that despite what appears to be the case here in this current environment in washington, you can do big things if you set the stage in the campaign and then move forward. >> jeb bush says he bleaches he coulbelieves hecould do big thi. he will soon release all 250,000 e-mails from his time as governor and issue an e book he's already begun one.

his wife columba, is not wanting to become a public figure, in the way of campaign spouse. but here is what jeb bush said yesterday about her views now. >> she is on board. she's not a political wife or political spouse, she doesn't wake up reading politico or whatever. that's why i love her, she's my source of peace. >> so columbo bush. the jeb bush friends expect a formal campaign kickoff early next year. >> on the democratic side, elizabeth warren may not be able to get away from her statements she is not running. she has been moved by hundreds of thousands of activists urging

her to launch a campaign. warren was drafted for that senate seat in texas. that is familiar territory for her. obama supporters signed their own petition urging her to run, and citibank provide a key provision in the bill. >> now yet here we are, with congress on the verge of ramming through a bill that would do nothing for community banks, do nothing but taxpayers will have to bail out the biggest banks once again. >> she was just getting started. warren then addressed citibank's claims that the existing financial reform laws that congress passed five years ago are flawed. >> let me say this to anyone who is listening at city.

i agree with you, dodd frank isn't perfect. it should have broken you into pieces. >> pretty courageous thing to say you should have been broken up. >> could be gold in a democratic national campaign. the question now is whether literally clint if she runs is willing to imlai embrace warrenm witions. the big story continued to be the analyst intelings senatee committee. >> very clear. the techniques that we did nct use that the president

authorized that gave us results, the information we needed to be able to track down those guilty of 9/11 did in fact work. >> but actually even the cia is not clear on whether those techniques worked. department of healthy and human services is running a string of ads. take a look at this one. >> it was actually much easier to reenroll than it was to enroll last year. they already had a user profile for us, we had to skip that and went straight to the plans. >> people especially happy about that ad, under-armour. >> appreciate it david, coming up on the program, the va trying to keep veterans from overdosing by giving a controversial drug

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>> senate has just approved presidenpresident obama's pick e surgeon general, dr. vivec murphy. describing violence as a public health concern, took away support from some republican lawmakers. very rans health administration is -- the veterans health administration is, controversial lifesaving drug along with every dose of opiate painkillers prescribed. jacob ward joins us live from san francisco.

we've seen, pretty significant that the va is now getting involved in handing it out. >> well, tony, what's new here is that the veterans administration is such a sprawling organization, it just has a tremendous implication for the nation as a whole and that's nowhere more evident that when you speak to veterans who are in the grip of addiction to opiates and heroin. this veteran who asked that we call him by his nickname says he has been addicted to heroin and prescription opiates for most of his life. and for boston like so many veterans, heroin and other opiates offer a similar risk of death by overdose. that's where the veterans administration has a massive problem. 50% of its patients seek help for chronic pain, the largest

prescriber of opiate painkillers. the united states schools 80% of prescription opiates, 16,000 overdoses a year. now a national group led by va addiction specialists is developing a program that would give any veteran at risk of abusing opiates and perhaps all veterans who are prescribed opiate painkillers, narcan. it can temporarily overcome an overdose. temporary sharp pain acute pain but since the 1990s painkillers like this have been prescribed as a standard means of treating chronic long term pain and the alternatives available at pain clinics like physical therapist massage and

acupuncture are many more expensive. >> multidisciplinary pain dling that is a lot of pain care you need to provide. >> opiate painkillers are incredibly effective so the va is not likely to stop prescribing it. and since the va has not been able to cut the number of overdoses, narcan is a last ditch tool. >> it wouldn't hurt to have just in case of emergency. >> the complication is that the drug comes from the va can sometimes lead people into heroin. >> yes but that certainly doanse our need to protect people. >> for boston, a nationwide narcan program can't arrive fast enough. >> i've witnessed a lot of friends' overdoses and some of them were biggest addicts that

i've ever seen but they were also friends and fathers and hard workers and to lose somebody like that because the government hasn't come around yet is, it's ridiculous. >> tony what's so extraordinary here is when you ask the veterans administration as i had the opportunity to, doesn't it somehow damage the goals of this program if this narcan gets out into the world, it's just as likely to get in the hands of heroin addicts as someone who might accidentally overdose. the va says it doesn't matter. the problem is so out there that they want it, a strong stance for an organization as vast as it is. >> we're going to talk about attention grabbing graffiti

bringing light to a lot of social are issues. ines is back with that. >> coming up on "real money." i'm going to look at who wins and who loses in america's energy industry. plus americans giving up citizenship to avoid taxes. all that on "real money."

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taking notice of graffiti appearing on walls with the signature, guess who. >> what we do know is that there images are turning heads. take a look at some of these images and you'll probably recognize some of them. this looks like john lennon there, marilyn monroe. >> norma jean. >> yes, ma jean, ronald mcdonald, the colonel, dali, van gogh, picasso, and on an online interview with papers, the guess who, start a dialogue with the public to talk really about social issues. the reason for staying anonymous is to keep the focus on the

artwork not the artist. this graffiti has been popping up since 2012 but it hasn't gone viral until recently. >> thank you ines thank you for bringing it to our attention. that's it for us. "real money" with ali velshi is next. >> for the first time every country in the world has agreed to cut back on burning oil, gas, and cole to counter climate change. i'm looking at who wins and who loses. and the investors who brought up all of those foreclose sures after the housing collapse could be looking to cash in soon. plus see why some people are giving up their citizenship to san