personal, emotional drive, i think, you know, i don't believe them. so, it became personal absolutely. >> ali, what an honor to have such a good, long opportunity to talk to you? >> thank you, brother. >> the fbi said that there is no doubt that north korea was behind the sony hacking. >> yes, i think they made a mistake. and kurdish forces on the mash against isil fighters on iraq.

a break after a month long siege by the group. good evening, this is al jazeera america. i'm michael yves. president obama coming out strong after the fbi conclusiv conclusively linked the hacking of sony to north korea. he said that the united states cannot cave to a dictatorship and vowed to retaliate. >> michael, the fbi said that other corporations suffered cyber intrusions but the attack on sony is set eigh apart. >> they caused a lot of damage, and we will respond.

we will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. it's not something that i will announce here today links to other malware north korea previously developed including algorithms. ip addresses associated with north korean infrastructure, and they found a cyberattacked launched by north korea against south korea banks and media outlets. now the cyberattack was motivated by the movie "the interview." a satirical plot of an

assassination against north korea's leader. after threat of violence sony decided to cancel the movie. but president obama in his end of the news conference criticized that move. >> yes, i believe it was a mistake. we cannot have a society in which some dictator can impose censorship here in the united states. because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they would start doing when they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like. >> sunny disagrees with the president. ceo michael lynn ton issued a statement saying that the president, press and public are mistaken as to what actually happened. we have not give in, and we have not backed down. we have always had every desire

to have the american public see this movie. sony's ceo made his comments on cnn saying that sony does not own movie theaters and cannot tell them what movies to show, but it is not clear whether sony plans to put "the interview" back on the market. >> cyber security has moved front and center since the sony hack. let's go to jacob ward live in san francisco. you mentioned that it does not seem to fit in north korea's hacking industry. did today's information provide any clarity in that regard? >> well, michael, i put that question to the head of hewlett-packard research group who has done one of the few big exhaustive reports on north korea's cyber warfare technology, and i asked him whether north korea is sophisticated enough to pull this off. >> they're definitely

sophisticated enough. there is a marketplace where any actor as long as they have money can buy expertise. even if they didn't have all the expertise required they can go in to the black market and purchase those skills as long as they have money. >> so the difficulty here, michael, even though some of the commitmen equipment and software matches attacks on south korea, those kinds of software packages are quite generic, and anybody can come by them. >> it's relatively gentlemen necgeneric, and it gets used and reused. >> so it's really not a conclusive smoking gun here. anyone can have access of this stuff with enough money. the evidence that the fbi has trotted out here has notes inly convinced security experts that north korea did it. >> let's look at a broader potential danger here.

why is this attack being treated as a national security threat? because the assumption is that the government's computer systems and servers and everything attached to it are much more secure than what you would find at sony correct? >> that's absolutely right. certainly we can take some measure of comfort from the fact that sony is a really lax organization. it had simple pass codes, simple databases. but what everyone is worried about here is the ways in which here in the united states a lot of our lives are connected to digital infrastructure. in fact, we've seen all across the world digital attacks that have the potential to cause physical damage. in fact, recently germany issued a report that showed off an attack that had taken place on a factory in germany that caused the robotic equipment there, some of the equipment that melts down steel inous of

manufacturing, all of that had been damaged because the software governing had been hacked and told it to do things that were damaging. until now hackers had been malicious, getting attention, but now stealing money, identities and causing physical damage. >> and there have been reasons to be scared. jake ward reporting live in san francisco. thank you. north korea's hacking of sony pictures is one of several issues touched on president obama ace review today. the president said he's ready for the final two years of his term. how did he set up for those final two years? >> reporter: well, it's interesting, michael, the president entered the briefing room with an error and demeanor of a man about to take vacation with his family in hawai'i. he brought up the economy, which is doing well as the year comes to a close. but the coming year does look to be difficult for president

obama. in his relations with congress. >> hello, everybody. >> despite his lame duck status president obama said he's energized. >> my presidency is entering the fourth quarter. interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter, and i'm looking forward to it. >> but president obama faces strengthened opposition, a republic dominated by congress. g.o.p. vow to fight on a host of issues, including president obama's opening to cuba. >> i think ultimately we need to go ahead and pull down the embargo, which has been self defeating and advancing the aims that we're interested in. but i don't anticipate that that happens right away. >> republicans will also try and block the president's executive action on immigration. and plan early vote to repeal all or part of the obamacare.

>> if congress seeks to take healthcare away from people who just got it, they will meet stiff resistence from me. >> and in the wake of ferguson, staten island and cleveland, mr. obama sees a shift in public awareness when it comes to airplane tensions between african-americans and law enforcement. >> in part because people are able to film what have just been in the past series passed on around the kitchen table allows people to make their own assessments and valuations. you're not going to solve a problem if it's not talked about. now i'm going on vacation. >> the president and his family will have an extended holiday in hawai'i before returning to washington and a new political reality. >> and michael, as we speak you may be able to hear the chopper blades of marine one on the south lawn. president obama and his family

leaving. >> speaking of congress, mike, when the president returns from his 17-day hawaiian vacation, he'll see a congress, of course, dominated by republicans. what can we anticipate in terms of the president trying to work with that g.o.p. dominated congress to get some things done in 2015? >> well, president obama cites the recent fight over the spending bill. i say fight. i'm talking about democrats. the democrats were upset about the bill that funds the government well in to next year over the provision that was slipped in that would roll back to the supervisors of the meltdown of 2009. you see the president reaching out across the aisle on things like that, spending issues and tax reform, another issue that came up in the briefing today. >> mike viqueira reporting live from the white house? let's bring in david shuster. we're talking about the fourth

quarter of president obama's presidency. it has been an active period just since the mid terms. with these most recent events north korea, cuba, specifically, how does this play out for the president? >> any time the commander in chief essentially declares war on another country, americans tend to rally behind the commander in chief, and this could be considered the first cyber war that we've had. there is the president saying yes, there will be a response, some sort of cyber current attack against north korea. he was unequivocal about that and about sony making a mistake. on issues where he usually gets criticism that he is weak or a bad negotiator, some of that gets pushed aside. the economy is doing better now. it's creating not a record-pace of job creation, but in the past five years it's enormous. and another thing that aids the president, no question, no discussion whatsoever in the

political discourse right now about what happened in the 2014 mid terms. >> no questions about defeat in the mid terms. it's all about looking ahead to 2014. as that being said as we look ahead, pit false. any potential out there? >> the president telegraphed today that he's going to be opposed to the keystone oil pipeline. you have a clash there and a tough fight coming on cuba. as much as the president may get credit for trying to open up cuba there are things that congress still has to do, it doesn't look like he'll have the votes to lift the economic embargo on cuba. there is friction coming, and there is bad blood between both parties. >> michael: there are some republicans who do favor these normalized relations with cuba. thank you. >> well, president obama's plan to normalize those relations with cuba includes further easing on economic and travel restrictions. under the new rules cubans who travel to and from the u.s. can

now bring more items with them. we go to miami, david, the cubans living in miami. what are their thoughts and reactions about the easier travel restrictions? >> you know, it depends on which cubans you're talking about. if you go to the hard liners, the older generations, those are the folks who remember 1959 and who may have lost property in the revolution whenfy dal castro rolled in to town. that was a half century ago. the younger generations who have relatives in cuba, who are sending money back there and keep that money to prop up the precedents there and helps to prop up the cuban economy. that's a big part of how the cuban economy works. we went to the miami international airport to talk to residents who are sending money back and sending supplies. >> reporter: in many ways this

is the engine of cuban economy. cuban americans who send money home to their families represent a $2.6 billion industry. an increasingly important source of revenue as falling oil prizes put a squeeze on how much aid venezuela can send to cuba. but it's not just cash that these people are sending home. some are bringing back t.v.'s, clothes, and even car tires. >> they are for our family in cuba. these are all gifts. >> so this is a daily scene here at miami international. you have car tires, potted plants, toys for children, things that you get in the united states but are not always available in havana. now the expectation is that this will happen 67 mor much more

often. >> companies will no longer need a special license to do business. u.s. companies will also be able to export a list of items that include things like building materials, and even infrastructure for telecommunications. and with a largely untapped market of 11 million people just 90 miles from the coast of florida scenes like these will likely get bigger as cuba's economy opens to an old cold war enemy. >> you know that cold war mentality is what people think about when they think about cuba. this is 1959 when we talk about that revolution. we had a a freeze on relations ever since. and people in cuba, they've been dealing with both the inefficiencies of a communist run government with all the human rights abuses that you hear about in miami, but also the embargo. the trade embargo has created all sorts of shortages on the

island. that's why in part of the story you saw the residents here who recognize that have to bring things back like car tires and potted plants, it's something that people here in the united states it's hard to wrap your mind around. >> very interesting, indeed. reporting live from miami. thank you. kurdish forces in northern iraq have retaken more ground from isil. this time to the west of mosul. it comes just 24 hours after they have broken isil's siege around the sinjar mountains which have lasted more months. kurdish forces are now said to be marching through teafar. >> reporter: the head of the national security forces in northern iraq have announced that the peshmerga fighters will take lands that originally were isil control.

now this hand is made up of pockets of villages and towns that isil has been holding. the question is where have the isil fighters now gone? we know that many of the areas are sunni, and they could disappear in those communities, or they could have well retreated in mosul city. the question is whether there will be a backlash. we've seen the tactics, switc switching from front line fight to go insurgency fighting. indeed, when peshmerga took the a town, and they thought they could relax, but isil came in dressed as peshmerga and killed many peshmerga fighters. the lieutenant we have spoken to at the top of the sinjar

mountains said that they're not yet in a position to be able to hold it and to let many of the ten 10,000 yazidi to out. >> defense secretary chuck hagel sai would be briefed soon but the public will not get the details today. >> the secretary is getting briefed because that's the appropriate thing for the army to do, but for the army to decide what the next steps are. again, i can't get ahead of th that. >> bergdahl will face charges of deser desertion.

he was traded in may for five taliban members. executions were carried out in a jail. one man put to death had been convicted of taking part in an attack on army headquarters. the others was for being involved in an assassination attempt on president sharif. >> today vigils were held in honor of the 148 students and teachers killed in taliban attacks on tuesday. coming up on al jazeera, police in washington state working with an unlikely ally to release hours of police video footage to the public. also an insurance company being treated like a bank to the feds. why this is a potential game

changer in the financial world.

>> new complaints filed against mcdonald's over worker rights. the national labor relations board said that the company and franchise restaurant have violated the rights of employees looking for better pay and working conditions. among the charges that workers who took part of the union protest for better minimum wage were disciplined. the violations including firings, reduced hours and threats. mcdonald's calls the move an overreach and said it will fight it. the u.s. regulators have declared insurer metlife so big that it's failure to destabilize financial markets. jen rogers from "real money" has more on what this means for the company. jen? >> well, it is a big deal for

metlife, it's official determination came out from the financial stability oversight council saying it's so important. you may know it by the shorthand that we use: too big to fail. metlife is so critical to the financial infrastructure that under dodd-frank it could be held to higher standards in terms of the capitol it's required to have and disclosures it needs to make and even government supervision. that sounds like a lot of red tape, it is and that's not what any ceo wants. it's not surprising that metlife has come out and said, wait a minute. it doesn't think that it has met the criteria and the decision will amen competition, lead to higher prices and less choice for consumers. but they are worried about metlife's derivatives and large scale decisions that could lead to 2008, which everyone is trying to avoid. >> now that they know how

insurance and finances can be tied together through insurance-backed securities, what does it mean for metlife? >> it has 30 days whether or not to contest the council's decision in court. they would not be the first insurer to have this. in addition to a number of banks which reached the decision too big too fail, aig and ge has been determined systematically important. >> big news on the show. what else do you have tonight? >> you know that tomorrow is saturday. it is super saturday. it is a big shopping day and it might even eclipse black friday for the first time. so we're going to talk about that, and we're going to be looking at christmas trees this holiday season. it might be late to be buying your tree, but for everyone who bought them already, sales are on track for a record year. we will look forward to that.

>> well, a st. louis prosecutor appeared on a local radio show defending how he handled the case. he said he was hampered by several witnesses who lied on the stand. >> this was a lady who clearly was not present when this occurred. she recounted a statement that was, you know, right out of the newspaper about wilson's actions and right down the line of wilson's actions although i'm sure she was nowhere near the place. >> mcculloch said that he could not control the timing of the announcement. he was criticized for waiting until nighttime to reveal the grand jury's decision. the police department began it's outfitting of police with body cameras. we go to seattle, allen, police have formed a very unique arrangement, right?

>> yes, it was an interesting gathering down at police headquarters. let's role that video, and we'll show you the hack-a-thon. what seattle pd did was invite a whole bunch of folks, computer programmers and software engineers to swap ideas how they're going to store, retrieve, edit and disperse the massive amounts of video that will be coming in to the police department. now why the hack thon? it's really one guy who submitted requests for all of seattle's police dashcam video that they currently have. they realize that that would take so long to copy on to dvds and get out that it was a completely unworkable system. they reached out to this guy. this anonymous computer geek, self-named computer geek and asked him to drop those requests, come on in. he's now working with police.

>> i put this credit in to all these agency who is said, hey, i want to post your video to youtube, and i got a lot of flack. >> he got a lot of flack, he also got response. a twitter message saying come on in, maybe we can work this out. we're talking about 360 tara bites of video, michael, figure about 40,000 full-length movies on dvd. how do you handle all that? is there a way to automatically blur out faces so it can be bowle doled out to the public a lot more quickly. that's what they're trying to figure out. >> they are using a unique way to deal with it. coming up, a change in cuba

could be a change to decades-old issue, u.s. fugitives hiding out on the island. we will will talk to one woman who has been living in cuba since the 1970's. and david shuster looks at the michele bachmann's comment about tea party.

>> welcome back to al jazeera. i'm michael yves. the shift of america's policies with cuba has wide range effect for cubans living in united states, but it could mean a change for americans living in cuba. a woman was a well-known black

panther activist convicted of killing a new jersey state troop center 1973, she escaped from prison in 1979 after she then went to cuba. after she escaped from prison she was added to the most wanted terrorist list. she has a $2 million reward on her head. earlier i spoke with her attorney, and we discussed some of his fears for his client in light of the new u.s. relationship with cuba. >> my concern has her lou with respect to this point that was put on her. now you have pointy hunters from around the world, who are now attempting to capture, and that is illegal act. >> do you think she's save in

cuba? >> she's as safe as she can be any place else. >> when you first heard president obama's announcements regarding cuba, did you have any concern whatsoever that this announcement and new policy going toward would affect your client in terms of bringing her back to the united states? >> no, she has been granted political asylum under the 1951 political convention. now that convention says that if someone, who is outside of the native land or native country, has a well-grounded fear of being prosecuted or persecuted for either their political

beliefs, race or religion they can be granted political asylum. the cuban government conducted their own investigations and concluded that she met the criteria under international law to be granted political asylum. so i was never concerned that the change in foreign policy would effect her legal standing on international law. >> it sounds as if you're more concerned, as you called it, a poundy on her life than extra decisioextradition back to the u.s.? >> oh, that's correct. her status under international law is clear there is in article

33 in the convention a doctrine called none refoulment. which means once someone has been granted political asylum, they at any time then be sent back to the country where they're at risk. that's the very cornerstone of this risk. >> taking your client out of it from a conventional standpoint, you don't think we'll see more prisoners in the wake of these new policies? there is no extradition policy in force between the united states and cuba. there was a policy, an extradition treaty signed in 1905. that was revised in the mid

1950s. since then not in force. >> you and your client has always maintained that she did not kill that new jersey police officer for which she was sent to prison. >> that's correct. >> let me can one more question relating to her safety. the possibility that she could leave cuba if she doesn't feel safe there? >> that's correct. that's entirely up to her. >> do you have plans to travel to cuba any time soon? >> yes. >> well, mr. hines told us that he has not spoken to her since president obama's cuba announcement. in today's power politics one of the most outspoken potential candidates for president has been charged with hypocrisy. you never hear that about a politician, do you. >> yes, florida senator marco rubio has been one of the loudest critics of the new

policy with cuba, he said this week he'll do everything he can to block an u.s. embassy and ambassador in communist havana. democrats are noting rubio' own legislative record. >> it seems odd that senator rubio would be reluctant, and in fact actively seeking to block an ambassador to cuba when earlier this year he voted to confirm an ambassador to china. >> in addition to saying he has a double standard rubio is under attack from kentucky republican senator rand paul a potential 16 rival. on facebook today paul wrote, senator rubio is acting like an isolationist who wants to retreat to our borders and perhaps build a moat. i reject in isolationism. isolationism has been attacked to paul by his own party.

lindsey graham, has been a liter in congress on issues including defense, foreign policy and immigration reform, and he's known for his folksy yet blunt style. >> our leadership better produce. boehner and mcconnell better come up with an agenda that is good for the country. if they don't, they'll be among the rank and file. >> graham is urgel strongly being urged to run by mccain. and what about jeb bush? >> he is an excellent governor in florida, and i think he's an excellent individual. i think he would not surprise you to know that if lindsey graham decides to run, i'm all in for him. >> and in other presidential campaign, business woman carly fiorina is close to throwing her hat in the ring.

the former ceo of hulet pack carhewlett-packard has begun hiring staff for presidential campaign, an announcement from her will come in january. from looking forward to looking back, one of the 2012 republican presidential candidates minnesota's michelle bachman is leaving congress. the lawmaker just gave an exit interview. they said that tea party is main stream because it's for lower taxes, balancing the budget and following the rule of law. >> any normal human being wants those three principles. >> ers that. michele bachmann is now the deaf declared arbitor of normal. she also called for congressional witch-hunt. >> i wish the american media would take a great look at the views of the people in congress and find out are they pro america? >> or are they anti-america? members of congress, and remember when she compared being

gay to slavery? >> if you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle it's bondage. it is personal bondage. >> and how about her 2012 presidential campaign? >> here's the other thing about the back man white house. you'll be able to buy any light bulb you want to buy in this country. >> you get the picture. we can go on and on. bacbachman knows normal. farewell, congresswoman. farewell. we also say good buy to the colbert report ♪ we'll meet again ♪ don't know where ♪ don't know when >> stephen cole bear surrounded by jon stewart and celebrity guests, media stars, politicians, they all together ended his--there is henry kissinger. they ended his show on comedy center. there is also tributes from guys at the space station and even

members of the military, and bill clinton through the years one of his funniest contributions to politics. he said, when members of congress would not say something that is politically correct. >> i enjoy cocaine because-- >> it gives me joy. >> i include the company of prostitutes for the following reasons. >> i enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons. it oppresses women. it's illegal. attend gives you joy. >> it does. >> and that was dan la fay, who says it was one of the funniest things he has ever done. >> the assortment of celebrities. kareem abdul jabar and henry kissinger. that's pretty good. >> the environment protection

agency labored coal ash as none hazardous waste. these are the first ever rules created when the coal is burned for electricity. they cite cases across the country where coal ash waste contaminate waters. one area where people live near ash pits and believe that it causes cancer. >> tons of waste from power plants. >> arsenic, chromium, lead in a lot of cases. >> poured out of a cracked drainage pipe into a major river in north carolina last february. >> duke energy cannot fail. we take this responsibility very seriously. we do feel like we failed a bit. >> duke energy is the largest electric company in the u.s. after the spill a federal grand jury began looking into duke's relationship with north kore north carolina regulators. miles away from the dan river

spill a shuttered coal plan overlooks the river bay inas toxic ash seems into the grounded water. residents call this area dukeville. >> you're not drinking your water because you are afraid there is coal ash in it. now there are jugs of water that you have to drive to get to? >> yes. >> what about bathing your little kids? >> we don't bathe the children in the water. the pediatrician believes it is not in the best interest of the children right now. >> joanne and ron live just down the road. >> you and your husband created this map. it shows 72 people in your area that have had some sort of deadly disease. >> right. >> here are the coal ash ponds. right across the street cancer? >> right. >> right over there? >> cancer? >> three brain tumors. >> brain tumor, brain tumor, brain tumor, and then across the street, another brain tomber. >> we have heard questions and

concerns from residents near the plants who are hear something much hype about coal ash. we take very seriously their concerns. we're not finding any evidence that coal ash has impacted ground water near our facilities that have not already been addressed. the company has been very pro active. >> i don't call that hype. i call it very serious. there are a lot of people nearby who have had cancer and died. lots of brain tumors. >> duke energy sampled the water. residents watched duke take samples from areas that would not show high levels of toxicity. >> how are the test results so different from river keepers and duke? >> they say it's about the collection method. one of the things we're finding sometimes these groups are taking very turbid samples. >> what does that mean? >> they have a lot of sediment in them. >> that means the coal ash will

read at higher levels of toxicity. will scott state that his group's testing follow federal guidelines. >> we don't think it makes sense to go against the epa suggestion and filter out the contaminants. duke energy is doing what is best for them. >> they depend on millions of dollars from contributions in north carolina. the state's governor worked for the company for 29 years. this year his budget cut funding for workers who inspect coal ash ponds. >> we want them to fully understand the dangerous that their company's practices are foisting on the state in the rivers. we think they're beginning to realize it. >> duke said it will have all 32 coal ash ponds in the state cleaned up by 2029. a cost between $2 billion and billioand $8 billion.

many still will not use the water supply and still worry about their future. >> the parents of a man accused of a shooting rampage in a movie theater in 2012 are speaking out for the first time, pleading for his life. james holmes' parents say he is not a monster but rather mentally ill. they want him institutionalized and not face the death penalty. they write, we love our son. we have always loved him, and we do not want him to be executed. we also decry the need for a trial. >> the attack in aurora, colorado, left 12 people dead and 70 injured. holmes has pled not guilty by reason of insanity. a bombing suspect joseph tsarnaev. his trial is scheduled to begin

january fifth. >> the white house has a new plan to make it easier to find. affordable comingation. details on rankings of cost and quality. if there is one thing that the u.s. and cuba have in common, it's baseball. we'll take a look at how the change in relations between the two countries could change the game and the many cubans who play it.

>> colorado is being sued over its marijuana laws. nebraska and oklahoma want colorado to sell marijuana legally. they say the marijuana is processing it's borders, putting strain on its police officers. colorado vows to defend it's laws. a new college ratings plan was released today. it's goal to eventually give students a way to compare colleges on things like affordability and job prospects after graduating.

libby casey has the details. >> the draft release this friday morning is bear bones. it's the first step in an ambitious plan to help students compare schools. eventually they'll be rated on good, bad, or somewhere in the middle. the draft so far is an ron line comparison chart. you can put in the school you're interested in, where you live or what you would like to study, and get a sense of how much a school will cost or what you'll graduate with. and here's what the rating system will eventually measure. affordability. graduation rates. job prospect after graduating and loan repayment rates. officials say that last one a good measure of whether students are making enough money at their first jobs to pay off loans in an efficient manner. president obama announced an idea of creating a rating system last year in response to the high cost of education as well as soaring student debt. while this is just a first draft

officials hope to have a more concrete version by the next school year. >> libby casing reporting from washington. when it comes to baseball some of the world's best talent hails from cuba. the 50-year contentious relationship between the u.s. and cuba has made it difficult for that talent to reach the major league level. president obama's attempt to normalize relations with the caribbean nation could open the flood gate of players coming to the states. robert, always good to see you. >> a pleasure, michael. >> floodgates may be down the road as we talk about cuban players coming here because it's always been so difficult. but is the anticipation that it will make it much easier for these players to enter major league baseball. >> we think it will become easier to come here for high school, draft through that aspect, and we may see major league bible looking at cuba as a marketplace. we don't know what dimension that will take yet.

>> that's an interesting point that you bring up coming over at high school age and coming to school and the amateur draft of major league baseball. right now they have to defect, basically, and usually there is smuggling involved, going through a third nation and there is a lot of dark money involved in that. >> that's exactly right. when a player wants to come to the u.s. they have to come to the u.s. claiming asylum laws which are rarely granted. basically they come immigrate from the country into u.s. >> obviously there are great rewards for those who make it. including the dodgers' player yasiel puig.

>> ththey would be a competitive franchise as it is. the price of coming here, you can't go back. at least now this may normalize it and that mate start the flow in some way. >> another issue with this are the players having the ability to send money back to their family, and now in larger doses. some of the pressure that some of these players have been under, the. >> they may be if they're allowed out by their government. in the early days before the soviet wall bloc fell down, soviet players crossed over, and a lot of their contracts went back to their national federation and government. we may see an agreement like the major league baseball has with japan where cuban players can't be drafted. they have to post.

there could be permutations with this, but if you think about it, it's a large baseball-crazed market that has not been sniffed in a long time. >> you bring up a good points about japanese players coming here. there is no international draft in baseball. what baseball teams have done, nevada' established scouting locations primarily the dominican republic to recruit players early not have them go through the draft, sign them, and then cultivate their talents themselves. >> the development of a latin player who can be signed at 16 years old for $600 a month is much less costly than a star american prospect who is being represented by a top flight agent and choosing the opportunity to play in college, coming out early and using that for signing bonuses. so one of the reasons the proliferation of latin players has been in baseball is because of the cost of development on some level, not a bad interest. cuba is a really interesting proposition because it has always been the strongest in

latin america in baseball. >> and they would want a posting system back in japan, they could get more of that money to the government. >> it would be something that the government would want. thanks a lot. >> well, fifa fin finally declared that it is no longer in crisis, and it will not change its minds on the location of world cups. we have more from london. >> well, on first inspection it looks like a climb down of humiliation, but of course the reality is that it's nothing of the sort. in fact, they're coming out of a very difficult position as well as can be expected. remember, they wanted closure. they want to move on looking to the future. the problems over the 2018-2022 world cup bidding process just

won't go away. now it looks as if they're being transparent. they're resisting transparency, but when the report is published more fully, and it won't be the full report, but it won't be as damming as some people believe. the third thing is that michael garcia, hired by fifa, has proven to be a real thorn in their side. there has been a complete falling him with him having resigned, they won't have to worry about him for a moment. they're coming out of this not badly at all, and they're coming out of a really difficult position actually looking like he's going to continue villa the helm and find a way to carry on. >> lee wlee wellens reporting from europe. jen rogers is in for ali velshi on real money. >> coming up on "real money" did

north korea act alone in its hack attack on sony? plus christmas tree farmers are seeing green this season. all that and more on real money.

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no refuge: children at the border only on al jazeera america >> canada's national firearm association is under fire for an online christmas ad. maria ines ferre is here with that story. >> reporter: canada's nfa recently posted this christmas ad on their facebook page. now it's a reference to a christmas story where a young boy wants a bb gun. but this was supposed to be an ar-15, a very powerful rifle. thed a says don't shoot your eye out, kid. and the slogan is no ho ho compromise, the slogan for the nfa is no compromise. this ad is getting a slew of comments on its facebook page with some nfa supporters not happy with it. bo saying: and rya

>> and ryan writing: >> some though, though, say, it's a light ad referencing a classic christmas movie. and john saying, i love the idea to stand out or be forgotten. the nfa is not backing down. they've engaged some of the commenters on facebook saying the ad is not in poor adjustment. >> that's for someone else to decide. >> that's right, you be the judge. >> finally a step forward to help amputees. the man you see there is les b bow. he had to his have arms amputated 40 years ago. now he's operating prosthetic

arms using his mind. now he can do all the every-day things that he has not been able to do over the last 40 years. thank you for watching this edition of al jazeera america. "real money" is next. have a great weekend. . >> the fbi blames north korea for the sony hack attack, but some are not convinced. cuba opening with new rules that could help cuba american families take care of their own on the island. plus why christmas tree farmers are seeing green. i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi, and this is "real money." [music]