the sabinos and the williams and the bowlinss, we need to prosper too. that's our show for today. the top stories on al jazeera. the presidential candidate for tunisia's secular party is claiming victory in the run-off vote, but beji caid essebsi's claim has been dismissed by his rival moncef marzouki, who says it's too early to call a winner. official results are expected on monday human rites watch says muslims in central -- human rights watch says muslims in

central african republic are facing hunger and disease, and that u.n. peacekeepers are not providing them with security somebodies. -- assistance. pakistan plans to executed 55 me. four men were executed on sunday, convicted of being involved in an attack on the former president pervez musharraf police officers and tribes many in central iraq have retaken a town of west africa, west of the ramadi city. it had been under the control of the islamic state of iraq and levant for the past week. 22 i.s.i.l. fighters were killed in the operation. the president of iraq's kurdish reason is promising to crush i.s.i.l., make the the comments as he met the troops on mt sinjar. kurdish forces are facing resistance from the town of sinjar, and it was for from clear

the united nations released new figures on the numbers killed. 7,000 people have died since the outbreak in march. the total number of people or the gearnd case in new york. >> he was-k addressing the life of, an african american teenager shot by a black police officer. >> i understand that and you sound very intelligent. and let me say this: truly you don't believe that every person or every black that's killed is because of a white policemen, do you believe that? every time. >> police released video from surveillance cameras outside the store. video shows martin and another person walk ugh away from the store to where the officers stopped them. in the left-hand corner of the video you can see the officer

talking to the two young men then shots are fired. and one teen runs away. from a different angle we see the shooting then the officer falling back. the officer eventually moves away from the area. police say they recovered this 9 millimeter gun from the scene. >> we have somebody pointing a gun at a police officer there is not a lot of time. i think the officer responded with what he thought was commensurate report at the time. >> what she heard from the girlfriend is different than police are saying. >> they went to the store walking somewhere, they was walking and the police i guess he started to run or something and the police started shooting. >> hundreds of people gathered tuesday night after martin was shot and killed. tensions rose. and then the situation turned violent. police say two officers were hurt and four people were

arrested and charged with assault. tony harris, al jazeera. >> just a short time ago tony also spoke to the mayor of berkeley, missouri. the mayor explained why he says this time is different from the shooting in ferguson. >> i had the opportunity to look at this video. and the video very clearly indicates that the suspect pulled a gun on the officer. and the officer only responded. after the suspect pulled a gun. so you know, i don't know who's telling you in reference to i've jumped to conclusion, very difficult to jump to conclusion after you review the evidence of the video. >> how do you respond to those who say what happened in berkeley is clearly the latest example of deadly aggression by trigger happy cops?

>> well, i disagree with that. if you look at the video it indicated that the black teenager initiated this effort. and i do not agree with every incident when it comes to poli police. and african americans, always initiated by police. and therefore, although the ferguson, i maybe concur with them, and garner in new york i might agree with them. but this incident is separate and distinct from any other incident and after you review the evidence you conclude that the suspect pulled -- police responded appropriately. >> i'm reading that your city will conduct a parallel investigation with the st. louis county police department. what does that mean a parallel investigation? will your investigation be independent? >> right. >> will you interview the same witness he and in some cases different witnesses? what does a parallel

investigation even mean? >> parallel means that we will be independent and separately. all the evidence and come to a conclusion. >> we go now to syria where i.s.i.l. captured a coalition pilot after his jet crashed. the jordanian pilot was conducting a mission in the area. nasanine mashiri reports. >> brought down outside the yshesyrian city of rah raqqa. >> every necessary step needed in order to secure his coming back to his home and his family. >> the u.n. is urging the group to treat the pilot humanely. >> the secretary general

requests the group to very closely in the armed conflict and deeply concerned with the continued use of violence across the country. >> reports it is an f-16 plane. this will be the first coalition plane to come down in i.s.i.l. territory. it is thought the group does have antiaircraft weapons which are portable and easy to hide. so targeting them in air strikes is a difficult task. one military expert says there are former iraqi officers in i.s.i.l. capable of using the technology. >> iraqi officers they have experience and handle such weapon nicely and they need to have some skill to shoot down an airplane that regard. but as jordan government has also said, it's held the i.s.i.l. responsible for the safety and the life of the pilot. >> this latest incident could have major implications for the

u.s. led air campaign. they've carried out hundreds of air strikes since their operation started in september. they'll need to quickly understand the capabilities of i.s.i.l. as becomes a bigger threat in the skies above iraq and syria. made a direct appeal to i.s.i.l. for mercy. his relatives must wait for the news on the fate of this young pilot. nasanine mashiri, al jazeera. >> israel says responding to a sniper attack that wounded one of its soldiers. one of the latest in a series of dollars between hamas anding israel. imtiaz tyab has more. >> it was in this area where two

young men were injured, palestinian armed faction known as the kasam brigades were involved in an altercation. we understand that one senior member of this palestinian armed faction was killed after israeli forces fired tbuns and tank shells in their direction. we also understand that an israeli soldier was taken to hospital after suffering a gunshot wound to his chest in what's been described as a sniper attack. whatever the case, there are many concerns here that we are seeing an uptick in violence. this is the second major incident between israeli forces and palestinian armed factions here in the gaza strip and the concern here is that we'll return to the violence that we saw over the months of july and august, in which over 2,000 palestinians were killed. >> there's lots of finger-pointing over this incident with each side blaming

the other for the attack. hamas spokesman spoke to al jazeera over the phone and said israeli troops sparked the incident. >> the patrol crossed the bord border, there was a warning shoot for the israeli patrol but the reaction of the battle watts shooting against the palestinians causing the killing of the palestinian, this is the real situation. >> an israeli patrol unprovoked was shot at by a palestinian sniper and we actually have a soldier that was severely wounded in this unprovoked attack. this is the reality. the prom was on the israeli side of the border. i heard what mr. hamdan was saying and it is a complete falsification. >> both sides called a truce in august endin ending seven weeksf fighting. the results more than 2,000

palestinian casualties. >> in atlanta, an accident exposure to the ebola virus, mistakenly transferred to an you are secured lab at cdc. scientists who entered the room were potentially exposed. the cdc is monitoring the situation. people are cleaning up in mississippi after getting slammed with tornadoes. four people were killed after wind gusts up to 125 miles per hour buffeted the state. thousands without power. pmeteorology kevin corriveau joins us now. >> making its way off the coast so we are seeing dry weather in the area. of course today is a huge travel day as well as yesterday. this storm caused huge problems. we are talking about 2800

flights are in the air currently and the big problems right now we have seen a lot of delays in some cities but it's philadelphia, actually jfk as well as newark. philadelphia has improved and we do expect to see of course for the next four or five hours those flights coming in. not too many problems in the area. what we're seeing is very heavy area towards the northeast. the rain here towards the south is starting to decrease so that is good for those airports. but still flooding is going to be a major problem across northern new england through tomorrow. we don't expect to see much improvement until we get to tomorrow afternoon. not going to be a white christmas northeast, but out towards the west. if you are in the mountain states and the ski holiday, it is going to be amazing, it is going to be 12 to 15 more inch of snow by christmas afternoon.

>> that's good news kevin. midnight mass was held in bullpebethlehem in the west ban. pope francis led christmas eve mass. tomorrow morning pope francis will deliver his annual address to the city and the world. still on al jazeera, the hacking and the threats and why sony p on the web. piano prodigy, a syrian refugee takes the big stage here in america. during a disaster turned into

>> you can now see the controversial movie "the interview" online. sony is allowing people to rent

or buy the film on a variety of digital platforms such as youtube. this comes one day after the stewed dwroa said i -- studio sd offer the film on limited release. despite, threats of voyages. peter, thanks for coming in. so much of the story has me skeptical, simply because i'm a journalist by nature, i tent to be skeptical. the statements by sony granted they love the publicity, they were following lead of the independent theaters and not threats from korea. >> wouldn't it be amazing if this ushers in the new era of being able to download films, the second they are released, without ever having to go to the theater? i guarantee you, this is going

to come out and sony will make suches -- this movie was not destined to do well in the beginning. >> maybe it's a good pay scale for future movies. movies coming out christmas day, movie by angelina jolie, unbroken, and that's probably where the interview would have ended up, but how many go to those theaters, as you mentioned, if people don't have to leech their homes, they could wind up more people watching than if they had gone to the theater. >> perhaps this is kim jong-un's ability to -- gift to us to have us watch in our pajamas. the second they pulled the movie

they set a very, very bad precedent. if they didn't like that movie what's to stop anyone from saying pull this movie or we'll cause trouble or whatever the case may be. they had to go back to it. somebody was talking to google or youtube, why don't we release this, we'll charge a nominal fee, or we'll charge $14.99. can you imagine having this much publicity on the film and not having to be able to show it? it would be suicide. it's a last gasp but it's going to pay off. >> it's so much safer to release it online. >> it's not sony's fault if something happens in their home. >> exactly. how do you think executives in hollywood are monitoring this situation? >> very, very carefully. no other studio would come to sony's defense, anyone's e-mail, none of us are innocent, we all

said bad things if we got hacked. comments off the record about you know, if it worked for them perhaps we'll think about how we release our movies and things like that. i think from a negotiating standpoint sony has a tremendous value now where they can say well we broke the ice, we did it first, we released it online and look, it worked. >> i'm going to be the skeptical journalist first, there's no greater place for that than hollywood. >> no question. >> here's going to happen in the future, educated december, there's going to be some other hacking scandal around some big movie coming out and all of a sudden look at the publicity we got? >> 1985, the universalling released the hackers, to get publicity, they hacked their own website. they did this of course they were immediately found out. the whole reason i think this is

playing so well is no one has been able to come out and say no one, has been able to give that prove, so they still have plausible deny ability. we want to show this film anyway so we're going to be bigger guys and in the end make a really nice profit off of it. >> good to see what happens in the next few days. mike, happy holidays. >> dominic kane has the story of an incredible 16-year-old. >> to hear tambi play ra ra rachmaninof, you'd have thought he had been doing it all his life. his teachers were so impressed with him in his first class, they awarded him a scholarship.

>> tambi needs only one day to master a musical piece. >> his skills have can quickly brought him to national attention in turkey, thanks to a personal intervention from president erdogan, tambi and his parents have turkish citizenship allowing him to enter several competitions. >> translator: i rent turkey, i'm quite happy because i live here now, i'm sad at the time because turkey does give me such chances. >> at home, tambi still place the accordion. but his sights are set on a different world. soon he will play in the carnegie hall in the us. he loves the music of the

russian composers because he feel like he belongs to them. his teachers believe he's good enough to be in their company. dominic kane, al jazeera. >> we want to go back to our top story now, a police shooting in berkeley, missouri, surveillance video of that shooing that left the teenager ded. officers say it shows an 18-year-old pointing a gun at the police officer. investigators say they recovered the handgun at the scene. some are trying to compare this to the shooting of michael brown. the mayor says it is completely different. jamilla lemieux, already from this incident, in the wake of what has happened in ferguson and cleveland, people are adding to the tension with this. but the mayor says it's different. how do you see it? >> you know i mean are there some differences, possibly. i've seen all three versions of the video. i think it's a ro rorschach tes.

i didn't see a gun. the tensions are very high in this community. we're talking about a place that is only a few miles away from ferguson, greater st. louis, same people, same protesters, same mourning the same community. and to see another officer involved shooting when we are still reeling from what happened in august and the shooting of black men in the area since th then, powell and meyers, and to see there hasn't been police accountability to date, no matter what happened last night, whether this young plan had a gun or not. there's going to be questions about this. >> there's evidence of gun at the scene. >> allegedly. >> when you say allegedly, there is video of a gun at the scene. there is one difference ferguson to berkeley, the demographic of

the places. >> of the 31 police officers, 17 of 18 are said to be black in berkeley. there is more black leadership in berkeley, however the officer who fired the fatal shot is said to be white. this is -- it is a race problem but ultimately it speaks to a police problem in the way that police police african americans. >> it's unfortunate any time someone dies at the hand of police. again as we mentioned earlier there's this underlying issue here that probably needs to be addressed and how people feel about the police. we can go back to 50 years ago, the civil rights era, malcolm x or martin luther king talk about how communities of minorities many feel that police are not there to protect them but to

suppress them is a better way, that's how they feel when the police show up and granted they say that's why you get some of the responses from these young men. >> absolutely. you know there will not be a different feeling among black people among the police until the police kill black people at the rate at which they do. deadly force, absolutely we didn't see that with erik garner, tam i tamil rice, on ann and on, we know there's a problem with police and black people. there have been plenty of instances of white people who have shot police officers and taken in alive. >> do you think this is negative in the movement across the united states? >> i think it will energize

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conversations. >> in this picture you're in the foreground and the star bruce springsteen is in the background. >> i'm john siegenthaler. over the year, we brought you some news makers, the conversations were revealing and at times surprising. we begin with roseanne cash. she hails from music royalty but johnny cash's daughter is a superstar in her own right. she talked about her life her career and her newest album the river in the thread. >> it feels amazing. you you put out a body of work and you hope it connects with people you never know particularly in this day and age whether people aren't buying as much music as they used to. to have it accepted like that and the praise come back to you, it's amazing, i feel like the luckiest person in the world.

>> when i heard you describe this music it sounded like it started with a road trip, is that kind of it? >> that's kind of it. arkansas state university wanted to purchase my dad's family home. i started to go down for fund raisers, i.t. was a perfect storm of inspiration being back in the south and reconnected with people i knew. and seeing my own san says tral- ancestral musical history, being from the south was a footnote, it turned out i was connected to it all. >> there's a song on this album, called the sunken land. where is the sunken land. >> where reply dad's