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all-out civil war - it's the subject of tonight's "a deeper look." great to have you with us. thousands are expected tomorrow at the furniture for u.s. city police officer wenjian liu, a second officer killed in the line of duty. today state and city officials, friends and family turned out in brooklyn to pay their respects. courtney kealy was there, and has this report. >> reporter: the funeral and wake for officer wenjian liu were postponed for this weekend so officials could arrange visas for family members to travel here. officer wenjian liu was 32 years old, a newly wed and a 7-year veteran. he moved here and is survive by his wife and family members that relied on his wam for support.

new york police officers had this to say. >> young man, officer wenjian liu. this was his dream, to become an n.y.p.d. officer, in some ways it was an ultimate assimilation into america and new york. to become a police officer. he was so proud for his whole family. >> reporter: fellow officers came to his wake as they did for his partner, officer rafael ramos a week ago. wenjian liu and rafael ramos were shot and killed two weeks ago in a patrol car outside a housing project. new york police commissioner bill bratton said the officers were assassinated. he attended the wake after the doors opened at 1:30pm along with the new york mayor, in an attempt to quell tensions between the mayor and police officer unions commissioner bill bratton sent out a memo telling the n.y.p.d. that now is the time for grieving not

gravances. there'll be a ceremony officials by buddhist monks, police chapman and major bill de blasio yulo guising the officer, and he'll be transferred for burial at cyprus hills cemetery a family of an al qaeda suspect accused of planning bombings of two embassies in africa is blaming the for his death. he was due to face charges after being on the run. >> abu afas al-libby died days before his trial in new york. he was accused of planning attacks on the u.s. embassies in tanzania that killed many.

it triggered a manhunt resulting in the death and capture of 18 al qaeda operatives. >> the big take away is that terrorism is a crime, that can be fought with crime fighting methods, and that civil courts can get convictions. people can be identified. >> in october 2013 u.s. army commandos snatched al-liby off the street. he was taken and questioned for a week by c.i.a. agents. during this interrogation he said he was threatened and made incriminating statements under duress and pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges. prosecutors said he was an associate of osama bin laden, and joined al qaeda in the early 1990s. his attorney said he had no connection with the organization after 1994. he had severe health problems

including hepatitis and liver cancer. prosecutors say he was taken to hospital and his condition deteriorated. >> one of his sons told al jazeera that u.s. oneglected his father's health hastening his death. >> we healed the u.s. government responsible for the -- hold the u.s. government responsible for the death of my father. >> of the officers indict 10 are dead, six serving life terms in u.s. prisons, two are awaiting trial. three, including al qaeda head remain at large. >> earlier tonight i spoke with mark lyons a former army officer about his death. >> it's probably not what the

u.s. government wanted. his wife claimed he was not in the taliban, but he had been with osama bin laden. they had proof to indict him and take him to court. his base was in libya. he was against the government there, and he aligned himself with osama bin laden. the proof was photographic evidence of him checking out the embassies in nairobi before they were bombed. that was the basis of the environment. he was tagged as someone who is an early stage operative. >> he was able to evade capture. the u.s. didn't have access on the ground. the codefendant told the judge preparing to sentence him, that he has opposed violence. in a letter delivered, he wrote that he wanted to be reunited with his family. a plea deal was made capping

his sentence at 25 years, bari who served 15 years is due to be sentenced on january 12th the trial of boston marathon suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev begins on monday. there was an application to move the trial outside of boston but the federal court ruled they didn't meet the standards. 1200 jurors have been summoned to appear this next story is remarkable. a 7-year-old girl walked away from a plane crash that killed it went down near eddiville. the family was making a return trip from florida to illinois. the brave second grader showed resilience. >> she looked around. there was a small fire at the scene, and she tried to awaken her family members still

contained in the cabin of the aircraft. she was unsuccessful. she knew that she needed to seek assistance for them. where she was located you couldn't see a residential light or darkness. she was in a thick area of vegetation vegetation. she started walking for a considerable period of time. >> she walked until she came to the home of larry wilkins. >> opened the door there was a little girl about 7 years old. bloody bloody nose legs and arms bleeding crying. she told me that her parents were dead. and she-in a plane crash, and it was upside down. police say the child suffered some broken bones, but not injured. she has been reunited with

relatives. mick huckabee could be the first candidate to through his name in the win for the 2016 presidential election. the former arkansas governor announced he's leaving his cable show to consider a run for the white house. the conservative unsuccessfully ran in 2008. he sat out the 2012 election. searchers are hoping for improved conditions in the recovery for flight qz8501. airasia flights had been suspended. the airline was flying without a permit last sunday. singapore says the airline was cleared to fly. officials say four large pieces located in the java sea are debris from the flight. we have this report from jakarta. >> before the cause of the crash op september 28th is nine it

has been banned from flying between the ski. the airline was found to have operated the flight that went down. the minister does not rule out sanctions, but is investigating everyone involved. >> air traffic control, airasia, and the other airlines. and also the whole play in this air transport. in the schedule. including our own people. if any airlines does the same thing we will cancel the licence of the route, the specific route. if everybody doing it we will

cancel everything. >> reporter: analysts say it's not only airasia that has been breaching regulations. the airlines industry has a poor safety record nearly all the airlines are banned from flying to europe are from the international organization after it downgraded aviation ratings in 2006. many say things have not improved since then. >> there was some improvements nothing specific or consistent. we wasted a lot of time. >> airports are not equipment to deal with a rapidly growing airline industry. the main airport in jakarta has the capacity to deal with passengers leading to statistics of near plane collisions because of heavy plane traffic. >> this is the eighth busiest airport in the world. many can afford to fly, an average of 164,000 passengers for planes here and in indonesia

every day. a booming industry struggling to keep up with demand. instead of banning indonesian airlines a former transport minister sis international organizations should help. >> translation: please help indonesia. european union, please come here hem indonesia -- help indonesia, are you happy we have these accidents so you can punish us. you are a developed region. we buy airbuses from you the minister of transport wants to take measures to improve safety records, investigations are under way to find out why the airasia flight crashed into the java sea, killing 162 people. rescuers have found four large parts of the plane at the bottom

of the sea, increasing the chances of finding the black box soon. >> the embassy is warning of a threat against american motels and businesses in surabaya. the warning does not specify the nature of the theft israel is taking action against the palestinian authority's bid to join the international court. israel said it will freed money used to run the government and pay salaries. palestinian officials say it will affect ordinary citizens. stephanie dekker has more from jerusalem. >> they usually do this as a punitive measure when the palestinians take action. they can't do it for too long there's the possibility that the pa collapses when it doesn't get the millions in money that it relies on and it's something that israel doesn't want. israel doesn't want the pa to collapse who will run the west

bang. it's back and forth. we are hearing the language the palestinians and the israelis saying the palestinians go to the i.c.c. and if you investigate us to war crimes we'll do it to your leaders, who they find accountable of allowing terrorists. all in all it's an unconducive scene and timing. palestinian people who will be watching the leaders make the moves supported, but nothing is changing on the ground for them. >> stephanie dekker in jerusalem. the palestine liberation organization was quick to respond saying in part: three armed opposition factions in south syria

announced a merger forming what they call the first army. the opposition has been weakened by infighting which undermined efforts to remove bashar al-assad. >> reporter: the commander of syria's newly formed first army announced the merger of three rebel groups based in the south. by joining forces the rebels hope they'll have success in regaining control of provinces bike deraa and other areas from regime forces. opposition emerged in the past with limited success. seven groups united into a force called the islamic front. and in the northern city of aleppo the islamic front joined forces with other rebel groups. fighters say the integration was limited. and aleppo was a city besieged by regime forces. infighting and disunity weakened

the opposition. in the jova area rebel groups are on the offensive. syrian state tv said bashar al-assad visited the neighbourhood. the rebels say that is untrue. they controlled the area. >> translation: we dismiss the media reports that bashar al-assad has been into this area. that is the parliament square and the hospital. >> reporter: near a lebanese boarder, another armed group, al nusra front, has attacked hezbollah positions. bashar al-assad's forces have the backing of the military wing of hezbollah, a lebanese shia organization. the rule is if the a simply opposition versus government. there are many groups and allegiances. whatever side syrians are on the fighting and chaos show no

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welcome back tonight we take a deeper look at the crisis situation in libya. the death of muammar gaddafi created a power vacuum that has not been filled. the country is being run by two regimes in two capitals, with each claiming legitimacy. the rival factions agreed to peace talks on monday. courtney kealy has more. [ explosion ] >> reporter: more than three years after the death of muammar gaddafi, chaos rules libya. fighting rainings for forcesal lied to two -- forces allied to

two competing governments and militias. a coalition of fighters called libya dawn forced libyan prime minister and his internationally recognised government to the eastern city of tobruk. more than 750 miles away from the capital of tripoli. the group nominated its own leader forming its own capital. the two rivals were met in tripoli and tobruk. >> translation: we will not allow the collapse of the state institutions. we need to not violate the libyan sovereignty. >> it's hoped the peace talks will lead to a national unity government dismantling of militias and a new constitution. they are ambitious and loftry goals in a wounded and lawless country.

battles for control of the second largest city continue to rage, between the libya national army a power of the militia led by the renegade general and fighters at the shura council. for more than three weeks the largest oil depot, and its terminal had been shut down after libya dawn fighters attempted to take it over. after a grad rocket ignited storage facilities it lasted a week, destroying 1.8 million barrels of crude. according to the state-run national oil corporation, the recent fighting reduced the output to about 380,000 barrels a day. a fraction of its normal cap ate of 1.5 million barrels. libya dawn forces are determined to gain ground.

>> translation: we are moving step by step. there are families here we don't want to harm them. hundreds of libyans have been killed in the fighting since august. the conflict drove 120,000 people from their homes, causing a country wide humanitarian crisis. >> let's take a deeper lookment joining us from washington d.c. is sara foyer, a research fellow and analyst of north african affairs at the washington institute for near east policies. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> looking back to the ousting of muammar gaddafi in 2011 there was optimism why has libya failed to obtain stability? >> well there are many reasons. it's a very complicated situation. as the segment just suggested. . >> in many ways libya had a lot going for it after muammar

gaddafi's fall. the absence of anything resembling state institutions which seems to us as a real liability, at the time people were reasonably pointing out that that could have worked in its favour because there were fewer entrenched institutions entrenched individuals and interests to contend with. and so it could have been easier to lay the ground work for the political process. the main problems arose when it was clear that the country was awash in arms and some. groups that had fight and those who had been among loyalists were hard to compel them to lay down the arms i would like to welcome the second guest. he is an expert on libyan-u.s.

relations and spoke to congress about the situation there. great to have you with us. do you think we overestimated what the libyans could do for themselves? >> well you know you are talking about a country that has not had reliable or viable institutions for a long time. the old regime for 42 years did nothing but destroy, and not give a chance to any leaders to emerge or any institutions to build themselves - i would say this is in the core of this. libya is in dire need of not only grassal vention by words or support or dialogue or conferences, it is at a point were not many libyans have the

courage to say this. i speak with people within the libyan hor, that are in tobruk. some even people that are working with the defunct g.n.c. members of the current running government. former officials, none of whom want to put their name into what i am about to say. an international military intervenes is needed in libya today. we did it in 2011 because we had a humongous monster that ran the country. no one had sympathy for him. the world rallied. the u.n. voted to intervene, save lives, use the protocol of

the 2006 - april 2006 unprotodoll... >> i want to get ms foyer's take on this. do you think that international military force is needed now? >> well i think that for a while the united states and the european allies wanted to give the u.n. mission a chance. so we have held off from major intervention to see if we could convince of warring factions to come to the table. the problem is that it is clear that absent real incentive for the groups to put down their weapons and come to a process of political reconciliation it's difficult to see that happening. absent some kind of intervention. >> i want to give a little more

background. today supporters of yl killed 14 libyan soldiers in the country. in central libya, several were kidnapped or abducted. officials blame a growing number of it extremists causing concern for western nations who fore the spread of i.s.i.l. france's defence minister made a surprise visit to troops in niger. multiple nation including nigeria, mallee and senegal called for intervention in libya. following a meeting with the president, the french defence minister said: continue your thought. how big of a threat is libya to its neighbours? >> well it's a growing one. it's an ever increasing one. you know one country does an

example. tiny tinizia that went through a process of political elections got through it relatively unscathed. they are worried because for them the biggest security threat is a spillover from libya, to say nothing of the countries that you rightly mentioned - niger, chad. these countries are worried. you can see, i think, why the calls for intervention are growing. it also puts the united states in a tricky position because to the extent that the obama administration articulated that it would like to degrade and defeat i.s.i.s. if you have outposts proclaiming themselves in places like libya, that is going to demand a response. >> as i mentioned you spoke

before congress in libya, what should the u.s. be going? >> frankly the international community represented by the united nations and the security council generally speaking they build up to whatever they want to build up to. they have done that. yes, you can call for dialogue you can call for conference all of which have already taken place. there are resolutions on the books. already at the u.n. they need enforcement. if the united states along with britain and france in particular, do not sit down with the russians and the chinese and say this - every one of us has something at stakes. i think there has been a bit of apprehension since ukraine, and what has been going on in other parts of the world. the united states didn't feel

like it would get the votes or would be able to get anyone moving forward. i spoke with people that are close to the white house, and i pushed for intervention. it is in the interests of the libyan people to do this. we did fight muammar gaddafi, and the troops on the verge of of... >> but what is the hs takes to get involved? -- hesitation to get involved. >> there's internal politics in the united states. the u.s. was asked. they said "no, we are not ready to do anything." it's very - everybody sees now that there's waves and waves of migrants entering europe illegally. there are there's so much going on on the ground in libya when it comes to al qaeda groups and i.s.i.s. in my opinion what needs to happen is enforce the resolutions already. make a list of those individuals

in libya, whether it's been in the east or the west that are responsible for conducting themselves or warring the involving of civilians, to be illegally targeted as terrorists, bring them to the hague to try them. name them by name. shut the ports. whether it's the benghazi ports, or some ports where weapons come in. if there's anybody thinking that this guy is a renegade find a resolution to include him to be part quasi relationship that is official enormous so that he may gain some kind of legitimacy in what he's doing, and move the process forward. if we don't militarily intervene in libya, it will get worse. i tell you, i grew up in benghazi and i spoke to my family last night. they don't have gas to cook food with. in benghazi. it's getting terrible. i mean it's like what do we do

sit and watch. the united states needs to take the lead. the french are rumbling now. two days ago the french foreign minister suggested that we should intervene. >> i think the french should take the lead or have some substantive discussions with the u.s. and the u.k. and move the process forward. unfortunately, and i feel like i failed myself that we have not, as libyans or libyans abroad have not been able to make the case effective enough to the world community, namely the five pant security members of the u.n. to intervene. >> not an easy process. i want to get your final thoughts. hundreds of thousands have been displaced. what does the future hold? >> well i think the almost immediate future holds monday which is when the next session

of the special missions negotiations are scheduled to relaunch. if that doesn't happen i think you will start to see more conversations about additional steps. i mean one final thing that i might note is that the most recent statement that the joint statement to come out of the state department - this was following meetings between secretary kerry and our allies in europe at the begin of december made reference at the end to considering alternative measures if the u.n. special mission negotiations fail. monday is a big day. we'll have to see what follows. chance to follow this closely. research fellow and analyst. expert on libyan relations, spoke to congress about the

situation in libya coming up next on al jazeera america, the suicide of a transgender teen is sparking a debate over acceptance. hundreds of thousands have gone online demanding change. killing cancerous tumours may be easier thanks to research in general nip. the ebola crisis reaches a tragic milestone.

welcome back edward brook, the first african-american to win popular election to the u.s. senate passed away. the republican was elected in the height of the civil rights movement and racial unrest. he served as a senator until 1979. before that brook was elected massachusetts attorney-general where are in 1962 and in 1964. the first african-american to hold the post in any state. edward brook was 95 years old.

one teenager's suicide sparked a debate. joshua, a transgender teen identified as leyla died last weekend. more than 80,000 signed a petition to put the chosen female name on the tombstone. 200,000 signed a separate petition aimed at banning transgender conversion therapy in leyla's name. paul beban has more. >> it was dark on a cold december morning when leyla wept for a stroll. she walked out of kings mill her home and walked south. when a south bound tractor trailer roared by before 2:30 on sunday leyla stepped in front of it. that afternoon her mother wrote a facebook post beginning:

the next day leyla's own words would ring out on social media around the world. she set up a suicide note to post to the web automatically: she wrote since she was four she felt like a girl trapped in a boy said body but her family: her conservative mother and father sent leyla to christian therapists taking her out of public schools, trying to keep her off social media. since the story break, calls to transgender hotlines soared. >> we noticed in emails in the last day or two, 80% of emails coming in from people are around issues of gender identity. leyla's story put a face to a feeling that people have had for a long time. >> reporter: leyla's suicide note is a cry of desperation

from an emotional articulate teen with no hopes of a happy future. >> either i live the rest of my life as a lonely man wishing he was a woman, or a lonely woman who hates herself. there's no winning or way out. speaking of their child's wish to be a woman his parents said: some of leyla's supporters are not buying that version of unconditional and flooded leyla's mother's facebook page with angry messages: lion line they posted phone numbers online. leyla's father in an email said: >> at the same time there is

anger. anger at the situation that is justified. what we do with the anger is important. we cap turn it in a way that will help other people that are still struggling. >> reporter: leylaeneded her note with a plea: once again paul beban reporting. leyla's suicide post has been removed from the web. it's unclear whether her parents or the host site deleted it scientists in germany are looking to expand a successful cancer treatment using particles to destroy cells. scientists are hoping to tart tumours that move within the body. >> gerhart has spent his life defending a technique.

using beans, the protop part of the atom was used to target two missiles while sparing surrounding tissue. it was so successful 90% of people with brain tumours recover. >> the main interaction with the tissue or material around is at the end. you can go somewhere in and do something at the end. it's like a knife which is at the end very sharp, and in between you don't see it at all. particle beams work well when tuting tumours in parts of the body like the brain, which can be held still. many tumours appear in areas like the lungs or the liver, and they are continuously moving inside a patient. that's why scientists develop a new technique to track the movement of the tumor during therapy. >> they used a robot to emulate

the movement of a lung tumor inside the patient's chest. the particle beam tracks the movement and continues to deliver a precise and targeted dose of radiation where it's needed. >> going to the real patient everything is more difficult, because - like in the setup here, for example, you can see from the outside - you can just follow the movement and see what is happening. of course, on the patient, the tumor is on the inside so you can't see what is going on. >> using motion tracking technology researchers develop ways to match the movement of internal organs like the lungs with points on the outside of the body while checking that the beam is on target. the researchers say the technique, once perfected will cost less than a third of the price of chemotherapy and little or no side effects and be more effective. >> if this technology would be common in the rich countries, it would be cheaper and spread to

the less rich countries. >> the machine costs $120 million, and has the capacity to stretch 10,000 people over five years, and could be used to street some conditions even replacing surgery. the technique demonstrates have you advances particle physics and computer technology plays a part in the ongoing fight against cancer the toll from the ebola outbreak in west africa continues to rise. the virus claimed almost 8,000 lives. more died from ebola in liberia, than anywhere else with more than 3400 deaths. guinea and sierra leone lost 4500 people. a nurse is in critical condition in london. pauline kav early's health is

getting worse. ca.a.f. erty was being treated raging brush fires are driving thousands of australians from their homes. we'll take you there. nasty winter weather is headed to new england we'll have your forecast. and a sad farewell to a one of a kind tax edeterminy tort to us. lonesome george heads home.

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felt in the north, especially among the poor of peshawar. as a new year arrives pt their hopes are mixed with concerns. >> i hope 2015 will be a peaceful year and my business prospers. if there are bomb blasts and killings, there'll be no economic activity and business affecting our livelihoods this product is in high demand. this man cells gore a home-made cake but makes a modest income. the price per kilogram is less than a dollar. the whole area suffers shortages of electricity and gas. some are optimistic. definitely in 2015, we will achieve all the targets. because if we go the last one decade we are facing the problems of security.

and the second is the city and if we make main sector good for the atmosphere of the industrial and business community, economy will be increased within six months. the killing of dozens of children in a school attack drew it to the world, the area. >> pakistan received 3.2 billion from the i.m.f. critics say the bulk of the money goes to defense at security, because for the government it's a top priority for the moment. security is crucial, say the critics, but too much prioritising it hurts the economy. the two are intricately linked in the eyes of many. >> translation: i think this year will bring prosperity to the country. the government and the military are on the same front, fighting the menace once we have peace, there'll be more investment and job opportunities for the people

and everyone here will benefit. >> for now, life remains tough here. with high unemployment rates, electricity crisis the closing of hundreds of businesses and renewed insecurity the most these people aspire to is to be able to keep their heads above water. developing news into al jazeera. indonesia's search and rescue chief is addressing the media to discuss the latest developments in the search for the missing airasia plane. you are looking planes. he said search and rescue crews found a fifth piece of debris. the object said to be part of airasia 8501. the search continues to recover more bodies cooler weather is helping hundreds of firefighters battle raging wild fires. thousands have been evacuated, dozens of houses destroyed, and 22 people have been injured.

firefighters cleared roads, hoping that residents will return to their homes. rebecca stevenson joins us with a look at the forecast and what firefighters are up against. >> they are up against no rain in southern australia, probably not until wednesday, and even then wednesday, 1mm. that's the amount of rain they'll get where the wildfires are. in the highlighted area it's in the further south corner to the bottom right. that's where most of the fires get amazing pictures. there's so much smag in the air that the rays of light as the sun starts to set begins to bend from the smoke and the particulate matter hanging in the air, and there has been incredible sunsets, bright red and orange in colour. it is typical when we get fire season going. it's their summer our winter. here we are looking at a dump of rain in the powerful storms moving across the south-east.

we have gotten up to 2.5 to 3.5 inches reported in some places with the line of storms. louisiana - over 2.5 inches of rain in the rain gauge. imagine places with heavier rain that don't have a gauge in place. wet. here are storm reports - 5 tornado reports sent in. we are seeing a lot of reports coming in of roof damage trees down limbs blocking roads, all kinds of problems. flooding too for the south-east. as we see the tornado chance diminish for parts of alabama, there's know ice and wind developing in the mid west. kansas has a blizzard warning. it is so cold. all the snow and cold air is making you feel like 14 degrees. you could see where the blizzard warning is going through kansas.

and bismark 10 degrees below normal. feels like 45 degrees below normal and here in the north-east here is the storm. new hampshire, vermont, main. >> do you take the rain or the warmer temperatures? >> i'll take the rain. >> a lot would agree. >> thank you new york's natural history museum is saying goodbye to a special exhibit. a taxi determiny tortuous known as lon some charge. he is and was one of a kind. once studied by charles darwin. kristen saloomey has more. >> reporter: he's known as lonesome george the last-known pinta island tortoise on earth. >> interesting species. >> he was discovered on the gall appa goes island at a time when scientists believed his subspecies was already extinct. >> if the tortoises hadn't been

heavily exploited hundreds of years ago, we may have it here. already it's a message about being good stewards of our planet. >> brought to new york after his death in 2012, it took a taxi determinist a year to preserve its skin and shell, replacing the internal organs with foam. lonesome george will be home in ecuador, gone but not forgotten from new york's natural history museum. he has become a symbol of what the world has lost from extinction. his fate is not unique dozens of species go ex-tint every day. >> this is loep some george in the final years. attempts to find a mate and reduce offspring fails. although he may be gone the legacy lives on. >> we read the story and finding out what it means by no more of

certain animals. i think they understand. >> to have opportunities to see it. it's wonderful. >> there's a lot of talk about things going extinct. >> reporter: teaching a new generation about the fragility of life on earth the artist known for elaborate outdoor installations gets a win in court. christo moves a step closer. >> and bad news bore barley, what that means for beer drinkers.

in rural colorado plans to create an art display has been given the go ahead by the government. the artist known as christo plans to hang six miles of colourful fabric over the

colorado river. opponents say it threatens wild life and safety. a judge ruled against the objections. the projects could begin in august 2018. there's a lawsuit pending. al jazeera poke to the artist and visited the site of his display. paul beban reports it's called "over the river", this is the river, the arkansas in south central colorado. what christo wants to do is spend hundreds of huge panels of silvery cloth, six miles of it in eight sections along a 42 mile stretch of the river. his drawings show how the sunlight filters through the fabric. the best way to see it will be from underneath on a raft drifting through big horn sheep canyon. >> there's 300,000 rafters in similar time going down anywhere. that is spectacular to experience the project over the

river. it is a play of lights passing into the fabric reflecting in the water. up not down. >> christo and his team have been working on over the river for 20 years, and had to get approval from state and federal agencies because the project is on protected lands. christo is plaguing the $50 million it will cost by selling hundreds of preparatory works which he makes by hand. christo and his late wife and collaborator were famous for their out size and some say outlandish projects. every one controversial in its own way, and over the river is no different. >> all the projects have a journey, when the project is in the minds of thousands who try to stop us and thousands that try to help us. even in some way, public hearings to the opposition, they are part of the project. willing or not willing, they are

related to the project, creating the energy. >> reporter: christo says he and jean claude scouted 89 rivers before deciding this one, the arkansas was perfect for the project. critics of over the river say this is anything but the ideal location. >> it is a major construction project in an area of environmental critical environmental concern. >> cristos team says they'll minimise the damn. others say they support the project. i think it will create a lot of attention for this part of colorado and i think it will do a lot to put the area of the state on the map. >> here we go. beer production in the u.s. has taken a hit. the bali crop was hurt by heavy rains in the west and started germinating in the fields and breweries. beer drinkers need not panic.

they have turned overseas suppliers. the cost of the beer is not exactly expected to bubble up this year. no pun intended right. that will do it for us. i'm thomas drayton in new york. "consider this" is coming up next. have a safe night. hello, i'm antonio mora, welcome to a special edition of "consider this," freedom under fire. attacks on human rights and freedom around the world have lead to growing humanitarian crises around the world. some 50 million people displayed by conflicts. nobody is suffering more than children, and despite heroic efforts, relief organizations are overwhelmed. women face discrimination and abuse. religious freedom is under