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i think we're into something that's bigger than us. something we really can't deal with. >> they had been trafficking on behalf of the united states government. >> she could prove what she was saying. >> [rapping] crack in the system. >> [rapping] this is los angeles. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey in new york with a look at today's top stories. belgium is asking for the extradition of a suspect and israel launches a deadly attack inside syria. several are killed including the son of a former tom commander. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the faithful dignitaries and even a marching band gives pope francis a sendoff as he departs the philippines.
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issues that will probably be overlooked when president obama gives his state of the union address. an about face by prosecutors in belgium. they now say they want to extradite one of four people arrested yesterday in greece, the person may have ties to a foiled plot to attack police. john siropolous has more from athens. >> the arrests that took place here in athens were at the behest of belgian authorities during a raid on a terrorist stronghold last thursday that there was an athens connection, there was a mastermind who had made telephone calls from a location here in the city to terrorist cells in belgium
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apparently approving certain plots to go ahead. certain attacks on european targets. the police confirmed that none of the four people they arrested at the request of belgian authorities on saturday turned out to be the that mastermind. dna samples were cross revenued from dna samples taken in athens. the chief suspect is not among those four people arrested. so one of those men is now being sent to belgium but the charges against him are still unknown. three of those men have now been released. >> john siropolous reporting from athens there. meanwhile authorities continue to hold suspects. latest from paris. >> nine of the 12 individuals arrest evidence in raids across
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the paris region friday are still being questioned. they've had their detention extended by a further 48 hours. three women of those 12 were released. questioned around the possibility that they might have provided logistical support to amedy coulibaly. one of the suspects killed in the jewish supermarket siege. the search for six possible further suspects, possibly members of anetwork, a wider network connecting coulibaly and the kouachi brothers. the kouachi brothers incidentally responsible for "charlie hebdo" shootings have both been buried in france. cherif cowch kouachi buried in an
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unmarked grave and said cowch kouachi buried in reims near where he lived. demonstrators burned pictures of the french president francois hollande. demanding punish many demanding punishment for those responsible for the "charlie hebdo" depictions. the group which called it patriotic europeans against the islamization of the west, cancelled a rally yesterday. a rally in paris outside paris in severin muslims and others
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gathered to condemn attacks and efforts to prevent further ones. antiislam demonstration in paris ruling it might disrupt public order. >> translator: daywe feel more and more a feeling of increased islam phobia muslim girls and women who wear the vail or they don't are being attacked. >> how can they criticize us for provoking hatred when we are only asking not to have terrorists or jihadists as neighbors, not being involved in our children with social services. >> we'll continue to follow that story. pope francis is headed back to rome after wrapping up a week long visit to asia. in manila thousands were on hand to see him off. pope francis waved to the crowd.
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people could be heard chanting, pope francis we love you as his visits drew record crowds. the highlight was a mass in manila that officials say drew millions of people. harry fawcett has the story. >> constant stream of people adding to the crush. the pope's first public appearance at a catholic university. to care for indeed weep for marginalized. >> translator: those that are left to one side are crying. those who are discarded those are crying. >> reporter: around the park where the pope's last mass was set to take place rain had set
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in. >> translator: we are very excited for hope for his coming. that's why i brought my son here we want him to be healed because he has an allergy. >> reporter: francis arrived in a pope mobile, are all around this congested city. he spoke on a celebration for the infant jesus. a traditionalist. >> needs to be protected against insidious attacks and programs. contrary to all that we hold true and sacred. all that is most beautiful and novel in our culture.
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>> reporter: for the vatican this trip is a chance to inspire a filipino population that is 80% conflict but which the church going the falling. >> every filipino wants to go with you. [cheering and applause] >> don't be afraid. every filipino wants to go with you, not to rome. but to the peripheries. >> reporter: as the rain fell still more heavily a final chance for the pope to say good-bye to the philippines and the philippines to him. so pope francis wraps up his week in asia one which has been marked by extraordinary devotional crowds in the philippines but also by controversy about his speaking
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of limits to free speech for millions crowded onto the street, this is a visit a lifetime. harry fawcett. al jazeera. >> hotels in the city say they're already running out of rooms. and israeli air strike kills several hezbollah fighters. the lebanese backed shia group hezbollah says an israeli helicopter fired the missiles. israeli has carried off at least seven air strikes inside syrian territory. nicole johnston first in beirut. >> currently fighting on the side of the assad regime inside
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syria. six were taken out two were senior commanders, one includes mohamed issa, and one including the son of imad molanea. this was certainly a big hit against hezbollah. not the first time they've been hit but certainly one of the biggest hits carried out by israel in terms of the caliber of this. now hezbollah has confirmed this has happened. they've told us that there will be retaliatory action. they said they can carry this out anyplace at any time. also the situation on the border between lebanon and israel has been very tense for the last couple of days. there have been israeli planes flying over southern lebanon reconnaissance missions carried out. and what we're waiting for now is for the funerals of these
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hezbollah figures over the next couple of days. this is sure to rally many hezbollah supporters out onto the streets of lebanon. >> nicole johnston there. israel has not confirmed the attacks. israel shamila has more from jerusalem. >> we were told that the army does not respond to foreign reports. however, we are hearing some reports from israeli media outlets that are quoting an unnamed source as saying that israel did indeed carry out this attack today in syria. however, no official confirmation from the army or the government. we heard earlier in the day on sunday the israeli army issuing a statement at some point today four israeli vehicles approached the border with lebanon and hurled tear gas and smoke
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grenades at lebanese soldiers. we also know that some lebanese media reports suggested that the israeli missiles targeted a rocket launching cell prepared to fire rockets at israel. we cannot confirm that. what we do know is this attack comes three days after hezbollah chief threatened to retaliate against israel's air strikes against syria. he's prepared to do this and fight the jewish state and use his long range missiles. he is a staunch supporter of the syrian regime has sent thousands of fighters to fight alongside bashar al-assad's fighter in syria and these attacks are an tack against the whole of the resistance which includes iran,
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hezbollah and syria as well. >> local i.s.i.l. cell, seven people reportedly of arab dissent and for just before executing an attack and were practicing on animals how to behead people. the seven admitted to block belonging to i.s.i.l. the country has expelled nine people belonging to i.s.i.l. expulsions began before the attack on "charlie hebdo" ten days ago. also identified 59 people headed to israel to fight. rob waynewright also trying to improve how it attracts. financing. >> it's not the same in the days
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of 9/11 when we had identifiable command and control structure. something very differently. real challenge for police right now. >> iran nuclear talks resumed in geneva today. world powers got together for a second time since they failed to meet the november deadline to make a deal. they now have until march. u.s. secretary of state john kerry held extensive meetings with the iranian prime minister this week. president obama said it might upset the negotiations if additional spite this opec which does include saudi arabia wants to retain its output. heavy fighting continued to rage at the airport in korean eastern
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ukraine today. drone footage showed the airport in ruins last week as thousands of creuns joined ukraines joined a are peace rally in kiev. 12 people were killed and 13 injured when a bus was shelled. the government has blamed the separatists. president petro poroshenko about the demonstration. >> translator: demonstrating courage and heroism. we will not give an inch of our land. >> five ukrainian soldiers were killed in the fighting in the airport and 43 wounded. officials are investigating a
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shooting outside the home of joe biden in delaware. shots were fired from a passing car, outside the perimeter around the residence. biden and his wife were not home at the time. so far there's no indication that the biden home was being targeted. still ahead. a jet spots a dangerous situation on the runway. a bit later in the week ahead. focusing on the major issues that probably will not make it into tuesday's state of the union speech. speech.
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>> a near collision at new york's kennedy airport is being investigated. a jetblue plane was forced to abort takeoff after another plane vird ventured into its path. the plane was traveling at full speed when it was ordered to stop.
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>> abort takeoff. >> it was crazy, all of a sudden the plane came to a screeching stop. it slid a little bit and everybody panicked. >> my goodness. more things like that will happen. it was a dangerous situation in the northeast today when freezing rain was causing hazardous road conditions. so the driver in that truck in spring valley new york could not obviously control the vehicle. ran up on the curb right near the sidewalk and another hit that truck. hundreds of reports of crashes throughout the new york area. and highway 76 near philadelphia, a total mess. dozens of cars involved in a major pileup right there. the weather closed several bridges and highways. at least five people in the northeast were killed in these
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crashes. rebecca stephenson is here now with weather to tell us more on is it going to ease up? >> the freezing rain is what glazed over and iced the roads new jersey to connecticut. shifted a little more north but will impact areas of pennsylvania on into connect again into maine. and because tonight's turts are going to be dropping -- temperatures are going to be dropping back near the freezing mark some places below we're going to have another very icy morning. tomorrow is the martin luther king jr. holiday so we won't have as big a commute. but all the areas you see highlighted here, this is where we are specifically targeting black ice in the morning. that means when you are out driving, any untreated roads or even untreated bridges there will be no control to the car you just cannot drive on ice.
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and also flooding continues for parts of new york and new jersey as we've had so much rainfall. record amounts came with warm air you could see ton coast but further inland that's our danger zones, trs temperatures are falling. if you have to drive in the morning hours check the d.o.t. cams first if you can. >> make a good point though, tomorrow's morning commute shouldn't be as bad as normal. i.s.i.l. has released more than 200 captives of the yazidi community. jane arraf has the story. >> most of them were elderly disabled or sick. all of them were traumatized. among them are some of the oldest members of an ancient religious minority attacked by the group. the u.s. and iraq have been
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bombing tal afar and they were taken from there to mosul where i.s.i.l. decided it didn't want them anymore. >> we were in mosul when they told us they'll send us to tal afar. on the way i asked the driver where he was taking us. he told us he was taking to a safe place. i thought it would be tal afar but we ended up in a district south of kirkuk. >> some quirted to islam when threatenedto by i.s.i.l. >> we told them we would become muslim and they didn't hurt us but they kept on kidnapping girls. they kidnapped my neighbor, a young yazidi girl and another one who is christian. >> gave them million treatment before sending them to a camp near dohuk. it could be because the radical
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group increasingly under siege by fighting can no longer take care of such a large number of prisoners. whielz i.s.i.l. has -- while i.s.i.l. has killed hundreds of yazidi men it says it won't hurt those who convert. almost half of the women still held are women. the group doesn't recognize their religion so considers them spoils of war to be used bought and sold. leaving their agonized families waiting and wondering if they will ever see them again. jane arraf, al jazeera baghdad. discussing the fight genetics i.s.i.l about 20 nations are expected to meet in london the discuss the situation on january 23rd. secretary of state john kerry is scheduled to attend. the last enemy combat ant held in -- combatant held in
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u.s. has been released. he was reportedlyedly tortured and pleaded guilty in 2009. today amari released a statement. finally after 13 years of unjust imprisonment i am home, my son was just eight months old when i last held him in my hands. for years i have lived in a judicial black hole i hope no one would have to endure. right now i'm happy to be back in my home land. i talked with jonathan hefitz. i asked him about the conditions hiss client were held under. >> he was totally isolated. he did not speak to a single human being other than inheritors who inherited him. they tried to break limb through painful stress positions sleep
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deprivation, everything you read about, many of the things you read about in the senator chur report thatsenate senatetorture report. >> whether he was guilty was a side issue it was whether or not he was entitled to a trial. that is what all people, that's what the constitution provides, the most fundamental right. the police, fbi can't just lock you up and throw you away. throw out the key and not give you a trial. >> heyfitz said the legend. >> more than 100,000 people were killed. now 20 years later suffering with severe trauma. neave barker reporting from
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sarajevo. >> he remembers sarajevo under siege. >> this was the largest concentration camp in the world. we couldn't escape. there was danger everywhere. the sniepers snipers were shooting down at our building here. >> bosnia witnessed some of the worst horrors of the war. the conflict has left profound mental scars. >> there have been several times when i couldn't control myself. my memory's got worse. i explode easily. i'm not good for anyone especially my family. >> reporter: he is one of many fighters suffering from posttraumatic stress. he's receiving psychiatric help. but in the 20 years since the war many veterans have taken
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their own lives. ordinary bosnians have taken their own lives. this is what it looked like, ordinary citizens running the gauntlet of sniper fire. 20 years on and sarajevo is a very different place . suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> around 1,750,000 people in bosnia hercegovina are suffering. we are seeing lots of violent
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outbursts among young people, physical and sexual abuse in family. there is an epidemic of violence today. >> reporter: the country has enjoyed 20 years of peace. more than perhaps the optimists expected but long after the last shots were fired the after-shocks of war are still being felt. neave barker, al jazeera sarajevo. >> coming up our sunday segment the week lady. president obama is giving the state of the union address the topics that will most likely not get much attention. attention.
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>> saturday. >> visibility was 3 to 5 nautical miles. >> weathering the storm. >> we want to show people how to replace property against the worst mother nature has to offer. >> experts forecast how to stay safe. >> i'm standing in a tropical windstorm. >> in extreme weather. >> oh my god. >> techknow's team of experts show you how the miracles of science... >> this is my selfie, what can you tell me about my future? >> can affect and surprise us. >> don't try this at home. >> "techknow" where technology meets humanity. saturday at 7:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. here's a look at your top stories. belgian prosecutors say they have asked for a man arrested in greece on saturday to be extradited. pope francis is heading back home after wrapping up a week
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long visit to asia. the highlight was a mass in manila that was attended by millions of people. >> israeli helicopter reportedly fires a shot. the lebanese shia group said at least six died, one was the son of a previous commander. air strikes on syrian territory since the war started there. it is sunday night time for our regular look at the week ahead. president obama will deliver his state of the union address on tuesday. he'll talk about the economy national security, cyber attacks but there are some topics that are not expected to be on the agenda. tonight we'll take a look at some of those issues and why they are equally important for the american public. defense reform privacy and gun control. start with jamie mcintire tonight in washington. >> even with the two wars, the
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pentagon budget continues to dip, still it's over $500 billion, nearly half of all federal spending. and it's not just wars that makes the pentagon budget hard to cut. it is the costly weapon, the f-47 fighter jet the most expensive jet ever made. one of the biggest areas of unnecessary spending, excess infrastructure. more basing capacity than it needs and the pentagon can't close bases militarily because each base is in someone's district. not something congress is in the mood to do so don't expect the president to ask for it in his state of the union address. >> i'm jake ward, under president obama's predecessor president bush, under the
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current president the technology came on line. we have seen outrage opportunity nsa bulk collection of data, but those systems are getting better and better stronger and stronger no sign it is going to end any time soon. there is five different programs from picking up conversations on the phone transcribing them, and noticing appearance in the atmosphere. all of this thing is gettings deeper and deeper in the presidency. >> i'm in the garfield neighborhood and already in the first weeks of this year already six people have died. gun violence is a huge problem 3,000 people the victims of gun violence in 2014, 50% increase over 2013. but the big problem is the flow
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of illegal guns into the city. something the president and democrats are also advocating but it is a hot button issue with republicans and now that they control both houses of congress it's very unlikely that we're going to see any give and take on gun control legislation any time soon. diane eastabrook, al jazeera chicago. >> let's take a look at some of the recent developments on these issues. earlier this week the national academy of sciences released a report saying the obama administration wants to develop software to target individuals rather than collecting data in bulk. they also said that isn't possible now meaning data collection on a mass scale is likely to consider. are national rifle association sued are lancaster pennsylvania, saying quest questioned the way the military spends its budget
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focusing on high technical weapons at the expense of weapons training and welfare almost double its pre9/11 levels in real dollars. to discuss this further jen and mark. who joins us from washington. thank you both for joining me mr. rowe i'm going to start with you. >> pleasure to be here. >> absolutely. the defense budget is roughly twice what it was before 9/11 in real dollars and no sign in sight of it actually shrinking. what is so difficult about restructuring the defense budget? >> right. so there are two factors at play here. you don't see public demand for reducing defense spending. you see public demand for a strong defense to make america safe and secure but you don't see public movement to cut defense. on the other hand, those who benefit from defense spending
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especially defense contractors they will fight tooth and nail to protect that funding because that funding is their life blood. if it goes away they go away. so no public support for reducing spending and lots of private opposition to cutting spending. >> so could there be public support if someone were to step up and change the national conversation or the dialogue about it? >> i think it's unlikely because americans want to be safe and it's not as if we see the price tag for defense spending on our yearly taxes. we spend a lot of money on defense but it's kind of remote from the daily lives of americans. >> so you're talking about a lot of money that we don't pay original bills don't come to our house but does bigger necessarily mean better? >> in the eyes of the defense contractors, it certainly does. we need more of the higher
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technical weapons in their view and all of this is tremendously expensive. they perhaps could be cut while preserving america's security but few politicians want to take the risk that we don't have the toys we need at the time we need them. >> it is not that politicians can be perceived as soft on crime, a president would pay a political price for proposing we shrink the defense budget? >> it's possible they pay a price for proposing lower defense spending but also recognize that defense spending is not just concentrated in a couple of districts or states. it's broadly spread around the country. virtually every congressional district benefits in some way for federal dollars that flow to the district. supporting local businesses, local incomes and it's aix hard awfully hard for members of congress to
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dispute that. >> there was edward snowden the nsa, the sony hacking. it would seem that the president would bring this up tuesday. what do you think the likelihood is he actually will? >> i would imagine that it's knot likely that he will bring it up but we do as a nation need to consider what's happening here. the nsa's telephone surveillance program that collects both data about every call that we make. when you call your lawyer, your doctor your clergy that's tracked. and there are two cases that are right now challenging the constitutionality of that program. whether this violates our fourth amendment rights to be free from unnecessary government searches and seizures. do we as a society expenditure the governmenting to investigating all the calls we make? the answer is absolutely not. >> do you see any chance of backing up from where we are on this or is it going to be full steam ahead?
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is it too late to go back? >> i don't think it's too late to go back. we've had a number of reports from the government saying that some of these programs are ineffective. and while it might be difficult to find other ways to find this information, we have to protect not only fourth amendment rights to this country but it also implicates our first amendment rights of free speech. if their calls are being monitored, in a democracy that cannot be the case. >> mr. roam this is a party that cross et cetera policy lines questioning where the government is going on policy, is the obama administration skirting the issues here? >> in some sense they are. they like to talk about protecting the rights of the american citizen. they like to think about protecting free speech rights and rights against unreasonable search and seizure. but at the end of the day politicians are very, very wary
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of terrorist attacks and they believe that the risk of infringing upon our rights is less than the dangers both political and real of a terrorist attack. so if the government believes that information that will be valuable to them, to conduct surveillance against terrorists, my bet is that the government will try to obtain that information. >> i saw you nodding there. do you think the average person agrees with that line of thinking which is why perhaps there hasn't been this huge outcry about it? >> i don't think that people fail to understand there's a middle ground here. >> okay. >> that the government of course needs to protect us. i think most people would agree with that except that it's not all or nothing. you can target people who are suspicious for a reason. when you have a reason to believe that they might be involved in terrorism, for example, you can investigate the calls that those people are making. >> sure. >> to collect data on all of
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americans i think that shocks most americans and that's not what we would consider to be reasonable. >> the likelihood it comes up tuesday not very much but perhaps this is an issue we will be focusing on because it is in the courts. let's focus on guns. in 2013 right after newtown the issue of guns was front and center for much of the country powp and the administration as well. -- president obama and the administration as well. how likely is he to bring that up in the state of the union. >> i think i could be wrong about that but the chance of that is just about zero. >> wow. >> i think he believes this will be a nonstarter politically. the republican controlled congress both house and senate that will be adamantly opposed on any additional federal regulation of guns and i think that he sees no political payoff in terms of the chances of getting policies enacted to
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tighten gun control or any political benefits to the democratic party or the obama administration for even raising the issues. >> our national dialogue for better or worse some would say worse is often shaped busy lobbyists and the money that is d -- shaped by lobbyists and the money that is spent on lobbying. >> the gun laws in the united states are unhinged and the reason that this par continues is in part because our policies reflect not public preferences but the preferences of those funding our campaign. >> you say that based on -- >> on data. there is data that we know that the policy preferences that come into our legislation end up not reflect whrag the public wants but -- reflecting what the public wants but what the wealthy and corporations prefer. in 2013 gun groups like the nra
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credit carded more than $3.5 million for our government election is while gun control groups spent close to $400,000. our elected officials are being pushed into a corner here and we really need campaign finance reform in order to make more sensible legislation in this area. >> al jazeera conducted a poll, with monmouth university. a poll we asked 1,000 participants what is the biggest concern for your family? job security was the biggest concern, health care costs was 15% and everyday getting the bills paid at 14% college tuition was 10%. surprisingly terrorism was the
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concern of 1% that was polled. republicans were most concerned by health care costs. most concern with republicans was obamacare and the same is true for independents but everyday bills came in second. interesting bills there. keep watching al jazeera america. we'll be releasing more results over the next couple of days ahead of the state of the union address. tomorrow is martin luther king day, you can find complete results on the poll on our website, aljazeera.com and since our guests are still here let me try to get a reaction. were you taking in some of the numbers i talked about? >> yes i think it's important to think about some of the education, the interest in education that i think that the president will be talking about.
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education is -- >> the community college? >> right his really exciting steps to make tuition free for some students attending community college. but we need to be bringing this one step further i think and making it so that a kid whose parents work pat walmart has the same shot at attaining a four year college degree. because of crushing college and debilitating debt, we can do that with debt free college. >> mr. rome what jumped out at you from the numbers? >> what jumps out to me is the american public is pretty reasonable. what do we care about? we care about our jobs, our health our education. it doesn't surprise me that those are the real priorities of the american people. having said that, the americans the republicans and the democrats can differ so strongly as to the appropriate ways to address those concerns.
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that's one of the reasons it's so hard to get things done in washington. not disagreement about what the problems are but disagreement as to what the solution he should be. >> mr. rome, ms. rolnut thank you very much looking ahead for tuesday. lets look at some of the other events in the week ahead. on tuesday the asian form will begin in hong kong. in tuesday the trial of james holmes who went on a shooting spree at that movie theater in 2012 is expected to begin. the shooting left 12 people dead. on tuesday the economic forum will open. still ahead on al jazeera america. the story of a honduran woman
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who spent nearly two months in a church to avoid deportation. deportation.
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>> after four days of bad weather the search has resumed for body from airasia 8701. more than 157 of the missing bodies are in the plane's fuselage but high winds and rough waters have prevented divers from reaching that section of the wreckage. a deadly new attack from boko haram. the group attacked a village in cameroon on saturday. now that attack comes as troops from chad deployed to fight boko haram in nigeria. erica wood has more. >> troops from chad roll by on their way to join soldiers from cameroon and neighboring nigeria. this is the beginning of a joint military assault against boko
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haram involving military forces. >> translator: it is important to say that in war there is death, in war there is blood in war there is sacrifice. but those of us we cannot be indifferent to those going on because we are directly concerned, and we believe cameroon must not be alone in the fight against boko haram. >> chad's president urged other african nations to join in. the issue whether to foorm form a broad coalition force now a wired interest in launching a coordinated offense against boko haram, that's why the armed force is lawned more attacks inside and outside as well. as the violence spreads thousands have been forced to escape. >> our statistics stay there are more than 12,000 refugees, women, men and some
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representatives of local authorities. >> the group caused international outrage last april when it attacked a school in the north eastern town of chibok. most of them are still missing and boko haram say many have been married off to fighters. showing the scale of devastation in two towns caused by boarm attacks in early january. -- boko haram attacks in early january. no doubt safety and stability will be in the forefront of voters'voters' minds. implications not just inside nigeria but reelly regionally as well. erica woods. are al jazeera nigeria.
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mali has been declared ebola free. six people died in mali from the disease last year. meanwhile, schools are scheduled to reopen for the first time in guinea. since the outbreak. outbreak remains contained in three western africa country presidents sierra leone liberia and guinea. sought sang water in a church. al jazeera ample courtney keely
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was there. >> star of the service is angela ½navarro. she came to visit her parents from honduras 11 years ago and tried to stay legally but was unable to. her son 11 and her daughter are both american citizens. angela says she has a lived in fear for over a decade. scared to take her kids to school or to the doctor. >> what would you say to the critics who said you weren't supposed to come. you had your children here, you don't have the right to stay. >> critics would ask themselves what would they do in my circumstances? desperate to keep her family intact she sought sanctuary in this church. after a petition received 6,000
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signatures nationwide and meetings were held with homeland security officials angela finally got her wish. for now. >> the government, and the officials who make these laws, the enemy is inaction. >> the priest gave her rosary beads as a imol of victory. then she walked outside for the first time in nearly two months. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ angela is one of 9 people who went into sanctuary this fall. she is the only one that went into her sanctuary with her husband and two children. while it's not legal in the u.s. to offer sanctuary a 2011 document said deportation orders
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would not be carried out without prior approval, at sensitive locations. she said she and her husband are still looking for a place to rent. >> you are safe, it's ceremonial to step outside but you'll stay here while you look for a home. >> but i can go. >> she held a march across the street. so a small park to say a prayer for others facing deportations. courtney keely, al jazeera pennsylvania. >> residents in path of a fire in oklahoma city have been forced to leave. unseasonably high temperatures have caused a high level of fires in oklahoma. earthquakes in dex officials say there have been over 120
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earthquakes in the dallas area since 2008. irks created by human activity, to its hazard map. before we leave let's go to rebecca stephenson. >> we're going to see ice on the roadways to start the morning again, central pndz and into parts of eastern new york and we're going to see the continuation of a few of these scattered snow showers not a lot of accumulation with them but freezing rain. all concerns for black ice through morning hours. temperature will be dipping down and the flood still going on for some of the rivers not only the neighborhoods but also the rivers because of record rainfall across so many states. five states so far that i've counted have these records in place. the oldest record so far is set in 1930 and that was
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philadelphia, you shattered that record today. we also had very interesting weather coast to coast severe weather, during the national football league playoffs we had a tornado pop up about half hour before game time earlier today a little damage to that in video. other than that snow in the northwest. >> thank you for joining us i'm richelle carey in new york. a reminder stay tuned tomorrow and tuts tuesday for results of the monmouth university poll, a detailed breakdown of our data, that is aljazeera.com. up next, the life and crimes ofist payne. thank you so much for watching, have a great night. night.
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>> if we don't have a verdict by one o'clock it's gonna be another day. >> well it's either gonna be before noon, or they get to come back at one thirty. >> the waiting is what will knock you for a loop. if she goes to jail again i think she'll come out in a body bag. >> are they out? we are sitting right there in my office on pins and needles. >> the fact that they have been out this long affirms our