>> in a city fighting to regain the stability it once drew from the downsized auto industry, the urban farm movement here offers another common cause by rallying together to grow more food from its abundant soil. >> hi everyone this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. rich versus poor. 80 billionaires are worth the same amount of money as 3.5 billion people on the planet. state of the union. the focus on the economy. >> america's college promise will make two years of community college free. >> and the president sets his agenda for his final two years. under attack. the new violence threatening the government of yemen and the fight against al qaeda there.

and: trading hacks turns out the u.s. hacked north korea before the sony pictures attack. we begin with a look at the president's state of the union address. mr. obama is expected to call tomorrow for a like in taxes for wealthy. he's also expected to propose tripling the childcare tax credit and lowering college tuition all by the economy. tom harken has more. >> the silver lining with the gdp poomg the fastest growth since 1999. the gas prices dropping to $2 a gallon as an average across the country. an extraordinary economic story but what is that black cloud? job and income growth.

incomes have stagnated. have not seen the benefits of a growing economy many workers 60 to 70% of workers so you're going to see the president really hitting on that. proposing new ideas and you are going to see republicans seizing on that over the course of the next couple of weeks. we've seen the president over the past few weeks touring the country talking about his ideas to share the wealth of the country, free community college for two years one proposal expanding broadband access another one guaranteed paid sick leave to 40 million american workers who lack that. the way he's going po do to do that according to the president and the white white house tax cuts aimed at middle class and tax hikes aimed at wealthier americans and fines for financial

institutions. part of how the president wants to pay for it to try to take from the rich, give to the middle income and the poor, sort of a robin hood approach here. obviously not going anywhere with republicans in congress. the question is this an opening gamut or negotiating position with republicans heading into 2015. >> mike, thanks. tomorrow our state of the union begins at 7:00 eastern 4:00 pacific time. now a starting report that focuses on the growing gap between the super-wealthy and everyone else. at the current gap the superwealthy of the world will have more money in the world than anyone else on the planet. roxana saberi has there story. >> john, the amount owned by the other 3.5 billion people that make up the world's population. frustration over glowing income

in the economy asparked the wall street protest from 2011. since then the inequality has grown from the u.s. to china. so much that the anti-poverty group oxfam says the richest 1% is on the track to owning more wealthy than the lower 3.5 billion. over the next four years it rose dramatically. oxfam predicts it will keep rising just as the bottom 99% will keep dropping. >> we've seen incomes not going up. minimum wages have stayed stagnant and statement we have seen the rich just continuing to get richer, as government policies have moved in that direction. >> oxfam says the world's 80 richest people including bill gates, warren buffett and mexico's juan slim.

>> particularly the richest individuals should pay the kinds of levels of tamp they were paying as recently as 1990s. >> the government says income inequality is not just unfair, i.t. hurts everyone because when more people have less to spend the economy suffers. oxfam released the report just ahead of the world economic forum in switzerland. flair owing the gap between rich and poor. the report comes a day before president obama is calling for tax hikes on the wealthy. john. >> tara, hello. >> hello. >> how did we get to this point in the world? >> well, income inequality has

been going on since the 1970s. this is not a new problem. but it has been exacerbated by the great recession. if you look what happened during the great recession people lost an enormous amount of wealth particularly in their homes. because one fourth of americans actually derive their wealth from the appreciation of their houses. >> so is it unfair that the wealthy have. much more money and -- have much much, much more money and have been getting it faster in the last few years? >> i will say fundamentally it is unfair. these numbers are according to pew, very legitimate source of numbers. upper income americans lost 19% of their wealth during the great recession, during the years 2007 to 2010. the rest of middle income, 39% lower income people lost 41% of their wealth. those are devastating numbers but what we did was we bailed out the banks. that led to the stock market

going up. fed also through quantitative easing helped to boost the stock market. poor or middle income people don't keep their wealth in the stock market. meanwhile, the housing market was just starting to recovery. that's where black and latinos keep their wealth. 29% lost their home to foreclosure or seriously undervalued. >> you say tax wealthy? >> i'm not saying it's as simple as tax the wealthy. remember the wealthy benefited from taxpayer bailouts and remember all taxpayers helped to bail out the banks. and the wealthiest americans benefited from that. that's point 1. point 2 is, that they didn't take as big of a hit. and there are many tax breaks that they can exploit. you have corporation that pay zero percent in federal taxes. if you look at state and local

taxes -- >> so tax the corporations? >> i think you should. i think you should close these loopholes as the president is proposing, they are exploiting exploiting loopholes, they are hiding money overseas. they are getting around the system. it is not about taking from them, it is seeing that they are subjected to the same laws that the rest of us are. >> you have seen a number of changes in the way we tax especially the wealthy people has benefited the wealthy. so i mean has that got to change? has that got turn around? you begin to tax the wealthy at a higher rate than you did before? >> i think the first thing you do as the president is proposing that you close these loopholes. not to beat that dead horse but these are loopholes that people are exploiting to get around paying their taxes. that is the bottom line. if you look at state and local taxes, let's take that. you have proportionately you have middle-income people and

lower-income people paying more as a proportion of their income than wealthy people. that is fundamentally unfair. >> it will take a lot to pass that through congress given where the united states is right now. it will be interesting to see tara, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> now to north korea and reports that the u.s. government hacked their computers long before the sony cyberattack. hacking of north korea goes as far back as 2010. jamie mcintire is in washington. >> john, u.s. law enforcement officials have been dismissing skeptics and insisting the evidence against north korea is solid. it turns out some of that high confidence the u.s. has may be because the u.s. hacked north korea before north korea hacked sony. >> hello everybody, really got afull house today hmm? >> president obama has been unequivocal in blaming north korea for the hack of sony

pictures in november of last year. >> the fbi announced today and we can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. >> but some cyber experts remain skeptical. was north korea really capable of such a complex cyber-attack? a newly revealed document provides a tantalizing clue suggesting the u.s. had such information, top secret and published online by the german magazine der spiegel big win computer jargon describing what's called a zero-day program, in this case planted by someone else, u.s. hackers then took advantage of. what the document suggests is the ition was deep inside north korea's cyber hacking unit more than four years ago and knows more than it's saying publicly. >> some folks suggest we have it wrong. i would suggest -- not

suggesting i'm saying they don't have the facts that i have, don't see what i speep. see. >> the fbi says even before the hack north korea's cyber sleuts sleuths got sloppy more than once. in the northeast china city of chen yang, suspected of a highly destructive hack in 2013. first marked north korea as a serious cyber threat. >> cyber is a powerful new room for them where they believe they can exert maximum influence at minimum cost. and this recent episode with sony has shown they can get recognition for their cyber capabilities. >> the new york times also reports president obama was convinced the case was solid by evidence collected by software the u.s. implanted to serve as

an early warning radar. if the u.s. knew so much about what north korea was doing why didn't it warn sony? spear fishing is so routine it didn't set off any alarm bells but the theory is they managed to get a system administrator to click on a bogus link and use that to steal user names and passwords. >> jamie, thank you. julian sanchez is the senior fellow at the time cato institute. i asked him today if the news about north korea came as a surprise? >> not really. i mean i think as your reporter suggested, the mix of the extreme confidence with which the government attributed this act to north korea and the thinness of the public evidence, i mean it was the equivalent of saying oh the attacker used

windows, they must be in washington state that's not much in the way of evidence. i think a lot of security folks said well either they've made a really huge leap here, in an unusual way or this isn't the real evidence that convinces them. there's other evidence that they don't want to talk about. >> so you've been an outspoken critic of the government surveillance program. what worries you the most about this? >> well, i mean i'm not particularly worried about the government is spying on north korea. i think if the nsa should be doing anything probably it should be spying on north korea. but, you know, i find it instructive that we are using the sony attack to push, once again, for cyber-security legislation, for harsher penalties and for more information-sharing with the government. and now we see in this case that the government indeed the nsa has really about as much information about that attack as

you could want. >> but they just weren't paying attention. >> act open it in a timely fashion. yeah. i think causes us to ask do we need to be giving them more information or do they need to get better about using the information they have and sharing it with the private sector. >> what about the danger imposed by infiltrating civilian networks? >> one of the things discussed in the der spiegel story as has been discussed in previous reporting, it's one thing when nsa says we're going to implant malwear on the networks of north korean intelligence, that's all their job and in the game. but we found that in order to preserve their ability to get any communication in the future they're doing the same sort of thing to large corporate networks to telecommunications companies. just in case there's some user of that network they need to be

able to spy on in the future. and that seems much more dangerous one because it involves you know creating insecurity for the communications of lots of ordinary people but in particular we see the way this attack happened was nsa was actually having trouble getting in. another intelligence agency had used malwear to get into north korea's network nsa saw it and kind of piggybacked on that attack on the back door they created. well you know there are other smart people in the world who don't work at nsa and so you have to ask isn't it possible that by planting these back doors, by implanting malwear and by one estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 systems around the world they're creating a vulnerability that it may not be nsa that ends up using it. maybe russia or china or cyber-criminals who find a way to exploit those widely distributed and installed vulnerabilities. they need to really very

seriously consider the security risks they are creating. >> you raise a very interesting question which we will talk about next time. julian thank you very much, good to see you. yemen is the home base for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and it is a country in chaos tonight. its government is under siege. in the capital of sanaa the presidential palace is surrounded by opposition forces, the president and placement are safe. omar al saleh reports. >> presidential palace in sanaa since early on monday. the building is a symbol of who wields power in yemen something that is not known at the moment. a communicateor describes a country in chaos.

>> honestly, there are places where the government is in control, some places where the houthi are in control. the yemeni army are responding that is why both the minister of the defense and interior were in this community but people who wear the uniform do not obey the orders of their superiors. >> the houthi rebels have been at odds with the government for years but they took control of the capital and nine other provinces last year. many see them as the real rulers of yemen thanks to the forces in loyalty to former president saleh. in order to allow his son the former head of the republican guard to become president. >> first of its kind, even the attack on sanaa months ago was nothing close to this. the attack months ago on sanaa

by the houthis only focused on certain areas of the capital. there were no attacks on the president or the prime minister. >> houthis have reported to take control of the state television and are growing more forces generosity the capital. and the prime minister's convoy was attacked but by what is being described as a third party whose identity hasn't been confirmed. the declaration of a ceasefire early in the day has been largely ignored. the information minister says some security forces are refusing orders but some forces are still loyal to president hadi. hadi's decision to deploy troops in the capital was triggered by the kidnapping of his chief of staff on saturday. it's not clear if hadi will win what could be seen as his last battle. some say what happened on monday could lead to a new yemen. it could also lead to the resignation of the president abd

rabbah manah mansur hadi. omar al saleh, al jazeera yemen. students had just returned to school at a after a two week teacher's strike. most of the children were between 8 and 13. at least ten of them are injured. coming up this hour france is now waging a war against another group of attackers a cyber-war. plus a day of remembrance and a day of protest. a look at the legacy of martin luther king. luther king.

>> the city of new york has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a man who claims he was choked and unable to breathe during an encounter with police in 2013. the suit was filed in june of 2014 one month before the death of eric garner. the use of choke holds is banned by the nypd. the city agreed to pray him $75,000. the martin luther king holiday was observed with community service events around the country. president obama urged to make it a day of service. the president and his family volunteered today at the boys and girls club in washington d.c. there were marches seen as in recent months. hundreds of protestors disrupted the martin luther king celebration in atlanta.

about two dozen demonstrators joined the mlk march and rally. hundreds of others protested near the ebb neez ebeneezer baptist church where king was a pastor. protest was largely peaceful, 63 students were arrested for blocking that bridge. the martin luther king holiday comes after a turbulent year for u.s. race relations a year that has many americans reflecting on how far country has come, how far it still has to go. del walters has more. >> decades after his death the landscape has changed. the nation has a black president. and black attorney general. >> we need more than ever to take heed of dr. king's teachings. he calls on us to stand in the other person's shoes. to see through their eyes. to understand their pain.

>> but this sump's summer's explosions in ferguson and new york and cleveland, durng king's during king's time, a black man accusing police of excessive force. >> i can't bleet. breathe. i can't breathe. >> a 12-year-old child dies at the hands of police in cleveland, he was holding a toy gun. >> we need to be outraged. those parallels were not lost on the members of the american black cause of action. >> ferguson is a clarion call, the new selma ferguson is a microcosm of what can and will happen when we come together as a united front.

>> the replays are a sharp conflict. describing king as evil suggests he commit suicide in the fbi document, there is one thing you need to do, you know you are done. it was authored by the fbi. as the wreaths are laid few doubt the impact of a man who dreamed of changing america. a preacher from alabama who believed the world could change if it acted more like gandhi through nonviolent protest. >> dr. king wrote men often hate each other because they fear each other. >> king would have turned 86 this year, his voting rights film playing on the big screen. on sunday, actors from the film selma led people on the edwin peddis bridge. >> this is what i know for sure.

everyone who crossed that bridge on bloody sunday and then had the courage to to go up and go again on tuesday and then do the final march every single person who was on that bridge is a hero. >> some would say it is a dream fulfilled. others would argue it is just that. a dream. the fact that is being debated is living proof the legacy of the dreerm lives dreamer lives on. del walters, al jazeera, new york. >> coming up. the president's state of the union address we'll take a look at some of his proposals. and why this selfie is causing an international uproar.

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>> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. coming up president obama's plan for the middle class. how he wants to help parents and college students. the patriots are super bowl bound yet again and once again facing allegation he on another cheating scandal. also race relations in america. we'll bring you the results of our new al jazeera poll. tonight at the white house president obama is putting last minute touches on his state of the union address. the president has been traveling the nation talking about some of the proposals that we'll hear in tomorrow night's speech. he is expected to introduce a tax credit proposal for married couples with two working spouses, propose a requirement to make companies offer paid sick leave across the country

and propose making community college free for two years. as patricia sabga explains this last proposal is aimed at reducing the staggering amount of student debt. >> reporter: 31-year-old graduated with a master's from nyu during the depths of the great recession. jobless she soon defaulted on her $80,000 student loan bill ballooning it to $92,000. >> it makes me naws use nawsh us nauseous to think about it. >> instead of saying and investing for their futures they are paying off higher educations. >> it is absolutely cut some state funding that has been the major cause in the rise of students death. >> examined funding trends for higher education. nationwide funding plummeted 27%

per student between 2008 and 2012 while tuition at four year state institutions increased 20%. and that has huge implications for all of us. consumer spending generates some two-thirds of our economic growth and young people are the plankton in that ecosystem. crush them with student debt and it reverberates throughout the economy. >> the students who are paying 300 to $500 a month towards reducing their student debt that is 500 a month they could be paying on a house. >> my plan is to make two years of community college free. >> the administration estimates president obama's proposal to make community college free could save 9 million students 3400 a year in tuition. but congress would have to approve the cost. $60 billion over ten years. as for redmilla, she moved home

and worked two jobs. today she is debt-free. but. >> i have no retirement fund. no savings. >> patricia sabga, al jazeera new york. >> as we mentioned the president's plan to help the middle class includes tripling the childcare credit. mary snow reports. >> for working parents carla and todd, taking care of their nine month old baby and getting four-year-old dessa up and ready each morning can be nothing short of a miracle. >> no no, not yet! >> but juggling the cost of childcare for their two daughters has become the real daily struggle for this new york family. >> what book do you want to bring to school today? >> i would say one-third of our budget goes to childcare one-third goes to rent. whether i'm buying groceries i

want to check at the end of the day to make sure i'm not overdrawn. >> he works at a college todd runs a music nonprofit and teaches part time at columbia university. despite a combined annual income of $110,000 a year they can barely pay for dessa's preschool fees and one day of babysitting a week. >> childcare is typically the highest household expense in most regions. exceeded only on the west coast by housing. >> massachusetts ranks as most expensive, 22 thousand for two young children in dictate. mps themississippi the lowest. but childcare is growing five times the cost of incomes. >> childcare literally off an

economic cliff. >> while some expenses can be explained, kristin says the larger issue is a matter of supply. daycares in 19 states have turned away families altogether unable to keep up with it rising demand of the workforce. >> three quarters of moms are in the labor force. at the same time nearly 50% of families are relying on mom's wages as a primary breadwinner. >> bellamy recently landed a coveted teaching fellowship for the fall but she is worried that they won't be able to afford the childcare. their only hope is getting salary increases. >> what is the plan b? there is no plan b. >> mary snow, al jazeera. >> of course join us tomorrow night for coverage of the state

of the union address beginning at 7:00 eastern 4 pacific time. president obama blamed north korea for hacking into sony's computers now according to a german magazine, obama knew that because the u.s. hacked north korea first. der spiegel published a top secret nsa document that suggests america had penetrated north korea's computers as far back as 2010. less than two weeks after the deadly attacks in paris french officials are fending off a masser cyber attack. hackers have vandalized about 16,000 websites in france just in the past ten days. that's forcing the french government to beef up security in cyber space. nick spicer has more. >> reporter: the attacks against magazine "charlie hebdo" and ojewish supermarket set off another kind of attack, a much

wider cyber attack in france. hackers in north africa changed the websites of universities town councils and local shops among others. france's interior minister on monday toured a cyber crime unit of the french police outside paris. he said he would present measures to fight the hackers this week. >> translator: more than 1300 attacks have been claimed by hacker groups or hackers saying they are islamist. >> late last year the french government passed a new antiterror law organizations the french government considers to be terrorist. and it also new measures could prevent determined hackers operating from overseas. as the french struggle to return to a feeling of being safe, the

hacked websites feel like an attempt to say no, you're not. the attacks were not sophisticated but they were massive. experts call the replaced home pages defacements. >> a defacement is like if you are in a town with many different shops. and the hackers what they try to do, they try to enter every shop. and if the door is not really well closed, they enter the shop. they paint some messages on the window and they leave. and after you have to enter the shop and to clean the mess. >> it's a mess that individual website owners will have to clean up. often by simply updating their website software but wiping the feeling of unease away won't be easy. nick spicer, al jazeera paris. a protest turn deadly over the "charlie hebdo" weekly,

protested the use of the cartoon of the prophet muhammed on its cover. it was the first issue published after the attack of "charlie hebdo"'s in paris. protesters held up flags in support of nigeria's armed group boko haram. pope francis clarified comments he made about the violent response to "charlie hebdo"'s cartoons. francis used a metaphor who said a present who cursed his mother should expect a punch. on his way home from the philippines the pontiff told reporters he wasn't condoning violence but a human response to provocation. the pope had more details on his fall trip to the united states. he will be visiting the white house and new york city where he plans on addressing the united

nations general assembly and possibly hold be a mass. these stops in addition to his planned visit to philadelphia, that is the city of brotherly love. now, to the middle east and a problem many nations in the arabian gulf. the question is the way to get water are they sustainable? report. >> the arabian gulf, vast quawnlts of seaquantities are sucked in every day. by environmentally unsafe desalination plants. the fact that this is as close you can get to these plants speaks volumes for just how

crucial these installations are to this region. without them there would be no drinking water. the taps would just run dry and life in the gulf just could not exist in the way that it does. in this parched arid land you don't expect this, a business selling 4 million cut flowers a year, grown not abroad but in chilled glass houses in qatar. the problem is the ancient arc aquifer the water comes from is over used. >> the events we host here in the upcoming years this can be a big problem if we don't use the available water in a reasonable way. >> now they're piloting a soil free hydroponic project the idea is to encourage the

region's farmers to adopt similar systems. believe it or not this is another source of water. raw sewage. it comes from a workers camp outside doha where all waste water is recycled using specially designed tape. >> it is a perfect ground for bacteria. if you look at this under a microscope you would see perforations. an idea what we can do in our concrete tanks or containers, our 40-foot tanks. >> the process runs clear water into an adjacent farm giving life to new growth. on a alarmer scale more and more sewage treatment plants are being built in qatar. recycling water that can be used for irrigation but there's a long way to go. these trucks are dumping raw sublg intosewage into lakes in the desert, evaporating into the hot desert air. the remarkable thing is nature takes its course and the waste

water becomes clean enough for a flock of flamingos to take up residence. nick clark, al jazeera qatar. miss universe pageant miss israel is on the far left, right next to her miss lebanon. she has been criticized for photobombing. measures could be taken against the beauty queen. back in the u.s. the new england patriots are on the way to the super bowl but not without controversy. at issue isn't yesterday's game it's the game ball. jonathan betz explains. >> some of the official are call it the deflate gate. the hope of the indianapolis

colts. the nfl is investigateing whether new england cheated by slightly deflating the football. >> did you get a slightly better hold of the ball last night? (laughing). >> new england patriots quarterback tom brady laughed it off. >> envelope rules require the balls be inflated to between 12 and a half and 13 and a half pounds of air per square inch. a softer ball makes it easier to throw or catch especially in cold or wet weather like in sunday night's game against the indianapolis colts. it all could be linked to this confusion. on sunday a referee stopped the

game and changed out the ball. it is unclear if that call has anything to do with the controversy. but officials did take several balls out of play. before the game, officials inspect dozens of balls. in 2007 the patriots were caught legally videotaping. they were fined and stripped of a first round draft pick. whether the deflation had anything to do with the outcome of the game is open to debate. the sportswriter who first leaked the story said they were man handled. analysts say it would be very difficult to discover whether

someone intentionally deflated the balls. if they do, they could be facing $45,000 fine. >> tony vernon was the director of the 1963 army-navy game. vernon's idea was so revolutionary he was 81 years old. coming up next what americans say about the state of race relation he since president obama became president. plus new rules for a police department near miami. no more mug shots for target practice.

>> and we're getting the first pictures from a deadly road collapse tonight in cincinnati, ohio. an overpass collapsed on to i-75. it was being prepped to be taken down. a construction worker was killed. the driver of a white tractor

trailer was injured. you can see the damage to the front end of the big rig. not clear yet on what actually caused this collapse. a police department that used mug shots of black suspects for target practice is making some changes tonight. their training tactic came to light after national guard used one of the guard members recognized her brother's face on the target. he had been arrested in 2000. >> i am not a mugshot. i'm not a tragic mistakes i made 14 years ago that cost lives of my friends and my clean record and my freedom. i do not deserve to be a target for sport. >> today the department announced it would no longer use mug shots for target practice. the police chief said it had been part of a facial recognition drill that was suspended until further notice. leading up to martin luther king day, a poignant tribute.

the cast of the newly released film selma marched down the edwin peddis bridge. in selma they were beaten and gassed by police in 1965. race of course remains a divisive issue for americans. al jazeera america wanted to learn more about that issue and we teamed up with monmouth university on a new national poll. here's david schuster. >> john, this polling shows that few americans feel the issue of race has improved but they do agree that race is a big issue for this country. our poll indicates that 51% of americans think that race and ethnicity is a big problem. more than 18% of people say it's not a problem at all. despite his position as the first african american president many people we polled believed

that race relations have not gotten better under president obama. in fact 48% say race relations are worse since president obama took office. 40% of people say there's been no change at all in the country. and today with united states celebrating dr. martin luther king's legacy we asked what people thought about leadership in the african american community. whether asked if the civil rights leaders are still effective 35% of people said yes. however, nearly half of americans, 49% say it's time for a different kind of leadership. john we will have much more polling on race and other issues tomorrow during our state of the union coverage. >> david thank you prm. dante berry is a director of the million hoodies. surprise? >> surprised and not surprised. when people look at leadership,

the effectiveness of leadership i think when we look at the last 50 years we're seeing also a new formation of a new type of leadership. and we're seeing an ella baker model of group centered leadership where groups are decentralized, there's not a charismatic leader, and an organization from million hoodies through dream funders action all these different groups that have emerged and a newspaper of others who are helping to push this movement forward and i think that what we've seen there is just that there's been a question around what has been effective in terms of the leadership model of the past and when can be used going forward. >> the twitter hashtag that's trending called reclaimed mlk talk about what that means? >> so ever since i was younger particularly in school we've had this really interesting

narrative around martin luther king, jr. about about that he was a pacifist, he was sceb of conservative. when excessive. and he was the figure most talked about. so we have -- conservative. passified around what his narrative has been. reclaiming mlk is reclaiming his legacy. plk was a radical uncompromising strategic and principled in his action he, he used militant nonviolence as a strategic avenue, this was the movement for black lash. claiming hundreds in the community dam went to halls of power to declare this is a year of resistance.

>> in atlanta in ebenezer baptist church there were protests, that's part of this. >> that's interesting i didn't hear about that. i think that ultimately across the country you are seeing folks really looking at power. and the power that is enabling for unarmed and armed black people unarmed black people to get killed by police, in different ways, right? i think that without any pursuit of justice. >> this is not a disrespect of dr. king. >> this is not a disrespect of dr. king but i think it's been more disrespectful to put dr. king on a pedestal. and also i think it's dehumanizing to put him on a pedestal and call him as the key figure of this movement, right? we leave out a lot of key people like diane nash and ella baker a number of other folks who also

helped make martin luther king who he is and who helped and stood by him. >> they were at the forefront of the nonviolent movement in fact and some suggest they even led it. but i'd just like to go back to the leadership thing for ajust a moment. we have you on to talk about this from time to time because you make your point well. doesn't it help to have someone that is able to communicate those messages in a way like dr. king was able to do? >> right yes. but i think that we're seeing new forms of that through different types of media. and i think through social media in particular. you have seen the emergence of black twitter particularly after the murder of trayvon martin and then in terms of -- >> black twitter is for our audience? >> black twitter is basically a black demographic of folks that are using twitter in order to demonstrate their power and show solidarity in community. >> and used a great deal during

ferguson and eric garner situation as well. >> you see the story of people who are on the ground in ferguson aware adding context to the issue. we are not key spokespeople like mlk was and yes he was an effective communicator but we need organizers on the ground doing the work. not saying he was not on the ground doing the work but so we can sustain this. >> always good to see you. >> thank you so much. >> happy mlk day. >> you too. >> new high definition images from the hubble space telescope. telescope.

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>> the hubble telescope has brought the world extraordinary images from space but nothing like what you're about to see. they are called the pillars of creation and they are stunning. according to the ancient myth it was atlas one of the ancient gods who bore on his shoulders the heavens. now the pillars of creation the way they really look. where young stars are forming. would have made galileo's eyes pop. with the hubble telescope in 1995. those earlier images were nothing like the new infrared version of the pillars and they give us a sense of how the

clouds have changed. part of a much larger cluster known as the eagle nebula several thousand light years from earth. the more detail you see like these swirls clouds that show the constellation orion. mesmerizing images like the so-called cyfer galaxy that you can't take your eyes off. so happy birthday, hubble. unlike some of us you get better with age and unlocking the secrets of a universe that confounds as much as it dazzles. >> now one more picture our picture of the day. nasa tweeted this photo from outer space in honor of martin luther king day. it's a look at the bright lights the glowing lights of the city of atlanta.

nasa wrote where mlk who inspired us to dream was born. i'm john siegenthaler. thanks for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. fault lines is coming up next. coming up next. >> joint military exercises between united states and south korea are regular occurrences. this one, codenamed max thunder - took place in november at the kunsan air force base 150 miles south of seoul... >> this type of exercise takes place every year but for the north korean government they consider this a provocation and a threat.