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the world that history must not be repeated. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm tony harris. the storm that threatened to cripple the northeast has fallen. flights were canceled today and amtrak is slowly resuming services. in new york city the snow measured in inches not feet. that prompted one national weather forecaster to tweet an apology. he said a lot of tough decisions were made expecting us to get it right, and we didn't. once again i'm sorry although new york city was spared many coastal areas were pounded by the storms with heavy snowfalls and strong winds.

paul what are you seeing? >> sunny, i was just having a little chuckle there you said they were measuring in inches, not feet. in new london we had two or three feet fall. it's drifted and its plowed. as you mentioned this storm tracted a little differently than they thought it would about 100 miles offshore but it walloped eastern connecticut and piled up rhode island and massachusetts. again, two or three feet on the ground. more still falling and blowing through the night. it's 18 degrees without wind chills. dangerous conditions. governor of connecticut lifted the travel ban around 2:00. but here at new london now the

coastal flood warnings have been lifted but there is still a local travel ban in place because they're trying really hard to get the roads cleared. businesses are hoping to reopen tomorrow. we'll wait and see how that goes. i spoke with the deputy police chief earlier. he's running emergency operations. he said his people have been up for two or three days in some cases. they're sleeping in the police station. they're getting tired but they've been ready for this, and they finally feel like the end might be in sight. >> so what did you do to prepare? what did you do to get ready for this? >> staffing-wise any time we forecast an emergency coming in like this, we basically make sure we have our resources in place, so we can sustain anything for up to 48 hours sufficiently. our police department here. we work with the fire department the emergency management and public works department to make sure we're all on the same game plan and

what each agency is doing and we work together to facilitate the rapid clean up of the city. >> do you feel like you dodged a bullet? >> i don't think we dodged a bullet with four feet of snow on the ground. >> so far oher so good? >> nothing major, just a lot of snow. it will take a couple of days to clear up. >> one thing that i the the police chief mentioned he said its important that people with their furnace vents on the outside cleared or carbon monoxide to be created. bridgeport had a big storm needed extra snow nows. this time the food shoe is on the other foot, and you see

cities up and down the coast lending each other a hand. >> paul, appreciate it. some forecasters have predicted a so-called storm of the century. new york officials pointed to the forecast as they tried to defend their decision to shut down much of the city. jacob ward joins us live from san francisco. jake share with us on the size of forecasting. how did forecasters get it so wrong in some cases? >> well, the united states really has a forecasting problem. it's not that we don't have enough people outside looking at the sky. we don't have enough computers that are powerful you enough to simple simulate the forecast. up to this time, they had two

hence. europe has one of the largest weather from computer. why does that speed matter? it usually determines accuracy. >> remember hurricane sandy in 2012? european forecasters got it right. american forecasters got it wrong. the european center for medium range forecasts predicted sandy's left turn on to new jersey more than a week in advance. it took several more days for the u.s. to make the same prediction. sandy went on to kill 150 people in the u.s. and cost the country $70 billion. but here's the thing. no one is right all the time. the national weather service relied heavily on the forecast in predicting that a blizzard would stall over long island and harm the area with snow, and that did not happen. they went to the trouble of shooting everything down only to find that the blizzard pre-discussion was wrong. there was a qualified apology.

the signs of forecasting storms while continually improving still can be subject to error especially if we're on the edge of the heavy precipitation shield. and new york governor andrew couple cuomo spoke about installing it's own weather system. >> we're in the middle of installing a weather system in new york exclusively. why? we make big decisions based on these weather forecasts. >> he would have to spend quite a bit to compete with the national system. this month the national weather system announced it will be spending $44 million in super computer upgrades bringing the speeds up to 2.5 that's nothing compared to the u.k. who plans to build a $128,000,000.16 super computer by 2016.

perhaps the biggest future is false confidence. there was an equal chance that either five inches or 30 inches of snow could have hit new york city this week. but the national weather service did not communicate that level of uncertainty. it made a flat prediction. every forecast should come with a probability rating to help mayors to shut down their cities or just put on some boots. >> it's the reason we show up and do this job every day. i never heard the word pediflop until this moment. >> it's my great honor to be the first to say it on this network. thank you. >> pediflop. what else makes forecasting so challenging besides pediflops. >> aside from the models themselves you have to have the right data going into the model.

imagine a system coming across the united states. you have all these different weather stations, all that data geese into the commuter. once you have a storm over water, be it this coastal storm or a hurricane you don't have all those data points to even feed into it. there is data out here that where they take targeted data, but you just don't have as much data over water to go into the model. that makes is very challenging. the forecast was not wrong in a lot of places. but it was ununexpected in some areas because of the storm shifted. in auburn, three feet of snow. on laguardia side of new york saw almost a foot we're seeing know in parts of new england that will wind down overnight. if you're in the coastal areas especially massachusetts where you're in nantuckett, we've had

hurricane-force wind gusts. you can see that water rise about three feet. so there could be some flooding concerns along with everything else. >> nicole. appreciate it. thank you. analysts say preparation for the storm in new york city will cost businesses about $200 million. economists say the biggest impact is on small businesses. hourly workers like taxi workers and restaurant workers. and it was a disappointing day on wall street after big companies posted lower than expected earnings. the dow closed down 2% off nearly 300 points. the s&p lost 27 and the nasdaq was down 90 points. an attack on a popular high-end hotel in tripoli libya left eight people including one american. a group linked to isil said it was responsible. the prime minister of the tripoli government and the delegation of americans were inside the hotel at the time of the attack.

in this was the scene outside of tripcalli's hotel moments after gunmen set off a car bomb in the luxury hotels bargain lot. the blast damaged five cars but the explosion was just a distraction to buy the attackers time. inside the hotel they were taking hostages. a number of foreigners were killed including an american. one of the guards says he was lucky to survive. >> two people had explosives inside their bags. one hugged me but it was a gunman that exploded. >> security officials believe there are links between this attack and the algeria two weeks ago. >> this was a coordinated attack on one of the most popular holts in the city, a hotel that housed a number of embassyies until

last summer during a militia battle in the city. this attack today the nature of it the audacious nature of it really sends a very, very powerful signal, indeed in terms of security in tripoli. >> rival governments and the militias that back them have been fighting since 2011. the u.n. managed to get two sides to agree to form a national unity government, but the deal hinges on the political leadership reigning into the militias. something that several governments failed to do. unification is an important first step but it is a daunting one given al-qaeda and isil's growth amid the chaos. >> well, there is a new online threat reportedly from isil. it warns the two hostages, the japanese journalist and the

pilate from jordan could be killed in 24 hours. the message said that the lives could be spared if the woman who who is imprisoned in jordan for a 2005 attack is released. some democratic senators said they'll hold off backing on sanctions against iran until now. it came today as house and senate committees began new hearings on iran. >> many of my democratic colleagues and i sent a letter to the president telling him we would not support images of the bill because as the letter states we remain hopeful that it will succeed in reversing iran's nuclear weapon capability.

>> looking for stay. the white house was not consulted before the visit was arrangeed. prefers at rutgers university and president of the american iranian council. it is good to see you again sir. >> thank you. >> welcome to the program. what is your take on how harmful a return to sanctions and adding new sanctions regime might be to this process that is working out right now with the p5+1. >> first off the problem on iran's side is not the new sanctions but the existing sanctions. >> yes. >> they've been trying to get relief from the existing sanctions, and that is not coming true. on the new sanctions obviously they will be disappointed, and they will not like it, but i don't believe anything would have stopped them from

negotiating. >> not even a new round. a new round of sanctions. >> a new round of sanctions. iran will not give pre- pretext to anybody that they have walked out. >> before we get to your thoughts, time is beginning to run out. what is the remaining sticking points to making a deal happen? >> well, there are basically two issues. the capacity in iran and the number of iranian it can make and keep at home. and americans have been pushing

for iran to have more than 4,000 senterfuges. these are very tough positions to take. iran wants to keep it's 9,000 centerfuges. >> correct me if i'm wrong but there has not been much progress made in this particular issue over the last several years. >> first off, i have said over and over that reaching an agreement is not going to be easy. i've been more pessimistic then anybody on this matter.

the word comprehensive is problematic. i don't think they should stay with it. they have been making this, what i call mini deals. they should continue making mini deals until the point that the sum total of the minutey deals becomes comprehensive. that's one issue. second when you get to the comprehensive issue and given the time frame of all that expectation from both sides it just-- >> you need something essentially by the end of march. >> that's right. it's very important to understand that these are pressure forces. i see the the american issuing a statement saying this is really bad cop-good cop policy. >> yes yes.

>> we're at a place where this is a republican-controlled congress. i have to ask you before you go, what are the chances that any deal is considered a good deal between the p5+1 and this congress. >> that's the problem. i do not think any deal will not survive beyond president obama. that's almost certain. my advice, don't make a deal with mr. obama that does not have the support of the american congress. that's my advice. it would be a terrible mistake on iran's side with an administration that does not agree. >> good to see you professor. running for president of iran in 2013. good to see you. >> thank you. >> president obama is on his way

back from saudi arabia right now. he met earlier today with the nation's newly crowned king salman and expressing condolences over the passing of king abdullah. question gowe go to mike viqueira. how did it go? >> there were close ties that president obama feels are very important with saudi arabia and the new king salman. president obama and first lady michelle obama being greeted by king salman himself another demonstration of thou important they consider this relationship. national security figures were republican administrations condoleezza rice and others.

they had found continuity on a whole host of issues from iran, oil, syria where they have agreement and differences. hitting wave tops key issues is how the white house described it talking about what is going on in the fight against isil where saudi warplanes are flying in an american coalition in airstrikes. and where the saudis are still upset with the obama administration. one of the more forthright stance. they talked about iraqi unity the president was there for four and a half hours. first he had dinner with the king. then an hour long meeting and the president and his entourage reboarded air force one to

arrive back here. >> what are some of the human rights issues of concern to the united states. >> there was one of the points before the meeting. the reporters know exactly what the president is going to be bringing up. the president gave an interview. he talked about the balance between human rights and the war on terror. >> what i found effective is to apply steady consistent pressure even as we get business done that needs to get done. and oftentimes that makes some of our allies uncomfortable. it makes them frustrate: sometimes we have to balance our need to speak to them about our need to speak to them about human rights issues and in terms

of terrorism and dealing with regional stability. >> mike viqueira for us at the white house. thank you. a former russian spy was poisoned not once but twice. was vladimir putin involved? georgia is planning to execute an inmate on death row unless the u.s. supreme court steps in. we'll explain why.

>> britain has opened an inquiry into the death of return spy alexander litvinenko. >> who killed alexander

litvinenko. that's the question now in the global interest in the death of a spy eight years ago refuses to go away. he had been a russia agent and fought the chechens in the 1990s. he had become so oh disillusioned with his motherland that he turned dissident. when he was asked to kill his friends he had made his grievances public and had even taken them up with a certain vladimir putin, who had just become his new boss at the russian security service. >> you'll need to consider whether mr. alexander litvinenko's attack and vladimir putin could have had connect to his death. >> if it was revenge, the men asked to execute it, the inquiry heard that they traveled several times to london prior to

alexander litvinenko death. radiation was found all over their bedrooms, and it was suggested that litvinenko had been poisoned not once but twice. litvinenko's deathbed statement where he spoke of the beating of the wings of the angry of angel of death. he went on, it will reverberate in your ears, mr. putin for the rest of your life. may god forgive you for what you've done not just to me but all of russia. >> now they have their own radio show. insisting on innocence. arguing that the poison was amateurish and said it was more

likely the british security services trying to frame him. his widow hopes that this inquiry will rule out conspiracy theories. >> the russian side continues to my the fact that he died at all or the causes of his death. i want to end the speculation. >> he told a friend that he had a rare poison and wanted a find a cook in london to administer it. they had been asked if they want to participate in this inquiry. so far they have not said one way or another. >> a former cuban president fidel castro is publicly giving his support for the new diplomatic relations between the united states and cuba. he said i don't trust the politics of the united states, and i've not said a word to them but this does thought mean that i would reject a peaceful outcome. we all enjoy friendship with all of the world and our political adversaries. castro has not made any public

remarks since 2013. coming up next, laying down their arms, a group in south sudan. releasing thousands of child soldiers. plus seeking shelter in the storm. how many are struggling to survive.

>> the release of child soldiers in south sudan. they laid down their arms today and they're part of what the u.n. is calling the demobilization of child soldiers. roxana saberi is here with more on this. roxana? >> a rebel force cobra faction recruited the children to fight. they'll release 3,000 of them to the u.n. some of them as young as 11 years old. [ singing ] >> they children are the same

age as middle school teenagers. >> this really means that their childhood has stopped. they are now at the forefront some of them, likely to face the risk of severe disability or death. >> the rebel faction recruited them in the campaign against the south sudan government. but now they don't have to fight any more. the group handed over 3,000 child soldiers to unicef. the first of 3,000 kids freed by a piece deal with the government. this 13-year-old said that he joined voltairely. the enemy killed my sister, and my uncle and family members. if i had children i would never let them be soldiers. this 12-year-old said he's looking forward to going to school for the first time. the u.n. now has to try to reunite the boys with their families. a daunting task in a country with more than 1 million children displaced by civil war.

and even with this peace deal unicef says 9,000 children are still fighting. some with government forces. others with rebel groups. mostly they're separated from their families. from their communities. >> while they look for their families the u.n. is working to get the boys in school and get them counseling and healthcare. all the chirp are boys. they tell me that girls are also recruited to fight as child soldiers. >> roxana saberi with us. the release took place on the same day as a major attack in south sudan. a military spokesman said that people were killed in the town of raqqa. here in the united states, a convicted killer whose intellect is the suspect of controversy

they intend to fight until the end. robert ray is life for us in atlanta with more on this. robert? >> you can see that we're here at the base of the steps of the capitol here in atlanta george. these people behind me have been out here for about a half hour. they are totally against the death penalty and they're absolutely against the potential death of the lethal injection of warren hill just 30 minutes away. earlier today a parole bowl decided not to grant him last-minute clemency. he's out of luck as far as the state goes. his only other chance comes as the supreme court comes in and decides to give him a stay. but you can see these people do not want warren hill to die tonight. >> rather republican hill was sentenced to life in prison for

killing his girl. but four years later he beat and killed a fellow inmate. >> he used a board that had nails in it to basically club the person to death. >> hill was sent to death row. in 2002 the supreme court blocked states from executing people with intellectual disabilities. however the justices left what constitutes an intellectual disability in the state's hands. hill's attorneys never disputing the inmates guilt have repeatedly tried to convince judges and prosecutors to spare his life. the defense sites his eighth amendment right not to be subject to cruel or unusual punishment. >> with an i.q. of a 12-year-old, we would not take such a young teenager, despite

their crime and put them in in in the electrocution gurney. >> the only reason hill is on death row tonight is because he was convicted in georgia. >> in georgia our standard of proof for proving intellectual business ability is beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the highest standard for evidence, and georgia is the only state in the entire country that has this standard. >> warren hill grew up in a violent, poorhouse hold in rural georgia. he cord 70 on a public school intelligence test. all seven doctors who examineed hill including those retained about georgia's attorney general, agreed that he had an intellectual disability. >> those with an i.q. test is not a good indicator for mental

capacity. >> hill's i.q. has fluctuated at times scoring in the 70s and at other times 69. >> the reality is georgia is one of very few states that is holding on tightly to the death penalty. last year there were only 35 execution in the whole nation from only seven states. which is the lowest numbers we've seen in 20 years. >> this would be the first-- >> hill's attorney said this morning that the let mecy board missed an opportunity to right a grave wrong. the count prosecutor does not agree. he said that hill held jobs, graduated high school and successfully served as a petty officer in the navy. the count prosecutor said that warren hill showed no signs of mental retardation until years into the appeal process. he think there is no intellectually disability within hill. >> i think the public needs to know that there were a lot of

people saying in this is the wrong thing. this is the not the direction that we want to go in terms of public policy or how we act as a society. into the future. and that we are saddened by the direction that georgia has done. >> tony, the deal here is words beyond a reasonable doubt. that is what the law is in georgia. the irony is the fact that normal was the first state in the united states to have a look at intellectual disability even as an issue with the death penalty. as you can hear some of the people singing to try to save his life doing whatever they can here tonight. but warren hill will be put to death by lethal injection in the next 30 minutes if the united states supreme court does not step in. >> robert ray for us in atlanta. thank you. blizzard warnings are posted

for the city of boston. a major storms has dumped two feet of snow and. >> one of the remarkable aspects of this storm was the lack of really a lot of crucialties. we haven't reported any to speak of here in massachusetts. that can be accounted for in large measure because of what you see here. the lack almost complete lack of road traffic because of the mandatory bans. that'sthat's a controversial thing when a couple of years ago they imposed that ban. but today we're not hearing anybody complain about that. the results prove to be that people stayed safe in this storm. tony? >> okay. joining us now by phone once again is bill finch. the mayor of bridgeport, connecticut. mr. mayor, good to have you back

on the program. a look at the travel ban, it was lifted a few hours ago. is your town return to go normal? >> back to normal. by tomorrow after 90 minute school delay you won't even notice what we went through. >> so the thought was you might get 30 inches of snow. you didn't get that. thank goodness. how much did you get? and how well did your teams former? >> well, you know, it's funny. we're sitting around here with juneau thinking of nemo. and we're just so happy that it was a footer less. it's about a foot of snow fell on southwestern connecticut and the crews handle it marvelously. we started two days ago treating the roads with salt.

it was treated with molasses which makes the roads smell real nice. and it makes the snow flushy and movable. the crews used it ahead of time. we send our supervisors into the field of row conditions. you know, it was easy to handle apholate of snow compared to what we've handled in the past. >> at what point last evening did you begin to get word that you weren't likely to get the upper end of the snow projections? >> i went back to the emergency operation center between four and five in the morning. it was at that point really,

that we knew--they began to reduce the projections by about two inches per increment. so you can do the math. it went quickly down to a projection from 24 to 36 down to 10 to 16. we were somewhat a little north of 10. we're just happy it was not the 40 inches two years ago. >> how did you do, was it necessary to move people and thinking about the most vulnerable the homeless off the streets? >> yes the weather conditions were really bad. our police officers did a great job along with social workers in the city to open up excess capacity for the homeless. and they just worked very hard to make sure that the vulnerable were taken care of. we got through this storm. it's new england. we'll keep getting through them. >> you know, i was thinking it's a the end of the day even though you didn't get the accumulations

you may have expected, it sounds like you're happy with the way that everyone performed. you believe you're ready now to handle a much bigger snow event? >> the way the climate has been so crazy the last ten years we have tornadoes super storms, blizzards so we're pretty adept. we learn every storm not just the plows and technology but cooperation. if people leave their cars on the street and try to travel in the storm it blocks the storms. you talk about the most post road. people didn't like it at first. they didn't like the alternate side of the street parking but now they like it because crews can clear curb to curb and then get back and clear the streets. >> cooperate. >> yes. mayor of bridge port,

connecticut. mr. mayor, thank you for your time again. we appreciate it. >> thank you tony. >> while the new york east is diggingeast--northeast are digging out from the weather there are record highs being recorded in rapid city, south dakota. the temperaturesser were up to 72 degrees. it was 73 degrees in denver. blame it on the jet stream to bring up warm air in the pacific. a breakthrough in heart surgery has saved the life of a sick little girl in london. a 3d printer was able to realistically replicate human organs. >> looking at little mena it's difficult to visualize the sickly child she was just a few months ago. she was born with a large hole between the two ventricles of

her heart. it left her breathless and unable to eat property. her physical development was affected even her hair would not grow. >> she would vomit all the time. >> patching the hole was the obvious remedy, but the surgeons were not sure that it could be repaired. first, an mri scan like this one was used to map the precise structure of mena's heart. then the doctors used a specialist three-day printer. to print a model. it gave the surgeons a model to show that it would work. >> it's up to me to show the cardiologist what's what. when he gives me this, he shows mow how he's going to operate. that confidence that he has knowing what to do, that will be

i think game changing. >> using the three-day model, a patch was created. plug the hole for mena. now three months on from the surgery she is well on the way to a full recovery. thanks in no small part to the doctors at the children's hospital. >> she was only ventilated for 40 hours and after they unventilated her she shot up in the bed shouting at the nurses. nurse, nurse. mena shhh. >> this is showing the hole in the middle of the party that needed to be mend: mended. this plastic gave hope for the surgeons to go ahead. and this will give hope to

thousands around the world. >> a fast track to citizenship. and how the famous von trap family is involved. marking the liberation of auschwitz, we hear from some of the last remaining survivors.

>> we want to bring you an update on a store that story out of georgia. robert? >> reporter: tony, breaking news out of the state of georgia. the associated press reporting that the united states supreme court will not give clemency to warren hill this evening. he will be executed by lethal injection in the next coming minutes scheduled for 7:00 p.m. eastern time. the folks who were out here earlier, hoping for good news just did a bow of silence. let me speak to one person who

spent time with warren hill over the several days. what has his mood been like? >> warren's mood has been steady. this is the fourth time in less than 30 months. it's a bizarre situation. we sat for two days with his family and with warren. there is a tremendous ritual of death around the the prison. warren has some equiminier nty. >> this is the fourth time that he has been through this. but he did kill two people. >> right right, one of the

characteristics of intellectually disabled people is their adaptive skills, and under situations of extreme stress which was the situation between warren and situations,. >> do you believe that warren is intellectually disabled? >> yes, it is very clear. all of the doctors and psychologists who have examined him over the years agree that he is, in fact, intellectually disabled. the jurors said had they been given that information they would have voted for a life sentence. the family has consistently asked that he be spared. >> one last question before we go. was he expecting to be saved or

put to death tonight. >> he had no idea. >> thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> tony, there it is. breaking news from the streets as warren hill will be put to death by lethal injection. >> thank you. thousands speaker john boehner plans to sue the obama administration this time over the president's immigration plan. the speaker is challenging executive action to grant work see is as to undocumented residents. that has been sent over to attorneys with no quick resolution in site. there is scrutiny of a federal program that allows people to jump to the front of the citizen line. >> if you agree that economic growth is good for the people, then this is a good program.

>> johan von trap, yes those von traps, from the family that inspired "the sound of music." now this famous immigrant family is part of a little known controversial government program that puts wealthy foreign investors on a fast track to u.s. citizenship. the program is called eb 5 and a whopping 85% of eb 5 investors are from china. here's how it works. foreign evidenters and their families get green cards and eventually full citizensships by writing a half million dollars check to fund an american economic project. that project has to create ten full-time american jobs per investors. but for the von trap family it's a god send. they enrolled in the eb 5 almost two years ago.

so they could expand this small brewery currently operating in the basement of an old barn on their resort. >> when you typically borrow money from the bank, the bank wants to start getting paid interest right away. well the brewery is not going to throw out cash for the first couple of years. so imaginative finances had to be found and the eb 5 was ideal for this. >> thanks for numbers from chinese investors it has employed dozens of construction workers. once complete it will be staffed with a dozen full time workers. but not every eb 5 program is a winner. in south dakota the fbi investigated a failed beef plant that left eb 5 investors broke. in missouri, a zero calorie tweet nery factory that promised 600 jobs went belly up. >> we have an obligation to take

on refugees. these are real obligations. i don't think bringing in someone with a happen million dollars is an equal obligation. >> what would your grand parents say about eb 5. >> i think my grandparents would think its great. they would like something to provide the opportunity to army their money optly, to be able to move to a country with this much potential. >> the potential the von trapps are still trying to tap into. >> you can watch the full report tonight at request eastern and 6:00 pacific. coming up, remembering one of the darkest periods in history. auschwitz survivors return to the death camp seven decades after it was liberated.

primetime news. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. >> i'm back. i'm not going anywhere this time. >> only on al jazeera america. >> today marks 70 years since the liberation of auschwitz. world leaders as well as

hundreds of holocaust survivors gathered to pay tribute to the victims. more than 1 million people, mainly jews, were put to death right there. american troops freed thousands from one concentration camp. >> my name is lyon bass. i was a soldiers in world war ii and served my country for the united states of america. i was so told i should go with this officer. i got on the truck. i asked where we're going. they said we're going to a concentration camp. i zin know what it was, no one told me what a concentration camp was but i was told to go, and that was an order. there was a closure that kept

someone inside and other peopleouts. >> most dreadful of the camps quarter prison population left alive when rescued by the americans, thousands were beyond human aid. >> the people were thin. their bodies had not been washed. i could see it. i could smell it. others were sore and you could see that they were maltreated. i've been trying to grasp this situation and say leon. can you handle this? can you understand what you're trying to do here? i wasn't quite sure. i knew they were not being treated perform. especially the little ones, the

children. you can look at the children and see how much they were losing. when i entered the concentration camp, i was an angry young black soldier. i was angry at my country for what it was doing to me and my race. now i can see a bit more freely and human suffering was not just relegated to just me. pain and suffering is universal. i also knew on this spring day at the concentration camp that i had seen the face of east. to this day i think about it. >> that is all of our time for this news hour.

i'm tony harris in new york. if you would like the latest on any of these stories from this news hour, we nuclear you to head over to our website www.aljazeera.com. "real money" is next on al jazeera america. >> america stands on the brink of a new cold war with russia. america stands on the brink of a new cold war with russia, i journeyed to the front lines in the frozen north where american nato are in a high stake standoffs over huge deposits of oil and natural gas and i'll give you a look at how arctic melting has unlocked a wealth of opportunity and fueled tensions between enemies and talk to an old car war icon who never took his eye off russia i'm ali velshi and this is real money.