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in buenos aires attended today's march demonstrating that, wait for it, you can have joy without a hangover! thanks for watching. i'm richelle carey. the news continues now with my colleague thomentd. >> i'm thomas drayton, and i'll get you caught up on the top stories. dozens are killed in egypt, in cairo outside a stadium no more extensions as iran's nuclear programme and stalled negotiations take center stage on the last day of the munich summit jordan pounds i.s.i.l. targets for the third day in a row. the aim is to wipe the group from the map. in "the week ahead" - we kick off our series "race in america" what it means to be black in the united states
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today. tonight a staggering death toll in egypt after violent clashes erupt outside a soccer game. the stampede and fighting happened between fans and police. 40 were killed dozens injured. the riot happened in east cairo. rob matheson has the details. >> groups of fans tried to get into the stadium, coming to watch a premier league game between zamalek, and empi. some did not have tickets. police tried to stop them with barricades when this didn't working they fired tear gas. some accused the police of using
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violence to pacify the crowd. the police denied this. it appears in the confusion a stampede occurred and me died. >> we need to look at how it was handled tonight. the way the police dealt with the violence and how egyptian blood has become cheap and fans killed easily over a football match. >> egypt is no stranger to football violence. in 2012, 74 died in port said during an al-ahly and al-masry match. 21 were sentenced to death because of the violence. >> the big question is what lessons can be learnt from the tragedy, how can it be prevented in the future. it's not the first time you know. >> inside the air defense stadium there was more fighting as fans spilled on to the pitch. the egyptian prime minister held
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a meeting with ministerial colleagues to establish what happened. already the government has decided to postpone the premier league until further notice. abdel fatah fayed is the cairo bureau chief of our sister channel al jazeera arabic and explained how politics in soccer can overlap in egypt. >> we cannot say it is normal. the main reason is there's a huge tension between the sports fans in egypt and the ministry of interior. the police is very you can say, angry. there is many legal condition, you know considering by the courts in egypt, and trying to consider all the league as terrorist organization and this is very strange. none of this is a sport. the league is not political.
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>> the fighting echoed a similar episode in egypt in 2012. more than 70 soccer fans were killed at a stadium in port said after that. the country started to regulate the numbers allowed into matches. over the past few years tensions increased between police and those attending the matches. fans of egypt's zamalek team known as the ultra white knights have a reputation for violence. many took part in the 2011 uprising that forced out hosni mubarak two al jazeera journalists imprisoned in egypt will be retried starting thursday. mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested along with peter greste in september 2013. they were later convict of aiding the muslim brotherhood, and sentenced to 7 and so years imprison. in january the court granted a new request for a trial. last week peter greste was released and deported to
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australia. it's unclear why mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed were not. al jazeera rejects the charges and calls on the egyptian government to free them this morning at the munich conference john kerry took part in a panel discussion with foreign ministers from france and germany. he later met with the iran minister. they discussed the deadline on iran's nuclear programme. john kerry called further extensions impossible. al jazeera's zeina khodr is there with more on the conference and its pivot towards tehran. >> reporter: on the final day of the munich security conference a temporary shift in focus. from talks about the conflict in ukraine, the delegates address an issue, iran's nuclear programme and the impact in negotiations. the country's foreign minister stressed that it is time to
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reach a deal but pushed a key demand. >> sanctions are a liability. you need to get rid of them. unless - particularly politicians, until they dom the realisation that sanctions are a liability and need to be listed we will not have a solution. i think we have made good head way in resolving that. >> also discussed was the upheaval across the middle east with the former u.n. secretary-general kofi annan taking the stage. >> the radicals are leading the middle east astray. if they think their ideology which will destroy the muslim world's erstwhile greatness. on the contrary history teaches us closed societies dictate, open societies are the ones that prosper. >> reporter: it follows comments on the iraqi prime minister who called on nations to help fight i.s.i.l. known is arabic as
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daesh. >> we in iraq is facing a formidable terror organisation not only threatening iraq threatening the region and the whole world at the moment. as far as i know we are the only country that have armies on the ground fighting daesh. >> reporter: the 3-day conference brings together some of the world's most influential political players. in the hallways and behind closed doors has been a flurry of activity with delegates trying to push for solutions to issues. >> german chancellor angela merkel is due to arriving in the u.s. ahead of a meeting with president obama at the white house tomorrow. renewed violence gave urgency to peace talks in the region. the leaders from france germany and russia agreed to mote. vladimir putin said a few things
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have to be worked out before the summit is finalized. >> translation: i just finished conversations with colleagues from kiev berlin paris and the nor mandy form at. we agreed to set up a meeting in the same form at. >> the u.n. estimates more than 200 have died in the past few weeks. thousands have been shipped from their homes. >> russia said it delivered over 700 tonnes of goods to luhansk, and ukraine opened a distribution center in slovyansk. the crisis in ukraine has had a debilitating effect. on thursday the ukrainian currency slid 43%, kiev reacted raising interest rate by 5.5%. of the move leaving ukrainians frustrated and feeling helpless. >> translation: i watched this
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before, and stopped doing that. part of my savings is in dollars. there's a problem. banks are not giving customers the opportunity to cash them. if i knew banks would recash dollar bills i'd not be worried. when we do not allow me to get my money, it's a concern. >> the country in east ukraine spends $8 million battling the separatists turning to the middle east where jordan announced it bombed i.s.i.l. occasions 56 times in the last three days. the head of the air force is determined to destroy the group. jordan dramatically stepped up attacks, following i.s.i.l.'s execution of a jordanian pilot. jordan is fighting i.s.i.l. as part of a u.s. coalition. other nations are stepping up support for the battle. as we hear in this report they are defending islam, as well as their country. >> reporter: these are said to
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be targets belonging to the islamic state of iraq and levant that jets are hitting. the military said it's carrying out hundreds of strikes after a captured jordanian pilot was murdered by i.s.i.l. known by the acronym daesh. >> we targeted daesh. we destroyed more than 19 targets. after that the war against dash. we are determined to achieve the objectives of this war, and not only to degrade daesh cape yibilityies -- capabilities. >> the general said 75 missions has occurred. jordan participated in 70% of the fights and killed more than 7,000 i.s.i.l. fighters.
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jordanian campaign received for from international allies. the united arab emirates is sending a squadron of jets the u.k. sending troops in an advisory role. some argue the campaign needs to be ratcheted up against a group controlling vast territory. >> the whole campaign is too slow doing too little doing constraints. jordan needs the logistics support. she ask, you know for vehicles. we didn't get it. we didn't get it from now because of the bureaucracy. the state department and the pentagon. we need it. they can inflict a lot of damage. >> and that is crucial to keep the momentum against i.s.i.l. in
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places like beige, iraqi forces took control of villages. it's a tough fight for the troops backed by shia militias. a suicide bombing killed several north of fallujah. i.s.i.l. is defiant. it continued to most more videos online. these men were killed in aleppo in syria. the brutality props up the international response. beyond the air strikes, they have not been able to defeat it. >> australian prime minister tony abbott is still in power after a confidence vote today, with 61 members of parliament voting in favour of him, and 3 against. the vote was called after widespread criticism of many of his policies. after the vote abbott said they are turning attention back to jobs, education and economy
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nigerian officials are facing protests over a decision to delay voting. voters have to wait six weeks. >> reporter: it's a decision arrived at after long deliberations. when he came to announce it the chairman had this to say about the decision to postpone the elections due to security concerns. >> it puts by itself materials, and voters safety and observers - the commission cannot lightly wave off the advice by the nation's security chiefs. >> reporter: the reaction was swift and angry, with the opposition, all congressives calling it provocative. people had been protesting for
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days about delaying the vote. >> that man said a year ago to draw a timetable for election should not sit on the eve of election to postpone it. >> they lose confidence in the process. definitely they believe that it is a result of the pressure coming from where else a party that is scared of defeat, of the elections. so if that party has it way, to shift the goalpost towards the end of march, then the party may manipulate the results. >> at the same time neighbouring countries announced plans to deploy a force of 8,700 to fight boko haram. it's part of a plan to bring security in the region. a plan that the government allows the election to go ahead.
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forces have been struggling to defeat boko haram for the last five years, and many nigerians were kept call. many in the north can't change in six weeks. >> our only hope in this country is the nigerians, is the coming elections. >> we are eager to kick out this government. it's neglected for five six years. nothing. >> under the constitution elections must take place by the end of april. that is what many are pinning hopes on that it won't be moved again. >> more news ahead your way on al jazeera america a shut down op homeland security is looming in washington d.c. funding is at the center of the steal mate.
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we talk to al jazeera contributor michael shure about it after the break. >> also ahead - our special series on race in america. we'll break down the demographics of several cities and how one state is using buses to integrate student. we'd like you to join us to "the week ahead". happening right now - join us online for a conversation about marketing to the black community. is it a celebration during this month or exploitation. that's on twitter. per cent
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a u.s. marine who disappeared from a base in iraq more than a decade ago is set to face trial. he is facing desertion and other charges. his defense attorneys insist he was kidnapped in 2004, but have not been able to present witnesses. prosecutors say he fled his post because he was unhappy with the deployment and the way american troops were treating iraqis.
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the trial will take place in north carolina officials are investigating an attack at a coast guard station, at the facility in grand haven along lake michigan store. there was a bomb threat foined in before the -- phoned in before the suspect stormed the gate and threatened workers. they are calling it domestic terrorism. >> a male suspect crashed a truck through the security gate entered the compound broke into the building and once inside attacked coast guard personnel. he was subdued, and then arrested. >> officials say the victim suffered minor injuries. it's unclear what the man's motive it. >> a shut down is growing by the tame. leaders remain at a stalemate funding the agency at the end of the month. at issue is the enforcement of president obama's actions on immigration reform.
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david shuster has the story. >> reporter: three months after announcing executive actions on immigration reform. >> we'll take steps to deal responsibility with the millions of undocumented immigrants who live in our country. >> the dispute between president obama and congressional republicans is threatening the department of homeland security. dhs oversees law enforcement along the u.s.-mexico boarder. republicans say it will fund the agency if if reverses the actions president barack obama took on his open. a funding bill has cleared the republican house but remains stalled in the u.s. senate. >> the house did its work. we won the fight. now it's time for senate republicans and democrats to come together and hold the president accountable. >> if congress cannot agree on dhs funding, the vast majority of employees will continue to
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work, but without pay checks. the essential employees who remain on the job include border control and custom officers active duty coast guard and secret service agents. the remaining employees, administrative staff, dh in washington would be furloughed and not allowed to report to work. democrats and republicans accuse each other of playing politics with national security. >> as all of our allies and some who haven't been our allies are beefing up cyber security border security beefing up homeland security, airport security adding resources. what are we doing in america? talk about a mixed signal. we are threatening to shut ours down. >> democrats need to stop holding hostage for partisan objectives. what they are doing is wrong and
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irresponsible. some are angry, and are unwilling to take it out on dhs. they are calling for a clean vote on agency funding, something the republican house is refusing to consider. david shuster, al jazeera i want to bring in political correspondent michael shure, joining us from los angeles. the big question - what happens next? >> there are a few things that can happen. i don't think they'll happen soon. the senate said to go out this week for a long weekend. the president's day recess. i don't see anything happening. there are a few different options. it can go up to the deadline. they'll vote on it probably again, and it will not succeed in the senate. there's a chance they could do a stop gap measure to extend the deadline, something that no one is talking about, because they want to resolve it before that. what they can do by coming together is seeing if mitch
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mcconnell and john boehner can strike a compromise. that's really the issue here. the president against the congress is how it's framed - which is accurate - but it's the senate against the house. >> what does it say about the way they work together. >> if this is a first run through, it's not going well. ordinarily the house would send a bill with a compromise a commizeration between mitch mcconnell and john boehner. the house sends the same bill which they know will not have success. they need the six democrats. nothing is changing the maths. >> there's a lot on the table. who has more to lose politically. >> in david's peace again you talk about how all the people are at work. they will not collect paychecks. non-fur loied workers --
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non-furloughed workers report they won't be collecting pay checks. they have the biggest effects. they'll be disgruntled about the situation. the longer it goes on it will hurt congress the two issues are not intertwined. >> it's already early into the new congressional term to have it flare up. what is the impact nationally? >> this is not an issue for 2016, if that's what you are asking. we have short memories about these things. we know shutdown after shutdown after shutdown. what it will effect is the demeanour of the parties. you asked the question about what it says about john boehner and mitch mcconnell. it's early in the majority they are allowed to have some missteps. but if in misstep and lack of cooperation between the house and senate continues for the next year let's say, that will hurt the republican party. this is a first bad step. doesn't mean it will wind up. they'll have until the 27th
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they may play hard ball now, softball later. this is an issue about congress at the moment. >> a lot of americans saying here we go again. michael shure, political correspondent. >> new england is bracing for a third major snow storm in three weeks. warnings are in effect from now until tuesday. authorities are lowering speed limits and closing schools rebecca stevenson tracking this one. they cannot catch a break. >> no especially this coming in with 10-12 inches of snow. it's slow moving across massachusetts, northern connecticut, rhode island most all of rhode island and north-eastern portion of massachusetts getting the heavy snow. it's started here in the north-east further south. the concern will be ice. winter weather advisories they
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have gone into effect. heavier snow around the pacific rhode island northern connecticut and massachusetts. it's the ice that passes by after midnight through the early morning hours of monday. the likely areas getting a tenth to a quarter inch that will be in place around northern new jersey. and we'll get the lighter amounts north, which is where we get the higher snow amounts. la guardia j.f.k. - all impacted. heavy snow focussing in around boston and into parts of the western area of vermont and new hampshire getting the snow. it's piling up. we'll have problems with travel. we have delays starting to be greater in number in parts of boston and they'll start to
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number up in chicago, impacted by the storm moving through. >> for the west it's not cold temperatures, it's above normal. and a lot of rain fall. it's coming down heavily, there's a big concern about mudslides for northern california and southern oregon. it concerns stretches tomorrow to washington. that's where the focus of rain fall moves up. the central coast, oregon is hit the heaviest. both coasts hammered. expect delays. >> another round. rebecca stevenson, thank you next on al jazeera america, we begin the week of covering on race in america. the u.s. is growing increasingly diverse, many neighbourhoods and cities are segregated. it's one topic we talk about in "the week ahead" after the break. stay with us.
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welcome back to al jazeera america here are the top stories - a riot in egypt killed
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at least 40. police and soccer fans clashed outside a game in east cairo. ahead of a match between egyptian premier league clubs. it's unclear what started it. a similar incident three years ago left 74 dead negotiations on the iranian nuclear programme drags on. kerr john kerry says all signs are key to get an agreement jordan announced it bombed 56 i.s.i.l. targets. the head of the air force said he was determined to destroy the group. jordan stepped up air strikes in syria and iraq since it learned i.s.i.l. burnt a jordanian pilot to death. it's sunday night and time for "the week ahead". it is black history month and al jazeera is marking the occasion with a series on race in america. we look at how the country is divided along racial lines and
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what it means to be a black american. to help frame the discussion here is jacob ward. . >> we are segregated. we do not live together. the darker the blue - on average, 61 will be distinct ethnic and racial backgrounds, and in cities it's more astounding. let's look at houston, texas, the blue representing diversity. population 2.2 million. suburbs are diverse. let's look at the ethnic identity of the various parts of the city. in houston, african-americans denoted in red. his panics put together by ethnic background. let's look at the southern-most portion of town.
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we see na median household income in the light colours is below $39,000 a year and below 24,000. let's move up to west houston, which is white again. there we see a median income above $82,000. you see that this area of town denoted in purple is people working it creative industries paid for thinking and problem-solving. south houston residents in light colours are working class. to find out if those manoeuvre and perform trades. a pattern of segregation is repeated in houston and across the country. here is st. louis. the blue is diversity, pretty diverse. as you drill down the races are clustered together. african-americans in red, hispanics in green. it correlates to household income as denoted here. which, again, correlates to people in the creative classes
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in purple and the service industry. the pattern continues in almost every major american city giving us the chance courtesy of data science, to look at different factors. here is richmond virginia's make-up. african-american in red, and median income. let's factor in access to supermarkets. areas here in green have access to a supermarket within a mile's walk but areas dotted with red indicate poverty-stricken neighbourhood with no access to kitchen-ready food. it's amazing how clean the lines on the map are. in 2015 between white people making a living above the median and can buy the food and non-work people who work trade or service for as little as half the median income and can't get to a grocery store on foot. this is the state of our union. >> our jake ward.
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a poll conducted by u.c.l.a. surveyed students across 200 colleges and universities finding that 25% of students believe racism is a thing of the past. it's not a large number. it is up 7% from 1990. it's a huge disparity in the numbers of african-americans receiving an education. >> only 69% of black students graduated from high school in 2012 compared to 86 of poors. >> controversies over police shootings set emotions running high. deaths of michael brown and eric garner led to massive protests and raised questions about profiling and racial discrimination and police forces. we have a lot to talk about. i'd like to welcome the senior editor from ebony.com and an educator in signs.
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-- in science. we have a lot to talk about. 75% of students believe racism is alive and well. what do you make of the numbers? >> 75% of college students read the newspaper and watch information. television. i'm more concerned with the 25% that don't believe it's live and well. it has not gone up since 1990. there has been a concerted to start conversations with the idea of post racialism or post racial america. i hope that we don't see the number increasing and that that 25" of people get it together realising that it's not a thing of the past and there's too much evidence. >> are we under a false impression with the election of a black president feeling that we are healing as a nation. >> absolutely. the election of president obama stirred up a notion of
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post-racialism in america. i argue that the 25% oftentimes fall under the mythology created with the preps of a black president. what happened is his presence doesn't allow some to have deep conversations about race because of the de facto response when one questions racism is that there's a black president. >> do you feel we are talking more about race now than a decade ago. >> the space is to have a critical conversation. conversations always existed. particularly been african-american families the conversation about race is persist tent. folks talk about the birds and the bees and we talk about how do you deal with police and interactions with the criminal justice system. they always existed. they are more critical because of platforms like social media, because of avenues for the gathering of young people. what happened in the dark was not coming to light. what is happening now is not
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more conversations, but conversations within the communities, becoming more visible. >> do you feel president obama made it more challenging for african-americans. >> i think the ability for people to point to his presidency and saying racism doesn't exist because we have a black man in the highest office in the world made things more challenging. it has emboldened a certain type of racism. people who a so concerned. for the 40th president, all the white guys represented a sea change. their station is threatened. obviously this means that white slavery is going to begin. now there'll be a shift of power, and he'll give all the jobs to the black folks. somehow they are threatened. it avoids sense, lodging,
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reason. we have -- logic, reason. we have seen the clu become -- ku klux klan grow. we have seen the attacks on the presidency. it's easy to believe if a white president put forth obama care maybe we wouldn't call it that person's name we'd call it the affordable care act. the attempts to keep him from doing anything. to me that's an obviously example of racism. >> here we have a black president, seeing a man with a high position. i want to talk about african-american males and females. the majority of african-american males i spoke to don't have self-worth. why. >> there's a misconception that self worth is not prevalent. it's whether or not the communities can identify the form of self worth that black males exhibit. a young person that goes into urban public school that
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underperforms, the perception is they do not want to perform well. in reality, the issue may be the ippibility of the school to focus on the culture of the person may be a curriculum the disep gauging curriculum. what we have is young people express dissatisfaction, whether dissatisfaction, it's misconceived so the narrative is self words or communities at large to allow it. >> when we talk about african-american do we overlook the struggles of african-american women. >> absolutely. the black arts movement centered black male struggle as the definitive struggle. the feminist movements of the past centered privileged white women.
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i think what we are seeing now, particularly upped the banner of black lives matter. a movement that has many facets and leaders and faces. that name that we come to know about, created by women, this moment saying black women lead. black women are disenfranchised in school in the work place. they face certain levels of threat in our own communicate yim. there's a general lack of ability to talk about black women when talking about racism. it is shifting changing. >> what about the movement now, ferchs are profiled for many years. what was it about michael brown. >> i think that this began with trayvon martin. even though he was not killed by a police officer, but a vigilante. that death and the public
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spectacle, the fact that it took a social media campaign to rest him. the prosecutor did not want to put him on trial. hey, it happened things happened. something was triggered there, and it grew and unfortunately it didn't result in the dismantling of law, it resulted in us seeing another young black man killed under bizarre circumstances, for what seems to be no reason other than racing profile. other than he would a career criminal. this encounter shouldn't be dealt with. it maid out on the national -- played out on the national stage, the body laid on the street for 4.5 hours. people saw it on twitter, facebook. and it triggered something. >> i want your thoughts on those outside looking in who say if the men only listened to the
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police officers, because we do hear this argument in a certain respect, that they respect the police officers, then we wouldn't have this as a case. >> the notion that people must subrogates to be g treated better, is part of the narrative of causing dysfunction within african-american communities for as long as i remember. this is not a new narrative. it's like blame the person who is sub-joe gated for the reason of their subrogation. the conversation of maybe if you listen is not the same case. also it's important to note that this is also a response to police officers or those that think they were part of the criminal justice system. the trayvon martin although not a police officer was a person who pretty much was a police officer. the narrative is trayvon martin was outside police killing, essentially it's not about the
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police officers per se but folks who have that police officer pentality, which includes teachers school principals, anyone who comes in contact with african-american young people who believe that they are at the lowest form of humanity, and feel they have power. you bring up a good point, teachers educators. it's been nearly 61 years since the supreme court decided separate schools for black and white children is unconstitutional. in a tennessee country, schools are divided four decades after agreeing to integrate. jonathan martin has the story. >> reporter: in robertson county two middle schools are eight miles apart. the biggest difference is at green briar most are white. at springfield the majority is black or hispanic. a mandate to change it divided
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the town. >> it's nothing about race. the concern is taking kids out of school they are comfortable. >> i believe it is about race. my kids don't get the same education as some of the other kids do. >> federal investigators found the district never implemented an integration plan it agreed to. james hubbard, an alderman for 26 years in spring field noticed the segregation within schools, bringing it to the attention. department of justice. >> it's a drag over from the civil rights era. we have people that have people that have civil rights defiance mentality. >> where is the proof i told you to bring. >> reporter: stacy says her concern is majority white schools have better resources. >> they have top dollar everything. you come to springfield, you
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have an auditorium that is condemn pd. you have just as many kids in trailers as in classrooms. >> the department of justice agreed finding the distribute used port ables to alleviate obvious crowding. even with space available at white schools. investigators said leaders have engaged in a long-standing pattern of decisions that hindered the desegregation of schools. >> it frust raids cody and jessica. their children will be resay signed to a school miles from home. >> it's a stress on us getting them across the county to school. >> reporter: other parents expressed concerns about mixing children may affect safety. the schoolboard delayed voting on the d.o.j. mandate for month. if the board doesn't comply by
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the next school year the government can pull all the funding from the schools $9 million. al jazeera reached out to every schoolboard for an interview. several responded that they were advised not to speak publicly because the board is negotiating with the department of justice. in the past several criticized the federal government for stepping into the country's affairs. >> this is the filibuster. in is it the moral thing to do. >> james says he hopes the school board will look beyond what is convenient and popular, and do what is right. if we look at public schools, it's not an isolated case here. it begs the question of is desegregation dead. >> is it dead. they are quite segregated.
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i don't see meaningful attempt, it's unfortunate to see the children going through this. there'll be a cost to all involved. if the school had to be re-zoned it's funny. it was stuck on the concerns over the safety of what was the safety of the white students. it's a telling statement. i'm thinking of the safety of the black children. of what's when they are forced to be around the children those that don't want them there. will they be bullied, teased beaten. to think that the children are violent as they have been sitting in trailers. this is america. this is the greatest country in the world, black children are sitting in trailers and there are people that are uncomfortable. as opposed to having them sit in a classroom with their kids. >> how do we demand equal
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resources. the response to an issue to the first question which you asked, whether or not we are desegregating. schools are more segregated now than they were post the robinson board of education. the idea that it exists admits that they are the case. the separation of the resources, the idea has to be this. funding for students should be equal across the board. it they are not translated into what happens, the issue is who is making the decisions about how it is spent. the last is the perception perceived as radical. the notion that integrating schools necessarily makes everything go away is a fundamentally flawed approach. we had the most success for african-americans within the yate public schools in the
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pre-segregation arena. perhaps we should look at how do we create curriculum allow schools that are segregated to meet the need of those publications to learn and engage. the conversation has to be two fold one about the distribution of resources and showing that there is equity and secondly ensuring that students and classrooms ensure what they need. if we can't talk about those thinks we'll have the same issues. this is why we have not closed achievement gaps and don't have students graduating. you have a conversation with the kids outside a classroom. the issue is not the young people. it's not whether or not they are dangerous, it's how do we distribute resources equitably, and how to teach black children in a way that meets their needs. our failure to recognise that leads to the issues we have today. >> looking ahead 5-10 years,
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what is the conversation we'll be having. >> five years will be the same. i look forward to the day we don't have a black man in the white house, i hate to say that. i think things will get a little more comfortable when we have someone leading the country without being stymied by the virtue of his race. it may change with a female president. i hope that we continue to move the needle in terms of the visibility of conversations around race. in 5-10 years you cannot change structural racism. you can't change the academic - you can't change the school system to where we are getting culturally specific curriculums in all classrooms where black children are forced to learn. that will not happen in 5-10 years. i think the conversation will be so consistent public impossible to ignore. legislators, community members,
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leaders of business will no longer be able to make things go away. >> a conversation we'll have for some time. we'll have to leave it there. thank you both for being with us. appreciate it we want to mention al jazeera america will continue looking at race in america throughout the week and invite you to tune in. before we go let's look at other events coming up in "the week ahead". monday - angela merkel meets with president obama at the white house. on the agenda russia ukraine and counterterrorism in the middle east. tuesday - human rights watch releases a report on conditions of migrant workers in united arab emirates. employers are confiscating passports and withholding salaries. after charging higher recruitment fees to secure low paid work. friday - a summit on cyber security and protection protecting consumers and
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welcome back britain's parliament voted to allow so-called 3-parent babies to prevent children inheriting diseases. it begins at invitro fertilisation. there is a healthy nucleus containing 99% of d.n.a. surrounding the nucleus is a mitochondria powering every sell in the body except blood cells. for some that's where the problem exists. in the new procedure scientists take the healthy nucleus and
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puts it inside the body. the result - a 3-parent baby. the d.n.a. accounts for 0.1%. >> essentially with mitochondrial you replace mitochondria. it will allow them to use energy. the only difference is that this is passed on to the next generation. britain's upper house of lords must approve the procedure. if approved it will impact 150 couples. 3-parent babies is one of scientific advancement. john terrett takes a look at how the business of babe yeas has no shortage of customers. it's a meaning of science. hundreds of thousands - the first test tube baby was born in 1978. ipp vitro fertilization a
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routine, more than 5 million has been conceived using i.v. f, turning cutting edge science into a hugely lucrative business or is a business growing quickly. word around 9 billion a year and expected to grow to $21 billion. on average would be parent will pay $12,000 for a single treatment. spawning a medical tourism. from thailand israel. where they can be as little as one-third. britain will pass a law for babies to be created from d.n.a. of three people. with each of the advance, the market is likely to go. that adds urgency to app ever-longer list of issues. embryos are screened and
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technically it is possible. so cap embryos. the idea of made to order designer babies makes more than a few uncomfortable. in the conflict between science, ethic comers the number of questions is likely to grow here in the u.s. millions suffer from infertility. fertility expert joined us earlier to talk about why. >> 10% of all couples are infertile in the united states elsewhere and the number is higher than that of infertile people, because a lot of women are fertile when they are 28 but they want a career and they fate until they are 38 or 40. by then they have difficulties they now have single women, men, gay couples. you have a lot more people many many people around the world, particularly in western
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countries are looking to use the new technologies. >> that will do it for this hour. thank you for joining us i'm thomas drayton in new york. i'll be back with another hour news later. "faultlines" is next.
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>> the first stop for many child migrants to the united states is this border patrol facility in mcallen, texas. >> "good afternoon, welcome to the rio grande valley processing center..." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent children, fl