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>> of the lives that were lost in the desert >> this is the most dangerous part of your trip... >> an emotional finale you can't miss... >> we got be here to tell the story. >> the final journey borderland only on al jazeera america >> this is al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories this hour. dozens of people are killed in egypt, outside a major soccer match in cairo. >> we are absolutely determined to work for you the people who elected us. >> still standing. awfts's embattled prime minister survives a challenge to his leadership. jordan vows to avenge its pilot.
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and what it means to be black in america. >> thanks for being with us. tonight we begin with case on in egypt, bodies being taken to a morgue following a violent riot outside a soccer stadium. the fighting broke out earlier today, between police and soccer fans in east cairo. officials say at least 40 people were killed in stampedeing clashes. and dozens others killed. a stadium engulfed in flames. fans and players filling street. >> groups of football fans try
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to get into the air defense stadium in cairo. they have come the reach a game between zemelac and eppi. some don't have tickets to the game. they try stop them and use tear gas. the police have denied violence. >> few people walked in slowly and then people telling us, we will let you in from the back door. they thought, this is it, we will get in from the back door. because of the large numbers they started to use tear gas. people started jumping over the fence. >> a stampede occurred and many people died from suffocation. >> the way the police dealt with the violence and how egyptian blood has become so cheap and how are fans being killed so easily over a football match.
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>> reporter: egypt is no strange tore football violence. in 2012, 74 rming people died, in al ahly and al-masri. people were at morgz trying morgues. >> this is the time we are living if now. this is our day and age. >> the egyptian prime minister held a press conference to try odetermine what happened. but already the government has decided to postpone the premier league until further notice. rob matheson, al jazeera. author of the widely proclaimed blog, the turbulent
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world of.egyptian soccer. we have seen this in tahrir spring during the arab spring. for one you have clashes between security forces and militant soccer fans over the last year since the fall of mubarak, in 2011. the lathest incident occurred against the background of an attempt by the president of samalek, cairo football club to outlaw the militant soccer fans as a terrorist organization. it also follows protests over the years against the ban on spectators attending soccer matches in stadia,. >> fans from ultrawhite knights
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tried to storm stadium. away can you tell us about them? >> they distinguish themselves by their passion for the sport their passion for the club and an aggressive intimidating form of support during soccer matches of the club to which they are loyal. they have an analysis of the power structure of the game that in and of itself challenges the regime. their analysis is one in which they see officials of the club and of the soccer federation as puppets of the regime, playing for money and will leave the club given a better offer from another club and therefore they view themselves as the only legitimate supporters of the club. and in that they claim in a sense ownership to the stadium. and that's the challenge to the
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regime. particularly one that is intent on suppressing any form of political dissent and therefore wants to control all public space. >> you talked about this passion we're looking at the video here, soccer matches are often a flash point for violence in egypt. how deep are the divisions between the soccer teams in egypt? >> they're very deep. ultras across the globe not only in egypt but certainly in egypt view rival groups as their enemy. and the clashes that you've seen in -- over the years since the emergence of the ultras in egypt in 2007 has been as much among groups of ultras as ultras and the security forces. on the other hand, ultras irrespective of their differences share among other things a deep seeded animosity to security forces. as you saw in tahrir square in
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2011 they were able to put their differences aside to challenge regime. >> where do you see this headed? >> i think this is a very sensitive moment for president al-sisi. contrary to the muslim brotherhood they are not an overtly political organization. they explicitly state they are not political. this evokes deep seeded emotions and passions among a large percentage of the egyptian population. therefore the regime has to tread carefully particularly because this is the worst incident in sporting history in egypt since port said. for the 73 people who died in port said five years ago. >> thank you appreciate your time tonight.
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well as we mentioned the fighting today echoed a similar incident in egypt from 2012. more than 70 soccer fans were killed at a stadium in port said. after that the country started regulating the number people allowed in the matches. over the past years tedges ves tensions have increased between the spectators and police. two al jazeera journalists will be retried starting monday. baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy were arrested in 2013, later convicted aiding the muslim brotherhood and sentenced to 7 and 10 years. in january the court granted a request for new trial. peter greste was released and
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sent back to australia, it is unclear why they were not. surviving a vote of confidence tony abbott from australia. >> we think that when you elect a government, you elect a prime minister you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind. >> al jazeera's andrew thomas is in sydney tonight with more. >> reporter: tony abbott has survived a vot of confidence vote of confidence in his own party but not convincingly. only just. it doesn't clear up the questions about his leadership. certainly a very different situation to 16 months ago when abbott won a convincing majority to take office in australia. since then though, australia's
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economy has faced a bit of a downturn. mining sector has dropped off that has dropped australia's budget is in deficit. tony abbott has said his priority was to return it to surplus. but he hasn't been able to get the legislation through that would allow that to happen any time soon. for instance, increases in taxes, a charge to see the doctor in australia and he's not seen as collaborative enough towards them and has seen as a prime minister the sort of man who makes comedic mistakes. would shirt front is a very aussie term, means throw down somebody in a very rough way. clearly, tony abbott wouldn't do
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that to vladimir putin. he awarded a knighthood to prince phillip the queen's husband. tony abbott is an arch royalist. a captain's call gone wrong. tony abbott has survived this vote not convincingly. meaning a further challenge to his leadership not long away. taking center stage at the munich conference, secretary of state john kerry took center stage. kerry met with iranian foreign minister. they talked about the nuclear program. kerry called further conferences impossible. >> on the final day of the
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conference delegates also addressed a persistent issue. the country's foreign minister, mohamed javad zarif. >> sanctions oar liability. you need to get rid of them if you want a solution. and unless particularly some politicians, unless they come to the realization that sacks are a liability and they need to be lifted we will not have a solution. so that's the single most important issue but i think we have made good headway in resolving even that. >> also discussed was the upheaval across the middle east with the former u.n. secretary-general kofefe anan taking center stage. >> on the contrary, history teaches us that closed societies
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decay, open societies are the ones that prosper. >> his comments followed those of the iraqi prime minister who called on nations to help fight the advance of i.s.i.l. known in arabic as dash. >> we are facing a formidable new which is not only threatening iraq. it is threatening the region, it is threatening the whole world at the moment. as far as i know we are the only country that have earmd on the ground fighting dash. >> the three-day conference brings together some of the world's most influential political players. in the hallways and behind closed doors there's been a flurry diplomatic activity, with diplomats trying to push for some of the most pressing issues.
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hoda ab ded abdel hamid, al jazeera. >> ing liters from ukraine france germany and russia agreed to meet. >> i've just finished my conversations with colleagues from kiev, berlin and paris in the so-called normandy format. we agreed we would try to set up the meeting in the same format. in minsk. >> on thursday the ukrainian currency slid 40% against u.s. dollar. kiev reacted by raising interest rates from 5.5% to 19.5%. the move left many ukrainians feeling helpless. >> translator: part of my savings are in dollars the problem is, the banks are not
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giving customers the opportunity to cash them. when the banks aren't allowing me to get my money it's really an unpleasant situation. >> ukraine's financial woes stem mostly from the fighting in eastern ukraine. the country spends an estimated $8 million a day battling the separatists. jordan has announced it bombed i.s.i.l. locations 56 times in the last three days. this following i.s.i.l.'s execution of a jordanian pilot. they are defending islam as well as their country. >> reporter: these are set to be targets belonging to the islamic state of iraq and the levant that jordanian jets are continuing to hit. the military says it's carried out hundreds of strikes in the last three days in syria and iraq after a captured jordanian pilot was murdered by i.s.i.l known by the acronym dash. >> we successfully destroyed
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more than 19 targets. after said that, the war against dash is going to continue. we are determined to achieve the objectives of this war. and not only to degrade dash capabilities, we are going to destroy dash. >> the general says the u.s. led coalition has conducted 7500 missions since the air strikes began. jordan has participated in almost 20% of the strikes. and the military estimates it's killed more than 7,000 i.s.i.l. fighters. jordanian campaign has received support from regional and international allies. the united arab emirates is sending a squadron of its f-16 jets while u.k. is sending troops in an advisory roll. it needs to be ratcheted up. >> the whole campaign is doing too slow doing too little very
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constrained sort of thing. we need to open up, we need to increase the sortie rate to 600 1800 sortie per day. she ask even for rbvs, remote vehicles but we didn't get the predator and we didn't get it from now because of the bureaucracy of the state department or the pentagon or the congress so we need these airplanes. they can inflict a lot of damage. >> and that support would be crucial to keep the momentum against i.s.i.l. in the towns like beji. it is a tough fight for iraqi troops backed by shia militias. a suicide bombing killed several iraqi soldiers. but i.s.i.l. remains defiant. it's continued to post more videos of killings online. these men were reportedly killed
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in the i.s.i.l. controlled parts ever aleppo in syria. i.s.i.l.'s response has propped up the international response against group. but the online going international air strikes haven't been able to defeat it. >> the parents of a 26-year-old woman taken hostage by i.s.i.l. are continuing to hope their daughter is still alive. this week i.s.i.l. announced a jordanian air strike on an i.s.i.l. base had killed her. her parents haven't seen proof but worried but hopeful. >> the family right now is in a very fragile state as you can imagine. they're worried the strain of not knowing where their daughter is at, and whether or not she's alive or not is something that is starting to wear on them. but if we had to go on ahead an say in a word how they're doing they're hopeful. >> mueller is the only known
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remaining u.s. hostage held by i.s.i.l. still ahead on al jazeera america. a shutdown of homeland is looming. funding is once again at center of the stalemate. we'll bring up the question next. and the series race in america. a closer demographic of several cities plus how one state is still using buses to integrate some students. 11:30 everyone are eastern 8:30 pacific. pacific. >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's award winning, investigative series... on al jazeera america
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>> welcome back. the chances of a shutdown at the time department of homeland security are growing by the day. congressional leaders remain at a stalemate over legislation that would fund the agency to the end of this month. at the inform fronts are the president's executive actions on imlaitionimmigration reform.
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there's has the story. >> the dispute between president obama and congressional republicans is now threatening the department of homeland security. dhs oversees law enforcement actions along the u.s.-mexico border and republicans say they will only fund the agency if president obama takes back the actions he took on his own. it remains stalled in the u.s. senate. >> the house did its work. we won this fight. now it's time for senate republicans and senate democrats to come together and to hold the president accountable. >> reporter: if congress cannot agree on dhs funding the vast majority of employees around 200,000 out of 230,000 would continue to work but without paychecks. the essential employees would remain on the job would include
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border and customs officers, active duty coast guard members and secret service employees. the remaining employees primary staff at david dhs in washington, would not. >> as all of our allies and some who have traditionally not been our allies are beefing up their cyber security, their border security beefing up their homeland security, their airport security adding more resources what are we doing in america? talk about a mixed signal? we're threatening to shut ours down. >> the democrats need to stop holding hostage what they're doing is wrong and irresponsible. >> even president's bypass of congress seem unwilling to take it out on dhs.
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they are calling for a dleen vote oncleanvote on funding. >> mooblg shure ismichael shure is joining us. >> the congress is set to go out this week for a long weekend president's day recess. few options this can go right up to the deadline. they're going to vote on it probably again and it will not succeed in the senate. there is a channels chance they could do a stop backpack measure that would extend that february 27th deadline, nobody is talking about that right now because they want to resolve it before that. what they can do by coming together is seeing if mitch mcconnell and john boehner can strike some sort of compromise. that is really the issue
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thomas. it's the senate against the house. >> what does this say about the way bjorn and mcconnell bairch boehner and mcconnell work together? >> after seeing this in the senate the house would then send some sort of bill that would have some sort of compromise between mcconnell and boehner the 56 republicans need the republicans, nothing is changing that. in david's piece again you talk about how all of these people will be at work but won't be collecting paychecks. the nonfurloughed workers will be reporting as usual but not be collecting paychecks. so those are the people that can really have the biggest effect on how this happens politically. they are the ones that are going to be disgruntled about the
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situation, and the longer this goes on, more this will hurt because the two aren't intertwined. >> this is early into the congressional term to have this flare up. what is the impact nationally? >> this is not an issue for 2016 really if this is what you're asking thomas because we have short memories about these. we know shutdown after shutdown after shutdown. the demeanor of the parties the first bad step. they do have until the 27th. they may be trying to play hardball now but for the moment it is probably hurting the republicans because this is an issue about congress at the moment. >> a lot of people saying about congress here we go again. michael shure good to see you again. gasoline prices are up 2 cents a gallon. up to 2.20. a rebound in the cost of crude
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caused the jump. compared to a year ago the price is still $1.10 below the mark. nbc news are anchor bryan williams, says he is temporarily taking himself off the air. the network is investigating williams and his admission that he told a false story about being in a helicopter hit by a grenade during the iraq war. residence of the st. louis region are filing a lawsuit against two suburbs including ferguson. when riots broke out after an officer-involved shooting leaving a black teenage are dead. cities are disproportionately jailing minorities in crowded and unsanitary situations. the lawsuits claim the tickets
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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories we're following right now. a riot in egypt killed at least 70 soccer fans today. riot broke out ahead of the match. officials are still investigating what started it. john kerry says all sides are eager to get a deem done on the iranian nuclear talks. jordan announced today it's bombed 56 i.s.i.l. targets in
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the last three days. the head of the affairs said he was also determined to destroy the group. jordan has stepped up air strikes in syria and iraq after it learned that i.s.i.l. burnd burned a jordanian pilot to death. all this week al jazeera is marking the occasion of black history month with segregation in america and when it means to be a black american. to help frame this situation here's jake jacob ward. >> we are still very disagreed. americans of ethnic backgrounds simply do not live together. the darker the blue the more diverse each county is. on average for every 100 people in a given area of the united states 61 of them will be of distinct ethnic and racial backgrounds, that's pretty amazing. and in cities that diversity is even more astounding.
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let's look at houston texas the blue represents diversity 2.2 million even its suburbs have become become increasingly more diverse. asians in purple, hispanics and white residents clustered together by ethnic background. now let's take a look at the southern most portion of town which is predominantly african american. there, median household income is below $39,000 per year and often below $24,000. now let's move up to west houston which is predominantly white. there we see a median income above $82,000 per year. can you also see that this area of town denoted here in purple ask predominantly people working in creative industries, paid or the their creative skills. while south houston is in
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working class. this pattern of clear segregation between these two areas is repeated thought just in houston but across the country. here is st. louis missouri again the blue is diversity pretty diverse on the face of it but if you drill down, you see the clusters, green,ing yell, white, is denoted with household income. creative classes in purple and in this case the service industries in the lighter colors. the pattern continues in almost every major city. which gives us the chance to look at other factors. here is richmond, virginia's racial makeup again african americans in red and the usual correlation to median household income but let's factor in something else. how about access to supermarkets. areas in green have access to
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supermarkets have access in a mile's walk. but access in red have no ready access to kitchen-ready food. 2015 between white people who can make a living well above the nationwide median and service jobs less than half the median income can't get to a grocery store on foot. this, this is our state of the union. >> a poll by jake ward. a survey by colleges an universities found that 25% of students believe race imp is a things of the past, not much of a number. according to a report by the education trust only 69% of black students graduated from high school in 2012. that's compared to 86% of their white peers.the recent
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controversies over shootings of black men by white police officers. led no mastive protest across the country. and raised questions about profiling and racial discrimination in police forces. we do have a lot to talk about. i'd like to are welcome the senior editor at he ebony.com. talk about the numbers 75% of those student believe race civil alive and well. ms. lemille what do you think of those numbers? >> i'm more concerned about the 25%, who don't think race civil alive and well. there has been a concerted effort to stymie conversations
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about postracial america. i hope we don't see that number increasing and that 25% of young people get it together and 35 it's certainly not a thing of the past and there is certainly too much evidence in their face day after day to believe that. >> the election of a black president feeling we're healing as a nation. >> absolutely. i think election of president obama kind of stirred up this notion of postracialism in american. i would argue that the 25% who are under the impression that race imp no longer exists still falling under the mythology that was created by a blam black president. his presence doesn't allow a deep conversation about race, de facto response is that there is a black president. >> do you feel we're talking more about race now than we were say ten years ago? >> i think the space has been created for us to have more critical conversations about
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race. conversation has always existed. the conversation about race has always been persistent. folks talk about the birds and the bees, when people come of age, and african americans you talk about how do you deal with police? the conversations have always existed, they are more critical than ever before, more afns avenues for gathering of young people, what is happening now is not more conversations, it is the conversations that are happening within the communities already have become more visible for rest of nation. >> i think ability of people to point to president obama's presidency and say that clearly racism doesn't exist because we have a black person in the highest position in the united states his position has emboldened a certain type of racism.
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people so concerned that one person the 44th president after all these white guys, has somehow represented such a sea change in the country that their station is now threatened. as if obviously, this means that white slavery is going to begin and now that there's going to be a complete total shift of power and he's going to give all the jobs to the black folks and all the money and entitlement is coming to us, is completely devoid of sense logic and reason. we have seen the ku klux klan become more visible attacks on his presidency, it is very easy to believe if a white president had put tbhoort we know forth what we know as obamacare, we wouldn't be reerveg to it by that person's name the affordable care act. to me that is a very obvious example of racism. >> we see a black man can achieve the highest position in
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the nation but yet the majority of african american males i want to talk about african american females in a minute, but the majority of african american men don't feel they're worry why? >> it's whether or not the communities are larger to identify the formsd of self worth that black males exhibit. for example a young person who goes into an urban public school who underperformance, the perception is that that person doesn't want to perform well the person lacks self worth. it may be a curriculum that extracts race in the curriculum, it may be the disengaging. what we have is when young people are expressing dissatisfaction of the system,ists misperceived or the narrative becomes it is a lack of self worth, rather than the reflection of the inability of
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the communities at large to allow the expressions of self-worth to become present. >> do we often overlook the struggles of black women? >> of course. the black power black arts movement have centered black male struggle as the definitive black struggle in the same way as the feminist movements of the past have largely centered white privileged women at that rather than women of color. under the banner of black lives manner a banner that has many movements and many phases but that name, created by three black queer women this moment we are saying, black women lead, black women support black women exist, black women are killed by officers black women face a level of threat in our own communities at the hands of our
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own men. so i think there's a general lack of ability to talk about black women and girls when we're talking about racism. that is shifted and social media has seernl lot to do with that. >> african americans are have been profiled for many years by white police officers. what is it about michael brown and acre garner? >> i think that that death and the public spectacle around the charge of george zimmerman the fact that it took a social media campaign to get him arrested, hey it happened, things happen, sorry. you know i think something was triggered there and it grew and it grew and unfortunately it didn't result in the dismantling of stand your ground laws, it resulted in us seeing another black man killed under bizarre circumstances for what seems to be no reason other than him being racially targeted buy cop.
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that encounter should not have ended up with a death the body laid in the street for four and a half hours and it triggered something, it's been growing for a very long time. >> i want to get your thoughts on those outside looking in who say if these men would have only listened to the police officers because we do hear this argument that they need to in a certain regard respect police officers that we wouldn't be in a situation. what do you say to those people who feel that that's the case? >> the notion that one must subjugate their voice for the fact of being treated better is part of the narrative of forcing or causings dysfunction within african american communities for as long as i remember. this is not a new mayor fif at all. sort of -- new narrative at all.
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so that same conversation about maybe if you listened is not the same case whether we talk about other populations as well. and then also i think it's also important to note that this is also a response to police officers or those who think they are part of the criminal justice system. the trayvon martin case although was not a police officer was a person who pretty much thought he was a police officer. so the narrative traifn trayvon is not a narrative not about the police officer per se but folks who have that police officer mentality which includes teachers school principals, includes anyone who comes in contact with african american young people who believes that they are at the lowest form of humanity and feel they have power because they are interacting with them. >> you bring up the education system it's been nearly 61 years since the supreme court decided that separate schools for black and white students are
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unconstitutional. but segregation remains a problem in one county. our jonathan martin has that story. >> in robinson county tennessee two middle schools are miles apart. the biggest difference, at greenbriar, most students are white, at springfield most students are black or hispanic. >> it's nothing about race. the concern is taking kids out of school where they're comfortable with. >> i believe it is about race. what are you doing? my kids don't get, i don't think they get the same education as some of the other kids do. >> federal investigators found the district never implementan integration plan it agreed to in 1970. james hubbard annal an alderman.
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>> it's a drag-over from the civil rights era. we have the people that have that civil rights bull kind of defiant attitude in the county. >> with two children attending middle school in the county, stacy says her major concern is that white schools are receiving more kind of resources. >> they have top dollar everything. you come to springfield you have an auditorium that is condemned. you have children in trailers as you have them in actual classrooms. >> portables. space available at predominantly white schools in the same cluster. investigators say leaders have engaged in decisions that have hindered rather than
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desegregated. >> other pairns have expressed concerns about how mixing student populations might affect their child's safety in fact parent opposition has been so strong the school board has delayed voting on the doj's mandate for several months. if the board doesn't comply by next school year the federal government could pull all of its funding from the county schools. $9 million. al jazeera reached out to every school board member for an interview. several responded by telling us they'd been advised not to speak publicly because the board is negotiating with the department of justice. in the past, several board members have publicly criticized the federal government for stepping into the county's affairs. >> this is the way they filibuster. this is the moral thing odo. >> james hubbard says he hopes
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the school board will look beyond what's convenient or popular and finally do what's right. jonathan martin, al jazeera springfield, tennessee. >> this is not an isolated case here. it begs the question, is desegregation, dead? >> you know the it dead? we're quite segregated. i don't see there being any great meaningful attempts at desegregating structures across this country and it's unfortunate to see these children going through this. there will be i think a cost to all involved. you know, if the schools had to be rezoned and, you know, it's funny i'm just stuck on the concerns over the safety of what was implied the safety of the white students. >> they are telling statements. >> it's a very telling statement. i'm thinking of the safety of the black children. i'm thinking of the emotional safety. what's going to happen if they're forced to be around the
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children who obviously don't want them there. are they going to be teased, beaten these kids are inherent violent, they are sitting in trailers, this is the greatest country in the world and black children are sitting in trailers getting subpar education in subpar resources. >> how do we ensure that our children of color are well educated? >> the first question you asked which is really telling, whether or not we are desegregating schools today are now more segregated post-brown versus board of education. let's admit that's the case, one. second point is when we're talking about the separation of resources, the idea simply has to be this: funding for students in that county should be equal across the board. so if they're not being
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translated into what happens in classrooms the issue then becomes who's making decisions about how that money is spent. lastly most important the notion that integrating schools necessarily makes everything go away is such a fundamentally lawedfundamentallyflawed way to look at this issue. we had the most funding in the presegregation arena. perhaps we should be looking at how do we create curriculum, approaches to teaching and learning, allowing schools that are segregated to be able to meet the needs of those unique populations in a way that helps them learn and engage in schools more appropriately. the conversation has to be twofold, one in the distribution of resources and secondly, ensuring that students receive the type of education they need. if we can't talk about those two
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things, this is why we have not closed achievement gaps, you have conversations outside of the classroom they express their brilliance in amazing ways. the issue is not whether or not they're dangerous how we distribute resources equitable equitably. >> five to ten years what is the conversation we'll be having in america? >> in five years i think it will be the same conversation. i look forward to the time whether we don't have a black man in the white house. we can have somebody who can lead the country by not being stystymied by the sheer fact of his race. we will continue to move the needle in terms of the visibility around race. in five to ten years you could
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not change structural militarism. you can't change the school contaminate tosystem that's not going to happen in five to ten years. but i think conversation will have gotten so consistent, so public so impossible to ignore, that legislators the community members, the leaders of business will no longer be able to just kind of make things go away for the sake of their own peace and comfort. >> conversation we'll be having for quite some time. we'll have to leave it there. jamilla and christopher thanks for being with us. appreciate it. we do want to mention al jazeera america will continue to look at race in america throughout the week. we invite you to tune in. before we go let's look at other events in the week ahead. on monday angela merkel will
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meet with president obama in the white house. on tuesday human rights watch will release a report on the conditions of migrant workers in united arab emirates. according to the rights group government is still confiscating workers passports. on friday, the white house will host a summit on cyber security. protecting consumers and companies. coming up on al jazeera america. first measles and now mumps. the disease is spreading to a second u.s. state. we'll detail next. l detail next.
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have also been traced back to the hoifd outbreak. the vaccine that protects against mumps is also recommended to protect against measles. at least 14 states have been affected. began at disneyland in southern california in december. another anticipated spacex launch was scrubbed due to a tracking error. preventing the falcon 9 rocket from launching. second test for the rocket, last month's rocket ended up in flames.(p) much of new england is already covered in snow. rebecca stevenson is tracking this. they got a couple of feet and now another foot . >> now the storm moving in
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currently, talk about disrupting life. disrupting life, disrupting travel. disrupting a lot of schools too. we've got cancellations for parts of massachusetts so you want to call to check in if you are anywhere in the northeast because it is going to be along duration snow event for massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut, northern connecticut, the focus of heavier snow is going to impact part of vermont. new hampshire getting amounts too. focused area we'll get snow, but we've got ice and freezing rain to worry about for the morning hours to the south. we have accumulations of ice in ports of northern new jersey to new york up to a quarter of an inch. our heavier ice accumulations will be there on the southern end. the ice accumulations will be lighter further on to the north but that's where the snow comes to play too. six to eight inches of snow in those central areas ten to 14
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in parts of massachusetts and vermont. impacting rhode island, six to 12 inches of snowfall from this storm system that's going to be moving through slowly all the way through tuesday morning. with an icy mix and snow to the north we've got travel problems. check in if you're flying out of boston newark, la guardia or part of pennsylvania. wind gusts 44 miles an hour in san francisco. areas north of san francisco reporting gusts up to 55 miles an hour. yes, three to four hour delays at the airports around northern california including san francisco because of this wind. and that's on top of the rain amounts which are well over an inch so we've got concerns of mudslides potentially the rain
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