>> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact... that make a difference... that open your world... >> this is what we do... >> america tonight only on al jazeera america ♪ yemen is collapsing before our eyes eyes. we cannot stand by and watch. >> reporter: a dire warning from the head of the u.n. on a day when an al-qaeda group captures a yemen military base bang cherokee moon calls on the world community to act. on the front lines in iraq with an al jazeera exclusive, iraqi troops taking the fight to i.s.i.l. a first-hand account of the battle. making peace in eastern ukraine, a look at what it will take for

a new deal to stand and the crucial role played by german chancellor angela merkel. and the trans america partnership. >> after five years of closed door negotiation with 600 corporate advisors who have access to the text and writing and helping to write these rules and the public does not know about it. >> reporter: the white house pushes a big trade deal with countries in asia and the americas but could people in the u.s. be on the losing end? ♪ welcome to al jazeera and i'm antonia and i'm stephanie sy and go to yemen on the bring of war and verge of collapse and an al-qaeda affiliate group seized an army base in the western part of the country today and a

tribal source said dozens of tanks, jeeps and military equipment captured on the raid on the base. >> at the airport in sanaa vehicles left by american diplomates exiting yemen were also seized the u.s. had suspended operations at the embassy on tuesday, deteriorating situation prompted emergency meeting at the u.n. security council today, general secretary-general ban ki-moon said it's a global threat that demands immediate attention. >> let me be clear, yemen is collapsing before our eyes. we cannot stand by and watch. the countries are facing multiple challenges. and dangerous political crisis continues in sanaa. we all have an obligation to live up to commitments under united nations charter and most do everything to help yemen step back from the brink and get the

political process back on track. >> reporter: as the violence continues to spiral out of control, jamal filed this report from the yemen city. >> this is from ban ki-moon in yemen and people are asking what the united nations is willing to do in order to solve what is becoming a more and more dangerous situation, a more and more unstable state as everyday goes by. a lot of people particularly the political parties, who have been involved in negotiations have become more and more pessimistic with regards to the u.n.'s role particularly this because the only consistency in terms of negotiations as they have continued is the houthis and shia malitia who conducted this have been more powerful as long as negotiations continued so they are asking why the u.n. continues with strategy and surely there must be another one of the senior politicians and

must be another strategy to ensure the coup is reversed and legitimacy is restored. on a security perspective and front more violence across the country, this time on thursday there was an attack by what is understood to be al-qaeda militants on army base in the providence, the significance here is that this army base is close proximity to the oil production center of yemen. also significant is that the al-qaeda militants who have taken control of the army base said they were doing this because they said the army had capitulated and given essentially its bases in other cities particularly a few days ago to houthis as they advance southward to the rest of the country and al-qaeda wanted to open a new frontier against them and more instability and more security concerns across the country. let's take a moment to look at yemen strategic importance and it's not a major oil

producer but crucial to oil supply because the country is in key roots for crude oil and gas shipments and right now different factions control the country, houthis control most of the north including the capital sanaa and the army has central and western yemen and it's the port city in the south that is important and al-qaeda and arab peninsula has a stronghold in yemen and it's the greatest external terror threats of the u.s. and west and upheaval could threaten one of the world's key oil and gas roots, the oil reserve are north of yemen to get oil to the u.s. and europe ships travel out of the gulf through the gulf of amman and aiden and then suez canal and losses on the battlefield and struggle to combat i.s.i.l. and

took over part of central iraq today and launched a multi team assault from two directions and local police tell al jazeera that 16 iraqi soldiers and ally tribal fighters died. happened 50 miles from iraq's largest military base where hundreds of american advisors are stationed and pentagon says that base in ramadi has not been breached but the nearby town of al-badadi has fallen to i.s.i.l. control and to the north the coalition claimed iraqi forces liberated soldiers who months had been caught fighting in the city of beji and recovered the strategic oil refinery but i.s.i.l. controls large parts of the oil and this is a report from the iraqi capitol. >> reporter: after 103 days under siege by the islamic state of iraq and lavante this special forces unit is finally free. mid november iraqi forces retook

the town 15 kilometers from one of iraq's largest oil refineries and they were stretched in securing the oil refinery and unable to hold the center of the town and i.s.i.l. took advantage and pinned the unit down every day for 103 days they fought and neither side advanced and it was stalemate and two days ago breakthrough and army was able to cutoff an i.s.i.l. supply line and help was finally at hand. >> translator: we have managed to cut the enemy's supply line from the town considered the central point of terrorism. we have advanced further to the front, toward the town and now the corridor is under our control. our future plans is to retake the towns completely. >> reporter: both towns are important if iraq army is to successfully retake beji but not easy or happen soon.

>> translator: we have separated sunni from beji the people of beji and sunni know how crucial the locations are and beji has been in control entirely since 2006 and now we made good gains making that separation and we are still pushing through. >> reporter: these holes in the road are caused by i.s.i.l.'s improvised explosive devices that killed my rack cherokee soldiers. frequent tools on the road of this construction equipment that was once used as makeshift roadblocks. on wednesday president barack obama said that i.s.i.l. were on the back and that may be the case in some areas but in beji seemingly not and i.s.i.l. were able to pin down iraqi special forces unit for 103 days has to be of concern to everyone fighting the group, i'm with al jazeera, baghdad. the fight against i.s.i.l. was also on agenda for leaders at the u.n. the security council passed a resolution today designed to cutoff the group's income al jazeera's

kristen reports on an attempt to scare off anyone looking to buy oil from i.s.i.l. >> reporter: the international community has a new weapon in the fight against i.s.i.l. resolution 2199. that's a legal obligation put on u.n. member states to cutoff i.s.i.l.'s primary funding sources, oil, ransomes and increasing concern the looting of culture antiquities. >> translator: we took a very important step in suppressing funding of terrorists and first and foremost as a result of the illegal trafficking of oil. >> reporter: the united states said the resolution doesn't go far enough. >> at the same time as we applaud the threat posed by i.s.i.l. we talk about the persistent failure to address one of the main factors that led to the rise and no better recruiting tool for i.s.i.l. than atrocities of assad regime. >> reporter: iraq and syria fighting on home turf welcome

the measure. >> we are very pleased to see that the council has moved finally in the right direction, towards establishing and setting a wider framework to combatting terrorism. >> reporter: this resolution shows the security council is united when it comes to fighting not only i.s.i.l. but also other groups affiliated with the al-qaeda, some of the measures are not new. but this raises the stakes for countries that do business with them by threatening them with sanctions. kristen with al jazeera, the united nations. pakistan authorities arrested 12 members of taliban in connection with last year's massacre at a school in peshawar and people were killed in the attack and most children and government says 27-member cell of taliban in pakistan is responsible, six of the suspects were arrested across the border this afghanistan, and pakistan says another nine members of that cell are dead. head of forces in afghanistan is discussing plans

to withdraw troops this year and today general john campbell met with the committee and 10,000 troops are in afghanistan to train and support afghan forces but the number is expected to drop to 5500 by the end of the year campbell is asking for flexibility in the process. >> i provided options on adjusting our force sponsor through my chain of command and the issue is how long we stay engaged at regional level and transition year of 2015. >> reporter: specifics were not discussed at the hearing, the white house says afghanistan president requested the u.s. slow its withdrawn and centers today voice their opinion that the withdrawal process is moving too fast. the senate today confirmed ashton carter as the next american defense secretary and succeeds hagel who resigned last november and carter will be sworn in the next few days and faces a host of challenges in the new job including the fight against i.s.i.l. crisis in

ukraine and the draw down of the war in afghanistan, carter may also have to deal with smaller defense budgets. a ceasefire agreement in ukraine. >> but will 16 hours of tough negotiations put an end to move months of fighting and we will break down the deal and what it means to both sides. it was anything but peaceful in the halls of parliament what sparked the fistfight between two lawmakers.

on sunday a ceasefire in eastern ukraine takes effect and leaders from russia france and germany brokered a peace deal with the government and separatist forces but the ceasefire appears fragile. >> and people keep killing each other in eastern ukraine and rory was at the negotiations in minsk and he reports on how

there is little hope this deal will end the crisis. >> reporter: putin described it as not the best night of his life presumably the other three leaders agree and more than 15 hours of wrangling trying to reach a breakthrough on ukraine. the waiting journalists had many hopes of announcement dashed then well into thursday morning it came. >> the first thing is a ceasefire from 000 hours of 15 of february secondly position and that i believe is i believe that most very important it's removal or withdrawal of heavy weapons. >> reporter: these have been incredibly tough negotiations going in the germans were particularly down beat about chances of success, even though with agreement signed angela merkel says much hard work remains. >> translator: i am under no

illusion and we are no illusion that a lot of work is still necessary but there is a real chance to improve things germany and france france and germany together show that we have made a contribution in accordance with europe. >> reporter: of course we have been here before literally, minsk welcomes leaders for back in the late summer of 2014 but a ceasefire quickly fell apart, the agreements were never properly implemented. you can sign as many pieces of paper as you want but it's what happens on the ground that matters. separatists representatives have signed the new minsk deal and enforced the agreed demille tarry zone and pulling back heavy artillery and making sure hose adjusts released and pushing through reform in the east will be a torture process with many opportunities for failure and rory with al jazeera in minsk. >> let's look at the terms with the latest agreement and

immediate and complete ceasefire in donetsk and louhansk and have to pull out with weaponry and have five days to release all the hostages and everyone involved in the fighting will be granted amnesty, humanitarian aid will flow in accordance with international rules and donetsk and louhansk will hold local elections but then they must vun -- surrender to the government. >> the future of the whole region is shaky. >> reporter: separatist defensive position south of donetsk and fighters tell us ukrainian forces are a kilometer in that direction and tell us we cannot go in front of this building because there is a danger of snipers. the fighters here are unsure what the minsk agreement will mean for them. >> translator: we will stay here unless we get an order from our commanders to retreat or

advance and holding this defense position to help protect the town. >> reporter: separatist leaders said the agreement could have far-receiving implications. >> translator: we can't deny ukraine this chance because the whole country will change as a result the attitude and people will change. in fact, the people of ukraine we are still with them we totally consider them our people, this chance is given to ukraine to chance its constitution which is specifically mentioned in these agreement documents, to change its attitude. >> reporter: the minsk agreement fails to define the status of the people's republicans, some of the people in donetsk are in favor of independence. >> translator: donetsk should be independent, unity won't work, to return to ukraine means to be governed by inadequate government. >> translator: how can we return to ukraine after everything they have done to us? >> reporter: thousands of people have been killed in indiscriminate shellings on both sides of this conflict.

and there is great uncertainty among the people here as to whether this latest truce will be implemented and hold charles stratford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine more on the peace deal we are joined by the ambassador to the u.n. and one of the baltic republicans was part of the soviet union but part of the eu and u.n. since 2004 and i want to start with the peace deal and what critics are saying including john mccain and said the peace deal freezes the conflict at a time of separatist advance and solidifies russian aggression and putin must be very pleased with this deal. even if the deal does not fail, is the senator right? >> well a compromise deal is a deal where all sides are equally unpleased with it and the deal has potential but we are of course cautious in our evolution of the deal because we have seen what happened with the previous

deals. >> one after another has failed. this is a cover of the economist that came out today and shows vladimir putin as a puppet master and waging war on the west, do you think that is what happening, what russia is doing or do you think that is an exaggeration? >> i would not want to qualify what different leaders of the world have on their minds. this is of course very serious situation not only for ukraine but also for the broader region. >> a serious situation for a lot particularly the baltic reports because as i said you were part of the soviet union and small on the border with russia and putin is consistent claiming a spear of influence over all the former soviet republicans and talks about the russian world and how russia can intervene if it faeleels the russians are mistreated and how concerned are you that putin make take more aggression to

you? >> we are concerned because one of our neighboring countries russia has committed aggression to another neighbor which is in violation of international law. where we are less concerned is facing a similar situation because as you rightly mentioned we are members of the eu and more importantly this occasion nato which has the article five of common security and defense. >> and nato has recently said it will put troops at bases in six eastern countries and if russia extended aggression would nato come to your defense? >> nato what taken steps and put more troops and planes in our territory for our defense but also on the other side with respect to your previous question what we have been doing consistently over the past 23 years is building a system of democracy, system of human rights so that all the standards

of international law are being observed in our countries, in other words, there is no pretext for any such developments and our membership in the eu is, in fact, one of the primary stations. >> put you on the spot what do you think is going to happen do you think the ceasefire will hold and things will calm down in general and aggression will stop? >> seeing is believing. because there are other elaborate plan for something that has been put in 14 hours. there are stakes for all sides involved and then of course there are different scenarios and all sides realize that that there is potential of escalation of violence. >> one scenario could be the arming of the ukrainian government or at least the west providing specifically the united states providing weapons to the ukrainian government what has been talked about are defensive weapons but certainly deadly weapons and that could increase tensions conceivably,

we had a general here yesterday talking to us and part of the atlantic counsel report that called for the u.s. to give weapons to ukraine, should the united states do that? >> i'm not in a position to advise government of united states however it has been an important element in the calculations of the parties concerned, this possibility, that there might be weapons provided if there is no deal reached or if this deal is not carried through. >> are you concerned that could escalate tensions? >> the presentation of weapons, of course having more weapons is by default a possibility there will be violence from these weapons, however, we are not at this stage yet. >> ambassador to u.n. and it's a please to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> stephanie. >> that is something that germany says they do not want and do not want the ukrainians

to be armed by the united states and germany has been a key player in the negotiations for a ceasefire in ukraine, europe's most powerful woman leading moderate for peace and court any has a look at merkel's role in ending the bloody conflict that is playing out on her doorstep. >> reporter: after sleepiness night says angela merkel sees a glimmer of hope. >> translator: the negotiations lasted for 16 hours during which we had to work hard and during which ukraine president has done everything to end the blood shed for the company. >> reporter: putin pushed separatist and agreed to the ceasefire but up to her as the point person for the crisis in ukraine to maintain pressure on him. >> on the minsk agreement first of all i welcome and thank them and angela merkel for the hard work they put in and we should be very clear that vladimir

putin needs to though unless his behavior changes the sanctions in place will not be altered. >> reporter: merkel not likely to catch up on sleep soon and preparing for talks with eu counterparts of attempt to mend bail out terms and forbes magazine said the fifth most powerful person but she was a physicists and after nine years serving as chancer many germans still see her as outsider and $3.7 trillion economy is the largest in 28 member union and merkel the de facto later of the entire eu and in third term as chancer she is the longest serving head of government. she has been graspingly with the news last fall that estimated 500 i.s.i.l. fighters had grown up in germany, under merkel for the first time since world war ii germany sent weapons to another country arming kurdish

fores fighting i.s.i.l. in northern iraq and refusal to not rack up death if it would stimulate the economy plays well in germany but refusing to ease restrictions in spain and greece do not endure her to many outside of germany. what is going on in ukraine is being portrayed significantly different in moscow than in the united states. this is an editorial cartoon from yesterday's moscow times, that is russia's only english daily newspaper, on the right you see president obama stirring up a cauldrin of sanctions and putin does a ukraine sword dance and back in kiev a fight was breaking out in ukraine parliament with actual fist and both members of parliament from opposing political parties and threw punches in the halls of the government building and fighting over a bill being considered on the floor of the legislature and the whole encounter lasted 30 seconds

which point you see security steps in. the white house pushing important trade deal to promote american products abroad and piring back at administration claiming americans could be pushed out of jobs and up next an in-depth look at the trans atlanta partnership agreement and trillion dollar labor dispute shutting down some of the businessist shipping ports in america. ♪ cluer clear cluer clear

♪ welcome back to al jazeera america coming up, in this half hour of international news our al jazeera colleagues granted bail after being jailed in egypt for more than a year what's next in their legal fight? plus how climate change is taking a toll on the world's coral reefs and begin with the obama administration challenging a chinese trade program it says

gives export businesses there an unfair advantage and violates world trade organization rules and the latest in trade disputes between china and u.s. and last year china exported $467 billion of goods to u.s. with only $127 billion going the other way resulting in a huge surplus for chinese and record trade deficit for united states. in a statement today they said they regretted a u.s. decision to file a complaint with the wto. >> and that brings us to our off the radar story, little known news with a big impact it is frequently called the most important trade deal you've never heard of and over the next few months you may hear more the trans special partnership known as t.p.p. for short and obama administration hopes to pass it by the end of this year and like most trade agreements t.p.p. will lower trade tariffs and find store shelves cheaper,

the price of medication will sky rocket and involves 12 countries in the pacific region and it's the largest free trade deal since the trade organization established back in 1995. noticeably absent china and the t.p.p. has been viewed as part of the american pivot strategy to reassert political and economic impact in a region where it has lost ground to china's growing power and proponents say t.p.p. will be good for american workers by boosting exports and u.s. has the strong trade ties with t.p.p. countries exporting about $700 billion in goods to them in 2013 together the 12 countries of t.p.p. generate 40%, 40% of global g.d.p. the critics worry about the deal and for one negotiations conducted in secret and wikileaks had a draft version and had complicated and

expansive partnership going beyond traditional trade matters and has alarmed some folks and malaysia chan looks at the t.p.p. potential impact from california. >> reporter: two industries that very much symbolize the state of california. the trans pacific partnership t.p.p. will make one a winner and the other a loser. coastal california has its fishing industry. >> it has become increasingly challenging to be an american fishererman. >> reporter: not far from the coast is california wine. >> we are very excited about the opportunities with t.p.p. >> reporter: so wine wins as we learned from visiting the vineyards. >> japan, malaysia and vietnam do export but there is tremendous opportunity if we are able to enhance that. >> reporter: california already exports a fifth of its wine but the industry can sell a lot more overseas that is where this trade deal comes in. it would bring more california

wine to store shelves from tokyo to kuala-lumpur. >> reducing or eliminating trade barriers to entry and creating a level playing field for us so that we can compete on the basis of the quality of our wine versus price. >> reporter: the wine industry is confident of benefits of trade pacts because three years ago united states and south korea signed a free trade deal and lowered the tax on california wine from 15% to 0. sales to south korea flowed. but this trade agreement is going to be different than past free trade agreements yes the wine industry looks like it will be a winner. but the trans pacific partnership will also regulate industries and that might complicate things. it will hit the seafood industry especially small operations like the ones at the wharf in san francisco. >> free trade agreements tend not to help local producers and

we don't really trust free trade agreements. >> reporter: larry kul -- cullins about chief seafood oversees and questions imports and agents inspect 1% of seafood coming in if it brings more seafood from other countries some worry whether the today and drug administration can manage food safety effectively. on the other hand the deal is supposed to address illegal fishing and work toward a more sustainable global market all good on paper but, again, there is a catch. >> how do you define sustainable, that is a debate in the u.s. and certainly a debate overseas. the second part is how do you enforce it so they are boats going on the high seas with little oversight and land in indonesia with lax policies and

great to have the language in there but wonder if we agree on what it means and how we will enforce it. >> reporter: it's just one issue that critics of the deal worry about. many industries have yet to weigh this the devil is in the details and the details are not yet public. >> unfortunately after more than five years of closed-door negotiations are there is 600 corporate advisors who have access to the text who are writing and helping to write these rules and the public does not know about it. >> reporter: that can't come any quicker for california's wineries and the state's agriculture industry also stands to gain a reminder the agreement would still benefit some and disappoint others. >> somebody can always make it cheaper like the walmartzation of the world like how cheap and low can we go? well, you know quality of life support suffers when you work for nothing. >> reporter: whether for or against the pacific partnership,

both sides agree the impact will be big. american industries can only hope they will come out on the winning side. malaysia chan al jazeera, san francisco. and that is the big question "real money" patricia is here with us and you are been digging in the story and talking about free trade agreements we talk about lowering tariffs and opening markets but there are going to be winners and losers and besides the wine and fishing industries what in america stands to win and lose? >> free trade agreements like to nafta and it was labor intensive jobs lost out because the cost of labor was cheaper in mexico so you had a lot of labor-intensive jobs losing out. the owners of capitol, in other words people who own the factories, the shareholders of the factories and software makers and intellectual property makers win. so what we see is this sort of rebalance if you will where the

labor intensive jobs go overseas and the more capitol industries make more money and generates more national wealth but that wealth disproportionately goes to the owners of capitol. >> there is a lot of miss trust and you can hear it in melissa's peace because of job losses in nafta and they are secret and only know some details because of wikileaks. >> exactly and this causes this opacity does cause a lot of distrust around these agreements and there are some documents that have been leaked that do have people very concerned for example in the t.p.p. leaked documents say there is a provision in many trade agreements and allows foreign investors or more accurately foreign subsidiaries of multi national corporations to sue governments for adopting policies or regulations that allegedly harm profits. these are called investor state

disputes and a rise of them in resent years. >> what could that lead to if a corporation decides to sue a country because it doesn't like its labor practices or doesn't like its labor regulation or environmental regulations, does that infringe on the sovereignty of that country? >> well this of course is the big concern, environmentalist are concerned it targets the environmental regulations and could have a chilling effect on environmental regulations going forward. because the big thing to remember about these investors state disputes is they don't play out in a domestic court before the world, it's behind closed doors with a tribunal and it's final and cannot change regulations but can levy a final penalty and this is the big concern. >> let's look at a map of the participant countries in the t.p.p. and shows the size of the u.s. trading reships relationships and billions of dollars with t.p.p. countries and have deficits with many

including japan vietnam and malaysia and vietnam and malaysia we talk about, could the deal narrow the deficits? >> it depends on the history of trade deals and there was a study looking at post deals in the united states and majority of cases it does narrow but sometimes i doesn't with south korea the trade deficit with south korea widened. >> why do this we have major trading relationships bilaterally with countries, what is the point of having a big deal? >> proponents of t.p.p. and big multi trade agreements you gettedget scale and makes business easier to do tearing down boundaries at once. >> is this the counter this? >> it's inserting the united states more deeply into these economy by tearing into these

economies and tearing down barriers and gives the u.s. more influence if you will in those very key countries, countries by the way that are poised to have greater economic growth. >> patricia i know you are working on several pieces relating to this thank you so much for your insights and expertise. another story affecting trade dozens of ports on the west coast and the busiest in the united states partially shut down today, it's part of an ongoing labor dispute effecting 29 ports from san diego and seattle and maritime put a partial lock-out in place to avoid paying holiday weekend over time rates and most goods trapped on the docks for the weekend and company say dock workers using work slow downs for months and pushed for higher wages and researchers estimate that shutting down these ports will cost the u.s. economy between 1-$2 billion a day. a move in the right

direction, as egypt grants bail to our jailed al jazeera colleagues. while it is raising hopes and legal battles are far from over and what is next for them as they move to a new court date. conservation working to safe coral reach in southeast asia and lessons learned and how it can be used to protect natural wonders here in the u.s.

♪ after 411 days in an egypt jail journalist fahmy and mohamed have been granted bail a judge issued the order today. >> the move is days after their colleagues peter greste was released and deported after 400 days behind bars and could be a major step to ending the long nightmare. >> reporter: this could be the beginning of the end for an ordeal that lasted for more than 400 days, al jazeera producers fahmy and mohamed have been granted bail at the start of their retrial and come has a huge relief for their families. >> translator: i'm going

immediately to tell the kids their father is coming home today and life will be beautiful and wait to welcome him back life has changed today. >> reporter: fahmy was asked by the judge to pay a security bond of around $33,000. >> i will respond and abide by everything in egyptian law and i'm sure he has been vindicated by this and vindicated later on in the case and falls apart completely. >> reporter: if fight for fahmy and mohamed will continue until it's dropped and he was sentenced ten and fahmy seven years and it was overturned and the court of appeals challenged the evidence by the prosecution saying the proceedings were flawed an ordered a retrial. [applause] earlier this month another al jazeera journalist peter greste deported to australia after 400

days in detention. fahmy who is an egyptian canadian was told by the authorities that his only way to freedom is to announce his egyptian citizenship which he has done the three al jazeera journalists fahmy and greste were arrested in december 2013 they were falsely accused of promoting the band muslim brotherhood. the bail release is a small step in the right direction but it's a step that should have been taken 411 days ago. there is no evidence that they have been complicit with the muslim brotherhood and no evidence they have been involved in terrorism, journalists are frightened and have been made frightened in their organizations have been frightened by the fact that these journalists are in jail. >> reporter: the trial has been widely condemned by the international community and human rights organizations. protestors from around the world demonstrated in solidarity with detained al jazeera journalists, six other colleagues from al

jazeera were sentenced to ten years in prison. al jazeera continues to call on egypt to have all of its journalists exonerated. barker with al jazeera. a new report says the way australia treats hundreds of children seeking asylum violates international law and many seekers are held indefinitely and human rights commission said it uncovered hundreds of assaults and multiple sex abuse and says the treatment of the children is causing psychological harm. >> our findings are deeply shocking. we found that all the medical evidence confirms that detention causes and compounds mental health disorders among children. 34% of children detained in australia on christmas island have a mental health disorder of such severity they require psychiatric support. >> reporter: the commission is calling for an end to indefinite detention and prime minister says the report is politically

motivated. battled police in venezuela one year after the start of anti-government demonstrations which left 43 dead. [chanting] police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disburse crowds and the march was one of several today and nicholas was on television to announce a coup uncovered and involved an airforce jet bombing the presidential palace and said u.s. government firms were behind it. a case of what many are calling net rage has landed a former korean airlines executive a year-long prison sentence and heather cho was on a flight leaving j.k.f. in december when attendant served her nuts in a bag instead of on a plate, cho became enraged demanding the chief steward be kicked off the flight and forced the plane back to the gate. she was found guilty by a korean court thursday of violating

aviation safety laws. not just nuts fancy nuts and macadamia and not served in a bad. under water echo system at risk from climate change and industry. >> trying to protect coral reefs around the world and we will speak with jeff corwin why this effort is so important.

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by police in alabama. he is a 57-year-old father he was visiting his son in madison when he was forced to the ground and the incident left him partially paralyzed. the way it has been explained by the family is he was walking down the sidewalk. >> police reporting by a suspicious person and couldn't speak english. >> they are alleging excessive force. >> a diplomatic problem. the next is out of u nieed emerite sand the times and a 38-year-old man was the person to die from the middle east syndrome corona virus and they say the ex patriot developed symptoms last year and admitted to a hospital last month and died last week it's a deadly disease and showed up in 2012 and hundreds have died from it. >> seeing if he had contact with animals or camels specifically because that is how you get the

virus so that is to be considered and the final story is from the sidney harold and it's topical, australian prime minister tony abbot facing revolt from the party, six senators could cross the file to vote to soften racial discrimination and in current form the law suppresses free speech, right now for example insulting or offending someone can lead to prosecution. >> this came all in result of what happened with charlie hebdo in paris and attacks last month and australia law is more lenient to free press and speech than european laws. >> both australian law is stricter than speech in the united states >> american laws. described as the rain forest of the sea coral reefs and moment to 2 million species and key to the food chain and habitat for fish and storm protection and

help with potential medical interventions and they are working to protect the echo system from damage western pacific the coral triangle is especially rich area more than 120 million people there rely on those reefs, al jazeera's steve cho gives us an extraordinary look. >> reporter: for decades this incredible under water landscape has been the focus of study for martin welding. a marine scientists and conservation and working to protect the diverse region. it's home to 75% of the world's coral species, 3,000 different kinds of fish and a host of other unique marine life. >> this is the home for fish and grown for fish and feeding ground for fish coral reef is like shelter in the desert. >> reporter: the climate change is warming the ocean causing mass cases of bleaching and die

off around the globe and fears this year's el-nino will further warm the waters and take reefs one step closer to extinction. >> if they disappear this will also disappear. >> reporter: there are other threats to the coral. aungelique a diver operator battling an iron ore mind and set up shop near the corral sholes and protests last year turned violence with rocks being thrown. the mines protected by local officials. authorities we are told have been very aggressive in keeping divers away from operations and what we will do is dive in here swim over as close as we can get to the jetti under water. >> reporter: the visibility is so poor it's all we can do to stay together and when we find the reef it's covered in layers of thick silt and even the visible patches are choking. after a few inmanys we surface. how was the coral here before?

>> it was really beautiful and healthy reef lots of colors lots of fish and now i mean it's nothing. >> reporter: but not all is lost and the researchers found that climate change is not having as big of an impact in coral here because the triangles reefs lie close to deep cold water so to protect them from destruction they have teams to guard the triangle's reefs. >> confidence that it will do something, if we brought back the coral reef the coral reef will be still access and lots of resources of the people still access and people still can eat for tomorrow and in the future. >> reporter: and with the way currents carry coral through the oceans he believes preserving this under water paradise can ultimately save reefs worldwide. steve cho, al jazeera in the coral triangle. joining me from boston is

jeff corwin a wildlife biologist and host of abc's ocean mysteries and jeff great to see you. you have done a lot of work in this area, coral reefs as you heard effected by natural resources like hurricanes and built to withstand those? >> they have withstood the test of time and part of the biology and ecology for hundreds of millions of years, if you look at some of the most ancient fossils on the planet you often find structures of ancient coral reefs that existed millions of years ago. today the threats that coral reefs face whether they are natural threats from an el-nino or pollution or fishing it comes together like a perfect storm and it's literally pushing these reefs to the edge of survival. >> it's actually quite startling the statistics on this the worldwide life federation quotes

one report that says that the rate of current destruction 60% of the world's coral reef also be destroyed over the next 30 years. what impacts would that have? >> it's a huge impact. as your story alluded to, coral reefs are the the building blocks and foundations of life and often refers to scientists like myself as oasis in the clear crystal desert a place where life gravitates to and coral reefs makeup a small portion of our planet's oceans and maybe 10% but hold 60% of all life like a tropical rain forest. so they are keystones to the survival of our oceans life forms but yet without them these places just could not thrive so they are critically important. >> you know forgive me but i find when conservation start talking about the loss of certain species like the white spotted pigmy fish people roll

their eyes are there broader impacts that make it important for example economic impacts? >> huge economic impacts. for example, there are millions of people in this region around the arcapello and islands of indoe knee indoein indonesia and need sustainable with the resources and the commercial impact the impact on livelihood is huge and the stability of our oceans is at stake so these are paramount echo systems that not only provide life for the aquatic living community but sustain the human community as well. >> you and i are both scuba divers and steve cho is and i noticed in resent years reduction in the wildlife i've seen around reefs, are you actually able to observe the destruction of corals impact on these eco systems as you dive?

>> all the time i just came back from dives in hawaii and along the coast of california, we participated on ocean mysteries and documented projects to replant coral reefs so there is hope to reestablish these reefs. but, yeah you can see the impact and again it's like a perfect storm, you add pollution, you add runoff you add the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste we dump you add in the unsustainable fisheries and dynamite and cyanide fishing comes together and you and i like to scuba dive and there is an etiquette sharing this echo system with the coral reefs and too much hands on can damage the reef and see that from tourism. >> it's big stuff we have not touched on the acid of c 02 from global warming and thank you so much for your insights on this. >> thank you. >> beautiful and tomorrow might on the program a new chapter for a piece of history in new york

city after 90 years a jewish owned factory is closing the doors and the last of an enclave is finally moving out. that is it for this edition of al jazeera international hour. >> see you in an hour and america tonight is up next. >> on "america tonight" - these center dragged in many elements of argentine society, at the center of it all is the home of president cristina fernandez de kirchner. what does she know what did she order, is she covering anything up? >> in county after county across alabama, many court officials are refusing to issue same-sex marriage because of direct