>> this is aljazeera america. live from new york city. i'm tony harris. the keystone votes. the veto, president obama makes good on his promise to reject the professional pipeline proposal. and one republican leader calls his decision a national embarrassment. >> . >> spy tables. top secret talks between the cy and hamas? an aljazeera exclusive. and no federal charges. the justice department decision in the shooting death of trayvon martin. what that could mean for racial tenges.

>> for the first time since 2010, president obama has used his veto in the controversial keystone pipeline bill back to capitol hill. he was very clear in his reasons to do so. and republicans were quick with their criticism. mike viqueira, we knew this was coming and why it.the president veto this bill? >> tony, it's only his third veto in the entire administration. supporters of construction of this pipeline, they of course passed the bill as promised, what they took over to the congress was a house and senate to circumvent the approval process to build the 1700-mile pipeline that would run through the tar sands of alberta canada over a sensitive

aquaphor and over to the gulf coast where it would be refind. some call it a jobs bill, and opponents call it an environmental disaster waiting to happen. they say that the method of extraction of the tar sands from alberta is particularly environmentally messy. today, the white house vetoed this bill. remember, the republicans waited to send it to the president until they were all back in town. and the president vetoed it behind doors and he said it's all about the process. >> it says that the benefits and consequences of building that pipeline should be thoroughly evaluated by experts and through the administrative process that has existed for decades and used by both parties to evaluate similar infrastructure projects, and this is the patent put forth. and it does not represent a

final disposition of the keystone project. >> so still being settled at the state department, tony, and the president has not tipped his hand on what he will ultimately decide because the decision will be the president's. >> should we expect more veto threats and vetoes as the congress ramps up? >> there's a certain element of a political element here. more than 350,000 miles of pipeline in this country and that continues to grow. a lot of people say that this would have a negligible impact on oil prices, and meanwhile the reaction from republicans on capitol hill is about how you would expect. john boehner had this reaction. the president's veto of the keystone bill is a national embarrassment. and we're not going to give up on our efforts to get this pipeline built. not even close and now the

republican-led congress is going to try to override the veto but they don't have the votes to do so. it requires 2/3 of the how else and the senate as you know, and the ball is still in the president's court. and what they plan to do is unknown. >> it has been a week now since three british teenagers left home hoping to join isil. and the girls likely made it to syria. paul is now here with the story. >> tony, it seems that the worst fears of the families of these girls have probably been realized now. these girls have been described as normal straight a students. they were duped and radicalized by internet extremism. and now it appears to be too late to stop them from joining isil. >> we miss you we cannot stop crying. please, come to us. >> a plea from a father,

desperate for his teenage daughter to come home. last week, emir, shammeer and kadib left their homes from london and went to turkey, planning to join isil. the families had no idea that the girls were leaving. >> there was nothing different about her no changes in her behavior nothing, she was just our beak. >> tuesday the british authorities believe that the girls have crossed into syria, it comes a day after turkey accused britain of trying to track the girls and then taking too long to tell them about them. they have been on high alert as isil has recruited up to 10,000 foreign fighters around the world. >> we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by them.

>> tuesday morning in spain four men were arrested for their alleged involvement in an onlinest to recruit women for isil. he said that he's innocent, not connected with isil. >> people that cut people's heads? that's not islam. islam says that you have to help people, do the right thing and steal. and on top of that, this guy was born here. >> across syria and iraq, the brutal tactics have sent millions of people fleeing into neighboring countries. just this week, the obama tore for human rights said that isil kidnapped 90 christians in syria, and meanwhile the campaign against isil is working, but it takes time. monday u.s. forces carried out a dozen airstrikes against syria and five more from iraq. the u.s. military said that due to lack of troops on the

ground, it's nearly impossible to tell how many isil ill fighters are killed in the strikes, but meanwhile, in the case of the missing british girls, the bbc reports that as many as 50 women have gone to join isil to be jihadi brides. >> the u.s. military sending a small amount of troops to ukraine to provide military training. between 5 and 10 service members will make the trip to ukraine next week. the ukrainian troops have been battling pro russian separatists for months, and inside of ukraine but today on capitol hill, secretary of state john kerry called that a lie. >> they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, about their activities there lied on many occasions. >> also today british prime minister, david cameron said that the uk will send in

soldiers to help fight the russian-backed aggression. today robert mcdonald said that he made a mistake when he talked of serving in the military special forces, and jamie mcentire, are there any calls out there for mcit donald's resignation? >> at this point not really. this is one of those quintessential washington moments when you're a party to how he hasn'ts his credibility. mcdonald said that he made a mistake because he was trying to connect with a homeless man who needed help. robert mcif donald's change with a homeless man that ended up on the evening news. >> i was in the special forces. >> that, mcdonald is forced to admit that's not too. >> i incredible stated that i too have been in special

forces, and that was congress. >> mcdonald did serve five years in the army's 82nd airborne division, and qualified as an army ranger, but never served in special forces, which is known as the elite green berets. he was trying to find commonly ground with a homeless man. >> i was trying to find a way to connect with that veteran and as i said, i made a misstatement and i apologize for that. i have no excuse for it. but if you look at my 61-year biography, you'll never find anywhere in my biographies that i claimed to be in special forces. >> the white house was quick to except his mea culpa. >> there's no reason to think that he will not continue to lead the fight for our veterans. >> on capitol hill, there have been no calls for his resignation, even more from his critics. >> i'm much more concerned about his failure to implement the legislation that we have

passed. democrats were ready to accept his apology though some had harsh words for the secretary. a lie is a lie said the head of the largest veterans organization, and he said the secretary has apologized. and we hope that he can restore the trust that he lost. mcdonald's ability to survive this false claim seems to rest on the perception that he was trying to help a homeless man rather than trying to puff up his service record. and unlike brian williams, he didn't claim to miss remember the past. and unlike bill o'reilly, he's not trying to change what happened in a war zone. he's appearing to hold onto his job. >> jamie, thank you. a methodist preacher from seattle has been kidnapped from nigeria. a missionary for the free

methodist church, it she was abducted on monday night from the nigeria coggie state. and the department officials are aware of this, but they can not comment x also in nigeria two suicide bombers have killed four people in two it separate attacks today. in crowded bus stations, and these images are from the state where half of the victims died. and another young man forced his way onto the bus before detonating the explosives. it's believed that the attacks were linked to boko haram but that's not confirmed yet. it shows that the cia tried to contact hamas despite labeling the grup a terrorist organization. and clayton has the details. >> the spy cables show us just how the u.s., israel and the

palestinian authority play political games with each other. >> the general conference for palestine, as member of unesco. >> unesco gave the state of palestine full membership in 2011. and it's president, mahmoud abbas has soughter exception every since, but the u.s. fought that at the highest levels. a secret phonecall from the white house to the palestinian authority leader. president obama threatened president abbas if he went ahead with the u.n. bid. and just as the u.s. was pressuring the palestinian authority, it was now seen that they were pressuring the abbas a group that it considers a terrorist organization. he asked his south african counterpart to put them in touch.

the south african writes that the u.s. seems to be desperate to make inroads into abbas and gaza, and they would establish the collection priorities and the cia. so in other words they would know what the cia is up to. meanwhile in 2009, south africa's spy committee gets a correct phone. he's shocked at the breach of proto call and orders the staff to verify the number. later, a meeting. he wants south africa to put down the gold report. prominent south african journalist led it, and said that israel had committed numerous war crimes. the mayor said that the palestinian authority leader, mahmoud aba.mahmoud abbas wants them

to vote it down, and if he were in favor of the gold stone report, it would weaken abbas and his position. in this, it reveals how well the u.s. and the palestinian authority are privately forming clandestine alliances that they would never admit to public. >> he is a leckerrer and the head of the arab center in washington. and we had a wonderful conversation about this earlier, and share with everyone what you shared with me. why you don't believe that the cia attempting to contact hamas directly despite theming liberalled by the united states government as a terrorist organization, is as bad as it sounds. >> i mean, every country does that in the world. we have public policy, and open policy, that's available to the

public and we of l. a secretive policy in order to protect the interest of the nation. with regards to hamas yes we did have a policy of not dealing with hamas and treating it as a terrorist organization but at the same time we knew that it was elected. and we knew that it was a credible political actor in palestine. and we suspected that sooner or later, the government of palestine. so we did not want to totally burn that bridge with hamas and we were attempting through these contacts, also to moderate hamas and keep it within the sphere of american influence. >> and you said that keeping front and back channel was hamas makes good sense correct? >> of course it does. case in point is on several occasions, we had americans that were kidnapped or attacked

or rumored to be attack attacked and we sought their help. and we have done the same thing with the pla before, and almost every radical group in existence. >> so the idea of banning hamas and putting it on a terrorist list what does that mean practically then, and more importantly what does it mean politically? >> practically it doesn't mean everything, but politically it does, because essentially, it's a political step. there are domestic and other reasons, international reasons where we avoid dealing with hamas, so as not to offend israel because that's israel policy, but as far as the u.s. interests, we find it sometimes necessary to it deal with that group, and we do. >> so is the idea -- i know i'm changing gears here, but i must. is the idea of a two-state

solution dead? >> i think so. and most experts think so. the idea of creating or dealing with the -- offering the option of a two-state as a solution to the palestine-israeli problem has been of course tested seriously since the early '90s, and it has failed. there's enough blame to distribute across the map and across all of the parties involved in this conflict. but the fact of the matter today, as we speak the option of a two-state solution is dead in the water and unfortunately, none of the parties, particularly the u.s., that has declared itself the soul legitimate peacemaker in the middle east, we're not willing to accept the responsibility for it because it's too costly. >> is there enough land, even if you wanted to move forward is there enough land to be in agreement over jerusalem?

>> technically there's enough land and the political will is there, but in practice, the state of israel, an unsatisfied appetite foreign land and land acquisition, illegally, of course according to international law. and today when you go and visit the west bank, there has not really in practice, land to exchange for peace according to the two-state solution, particularly in jerusalem where israel has acquired all of the available land possible to acquire by all means legal and illegal in order purposely in order to prevent the possibility of a negotiated satellitement. >> he's a palestinian american lecturer and executive director of the arab center of washington. leo, good to talk to you. thank you. >> thanks, tony. >> a new report suggests that the iranian government smuggled $1 billion u.s. dollars into their country, and iran and other diplomatic services, cure

to avoid sanctions and in the program, they received help from money changers and front companies across the middle east. and the $1 billion figure is far higher than previously reported. and coming up, case closed, the justice department on whether to charge george zimmerman on the shooting death of trayvon martin. and a train derails in california and heightens the focus on dangers at rail crossings across the country. and what the u.s. wants to do to beef up it's cyber spying abilities.

>> a florida jury acquitted him of charges in 2013, and now

joining us from los angeles, ar reba, good to see you and what's your creation to the federal judge's decision. >> not surprised. when eric holder made the announcement that there was going to be a federal investigation, many people in the community across america believed that george zimmerman killed trayvon martin without provocation, but those in the community always knew that the hurdle for a federal hate crime was difficult to come, so this announcement is not surprising at all. >> so they conducted interviews with witnesses and reviewed encounters with zimmerman. and even, i understand, retained the service of an independent biomedical expert are you happy with the time, given the investigation and the scope of it? >> i think it was critical. i think at the time of the shooting, the country was in a complete uproar about this

unarmed african teen walking home in his own community and ends up dead. so i think what eric holder did was the right thing to do, but there needs to be perhaps more explanation when the attorney general makes these announcements about federal investigations. we have several high-profile cases where similar announcements have been made. and the public needs to know that federal hate crimes are very difficult to bring and difficult to prove. >> that's exactly where i want to go next. what's the standard for bringing federal charges in a case? is proving that negligence or recklessness is enough? >> no, the district attorney and the prosecuting attorney need into prove that he went after him because of racial bias, think about where we see groups looking for people of a

particular ethnic group. those cases are really easy to wrap your arms around particularly with race. >> you're describing james anderson in mississippi in 2011, where a group of white kids beat him and ran him over with a truck. >> absolutely, if that's the epitome when you have the federal hate crimes. but in the case of trayvon martin and george zim, you had two people there. trayvon martin is dead, and george zimmerman doesn't have to take the stand and say anything, so how do you say that his actions were intentionally based on race? >> so is it important to keep this in mind as you watch the investigation unfold into the killing of a muslim it student in north carolina. as you know, many see this as an out and out hate crime and want it prosecuted that way. >> we're hearing about racial slurs in that context and

ethnic slurs and we're hearing about the shooter in that case using an objective that he targeted the students because of their race and ethnicity. and we didn't see that in the george zimmerman and trayvon martin case. as much as we wanted to and people thought that zimmerman targeted trayvon because he was african-american, there was no evidence that he did in the state crime. trial. and the feds could not point to international al targeting because of his race. >> always good to see you new york city's police commissioner today admitted that law enforcement played some of the worst parts in black history. he said from slavery to the modern day, it has been intertwined with law enforcement. and he said we are trying to

better train law enforcement officers. it has been 50 years but the recent deaths of unarmed black men have inspired new demands for equality. and america what today's activists could learn from the protesters of the 1960s. >> i come from a very independent family, and my mother reared me to not let anyone abuse me, and she had grown up the same way and i had no fear. my grandparent's house i don't remember if it was memphis or nashville, but i have always been told those stories and that's the kind of family i come from. so my uncle my father, grandparents, they have always instilled a sense of pride. [ chanting ] >> teargas and all of that for

days. and i had been back three times since august. because i believed that the mainstream media was not going to tell me the truth. and it was my duty to go and tell the truth about what was happening. >> you said, tell the story. tell the story. >> yeah, the only way that people will wake up is if we start burning [ bleep ] down. and it was basically if you don't care about our lives we don't care about your property. and that's what woke people up. [ chanting ] >> this is all still new and fresh for me. >> yes. >> but just talking about it. sometimes it's easier to just

do action than talk about it. >> both helps because we used to be able to talk about it in meetings through song. and talking to each other. doing it together as a result of these tragedies. >> there's much more on the young revolution ears on america tonight. the strategies to avoid a homeland security department shut down. it still has ties to immigration, plus. >> some people say that there's too much pork if this town. i could not agree more. >> sesame street's version of "house of cards." it's coming up today on politics.

>> tonight government investigators are looking into yet another train accident. in oxnard, west of los angeles

train cars were flipped onto their sides and 28 passengers were hurt, four critical. >> i was on the pole like a flag. >> everybody is in shock, a lot of shock, a lot of banged up people. >> there was a similar commuter train accident weeks ago in new york that killed six people. in washington, we have more about train safety. lisa. >> reporter: indeed, tony, the accident today in california happened really early in the morning california time 5:40 am. and investigators are on the way, and they will be looking at the actions of a truck driver stuck on the track and they will make sure that the signals are working properly. but the train had an event recorder, and that will show them when the breaking on the train began, and as you said, this is the second major rail accident just this month, and it raisings the issue of rail safety at crossings.

the force of the accident forced three of the cars off the rail and onto their sides and it slammed into a truck stuck on the rail. >> we have a total of 51 people that were victims of this incident. 28 were transported to various hospitals, and we had four critical. >> the train was traveling 79 miles per hour when the engineer saw the truck and hit the brakes. after the collision the truck caught fire and the driver fled the scene. he was shotted by the police about a mile away. the in national transportation safety board has launched a team to be investigate. >> certainly, we're concerned with rail crossing accidents and there are over 2,000 each year in this country of which 250 are fatal. >> this is the second crossing

accident in just three weeks. earlier this month a train in new york smashed into an suv stop odd the tracks. the driver died and so and five people on the train. in both new york and california, as with half of all crossing accidents the crash occurred at locations with warning devices, lights and gates. it's often the fault of the driver, who gets confused, distracted or tries to beat the train. that's what happened in this collision in michigan in 2009. the driver apparently tried to slip around the gate. and an amtrak train plowed into the car killing all five onboard. >> every three hours a person or car is hit by a train and that's an alarming statistic that we want people to know. how large and widespread a problem is this? >> operation life rail has safety and education campaigns.

safety improvements at the crossings have made a difference. >> stay focused, stay alive. >> in 1978, there were more than 13,000 accidents at grade crossings, and in 2013, that dropped to just over 2,000 collisions. an 85% address. decrease. and the number of deaths has increased. from the -- a 77% decline. but there are more than 200,000 grade crossings in the u.s., locations where vehicles and trains can come together. a huge potential hazard. experts say the best rail crossing is no rail cross. separate the road and rail. the federal government gives states over $200 million every year to improve safety at crossings, but often it comes down to awareness and education of the driver.

metro link says about today's accident the cars on the train had the latest technology to absorb the crash and that's why more people were not hurt. >> lisa, thank you. and today's politics, congress is sharply divided over how to fund homeland security. and there's the possibility of a partial agency shut down at the end of this week. tony? >> reporter: senate republicans are promoting a new tragedy that does not link president obama's actions with immigration to the funding of the department of homeland security. and mitch mcconnell is having several separate votes including one that could unwind the stalemate. the problem is that the senate funding bill would still have to go back to the house and republican speaker john boehner, said that the house will not take up a bill that contains money for the

president's immigration policies. stay tuned. and in politics, hillary clinton, the democratic frontrunner, has now ended the low profile she has kept since the holiday season. clinton spoke very publicly today in silicon vole and spoke to women's issues, saying that we all have a stake in making this better, from the classroom to the boardroom. and multiple reports said that clinton received from this the one speech, around 300,000-dollar. and she's expected to appear at half a dozen events in the next month, and is expected to announce her candidacy this spring or in september. republican strategist, carl rove, is running an attack ad against clinton. it contains the voice of elizabeth warren, and says that foreign governments are ready for hillary thanks to their

donations to clinton. >> powerful interests have tried to capture washington and rig the system in their paver. the well funded -- >> considering a race to disregard the white house protocol in favor of campaign politics. the governor's meeting with president obama at the white house. afterwards he went to the cameras outside on the driveway and blasted the president for not pulling off what he calls as radical islamic terrorism. >> the president is our commander in chief and he not only will identify the threat, but take the necessary step to defeat t. >> it's almost unheard of to say that in the white house

driveway moments after being asked to come to white house. >> "house of "house of cards," kevin spacey playing a ruthless senator, frank underwood. >> did you think that i had forgotten you? perhaps you hoped i had. >> well, that character has made it into the children's series sesame street. instead of underwood, it's frank underwolf, telling the fairy tale of three little pigs. >> some people say that there's too much pork in this town, i could not agree more. little picking little picking, let me in. >> not by the hair of my chiny chin chin. >> i'm afraid that you've left me no choice, i'll have to huff and puff and blow your house down. >> and he does. and if you don't know the story of the three little pigs, google sesame street and "house

of cards." >> quality entertainment. >> wanted cia is getting ready to restructure with a new emphasis on electronic intelligence and the washington post said that john brennan wants to ex respond the espionage and cyber capabilities and that could include experts with traditional analysts. the agency must update its tactics to reflect the areas where the intelligence is being shared today. and joining us now from atlanta i believe is professor with the georgia institute of technology. and professor good to see you. so last year, director brennan told the agency that he had become "increasingly concerned that the time has come to take a fresh look at how we're organized." and is he correct? is this in fact long overdue? >> i think that he can say that it's at least due if not

overdue. the internet started to go commercial in 1992, and there's nothing in the cia to show how the internet and cyber is to find out things in the modern world. >> professor, i don't know if this is a big deal or not so i'll ask the question. given technology expert's equal footing with traditional analysts, is that a potential problem? >> well, i think one thing is how well can the cia do its job? and do we have the civil liberties guidelines in place? in order to do the job, you have to have technology experts in place. and they may not be the best for handling a human source for human tense but they may well be the best people for getting the data that you need and putting it into a package. >> let me set up the ultimate concern about privacy here. bren be said that he's trying to tackle the challenges, and

can you describe some of those? >> i think that the big challenge is that the cia is operating in human intelligence, far away from headquarters and in the nsa they didn't have the same technology. when i was in the group that president obama formed, we found that the nsa had hired 300 people to do compliance on technology to make sure that it's done right. and i don't think that's at the cia, and i don't think that the cia has the civiller liberties officer the way that the nsa does, with snowden. and in this case, the nsa has tried to move it along and made good steps and maybe the cia can learn from them. >> i wonder if the director's

drown is necessary in the facer is. >> i think that people tend to exaggerate the fact of having good video on the internet. and be aware that people are playing a propaganda game is not overstated. in the old days, if you had spies going after national government, they could put it in place and find out what was going on, because you knew where the tarts are. but i think for a lot of the terrorist groups they don't have anybody speaking their dialect. and you can't put agents on the ground in the middle of that. and you have to have forensics. so you have to have a component. and that's what the director is saying. >> the nsa has come under fire for privacy concerns, and by design should we be worried that this expansion of capabilities could lead to

privacy issues? >> of course we should. congress came close to passing an nsa update bill last year, and they face deadlines in june of this year where some of them will expire if congress doesn't act. so i think that the usa freedom act that almost passed last year is a good model for what the government should do this year. >> professor peter severe from atlanta, thank you. >> and a financial reform plan for greece. critics call it a stem backwards. the reforms were a condition of a four-month-old extension. but greece's government said no more budget cuts. john is in annapolis. >> she owes $35,000 that she did not pay. she's one of those that the

left-wing government vows to help. but she's overwhelmed, it's now approved by creditors. >> we're not in charge. i agree. they're trying, but what have we gained with resistance? nothing. he has given us hope that we can regain our honor but how do they go back from all that the predecessors have said. if you borrow from a bank, they take your house. >> she has been forced to swallow the terms and they have included their own reforms. agenda is full of lofty ambition. it promises lower taxes and smaller government. and help to the poor under a balanced budget. much of this has been promised before. an uphill battle, particularly with the hard line of germany.

>> went to continue aid fogless, with the reform. and the policies in one's own country. >> now however creditors are give greece a chance to prove themselves. it's a confidence-building period between creditors and those who are fed up with promises and disappointments. >> greece has achieved what some officials have called a constructively ambiguous text. the overarching hope so that greece will help. and while they in turn will not oppose austerity measures. greece means business. >> it's an anti-austerity party. and the mean problem the more it gains of the trust of creditors, the more it loses of voters.

>> federal reserve church, janet yellen testified today. and they were listening to clues about interest rates. and ali velshi joins us now. and ali why is yellen's testimony so important? >> this has gotten a lot easier since the days of allen greenspan and janet. we hang on every word that the federal reserve chairman utters because they're very cautious about what they say. she gives clues about when the fed might end its policies of record low interest rates and that could affect stocks and bonds and mortgages and she indicated that the fed is not set to a timetable for raising interest rates. they can be patient, and when they are reasonably comfortable, and inflation is on target, it will move on interest rates. if that improvement hans in the economy, they will be giving rate increases.

she wants to see labor markets improve, and she wants to see inflation pick up. it has been below since 2012, and it2012 upa tenth of a percent last year. obviously with oil prices low and if she sees inflation declining in the near term, she's going to keep inflation low. but remember tony, there's not necessarily a direct correlation between what it. but you can expect them to stay low. >> gotcha, so interest rates are not the only topic that came up, and what are some of the other highlights? >> senator rand paul following in his father, ron's footsteps launched to gain more influence over the fed's policy. the president appoints the fed governors, but doesn't have political input. and the fundraisers sight that

rand put together, the money bomb and yellen said that she strongly opposes the call to audit the fed. she said that's enough, rand paul's bill to audit would politicize monetary policy. and rand paul has an ally in elizabeth warren who accuses the fed about main street. keeping interest rates low has caused hawsing and stocks to go up for those with money. >> i have it grover norquist on the show and we're talking about trickle down economics, and whether tax reduction is an issue coming into the 2016 campaign, and the fact that jeb bush has not signed norquist's pledge. it's going to hurt him in the election. >> good to see you and you can watch ali velshi every week night at 10:30 p.m. eastern

time. much of the southeast is bracing for yet another round of frigid weather. we're talking ice and snow in some places and it makes the driving treacherous, and it's not over yet. nicole mitchell is here with the latest and if we can't do anything about it, explain it to us. >> it's a separate system. we had one system that caused problems in dallas haps moved off the coastline into places like north korea but however this will continue to brew up, and we have a clipper coming down from the northern tier of the country. iowa and the southern portion of the state, you would expect that in iowa, but watch for the driving, because the wind is going to reduce that visibility. it's this in the south that you do not expect. and we have had system after system this winter, just getting over the one and this one, places like mississippi alabama, georgia northern portions of those states, 1 2

3 inches of snow not out of the question. here's the timing on it. tonight, it starts to farm up, and overnight through the day tomorrow it continues to move its way into the south. and clearing out by thursday. but by tomorrow night yes cities like atlanta could be getting two or three inches of snow. it's not helpful. and the jetstream well to the south. and that brings in the cold air, not moving anywhere fast. >> if you get half an inch of snow in atlanta, you know that. that city is done. >> it's not pretty. >> nicole, appreciate it. and leaving home for a better life, but not necessarily finding it. >> we have damaging mentally and we are damaging physically. >> a disturbing look at howium asylum seekers remembering treated.

>> in australia disturbing new details, how many have been held at centers for years and it's taking an especially heavy toll on children. >> he now lives in sydney and studying to be an account at. but before he was given a visa as a refugee australia's government held him for a year in a prison-like detention. he was alone when he came to australia by boat. and he coped in detention but there are other children who didn't. >> i saw kids who who are cutting their hands, it's not something that i could forget. we are damaging those kids.

we are damaging mentally and we are damaging physically. >> his experience is similar to many detailed in a human rights report on immigrant children detained by australia's government. >> our findings are deeply shocking. we found that all of the medical evidence confirmed that dense causes and compounds mental health disorders amongst children. >> more than one-third of children deigned required critic support with allegations of sexual abuse against children. many are self harmed. on tuesday australia's immigration department confirmed a 16-year-old in detention threw herself off of a building last week. this is a shocking report, australia, it says, automatically locks up immigrant children, and serious damage is being done to those but shocking too has been the

government's reaction to the report. this it says is a travesty. more children were in it detention under the previous government than the current one. the report, the prime minister says, should acknowledge the success in stopping the boats of refugees from coming to australia in the first place. >> this is a political picture. the members of this government. >> i totally reject any suggestion that this report is a politicized exercise. and the facts frankly speak for themselves and this report speaks for itself. >> australia's policy toward refugees is deeply political. elections have been won and lost on the issue, but children though, are among those who feel its consequences. aljazeera, sydney. >> britain has become the first country to allow babies to be conceived by three parents. and they approved the three person ivf.

it takes biological material from three parents and the dna is altered to prevent the baby from inheriting diseases. and the first baby could be born as early as 2016. nazi jewish art dealers are hoping to get some art back, and the emotions are estimated to be worth $226 million. and the lawsuit was filed here in the united states. last year, a german commission ruled against it saying that the election should stay in germany. for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, randall pinkston is here. >> we'll have a report from gaza on war and a young boy he is violent. he's one of the estimated 370,000 gazan children showing signs of psychological trauma, a look at what's being done to help them. and plus --.

>> start going house-to-house. >> lesbian gay, transsexual teenagers forced to live on the street facing sexual abuse. and what helps to steer to better lives, and a look at research that could change the way that doctors treat autism. and plus, a conversation with a former children and his wife, with a report on the answers to autism. we'll have those stories and more in just a few minutes. >> see you then. >>then.>> the police have spotted drones flying over some of the city's famous landmarks. and at least five of the small unmanned crafts were seen in places like the eiffel tower and the u.s. embassy, and the police are taking the situation very seriously. russian scientists are confirming mysterious craters opening up in siberia. four have opened up this year,

and experts say that they could be caused by underground gas explosions triggered by rising temperatures. thanks for watching, and randall pinkston is up next in a couple of minutes.

>> this is aljazeera i'm randall pinkston in new in new york, and john seigenthaler is on assignment. case closed. the man who killed trayvon martin will face no federal charges. a fallout amid a new debate about jus, and the spy cables. an aljazeera investigation leaking the documents, and tonight, why the cia reached out to hamas over gaza.