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>> reporter: scandal in buenos aires a judge throws out the case against argentina president as congress dismantles the country's spy agency. >> intelligence agency raised or contaminating the evidence to cover its own tracks. ♪ welcome to al jazeera america international news hour i'm antonio moore and i'm stephanie sy, we begin with the killer and his name is mohammed emwazi a british computer programmer from a well to do london family and until now he was known as jshgsz ihjshgsz -- jihadi john and he was in black and yielding a knife and accused of killing hostages including james foly. >> i.s.i.l. released footage with fighters destroying

religious artifacts at a museum in mosul. >> see saw battle for al-baghdadi and captured a bridge that links it to the town ohineveh and people were killed in the clash. >> little is known about mohammed emwazi and security officials said he left virtually no trail on social media or online but lawrence lee reports a small advocacy group could shed some light on the masked killer. >> reporters turned up at the mohammed emwazi home in west london they were long gone and police had been around and reports had emerged their son was a murderer. easy to understand why they didn't want to be there. >> we have donated 100 million to kill our women and children to destroy the homes of the muslims. >> reporter: some weeks since the american security services set their voice recognition software identified the man who the newspapers called jihadi john, the slightly ridiculous

name with a man involved in be heading several captives and aid workers and journalists, people who could not defend themselves and had not gone to fight. he became the eraser of the aims of organization which tore through iraq and syria as much of the worlds looked only in disbelief. inevitably the question is being raised as to what if anything the british security services knew of mohammed emwazi but they nor the police would comment. this organization which routinely hears complaints from muslims about the lives in britain did know mohammed emwazi and told them he had been repeatedly harassed by the security services and we blocked him from returning to kuwait where he was born and the man who knew him described him as a beautiful person enraged by treatment of british authorities. >> this is the problem we have here, that we have created here in the uk an environment in which the security agencies can act with impunity can destroy

the lives of young people without any recourse to being able to challenge them in an effective way. >> reporter: to add to it all cage linked him with michael the killer of the british soldier lee rig by and angered at experience at the hands of british security and say they cannot talk about specific cases but efforts to maintain safety in the uk are always proportionate to the threats. whether or not the security services here did try to stop mohammed emwazi from returning home to kuwait from london they certainly seem to know who he was. the question is how dangerous they thought he was because after all this appears to be a successful young man far removed from the stereotype of the isolated loser apparently at risk of radicalizing influences. >> educated as well and goes with research we have done and looking at the profile of people who go to syria and they are

well educated and social mobile people and not people coming from deprived backgrounds. >> reporter: the media has by and large made its mind up this is mohammed emwazi until he takes the hood off it won't be known for certain, his parents apparently don't believe it's him but that is understandable. lawrence lee, al jazeera in london. new details tonight about three men from new york facing federal charges accused of supporting i.s.i.l. 24 year old gerald and 19-year-old siad who were about to travel to syria and join i.s.i.l. a third suspect is accused of bank rolling the operation, defense attorney adam told al jazeera his client is being set up by a confidential government informant. >> the public has seen it and we seen it today from comments from people from all over the world that they know how the fbi goes

around with their confidential informants basically manufacturing these cases. and that is really where the heart of the case is going to lie for us is this another example, for example of like the newburg case in the southern district of new york where that is what happened and ultimately the men were convicted but the question is the public finally really ready to stand up and say this is not the way to fight the war on terror by manufacturing cases like this. >> reporter: investigators say the suspects threatened to target police officers and f.b.i. agents and ready to kill president obama if asked to do so by aisle. i spoke to karen the director of the center on national security at the university and i asked her about american residents trying to join i.s.i.l. and the laws designed to stop them. >> we think according to federal figures that about 150 individuals have gone. but we don't really know how many want to go but our laws are the material support laws and particularly the material

support laws for individuals wanting to go abroad and join a fight for jihad have been used strenuously since 9/11. >> this week three suspects in new york city, they have been charged with counter terrorism charges, do you think the f.b.i. is going after the really dangerous, potential i.s.i.l. fighters in this case? >> well we don't know because we don't really know how many dangerous people you know or want to b's there are. it's hard to say because so many of these investigations and the affiliated individuals of these investigations seem to be so young. many of them are in their teens and a number of them are under 21 and so you really begin to ask yourself, you know what kind of where with all could they have. i think more significant are these cases like the one here where you have to ask yourself if there is an older individual involved who might be leading some younger individuals along. but it's really that question

what is danger and what constitutes danger is the exact area where civil libertarians and law enforcement clash and asking them what is over reach and how much do we want to give up. >> how do you separate the want to b's from the never will be on the battlefield and chicken out and end up there and realize what they have gotten themselves into? >> right and it's hard and that is what law enforcement is training themselves to do to try to make these distinctions. there are also cases, however, in which law enforcement is sending a message which is not just oh, we are here so that we can stop the really dangerous ones we are here to send a message don't go down the road because if you do we will arrest you and charge you with material support so it's two things they are trying to accomplish at the same time. >> has i.s.i.l. become a magnet for anyone with an interest in joining a jihadist group? >> a magnet more so for western

europe and other countries but they are a magnet and attracted from county dozens of counties around the world, the numbers are staggering. >> and why is that? what are they doing right? >> well one thing they are doing is they are saying they are the heirs of bin laden and have a vision of land and a place to go where if you want to be a muslim who has very fundamental views and there is a place that you can come. if that appeals to you then that is it. >> it's way beyond that right, brutality of the be heading videos and i know you have seen the brutality of kidnapping dozens of christians this week. of kidnapping young boys and recruiting young girls, it goes beyond that ideology doesn't it? >> it does and there are some very uncomfortable connection between the power of social media and its distance from reality. and the and it's an modernity in

this barbaric activity they are showing and it's hard to say what makes these kids want to go. do they actually see it as more than just something attached to the internet? this is something that we are going to have to figure outgoing forward. >> is there precedent for a group that has this type of reach? >> this is sort of afghanistan recruitment on steroids that the whole world is paying attention to. remember that when 9/11 happened i mean they started detaining people in afghanistan they are from all over the world and not just from there. and so there is always been a call sort of a pan islamic call in some cases in the wake of bin laden to come join the cause, this is ramped up to a heightened degree and social media is making it seem successful. >> director of the center on national security at the university. a video reportedly released by i.s.i.l. shows destruction of ancient museum pieces a group of men at the mosul museum in

iraq are seen taking sledgehammer to artifacts more than 2000 years old. calling them idols, many of the items items date back to the empire and 7th century b.c. and mosul is iraq second largest city and fell in i.s.i.l. hands in june. destruction at the museum was the late nest a string of i.s.i.l. attacks on historical and religious sites and last weekend the group raised one of iraq's oldest mosques and authorities say some 30 religious buildings destroyed in i.s.i.l. controlled iraqi territory including christian churches and monday starrys, the sunni grouped demolished other sites. a former anti-government fighter sentenced today for war crimes and received five years in prison for the beating of a tied up prisoner and fought with the free syrian army and arrived in sweden in 2013 when the

country announced residency for fleeing the conflict there. convict add saudi man of conspiracy in 1998 bomb ings in kenya and tanzania and described as one of al-qaeda early leaders and prosecutors say he was a close confident of bin laden and led a training camp in afghanistan and attacks on embassys killed 200 and injured 4,000 others and faces life in prison. saudi arabia and other gulf countries moving ambassador from the capitol sanaa to aiden and the embattled president set up base there after shia houthi rebels forced them to leave the capital and from aiden he is receiving support from me of the region leaders. >> reporter: achieved tremendous success on the diplomatic front according to his entourage and last week he musted support of interesting regional powers such as the gulf

countries, the gcc has sent their secretary-general here on wednesday, met with hadi and showed support and promised more support for hadi whom they considered the legitimate president of the country, the same came from the u.n. the u.n. sent a special envoy to omar to aiden here and met with president hadi and agreed on a number of issues including the resumption of the diplomatic efforts and political efforts to find a solution for yemen. the houthis understandably are not happy with these developments. their leader houthi gave a televised address this evening and attacked the brotherhood party accusing it being behind resent developments and accused saudi arabia the closest neighbor to yemen describing the relationship between saudi arabia and yemen throughout history of one of subrogation. >> translator: regional and international forces want to implement the libyan example in

yemen and want to create division and a separate government in yemen but this will not work. the saudis and americans are supporting hadi and anyone who will do their dirty work of sabotage in the country but they will lose we will confront them. and we will make sure they will fail. >> reporter: so we see that mr. houthi is very angry and made an interesting point towards his speech. he talked about the attack that the houthis mounted on tuesday on a special forces camp inside sanaa and he made a kind of apology to the assad camp the former president saying this was an incident not intended we did not intend to attack our brother brothers and talking about the soldiers loyal to assad and they are accused of having clueded of having helping each other to bring about the resent changes including the houthis taking over sanaa and the coup there.

this at the same time the houthis also are seeing more and more protests across the country against their existence in sanaa so it's all very bad time for them here in yemen at the moment. mohamed was reporting. going through the records to find the dead in ukraine. up next, in the fog of war prisoners forced to search for comrades who died on the battlefield and. everybody in nato is concerned about what is going on in ukraine and russia's actions, no question about that. is that enough for the u.s. to send weapons? we will speak with out going department spokesman kirby about ukraine and if the u.s. military is stretched too thin. ♪

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with european counterparts to discuss measures against russia for actions in eastern ukraine. >> the military says it will pull out its heavy weapons from the front lines and the grim task, of finding missing or kill when the fighting gets underway. >> we visited the airport where the extent of destruction makes the job difficult, the warning his report contains some disturbing images. >> the battlefields of east ukraine are bleak and chilling places. the destructive power of modern weapons, leaves a stark impression and the airport is such a place and four months of bitter fighting left the whole area completely shattered, interior of terminals have debris and rubble and personal effects of those who fought and died here. salvage operation is far from delicate delicate. >> translator: when a concrete beam falls down and a body is buried under it we have to lift

it up somehow. and it's all in a confined area and we cannot use any heavy lifting equipment. we had to use a controlled explosion to get at it. >> reporter: a group of captured ukraine crayon soldiers have been press ganged into excavation the bodies of dead colleagues. going through choking dust to lift the collapsed structure brick by brick. the task of locating extracting and identifying the corpss of those killed in action in this conflict is extraordinarily difficult. as you can problem tell looking at the conditions in which these conscripts are having to work. the bodies of some 30 ukraine soldiers found so far and process of transferring them to a morgue and returning them to relatives receives low priority. these corpses were found 24 hours previously and still note taken away and other battles, other casualties at three other

places and in the chaos of conflict neither side had definitive figures for the numbers missing in action. international red cross in donetsk is now trying to assist. >> at the moment we are cooperating with the morgues and providing body bags to some groups that are involved in retrieval of bodies but as of now, yeah we are trying to get more in the process of the transfer of bodies and we offered our services in this regard to both parties. >> reporter: according to the morgue in donetsk nine soldier bodies transferred to ukrainian side for the sake of behaved relatives a much bigger effort required across the conflict zone of east e crane are fighters from both sides given the dignity of a proper burial. in donetsk. >> joining us is a spokesman john kirby and good to see you and let's start with the news

out of ukraine and the military is pilling the heavy weapons out of conflict zone in the east and seen two days of relative quiet. will this ceasefire finally hold? >> well, we certainly hope so. that certainly is the wish here. everybody at the pentagon antonio but actions speak louder than words and ceasefires have all too often and all too sadly are a femoral because moscow will not abide by it and watching it closely and hoping it holds. >> last week secretary-general rasmussen says if it doesn't hold it is time for the u.s. to provide lethal help to ukraine, is that the thinking at the white house and pentagon? >> at the pentagon it's nonlethal assistance to ukraine forces is what we are focused on and there is a discussion on going discussion frankly and continually reviewed ukraine request for assistance to include lethal assistance but the focus is on nonlethal and

would not get ahead of decisions not made yet. >> is there a red line russia should not cross and if so what is it? >> i don't think we want to talk in terms of red lines here from the pentagon perspective but we have been very clear from the very beginning that what is expected is for moscow to abide by the minsk agreement and these more resent ceasefires for them to respect the territorial integrity of ukraine and pull back all heavy equipment and systems out of ukraine as well as the troops that are there supporting those systems. and stabilize to lower the tensions there in ukraine by respecting territory and what needs to happen here and what we are focused on. in the meantime what we are doing and maintained a focus on is reassuring allies and partners throughout europe and nato partners increasing participation in policing and a naval presence in the black sea and conducting exercise with

baltic states and we will continue to do that. >> is nato ready and how concerned are you about the baltic states and some of these drills that the russians have been having on the borders there? >> well, obviously we are watching the situation there very, very closely. i think everybody in nato is concerned about what is going on in ukraine and russia's actions, no question about that. nobody wants it to get worse, of course. but we have significant article five commitments to our allies and partners there in europe and those are commitments we take very very seriously. >> a report out this week in the context of all these tensions around the world from the heritage foundation looked at american military strength and painted what was described as a stark picture of the shortfalls in readiness, the only branch it said of the military in good shape is the airforce and it argued it would be hard for the u.s. to fight on two fronts under these conditions, is that the case? >> well we believe that the

forces that we have afield and afloat right now are ready for the missions that they have been assigned and we have a force that is adequate to immediate the defense needs of the nation and defense strategy that the commander-in-chief signed in 2012 which we can execute with the defense review that updated that strategy just last year. that said antonio and very clear about this if sequester remains the law of the land and continue to have the face the threat of sequestration we may not be able to meet challenges and not able to execute the strategy and the biggest hit we will take is in readiness. >> a big challenge for your new boss and secretary defense carter and immediately headed to afghanistan and middle east on being sworn in and told afghan president ghani is the u.s. priority is to see progress there sticks, is the u.s. going to further the slow down of troop withdrawals and avoid what we have seen happen in iraq?

>> no change right now to the withdrawal plan we are executing in afghanistan which would have us out in a couple years. we have about 10,000 troops there right now. that said secretary carter also made it clear when he discussed this with president ghani and president ghani is coming to the united states relatively soon that we understand his desire for more flexibility and that those discussions are ongoing and that we are willing to engage in that dialog to examine possibilities for flexibility inside that two-year timetable. but the fact that of the two-year timetable itself i think that is the policy and that is what we are executing. i will also say that regardless of whether there is decisions made regarding the flexibility, general campbell our commander in the field has the flexibility already, today, to manage those force flows inside that timetable that he has been given. >> secretary carter went to kuwait and met with officials in charge of fights i.s.i.l. on his trip but i want to end with a

personal question carter has said he is going to put a civilian into your job, you are a rear admiral, a two star what is next for you? >> well secretary carter said he wanted to reexamine the role of spokesman and i don't know if he made a decision one way or another of who might come after me. as for me i don't know just yet. i will say this job has been a real privilege, a real honor and enjoyed every day of it and to be able to do this as a public affairs officer in the military is just an incredible privilege that i'm very very grateful for. >> a privilege for us to have you often and we are grateful for it best of luck in your career in what it's for. >> thanks antonio. argentina president dodges a criminal complaint. >> the move is a spokes screen and political scandal that grabbed the world's attention. south korea has just decriminalized adulty and

charges against 50,000 people in the last 30 years.

♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy. >> and i'm antonio, pirates and look at the crack down that slowed their activity and the economic vacuum their absence left behind. a woman born deaf shares the struggles and deaf of her 39-year-old young any to hear. a series of bombs set a wave of panic near egypt capitol, five explosions rocked the residential areas by cairo and fore by homs and one a police station and one killed and seven wounded and homemade explosives were used and say supporters of

ousted president mohamed morsi may be behind attacks. >> benjamin netanyahu will meet with democratic and senate ledders when he visited capitol hill next week coming from mitch mcconnell and earlier netanyahu declined an invitation to speak with democrats and plans to address congress on tuesday to argue against a deal of the iran program and urged him to cancel the speech. south korea adulty is no longer a crime and the top court threw out a law that made extra marital sex punishable by jail and it has been on the books six decades and 100,000 south koreans convicted of it since 1953. a judge in argentina today rejected allegations that president kristina covered up iran involvement on a jewish community center attack in 84 left 85 dead. >> the judge says it doesn't meet the standards to launch a

formal investigation and filed last month by the prosecutor he died under mysterious circumstances a day before he was scheduled to testify before lawmakers about his accusations. >> reporter: the president accused accused argentina with the spy service and now dismantled the controversial agency. >> reporter: it's an old photo, one of few of the chief who is said to have moved in the shadows, from this building located next to the presidential palace he effectively controlled the nation's all powerful spy agency for decades. information is power and for years president kristina allegedly used and abused what was supplied. >> translator: the president like to receive not just the transcripts of illegal wire taps but the tapes to hear the tone

of voice and controls her political advisorys and allies and ministers. >> reporter: and he should know a former secretary of the intelligence agency himself. and describes the still unsolved 1992 bombing of the jewish cultural center as the agency's black box. and a former investigator says five years ago he ordered his abduction and had words carved on his back and responsible for revealing that the spy agency had paid $400,000 for false testimony to derail the original investigation. >> translator: today we don't know what line of investigation to follow because intelligence agency raised or contaminated the evidence to cover its own tracks. >> reporter: in december the president fired him and after the suspicious death of prosecutor all alberto nisman

they were asked to have a more accountable service. dismantling of intelligence service was long over due but the question is why now. sources close to presidential palace say it's because the president discovered the spy agency turned against her and was leaking damaging information to the media. 14 months ago the president named general seasoned officer accused of human rights abuses as head of the armed forces creating what many regard as a parallel spy service, more loyal to her. now the president is asking her countrymen to believe that a new federal intelligence agency will be more transparent, given the history of their espionage services many argue they can't be blamed for doubts. >> we are joined by a political

analyst of a digital media company and let's start with that the iran was covered up and the judge said there was no crime committed and stops any formal investigation, what has the reaction to that been like there? >> well obviously antonio the first reaction was of shock, surprise a lot of people where they believed that this judge would at least accept to analyze the evidence that had been presented by nisman no one expected him to react so quickly and very adamant to say in his ruling that there was absolutely no evidence not a single piece of evidence that suggested that president kristina was actually involved or was part of a cover up to protect iran in the case

investigating the bombing. however, this is not the end of the accusation prosecutor who picked up after nisman after nisman was found dead and carried on the investigation and formally accused the president, he can still appeal. he can still appeal to a federal court. now, we don't know when this is going to happen. we don't know if he is going to appeal but opposition today was saying they are relying on him to make a decision very soon and indeed appeal the judge's ruling. >> so unless he appeals and the appeal is successful, what happens? will both the shooting of the prosecutor and this two-decade old horrible case of the bombing at the jewish community center go unsolved? >> no no no because there are several cases right now going on that are related to the investigation of the bombing. now, the nisman was the

prosecutor in the investigation for the bombing. that is a different case and that is still moving forward, last week a few days ago the government appointed a series of prosecutors going to replace nisman and his death meant the investigation was going to be stopped for a few days but now the investigation is expected to pick up soon. now the case against the president, that is a different case that is something that nisman accused, when nisman accused the president then it became a different case that even though it's related to the bombing it's not actually the same case. so now what is expected is that if he decides to move forward and appeal the judge's ruling that means it will go to the federal court and let's not forget the federal court that is going to review the appeal is the same federal court that

deemed the agreement between iran and argentina unconstitutional and could change things this federal court could accept the appeal and maybe the investigation could move forward. >> right, 21 years later we still don't know exactly who was behind that terrible attack and we just heard from neuman about the shady history about the spy service, will anything change now the argentine congress decided to replace it? >> that is the big question as you said. the bill was passed yesterday and now the government has 90 days to dissolve the current secretary of intelligence and create the new agency of federal intelligence. the ruling party, they say that this new agency is going to be more transparent, that it's going to be in touch with congress, so congress will always be able to know what their activities are, however,

the opposition says that this is just the change of a name because many of the spies that are currently involved in the secretary of intelligence will simply be transferred to the agency of federal intelligence. so we don't know what is going to happen but as we can imagine if those spies are going to be transferred to a new agency not much is going to change. >> all this happening in an election year and with the bubble.com and thanks for joining us from buenos aires. fighting piracy on the high seas the flip side. in off the radar segment harsh realities in the middle of a crack down on somali pirates. breaking the journey to silence and a woman's journey to hearing her family for the first time. ♪

a dire warning on cyber threats from the director of national intelligence, james clapper told

a senate panel that cyber threats to u.s. national security are increasing this scale and sophistication and director said digital thieves may be more dangerous to the country than terrorism and named russia china and north cora as top sources and the u.s. had a $3 million reward leading to arrest of russian hacker accused of stealing $100 million from american banks. off the radar segment tonight what happened to somali pirates and attacking ships off africa almost everyday. with nato in the waters the hijackings have seen a sharp fall and many are in prison and we have an exclusive report the families the pirates left behind are now struggling to survive. >> reporter: this was the world's piracy capitol, the scenic beaches were once lined with ships hijacked and brought

here and at the height piracy was the main source of income in this town but as it declined it has been abandoned and restaurants where pirates and negotiates and middlemen used to dine are now empty. people here say the good times are long gone. almost everyone is effected. those who sell these and they are among those struggling with the main customers of the pirates gone business is slow. >> translator: a cart used to be $15 then pirates came and prices went up to $50 and that was good and they left and the locals cannot afford it. >> reporter: piracy may be good for some in the town but those whose lives have been destroyed by illicit trade. 200 men took boats like this one to hijack shifts for ransome and 60 died and the rest are in prison in somalia and this young

man used to provide for families who are now struggling themselves. and his son is one of those in yemen. he is a convicted pirate. today like everyday she is trying to reach him on the phone. and she is unsuccessful. >> translator: we only depend on what god gives us. our lives were better when he was here he used to look after everyone. now we are very worried about him. he is not in a good place. >> reporter: the relatives of the pirates in prison are desperate to have them back but mayor says the town doesn't need them. >> translator: when they were here they had an effect on the town in many ways they were responsible for poor security destroy the local culture, robberies increased, they brought alcohol and prosecution. our town is better off without them. >> reporter: for now trying to recover and move on but for many their relatives are reminder of the town's unpleasant past one

they are not so proud of al jazeera, in somalia. they tried to stop them in 2008 14 vessels seized and it spiked to 46 in 2009 the year of the hijacking of the alabama that inspired the oscar nominated film captain phillips 2010, 40 vessels then it dropped, 25 the following year and 2012 just four. no vessels have been taken over the last two years but the numbers are much higher looking at how many vessels were attacked if they were not seized in 2008 they assaulted 24 ships, the following years that jumped to 163 then 174 before peaking in 2011 with 174 then 12 35 and 2005, 13 and last year two.

at the time the numbers were growing so was the area where somali pirates were attacking and initially off the coastline and horn of africa but attacks further out and into the seas around the arab peninsula and india before nato effort they were stretch to mosambeke and madagascar and indian ocean and red sea and the gulf and that is a large area and joining me is the regional manager for the horn of africa for the oceans beyond piracy joining us via skype from nairobi and thank you for your time and you speak to the pirates and what do you do are you essentially a hostage negotiator? >> good morning, stephanie, not per se no. i work for oceans beyond piracy and work for the u.n. for drugs and crimes counter piracy

program. i talk to piracy and wear many hat where i look after the victims of piracy and you talked about the pirates but for many victims of this piracy effect who are held hostage by somali pirates and do our best to get some of those out. these are people not with insurance and not with ships and people held for a long time on land inside somalia. >> you have called these people forgotten hostages and are hostages that their own governments are not interested in paying ransome and how many of them are there? >> at the moment we have 30 hostages left. >> and how successful have been your efforts to free these hostages? >> very successful. over the last several years while this piracy thing has been going on we got out over 137 crewmen who have been held in

somali and helped them get home. >> without ransomes how do you get them out, do you talk to them, do you reason with them? >> yes, precisely. and through the program provides these hostages with contact and medical support when we can and the pirates most of the time don't allow that sort of thing. and we persuade them that piracy is over and large ran somes and large insurance claims are not going to be there. and we get them out by mostly by persuasion. >> i think what a lot of people hear the word pirate they have an image of an evil character in their heads. what do people most misunderstood about the problem of piracy in somalia? >> having listened to your story before i think the thing that is missing is that most of these pirates sitting in prisons

around the world and let me add that quite a lot of pirates are repatriated by u.n. from prisons back to prisons in somalia and held close to home for reasons you talked about with the families. the most misunderstood thing here is these pirates are manipulated by the mr. bigs in the piracy world who made millions and millions of dollars out of this and these attacks on these poor sea ferrets and that is what is misunderstood, these are criminals, this is a criminal activity and, yes, there has been illegal fishing off somali waters and still is and going on today but mostly this is a criminal enterprise run by major criminals. >> nato mission cracking down on somalia pirates appears to be

working and would you call it an unqualified success? >> it's not just nato nato is a small player in this and the mission is by the eu navel force operation atlanta and a combination of navel activity and navel patrolling at sea but also by something that is called best management practice by the shipping industry is what is prevented it. this is the armed guards on ships saling in the indian ocean and pirates found it very difficult now to attack a ship successfully as you said there has been no successful attack for two years and no ships off the coast of somalia just the victims i talked about earlier on. >> john is joining us from nairobi. cuba doctors making a house call in cutter. >> one of the biggest experts of doctors are giving birth to a

new diplomatic relationship between doha and the island nations. using graffiti to draw attention to devastation in gaza six months after the war with israel ended.

the mysterious british artist is using art to highlight destruction this gaza and used rubble to sent a message to the world not to forget those who lost everything and the works include a picture of a surveillance tower with children on a swing and painted a kitten with a pink bow because on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens. time for the global view segment segments from across the globe and the first is from russia newspaper and shows the wide gulf between public opinion in the u.s. and russia over the crisis in ukraine and the u.s. has destroyed trust between nuclear powers raising the threat of nuclear war and calling that quote, the crime

of the century. hours before the ruling dismissing allegations of a cover up by argentina papers called for an independent investigation and of prosecutor nisman's death. and china offering a take on what it calls terror lure a cartoon of the three stooges being led by an i.s.i.l. pide piper. a chilling effect on the island exports, medical care and they have 50,000 to 65 countries and we report from a cuban hospital in cutter. >> reporter: introducing herself as the easy part. communicating is a bit harder. the doctor doesn't speak arabic but works at this hospital in qatar.

>> i'm from my counter. >> fantastic. >> reporter: one of 450 cue bins to be exact practicing medicine at the hospital in duhan an hour out of qatar capitol doha and they needed doctors and cuba needs money and doctors are the country's greatest exports and the medical diplomacy is not just limited to hospitals like this one. cuba sends medical personnel and supplies to international hot spots. for more than five decades the small nation of 11 million sent doctors to the caribbean, latin and asia and african not just to earn a much needed income from crippling sanctions from the west but establish ties and cuba sent more doctors to fight ebola in west africa than any other country. and to heyaiti when the earthquake devastated what the county had and last year united states and cuba reach agreement and allow

freer travel and attack them to the u.s. with incomes that cannot be matched at home. do you think more medical professionals will be sways to go to the united states now and work? >> you have the need to get some money you can go. because now we are free to go anywhere. >> reporter: they need the 14 doctors that landed from havanna. >> the challenge is a huge challenge, different language different country, different culture, different laws. >> reporter: but the hospital's assistant executive director says acclimating is the most difficult part for doctors. >> by the time the doctors or nurses came and, you know get familiar with the culture and custom and then they have to go back again for a new one arrives. >> reporter: he is trying to push a three-year contract term

to five and another example how cuba doctors are its greatest commodity. i'm with al jazeera. nearly 9 million people have watched the youtube video that shows a deaf woman hearing for the first time in her life a cochlear implant made it possible. >> inserted a small device in her ear where a microphone and speech processor use electrodes to stimulate the nerves artificially creating the sense of sound and met the british woman breaking her silence with a memoir. >> it's all right. it's a big, big life-changing day today. >> reporter: this is the moment joe's cochlear implants were turned on and she could hear for the first time. >> i hear my own voice. >> reporter: a lifetime, 39 years joe had been deaf until last year when she had a small

electronic device, a cochlear implant put into her ears. birds, music, her mother's voice, they all came rushing in. but more importantly being able to hear has helped joe cope with going blind. she has progressive tunnel vision, another symptom of a rare genetic condition usher syndrome. >> i would never be a hearing person like the next person but i can hear things that i couldn't hear before. and then with regards to being blind i feel less blind because i can feel like the sense of the world around me. >> reporter: born deaf in a hearing family and wore a hearing aid as a child and worked hard with her grandfather on her speech and coin was the incentive. >> reporter: if i pronounced a word right he would give me a coin and i was so determined to try and get all the coins on the table and i can remember really trying to pronounce and get my words perfectly.

>> reporter: before she could hear joe would dance with others and try to hear music through vibrations. >> music is the most exciting thing in the whole world that i had with this incredible change in my life has been music. >> reporter: the world is not all beautiful music and joe has been surprised by angry sounds she once was oblivious too. >> very unaware of the bad side and that is what shocked me the most for people arguing and like drivers beeping their horns. >> reporter: armed with cochlear implants and quick smile and a new book joe is determined her progressive blindness will not distract her focus on raising awareness of usher syndrome. jessica baldwin, al jazeera london. what an is inspirational woman. >> and children receive them and hearing earlier than they wouldn't without technology.

>> 200 formally deaf people around the world who can now hear with the help of cochlear implants. >> 70,000 americans have under gone the procedure. nasa discovered a new young galaxy powered by a massive black hole than that has a gravitational pull that nothing can escape it and not light, this is 12 billion times more massive than the sun and won't be sending astronauts out there any time soon and it's more than two billion light years away. that is big, tomorrow night the topic of u.s. cuba relations takes center stage in washington as round two of talks on restoring relations gets underway and explore the ties to this issue and how a deal would be worth billions of dollars. that is it for this edition of al jazeera america's international hour i'm stephanie sy. and i'm antonio mariettaoore and america tonight is next and i'll

see you again in an hour. ♪ snow. >> on"america tonight", the 50th anniversary of "the sound of music." meet the family that inspired the hit film. >> the movie, obviously thrust your family into the limelight. what parallels between the movie and your family are real? >> the main theme of the film is accurate. and pick out a few i