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it could do for millions of americans. and far far away. a festival inspired by star wars. many african-americans in ferguson missouri, have accused the police department of excessive discrimination and force. that was before the killing of michael brown. this time, it's coming from the justice department. usher has more. >> weeks of protest followed the shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri.

attorney general, eric holder promised a thorough investigation. and now data of the police reports over the last two years, and they showed that the police unfairly targeted blacks. they make up 60% of the population, and they accounted for 96% of all arrests. and blacks were twice as likely to be searched as whites and less likely to have drugs and weapons. 84% of the time force was used against blocks. the department of justice looked at statistics, which quoted a disproportionate number of blacks were subject to prostitution, jaywalking charges, and 92% of disturbing the peace charges. the statistics appear to reinforce that police have been discriminating against black residents for years.

the city ride on revenues from fines and penalties to close the budget gaps, the burden falling on the city's poorest residents. and in december of 2014, 6,000 people had warrants because offer minor traffic infracks. the justice department is expected to clear officer darren wilson of civil rights of violations, and the police will have to answer to the of violations of the rights of their citizens. aljazeera, chicago. >> justin is at st. louis university. and he's a civil rights activist, and he works with michael brown's family. it's good to have you, and justin, have you talked to michael brown's family since this report? >> i have not spoken to them since the announcement today.

i spoke to michael brown's mother recently. and she's still grieving for her son and she's concerned about what's going to happen going forward. and the rumor is that this report is being given out about the pattern and practice of the department at large in part because of an expectation that there will be no criminal charges brought against darren wilson himself. so that's still a concern >> so what's your reaction? >> well, i think getting this report is like getting the news that the water is wet. we who live here already know about the practices of the ferguson police department. we have the data, which has been issued by the missouri attorney general's office which

already proves that black citizens are targeted in traffic stops. and i myself have experienced targeted arrest. and this is not news. one good thing this helps to set a new norm. and it helps us to come to grips with the fact that any targeting on the basis of race, or any policing, predatory policing targeting pedestrians and drivers in hopes of filling the coffers of the municipal government these things are wrong. they're unconstitutional. and the police departments around the country should not be doing this. there are over 170 police departments asked about their practices, and 17,000 police departments nationwide that need to look at this report and question whether or not they're

engaged in the same practices and whether they should change as well >> so tonight the country says what you say you know and the rest of the community in ferguson knows. what difference did that make? does it or will it make any difference in ferguson? >> well, in ferguson, there's a strong possibility that the police will be engaged in negotiations with the department of justice and so there's a good chance that it will make a difference in the short run in the ferguson police department. but of course ferguson only covers a jurisdiction of about 20,000 citizens, and we have these practices taking place throughout the region. the data from the missouri attorney general's office has proven that these practices are happening throughout the state. >> justin, let me interrupt you

here. have you given this advice to the ferguson police department? have you reached out to the ferguson police department and tried to get them to take some action? >> . >> oh, yes. i had the opportunity to be on a panel discussion with the ferguson police chief at harvard law school and asked him directly what they're doing to stop these practices, and i'm hopeful i'm hoping that these practices will change. i think that there has to be accountability first. we have seen these emails, in emails have denigrated the president. and emails saying that he would not keep his job for four years, because he's black and black people don't keep jobs. we want to know who makes these statements, and we want names and want ability and people fired for these actions, and things done.

i think there's a lot of lip service given and we haven't seen actual changes. >> justin, thank you very much. now ferguson is just one of several american police forces now being taken to task by the justice department. and jonathan betz is here with that. >> reporter: this has been the focus for a number of years, where officers are accused of discrimination or excessive force. the justice department has already ordered overhauls of the nation's biggest cities. the government reached settlements with 15 cities, and since 2010, the justice department has investigated 15 others. nine cities have agreed to significant changes including new orleans, seattle. and recently, albuquerque, new mexico.

last year, it's leaders agreed to overhaul the police departments after it's officers killed 32 people in four year. >> it's also a roadmap to rebuilding the trust between the community and the police. >> reporter: the justice department fund that too often the officers were using excessive force. in albuquerque they demanded changes, sup as more training for officers, requiring bold cameras or banning some tactics. all of it over seen by federal monitors, who often stay in the city for five years. the number of officer-involved shootings has been rising nationally. the officers killed 471 felony suspects in 2013, the most in nearly two decades. those killings were ruled justifiable, but the number could be higher since not all departments report their police shootings, nor are they required to.

the saying that they too often use lethal force. >> behaving this way but however, there are many many circumstances where police officers see men of color and they are highly disrespectful. >> when others resist and face federal civil rights lawsuits, these can cost taxpayers millions not just in changes to police departments but in payments to the officer's victims. >> thank you and dante berry the executive director of the movement for justice protesting in ferguson over the summer, and he's back with us in the studio. dante, welcome and what's your reaction to what may be this report from the department of justice? >> i'm not surprised. i was here last week talking about george zimmerman. and i am not surprised. we don't necessarily need to report our task force to lift up that black people are being

profiled and harassed and beaten and having bias around the police. i think this is also more reason why they're doing a campaign around the police and seeing how black people and brown people are impacted by policing in various ways through different ways and brutality. so when we look at this report, this is just a minor fact of what's actually happening across the country. you look at new york city, you look at l.a., and brutality that just happened a couple of days ago to chicago and a lot of other places. i think what we're seeing in ferguson and what's coming out of this, hopefully more of a microscope that's going to happen in the country. >> you know, there has been an election in ferguson since all of this happened. and it wasn't necessarily participation of african-american voters in the town. and people say here's an

opportunity to take politically take the town that you criticized. and why doesn't that happen? >> i think that's an interesting pen chant. and it's a challenge because i don't necessarily condone it, or celebrate it, but how do you find trust in a system that wasn't designed to protect you? and how do you find trust in a group of people? >> you have to try. >> but if they're killing you i don't know if people are willing to do that. >> but they're afraid. are they afraid to get into the system of justice? >> the system is not designed to protect ourselves why buy into a system? >> other communities where african-americans do take part and do take control of the political system successfully. >> barack obama is still getting accused of a lot of different things. just look at the report that came out today of being a black man, having a shop, right? and it doesn't matter what

level of power you have, we went to see a completely different type of power. >> explain what does that>> i think this movement right now, movement for black lives is not about access to power and not about the type of power that wee currently have. it's about creating a new type of power that's much more inclusive. the system is still not working, and it was designed to exclude black and brown people in the way that that is. >> thank you very much. there's new information tonight on a police shooting in los angeles. records show a homeless man killed by the police on sunday was a convicted bank robber. 39-year-old charlie robinnette was released from prison last may after serving 14 years. [ chanting ] there were angry protests over his death outside of lapd

headquarters today. witnesses say that he reached for an officer's gun and critics call it another unjustified killing of a black man by the police. like many, los angeles has been conducting a pilot program on those cams and this is the first major test for that project. michael has more. >> reporter: this is the video that has sparked outrage across the country. what follows, a fatal confrontation between land officers and a homeless man who is living in a tent on skid row. activists have already hit the streets, wielding once again the slogan that black lives matter, and comparing the incident to other high-profile officer involved killings in staten island and cleveland. but the officers are claiming self defense arguing that the suspect was reaching for one of

their firearms. between all of the surveillance footage and cellphone video that's available online, it's difficult to determine exactly what happened. but many are hoping that body cameras worn by at least two of the officers will tell the whole story. it's one of the first tasks for the land's body camera program which was launched at the end of last year. just east of l.a., in the town of rialto, officers have been using bold cameras for years and have seen surprising results. we're on patrol with corporal gary cunningham, on the streets of rialto, population 100,000. and on the vanguard of bold cameras. the police here say that they were the first force in the nation to deploy the cameras with uniformed officers department wide. the 25 year veteran cunningham is old school. >> does it personally keep you

in line? >> if we went to a call, and the guy did something, he went inside of the house and i kicked the door open, and back in the day throw him down and do all of this -- >> you roughed him up a little. >> roughed him up. but having the camera on me, when i grabbed him and i remembered the camera, the camera. >> body cameras are all the rage in law enforcement. so much so that the number of cities considering whether to deploy them seems to grow daily. >> the body cameras aren't a silver bullet. they're not going to solve every single issue out there. there's more to it. >> the federal government is now considering whether it will fund how longs more body cameras for police across the nation. in the meantime, the technology will continue to be tested on the streets. both by police and bill the sceptical citizens who they have sworn to protect and serve.

aljazeera, los angeles. >> you can see more of mechanical oku's report tonight at 10:00 eastern time. coming up on this broadcast. the proposed nuclear arms deal with iran. israel's prime minister tells congress, it's a very bad deal. what iran would get. and what it would have to give up. and obamacare back in the supreme court. how they built their case.

>> the battle over funding for homeland security is over for now. the partial shutdown of that agency was averted today. the house of representatives passed a bill to fund the agency through september and it does not include provisions to roll back president obama's immigration. though many republicans hoped today. the bill was passed last week, and president obama is expected to sign it. now a major legal challenge to the act. tax subsidies to make obamacare work. and lisa stark has it. >> reporter: well, john, as you said, this lawsuit takes aim at a key provision of the affordable care act. that's the tax subsidies and millions rely on them to help

pay for their coverage. so the justice administration has to decide whether they are legally giving out these tax credits to folks who live in states that rely on the federal exchange healthcare.gov, to get their coverage, or whether they can only go to states who have their own healthcare exchanges. the lawsuit is being brought on behalf of four individuals from virginia. we went to fredricksburg virginia, to find the lead plaintiff in the case against obamacare. >> mr. king? >> no comment. >> i can't talk to him for a second? >> david king is one of four virginia residents suing the obama administration over the president's signature healthcare law. articles in the magazine and

wall street journal raises questions about whether they can be forced to buy assurance under oklahoma. one of the plaintiffs is rose luck. she's in her 50s and when she signed onto the obamacare in 2013, she listed this st. petersburg motel as her address, but you can only stay there for 28 days at a time. luck, who doesn't hide her feelings about the president and not respond to a facebook comment. and we also reached out to doug hurst, who did not return phone and facebook messages. lawyers told us that the fourth defendant would not comment either. libbi is close to medicare able and king and hurst may

qualify for veterans benefits, and luck no longer lives at the address of her court document. >> you only need one to make the case go through and if the government thought that it could persuasively argue that none of those patients for their doing. >> he's considered one of the architected of the lawsuit's legal strategy against obamacare. he said that it's care. only those who buy insurance through the state are eligible for the coverage, but very few states started their own exchanges. so if the lawsuit prevails, millions who get their healthcare through the federal marketplace would no longer be eligible for tax subsidies. she argues that the case has no merritt.

>>ed statute was written in the way that it pos supposed to work by providing credits to all americans. if you don't have those tax credits available then it collapses on itself. >> it's just what those behind the lawsuitment, to destroy obamacare. >> what do you say to people who argue that this is an ideological lawsuit, and you went working for something that strike down this law that you didn't like, quite frankly. >> every court who looked at this has a legitimate dispute and legitimate case. >> the group who is funding the plaintiffs has not hidden its disdain for the healthcare law. >> i do not care how this is done whether it's dismembered whether we drive steaks through its heart or tar and feather it whether we strangle it.

>> cei a libertarian think tank, declined an interview but we had a chat with david king, who before asking us to turn off the camera, did explain his heartfelt reason for joining the case. >> it's not about people losing their insurance. it never has been. it's about the law. i think -- >> that's how you view it? >> yes. >> so he says it's about whether the obama administration followed the law. ultimately up to nine justices to decide. and the court will issue its decision by june, so what happens if the court finds against the administration and throws out the subsidies for millions of people? well the administration says that that would cause massive damage. there are a couple of republican lawmakers on the

hill trying to come up with contingency plans just in case that happens so people can still afford their insurance. but there's a lot of uncertainty of what it would mean if this key part of obamacare is in fact struck down john? >> and trevor bird co-wrote this challenge to obamacare he's a research fellow with the kado institute. and he's in washington tonight. welcome, and thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. so if this challenge succeeds, how is it going to affect millions of americans on obamacare? >> well, there are a lot of contingencies. we don't know what congress is going to do, orrin hatch has proposed a plan, and we're not sure what states will do. what we get is transparency. and a lot of people do not know how much this law actually casts, but we're trying to get the administration to follow the law that it wrote. >> if you win millions of americans are going to lose

their healthcare, right. >> they won't lose it. the price will go up up to the true price with out the subsidies, but there are many things we could do after and have a real debate on how much this actually actually costs and whether we want it controlling our healthcare system. >> are you trying to drive a stake through the heart of obamacare like you heard in the story? >> it's no secret that we don't like oklahoma, it's a bad law it's bad for the health of americans and it's too expensive and it's going to make our health worse. he broke the law in order to try to save it. that's the story. consistently the administration has broken the law because people didn't behave the way they wanted them to. they aren't marionettes on the string. >> what do you say to people who might lose their health insurance as a result of your decision to file this case? what would you say to them about the fact that they're going to have to pay more for

healthcare or lose it? >> well, i won't grant that that's necessarily true. there could be things that ham. but i would say -- >> even in the case. i would say to them that they live in a country where the federal government cannot tell states to do whatever they want them to do. so they knowingly wrote a law to try to get states to set up exchanges, and their states that they live in didn't do that. and they can try to fight the state. but they live in a political system because washington d.c. is trying to control the healthcare for millions of americans, and the healthcare of kentucky should not look like the healthcare system of massachusetts. this law is trying to make it that way and they broke the will you to try to make it that way. >> is this about whether or not people can say no to the government, you can't pass a law telling me i have to buy health insurance? >> no, we already fought that battle. and we kind of won and kind of

loss but this is about whether future executives, or future irs agencies have to follow the laws that they wrote. if they apply the language of the statute and say, this is the statute we wrote and we're not going to put together a pass. everyone knows that this law was put together hastily, and i think it's odd that the day of reckoning is coming and here's something that is in the law and you prebbleed it's not in the law and we can't even fight something that we don't know what it looks like, it changes all the time. and future administrations need to follow the laws too. so this precedent could be the case where future presidents don't follow the law >> so does it come down to four words? >> the statute is clear and yes, an exchange is established bit state. a statute is clear and jonathan gruber said this is why they do it, and everything about why they did it has come

after the lawsuit was filed so it's a post-hock rationalization. it's going to be a different court. it could be an alignment of different justices different sides. >> so as your friend says, they want to drive a stake through the heart of obamacare and strangle it, are you going to go at it from a different angle? >> the law has so many challenges that we're not out of challenges to try to enforce the constitution that was raptfied. we have this quirky belief that the laws passed in washington should be constitutional and shouldn't make people less healthy and run us into bankruptcy, it's a quirky belief, but that's what we believe. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> the alabama supreme court is ordering a halt to same-sex

marriages in that state. >>state

>> hi, everyone, this is aljazeera america i'm john seigenthaler. >> netanyahu says that the u.s. deal would guarantee a nuclear iran, and the talks what the u.s. wants what iran wants and what a deal could look like in reality. and plus, desert bloom. how a star wars inspired festival took root in the middle of the sahara. >> the divide between the u.s. and israel over iran is deep and growing deeper. it was on full display today in washington. israel's prime minister joined a meeting of congress, and net net issued a series of dire predictions, saying that the u.s. deal would pave the way for a nuclear iran, and the white house fired back. mike viqueira has more. >> reporter: john, the deal is not done yesterday.

but that didn't stop netanyahu from coming to washington and making an extraordinary plea and in the process setting off a war of words with our closest ally. it was a remarkable scene. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister of israel. >> reporter: the leader of a colossal a afforded a place of privilege before a joint meeting of congress, and despite outrage and warnings from the president of making a deal with his country's hated enemy. >> if the deal negotiated can accepted by iran, that deal would not protect iran from developing nuclear weapons, it would all by guarantee that iran gets those weapons. lots of them. >> netanyahu said that it would leave iran with the ability to quickly develop nuclear weapons, and a ten-year sunset, of which iran would be free of

any constraints. >> that's why this deal is so bad. it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb, it paves iran's path to the bomb. >> at the white house president obama said that he was busy talking to european leaders about ukraine and didn't watch. and instead he read the transcript and told the reporters that if there's a deal, if there is one, is the best way to keep them in check. >> the president didn't offer any alternatives. >> absent from the chamber vice president biden, he was in guatemala. but one who was there there, nancy pelosi, found the speech condescending, an insult to the united states, that left her saddened and concerned for bilateral ties. >> i love israel very much. and i value the importance of the relationship between israel and the united states. >> netanyahu also issued a veiled warning.

if iran was not held in check by israel's allies, israel will take matters into its own hands. >> but i can guarantee this. the days when the jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over. >> that bellicose tone angered many. >> this prime minister has never seen a war that he didn't want our country it fight. >> this was fear mongery at its ultimate. >> and john if there's a deal, it has to happen by the end of this month and the administration has said that if they are successful, they don't need congressional sign-off. but that's getting a lot of push back from members of congress. they plan a bill next week in the senate that would give them the ability to approve or disapprove any deal that the

president makes. >> and john, as you know quite well iran is holding talks in switzerland this week, and talk about where those talks stand. >> it's in a critical stage and of course as benjamin netanyahu was here speaking before congress, at that very moment, secretary of state john kerry was with his iranian countier part in switzerland, a critical part of the negotiation and what's on the table. the inspection. the united states and it's western allies said that they will not make any agreement if iran won't let inspections inside of the facilities. that's one of the main sticking points, and something that benjamin netanyahu doesn't believe will be adequate, whatever the negotiators come up with. >> iran says that it's not pursuing a nuclear weapon. but the international community is not convinced. >> reporter: the debate over

exactly what iran can or can't have, when can tums to a nuclear program has been red hot for decades. this was not the first time that benjamin netanyahu issued a dark warning to congress, ringing the alarm bells. but here's how it stands today. first and foremost, they want a deal to stop iran from building a nuclear bomb, or at least slow that process way down if iran decides to break the deal. call be for a series of u.s. inspects calling on iran's capacity to make enriched uranium, for medical devices and power and a bomb, removed. for its part, iran said that it should be allowed to produce enriched uranium for energy and medicine. it wants years of restrictions and sanctions to come to an

end. and it wants to stop being shut out of the global banking system. and when any dealix speers, iran wants to ramp up its peaceful nuclear program. just how far along iran is, is also part of the debate. every time the negotiations have broken down, they move closer to a weapon s. and they come pack and start at higher numbers. >> any deal is a bad deal. and iran can't be trusted. he wants iran's entire nuclear program dismantled. but the u.s. said that it's strategy to hold iran accountability is working. >> they have now been negotiating over the past year, and during that period, iran has in fact frozen it's program, and pulled back some of its most dangerous uranium and subjected it to some of the

verifications and inspections that we have not previously seen. >> even now with president net net's words still rolling in washington, iran and the u.s. are still talking. the u.s. ambassador to israel from 2001 to 2005, he's now the president of princeton university, and i asked him if prime minister netanyahu turned today. >> he did. you saw after the speech, nancy pelosi, the former speaker of the house said that his speech was insulting and she was almost in tears at the conversation, of the prime minister attitude. and i think that the air came out of his balloon quite quickly after the speech. he brought nothing new and didn't help his case at all. >> do you think that this prime minister would risk the relationship between the united

states and israel all over his own political career? >> well, i don't know what his motives were. clearly, there's some political thought in the back of his mind. he's after all running for re-election in about two weeks but that couldn't be all that's driving him because the stakes are so high. in a sense he went all in on this speech. and for a republican audience, it was quite an attractive event. but he has really rocked the bilateral rip, and it's going to take quite mt. to steady himself. >> did he say anything that he said before? >> no, and that's the surprising part. even for people who are sceptical for his reason for visiting there's a belief that he was going to bring something to washington that he didn't know about the iranian program. and instead, he cited all of the evils of the iranian

regime. and he was talking to an audience that was restive anyway. and i think that most americans are quite sceptical about iran's behavior, and concern for terrorism and so forth. but that's not new and why do this? why make this gesture of going behind the president's back, and then bring nothing to the table except the recitation of old arguments about iran. >>iran. i i think that there maybe a little bit of a pause in some of the new programs considered. but in the past, every time there were problems between the two countries, and there of been problems in the past, there was always a question of adult supervision. the prime minister able to right the ship and make sure that things are okay. but now you have a situation where in a sense, the bedrock

of the situation seems steady, but the situation at the top is fraught with all kinds of problems and that's not going to get better. >> ambassador kurtz, thank you very much. >> . >> . >> schaaf ar he's currently the director of the stand with us region and israel advocacy group. and good to have u. >> your reaction, you have a different view. >> we are at a political point where we need moral clarity. if listen to what the prime minister reiterated today he by no means rejected the idea of an agreement. but we're witnessing a situation where a signed agreement between iran and the world indicates normalization with iran. how do you have normalization

with a country -- >> israel, but israel's neighbors in the region -- >> what would that look like? we didn't hear that today. why didn't he present that? >> well, there's a place and time for the details. >> he comes to the united states congress, and he goes behind the president's back. 50 democrats don't show up for the speech. and he doesn't say anything new. why? >> first of all i think that the united states a few weeks ago said that the [ unintelligible ] -- the white house for the speech. and in addition, we are focusing on the framework instead of the issue, i don't think that an israeli prime minister who comes to present the case at such a time. >> did it work? did he get what he needed? will it help? >> time will tell. i believe that the people of

conscience who want to look at this issue in a more moral context---. >> it was a mind changing speech. >> there was a huge message within the speech. >> he has had the message for years, and this is not a new message. >> we have reached a point where it's crucial to reiterate the message. >> he said it at the united nations, and in many forms around the world. and why get in the middle of a political fight between republicans and democrats in the united states two weeks before his election. >> i can tell you that the prime minister himself we heard from him has reached such a debate. >> he didn't think that would happen. >> the issue is what we need to focus on, what is happening with iran, and where it stands between israel and the countries in the region. and the more time we spend on the peripheral issues, we loose sight of what matters. iran's support of the terrorist

infrastructure and destabilizing the region, and iran's desire to destroy the only jewish state. >> doesn't this reflect the prime minister's ability to communicate these messages to the united states government, to the people in the administration? >> it's no secret that there's disagreement when it comes to it. and so the prime minister decided to bring it to the marketplace of ideas. i don't think that the state of israel will be the first country to receive backlash of negotiations. we are there on the front line. the tentacles of terror are engulfing the state of israel from every region, and i for one think that the prime minister should have been accepted differently and his message should have been heard definitely. and we will be able to carry on. the president indicated that we don't have agree on each and every thing.

>> shafar, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> as we have been talking about. net net's speech comes two weeks before a tight election back in israel. and david schuster has that story. >> reporter: less than two years since his last election, benjamin netanyahu is looking to consolidate his power, and delivered to congress the same message that he delivered back home. israel's safety depend on strength. >> the days where the jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies those days are over. >> it's a theme that dovetailed with the israeli lectorate increasingly leaning to the right. net net fired his coalition partners. >> in this government, there was friction and opposing views. >> wanted justice minister with

palestinian leaders. so the prime minister accused them both of disloyalty and called for a snap election. some analysts expect net net to return to office with a more hawkish coalition that will be even tougher on palestinian issues accounts but in politics the republic is notoriously fickle. and the biggest israeli voter concerns right now involve the economy and affordable housing. that could be a boost to the labor party led by size ac hert zog, the son of a former israeli president. >>president. recent polls suggest that he's even with net net. bennett, the former menster and conservative religious party. all of the top candidates have been running slick and often

hilarious television commercials. netanyahu compared to a babysitter. >> in the background of this election campaign are the u.s.-led nuclear talks with iran. and president obama's general unpopularity in israel. mr. obama's approval rating is less than 30%. it means that disagreeing with the obama administration on a security issue would hurt netanyahu in a time of the election race. >> the political calculation is that it will be better as a result of this confrontation rather than worse. >> and in israel today the reaction to netanyahu's speech before congress was generally supportive. and the question is how much difference will it make when the israelis go to the polls in two weeks. >> funeral services were held

this would there moscow for the murdered russian opposition leader. the former critic of president valid vad was shot in the back four times. putin did not attend the funeral. and senior officials from latvia and poland were barred from entering russia to pay their respects. they called it pay back from a tom russian lawmaker. returning to india tv stations are band from airing a documentary about a vicious gang rape and murder that happened on a new delhi bus in 2012. in it, the bus driver says that the victim would be alive if she had not fought back. >> it comes after scenes of the documentary, india's daughter. and it says that women are more to blame for rape than men. and his comments are sparking outrage.

on december 12th, at 8:30 p.m., a 23-year-old many was on her way home with a friend. they then boarded a bus where five men and a 17-year-old boy took turns raping the student. and they then threw her onto the street. she died 13 days later. [ chanting ] the gang rape set off protests across india. and now even more outrage. in a new documentary, the bus driver speaks from prison, blaming the victim. he said a decent girl won't roam around at night. a girl is more responsible for rape than a boy. she should just be silent and allow the rape.

>> two defense lawyers find fault with the woman. she should go outside. but she should go with family members. >> after indian tv broadcast some of the film's clips, a court ordered tv stations not to show the documentary. one minister said that a convict shouldn't be allowed to air his views. but british filmmaker leslie uggins, said that the ban is an assault on free expression. >> perhaps they're afraid that the protests would be reignited by an impassioned film that shows that gender inequality is alive and well here. well, it is globally. >> the protests, the government toughened rape laws, but critics say that the reforms didn't go long enough. and uggins said that the interview with the bus driver shows the problems is in deeply ingrained attitudes.

>> it's extremely and frighteningly widespread. and i think that gender inequality is the disease, and not the rapists. >> the indian government is also asking how did uggins able to interview the bus driver in prison in and she said that she had permission. one woman is raped every top minutes in be india. >> we'll be right back.

>> the fight against ebola is far from over. now there's an effort to put the virus back on the world's radar. and you'll see it in the next hour. >> fewer cases turned upstate side. and the officials continue to

reign it in over sees. an epidemic is still raging, and in brussels, they want to remind everyone that it's not over. cases of ebola are still being diagnosed, though far fewer than last year, and in west africa, what has been done right and what has been done wrong, and plus, a woman who lost her whole family to the disease. >> i feel like i'm not going to reach the age expected to, because of the virus. i lost my three kids, my husband. and everybody in my family was sick. >> ebola has also taken a toll on the economy. sierra leone and nigeria and new guinea, it's calling for a marshall plan for the three nations. and we'll talk about it in the next hour. >> we'll talk about it in the

next hour with antonio morrow. the thumping sounds of electronic dance can be heard in the sahara desert. and the party looks like something out of star wars, and there's good reason for that as courtney explains. >> in the middle of the sahara, in southern tunisia dj plays the dunes electronics dance festival. in its second year that blends star wars culture with berber tradition. it's set in a surreal backdrop, a star wars film location. >> i grew up with the star wars movie, so to drive up to the star wars set was amazing. >> she made the journey to

document the mix of the modern and the traditional and what is known as the fiction at planet of tatuine. >> i have always loved it. that may be my favorite of all of the movies, and once i got in there, oh, my god i'm standing on another planet. >> some foreigners attempt to go to the capital tunis where the uprising began. >> he didn't know much about star wars, and we wanted it to be the big names from the star wars movies. these roads are tunisian robes and they're worn all over the place by men and women. and they were taken by george lucas and put into the movie. >> organizers hope that it will become an annual event for tunisians and others alike.

>> and finally, to our picture of the day, a multitude of a mass wedding in south korea. thank you for watching, i'm john seigenthaler. see you tomorrow.

>> [ clapping ] standing firm against iran. >> i can guarantee you this - the days when the jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu addresses congress denouncing a potential nuclear agreement between the u.s. and tehran. president obama says the speech offers no viable alternatives fighting side by side in syria. government f