>> this is being al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories this hour. tens of thousands march in unity across the edmund pettus bridge in selma. and boko haram rebel group continues its deadly attacks in africa. marching for women's rights, rallies are held across the globe calling for end to oppression and violence. it's been four years since

the beginning of syria's civil war and the country seems as far from piece as ever. great to have you with us. as many as 20,000 came to walk the edmund pettus bridge in selma today. what happened in 1965 became the catalyst for the voting rights act. it was in selma 50 years ago when police assaulted some 600 protestors. they were trying to march from selma to montgomery. the weekend celebrations also came with caution. even after 50 years the fight for equality is far from over. tony harris begins our coverage tonight. >> brown chapel ame church.

the organizational muscle of the selma marches was the epicenter of thirst and activists. >> we brought down a bus load of children. >> freedom ride! >> we had a chance to vote, we had a chance to do so many things because so many people walked across that bridge, cried across that bridge, bled across that bridge. politics gets who what when where and how. >> 50 years ago, the names were james orange, malcolmx and martin luther king, jr. providing fuel for future civil rights campaigns. >> i'm concerned because our voting rights have been december pated -- december maded. -- decimated. >> we will march on to that

bright horizon to the day when all americans young or poor rich or old no matter what they look like or who they love has an equal share in the american dream. >> reporter: however on this day, all roads would eventually lead to the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. >> we shall overcome. >> reporter: throughout the day the crowd only grew in size. america's diversity inon display. the young, in young at heart. those here for the first time and those who were here 50 years ago. >> i came down on a bus with 13 university of minnesota students to support the cause for voters rights for the people down here. >> yeah, what are your thoughts 50 years later? >> it's emotional but it's -- where are we at? we have a black president. >> yes. >> we're looking at congress that's not working real well

right now. we're not addressing the issues that are totally impacting people of color in particular. because we're at the bottom of the food chain right now. >> reporter: little known that on that first friday of march 1965, martin luther king, jr. was here in selma. he decided to leave to head back to atlanta to preach, that sunday at ebenezer baptist church. part of the reason was that he had become frustrated from the lack of progress of efforts here in selma. obviously the first sunday of march, 1965, changed everything. ♪ ♪ ♪ by late this afternoon there was barely room to breathe on the bridge. human traffic moved at less than a snail's pace but no one seemed to mind. selma got back to work tomorrow. that means tackling 10% of the

population and 40% of the people living below the poverty line. the course of the entire weekend, solutions are harder to come by. thomas. >> tony harris in selma. for others it's a living memory. robert ray shares the memories of others who hope is never forgotten. >> on this selma alabama this hot sunday, celebrating what occurred 50 years ago. one wouldn't call it a celebration, because it was called bloody sunday then. but today it was actually many different people celebrating their freedom and what's coming next with hope and joy. ♪ call on me brother ♪ ♪ when you need a hand ♪ ♪ we all need somebody ♪ >> people as far as the eye could see in selma flags flew

and songs were sung, where bloody marchers were 50 years ago. maybe doesn't have a real good grasp on the struggle that has happened down here. >> if you can find out the history and get on board because you know what? we've come a long way and we've got a long ways to go. >> reporter: after almost an hour trying to figure out when to start the march people began to walk. dorothy vaughn from alabama slowly made her way up the infamous bridge dedicating the journey to her older sister. >> she's sitting over there because she can't walk across today. she was here 50 years ago she walked and i'm walking for her. >> reporter: others in the crowd were just beginning their understanding of civil rights like eight-year-old hayley. >> what do you think about being around all these people today and what it means for kids your age?

>> i think it means a lot. so -- because this is where people got beat up. >> reporter: indeed. 600 marchers, 50 years ago changing the hearts and minds of generations. how can we as whites, blacks, come together better in this country? >> that's a good question. because the stream here is so divided with the class system, you know that. i think it's going to have to be done through education and it's going to have to be done through these little kids that has got this internet and all that. >> reporter: donald dunn from columbus, georgia says he doesn't understand racism and anyone who doesn't care about this historic day needs to get a life. >> you think more americans white americans should be out here? >> yes we all should be out here. >> why is that? >> we live together. we should be closer together. ♪ when the saint go marching ♪

>> the march from selma to montgomery with the hope that more progress was just down the road. >> it's beautiful to see everybody coming together and uniting we're all one. >> on a bridge known for a bloody day 50 years ago. one as the masses walked with hope love, and progress in their souls. all those people we interviewed on the bridge today now in buses and cars on the way back to their respective homes but with probably the thought of a hope and a push forward that america can move past any sort of racism and get race relations moving in the right direction for the civility of this country. thomas. >> our robert ray in selma. by the way you can find more amazing images of selma in aljazeera.com. offensive against boko haram is underway in northeast

nigeria. ground troops from chad began operations early this morning. spoke earlier this evening to our michael eaves. >> well, i think what we're seeing is the culmination of about a month of talks. between nigeria and niger and nigeria and chad. this is around the lake chad area along with cameroon that has been so badly hit by boko haram over the last few years but over the last few months it has gotten much worse. boko haram fighters have basically erased the borders and easily go across into niger and chad and cameroon and what we see now is a very robust chaddian military and a military from niger being trained to deal with this really trying to go in at the same time as nigerian military is pushing itself. >> boko haram has been blaimentd forblamedfor four suicide bombings,

pledging their allegiance to i.s.i.l. do they think it's a response from boko haram based osh on what this multinational group has been able to do recently? >> many people feel there's no real connection between boko haram and i.s.i.l. it's official, says there's no evidence of any link between boko haram and i.s.i.l. but the fear is that boko haram will reach out to groups such as i.s.i.l, such as al qaeda who operate in northern africa for weapons for training in fact even for ideology. what people on the ground tell me is that this is about the failure to defeat boko haram when it could have been defeated or the failure to actually go after boko haram with enough weapons which nigerian soldiers have personally told me they didn't have with enough

political will which army officials in nigeria admitted there weren't any of heavy duty strategy that the nigerian military has brought in in the last few months. people are asking, why did it take so long? nonetheless, the effort is larger than it has been against boko haram both within nigeria chad and cameroon. all of them providing a hammer and anvil against boko haram where the countries meet. >> our conversation with nick schifrin earlier this evening. middle east to join i.s.i.l 16 and 17-year-old brothers were caught at sydney international airport. the authorities have handed the boys back to their parents and no charges have been files against them. >> i.s.i.l. is a cancer. knows not just in the middle east but across the world.

every developed nation has to deal with this threat. and for young people, young impressionable people who can receive information over the internet particularly without their parents' knowledge are more susceptible. >> the case of yum young people young people trying to join i.s.i.l three young girls have been thought to have joined i.s.i.l. through turkey. frustration is growing for the two remaining al jazeera journalists awaiting trial. baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy were released in february after spending more than a year behind bars. they were convicted of collaborating with the muslim brotherhood. al jazeera strongly denies those charges. both attended the third court hearing in their trial but prosecution witnesses failed

oattend. another hearing is scheduled for march 19th. >> benjamin netanyahu and l president obama appeared separately on surch news sunday news shows. >> if there's no deal we walk away. if we cannot verify that they are not going to obtain a nuclear weapon, there's a breakout period, so that even if they cheated we would be able to have enough time to take action, if we don't have that kind of deal, then we're not going to take it. >> we share the same goal of preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon but we disagree on how to do it. i do not trust inspections with totalitarian regimes. what i'm suggesting is you contract iran's nuclear program so there's less to inspect. >> the u.s. and iran are said to begin talks on march 15th.

iran says its program is used only for peaceful purposes such as energy. women day how the event is being recognized around the world. also unconscious bias, why some people discriminate against women without even realizing it. plus: they grow the poppy that gets turned into heroin that makes its way to the streets of the u.s. but these farmers in mexico aren't making a profit. the reason why up next. take a look at this right here. what may be the few the future of aviation. right here. the first solar powered plane making a trip around the world from abu dhabi. one day rid the skies out of old fleeting technologies. the flight is expected to take five months, stopping in hawaii,

phoenix. taking off. is

>> welcome back.international women's day is today, a movement celebrating the achievements much women in the past -- of women in the past present and future. one in four is married into childhood, versus one in three in the '80s. genital mutilation. girls are outperforming boys in reading. countries around the world marked the day. in morocco thousands rallied in the capital rapba. over 60% of moroccan women have been victims of violence. in ukraine the day was celebrated with a competition

open only to women. a street race held every year in honor of the day. in liberia embrace of the women's caregivers of ebola victims. the eent paid ttte their lives to disease. but in china it was much different. this week the country detained at least five women's rights activists in different cities. after planning demonstrations in honor of international is wom women's day. the country gave no explanation. statistics say, more than any other ethnic group in the country. sarah hoye explains. >> i miss my girl. >> it was october 5th that charles upham saw his daughter

misty. the rming american indian. there was a dark side to misty that no one outside of her family knew about. >> she would sex medicate, and have psychotic episodes. >> she was behaving strangely on the day she went missing. charles says his daughter was drinking heavily in their home outside seattle near mt. rainier. in need of medication for her anxiety, charles called for help. >> she said don't worry about me. >> a call to police, a brief hospital stay only this time, things were different. >> and i kept telling them, you guys need to help me find her. she needs to be in the hospital.

they said we'll an keep an eye out for her. >> did auburn police do everything they could to locate misty upham? >> within reason yes. >> they didn't launch a full fledged search for misty. >> she had some depression issues, she may have been drinking at the time but that's not mental illness. >> misty upham' death is a trend: native american women go murdered or missing 10 times higher than the national average. concerned that officials didn't consider misty misty's disappearance suspicious. it was volunteers who discovered

misty's body down at the bottom of a 150 foot embankment 11 days after she went missing. >> forfeitfortunate that i found my daughter. where some of the other families, their children are still missing. it really needs to be addressed you know and this is one of the things that misty wanted to do is become a voice. for the voiceless. and now she has become voiceless. >> once again that was sarah hoye. women across the nation have magnified difficulties, some are unaware, patricia sabga has more. >> it's actually been like a dirty little secret in the industry for a long time. >> reporter: a secret that's been exposed thanks to growing awareness of silicon valley's

testosterone boy culture. 70% of its workforce 79% of its managers and 83% of its engineers were male. >> i have yet to work with a single colleague who says i just don't think women are going to be good engineers. but implicitly we have some beliefs that we may not even be consciously aware of. >> google says it's educating its workforce about unconscious bias. brian welly. has examination exercises of bias. >> left or right. >> high tech is not the only profession dominated by men. >> i can't type, i don't take

dictation. >> unconscious bias is behind the scenes as well. >> the industry was in for pretty intense criticism for its employment of women and individuals of color. >> unintentional bias. >> it's uncomfortable to talk about your biases. >> the unconscious biases, she isn't working as hard as he is. >> now there's a lot of talk about it at ogilvy. sessions that include word associations. >> the unconscious bias. what's the message for boys? >> strong. >> strong. >> powerful. >> powerful, go forth and conquer. >> and role-playing. >> i've made all my deadlines. i just wonder why he was able to get the promotion faster than me. >> the question we get is well,

if it's unconscious, how do we know about it? that's the whole purpose of the situation. >> i'm a conscious observer of women, and it's extraordinary how dominant the men behave. >> it's good business. >> we're not doing this for the greater good of being a good corporate citizen. we're terrified at being less relative as the world shifts. >> patricia sabga, al jazeera. >> nearly half the heroin in the world comes from mexico. poppy fields of guerrero state where poor farmers are growing the plants out of necessity. >> the sierra mountains the lawless corridor from mexico to the united states begins. we meet a woman who leads us to

her family plot. a rare glimpse of what people here call their gardens. her husband tends the crop. the poppies key source of the heroin. mexico sees five times as much poppy paste in 2014 compared to the year before. southern guerrero state is a leading producer of raw poppy sap. once collected it's processed into high grade heroin. it's dell cattle time consuming work but the payoff is higher than legal crops like avocado. arriving here in these fields it's easy to forget that these poppies are at the root of an

increasingly lucrative industry. the farmers who asked us to high their identities, face threats from drug traffickers but also from law enforcement authorities. >> reporter: the farmers we met say men show up three times a year to buy the poppy sap and they have to agree to the prices that were set asking for more would be suicide. poppy farmers can earn hundreds of dollars a day in the high season. community leaders say they would prefer to grow fruits and vegetables but need good roads to get them to market.

>> reporter: no support they say, but there is punishment. in recent years mexico's government has stepped up fumigation. the result: a whole harvest of poppies lost. sometimes neighboring legal fields are damaged too. but the flowers continue to flourish. and mexican cartels are now the main source of the heroin found in the united states. and with american users demanding more of the deadly drug the difficult journey out of these mountains is well worth it for traffickers. adam rainey, al jazeera in mexico's sierra madre mountains. >> it's been four years since the uprising against bashar al-assad in syria. plus it's been exactly one year since malaysia airlines 370

mysteriously vanished and we're getting troubling news about the aircraft data recorder.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the stop top stories we're following now. thousands gathered in selma alabama to commemorate the signing of the voting rights act in 1965. 50 years ago police assaulted 600 civil rights protesters, as they tried to walk from selma to montgomery.about. ground troops from niger and chad fourth suicide bombers killed 50 people and injured more than 100. countries around the world spent the day honoring women's history day. demanding the close of of gender

gaps. it is sun night and our look at the week ahead. four years from the fighting in syria killing 200,000 people and displaced more than 9 million syrians. ing are courtney kealy has more. >> they may never fully recover >> i think the trauma and what this is done to syria's children may never be repaid. >> are middle eastern countries president bashar al-assad's forces tortured young boys after they wrote graffiti calling for

the fall of assad's regime. demonstrations erupted and spread to other cities. assad's tanks rolled into major cities by the end of 2011. as 2012, government fighting continues free syrian army, fps joined the fight alongside syrian government forces. the u.n. concluded assad's regime used chemical weapons. a charge he denied. however, assad broker erd a deal and began destroyed his chemical weapons stock piles. more complicated as jabad al nusra, the nightmare continued for syrians even more virulent

i.s.i.l. group captured more land, and extended over into iraq. u.s. and coalition forces have launched nearly 3,000 strikes into syria and iraq. often targeting sustains bound for hezbollah. the situation over the last four years has deteriorated from legitimate popular aspirations into a conflagration of unimaginable magnitude. victims voices in danger of being lost amidst the h h horrors of a conflict now approaching a fifth year. an estimated 9 million syrian have fled their home, over 3 million have fled to nearby countries, and defining safe

haven elsewhere. experts describe it as the largest mass migration since the end of world war two. courtney kealy. al jazeera. >> council did not assign blame for previous attacks like the one in guta in 2013 that killed hundreds of people including children it did blame the syrian government for the attacks. a bitter rival of i.s.i.l. which now controls about a third of iraq and syria. three hoart senior leaders were killed. the european union is imposing sanctions on those who are rg involved with the syrian

regime. one is accused of actings as a middleman for oil purchases by i.s.i.l. to talk more about the crisis let's bring in anna therese day who just returned from syria. and josh lander, joining us from norman oklahoma. great can i to have you with us. >> thank you. >> great to be here. >> ms. day you said syria for me everything, you said it's the most important story now. what was it that the world did not grasp at that moment? >> i guess i would move back to 2012 when i began covering the crisis and really, i started the first time i went to aleppo was with university students. they had picked up arms after their school had been bombed, after their nonviolent protest for the right to vote in their country had been met with bloodshed throughout the

country. so that's the syrian revolution that i witnessed early on and to see how it has deteriorated in a very terrifying but also predictable way. i would say it has been predictable to see how it has gone out of control. >> did you realize that this would be such a significant humanitarian crisis? >> i couldn't have ever imagined how the international community would have allowed it to get to this point. one little anecdote, when i began coflg it in covering it in 2012, my translator said he was leaving myself and this translator physically sunk we couldn't imagine in the spring of 2013 that this would continue. now it's the spring of 2015, we have seen unthinkable things in that period of time and now it's continuing entering the fifth year.

>> 200,000 civilians have been skilled. perhaps the big question what isn't working? is. >> well, the effort to build the rebel movement into a cohesive and unified front has failed almost entirely. in the last year, most of the rebels have been swept aside by islamist groups. nusra as we have been talking about, the al qaeda wing, has taken most of idlib province and is powerful in the south as well. i.s.i.s. controls a third of syria and the islamic front which is a borderer line group for the united states, it isn't sanctioned as a terrorist group but it has objectionable goals really beyond the reach of united states. united states will not work with it. the so-called nationalist moderates have largely been defeated and that's partly because they're clan-based, they cover a few villages but they

don't have real reach from one end to the other. today islamism is the dom nants ideology that mobilize d rks dominant ideology. they are the tough front and america's bombing them. so america has really turned almost 180° from being an enemy of assad sanctioning him and weakening him to a sense bombing, they abhor assad they will not work with him directly, they do not want him to fall because should he fall they believe i.s.i.s. and nusra will go into damascus and take the capital and that will are a disaster for western interests. >> this is certainly a strategic move this day wouldn't you say to build a stronger alliance with assad? >> i would say what's been

interesting is that we say that there were these efforts. i guess i would say there weren't really any significant efforts from the united states to really build up a moderate opposition that could actually be the military force of a free syrian country. i would say they had those opportunities early on you had high level defections from the assad regime who ethically were leaving a career of military service because they were ordered to do unthinkable things to their people. >> you see this as a country divided? >> absolutely. >> tell me about what you've experienced in the past severely years in and out of syria? >> in syria i'm covering a war of my peers. most of the country is under 30 and most of the country i would say is under 20. so when we are in these izp camps refugee camps you would be shocked to see how young the

population is . i would say one story i have about someone who i've now known for years that i ran into this time in syria when i met him he was just starting his university. and he quit university because his father was a high level colonel for the assad regime and had defected. he was joining the rebels. this is four years later he should be finished with college now, but he is fighting with the rebels. he has lost friends and loved ones to bashar al-assad, and in four short years, i would say four very long years he's grown up and that's been the experience of so many young people that i've met. >> we talk about assad. how is the assad administration governing at this point? >> i would say what is most frustrated for many in the syrian opposition who have held

these values all along it might be better for your family to be in an i.s.i.s. controlled area because there's convenient relationship between assad and i.s.i.s. he maybe sees them the way we're starting to see assad. the power is on in these areas. the water is on. in the moderate opposition held areas in the north those things haven't worked for years and they are continuing to have barrel bombs and aerial assaults. if you were a civilian you might be sacrificing your child's education for indoctrination but your child wouldn't be killed by a bearlt bomb. >> havebarrel bomb. >> have the syrians given up? >> the west has money and the west is very powerful and they need powerful allies at least the rebels do. many of us are angry at the west

because they feel that the west is supporting the opposition. so it is -- the united states does not have many friends neither with the pro-government people nor with the rebels. that's for sure. the kurds of course like the united states today because we've backed the kurds a great deal and we're helping them. and we're flying missions for them. >> you spoke opposition members ms. day while in syria. what is the end goal, do they appear stronger? >> early thereon was a pluralist opposition, they believed in a government for syrian, i would concur saying it is an islamist led, islamists many of them are definitely factions that are more moderate, more muslim brotherhood types that could govern, that have the networks and the social cache to be able

to operate as some kind of governance. so no, this is not ideal working with a group that is the al qaeda affiliate in the country however that's the alternative to i.s.i.s. right now. and that's the reality on the ground in syria. >> once again whar what are the daily struggles for the men women and children that you experience? >> i would say inside a city like aleppo, you don't have air flights, you also have snipers. opposition held towns early on i found it very striking to be covering people who were energized who were ready to rebuild their own institutions. i early on covered divorce courts and post offices people were trying to imagine their own country, but many of these people fled. now that i.s.i.s. controls an

area and assad is not bombing them people have started to come back and now we have seen a return of the original demands to the united states. the rebels are asking for a no fly zone that would be incredible for the civilian population to be able to return to their homes. >> mr. landis, what is the appropriate for the return home? >> for the united states or for ointernational community? the united states, the president has made it very clear he doesn't want to get sucked into the syrian civil war. he doesn't see good guys that could turn into winners. the moderate syrian militia only a few months ago owned 1 or 2% of syrian territory. the southern front that's a little bit more but to turn them into winners to destroy both nusra and i.s.i.s, as well as the assad regime would require an amazing amount of money and energy on the part of the united

states. the u.s. is not going to engage that way on syria. could the international community rally and send in an occupying force disarm the over 1200 militias, it could will it? unlikely. so syria is being left alone to itself to fight this out and that means that it's locked into i think years of civil war. because all the various proxy -- all the various interested international powers are funding and arming their proxies enough so they will not lose. >> i know it's going to be a long road ahead. what does a postwar syria look like mr. landis? >> i don't think we see a postwar syria yet. but it's going to be fragmented. i don't think assad is strong enough to reconstitute syria and powers wouldn't allow him in a way. the united states and the west

is crushing assad with sanctions but they're also bombing the two other large forces in syria i.s.i.s. and nusra the three emptiesentities that could take over syria are being broken. >> the discourse in syria is being dominated by options i would like to see renegotiation of america's relationship with the middle east and if that's a marshall plan, just inside syria but in the greater region where you have majority of population that's under 30 i think that's the kind of strategic investment that should be made. >> anna therese day and josh landis, appreciate your time on the week ahead.

>> thank you. >> we invite you to stay with al jazeera throughout the coverage on syria. we'll bring you the latest an in depth analysis on the situation there as we approach the four year mark of the war. before we go let's take a look at other events in the week ahead. on monday, president obama will announce a job training initiative on wednesday john kerry, ashton carter and martin dempsey will appear before congress, to use force to fight i.s.i.l. and a statute to ma hathhatma gandhi. plus. >> his photography documented that entire event we now call bloody sunday.

>> 50 years after a man whose photos are as iconic as the march civility. itself.

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on al jazeera america judge. >> elts been exactly one year since malaysia airld 370 disappeared. no trace of it was found. the report says that when it the battery for the beacon was expired for more than a year. >> it has been a whole year and until today there has been no truth. malaysia says one day that the plane lost connection and the next day that the plane is missing. we do not know what is true. if it is missing you should find me the body of my son. even if it's just a body then i will have nothing else to say. now there's nothing you're hiding information. >> australian prime minister tony abbott says the search will

continue even if nothing the found. search for archives 20 years ago, may turn out to be the vatican paying for them to get them back. the cardinal reportedly refused to pay a ransom for michelangelo michelangelo's papers. >> national average of gasoline $2.54. the lundberg survey say drivers in california are paying the most at nearly $3.55. the lowest is in louisiana. lundberg says the change to summer blends may be part of what's driving up the cost. including the oil refinery fire. rebecca stevenson joining us. >> we have warmer for folks

further north that felt great now in the south we're getting lots of rainfall, impacting parts of texas, gulf coast heavyier rain showers. we have got all kinds of flood watches and advisories going into place. the amount of rainfall in the last 24 hours has been well over an inch from houston to corpus christi. we're going to see intense showers continue over several days next week. tracking over the southeast flood warnings for streams and creeks still running high from the last storm march 4th and 5th. flash flood watches mainly through much of eastern texas because that's where it's coming down the heaviest. monday our rainfall will be right along the gulf of mexico, you know that could bring an inch of rain or more in a very short period of time. so through the week ahead

because of the storm system, moving so slow, several little waves rolling through it, we're going to continue to stay very wet. here it is, spring break! and you're going to be prey soggy showers texas mississippi, albert and florida. kentucky and tennessee one to three inches of snow and ice on the ground. that was the snow and ice that fell after you already got a few inches of rainfall. now it's melting very quickly so we're concerned with ice jams in creeks and streams. we've got issues earlier through the kentucky river and then we go to the northeast it's a different storm system tracking through the northeast. it's very weak but it is enough. as this little system tracks into cold air in place for overnight lows. you see temperatures around philadelphia, around 30. we're going to have some spots of freezing drizzle. light ice glaze could occur from 3 to 9 a.m., in new jersey,

areas that do not want any more ice, when it warms up, it will go away. >> how many days before spring? >> 11. >> 11 and counting. back to the anniversary of selma alabama. some of the most iconic photos of bloody sunday was captured by spider martin. walking us through images of martin's day. >> spider martin grew up in birmingham, alabama area. he was a work aday photo journalist that covered everything the newspaper needed to be covered in birmingham. they did find out there would be a march a protest march so they asked spider to go down there and cover that as a photographer. his photography documented that entire event that we now call bloody sunday. he documented visually, the

protesters organizing, getting ready to go across their marsh across the edmund pettus bridge. andy young ambassador to the united nations leading a prayer i should say with the leaders and the people who were going to be in the protest march. and while they were marching to the bridge, the alabama state police the local sheriff's department the local police authorities were assembling themselves to prevent them from marching from selma to montgomery. by the time the marchers were coming across the bridge and he photographed the long line of marchers. they were told to stop so the police are marching toward them. he's pointing his finger at john lewis and the marchers in the photograph and he's basically saying you have five seconds to

get out of here. spider was able to photograph the beating of these peaceful marchers. the police then had departments deputized citizens, not really regular police, horseback posse who trampled in and continued to beat them as they raced across the bridge. there is a photograph of these guys on the bridge and you could just barrel barely see a woman clapping and cheering. can you see she's very -- you can see she's very excited and urging these policemen on to beat up these protesters. then they chased everyone back to the point of origin for the marchers which was the brown chapel the methodist church and there's a great picture of after the protesters have a found the

safety of the sanctuary of the methodists church, making sure they're staying there. >> capturing history. i'm thomas drayton in new york. thanks for watching. more news is just ahead but first we leave you with the final look at the historic event in selma this weekend. >> we've come a long way since the events of that bloody sunday. selma changed america. selma changed the world. >> if someone had told me that we were crossing this bridge that one day i would be back here introducing the first african american president i would have said you're crazy you are out of your mind, you don't know what you're talking about. president barack obama. >> we honor those who walked so we could run. we must run so our children soar! and we will not grow weary for we believe in the power of an

awesome god and we believe in this country's sacred promise! ♪ hallelujah ♪

>> sweeping offensive against boko haram forces from chad and niger launch ground and air strikes. hello in doha, this is al jazeera, also ahead in the program, israel's prime minister denies a statement he's dropping support for a palestinian state. air strikes against an i.s.i.l. held oil refinery in syria leaves dozens dead. and how the poppy fields of mexico are fueling the biggest drug problem in the u.s.