>> on al jazeera america >> technology...it's a vital part of who we are... >>they had some dynamic fire behavior... >> and what we do... don't try this at home! >> tech know where technology meets humanity... only on al jazeera america going to the polls. voters in israel prepare to choose a new parliament and prime minister. how the outcome could impact the relationship with the palestinians and the u.s. full disclosure - a.c.l.u. sues the obama administration over its drone programs. why the group is calling on the white house to make the kill

list more transparent murder confegs. prosecutors charge robert durst a day after an admission in a documentary undocumented on wall street. a woman's story of success and fear rising to the top of the banking world even though she was not in the u.s. legally good evening i'm antonio mora this is al jazeera america. in two hours israel heads to the poll deciding who runs the country. they'll decide if binyamin netanyahu will get another session. the vote is being closely watched. dana lewis reports. >> reporter: in a television interview view. a campaign promise has been laid

out. >> translation: yielding territory for islamic attacks against israel - this is a reality created in the past few years. those that do not understand that bury their heads in the sand. >> reporter: binyamin netanyahu is focused on security in the hopes of staying prime minister. pre-election polls suggest he is four seats behind rival isaac herzog. he and his zionist union party take a different approach calling for a new approach. >> in order to move with the palestinians, and have confidence building measures, i intend to free settlement out of the blocks? >> i believe it's part of the objectives of reaching an agreement with the palestinians by way of settlement blocks. >> reporter: isaac herzog approach to resolve talks has appealed to voters.

>> translation: i support isaac herzog, and tzipi livni, because i hope the government can make change. binyamin netanyahu's rule is unsatisfying. there should be someone to replace him. neither binyamin netanyahu or isaac herzog will be able to govern europe outright. they'll have to broker deals to form a coalition. polls suggest they could win as many as 26 seats. the likud party more than 20, 61 seats are needed to control parliament. that means smaller movements will be king makers choosing between a government focused on security, or the economy. >> a lot of polls indicate na binyamin netanyahu may have overplayed his hand on the security issue. israelis are focused on the economy, the high price of rent in homes, and salaries that have not gone up in the last decade. prime minister binyamin netanyahu's position on security may cost critical votes at the

polls. >> dana lewis in jerusalem. thank you. secretary of state john kerry and his iranian counterpart talked for nearly five hours about a nuclear programme. the pair met in switzerland to put a framework in place. this is the first time they have met since congress sent a letter to the iranian parliament warning any deal could be short lived. >> we do not believe the letter was helpful to the process and undermined the president's ability to engage in the negotiations, the stated goal for the letter in the first place. >> both zarif and kerry seemed upbeat thousands of troops to pull out of afghanistan has been scrapped. u.s. planned to reduce from

10,000 to 5500. commanders appealed to keep more on the ground to with straining and counterinsurgency. a formal decision is expected to be announced next week when they get with president ashraf ghani. the white house faces a lawsuit over the drone programme. the administration should release classified information about a kill list. the white house admits that it is targetting some people overseas with drone strikes, but as stephanie sy reports, it has not disclosed how those targets are selected. >> we must be more transparent about the basis of counterterrorism actions and the manner in which they were carried out. >> that was the promise president obama made regarding the use of drones and who they targeted. the lawsuit filed by the a.c.l.u. says the vow has not come closer to reality.

the suit seeks to have the obama administration disclose the criteria, and to reveal the names of those targeted in the terror counterstrikes. like this man. killed in an apparent u.s. dron strike in yemen in 2013. >> the >> translation: he was incident with no links to al qaeda. as the eldest child he was the breadwinner. the u.s. is killing our sons. >> it's a story, say organizations like the bureau of investigative journalism that has been completed for years, with hundreds killed by drone strikes targetting suspects across somali, afghanistan and yemen. the global security think tank the stimson center questioned a report question whether the drone programme made it difficult not impossible to judge if the strikes are legal under u.s. and international

law. >> until recently the administration said they could neither confirm or deny the assistance of any programme. you have what amounts to a 13-year long secret war, killing an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people. since promising to be more trans transparent. according to the bij. u.s. armed forces conducted multiple drone strikes in 2015. one on january 28th in pakistan another in yemen on march 1st. mr joffar is an any that joins us from the a.c.l.u. what does the a.c.l.u. want to achieve with this lawsuit? >> this is an effort to compel the administration to be more transparent about its targeted killing programme. this is the third time we have

sued for more information about the programme. this time we are seeking information about the rules that govern the programme. the framework under which the government conducts the strikes. for example, how people get added to a government kill list in what circumstances the government can carry out the killings. at this point the programme has been responsible for thousands of deaths including hundreds of civilian deaths. we think the public has a right to know more about who is killed. >> you are asking about who gets killed - before and after. let's start with the before. there was a presidential policy gid line issued -- guideline issued about when the targeted killing would take place, with a fair amount of detail that the people have to be a threat that noncombatants. there should be a certainty that they will not be killed. is that not enough information

about the guidelines used. >> you're right. there was a lot of information released. that was a summary of underlying policy that has not been disclosed. we are seeking the release of underlying policies. one of the reasons we ask for that is there seems to be a mismatch between policies and strikes taking place. the administration has said that they will not conduct the strikes unless there's a near certainty, that no civilians will be killed. there are strikes that have taken place over the last two months in which civilians have been killed. >> is the a.c.l.u. opened to the distron strikes or is it about getting more information. >> i don't think i can give you a categorical answer. we don't take the stance that drone tricks are never permissible, they are.

the circumstances change depending on whether we talk about an armed conflict. one of the things we are concerned about is the use of drone strikes to kill terrorists and militants and insurge ants far from a battlefield, something that raises concerns under domestic and international law. >> you know when osama bin laden was far away from a battlefield - you know what happened. >> i do know what happened. i think that that - in that case you know i think the government could have made a strong argument that osama bin laden was elect -- was directing troops. many of the cases are of people that can't be said to be doing that the strikes that killed three american citizens. there may be hard lines to be drawn. some of the strikes fall on the unlawful side of that line. but this effort the one that we launched today is not a

challenge to the substantive drone policy but a change to the secrecy surrounding it. people that believe that the drone policy is a good one and every drone strike is legitimate. those people should be sympathetic to the call for more transparency. good to have you with us. another delay in the confirmation vote for attorney-general loreta lynch. senator mitch mcconnell said it will not be considered until senators vote on a human trafficking bill. >> there's a stalemate with democrats because it includes a provision restricting abortion access. lynch was nominated, making this the longest confirmation week for an attorney-general nominee. >> a court appearance for a man accused of opening fire in ferguson, missouri. two police officers were shot.

20-year-old jeffrey williams did not make a statement. prosecutors are revealing what may have been behind the shooting. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: authorities say the break in the case came late saturday. eyewitnesss provided key information identifying the alleged shooter. monday 20-year-old jeffrey williams appeared in court pleading not guilty to two counts of first degree assault. he admits to firing the shots that hit two police officers last week in front of the ferguson police department but says they were not the intended target. >> we charmed him with firing shots. it's possible he was firing at someone other than the plus but struck the officer. >> reporter: one officer shot in the face the bullet near his ear, the other in the shoulder with the bullet exiting his back. both are recovering. despite williams attending protests protesters were quick

to distance themselves. >> i was here i saw the shots, i was close to them. there were no protesters it's not a space protesters congregate, not a place we park or go. i don't think the shooter was standing with protesters. >> change continues in ferguson. state appeals court judge will oversee ferguson's battled court after a scathing justice department report found widespread disconduct by the court and police department. >> you have to stay out of trouble. >> reporter: last week the municipal judge stepped down after being blasted, bringing in millions through mines and fees while dismissing tickets for themselves. six have resigned. protestors are turning to the city's mayor gathering outside

his home circulating a flyer demanding his resignation. the mayor said he has no intense of stepping down a real estate heir the subject to a documentary could face the death penalty. the large against robert durst next. also, the recovery after a cyclone flattens much of the island nation of vanuatu.

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the death toll continues to rise in the wake. of cyclone sam. the storm smashing into vanuatu over the weekend. the u.n. now says 24 people are dead, and 3300 homeless. andrew thomas is in vanuatu. >> reporter: from the air you get glimpses of the destruction. it's up close that you see the full impact cyclone sam had on port villa. aid agencies say 90% of the buildings have been damaged. many beyond repair. trees are down everywhere. rain and floodwaters made what the wind did worse. thank fully a few died. injuries were light. at the hospital was colin lich who hurt his foot. lich showed us how he got the injury, trying to save his garage and car. it was futile. >> the metal of the garage sliced your foot.

>> yes. >> reporter: his partner pleaded with him not to go out in the storm. >> i was crying. i was panicked. i thought i'm going to lose him, yes. >> lich is a builder. there'll be plenty of work coming his way. within meter of his house is destruction, houses crushed by trees, boats thrown from the ideaic lagoon. >> you can only imagine the horror of being in the house as the cyclone struck. there were four in here. when the roof peeled off, they ran. lucky they did, the house has been destroyed. >> it had been in this family for generations.

>> we couldn't do anything when the roof came out. >> reporter: similar stories everywhere. help is arriving a lot of help will be needed here. many outlying islands haven't been heard from sense the storm. an american being treated for ebola in maryland has taken a turn for the worse. the healthcare worker who contracted the virus doing aid work in sierra leone is in critical condition. the national institute of health is not revealing the name. the same institute suck ses fully treating a patient last fall mcdonald's workers lodging 28 complaints with regulators labour groups say some workers were pressured to clean hot oil from fires, and didn't have first aid kits and were told to

treat wounds with mustard and mayonnaise. prosecutors in los angeles filed murder charges against robert durst, a real estate heir suspected in a number of killings. it was a confession in a tv documentary that lead to his arrest. >> reporter: robert durst is in custody facing a murder charge of close friend susan, shot in the head. >> bob durst did not kill susan. he's ready to have a trial. >> reporter: long linked to that murder, another in texas, and the disappearance of his life his life played out on television in h.b.o.'s "the jinx." . >> susan burrman was shot dead. >> does it make sense people suspected you? >> sure. she was my spokesman. all of a sudden she's dead i shut her up.

>> reporter: the arrest coming the day before the airing of the last episode in by durst is caught talking to himself in the bathroom. >> there it is. the series profiles the murder of susan. along with the murder of kathleen and killing and dismemberment of durst's neighbour in 2001. >> took them both and cut him up into pieces. packaged him like trash with the trash. and threw him in the water. >> we the jury find the defendant robert durst not guilty. >> reporter: a jury acquitted durst of murdering his neighbour on the basis of a self-defence. the judge didn't buy it. >> i did not believe there was self-defence or panic. >> reporter: on camera in the documentary, durst insisted he

did not kill anyone. when he's off in the bathroom after the filming of a final interview that he heard what sounds like a shocking admission. 10 seconds later... a woman who rose to the top of the investment banking world with a big secret. >> being undocumented means that in the land of opportunity where all things are possible those things that affect me are not. >> reporter: we'll see how she became a wall street success story and left to help others facing the same situation. plus seeing the world from an eagle's point of view. that's next.

facebook has now rules designed to cut down on bad behaviour, including hate speech and violent videos. the guidelines are designed to provide clarity over what is

okay for 1 billion users. >> it's where the world shares but facebook admits some are sharing too much. the tech giant announced new rules to allow what is allowed and what is not. facebook has long banned groups like i.s.i.l. it will block posts supporting terrorists or hate books, writing: this comes after a month of controversy and flip flopping. in 2013 facebook took down and allowed traffic videos of beheadings, saying that people should be able to watch and condemn them. they'll be banned. it's an example of how mark zuckerberg's company balanced free speech against offensive language. difficult in foreign countries. it ordered facebook to remove pages that the turkish

government thought was insulting to islam. >> turkey is one of the most connected nations in the middle east. he wants to make sure his company has a future there. >> facebook says it will follow the rules in each country. nudity and photos will be banned and revenge porn. >> the internet is a wonderful tool and weapon. too many people have chosen to use it as a weapon organ has come up with a bay to simplify voter registration for hundreds of thousands. signing into law a motor voter bill. registering anyone with a driver's licence, those wishing to opt out has 21 address to notify the state. opponents are worried about fraud. now to an american success

story. a new york woman became an investment banker but was afraid to go work every day. >> reporter: she seemed to have it all - top grades in high school, college and a high-paying job on wall street. she admits her career was built on a lie. >> that's in mexico that was a birthday party. >> reporter: she came from mexico illegal lie when she was 11. her parents owned a stand in texas, and filled her with dreams of going to college. >> they were hardworking and i admere them so much. they made so much with so little. when the propane tank exploded her mother was in a coma and family with a difficult choice. it was either spend the money from the stand on mum's medical bill or we use it for my college education. >> reporter: texas law allows undocumented immigrants to go to

state colleges but are nottelageable to aid -- not eligible for aid. she needed papers. >> my intention was to get a job to pay for college. i got to this woman, eventually who sold papers. i remember getting the papers and still didn't know whether they were going work. >> reporter: well, they did. with the same papers she paid her way through college, and landed a coveted job on wall street working for premier investment bank goldman sachs. she rose through the ranks becoming a vice president, making between $300,000 to $400,000 a year. >> what do you say to people that say what you did was illegal and you broke the law. >> i did. i did break the law. i had two choices. to give up on my future or break the law. they are the only two options. >> some may say why didn't you

pack these things and go back to your country. i left mexico when i was 11. >> while not prosecuted. she feels she paid for her choice. >> while you were working at goldman, your father died in mexico. what did you do? >> that was the worst day of my life. not being able to go back and be with my dad and my family. >> reporter: she couldn't attend the funeral. if she did, she risked not being able to get back in the united states. every day on the job her anxiety deproou worse. >> each -- grew worse. >> each step was nerve-wracking. things could have gone wrong, i could have been deported and ended up in gaol. >> the biggest thing that having papers gave me was freedom. i wasn't free before.

>> reporter: with that freedom came change. she left her job on wall street and raises money for nonprofit define american dedicated to campaign for students in the same situation she was in. >> reporter: what about people that say what you did was patently un-american, that you didn't do it by your own bootstraps, because you didn't do it the fair way? >> i would ask them a question - what is fair? is it fair or an 18-year-old girl who worked her entire life to get good grades and be able to get a higher education, is it fair she didn't get to go to college. >> reporter: even though her journey may have begun on a lie, now she's living her truth finally, a rare look at an eagle's eye view from the top of a building. the camera was strapped to an imperial eagle, and he was let

loose. he swooped 2700 feet to meet his trainer. it's called a new world record. the goal - drawing attention to endangered birds i'm antonio mora for the latest news head over to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is next. goodnight. cl hello, i'm ray suarez. the syrian masses - people desperate to live normal lives have been the victims and bystanders as forces beyond their control tear the country to pieces. a new report from a big group of non-governmental organizations details terrible suf rings at the hand of their government various groups fighting the government and neighbours with designs on one outcome or