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us. >> turing's notebook however resigned us that even the most remind us that even the most sophisticated ideas had humble beginnings. >> go to our website aljazeera.com. zeera.com. >> ten public school educators cheated on their students' tests, now they're in jail. a police camera captures the shooting of an african american. the family wants answers. it's been almost a year since boko haram kidnapped school
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girls, why the new governmental is hoped to bring the girls home. and this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm tony harris, sentencing day for a group of educators accused of changing scores on standardized tests. some of those former teachers and administrators could face decades in jail. andy gallagher is in atlanta. that sentencing hearing for i believe ten of them is going on now. >> that's right tony. and they're calling this the biggest cheating scandal in u.s. history. at one point during this investigation 180 employees from the atlanta public school system were accused in taking part in changing the test scores of the standardized tests.
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all of that involved 44 schools and something like 38 principles. these 10 teachers have already been convicted and charged with racketeering, could face up to 20 years in jail. when we got here at 10:30 there was a great deal of activity on the steps behind me, protests saying the punishment doesn't fit the crime the problem being standardized testing and the pressures teachers feel to make those scores continually go up. that is the situation we are facing at the moment. we know that the judge is hearing from character witnesses. we heard an interesting quote from the judge just a couple of noaments ago. moments ago. the pupils whom you have let down will appear before me because they didn't get the education they deserve and he has to give them mandatory ten year sentences.
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there's a great deal at stake inform all side all sides involved. >> how can the atlanta public school district repair its image after something on this scale? >> you have to remember tony this kind of cheating, this kind of exam scores hasn't just happened here. the attention is here because these teachers are facing such huge jail sentences and it was such a wide problem. but they do have to rebuild their reputation. interestingly enough i spoke to a father of five earlier who said he pulled his kids out of the public school system because he didn't trust it. but all this attention what about the children? there's been an entire generation that has been let down by this education scandal and obviously the atlanta school system has to rebuild its reputation. there's a new boss in charge, many of those teachers have been
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let go, but clearly there's a long way to go before the school system builds up the reputation it had. >> andy, appreciate it thank you. demonstrators are on the street, from new york to washington calling for criminal justice reform. they are in new jersey now on the first leg of their 250 mile march. once the group arrives in washington they will present their proposal. white reserve sheriff's deputy who shot and killed an unarmed black man in tulsa oklahoma. he fired his gun instead of a taser and this weekend police made public the video of what happened. morgan radford is here with more on this. morgan. >> reporter: tony it was a hard video to watch eric harris accused of trying to sell an illegal gun to an undercover
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officer. he tried to run for it and then this happened. >> the video from a police body camera. now just to be clear, this is what you just heard. a gunshot rings out and a police officer says, "oh i shot him i'm sorry." then the suspect says," he shot me oh my god and complains that he is losing his breath. the officers reply f your breath. 73-year-old reserve deputy sheriff robert bates who meant to shoot the suspect with his stun gun but instead shot him with his real gun. the suspect was pronounced dead an hour later. this comes after one week, a suspect being shot by another officer, and last year eric
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garner an unarmed black man was choked to death after being caught on tape saying, i can't breathe. one of the most widely used hashtags out of this, is f your breath. image from the body camera, with the words f your breath over it. tweeted this message seems like i can't wake up these days without hearing of another person of color losing his life, eric harris. cop pointing a gun at the man with the line, you have the right to remain silent. he was trying to sell a .9 millimeter semi automatic weapon
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to police officers. what's interesting is tulsa has around 100 of these reserve officers who are effectively reserve cops. the family of eric harris said, we do not believe it's reasonable or responsible to accept donation from citizens who want to be a pay to play cop. interesting he was 73. >> north carolina officials are trying to find, in goldboro, about 50 miles from raleigh less think the gunmen knew the employee a print shop separator. unclear what led to the shooting. it's a big day for presidential locks. marco rubio has just announced
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that he will be running for president. david schuster takes a look at rubio's career. >> are marco rubio already cuts a swalt swath in the situation. rubio was briefly considered a potential running mate for mitt romney. courting campaign doanders through hisdonors throughhis political action committee. details his experience as the son of cuban immigrants. >> america doesn't owe me anything. but i have a debt to america that i will never be able to repay. for me, america isn't just a country. it's the place that literally changed the history of my family. >> reporter: it's this narrative the young senator hopes to leverage. and it's a story that could appeal to hispanic americans.
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a crucial voting block that's been increasingly siding with democrats. rubio is also linked to immigration reform, a top latina concern. in 2013 he co-sponsored a bill with a bipartisan group of senators known as the gang of 8. their comprehensive reform litigation called for tighter border security, legal status for some undocumented workers and perhaps the most controversial part for the gop a pathway to citizenship. many republicans compared it to amnesty and were infuriated at rubio. this year at cpac, the biggest where conference, rubio spoke with fox news host, sean hannity. >> all based on whether or not you have a family member here and it can't be based on family alone. it's got to be based on some sort of merit and economic
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contribution. >> reporter: the bill rubio co-authorized passed the senate but wasn't even considered in the republican-led house. in the past two years rubio has distanced himself from his own legislation. >> not otherwise violated our laws other than the immigration laws i get all that. what i've learned is you can't even have a conversation about that until people believe and know not just believe but it's proven to them that future illegal immigration will be controlled. >> rubio identifies at against abortion rights, rejects aggressive gun control. but it's on foreign policy where he stands out. he's outspoken on national security issues and hawkish on i.s.i.l. and iran. >> this the road that the president has placed us on. a road that treats the ayatollah with more respect than the prime minister of israel.
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>> after the president began process for reestablishing the diplomatic ties with cuba, rubio: >> the white house gained little, they gained no commitment ton part of the cuban regime to freedom of press or freedom of speech or elections. >> reporter: rubio is likely to be competing against his long term mentor and friend, jeb bush. that may be his biggest obstacle. bush backed rubio but with bush's larger network of political donors nationwide and in florida rubio could have trouble funding a political campaign beyond the early primary contest. rubio insist that the both offer a unique message and jeb bush will not hurts his chances. david schuster, al jazeera. >> we'll have live coverage of
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senator rubio's announcement in miami at 5:30 eastern time. hillary clinton is often the on the road, driving to iowa in a van nicknamed skoobie. very different approach that clinton took back in 2008. >> you'll see a different clinton campaign. some of the criticism of the 2008 campaign was that the campaign was too belligerent to the media. there were criticism that the they was detached. but she has continued throughout her career to defy her critics. and i think in this particular campaign you'll see a lot more intimacy, a lot of interaction with voters even though presidential campaigns are in the air in terms of media drink. but you'll see a lot more intimacy a lot better relationship with the media and
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she'll start to highlight a lot of things she shied away from in 2008. particularly the issue of gender. i think now with a little bit more of an opening you can -- you can count on hillary clinton to talk about gender issues. it's not just about being the first woman to become president of the united states. i think this is also about reforming reshaping recasting what it meanings to be a democrat in 2016. >> true. >> so you'll hear more of that come out. >> her supporters noon use the next few weeks to encourage backers to send in donations. the goal is to keep free her schedule from big fundraising events is clinton can focus on voters. secretary of state is calling for patience until there is a final agreement with iran. >> i think we've earned the right through what we've achieved in the interim agreement and when we've laid out in this parameter that has
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been set forth we've alternated right to be able to try to complete this without interference and certainly without partisan politics. >> secretary of state kerry needs the obama administration needs to be able to negotiate without interference until the june deadline. coming up. it's been nearly a year since 200 girls were kidnapped by boko haram. family and friends are hopeful again with the new government in charge. also. >> i'm roxana saberi in myanmar how children like this end up going to the big cities to work and support their families. amilies.
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>> meerch mar is one ofmyanmar is one of the world's fastest growing countries. but many worry that this is on
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the backs of children. roxana saberi is there. >> they drop out of work, can earn $15 a week tending cows or rice fields. but can earn more in the cities. >> he's only 12 and turned into a breadwinner. >> translator: when i don't work sometimes my family is all right, but sometimes not it depends on whether my stepfather can find steady work. >> others find work through brokers who take a cut of the children's wages. tonight with the use of an undercover camera we'll show you how this business works. a lot of people here tell us putting children to work in this country ask pretty much normal but children's rights activists say, if myanmar doesn't address the cycle of poverty inquad
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education and child labor the country's future will be in jeopardy. roxana saberi, al jazeera myanmar. in, a nigeria a woman is dead after being mistaken for a boko haram bomber. no bombs were found on her body. nigeria is marking a one year anniversary since boko haram kidnapped over 200 school girls. as haru mutasa tells us some parents and activists are hopeful that the new government will finally bring them back home. >> this boy is three years old. all he seems to understand is that school girls were kidnapped by boko haram a long time ago. his parents aren't far. they have been meeting almost every day for a year along with
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other concerned nigerians. they don't want the chibok girls forgotten. >> we in nigeria should unite and demand for the return of those girls. our children look at us and know that we sold them. >> reporter: in april of last year boko haram fighters abducted more than 200 school girls in chibok. every girl taken wanted to achieve something in life, that's why they went to school, even though boko haram fighters forbid western education. the attack led to a twitter campaign, to return the girls. muhammadu buhari will be sworn in as president in may many are hopeful that his new regime will rescue the girls.
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others are skeptical. >> there are many saboteurs in the army that sabotage this airport. >> reporter: a year is a long time. slowly reality is sinking in for some families. even if some of the girls are found alive their parents don't know what condition they'll be in, how many of them are prelg nantpregnant or already have children or how many are sick. president goodluck jonathan's ongoing administration kept telling the people the girls would be rescued soon. for fathers brothers and sisters soon turned into weeks and months and now 365 days. >> we haven't had any indications of death since they have been kidnapped you know? >> reporter: many in nigeria haven't given up hope of finding all of them alive. and they're asking the world to
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keep up the pressure and not abandon those chibok school girls. haru mutasa, al jazeera. the world is remembering gunter gras. known as the country's moral conscience and a fears social fierce social critic. his antinazi tome the tin drum, was published and no one knew until later that he had been a member of the ss. famed mathematician allen turing. and coming up. >> global bee population he are in serious trouble american bee keepers hope the government steps in to regulate the
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pesticides. i'll explain in a moment. moment.
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>> top foirnlings from the officials
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are in china leading a delegation representing 25 clean air companies. president obama and his chinese counterpart xi jinping have agreed to measures to help the environment. as jake ward jacob ward reports. >> i'm in calaveras county, california. these bee keepers have brought them to get them away from agriculture. these guys rent out these bees to big agricultural growers because bees are essential for everything we eat. these little guys pollenate all the lie quality foods we rely
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on. the problem is, pesticides causing havoc in bee communities. if you look at this particular frame, this is an example. this came from an almond grow. these guys rent out bees for almond growers and all kinds of growers. when it came back, this is a protective barrier that these bees use to quarantine off whatever they think is a threat to their group. they're seeing this very strange sort of self defense behavior all over the place. because these bee keepers say of a new generation of pesticides put into the very water of the plants. not just sprayed into them but get sucked into the root structure, lasting for generations, multiple crops over the source course of a decade. what these bee keepers want is
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for the white house to begin to regulate it. they want the white house to protect these bees. bee keepers are lovely people, not particularly organized as a political lobby. they don't wine and dine lawmakers. there are only 700 to a thousand of them. they are getting pushed around when it comes to the implementation of these new pesticides. organizations that could do what the european union already has done out law outlaw a certain class of pesticides. that is what across the united states bee keepers will come out of what the white house announces. >> you can watch jake's full report coming up tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. wind and rain could put a limit on the space x drag dragon.
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showers in the forecast could place a issue on the launch. a rare notebook by the british math mat itionmathematician allen turing. as gabrielle elizondo gab rel gabriel elizondo reports. >> we'll break an unbreakable nazi code and win the war. >> oh. >> a rare glimpse into the workings of his mind. a humble 56 page notebook and opiece of mathematics history. >> this is the very first time
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we have been able to see his notes and how he went about figuring things out. again because there are no other known manuscripts by him this makes this a truly unique piece. >> in his notes given to his friend robin turing goes over theories in a fit of frustration. perhaps surprisingly for a math genius he admits trouble with a certain calculation known as the liebnits formal. his notes aren't relating to the nazi code but his other passion laying the foundation for computer science as we know it. >> this man is working on saving the world during the day and then in his down time he's working on pure mathematics. >> welcome to enigma. the germans use it for all
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communications. >> also under auction one of the very machines turing and his team worked so hard to crack. an enigma machine. expected to fetch a six figure sum. he's considered the father of modern computing and the impact of his work can be seen all around us. >> reminds us that even our high tech devices had humble beginnings. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera new york. >> the new apple watch has caught people's attention and a lot are putting their money into owning one. the first day it was offered was friday. most people preordered the cheapest model which cost about $400. that's all of our time. thanks for watching. i'm tony harris, news continues
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next live from london. >> thz al jazeera. this is al jazeera. >> hello i'm lauren taylor. this is the newshour live from london. coming up. keeping up the pressure, saudi gun batteries pound houthi positions from across the border. sudan's president casts his vote in an election boycotted by the main opposition parties. the nobel prize