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hard-hitting... >> today they will be arrested. >> ground-breaking... >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> emmy award-winning investigative series. water for coal. next monday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet >>. >> sentencing day - former black water security contractors learn the price they'll pay for killing dozens of civilians in baghdad during the war in iraq a fatal mistake - another police shooting captured on video. now a volunteer sheriff's deputy in oklahoma is charged in the killing of a black man. off and running. >> inspired by the promise of
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our future i announce my candidacy for the president of the united states florida senator marco rubio throws his hat in the ring a cancer fighter - a vaccine that could ward off the disease and save millions in health care costs. why aren't parents using to to protect their children from cancer later in life? good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. four former black water security guards are serving lengthy prison sentences for their role in the deadly 2007 shooting of iraqi civilians. john terrett joins us now. a federal judge came down very hard. >> extremely hard much to the annoyance of family and supporters in court. there were extraordinary scenes in court. three of them handed 30 year sentence, and another spending the rest of his life behind
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bars. all four had clean records before the shooting, he needed to send a message because of seriousness and large number of victims. >> in 2007 one of the most notorious incidents of the iraq war era took place. >> 14 civilians killed in a traffic circle in downtown baghdad, shot to death by four americans working on behalf of the state department for the private security firm black water. >> niklas was found guilty of first degree murder last october. and has been sentenced to life in prison for firing the opening shots. the other three dustin heard of tennessee, evan and paul of texas were given 30 years each. lawyers said they opened fire because they thought they were under attack by insurge ents and the dead civilians, some of who were shot in the back were unfortunate unintended
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casualties of war. prosecutors called the killing a massacre of people. in court, many in tears described the menace small town men that leaved their family and country. >> at any other point history these men would be heroes. instead they are being imprisoned for defending themselves and team-mates in the most dangerous place on earth. >> reporter: the judge, who broke down at one point said wild shooting could never be condoned. the case was is test for private security operating in iraq and elsewhere. black water that shaped his name to z and is now academy as received over a billion dollars in contract from the state department since the 2007 shootings. some argue the gaoling of four men doesn't mean there's
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transparency oversight and act ability. >> sentences have been handed down, the government won with novel theories in terms of aiding and abetting. it's likely that that may be challenged in an appeal. >> many see the cases of victory in a war zone despite taking eight years to complete. the g.s.t. was commended for: the four former black water guard are appealing on the grounds they had reason to believe they were in danger at the time of the shootings the pentagon says i.s.i.l. has lost nearly 30% of the territory it controlled in northern iraq. pentagon maps show the territories i.s.i.l. held in august last year, and then what it looks like now that i.s.i.l. fighters have been forced to the south and west. u.s. and coalition air strikes pushed the group out of strategic areas, including
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territories from tikrit sin jar mountain. >> a volunteer sheriff's deputy in oklahoma was caught on tape fatally shooting a black man. today the deputy is charged with manslaughter. heidi zhou-castro joins us from tulsa. this is an example the role video is playing in the investigations. >> you are right. this video certainly contributed to the charge that reservist robert base is facing. that is second degree manslaughter involving culpable negligence. oklahoma law defines that as a failure to do something that a reasonable person would have done. in this case not accidentally shooting and killing a man who is already on the ground. >> stop right here. >> reporter: 44-year-old eric harris made a run for it police
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say after he tried to sell a stolen gun to an undercover officer. after deputies caught up with him 73-year-old reserve deputy robert baits helped subdue harris. >> roll on your stomach now. >> reporter: the scene captured by officer's body cameras. >> reporter: the voice of reserve deputy baits is saying "oh, i shot him, i'm sorry" police say when baits fired he thought he was holding his stun gun, not his handgun. >> reporter: while harris says "i'm losing my breath", a deputy replied "f your breath", he died in hospital. >> he was nonviolent he was peaceful loving, caring and he was my brother that i'll never see again till i see him in heaven. >> you've got to see there's no
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way an officer can get this confused for this. >> with respect to the taser, the taser has to be held on the side to be used. this weapon is a hammerless, it's a double access revolver. there's no engagement mechanism. >> robert baits is more than 100 reserve deputy in the tulsa department. he's a volunteer, assigned to the violent crimes task force and has a paying job as an insurance company executive. and it was reported: the sheriff here has said that his friendship with baits goes back more than 50 years, the two are fishing buddies, and baits
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is the sheriff's insurance ate. >> thank you. more counties are turning to reserve or volunteer law enforcement officers for camera manpowerment. fbi says 400,000 are deployed. oklahoma has 4,000 active reserve deputies many volunteer or unpaid. oklahoma reserve deputies are required to complete 240 hours of basic training. tulsa county says its reservists get 320 hours of training. ed audio surfaced recording the moment after a white police officer shot and killed a mon in norte charleston. the officer can be heard reporting the walter scott shooting to a fellow policeman. that recording is thought to
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be from officer slater's lapel microphone. florida senator marco rubio has made it official running for president in the 2016 election. he announced his candidacy joining ted cruz and rand paul and former scritry of state hillary clinton. we have more on what marco rubio says he'll bring to the race. >> reporter: in front of thousands of supporters in miami, marco rubio made it official. >> tonight grounded by the lesson of our history, but inspired by the promise of our future i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. >> reporter: at 43 years old marco rubio is the youngest candidate in the 2016 presidential field. he is a forward-looking leader a contrast with jeb bush and democrat clinton oar.
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>> we americans are proud of our history. our country has been about the future. before us is the opportunity to author the goodest chapter yet in the amazing story of america. we can't do that going back to the leaders and ideas of the past. >> marco rubio's announcement came in the shadow of freed am tower, which served as a practices cuting sec -- prosecuting sector. in a generation a refugee's child, freed from cuba is running for president. >> i live in a country where a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and future as those that come from power and privilege rubio's story could scr appeal particularly to hispanic americans, and he's well versed in immigration reform. he cosponsored a bill known as the gang of eight. their comprehensive reform called for tighter border
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security legal status for undocumented workers, and the controversial part a pathway to citizenship. republicans likened it to amnesty and were infuriated at rubio. for the past two years, he distanced himself from his own legislation. his staff says he's beginning the race behind his political mentor. walker has the early buzz and bush a larger network of donors. rubio insists there's no downside for a lean ambitious campaign. presidential notes are usually about the future not the past hillary clinton's presidential campaign is up and running and hitting the road. hours after afoundationing a white house bid on sunday she began a 1,000 mile journey from
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new york to iowa, and will hold her first event on tuesday, the campaign making a pitt stop picking up lunch from a restaurant. the u.s. says it is concerned by russia's decision to end the ban on selling a missile defense system to iran coming a week after iran reached a deal with russia and four world powers on the framework of an agreement to curb the programme. mike viqueira has more. >> reporter: the nuclear keel is not done yet. russia had plans to sell the hardware over u.s. objections. >> we don't believe it's instruct difficult at this too to move forward. >> the russian made missile is designed to shoot down aircraft and missiles, the deal made five years ago. russia cancelled after the u.n. imposed sanctions on iran over the nuclear programme. the obama administration said
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the sale would not violate international sanctions. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov agrees, and argues that the technology is no cause for alarm. >> i want to mark the antimissile complex s 300 is of a different nature. it is not skinned to attack nor threaten security of any eejon including israel. >> the white house said it today. the nuclear option is on the table, if iran breaks its agreement and tries to build a bomb. if systems are deployed in iran. they may be difficult to strike. at the white house on monday, president obama held two closed door meetings, part of an effort to win support with the interim deal. this assist israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu keeps up his campaign to kill it. >> iran needs a deal more than anyone. instead of making dangerous
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concessions to iran now is the time for the international community to reassert and fortify its original demands for a better deal. >> also raising alarms another deal with iran a barter of iranian oil for russian goods. >> it is one that could run into conflict with the regime we have in place against iran and when i say we, the united states and the international community. monday secretary of state john kerry arrived on capitol hill on the eve of a vote on whether congress should have the power to approve or reject the iran deal. his mission to gain support for the appeal. the news about russian missiles makes a sale pitch tougher. >> we hope congress will listen carefully and ask the questions that it wants and give us the space and time to complete a difficult task which has high
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stakes for our country. in seattle, an alaska airlines plane forced to land because an airport employee was trapped in the lower luggage area. 14 minutes into the flight the pilot heard a sound and flew back to the airport. upon landing a ramp worker was discovered inside the cargo hold. the man explained he'd fallen asleep. >> a series of shots for kids could prevent many types of cancer. only a fraction of people get the vaccine. why, and what it moons for health care. a group of educators convicted in a cheating scandal get a chance to avoid prison sentences. sentences.
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a man hunt is under way in north carolina.
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20-year-old kenneth stan sill is still at large after shooting and killing a print shop operator. he had recently fired stanc air, l. she was spared the death penalty, but arios was convicted of murdering her former boyfriend in 2008. she will spend her life behind bars. many will avoid prison even though convicted of racket earring. a group inspired to inflate test scores to earn bonus and face up to 20 years in prison, but the da offered them deals. if accepted the educators will have to apologise, waive the right to appeal. spend thousands in fines and
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spend the weekends in gaol a majority of parents in the u.s. are not getting kids vaccinated vaccinated. the vaccine imprisonmentate gains the human papa loama virus. a disease avoiding cervical cancer in women, and could fight head and neck cancer in men, and save millions of dollars to the health care system. an isn't professor joins us at the n.y.u. school of medicine good to see you. this was initially out there to prevent an s.t.d. which are caused by the human pap loama virus. the reality is the more we looked at it it's not just about preventing serve call cancer but a series of other cancers. >> people have been focussed on the fact that it is a sexually transmitted disease. it's a reason parents don't get
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their kids vaccinated. if you don't get the vaccinated when they are younger, when they are exposed when they are older, it's not effective. the vaccine is a teaching tool. it can prevent cervical cancer oral penile cancers. a whole host. >> i hate to reduce this to a marketing issue, is that the problem, this has been marketed to an s.t.d. as opposed to a cancer vaccine. >> that's part of it. in australia they have a better vaccination rate of 80%. i think that's because they are focus on the fact that it can protect your child from cancer. it's not 100% effective, it doesn't totally prevent from cancer but is 30-90% effective. >> how sure are we that this could prevent mouth, throat and other cancers. >> we are not sure. the way the studies have been
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done is you take groups of people ones that have been vaccinated and ones that don't. you follow them, and see if there's a difference between the groups. with oral cancer a lot are rare. maybe it takes 40-50 years to develop it. it's hard to get the studies done. the thing is we know a lot of the cancers are caused or related to this virus. the estimate is 70% of those karps are related to h.v.p. if you reduce that amount taking hold and creating the cancers, that ka be a huge benefit. >> when the vaccine came ou there were alarming stories, it's proven to be safe. >> sometimes it is safe. there are people that have allergies. those people shouldn't get it. sometimes they get a fever, a pain. in terms of autism or stuff like
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that. there's no evidence to support that and it's been refuted. >> you talk about the age people should cabinet it. i know they say not to get it after 26. why not? >> it's not that people can't get it, most have been exposed to h.v.p.s by that time. if they have had the virus and the vaccine is not as effective - again, it's important for boys to get this as well. more men suffer from smoke and head and neck cancer. >> more boys more men suffer from that. also if you think about it. if a boy is vaccinated they can protect women that way too. where do women get the virus from? they get it from boys. you protect yourself and people around you. your future wife. >> it's believed in the long run, we may see more head and neck cancers.
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>> exactly. >> it's important for people to pay attention oklahoma is the second state to ban a common abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a foetus. those that object to the ban argue that it is the safest way to terminate a pregnancy. kansas signed a similar measure into lou. >> victims of a booming economy. we take you to myanmar where children are forced to work long hours for little play. also the notebook from one of the greatest mind who helped defeat the nazis.
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myanmar has won prays for democratics reforms. business is booming, but there is a catch, many jobs are performed by children. roxana saberi went to myanmar to find out why. >> like many mothers, this woman faces a dread of the decision to see her family go hungry or
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send her young children away to work. >> translation: i wanted to find work in the city. i asked mum to look after the kids. she didn't want to. there's no jobs for women in the village, my husband doesn't have much of a job. we are poor and can't take care of the kids. >> reporter: by the time her sop is 12, he may have to leave school and the family. many kids from the village end up a 3 hour drive south. in one of the thousands of tea shops, we met his big brother. since moving here he has worked from six in the morning to nine at night for a dollar a day every day of the week. he is 12. >> translation: i have sent $70 back to my family. >> reporter: could your family
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survive without you working. would they have enough money? >> it could not be good. >> the owner of the t-shirt insists it's not child labour it's a service to society. >> we don't torture the kids or force them to work. we take them in support their families, and they have a bid to live and eat. >> reporter: five kids work here. they serve food, wash the dishes and after 15 hours of work push the tables toot. >> reporter: brokers fuel child labour, they deliver children to employers for a fee. this person is a teacher and activist. >> if they need cooks at their homs, they call a broker. our local producer heard about a broker living in this apartment building. her friends and our photographer
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went in with a hidden camera posing a clients. they got to business negotiating over commission to find a 12-year-old housemaid. the broker agrees and asks her to call back in a few weeks. that's how casually the deals take place. back at the tea shop, they have a day off, so we can go to the village together. at home, the $35 monthly salary goes a long way. >> a sack of rice costs $20 and lasts us a month. with so's money we can pay off the deck. >> reporter: when she finished speaking so started to cry.
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>> he is crying because he wanted to do more provide more. he wanted them to get out of this situation, but now he can't fulfil that that is why he feels sad a myanmar government spokesman said poverty is the cause of the problem, and that myanmar needs more time to build the economy. >> china freed five women detained for protesting. the women were released after a month in prison, the five arrested in march as they prepared to distribute posters and stickers. >> a notebook belonging to alan turing sold for a million at auction. he lead the team that cracked the enigma goed. his is story was told in the
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film "the imitation game." he is known as the father of modern computer science i'm antonio mora thank you for joining us. for the latest new head over to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is next. have a great night. maybe you have seen nit the movies. small window less cells prisoners allowed out only an hour a day, isolation. now prisoners are fighting back, in courts even through hunger strikes. it is the inside story.