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and we begin with the u.s. navy beefing up its presence in the waters off of yemen. the aircraft carrier is on its way there. there are reports those vessels may be getting ready to intercept ships that may be carrying weapons to yemen. jamie what more do we know? >> reporter: the pentagon is saying that the dispatch of the uss theodore roosevelt is meant to send a statement to iran. the ship was moved from its routine position and is heading

now to the waters off of yemen. officials tell me it is right now off of the coast of oman. having an aircraft carrier in the region gives your you more options including more eyes in the sky. it is joining about a half dozen u.s. ship already in the area including a helicopter carrier. so the u.s. has a lot of naval presence in that area. the official statement is that this aircraft carrier is to preserve the maritime shipping lanes, but it is also true that the u.s. is tracking very carefully those seven iranian ships, right now i'm told if they stay in international waters they will not be

bordered, but if they get closer and they start breaking the u.n. embargo to yemen, they will be boarded. so again, u.s. is sending a signal. we'll see if iran accepts it. >> how concerned is the u.s. about iran getting weapons to houthi fighters in yemen? >> it's very concerning. the united states has accused iran of supporting the houthi rebels with moth money and weapons. josh earnest deferred any questions about the deployment of u.s. ships, but did restate that iran was directly supplying weapons to the houthi weapons, and of course they are the ones that overthrew the pro-u.n. government in yemen. >> all right. jamie good to see you. thank you.

saudi-lead war planes have carried out one of the biggest attacks yet in the nearly four-week old conflict in yemen. charlie angela has our report. >> reporter: in more than three weeks of bombing, this was one of the largest yet. the target was a scud missile base. [ explosion ] >> reporter: but the massive explosion killed dozens of people destroying nearby buildings and blowing out windows in homes and offices. it also damaged a television station owned by the former president saleh, knocking it off air. local residents voiced their anger. >> translator: the munition hits our homes. this is what the cowards used to come bard civilians. >> translator: when we arrived

here to help our colleagues there was a big explosion. >> reporter: this is an area where the presidential palace and many embassies are located. quickly to cite size the strike was indonesia who's embassy is nearby. >> translator: i want to strongly condemn the air strike in sana'a, several staff were injured in the air strike. it also damaged the embassy building. >> reporter: for 26 days -- saudi arabia has lead air strikes against yemen. >> the coalition forces succeeded relatively to destroy the military infrastructure of the deposed president saleh, and those of the houthis, including

weaponry depot, which are totally destroyed. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: in the sort city of aden fighting is fierce. here popular resistance fighters loyal to president hadi are keeping the houthis out. but the houthi leader says his forces will never surrender. militants reportedly are now threatening to attack within saudi arabia itself. security forces there are on alert after a saudi official warned that oil refineries or shopping malls could be targeted. last month security concerns prompted u.s. diplomatic missions in the country to suspend services. president obama spent part of today trying to sell the framework iran nuclear deal to one of the closest allies in the

gulf. they discussed other issues affecting the gulf including the wars in yemen and syria, the president will meet with several leaders next month. european union members met today searching for a way to deal with the migrants trying to reach europe. paul brennan reports from catania in italy. >> reporter: being battered by waves, clinging to what is left of their boat. at the bottom of the screen here a woman is seen trying to protect a young child. recent attention has been focused on migrants leaving north africa for italian waters. this vessel came from turkey and broke up on the greek island of rhodes. this child was saved but there are confirmed dead including

another youngster. it is not known how many are still missing. >> the captain just left us with the boat and ran away. >> he ran away with another boat to turkey? >> i don't know maybe. i think so. he has this small rubber boat. this boat he got in and just like run. >> reporter: and he left you alone? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: the bodies from saturday's night drowning catastrophe have now been brought ashore. as many as 900 drowned. just 28 were saved. those survivors are on the way to thesis -- the sicilian port. an estimated 1500 people have drowned in the attempt to reach

italy. the compassion is vividly illustrated here. where this memorial is a monument for those who don't make it. there are 15 graves of adults and two of children. the names will never be known. but the words on them are the words of the poet from nigeria. and the hope is that the rest of europe now can show a similar degree of empathy. humanitarian groups say increasing the search and rescue efforts is now imperative. >> over the past week 1,000 people have died in the mediterranean. that is 31 times more than perished in the costa concordia, this is a tragedy that didn't have to happen. >> reporter: at a meeting of europe's foreign ministers a 10-point plan has been proposed to include a doubling in the funding for search and rescue

efforts, but that would still not be enough to restore operations to last year's level of resources. there will be a european summit meeting on thursday. how many more migrants will have died by then? paul brennan, al jazeera, sicily. it is estimated that in the past three and a half months more than 1500 people have drowned while trying to pursue a new life in europe. jonathan betz has more on this part of the story. >> this is a problem that europe has faced for years, but nothing like this. there are seven main routes that migrants are using. a popular one is known as the central mediterranean route. they are going to countries like tunisia and libya, trying to get to italy. last year more than 200,000 refugeed crossed the

mediterranean, that is more than triple than the year before. and this year could set another grim record. this past weekend another atrocity 30 christians butchered, captured in libya, trying to reach europe. just some of the terror many now face as they cross war zones and then deadly seas. wave after wave of migrants are washing on to europe's shores. >> it cannot continue like this. we cannot accept that hundreds of people die when trying to cross the sea to europe. >> reporter: the refugees come from all over the middle east and africa. fleeing syrias brutal civil war, violence in somalia, or poverty in places like eritrea. many end up in libya, the cross roads of thedesperate.

libya has been swallowed by chaos. two rival governments are fighting for control, which has allowed smuggling there to thriver. -- thrive. >> we need a comprehensive approach. >> reporter: many european nations have been leery of accepting the migrants. sea patrols are expensive and italy is trying to keep up after it phased out a large search operation last year for a smaller european effort. >> the coast guard with -- with what they have to do what they can. >> reporter: the pope appealed for help this week. reminding the world of so many who are pursuing happiness and a life free of persecution. >> if there is no robust rescue at sea on the mediterranean, the people will continue to come and more will die.

>> reporter: there are other options such as being smuggled stlu countries like turkey but that is far more expensive. and that is one reason why so many are going too italy. >> let's take these pictures now, are these live pictures available to us now from catania in italy. let me read the bit of information i have now. you are looking at an italian coast guard vessel. there are 28 survivors aboard. the ship is carrying the survivors of this weekend's shipwreck that we have been telling you about near the libyan coast. we will continue to take a look at these pictures as we bring in the director of the refugee program at human rights watch, and he is joining us now from washington, d.c. bill good to have you on the program. look europe has been dealing with this problem for years now as jonathan just mentioned. why hasn't it come up with some

kind of solution at this point? >> well it actually -- as we heard scaled back the operation that was in effect last year that saved 200,000 people. >> that's right. >> in november they made a new operation that is one-third the size of the operation that had been conducted by the italian government alone. now with the entire european union on board, through frontex, its border-patrol agency it put a greatly reduced effort in the rescue operation area was reduced considerably. the assets were considerably less about a third of the size of what had been there before. so this is a completely predictable outcome. >> yep. >> and completely avoidable. >> scaled back. greatly reduced. why? do you have a good answer for us as to why operations are scaling back? why the e.u. is meeting again to

try to come up with another plan? >> well one of the arguments -- yeah one of the arguments at the time wases the rescue operation was a magnet. but we quickly saw statistically that the same number of people were leaving from libya and tunisia has had been leaving during the italian operation. so even without assurances that they would be rescued, they continued to come. in that was known months ago, and yet the european union did not respond, didn't change coarse continued with this faulty assumption and we now have this really enormous tragedy that everyone is wringing their hands about, and perhaps now the critical mass has been reached that there will be a somewhat more robust operation, but it will still be in the hands of frontex which is mandated to control boarders

rather than rescue people. >> that nexts me to this next point. there is a 10-point e.u. plan that is starting to emerge here. and it focuses on doing something even more aggressive against the people traffickers. you have to work down this particular list of suggestions quite a bit, before you get into anything about resettlement. doing something for these people who are trying to change their lives. what do you think of that kind of approach. a law enforcement approach and then way down the line here resettlement? >> well, and if you look at that point in the ten-point plan it's a come metly volunteer resettlement program, which is essentially what already exists. a year ago they asked for 130,000 places for syrian refugees alone. there are 3.8 million syrian

refugees in the neighboring countries. and they were only asking for 130,000 places of north america, europe australia, and they still to this day have not had pledges, let alone actual refugee missions to come close to meeting that 130,000 figure. that's a volunteer program, and i don't see how this ten-point program is going to have a different result unless you can cherry pick who you choose to bring in as opposed to a legal obligation. >> bill what are we dancing around here? the international community can we just say it plainly has done a woeful job of providing an option to people who have the choice of potentially being killed in their own country, where a conflict is raging or getting on one of these boats and possibly dying in the

mediterranean, and the international community has just not done an effective job of providing an option. >> the -- the unhcr has set up the mechanisms. they exist. the countries -- the potentially resettlement countries simply haven't come forward and agreed to do that. and that gives people who are desperate, who have no other options, no choice but to put themselves in the hands of traffickers. and now the focus on e.u. becomes stopping the smugglers. but you need to look more broadly of what is forcing people into their hands in the first place, and simply continuing down the line of an enforcement approach doesn't address any of the causes of this displacement and people are going to continue to try to

flee. they are going to continue to try to move to seek safety to seek dignity, and this is what the e.u. ultimately has to come to grips with. >> yep. bill good to see you. the king of south africa's zulu nation had a rally today to condemn a wave of anti-immigrant attacks in the country. at least seven people have been killed in the past week. the king is accused of actually stoking the unrest after saying foreigners are responsible for south africa's high crime rate. charles stratford was a that rally. >> reporter: he is respected and adored by millions of zulus across the country. many say the king should have made this speech weeks ago. >> translator: i have come to declare a new war. this war is to protect every

foreigner here. every foreigner must be safe. as your king i call for calm. >> reporter: he said the media should be investigating for misinterpreting another speech he made last month. many say that speech has lead to these see know phobic attacks. >> translator: we should hold hands with the police. those who have committed crimes must be brought to justice. because the law must stop those trying to destroy south africa's image. >> reporter: the king's supporters say the media has lied about him. >> translator: it's good that the king came here because he set the record straight. >> reporter: the government has also been blamed for frailing to address the high unemployment and poverty. many of whom accuse migrant

workersover taking their jobs. there have been flairups time and time again in recent years. a mood of celebration here after a speech by the zulu king condemning all forms of violence against foreigners in south africa. but it is going to take a lot to win back the trust of migrants here. >> reporter: there are more than a thousand people in this camp they came here to earn money for their familiar list a-- families from fighting. this woman says her hair salon in durban was attacked and a group of men beat her as she ran to protect her baby boy. >> why didn't stop by 2008. it's better to go home. it's better to die home or die here. >> reporter: for salma and

thousands like her, the king's speech offers little comfort in a place they have come to think of as home. charles stratford al jazeera. accused of conspiring of isil the arrest of six men in minnesota for attempting to provide support to the group has one law enforcement official saying the state has a recruiting problem. plus charges finally filed nine months after his arrest. a "washington post" journalist is told what he is accused of.

six minnesota men are charged was trying to go to syria and join the islamic state. it is not the first time somali americans from minnesota have allegedly been recruited to fight abroad. usher tell us more about what these young men are charged with. >> reporter: well tony all six of these young men are between the ages of 18 and 24. they have been charged with

conspiracy to provide and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organizeationorganization in this case isil. two of the men that were arrested were arrested by fbi agents in san diego, where they say they were planning to pick up passports and then cross into mexico. the men were all friends and plotted to travel to syria together to fight. >> we have a terror recruiting problem in minnesota. the problem will not go away unless we address it head on. it's not a somali problem. it's not an immigrant problem. it is our problem. a minnesota problem. >> reporter: and tony authorities say the men were working with another friend slipped pass u.s. law enforcement. they say he is now working in syria to recruit and provide assistance to those who want to

leave minnesota and join the fright abroad. >> usher you have spent a lot of time meeting with somalian americans in minnesota. what makes these young men vulnerable? >> since 2007 we have seen more than 20 from that area recruited by al-shabab, but them going to isis that's a new phenomenon. this is just the latest arrest and a lot of it stems with things they identified in the community, a breakdown in the family structure. a lot of these young men come from single-parent households a lack of opportunity, disen disenfranchisement and this duty to join isil abroad as part of a greater purpose.

>> i'm wondering how many have gone to fight for al-shabab. does it recruit in the same way as isil? >> it's very similar. that's what we're hearing from experts to are working with law enforcement on these deradicalization projects. and, you know, authorities say that a few dozen americans have travelled to or attempted to travel to syria to join isis. and we have been seeing cases like this across the count, in places like colorado. we have seen it here in illinois, and we're seeing it again today in minnesota. >> usher good to see you. thank you. baltimore residents protested the death of a 25 year old man who died yesterday a week after being injured during his arrest. >> dr. king ain't coming back. >> reporter: his spine was severed at his neck after he was

detained by officers for having a knife in his pocket. this is video from someone on a phone. police documents released today said grey was arrested without force and incident and suffered a medical emergency during transport. today the baltimore police commissioner asked for calm as officials look into the case. >> people express their very real frustration in the coming days, we ask only that it is done peacefully. we have all seen the videos and those that haven't been seen we'll make sure you get a copy. the actions of our officers appear to be calm. they do not appear to be angry or overbearing. they have no objection to the filming when it is taking place. that just recognizes the facts on the video. six officers have been suspended with pay while the

investigation continues. it has been five years since one of the worst environmental disasters in u.s. history. plus to vaccinate or not? we will meet one mom who refused to inoculate her kids, but not anymore. e.

♪ it has been fy years since the deep water horizon oil rig exploded in the gulf of mexico. it has been called the worst invie ron mental disaster in history. bp spent billions on the cleanup, where does the actual recovery stand now? >> reporter: well it depends on which slice of the pie you pull out. most agree that bp cleaned up some 800 miles after shoreline,

so it's not common to see tar, really along these beaches. and when you talk about economic recovery bp has paid out some $5 billion in claims. and some will tell you that they have been made whole, and they have bounced back. but i just talked to a shrimper out here and he said i got thousands of dollars from bp i bought a new boat but the seafood industry is still suffering a whole lot. and then the most immediate thing, and the thing that you hear people talking about today is how much should bp be on the hook for the actual pollution to the gulf under the clean water act. a trial just ended a few months ago, where the judge found that bp was gross i will negligent, and so now bp faces some $13.7 billion in fines. the question and the debate really centers on just how tough should the government be? >> so be holding bp accountable

to the maximum fines under the clean water act, we're deterring other companies from taking the same negligent actions. >> i think the company should pay for the damage it has caused, but i think it has. and i think it becomes a point when it looks almost personal. >> reporter: so tony again, a judge set to decide any day now as soon as next week just how much bp should pay. again, it could reach $13 billion, it could be as low as a billion dollars. >> say, jonathan when it comes to damage to the gulf how was the government determining how much bp owes? >> reporter: well you know, there's a separate process called a natural resources damage assessment process. and federal researches are out

and have been out for the last few years conducting hundreds of studies on the gulf. they are liking at barrier islands, and wildlife affected and they say they are going to put together a claim. but what can get a bit subjective is there were always damage to some of these coastal wet lands, so they have to pinpoint how much damage was done by the oil, and how much was done by previous problems. >> jonathan appreciate it. the lawyer for an mourn journalist jailed in tehran says he has been charged with spying. he has been in prison for nearly nine months now. roxana saberi is here with more. >> reporter: the journalist faces four serious charges. he was officially charged in december but this is the first

time the nature of those charges have been made public. the "washington post" calls them ludicrous. nearly nine months after jason was locked up in tehran's notorious prison his attorney she has finally discussed his case with him for the first time. she told the "washington post," she learned iran is charging him with espionage, and three other serious crimes including collaborating with hostile governments. for example, she said the indictment claimed he wrote to president obama. the state department says iran should drop the charges immediately. >> these charges are as we said in the past patently absurd he should be freed so he can return to his family. >> reporter: and the "washington post" is calling the charges baseless. the executive wrote:

hard line iranian media have been reporting on the charges over the past few weeks, one newspaper printed a front page article with the headline uncoding jason. and a news agency accused him of selling economic and industrial information about iran to its enemies. and also linked him to an iranian human rights advocate living in new york. >> they have spoken about his case and he is being trapped by the iranian intelligence because they do not favor those who are pro-iran/u.s. relations. jason has covered like iranians love baseball. iranians love cheeseburger. >> reporter: his wife and journalist will also be tried. she has been free on bail in tehran for more than six months.

the couple will go before a juf judge who is known for giving harsh prison sentences. >> they would look at it and say there is no one he was doing anything to hurt the country. >> reporter: the news comes at a sensitive time for u.s./iran's relations. the state department says the administration is pressing for his release, but tony it say there is no link between his case and the current nuclear talks. >> roxana -- and as i ask this question, i'm reminded you have been in iran and been in one of those prisons, and subjected to iranian justice, so i'll still ask the question is there a chance that jason gets a fair trial here? >> one would hope he would. but my thought and the thought

of some human rights activists say it is unlikely. this judge has given long sentences to political prisoners, and also if we look at similar cases in the past of other journalists many in the initial stages get a long prison sentence. sometimes it's reduced or overturned on appeal. i was sentenced to eight years in prison on the charge of espionage, and then that was overturned and i was released after 100 days. >> all right. good to see you. >> thank you. we are getting a new sense of the impact of boko haram on nigerians. more than a million people have now fled the group. 800,000 of them are children. boko haram has been attacking the region since 2009 but those attacks are becoming more frequent and more brutal.

andrew cuomo today became the first u.s. governor to visit cuba in 50 years. he is visiting along with a delegation of business leaders. daniel reports from havana. >> reporter: the americans are coming but not in the way the cuban government had for so long anticipated. these visitors are here to talk about mutual understanding and political cooperation. >> i finally came to the realize aches, look, if you do the same thing year after year for 50 years, and it doesn't work maybe you should try something new, something else. and so we are now trying something else at long last. >> reporter: many on both sides of the florida straits are anticipating and planning for substantial financial

investment. for tourists they are already here but this is just the beginning. claims that more visitors will be coming from the united states but many are coming to invest and in a way that cuba hasn't seen for more than 50 years. but the u.s. economic embargo remains restricting growth of the cuban economy but not as intended toppling the government. intense negotiations are underway in washington and havana to have it lifted. in the meantime preparations are being made. they come as tourists but when you talk to them you find they are lawyers, people who work for american companies asking for the opportunities available in cuba. >> reporter: the cuban authorities have been paving. while many smaller cuban businesses are already well

placed and keenly anticipating the changes. >> translator: we're not happy just having foreigners here. we want them to come and meet and mix with cubans from every background, and we as cubans want to know people from different countries and cultures, to create a space where we can talk and share ideas. >> reporter: for most cubans however, not much as changed, not yet. with all change comes uncertainty, about what will be lost as well as what will be gained. the americans are coming while cubans wait with great expectation and some fears over what they may bring. ♪ stocks came back in trading

today after steep losses on friday. ali velshi is here with more. explain this to us ali. >> yeah i'm glad we didn't get too carried away on friday. the dout was up more than 200 points. the nasdaq a lot of tech stocks there, an even bigger gain 1.3%. the s&p 500 just shy of 1%. on friday all three of them saw losses of at least a percent. today's gains basically erased those losses that we saw going into the weekend. investors were responding to two things basically. they like china's new moves that are stipulating the economy. that's at least one of the reasons. >> okay. so the other reason is earnings. >> yes, earnings i would like to say are like the report card for the stocks and companies you own. tech firms, ibm, apple, gains in

their stocks. that boosted interest in other tech stocks. the banks have been reporting their earnings too. morgan stanley posted its highest profits since the 2008 crash. >> what else are you looking at for your program tonight, ali. >> last week was at the spring meeting for the imf, and the world bank and one of the topics that came up is america's global influence. we'll debate that and whether to do anything about it. >> can't wait. ali appreciate it as wuldz. thank you. >> see you, buddy. there has been yet another attempted breach along the white house fence. a california man was released

after being charged with unlawful entry. that's a misdemeanor. he was accused of jumping the fence with a suspicious package. australia is trying to boost immunization immunizations. australia's government is also offering doctors incentives to inoculate children who are overdue for their shots. here the surgeon general is taking part in a new vaccinations campaign. that includes this sesame street character elmo. >> just like an umbrella protects you from rain vaccination protects you from germs. >> what is a germ?

>> tara hills is a mom and former former -- critic of vaccination. she joins me now from ottawa canada. good to see you. what influenced your decision to not vaccinate your children? >> six years ago, we had just heard of friends and lots of things on the internet that started to get us really concerned and scared so we just kind of froze up. >> so it was information that -- you can't trust half of the information you get on the internet. you know that tara. [ laughter ] >> hum. >> correct? >> we -- yeah when you hear a lot of your friends, and it seems like this has been a controversy for decades, we just figured there is a lot of smoke,

there must be a fire and we decided to call the whole thing off. >> gotcha. so how did you come to change your mind on this issue? >> well just about two months ago, we decided it would be time to reexamine things and we set out to prove that we were right, but in the process when we really started looking at the sources of our information on both sides. it didn't take long to realize that actually we were wrong. >> did you talk to medical professionals? did you get on the phone? did you visit doctors to get the latest information? >> what we did was we started writing down our main questions and concerns, and started looking at what was available on line on public websites that had great documentation. a lot of peer review journals and we realized the weight of

evidence was answering our questions and concerns so we weren't afraid anymore, and booked the catch-up appointments for all seven kids. >> give us your biggest concern back in those days. >> our biggest concern was that our children would suffer harm in the short or long term. >> your kids had a bout with whooping cough and were not vaccinated. how did your family and community react? >> understandably, our family rallied around us because we already admitted that we messed up. but we do understand that our community when this went public that -- there's a lot of emotions. we totally understood people were angry, and this fires up a lot of discussion. >> did you ever feel sort of ostracized a bit which your community, with fears that your kids could actually in fact

other kids in the community? >> yeah we did. and it's understandable. we understand why. >> what is your message to parents who are struggling with the vaccination decision you have now come to because of religion concerns or other concerns that you had? what is your message? >> we just want to encourage parents who have concerns and questions, that it's okay to have concerns and questions, but do your homework and check your sources very carefully as you make this decision. because it doesn't just affect your commune -- family it affects our communities. >> tara thank you. continued fallout from this huge sinkhole in louisiana. it is pitting people and businesses against each other. plus something is missing

from china's big auto show this year. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet

♪ a huge 32-acre sinkhole has been causing problems for the small louisiana town. most families have fled the area and now the company responsible wants to start drilling again. robert ray has more on the story. >> reporter: it's 32 acres and growing. a massive sinkhole in bayou corn louisiana, the company texas brine who is responsible, was digging down hundreds of feet into the ground looking to extract salt back in 2012 when the sinkhole formed. now the hundreds of people that lived in this area most of them have dispersed because of the dangers of the natural gas that is coming up.

texas brine has made over $48 million in damages and compensation to those folks. so now just the few that are left there, they are taking their chances, but new issues have arisen. texas brine wants to drill down again and exact salt but they cannot. because their neighbors, dow chemical who is also doing experimentation on the ground there, is just a foot away from texas brine's new land. and lasse these companies cannot be doing experimentation unless they are 200 feet away. so texas brian has filed a complaint in court if dow chemical can't pay texas brine

for the cash it will have lost. but that's the situation. in the meantime many of those residents who are disbursed are now living new lives in other places around the country, because their homes are nothing but shells at this point, though they have received compensation from texas brine. how about this the unusually clear waters of lake michigan have revealed century's hold shipwrecks. they found a 121-foot long cargo ship that now rests just five feet below the surface. another vessel is the rising sun. it sank in 1917. one of the world's most important car shows has opened in shanghai but the mood is a little more subdued this year.

adrian brown has more from shanghai. >> reporter: 25 years ago owning a car was still a dream for most chinese people. today it's the world's fastest-growing auto market. this event, though once more is dominated by foreign brands. >> i think it's still growing, and i think there's a lot of opportunities. >> reporter: but it's not all good news. car sales are declining falling from 13 to 7% last year one of the reasons, china's slowing economy. and the government's anti-corruption campaign means that many local officials don't want to be seen driving around in vehicles that could even vaguely be described as a luxury model. and that is denting the market for premium cars. sales of electric cars also remain in the slow aim. as part of efforts to curb

pollution, the government wants 5 million energy-saving vehicles on the roads by 2020. so far the figure is fewer than 5,000. >> when you walk around at this show and you see the interest that we're getting, i think the future here in china is potentially brighter than it is in the rest of the world for electric vehicles. >> reporter: last month tesla confirmed it was cutting jobs. with the government now promoting austerity and discouraging excess organizers have been polishing a new image as well. models like this have been banned this year making the [ inaudible ] say officials more auto than show. adrian brown, al jazeera,

shanghai. hi tony coming up at 8:00, growing concern over europe's refugee crisis. we'll hear with an official about the need for international help. in tul ka, oklahoma more fallout after a volunteer deputy shot and killed earlier this month an unfarmed man. the sheriff says he did nothing wrong. we're hear what the sheriff had to say today. adopted at 3 years old from south korea, he could be deported at age 40. >> somebody failed to finalize the adoption. >> reporter: an inside look at the immigration court deciding whether a washington state man should be sent back to the country of his birth. plus eric has written a new book about the plot to kill the

leaders of the ottoman, turk empire in 1950. >> it was like a detective story that i continued to track down. i had to learn a lot of things about armenian history, turkish history, world war i politics. >> those stories and come-- more coming up in about three minutes. 30,000 runners set out early battling heavy rain and wind. the men's winner is from ethiopia his second boston marathon victory. kenya's runner was this year's women's champion. and that is all of our time for this news hour.

i'm tony harris in new york city. thanks for watching. john siegenthaler is back in just a couple of minutes. ♪

hi everyone this is al jazeera america, i'm john siegenthaler. rising tide. >> the people will continue to come, and more people will die. >> hundreds of african migrants feared dead. the growing humanitarian crisis and europe's response. the volunteers. >> we have a terror recruiting problem in minnesota. the problem will not go away unless we address it head on. >> reporter: terror charges against six americans. westerners