>> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. the airstrikes, and saudi arabia said that it's mission in yemen has entered a new phase as the u.s. navy ships move closer to the recently. decades behind bars, egypt's former leader faces the deputy deputy or 40 years in prison for details of protesters. and what happened, anger over the death of freddie gray. the justice department launches an investigation.

and the conflict in yemen is entering a new phase. saudi-led coalition said that it has scaled down the month -- airstrikes against the shia coalition. and they will be fining a solution to the across. yemen's president spoke a short time ago. >> i ask our people to open a blank pain, a clean slate to vote a nation united, that's based on pride justice and on wise rule. >> the president called on the houthis to withdraw from cities and return to negotiations. more on the new campaign. >> saudi led riots in yemen are over. coalition forces say that they

have achieved their military goes and the houthis are no longer a threat yemen and the region. but saudi army officers warn that any future attempt by the houthis to destabilize yemen will be het with force. the airstrikes may be over, but the campaign may be just be moving into a yet unclear phase. >> we will continue to talk to the houthis to prevent them from attacking our yemeni citizens and we will support evacuations and the support. the operations will continue with three goes. there will be some military actions whenever the realizations demand it. >> reporter: international agencies, having been concerned over the rising number of civilian casual he's.

casualtiesful the world health organization said 954 people were killed and thousands injured since the start of the military campaign, almost four weeks ago. >> the bombing alone is not going to stop it, and with the civilian casualties and everything i think that the saudis realize that they have done everything that they can and the best you can have is a negotiated solution, and this is a face saving way out for them. >> it has come to an end but peace may be a long way off. troops loyal to former president are still active across the country. the shia rebels rent the president, hadi, who is likely to be replaced by the vice president of yemen. baha was backed by the houthis and now he faces the delicate

task of uniting yemenis and putting an end to decades of hostility. >> today iran called for an immediate ceasefire in yemen and the chretien of a new inclusive government. the u.s. has suspected that the iranians are backing the rebels. mike how are u.s. officials reacting to what's happening in yemen. >> well, good evening to you tony. we have just received a statement from the president's national security council in the last hour or so, and we welcome the move by the saudis to suspend the air campaign, and they want to broker the u.s. peace process which in a shambles. remember at the outset of the campaign, the united states said that they would lend support. and president obama saying that that would come in the form of intelligence and logistics. you have to remember the u.s. policy in this recently. number one they're trying to

make gains against al qaeda on the arabian peninsula who happens to be an enemy of the houthis, which have gained so much territory. and they are weaponing the saudi move to suspend the air campaign hours ago. >> there are several u.s. ships, either in or heading to the waters of yemen to supposedly keep an eye on iranian ships. and does the coalition's decision to change its mission affect and impact u.s. man's? >> i don't think so. the situation in yemen is far from stable. probably the opposite of stable tip. and certainly the united states raised its eyebrows when it announced that the earth carrier, coupled with the uss normandy, would be joining u.s. air ships off of the coast of yemen, and the reason that they sounded loops, many before that

it's carrying arms for the houthis, and the white house said that the stated reason for the american presence there off of the shores of yemen is to ensure free navigation and the free flow of commerce, others suspect that there could be a confrontation. the white house left the door open to that today. >> but we continue to be mindful of the destabilizing activities that iran is engaged in, in terms of supporting the houthis, and in some cases even supplying them weapons and the united states is serious in standing shoulder to shoulder with the international community when it comes to the specific arms embargo that has been put into place by the u.n. >> now the rows relative and the form andy are still steaming to the coast of yemen. and the warships are said to be far away, but all eyes are on yemen from washington. >> all right, mike viqueira in

washington and the united nations calls it the worst migrant disaster in the mediterranean in history. the u.n. says that more than 800 migrants drown when their boat capsized this weekend off of the libyan coast. and the italian coast guard said that it rescued more than 100 of them. >> and still they keep on coming no matter how dangerous the journey. 446 people, their wooden boat leaking, and all they can do is appeal for help in the south sea. they were lucky an italian fishing boat found them just in time. and in sicily, meanwhile the authorities are helping the few frightened men who survived the sinking of a libyan boat in the morning. the scale of that disaster has turned out to be horrible accurate.

>> we have now interviewed most of the survivors of saturday's boat tragedy in the mediterranean. according to them, they came from tripoli libya on saturday morning and it had 850 people onboard. many of these were children, and among those onboard, 350 arrow trans, as well as people have somalia and avery coast and ethiopia. >> italian prosecutors said this man was the captain of the boat. he has been taken into custody charged with reckless homicide and causing a shipwreck. another suspected member of the crew has also been arrested. mohamed on the right from libya, accused of assisting illegal immigration. and more details are emerging as to how so many people died. >> they were inside of the fishing boat that wasn't small.

it was at least 23 meters long. a few hundred migrants were forced into the hull at the lowest level and they were locked and prevented from coming out. another 700 were enclosed on the second level. and while on top, there were another hundred migrants. >> here in italy, there are a lot of sympathies for the victims of the disaster, and the widespread outrage. but the european governments have disagreed for years on ways to prevent these disasters at sea. and on ways to prevent more people from risking the pair list journey across the mediterranean. and it goes far beyond the italian waters. further west, up the coast of spain, 40 africans coming from morocco on a wooden boat. some, too exhausted to walk ashore. some so young they may not

remember how they arrived here to start a new life on a new continent. aljazeera, sicily. >> the united states said that it's concerned about the conviction and the sentencing today of egypt's first freely elected president. former president was sentenced to 20 years in prison, after being found guilty and inciting violence. morrissey was elected in the same year that they overthrew him in july of 2013. sahar joins us now an associate professor of law and she windows about law in egypt. professor, good to see you again, and what is your reaction to the sentence given to the former president? >> i i its ironic that you have the indictment of the president, while you have absolutely no accountability

from those who have stolen billions from the country and viled human rights, and ordered shoot to kill in the 13 days of uprisings. so it's a very glaring contradiction that the regime is very eager and intent on prosecuting the must be, and yet the leaders the military and police officers and economic elite are free to go. >> sahar, many contradictions, and lem take up one with you. i know at the details they're different, but at the core, there seem to be striking similarities here. why is the u.s. supporting the saudi-led military campaign to support the campaign in yemen but when it was being deposed in a military coup?

>> it goes to show that the united states is not concerned about knock and whatever it claims is not backed by action. i think one reason is they're concerned with having the military, to ensure and without the military, you can't have egypt onboard. and the egyptian military had made a decision, presumably before he was elected that the must do could not lead essentially i want. so they sided with the military. and militarism is back in egypt. >> maybe you're right, that was the decision that the military took, but what was morrissey's decision in the eyes of those who supported him? i'm wondering was it in issuing that order from the judiciary, on his orders?

>> he made many mistakes. from a broad spectrum, it was authoritarianism and the people were completely disregarded by both of the stakeholders, but yes, he issued a constitutional declaration in november of 2013 that placed him above the law and he also, arguably engaged in violence against people, by ordering the muslim brotherhood thugs to attack civilians. but so did the military security apparatus. so there are no clean hands in this situation and what you're seeing is very one-sided accountability under the guise of plist sized tries and dependence. >> i have to sneak one more in here today. i have wonderful smart egyptian friends, who are absolutely accepting of this government, even though many in

the country were fed up with dictatorial rule. how do you explain that? >> i think it depends on what options you have available to you. so before 2011 the option was this 30-year-old stale decktator ship who would stolen the revolution, but after three years of stability and witnessing the morrissey reg seem turn into an authoritarian regionim though not as bad as the current regionim, and seeing the region explode with yemen and iraq and syria then the people feel, we would rather have the devil we know, the strong arm military general, as opposed to the devil we don't know, which is the muslim brotherhood and the critical space to allow terrorists to fill that value. vacuum.

so i understand what the egyptians are in, but in the long run, it's a recipe for more political instability. >> it's good to see you a professor of law at texas state university. joining us from fort worth text today. there may be a long delay before a deal can be reached on a human trafficking bill. and that legislation was hung up over funding for abortion. libby casey joins us now and walk us through all of this, and where we are tip. >> reporter: tony, it looks like the senate has finally reached a deal to move forward. now, republicans were not letting a vote on listen happen until they passed a human trafficking bill. they're totally unrelated but the republicans control the

agenda and today it appears that the senate has reached resolution on the human trafficking bill. here's what we talked about today. >> before this debate got hijacked, we were focused and are still focused on the victims of hewn trafficking particularly girls between 14 and 18 years of able, and the resources that have always been a problem. >> the bill, tony, what it does is a victim's compensation fund. in an abortion bill tucked in there, the democrats wouldn't say that they hijacked this bill by any means but here's what they have done, instead of going with what the republicans constructed. there will be two pots of money to help hewn trafficking victims, one coming from health centers, to help with their medical care and then this new pot of money that comes from convicted traffickers to help

pay for their legal bills. democrats are not thrilled, but they can live with it because it doesn't change existing abortion laws >> so it sounds like they're going to move forward on the trafficking bill, but what about the vote for loretta lynch? >> it can happen over the next couple of days because human trafficking is inching forward but the top democrat in the senate, harry reid, had a word of warning today. >> we're not out of the woods yet. and that's an understatement. the final vote on the agreement should still be stalled by the renstherepublicans, because they can't get over offering a bunch of amendments because as i've seen them, are not germane much. >> harry reid said that if the republicans plan to bring up bills on immigration something that the republicans have talked about, that could slow the process down, so he's saying that this could still

take a while longer, and congress pointing out that loretta lynch has been waiting for five months since the president picked her to be the next ag. and that's longer than the last seven combined. >> the head of the drug enforcement association is stepping down. michelle is facing fearing after the justice department had prostitutes. >> reporter: we have known it was on the cards for a long time, because allegations of agents and prostitutes, that's bad enough. it was a disastrous response before congress last week that meant that she had to go. >> michelle lienhoff has been there for four years the second woman to hold the job but she's leaving because of

reports that some dea agents held sex parties. last week, she had a intense appearance on capitol hill. >> this person is posing a national security risk. engaging in behavior that's embarrassing that we have to talk about it. it's an embarrassment that you don't fire that person. it's an embarrassment that you don't revoke his security clearance. >> everything that you said about the behavior, i completely agree with. as far as the disciplinary penalties that were handed out in that case, i'm very disappointed in that. i don't fire. i can't -- >> can you revoke their security clearance? >> it was signed by deps and rens calling for her to step down or be fired. >> i have to say that you're in charge of discipline on one hand. and then you come back and say

you have nothing to do with discipline. you are in charge of the entire agency, and you say that you have nothing to do with correcting problems. quite honestly, i have serious questions into your competence, quite frankly and it appears to me that we need to seriously consider your leadership at the dea. >> voicing concerns about the alleged behavior by some dea agents. >> the officer of inspector general has published troubling details about the conduct of some officers. the president has serious questions, and i know these are concerns that have prompted the department of justice to take steps and try to address them. and we're certainly in support of the efforts underway at the department of justice to address this.

>> leonhart's top years at the dea have been uncomfortable. she was the target of online petitions of a drug alliance, calling on her to go after she distanced herself from the hands off approach toward legalized marijuana. and leonhart has not been fully on board the census reports by the justice department. it's not the first time, in 2012 revelations that the secret service agents had been doing the same thing in columbia created one of the most embarrassing incidents in the 150 year history of the elite service. with the dea in mid may they will pay tribute it her years in charge, citing work for drug trafficking gangs but tony, when you have an incident like

this in the department and congress doesn't like it, you have to go. >> appreciate it, thank you. baltimore police released new information about the death of freddie gray, but the justice department wants more. an investigation is open. >> . >> and calling for the death penalty in the boston marathon bomber, why it may be a difficult you have to sell for the jury.

>> the sentencing phase is underway for convicted boston marathon bomber, dzhokar tsarnaev. found guilty on all 30 counts. the options life in prison or the death penalty. and erica is following the trial. >> reporter: well, the judge told the jury to expect the penalty phase to last about a month. and today the jurors heard graphic and emotional testimony from the family members.

urging the jury to spare the boston bomber's life. but dea tell pellegrini disagreed. she made it carry that tsarnaev was determined to be "america's worst nightmare," and he had no conscience when he maced his backpack in front of the crowd full of smiling spectators. he murdered each of them in a way that they had pain and they were scared and frightened and no time to say good-bye. this is the essence of terror, and this is a long line of testimony which will decide if tsarnaev will receive life or death. but the idea of executing 20-year-old tsarnaev is controversial. look at this recent poll that suggests 31% of boston area residents are for the death penalty, and nearly 60% are for life in prison. our aljazeera legal contributor

argued that this jury will be likely less inclined to pose the death penalty. >> reporter: this is a death qualified jury, so they should be more inclined than other bostonian to give the death penalty. and they certainly shouldn't know about this poll, because they're not supposed to know what's going on, right? but i still think that there's no better place for this trial to happen and for the defendant than in the boston, massachusetts area. and judy clarke, there's no better defense attorney that he could have for this case, so he has a pretty good chance to survive. >> federal officials don't expect tsarnaev to take the stand once the defense represents it's case next week, but you know, tony, anything is possible and coming up at00, we'll hear powerful testimony from some of the witnesses today who took the stand. >> erica appreciate it, thank you. the company that makes the

third highest selling brand of ice cream in the country is pulling all of its products out of stores. blue bell's recall after two confirms cases of listeria. they have been linked and the potentially deadly bacteria has been tracked to a production line in texas and oklahoma. coming up, two of the biggest table providers, there are billions at stake and plus, the state of virginia agrees to pay millions in a wrongful death lawsuit. the family of a man killed by the police.

>> anger in baltimore this evening. people taking to the streets to protest the death of 45-year-old freddie gray, who died of injuries apparently

sustained after he was taken into plus custody. there are new developments into that investigation and jonathan betz is here with more. >> reporter: tony, large protests at this hour. the justice department said that it's looking into the death by opening a civil rights investigation. >> reporter: beginning in baltimore and spreading across the country. many asking why. cellphone video shows gray's arrest in baltimore last week, but what happened after he was put into the police van remains a mystery. an autopsy showed that gray suffered a severe spinal cord injury, which led to his death seven days after his arrest. >> i know that mr. gray, once he was inside of the van, he was able to talk, and he was upset, and that mr. gray was taken out of that van, and he could not talk, and he could

not breathe. >> gray bolted when he saw the officers, but quickly gave up. he asked for an inhalish, he became angry and the police put him in leg irons. 45 minutes later he is rushed to the hospital and slips into a coma. >> it's possible what happened. because it happened in their custody under extraordinary circumstances. >> six officers have been suspended, between the ages of 25 and 45. three are rookies with only three years each on the force. >> we want them tried for first-degree murder. >> police have announced changes, such as responding immediately when police ask for medical attention to someone in their custody as they search for answers to calm anger. >> this is not ferguson. this is a city where we have worked hard under this current administration to develop dialogue with the community.

and we're here to say that we hear you. >> and baltimore's commissioner said that the city investigation should be wrapped up may 1st. it could force serious changes in the department like what we have seen in other cities. >> we need answers on this, jonathan. former police chief and police academy director, as well as the dean at ivy tech community college in annapolis richard good to have you on the program. >> i wish it were under circumstances. >> doing this the way i normally do, what question, what's the number-one question you want answered in this investigation? >> well, i want to know what happened to begin with, and what initiated this situation.

>> while he was being chased, right? >> exactly. that's the question. why was he being chased to begin with. there may be a very good answer for that, or there may not be. there are two investigations going on we are aware of, and then the next question i would ask, tony, once he said that he was in distress, and he made that pretty clear. in the video you can see him screaming and the officer dragging him and i've had tons of people put in front of a breathalyzer, oh my asthma and all of that, many times they're crying wolf, but i always call for paramedics. for their protection, as well as my protection. those are checks and balances, and once they're cleared by the er doctor in the emergency room, you continue processing, and why they didn't call immediately, that's the big question. >> richard, wait a minute.

and the first question, why are you chasing him what led to this and the officers involved haven't they been asked that question at this point in the investigation? >> they may be. >> that's a pretty simple, straightforward question. hey, guys, why were you chasing him? what happened here? >> and it may very well be answered in the report, tony, but then they have to do an interview. and in many departments in many states, there are varyings of a police officer's bill of rights. which sometimes gives a certain timeframe for the officers to decompress so they can give a more accurate version of what happened when they're away from the stress of that situation. i don't know if that applies particularly in the baltimore city police department. but that's part of what i think

will come out as this goes on. >> so richard police also, i'm looking at the timeline as provided by the baltimore sun and it says here that the police stopped the van so paperwork could be completed. is that normal? >> well, if you have somebody, i go back to the medical issue. to me, that's one of the most troubling aspects of this. and we don't have enough information, but i got to tell you, if i had somebody like this. >> you want to get them to processing, don't you? >> you want to get them to processing but you want to get them the medical aid that they may or may not need, but certainly deserve to be looked at medically and cleared to go forward. i tell recruits, i tell students and i have for years we treat everybody as if this was your son or daughter. how would you want your family member to be treated. even if your family member

fakes it a lot wouldn't you want them to be checked out? and the majority of the officers do an excellent job and this may or may not be the case here, but on the face, the medical question, that's the one that bothers me. >> bray is a 25-year-old and he died of injuries that included damage to his spinal cord, and a crushed voice box. doesn't this scream that an investigation needs to be conducted by someone an outside agency, an independent investigation in and i know that the federal government is going to do that. >> exactly, i was going to say that and you're exactly right tony. the justice department is looking into it, and they're within their rights and it's the moral thing to do. but i want it to be a pair and impartial investigation for everybody involved.

it's concerning and we want transparency in law enforcement. all of the departments i know the transparency and accountability. every time you have bad policing and this may or may not be the case, but every time you have bad policing, it besmirches the reputation of the 700,000 great cops out there, without anybody getting hurt. so they need to look at this and there are a lot of questions of a kind of know this stuff and i scratch my head a lib. >> richard police chief and police academy director, and he has a bunch of other credits as well. thank you. the fatal shooting of an unarmed pab in virginia has resulted in a record settlement for a miss shooting in the united states. fairfax county will pay $3 million to the man killed by the police in august of 2013.

lisa stark here, and lisa, what are the details of this case? >> reporter: well, tony, john deere was standing in the doorway of his home when he was shot by the police. witnesses say that the 46-year-old father of two actually had his hands up when he was shot. and after that, it took local officials nearly a year and a half to release any information about this case, and that was because a judge finally ordered it. now fairfax county says that it has reached what it calls a fair settlement. john deere's fatal encounter came after the police were called to his fairfax county home following a domestic dispute. photos show him talking to the police hands on top of the screen door. gear's attorney explained what happened next. >> it was five or ten minutes after this, maybe shorter. his hands came down slightly, to about his ear level. and that's when the bullet rang out. >> a bullet fired by officer

torres hit gear in the chest. and it took an hour for the officers to go in, and they found him dead. protests began and a judge ordered them to release information. it showed torres, unlike the other officers, thought gere could have been reaching for a gun. >> it was justified, i have no doubt about that at all. and i don't feel sorry for shooting the guy at all. >> in settling the case for $2.9 million the chairman of the board of supervisors said, "i hope this brings some measure of closure to the family of john geer. his long-time partner did not want to face years of litigation. as geer's father told me in february. >> there's no reason i should have had to go through the

misery i have had to go through for this period of time. >> the family would still like officer torres charged in this case and he has been on desk duty since the geer killing and first by the county is now by the federal government. but so far no criminal charges. but tony, the uproar of the case has been so great that the county has pointed a commission it look at police procedures this and critics say that's long overdue. >> lisa stark for us, and thank you. and turning to the 2016 presidential campaign, democratic candidate, hilliary clinton, is facing new questions tonight over the practices of her family's charity with the clinton foundation. david schuster joins us now. >> reporter: it's a charity that helps people across the globe to boost their health and economic opportunities but documents suggest that most of the donations to the clinton

charity do not actually make it to programs in the field. as hilliary clinton was campaigning in new hampshire irs documents including the clinton foundation tax returns between 2009 and 2013, the clinton foundation received over $500 million in donations but only 15% of that, or $75 million, went toward actual program grants. more than $25 million went to fund travel expenses, and $110 million went to galleries and benefits, and $2.9 million was classified as other expenses. it's not clear what those other clinton expenses were. documents by the red cross, 91% of its donations go to actual perhaps, and doctors without borders, 86%. the clinton campaign has so far

refused to competent p it is possible that the miscellaneous expenses are helping to save lives, but listing large expenses without detail is highly unusual in the charity world. it suggests that the clintons and their foundation have missing to hide. >> thank you. the earth began disappearing nearbyu corn, louisiana and since then, it has chased 53 people interest their hopes and the few who stayed are battling the salt pining company who are responsible. and robert, there are not many people there are there? >> no, tony, not at at all. it is a ghost town right now. it happened 53 years ago in

august where the ground collapsed and sucked out all of the trees s. now texas brian the company responsible for all of this, they want to go in and take salt out again but the new environmental regulations in haw allow are stopping tem from doing this. >> it is scenes like this that prompted many rents of bayou corn to leave. >> it's very personal. very sad. dennis calls this the paradise. despite the threat of land plunging into the earth. he says that he will die here. >> the beautiful houses right across the highway right here, i'm fully ex suspecting texas brian to level those houses and they a they're going to convert it to green spacious. green space is nice, but i hate

to see all of those good people leave. >> texas brian has bought over 150 homes and paid residents $48 million in compensation after a class action lawsuit in the wake of the sinkhole collapse and now the company has filed suit against their corporate neighbor, dow chemical. now, the sinkhole is 32 acres and it's 300 yards away. they say that it's stabilized, and there has not been a lot of activity in the past ten months, but the issue is that texas brian would like to drill down again and extract salt. but they cannot do that because of new regulations here in the state of rue allow. the reason is, dow chemical owns a lot of land around here, and it's too close to texas brian's land. it's one foot away. under regulations, they have to be 200 feet away to conduct business, and that's what the complaint is all about.

texas brian wants compensation from dow chemical for alleged loss of salt brine. and we asked why do they want to salt mine again in the area that has been decimated by their work. they wrote a short response, saying that we won't be able to speak with you. our goal is to continue to provide sodium chloride to our customers. dow chemical refused to speak with us as well. but the residents in court say that they're the ones being neglected. >> it's shocking to me that it happened. >> john budreau the director of the assumption parish office for homeland security and emergency preparedness is concerned that texas brian wants to excavate again. and he adds that the company is taking way too long to remove potentially dangerous natural gas sitting just underneath the

town. >> they need to be more aggressive and put more wells in and get this done more quickly. >> this is my good friend's house right here. >> as for dennis landry, who has watched his paradise disappear, it has taken control. >> i wanted to save bayou corn, and i wanted to save the community that i helped to build. >> do you you did or is it lost? >> i think that i scored a 40 on the test. i didn't do too well. i never thought for a moment that we would be down to nine rents on sportsman's drive. >> landry's friends are gone. and the neighborhood will likely be demolished in the next year, and yet life here goes on. big business. >> the product that texas brian sent over to dow chemical, there's nowhere in there that says how long they have to respond to the complaint or

suit. we'll wait to here, and of course the lawyers or the companies are not talking but the residents sure are and you would think that we would be hearing from others. >> robert ray for us, thank you. f. >> and the nation's top two cable providers are expected at a meeting tomorrow. discussing anti-trust concerns around comcast's planned purchase of time-warner cable. they urged federal regulators to scrap the deal >> reporter: it's the had a billion dollars mega merger, and antitrust watchdogs are not sold. comcast and time-warner cable. a company controlling 40% of the pay tv market and almost 60% of broad band. that gargantuan footprint could be a serious game changer for consumers. >> it's not just that they will

be a provider. but they will be determining what content goes on the air for consumers. >> since the deal was first announced over a year ago critics say that the combined company could charge higher prices for fewer services, and while comcast said that the customers would win through pastor and cheaper internet service, and wi-fi hot spots. and they say that it won't harm the competition because it doesn't operate in the same market as time-warner cable. but taking a broader view, one that considers how much power the companies could we would over tv channels and streaming services like netflix and am don prime. >> justices worry that they will be the gatekeeper and determine what the consumers get to see. >> they put conditions on the deal, such as forcing comcast

for subscribers but the very reason that made the deal attractive to comcast in the first place. >> coming up next, an admission of guilt from the so-called accountant of auschwitz.

>> one of the last surviving workers at the auschwitz concentration camp put on trial today. 93-year-old oscar the bookkeeper of auschwitz charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. dominic cane in berlin. >> he entered the courtroom a frail old man with a dark past. in his youth he worked as a clerk for the ss auschwitz death catch. and on tuesday that past caught up with him. he was accused of being an accessory to the murders of

300,000 people in the spring and summer of 1944. he told the court he acknowledged what he called his moral guilt. but said it was for the judges to decide whether he should be convicted. auschwitz was the single most murderous camp the nazis ran in the finally jewish solution. it was thought that is 40,000 people theuse and others, were ex exterminated at the camp in the 4 and a half years of its existence. oscar was at the camp between 1942 and 1944. his roll was to deal with the collection and the sorting of the belongings of those who were murdered. and he had particular responsible of the foreign currencies found among the possessions. one of the jewish children who survived being experimented on by ss doctors at auschwitz was

in court to hear oscar. eva's parents and elder sisters died at auschwitz. eva spoke about what seeing him on trial meant to her. >>[ unintelligible ] to think a lot of things through he remembered. and so i think in one respect maybe functioning at that level, he's doing his very best. it's a very long day. >> in previous interviews ten years ago oscar verneing chose to speak about his time at auschwitz, as he put it then, to oppose those who denied that the exterminations ever happened there. but now his trial he accepts

his own moral guilt. dominic caine aljazeera berlin. >> people investing in motorbikes as a cheaper alternative to transportation. but there has been a dramatic increase in motorcycle deaths and injuries. allen fisher takes to the road to see how bad the problem actually is. >> reporter: the cheap, easy way around is also very dangerous. getting a reputation in brazil. one that it doesn't warrant. >> in this area in the last ten years, the number of motorcycle accidents has gone up by 140%. that's because there are more motorcycles on the road. people here use motorbikes for everything even things that shouldn't be move bid motorbikes. wild has been a motorbike taxi driver for years and for him the roads are a scary place. >> i see a lot of crazy things.

you think man how does he do that? he's not only putting his life in danger, but others too. >> reporter: it gives you some idea of what it's like to navigate around the city. on just one sunday last year, the local trauma hospital treated 98 victims of motorcycle accidents. the number of cases is running at more than 1200 a month twice what it was two years ago. >> if the number of accidents keeps rising at the same rate we have today the health system won't have the conditions to treat all of those patients because they demand a highly specialized treatment. >> he was on the way to work when he hit another bike and he broke his leg in three places and he has lost the use of his left arm but he thinks that he's lucky. >> i'm not buying a new motorcycle.

i will take a lift to the bus. we need to have patience and slow down. >> identified as one of ten cities around the world which needs help from the global road safety initiative. it can plug into to the fund for safety and education. >> it shows the best practices best ideas and we can contextualize it. that's a great thing. >> he will find out shortly what programs have been approved and launched. for some, it could be life and death. allen fisher, aljazeera brazil. >> for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john seigenthaler is here. >> fighting in yemen and now that saudi arabia has ended the air campaign over yemen how can that help a blockade of american boats and who is really in charge there? and plus, the life and death

charges for the boston marathon bomber and life or death penalty in and navajo steeped deep intrition, but it faces questions about his future brought on by an election. >> language is important. we can not be a nation without language. >> does language preserve the navajo culture? >> and plus, an academy award-winning screen writer. my conversation with john brinley. all of those stories and a lot more coming up in 3 minutes. >> thank you for the second time this year, japan's super train has broken it's own speed record for passenger trains. had hit 75 miles per hour on a test drive breaking the old

speed record. number train is not supposed to carry passengers until 2027.

>> hello, this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. war in yemen. saudi arabia calls off its airstrikes but the battle is far from over. the migrants plague. >> i think the international community needs to recognize the fact that there is nothing that is going to stop this migration flow that is happening. >> fleeing poverty persecution and war and the smugglers who prey on them.