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orchestra with a revival and they are by the armenian community and important to know turkey has a community still

living in it and the main ceremony is at the cathedral which has maybe the most important armenian population there inside turkey that cathedral was actually renovated by the turkish government an example they do not discriminate against the armenian citizens and have never done so before and it's important to know that actually turkey in the society actually is more busy or busier commemorating the centennial the battles here which are very significant because actually the founder of modern turkey played a huge role and a military officer back then and it was his role in those battles which gave him prominence to go and create the states so some say the huge celebrations around the centennial are essentially being used by the government to steal away from the focus of armenian issues and it's just the national pride like i mentioned earlier that is pushing them to that and nonetheless the decision of what happened 100

years ago is still as fresh as it has ever been but the authorities and the people here say they want to look forward rather than focusing on the past. >> attorney general lynch hopes to strike a new tone when she is sworn in to lead the justice department and they will confirm her as the first african/american woman to leave doj and "new york times" says she wants to improve police morale and find common ground with law enforcements and lynch plans to meet with police across the country this summer and this comes with a nationwide debate over tactics and lynch is expected to be sworn in monday and takes over from eric holder who resigned seven months ago but remained in office waiting for them to confirm the successor and the first to hold the position, the fourth longest serving attorney general and possibly one of the most

controversial. >> in good times and in bad, and things personal and things professional you have been there for me. i'm proud to call you my friend. >> reporter: eric holder told his friend president obama he was resigning his position as attorney general. leaving behind after more than six years a legacy that is up for debate. >> he has been one of the most decisive attorney general in history >> the best in my lifetime. >> no reason to be timid. >> reporter: praise holder for taking strong positions on controversial issues refusing to defend the defensive marriage act before the supreme court thus supporting same sex marriage and voter id laws speaking against police practices such as racial profiling. >> under mines the public trust ultimately and also makes us not

good at it. >> reporter: credits holder with changing government approach to drug prosecutions. >> the war on drugs was a mistake, that the government had the wrong approach and that these men should be treated and given a sense to rehabilitate themselves as opposed to being incarcerated. >> reporter: holder launched investigation into police practices and he inserted himself into controversial cases alleging police abuse against african/americans. >> his death is one of several resent incidents across our great country that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. >> reporter: but the cato institute says holder's policy actually damaged race relations. >> i would say that he has had one of the most race conscious tenures of any attorney general in terms of how he enforces

voting rights law, other civil rights laws including affirmative action and racial preferences. >> reporter: holder will be remembered more for his poor relations with congress. >> stone walling congress is a theme that comes up again and again, whether that comes up in fast and furious where he was actually held in contempt and referred to the federal prosecutors, he has dared congress to investigate further and not provide disclosure when requested. >> reporter: fast and furious was the department of justice gun smuggling operation that holder admitted failed miserably. >> fortunately we will feel the effects for years to come as guns that were lost during this operation continue to show up at crime scenes both here and in mexico. >> reporter: but when he refused to turn over documents demanded by congressional committee, holder became the first cabinet officer to be held in contempt, two years later this sharp exchange with a member of congress revealed how

much holder was stung by the citation. >> and i realize that contempt is not a big deal to our attorney general but it is important that we have proper over oversight. >> you don't want to go there, okay? >> i don't want to go there? >> no. >> about the contempt? >> you should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. i think that it was appropriate. i think it was unjust but never think that was not a big deal to me. >> i don't need lectures from you about contempt. >> i don't need them from you either. >> reporter: another complaint with record fines from wall street banks after the 2008 economic collapse. >> a landmark resolution with citigroup totalling $7 billion in fines. >> reporter: holder failed to go after the top executives running the companies and predicts a negative legacy for holder. >> he definitely has not brought this country together in the

sense of the fair administration of justice and the rule of law. >> reporter: holder's defenders disagree. >> i think that going forward he is going to be doing this to somebody who made an enormous amount of difference in our society and use his time as the attorney general to make things happen. >> reporter: on that point critics and supporters might agree. at least a dozen students are hurt, one critically after a stage collapsed during a high school musical performance, the terrifying moments were captured on camera as the stage gave way last night at westfield high school about 30 miles outside indianapolis. >> the music was playing and singing along and stuff and then boom the floor went straight down and everyone dropped and the look on everyone's face was pure shock and couldn't believe it was happening. >> running to the stage and finding out what happened and you see a 12 foot drop and students being covered in huge pieces of wood and debris. >> reporter: the high school is

open for classes today as investigators try to determine why this stage collapsed. coming up, next on al jazeera america we are following the money trail, a look at the links between hillary clinton and the foreign donors who gave to her family's foundation and a mega merger between comcast and time warner falls through and comcast was ready to walk away all along. ♪

♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, it's coming up on 10:48 eastern time and taking a look at the top stories lawyers for boston marathon dzhokhar tsarnaev presented evidence on monday hoping the jury will spare his life and faces the death penalty or life in prison for the 2013 bombings. and north carolina's house voted to extend the mandatory wait time for abortions here if the

bill becomes law the state will join three other states with a 72-hour waiting period. another ice cream company shut down production over listeria. health officials found bacteria in a sample of jenny's blended ice cream and it's based in ohio and sells at grocery stores nationwide. presidential hopeful clinton is facing new questions about foreign donations to her family foundation ethics groups want to know if foreign donor governments were interested in helping the charity or buying access to the former secretary of state. david shuster has more. >> reporter: facing accusations she has been unethical and has ongoing conflicts of interest hillary clinton this week in new hampshire addressed reporters and was dismissive. >> we are back in the political season and therefore we will be subjected to all kinds of distraction and attack and i'm

ready for that. >> reporter: most of the current distractions stem from her family foundation a charity and mission is to promote global health and wellness and soon after mrs. clinton declared the white house campaign. >> i'm running for president. >> reporter: the foundation announced it would continue accepting donations from six foreign governments, one government canada's continues to lobby for the controversial keystone xl oil pipeline. >> this is a great way for those donors to ingratiate themselves with candidate clinton and perhaps ultimately president clinton. >> reporter: hillary clinton was secretary of state her family foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from saudi arabia and other foreign governments that have a record of suppressing women's rights. one donation from algeria was not disclosed properly and by the foundation's own admission violated an obama administration ethics agreement, republican presidential candidates

including kentucky senator rand paul have been relentless. >> reminds me of people using the system to enrich themselves and looks unseemly and a lot of americans will agree with me. >> reporter: early next move an investigative book is published about the clintons e ex excerpts from the book reviewed so far there is no evidence mrs. clinton was influenced by the payments or that she broke any laws. and top clinton defenders have taken to the air waves to blast the book's conservative author peter switzer and attack anybody who promotes his work in advance. >> let's see what the book says in advance and i'm happy to come back and if i'm wrong i will be happy to say it and i think it's a political job and can smell it

a mile away. >> reporter: chelsea clinton said thursday the foundation will not change its practices. >> the work will continue as it is. i think that is the right choice for the people being affected by the work. >> reporter: the big question is whether the foundation's financial dealings with the blurred lines between donors and the clinton family's accumulation of wealth will matter to voters for now hillary clinton and surregits say people do not care or see the alleged conflicts of interest david with al jazeera. comcast says it's dropping the bid for time warner, the merger would have been worth about $45 billion, both the department of justice and the federal communications commission raised concerns that the deal would not benefit the public here is what they said about the decision quote, we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities but

we structured the deal if the government did not agree we would walk away. well looking at space like never before a world of possibilities are seen from the hubble telescope over the past 25 years and what still lies ahead and reaching out into cuba the nba opens camp on the look for new talent.

chile is bracing for a possible third volcano eruption as they monitor it today, the first time it has erupted in more than 40 years and it's already erupted twice in the past two days prompting evacuations and a state of emergency. on the science beat this morning today marks 25 years since nasa launched the hubble space telescope in honor of that and anniversary they show the gum 29 nebula and thousands of stars among pilars of dark gas and tom

ackerman says the hubble completely transformed how we view the universe. >> reporter: in new york city's time square this week the tourists getting a real time display that is literally out of this world, far, far out thanks to the hubble space telescope which launched in 1990 since then from the orbit 500 kilometers above earth it sent 1.2 million observations. by hovering past the earth's atmospheric haze the visual accuracy has been liken to seeing a pair of fire flies in japan all the way from the east coast of north america and as a result scientists have accurate look of planets in the solar system and for the first time identified more planets beyond it. >> the mirror is down on this end and this part points out into space. >> reporter: wanted deeper appreciation of the immense space. >> we know thanks to the images there are something like 200 billion other galaxies in the universe and each filled with

hundreds of billions of stars. >> startling insight in the course of the universe itself by tracing it backward in time to places more than 13 billion light years from earth. >> the galaxys are not only flying away from each other but accelerating and this tells us the universe is filled with mysterious energy they call dark energy. >> reporter: the only one to be serviced in space by astronauts 1993 a fatal flaw in the largest mirror almost made it worthless, but nasa dispatched a repair crew that corrected the error. hubble is expected to keep operating for the next few years but an instrument 100 times more powerful the web space telescope is due to be launched in 2018. >> one of the big hopes is we have web and hubble operating at the same time and open up a new window in the universe. >> reporter: to produce revelations about worlds yet to be discovered tom ackerman al

jazeera, green belt maryland. nba the first u.s. sports league to take advantage of relations with cuba and are training young athletes and just wants to focus on sports not politics. current and former nba players like steve nash regularly take part in basketball clinics but this one is special. >> translator: the next couple of years there will be a chance for athletes for basketball to get the same exposure baseball has. >> reporter: four days this weekend the pair are leading a camp in cuba making the nba the first american professional sports league to take advantage of the thaw in relations between washington and havana. >> isolation has not worked it's time for a new approach. >> reporter: after 18 years as a feared nba center he is now a global ambassador for the league with the league broadcaster playoffs to 215 countries and 47

languages his job is more than ceremonial ceremonial. >> we open to build the bridge. we have so many young men and women here in cuba. >> reporter: laying the ground work for a new market and a new source of talent for the league. >> and i think in the next couple years there will be a chance for our kids for basketball to get same exposure as basketball that we have. >> reporter: nba is not alone, new major league commissioner says he hopes mlb team will be playing in cuba by next spring and normalized relations will make it easier for more talented ball players to play in the states and big leaguers look forward to the day when they don't have to choose between their families in cuba and their careers. >> translator: we pray for that everyday i have many relatives in cuba my grandmother, my aunt cousins, friends, i have a

lot of people i love in cuba who i want to see. >> reporter: north american soccer leave is fast tracking a move to cuban soil this june they are the first prosports team to play in cuba since 1999 when they take on cuba's national team. among the athletes and ex athletes however the focus is sports not politicians. >> these questions are above by pay grade because i think these are obviously political issues. >> reporter: john henry smith, al jazeera. it sounds like science fiction but researchers getting closer to being able to actually clone a wolly-mammoth and they have been extinct but they are using tissue samples from two carkuses in the ice and maybe will explain what happens to them and it didn't but it's a major step to cloning them and

i'm randall and more news coming up in a minute. welcome. saudi arabpao he, two policemen in the capital earlier this month; and, the foreign minister says there will be no peace,until the rich bells surrender. another migrant vote reaches, sicily, and they were ready to stop, at