o do a triple backflip three full revolutions. the 29-year-old, he was jolly pleased with it all. www.aljazeera.com. you can get a great deal more on all the world stories. al jazeera.com. >> calm after the chaos. baltimore tries to get back to normal after the first night of mandatory curfew. trapped for 82 hours, a man is pulled from the republic after an earthquake in nepal. today the death toll continues to rise. and congress talking trade and about the country's friendship with the united states.

>> you this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm tony airries. baltimore is trying to get back to normal today. an overnight curfew was largely successful. there were a few arrests. this morning public schools reopened. parents brought their children to school, however, they were greeted by police in riot gear. john terrett is live in baltimore for us. john the justice department says it has met with the family of agreedy gray? gray--freddie gray? >> that's right. they said that tuesday they met with the family of freddie gray, but the doj went on to say a couple of interesting things. number one the federal report into the use of force by baltimore police is expected to be ready in a couple of weeks. there is a separate inquiry going into civil rights in baltimore police, and on top of that they say that the team in town who say this people's jobs

is to deal with conflicted communities and broken relationships with the police. they're here meeting at the moment with community leaders and faith leaders. as you know the report that everybody wants to hear about is the interim report from baltimore police into the death of freddie gray slated to be released on friday. but will it we're hearing that the police may choose not to say anything about the contents of that report and it may go straight to the state prosecutors. we'll have to wait and see. communities leaders and the lawyer for the freddie gray family said that don't expect to receive much information. that's the way it has to be. that's the system. don't be upset. when you don't learn much more about freddie gray's death on friday. >> apart from schools what has and what hasn't returned to normal there in baltimore? >> well, the schools are a big one. as you said in the introduction, it was extraordinary to see the

young children holding the hands of their mums and dads and. going off to school and meeting riot police. yesterday the police were blocking this junction here with pennsylvania avenue. this morning they were not blocking it, but they were positioned in the four corners of this junction. now they've done. we went at 10:30 and they have not been back. they are up the road in a car parked so if there is trouble they can be here quickly. but they're not here at the moment. >> gotcha. >> what is not going to happen, not in the usual way is the orioles game in the famous camden yard. it's happening but not in front of fans. for the first time in baseball history. the game is going to be played with no fans whatsoever. it could be a stunt by the major league baseball people, we don't know, but if someone gets a home run, there will be no one there to applaud.

>> what about clean up efforts? do they continue today? >> clean up has been the big side-bar story of this whole issue really. there was a clean up taking place in this area. on tuesday morning there were faith groups and church groups cleaning up in the area. and overnight the cvs the first one that was burned, it's now been boarded up and no one can get in. that's one of the things when the history books were written they may remember that that was a terrible night and there may be more who will come out and try to put things swiftly. >> hear here, here. good to you see. presidential chant hillary clinton calling for body cameras, reforms in law enforcement. >> we have allow the criminal

justice system to get out of balance has. and these tragedyies should galvan nice us to come together as a nation and find our balance again. we have to? to terms with some hard trusts about race and justice in america. >> clinton also said that the sail should be changed to change-- >> prime minister shinzo abe said that a trade benefit agreement would benefit a dozen countries in the region. >> we plus continue in every respect to that as arab we must spare no effort.

>> abe spoke of japan's role in world war ii and offered condolences to americans who lost lives during the war. the death toll now stands above 5,000 from nepal after last weekend's earthquake. aid continues to arrive in the capital of kathmandu. the united nations estimates half of the population has been effected by the quake. >> people here have every right to be frustrated. it's been several days now since the quake hit and people here in the capital most have not received enough relief. they've received a few tents, so some of themso not as many are sleeping out in the open as before. the u.n. said yesterday that 1.4 million people don't have enough food to eat. the fact that they can't even move outside of the capital to try to find loved ones.

and while in the capital they don't have enough to eat. it is boiling over. now we start three days of official mourning in kathmandu and the government has admitted that they did drop the ball after the initial earthquake happened. now they're appealing not just for those buried underneath but for the survivors. they say they need specialists from overseas, neurologists and anyone with trauma experience to help those people survive because those people themselves are getting very little relief. >> you know, we're learning today about one amazing story in nepal. this man was trapped under a collapsed building for 82 hours. everyone search and ask you teamsrescue teams--

teams--moscow has delivered supplies and equipment to assist local authorities. russia's assistance teams will evacuate russian national who is want to leave. aid agencies say they need 50,000 tents for the displaced and they only have 3500. >> open and exposed. it's the safest place for many thousand across the capital and the rest of nepal. while aftershocks remain no one is taking any chances. with only the clothes they were wearing and a few personal possessions this is now their lives. >> i have built this myself and borrowed money doing it. no one has come to help us. no fresh water.

no heat, this makes me angry. >> his wife is more direct. >> no one from the government has come to see how we're coping in this pathetic continue. just across the road people have diarrhea. we're all helpless. >> preparing the daily meal is a difficult task. waterfood and fuel is scarce. water is scarce. not all of the districts are reconnected. those who have survived they're distributing it to those who have contributed it as local victims of the quake. it's not enough, every family will find a way to use it.

>> the first is the tent. it is already late. people are getting sick. >> while the public are grateful for anything that the authorities can provide more needs to be done and done soon before it spills over into anger. >> they require help that is required to them. in some places it is not done on time. >> while temporary areas remain the government will be under huge pressure by the government to make sure they distribute fairly what the international

community has delivered. al jazeera kathmandu. >> the next round of talks with iran now slated to bin tomorrow. speaking at an event is iran's foreignster in negotiations between tehran and six world powers. world leaders have until june to reach a long-term agreement. they're nigeria is trying to identify 300 girls and women rescued. we know that they are not the school girls taken from chibok a year ago. saudi arabia's king announce announced the government shake up king salmon ousted his younger half-brother and named his nephew as ground prince. the country has hundreds of princes potentially in line for the throne.

>> this is saudi arabia's new crown prince. he replaces his uncle in the reshuffle. he has been minister of interior and chairman for political and security affairs, a body that makes decisions on threats facing the kingdom. the new ground prince has built strong ties with the u.s. when he was in charge of the fight against al-qaeda. the king's son has been appoint appointed new deputy crown prince. he also serves as minister of defense and chief of the royal court. shake ups in saudi arabia are closely monitored by the world. saudi arabia is the world's biggest oil producer.

>> there have been questions about the succession and the first generation becoming very old, and all of them in the 70s and 80s. now we have a second generation mostly very young and inexperienced. >> they're facing challenges like the instabilities facing yemen. they have recently launched airstrikes against shia houthi rebels. if ausesit accuses iran of using the houthis to create instability in the region.

>> in the past we have been patient. today we have lost our patience. things are happening too fast, and we believe that the stronger government should take action time away and send right messages so that saudi arabia is going to deal with everything. >> saudi arabia is an important player in the middle east. it provides significant support for the syrian opposition sunnies in iraq and lebanon. and saudi political sway spreads across the arab world into 2001 they were behind an arab league initiative offering peace with israel in exchange for a pull out from the areas controlled in 1967. al jazeera. >> the supreme court today issued a major ruling on campaign finance upholding restrictions on judicial

candidates soliciting for financing. he wrote that the only way to assure judges are fair is to make sure they themselves do not solicit cash. and the justices today heard arguments over a controversial drug linked to botched executions. defendants say that the drug is a sedative and is not strong enough to cause deep unconsciousness before other drugs are injected. the high court had ruled once before that the drug combination does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. slow growth. the latest gdp numbers are out and we'll look at what they mean for the future. tax time for the nfl. why the nation's most profitable sports league is giving up its tax exempt status.

>> the latest economic numbers are out and they are not good.

the economy barely grew in the first quarter of this year. patty, these they kind of stink. >> they're rubbish. they're really rubbish. very few thought this would an good number, but the one we got it morning is more disappointing than expected. the economy stalled growing just 0.2%. consumer spending which is the engine of u.s. economic growth was less than half of what it was than last year. and you can credit that to bad weather keeping people away from the shops. and consumers feeling less confident due to a slowing job market. big drag on economic growth in the big quarter were experts which fell a whopping 7.2%. disruptions of u.s. ports and a strong dollar are mostly to blame there. we asked u.s. economist doug

hanler if going forward there will be a problem. >> the higher dollar is bringing down import prices in the u.s. and putting pressure on u.s. firms that have to compete with these importing goods here. we're going to start to see that more intently in the second quarter. >> now many economists are expecting growth to rebound in the second quarter. but given the data pattern the most optimistic forecast can be reined in, but this is the first reading on the first quarter tony and these are extremely volatile numbers. >> how will these numbers likely impact the feds' decision on interest rates? we're expecting something june or so, right? >> well, a lot of the economists were pushing it back to september. >> they've been pushing it back, wow. >> this reading again, of course the feds did not derail the economy really these lousy numbers reinforce the view that

the feds will wait a little bit longer to pull the trigger. >> good to see you. the world's biggest retailer is getting bigger. walmart will open 115 new stories in chin over the next few years. it already has 400 stores in that country. walmart said that it plans to close some of the operations that are not performing well and put the focus on online grocery services. the big business of the nfl draft is just one day away. but ahead that have a big change for the national football league. it is dropping its tax-exempt status. >> in a memo to all 32 teams nfl commissioner roger goodell announced a big change to the $10 billion business of football. quote, the effects of the tax exempt status of the league office has been mischaracterized repeatedly. result the committee has decided to eliminate this distraction.

goodell is referring to the finance committee. he said paying tax also make no material difference to the nfl business. individual teams have long paid taxes on their profits. but the league itself has been classified as a non-profit. tax free a rising chorus of voices have been wondering why. >> they're making a lot of dough off of us which is may way of saying the nfl is screwing us. >> politicians have threatened to remove the tax exempt status amid the league's domestic violence scandal and controversial. now it's dubious that taxing the league will generate that much tax revenue. the nfl as an entity separate from its 32 teams has registered multi million dollar net losses in two of the last three attacks years. at best, the exempted status

saved the nfl only $10 million per year but ending it's non-tax status eliminates the need to release its finances. >> calling for an effort to make this a thing of the past.

>> in boston dzhokhar tsarnaev's defense is in the third day of the penalty phase in the boston marathon bombing trials. the 21-year-old's lawyers are arguing tsarnaev should not be put to death because he was influenced by his older brother. and mit is dedicating a memorial to the campus police officer who the tsarnaev brothers shot and killed after the bombings. the memorials were located on the campus after the officer was

slain. the bombings of their hiroshima and nagasaki. >> from above the atomic bomb named little boy looked like this. this 13-year-old saw the bluish flash, and the walls around her crumbled. >> then i had the sensation of floating in the air friends classmates who were with me were burned to death alive. >> some how she stumble outside. >> some people were carrying their own eyeballs in their

hands. no one was shouting for help. just simply asking for water wall, please. >> most of her family was south of town safe. but her sister and nephew were killed crossing a bridge. three days later on august 9 1954 the u.s. dropped another nuclear bomb on japan. this one on nagasaki. the u.s. energy department estimates more than 100,000 people died instantly in the two blasts. within a week japan surrendered and world war ii was over. but survivors continued to suffer. in this film taken at a nagasaki hospital the u.s. called this 16-year-old boy patient 50. his name was siituru. with the skin burned off his back he had to lie face down for

a year and nine months. >> i was really struggling on the border between life and death, often screaming kill me, kill me. it was a very hard time. >> lying on his chest for so long, it collapsed. >> i ask if you are still in pain. >> it doesn't main me. but i still feel pressure on my heart. >> in the seven decades since the bombings, japanese families have mourned the loss of many others who have died from cancer and other illnesses linked to the attacks. they have spent these years determined that nuclear weapons should never be used again. >> my little nephew was four years old well, their image just looks in my brain. that image just drives me,

compels me. >> so every five years she joins other survivors in support of new york that countries do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. thousands are marching towards the u.n. they're delivering a petition with 8 million signatures calling for a ban of nuclear weapons. it comes before the review of the non-proliferation treaty of the u.n. the treaty is meant to stop the threat of nuclear weapons but nor weapons have but more nations have more nuclear weapons than ever before. >> we have not really made progress. >> what needs to be done? >> they really need to be taking this issue seriously. and come to realize they hold in their hands the fate of

humanity. >> these survivors say they'll keep telling their stories until they no longer can. roxana saberi, new york. >> both have been nominated for the nobel peace prize. both are opposed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. they say there is a danger of another disaster like the one at japan's fukushima in 2011. munich is opening a new museum dedicated to the role of the nazis in world war ii. it will be shown as the birthplace as the rise of the nazi movement. they say its getting more difficult to look at the nation's past as more world war ii survivors die every year. they will open the doors to the public thursday. the news continues next live from london.

>> welcome to the al jazeera news hour. these are some of the stories we'll cover in the next 60 minutes. responding to the devastating earthquake as frustrations mound. saudi arabia's king names his successor in a major shake up. cries of fraud from togo's opposition parties. as the president of this west african nation is