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h north korea. it does seem the kremlin has found it too difficult to negotiate on this occasion. >> harry fawcett reporting there. and good news to report in nepal. two people are pulled out alive, one including a teenage boy. go to aljazeera.com. police in baltimore turn over their findings to the prosecutor, as civil rights leaders meet with baltimore's mayor after a night of protests across the country. a miracle amid disaster a teenager is rescued after being buried live for five days after the earthquake in nepal. and ten men jailed for decades for shooting malala
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yousafzai. ♪ this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston. the investigation into the death of freddie gray in baltimore is now in the hands of prosecutors. police revealed that they have turned over their report on what happened to gray while he was in police custody, revealing the van carrying gray made a previously undisclosed stop. let's get right to john terrett in baltimore. police didn't put out a lot of information, but the details on the van certainly getting some attention. >> reporter: absolutely. this is key information. and in fact randall, good afternoon, from baltimore, there were two key pieces of information released in the last 90 minutes. number one, at 8:50 this morning, they handed over their
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interim report into the death of freddie gray to the state's attorney. they did that a full 24 hours earlier than expected. number two it is being revealed the van in which freddie gray was being transported to the police station made four stops, not three. there was a fourth previously unknown about stop which the police say they picked up by reviewing someone's private cctv footage. the police commissioner has just said the task force he put together to get this report finished quickly, heeded his words. take a listen. >> we have exhausted every lead at this point in time. but this does not mean the investigation is over. let me repeat. this does not mean the investigation is over. if new evidence is found -- >> reporter: and the commissioner and his deputy commissioner said that they both hoped the fact that the report has gone over to the state attorney 24 hours early and the
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fact that they are really not releasing very much information about what is in it at all, is something that won't mean that baltimore suffers any violence tonight or in the coming 48 hours. take a listen. >> i understand the frustration. i understand the sense of urgency, and so has the organization, and that is why we have finished it aday ahead of time. i also know that getting to the right -- the right answer is more important in this feet making sure that we look and overturn every rock is more important than just coming forth and giving a document. >> reporter: and that is also the message of baltimore's mayor, who has been speaking this morning, saying that she thinks there is a disconception about what the handing over of this report means. it does not mean we're going to have an immediate indictment it means the state's attorney will review the document and decide
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in the coming weeks whether any charges should be charged against the six police officers. >> there is an article that suggested from the police report that perhaps freddie gray was thrashing around in the van. another inmate had heard him. but that's another issue. >> yes. >> what is expected to come from the meeting with the mayor and civil rights leaders? >> reporter: i think the meeting is going to get underway at 12:30. it is a meeting at the church where freddie gray's family said good-bye to him on monday before the riots started. and it's being called by the president of ncaa and the president of the urban league the mayor, and al sharpton will come in. and the idea is to discuss how
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to move baltimore forward long term. after the riots we have now had two nights with relative peace, and in fact almost complete peace last night. but those are short-term goals. long-term everybody knows something has to be done to address the issue that sparked the rioting. there are more protests planned for today across the country. last night more than 100 people were arrested during a march in new york city. most of those arrests were for blocking traffic. boston minneapolis, washington, d.c. also saw calm demonstrations with hundreds of participates. nearly four in ten young african american men in baltimore are unemployed. a recent study says one of the main reasons is the lack of role models in the community. gabriel talked to some people who are trying to change that.
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>> reporter: this man is teaching young people how to print designs on t-shirts. in a rough neighborhood of baltimore, he runs a program that is not only about making clothing but also about keeping kids off of the streets. as many as 30 young people are part of the program at any one time. he himself tries to set an example. he sewns a sorbet store in the community. >> our goal is to help empower the young people with the resources they can. so they can provide for themselves first, and then their community. >> reporter: six out of every ten people who live in baltimore are black, but three out of ten businesses are owned by black people. a new study found in areas where african americans were increasing their business ownership, there were positive results beyond the business bottom line. the growth of african american-owned businesses was strongly linked to reduction in
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black youth violence and there's a whole host of reasons for it primarily because black business owners are seen as role models in the community. >> it creates jobs. >> reporter: omar directs the entrepreneurial development center at morgan state university. so what are the key challenges that african americans face when trying to open a business. >> having access to capital. whether it's a loan money from family friends, and some people say fools, or from a venture capitalist, but access to that capital. >> reporter: people don't want to be seen as living in a hopeless blighted part of town that needs outside help to improve. >> we need investment to do those things on our own behalf instead of having many government agencies and non-profit agencies essentially trying to manage disaster and all of the data that has been produced on the outcomes have
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not been transformative. >> reporter: and that's why they continue to learn in hopes of one day owning the very stores they might want to shop in. the baltimore orioles are on their way to tampa right now for their next home game. the team series was moved from baltimore, due to ongoing worries about security. they played the white sox at camden yards with no one in the stands 24 hours ago. it baltimore's police chief said he could not spare officers for the game. turning now to politics. vermont senator bernie sanders a short time ago made it official. he will run for president as a democrat. making him the first challenges against hillary clinton'sed by
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for the white house. is this a surprise? >> no not really. there is a connection between bernie sanders and the orioles playing in front of no fans. there today was bernie sanders by himself at the capitol hill stakeout cam with a couple of random tourists behind him, and saying hey, i'm getting into this race because of the billionaires and money in politics. watch. >> how does it happen that the top 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%? and my conclusion is that that type of economics is not only immoral, it's not only wrong, it is unsustainable. it can't continue. we can't continue having a nation in which we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation on earth at the same time as we're seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.
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>> he has no national political organization, or donation organization. he is essentially going out there with this message about trying to get money in politics. but nobody gives him any serious chance of getting the democratic nomination. >> and he needs money to talk about money in politic. tell me this is he the eugene mccarthy of 2015? >> i think he is the eugene mccarthy with a website. he is going to rely on the rabble-rousers so he can take this message to iowa and new hampshire. as excited as bernie and his family and closest supporters are, i guarantee the clintons are just as excited, and the reason being is the democratic party is going to face a battle between the progressives on the left and the more centrists like hillary clinton. with bernie sanders in there he perhaps siphons some votes from
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martin o'malley. and they are going after the same progressives, and that could help hillary clinton, because even if hillary clinton only gets 50% of the vote in iowa, from o'malley and sanders are splitting the other 50%, hillary clinton walks away with a clear victory. >> and it energizes the base. >> it does but you really have a debate between progressives and the centrists, and that is to hillary clinton's benefit. >> thank you, david shuster. very interesting political campaign shaping up. >> it sure will be. now to nepal, where the death toll has now reached 5,800, but there were cheers as rescuers freed a 15-year-old boy trapped under the rubble for days. and a woman today has also been rescued from under rubble. on wednesday another man was saved after being trapped for 82 hours. mohammed has that man's story.
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>> reporter: when he was found alive and pulled out of the rul of a collapsed building many considered it to be a near miracle, and yet the brief glimmer of hope hasn't been enough to counter a growing sense of despair. the pain in his eyes belies how lucky he feels. >> translator: i had to stay under the rubble for four days with no food. >> reporter: trapped for 80 hours in a collapsed kathmandu hotel, he watched friends die in the surrounding wreckage and had to drink his own urine to stay alive. now after having his leg amputated, he has no idea how he'll make a living. >> translator: i hope people will help me. >> reporter: like so many nepalese men, the 28-year-old farmer was on his way out of the country so he could make enough to support himself and his
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family. >> translator: my flight to dubai was scheduled on april 27th but the accident happened on april 25th. >> translator: many of those trapped must still be alive. if they could be rescued in time they would live. >> reporter: many here believe there should be a lot more of them. with morale has decimated as these structures residents and rescue workers have grown used to fearing and seeing the worst. the mood we're is very grim. we're at the site of another one of these buildings that caved in. two bodies have just been pulled out of the rubble behind us. husband and wife one wedding ring clearly visible. it looked as though they were reaching out to each other, even in death. some of these surrounding
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buildings could collapse at anytime. neighbors traumatized, but curious, look on. as a devastated sibling negotiates the release of his brother's body. he wants to take it back to india. >> translator: only those who have lost families understand my pain. >> reporter: that pain is growing while fear spreads. the sun is about to set and rain has begun to fall. will rescue efforts be hampered even further? crews pack up for the day even though everyone knows time is of the essence. at many of the sights where we have reported from including this one today, the prevailing mood is one of resignation. it's an eerie mood we' seeing from people. i spoke a short while ago to a
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rescue worker here who told me he was unbarably sad and worried it would only get worse. there is more dramatic video today from the moment the devastating earthquake hit nepal last weekend. people were going about their daily lives when the ground beneath them started shaking, and the people many of them began to run. getting back to a daily routine is a challenge in nepal as you can imagine, but many are trying to do just that. hoping life's big and small homes can help them move past the horror they have witnessed. faiz jamil visited people trying to bring some sense of normalcy to their lives. >> reporter: this hindu wedding is takes place five days after the earthquake struck. many of the guests were sleeping outside in tents, so the wedding was canceled. the couple decided to go ahead
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with this scaled-down ceremony today. >> the reason why was we came here just for wedding, and even though we canceled the wedding, it won't change anything. so just to get things going, we decided to take this wedding. >> reporter: it has been anything but normal for those still sleeping outside, these tents really only provide a token protection from the cold at night. they are trying to move on but it's hard to do that when one can't even go home. >> translator: i would like to move on but i can't. i'm confused. how will i manage the expenses? it's very perplexing. >> reporter: the terrain making living here even on normal days. the fact that people can live through these conditions day after day is a credit to how resilient they really are. activists are calling it justice for malala. several of the men who attacked the nobel lowerat it when she
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was a teenager will tend 25 years in prison. kamal hyder has more. >> reporter: an anti terrorist court has sentenced at least ten people involved in the attack to 25 years in prison. the case was handed over to the anti-terrorist court by the military. the military says that it was able to arrest the key people involved in the attack back in september, which gave them vital information and lead to the arrest of all ten members. however, four members are said to be still at large, possibly hiding across the border in afghanistan, where the taliban leader is also based. now it must be remembered that the taliban in pakistan has taken responsibility for this particular attack.
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that's kamal hyder in islamabad. in nigeria military officials say they have rescued more people from boko haram. they were found in a boko haram strong hold in the northeast part of the country. just yesterday the army said it has liberated nearly 300 women and girls in another nearby operation. >> they are hostages who were in the forest against their own will and with profiling information from our intelligence we're finding it useful. at the moment they moved through the forests, and what -- you know trying to see them relieved from the trauma of living in the forest for that long. >> officials say it does not appear any of those rescues include the girls taken from the
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chibok school last year. a retired fbi agent has been arrested on perjury charges. robert fitted patrick was once second in come mapped of the fbi's boston office. he is accused of lying on the stand during bulger's trial in 2013. prosecutors say fitzpatrick exaggerated claims to sell copies of a book he wrote about bulger. coming up the greek government look towards local communities to help pay off huge international loans. ♪
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in oil sales. isil has taken over some of iraq's biggest refineries as it battles the government. bailout talks between greece and its european creditors have been dragging on for months now, and now public entities are being forced to help the government stay afloat. >> reporter: it's not every greek village that gets its own surfaced football field, but they belong to municipality who's three-term mayor has managed it so well it has money in the bank. so they still feed its neediest constituents. now the government is forcing corenth to lend it its savings. >> translator: the country needs our support, but we need to know when we want the money we will have it because if we don't we
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won't be able to buy fuel or food for day care centers. we don't be able to do the basics. >> reporter: greece is still at odds with creditors over economic reforms. the flow of financial assistance has stopped. the longer these talks drag out, the deeper the government has to dig to buy time. it has already withheld $1.5 billion in public works payments and borrowed another half billion from pension funds. now it is hoping to buy $2.5 billion more from municipalities. it's not local government that is affected. universities hospitals, public trusts even the national library must all surrender their cash. they have already lost $16 billion when the government bonds they held were discounted three years ago. so they are deeply skeptical. >> translator: we know there is a bad psychology.
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mayors are afraid. but it wants to give itself a bit of financial padding. the european central bank has cut off liquidity. we haven't received any money from abroad since last july. >> reporter: ultimately mayors say they will comply because if the ship of states sinks they won't last much longer. in atlanta three school teachers involved in the test cheating case will be resentenced today. the three were handed the harshest prison terms, a 20-year sentence and ordered to pay $25,000 in fines. straight ahead on al jazeera america, it's the talk of the art world, the new whitney museum getting ready to open its doors to the public. and a special guest will be on hand to help celebrate.
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one of the most anticipated museum openings in years took place a short time ago here in new york. first lady michelle obama was among those on hand to dedicate the new whitney museum. the museum underwent a multi-million dollars makeover. kristen saloomey has a look at the result. >> reporter: love it or hate it the art world is buzzing about the whitney's new building. the $422 million glass and steel structure will allow the museum to display more of its extensive collection of modern art from the united states in wade open galleries. >> we wanted people to slow down not just go through the checklist. we wanted them to slow down and look at things because every culture is far more complex than the media and museums presents
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them. we wanted to present a much more textured layered view of american art. >> reporter: a sculptor and heiress founded the institution. but then as now, what defines american art is hard to say. >> i think there's a sort of spirit a spirit of openness and a spirit of undering the contradictions. this is a very complex country, and i think that if there is one thing many of the artists really zero in on it's that. >> reporter: america is hard to see is the name of the inaugural exhibition. the works are a melting pot of styles and influences from the political to the abstract the serenely beautiful to the bizarre. it also boasts outdoor galleries like this one. the colorful chairs are positioned to take advantage of the views.
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there's the hudson river to the west, and new york city to the east and right next door a popular park which itself attracts millions of visitors a year. the museum expects to triple its attendance in the new location. >> it's been a long time since an american museum -- they got it right. and i think this museum gets it right. there's space for the art, space for the people space to stop looking at the art and look outside at this amazing city. >> reporter: so while america may be hard to see, the whitney's collection has never been more accessible. kristen saloomey al jazeera, new york. artists from around the world are taking their talons to the streets of mexico city. paining large murielss dur
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murals on walls around the city. thanks for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. the news continues next live from london. ♪ ♪ cut off from katmandu, and the help they need, we report from rural nepal where entire villages have been flattened. >> look at the damage and right through this area. there is only one home left standing. >> live from london, watching al jazeera at least 15 have been injured as well. >>
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