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made of a special type of jell, that feels like human skin. yang yang wowing visitors at the global mobile internet conference with her life like movements and expressions. one day she may be used. aljazeera.com for more. >> 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 and a disaster. a teenager is rescued after being buried alive for five days after the earthquake in nepal. and sentenced in pakistan, ten men jailed for decades for shooting.
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mala. this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston in for randall hair. the prosecutor is asking for patience as she investigating the death of freddie gray. police handed over their report on what happened to gray while in their custody. they revealed the van carrying the 25-year-old made an additional stop, a stop officials said not known about before. john tarot is live in baltimore, the police put out this information to news conference a short time ago and they finished a report a bit early. >> absolutely. three extraordinary new strands so the story revealed here only within the last two hours or so. number one commissioner coming to the microphone to say they handed the report over from the police office to the state attorney, and
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that's been done a full 24 hours earlier than it said it would happen. number two the commissioner revealing that the van carrying freddie gray back on april the 12th, made four p sos not three now that's troubling because five of the six police officers have given sworn statements to the authorities and apparently it didn't come up in any of the five statements but now the police know there was a fourth stop that was previously unheard about they know about it because they saw someone's private c.c.t.v. footage and the third extraordinary thing to happen within the last two hours the state attorney confirming that she has received the report in her office, and that she is about to carry out her own investigation. she will now as the law requires carry out her own investigation, to what the commissioner has handed out today. saying at that news conference that the special task force that he put together to expedite the report in the death he did
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his work, take a listen. >> we have exhausted every lead at this point in time. but this does not mean that the investigation is over. this does not mean that the investigation is over. and commissioner and his deputy making the point they hope the fact that the report has gone over 24 hours earlier and they are not releasing any information to what the conclusions are. take a listen. >> i understand the frustration, i understand the sense of urgency and so has the organization and that's why we have finished a day ahead of time, also know getting to the right answer is more important in the speak, making sure we overturn every rock, is more important than just coming forth and giving a document. >> from the mayor of baltimore as well, giving interviewing saying she thinks there's
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misapprehension as to what today is. the handing over the report, there will be no indictments following today or tomorrow, and the attorney the state attorney will take several weeks to review the report and make a decision about whether the six officers involved in the arrest should or should not be pros cuting. john the governor saying that baltimore appears to have tushed a corner after the unrest a few nights ago what does it look like to you. >> well, to be honest with you, the issues that sparked the riot willing still in place, and right now at this hour, there is a meeting taking place let by the reverend, and the president of the naacp and the urban league, and they are trying to look at ways to move this city forward and everybody here accepts nothing will happen overnight. yes, the city has turned a
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corner now with the state police and the national guard, and police were enforcements from all over the northeast everybody hopes that that level of violence will not return. certainly when the curfew was imposed it was imposed without any civil unrest at all. >> thank you. well, there are many protests planned today across the country, in solidarity with the family of freddie gray. more than 100 people were arrested during a march in new york city, most of those were for blocking traffic there were also demonstrating in boston, indianapolis, and washington d.c. most of those were peaceful. nearly four in young men in baltimore are unemployed. 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. >> in a rough neighborhood of
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baltimore, he run as program that is not only about making clothing but also about keeping kids off the streets. he hopes that some day they will become business unoers themselves as many as 30 young people are part of the program at any one time. he own as store in the community where of the kids are from. >> . >> our goal is to help empower the young people, so they can provide for themselves first. and then their community. >> six out of every ten people who li in baltimore are black but only three out of every ten businesses are owned by black people. a new research study looked at data from urban centers and found in areas where african-americans were increasing their business ownership, there were positive results beyond the business bottom line. the growth of -- and there's a whole host of reasons for
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it but primarily because black business owners are seen as role models in the community. it creates jobs and opportunities. >> omar directs the development center at morgan state university. what are the keyening thats. >> having access to resource so the access to capitol is big. whether it's money for family friends or from a venture capitalist, but access to that capitol. >> simply don't want to be seen as just living in a hope less blighted part of town we need investment in the community, on our own behalf, instead of having many of the government agencies and our properties trying to manage disaster. that's who they are doing, is trying to manage disaster, and all the data on the outcomes have not been trance tomorrowing. >> and that's why they continue to learn in hopes
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of some day owning the very stores they might want to shop in. al jazeera baltimore. >> now we have another hat in the ring, vermont center bernie sanders has made it official we will run for president making him the first challenger to hillary clinton bid for the white house. here with more of the announcement. in his seat in vermont. >> he is an independent. >> yeah, he is an independent who describes himself as a democratic socialist. he was asked at his announcement, are you now a democrat, and he walked away. this is would be of these campaigns that will be fun. politics with be a lot of fun to watch and be part of it, and bernie sanders says he will run because he wants to test the theory about whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire, or not beholden to billionaires to have a chance, and he says that is the main message too much money, in politics. watch.
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how does it happen? that the top 1% owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%? my conclusion that that type of economics is not on immoral and wrong, it is unsustainable. we can't continue -- as the same time we are seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires. >> and he said we can't have a situation where those millionaires and billionaires continue to dictate the outcome of elections. he does not have a national organization, he has about $5 million stocked away, he introduced a website today where he is hoping to get a lot of small donations but he is, of course, very much of a long shot so what kind of impact do you think this will have going forward. >> i think the impact is it
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may energize some progress is. it may also cause problems for martin o'malley. you might see a situation where both of them are able to make their case to progress is but the progressives have a fight with themselves, and hillary clinton is able to roll up victories because the progress is are divided and the establishment which she represents is not so the hillary clinton will welcome him to this race, martin o'malley maybe not so much, but it does mean that the issue of money and politic politics will be part of these debates. >> we will be watching, thank you. progressive. there were tears as rescuers free add 15-year-old boy trapped under the rubble for days. another person, a. who, today was also rescued under rubble. on wednesday another man was saved.
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after being trapped for 82 hour. many in katmandu are trying to get their homes to their remote villages. andrew simmons is one of those that aid workers say is being neglected. >> this is a vast area. no one realized how extensive the damage was here. we drove for something like 30-kilometers through village after village. devastated villages. now the original estimates of dead were put officially at around 1600 leer. but in actual fact, many unofficial estimates put it around 5,000 even 6,000. i have to say, i have not seen anything quite like nit a rural area, buildings that were really constructed from
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boulders and mud are just absolutely devastated. if i show you over here now in this village, there is a search operation going on by the chinese. they are convinced that they have around five to six bodies beneath this rubble. they feel pretty pessimistic they will find anybody alive. but the main issue here is the late nature of aid getting through. right now people are crying out, for assistance this is a remote area. and a long time to get here. the weather has been very very wet unseasonally so, and it is a mixture of concoction of utter disaster following the original disaster. >> the government. >> now the crisis was the power being down, roads blocked, and we got here,
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reasonably okay, but there were landslides. >> no longer. now a situation -- where they need to arrive very quickly. >> they are calling it -- several of the men who attacked the school girl. >> . >> . >> the attack on the use of the 25 years in prison. the case was handed over. >> the military says it was
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able to arrest the key people in the attack back in september. which gave them information and led to the arose of all ten members. however, four members are said to be still at large possibly hiding across the border in afghanistan where the leader is also based. now, it must be remembered that pakistan has taken responsibility for this particular attack. >> in islamabad. in nigeria officials say they have located and rescues more people from boko haram including at least 100 children and 60 wimp p they were found there a boko haram strong hold in the northeast part of the country just yesterday, the army said it had liberated 300 women and girls in another operation nearby officials have said that it does not appear that the girl whose have been rescued so far include those taken from the school last year.
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>> you are watching life pictures now from baltimore where the mayor is meeting with national and local leaders. they are discussing the future of the city as prosecutors investigate the death of freddie gray. police today turned over their report, into what happened to the 25-year-old while he was in their custody, and now it is up to the prosecute torre view that report. in the case against convicted mob boss james whitey bulger. robert fitzpatrick was once second in command of the boston office, he is accused of lying on the stand during his trial in 2013. pros it cooers say fitzpatrick exaggerated claims to sell copies of a book he wrote about bulger.
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bail out talks between greece and the european creditors have been dragging on for months without much progress p now as john reports public entities are being forced to help keep the government afloat. >> it is not every greek village that gets it's own surfaced football field. but he belongs to the municipality whose three term mayor has managed it so well it has 17 million-dollars in the bank. to despite the fact that subsidies fell by two-thirds, current still feeds it's neediest constituents and operating day care centers. now the government is forcing to lend it it's savings and many people here are not prepared to surrounding that security. >> the country needs our support, but we need to know that when we want the money we will have it. because if we don't we won't be able to buy fuel or food for day care centers. we won't be able to pay salaries or pick up rubbish. we won't be able to do the
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basics. >> greece is still add odds with creditors. the flow of financial assistance from abroad has stopped. >> the longer these talks drag out, the deeper the government has to dig. it is already with held $1.5 billions in public works payments and borrowed another .5 billion glairs from pension funds now it is hoping to borrow $2.5 billion more, but it is time and money, are fast running out. >> it is not just local government that is effected, universities hospitals public trusts, even the national library must always surrender their cash. they are already lost $16 billion when the government bonds they held were discounted throe years ago. so they are deeply skeptical. >> we know there is a bad psychologist, they are afraid this government too will take their safings, what it wants to do is give itself a bit of financial padding to face the terrible assault from creditors creditors and the euro
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zone, the european central bank has cut off liquidity, we haven't received any money since last july. >> ultimately mayors say they will comply. because if the ship sinks lifeboats won't last much longer. al jazeera in southern greece. president obama is announcing a plan today to get more e books to low income students. the white house is also work being local governments across the country to make sure every student has a library card. coming up next on al jazeera america. >> it is going to be small votes verses big oil here on elliot bay we will have more just ahead.
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last two years. today, marks 40 years since the end of the vietnam war. it was a long conflict that cost the lives of more than 3 million vietnamese, and nearly 60,000 american troops. a look at the legacy of that war, as seen through the creation of one lasting monument. i decided back in 1979 there should be a national vietnam veterans memorial. >> he describes his 12 months in anonymous as unremarkable, mostly firing mortars but he did get shot up pretty bad and spent months recovering as he put for scoring points the ever the other side. as a holy corporate he said he didn't accomplish much, it was as a civilian nine years later he left a mark. >> i started the organization, and with the help from a lot of people, including a number of graduates from the harvard bid school, we figures out
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how to build this and raise the money, and we got it built. >> to build the monument requires three things money $8.4 million all from private donations, land, some of the most valuable real estate in the u.s. on the national mall. and a design. and the design almost killed the dream. >> the vietnam veterans memorial design was controversial, because it was black. all the other monuments are white, why is this one black what statement are you making because it is black. >> the winning design entry was an amateurish drawing from an unknown architecture student, who saw the proposed black chevron as an ugly gash in the ground. and open under who on the national mall. the concept let's just say wasn't immediately clear to lot of people including scruggs. >> i have seen the original drawings and they don't look like much, did you love it right away? did you get it.
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>> . >> it had to be explained to me. by a group of highly experienced architects. once they explained it to me understood it would be brilliant. >> al jazeera washington. >> in seattle hundreds of demonstrators are facing off against shell oil, they plan to blockade the port in kayaks. allen half her reports. >> something big headed for seattle. really big. the polar pioneer. shells floating oil exploration rigs. it sits 80 miles away and has been greeted by a small fleet of protestors. the welcome here, should be on a much larger scale. our capacity shouldn't be underestimated. neither should our resolve. >> they are calling themselves kayak vest. planning a protest when shell brings two drilling rigs and
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support vessels to the port of seattle's terminal 5. >> so now you have the long edge up, they have been holding trains sessions for weeks. and are organized a three day anti-oil festival in mid may. calling for pad hers from all over the west, to bather and make a statement to shell. as a base station for an arctic destroying climate cooking project. this could bring a lot of trouble to the city of seattle, what does it bring otherwise. >> it bring as lot of jobs and economic benefit to the city of seattle. >> but shell's arrival will also bring hundreds of waterfront jobs and tax revenue. the port which is a separate political entity from city
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government has agreed to a two year, $13 million contract with foss a local marine services company which will do the work for shell. >> does this fit with seattle in 2015. >> it depends who you talk to. a lot of the people i talk to it absolutely fits with the values of the city. and i certainly hear from others that they feel that there's a misalignment with where the city is headed. >> environmental groups are challenging that contract in court. as inappropriate use of port space, with no final ruling yet. seattle city council member and others oppose to the deal say this is about much more than just two years of work on seattle's docks. it is about stopping the plans for operations far to the north of here. >> it may be that the final battle line on arctic drilling is happening right here on the waterfront in seattle, and the people may get it right this time and
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the oil company may change their line. >> is this your line in the ice. >> the line in the water of elliot bay is what we will be drawing. >> shell turned down a request but answer email questions in detail. a spokesman tells us the plan for staging and loading in seattle remain unchanged writing for over 35 years alaska's oil has come back to the state of washington in the form of energy, jobs at refineries and of course in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. directly realized from taxes. refineries and worker's wages. addressing environmental concerns we have put in the most environmentally sensitive, thoroughly responsible plan ever assembled for exploration. but assurances like that mean little to members of the kayakers. 100 larger crafts. >> clearly spoiling for a fight, and hoping for a big
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turnout. >> can you stop this rig. >> we can stop this rig with kayaks and we are going to. there is no doubt they come to seattle, they are going to stay in seattle. you are going to blockade them in. >> absolutely. >> the shell spokesman replies we respect the rights of individuals and organizations to express their opinions, related to our arctic drilling aspirations we only ask that they do so safely and within the boundaries of the law. expect a collision between small boats and big oil sometime soon in elliot bay. >> well, some. apple watch users are finding an interest glitch, people are effort aring that tattoos confuse the sensors inside the watch causing features like the heart rate monitor to malfunction and in some cases it doesn't even recognize it is on a wrist
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