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floyd mayweather draw big crowds and money, but they are promping the end of their career leaving many to what who will take their place. i'm erica pitzi in new york. i'm del walters with a look at today's top stories. victory rallies as residents celebrate charges being filed against police officers. a busy day for rescue crews saving lives or the migrants, and we'll take a closer deeper look at the plight of thousands of migrant children living in the united states but the dangers don't stop at the border.
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>> thousands gathering. to become one voice. one day after six officers are charged with the death of a man in their custody. chance of no justice no peace. once again echoing through the streets of baltimore tonight. protesters say the charges filed against the six police officers in the death of freddy gray is a good step. john terret live in baltimore with more, good evening john. >> good evening to you del. well it was a warm and sunny may the 2nd in baltimore today.they came and they rallied. but more of that in just a second. first of all the authorities here have held a news
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conference. the issue of when will the 10:00 p.m. adult curfew come to an end? now linda singh is the head of maryland national guard. she is one of three key african americans involved in the issue the other being the mayor and linda singh says the curfew will end eventually but baltimorens will have to be patient. >> we live and work here. i reiterate that. we will go back to our armories and put our stuff back up and we'll have to go back to work. >> linda singh head of the maryland national guard. the question of when this will end was one of the really sore points for huge crowd 8,000 strong i think it was.
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there was another key point which really upset them as well. whenever anybody referred to any of the young people at the mall on monday as being thugs they got really upset as you see in my report of the day. baltimore, a warm and sunny saturday afternoon. thousands marched from the city hall in downtown to western suburbs, scene of the worst riots. six officers face charges including murder. >> it gave people something to actually feel good about that they feel like they've been heard and yeah, it definitely made a difference. >> that is the role of the police. >> the rally was peaceful at time, like a party. one person was dressed up for a wedding. the governor much maryland, the baltimore was one the second,
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the 10:00 p.m. adult curfew. speaker after speaker called for the army to leave and the regulation to be lifted. for many parents this was a teachable moment. >> the generation that was out there monday, my kids will replace them. and i want them to see that there's positive ways to protest and get your voice across. >> i learned how police brutality is really a big problem in america and how we're going to stop it today and for more days to come. >> reporter: at one point baltimore's notorious bloods and crips gangs showed up on stage and the marches are not just about freddy gray though his memory has been invoked many times. they're also about the multiple injustices that take place every day in baltimore and many other u.s. towns and cities. >> hopefully it is a spark
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we've gone through these sparks before, for decades for hundreds of years we've just got to keep the fight going. >> reporter: yes today's march was billed as a celebration of freddy gray's life and ochance to look forward to the opportunity to mend fences going ahead. in the meantime, del the curfew less than two hours away now, it will be in force and we'll have to see what happens next week. >> john terret, in baltimore as he has been all week, john thank you very much. not everyone is satisfied how the city is handling the situation. al jazeera's melissa chan is in baltimore. she has the story. >> for the most part city life has resumed. the national guard answer rival's arrival has quelled the violence but most of
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the violence occurred in poor areas. >> they have only been in like the downtown area and over west, there has been some looting and things on this side as well. if they people they want to be in our city they should be all over the city. >> reporter: one place the national guard has maintained a presence is inner harbor, a beautiful manicured part of the city that looks nothing like the rest of baltimore. it is where tourists and rich suburbanites come. even as reinforcements streesmed in thereinforcements streamedin the haves seemed more protected than the have nots. they would rather have the national guard here than not. >> everything going on here they're here for our protection to keep people from hurting one another and breaking down stuff. it depends also what area of this city you are in if you are intimidated by them or feel threatened.
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you might think they are here like the police urged but they are not. they are here to keep the peace in the city. >> a city with enough empty board abouted up buildings has seen enough agitation done, to be rooted in poverty. >> they don't clear up the basketball courts, they don't have nothing so they go out and make their own entertainment. make their own entertainment. you got a lot of talented young youth in the neighborhood but not anybody give theme chance. >> baltimore's story is not entirely unique. even as this past week's troubles played out here, cutting housing and urban renewal programs across the country. a budget windfall for low income housing wouldn't solve all problems but it would certainly help take the edge off shattered neighborhoods like those seen here. so as you can see it's a really complicated situation here. we are talking about a greater
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divide between the rich and the poor. we're talking about the poor's relationship to the police. we're talking about police brutality. we're talking about race. all these conversations happening in baltimore but i also think of course it is a national conversation, del. >> melissa chan for us in baltimore. melissa thank you very much. releasing the pictures of the police officers charged in the death of freddy gray, caesar goodson has been charged with second degree murder. the man driving the van. he faces 30 years in prison if he's convicted. others cps are assault and misconduct in office. marilyn mosby says it's not about the color of their skin or their uniform. >> my administration is out for creating a fair and equitable justice system for for all.
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no matter what your age your race your creed your color your gender. >> more than 2,000 migrants had to be rescued once again from the mediterranean sea. italian officials say 1200 migrants are being taken to ports in italy and stefanie dekker is in sicily. >> at least 13 separate rescue operations took place in the mediterranean on saturday where they rescued at least 2400 migrants. we're told there are no fatalities but tonal beginning of may the summer season, just the start and one official says do expect these numbers orise. it is an incredibly concerning situation for the italians here.
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following hundreds of migrant deaths in the last two weeks. what has changed on the ground, not much. one french vessel but not much has arrived here. that is a concern. the italian government is stressing the issue that this is a european problem that needs to be dealt with by all europeans. the italians have shown goodwill to the migrants. migrants have shown up throughout the year but the number has become unbearable. there's anger that they feel they have to do it on their own. we'll have to see how europe responds but that number extremely concerning. some criticism from aid agencies to the european union saying that meeting they held their pledges was only a face-saving operation not a life-saving one so certainly pressure on the european union to do more to help. >> and for months migrants have been braving the mediterranean pouring into the area, but not through that route others are
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coming through turkey. bernard smith reports from turkey's ahturkey's agean coast coast . >> just 25 kilometers but overcrowded boats egg coast guard patrols and the ruthless struggle lers makeruthlesssmugglers make for ook doubtful a doubtful crossing. >> i've never sailed a diesel engine boat but i have to sail it tomorrow. i've never sailed out this deep. the sea is scary. 40 to 45 lives will be my responsibility. when i send you out to sea you'll either make it or i
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won't. either way i'll make money. >> abu sharif sends these pictures. after a couple of days at this migrant relocation center, they will be able to go on beyond. squeezing over on a small boat that's keos island, if they get intercepted by the turkish coast guard they'll be brought back here. but most of them will just try again. there's no shortage of potential passengers. in the western turkish city of ismea, a known migrants pickup area people wait with bags packed. many will be from syria. but there are also iraqis, afghans and people from west africa. mohamed is scared of the journey
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he will have to make. >> translator: the u.n. and the international community haven't offered any alternative way to get to europe. that's why we are forced to take this road to death. >> more migrants are taking to the sea here because it's tied its land borders with greece and bulgaria, you can't of course throw barbed wire over the sea. so these routes will only get more popular as the summer progresses. bernard smith, al jazeera the agean coast. >> we'll take a look at america's child migration crisis. does gathering in kathmandu today to recite prayers and honor those lost in the last week's earthquake. 7,000 people have been believed to have died in that quake just under that number. 90% of the homes in the quake
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zone were destroyed. >> many people are suffering. we can manage and then food also we need and mostly the houses that will not broke next time. so that will be one of the -- one of the way that we can comfort that hurt. >> placing them on the yownd to find aground toform a map of nepal. yairlyearlaerial images, massive need for help the challenge of giving up that aid in the quake zone is growing by the hour. some in nepal now taking matters into their own hands. fez jamil reports from kathmandu. not being run by an international organization or the government but by a local business association. i'm here with shanka, sir you've
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given some medicines to the government but you're handling most of the distribution yourself. why is that? >> this is because we have a proper channel to distribute over nepal. we have over thousand people mr medical representative and fnci they have a representative here. so it is faster than the government channel that's why we're distributing through them. >> reporter: the association has sought help from business groups in other countries but have actually turned down offers of money. >> yes we don't need money we need the goods. money, we can't buy goods here, we can't buy tent or tar or tarpaulin here. >> the plan is to follow in government and international organizations and deliver supplies directlily.
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>> and among the most vulnerable in nepal the children. unicef tonight saying nearly a million have been affected by the earthquake. they say that is 40% of the children in the entire country. lynn kronen breergenberger joins us from washington d.c. it's been a week since the earthquake. what's the situation on the ground and how many children are we talking about who may have lost their parents? >> so the situation continues to be dire. there was another earthquake today, 5.0 in pokara, where we have one of our villages. this is an area that had already been devastated from last week's earthquake. the situation on the ground is dire. we expect in the coming weeks we'll be serving at least accompanied, unaccompanied children and in addition to providing child-friendly spaces we're also going to be working on reuniting children with their
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families. >> lynn if you would paint a picture for us of a child who wakes up one morning to discover that their parents are gone, and there's no one out there looking for them or looking after them. >> exactly. so we've been in nepal for over 40 years doing exactly that type of work. the children we have been working with have been orphaned and abandoned. larger number with this earthquake. we are pretty trained and we know how to work with children who have been through trauma. but obviously this goes way beyond because not only are the children suffering and their families but even the people who are trying to provide care are also suffering. so what we need to do is, first make sure the children have what they need. food water aid. and then we work on medical and psychological trauma. trying to make them feel safe
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again. that's what we're setting up now, we've set up at least nine to 14 safe spaces. we're working with the government and then comes the hard work of identifying friends and families. >> what's troubling is another risk. even if they survive the earthquake many of these children we're talking about are going to be sold into slavery. how does that happen? >> you need to get children in safe spaces now. that's one of the things we were worried about. we were worried about it in the last couple of disasters in being haiti and the philippines. that's why we work on safe spaces. children need safe spaces, people who can take after them, be off the streets. obviously it is not safe just from the photographs you've seen. we've identified as child friendly space and coordinating with other ngos so they are being watched after. we will work with the government to put together a long term plan for these children so they stay
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safe. >> as a matter of fact, you have to make sure that the people who are claiming to be parents of the children actually are their parents why? >> we have had experiences in the past where children have been adopted out too early or been tried rescue outside the area for people that are not friends and family. so we do our due diligence we work very closely with the government on this and we take our time and make sure that any child we're releasing back into care is the family member of this child. and we have services and facilities so we can take our time and make sure that we're doing this correctly. >> lynn kronenenberger wish it were better circumstances but thank you for being with us. >> thank you so much. >> secretary of state john kerry arriving in colombo, sri lanka talking about renewing ties with
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the nation. secretary of state kerry asking the country to clarify crimes from separatists. undocumented children smuggled into the u.s., the problems these children face like being held for ransom after they make it into the u.s. and this week was not the first time that baltimore erupted into a show of anger. is this a case of history repeating itself, we look back at violence in the charm city, ahead. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion.
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>> it's saturday night tonight we take a deeper look at the issue of children coming into this country alone without parents, without papers. the numbers were down from last year it was a record year last year when thousands poured across the borders from central america. fleeing poverty and violence
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back home. heidi zhou-castro is in brooks county texas. bring us up to date. >> hey del i'm here at the busiest border patrol checkpoint in the cub. this is the only artery north out of the border region and you can't get past this checkpoint without papers. human smugglers will drop off immigrants just south of this point and force them into the wilderness for two to three days walking around this check point. we saw three young men who were severely dehydrated walking with their empty water bottles. asking for water. they said they have been on the road for two days. you'll see people walking through desert, as well as finding their remains. it's still a weekly occurrence here. if sheriffs department says they
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have found 26 human remains up from 20 last year which is a surprising statistic given that apprehensions overall are down. they think immigrants are taking greater and more dangerous risks to get around the stepped up enforcement. in fact last week they saw 11 people coming outs of a car that was on the side of this freeway. they disappeared into the wilderness and abandoned the car and at the time they the deputies thought they had lost everyone. >> said well, you win some you lose some maybe next time. and the next thing we knew, we heard a return knock. and that's when we realized there was somebody else inside the trunk. >> inside the trunk? >> there was two male individuals still in the vehicle. >> two men hidden in the back trunk, just left there by the smugglers. they were in their early 20s
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and from honduras. so del yes young people from central america are still making the dangerous trek north. >> heidi you have been on the story since day 1 both sides much it. how do people feel about the national guard being deployed on their bother? >> the national guard is pretty far south from here. believe it or not all this action is actually 80 miles north of the border. the guards who have been deployed on the border, they have been put in a visual role, but those who do take these extra more desperate efforts. >> heidi before we let you go, how visible is that presence stepped up presence on the border? >> there's border patrol here, always action here. dps, department of public safety in texas have thousands on the
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border. national guard have told us they are pulling back. it is still uncertain how much longer the stepped up enforcement will last. it depends on funding from the federal level as well. >> heidi zhou-castro stay with us as well, jeremy slack professor of sociology and anthropology and clara long, in the u.s. program human rights watch. last year we saw those huge numbers, thousands of children crossing into this country alone from mexico. we'll start with you mr. slack are those numbers dropping? >> yes, the border patrol has reported about a 45% decrease. it is not entirely clear why that is happening. technically i.t. seems to be due to a number of factors. one being mexico has an
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increased interdiction of people crossing. we saw mexico move towards the position of allowing central americans more safe passage through their country and now they are cracking down in a milt triedtriesmilitarized manner, we don't know how they are getting in. >> what about the prison system that is housing these children and their families? >> yeah, there's a lot of money to be made in detaining immigrants. and in fact over the last year one of the big policy changes we've seen is the obama administration instituting a massive system for holding thousands of family units ploghts andmothers and chirp. now two prisons in texas and another in pennsylvania are holding toddlers and run by private companies. >> i want to ask a question and i preface this by saying i know
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in advance it's a cruel question. but it's a question that many people who are asking right now are asking, which is that why should americans care about what happens to people who try to get here illegally? speak to those voices and mr. slack i'll start with you and ms. long i'll let you answer that as well. >> so many of the migrants that we're seeing, either those asking for political asigh legal orasylum orthose who have been deported? they have family men's that are deeply tied to the united states and they are going through a very difficult situation. we have a very complicated and convoluted legal system in this country for immigration and we don't really have a lot of legal avenues for people to come. now not caring about what happens to either the parents or
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the children of u.s. citizens becomes a huge, huge problem in the decades to come. >> ms. long, we have been documenting here on al jazeera america the journey. the fact that they are crossing deserts not only in mexico but also deserts here to get here. so the people that are sending money back know that they are making that risk. so you answer the question why should americans care if the parents are paying money for them to make that cruel journey? >> well, parents who are paying that money to make that journey are making a desperate choirs in choice in many situations. people don't make that journey lightly, they take it because in many cases they are fleeing for their lives. they are fleeing gang threats domestic violence, and by nature, that kind of movement of people is chaotic. americans have taken on the
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obligation to protect people who are fleeing for their lives out of the experience of world war ii. and our law includes protections for people who qualify as refugees as many people fleeing central america do. what's necessary at this point is to look at how well we are implementing those obligations. how much chance we're giving for children and families and adults who are fleeing very desperate situations to tell their story and to get a fair hearing. >> in fact let's take a look at one of those people, one young man who made that dangerous journey now a voice for others who can't speak out the voice for undocumented children. jonathan martin meeting up with him last summer in mccalcallen texas. >> all alone leaving his family in the violent city in honduras for u.s. mexico border.
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>> gang violence is tremendous in honduras and i was a victim of it. i became desperate. i made the journey not because i thought i was breaking the law but i wanted to find my mother and be reunited with my sister. >> during the trip he faced gangs and drug smugglers. >> it's very sad because the gang wakes you up in the middle of the night and the young girl is screaming because she is being raped. frustrating for the child going through those circumstances knowing that your mother is not there, your father is not there to hem you help you through this ordeal. >> he was released to his family in the u.s. more than 14 years later jose luis has traveled to texas to be
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a voice of the undocumented children entering the united states. >> i wanted to look at it again from a morality perspective. where are we deporting them to? where are we sending them back to? are we giving them a death sentence and send them back to where they're rubbing from. >> jose says politics should be set aside. united deferred action program jose is allowed to remain in the u.s. while he works for a ph.d, what undocumented children can accomplish if they remain in the u.s. >> ms. long that is the problem in one man's eyes. but i'll phrase the question in this way, if the people were coming from the united states into mexico, mexico would be screaming at the u.s. to say fix np what isfixthis. what is mexico doing to fix this on their side of the border?
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>> unfortunately, mexico seems to be making this worse. apprehensions are down from last year but apprehensions and deportations of migrants from central america are up very dramatically from the same period last year. we are very worried at human rights watch that those deportations are summary they don't provide central american migrants with an adequate chance to make a claim for asylum if they require protection and we're also worried about treatment of migrants in mexican custody. so all countries have this obligation, mexico and the united states both have obligations to provide protection for people who are fleeing for their lives. >> mr. slack, i remember this story last summer. there was a hue and cry for the united states to get tough on people crossing over into the border. we got tough. are the numbers dropping, did it help did it hurt, are they still coming across the same way they did a year ago this time? >> i would say people are coming
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across just the same way. i think one of the problems with this idea, we need to get tough on migration is instead of people feeling like they can apply for asylum, many people have decided you know, i'm just going to cross through the border across the river through south texas and do my best to avoid authorities. and this looks like the number might be going down, the number of apprehensions is going down. but remember, apprehensions is not the number of people coming across. there are some people that come across without incident. so in many ways, pushing the phenomenon underground is counterproductive. you don't know who's coming. we don't see what's happening and people with legitimate claims for asylum don't think they can come forward. >> can you understand why there are so many in so many cities that are saying, our cup is full? i mean we just saw people in baltimore go to the streets one of the problems being pointed out there is people can't get a
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job. ms. long is there a point where the united states says we can no longer handle your poor and huddled masses? >> there are a lot of solutions that need to be pursued for this problem. i'm not suggesting the united states should not pursue, i think the united states very much should pursue the governments of central america in providing a safe environment for people who live there. that doesn't in any way detract from the obligation to provide refuge. and to be clear as the young man whose story you profiled a few minutes ago shows immigrants have been shown to contribute to u.s. communities and u.s. society. there is certainly -- you know, there are certainly resources in play here. but what we find is that we are already expending enormous resources on things like family
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detention that's hundreds of millions of dollars. a more common sense less political approach would actually cost less, and protect the rights of the people who are coming more. >> i want to show you a graphic. and this shows where they are winding up, tens of thousands of children smuggled into the u.s., making their way to sponsors in a number of states. states who receive the most are texas, new york, florida california and virginia. heidi you are in texas right now. is there a sense because you have been talking to a lot of these people and following story a long time. is there a sense that they know of the political problems that this is creating in the united states and that they care? >> well, it's a very interesting way that the message condenses and then trickles down the border del. going to the other side, there's a city called reynosa mexico,
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they don't hear the intricacies of the legal debate and the legal challenges here, they know yes, there is a lot of people, a lot of law enforcement that may catch us while we're crossing and that is a major deterrent. they're not saying no, i don't want to come anymore far from it. they are saying we are waiting to bide our time when there are fewer boots on the ground from where we hear from our neighbors or cousins or other family members already in the united states that the situation is a little bit better that it is safer for them to cross snrp >> high di, paint a picture, do you think the people may be bringing diseases into the country, that they are stealing jobs or they're just people trying to make their way out much a bad situation ? >> they see that del. they say that they have a right to pursue what they want as a
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wertbetter life. they say anybody else were in our shoes lived our lives then they would choose no differently. i think it is no secret that human smugglers are part of the cartels in the region south of the border. people have wised up how to handle that. they try ominimize how much they have to deal with those criminal elements. most often the imraments themselvesimmigrants arethe victims. the immigrants who are smuggled are usually lied to, that the desert track kills more than 160 in a year in a recent statistic and they're not told how to pack for it or what kind of -- how much water to bring. i mean that's the least of their worries. there are women who are being raped who don't have any way to report it who are being sold into the sex trade later on. and evenly we're hearing today
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from one of the sheriff's deputies at brooks county that oftentimes these immigrants are forced to give up their immigration papers to the smugglers, who are their family members in the native countries where they can be found because then that is used as blackmail. if you get caught by the border patrol and tell them anything about the smuggler then those family members are in danger. >> mr. slack, i want to give you the last word here. i'm concerned. you studied this, you are an anthropologist. is there a difference in the way we looked at these immigrants than there was to the tanls or italians or the irish or others. >> invading our countries and changing our culture this has been a very cyclical problem. what we have seen as the
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eventually lieivel arrival of people, these threats have not turned out to be viable. they are more a threat to our viability. >> thank you all for being with us this evening. and we continue to keep a close eye on developments in this story. look for more reports from our correspondents in the coming weeks on al jazeera america. still ahead putting baltimore's difficult week into perspective 47 years at another outburst of anger and frustration. frustration.
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freddy gray. he died a week after he suffered that spinal cord injury while in police custody. the officers facing charges ranging from assault to false imprisonment. to aggravated murder. over 100 officers reporting injuries about 80 people arrested so far. maryland's governor larry hogan deploying the national guard to maintain order. sadly, not new to those who live in baltimore. "america tonight's" joie chen taking a look at the life in charm city through the life of a lifetime resident. >> there was anger flames broke out across the city. thousands stood guard. protesters sparked by the death of a black man before his time. but that april was 47 years ago
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ago. what did you think when you saw the fires? >> i said, here we go, 1968 all over again. >> well, i don't know what will happen now. we've got some difficult days ahead. >> in the days after the assassination of martin luther king jr, when riots broke out in d.c., chicago and kansas city and here in baltimore helena hicks sauce her city explode. >> people were not just angry. they were fighting mad. and there is a difference. they were ready to just beat up the enemy. and fire was one of the ways they chose to make that feeling apparent to everybody. so they burned up everything. >> you can't miss the parallels
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from that day in baltimore to this one. as clashes broke out in her old sandtown neighborhood. >> i said to people thank god i'm this age because hopefully i will never see this again. >> nearly 50 years after her generation stood up for justice as more baltimore neighborhoods have emptied out and more poverty and hopelessness set in, what choice she asks do these young people have? >> we keep painting over it. we keep saying, it wasn't as bad as 1968. but you see if you don't do anything about the systemic problems eventually they're going to come back up to the surface and you've got a whole other generation, like i was the generation protesting in the '60s, this is the young generation that's protesting now. >> hicks insists that baltimore is not a city without hope.
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but she warns that failure to bring justice for freddy gray can plunge it into more chaos. >> let me tell you what i learned in 1968. after four days you are sitting on top of a powder keg. if you don't resolve the problem in the first four days, before you get to the seventh day all hell's going to break loose. history will repeat itself, analyze it and say how do we keep this from happening again? >> joie chen, al jazeera baltimore. >> coming up on al jazeera america, cuba, its tight grip on the internet, how the citizens are finding their way around the tight control. and this, a royal announcement from william and kate.
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>> for decades cuba has kept a tight lid on information deciding what's seen on state run tv, theaters and books that can be sold. many on the island don't have internet access as yet today. but still cubans have found a way to keep up. daniel schwindler has traveled to the island to find out how. >> how young cubans entertain themselves gathering on the macon, the havana sea front. there's not much to do. but there is, cubans have the weekly packet. no one asks where the packet comes from or where it goes. what's important is people have what they want, the latest. >> people need to be entertained and cuban television doesn't usually provide the entertainment that people want. carlos is a distributor work
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from his tiny apartment filling hard disks and thumb drives with the latest u.s. drama series and films. it costs a couple of dollars each monday morning but its content is fresh and its price drops. >> this is a cun an film that wascuban film that wasgoing to be released in the cinema but i realized people already had it. >> while happy to talk to us, he wants to maintain a low profile. and the authorities are happy to see the weekly package spread across the island, while it contains no pornography or overt political messages. >> what pretty much everybody else watches soap operas, drama and sport but how they get it remains a mystery. very few know and those who do are not telling.
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for the weekly packet has not been sanctioned by the authorities but its contents are purchased openly in places like this one although they refused to be interviewed or let us film inside. some are even advertising on the package. >> translator: weekly packet is so diverse and varied and sold so widely across the country you are guaranteed a huge number of viewers will see and appreciate the service you're offering. >> the cuban government has said with its economy opening up to greater foreign investment it wants to see a dramatic improvement to its communications. but until cubans have full and unrestricted access to the internet the weekly packet will continue to provide all their entertainment needs. daniel schwindler al jazeera havana. >> well, this time it's a girl and georgeie has a little sister. kate middleton the duchess of
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camecambridge had a girl. she weighs in at 8 pounds 13 and a half ounces. her grandfather charles uncle and brother are ahead of her. >> brilliant, excellent well done. a little girl will come into the village and will be a nice addition. >> kate will be over the moon. >> wonderful one of each! >> the baby is the first royal to have the title of princess of cambridge in over 180 years. the british are waiting to get the name. that will be announced in a couple of days. on behalf of the queen we wish
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kid in the grass kicking balls. someone asked me earlier what it's like. >> the president of venezuela issuing a decree that the national minimum wage is going to go up 30%. some venezuelans are saying, good but not good enough. >> this is insignificant. i'm a mox who has to mom who has to take care of kids. we have to wait for god.
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>> the town in insinda in chile, calbuco volcano chain of eruptions. about 1500 people have been evacuated. nepal, dif stated by this quake devastated by that quake is facing the possibility of disease. more helicopters are needed to get supplies to remote mountain villages. sabina shrestha, grew up in the country's capital of kathmandu. she recently went back and toured her home town and gives us her vision of the scene. >> this used to be the most
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beautiful place in kathmandu. generations of my family have grown up here. my children would come and feed the pigeons here. whenjust as i was when i was a child. nobody is feeding the pigeons. i was talking about the importance of preserving architectural heritage. now as you can see there's not much left. there's been major temples with have judges gone down. up north the ruins of the beautiful temple is being cleared. >> up there is a very good friend who has also been responsible for saving many of the architectural sites here. >> we thought there wasn't
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anybody here, but now we clear the roads and there might be some people still buried here. >> my town is a maze of cluttered alleys. these are some of the scenes. my grandmother's old neighborhood had several people buried in the rubble. we try go there now but the alleys are all blocked. we warned through the warnd wander through the house he and gardens. they found ten bodies in this neighborhood. here it's really dark, scary.
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there were many people here including police. our sister-in-law her arms are full of wounds. she survived. she's staying in that shade. >> eight-year-old is very scared. he huddleless with his mother. she tells me she lost her husband and her other son. my aunt, my uncle and my cousin too, he says. they've gone far away. and every morning i hope that it was a nightmare. but it's not. i mean you don't wake up from this nightmare. it's just a continuation. and nepal has no choice but to rebuild and hopefully do a better job next time.
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>> and on that note, thanks for joining us. i'm del walters in new york. i'll be back at 11:00 eastern 8:00 pacific. stay tuned, "america tonight" starts right now. >> on "america tonight", the longest journey to save the youngest lives. >> we were going 270 knots and when we touched down we touched down in a rice paddy. just fallow fields. but i'd left the gear behind which broke up the integrity of the cargo compartment where most of the kids were. >> the turbulent and tragic stories of those final days. also in our special
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