popularity will increase, and they'll have more seats in parliament. well more about the talkish elections on the website. aljazeera.com. there you'll find the day's other top stories, everything we are covering on al jazeera. aljazeera.com. s >> president obama signs the freedom act into law dramatically changing the government authority to spy on americans. >> subject had been under 24 hour surveillance. >> police in boston kill a man who was being watched 24/7 by the f.b.i., but was he planning an attack? >> interpol calls for the arrest of four more in connection with fifa hours after fifa's president steps down.

>> good morning to you. thanks for joining us. you're watching aljazeera america. new restriction this morning on the n.s.a.'s ability to spy on americans. president obama signed a new law just last night hours after the senate approved it. it greatly cuts back on controversial domestic spying programs but it doesn't necessarily stop them altogether. john henry smith is here with more on that. what exactly can the government still do? >> the u.s.a. freedom act is very specific, only lets the government collect data with court approval. that's very different from the rules under the pete receipt act. there have been calls from bolt sides of the aisle to reform the program since edward snowden revealed that the n.s.a. was snooping on us all.

>> the bill is passed. >> after two days of what president obama called a needless delay congress passed a bill tuesday restoring most of the provisions of the pete receipt act. the security legislation passed in the wake of 9/11 expired sunday night but there is one important change. the bulk collection by the government of millions of americans phone records will soon be a thing of the past. here's what will change. over the next six months, the government's ability to collect and man for phone records in bulk without cause will be phased out. after the phase out the government will need a court order to obtain phone records and they have to be records of specific investigation targets. >> we passed the most significant surveillance reform in decades. we've done it by setting aside ideology setting aside fear mongering to protect the

security of the united states, but will also protect the privacy of americans. >> the n.s.a.'s once secret bulk collection powers were one of the most controversial parts of the patriot act. portions expired last sunday night. under this new legislation many other patriot act provisions live on, including the f.b.i.'s authority to gather business records in terrorism and espionage investigations, and the bureau's enhanced ability to eavesdrop on suspects who discard their phone to say avoid detection. still, the american civil liberties union hails the new legislation, calling it the most important surveillance reform bill since 1978. it's passage is an indication that americans are no longer willing to give the intelligence agencies a blank check. the bill passed over the strong objections of security hawks like kentucky republican mitch mcconnell. former members of the security community warned that the loss of bulk monitoring will have

consequences. >> our adversaries whether it's isis the islamic state or al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula or even homegrown terrorists, they understand the world has changed. we live in a digital environment and they'll take advantage of that. >> though bulk collection stopped sunday night the obama administration said it will now resume as the first step toward phasing out the program over the next six months. the obama administration said the physical acts required to start the bulk collection program could happen within a day, however it might take up to four days for a court to verify that metadata programs are still legal under the new law. morgan. >> a lot changing. thanks for joining us. >> speaking of shush veils the f.b.i. and local prosecutors in boston are now investigating the police shootinging death of a man who was under 24 hour surveillance. the joint terrorism task force

had been following him as part of an investigation. we have the latest. >> it's not clear why the f.b.i. was monitoring the suspect. there was no warrant out for his arrest. boston police wanted to question him early tuesday morning. >> this is the weapon police say the 26-year-old suspect was holding, a black military style knife they say he pulled on them in a c.v.s. parking lot yesterday. >> we have a gentleman black mail coming out with a knife. >> the f.b.i. said it had been tracking the man for sometime, but recently, something changed. >> the level of alarm brought us to question him today. i don't think anyone expected the reaction we were going to get out of him. >> boston's police commissioner said he was ordered to put down the knife. >> they kept retreating, verbally giving commands to drop the weapon, drop the weapon, and at some point the individual

came close so their lives were in danger. >> the suspect was shot in the torso and abdomen taken to a local hospital and called dead. his brother said he was confronted by three officers at a bus stop and shot in the back three times. later in the day police searched a home in nearby everett where they arrested david wright, who they said may be connected to the case. >> we'll continue until we're satisfied we have obtained all the information and evidence there is to obtain. >> boston's police commissioner said there is a video of the confrontation but there is no word when it might be released. now separate investigations by the district attorney and f.b.i. will look into whether the officer's use of deadly force was justified. >> thank you so much. >> six men linked to fifa are now on interpol's most wanted list. the agency issued the arrest warrant at the request of american authorities this just one day after fifa's president

sepp blatter said he was stepping down due to the scandal involving bribes in the world's top sports organization. we are following that story this morning. lawrence who exact i is on this interpol list and why are they so important? >> certainly the best known is jack warner, the former president from trinidad. he's already under investigation by the f.b.i. in their inquiry launched last week. the others are from paraguay, brass still argentina and sports marketing. this red note was issued by interpol out of france, but it seems to me tied directly to the f.b.i. inquiry launched last week into allegations of racketeering and corruption, historical ones going back to the early 1990's. what it says, i think in the end is that the f.b.i. investigation has further to go and it's

broadening out. of course the big question now everybody is asking given sepp blatters extraordinary resignation, after saying he couldn't resign because it would imply he had done something wrong, whether this i am mys that the net is closing in on him. it does appear that the f.b.i. investigation is gathering more and more steam at the moment. >> lawrence, as they gather this steam, these are some pretty big accusations that will certainly set the direction for fifa's moving forward. blatter is calling for a new election to choose his successor. do you have indication yet of who will replace him? >> no, and that's a really good question. clearly it's not at all clear how long blatter's going to stay around for, whether or not he wants to try and smooth the path for a successor cut from the same cloth as himself or whether or not and i don't think there is at the moment, another unifying figure in world football who could bridge this

gap that's emerged in europe and united states and australia the developed world on one side and the developing world on the other. the prince from jordan got 70 or more votes against blatter last week but doesn't seem to be able to bring the developing world with him. a candidate from france is another, as well. one intriguing suggestion is this campaign group called new fifa now calling for blatter to go sooner rather than later suggest if the new president comes from inside football, what they'd like to see is a figure, for instance mitt romney, who sorted out the olympic committee who can lend a sense of transparency to fifa moving forward. >> you mentioned kind of these individual players but what about the global players on this stage? russia said it's not war required and qatar defended its position, as well. how will that impact the world bidding which is a subject of the allegations.

>> that's not clear either. countries would very much like the bids to be rerun. the swiss police have a separate investigation, questions half a dozen or more people who had to do with that bidding process. england which lost to russia would like it to be run. the united states who lost out to qatar would like it rerun as well. the money spent already runs into the billions of dollars. if it was taken away from them, they would sue fifa. that would be a big problem. >> a swiss investigation interpol investigation lawrence thanks so much. >> taxes and testimony a government watchdog says the recent data breach of the i.r.s. may have actually been avoidable. the inspector general was among those testifying before congress on tuesday all about hackers stealing personal information. as john terrett reports the head of thives apologized and promises changes are in fact to

come. >> senators learning that the i.r.s. failed to use security jump grades and that the target of this hack was not this but next tax season. >> i think there's something wrong with you that you're not upset every day. [ laughter ] >> a smile from senator orrin hatch after he ripped into the heads of the i.r.s. over the security breach that could mean hundreds of thousands of taxpayers face the difficult task of rebuilding their on line reputations. >> commissioner simply put your agency failed these taxpayers. >> an i.r.s. tool app called get transcript was used to steal personal information and potential refunds. there were about 200,000 hacks from february to may just over 100,000 of them successful. i.r.s. boss said at first it was thought they were going after this year's refunds. they got away with $39 million

from 13,000 returns but now seems the thieves haled one eye towards using the information to file fraudulent tax returns next year. >> we have marked the accounts of 200,000 taxpayers whose accounts were attacked by outsiders to prevent someone else from filing a tax return in their name both now and into 2016. >> the i.r.s. suspects hackers in russia and other countries are behind the breach and it's just the latest in a string of serious attacks on government and major corporations. in 2007, thieves got away with the data of 94 million f.j. maxx customers in one swoop. in 2013, hackers got the data of up to 100 million customers by breakinging just once, but taking two loads of customer information. other government agencies have been hit. the pentagon in a tack, the defense secretary also blamed on the russians and the department of energy, where on line gangs

made mincemales of security. >> this is a federal state local, global problem and i don't see it ending anytime soon sir. >> the i.r.s. also saying it has written to 100,000 taxpayers whose accounts were hacked and another 100,000 who will need to monitor their accounts for the next years if not the rest of their lives. back to you in the studio. >> some harsh words from barack obama and benjamin netanyahu. the president told israeli media that the prime minister's contradictory stand on the palestinian state could erode the countries credibility. we explain. >> some fairly blunt criticism from president barack obama speaking to an israeli reporter talking about benjamin netanyahu. he said he is predisposed to think of security first that perhaps he sees peace as naive and tends to see the worst

possibilities as opposed to the best possibilities in his arab partners. his toughest talk came about what the prime minister said running up to the election, that there would be no two-state solution. >> his previous statements suggested there is the possibility of a palestinian state, but it has so many caveats, so many conditions that it is not realistic to think that those conditions would be met anytime in the near future, and so the danger here is that israel as a whole loses credibility. already, the international community does not believe that israel is serious about a two-state solution. the statement the prime minister made compounded that belief that there's not a commitment there.

>> so what's next? well the u.s. president once again reiterated that he is reevaluating the u.s. position where it protects israeli in the u.n. he said he didn't think now is the time to come up with another framework agreement but wants to see confidence building measures in the region. he didn't say what those were, but pointed out that he thinks illegal settlement construction and inability of people in the west bank to move freely are problems. >> that was patty calhane reporting from washington d.c. >> migrants have finally landed in myanmar. the town they landed is where most of the persecuted minority rohingya live. although it's not clear if the migrants are rohingya. we'll look at the humanitarian toll of that crisis. >> struggling with bad weather

in china rescuers are searching for people in a ferry accident. at least 18 people died in the sinking. most were elderly tourists. there were tornadoes nearby when the ship went under. 14 people, including the ship's captain and an engineer have been found alive. >> a last ditch effort to stop an execution. >> home in texas where new questions have surfaced about a 1999 prison guard murder here that may have landed the wrong man on death row.

>> thanks so much for joining us this morning. it is 7:48 eastern and you are watching aljazeera america. the prime minister of greece heads to brussels with a new proposal for financial form, trying to convince european leaders to give athens the rest of its bailout money. greece is set to make a payment to the i.m.s. friday. >> takata will continue to use a chemical linked to exploding air bag inglettors. the japanese company plans to introduce a more stable version for future models.

airbags have killed six people and prompted the recall of 34 million vehicles. >> plus the world health organization says a mers outbreak is likely to grow. thirty have contracted the virus and more than 1300 are under quarantine. mers has no known vaccine or cure. >> a death row inmate is getting one more canned to hold off his execution. problem better pruitt was convicted of murdering a prison guard but granted a stay to conduct d.n.a. tests to prove his in sense. >> tell me, robert, did you kill the officer? >> no, i didn't. >> why should we believe you? >> i don't know, why should you think i did it? >> who was daniel nagle? >> two weeks before his murder, nagle spoke at the texas state capitol calling for prison reform. local papers quoted him saying someone will have to be killed

before the texas department of criminal justice does anything about the shortage of staff in texas prisons. nagle would be dead 13 days later. inmate robert pro it was charged with his murder. his attorney hint his client was framed. there were others, he said who would have had more reason to want him dead. >> he was in the pros of writing a grievance concerning a variety of matters that were occurring at the unit. >> that complaint was never made public but one month after the murder, three correctional officers at the prison were arrested for laundering inmate's drug money. the state says the theory that pruitt was framed by rogue guards doesn't hold up. on april 28, as prison officials drove pruitt the 45 miles to the death chamber in huntsville where he was scheduled to are executed that evening a texas court was having second thoughts. >> how close did you get to the death chamber?

>> i was about as far as from here to the men's room, maybe 10 feet. >> hours before he was scheduled to die an unexpected stay of execution, giving pro it's legal team 30 days to initiate new d.n.a. testing on the metal shank used to kill thester. a previous analysis of the sharp end had found only the victim's d.n.a. but the handle, wrapped where masking tape has never been tested. >> our principle hope is that there are cells on that masking tape and that those cells have not been too degraded to allow a genetic profile to be constructed. >> officer nagle was laying this way. >> if someone else's d.n.a. is found, that could reopen the investigation. >> how convinced are you of true it's guilt today? >> i'm convinced he committed that offense. i wouldn't have charged him. i don't have that type reputation. i never would. >> pro it's reputation has been compromised since he landed in prison at age 16.

>> why should we believe your word now? where is your credibility? >> i guess i have none. you're right, you said it all. i've been twice convicted of murder so... >> if you have no credibility why are you fighting this? >> because i didn't do it. >> do you deserve to die robert? >> no, not for this. >> heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, texas. >> texas is set to execute a prisoner tonight who's been on death row for more than three decades. lester but a we are said he was wrongly convict of killing four member in 1983. he filed a last minute appeal with the supreme court just last week and the 67-year-old has come within days of execution six times already. >> children in foster care are among the most vulnerable in our society. recent investigations reveal their psychiatric medications are prescribed three to four

times more than others. >> what's incredible about what we learned about california's faster care system is children are not only given psychiatric medication but given anti psychotics. these are usually given to people with schizophrenia. doctors deal with children who have very complicated trauma issues. we're at a college campus. we spoke to patricia who came out of the foster care system. >> i felt like i really wasn't in control of my body. i felt like a a zombie. at times my mouth will get swollen because i guess i was having bad reactions to the medicines. i will tell the staff and they said i was faking it. >> so you can get a sense of just how tough the situation can be and we'll be going into greater depth in a report later this evening but our closer look in california is just the tip of the iceberg. there are 49 others states out there, some of them with a lot

less transparency. this is a systemic problem that is happening across the country. >> you can be sure to see melissas full report tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> immaculately conception in the water a species that may have found its own way to survive.

>> this may be a case of immaculate conception, the small tooth saw fish is endangered and adapting to going extinct. researchers say seven females gave birth without males. that has never happened before. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's environmental impact. how did scientists find out this happened. >> this population is so critically small they were testing to see if they had to inbreed with relatives to keep the population going and when they were doing that d.n.a. fingerprinting were finding some

of the d.n.a. was exactly the same meaning that the females were asexually producing. the reason this is unique i guess this is the first time, invert bretts do this, but for a vert brett in the wild, first time this has been known to happen. these babies were all found to be viable. the saw fish, there's five species. the ones we're talking about are critically endangered, every type of he dangered. 92 countries that are their range that they can be in. they're estimated to be extinct in half, but only 16 countries protect them. all the way back to the 1800s there have only been about 700 sightings of these. the population has diminished

only 5% of what it originally was. this is also called a carpenter shark, but actually is a type of ray, like a a plant ray for example. >> the patriots quarterback is appealing a four game suspension for his role in the use of deflated footballs in the championship game. a request was reject that roger

goodell recuse himself. he said the integrity of the game is his responsibility. >> thanks so much for joining us this morning. join us next in two minutes for more al jazeera morning news.

>> president obama signs the u.s.a. freedom act and drastically reshaping and revising the government's ability to spy on americans. police in boston make another arrest after killing a man under f.b.i. surveillance. authorities just wanted to talk to him. interpol puts out a new alert one day after fifa's president announces plans to step down. >> china scrambling to find survivors of oh cruise ship

sinking. bad weather hampers their efforts. >> this is al jazeera live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. sweeping changes for the n.s.a. president obama has signed legislation that will put a stop to the government's bulk collection of millions of americans' phone records. john henry smith is here with more. this comes of course just two days after the senate at least temporarily allowed the patriot act to expire. >> we all remember the patriot act as the legislation passed in the wake of 9/11. most of that legislation returns under this new law but there is one important change, the government will no longer be able to collect the phone records of nearly everyone in america, specifically over the next six months, the government's ability to collect and monitor phone records in bulk without cause will be phased out. after the phase out the government will need a court order to obtain phone records and they have to be records of

specific investigation targets. >> the bill is passed. >> after two days of what president obama called a needless delay congress restored most of the patriot act while at the same time passed the first reform of the act. >> we passed the most significant surveillance reform in decades. we've done it by setting aside ideology setting aside fear mongering so we'll protect the security of the united states, but we also protect the privacy of americans. >> the n.s.a.'s once secret bulk collection powers were one of the most controversial parts of the patriot act. portions expired last sunday night. under this new legislation, many other patriot act provisions live on, including the f.b.i.'s authority to gather business records in terrorism and espionage investigations, and the bureau's enhanced ability to

eavesdrop on suspects who discard their phones to avoid detection. still, the american civil liberties union hails the new legislation, calling it the most important surveillance reform bill since 1978. its passage is an indication that americans are no longer willing to give the intelligence agencies a blank check. the bill passed over the strong objections of security hawks like kentucky republican mitch mcconnell. former members of the security community warned that the loss of bulk monitoring will have consequences. >> our adversaries, whether it's isis, the islamic state, or al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula or even homegrown terrorists, they understand the world has changed. we live in a digital innovative environment and they'll take advantage of that. >> though bulk collection stopped sunday night, the obama administration said it will now resume as the first step toward phasing out the program over the next six months.

the obama administration said the physical acts required to restart the bulk collection program could happen within a day, however it might take up to four days for a court to verify that metadata programs are still legal under the new law. >> still a lot to be worked out. thank you. >> according to the associated press, the f.b.i. is using a small fleet of planes to spy on americans. the report says the planes are equipped with video and cell phone surveillance technology, registered to fake companies and the surveillance is done without a warrant. the f.b.i. will only say the planes are used in on going investigations. >> the f.b.i. and local prosecutors in boston are investigating the police shooting death of a man who was under 24 hour surveillance. the joint terrorism task force had been following him as part of an investigation. we have the latest. >> it's not clear why the f.b.i. was monitoring the suspect.

there was no warrant out for his arrest. boston police wanted to question him early tuesday morning. >> this is the weapon police say the 26-year-old suspect was holding, a black military style knife they say he pulled on them in a c.v.s. parking lot yesterday. >> we have a gentleman, black male, coming out with a knife. >> the f.b.i. said it had been tracking the man for some time but recently, something changed. >> the level of alarm brought us to question him today. i don't think anyone expected the reaction we were going to get out of him. >> boston's police commissioner said the man was ordered to put down the knife. >> they kept retreating, verbally giving commands to drop the weapon, drop the weapon, and at some point, the individual came close so their lives were in danger. >> the suspect was shot in the torso and abdomen, taken to a

local hospital and pronounced dead. his brother said he was confronted by three officers at a bus stop and shot in the back three times. later in the day, police searched a home in nearby everett where they arrested david wright, who they said may be connected to the case. >> we'll continue until we're satisfied that we have obtained all the information and evidence there is to obtain. >> boston's police commissioner said there is a video of the confrontation but there is no word when it might be released. now separate investigations by the district attorney and f.b.i. will look into whether the officer's use of deadly force was justified. >> thank you. >> a friend of boston bomber dzhokar tsarnaev sentenced to six years in prison. he pleaded guilty to interfering with the investigation. he took items from tsarnaev's dorm room shortly after the boston marathon bombings. he pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal. he told the judge he was ashamed of what he did.

>> six people linked to fifa are now on that an international most wanted list. interpol i should arrest warrants for the men at the request of u.s. authorities. the move comes one day after fifa's president sepp blatter said he is stepping down in the wake of a widening corruption scandal. we have more from zurich. >> things move forward the main name is jack warner, the former president from thin da, already under investigation by the f.b.i. the other names on the list all involved in football felt reactions in the americas or in sports marketing president americas paraguay, brazil, argentina. even though this list came out of interpoll in france, it's absolutely tied into the investigation by the f.b.i. that was announced last week into historical allegations of corruption and racketeering that go back to the early 1990's. it looks very much as though it's another sign of the increased scope and lange jest

of this fib investigation. of course, here in switzerland the question is has it got anything to do with sepp blatters resignation. he stepped down, saying he wanted to only four days after he would step down because that would imply he has done something wrong. there is a campaign called new fifa now coming up with a proposal saying that the next president from fifa needs to come from inside football but in order to to apply new transparency, there needs to be a control figure, they're coming up with the former head of the united nations or mitt romney, who was brought in to sort out the olympic committee as a global figure who could offer a sense of elect ms. to fifa moving forward. whether there's an appetite for that whether they can bring all the football federations of the world together isn't clear. this story has months and months to go, even before sepp blatter

actually steps down. >> reporting from switzerland. there are now reports that blatter is also the target of a corruption investigation. >> his 17 year run as president of fifa came to an abrupt end just days after he was reelected. >> i have therefore decided to stand down as president, as i am convinced it's the best option for the organization. >> joseph blatter better known as accept announced plans to resign as allegations of widespread bribery swirl around soccer's global good morning body with a career spanning over 40 years blatter touted his love for the organization while also acknowledging. >> fifa needs a profound restructuring. >> his resignation comes after less than a week after the indictment of 14 people including top future if a executives on charges of money laundering racketeering and

fraud, accused of accepting $150 million in bribes and kickbacks. overseeing the audit committee spoke after blatter and said fifa is committed to cleaning up its image. >> there is significant work to be done in order to regain the trust of the public and to fundamentally reform the way in which people see fifa. the steps will ensure that the organization cannot be used by those seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the game. >> many fifa fans had been calling for blatters resignation. tuesday, they reacted to the news around the world. from france. >> at a certain point you have to leave the position to someone else who will clean up fifa and get rid of the corruption from this federation. >> to germany. >> it is good news. nobody has lost anything through this. he sold fifa. he sold soccer. he made soccer dirty.

>> to russia. >> i've heard this was initiated by america. they started a scandal but of course it's not right. they shouldn't interfere with such things. is it good or bad? it's not up to me to judge. >> and in america the president of the u.s. soccer federation said the news represents an exceptional and immediate opportunity for positive change within fifa and some of fifa's biggest sponsors echoed the sentiment, visa, coca-cola and adidas welcomes blatters resignation. >> in china rescuers are battling bad weather trying to find survivors inside an overturned cruise ship carrying elderly tourists. 400 of still missing president river. at least 18 are confirmed you dead. only about a dozen so far have been found alive. adrien brown has more. >> this is where some of the weary rescuers come to rest.

we're talking about not just soldiers, also police, fire crews and hundreds of divers who have been working in ships around the clock in what are very treacherous waters, because the currents in the yangtze river acknowledge particular part of the river are very strong indeed. rescue officials have been discussing two options of trying to reach those. they still believe some could be alive. they are thinking of drilling three large holes into the upturned hole of the eastern star. the other plan under consideration is to try and lift this vessel. we saw today two large barges beside the eastern star with cranes on either one so that is on operation that could be underway perhaps in the coming hours. relatives of those still missing have been arriving in the town it's from there the rescue operation is being coordinated and their emotions range from

anger to grief. they want to know why it is that the eastern star sank so quickly on monday night and why is that the captain and the chief engineer survived. these are just some of the questions that these people want answered. of course, we are on course for this sadly becoming possibly the most serious maritime accident in china in recent times. >> adrien brown reporting there. on the agenda today a long time political advisor to hillary clinton is set to speak with congressional investigators. sidney blumenthal will be questioned about the 2012 benghazi attack. he sent intelligence reports to hillary clinton when she was south carolina. >> a hearing on domestic threats to u.s. security from radical groups who use the internet to accuse fighters. >> the u.s. and south korea will hold military drills today. >> missing information on the

september 11 attacks a bipartisan push for the government to declassify more than two dozen pages of intelligence. >> plus the new polls that suggest two of the possible front runners in the race for the white house may be losing ground.

>> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> welcome back. taking a look at today's top stories. texas is set to execute a

prisoner on death row. lester but a we are said he was wrongly convicted of killing four men. he has filed a last minute appeal with the supreme court. account 67-year-old has faced execution six times before. >> california could become the first state to raise the smoking age to 21. the bill is headed to the state assembly. supporters say 90% of smokers start before they're 21. you have to be 18 in california to buy tobacco products. >> new york city's stone wall inn is one step closer to becoming a landmark. a commission will hear whether to give the designation. the stonewall inn became the center of a gay rights movement. >> flagging support for the two front runners in the 2016 presidential race. a poll shows support for jeb bush dropped from 21% in marsh to 10% right now. he has not officially declared

his intentions yet but it is the same level of support as six other republicans who are running. democratic hillary clinton is losing ground when it comes to the question of honesty and trustworthiness. 41% of americans view her as honest down 22% from last year. 52% believe she is not honest. clinton's favor ability ratings are the lowest since april of 2008 the first time she ran for president. >> oil prices are sliding today after reports showed a surprise increase in u.s. stockpiles. that is good news for consumers at the pump. it comes when all eyes are focusing on vienna where oil ministers are gathering for a meeting. patricia the stakes are high economically and politically. >> exactly. this is scheduled to take place on friday. we are really talking about saudi arabia, which is the

dominant power in the cartel. six months ago against sharply lowered oil prices, opec zipped not to cut production. the point was to keep downward pressure on prices and while price rebounded, they are still 40% lower thatten a year ago. saudi arabia has publicly stated it is keeping the taps open to defend its market share against u.s. shale oil producers. many drilling and exploration shale products in the u.s. have been suspended. that's because the kingdom can do this because its oil production costs are among the lowest in the world while shale oil here in the u.s. is relatively expensive to produce. the saudi's can still make money at prices that undercut here and their opec partners. many suspect there was a strong political incentive driving opec's decision not to cut output to put pressure on sunni, saudi arabia's shia rifle

iran. iran is an opec member but a small fry in the core tell and needs $40 a barrel to balance books. right now it is less than half that that. iran is grappling with international sanctions but indicated it will start pumping more oil if it reaches a final deal over its nuclear program later this month. iran is not the only opec member getting hammered. venezuela, iraq, libya ecuador nigeria and angola are struggling to balance their books in the face of depressed oil price. since oil is a global commodity non-opec producers like russia are also getting squeezed. >> sawed rake makes one decision that ripples geopolitically across the world. what is the buzz about this opec meeting? is it possible they cut production this time. >> the buzz is that many people expect that they won't cut

production that they'll continue to keep the taps open. >> how long can they maintain the downward pressure on prices? >> the saudis and gulf members are in a very good position to weather this downward pressure on price because they have giant cash reserves, so they can make up the difference with other sources of cash to balance their books. for the poorer members of opec, it's really, really putting the squeeze on their budget. >> that would include iran, also dealing with sanctions and russia, also dealing with sanctions. >> russia the no one opec member but the prices hammering the russian economy. >> the prime minister of greece heads to brussels today armed with a new proposal or financial reform. alexis tsipras is trying to get the rest of the bailout money for greece. grease is set to make a payment on friday. >> the u.s. envoy to the anti isil coalition said the key to battling the group i is occur

tailing the influence in the muslim world. >> it's important that this key aspect be supported by credible muslim voices and scholars. they have spoken out and they have reject daish's ideology. in the arab word, it's important that the voice discrediting daish be a muslim voice and the face discrediting daish be an arab face. >> general john allen addressed the u.s.-islamic world forum in qatar. >> hundred was migrants found drifting in a crowded bowed landed in western myanmar. the town is where most of the percent cute minority rohingya live. it is not clear if the migrants on this bolt are rohingya. they were found stranded in the sea five days ago. let's look at the rohingya people. they are a muslim ethnic group mostly in buddhist majority myanmar.

they are often called the world's most percent cute minority. they are denied citizenship freedom to travel and education. nearly 120,000 of them have tried to leave by boat in the last three years. neighbors countries have in the past turned them away. a research fellow at the overseas development institute who's work focuses on sectarian violence in myanmar joins us. lillian, i understand you have recently come back from indonesia where 1800 rohingya and bangladesh boat people have left in recent days. how were they received by the local community and what condition did they arrive in? >> well, it's really been an extraordinary welcome from the people in indonesia which is remarkable because the rest of the region has struggled to find a way to save these very

vulnerable people. there have been so many boats in distress. thousands of people are starving around in an incredibly precarious situation on these boats in the entire region and it's only been these people who welcomed them with such open arms. they arrived in actually really, really terrible conditions, you know malnourished, there were actually many people who didn't survive. there have been deaths amongst those survivors, as well. many of them actually are still undergoing treatments in the local hospitals but the welcome by the crimeans and these people in particular has been remarkable. >> that is not the case as you said with other regional players who decided to turn them away in some case. we see a lot of 13 in these picture looking emaciated. they've been under persecution for decades. why are we seeing such a spike in migrant cases now? what's behind it?

>> there's a few reasons why there's such a drove of ref vees fleeing at the moments. one is that the situation is not getting any better. people are really struggling to survive. they on top of the regular discrimination that they face, their livelihood situation is incredibly difficult right now. food security situations, you know is really terrible, and they have very limited access to humanitarian aid, as well. even though there have been some efforts to try to improve that, it's not enough to make people feel they have any kind of protection and any kind of future actually in the state. that's one of the reasons. there's been also the withdrawal of temporary identification cards, which the rohingya at least were allowed to have, even though it doesn't give them citizenship. that i think has been another reason there's been such an

outflow at this point. as you mentioned stephanie a lot of chirp and women and that's a new trend that we're seeing. >> the state is in western myanmar where a lot of, in fact most rohingya's live. 1.5 million of them, mostly in myanmar are considered the largest group of stateless people. what is the government of myanmar doing politically to address this? >> >> well the government of myanmar has an action plan which claims it is going to try to address the. >>. i think fundamentally that plan sees the rohingya still as being illegal immigrants. it's quite a problematic plan if you think about way to guess protect this very vulnerable population. it's not a plan that thinks of ways to give them a path to citizenship. there is a small group of people

offered citizenship through a very complicate citizenship verification process but it's so tiny and the discrimination against the rohingya and in the country is so norm mouse that it really doesn't look like this problem is going to end anytime soon. >> some are saying it really is going to take an international response at this point. lillian joining us from bangkok thank you. >> revelations over an air bag recall the new claims that takata isn't doing enough to solve the problem. >> making the rails safer a lapse in technology that could have prevented the philadelphia derailment.

offwelcome to al jazeera america. president obama signed a bill that limits government authority to spy on americans restricting the n.s.a. data collection program. records will stay with

telecommunication companies. the government can search them with a warrant. >> a man was under 24 hour surveillance by a task force in boston. he pulled a knife when police tried to talk to them. there is video of the confrontation. >> six people linked to fifa are now on an international most wanted list. interpol i should arrest warrants for the men at the q. of u.s. authorities one day after sepp blatter said he is stepping down. >> congress is demanding answers in the largest auto recall in u.s. history. executives from takata were back on capitol hill and lawmakers wanted to know why that recall took so long. >> that shows where the shrapnel came out. >> it is takata air bags like this one whose inflators have sent shrapnel into drivers and

passengers causing six deaths and 100 injuries. the latest death in texas in january. >> his air bag deployed, supposed to save his life and took his life. >> the air bag recalls began in 2008 just 4,000 initially in honda cars, but seven years and 43 recalls later it has mushroomed to 11 manufacturers and 34 million vehicles. >> every morning i fear i am playing headline roulette, waiting for another rupture another injury, another death. >> just last month takata finally admitted to a defect in airbags but the root cause remains a mystery. takata said it appears to be a combination of factors long time expose u. to high heat and humidity, if everring problems, vehicle issues. the firm's executive vice president told lawmakers takata

will stop making one style of air bag inflator that appears to be the most problematic but it is not changing its air bag propellant ammonium nitrate seen as highly volatile andun stable. it's still used for takata's new and replacement air bags. >> the replacement could be as dangerous as the current. why would you even replace them? >> as i said, without really exactly understanding the root cause and continuing to test outside of the bounds of what we've already recalled, we're trying to determine that. we're trying to understand exactly what are the factors that lead to this, and should we do something different than what we're doing royalty now. >> takata is adding a material to the propellant to make it more stable, but that's still being phased in. takata said by september it will produce 1 million replacement air bags a month even so, it could take years to handle all of the recalls.

lisa stark, al jazeera washington. >> a government watchdog would the data breach at the i.r.s. could have been oh voided. the treasury democratic's inspector general told the senate committee it ignored cyber security upgrades. the changes would have made it more difficult for hackers to steal the information of more than 100,000 taxpayers. >> it's not clear what caused an amtrak train to derail in philadelphia. eight people were killed. a preliminary report found no anomalies in the track signals or braking systems. a house commit key tuesday grilled amtrak officials and regulators. new technology called positive train control would have prevented the crash. >> it's hard for me to imagine why it's so complicated to get the answer to whether the engineer was utilizing a cell

phone at the time of the crash. it seems like it should be just a simple answer. >> the engineer suffered a head injury during the crash and says he does not remember what happened. the train was going almost double the speed limit when it derailed. >> investigators are trying to figure out if wars were blacking a train crossing where an amtrak train sheered a car in half. the scene unfolded outside jacksonville florida tuesday. the train had 172 people onboard. people suffered minor injuries and no one on the train was hurt. >> there is a call for classified material from an intelligence report about the role saudi arabia may have played in the september 11 attacks. we have this report. >> terry had three young children when her husband tom was killed in the 2001 collapse of the twin towers. >> when he called me, he was going to the stairwell.

that was his plan. i never heard from him again. >> she's been looking for answers ever since. her belief is that the sawed government helped finance the attack and she along with thousands of other victims is suing the kingdom. >> after 9/11, everything i read was that the saudi's have cut ties with osama bin ladennen, the black sheep of the family he left the country but the evidence that we have proves otherwise. >> 15 of the 19 highjackers were saudi, raising questions early on about what their government knew. former florida senator bob graham was part of the congressional inquiry that studied the issue but its findings were never released to the public, becoming known simply as the 28 pages. >> the american people knew that the full truth, i believe there would be an outrage that a country that alleges to be such an ally of ours has engaged in

so many actions that have been so extremely negative towards the united states. >> on tuesday graham and strada joined robbed paul on calling on the white house to release the information. >> we cannot let page after page of blanked out documents be obscured behind a veil leaving families to wonder. we owe it to those families and cannot let this lack of transparency erode trust and make us feel less secure. >> the 9/11 commission, which inherited the 28 pages was never able to prove the complicity of saudi government officials. saudi rain has said it wants the information released, as well, to help clear its name once and for all. the white house has been saying for months that it's reviewing the material. >> what is it that's in those 28 pages that is so sensitive? for many americans who come here to the world trade center

memorial the issue of final accountability was settled with the dealt of osama bin laden but otherwise say they won't rest until the full story behind the attacks is known. >> it would just be bringing out the truth that we need. >> terry strada said the lawsuit will go on with or without the 28 pages in a quest for justice for her husband. al jazeera, new york. >> president obama had harsh criticism for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the president told israeli media the prime minister's contradictory stand on a palestinian state puts the country's reputation at risk. >> subsequently, his statements have suggested that there is the possibility of a palestinian state. it has so many caveats so many conditions that it is not realistic two think that that's

conditions would meet anytime in the near future. the danger here is that israel as a whole loses credibility. >> the president says the international community does not believe netanyahu is serious about a two-state solution. >> a leading opposition leader and journalist in russia who became suddenly and suspiciously ill is out of a coma this morning. he was hospitalized suddenly last week after his kidney's failed. according to reports from other opposition figures doctors suspected possible poisoning. charles stratford has more on why his illness is raising alarm. >> some encouraging signs for the family and supporters of prominent opposition activist with respect to what seems to be an improvement in his health. we've spoken to his father, who has just come from the hospital, said that his son is now out of the coma, he's gradually improving, is able to talk.

he also says that the analysis of just what caused such a sudden deterioration in his son's health is on going. the reason why this case has caused such alarm is because there was suspicion that he may have been poisoned. no criminal case has yet been opened but what's interesting is his close association with opposition activist and opposition leaders that have suffered persecution or been murdered in recent times here in russia. he was a close associate of boris nemtsov who was assassinated was murdered on a bridge very close to the kremlin in february. he fell ill last week only a day or so after the release of a film that was highly critical of the chechen leader, looking at

allegations of huge human rights abuses by that leader. that film interestingly has now been taken off you tube here in russia and it's unclear as yet as to why that has happened. as i say still no criminal case has been opened, but, you know a lot of suspicion here as to just what caused such a sudden deterioration in the health of this very prominent opposition activist here. >> al jazeera spoking with him last year at the height of the conflict in ukraine. he said the uprising in kiev was making penalty putin worry about threats to his own power in russia. >> the president is too close to home frankly for mr. putin. there we have the active, educated part of ukrainian society rising up against a corrupt authoritarian regime. what mr. putin is afraid of is a similar movement in russia

against his regime. >> amy great to see you. we don't know if there was foul play when it comes to his condition, but opposition physician pointed to the possibility of poisoning his father said there was acute intoxication that led to renal failure. >> i think everyone is trying to be as cautious as possible, but i would really go with the people who suspect that it was poisoning, because he was perfectly healthy a little over a week ago. he's 33 years old. he happened to be in moscow, rather than in the united states where he lives with his wife and children right now. we've seen poisonings before of other oppositionists and particularly people who are

strong critics of putin. >> talk about the recent history of poisonings and assassinations in russia of people who have run awry of moscow, starting with a journalist in 2006, shot dead and she was also poisoned at some point leading up to that shooting. >> that's absolutely right. she was headed on a plane down to beslon to try to help negotiate with a hostage crisis, and she got very, very ill and thinks it was poison. then two years later, she was gunned down in the stairwell of her moscow apartment building, and she was a fierce critic of vladimir putin. >> of course, there's always the poisoning of alexander in 2006 as well. >> it happened a month after her being gunned down. he was very outspoken accused

putin of being behind her murder and he ended up in the hospital. it's very interesting that it took doctors three weeks to figure out what the poison was that was inside his body. it was only on the day that he died that they discovered it was polonium 110. >> of course, boris nemtsov who earlier this year was gunned down. they were both involved in a report that had to do with russia's involvement in ukraine. >> yes with two others, put together the information that nemtsov gathered about russian involvement in ukraine before he died. not only that, karmersa was one of the creators of a very critical film of the chechen president. >> which just came out. it came out two days and was shown in moscow two days before

he fell ill. >> is this an effective tool to squash dissent in russia? >> i think in the short run yes, but i think that it is beginning to discredit the putin regime so much that i have heard actually that there is internal dissent within the higher echelons of the kremlin. i think these murders and the violence of just simply going too far. >> and then the question becomes how centralized is this, however up does it go. we'll have to leave it there. thank you. >> the world health organization says a mers outbreak in south korea is likely to grow. two people have died, at least 30 have contracted the virus and more than 1300 are under

quarantine. let's take a closer look at what middle east respiratory syndrome is. its he merged in saudi arabia in 2012. mers causes flu like symptoms, five coughing and shortness of breath. it can lead to severe complications, pneumonia and kidney failure. there is no vaccine or cure. four out of every 10 people who contract it die. harry fossett has more about the outbreak in south korea. >> the number which new infections is five, bringing the total to third including one man who traveled from south korea against medical advice to china and is now in quarantine in china. one of the those five infections is a tertiary infection meaning he was not infected directly but by one of the other people that he infected. there are three such confirmed that dayses. that's something that the authorities are very concerned about, making sure if they can

that they restrict the source of infections to the largest extent possible. if they transition between several generations if you like of infection that makes it far more difficult to control. so far, more than 1300 people in quarantine either at home or in hospital just over 100 of those people are in hospital, the government isn't saying which hospitals are being used in this way. they don't want to spread concern, however, it is proving fertile ground for rumor, lots of rumors flying around on social networks, naming hospitals, saying don't go to this hospital. one hospital even launching legal action against such rumors and parents becoming concerned about that, telling principals at schools near hospitals which have been named in this way to close their schools down. 209 schools closed down in this fashion and most of those in the province that surrounds the

capitol, seoul. >> for many women it's one of the toughest decisions of their lives, having children or having a career. many are now choosing another option freezing their eggs. we have this report. >> melanie jackson's among a growing number of british women delaying motherhood until later years. prolonged education careers and simply finding the right partner all have inevitable parts to play. >> melanie decided to preserve her eggs. >> i wasn't a particularly settled lifestyle but i thought i didn't want to grow old without having a child or children. >> despite conceiving her daughter naturally, she keeps eggs frozen for future use. >> that time that you think is going to last forever and suddenly you realize you're too old to sort certain things out it prolongs that and gives it like an insurance in a way. >> egg freezing's been around for decades mainly to help

patients undergoing harmful cancer treatment but now private fertility clinics are promoting their services to young, professional women. >> freezing eggs when you are setting out on a career will set your mind at rest for later on when you have achieved everything you wish to in the work place to achieve a pregnancy later on. >> it includes expensive hormones to stimulate egg production. the eggs are stored in liquid nitrogen for up to 10 years. when a woman wants to have a baby the egg is thawed, fertilized and transferred to the body as an embryo, a process that can cost more than $18,000. >> in the last year, the number of inquiries into private fertility treatment have doubled, with egg treatment topping the list of popular forms of fertility treatment. in the last 12 months, clinics like this have seen a 400%

increase. the figure is more than double that in spain. most women between the ages of 25 and 34 and a number of women even younger is on the rise. >> despite soaring interest, the success rate remains unclear. one of the leading pioneers of fertility treatment that a stark message for women thinking about egg freezing. >> don't do it. there's a lot of evidence to suggest it's very unreliable an unsuccessful and there may be a considerable pregnancy loss. in the long term, we might be creating babies that might be at risk for diseases we didn't expect. >> some experts believe it's too early to know the full effect of egg greasing. as the science develops, it could help women make difficult decisions between work and family life. >> if your job involves sitting in front of a computer all day get up and move is the advice from a new study in the journal of sports medicine. researchers say people should

stand up for at least two hours every dave. standing can help reduce the risk of developing type two diabetes and cardiovascular disease. >> one species of fish is adopting to going extinct. researchers say seven females gave birth without males. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's environmental impact. basically, these were ma'am let conceptions. >> if there's no guys around. >> a virgin that had babies. >> what's a girl going to do. in vertebrates have asexual reproduction but species with back bones we don't see this. there have been a few in captivity and they haven't had viable offspring but they've never seen it in the wild and not only did it happen, but they did have viable offspring so seven of them. how do you even figure something like that out?

the species is becoming so critically endangered, they were seen if they were having to reproduce within their families, so testing the d.n.a. and found that seven of the females had exactly the same d.n.a., meaning that they had reproduced asexually. of this species just to learn a little more about it, there's five types of these saw fish, all endangered, some critically like the one reproducing on its own. 92 countries are their range. only 16 countries protect them. only 7,000 sightings. they are called carpenter slashes. the bills and fins are very rare unfortunately they are still fished. the science books are going to have to be rewritten now.

it's never happened in the wild. it's not going to protect the species, but it's happening a little bit. >> celebrating the unique landscape of ethiopia, we sit down with famed photographer chester higgins as he celebrates his new exhibit. >> a historic win the new york cosmos with a victory in cuba.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's top stories, a 12 hour curfew in place in nigeria a bomb exploded killing at least 50 people. no one has claimed that responsibility but boko haram has repeatedly attacked that region in recent weeks. >> it's called cultural genocide in canada, the truth and reconciliation commission found aboriginal children were taken from families and 150,000 children were punished for practicing their native cultures. 6,000 died from the abuse. >> after two years of jump grades the collider is up and

running, the machine was shut down to increase energy levels. particles are traveling just below the speed of light. full collisions won't take place until next month. >> a memorial for slaves who lost their lives in a ship wreck off the coast have south africa. more than 400 slaves were remembered who were onboard when it capsized in 1794. more than half died. artifacts of the ship were recovered earlier this year. the journey was considered one of the earliest attempts to bring east africans to the americans as part of the transatlantic slave trade. >> award winning photographer chester higgins has been traveling to ethiopia for decades. his work pays homage to the countries land scapes. >> my interest in photography was to photograph people who i

loved and care about. >> he picked up his first camera when he was in college in alabama. eventually he landed jobs with national magazines and the new york times. he has photographed politicians artists and just plain folk in the u.s. and around the world but it was his encounter with an emperor 42 years ago that set him on a decades long quest to document the beauty of the ancient land of ethiopia. >> i have fallen in love with the people, the culture the history. the uniqueness of the place and i feel, like being in a situation where i'm in the majority i'm not a minority. >> through the decades higgins managed to persuade ethiopian to say trust him and capture some of their most intimate moments. >> before i show my camera, whoever i was interested in and if i could get to this point, i would then make a polaroid of them and give them that

polaroid because i realized that it built bridgeles of trust, but most importantly allows that person to see how i see them. >> that approach is one of the reasons higgins calls himself a cultural an anthropologist who works with a camera. >> a victory for the new york cosmos on the soccer field in havana dominating cuba's national team. the final score 4-1. thousands filled the stadium to cheer on both teams. it is the first time in decades an american soccer team has played in cuba. pele promoted the event as a chance to bring peace in sports. >> coming up, more on the story we've followed this morning the warrants out for the arrests of six more people connected with the corruption scandal at fifa. have a great morning.

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