ll time to secure release. and don't forget you can keep up to date with all of the day's developments by going to our website, the news of the day, and indeed the news dominated by sepp blatter resignation. that's aljazeera.com. president obama signs the u.s. freedom act. police in boston make another arrest after killing a man under fbi surveillance. authorities say the suspect lunged at them with a knife when they tried to question them. and a new alert from interpole, could a change in leadership help u.s. chances to host the world cup?

♪ this is al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. president obama has signed the usa freedom act. the law puts a stop to the government's bulk collection of millions of americans phone records. it's a big change. the usa patriot act is very specific it only lets the government collect data with court approval, that's sh very different from the rules under the patriot act. there have been calls from both sides of the isles to improve the program. after two days of what president obama called a, quote, needless delay, congress passed a bill

tuesday restoring most of the provisions of the patriot 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 be a thing of the past. over the next six months the government's ability to monitor and collect phone records will be phased out. after it is phased out, the government must obtain a court order to collect records. >> we passed the most significant surveillance reform in decades. we have done it by setting aside ideology setting aside fear mongering, said we will protect the security of the united states but we'll also protect the privacy of americans. >> reporter: the nsa's once secret bulk collection powers

were one of the most controversial portions of the patriot act. under this new legislation, many other provisions live on including the fbi's authority to gather business records in terrorism and espionage investigations and the bureau's enhanced availability to eavesdrop. the bill passed over the strong objections of security hawks like kentucky republican mitch mcconnell. former members of the security community also warned that the loss of bulk monitors will have consequences. >> our adversaries, whether it's isis al-qaeda in the arabian

peninsula, or home-grown terrorists, they understand the world has changed, and they are going to take advantage of that. >> reporter: those the bulk data collection stopped on sunday night, the obama administration said it will now resume over the first step of phasing out the program over the next six months. they go on to say the physical acts to restart the bulk data collection, but it could be up to four days before they determine that metadata collection is still legal. a man had been under 24 hour fbi surveillance when he was shot outside of a pharmacy. they are not making the video public at least not yet. >> not yet.

and officials say the video shows the man lunging at them with a knife. the district attorney and fbi are now looking into whether the officer's use of deadly force was justified. >> reporter: this was the weapon police say the suspect was holding. a black military-style knife they say he pulled on them in a cvs parking lot. the fbi said they 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 says he was ordered to put down the knife. >> they kept retreating verbally giving commands to drop the weapon develop the weapon. and at some point the individual came close and their lives were in danger.

>> reporter: the suspect was shot twice, was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead. his brother says he was con fronted by three officers at a bus stop and shot in the back three times. later police searched a home where they arrested a man whom they say may be connected to the case. the man arrested is due in court this afternoon and local muslim groups say police have invited them to come in today and watch the security video of what happened. six people linked to a growing scandal in soccer are now on an most wanted list it includes fifa's former vice president. this comes one day after fifa's president said he is stepping down. attorney general has been tight

lipped about whether the probe is looking at blatter as well. lawrence lee is live in soour rick. interpole has clarified these red notices are not the same as international arrest warrants, so what do they amount to? >> reporter: yes, that's absolutely right. and there was confusion here this morning. what they are is a sort of statement of intent a warning, if you would like that they are being watched. what it is is a signal to them that even though interpol comes to arrest them they are under threat of arrest from the countries in which they are. they are also under extradition for the country that wants to interview them which would be the u.s. so really what i think is this very directly, is interpol in

france working hand in glove with the fbi and their investigation, because after all these six men, jack warner and the rest are from the americas and that plays in very much to the historical allegations that the fbi are investigating around corruption from fifa in the 1990s and so on. and really you can only expect that investigation to grow in the coming months. >> lawrence any indication of who would replace sepp blatter? >> reporter: well and i think that is one of the problems for all of the people that want blatter to go and particularly those that want him to go off straight away. he can stay on a little bit longer, because there isn't a single figure against him who can unify the rest of the world.

prince ali of jordan is the most high profile. he got 70 or more votes in last month's election. and michel platini of france but some countries don't like him. one of the questions that all of these candidates are going to have to ask themselves is have they got the courage to try to call for the redrawing of the ballot for 2018 and 2022. remember england wants the tournament that russia got. the u.s. wants 2022 that qatar got, but if they stood up and said we want these to be reheld it will cause massive political issues i think particularly with 2018, because russia which blames america for a political conspiracy against it would probably try to turn the redrawing of the 2018 ballot

into a huge political issue. >> yes. and as we said there are reports that blatter is also the target of a corruption investigation. erika pitsy has that part of the story. >> reporter: his 17-year run as president of fifa came to an abrupt end days after he was reelected. >> translator: i have therefore decided to stand down as president as i'm convinced it is the best option for the organization. >> reporter: he announced plans to step down with allegations of bribery surrounding the organization. >> reporter: fifa needs a profound restructuring. >> reporter: blatter's resignation comes less than a week after the u.s. justice

department announced an indictment of 14 people. they are accused of accepting more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks. this man spoke after blatter spoke and said fifa is committed to cleaning up its image. >> there is significant reform that must be done. the steps will ensure that the organization cannot be used by those seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the game. >> reporter: many fans have been calling for blatter's resignation. tuesday they reacted to the news around the world from france -- >> translator: at a certain point you have to leave the position to someone else who will clean up fifa and get rid of the corruption. >> reporter: to germany --

>> translator: it is good news because nobody has lost anything through this. he sold soccer and made it dirty. >> reporter: to russia -- >> translator: i have heard this was initiated by america. they shouldn't interfere with such things. it is good or bad? it's not up to me to judge. >> reporter: and in america, the president of the body said this represents a change for fifa. visa coca-cola, and adidas all say they welcome blatter's resignation as a step towards winning back the trust in word soccer. a strike hit an isil facility in iraq. at least 70 are reported dead mostly civilians. im has the latest.

>> reporter: the attack look place in the early hours of the morning against what is alleged to be an isil command and control center. they have used the area to mount attacks on the nearby city of kirkuk which is controlled by the kurdish peshmerga. the town itself has seen a number of strikes take place, but we don't know whether this was a coalition or iraqi air force strike. but there were two tankers within the warehouse. isil moved the bodies up to a local hospital and that's where hospital sources and military sources confirmed the number of the dead. now there is some discrepancy between what isil are saying and what the iraqi military are

saying. isil claimed a lot of people that died were civilians, we can't confirm that and of course the iraqi military sources are telling us that this was an isil position a command and control center that they were using. but once again, what we really don't know is whether this was an intelligence-lead attack or whether it was part of a concerted effort to try to retake the town. judging by the fact that it was an isolated an isolated attack it is likely this would have been an intelligence-lead attack. but isil say this wasn't one of their command and control centers and civilians did die in this attack. oil prices are sliding today after a report showed a surprise increase in u.s. stockpiles. that is good news for consumers at the pump and comes at a time when all eyes are focusing on

vienna where an opec meeting is happening. >> first of all we're talking opec we are really talk about saudi arabia which is by far the dominant power in the 12-member cartel. the last time they met, oil prices were depressed and saudi arabia made the decision to not cut production. saudi arabia's publicly stated it is keeping the taps open to defend its market share against u.s. shale oil producers. they can do that because its production costs are among the lowest in the world, while shale oil is relatively expensive to produce. and many shale firms have held off of new drilling once the prices have dropped.

and many suspect there was also a strong political reason behind the reason not to cut oil production. tehran needs oil to trade around $120 a barrel to balance its books, and it is half of that right now. iran is not the only opec member getting hammered by the open-tap strategy. venezuela, iraq libya, ecuador, nigeria, and angola are also struggling to balance their books. and since oil is a global commodity, non-opec producers like russia are also getting squeezed. greek officials warn they may miss a loan repayment to the imf this week if they don't

agree to a bailout deal. alexis tsipras is pushing his own proposal. a russian journalist emerges from a coma days after falling ill under suspicious circumstances. his supporters say he was poisoned. ♪

♪ welcome back to al jazeera america. it is 10:49 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. a court hearing is set for a man accused of shooting two police officers in ferguson missouri. he is accused of firing at officers. his attorney says williams was beaten into confessing. texas is set to execute a prisoner who has been on death row for three decades. he has filed a last-minute

appeal with the supreme court. he has faced imnext execution six times before. and the world health organization says a mers outbreak in south korea is likely to grow. so far at least two people have died at least 30 have contracted the virus, and more than 1300 are under quan teen. mers has no known vaccine or cure. a leading opposition leader and journalist in russia who suddenly become critically and some say suspiciously ill is out of a comma this morning. he was hospitalized after his kidneys failed. doctors suspect possible poisoning. charles stratford more on why his illness is raising alarm. >> reporter: some encouraging signs for the family and supporters of the opposition activist with respect to what seems to be an improvement in his health. we have spoken to his father who has just come from the hospital.

he says his son is out of the coma and is able to talk. he also says the analysis of just what caused such a sudden deterioration in his son's health is ongoing. 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 is interesting is his close association with opposition activists and opposition leaders that have either suffered persecution or indeed been murders in recent times here in russia. he was a close associate of the man who was assassinated on a bridge very close to the kremlin in february. he fell ill last week only literally a day or so after the release of a film that was highly critical of the chechen

leader. that film interestingly has now been taken off of youtube here in russia. and it's unclear as of yet as to why that has happened. still no criminal case has been opened but a lot of suspicion here as to just what caused such a sudden nearly fatal deterioration in the health of this very prominent opposition activist. >> al jazeera america spoke with the journalist last year. he said the uprising was making president putin worry about his power in russia. >> the president is too close to home for president putin, you

have a part of associate raising up against the regime. what is he really worried about is a maidan in moscow. >> this brings to light the recent history of people who had been poisoned or killed. this former spy was fatally poisoned in london. he accused putin of being behind the previous murder. and boris was shot and killed on a bridge in moscow. now i spoke about this earlier with amy night, the author of the kgb police. >> reporter: karl with two others put together the information that boris gathered

and put together before he died. and not only that he was one of the creators of a very critical film of the chechen president -- >> which just came out two days and was shown in moscow two days before he fell ill. now is the net result of these poisonings and killings a culture of intimidation and fear among journalists and activists? is it an effective tool to squash decent in russia? >> i think in the short run, yes, but it's beginning to discredit the putin regime so much that i have heard actually that there is internal decent within the higher echelons of the kremlin. i think these murders and the violence are just simply going too far. >> knight says he was healthy

before he fell ill likely points to foul play. again, we cannot confirm that at this time. medicaiding california's lost children. why they are receiving far more prescription drugs than needed.

era america ♪ workers in nicaragua are getting new tools to deal with the police. it will designate some of the sex workers as official government representatives, and that means they will be better able to file assault charges with the police. nearly 15,000 women in nicaragua make their living in the sex trade. recent investigations reveal moster children in california are given three to four more times medications. >> reporter: children are not only given medication but they

are given antipsychotics. now doctors have limited resources and options, and they have to deal with children who have very complicated trauma issues. earlier we came to a woman who came out of the foster care system. >> i felt like i wasn't really in control of my body. i felt like a zombie. at times my mouth would get swollen, because i guess i was having a bad reaction to the medicines. i would tell the staff and they would say i was faking it. >> reporter: we'll go into greater greater depth this evening. but there are 49 other states out there, some of them with a lot less transparency than this state. this is a systemic problem happening across the country. >> you can see melissa's full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. a solemn memorial for slaves

who lost their lives in a shipwreck off of the coast of south africa. researchers gathered to remember more than 400 slaves who were on the boat when it capsized. more than half died in the shipwreck. the journey was considered one of the earliest attempts to bring east africans to the americas as part of the slave trade. nfl commissioner confirms he will hear an appeal from brady. he is fighting a four-game suspicion for his part in deflated footballs. thank for watching. i'm stephanie sy. you can catch up on all of the latest any time on news now continues next. live from doha. ♪

this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there, welcome to the news hour. i'm shiulie ghosh in doha. nigeriaia's military is accused of murdering and torturing thousands of men and boys in its battle with boko haram. a day after fifa bossstepstep quits, the corruption investigation intensifies. interpol adds six fifa executiv