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you are watching al jazeera america live from new york city i'm i'm morgan radford. the president signed the usa freedom act just last night, putting a stop to the government's bulk collection of american phone records. this is a big change from the mass surveillance used under the patriot act. >> the ayes are 67, nays are 32 the bill is passed. >> reporter: after two days of what president obama called a quote needless delay, congress passed a bill tuesday restoring most of the provisionsover 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 american's phone records will soon be a thing of the past. here is what will change. 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 even then they have to be records of specific investigation targets. >> we passed the most significant surveillance reform in decades. we have done it by setting aside ideology setting aside mere mongering. said we'll protect the security of the united states but we also protect the privacy of americans. >> reporter: the nsa's secret surveillance powers were once part of the controversial provisions of the patriot act. but many other provisions live on including the fbi's authority to gather business records in terrorism and espionage investigations.

still the american civil liberty's union hails the new legislation calling it, quote: 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 monitoring will have consequences. >> our adversaries whether it's isis the islamic state, or al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or even home grown terrorists, they understand the world has changed. we live in a digital environment, and they are going to take advantage of that. >> reporter: though bulk data collection stopped on monday night, the obama said it will now resume as the first step towards phasing out the program over the next six months.

they go on to say the physical acts required to restart the bulk collection perhaps 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 this new law. still according to the associated press, the fbi is using a small fleet of planes to still spy on americans. these planes are actually equipped with video and cell phone surveillance that reportedly does not have a warrant. these aircrafts are registered to fake companies, and the fbi will only say that the planes are being used in ongoing investigations. speaking of surveillance new details of the police killing of a man in boston. officials say when they tried to talk to the man he lounged at officers with a knife. moments later he was shot dead. >> morgan officials say there is video from security cameras showing the entire thing. it's not clear when it will be

released. and the top republican says the dead man was radicalized by isil. the district attorney and fbi are looking into whether the use of deadly force was justified. this was the weapon police they the man pulled on them in a cvs parking lot yesterday. the fbi says 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. >> reporter: boston's police commissioner says 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 proximity came close so their lives were in danger.

>> reporter: the suspect was shot twice. he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. his brother took to social media with his version of events saying he was confronted by three officers and shot in the back three times. later in the day police searched a home where they arrested a man who they say may be connected to the case. >> we'll continue until we're satisfied that, you know we have obtained all of the information and evidence that there is to obtain. >> reporter: the man arrested is due in court this afternoon, and local muslim groups say police have invited them to come in and watch the security video of what happened. a man charged with wounding two police officers at a ferguson missouri protest is due in court this afternoon. jeffery williams faces assault and gun charges after two police officers were shot during a protest on march 12th. one officer was shot in the face the other in the shoulder. the rally called for sweeping reforms in ferguson and that's

where unarmed black teenage er michael brown was shot deed last august by a white police officer. oil prices are sliding today after a report showed a surprising u.s. stockpile. this comes at a time where oil ministers are gathering. patty a lot of his reasons and ramifications seem economic and political. >> of course. when you are talking about opec it is about money and politics. when you are talking about opec you are talking about saudi arabia which is by far the dominant power. the last time it met, oil prices were sharply depressed and opec made a saudi-lead decision to keep the pressure on by not cutting production. but they are still around 40% lower than they were a year ago. saudi arabia says it is keeping

the taps open to defend its market share against u.s. shale oil production. indeed many u.s. shale firms have cut spending and held off on new drilling as prices have dropped, but it's not just u.s. producers the saudis are undercutting but opec members as well including iran. which is why many suspect there was also a strong political incentive driving the saudi pricing strategy. tehran needs oil to treyed around $140 a barrel to balance its books, and it is fetching less than half of that right now. tehran is also grappling with international sanctions but has indicated it will stop pumping more oil if it reaches a final deal with the u.s. and other world powers over its nuclear program later this month. and it's not just iran none

opec producers like russia are also getting squeezed. >> saudi arabia keeping its taps open. iran getting half of its 140 a barrel price. what is the does for opec? >> the buzz is that they are not going to cut production. it is expected they are going to continue to keep the taps wide open and put the pressure on those higher-cost shale producers. >> thank you so much. some good news on the economy this morning, adp says that private companies added 21,000 numbers just last month. and los angeles could give the final okay today, raising the minimum wage to $15. the city council gave its tentative support last month, and the ordinance would take effect with the first raises coming next summer and reach $15 by 2020.

greek officials are meeting with some of their european creditors today trying to reachen a agreement to release billions in bailout funds. france and germany believe an agreement can in fact be reached. >> reporter: given what we know at the moment there appear to be three major differences between the proposal that the greeks submitted to their creditors on monday night and that submitted by creditors 24 hours later. the biggest of those seems to be that the greeks are proposing that they spend no more than $1.5 billion from home grown tax revenue on repaying debt this year. and that would double next year and rise thereafter. but for now the greeks want a rebelieve. they want to limit how much of this economy which is struggling to break back into growth may send on repaying foreign debt. however, the creditors are proposing that the greeks spending more like $6.5 billion

beginning this year. and this would be a deal breaker for the greeks. it wants a longer period of repayment, and lower the amount spent each year so some of the money can be spent on being reinvested in the economy to create growth and jobs. and because there are now two documents on the table, the greeks want to see theirs adopted in today's euro work meeting, but also in the meetings that will take place later this week. and the third difference is a perceived revenue gap. the greeks they will have a revenue shortfall of about a billion dollars, the creditors think it will be twice that. and it's being called radicalization gone viral, the

householding a hearing on how isil uses social media as a propaganda tool. i'm heidi zhou castro in texas where new questions have surfaced about a 1999 prison guard murder here that may have landed the wrong man on death row. ♪

it has been nearly a month since two men opened fire in texas just outside of a cartoon magazine featuring images of the profte mohammed. john terrett is live for us in washington, d.c. now. john are lawmakers linking garland so what is a wider problem around radicalization and the internet? >> yeah they really are. this discussion today was really based on what happened in garland.

remember there was a prophet muhammad cartoon competition held two gunmen turned up wearing body armor and shot at a security guard, and they were shot quickly by police who happened to be on the scene. so that was the starting point for this homeland security discussion today. but it turned to much broader themes. how is it that terrorism is recruited online these days? how is it that terrorist acts are planned online and then very often celebrated online once they have actually happened. and the discussion turned to a part of the internet which is a mystery, i think, quite frankly to most of us. here is the republican chairman of the homeland security committee. he is from texas and he is talking about the dark web, that bit of the internet that most of us can't see. >> do we have any idea how many communications are taking place

in the dark space? >> no we don't. and that's the problem. we're past going dark in certain instances we are dark. the ability to know what they are saying in these encrypted communication situations is troubling. >> that man is the assist important director of fbi's counter terrorism, and he was saying over the course of the hearing that this area of the dark web is an area that the fbi is spending a lot more time these days. >> you mentioned the dark web, recruitment, planning and celebrations all happening online. but what about solutions? did you hear anything about intercepting online messages between people seeking to harm americans? >> the assist important director of counter terrorism at the fbi spends his entire life worrying about this sort of issue, and he

says the key is not any large-scale policing. what needs to be done is the authorities like the fbi need to work more closely with things like internet service providers who provide access to the web in the first place. take a listen to what he had to say. >> going to providers and requesting access to either the stored information or communications that's ongoing, so we're not looking at going through a back door or being that nefarious, we're talking about asking for their assistance. >> and while he says they may not need widespread watching but he said even the internet service providers themselves don't have the software to unencrypt what is written on this part of the internet. so when the fbi request for it they get it but it is already encrypted so before they can

start to analyze, they have to try to work out how to unencrypt the information. it's a big problem. >> thank you. a death row inmate is getting one more chance to hold off his execution. he was convicted of murdering a prison guard, but has been granted a stay. >> reporter: did you call the officer? >> no. >> reporter: why should we believe you? >> i don't know. why should you think i did it? >> reporter: just two weeks before his murder nagel, 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. nagel would be dead 13 days later. and inmate robert pruitt charged

with his murder. pruitt's attorney hints that his client was framed. are others who would have had more reason to want nagel dead. >> he was in the process of writing a grievance concerning a variety of matters that were occurring. >> reporter: that complaint was never made public but once month after his murderer three correction officers were arrested for laundering money. on april 28th as prison officials drove pruitt the 42 miles to the death chamber in huntsville, a texas court was having second authorities. how close did you get to the death chamber? >> maybe ten feet. >> reporter: just hours before he was expected to die, an unexpected stay of execution

giving the legal team 30 days to initiate new dna testing on the metal shank used to kill officer nagel. the handle has never been tested. >> our principal hope is there are cells on that masking tape and those cell have not been too degraded. >> reporter: if someone else's dna is found, that could reopen the investigation. >> i'm convinced he committed that offense. i wouldn't have charged him if i didn't believe it. >> reporter: pruitt's reputation has been compromised since he landed in prison since age 16. where is your credibility? >> i have none. you said it all.

i have been twice convicted of murder. >> reporter: if you have no credibility, why are you fighting this? >> because i didn't do it? >> reporter: do you deserve to die, robert? >> no not for this. meanwhile, tonight texas is set to execute a prisoner who has been on death row for more than three decades. the man in the picture there says he was wrongly convicted of killing three men back in 1983. the 67 year old has come within just days of execution six separate times. the deadliest form of skin cancer is on the rise. new cases of melanoma have doubled over the last decade but there is hope. better prevention programs could cut new diagnoses by about 20%. it's not clear if the spike is due to more people being exposed

to the sun or more people actually getting diagnosed. children in foster care are among the most vulnerable in our society. recent investigations rekreel they are prescribed psychiatric medications three to four times more than kids who are not in foster care. >> reporter: the children are not only given the medication but they are given antipsychotics. these are the most potent pills around. doctors have limited resources and options, and they have to deal with children who have very complicated trauma issues. earlier we spoke 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. the staff would say i was faking

it. >> reporter: we'll go into greater depth in our report later this evening, but our closer look in california is just the tip of the iceberg, 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. a new chapter for fifa coming up on al jazeera, the president of the oh world's most powerful soccer organization steps down leaving fans wondering who is next to fill his shoes.

android mobile device. download it now interpol has issued arrest alerts for six people linked to soccer's world body governing body. it is urging other member countries to arrest the people as part of the u.s.-lead investigation into the organization's corruption. loretta lynch wouldn't say if sepp blatter himself is being investigated. many con tenders are already putting their hats in the ring to replace him. lawrence lee reports. >> reporter: if this was the first day of a new life for fifa you wouldn't know it. at the headquarters sepp blatter was still at work. there was a mixed youth game on

the round, suggesting the kind of sporting purity fifa's critics say vanished years ago. but blatter's announcement that he was to go was followed by interpol releasing red notices against several figures from the americas. was the net closing on the leader? >> we know that the $45 million spent by the ffa, was effectively wasted because of a corrupt and tainted bidding process. >> translator: it was a decision that shouldn't be made given was what was surrounding him. i'm not in blatter's shoes, but i will say it was a choice with a lot of inconvenient facts. >> reporter: and who should replace blatter? michel platini of france perhaps, or prince ali of

jordan. this campaign group believes someone with true global significance perhaps even the former head of the united nations should act as a sort of control figure within the new fifa to offer reassurance to everyone. >> we made promotional back in january when we launched in brussels that there was the creation and implementation of a independent reform committee, and that needs to be lead by an imminent person season such as mitt romney mitt romney took on the role after salt lake city and did a great job there. >> reporter: it's not clear how long blatter will hang around for, or whether he intends to try to find a successor cut from the same cloth as himself. the trouble is there is no other obvious world leader in world football to move fifa forward.

the question in global corporate football is whether it is possible to move forward. award winning photographer chester higgins has been traveling to ethiopia for decades. randall pinkston sat down with higgins to talk about his new exhibit. >> my interest in photography was from the heart, to photograph people who i love and cared about. >> reporter: he picked up his first camera when he was in college in alabama. eventually landing 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 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, not the minority. >> reporter: higgins, an american a foreigner has managed to persuade ethiopians to trust him. and capture some of their most intimate moments. >> before i showed my camera whomever i was interested in i would make a poil roied of them and give them that polaroid because i realized it would build bridges of trust and allows that person to see how i stheem. >> reporter: that approach is why he calls himself a cultural an though poll gist who works with the camera. >> you can see randall's full report at 8:00 pm eastern. and finally a solemn memorial for slaves who lost their lives on a shipwreck. they gathered to remember the lives lost. more than half died in the

shipwreck. i'm morgan radford. thanks so much for joining us. ♪ to look >> the fbi fifa investigation is