on ali velshi "on target." that's our show tonight. i'm ali velshi. in chicago. thanks for joining us. several iraqi sunni tribes pledge allegiance to isil dealing another blow to the government's bid to recapture anbar province. ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to al jazerra live from doha, i am richelle carey also on the program, the fifa scandal grows a top he can executive admits bribes were paid in choosing the 1998 and 2010 world cups. did yemen's former president cooperate with al qaeda a former fighter talks to al jazerra.

plus concerns children in the u.s. foster system are being given too much medication. ♪ ♪ isil has just gotten a major boost in its war with the iraqi government. several sunni tribal sheiks have pledged allegiance to isil. they met in fallujah on wednesday and pledged support to the head of isil. let's get the latest now from imran kahn and baghdad. what more with you tell us about this imran? >> reporter: well, i can tell you that the statement they issued was very strong, it condemned the government. it said the only way peace would come to ban bar province if the tribes joined isil. there is a large tribe there and they are the fore front of the

statement. they command a number of fighters and a large amount of influence over the a lot of the other tribes there. what is unclear is whether they were forced by ice toil pledge allegiance or whether they did it willingly. fallujah has been under the occupation of isil for over a year now. it's one of their strong holds and it is a place where they do command a large amount of influence. now, if this a willing move, then that's very worrying for the iraqi government. because like i say this could be a false multiplier for isil, giving them a number of fighters at their disposal who know the terrain very well, know anbar province very well and also will be able to influence other tribes. this whole thing is coming as quite a shock to a lot of people here in iraq. but in people say it's to be expected given the policies. previous government. >> all right imran kahn, reporting for us there. so it seems you are saying that things were kind of headed in this direction? >> reporter: that's absolutely

right. a lot of the tribes for nearly two years now have been complaining particularly against the maliki government, the previous government that they were ignored they knew there was a threat coming from isil. they said if you arm us, if you allow us to fight as sunnis we'll be able to get rid of isil quite quickly and there is historical precedent for you'll of this. it was the sunni tribes armed by america that got rid of isil's predecessor al qaeda in iraq but after that they were abandoned the government promised them jobs within the army and influence in the government they didn't get it. so this has been a long time coming. the catalyst for all of this, of course is the fact that the shia militias are now leading the operation in anbar province and a lot of the sunni sheiks have said that's not good enough. this is only going to make things worse. it's going to anger a lot of our own people who see this as sectarian and this is why they pledged allegiance to isil they say the government have simple abandoned them. a lot of the other

pro-government tribes that haven't pledged to isil that are fighting with the government to try to get rid of them. it's by no means a black and white situation, the fact that a number of tribes have come together not in just fallujah but in anbar province generally and pledged allegiance to isil goes to show you the level of anger a lot of sunnis feel towards the government in baghdad. >> all right ill ran kahn reporting from baghdad, thank you, imran. at least 70 people killed in an explosion in ghana it happened at a gas station in the capital acura. we are in the capital gathering more information on this horrible events, what else can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right it is truly a horrible event. people were gathering at the gas station because of heavy rain. there has been widespread flooding and this is a very business area of accra lots of

people lots of car traffic and because of the heavy rains and the way that the flooding had hand late in the night people had gathered at the gas take to try to seek shelter and then this explosion happened and, of course a huge number of people were affected. as you mentioned, at least 70 people killed, but expect the number to be higher than that. and there is an added any indication as the day continues -- added complication as the day continues is that the fueled has leaked out that will be another challenge for authorities in dealing with the aftermath of this terrible explosion. >> it seems that the danger still exists even right now. live for us in ghana, thank you. and now to the fifa scandal which continues to unravel. giving up new details chuck blazer former top executive has admitted that he and others took and arranged bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 world cups. the details were revealed by the

u.s. justice department which released a transcript of blazer' 2013 court hearing. let's get more now from laurence lee who is in zurich where fifa has its head quarters. i can only imagine what is happening at fifa headquarters as this information continues to trickle out every day. what more can you tell us, laurence? >> reporter: well, yeah. and clearly the chuck blazer testimony overnight we knew that chuck blazer had turned state. remember this man who was a kingpin in american soccer, he had decided to work with the authorities in the united states to try to turn against those who were guilty of historical corruption and now he's been work being with the fbi. but past what chuck blazer said, there has since been the most extraordinary about turn from jack warner, who cut -- really an extraordinary figure, again very, very important in soccer in the americas, he, for so many years, has insisted that he's been the victim of this sort of

western conspiracy against him that he hadn't really done anything wrong. and that there was nothing in his path that would suggest corruption. now, i mean perhaps based on what chuck blazer said overnight he's launched the most amazing tirade against fifa. he took a pay for slot on trinidadian tv overnight entitled the gloved are off. basically in it he said he had a lot of documentation checks and everything else which he had given to a third party presumably his legal team and authorized them to public it saying it would now bring down the entire house of cards, this is exactly what the fbism wants in the same way they wanted chuck blazer to be onside. crucially jack warner names sepp blatter and looks very much as if he has the knives out for his former boss out at fifa. let's have a listen to some of what jack warner had to say in this address. >> these documents.

[ inaudible ] matters. the link between fifa and me. the link between fifa its funding and the. [ inaudible ] congress. >> remarkable stuff there laurence. so what is next potentially for jack warner? >> reporter: well, i don't think it's entirely clear i think the supposition must be that he seems to be given that there is inter pole red notice against him and he knows he could be arrested if he wants to move to another country. perhaps he wants to do the same thing as chuck blazer and turn states and work with the fbi against, you would assume now

sepp blatter. so that starts to look like things unraveling very much here for blatter. and at the same time at the same time, of course, chuck blazer's testimony plays in to the whole debate about what happens to the 2018 and 2022 world cups. there is a big push from our a from the michael garcia reports to be released in full. fifa revelry redacted it. some european countries wants this to be now out in the open before the next fifa president is electriced with a view to rerunning those bids about you i do think for all of this and all the anger it's provoked in russia and qatar. it's worth bearing in mind what chuck blazer said he took bribes not just around the 2010 world cup in south africa, but the 1998 world cup which was held in france in europe, and european countries have a lot less i think to say about that. >> okay. laurence lee live from zurich, thank you.

allegations made to al jazerra suggest yemen's ex-president ali abdullah saleh directedded al qaeda. a former al qaeda operative has spoken exclusive i feel to al jazerra. and he says he was playing a double game. clayton swisher reports. >> reporter: this car bomb attack in yemen killed eight spanish tour i tourist. al qaeda fighters claimed responsibility. but this man says there is much more to the story. and it may involved the former yemen president ali abdullah saleh. >> reporter: he was a member of al qaeda until his arrest by

pakistani intelligence and the cia in 2004. returned to yemen and jailed until 2006, he was released and began his work as a paid informant for the yemeni government. he claims he warned security agencies one week before the attack and provided details on the day itself. just over a year later a daring assault on the u.s. embassy in sanaa left 19 dead. he again says he warned the security services three months before. a week before, and three days before. >> reporter: his handaller as an informant was saleh's nephew, a colonel. he said he did not just ignore

the attacks, he went so far as to hand over money for the explosives used against the u.s. embassy. the colonel then arranged for the materials to be given to the military commander of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> reporter: al jazerra has verified his background within al qaeda. we have also established that he was a bomb maker. that's how he gained detailed knowledge about the attacks. he lost his right thumb handling handling explosives. we have shown his testimony to two retired intelligence officers, both experts on al qaeda.

>> my interpretation of him is that again, this is a guy who in substantial measure is who he says he is. he knows these people. he has insights in to how they operate. >> if you look back at the history of al qaeda there has been very few people who have come out with detail of what's real going on at the top. so somebody being able to report what was going on, over a period of months, even perhaps years even if it's a few years back, there is an extraordinary valuable. >> if i had to give him a ballpark grade, i would say probably like 70/30. 70 being genuine. >> reporter: spain and the u.s. have investigated the attacks and closed their cases. the colonel could not be reached for comment. he says he is willing to testify in front of any international pam in order to bring justice. clayton swisher, al jazerra. >> and you can watch that full documentary al qaeda informant

from 20 gmt on thursday, it's also online at aljazerra.com/al qaedainformant. there are extended videos there articles as well and lots more. coming up on the program officials in nepal struggle to confirm who is entitled to financial assistance after the earthquake.

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pledged allegiance to the islamic state of iraq and the levant. they met in the city of fallujah on wednesday and pledged support to the head of isil. at least 70 people have been killed in a gas explosion at a petrol station. many of them have reportedly taken shelter from rain and flooding. former top fifa executive chuck blazer told a u.s. judge that he and others agreed to take bribes for the awarding of the 1998 and 2010 world cubs. blazer's testimony in 2013 was released by the u.s. justice department on wednesday. the retrial of three al jazerra journalists is about to resume in cairo. it was adjourned on monday. after the prosecution's closing argument which claimed the men this endangered egypt as national security, mohamed fahmy and bahar mohamed family was

present and peter greste has not returned to the trial. they arrested in december sent 13 and sentence today seven and 10 years in prison. peter get greste was are he leased and deported in february. almost two weeks later the judge ordered the release of the other two. the retrial began in march dragging over three months with delays and adjournments. egyptian journalist joins me here in the studio and we appreciate your time. how would you characterize the court system, the legal system in egypt? >> well, let me start by saying that the legal system in egypt is one of the oldest legal systems in the world. and unlike what most people say these days about the legal system in egypt and that it doesn't exist i believe personally that it does exist. and it is so efficient that what we have been seeing for the last

two years specifically the last two years has been done because of a trick that was made. >> how so? >> that was made by the regime. all these cases, they are mostly are bogus cases that has been tried over the last two years has been tried by judges picked up specifically by the regime itself against the standard procedure of the procedural law in egypt. so i still believe that the majority of the judges in egypt we still have maintain integrity unlike the minority of the judges who have been picked up by name to try these cases. so what is the goal of the regime. the goal of picking these judges? >> unfortunately since everything revolves, everything revolves around the politics

these days, it's all about achieving certainly political goals. through the judiciary. this is very unfortunate. all these cases, they are not about the law. they are not about evidence, they are not even about the clues. they are all about politics. so but i believe this is a temporary thing. and soon it will pass. >> you do? >> yes. >> so what is the judge to do who does want to uphold integrity and the court system and do the right thing? >> well, in our case, i believe there is no chance, because as i told you, all of these cases have been assigned to certain judges who volunteered to work against the law. and that's why i keep repeat that go appeal to our judiciary please stick to the law forget about politics, the law stays

politics goes. and it's amazing because coincidentally on this day 4th of june, two years ago i received a conviction from the same judiciary who are -- who is trying the al jazerra journalists these days. i stood up in the cage in the same cage for two years only to receive a conviction, a wrong sentence by the same judges. so i know what al jazerra journalists are suffering. and going through because i have been there myself. for two years. and ever since i received that conviction i have been in exile moving from one country to another. so i know the agonies of journal assists who are going through the same ordeal. but the thing that i want to say say, -- actually it's a question. until when the i international community is going to lay back,

relax and watching the agonies of journalists especially in certain parts of the world like middle east and africa, there is what we all know as vienna accord which provides security and protection and immunity for diplomats. why can't we talk about another sort of accord that provides the same protection for journalists against all these violations done by dictatorships. the world has done nothing for journalists and this is unfortunate. >> you are saying the international community has to stands up and say enough. thank you very much. >> thank you. an egyptian appeals court has ruled that former president hosni mubarak will be tried for the third time over the killing of protest first 2011. he was acquitted in a retrial last november. after originally being jailed for life. charges against him relate to the deaths of over 800 people

during the revolution. there is growing concern in nepal. the distribution of aid in areas hit booty earthquake is unfair. people who own their homes are getting help, renters are not. now parliamentary commit is a directing the government to help out tenants as well. but in all the chaos, a lot of people have lost important documents which makes making a claim very difficult. harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: in the town here, brick by brick they are starting again. shattered homes are being cleared out. building materials collected. all of this thanks to individual and community initiative. here as in so many places the earthquake has laid bare gaps in the governing system. their home is unsafe to live in. they have had just $20 in financial aid so far but they are more worry the about their tenants. >> translator: when i asked the municipality to provide my tenants with with relief.

they said they had to go to their home villages it's impossible to provide them help here only homeowners get the help. >> reporter: the two families who lived here home for now is this bid of ground their two main earners are policemen entitled at least to continuing pay, only those who earned property damaged in the quake can claim the 150-dollar aid to rep replace makeshift tents with proper shelters in time to the moon soon. >> there are more tenants in need than home own he since the rooms are destroyed where we will go. the government keen to prevent double claiming tenants can only get money if they can prove losses in their home villages not where they are living now. >> the gust will provide money. [ inaudible ] and make a shed with local technology. what that tenant will do with that money? he has no land in that

particular place? >> reporter: such problems are compounded by what the quakes have done physically to the bureaucracy, the district office was almost entirely obliterated. personal paper trails among the damage. but there was one bit of good fortunate. entire shelves are still intact in the one surviving part of the building. given how much has been destroyed here, it's a huge stroke of luck for officials in the area so much of the records have been preserved if you come around the back of the building, you find another tarp on top of a far less organized pile of paperwork, piecing all this together will be a mammoth task here and one that will have to be repeated a at localities like this around the country. here few are waiting for help. the two families who live in this shelter say it will be finished in days. then they'll focus rebuilding their businesses. starting out on the long road back to where life was when the earthquake struck. harry fawcett, al jazerra

nepal. fighting appears to have calmed down near the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk. the government in kiev and pro-russia separatists blamed each other for the escalation of violence on wednesday. several people have been killed in the town and civilian buildings were damaged in donetsk. it was the fiercest fighting in the region since a fragile cease fair was put in place in february . they are already some of the most run crab children in u.s. society now investigated have revealed that foster chirp are prescribed medication at three times the rate of other children. melissa chan with a report. >> parents were addicted to meth. and they wouldn't feed me. >> reporter: neglected tisha ortiz would steal quarters to buy food. at the age of four the state had already moved her in to foster care and by the time she exited the system, ortiz was taking 12

psych tropic pills a day. how old remember you when the doctors started prescribing you this medication and did they ever consult you what you wanted? >> at 14 was when i started taking these medications. at first when i was at the mental hospital, they sort of did, i was i wasn't on that many, i was only on two at first but until i went to the group home they started adding more and more. >> reporter: the cocktail of drugs left the once healthy team with serious side effects. >> i have like irregular heart beat. i have thyroid problems where it makes it very hard for me to lose weight. i felt like i wasn't really in control of my body. >> reporter: doctors prescribed psychiatric medication to about a quarter of teen i teenagers in california as foster system. in grope homes it's higher half of the children are on psych tropic pills the state spend more on these drugs than any

other kind, that's 72% of all drugs. >> those same anti-psychotic head sayings used to sedate nursing home patients are used in group homes to sedate and control their we haven yours. >> reporter: taken to task. administrationers could only say they are working on the problem. >> how many lives have been lost? >> you can't let another year, let alone a decade slip bite buy without real solutions . >> that's what i was going to say, i totally agree with you trauma informed care is the way to go. and you've got some of the lowest paid people out there working in the group homes that have no training. i do think we are changing. are we there? have we fix the it? ab conveniently not. >> reporter: greg rose, deputy director of the state's foster care system sat down with al jazerra to discuss the time frame for change. how does this change for foster

children in terms of their experience when will see the change? >> we should see it now. we have published the guidelines the foster care mental health bill of rights. >> reporter: state legislators hope to push change along by introducing several bills to combat the abuse and make the department of social services more accountable. >> i was misdiagnosed and mistreated boo a doctor who only knew me from second happened judgments she read from i notepad. >> reporter: the bills have received widespread report. >> that must change. >> absolutely. thank you so much. >> california. [ inaudible ] thank you. >> reporter: for tisha ortiz it's about losing the weight that came with the medication. and trying to make it through college. >> from the get go when i was younger, i always said i didn't want to be like my payments, i didn't want to become failures. >> reporter: what she wants to do after get a law degree to fight for the rights of foster children. melissa chan, al jazerra

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