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>> . >> in the nether lands. >> the analysis and the stories we are reporting on. >> being watched now. >> officials say a man who pull add knife on boston police had linked to isil, and the chilling details of his alleged plan to attack
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others in the united states. >> this is al jazeera america. rick perry has become a presidential candidate the former texas governor made the announcement last hour near dallas, lit be his second run. like the kind he flew when he was an air force pilot he also surrounded himself on staining with family members including the wife of the american sniper who they made they movie on.
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rick perry also went through the republican checklist particularly when it comes to tossing out supporters by bashing democrats. we are a resilient country if you think about who we are. we have been through a civil war, we have been through two world wars. we have been through a great depression we even made it through jimmy carter, we will make it through the obam years. >> the audience will love that not a bad line, but in any case, they have done this before and a lot of his own supporters believe that experience of having gone through the campaign could be the crucial difference this time. >> by all accounts including his own former texas governor is an optimist. >> i think americans want a leader. who has the experience. of getting results. so that they can better take care of their family. >> and yes perry start as
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2016 presidential campaign as the answer to a trivia question about president george w bush. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. when mr. bush a former governor -- it was perry the lieutenant governor that took over back in texas. as governor he went on to win re-elections three times and someday in office for 14 years. socially conservative perry restricted access to abortion vetoed efforts to curtail the death penalty and became a darling of the nra. >> proud to stand before you as a life lounger defender of the second amendment. >> kerry cut taxes and provided over a surge in job creation, four years ago he ran for the presidential nomination. >> america is not broken, washington d.c. is broken.
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that campaign had huge promise and at the time a major secret. perry says he was suffering from health problems and in the debates there was this. >> and i will tell you it's three agencies of government when i get there that are going to be change. commerce education and the what's the third one there let's see. >> oh, five. so. >> you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government, i would do away with education, of the -- commerce -- and let's see. i can't the third one i can't, sorry. oops. >> the next day i had a lapse in memory, and so many federal agencies out there were coming to mind, i forgot the one i was trying to think of which is obviously the
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energy department. >> and a candidate who on the issues was unprepared. >> i have come to the conclusion that there is no viable path forward for me. in this 2012 campaign. therefore, today, i am suspending my campaign. >> this time around, kerry has spent months talking with policy experts and doing the kind of preparation work he says he bypassed four years ago. still, some distractions hang in the air. kerry remains under criminal indictment in texas for alleged abuse of power. >> if i had to do so, i would veto funding for the public integrity unit again. >> and it is all made fund raising more challenging. and yet the former governor still widely viewed as one of the g.o.p.'s best at retail politics. his life story is inspiring there was this humble childhood on a texas cotton
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farm and a college degree at texas a&m followed by a service as an air force officer and pilot. kerry won election in the texas legislature in the 1980's and his political career took off. >> today supporters credit him wayboosting the texas economy and say he is just what the country needs. critics insist his pay to play state house politics make him unfit for the white house. >> as soon as we can. >> regardless, kerry has been down this path before. and he enters the race with the kind of zeroing presidential campaign experience that could prove to be crucial. >> get that right first. >> indeed his own staff was hoping because of the gaffe four years ago he would get it right today and it seems as though he made it through without any major mistakes other than the fact that it was warm in that airport hack gar, the that is a the worst he will take it. >> all right so what are we up to now on the republican
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side. >> jeb bush has said that he is going to declare on june the 15th a monday, a week from monday, jeb bush will then formally separate from the super pack that he has been helping to raise all kinds of money and tony, this will be the first campaign where advertising is run by the super pack, not by the campaign. that will enable jeb bush to do most of the experiences will be from the pack. the pack will pick it up and be able to continue that so bush will not have to rely on the 2700 campaign finance limits to keep his campaign going, he can simply keep going, knowing that a super pack has the money to keep him on t.v. >> and mike murphy, is he running the. capain -- what is he doing. >> he has been one of the closest strategies. he will run the super pack, bush trusts him implicity which you will have to, because you are not supposed to have coordination between
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the pack and your campaign. >> good to see you, thank you. just a day after a new law took effect restricting government surveillance of american's phone record as new report says the n.s.a. has ex-minded it's surveillance of americans internet activities according to the new york times prorepublican report, the justice department wrote secret memos in 2012 allowing the msa to lock for evidence of computer hacking some international internet traffic, now the surveillance changes approved this week do not apply to the agencies warrant list wiretapping program. fifa's former vice president is promising an avalanche a revelations about corruption. in a television address from his native trinidad he says he has given lawyers documents that outline the link between fifa, it's funding, himself.
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coming up later in the program, that was not what we intended. the the popularity of soccer here in the united states. hopes have dims for rescuing hundreds of people from a cruise ship that capsized in china, it went down in the river with nearly 500 people onboard, as adrian brown tells us now there is growing anger among family members of the missing. >> they are still calling eight rescue operation. but it is the dead, and not the living they are finding now. the weather is making that task much more dangerous. it briefly halts the work of rescuers drilling holes. they eventually got inside, but found no one alive. >> officials expect to soon
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begin the delicate task of living the vessel from the water, an indication they feel there are no more survivor veries on a day when the confirmed death toll continues to rise, more bodies arrived a t the local mortuary where the painful process of identification lies ahead. that's what pan am is waiting for. his grandfather is one of the missing. we let him travel alone we didn't expect this. at the local hospital other families gather around, desperately offering their phone numbers asking to be called if there's any news. at a meeting with the official, they are told the priority now is to save lives not identify bodies please be patient he tells them.
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many of the families continue to direct the anger against the authorities they complain of the lack of information, a lack of sympathy, and question why so many of the survivors were members of the the crew. >> i want a responsible attitude from the government. i hope the government can think about our move. >> sensing the mood might become more hostile police outside the hospital have been issues megaphones. june the 4th is a sensitive day in china student protests were put down violently 26 years ago and today the government is becoming increasingly intolerant of all forms of descent, even grieving from families demanding answers. adrian brown. >> ukraine's president is warning today that russia is planning an invasion.
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moscow has some 9,000 members in ukrainian territory. more now from moscow. >> russia maintains the stance that that is a complete lie. the russian president described anyone found in eastern ukraine is a volunteer, so he says. there are certainly a lot of troops on that border. a lot of troops in that area. they have a right to conduct those military exercises anywhere like russian territory. certainly military analysts we have spoken to describe the weapons that we saw two of them, they say this is an end case of two things possibly one a troop
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rotation the troops being changed served down there for a year, but they also said that it potentially shows what they described as the beginnings of a summer campaign. but of course we can't confirm any information like that. with respect to the peace process, the developments in the last 24 hours pose a great challenge just many the last hour or so, though, a representative for the self-proclaimed people's republic is told a russian t. v. channel that the d. p.r. is fully behind enacting and standing by this mincing two agreement, and working towards a permanence cease fire and a permanent solution to the conflict in eastern ukraine. >> several leaders in iraq are pledging allegiance to isil. they say they are now working
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in solidarity with the leader. reports this was a long time coming for frustrated sunni leaders. the anger has raise and risen, they feel they have been ignored by this government but by the previous government as bell. they say they were promised jobs in the army, there was supposed to be development none of that happened and then a year ago, it was occupied by isil fighters and they tush around at that point and said look, you need too arm up, we are the only people that can get rid of these fighters and the causes for the isil fighters being here in the first place, we are getting people that can do that, we have done this before in 2008, which a predecessor to isil. those pleas fell on deaf ears. the new prime minister has
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reached out clearly he hasn't gotten through to all of them. so this announcement is crucial. we don't know whether the announcement comes under duress because it is under occupation by isil so they may well think they have no choice, or with it is done willingly, either way what has happened is isil now has a number of new fighters at their disposal, we are hearing of the attacks taking place already so it looks like the tribal are going to really take the fight to the iraqi security forces. a link to isil and planning an attack at the new details from boston where police shot and killed a man they say was plotting a we heading. and the pent gone plays down the risk around it's botched shipments but the list to receive those continues to grow.
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>> evidently by evidence of his death that he was fired upon. >> the fbi says it is investigating hundreds of isis sympathizers in all 50 states. >> we are monitoring them
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very closely for any type of oversteps and when we see those, we are not taking the chance. >> the scope of the live anthrax shipments keeping grows. laboratories in 17 states mistakenly received the deadly spores. and they expected that number will grow. jamie mcintire has the story. >> with the defense secretary out of the country on travel, it fell to the number two to lay out how serious and mysterious the flaws in handling of anthrax turns out to be. >> everyone in the department of defense takes this issue very seriously, because it is a matter of public health, also the health of all the members of our department. while the pentagon insists there are zero risk to the public what initially seems to be a problem limited to
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nine states has nearly doubled in a week. and now officials admit could potentially include every state. the live samples were sent to 51 labs in 17 states in the district of columbia as well as three countries outside the u.s., but zero people are sick why the pentagon says the anthrax used for developing and testing bio warfare detection equipment was shipped in liquid form, which can't be inhaled and extremely small doses one mill loiter, or about one fifth of a teaspoon. >> these con sen races are so low, they would be below the level we would expect to find any infection in a healthy individual. >> the investigation is
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looking into several flavor failures for deactivating before shipment, the radiation including the kill the bacteria failed. and the process for verifying the death failed. a mike roy biologists show how the tiny viles were packed in tiny bags, put in an unbreakable container and packed frozen in a box. >> i think you are getting the point that one milliliter of liquid will have a hard time getting out of this container. >> jones says that ensure no member of the public, nor anyone transported the live anthrax was ever at risk, and even in the lab the possible of infection was mine newtly small. >> people have been working
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with this material for ten years. and nobody has contracted anthrax. said a new trial for november 50, it is charged with failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protestors. the retrial of three of our al jazeera colleagues has been adjourned once again this is the 6th time the trial has been pushed back. could not return for the trial because he was deported the three were arusted in 2013 for alleged involvement with the banned muslim
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brotherhood. why some hope this wooden whale will be the claim to reclaiming public peers from sea lions. of southern california beach. but how long will it be closed?
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>> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy...
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>> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... sea are sections of the pipe were repaired. the coast will be off limits for at least four more days. four miles of beaches loadst last night after an influx of tar balls. the little pieces of tar like are fairly common. this piece of material here is what we are dealing with
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on the beaches here in long beach. it is considerably different consistency it is considerably larger, so this is what is causing us concern, this is much different than what we typically see. >> while tests are underway to see if these tar balls are connected to last month's oil spill. and the city of astoria oregon is trying to use a parade float to solve a wild life problem by using a fiberglass killer whale to try to scare say way an infestation of sea lions. this is a 32-foot long fiberglass and plywood orbing ca, a model of a killer whale. originally built as a float for parades and advertisement for a whale watching company.
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they are creating quite a nuisance. sea lions don't like orbing cas, and it is hoped that getting this one in the water, near those sea lions can scare them away from the docks. this is the gentlemen that will be driving it. you are climb into this thing and drive it. >> i am going to drive it. >> he is going to sit up here where jake is, he is going to have a little nine horse motor, maybe a little bit better there will be sounds emanating from this, of killer whales. those are the locals up here, that spent a lot more time out on the coast we will see if any of those works and scares the heck out of those sea lions. it should be happening any time. al al jazeera, belling ham washington. >> well, the scandal at fifa has soccer in the public eye.
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it has been dominating the headlines and even satirical talk shows. in fact, fifa's interest was based in the old being right behind my camera man and that was raided by f.b.i. agents on the say day those arrests took place. remember the u.s. had put a bit in for the 2022 world cup, so there is a question of lost revenue, and increased audiences at the heart of this is how truly popular football is becoming. it is a game that has grown hugely in popularity and pouncer. so there is a vested interest in sports fans when you think about the demographics with that growing population, you begin to realize that this is a country that does care deeply about football and
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will be following this moment by moment. >> that's all of our time, the news continues next life from london. in the another set back for the army. more than 90 people are killed by an explosion in ghana. telling tails jack warner promised to reveal all about corruption within football's governing body. >> with all the days sport including the latest from the
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