for teaching code literacy. sarah with al jazeera, hong kong. we have the website that we can scroll through, the address is al jazeera.com and headlines coming up, in the next few seconds or so. >> on the ground. >> i told you to stay. get your asses on the ground. >> a texas police officer suspended after caught on camera arresting teenagers at a pool party. >> a manhunt is underway now for two convicted murderers who escaped a max mum security prison. >> stopping isil toms the agenda as the world's most powerful leaders meet in germany.

>> this is aljazeera america. i'm random pinkston. >> police in mckinney texas are investigating one of their own after a video surfaced showing an officer drawing his gun on apparently unarmed teenagers at a pool party. courtney is here with us on the story. why were police called? >> there was an incident at this party. there's an investigation into that. what is going viral is the seven minute video of what happened once the police officers got there. there's a texas police officer who has not been named by authorities suspended after this video was posted on you tube. it shows him using very aggressive tactics on a group of black teens. the mckinney police department says it will conduct a thorough investigation. >> he was just aggressive for no

reason at all. it was horrible. >> tatiana broke down when she spoke about the suspended officer. she hosted the pool party with her mother and sister. the fight started when a woman at the pool made racist comments and insulted her friends. >> the adults that was here at the event said hey, you know, we don't want the kids, whatever, then let he handle it and not go to that extreme. >> when police showed up, kids got scared and started running. >> the scene appears chaotic but relatively calm. >> don't take off running when the cops get here. ok guys, i appreciate it. >> get on the ground. >> then this police officer detained several young men. >> down on the ground. >> we just came for a birthday party, please. >> you think you can [bleep].

because you want to screw around out here. >> the suspended officer who's identity has not been released, orders this 14-year-old girl and others to leave. before wrestling her down to the ground. he pulls his gun out and two others come to hear aid and pushes her to the ground, reholters his gun and restrains her with his body. the girl clearly unarmed wearing a two piece bathing suit was later released to her parents. >> we will continue a full and complete investigation. >> the chief of police sought to reassure residents on sunday. there are demands for the police to release the entire incident report. >> one neighbor witnessed the fighting and made one of those calls to 911 defended the officer. >> he did what he thought he had to do. >> he put up a sign of support for him and the police

department at the pool on sunday. >> everything could have been solved entirely wail better than what it was. there are other officers that were actually nice to people. >> mckinney's mayor released a statement saying that he was disturbed and concerned after seeing the video and with the fallout continuing, a marsh against police brutality is scheduled to take place this afternoon at a nearby elementary school. >> new jersey police used tear gas overnight at chaos erupted outside a concert. video shows an answerry crowd outside met life stadium throwing bosses at police. they were confronted by people trying to climb fences and force past security to get into the old out event. police arrested several people. one officer was injured. >> a manhunt is underway for two convicted killers after they escaped a maximum security prison in new york. it was an elaborate scheme.

the men used power tools to cut through steel walls and escaped through underground tunnels. prison staff realized the men were missing saturday morning. as the search intensifies there are questions about how they acquired the power tools and whether they had help. david shuster reports. >> the manhunt enough includes hundreds of local state and federal law enforcement officers. they've been setting up road blocks walking door to door and flying helicopters over a small new york community on the edge. >> these are dangerous people. they're nothing to be trifled with. >> 48-year-old richards mat was convicted on three counts of murder including the kidnapping and dismembering of his boss. divide swit was serving hive behind bars for the murder of a sheriff's deputy. the men were discovered gone early saturday mornings. the duo fooled the guards overnight by stuffing hoodies

beneath their bed covers. >> the search revealed there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell through which these inmates escaped. >> authorities say the inmates used power tool to say cult their wave out. >> we don't know how they acquired the tools. >> once the man made it out of their cells. they sliced through steel greats and pipes and scaled down three floors to get to the sewer system. they broke through a has not hole cover outside the prison walls. david shuster, al jazeera. >> the two convicts have lengths thee criminal records, one charged with kidnapping, killing and dismembering his boss in 1997 before fleeing to mexico. police had to use tasers to control him during his trial. he snitched behind a mastermind behind a hire for murder plot. the other was convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy shot 15 times and then run over. >> president obama and world leaders are dealing with

pressing middle east threats at the g7 summit this morning in germany. the group held talks on the second day of the meeting. later, president obama will meet with iraq's prime minister to discuss the continuing threat from isil. dominic cain has the latest from germany. >> it has dominated day two and the threat to the islamic state of iraq and the levant poses the g7 leaders looking keen to find some resolution and we know that barack obama the u.s. president will be meeting the iraqi prime minister for a bill lateral meeting meetingal abaddi to find new strategy. also on the agenda perhaps related to the spread of isil is how to deal with foreign fighters something several of the leaders here are very keen to try to get some progress on

dealing with foreign fighters and linking that in some way to isil and the way that they try to deal with the threat of isil. >> dominic cain reporting. protestors rallies over global poverty and climate change have been trying to breach secured. leaders took a helicopter to the meeting site after demonstrators blocked the main road. german authorities built a 10-mile wire fence around the venue. >> president obama will hold a news conference at 10:00 a.m. eastern time on definitements out of the summit. we will bring that to you live when it happens. >> a dramatic blow to turkey's ruling party. it lost a parliamentary majority in elections. this is the first time that's happened in 13 years. pro kurdish supporters celebrated on the streets in turkey. their party won broad support from turkish leb release and leftists giving the kurds representation in parliament for the first time ever. jamal is live this morning in the capitol ankara.

are any of the opposition parties willing to join forces? >> well, officially no. they said that they will not join the act party in forming a coalition but turkish politics isn't different than any countries and things can change overnight, obviously deals can be made, agreements between parties can be reached and you could find some sort of coalition. however, the most likely scenario that turkey will embark on is having some sort of hung parliament triggering early parliamentary elections. the voters could find themselves once again putting pen to paper in parliamentary elections that could be helped before the end of the year. >> what are the next steps for the pro kurdish party?

well really, they find themselves at a very unusual position right now, at the center of turkish politics after years of maybe marginalizization or discrimination they claim has happened over the decades. they could be king makers if they were to go into a coalition with the act party that would save the government and maintain their power through parliament or if they refuse to do that would paralyze the parliament of a country in which they have said throughout the years that they have no right or little right in, let alone any power. right now, they are center stage, they are presented with this king maker option that could -- they could potentially use or with the ability to actually paralyze this parliament however, they would have to think long and hard

because if early elections do take place there's no guarantee that the kurds would get the same amount which votes they did now, because comment commentators would say they were protest votes. >> a contributing opinion writer for the new york times joins us, he is in istanbul, joining us live this morning. first question to you were up surprised about the vote outcome? >> i was and positively i should say, i was expect ago decline in the vote to keep the good morning party and increase in the kurdish party votes but it was beyond my expectations. i think this has been a major change for turkey which has had the same party in power for 13 years.

it will have to make a coalition with the other parties. the big problem in politics lately has been this intense polarization. now they will have to sit down and talk to opposition parties and back up from some of their claims and move on to a more reconciliated future as we hope. there are a lot of uncertainties right now. >> what does this mean for president erdogan's efforts to increase his powers? >> well, those dreams by president erdogan are practically dead right now. what he wanted was to have a whole new constitution written and the constitution would be basically about the system that he wants which would be unlikely to his presidency, unchecked by noise judicial control or checks and balances,

but that is not going to happen. actually a lot of the people who voted for the kurdish party last sunday were precisely worried about that totalitarian ambition. there is no chance to erdogan will get that anymore. maybe we will have a constitution with a broad national agreement with a national consensus, that would be a good constitution in that case but that very ambitious desire for this super presidency, that's not going to happen. >> with the kurds for the first time having representation in parliament how do you think this will impact the push by kurdish turks for autonomy? >> well, i mean, kurds were represented in the parliament before. they were just entering parliament as independents and then union trying which would give them a group in the parliament but it was not big. this time, they had a big

success and shattered the national threshold by getting 13%, so they are in the parliament in a bigger, of course power right now with a bigger mandate. actually it's a good question, what will it mean for turkey. this will include their demands for autonomy in the southeast. they should be wise enough to know that not everybody voted for them wanted occurred issue nationalism. people hoped they would become the party of turkey as they say and they were also worried about the president's ambitions. they should be aware of that. they said that they will be in speeches after the elections but also that something that turkey will be concerned about in the months and years to come. >> do you anticipate this election will impact turkey's willingness to engage in fighting isil in syria? >> it's not directly related to that.

the syrian foreign policy i also a partly of the debate and mainly the opposition blame the a.k.p. erdogan to be too engaged in syria and to be a part of the syrian civil war and the opposition has been generally let's take our hands offs from syria it's not our business we can't change that country. erdogan has been blamed for supporting the syrian opposition not necessarily isis because i think that's not a claim that turkey supports isis. it will change turkish foreign policy from a less ideological one to a less pragmatic if the government can make a call on one of the opposition parties. >> thank you for joining us on al jazeera. >> mexico's ruling party fared better than turkeys in national elections, projected to squeak by and maintain control of congress.

the result is a disappointment to people who are unhappy with president pena nieto. 43 students disappeared last year. protestors set ballot boxes on fire and blocked roads to voting stations. no one was hurt, but some were prevented from voting. >> a new law allowing thousands of adopted kids to find their birth parents. we'll hear from one person who found her family history after 30 years.

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america. coming up on 7:48 eastern time. 125 more military trainers will be sent to iraq's military in the fight against isil. prime minister david cameron said they were requested by prime minister al abadi. >> the post iran bureau chief has been in custody since last summer, charged with espionage. the u.s. and human rights groups are calling on iran to release him immediately. >> in waco, texas hundreds of motorcycle riders rallied in support of bikers who are still in jail after a deadly shootout there. nine people were killed in that shootout, 177 people were arrested. many are still behind bars. organizers of the bike rally say many held are innocent and should be released.

>> a new law in ohio is helping adopted children find their birth parents. since the law kicked in this spring, thousands of people have come forward to look through their birth records. we talk with one young woman who got the answers she was looking for. >> i'm bisi onile-ere. through a new love, the state of ohio opened the adoption records of hundreds of thousands of people at the beginning of the year. the day that new law went into effect, we were here as hundreds stood outside the government building in search of any information about their past. some of the documents were sealed more than 50 years. back in march 30-year-old lindsey west stood in this long line and after years of searching, she finally found what she was looking for her birth parents. >> i imagine like you feel that you know a little bit more about who you are even though you are 30 years old, you know who you

are, but there is a lot to be said about knowing your past, your history. >> i don't understand how i got so lucky to have multiple families that are so loving and dedicated and supportive. i was chosen this pat and it's astounding to me. >> her search didn't come without road blocks. tonight, how this new law played a key role in helping her find her biological parents and how her parents reacted. we'll hear from a woman who was an advocate of open adoption records. what she has to say about ohio's new law and its impact on adoptees in states across the country. >> you can watch the full report at 8:00 here on aljazeera america. >> taking aim at transfat. the f.d.a. soon plan to say ban them entirely. meet the 100-year-old bio chem mist who first raised the alarm six decades ago.

>> al jazeera's investigative unit has tonight's exclusive report. >> stories that have impact. that make a difference. that open your world. >> this... >> on the healthbeat, new numbers show type beats is on the rise all over the world. the report in the journal finds cases up 45% since 1990. countries that have seen major increases include china mexico and india tied to the most common form of the disease related to obesity. the f.d.a. is on the verbal of

banning transfats. it has been used to provide texture and lengthen shelf life. we sat down with the first scientist to identity and study the risks. >> for nearly six decades on this midwest college campus in champaign, illinois, one man has been sounding the alarm against transfat. immediate fred cumaro, p.h.d., bio chemist adjunct professor and he will mark his 101 birthday in october. >> you can run your fingers over it and then you can see there's the plaques there. >> in his lab he still stores some of the arteries that he has studied over the years. his work on heart disease began in the 1950's, after he asked a local hospital to send him samples from patients who had died from heart attacks. >> they gave of me the samples tissue samples on people who had

died of heart disease. >> what did you find? >> transfat in them, up to 14% in their tissue, various tissue and that's what we published. >> his findings on transfat in the arteries were published in the medical journal of science in 1957. artificial transfat is created by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil to make it more stable, improving a food's texture and shelf life. it is found in some processed foods, including mike co wave popcorn, cake frosting, cookies. when he first reported his findings in the 1950's, he did not know how or if transfat affected the body. >> i just had instincts that this is not a good fat a right fat. >> the research continued while the use of transfats grew. >> miracle margarine the

tastiest you can buy. >> they fed it to pigs. their arteries clogged up with plaque. >> i figured out that this was not good foot or arteries. >> that's when his food fight began in earnest. >> i wanted to have the transfat lowered to zero and the industry wouldn't do it, because they liked the consistency of this transfat it made a nice, smooth fat. >> it was a big fight. >> oh, can't imagine how big a fight it was. >> that was in 1968. food companies did agree then to reduce transfat levels somewhat, but americans were still eating plenty of it. one study estimated at its peak, transfat was causing no 50,000 deaths a year. other scientists and food safety groups were starting to weigh in and in 2006 under pressure, the

f.d.a. began requiring food labels to list transfats. with the public growing worried attitude companies from mcdonald's to nabisco began cutting back. that wasn't good enough for fred cumero. he petitioned the f.d.a., asking the agency to ban transfats from the american diet. the f.d.a. wrote it is under active evaluation. then silence for three years. finally, in 2013, at the request of a lawyer, every sued the f.d.a. >> for decades in this lab the doctor continued his research and continued his battle against transfat fighting scientists who didn't believe him an industry that didn't want to change its practices and several regulators who didn't respond to his petition, asking them to ban

transfat. >> the food industry says i did has voluntarily lowered the amount of transfats in food by over 73% and that product safety is its first he priority. the f.d.a. finally has made a preliminary finding that transfats in processed foods are "not generally recognized as safe." >> how are you going to people when the f.d.a. bans transfat? >> well, i'll feel that science has come out on top. >> after all these years so has dr. fred cumero. al jazeera champaign illinois. >> a u.s. woman just left tokyo on a record breaking trip. sonia wants to be the world's first woman to row alone across the pacific ocean.

she's using a boat especially designed for the trim. she's trying to get to san francisco by late september. stephanie sy up next. stay tuned. stay tuned.

>> amid protests, president obama and six of the world's most powerful leaders tackle the global crisis of isil, russia and climate change. talks may not advance options. >> a texas police officer suspended after drawing his gun on a pool party full of teenagers. party goers say it started with a racist at that particular time. >> a manhunt for two prisoners who made a daring prison escape.

police say they could be anywhere. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city, i'm steph as i. president obama and six world leaders in germany in the g7 summit are focusing on isil. iraq's prime minister i also schedule would to meet with president obama. crane dominated the agenda at the meeting. president obama said stopping russian aggression should be a top priority. the leaders gathered for the customary class photo. talks largely centered on isil. they are looking keen to find resolution. we know barack obama the u.s. president will be meeting the iraq prime minister for a

bilateral meeting perhaps to find new strategy. isil captured swaths of territory in iraq and seemingly driving the iraqi army before it, it was melting away, it seemed. also on the agenda perhaps related to the spread of isil is dealing with foreign fighters, several leaders at the summit are very keen to try to get some progress on dealing with foreign fight herbs and linking that in some way to isil and the way that they try to deal with the threat of isil. >> president obama is set to hold a news conference when the g7 summit wraps up at 10:00 eastern this morning. >> now that russia has been removed from what was once called the g8, it is the absence of china that is affecting the group of seven's influence. >> it's the most elite club on earth, but the group of seven's power to calm the shots globally

isn't what it used to be. >> there have been tech tonic shifts in the way the global order is organized. >> the g7 does not include china, the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity joining forces with fellow nations brad brazil, russia and south africa, a new definitely intercept bank and bailout fund is developed and and pouring billions into projects beijing hope will underpin a new silk road. china's power really hit home earlier this year when more than 50 countries including 4g7 nations rushed to become founding members of the new

china led asian infrastructure investment bank. >> the g7 is losing ground when it comes to global influence clout, economic muscle. >> waning power underthat scored by russias pursuit of closer economic and military ties with china to end run western sanction over ukraine. >> the crisis in ukraine is one item on a long list of issues the g7 is tackling at this summit. the question is whether all that talk will yield coordinated policies that project the collective power of this elite group or produce yet another photo op of a club whose power is fading. al jazeera. >> a texas police officer is suspended this morning after a video surfaced showing him drawing his gun at a pool party filled with teenagers and wrestling an unarmed teen to the ground.

courtney what led to such a violent turn of events at this pool party? >> it's a very viral video at this point. we'll get into those details. the texas police officer is shown using very aggressive tactics on a group of black teens has been suspended and an investigation launched by the mckinney police department. >> he was aggressive for no reason at all. it was horrible. >> tatiana broke down when she spoke about the suspended officer. she hosted the pool party with her mother and sister. the fight started when a woman at the pool made racist comments and insulted her friends. >> they should have came to me the adults that was here at the event said hey, you know, we don't want the kids, whatever, then let me handle it and not go to that extreme. >> when police showed up, kids got scared and started running. >> the scene appears chaotic but

relatively calm. >> don't take off running when the cops get here. ok, guys, i appreciate it. >> get on the ground. >> then this police officer detained several young men. >> down on the ground. >> we just came for a birthday party, please. >> you think you can [bleep]. because you want to screw around out here. >> the suspended officer, whose identity has not been released orders this 14-year-old girl and others to leave. before wrestling her down to the ground. he pulls his gun out as two others come to hear aid and pushes her to the ground reholters his gun and restrains her with his body. the girl clearly unarmed wearing a two piece bathing suit was later released to her parents. >> we will continue a full and complete investigation.

>> the chief of police sought to reassure residents on sunday. there are demands for the police to release the entire incident report. >> one neighbor witnessed the fighting and made one of those calls to 911 defended the officer. >> he did what he thought he had to do. >> he put up a sign of support for him and the police department at the pool on sunday. >> everything could have been solved entirely way better than what it was. there are other officers that were actually nice to people. june the mayor said he was disturbed and concerned. a march against police brutality is expected to take place outside a local elementary school this afternoon. >> thank you. >> new jersey police used tear gas overnight as scuffles erupted outside a concert. video shows an angry crowd throwing bottles at police

officers outside met life stadium. authorities were confronted by people climbing fences forcing their way past security to the soldout event. this had tickets and were not allowed in. one officer was are injured. >> a manhunt continues this morning for two convicted killers. they escaped a maximum security prison in new york over the weekend. it was an elaborate scheme, the men used power tools to escape through underground tunnels. staff realized the men were missing during a routine check early saturday morning. there are questions today about how they acquired the tools and technical know how for the escape. david shuster reports. >>

>> the manhunt enough includes hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement officers. they've been setting up road blocks, walking door to door and flying helicopters over a small new york community on the edge. >> these are dangerous people. they're nothing to be trifled with. >> 48-year-old richard mat was convicted on three counts of murder, including the kidnapping and dismembering of his boss. david swit was serving life behind bars for the murder of a sheriff's deputy. the men were discovered gone early saturday mornings. the duo fooled the guards overnight by stuffing hoodies beneath their bed covers. >> the search revealed there was a hole cut out of the back of the cell through which these inmates escaped. >> authorities say the inmates used power tools to cut their way out. >> we don't know how they acquired the tools. >> once the man made it out of their cells, they sliced through

steel grates and pipes and scaled down three floors to get to the sewer system. they broke through a has not hole cover outside the prison walls. >> the prison has a lot to answer about for how these men escaped, according to our next guest. >> one has to ask whether or not the officers were making their required rounds. one has to ask whether or not staffing cuts over the last several years of which there have been many left the prison short staffed and the area wasn't covered. the prisoners watch the officers and they know when they are coming by and they know when they aren't. if these officers were spread too thin and there were long intervals between rounds, the inmates found the opportunity they might have worked for five minutes and shut it down. they didn't do this in one night. i think there's a question to be asked about when was the last time they were actually seen up

and around and breathing. those are questions that the internal investigation is going to ask for. it's not unheard of in these situations for the officers to be lax in the performance of their duties, to become complacent. when you've had a track record like this prison has which hasn't an escape in over 100 years, you start to think that your prison is impregnable. the reality is no prison is, it's only as strong as the weekest link in its chain and that link is often the correction officer doing his or her duties. >> so they are on the loose and these two lengthy criminal records. which hard mat was charged with dismembering his boss before fleeing to mexico police used tasers to control him during his trial. he pitched on a mastermind behind a bizarre murder plot.

the other shot a sheriff deputy 15 times and then ran him over. >> hundred was bikers assembled and you said the courthouse in waco texas some holding signs like no more massacres and bikers matter. 177 people were arrested. most of still behind bars. organizers say many held are innocent and should be released. >> there's a lot of people just innocent just wrong place wrong time. >> a lot of these bikers were putting these people to the ground or taking them to the ice coolers, taking them to safety. >> yep. >> why are they in jail for saving people's lives? >> dozens of bikers he have been released in the past few weeks. many remaining in jail are held on $1 million bail each. >> six people have now died from mers in south crow i can't and 23 new cases identified today.

2,000 schools are closed as fears spread about the quick spread of the disease. the government is trying new way to say keep the public safe. >> it's not a typical monday, home with mom following instructions from her school to stay indoors. no school means no after school cramming lessons so a chance to relax against a background of national anxiety. >> it's a nationwide problem. i follow the decision, but i don't feel that it is that serious. a few days ago my daughter got a fever and the school asked her to go home early and get tested, but she was fine. >> schools shut in two seoul districts monday despite there's been no confirmed transmission of mers outside of a hospital or clinic. most middle and high schools remained open, special measures taken on a tape the first student victim of the disease a 16-year-old who caught the virus in hospital was confirmed. the government said so far mers

infections are at hospitals. public events have been canceled schools closed and people staying away from crowded places. it reflects growing concern as the number of cases gross each day. >> the government announced new measures to toughen quarantine after some ignored instructions to isolate themselves. >> we used mobile phone tracking in a couple of cases. for those we need to find, we will request location tracking and get the data. >> authorities have decided on more transparency, revealing the names and locations of hospitals and clinics where suspected and confirmed mers patients may have south treatment including two hot spots. where the first patient was admitted and the center in seoul where he was later transferred. the next two days are critical. if the number of cases start down the outbreak is likely to

have been hospital-based event. if not it may mean the virus got out in the early days when the response was slow, making it a much mr. serious threat to public health. al jazeera seoul. >> chinese officials completed gathering the d.n.a. of 432 victims in a cruise ship disaster. now, medical staff will focus on matching all of that d.n.a. eight people are still missing after the ship capsized. authorities attribute the accident to saudi turbulent winds. the surviving captain and chief engineer are in police custody. >> china is creating its own human rights record, the report saying the country has made great achievements, citing the cartoon and film industries at progress. we have this report from beijing. >> on the outskirts of the city, the road is blocked. the occupants of this house refuse to move, so this motor

way built around them. they want more compensation. beneath the chinese flag, banners warn local officials to act within the law. following months of threats and intimidation the owner is taking no chances. >> to be honest, i'm scared. thugs came to my home many times. at least 30 of them, mostly at night. last time they smashed our windows. >> her story is not unusual and neither is this. documents containing what they say is more evidence of local government corruption and abuse of power. he is 84, a former soldier in the people's liberation army, beaten up when he, too resisted eviction. >> the local government, i fought the americans in the korean war, they are worst than americans. they treat me like this, they

demolished my home. >> these protestors say they have faith in the chinese president. all attempts to get a hearing with officials below him have so far failed. we asked how many have tried to present their petition he is in the capital. almost everyone raise said an arm. not that it matters much now. a new law says petitioners should resolve their disputes locally. officials here wouldn't talk to us. it was the same mood of hopelessness in the city. she pleads with us to take her petition saying she was forced from her home. we were covering the aftermath of a fire at a care home in which 38 people have died a day earlier. that wasn't what many in the crowd wanted to talk about. thrust into our hands more

petitions raging from corruption to land seizures. they knew foreign journalists would be here, so seized the chance. country people, angry people. >> all officials are corrupt big ones, small ones. officials from the county, from the village, they are so corrupt. >> it's extraordinary. we've only been here a short time but surrounded by people who have given us their petitions, dozens of people with dozens of grievances. they don't trust the local government. they don't trust their judiciary and they don't trust the local media and somehow they feel that we could perhaps make a difference. >> the local government doesn't listen to the people. all my requests are ignored. i want justice. officials are corrupt. judges are bribed. we ordinary people are treated so unfairly. >> they feel powerless and ignored. china's president wants to end

official corruption. these people want the same thing, but say their voice is simply not being heard. al jazeera central china. >> a retrial is set for a marine accused of killing an iraqi civilian in 2006. the appeals court overturned up some of the previous conviction against him on grounds of an illegally obtained confession. >> the bush family is celebrating barbara bush's 90th birthday today. she is backing a $7 million challenge to create a mobile app for adult lit razz. >> bill murray will lead hundreds of poets and poetry loves on the brooklyn bridge, reading poetry aloud as they make their way across. >> preparing for a summer mohamed morsi influx of migrants along the texas border.

people make the dangerous journey in scorching temperatures.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america. it is 8:21 eastern time.

the navy today will award a navy cross to a marine killed in iraq a decade ago. the family will accept the military's second highest honor at camp pendleton. he recovered a grenade in fallujah shielding his fellow troops from the blast. >> the trial of a journalist in iran has resumed behind closed doors. he is the post iran bureau chief. he has been in custody since last summer. the u.s. and human rights groups call for his release immediately. >> thunderstorms across illinois today. winds close he to 80 miles an hour caused trees to fall on to homes and cars in peoria. power lines were down, leaving 10,000 without electricity. >> a dramatic blow to turkey's party this morning it lost a parliamentary majority in elections. this is the first time that happened in 13 years.

pro kurdish celebrated. their party won broad support giving them representation in parliament for the first time ever. we have a report live from ankara this morning. i apologize apparently we have lost the live shot, but jamal does file this report. ok. we apologize for that. we do not have the report. all right even though the election handled the ruling ak party, now i believe we do have the report from ankara. >> thousands celebrated yet another election victory. this time, despite the crowd jubilation, there was a sense of disappointment. they were hoping to celebrate a victory that would have assured that their party remained in

government. their new leader addressed the party fateful. the ak party is the winner. there is no doubt about that. everyone should reassess themselves. >> one criticism is that the party was eroding freedom. there were also scenes of disappointments at the main opposition c.h.p. they fell short of the 35%

target they hoped for. party leaders were taking solace it seems that the current polarization could very well result in a hung parliament and an uncertain future. >> as it stands now it appears

that the main victors in these elections aside from the ruling ak party the main victors are the kurds who for the first time have the approximate potential of becoming a king maker. even though the ak party is the largest party erdogan's party is going to have to go into coalition if it wants to remain in government. it appears one scenario could be with the kurds. if the kurds refuse to get into coalition with the ak party the kurds will destabilize the parliament freezing it, forcing there to be early parliamentary elections. it's important to note, stephanie, i'm going to continue talking because the ear piece is gone and i'll wrap up shortly. it's important to note that although this is a blow to the

ak party, they are the largest party. now, they're presented with several options. they could try and call for early parliamentary elections however, there's no guarantee that they would be able to regain that single party majority or they could try and form a coalition not with the kurds but with the nationalist m.h.p. that however would have huge consequence as i said in my report there because the nationalist m.h.p. are dead against the peace process with the kurds. that's been one of the main success stories have erdogan. obviously the economy will play a big deal in that. under erdogan's leadership. the offering income per person has more than tripled however has slowed in recent months. from policy, also a big issue there is some resentment among

some turkish society of the open door allowing 2 million refugees. they view that as some sort of burden. under erdogan's leadership, if the ak party is unable to regain the strong mandate, they could see that under threat, as well. >> turkey a major u.s. ally in a region, as well. reporting from ankara. >> iraqi forces battle to take control of beiji. >> one in four kids are exposed to violence with weapons. we'll look at the findings and how race plays a role.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:30 eastern. taking a look at today's top stories, six world leaders and president obama are at the g7

summit in germany. the president will talk about the fight against isil. leaders will tackle climate change. >> a police officer caught on camera drawing his gun and pushing and unarmed 14-year-old to the ground is suspended this morning. the officer arrived at a pool party filled with teens after serving a call about an arguments. the police chief said there will be a thorough investigation. the officer has not been named. >> a massive man hunt is underway for two inmates who escaped a new york prison. investigators still don't know how the men got the power tools and information they used to cut their way out of one of the countries most secure prisons in new york. the state is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest. >> inge baiji army officials say troops were shelling terrorist hideout understand and and making progress. police are in control of the

center and advancing toward the neighborhoods. these are the latest battles against isil. isil has taken control of large parts of the two countries the government lost control of ramadi last month. isil took control of mosul a year ago. baiji is still in contention. the vast complex used to meet half of the countries oil needs. a senior fellow with the new america foundation who served in the bush and obama administration as director for iraq on the national security council joins us. thanks for being here. you have written thatments not the u.s. strategy that is not working, but it is its execution. i want to talk about airstrikes. 75% of air combat missions return without having fired. we are hear more talk of having

american spotters on the ground who help target. will we see boots on the ground and should we? >> >> i don't think we'll see boots on the ground. as i write the piece i'm deeply nervous about it. the presence of american troops in iraq off the bases. we have troops on bases military bases. we would never know it if there were 100 russian or chinese military on fort bening or fort hood in the united states. they are isolated from the iraqi population and that's great. when we talk about putting troops in the field with the iraqi army, the potential for something to go very, very wrong just gets higher. while clearly that would help military the political cost is to high. that doesn't mean there aren't other things we could do to improve air power.

>> iraqi army member outnumbered isil 10 to one. after ramadi fell, the u.s. said they would give antitank weapons to these iraqi troops trying to retake ramadi. do you think they will the will to fight and win back the cities even with the weapons and training? >> i do. i think the accusation that the iraqi army doesn't have the will to fight is somewhat scandalous. what we know now is that they were subjected to an attack by wave after wave of armored car bombs of the size of the tim mcveigh bombing in oklahoma city and they didn't have the weapons to stop them. if that happens, i don't care who you are the iraqi army or british army or the u.s. marines and your faced with these car bombs coming repeatedly time after time after time and up don't have the weapons to defeat them it doesn't matter if you outnumber them five to one or 20

to one you're going to run. there were not the anti tank missiles to defeat the tactic. this is a known tactic used against the kurds in the north for months now and despite the complaints about the kurds not having weapons the kurds had the weapons. the german provided them with anti tank weapons to counter this tactic. >> there have been other developments when it comes to weather hearts and minds are onboard with this fight against isil. for example, last week, sunni tribal leaders in fallujah pledged allegiance to isil. is isil's ideology gaining ground at least against more sunnis? >> isil is fundamentally a sunni movement so there are always going to be groups within the sunni who align with it. of course, this, events like this just play into baghdad's concerns when we talk about arming the sunni tribes, they point to events like this and

say arm the sunni tribes. >> don't we need the sunni tribes to defeat isil? >> we need a force to defeat islamic state of iraq and the levant. if we can get the tribes, that would be great. there are other forces available. >> is prime minister abadi living up to washington's expectations in making iraq sunni's feel included. you have traveled to iraq relatively recently. is that the sense you are getting that abadi is doing the job maliki couldn't? >> he is essential a more friendly face. the issue is there are real issues between these two groups in iraq, between the sunni and the shia, and it goes back well, centuries, but more recently just within the last couple of decades, the sunni were the group from the boothist regime was largely drawn. the shia majority felt rightly or wrongly oppressed by this

group and now of course the majority shia are in power and they believe that the sunni are complaining that they're just not in power anymore. it's a very complex situation. just as we've seen here in america with our ethnic problems in ferguson, in baltimore these types of issues are perennial. they are hard to deal with. we have an unusually high expectation of iraq in its political system to deal with these issues when it's clear even advanced governments in europe and here in the united states have issues when it comes to including minorities. >> interesting perspective. great to see you, thank you. >> a record setting number of migrants were rescued off the coast of italy this weekend. a group of 372 migrants arrived

in sicily. more than 60 children were among those saved. the international effort rescued 6,000 people on saturday and sunday many setting off from libya's shores. >> the u.s. border patrol said it is better prepared for a surge in migrants some summer. people crossing the border overwhelmed brooks, the accident last year. the county is in crisis again. heidi zhou castro reports. >> it's the start of summer here in brooks county, texas, three young men are following a highway in the direction they believe is north. they keep their distance from the road, but when they see us pulled over, they beg us for water. their thirst is intense after two days in the brush. he says he's 20 and from mexico. they started as a group of 12, he says, but were separated when

everyone fled border patrol. without the smuggler they paid to guide them, these three are lost. i asked him how they're surviving. he said with a little water and beef jerky. they eat and drink as little as they can. >> do we have anymore water? >> i don't think so. >> without water and still another 18 miles healed of them, these three risk becoming part of a dyer statistic. this year, the sheriff's office has recovered 27 bodies, two more than this time last year. >> the elements get to them. >> despite of a 30% drop in apprehensions, the desperation pushing immigrants to attempt the journey continues. this morning a deputy chased a suspected human smuggler across this field. he was driving a horse trailer. >> we're assuming 40 to 60

illegal aliens inside the horse trailer. >> the guy just came right across the field. >> right across the field. imagine being in the back of a horse trailer going at 40 miles an hour through this type of terrain, taking that drop. you're going to feel it, you're going to be tossed around in the back of it. >> the trailer got away. many other vehicles don't. the sheriff's impound lot overflows with them. with police on their tail, the driver and 10 passengers jumped out of this car. the deputies thought everyone had disappeared into the brush. >> i jokingly said well, hey you win some, you have lose some maybe next time and next time the next thing we new is we heard a return knock. that's when we realized that there was somebody else in the trunking. >> inside the trunk. >> there were people. >> there was two male

individuals in the vehicle. >> the smuggler just left them here. >> without a second thought. >> the deputy says those immigrants were lucky to be rescued, many more lost in the desert are not found in time. >> this border control checkpoint is a big season why. >> this highway is the only artery north out of the border region in the rio grande valley. to get further north you have to have papers to get past the checkpoint. human smugglers will drop the immigrants just south of this point and force them to walk into the brush here through this kind of terrain where it's all sand and they walk through this for two to three days to make a wide circle around this checkpoint ending up on the other side. >> they are drinking water wherever they find it, mud puddle a cow trough, water that is unsafe. >> it's the dilemma give up and

live another day or walk toward a better life and risk death. these three say they'll press on. i asked if they're scared of getting sick or dying. they say no. then they politely excuse themselves to continue their walk. >> heidi zhou castro reporting. >> a new study out this morning about kids and their exposure to violence. the study finds one in four children have been exposed to some sort of violence with a weapon before they turn 18. randall pinkston joins us with more. quite startling statistic,ments the second year of the survey. >> we are not talking about organized, controlled exposure to weapons the research is focused on negative exposure that has the affect to cause harm. it's no news any child confronted with a negatives

weapon incident is a victim. it occurs frequently. the survey found 17.5 million youth in the u.s. have been exposed to violence involving a weapon either as a witness or a victim. that's one in four children in america. of that number, 2 million were assaulted with guns or knives, weapons defined as highly lethal. they did not include sticks or bottles. children in be low income and high crime communities were more likely to be impacted by negative exposure. >> there's breakdown by race in the survey. >> probably not too phrasing, the overall exposure to weapons is higher in the white community but the rate of victims of weapons violence is highest in black and la teen nope communities. that's where it's a virtual tie 26%. 19% are in white neighborhoods also the survey finds the

largest percentagion are in single parent homes and how else hold with step parents. 27% of the victims of weapons violence were from single parliament homes 26% from homes with step parents. >> what do they hope to accomplish with this new study there are a lot of statistics. what's the take away? >> they're trying to create what they are calling a broader understanding, something they refer to as conceptualization. they want to focus on risk factors which would include mental health. we have to keep in mind something that isn't. ized as a public health issue weapons violence is greater than illnesses. >> abortions in the u.s. are going down. the associated press survey finds a 12% decline nationwide. there appears to be little association between the laws.

five of the states with the biggest declines have done nothing to restrict providers including hawaii. louisiana and michigan saw an increase in the number of abortions performed and by more than 18%. groups on both sides of the debate say the increases were partly due to strict new laws restricting abortions in the neighboring states, ohio, texas and mississippi. weapon spoke to an hennedder shot the director of the program at francisco university. she is pro life. she attributes the drop to shifting tuesday. >> i think hearts and minds are being changed throughout the country. i don't think so it's just policyies that are changing them, although they have had an impact in mississippi. connecticut and rhode island had some of the biggest changes and declines and yet they haven't done anything in terms of policy. i think they have done something in terms of attitude.

i think we are becoming more fetally aware. i thank you very much it's the culture. i know our abortion -- support for abortion overall is constant but 60% of everyone asked in every poll favors federal law banning abortion after 20 weeks. so if the country is changing their mind, nobody wants late term abortion when a feel feels pain when an unborn child and so several states implemented policies and i think just the conversation about these policies this fecal awareness of pain act even though only a few states implemented it, it's affecting other states. >> that bill that hinder shot just referred to is called the pain cable unborn protection act, a law in 11 states. >> the iron pipeline connects northern states where laws are

tough with southern states that have lax regulations. a push for federal action could be the key to shutting the practice down. >> it's known as the iron pipeline interstate 95, a gun corridor headed from southern states up to places like new york city, the state of new york just two years ago recovered over 300 firearms from georgia alone. many gun shop owners were robbed and guns brought up and sold on the underground market. just a couple of months ago, two officers were shot and killed by guns from the state of georgia. politicians are trying to put to stop to this corridor and interstate 95, but many down here in the state of georgia who created these lax gun laws, the one just passed in april of last year basically called the guns anywhere law requires that

people just need a permit to walk the streets with a loathe weapon. it takes 20-30 minutes to purchase a gun down here. that could be the reason why so many folkion are coming down into the south picking up guns and bringing them back up north. the big question remains how can they stop this and are these lax gun laws to blame. >> you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 here on aljazeera america. >> in today's tech beat, if you're wearing gold jewelry right now there's a good chance it's dirty. much of the world's gold is mined illegally. even your jeweler probably doesn't know where it came from. >> the next time you buy gold jewelry, you may want to question its or in. if you knew was affecting these fragile echo systems, you may want to reconsider buying it. >> gold, south after for beauty, but at what price?

how does a buyer know the real cost of a gold ring? >> these are the rings. >> these are the rings. this is where our customers when they come in for an appointment. >> beth wants her customers to feel confident that a ring doesn't come at the expense of human rights or environmental devastation. >> i really did want a symbol of love between me and my husband and didn't want it associated with atrocities. >> what is dirty gold. >> gold that was extracted at a cost to people and the planet that is unacceptable that may have come at the rights of human rights pristine forest and clean water. >> what percentage of gold in the u.s. do you think is dirty gold? >> that's a great question. i his we're going to have to assume that most of the gold that i also newly mined and sold in u.s. jewelry stores is

irresponsibly produced, because we don't have that independent certificate that provide us assurance otherwise. >> it's difficult to know if gold is clean or dirty. you have to understand the twisted route it travels. take illegally mined gold, from this the first stop is often here in the capital. >>ual along this area, people buy and exchange gold. >> according to a report by the fair labor non-profit veritea it is sold to refineries as far away as the united states and switzerland, melted down and fewerrified before sold again. often retailers know little about the origin of the gold

they sell. >> we investigate dirty gold and we'll have advice on how you can assure that the gold you're buying was mined responsibly. in los angeles i'm phil torres for al jazeera. >> half of the caribbean's coral reefs have his disappeared but thanks to tougher environmental laws, one country is now set be an example.

>> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:53 eastern. taking a look at today's top stories. barbara bush is promoting literacy on her 90th birthday today, encouraging an app for family literacy. >> among the big announcement at apple's conference today a paid streaming music service will cost $10 a month for a subscription that gives you access to its catalog of music. it goes up against spotify. >> crews making progress cleaning up after a major oil spill off santa barbara's coast.

44% of the coastline is now clear. last month's pipeline break spilled more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. >> in today's environmental impact today is world's oceans day. since 1970, half of the coral reefs in the caribbean have disappeared because of overdevelopment. not in cuba, where laws have helped the reefs thrive. nick clark has more. >> you probably have heard wherever you go in this extraordinary island nation, you see things that resonate from a long time gone. south of havana you come to a historic stretch of coast. the bay of pigs rooted in cuban identity as seen in 1961. here another legends of cuba's history and years of isolation pristine coral reefs. >> around the world, more than 50% of coral reefs disappeared. it is a different story here in cuban waters where marine

ecosystems have thrived. >> cuba has engaged in an enormous program of environmental protection. world leading. here in cuba, they're protecting 25% of their waters in marine protected areas and that compares to maybe about 9% currently in the united states, and only 2% worldwide. >> the lack of chemical fertilizers in agriculture has meant little toxic runoff into the ocean. >> it's like a time machine going back in time to see what these coral reef ecosystems used to look like and that really gives me hope for the future. >> further out to sea, you see the abundance of marine life growing. >> i see that as a very opportune moment in history to help cuba leap frog over all the

mistakes the rest of us have made. >> right here is another pristine ecosystem pristine and totally unpolluted. it's one of the most extensive areas is that remain. there are lagoons and vast areas of man grover swamp shallow waters act as a nursery for marine life. >> it's huge. here we are in this small area, you go there, you have kilometers and kilometers of the same environment. we see plenty of solar energy. this is a very -- area, well protected in general. >> the wealth and beauty of cuba's natural environment is stagger be. it is a huge source of potential revenue from eco tourism. the trick will be tapping its wealth without trying its

integrity. buy of pigs, cuba. >> a big night for broadway's biggest stars. >> let me tell you something ok? the true measure of a man is not to be nominated and still show up to read a list of names of those who are nominated. >> comedian larry david not among the nominees, but among the big winners fun home took top honors for best miracle. helen mirren won. alex sharp got best actor honors. sharp graduated from the jewel yard acting school just a year ago. that's it for us here in new york. i'm stephanie sy. for all the latest news and original stories go to aljazeera.com. a.com.

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