he bay of pigs, cuba. >> well, plenty more on the environment and of course all the news and sport on our website. the address for that is www.aljazeera.com. details there of the on the website. you can watch us there by clicking on the icon. >> president obama said he's taking a new look at america's strategy in iraq. the comments come at the end of the g 7 summit. >> anda police officer in texas suspended after he's caught on camera pulling his weapon on teenagers at a pool party. >> in south carolina a police officer is formerly identified

for murder after shooting an unarmed man in the back. >> this is al jazeera live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston. president obama said that the u.s. lax a complete strategy for accelerating the fight for isil and admits that training has not happened as fast as it should. the admission made after the president met with the iraqi prime minister near the end of the g 7 summit in german. that's a stunning revelation by president obama. >> that's right. he said that the strategy is being reevaluated and let's provide a little context. president obama at the g 7 in bra vary i bavaria. he was asked about isil and the gains it has made in recent weeks on the battlefield. in a sense he praised isil's

military capability. he called them nibble and opportunistic. but he said that iraqi forces that have undergone training by american advisers in train have done well in combat. he said it's knows those who have not undergone that training in the case of ramadi where the soldiers did not have that training they did not want to fight. the president said if they have that training then they're quite capable. that begs the question there are 3,000 american advisers and train necessary iraq right now. should there be more? and that is where the president delivered a controversial statement in the immediate aftermath. the president said that there is a policy review at the pentagon right now and that is a context by which he made the following comments. >> we're reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that, certainly accelerating the

number of iraqi forces that are properly trained and equipment and have a focused strategy and good leadership. when a finalized plan is presented to me, then i'll share it with the american people. we don't yet have a complete strategy. >> randall, you recall it was last august 2014 the president right before going off on a summer vacation held a press conference in the white house briefing room where he had the exact same statement. that was before the president decided to bring the coalition together and the airstrikes continuing over the last several months. now being seized on a political matter these latest comments by the. >> yes for sure his critics will be seizing on that admission. the elephant in the room was

russia, of course, what did they decide. >> remember, it is the. >> they have made aggressive moves in eastern ukraine the president's move to keep the western powers together while the putin's regime is to wait it out in terms of the sanctions. the president again citing those sanctions being responsible for bringing the russian economy down and deriding the imperial imperialist ambition that this dream that vladimir putin has in the president's estimation of restoring the soviet empire.

>> now that russia has been removed from once was the g 8 is it the absence of another economic power china that is effecting the group of seven influence. >> it's the most elite club on earth. but the group of seven's power to call the shots globally isn't what it used to be. >> there have been shifts in the way global order has been organized, and the g 7 are less important than they were a number of years ago. >> thanks in large part of who is not at the table. the g 7 does not include china the world's largest economy by purchasing power parity, china is harnessing it's vast foreign exchange reserves to project that cloud including brazil, russia india south africa to create the new development bank and bail out fund. and pouring billions into

projects beijing hopes to under pin a new silk road encompassing arab africa, europe and their near seas. but china's power really hit home earlier this year when more than 50 countries including four g-7 nations rushed to become founding members of the new china-led asian infrastructure investment bank. >> when you juxtapose those with the deep 7 you may say well, the g-7 is losing ground when it comes to global economic muscle. >> the question is whether all that talk will yield coordinated policies that project the power of this elite group or.

>> a decision released from the u.s. supreme court court just hours ago the justices 6-3 to strike down a law that allow americans born in jerusalem to list jerusalem as the place of birth on a passport. >> tell us more about this decision and who it effects. >> randall, even though this case does go against a law passed by congress, it sticks with what the obama administration has done and in fact many administrations before them. if the american citizen with dual citizen is born in jerusalem, the passport says jerusalem rather than israel. this is because back in 1948 when israel was founded, the u.s. took the stance that no nation has sovereignty over jerusalem until a middle east peace decision or resolution is truly achieved.

well congress wanted to push back on that in 2002 and a pro-israel block in congress managed to get through a law saying that someone could have their passport say israel. the bush administration disagreed. the obama administration disagreed. and now the supreme court said that's not how this will proceed going forward. this case was argued back in november. we've been waiting a very long time to see how it would resolve. at that time conservative justices said it's not really a problem to have a foreign policy stance different from what passports say but more liberal justices who were able to prevail, jewish justices, in fact said that you cannot deny the history and context. this is not separate from u.s. foreign policy, randall. >> could this possibly effect peace talks in the region? >> well, it would have serve certainly would have been significant if the supreme court had sided with the family who

wanted their child's passport to read israel and not jerusalem. that could have been seen as a de facto stance of the u.s. government that jerusalem is truly in the hands of israel. that this law that was passed goes back to 2002, and this case does as well. because the american family living abroad, living in jerusalem had a little boy and they wanted his passport to say israel. because the state department would not allow it, they have fought this. it has gone all the way to the supreme court. but today the justices sided with tradition and not just saying that jerusalem doesn't fall under the sovereignty of any country but siding with presidential powers, it's up to the president to decide these things not congress. >> thank you, libby casey in washington. >> the terrorist over controversy of the right to bear arms the case went to a san francisco law that requires handguns to be disabled or

locked up when not in use. the ordinance is aimed at avoiding tragedies but some said that it restricted their rights. there were also questions on the affordable care act and whether same-sex marriage is oh also on the docket of the court, and the fair housing is in question and whether the confederate flag can be banned. a police officer is indicted in the shooting of an unarmed man. the whole thing was caught on camera by a passerby despite intense publicity on the case, prosecutors say there was abundance of evidence for the grand jury to sort through.

>> just because you have video in the case doesn't mean that it's the end all be all and the case is over. you think about all the bank robberies that we have that we have video all the time. but certainly as a prosecutor if we can have a case that depicts the crime and we aren't having to rely just on people's perceptions, the jury will be able to make up their own mind after seeing the video and hearing other testimony. >> the prosecutors say that it is not likely that the former police officer will face the death penalty. a texas police officer is suspended this afternoon after a video showed him drawing his gun at a pool party fill with teenagers. he's also seen regularreling an unarmed teenage girl wearing a bikini to the ground. >> the shocking video has gone viral, and the texas police officer showing overly aggressive tactics on black teams has been suspended. >> he was just aggressive.

for no reason at all. it was horrible. >> tatiana rose rhodes broke down. she hosted the pool part with her mother and sister. the start happened when a woman at the pool made racist comments and insulted her friend. >> she said, hey we don't want the kids. whatever. didn't let me handle it. >> but when the police showed up kids got scared and started running. it appears chaotic but relatively calm. >> on the ground. >> then this police officer detained several young men. >> we just came for a birthday party. >> the mckinney police arrived in response to calls about an

incident. >> you want to screw around out here? but the suspended officer whose identity has not been released by the mckinney police department 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 her aid. he pushes her to the ground, reholeters his gun and restrains her with his body. the girl clearly unarmed wearing a two-piece bathing suit was later res willed to her parents. >> i will continue a full and complete investigation. >> the chief of police sought to reassure people on sunday. one neighbor who said he 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 it was. there were other officers who were he will actually nice. >> the mckinney mayor said that he was disturbed and confused after seeing this video, and the fall out continues. there is a march later this afternoon in mckinney outside of an elementary school against police brutality. al jazeera. >> police are investigating why riots broke out at the metlife stadium overnight. video shows an angry crowd throwing bottles at police officers outside of the stadium. authorities say they were confronted by people trying to climb over fences and force their way past the security to get in to a sold out concert. but some twitter useers alleged they had tickets and were not allowed in. police arrested several people. there are reports that one officer was injured. turkey's currency fell to an all-time low against the dollar

this morning. that came after the first taste of defeat for the country's ruling party in more than a decade. inin alliance of liberals and kurds in the elections. in mexico elections went slightly better. the result is a disappoint for people who are unhappy with president peña nieto who say that his government is corrupt and has not helped the economy. >> six people have died from mers in south korea and 23 new cases have been identified alone. fears grow about the quick spread of the decease. the government is trying new ways to keep the public safe. >> home with mom following instructions from her school to stay indoors. no school means no after school

cramming lessons either. so a chance to relax even against a background of national anxiety. >> i think this 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 that she be tested, but she was fine. >> schools were ordered shut for monday despite the fact there has been no confirmed transition of mers outside of a hospital or clinic. most middle and high schools remained open. the measures were taken on the day a 16-year-old who caught the virus in hospital was confirmed. the government said that so far mers infections have been confined to hospital environments unlessings, more than 1800 schools are closed. public events are canceled and people are staying away from crowded places. it all reflects growing concerns as the number of cases grow each day. so the government has announced new measures to toughen up

quarantine after some people have ignored instructions to ice light 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 also decided on more transparency. revealing the names and locations of hospitals and clinics where suspected me ers patients may have sought treatment. the next few days will be critical. if the number of new cases start to come down, south korea's mers outbreak is likely to have been limited hospital-based event. if not, it may mean that the virus got out with the public at large in the early days when the response was slow making it a much more serious threat to the public. >> chinese officials completed

gathering the dna of 432 victims in a cruise tragedy. chinese authorities attribute the accident to sudden turbulent wins. the captain and chief engineer are in custody. abortions are down in nearly all states across the u.s. regardless of laws for or against it. according to the sorried press states that were most aggressive have seen their numbers drop more than 15% since 2010. hawai'i had the biggest drop with 1,000 fewer abortions. a major factor in the decline is teen pregnancy which in 2010 reached it's lowest level in decades. he served less than a year on a five-year sentence, but south african runner oscar pistorius may soon be set free. they crawled through

underground tunnels, the latest on the hunt of two escaped murderers.

>> olympic sprinter oscar pistorius could soon be released from jail. he was released in august for good behavior. so far he has served ten months of a five-year sentence. pistorius was convicted in the shooting death of his girlfriend. under the deal he would complete his incarceration under house arrest. investigators now believe two convicted killers who escaped from a max security prison had help. they used power tools to escape through underground tunnels. investigators are convinced that the elaborate scheme involved outside assistance. there is now $100,000 reward for information leading to their

capture. david shuster reports. the man hunt now includes hundreds of local state and federal law enforcement officers. they have been setting up roadblocks walking door to door and flying helicopters over a small new york community along the edge. >> these are dangerous people. and they are nothing to be trifled with. >> 48-year-old richard matt was convicted on three counts of murder including the kidnapping and dismembering of his boss. david sweat was serving life behind bars for the murder of a sheriff deputy. prison officials at the clinton connectional facility discovered the men were gone early saturday morning. the duoio duo had fooled guards by stuffing hoodies under their bed covers. authorities say that the inmates used power tools to cut their way out. once the men made it out of

their cells they had to slice through steel grates and pipes and scale do you know six floors to get into the sewer system. then they broke through a manhole cover outside of the prison walls. david shuster al jazeera. >> a former commissioner of the new york city department of corrections. he began his career working in max security facilities, and he says that the prison has a lot to answer for, a lot of hard questions about how the two men escaped. >> there are lots of things that the internal investigation is going to have to look into. one has to ask whether or not the officers were making their required rounds. one has to ask whether staffing cuts over the last several years over which there have been many that left the prison short staffed, and areas may not have been covered. the prisoners watch the officers. they know when the officers are coming by and when they aren't. if the officers are spread too thin and there are long

intervals between their rounds when the inmates would have found the opportunity. they would have worked for five minutes and then shut it down. they didn't do this in one night. there is a question to be asked that when was the last time they were actually seen um, and around and breathing. those are questions that the internal investigation is going to ask for. it's not unheard off in this situations for the officers to be lacks in their duties and to be complacent. when you have the track record like this prison has which has not had an escape in 100 year old you100 years you think that it is impregnable. but it is not impregnable. >> the two convicts who escaped have lengthy criminal records.

police it to use tasers to control him during his trial. david sweat was also in prison for life. he was convicted of killing a sheriff deputy, who was shot 15 times and then run over. a new law allows thousands of adapted kids to find their birth parents. up next, meet a woman who found her family history after 30 years.

>> we've spent 110 billion dollars. >> this is their dirty little secret. >> a new law in ohio helps adopted children find their birth parents. thousands of people have now looked through their birth records. bisi onile-ere talks with one woman who got the answers she was looking for. >> i'm bisi onile-ere. through a new law 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 affect we were here as hundreds stood outside of the government

in search of their past. some of the documents had been sealed more for for more than 50 years. after years of searching she found what she was looking for her birth parents. >> so i imagine like you feel that you know a little bit more about who you are. even though you're 30 years old of course you know who you are but there is a lot to be said about knowing your past. >> i don't understand how i was so lucky to have multiple families who are loving, dedicated and supported. i was chosen this path, and it's astounding to me. >> her search for her parents did not come without roadblocks. tonight how this new law played a key role in her finding her biological parents and how her parents reacted. and we'll hear from a whom who is an advocate about open

adoption records. >> you can watch bisi onile-ere onile-ere's report here at 8:00 on al jazeera america. the tony award winners were announced. >> the true measure of a man is not to be nominated and still show up to read the list the names of those who are nominated. >> larry david was not on the list of winners as you can get. helen mirren won to her role. best new show went to the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. newcomer alex sharp got best actor honors for his role in the play and check this out. sharp graduated from the julliard school just one year ago. thanks for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. the news continues next from

london. for more on the latest go to www.aljazeera.com. >> turkey's ruling party suffers a set back at the ballot box and suffers the difficult task of creating a coalition. i'm lauren taylor. this is al jazeera live from lornd. alsolondon. coming up. turkey's relationship with its war torn neighbor plus. >> we don't yet have a complete strategy. >> barack obama says he needs more commitments from iraq before he can fine-tune the fight against i.s.i.l. and compulsory coding. will hong kong schools lead the world