about $230 million a bit of of a disappointment. it is aimed at landing bigger spacecraft and eventually astronauts on mars. two address aljazeera.com. today we are not taking action we are taking actions for the people. >> activists in cleveland ask a judge to bypass prosecutors and charge the officers responsible for shooting tamear rice. authorities receive hundreds of tips for two convicted killers that escape add new york prison, now police are asking if a woman who worked at the prison helped the men get out. the possible ties to his past

life as a teacher. >> community leaders in cleveland are asking the court to do something that so far prosecutors have not done and that is charge can two police officers in the death of tamear rice. the 12-year-old was carrying a plastic pellet gun when a police shot him in a park last november. seven community leaders file add petition with a cleveland municipal court under a seldom used state law. covered this story extensively and joins us now from detroit right now the investigation is still in the hands of prosecutors why are community leaders say they made this petition. >> randall community leaders they say simply do not trust the criminal justice system,

especially considering the outcome of several highway profile cases in cleveland involving police and african-americans. now, a group of community leaders stood on the steps of the justice center, about an hour ago saying that they are no longer going to wait on the prosecutor's office to make a charging decision, instead, they are going to go straight to the judge and ask that charges with brought against both officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old tamir rice last november. the group says that in ohio state law allowed for residents to bypass prosecutors in this case. take a listen. >> we believe that officers sympathy louman and frank caused the death of tamir rice reprehensible and yes criminal. we believe these officers charged enforced the law charged to enforce the law themselves stepped outsite of the law, and therefore are subject to the same process of scrutiny, examination and

expedience of a judicial process. it took the sheriffs department since months to wrap up the investigation. i am told this case could go before a grand jury in the coming weeks. >> any idea how likely it is that the judge will grant the request for the petition? >> you know at this point it is hard to say. this law is a hand full of states have it but it is rarely used. and considering that this is such a high profile case, it is too early to tell. >> thank you in detroit. >> two convicted killer whose broke out of a new york state prison are still on the run and authorities acknowledge they could be anywhere by now. the focus has turned to the possibility that someone helped with the daring break out, ins in has more. >> investigators are focusing

on prison employees doing maintenance work to see who may have helped two convicted killers with their escape can. this prison worker was questioned as part of the probe. the escape can is the first in the clinton correctional facility 170 year history. >> we do not know if they had access to a vehicle but we presume they may have, as well as they may have received assistance in their escape effort if for no other reason at least outside the secure perimeter of this fallacy. >> no tools from inside the prison are us manying raising the question of outside contractors helped out. what is certain is that somehow david sweat and richard mat got their hands on power tools. slicing through the solid steel behind their beds. on friday night they stuffed makeshift dummies into their beds and made a winding journey, busting through a brick wall and steam pipe, and escaping through a locked manhole about a block from the prison leaving behind only this. these nearby residents say

they made have been the first to see the convicted killers. spotting them dressed in jeans walking in their backyard around 1:30, just two hours afterthey were last seen behind bars. >> i asked them what the held are you doing in my yard, get out of here. and he was like sorry i didn't know where where was, i am on the wrong street. >> they say the convicts ran off. al jazeera, new york. >> new calls today for a texas police officer to be fired after he pull add gun on teenagers at a pool party. hundreds of people marched last night from an elementary school to the pool in mckinney texas. one officer is on administrative leave but demonstrators say that is not enough. >> i am not indicting the entire police department because i saw some people doing the right thing this guy was just out of control and i am not going to stop until he is fired. >> in the end he thought we were saying rude stuff to him, he grabbed me, and he

like twisted my arm and i was like telling him that he can get off me because my back was hurting. >> police say they were responding to calls about unwelcomed teenagers at the pool, the officer shown in the video has not commented publicly about what happened. >> lawyers for the state of louisiana are meeting with the federal judge today trying to keep a member of the angola 3 in prison. that same judge has ordered albert wood fox be released after 43 years. john henry lewis is here with more john, for activists they have been looking the ever this for decades. >> decades too long, as far as albert wood fox is concerned. he is 68 and has long proclaimed his innocent, but despite the order wood fox isn't free yet. >> the fifth district court can says 40 years in solitary is long enough for 68-year-old albert wood fox orders his immediate release the court has also barred the state from holding a second

retrial of wood fox on charges that he killed a guard during a prison riot in 1972. he could be set free as early as wednesday. the judge sited several reasons for his order including albert wood fox's age and poor health, in his ruling the judge said there were no witnesses available for the retrial and there was prejudice done to another fox by spending over 40 years in solitary confinement. the judge also expressed doubt that the state could provide wood fox with a fair third trial. supporter whose have long called for his release express concern, that the state of louisiana will appeal the urge have's ruling state communications director said the state would appeal, to make sure this murderer stays in prison, and remains fully accountable for his actions. wood fox is one of the group known as the angola 3. ray long with herman wallace and robert king became members of the black panther party while in prison. a fact he has belong believed kept him in solitary for so

long. wallace died days after a judge freed him. king was released in 2001, after his conviction in the death of a fellow inmate in 1973 was reversed. king spent 29 years in solitary, and is now a public speaker. >> stuarts torture the judge today will decide when to release wood fox or whether to keep him in jail, pending that appeal. >> thank you, john. president obama once again is defending his healthcare law ahead of a decision that could wipe out insurance for millions. the president spoke at the catholic hospital association today, he says it has dramatically improved the lives of many who previously could not pay for healthcare.

the supreme court is set to decide whether subsidies can be given to people sign up through state exchanges. if it does take away the federal subsidies they can fix the law with the one sen tern projigs. he will be arraigned on charges that he broke federal laws and lied to the fbi about it. but there are suggestions that the money was used. during his arraignment at 2:00 p.m. local time, the former republican speaker will formally enter a plea before the federal judge. the frenzy unseen at the

courthouse since he was arrested in chicago seven years ago on corruption charges. nearly two weeks ago, he was charged with illegally structuring bank withdrawals before his career in politics he was a high school wrestling coach. he tried to conceal $1.7 million in hush payments to individual a. that has been allegedly sexually abused decades ago. and announce a vigorous defense. an actual rile is not expected to begin for at least a year. >> david schuster al jazeera. >> expect a presidential candidate has shaken up his campaign team. two former florida governor

has replaced the campaign macer. the republican stumbled over questions about whether his brother was right to invade iraq. jeb bush is expected to announce his presidential run next week. the supreme court of virginia has temporarily blocked the planned closure of sweet fryer college. announced in march they were closing this due so declining enrollment and financial challenges. they sent the case back to a low court where college leaders will be questioned. tens of thousands over students at one group for -- of for profit colleges are getting their student debt written off. the department of education will announce it will forgive loans for students who attended careen threian colleges. you uh reported earlier on a strike by students who refused to pay their loans in did this have an impact on

this decision. >> well, it was just one front of pressure that was put on the department of education, now the department of education has declared on monday that it will start to implement a process whereby former students can apply to have their loans forgiven if they can prove that they were defrauded. earlier this year, one of the first students that strikers who took the unprecedented step to pay back her loans arguing that the department of ed never should have made the funds available in the first place. >> the graduated cum laude three years ago with a paralegal associates degree from an everest college. >> we are everest. >> part of the for profit education giant. >> today the 26-year-old is back in her native missouri, working part time as a grocery store for minimum wage. honest work, but not the

career everest prommed her. >> they told us that we would have a job in the field that we studied within no more than six months. >> but horns couldn't get a foot in the door. or transfer her credits to another college. she has nothing to show for her degree. >> $28,012. >> except $28,000 in federal student loan debt. now, corinthian was hit with a flu of lawsuits alleging they lied about rates and predatory practices targeted low income campuses. monday the department of education can says it is developing a process where any student any student not just corinthian students that any student believes they were defraud candidate apply for federal student loan forgiveness, but this plan has plenty of critics including the debt collective which helped organize the student debt strike, they are pushing opinion an automatic

discharge held by students. saying the fan revictimized students by forcing them to navigate a bureaucratic process filled filled with red tape. the estimated cost is also drawing fire, senator lamar alexandar accused the department of education of putting taxpayers on the hook for what a college may have done. >> do we know how much this might cost. >> the department of education is estimated that all of the students who attended the schools in the last five years were to have their loans forgiven, that price tag would be about $3.5 billion. but it is a a very narrow way of looking at it. the cost of people beyond who hold these loans. one thing to keep in mind, is when people are saddled with student loan debt, they don't go out and spend they don't participate in the economy and don't forget especially with young people, these are the plank tape in our ecosystem is. >> and we suspect that corinthian wouldn't be the

only one? exactly. >> united nations reporter of children's rights leading to sanger and big questions. the military still struggles to take back mosul juan year after isil gained control.

more trouble for the tsa. dozens were given security clearance even though they were on a terror watch list. the tsa has been approved contract workers with a list that was not as complete as the governments data base. it came up during a congressional hearing today. the vetting system could leaf the department vulnerable to rink. >> offer audit results show that tsa faces significant

challenges. despite spending billions on security technology, our testing of certain systems has revealed no resulting improvement. >> now that hearing room was clear add short time ago these are live pictures police are investigating a suspicious package in the building the tsa hearing is suspended. fire crews say they are now in control of a huge blaze at a fuel storage depot in ukraine. a drone high above shows what it looked like, at least one person died three others are still missing. the owner suspected arson the fuel depot is very close to a military air base which was put on high alert. a new report from the united nations is steering debate today, it is a list of states and armed groups that violate children's rights during conflicts. israel and hamas are not mentioned. some believe lobbying groups convinceed the united nations sek tire ever tear general to

keep them off the list. >> secretary general. >> it is very unlikely that israel will make an official statement with regards to not being included on that list that the u.n. secretary genre leases every year. israel of course is very sensitive when it is included in such terms. and it's very clear that the lobbying that we understand that was with going on by israel and the united states was successful, so the government is no doubt very pleased in saying that child rates campaigner whose are in the occupied territories are very upset about this news. they say you only have to look at the statistics to show that israel in their view is a repeated violator of children's rights and safety. they say if you look at the statistics in gaza alone during the 50 day bombardment, more than 500 children were killed and many hundreds more were injured. they say that alone would warrant israel being put on that list, but again, as we

have been saying it would appear the lobbying by israel and the united states on the u.n. secretary general was with successful. the government no doubt is very pleased about that. >> reporting from jerusalem. there is new video today from the fight against isil in syria. rebel groups in aleppo have reported been clashing with fighters there. both sides battling for control of the city. dozens of u.s. led air strikes hit isil targets overnight, in iraq and syria. the forces are both claiming major gains against the group. the open supply lines is home to the largest oil refinery and has been in isil control for months. also today, fighters have taken control of a plant in libya. the plant supplied power to central and western with parts of the country libya's military says three of it's soldiers were killed in the takeover.

>> it was one year ago that isil took control of mosul. ever since is then the government has been trying to take the city back. the fight there is having an impact across the country. the velocity and speed surprised and shocked many. in mosul iraq's army ran fighters face little real resistence. in less than 24 hours the city was under their flag, and the impact was felt across iraq. it was a huge shock to the government and it's people when isil took mosul. it expose add lack of trust on security between the people of iraq can and the government at the time. that hasn't changed even with a new government many the media aftermath, many people began to blame the foreign minister. policies that the next prime minister has had difficult to

remove despite promising to do so. >> maliki tried to consolidate power in iraq, and that alienated many people include it is sunni communities. it is much more neutral but he lacks power because he has been left with many problems including a massive budget deficit is, and a powerful lobbies. it is going to be tough for him to run things around. >> the iraqi army and the shia militias are also having a tough time. and face great challenges in defeating isil. >> when the capitol of anbar province fell to the radical growl in may, it exposed how tough and far from over this fight is. >> there is a lack of iraqi command and control we don't have discipline within the ranks. the lack of reinforcement and strategy to win the fight. we need better coordination over air strikes and better equipment.

however, there are others that say they are just taking advantage of a very disjointed international strategy on isil. here in baghdad people are very worried that the current way of dealing with isil isn't working. >> the group's territory is a concern can because it can use it as a base, and send reinforcements into iraq. it is increasingly obvious that without a solution, isil will remain a problem in iraq. al jazeera, baghdad. >> straight ahead on al jazeera america, history uncovered. a hidden black war unearthed lessons from nearly 100 years ago.

rs were kidnapped... >> this is what's left of the hospital >> is a crime that's under reported... >> what do you think... >> we're making history right now... >> al jazeera america africa is blaming budget cuts. >> let me get three more. >> this ismoren intake at the cook county jail in chicago.

>> it is where the newly arrested go for processing. >> how are you doing? my job is to help you, what is your number? but sometimes it sounds more like an intervention. >> what am i trying to say is why are you drinking so much? are you stressed out? what is causing you to drink all that, don't lie to me because i know you have anger problems. >> you get angry like zero to 10? like that. >> okay. >> alley montgomery is the jail's director of mental health. >> any suicidal thinking ever ever feel sad for no reason. >> on this morning she and her staff screen 59, while 18 of them have self-identified as mental health, the jail's mental health professionals will probably find even more. >> i am worried you aren't shooting straight with me. i am like your mom for the day. >> most are here for petty crime, and drug related charges. typically we are looking

schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, by polar disorder. and ptsd. >> lock sup rapidly becoming the asylum for chicago's mentally ill. cook county is the largest single site jail in the country, some 9,000 inmates on any given day 2500 to 3,000 of them suffer from some type of psych long call illness. and that fact makes it the largest mental health provider in illinois. >> do you find people that deliberately commit crimes to get back here just to get care. >> yes. >> what does that say about the state of our system? >> it's been a ditty little secret for a long time, it is the population that no one give as crap about, and we with do, and we have so do something. >> coming up tonight the cook county jail get as new executive director, a unique appointment for a jail that is breaking the mold about how the mentally ill are treated behind bars.

al jazeera chicago. >> and you with watch that report at 8:00 p.m. eastern 5:00 p.m. pacific here on al jazeera america. well, it is a teaching tool from a different time. 1917 to be exact tough to weigh in oklahoma school for a century hidden choke boards have surfaced giving us a glimpse into the past. they were frozen in time, but then came the preservation to make way for new white boards they stripped off the old boards and there they were. traditional thank give storying about the pill games with carefully drawn and colored pictures. there's also math, basic addition and multiplications. tables on the blackboard, a multiplication wheel, one of the more colorful sketches is of a little girl in a pink

dress. there's more here, an old pledge of allegiance. and a calendar in chalk. the last day marked wednesday, december 28th. what will become of these educational artifacts? a spokeswoman with said the hope is to preserve them as a slice of school life for this generation and future ones. eorson high school was 120 years old. it is part of the metropolitan area project initiative which aims to improve quality of life in the city. the college board is insisting a missprint will not -- some students were told they had five extra minutes to complete a section. college board says it is simply not score those and will instead calculate accurate scores from other parts of the test.

live from london, keep up. libya's elected parliament reject as proposal for a government as isil seize as power plant we have more on why the u.n. has been accused of putting polices ahead of the need of childrenned in armed conflict.