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good morning live from new york city i'm randall pinkston. after months of waiting a mixed ruling in the killing by police of a mentally ill black man. one officer involved did vital policy the other did not. >> they don't even get discipline, they can just murder people. >> protestors interrupted that announcement just the latest in months of demonstrations demanding action in the death of 25-year-old ezel ford. police confronted him just two days after michael brown was shoot in missouri, saying ford was acting suspiciously and reached for a gun. that's when they shot and killed him. >> the final decision on discipline for the two officers will be left in the hands of l.a. police chief charlie beck. now that the citizenry view is completely with that the district attorney will look into criminal charges and that can't

come soon enough for those seeking justice in the shooting death of the 25-year-old a man who's mother said had the mental capacity of someone less than half his age. >> these are 40 plus people of the thousands who have been murdered by police in the united states. >> with a small group of protestors gathered outside los angeles police headquarters tuesday, the commission ruled one of two officers involved in the august altercation with ford was wrong to use deadly force but also in the tactics of approaching ford on the street, and attempting to physically restrain him. shortly after the decision was announced, l.a. mayor spoke with a message. >> i know that it is a painful moment to be a young angelino. this is your city. i want you to feel that, to reach for the stars and to recognize that you are empowered in this city, you should always feel safe. >> for us, we say oh, they're unarmed black people, but i want

people to realize that they're armed because they have black skin. black skin is the weapon, the threat to white privilege and this bite patriarchal supremist society. >> the findings were released moments after the decision, detailing a struggle over one of the officer's guns. that board said it was the struggle that justified the shooting. however, the commission did not agree. the mayor said the chief can take some time for careful thought before determining what action, if any, he will take but the decision is chief beck's and chief beck's alone. shake kell sure, los angeles. >> we are deeply disappointed in the findings of the police commission, we believe the decision was irresponsible and reckless and solely made to avoid civil unrest. >> new details in the search for

two convicted killers focused in a small town, wills borough 40 miles from the prison where the men escaped. >> officers have been going door to door, searching farms and woods, checking empty vacation homes. so far no signs of the convicted killers. >> stand with your partner, two men teams. >> combing fields, checking every building, by foot and helicopter willsborough new york is now the focus of a manhunt for the two convicted killers. more than 400 officers descended after residents reported seeing two men walking in a rainstorm 40 miles from where the inmates escaped a maximum security prison. on the fifth day of the search, there is concern the men could become more dangerous. >> they obviously have to eat and sleep. their level of desperateness will increase as each day goes on. >> back in the prison,

investigators are trying to figure out who may have helped with the elaborate escape. they've questioned outside contractors and employees including prison worker joyce mitchell. she was in charge of overseeing work assignments conducted by the men. she checked herself into a hospital the same day the inmates escaped. speaking to nbc news, her son defended him. >> she definitely wouldn't have apposer against my father and there's no truth to that. >> law enforcement officers say the two had a spot on the honor block, allowing them to visit each other and wear civilian clothing. >> the prison uniform were found in a pipe the men used to climb out of a manhole. police have received hundreds of tips on where they might be. >> a louisiana prisoner who spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement will have to wait a few more days to find out if he will be set free.

an appeals court blocked the finding that he be released. wood fox is the last of the louisiana inmates dubbed the angola three, convicted of killing a prison good during a protest. two of his convictions were overturned. >> we expect to hear more about the texas police officer who has now resigned from the force after video shows him pulling a gun and cursing and slamming a teenager to the ground. the video shows him putting his knees into a 14-year-old girl's back forcing her to the ground. he then pulled his gun on other teenagers who attempted to intervene. he was part of a group which officers responding to reports of unrest at a community pool. mckinney's police chief condemned his behavior. >> he has resigned from the mckinney police department as the chief of police. i want to say to our community

to the actions of casebolt as seen on the video are indefensible. our policies are training, our practice do not support his actions. he came into the call out of control, and as the video shows was out of control during the incident. >> casebolt is a 41-year-old former the accident state trooper, he he could face criminal charges pending an investigation. >> there are reports this morning that the u.s. could soon send several hundred additional troops to iraq, and launch a new training site for iraqi forces in anbar province. the goal is to help those forces retake ramadi. the decision will increase the number of american training sites in iraq from four to five and enable a larger number of iraqi sunnies to join the fight. it has within one year since

isil took mosul. it has not stopped since despite airstrikes from the j coalition. isil 20 through iraq and took a third of the country within days. by december, lost armed group in syria but expanded influence towards baghdad. by march isil had reversed those losses and as of last month, the group is in control of ramadi and baiji, as well as mosul. thousands of ref joes have spilled across iraq because of the fighting but millions more still live in mosul one year after the city fell. zeina hodor has more. >> mosul is the biggest urban center in northern iraq. some 2 million people are believed to live there cut off from the rest of the of the country. >> people want to believe but have to pay isil a large amount of mine which they don't have.

they live in a prison. >> these people are journalists from mosul from the kurdish controlled north, they are the voices of those who aren't allowed to speak. they hide their identity, so do their contacts inside the city, because filming could get them killed. they explain how isil uses every opportunity to brainwash the people which mosul. they even preach in malls. according to journalists isil hides weapons in civilian neighborhoods so that people will turn against the u.s. led coalition when it targets the area. isil then tries to win them over by providing compensation. isil's message is always the same people should fight what they call the shia regime in iraq and the crusader war against muslims. >> the majority may not support isil but there are those who do. they have an ideology and exploit the long history of oppression against sunnis. many prefer isil over the kurds

who they believe want their land. >> mosul is surrounded by occurred mesh forces from three sides. they have managed to hold the lines with the help of u.s. coalition airstrikes but for now have no plan to move towards the mainly sunni arab city. they will play a supporting role if and when a decision is made to recapture iraq's second largest city. >> the iraqi government's plans to do so has been stalled but isil has been preparing for that battle. it has dug a trench around the city and placed concrete barriers as a line of defense around it is breeding a new generation of fighters. >> isil is recruiting children. we have information that there are a thousand new. there will be sleeper cells in the future, because they have brainwashed children. ♪ >> a major part of isil's strategy is to control every aspect of the lives of the people under its rule and even if it loses ground, ensures its

ideology will endure for years to come. al jazeera northern iraq. >> at the top of the hour, we'll hear from i imran kahn in baghdad. >> an attack foiled today at one of egypts most popular tourist sites. two gunman attacked the temple at lucks soar. police killed one of the gunman and arrested the other. one officer was wounded. no word on other casualties. >> rebels in syria say they have seized a major army base in the country's south. 200 fighters overran the base. the province is seen as the birth place of syria's four year civil war. this is the latest in a string of defeats for the regime.

>> celebrating after launching attacks at dawn, 70% of the southern syrian province now in rebel control including a key spoil of war, one of the largest syrian military bases. rebel fighters now poised to take the city, where the syrian uprising began four years ago. a new group of fighters call themselves the southern front backed by the u.s. and jordan, funded and armed by foreign countries, it has made great gains in recent months. they are within striking distance 56 miles from syrian president's assad stronghold, the capital of damascus. in the northern part of the country, another alliance of fighters includes al-qaeda affiliate al-nusra, which controls most of the province,

including this key strategic town. it sits on the road between aleppo syria's largest city and coastal city, the heart handled of asses sect. while asses forces battle, they control large swaths of land. egypt held a conference aimed at bringing together syria's opposition leaders but a push for a political solution remains elusive. >> the syrian regime is totally responsible for where things are as a result of its practices and insistence on military escalation. >> the syrian conflict now grinds on into its fifth year. an estimated 9 million sir you knows, nearly half the population have fled their homes inside and outside the country in what experts consider to she the largest mass migration since world war ii. al jazeera.

>> vladimir putin arrived in italy to meet with pope france later this morning. the russian president is in milan right now. he then heads to the vatican after that. the u.s. ambassador to the vatican said he would like to see pope francis talk with putin about ukraine and express concern for moscow's actions there. >> south korea's president postponed a trip to the u.s. apparently to focus on the outbreak of mers. cases are up to 108 and 2,000 people are quarantined as a precaution. health officials say they will set up clinics across the country to treat the virus. harry fossett has more from seoul. >> they've set up this tent on the grounds of the medical center. this is where people who may have mers come for initial check ups. if it's felt they need it, they

come for treatment in one of two treatment centers which is cordoned off. if it is thought they have mers, they are put into this special isolation unit here. for those that have had some kind of risk factor but need home quarantine only, the hospital takes them home. behind this glass inside the hospital is where eight patients confirmed with mers are being treated. they were brought here from another hospital. the chance of them spreading the disease here is minimal. the government is concerned about other patients turning up with respiratory problems, perhaps exposed to the virus at other facilities and therefore spreading it from hospital to hospital. they are telling people to phone local health authorities first rather than present themselves at hospitals. they are setting up special designate hospitals within metropolitan areas to try to stop the spread of the disease.

>> president obama has sweeping immigration policies, but they are now on that hold. that spells bad news for the country's immigration courts. judges say they are fed up with the backlog.

>> louisiana is currently suffering the brunt which floods at the accident and oak on the ground. the red river is now at 37 feet the highest level in 30 years. 33 feet is considered a major flood. many homes are underwater as the flood moves into the mississippi river and into the gulf of mexico. the cleanup is still underway in the accident where severe flooding left a path of destruction over memorial day weekend. the damage did not come as a surprise to some who monitor flooding. we have this report. >> >> the flood alerts stretched nearly 800 miles controls texas into missouri.

thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed. >> the search continues -- >> at least 23 people killed. >> the sound of houses hitting other houses, hitting trees people screaming was deafening. >> it was the wettest may texas ever recorded. the recedes waters revealed the enormous powers of rivers and dangers of being too close to their banks. douglas has warned about it for years. >> testament to incredible force of the water when the flood came through. >> america tonight brought him one of the leading experts on flood plains to texas. >> we are along the blanco river, where this becomes the san marcos river. this is where some of the worst flooding occurred and just walking around here, i was really blown away. we would have been under 30 or more feet of water.

>> nestled between austin and san antonio, it is the fastest mid size growing. as its population has grown so that development. it's one of the many cities and towns increasingly allowing developers to develop in harm's way. >> there's debris in the trees all over the place here, trees brush, just lay flat in that direction. this was an incredibly violent place. we talk about 40%. >> he points out we can't stop the rain, but can stop disasters like this if we build in areas prone to flooding. three years ago to accommodate the growing school population, developers proposed an off campus housing complex steps from the river. >> why don't people learn after there's a major flood and

property's destroyed? >> people stay away and do the right thing three to five years but then forget the lessons learned during the last flood event. we're failing to realize is just back off a little bit stay away and keep as large a margin of safety as possible. >> al jazeera can marcos the accident. >> the cleveland cavaliers up two games to one over the golden state warriors in the championship but guard matthew dellavedova suffered severe cramps after the game but during the game had a big game. lebron james also scored big with 40 points and 12 rebounds.

game four thursday in cleveland. thank you for joining us, stephanie sy back in two minutes with more aljazeera america news.

>> one year after the capture of mosul, the u.s. plans what some call a major strategy shift in iraq sending more troops into anbar province. >> anger and outrage in los angeles as an independent commission delivers its findings in the police shooting of a mentally ill man. >> a court blocks the release of a prisoner held in solitary confinement more than 40 years one day after a judge said there was no evidence of his guilt.

>> good morning opinion this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. a shift in strategy in iraq. several hundred additional american troops will head to iraqi. the team will launch a new training site for iraqi forces in anbar province, the goal to help those forces retake ramadi. it will enable a larger number of iraqi sunnis to join the fight, increasing the number of america training sites from four to five. imran kahn live in baghdad. good morning. how significant is this announcement of a training site in anbar and what role does baghdad want u.s. force to say play? >> well, this announcement is more significant i have to say for the americans that be the

iraqis here. there's a simple reason for this. all of the trainers we're seeing in iraq of deaf employed at brigade level. they're not front line fighting forces. this has been a real issue because the trainers simply around enough to train the cooki forces in the kind of number they need to be trained in to go and fight. it's a slow process being them into anbar province allows you to supply more closely the troops fighting there with weapons, but those weapons they may not have been trained upon so are not effective. what they are wondering in d.c. is if the airstrikes around being used to their fullest capability. when iraqi calls in an air strike it takes a long process and oftentimes, it's not that effective. if you embed special forces, a again beret with the fighting forces of the iraqis, they can call those airstrikes in a lot quicker, more accurately and

effectively. a lot of iraqis are saying that's the kind of help we need. we don't need this training, we don't need this idea of more trainers what we need is actual troops that can help us fight. doesn't have to be many. some figures are about 300. you only need 300 of these special forces embedded with iraqi forces. >> that would be a major change in strategy and the u.s. has not committed to that. today one year since mosul fell, the second largest city in iraq, where does it stand now in terms of taking the upper hand there against isil? >> well, the uner hand there again what to do with airstrikes. the occurred peshmerga have held the line between their territory and iraqi kurdistan and mosul. fronts they haven't been able to expand which is a positive. what the united states have done is build trenches around the outside of the city. they built bunkers and bar yell

calls. they are encouraging all men to grow beards so if there is a ground assault that will confuse people who is a member of isil and who isn't. they are using propaganda to turn people against any ground assault that might come in, so there are a number of things going on. any frontal assault on mosul won't happen in the next few months. they are too busy, iraqi security forces, the u.s. led coalition and shia, because isil holds the two border crossings into syria allowing them into anbar province, has ramadi, that's where the fight is taking place, not in mosul although they have held that area for over a year. >> 2 million people are believed living in mosul under the rule of isil and the humanitarian

situation there is said to be bleak. the chief humanitarian official from u.n. i.v.ed iraq and said millions are in need of aid. a report from amnesty international documents sectarian violence in iraq over the past 12 months. senior crisis advisor joins us from london. thanks for being with us. since mosul fell a year ago what has become of the civilians living there? >> well, the problem goes beyond the fate of the civilians within mosul itself. the people who are most at risk have left mosul a long time ago all the minorities, people critical of isis, so now what remains in mosul is a beleaguered population, some of whom quite clearly would not want to be there but they left it too late and now can't get out anymore and others who are

just trying to grin and bear it and hope this will end sometime soon. the problem is much larger man mosul. millions of people across iraq have been displaced. many of them, i would say most, with no prospect of going home anytime soon. we've seen that virtually all the territories there has been recaptured from isis by mostly shia militias with a little bit of help from government forces, because really, government forces are now so weak and the shia militias so powerful don't allow the sunni population to go back home, so the problem is way, way larger than mosul. >> you talk about shia militias and government forces, which are mentioned in this new report your organization has out that says shia militias, even yazidi

militia members have embarked on those perceived to be supporting isil and are also targeting civilians. >> yes, you know, the descended into absolute chaos turning community against community. we're seeing the worst of sectarian violence throughout iraq so shia militias are the most powerful force in the country. they are way more powerful than government force and they have been carrying out these kind of reprisal attacks for many months going into sunni towns and villages, and massacring men in revenge for what isis does. up in the north, you know, we also saw the yazidis who created the militia a self defense malaysia to start with, but they too have carried out reprisals, attacks against

nearby villages which were populated by arabs. we all know that the yazidis have suffered unimaginable violence from isis over the past year. hundreds of men possibly thousands were killed, thousands of women were abducted, many of them forced into sexual slavery so there is no doubt about the extents of the brutality the yazidi community has endured but in this iraq of today where there is impunity for those who perpetrate the worst crimes, either because they are beyond the reach of the law physically, like isis fighters are or because they are beyond the reach of the law politically like the shia militias, that leaves people frustrated, trying to take the law into their own hands, and that means that instead of the perpetrators

being held accountable entire communities pay the price for the crime of others. >> donatella require are a thank you. >> after awaiting a ruling in the police killing of an unarmed mentally ill black man the board found officers violated democratic policies when they killed the man but that the officer who fired on ford was justified in doing so. john henry smith is here with more. the victim's mother calls this a surprise. why? >> the civilian, the civilian board of police commissioner contradict what the police chief and independent investigators found. the question is will the board findings ultimately lead to consequences for these two officers. >> we are officially asking that you reject the recommendations made by chief beck and inspector

general monte. we believe those recommendations are out of line and to this day there has been no justification told to the community on why ford was even stopped to begin with. >> the l.a. board of police commissioners listened to the voices of those demanding justice for 25-year-old edell ford. last august, two police officers shot the mentally ill unarmed man after he wrestled with one of them. >> rewarding the use of force or firing of the weapon, the police commission unanimously found that the use of force by one police officer two was administrative disapproval. >> talking about the action of the officer who initiated the stop the report said the deficient tactics used by officer a and the legally inappropriate detention of the subject that led to the subsequent altercation rendered the use of deadly force unreasonable and out of policy.

rewarding his partner the commission ruled that while he shouldn't have drawn his gun when first approaching ford, he was within policy in shooting ford once ford and the first officer began fighting. >> we think it's an insult to our intelligence to see that the officers are saying that it was in policy. >> ford was shot two days after the shooting of michael brown in ferguson a fact clearly on the mind of the mayor as he reacted to the commission's report. >> ezell's death took place inside a context. he's not just a statistic. he was part of a national conversation and a city wide one, as well. >> the commission's decision i also not legally binding. the district attorney's office will continue conducting its own investigation and ultimately make a final determination on whether or not to file charges. >> police chief charlie beck said he respects the process but the police union put out a statement reading in part:

there's no indication yet whether the commission's findings will convince the police chief to hand out discipline to the two officers going forward. >> a louisiana prisoner who spent 40 years in solitary confinement will have to wait to see if he will be set free. an appeals court blocked the judge's order demanding he be released. wood fox is the last of the louisiana inmates dubbed the angola free. he was convicted of killing apprize on that son guard. he long maintained his in sense and two of his convictions were overturned. >> he's a remarkable man. he -- this has been very difficult, obviously. he's always had hope that at the end of all this, there would be justice for him and hopefully we're close to that point now. >> the federal judge who ordered wood fox's release said the

state can't fairly try him a third time for the killing. prosecutors say wood fox is a killer who should remain locked up. >> we expect to hear nor from the the accident police officer who resigned from the force after he was shown on a video pulling his gun and putting his knee's into a 14-year-old's back forcing her to the ground. he then pulled his gun on other teens who attempted to intervene. he was part of a group of officers responding to reports of unrest as a community pool. the police chief condemned the officer's behavior. >> eric casebold has resigned from the police department. as the chief of police, i want to say that the actions of casebold as seen on the video of the disturbance at the community pool are indefensible. our policies, our training, our practice do not support his actions. he came into the call out of

control. as the video shows was out of control during the incident. >> casebold is a former texas state trooper. he will keep his pension and benefits but could face criminal charges pending an investigation. >> a detective involved in a 2013 attack on a manhattan driver has been convicted of second degree assault. he faces two years in prison, though cleared of the most serious charge. he was undercover in a biker group at the time. the group surrounded a car that allegedly hit one of its members and wheat beat up a driver. ten other bikers were convicted of second degree assault. >> there are no developments today in the search of two convict killers who escaped a prison in northern new york. search teams turned their attention to a small town 40 miles from the clinton correctional facility in upstate new york. we have more. what's the latest? >> officers are going door to door searching through farms

and woods even checking empty vacation homes. so far no signs of the convicted killers. >> stand with your partner, two men teams. >> combing fields, checking every building, by foot and helicopter, willsborough, new york is now the focus of a manhunt for the two convicted killers. more than 400 officers descended after residents reported seeing two men walking in a rainstorm 40 miles from where the inmates escaped a maximum security prison. on the fifth day of the search there is concern the men could become more dangerous. >> they obviously have to eat and sleep. their level of desperateness will increase as each day goes on. >> back in the prison, investigators are trying to figure out who may have helped with the elaborate escape. they've questioned outside contractors and employees, including prison worker, joyce mitchell. she was in charge of overseeing

work assignments conducted by the men. she checked herself into a hospital the same day the inmates escaped. speaking to nbc news, her son defended his mother. >> she definitely wouldn't have an affair against my father and with an inmate, there's no truth to that. >> law enforcement officers say the two had a spot on the honor block, allowing them to visit each other and wear civilian clothing. >> the prison uniform were found in a pipe the men used to climb out of a manhole. police have received hundreds of tips on where they might be. >> the clock is certainly ticking. thank you. >> a congressman said dozens of secret service officers at the white house do not have the security clearance to work there. he told the washington post it's apparently due to a surge in new recruits following security lapses last year.

>> the pentagon is taking new steps to protect gay and lesbian service members from discrimination. four years ago it meant discharge from the military and in many cases, court martial. >> it wasn't that long ago, you would have never heard these words coming from the mouth of an army general at a public event. >> who you care about the most says the most about you. my husband lucas is seated up front here. we have been a family for the last 18 years. >> the pentagon's lgbt pride month ceremony shows how the military has saluted the changes in civilian society. >> young americans today are more diverse open, and tolerant than past generations. >> while gays can now serve with pride, there are still an estimated 15,000 active duty troops who are only slowly emerging from the shadows. >> just because we were assigned

a sex different than what we identify with as our gender doesn't mean we're different. we're doctors and lawyers and commercial airline pilots and high ranking governmental officials, so we're just like everybody else. >> in the audience, sherry, a former fitness instructor for the army who upon retirement began transitioning to a woman and was promptly fired on the stage, amanda simpson, who says she's the first transgender appointee in history. >> i don't have this position because i'm transgender. i was not not appointed because i'm transgender. i'm serving because i happen to be the best person to do the job. >> recently, both the army and air force made small changes to their policy on troops who identify as transgender elevating the review process and in most cases ordering voluntarily accept operations

only when their gender identity interference with their duties. >> i applaud the in roads made, but we still need a long term d.o.d. wide solution and in the meantime interim guidance to take care of those 15,000 plus soldiers sailors airmen and marines. >> amanda simpson was told she made people uncomfortable. she tried hard to prove them wrong. >> within a few years, i was asked to come back and fly again for the company, because they acknowledged that i was the best pilot that they had. then people who wouldn't work for me were clamoring to get on to my team. it's not just that i'm the same as everybody else. i have unique experiences. i've literally looked at life from both sides now. [ applause ]

>> the day was special because it marked the first time the colonel could attend a function in her dress blues including the cross rifles and insignia. >> this is the first time i've had the opportunity to wear the true uniform of an infantry officer, it's at unique in that there aren't any females in the infantry. >> discrimination of any kind has no place in america's armed forces. >> al jazeera, the pentagon. >> abortion rights groups vow to be to the supreme court after an appeals panel upheld a texas law they say limits abortion access, laying out requirements for clinics and doctors including requiring admitting privileges at hospitals. the appeals court said those

rules do not put away unconstitutional burden on women seeking abortions. abortion rights group say it will likely force all by eight clinics in texas to close. >> sylvia matthews bur well is expected to tell a house committee the affordable care act has made historic progress. the legality of subs decease awaits to supreme court decision. >> a drug will soon be distributed in los angeles to people at high risk of contracting h.i.v. >> putin and the pope, the russian president visits the leader of the catholic church today. does he have a self-serving agenda? >> a panel of experts backs a new drug to fight cholesterol. it could be a major break through in treating heart disease and stroke.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:23 eastern, taking a

look at top stories. we expect new details into the investigation of last month's amtrak train crash. findings will be released on whether the engineer was using a cell phone at the time of the crash. eight people were killed, 200 injured. >> three jurors in the colorado theater shooting trial have been dismissed. the judge let them go over concerns they discussed media coverage of the case that. 21 jurors and alternates remain. james homes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. >> two cities are taking action that will help people make healthier food choices. new york is considering requiring a warning label on high salt menu items at chain restaurants. san francisco has pass add measure to ban sugary sodas aimed as reducing customer choices. >> russian president vladimir putin is in italy today to meet

with pope francis. how is the kremlin framing this trip given that putin was snubbed by the g7 this week? >> this is an opportunity for the kremlin to show that it didn't matter that putin wasn't welcomed to the g7 this weekend traveling to discuss global issues with one of the most influential religious leaders in the world. the crisis in ukraine will likely be on the agenda. the pope called for both sides to respect the ceasefire but has not taken sides despite urgings by the ukrainian catholic church to condemn russia. even before putin touched down in italy the trip was playing well back in russia.

>> essentially canceled out the fact that he would cut out of g7 because it's just a name club who cares and easy meeting with the pope and they are deciding the world fate. that is more important. >> this is an opportunity for putin to showcase his christian credentials, a cornerstone of his power. putin is positions himself as a defender of traditional christian values against the onslaught of western liberalism, for example by championing anti-gay laws in russia. he is plank the christian card on the global stage casting himself as a defender of christian communities in the middle east who are under attack by isil and other armed groups. >> does the role of defender of christian values resonate beyond russia? >> it absolutely does. one of the best examples i guess the far right in europe. many of these right wing groups

in europe look to putin admire him because he is so willing to don that mantel as a leader who embraces christian values where many european leaders embrace secularism. >> south korea president postponed a trip to the u.s. to focus on the outbreak of mers. the death toll is nine, confirmed cases up to 108. 2000 people are guaranteed as a precaution. health officials will set up clinics across the country to treat the virus. >> these two latest deaths announced do coincide with a pattern we've seen so far elderly people with preexisting medical conditions, a 62-year-old with live cancer, a 72-year-old woman with blood cell cancer. 13 new cases, 10 coming from the

medical center in southern seoul, which seems to be the epicenter of this outbreak. 47 cases have been confirmed to be related to the medical center and a lot of those cases related to patient number 14, who seemed to spread it to quite a few people in the emergency room there. what is key is the date of friday the 12th when thing cubation period for those who contracted it from that individual expires. the health minister said monday that the worst might have already peaked and numbers may start to decline. yesterday, june 9, there was so far a peak around the sixth and seventh of june this weekend but it's too early to see whether the numbers are really declining. the prime minister said people

mustn't just go to any hospital, must report by phone and follow instructions. they are very keen to stop the transmission between medical facilities. >> the largest mental health hospital in illinois isn't a hospital at all it's a prison and now being led by a psychologist. we'll go inside the cook county jail. >> making the worldwide web smaller, google trying to bring the incidenter net to the masses in a new way.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:31 eastern. a civilian review board in los angeles found officers violated policy in the killing of an unarmed black man but say the shooting of ezell ford was justified. he was killed two days after michael brown was shot in ferguson missouri. officers say he reached for a gun when they approached him.

his family said he was mentally ill. >> authorities are searching for two missing prisoners in new york 40 miles from the clinton correctional facility where they escaped five days ago. police have received hundreds of tips so far. >> we have statistics on mental health. jails are now the largest mental health care providers in 44 states. in illinois, one of the biggest jails in the country in cook county, they have the largest mental health hospital there. we take a closer look. >> let me get three more. >> this is morning intake at the cook county jail in chicago. >> give me one of out of four, please. >> it's where the newly arrested go for prosing. >> how are you doing? my job's to help you ok? what's your number? >> sometimes it sounds more like intervention. >> why are you drinking so much? stressed out anxious

depressed? what's causing you to drink like that. don't lie to me, because i know you have anger problems. you get angry like zero to 10, boom like that? >> the director of the mental health advocacy. >> ever feel sad for no reason? >> she and her staff screened 59 detainees. >> i'm worried your newt shooting straight with me. i'm like your mom for the day ok? >> most of charged with petty charges. >> we are looking for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and ptsd. >> lockup is rapidly become that the asylum for chicago's mentally ill. >> it's been a dirty little secret for a long time. it's a population that no one give as crap about and we do and we have to do something. >> how are you doing? >> tom dart is cook county

sheriff. >> will a person be eligible for mental health probes. >> he's made mental health care the number one priority out of sheer necessity. >> why has the jail become the repository for mentally ill? >> when government is looking for cuts, what better way to cut than this group of people who don't have a voice. >> when he neat a new executive director from cook county jail, he did not seek out traditional corrections or law enforcement candidates. recognizing that the jail has become chicago's de facto mental health provider, he promoted the clinical psychologist to the top post the first to run a jail in the country. >> what does it say in treating the mentally ill being needed to this position? >> it's a sad reality that this

has come to be. >> the jail staff have been trained to identify and handle the wide spectrum of mental illnesses. the mental health transition center is the crown jewel of the prison program. the inmates are in their time weeks of incarceration. all battle mental health issues and all of non-violent offenders. >> in order to help them not to come back to jail, we transition them housing clothing, food, jobs and all of that, whatever they need to transition and be successful. once they hit the streets that's what we would do. >> how does it feel, being caught off guard like that in general? uneasy? maybe guarded? >> i could say yes or no, all dependency on my mood, you know what i'm saying? >> inmates learn skills that could help them find housing or a job. >> do you feel that way

regardless from. >> i don't even know the guy. >> would that change if you knew him at better? >> yeah. >> support continues even after they're on the outside. do you worry that once they get out they're not going to have that access they've had? >> absolutely, because of the lack of resources. >> eventually, almost everyone at cook county jail walks out the door. almost all the staff here can see that the non-violent mentally ill inmates should not have been here in the first place. >> anyone that's thinking that a correctional facility is the proper place for mental health treatment, let's consider where we would want our family member to receive mental health services. i don't think any of us would say that cook county jail would be the place. >> al jazeera chicago. >> despite that program in chicago, mental health among prisoners is a problem that is seldom discussed. here in new york city, the mayor is promisessing to reform the system after the suicide of a

prisoner. a 16-year-old spent years in jail most in solitary confinement. he was never convict of a crime and never tried. security video there shows him being beaten by a guard. another clip shows nearly a dozen other inmates attacking him. when he was finally reds from jail he spoke out about his painful experience. >> it was really stressful. there was times nights when i couldn't go to sleep because all i thought about was when i go home, what would be the first thing i would do. there were times i cried myself to sleep and it was hard the whole thing and being in there with the correction officers and them making my stay even harder. >> he took his own life saturday. his family said his time in solitary confinement contributed to his suicide. we want to talk about that this morning. a professor and fellow at georgetown university law

center's human rights institute thanks for being here this morning. i understand you have spoken to scores of teenagers who have been in solitary confinement. is there a common thread in their experiences? >> well, the young people i spoke with talked about the trauma and challenge of being locked up alone isolated for hours, days, weeks and in some cases, even years. i understand he spent 800 days in solitaire confinement at rikers island. they talk about losing control of themselves, the trauma of isolation sometimes brought on hallucinations. some of them tried to hurt themselves kill themselves. it's really not a place for young people. >> now the c.d.c. says incarceration itself, solitary confinement aside is one of the risk factors for suicide among young people, but isn't solitaire confinement used to protect some of these individuals from hurting themselves or others? >> sometimes facilities use

solitary confinement to separate young people away from the general population. that highlights why children shouldn't be in jail in the first place because those who manage them don't have the special programs or services or resources to provide for people who are still growing and changing like young people. >> what should the system do? if there shouldn't be jails and prisons at all for juveniles even ones who committed terrible crimes where should they go? >> children shouldn't be in adult jails or prisons. rikers island, a huge adult jail system here in new york city, but in states and cities across the country young people are put in adult jails and prisons far too many end up there for long periods of time. welsh should get kids out of the adult criminal justice system entirely and into the juvenile justice system. >> science says their brains are still developing. that's an argument for having a separate facility for them.

i want to talk about albert woodfox. is the perception of solitary confinement in touch with reality? is it really as bad as you are saying it is? >> all across the country the facilities that i investigated used practices that involved physical and social isolation for 22 to 24 hours a day. sometimes an inmate would get out for 15 minutes or an hour into a cage where they might exercise alone or take a shower, again, generally alone. sometimes inmates do get the access to visits with family members, sometimes over the phone or video monitors, but in all spending 22 or more hours a day isolated and alone and that the united nations says is solitary confinement regardless of what happens in that hour a day. >> certainly you are not arguing that solitary confinement shouldn't be used at all

especially when we're talking about convicted murderers or terrorists. >> all across the country, we are using this practice far too much. there are tens of thousands of people in solitary confinement used for years or decades in our prison systems. we need to reform our overuse. the recent mandela rules proposed and hopefully to be finalized this year propose a ban on prolonged solitary confinement be on 15 days and a ban for particularly vulnerable inmates, pregnant women those with mental disabilities and children. >> and used with oversight and very seldomly is what the mandela rules say. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> this time last year, more than 100,000 undocumented migrants crossed the border between mexico and u.s., a lot through private land.

one texas rancher came up with a solution to protect his territory from unwanted visitors. heidi zhou castro reports. >> located 70 miles north of the u.s.-mexico border, mike viqueiraers' ranch is prime realities for people trying to avoid border patrol. it sits just north of one of the busiest immigration check points in the country. as migrants go around it to keep from getting caught, they walk through private property like his, leaving trash clothing in their wake. he is taking extreme measure to say protect his property. >> people say you're the only rancher who's got an electrified fence like this. they see that as inhumane. >> well, that could be, i probable am, but it works. that electric fence has been here a long time, and some of

the people that do not have it can't even run cattle on their property like i was telling you, because their fences are constantly being destroyed. >> what if the next person to be shocked is a mother or a young child? >> well, i'm going to tell you right now that that is probably not going to happen. they're going to dig under. it takes a lot of energy to be able to climb this high fence. >> he leads what he calls operations with like-minded friends from across the state. patrols of brooks county large complete with camouflage and thermal images equipment looking to catch people at they cross. he said the effort it not to scare anyone, but save lives of people he finds sometimes too exhausted to move, then turn them into that border patrol. heidi zhou castro, brooks county texas. >> you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern.

>> on the healthbeat this morning, a group of experts recommended that the f.d.a. approve a drug to protect against heart attacks and strokes. it would be the first in a new major class of drug to say lower cholesterol since statins were reds in 1987. randall pinkston is here with details. for a long time, statins have been the only drug in town. >> the drug that was approved yesterday, today they turn to a second drug, meant to help hundreds of thousands of people who have high risk of heart attack or high l.d.l. levels. some cardiologists call it a breakthrough for americans who have high cholesterol that puts people at risk of strokes and heart attacks. >> the traditional treatment for high cholesterol is a class of drugs known as statins such as

lipitor. now there is a new class of drugs. the inhibitors make it easier for the live to remove harmful l.d.l. cholesterol from the blood. they are not pills like statins. patients would have to inject themselves with the drug every two to four weeks. some doctors call this a potentially new frontier in fending off heart disease. >> this new class of drugs that moved from the scientific bench to the bedside very quickly because these drugs are able to lower l.d.l., the bad cholesterol by 50% to 70% and they do so in virtually everybody and they do so with minimal side effects. >> the doctor is involved in the clinical trials. he says the inhibitors could help people who could not tolerate statins or can't get their bad cholesterol levels low enough. >> i think of this as an added benefit, a new tool that let's

us treat people who are very difficult to treat now. >> they are important for people who have a rare inherited disease that significantly increases the risk of heart disease because it causes an extreme spike in l.d.l. levels. the new medications are being developed. >> the drug is still in trial the cost not fixed. some health care providers fear it could be as much as $10,000 a year per patient for as long as the patient lives. if the f.d.a. approves the drugs, the cost could be as high as $100 billion a year and that's not much when compared to cancer and hepatitis c., but more expensive than statins which cost about $250 a year. the f.d.a. is scheduled to make a final decision this summer. >> thank you. >> there is a possible new route to preserving fertility for women undergoing cancer

treatments. a 27-year-old gave birth after grafted with her own frozen ovarian tissue, preserved when she was 13 years old. the case shows a new option for women facing infer tilt due to medical treatment. >> on the science beat, nasa is out with the first look at dwarf planet between mars and jupiter. eighty picture of taken. nasa created this 3-d fly over. the spacecraft gives scientists the closest view yesterday. nasa plans to get 1,000 miles closer to take more detailed pictures. >> we use it as a tool to learn and connect but much of the world has new access to the internet. two of the biggest on line companies are using drones trying to change that. >> more than 3.1 billion people are currently connected to the

internet. more are signing up at a rate of 450 every minute, almost 65,000 new people coming on line each day. the trouble is, 40% of the people on line, 1.1 billion live in just three countries china the u.s. and india. contrast that with the 100 least connected countries they're home to 1.56% of the internet. many count beeries lack fiber and mobile networks, making it expensive for people to get internet access. google has been testing the use of drones and balloons. these tests flights were flown over the south island of new zealand. google declined an interview with al jazeera but said in an email the technology could be cheaper and more flexible than land based networks. going the is powerful force and any move controlling

infrastructure as well some say would give the company too much influence. >> we're very much about speed. drones and balloons, these are awesome, but what are they being used for? are the underlying power dynamics changing, or is it a very small group of people exerting their power and control over a much larger group. >> it starts up here added 60,000 feed. >> internet.org has been looking at using drones he. >> our plan is to make basic internet services affordable so everyone with a phone can join the knowledge economy. >> internet.org launched an app in 11 countries that says it can be accessed by a billion people, offering free access to a limited number of on line services. no coincidence, one of these is facebook and it's internet.org that determine which other services can be on the platform. >> they're doing it out of their self interest, not because

they're charity because they believe in ial truism, it benefits them. would question is whether the people below will be ready to receive internet from the sky and accept their terms and conditions. al jazeera. >> fifa is getting closer to replacing outgoing president sepp blatter. a meeting will be held to choose a date for new presidential elections. the organization has delayed the bidding process for the 2026 world cup as it deals with the corruption investigation. the cleveland cavaliers are now up two games to one over the golden state warriors in the nba championship but one star was sent to the hospital in the

process. guard matthew dellavedova suffered severe cramps after the game. he had a big game to help deliver the cavs victory. an update on his condition is expected today. lebron james also scoring big with 40 points and 12 rebounds. game four is on thursday in cleveland. >> capturing the vietnam war. this picture was taken 43 years ago this week. we sit down with the man who snapped the photograph. >> why is this daredevil going where no man has gone before?

nest look at the american dream... >> this definitely gave me an opportunity to grow up... >> you just don't give up... >> hard earned reunion only on al jazeera america >> a suicide bomber close to the temple inlocks soar, another armed many arrested, one officer was wounded no civilians killed. >> more than two months after a germanwings plane crashed the remains of victims are finally being sent home. 44 caskets arrived last night in düsseldorf. the return of the bodies was delayed due to paperwork in france. more than 150 people died on the jet. >> a region in indonesia imposed

a partial curfew for women instructed to refuse service to women after 11:00 p.m. unless a husband or male family member is with them. the law is to stem sexual violence but critics say it is discriminatory. >> a 74-year-old died, he had been diagnosed with cancer. he came up with these words headless body and topless bar for the new york post in 1983 for a story about the gruesome beheading of a new york bar owner. >> on the culture beat, we're learning more about the last moments before amelia earhart's final flight. this film was season at burbank airport. she shows off her plane and steps inside the cock pit for her last photo shoot. for decades the film gathered dust on a shelf and now revealed

as part of a new documentary about her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. >> you get to see the photographer taking these iconic photos that we have seen for decades, where they are done, you see the people walking around. her husband her navy gator her navigators new wife, they are there living and breathing and walking around this giant aircraft. she takes off the next day forever. >> from los angeles earhart flew across south america africa and southeast asia. it was on her return leg from from new guinea to los angeles that her plane disappeared over the pacific ocean. >> it is an iconic image. the terror of war shows a neighborhood child running down a street after burned with napalm. it was shot by nick utt. forty years later he returned to vietnam to remember what happened. we have the story. >> apologize, we are having trouble cueing up that piece so

we will continue. this goes into the category of don't try this at home. ok. we now do have that story about the iconic photo. >> this is the photograph, taken on june 8, 1972 on assignment for the associated press. nick utt was 21 years old. the girl was nine years old her name kim fuk. >> it was 1972, children play outside right here. when kim looked up, she saw the bombs, all the 13 were running running, but too late. it burn all her clothes. >> it was napalm mistakenly dropped by a south vietnamese pilot on refugees running from fighting in their village. because the girls had no clothes on, he had doors refused to release the image.

they relented. the child became known around the world as the napalm girl. subject and photographer kept in touch. she is now a mother. bearing the scars of the bombing, she is a peace activist. utt's career began with the image. he continued to capture suffering. on monday, he returned to the road in vietnam. he brought something else. >> i own snapshots and anywhere in the world. >> he posted these pictures on his return troop including one with the girl's cousin to the left of her in that iconic frame, a peaceful contrast to the picture that distilled the horror of the vietnam war. al jazeera. >> that does it for us here in new york. i'm stephanie sy. thanks for watching.

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>> welcome to the news hour from doha. our top stories over the next 60 minutes: >> one year since the capture of mosul, iraq, a report of what life is like under isil control. >> a u.s. court blocks the release of a prisoner held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years. >> it starts up here at 60,000 feet. >> google tests new ways to bring the internet to the