>> rob reynolds al jazeera california. >> you can find much more on most of our stories on our website the address to kick on to is aljazeera.com aljazeera.com. roadblocks and check points refocuses on a wooded area nearby. the last pentagon says it is under consideration a day after announcing hundreds more u.s. troops for. and even deeper trouble now that the i. m.f. has walked away from the latest round of

debt talks. this is al jazeera america live. there's been a potential break through in the man hunt for two convicted murderers. it has been since days since the men escaped. authorities say they are refocusing on the search just a few miles from the facility after a blood hound apparently picked up the men's scent nearby. five major road in new york has been closed as police comb the area. authorities are also searching in vermont near lake champagne which bordered both the united states and canada. john henry smith has more. >> police in upstate new york say overnight they shut down eight miles between the towns of west plats burg, home to the clinton correctional

facility where the two escaped last weekend. the local school distribute has closed and authorities sent out calls warning residents to stay indoors. yesterday the search for richard matt and david jet spread beyond new york state lines. >> we have information that suggests that they thought that new york was going to be hot, vermont would be cooler, in terms of law enforcement. >> authorities say they have been alerted that sweat and matt talked about going to a camp site in vermont that's made campers in the area weary. grand aisle state park is one of five state parkers in an 83 square mile area. >> that's a good place to hide out. >> we have had plenty of people approach us, and it is just what you do in a campground. there's also concern i love

you and get back where you belong before uh yo get hurt. >> lee baits testified against matt is and is afraid to show his face. >> he is dangerous and like i said, he is very evil mrs. no telling what his mind set is. and what he will do next. >> he studies police escapes at the justice policy center, he says these men have to think on their feet to stay away from the officers looking for them.

these inmates are clearly motivated to stay out they went through a lot of trouble to break out and they are going through a lot of trouble to stay out so no matter what it is a stressful situation. and now their planneds not going as intended that does create more stress, more opportunity, and more motivation to either commit crime, and even violence. often times they only talk about how to get out then they are likely to stay tot but more often than not inmates will split up, and there's a lot of reasons they do that. the public is looking for two people tot, if they are not together they may make them aidessier to avoided detections and it divides time. so instead of following one

trail, they are following two. >> social media and the 24 hour news psych 8:00 make it more difficult for the fugitives to hide. he described them as bases where mesh trainers will work with forces. just yesterday the pentagon announced plans to send hundreds more military troops to anbar pro vince. we are finding out more today about an american killed while fighting isil in syria. state department officials say keith broomfield died last week, the 36-year-old volunteered to fight with kurdish forces he is the only american to die in combat against isil. called him a martyr, his mother said he felt it was god's will to join the fight.

australia's prime minister is calling terrorism a form of teason. he says it is the biggest security challenge facing the asia pacific region. wayne hay has more. >> it is really all about combating the message that is spread. is believed to send out tens of thousands of messages through social media every day. hoping to retract new recruits. heading over to iraq and syria to join isil, so far it is believed around 100 have done that there is also a lot of discussion about this summit about a community led response, of course, governments in this region including australia have been very busy.

passing toughest anti-terror laws but there is also a growing aware thans there needs to be a community led response to this problem particularly when it comes vulnerable people in those. a watchdog says u.n. peace keepers may have committed sex crimes while on duty in haiti. the associate press reports that peace keepers traded food medicine and cell phones in exchange for sex. and the a.p. says about a third of the people exploited were children. nearly 7,000 in haiti. james base has more. >> the u.n. is making no comment, they say this is a leaked report this is a report from the office of internal oversite, that's a part of the u.n. that's there to investigate other parts of

the united nations. clearly it is embarrassing after allegations of abuse in the central african republic, by french and some african troops. they were serving in a country where the u.n. was present, they are accused of sexual abuse of young boys. i suspect we will once the formal report is published get comment, and also from the office of the high commissioner of human rights this is interesting because he was the man ten years ago last time there were allegations of abuse and exploitation by u.n. peace keepers who conducted a review of the whole system. so his comments i think will be interesting. >> reporting from the united nations, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is visiting ukraine today. samantha power is setting off new u.n. office that hopes to help end the ukraine conflict she just finishes speaking in kiev, she called

for domestic reform such as anticorruption and government accountability, the ambassador also did not mince words about who the united states blamed for the on going violence. the message throughout this conflict and the message you heard from president obama and other world leaders at last week's meeting of the g seven, has never waiverred. if russia continues to disregard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine, and if russia continues to violate the rules upon which international peace and security rests then the united states will continue to raise the costs on russia. officials monitor it is the cease fire. the i.m.f. the international monetary fund has now walked away from the latest round of talks aimed at keeping greece from defaulting on it's debt.

personals say there was no progress, this comes hours after officials say a deal was within reach john has more now from athens. thursday's optimistic tone that they are now close to an agreement is probably connected to the i.m. f. departure, the greeks think they may in the next few days reach a deal with with just their european creditors the european central bank and the european commission, to finance themselves through the next nine months. the importance of that time period is that that is the period of time left of contractual oversite by the imf. once it departs in march of 2016, the greeks would like as officials here have been tellingtous sit down, and talk to just the europeans about how to solve the really difficult issues making the pension system is sustainable, and restructuring the debt, so that greece has another couple of decades in order to pay off that debt.

that cannot happen, it is the biggest drain on greek public finances. they wanted to see a tension standing on it's own two legs but for that to happen, pences had to be severely curtailed and this government doesn't want to do that, saying it is a recession marry measure that will make the economy shrink instead of grow. to replace the austerity policies that greece has already seen. another big area, is of course tax revenue, greece currently rideses about $55 billion a year, they want to see that fall, it wants more money to stay in the economy again with the purpose of creating jobs and growth. the world bank issues about

developing economies like china, these economies have helped spur global growth since the financial crisis but they have lost some of their steam, and now the world bank says these economies can slow down even more. u.s. interest rates don't just impact, they ripple throughout the globe, and that's because the dollar is the word's reserve currency. over half of the world's foreign exchange reserves are denominating in dollars so when the fed hikes interest rates making the dollar more valuable and crucially increasing the interest earned on u.s. government debt well, the dominoes tend

to fall. now earn hint of a change can royal emerging markets that ensued two years ago, when the federal reserve first signals an end to the bond buying program now investors pulled their money out to put it into the u.s. debt which is seen as a safer bet. now that led to a dramatic increase in borrowing costs in short they tanks and a tanking market is a recipe for instability, if you will recall, it was the eye watering borrowing costs that was the spark that united the crisis. from 4.8% to 4.4 but as the ban tends to be a glass house kind of institution, it is ever hopeful emerging countries will smoothly adan't to rising u.s. interest rates. does the federal reserve ever

take into consideration these countries. >> by law it is not their job. that is price stability and full deployment, and they are not supposed to consider can the immaterial packet on the rest of the world, it is their job codified in law to do what is best for the u.s. economy even though in effect the fed is a steward of so much that happens in the global economy. >> appreciate it. in the business report, there are reports that rupe pert murdock is stepping down at 21st fox. he is expected to hand the top job off to his son james sometimes this year. another son will act as executive co-chairman. murdock gave up the job although remains the executive chairman. straight ahead on al jazeera america, for years the rate of suicide among men who served in the u.s. military has been rising, new research shows that the risks are nearly just as high for women

veterans. plus the effort to stop hundreds of people from crossing the u.s. mexico border we will show you the lengths one with texas man is going to stop undocumented migrants in their tracks.

now the department of veterans affairs is trying to figure out what is happened. a study revealed female veterans take their own lives far more often than civilian women. researchers found female veterans commit suicide at six times the rate of other women. the pattern goes back to the 1950's indicating it is more than the stress of the recent wars. among both sexes young vets from 18 to 29, thes is rate is almost 12 times as high as the civilian p tolation.

at a hearing wednesday addressed some of the factors. >> a potentially deadly mix of opennoid use and lack of oversight is contributing to our high rate of veteran suicide. >> powerful pain medications prescribed often with inadequate supervision. >> i am particularly concerned about veterans at risk of self-medication and addiction being prescribed for pain management. >> the v.a. says more than half the veterans it treats deal with chronic pain. half a million take some type of medication for it. >> with approximately 22 vet remembers dying by suicide every day, and more attempting suicide reducing instants of overmedication, and limited access to powerful prescription medications must be included in a comprehensive approach to addressing this issue.

al jazeera. >> a new lawsuit is accusing the border patrol of mistreating migrants. civil rights groups undocumented migrants were detained in helding cells for days. they say the rooms were freezing filthy. >> overcrowded. and that the detainees were denied food, water and medical care. last year agents made more than 87,000 arrests at the arizona facility. the governor of texas sign add new multimillion dollars bill to tighten border security, it is part of an effort to sure up the border with mexico. but some people who live in that area are taking matters into their own hands. heidi joe castro met one rancher doing what he can to protect his land. >> what does that feel like to be shocked shocked with 200 -- >> not good. it will make you wet your parents. >> when it comes to stopping

illegal immigration to the united states, brooks county rancher sees himself as part of the solution. there's two of them. so they get over the first one, they will get in the second one. >> located 70 miles north of the u.s. mexico border, his ranch is prime real estate for people trying to avoided border patrol. that's because it sits just north of one of the busiest immigration check points in the country.

what if the next person to be shocked is a mother or a young child. >> that is probably not going so happen, they are going to dig under it take as lot of energy to be climb over this hyphens. >> do you think any pleasure when you see somebody getting shocked by your fence. >> well, i have to say i do. >> it is unknown what killed this woman found next to his fence nearly two years ago. vickers believed she died of exhaustion with no funding for autopsy on the more than 400 bodies founds, the sheriffs office says they will likely never know for sure. the fence is just part of vicker's efforts to stop immigrants from coming through. he also leafs what he called operations with line minded friends from the across the state. nighttime patrols complete with camouflage, and thermal images equipment looking to catch people as they cross. >> you have been called in the past a human hunter, what do you make of that.

>> well, i guess there's a little bit of truth to that, when we find -- when we suspect people on our property we will investigate. just across the highway we find three young men trying to make their way north. the kind of people vickers is trying to keep out. but instead of running when we approach them, they walked toward us, begging for water. >> they say they are here from mexico, and have walked for two days. they are not criminals just for a better life. >> he described each immigrant as another life saved from the dessert. >> but i feel like what they are doing is wrong, it is a huge detriment to our country. it's a huge expense to the taxpayers that take care of them once they get here. we can't take care of the whole world.

>> heidi joe castro, al jazeera, brooks county texas. >> british actor christopher lee has died. the film legend was 93, we just learned today that he dies sunday morning in a hospital in london. lee is best known for his role as dracula in a series of horror films. he most recently played the lord of the rings films. another passing to tell you about, this time in the world of jazz. saxophonist and composure was 85. he revolutionized jazz by making improvisation and other unorthodox techniques accept and eventually main stream, he was a self-taught musician who went on to win a pulitzer prize. coming up, california's record drought is expecting a landmark, so yes ma'am ty national park is drying up.

homeowners in northern california have a mes to clean up today.

>> heavy flooding. high winds toppled some trees. no injuries have been reported from the surprise storm. that little bit of rain is not easing california's drought, which is now in it's fourth year. victoria reports it is having a major impact on a national treasure yosemite national park. it is one of the most beautiful national parks in the united states, but even yosemite can't escape. the effects can be seen all around. scott has been a ranger for nearly 20 years. he says the river is usually twice as high. >> this is the true indicator to me. seeing that the river level here in the river is just over three feet, and here we are it isn't even summer yet and we are looking at warmer temperatures a record low snowpack just tells me how much of a drought we are

really in. >> to cut connions by 25% yosemite isn't subject to the cuts because it is managed be i the federal government, be uh the park is appealing to visitors not to waste water. >> everybody is very conservative. if we have left over water bottles we aren't throwing it away, we are using it for coffee there's just little things you can do to cob can serve. >> and the drought isn't just effecting nature, these visitors are going on one of the last trims. >> when the water gets down to 1.5 feet that's when there's not enough flow, the algae starts to grow, and the rocks are starting to protrude out. so we stop at about a foot and a half. >> people are bracing for another panelinged summer, and as beautiful as this park

city is, this drought is threatening one of the u.s.' great natural wonders. victoria, al jazeera. nasa is gaving space ex-a $30 million payment, it is part of a contract for the test othe dragon spacecraft. the money will help space okays fund the next round. three international space station crew members are back on firm ground here on earth. the italian, russia, and italian astronauts arrived this morning the crew was at the i. s. s. for more than six months. they were tweeting out out of the world pictures like this. enjoy their time in space they traveled more than 84 million miles. and that's our show for this half hour, the news continues next live from london, remember the latest hid lines you can always go to

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