s cut in front of me on the road. >> reporter: if she's afraid, she doesn't show it. anyway, sara is too busy picking up passengers. and, of course you can keep up to date with the news on the website. aljazeera.com. june the first funerals for the victims of the charleston church shootings begin today family and friends remember two women killed more than a week ago. >> it spread rapidly. we were behind the curve for a bit, to bring in that many fire engines, that many resources. >> hundreds evacuated in california as wildfires race across the west. >> iran's red lines on a nuclear deal conservatives in iran

threaten to scuttle the plan days before the deadline. >> this is aljazeera america. good morning live from new york city i'm randall pinkston. the first funerals begin today for two of the nine victims killed during a shoot be at a historic north carolina church. the body of pastor pinckney will return for service in the place he was gunned down. thousands bride stifling heat to pay respects in the state capitol in columbia. we are live in charleston this morning. the first funerals begin today for two beloved women in the community. what can you tell us about them? >> that's right. protests near the funeral have been banned today 300 feet from

the site. that ordinance lasts 60 days after members of the anti gay west borough baptist church based out of kansas promised to come and picket these funerals. that first funeral is for 70-year-old ethyl vann this morning. ed second is 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. both services will be at separate north charleston churches. >> what's the latest on dylann roof, the man accused of the massacre? >> the justice department is expected to file hate crime charges against bilian roof accused of shooting nine people at the church hind me. before he is accused of doing that he posted 60 photos on his manifesto website. it chronicles his visits throughout the south to different history icon fed let sites, many old slave plantations. he retraced his steps at two of them yesterday.

>> we're here. mccloud plantation. >> this plantation was unique. during the civil war black soldiers were stationed here and it's unlike the others because it's less and you say tenacious. it was designed for middle class farmers. >> this is one of the site to say dylann roof visited before his alleged attack on a black charleston church. >> look at what happened a week ago. somebody filled with hate felt like they needed to end the lives of nine people. nine pretty important people in this community. >> the man who police say did that killing came here and has a

photo here at this very plantation. >> and he came here more than once. >> one of my coworkers remember speaking to him. i didn't, thankfully. >> sarah is a tour guide. >> i'm saying all these great things about you i have to introduce you. >> she said people like dylann roof have it all wrong. >> you can't leave here without knowing what we accomplished, what we went through what we endured, what we are still experiences and our hopes for the future. i'm sure if he got out here and looked around and read the things, he would have seen something very different than the rhetoric and narrative that he had for his own i had red and choices that he immediate. we are trying to educate people to know better. >> this is precisely why people with prejudicial leanings should come to mccloud to learn with the african-american contribution. >> this site isn't for people who think like this. it's for people that don't think

in like this. it's for people that might have a little hate in them. we want them to know of the african-american contribution, what they contributed to the area. >> that is also the goal at magnolia plantation. >> so this is the spot, the bridge where we saw the photo that dylann roof posted. >> uh-huh. >> what went through your mind when you saw that photo? >> we were just stunned that he was here. we know that based on the narrative that we tell here, we tell a positive history. we talk about the contributions that african-americans played. >> you think dylann roof just got it all wrong? >> there's no -- you know, if he's looking for hate, i don't think he's going to find it here. >> because hate, both men agree is an ugly part of the past that hopefully won't find its way into the future. >> the person that drives in

isn't the same person that drives out of the. that's the goal of this place. i know that will happen. >> those photos and that website has since been taken down and all 60 photos are now in the hands of the charleston police department and the f.b.i. as part of an ongoing investigation. >> thank you. >> the denver area's cleaning up today after a powerful storm brought flash floods, heavy rain and hail quickly made a mess of roads for drivers and bikers during rush hour yesterday. water levels rose dangerously high, streams pushed to you capacity by several weeks of intense weather. >> when it first started everyone congregated underneath the bridges and started to rise up rise up and pretty soon was up to my knees. >> emergency crews called off the search before 9/11. forecasters now say the storm is headed north. nebraska and iowa are under tornado watches this morning. while flooding is the issue in

denver fire crews alaska to arizona are fighting wildfires. john, this is really fueled by this year's very devastating drought. >> that's exactly right randall. four years of drought out west has made ground out there fertile for fire with any spark. arizona was already battling wildfires of its own when a plane crash started another overnight. a national guard f16 crashed near the mexican border town southeast of phoenix. it is reported that the plane hit a gas line and sparked a fire three football fields long. no word on any casualties. >> earlier wednesday just north of los angeles this fire raged threatens hundreds of homes and to the north around lake tahoe a blaze more than 25 square

miles wide sparked 1500 acres. there was good wildfire news wednesday. high fire winds that fanned the flames earlier in the week dipped enough to law helicopters to fight the fires from above. firefighters will have their work cut out for them again today as temperatures in some of the worst wildfire areas including near lake tahoe are expected to flirt with the triple digits. randall. >> no prospect for rain. thank you, john henry smith. >> talks between greece and the european creditors ended without much success. creditors are calling for fiscal reforms. greece said it is sticking the with the proposals made monday. those plans will be put to european finance ministers today ahead of a deadline for a $2 billion payment to the international monetary fund. >> it has effectively run out of

time. they've had no choice in the absence of a proper agreement to present to the euro zone finance ministers meeting very shortly two different sets of proposals one from the greeks, the other from the creditors and let them decide with the greek finance minister and then later at a leader summit with the greek prime minister both in the room, seeing if they could force some sort of deal. the financial times was offered a leak of the proposals from the creditors. it does suggest potentially a little bit of concession from both sides. >> there is less than a week until a deadline for a final deal on iran's nuclear program. secretary of state john kerry travels to vienna tomorrow to take part in talks along with five world powers and iran, but there are fresh tensions as they enter that final push.

this week, iran's supreme leader laid out new demands saying sanctions must be lifted early. he appears to be ruling out u.n. inspection of iran's military bases. that's something that negotiators are insisting on. he's also rejected a 10 year grease on iran's nuclear research. a research associate at m.i.t. joins us now. will these red lines laid out basically squash any deal by deadline? >> i don't think so. this is deja vu all over again. the supreme leader's i should other red lines, talking about a measurement for uranium other sorts of things. at the end of the day the

negotiators have found a way to navigate through this and find framework agreement that both sides can live with. that's what i think is going to happen. it's not easy, it's never easy, people are drawing bombs from the outside but i think they will get it done over a week or so. >> we are taking attention to objections made in the u.s. about possible threats to america's ally israel about concerns that iran can't be trusted, so there is the belief that there are forces in the u.s. that really don't want to deal but there are a lot of forces in iran that don't want to deal, correct? >> absolutely. what you have here is sort of a joining of two sides together with the same cause hardliners in the u.s. trying to scuttle a deal here, hardliners in ran trying to scuttle a deal there trying to hand president rouhani a defeat just as others try to hand president obama a defeat.

it is israel's interest and united states interest that iran not acquire a nuclear weapon. we saw in april the outlines of an agreement suggest that this would be the strongest multi-lateral agreement on no one proliferation. we are not there yet but it has that potential. >> what is the significance of the insistence that inspectors will not be allowed access to iran's nuclear facilities. if they can't see those how can you verify whether or not iran is cheating. >> i hear you loud and clear on that. i think there is a lot of confusion about that not least with the stream leader. iran has said from the beginning of this negotiation that it will sign on to what's called the additional protocol, a set of rules for iaea inspectors within the additional protocol, which iran had abided by in earlier years, those inspectors are allowed to go to military sites.

now they can't go in on any whim. no country would allow them to show up without warning. but there's a process here, a well defined process and that, if that works that will allow inspectors to go to the military sites where it has suspicions. i think if we set aside the rhetoric and focus on the actual rules of the road, which are in these safeguards agreements, then we can get through this. >> there is concern that the obama administration is so interested in getting a deal that it may take any deal, even if it's not the optimum deal that it could possibly obtain. how much hard bargaining is going on here and how much do you think the obama administration is giving up? >> yeah, i think this is politics. you know, the same people who say that president obama is racing to a deal, you know, a deal and is giving up the store these are the same people who were saying this negotiation is taking too long and unless we

get something done, we're going to impose sanctions and kill the negotiation. you can't say both things at the same time. you can't have it both ways. every neutral observer has said that all the sides have been serious, and all the sides have i wouldn't use the word concessions, although certain concessions presumably are made, but what they have to do is the tough work to say i don't like this, i don't like that, what's the thing we can do where both sides come out ahead and feel comfortable with results. that's why it's taken a year and a half. i don't think there's any russia to give away the store here. >> one last question. they've been working as you say for 18 months now and it seems that everything is coming down to the wire. this happens with a lot of treaties, why is it that you don't get to where you need to be until the last few days or hours. >> i wish you knew, because that's how it was with my senate testimony this morning working on it until the last minute, why? i don't know. i think it's because these

agreements require difficult political decisions. critics in bolt countries are going to jump all over you no matter what you do, so there's a reluctance to make those hard decisions until the final hour, when it's really either you do it or you don't and there are big consequences either way. it sort of requires that discipline to make the tough choices. >> thank you jim walsh. >> several republican lawmakers and mideast policy analysts warn fighting isil will take years. at a senate hearing they say the j strategy is right but not enough. >> the best is the partnered approach because indigenous ground forces are required to defeat this fore middable hybrid enemy. the ways and means currently applied are inadequate. >> president obama says the u.s. will only send trainers for iraqi forces, but no u.s. combat troops to battle isil. >> going after high tech

innovation. why so called patent trolls are costs companies billions. takata's air bag recalls expands yawn america many more cars being affected.

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. coming up on 7:48 eastern time taking a look at today's top stories. at least 12 people are dead and dozens wounded after isil fighters detonated a car bomb in an attack on the syrian town of kobane. sources tell al jazeera the fighters were seen wearing kurdish and free syrian army uniforms. in january fighters drove isil out of kobane. >> an apology from boston marathon bomber dzhokar tsarnaev. he was then formally sentenced to death. survivors and family called him cowardly and said they did not believe the apology was sincere. >> a prison guard would be arraigned today in connection with those two escaped inmates on the run in northern new york. corrections officer gene palmer bailed himself out of jail morning. he was arrested wednesday. he delivered frozen meet with

tools inside that the convicted killers allegedly used in their breakout. >> on the money beat, it costs companies $29 billion every year to defend against lawsuits over patents and many of those cases involve companies that don't make anything. it could be stifling innovation. >> when it comes to inventions, the next big thing often can come in the most unlikely places, las vegas 2011, peter braxton got a call from his brother, asking him to meet him in sin city. >> we made our way to a nightclub. >> the line to get in was long. peter called in a favor. moments later a manager popped out and allowed peter and his friends to cut the line and enter the club. after that experience, the idea for an app to save time was born. he called the jump rope and it used fluctuating pricing to allow users to pay a fee to jump

to the front of the line. it was a big hit with investors. peter raised about $250,000 from friends and coworkers and launched his app that year in november. but just one month later his good fortune drastically changed. >> i got a call from an attorney that said i was infringing an their patent. >> the company was called smart options l.l.c. it acquired a u.s. patent officially known at 7313539 and essentially held the right to the idea of using a computer network to reserve future purchases of goods and services over the internet. a judge called the lawsuit frivolous and ruled in peter's favor, but smart options appealed and that's all that was needed. >> i ran out of money. >> in the end jump rope, as he envisioned it wouldn't survive. the cost of that fight ultimately left him broke roughly two thirds of all patent suits are brought on by

companies that don't in vent or sell anything. instead, they buy or license patents and earn money by threatening lawsuits and collecting settlements. in fact, an estimated 90% of these cases end with a cash settlement and critics have a term for them. they call the plaintiffs in these cases patent trolls and they cost investors half a trillion dollars since >> i launched an enhanced patent quality initiative last fall. it's the job to issue the best quality patents. company's rely on a patent right, young companies to enter into a market space. >> in the meantime, innovators like peter face the prospect of

losing their business to patent control litigation. sometimes ideas born in vegas stay in vegas, even if the inventors win in court. al jazeera, new york. >> toyota and nissan are expanding a recall over defective airbags made by takata. toyota is adding 2.8 million vehicles made between 2003 and 2008 and nissan is calling back 200,000 cars made between 2007 and 2008. the recall apply to say europe and asia in addition to some 34 million cars from multiple automakers already recalled because of the defect. >> hawaiian's number one export is making them sick. al jazeera confronts bio tech companies over hidden dangers in pesticide use.

>> on the healthbeat today a new push to require back seat

car passengers to buckle up. back seat fatalities could drop 17% if states enforce stricter seatbelt laws. 22% of back seat passengers do not buckle up. >> more on our investigation into the genetically modified seed business in hawaii. people living nearby say they are being poisoned by chemicals. now they are fighting back. >> by 2010, gary decided he had seen enough of pesticides to regulate the companies. >> behind me is the middle school. on several occasions children in the school and teachers and staff got sick. >> he proposed a local law requiring minimum distances between chemical application and schools, hospitals and homes as

well as full disclosure of what chemicals were being strayed. >> in january 2014, four of the biggest chemical companies in the world filed a federal suit to block the enforcement of the local law. >> a federal judge ruled against them and now that's being paid. it's difficult for me to understand. >> we're in kauai about to meet with the head of a trade union that represents the largest chemical companies in the world we're going to go up to him and take a field and see what exactly is being sprayed where. >> kirby who worse in r&d for dow showed me the fields they maintain. they were often right up against homes and schools. >> we make thousands and thousands of different breeding begin is as in hawaii every winter. it's a numbers game, searching

for the highest yielding and the components that you want. >> what we're about is working well with our neighbors working within our community and the neighbors right next door, the people who live beside our fields and work around there. that's our employees. >> so if the people living in those communities say that they want a county ordinance to keep a distance, why oppose that if that's who you're trying to protect? >> they're -- the reason for the opposition was if you think grander, it's more than just our industry. ok? a lot of that bill came to really just target our industry. we're a bigger part of agriculture in hawaii. >> around the time the bill was introduced, the state department of agriculture introduced a so-called good neighbor program in which the company volunteer rough numbers about the use of their e.p.a. approved

pesticides. we looked at those numbers with nation living a half mile from a field they say is affecting their health. >> where? >> it doesn't say where or when. >> so there's really no information in here that's going to help me. >> in the end they say they have no choice but to sell their home and abandon the garden island after 30 years here. jacob ward, al jazeera. >> president obama had a speech at the white house interrupted last night. >> no, no, no, no, no, no. hey! listen you're in my house. [ cheering ] >> activists identified the heckler as a transgender migrant. the president was hosting a reception in honor of lgbt pride

month. the advocate wanted to interrupt the president to call for an end to deportation of unregistered migrants.

>> a new revelation from the pope, one that could completely change the vatican's position on divorce. >> they had the guts but never got the glory the story of real

american heroes passed up for the medal of honor because of their ethnicity. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. funerals today for two of the nine victims killed at an historic black church in south carolina. they will be laid to rest in the charleston area. the body of the pastor will return to emanuel a.m.e. church for a day of viewings following wednesday's in the state capitol. more than 100 people returned for bible study at the church. workers removed all traces of last week's attack. morgan radford is live in charleston this morning. good morning. tell us all about what is going on around these first funerals. >> right well, stephanie

protests have actually been banned near the funeral sites 300 feet from the memorials. that ordinance is expected to last 60 days. this is after members of the anti gay west borough baptist church based in kansas promised to picket the funerals. the community members said they would create a human blockade to prevent them from coming in. the two funerals that are happening today are for 70-year-old ethyl van and the second for is that rhonda singleton. >> more than 100 people returned to the service. all traces of that attack were removed. there's a visiting pastor that came and prayed with the

congregation. i have some sound for you. listen to what he had to say. >> i want to have it every black person, every white person, every latino person to make this a mark in history that we're going to come together and stand together as one. >> unity seems to be the theme here. sign that is read things like your lives matter. >> also, the college of charleston is honoring one of the victims already. tell us what they've decided to do. >> that's right stephanie the college of charleston decided to give a colonial scholarship. the line blairian was there since the 1990's, she was known for her quick with it, and humor. >> as we mentioned thousands

attended a public viewing wednesday for pastor and state senator clemente pinckney. >> a horse drawn carriage brought pastor pinckney's body to the statehouse. honor guardsman carried the casket inside. his family and two daughters walked behind. the line to view pinckney's body stretched to the street where thousands waited hours in the heat. >> i want to pay respect to the work that he's done, for the years on fighting for the rights of all south carolinaens and americans.

>> the confederate flag flying on the statehouse grounds has become a flashpoint since 21-year-old dylann roof gunned down nine people inside emanuel a.m.e. church last week. roof has been photographed with the flag, a symbol of white supremests. the governor wants it taken down. the state legislature is expected to start debating the issue later this summer. on the senate floor tuesday republican paul thor pond, son of late segregationist strom thurmond had this to say. >> i'm proud to no longer be silent. i'm proud to be on the right side of history removing the symbol of racism and bigotry from the statehouse. let us not stop there. justice by halves is not justice.

>> she is struggling with the issue but agrees with thurmond. >> i have a lot of constituents who really respect the confederate flag but to a lot of people in south carolina, it means other things. those people are in my district, too, to a lot of people, it means racism and hate. >> the charleston courier said two thirds of legislators favor removing the confederate flag. sticking our heads in the stand and cramming historical symbols down the memory hole may feel good but accomplishes nothing. mourners remember pink any as compassion another who tried to do right. >> president obama knew the pastor and will eulogize him friday. >> alabama has become the first state since the church shooting

to remove confederate flags from the state capitol. four confederate flags were ordered removed in montgomery. the flags had been displayed at the monument for two decades. the office said the governor did not want the flags to be a distraction. >> homegrown extremism, we'll tuck to a sociologist. >> the house is expected to take up a bill providing aid to american workers. the republican dominated house and senate approve giving president obama greater authority to get a major trade deal done. the president's trade agenda is drawing harsh criticism from his own party. >> good morning. the bill up for a vote today in the house would help workers who have lost out because of trade. it would give them some education benefits and some retraining. now this is a bill supported by the president and democrats but

house minority leader nancy pelosi had held up the bill as a bargaining chip on trade. she finally had to throw in the towel and support the bill because democrats were outmaneuvered on the bill they really cared about. this one gave fast track authority, extra power to the president to negotiate a trade deal and then bring it back to congress for a simple up or down vote. congress can't make any changes to the deal. it passed the senate, this fast track authority passed the senate yesterday with broad republican sport. only 13 democrats joining in. it was a big gamble on the part of the president to join forces with republicans both in the senate and in the house. here is house speaker john boehner. >> i think it's a big win for the american people. the trade's good for american farmers, for manufactures and small businesses. it wasn't an easy lift. we've got a lot left to do to

make sure that we're helping the american people address their priorities. >> now attention shift to say what's really at stake a big trade deal with 11 asian nations called the transpacific partnership, the administration in the midst of negotiates this. it would cover 40% of what's traded worldwide. republicans say this levels the playing field will help american businesses compete in asia. democrats worry about the effect on environment and on american workers. they will be trying to influence what ends up in this massive agreement. >> the white house made a major shift with hostage negotiations, prompted by the murder of two american journalists last year. they will no longer try to stop paying ransoms to those the government considers terrorists. >> president obama made it clear

the government will not stand in the way of those seeking to return loved ones. >> these families suffered enough and should never feel ignored or victimized by their own government. >> mr. obama ordered the review last year. a response to a long list of complaints from desperate and angry families that they receive conflicting information from the government, that they were ignored or were an afterthought or even threatened by government officials when they tried to make contact with captors. some went public, like the parents of journalists james foally after isil murdered him last year. >> included in the new policy, a hostage recovery fusion cell to coordinate the government's efforts. a special hostage envoy to work with foreign governments on recovery and a family engagement

team to share information with families. mr. obama says he won't change the long-held u.s. policy of never negotiating with terrorists, but the government will no longer punish families who do. >> when appropriate our government may assist these families and private efforts in those communications. in part, to ensure the safety of the family members and to make sure that they're not defrauded. >> the new policy raises the question, even if the government won't pay ransoms will it help families who do. >> a top white house official said there's no contribution. >> if i'm a bad guy in the middle east, is that a distinction with a difference? because either way by taking americans -- >> the government will not facilitate the payment of a ransom. what we will do however is work with families to try and advise them, to give them the benefit of our best advice. >> michael spent two years as a

hostage in somalia. he was released after his captors got a $1.6 million ransom. moore said the new policy will help families cope, whether the government helps them pay ransoms or not. >> some agencies have a lot of institutional experience in this thing, give advice and support. there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. in fact, it would be terrible if the family were just on their own. >> mike viqueira, al jazeera washington. >> president obama is in damage control mode with france. he called his french counterpart offering assurances the u.s. is not spying on him. french president hollande spoke with him. >> families are reacting today to the apology from boston marathon bomber dzhokar tsarnaev. in court on wednesday, he said he was sorry to the victims and survivors of the deadly 2013

attack. he was then formally sentenced to death. we were inside the boston courtroom where victims and families spoke. >> for the first time since police named him as one of the people responsible for the boston marathon bombings two years ago, dzhokar tsarnaev spoke publicly, saying to the court i am sorry for the lives that i've taken. to the survivors and victims' families, he said i pray for your relief, for your healing your well being and for your strength. before he finished his statement. he asked allah to bestow mercy on him and his family. >> i wish he had done it before. you know, i think it was a lot too late. >> not all survivors feel the same way. >> i did feel very reassured that he acknowledged our suffering. that meant a lot to me. >> his words came hours after testimony from two dozen survivors and families of the victims who died. amputees lurched to the podium and detailed their pain and suffering over the past two

years. while many talked about their physical loss, they touched upon their emotional loss. many suffer from nightmares and panic attacks. some took the opportunity to hold him accountable for his brother, dubbed the master mind. the mother of crystal said to tsarnaev obviously you're intellectually very bright and you could have helped your brother get help. what you did to my daughter is disgusting. i don't know what to say to you. the jury did the right thing. >> the family of the youngest victim an 8-year-old who wanted the jury to give tsarnaev life instead of death to be forced to reflect on the crime he committed said this: jewel throughout statements, he stared at the floor. the final victim to speak was junk amputee gregory who refuses to call herself a victim. she was the only speaker to face

tsarnaev and look directly at him when she said terrorists like you do two things in this world, one is create mass destruction, the second i guess quite interesting because you know what mass destruction really does? it brings people together. we are boston strong, we are america strong, so how's that for your victim impact statement? >> another prison worker will be arraigned today in connection with the inmate escape in northern new york. corrections officer gene palmer bailed out of jail early this morning, arrested last night. authorities say he delivered frozen meat with tools inside that the chris nurse used to break out. another employee has been charged with helps the two escape. >> defense begins its case in the trial of james homes hoping to convict the jury has holmes was in sane when he killed 12 and wounded 70 others in a colorado movie theater in 2012. >> for the first time, the obama

administration will launch a safety crackdown on hospital to say prevent workplace injuries. nursing staff suffer more injuries than any other occupation from lifting and moving patients. >> the consulate in florida activists want the dominican republic to hold off on the deportation of haitians. >> wildfires a race against the clock as the drought stricken west becomes a timber box. >> palestinian leadership makes its careless to the international criminal court. there are allegations against israel.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:18 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. more than a den people were injured when a car bomb hid baghdad. an i.e.d. was in a garage near the capitol. thirty cars were damaged. >> pakistan's heatwave has killed more than 1,000 people. temperatures in karachi hovered around 110 degrees. hospitals are running out of

space and morgues can't keep up with the flow of bodies. temperatures have dropped thanks to clouds. >> agleaming new airport terminal opened in north korea. state media published picture of kim jong-un inspecting it. a cafe serves chocolate bars and bottled beer in a country where most of the population can't get enough to eat. >> crews are battling firefighters in the west. john henry smith has more. how bad is it getting oh you the there? >> california fire crews responded to 800 more fires this year than they have on average in the previous five. four years of drought has made ground fertile for fire with any kind of spark. >> it's start to go burn uphill.

>> several large wildfires continue to rage in the drought stricken west. >> the extreme heat, the extreme working conditions make it difficult for us. >> this fire was started by lightning. in arizona at fire started after a national guard fighter jet crashed near the mexican border about 230 miles southeast of phoenix. it is reported that the plane hit a gas line and sparked a fire three football fields long. no word on any casualties. earlier wednesday just north of los angeles this fire raged evacuating 350 and threatening hundreds of home. a plays more than 25 square miles wide shut down stretches of interstate five, the main connection between northern california and southern california. high winds that fanned the flames earlier in the week

dissipated on wednesday to allow helicopters to fight the fires from above. still in the tahoe area, some families were considering evacuation. >> this is a little too close to home to our little town. >> i figure if push comes to shove, everything we can get that in toyota prius is all we're bog to take. >> as people leave businesses suffer, like this empty deli in a town north of lake tahoe bracing for the worst. >> we hope it ends soon and our friends and neighbors will come back into town and we'll be back in business. >> while firefighters in california say they fought more fires this year, they also say readiness resulted in fewer total acres burning on average than over the last five years. they'll have their work cut out for them today as temperatures in some of the worst wildfire areas will flirt with triple digits. >> this is just the beginning of

the wildfire season out west. thank you. >> palestinian leaders will submit files to the international criminal court today detailing israel's alleged war crimes in gaza. they hope to bring charges to israeli officials. we are live in ramallah. this is the first time the i.c.c. will see the palestinian complaint against israel. what is in these documents? >> good morning stephanie certainly a historic day for the palestinians as they make this their first submission to the international criminal courts. they will be submitting it to the chief prosecutor, who will decide whether or not the information there will warrant a full criminal investigation. while we have a long way to go, what we do understand is that there are three key points that the palestinians are submitting. the first would be last year's war in gaza with israel, also looking at the status of palestinian prisoners in israeli

jails, and israeli settlement building here in the occupied west bank, which is considered illegal under national law. here's our report. >> this is as close as he can get to land his family has owned for generations. when israel began building this settlement considered illegal under international law an electrified fence was also built. he shows me our it prevents him from accessing his property, but says he hasn't lost hope of regaining his land one day. >> we inherited this land from our grandparents and we want to cult vault it. i'm glad we're going to the international criminal court because i want a solution to put an end to the israeli's occupying my land. >> israeli's settlement in the occupied west bank make up a key component of the submission to the criminal court. dozens of settlements have been built across the territory and are now home to more than 600,000 israelis. the key argument in the complaint against the

settlements is based on article eight, section two of the i.c.c.'s rome statute stating the transfer of an occupying power civilian occupation into territories it occupies is illegal. >> the file is broken down into three main categories of complaints, the first deals with the illegal settlements, the second with the status and treatment of palestinian citizens and the final last summer's war with gaza. >> israel is also accused of seriously breaching the international rules of war during last year's 50 day bam boredment of the gaza strip and more than 2200 palestinians were killed mostly civilians. a u.n. report published this week found both israel and hamas may have committed war crimes. the palestinian submission to the i.c.c. also alleges dozens of other violations of international law. >> our goal is to prove that israel has committed war crimes

and crimes against humanity. our goal is to help the i.c.c. initiate an investigation as quickly as possible. >> israeli officials have refused to provide information requested by the i.c.c., saying the court has no authority to investigate palestinian complaints, because in its view, poll stein is not a state. it would be up to the i.c.c.'s chief prosecutor to decide whether there's enough evidence to order a preliminary examination and then a full criminal investigation into the allegations, a process that will be long and complicated. only individuals can be indicted by the court not states, which means prosecutors will also have to determine which israeli military and government officials could be prosecuted for war crimes for not. >> what about war crime charges against the palestinian group hamas, that the u.n. document also includes as you mention in your report, are they exposed to

i.c.c. charges, as well? >> our viewers may remember that you and i spoke extensively during the gaza war last year in which over 2200 palestinians were killed and hundreds of rockets fired from gaza into israeli territory. as you rightly point out just this week, the united nations published a report in which it said both israel and hamas may have committed war crimes, but when it comes to the i.c.c., hamas will not be investigated, and that's quite simply because israel is not part of the international criminal court and hasn't made any requests. >> that's right. thank you. >> south africa is considers withdrawing from the i.c.c. a a cabinet minister said the government will review its membership after a dispute over whether it should have arrested sudan's president. alba sure is wanted by the i.c.c. on charges of genocide and war crimes. he was arrested during an

african union summit and then released. >> the pope talked about modern day family dynamics. he said a separation in marriage is sometimes inevitable and can even be morally necessary to protect the children and weaker spouse. some church watchers say that could open a change on that divorce. the remarks came on a meeting on divorce and catholic church. >> the greatest threat to security, the homegrown threat over racism and anti-government views. >> plus a family in search of answers after a young man with emotional problems dies in police custody. today, they may be one step closer to justice.

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the house is expected to take up a bill providing aid to american workers hurt by trade deals. it faces opposition from democrats and comes one day after the house and senate voted to give the president greater authority to get a major trade deal done. >> hundreds have been evacuated in california and alaska as wildfires spread. one fire is in the san bernadino mountains, force be campers to leave the area. >> the first funerals are held tailed for two of the nine victims killed last week during a shoot be at the emanuel a.m.e. church in south carolina. a 70-year-old and 45-year-old will be laid to rest in the charleston area. >> the shooting has many rethinking the origin of

homegrown attacks. forth eight people have been killed in right wing attacks since september 11, 2001, including last week's church shooting in charleston. over the same period, only 26 people have died in domestic attacks, driven by in the report's words jihadist ideology. >> when a gunman opened fire during a late night bible study session inside a historic black church in charleston last week, nine names were added to america's tally of killings apparently motivated by race. suspect dylann roof is a self pro claimed white supremacist. according to a new study by the washington research group new

america, since september 11, nearly twice as many people have been killed by anti-government fanatics white supremacists than by those who self identify as muslim extremists. analysts say in spice of a steady supreme of non-muslim attacks, there's a mismatch between public perception and the actual numbers. >> when we really look at the numbers, we see that the domestic terrorists and the people who sort of fit under that umbrella have fit a much more aggressive campaign profile. >> in 2012, neonazi and white supremacist wade michael page sprayed bullets in a sikh temple in wisconsin. in 2014, jared and amanda miller killed two police officers having lunch in a las vegas restaurant. they left a knows saying this is

the beginning of the revolution, and a swastika. they headed to a nearby walmart where they killed another person before police killed jared and amanda committed suicide. the abuses of police have grown out of control with no repercussions. >> in august, a man fired off 100 rounds at government buildings, including the mexican consulate and police headquarters before a police officer shot and killed him. austin police say the unemployed mcwilliams had ties to a christian hate group and grudge against immigrants. >> charles joins us from chapel hill a sociologist at the university of north carolina where his work focuses on the threat of domestic anti-government attacks. thank you for your time. good morning. >> thank you. >> how should white ring and

white supremacist differ from a racist hate group? >> if they both lead to violence, they should be treated the same, i imagine. keep in mind that there are free speech communities that are allowed to express opinions that are not popular. it's when it edges over into violence, then of course, it becomes a public safety concern. >> the new america research centers report which we just had report on isn't the only one that says there is a greater threat in this country from far right type groups other than islammists correct? >> we've done a survey with 382 law enforcement agencies around the united states, and far more of them listed anti-government extremism as a significant threat of violent extremism far

more than islamic extremism. >> you talk about the disproportionate attention that mass media place on certain incidents. the boston marathon bombing hit a high profile national event it injured hundreds of people. is that enough to explain the amount of attention that an incident like that receives? >> i think that's part of it, certainly, that many of these political extremists of one sort or another are aiming to create a spectacle media spectacle that will draw attention to their goals and cause all sorts of tensions and anxieties among the american population and unfortunately, they're all too successful on occasion with those kinds of attacks. there's other things going on, as well. i think we're still suffering from a post 9/11 stress disorder

that that he can that had to do with these revolutionary islamic ideologies, strike a note with people. they think they cause a certain amount of fear. fit into this overall narrative of america being under siege from external he mys but that's not all that's going on in the country. there's other forms of political extremism, and then there's of course the every day violence, which is actually much more numerous, more than 14,000 people murdered each year in the united states, according to f.b.i. statistics. other extremism accounts for a tiny part of that. >> in recent years, there have been a couple of attacks that have not garnered the attention a neonazi attack in las vegas the attack on a sikh temple. is there larger threat starting to be addressed?

>> i don't know behind the scenes what allocations we'll see, whether shifts from the post 9/11 massive transformation, where we sent a huge amount of resources towards islamic threat, perhaps we're going to see a shift back towards to match the actual threat patterns that we've seen in more recent years. we notice that law enforcement is taking those other sorts of threats very seriously. that's what we found in our survey in follow up interviews. >> thank you so much. >> a grand jury in georgia has indicted three people in the death of a young man while in police custody. he was arrested in january. his says he was bipolar and is still looking for answers. robert ray has the story. >> blunt force trauma to the head. that killed matthew according to georgia's county coroner.

>> just pain, the kind of pain he died under just hurts me so bad every time i think about it, you know. you're better off being burned alive. >> neither the family nor their hear have been able to see the autopsy report. >> you're telling me they will not release that autopsy report. >> not at all. we have demanded it, we have requested it, we have pleaded for it. in my opinion, it is not only illegal to fail to get a record of my client's death to me on his behalf and the family, it's criminal and it's a sin. i don't see that lightly. >> the young man an artist and student was arrested new year's day on a domestic violence charge opinion the family says his fiancee had called police seeking medical help for him. they say he was suffering a manic episode from bipolar disorder, and his fiancee wanted

police to take him to a hospital. >> if matthew was a white guy with his nerd grasses and his girlfriend said hey i need my boyfriend to go to the hospital, you know he's not acting himself, he would be in the hospital. matthew was this kid who had dreads, he was really dark, you know, he was just the kind of person that you feel like hey, i don't have to listen to this guy, he's been erratic. >> family attorney wants the sheriff's office investigated. >> your client was tased. >> we believe he was tased while in restraints here. >> he was beaten? >> we know he was beaten and suffered blunt force trauma. >> he was restrained to a chair with shack else. >> and then he was left alone. >> the coroner ruled the death a homicide and nine sheriffs deputies were fired in may over the case. county officials declined our request for an interview. police have said he fought with deputies while being booked and had to be restrained.

the attorney wants to know why the video in the restraining room hasn't been released. >> it has to be because they must believe that it will damn them and they're just going to hold on toilet as long as they can. they nope as well as the rest of us do that that video is going to be a visual representation of everything they did wrong and how they killed matthew. >> the family also wants to know why the death certificate was only released five months after his death. >> we've lost a great member of our family, and the fact that we had to wait for so long to even understand how he died, i mean just the beginning of how he died was the worst part. we haven't been brought to the table as a family he's lost someone. you have to hear stuff grueling a grape vine. we have to hear from people that are not going to connect to the family. it's ridiculous. >> family members have heard nothing from officials and want both the prosecutor and the

sheriff to step down. robert ray savannah georgia. >> this weekend honor delayed the documentary tellion the story of u.s. servicemen who for reasons of race or ancestry were overlooked for the medal of honor. here's a preview. >> we profiled a man the son of mexican immigrants who joined the military to get beyond working minimum wage jobs for the rest of his life. he was 22 years old when his command post was pinned down in an intense firefight with the north vietnamese. when he did next was extraordinary. >> the military was an opportunity for a better life. age 22 he quickly discovered that opportunity had a high

price. >> i was scared at hell, because, you know, like second day of me being there, we had to walk through a village. one guy got blown up with a big artillery shell and his foot came and landed pretty close to where i was, you know. i said well, i've only been here two days and i've got 363 more days to go. >> he wasn't a frightened grunt for long. south seat ma'am may 21, 1969. he was a remove operator for the platoon sergeant when an order came in for the company to take the hill. >> there was bullets hitting the tree and hitting the ground.

the captain would stand down. i said well, what am i going to do? >> the lt. was his platoon leader when the well armed north seat nat please pinned them down. >> this is one of those days that i suppose general custer could probably tell you how it went absolute chaos from the instant that we started the attack. the fire was unbelievable. we were short in ammunition. i was now down from seven or eight people to four or five people because of the casualties, and all i knew is there was an intense firefight going on at the base of the hill. >> he was there protecting the medics as they tended the wounded when suddenly, he did something extraordinary. >> jesse took 2m16's, a bag of ammunition, and some grenades and he crawled from position to position. >> i threw a grenade into his

hole. got him went around him and got the other two. >> he saved his company's command post from certain destruction. >> i was absolutely amazed that somebody would do such a thing and i discussed the situation with captain gibson. we both arrived at the same conclusion hey i think we've got a medal of honor here, let's do it. >> so he put me in for a medal of honor right away. that was the last i heard bit you know. >> that was back in 1969, despite being recommended for the medal of honor immediately by his superior officers, he did not receive the medal until 2014, more than 45 years later. >> soledad, thank you. >> honor delayed premieres right here on aljazeera america. >> the number of children in faster care in america is on the

decline from 600,002 years ago to 400,000 today. despite this progress, african-american children are twice as likely as white children to be taken from their parents. we have this report. >> i remember that. >> joyce and her daughter courtney have two sets of family memories memories from before she went into foster care when she was eight and after she came home two years later. >> that changed me a lot from that day just because you don't forget being taken from your mom. >> joyce admits she was using an illicit substance when the child welfare took her away. she says her daughter was not in eminent danger. the legal standard for taking children from their homes. >> we had an apartment. we were doing well. >> what was it, marijuana. >> it's not that i'm unconversation saying what it is. i don't think it matters because

of the simple fact regardless what i have used, there were things they could have put in place and none of those were given me as an option to keep my family in tact. >> joyce thinks the city wouldn't have separated her family if she were white. >> what makes you think that white parents don't face the same scrutiny. >> my daughter would fall and maybe swift her arm or something and i take her to emergency a call would be placed asking questions of me as to how this truly happened. >> it's not just about one person. >> at joyce's weekly support meeting, we met other parents who felt the same way. >> how many of you think you were judged more marshy with white parents when the decision was made to put your children in foster care? >> in new york city, the total number of children in foster care dropped dramatically in 15 years. the children going into faster care here are disproportionately from communities of color. once in, black children stay in. on any given day in new york

state, a black child is five times more likely than a white child to be in faster care. >> gladys, the head of new york city's child welfare agency said minorities make up the majority of the kids. >> and its african-american children and hispanic children primarily. >> why is that? >> there are lots of issues. one is that poor families in this city and across the country are subject to more surveillance and oversight. i think the other part of it is really the racism. i think we should be honest about that. >> joyce's second daughter kayla was put in faster care when she was three months old. >> what did you do to get her back. >> i fought hard, changed my life. i stopped. >> did foster care help in a way? >> absolutely not they didn't help me come clean. it tore my family apart. >> by the time kayla returned, she was nearly two and didn't

recognize her mother. kayla, now 15 struggled ever since. courtney fared better, perhaps because her foster placement was with her father. she finished college and works in new york city. she feels hear family was unfairly separated. >> taking you from the family you know is not the answer. it's an extremely traumatic experience. i don't want that for anyone. >> a landmark ruling in the netherlands. the dutch government was aiming to cut carbon emissions by 17%. the courts say that's not enough. >> it's earned the nickname whole paycheck, now it is ruled whole foods has been overcasualing for years.

>> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> no, no, no, no, no, no, no hey! listen your in my house. [ laughter ] >> president obama hosted a reception at the white house in honor of lgbt pride month but

his speech derailed by a member of the audience, a transgender migrant. she told the penalty to stop deport be lgbt immigrants. >> welcome back. taking a look at today's top stories. >> i'm running for president of the greatest country in the word, the united states of america! >> with that, louisiana governor bobby jindal becomes the 13th 13th republican to throw his hat into the presidential race. he's the first indian american governor. >> angry protests leading to nearly a dozen arrests in hawaii blocking the construction of one of the world's largest telescopes on a door hand volcano. activists say it impugns the rights of native hawaiians. >> jet packs going on sale next year. it can fly 30 minutes and go

more than 3,000 feet in the air. it will cost $300,000. >> new york city is taking whole foods to task for overcharging customers, saying the supermarket routinely overstates the weight of prebadged meets and baked goods. one investigation pound a package of coconut some shrimp was marked $15 higher, chicken tenders over priced by $5. whole foods disagrees with the allegations. >> in today's environmental impact, an important ruling on climate change from a dutch court. it says the government needs to cut its carbon emissions more than originally planned. we have more. >> the court declares the dutch climate target is illegal. it told it to cut carbon

emission by 20% up from the current target of 17%. it was great news for supporters of the case. >> it's now obvious that at least the judges in the netherlands feel liability has a role to play in addressing the climate problem. >> the landmark ruling said the dutch government must protect its people from the effects of climbs change and current plan does not go far enough. it said the state must do more, also in its view of duty and care to protect the living environment. the state is responsible for effectively controlling the dutch emission levels. moreover, the costs of the measures ordered by the court are not unacceptably high. >> the case was brought by the agenda foundation, which insists on a limit to global temperature rise of two degrees greener

technologies like wind power and solar farm have taken off here but dutch lagged behind other states using the law to force the government's hand is a break through. >> we are the first in the world to do this. we are being looked at everywhere people doing the negotiations for the european union and the climate treaty are watching so this will really be helpful for everything. >> the case could set an important legal precedent with similar ones being prepared in our european countries and the eu targets 40% cuts by 2013. the dutch government said it needs more time to study the verdict and can appeal. it just lost a crucial case where it's own policy decisions have been judged to be unbroken of the law. al jazeera. >> social media is full of pictures of an anti uber protest in france. demonstrations have turned ugly with overturned cars and

burning. riot police patrolled the streets. protestors blocked airports and train stations. uber has been expanding right sharing services, sparking anger from taxi drivers. >> a san francisco startup has the blade the first environmentally friendly lead to printed car. the body is held together by carbon rods, less plastic used. it has a 700 horse four engine and cancel rate from zero to 60 in two seconds. >> using drones to stop the killing of elephants poachers killed 40,000 elephants last year, 96 every day. one man is using technology to try and end poaching. it is a new attempt to use drone

aircraft to counter the extraordinary poaching problems in africa. the poachers operate at night. what our drones are able to do is for the first time, see at night, and so they can see thermal signature of these poachers and their cars and the animals, and we're able to get to the poachers and calm the rangers before they have a chance to kill the animals. the aircraft are controlled from the mobile command center. they then can either tell the aircraft where to go or in some cases, the aircraft has an autonomous flight plan and it goes on its own and the operator views the video from the camera and decides whether the aircraft should stay and loiter or continue on within the next eight or nine years all of the wild elephants in africa will

have died from poachers. the same is the case with rhinos. a single rhino horn is worth a half million dollars in vietnam. you know, the thought of having no elephants or no rhinos in the world is just kind of extraordinary to me. they would go extinct and particularly because of poaching and because people honor them for minor kind of things like trinkets and stuff is just so hard to believe. if we can do something about this as we really need to do so, and that's why i'm so excited about the campaign. when we fly airplanes the poaching stops. >> the air shepherd program will soon fly drones in south africa and botswana. >> that's it for us here in new york. coming up, the latest on the

greek debt talks live from doha. >> explorer and environmentalist jean-michel cousteau. >> we are visitors and we need to respect that. >> surprising secrets of the ocean. >> if it wasn't for the ocean, we would have a lot of problems today. >> and the harsh reality facing our planet. >> enough is enough. >> i lived that character. >> we will be able to see change.

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