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>> it's not even gonna play. >> your right to access >> i'm standing in a tropical wind storm. >> can affect and surprise us. >> wow! some of these are amazing. >> "techknow", where technology meets humanity. monday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm lisa fletcher, and tony harris has the night off. >> this law is working and it's going to keep doing just that. >> a huge healthcare victory for the president but one justice called today's supreme court decision interpretive jigry. and then the fallout. outrage over the ruling for republicans running for president. and the civil rights decision from the justices. they narrowly upheld the policy
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to battle discrimination in the housing market. we begin tonight with a supreme court decision that impacts the healthcare of millions of americans. in a 6-3 decision, the court ruled in favor of upholding healthcare subsidies. chief justice john roberts upheld it and thomas dissented. it means that the millions who rely on healthcare subs doze to pay for healthcare coverage still have them. >> this was a huge win for the obama administration, a decisive victory for the healthcare law. in the courtroom or in the press room, there was pandemonium that this decision had been made, and on the steps
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of the courthouse as well. supporters of the healthcare law had gathered outside of the court. and when the ruling came down, they let out a cheer and began to sell bay. [ chanting ] the 6-3 decision means government subsidies that help low and moderate income americans pay for health insurance will continue to be available nationwide. not just in the states that set up their own healthcare exchanges. the supporters were jubilant. >> make no mistake about this. today's decision has monument al significance. it means that the affordable care act is not just the law of the land. it will remain the law of the land. it means that the millions of people who have been receiving subsidies that make all the difference in terms of whether health insurance is affordable, people will continue to receive
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those subsidies and they will continue to have health insurance. >> if the court had gone the other way the 64 million would have lost their tax charges subsidies, making their health insurance unaffordable and unraveling the healthcare law. at issue four words in the affordable care act reading tax credits through an exchange established by the state. chief justice john roberts writing for the majority, said that the words must be taken in context. "congress passed it to help the insurance markets, and not to destroy them and if at all possible, we must interpret the law in a way that's consistent with the former and avoid the latter. roberts said that not having the subsidies could push the
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state's individual insurance market into a death spiral. scalia gave his dissent from the bench calling it absure, saying that it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere, and he went on to say that today's interpretation is not only unnatural but unheard of. >> who would have ever dreamt that the exchange established by the state means established by the state or the federal government? the group behind the challenge was clearly disappointed. >> today's ruling is a tragedy for the rule of law in this country. in a 6-3 decision, the supreme court has twisted rules of statutory interpretation. >> this is the second time in three years that the supreme court has upheld a key provision of the aca. this time more definitively.
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other legal challenges are winding their way through the lower courts, but as of this ruling, it appears that the aca for now is on firm legal ground. this case is officially king versus burwell. burwell is the secretary of human services and david king is the lead plaintiff one of four virginia residents taking on the case to oppose obamacare to get it to the supreme court. i reached david king today to get his response to the decision, and he told me "politics over law." others are thrilled with what the justices did. and they said that the aca is a stable part of the american healthcare system. >> last time, it was i closer margin 5-4 and this time 6-3 and who flipped. >> it was justice kennedy who nipped. and he was one of the
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dissenters in 2012 and the dissenters felt that the entire law should be thrown out. this was a big switch for justice kennedy, and we have no clue why he flipped. >> let's look at the taxes at the center of the case. more than 7 million people bought healthcare through it, and 09% of them had tax credits to afford their premiums, and the average is 3300 a year. that is enough to cover about 3/4 of the average premium. the affordable care act is president obama's signature domestic achievement and the president had a lot to say after the high court handed down it's decision. mike viqueira, a sigh of relief
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at the white house >> reporter: you're right his confidence that he and the affordable care act would come out on top. and he said that the court should never considered the case to begin with, but as it came down, a sense of relief in the west wing. in the wake of decision, the president echoed the chambers outside of the supreme court. >> the affordable care act is here to stay. >> moments after the news broke, the white house released this photo of an elated president, with a celebratory hug with staff. >> this law is working and it's going to keep doing just that. >> five years later, this is not about a law, this is not about the affordable care act it's legislation, or obamacare as a political football. this is healthcare in america. >> even after the law at the supreme court, house speaker john boehner said that
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republicans will still seek a way to dismantle the law. >> the problem with obamacare is still fundamentally the same. the law is broken, and we're going to continue our efforts to do everything that we can to put the american people back in charge of their healthcare, and not the federal government. >> we're going to celebrate the affordable care act. >> but for democrats who lost control of both the house and the senate after the law was passed in 2010, it was a moment of vend case. >> we're so jubilation about this. it's a victory for common sense and all american families. >> there have been set backs including the rocky launch of healthcare.gov. >> today is a day for hard working americans whose lives will be more secure in a changing economy because of this law. >> if you're keeping score at home, there were some 50 attempts by republicans in congress to chip away or repeal the affordable care act and it
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now survives two supreme court challenges, lisa. >> even in the face those challenges that have survived, mike, a lot of political posturing going on. and realistically, what happens on the hill when it comes to the affordable care act? >> the republicans would have been like the dog that caught the car if the supreme court had ruled with the act. and then they would have had to make a fix at the federal or state level in order to fix the political embarrassment of having 6 and a half million people lose their health insurance. he said it was in case they wanted the court. so while the republicans are talking about more legislative attacks on the affordable care act, really nothing is in the pipeline at this point. >> senior washington correspondent, mike viqueira, thank you. former health and human services secretary kathleen sib alias was one of the
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architects of the affordable care act and she talked with us earlier today. >> there's no question with that the law was written to have people covered based on their income and not the law. and for 6.4 million americans they are sure to have affordable healthcare in the future, and millions more will be able to take advantage of this law. >> a fellow director for the manhattan institute, he has written extensively on the follows, and he told our stephanie sy that he's still looking for changes in the affordable care act. >> it's going to be an uphill battle at this point but that's why i think republicans and some modern democrats should start ceding more authority to the states. >> so that's one of the changes that you would favor giving
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the states less power to dick pate the terms of how the aca is executed? >> no, i want to give them more authority. >> yes >> so they have the authority to not set up an exchange. and that's why we're talking about 34 other states using a federal exchange. so what would you like to say? there's something called state innovation waivers and it allows states to get a block granted for funding and medicaid funding and theoretically, you can bundle other sources in there. and you give the states the money and it gives them the best way to provide health insurance for their population. one size fits all approaches don't work, and this bundling approach worked for welfare reform in the 90s and there's no reason that it can't work now. >> yvette font innois a policy
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director at the white house and one of the authors of the affordable care act and a partner with solutions, and yvette, thank you for joining us. >> does this pose any challenges to the affordable care act even as the struggle continues? >> i sure hope so. i'm sure that there will be continued calls for repeal, but after close to 60 votes onto re38th in the house and one election was basically decided based on repeal or continue the law, and i think it's time to move forward. >> you just said that one of the biggest striking down the affordable care act was insurance companies because the revenue loss is astronomical. go you think that the americans should be concerned at the
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degree that the industry is invested in the aca and the bottom line? >> it was when it was passed on the market. and to deliver healthcare, and i don't think that there's any other way for it to be done in this country, to an industry that's managed by the private sector so when the people call it a government take over, i find it interesting because it does rely on the private market to insure people. and that's what insurance companies have done for years. they know how to do it and manage the care, and moving forward now, they can focus on coverage and focus on increasing the quality and affordability of that coverage. >> maybe not a take over, but what about a bailout? people have liked it to the auto bailout saying that they're very it dependent on
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government money, and talking about how the federal government is now it's biggest client. do you have any concerns with that closely knit relationship between the feds and some of the largest corporations in america? >> well, i mean what i think they're doing, they have expanded the coverage, and we have fewer uninsured in this country than ever we have had. and what they're doing is their job. they're providing coverage that's much more affordable to people and it's higher quality. and the healthcare cost growth is the lowest it has been in 50 years. so it's not as though the healthcare costs have gone through the roof in this exercise, and insurance companies are gaining all of that profit. healthcare costs are down, and more people are covered. and they're doing the job that we ask them to do. >> but insurance companies have said in 2016, they're going to have to raise their premiums because they underestimated the cost of all of this. >> i think that they didn't have a lot of experience with
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the population that was going to enroll because previous to this, they were uninsured. so they're learning what that population needs and they have had -- there was some support mechanisms that were put into the law that will come to an end next year, and they're learning to deal with that. and i think that we're all learning what this population is going to need moving forward. but the bottom line is, you take a bunch of uninsured people and put them in the market and it's going to cost us money, and we need to figure out how to manage that. moving forward, this is what we're going to focus on. >> members of congress on both sides of the aisle have said that this law can be improved and how can it be more effective. >> there have been efforts already in congress, and bipartisan bills introduced to make technical fixes to the affordable care act. and the democrats have said from the beginning that there are certainly improvements that
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can be made to the law. and senator clinton talked about changes she would like to be made for the law. the things that we refer it as a family glitch, a loophole in the law that does not provide tax credits to families who have a member of that family offered coverage by an employer, even if it's offered to the family. and they need to look at deductables and spoke about drug pricing. there's certainly even from her perspective ways that the law can be changed. and i don't think that any democrat has said that there's no room for improvement. >> the coauthor of the affordable care act, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. the supreme court has five decisions, including the same-sex marriage case, and that will come either today or monday but today the justices handed down a victory to civil rights advocates. they used a legal tool not used
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for decades to prevent housing discrimination. >> in housing and community affairs, the community project the high court decided to uphold a crucial tool to help the federal government prevent housing discrimination. it doesn't need to be intentional in order tore it to be illegal. leaders in the civil rights community welcomed the decision. >> it moves me, and i don't know if i can say that it surprises me but it encourages me, the language at the end of the majority opinion by justice kennedy, where he talks about moving toward two societies one black one white. >> justice anthony kennedy wrote: the court acknowledges the fair housing act's continuing role in moving the nation to a more
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integrated society. the court split on lines with him writing for the justices, justice alito said today's decision: it was up to the court to died whether the fair housing act covered not just intentional discrimination but unintended discrimination resulting from the policy as well. what is known as disparate impact. in this case, creating segregated neighborhoods in dallas. >> disparate impact, justice kennedy described it as allowing us to get at what he called unconscious prejudice and disguised animus. >> for housing advocates, this is a step forward in equal rights another kind of
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insurance, insurance from discrimination. michael shore aljazeera washington. >> coming up at 8 p.m. eastern a closer look at chief justice john roberts and his impact on the supreme court. why some conservatives are saying he abandoned them toy. >> congress has given final approval to another open the of the president's fast track trade bill. americans losing their jobs because of trade deals. trade assistance bill will allow workers with training and assistance and other benefits. the bill was approved by the senate earlier this week, and now it heads to the president's desk. coming up, a final farewell. the first funeral services of two of the victims of last week's church shooting. why extra security was on hand. plus, another day of talks and another day of frustration. just days away from fault
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>> investigators in charlotte north carolina, say arson is to blame for this week's fire at a baptist church with a mostly black congregation. they said it's a hate crime. it sustained more than $250,000 in damn, but the sanctuary remains intact. and services will be held there on sunday. >> the first funeral services got underway for the first of two victims at the shooting in south carolina. tomorrow president obama will be will to deliver the eulogier in clementa pickney. the pastor. hundreds have lined up to pay respects to pinkney at his wake this evening. diane estabrook is there and tell us about the services
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today. >> two services today. one for 45-year-old sheronda singleton. and she was a speech patheologist. and the other was for 70-year-old ethel lance. she was a church custodian and grandmother. and hundredses turned out for her funeral this morning including be reverend jesse jackson and mark sanford from south carolina. pinkney's visitation, hundreds turned out for it this morning and one woman talked about pink knee as a child. >> well, he grew up with me, because we were like a mother to him and like a mentor to him. and we're so proud of him because he grew up to be everything we thought and knew that he could be.
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>> now now pinkney's second wake this morning the line is going all the way up and down the street and around the corner. and to get the people in, they may have to extend the hours or turn people away, lisa? >> we have heard the entire time about the theme of love and unity in the city. and that could not be more demonstrated tonight with what you're showing us. how is the city being prepared for tonight and tomorrow for president obama's eulogy? >> the arena holds about 5400 people. and they're expecting it to be filled to capacity. and it's going to be open to the public. they're going to be cordoning off several streets and they have asked particularly women to not bring bags to the facility because they will be
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screening with military be detecters because that would hold up the process. they're going to start bringing people in tomorrow, and the services begin at 11:00. it's a very busy day with president obama delivering the eulogy, and vice president biden will be there and john boehner, and we also understand that hillary clinton is going to be coming to the service tomorrow as well. >> diane estabrook, thank you. the national park service said that the confederate flag will no longer be sold at the bookstores, and it will not be part of any stand alone i-. those books that have minimals of it as part of their content will remain. but the books sold at their shop are educational value and their connection to the park. it has now been 20 days since two convicted murderers
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have escaped from a prison in upstate new york, and now another has confessed. gene palmer said that he lent them a flat head screwdriver and a pair of pliers, and he may not have known that they were planning to escape. >> i personally haven't spoken to him. misled. and maybe duped is the right word, but i'm not going to comment on that. >> . >> more than 1,000 law enforcement officers are continuing to search an area west of the prison. jurors in the trial of accused theater shooter james holmes, have heard the defense. holmes attorneys are making the case saying that he was legally insane when he opened fire in a movie theater killing 12 and wounding 70. charges may result from last week's deadly balcony
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collapse in california. nancy o'malley warns that the criminal investigation is just getting underway. six were killed and seven injured when a balcony gave away at a party at an apartment complex. coming up nix he's the lawyer who found the four words that sent healthcare back to the supreme court. we'll get his take on where the legal battle stands now. plus, serial abusers of human rights. the country that the state department is pointing fingers at.
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>> today's supreme court ruling on the affordable care act was a big victory for the obama administration, and but the legal battles over obamacare are likely to company. the justices upheld the tax subsidies that help millions of americans to buy health insurance, they help everyone who uses the insurance exchange.
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and exchange and the president said that the law is here to stay. >> the law is working exactly as it's supposed to. in many ways, this law is working better than we expect today to. for all of the misinformation campaigns, and all of the doomsday pricks and death pams and job disruption, and all of the appeal attempts, this law is now helping tens of millions of americans. >> the president said that he will work to convince more states to take advantage of the law. the house speaker, john boehner, said that the fight to repeal the law is far from over. >> the law is broken. it's raising costs for american families, and raising costs for small businesses, and it's just fundamentally broken. and we're going to continue our efforts to do everything that we can to put the american people back in charge of their own healthcare, and not the federal government. >> the republican-controlled house has voted dozens of times
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to repeal the law, but the bills have gone nowhere in the senate. i spoke with tom dashiell. and he advised president obama on the peak policy. i asked about the decision in congress. the interesting thing, they have not come up with an alternative. they have done everything to asks it will be part of the infrastructure for the foreviable future. 25 million people will be enrolled in changes over the next few years. so it's an integral part of our healthcare system now asks >> so speaker boehner said that the costs to families has increased and there's a cost that needs to be dealt w >> so the asks real question what happens if we don't have this law in place? the affordable care act act produces costs that we didn't have years ago. >> they have been on hold. >> i don't think that you'll see much in the supreme court. yes, there are pending cases and i suppose at some point, we'll continue to see legal actions taken. what we had three years ago will be at stake, how have, and there will be other issues, and i think that they can be litigated, but by and large, i think that we have seen the end of them before the supreme court for a long time to come. >> tom dashiell, thank you for joining us. the affordable care act is the subject of many lawsuits, including the house of representatives that accuses of obama administration of ignoring key parts of the law. specifically insurers. last year, they ruled: and there are challenges to the obama administration's policy that let's people transition from plans that meet the law's
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require. thomas christina is an employment benefits attorney whose discovery of the four key words in the affordable care act led to it going before the high court ruling. a significant part of this surrounded the words established by the states, and are you surprised that the court ruled the way it did? >> i'm not surprised by all of the decision. i was surprised by parts of it. the court said that the most natural meaning established by the 50 states or the district of columbia. but it went on to say that it wasn't going to interpret the statute according to its original language, but according to its purposes, which were to improve insurance market >> so how did you feel about your discovery being used to try to take down the affordable care act? >> well, i don't think that it
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was used to try to take down the affordable care act. but it was used to make a point about restraining government so that lem similarities will from now on legislate in the bang of the governed, rather than in some secret language that has an esoteric meaning and that was always the way that i saw the case. >> you didn't see the objective of the opponents to dismantle obamacare? >> it certainly wasn't my objective. i think that there are parts of obamacare that most people in the united states are in favor of and are g. and i wouldn't want it to be boll will abolished. >> do you expect other opponents of the aca to find other clever ways to challenge the law? >> i'm not sure that my way was
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clever and it turns out not to have worked for one thing, but i think that there's a fundamental way here, one way of solving a problem like this, is to resort to the courts of law, and if that doesn't work, it's the ballot box and since i'm not a political scientist i can't tell you which of those is more likely to succeed. but your previous viewers have indicated that there are still people opposed to the statute. >> you went all the way to the supreme court for clarification, and in your opinion, did you ever think there was ambiguity about what was intended? >> no, i didn't. i thought that the statute very clearly was meant to give each state a choice as to whether or not it wanted the tax subsidies, or not. so i thought it was -- i
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thought it meant what it literally said. >> last thought what issues with the affordable care act does this ruling fail to resolve in. >> well, it does fail to address some of the economic issues, and i think that some of your previous guests have already commented on it, i know you yourself have, and there's a question of what degree the market with officially federal transfer payments, it doesn't address that. and there are a few other issues armed the edges legal issues that it doesn't address. some of the things are what the lawyers call duck dictum, and the issues are up for grabs and there are issues still open. >> thomas christina, thank you for joining us, and it doesn't take long for many of the 2015
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u.s. candidates to talk about the healthcare subsidies. and david schuster, is it fair to say that the response has been predictable. >> every republican is expressing outrage and the democrats saying that the court got it right. jeb bush released this video. >> the idea that washington d.c. knows best has been proven wrong over and over again. obamacare. i don't think that we should have employer mandate mandates or
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healthcare mandates that make it so expensive. so fixing this is a huge, huge challenge, and we have a duty to start solving these problems. >> marco rubio issued a written statement disagreeing with the court. obamacare ison the case: on the case. and mike huckabee released the most severe: >> so do you think that this issue is going to sustain itself as a hot button throughout the campaign. >> not really, it could be an issue in the general election, but even then, it's a problem because republicans don't have a single plan that analysts say would create greater efficiency or lower costs and that could be put under the microscope in the general election. secretary of state hilliary clinton reacted to it with this. now that the supreme court has firmly reacted, it's time for us to move on. and o'malleyed off a more
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progressive reaction, offering his support for universal care: that's the reaction from the 2016 candidates. >> all right, thank you. it could be much more difficult to keep parents from giving their kids vaccinations, eliminating personal beliefs. only medical reaches will be allowed. legislation was first introduced in the midst of a measleses outbreak last year at disneyland that sickened over 350 people. greece is on the brink of a
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financial crisis. it has days to deal with its creditors or face default. in athens, protesters protested against austerity measures. >> reporter: crunch time in brusss and in the talks athens came once again to meet the creditors to whom the country owes so much money. they were looking for a pound of flesh austerity making people work until they're older, but for all of the intents and purposes, they could not break it down, so they all left with no deal done. in athens, it seems that many greeks were admiring the will of their national leader to stand up to institutions they regard as having imposterrished them. >> i think that we have been suffering for five years now and the prime minister who got elected so recently must not back down.
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it's not fair. >> he should drop it and walk away. when they say cut the money from pensioners, what's the point of the agreement? god help us. >> the situation is, you take one step in front and fall off a cliff one step back, and you fall in the river. >> in brussels, the finance ministers were left to find a way to create a bridge between a rock and the hard place and in the end, they couldn't do it pushing the talks back until the weekend. >> well, we have been working for two days, two nights nonstop. and we're going to do more work. s is we were given a proposal by the greek parties in the last hour, and we need to do more work to example inthe proposal to reconsign it.
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and there are measures that we can conclude asks. >> the door is still open for what's on the table. >> they showed up again for the leader's shipment. and in truth, many in his party believe that they're being sentenced to fail by the creditors. s is. >> they believe that some of this is entirely liberty. and they have to be in the position of having to accept the cuts. because that government is more amenable to the creditor's way of thinking. what happens now, the people of greece does have money in the bank, the banks might run out of money. and an agreement by monday morning would provide the ultimate tests of whether the financial institutions are prepared to let greece fail. aljazeera, brussels. >> isle militants launched a series of deadly attacks on
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facilities in northern syria today. one of the attacks was in the city of kobane near the turkish border. they detonated truck bombs in the city, and at least 35 civilians why killed in the fighting. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said that strikes alone can't defeat isil. it will be the deciding be factor [ audio difficulties ] the sunni populations iran has some of president obama's aids worried. with a deadline for a deal just five days away, in an open letter by the washington institute calls for tougher sanctions, and it's assigned by eran's former adviser.
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today white house spokesman josh earnest said that the terms in the letter are what the president wants as well. asks. >> i told them that they have no reason to fear, that the kind of tension that we put out. >> vladimir putin is also concerned, and he called president obama to talk about it. asks four months after it was released. they have published the human rights report. ron has a look at what it reveals, and what it doesn't. >> jailed in russia. government opponents subject to brutal punishment in saudi
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arabia. crack downs on the freedom of expression and riotists in ethiopia. these are some of the abuses highlighted in the state department's human rights for 2014. >> my advice to anybody upset by these findings is really to examine them. and look at the practices of the country. >> there's more. government of violations have made it easier for the groups, such as al-shabaab and iran committing their own abuses. >> you have the right to do everything that you can to defeat organizations like isil, but you have to do it in a way not only are you committing injustices. >> human rights groups say that these are invaluable. they point out the sins of the enemies, and what the u.s. doesn't do to hold its allies accountable for their behavior.
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case in point, saudi arabia, the u.s. points out in yemen but they still deny the right for women to drive. and they empower them to talk honestly with be officials in this and other countries. >> we're not just singling you out, egypt or saudi arabia or you, china. we put out these reports on every single country. we uphold everybody to that same standard, and ourselves to the standard as well. >> that's not enough for human rights activists. >> there are countries with huge strategic interests iraq and egypt and naima naima nigeria. and the u.s. administration decides to essentially ignore those abuses as far as other decisions go. not ignore them altogether, and
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they still raise issues, but not enough. >> other countries will weigh in on the u.s.' analysis and accuse the u.s. of not doing enough to fix it's open human rights problem. but even so, these set the bar for ethical behave, even if there's more to come. >> and as and amnesty international is criticizing the u.s. over its human rights. 80,000 people are held in confinement in u.s. jails every day. woodfox was held in isolation for 34 years. >> he was first pleased in solitary confinement. and his conviction was made three times but the judge ordered his release however the state of indiana has stood in the way of his release. >> they have called for not
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using solusing it. conditions are slowly getting for in pakistan, but as the heat drops, the government's handling of the heatwave is rising. >> after the scorching heat, relief in karachi. they are welcoming the gradual return of the cooler climate that they're accustomed to. >> compared to the previous day where breathing was difficult, the weather is better, and hopefully the weather will be better. >> hospitals and clinics are
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still struggling with a rush of patients, while the morgues run out of room for bodies. asks the government is accused of not doing enough. >> we have deployed the pakistan army and ranges. set up pleases in the press conference, and distributing 7 tons of mineral water. asks. >> the heat is coinciding with ramadan, where they don't eat or drink in the day. power cuts also worsened the problem as many weren't able to stay cool indoors. asks the temperatures, but criticisms about the government is a hot topic. many pakistanis say that the medical emergency should have been handled differently. >> coming up next, asks [ chanting ] a
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national strike against uber, why french taxi drivers are raining against the popular low cost car service. asks plus, the power of the indonesian volcano that forces people to flee their homes. asks
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>> more than 3 million vehicles combined takata exploding airbags have been blamed for at least eight deaths. for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john ig sig is here. >> -- john seigenthaleris here. >> for the u.s. and the affordable care act whether it's working. and plus, what today's ruling means for the robert's court. and housing discrimination, who will be most affected by that decision. >> we were in the living room. >> why's that? >> because i need to be able to see them. i didn't -- i didn't -- the break-ins, they had smashed a window, and they had broke through the back one. their room was in the back. >> you will find out where this family lives now because of the help from the federal government and where they say
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segregation still exists in this country snow. >> also tonight cuba's asylum seekers, why it's causing more cubans to try to reach u.s. shores. thousands of people in indonesia have fled their homes because of hot ash from a volcano. stephanie witnessed one of the eruptions first hand >> reporter: they have come outside of the danger zone to help the people living here. it's supposed to protect them from the air which is quite thick with ash here. and you can see it if you look at some of the areas here. beautiful lush green everything is turned a very sandy dull color. >> as we were interviewing a military commander something seems to happen. it was quite an intimidating sight.
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so we decided we would leave the area. there has just been a big eruption of the volcano. and we were talking to people up the road. so we're driving to get away from it. it's incredibly scary when you see it move forward you toward you and it highlight the power of mother nature. there's nothing you can do except get out of its way as fast as you can. over 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. no one knows when mount cinebung will go back to sleep. >> the actor known for his bowler hat patrick mcknee, died today in california.
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♪ ♪ hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. >> after the ruling. >> the affordable care act is not just the law of the land, it h remain the law of the land the supreme court upholds a crucial part of the affordable care act tonight the people whose lives defend on it and new challenges theftens the healthcare law home front the court's other big decision, a victory against housing discrimination. >> this area -- these apartments are known