thank you for coming on the programme. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure look forward to talking more with you about this important topic. >> that's the show. i'm david shuster in for ali velshi. thanks for watching. historic ruling. [ chanting ] the supreme court saves president obama's signature domestic achievement. >> today's decision has monumental significance. upholding a key part of the affordable care act. more legal battles lie ahead. civil rights victory - justices ruled in favour of a crucial legal strategy used to fight housing discrimination against

minorities. a city in mourning - the first funerals are held for victims of the south carolina church shooting as charleston prepares for an emotional farewell for the pastor clementa pinckney danger zone - after centuries of silence, indonesia's mt sinabung roars to life. the latest eruption sent whole villages running for cover good evening, i'm antonio mora this is al jazeera america. we begone with a supreme court decision that impacts the health care of millions of smerps. -- americans. in a 6-3 decision justices ruled in favour of a key limit of obama care. millions that rely on subsidies to pay for health care of covered. supporters of the law gathered outside the court. when the ruling came down they

let out a cheer and began to celebrate. >> the 6-3 decision means government subsidies to help low and moderate americans pay for health insurance, will continue to be available nationwide not just in the state that set up their own health care exchanges. supporters were jubilant. make no mistake about this. today's decision has monumental significance. it means that the affordable care act is not just the law of the land. it will remain the law of the land. >> if the court had gone the other way, 6.4 million people in 34 states who buy their insurance through the federal website health care.cove would have lost subsidies making health care unaffordable.

four words reading - tax credits are available to those that enroll in health care through an exchange: chief justice john roberts writing for the major said said the words must be tape in context saying: on the other side justice scalia announced a dissent from the bench calling the majority opinion: he went on to say:

the group behind the challenge was clearly disappointed. >> today's rule is a tragedy for the rule of law in this country. in a 6-3 decision the supreme court has twisted and somersaulted on rules of statutory interpretation. >> this is the second time in three years that the supreme court upheld a key provision of the aca. this time more definitively. other legal challenges are winding their way through the lower courts much after this ruling, it appears the aca is on firm legal ground. today's ruling on the affordable care act is an affirmation of president barack obama's costly political battle to make it a reality. the president and congress had plenty to say after the justices

handed down their decision. mike viqueira has that part of the story. >> reporter: in the wake of the decision the president echoed the chance of supporters outside the supreme court. >> the affordable care act is here to stay. [ chanting ] >> reporter: moments after the news broke, the white house released this photo of a clearly elated president, sharing a celebratory hug with staff. president obama called for a halt to efforts to chip away or repeal the affordable care act. >> this law is working, and it will keep doing just that. five years in, this is no longer about a law, it's not about the affordable care act, as legislation, or obama care as a political football. this is health care in america. >> after the loss at the supreme court, house speaker john boehner said republicans will seek a way to dismantle the law. >> the reason with obama care is still fundamentally the same.

the law is broken. we'll continue our ests to do everything we can to put the american people back in charm of their health care not the government. >> let's celebrate the affordable care act. snow for democrats who lost control of the house and senate after the law was passed in 2010 it was a moment of vindication. >> they are jubilant about this. it's a victory for commonsense and families. >> there has been setbacks. including the rocky launch of healthcare.gov. in the end, obama care survived a challenge. >> today is a victory for hard-working americans. whose lives are more secure. because of this law. >> antonio, even though john boehner and other republicans vowed to continue their plight against obama care there's into account in the pipeline. no legislation forthcoming that they'll bring to the house or

senate floor. >> the justices handed down an important decision on civil rights in housing. in a 5-4 vote the court agreed with a broad reading of the 1968 fair housing act. simply put, housing discrimination does not have to be intentional for is to be illegal. activists say the decision will make it easier to challenge lending practices and other policies that have a negative impact on minorities. we heard the legal ramifications but how has hidden bias affected low income families struggling to find homes. >> heidi zhou-castro found out in dallas. >> the gunshot, the gangs. >> reporter: there's a reason tracy carries a baseball bat. >> you know this area - these apartments are known for notorious drug dealing. >> reporter: in the last month police investigated three

shootings, four assaults and 15 burglaries and robberies in this one square mile alone. during the three years she lived here she took drastic measures. >> we were sleeping in the living room. >> why is that? >> i needed to see them. >> at the time, leaving the neighbourhood was not an options. she receives public housing assistance through the dallas housing authority. in 2008 when the agency made available 1,000 units in nonsegregated parts of dallas 14,000 black families applied. the recent data shows 94% of black families in the programme live in segregated neighbourhoods. they are poor and high crime much. >> the families that ask for assistance are those looking to move to high opportunity areas. >> reporter: last year she enlifted the help of an inclusive communities project officer. >> they'll compete amongst

themselves hearing about things in these areas. "no, i want my clipped in there." it's not easy. >> the nonprofit had to win a lawsuit to build low income housing in this community. >> she is among the lucky few able to move into the development north of her old neighbourhood. >> what is it like for you, the difference now at night when you are not sleeping on the couch any more. >> it's peaceful. it's like you don't have worries, it's like you just have a tonne of bricks lifted off your shoulder. >> so do you think there's discrimination in the fact that they don't give people choices. >> it is. >> reporter: a few doors down a couple with a similar struggle to find house and have a greater perspective. >> this is after you started going to the white school. >> not long after i started

going to the white school. this was the school picture. >> reporter: rosa and chester were born into segregation, and say traces of that segregation exists today. >> reporter: do you feel nowadays that there is still segregation. >> i do. there's some neighbourhoods where they just don't want you there. because i believe in quality, and i felt it doesn't matter what colour you are, you deserve the same as any other colour. >> reporter: tracy goes to school for social work and works full-time as a customer service agent and hopes to be off government assistance by august. she said she does it all for her children. >> i don't care if i have to pick cans for the rest of my life to make sure they are okay and they make it. >> there's no better place to launch from than here in a good

neighbourhood congress gave final approval to a component of the fast-track trade bill. the house passed a measure helping americans who lose their jobs because of international trade tools. the trade adjustment assistance bill offers training job search assistance and other benefits to workers. the bill was approved by the senate and heads to the president's desk. >> the first funerals were held for nine victims of a church shooting in south carolina. president obama will be in charleston to deliver the eulogy for his friend the church's pastor. many hope it will help the city start to heal. >> reporter: hundreds of mourners including reverend jesse jackson and mark san ford filed into royal missionary baptist church to pay final respects to eth ill. some carried signs saying love

wince. the 70-year-old grandmother was one of the first to be laid to rest. >> a victim of hate. she wan de a symbol for love. that's what she was in life. >> reporter: 45 sharonda, a part-time minister and speech pathologist was buried thursday. >> and mourners turned out for the first of two visitations for state senator clementa pinckney in his home town in south carolina. >> he grew up with me. because we were like a mother to him. we were like a mentor to him. and we are so proud of him. he grew up to be everything we thought and knew that he could be. >> reporter: at midday police began to put up barricades for the funeral, friday at the arena. thousands of mourners are expected at the service, where president obama will deliver the eulogy. vice president joe biden house

speaker and a congressional delegation are expected to attend. the charleston county council renamed the library where shooting victim works, and the college of charleston where the 54-year-old worked announced a scholarship in her name investigators believe a fire at a baptist church in charlotte north carolina was set on purpose and are looking into whether the case of arson was a hate crime, because the congregation was black. the briar creek road baptist church sustained $250,000 in damages. the sanctuary is intact. services will be held $sunday. hours after a sightseeing plane went missing in alaska the coast guard found that it crashed on the edge of a cliff. a helicopter spotted it 800 feet above a lake. rescuers are trying to reach the

area officials say the plane was carrying eight cruise ship passengers and a pilot. on a shore trip sold through a cruise company. a medical team is sent. there's no word on their condition in the waters off florida, officials are seeing an effect of a change in u.s.-kooub re relations, how the focus is prompting more migrants to make a dangerous journey. in the state department report it razes criticisms about what it leaves out.

i.s.i.l. launched a series of deadly attacks on cities in northern syria. one of the attacks was in kobane, near the turkish border. i.s.i.l. fighters disguised themselves in kurdish uniforms and detonated a number of truck bombs. 35 civilians were killed. the attacks came after a series

of setbacks for i.s.i.l. in syria four months after a scheduled release, the u.s. state department published its human rights report. some speculated the delay was to avoid offending iran before the nuclear deal deadline days away. rosalind jordan looks at what the report reveals and what it wasn't. >> reporter: political rivals arrested and gaoled in rush e. government opponents subject to brutal punishment in saudi arabia. crackdowns on the freedom of expression and rite of assembly in ethiopia. these are some of the abuses highlighted in the u.s. state determinate human rites report for 2014. >> my advice to any leader upset by the findings is to is to examine them. to look at the practices of their country. >> reporter: what's more, u.s.

officials say government human rights violations made it easier for groups like i.s.i.l., boko haram, and al-shabab to commit their own abuses. >> yes, you have a right and a duty to do everything you can to defeat organizations like i.s.i.l., you have to do it in a way that respects human rights. otherwise not only are you committing injustices, you'll undermine the shared fight. >> human rights activists say the reports are valuable. they spell out the sins fo allies and enemies, saudi arabia - is a case in point. the u.s. supports the air war. saudi denies women the right to drive. it flogs and executes people that do not tow the government line. u.s. officials say the report empowers them to talk honestly with officials in this and other countries. >> we are not just singling you out, egypt. you out, saudi arabia, you out, china. we put out the reports in every

country, and try to hold everywhere to the same standard, and ourselves to that standard as well. >> that is not enough for human rights activists. >> there are countries where there's huge strategic interests like iraq and egypt. and even nigeria. where you have facts of the human rights abuses and the administration decides to ignore the abuses as far as other decisions go. not ignore them. they raise issues, but they don't do enough. >> others will weigh in on the analysis, and accuse the u.s. of not doing enough to fix its own human rights problem. even so, these reports set the bar for ethical good behaviour, even if improvements are slow to come. for decades cuban migrants risked their lives to get to the u.s. if they make it to land they stay.

if intercepted, they are turned back. havana and washington has not stopped the straight journeys. if anything it's encouraging more cubans to make the trip. >> reporter: this is the moment that nine cubans set foot on u.s. soil. their arrival last month captureded on video by a florida res den. what should have taken 20 hours became a 5-day journey using a bucket to bail out water along the way, on a home-made boat. >> it's very bad. >> reporter: they ran out of the food. by the fifth day lost hope. >> translation: we thought we'd never see land. we were about to let the wind drift us away. >> reporter: moments later a slither of land in the distance.

florida. this was his second attempt at coming for fear the u.s. will change premp shall treatment shoords cubans. migrants intercepted at sea are sent back. those that touch american soil can stay. it's called the wet foot-dry foot policy. >> we see an uptick in activity. >> reporter: the coast guard sees a spike in cubans coming. from december to april '37% more cubans took to the sea, compared to left year. this is the cutter that you use. >> this is a brand new cutter. >> reporter: the coast guard showed us the boats used to pick up migrants. >> they are fed, given showers and dry clothes while we wait it repatriate them back to a country of origin. >> i imagine when the migrants see you they want to get away

from the coast guard. what is your rehabilitation. >> when we come across the veries ejs they are in distrerks in need of help this man and his fellow migrants are staying in a hotel, paid for by a nonprofit partly funded government. they'll can apply for refugee benefits. 180 monthly for the first eight month, welfare programs like medicaid and food stamp. many can travel back to cuba. this exodus helped spark the wet foot-dry foot policies. garcia and 30,000 fled the island. they were fit back at sea, sent to guantanamo and brought to the u.s. >> i stayed in guantanamo bay. >> she helps fellow cubans come to the u.s. >> i receive emails texts, everything every day.

>> some say that they are not political refugees they want a better economic future and so do a bunch of other immigrants. >> that is the problem. the new generation in cuba don't see the political problems. >> is it fair for cubans to have special treatment in the u.s. when others don't have that same right? >> it's fair, and it's not fair. the cuba is the same of columbians mexican people. it's the same. with only one difference. that country is not a democratic country. we have to big difference. we live on there. >> reporter: this man doesn't thing the policy is fair but it benefits him, and he's happy to be here. calling the u.s. paradise he says risking his life is not worth it

california is a step closer to requiring vaccinations for almost all school children. in a state assembly a measure was approved for personal belief exemptions allowing many parents to put kids in school without getting them vaccinated. that is blamed in part for a measles outbreak in disneyland sickening more than 100 people. the governor has not said if he'll sign the bill into law hillary clinton said she turned over all her emails related to the 2012 attack in benghazi. evidence suggests that may not be true. the presidential candidate provided 55,000 payments of material. the state department received 15 libya-related messages clinton did not submit. a house committee member discovered mails this month when subpoenaing the person at the other end of the correspondence.

new jersey governor chris christie is refuting reports he plans to join the list of g.o.p. presidential hopefuls. he's scheduled to give a speech at his high school alma'am arter. there has been speculation he'll announce a bit then. he denied reports. too close for comfort. thousands free to safety after a volcano blasts out ash. >> how a woman and her baby survived four days in the jungle after a plane crash.

in france, clashes between protesters and police. taxi drivers demonstrated against the ride-sharing service uber, which they say is hurting their business. protesters damaged cars and attacked cars they believed were working for uber. nearly 3,000 took part in a strike across the country

in indonesia thousands fled their homes to escape hot ash from mt sanaa bouping. stephanie dekker and her team witnessed one eruption. >> the army came to some of the villages outside the danger zone to hand people living here mosques. these mosques are supposed to protect them from the air. it was thick with ash, hard to breath. you won't see it. if you look down the areas, it is usually beautiful, lush green. everything was turned a sandy dull colour. as we interviewed a military commander something seems to happen. it was quite an intimidating site. so we decided to leave the area. there has been a big eruption of the volcano. we were talking to people in a village up the road.

we are driving to get away with it. it's scary seeing the cloud moving towards you. it moves fast and highlights the power of mother nature and makes you release there's nothing to do but to try and get out of its way as fast as you can. >> over 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. no one knows when mt sinabung will go back to sleep four days after a small plane went down in a remote columbian jungle rescuers found two passengers alive. a woman and her baby son survived the crash that killed the pilot. the mother created a crude shelter and drank coconut water. rescuers tracked the woman because she left a trail of its

i'm antonio mora thanks for joining us. for more news head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story". [ ♪♪ ] the dagger - pointed at the throat of the affordable care act has been pulled away. the case king verse burwell had been decided by the supreme court and the justices announced that the law stands. now what. will states that held back buy in or is one battle ends does another begin. is the fight over obama care really