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china? >> maybe 30 years later, 50 years later, who knows. >> reporter: but you'll keep trying. >> yeah keep trying. step by step yes. >> reporter: this was not an historic day, but another milestone in the campaign for gay rights in china. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. all clear in the nation's capitol, no injuries no shots fired. a train derails forcing thousands from their homes, the cargo on board that is toxic and flammable. and $18 billion, bp finally settles with gulf states over the deep water horizon disaster.
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♪ this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. an update to the developing news we have been bringing you this morning. police have given the all clear at the washington navy yard after earlier reports of gunfire and a possible shooter. you are looking live in the nation's capitol right now. police say there is no evidence of a shooting no arrests have been made and no weapons found. we're expecting a news conference on what happened in about 15 minutes, and we will bring that to you when it happens. mass evacuations in tennessee this mourning after a freight train derailed and caught on fire. 5,000 residents started their day in shelters after the train went off of the tracks.
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it was carrying highly flammable and toxic gas. several police officers were sent to the hospital because of fumes. homes and businesses were evacuated in a two-mile radius around the accident. >> we were asleep and police knocked on the door and said they would like to evacuate us because of a fire. >> the officers were going door-to-door, whatever personal items you have in your home that you love get them out now, and you need to evacuate. >> people were first taken to a nearby mall now a shelter is open another the local high school. four gulf states have reached an $18 billion settlement with bp over the deep water horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico. bp has said the spill cost more than $42 billion to clean up.
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11 workers died in the explosion. attorney general in a statement said, quote: louisiana governor and republican presidential candidate, bobby jindal is again refusing to let state agencies recognize same-sex marriages. they delayed the bab for a second time yesterday. at first he said he was waiting on a ruling from a federal appeals court. but when that ruling came he said he would seek another ruling. as millions of americans pack their bags for the 4th of july, we have learned the justice department is looking into whether airlines illegally worked together to artificially
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inflate take it prices. john henry smith has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the justice department is demanding five years of communications from united delta, american and southwest. together, those four carriers control 80% of the u.s. air travel market. most of the u.s. airports were bankrupt at one point last decade, so they tried to take control of the situation through the mergers, charging fees and keeping capacity in check. the question though is whether they somehow colluded to do that. that's the question the department of justice says it is investigating at the behest of this senator. >> holding down supply economics 101, that is a violation of law if it is misuse of market power. >> they want to know about their communications with wall street
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with analysts among themselves as it relates to internal discussions that they are having about airline capacity routes and the addition of extra seats. >> reporter: after years of financial tour -- turmoil, u.s. airlines returned to profitable two years ago. >> airfares are higher now than they were several years ago. really the first time in history that airlines have manage to do that. >> reporter: and fairs have stayed high despite lower fuel costs, but one analyst thinks it will be difficult to prove airlines have colluded. >> if the definition is the airline executives are calling each other up and saying what they are doing the next day with their businesses there's no smoking gun there. airlines for america, which represents the country's biggest
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carriers denies the charges, they say domestic airlines quote, compete vigorously every day. the u.s. has submitted a formal request to extradite a group of fifa officials from switzerland. in that probe has spanned 27 years. all men have objected to being sent to the u.s. they are among 14 men indicted. some good news on the economy, the monthly jobs report is out. >> the headline figures were pretty encouraging, but when you dig down into it a little bit, into the details, the details are not so encouraging. the economy added 223,000 jobs last month. that was around what the consensus was. the unemployment rate fell to 5.3%. when you look at the reason why, it's because the number of
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people participating in the labor force, the number of people actively looking for a job fell to the lowest level since 1977. now let diabetes into those details. when we take a look at the mix of jobs we didn't see a lot of those high-quality jobs we were looking for. the mining sector continued to shed job. that is a deceleration of how many jobs they have been losing but we have seen that sector losing 71,000 jobs since december of last year you are credit that to lower oil prices. now this is the detail that a lot of people are going to concentrate on and you can bet that janet yellen will be looking at that is average hourly wages, basically stagnant. year-over-year, stephanie that's only 2%. that's not what she wants to see. she wants to see stronger wage growth. so this is what a lot of people
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are going to be concentrating on right now. there are a couple of reasons for this. one could be the date -- this was gauged on the 12th which fell on friday in june. but regardless this is not what the fed wants to see. >> so i guess the logical question is what does this mean for interest rates. >> of course. everybody is wondering is the fed going to pull the trigger in september or december? but when you look at average hourly wages not what the fed is looking for, not what america is looking for. america wants a raise. so we still want to see more robust wage growth that would fall in line with the number of jobs being created. >> thank you. big changes at the new york prison where two convicted felons escaped last month. earlier is this week the prison's former superintendent and 11 other employees were placed on leave. baltimore police have
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arrested a man alleged to have set fire to a west baltimore cvs during the protests over the death of freddie gray. the fbi says the fire caused more than a million dollars worth of damage. once again we are awaiting a live news conference in washington. police and the major are expected to brief the press at the u.s. navy yard. there was a deadly shooting at the same navy yard back in 2013, 12 people were killed then. retired army major mike lyons is our national security contributor, joining us via skype. mike, was there an overreaction we were live on the air when all of this was unfolding. streets were closed. multitudes of authorities sent in to what appears to be nothing at all. >> they probably just executed
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the first few pages of what is a very robust response plan and in that plan it has them shutting down those streets theyedthey did, locking people in their offices, and making sure they have all of these bases covered. so it -- if it turns out to be a very well-thought out drill, that will be okay. >> how common are threats that bring out this kind of response. >> i would say almost daily commanders get these kinds of threats. bomb threats. they are dialed in phoned in, text messages and twitter feeds, they have to respond to every one of them. they have to run the traps on each of them to make sure that they are just that they are just threats. if this case if they heard
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sounds that's a different type of threat. >> and again, some of this response might have been because of the shooting that happened there in 2013, a massive shooting that killed 13 people. >> i think that has a lot to do with it, considering the warnings we have been getting from the fbi on potentially these kinds of targets. that would be something from -- the enemy's perspective, al-qaeda, let's say, they do go back to places they have attacked before. so that's why again the plan for response is likely very robust and that was executed this morning. >> mike lyons, thank you. we'll bring you that news conference live when it happens. crowds lined up outside greek banks again this morning, with only limited access to get their money. why european leaders are putting off talks for now. puerto rico is facing an uncurrent financial future.
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we're hear from the governor of the island.
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welcome back to al jazeera america. it is 10:43, eastern. rescue crews are searching for survivors after a ferry capsized in the philippines. at least 36 people are dead and nearly 20 are missing. the philippine's coast guard says bad weather caused the accident. egypt's muslim brotherhood is calling for an outright revolt against the government. more than a 100 people were killed in the sinai. nuclear talks continue to drag on over iran's nuclear program. world leaders are set to continue talks to hammer out a final deal until at least next week. an appeals courted in
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afghanistan has thrown out the death sentences against four men convicted in the mob killing of a woman in march. three of the men were instead given 20 year jail terms. the woman was beaten and burned in march after she was falsely accused of burning a copy of the quran. european finance ministers are putting off any further talks with greek, until they have a vote on the referendum on sunday. people lined up again outside of banks. john psaropoulos is live in athens. john greece's finance minister made an interesting announce about his own future this morning. tell us more. >> reporter: well he said that if there is a yes vote in sunday's referendum he may not be finance minister the next day, and i think it's underhere that the government may not be in power the next day either.
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because the government has staked it's a on the no vote. if it was a yes vote it would be seen as a public censure on the government policy and it will be seen that negotiations have gone the way. it is also playing in politics. the no vote of course wants syriza to remain in power. the no vote doesn't trust creditors to come up with any sort of decent deal for the greeks. they do trust the government they don't trust the people on the other side of the table. but the yes vote doesn't trust the government. so it's a question of who is mistrusted most that decides whether you go to the yes camp or the no camp. >> and what do we know about how
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public sentiment is actually shaping up ahead of sunday's referendum, john? >> reporter: well if you go to the yes rallies, you realize that everybody there is educated urban, middle class professionals, and they are all treating and facebooking what they are doing, so the cell phone reception completely jams up. they are the people who have the greatest investment in the development of greece's economy, and the greatest intercourse with the economies of other countries. the no vote tends to be less sophisticated, lower-earning people and i would venture to guess the no vote will be the majority outside of the larger cities as well. so i think you have a demographic divide and the idealogical divide the left wing versus the centerists. it's very difficult to call this referendum. most polls show that the no vote
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is still ahead, but it's just impossible really to say what is going to happen on sunday because the yes vote has been advancing, particularly under the bombardment of threatening statements made by euro zone leaders that after a no vote greece will have no place in the euro zone it was said again today from the dutch foreign minister. and there is also the bombardment to the media in the case that greece is lost in a no vote. puerto rico also faces an uncertain economic future. the island is in more than $70 billion of debt but has avoided default as of now despite the governor earlier saying the government could not pay its debt. we spoke to his predecessor earlier. >> part of the problem has been a change in fiscal policy in
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puerto rico. puerto rico is too big, and taxes are too high and that has to change. you have to bring down expenses and bring down taxes again, otherwise there won't be economic growth and without economic growth there's no way to get out of this problem. if you look at the last ten years in our economy, the only period of time in which there was growth was 2011 and 2012 where we actually had already cut expenses by 20% in the first two years of my tenure and taxes started coming down so again, the data is there, of course it was tepid growth so was the case at the national level, but yet in the last ten years, the only time when we have experienced growth was when he cut expenses and taxes. >> reporter: he says rising taxes in puerto rico have caused a max exodus of workers they are moving to mainland states like
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texas and florida to look for work. on the u.s. border with mexico human smuggling is all too common. and now police report that the smugglers are getting younger. heidi zhou castro reports. >> reporter: junior benjamin rodriguez was raised in this neighborhood. sharing a trailer with his mother stepfather, and ten brothers and sisters. this impoverished border community is a haven for organized crime, and where the promise of $500 turned rodriguez at age 18, into a human smuggler. he picked up 16 undocumented immigrants from a stash house. a human smuggling ring has acquired the 8th grader to drive the immigrants deeper into the country, and despite having no
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experience behind the wheel, junior said yes. so you thought you could just drive them and no one would realize what you were doing? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: the swerving van made it less than two miles. an ij enth signaled for him to stop, and the teen panicked lost control on this road rolling the van, and killing nine passengers. he is now serving 20 years for manslaughter the gravity of the accident allowed the state to try to convict him as an adult. but even as police have doubled their efforts to combat gang activity in schools, cartels have stepped up their pressure on kids. police report heavy recruitment activity, and they fear that more kids are now being lured into the human smuggling trade. heidi zhou castro, al jazeera, mission, texas.
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>> you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. new evidence of the killing of a migrant farmers in washington state. alan schauffler has a look at the new documents and video of the fatal confrontation. >> reporter: new video from witnesses at the scene, and police dash cameras. all a part of the investigative record the prosecutor will used to determine if criminal charges will follow. a detailed time line, shows the first report throwing rocks, just a minute later the first officer arrives on scene. more follow at 5:11, dash cam video shows a taser has been deployed with little effect. he continues throwing rocks at police. one witness laughing while this cell phone video is shot. [ laughter ]
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>> reporter: a second taser attempt fails and at 5:12, shots are fired. as he throws a rock turns and runs. changing directions he turns begins to raise his arms from his sides and is brought down by another volley of shots. on the sidewalk he is handcuffed nearly two minutes after he falls. no cpr is administered for nearly five more minutes. the toxicology report shows he was probably high on meth. brought to passco from mexico his mother and father were briefed on the investigation. they say they are not in a hurry. they can wait for justice for their son. their attorneys, though are
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much less patient with the way the investigation was conducted and in particular with how long it took to question the officers. >> you don't wait seven weeks to interview the principal parties involved. i don't care what town that is in passco new york city south carolina, cleveland, detroit, or miami, florida. >> reporter: and the lawyer representing the widow and two children, who has filed a $25 million suit against the city, says the case has been mishandled at every level. >> i'm frustrated with the delay, i'm frustrated with the prosecutor, the attorney general, the u.s. attorney, and the governor. why haven't they stepped in and made this process go far more quickly than it has to date. >> reporter: the prosecutor isn't commenting on the release of information, and has offered no specific time line. what is certain is the people of
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passco know much more today about what happened that night. the woman's world cup finals are set. team usa ousted germany on tuesday, now they know who they oppoen lent be.
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>> the finals are set and the team that did that won't be
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going. it would have worked except it was the wrong net. the defender made the error in the 92 minute and that gave japan the win, and a chance to play team usa. audrey hepburn was a major style icon of the 60s, now a new generation is getting an introduction to her look. >> reporter: there are imitator imitators, but there is only one audrey hepburn. she invented a style that remains faxable more than 60 years on. there are some wonderful photographs of audrey hepburn in this show. there are more than 80 photographs starting as a young child on to the london stage, and hollywood stardom.
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the show combines the intimate with the iconic images reproduced in so many photographs. >> she would be very touched and honored to be at the national portrait gallery. she wouldn't be believe to be here. >> reporter: she theft the netherlands for the bright lights of london when she was just 19. a chorus girl and dancer who stood out from the rest even before she has a smart haircut and significant style. it wasn't long before hollywood beckoned. roman holiday ensured hepburn's status as a star. and the highest-paid actress at the time. advance ticket sales have been brisk, the magic continues. >> they are ages 18 to 22 and they are all discovering her,
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and of course the old generation that i'm from who remembers when the film came out. >> reporter: she never succumbed to becoming a diva. she was never late on the film set, and was polite to one and all. she focused that same professionalism in her final role as an ambassador for unicef. giving up only when she discovered she has inoperable colon cancer. she died at age 63. she endures more than any other actress, the wide-eyed fashion icon, the definitive audrey hepburn. thanks for watching. i'm stephanie sy in new york. in two minutes the latest on the conflict on egypt's sinai peninsula, live from our studios in doha.
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have a good morning, and thanks for watching. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ ♪ welcome to the news hour live from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. coming up in the program, the muslim brotherhood calls for an uprising in egypt after security forces killed 13 of its members. beaten abused and used as soldiers. fears grow for a future generation of children in syria. british oil giant bp agrees to pay almost $19 billion f