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>> stunning indictment. >> purposeful killing of another. that's what makes it murder. he purposely killed him. >> a white police officer is charged with murder after killing an unarmed black man during a traffic stop. possible break through. experts are headed to a remote island in the indian ocean to see if a large piece of debris is part of a wing from malaysia air flight 370 that vanished more than a year ago.
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fugitives faint. >> we do believe the reports of his death are credible. >> reports about miss steer use taliban leader, mulla omar. >> she never said she wanted to kill people. she didn't tell me. >> the colorado shooter's mother takes stand as the jury weighs her son's sentence. >> good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. we begin tonight in ohio with the deadly police involved shooting that prosecutors are calling senseless asinine and intentional. today a grand jury indicted university of cincinnati police officer ray tensing on murder and manslaughter charges. after pulling samuel did hebose's car over. bisi onile-ere has the story.
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>> antonio, the police officer turned himself over to authorities this afternoon. the family spent weeks to release that video. now that it's identity they are asking the community the remain calm. >> newly released police body cam video captures the last moments of samuel debose's life. it's july 19th and the 43-year-old black man is stopped buy white university of cincinnati police officer for a missing front license plate. seconds later officer ray tensing shoots did hebose in the head killing him. >> stop! >> wednesday, tensing was indicted for murder. >> i've been doing this for over 30 years. this is the most asinine act i've ever seen a police officer make. totally unwarranted. >> hamilton county prosecutor joe deters appeared emotional,
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announcing the indictment. >> it is an absolute tragedy in the year 2015, that anyone would behave in this manner. it was senseless. >> officer tensing initially told investigators that he was dragged by did hebose's car before firing a fatal shot. >> he's dragging me now. >> but the body cam video tells a much different story. tensingh fell back but he was never dragged. >> he should never be a police officer. >> did hebose's family pressured the police to release the video. >> my son did nothing, absolutely nothing to provoke this man. >> the officer was on police administrative leave. the university fired him
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wednesday afternoon. >> sounds passionsful, he loved people, he lived peaceful you know and in his death we want to remain peaceful, you know, like my mom said. you know let god fight the battle. >> the city and the university of cincinnati said they will both launch reviews of the school's police department. cincinnati mayor john cranley said in a subsequent statement that there would be investigation. >> life behind bars if convicted, he will be arraigned tomorrow. antonio. >> bisi onile-ere reporting. malaysia airlines is sending a team to investigate debris that could be from missing flight mh370 what appears to be part of a wing washed up on the french island of reunion on the indian ocean. the team says it's too early to
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speculate on the origin. disappeared march of 2014 while flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. >> russia has blocked setting up an international tribunal on the downing of another malaysia airlines flight, mh 17. all 298 people on board died whether the plane crashed in july of 2014. pro-russian separatists are suspected of firing often the plane but russians say ukrainians are responsible. >> jennifer glasse last more on mulla omar's leadership of the
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taliban as the group is set to resume talks with the afghan government. >> mulla omar was the radio conclusionive leader of the taliban. remained a mystery in the final years of list life his be whereabouts. communications from him came from the taliban's website usually on holidays or anniversaries. it was never clear if they were really his words. as a young man he was a mujahideen fighter, battling the soviet occupation of afghanistan doouduring the 1980s. >> when the taliban was arising the need to have a leader eventually the taliban chose him because he had 30 people and he had some weapons to use. the second reason, he was a famous and well viewed person.
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>> his 30 fighters became thousands. the taliban took over afghanistan in 1996. under mulla omar's command the taliban established security and order in a country ravaged by violence. the taliban's strict interntion interpretation of the taliban meant strict discipline was meted out. he allowed osama bin laden refuge in afghanistan, it was a close relationship, their bond became familial when bin laden's son married omar's daughter. u.s. demanded the taliban give up bin laden, omar refused.
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expelling the guest in pashtoon society. they failed to capture mulla omar. after four quiet years still in hiding, mulla omar engaged had war againstham i.t against hame. representatives a political office in qatar, after years of saying they would never negotiate with what they called a puppet government, taliban officials sat down with afghan officials. mulla omar was nowhere to be seen. reports suggested he was long
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dead but the taliban movement he started is gaining a new political life with questions now who its next leader will be. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. top members of the obama administration were back on capitol hill today for more hearings on the iran nuclear deal. as libby casey reports the senate armed services committee grilled the officials over the agreement's possible impact over u.s. defense. >> reporter: top military brass took a turn on capitol hill adding their voices and credentials to the military plan. >> it's a good deal, because it's prevents iran getting a weapon in comprehensive and verifiable way. >> pledging the u.s. is continuing to advance its military capabilities leaving open all options if iran walks away from the deal. >> and i've said from the start that relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with iran
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diplomatically is superior to doing that militarily but i will sustain the military options in case that becomes necessary. >> but republicans say that doesn't go far enough. >> the ultimate gant that iran will not get a nuclear weapon is not a 109 page document. it is the capability of the u.s. military to do what is necessary if all else fails. and yet this agreement would enable iran to construct the kind of advanced military arsenal that could make our military option far costlier to employ. >> democrats are weighing their options, it's their support the white house needs to prevent congress from derailing the deal. >> do you believe in we walk away from this deal iran has the nuclear weapon by christmas? >> they could generate the where materials in months. >> delay iran's ability to develop a nuclear weapon and they deny gop claims that there are dangerous details in
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so-called side deals between iran and the international atomic energy agency or iaea. >> it's a confidential agreement it's being pos churd as this -- it is the confidential agreement which is a standard procedure of the iaea. we have lived with the iaea for years. >> we win. >> republican senators using the hearing take an aggressive stance against the obama administration. >> you are trofg answer the question. secretary carter is it correct to say that vawnt leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world? >> i was asked before and i believe that is true yes. >> those are not the supporters that the white house hopes to is win over, it's democrats and constituents that will be heard from during the long recess.
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libby casey, al jazeera, washington. >> jonathan pollard is the former u.s. naval intelligence analyst who was sentenced to life in 1987 after passing top secret u.s. government information to israel. usual terms of parole allows inmates to travel outside the u.s. after four years. israel began demolition work on a housing complex in the west bank today, the two partially built blocks had been constructed illegally on palestinian owned land. meanwhile, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu flounced two new projects in the west bank. , netanyahu also gave approval for 400 new settlement homes in east jerusalem.
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the mother of the colorado theater shooter tries to convince a jury to spare her son's life. >> i would have been crawling on all fours to get to him. >> what she said about the months leading up to the massacre. and the age are over the killing of a famous lion is growing on social media, the reaction to the illegal hunt. hunt.
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>> the mother of the colorado movie theater has broken her silence. today arlene holmes took to the stand for the first time to testimony during her son's sentencing hearing. jurors will decide whether holmes should be put to death or serve life without parole. today mrs. holmes contradicted the psychologist's testimony. >> did she ever admit to you that she was concerned because
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he expressed homocidal ideation? >> i would have been crawling on all fours to get to him. he has never said he wanted to kill people. she didn't -- she didn't -- she didn't tell me. she didn't tell me. >> james holmes was convicted of killing 12 people and injuring 70 oirts at a movie theater in july of 2012. jurors could begin deliberating his sentence as early as tomorrow. dr. wendy walsh is a accommodation anpsychologist an. state laws vary but colorado law is narrow, it says that a mental health professional has no
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obligation to warn people about a possibly violent patient unless that patient is threatening someone specifically. so by that standard we could see another case like this one where someone just kills people randomly. >> well i think it's important to understand is that maintaining confidentiality within a therapist patient rim, is so important, if they say oh i feel like killing people, is such a fine line, a wide bert shalbergtberthshall we say. if you feel someone is in imminent danger you actually have a duty to report. saying, i'm thinking of killing people, is not enough to alert the police. >> what could be done? a psychologist testified he told
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her he had homocidal thoughts three to four times a day. >> just like assessing for suicidality, i'm sure the psychologist assessed for lom homicidality. she would have questioned him in detail about whether that plan was real and it was happening. but again you have to have an identifiable victim. >> but again the psychiatrist was concerned enough and she said so that she called holmes parents, even though that, in fact, violated his confiden confidentiality. should she have called them or thought called them at all? >> legally she had no reason to say this. morally that's a question for other people to decide. >> so if there is so much concern about confidentiality, because i guess the question is,
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if patients don't feel comfortable with that that people won't seek help. so how then do you balance it? i mean is there simply no way of balancing kind of public safety with that private benefit of confidentiality? >> or we will waste the time of law enforcement because of human national tendency of having home sidal tendencies. there are plenty of humans that have home sidal tendencies that will never turn into behavior. violence and oppression is be i'm not sure what the answer is but maintaining that confidentiality is paramount but also if there's an identifiable victim then yes, you have a duty to report. in this case there was no identifiable victims. >> there was talk about civil lawsuits against the therapist
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in the jurisdiction she are works. the law is going to protect the therapist and the university in this case. >> wendy walsh, thank you for taking time. >> thank you. >> drafting a bill restricting funding to planned parenthood. the conservative center for medical progress released a third undercover video this week, they have accused planned parenthood for profiting from abortions. the organization says it has never profited from research fetal tissue but only recouped expense which is legal. three university of virginia are alumni in the discredited rape story are suing the writer, the magazine and the publisher. they are asking for at least $225,000. an article with last summer,
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although it used pseudo snimless, directly implicate su. >> be the calls for legal action against american dentist who killed the animal have been spreading on social media. john terret joins us now. there are a lot of angry reaction is. >> oh boy, this is causing a stink around the world, the dentist must really be regretting this. but there is debate in this dismab way, when he killed cecil, or cecil. social media is calling for just here in the u.s. still no time for minnesota dentist, walter palmer, killer of the beloved zimbabwe loin
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cecil, the u.s. fish and wildlife service is working with the officials in zimbabwe. patients received a letter apologizing for disruption to his business. palmer saying, i deeply regret my pursuit of an activity i love and practice responsibly and illegally resulted in the taking of this lion. that was never my is purpose. at the site of #cecil the lion, be comedian ricky jervais is struggling to imagine anything more beautiful than this. knockout boxer lennox lewis, says regardless, trophy hunting is a very sick pastime.
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luring cecil, a much loved favorite, out of the compound he was safe in, with raw meat and shot him with an arrow then stalked him for three days and shot him and beheaded him and skinned him. there is a gray area whether what he did was legal or not in zimbabwe. comments like this from late night's jimmy kimmel. >> if you can make this into a positive you can -- sorry, i'm -- okay, okay, make a donation to support him at the very least maybe we can show the world that not all americans are like this jack-hole here this dentist. >> the killing of cecil lit up social media but the truth is lions are hunted and killed every year. the international union for the
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conservation of nature estimates trophy hunting tourists most of them from the u.s. illegally lel some 30,00 300 a year. there are only about 30,000 left in the wild. >> now there is a mechanism to really bring about this concern. and trust me government officials are paying attention to this. they don't want people to say, you know what i'm not even going to be zimbabw zimbabwe anymore. they don't care about their animals. >> killing one is like killing hundreds of human beings. >> be thank you john. lack of water is leading to serious health concerns in one city. city.
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>> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> growing up fast. >> my quest is to find me and me is not here. >> the devastating four year drought in california has caused crop prices to soar and led to
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mandatory restrictions on water usage. now it's threatening residents' health. now al jazeera is following residents in one of the hardest hit towns. jennifer glasse in the town of porterville. >> her eyes get red her throat is hurting and her skin is becoming more and more dry. >> ramirez lives in east porterville, california. where the ongoing water crisis is becoming a health crisis. >> you're dealing with things you typically don't see in first world society. >> dr. cimarron sado much of her day is treating patients like ramirez, dr. sadoo blames the drought. >> underlying young issues such
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as copd asthma, allergies. >> california has some of the worst are ar air pollution in te country. without the rain, the air particles linger in the air longer. you look behind me, that illustrates how bad the air quality is here. those mountains are almost invisible. east porterville last no are central water system, be the community relies on be individual wells, more than half of the 7500 residents have no running water. >> can you tell me about that struggle? >> al jazeera first reported on east porterville's emergency last august. water rationing is now a way of
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life for yoa lanza and her family oyoa lan -- yolanda andh. >> why is the dust bad for you? >> because my immune system is really low and i can't, i just can't. >> she also worries about her 12-year-old daughter jocelyn. >> what do you say to your daughter, sorry we have no running water, sorry you can't go out and play with your friends, what do you tell her? >> that. i tell her when she wants to go outside across the street with my nee niece, i tell her no miju can't go play because of your health. >> is that any way to live? >> no. that's not, it's not. >> jennifer london, al jazeera, east porterville, california. >> i'm antonio mora.
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thanks for joining us. for the latest news you can head to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story." have a good night. night. >>. >> so we stopped calling the buildings interest sections and call them embassies, run up the flag and after half a century talk to each other like normal neighbours. it doesn't mean the details of untying 50 years of knots is done. between the united states and cuba we may be looking at years of unfinished