now they will forget. >> with the game still a year away that may already be the case. if the bay isn't cleaned up there are discussions underway to move some sailing races from the bay to the open sea. kimberly halkett, al jazeera, rio de janiero. ♪ >> officials grow more confident this morning that a plane part that washed ashore is from malaysia airlines flight 370 but it may not help solve the mystery of what happened to the jet. >> 12 nations sit down in hawaii to talk about one of the large evident trade deals in history the major issues still on the table. >> zimbabwe demands that the american who killed cecil the lion return to africa to answer for what happened.

good morning that is aljazeera america. live from new york city, i'm paul beban. investigators are increasingly confident today in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. they've examined debris that washed up on an island in the indian ocean and they say it appears to have come from a bowing 777 aircraft. that is the same model as the plane that disappeared with 239 people onboard. the debris will be sent to france for investigation. tanya page is live on reunion island where that debris was found. what are authorities saying there this morning? >> >> the authorities of tight lipped about the precise location of this.

it's under lock and key at the airport and they won't tell us exactly when it's going to leave the country. they were saying it would be on a cargo plane out of here tonight, now we're hearing that may not be the case, but at some point in the next 24, possibly 48 hours, we are expecting it to leave reunion island and be flown to france where it will be examined in minute detail. the australian officials say the finding of it confirms that they are looking in the right place many miles out to sea here, and the officials are being very, very cautious. we have been criticized in the past for not giving the families enough information so are being very cautious. they don't want to give anyone false help until they've had a positive identification. >> remind us exactly where you are. where is this island? how far are you from where the plane took off and where it's

suspected to have gone down. >> if you look at reunion island on google maps, it is a tiny speck in the indian ocean. we are about three and a half thousand miles from kuala lampur and 2.7000 miles from where it's believed roughly from where it is thought to have gone down. this is the only piece of physical evidence that could exist of that missing plane malaysia airlines flight 370. about 600 miles to the west is madagascar and just beyond that, the coast of africa, so it really was a needle in a haystack sort of chance that a piece of debris managed to wash up here on the beach. >> what happens next there on

reunion? >> well, what's going to happen here next is really that they want to keep this piece of wreckage secure and get it out of here so that it can be poured over by investigators from australia, france, of course, because this is french territory, they have their hands on it and those investigators from kuala lampur, as well. we've seen police walking up and down the beach looking for any other possible pieces of evidence lots have members of the public coming down here, bringing bottles to us that say they were made in indonesia perhaps some way linked to this disappearance of the plane. we're also seeing the police helicopter buzzing up and down this coastline really keeping an eye out to see if there is anything else out there that may be of assistance. >> thank you. >> we spoke with pilot and

aviation analyst kyle bailey. he is hopeful that of the wing will help lead authorities to malaysia airlines flight 370's black box. >> there should be data on there. it has been a year and a half. the salt water is corrosive. i think there will be data on that black box if it is in fact not damaged. if little damaged or seriously damaged, that could be a different story. we'll keep our fingers crossed that it's intact and working. there's only 1777 missing in the ocean and they're pretty much leaning towards the fact that it's from a 777. i think they already know, they're kind of just dotting their i.'s and crossing their t.'s. >> tanya page told us that debris is now going to be transported to france for analysis. as our science and technology correspondent jake ward explains even if it is from the jet, it may not be much help in the search for the rest of the plane.

>> to definitively link this piece of debris to the rest of malaysia airlines flight 370 you need a as herally number, individually identifying the aircraft usually printed on a plate attached to the part. unfortunately after a year in the ocean that plate seems to have come off in the place. there is no fingerprint that definitive live links the plane and this piece. here is something we could use to connect two. images of this part reveal a component number, 657b.b. which is kind of like the one used by maintenance personnel to identify individual parts of a plane. that number correspondence to the number aside to a flapper arm, the control surface use that rotating up and down. that is only found on a bowing 777. the thing to understand is that according to several databases the world is missing only one bowing 777 and that is malaysia airlines flight 370. investigators have to be cautious but the signs point

pretty clearly to this being a piece of the missing makes airlines aircraft. the next question is whether this tells us anything about where the rest of the aircraft might be. the search area is 2,500 miles from the island with this piece washed ashore. the most likely explanation for this piece traveling that distance is that the south equatorial current took it there, a current between australia and asia. if you assume this began in the center of the search area, it would have been carried north and west as part of this piggy r.gire that roach states in that area. this is particularly light and air filled, it floats. the current only reaches as deep as 100 meters or a little over 300 feet so only bouyant stuff like this will be carried along by it. the black box flight data reporters which would give a definitive account would have been left behind and don't float. they're built to withstand

terrible violence, and are dense and heavy likely are on the bottom of the ocean somewhere. while this i guess the first possible trace of the plane we've seen, it doesn't bring us any closer to finding the data recorder or solving the mystery once and for all of this plane's disappearance. >> the hunt is on for suspects this morning in an arson attack that left a palestinian toddler dead. suspected jewish settlers set fire a a palestinian home in the west bank. an 18-month-old was burned to death. his parents and 4-year-old brother were seriously injured. the attackers display painted the word revenge in hebrew on one of the walls. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is said to be blamed for this attack, because it supports illegal settlements. what does this to do with israeli settlements?

>> the people here believe that this attack was carried out by settlers. it's not the first attack on this village. there's three illegal outposts, also illegal settlements further on. they believe because this has happened many times the outcome of this one happens to be more tragic. i'll step out of shot and get our cameraman to zoom to the back of the house. this is the window, in the morning, two masked men threw in a device while the family was sleeping, all sleeping to one room. it's a small house. the two parents managed to get out. also the toddler the parents are in critical condition but the 18-month-old baby died and we're told by one ambulance member who came here, who pulled out the body of that baby, that the way he described the body was a block of coal. on incredibly horrendous scene

today. >> an israeli government spokesman said this about the attack just a moment ago. >> the government of israel unequivocally condemns this heinous crime this act of terrorism. we willified terrorism, we will defeat terrorism no matter who the perpetrators are. the people of israel unite in condemning this act of senseless violence. >> what's the palestinians reaction to that language? the palestinian government issued a statement blaming the government for this. the israeli government authorized the expansion of more settlement units flats apartments homes in the illegal settlement in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem for a very long period of time and the palestinians will tell you that is why they don't seem to be a genuine partner for peace.

that's a huge problem here. because of the violence, because of the settlers who are armed they are very secure in their settlements. they also have israeli security forces protecting them at times. people here will tell that you there is nothing they can do. again, this is not the first time it's happened and they are telling you that even though we are hearing harsh language from the israeli government, using words act of terrorism investigation is ongoing, there is a gag order on that. they don't believe any justice will genuinely be done. >> stephanie decker in the west bank, thank you. >> major questions in israel tailed over how police failed to stop a man from allegedly stabbing six people at a gay pride event in jerusalem. two of the victims are in serious condition. police were supposed to be keeping a close eye on the man. he is the same attacker who stabbed three marchers during the same pride event in 2005. he served 10 years for that

attack and released from prison just last month. >> later today negotiators are scheduled to wrap up the latest round of trade talks in hawaii. major issues remain before the transpacific partnership is worked out. the t.p.p. is designed to boost trade between many of the world's biggest markets and could become one of the largest trade deals in history. as andrew tomas reports opponents think it will cause more problems than it solves. >> the t.p.p. negotiators are metering in that hotel. these protestors want to disrupt talks by blowing on shells, by whistling, and by shouting. they say that far from increasing the size of all the economies involved, a deal would cost countries, would be damaging to the environment, and even that it would put up the price of medicines for some of the world's poorest as copyright laws over drugs got lengthened.

they say this deal puts power in the hands of corporations over governments and they're trying to stop it from happening. >> economist wallace joins us from beijing the founder partner and managing director of the international center for trade and sustainable development in china. thank you for being with us this morning. here in the u.s., the pitch has been that this is about jobs. what is the view of the t.p.p. in beijing? >> in beijing china has been very enthusiastic about the t.p.p. issues in the past five years, because they think that would create a market among the 12 members while china has exploded. china now is not very enthusiastic as before, because

probably china is not interested to join it or if applied the membership would not be accepted. >> china could join at a later time. we'll get into that in a moment. president obama has played here in this country what you might call the china fear card, saying if the u.s. does not write the rules for global trade china will. china isn't a part of the t.p.p. but could join at some point. what is china doing in the meantime? >> i think china is, well look carefully about all the provisions of the agreement. two issues will be very interesting, one is whether this new market access, new offers on the tail of t.p.p. could be translated into the offer into

the offer in the negotiations in agriculture, market access, but also because the t.p.p. already gives some pressures to japanese market in agriculture and would be bringing some benefits for china, japan korea in free today agreements and some other issues like state owned enterprises, competitive neutral, this kind of things could be interesting for china to reflect how china should perform its soe's. >> we're getting into specifics now. there are more than 100,000 line items in this deal, obviously way too much for any one person aside from the people who are signing the deal to sort through. what specifically stands out to

you? >> well, i think it, because among this 19 chapter there are only five on market access an trade issues, there are 14 chapters about non-trade issues or trade related issues, so on the one hand, we see this traditional trade issues still very very key for negotiations, but we bring out lower the tariff we bring no trade solicitations, i think create a more integrated market. i think in general it will benefit all the business, t.p.p. members. but we also know as you just mentioned that in the beginning there are many protestors, because people are concerned that this negotiation was driven by the big companies particularly the u.s. big companies, so and also the secret approach of negotiations created some problems. >> that's right a lot of

opposition before this deem is done. thank you sir. >> zimbabwe this morning is calling for the american dentist who killed cecil the lion to be extra dated. the wildlife minister wants hunter walter james palmer tried in zimbabwe. he admits killing cecil but insists he relied on his guides to ensure the hunt was legal. 140,000 signatures are now on a petition calling for the white house to approve palmer's extradition. the u.s. fish and wildlife service has been trying to reach palmer to figure out exactly what happened with be but they've not been able to reach him. >> the i.o.c. makes its decision for the 2022 games. which city won the right to host the winter olympics? >> google responds to the latest chapter in the fight over the right to be forgotten.

uld have been them. >> comedian mo amer. >> are we filming a short? what's happening? >> confronting stereotypes. >> i was afraid to be myself. >> mixing religion and comedy. >> get over it you know who i am... >> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's top stories, atlanta police and federal authorities are looking for two white men caught on surveillance cameras placing con flags near the ebeneezer baptist church where martin luther

king jr. preached. it is unclear if the act is a crime or if police will file charges. >> the national urban league annual conference is open in florida. much of the first days focus was growing racial tensions across the country. several presidential candidates including jeb bush and hillary clinton are set to address the conference later today. >> new documents from wikileaks suggest the u.s. government speed on japan. the documents marked top secret reveal discussions between japanese officials on international trade and climate policy. the japanese government has had no immediate response. >> the international olympic commit my made its choice for the 2022 winter games. >> beijing. >> celebrations erupted in beijing, it won out over kazakhstan. beijing will become the first country to host both the winter

and summer games. >> a widespread sense of satisfaction throughout china and as we can see the party has now begun and will continue for sometime. you know, when beijing first announced it was bidding for the winter olympics, it was treated almost with disdain almost as a joke in some quarters. it is not a national winter sports location, but as time has gone on, and as other more natural contenders have dropped by the wayside there has been a agreeing realization of how much china wants this. it was in the end the political will power and guarantee that china will mobilize the forces to build the infrastructure and facilities needed to create the huge amount of artificial snow to make sure that all of these events will be able to take place and on time. it is said they are the more natural winter location.

they have real snow after all but beijing had this huge act of infrastructure they would have to put in place. one argument against beijing, it is spread out. kazakhstan was the more central location for the games. beijing i also spread out. a lot of the outdoor snowy locations, the skiing, et cetera take place well over 100 kilometers outside of beijing. it is the very fact that it is so spread out that china committed itself to building more high speed rail links to make sure it is all interconnected and also to put in place all of the different sports arenas, so china has already shown in 2008 with the summer games what it can do when it mobilizes the hole country behind the effort. it has convinced the winter committee that it will do the same thing again even cleaning up the air. it has guaranteed that the air will be 75% cleaner when the

olympians come to beijing. >> rob mcbride in hong kong. >> on the tech beat this morning, google is rejecting an order by a french privacy watchdog to delete web results worldwide. it said the search engine should remove results in all countries if someone requests it. google said the high court ruling only applies to european servers. >> the rising risk of flooding. straight ahead on aljazeera america, how it's become more frequent over the last 50 years.

>> a new study said global warming could lead to more natural disasters and cause conflict over food and water. it said it could stretch the military further around the globe. hundreds of people north of san francisco had been forced to

evacuate because of a wildfire spreading quickly. there are at least 14 active large fires in california right now. officials say the on going drought and triple digit temperatures are making matters worst. people are doing their part. water usage plum melted 27% in june as mandatory cutbacks. they will target communities that are not saving water. >> a storm surge pushing waters ashore can be devastating. equally damaging, heavy rains from thunder showers. a new study looks at what happens when both occur at the same time. nothing good. let's bring in nicole mitchell to tell us more about judge this is important because 40% of americans live near a coastline. in the past when they worked out flood zones is look at what was needed for a rain event and then separately look at what was needed for a storm surge event not ever together.

those two things together definitely increase some of those zones that would be neat. if you think about it, a 1-2 event would be a hurricane sandy, you get the heavy rain plus the storm surge and it all address into the flooding. for the atlantic and gulf coast the compound flooding, two things together are more prevalent. more pacific coast here's the coastline, you can see the red dots are where they are more highly correlated. events have continued to go up and will continue as ocean waters rise with climate change scenario. let's look at a couple of individual cities. boston, for example again the red dots are more of the overlapping events. as we look at the last couple decades, not only have the events gone up, but really the number of these that are the 1-2 punch have definitely gone up, as well. not just hurricanes, but those big coastal storms that we see

sometimes. it's not just here. we've had similar events even in places like los angeles. parts of california right now do have a little flooding with monson mainly, but these are usually the big winter storms that cause the problems. the los angeles graphs look similar in the last few years the combination events have really spiked. what they're going to do with this hopefully is kind of reevaluate different flood scenarios and what would have caused not a scenario for one thing or another. >> the 1-2 punch tough one thanks nicole. >> new details emerged from the historic landing of a space probe on a comet last year. papers described in detail the com significance, structures and properties of the comet. scientists discovered light absorbing organic molecules. the probe has made contact but hasn't sent new data to earth in

nearly two weeks. >> thanks for joining us this morning, randall pinkston is back in two minutes with more news from aljazeera america.

>> the only piece in a very complex puzzle, could the plane debris that washed ashore unlock the mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370. >> a palestinian toddler dies when suspected israeli settlers set fire to his family's home. the anger this morning in the territories and in jerusalem. >> hunting for the hunter. zimbabwe requests the debittist who killed cecil the lion be extra dated as the u.s. begins

and investigation of their own. >> the possible link between earthquakes and fracking in oklahoma. some residents say officials there refuse to make the connection. >> this is aljazeera america good morning. caution but increasing confidence today in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. investigators say signs so far point to the debris that washed up on an island in the indian ocean as coming from the bowing 777 aircraft. that is the same model as the plane that disappeared 16 months ago, with it 239 onboard. the debris will be sense to france for investigation. tanya page is live on reunion island. what more are authorities there

saying this morning? >> authorities here on reunion are not saying much. they are remaining very tight lipped over exactly when this crucial peels of the puzzle will be leaving the shores and heading towards france, where investigators wait to really pore over it in every detail. they confirmed that the number visible on the side of this piece of the plane which they say could be a wing strap consistent with the modeling around that plane that it indicates it is from a bowing 777. authorities in australia say that that could have washed up here and is consistent with the areas they are searching many thousands of miles out at sea. in malaysia, authorities there are very cautious. they've come under a lot of criticism, a lot of fire for the way they've handled this, the way they've passed information on to the families, wanting absolute confirmation this piece

of wreckage came from malaysia airlines flight 370 before they really say too much. >> have they found anything other than that barnical encrusted piece of plane? tell us exactly where the island is in terms of how far you are from where the plane took off. >> they haven't found anything else yet. we are on a very small island comparative to the vast expanse of indian ocean. this island, a lot of debris gets washed up on it. on the same day a man found a suitcase that was in quite a state of disintegration. we've seen the police up and

down the beach we've seen the police helicopters in the sky so people finding a lot of debris very unlikely any of interrogatories connected to that flight. this is quite a went swept open piece of the coast. as we know, there is a lot of debris rubbish plastic floating around out there unfortunately in the ocean. we are three and a half thousand miles from kuala lampur where the plane took off from, 2700 miles from where they are scouring the sea bed. 600 miles away is mad gas star. beyond that is the coast of africa. you'll see how small an island this is and really that makes it quite miraculous anything possibly connected to that flight washed up here. >> what's next in the investigation? >> they've got to get to the bottom of whether this is

directly connected to malaysia airlines flight 370 or not pretty quickly. they think that within 24, at the most 48 hours this piece of wreckage is going to be on its way to france where it's going to be investigated not only by french investigators because this is french territory this island but of course the malaysian investigators are going to want to look at it and the investigators as well. that number on the size of the piece of wreckage may identify it as coming from a bowing 777 but they hope that somewhere perhaps on the inside, there is a more detailed serial number that may allow them to connect it more definitely to the flight. however, of course, if you look at the broader picture the broader question, if you like, there really is only one bowing 777 that's gone down in this part of the world that could have washed up on this rocky beach here at reunion island. >> tanya page live on reunion

island, thank you. >> now to israel, where the hunt is on for suspects this morning in an arson attack that left a palestinian toddler dead. suspected jewish settlers set fire to a palestinian home in the west bank. an 18-year-old was burned to death. his family were also injured. israel denounce the the violence by palestinians do not think they will see justice. >> it's a scene of total devastation. a family home in the village of duma charred and blackened by the blaze that killed the toddler and seriously injured his parents and 4-year-old brother. their nearby relatives' houses also burned and scrawled on the walls in hebrew, the words revenge and long live of me sigh i can't. they were airlifted to israel for emergency treatment. the israeli army has begun an investigation. they believe settlers are responsible for the arson

attack. >> people in the middle of the night come to two houses, spray graffiti in hebrew on the wall of two houses and threw a fire bomb in with this tragic barbaric result and outcome. >> there are at least three illegal settlements close by. the u.n. said there have been 120 attacks by settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank since the start of the year. the vast majority of cases go unpunished. the israeli leadership has denounced the violence. >> the government of israel unequivocally condemns this act of terrorism. we will fight terrorism, we will defeat terrorism no matter who the perpetrators are. >> the palestinian president has accused the israeli government of failing to prevent the violence. his spokesman said the crime wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the israeli

government's insistence to continue with its settlement activities and protecting settlers. the palestinians have urged the national community to take practical steps to stop further attacks. nate barker, al jazeera. >> major questions today over how often police failed to stop a man from allegedly is to being six people at a gay pride event in jerusalem. two victims are in serious conditions. police were supposed to be monitoring the man after he was released from prison earlier this month. he recently alluded to an attack on the parade. he served 10 years for stabbing three marchers during the same pride event in 2005. >> secretary of state john kerry heading to egypt this weekend where he will meet with his counterpart on sunday for wide ranging strategic talks. the u.s. has begun delivering eight f16 fighters jets. it was made possible after freeze on military aid in march.

egypt already has 200 older model d16's. >> turkey and the j agreed to fight as i say as i will in a stretch of territory. >> this turkish military position overlooks a border town controlled by isil. it is along the last stretch of territory isil holds along turkey's border with syria. the armed group's presence extends further south to the countryside of aleppo province. turkey reached an agreement to the u.s. to defeat isil in northwest sir yes. >> there's still no agreement on which syrian opposition groups they will support in the joint fight. the syrian kurdish fighting force, the y.p.g. backed by the coalition is positioned just a few kilometers behind that bridge. it says it is ready to advance

but turkey does not consider them as partners. >> the u.s., however backs the y.p.g. with airstrikes. this allowed the group to control more than half of syria's border with turkey. >> turkey is concerned the kurds plan to carve out their own state in the area and that is why it made clear the decision to allow u.s. jets to take off from its territory does not involve helping what it calls a terrorist organization. >> this has already been brought to the attention of the united states. within this context giving air support to the y.p.g. is not one of the elements of our agreement with the u.s. >> it is not clear who will then replace isil in northwest syria. for turkey, this man could be the answer. he is heads the opposition assembly. assembly. >> his fighting force cooperates with the syrian army. they cooperate to recapture

their villages and return home. >> we are not just fighting isil but the y.p.g., as well. the y.p.g. changed the geography and we believe they will do the same. the region should be under f.s.a. forces, who are mainly turkman from the area. >> there is a powerful opposition alliance in aleppo battling both isil and the syrian government, but it includes the al-qaeda linked al-nusra front. the coalition won't work with them. >> while there is a deal to take on isil, there is still uncertainty surrounding the operation. al jazeera southern turkey. >> the afghan taliban is trying to rally followers after acknowledging the death of its long time leader. toll ban released a statement saying the successor to mullah omar was one of his most trusted

associates. the new leader reportedly face as split between fighters who favor peace negotiations and those who want to continue the insurgency in afghanistan. >> a fired university assistant police officer is out on a million dollars bail this morning, charged with murdering an unarmed black man during a traffic stop. ray tensing pleaded not guilty. bisi onile-ere is live for us this morning. the officer made bail, but there are reports that he may not be safe. safe. >> yeah, there are some serious concerns about officer former officer ray tensing. he is out of jail. his father posted 10% of his $1 million bond last night. we had the opportunity to speak to the mayor of cincinnati, and he talked about this occasion and he shared with us why he strongly believes that the university's police department needs to be reformed.

>> appearing in court with his hands behind his back, former university of cincinnati police officer ray tensing is charged with murder. the 25-year-old pleaded not guilty to shooting and killing samuel dubose during a july 19 traffic stop. the moments captured on tensing's body cam video contradicted his version of the story and led to his arrest. thursday the prosecutor released more footage from two officers with tensing that day which seemed to confirm at least one of them also lied about what happened. >> did you see him get dragged? >> yes. >> the mayor of cincinnati spoke out. >> when you saw the officer body cam video what was your reaction? >> you know, sadness tragedy. i had -- i saw the tape like everybody else for the first time yesterday. >> he was a member of the city

council during the race riots that erupted in 2001 and led to the reforms of the city's police department. now he wants to see changes at the university of cincinnati's police department. >> well, there has to be. i mean clearly, they are policing not under our authority but inside our city. they need to bring their standards up to hours. >> the city has a mutual aid agreement between the knit aid department and campus police, which gives them the right to cross over into each other's jurisdictions in serious situations but questions are being raised about whether tensing had jurisdiction to stop dubose in the first place. >> my understanding is they have a right to start a pursuit on campus and go off cam pulse if it starts on campus. in this case, it clearly did not start or end on campus. i'm sure there will be difference of opinion on this, but my opinion is it is not consistent with our current

agreement. >> the prosecutor spoke to us. >> are you prepared for what could happen if this officer walks free? >> i am convinced that he is going to put every resource into winning this case, and so i'm going to bet on him but obviously, we'll be prepared if it doesn't go that way. >> tensing's attorney is preparing to argue self defense. >> tensing's lawyer says that people from across the country have offered to help pay for tensing's bond. at this point it's unclear if he'll accept their offer. >> thank you, bisi onile-ere. >> atlanta officials are looking for two men suspected of placing confederate flags near dr. martin luther king, jr.'s former church. police say two white men can be seen on surveillance video placing the flags. federal authorities are helping with the investigation. >> on the agenda today a british man set to be sentenced

in a new york court. he pleaded guilty for planning to set up an attacker training camp in rural oregon. >> hillary clinton and jeb bush are among presidential hope was who with him address the national urban league conference today. >> uber will start investing $1 billion in india to expand there. the ride sharing app hopes to reach 1 million trips a day. >> zimbabwe this morning is walking for the american dentist who killed cecil the lion to be extra dated. the wildlife minister wants hunter james palmer tried in zimbabwe. palmer admits killing cecil but insists he relied on his guides to ensure the hunt was legal. more than 140,000 signatures are now on a petition calling for the white house to approve palmer's extradition. the u.s. fish and wildlife service is trying to find palmer to figure out exactly what

happened. they have not been able to reach him p.m. >> will it become a dream undone? the fight over the protections in the voting rights act. who wants them rolled back and why. >> also, we take a closer look at a search in earthquakes in oklahoma. why the state has been reluctant to connect the quakes to fracking.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:19 eastern time. taking a look at today's other headlines around the nation. a shell oil ice breaker now head to go alaska after green peace activists were forced off a bridge in portland oregon. they had suspended themselves from the bridge for a day trying to stop that ship and another from getting through. the federal judge fined green peace for the act. >> hundreds north of san francisco have been forced to evacuate because of a wildfire that is spreading quickly. there are at least 14 active large fires in california right now. officials say california said on going drought and triple digit temperatures are making matters worst. >> next week marks 50 years

since president johnson signed the voter rights act, leading to soaring voter rates among minorities and pushback over the years from the far right. we have a look back at the birth of what president johnson called one of the most monumental laws in american history. >> despite the boldness that have statement it's tough to argue that johnson's words were pathetic. more of johnson's words in the form of a name sell sides speech helped pave the way. >> it is wrong deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. >> marsh 15, 1965, president lyndon johnson spoke to the nation eight days after america saw however some would go to deny voting rights to their

fellow americans. bloody sunday, selma alabama the world watched in horror as troopers and sympathizers savagely attacked peaceful, mostly black protestors as they marched across the bridge. the marshes protested efforts to keep black people from voting. that's a right that was guaranteed to black men at least by the 15th amendment to the constitution in 1870, but over the next 95 years tactics like poll taxes purposely difficult literacy tests and violent intimidation kept registration numbers low. around the south 25% of eligible black voters were registered by 1956. the events in selma gave johnson the political momentum he needed to get the voting rights act through congress. he signed the law five months after bloody sunday. on august 6, 1965. a key part of the law known as

section five prohibited six southern states from making any changes to statewide voting laws without federal approval first measures that were later extended to other states and localities. the results were dramatic. by 1968, black registration across the south had risen to 62% and more and more people of color were achieving elected office. by the time barack obama won the presidency in 2008, the portion of blacks turning out to vote was nearly equal to the figure for whites. >> there are forces mobilized against the voting rights act. in 2013, the supreme court threw out the formula the justice department used to enforce making it far more difficult. chief roberts said the voting rights act had done its job. critics say that was the culmination of a 50 year campaign to gut the law. >> the chief political correspondent for the new york

times magazine has taken an in depth look at the evolution of the voting rights act in his latest piece for the newspaper called a dream undone. it's on line now and is the cover story in this weekend's new york times magazine. he joins us via skype from new york. you reveal in your article the names of people who worked for years to weaken the voting rights act including edwin blum. >> he was a non-entity in american politics. he was a conservative. he was an investment banker in the accident, and he decided to run for congress. he had a very hard time of it, because it was a gerrymandered district that favored the black congressman who was the incumbent. he lost badly and decided then and there that the gerrymander's

districts were a problem and realized they were in part caused by that the voting rights act. the voting rights act made it that you had -- the states had to draw congressional districts in a way where if there were large concentrations of minority voters, they had a chance to elect their own representatives. >> he filed lawsuits in a number of states around the country and he's still at it, correct? >> as he would tell you and told me it began with challenging the way congressional districts were drawn. he's a master of the supreme court game. he conceded in getting several districts thrown out because they were racially gerrymandered in a way that violated the spirit of what is called a color bribed constitution which the court bought into, which the constitution is, of course, but became more of a legal theory to challenge the cases. he did not initially go after

section five of the voting rights act and he sees it as a signature piece of legislation of the 20th cent are you but to his mind, it did its work very quickly and by the time he was running for congress in the early 1990's, it was time for its other protections to fade away. >> the u.s. supreme court in the case apparently agreed with him. tell us about that case and how it has undermind the voting rights act. >> well, what that came to, he filed the case. basically what precipitated the case was in 2006, and this is very important and very important to justice ginsburg. congress reauthorized the act in 2006. at that point blum decided i'm challenging the constitutionality of section five. he found that a case in the

accident that failed, but came upon shelby county. it was being challenged for one of its six boards, a commission within its borders which would eliminate a black seat on the commission. section five was going to prohibit that. section five would allow the justice department to come and black these things. he files suit, it gets to the court and john roberts was very receptive to the democratic, because a young man in the reagan democratic, he had misgivings about the power of the law. >> you just mentioned chief justice john roberts who was presiding when the shelby county alabama case came to the court. in your article you point out that roberts apparently has a long history of i don't wants to opposition to voting rights, but certainly he has been an advocate of color blind application of the law which results in opposition to the voting rights act correct? >> right because he very much

like blum said early on, ok, voting rights act has done its job, so he always thought that what the voting rights act did was extreme. i think legal scholars agree, it was extreme and it was called for because of the extreme injustice against blacks in voting. again, he gets to a point where he said its done its job and it's too much, too powerful a law for its time. >> a number of justice on the court, notably ruth bader ginsburg disagrees with that, pointing out there are still problems for people trying to access their right to vote. your article should be read by everyone. thank you for joining us this morning on aljazeera america. >> thank you so much. >> sold at auction, one of the rarest baseball cards dating back before players even wore

gloves fetches a pretty penny. the story behind this piece of history. >> facebook takes flight, the high tech quest to get the internet to remote areas.

>> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:30 eastern time. taking a look at today's top stories. it will be one more day before french investigators examine a piece of airplane debris found on an island in the indian ocean, but there is increasing confidence this morning that it did come from malaysia airlines flight 370. the jet disappeared with 239 people aboard. >> the israeli army is hunt are for suspects in an arson attack that left a palestinian toddler dead. a home was set on that fire in the west bank. an 18-month-old was burned to death, his parents and 4-year-old brother seriously injured. >> zimbabwe is calling for the american dentist to be extra

dated in the killing of cecil the lion. palmer insists he relied on his guides to ensure the hunt was legal. the u.s. fish and wildlife service has been trying to find him, but have not been able to reach him. >> the f35 is the most expensive weapons program in u.s. history but a leaked pentagon report raises serious questions about the plane's ability to perform in combat. sheila macvicar spoke to pentagon insiders who say it is not ready to take off. >> what does it mean if it is declared i.o.c. >> it's a sham is what it means. >> from 2001-2005 this man was the senior advisor to the secretary of defense for the testing of weapons. the sham, as he calls it is a decision whether marine corps to soon declare its version of the

verse f35 fighter plane ready for combat, or in military speak, i.o.c. >> the program has been embarrassing and they're just at the point to say we're going to take whatever we get. >> a recent assessment by the pentagon's own director of operational tests and evaluation the office christy once occupied identified safety problems with the marine's f35 some so severe, they could have flight critical effects. >> let's look at why this airplane is so dangerous to the pilot. >> ok. >> an engineer once evaluated planes for the department of defense. spray was part of the team which designed the f16 fighter in the early 1970's. beyond safety. >> display says the f35 is also crippled by flaws which limit its utility in combat stemming from the design requirements of the marine corps. >> the truth of the matter is that we could never be a fast

acceleration agile fighter. >> in this memo obtained by america tonight a test pilot write that is a mock dog fight held in january pitting an f35 against a much older f16 the exercise was meant to test high angleles of attack with the plane's maneuvering hard. according to the f35 pilot his plane remained at a distinct energy disadvantage for every engagement. in other words the f35 couldn't climb or turn fast enough to either kill or evade the f16. that prompted a swift reef ply from the pentagon saying the test pilot's report does not tell the entire story. according to the defense department the f35 in question was not equipped with the software seattle colding or weapons common to newer versions of the plane. sheila macvicar, al jazeera.

>> you can see sheila macvicar's story, f35 unsafe at any speed at 10 eastern. >> seven states moved to armed military recruiters since the killing of four marines and a sailor in chattanooga. now the pentagon may follow suit. defense secretary ash carter said the attacks show a continuing threat to military personnel stationed in the u.s. now the military's conducting a review to see if arming them is the best idea. >> looking at arming personnel doesn't mean that's what the services will decide, but it does tell them that they have within d.o.d. policy the existing authority to do that. >> that's the pentagon spokesman. the pentagon said it does not want civilian police forces protecting the more than 7,000 military facilities that are not on bases. >> inmates could get access to federal aid as they try to get a higher education behind bars. the white house is set to

announce today that prisoners will be able to receive pell grants. we explain. >> the obama administration wants prisoners to be eligible for federal student aid. education secretary arnie duncan and attorney general loretta lynch are expected to make the announcement today in maryland. twenty years ago prisoners were banned by congress from receiving federal student aid. the administration hopes to get around the ban by setting up a pilot program. earlier this week, duncan said the government wants to develop experimental sites that will make pell grants available. >> my future is possible. it's an amazing feeling. it's like the preprogram and post program era. >> the white house boast he thieves grants have given underprivileged college students the chance to study. unlike loans they don't have to be repaid. the maximum award for the upcoming fiscal year is just

under $6,000. >> later today a second batch of hillary clinton's private emails will be released. some 4,000 messages will be made public. a first batch contained conversations about the benghazi attacks. a district court judge ruled earlier this year that the state department must put out some 50,000 pages by early next year. >> senator bernie sanders is making waves in the presidential race. the democrats insist his campaign is not just a summer fling. he said is issues are resonating with american voters. date shuster spoke to sanders. >> the bernie sanders events had the trappings of a typical house party. dozens came to eat drink and talk politics and there was a short speech from the candidate himself. >> it is wrong that people are working 40 or 50 hours a week and still living in poverty. enough is enough. we've got to raise that minimum wage to $15 an hour.

>> the difference with this sanders speech is that it was delivered live over the internet to over 3500 watch parties across the country. the campaign says that based on the rsvp's in advance the number of people who participated totaled more than 100,000. >> when we stand together, there is nothing nothing nothing that we cannot accomplish. >> coast to east from california to the art gallery in new york city, it ended up being the biggest organizing event for any candidate so far. away from the crowds and in a senate office building, we spoke one-on-one with senator sanders about his digital effort. >> we need to develop a grassroots movement. the way you do it is people communicate with each other determine what has to be done, who is going to knock on doors who is going to make the phone call who is going to pass out the literature, et cetera.

>> kenneth kenning to know is the digital director. this event with all its technical challenges was his responsibility. >> the video portion is a difficult task, because you never know what can go wrong. it's actually mostly just old fashioned email communication and old fashioned web side communication that gets this job done at the end of the day. >> the positions and creativity of sander supporters also seems to help. >> one of the campaign's most possible social media hash tags sole up as rallies is this one. >> what goes through your mind when you see the sign that says feel the burn? was that anything used in previous campaigns? >> no. i have no idea where it came from because a lot of things that are happening spontaneously, i mean literally i read in papers about meetings that took place in some cities some place that we had nothing to do to organize. >> the neighborhood organizers of this event in washington

included ben thorpe, a chef. this space is his living room. >> technology is amazing. we've got feeds from all over the world right here in my little apartment and it's all live streaming which is fantastic. >> otherwise were thrilled just to meet senator sanders give him an inspirational poster, or in the case of this gave, get a picture drinking a beer with him. the sanders campaign said the night was a huge organizing success. >> we're going to be connecting people to other supporters in their area and to team leaders in their area to take actionable steps to move the campaign forward, such as knocking on doors or making phone calls. >> traditional campaign outreach based on passionate and perhaps unprecedented on line efforts. david shuster, al jazeera washington. >> california has been cutting back on that its water usage as the state grapples with an historic drought. officials say in june, residents

used 27% less water than usual. that's even better than the government asked for. people can be fined up to $10,000 a day for using more than their share of water. >> in oklahoma, earthquakes are becoming more frequent and more powerful. last year, the state had nearly 600 large magnitude quakes. that's triple the rate in california. scientists say fracking could be the cause. >> before oklahoma's fracking boom picked up in 2009. the state averaged less than two magnitude earthquakes a year, now there are two a day. >> we're having more earthquakes here in oklahoma than california. >> state seismologist said the explosion of earth conviction is unprecedented and man made. >> clearly now when we're almost 600 times what we consider the normal background rate, we have moved beyond what can be

explained through a natural process. >> he says disposal wells are most likely to blame. in this part of the country each barrel of oil pulled from the earth comes up with at much as 20 barrels of naturally occurring salt water. oil companies dispose of the water by injecting it back into the ground on high pressure. if that water hits a fault line, it can trigger an earthquake. head of the geological survey, he is sounding the alarm now. that wasn't always the case. for years his office maintained the quakes could still be blamed on natural causes. >> we did what we could when we could, and how the path played out, i can't change. >> a path dictated by political and industry pressures. in 2013, as holland studies the link between on him production and seismic activity, he was summoned to a closed door meeting with his boss, university of oklahoma president david bore ran, also there.

herald hawn, a pioneer in fracking, one of the richest men in america and a major donor to the university, both declined to be interviewed for this story. he was asked to be careful about what every said in public. >> certainly i was given talking points that everyone was comfortable with. >> given them by politicians? >> no, no, through the university and my employers right? and so. >> and the university does get a significant amount of donations from the oil and gas industry. >> yes, they do. >> it wasn't until april of this year that the oklahoma geological survey reversed its official stance, declaring in writing the connection between disposal wells and earthquakes. >> you regret not being able to say that earlier? >> yes. >> even now many people in oklahoma refuse to believe the science. this man experienced a 4.5 malany attitude earth quick in

the town of crescent, oklahoma monday. >> i don't think oil fields has nipping to do with it myself. >> what makes you believe that? >> the oil field says been here forever, and we're just now starting to have them these last two years. >> with one in three jobs in oklahoma linked to oil and gas the tide of public opinion has been slow to turn toward state representative cory williams call for a disposal well moratorium. he said the state said current restrictions on just 15% of the wells is not enough. >> it appears that at least from the state's vantage point that we're waiting for a catastrophic loss of life or property and i think it's a terrible way to be doing all that in the way of economic development. >> now to definite natural disasters, a storm surge pushing ocean waters ashore can be devastating, equally damaging as rain froms thunder showers.

we look at what happens when both occur at the same time. let's bring in nicole mitchell for today's viral impact. that is like hurricane sandy. >> it takes more into account for events like that. 40% of americans live near coastlines. a lot of the flood or disaster plans look at ok, are we going to get a heavy rain event or a surge event separately. if neither triggers it, they might not put plans in effect. in a lot of case, if you have those together, you have a plan. hurricane sandy was an example of that where you get both causing problems. the u.s. map in general the study that took this into account, the reds are compound events are both happening and occurring more frequently. the east coast and the gulf because of hurricanes get more of those. the west coast winter storms can cause them as well. boston over the last couple

centuries, you see the red these are events going up and more correlated together. it's not just boston. los angeles can get the same thing. those big winter storms sometimes cause the high wives with the rain. the take away from is looking at the disaster plans and not just saying one or the other should trigger an event look at the whole thing combined and what might happen. this could get worse as ocean levels rise with climate change. >> it is an image we've seen often, a derailed oil train on fire leading to environmental worries. we look at how firefighters are preparing for worst case scenarios. >> across america firefighters like these are trying to figure out how they are going to deal with big terrible fires like this. this is a derailment. 43 cars came off the tracks at a high rate of speed sprung a

leak and began to burn. six cars are in danger of exploding. these firefighters are trying to deal with it. this is not a real fire. it's real in the sense i can feel the heat on my back, but this is a training facility, administered by the material railway association. they use it to train firefighters to deal with the new reality of america as an oil economy. this country is aiming to become the largest producer of oil by 2020. it's because of tar sands oil and the back end fields, creating a new market for bringing oil from all over the country by rail to the places where it's going to be processed and used. that creates incredible danger. your typical firefighter does not know how to deal with this. you cannot treat this as a structure fire. you can't aim water at an oil fire. you have to use foam, which is very hard to come by. your average rural fire department is not going to have that. instead, you have to use that foam in a way that these guys are learning to use right now.

you're trying to first of all cool down these tanks witness they heat up are at risk of explosion. we've seen that, the fire in canada killed 47 when the tanks there exploded. they are cooling it down and using techniques like banking it off the cars that are here behind me or in some cases using a bank shot off the ground to create a carpet of foam. if you aim foam right at the fire one spread it everywhere. that's the worst thing you can do. the dangers of this are very, very real and new. this course has only been offered for a couple of years. later tonight we'll be exploring the new dangers the new technology and new implications of america's oil economy, when it means to fire and the potential for explosion across america. we'll be looking at that later tonight. i hope you look at it. >> on the healthbeat, new details about prostate cancer and which types could be more

harmful than others. reservers identified five types of cancer. some grow aggressively, others easier to treat. doctors figure out what type of present, and they may be able to provide more individualized treatments. >> on the tech beat, facebook is getting into the business of providing internet access. the company begins testing flights are a solar powered drone later this year. the goal is to find a way to provide internet to 10% of people around the world who do not live near cell towers or land lines. the drone has a wingspan of a 737 and will fly for three months beaming internet signals into rural areas. google is working on a similar program. >> a feature in windows 10 raises security questions. friends can be given access to their own internet without a pass word and without an ok for each device, but it does that for everyone in your contacts.

there's no option for only authorizing a select few. >> beijing-bound. >> beijing. [ cheers and applause ] >> the olympics returns to the bird's northwest in 2022, but this time is for the winter games. >> also, the complicated history of the happy birthday song. the discovery that may put it back in the public domain.

teens. the incredible journey continues. >> comedian mo amer. >> are we filming a short? >> welcome to al jazeera america. taking a look at today's global headlines. nigeria said its rescued 71 girls held capture by boko haram. the military said they killed several of the group's fighters overnight. some were held hostage for more than a year. it's not clear if any of the girls are the school girls taken captive by boko haram last year. >> a historic land swap between india and bangladesh, india handing over 51 enclaves, while bangladesh is giving 111 to solval border dispute going on

for decades. 50,000 people will choose which country they want to live in. >> the international olympic committee made history with its choice for the 2022 winter games. >> beijing. >> beijing becomes the first city to host both winter and summer olympics. the chinese capital was chosen over the city of almati in kazakhstan. >> widespread satisfaction throughout china around beijing. when it was first announce that had beijing was serious about bidding for the winter olympics, it was treated almost with disdain in some quarters, the city not being a natural winter sports location. as time has gone on and other more natural contenders dropped by the wayside there has been a growing realization of how serious china has been about wanting these games.

there's a growing sense of the political will that it has and also the resources it can put in place to guarantee that all the facilities will be built and all of the snow making infrastructure that will be needed to guarantee there will be enough snow for the event to take place. right up until the end human rights groups tried to prevent this decision, arguing that the human rights record in china has gotten worse in recent years and indeed china has not upheld the olympic principles that it signed up for when it went for the summer olympics. probably the more persuasive argument was the fact that they have shown in 2008 and are showing now their commitment to staging another successful games. >> the person behind the winning bid for the oldest known baseball card remains a mystery this morning but that person paid a pretty penny for it. the card featuring the brooklyn atlantes sold for just over

$179,000. it dates back to the time of the civil war. we met the woman who sold the card. >> someone on that that side, the fox family, i think had big ears so my brother and i were trying to guess which one it could be. >> we are looking at ears on this ancient baseball card, trying to work out which one is archibald, a relative of florence's who played baseball in brooklyn when the game was in its in fancy. >> look for the big ears? >> could be him. he's got big ears. >> this cart was given to florence by her mom. it's been in the family for 155 years, kept in a fanny farmer candy box in their brooklyn home in the basement. >> she kept it in my grandfather's antique dresser. >> florence is a fan of genealogy, not baseball, but her mom loved the game and told her

stories about ancestors who played like archibald a founding member of the long forgotten brooklyn atlantes. >> to have something come out of the wood work, something that we didn't know existed was extremely exciting. >> she discovered it was valuable what she took it to a genealogy class at her local senior center. >> i was jumping up and down. it said library of congress, worth 50,000 to $500,000 and it's a very rare card. >> very rare, indeed says baseball historian. >> this cart was cited before the first drop of blood shed in the civil war. it's very interesting and a piece of baseball history and american history. >> baseball was quite different then. they played barehanded without gloves and were champions. this modern day team attempts to revive their spirit every year. florence is hoping the sale of

the card brings in enough for her to live debt free. >> there will be enough that i can take care of myself. i'll be 75 october 14. it takes a brick wall off your back actually, i could do what i want. >> her only regret is that her mother mildred a mets fan is no longer here to see the sale of the card, but she kept pushing before she died, even from her sick bed. >> they put her in bed and i lean over her and give her a kiss good night and she would say thank you for taking caring of them. then she said did up get the money yet? >> john terrett, al jazeera great barrington, massachusetts. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you ♪ >> a rare case of a major motion picture using the song happy birthday is one of a few dozen movies to do so. that's because the song and its

famous lyricking are protected by copyright. one group has been defending it for years but that could soon change. a lawsuit argues the song is in the public domain. as this lawyer explains, the suit is based on a 92-year-old music back. >> the argument is that in 1935, that it could have been or shouldn't have been registered in the first place because it was abandoned in 1922. they found what they call a smoking gun a 1922 version of a book where it was publishing without a c. and a circle, which back then you had to do. >> it collects $2 million everyone year for fees associated with the happy birthday copyright. >> thanks for watching. keep up on aljazeera.com.

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>> hello there welcome to the news hour from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes: >> funeral for an 18-month-old palestinian baby burnt to death after an arson attack. the prime minister calls it be a act of terrorism. >> malaysia's civil aviation chief joins the investigation into a piece of debris that could belong to missing malaysia airlines flight 370.