the tin will run out one day. the question is what will be left of this island to provide for its future generations. stephanie decker. and of course you can always keep up to date with the very latest news on our website, al jazee jazeera.com. >> rescue teams find the wreckage of a in crimean plane to went missing with 50 onboard. it was also carrying half a million dollars in cash. >> angry residents in china deemployed compensation and answers after a major explosion. many did not know there were toxic chemicals stored steps from their homes.

>> donald trump provides and outline for his immigration plan. why he wants president obama's policies reversed and mexico to pay for a border wall. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city, i'm rachele carey approximate heavy rain, strong wind and fog was in the region when a plane vanished. crimean authorities say the plane was carrying around $470,000 in government cash for poor families. we have this report from jakarta. >> a very difficult rescue operation going on in the

location where the plane was spotted from the air. it's very difficult to reach by land but also from the air. with helicopters, it's very difficult, because the weather conditions are very bad in the area. the many was started in a very mountainous area, covered in dense jungle. teams going by foot are very difficult problems reaching the area. there's also an air evacuation plan in place to build a he wilily pod in the location, but even that has not succeeded. nine planes, two helicopters and many people have been trying for days to look for the missing plane that went off radar and lost contact sunday afternoon carrying 54 people, but also allegedly a lot of cash meant for poor families in the district. this just shows how remote this area is, because in the area, there are hardly any banks to

transfer this kind of money for government projects. as soon as there is light in the area, the rescue operation will continue. >> hundreds are protesting in china demanding answers from the government after those deadly explosions at an industrial site. prosecutor tests are a rare occurrence in china, but authorities in this case are not interfering. the death toll in raft week's explosion is now up to 114, with 70 still missing. most of them are firefighters. families are demanding answers about their loved ones as searchers continue to work the blast scene. >> this caused serious injuries and property losses. these days are very painful. as the deputy major in charge of safety, i feel deeply

responsible and guilty. this is why in representing the city government, i want to express my deep condolences to the ones who passed away, for people affected, i want to show my sympathies. >> rain could leak lethal gag. residents whose homes are damaged want compensation. >> hundreds of thousands of protestors are calling for brazil's president to leave office. they rallied sunday in many cities, upset over a slumping economy and a vast corruption scandal. >> the money they are stealing from this country, they don't have it. they don't have the heart, because the corruption is clearly millions and millions of the brazilian people. >> this was the third wave of a large scale protest against the president. her approval rating is below 8%,

the lowest r. for a democratically elected brazilian president. none of the ongoing investigations have implicated the president. >> iran's supreme leader said his country will remain closed to american unflience even if the nuclear deal is approved. he said the deal still needs to be approved by the u.s. and iran and regardless are the outcome, iran will not fall under american political, economic or cultural control. iran's parliament will vote on the deem in the coming days. >> the syrians launched for attacks in damascus. more than 100 people were killed and dozens ours wounded when bombs were dropped in doom in a sunday. the human rights observatory have called the attacks a massacre. douma is regularly targeted by the syrian government.

>> an al-qaeda affiliate in syria said its released members of a u.n. backed division. disks 30 fighters were abducted last month. they said they did so because the fighters were allied with the u.s. >> donald trump is taking a day off from his presidential campaign for jury duty in new york city. there's plenty of buzz over his immigration plan. the republican front runner said undocumented criminals need to leave the country and that mexico needs to pay for a border wall. he says he wants to reverse president obama's executive action on immigration currently under court review. >> we have to make a whole new set of standards, and when people come in. >> you're going to split up families, deport children. >> we're going to keep the families together. we have to keep the families together, but they have to go.

>> what if they have no place to go. >> we will work with them. they have to go. chuck, either we have a country or we don't have a country. >> he said he will put combat troops on the ground to fight isil. he said he will begin by taking the royal fields they have seized. >> i said iran will take over iraq, which is happening as sure as you're sit go there and isil is taking over oil in certain areas of iraq. you take away from wealth, take back the oil, we take over the oil, which we should have done in the first place. >> what you're talking about is do you understand troops, maybe 25,000. >> trump said he would charge wealthy middle eastern companies like saudi arabia for the protection they receive from the u.s. military. he also vowed to spend a billion dollars of his own money to win the white house. >> more presidential candidates will hold courter with iowans

today, talking to voters. iowa is a critical state for the candidates and one of the first states to kick off the nominating process in february. >> democratic bernie sanders is drawing big crowds in the fair. while appearing on t.v., sanders took on critics from the black lives matter movement. he said he doesn't owe an apology to the movement. his campaign has been add odds with the campaign. >> bernie sanders waded his way past the corn growers and corn dog vendors here at the iowa state fair. it's a ritual every presidential candidate does. while sanders himself has attracted the biggest crowds, he's also attracted his share of criticism and interruptions, especially from a group called

black lives matter that was formed after the shootings of michael brown, tamir rice and others. he told me that it was all about institutional racism. >> we'll speak with former white house aids about. >> on the campaign trail. >> despite congressional opposition, the defense department is looking into possible alternative to say the prison camp at guantanamo bay. they will look at damage and one in south carolina soon. bringing those prisoners to the u.s. could open up major legal consequences. >> many are protected by the policy toward guantanamo. there's a wrist between the department of defense and the white house on moving those prisoners out. we're trying to figure out

whether this announcement is a p.r. exercise to show that the administration is taking the pledge to shut guantanamo down before president obama leaves offers or if this is a sign that the obama administration is taking it seriously. on the one hand, they say they want to release those cleared for release, on the other hand, the department of justice and department of defense is going to court blocking their release. on friday, there was the case of a man cleared for release six years ago. he's been on hunger strike for eight years, being force-fed through his knows. on friday, the public defense instructed the department of justice to fight his release in court, which otherwise, he would have been released. the question is why are they doing that? the d.o.d. said he's on hunger strike, we don't want to reward hunger strikers, we feel it is a weapon of war.

if they are serious about releasing those prisoners, why in his case and others is the d.o.j. and d.o.d. fighting the release in court? there is another issue to content with. if these prisoners are moved on to the mainland, if congressional restrictions are bypassed and president obama could bypass, what will their status be. is the guantanamo system moving to the mainland? several various men in indefinite detention. many questions over the policies towards guantanamo remain. >> two rivers in colorado in our back open after a toxic mine spill. the san juan&animas rivers have reopened. people are warned not to drink

the water and they will be monitored for farming and animal life. >> five are dead after two planes crashed. authorities are investigating. the planes caught fire when they hit the ground near an airport in southern san diego county. the ntsb are investigating. >> remembering civil rights activists and icons julian bond. we'll look at the former head of the naacp's impact on that race and equality.

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. 7:45 a.m. here in the east. we'll take a look at your top stories right now. egypt's president approved strict laws designed to top what he called terrorism. human rights groups say the new legislation will be used to crush dissent. anyone found guilty of being part of a terror group, that's a quote, will get the death penalty. >> the u.s. and germany are removing patriot missiles from turkey. they were sent to protect the southern border in 2013.

officials say they will be returned to turkey to support its security, if needed. turkey has recently allowed the u.s. to launch airstrikes against isil from its air bases. >> the f.a.a. blames a faulty software update for causing major flight cancellations this weekend. a technical glitch at a radar facility in virginia ground traffic to a halt at washington, d.c.'s airports saturday. new york airports were also affected. some passengers had to wait until this morning to fly out. >> winds are fueling wildfires in the west. two dozen fires are burning across idaho and washington state. the largest along the washington oregon border has grown to 288,000 acres. the reach fire has destroyed dozens of homes near a resort town. >> we don't have enough resources to put this huge came

line around all this fire. they have to prioritize what's near structures, and that's where they want to get the fire line. >> more than 1600 people have been forced to evacuate the area. >> mississippi lawmakers are debating whether the confederate flag should be removed from the state flag. high profile celebrities are joining the chorus walking for change. morgan freeman and legendary quarterback averagey manning all signed to letter published in the clarion letter newspaper saying it is simply not fair or honorable that ask black mississippiens so attend schools, compete in athletic events, serve in the national guard, and go about their normal lives with a state flag that glorifies a war that fought to keep their ancestors enslaved. >> funeral plans are being finalized for julian bond. he died at 75.

he spent decades fighting for civil rights from the 1960's to the recent years. we look back at the life and legacy of this towering figure. >> i didn't turn back. >> he said his moment of awakening came as a college student in atlanta. it was the early 1960's. the civil rights movement was building and sit-ins were taking place in lunch counters across the south. >> i was sitting in a drug store having lunch. a student came up to me and said have you seen this newspaper? don't you think it should happen here. >> i said it will happen here. he said don't you want to make it happen here? i took one side, he took the other and we started a movement. >> it was a driving force behind the freedom rise in the 1963 march on washington.

in 1965, on the heels of the voting rights act, bond was one of eight african-americans elected to the georgia house of representatives, but because of his stance against the vietnam war, his fellow state legislators voted to bar him from taking his seat. he eventually persevered with a u.s. supreme court ruling, the ban violated his first amendment rights. >> we don't have total control. that's what we need. >> he would serve for morn two decades, continuing to push for voter registration of blacks. he co founded the southern poverty law center. he served as its president and moved on to lead the naacp, cementing his legacy as a civil rights icon. bond right fielded on what's changed and what hasn't earlier this year. >> i thought we'd lucked it. i thought these things were not going to happen again. i thought this was done. >> he continued to serve as a mentor.

>> these young people have much work ahead of them. they remind me i have to say very much of myself when i was their age, thinking that i could change the world. >> he was a university professor, columnist, poet and social commentator. >> i sent you a packet -- >> yes, you did i have a packet of films of photographs for black people. >> known for being down to earth as he was larger than life, he helped change this country for the better, said president obama in a statement on sunday, and what better way to be remembered than that? >> del walters, al jazeera. >> fewer than half americans have taken a vacation in the last year and it could cost billions. why not taking a break can actually drag down corporate profits. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about

technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data.

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morning, an on-line am pain is recognizing women who save lives. the hash tag i look like a surgeon is trending worldwide. it's designed to break stereotypes about female doctors and comes on the heels of a recent campaign highlighting women inning engineering. the number of women working at surgeons in the u.s. is on the rise. female general surgery residents rose from 10% in 1980 to 40% in 2010. how about that? >> it is summer, and for many people, that means vacation, but there are new study that is show americans just don't know when to take time off. instead many just throw those days away. >> you may not be surprised to hear that americans are orsing less vacation time than ever before. in fact, you may be one of those people choosing to log long hours at the office instead of the beach, but what may surprise you, there's a cost to all that

unused vacation time, and it's huge. >> u.s. companies owe their employees the equivalent of $224 billion in time off. that's nearly half the size of the current federal deficit. it's almost as much as the gross domestic products of portugal and 24 times the am revenue of the nfl. $52.4 billion, that's what employees like you are forfeiting each year in other earned better than fits. about a third of paid vacation days simply disappear. they can't be rolled over because of use it or lose it company policies. a human resources cult a.m. is hard at work on a beautiful warm sunny friday morning but looking forward to time off next month. >> why do americans use so much unused vacation time on the table? >> they're afraid of back stab approximating that if i take

vacation time, what's going to happen, who's going to try to take my job. they may be up for a promotion or raise and don't want to make it look as though they're lays or not productive or something or other. >> here's what's hard torical congratulate, the human toll. bowman says american work culture has created a society of burned out worker bees. >> if you don't take timeout, you begin to just kind of float. you don't have that edge, that creative edge, that engaged edge. they don't become what we call in h.r. engaged. in other words, they are not interested. their passion is no longer there. their effectiveness drops down. >> by comparison, european employees appear to have no qualms about taking advantage of any and all paid timeoff. workers in france are given 30

vacation days and report using all of them. same goes for denmark, germany and spain. >> in europe, it's mandated, here it's not, so companies say oh, well, it's not something we really have to do, but for the good of the company, the good of the employee, the good of the employee's family, the company should encourage as much as possible do take the vacation and take it all. >> with a view like this, who could argue? jennifer london, al jazeera, santa monica, california, not on vacation. >> we speak with the founder of workplace.com, he said people around using vacation days because they're afraid taking time off could risk their jobs. >> the average work week is not forth hours a week anymore, it's 47. gallup did a study. multiple studies show people do not have enough time for their personal interest anymore. it's the abolishment of work

life balance despite people getting burned out, people are accepting of i have the, so employers are still happy despite the same hours they have to put in. it's a combination of being replaced by someone overseas or someone cheaper and they will get more productivity out of them. it's also more than this. what's really happened is aside from the pressure, they have all the competitiveness from the people around them. if they can't perform, they're going to sink to the bottom and their competitively, their peers are going to get the promotion over them and that's a fear. >> there is no law that requires employers give workers paid vacation days. according to the bureau of labor statistics in 2011, 90% have full time employees receive the perk. thank you for joining us. stephanie sy is back in two minutes with more al jazeera news. keep it here.

>> search teams find wreckage that might belong to the crimean airplane that crashed sunday. it is not clear if there were survivors. >> large protests in china over the explosions at an industrial site. family members want answers. >> the two soldiers who could soon make military history, trying to become the first women to join the elite army rangers.

>> good morning. this is aljazeera america live from new york city, i'm stephanie sy. search and rescue teams in indonesia are trying to reach a remote area by air and foot this morning, hoping to access the wreckage of a passenger plane. authorities spotted debris of the plane that went missing on sunday. it had 54 people onboard. also onboard, about $470,000 in government cash for poor families. bad weather could have played a role in the crash. >> a very difficult rescue operation going on in papua. the plane is difficult to reach from land or by the air. the weather conditions are very bad in the area. the plane was spotted in a very mountainous area, 2,500 meters high, covered in dense jungle,

so teams going there now by foot have very difficult problems reaching the area, so there's also an air evacuation plan in place and to build a he wilily pad in the location, but even that has not succeeded. nine planes, two helicopters and more than 200 people have been trying for a whole day to look for the missing plane that went off radar and lost contact on sunday afternoon carrying 54 people, but also allegedly a lot of cash, meant for poor families in the district, and this just shows how remote this area is, there are hardly any banks to transfer this kind of money for government probables. tomorrow, as soon as the light is back there, the rescue operation will continue. >> recording from indonesia. >> hundreds are protesting in china against the government after deadly explosions at an

drill site. the death toll in last weeks explosion is up to 114 with 70 still missing, mostly firefighters. families are demanding answers as crews continue to work the blast scene. we have the latest. >> it was orderly, spontaneous, but defiant, a plea more than a protest. buy back, buy back they chant. they want the government to purchase their homes. five days after multiple explosions killed many, emotions remain raw. some are still traumatized. many lived in apartments less than a kilometer away and had no idea chemicals were stored there. >> we didn't know there were chemicals over there. we don't know who to blame,

because we don't know who allowed them to put dangerous stuff around our houses. we just have no idea. >> a gearing of this size would normally make the authorities uneasy. >> it's interesting. you have soldiers here, the police, and they are allowing this demonstration to take place and it is quite a sizeable protest. some of the protestors are holding banners saying we love the party, we support the government, but we want them to buy back our damaged amounts. >> some have lost american homes. his father was a duct wore he can and is missing. >> i have no idea if he is alive. i can't get ahold of him. >> at the site, specialist teams of firefighters appear to have succeeded in bringing most of the smoldering fires under control. monday, journalists were invited tuition the start of what will

be a very long clean up. those officials continue to insist the air quality outside the affected area is no threat to health. >> results from seven mobile environment and air quality monitoring stations outside the evacuation zone showed there were no signs of new plutoniumants. >> people here are not sure what to believe. many of those displaced were migrant workers. some have been returning to what's left of their dorm stories to collect anything of use. unsure when or if they'll return. a few people remain, oblivious of the health risks, perhaps preparing for the time this area will become normal, a prospect that seems a very long way off. >> the obama administration issued a warning to chinese officials. "the new york times" said it's about government agents working

secretly in the united states. several prominent chinese nationals, including several fleeing corruption charges in china report those agents have pressured them to return home to china immediately. the chinese president will be visiting washington next month. >> the u.s. and germany are removing patriot missiles from turkey. they have been there as part of a nato mission since 2013, installed to protect turkey's southern border from the syrian civil war. the missiles will be returned to turkey to support security if needed. turkey began the u.s. to law airstrikes against isil from its air bases. >> the syrian air force launched new attacks, more than 100 killed and dozens wounded when bombs were dropped on a marketplace in the southern town of douma on sunday. the syrian observatory for how many rights has called it a massacre. douma is regularly targeted by the syrian government. the strikes coincided with a visit to syria by a top u.n.

anniversary leader. the reason dropped the bomb in a crowded marketplace. it is an all too familiar scene for the people of the rebel stronghold of douma. this town is regularly targeted by syrian government airstrikes but sunday's attack was the worst yet. civil defense workers and others gathered at the site of the explosion to help move the wounded when more air raids hit. more than 100 were killed and dozens of others wounded. doctors at the field hospital struggled to help those who survived, many of them critically injured. >> according to activists on the ground, the victims were civilians, women and children were among them. >> the syrian observatory for human rights called the attacks an official massacre carried out deliberately. syrian state media didn't mention the attack, but a

military source was quoted saying the air force coward out airstrikes that targeted the headquarters of the rebel group the islam army. a day earlier, the group announced a new offensive against government forces and captured an army base. fighting around the capital damascus escalated in recent days. douma has been out of government control for years, but the military still controls the skies and civilians more often than not have been targeted. it is at the door steps of the government seat of power. that is why sunday's attacks are being sees as a message to the people of the area. the government will consider them responsible for the actions of the opposition. beirut. >> there are growing calls in brazil for the ouster of the president. thousands took to the streets on sunday. smaller gathers took place in dozens of other towns and

cities. the demonstrators want her out over a corruption scandal. >> this is the third time there are large sale protests in this country since president rousseff was reelected less than a year ago. 7.7% is her popularity rate, the lowest ever for a democratically elected president. the largest protests were in brazilia, sao paulo. >> out with the president, they chant. the same message resonated in hundreds of other cities and towns across the country, including the northeast, once considered roussef's strong held. the demonstrator anger was triggered by the corruption scandal that led to the arrests of dozens, including members of

the ruling party. >> the money they are stealing from the country. they don't have it. they don't have the heart, because the corruption is killing millions and millions of people, brazilian people. >> many were from the middle class here that had seen steady growth. now it feels the pinch of the crisis. while the protestors were making their vases heard, many more prepared to share their sunday on the beach. they don't agree with the calls for impeachment. >> there has always been corruption in this country, but they are not demonstrating against corruption. they are demonstrating against a party, you know, against this government as if the solution is if we have -- if the party

doesn't exist, all the problems in brazil are solved. >> many fear that those called to ousted president will only lead to more instability. no matter hunch they are, protests and low popularity rates are not enough to defeat the president in this country. it would require her to have done something illegal and she has not been implicated in any scandals in the country. in the coming days, roussef will have to announce more austerity measures. >> more trouble today from the long stalled economic recovery in japan. the numbers show the economy contracted over the last quarter. there is less demand inside and outside japan for the country's goods, a setback for the

government. >> a neonazi will be at trial today in kansas. >> former nfl players are set to file objections today against a billion dollars settlement over concussions. the players say the deal is unfair because it does not cover future diagnosis linked to repeated hits to the head. >> japan is monitoring activity as a volcano near its nuke plant, the first restarted in japan since the meltdowns at fukushima in 2011. >> the white house is set to announce a new initiative in the fight against heroin abuse, partnering public health experts with drug officers so they can better understand the origins. the goal is to shift to a system to treat low level offenders. >> the f.a.a. is point to go a

recent software upgrade as the course of a problem that left thousands of patternings strapped at airports this weekend. what was the goal of the upgrade? >> the f.a.a. said the software feature was supposed to give additional tools to controllers, but created chaos for travelers. >> long lines and thousands of passengers stranded at airport this is weekend following an automation problem at an air traffic center in virginia. >> if you want to set them both down, you can set them both down. >> a software upgrade as a radar facility is blamed. hundreds of flights were canceled and 2,000 delayed with major east coast hubs hit the hardest. >> the screens had gone blank and they were not able to track the planes. >> ticket agents were bombarded with travelers trying to rearrange their plans. >> they wouldn't let me check my bags. there were a lot of angry

people. >> many weren't sure how long they'd be stuck. >> my flight was canceled. they rebooked me and then canceled the flight. >> it makes me not feel safe. >> the technical problem was just that, not the result of a hack attack. >> probably unavoidable given that it was a computer glitch. >> it comes five weeks after a computer problem by united airlines triggered the delay of hundreds of flights. >> the airline spent sunday clearing the backlog. the software feature that caused the malfunction has been disabled until it can be assessed. >> investigators in southern california are trying to find the cause of a midair collision involving two small planes. at least five died. the planes caught fire when they hit the ground near an airport in southern san diego county. one plane was killing four people who worked for a military

contractor. the pilot on the other plane was on a cross country trip. >> a u.s. army parachutist injured during the chicago air show died. he collided in midair with a member of the navy's precision sky diving team. he then clipped the top of a high rise apartment. the other man landed on the beach. they were completing a maneuver holding hands in a circle in the air when the accident happened. >> donald trump's plan to keel with undocumented workers, the bored are and president obama's executive actions. >> we look at former naacp chairman julian bond and the affect he had on the country and world. >> you can't be a hypocrite. >> you're gonna also get a show that's really fair, bold, never predictable. >> they should be worried about heart disease not terrorism. >> no, i wouldn't say that at all. >> you'll see a show that has an

impact on the conventional wisdom, that goes where nobody else goes. my name is imran garda, i'm the host of "third rail" - and you can find it on al jazeera america.

>> the metro davidson county detention facility, items were sold at craft fairs. >> notable people in mississippi are joining calls to remove the confederate flag emblem, saying it's time to revise the flag. >> president obama is putting plans in place for his life after the oval office, according to "the new york times." he hopes to rise at least $800 million for his presidential library in chicago. he is starting a foundation inside name that will focus on government deficiency and global outreach. >> donald trump is taking a day off from his presidential

campaign for jury duty. he said undocumented criminals need to leave the country and that mexico needs to pay for a border wall. he wants to reverse president obama's executive actions on immigration currently under court review. >> we have a make a new set of standards. >> you're going to split up families, deport children. >> no, no, we're going to keep the families together. >> but keep them out. >> they have to go. >> what if they have no place to go? >> we will work with them. they have to go. chuck, either we have a country or we don't have a country. >> trump went on to say he would put u.s. combat troops on the ground in iraq to fight isil and begin by retaking the oil fields isil has seized. >> i said this was going to happen, iran will take over iraq, and it has happened and isis is taking over the oil in certain areas of iraq. i said you take away their

wealth, take back the oil, we take over the oil which we should have done first place. >> you're talking about ground troops, maybe 25,000. >> we'll encircle it. >> trump said he would charge saudi arabia for the protection they receive from the u.s. military. he's vowed to spend a billion dollars of his own money to win the white house. >> senator claire mccaskill is defending hillary clinton. the f.b.i. is investigating whether her use of a private email server exposed classified secrets. mccaskill calls reports of political wrongdoing a political witchhunt. >> bernie sanders has been drug big cruz campaigning in iowa. he is pledging to so that racial

discrimination. as candidates try to win over iowa voters, donald trump commands the biggest soap box. downing us to talk about that is a former aid to president h.w. bush. joe, great to see you. what were the main takeaways from iowa? >> that donald trump is really sucking up all the oxygen in the republican race. he's received like a rock star. not only is he a reality star, but now is leading the presidential campaign on the republican side and maintaining that lead in impressive fashion. >> we are starting to hear more substance, perhaps rather than just style out of trump. i hold in my hand trump's six page policy prescriptions for immigration. i don't know if you've read it,

but one of the things he asks for is ending birth right citizenship. a lot of people say that is enshrined in the constitution. he talked about deporting immigrants, 11 million people. are these realistic? >> whether they are or not, that's what people want to hear, a decisive stance on an issue and donald trump is willing to say this is where i stand, no political talk or glossing over the harshness. this is where i stand period, and that's resonate, voters. voters are in the mood to elects somebody who is not a politician. somebody who actually will get things done for the country. that's why donald trump is really hitting a core with american voters. that's why he's at 25% nationally. >> in second place is ben carson, a neurosurgeon who has never held public office. where does that tell you about where the republican voters'

head is at right now. >> they are anti politician. this is a year to not be a politician, to really be somebody kind of running against the establishment.

he is striking a chord. there are people going to see he's a moderate or conservative, he's just a fire brander, a business person. whatever it is he is, donald trump is striking a chord with voters and they are flocking to him in big numbers. even without a strong debate performance, he has solidified

his report. he is clearly striking a chord with the republican voters and he's probably going to continue to stay at the top. >> joe, thank you. >> funeral plans are still being finalized for valueian bond, civil it's icon. bond spent decades fighting for civil rights from the 1960's to recent years. del walters looks back at the life and legacy of this towering figure. >> he said his moment of awakening came as a college student in atlanta. it was the early 1960's. the civil rights movement was building and sit-ins were taking place in lunch counters across the south. >> i was sitting in a drug store having lunch. a student came up to me and said have you seen this newspaper? don't you think it should happen here? >> i said it will happen here.

don't you think we should make it happen here? he said don't you want to make i took one side, he took the other and we started a movement. >> it was a driving force behind the freedom rise in the 1963 march on washington. in 1965, on the heels of the voting rights act, bond was one of eight african-americans elected to the georgia house of representatives, but because of his stance against the vietnam war, his fellow state legislators voted to bar him from taking his seat. he eventually persevered with a u.s. supreme court ruling, the ban violated his first amendment rights. >> we don't have total control. that's what we need. >> he would serve for more than two decades, continuing to push for voter registration of blacks. he cofounded the southern poverty law center. he served as its president and moved on to lead the naacp,

cementing his legacy as a civil rights icon. bond reflected on what's changed and what hasn't earlier this year. >> i thought we'd licked it. i thought these things were not going to happen again. i thought this was done. >> he continued to serve as a mentor. >> these young people have much work ahead of them. they remind me i have to say very much of myself when i was their age, thinking that i could change the world. >> he was a university professor, columnist, poet and social commentator. >> i sent you a packet -- >> yes, you did i have a package of films of photographs of black people. >> known for being down to earth as he was larger than life, he helped change this country for the better, said president obama in a statement on sunday, and what better way to be remembered than that? >> del walters, al jazeera. >> it is one of the most

challenging training programs in the u.s. army, becoming a ranger. for the first time, two women could are days from graduating. >> education in iraq, the daily struggle for misplaced children.

>> 70 people are still missing, most firefighters. the white house is set toe announce a plan it hopes could cut heroin overdoses. the program will partner public health experts with drug officers to better understand the or ins of abuse. keiths of quadrupled between 2002 and 2013. >> iran's supreme leader said his country will remain closed to american influence even if the proposed nuclear deal is approved, saying the u.s. and iran still need a approve the deal and regardless of the outcome, iran will not fall under american control. iran's parliament will vote on

the deal in the coming days. we continue that hear rhetoric. is the hard line stance a show? we know the deal couldn't have been done without his approval. >> stephanie, you're absolutely right. this is a man who came to power in 1989 and since he came to that position. he has been referring to the united states as the enemy. he's not going to change his tone overnight. a lot of what he's saying is rhetoric for domestic consumption. what matters is his action, because he approved the talks

the propaganda in favor of the nuclear program was intense over the years. you should be expecting that there was a small minority that was forced to believe that the nuclear program must continue and iran must not give in to agreement. he has to talk to them, change the position gradually. he would never use that public podium to address the outside world. >> there is opposition to the deal in iran. there is fierce opposition to the deal here in the u.s. i was speaking to an analyst the other day. he said this agreement is essentially now international law. my question to you is what could either hardliners in iran or opponents in the u.s. congress do in practical terms to derail

the agreement? >> well, hardliners in iran have been quite controlled. iran's supreme leader has the control to silence them. what you hear is the noise in the background. it is the congress at the u.s. that poses a much more serious threat to the agreement and is exhale of derail it. unfortunately, the opponents of the deal are not familiar with realities on the ground or even in the region. >> to that point, one of the arguments that percented is the idea that lifting sanctions means iran gets tens of billions of dollars. they are going to be wealthy,

have nuclear weapons, take over parts of the world that you couldn't believe and i think it's going to lead to nuclear holocaust. the people that negotiated that deal, namely kerry and his friends are incompetent. >> is the idea that iran is going to unleash a wave of terror on the u.s. or its interests well-founded? >> iran has not done that for many, many years, number one and number two, iran's economy is in shambles. the regime has to satisfactory the needs of its own people and maintain some kind of support base in the country. third, iran's military is one quarter the size of the military of saudi arabia and united arab emirates together, not considering the other countries in the region. i think these comments are quite exaggerated about&iran's military mights or political ambitions in the region.

>> i want to talk about your colleague, jason razian held in a military prison more than a year. based on what you hear out of iran, what is his arrest based on? >> he was arrested by a hardliner who is quite radical. he has unfortunately in the past handed down sentences that were quite long. i'm not expecting this judge to come up with a verdict that would lead to jason's release, but i'm hoping that the moderates in iran are putting the right kind of pressure on the court and the judge. they are aware of the consequences of his continued arrest. they should be worried about iran's image in the international community. i am counting more on the appeals court. i am sure whatever the sentence is, if it does not lead to

jason's release, his lawyer will appeal the court and we have usually seen mitch more reasonable dave from the appeals courts in iran. >> good to see you, thank you. >> polls are now closed in sri lanka for parliamentary elections. the countries former president is seeking a comeback, trying to become the next prime minister. we have more from colombo. >> voting ended the parliamentary elections to select 225 public representatives. now the voting went quite well. we saw a steady stream of voters from the early hours of the morning. there was a bit of a lull in the afternoon, and early occasions are that there was 60-65% of voter turnout, unofficial figures yet. now the election sheet show in

certain areas, counting has begun. this would be the votes that came in earlier, the vote proper today will happen in the next four hours or so and initial results will begin to filter in around midnight local time. now a very interesting election for sri lanka as it plots its future course in this country after the war. we have the former president trying to make a comeback into the political mainstream, despite being voted out in january this year. those who defeated him, the united national party says he needs a mandate to continue that wind you have change that saw the change and the end of the regime, so very much sort of two sides waiting to take this country forward. >> reporting from colombo, sri lanka. >> government and rebel leaders from south sudan are meeting for

peace attacks in ethiopia today. the president and his rival, the former vice president face a midnight deadline to end the country's civil war or face sanctions and an arms embargo. tens of thousands of people have died in the conflict, more than 2 million have been displaced. >> iraq legislators are blaming government leaders for allowing isil to overrun parts of the country. a parliamentary panel recommend senior officials, including al-maliki face prosecution for losing control of mosul. at the same time, the current prime minister is ordering military commanders to face court martial for bonn donning the city of ramadi to isil in may. the fall of the two major cities has caused a flood of refugees, including many school children. >> in a climate that makes concentrating near impossible, and hand books don't distract from the heat, these internally displaced iraqi students are

doing their best to learn. >> we used to live in our own neighborhoods and it was like heaven. we used to go to clean schools and these schools would have proper roofs. now we are studying here. >> while the boys here worry the world has fore saken them, their determined not to give up on their education. >> there are approximately 850,000 internally displaced school aged children in iraqi. 650,000 have missed at least a year of classes. >> isil fighters took over his town. he's missed months of school. >> if we were back home, i would wear a proper uniform to school. i wouldn't dress like this, and we wouldn't be living now in

tents. >> or studying in them, either. the teacher said the situation is worse than it looks at the idp camp. the most basic requirements for classes are not available. we have 90 students in three different classes and only 30 signature books for distribution. how can you teach 90 students with 30 books? where there should be 20 teachers, there are only five. >> we feel this is a crime against those children. what did they do to deserve such harsh conditions? they are happier with a school to go to, but they lack the basic requirements to teach them

adequately. >> studying english, the kids recite numbers written out for them. on a white board propped up by cinder blocks. 12-year-old muhammed said much, much more is needed. >> it's very, very cold, the electricity comes and then it goes. sometimes, it doesn't come at all. >> outside, the next class cues up. textbooks wither in the sun. the mothers make bread where there is too much hunger and the thirst for knowledge hasn't come close to being quenched. >> the u.s. military canceled a pretrial hearing for several suspects in the september 11 attacks. proceedings were supposed to start next week against five held at guantanamo bay, but the judge put them off amid

accusations the f.b.i. has been spying on defense attorneys. despite congressional opposition, the defense department is looking into possible alternatives to the prison camp. officials inspected a facility in cans and will look at one in south carolina soon. bringing those prisoners to the u.s. could open up major legal consequences. >> many are perplexed by the obama administration's policy. there are reports there is a big wrist between the department off defense and the white house on shutting down the facility and moving the prisoners out. we are trying to figure out if this is a bit of a p.r. exercise that the administration is taking the pledge to sit guantanamo bay down before president obama leaves office or whether therwhether there this e president is taking it seriously. they want to release those

cleared for release, although the department of defense is blocking them. on friday, there was the case of a man cleared for release six years ago. he's been on hunger strike for eight years, being force-fed through his nose. on friday, the public defense instructed the department of justice to fight his release in court, which otherwise, he would have been released. the question is why are they doing that? the d.o.d. said he's on hunger strike, we don't want to reward hunger strikers, we feel it is a weapon of war. if they are serious about releasing those prisoners, why in his case and others is the d.o.j. and d.o.d. fighting the release in court? there is another issue to content with. if these prisoners are moved on to the mainland, if congressional restrictions are bypassed and president obama

could bypass, what will their status be? is the guantanamo system moving to the mainland? several various men in indefinite detention. many questions over the policies towards guantanamo remain. >> two women could make history this week by graduating from the army rangers school. the recruits still have to pass rigorous train program over the next days and if they succeed, there is no guarantee the military's brass will let them serve in the same unit. we look at the controversy. >> on the faces of these soldiers completing the final phase of ranger training in a florida swamp and it is nearly impossible to pick out any women, and in a way that's the point. nothing is supposed to be different for foe male soldiers who aspire to elite range erstad

at us. there is no women's course with shorter walls, no barbed wire that's set higher. no lighter loads to shoulder. the army said for women, earning it must be as hard as men. >> if they could meet the standard, they should be able to join. >> the outgoing chief of staff, top commander in iraq has indicated the army has no objection to opening up many more combat jobs to women, such as field artillery, but integrating women into front line infantry and commando units is still being debated, and this class of range eerie kreutz and one more in the fall it will help settle. two dozen made it through the weeks of punishing training, a grueling ordeal that many male

soldiers find too challenging. twenty years ago, this was the stuff of fiction. just as in the 1997 motion picture g.i. jane, the female soldiers in training are not identified unless and until they graduate. unlike demi moore's fictional navy seal, the trailblazing women in the army's experiment are getting encouragement from the top brass. >> the feedback is how incredibly prepared they are. the evident they've put forward is significant. they've impressed all they have come in contact with. they are clearly motivated and that's what we want out of our soldiers. >> the two pioneering women maybe the first female ragers, but likely not the last. the army plans another

integrated course in november and by next year will decide whether to open the job to women permanently. al jazeera, the pentagon. >> huge wild fighters are having a major environmental impact across the western united states. this one in northern los angeles count charred 500 acres. several roads of closed. other fires in western idaho and oregon destroyed homes. flames have been ripped up by drought and heat and winds all the way to colorado. >> feeding the hungry, keeping it healthy. the surprising face of those in need here in the u.s.

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>> welcome to al jazeera america. here's a look at today's top stories. investigators in california are trying to find the cause of a midair collision involving two small planes. five died. the planes caught fire when they

hit the ground in southern san diego county. >> a u.s. army par chutist has died. he control lied in midair on saturday at chicago air show. he clipped the top of a high rice apartment. another man landed on the beach with a broken leg. >> a faulty software updates is blamed for causing flight cancellations. a technical glitch ground traffic to a halt at washington, d.c. airports saturday. new york airs were also affect. some passengers had to wait until this morning to fly out. >> 46 million americans live in what are called food deserts, limited access table and nutritious food. 800,000 people rely on food dough nations. we have this report. >> here in chicago, part of the american farm belt, the hungry line up for food. >> we haven't got enough good today.

>> how come? >> because. >> this is the face of hunger in america. >> it helps me out with my groceries, when you're on a fixed income and i have a 11-year-old and 35-year-old to feet. 311 people wait for hours for food produce. >> this is not even feeding the people who are sleeping on the streets, at the bus stations, at the train stations. it's not feeding everybody, just feeding so much, because there are people in need. >> the produce truck drops its load 50 times a month, supplementing the soup kitchens and homeless shelters here and across the u.s. >> this is an owe is a in a city with many food deserts. in cook county, including

chicago, one out of six residents gets donated food. they're not necessarily the people you think. one out of 2,000 holds have a remove over their heads. >> it's not a small problem. in 2008, when the recession hit, we saw a huge spike in need and unfortunately, it hasn't gone back down. we're pretty busy and we're doing a booming business. 200,000 pounds of food per day is leaving this warehouse and described to food pantries and shelters and food kitchens in cook county. >> that's just in chicago. 42 million people receive food assistance from the u.s. government. >> we have chronic hunger in america and across the world where people don't know where their next meal is coming from. we have other families who might experience hunger from time to time because they run paycheck to paycheck. >> when times get tough, those americans join in lines like this, lines food supreme court

experts say are growing longer. >> on the culture beat, barry crimons was one of the first political satirist. a no documentary call me lucky touches on a dark part of his childhood, being sexually abused. david shuster asks why it's important to talk about that. >> one of the things people say about people who disclose that they were abused will often say and they mean well, you confessed, you admitted you were abused. i was raped as a small child, and i don't confess or admit anything concerning that. if you're held up at gunpoint, you don't confess that you did something, so and part of the reason you need to talk that is because the language of complicity is very important to

the perpetrators. they tell children if anybody finds out what we did. from pretty early on, i haven't had a lot of trouble discussing it, and particularly because i knee people need to know about it, particularly because it still goes on and somewhere between where you sit and i sit, there are children going through absolute hell and we need to know bit and have the courage to talk about it. >> there seems to be a perception among most folks who look at incredibly talented comedians such as yourself and believe that it's drawn on sometimes dark experiences that you have had in your life. is that fair to suggest that? >> well, everything in your life forms be, but i know comics that seem to have exemplary childhoods and have had it pretty much ok.

they've had pretty much quote unquote normal lives. i'm a political satirist who has spoken up for the underdogs. >> lied like to overthrow the government of the united states and close the catholic church. >> i like to think i would have opposed death squads had i not been raped as a 4-year-old. >> what was it like when you first started talking about your experiences in the 1990's? >> well, you start by talking to friends and some were tremendous, like bobcat. others just don't know what to do about it, peopled say are you talking about to anybody about this? yeah, i thought i was talking to you. you know, that was the beginning of that. when i first talked about it on stage, i spoke about it, because it was right after the rodney king stuff went down and a lot of people were making a lot of judgments about a lot of kids

out in los angeles and i just decided that nights to well, you know, there's context for people. people come -- there's different thanks that lead up to things and certain types of actions and so on and oh fort. i've been pretty public about this for a long time now. >> barry, thanks for being on al jazeera. we appreciate it. >> i'm very happy to be here. thank you for helping us publicize the film. >> call me lucky is playing in select theaters from around the country. >> the syrian government launched airstrikes killing dozens of women and children, described as the worst attack in the four year war. thanks for watching. >> they believed in what they were doing but they were

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>> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data.

>> hello, welcome to the news hour in doha. an explosion rocks the center of thailand, bangkok is hit. there are reports of casualties. >> i'm absolutely horrified by the total disregard for civilian life by all parties in this conflict.