vaulting. and no words makes this fresh new art form appeal to a wide ranging audience leaving them all wanting more, charlie, al jazeera. much more on our website and the address is al jazeera.com. former president jimmy carter starts radiation therapy today. he says doctors found cancer on his brain. greece is heading for a new election, with the prime minister set to announce his resignation within hours and a heavy response from police in st. louis when they square off with protesters after an armed black teenager was shot and kill killed. ♪

this is al jazeera live from new york city and i'm tony harris and former president jimmy carter is getting radiation treatment this afternoon for cancer that has spread. the 90-year-old spoke candidly about his illness earlier today at the carter center in atlanta. >> i just thought i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. i've had a wonderful life, i've had thousands of friends and i've had an exciting and adventure existence and i was at ease, but not my wife. this is the god of my worship and i will be prepared for anything that comes. >> wow, carter called his pain so far very slight. he also said it is still not clear exactly where the cancer

began. the 39th president did not give a prognosis but said radiation treatments will continue for the next couple of months and earlier randall pinkston spoke to a medical doctor about carter's diagnosis. >> president carter announced today he had a very slow growing malignant melanoma and with slow-growing cancers is this insidious and years in the making and president carter has been monitored closely for the possibility of pancreatic cancer with a significant family history of that, a father, a brother and two sisters who died from pancreatic cancer but the screening he underwent for that may not have detected slow-growing melanoma somewhere in the body. >> he said he had a bad cold and from that they discovered the cancer? >> hard to nknow with the bad cold early symptoms of the cancer or was it a red herring

and when they worked him up they came across the cancer, it's a little hard to sort that out. >> do you know how long he has been under that testing, that monitoring for pancreatic cancer. >> something with a family history and we consider it to be at least first degree relatives so father, sibling or mother. >> he has four first degree relatives. >> somebody with two first degree relatives we do have these patients enter what are called family registries and essentially it's a research protocol and get scans on a yearly basis, routine medical exam. unfortunately none of that kind of screening or for that matter blood test has really been shown to detect the disease early enough to make a difference in terms of the history and course of the disease. >> had it been pancreatic cancer what kind of life expectancy would he have had? >> that is why we are so relieved to see it's malignant

melanoma and no one wants the diagnose of cancer and in somebody in their 90s would be 6-12 months and at the best two years whereas with the diagnosis of melanoma he may have a few years ahead of him. >> let's talk about treatment, so he gets his first radiation treatments today and they will be directed towards the lesions in his brain. he indicated there are four. how tricky is that? >> so he also mentioned he had been in sort of this head gear during and having a scan done and essentially what they are doing is trying to very accurately mark where they want to target the radiation so that they are hitting the lesions and not healthy tissue. so it is a little bit tricky in terms of the physics of it. and the idea is to shrink these tumors so that you're not having brain swelling or other complications with respect to your thinking or movement. >> and what is the likelihood of

recovery for a person of his age with this condition? >> you know, it's really reassuring that he has tolerated that initial hurdle and the liver surgery to have the master move and has tolerated that quite well and that speaks very positively to the overall health status and somebody who is frail in their 90s with heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, that would be a very different story. jimmy carter is overall quite healthy, very active still so i think this bodes well for over all recovery. >> he does not smoke and maybe that has something to do with his good prospects. >> absolutely, smoking is the primary controllable risk factor for pancreatic cancer and many other cancers and has a tremendous impact on your ability to breathe, your heart function, your ability to heal itself so the fact he doesn't smoke is actually you know a great factor. greece facing elections for the second time this year and

let's take you to live pictures from greece and there is the prime minister announcing to the nation at this moment his resignation, i believe we have the translation, let's listen in. >> the difficult charge is decisively ending and ratification of the agreements and disbursement of the 13 billion euros and both outside of the country and inside. the economy will take a breath. the market will normalize and banks will find their normal rate. of course it's not the end of this difficult situation for years now but i'm certain that it can prove with the work we do that beginning or the end of this difficult situation. this decisive step that was a normalization or the funding of

the economy is the beginning which wasn't easy which gives us the prospects and opportunities. if enough so if the country is on modern as it was before and the greek people i would like to be very frank with you, completely frank with you. we wouldn't get the agreement which we aspired to but we made some concessions and applaud this agreement and with this negative situation in europe and with the given as who would have inherited from completely surrendering to the terms of the bailout and it's the best we can achieve what we have achieved. this agreement, we are obliged to observe it but at the same

time we will fight to minimize the negative consequences with the motto of the interest of the people with a goal to regain as soon as possible our sovereignty without accepting or without accepting everything, without accepting some horizontal cuts, some bleeding of the most vulnerable. and we have already proven that we know and we can fight and succeed in many things. just remember what was the position of the allies before this agreement. five months extension, the previous program, full obligations of the previous government and the new agreement. at this moment, after the referendum, we have approved through the agreement with short

funding. we also remember that they asked us to immediately cancel some terms and whether the rest wasn't accepted and we are also asking for the -- for some clause, a different clause. there is a clause to find some equal measures and we have to fight this fight. also of the work relations and prevention of mass dismissals is our goal, our clear goal and i'm sure we will share this dismissals in the public area is past and return to schools and guardians and there is no euro ticketed in the hospitals and the procedure goes on to employ

2500 people, doctors and caring personnel. let's not forget also that we agreed to dramatic, smaller surpluses. so that the required measures are lower by 20 billion euros. and the new agreement, bailout agreement, is not of the colonial nature which was the greek government and the previous governments agreed but it's governed by the european legislation while the country has all the privileges which protect public assets for the first time with such a clear and absolute way and the procedure for the reduction of the greek debt was set out. it was probably the most critical point in this solution of the problem.

we gained some ground. meaning that we succeeded what we are expecting to achieve. and they are great people. and now this difficult cycle has come to an end in the contrast with the usual position of those who think they can't call to their position, to their post, inspector and i feel a moral obligation to put at your own judgment whatever i have done, the correct one and the mistakes, the successes and the omissions. for this way i decided to go to the president of the republic to submit the resignation of the government so that they exhaust its limit and now, again, the

sovereign people should take the word. you with your vote will decide if we represent the country with the resolve and the courage with the difficult negotiations required. you with your vote will decide if you -- the agreement we have reached provides the requisites to overcome today's deadlocks for the economy to recover so we get in the procedure of getting rid of all these bailouts. you by your vote will decide who and how we can lead this in a difficult but finally good road. who and how can negotiate the reduction of the debt. who and how can move on in a safe steps to the necessary aggressive fields with the needs. you finally by your vote will

judge those who fought within so that we are not too marginalized and those who are or were who said that greece needs a bailout but with dragma they were inconsiste inconsistent. the majority turn to minority which were the majority was given to our government. but even those you will judge from the old political system, the sense of colusion for the period to pressure us in a coordinated way with the tough sentence to sign whatever they want to place in front of us. and this is our resistance. they are greek people.

and with my conscious clear and proud for the cycle i gave for the government i was struggling over this period and will remain faithful to what i have promised and when i negotiated for a long time, we tolerate the pressures and blackmails. we reach some marginal consideration for the country. but the case of greece is a world case. and now it's life for other european nations and europe, it's not the same now after all this difficult six months period the idea it should be put to austerity and gaining more and more ground, the difference between democratic and progressive and european powers. and the more sense to the

difference and greece with this and the changes which take place and the discussions for the future of europe, greece will be in the first lines at the front. yes, this is my message which was sent to the president of the european parliament. i asked for european parliament to play an active role in the greek problem. the transparency and open democratic discussion and democratic accountability so. >> again, that was the greek prime minister live in athens. they are resigning and calling for new elections and the fact is he doesn't have a governing coalition in the parliament anymore after reaching a new bailout deal, that new deal as you know calls for more difficult austerity measures and remember he was elected to end austerity and you heard him say the latest bailout deal was

essentially the best that was available with the troika being and the eu european commission and the imf. let's take a break and we will come back with more news after this.

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south korea on high alert after an exchange of heavy artillery fire with the north and officials in seoul say north

korean forces fired at a south korean border town and this was the first hostile exchange in five years and harry faucet has more from seoul. >> reporter: exchange of fire began 4:00 in the morning south korean time and defense ministry says the north fired a projectile thought to be a rocket in south korean tear f territory and an hour after that they fired dozens of shells back into north korean territory and there was a message from north korea's military saying south korea would have to dismantle loudspeakers broadcasting messages for the last 11 days within 48 hours or further military action would result. there was also a message from north korea's government saying it was still looking for some kind of exit to this, some kind of settlement but the south korean government says that was really trying to hide what was going on, they are calling this a provocation, south korea's

president was briefed at the national security council meeting after which she instructed south korea's military to maintain a state of readiness and also responds sternly to north korean provocation. all of this stems from what happened on august the 4th when a land mind blast inside the demille tarry zone injured seriously two south korean soldiers. the south korean side said that was a north korean attack, that is when it or why it began broadcasting again across the border from these huge arrays of speakers. north korea called that a declaration of war and now we have seen live fire exchange between these two nations as a result. >> harry faucet in seoul and thai investigators still trying to find a man they say was responsible for monday's deadly bombing in bangkok and seen in closed circuit video leaving a backpack at the scene and police spoke with men dressed in red and white nearby and they were

tourists and not involved this the attack. the security firm that conducted a background check on edward snoden reached a 30 million settlement with the government and resolve claims that usis failed to perform quality control reviews in terms of its background investigations and tensions are high in st. louis after another deadly police shooting and they confronted officers shortly after they killed a man who pulled a gun on them. demonstrators have been out for days and john henry smith has more. >> reporter: st. louis police released this dramatic video of an angry crowd over 100 strong confronting them in the streets. protests and looting erupted after police shot and killed a man and police say he pointed a gun at them as he ran after they tried to serve a warrant at a home in the city's north side. they say there were drugs and stolen guns at that home.

a crowd estimated at around 150 soon gathered at the scene. many of them reportedly had already been in the area protesting the one-year anniversary of the police shooting death of a 25-year-old mentally disturbed man wielding a knife. soon the crowd was hurling glass bottles, rocks and bricks. >> a car was set on fire and receiving numerous calls right now for businesses that are being burglarized and officers responding to the neighborhood. >> reporter: protesters marking the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson. just last week police in ferguson shot and wounded 18-year-old tyrone harris after five straight days of michael brown protests and video afterwards seemed to show he was armed. officials insist they handled that incident and this one the right way. >> an argue plagued by violence, been plagued by gun violence police officers who were there today doing a job we all asked them to do to keep our community safe.

a group of protesters came together and started to do acts of violence directed not only to law enforcement but the neighborhood. >> reporter: police deployed additional officers to the area and used tear gas to clear the streets. >> when an individual stopped on interstate 70 and blocked traffic it was okay for officers to make arrest and traffic is being stopped and they are not standing on the sidewalk, they are impeding traffic and marching the king's highway, a major thorough fair to the trauma center and impacting peoples lives and a line that is crossed. 7 people are did in slovoka and car carrying parachutes and they were training for an air show this weekend and still no word on what went wrong. coming up, two years in the affordable care act and why millions are still without health insurance and a western band gets on the stage at north korea.

it's the first time that has ever happened in ping-yang. ♪

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canada for $1 billion and california's extreme drought is changing everything and released 21 groundwater basins severely depleted by pumping and they say it's leading to valley floors sinking faster than ever and the land in california sank 13" in 8 months and areas near the californ california aquaduct dropped 12 1/2 inches and we have been on the air two years and looking at the stories and two years ago the affordable care act went into effect and two years ago we introduced you to one woman, a cancer patient who fell in the coverage gap and heidi joe castro checked in with her. >> i try not to think about the far future. >> when we met paula she was

making less than $10,000 and hoping her uterine cancer would stay in remission and without health insurance she wouldn't have been able to afford treatment. >> if it was to return or develop another type of cancer i would have to let it take me out. >> reporter: now two years later phillips remains cancer free. but her income is still below the federal poverty line and ironically that means she still does not qualify for government subsidized health insurance. about one million texas yanukovichs -- texans are in the gap and created when they ruled in 2012 that states could ignore an affordable care act mandate to expand medicaid programs to cover everyone under the poverty line. texas chose not to expand its medicaid program which only covers the poorest of the poor and obamacare is only available to people above the poverty line. >> it doesn't seem fair to me. >> reporter: so people who fall

in the gap like paula phillips are still without health insurance today. >> politicians tend not to come down out of their ivory towers and get in the real trenches. >> reporter: heidi joe castro, al jazeera, texas. a slow media has wrapped up a visit to north korea where it became the first western group to ever play in ping-yang. ♪ live back performed a number of songs from the sound of music with a heavy metal touch and included the beetle's hits and some korean folk songs that formed in communist ugloslavia in the 80s and one of the best known bands and sitting on their hands and thanks for being with us, i'm tony harris from new york and the news continues next live from london.

♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello there this is the news hour live from london. coming up, greek prime minister alexis resigns and calls elections for next month seeking a new mandate for his bailout deal. macedonia declares a state of emergency and calls in the army to block the influx of refugees and other migrants. and as violence returns to aiden and look at why the yemen second city is at the heart of a struggle betweenal