northern ethiopia. find out more about opal mining, in ethiopia on the al jazeera website and find the very latest on all the day's top stories and following the ongoing refugee crisis effecting for the most part europe. the man suspected of ambushing and killing a texas deputy is in court today. police are calling it a cold-blooded execution. plus -- >> cops lives matter, too. let's just say lives matter. >> backlash after the harris county sheriff calls the protest movement rhetoric. wall street opens this morning with a focus on the federal reserve. a week of economic reports could have an impact on interest rates. and the high one.

why president obama renamed north america's tallest mountain, and why it's causing controversy. this is al jazeera america. good morning. live from new york city i'm randall pinkston. the tekz texas man charged in the execution-style shooting of a houston area police officer is due in court this morning. police are trying to find a motive but think the officer may have been targeted because of his uniform. john henry smith here. what's the suspect's family saying? >> randall, the mother of suspect shannon miles says her son could not possibly be guilty of killing deputy darren goforth because he was shopping with her at the time according to her. authorities say the ten-year veteran of the force was gunned down around 8:30 p.m. friday night from behind at a gas station near houston.

miles was taken into custody a half mile from the shooting scene. he has an extensive arrest record over the last decade, but there's no previous interactions between the suspect and the deputy. the harris county sheriff says he thinks deputy goforth was a victim of wearing a law enforcement uniform and the animosity in america fostered by highly publicized police shootings of unarmed black men. >> when the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded, assassinations of police officers happened, this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we've heard black lives matter. all lives matter. cops lives matter, too. so why don't we drop the qualifier and say lives matter and take that to the bank. >> a leader in the black lives matter movement told the "houston chronicle" that it's unfortunate the sheriff chose to politicize this tragedy and tribute the death to a movement to end violence. last night hundreds of people

marched from two houston area churches to the crime scene to show their support for deputy goforth's family and police officers in general. 80 law enforcement officers have died in the u.s. this year, 25 by gunshot. if convicted shan mon miles faces the possibility of the death penalty. randall. >> thank you, john henry. investors on wall street brace for a busy week as the federal reserve considers raising interest rates. a series of financial reports could tip the scales within the fed, which right now appears to be split. patricia has more on why raising rates is such a tough decision. >> it's been nearly a decade since the federal reserve raised interest rates and the turmoil in global markets over the last weeks has left policymakers divided over when to pull the trigger. first, the turmoil. the dow jones plummeted 1,000 points at the start of trading last monday only to finish the week higher while oil prices hit six and a half year lows before

bouncing back. those nausea-inducing swings were triggered by disturbing signs of weakness in china's economic which is a primary engine of global growth. take oil, for example. china is the biggest consumer of imported crude, so if its appetite for oil tapers off, that drags on prices. there's the impact on global currency markets. china recently engineered a dramatic devaluation of its currency triggering a wave of currency devaluations in other emerging markets. now, if those currencies get weaker, the dollar gets stronger, which spells trouble for u.s. exports because a strong dollar makes u.s. goods more expensive to buy overseas. raising interest rates could turbo charge the dollar even more, and if you throw in depressed oil prices you have a recipe for persistently inflation, which is running below the 2% target for three years. so the big question for fed officials is, will these inflation-smothering factors

persist or ease up? speaking at an annual conference in wyoming over the weekend, fed vice chair stanley fisher said there's good reason to believe inflation will pick up, and that left the door open to a rate hike in september. in the middle of last week's market madness, the president of the new york fed, william dudley, said a september rate hike is less compelling because of china. all policymakers can do now is see what the data turns up before they meet in mid-september, and there's a crucial read on the health of the u.s. jobs market with the release of the monthly report. in july the economy added fewer jobs and expected even though hiring reached a six-month high. it's a few more days before puerto rico releases a plan to tack on the island's huge debt. a group appointed by the commonwealth's governor was expected to deliver a plan by today, but the deadline is extended until september 8th because of tropical storm erika. they're developing a list of

reforms to reduce puerto rico's $72 billion debt. towns are evacuated this dominica after erika struck the caribbean island after 20 were killed and 50 others still missing. the tropical storm caused flooding and mudslides. the government has declared a disaster and is appealing for international assistance. venezuela has sent more than 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid and a group of rescuers to assist with search efforts. there is tighter security this morning on austria's border with hungary prompted by last week's discovery of 71 bodies inside an abandoned truck. authorities say they have arrested five people in connection. andrew simmons spoke with an hungarian officials a short time ago about the latest restrictions. >> there is illegal border crossing we're trying to fix. it's completely unacceptable that 450,000 come through the borders without any kind of

discipline, order and law. what we're trying to re-establish at the borders of hungary and serbia, which is is law and order to put discipline into this huge influx of illegal mime grants. >> discipline, order and law for refugees escaping from an absolute appalling war in syria. is that really the right approach? >> it's in the best interest of those arriving through the green borders, who might be refugees or might be economic migrants. we don't know. they don't have papers or any way of proving their identities. it's only through rules that not only hungary but also the european union will be able to handle this. >> ban ki-moon, the international office of migration, an abundance of human rights groups are asking for a more coordinated approach and hungary to be more logical and careful and coordinated in the approach rather than building up

175-kilometer fence. aren't you at least considering being more careful with these refugees and wanting to actually give them sanctuary in the rest of europe rather than turn them around and send them away? >> again, you use a word that should be corrected. up until we establish identity, we don't know if they're refugees or they're not. these people coming through four, five, seven countries and arriving from over 100 countries around the world through the european union should be filtered and put under some kind of discipline to establish their identities. >> hungary is also dealing with the flow of refugees entering by the thousands from neighboring serbia. police in thailand are looking for two new suspects in the deadly bombing two weeks ago. police today reliced images of a thai woman and a man of unknown nationality. they are linked to a police raid on two apartments where police found bomb-making equipment and made an arrest. 20 people died and more than 120

were injured in the bombing of a shrine in central bangkok. president obama has a meeting with the saudi king this week. the meeting is the king's first visit to the white house. the iran nuclear deal is on the agenda with king solomon and something the saudis are worried about fearing it could disrupt the balance of power in middle east. james smith spoke with al jazeera about the timing of king solomon's visit. >> it's a very opportune time for king solomon to come back. it is his first visit as king. it's important not just because of the iran nuclear deal, although that is the centerpiece, but also the instability in the region brought about by the chaos of extremism and also the global energy markets and the impact that they're having on the global economy. so it's a very opportune time for the talks to be taking

place. >> ambassador smith noted ongoing saudi air strikes in yemen will be discussed during the president's talks with the king. right now president obama is on his way to alaska where he will spend three days pushing his climate change agenda. ahead of his departure, the president announced he will renanl north america's highest peak. mount mckinley named originally for former president william mckinley is now mount denali. many alaskans have called it denali for generations welcomed the change. >> for generations they have known this majestic mountain as the great one. today we're honored to be able to officially recognize the mountain as denali. i'd like to thank the president for working with us to achieve this significant change to show honor, respect, and gratitude to the people of alaska. >> well, in ohio some politic n politicians are reacting angrily to the announcement. president mckinley was ohio.

bob gibbs calls the name change constitutional overreach. president brm obama is the first sitting president in history to visit the alaskan arctic. it's an area where many deal with the devastating effects of climate change, melting glaciers and crumbling permafrost and rising sea levels. no one knows more than a crew that studied sea ice. we recently joined them. >> reporter: it's summer high up in the arctic circle, and this is what you expect to see. ice as far as the horizon. the only way through it is on this ship, the coast guard cutter healey. it's one of only two icebreakers in the united states built to handle polar ice. the ride can get a little rough. that noise there? that's the sound of being in the

bow of an icebreaker. but there's trouble in this frozen paradise. the arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe, and that's causing a sea change in this frontier. summer sea ice has receded close to 25% since 1980. on land we saw it. birch degrees are sprouting on the tundra and melting permafrost causes land and structures to sink. captain jason hamilton is the healey's commanding officer. he's also a veteran of both poles. >> ten years ago when i first was operating, this was complete ice. now we have some open water. >> reporter: andy mahoney is a geophysicist at the university of alaska fairbanks. he's been studying polar sea ice for 15 years. >> in this part of the alaska arctic, it has seen some of the

fastest and most extensive retreats of sea ice anywhere are in the arctic. >> reporter: watching ice floes drift in mostly open water, we can see one reason scientists think the arctic is warming faster. that's because while sea ice reflects sunlight, the ocean absorbs it. >> it's a vicious circumstance am. you remove the ice and expose water. that water is more able to absorb sunlight and heat. so it causes more warming, which melts more ice and propagates the cycle. >> that's phil torres reporting from the arctic. republican governor scott walker lays out his version of an immigration reform plan and says building a border may be a good idea, but it's not where you think. an academic article by an assistant professor at west point stirs controversy calling critics of the war on terrorism traitors.

welcome back to al jazeera america. it's 7:46 eastern time. taking a look at today's top stories. officials at san quentin state prison in california are on high alert this morning. six inmates have been diagnosed with legionairre's disease. the disease is linked to bacteria that grows in water. a federal appeals court in california will hear arguments today over whether the death penalty violates the eighth amendment. the judges will consider if years of delays from conviction to execution inflict cruel and

unusual punishment. more than 900 california inmates have been sentenced to death since 1978. only 13 have been executed. milwaukee's mayor wants all officers to wear body cameras by the end of next year. the proposal for 1200 cameras would cost about $1 million a year. nearly 900 los angeles police officers are hitting the streets with body cams beginning today as part of a plan to eventually outfit the entire force. republican presidential front-runner donald trump has been making an aggressive push for stricter immigration policies. trump wants to build a wall on the mexican border, and now wisconsin governor scott walker is also talking about a border wall but he is considering one at the canadian border. >> some people have asked us about that in hamnew hampshire raised legitimate concerns including law enforcement folks that brought it up at a town hall meeting a week and a half ago. that is a legitimate issue to

look at. >> the u.s./canadian border stretches more than 5,000 miles. it's the world's longest international border. bernie sanders has cut hillary clinton's lead to just 7 points in iowa. 37% to 30%, and the vermont senator is striking a chord with domestic issues, but yesterday he was asked about international affairs and military force. >> war is the last resort, not the first resort. so you are looking at a guy, yeah, there are times when you have to use force. no question about it. >> sanders voted against going to war in iraq in 1991 and in 2003. he voted yes to sending troops to afghanistan after the september 11th attacks. a public farewell today for the television cameraman kill

killeded last week. they were shot to death by a former colleagues during a live interview last wednesday in virginia. his family has encouraged people to wear the colors of his high school and virginia tech. ward's funeral will be held tomorrow. in the meantime, alison parker's father says he will do everything he can to try and prevent similar tragedies in an op-ed in the "washington post" today andy parker writes in part, i plan to devote all of my strength and resources to seeing that some good comes from this evil. he goes on to say, that means we must focus or attention on the legislators who are responsible for america's criminally weak gun laws, laws that facilitate the access to dangerous individuals to have firearms on a daily basis. the national security law journal is calling an article it published a mistake. it comes from an assistant professor at the united states military academy at west point who calls for the death of anyone opposed to the war on

terror. del walters reports. >> reporter: west point has long been known as one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in america. now an associate professor at the school is drawing negative attention because of an academic article he wrote. william c. bradford published the article in the national security law journal. he calls for military strikes on legal scholars and media outlets that criticize america's war on what he called islamic radicals. bradford says the u.s. should threaten to destroy islamic holy sites as part of a war against isil, even if it means great destruction and enemy casualties and civilian collateral damage. he says legal scholars critical of the war represent a treas treasonist fifth column that should be attacked as enemy comb combatants.

he says has shocking as it seems he said the schools are targetable as long as the attacks are proportional and distinguish them from others and employ nonprohibited weapons and contribute to the defeat of islamism. west point says the views in the article are bradford's only and do not represent the school. del walters, al jazeera, new york. >> bradford does not name the media outlets or scholars to be targeted. he refers to them only as those critical of armed conflict. peru steps up efforts to stop the illegal drug trade. we will take you to the front line of the battle to contain the country's cocaine plants:

>> in order to save my children, i had to try to save everyone else's. >> chicago mothers, fed up and fighting back. >> what we've essentially done is created an outdoor community center. >> changing the city one block at a time. >> i'm out here to encourage them, to tell them there's a better way.

peru is now the world's biggest producer of cocaine. it is also the latest country in south america to permit its military to shoot down suspected drug smuggling planes that pass over it. we have a report from the drug-producing region where she joined a special police unit on an anti-drug operation. >> reporter: after a tip from an informant, members of the anti-drug special police marched across rivers and marshes. the commander led the team as they set out to destroy a c cocaine processing labs. they fired shots to warn the traffickers. they prefer to let them go to avoid retaliation from the local community where police say most people are involved in the drug trade.

just as we were arriving, the travengers fled. they left behind their bread and boots. these sacks of cocoa leaves were about to be thrown inside the pool to make the paste from which cocaine is made. authorities say this lab is big enough to produce $50 thousand to you worth of paste each day. >> translator: the size and location of the lab tells us they were professionals. >> reporter: the stench of toxic chemicals like acid and gasoline is overpowering. this substance is eventually turned into the cocaine powder. the rest is thrown away, contaminating land and rivers. this is the valley, the center of the world's leading cocoa paste producer. this 100-man contingent is on the front line of the war on

drugs in peru. they say they have a big mandate but not enough resources. >> translator: the complexity of this is to reach the labs. they're in remote, inaccessible areas. we need to walk for four or five hours in the jungle. we need air support to move faster. >> reporter: peru's anti-drug policy in the region is mainly focused on destroying labs and clandestine landing strips. this year police and the army destroyed more than 120 airfields. two to three labs are dismantled every week. still, more than 300 tons of drugs are transported out of the country each year. the united nations latest drug report says peru has reduced the amount of cocoa fields in the last two years, but critics say traffickers are making the land more productive with better fertilizers. peru is exporting more paste and cocaine than ever. unless something changes, it

seems that fighting the drug trade is a battle that for now can't be won. he gave the world nightmares and made people scream, and they kept coming back for more. renowned horror director wes craven has died. he's best nn as the creator of "the nightmare on elm street" mo movies and directed the serpent and the rainbow and scream series of films spoofing the horror genre. he died on sunday after a battle with brain cancer. he was 76 years old. thank you for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. stephanie is back in two minutes with more al jazeera america morning news. you can keep up throughout the day. check us out on aljazeera.com. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country,

but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target weeknights 10:30p et

police call it an unprovoked, cold-blooded execution. why they say a gunman targeted a texas sheriff's deputy and shot him from behind. tighter security at the border in austria to crack down on human trafficking after 71 bodies were found inside an abandoned truck. president obama renames north america's tallest mountain. why a lot of people are outraged by the change.

good morning. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. the texas man accused of killing a police officer for no apparent reason will face a judge today on capital murder charges. houston area police are still trying to figure out a motive for the execution-style killing. john henry smith is here with more. he has a lengthy criminal record. what does his family say about him? >> the mother of shannon miles, the suspect in this days, says her son couldn't be guilty because he was with her at the time. as 30-year-old shannon miles prepares this morning to meet a judge for the first time since he was arrested for friday night's execution-style murder of harris county sheriff's deputy darren goforth, the suspect's mother says he was with her at the time of the shooting. witnesses say it was around 8:30 on friday night when someone shot the deputy from behind as

he filled the tank of his patrol car at this enshrined gas station. shannon miles' mother says she and her son were shopping together at the time and had difficult getting home because police were surrounding the street. when they finally did make it home, she said officers with police dogs ambushed them. it was 3:40 a.m. when police took miles into custody a half mile from the murder scene. a red pickup truck like the one witnesses say they saw the gunman driving from the scene was in the driveway of the home miles and his mother share. law enforcement says ballistic tests on a weapon taken from miles shows it's a match to the gun that killed deputy goforth. miles is charged with capital murder. he has an extensive arrest record for misdemeanor crimes over the last decade. however, police can find no previous interactions between the suspect and deputy goforth. the harris county sheriff says deputy goforth was the victim of wearing a law enforcement uniform and of the animosity in america fostered by highly

publicized police shootings of unarmed black men. >> whether the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, keld-blooded assassination of police officers happens, this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we've heard black lives matter. all lives matter. cops lives matter too. why don't we just say lives matter and tha that to the bank. >> a leader in the black lives matter movement told the "houston chronicle" it's unfortunate that sheriff hickman has chosen to politicize this tragedy and attribute it to a movement that seeks to end violence. >> thank you. police in thailand are looking for two new suspects today in the deadly bombing two weeks ago. police released images of a thai woman and man of unknown nationality. they're linked to a police raid on two apartments where police found bomb-making equipment and arrested a man. 20 people died and more than 120 were injured in the bombing of a shrine in central bangkok. an unusual offer from thailand's national police

chief. he's offering anle $84,000 reward to the public and police to catch the suspects. the chief says the money is offered to motivate officers. there's tighter security on austria's border with hungary, prompted by last week's discovery of 71 bodies inside an abandoned truck. authorities say they have arrested five people in connection, and andrew simmons spoke with the hungarian government spokesman a short time ago about the latest restrictions. >> it's an illegal border crossing we're trying to fix. it's unacceptable over 150,000 people come through your green borders without any kind of discipline, order and law. so what we are trying to re-establish at the borders of hungary and serbia, which is l order to put some kind of discipline into this huge influx of illegal migrants. >> reporter: discipline, order and law for refugees escaping from an absolute appalling war

in syria. is that really the right approach? >> it is in the best interest of those arriving through the green borders who might be refugees or who might be economic migrants. we don't know. they don't have paper and any way to prove their identities to establish the rules. it's only through rules that not onning hungary but the european union can handle this influx. >> ban ki-moon, the international office of migration, an abundance of human rights groups ask for a more coordinated approach and hungary to be more logical and careful and coordinated in its approach rather than building a 175-kilometer fence. aren't you at least considering being more careful with the refugees and wanting to actually give them sanctuary in the rest of europe rather than turn them around and send them away? >> again, you use the word that should be corrected. up until we establish identity

we don't know if they're refugees or not. these people coming through from four, five, seven countries and arriving from over 100 countries around the world to the european union should be filtered and put under discipline to establish identities. >> hungary is also dealing with a flow of refugees and migrants from neighboring serbia. the vast majority of refugees heading to europe pass through greece. the government doesn't have the resources to handle them. we have the report from athens. >> reporter: another group of syrian refugees arrives from the greek islands in the port of pyraeas. among them, many young men escaping army service or conscription by the islamic state of iraq and levant. mohammed says his family dislikes the syrian president, but he doesn't want to die fighting him. he wants to finish his studies. >> the situation in syria is very, very bad because the war

is big. there are many, many groups in syria. >> reporter: what's happening now on the streets? >> the people are killed. the people are killed in any, any, any place in syria. >> reporter: these numbers monitor by the united nations overwhelm not only the greek authorities. they cut through the treaty that established border controls and forced germany to declare it will ignore a rule to return asylum applicants to greece and process syrians directly. 300,000 refugees have crossed into europe this year, two-thirds of them through greece, and the number rises by thousands daily. almost all qualify for asylum, officially they must remain here and apply from greece. in practice, they are walking across internal european borders. the shear size of the phenomenon has suspended the rules.

the former migration minister says the sooner europe realizes events have yoen taken the law, the better. >> reporter: practically speaking, when thousands of refugees are on the move, you cannot close your borders and pretend that you have treaties and conventions that will enable you to prevent the flow of this enormous refugee population. >> reporter: greece and italy, which have received the greatest number of people, want europe to sort out who is a refugee in middle eastern consulates. >> translator: the idea is to use humanitarian visas through which europe assures three things. safe passage for refugees, secondly, that it will neutralize smugglers that prosper from the suffering of refugees and third, it will have security. it will know who comes on european soil does deals with the threat that some of them might be jihadists. >> europe doesn't seen politically ready and the pressure is increasing. asylum applications reached 123,000 in july, an all-time

high. experience shows that policy follows facts. the question is, how far behind them it will be. al jazeera, athens. meanwhile, australia's government is twedefends its pl to resettle re gees in cambodia, but cambodia won't accept any more. the program has had very little to show at huge cost. >> reporter: a spokesperson for cambodia's interior ministry told a cambodian newspaper that the country has no plans to take any more refugees from noru to cambodia. australia's government denied that's the case. they say the deal is still on. either way, almost a year after it was signed, just four refugees have been resettled from the holding camp effectively naru to cambodia to a cost of $40 million u.s. dollars they have paid to take refugees. hugely expensive so far, and

it's for refugees as the sum total, then prohibitively stupidly expensive. this is in the context of this hugely controversial refugee resettlement program awustralia is supposed to have for those who come by boats to australia to be put in holding camps and then resettled or not as the case is so far in other countries. these camps are hugely controversial. a report just published on monday detailed some of the allegations of abuse in the naru camp. children so trawl tied they have tried to hang themselves. women being sexually abused in these camps. those are the allegations that are out there. the report recommendations are that australia speeds up processing in these camps and makes the whole process much more transparent. australia's government doesn't deny that the policies are tough but they need to be to deter people from coming by boat to

austral australia. some have said that european leaders could learn a bit from australia's tough approach, but refugee advocates say the yes, the boats have stopped but at what human cost. >> andrew thomas reporting from sydney. the u.n. calless is a war crime. isil blew up another sight. they set off an explosion at the bell temple. they blew up another site a week ago. they took control of pa myra in may. next door in iraq isil is having a tough time holding john to some areas and the diala province. they cleared the group earlier in year, but new problems have emerged. we report on the growing tensions between the area's ethnic communities. >> reporter: these people are demanding to go home. their town was cleared of isil ten months ago. officials from the iraq government tell them to wait for the roads and facilities to be rebuilt, but they believe the

kurdish forces who recaptured the area want to make it part of the region they govern in the north. >> translator: the kurds are destroying our homes and want to change the demographics so arabs won't be the majority there. >> reporter: the representatives of the town's 90,000 sunni arabs are seeking help from head of the provincial council who is from the town. but he says that the authorities in baghdad are not addressing the issue with the kurdish regional government, and representatives of the sunnis say they don't have much power. >> translator: the parties now in control operate outside the state, and some have military wings. we hope this will change as part of the reforms promised by the government. >> reporter: there has long been an uneasy relationship between them and kurdish communities. the sectarianian and fault lines have run through this province for years. they have worsened since the

start of the war against isil. that war has brought a new reality. one that has created a new authority on the ground. shia militias known as the pop layer mobilization forces have become the real power here. they lead the fight against isil but were accused of reprisal killings. many team the actions of these groups are a continuation of years of sectarian policies by the shia-led government. >> translator: this is why sunnis move to areas where their community lives. same is true for shias. the aim of the attacks has caused strife. >> reporter: the residents of the neighborhood feel the same. more than 100 people were killed in a recent suicide truck bombing, an attack isil says it carried out, hasn't helped to reconcile communities. >> translator: our community is being targeted. why are they killing us? now we're suspicious of

everyone. those responsible want to prevent coexistence. >> reporter: sunnis and shias once lived together in the town. the sectarian violence over the years changed that. now the divide is greowing deepr and is tearing society apart. towns are still evacuated in dominica after eric struck the island. at least 20 were killed and 50 others are missing. the tropical storm caused flooding and mudslides, and the government has declared a disaster. it is also appealing for international aid. venezuela has sent more than 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid and a group of rescuers to assist with search and rescue efforts. on the agenda today sean bridges is due in court expected to plead guilty to taling more than $800,000 worth of bitcoins. he was arrested during a probe of the underground website silk road. google will respond to a european commission investigation into the search giant's alleged abuse of power.

eu officials accuse google of distorting search results to favor its own products. a federal judge could rule on the deflategate case today. he has directed patriots quarterback tom brady and nfl commissioner roger goodell to attend a hearing to discuss a possible settlement. waiting on the federal reserve. interest rates may go up for the first time in ten years, and investors around the world are rattled. and police in one state can now use drones to fire tear gas and tasers. new concerns over police becoming too militarized, and we're going to talk to the state representative who introduced the bill. .

welcome back to al jazeera america. it's 8:17 eastern. police do not suspect foul play after a fan fell to his death at an atlanta braves game on saturday. he fell from the upper deck. no one below was injured. fans observed a moment of silence before yesterday's game for the long-time season ticket

holder. officials at san quentin state prison in california are taking extra proo cautions today following an outbreak of legionairre's disease. hot meals are not served and drinking water has been limited. the disease is linked to bacteria that grows in water. a security breach at new jersey's newark international airport. a portion of the airport was evacuated for more than two hours sunday after a manmade his way into a secure hallway. he's undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. donald trump wants to build a wall on the mexican border, and now wisconsin's governor scott walker is talking about a border wall, but that candidate is considering one at the canadian border. >> people have asked us about that in new hampshire. they have raised legitimate concerns including law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. that is a legitimate issue to

look at. >> the u.s.-canadian border stretches more than 5,000 miles. in fact, it's the longest international border. new poll numbers show bernie sanders has cut hillary clinton's lead for the democratic nomination to just 7 points in iowa. 37 to 30%. the vermont senator is striking a chord with domestic issues, but yesterday he was asked about international affairs and military force. >> war is the last resort, not the first resort. so you are looking at a guy, yeah, there are times when you have to use force. no question about it. >> sanders voted against going to war in iraq in 1991 and 2003. he voted yes to sending troops to afghanistan after the september 11th attacks. investors on wall street are bracing for a busy week as the federal reserve considers raising interest rates. a series of financial reports could tip the scales within the fed which right now appears to be split. patricia has more on why raising rates is such a tough decision.

>> it's been a decade since they raised interest rates and the turmoil in global markets have left policymakers divided over when to pull the trigger. first, the turmoil. the dow jones industrial average plummeted 1,000 points last monday only to finish the week higher while oil prices hicks six and a half years lows before bouncing back. now, those nausea-inducing swings were triggered by disturbing signs of weakness in china's economic, which is a primary engine of global growth. as it slows, the fallout is felt around the world. take oil, for example. china is the world's biggest consumer of imported crude. so if this appetite for oil tapers off, that drags on prices. there's the impact on global currency markets. china recently engineered a dram devaluation of its currency triggering a wave of currency devaluations in other emerging markets. now, as those currencies get weaker, the dollar gets stronger, which spells trouble

for u.s. exports because a strong dollar makes u.s. goods more expensive to buy overseas. raising interest rates could turbo-charge the dollar even more, and if you throw in depressed oil prices, you've got a recipe for persist he notsly low inflation, which is already running below the fed's 2% target for three years. so the big question for fed officials is, will these inflation-smothering factors persist or ease up? speaking at an annual conference in wyoming over the weekend, fed vice chair stanley fisher said there's good reason to believe inflation will pick up, and that left the door open to a rate hike in september. in the middle of last week's market madness, the president of the new york fed william dudley said a september rate hike had become less compelling because of china. all policy makers can do now is see what the data turns up before they meet many mid-september and there's a crucial read on the health of the u.s. jobs market on deck for friday with the release of monthly employment report.

>> in july they added fewer jobs than expected even though hiring reached a six-month high. the white house is working on a package of economic sanctions mainly against china. they want to target companies and individuals that benefit from cyber threat of u.s. trade secrets. the president has not said whether it will issue the sanctions because that could trigger cyber retaliation. if they were implemented. it's a significant expansion to cyber espionage. law enforcements in north dakota have a new weapon in the arsenal. it's the first state to allow police officers to fly drones armed with tasers, tear gas, or rubber bullets. the law wasn't drafted that way, though. joining us now is state representative rick becker of north dakota. he introduced that bill. representative, good morning. thank you for being with us. i understand not only was this not the original intents of your bill, in fact, wasn't it the opposite of your intent?

>> well, yeah. my intent was to require law enforcement to have search warrants to conduct surveillance on private citizens, and then secondly, to prohibit weapon sfwlags of the drones with lethal or nonlethal force. >> how did it happen that these less than lethal weapons became legal on the drones? >> well, there's a little bit of of a nuance is how this is understood. the law didn't technically legalize the nonlethal weapons. those apparently because just like any other state, i presume, if something is not in statute making it illegal, it currently is legal. i believe that in north dakota and other states it's legal to weaponize the drones. my attempt was to prohibit weaponization. during the process of the bill-making at the behest of the law enforcement lobbyists, they removed the prohibition on

nonlethal, and so it sort of brought attention to things and it's coming out as though the law makes it legal. really what we did is failed to make it illegal to have nonlethal weapons. >> so the bottom line is that drones in your state will be able to be armed with things like tear gas, rubber bullets and taser. what prompted this call for police drones? >> the -- well, north dakota is on the forefront of drone technology, education, and research at our aerospace sciences. we have one of the six faa test sites, and so it's a very hot topic. there's a lot of activity going on. there wasn't anything in particular, except that i also wanted our state to be on the forefront of protecting civil liberties. try to make some model legislation for all states to look at, something very pro active and incorporated the technology but in a way that did not intrude on our civil liberties. >> what impact do you think this

access to this tool will have on policing? >> well, if you're speaking of the access to weaponizing the drones, i think that's a slippery slope. used domestically, i think it's a bad idea to deploy a weapon on another human being. it's a decision that should be made with someone on the ground that can take in everything that's going on and make that decision. not something that's done remotely. i think depersonalizing it like that and dehumanizing it sets a dangerous press dents. >> what do you think departments may actually deploy the drones we're talking about? >> i don't -- my understanding is they don't have immediate plans to do that. the drones are not currently weaponized and they may not have any specific plans to do it. simply the option to do it. hopefully in two years when the state legislature meets again i will be introducing a bill that

would make the nonlethal weapons prohibited as well. so i think there probably woen be a time in north dakota i hope where they're weaponized. >> you said drone technology is on the forefront of your state. do you think this is about public safety or business interests? >> well, there's a very strong business interest. there's no doubt about that. the bill originally was introduced by me in 2013 and failed in the senate partially because of commercial interest and push-back from law enforcement. i think that we worked that situation out. i think people are a little bit more aware of the concerns and how we need to be pro active on this. >> rick becker, state representative from north dakota. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. today los angeles launches the largest body camera program in the country with over 7,000 officers being equipped, but many worry about who will see the videos.

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they blue up another site. the suspect charged in the execution-style killing of a houston area police officer will in court this morning. 30-year-old shannon miemz is expected to be arraigned on capital murder charges. deputy goforth was gunned down over the weekend. police do not have a motive yet. beginning today los angeles police officers will hit the streets wearing body cameras. the lapd plans to deploy more than 7,000 cameras in the coming months. the move is facing criticism over who will be outfitted with the cameras and who will get to see the videos. vincent hill is a retired police officer and now a private investigator joining us from

atlanta this morning. good morning, and thank you for your time. >> thank you, stephanie. >> departments around the country are considering these police body cameras. what do you think the impact will be? >> well, i think it's important with today's society that we're in with social media and videos of police officers, it's important to give the point of view from the officers. so it's very proactive and very moving forward with the society we're in today. so it's definitely the right move. >> do you see any unintentional -- unintended consequences of police wearing these body cameras? might it affect the behavior of an officer? >> i think that's twofold, stephanie, and here's why. for the 1.5% of officers that are bad apples, i think it will put them on the forefront a lot faster and departments can handle them accordingly. for the other 98.5% of officers that are actually doing their jobs and using the amount of

force necessary to affect the arrest, i don't think it changing their behavior because at the end of the day they're job is to go home to their families and protect and serve communities. >> we saw video of deadly police force like in the case of eric gardner. it wasn't a body cam but a cell phone video. the police officer wasn't indicted. videos are open for interpretation. what difference can body cameras make? >> well, with society i don't think it will make a difference, per se, as far as what perception is. police work perception as reality. it's interesting you brought up eric gardner. the reason the officer was not indicted, there's two reasons. a, it did show eric gardner actively resisting arrest, and it's unfortunate that eric gardner died but the chokehold itself was not illegal. it was a banned incident. of course, we see the backlash from the eric gardner case and michael brown case. perception is reality. i think, again, it will show the officer's point of view and how

things actually happen from the point of contact to escalation. >> what you're saying it's one piece of evidence in a larger context in a case like gardner's. which police officers should be wearing them? for example, in los angeles traffic cops won't be equipped with them. i would think they have a lot of interaction with the public that might benefit from the body cameras. >> absolutely. if anyone should have those cameras, it should be traffic cops. in my days of patrol, i can tell you personally that the most dangerous and unpredictable situation an officer will find himself in is a traffic stop. it can go from zero to all heck breaking loose in less than 30 seconds. so you would need that body cam there to be able to articulate, this is why i had to use force. this is why i had to use deadly force. so if anyone would need it, it would be the traffic cop first. >> vincent, in l.a. the police will be able to view the videos before they file police reports, but the public won't necessarily have access to the videos.

isn't this all supposed to be about transparency? why can't be the public see the videos? >> absolutely. i will tell you, i don't agree with an officer being able to watch the video prior to making a statement. i mean, he should be able to rely on his memory of what happened. so you take the body cam out of the equation, what would you have to rely on, anything besides his memory. for the public to readily see them, i don't agree with that, and here's why. let's say there was a shooting, and you're a parent and your child was killed. as a parent myself, i wouldn't want my child's video just being blasted on social media, whether it be youtube, facebook, twitter, or what have you. there's that expectation of privacy on both parts. >> the public can't see the videos. i think you gave a valid reason why the lapd thinks that. the lapd will not equip traffic cops with the body cameras, but there are thousands of these cameras being deployed today at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. i understand it's private money

that went into the cameras. what good really are they? >> other than telling the police's point of view, that's the only good they're going to serve. one thing that people need to realize is if an officer is acting in the line of duty and he's following policy, it's not going to matter what the camera shows. if there was use of force or deadly force. if that officer was acting within policy and within reason and using the amount of force necessary, he will be exonerated. >> so president obama has endorsed body cameras, and in san diego apparently after some cops began wearing body cameras, complaints fell by 40.5%. use of force was reduced by 46.5%. is that enough evidence that more resources should be poured into body cameras as the president has requested? >> absolutely. the caveat to that is no camera would stop me from protecting my

life. so hesitation in law enforcement means death. so anytime an officer is worried about what may be perceived as use of force or deadly force or what have you, that officer is putting himself in danger. there was a recent case where the detective was pistol-whipped, and the reason he did not use force is he was worried about what society would see as far as who is recording the video and whatnot. hesitation means death for an officer. >> vincent, before i let you go, i'm sure you heard of the shooting death of the deputy in houston. as a former law enforcement officer, can you just give me your reaction to that? >> well, first, stephanie, i want to send my prayers and condolences to his family. you know, it's tragic. one thing especially in today's society, police get a bad rap. they're talked about. they're just blasted. they're human. they have families. they put their lives at danger

every second of their 8 to 10-hour shift. so it's tragic what happened. for whatever reason, the shooter did what he did. he has a history of resisting arrest and whatnot. so just tragic all around. >> vincent hill, a retired police officer from the nashville police department. thank you so much for your insights this morning, vincent. >> thank you, stephanie. right now president obama is on his way to alaska where he'll spend three days pushing his climate change agenda. ahead of his departure, the president announced he will rename north america's highest peak, mount mckinley, named originally for former president william mckinnie is now mount denali. many alaskans who have called it that for generations welcomed the change. >> for generations alaskans have known in majestic mountain as the great one. today we're honored to be able to officially recognize the mt as denali. i'd like to thank the president for working with us to achieve

this significant change to show honor, respect and gratitude to the afbaskin people of alaska. >> some ohio politicians reacted angrily to the announcement. president mckinley was from ohio. republican representative gibbs calls it overreach. president obama is the first sitting president in history to visit the alaskan arctic where many are dealing with the devastating effects of climate change, melting glaciers, crumbling permafrost and rising sea levels. as daniel reports, the president is in a tricky situation since petroleum is the main driver of that state's economy. >> reporter: this week president obama will see for himself both the glorious landscape of alaska and how it's being devastated by climate change. glaciers, permafrost and sea ice are all melting. as the president himself has said coastal erosion is washing away communities forcing people

to flee. >> if another country threatened to wipe out an american town, we'd do everything in our power to protect ourselves. climate change poses the same threat right now. >> reporter: environmentalists agree but they don't like his administration's decision to approve offshore oil drilling by shell off alaska's north slope. as the drill rig left seattle earlier in year, protesters, some in kayaks, tried to slow it down making their feelings known. the president they say says one thing on climate change and does another. >> he's going to alaska to talk about the urgency of climate change while just approving arctic drilling, which scientists have been crystal clear is oil, 100 billion barrels of oil to stay in the ground if we stop the worst impacts of climate change. >> reporter: yet, hydrocarbons drive alaska's economic paying lucrative royalties and creating many jobs especially in the indigenous population.

it raises fears of cut backs to state services. at a conference in anchorage, state officials will tell the president not to take steps to hurt their most important industry. >> what i think we need to do is try to find a middle ground. you know, where we can bring sustainable development and where we can responsibly draw on those resources to meet not just our needs and the needs of that dmunt but the world's needs for fossil fuels going forward. also to bear in mind there's an environmental cost to them. we need to balance all of that. >> here's proof. melting sea ice is behind this gathering of walruses, thousands of them, forced ashore facing starvation and unable to stay in normally ice-bound ocean hunting grounds. alaska's wildlife and people face climate change like few others on earth. as the first sitting president to visit the american arctic, mr. obama will call for tougher global measures against climate change, but he has to balance the dependence of an entire state and to an extent the u.s.

economy, too, on the industry that many say is driving global warming. daniel lack, al jazeera, washington. alaska is the only part of the u.s., of course, in the arctic circle, and the arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet. no one knows that better than the crew on a boat that studying melting see i.c.e. healey knows that and phil torres joined them. >> reporter: it's summer high up in the arctic circle, and this is what you expect to see. ice as far as the horizon. the only way through it is on this ship, the coast guard cutter healey. it's one of two icebreakers in the united states built to handle polar ice. the ride can get a little rough. that's the sound of being in the the bow of an icebreaker, but there's trouble in in frozen paradise. the arctic is warming twice as

fast as the rest of the globe, and that's causing a sea change in this frontier. summer sea ice has receded close to 25% since 1980. on land we saw it. birch trees are sprouting on the tundra and melting permafrost is causing land and structures to sink. captain jason hamilton is the healey's commanding officer. he's also a veteran of both poles. >> ten years ago when i first was operating, this was completely ice. now we have some open water. >> reporter: andy mahoney is a geophysicist at the university of alaska fairbanks. he's been studying polar sea ice for 15 years. >> in this part of the alaskan arctic, if you'd like, has seen some of the fastest and most extensive retreats of sea ice anywhere in the arctic. >> reporter: watching ice floes drift in mostly open water, we

can see one reason scientists think the arctic is warming faster. that's because while sea ice reflects sunlight, the ocean absorbs it. >> it's a vicious circle. you remove the ice and expose water. that water is more able to absorb sunlight and heat, and so it causes more warming, which melts more ice and proper gates the cycle. >> phil torres reporting from the arctic. a new drug is bringing hope to curbing the haren epidemic called narcan. we visited the front line to get narcan out as as many people as possible. >> reporter: the united states is in the grip of a heroin and opiod epidemic. not only the illegal drug the prescriptions people are given for perfectly legitimate reasons. maybe if you take a little bit with a glass of wine and end up overdosing. here's what you need to understand. the reason you die of an overdose is not anything about

the drug itself other than that it overwhelms the brain. the opiates binds to the brain and suffers off autonomic functions that the brain delivers to the body, like breathing. that's how it kills you. fortunately, we live in era where medical science has cured that. for the last several decades we have narcan available. it severs that connection, and it's incredibly unpleasant. you go into an automatic withdrawal if you're an addict, but it restores breathing. people are brought back to life. here in san francisco this mural explains the whole concept. it's right. someone does heroin, has too much and overdose. then a friend, family member, a fellow drug user, somebody comes along with narcan, injects their friend and brings them back to life. this mural touches on a sort of sensitive topic about it. this is something we're going to

explore. thanks, narca ni a. i don't know if there's anything worth living for, about the at least now i get the chance to find out. that's the essence of the controversy here. the united states is hostile to the whole notion of drug use. the whole professional is built around outlawing it and punishing people that do it. n narcan is the most visible and tangible representation of harm reduction. it's a new approach and it's the end of the war on drugs. the idea you help someone with the symptoms of their addiction and help them with the risk of desk rather than punishing them for it. now, we're going to be exploring all of this in greater depth later. the thing to understand is that the whole concept here is medical sense has made it that no one has to die in this day and age who shoots up drugs. there's a tremendous amount of discomfort and difficulty with the logistics and the principle,

the philosophy of a solution like that. we look at that problem and the science of it later tonight. i hope you watch. >> you can watch the full report tonight at 8:00 eastern. there are new fears of ebola in west africa this morning. the body of a woman that died in sierra leone tested positive for the virus. it's only a week since they released the last person confirmed to have ebola. it's a setback for the region. in mexico millions of people are living in fear of what's becoming known as the disappeared, but not just drug cartels sweep people off the streets. many fear the government is. >> reporter: 11 days ago castro rushed out of the house to see her brother-in-law put in a police car with the license plate blacked out. >> reporter: the government is meant to protect us, but they do this instead.

how is it possible they can kidnap an innocent person? >> reporter: she left a sketch and gave one of these stars. now he's one of more than 5,000 people abducted, more than anywhere else in mexico. not just the cartels but the armed forces kidnap people here. >> translator: maybe the cartel kidnappings have gone down as authorities have fought them, but the police and armed forces like the army and navy have filled the gap by kidnapping more people. they try to infiltrate the military areas. >> reporter: he's taken on the case in the only human rights center left working in the state. even his office was surrounded by marines last year. with activists and local media silent, government forces and the cartels fight over a state that's a major transit point for

drug smuggler as well as a route for migrants heading through to the u.s. border. honduran carlos found refuge in in shelter after being abducted and stripped of all he had. he was let go. many more have not been so lucky. >> translator: just living here makes me scared. i could be kidnapped again. every weekend the gangs hang around here waiting to see if you come out. >> reporter: many simply vanish from the roads, their bodies never found. this is one of the first protests outside the local government offices here, but mexican authorities haven't shown much interest in searching for the country's 26,000 disappeared. here civil organizations estimate that 99% of the cases go unresolved. she's just getting used to what thousands of here have to face up to. searching for her missing relative without official help. john holman, al jazeera, mexico.

the economy may be improving, but not for everyone. people with a criminal record say they can't find a job. now some of the largest retailers across the country want to help them out. the passing of a hollywood legend. we take a look at the life of horror director wes craven.

welcome back to al jazeera america. it's 8:51 eastern. looking at today's top stories. the saudi-led coalition killed dozens yemen over the weekend. a spokesman for the coalition said the plant was used to make bombs. at least 36 people were reportedly killed. china says it is punishing 197 citizens for spreading

online rumors. one person was arrested for saying a man killed himself after the stock market slump and another is punished for writing 1300 people died in the tire engine blast. the university of texas in austin removed a statue of confederate president jefferson davis. it was at the center of controversy, and will be displayed at the history museum on kfrps that has the largest archives on slavery. it's estimated that nearly 1 out of 3 americans has a criminal record, and they have a touch time getting jobs because a little box on job applications forces them to acknowledge their criminal history. now a movement is trying to ban that box. we have a report. >> i went through a very bad thing in my life, and i didn't know how to deal with it. so the trauma, that's what led me to drug use. >> reporter: she started to use

drugs in the late 1980s, haren, cocaine, whatever she could get her hands on. >> as time went on i sold drugs to support my habit. >> reporter: in 1995 she went to prison on felony drug charges. once there she managed to kick the habit for good. after her release two years later, she was ready to move on with her life and find work. >> i wanted to be self-sufficient, be able to support my children. i tried so hard to apply and apply and apply numerous places, but i never got a chance to get a job. >> reporter: then a 32-year-old mother of four, she suspected but could never prove that it was the box she checked on job applications admitting to a criminal record that kept her out of work. >> hi, baby. >> how are you today? >> it was good. >> reporter: in the two decades since leaving prison, she's never been able to find more than part-time gigs. >> i only make enough to pay rent barely. >> a lot of people don't realize that punishment doesn't end at the gates of our prison.

when they exit prison, they face punishment for a lifetime. >> reporter: studies have found identifying an ex-offender discourage employment by two-thirds. >> we're looking for people not to re-offend. they need access to legal work. >> that's why 18 states and cities and counties and private companies including target, walmart and koch industries have instituted ban the box policies. essentially that means the box asking prospective employees to check whether they have a criminal conviction is removed from job applications. employers can still runback grounds checks on applicants, but often only have job seekers are considered serious candidates. >> you bring everyone up to the start line so people can compete for a job fairly based on the merits and then have the criminal record taken into account. >> still, some business groups say the new rules are too rigid, time-consuming and force owners to take unnecessary risks and

many are too new to mroouf a reduction in recidivism or unemployment among ex-offenders. >> ban the box! >> martin and other advocates continue to push their agenda. they want president obama to pass an executive order to ban the box for all federal employees or contractors. >> today we ban the box in new york city. >> reporter: just last month new york city passed what's been called the nation's strongest fair chance hiring law. marilyn shared her story at bill's signing. >> i'm a 52-year-old woman who never had a full-time job because my past has always held me back, and today i see light at the end of that tunnel. i see that candle flickering at me. the neurologist who famously turned patient case histories into best sellers has died of

cancer. oliver sachs wrote "awakening"a" he also wrote the best selling case history the man who mistook his wife for a hat and introduced syndromes like to tourettes to a wider audience. he was 82 years old. tributes are pouring in for wes craven who died after a battle with brain cancer. he was 76. he was considered a master of horror with movies like nightmare on elm street and "scream." >> please, god. >> this is god. >> freddie kruger terrified and entertained many teens in the 1984 classic "a nightmare on elm street." he claimed he got the idea living next to the cemetery in the suburbs of cleveland. he left a defining imprint with

a series of films and made him one of the most well-known directors. in 2005 craven said scaring people was really just about ng your own fears. >> you kind of have to know what the audience is thinking and know where their fears are. i think the way you know that is you kind of like the audience, you know. i think i've always felt like what i'm afraid of is what the audience is afraid of. you just talk about it and play with it. >> in the 1990s craven had people shaking in their pants again with the "scream" series spoofing teen horror films. another set of popular films that cemented his name in the genre. it featured courteney cox who on sunday said the world lost a great man, my friend and mentor. bob wine stein sdz he was a consummate filmmaker and his body of work will live on forever. he was raised in a baptist household and told the "l.a. times" in 2010 you would be

expelled from his christian school if you were caught in a movie theater. that's it for us here in new york. york. people are gonna be challenged, we're not gonna take sides... an approach that treats every single player in a particular story equally. it's something fresh and something new.

>> welcome to the news hour. live from al jazeera headquarters in doha. here's what is coming up in the next 60 minutes. thousands of people in need have european governments in dispute and disarray. tv confessions in china. aadmitting spreading rumors on the market. we