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the risks involved. charles stratford, al jazeera, northern ethiopia. >> you can read much more about that story as well as the day's other top stories on our website www.aljazeera.com. >> police call it an unpro poked cold blooded execution. why they say that police targeted a man and shot him from behind. >> why don't we just drop the qualifier and say that lives matter. >> backlash after a sheriff renames a popular protest movement for his rhetoric. there could with an impact on interest rates.
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>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. the test maximum accused of killing a police officer for no apparent reason will be arraigned shortly on capital murder charge. houston area police have no motive for the execution style killing. they ordered flags to be flown at half-staff. we just learned that a funeral will be held on friday. the suspect does have an allegesy criminal record. >> the mother of shannon miles said that her son could not be found guilty. she said he has got an alibi. >> 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 47-year-old harris county
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sheriff department aaron goforth, the suspect's mother said that he was with her. witnesses say it was around 8:30 friday night when someone shot department goforth from behind as he filled his vehicle tank. shannon miles and his mother said that they were shopping and had difficulty getting home because the police were surrounding the street. when they did make it home they said officers with police dog ambushed them. it was 3:30 a.m. when the police took miles into custody a half mile from the murder scene. a red pick up truck that witnesses say was driving away from the scene was in the home that miles and his mother chairship ballistics test shows that it's a match to the gun that killed deputy gofor ther forth. he's charged for murder. the police can find no previous
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interactions between the suspect and deputy goforth. they say he was a victim of wearing a law enforcement uniform and the animosity of high little publicized shootings of unarmed black men. >> it was calculated, cold-blooded assassination of police officers happen this rhetoric has gotten out of control. we heard black lives matter. all lives matters. cops lives matter, too. why don't we just drop the qualifier and say that lives matter. >> a leader in the blacks lives matter movement told the houston chronicle that it was unfortunate that he has closen to politicize this tragedy and attribute the officers' death to a movement that seeks to end violence. >> thank you. huge fred is strengthening in th the atlanta ocean but is, 20
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people on the ircaribbean island were killed when the storm struck last week. the government has declared and disaster and is appealing for international aid. venezuela has sent 200 tons of humanitarian aid and group of askers to assist with search efforts. the u.s. fed will decide whether it will raise interest rates soon. why raising those rates is a tough decision. >> it's been a deck wade since the federal reserve raised interest rates first the turmoil. plummeting a thousand points only to finish the week higher while oil prices get six and a half year lows before bouncing back. those swings were triggered by disturbing signs of weak
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innocence china's government, which is a prime minister engine of global growth. it is felt around the world. take oil for example. as the appetite for oil tapers off, that impacts prices. china entered a dramatic evaluate of the yuen triggering an duvall ways of markets. as the dollar gets stronger, a strong dollar makes goods more expensive to buy overseas. if you throw in the oil prices you've got a recipe for persistently low inflation, which has been blowing below the fed's target for three years. will these inflation-smothering factors persist or ease up. speaking at an annual conference
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in wyoming, they say there is reason to believe that inflation will pick up. but in the middle of last week's market madness, the president of the new york feds said that the hike had become less compelling because of china. all policymakers can do now is to see what turns up before me meet, and there is a crucial read on the health of u.s. jobs market with the relief of the monthly employment report. >> we know in july the economy added fewer jobs than expected even though hiring reached a six-month high. right now president obama is on his way to alaska where he'll spend three days pushing his climate change agenda. ahead the departure he said that he'll rename north america's highest peak. mount mckinley has now been changed to mount denal glikes
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alaskans have known this majestic mountain as the great one. today we're honored to be able to officially recognize the mountain as denali. i would 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. >> some ohio applications are reacting angerly to the announcement. president mckinley was pro." representative bob gibbs called it overreach. >> well, republican presidential frontrunner donald trump has made a push for aggressive immigration policy. he wants to build a wall, and scott walker, also a
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presidential candidate is talking about a border wall. he's considering one at the canadian border. >> when people asked us about that in new hampshire. they have legitimate concerns including law enforcement and brought that up in one of our town hall meetings. that is a legitimate issue for us to look at. >> the u.s.-canadian border stretches more than 5,000 miles the world's longest international border. berni sanders has cut hillary clinton's lead for the democratic nomination to just 7 points in iowa. 37% to 30%. the senator is striking a cord with domestic issues. yesterday he was asked about international affairs and military force. >> war is the last resort, not the first resort you are looking at a guide. yes, there are times you have to use force, no question about it. >> sanders voted against going to the war in iraq in 1991 and in 2003. he voted yes to sending troops
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to afghanistan after the september 11 attack. austria stopped a train coming in to hungary today. officials said that they did that because of overcrowding on austrian railways, not because of migrants. they stepped up security on its border after dozens of people were found dead in an abandoned truck. we have more of the crisis talked a the border. >> the austrian police are checking cars and trucks, advance, trying to find if there are containing any refugees who are being smuggled across the austrian-hungarian border. now the chief law enforcement officer in austria, the director of public safety told reporters earlier today that these checks have resulted in finding 200 refugees who were freed from these vehicles and 5 suspected
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human smugglers taken into custody. these operation on the border has also created very large traffic problems with cars lined up for many kilometers. so obviously it is not a permanent solution to this issue, and as well you heard in andrew simmons story a reference to the borders. what that means is that between two european union countries like austria and hungary there cannot be the border of checks and controls and crossings after would be say the united states and mexico. there is no possibility of that. the e.u. laws do not permit that. so this is one of the things that is going to remain a problem even with the stepped up borders or as they call the police checks along the highways leading north. >> rob reynolds reporting from vienna. as he mentioned earlier today,
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andrew simmons spoke with a spokesman about the latest restriction. >> it is about whether illegal border country which we're trying to fix. it's completely unacceptable that over 150,000 people come through green borders without any kind of discipline, order or law. we're trying to establish at the borders of hungary and serbia is which is law and order and put some kind of discipline in this huge influx of illegal migrants. >> discipline, order and law over refugee who is are escaping an absolutely appalling war in syria. is really that 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 because they don't have papers. they don't have any way of proving their identities. the established rules, it is only through rules that hungary but also the european union
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would be able to handle this. >> ban ki-moon, the international office of migration, abundance of human rights groups are asking for hungary to be more local and careful and coordinating in its approach rather than building up a 175 kilometer fence. aren't you at least considering being more careful with these refugees and wanting to give them sanctuary in the rest of europe rather than turn around and send them away. >> you use a word that should be corrected. until we study identify we don't know if they're refugees or if they are not. they should be under some kind of discipline to establish their identities. >> hungary is dealing with a flow of migrants from neighboring issue i can't. one ukrainian police officer is dead and dozens more wounded after an explosion today outside
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of kiev's parliament building. the blast happened shortly after lawmakers initially approved a constitutional change that would give pro-russian separatists in the east more autonomy. many protesting against that law clashed with security forces. today los angeles launches the largest body camera with officers being equipped many wondering who will get to see those videos.
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>> welcome back. it is 10:45 eastern. taking a look at today's top stories. criticism after thai police gave themselves an $80,000 reward for the arrest of a suspect in the bangkok bombing. the man in custody is not the main suspect and the award was offered to the polic public. instead the he police chief took out bags of cash giving to officers saying they did good work. >> frazier miller told jurors that he was sorry he didn't kill more people. he could be convicted to death. >> blue bell eye cream is back on the shelves. texas and alabama are the first of 15 states to sell the ice
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cream. the ice cream was are recalled when listeria was found. 900 los angeles police officers will hit the streets wearing body cams. they plan to deploy 7,000 cameras in coming months. but there is criticism surrounding the plan. traffic officers will not be equipped, and police will be able to view videos before filing reports. the public will not be able to see them. a former officer we spoke to said that in today's climate the cameras are next. >> i think that with today's society that we're in that it's important to give the vicinity of view from the officers. it's very proactive. it's very moving forward with the society that we're in today. it's definitely the right move. for the 1.5% of officers who are bad apples and doing illegal actions, i think it will put them on the forefront a lot faster, and department can handle it accordingly.
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but for the other officers who are actually doing their jobs, using the amount of force necessary to effect the arrest, i don't see it changing their behavior because at the end of the day their job is to go home to their families and protect and serve the community. 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 30 seconds. you would need that body cam to be able to articulate this is why i had to use force. this is why i had to use deadly force. if anyone would need it, it would be the traffic cop first. other than telling the police point of view, that's the only good they're going to serve. one thing that people need to realize is that if an officer is acting in the line of duty, and he's following policy it's not going to matter what the cameras
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shows if this was use of force. if there was deadly force. if that officer was acting within policy and using the amount of force necessary ellen exonerated. >> he does not agree with officers watching the video before making statements. he believes they should rely on memory. but he does agree that the public should not be able to see the videos because many will capture crimes and victims families have a right to privacy. a new report said that parents should speak to their children about alcohol before they reach their 20s. american academy of pediatrics say that children are exposed to advertisements early on focused on them thinking positive about alcohol. one out of three americans have been arrested, and they have a tough time getting jobs because a little box on job applications forces them to acknowledge their criminal history. now movement is trying to ban that box.
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>> i went to a part of my life, and i didn't know how to deal with it, so the trauma, that's what led me to drug use. >> marilyn started using drugs back in the late 1980s, haren, cocaine, whatever she could get her hands on. >> as time went on i wa i had to support my habit. >> she went to prison, and then she kicked the habit for good. she was ready to move on in her life and find work. >> i want to be self-sufficient, support my children. i tried so hard to apply and apply and apply at numerous places but i never got a chance to get a job. >> then a 32-year-old mother of four could never proof that it was the box she checked on job applications admitting to a criminal record that kept her out of work.
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>> hi baby. >> in the two decades since leaving prison she has 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 does not end at the gates of our prison. when people leave prison they face punishment for a lifetime. >> studies found identifying as offender can reduce chances of employment by two-thirds. >> we're looking for people to not reoffend. >> 18 states more than 100 cities and counties and even private companies including target, walmart, and koch industries have instituted ban the box policies. essentially that means the box asking perspective employs to check whether they have a criminal conviction is removed from job placings. employer can still run background checks but only after job seekers are considered serious candidates. >> essentially bringing everyone
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up to the start line so people can compete for a job based on merit and then have the criminal record taken in account. >> still some business groups say that the new rules are too rigid, time-consuming, and many of these measures are too new to conclusively prove a reduction of recidivism or unemployment in exofenders. advocates continue to push their agenda. they want president obama to pass the executive order that will ban the box for all federal employees or contractors. >> today we ban the box in new york city. [ cheering ] >> just last month new york city passed the imagination's strongest fair chance hiring law. marilyn shared her story. >> i'm a 52-year-old woman who has never had a full-time job because my past has always held me back.
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done suspected drug-smuggling planes. we look at a police unity on an anti--drug operation. >> members of peru's anti-drug special police march across rivers and marshes. the commander led the team as they set out to destroy a coka processing lab. they fired shots toward to warn the traffickers to avoid killings that lead to retaliations from the community. most people are involved in the drug trade. as traffickers fled they left behind bread, boots, these sacks of coka leaves. they were about to be thrown inside the pool to make the paste from which cocaine is made. >> inside the location of the
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lab, you can tell they were professions. >> the stench of toxic chemicals like acid and gasoline is ove overpowering. the residues are thrown away, contaminating land and rivers. this is the center of the world's leading coc a paste producer. this contingent is the front lines on the war on drugs. they say that they have a big mandate but not enough resourc resources. >> the complexity of this is to reach the labs. they're in remote and inaccessible areas. we need to walk for four or five hours in the jungle. we need air support to move faster. >> peru's answered drug political is focused on
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destroying labs and air strips. they have destroyed 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 reports said that peru has reduced the number of coca fields in the last two years, but critics say that traffickers are making their land more pro dukproductive with better fertilizers. but unless something changes the battle could for now not be won. >> he gave the world nightmares and made people scream and they kept coming back for more. wes craven has died. he was known as the creator of "the "nightmare on elm street"" movies. he became a household name after the first one was realized in
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1948. he decide sunday after a battle with brain cancer at the age of 76. the titanic lunch menu is going on auction. it was saved by a passenger before the ocean liner went down. it contains ordinary food such as cornered beef and dumpling. japan is the world championship in this year's little league world series. overcoming an deficit to claim an 18-11 win. the biggest come back in little league world series history. it gives the third championship. they won it all in 2001 and 2012. thanks for watching. i'm stephanie sy. the news continues next. live from doha. have a great morning.
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