longer afraid. rapper ace is looking for a safe place to express himself. hiding in senegal, ace has not lost hope, determined more than ever to make his music heard. nicklas hawk, al jazeera, senegal. more on the website, aljazeera.com. ♪ a kentucky clerk again refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. she's now being summoned to a hearing with a federal judge. critics are responding to the latest release of emails from hillary clinton's private server, dozens contained information that has now been found to be confidential. and protesters in the streets of budapest after police shut down the main train

station. why some refugees are now stranded. ♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm john henry smith. a kentucky clerk will have to go back before a federal judge on thursday to answer for her latest defiant act. kim davis once again refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. >> the supreme court denied your saying. >> we are not issuing marriaging licenses today -- >> based on what? why are you not issuing marriage licenses today? >> because i'm not. >> under who's authority? >> under god's authority. >> the couples appeared one day after the supreme court rejected davis's request for a stay in the case. david has tried four times to get a license. he was rejected again today, and

says he is ready to go back to court. >> it's absolutely time to go to court and get her out of that office, and whether a person is christian whether they are -- are of any other belief, if they can't see the lawlessness in what she is doing, then they are just pleasantly ignoring the truth. >> the judge could impose a fine on davis or send her to jail. as an elected official she could not be impeached until the legislature reconvenes next year. 7,000 more pages of hillary clinton's emails are online this morning. the state department released them overnight. they are some of the messages she stored on a private email server while she was secretary of state. these emails are ones she sent in 2009 and in 2010. this particular one is one of the 150 or so messages in the new release that has been marked

as confidential, possibly after it was written. mike viqueira joins us now from washington. mike, state department spokesperson is point to point out that all of the 150 or so flagged messages were of a confidential variety instead of the classified variety. how important is that distinction? >> reporter: well, to put a fine point on it. they are classified as confidential, then you go to secret and top secret. confidential being the lowest level of classification, and that is something that has pointed to these emails as perhaps not as politically explosive as many republicans perhaps had hoped. and that has been the case all along. some 30,000 that a federal judge has ordered to be released to the public. this controversy stemming from the revolution that when she was secretary of state had a private

email server in the basement of her home in new york. these 7,000 ranging from the mundane to the prosaic, and even a little bit odd. there was talk, for example, some of the emails outlined a conversation about a lower level state department official and his conversation with issue on issues like burma's military dictatorship. but there is some of the more mundane and even silly emails. secretary clinton inquiring about a carpet she saw in a reception room in a presidential visit to china. so you are right about 150 redacted, viewed as classified during viewed as confidential. the issue all along, did hillary clinton know that there were some of these materials that were classified at the time. she insists they were not.

of course an inspector general for the intelligence community has looked at a sample of only 40 and found 2 that were top secret. so this release is going on, no political bomb shell however. >> you mentioned the mundane, my personal favorite was gafelta fish, where are we on this? but does anything at all standing out to you? >> it just keeps the story going as she pursues her own presidential aspirations. forced many times to respond. couple of weeks ago she held a press conference, many held she was high handed in her response when asked whether the server had been wiped, she responded somewhat flippantly as what with a cloth? the back story on the gafilta

fish is interesting, it has to do with a trade shipment with israel. where when they did not allow a shipment of carp into israel. but you are right, there were a lot of things that were utterly mundane. nothing that is going to do any political damage today to hillary clinton, but it continues to feed the narrative used by her opponents and questions of her judgment in having this private email server to begin with. >> mike viqueira thank you so much. president obama will hike a melting glacier today. part of his unprecedented trip to alaska. he is highlighting the dangers of climate change and pushing for a stronger u.s. presence in the region. the president is asking congress

to speed up construction of ice breakers in an effort to compete with russia and china in the arctic waters. first on the president's agenda, the warming arctic waters and the urgent need for action. libby casey has more from anchorage. >> reporter: president obama delivering a warning at the beginning of his alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet. he called this science stark and he said that climate change isn't a problem in the far-off future. it is a problem here, and it's a problem happening now. he said it is already impacting infrastructure, communities, health, and the future. >> if those trend lines continue the way they are, there's not going to be a nation on this earth that is not impacted negatively. people will suffer. economies will suffer.

entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems. >> reporter: the president will use the backdrop of alaska over the next two days to highlight the issue of climate change, visiting a glacier that is retreating, visiting alaska native communities to learn about their way of life. >> the arctic is the lead withing edge of climate change. our leading indicator of what the entire planet faces. arctic temperatures are rising about twice as fast as the global average. over the past 60 years, alaska has warmed about twice as fast as the rest of the united states. last year was alaska's warmest year on record, just as it was for the rest of the world. >> reporter: even as president obama is delivering a warning

about climate change, he is catching criticism from environmentalists. they are concerned about his recent decision to allow exploratory oil drilling off of the coast. they say that will contribute more to problems of fossil fuels. but president obama saying that it was a process started back during the bush administration, and that he believes it can be done safely, and that that won't stop an increased push to try to develop clean and renewable energies. we spoke earlier with the founder of the usda office of tribal relations. she says the effect of climate change in remote alaskan vil agency has been obvious for a long time. >> i will tell you the effects of these communities by climate change at this point is very real. it has been noticeable to our elders in our communities that live in very remote alaskan villages, i would say since the

'80s and maybe before. those -- those people, native villagers who live on the land in those very remote communities have been seeing the changes for decades. but i will have to tell you in my constantly keeping in touch with my alaskan native brothers and sisters, i can tell you the recent changes are even more profound. affecting their food sources and ability to meet the food security needs of their families. if i had the president's ear, i would have him focus on building the infrastructure necessary for those communities to continue to access food in new ways. coming up tonight, libby casey takes a deeper look at the climate change issue. she visits one alaska town that eskimos say is falling into the sea. one controversy surrounding

president obama's trip to alaska is drilling in the arctic. critics say that is a real danger. extreme weather conditions in the state would make dealing with an oil spill very difficult. phil torres spent two weeks in the arctic working with a team of scientists on a way to prevent that kind of problem. >> reporter: there is a lot of projects going on right now, what is the most exciting? >> the isotope sniffer. every place has manned assets having to do patrols. >> this is the intake that we have for our sampling. >> reporter: this is the nose of the isotope sniffer. every second it sends air samples down to analyzers in a makeshift lab below. >> we're up in front of the ship so it's making some noise.

>> yes, that's crashing through ice, which is why we have all of this strapped down. >> reporter: the sniffer is being tested by scientists for the arctic domain awareness center. so we're getting this air, and so us it is just mystic arctic air, but what you don't see is all of the compositions that will change depending on how much sea ice is there, humidity. >> like shell in the arctic, we want to make sure we're well aware of any mishaps that might occur very early. our vision is to take this device, put it inside a buoy, and circle those buoys around an oil platform so that then we have guardians of this habitat, those buoys surrounding the platform could give us an immediate warning that something has happened.

we need to do something now. >> reporter: it may be two years before this technology is ready to be deployed, but there's one big reason for it. the drilling that shell is to begin here is on everyone's mind. you can see phil's complete report on the arctic next monday september 7th at 6:30 eastern time. right now the dow is down nearly 400 points. it has been down all day long, amid some more gloomily economic data out of china. fears that the economy is slower much faster than anticipated spent the markets into a tailspin last week. oil prices are also plummeting. oil jumped more than 8% yesterday on the u.s. exchanges. but investors are starting to cash out after weeks of declines. and that news from china is also leading to worries over a decline in demand.

hungary is now contemplating sending more than 3,000 troopses to it borders. part of an effort to stem a growing refugee crisis. the country also stopped training bound for germany. refugees outside of the budapest train station protested the decision to clear the area. a day earlier hundreds of refugees still managed to leave hungary. >> reporter: such a dramatic contrast to monday when hundreds of refugees were getting into to international trains here. 3,500 getting through austria and on to germany. but now the police are acting as guards, stopping them from getting into the station even, so they are sprawled all over, some demonstrating, some are just sullenly lying on the floor, exhausted. many have valid tickets, large families paying up to one thousand euro, whether they will

get their money back is open to question. in the past small numbers have got on trains and not gotten their money back after buying tickets. the government hasn't explains, ngo's haven't explained nor have the police. the railway company says the police closed the station eventually, because they couldn't operate around about 9:00 on tuesday morning. now we are seeing railway staff allowing other passengers into the station, but the police are resolved to stop the refugees from getting in. many are insistent they will stay there until they are allowed into the station and on board trains. the e.u. will hold an emergency summit to address the refugee crisis later this month. we asked a member of the european parliament for malta if that meeting is too late.

>> it is too late, because i believe until the 14th of september, we will see more tragedies unfolding before our eyes. this is not the first time we're speaking about these tragedies. it is something that is being repeated over and over again. i would say every day that we're losing, there's something that is keeping us away from trying to address the situation sooner rather than later. i'm afraid that europe was very slow in taking action, any action whatsoever. i remember tragedies happening in october 2013. we had the same discussions in april when we had a tragedy on the shores of libya, where 800 people were feared dead, and after that, we have the european agenda on migration, and yet, here we are today, august, speaking all over again about these tragedies that are happening. i would say that rather than the

european union was closing its eyes, i would say that some government -- some leaders in european union, were reluctant on taking any action whatsoever. hungary says germany's approach to accepting refugees has caused the large influx of migrants. germany disagrees with that. the pope offers forgiveness for some women who have had abortions. it's part of the up-coming holy year, but could it be a turning point for women in the church? ♪

pope francis says he'll allow priests to forgive women who have had abortions. the pope describes, the quote, moral odile -- ordeal for many women writing: catholic teachings call abortions such a grave sin that women who receive the procedure, or those who perform it, are automatically excommunicated. one of the largest

supporters of boy scout troops will stay part of the movement despite a dispute over appointing gay scout leaders. the boy scouts of america decided to lift its ban on openly gay scout leaders, but gave local troops the ability to reject or accept leaders. at the time the church of latter-day saints called the decision troubling. it believes homosexuality is a win. mormon leaders says, quote: todd richardson is a mormon and eagle scout. he is also openly gay, and the senior vice president of affirmation, a group that supports lbgt mormons and their families. we asked them whether scout

leaders could also be gay. >> church came out the day the boy scouts changed their policy, and said being openly gay isn't consistent with church doctrine. the church came out several months ago and said it didn't matter whether or not you were gay and a scout, it did not matter your sexual orientation if you were a scout yourself. the real question now is how do we accept these scout leaders, and that's where the church has been clear in saying if you are openly gay you would not be accepted as a leader. >> the initial response from the church lead many to believe it would cut ties all together with scouting. the penalty phase is getting ukkedway today for a self proclaimed white supremacist

convicted of murdering three people last year. those words after the verdict was announced from frazier glen cross, who also goes by the name frazier glen miller. he faces the death penalty for killing three people at jewish centers in kansas. stolen artifacts worth millions, the country that is setting a new standard for bringing back plundered history. ♪

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malaysia airlines taking a major step towards rebranding itself today. it comes after a devastating year that included the downing of one of its planes in ukraine, and the -- disappearance of another. the company hopes a new name could signal a new beginning. >> reporter: the launch of the new malaysian airlines was a very low-key affair. this was a corporate change. a change of name to malaysian airlines private. the old company malaysian airlines system was technically bankrupt. so a brand new company under a new chief executive, but to the consumer at the moment, the carrier remains malaysian airlines. the reality is, malaysia airlines was in trouble long

before the tragedies of hm 370, and mh 17. it was a bloated organization that continued to lose money year after year, despite going through several restructures. it was mainly owned by the government. now it is wholly owned by the government. it is restructured yet again, trimmed its fleet, and now the hard work really begins. trying to win customers back. a decade-long investigation had ended in argentina. it began when a u.s. professor was caught with a precious artifact. now thousands of pieced looted are headed home. >> reporter: these are thousands of archaeological artifacts which are being sent back to their country of origin. there are around 4,500 of them.

they come from peru and ecuador, and were recently recovered in buenos aires after a ten-year investigation. >> reporter: the investigation was started when a u.s. professor was caught at the airport. in some cases we found entire bookshelves filled with pieces. >> reporter: there are glasses, statutes and other elements. >> translator: this is from 1300 after the birth of christ. >> reporter: we're told that the pieces were stolen from archaeological sites in peru and ecuador and brought here to buenos aires. this is the neighborhood that is filled with antique stores. interpol with the help of at throw poll gists launched several raids to recover the pieces.

at interpol headquarters this man was in charge of the operation and says what happened was not an exception. >> translator: south america's a region that provides archaeological material. europe and the united states are the countries that generally buy. pieces come from other parts of south america to argentina and then are taken somewhere else. it's a multi-million dollars industry. >> reporter: argentina is trying to set a precedent about what to do with recovered antiques. that's why it has offered to send the pieces to the original owners. >> translator: when you go to museums around the world, you see they are filled with stolen pieces from another country. that's why argentina is sending all of these pieces back. >> reporter: antique trafficking has become a major business around the world. and at least this time, these artifacts are heading to where they belong. i'm john henry smith.

thanks so much for joining us. ♪ >> inker in hundred barry, as refugees are stopped from boarding trains. the largest movement of people since world war ii, and hundreds more are rescued from the mediterranean, new figures reveal the scale of the refugee crisis. >> more protests against the government in lebanon, as demonstrators occupy the environment ministry. how the war in