largest arms ex-porter, and it hopes as a result of this parade, there will be many more sales. >> go to our website if you want to get the background, headlines too, that's all al jazeera.com, aljazeera.com. >> a judge sends kentucky clerk kim davis to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses. pope turns to anguish. a train full of refugees finally leaves budapest, but the people onboard did not make it far. and donald trump meets with the republican brass, they want to promise that he won't run for the presidency as an independent.

this is al jazeera america life, i am tony harris. a federal judge just sent a kentucky clerk to jail. kim davis was found in contempt of court today and the judge said she will remain locked up until she complies with his order. the clerk has refused to issue licenses to anyone to avoided getting they have to gay couples. jon tarot is live in ash land kentucky outside the federal courthouse there. and jon, ther haing -- i guess wrapped up just a short time ago, what happened inside the courthouse? >> all happens in the last 20 minutes and we got the decision, that no commentators have been expecting we thought there might be a fine. we thought there might be a compromise. we did not think there would be jail time, but guess what, there is. she is now under the protection of the u.s.

martial service, of what happened was she appeared in court this morning in a hearing that lasted over two hours. she was questioned by her attorney, and the attorney for the plaintiff, during the course of that she broke down in tears. there were people that were also -- very difficult to hear what was going on. the judge, judge davis barney saying to kim davis, you may purge yourself with this contempt charge if you agree to instruct so start to issue marriage licenses. >> i don't think the fine would have the desired effect, and so you will go to jail until such time as you change your mind. >> . >> what is happening on the

steps now, immediately afterwardwards. >> the marriage taking place on the steps of the courthouse here. alongside the banks of the ohio river. >> so jon, look, the county clerk's office, closed today, what does davis being sent to jail mean for that office come tomorrow? >> well, it will open, the reason it is closed today is because -- they were in court at the same time, and so i think the office will open tomorrow. >> oh, we just lost jon. all right, so we just lost jon. our apologies but i think you got the gist of the effort aring it will open tomorrow with some staff on duty.

presumably, issues marriage licenses. we are getting a new sense today of the unprecedented nature of the refugee crisis in europe. doctors without borders say it rescued nearly 1700 people in the mediterranean sea on wednesday, meanwhile, hungary, some refugees were finally allowed to board a train, but they were stopped an hour into their journey and forced off and into a camp. hung giry's prime minister is facing criticism. he insists the crisis a german problem. he also said that hungary would have a plan in place. more now from the main train station there in budapest. most of the refugees have told me they were aware that a train was leaving but they were too afraid to get on, because they were worried

they were being tricked that it wasn't going so go to another country, that it would go to a camp. so there really is no plan. i have spoken to over ten people here, in the past hour, that have told me that they just don't know what the next move is going to be. they don't understand the stance the government is taking. stay in turkey. or go to serbia but don't come here, and they are saying we just want to get out. we are here at the trainization station, why don't you let us leave? they are calling on the union to do as much as they can to let them resettle. all the refugees they are syrian. they have their children with them.

he said these kids are a lost generation, we don't know what will happen to them. we are trying to shield them, but there doesn't seem to be any cause to it, there's a real amount of worry, many of them syrian, who are still here. they don't believe they will be given safe passage. many too afraid to get on a train, and they just really don't know what is going to happen next. >> we now know more about the syrian boy shown in this picture. that made headlines he was three years old, he and his five-year-old brother and his mother drowned trying to make the dangerous crossing from the greek island. the family had put in a refugee application to go to canada thats with rejected. his aunt who lives in canada spoke to the media a short time ago. about the last time the family spoke to her. >> his wife told me, for a

week or two, i am so scared of the water. i don't know how to swim. if something happens i don't want to go. and i said to her, i can not push you to go, if you feel like you don't want to go, don't go. but i guess they decided they wanted to do it recall together. >> atim lives in van cowher, the canadian government, now offering the boy's father citizenship. >> up next on the program, the dangers of electronic cigarette as new study shows the growing trend is much more dangerous than previously thought. >> where water quality experts say it could be a bad year for pollution. in the great lakes.

how about this, nfl commissioner says the league will appeal a ruling today throwing out tom brady's four game suspension. a federal judge said the commissioner exceeded his authority when he issued the punishment. brady says he was not involved in deflating footballs so that they would easier to throw. hour, donald trump is meeting with the head of the national

committee. they have been pushing him and other republican candidates to rule out an independent run for president, it is something trump has threatened to do in the past. may cooed, good to see you, so wait a minute, will he sign it. >> well, they say he is signing it and the trump people are onboard with it. the a pledge and the first question he had to face in cleveland last month, and so i think that one of the things you have to look at with donald trump, is what the motivation for doing it. will he do it and abide by it, but as of now donald trump is signing this, but there are some political reasons for doing it as well. >> so why is this -- you have to take a pledge, an oath, all right, so what is this loyalty pledge so important for the republicans. >> >> well, it is important -- it is important for trump, let's start out with that,

there are some states south carolina for example, that says we won't put you on the ballot in south carolina, the party will not put you on the ballot if you don't sign this so there's brackett 8:00 reasons. trump sees himself as a viable candidate. he up by so much, that he is starting to look at this as a long term campaign, one thing you have to remember, when you look at him you have to look at him in a different way you step back, analyze it, and maybe he is doing so that nobody runs against him when he is the nominee. to hold them to the pledge rather than being held to it himself. >> ultimately do you think he holds on to the pledge, does he abide by it. >> you know, trump world is a little different than any other politic world, what he could do, being donald trump, is he could get to the point where he is not the nominee, where other candidates fall out and the party gets behind someone. that will hold the agenda for

example. he could come back and say hey they shut me out, they didn't play fair, they are losers war he will say, and say i won't hold their pledge, because they didn't hold the pledge to me. whatever it is, it won't matter now, for now he is trying to play at their game, and say listen when i am the nominee, and you don't want to campaign for me, i am going to bring this out for you. >> trump world. the theme park. coming to a city near you. >> trump world, yes. >> michael shore in los angeles, appreciate it. puerto rico's state owned power company has reach add deal to cut some of it's debt. the move would save more than $1 billion. there are hopes it will inspire similar deals with other state agencies. puerto rico said it could not pay $72 billion in debt. a healthcare crisis is also unfolding. jonathon bets reports. many worry the island

stifling debt could cost them access to doctors. >> for dr. miguel sossa, practicing medicine really is an act of charity. >> most of his patients rely on the medicaid, and it hasn't paid him he says in months. owing him $200,000. >> to pay for a doctor to a nurse. >> a staggers number of people, 2 million more than half the population. >> and the island simply can't afford it. for years puerto rico has been boar owing to pay the bills and now it owes providers $200 million. >> it goes -- >> in principle, it doesn't allow me to owe people money. >> so puerto rico health leader says the federal

government only pays about $300 million a year. the island must cover the remaining $2.5 billion cost itself. whereas american states get billions of dollars in help from the federal government. bepay the same social security. we pay the same medicare tax, so basically we want to receive the same benefits from what we are paying. >> the u.s. is working with the island for solutions and to help it get by, puerto rico got a $6 billion grant to keep the programs operating. that money is expected to run out a year early. which could force to drop more than 1 million people from medicaid. >> the reality is things are going to get worse before it is getting better. >> patients haveseen prices rise and thousands of doctors leave the island. everybody is cutting corners and everything will get more difficult. >> as a teacher, she has

private insurance, but still has trouble finding doctors. >> you want to get better, it is not a luxury. >> at 64, he says he is too invested to leave, and too committed to cut off patients. >> are you still accepting patients that have medicaid coverage. >> yes. >> even though you aren't getting paid for it. >> exactly. >> still practicing on an island with a lot of need. al jazeera san juan. >> . >> the rules would apply to hospitals and doctors under the affordable care act, it would not require any specific things with covered but it will take a closer look at how claims are covered. a scathing new report is revealing flaws in how the

v.a. tracks applications for healthcare, the department inspector general says nearly 900,000 veterans have pending applications and one third of them are believed to have died while waiting for their applications to be accepted. a health watchdog group says many e cigarettes contain high levels of chemicals that can cause cancer. jon henry smith reports. >> it is being billed as the first ever large scale lab testing of e cigarettes that simulate how they are used. the center for environmental health looks at products from 24 e cigarette manufacturers and found that 21 of them had at least one product containing hazardous amounts of one or both of the known cancer causing chemicals formaldehyde. the c.h.s. says it tests 97 in all. 50 of them contained the hazardous chemicals off in

high. as. >> some were ten times as high, one was 470 times the legal limit for selling these products without warning people about the effect that it may cause cancer. even the products that delivered nicotine are problematic. >> nicotine is a really strong reproductive toxin. that means it causes birth defects. >> an thrill funded study argued e cigs are far safer than smoking tobacco. >> is it safer to be hit by a car than a bus, right, but i don't want to be hit by a car. and in the same way you are chosing either to live a healthy life or to live a healthy life and be exposed to chemicals that cause cancer or birth defects the choice to me is obvious. >> the center for environmental health is now suing for failing to use warners about the risks of using their products. >> we aren't asking to ban them. we are saying adults that are

well inform have had the right to smoke cigarettes or to vape, or anything that they want in this category of products. what we are saying is that the companies cannot with hold the information about the health impacts. a new study shows how needle exchanges can make a big impact on preventing hiv. they say the program there saved 120 drug users from contracting the virus, that was in the first two years after the program took effect in 2008. tapped out in michigan why soaring water bills led to a class action lawsuit.

will seek the death penaltyy against dillon roof. he is the 21-year-old accused of killing nine people inside a historic church in charleston. roof is expected back in court on murder charges in october. confirm the wing part found on a remote island in the indian ocean is from malaysia airline flight. they were able to link a cyril number in flint,

michigan there is growing anger other water prices. residents there pay some of the highest water bills in the state, the judge's order to slash prices may not go far enough to address the problem. how are you supposed to live without water? you have people around here living like third world, whatever. >> considerry nelson considered herself fortunate. >> the first time they shut met off. >> i wasn't long, because i went down there that day. >> other people here in flint, michigan have gone months without running water. the city raised raised by 35% in 2011, just months before the state took over the struggling cities finances. >> i am either going to let the house go, or move in with somebody, you know, it is sad, but that's what is happening. i understand people when they leave, they have to do what is best for them. >> before the increase, nelson who was 64, who lived

on a fixed income, says she pays about $30 a month, now she pays close to $200. and can barely afford the bill. >> so i blame the city councilman, and i blame the mayor. because they are the ones that initially supposed to be running the city. >> flint is a decome innocently black commute, where more than 40% live in poverty, and residents have is been flooding the cities with water rates for years. now nelson, is among 30,000 people who joins the class action lawsuit against the city. attorneys value washington is leading the case, he says it is estimated that nearly a third of the people here are delinquent on their bills. some have lost their homes because of it. people had to make decisions about whether to eat, gas and electric, pay their mortgage or their water bill. >> on tuesday, the city responded. >> we are complying with with the judge's order, water and

sewer rates will be lowered with the coming bills and that will provide some relief to our customers. >> flint is now cutting water bills by $20 a month, a 22% reduction that falls short of the judge's order for the city to stop collecting the full 35% rate hike. flint recently emerged from the financial emergency, but they now estimate that cutting water rates can force cuts in other services. >> really, i would like for them to sit down and get real and tell us the truth. we need to know what is going on. >> as residents like nelson push for financial relief from high water bills the city lawyers caution that any more reductions can eventually lead to flint's financial collapse al jazeera. flint michigan. >> oh, transportation officials in southern california are proposing a

new highway, just for wild life. listen to this, the 200-foot long corridor would run atop the 101 freeway, in h the isn't monica mountains. it linked two mount liian habitats and at least a dozen big cats have been killed by drivers there. a bit of brighter news about the world's forroasts. a yale university team has determined the earth has eight times more trees than previously estimated. unfortunately, the study also shows that a tree cover has been cut almost in half since humans civilization began. lake erie is experiencing another green summer. toxic algae, are again growing in the water, last year a balloon shut down the drinking water for half a million residents. the problem is being blamed on agricultural run off. >> each summer, a growing underwater forest of toxic

algae suffocates lake erie. he says he is doing everything he can to stop it. to prevent fertilizer and other run off from his family's farm, from feeding the algae he plants tall grass along the river, he uses no till corn, that doesn't disturb the soil, and after he harvests it he replants his fields with rye grass. >> that is specifically designed to keep everything from washing off the soil. >> exactly. >> when the city declared the water unsafe, conservationist put much of the blames on farmers. they estimate that 230s of the phosphorous feeding algae come from farms. >> i guess it upset me, personally, because i am trying to do all i can, i guess to keep the soil particles out of the river, and agriculture can is part of the problem, i won't deny that, but urbanization, industry, there's other people that dump things into the water.

>> i am going to grab a sample. >> he may have a point. when we watched conservational and the locally rotary club test the water before a plant the phosphorus was five parts per million. after the plant, the level tripled. this one is 15. on the phosphate. the first reading was about five, this is 15. >> the problem is none of the states along lake erie require any disclosure of the sources of the pollution. that is required in the fox river that feeds wisconsin green bay, and in the chesapeake bay on america's east coast. you can't put raw sewage in the water and think that's good. we have to look at all the sources and how much we can get reductions at the lowest cost to bring the lake back to health. >> heavy rains have not helped. this might be a particularly bad summer for algae blooms. early summer blooms have washed over the side of the river, you can see across the

way, the water has encroached into the tree line. that has taken soil into the river and it feeds into lake erie. and that's where the algae blooms have grown the worst. as the shallowest, eerie is the first to develop algae blooms a warning for a system that surprised 20% of the world's fresh water. conservationist say until the surrounding states start reporting where the sources are, lake erie will continue to choke on toxic algae. at al jazeera, toledo ohio. >> and finally this hour, a lot of folks seem to like this video. number one in the world is showing h ecan do more than swing a racket. [cheers]. >> what the heck is going on here? the top seed entertains the crown after winning his second round match, he beat tomato can. soup can in strait sets. that's all of our time, thank you for joining us.

the news continues next from london. >> watching now, live from london with me. david hoster, and this is what we're looking at for the next 60 minutes. the desperation of those trying to fit for the rights to continue their journey across europe and into germany. the father of the syrian child who drown off the coast talks about