involved in. there are profound changes taking place in the middle east and north africa. there are problems that have built up over decades that are expressing themselves and man feszing themselves in organizations like isil. even if we were to wipe out the entire cod ray of isil leadership, we should still have some of these forces at work. but ultimately i am optimistic. in iraq and in syria, isil is surrounded by communities, countries, and a brood international coalition committed to itself destruction. we have seen that isil can be dpeeted on the battlefield where there is sound organization, and a government and military that is coordinating with this coalition and with our diplomatic efforts.

and here at this summit, we're seeing a new global movement to counter the violent extremism that isil needs to survive. like terrorists and tyrants throughout history, isil will eventually lose, because it has nothing to offer but suffering and death, and when you look at the reports of those who are laboring under their control, it is a stark and brutal life that does not appeal to people over the long term. so we will ultimately prevail, because we are guided by a stronger, better decision, but it will require diligence, focus, and sustained effort by all of us, and i'm grateful that all of you, who are already participating are committed to this work. with that, i want to give the

floor to our secretary general, his excellencesy, mr. ban ki-moon. [ applause ] >> thank you the excellency, president obama, for your strong leadership, and inspiring and visionary statement today, and i would like to also thank you for hosting this very important leaders summit this morning, after a very successful and meaningful white house summit meeting on countering violent extremism in february in washington, d.c. since then, this process has sparked a serious on ver -- conversations around the world. violent extremist groups

including daesh and boko haram pose a direct threat to international security, mostly target women and girls and undermine universal values of peace, justice and human dignity. that threat is growing. our most recent data shows, 70% of increase in foreign terrorists, fighters from over hundred countries to regions in conflict. addressing this challenge goes to the heart of the mission of the united nations, and it requires a unified response. we know violent extremism flourishes when human rights are violated, aspirations for inclusion are ignored and too many people, especially the world of young people with their hopes and dreams, lack prospect and meaning in their lives.

we also know it is crew sha to have good gov northern, the rule of law [ inaudible ] quality education and decent jobs, full respect for human rights. security focus on counter terrorism measures are crucial. yet we can go longer have such efforts backfire by playing into the hands of those we are seeking to defeat, or by further alienating already marginalized groups or communities. the united nations global counter terrorism strategy. the security council resolution 2178 provides the tools for addressing the scourge of violent extremism, including the growing flow of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters. the duty of sustainable development goals also echo the voices of people -- u.s. secretary general ban

ki-moon speaking at the counter terrorism summit at united nations. let's check in with mike viqueira who is listening. mike what do you think the president wants to get out of this summit? >> reporter: what is fascinating is this was scheduled before vladimir putin and russia came into syria in a big way pledging to take up the fight against isil and all of the enemies of bashar al-assad. president obama said syria had been much the topic of discussion over the last several days, and that is certainly true. so i think the original intention of this conference is to bolster the coalition of taking stock -- of public taking stock of what needs to be done to continue the fight, the president voting that isil has lost some one-third of its populated territory since the bombing cam bane began a year ago, but talked about many of the themes that he has struck

before. in terms of being able to stop isil's recruiting, which obviously has been very effective, to offer development and economic hope to rid some of these countries of which isil recruits to give young people in particular the ability or alternative to being radicalized by isil. >> mike, we're going to take a break and come back. you are watching al jazeera america. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible.

because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. welcome back to al jazeera america, where secretary general of the united nations ban ki-moon is speaking at the counter terrorism summit, right after president obama who just

reminded everyone again that his goal is to destroy and ultimately degrade isil; that the approach will take time; that isil has been very resilient. he made reference to the fact that there are now 60 nations involved in the coalition fighting isil welcoming nigeria, tunisia, and malaysia. >> i would like to give the floor to his excellency, the prime minister of the republic of iraq. >> translator: dear presidents and peoples. may peace be upon you, and god. it has been over one year since

isis controlled iraq and what it has cost us, tragedies and atrocities for civilians and belongings. during this day, there has been a universal alliance and there are a lot of friends of states who stood with us, and we are thankful to whoever stood with us against this unified enemy, which is not only a threat to us, but for the whole world. today it has been one year since i have been over this government that was the product of a free election. in development that we have established last year, we need to get the profit from during this year, and during the coming

months, and we can do it by unifying our forces in order to know our stance and approach, we need first to remember where we have been during last year -- last year, before forming this government and what we inherited from a country that is living a crisis in which crisis was occupying more than 30% of the region, and our military forces was in a -- in a very dangerous position, and there was the oldest culture in the world that was threatened by the occupation of isil which is by occupying iraq. there were internal front, there was a lot of sectarian wars and the government was very weak at that point we had crisis that was financial and

bureaucracy -- heavy bureaucracy in the country, and lot of unemployed people. we have worked hard to reunify our country against the -- and rebuilding our forces and regaining our connection with the world and the building. also the tribal -- in the tribal communities and their leaders, including [ inaudible ] and mosul who are under threat of isis, a lot of the tribes sons are fighting by the government military forces, and we are eradicating the roots of corruption and associations after we have recused a lot of

officials in different government and we also -- we provided more than 80,000 personnel who are fighting daesh with salaries also for fighting isis, and we also have canceled what is more than 50,000 of what is called the illusive soldiers, who were just receiving salaries -- salaries without really doing any work. this was -- this way we got our budget rid of the burden. we're also getting rid of honor posts that -- and reducing the -- iraq's dependence on oil

income, and we -- and during this -- we're trying to get benefit from the reduction of the oil. we are trying to unify all of the government and community around it, and our government is seeking forming local fighters and -- who are fighting together against terrorism, and because isis is threatening the whole area, we are working on reinforcing our connection or relationship including saudi arabia -- iran and saudi arabia and all of the regions of the area generally. we're also making reforms in the area on the diplomatic front,

and we are acquiring -- we are winning. during the last year we have freed [ inaudible ] and beiji, and tikrit and dur and a lot of other regions, and in freeing tikr tikrit, we involved the security forces of iraq and the tribal forces and the community forces also. tens of thousands of iraqi people are now back in tikrit, about 80% who flee -- who had fleed before they came back after a lot of assistance, who are -- who provided aid to

iraqi -- through directly or indirectly. despite the -- the -- the retributions were low compared to the fears of them where isis was committing different kinds of crimes against -- from tribes against the others. this way there has been retribution and revenge cases, but it has been limited, that's why we consider it to be victory in all streets. but we still need the aid of the civil international community. despite the what is going on, of the -- we have 3 million iraqi

who have been out of their places, and with the budget of iraq compared to what it has been, we cannot finance all of these battles that we are seeking to win. we need your help, and the help of the international community in financing and the equipment of our soldiers. we need your support in order to also take care of the people who lost their loved ones and the children. we need your help to also -- to drive where the radicals and the terrorists are stemming from, who are coming from all places in the world, and they are coming from the north of america, they are coming from islamic and arabic countries too. we need to work with our neighboring countries to stop the foreign fighter -- terrorist

fighters who are killing civilians in iraq and saudi arabia, and go back to their countries where they come from after they have done a lot of terrorist actions. we want you to stop the terrorists from financing the money through international financial networks that are being used now to finance those terrorists, who are demanding to suspend it under the life of the resolution of the council. we want you to help us stop them from enslaving women and men and stealing the artifacts, because they are people who have been -- [ inaudible ] have been fimmed with hatred, we need to adopt the treatment of the reasons of those problems,

economic and political. we have started on doing that. up until now approaching this basic reason that causes people to be directed towards radicalization and violence and terrorism. we have provided different kinds of sacrifices and our -- our -- our people are still sacrificing their lives for this purpose. we need not to lose focus, and not to lose time in -- in enforcing our -- gathering our security forces against isis. and not forget that time is a big element. together you have stopped -- and we have stopped the march of the terrorists, together we will gain a victory that is not only the victory of the iraqis, but it is a victory for all the

representing countries and every country that has contributed with us in fighting the terrorism. thank you for all that we have done, and all that we are going to do. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you prime minister abadi for the work you are doing under very challenging circumstances to address this issue in your country. i want to next give the floor to his excellency, mr. muhammadu buhari, the president of the federal republic of nigeria. >> mr. chairman, your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, i thank president obama for organizing this important meeting.

the timing is appropriate, and the subject matter warrants close attention. the threats posed by isil in the middle east and violent extremism elsewhere are an danger to many states. isil is a serious threat to international peace and security, and should be treated as such. there can be no half measures of expedient solutions in dealing with terrorists and extremists. they respect no laws, and have no regard to the sanctity of life and property. they operate outside of law, and must be seen for what they are, and dealt with appropriately. given that the accepted process of recruits, involves [ inaudible ] and securely, as well as process known as

[ inaudible ]. our expectation was that they are demanding enlistment process coupled with the illegal framework, instituted by the united nations will stem the tide of their flow. apparently this has not yet happened. mr. chairman, the increase in violence and terrorism by isil and other groups has enticed and emboldened groups in africa to pledge allegiance to gain local traction. the boko haram group, [ inaudible ] list pledge its allegiance to isil in march 2015. while we believe that boko haram action is an indication of the weakening of the group, it also suggests that through a strategic move to attract foreign fighters into its fold,

and obtain a system from isil -- assistance from isil. sadly whatever the reason was for the declaration of allegiance. boko haram terrorist groups went to be drawn into the center stage of global terrorism. since this development, it has lead to a lift in strategy and also to changes in ideology, recruitment and propaganda by boko haram. it's a cause to mass executions and public beheadings in the style of isil became noter toously wide [ inaudible ] of allegian allegiance. we also know that sub saharan africa has been receiving attention for purposes of radicalization and excitement. the is magazine, the [ inaudible ] sharia alone will

rule africa, boko haram was congratulated for joining the caravan of jihad, saying that they would now guard another frontier of caliphate. boko haram is neither protecting nor promoting islam. islam is a religion of peace. and does not advocate the killing of innocent people. [ inaudible ] ethnic tensions and that he was in africa, isil is making recruitment campaigns and strident efforts to expand in this sahara region. the operations have lead [ inaudible ] to the supposition that terrorism and violent extremism are the two sides of the same coin. mr. chairman, nigeria in [ inaudible ] effort of the united nations and the rest of the international community to

contain isil. we sadly needed to do more. we need to take military action, combined with effective border security, intelligence coalition, and sharing, and vigorous policy action. these alone may not suffice. but they can stem the tide and reverse the process of recruitment, month, and effective operation of foreign terrorists, and their radical extremists. in order to put in place components of an effective approach to defeat isil, we must address the threat there source. we must find a way to prevent younger people from turning to terror in the first place and the younger people that turn to violent extremism [ inaudible ] they are often part of communities and families and are lured into the fall of barbaric

and [ inaudible ] organizations somehow through a misguided appeal to their worst fears, expectations, and apparent frustrations. while addressing the causes of this attraction and how to deal with them, we should pay closer attention to other factors [ inaudible ] good governance, transparency, accountability, and rule of law remains the basis on which we would kick start the process of ridding the world of terrorism and violent extremist. the international community will be required to work together [ inaudible ] from nations with unique [ inaudible ] structures to other parts of the world. where such funds are identified, the victims should be assisted

to recover expeditiously. mr. chairman, you have ourselves observed that, and i quote, groups like al-qaeda and isil exploit the anger that festers when peoplel feel that injustice and corruption which leave them with no hope. [ inaudible ] job creation equalization of opportunities and [ inaudible ] access to social services. we in africa need to also rededicate ourselves to the mandate of the african union peer review mechanism and other good governance initiatives that we have adopted in our region to

encourage conformity. the secretary general of the united nations noted in 2015, we are facing, i quote, the greatest test our human [ inaudible ] in the 21st century, unquote. all options must be explored, and all hands must be on deck in the quest for a doable and lasting permanency to the threat posed by isil, al-qaeda, boko haram, and the like. i thank you for your attention. [ applause ] >> nigerian president buhari just speaking at the counter terrorism summit being chaired by president obama. let's go to mike viqueira who has been listening in. mike, it occurs to me that putin pulled often a fast one yesterday especially fast because what you have today this

morning is you have the prime minister of iraq sitting next to president obama talking about how to fight isil, and at the same time, putin has managed to gain iraq and afghanistan, two american allies to join his coalition. it's -- it's amazing to me that this could have happened without the u.s. knowing anything about it when afghanistan and iraq are supposed to be american allies. >> reporter: you are certainly not alone on that thought, and the administration is barely disputing the notion that they were surprised by vladimir putin's move, they are surprised by the diplomatic openings towards baghdad by the russians. they are surprised by the continued courting of iran by russia. they are not surprised by the fact that iran and syria and now russia are continuing to work together. these are three nations that

have obviously found common ground in syria dating back for generations. i think it's probably useful, randall to be careful when talking about the relationship between russia and iraq in particular. they don't have a lot of leverage there. there's -- there was -- there were those talks, but white house officials say the reports are overstated. but you are absolutely right, randall, the move by putin has been a game-changer here. this conference on defeating terrorism and isil was planned in the weeks and months leading up to this enclave, but putin dropped a bomb in the middle of it -- perhaps that's a bad metaphor -- but certainly changed the dynamic. and now everybody is trying to figure out where do we go from

here? how do you avoid inadvertent conflict and accidents of a military nature between these two forces? a whole host of things on the table that simply weren't a week ago. this conference, when you watch it, randall, amounts to a public pep talk. a reiteration of the themes and goals in the counter terrorism operations against isil. the need to try to dissuade individuals in north africa, and elsewhere, from going to be trained, going back to their home countries and wreaking havoc there. the need to provide an alternative, eradicating corruption and ideologically as well, providing economic opportunities to dissuade them from the ideology that leads them into the arms of groups like isil, which after all its

strength is in its numbers. knot withstanding the air campaign that has gone on for more than a year now. >> and president obama is saying that eradicating isil is not a short-term pop situation. >> this is not going to be turned around overnight. because it is not just a military campaign that we are involved in. there are profound changes taking place in the middle east and north africa. there are problems that have built up over decades that are expressing themselves and manifesting themselves in organizations like isil. even if we were to wipe out the entire cadre of isil leadership, we would still have some of these forces at work.

>> president obama speaking at the counter terrorism summit. and we saw behind him secretary of state john kerry, u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, and national security advisor, susan rice, and you have to wonder what they are thinking their next move will be to counter the incursion by putin at what the president had hoped would be a comprehensive summit to deal with terrorism. >> yeah, you are absolutely right. and the president will be leaving new york shortly. this is in and of itself something we would normally be talking about if it weren't for the beach with vladimir putin. he'll meet with raul castro, but you are right, in the days leading up to this, john kerry has had a number of meetings

with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov, who he is very familiar with after this year. that is going to continue. all of the world powers still taking stock now and wondering what role russia is going to place here and what is vladimir putin up to? what is the end game in what is his goal in coming in big and bolstering bashar al-assad. randall? >> of course, ukraine a big part of that picture, and we'll hear more about that when we come back. ♪

>> president obama has met with rue all castro this morning. it is their first meeting since the u.s. and cuba reopened their embassies in washington and havana. john terrett is live for us at the u.n. this morning. john, relations have improved a lot, but there is still that embargo and the u.s. presence and occupation in cuba's words at guantanamo. >> yeah, we saw raul castro yesterday. one of the moments of history was the appearal of raul castro, the brother of fidel, he was one

of the original members of the cuban revolution all the way back in 1959, and yet here he was yesterday making history, his first-ever general assembly speech before the united nations. and it become very clear during the course of that speech that relations have really warmed between washington and havana after years of no talking and no trading, certainly. but there are still mom you mental problems to try to overcome. castro hinted that he wanted to get guantanamo bay back from the american movement, he is looking for issues of what you might call soft diplomacy to stop things like broadcasts and internet contacts to people in cuba. it is very difficult to hear, i'm not sure how many cubans really listened, but i know they

tried. these days they get it on the internet. they are not supposed to have the internet in cuba, but many do. so he wants that to stop. and president obama also mentioned the trade embargo yesterday, he called for it to be attorney dotorn down as well. so you can see there is common ground between these two people. here is raul castro yesterday. >> translator: now a long and complex process begins towards the normalization of relations. for this will only be achieved with the end of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against cuba, the return to our country of the territory illegally occupied on the guantanamo naval base, the cessation of radio and tv broadcasts and the destabilizing programs against the island, and

when our people are compensated for the human and economic damages they still endure. >> reporter: all of these issues will have some up this morning at 9:45 eastern when obama met castro. i'm sure president obama pushed back on the issue of human rights, for example. but, you know, randall the thing is they are both talking here about the issue of lifting the trade embargo once and for all, but that's not in the president's gift. the only organization that can lift this embargo is congress. and as relations thaw, and i noticed there is a new charter fight going to havana from houston, as that happens, i think the hope is congress will eventually come around to lifting that trade embargo. >> tell us what else is coming

up today? >> another big day. i should have been on your program about ten minutes ago, but i couldn't be there, because i was trapped on the other side of the road. the police put these frozen zones in when these world leaders come by. lots of names here today. i mean just randomly off of the top of my head, we're going to hear from the president of the european union, so you can expect policy on the issue of syria to see the least. we are going to hear from david cameron, the british prime minister, so plenty of talk about syria and the ukraine, i'm sure from the british. and then we'll hear from the new leader who took over down in venezuela, we'll hear from president hadi from yemen, which is almost a totally failed state

now. there is saudi air strikes going on in his country. and we'll hear from poroshenko, the leader of ukraine. randall? >> john terrett at the united nations. now we're going to switch over to david cameron who is speaking at the general assembly. he had -- the isil summit rather on terrorism. let's listen to david cameron. >> -- the united kingdom will give funding of $15 million to start with. and it's important to win the battle of hearts and minds amongst young muslims right around the world, but i want to make just one point in my remarks, and it is this, that i think what we're saying about countering violent extremism, i don't think it's enough. i think we need to focus on the extremism that lies behind the

violent treejsism as well. why do i say this? well, becae the boy who straps a bomb to his chest and blows up an iraqi town, the guy that stands in the desert with a knife having just beheaded a british hostage or whoever, they don't get there from a standing start, they have extremist views and an extremist mind set before they make that decision. maybe it starts with being told that christians and muslims can't live together. maybe it moves on to being told that muslims everywhere arrange the world are under attack. sometimes it's being told that the terrible attack that took place in this city on 9/11 was somehow a jewish conspiracy, and then it goes on to being told that violence is sometimes justified. that a suicide bomb in israel maybe that's not so bad, and you

get an extremist mind set that then moves on to the belief that taking part in violent jihad, or joining isil or any of these franchises, al-shabab or otherwise is justified. so my point is this, we have to start this at the start, not the end. we have to win militarily, gu we also need to challenge the extremist world view right at the very start. what does that mean? well in western countries it means we have to root out the extremist creatures poisoning the minds of young muslims in our country. build more integrated societies so young people feel they truly belong, and make sure we don't allow the incubation of an extremist world view before it justifies violence. get it out of our schools, prisons, and universities. i believe in freedom of speech,

but freedom to hate is not the same thing. i think the king of jordan who just spoke made a very powerful intervention about the special responsibility there is amongst muslim countries and muslim leaders. bar rack you said, and you are quite right, every religion has its extremists, but we have to be frank that the biggest problem we have said is the islam extremist violence that has given birth to so many groups. these people claim to act in the name of the islamic religion, they don't. i can say they don't over and over again. you can say they don't, but there is nothing more powerful than what for instance the king of jordan has just said when muslim countries reclaim their religion, and explain why what these people are saying is not islam, it's a perversion of islam. so we have to do that, and take

away the building blocks of extremism that lead people to an extremist world view, that then takes them to an extremist religious view. that is what it takes to fight this situation. [ applause ] >> reporter: that is david cameron. and now president obama. >> -- prime of the kingdom of the netherlands. >> thank you barack, esteemed colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, on january 8th this year, i stood on the square one day after the attack of the staff of charlie hebdo.

people around the world were deeply affected by these events. we stand with charlie. it was an evening i'll never forget. there we stood united and resolute, men and women from all corners of the earth, young and old, people of every religious background. and our message to terrorists was loud and clear, we are different, and yet we are one. we are the majority. and we will not let you divide us. hands off of our freedom were my words that night, and i can still the emotion of that moment. daesh and violent extremism are not other people's problems. not only are counties like syria and iraq being completely destabilized, this threat also spreads insecurity and fuels tensions in our own communities, and that is why the netherlands

will remain so effectively involved in the fight against daesh and in combatting violent extremism. we have an obligation to help foster international stability and cannot take our own freedom for granted. so we stand shoulder to shoulder with many other countries in the region and beyond. we are involved in the air campaign against daesh on a daily basis. we are sent military equipment to iraq to train the iraqi army and peshmerga. we are also providing emergency aid, implementing counter strategies and working on capacity building. it is not an easy task, but is crucial. when people are being beheaded and ancient heritage sites are being destroyed with sledge hammers, we must respond, and we must respond there where it is

happening. a second track following is prevention. in our own country, we have developed a brood program focusing not only on potential for terrorist fighters -- >> okay. we have been looking to the prime minister of the netherlands at the counter terrorism summit. later today at the general assembly, the president rather of ukraine, will be speaking to us, petro poroshenko, we'll be talking to the director of communications. tell us what we expect to hear from ukraine's prime minister about the ongoing conflict that has been overshadowed by other events in recent days. >> reporter: i think what you are going to hear is a theme of resent tearing the conflict as opposed to trying to switch it to the middle east, refocusing

on what has happened in ukraine, and trying to establish an alliance of sorts not only with the countries of eastern europe, but with the western powers as well to understand that at this juncture, when we are at the 70th anniversary of the u.n., the fact that the charter was blatantly violated by putin, that the pressure needs to be kept out. >> yesterday we saw poroshenko walk out during putin's speech. do you think the russians will return the favor? >> i believe it will be similar to what happened during president obama's speech. there were a lot of eye rolls, and yawns. but five were escorted out of the hall, when they simply held a battle flag that had been

badly damaged. >> and we note today that the separatists in ukraine have ordered certain united nations -- or non-governmental organizations out of the country. we'll check again with you later on for more incite on poroshenko's speech to the general assembly. stay with us on al jazeera america for live more live coverage of the united nations at 70. ♪

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will a new experimental program be their last chance? >> i have to do my 100 percent best so i don't end up in a place like this again. >> we're live on capitol hill now with the ceo of planned parenthood is testifying. lawmakers are questioning planned parenthood use of taxpayer dollars. congress has two days to pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown. libby casey is live for us in

washington. libby, as you have been listening in, i understand that the chairman was rather emotional at the outset of the hearing. >> reporter: actually we saw members on both sides of the aisle getting emotional as they talked about the importance of cancer screening and health funding, republicans said money should be taken away from planned parenthood and put elsewhere, and democrats pushing back with the message of no, planned parenthood provides a lot of different services including cancer screening. we're hearing sisil richards, saying that congress should be looking at the group that made these covert videos in summer, and released them publicly, these individual-- videos that

show that the executives take money from the sale of fee at the tissue. she says those who individual the video have been acting fraudulently, possibly even unlawfully. and here is how she explained what the organization does, randall. >> using fetal tissue is legal according to the 1993 law passed by the senate, 93-4. and based on recommendations from a blue ribbon panel that was created under the reagan administration. >> republicans are hammering at the organization, there have been some real attacks to richards herself. criticizing the salary she makes, over 500,000, criticizing her answers, that has brought a really angry response from democrats who say that you would never treat a man this way, and

you can talk about defense contractors, and banks, and ceos that make a ton of money, and they are not getting the same gaze that ms. richards is. >> let me explain how this planned parenthood debate is connected to the threat of a government shutdown. >> reporter: republicans are so concerned with the federal dollars that go to planned parenthood. they go to reimbursements for health services other than abortions, they were so concerned that they were willing to shut down the government and withhold all funding tomorrow night when the fiscal year ends. that has been pushed back, though, the senate is working to get funding secured through december, and now we're seeing the house also start to gain momentum. we will likely, though, be seeing another standoff, leading up to december 11th, which looks

to be the new deadline. planned parenthood will be part of that. it will be one aspect that members will be fighting over. and you can bet they will be bringing this up a lot on both sides of the aisle. we're seeing democrats saying they are not going to be pushed around over this planned parenthood issue, and across the country there is a national pink-out day. so we're seeing the tide go back and forth on this issue, randall. >> thank you, libby casey on capitol hill. we'll be joining you later for what is happening there. a judge in baltimore is expected to decide when to set a trial date in the case of freddy grey. all six officers accused in his death are to be tried individually. the first trial is likely to be pushed back. attorneys for the six officers have asked for the trial to be moved outside of baltimore. in that request, so far, has been denied. some scientists say they are

eager to move forward to send a manned mission to mars. >> today we're going to announce that under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on mars. >> nasa says the red planet is much wert than researcher expected. the orbiter captured streaks of water across mars and detected a water cycle much like earth. that raises the possibility of microbial life. thank you for watching us, i'm randall pinkston, you can catch up any time on our website, aljazeera.com. we leave you now with live pictures of the united nations general assembly. ♪

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