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also disturbing images of a high school teenager being tossed around in a classroom by a sheriff deputy. we take a look at the national debate over school safety. >> investigators are trying to find out what caused a deadly russian passenger plane to crash in the egyptian desert. it was flying from the red sea resort city to st. petersburg, russia. all 224 people on board were killed, including 25 children. the flight recorders have been found. al jazeera's peter sharp reports.

>> what remained of the russian holiday charter fight play in pieces across the desert. it came down near an egyptian air force base. their seven and rescue teams needed little time to determine that no one had survived the impact. >> what will determine what happened is the analysis of the black box data and expert deductions. however, up until this point there are no indications that anything out of the ordinary happened on this aircraft. what we can say is that it happened due to the technical difficulties and the team of experts are the one who is will prove or deny this. >> earlier relatives desperate for news arrived at st. petersburg airport. >> they told us the landing will be at 11:40. my child called me. he was on holiday with his family. my son, his wife and their daughter. their daughter is 10-month-old. >> i'm waiting for the person that i love. we spoke through the internet yesterday. they were supposed to board this

plane. i checked the radar. everything was supposed to be fine. at 11:30 i came here and when i came i could not find the flight on the screen. >> operated by the russian airline metro jet. 23 minutes after take off it suddenly dropped out of cruising altitude and disappeared from radar. both the egyptian and russian authorities say they don't believe the aircraft was targeted as it flew over an area destabilized by continuing armed conflict. russia declared a day of mourning and a show of solidarity with the victims and with their families. for the friends and families of the passenger it's been a day of tragic contradictions. they were initially told the plane went missing. only a little later an senior

egyptian aviation officials said that the plane in fact, it was safe and was transiting through turkish air space. only a few minutes after that the prime minister came out to say that the plane was down and there were no survivors. peter sharp, al jazeera, st. petersburg airport. >> a russian transport official said that owe authorities in russia and cairo have been communicating. they've been searching and questioning employees. >> russians have dispatched a very large investigative team to cairo to look into the causes of this crash. now this includes the heads of the russian ministry of emergency situation, the transport ministry and the russian air transport agency. earlier in the day after a president el-sisi had a phone conversation, and he told vladimir putin that the russian teams would have as much time

and space as they needed to complete their investigation. the russians would like the black boxes from this plane to at some point be returned to russia. so that the investigation can ultimately be completed on russian soil. of course, the initial stages have to be taken place in egypt. but the russians say that while this plane was russian, and most of the victims were russian, so therefore the investigation should really be completed on russian soil. it is perhaps a sign of how uncertain the causes of this crash are, that two major european airlines, air france and lufthansa have decided they don't want to fly over egypt's sinai peninsula until the exact causes of this crash can be determined. sinai is a deeply troubled region and has been the focus of a year-long armed conflict,

which is still ongoing, and these airlines want to make sure that conflict did not have any part to play in the downing of this plane. >> rory challands in moscow. mourners laid flowers at the gates of the russian embassy. three ukrainians were on board the plane that crashed. russians and ukrainians posted messages of love and support for the victims and their families on social media. the u.s. navy believe it has located the wreckage of a missing car do ship that disappeared during a hurricane. the sonar first detected what is believed to be el farrow near the crooked islands. the ship has been missing since september 1st. tomorrow specialist also use a deep ocean vehicle to confirm the identity of the wreckage. turning to the war in syria,

warning the u.s. of a risk of a proxy war there. the warning comes just one day after secretary of state john kerry announced that the u.s. is sending fewer than 50 ground troops into syria. russia already has a few thousand troops in place to support the regime of syria's president bashar al-assad. kerry on a tour o said the u.s. will not get involved in the civil war but will continue fight the group known as daesh. >> we must defeat and destroy daesh. it is not a decision to enter into syria's civil war. it is not an action or choice focused on assad. it is focused exclusively on

daesh. >> earlier we spoke to the executive director of the american iranian council. we asked him why has it taken so long to bring iran to the negotiating table of the syrian peace talks? >> it's reached a point where the parties involved in this war both regional country, international powers, the united states and russian have come to the conclusion without the involvement of iran as the major backer of the syrian government, there cannot be a political solution. unfortunately, as you said it has taken five years for them to come to this conclusion. there has been previous attempts to have iran be part of these negotiations. unfortunately, every juncture there has been some opposition from saudi arabia, rale have a, and washington itself. iran provides the underground adviser to the syrian military, and has got an historical link that goes into the economy, society, and even religious. so the connection between the

countries. yes, it has a major influence on the direction of what the syrian government can do and may commit to and compromise in the negotiations. >> he also said if a political solution is going to be reached, assad has to be at the table and pushed to make some compromises. he points out the syrian opposition has not offered a pre-lacement for assa lace--replacement for assad. rights groups and families are accusing israeli troops of using excessive force, and the foreign press association said it's really border police have assaulted journalists covering certain clashes. nadim baba has more from the occupied west bank. >> a crowd of thousands for the funeral of five palestinian teenagers. all were shot dead by israeli

forces after allegedly carrying out attacks in hebron. and all pro carried through the city streets on saturday with the flags of various political factions visible. >> i think what we're witness something a message to the world to israel, and to any palestinians who are still not convinced about national unity. >> the five were laid toest after israel handed over their bodies in some cases weeks aft after. the police are holding the bodies of two dozen palestinians after they said they attacked israeli forces or civilians. five young people have been bu buried in hebron but there are many other families across the occupied west bank still waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be returned. that's continuing to be a source of anger for many palestinians. >> that anger erupted after the funerals with young palestinians throwing rocks and israeli

forces firing life bullets and tear gas. some people say this is part of a new movement that is nothing to do with the political parties. >> every day we have three or four people being killed and nobody is making a fuss. none of the factions. they're only good for making speeches. >> for now it's not clear if or when the other bodies will be returned for burial, if at all. dadim baba, al jazeera. >> the south china seas controversial is causing uncertainty on the brink of an asia summit. china said that the usa is escalating tensions after an u.s. warship sailed within a few hours of one of beijing's manmade islands. china is clinging to its territory.

harry fawcett is in the summit talks in seoul, south korea. what is the most pressing issue there? >> well, as far as the south koreans are concerned, the key interest is prime minister shinzo abe is in town, he'll stay for a second day and hold his first face-to-face bilateral summit with president of south korea. since both of these leaders came into office in the answered of 2012 and in the beginning o of 2013, they have had an incredibly frosty relationship. there has been real deterioration in relations between tokyo and seoul large ly over issues of history. prime minister is trying to put something of a gloss over

actions during it's colonial period, the issue of comfort women who were induced, tricked, enslaved as they say in south korea, in providing sexual services for japan's military. they want a more sincere repentance over that than has been made so far. >> is there any possibility of some kind of trade deal enhanced trade agreement between the three or at least two of the three? >> well certainly china and south korea have been working on a free trade agreement. they signed one earlier this year, and they say they want to ratify that by the end of this year. there have been longer term talk of a three-way try lateral between these three countries. that's something that they'll be discussing as well. but over arching all of this is

a fact that there is fourth leg of this summit, that of the united states. it wants to see the relationship between its two key allies here japan and south korea, vastly improved because the united states wants to see those two act as something of a counterweight to the growing influence and growing power really of china in this region. >> and speaking of that we're talking about the american warships keeping those sea lanes open in the south china sea in an area claimed by china near those manmade islands. chinese naval officials are saying that u.s. actions are provocative and could lead to war. in a reaction from south korea and japan? >> yes, this shows how japan and south korea have divisions over current political situations as well as the past. japan's prime minister, according to the japanese media, prepared to talk separately on the sidelines with china's premiere, and say that what

china has been doing is an unilateral attempt to change the status quo in terms of the shipping lanes, in terms of the territorial claims in the south china sea, and very obvious support of japan to the united states in actions recent days sailing that ship very close to one of these artificial islands. south korea has been more muted in its criticism of china's action saying that the countries knee to observe international law and calling for restraint. it shows how south korea under president park has become more economically and politically close to china as well, and it has to navigate this line of an very important economic partner in beijing and it's key ally in the united states. >> harry fawcett in seoul, south korea, thank you. >> the images of high school teenager being tossed around inside a classroom by a sheriff deputy sparks national debate over school safety.

>> coming up just how safe are schools in america? we will take a deeper look next. >> and later at least six people killed after powerful storms roar through texas.

it's that time on saturday night where we take a deeper look, and tonight's topic is the use of

officers to enforce discipline. we look at whether a south carolina's teen civil rights had been violated. she had disrupted her math class but videos show she posed no danger to anybody. there are now more than 10,000 school safety officers. al jazeera's courtney keelly reports. >> scenes like this in sacramento, california, where a high school principal needed help to break up a fight. one argument in favor of putting police in schools. >> as a school resource officer i'm here as a law enforcement officer. i'm here to help keep the school safe, keep the ground safe. i'm also here to act as a teacher for the kids. >> but after this video from south carolina went viral, advocates are questioning whether police in schools are a good idea.

>> what we're find something that police officers are being put in the school, and school administrators are now relying on them to enforce school regulations where they shouldn't have any part in it. >> shawn burke heads a lobbying group saying police school resource officers should only step in to security concerns not discipline and behavior. some officers are armed. some unarmed. >> even though there is federal money that goes to hiring police officers in school, there is no federal oversight. there is no federal requirement for training on either the sro or the school administrator part. >> the department of justice started the cops in school

grandgrant program in 1999 soon after the columbine attack. the number of police officers in schools has increased 40%. one in three public schools nationwide now have school resource officers. >> if we can teach younger people why police officers do what they do, and that police officers are human, and that police officers can be approached and spoken to and questioned, i think that is only going to go further in this world to build relationships. >> but what this hybrid role of mentor and students and law enforcer on school grounds should be is you want to interpret with little oversight. >> joining us now for a deeper look, the department of math, science and technology and a social critic on race, inequality and education. and joining us is lisa thorough,

the founder of a non-profit organization called strategies for youth. the first question for you, there were several actors in this confrontation before we talk about what the officer did, let's talk about what the first actor, the teacher, the principalish and of course the student, what should they have done? each one of them before the police officer was called? >> i'm very glad you asked that question because all our attention is focused on the deputy sheriff when it ought to be focused also on the school. and why a teacher thinks that a youth who does not put her cell phone away is in need of discipline. obviously the girl wanted to stay in class. i would think that a teacher would be happy about that. but that a fact that a teacher could not get compliance from a student needed the school administrator in the classroom, and then the school administrator thought this minor

issue required security, across america school resource officers are put in position where is they're asked to deal with disciplinary matters. they are he not trained. in fact, south carolina trains officers three and a half hours out of the 400 hours in the police academy on juvenile justice issues. 3.5 hours out of 400 hours are there to appropriate officers to work with young people. then they put these officers in schools, and the officers use adult technique to deal with adolescent behaviors, and you see these tremendous terrific harm not just to the girl but those who observed it, and you have a school system spinning around all of this caught on a cell phone video because a girl did not put her cell phone back fast enough. this girl was going to be charge or is being charged with

disturbing a school. i would argue that we've got to start with the teacher and school administrators and maybe they were disturbing by escalating their response to her behavior. >> i must ask you, what should that student have done? >> i'm guessing the student should not have taken her cell phone out, should have put it away immediately when asked. but i also know that teachers can respond quite differently when there is an infraction, and perhaps this teacher didn't know how to work with adolescents or neither did the administrator. the first thing you don't do with a teenager is get in a power battle with teenagers in front of their peers. we know with teenagers they'll make their self image trump self image, as soon as she put the phone away and wanted to stay in

class and returned to being prepared to learn there was no need to escalate the incident as they had. >> let me now turn to dr. edmund, what is your opinion on that question, sir? >> what the student should have done, the teacher an administrator should have done. >> the question should hav should--the question about what the student should have done is not a question. whenever we have a blatant abuse being implemented or being seen or being witnessed the notion that we could sort of deconstruct to find out what we could have done without focusing on the obscene violence is problematic. it's analogous to walking into a cancer rally and saying why are we not focused on a.i.d.s. it takes away from the severity of the issue. it takes away from the humanity of the victim. and i think that when we talk about this particular issue it should an hyper focused upon the

schools, about the officer, and about the structure and in place to allow that abuse to be normalized. >> do you think there is a role for police officers in any public school? >> absolutely. not. we alluded to this earlier, the reason why we have increasing number of police officers in school as the result of a blatant act done involving bringing a weapon to the school and the unfortunate loss of life. at the same time, with this severity and the increase of police presence in schools has been a decrease in the presence of mental health counselors, the closing of arts programs, the-- >> you're not suggesting more police officers have, in fact, taken the resources from those things, are you? >> i would make the argument that the resources spent on police officers could be spent on those things as well, and if we see an increase of police and decrease of focus on the arts, or concert, for example, it forces us to question what decisions are we making for

teaching and learning. >> i would like to-- >> before we go do that, let us take another look at another issue. the assault at spring valley high school in south carolina reigniting schools on school discipline. critics saying that policies that criminalize minor issues criminalize kids going from the schoolhouse to the jailhouse. a prank that escalated quickly. >> i got arrested and booked and handcuffed because me and another student, we went down to the detention center. >> the officer said they were going to arrest me. >> we sat down with two juniors at the high school to learn what happened, and how it turned into such mayhem. >> i was there to pick up my twin daughters, so i'm in the carpool lane. i saw a lot of police presence. i went inside and was going to check my daughters out. that's when he told me there was

a--i guess a senior day prank. >> that's right. a massive water balloon call is what triggered the 911 call. they dispatched 24 hours over the next few hours to restore order. >> a police officers runs up behind me. he's a big guy. he grabbed me. i snatched away from him, and he turns me around, and grabs me by my neck and slams me on my back. i actually saw him being picked up, slammed to the ground and handcuffed by a riot police officer. very disturbing very graphic. the first thing that went in my head is i can't believe i'm about to get arrested, i can't walk my sister home because we ride the same bus. >> he was not arrested, but robert brown was and charged with disorderly conduct a misdemeanor. >> an administrator grabs me

from behind, and he grabbed my shoulder. he said i seen you throwing the water balloon. he said no, i didn't. they take me to a conference room and tell me i'm going to be arrested. >> eight students were arrested along with parent kevin hines. hines after witnessing said he entered the school to alert the principal. >> he radios in two other officers and they come in and slam me against the wall. he says, tase him, tase him. at that point, i said for what? for trespassing. i said i have daughters here. >> hines was charged with trespassing. >> cops had no idea what they were walking in to. they got some calls. things sounded hectic. >> the senior prank is supposed to be fun. it wasn't supposed to be hurt anybody. i didn't see anybody getting hurt by a water balloon. it was just a little water. >> but for these families a

life-altering impact. i want people to know that we're not bad kids. we're not criminals. we're not thieves, murderers, we were put in a wrong situation. >> let'let's go to to this incredible story. kids being kids, water balloon fight escalating to penalties being arrested and a parent being arrested for trying to go in and see about his child. now you train police officers in how to interact with teenagers, how do you deal with this cultural racial deal? how do you explain to police officers that the first reaction shouldn't be to treat a student or the parent as the enemy? >> well, we try. and i would like to put this in a little bit of a historical context because it was 1993-94, way before columbine that congressional low katee kate--congress allocated funds

to put security in schools instigated by the central park incident that launched a thousand legislative ships towards treating children as felons for very normative behavior, as i said. but what is disturbing here, and really needs to be said is the direction of school resource officers is disproportionately in schools where there are children and children of color. and we don't see as many schools resource officers in middle class and upper class white schools as we do in poor schools. there is a great article showing that e empercally. what you see is a conflation of race and adult tactics used on youth who are behaving normally. but what we have to do with

police when we train them, and we do this with patrol officers and say what is your goal? luckily, the chief of police has come out in the last year saying the goal of s ros is to make sure that kids stay in school. we don't send kids down the pipeline in prison that is happening in way too many schools across america either because of acts of violence towards the student. and you talk about rallying in north carolina, but we can talk about multiple acts in kentucky for children as young as eight and instead understand that you have to treat young people differently. we train them in our police training that adolescent development means that kits perceive, process and respond differently and therefore adults have to respond differently to them. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. the central park incident, a jogger was assaulted but turned

out the four young people who were accused who had even bled guilty to were totally innocent. >> well, that's because-- >> the attorney general--not the attorney general but the district attorney cleared them of those charges and publicly apologized for it. that usually doesn't happen. let's talk about something else before we run out of time here. the student involved in that school in south carolina, her classmates some of them and the teacher, african-american, administrator, i don't know but they were all saying they want the police officer back. how do you say that? >> i think-- >> i don't think-- >> the most fascinating part of this conversation is the process that happened in favor of that officer. many view this because kids think the officer was right. i view this as more of a deep, deep-seeded normalizing of balance. it's almost a contemporary of the stockholm syndrome where

people are taken captives develop empathy of the folks who captured them. you have young people who have been in schools over such time that they have been abused for so long that they stop viewing the oppressor or the person inflicting the violence as an ally rather than a person who is dangerously undermining a whole educational process. when i saw the students favoring the officers reminded me of slaves who were traumatized who said things were better when we were back on the plantation. it reminded of a biblical story when the children were angry of moses who led them towards freedom. this idea of people being so afraid of what the practices are, so afraid of living freely and afraid of having a voice they would rather be normalized in a system of oppression like we're seeing in public schools. >> attorney thoreu, a young girl

manhandled, as it were, by a police officer. >> well, you know, in other contexts that would be called domestic violence. if this happened to this young woman on the street there would be an easy case under section 1983 for unreasonable and ex-he assesssive use of force. i think it's very disturbing to see a large male using his power that way over a very thin tiny female. and if you look at the kids who protested they were generally male. i totally agree this is a normalizing of use of force and it's a very dangerous one if young men are looking at officers as models of behavior. >> and we must also point out and we can't talk about this now because we're out of time, that the young lady was orphaned and in foster care and obviously dealing with some terrific emotional issues and deficits just on the face with nothing else going on except that's

enough. she needed help. >> i think the really big thing for us to focus on is the larger emotional context here. you know, it was articulated that if there is a domestic abuse situation the first thing we do is focus on the abuse. and the first response is to get the person who is being abused out of that scenario as quickly as possible. when young people are abused to schools, the response is to return them back to school. at the world at large we take them out of the abusive situation and allow you to heal. and then in schools we identify the abusive situation and then send you back there. can you imagine the level of post traumatic stress disorder having to going back to that school. and the depth of the complexity of what is happening here we've only scratched the surface. the results of what really happened we won't know for years

down the line when they develop this bias against the school. bias against teaching and learning, bias against police officers and it plays out for the rest of their lives. christopher o edmund and. >> the man marching down the street firing a rifle saying when the officers arrived the gunman open fired on them and they responded killing the suspect. the police have not identified a potential motive. the severe storms this weekend. five people are dead and one is missing. al jazeera with more.

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>> in colorado springs a gunman was killed by police. he was marching down the street firing a rifle. he open fired on the police and they responded killing the suspect. the police have not revealed the identity or motive. the severe storms hitting central texas this weekend. five people are dead and one is missing. al jazeera has more. >> another band of storms. this family's home was destroyed

following violent winds bu. nearby a local high school was ripped apart by the high winds. here a tractor trailer seen swept up on the roof of the hotel. much of the damage caused by storms across central texas with russiaing waters sweeping away debris, personal belongings and even cars. >> you can see i'm floating down the creek. >> in this video he describes how his vehicle was swept in the rapids. he called 911 and then called the tree. >> i called up 20 feet right now. >> he was rescued five hours later. and in austin three brothers were swept by floods one of them went missing after a struggle with the raging waters. >> i didn't know where my other brother was at the time.

>> as the storms moved east hundreds of high water crossings were still closed. >> kevin corriveau here with more on the weather. we understand that there are now five fatalities. >> that's an update, at least six dead because of the flooding in texas as well as what we've been seeing in louisiana. let me show you what it looks like. this is a four-day radar summary going all the way back to thursday night going all the way to friday. you can see the heavy rain. now pushing through parts of the gulf states as well. but we're really not finished here across parts of texas. we're still looking at rain coming into this area. also where you see the green dots that's where we see flood damage reports. where you see the red. that's where we have tornadoes reported, and we've seen quite a bit of activity across that region. so the flooding is still a big threat here across parts of eastern texas all the way to san

antonio and dallas. we probably won't see the flued warnings go down for the next 24 hours. here along the gulf coast, in the panhandle of florida where we see the frontal boundary pushing into that area. that's where we see some of the most dangerous areas. i want to take you over here to louisiana. take a look at the video that has come out across this particular area where flooding was a major problem. one of the levies actually had a 20-foot breach to it, and they're trying to fix that levy in that area. more heavy rain is coming. that is what we're they willing with right now. flood warnings all along the gulf coast state as well as flash flood watches. these are going to be staying in effect as we go over the next several days. as we go towards probably monday, we have not seen the heaviest rain for parts of

alabama up to six to eight inches of rain is expected in that area. we want to remind the viewers make sure that tonight at 2:00 a.m. we need to roll our clocks back. >> time to fall back. thank you, kevin. prosecutors have launched criminal investigation. several were killed and 200 hospitalized with serious injuries. >> young romanians, some dressed to celebrate halloween came to light candles. >> if i had been there last night probably instead of me lighting a candle for those who died someone else would have been lighting a candle for me. >> the government of romanian declared three days of national mourning after flames swept through the area. people gathered to hear a rock

group. survivors recount their horrific ordeal getting through a stampede to get to the only ex exit. >> i was one and a half meters from the outside which was blocked by a meter high pile of humans all on top of one another. i literally climbed over them until i rolled over outside of the building. that was it. >> the rock group had advertised pyrotechnic effects on their website, and the fire is believed to be started by fireworks. >> i could feel my hair was on fire, and i extinguished it with my hand. my back and feet were also burned along with my clothes and hair. >> the emergency workers struggled to aid victims in one bucharest's worst disasters in decades. many suffered from serious burns

and smoke inhalation. >> it was like working in a war zone. >> romanian president visited a hospital in bucharest, which is treating victims of the fire. he stopped by the makeshift memorial to pay thinks respects. >> people were revolted that something like this could have happened. i hope we have the investigation reports very quickly and if necessary we will change the regulations so that this kind of tragedy does not happen again. >> there are many who believe the nightclub did not imply with safety regulations, and he has vowed to change regulations if necessary. coming up, detroit's wall of shame designed to keep people out now a symbol of defiance. and sitting out, the number of american kids in organized sports is on the decline. experts say it stems from a new generation of parents.

>> the presidential candidates on the campaign trail, and most of them were in iowa where the first caucus ballots will be cast in three months. hillary clinton mentioned the tragic church shooting that left nine people dead as an example why stricter gun control laws are needed. her challenger bernie sanders in new hampshire where he picked up a statewide explained saying that clinton supporters have become too person in their attacks. republicans frontrunner donald trump announced a plan of veteran healthcare. he made the announcement in norfolk, virginia. but it's in iowa where most of the republicans could be found, ted cruz, mike huckabee, and bobby jindal and rick santorum are were there, so were ran

paul, chris christie and democrat mark o'malley. detroit has experienced racial tensions for decades. major race riots in the 1960s cause many white residents to leave detroit and move to the suburbs. john hendron found a little known relic during that time. one that symbolized racist policies. >> this is detroit's wall of shame. half a mile of solid segregati segregation. when teresa moved here as a child, blacks lived on one side, whites on the other, and that's the way it was intended to be. >> the purpose of the wall was to separate the black community from the white community. i feel like, how dare you, but it is part of my history. >> a developer wanted to build middle class housing for whites.

the u.s. federal housing authority backed the developer he's loan but insisted on the wall saying that separating the races would protect the agency's investment. while those who protested the berlin wall tore it down, this wall has been allowed to stand. >> there are those who likes to see this stand, this serves as a memory of how things used to be and how things have gotten better. >> it's not a very intimidating wall. it's only 6'0" high, it was not build to be a barrier but to send a message. and that message is to keep out. gloria johnson has lived with that symbol in her backyard. a symbol of triumph and hope. >> it did not work. the wall is still here. the people is still hear. the people they tried to oppress and keep out, they're on the other side of the wall.

they're all over the city. so you just can't--it just goes to show that you can't build walls around people and you can't box people in. >> one of the remarkable features stands tucked away behind a park partly painted, the rest a whitewash remnant of racism. >> coming up, the drop of the number of children in organized sports. >> sometimes parents are the ones who are pushing kids towards sports. and kids aren't interested. you can only push them for so long. >> kids choosing to be spectators instead of players next.

>> new zealand made sports history tonight as the all black cross the australians and the rugby world cup held in london and became the first time to win the cup back-to-back and for the third time. new zealand fans celebrated in london and at home crowned by fireworks. >> american pharaoh did it again. the first triple crown champion in 37 years won the breeders' cup in lexington, kentucky. it was the final race of his

career. the horse has earned his owner $8.5 million, and embarking on a new career as a breeding stallion. here in new york sad news for the mets. mets and kansas city royals slug through their game for the world series. but after trailing much of the night, the royals prevail, kansas city leads 3-1 over the mets. they'll meet tomorrow for the best of seven series. fewer kids are playing team sports. there are several factors but one of the factors is pushy parents. roxana saberi has the story. >> soccer practice for third graders in new york city. it's a crowded field. for now. but many of these kids will end up dropping out of team sports before they become teenagers. a recent survey suggests that since 2009 kids playing team

sports has dropped by 4%. and total sports played has declined by 10%. not a good sign, according to experts who say playing team sports is good for a child's development. >> those kids are not benefiting from all of the important life lessons that are attainable for kids who are in sports. and those are things like perseverance, and being part of a team, and just being active as a kid. >> mark heineman is a professor of sports management at george washington university. he said parents are too focused on the future. they want their kids to specialize in only one sport hoping it will land them big scholarships at top schools. >> it's not the post important thing to be the best nine-year-old pitcher. the real job of a parent is to protect a child and help them reach their potential as an athlete. >> he said that kids who don't make it on advance leagues get the wrong message and drop out.

max plays soccer and baseball. max is ten years old and said that soccer has taught him more than just how to score goals. >> i learned how to try your hardest because it gets harder every year. one time we lost we tried to learn how to lose. >> sometimes parents are the ones pushing kids towards sports and kids are not interested. you can only push them so long. >> hockey coach said that many parents don't follow that approach. >> be positive. don't coach your kid from the stands. don't be pounding on the glass and pointing. i see it all the time. the kid is more worried about the parents than they are about the game. >> mariano said that the rink that he coaches works on developing basic skills before advancing kids to the next level. >> i'm all about positive

reinforcement. that's why i'm out here. that's why we're so successful. >> that's good news for mariano because hockey is experiencing one of the biggest declines in child enrollment. usa hockey the governing body for amateurs responded by introducing new rules like reducing travel and raising the age kids can start body checking. >> these guys are having fun before there was checking involved. now they get hit a little bit and they're banged around, and whoa whoa, maybe this sport is not for me. >> the guidelines are so successful that other sports are following the same model. >> let the kid figure it out for themselves. let them tell what you they want to do. >> a strategy that could prove to be a game changer. >> the empire state building turned into a pumpkin. here is a live look the lighting display was held earlier today. thmusic complimented the show.

i'm randall spink son. good night from new york. the news continues from doha. >> egypt said the pilot of a russian airliner crashed killing all on board did not make a distress call. hello, i'm darren jordan with the world news from al jazeera. also ahead we report from eastern afghanistan where children have been recruited to fight for isil. polls have just opened in turkey for a crucial election rerun. plus..plus... new zealand left the rugby world cup record for a third time after beating australia