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calls on world leaders to let girls learn as part of a campaign for women's rights worldwide. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. it was a big night for conservatives in local and state elections. for the second time in 40 years, a republican won the governor's race in kentucky. many saw that as a referendum on the october october. >> voters said no to restrictions on air b and b in san francisco and reject an lgbt rights bill in houston. in ohio, an attempt to legalize both recreational and medical marijuana was turned aside. we have more on that from columbus. >> this is a huge upset for the backers of legalize marijuana, a group of wealthy investors spent

millions of dollars over the course of the year trying to push issue three through, but in the end, they were defeated. now a lot of voters that we talked to took issue with the term ma noly. had this gone through, the group of wealthy investors would have gained a lot, a lot of profit. they would have had exclusive rights to about 10 marijuana growing sites across the state. again, a lot of people took issue with that. over the course of the past several months, there have been a number of schools, hospitals, law enforcement agencies and politicians who have been vocal against legalized marijuana. i had the opportunity to speak to one lawmaker about this defeat. >> ohio voters were on to this plan. they saw it not so much as a marijuana legalization plan but an investment business plan that a select few people are trying to insert in the state constitution. the electorate was on to it.

>> nick lachey was in a boy bond, 98 degrees and he had this to say on twitter about the fee feet: we talked to the group responsible ohio and they are not giving up. there's a very good chance that a similar issue could be on the ballot this time next year. >> bisi onile-ere reporting from columbus, ohio. >> colorado, washington, oregon and alaska are the only states to legalize recreational marijuana. about half of states, though, do have legal medical marijuana. a member of the international cannabinoid society said it was good that the proposal was rejected. he said it gives ohio's pro legalization side an opportunity to get a better bill together

for next year's election. >> i've been working my whole adulthood for these changes, but this was a monopoly approach that would have put the entire industry in the happened of the investors in this initiative. we didn't inoha they are. this was set up with numbered corporations. we couldn't even determine who was in control of this thing, so ohio voters rejected the idea of grabbing these rights back from the government and then handing them right away to a corporation. issue three was divisive, dividing the community in half, half of us feeling like any change would be better and half feeling this was unacceptable. uniting these people to get behind a proper bill before the legislature, to get behind a proper initiative process for the voters is critical, and so we're going to have to give our old differences and work together in the future. >> the language in the bill also made obtaining medical marijuana almost impossible for people who needed it.

the mayor of houston says the fight for lgbt rights is not over. the city council passed the anti discrimination bill last year, but opponents succeeded in putting it to a referendum. a bitter campaign battle followed. the white house last week came out in support of the law. san francisco residents who rent out their homes are celebrating this morning, voters there defeating an effort aimed at stopping companies like air b and b. we have more.

>> the company spent $8 million fighting proposition f. it couldn't be seen as losing in its own back yard, even thoughistic is not its top market. air b and b is in cities across the country and world but headquartered here, so it just couldn't lose and the company must be pleased with the way people of san francisco voted. it would have been a symbolic loss as much as a substantive one. those who pulled together the initiative, would have limited short term rentals. they told us if they lose they'll try again next year. this battle will continue. this city faces a housing crisis combined with a tech boom and this is one of silicone valley's most well known tech companies. air b and b is a very new company operating a very new concept, this sharing economy thing and cities and voters frankly are having a difficult time trying to figure out what to do. >> that is melissa chan reporting from san francisco. air b and b faces legal battles in other city, including new york, where the city council is looking at new restrictions on short term rentals. in kentucky, a tea party favorite is about to become that state's next governor.

matt bevin defeated jack conway he is the only second republican in 40 years to win the governor's seat in kentucky. >> seattle voters approved a finance program under initiative 122, voters given a $100 voucher to hand over to the candidate of their choice, that's only if the candidate agrees to spending caps. seattles taxpayer voucher funding program will be the first kind in its country. it tightens rules for lobbying groups. a fight hinged over school board members to rewrite curriculum and move funds to charter schools. it could have nationwide implications. >> all of this began something close to about a year ago when

students here in jefferson county first walked out of some of the schools or the high schools in protest of a change in the a.p. u.s. history curriculum proposed by these three conservative school board members. they wanted to make it a more conservative, patriotic theme. the students went on what was pretty much a week long strike at that time. teachers protested the conservative leaning of the school board members, saying they did not like some of the ideas they were proposing, including merit based pay, pay raises based on performance in the classroom instead of their seniority as they're used to and there was also a move to take some of the money that would go, transfer that money from the public schools into charter schools of jefferson county. that hit a very sour note. parents were behind the recall effort almost 100%. they now can claim victory. >> that is jim hooly reporting. two other members were replaced in yesterday's vote.

police in northern illinois will reveal what they now know about the death of a very well known officer in the area. the incident prompted an intense manhunt that attracted national attention. none of the suspected shooters was ever found. john henry smith reports police reportedly now know why. >> just before 8:00 a.m. september 1, the night he was found dead, the illinois officer glenowitcz radioed that he had stumbled upon three suspicious again. >> the officer informed communications he was in a foot pursuit. his communications then lost contact with him. when our first responding backup units arrived in the scene, they located lt. glenowitcz injured with a gunshot wound. >> the manhunt for those suspects shut down the area for days and cast the city more than a quarter million dollars. two months later, police will reveal the results of their

investigation and according to reports, they will say glenowitcz took his own life. >> joe was a father of four boys, decorated police officer and asset to our community. not only was fax lake a family member, i lost a very good friend. >> they will only say that the investigation yielded conclusive results. the police department was you understand you are ve view for its conduct and chief of police resigned days before again wits' death. on the syndicated show crime watch daily, his widow said there is no way her husband killed himself. >> there were two shots. somebody that is going to kill themselves is not going to shoot themselves twice. >> in september, lake forest authorities said the officer had been shot twice. one shot hit his bulletproof vest. the medical examiner found that glenowitcz died due to a single

devastating gunshot wound. john henry smith, al jazeera. >> defense secretary ash carter will board a naval ship near the disputed waters of the south china sea. he is visiting the u.s. s theodore roosevelt tomorrow. the pentagon is not saying where the aircraft carrier will sale, but it has been on patrol in the south china sea. there are several overlapping claims to those waters and islands. china and taiwan are about to meet, holding peace talks in singapore. it is the first meeting since divided by civil war in 1949. we have more from beijing. >> this will be hugely historic.

they are looking for closer links in business materials, transport, millions of tourists travel back and forth between thailand and mainland china. we haven't seep a corresponding closeness in diplomat materials. this is hugely significant and adds a very interesting dimension to presidential elections in taiwan in january. the main opposition party is expected to win those elections. they are opposed to closer ties, so this was seen as the last best chance of this historic meeting taking place. both sides caution there won't be any agreements signed. it is purely symbolic, but as symbolism goes in terms of relations, it doesn't get much bigger he. >> the white house well cups the meeting, saying it could reduce tensions between china and taiwan. 41 people are dead in south

sudan where a russian made cargo plane crashed. it came down on the banks of the white nile river. officials say it's possible some fisherman on the ground were also killed. at least two people including a crew member and a child survived. egypt is rejecting claims that a russian airliner broke up in the air before crashing. investigators are now going through data collected by the jet's black boxes. one russian news agency says sounds of chaos are heard in the cockpit moments before the crash. according to another report, an james doctor who examined bodies of the victims said most were badly burned, yet most of the bodies have no explosive residue. all 224 on the jet were killed when it went down. keeping students awake and learning, seattle school board today could push back start times, but not everyone is happy with the proposed change. a pentagon report regime an expensive mistake in

afghanistan. why this gas station cost 8,000 times more than originally planned.

>> israel this week is marking 20 years since the prime minister rabin was assassinated, an israel ultra nationalist killed him, angry over his making peace with the poils. many so you him as the last hope to the resolution. education minister in rabin's cabinet agrees that the assassination closed the door on the best chance for peas and shifted israel to the right. >> at the time, we thought that the shock waves of this

assassination would change public opinion in israel, and would strengthen the left, the labour party, and its associates, but that didn't happen. it didn't happen, because there was a continuous period of terrorist attacks over the worst time in strehl, attacking buses, children, discotheques turning public opinion away from trying to reach peace. this is one of the great moments which was missed, one of the great opportunities, which will not come again in the foreseeable future. >> perez was sworn in as prime minister after rabin's assassination. the man who killed rabin is still in jail and campaigning for a pardon. the pentagon faces questions

after it paid $43 million to build a gas station in afghanistan. the audit said that is $42 million more than it should have cost. we have more from the pentagon. >> the details come from a scathing and i don't use that worked lightly, a scathing report. it is entitled dod's compressed natural gas filling station in afghanistan, an ill-conceived $43 million project. the gas station seen in this photograph has two pumps, four hoses, and dispenses natural gas. it was part of what the independent investigator found was a deeply flawed plan to supposedly help afghanistan take advantage of its natural gas reserves and burn cleaner fuel. the station was estimated to cost between $200,000 and $500,000, but when completed in 2012, the total bill came to

$43 million, an 8000% markup. the exorbitant cost overrun was just one of the project's embarrassing miscalculations. while afghanistan has natural gas, it lacks the transmission and local distribution infrastructure. investigators could find no natural gas vehicles in afghanistan. converting a gasoline car to natural gas runs about $700, more than the average annual income in afghanistan, which explains by the u.s. was forced to convert 120 vehicles just so someone could use the station. even by pentagon standards, members of congress say it is outrageous. >> mr. speaker, that must be a humdinger of a truck stop. what should have only cost $500,000 cost 140 times that amount, charged to the taxpayers credit card. yet there are no answers or explanations.

mr. speaker, it's now since been reported that afghans don't even use the gas station because the cost of the gas. no one has been held accountable for such wasteful government spending, not surprisingly. this is getting to be normal for government spendocrats. >> the pentagon shut down the task force that oversees so there was no one left to answer questions about why the project went so wrong and why no one did a simple feasibility study before embarking on the idea. special inspector general wrote: the pentagon said it saved all

the files, gave investigators unfettered access to every document. it also says it will help track down any contracting personnel that investigators want to interview. while this is a particularly egregious example of wrong headed wasteful spending, it's not all that uncommon. in an interview with al jazeera earlier this year, the special i.g. said it happens all the time. the contracting officers don't exercise good judgment and no one is held accountable. al jazeera, the pentagon. seattle's school board votes today over what time students should go to class. research shows students do better when the school day starts later. it's an expensive proposition. >> breakfast at the household always a busy time as henry and olivia get ready for school. for the second and fourth grader, it's just a couple minutes drive to school, but it's an hour and a half before their classes start. mom has to get to work, so the kids go to day care first.

it's five days a week and $600 a month. >> spread out over 10 months of school year, $6,000 a year that we're paying just for the before school care. >> despite hard costs and human complications like that, the seattle school district wants to get more teenaged students to school later in the morning. >> if you can't fall asleep until 11:00 and you need eight to nine hours of sleep and we're getting you up early to go to school, then we are causing sleep deprivation, hurting cognitive ability. >> a seattle teacher also works with the national grass roots organization start school later, whose name is its mission. they say they have seep some progress in pushing back the school bell for teens across the country, but they also understand for any school system, tackling this problem, it will take time. >> before you're asking a big bureaucracy to change, you know, and that's not easy and there are a lot of complicated factors.

you're dealing with transportation, with costs, so it's not something you can just do overnight. >> simplifying the system from the current three start times to just two, early for most elementary students and later for most middle and high school students would actually add millions in transportation costs. one proposed plan, $8 million to $15 million more. in seattle, sam marker handles the logistics. >> it becomes very expensive. you have to get new buses, drivers, overhead transportation, it adds up very quickly. >> with so many parts to the puzzle, it means not everybody will be happy with the likely compromise, which emphasizes teenage sleep and learning, keeps the costs where they are, but also keeps some elementary schools and this family on the same frustrating schedule. >> not only the delayed start time which is not great, but also the cost for families like mine, and certainly there are

less fortunate families. >> seattle is one of the largest school districts in the country to push for later start times for older students. al jazeera, seattle. changing the spying laws in the u.k. the government wants new powers and proposed new ways of getting into your cell phone.

june first lady michelle obama called on the world to support girls' education. >> if we truly want to get girls into our classrooms, then we need to have an honest conversation about how we view and treat women in our society, and this conversation needs to happen in every country on this planet, including my own. the british government is asking for new powers to expand surveillance. the law would require internet companies to store the web history of every user for 12 months, but doesn't include a much criticized plan to ban a

type of encryption. al jazeera reports. >> the british have proposed banning the use of so-called strong encryption, the kind of data protections that put information out of reach of law enforcement, and they are restrictions that have u.s. officials concerned. >> we have a huge problem, where we in law enforcement, state, local and federal and national security work, we're increasingly when we have court process, judges issue search warrants or interception orders, we are unable to execute on those orders, and because the device is locked or the communications encrypted. >> the encryption is so secure that tech companies can't access their own customers' messages on apps like what's app, i message or face time even under court order. the british government wants to require companies to have a key to unlock those messages. it's an argument facing strong opposition in the u.s. >> it makes american weaker, our

own message systems use the exact same encryption. if we are going to protect ourselves, and not just government communications, but corporate communications, personal, bank communications, we need this encryption to be strong and now it's been made weaker. who knows who's going to exploit that. >> one on line petition calls on the white house to reject measures like the one discussed in the u.k. apple proudly says on its website that it has no way to decrypt messages sent between devices. apple said we wouldn't be able to comply with a wiretap order even if we wanted to. british officials insist the goal is not to cast a wide net in citizens lives but track down criminals in the digital age. >> i asked encryption exper >> a brilliant aurora lighting up the sky over take his main yes. greens and purples could be seen in parts of australia and new deed. similar light shows have been

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