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>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm randall pinkston in new york with a look at tonight's top stories. global protests as world leaders meet in paris to develop a new comprehensive climate control policy. in our look at the week ahead, the proposals on the table at the climate summit, and the impact on american workers. in colorado, focus on workers,
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the deadly attack on a planned parenthood clinic. and we head to a community called little puerto rico. those who have left the financially troubled caribbean island. >> we begin tonight in paris where world leaders are coming together for the united nations conference on climate change convention of the parties or cop 21. president obama and secretary of state john kerry arrived earlier this evening. they will be among the top negotiatenegotiators. each taking their turn honoring the victims of the deadly attack in paris. france is still in a state of
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emergency. requesting no demonstrations, a request that was denied by thousands. security forces in riot gear shot tear gas into the crowd. more from al jazeera am paul brennan. 's paul brennan. >> as the negotiable leaders gather, london saw the biggest single gather hing.ing. colorful costumes and a unified demand for a comprehensive climate deal. >> we need to change and no better than now. >> we got sure haven't we? >> i've never done anything like this ad at all like this beforen
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my life. >> the oscar winning actress emma thompson and peter gabrielle. >> a lot of people are worried about this issue and feel it is a serious threat and hopefully they will respond. that is part of the aim of this march and these marches going on all over the world. >> what's like thing i strikingr of different groups coming together. animal conservation charities, and do a deal and do a deal that will last. the atmosphere in paris host city of the cop 21 talks began peacefully. with public protests banned since the paris tacks some 10,000 people instead placed
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pairs of shoes in the place de la republic. around 100 arrests were many expressing solidarity with the marchers banned from paris. >> for the climate or not who can do it for them today is a day when citizens around the globe are sending clear messages to to their governments. >> 20,000 people took to the streets with smaller gearings in places like barcelona, last palmas and brafs. brazil. in brussels, demonstrators bypassed, by spreading around in
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a human chain. calls have been loud and clear. it is now up to global leaders and their negotiators to try make those ambition a reality. paul brennan, al jazeera, london. >> the paris summit is the focus of our week ahead. why dozens of states are already suing to stop president obama's efforts. russia is being blamed for an air strike in a busy market in northern syria. if russian air strikes are behind the deadly attack. it will be one of the largest in the late history of the war in syria. hashem ahelbarra reports. >> dozens more syrians are dead. in poorly equipped makeshift hospitals, medics struggle to deal with the high number of
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casualties. these images have become part of life in many rebel-held areas. since the russian air strikes began. opposition fighters accused russia of carrying out this attack as well. the syrian government and russia have maintained their target are what they call terrorists. but activists say hundreds of civilians including children have been killed in recent weeks of intense bombardment by russian jets and the syrian air force. the town of ariha is important for being close to the turkish border and an entry point to idlib province. it was the last city the government lost to rebels when they took over in may. captured by the armed group el nusra front. and despite losing control of most of the country, president
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bashar al-assad and his allies insist it is vital to the fight against groups like i.s.i.l. but syrian rebels don't agree. >> today the syrian people have a number of priorities. number 1 is bashar al-assad, must leave. the second is to uproot terrorism. we must take these matters into consideration, while pondering on a diplomatic solution. >> and while the political solution appears to be limited to discussions, on the ground, the assad government is finding it hard to retain control of areas it retook from opposition fighters in aleppo and latakia. but priority is no match for those who want to get rid of president bashar al-assad. the latest escalation of violence in syria raises concerns of a wider conflict.
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but many say that as long as countries like russia and turkey remain divided on how to solve the syrian crisis, fighting will continue and more people will likely die. hashem ahelbarra, antakia, on syria's border with turkey. >> baghdad visit today boat say 10,000 troops are needed to be successful in iraq. >> we need a more robust presence and john again as all our candidates bloviate about refugees, bashar al-assad is a major cause of refugees cawing such consternation in the united states. a no fly zone will prevent the flood of some of these refugees. >> the european union is
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promising turkey $3.2 billion to help the eu to cope with millions of syrian refugees. but in turkey. the eu wants turk to block the refugees from going to european union. >> ankara gets over $3 million from the european union, and to stop the people-traffickers to made it possible for hundreds of thousands to leave for greece alone. taken out of the deep freeze. although there are strings attached. >> let me stress that we are not rewriting the eu enlargement policy. the negotiating framework and the conclusions continue to apply including its nature and respect for european values. also, on human rights.
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>> reporter: the complete failure of eu states to agree quotas in allowing in those already on their borders have led to desperate scenes like these on the border yesterday. angela merkel taking in almost a million migrants it's time to reverse the flow. >> turkey will take back eu nationals, and then in june we'll see if those issues are actually fulfilled. >> this deal is full of conditions that turkey has to meet before any real progress on its accession to the european union can begin. what the deal doesn't contain is any solutions to those already in limbo on the edge of the european union are desperately trying to get in. and turkey's prime minister sounded a warning. the only hope of a long term
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solution is the end of the war in syria. >> we have to act together how to deal with refugee crisis. again we agree that in order to solve this crisis there is a need to solve the crisis in syria. if the wave of refugees continue like these, turkey and eu will be facing much bigger problems in the future. >> reporter: so what we have now are small steps to solve a huge humanitarian and political crisis. nadim baba, al jazeera, brussels.. >> we tonight know the two victims, of the colorado planned parenthood clinic. police officer garrett swayze was also killed. all three victims not only of the shooter but of an overheated
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debate. aal jazeera's paul beban has the story. >> reporter: to people who met him, the suspect in friday's shooting at oplanned parenthood clinic was strange antisocial around strongly critical of president obama. >> we got some antiobama pamphlets, kind of weird, kind of three minutes of meeting somebody they're already wanting to give you some of that stuff. >> reporter: authority are n nots confirming that robert dear set, no more baby parts, may have played in friday's shootings dominated the sunday talk shows. on abc's news this week, set hate speech fueled an act of domestic terrorism. >> i can't believe that this isn't contributing to some folks mentally unwell or not, thinking that it's okay to target planned parenthood or to target abortion
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providerrers. >> reporter: republican presidential candidate mike huckabee agreed with calling the situation domestic reform but stopped short of blaming the antiabortion movement. >> it's a little bit harsh, to blame people who have a disagreement with the selling of body parts, to say we olike to retaliate by sending some madman into a clinic to kill people. >> reporter: republican candidate donald trump refused to blame antiabortion sentiment but bolstered by videos showing planned parenthood officials discussing fetal tissue research. >> don't low ball it. tell me what you -- >> i will tell you there is a tremendous group of people that think it's terrible all of the videos they've seen with some of these people from planned parenthood talking about it like
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you're selling parts to a car. >> reporter: investigators say it will be days before they finish processing the evidence from friday's shootings. meanwhile, a portrait is emerging of robert lewis dear, jr, a recluse with clashes with the law, someone who gave little indication not only that he was armed but potentially very dangerous. paul beban, al jazeera, new york. cancelling classes for tomorrow. university president urged people to stay away from the hyde park campus, he warned that police and security presence will be stepped up. the fbi investigation of just who made the online threat is ongoing. hillary clinton gets a big imormendorsement in bean town. >> thank you, thank you.
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>> this afternoon, boston mayor marty walsh announced he the supporting hillary clinton, she wants to spend $275 billion over five years improving roads and bridges. chris christie may have received a critical imorm endort in his presidential run. the ne new hampshire paper is supporting christie, has been betting his run on a strong showing in new hampshire. coming up, a transgender woman sent to prison with male inmates. >> nearly four years in prison, verbally abused, beaten, threatened your life. raped. did anyone do anything to try and help you while you were
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there? >> how she is hoping to change the prison system, next. last
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between christians and muslims. the pope began a busy visit to the central african republic. carolina malone reports. >> reporter: security was only as tight as the roman catholic leader would allow. getting up close and personal with people to be by conflict and poverty. >> translator: at first, it was only a dream and now it became a reality. all central africans have been moved by his rhyme o arrival. >> tens of thousands of people forced into camps. >> translator: my wish for you and for all central africans is peace. a great peace among you. live in peace. >> reporter: years of political division and violence are simmering in car with muslims and christian militias
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fighting eep other. more thafighting each other. more than 100 people have been killed in the last months according to human rights watch. >> lay down these instruments of death. arm yourself instead with righteousness. >> despite security warnings from the french who have 900 troops stationed there. 500 local soldiers have been deployed as well as more than 3,000 u.n. peace keepers to watch over him. >> we need his message to facilitate the work of -- to bring people together to rebuild social coalition, to rebuild some kind of hope and to also call attention to the words. >> thousands of muslims are stuck in the p-k five neighborhood. surrounded by christian groups.
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final push for peace at the end an african tour. carolina malone, al jazeera. >> more than 3,000 transgender inmates are incarcerated in u.s. prisons, housed in all male prison facilities. al jazeera's robert ray met her after she was released. >> and this is the letters from jail. >> reporter: 37-year-old ashley diamond has been out of jail for two months now. >> you've got to feel lucky that you made it out. now the question is what do you do now? >> that -- what do i do now is the question that i ponder every night before i go to bed and i wake up every morning posing that question, what do i do? >> reporter: diamond was freed unexpectedly. serving a third of a 11 year
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violence for a operation violation. >> i reported the first rape and i was told it was my fault. >> diamond oifers as identifiea transgender woman. >> i would be put in a cell with a rapist, convicted murderer. most of my roommates had long sentences over 200 years in most cases. >> reporter: when her story landed in the new york times there was a flood of calls to free her. diamond quickly became another headline for transgender rights. while in prison diamond recorded this. >> it is amazing how my minor brush with the law has turned into a death sentence. >> filed suit claiming the georgia department of corrections systematically refused appropriate care for transgender inmates, georgia's
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parole board freed her. denied her the hormones she had been taking for half of her life. >> we have had again some early indications that our lawsuit has been successful. one thing that has happened as a result of our lawsuit is the department of corrections did agree to change a number of its policies. >> while in prison without the medical treatment she says she needed diamond took extreme action, attempting suicide and even self-castration. today she says she's experiencing posttraumatic distress, anxiety and depression. >> nearly four years in prison, verbally abused, beaten, threatened your life, raped. did anyone do anything to try and help you while you were there? >> no. no one ever made any attempt to help me. >> reporter: how did you deal with the fact that at any moment, you could be sexually assaulted or perhaps even killed? >> i prayed.
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>> diamond now lives in this trailer park outside rome, georgia though if she doesn't get a job soon will end up living with relatives. ♪ ♪ >> to pass the time she plays music to soothe the deem mondays thademons thatshe says haunt he. >> it's the transgenderrism, i don't want the root of the issue to be overlooked. these are still people and if we can realize that first and foremost and recognize them as human beings. >> reporter: with no job yet, diamond is volunteering at a dog shelter until she lands on her feet. >> i woke up 3:00 a.m. this morning, completely covered in sweat. from head to toe. because when i do go to sleep, i'm on so much medication, antipsychotics, antidepressants,
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sleep aids, that i'm becoming immune to that. >> the majority of transgender women in jail are housed with men, with federal prodding many facilities are changing their housing policies. >> i think what's unprecedented is the speed with which we have seen some results in our case. it's not even a subject of debate that care like or treatment like ashley was receiving is a constitutional invitatioviolation. >> for ashley diamond. >> there was a lot of suicide attempts and you know that's still a lingering thought that stays with you. so -- >> don't do that. >> robert ray, al jazeera, rome, georgia. jury selection begins tomorrow for the first of six baltimore police officers in the death of freddy gray. officer william porter faces numerous charges including manslaughter.
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the 25-year-old gray died after taken into custody. jury will not be sequestered. coming up. a look at what's at stake at the climate control summit in paris. >> the ocean will keep getting warmer. ice sheets will begin to melt faster and faster. and our coastal cities will be doomed. >> the discussions on the table in the week ahead. next. next.
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>> welcome back to al jazeera. here's a look at today's top story. president obama is arriving in paris for the world climate change summit, cop 20 it's called. and holding bilateral talks with china france and india. hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets around the world calling for significant environmental policy changes at
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the u.n. summit. in paris more than 200 people were arrested when they defied an order not to protest. it is sunday night and time for our regular look at the week ahead. our focus tonight: the paris climate summit. more than 150 world leaders are arriving in the french capital to take part in the united nations conference, the aim to get everyone on board to limit greenhouse gases worldwide the aim to stop temperature rise more than 2° celsius. serving the common good around the world. nick clark reports from paris. >> a bizarre tradition the world of diplomacy, intaisk of how inw
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anticipated this summit is. what can we expect? >> what is being finalized here in paris over the next two weeks is none other than the second legally binding instrument under the convention that will then go into the effect in 2020 once we're through with the kyoto protocol. >> there are no end of obstacles in the way. this time world leaders are coming at the beginning of the conference, rather than the end, which is the usually procedure. lima, brussels, doha, a roll call of inaction and little progress. and all the sign says there is no time to lose. from wildfires to cyclones, the
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effects of the extreme weather are rampant. the focus is to stop the weather rise more than 2° celsius. many jill hanson is a former nasa scientist who has been warning of climate change since the 1980s. >> where it appears to be headed, with no real global reductions in emissions. then our children and grandchildren will inherit a situation that is out of their control. the ocean will keep getting warmer. ice sheets will begin to melt faster and faster. and our coastal cities will be doomed. >> nearly every country at the negotiations has put forward proposals on how they plan to keep emissions down. trouble is: they're not enough. >> the commitments were
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something like 3° warming over preindustrial times and just to give a sense of perspective, right now we at 1°. this year we're also seeing the hottest year ever, next year will also be very hot. we are seeing record storms droughts heat waves and other freak events scientists say are all about climate change. >> the events will be hard and furious over the next coming days. nick clark, al jazeera, lebourjet, paris. joining us, rebecca green, and in washington, michaela, a member of the advisory board for the energy policy group. professor green if you would begin with a brief summary of what they hope to accomplish in paris. >> well, i would say there are
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two main things that are on the table now. the first and most important is that each country is making a voluntary commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emission in such way or another, as each country chooses to do so seize s fit. how much money will the developed world give to the developing world to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. >> this question to you ms. carstate. president obama is looked at as the leaders of whatever comes out of this conference. here's a question though, how much influence does president obama really have given the fact that he will have difficulty with whatever he proposes to congress? >> absolutely. he will definitely have difficulty with whatever comes out of paris especially if we will see a change in the political leaning in the political administration here in
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washington, d.c. however, what the one thing the united states and president obama brings to the climate conference is the ability of finance, and technology development which will be crucial to the implementation of any agreement that comes out of paris. >> now last time national leaders attended the conference of the parties in copenhagen in 2009, nothing was accomplished. professor green, what are things that are different? >> people are seeing the effects of climate change and they are very frightened. second, previous efforts, under the kyoto protocol, didn't have any effect. relaxed approach voluntary compliment is the way to go, this has made the political
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atmosphere i think much more appropriate for countries to move forward. >> anonymity the kyoto protocols apply primary to developing nations correct, not the rest of the world, which are still trying obuild power plants, whatever fuel sources they have to live their lives every day. how difficult is it going to be to manage that conflict? >> that's absolutely correct. so the kyoto protocol required developing countries to reduce their emissions. now everybody needs to reduce their emissions. the way they circumvent these issues, is for them to choose their own ways to reduce. so these aren't being imposed by a third party or through international law. rather each country is presenting its own nationally determined contributions which is to say, we are dwog try to gy
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to green our industry, whatever will work best with our contacts is the way each country is going to move forward. >> what you're talking about is the intended national contributions. to the best of your knowledge how are those contributions those self directed goals working at this point towards reaching that 2° celsius threched? threshold? >> as your introduction indicated, they are nowhere near this threshold. this is a cooperative atmosphere versus some of the antagonistic adversarially start to negotiation --adversarial starto
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negotiations. banking on their strengths and putting forth the plans that fit their own situation he best, we may be able to see progress and actually have a positive start to what is going to be a quite a long process. paris is not the end, paris is the beginning. >> you prompt me to ask this perhaps crass question i suppose, to what degree is paris just a political show? >> i strongly feel that it is not a political show. this is the first time we actually see willingness from all of the parties involved to actually sit down around the table and identify the best path to move forward. and while we are not yet to the degree target, we are on the path to setting up account ability, transparency and a path to get there and revision of these targets. so i definitely don't think it's show. i think we do need to see the
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political leadership. we need to see the private industry leadership which we will see tomorrow at the launch of a quite important initiative, between the private industry and government, to increase their r&d funding for technology that can help us reach the 2°. so definitely not a political show but quite an important beginning of real conversations on how to reach the 2°. >> professor green you've written extensively about the role of the private sector in reaching a sustainable sane environmental policies. how do you think this could conceivably work with reducing greenhouse gas emissions? >> i think this bridges nicely to your last question. it is not only a show in paris. it is partially a show and there is a lot of other business going on around the world, trying to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions. there are both plirveg and publd private actors trying to reach these issues, california has a
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cap and trade system, they price carbon about $13 a ton and buy and sell it every day. 85% of the econo is covered by is regulation. so similarly, there are private actors who are collecting data on corporate emissions and reporting those, investors are now taking those data into consideration when they're making big investment decision and we're talking here about pensions and big public portfolios like that. so despite whatever happens in paris, all of these things will continue to go forward. the question is, how much will they contribute to getting to that 2° c target. >> hold that point please. president obama's clean power plant is not being welcomed with open arms everywhere. 27 states have sued to stop it calling it an illegal effort by the federal government to control state power grids. but in states like kentucky and
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west virginia it is also about jobs. west virginia gets 95% of its power from coal. and as restrictions are put in place on how much coal you can burn workers get laid off. >> when you take an ax to a problem, rather than a small parring 95parparing knife, you o an entire society. >> democrats in coal states are pushing for coal capture technology that will reduce emissions while still using coal. professor green let me ask you. how do you balance with a state like kentucky that is so dependent on coal which produce he problems, right, for gration, greenhouse gas, how do you
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reduce their problems? from at the end of the day, everybody is going to be hit by climate change. but coal, bas because it's the dirtiest, but natural gas and shale as well, we do have to make that balance but we have to move ahead. the clean power plan has built in a fair amount of flexibility so states can decide how they're going to reach that goal. at the end of the day, some plants are going to be closed. bus butt -- >> but -- >> people will lose their jobs. >> people will lose their jobs but people will lose their jobs because of climate change as well and we have to take that into consideration. >> to you ms. carstate, you are involved in private enterprise with respect to environmental issues. >> absolutely. i don't think you can do it
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without private enterprise. i am very, very happy we get to talk about coal and fossil fuels in general. i do agree, if we have to reach our 2° goal, we have to use clean technologies. given what was just discussed with regard to green power plants, it doesn't necessarily mean a move away from coal. we need new technology that can help us deal with the problems caused by fossil fuel. it's not just coal. it's going to have to be gas, emissions from industry, the technology you mentioned before, the carbon capture and storage is one such path, in addition to others. increases in efficiency. so when we're talking about jobs whether in kentucky or in eastern europe or in india by the way is tripling its coal production by 2030 or 2040, you need to also have very, very strong support of right-hand r&t
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the government level and industry, to allow countries to manage the interaction between the climate change goals, energy security and economica economich which does translates into jobs. so i have -- >> let me interrupt you for a moment there and talk about tax credits or carbon taxes. cap and trade, those methodologies for solving the problem, how effective have they been, i'll put to you professor green. >> there are a few answers to that. the first answer is this is still an evolving process. the oldest carbon market is in the eu, since twick sings since.
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the question is, whether governments will be willing to continue ratcheting those down, and at what price the -- what the price will be for carbon credits to trade. right now they're trading they're relatively cheap. >> i understand ms. carstay you don't think they have been working too well in europe. >> i don't think they have been achieving all of their stategoals. i agree with professor green that they are working in some regards, we're still -- we as global community are still learning how to do this better, the europeans are going through various iterations of their own system and working on improving their past failures. however if we're looking at carbon markets, to deliver on the 2° reductions, they need to be strengthened, they need to work better and they need wider
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participation. they actually need to reduce the amount of free credits, and really create a market system not one that is a hybrid system where you have on one hand free allocations and with a cap that's quite generous which gives price of carbon quite low. >> and we have not discussed individual responsibility and when people can do but that is a topic for another gain. jessica green and micaela ca carstay, thank you for joining us. warrant before reading private e-mails and has a long list of co-sponsors from both political parties. on wednesday the holiday season kicks into high gear. that is when the annual christmas tree lighting ceremony takes place at new york city's
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rockefeller center. and on thursday, meeting in brussels to discuss security issues in the wake of the paris attacks. up next, a trip to the florida city known as little puerto rico. and quickly change florida's landscape. >> and we are looking at 77 counties looking at a state of emergency due to the weather. i'll bring you all the details whether i return righwhen i ret.
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entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> puerto rico is in a financial crisis. austerity measures are making life hard on the island. many are leaving the island and forming a burgeoning ex-pat community in central florida. >> for years, cassimi has been referred to as little puerto rico, and the bakery is a taste of home. but nothing small about this region's puerto rican community, 400,000 migrants from the island, growing at opace not seen in decades. carol and her family arrived just weeks ago, driven from puerto rico by a driven financial crisis.
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>> the flow of immigration there is hard. you have more opportunities, i can i had an interview then i started working seven and now it's better. glb. >> reporter: one of the first things carol did was register to vote. puerto ricans are u.s. citizens by birth, with an estimated thousand families arriving each month that's significant. >> it's the highest concentration of puerto ricans in the i-4 corridor. >> betbetsy says, voters are asg some searching questions. >> a lot of them are paying very close attention to where the candidates stand on helping puerto rico, in order to support that candidate. >> this part of central florida has always been considered pivotal, but this latest wave of migration, tend to make it very
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important. many new rieiveld hav rieivelz o political affiliation. so many voters up for grabs he sees a unique opportunity. >> if the i-4 can win osceola county, what we do here can actually decide who we can have as the next president. >> reporter: florida is now poised to become the state with the largest number of puerto ricans in the u.s. and it's thought that the exodus will continue for some time to come. but with the growing number of arrivals will grow political influence. sandy gallagher, al jazeera,
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cassimi, florida. watch this video. then careens down an embankment. there were similar crashes up and down the state. kevin corriveau has more with the wintery weather. >> that driver was driving way too fast kw those winter roads. you have to drive for what the road can accommodate. tonight we are seeing in parts of kansas more freezing rain. over the last couple of hours right here through kansas where you see the pink is more freezinfreezing precipitation. so we are seeing more ice across that region. i want to show you the video coming out earlier from oklahoma where ice brought down these power lines as you can see here. we had about 100,000 people without power. now through the region, through the holiday travel period, we
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saw 11 people dying on the roads because of the weather with the icing from kansas all the way down to the panhandle in texas. we are seeing problems this evening into tomorrow. the temperatures, will make a big difference in the impact of that area concerning that freezing precipitation, where wichita is at 35, lincoln, nebraska are at 33. temperatures definitely hitting freezing. pirchg e-pinpink is is ice, expn tomorrow. pretty much the end of the big travel weekend and a lot of flights are still up in the air. flightaware.com, we have seen a little bit less activity on the eastern seaboard but pickup on the western seaboard.
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we didn't see much in the way of delays so a lot of people did get home safely there. tomorrow, big problem with the weather, as we go up towards the missouri weather as well as towards the west. a lot of flow is in the forecast and that snow is going to stay in effect all the way through parts of tuesday but for us it's going to be rain. >> thank you, kevin. and finally for decades, a wall has separated the rich from the poor. some say it keeps people safe but others, say it serves as a way to ostracize the rich and the poor. >> it is ten kilometers long and many call it the wall of shame. on one side, a rich neighborhood, on the other, a poor neighborhood, one of the poorest in lima. the gap between the rich and poor is the highest in all of
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south america. >> the wall was built so the poor people couldn't cross into the other side. >> reporter: over the years, the need for safety and security have justified the wall's existence for some. tens of thousands of peruvians have illegally taken over public and private properties. living on land that still belongs to the rich. >> on the other side they have sewerage, electricity and water. we can't have any of those services because we don't have property titles. >> resident says it is wrong to calm it the wall of shame. >> there are walls everywhere in the city. it's not discriminatory when we divide next door neighbors. however on the other side it is considered discriminatory because it divides us from poor
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people. >> the national statistics says 30% of lima's 10 million residents have been victims of crime and many have built security barriers around their properties. we are about one kilometer downhill from the so-called wall of shame and even in this poor neighborhood people are living in gated community because of the poor conditions. >> architect javier sota. >> lima is one of the most secure cities because of crime. the elite enclose themselves with walls. >> better training for its officers. back at celestina's home it is not important for him, but for
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safety for his family, so much so that his wife has to stay home to protect what little they have, rather than going to work to earn for family. marrian ah sanchez, al jazeera, peru. >> that's it for this the program. up next third rail. have a good evening. top investigative reporting, uncovering new perspectives. >> everything that's happening here is illegal. >> then at 10:00 - it's "reports from around the world". >> let's take a closer look. >> antonio mora gives you a global view. >> this is a human rights crisis. >> and at 11:00 - "news wrap-up". clear... concise... complete. usr
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tonight free speech is the bed rock of a free society, but are there limits and would enforcing those limits threaten our freedom. should school kids be trained to fight back against gunman and my final thought on how saudi arabia is misterying a major opportunity to separate stiffly from i.s.i.l. i'm ali velshi. this is third rail. after i.s.i.l. struck paris on november 13, it called the city of light theap

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