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convicted he faces life in prison. robert tray is live right now. we heard from the army regarding that hearing, what did they have to say. >> lieutenant daniel kenning came out and spoke to the press, but before we get to exactly what he said, let me just tribe the courtroom earlier. sergeant berghdal walked in at 9:50:00 a.m. he walked in very quietly, put his hands on his thighs. didn't say much of anything. he seemed very nervous, and he had a limp as he went into

the courtroom. it started at 10:00 a.m. sharp, lasted just about ten minutes or so, and then we all left and went to a different building where we then heard the statement from the military, let's listen to that. the sergeant indicated that he is satisfied with his defense council. the judge esplined his right to be tried before a panel, or a military judge, the judge also inquired that sergeant berghdal wish to any enmotions or a plea at this time. sergeant berghdal deferred all of these decisions to a later hearing. >> we had some more questions for the colonel, things that were not quite answered in the courtroom today. so i sent him an email, he is not giving any sort of on

camera interviews and let's put a statement in his response, he said to me, he wrote, there is not a time limit for i have of pleas, but he will be required to enter a plea prior to the beginning of the trial. more information with regard to the january 122,016th hearing may be available as we get closer to the date. and that hearing that is scheduled in january, is a process is that they are calling a government motion, now, we should hopefully get more information, as to what the plea will exactly be, whether berghdal decides that he wants to be tried by a military jury, or whether or not he wants the judge to oversee all of the hearings and make that decision. we still don't have those decisions. we do know this. the sergeant is speaking to the pod cast serial where he claimed that he was trying to

be some sort of supersoldier. he equated himself to jason born, from the movie bourn supremacy. so not quite sure where his head was, but nose are all things that will be coming out in the coming months at the trial will start. and we are told by military officials the trial at earliest could begin in may, at latest in october. >> and robert, briefly before you go, are these charges unique? >> well, they certainly are, one of them is certainly unique. the misbehaver in front of the enemy, that happened a lot during world war ii, but we haven't seen many charges of that sense that time period. essentially that will give him life in prison if he is actually convicted of that charge. now the other one, leaving the base, is something that we have seen quite frequently, between 2001, and 2014, about 1900 cases the

army has overseen, but the one misbehave your in front of the enemy, that is a big time unique one, again, haven't seen any of those since world war ii. >> robert gray for us, robert, thank you very much. stepped up efforts in iraq and afghanistan today. the military launching a major offensive trying to retake ramadi which is the de facto capitol. troops are forced to remove roadside bombs as they continue to push forward. in afghanistan the battle there is raging between forces. both the u.s. and britain sending troops to that area, all of this one day after six troops were killed in that suicide attack. jamie mcintyre is lye ever the us at the pent gone, and jamie, iraq says it is making progress, what do you know. >> well, the pentagon is confirming that after months of preparations and preparing the battlefield, and what they call shaping operations

they have begun to move into the city center, to attempt to rescue from the drip of isil, originally they were about 1,000 isil fighters in ramadi air strikes and fighting of several months has whittled that down to stepping less than 400, 250 to 300. they have the attacking portions of it are overwhelming, numerical advantage, about 10,000 iraqi security forces and because ramadi is largely a sunni city, the force that is going in is almost exclusively a sunni force. made up of iraqi security forces, sunni tribal fighters, trained by the u.s., and also some an bar police. ramadi is the capitol of am bar province, and after it is cleared out they will these authorities there so they trainless to go in. so it is very slow going, one thing isil had done is it blew all the bridges, across the previous river, so the united states provide add

portable bridge that could be set up and allowed the iraqi security forces now to beagain to flow into that city center, but it is tough urban combat, in the last couple of days, there were leaflets dropped to try to tell the civilians to shelter or hunker down or try to get out of the city, and they suggested escape routs are they could be helped with securities toes, i have to say it does look at this point given the situation on the ground, that ramadi will probably be retaken, recaptured by those security forces sometime in the coming days or perhaps weeks. the report to congress, that they sent up just this month. also increasing the number

and effectiveness on attacks what they call high profile attacks, such as the one yesterday that killed six u.s. troops, down in the southern part of the country, that's where the tough fighting is going on now, and that's where some british special forces are there to help advice the afghan security force whose have been beaten back by really it's been a relentless assault, trying to take one of the local capitols there, and they have sent urgent messages saying they need more help, but what they can really use is air strikes, to beat back the taliban assault, and dell, with the end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan, the u.s., and nato countries no longer provide air strikes for offensive operations. in afghanistan, and that's something that they will have to consider deal with, in the coming year, as they arecess the security situation on the ground. >> jamie mcintyre for us, jamie, thank you very much. france just a short while saying it stopped what it

says is a terrorist attack, the interior menster just announced the security forces stopped two french nationals from carrying out the plan. the soldiers and police were targets the two suspects now in their 20's are in custody, officials says they have been in contact with another french national who is now inser yeah. sinatra plant's family says they are going to continue to demand answers. her arrest over the summer that videotape of and it her death in jail captures headlines around the world. the prosecutor now insisting the case is not over. al jazeera has more on that grand jury decision. >> for more than ten hours, a franked jury in waller texas discussed evidence presented pi special prosecutors in last summer's jailhouse death of sandra bland. she died three days after this traffic stop. >> the grand jury did not return an indictment. the franked jury also

considered things that occurred at the jail, and did not return an indictment. >> the coroner said bland hanged herself inside the waller county jail using trash bags. special prosecutors darrell jordan would not reveal details of the meeting with the grand jury, other than to say, that his team carefully reviewed video, of bland's time in jail. >> as far as what happened today the details, of course those are all secret. >> the biggest problem for me is the entire process. it is the secrecy of it all the. >> 1100 miles away, bland's family continued to express doubt that the sandra they knew would kill herself, and about the grand jury. >> we have absolutely no confidence in what we believe is a sham proceedings. we are desperately seeking very basic information to conduct our own independent investigation of what happened to sandy there, and there is not only not providing it to us, but they

are invoking this inherent trust in the system that we think inherently flawed. >> anything that they have asked if we have done our best to give it to them. the franked jury is committed to doing what is right, and we are committed to doing what is right. >> the grand jury meets in january to exam other aspects of the traffic stop and her arrest. john henry smith, al jazeera. >> and the retrial date has now been set for a police officer charged in the death of freddie gray. william porter's new trial will begin on june 13th. the first case against him ended last week, and another officer set to go on trial in january. he is the driver of the police van where prosecutors say that gray was fatally injured. in minnesota, a judge there expected to decide whether to allow protests inside the mall of america, demonstrators say they plan to gather there on wednesday, all of them upset over the death of a plaque man at the hands of police. al jazeera reports.

these protestors are being told not to demonstrate on their property, asking a minnesota judge to grant the temporary restraining order. the mall of america is hoping to prevent a huge demonstration like the one last year, where some stores had to shut down. the mall says that caused irreparable harm, saying it prohibits all forms of protests, demonstration and public debate. mall officials also want protestors to delete and take down any online materials soliciting demonstrators to father at the mall. plaque lives matter protestors say that's not going to happen. >> our country was built off of protests. protests is meant to make people uncomfortable been protest is not meant to be easy. by it is a struggle we must go through to get justice. >> they hope to draw attention to the death of clark. a black man killed by police. >> they have been

demonstrating for weeks demanding investigators to release the video of the shooting. >> authorities say they can't because it could interfere with on going state and federal investigations. two days before christmas on a busy shopping day. >> we will take this one step at a time. if the judge issues an order restraining the demonstration, and that order is violated, we will deal with it. >> some protestors seem to be doubling down on their promise to go to the mall, they have been tweeting with the # sunni 2. >> enrique murices is still behind bars. murices was denied bail on monday, the judge finding that mar questions still pose as threat to the public safety. pros it cooers say he is the person that bout the two guns that were used to kill 14

people back on december second. why american suburbs are seeing a uptick in deadly overdoses.

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time. telling investigators that she recently became homeless and has been liking out of that car with her daughter. chipolte stock is down, following news of people getting sick from their food. five people sickened in kansas, north dakota, and oklahoma. chipolte says it is launching new safety measures in response, more than 50 people now in nine stating getting sick after eating at the chain. deaths from heroin are up 200% since the year 2000, and it isn't just in the cities as john tarot shows us, users are dying in never before seen numbers in the suburbs as well. >> the small new england town is 40 minutes outside new york, the busiest highway. >> we are wedged right in between much larger cities. >> .

>> i grew up here. and never seen anything like this. in my 40 years. a straight line of addiction from prescription painkillers that can cost take dollars per pill, to heroin, $10 or less a bag. >> seeing we have is been facing this problem for the last five years, we are seeing our addicts and overdoses, our victims are in the early 20's. if you bring that back five years they were here. >> wow. >> at the high school. >> among the million dollars home, the heroin problem is hidle, no dealers on street corn erroneous one slumped in the shop door way, addiction often takes place behind closed doors in big family houses. >> in the neighboring town knows this all too well. his son, jack, was hooked on heroin. >> he is a big guy. >> he is a big guy. he is just about 6'5".

>> heatwaved you. >> he does. >> he spent a small porch on treatment, for jack who was clean for months in california but then slipped back into addiction, the shock to his system too much and jack who was 21 died. >> i think back to my edge about being in the city, and crack houses and heroin, i don't think about it being in the schools and in the county, and in l.a., and in different places. but it is. don't try to pretend it isn't, because it is. if you don't, you will -- you won't win. >> down the road in know walk, a different father with a similar story. gary mandell tells me about his beloved son brian, who is also caught by heroin. >> he was burdened by his addiction. >> he was really burdened by it, and burdened by the cravings, burdened by the shame. >> brian 25 killed himself over the same he felt addiction proud to his family. his dad was so stunned he

founded shatter photograph. >> it is time to make our families shatter proof. >> if you had asked me how many sons in our time said a son is addicted i would have said i am it. i figures two or three others but i didn't know who they were, because nobody spoke about it. >> it is a father's promise to his dearly missed son. >> shatter proof is raising money and pushing for new state laws to help cut the number of overdose deaths nationwide. back on the streets sergeant says 80% of cream in the area, is directly related to narcotics. >> kit be in the house. it request be in the parking lot of that restaurant, it is everywhere. >> calling for $2 billion a year, she says she wanted the

money to enable scientists to find a cure, more than 5 million americans have been diagnosed with alzheimers. meanwhile, her campaign spokes woman tweeting they won't respond to some controversy comments this time again by donald trump. during a campaign rally. i don't know who would be worse, i don't know. how does it get worse? but she was going to beat -- she was favored to win, and she got trumped she lost. >> that michigan event is is not the first time that trump has used that phrase. he used the vulgarity in 2011, that time he was talking about the republicans losses in the special election. it has been certified as one of only eight so call living buildings in the world, al jazeera, explains how seattle's bullet center is built to generate more new

jersey than it consumes. this is 575 different panels even in the fray and reinny pacific northwest, this is enough of a solar array to generate 232,000-kilowatt hours of electricity, per year. this building actually generates more juice, than it uses, in fact, about 60% more energy generated than used. in a year's time. this is owned and operated was designed as well by seattle's bullet foundation, and they say it is the greenest building in the world. >> not just in energy, but in water, and sewage treatment, and all the things we are trying to incorporate, we have i think fundamentally changed the way that buildings are viewed by architects engineers and developers. >> and the bottom part of the

top to bottom tour, is the ground floor, and as you might expect, we find the parking garage, as you would in any commercial building but this is different, no spaces for cars, 25 racks for bicycles. bicycled encouragers cars discouraged. tonight we will tell you a lot more about this place, we will take you inside the systems of this building and i mean right inside the walls and right straight through the floors, and learn a lot more about why this is called a living building. >> a successful launch and landing, the big boost as a commercial rocket makes history.

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comcast business. built for business. was actually the landingt it later that made history. >> successfully completed it's mission to reuse a rocket for future use, that technology setting up new invasions to trim costs and thing completely how man kind

approaching space flight. >> a ship like no other a place in history secured. the space shuttle pulls into port, for the last time. >> when nasa land add shuttle for the last time in florida in 2011, it's mission of delivering payloads to space, came to a historic close. level in it's wake a race to space. between traditional defense contractors and self-made billionaires. with the space shuttle grounded, nasa hired orbital a.t.k., for $1.9 billion, to fly cargo missions to the international space station. it's sickness capsule arrived two weeks ago. delivering thousands of pounds of equipment, on a rocket purchased from the martin and boeing. space x has several launches under it's belt, using it's own rockets. nasa is reportedly paying

$2.6 billion, for space x to transport crews to the spate station by 2017. and dragon became in history. backed by amazon got it right first. history was made last month, when the rocket gently touched down on the landing pad in west texas. >> the vehicle went up close to 400,000 feet, so it went into space, and then came back down, and landed under rocket engine propulsion. >> the idea is to make new origin, and named for the first american in space available to companies and individuals, so that space travel becomes almost second nature. an airbus, and you only used

it once, and then you had to build a whole new airplane to take a flight. will spend billions to perfect as it hopes what goes up. >> comes back down. adam may, al jazeera. >> and back here on earth, there's still to get holiday gifts but don't wait too long. today is the busiest shipping day of the year, u.p.s. alone, expected to deliver 36 million packages today, thanks to an increase in online sales experts say internet purchases will have received $95 billion. and the numbers have been drawn in one of the biggest ever. >> many tuning in around the world for the spain annual lottery that pays out more than $2 billion in prizes the top winner gets about $400,000.000s of people try to cash in on their winning

tickets. >> this is the news hour live, thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes. >> they are calling it the final assault, stormed the center of ramadi trying to recapture the city from isil. the u.n. hears that most of the attacks on yemen civilians are coming from saudi led forces. under massive public pressure, india toughens