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political warfare and that's tomorrow's "inside story." i'm ray suarez. thanks for watching. goodnight. >> donne donald trump is a pha fraught. >> i don't know what happened to him, he disappeared. >> donald trump lacks the temperament to be president. >> i back mitt romney. you see how loyal he is. >> he's begging for my endorsement. i could have said mitt, drop to your knees. >> the third grade thre theatr.
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>> imagine your children and grandchildren act being the way he does. >> he should have won. >> live from new york city, i'm tony harris, and we begin with that war of words between donald trump and former presidential nominee, mitt romney. aljazeera's david schuster joins me with more on all of this. david. >> tony, this is the first time in political history that a party's most recent presidential nominee has delivered an entire speech condemning the party's current frontrunner. >> donald trump is a phoney, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> in utah thursday, donald trump was unrelenting. the former presidential nominee attacked trump as immoral and cruel and said that he would lead america into the abyss. >> his domestic policies would lead to recession, his foreign
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policies would make america less safe. he has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president, and his personal qualities would mean that america would cease to be a shining city on a hill. >> reporter: romney lifted those personal qualities one-by-one. >> the bullying, the agreed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics. >> at a rally in maine, trump fired back. >> mitt is a failed candidate. he failed, he failed horribly. >> trump noted that it was romney's loss four years ago that gave barack obama a second term. he said romney had everything going for him in the 2012 election. >> governor romney, go out and get them, you can do it. >> including his endorsement. >> i backed mitt romney. i backed him. you can see how loyal he is. he was becking for my
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endorsement. i could have said mitt, drop to your knees, and he would have dropped to his knees, he was begging. >> after that imagery, trump then delivered this. >> this is the choke. he choked and choked like i've never seen anyone choke. >> the insults and the taunts come at a critical juncture. leaders fear that he has no chance in the general election, could cost the gop control of congress, and yet may be unstoppable. and trump's rivals agree. >> he would have carried out the most last night con job in the history of american politics. >> so trump, mitt romney and other republican figures are urging gop supporters to support marco rubio in florida, john kasich in ohio, and ted cruz in whatever state he has the best chance of beating trump. the winner take all could
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conceivably keep him from reaching the nomination, and spark in turn a brokered convention. >> if the other candidates can find some common ground, i believe that we can nominate a person who can win the general election and will have the values and policies of conservatism. >> romney represents the very establishment that trump has built his campaign against, and strategists say that it's likely that romney's attack may help trump. >> when you watch a guy like romney, who was a light weight. >> new jersey governor, chris contradiction who has endorsed trump said that he doesn't always look at his policieses or rhetoric. >> i believe that hillary clinton should not cannot be president of the united states and i before that donald trump is the best remaining who can
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do that. >> donald trump went beyond mitt romney and the current republican field. john mccain, 2008 also joined the nomination. he bought millions of dollars in television ad time over the next two weeks to portray donald trump as dangerous. >> the trump supporters, they know what's going on. and they know of a division in the party. do they care about the party or do they care more about trump and the personality and what they feel he represents? >> tony, they want to break the republican party. they don't see much of a difference between the democrat party and the republican party. they want this entire system to be broken, and they want an outsider, and they want what donald trump describes as the losers, and they would rather take a risk and go for the hail mary, saying maybe donald trump loses the election, and causes a civil war, but to what he
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represents, they believe it's worth it. >> to the people, and i know how this question sounds, but again, donald trump is making statements and promise that's we know and you know even better than most are going to be really difficult to come through on. are the people who make up the core of his support, are they listening? are they smart people? are they low information voters? who are they? >> that's the thing, there are some people low information and education, and it shows that he's doing well with the college educated. donald trump is looking at all of this as beyond outside of the political party. he's not definable and some of the people most afraid are the political insiders, not because of islamaphobia and how he seems to endorse the kkk. but they're concerned that donald trump could roll back foreign policies and protected
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entitlement programs and sent the republican party up to reverse over the next 30 years what he might do as president. so if you're worried about donald trump ruining the party before the election, there are others who think that he might ruin it by taking office. >> david schuster for us, and tonight, the four remaining presidential candidates are facing off in detroit. this follows the super tuesday victories and the departure of ben carson. diane, what are you expecting tonight? >> tony, i think that we're expecting fireworks. i think that we'll see a reboot of what we saw in houston during that debate a couple of weeks ago where ted cruz and marco rubio took on donald trump and hit him very hard. rubio especially has to make a good showing tonight. because he has only won one
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state to date. and that's minnesota. and he desperately needs to win his home state of florida coming up later is this month. kasich is another candidate to watch. he has been quiet during the last couple of debates. not been as engaged as the other candidates. now that ben carson is not going to be debating tonight, he might have an opportunity to engage more with donald trump and rubio and cruz. he too needs to desperately win his home state of ohio later this month. so it will be an interesting night to watch, tony. >> so diane, in detroit, i wonder if issues important to the state of michigan will be addressed. >> yeah, tony, usually the moderators and questions that have to do with whatever town they may be in, and here in michigan, it has been jobs. this is an area that has lost a
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couple of hundred manufacturing jobs over the last 20 years, and now, they have gained some of those back, but this is an area that has really suffered. ford in particular doubled the number of manufacturing jobs in mexico and trump has been very critical of the company. yesterday, we were in a rally north of detroit, a rubio rally, and rubio said that we need to bring jobs back, but he warned the audience not to prey on people's fears. here's what he had to say. >> the jobs that we use to sustain the working class, some of these are being replaced by machines, and times are difficult. we have to acknowledge that reality, but we should not take advantage of that reality. >> now, the other issue that we're probably going to see come up tonight, the flint water situation, and that has
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captivated the nation. likely to see the moderators question the candidates about tonight. >> diane, what's going on around you? they're very vocal and shouting. can you help us? >> yeah, there are anti-trump protesters here, and protesters that are angry about what's happening with the detroit public schools, so it's a mix of protesters out here tonight. >> gotcha, diane eastabrook in detroit for us. governor rick snyder is trying to fix the water crisis in flint. he said that the price tag has already topped $140 million. and he's asking for money to repair the infrastructure and make up for the hit economy. utah senator, mike lee, is stalling a bill. he said that lee has put a secret hold on the bill. nancy pelosi is about to lead a
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group of 20 on a fact finding trip to flint. the debate is being held in flint. north korea is being provocative after sanctions. according to a south korea news agency, leader king jong un has ordered the nuclear arsenal to be placed on standby. yesterday, they fired two rockets into the sea toward japan. >> the news conference, the ministry of defense said a number of projectiles have been fired into the sea of the korean peninsula, but in south korea, they're reporting more fully. sometimes they get briefs from unnamed military officials and they're talking about a range of 100 to 150 kilometers, 8-9 projectiles, and it's unclear if they were short range
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missiles or perhaps a multi-rocket launch system, such was unveiled by the north carolina an military last year. an analysis it underway on that point, and the military remains in a heightened state of readiness, watching out for any further actions by its counterparts in north korea. >> we're coming into a period of heightened tensions between the north and the south because there are no actions on the north korean peninsula. this year, it's expected that they will be a lot bigger than urn, and they might include rehearsals for a preemptive strike against nuclear activities. and they arrive the right to attack south korean seats of government. so we expect a heightened round of tensions, and this is the first north korean reaction to
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the passage. and with the resolution passage, it may be is there's more to follow in days and weeks to come. >> in syria, a blackout earlier today, and no cause has been given for what caused the electricity in the country. meanwhile, the truce in syria seems to be holding. the state department said that it has not seen any significant violations in the last 24 hours, despite russia claiming dozens of breaches. francoise hollande is claiming consequence. >> a century of prance and britain, shoulder to shoulder around the modern city. there was heavy symbolism with president hollande and cameron starting the summit at the war memorial. the two men and the prime
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ministers got down to business w. refugees and security. an arrangement potentially threatened by the impending british referendum on eu membership. >> i don't want to scare you. i just want to say the truth. there will be consequences if the united kingdom is to leave the eu. in many areas, on the single market, on financial trade and on economic development. i don't want to give you a catastrophic scenario, but there will be consequences. >> there was a promise, unaccompanied children will be able to join relatives already in the uk. but the headline british response was to simply promise more financial support so most refugees stay on french soil. >> we would invest an additional 17 million pounds in calais to assist the police. the efforts would go to move people from camps in calais to france, and we would fund joint
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work to return migrants needing protection to their home countries. the real challenge is in the eastern mediterranean where we need to break the business model of criminals and persuade people from the journey. >> the refugee camp in calais, known as the jungle, it continued, with the bulldozers flattening a large area of the southern section of the cavern. it has been a symbol of the refugee crisis here in northern europe. the clearance of large areas in the last days by the authorities, giving a message to the refugees hoping to come here in expectation of reaching the uk. but there are questions of simply throwing money at the problem, if it's a real solution. >> it's not just the money. the refugees are coming here and all over france to cross into the uk.
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it's not a money issue, it's a visa issue, a global picture of what europe wants to do with all of the people that are coming from war countries. are they real refugees, and do they have the right to be here in europe or not? >> and that question can only be effectively addressed at the four european union summits on migrant refugees being convened next week. >> and up next, police on trial. a crucial hearing in the freddie gray case. why it could shape the conversation going forward. and four years after the beats are caught on tape, we'll get the state of the race and the lmpd. find fantasy shows.
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>> a key in the freddie gray case, an officer force to testify against his fellow officers. >> it's a question that could decide the fate of the baltimore police officers on trial in the freddie gray case. can officer william whorter be both a witness? he's the first of six officers charged in gray's death in 2014 to go on trial. he was not directly involved in gray's arrest. and he was not driving the
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police van where gray suffered fatal injuries, but nevertheless, the prosecutors charged him with manslaughter, saying that he could have put a seatbelt or called for further attention. it ended with a hung jury. his retrial is set for june, but before that, the prosecutors want to call him as a witness in the trials of the other officers involved. including ceasar goodson, who fakes the most serious charges of the six. second-degree murder. prosecutors argued that because he has been granted immunity, he should testify. and anything that he says in the other trials can't be used against him. but porter's team is not buying it. forcing him to testify against the other officers puts him at risk of being called a liar by their defense teams, and
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wouldn't protect him from a perjury charge. >> that guy has to go to a doctor, and he's not going to make it through the booking process. that's what they want. they believe that porter was truthful when he said that. he said that never happened. so sergeant white's interests are adverse to porter's interests. >> they argue that porter's testimony could turn jurors against him and endanger his right to a fair trial. >> so it's the defense's position that they have made their bed, and they ought to lie in it. see if can you can prove it beyond thbeyond a reasonable do. but he's not a witness. witnesses don't have skin in the game. >> the cases of the other officers can go forward. and the judge acknowledged that this is a case in uncharted
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territory. >> this is the first time that we have had a defendant be a witness. >> the officer's trials have been put on hold while the appeal is played out. it's unclear when the court will rule. aljazeera, new york. >> the texas state trooper who arrested sandr sandra bland hasn fired from his job. charged with miss reporting when it happened. bland has pulled over for an improper lane change, and she was taken into custody. bland was found dead in her cell. three days later, her death was ruled a suicide. in los angeles, the first widely released video was caught on tape. rodney king brutally beaten by police officers, but justice was not guaranteed for king. jennifer london takes a look
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back. >> 25 years ago, the nation watched as los angeles police officers beat rodney king, the video camera captured the takedown, he was working in south l.a. when he first saw the beating. >> somebody told me, turn the tv on. what's going on here? want liquor store, i don't know where, it was not in the homes, but the community. and i saw it, and to me, it was horrible. they were just relentlessly brutalizing rodney king. >> reporter: the beating of king took place after a high-speed chase ended here on osbourne street in the san fernando valley. the noise woke george holiday, who was sleeping, and he rushed to his balcony and substantiated recording. when the beating was over, king
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had a fractured skull and internal injuries. a year later, the four officers were acquitted and minutes later, south l.a. started to burn. the rioting lasted five days, and left 52 people dead and thousands injured. but tenancy not just the beating of king by the officers that caused the uprising. it's that the beating was caught on tape. >> they couldn't deny the violence and the injustice of that. >> it was the first viral video during a time when smart phones didn't even exist. 25 years later, more and more instances of police beats are caught on camera. on new york's staten island, eric garner died after the police put him in a choke withhold while trying to arrest him. in south carolina, walter scott was shot and killed by the police, following a traffic stop. and here in l.a., a black
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homeless man was shot and killed by the police after they tried to question him. at cal state l.a., a cofounder of black lives matter, the violence caught on camera is what many blacks experience in one way or another every day. >> every single one of us has been rodney king at some time in our lives, and this is captured on video. and we're expecting the system to say hey, that's not how it's supposed to work, and we're expecting there to be repercussions for those who violated humanity. and that didn't happen. >> decades later, blocks burned to the ground, an over grown lot, it has literally and figuratively yet to happen. >> there's an universal anxiety and fear among black and brown and poor folks. i don't know of a single person
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who thinks of officers as friendly. all of us go, is my registration up-to-date? did i instal signal when i got ? none of us are thinking that good can come from interaction with the police. >> we met him as he was riding his bike down a two-mile stretch known as death alley. larkin said that it's a dangerous place, and more dangerous with the police charged to keep it safe. >> i got arrested. >> are you doing anything wrong? >> no, they just stop you. >> to getting worse? >> it's getting worse. the cops are their own gang, their own organization, and their own mafia, and they do what they want to do. >> still following the race riots, the lapd is it's own force, there's now a focus on community policing, and a
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civilian police commission. but after that, it means little on the streets. >> there's no magic wand, don't get me wrong, i understand it, but i'm talking about sustainable kinds of change. i have seen that. >> . >> what would you like to see? >> i would like to see where there are virtually no incidents of police, shooting of unarmed black men or black people, latinos, whatever. >> during the worst of the l.a. riots, rodney king famously asked, can we all get along? a question that's even more pressing today. >> up next on the program, republican civil war, the knockdown, drag out fight within the party and where they go from here.
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>> donald trump has a new enemy, mitt romney came out swinging against the current frontrunner, calling him a phoney and a fraud. and trump of course answered those insults with a few of his own. >> donald trump, president of the united states. >> that is a terrifying thought for the republican establishment. this is them fighting back. >> donald trump is a phoney, a
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fraud, a business genius, he is not. the absurd third grade theatrics. mr. trump is a conman, a fake. donald trump tells us that he's very very smart. i'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he's very very not smart. >> a very very personal attack from a mitt romney, the last republican to run for president. romney all but daring trump to attack him, to show americans his true temperament. trump took the bait, citing his last endorsement for romney. >> i could have said mitt, drop to your knees, and he would have. >> reporter: this is a concerted effort to stop trump. professionals published this letter, warning that trump would make americans less safe. >> fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct.
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>> i have a great relationship with the blacks. >> reporter: comedians are zeroing in, with videos going viral. >> the name trump was not always his family's name. they had changed it from drunk. imagine how you would feel if you just met a guy named donald trump. a serial liar and a string of broken business ventures. >> reporter: the washington saw him as a joke. and they aren't laughing now. aljazeera, washington. >> bruce haynes is a founder and strategist of the consulting firm, purple strategies. wait a minute, if your firm is purple strategies, you're by definition part of the establishment, aren't you? >> i guess that i'm wearing a coat and tie. i am. >> so what are your thoughts today? >> well, i mean, there's a great divide obviously that's
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going on in the republican party. i thought it was interesting. it was embodied in the speeches and the words that you heard today. mitt romney, improv dent choices, enmity of our enemies. democracy in civil situations. donald trump, choke artist, loser, lightweight. one is cspan, and the other is saturday morning cartoons, but there's a wing of the republican party that is elite, that's educated, that's wealthy and thinks about how to run the country in one way, and then there's another group of people who feels that the republican party who feels they have abandoned on important cultural issues, and donald trump is the vessel for them. >> so i hate the way this sounds, and i'm trying to figure out a better way to ask the question. are they low information voters? are they really paying attention to what he's saying?
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forgive me. are they smart? are they paying attention, or are they just hearing their frustration voice, in a language that they can understand by this candidate. >> i think that they may be less educated but it doesn't make them less smart. but they hear someone more important, and a well branded figure in life with well branled concerns, saying that he can stand up for them. with the loss of manufacturing jobs to china, and the changes that occurred in the culture for the last 20 years, and he's their hero where they feel that the party is failing them. >> are they enamored with the man, the personality, are they as concerned about the party moving forward? are they willing to risk it all for this man, and what he is articulating, and be damned with the party, come hell or high water, whatever happens,
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the pieces fall where they may? >> you talk to the voters, and they don't feel it's a risk. what they see in the republican party leadership is a pattern of losing. if you're opposed to barack obama, you see eight years of his rule and lawing passed like obamacare, and nafta, and china getting into the wto. and with donald trump, you see someone who has success, and he's a winner, and that's what they feel they need right now. >> so what do you see happening moving forward? >> that's a great question. there are two things at play. the short-term and the long-term. the short-term, we could very well see the strategy that some of the other candidates have to hold donald trump down to the threshold. it could come into play, and we could go to the convention, and someone else could be the nominee, and it's a big mess. long-term, if the republican party wants to have something to serve as a governing
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consensus in america, they have to figure out a policy to bring these two groups back together under the banner of the party. >> thank you for that, they're clearly smart people, and they're paying attention. they may not be as educated and using the kind of language that mitt romney is using, but certainly, okay. >> it's very real. >> bruce haynes, appreciate your time. he's founder of consulting firm, purchasing strategies, appreciate you being on the show. a builder in los angeles is building tiny houses, but officials say that the homes are actually creating a different kind of problem. >> more than 10,000 people sleep on the streets, in shelters of cardboard. the city faces one of the most serious homeless crises in the
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country. last year, he said that he wanted to do something for the people who walked by so frequently. >> i wanted them to feel like they had something real. even if it's just temporary, which it is, it's just to give them much-needed shelter now, until permanent housing can be available. >> with crowd funded online donations, summer started building houses, portable, simple, tiny houses. each is 6 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 7 and a half feet tall with an american flag out front and a steel door and two was. he has almost 7,000 of them, each costing $1,200. kevin green started living in one three months ago. >> why do you like this better than a tent. >> two reasons. one, two. >> he shows us how he even has solar power. but the tiny houses movement might not last long.
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citing complaints from the residents, the city started confiscating them two weeks ago. the police said sanitation workers found needles and evidence of drug use during their sweep. >> it causes problems, health and safety problems with the individuals and the neighbors. >> willie lost his tiny house last month. >> what was it like when the police came. >> boom, boom, boom, get up. get up, open the door. >> now back in a tent, he says that he's things are constantly stolen. >> see here, it's where they cut through my tent. >> back to the merry-go-round. his house was not the only one, there used to be several tiny houses on this street. irene mcgee said she prefers a tiny house to the alternative the city offers. >> there's more drugs on the streets. fighting and shooting and cutting, and i'm not with that. i'm about peace, you know?
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i have more peace of mind out here than in one of those shelters. >> but officials say that tiny houses only prolong homelessness. >> it's not a sustainable resource. no plumbing, no electricity, and it's just a box. you can paint it and call it a house, but it's still a box. >> a box. i wish you could wear my shoes for one day, and i bet you wouldn't call it a box any longer. you call it a box, it may be a box to him, but it doesn't help him, or help no one in my situation. everyone needs somewhere to live and to belong, and i felt all of that was mine. >> sommers says that he will keep building. >> what is home to anybody? to somebody that has nothing, it may as well be a castle. >> but for tiny houses to really take off, the city will
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need to get onboard. until then, those who choose to stay out on the streets, they will have to settle for less than a roof over their head. aljazeera, los angeles. >> it was a law passed to protect unborn babies from a mother using illegal drugs while pregnant. but now some women say that they have been unfairly prosecuted. now reports from rainbow city, alabama. >> she wanted to be a mother, but now she has two boys. when she gave birth last year, things went wrong. she took half of a valium, and she fell to the endangerment laws. she gave birth to a perfectly healthy son and two months later, she was arrested at work and taken away in handcuffs. >> i had this overwhelming
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sense of doom and failure, and there was no way that i was going to recover from this. i knew in my heart that i had done nothing wrong, but i knew how the law works. >> meth fet, where they are exposed to labs and chemicals, and the critics say that it has expanded far beyond that. >> since 2016, close to 500 women have been prosecuted under the chemical endangerment laws, but according to this hospital who treats infants with withdrawal symptoms, it's not the right approach. with dependence on painkillers abuse, it's far bigger. >> we're going to have a lot of babies growing up without their mothers, and of course we all know how important a mother's
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love is. and at the same time, criminalizing these women, and making them kneel inferior and bad mothers in that sense, it's going to leave a mark on them forever. >> at the public defender's office, they said that blood tests carried out without a mother's consent could have dire consequences. >> we have a foster situation where people are encouraged to be honest with their caregivers, and you'll have people not getting care, and having really bad outcomes because they're afraid of the punishment that would come to them if they were honest. >> the charges against casey were dropped and she'll continue to fight for those who can't fight for themselves. rainbow city, alabama. >> retired women's soccer star, brandy chas stain, she
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scored the winning penalty kick in the 1999 game, she wants her brain to be used to study the impact of concussions on athletes. it has led to cte, dementia and aggression. one college sports league is trying to prevent the risk of brain trauma, and athletes will no longer be able to tackle during practices. >> reporter: there has been intense debate over long-term player health. in the ivy league, it took the ivy league's football coaches five minutes to unanimously decide that hitting during regular season practices should end completely. >> this would be good for us as coaches, and our programs and players, but nationwide, there are ways to prepare and execute
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the requirements of the game without compromising your players. >> reporter: head trauma has been blamed for player suicides, and the mub, concussion, based on a true story, and it was a cat lift for a $1 billion lawsuit by former players against the nfl. that league allows on average, one full contact practice every week of the season. >> . >> he mentioned at this level, he doesn't tackle anymore. and that resonated with me. >> stevens has banned full contact at dartmouth since 2010, and instead, they practice on motorized tackle dummies that can somewhat simulate the movement of a player. he has gone to ivy league coach
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champion last season. and he said that it convinces the fellow coaches that less hitting didn't have to be less wing. >> it has helped our program. >> an ivy league spokesman said that the new rule last name be until they vote, likely in may or june. >> after decades of coverups, finally a meeting. victims of the priest abuse scandal are acknowledged by the vatican.
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>> an award-winning environmentalist, shot and killed in mer home, received death threats, but kept on fighting. she won the top award in 2014, and david mercer reports. >> she was known throughout central america for her fearless work, defending the environment and indigenous rights. but her unwavering commitment appears to have cost herr life. early on thursday morning, gunmen broke into her home in honduras and shot her to death. she was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in honduras. in 2015, she won the highest international award for grab roots in environmental activism. [ speaking spanish ]
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>> let us wake up, human kind. we're running out of time. our conscience will be shaken because of the self destructive forces of predatory capitalism, racism, and a patriarchal system. >> she was no stranger to intimidation. she and the other members of the group that she cofounded had received death threats for years. many of them arose from her leadership in the fight against the hydro electricity dam a few west of her home. it was due to the protest, but the rights groups reported last month that repression had spiked once again. since a 2019 military coupe, honduras has seen a sharp rise, both in humor rights defenders and indigenous communities. honduras is the deadliest country in the world for
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environmentalists. between 2010 and 2014, more than 100 environmental campaigners were killed in the central american country. and while she had a manner of protection provided to her by international recognition and the support from the american commission for human rights, it appears that it was not enough to protect her life. david mercer, aljazeera. >> victims of abuse by catholic priests were in rome today to meet with cardinal george pell. the meeting comes hours after he testified about warnings for children. >> after giving evidence for the past four days, one of the most powerful cardinals in the catholic church emerged from a meeting, which is decades in the making. >> i just met with about a dozen survivors, support people
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and officials. and i've heard each of their stories and of their suffering. it was hard. an honest and occasionally he emotional meeting. >> reporter: now in charge of the vatican economy, he was a senior priest in his native australian town in the 1970s. when four to five priests abused tens of children. the survivors met with him on tuesday and he said that he knew about the abuses but failed to act. >> we didn't talk about the past. it was very clear with george that we spoke good the future. and what he can do in his position, and what the catholic church can do to help the survivors going forward. >> humility, begging forgiveness from us, doing everything that they can to restore the lives of the victims. more the words, words is what
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we get. >> throughout this evidence, drew criticism, and often scorn for his elusive answers and his apparent lack of empathy for the victims. >> it's a sad story, and it wasn't much interest to me. >> the commission accused him of lying and called his claim that he was unaware of what was going on around him implausible. >> following the evidence, child abuse helpers in australia called for the cardinal to resign, but survivors want to work with him to make sure that the catholic church will do more in the future to protect children from pedophile priests. >> next, voters in new zealand will decide whether to stick with their own flag or start flying a new one.
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>> new zealanders have begun voting today on whether to replace the flag that they have had for more than a century. reporting on the controversial choice. >> brothers in arms, divided by a flag. increasingly the soldiers are used to it on the battlefield. >> that was horrible. but they're miles apart when it comes to deciding if the country is really for a new flag. >> i think that the new flag represents the new
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multicultural new zealand. and it's links to the past, it celebrates our present and bravely looks to the future. >> i don't believe that it's worth making a change now for a decision that we may regret. >> we're still a constitutional monarchy and we should be flying the union jack on our flag. >> the final referendum, 27 million new zealand dollars. in the first vote, voters were asked to choose between five designs to go up against the current 114-year-old flag. they chose this one, the silver flag. historian, dr. caroline daley describes that it has come at the right time. >> governments that change flags tend to do so because of a major event. becoming a republic.
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and south african's flag changing after nelson mandela was released from prison we have not had one of those events, and a lot of people are thinking, why bother? >> the current flag is one of the handful in the world left with the union jack on it. and it's too often confused with the australian one. the australians are also considering a change. the opponents are urging australia to be the first, placing this add in the national newspaper. for those under the flag, it's not such an easy
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>> this year's presidential election has been a battle between the establishment and the outsiders. another war was waged. mitt romney made his feelings known about front-runner donald trump in no uncertain terms. trump answered in kind. >> here is what i know. donald trump is a phoney, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> mitt is a failed candidate. failed horribly david shuster is here with more. >> this is the first time in po
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