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the succession of this political neo fight. i'm ray suarez, and thanks for watching, good night. >> this is aljazeera america, live from new york city, i'm tony harris. trying to stop donald trump. mitt romney's efforts to prevent the republican frontrunner from winning in michigan. rising intentions between the white house and israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu after a canceled trip. ordered to testify against his colleagues. one or more officers accused in the death of freddie gray and celebrating women all around the world.
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and we begin with another round of presidential primaries and caulk uses. four states up for grabs, including one of the biggest prizes on the primary schedule. delegate-rich michigan is holding primaries for both parties, and so is mississippi. republican voters also head to the polls for idaho's primary, and they're caulk using now in hawaii. we have aljazeera senior correspondent, michael shure, and jan than martin is in jackson, mississippi. but we begin right here with david schuster >> reporter: this is a night when donald trump and hillary clinton hope to solidify their lead. it should be a good state for bernie sanders, 70% white, and
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30% african-american vote. and bernie sanders began 25 points down and the question is how much was he able to narrow it? 130 delegates at stake, and the key here, if bernie sanders can keep it close, and if he looses, this gets called, it's a bad night for bernie sanders. hillary clinton is looking to solidify her lead. the other democratic battles in mississippi, the only question is how big of a margin will hillary clinton have in mississippi? another one of the states where there's a large african-american turnout, and bernie sanders has not been able to break through with those democratic voters. here's the overall delegate count. and here's why it's a big problem tonight. hillary clinton is up by almost 200 delegates. just the pledged delegates, and not the super delegates. and this is a difficult margin to bring down at this stage of
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the race. bernie sanders would have to be 45% of the way. so again, this could be a tough night for bernie sanders. and the question is, can he bring this number down at all? or is hillary clinton going to extend it? let's look at the biggest battle ground, the biggest state. the state of mississippi again, 8:00 eastern, and this will be interesting. it's a state that ted cruz thought that he might be able to do well in against donald trump. donald trump had been leading in some of the polls, but like the other republican states, the numbers have been getting tighter. michigan of course, the big prize on the republican side. the polls indicate a big lead for donald trump, but like the other states, they have been tightening, and he has been surging in the state of michigan over the past couple of weeks. the question is, can he claim the mandate of being the donald trump alternative? that's something in a ted cruz wants for himself. two other states tonight,
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idaho, republicans only have a primary there. and this is a state with 30 delegates at stake, and donald trump is doing pretty well, and ted cruz hopes to close that margin, and then caucuses tonight, aloha, hawaii, they will property late tonight. maybe it's just bragging rights to claim that paradise long bels to them. but it's close, donald trump, 320, and ted cruz, 300, and for marco rubio and john kasich, they're trying to deny donald trump the path of is it 37 to win, and told told believes that it's a number that he can close, and that's why he needs rubio and kasich out of the race. think will have bad finishes so cruz can maintain that he is the trump alternative and solidify the trump vote. it should be interesting. >> let's see where we are four or five hours from now.
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david schuster with us, and all eyes are on the eyes of the battle ground of michigan. michael shure is in ann arbor, so michael, going into today's primary, there's a national poll that shows that the republican race is tightening in the election cycle. and fill us in on that, please. >> reporter: if david chute senior wearing an aloha hawaiian shirt now, i can't see him, and i need you to take a picture of that. this is a wall street journal poll, donald trump with 30%, and ted cruz behind at 27%, and then john kasich with 22 and marco rubio with 20. since the last time these people polled, john kasich is up 11 points in that poll. this is not a michigan poll, this is a national poll.
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closing the distance as well. maybe because of what donald trump is backfiring, and not necessarily trump supporters, but a lot of republicans are looking at john kasich as well. it's not necessarily what ted cruz wants to see. a tightening, but not as much >> what about the democratic side there, michael? michigan is an important contest for bernie sanders, and he got beaten badly on super tuesday, but gained a little bit over the weekend. any word on what's hang? >> well, we have seen the polls here in michigan, as david schuster just told us, they have been tightening. bernie sanders has cut into that margin. it was so big, and he has tightened it according to the polls. the last one i saw was 12. but listen to this, tony. i spoke with someone today who
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was very tight with the clinton campaign in michigan. and they have low expectations. they hope that bernie sanders can do well here. you look at hillary clinton for example, if bernie sanders is not going to to do well in the south, and if he can turn it around in michigan and say, we were down by x number of points, and only lost by 6, 7, 8 points in michigan > they're going to turn it around and say that the race is not over, and that's what the sanders people are hoping for. >> michael shure for us, in ann arbor, michigan, and democrats and republicans are both voting in presidential primaries. and aljazeera's jonathan martin is live for us in jackson, mississippi. what kind of a turnout have we been seeing there today? >> it's good to see you as well, tony, and so far a lot of the precincts here in mississippi have been reporting
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a low turnout. when the polls close in about an hour, also worth watching tonight, we'll see if donald trump can continue his sweep of the deep south. on tuesday, he was able to do well in states like georgia, alabama and arkansas, he won but not by a big margin louisiana. so the support is still strong. ted cruz's campaign believes that mississippi's governor, we'll see how the numbers add up, and as david schuster said on the democratic side, it shows that hillary clinton is a sure shot to win mississippi. she has a lot of support. but she has not campaigned big, and neither has bernie sanders. her husband was here as a sugar at. so it looks like she will do well with a strong base of african-american voters, tony. >> and jonathan, there's a new
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federal lawsuit challenging the use of the use of the mississippi state flag, and how did this come about. >> if you look at the mississippi state flag, it's the only state flagg in our country that still has the confederate emblem on it, and you've seen several states and cities rethinking and removing some of the col confederate symbols, but it hasn't happened in mississippi, and the lawsuit is behind it. >> in mississippi, calls to remove the cold front symbol from the state flag are intensifying. on the steps of the capital in jackson on tugs, the community leaders rallied, urging bill bryant and other lawmakers to change the flag. carlos moore filed a federal lawsuit against mississippi and the governor, claiming that the
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flag is discriminatory and racist in nature. >> i have to tell the governor, enough is enough is enough. >> there has been momentum to remove the banners in south carolina's legislature, voting to take down the flag last year, after the shooting of nine black worshipers in charleston. the shooter, dillon roof, posed with a confederate flag. removing the flag has stalled in the legislature. >> its time for its time to grow up. >> people don't understand. >> mark allen, a leader with mississippi sons of confederate say that the flag is not a symbol of racism, but of reconciliation. >> they called it the reconciliation flag because they attempt to reconcile the differences between the old
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south and the new republic and bring them together. and that's what it is. >> as mississippi voters headed to the poll on tuesday, speakers focus on the presidential candidates and their positions on this issue. >> i want you to be mindful of the fact that not one republican candidate has spoken to the flag coming down. >> and tony, a lot of the people who support this flag say that they point to the vote that happened here in mississippi back in 2021. voters overwhelmingly, i should say with 65% of the vote decided that they want to keep this flag. that was in 2021, and many critics would also say that that was 15 years ago, and they felt that if another vote was taken today in 2016, you wouldn't have the support to keep this emblem on the flag today. >> joh jonathan martin, in jack, mississippi. an american college graduate was killed in israel today. he was stabbed by a palestinian
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attackish. at least ten others were hospitalized. the suspect was later killed by the israeli plex. taylor with his home graduate school, the owen school of management was on a school trip when h he was killed and his wie was severely injured in the attack. also today, president obama canceled a meeting this month, it already is more tension between the tense relationship within between the two leaders. >> after tension and ac moan, they said that they had patched things up, and now there's another open breach between the u.s. and the leaders of israeli. they thought they had a deal. prime minister netanyahu would meet with president obama on april 18th in the oval office, and then the surprise. >> our intention was that the prime minister was going to do that, and we learned that he was not going to based on the
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media reports. >> in other words, the white house was caught flat footed. it's a matter that should have been handled privately. >> i think that it's just good mannerrers. >> the white house said that it's not say snub, but few were buying t republicans invited netanyahu to address a joint meeting of congress last march, where he asked them to reject the deal president obama was trying to push with iran. >> it's a vast nuclear program. >> it angered the white house, and net net was in the middle of a tough political campaign, and a meeting may be seen as an endorsement. now a at this point in time for tat slap at the white house. a meeting this month with president obama might interfere with the ongoing u.s. presidential campaign. it comes at the end of a testy relationship between the two leaders.
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epitomized by the oval office meeting, where netanyahu lectured obama on history. >> you can't go back to the 1967 -- >> tuesday, the trip in the latest ongoingest to patch things up. on the table, an agreement for u.s. aid for security, known as the memorandum of understanding. it would mean billions in u.s. military aid over ten years. biden had a message from mr. obama. >> i'm delighted to be here. the president sends his greetings, and we have absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to the security of israel. >> and tony, meanwhile, the violence between the israelis and the palestinians continues. while biden was having the meeting in the city of joppa, an attack by a knife wielding
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palestinian, killing one american tourist. the state will reveal the non-combat death toll of one of its secret programs, drone strikes. this after the news that drone strikes killed more than 150 al-shabaab fighters. >> reporter: yes, the white house said that the assessment to be released in the coming weeks will pride the first public acknowledgment of deaths from a u.s. drone strikes outside of war zones. critics say that it does not go far enough. by one estimate, as many as 5,000 people, both accused terrorists and innocent civilians, have been killed by drone strikes in recent years, but until now, there's no way to know if that number, revealed by a member of congress a few years ago, was accurate. and now the white house is
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promising a full accounting with greater transparency. >> we know that greater transparency is not only the right thing to do, but the counter terrorism action beings and the broad support of our allies. >> reporter: the american civil liberties union has issued a lawsuit against the obama administration, saying that they should not only release the numbers of those killed, but intern memos that supply the legal basis for drone strikes. >> i think that it matters, because what we're talking about here are people outside of recognized battle fields, western the united states is not at war in the same way that we have been at war in iraq and afghanistan. these are places where the united states has not engaged at that level. >> reporter: afterward and weinstein were mistakenly killed in a u.s. drone strike in an al qaeda camp last april, president obama promised to be
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more fort coming about drone strikes, and the protocols that approved them. >> mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes can occur. but one of the things that sets america apart from many other nations, one of the things that makes us exceptional, is our willingness to confront scare and learn if our mistakes. >> reporter: but now, almost a year later, the aclu has more questions than answers, and said that the reality that the u.s. can tart individuals by remote control is something that the world hand really come to terms with. >> i think that the technology is still new, and it's a place where i think our ethical concerns about it, the morality of it hasn't fully taken place. >> one issue that may be resolved when the numbers come out is the proportion of innocents with the drone strikes, to limit the potential
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for civilian casualties, and the cia said that only a few of those kids were non-combatant. but the leaked documents say that the number could be as high as 90%. >> still ahead on the program, the refugee crisis, and europe's new plan to deal with t why some say that it might be illegal. and the case of killing a nine-year-old boy for revenge.
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send refugees back to turkey a breakthrough, but the u.n. said that they didn't break the law. more now. >> reporter: the european union has had plans to deal with the refugee increase before, and they have all failed. this year alone, more than 140,000 people have arrived by sea, and so now the eu leaders have come up with the new proposal that goes much further than anything tried before. for the first time they say those who arrive from turkey will be sent back. it's controversial. already the u.n. refugee agency, the hcr, has expressed concern questioned its legality. >> do you dear that currently the proposal in this current form could be illegal under international law. >> yes, under the convention of human rights, on an agreement that would be tent. to blanket return of any
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foreigners forrabilityry ientryt consistent with european or international law. >> the goal, which was negotiated until the early morning hours from brussels, has come from human rights organizations. >> it's an extraordinary idea much one that might sound good at 1:00 in the morning, but in the light of day, it's arrive with problems. if the eu's global sharing of refugees to make the number of syrian refugees it takes in conditional on the number that are willing to risk their lives in a boat, that's decision making from the heart of a moron. >> eu makers meet again in just over a week's time. and they want clarification by then about the plan. not just potential legal problems, but the eu knows that the world is watching and the pictures of desperate people
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being forcibly moved will be deep controversial. even as hundreds were arriving from greece, more from the island of lesbos. >> one-by-one, they got off the boat and onto the greek island. men, women and children, exhausted but relieved to land on lesbos. they are among 400 refugees from syria, iraq and afghanistan, rescued. >> peace, that's all we seek. war uprooted us from our homes, and all we want is a future for our children. >> by early afternoon, more than 500 refugees have reached lesbos. their journey to greece may be across a short stretch of water, hundreds lost their lives when their boat capsized
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in the age an sea. to try to minute miami gardens the loss of life, the greek boats go out and get the refugees. this movement fill tated by criminal negligence by smugglers is because of no alternatives. >alternatives the refugees are taken, and here on the island they're given temporary accommodation. the greek government is trying to put the refugees in camps like this one, and they are giving them special ferries to take them to athens. >> on the root, its chalk with refugees in a humanitarian drama that follows five years of crisis. >> my message to the world, open the borders and open your
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heart. and open your eyes. and look around you. open your ears, listen to people. >> the eu leaders are taking the solution to the refugee crisis in persuading the pakistan government, it will be a while before the impact is felt here. aljazeera, less bose, greece. >> more violence in tunisia, and libya and the border. investigating the assaults in a town where they were attacked in a nearby village. nearly 60 people have been killed in the area in the past two days. >> reporter: in the village of ginle, family and friends are in mourning. baruch was killed in monday's attack. she was 15 years old. >> reporter: she told me, i will send you and mother to
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mecca. i will become a doctor so i can afford it, but now she died and she's a martyr, and god willing, we'll be in heaven, thanks to her. >> as we prepare to lev, there's gunfire in the distance, and it gets closer. we take cover inside. villagers are here to pay their respects. and now they fear more people will be killed if the government returns. >> we have been told to take cover and stay inside. the army has been searching for two armed fighters roaming this neighborhood at the moment. clearly this operation isn't over yet. people here blame isil for the insecurity. and they're also angry at the tunisian government for closing the border with libya. >> they have told us that we can no longer smuggle and they won't again the area. so what? do you want us to die? >> the priority for the libyan
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army is to find the attackers searching every home on the ground with help from the air. army commanders think that they might be helping them, finding them. and training them to join groups such as isil. the challenge for the government and police now is to track men returning to tunisia. >> 36 fighters have been killed and several others arrested. we have some information, but there are foreigners percentage for this attack. we have gathered important information from the terrorists. >> visitors to gin he will are living in fear. until now, fighting in libya was something that they watched
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michigan, mississippi, and on the republican side, there's a primary in idaho and a gop caucus in hawaii. aljazeera's david schuster is here, and what should we be looking for tonight? >> on the republican side, donald trump showed again that he can win in the south and the industrial midwest. and he's trying to create distance between himself and ted cruz. and perhaps for marco rubio and john kasich, this could be a bad night for them. those candidates want to argue that there's a trump alternative. on the democratic side, there's a question of whether bernie sanders can do well in the state that we thought was tailor-made for him, michigan. a lot of jobs have been hollowed out and it's a state rett stive to bernie sanders' economic message, and a lot of young college students. and so look for bernie sanders to come back, or hillary clinton is able to make the argument that it's all but impossible for bernie sanders. >> trump voters at this point,
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trying to figure them out still at this point. and there was an exit poll that suggested that six of ten michigan voters who support donald trump are in favor of keeping muslims out of country for now, the temporary ban that he's talking about. who are these voters? have they taken the thinking caps off? because clearly when donald trump says we're going to build a wall on the southern border, mexico is going to pay, that's not going to happen. >> they have seen their jobs shipped overseas and they feel that the political system has been rig bid both parties helping corporations, and by the way, they also blame immigration for some of the economic woahs, and the loss of american jobs, so it's all tied together. as far as muslims, again, there's a fear that america is
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under siege economically, and in terms of national security. and so people are very fearful and angry at the government. >> but it's a two participator, right? can you have all. frustrations and it's what you do about that. are you voting for someone that you really believe can change those dynamics or to voice your frustration? >> some of these voters, tony, want a trade war with mexico and china. and donald trump was saying in the 1990s that nafta and gap would causing the america to be hollowed out and donald trump is saying i'm going to impose a tariff on china and mexico because we don't have free trade the other way. he's arguing that the republicans and democrats don't believe really in free trade. and in order for the manufacturing jobs to come back, the playing field has to be leveled. so taking american manufacturing out of the
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country or to try to bring in products and export and bring them into the united states. >> always good to talk to you, david, the water crisis in flint, michigan, have the democratic candidates been paying attention? >> reporter: presidential contenders, at least the democrats, have discovered flint. >> what happened in flint is is immoral. >> as they vie against one another, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are united on the need to remembrance cue this former auto town, now known around the world for its lead tabled water. >> it's my hope that people around the world will look at flint and say never again. >> reporter: he campaigned here and held a debate here, and clinton even set her top political adviser. >> frus separating? >> if there's anything that should move faster, democrats and republicans, it's really about flint.
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>> reporter: flint residents appreciate the attention. >> it put a lot of pressure on washington d.c. to do something for flint. >> reporter: but over the last two years, since they switched the water source to save money, the flint residents are still bathing in water tainted with lead. they line up at five fire stations to get their daily drinking water. >> both of my kids tested positive for high levels of lead. and i'm just wondering after this campaign, what will mr. bernie do to help the city of flint? in five, ten years, what's going to happen to my kids? >> the flint residents are glad that politicians are finally paying attention to the problems that started when they switched their water source to the corrosive waters of the flint river, but to fix all of the pipes would be cost $1.5 billion. and so far, nobody is offering
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that. the anti-corrosion democrats that flint's water department should have been using alling along, it will vastly improve the water quality. >> the fact is that the system, through vastly improving the water chemistry, can be restored to the situation where the safe water is being delivered. will that by itself restore confidence? probably not. >> even if flint residents did have confidence if their government, the deteriorating pipes have been neglected for decades, so they look to washington and the presidential contenders. now they're debating sending $200 million, a drop-in flint's tainted bucket. aljazeera, flint, michigan. >> okay, caitlin, a senior editorial writer with the detroit news, and she joins us from an arbor. i need to hear something different from you, something that i haven't heard to this
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point. so let's work it out here. so the editorial in the paper, in the detroit news that endorses governor kasich reads trump, trump has only the most shallow grasp of how policy making works, and of the consequences of getting it wrong. so here's my question, caitlin, why have 3 million voters so far, gone for a man who has -- and i'm quoting again here from the editorial, have only the most shallow grasp of how policy making works? >> it's the question everyone is asking, and we'll see what happens in michigan. but we have tapped into the anger and everyone is talking about the rift between the establishment and what trump represents. here in michigan, we have had ideas and policies and politics are very real here.
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michigan voters have been suffering for the past decade. they have seen their jobs leave and can the economy and the infrastructure crumbling. i think that they're fed up and looking for someone on the outside. we wanted to point out that the ramifications for what trump is proposing, we'll have long-term negative affects that maybe in the short-term we'll save jobs, but in the long-term, it's going to hurt michigan's economy. michigan's trade with china specifically, and trump wants to impose a 45% tariff on that country. so long-term. >> so caitlin, in a feels like a thoughtful approach taken to analyzing the race, and the question is, it doesn't seem to be resonating to a lot of trump voters, but i'm wondering if trump voters have, in essence, because they're so frustrated,
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taken off their critical thinking hat. are they low information voters, or are they just so frustrated, do they believe that donald trump can do some of the things that he says he can do? building a wall on the border of mexico on mexico's dime? >> i think in a lot of cases, the critical thinking cap has gone out the window, but you have very rational and committed conservatives that are lining up behind trump. we had the gop debate in detroit. and there were plenty of trump supporters, people that you would not necessarily think to support him. but they have seen the momentum that he has, and they're getting in line to defeat hillary clinton at this point. that's the other part, who can the best person to defeat clinton and if we have that momentum behind trump, i guess that we'll get behind him. >> why is your paper's editorial board supporting
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governor kasich? >> we think that he has a strong record, and he has done a really great job in ohio and eliminated their deficit. and he has raised household incomes and has a great relationship with the state. and in congress, he has a great record on balancing the budget. he spent a lot of time with us, explaining his positions, and we know that michigan is critical for him. of the candidates right now, a governor that has that executive experience, and to deal with much of what a president will deal with. >> in flint, you eluded to it a minute ago x. what's likely to impact the debates in michigan on today's vote? >> well, i think that michigan is in a lot of ways ground zero for a lot -- there it is in each party. and a lot of the issues that people are confronting.
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nowhere has government failed more than flint. and nowhere are people more angry than in flint right now so, that's a huge part of it. especially for the democrats, and you eluded to it earlier. hillary clinton has certainly taken a very strong interest in flint. and how that will go for her, we don't know, but she spent a lot of time on the ground. i think that it's a little disingenuous, and i don't think that she was so interested. and it's opportunistic in my opinion, but she and sanders have spent time there, and i think that the flint residents are happy to have the coverage, but ultimately, i don't know that more government policies are what they're looking for when they have faced such huge government failure at all levels. >> caitlin, joining frus ann arbor, kale a. good to see you. democratic presidential candidate, hillary clinton and first lady michelle obama, will
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attend nancy reagan's funeral on friday, as well as former first lady, laura bush. nancy reagan's request was to be laid to rest as physically close to her husband. tens of thousands are expected to attended public viewing on tuesday and wednesday. up next, the ruling in the freddie gray case, how it could shape the trials of six more police officers.
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>> a baltimore police officer, testified in trial by colleagues, the decision came from maryland's highest court today. and aljazeera's jonathan terrett has more. how we got to this point. >> this is a great story, and i'm glad that we were able to get it out there. just a history lesson, freddie gray dies last year, and the hometown erupts, not the worst we have seen in the united states, but very very bad. six officer indictments follow. now then, in november, the trial of one of those officers, william porter, gets underway, and they have a hung jury, and they can't decide if he is guilty or not, but he passes the blame for freddie gray's death over to the driver. william porter said this is not fair, our client has to be a
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witness in all of these five trials. they go to the marylander is court. and the court of appeals, and there's nothing higher, and they ask if the officer can be forced by the judge to be a witness, and that's what we got to today. >> so what asking today's ruling mean to officer porter? >> all of us watching this closely were surprised at the speed at which the court came and handed its evidence down. they only heard the evidence on thursday, and here they are with the decision, so it's remarkably quick for the appeals court. but the court ruled that porter must testify in all five defendant's cases, so basically they're backing the probation. what are they concerned about? that it was infringing his fifth amendment rights, but that's boring. its much more interesting to see what's really going on in their mind. which is that he has done a deal with the state of maryland
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for imunit against prosecution for anything that he says against these five in the trial. but he has not done a deal in effect. so though he has done a deal, he can be prosecuted down the road federally, and we know that the prosecution would accusofbeing a liar, and they'rg to say you're a liish, and he's going to deny t but in this age of social media, that would be everywhere, and his team fears that because of that, he won't get a fair trial. when he is retried with the five others in the summer. >> so the timing of this, and the question is, what happens next. >> it's tough to say, and the reason, all of attorneys in this case are under a gag order, so they can't speak publicly about it. they're certainly not speaking to me publicly about it. it could go in theory all the way to the supreme court of the united states and washington d.c., and that could be delays, and the outcome is uncertain,
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they might back the court and we don't know. but assuming there's no appeal, i think what's going to happen, the trials will be shifted. actually form, brian rice, a lieutenant with the force, was due to have his trial start. and it won't start now, they will have to reschedule it, along with the others but if it goes ahead, because of the outcome, today is a major victory for maryland, the prosecutor. >> john, thank you very much. now to chicago, the new details in the alleged gang-related killing of a nine-year-old boy. teshawnly's killing last december. >> reporter: tony, the police have long suspected that this nine-year-old boy was lured from a park playground and executed. and now a suspect and a gruesome story t to tell.
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of all of chicago's most recent murders, nothing was touched the city like the death of 9-year-old teshawn lee. 22-year-old boon dody was charged with firing the shots. the prosecutor would reveal how the investigators turned up the details, but the media said that the jail house informant secretly recorded the suspect while he was being held on an unrelated charge. >> he stated that his original plan was to torture this child by kidnapping and cutting off his fingers and his ears. >> the police say that the nine-year-old boy's murder was the latest in a string of revenge shootings in a gang war. >> he was going to kill grandmas, mothers and children. and they began going out daily, daily, armed with guns, looking to retaliate. >> reporter: the police say
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that boon dody set his sights on stokes, father of teshawn lee. >> he then asked the child if he wanted to go to the store. and when teshawn said he didn't have fly money, he said that he would buy him whatever he wanted. >> he then took teshawn into the alley and shot him point-blank. and dody above thed. >> and i quote seeing that bitch go in his head and shorty couldn't take it no more." >> but why on would you do that to a child? he's completely innocent. >> reporter: in the neighborhood where teshawn is killed, there's disbelief. >> the unnecessary measures that they're using, they're torturing our own people. >> reporter: and after weeks of protests over police shootings, some people here say
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that it's time to redirect that anger. >> as far as us having all of these rallies about police killing our kids, we need to have rallies about we killing each other. >> boon dody and the other two suspects are also accused of murdering another innocent victim, a woman killed just weeks before teshawn lee was. >> and up next on the program, still searching how malaysians marked the disappearance of mh370. find fantasy shows.
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>> malaysian dost has released a report into the disappearance of the malaysian airlines flight mh370. it comes on the anniversary of the plane's disappearance. >> reporter: the second anniversary of the disappearance of flight 346789a317 was marked in malaysia in a low-key manner, and they remembered all 239 people onboard the plane when it disappeared. a team of international investigators has also issued an interim report. according to the international civil aviation organization, an interim report has to be issued on each anniversary of the accident until the film report is issued. so this is the second interim report. and unfortunately, it doesn't disclose any new information, it's already in the public
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domain, the prime minister of malaysia issued a statement on tuesday, saying that the officials are doing all they can to find the plane, and described it as the biggest civil aviation mystery in history. now, two broad encouraging pieces of evidence have been found. two pieces of possibly plane debris were found, one on island and one on mozambik. and the investigators are trying to determine if they indeed did come from the missing mh370. the investigators expect the search operation, which is ongoing innocent southern indian ocean to come to fruition some time in july of this year, and at that point, three countries, china, australia and malaysia, will make a decision on whether or not to continue the search operation. >> it is international women's
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day and that's designed to empower young girls and women and fight for equality across the globe. women everywhere are using the date to focus on the progress made. but still on the hurdles ahead. ban ki-moon marked the occasion. >> every girl and woman deserves full human rights. when we have equality, our world will have sustainable peace, and parenting and human rights for all. >> u.n. officials around the world are calling on people to step it up with more resources and political action. they hope to accomplish gender equality by 2030. 30 years ago, little feather was sent to represent marlen brando's academy award. and she tells her story to
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aljazeera. >> the winner is, marlen brando in the godfather. >> i'm the first woman of color, first native american indian woman to ever utilize the academy awards as a platform to make a political statement on behalf of marlen brando and also on behalf of native american indian people. >> accepting the award for marlon brando and the god feather, miss sacheen littlefeather. >> i'm a native american womb, i'm an activist and educator and an elder. >> i was given 60 seconds or less to make that presentation, or i would have been arrested and put in handcuffs.
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and john wayne was on the side, backstage, and he had to be held back by six security men from coming onstage and assaulting me and removing me off the stage that night. because he was so enraged by what i had to say. so there was a lot of pressure on me that night. a lot of things going on that people were not aware. >> he very regretfully continue accept this very generous award. and the reasons for this being, the treatment of american indians today by the film industry -- excuse me -- [ applause ] [ booing ] >> i had to take a lot of beating for that, if you will,
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in the press. a lot of malicious gossip that followed that. but what i heard from the widow of martin luther king, correta king, that i had done the right thing. when i heard that from caesar, congratulating me, when i heard back from these two people and other native american indian leaders, i knew that i had done the right
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.>> we begin with another round of presidential primaries and cocaine cusses, four states up for grabs tonight. the primary spot is on michigan. it has one of the highest delegate counts in the country, mississippi and michigan holding primaries for both parties. the polls have just closed in michigan, two states a big test for donald trump trump tonight. he was leading in the polls but will he pull it out. idaho has a republican primary. hawaii holds a gop caucus tonight. let's get started with david shooter. >> as you mentioned with the polls closing mississippi we expect to make a call in the next minute or two. hillary clinton will be the winner of the democratic
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