adrian looks him like a zombie.t tell the cop that. >> think about them kids crying all day and night in your ear. your mother-in-law nagging at you. don't try to sugar coat it. show me how hard you threw him on the bed. >> is that how you did it? >> once you found the buttons you need to push, i'm going to arrest your wife, separate your children. i'm going to take care of you if you tell a story that satisfies me. now you've broken him. you tell him, i want you to stand up and reenact this. i'll reenact it. why? because you now control them. false confession is probably the second leading cause of miscarriages of justice. a big part of that is because juries don't understand why an innocent person might confess. this kind of information can help a jury get to a just conclusion. (wind noise) (road noise) what's happening here... is not normal, it's extraordinary. 291 people, 350 tons, 186 miles per hour... you're not sure what's on the other side to that time after you land. but momentum pushes you forward. you are

much harder to erase was the impact. >> for me, a long time, adrian would not leave the house. >> adrian still gets nervous going beyond his backyard. >> it made me feel fear. >> how do you think the school should have handled that situation? >> they should have called my mom. they should have just cleaned it up and we should have just cleaned it up and just get on with the school day. >> you think you could have learned your lesson without the police being there? >> yes. >> adrian had to nervously wait nearly four months before learning whether he would also face criminal charges. after finally get ago meeting with the juvenile probation officer, adrian and his family was told the case was closed and would not be given to the district attorney. his arrest remains on his criminal record and could stay there even as an adult. >> there are so many questions related to this, especially how this can happen without the parent being present with the child. but i guess what i really want to know is how the bay area schools compare in terms of how many times these citations or these referrals to

his own father pulled him off on the sidelines and said 'adrian, are you ok?' didn't even recognize him. he was still ready to go back in and play. >> were the coaches going to put you back in the game? >> mm-hm, they were going to put me back in the game and my dad had to come from the bleachers they say and tell them not to put me back in the game. >> that's how impaired he was. and that happened a few too many times. >> when arrington played, the ncaa had no specific "return to play" rule requiring schools to keep players with concussions on the sidelines. >> it takes at least 3-4 hours it's said, for the symptoms of a concussion to heal, and often times much more than that. the interesting thing about that is last time i checked a football game is 3-4 hours. so what that alone means, is that there are really no circumstances that someone who has sustained a concussion can ever go back during a game. >> did eastern illinois had a protocol or requirements in place? >> it couldn't have been a protocol if i get a concussion in the game, and you put me right bac

adrian is autistic. >> uh-oh. the other chickens are like a-ha. >> and his mother aida crosby says he has trouble grasping certain concepts. >> the ability to understand rules, regulations, expectations, social behavior, especially in the case of adrian as it is with many you a tuftics they do not understand that. >> reporter: two years ago adrian was at a school bret harte middle when he used a small rock to etch the letters adrx, the abbreviation how he often skind his names on the school assignment. the letters measured six inches tall but believed they were a big enough reason to involve campus police. adrian was arrested at 13. >> i thought maybe someone would look at it and say, oh, look, a legend or look, a legend, that this is so cool, a legend was at this school. >> you thought leaving your initials would give you a legacy. >> yes. >> i thought i did something awesome but then they called me into the office and said, hey, you did something wrong and i think we have to call the cops on you now. >> how did

and adrian peterson, suspended for a year last year. he is back. mvp years ago. and he hasn't taken a football hit in a year. how will he be? >> trent: i have no doubt that he is going to be a fire breather. he is going to light any field he steps on on fire. more importantly, i had puts a fire in his teammates, his coaches. heck, the whole state of minnesota has fire in their eyes waiting for adrian peterson to hit the field. this guy has not taken a live hit in a year. it's been thought through practice. he didn't play in the preseason. my caution is this. the first time he takes that hit, the ball is trying to get ripped away from him, and he is trying to get back in the 2013 mode as quick as possible. >> chris: we wonder, and lindsey czarniak is working with us. and lindsey, good evening to you. agrdrian has an idea how it's going go tonight. >> lindsey: that is right. he says perspective. he said every game is just a game. but he knew he would have to battle emotions tonight. and he told me he had moments that were emotional. one, he ran out of the tunnel. n

here is joe. >> adrian, thank you.night for poland's football fans their team will be look is for a historic winning double over world champions germany on friday. poland sit top of group-d in qualifying for the european championships going in to the match in frankfurt. last time the two sides met was in warsaw when poland won 2-0. another victory for the polls later would take them to the brink of qualifying for the finals next. >> to be honest our team has changed a lot. not only looking at the match against germ if i but throughout all the qualifiers in the latest games, i can given us a lot of faith in our ona bills and skills, every one of us believes that the squad is able to achieve success and achieve a fitting result which will help us in the next phase of moving towards the european championships. >> germany, of course, looking for revenge against poland in what has become a crucial rematch to get their euro 2016 campaign back on course, with four games remaining germany sit a point behind poland in group-d w

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. >> adrian crosby is her son. two years ago, he used a rock to scribble his initials on to a school sidewalk. he is autistic and thought if other students recognized his name on the ground, they would like him more. >> they said he was doing something in probate but i just wanted to be a legend. >> the crime is vandalism. >> this school resource officer handed him a juvenile citation which put an arrest on his criminal record. >> they made me feel fear. they made me feel like i was getting betrayed by the school. >> the u.s. department of education requires every school district in the country to keep track of how often students are referred to law enforcement. we soared through the most recent data. thousands of pages worth. and discovered that one bay area school district was among the top in the nation for how often it called the police on students. out of more than 16,000 school districts, eastside union high school district in san jose ranked 14th. it referred students to police 1,745 times in the 2011-2012 s

i'm adrian finegan. the toddler whose picture has become the symbol of refugee suffering, is buried alongside his brother and mother in which the city in which they fled. 22 emiratey soldiers are kid. it's the greatest single loss of

where did this take place, adrian? >> in the a city in buenos ares. he used to be, well he used to deliver mass at the church. >> watching arrival of the pope at united nations inside of the building, reading from "the new york times" here, it will be the largest gathering of presidents and prime ministers ever at the united nations. some of them will assemble here under one roof for the first time in years. their job will be to wrestle with global crises they stubbornly disagree on. that's true. day in and day out. what do we know about the pope's message today? >> i'm sure it will have to do continue on his message to congress. the golden rule. treat others as you would want to be treated. the dignity of the individual person and we have obligation towards one another. >> do you think he will do the address in spanish? we heard him address in english a few times. >> i would think this address would probably would be in in spanish. >> this is the first time a pope will address a large gatheringof world leaders conned -- according to ban ki-moon. befo

tom: are we clearing markets, adrian? adrian: we are not clearing markets.ng is happening to the nature of capitalism. some of the permanent things we believed in, like companies being solid things that employed lots of people and have solid assets, they are becoming virtual and nebulous. they are changing the world with a tiny staff of people. employees, 250,000 people. now the company changes the world, like google, with 50,000 people. tom: francine? francine: i love your single best chart of the day. tom: francine, you love the single best chart because yours truly is going to be the only one around to clip the coupons. francine: i will take the compliment. thedo you price and model u.k. referendum, right? john, i am sitting in london and i have very smart people saying the u.k. will never leave the eu. then i have smart people on the show loving the eu. to factor in the fact that people are very angry and concerned about the direction of the economy, very confused about the direction of the economy. up until recently, we had the partytee of the labour po

adrian crosby is her 15-year-old son. two years ago he used a rock to scribble his initials onto a school sidewalk. adrian is autistic and thought if other students recognized his name on the ground they'd like him more. >> they thought i was doing something in public, but i just wanted to be a legend, you know. >> the crime is vandalism. >> reporter: this school resource officer handed adrian a juvenile citation which put an arrest on his criminal record. >> they made me feel fear. they made me feel like i was getting betrayed by the school. >> reporter: the u.s. department of education requires every school district in the country to keep track of how often students are referred to law enforcement. we sorted through the most recent data. thousands of pages worth. and discovered that one bay area school district was among the top in the nation for how often it called the police on its students. out of more than 16,000 school districts east side union high school district in san jose ranked 14th. it referred students to p

adrian? >> we've seen many still photographs of conditions inside that train, which are pretty horrific. i mean, the refugees can't stay there for much longer, can they? >> well, no. that's the horror of the situation really encapsulated, because everybody i spoke with on that train, many of them mothers, some of them fathers, told us that the children on that train were suffering. and yet they were committed to staying on that train, because they felt if they left they would be taken to a refugee camp here. i can tell you that many rights groups in the last few days have said repeatedly that they believe that hungarian camps for refugees really have abominable conditions. that's something that these refugees are aware of. they've been asking throughout the day, look, if the government here doesn't want us here, why don't they let us go to austria, get out of hungary, but at this point a train is still stopped on the tracks. the refugees still seem to be here. the situation seems to be growin

let's first go to adrian brown, live in beijing. now, adrian, xi jinping says he wants to reduce the people's liberation army about 300,000. what is behind the decision? >> well, xi jinping appeared today not as the president of chi china or the secretary of the communist party. today china sent a message to the world - we were on the winning side in the war against japan 70 years ago, and we'd be on the winning side again should that country or any other attack us because of this vast military arsenal that we have. president xi jinping, as you pointed out, announced a 15% cut in the size of his armed forces. analysts say one of the reasons for this is that he wants to have a modern army, a fit ir military, and focus more on the navy and the air force. that has implications for disputes in the south china and east china sea. let's listen to what the president said a short time ago. >> translation: we will make sure that we can build a new international relationship based on mutual respect, development and peace. i hereby announce th

i'm adrian finnegan. in the next 60 minutes, afghan security forces under heavy attack as they try to retake a city from the taliban. >>> the u.n.'s chief calls for an end to the fighting in yemen after reporting that more than 100 people were killed in a strike on a wedding party. >>> p pretending to be syrian t get asylum. germany says thousands are doing just that, but it is cracking down. >> sanctuary under the sea. new zealand unveils a massive marine reserve that's twice of country's size. >>> hello. we begin in afghanistan where security forces are struggling to retake the northern city of kundas from taliban fighters. they took control of the city on monday and broke hundreds of prisoners out of jail, many of them their own fighters. let's go live on the front lines with afghan security forces. east just south of kundus. what's the latest on this operation to retake kundus? >> reporter: hundreds of afghan security forces with hundreds of are going towards kunduz. r there's ied ez, roadblocks, so f

paola, lapr como se declarara adrian gonzalez....unta, y sabremos la respuesta esta manana a las ocho y treinta.... paola on plasma siete semanas despues del asesinato de la nina maddy middleton, de ocho anos de edad, las emociones, siguen igual de vivas para la comunidad, y por supuesto para su padre desgarrado por este crimen sin razon... take vo sin embargo, el padre de la nina maddy middleton quiere que hoy la comunidad piense en ella y no en el joven acusado de quitarle la vida... hoy adrian gonzalez, de quince anos, vuelve a la corte para emitir su declaracion oficial ante los cargos de homicidio, secuestro y asalto sexual en la muerte de su vecina a quien la policia dice engano para que ingresara a su apartamento.... desde el hallazgo de su cuerpo en un basurero del complejo el pasado 26 de julio, la comunidad de santcruz en un masivo memorial publico para apoyar a la familia de maddy... su padre michael hablo por primera vez con la prensa este fin de semana, dijo que el proceso ha sido muy duro, que perdio a su angel y que te

. ♪ hello welcome to a news hour from al jazeera in doha, i'm adrian and top stories houthi rebels release hostages with u.n. backed talks to try to end this in yemen with the neighbor. victory for alexis tsipras as they face more belt tightening, israel's prime minister flows to moscow to talk about the role in syria's war. >> and the emmy goes to. >> reporter: not called t.v.'s biggest night for nothing and we will look at last night's emmy awards. ♪ a man negotiated the release of six hostages held by houthi rebels and flown where u.n.-backed talks are being held to try to end the conflict and houthis say they are planning a mass rally in sanaa to celebrate the first capture in the capitol and we report. >> reporter: caught in the cross fire, civilians seek safe shelters in the central city of thai where fighting has been over the last few days and groups backed by coalition forces on the offensive but the progress is slow. >> translator: the terrain is not helpful at all, the houthis have minded most of the fields in this area so we are cautious and yemen's new army has not deployed al

hello this is al jazeera, live from doha, i'm adrian finighan. still ahead, restore the government or face sanctions. in burkina faso. japan moves special troop restrictions into law. >> i'm lucia newman. >> we begin with the latest refugee crisis in europe. thousands of refugees are being moved on to from country to country where there's no sign of political solution to the crisis. croatia has reached saturation point it says and can't take any more people in. it's now starting to bus people to hungary. hungarian officials are furious at the move. meanwhile, slovenian police use pepper spray, hundreds of people are chanting for border to be open. let's go to the croatia slovenia border. lawrence lee is there. lawrence, the chaos and confusion continues, people moving from border to border. an apparent discontact between what officials are saying and how police are treating people arriving on that border. >> that's absolutely right, adrian. let me just tell you where i am, i'm in a bit of no man's land, croatia and slo slovenia and overnight, the

this is al jazeera, i'm adrian finighan. who will grant the refugees entry? russia's involvement in syria's war. >> and japan beat two time winner sowrveg in rugby. s hungary, slovenia and croatia are at loggerheads. why croatia has become the latessest refugee bottleneck. thousands have had to cross there from serbia because the route they intended to take through hungary has been blocked by a razor wire fence. to neighboring slovenia. headed to germany where they believe they'll have more of a chance of granted asylum. al jazeera's lawrence lee is there. lawrence what's the situation on that border now? is it as chaotic as it was when we last spoke 24 hours ago? >> reporter: yes, i think it did, it rained heavily, adrian and there's nothing like it for a number of people. it's been a dismal night for many, many people. what happened was the slovenians separated the men and the women out, and it's almost entirely men here. but the thing that's most striking is the appalling lack of organization on any level from the croatian side. you would assume perhaps, e

hello, this is al jazeera live from doha i'm adrian finighan. still ahead, left in lega in lis countries argue who will let refugees in. >>> and rugby world cup history. as japan beats south africa. >>> it has been just nine months since the left wing syriza party swept to victory in greas greeca platform to stop austerity. a staff photo was called after syriza lost its parliamentary majority in august. the party of the leader alexis tsipras plummeted. , after syriza had promised to oafoppose austerity measures. let's go live to greece's second national city, thessaloniki. hoda abdel hamid is there. >> even just two months ago when the greeks went to vote in the referendum they voted no to a third bailout program. they said it was about greece's dignity and then when the prime minister had to accept that bailout, then that dignity was scorned. so now they're coming back to the ballot. lots of people i spoke to said we don't know who we're going to vote, doesn't really matter, even that different ie image tht alexis tsipras was giving, is he real

adrian gonzalez is tried as an adult and faces a life sentence if convicted. outside the courthouse maddy middleton's father organized a rally. >> i have forgiven him. i don't -- you know, i don't have any il-will and, you know, things will work out. >> investigators say adrian gonzalez used ice cream to lure to girl into the apartment. >>> a former attorney and harvard grad facing chargesane kidnapping case -- charges in a kidnapping case pleaded not. matthew muller is accused of kidnapping denise huskins. police announced the kidnapping was a hoax but retracked that claim. an indictment is expected within two weeks. >>> lawsuit filed by parents over the state's common core testing. ktvu's keba arnold with why parents in southern california say they were not informed of their rights about the assessment. >> reporter: parents in los angeles county claim they were not told they had the right to opt out. the group filed a lawsuit against the district saying the letter excluted information on dechaining dash excluded information -- excluded information on excludi

adrian? >> mohamed many things in the croatia capitol.sia security service says around 2 1/2 thousand russian nationals are fighting alongside the islamic state of iraq and levante and iraq and syria and followed a russian military build up inside syria which the kremlin says is to take on i.s.i.l. but they believe it's more about keeping assad in power and peter who are these russian nationals who are fighting with i.s.i.l.? >> 2500, a large number of volunteers but you really shouldn't be surprised. the area around -- in the northern caucus is proving a fertile recruiting ground and they all have radical muslim communities. in pakistan for instance, in june, they even came out, a group of militants came out and publically swore their allegiance to the i.s.i.l. commander and shouldn't be a surprise in that and chesna is keeping a lid on it. >> how does this link into russia's military build up in seer yeah -- syria and assistance it's giving to the assad regime? >> it's obviously of great concern. president putin only a few days ago said

putin doesn't care what you or i or adrian thinks of his speech.ng to create this narrative about how the united states expanded nato and caused all of this turmoil when, of course, there was no discussion of expansion of nato towards ukraine at the time. i was still in the government at the time. and the second theme of his speech was how he export revolution which of course we also weren't doing in ukraine or syria. that's what he wants the rest of the world to think. president obama was speaking to the rest of the world but also to the american people about his policy towards russia. and so in that regard, they were not talking to each other, they were talking about two different audiences. >> it's important to note that president obama actually spent more time in his speech speaking agent ukraine than president putin did. president putin spent about a minute of 30-minute speech. he's trying to change the topic. i think he's aware he's in a bit of a quagmire inside ukraine and looking to find a new grand project not only to insight the internati

adrian beltre. rbi single to left. the rangers up 2-0 after one. they would not slow down today. knocks in a pair. the 8-1 winner. colin kaepernick so far is not going to be mistaken for tom brady and aaron rodgers. however, many people they have seen major improvement. they have created some unintentional controversy when

we asked adrian gonzalez's defense attorney if she plans to file for a change of venue ba she refused to answer. reporting from santa cruz, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> traffic is flowing normally right now on a busy east bay freeway after it was shut down this morning after a deadly chain reaction crash. it happened at about 4:40 a.m. on southbound interstate 680 just south of bollinger canyon road in san ramon. the chp says that a car hit a big rig, then spun out in the middle of the freeway. a motorcycle then slammed into the car. the rider was thrown from the motorcycle and died at the scene. no one else was hurt. the truck hit the center divide and caught fire. two other vehicles crashed trying to avoid the wreck. only one lane was open during the investigation. all lanes will reopen just before 9:00 a.m. >>> now to the valley fire. fire officials raised the numbers of destroyed to 162. that brings the total to 1,000. the fire has burned through almost 76,000 acres and this morning it was 70% contained. as ktvu's alex savidge reports, fire officials say the valley

>> reporter: adrian as you mentioned we have also been told that at least 5,000 refugees crossed from hungary -- wrather from serbia in to croatia in the past 24 hours, now we are here at the scene of where the clashes happened yesterday when refugees tried to get no hungary were met with batons and tear gas and water cap youngs from the hungarian side. today here it is far calmer. there are less people. although there are new arrivals, there are refugees that have come here that have walked here now wondering what they are they will do. they are waiting to hear something from either the u.n. or aid workers here orse or sern officials. the border has been more reinforced the there are not just hungarians there is more razor wire as you approach that gate that the people were getting through yesterday. there are also serbian police that are manning that gate not letting refugees get too close. so the mood here more calm, but still a lot of confusion. now yesterday when those scuffles happened. when the clashes hand we were here, we saw it, when people were met with tear gas, when they

. ♪ welcome to a news hour from al jazeera from the headquarters in doha and i'm adrian and coming up the next 60 minutes russia will continue to send weapons to the syrian army as a way to help the fight against i.s.i.l. fear on hungary's border as fleeing syrian refugees plea for help. a call for peaceful protests in venezuela after opposition leader lopez is jailed for inciting deadly rallies. >> there are no homeless, there are no poor people. everyone is equal. >> reporter: with love of one of the south pacific last traditional tribes is in the spotlight at the venice film festival. ♪ russia says it will continue to provide weapons and said to area syria to help fight islamic levante and confirm moscow was providing support for the assad regime and international community voiced concern about russia's possible military build up and we have more on the story and peter sharp is live from moscow and what did mr. sergei fedorov say, peter? >> he said they will continue to supply arms to damascus and made that pretty clear and what he is saying is these arms are to be used to maintain

very soon her neighbor, 15-year- old adrian gonzalez was arrested. that teenager, that boy really is in court and he's facing charges as an adult. >> that's right. he made an appearance just a short time ago. jeanine de la vega joins us to tell us what happened inside that courtroom. >> reporter: 15-year-old adrian gonzalez was arraigned in the last 30 minutes. he entered a plea of not guilty. that's exactly what the prosecutor expected him to do. he denied all allegations. there were family and friends inside the courtroom but there was also a group of family and friends of maddy middleton outside this courthouse. they just left in the last few minutes. i do want to show you some video, fresh video that we just took in the last 30 minutes. this is adrian gonzalez here at the santa cruz county courthouse. the 15-year-old has been charged as an adult in maddy's murder and rape in july. maddy was reported missing while playing at the housing complex where she lived. her body was hidden in a dumpster there and gonzalez was arrested for that crime. he al

it's the favorite retreat of my friend, adrian gill. more widely known as a.a. followed restaurant critic for the "london sunday times," a regular columnist for a spectrum of magazines, author, traveller, and one of the finest essayists of our time. letterewe, as it stands today, was built as a shooting lodge. deer stalking like they do here is something from another era, but it persists in places like this which both protect and cull deer populations. if you are like us, of course, two murderous aristocrats looking to put some venison on the table, you need help, professional help. and estates like letterewe come with a stalker. stephen miller has been working here for eight seasons now, both protecting the animals who live on it and helping people like us in the arduous and delicate task of sneaking up on them. we would as gentlemen of leisure require a cook and adrian has recommended the supremely well-suited fiona cullinane, a woman who excels at this scottish traditional game cookery. for dinner, it's grouse. shot, then hung until the already funky game bir

star, the entourage adrian is a believer in crowdfunding. he raised funds for one of his films. caught up with him and asked what hollywood can learn from the tech community. adrian: i have been curious about the opportunity to have equity in the long-term upside of the successful project given to the crew and people below the line. i'm interested in exploring that, especially now that things , budgets are shrinking. there is not money to go around. and my social values, to support and enrich the everyman, the little guy. let's give them an opportunity to benefit when things go well. is google's biggest challenge? we have more from my interview with bill gurley. and google gets involved with europe forced refugee crisis in decades. ♪ emily: it is time for the daily by. $11 million.r is the amount that google is aiming to raise and a donation matching campaign to a refugees flooding into europe. google is matching the first $5.5 million worth of donations made to the google.com/refugee relief. europe is facing its worst crisis since world war ii driven by civil war in syria, cont

adrian, who hails from argentina, up here to visit the holy father. you though him very well -- you know him very well, when he was a bishop. >> a simple priest in benot air race. -- buenos aires. >> and john faring, he is the author of "the francis is effect." thanks very much for being here. we haven't heard from you, sir. >> good to be here. >> we were talking a little bit about homeless, and now everybody is talking about, well, since the pontiff talked took somebody in in the vatican residence. maybe we all should start taking this homeless people in our house. >> i think what you're really going to hear more is his belief that we have to as nations that have been richly are blessed take in more ref due gees. i -- refugees. it's nice to do a couple of token things, it's better to do significant things, and i think this holy father thinks in light of all the blessings we have, we're not doing enough. i would respectfully disagree in that i think america's the host generous nation in the world. he believes we can do more. >> john, the pope -- this

adrian brown in beijing >>> coming up on the programme, an exclusive report. al jazeera spends the night on the turkish south-eastern coast with refugees risking their lives trying to reach europe >>> a spell of drought casts a shadow on the shore of one of the world's largest man made lakes. stay with us. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >>> welcome back. i'm shiulie ghosh. just a reminder of the top stories. the european union's top officials issued a plea to nations reluctant to accept thousands of refugees. the the president of the european commission said solving the refugee crisis is a matter of human dignity and called on e.u. states to provide homes for 160,000 refugees by next year. >> n.a.t.o.'s secretary-general is worried about reports of russian military activity in syria. pictures released showed russian fighters backing syrian fo

as adrian brown reports. >> incinerating vehicles, buildings, shipping containers and people. smoke was again rising over the disaster zone on thursday afternoon. another unexplained explosion. neervenearby we found specialiss testing the air quality. they left as soon as we started asking questions, saying they had no information about the latest explosion. those forced to evacuate are returning to gather possessions under supervision of the military police. >> can't use this again have to throw in rubbish. >> because it's been contaminated. >> it's contaminated. >> the emotions are still raw. >> i feel so bad, my mother is still in hospital. if my tears could solve all the problems, would i cry for a year. >> this was the exhibition center, now a showcase for china's worst industrial accident. no one knows for sure how long the cleanup operation will go on for but it's fair to assume it will last for months if not years. the air here at the epicenter has sort of a sweet metallic chemical taste and people nearby say they don't even know whether the air outside the seclusion z

adrian brown joins us. xi jinping is using this event to send some powerful messages and made a marriage statement about the size of china's army. >> antonio, indeed president xi jinping appeared before the president today, not so much president or general secretary of the communist party but as the commander in chief of the people's liberation army. today at this military parade his first military parade since becoming leader of this country, he announced a 15% reduction in the size of the people's liberation army. this is something that has been speculated on during the past of few weeks but i don't know if many people were expecting a cut of this size. xi jinping wants to focus more on the affairs and the navy and that of course has implications for the current disputes in the south china and east china seas where china has been busy asserting its sovereignty claims. a cut in his first major military prayed as president. >> china is the largest of any cub in the world. many western leaders decided to shu

so thanks to him and thinks adrian. that's the latest. back to. >> ben: did he continue to exhume that warmth that we all associate with him? >> reporter: he sure did. he blessed adrian, the silversmith. he put his hand on his head and said a prayer. i sleep privately with adrian. he continued ministering to people in that private room. at the end of a long day, he still had the energy and warmth to greet each of us. he kinda pulls you into him and doesn't let go until you let go. i was like enough to be in his embrace twice in that room. you didn't want to leave. it was incredible. >> thank you for sharing that with us. you should definitely framed those pictures. 6:12 a.m. the former prison worker who helped two inmates escape will >> ben: mitchell could get up to seven years behind bars. she admitted she gave hack saws and tools to matt and sweat. she prisoner gave her her. the two broke out of the correctional facility in june. there on the run for three weeks, matt was killed and sweat was recaptured. >> ben: an update on the forecas

adrian brown joins us from beijing. adrian, a big big parade. what is xi jinping, the chinese president, what kind of message is he sending out? >> very shortly xi jinping will appear on the balcony to take the military salute, this is the first big parade since xi jinping became president. what kind of message? it's a multiple message. first he wants to show that china was on the winning side against the war of japan. some 50 million chinese lost their lives. also i think he's saying yes, back then china was a weak country. it was innovated and occupied by the japanese but now, china is a powerful country with a powerful arsenal that could riz any country that wanted to attack it. there will be some powerful symbolism when president xi takes that ball coin. many observers says that president xi regards himself as the most powerful leader since mao tse tiag. francois hollande of france, dsked from britain, they regard this as being an overt reply obvious team. world leaders don't want to be seen at the same event where president vladimir putin i

he is not sure if he will attend adrian gonzalez's future court appearances. a hearing is set for october 29. >>> the deadly wildfire is 30% contained. broke out saturday afternoon. that fire has killed one man and destroyed 10 structures. the death of the man who was found outside his burned out car as a suicide. firefighters say they have had trouble building containment lines because of the dead vegetation. the fire burned a thousand acres and some mandatory evacuations are still in effect with an evacuation center set up at car nel middle school. -- carmel middle school. governor jerry brown requested major disaster declarations to help release federal funds. the valley fire is 70% contained. it burned 76,000 acres and destroyed 1,050 structures. three people died and four firefighters were injured. it is the 4th worse in the state history. as far as the butte fire, 150 miles from the valley fire, burning in amador and calaveras counties. it is 74% contained. that fire killed two people and destroyed 545 homes and hundreds of other buildings. all evacuatio

hello, this is al jazeera, live from doha, i'm adrian finegan. also ahead, a political solution for burkina faso. further irrelevant. well be live in the capital for the latest. >>> hundreds of refugees climb on trains in a croatian town, heading to hungary and slovenia, and... >> i'm on the border between gaza and egypt. the smuggling tunnels someones connected the two. the egyptians may have found a way to permanently close them >>> we begin with the reports of violent protests in nepal as the president is due to ratify the knew constitution, let's go straight to kathmandu, and our correspondent is live for us there. what is the situation? >> well, in kathmandu, there's a lot of jub illation. you can see loud clouds celebrating the constitution. in the southern belt, people are trying to break a curfew this morning. and police shot live bullets. one person has been confirmed dead. and there are further casualties, we are not sure about the numbers. the producer on the ground said the place was violent. a lot of force was used and the protest wa

. ♪ >>> hello this is al jazeera, live from doha, i'm adrian finighan.orld leaders are speaking at the u.n. general assembly in new york. >>> the u.n. chief calls for an end in fighting in yemen after more than a hundred people were kill in a strike on a wedding party. >>> and there is a massive marine reserve that is twice the country's size. ♪ >>> we begin in northern afghanistan fighting near the former taliban strong hold. a convoy of afghan army vehicles has been brought to a halt by taliban gunfire. our correspondent is with the afghan army, which is attempting to head towards the city. earlier he told me that the troops are complaining they have no lead ship. >> reporter: hundreds of afghan security forces are trying this morning to advance towards the city, but they are facing big difficulties, not only taliban, ambush along the road, but also ied's roadblocks, so for three times they have tried to break all of these ambushes. they could nth. they are all -- you can see them, they are all waiting here to see what will be next. afghan commanders i

adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >>> one of the world's richest fisheries off the coast of peru ish the weather phenomenon known as el nino and are dying because of unusual warm water and mary ann sanchez has the report. >> reporter: they are going to ocean depths and disappearing and food for the pelicans and other species and el nino is felt here at this port and returned to see what it little he could get. >> translator: fish running away from the warm current and it's not good for us. >> reporter: the ocean current has been changing the eco system since march and heavy rains after november to effect cities and farming areas and 1.2 million people are at risk. >> translator: we still don't know 100% el nino phenomenon will be extraordinary but our comparative data tell uss it will between strong and extraordinary. >> reporter: to understand the magnitude of the phenomenon in 1997 the river rose so much it destroyed the bridge behind me. it left more than 3 1/2 billion dollars in damages and one-third of it happened here in the region which is usually the most effected by el nino

but the pope considers adrian a son. they have known each other about 12 years. adrian can do no wrong. rosanna: what'd you say to him? >> please pray for my loved ones. i said i will pray for you, struck me the whole time here, every time he would ask people to pray for him and if you don't pray or can't pray, send me good wishes. i love that. what humility. greg: what'd he say? >> he say thank you and pray for me. rosanna: in english? >> yes, and he gave adrian a blessing and they had a private moment together and he blessed a couple more people i was with. this was, this was the view from where i was. this was him walking out at the end of mass. he walked within a foot of me as he was processing out. greg: we are a half mile away from this. the extreme feelings of jealously. it is awesome. robert: i was so fortunate. me. this is one of my favorite pictures. this is is a picture i snapped as he was leaving. i was six feet away fwr the fiat. i love the dome light and lighting up his face. greg: see you later, robert. rosanna: it was great. we were lucky because