only on al jazeera america. >> you're watching, al jazeera america presents: killing the messenger. >> in the case of iraq, we've seen more of our colleagues locally killed. they live there. the front line, if you'd like, is- is outside their front door. >> in recent and ongoing conflicts like iraq and afghanistan, the- the highest death toll, if you'd like is indigenous journalists, particularly in the case of iraq. we've lost colleagues who were local journalists, filming alongside or close to insurgents. >> on the battlefield, in the heat of the moment, someone who- who looks different from the model of a foreign correspondent is even more at risk. because even if he is carrying a camera, even if he is carrying a tripod, the assumption seems to be that they could be hostile. what happened in 2007 to the two reuter's journalists in iraq was a terrible tragedy and one that was brought home to all of us when we saw the footage that wikileaks released. and i think that really brought home the horror of modern war and why it is so dangerous. >> what you had there was apache helicopters

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only on al jazeera america you're watching, al jazeera america presents: killing the messenger. >> there have been 20 journalists murdered in russia since 2000 when uh. president putin came first to office. and in none of those cases, have those who commissioned the crimes been uh. punished. journalists are targeted for their work, when in the process of reporting, they come to cross uh. powerful interests. >> [speaking russian]. >> the murders of journalists have become less frequent in russia. attackers have favored severely injuring and even maiming journalists on the job. one prominent example of this new and frightful tendency is the case of uh. journalist, uhm. mikhail beketov. >> [speaking russian]. >> he was a towering figure before the attack. and he had been long at odds with the local administration. he would not relent. and he paid the most severe price. >> the government will not follow-up and investigate these terrible crimes against journalists and so for years these crimes go uninvestigated and unpunished. >> [speaking russian]. >> vladimir putin is an ex-kgb officer, so

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>> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america.oh my! >> surrounded by the concrete and steel of downtown detroit, a two block square of dirt is sprouting tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, leaks and more. not just crops ready for the dinner table, but hundreds of thousands of seedlings to be shipped to plots around the city. some of that produce is served at one of the city's biggest businesses, the mgm grand casino and hotel, which donated the land and the greenhouse just across the street. >> we have hundreds of acres, if not thousands of acres available and i think this is maybe a stepping stone for the rest of the community to get involved. >> ashley atkinson helps run "keep growing detroit", whose ambitious mission is to make their town achieve what it calls "food sovereignty". >> and actually many studies have been done, including one by michigan state university, that found that only on a couple of thousand acres detroiters could be producing as much as 76% of the vegetables that we currently consume and 41% of the crop

. >> america votes 2014 battle for kansas only on al jazeera america >>> ebola in america, new guidelines for monitoring health-care workers returning from west africa, and quarantines are not part of the plan. >>> plus take a breather from the volatility of the past week, but there are signs the volatility isn't over yet. i'm jen rogers in for ali velshi, and this is "real money." ♪ >>> america's winding in very bumpy road dealing with ebola took another turn today. a nurse quarantined in new jersey headed home to maine. the governor agreed to release kaci hickox who complained loudly and publicly about being isolated in a tent. she said she had never had any symptoms. new york and new jersey have imposed mandatory quarantines on healthcare workers returning from west africa. >>> this is the man who oversaw the initial response to the outbreak. he said none of the soldiers are showing symptoms, and the decision to isolate them for 21 days was so make their families comfortable. and late today we got good news, a 5-year-old new york city boy has tested negative for ebola. he recently retu

an al jazeera america special report amererica votes 2014 5 days in alaska all this week >> now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. a global perspective wherever you are. the major headlines in context. mashable says... you'll never miss the latest news >> they will continue looking for survivors... >> the potential for energy production is huge... >> no noise, no clutter, just real reporting. the new al jazeera america mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >>> election day is close at hand, in a few weeks the face of u.s. senate can change. republicans hope to snatch seats and solidify their control of congress. one of the dangerous democrats is senator mark prior, calling in the biggest of his big guns in the state of arkansas to stump for him. . >> let's do it, we'll do it. right there. thank you. thank you >>> "america tonight"s chris brewery travelled to arkansas to discover the one issue has been dominating the airwaves, his report kicks off our coverage of "america vo

>> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america.oh my! >> an american votes 2014 special report kansas >> in our state, government is broken >> a republican governor has made drastic changes >> the highlight of this is... eventually doing away with income taxes... >> the democratic challenger says, these policies aren't working >> we are trailing the states in our region >> can governor brownback win again? >> i think you spend your money better than the government spends it.. >> america votes 2014 battle for kansas only on al jazeera america >>> this month boston mayor announced an ambitious initiative for his city, the building of 53,000 housing units with more than one third designated for middle income earners, household incomes between 50,000 and 120,000. a significant segment of that group finds homeownership unaffordable in boston. i spoke to the mayor to discuss why the thinks the city is facing an unprecedented and homeowners. >> really what is happening in boston and a lot of urban cities, that people are being priced out

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only on al jazeera america. >> weekday mornings on al jazeera america >> we do have breaking news this morning... >> start your day with in depth coverage from around the world. first hand reporting from across the country and real news keeping you up to date. the big stories of the day, from around the world... >> these people need help, this is were the worst of the attack took place... >> and throughout the morning, get a global perspective on the news... >> the life of doha... >> this is the international news hour... >> an informed look on the night's events, a smarter start to your day. mornings on al jazeera america >> protesters in hong kong are raising the stakes in democracy movement. if the territory leader does not resign by the end of thursday they will take the protest to another level. that may mean occupying development buildings. for more of what is happening in hong kong we turn to rob mcbride. >> another quiet night on the streets in hong kong as thousands continue this protest of autopsy. it comes, of course, on two days of public holidays in hong kong, october 1st.

. >> tech know, where technology meets humanity only on al jazeera america >> weekday mornings on al jazeera america >> we do have breaking news this morning... >> start your day with in depth coverage from around the world. first hand reporting from across the country and real news keeping you up to date. the big stories of the day, from around the world... >> these people need help, this is were the worst of the attack took place... >> and throughout the morning, get a global perspective on the news... >> the life of doha... >> this is the international news hour... >> an informed look on the night's events, a smarter start to your day. mornings on al jazeera america >>> america's midterm elections are a month away. among the races attracting attention is the senate race in kentucky. a democratic challenger alison grimes, 2 points ahead of senator minority leader mitch mcconnell, despite a disapproval rating of 55% for president obama in the states. the president's unpopularity is strong among workers in the kentucky struggling coal industry. libby casey went to the heart of coal co

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primetime news. >> welcome to al jazeera america. >> stories that impact the world, affect theation and touch your life. >> i'm back. i'm not going anywhere this time. >> only on al jazeera america. >>> september delivered encouraging numbers in the housing market. the national association of realtors said sales of existing holes rose 2.4% compared to august. the seasonally adjusted annual rate reached 5.2 million, the highest rate reached this year. not to be a debby downer, but sales were town from last year. economists see reason to be optimistic. the biggest show that investors are retreating from the market and departures offset by buyers who intend to live in the home. still missing are first-time buyers, making up 29% of sales. well below the historic average of 40%. you would think lower mortgage rates and affordable prices would bring in participation home buyers. mark zandy the chief economist at moody's analytics says it's not the case. he said banks cut a pool of creditworthy borrowers by keeping standard high. >> getting a mortgage loop is tough for lower middle in

>> i approved this message >> i need your help >> midterms, the series begins only on al jazeera america >> you're watching inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about how to design a response to ebola in the united states. the president is meeting with his health team to track a response. if you want the public to take it seriously and react with prudence instead of panic what now. still with us, a professor of global health and george washington school of medicine. and deann mcewan, . >> dr. waldman when i covered the h1n1 outbreak in mexico city i was walking through empty streets through one of the world's largest streets, and finally business people said this is killing us. hundreds of millions of dollars of commerce was not being done to break the back of an illness that was not making people that sick. how do you match it so something that is proportional and have the public go along with it. >> we have to try everything we can as health professionals to educate the public as to the nature of these conditions, and try to stay away, as you said earlier,

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>> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> weekday mornings on al jazeera america >> we do have breaking news this morning... >> start your day with in depth coverage from around the world. first hand reporting from across the country and real news keeping you up to date. the big stories of the day, from around the world... >> these people need help, this is were the worst of the attack took place... >> and throughout the morning, get a global perspective on the news... >> the life of doha... >> this is the international news hour... >> an informed look on the night's events, a smarter start to your day. mornings on al jazeera america >>> no matter how we dissect the economy, you can't underestimate the gripe that housing has on it -- grip that the housing market has. it is cooling you have. a 20 city index showed that prices rose 5.6% in august, that is the smallest year to year gain in number two years. the numbers may not thrill current home owners, but it may be a positive for people trying to enter the market. one of th

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talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >>> welcome back to "techknow" on the road. we are here at caltech. i'm phil torres, and joined by dr shini somara, and dr crystal dilworth. we had the opportunity to meet the grad students who are doing amazing work. >> i met two guys trying to understand how water can landscape. >>> i got the opportunity to meet with a student and is studying how smog forms, it's a lot more complexing than what i thought. being in l.a., smog is kind of an issue. let's look. >> reporter: air pollution in china could be described as a nuclear winter. health risks are severe, with the smog blocking sunlight, plant seedlings struggle to grow. in los angeles, smog is controlled because of reg u laces, because of research done in labs like this. >> i'm cal vin baits. >> reporter: what is your field of study and what are you working on? >> how does smog form. >> reporter: part of the answer includes trees, yes trees. don't blame them yet. >> trees given out a bunch of chemicals, obviously oxigep. >> reporter: including isopreen. >> we know that iceo

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stay with al jazeera america >> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. >> i think new york struck the right note. i'm not sure who is advising governor christie or governor cuomo, but the fact that governor cuomo had to back down suggests that he himself recognized that he went too far over the weekend. and that will produce anxiety. >> the fact that there is an election in eight stays could be tangentially related to this as the governors are up for re-election? >> i think there is a history of political pandemics in the face of disease, and this make shows how easy it is to whirlwind into place . >> are there tools that we could be using for at-home medicine that we're not fully exploiting? >> we have lots of tools. every grandmother can take a temperature and take it twice a day. >> but means being exposed to the person directly and their saliva request. >> w

al jazeera america. this is inside story, from al jazeera america. i'm ray swarez. barrel of crude oil costs a little over 81 with dollars on the world spot market. that's the lowest price in 4 1/2 years. with with the russian economy posting slow or no growth, and failing to meet the aspirations of it's people, does president putin activism on the world stage play with with russians who know, astonnians, latvians are richer ever than they are. former u.s. ambassador. and michael cough can mapp a public policy scholar at the wilson center here in washington. and ambassador, it -- in this world, where it's easy to know, russians must know that they haven't been win withing the economic race. >> they do know that, but that is not as important to them at the moment. putin has successfully built a nationalist narrative, a narrative, russia as a victim of the end of the cold war. russia needing to rebuild and restore greatness and respect for russia. russian people being allegedly being repressed in their human rights in ukraine, in the baltic states. putin has built mas

>> america votes 2014 midterms the series continues only on al jazeera america is. >> wee been watchingthe fight for chicago on "america tonight." and when cool fall temperatures may bring down the temperature, it has been another season for violence on the city streets. 550 people have been gunned down, mostly in gang land shootings. "americ"america tonight's" chris bury. >> in a makeshift memorial on chicago's south side, diane latiker keeps stones with the names of every child and young called the killed in gun violence. >> of the stones here, how many were gun related? >> 98%. >> killed by guns? >> yes. >> the carnage comes from a city under siege with a steady flow of illegal weapons. >> too many guns coming in, too little punishment going out. >> 7,000 illegal guns off the streets more than new york and l.a. combined. >> how easy is it in this neighborhood to get a one? >> as -- get a gun? >> as easy as getting a pack of gum. >> diane built the memorial to shock the city over how many kids were shot to death. >> they were lives. they were somebody's family, somebody's child. were.

talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >> america votes 2014 go behind the scenes in the all important swing states >> this could switch from republican hands to democratic hands >> with the senate and congress up for grabs... >> it's gonna be close >> these candidates will stop at nothing to get elected. >> iowa was never sent a woman to congress... >> i wanna squeal! >> i approved this message >> i need your help >> midterms, the series begins only on al jazeera america >>> now, a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight". a powerful storm system batters the south-east for the second day in a row. putting some 30 million people from florida to west virginia at risk. at least two people have died in the storm since they broke out monday morning. >> what is really up with kim jong un. after disappearing from the public for a month and a half, the north korean leader has reappeared. the state-run media released images of kim jong un smiling and walking with a cane. officials did not say when the pictures were taken or if there's truth about rumours behind his h

new episode the disappeared only on al jazeera america >> and welcome back. now a snapshot of other stories making history here on "america tonight." a river of lava on the big island of hawaii, getting closer to dozens of homes. residents have evicted, but plenty have decided to stay, they want to see the lava cross through the town of pahoa. >>> the second anniversary of the superstorm sandy. sandy crashed into the east coast, blamed for 165 deaths. >>> the police chief in ferguson, missouri is expected to step down at least according to some officials. in an effort of reforming the district in the aftermath of the killing of michael brown. the police chief is denying the allegation thousand, very much uncertain. >>> electoral efers in 27 states have launched a massive campaign against voter fraud. they are using a computer name matching system to claim that more than 3 million citizens may be registered to vote in more than one state. the lists are based on common names, john jackson or david lee, and could stop voters from taking part in next week's electi

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talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >>> there are hopes that an improving job market will mean more first-time home buyers will come in and face investors backing away from real estate. here is a reason to worry first-time home buyers may not be able to pick up the slackment the average american with debt owes $33,000. that may cost the u.s. economy more than $80 billion. >> 414,000 homes will go unsold because would-be buyers are so saddled with student debt they cannot afford to buy. that's the conclusion of an analysis by john byrne real estate consulting, $83 billion in loss home sales. beth is an economist with the brookings institution. >> there's a correlation with student lone debt and the ability of children to buy houses. >> reporter: in change for strong legal protection lenders cannot approve loans if the borrowers anticipated monthly debt is more than 43% of income. take the case of a household earning $83,000 with rent and car payments. a student debt free household with 3.5% down qualifies for $250,000, 30-year mortgage at 4.5% interest. tho in a debt of $25

surprise us... >> sharks like affection >> tech know, where technology meets humanity only on al jazeera america >> near the end of our trip to iraq, we came across shia militia fighters from asaib ahl al haq. >> they were recapturing a village from isil in the eastern province of salaheddeen [sa-la-ha-deen]. none of them would speak to us on camera. but their allies in this battle kurdish peshmerga fighters -- agreed to take us to the front. >> this is daesh. >> this is the village suliaman bek. yesterday the islamic state were holding this village. they first got there in june. there were air strikes from the us last night. now peshmergra has gone in and taken the village. they've got the road blocked. we've had to leave our car, we're walking up here to see what's happening. in fact, this village has been so recently taken they haven't even taken the islamic state flags yet. you can see the black flag right on top of a silo beside the road here. is that an ied? i was a bit startled because of the fire but it's actually one of the peshmerga guys firing into something trying to see if it's an i

talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. so far on the program we've been talking about turn out on voting. but we have to ask if either party or both has an interest in an smaller electoral base on the base. and liz, i have to give you credit for being honest that sometimes a smaller pool of voters is easier to work with. are politicians ready to take the risk saying yes, more people in the corral gives them skin in the game. if i win i'm talking about people who have been involved in one way or another in helping me run this state. this congressional district. this part of the country. >> i think it depends on the race that you're looking at if there are certainly instances where that has been true. historically if you look and you talk to republicans who have tended to perform a little better with african-american voters than your standard republican they would say there is huge benefit in that. in you talk to former virginia governor jim gilmore he bega garnered the african-american vote. i think when yo

>> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> now a follow up to a story we have been facing very a story we closely on "america tonight." officiating the wedding of his gay son, a methodist minlts into the spominister into the gay rights movement. now there is more to it. the church this week ruled that schaefer can remain a minister. "america tonight" first introduced you to schaeffer last year when he was waiting to learn his fate from the methodist church. [♪ singing ] is >> the very beginning would be myself receiving a phone call from a lady that wanted to remain anonymous and this lady said, i need you to know that your son is considering suicide and it's because he's gay. and i remember thinking, my son is not gay! and we talked to him that day, we asked him straightforward, are you gay? maybe secretly i hoped for a different answer than yes, because even though i embraced him when he came out, i still had to struggle with it. i asked myself did i do something wrong, did i raise him wrong and this was in 2000. that was a different world back then. he prayed to god, he

talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america >> back to gaza now and the reporting of that story byhe palestinian journalists who live there contrast that with the way most israeli get their news on the conflict given that like all israeli citizens, their journalists are prevented by israeli law from entering the territory unless, that is, they are embed he had with military units. the two narrative did could hardly be more difficult to reconcile, which makes the work of the one palestinian journalist in gaza reporting for a newspaper in tel aviv work looking at. will young now on the domestic coverage of the gaza war in israel and how palestinian story out to the rest of the world. >> not every journalist has to travel far from home to cover the biggest news stories in the world. sometimes, the news comes to them. and a pal stanian whose home and beat is gaza. her job as a journalist is to report on life and death there to her readers on the other side of the border, in israel. >> there was a could have been conflict since i was a child, following what's going on t.v., on newspaper

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al jazeera america. now a snapshot of stories making headlines tonight. drawing the scorn of the justice department, the d.o. j. called the official autopsy to a st. louis paper, irresponsible. and highly troubling. the you can armed teenager brown was shot and killed by a white officer in august. suspected boko haram with with the group, the group is still holding more than 200 school girls hostage. beginning friday, north korea will ban foreigners on tourist trips from entering the country, due to fears of ebola. this news comes as that country ramps up inspections and quarantine measures. the ebola epidemic has already claimed nearly 5,000 lives. to develop the vaccine and a treatment, one drug that has shown promise is z map, be uh the supply ran out, leaving the ill to simply hope they have caught the disease in enough time to give their body as fighting chance. the f. d.a. still has not approved it for use, they are still scrambling to produce more doses in an indepth america tonight report, the fi

in washington, i'm ray suarez. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster in our headquarters in new york. we're waiting for a live press conference from the cdc. the center of disease control. we're expecting an update on the second update from a nurse who was treating duncan erik thomas. they have blamed a protocol breach for the nurse being infected with the virus, and that is

al jazeera america. >>> thousands of kurds flee i.s.i.l. as the terrorists defy coalition air strikes. vice president joe biden is in hot water over undiplomatic comments - was he just telling the truth. and ebola declared a top national security priority. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories and ahead. >> the supreme court chose not to enter the debate over state gay marriage bans. >> which in effect means rights. >> the rights guaranteed by the through. >> our allies in the region... >> the person responsible for the rise of i.s.i.l. >> it's badly timed truth-telling. >> islamic state of iraq and town. sides. >> president obama is looking at new measures to protect americans from ebola. >> i consider this a top national security matter. >> entero virus d68 is blamed for the death of a student. >> it's been little more than a seen. >> north korea's number two korea. >> weird stuff. movie. >> using nukes to save the earth from an asteroid is not science fiction any more. >>> we beg

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