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al jazeera america. ♪ >>> good evening. i am antonio mora. is al jazeera america. >> god bless the great state of wisconsin. >> let me thank the people of wisconsin for their choice. >> big wins for senator ted cruz and bernie sanders as the night's victories change the presidential campaign. >> i have been pushing for years to eliminate some of the injusticeses in our tax system. >> president obama praises calls for new efforts to crack down on corporate tax loop holes. >> i think it's a good deal. >> the governor okays a new state law allowing services to be refused to

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>> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america - proud of telling your stories. >> i wanted to dance, and eventually i started leaving the gangs in the street alone. >> we're pushing the envelope with out science every day, we can save species. >> i'm walking you guys! >> all i wanted to see was her walk. it was amazing. >> these were emotions that i had been dreaming about for so long. >> getting to the heart of the matter. proud to tell your stories. al jazeera america. we are on the trail investigating how walmart's supply chain works here in bangladesh. does the company know when its orders are being subcontracted? is the way they source their clothing- the system itself -flawed? the garment industry is notoriously secretive, so we needed an insider. we're on our way to meet an auditor. he was hired by wal-mart to assess standards at some of its factories. it's very rare for auditors to speak on the record and he doesn't want to speak to us on camera. so we recorded the conversation secretly in bangladesh, government regulation of garment factor

al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >>> one of my missions since al jazeera america launched was to really understand what's happening to the milgz class and why it's shrinking. one major reason was high unemployment during the great recession, and then there is something economists call underemployment. two years ago i got into a cab driven by a guy who was underemployed. jay stein was working as a new york city taxi driver, but not by choice. a few years earlier he had a good job working in the online sales industry firmly in the middle class. when his job went under

all week long al jazeera america is showcasing a selection of your stories. they are some of the most important news events we've covered on this channel for you and one of them has been the new cold war between russia and the west. the tensions now extend from the battlefields of syria to the sea lanes of the arctic but the bad blood started in 2014 with the war in ukraine. two years on russia still backs separatist rebels fighting the ukraine government. tonight i'm taking you on the front line with russia, poland, roe romania, bulgaria, and competing for special natural resources with new urgency. let's again the journey now with a special report. it's 10 a.m. on an autumn morning in stran tran sylvania. it is a routine nato exercise in military readiness. >> one minute! >> but demonstrations of force like this have taken on a influence urgency for the west. here beside the carpathian mountains in romania these soldiers are training for battle. just a seven hour drive from ukraine where russian backed separatists set off the worst confrontation between mos

as far as. >> this an al jazeera america. we're in town in albuquerque. we would like to get an interview with anybody from d.o.j. >> d.o.j. is very strict. >> if you could give me a call back i would appreciate it. >> no one in the office would agree to an interview. in the end we tried to catch the police chief in person at a local council meeting. >> chief, i'm from al jazeera america. we've been trying to get an interview with you for weeks now. >> no, i don't think. go through the proper channels. >> can you explain why nobody from your department has been disciplined. just would like to get a--may i just quickly ask the chief. we've been asking for months for an interview now. >> we followed up as directed, but no one ever got back to us. the city says it continues to work with the d.o.j. to enact police reforms. in 2015 fewer fatal shootings by the apd. to this day many residents say there has been little official acknowledgment that there is even a problem within the department. >> the problem is not to actually resolve the problem of his violence

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al jazeera america. >>> this is al jazeera. >>> hello. this is the newshour live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, the syria army launches a major offensive against rebels around alleppo as a fragile truce is threatened. >>> protests in bangladesh after another blogger is murdered for posting secular views. >>> also this hour,

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only on al jazeera america. >>> tonight al jazeera america premiered part one of a ground-breaking documentary "the limits of hope" inside obama's white house, an indepth look at the administration and the president's successes and failure >>> president-elect president obama is at home in chicago and wanted his advisors to meet with him. >> a number of us wanted to meet with him before the main meeting. we wanted to see what we would hear. they painted a grim picture. >> david axel rod looked at the noms numbers, at the forecast and said you're telling us even if we pass the biggest stimulus of all times, the unemployment rate is still going to go to 8.7%, or whatever was the forecast at the time. >> and they said yes. >> richard wolf is a columnist for the guardian. we should note that richard did not participate in the making of the documentary. let's start with the clip, and president obama's first big challenge, the financial crisis and consequences. it's become a campaign issue, he has been attacked for both sides of the aisle. has he not got enough credit for taking drastic action? >> ye

al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> dubai is critical. you'll see most of the contractors have their headquarters and incorporated in dubai. >> sam mccann is a former army jag officer who served in iraq and afghanistan. for the last couple of years he has campaigned to reform the military contracting system. >> people wonder why someone would take them across the ocean if there wasn't a contract? it gets into human trafficking. the trafficker gets paid when he leaves india. the trafficker gets paid commission. it doesn't matter if they have a have a job over there. >> subcontractors like ppi and echo log run their middle east operations out of dubai. they keep labor camps here to houseworkers on their way to military base he and their recruiting bases have camps here too. away from the dazzling towers of dubai, a sprawling labor camp is home to hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from south asia. in hinzi, this means town of gold. but it is more a sham low pool. military bases in afghanistan. >> if there was one small room and we wer

only on al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >> the vast majority of alleged police brutality cases in baltimore go un-prosecuted. according to former detective joe crystal, a code of silence inside the police department contributes to the problem. in october 2011, crystal found out what happens when you break that code. >> this is prentiss place. you can see it's mostly vacant homes, back here. i believe this was the house right here. >> crystal and his colleagues chased after drug suspect antoine green and arrested him after he broke into this house to hide. >> i could hear the bang and the scuffle. it was obvious to anybody -- cop, person, 6 year old

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only on al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america - proud of telling your stories. >> i wanted to danceally i started leaving the gangs in the street alone. >> we're pushing the envelope with out science every day, we can save species. >> i'm walking you guys! >> all i wanted to see was her walk. it was amazing. >> these were emotions that i had been dreaming about for so long. >> getting to the heart of the matter. proud to tell your stories. al jazeera america. >>> a new start up in l.a. is offering a unique way to work and sleep for cheap. it's called pod share. ines ferre reports. >> reporter: waking up to the smell of pancakes, and the sound of brushing teeth. this may look like a youth hostile, but don't call it that. >> pods not bunks. pod-estrians not guests. co-living not hostile. we're trying to recreate the solo traveler experience. >> this 31 year old created pod share in los angeles three years ago. >> my friends will tell me, you live in a pod? yes, i live in a pod. >> reporter: a group of mostly millennials eating, working, and sleeping in an open space. >> this is dhelsy

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only on al jazeera america. >>> welcome back to inside story. we're talking about the advances in science that hold the promise of taking the mystery out of diseases you or family members may develop. the promise and the peril of knowing you may have a higher than average chance of suffering from a thus far incurable malady or dying an early death. there are legal, ethical, digital privacy implications involved in this new era of medicine. my guests are still with me. counselling for couples, we talked just briefly earlier about what we're learning about the inheritability of various neurological disorders. if we find out more about this c4 and its relationship to schizophrenia, would woe go as far eventually as to advise certain couples not children? >> we're really a long way off from being able to get to that question because the critical piece to understand from what we know now about c4 is that there is an association between c4 and developing schizophrenia. however, we also know as professor jones told us earlier, that even for identical t

al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >>> you just heard natalie's story, a 15-year-old girl trafficked for sex on the escort section of backpage.com. now we hear from the website itself. liz mcdougall is general counsel for backpage.com. you heard that young woman say that if not for that web page she'd have been found sooner. she said her pimp told her backpage was safer than being on the street, and there was a lot of money to be made. do you worry when you see something like that that backpage is paving a road for these pimps? >> no. my heart goes out to natalie and

al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybodys asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >> all across the country, jails are overcrowded with inmates who are pretrial. most of them will rely on public defenders. here in california, where bail costs an estimated five times more than the rest of the country, it's a struggle to keep up with the volume. >> what's your name, sir? >> my name is dj brickey, i'm an attorney with the public defender's office. >> what's your social security number, sir? >> here's the deal sir, as your attorney, i'm trying to get you out of jail, trying to get the best result possible for you. >> so this is pretty relentless. you're just coming in and out in and out? >> absolutely, ye

al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america>> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >>> in a few weeks it will be 40 years since i walked into a news room for the first time to take a paying job. the years since have been ones filled with breath taking change in the way americans get their news. one-by-one afternoon newspapers headed to the graveyard, followed by more and more morning newspapers and then news weekly magazines. the people who launched this network three years ago believed there was room for another 24-hour cable news service in the u.s. earlier this year they concluded there wasn't room and so we will

>> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >> you're watching "talk to al jazeera." i'm richelle carey. someone who has taken the ballet world by storm: misty copeland. >> one of your personal goals was to be the first black principle dancer at the american ballet theater. still a goal? >> i think every dancer's goal, we become dancers because we see those roles, and you dream of dancing these iconic roles. so of course that is still my goal. but i don't want it to overshadow what is actually happening because i'm so happy with where things are, and the roles that i'm dancing, and every time i get an opportunity to dance them. it's not just a quick fight to get to the position. but it's about the journey, learning and becoming the artist that i'm becoming. so if and when that happens i'll be completely ready and comfortable to accept that role. >> i think that you're breaking down stereotypes in ways that i don't think people realize the depth of it. and what you're doing on the stage is chipping away at that every day. >> i hope so. that's the incredible thing about

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america tonight" tomorrow. >>> i'm ali velshi, "on target", east. al lies and enemies are often one and the same. behind the nuclear deal - america and iran, and why >> al jazeera america - proud to tell critical and timely stories of race in america. >> i think since he was a person of color, the police department won't care. >> i'm more scared of the police than a burglar. >> this is really really unfair how we're being treated. >> i think what's important is that we're having a discussion about it. >> what took place here 60 years ago...the murder of emmett till is to this day an unsolved crime. >> i wanted people to hear the true story of till. >> never thought that he would be killed for that. >> that was the first step in the modern civil rights movement. >> ferguson has a...asking for assistance with crowd control... >> we're live in ferguson, missouri. >> these young people deserve justice. >> this is a target you can't get rid of. >> they were so angry, because it could've been them. >> there's clearly an issue and we have to focus on how we bridge that. >> they say they did it because they were trying to protect my children. they didn't protect my chi

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. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy.he democratic presidential candidates continue to trade bashes this morning as they fight for votes in new york. on wednesday hillary clinton questioned bernie sanders's loyalty to the democratic party. but sanders fired back in philadelphia telling supporters he thinks clinton is not qualified to be president. and this morning sanders vowed not to back down. >> if secretary clinton thinks that just because i'm from a small state in vermont, and we're going to come to new york and they are going to go after us, and we're not going to fight back, they can guess again. this campaign will fight back. >> clinton responded to sanders a short time ago, and refutes his claims that she called him unqualified to be president. >> i don't know why he is saying that, but i will take bernie sanders over donald trump or ted cruz any time. >>> and donald trump is said to be hiring experienced operatives to join the campaign. >> it is my great pleasure to introduce hillary clinton. [ cheers and applau

. >> one hour special, only on al jazeera america. this week on "talk to al jazeera" sinner song writer natalie merchant >> i stumbled into this as a way of life. i had no intention of being in a band or a singer. it happened to me by accident >>> she has rerecorded her break through solo album tigerlily, but this time with a twist. the essence of the songs remains unchanged >> i think tigerlily, a song like carnival is not political. >> but it is taking the critical look at the way that we leave >>> the former lead singer of 10,000 maniacs have recorded almost a dozen albums, including one for children. are you crying my little one >>> the parent of a teenager, she says mother hood changed her >> i became human, fully human when i became a mother. i felt connected to other people in ways that i never have. living and past >>> the singer is also committed to causes, including domestic violence >> 17 women who were homicide women's of domestic violence in my county >>> she is a champion for the anti fracking movement >> water is sacred

make clean drinking water just using the sun. >> this opens up whole new possibilities. >> al jazeera americaproud to tell your stories. >>> >>> >>> warning against complacency. world leaders agree that stock piles of nuclear material need better security >>> you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, commemorating a somber anniversary in kenya. demanding relief, farmers in the philippines take

al jazeera america. >> al jazeera america brings you independent reporting without spin. >> not everybody is asking the questions you're asking me today. >> we give you more perspectives >> the separatists took control a few days ago. >> and a global view. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> getting the story first-hand. >> they have travelled for weeks, sometimes months. >> what's your message then? >> we need help now. >> you're watching al jazeera america. >> if this track is correct, it comes into a point near the alabama / mississippi line. >> in august 2005, with round the clock weather reports - southern louisiana residents had plenty of warning katrina was coming. they just didn't know what they were getting. traditionally, the national weather service has relied on hurricane hunters. they fly planes into storms to take measurements...that's how they track them. but for safety reasons they can only fly when the storm isn't too powerful...and even our current satellite technology doesn't allow us to take measurements through heavy rain. >> what we were doing during k

. >> al jazeera america - proud to tell critical and timely of race in america. >> i think since he was a person of color, the police department won't care. >> i'm more scared of the police than a burglar. >> this is really really unfair how we're being treated. >> i think what's important is that we're having a discussion about it. >> what took place here 60 years ago...the murder of emmett till is to this day an unsolved crime. >> i wanted people to hear the true story of till. >> never thought that he would be killed for that. >> that was the first step in the modern civil rights movement. >> ferguson has a...asking for assistance with crowd control... >> we're live in ferguson, missouri. >> these young people deserve justice. >> this is a target you can't get rid of. >> they were so angry, because it could've been them. >> there's clearly an issue and we have to focus on how we bridge that. >> they say they did it because they were trying to protect my children. they didn't protect my children, they traumatized them. >> we're just the aver

. >> al jazeera america, proud to tell your stories. >> in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things at a were right, buthat were rightd some folks. >> it's been more than a year since america admitted to torturing people. we're trying to interview one of them. omar abaluci is a high value prisoner in guantanamo. he can be communicate with the government through a high be screening process. we have answers to the questions we wrote to him. james, we're just outside. james connell, has represented baluci since 2008. much of what he knows is classified. >> i'm not allowed to talk about black sites, existence of black sites. >> can we talk about the prison? >> i can neither confirm or deny that there's a dark prison. >> some details of the cia's torture were revealed, including the faims of the people involved but the -- names of the people involved but the world has heard little about them. >> that is his handwriting? >> yes, the first day they shaved his head and they hit his head number russ times. he wrote, i passed out. >> that t

al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> a huge challenge facing countries if eastern europe is how they define their relationship with russia. after the soviet union collapsed large numbers of ethnic russians ended up living outside russia's borders but inside countries that have since joined the faighnatoalliance. as a result the u.s. has to contest with the soft power. of states like estonia and bulgaria. this is the style of soviet styled monuments everywhere. cemeteries honoring red army soldiers offer a glimpse of into a shared history and legacy with moscow. in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe. thanks to energy economics and a die as bra pra of russia prasdi, vladimir putin could use pro-russia groups to destabilize the region. it is in enclaves like these where putin wields an unbe even influence. >> translator: without any intention of what happened in crimea. >> adrian vasalev is like many in bul gai bulgaria who oppose s on russia. >> translator: in my opinion the west won the cold

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al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america>> all across the country, jails are overcrowded with inmates who are pretrial. most of them will rely on public defenders. here in california, where bail costs an estimated five times more than the rest of the country, it's a struggle to keep up with the volume. >> what's your name, sir? >> my name is dj brickey, i'm an attorney with the public defender's office. >> what's your social security number, sir? >> here's the deal sir, as your attorney, i'm trying to get you out of jail, trying to get the best result possible for you. >> so this is pretty relentless. you're just coming in and out in and out? >> absolutely, yeah. absolutely. >> this is what every day is like? >> mhmm. >> the fresno county public defenders' office is one of the busiest in the u.s. dj brickey has been working here for 3 years. >> i'm not sure i'm going to be able to get you out of custody today. i can make the request. if the judge denies it, you're going to be stuck in there unless you can bail out. the judge

. >> al jazeera america - proud to tell your stories. plus, as be los angeles preparea prepares to say good-bye, we take a long look at journalism. >> we are getting our topic online. >> the topic o of tonight's the week ahead. a stunning document leak, 11.5 million pages, showing some of the world's wealthiest people have is hid thie hid their mone. >> the president of argentina, mauricio macri, and ukraine's president, petro poroshenko. also linked vladimir putin, some of his close circle including a mafn said tman said to be his b. and friends of malaysia's prime minister, al jazeera spoke with trn head othe head of the mcclay papers. >> it is six times larger than the be wikileakthe wikileaks le. many politician he all over the world have offshore corporations and for one reason or another are trying to hide where they put their money, to put great distance between themselves and these offshore corporations. this is the infrastructure by which politicians and other tycoons and people of influence and power and sometimes criminal orga

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al jazeera". monday, 6:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> new orleans, the crescent city, is a cultural and historical gem, worth preserving ... so when the mr go channel was built in the late 1950s many peope were already saying: mr go must go! mr go is what locals call the mississippi river gulf outlet. once dubbed the surge superhighway -it's a 76-mile artificial chanel built for commercial shipping. dr john lopez is a member of the mr go must go coalition. he's also a coastal biologist who consulted for the army corps of engineers. >> tell me about mr go why was it created? >> well it was like a lot of federal projects. it was based on some sort of cost benefit that they projected by increased commercial use navigation on the channel. now that might seem kind of ironic because it's built right adjacent to the mississippi river. they saw some advantage but in reality it didn't pan out. the use of the channel was very small. >> and because mr go cut right through precious wetlands...that act as a flood buffer---there were immediate com

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. >> one hour special, only on al jazeera america. al jazeera america. >> the united nations can be a blessing or a curse. but for haiti it's been both. six years ago haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake. it's worth natural disaster in two centuries. millions of haitians looked to the u.n. for help, and the help did come. but the u.n. effort may have made some things worse. u.n. soldiers have been dogged by allegations of sexual exploitations of poor haitian women and children. david ariosto has this report. >> in the rural places far outside of the capital, they earn just $68 a month, barely scraping by with odd jobs. it was under those circumstances that this woman met an u.n. soldier based at a base outside of the city. >> at just 17 years old, she became pregnant. the father, she says, was that u.n. soldier. but she said that the soldier left haiti soon after her pregnancy and went home to his home country of uruguay. four years later she's raising her son on her own and has petitioned the u.n. for help. when the father gon

al jazeera america. >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm david shuster. badgering the front runners. wisconsin voters head to the polls tomorrow, and the primary results could make the presidential nominations more unsettled than ever. >>> workers in the two largest states in the nation are going to get a boost to $15 an hour, and it's underscoring a kwon tras between democrats and the presidential campaign. >>> and a list of the rich and powerful, and how they stash their wealth. >>> and scaring off sea lions, the unique effort in an oregon port to keep the pesky mammals away. ♪ >>> we begin this hour in the state of virgin islandsofvy wis. the state is almost always unpredictable. polls suggest hillary clinton and donald trump are both behind their top rivals. we start with the republican race, al jazeera's chief political correspondent michael shure joins us from milwaukee, and michael what are you seeing tonight? >> donald trump is going to coout tonight in a state that he has wanted really badly, david. he decamped to wisconsin. usually what he does

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