still at 53 in al ray, 06 in charleston, so the proverbial damage we will say has been done here.retty okay trade off. we've got to deal with colder air. partly sunny high hits 46. cooler yes but a lot closer to seasonable for the standards, 31 tonight, see the clouds overhead. over the next couple of days we ridge in the new year pretty quiet note. expect sunshine wednesday. expected on thursday. so, we wrap up the year, and start off new one on a nice chilly granted but sunny note. jess, over to you. >> thank you katie. good morning everybody we go outside, and check out pretty much empty roadways out on the schuylkill expressway, moving along great though, right around 202 so the taillights right there they're headed westbound, so you can see moving along great. no problems in the eastbound lanes moving in to the center city area as well. now, over on the roosevelt boulevard, i think we just actually lost this camera right here, so i pason by, but right at the bottom hands of the screen there, no problems on the southbound lane if you are headed on the boulevard to the schuylki

stay with us. >> we're back with inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. on the occasion of the acquittal of hosni mubarak, we're looking at egypt this time on the program. 168,000 pages of evidence, photographic images of protesters , the court dropped many of the charges against the man who ruled egypt. in contrast to al jazeera journalist who is were arrested and tried in egypt, mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste, they'll they will have been in prison for almost and year and are charged with helping the banned muslim brotherhood. as noted before the break there are still problems in tunisia with corruption, and the need for transparency. one thing that makes it stand out is when the islamic party lost it's second election it went into opposition. this is not something that has happened in the arab world. >> no, it hasn't. however, you have to look at them as how their stubbornness while in government produced these negative consequences , and those who remain, continue to protest in small pockets. >> do they live to talk about it. >> in ord

stay with us. >> you're watching "inside story" from al jazeera. i'm ray suarez. through 2014 the world watched as the islamic state in iraq and the levant, isil, and it's self-proclaimed caliph brought chaos and destruction to much of western syria and iraq. seizing powerful, sophisticated weapons and growing wealth. it would bring american forces back to iraq, and for the moment not in great moments. nadar hashmi, does isil end the year in 2014 much better than when the year ban? >> absolutely. the islamic state the so-called islamic state controls a territory the size of great britain. they destabilized two countries. they're attracting foreign recruits around the world. in the recent weeks they suffered military defeat, but at the beginning of the year infer had heard, at least in the westers of the islamic state in iraq and the levant. and now everyone is talking about them. now they've been the big victors in advancing their own political program in 2014. >> you're starting to hear now a little critique of their power on the battlefield. they just didn't hav

. >> you're watching inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez.in a "newsweek" poll americans were asked if they would support torture if it could generate information that could prevent a terrorist attack? 58% said they would. just a third of respondents said torture was everyjustified. as the obama administration figures out how to proceed now that we know what went on in the early years of the new century can the government move against the alleged torturers without the backing of the public. we were making legal arguments, but this is more political. if you do something as high wire as going after the operatives in the field, do you have to have the backing of the public? >> i'm not a politician. i just look at it from the point of view of national security. if you have had an extensive program, again, to represent these events as people doing nasty stuff and then retroactively trying to get it legally justified, i don't think that's a fair representation of the scale of this. this was a program, a built program that had in it legal review, an

stay with us. >> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. the islamic state fight to create a new country from syria and the role ethnic minorities have played in the struggle of hearts and minds on and off the battlefield, how are things looking militarily for the yazidis over their long history. they've had a great reputation as fighters. are they basically becoming part of the peshmerga? the kurdish army? >> that is a request that has been made by yazidi units, particularly those who stayed on the mountain and endured the long siege, and now after being liberated by the help of the peshmerga, it would be a natural development to establish an i yazidi -only battalion, unit. >> andrew, is there a growing realization that this is going to be a long fight? that if the united states reengages in this part of the world this is not something that is going to be over in six months, nine months or 12 months. >> ray, i think that's pretty clear. and when the president announced that we were going in, he said this is a long fight. it's going to be a

. >> we're back with inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. imagine a syrian family that drove out of the country with a couple of kids and everything they could pack into a compact car. they entered countries that bore the strain of iraqi refugees. they stole everything that could raise quick cash. the adults for the most part are barred from working legally or simply not welcome in a legitimate economy. they may have concluded a long time ago that going back to syria is simply not an option. after three and a half years of war how are they going to eat? not only taking care of their needs, but making sure that host countries are able to bear the strain of having them. are you trying to fulfill two assignments at once? >> the neighbor countries to syria have been incredibly generous by hosting 7 million from syria. but it poses huge strains on these countries. they're not rich countries in the first place, so their resources are already strained. infrastructure, schools, even issues like sanitation and electricity are being strained by the re

i'm ray suarez. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> welcome to the news hour, i'm live in our worldeadquarters here in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. jordan confirms one of its pilots has been captured after its plane was downed over syria. a fire fight between israeli forces and palestinians leaves one palestinian man dead. >>> another police shooting in the u.s. and it happens in suburban missouri not far from the l

i'm ray suarez. >> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. wednesday the supreme court will hear arguments in the case of young versus united parcel service. there's been a law on the book since the end of the quloint administratioclintonadministrate pregnancy delivery act. failed to accommodate her needs during a pregnancy during which time she was adviced by doctors to only do light duty work. sahil kapur and al jazeera's jamie york is still with us and tom gagan who specializes in employment law. tom in gender discrimination law only women get pregnant. it's an interesting challenge to talk about workplace accommodation and what it means when men and women are both working side by side in similar jobs. what does peggy young say should have been done for her? >> peggy young says that the law as written should be applied. congress passed a law, ray, that says women affected by pregnancy or child bearing shall be treated as other employees, not so affected, but similar in their ability or inability to work. well, ups was accommodating people

. >> welcome back to inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. that's american contractor alan gross back in the united states cuba. in his striking announcement on the u.s.-cuban relations, the president of the united states acknowledged there was plenty he could not do on his own. where is he was pushed to do as much as he can to range the political. there is still a lot that remains to be done before you would pronounce the american cuban relations to be like those in other nations in the region, would you? >> with the, the helms burton codified a lot of the embargo, and in fact, there was a lot of discussion at that point in time that that was congress overstepping it's boundaries. i think there are important aspects that can be opened up. i think that the president is looking at those whether it's more travel, whether it's how you count credit, the ability to do car credit cards, etc. the other part we have to see is the ball is now in cuba's court. to the extent that history has taught us anything about this particular government, every tim

. >>> we are back with "inside story" from al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. december 1st is world aids day, the world can look back at terrible tragedy, and more than ever triumph. medicines reduced mother to infant transmission and added millions of years to healthy life to infected people around the world. thousands of people are infected with h.i.v. today we are looking at preexposure prophylaxis, drugs that when used by high risk people can stop the spread of h.i.v. justin, what has been the change? as you look back over the last decade in change, of the introduction of anti-reteral virals, that may be a test case as people take on information and inform. >> we had effective anti-retro virals as far as stopping the virus since the mid-90s. isn't until the mid 2000, that we had regiments of drugs easier to take, and had less side this this this is not going to be the preexposure profill axes of 2015 or 2017. it will evolve and we'll find ways to dose this. less than once a day is great. an injectable, an injection every three months. we are in the beginnin

. >> welcome back to "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray ray suarez. the islamic state sprang from the full mutt from the syria civil war. shias, alawites, yazidis now convinced they have no future in a region where isil's self-appointed caliph is now in charge. how do the concessionnal lines match up with the territory lines in this struggle? >> so far isil has succeeded in making alliances with disgruntled sunni populations who felt oppressed by the baath government or shiite government in iraq. and convinced them that they could liberate them. that has not turned out very well for the people who made that deal, and i would be surprised if this is a long-term proposition. but in those rare cases where isil has managed to conquer some territory, which were inhabited by minorities, they've been, as your guest said, almost genocidal. they insist on forced conversion, or this is why they're kidnapping the girls they impregnate them with the kids and bring them up to be fanatics. >> you were telling us about a long history of persecution, but people are n

president >> who should answer for those people ♪ ♪ >>> you are watching "inside story" on al jazerra america. i am rayw days before our al jazerra team was arrest in the cairo in 2013, i talks with correspondent peter greste about the banning of the muslim brotherhood. >> remember this is not just a rhetorical shift. it carries very heavily legal consequences and we are seeing the interior ministry going on air today saying that anybody who is protesting in the streets, anyone who is advocating in favor of muslim brotherhood ideology, anyone passing out pamphlets belonging to the brotherhood will beism be imprisoned for five years, they have gone to say the mud limb brotherhood leaders, anyone that finances them. anyone who even provides information to the brotherhood could spend life behind bars. >> that was peter greste on this program just three days before his arrest. the muslim brotherhood government of mohamed morsi was supported by the emirates of qatar. the qatari government similarly opposes the new egyptian administration ran by abdel fa identity ali see. theabdel fattah el sey. is that the

>> we're back with more inside story on al jazeera. i'm ray suarez.with us on this edition, karen greenberg said that tortures should be charged abouter but they have to be indicted first. how do people figure out to make sure that the truth comes out and learn the treatment of prisoners overseas. with us, our guests : >> professor, what is the best outcome. so that we make sure that the law gets followed in the future, and we understand what happened in the past. >> that pre-a supposes of utilitarian. i'm not in favor of any torture. i feel it's unproductive and i would like to see you return to the technique we've had in the past, but this has become a political football. why is this being released now? they know that this committee will be controlled by the republican, and this unseemly fashion to get it out of the door as soon as possible. this does not serve the national interest. i would like to get this removed from the political sphere as soon as possible. let's have somebody investigate that, but let's not punish as was said the line officers

"inside story" with ray suarez is next on al jazeera america. >> come on, admit it. you felt pretty good when you were filling up your tank over the weekend. with gas at prices you haven't seen since the country emerged at the reception. is this a shroud with the dark lining? this is "inside story." hello, i'm ray suarez. a barrel of oil, 42 gallons of crude now costs $57. just a couple of months ago that same 42 gallons cost $106. if you drive a lot it was like getting a raise. if you're a corporate or national income based on how much you can get for that barrel, yo you just got a raise. with christmas shopping americans. >> i'm glad it keeps going down. we have enough insurance, and everything we have to take care of, gas is the least of our worries. >> in the last six months oil prices have dropped 35%. when oil was down $80 a barrel, we asked our guests how low oil could go before we should start to worry. >> are there best cases and worst cases we should be looking at over the next year or two. goldman sachs is at $70 a barrel all next year. >> one of the thing

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stay with us. >> we're back with inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. are the impulses of different parts of pakistani society so contradictory that there is no way to satisfy everyone's desires, and if someone has to lose, who is it going to be? you with us the former finance minister of pakistan, assistant professor at center for peace and security studies, and deputy director for south arab as the simpson center. we've heard the conflicts and tears inside the society, even if there is now unanimity that the attacks on the school was a horrifying thing, who is going to lose out? >> ultimately the pakistanis are losing out, which is what is so sad. the military has plans to retaliate. i'm sure some of them will be successful. there have been some small movements by civil society to respond, but ultimately this gets to the deeper question about pakistan's story. pakistan's vision of itself. this is a country that has not quite resolved during the course of 60 years whether it wants to be a country that is essentially a homeland for muslims or whether it

. >> you're watching inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. we're looking at the execution of the millionl million--of the mentally ill. the supreme court has forbidden it, but has not come up with screens. soldier barnum, if we set out rules that are specific to rule people in and rule people out, would the game then shift to figure out how to present yourself as someone who gets ruled out? >> you know, that question goes to the heart of the public in issuing the judiciary of the mental illness. in would denigrate psychiatry to the point that it suggested that an individual could use it as an excuse and make up mellow illness as a consequence of his or her actions. it's my opinion that the true nature of mental illness needs to be understood. i don't believe having process or procedures in place to determine whether or not an individual was so severely mentally ill as to not know what that person was doing was wrong or appreciate the nature or consequences of other actions. i don't believe given the circumstances that the situation and protec

only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back to inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. executing the mentally disabled this time on the program, and the declining use of the death penalty overall. still with us, richard dieter, and george parnum, criminal defense lawyer, and charles sti mpson at the her stage moun heritage foundation, is america at least the legal system, the machinery, falling out of love with the death penalty? >> i think that's accurate. we had a 75% drop in death sentences, and a 60% drop on executions. this year only 7 of our 50 states carried out an execution. so for 43 states its sort of irrelevant whether we have the death penalty or not. that's not an usual tool of the judicial. why are we doing it? that's the question that people would like to have answered. >> earlier in the program you noted that the american public still approves of the death penalty, but it's not as big of a majority that it used to be. >> no, it started in 1934, and it has risen to 80% after the oklahoma city bombing. what's interesting, it averages around 60%, richard co

children at the border only on al jazeera america >> you're watching "inside story" from al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. you'll remember the united states went to war in afghanistan to fight the taliban government there, but not all talibans are the same. the taliban in pakistan has a distinct identity from the fighters just over the mountains in afghanistan. the group taking credit for killing 141 people in a school this week, and also the one who is attempted to kill education activist and nobel prize laureate malala yo usafzai in 2012. today, the ttp has an estimated 30,000 members, and are seen as a terrorist organization, by the u.s. pakistan and the united nations security council. it's chief is in charge of the group and has been since 2013. his predecessor was killed in an u.s. drone attack. his time at the top has been defined by internal fighting both between tribesmen and those who want to join isil. >> they do see things differently. the afghan taliban came out and condemned the school attack this week saying it goes against their principles. just before the break christine you wante

. >> we're back with "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. imagine, a syrian family that drove out of the country with everything they could park in a compact car. they've already sold everything that could raise some quick cash. the adults for the most part are either barred from working legally or simply not welcome in the legitimate economy. they may have concluded a long time ago that going back to syria is simply not an option. after three and a half years of war how are they going to eat? goane kripke some is part of the task, that host countries are actually able to bear the strain of hosting them? are you bearing two burdens at once? >> these refugees present huge strains on those countries. they're not rich countries in the first place. so their resources are already very strained. the infrastructure, schools, even issues like sanitation and electricity are being strained by the refugees. it helps that the world food program is given cards so they can integrate better into local businesses, purchasing food through local businesses so

stay with us. >> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez.one of the largest cities largen northern kenya isn't a real city at all. it's a refugee camp for somalis. palestinians for complex reasons, still live in vast syrian camps, streets and avenues of temporary shelter, and improvised economies. keeping thousands of syrians fed, we're talking to experts about what to do in a very complicated world situation. professor weiss, is there an evolving tool kit for responding to these crie crises? you've got people out out of their homes across the world today. >> the only tool kit is a u.n. system and a large number of ngos, probably 2500 of them including 20 major ones that come to the rescue. there is nothing coherent or coordinated about that approach. that is one of the major humanitarian problems. but we also don't have a way to do anything with the 50 or 55 million people who are displaced internally or as refugees. so our tool kit is sorely lack. >> stephen taravelle, you can imagine a situation where you can get so good at keeping people

. >>> you are watching "inside story" on al jazerra america. i am ray suarez.st break you heard professor market e margaret burg unthe use of grand juries in deciding not to bring indictment in cases that riveted the nation's attention in recent weeks, michael to be i believe, why grand juries? why are they used in cases like these ? >> that's part of the issue one of the reasons we go to grand juries in some places we do not have an adequate system of civilian, local civilian review of these types of incidents. such as in ferguson there was no local civilian review board to review it to answer back to the community to work as a good post or position in between the community and the police department and the local government. >> in other crimes couldn't prosecutors look at the same evidence the grand jury does and idecide whether or not there is sufficient ground to sustain a trial? >> well, they certainly can. and the local prosecutors, that's one of the issues is should we -- should it be in the purview of the local prosecutors or in the purview of the u.s. a

in washington i am ray suarez. >> this is al jazeera. >> from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. the news hour. i'm mary ann lamazi. confronting i.s.i.l. strategy. one small step towards closing g guantanamo bay. typhoon hagupit knocks out electricity and topples trees.

. >> you're watching inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. the legal, moral, political dimensions of the continued operation of the detention camp for terrorist suspects at guantanamo bay naval base. just recently six prisoners were transferred to uruguay on south america's east coast. joining us now, the representative of detainees early in the war. the former prosecutor in the department of justice's counter terrorism section, she's currently counsel, and representative of 18 guantanamo detainees. courtney, do the international convention differ when you're talking of a guerrilla army of a no longer sovereign government. >> they're describing them as unprivilege enemy of we ledge republicans. that's the what is used now. >> would that extend to a soldier fighting for the government. >> not just a nation-state but other legal aspects such as wearing uniform, openly carrying your arm, not attacking civilians, not attacking red cross workers, not attacking ngos, all of which not particularly detainees at guantanamo bay, but all of which in a a

with "inside story" on al jazerra america. i am ray suarez.ican forces try to extract a kidnap kick victim somewhere in the world the stakes aren't just high for the u.s. president and the armed forces the governments in nominal control of the territories where gorillas, rebels and terrorists operate end up being a stake hold third mission. sometimes reluctantly. still with us, christopher volunteers former lead negotiator for the fbi's international kidnapping response team. is ma a them eny political analyst and christopher swift. professor of security studies. sama, would the yemeni government have had a role in green lighting a mission like this? or is this something that the united states would just pull off on its own? >> i doubt that that's something that the u.s. pull off on its own, the yemeni government is considered an ali of the united states. all of the drones that are happening in yemen, sometimes i do believe that the government is not full aware of what's happening with the drones but the president has come to the united states

al jazeera america. >> you're watching inside story. i'm ray suarez. whether it's kidnapping foreign nationals, firing test missiles over neighboring countries or hacking the computer systems of a major multi national corporation understanding north korea's state interest is sometimes hard to do. especially if you use the same yardstick as the one you would use to assess the work of other state actors. so ambassador hill, is it important to understand why north korea is doing what it's doing? understand it's motivations. understand the way it size the world when you try to figure this out? >> oh, it is very important to understand why they're doing this, why they behave the way they do, no question. the issue is, of course, what to do about it. north korea is your proverbial her mitt kingdom. it sits there in splendid isolation in plot so splendid isolation. it has a ruling family that approaches a ruling religious cult. they don't mind that the rest of the world doesn't like them. but they don't like the ridicule of the world. they usually have tomorr

the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. with the winter holidays just around the corner. you're probably thinking all of this talk about low oil prices might make it a good time to buy airplane tickets. but that may not be the case. airline profits are expected to grow 26%, to $25 billion worldwide. the extra money goes into planned overhead, maintaining and buying flames, expanding flight networks. airfares may drop but not by much. some on capitol hill are curious how legal that is. >> oil prices, which is half the cost of running an airline are way down. why are prices way up. i'm asking the department of transportation and the department of justice to fully investigate why airline prices aren't following oil prices and going down when oil prices makeup about 50% of the airlines' costs? >> airline companies argue they buy their fuel in advance and are locked in to certain prices. ut even with higher prices the profit picture looks good. next year the profit for north ame

. >> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. back in 2008 money poore poured in to the russian industry. in the last several years the price on the world stock market only occasiony fell below $100 a barrel. now it's in the $50's and threatening to fall lower is a poorer russia a less stable one? is a poorer russia a less predictable adversary on the world stage. over the months that you've been coming on this program we've been talking about russia putting the screws to ukraine, threatening eastern europe cutting off supply , opening market to china. >> they've use oil, gas, and nuclear services as fuel. they've tried to use all of their assets, which are energy commodities. this particular case where you see the price of oil hit something low, and they're not even at half breaking point to have a strong fiscal situation, i really doubt that russia can have the same kind of presence in eastern europe. i'll give you one example, the south stream projects. >> remind people what that is. >> the south stream project is the pipeline

stay with us. >> we're back with inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. when american forces try to extract a kidnap victim somewhere in the world, the stakes are not just high for the u.s. president and forces, the governments with nominal control in territories where terrorists operate end up being a stakeholder in the mission, sometimes reluctantly. still with us, christopher voss, former leader negotiator with the fbi kidnapping response team. sana, yemeni political analyst, and christopher swift, professor at georgetown. sana, would yemeni government have had a role in green lighting something like this? or is this something that the u.s. would pull off on its own. >> i doubt the u.s. would pull this off on their own. yemeni government is considered an ally of the united states. sometimes i do believe in the yemeni government does not know everything going on with the drones, but they have okayed and endorsed the use of drones in yemen. because they're allies any mission like that would have to be okayed by the president first. >> does saying okay un

. >> we're back with inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. let's say you run a company that not only keeps personal records on its hard drive but other confidential communication between senior executives and even proprietary information about your company's creative output. did sony take enough care to protect the keys of the kingdom? with us our guests . alan, let me start with you. is a lot of the blame not on whoever did this outside of our borders, but sonny itself? >> well, on one hand they went explicitly after sony. if someone with even moderate means a sign that they want to come after you they will succeed in doing something. the question is how much. that's where the defender comes in. it's the choices they make and the money they spend. we know that sunny failed the security audit in 2005. there are roomers that circulate in the industry about how little they cared about it, who they were promoting and why. this was an environment where they should have been aware of a cyber security threat. >> is this going to set off a round of

. >> we're back on inside story on al jazeera america. i'm ray suarez. you may remember the tense debates in the use of physical coercion in the years after 9/11 from kitchen tables to talk shows to congress and the oval office. secretary rumsfeld dismissed the information terrorists gave. with us, our panel . karen, anthony romero has suggested publicly that we must find out everything that happened in order to make a clean breast of it. the only way to do that is if the country pardons everyone who was involved in this. what do you make of that idea? >> i think it's talking about essentially having--using this report as a reconciliation committee in some way. what i would prefer probably is if you're going to pardon people, perhaps they should be indicted first. perhaps you could look at what laws they have broken. i think it's very important that we understand as a country what laws were broken, how they were broken, and therefore, how we might not go down this road again. i take his point. basically we've come this far, and maybe we should just give

. >>> you are watching "inside story" on al jazerra america. i am ray suarez.stic packaging for a new piece of consumer electronics, a chemical used to make phosphates for agricultural fertilizer being coke for cement production, commercial printing inks, truck tires, crude oil by-products end up in obvious and not so obvious places. how come world stack markets took recent price signals from the oil markets as much bad news. and we just had am i myer amy me talk about not under estimating the winners. and you talking about how there are a lot of losers too. where did you come down? >> i think we have been fed for a long time that we need high oil prices for the global economy to be stable. and i don't believe that. we have to understand one thing, which is mentioned earlier, is that oil is driven in the long-term by growth. plain and simple, the price will reconcile with the growth rate and we have seen slow downs, the chinese have overstocked on raw material and oil. europe is flat in its growth. we are crawling out of this global economy. i think over the ne

al jazeera america. >> you're watching inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about executive action this time on the program in the wake of president obama's decision to move on his own, to adjust the machinery of enforcement of immigration law. over time has presidential power to move unilaterally risen and fallen with the president himself trevor, has there been chief executives who have said, oh, here is an opportunity for me. let me grab more chips? >> every single one since world war ii. it's vary that you have to go back to grover cleveland who refused to use fema or . it's this theory of let's steel everything that is not tied down, and it grows with the administrative state. it makes most of our laws in the sense of regulations and it has power over those who don't have independent agencies. so now the power is quiet vast. >> are we able to move forward to world war ii, either to the depression era acts of fdr or even as back as far as the decision to make war in spain grow the government during the prerogative era, and then go to war to