i'm allen schauffler in washington. l.a. will buy 7,000 body cameras for officers using money from private donation, call for the use took off in august after the police shooting death of michael brown in ferguson mississippi. president obama wants to spend $7 million for body cameras, we are taking a look at how they work, and the challenges they present. allen schauffler is tonight in seattle with more. >> john, it sounds great, documented it. put it all on video. we have to remember that we are dealing with portable digital camera systems with data storage and retrieval operated by human beings, so humans and machines, neither are infallible. there'll be rough spots along the way. the public should know how the systems will work. to find out more we visited a small police department near seattle. 15 on the force have been wearing body cameras for the last eight months. >> reporter: as his shift begins, canine officer nick takes the camera out of the holding station and puts it on his chest. it ride with him. >> it's a new

. >> i'm allen schauffler in class with the macaw nation. in remote washington. >> this is al jazeera america,i. the hashtag. >> when i first started seeing black lives matter signs it felt like an honor. >> meet the woman who helped start a growing national movement. helping young native americans. the remote reservation that refuses to wait for government help. plus going public, the former hacker from anonymous emerges from the shadows with a warning. >> i want to emphasize that. >> and guns as art. artists make a statement about violence in america. >> tomorrow, thousands of people will take to the streets in several major cities including washington, d.c. and new york. they're demanding new laws to end what they call racially discriminatory law enforcement practices. tom ackerman has more from washington. >> on the steps of the u.s. capital this week black staffers from congress walked out to show their frustration at the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers. >> forgive o go our contribution to national pathology.

allen schauffler is live in seattle. obviously this is a difficult time for the family, when did they learn about summers both? after the raid. the fbi told the family about the failed special forces operation and luke summers' death, according to his sister lucy speaking from london. we spoke with his mother and brother. his mother paula saying for the last year it was like holding his breath. they say it's been worse since video was released of luke somers in capacity. he was a free land journalist. he worked for al jazeera and the bbc amongst others. we can share pictures that the family gave us of summers travels and him at work. they gave us a video appeal made by his mother and brother jordan, telling us that they wanted the world to know what kind of man he was. >> to put it simply, lucas is a humanitarian, devoting a large portion of those he felt were persecuted or didn't have a voice. >> we are so proud of you. there's not enough humanitarians in this world like you. that video made before news of luke's death.

allen schauffler's update. >> the outer changes are obvious. this was a year ago,l time. >> i can't say enough about it. >> residents pay 30% of their income if they have an income. they're expected to attend community meetings and help run the village. >> this i love. sharon wilson, relentlessly upbeat when we met her a year ago, is expected to stay positive. >> you say you wake up happy every day. >> i do, i really do. i'm pleased to be here. we've gone through a lot of emotional turmoil and just a lot of stuff being here and it's paying off. >> it's relatively cheap for an assisted living program. about half the price of conventional low-income studio housing where many homeless end up. calls come in from all over the world from organizations hoping to replicate the village. >> it is a powerful model but we are 30 drops in the bucket and it's not enough. just not enough. >> quixote village says overall, the first year was a success, bumps along the way and plenty of learning. in year 2 they would like to accomplish few things, making the res

allen schauffler is in seattle with more on that story. allen. >> good evening john. the seattle police took an interesting step today. they held a hack athon. they invited members of the local tech community to come on into headquarters to swap ideas about how to handle the enormous amount of video all that data that is generated by policing body cameras and that in this state, at least is a matter of public record. and there's one man who's mostly responsible for this and he tells you all he wanted to do was watch police video. a lot of police video. >> i never imagined that any of this -- i just wanted to watch video. >> a week ago we only knew him as police video request, his g-mail handle. as he filed requests for police video across washington state. >> right now, we are inundated by in-car video, terabytes of data. >> the equivalent to of 40,000 movies or mp 3 files. that anonymous requestor is no longer anonymous. >> timothy clemons. >> he says he wants as much information made public as is technologically possible and legally allowable. >> the big issue has b

allen schauffler reports from seattle. >> so far family members in seattle have been silent. we have not heard from them since they were notified since somers was killed. the only statement from the sister in london asking that the family have privacy in this difficult time. when we spoke with them before his death, before they were notified about the failed raid in which he was killed, they didn't seem to know that the raid would take place. clearly they knew that he was in imminent danger. especially after he released or his captors released a video of him pleading for help a few days ago. he was a freelance photo journalist, working gipt and had been in -- egypt and had been in yemen since 2011. his family said he fell in love with the country. they knew he was this danger after the earlier failed rescue attempt. the family made a video of his own and hoped his captors would see it, saying they want them and the world to know what type of man he was. >> when foreign nationals were advised to leave yemen. luke refused to go, saying he felt safe and at home there. he felt th

i'm allen schauffler looking back at the oso landslide, the deadliest in u.s. history. >>> welcome back to al jazeera, a number much states allowing same next marriage is growing. >>> free and clear - hundreds of convicts exxon rated because of d.n.a. evidence. the role of eyewitnesss. >>> and returning to the u.s. university of michigan to coach. and he surprised officials with an unusual demand before signing his contract >>> for advocates of same-sex marriages, 2014 was a big year. gay marriage is legal in 35 states, and the district of columbia, a year ago 30% of americans lived in states allowing same sex couples to tie the knot. we look bag at how far gay rites have come. >> bonny and lynn never expected there were relationship to be part of a battle that went to the supreme court. >> i feel like i was a part. >> reporter: the two have been together for 13 years, a ban an same-sex marriage didn't allow them to take their vows. >> i lived in indiana, i love the state. that's why we are fighting it. i love them they may not love what i am. >> last year a se

allen schauffler has details. >> a custom made short barrelled semiautomatic rife - pretty in pink. >> it was supposed to be a christmas surprise. >> it happened to be an amazing oh, my gosh present. i can't do that. >> reporter: under the new law in washington state, that gift to his girlfriend could be considered a firearms transfer - illegal without a criminal background check through a licensed gun dealer. a frustration in this house. >> i would love for politicians and lawmakers to focus on those breaking the law. >> the law extends criminal background checks. it could make handing a gun to a friend to shoot at a range like this illegal, and could have implications for businesses that use guns. >> in the state of washington in the armed licence progressions most own the firearms. priority security contactors, private investigators wonder if the way they have been doing business is a string of felonies. >> 45 calibre semiautomatic. >> gun range manager says his rental business will not be affected. he supports the concept of background checks for sales. >> if you can't vote as a f

here is allen schauffler. >> i just wanted to watch video. >> a week ago we saw him only as police videouest, as he filed millions of rrnlg requests for information. >> we have 360 terabytes of incar video data and we store that internally. >> police requests, 40,000 dvd moifts or 90 million songs on mp 3 files. but that anonymous requester is no longer anonymous. >> timothy a. clemons. >> he says he wants as much information made public as is technologically possible and legally allowable. >> the biggest position is bias policing and use of force. let's go create a log of every single use of force, here is the video here is the 9/11 calls and everything. >> now he's working with police and found a social yeet question. >> i set i'd respond to him. >> the request is, and he responded with a program he wrote that automatically edits police video. it shows what's happening but it's obscured, depending on freedom of information laws in different states, it may not work for or be needed for by each police department. >> you have a really good idea if somebody's getting punched. >> the seattl

allen schauffler. thank you. >> in malaysia a political fight is brewing over food.ion is renown for its cuisine, and they want to limit who can work in the kitchens. >> food, it's something of an obsession among the ma lee shawn. it is common to ask one another have you eaten as opposed to how are you. it's known that street food in pyongyan is the best. to this day he uses the same family recipe that has been thanked down through generations. he has trained his son to cook the same thing. >> here people take their food seriously. so serious that they want to ban foreigners from tookin cooking fare. they say it would only apply to those who work in roadside stalls the magic that makes this food so incredible. >> as to what exactly that magic is, one food writer offers her opinion. >> it's so closely related to this strong sense of identity that the people here have. they feel very strongly about their food. there is a lot of passion and love that goes into the creation of all the dishes. >> but malaysia's food ambassador say that the ban is shortsighted. >> the stat

allen schauffler has the report. >> a custom-made short-barrelled rife. pretty in pink. it was supposed to be a christmas splay. >> a rapped case happened to be an amazing "oh, my gosh" present. i can't do that. >> under the new law, it could be considered a firearms transfer, illegal without a criminal background check through a licensed gun dealer. in this cause, frustration. >> i would love the politicians and lawmakers to focus on those breaking the law. >> the law extends criminal background checks to gun show and online sales. it could make handing a gun to a friend at a range illegal. and could have implications for businesses that use guns. >> in the state of washington, in the armed licence professions. most companies own the firearms that the employees use. they check them out. private security contractors and investigators are wondering if the way they are doing business all along is a string of felonies. >> 45 calibre. semiautomatic pistol. >> this gun manager says his rental business will probably not be affected. he supports the concept for sales. >> it's a

. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera, washington. >> this weekend marks the 77th anniversary of china's massacre. in the lead up to world war ii the japanese army killed 300,000 people in china. during that battle they used chemical weapons leaving at least two million tons of it behind. today, people in that remote area are still falling victim to the chemical remnants. adrian brown reports. >> reporter: across china lies the destructive legacy of another country, it's a bomb. 100,000 that they admit to. half of them are in this pro minutes. >> they are everywhere. sometimes we find them when they beat the land. >> reporter: he was badly burned after stepping on another shell ten years ago, and he can't understand why this one has not been removed. >> of course we worry. how can we not? it could kill us if we accidently touch it. >> reporter: nearby a father of another victim. he tells me his son was playing with friends beside this now frozen stream. he saw a steel tube lying at the water's edge and tried to retrieve it, thinking he could sell it for scrap. ned, chemicals inside cause