techknow sundays 7:30et / 4:30pt on al jazeera america xhosa >>> hello, welcome to jal jazeea ameri americai'm jonathan betz in new york. >> the shooter came with a gun and had multiple rounds. >> revenge may have been the motive behind a colorado shooting. [ bells toll ] >> the nation remembers the victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting one year ago today. >> and tears for the return of a hero. the body of nelson mandela arrives in the village where he grew up. >> facing violence and not

it's brewed in bottles by american veterans. [ ♪ music ] >> hello, welcome to al jazeera ameri americai'm thomas drayton, good to have you with us. >> violence in the world's youngest country is spiralling out of control. an oil-rich state called unity is no longer under the control of the government. americans have been safely evacuated from the country. loyalties have been split, between supporters of president salva kiir, and former vice president riek machar. the violence escalated when the president dissolved his cabinet in july. he created a one-party state making it impossible for anyone else to be elected president. south sudan is a country in crisis. >> as the violence in north and central south sudan escalates thousands are trying to scope the fighting. government forces have lost control. they are battling to recapture bor. >> there are a lot of people who are now in the u.n. compound in bor town. the whole town is vacated completely. it is only these rebel soldiers who move about in the town. all the bodies have not been collected. we don't know how far, what is the number

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aren't we seeing more on this stuff going on in corporate ameri america? >> you just identified very remarkable women leaders. what is important when we talk about this is to focus on a leadership of women. unfortunately, the cat list census shows boards at 16.9% and when we look at women executive officers, again, four consecutive years of no significant growth, women hold 14.6% of those seats. so, clearly, womenre facing barriers to their advancement and a big part of what this includes is the fact that the companies that they are working for are not paying the right amount of attention to the fact that this is a talented group of leaders that need to be supported and advanced through the pipeline. >> you say that the facts show that companies that have women represented on their boards and in the executive ranks do better in terms of performance than those that don't x. plain that and why doesn't that get through the thick heads of some people and say hey, we can do better if we have more women there and finally, why do you think that is? >> well, catal

>>> hello, welcome to jal jazeea ameri america. i'm jonathan betz in new york. >> the shooter came with a gun and had multiple rounds. >> revenge may have been the motive behind a colorado shooting. [ bells toll ] >> the nation remembers the victims of the sandy hook elementary school shooting one year ago today. >> and tears for the return of a hero. the body of nelson mandela arrives in the village where he grew up. >> facing violence and not enough food - we report from the central african republic on the growing humanitarian crisis. >> tonight we have a better idea why a teenager opened fire at his colorado high school. the sheriff said karl pierson meant to kill as many as he could. paul beban has the latest outside centennial. >> another press conference from the sheriff. he said it will be the last. giving a tremendous amount of new detail and insight into what happened in the events leading up to the shooting, and how things will proceed going forward. a few of the highlights. the shooter purchased the shotgun, a pump shotg

check a >>> welcome to al jazeera ameri america.'m stephanie sy. >> a funeral procession for former south african president nelson mandela is travelling through the streets of pretoria. people are lining the streets paying tribute as nelson mandela's body is taken to the seat of government, where he'll lie in state for a second day. nelson mandela will be buried in his childhood home of quooun u on sunday. >> there's outrage at an apparently phoney sign language interpreter. the deaf federation says the man's hand signals were meaningless. >> body

are christians allowed to practice christianity there, that jesus would be chinese and in south ameri americaican, and that megan kelly's jesus is white, because that's how every single person sees christ. do you think that scholar has any sort of point, or do you think megan kelly needs to apologize? >> no, i think, look, the scholar clearly has a point. there is the whole idea of jesus and accepting jesus and getting into this kind of a debate is that you are -- you're telling people wherever they may be in the world. she's got the right, obviously, megan does, the first amendment right to express her views political politically. sunny can make any fi philosophical -- >> she's being historically inaccurate. >> you can talk about the historical inaccuracy and the fact she's got a first amendment right to express her views, which i think she was doing -- >> there's a difference between a view and saying something is a fact. >> well fill sophilosophically, symbol and you view whatever symbol with whatever symbolism you want. i don't know why we're calling her ignore rant or anything else. a lo

>>> welcome to al jazeera ameri america. i'm stephanie sy. >> a funeral procession for former south african president nelson mandela is travelling through the streets of pretoria. people are lining the streets paying tribute as nelson mandela's body is taken to the seat of government, where he'll lie in state for a second day. nelson mandela will be buried in his childhood home of quooun u on sunday. >> there's outrage at an apparently phoney sign language interpreter. the deaf federation says the man's hand signals were meaningless. >> body armour will no longer by supplied from the u.s. to syria. humanitarian aid will continue. >> the white house says 365,000 americans signed up for health insurance through online exchanges. enrolment tripled since october. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius called for an investigation into the troubled website. >> flight 216 as yarna crashed. it's been determined that the pilot did not understand how the fully automated systems worked. >> those are the headlines. in the

would have been deposited into the federal reserve, and the trillion dollars would be used to pay ameri america's bills to averta global calamity. the huffington posthas learned that the white house had the president's top lawyers actually look into the legal justification for making the $1 trillion coin under a law that allows the treasury to mint currency of any denomination. the white house admitted to the legal memos, but they were determined too sensitive to be released, so we don't know if legally the white house actually believes that it could have used the coin option. the u.s. will actually hit the debt ceiling again on february 7th. >>> up next, republicans admit that they have no ideas for making health care better. >>> that seems to be the only alternative that obama care's critics have, is let's just go back to the status quo, because they sure haven't presented an alternative. if you ask many of the opponents of the law what they would do differently, the answer seems to be, let's go back to the way things used to be. i have always said i would work with anybody to implement and imp

. >> reporter: randy is the executive director of ameri-robotics and worked three years to get this competition to americaving pieces and parts and math and it's a really powerful platform. >> reporter: they are getting ready for the biathalon and looking around the room there is proof that american kids are falling behind in the field of technology and most of the come ticks here has been dominated by asia, where are the americans? >> back at home sitting at home and watching tv. >> 10% are from the u.s. >> the real issue with our kids is we need to look at from a u.s. perspective how we get them to go beyond where they are right now and not just be consumers of technology but be creators of technology. >> reporter: last year south korea had top honors and americans won one silver metal and u.s. students are ranked 21 out of 23 countries in math and science and 17th out of 19 in problem solving. >> that doesn't mean everybody has to be a creator of technology but if we move them up that continuum it's going to be a really powerful experience. >> reporter: a point not lost on nine-year-old of denver. >> y