bernard smith has this report. >> reporter: it was the most brutal use of police force in south africa0 years since the end of apartheid. 34 striking miners were shot down when police opened fire on them in august 2012. the violence was the culmination of months of fighting at the platinum mine near johannesburg. south africa's president set up a judicial inquiry in to the killings. now that inquiry is accusing the police of lying and fabricating evidence. in a statement, the commission said we have obtained documents which give the impression that they are co connecticut trier justice documents but which appear to have been constructed after the events to which they refer. we have obtained document that demonstrate that the south african police services version of the events is not the truth. we have to to say the material we have found has serious consequences for the further conduct of the work of this commission. >> we can only hope that the head commissioner will start subbing the communications that went on between the police and their minister. and between the minister and other

bernard smith, al jazeera. >>> okay. plenty more to come on this particular.e'll be speaking exclusively to an afghan politician after she has been released by the taliban. >>> and an incredible comeback in new york. paul will be here with that story and more. ♪ >>> kenya's president has pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity in the international criminal court. he is accused of inciting violence after the elections in 2007. more than 1,000 kenyans died and 600,000 were made homeless. >>> we have comprehensive coverage of this story. katherine is in kenya, but first tim is at the hague. tim you have of course been watching the proceedings, what have you seen and heard? >> what we have been hearing is the detail behind those kind of headline facts that you have must been mentioning. all of those people displaced, persecuted, deported, made homeless, some of them still are in kenya. of course many, many people killed, more than one thousand. we have been hearing some of the incidents that took place in the valley when these two defendants according to the

bernard smith, al jazeera. >> reporter: and we are joined live from zambaranga city and tanks surroundinga and set the scene there for us, are they making any headway? >> well, it is not easy to know for sure since the -- fighting broke out between the philippines government and the liberation front early monday morning. it's still unknown whether negotiations are underway between the two sides but one thing is for sure, there has been no let up in the standoff. basically there is all day today and even last night fighting is on going and early this morning more civilians were taken hostage and a few were released and behind me is the last part of the city where actually the philippine government and military and military forces have control and mnlf fighters and snipers have taken control and taken over 180 hostages and right now the city remains on lock down and the local government has imposed a curfew and the schools and hospitals said they are secured but basically the streets are empty. >> reporter: the americans have been training security forces in the philippines to deal with sit

bernard smith, al jazeera. >>> you're watching al jazeera.uch more to come. ♪ >>> welcome back at least three people were killed torrential rains caused flooding in colorado. this man's vehicle flipped and fell off of a washed-out overpass and two other cars followed. we're going to boulder, colorado. i understand you have new information coming in from the governor, tamara? >> reporter: i do, richelle, the governor says this storm is turning into epic proportions, and so he is asking fema for assistance in the rescue efforts here in boulder county, and out there colorado. this storm is not just hitting boulder county, but as far north as larimer county, and as far south as colorado springs. you can see some of the kids trying to keep the flood waters from coming into their apartments. earlier this morning we shot some amazing video of a rescue in which three cars were passing over a roadway, and that roadway collapsed on them. all three cars submerged and fell into the water. now again, this is the toughest, hardest hit of this storm here in

bernard smith with al jazeera. >> the first sanctuary for pigmy elephants opened up.r animals who are fast losing access to the natural habitat and funded by the industry activists say is causing harm to wildlife in the environment and andrew thomas has this report. >> reporter: take away the people and she is alone and so far the only pigmy elephant at the first rescue sanctuary and the expectation is there will be as many 50 elephants joining ms. roco but that demand is a worrying sign of a threat to wildlife. the center was officially opened by government minister but it's mainly money from the oil industry paying for it, the very industry they are doing more to damage wildlife than any other. you are the main sponsor of the project and part of a guilty conscious. >> definitely not, definitely not. what we have done is we are -- that is a realization that we cannot live in isolation. i think it's a realization that we should be a part of the overall effort. >> reporter: it is still possible to see striking wildlife down the river and the chance of seeing an elephan

. >> bernard smith reports. a shoot out in the heart of a southern philippines city. government soldiers are exchanging fighters with the fighters from the moro liberation front. residents ran for cover. some were killed in the crossfire. >> translation: i saw them roaming around and knocking at the door to my master's house. they got the people inside and took them away. >> the mmlf wants self-rule forrist lambs. it's -- forrist lambs. it's broken away from the larger group. >> we can't to - the conclusion is we want to have our own government, we want independent nation >> police estimate that around 20 mlf fighters are holding up to 15 people hostage in the crowded neighbourhood of rio hond. the done men fled after a night-time battle at sea where their flotilla was intercepted by a navy chrome. >> lieutenant colonel is here with us. is the hostage situation continuing? >> yes, it is. unfortunately there has been host inls held by the rogue -- hostages held by the rogue break away group. currently we are trying to contain, to prevent it from spilling over to other

bernard smith with al jazeera. >> 7 passengers on a bus killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan and injured in the providence and the bus was going to kabul from kandahar. they have a senior afghan mp was released after being kidnapped last month and al jazeera has the video of her release and this is an exclusive report and jane furgeson caught up with her. >> a month in taliban custody ended with an embrace of her children. she was the first female mp to be kidnapped by the group and the most senior. speaking exclusively to al jazeera she described her experience. and it was traumatized but never sexual assaulted. >> translator: i was there a while and wouldn't respect their mother or sister. in reality it wasn't that way. the taliban treated the women and living with a miss conception about islam. >> reporter: it was a dramatic effort headed by senior politicians and afghan intelligence services and those in charge of the rescue visited her in her home in kabul to celebrate and the government said there was an exchange of prisoners to get her back and taliban has four of her rela

others spent the night sleeping on the streets, bernard smith, al jazerra. >> for the first time in eightnorway has a new leader. the conservative party's has won the election. nicknamed iron erna she pledge today pro might health care and cut taxes it means defeat for the outgoing labor mim prime minister. alexei's supporters have rallied in moscow against what they say was a fraudulent mayor oral election. the winner narrowly escaped facing him in a run off. peter reports from moscow. >> reporter: on monday night thousands of supporters gathered near red square coming with say shared sense of frustration and anger. many convinced the election was stolen from them. he preferred to look to the future. >> with this election, at last politics was born in russia. strong opposition was born, we know what to do and how to do it. >> reporter: alexei swept up far more votes than expected. opinion polls had predicted he would just get 10% of the ballots cast. instead he pulled in nearly 30%. a stunning result for the young opposition leader and one that will shock president putin. deprived of acc

bernard smith has more. >> reporter: the reactor has been out of operation since 2008.hat was when a cooling tower was destroyed by the north korean government. but in april they said they would restart the reactor. now satellite pictures show steam rising from their building that houses turbines and generators. >> they are building up their nuclear capabilities. part of that mean increases their stockpile of material and nuclear weapons, part of it means trying to perfect their means of delivery, you know, through construction projects at this main site. they are probably in preparation for future tests. >> reporter: russia's news agencigy, describes the reactor as being in a nightmarish state. it produces plutonium. >> translator: when the nuclear reactor is restarted plutonium will be able to produced continuously. i think north korea should stop the running of the 5 mega watt nuclear reactor. >> reporter: the u.s. special representative for north korean poli policy is in north korean for discussions. >>> government forces in the southern philippines are now fighting

bernard smith, al jazeera. >> so there is more positive news about the recovery in the housing market. foreclosure activity is at an eight-year low. only 56,000 homes entered the foreclosure process last month. that's a decline of 44% from august 20202021. sales of tablet computers are set to outweighs pc and laptop sales. isales will surpass the more traditional computer. michael dell is taking back the company that he founded, dell shareholders voted for a buyout for his partners and he said the company is worth more than the 13.8 a share buyout price. >>> okay, ross is here with a look at the headlines. >> reporter: corruption in college football. >> no, really? >> reporter: earlier in the week "sports illustrated" alleged that oklahoma state was paying their players among others things. now yahoo sports are reporting that agents used alabama player as a run for distribute money to buy five scc players. receiving $45,000. now alabama said they're investigating this matter as a prep for saturday's monster showdown against johnny manziel and texas a&m. >>> the new york jets and mark

bernard smith, al jazeera. >>> a new housing boom.oming up immigrants buying houses for their families, and pumping up the economy. ♪ >> welcome back everyone. let's give you an update now on the massive fire burning in seaside park, new jersey. the fire broke out at core's custard ice cream shop. these are live pictures right now, and pictures from earlier now, a portion of that boardwalk was rebuilt following superstorm sandy. several firefighters as well as residents had to be treated for smoke inhalation. ♪ >>> wal-mart says it will move ahead with its plans to open stars in washington, d.c., that after the mayor vetoed the living age bill. he blocked the plan that would required a minimum wage of $12.50 an hour. wal-mart said it would pull the plug on its plans to come to washington if the bill became law. >>> a judge has approved a plan for american to merge with u.s. airways. there a trial over the lawsuit scheduled for november. >>> a federal judge won't stop the city of richmond from trying to keep homeowners to keep their ho

. -- daryl smith, camden dos were bernard pierce. most of you say tandon doss area -- tandon doss.--e now for the orioles seven games left to play. the wildcard wrapping up their four-game stint in tampa traded the orioles right now in the lead. if the lead don't start to get strung together two wins thomas they are up one to nothing. chris davis and his 52nd home run of the season. that gives the orioles 8221 lead. orioles 221 lead. a solo homerun putting the orioles up area but they have bad news. manny machado running out a ground ball, suffering a knee injury and had to be carted off the field. will have enough it on his status tonight at 11:00. stay with us. tom tasselmyer is back with a last look at the weather as false starts to settle them. a five-month-old baby died inside a home? latebreaking details on that investigation. father arrested after an encounter with a baltimore county police officer. why the charges were just dismissed. >> looks like we are in for a tremendous stretch of weather. it looksghs come a really fantastic. it's great to be outdoors. a slight chance

smith, tracy byrnes, jonas farris, john layfield, and bernard witman. welcome to everybody. john, the impact on jobs. >> yes. absolutely. i don't know where the administrati administration's head is. no offense to the administration, but people who are proponents of this are ignoring the facts, from investors business daily, there the express employment ceo bob funk who says, our business is booming right now because people are hiring temporary workers to fill full-time slots to get around obama care. the administration has come out and said that health care costs are already coming down. the fact is, i2009, you started to see this trend before obama care ever kicked in. and the kaiser institute just came out and said 77% of lowering health care costs -- of not expanding, not lowering, but not expanding, came to due to an economic slowdown. there is a huge cost to this. this is not free. and it's not just borne by the individual. this is projected to cost the government $1.4 trillion. we're going to borrow it from china. and as gary b. points out so well, very few government

a for darylter smith context the b for punt return specialist tandon doss or for running back bernardpierce, text see. here is a look at what's coming up new at 6:00. >> gun rights groups rally for changes in maryland's new gun law. >> charges dropped -- prosecutors in baltimore county will not prosecute a parent after a meeting at the school board. we will show you the video. >> investigators looking into a four alarm fire. now. >>at 6:00 starts you are watching wbal-tv 11. >> live, local, late raking. news at 6:00. >> are big story tonight, temperatures converge on annapolis today taking aim at the new gun law regulations that go into effect on october 1. >> they testify before a legislative committee the game changes but debated the bull's- eye? david collins joins us from annapolis for more on what happened. they took steady aim and brought in some heavy artillery in the form of public support, however they missed their target. to adopt the voted regulations without making any changes. these pro-nited, second amendment advocates found something in maryland's sweeping gun-control l

smith family. >> harbaugh also said that ray rice might return for this week's game against the bills. i want to see more production out of their running attack. bernard heer said 24 carries for 65 yards. they did not run for a hundred yards against the texans. they did not run for 100 yards yet in any of their three games. john harbaugh wants to see that trend come to an end as soon as this week. >> we have been working on it and we need to make that important. philosophically, we will stick with it. we will be able to run the ball here. it is just part of our dna. >> forecasts are part >> room for the days where you daydream in class and doodle on your note book or on your sneaker. hammerson college student doodled on her right thigh, draws on her leg during lectures and posts the pictures online before washing it off and starting all over. that is pretty good. there is also walter white from breaking bad. and a tribute to the artist georgia o'keeffe. the artwork went viral and she has been fielding job offers for logo and design work. she is clearly a real artist. >> is she learning anything in class. >> i guess so. skies, 73 cloudy wednesday and t

bernard parish. the cdc confirmed the presence of a dangerous brain-eating amoeba lurking in the pipes. the discovery came after 4-year-old drake smithasite after playing on a backyard water slide with his cousin. >> i thought he was going to pull through but day whiby day kept getting worse and worse. >> reporter: young drake died in august. the amoeba was in the parish water system in faucets and hydrants. the chlorine levels in the water system were low. officials are warning residents to make sure the water doesn't go up their noses when bathing or running through a sprinkler. >> the amoeba finds itself way back in our notions and then can work its way into our central nervous system around our brains and once it's there, it just causes destruction. >> local schools are shutting down water fountains. >> we just don't want a little one to get water in their face responsib possibly up their nose. >> i'm a parent, i'm nervous and leery but my hopes are the parish and cdc buckle down to get this under control. >> what officials are saying is that the amoeba can't get to your brain if you're swallowing it but it can if it goes up your