centered on the possibility of exchanging him for five taliban captives.ergeant is from idaho and apparently he walked off the base. what is his future? live in the mideast bureau with the latest. >> the taliban and the united states have been engaged in talks on and off for the past few years, but the talks are centered around two subjects. peace negotiations to bring an end to the war and also a prisoner exchange for them. the 27-year-old army sergeant walked off his base in 2009 and has been held captive by the taliban since then. today the afghan taliban said they were suspending all talks with the united states because the complex political statement in their country. the taliban did not explain, but they said there a lot of groups involved in the peace negotiations and prisoner exchanges including the taliban and the pakistani and the afghan government and the united states. they encourage them to be held in pakistan. it's likely to be the pakistani and not the afghani taliban that captured him. they have different leaders and very different goals th

but the standards are almost nonexistence under the animal welfare act for captive wildlife the onlyhat trigg airs violation is real filth, the animals starving, but if they are in a deficient enclosure that doesn't have the right size, if they are denying the animals an opportunity to socialize with others of their kind, those are not problems at all. and they don't deal with how the animals are procured or dispensed with once they don't want them any longer. >> beyond zoos we have theme parks lie see sea world and black fish have been controversial. these are massive businesses . issues with them? >> absolutely. black fish is a phenomenon it's been broadcast multiple times and really captured the imagination of the american pick big, especially young people wondering why okay as or killer wales the largest predators on the planet who swim 10s of miles every day who live in a social groups, family groups, why they are in these sterile little pools to do silly stunts so that people can, you know, cheer and clap at that. what black fish did was tell the back story and tell the story o

in captivity, animals are squeezed into very close proximity.guy is so large, he couldn't get away because he just is not as mobile relative to the smaller and more agile females. and where was he going to run? there's no place to run. >> i think he spent a lot of time in isolation. seaworld claims he's always with the females, but from what i saw he was mostly put with the females for breeding purposes and he didn't spend a lot of time with the other whales. >> it's for his own protection, you know, he gets beat up, and so by segregating him, it provides a physical barrier so the females can't kick his butt. >> tilikum is pretty much kept in the back, and then brought out at the very end as like the big splash. he was always happy to see you in the morning. >> hi. >> there we go. >> good boy. >> look at his choppers. >> maybe because he was alone. maybe because he was hungry. maybe because he liked you. who knows what was going on in his head. >> want to whistle? >> yes? >> that was really loud. >> come on. >> he seemed to like to work. he seem

you don't have that in captivity.mming 100 miles a day? >> sometimes this aggression became very severe, and in fact whales have died in captivity because of this aggression. >> i think it was 1988 kandu tried to assert her dominance over corky. rammed corky. it fractured her jaw, which cut an artery in her head, and then she bled out. that's got to be a hard way to go down. i saw there was just a lot of things that weren't right. and there was a lot of misinformation and something was amiss. and i sort of compartmentalized that part of it and did the best i could with the knowledge that i had. to take care of the animals that were there. and i think all the trainers there have the same thing in their heart. they're trying to make a difference in the lives of the animals. they think if i leave, who is going to take care of tilikum? that's why i stayed. i felt sorry for tilikum. i mean, if you want to get down to the nuts and bolts of it, i stayed because i felt sorry for tilikum, and i couldn't bring myself to stop co

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he holds the key, he holds the key and though we've been held captive at long last we are free, fore key ♪ against the gates of hell i now resist for the shackles that had held my wrists lay before me now upon the ground, to sin i am no longer bound ♪ from death's barren wounds he heard my cry and loosed the chains that bound me to a lie ♪ for he holds the key he holds the key and though we've been held captive at long last we are free, for he holds the key ♪ and to all the things that have kept you away, that keep you defeated day after day after day, the heartaches that nobody sees, that eats at your soul like a cruel disease ♪ he, who sets the captives free, it is he, it is he who holds your key ♪ he holds the key he holds the key and so we have been held captive at long last we're free, for he holds the key ♪ he holds the key ♪ [applause] >> at this time representative elliot engel will come and share a scripture with us. >> good morning, everybody. i knew they would put me on right after steve green, so i couldn't possibly compete with him. it is wonderful seeing were and wonde

someone was trying to survive the cold conditions in captivity. it's still a struggle to get them back on many stand up to a decade in limbo. as time of the prior smugglers to be convicted for the animals can be moved on even then. both countries involved have to agree on how to send them back. as a result fewer than one percent are repatriated. we tried to prepare as well as we can we never know how many and what kind of animals are coming to us about one am. sometimes it's just beyond our ability to meet you all the situation worsening. one group is taking matters into its own hands. a spacious facility which opened in two thousand and one more than four hundred animals are kept the founder and since then the confiscated animals need better protection and care for the food he eats. they are rescued. you know taken taken on by their officials um some animals on altria priority such as tour goals or mechanics monkeys you know the kind of animals they can in large numbers. and somehow they are neglected. this happens all over asia. where these anim

in a captive environment and whenever that or any other any other industry is is forcing forcing people forcing animals to perform to entertain for money to animals always end up suffering for the coming months ahead despite a massive online campaign all activists completely helpless when it comes to situations like. no absolutely not we with we would say that if if you've been outraged by this story as rightly people should be please find out with your local zoo what they do when when they have so-called surplus animals. i think people should be considering going and visiting animals in the wild instead of seeing them in captivity where they don't belong and more money should be spent on conserving animals in the wild instead of this. live from london thank you very much indeed for your time we appreciate it. thank you. and now let's take a look at some other international news and breathed a suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into a nato convoy killing two civilian contractors in the are going capital kabul at least seven others were wounded in that time which was cla

the usda may make one visit a year, but the standards are almost non-existent for captive wild live. real filth, the animal starving. if they are in a deficient enclosure that is not the right size, if they deny the animal the opportunity to socialise, they are not problems, and they don't deal with how the animals are procured and dispensed with once they don't want them. >> they are beyond zoos, we have theme parks, document ris like "the cove", and "black fish" - these are massive businesses. issues with them? >> absolutely. with sea world "blackfish" is a phenomenon, catching the imagination of the american public, especially young people wondering why issuinga, killer wales, large predators who swim tens of miles, who live in social groups, family groups why they are in these sterile little pools to do silly stunts so people can cheer and clap at that. what "blackfish" did was tell the back story of failed reproductive efforts in captivity, what happened when animals were captured, babies taken from the mothers. it raises the question of the behavioural and psychological needs o

maya paintings depict the gruesome sacrifice of captives. according to the spanish, the maya offered blood to appease their gods. maya nobles committed excruciating acts of self-mutilation. here, a woman pulls a rope embedded with thorns through her tongue. by spilling blood, the nobles believed they could communicate with powerful ancestral spirits. this monument commemorates another bloodletting -- but whose ? stuart: in the glyphs that follow, we have the name of the person who is the subject of the sentence -- the one who let the blood. and in this case it's the king of copan. he has various titles that tell us that, for instance, here -- the number "13" -- that he was the thirteenth king in the sequence. now lastly, we have the personal name of the king. and you can see here another number using, in this case, three dots with three bars, being 18. and then finally a head of an animal, which is a rabbit. and this is the name of "18 rabbit." keach: "18 rabbit" -- an odd name. but he was one of copan's greatest kings. he reigned from a.d.

all major news organizations including cnn, reuters, and cnbc, before their captivity this video was linked, it shows the moment they were detained. al jazeera acting bureau chief mohamed fahmy. i asked them many times if our legal position is valid in jeebt. i was told the al jazeera english position is valid. otherwise, i would not have accepted the job. fahmy is questioned further, who the last person they interviewed, who owns the equipment in the room and he is asked how he gets paid. to which he answered: we don't interview people in this room. al jazeera owns the equipment. i get a monthly salary like everybody else. the committee to protect journalists rates egypt among the worst countries for imprisoning members of the press. it has never been more important that the calls for press freedom on this day of action are heard in a country that is so deeply divided. and we will have much more on our global day of action a little later, including a talk with a journalist who knows too well what it means to be held against one's will in a foreign country. but first: mandatory evacu

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sentencing is scheduled for a richmond man pleading guilty to charms he held a young family member captiveraped her for more than a decade. the 52-year-old is expected to spend the next 22 years in prison as part of a plea agreement. the prosecution says he sexually abused and kept one of the relatives in a home in richmond since she was 13 years old. she finally escaped last year at the age of 27. >>> pg&e plans to boost security at the bay area substations in response to a coordinate,000 attack on the facility in south san jose with an energy official believing this was a test run for a terrorist attack. the f.b.i. disagrees but the attack did $15 million in damage and pg&e doesn't want to take a chance it will happen again. >> looking at using opaque fencing on the perimeter to obstruct the view and we are deploying additional advance camera systems, more alarms and enhanced lighting. >> pg&e has not identified which substations will be improved but metcalf is one. customers may have to foot the bill. >> we have heard of distracted driving and doctors are expressing concern about distra

some were carted off down to india into captivity. but the important thing, and again, researching the book i went through the whole malakand district and they interviewed a couple of pakistani civil administrators who would run the malakand district in the 1960 1960s, at a time i might add when the queen of england went there on a holiday to malakand and she cabled churchill who was then in his 90s saying, i'm standing, i visited the seeds of one of your greatest triumphs. prince philip went duck shooting in the valley. and that the spirit, after the aggression of pakistan, the pakistanis left the tribal areas in the same autonomous state that george courson had negotiated. and that arrangement really lasted until after 9/11 attacks. and, of course, one of the effects of our intervention in afghanistan was the taliban went over the mountains back into tribal areas, pakistan, and that's where all the trouble started. and pakistanis will tell you that the only way to really calm this down, if these talks are restarted, you've read this

month after the welfare of an ict knowledge of the rich would eat that kind of open class provincial captive bead shop but as soon as the wire off when you buy this. william and i see to that country has been hits funny beginning of nineteen helplessness and possibly much. some five thousand policemen got it over to the house and help end the fighting tears as they went about its history a vaccine is coming but it tends to have tightened their grip on it right but you can see what it looks kind of august on the well heeled as this has requested not to stand with me. we get. in an explosion hits and nato convoy in the gun captain on monday said american troops have just this side of the blast. no casualties have an ipod itself up. moving on in the arctic chill has seen and adding to the gate of the seventies who just can't seem to keep themselves away from the machines to cut up we attract what you are smeared with ago. but there are times when they get complete keyboard bill was doing. they knew not to explore now on the creek in oregon you get to the new daisy has attracted this view of the

mobile, the most recent phenomenon has helped having a captive -- captive market like ebay get viral.s riding high as it's stock continues to store. earnings later today and ashley joins me here. with a look ahead. the question has always been, are they shipping enough cars. are they? >> a surprise update already saying they would shift -- model. 5900 of their that was about 6000. things are headed to the right direction. the question is if this will last the whole year. supply to meet the demand? i know that has been talk meeting the at -- have done ay hundred cars a week if lucky and then they got up to about 500 and hundred. i think the goal for this year auld be to get up to like thousand a week. if they could hit those numbers, they would be able to kick -- keep up. qwest what about fires. we recently heard about another in toronto, a car that was not run a. plug-in in a garage. that sounds scary. qwest they have gone through a little blip. less we are looking at one of those last year. qwest canada was different because we are not sure what happened. nota said -- it was charging

when i approach the subject i thought of his exploits from captivity and all that, and in fact, when i started research i had another look in there was no reference to your church diluent afghanistan there is a picture of young winston on a gray horse in the general says to one of his young officers, who is that a bloody fool? someone who wants to get noticed i suppose. he will get noticed you will get his head blown off. indeed beyond reason winston went up to the northwestern frontier with the empire which is part of pakistan he did want to give themselves noticed. 22 years old. his family background was in some disarray. his father of the lord randolph had died of syphilis when churchill was still studying. his mother jenny a great society beauty had a reputation for her various dalliances with society gentleman. one of the admirer as was the prince of wales. and to have a rather difficult reputation in british society not only that they would be impoverished a and at the time that lord randolph died young winston and was just coming not having very indifferent schooling it in tho

it's had the headache thinking the bottom eighteen policeman who the heck the bleeding captive since twenty ten in the head immediately and stop ticking the box and come in and demanded to know the show he'd done he actually did all the boxed on audubon were shot dead a deal with the others identified gunmen in what was even start on monday. on good form before said. the county was seen carrying handles the box on the mnemonic up to one of the solution was hit in the us to attack chaos the memo. is it. i'm a dyed in the lead in sharjah in the minutes and commander docket awesomeness of whiskey from police custody on sunday after a daring ambush was shot dead in a gunfight to be that wisconsin is often outside of the village muslims to fight against a kindof losses and body. give us an awesome and only two of them in the dense woodland in tow as keep up to fifteen gunmen attacked a police van on sunday. open discourse and it was cute and cool it is good in june and again opened fire in a good one launched into his and then into shown some sixty five miles from national capital park on

the american is this young man, bo bergdahl, captive since 2009. and the u.s.some predicted was a sign they were ready to negotiate for his release. this after his father made the promise to his son, we will never leave you on the battle field. >> a father does not leave his son alone on the battle field. i do not live here, i live in afghanistan. my cell phone is set on afghan time. i will not leave you on the battle field, bo. these people will not leave you on the battle field. your country will not leave you on the battle field. you are not forgotten. to the people of afghanistan [ speaking in afghan, ] may after 12 years find peace in afghanistan, so that our soldiers and our american personnel can come home. >> joining me now, cnn's ed lavendera, ed, you have been in touch with the bergdahl family, you have been all this story since he went missing. what are they saying, about the latest talks with the taliban? >> well, mr. bergdahl, you heard him, that was from last summer, when there were talks of this prisoner exchange and there was, a family was very

young winston, i thought of carl forman's film and his exploits during the bell war, his escape from captivity and all that. and in fact when i was started research, i had another look at this film, and the only reference to churchill in afghanistan is the opening sequence where you have a picture of young winston on a gray horse, and the general is saying to one of his young officers, who is that bloody fool on the gray? someone who wants to get noticed, i suppose, says the young officer. he'll get noticed. he'll get his blood where head blown off. and indeed the recent young winston went to the front tier which forms part of pakistan, is he did want to get himself noticed, and he was 22 years old. his family background was in some disarray. his father, lord randolph, had died of syphilis when churchill was studying at sandhurst. his mother, a great society beauty, had a reputation of a grand -- for various dallianses with society gentlemen. among here admirers was the then prince of wales, and the family had a rather difficult reputation in british society, and not only that, they were deepl

a new plan to bring home an american soldier held captive bite taliban for five years. is the u.s. considering a prisoner swap with the taction? i am bill hemmer. and welcome to heather. >> today's washington post is reporting that the administration is open to exchanging five gitmo detainees for the soldier. >> jennifer what can we say. hello to you. >> hi, bill. in the last week u.s. officials have floated trial balloons through the press suggesting that it the administration would be willing to trade five detained from guantanamo bay for the u.s. soldier. this prisoner exchange is not a new idea and floated by the state department before and appears to gain traction among the u.s. officials since midjanuary. there is no evidence that preparations were made to move the detainees from guantanamo bay. by law the administration would have to notify congress 30 days pending the transfers. admiral kirby was asked about the trade. >> he is not only a member of the bier dal family. >> there was a intercepted video from the soldier to the taliban. the even this latest apparent effort app

he told the captivators but only because he couldn't bear the pain. >> they pinned me to the wood for something like nails, i was kneeling down, and they took sticks and starting to beat me on the back of my legs. it was very painful and i couldn't move, at that time i was in so much pain, that i was asking them to kill me because i couldn't stand it any more. >> when asked who they with, he hinted at foreign involvement. these people were speaking only russian with an accept. they were speaking about us in the third person, i had an impression they were from the russian special service. also, by the way they were beating and torturing me, i knew they were profession 23458ed that were skilled in doing such things. >> doctors here backed him up, and the foreign minister is calling for an investigation. >> we can make some assumptions i am not a doctor or expert, but we listen to the story, i listened to himself myself for two hours. we can see how he looks. i request not prove who did that, but there are symptoms. there's severity -- information that cannot be neglected. that's my poin

. >> coming up, three women in cleveland held captive for a decade are honored. >> a mystery illness is paralyzing kids in california. and the bus driver is credited with something for saving his life. >> and demetrius is checking at the ice on lake michigan to tell us how brittle this winter weather is going to impact our it appears, there was no foul play in the deaths of two americans aboard a famous container ship in the indian ocean. the bodies of jeffrey reynolds and mark kennedy were found last week aboard the maersk alabama... known as the "captain phillips" ship. autopsy results say, both men suffered respiratory failure, and both may have had heart attacks. further investigation will determine whether *drugs contributed to their deaths. at least five children in california are paralyzed from a mysterious illness. doctors say the symptoms are similar to polio. since 2012 children have. to have problems breathing and had signed up as much within days they lost movement of a leg or arm. none of those paralyzed have regained use of their limbs. all have refused polio vaccinatio

the obama administration has decided to revive talks to free the only known american soldier in captivity. in exchange they would release taliban business they ares held in guantanamo bay cuba. 5 that would be held there for years would be in exchange for beau who was captured in afghanistan in 2009. >>> passengers hijacked pie itsco pirates. he threatened to crash the plane if they didn't stop pounding on the door to get in. the flight was supposed to go to roam but they diverted it to geneva and the ethiopianco pilot asked for asylum and he is now in police custody. >>> it became a rough ride for customers after they experienced severe turbulence. passengers expressed panic as they held tightly to tear seats. >> there is a guy who lifted and hit the other side of the plane and came down on the other side of the aisle. >> they declared a medical emotion and he shack passengers. >>> people are reacting to her claims that she has killed 22 people. barber and her husband were arrested after they contacted a man on craigslist just to kill him together. she claims she first killed somebody wh

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she has been allowed to see her son kenneth once during his captivity in north korea. >> when i saw him with a hospital garment in a confined in a small space. >> reporter: he's been hospitalized for months suffering from a number of illnesses, including diabetes, heart problems and back pain. the 44-year-old was arrested in november, 2012. bae was taking a tour group from china visiting korea. his official crime, plotting hostile acts to bring down the government and planning antinorth korean rejinlgous activities. bae was filmed in july admitting to the crimes from the prison cell. >> translator: my wish is that the north korean government grants me mercy and the u.s. government will help me return home as soon as possible. >> reporter: a former missionary believes he would not be welcome in a country that is officially atheist. a website shows him as a father, son and brother. in every photo, he is smiling. a very different man seen here working eight hours of hard labor a day for three months before his health deteriorated and he was hospitalized. >> kenneth is a father of three and

. >> ukrainian opposition leader has been reliving his days in captivity where he says he was beaten and tortured. he says he was detained for eight days for many has become a symbol of the anti-government protest which shows no signs abating. he is currently in lithuania receiving medical treatment. we'll go live to kiev for reaction. what else did he have to say? >> he had a lot to say. was wheeled into the room where the press conference happened in the hospital behind me. he was obviously on medication, somewhat sedated but lucid in what he had to say. he was vermettee very. >> methodical. if you add together the detail of what he said he went through when he was in captivity in ukraine, it added up to a very harrowing account. >> arriving to tell his story and answer the doubters, the activist said he'd been abducted, questioned and tortured for eight days. >> they cut my ear off. it was very painful. i couldn't feel how much they'd cut, but then they placed the cut piece of ear on my fred. it was very scary. >> he told his captors the activism was funded by the american ambassa

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he was in cairo for the three year anniversary and was held captive in syria. we are joined by david keys in washington, d.c. and executive director of advancing human rights an organization focused on advancing liberties. g good to have you both on the show. on capitol hill, what were you trying to accomplish? >> today we met with congressional staff from the left and right spectrum. and were there in in order to get them to commit to the idea of changing the street names of embassies of dictatorships to those of political prisoners. it is an idea i raised and they accepted the professionals and we are moving forward and i very much hope that egypt -- egyptian embassies can be maimed for political prisoners. this was done in 1984. and we hope to change the streets in front of the embassies of iran, syria, egypt, china, return and many other countries. that hold political prisoners. >> symbolic gestures. but do you feel there is an intention to help out reporters around the world? >> it depends. i think there are some members of congress who are committed and o

. >> some 60 police officers were taken captive this morning when the violence was at its height. that is entire consistent with some of the pitches i've seen on television of the police captives being led through the crowds. in one case, a policeman looked rather bloodied. it's also consistent with what we were hearing from the stage when the violence was at its worst, the man who was on the sides of the protestors talking to his fellow protestors was telling them please don't hurt the captainives that we've taken. now, whether there are 50 or 60 or 70, i really couldn't tell you, but we do understand that there are some policemen who are missing, if i can put it like that. >> do we know who the hostage takers are? >> well, they would be people within the crowd. the crowd is a fairly disparate group, some very hard lined people who have been there for weeks and weeks now, allegiances to different political parties and in some cases, perhaps no allegiance to any political leader at all. there are people within the protest movement who consistently say that there are also provocate

a day old truce and fired into a crowd of protesters, in turn protesters took 67 police officers captivethat led european union leaders to vote to impose sanctions on ukraine. >> by permitting such action the deposit is putting itself at odds with reasonable opinion all cross the world. >> the white house condemned the action and at the same time called on protesters to find a way to act peacefully. >>> security at airports is on alert after the department of homeland security warned airlines that terror groups may be planning shoe bomb attacks on flights headed to the u.s. new intelligence indicates they have been working on new designs and they say to increase swabbing which picks up residue. >> we are live at the store where the 425 million dollar power ball ticket was sold, we will tell you what california lottery officials are saying about this winning ticket and the whirlwind business this is experiencing. >> it is warming up and mark tamayo will be here to tell you how long it will last and what is in center for your weekend. >> the mother of jahi mcmath finally comments but her d

presents killing the messenger is next, but first, as the day of action and support of our colleagues captive in egypt continues, take a look at images of people around the world showing their support. ^1 the and is s >> aging america continues tonight. >> we know exactly what you are doing, and know that you need help. >> amazing technology that helps your parents. . . >> [screen voice] i am a virtual assistant. >>. . .stay in their homes. >> did you ever think that you'd be living with robots? >> no, never! >> tonight on al jazeera america. >> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> you're watching, al jazeera america presents: killing the messenger. >> in the case of iraq, we've seen more of our colleagues locally killed. they live there. the front line, if you'd like, is- is outside their front door. >> in recent and ongoing conflicts like iraq and afghanistan, the- the highest death toll, if you'd like

so far both of these americans are still being held captive in north korea and iran. there are other americans being held captive other places including cuba right now as well. so this is a struggle that the administration has to deal with, but there are limits to u.s. power as far as these kinds of situations are concerned. >> indeed. wolf, on the other side of the political fence, chris christie going to texas for some fundraisers. now, of course, the bridge scandal and all of that hanging over his head, any smoke signals there regarding his possible run? >> well, i think what he's trying to do is show that he can go on and do his business as usual not only as governor of new jersey, but also as chairman of the republican governors association and go out there and do some speaking, fund raising, even campaigning for republicans out there. he's going to be going not just to texas today, but he'll be in maryland, in new york. he's going to some other states as well. i think his strategy in part is, yes, there are these investigations going on into the closure of those

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according to the post, the white house wants to trade prisoners held in guantanamo bay, he has been held captiveow since 2009. a short while ago, the white house said they are not in current talks with the taliban. >> we are not -- to go directly to your question, involved in those negotiations with the taliban. clearly, negotiations will resume at some point, and they want to talk about the safe return of sergeant. he has been gone far too long, and we continue to call for and work for his safe release. >> going on to say that the u.s. prefers an afghan led peace prospect. pakistan's army has just announced a senior officer was killed in a shoot out, as a result those peace talks between antigovernment and taliban remain on hold. the set back comed at a high cost for families canut the middle. al jazeera reports. these children can afford only one meal a day, and sometimes that's a luxury. their mother cleans houses so think can feed them. >> i have no one else to earn for my family, it is very difficult for me to look at my children, at times we have no food, i know they have a miserable life,