when mao invited his colleagues to a dinner which chang chen played the role and that was it traded. c-span: it's where in 11 years of booknotes there's a quote they can't read because of language and i think you know i'm talking about. there's a quote in this book that you got from the doctor about -- that quote about what he does with his private parts in reference to women. you say the whole area we talked about for five women in his bed. explain that whole lifestyle that he had and the doctors look. >> guest: the doctors book was the first time we have heard about them than there was some skepticism. in the west it was accepted but in china you have people coming out of the woodwork and saying this enormous bed and you know that is the bed which was left in his study by people who knew him said the bed he actually used with even bigger and if we believe it, which i think we should that he did like to have several young women, up to five young women in bed with him and of course his books since his books were important to him and there were always books on his bed no matter what h

as we gentleman change -- weijia chen reports. >> reporter: tension reese main high, several demonstrators including cornell west were taken into police custody while staining a sit in outside st. louis county courthouse. it comes after a night of violence and destruction. for the second time in a year, they are struggling to clean up hair salon after looters stormed in overnight. >> i was sad, and in tears, and somehow just really tired, frustrated. >> reporter: weekend of peaceful protests was interrupted when a gunfight broke out between two groups sunday night. hours earlier, more than a thousand people, marched from the spot where unarmed michael brown junior was fatally shot by a white police officer. plainclothes police caught up with one of the alleged gunman and shots were exchanged. >> get him some help man. >> reporter: eighteen year-old tyrone harris was struck multiple time as he faces charges including a assault. some community leaders are criticizing st. louis county police department for deploying plainclothes officers during the protests. >> if you are in plane clothes how

"america tonight's" joie chen examines the kerner commission's findings. and whether anything has changedon "america tonight's" website, green rush, who will see the profits? find out at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >> tonight in our fast forward segment we take a look at a dark chapter in chicago's history. from the early '70s to the early '90s more than 100 men were tortured to give false confessions by members of the chicago police department. i recently sat down with one man who spent half of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. >> i'll take the big old nightstick and put it (bleep) as he's telling me you did this we know you did this. >> this was a highly publicized quintuple murder but when police picked up kitchen they told him it was for auto theft. >> they said stand up nigger. stand up to the wall, handcuffed me to

"america tonight's" joie chen examines the kerner commission's findings. and whether anything has changedon "america tonight's" website, green rush, who will see the profits? find out at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird on their plate? >> something's going into food that shouldn't really be there. >> techknow investigates. >> you could not pay me to fake data. >> tonight in our fast forward segment we take a look at a dark chapter in chicago's history. from the early '70s to the early '90s more than 100 men were tortured to give false confessions by members of the chicago police department. i recently sat down with one man who spent half of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. >> i'll take the big old nightstick and put it (bleep) as he's telling me you did this we know you did this. >> this was a highly publicized quintuple murder but when

"america tonight"s joie chen examines the current findings on racial injustice decades ago, and whether anything has really changed. [ ♪ ] >>> more questions about american spending in afghanistan. a u.s.-gunneded power plant outside kabul could result in catastrophic failure, according to a letter released by a u.s. government watchdog agency. the 335 million projects funded by u.s. a.i.d. is severely underutilized, operating at less than 1% of its production capacity. correspondent glajennifer glasse looked at another matter, which has residence there, left in the dark. >> ice-cream mogul is obsessed with keeping things gold. in the desert city with 100 degree summers, that is not easy. >> jamali opened the ice-cream business four years ago. the timing seemed right. the americans bit the industrial park with its own power station. the afghans needed electricity, they knew diesel was the wrong way to go. it's expensive and never sustainable. the americans told kandahar this was a temporary solution. kandahar was the sea of taliban power. mulear omar's compound was at the base of in mountain. more than 200 america

change. >> i think we are seeing things move forward in a small way, but things didn't get that way overnight, but it will take time. >> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. a year ago, ferguson was no longer a community, but it took a death of the unarmed teenager michael brown at the hands of police to turn it into a flashpoint and the national discussion and the shorthand for the many communities, where clashes with law enforcement. away from headlines, ferguson recovered from a moment in the spotlight. lori jane gliha followed up in ferguson. half-a-dozen times before it faded away. they bring an indepth look. >> this is west flor sent avenue, the main drag cutting through ferguson, missouri. looking at it now, it may be hard to believe this was the epicentre of mass protests last august. now boarded up buildings and graffiti are reminder of what happened here the the scene different from a week ago. >>> last summer the streets were filled with thousands of people, protesting the death of michael brown. and an intense police crackdown. >> i remember hearing gun fire and ducking for cover. even wearing a mask to protect from the tear gas in the air. p

chen. we've seen the impact in the united states, after colorado and washington state legalized marijuana and all the states approved medicinal cannabis, increasing talk around the country. and it's inspired changes in marijuana laws off our shores in a place that you wouldn't expect that legalize ganja. jamaica's green rush. >> a three-hour drive from the jamaican capital of kingston, wine enthuse yatsenyuk go twine. this is all your ganja -- >> cannabis. >> this is all different types of strains. >> many assume that mdges marijr cannabis or ganja has been legal but this is why this farmer has asked us to keep his identity secret. >> i've been arrested. >> earlier this year taking a cue from places like colorado the jamaican government decriminalized possession of small amounts of the plant. >> when did you think earlier this year marijuana was decriminalized? >> i thought it was a good opportunity for growth for the people who had born the brut of the disgrace and the illegality of it to be redeemed. >> jamaica's decriminalization of marijuana has made some here uneasy. this is a conservative society. gangs have dominated the illegal drug trade and parts of the country bear the scars of the vio

change. >> i think we are seeing things move forward in a small way, but things didn't get this way overnight in our nation, and it will take time >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. one year ago firs was no more than a quiet community in north st. louis until the death of michael brown at the hands of local police, which ignited a flashpoint on race and communities of colour flashing with law enforcement. away from the headlines ferguson struggled to recover from an unintended moment in the spotlight. lori jane gliha followed up in ferguson more than half-a-dozen time since the other national media faded away and gives us an indepth look at what changed in the place where a movement began. >> reporter: this is west florissant avenue, the main drag cutting through ferguson, missouri. looking at it now, it may be hard to believe this street was the epicentre of mass protests last august. now, boarded up buildings and graffiti are stark reminders of what happened here. the scene is different from a year ago. [ chanting ] >> reporter: last summer the street was filled with thousands of people. protesting the death of michael brown, and an intense police crackdown. i

he has concerned about birthright citizenship chen anyone who is illegal and comes here that child is an american citizen, should that change? he left open the door unclear about whether children who are a part of that might some day be deported. talked about no more sanctuary cities. of course, the kind of headline of he does not believe in amnesty. that's a regular talking point, a regular core position. so he is feeling the pressure from donald trump here. make no mistake about it. as you said, luke, he's got win iowa. trump has really cut into the walker lead in iowa. back to you. thanks for pair bebearing with all of this. >> thanks for joining us. anne gearan, i want you to close the segment out. hillary clinton, you wrote a piece with dan balls. quote, several supporters said that while no one is pulling the fire alarm they see worrisome patterns emerging. among them, insularity, rigid y rigidity, and a sense that tone deaf is happening around it. those are words in the 2008 campaign, what is happening there? >> that -- what we heard, what dan and karen and i heard from many democrats who i say are by and large suppo

changing moments. >> i had never been bullied, everyone hates me. >> from oscar winning director alex gibney. >> shut the cam --. >> a hard hitting look at the real issues facing american teens. the incredible journey continues. >> i'm joie chen you're watching "talk to al jazeera". our guest is classical superstar lang lang. >> you do quite a bit of work with young people very young talents, who are also interested in piano, and also want to be like lang lang, i guess. is that possible? particularly here in the west. i know in asia it's different. you're still a rock star. do you imagine a moment where classical music will have that kind of rock-star status in america? >> it depends. i mean, the - that - actually that doesn't really matter whether it feels like rock star in america or not. because what i'm thinking about is just - there's no music class in public schools here. and that's - that's really kind of - from day one, when i arrive in '97. my high school didn't have music class. >> and that surprised you? >> yeah. so, i'm like, "what!" wow, in china every school has a music class, at least. >> of course. >> you know? and i'm like why in america? i mean, this is, you know, considered to be the superpower. and doesn't

chen of cowen. what do you think is going to happen to kors at this point? >> calling a takeout here is very difficult to do. calling a change in what's going on with their comps which are going to still stay tough, the handbag pressure dan knows very well obviously. some guys aren't buying as much anymore. >> man bag. >> man bag. but ultimately you're in a place where if you look -- let's talk about -- let me bring it back on the rails here. talking about coach, talking about kors, you're in a place where these are both companies that have enormous sales expectations globally. china is slowing down. coach is a turnaround story that is still in turnaround. you don't need to run in ahead of the numbers. >> i think the difficult part about this is if there's interest out there, leveraged buyout, that gets pretty curious and pretty interesting because that's something we don't like to do very often. we sit on the desk all the time and say if you were buying this because you think the stock's going to get bought out, it's probably not the right reason. >> auto stocks stalling out. despite soaring sales what needs to happen to ge