. >> reporter: the 58-year-old was born felipe elizondo a boy who struggled with his identity and was bullied. >> i really did not want to be this way. >> reporter: at 18, elizondo joined the navy and fought in the war to prove he was a man. >> maybe i would get killed and all this pain and confusion would die with me. and i would make my family proud. >> reporter: after being dishonorably discharged for being gay, she eventually underwent a sex change operation. she has also lived with being hiv positive for 28 years. elizondo says she works as a drag queen to benefit charities. >> you have to know your history, where you came from in order to be proud of who you are or who you were meant to be. >> reporter: both elizondo and rick weltz says they hope visibility and education will change attitudes. >> two pretty impressive stories there, amber, thank you. >>> ktvu.com by the way will be streaming the parade on sunday so you can watch it wherever you are. our coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. online or on our news app. >>> a judge in sacramento county ruled today that an anti gay measure

gabriel elizondo has more from lexington.own where roof spent much of his youth. >> after what many call the worst hate crime ever in south carolina, who is dylann roof, the 21-year-old accused killer. he attended white high school, he didn't graduate. roof's former classmates described him as a loner that would sometime tell racist jokes. his friend had mixed emotions. >> i'm speechless, i don't really know. it hit me know. seeing a best friend you have known for years that do somg like this, he wanted segregation, white with white black with black. he didn't believe what the blacks were doing to the white race. >> 80% of the 20,000 residentser white. roof didn't have a job. residents are here in shock. >> i can't imagine how that could have happened. >> others think he is mentally ill. >> i think he was mentally im, that's my opinion so. he's an untreated mental health patient as far as i'm concerned. >> his facebook page had a photo of him wearing a jacket that bore symbols of the white racist regimes of rowe rode eastboun

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera. >> a al jazeera journalist has been destained in germany.jazeera's acting director general says abdel mansour is one of the world's most respected journalist and must be released immediately. victoria gatenby has the story. >> german police say he is accused of committing several crimes. mansour says his arrest may have been part of a secret deal made during egyptian president abdel fatah al-sisi recent trip ogermany. >> translator: unfortunately the german authorities are handling that in a very suspicious manner and how they are collaborating with the military regime in egypt. there may have been a secret deal that is related to me personally, based on sisi's latest visit to germany. >> mansour's attorney says his arrest is politically motivated. >> it's inconceivable an innocent man all he's doing is his job. he has two leading programs on al jazeera. >> sisi has largely suppressed dissent in egypt some cases sentenced to did death since former president mohammed more sition wasmorsiwas arrested years ago. and three other al jazeera journ

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera charleston, south carolina. >> how people look at racism in their society. >> when we look at the deep rooted problems that are motivating, all of these racial issues that we see across the united states, we're talking about really needing to look at what we're teaching our young people how we're teaching them. the conversations that we're having with them. not just in families and in communities and everything. we need to have real conversations in classrooms. we need to look at what our education systems are teaching and we have to examine our gun laws. i am scared. i'm scared when you look at the state of race relation in the uniteds in theunited states and the state of our gun laws, i'm scared. >> the u.s. says the number of global terror attacks accused in 2014. a new report on counterterrorism attributes the rise to the islamic state of iraq and the levant. rosalyn jordan looks at the policy and whether the results helps or hurts the campaign. >> from the issues in mogadishu 2014 was a very violent year, thanks to what it calls increased acts of terro

gabriel elizondo has more. >> in south carolina people continue to mourn over this terrible massacre that took the lives of flynn people. we saw people march -- of 9 people. marching showing solidarity to the wider community as well. we also saw protests in the capital, colombia, south carolina. a flag many people associate with a racist period here in this country harkening back to the civil war area and more recently it has been associated with the can you clerk will unlock the machine. pgh klan. with the queue clerk will unlock the machine. can you clerk willunlock the machine. .kukluxklan. , south carolina just days after nine african americans were killed inside an historic clack church essentially by a white man with racial grievances. for among others to keep slavery during the civil war in the early 1860s. it was later adopted by the white supremacist group the ku klux klan. >> i think it's a symbol of hate ret red. ihatred. i think it's despicable that why have this flag still flying on state house ground. >> reporter: keeping the flag flying is about free speech and honor.

let's get the latest now from gabriel elizondo who is in charleston for us.e may be getting a better idea of what might have motivated these killings. >> that's absolutely right miriam. behind me, emmanuel ame church, where people continue to stream in front of this church to pay respects to the nine people who lost their lives here. but similarly we're getting more information on what might have triggered this mass killing with this document that was posted online or this manifesto. there are two things with the manifesto. there were photographs, as you said. photographs that purport to show dylann roof that is partially burned and holding the confederate flag. the confederate flag in the south is often tied to racism. but it pales to the words that were written in this document. it's long with racial epitaphs and one important part of the document allegedly written by dylann roof, he said that he chose this church here in charleston primarily because it is of important symbol of african-american culture here in the state of south carolina. that's why he cho

gabriel elizondo has more from his home down. >> after one historian called the worst hate crime ever in south carolina everyone is asking the same question, who is dylann roof, the 21-year-old accused killer. a couple of years ago he attended white knoll high school, he didn't graduate. roof's former class mights describe limb as a loner who experimented with drugs and sometimes would tell racist jokes. he wanted, quote civil war against african-americans. >> i'm speechless. it hit me hard. seeing a breast best friend for seven years to see do something like this. he wanted segregation white with white black with black he didn't believe what the black race was doing with the white race. >> roof would bounce around in several places, one being here in lexington. it's a middle class area. >> you can't even imagine what is going on in somebody's head to do something like that. >> others say roof was mentally ill. >> if he had some of the help he needed we might never have gotten there. i don't know. >> i think he was mentally ill. he was an untreated mental health patient as far as i'm

gabriel elizondo lexington south carolina. >> ariva, you were with us earlier during the hearing, and it was stunning for a number of reasons. but can i spend a few minutes talking about the judge in this case. in his remarks during the bond hearing today he felt the need to call for understanding for the family of the young man accused of killing nine blacks in a church prayer service. he felt the need to say that they had been victimized, too. i know i'm asking you a pretty loaded question, but have you ever seen anything quite like that? >> nothing like that, tony. and i think what is so stung and appalling by the judge's statement in this case, we have these conflicting statements about whether the father of roof bought him this gun. so given that has not been determined and the investigation by the state or the feds have not been completed, to make a statement asking the public or the community to have sympathy for the family that it may turn out that the father bought a gun that was give to his son without background check which would be in violation of federal law. it's an prem

gabriel elizondo reporting live from charleston. thank you. >>> dozen of rebels have been killed in fighting with isil in aleppo pro vince. eight isil are pleased to have died. rebel groups and the government are all battling for control of the province. >>> residents of the iraqi city of tikrit have started to return home three months after pro government forces recaptured it from isil. the two sides were engaged in a month long battle and even though fighters were forced out much of the city has been left damaged and deserted. janejane arraff reports. >> there were few reasons to celebrate, but this trial home was one of them. families boarded the buses for tikrit, the first of what they hope is a wave. >> my children could not sleep because of joy of going back. we don't want anything from the government but stability and peace of mind. >> tikrit is 50 kilometers from samarra, but a journey that families have not been able to make for almost a year. iraqi forces and kurdish fighters recaptured it from isil fighters. there are no

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera colombia, south carolina. >>> german police say a warrant accuses ahmedansour one of the world's most respected journalists must be released immediately. kim vanel has the story. >> german police say he has been accused of many crimes. mansour's arrest may be part of a secret deal paid during abdel fatah al-sisi's latest trip to germany. >> this is fabricated and it's too weak to succeed in bringing the german government into this. >> reporter: mansour's lawyer says. >> all he was doing is his job. he needs two leading programs on al jazeera. >> reporter: sisi has largely suppressdissent in egypt. arrested prosecuted and in some cases sentenced to death since former president mohammed morsi was.arrested. peter greste, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy takes a retrial. release mansour. the acting director general said in a statement the crack down often journalists by egyptian authorities is well-known. our network as the arab world's most watched least of all those that respect freedom of the media as does germany. ahmed mansowr is one of the world's most r

. >>> the alleged gunman dylan roof grew up in lexington, south carolina al jazerra's gabriel el elizondothere to find out more about him. >> reporter: a am here in lex you go tonight, south carolina at a high school. up until a couple of years ago there is with dylan roof went. it's unclear if he graduated but some of his ex-classmates are speaking out painting a rick of roof of a man that was very much a loaner. somebody that experimented with drugs and also was known to talk about racially insensitive jokes. also on roof's facebook page he has a photo of himself wearing patches from the row deash i can't and south africa era of segregation in those place that his indicate that roof was sympathetic to the pro-white government there. you add all of this up and it paints very much a picture of a troubled young man. and this is why investigators are so much looking at this as potentially a hate crime. but here in the sound of lexington, south carolina where he group it's a small town and they are trying to come to grips asas to how they are linked to this crime even remotely. this is a tow

hemos hecho una alianza don fernando elizondo y yo para establecer un criterio de un fiscal anticorrupciÓnque la elecciÓn se harÁ tranquila y-- que no se meta del gobierno en las elecciones. que el gobierno deje que los ciudadanos participen y que evidentemente para que la gente recupere la confianza en las instituciones, que el gobierno no se meta en las elecciones y que deje que gane aquel que los ciudadanos quieren que gane. >> sr. rodrÍguez, si a usted-- si a usted le va bien, si usted gana la elecciÓn en nuevo leÓn, ¿quisiera ser presidente de mÉxico en el 2018? ¿es algo que le interese? ¿es algo que pudiera considerar? >> no, no me interesa. yo quiero trabajar solamente de las fronteras de nuevo leÓn para adentro, tener una buena relaciÓn con el gobierno federal para poder traer los mÁs recursos posibles, generar confianza para que la inversiÓn extranjera llegue a nuevo leÓn y que la inversiÓn local se multiplique. yo estoy pensando en nuevo leÓn solamente. tengo 58 aÑos de edad y tengo hijos chiquitos, quisiera disfrutarlos despuÉs para poderlos ver crecer y estar orgulloso de lo qu