ice refused an on-camera interview with fault lines. >> ok this is him. 'hi, this is josh rushing.' >> but the day after the protest, they agreed to talk to us on the phone. the ice official asked for his name not to be used. >> if someone with no other criminal record gets arrested for civil disobedience and protesting ice policies, does that move them into a priority category now that they've been arrested for something? >> in an email, ice officials stated that they target specific violent criminals. >> but we wanted to ask them about allegations that latino communities are being profiled in the process. >> ...to check on a machine. what tells them that an individual is who we're going to check out? >> so we roll up on the scene.... >> just to be clear - by "scan" he means handcuff and fingerprint. >> so people have been out in the parking lot of this grocery store and as they're walking out of the grocery store, handcuffed and fingerprinted. there's a laundromat across the corner... >> the problem with that is that ice law enforcement officers are not

the owner doug mittleider refused requests from fault lines for an interview. the only way to speak to him was to catch him as on his way to the office. the widow of one of the patients there says that her husband died of neglect, can we sit down with you and have an interview with you about it? >> sometime, sure. >> sometime, yeah? can we set the date and time now? >> no. >> can you answer questions about it now? >> no. >> do you have response to the allegations to the lawsuit that the federal government's joined? that says that you rationed care? including oxygen bottles? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> you don't know that there's a lawsuit by the federal government about one of your homes in mississippi? [silence.] >> mittleider had no comment. none of the industry representatives that we contacted for an interview would speak to us either. >> there's a corporate shell game that goes on, that conceals who really is running the nursing home. they'll set up a company or llc that owns the property, they'll set up another that holds the license, th

. >> fault lines is up next. i'll see you again in an hour. >> nogales, arizona. a bus has arrived filled with people being deported from the united states. >> right now we're headed to san juan bosco, a shelter here in nogales where the mexican immigration authorities have picked the people who were just deported, they take them there so they have a place to stay on their first night back in mexico. >> many thought 2013 would be the year when congress finally passed comprehensive immigration reform. but it was not to be. over several months, fault lines investigated how the failure to pass that reform played out in the lives of some of the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the us. people like jose - who preferred we use only his first name. >> so when were you deported? >> when was i deported? today. >> so today is your first day in mexico in 31 years since you left last? >> yeah, >> a lawyer? >> no license. 21 years ago. >> yeah >> jose is one of a thousand people who are deported each day, and one of nearly 400 thousand deported last year. president

fault lines is next. i'll see you again in an hour. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. >> overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that's one overdose death every thirty minutes. >> the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. >> that's a massive increase. >> massive. >> over the past 10 years, we've had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. >

oil and gas lawsuit. >> fault lines tried to reach them for weeks but got no response. but we were able to sit down with a spokesman for chevron -- a company named in the lawsuit. >> what these suits do or what this particular suit that you're interested does, is tend to divide people and tend to freeze the industry out of being a more active part of solving the problem. >> we wanted to ask about an industry-sponsored study from 2000. it concluded that oil and gas activity was responsible for more than a third of the land loss over the last century. >> the number could be any number or no number at all and it's been any number or no number at all. again causation is a very slippery slope and putting a number on it is almost irrelevant at this point in time. >> so the industry's position is that it's not part of this problem in any respect? >> it's not a demonstrable part. again, a way to back into the answer is if you filled in those canals and if you replace those pipelines would wetlands loss and storm surge and risk from hurricanes and flood stop? i think the answer

recently, the u.s. accused the north of orchestrating a cyber attack on sony pictures last fall, fault lines was granted rare access inside the country. we went to understand what if anything, has changed since kim jong un came to power, and how u.s-north korean relations look from the other side. >> our visit to north korea was part of a highly controlled press tour sponsored by the government. our guides decided where we went who we spoke to and they were with us at all times. >> "my name is kang __" [korean-on loud speaker] >> so we have to wear this to identify ourselves as international press, and we have to use it while working on the streets. the kim family and the worker's party have ruled north korea for over 6 decades. apparently today is the 17th anniversary that kim jong il was elected secretary of the party and people are coming to these statues to pay their respects." >> a lot of people from different walks of life. army soldiers. they come... north korea has one of the largest standing armies in the world. men are conscripted for up to 10 years. it's because of the idea of "so

. >> this week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america - opioid painkillers. >> there is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. >> the drug about to hit the market is called zohydro. but many are now asking is it even needed, and did the fda ignore warnings by approving it? >> at the heart of the debate, whether or not the drug may be too powerful and potentially addictive. >> in october 2013 the food and drug administration did something unusual. it approved a new painkiller called zohydro despite the fact that its own advisory committee had rejected the drug. >> i was quite surprised... you invite us in and then you tell us, "forget it." >> zohydro is a pure hydrocodone drug that comes in doses up to ten times higher than vicodin. the advisory committee feared that it could create a new generation of addicts. >> the entire prescription drug epidemic was launched basically from high dose oxycodone. many of us felt that a high dose hydrocodone product would end up in the same place. >> few areas have been more impacted by this epidemic t

in washington, the white house declined to speak with fault lines for this report. in yemen, families are still waiting for signs that their loved ones are coming home. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> pain killer addiction on the rise >> i loved the feeling of not being in pain >> deadly consequences >> the person i married was gone >> are we prescribing an epidemic? >> the last thing drug companies wanted anybody to think was that, this was a prescribing problem >> fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... opioid wars only on al jazeera america

it's war against cartels in 2996 their families left in limbo wondering if the're dead or alive fault lines is here to investigate one of the worst crises of disappearances in latin america and to meet the families searching for answers - and a justice that never seems to arrive. a sign with details of sara cruz's son - jose rodolfo - hangs in front of her house - in case anyone can help her find him. the last time she saw him, it was a tuesday evening. she had just gotten home from work and he asked her if she would take him to a local motorcycle show. jose spent afternoons working in his uncle's mechanical shop in the front of the house they rode to the show on jose rodolfo's bike it was here in this small plaza - just a short ride from their house in the town of tierra blanca. when sara went to the police they told her she needed to wait 3 days to file a report. so she started searching herself- something as simple as looking on facebook for that, not authorities all her money now goes to searching for jose - traveling to different places around veracruz - to meet prosecutors searching f

in washington, the white house declined to speak with fault lines for this report. in yemen, families are still waiting for signs that their loved ones are coming home. >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> pain killer addiction on the rise >> i loved the feeling of not being in pain >> deadly consequences >> the person i married was gone >> are we prescribing an epidemic? >> the last thing drug companies wanted anybody to think was that, this was a prescribing problem >> fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. iran talks the u.s. with tough issues that still need to be worked out. >>> the two state issue. mixed messages on a palestinian state. and racial tensions at the university of virginia over the bloody arrest of uv students.

i'm antonio mora, fault lines is up next. i'll see you again in an hour. >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. >> it's really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where you're going to eat. >> tonight it's pretty hectic because of the snow outside and there's not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybody's kind of coming in. >> in just a decade, the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. >> what we see today the homeless that we s

a year after the death of hugo chavez, fault lines is in caracas to find out what's really going on in the streets. >> in venezuela, the former president looms larger than life, even in death. the policies chavez implemented to redistribute oil wealth were polarizing from the start. in his first five years, he faced a coup, an oil lock-out, and a recall vote from the country's elite. chavez survived it all, pushing forward what he called the "bolivarian revolution" and cutting poverty rates by more than half. he won three more terms in elections the international community universally recognized as free and fair. it's may first, and thousands of his supporters are out celebrating workers day, singing anthems that celebrate the legend they call "comandante". his successor, nicolas maduro is keen to show that despite months of anti-government protests, the chavez "evolution" continues. >> but maduro is no chavez. he won the last presidential election by a narrow 1% margin. and since chavez's death problems that have plagued this petro-state for decades have grown more severe. >> it's tru

fault lines came here - before and after september's attack on the students - to try to find out why so many people are disappearing in mexico. >> the school the missing students attended is here, the raul isidro burgos rural college of ayotzinapa - where they were training to become teachers. t's part of a network of schools known as the normales - or normalistas... ...founded in the aftermath of mexico's revolution to provide teachers for the country's poorest communities. many of the students who were taken in september had just begun their first year at ayotzinapa. the classrooms they should be in...now serve as both a memorial and a base for the parents as they continue to search for their sons. mario, who lives nearly 10 hours away by bus came here the day after the attack when he found out his son cesar manuel was among the missing students. the last time mario spoke to his son was the day of the attack. students told us that they were preparing to travel to mexico city that day 3...to commemorate the killings of students by the army and police in 1968, something done annually

. >> tonight, fault lines examines how a massive rise the use of "swat" is redefining america's police ... and we ask who is really paying the price? in the us today, there are now tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year...but only the worst cases make the news. we've come to investigate one that took place in a rural town just north of los angeles. >> scared me so bad, they were so military and just huge guns and full gear, like huge puffed out like huge vest. it looked like they were going into a war. >> early morning on june 27, armed police from across la county converged on the property of eugene mallory and his wife tonya pate. their warrant said the property was being used as an illegal methamphetamine lab. >> well the entire basis of the search warrant, was that the investigating officers says downwind from the property in spots he was with certainty to smell chemicals. >> this is where i was. i was inside here... >> tonya was inside a trailer on the property, and her son adrian was asleep in another trailer, when she heard the police. >> and it scared me, t

fault lines has traveled to south carolina to explore the circumstances that put women at risk of domestic violence homicide. >> 911, what's the emergency? >> my baby daddy just slapped me in the face and got me bleeding. >> thank you. and your name, ma'am? >> zakiya lawson. >> this was your baby's...your children's father? >> yes, ma'am. >> and what's his name? >> peter williams. he's leaving now. >> does he have access to any weapons? >> yes, he might have one on him, a revolver. >> ok, are you or anybody else in immediate danger? >> i might be after this phone call. >> so she never told any of you that they had this abusive relationship? the way he was? >> i knew about it. i knew about couple of incidents or whatever but i kind of didn't do anything about it because she asked me not to. >> she was not afraid obviously. >> i think that kiya knew he was crazy, i believe that she was scared but she was just shrugging it off like he's not going to harm me. i said ok. >> zakiya had broken up with peter williams but they had a baby together, named seven, the youngest of her children. >> four

fault lines is up next, i'll see you again in an hour. >> every day across america military-style raids are taking place. local police dressed like soldiers break down doors in the hunt for drugs. >> this is not what we think of as police in a democratic society. this is way out of proportion. >> in the past, police "swat teams" were only used in extreme circumstances. now, they're increasingly sent on routine tasks. >> they changed my whole perspective. i'm telling you, when i seen that, it was just like they dropped a bomb. they don't care what they've done, they really don't. >> tonight, fault lines examines how a massive rise the use of "swat" is redefining america's police ... and we ask who is really paying the price? in the us today, there are now tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year...but only the worst cases make the news. we've come to investigate one that took place in a rural town just north of los angeles. >> scared me so bad, they were so military and just huge guns and full gear, like huge puffed out like huge vest. it looked like they were going in

new fault lines, and new lessons from new quakes. then they reset that 30 year clock. the truth is? >> it is difficult. >> reporter: so we are closing in on 30 years worth of 30 year forecasts. but only time can deliver the answer we are all waiting for. >> and one day, it is going to happen. and then everybody is going to say, you know, those guys were right. why wasn't i prepared? >> for the record, that first predict in 1988 was a 50% chance of a 7.0 quake within 30 years. >>> tonight, a san mateo county correctional officer is something of a hero thanks to his gift. 19-year-old garrett ramos has a new chance at a normal life. he was spending up to 15 hours a day on dialysis. due to kidney failure and he needed a transplant. his father who is a correctional officer tried to donate, but could not. and that is when his coworker jaron higgins tried and found he was a perfect match. one of his kidneys was transplanted into garrett and they are both doing well tonight. >>> all right paul, we were hoping for a little bit more rain today. >> yeah. >> but you know, you got to take what y

this week, fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands from their homes. >> we're on our way to the south bronx - to new york's only intake center for homeless families. more than seventy percent of people in the city's shelters are families with children. >> homelessness is so complicated. it's not just this guy on the street with that shopping cart. it isn't just this one person who made the wrong choice or had bad luck. >> to apply for shelter, a family must first come to this building known as path. journalists are not allowed inside. >> we've been here just a few hours, and there's been dozens of families coming in. it's been really shocking. it's a lot of young children and a lot of working parents trying to make it. >> what's it like in there? >> it's not what people think. people in there are you know everyday people. i don't judge people because you never know the situation you'll be in. >> i have four kids. my salary? i get paid $9 dollars an hour. so you do the math. >> how did you know about the path center? >> i googled it. i googled 'family shelters.' [y

. >> fault lines has traveled to the province of new brunswick on canada's east coast to find out what went wrong, and ask how it could be set right. >> when southwestern's subsidiary, swn resources canada, or swin, as it's locally known, began exploring on land by the elsipogtog first nation the community started hearing about fracking, the process by which gas is extracted from shale rock beneath the ground by injecting water, nitrogen and chemicals. many were alarmed. >> without no consultation and people not knowing what's going on and just hearing that we know that shale gas is not good for the land and water, the protests started. it's been going on for three years now. >> the water or river was very very precious to us, as we were growing up. summertime we'd be staying there all summer. >> when i was a kid, i got to go swimming in the fresh water. now that i have my own kid, i want him to experience the same thing i experienced. i want my grandkids to experience that too. i don't want to have them have to worry about oh, well this water is contaminated because they're drilling f

but with each forecast, they add new data, new fault lines, and new lessons from new quakes.n they reset that 30-year clock. the truth is? >> it's difficult. >> reporter: so we're closing in on 30 year's worth of 30- year forecasting but only time can deliver the answer we're all waiting for. >> one day it's going to happen. and then everybody is going to say, you know, those guys were right. why wasn't i prepared? >> reporter: elizabeth cook, kpix 5. >> that first prediction in 1988 was a 50% chance of a 7.0 quake within 30 years. loma prieta was a 6.9. >>> the national weather service has issued a blizzard warning for hawaii's big island. it's for mountain summits above 11,000 feet and runs through thursday evening. meteorologists say snow, ice and freezing fog are possible along with very strong winds. and they predict snow accumulations of between five and eight inches. a blizzard warning on hawaii. >> i'm heading to tahoe this weekend for the polar plunge for special olympics. it's going to be 60 degrees i guess we better go to hawaii. >> it's going to be 67. flirting wi

the last thing drug companies wanted anybody to think was that, this was a prescribing problem >> fault lines al jazeera america's hard hitting... >> today they will be arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas at us... emmy award winning investigative series... opioid wars only on al jazeera america >> hello and welcome. i'm phil torrez, here to talk about innovations that are going to change lives. we're testing the intersection of hardware and humanity. rax is a neuroscientist. she has the invocation of bamboo and carbon.

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