. >> i'm harry fawcett in taiwan. the preservation of traditional chinese characters with pen and paper but with smartphones people are forgetting how to write them. humanity... only on al jazeera america >> former klansman david duke. >> america has been taken over. >> defending his controversial past. >> i did what i thought was right. >> that was then... what about now? >> i believe the zionists control the country. >> "talk to al jazeera". only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. i'm shilly gauche. town of under i.s.i.l. control in september is near a u.s. training base. >>> brazil's supreme court has given the go-head toahead to investigate a scandal involving petrobras. >>> eight guards killed and attacked the al ghani oil field near sala. >>> 16-year-old trial about freedom of expression. despite criticism the turkish prime minister says the prosecution is justified. >> reporter: a show of support for a 16-year-old boy facing a serious charge in turkey, insulting president recep tayyip erdogan. >> we want a

harry fawcett reports. >> these performances his way to show off its expertise. but he's worried that the proper accurate depiction of the traditional characters used in taiwan is under threat. >> people usually write on computers. they don't do handwriting anymore so they lack basic practice. when they try to write they just don't know how. >> reporter: to read and write to a high standard you need to memorize around 8,000 individual characters. to allow such a huge vocabulary to be written electronically, shortcuts on screens and keyboards have been developed. for those who worry about the loss of handwriting they work almost too well. you input a symbol related to the pronunciation of the initial syllable and from that you can choose from dozens of characters. recognizing and choosing a character is very different from writing it from scratch stroke by stroke. to illustrate, we asked them to write a phrase with an admittedly are secret second character. a smartphone is sneaked into the test. none of the 10 people we approached got it right. and some were embar

harry fawcett. al jazeera china. >> two of jokoindonesia's president joko widodo. >> we have tried owork with them to assure them it is in accordance to their best work, to not kill these two. they have tried to turn other prisoners against life of drug crime so we're continuing to do what we can. >> now it is the biggest drug problem facing the united states, the trade in heroin and most of it comes from mexico. mexican farmers are planting more poppy fields than ever before. our mexican correspond adam rainey begins his journey in the poppy fields of guerrero state. >> the sierra madre mountains the corridor from mexico to the united states begins. in the fold of these mountains we meet a woman who leads us to her family plot. a rare glimpse of of what people call their garden. the key source for heroin. the demand north of the border is why farms like this exist and there are more and more of them. mexico sees five times as much poppy paste in 2014 compared to the year before. southern guerrero s

harry fawcett, al jazeera. >> emergency services say cyclone pam could trigger landslides. already caused damage to kili-bati and the solomon islands. >>> mount suriabo has spewed ash. poor visibility and access roads around the tourist sites are closed. >>> the british fantasy author terry pratchett has died. fought a much publicized campaign against alzheimer's. >> irreferent observer ever human nature. he is most famous in his disc world series. transrateed into 37 languages. with sales topping 85 million copies. he was britain's best selling author in the 1990s until surpassed with j.k. j.k. rowling. while diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's. he talked to al jazeera on the matter. >> i would like assisted dying in this country for shall we say those cases which are not yet -- which might not be considered controversialcontroversial. >> in his final moments he remained eloquent. he announced his death on twitter saying, terry followed it under the endless night then followed by two words the end. >> more news on aljazeera.com. >> >>> flash point ferguson ground zeer w

>> yeah del, we see harry fawcett no such compunction there. he is not boycotting this speech. he'll meet two on one with his republican counterpart after this speech privately with benjamin netenyahu. and del, we talk a lot about the -- the 45 or so democrats largely who are boycotting this speech. those who are there in the chamber, no question they are four square behind this speech and israel. if you follow the twitter feed of some of these members, as i am duty bound to due, there must have been 50 of them talking about i'm making my over to the house chamber where i plan to listen to benjamin netenyahu. and as you see benjamin netenyahu greet john boehner, the man who engineered this invitation, a lot of what we can expect to hear is a tutorial if you will on uranium enrichment on such phrases as heavy water, and a history of iran's nuclear program, which after all they did develop in secret until it was revealed in 2002 and i think we can expect to hear that theme over and over again. >> i have the distinct honor of presenting to you, the prime minister of israel, his ex

harry fawcett reports from the potter city of yingkou. >> there is not much construction going on at construction site. the state agent said that it's a seasonal pause while the ground is frozen, but she admits they decided not to put any apartments up for sale yet. >> a few years ago some developers ran away with their investors' money. that's why people are nervous. our boss is a local man. he wants to finish everything before selling to try to reassure buyers. >> this is how it's going to look. hopes for government workers perhaps when the local government moves here. but for now there is little more life on the streets of yingkou than there is in the model. the government was having to cover 1 point of billion dollars in bad debt as developments failed. if the present is the future, then there can't be much prospect of getting that money back. so it's sunday afternoon in yingkou's main park, and i've got the place entirely to myself. the government has been betting on grand projects just like this one. and across china ghost towns just like this one has been emerging as a result.

the paintings are part of a dutch art dealers collection, but as harry fawcett reports, it's not justwings -- it's not just drawing the attention of art lovers. >> reporter: healthy happy faces gaze out from the canvases. some evoke another time and place. they are according to the title of the show the hidden treasures of north korea. 147 paintings, getting a rare outing here in the south. part of a collection of 2.5 thousand bought in cash in north korea over several years by this dutch art dealer. he says it was a mixture of official transactions and private ones. >> yeah of course. part of that money are going to -- to benefit the government over there, yeah again, just -- really not -- not my concern. >> reporter: in another gallery in seoul some very different paintings. this is the work of a north korean detector who painted propaganda slogans until he escaped the country of his birth. >> translator: when i lived in the north i found paintings like this impressive, but since i came here i realized there was no freedom of art in north korea. people are all smiling in the service

task is to stop its collapse being repeat ahead cross china's vital but shaky property sector, harry fawcetterra china. >>> thousands of protesters have marched through tokyo demanding that japan end its use of nuclear power. march 11 will mark the fourth anniversary of the fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. japan's nuclear reactors were shutdown after the incidents the government is planning to restart a few of them to help boost the economy. >>> the families of two australians facing execution in indonesia are visiting them on death row. >> you know, we are looking forward to seeing him giving him a hug. >> it's the first time the families have seen the men since they have been trans ford a islands prison where they are due to be shot. they were sentenced in to death in 2006 for attempting to snuggle heroin, i understand near's presidentmind year a'spresident will not stop executions. >> we are continuing to work with the indonesian government to try to get them to appreciate that it's in their best interest and it's in accordance with their best values. not to kill these two aiyegben

harry fawcett, al jazeera noncould chen, china. >>> the battle in the syrian civil war are reforging relationships in the please. >> coming up the uneasy alignment with some kurdish forces. >> those three girls who left their home to join forces in syria. >> welcome back. to al jazeera america i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news, not doing enough to help syrian refugees escape the plight of their country. first convene elizabeth joint british veterans to mark the end of combat operations in afghanistan. united kingdom was part of a coalition that fought the taliban after the september 11th11th attacks. the combat ended in december. a new look at osama bashar bin laden's life. they were taken in 1996 when bin laden was living in his tora bora hideout in afghanistan. >> the state department announced the u.s. will send another $70 million in nonlethal assistance to moderate syrian opposition groups. 25 million will be used for defensive purposes, 30 million will be given to local authorities in rebel held areas. the rest will be used

harry fawcett, al jazeera. >> now here is jo. >> thank you.at the cricket world cup where australia have beaten afghanistan in perth. as sarah coates reports it's a victory that will keep the co-host in the competition. >> reporter: back on australian soil after a painful loss against new zealand, ah -- awesies were out for revenge. the knock of 95 was outstanding, as the pair put on the stand of 260. then glenn maxwell's contribute of 88 off of just 38 bowls, the aussies most a formidable 217 for 6. afghanistan gave it their all. but the aussie bowlers were just too good. as they moved through their order to have them all out for 142. a 275-run win. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's nice to turn our form around after new zealand, especially the battle -- i thought the boys played really well to make 400. our highest score ever. that's really satisfying and pleasing after we way the batted against new zealand. >>> pakistan's cricket world cup campaign is back on track after suffering two consecutive losses. they dumped the united arab emirates.

harry fawcett, al jazerra, south korea. >>> news updates and blogs can be found on our website the address aljazerra.com. >>> on "america tonight", this is the video sparking outrage cross the country, what follows, a fatal confrontation between l.a.p.d. officers and a homeless man, one of the first task for the body camera programme year. >> it's part of also missing white women syndrome what we know of in the united states, where there's moral panic when white woman victim hood and safety is threatened and compromised. there's a deeper reaction and response to that than we do women of colour. >> so in short, native women are less than. >> less than. [ ♪♪ ] >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. the tense regulations between law enforcement and communities of colours come to be marked by a hashtag shorthand black lives matter. it's echoed by another tag line, native lives matter, as native communities report a parallel crisis in their relation with police, one they fear leaves the young women at risk. the evidence coming from shocking statistics of missing women, underscored by the dis

harry fawcett al jazeera, taipei. >> and a quick reminder you can keep up-to-date with all the news on our website. it's there on the screen, www.aljazeera.com. that's www.aljazeera.com. >> gang rape, among the most shocking of violent crime is stirring a global outrage. throughout asia, it is believed to be far more common than most people think. >> rape is a major problem in all countries across this region. >> women's experiences of violence are well documented but the

harry fawcett has returned to the village. >> reporter: the river that runs through is a trickle now. destruction it left in the summer of 2013 is still visible. we arrived four days after the flash flood to a town full of grief and anger. they were accusing authorities of covering up the true extent of the death toll. another person is trying to talk to us to tell us what he believes really happened here. once again the police are stopping us from talking to him. so we have come back to try to find out what really happened here. the local government said 30 were dead and 28 missing. and never released another figure. >> translator: for the whole of the town it's a at least 170 or 180 dead. i know because i know this place very well. >> reporter: in 2013 we met this woman who said that officials had reassured people that the water would flow past the town. now she lives in a newly built housing estate down the road in a free apartment. but she hasn't changed her story. >> translator: they didn't expect that the flood would be so big. nobody told us. if they had, the damage wouldn't ha

harry fawcett, al jazeera. >>> more news on our website, aljazeera.com. ♪ >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher andyre in the stream. ajunct professors fight for a living wage. how their working conditions could impact the quality of higher education. >> our producer is bringing all your live feedback through the show. holy cow there is is a lot of it. i was shocked when we started looking into this at the number of ajunct and part time professors who are making wages similar to fast food producers. and we are hearing about people who love teaching but had to give it up because they were not making enough money. >> i'm sad for them meaning adjunct professors and myself. after five years i have moved on. but missing the students is real. >> lecturers teach more than professors but earn way less and have less privileges. we have carol who has a different take. employees get screwed, why should acdeem yeah be any different. that is pretty cold of yuca roll. >> this reign of terror needs to end by any means necessary. not your adjunct sidekick. for those of you at home, we want you to be a part of the s

harry fawcett, al jazeera, beijing. >>> south sudan's rival leaders have less than five hours to signeal. catherine soy reports. >> reporter: this woman still can't talk about her father not without choking up. he was a pastor that was shot dead here in juba at the start of the conflict. she and her family never found his body. she has a message for political leaders. >> the leaders, both of them what they need to do is look at this innocent blood -- who voted for them? for them to be where they are today, they need to look at what they are losing the citizens they are losing and the loss the country is going through. >> reporter: the president and rebel leader are expected to sign a comprehensive peace agreement that will include power sharing. people are hoping for a deal but cautiously so. many are worried that a signature on a dotted line does not necessarily mean lasting peace. they want a binding deal and commitment from their leaders. a power struggle between the president and his former deputy sparked the civil war more than a year ago. the supporters have been fighting each o

the paintings are part of a dutch art dealers collection, but as harry fawcett reports it's not justng the attention of art lovers. >> reporter: healthy happy faces gaze out from the canvases. the pictures tell a story of abundance and contentment. some evoke another time and place. they are according to the title of the show the hidden treasures of north korea, 147 painings getting a rare outing here in the south. part of a collection of 2,500 bought in cash over several years by this -- art dealer. >> yeah, of course if part of that money are going to -- to benefit the -- the government over there, you know, again, just really not -- not my concern. >> reporter: in another gallery in seoul some very different paintings. this is the work of a north korean defector who painted propaganda slogans until he escaped the country of his birth. he invited him to view this new exhibition. >> translator: when i lived in the north, i found paintings like this impressive, but since i came here, i realized there is no freedom of art in north koreaia. >> reporter: there have some restrictions in

harry fawcett, al jazeera taipei. >> and can you keep up to date with all the day's news and developments on our website. that's aljazeera.com. hi, i'm lisa fletcher and you are many the stream. what if instead of proeffect thing civilians they are protecting each other over crimes as serious as murder. >> what happened to tease guys. why are all all okay with this team. >> we will talk about the kiln team, that may inhibit soldiers about speaking out against injustice. plus, millions of dollars spent on anti-bullying programs with little to no evidence that they work. why it may be time for a new approach. >> a digital producer and co-host is here bringing in all of your feedback, you know these crimes they happened in 2010. soldiers were convicted but people are rightfully still hear fied and still looking for some accountability. >> you said hear fied these means these brutal murders were just shocking they are trying to figure out what caused this. who is responsibility, sew with have a wide range of opinions. mar they says the killing of any civil cabs is wrong, especially for sport.

harry fawcett, al jazerra, south korea. >>> news updates and blogs can be found on our website the addressra.com. >>> on "america tonight", this is the video sparking outrage cross the country, what follows, a fatal confrontation between l.a.p.d. officers and a homeless man, one of the first task for the body camera programme year. >> it's part of also missing white women syndrome what we know of in the united states, where there's moral panic when white woman victim hood and safety is threatened and compromised. there's a deeper reaction and response to that than we do women of colour.

now harry fawcett goes through thatvillage. >> the river that runs through the village the destruction it left in the summer of 2013 is still visible. we arrived four days after the flash flood to a town full of grief and anger. [ yelling ] they're accusing authorities of covering up the true extent of the death toll. >> another person tries to tell us what he believes happened here. the police are keeping him were us from talking to him. >> the local government said that 30 were dead, and 58 missing. it never released another figure. lifetime resident said that was always a serious under estimate. >> for the whole of the town it's at least 170 or 180 dead. i know because i know this place very well. >> in 2013 we met li, who said that officials assured people who said that the river would flow past the town. now she lives in a new apartment far superior to her old home, but she has not changed her story. >> they didn't expect that the flood would be so big. nobody told us. if they had the damage wouldn't have been so bad. >> the nearby village suffered similar damage, but no one died

harry fawcett reports. >> reporter: it's a painstaking heart. one which has been mastered over the 83 years. they have made pens since before it was born. he's worried that the proper (piction of the characters is under throat. people generally write on computers. they lack basic practice. when they try to write they don't know how. to read and write to a high standard you need to memorize 8,000 individual characters. to allow a vocabulary to be written. for those worried about the loss of handwriting, they work too wilful the difficulty from the ease of a system. you input a symbol of the sill boll. from that you choose from dozen of dark terse. recognising and choosing a character is different to writing it by scratch. >> to prove the point we approach people in the park asking them to write a phrase of tricky character. it means to sneak around unseen. on more than one occasion, a smartphone is snuck. only one of 10 people we approached got it right. some were too embarrassed to try. >> sorry, i fo got how to ride it. >> taiwan prides itself

. >> i'm harry fawcett reporting on china's all-out effort to secure another international prison prestigious event the 2022 winter olympics. >> let's catch up with some sports news with sana. >> we'll start with formula one. the raping world champion qualified--the reigning world leader qualified for poll position. pole position. >> it's always difficult because you go out and none of us have driven this weekend in the wet so the first lap is always just the unknown. and it's--you don't want to take too much risks so you don't get the lap but my lap was feeling pretty good. so i was pushing. the next one was up at one stage, and just lost a little bit on the lap and did a fantastic job. >> they have announced that they will require one-day internationals. clark missed australia's opening match after a string of hamstring injuries. he has struggled to hit top form averaging 29 at the tournament. they will continue, but first he'll lead the country to the fifth world cup. >> i think it's the right time for me and the cricket team. i was fortunate four years ago to get the opportunity and that

it's not football, basketball soccer, a different sporting competition, harry fawcett reports from snow of the rise in e-sports. >> the history of online gaming as a spectator sport started in this studio in seoul in 1999. it's going strong. south korea is widely regarded as having the best professional league back by sponsors supported by an elaborate infrastructure. the olympic committee gave e-sports a membership. classifying it as sport. and the players a ports people. sports -- sports people. they are playing "league of legends" there are aye balls around the world following. there's commentary live in korean and the english language. >> we look at the numbers through the league of legends world championships, taking place in seoul. there were 40,000 live spectators, and 30 million viewers, putting it in the bracket as some game 7st in the world series. we have arrived. a lot of people don't know about it it is broadcast over the internet and doesn't get a lot of coverage, the popularity is there. the growing popularity of e-sports can be measured in cold hard cash. twitch was boug

harry fawcett has more. >> reporter: from across china they streamed into the great hall of the people000 deputies here for the annual report on their government's accomplishments and plans. what were their priorities? >> translator: i want migrant workers to enjoy the same treatment as urban citizens. >> translator: what i care most about is the air. everyone has to breathe. ♪ >> reporter: inside they would devote time to both subjects, but the center of his speech the economy. managing from the export-dependent growth of recent decades to a slower growing china, the growth target down from 7.5% to 7%. >> translator: with downward pressure on china's economy building, and deep-seeding problems and developments surfacing, the difficulties we are to encounter in the year ahead may be more forbidable even than last year. >> reporter: so create 10 million new urban jobs restrict urban unemployment to below 4.5%. for china's leaders this new 7% target represents appropriate growth levels in pursuit of moderate pos parity. but it is also an explicit acknowledgment that they believe the slow

but as harry fawcett reports it's drawing attention for all sorts of reasons. >> the pictures tell the stories of abundance and contentment lived in a landscape of rare beauty. some evoke another time and place number could this be france? 147 paintings getting a rare outing here in the south. part of a collection of two and a half thousand bought in cash in north korea over several years by this dutch art dealer. he says that it was a mixture of official transactions and private ones. >> of course, part of the money is going to benefit the government over there and again, really not my concern. >> in another gallery of paintings, the work of a north korean defector who painted propaganda slogans until he escaped the country of his birth. we contacted him about this new exhibition. >> when i lived in the north i found paintings like this impressive. but then since i came here and studied, i found there is no freedom of art in north korea. it's a tool of propaganda. >> there are some restrictions on art in the south too. this painting had to be removed from the exhibition. the security

. >> harry fawcett report from seuol south korea. i stopped playing video games in college. knew? thanks for watching this edition of "al jazeera america." i am michael eaves in new york. the news continues right after this short break with richelle carey. >>> this is al jazeera america, i'm richelle carey sh in new york with a look at the top stories. >> translation: this is a new spiral in russia's dissent into a fash. >> safe. >> questions follow the murder of one of vladimir putin's harshest critics gunned down on the streets of mouse coe. -- moscow. >> they burn women and children in their homes. why are they not

harry fawcett reports from the north eastern port city. >> reporter: there is not much construction goingconstruction site. the estate agent says it's a seasonal pause while the ground is frozen but she admits they have decided not to put him a up for sale yet. >> a few years ago some developers ran way with their investor's money so that's why people nervous. our boss is a local man, he wants to finish everything before selling to try to reassure buyers. >> reporter: this is how it's going to look. homes for government workers perhaps when the local government moves here. but for now, there is little more life on the streets than there is in the model. as of three years ago the government was already having to cover $1.6 billion in bad debt as developments failed. if the presents is the future, then there can't be much prospect of getting that money back. so it's sunday afternoon in the main park here and what do you know, i have the place entirely to myself. across china local governments have been betting on grand projects just like this one across china ghost towns just like this one