he's spent most of his time at holman in the segregation unit. >> he's violent. he's in here for violence. apparently time has not taught him differently. >> can i be rehabilitated? yeah, i could. if i could figure out how to get over the hatred. af lot of hatred. i have a lot of hatred for people in general and society. >> that includes warden culliver. >> he's a narcissist. he just loves attention. he loves to micromanage and he loves to give everybody that's at his mercy a hard time. he's trying to be somebody. you know, he's trying to define his identity off the dehumanization of other people. trying to boost his own ego up. >> how would you describe steven parker? >> crazy. he's a nut. i mean, no more, no less. he's not a person that's very intelligent. >> culliver combats predatory behavior and other problems by knowing his inmates well and enforcing his rules. even the smaller ones. like being clean shaven. >> if i see somebody with a beard or looking like they need to shave, i generally talk to them about that. >> you need to either shave or go to health

gets off on it. >> holman's female officers are often on the receiving end of this unwanted attention>> they masturbate, they'll curse you out, call you all types of names. when you walk on the tier, they'll try to deliberately hold you at their cell while the guy across masturbates. by me being a female i see it more than the male officers probably do. >> the problem is so pervasive, the regulation banning it is known prisonwide. >> rule violation number 38, which is indecent exclosure/exhibitionism. that's an inmate that's masturbating. it was really, really bad when i got here in 1998. i mean, it was horrible. >> indecent exposure is one of our major disciplinary problems. >> when warden grantt culliver arrived at holman in 2002, he instituted a zero tolerance policy for violations of rule 38. >> was a sign of disrespect. and not only disrespect to those officers because they know the environment they're coming into, but disrespectful to expose yourself even to the man standing next to you. >> inmate johnson, ivan black, 206812, standing behind the old jail door with half of his bo

i'm john holman, coming up. >> hello, we begin in vienna where ministers from the u.s., russia, saudi arabia and turkey are gathering to discuss the crisis in syria. it will provide a key opportunity for diplomats to find out about russia's bombing campaign in syria. let's cross to barnaby phillips, live in vienna. what can we expect from these talks? >> well, these are four countries which all, to various levels, have military involvement in the war in syria. there should be a lot to talk about. as you were intimating, it is the russians who have made the boldest most decisive move in the past weeks. i think there will be questions about russia's motives here. all the others are opposed to assad's continuing in power. the americans say the majority of russian air strikes have not been against i.s.i.l, but against the other opponents of assad. sergey lavrov will say we have made the move, we can, wore with us anwork withwith us and we wid to the crisis in syria. >> one that cannot involve bashar al-assad, so presumably, they'll want to know what russia's intensrussia's intentie future

john holman reports. >> displaced mexicans, scared and desperate for help. many have moved from their villages in the sierra madre mountains. >> we walked for three days day and night. by the second day i had no shoes. sometimes there wasn't a drop of water to drink. >> reporter: they're fleeing the mexican navy whose helicopters fired on several communities before ground troops stormed through. they were hunting this man, joaquin guzman, known as el chapo, the country's most notice or the yours drug road. as she looks at a video of her bullet-riddled home, she remembers running to try to protect her two-year-old daughter. >> i cried and screamed and begged them not to harm us. i told them we weren't bad people. we wanted them to talk to us like the government did before but the only thing they did was shoot at us, without caring who was there or who they killed. >> reporter: when we visited the village the day before, we found only animals, all the owners had fled. to suddenly see navy helicopters in the sky and have their houses peppered with artillery. th

plus -- >>> i'm john holman on mexico's south pacific coast where hundreds of turtles arrive each yearbut the majority of their eggs are being stolen. ♪ >>> syria's top diplomat has told world leaders that air strikes against the so-called islamic state of iraq and the levant in his country are useless unless they are coordinated with government forces. he addressed the u.n. general assembly saying that only russia is havingen an impact against isil because it was invited to intervene. >> translator: terrorism cannot be fought only from the air, and all of the previous operations to combat it have only lead to further outbreak. air strikes are useless unless they are conducted in cooperation with the syrian arab army. >> our diplomatic editor james bayes has more from the united nations. >> president assad doesn't come to this gathering of world leaders, instead he sends every year this man. who told the general assembly that he fully supports the russian air strikes in syria because they are properly coordinated with his military, a military that he says remains strong. >> translator:

. >>> i'm john holman on mexico south pacific coast where hundreds of thousands of turtles arrive eachear but the majority of their eggs are being stolen. ♪ first syrian monitoring groups say russian air strikes killed 12 i.s.i.l. fighters in the stronghold in the province and the military campaign is now in its third day and syrian operation groups in idlib and hama have been targeted and turkey and partners in the coalition against i.s.i.l. say they are concerned about russia's actions in syria and are worried that rebels ap pose to them and assad are bearing the brunt of air strikes and confirm their target is not just i.s.i.l. but other armed groups like the al-nusra front and france which is part of the u.s. led coalition says russia should only target i.s.i.l. and no other groups, the french president is meeting russian leader vladimir putin in paris right now and russian air strikes led to anger and frustration among syrian opposition groups as dana reports. >> day three of russia's aerial campaign in syria, russian defense ministry announcing yet more strikes saying they target

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john holman has the story. >> first comes the ritual. dmending the players to the full winds and mother earth. then battle begins. this is the bowl game of the people from southwest mexico, they say it's been around for more than 5,000 years and this week it's on its way, symon lazaro will tell us how the game the is played. >> at indigenous people, our cussments can share what we are or do. >> it's the most traditional store in the country. fast and rough it's attracting young players from village kids to university students like carla searching for something differently. >> football's gotten really commercial but here we leave it all over the street. we don't need grass, we run over stones, that's more exciting. >> reporter: instead of goals, the aim of these two teams is to do what that did there, chalked at the end of the street, and that's the beauty of this game, it can be played just about anywhere. blessing thblessing the harvest. it's a part of themselves, just as that is at the heart of traditions. >> translator: it's really im

john holman, al jazeera, mexico. >>> event kill bring together people of various ethnicities from 24 countries. they'll be completin complete cs sports. as virginia lopez reports. >> first time ever from tribes from around the world, new zealand and russia have joined in. it's not traditional sport being event, the emphasis is cultural and spiritual, very much a coming-together of indigenous people around the world. someone we spoke to said it was a perfect cultural exchange with other people. >> now museums may not be to everyone's taste but the world's first food museum is hoping to change that. jessica baldwin reports from london. >> on tha journey through the hn body. a voice guides you along the path the pill takes from the esophagus to the stomach and beyond. a vibrating sense chair adds to the experience. >> the value and the expense of the things that they're holding, become very precious. what i love is you go about feeling inspired about food, what they can create, and having their own food adventures, much more enabling, much more livenly. >> chocolate farm you eat the sam

. >> john holman joins us from mexico city. john explain how this deal will affect mexico. >> well, it's really about its northern neighbor to some extent for mexico, about 70% of mexico's international trade is with the u.s. so it really can't be left out of any big international trade agreement that involves that country. and mexico really sees this as an upgrade of the nafta agreement that it has with the u.s. and canada for around 20 years now. the extra plus for mexico is it's going to have increased trading opportunities with more markets around six new markets in asia for it. that's the plus for mexico but a flip side, and that's the new asian tradin trading partners, l important trading market with the u.s. especially with the auto industry. mexico is the number 2 exporters of vehicles to the u.s., and one ever its fears throughout these negotiations is that japan especially could use cheap parts from other parts of asia, other countries in asia, that aren't mart of this agreement and then be shipping cars duty-free to

john holman reports. >> battered buildings and surging seas. hurricane patricia has hit mexico. >> translator: it's very probable that this hurricane will effectively being the most intense hurricane that has existed in this part of the pacific in our country since records began if 1949. >> this is an historic storm in many ways. the strongest ever recorded in the pacific, the fastest ever to develop but residents were given some time to prepare. >> translator: i'm doing well with my mother. they had told us it was going to be category 4 and after monitoring it's been raised to category 5. now they will tell us there's protections spesht sites where people can say. >> we really didn't buy that much they regularly say a hurricane will come, but sometimes they don't hit. that's why the majority don't participate that much. >> emergency precautions have been taken. >> along the coast of jalisco, shelters of approximately 258 people. a passive hurricane and we are just waiting to see the impact and see how badly the area is going to be affec affect

john holman reports now from mexico. >> these seas are beginning to rage. these buildings will shortly be battered. it won't be possible for tourists t stroll along the beach. hurricane patricia is on its way. >> it's very probably that this hurricane will effectively be the most intense hurricane as it existed in this parts of the pacific in our country since records began in 1949. >> this is an historic storm in many ways, the strongest-ever recorded in the pacific. the fastest ever to develop, but residents have been given some time to prepare. >> i mean, i am doing well here with my mother. they told us it was going to be category 4, and after monitoring it has been raised to category 5. now they say there will be protections, special sites where people can stay. >> we didn't buy that much because they regularly say that a hurricane will come, but sometimes they don't hit. that's why the majority don't participate that much. >> experts say this is not a storm to take lightly. >> mexico has a lot of mountains. and the terrain is very dry, most of the dam

, it was a worthy topic ranking prize and the leaders survey for the fifth consecutive year, paul holmanpeaks exclusively about how this has shaped the market. wantxample, your customers a company that is more sustainable, i have always been told that some of your rivals say that everybody would love a shampoo that does good, but when it comes between one that gives you healthy hair or does good, we always choose the one that gives us good hair. paul: i would not disagree with that sentence, but is not the right comparison. obviously, you need a product that performs, you need it adding a formal cost, that is the job of any company. once you have done that, consumers differentiate. you want to buy from the company that has child labor and its value chain? or one that has a sustainable practice you go -- practice? come citizens of this world, with the benefit of transparency of the internet are able to separate. expectations go up. who move from based materials up to 55%. it is a tremendous improvement, we've done this five times in last five years. we put our emphasis in it. we have seen

john holman has been to the mountain village to hear how military helicopters fired at civilian homesorter: displaced mexicans, scared and desperate for help. many walked days from their villages, carrying their children with them. >> translator: we walked for two days, day and night. by the second day i had no shoes. sometimes there wasn't a drop of water to drink. >> reporter: they are fleeing the mexican navy who's helicopters fired on several communities before ground troops stormed through. they were hunting this man. joaquin guzman, known as el chapo. the navy missed him, but not the houses of this woman and others. and she looks at our video of her home >> translator: that's where the bullet hit. >> reporter: she remembers running to try to protect her 2-year-old daughter. >> translator: i cried and screamed and begged them not to harm us. we wanted them to talk to us like the government did before, but the only thing they did was shoot at us, without caring about who was there, or what they killed. >> reporter: when we visited the village the day before, we found only animals.

night. >> by all appearances, tommy "cheese curl" tunstall, serving life for robbery, was one of holman'spular inmates. >> tommy was an interesting inmate to interview, actually, because he seemed very calm and confident. quietly confident. >> bring your ass on. [ bleep ]. >> more often than not, when we would start interviewing tommy, inmates would start yelling things at him. >> you've got to tell me what the deal is with you. everybody -- you could run for president in here. >> i guess i get along with everybody. >> but tunstall chooses to spend much of his time with just one man, kenyatta mcmillen, who is serving life without parole for murder. >> i love cheese because he always been there for me, no matter what, and he ain't never changed or turned his back on me on nothing. >> mcmillen and tunstall had been friends for about three years when we met them at holman. >> it done got to the point to where it's like if i'm thinking about something, before i can get it out, he can say it. and it's vice versa. >> do you identify as gay? >> do me -- do i do? yes. >> you're gay? >> yes. >> i

john holman explains. >> reporter: they arrive one by one, lit only by a sliver of moonlight.on endangered turtles camber on to the beaches in southwest mexico each year, one of only two species to stage this mass invasion. they lay their eggs in quickly dug holos. it's their only production against the dangers of the night. like these men known as horseman. they swoop on the eggs to sell as local del -- delicacies. it's illegal, but they say they have little choice. >> translator: i'm here because i need this work. we all have families. we don't have education or the papers to get the regular jobs. >> reporter: over 70% of the eggsen the beach were recently taken, and the number of the turtles worldwide have halved in the last 50 years. these eggs are also at risk from animals and birds, and that means that less than 1% of them are going to make it to adulthood. middlemen sell the eggs for ten times or more what they pay the horsemen at the market. the illicit trade flourishes in full sight of the mayor's office. the navy used to guard these beaches year round, but was pulled

. >> i'm john holman on the south pacific coast where hundreds of thousands arrive each year and majoritytheir eggs are being stolen. ♪ russia says air strikes overnight on i.s.i.l. positions inside syria have killed 12 fighters and moscow's military campaign entered a third day and monitoring groups say the targets include i.s.i.l. stronghold of r temperature raqqua province and are concerned about the actions and worries that those with president bashar al-assad are bearing the brunt of air strikes and foreign minister confirmed their target is not just i.s.i.l. but other armed groups like al-nusra and they say they should target i.s.i.l. and no other groups and french president is meeting russia leader vladimir putin and we will go to the capitol in just a moment but this report from our diplomatic editor james base. >> reporter: world leaders have been in new york and said their priorities to get peace efforts going in syria so while they have been here what has changed? the answer is this, whether they were trying to coincide with this global gathering or not russian air strikes in s

john holman, stay safe and thank you. john holman for us in guadalajara, mexico. >> an attack in bengahzi killed six people and injured dozens more. libya remains in political turmoil four years after the fall of muammar qaddafi. courtney? >> hopes for united libya remain, but months of negotiations have not reconciled two warring governments in violent militias have further divided and all about assured the towns ben good di bengahzi. >> after four years after the deat fall of muammar qaddafi,. >> we have extremely dangerous conditions. >> protesters rejected an u.n. proposal for an unity government. >> we refuse the dialogue sponsored by the united nations because it's unfair. the u.n. was supporting us, now it has become authoritarian and unjust. >> negotiators have so far failed to resolve the feud between the competing administrations. >> how are th a deadline after holding a referendum passed. the representatives are recognized internationally and have western backing, but now don't have legal standing. 700 miles to

john holman joins us from guadalajara me mexico about 200 miles inland. what are you hearing about the impact so far john? >> we've been talking to people from the government's agencies, that are there in those affected areas. they say that they're already seeing electricity poles being ripped out, trees being ripped out of the earth and roofs being lifted off of buildings. that's what they have so far. there's a limit to what they can actually see because they are also battening down the hatches they are inside the buildings and they say once the storm has properly passed the area they will be able to go out and see what damage has sort of wreaked from the surrounding community. the storm struck earlier today and now in shelters, tourists and people from the villages around the area. >> you know there was so little time to prepare for this storm. do authorities think that they were really ready? >> reporter: well yes, there wasn't very much time at all to prepare for this storm. but mexico is quite used to having storms strike in hurricane season, especi

elise holman,age. >> one of the new york mets star players is cespedes, who defected from cuba to the u.s. four years ago. but as melissa chan reports from havana, an u.s.-cuba relations could change things. >> these are the future of cuban baseball. they might join the industry, cuba's version of the new york yankees. but some dream of a future well beyond that in the united states. >> you play where you always want to compete in the highest level of baseball. there is no league in the world like it. >> to get to the u.s. cuban ball players usually defect to a third country first in order to negotiate as international free agents. the salaries do not come easy. they had to risk their lives and leave their families. >> the way things are now between cuba and the united states i think it should be easier. they're looking for ways to have ties. i think its easier. of course i would like to have my family with me. >> more than 350 players have left cuba since 1980, but normalization has sparked an exodus. about 100 players have left in the past 12 months alone. players are worried major

john holman in mexico. richard is here with the weather, to tell us where patricia is now, where she's heading >> i think john summed it up well, most of the main issues. it's a case of dodging a bullet. the worst of it. if you look on the satellite, watch how it begins to fade with time. it gradually weakens. this was an incredibly powerful storm. we know it was the most powerful storm in the western hemisphere. as far as the pacific is concerned usually the biggest is the typhoons. this one rivalled the typhoons. not as deep, but it's rivalled things like violent and nancy. we have recordings of the like at 320 k/hr. it is a weakening storm, drifting to the north-east. as said n a report, this throws up the potential for rain. we have seen vast amounts falling. in the next 12-18 hours, there could be 2-300 ms of rage. -- millimetres of rain. there's another issue with this, and that is the surface part comes to grief across mexico, the upper flow moves through to texas. these shots come from aberdeen, whe

john holman has more from mexico. thousands of people are waking up in temporary shirt, so far overnight the report we're getting of the damage poo are trees, power lines, electricity cuts. some damage to buildings but not major damage. as you can hear now on the road to one of the states that have been most effective, but it seems that one thing that farmers are reporting that their crops have been damaged. some say they have lost all of their crops, which is obviously going to effect them heading forward. it's worth noting that civil protection are right now trying to get out of ruler communities in this region. that's where we expect most damage in the storm. although major accidents and developments have not been reported yet, until we get out to those rural communities, if their houses remain intact we won't know exactly how much this has damaged the southwest of the country. >> the vice president has been arrested over an allege plot to assassinate the president. he's being questioned on the explosion on the pre

. >>> mexico sending athletes to participate in a tournament, as john holman reports. bringing an ancient ballgame to the games. >> first this is w-aluqua, the ballgame of the people from southwest mexico. they say it's been around for over 300 years. first world indigenous games. las lowe shows how its played. >> it is a revindication of us, we are being taken into account, our customs are being respected, and we can show what we are and do. >> the most traditional sport in the country fast and rough it's attracting young kids, university students like carla. >> football's got really commercial, but here we leave it all out on the street. we run over stones and that's more exciting. >> reporter: ancestor of street hockey, the aim of these two teams is to do what that team just did there, the beauty of this game is that it can be played just about anywhere. >> the ancient game, a game of the gods, traditionally each player carves their own stick. it's intended to be a part of themselves, just as waluqua is part of the traditions. >> it's really important that we keep h

commissioner, so you saw holman. tell us what you think its like. >> i think it's a dark place. it's a place that warrants the justice department to actually come in and do an independent review of these allegations that that have been uncovered by the guardian newspaper. i think that what i saw was actually disturbing. i left the place with more questions than i had answers. the jail conditions are something that i had never seen before. inside any lock up in the city of chicago. >> what was unusual about it? >> what was unusual about it is that it looked like something from the medieval times, or something from the third world. they actually have the kind of restraints that are attached to benches in the lock up. and they have two separate lock ups if you will. the actual place, it is dark and there are no cameras in that area. they have an individual who monitors people 24/7 in that area. >> you asked the justice department to investigate. did you hear anything from doj? >> look, we've asked them--this is my second time of writing to them. i wrote to them back in february whe

john holman, al jazeera, mexico city. >> apple is now the only smartphone maker, china the world's largest smartphone market is becoming the battle ground for technology companies. sarah clark reports from hong kong. >> it is one of the largest electronic shows in the world. 4,000 companies from 30 countries are showcasing their latest innovation. >> we attract a human nudge of trade buyers all over the world, over 95,000 trade visitors last year from over 150 countries and regions. >> reporter: china is a leader in technology consumption not just production. and the popularity of smartphones is creating a booming industry. in a market flooded with smartphones, competition has never been so intense. now two chinese tech companies shao mei and wawei. >> they have a lot of areas to try odifferentiate themselves. still like a totally different world. >> reporter: as the world's largest smartphone market, every company has a strategy. given the demand for phones, success in this region could potentially secure you a spot in the world market. meeting what the consumer in china wants. >> we have

john holman, al jazeera, guadalajara, mexico. >> let's go straight to andy gallagher, who joins us from mexico city. what are you hearing about the impact on the pacific coast there? >> well, darren we're starting to get reports in from the authorities in those three regions and the president of mexico who are all saying early indications are that there ha hs been no huge damage and no fatalities so far despite all the forecasters saying, this could be a potentially catastrophic storm, the indications it hasn't been exactly as bad as predicted. seven hours until daylight comes to mexico that may reveal a very different picture. remember the storm as it moved in a category 4 as it is now will hit those more remote mountainous areas where people have no communications, and they live in ramshackle residence he. we are getting early indications that this isn't the catastrophic storm that perhaps it was forecast to be but as i said early days yet. >> andy how well prepared is mexico for these kinds of hurricanes? >> well they are fairly well prepared. hurricanes are pretty common in mexico b

john hole ma holman. >> for weeks trugs carrying essential supplies to india has stopped crossing into nepal. they say it's because the indian government opposes their new constitution. >>> now apple is no longer the top smart phone make center china. two local companies now account for a third of sales in the country. china is becoming the new battleground as they fight for a slice of the smart phone market. >> it's one of the largest electronic shows in the world. more than 4,000 companies from around 30 countries are showcasing their latest innovation with the market hungary for new technology. >> we have a huge number of trade buyers over the world. over 95,000 visitors. last year from over 150 countries and regions. >> china is the leader in technology consumption not just production. and the popularity of smart phones is creating a bombing industry in apple-related products. >> this is going to monitor how much food is consumed. >> competition has never been so intense. once dominated by apple, two chinese tech companies hold the lead in china accounting for nearly one-third of a

john holman is about 200 mild inland. what's happening in the coast of mexico right now? >> as you say this storm has now made landfall. we're talking winds in excess of 200 miles an hour here and so far that storm has been ripping up trees, looking up electricity polls and houses off roofs. that's all the officials have got so far. they have battened down the hatches themselves, trying to wait it out. once it's finished and passed on its way they'll be able to get out again and actually assess what kind of damage it's caused. they're saying already this is going to be really devastating. we're talking mudslides, we're talking communities that could potentially be uprooted here. so we're really, the pitch is not looking good. and you have to remember this is biggest recorded storm ever in the western hemisphere. >> john, we talked to someone who was evacuated from puerto vallarta to guadalajara that suggested that there are thousands of people and that the traffic has been clogged in guadalajara. have you gotten the sense of the people who have been evacuated where you ar

al jazeera's john holman is in guadalajara mexico. >> these seas are already beginning to rage. these buildings will shortly be battered. it won't be possible for touri tourists to stroll along the beach. hurricane rash is on its way. >> it's very probably that this hurricane will effectively be the most intense hurricane as committeesed in this part of the pacific in our country since records began in 194,937. >> this is an historic storm in man ways, the strongest ever recorded in the pacific. the fastest ever to develop, but residents have been given some time to prepare. >> i'm doing well here with my mother. they had told us that it would be category four. now it's been raised to category five. now there will be protections, special sides where people can stay. >> we didn't buy that much because they regularly will say that a hurricane will come. i don't think the majority will participate that much. >> mexico has a lot of mountains and the terrain is very dry. in turn that amplifies the rainfall particularly when storms make rainfall in mexico most of the damage and casual

. >> during our "extended stay" shoot at the holman correctional facility in alabama, we were filming interviews in the administrative segregation unit when a loud disturbance occurred. >> they put me in a cell! where it comes down to my [ bleep ] bed. it comes down on my bed, man. i can can't [ bleep ] sleep. >> inmate jamie bell is in a rage because his toilet is overflowing. he blames the inmate in the cell above him of creating the problem by interfering with the plumbing. >> [ bleep ]. >> jamie bell. listen. >> i'm trying to handle this. >> the confrontation becomes so heated that warden grant culliver gets involved. >> if you would shut [ bleep ] up, then nobody would be so [ bleep ] off at your ass. you're acting like a child. >> listen. >> we just moved him in. >> the inmate above bell's cell is serving life. his name is andrew alexander. >> there was no proof that this guy above him had done anything. but while we were filming i glanced up and i saw andrew alexander staring at me through his window. and i kind of asked him with my mouth, did you do this? and he just had the m

john holman, al jazeera, southwest mexico. >> you can always head to our website for the latest news and analysis. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. the billionaire cps bold move. i''s bold move.i'm talking aboud branson. >>> america's approach to illicit drug use has softened over the years. distinction between medical and recreational use and they've legalized the use of small amounts of marijuana. federal law bans it but since most drug progressions are crilzed at th criminalized at the local level. in canada local jurisdictions have experimented with decriminalizcriminalizing marijt the new president promises to make legal pot the law of the land. drug use is considered a public health issue not a crime and since 2001, portugal has not only decriminalized marijuana but everything from heroin to cocaine, too. so someone is found with less than a ten-day supply of any illicit drug that person goes before a three member panel, lawyer, doctor, social worker, they can recommend treatment for addiction, a small fine or more often than not nothing at all. decriminalization is a to

john holman has more. >> reporter: the world's most wanted drug lord has got away again. the mexican navy closed in on gus rsh, alias el chapo in the mountains of northern mexico, his birth place and hide out. after heavy helicopter fire, soldiers moved in. it was too late. once again, the leader of the sinaloa cartel slipped through the net. authorities say he was wounded in the head and leg. the missed opportunity came days before el chapo was leaped after an cape from the high security prison in july. >> the sound of tunnelling can be heard, and the voices of men. incredibly, the guards did not react to the barrage of noise until long after joaquin guzman vanished. it was the second team they escaped from a mexican gaol. time and again. el chapo embarrassed the government. it became a single of corruption and competence. and at least recapturing the drug lord compensates for that lack of credibility. despite a long list of crimes, including murder, money laundering and crime. joaquin guzman turned into an antihero. to the points where melissa chan turned into an a popu

john holman has more from mexico city. >> reporter: the man that mexicans are thoroughly enjoying hatingas his own show. he is the main character in the sons of trump, a mexican play in which he hands out the famous hair to akco lights, and encourages them to kill, and cheat. >> translator: donald trump he is a clown and obviously all mexicans are very annoyed with him. so we are here to have a laugh at his expense. >> reporter: the creators say they are playing trump at his own rabble rousing game. >> translator: of course he is very smart, but so are we, and we're capitalizing on this. >> reporter: this is the latest in a stream of anti-trump sentiment here in mexico. just a couple of blocks from the theater, you can pick up your donald trump pinata, a must have who feel words are not enough to punish the mogul. computer games developers have also seen an opportunity in the vibrant anti-trump market. while the mexican broadcaster run an ad before the recent soccer match with arch rival we u.s. using trump's now infamous to fire up supporters. whether the laughter will continue if trump

mexico however has a new initiative to avoid food waste and to help the needy and john holman reportsorter: the mexico city wholesale food market is the biggest in the world according to the government who run it. it's a hive of activity, 30,000 metric tons of meat, trueing and vegetables move through here every year and means a huge amount of wasted food and estimated 800 tons daily and the government and civil organizations agree that is a problem which is why ngo food for everyone is trying to make sure that access gets to those who need it most and set up food banks just outside the market. >> every morning we go to the city wholesale market to get food, vegetables and fruit because there are a lot of poverty in mexico and people who need it in schools, communities. >>> not just a mega waste problem and 20 million people suffer from hunger and bat diet with staggering amounts of produce in the bin and a third of the food goes to waste and that is 30 million kilos and part of that food could get to those in need then no one in mexico would go hungry. right now mexico rescued only 2

. >>> i'm john holman on mexico's south pacific coast where hundreds of thousands of turtles arrive each year, but the majority of their eggs are being stolen. ♪ >>> russia air strikes inside syria are continuing for a third day. syrian monitoring groups say overnight air raids on isil positions killed 12 fighters. opposition groups are also said to have been targeted. turkey has asked russia to stop attacking syrian opposition groups that are supported by the west. it says the intervention will only elevate the tension on the ground. this man explains why the syrian intervention is important for russia. >> turkey supports moderate opposition factions in syria, while for russia, these moderate, or less moderate factions are also part of their targets because initially -- at the very beginning, russia has already pointed out that it is going to take as a target, not only the isil, but the other terrori terrorists, and there is the definition that the syrian authorities use. i think russia has more than one target there. one is to help the syrian regime, because thanks to this support, rus

john holman reports. >> reporter: there is the result of the strongest hurricane, roads strewn with trees, crops ruined and buildings ripped apart. authorities feared it would be worse. >> that doesn't mean those this woman in a shelter. she had nowhere to go. >> our house collapsed in the wind. >> reporter: she showed us the ruined home she shares with father and daughters. all are homeless. >> this is my house. it was the only refuge that i had. >> reporter: it's the same story in village after village. it's the rural poor rather than the wealthiest tourist towns bearing the brunt of the storm. this is the coastal area where hurricane patricia made land fall. but importantly the high winds at the center missed the port and holiday resort town with high urban populations. as the storm subsided armed forces and government agencies started work, and clearing roads and restoring communications. mexican authorities react quickly. they have often been less willing to provide long-term solutions once the danger's pass. they just finished paying for the damage from the last big storm. what he n

police say khusen akhmedov was racing a mad holman of philadelphia holman has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. >>> fbi is a once nothing a major new effort of, solving a puzzling disappearance of richard petrone and danielle imbo a decade ago. billboard are flashing reward offers from maine to florida. the couple vanished with their pickup truck after leaving a south street restaurant on february 19th, 2005. petrone's mother tells "eyewitness news" she hopes national exposure will at last bring some answers. >>> newly released e-mails show russian hackers tried repeatedly to access hillary clinton's e-mail server. hackers tried five times to access the server when clinton was secretary of state. they sent infect e-mails disguised a as speeding tickets to give them access as she click on the attached links. it is in the clear if clinton's server was ever compromised. over the weekend she defended her latest release. >> what i have tried to do and explaining this is to provide more transparency and more information then anybody that i'm aware of who have ever served on the government.

. >> i'm john holman on mexico's pacific coach where hundreds of thousands of turtles arrive. but the majority of their eggs are being stolen. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >>> a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to cut mandatory prison sentences for nonviolent offenders, it's called the most important criminal justice reform in a generation, if approved the bill will call for early release programs for federal inmates. u.s. senator chuck shumack says it could save livers. -- livers. >> nonviolent drug offenders will not stay in gaol forever, and everyone in prison will be given the tools to come out and become productive citi

john holman, mexico. >>> the u.s. government is clamping down on the recreational use of unauthorized drones. it's commissioned a task force to create a federal registers of the owner of the flying machines but not all types of aircraft will be included. the obama administration wants the register up and running before the end of the year. it set the deadline because it anticipates more than 1 million drones will be bought as christmas presents. already there's been 600 drone sightings near restricted air space in the u.s. >>> at least 14 people have died after regions in the northeast of the philippines were battered by a typhoon. >>> the chinese president has arrived in the u.k. for a four-day state visit. the british prime minister says he hopes to establish what he's called a golden eara. -- era between china and the u.k. they hope to strengthen business ties despite wide differences over human rights policies. protests over china's human rights records are expected throughout the president's visit. >>> now, hundr

that led to complaints, as john holman reports. >> reporter: this is a promo video the mexican government put online and took down after an outcray. a carpenter tells a workmate mowing about the government's reforms, and ends a lecture with what the p.r. department thought was a killer line. >> translation: enough already of your complaining he says in slang. >> reporter: that angered many mexicans. >> translation: how are we not going to complain when there is so much wrong with the country. >> it's like they are mocking us because they know a lot of people will get annoyed. a lot of people say the reforms are helping. >> if they are tired of the complaints, they should do their jobs. if they solved the problems they wouldn't complain. >> twitter jumped on the theme in a country where corruption and impursuant yit dominates. within hours, the video was gone. >> it's the latest setback for the president, who served to power a wave of orchestrated appearances on mexico's subserviant tv channels. >> the online world is difficult to tame, as more mexicans are elected, it proves a launching p

they've got they are quarterback back now in justin holman he look really good against uconn last weekuple drops away from scoring a lot of points. 225 yards i believe the number was. we saw what he can do last year. we have our work cut out for us and we're working hard right now to have a chance to beat them, because obviously we don't like the fact the last two years it's been us walking off the field as losers. >> all right. five and one penn state is paying out of state for the first time this season. nittany lions are traveling to columbus to play number one ohio state. they're just four and 11 all time against top ranked teams. this will be the toughest test of the season and james franklin knows it. >> now going on the road, um, you know, to ohio state my first time ever going there, um, and face, you know, that type of adversity and that type of environment is going to be a challenge. it will be interesting. so, yeah, i think, um, i think, you know, every day we're getting -- we're getting closer as team many we're getting a better understanding of how to work together and how

police say he was racing, a man from philadelphia holman has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. >>> camden city hall and social county services building will be back opened after a power outage. both were, closed when lights went out. pse and g, restored power a few hours later but they are trying to figure out what cause that had power outage in the first place. >>> controversy dogging hillary clinton's presidential campaign continues to grow, with the state department's latest release of e-mails from her private server. this batch brings the the total number of e-mails made public from clinton's private e-mail server to 6300 pages. don champion has the latest now from new york. >> reporter: latest batch of e-mails from 2010/2011 show russia linked hackers tried five times to pry into hillary clinton's e-mail account. they did so by ending e-mails disguised as speeding tickets with attachments that would have allowed hackers into her network. clinton's campaign officials say she never replied to the e-mails nor opened the attachments. over the weekend clinton tried yet again to st

when we met keith precious at the holman correctional facility in alabama, he was carrying on a sexual relationship with inmate marquis nobles. >> when i first met him i told another one of the girls, he has pretty feet, you know. i have a foot fetish. i'm in to feet, man. i'm into the feet. i like feet. as far as the sex part is concerned, it is very, very frustrating and uncomfortable, especially if it's something you really want to do. basically it's done quick, and quietly. >> for prison officials, sex is a complicated topic. >> i don't think you really crack down on homosexuality. you can't stop it. you can prevent it from happening openly. if the relationship is not causing a problem, generally we don't do anything with that. if they are not opening having sex, you can have a relationship that doesn't have sex involved. >> but mason believes it's the lack of sex that leads to the unrest among inmates. >> that frustrate these dudes. there's not a man that i know from 8 to 80 right now that wakes up and don't have an erection in the morning time because that's what happens. you're

as elise holman reports. >> back at home after two difficult times on the road, and the new york nets wasted no time in showing they were up to the occasion. the captain has gone deep. david rice with a 2-run homer in the first innings. >> the royals hit straight back, two singles at the top of the second, butting them 3-2 ahead before curtis granderson lit it up again. a 2-run remmer and the fans from laughing. a burst sending them on the way to a win. the mets on the board as they bid for the first world series since 1986. >> this is what you dream about as a kid. hitting a home run, looking up in the stands and seeing people go nuts. it's one of those memories that will stick for me for the rest of my life. >> the mets now with a chance to square the best of seven series with game four in new york on saturday. maria sharapova suffering a shock knockout in the finals in singapore. the czech comfortably won the first set. she hit back, taking a 5-1 lead in the second, falling apart to go down 6-3, 7-6. there was a chance to add to her 2011 credit. >> she'll face agnieszka radwanska i

holman reports. at the start in game two.ess than 19 hours after completing the longest opening game history, the royals and mets were at kauffman stadium. it took until the fourth innings for lucas to get the first run on the board. the last of the mets scoring for the game as the royals took charge. four runs secured in the fifth innings alone. but the batters were the warm up for johnny cueto, who stole the show. . >> strike-outs in the sixth and 7th innings. he gave up just two hits along the way. with an r.b.i. triple, at the bottom of the eighth, kansas city went one up. >> fittingly it was left to cueto to wrap up the game. >> he thrives in this environment. he's comfortable in the park, loves the fans, feeds off the energy, and i felt strongly that he'd put up a great performance. >> game 3 is scheduled for new york on friday. >> now, qatar's foreign minister has defended his country as hosts of the 2022 world cup in an interview with al jazeera. it comes after sepp blatter claims the event was supposed to go to the u

elise holman, al jazeera. maria sharapova wa, will--now iconic racehorse will compete in his final race at the breed of club classic on saturday. american pharaoh made history earlier this year by becoming the first horse since 1978 to win what is known as the triple crown of u.s. racing. american pharaoh has been credited with reviving the popularity of the sport in the u.s. and another sell out crowd is expected in lexington, kentucky. >>> japan's ichimu ra claimed a sixth all around title in championships. no other man or woman has ever won more than three. uchimura has won every olympic and all around title since he took silver since 2008. that's a streak unmatched in gymnastics history. that's all your sports for now. we'll have more later. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. we're at the end of the news hour but we're back with another bulletin of news in just a couple of minutes. >> egyptian officials say there are no survivors from the russian passenger jets that crashed in the sinai. 17 children are a

john holman said many small businesses and towns were not lucky. >> reporter: this is the result of a hurricane, crops ruined. buildings ripped apart. authorities feared buildings ripped apart. authorities feared it would be worse. doesn't mean those in the path of hurricane patricia would escape unscathe. this woman was in a shelter. >> it collapsed and destroyed everything. >> she shows us the ruin home shared with father and shared with father and daughters. all are homeless. >> this was my house. >> reporter: it was the only refuge that i had. >> reporter: it's the same story in village after village. this is the coastal area where hurricane patricia is making landfall, crashing into villages like this. the high winds at the center missed the port and the holiday resort town with high urban populations. as the storm subsided, arm forces and government agencies started work restoring communications and clearing roads. mexican authorities react quickly to natural disasters, but have been less willing to provide long-term solutions once the danger has passed. this person had finished

. >>> i'm john holman on mexico's south pacific coast where hundreds of thousands of turtles arrive eachear, but the imagine yourty of their eggs are being stolen. >>> taliban fighters are managing to hold off afghan troops as they continue an offense if to retake the northern city of kunduz. the strategic city was taken by taliban forces earlier this week. let's speak to our correspondent who is near kunduz. and the afghan army made any advances? what is the latest on the fighting? >> reporter: shiulie we are hearing heavy fighting going on right now. afghan security forces confirming to us that they have received their reinforcement from kabul and tonight they are going to launch their biggest attack on kunduz to retake kunduz city. but the residents tell us that more than half of kunduz is still under control of taliban. taliban seems they are splitting the war in the neighbor provinces in the north of the country. just few hours ago, taliban got control of another district in a province, afghan government confirms that too. in the past three days that's the fourth district that talib