jacob ward reports. >> to know why mars is a cold desolate dry planet, you only need to understand the sun. nasa scientists announced thursday that the atmosphere was stripped away by powerful solar storms bills of years ago. unlike today's much less active sun, those winds penetrated mars and left it vulnerable. the relate was the disappearance of water -- the result was the disappearance of water and probably the disappearance of life. >> the stripping of the solar wind in mars was thought to have taken place very early in the history of the solar system when the sun was more active, when the wind was more intense. so the rate is low. >> since then its instruments have analyzed solar winds and their effects on the atmosphere. scientists said maven even documented the similar wind sols earlier this year. >> we have rovers that have found rocks that were formed in ache we uak weacquious environm. valleys that looked like they were carvegd by water, lakes that were standing for long periods of time, an environment that was much more able to support liquid water. >> reporter: storms are

jacob ward, al jazeera, tomales bay, california. >> nasa is looking for the right stuff. next how the agency is searching for its next generation of astronauts and what they will be doing. >>> worrying about the memory as you grow older how brain training can help. crushing into somebody's chest. >> what is the number one cause of death for police officers? >> suicide. 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. >> forbes magazine has declared russian president vladimir putin the world's most powerful person for the third year in a row. the magazine noted that while russia is still in a severe recession, he was 89% most powerful. angela merkel was secon

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> a cyber security expert said technology may be giving an edge to would be isil attackers. >> isil has hacking capability. they are able to take control of websites and manipulate very easy to access data in a public way trying to make a name for themselves. other applications that are out there, tell gram, there was an arrest in april of this year, british intelligence found a young boy communicate, an individual in algeria exchanging messages about joining the group and trying to further propaganda efforts. it is not clear how they apprehended those messages. >> the challenge is that there's a distinction to be made between the propaganda and recruiting efforts of i.s. and operational communications. a lot of the twitter and facebook social media platform that is we see that they are active on are easier to gain access to, there's a better scope of existing law for law enforcement to gain access to account information, credentials. the operational messages are absolutely harder to break into. >> to address that, lawmakers here recently inserted

as al jazeera's jacob ward reports, france already has some of the broadest surveillance laws in the world. >> despite the claims of government, the public made the final decision, and that is a radical change. >> edward snowden embarrassed the united states from backing away from mass surveillance, but france is going the other direction. in july, after the charlie hebdo attacks, lawmakers in france easily passed regulation 215713, the law of intelligence, formalizing powers the state exercised for years. because it failed to restrict intelligence agencies, the law earned objections from the u.n., civil rights activists and center right politicians in france. its provision are broad and powerful, reaching into almost every part of modern life. it's help to feel contrast the laws provision with current u.s. laws to understand what it does. the french love allows the state to eavesdrop on digital and phone communications of anyone linked to a so-called terrorist inquiry. no matter how distant the connection to the primary suspect. it allows intelligence agencies to install recording d

show we are seeing climate change happening in a drastic fashion right here before our eyes. >> jacob wardn san francisco. the secretary of state of georgia is being sued for releasing the private data of 6 million people to media and political parties. two women filed the complaint today. the government office sent their social security numbers, birth dates and driver's license details to 12 different organizations. the information was supposed to be stripped out of a generic file but it was accidentally left in. officials are chocking it up to a clerical error. it could be one of the largest data breaches ever by a u.s. state. i am antonio mora. for the latest news anytime head over to aljazeera.com. ray suarez is up next with "inside story." have a great night. >> it is the policy of the united states government to allow refugees fleeing the fighting in syria to resettle in america, but we have a federal system. and a majority of state leaders say that may be your policy, but we don't want them here, not in our state. nearly all of the governors, all of the republicans, are saying that

jacob ward, al jazeera, san francisco. >> thanks for watching. the news continues next live from doha. >> welcome to the al jazeera news hour. to the stories. the next generation is watching world leaders who are urged to agree on a meaningful deal in a conference in paris. >> if there was no violation there wouldn't be such a crisis today. >> turkey's prime minister refuses to apologize for the shooting down of a fighter jet. >>> a mge

jacob ward, aljazeera, california. >> i'm richelle carey and thank you for watching. the news continues now with john seigenthaler. a bomb might have brought down the airliner. the brich governmen british govd ireland suspend all flights to sharm el sheikh. lisa stark has more. >> according to the associated press there have been communications that were sprept

aljazeera's jacob ward is here with more. >> reporter: randall, the announcement today describes the means by which mars has become a very very bleak and desolate place. turns out that it's leaking atmosphere at one quarter pound per second. and that's because much solar radiation that has been ripping away at the atmosphere. it's a look at the forces that have turned it into such a bleak place. >> when we look at ancient mars, we see a different type oof surface. one that had valleys, and flakes standing for periods of time. and we see an environment that was much more able to support liquid water. >> all of these things were really billions of years ago, and it turns out that it's the affect of solar radiation that had this affect overtime and really changed that climate as much as it has. >> does this story about mars tell us about the story here on earth? >> well, the thing that we really learned is that 4.2 billion years ago, basically the magnetic field that we have on earth disappeared on mars. they don't have the shield that we all depend onto keep our atmosphere intact. and

jacob ward. >> next, help wanted in space. n.a.s.a.'s looking for a few good men and women for the next generation of space travel. pace travel. >>> a giant sinkhole outside a restaurant in mississippi swallowed up more than a dozen cars, it's 50 feet wide, 600 feet long. witnesses heard a series of booms before the sinkhole opened up. remarkably no injuries were reported, the area mitt by rain, including 3 inches this weekend. >> n.a.s.a.'s out with a help wanted request. it will accept applications for its next wave of astronauts >>> n.a.s.a. is looking for a few good people to make a long trip. i want you to apply for n.a.s.a.'s astronaut programme. >> it's part of a plan sending astronauts it the international space station, in additions to the moon and the red planet. >> in the 20/'30s, the goal is to go to mars. by submitting applications they are trying to show that they are serious about the plans, and they intend to use these people for decades to come. three years ago n.a.s.a. put out a similar request. n.a.s.a. has grown in p

jacob ward has more. >> to know why morse is cold, desolate, cold and try, you need to under the sun. scientists announced the planet's thick atmosphere, making it warm and wet was stripped away by the storms. today's less active son penetrated mars, leaving it vulnerable. blasts of gas, magnetic particles. the result was the disappearance of water and life. >> most of the stripping by the solar wind was thought to have taken place early in the history of the solar system when the sun was more active. today the rate of loss is low. the rate of loss is equal to a quarter pound of its atmosphere every second. n.a.s.a. says maven documented a sol yore storm. among the major findings was the discovery of water on morse. we have vis you will evidence that ancient mars had enough water to support microbial life. so much so it looked similar to earth. >> when we looked at mars, we see a different surface, one that has a valley, lakes. we see an environment able to support liquid water. >> as for a chance that earth could suffer the same fate. the rate of lose would be low. >> i'm antonio mor

jacob ward from san francisco. the news continues on al jazeera america. brp >> on "america tonight": hard lessons. a rising voice of protest on campus. ithaca college scene of the latest faceoff as students say the school isn't all it seems. >> there were so many stories, so many tears in that room of black and brown students who said, i don't feel welcomed here. >> "america tonight's" adam may visits a campus torn by anger. thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. at the intersection of speech and studies, arising tide of protest on a number of american college campuses against what demonstrators charge is systemic racism in higher education. the high profile crisis at the university of missouri led to the departure of the school's top two leaders. now protests at other campuses are echoing with the same demands. one is ithaca college in upstate new york where "america tonight's" adam may met with a college president under fire from angry students. >> silence for 20 minutes. is. >> reporter: this protest wasn't staged on the stage of ferguson or baltimore n

>> jacob ward joins me now from san francisco. jake, i can't get enough of this story. unconscious bias is very closely related to what we've been talking about here, microaggression. help me understand how these two are connected. >> it's hard to measure. by it's name it's not conscious. people are exhibiting biases that oftentimes conflict with their explicit beliefs. if you were to write these biases down on a piece of paper, they would say i never expressed that kind of idea. that's the whole point of it. that by its nature is incredibly difficult to measure. micro-aggressions have since 2007 been the subject of an effort to kalt categorize them. attacks have been formed around aggressions talking about the small ones, things like asking someone, oh, where are you from? asking an interracial couple how did you meet all the way through to things like checking somebody's i.d. gratuitously whether they enter a certain college facility. those are the beginning of an efrpt to try and measure this. >> herein lies the rub. i ask people where they are and met. having watche

jacob ward from san francisco. the news continues on al jazeera america.rp >> on "america tonight": hard lessons. a rising voice of protest on campus. ithaca college scene of the latest faceoff as students say the school isn't all it seems. >> there were so many stories, so many tears in that room of black and brown students who said, i don't feel welcomed here. >> "america tonight's" adam may visits a campus torn by anger. thanks for joining us, i'm joie

jacob ward from san francisco. the news continues on al jazeera america. >> it's like a conveyer belt of storms. >> i felt like i was in a washing machine. >> we're kind of stuck with more than a century of bad choices. ♪ >> the united states has sent military forces to war in many places in the last 60 years, korea, vietnam, the dominican republic, kosovo, afghanistan, iraq again, without the congress doing what is specified in the constitution, declaring war against a national enemy. there is a growing sentiment among americans that the united states should send ground troops to syria. we're asking, anything to declare? it's the "inside story." ♪

jacob ward, al jazeera, sacramento. >> thanks for watching. the news continues next live from doha.'ll bring you the president's remarks from arlington national cemetery at 11:00 a.m. eastern. this is a live picture of the setup for the president. we'll be back then. >> this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> hello and welcome to the news hour. i'm in doha. here is what is coming up in the next 60 minutes. slovenia, begins erecting a wall to keep refugees out. >>> anger on the streets of afghanistan's capitol of the killing of members of an ethnic minority.

jacob ward from san francisco. the news continues on al jazeera america. shot down turk which downs a russian war plane on the border of syria international response. >>> francois hollande set to meet with barack obama calling for a larger coalition in the fight against i.s.i.l. >> israel has every right in the world to defend itself. >> and secretary of state john kerry in the middle east calling for an end to the violence that has left dozens dead. ♪ these dramatic images from the

we have this report from jacob ward. >> as any parent can tell you, the birth of a child in a blur ofed parking, terrible pain, anxiety and a lot of medical forms. when my kids were born here in california, we were asked to sign a form that would allow the state to do genetic screening doing a blood sample. when we looked at it. it made a lot of sense. >> little poke, sweetie. >> the form allows the state of california to take blood, blot it on to a piece of paper and screen for more than 30 potential applications. it's also become possible in the last decade to use that blood to sequence a baby's d.n.w. be a revealing all the information for a doctor or scientists to see. those samples are stored at a facility main taped by the department of health. this is a treasure trove of information. your average scientific database offers up maybe a few thousand people but this place has the information of pretty much everyone born in california since 1983. that is millions of peoples genetic information. >> those samples are available to more than parents and headlight workers. california's p

. >> that was jacob ward. your twitter services identify some 15,000 i.s.i.l. accounts in a two month period. what does that number tell you about i.s.i.l.'s ability to reach its followers and also to find new followers? >> well, what we know about how social media works and what we really saw in this census, and in subsequent monitoring, is that you can take a relatively small number of people, and make a very big difference on social media. so twitter's user base monthly active user base is about 288 million people. 40,000 is not very much in the scheme of things but when you get into the 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 zone, when you have people work in concert they can make a hashtag trend. they can put their message out on another hashtag that's trending. you know those kinds of numbers allow them to be very effective. what we've seen in the months since that study has been done, is there's a lot of suspensions of accounts, that outreach is limited now, their talking to each other is more of an echo chamber these days. >> i'm wondering if in fact the government off

jacob ward, aljazeera, california. >> i'm richelle carey and thank you for watching. the news continues now with john seigenthaler. a bomb might have brought down the airliner. the brich governmen british govd ireland suspend all flights to sharm el sheikh. lisa stark has more. >> according to the associated press there have been communications that were sprept intercepted, that a rebel group may have put a bomb on this plane. egyptian investigators have not officially determined whether an explosion or mechanical problem brought down the plane but the british government says information now points to a bomb. >> we have concluded that there is a significant possibility that that crash was coughed caun explosive device on board the aircraft. >> the british are advising only but essential travel be permitted through sharm el sheikh. >> there will be no commercial flights permitted to sharm el sheikh from now. all commercial passenger flights will be returning from sharm el sheikh. >> have restricted u.s. embassy employees from traveling to the area. >> it's important to

jacob ward, aljazeera, sacramento. >> and for more at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john seigenthaler is here. >> tonight at 8:00, another debate. the republicans are back on the stage. and a small field though. and we'll look at the issues before it begins. social security and unions and the minimum wage. where the candidates stand and how it could impact every american. it begins in just a few minutes. tony. >> thank you. and a sticky situation in seattle is getting cleanup. it is a wall of gum 20 years in the making. aljazeera's allen schauffler got a closeup look. >> welcome to one of seattle's premier tourist attractions. this is the gum wall at pike place market. for decades, people have been coming here, chewing up their gum and then sticking it on the wall. and in some cases, making elaborate art. and it's a huge art piece. it has been growing since the early 90s, and now the people who run it figure its time for deep cleaning. steam cleaning, and that's what's going to happen. fast forward now, it looks lie little bit like a hazardous material site. and maybe it is. the steam

jacob ward, al jazeera, sacramento. >> for more on this, i want to bring in our meteorologist nicole you've been following el niÑo. how long before it's over in california? >> we officially got into it this spring, although there were signs even before that. a we want the warming of the equatorial pacific waters. it's been ramping up all year since the spring. right now, we could be at our peak, but water heats and cools slowly, so could take us at least until next spring to get out of it even if we're peeking out now. this is the strongest el niÑo in 20 years based on statistics and that changes weather patterns, that's why we are expecting more big storms this year. speaking of big storms, we have one in the midsection of the country now. we're seeing most of this as rain. we talked earlier about the ice area and then behind that snow, because of the fast temperature changes we're seeing and all that cold air intruding with the warm air gives us ice. >> portions of the southern plains, we're going to get so much over the next few days. in the southeast we have high pressure. the fr

let's watch this report from our science and technology course dents jacob ward, and then we pick up the discussion on the other side. >> the techniques that isil used are drawn directly from contemporary media. this is video that they put out in 2014 that captured a jordanian pilot. later they go on to exut him. i won't show you that. it's too horrible. we wouldn't do that. in the lead-up to interviewing him they do graphics and set up the story. later on when they're actually talking to him, there's this sort of affect where they are both interviewing him and zooming out on certain maps above him. it looks very familiar, and that's because you see it all the time in video games, for instance. here is 2009's call of duty. it's one of in a series of games, it's one of the popular video game franchises of all time. it's the same effect, that flashing in on the map. it's worth noting here that later in the game you're called upon to basically shoot up an airport and execute civilians, a whole crowd of t them. isis is doing this stuff. their propoganda mirrors what we put out in you're

jacob ward, al jazeera, california. >>> much more to come for you after a very short break. we'll have all your sports news. france and real madrid star bezniner is facing up to five years in prison. we'll have the details on that story very shortly. >>> welcome back. time for your sports with robin. >> thank you very much. we start with motogp and rossi's hopes of a world title have taken a huge hit. the court of arbitration upheld his punishment for kicking mark marquez during the malaysian grand prix. it took place with 14 laps to go. rossi appeared to kick at marquez resulting in the spanish world champion crashing out. he finished third in the race. officials handed him three penalty points, which means he has to start from the back of grid for the season-ends valencia grand prix this sunday. rossi leads the yamaha teammate by 7 points currently. >> it's difficult. it was difficult anyway, but starting from last to make the teams in the race a lot more harder, and they're a lot of points of view. >>> the star french footballer is faces up to five years in prison after b

jacob ward, california. >> they are trying to save the chesapeake bay.t's been so many out of theres that they used the shells to pave driveways. >> with one ocean. >>> the word's coral reefs are dying at an alarming rate affecting the entire underwater ecosystem. >> a laboratory in the florida key has discovered technology that mayeverse that trend. >> i thought coral scientists needed self help groups, because they saw what was happening underwater years ahead of people on land. >> scientists are worrying about scenes like these, dead corals appearing all over the world. more than a quarter of the earth's corals have disappeared as a result of rising temperatures, pollution and ocean acidification. >> marine biologist david and his team at the laboratory in the florida keys are racing to try to reverse the alarming loss. ten years ago, he accidentally discovered if you cut coral into tiny fragments, it stimulates it to grow up to 50 times its normal rate. >> these were just cut today and as you can see, these are very tiny pieces and just a couple of p

jacob ward from san francisco. the news continues on al jazeera america. shot down turk which downs a russian war plane on the border of syria international response. >>> francois hollande set to meet with barack obama calling for a larger coalition in the fight against i.s.i.l. >> israel has every right in the world to defend itself. >> and secretary of state john kerry in the middle east calling for an end to the violence that has left dozens dead. ♪ these dramatic images from the turkey-syria border show a russian war plane on fire and crashing after it was shot down of night by a turkish jet and both pilots ejected right now and russian helicopters searching for one of them, the other is believed to be dead and welcome to your world this morning i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. >> and it crossed in the air space and issued a number of warnings and moscow says it can prove they stayed over the skies of syria and we will have more but first to moscow and rory challenge and how is russia reacting to this latest news? >> well, the russians choosing th

jacob ward, al jazeera, sacramento. >> break out your credit cards, we are talking about an on line shoppingonanza. >> surging sales pushed the biggest internet buying day into record territory. >> an appetite for change. we'll take a look at what caused an american icon to rethink its recipes. >> another view of your world. these are live picture of prague bustling at this hour because it's 2:00 in the afternoon there. >> campbell's soup is going to do away with 10 ingredients from its original chicken noodle soup, msg, taco bell, pizza hut promising to remove artificial colors and flavors from their foods. tyson's foods also saying it will stop feeding its chicken apartment bites and panera will drop more than 150 additives from its foods. >> general mills is accused of misleading customers. the center for science and the public interest saying cheerios protein does not contain much more protein than regular cheerios, saying the only thing really different is the sugar. for larger servings, the nutritional panels show the same amount of calories, 200. old fashioned cheerios has six grams o

science and technology correspondent jacob ward explains why. >> october of 2015 was a record breakingonth in the middle of a record breaking year. it is announce that had october was literally the hottest year, the hottest month on record in 136 years of record keeping. it was almost a full degree celsius, electric two degrees fahrenheit off of the 20 centuries average for octobers. that makes it an extraordinary year. we saw record land temperatures in australia, asia, africa, the western united states. we're literally talking here about every part of the earth, seeing record temperatures. this comes at the same time that nooa is reveal that the first 10 months are the hottest on that record in 1300 months recorded. we are talking about this being the absolutely hottest ever. this comes on the heel of other news, new realization that is huge swaths of the world's population are dependent on snow melt for water supply, because rain will not do it. they need snow to bank water over time and that is not happening with these new record temperatures. we are talking about places like syria

jacob ward explains. >> when you think about as thomas, professionals that get to use the big rigs orrd amateurs like me using a low powered telescope, you think about watching natural objects in space, man nets, stars, comets or the occasional man made object that's doing what it's supposed to, satellites clicking away up there. there's a new field of as tran my watching for space junk, the debris we've scattered across low earth orbit with all out of activities up there. that is multiplying, objects are beginning to create whole new fields of debris. we have 21,000 objects moving at incredible speeds, several miles per second, which means their very dangerous to the satellites we rely on. being able to predict the movement of that stuff, especially when it comes and makes contact with the atmosphere or god forbid, the surface of the earth, that's very important. that's why everyone's been watching this particular object, w.f.1190f. so closely. in the past, we've been very bad at predicting how this stuff is going to come down. when sky lab came down, it did so sooner than we expecte

jacob ward report that had they have more legal leeway when it comes to purr saling potential suspects. i wonder whether you would expect more raised to happen and whether there were more accomplices believed to be out there as part of this terrorist cell. >> i think so, because also before the announcing of this -- of the successful killing of abdelhamid abaaoud, we had the prime minister earlier saying there could be chemical attacks, there could be biological attacks. this is a country that is on this footing, trying to prepare its people and its security forces that there are more attacks perhaps to come, so clear clearly acting on tips, on leads, on intelligence. there have been more than 400 operations and raised since friday's attacks. we can only expect there will be dozens more in the coming days. this is not going to stop or hold back french security personnel from trying to root out any other cells, other plotters. just because abdelhamid abaaoud was killed 24 hours ago in paris doesn't mean there aren't many people vying to show what they have what it takes to make a very b

they may have used so-called strong enegyptian technology and al jazeera's jacob ward explained justs. >> if someone wanted a secure application to coordinate an attack, they'd have no end of options. what's app, the world's leading messaging app would be a logical first choice. security sources close to the investigation tell al jazeera that the app may have been used by the paris attackers. in the aftermath of the bangkok bombings in august, the culprits used what's app to communicate. that's not because it is the preferred means of communication for bad guys. it's because it's the preferred means of communication for nearly one seventh of the world's population. the company did not respond to our request for comments. what's app reports it has 800 million monthly users. the world uses it to send 30 billion messages. it's a free alternative to text messages and voice calls. >> in its early days, what's app had a somewhat weak security reputation. after the company was acquired by facebook in november, 2014, it initiated an endescription even the company cannot decode. my phone does