. >> the governor of jakarta, the indonesian capital has popularity ratings many would envy.any believe that he could be president. some whether he could bring the same changes to the country as he has to the capital. >> he's timid, down to earth and not very articulate. everywhere he goes he a treated like a rock star. after giving free health care and education for the poor. he has become a hero to many. >> translation: i'm really happy that he made school cheaper, compared to others who have not done much. jokuwe have done a lot. >> he travels to hospitals, slum areas and river banks nearly every day. his concern to close the gap between the rich and poor because he says he knows what it's like to be poor. >> when i was small boy from the age two jors and 12 years old, i live in the riverbank, with the gone, not good. i lot of garage. >> he is now governing a sit of 10,000 with traffic congestion, corruption, flooding and poverty. he's optimistic he can fix the problems. >> a leader has to go to the people, touch their skin, hand, listen to their needs and make a policy ba

indonesian but under strain and flying is near the embassy in jakarta over reports australia spied on the calls of both the president and his wife were testers demanded an apology over the alleged topic which has seen jakarta suspend military and diplomatic relations with cumbria there were relations came to light from documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden causing severe damage to ties between the two key allies and trading partners. in the u.k. new figures have revealed the country's total personal debt has reached an all time high the rising costs of energy and other household bills are pushing people over the edge with many even facing the risk of losing their homes laura smith investigates. here on london's main shopping dry christmas has already begun with all the exhausting spending that it entails but millions of households across britain will be entering the festive season already saddled with all manageable debts a new report personal debt has hit one paw. four trillion pounds is the rising cost of living forces people to borrow to make ends meet debts they ultimat

jakarta deployed to iraq twice and schieffer survived not one but two. excuse me three separate idea explosions. and when she was well enough she deployed again. and i was almost celebrating as you say no she was she was really joyful to jump back in there and combat i mean what effect do these multiple redeployments have on soldiers i just want to expand i would like to compare that with the current focus on concussion than the n.f.l. i mean i read your show that the n.f.l. and the military are doing partnering on some kind of research behind that since they are fairly similar i mean you get banged on the offensive line and that fellow and you get your brain rattled by a i.e.d. and you're confident and the injuries are similar or different from different circumstances but so they're working together and hopefully there will be some sort of research coming out of there will be useful to especially the military folks and you know veterans also make up about seven percent of the u.s. population yet thirteen percent of all the homeless people in this countr

we heard jakarta said it will postpone military cooperation? >> we are neighbours, somehow we have to get along. tab ot, as prime minister, is being -- tony abbott, as prime minister, is being careful with his words. he hasn't admitted it happened. he said it's sorry for the damage the media reports caused. that's differents from saying, "okay, we did it, we got caught and we are sorry." he hasn't said that. he's defending the old convention that the government never i'm not sure, blames a previous government. they stand sold ied in national security. it doesn't fit the circumstances well. i don't think it's going down. that's pretty obvious. >> and one other important factor is australia requires indonesia's cooperation in preventing illegal migrants to australia. jakarta could refuse to work with australia on the issue, resulting perhaps in more deaths at see. >> absolutely. the australian government had to state its reputation coming in to office to stop the boats and everyone understand that required cooperation. i almost feel sorry for ton

others to decide if he should leave indonesia, he says he has enough on his plate solving problems in jakartailst also trying to enjoy his favourite music. >> check out the music of the the mayor is known to love loud rock music and owns a base guitar signed by heavy metal band mettalica >> a comet thought to have been scorched may be out there. astronomers thought comet isom had disintegrated. it may have survived after all. earth lings can catch a glimpse next month. i'm morgan radford. thank you for watching al jazeera america. see you again in a few short hours, at 4am eastern. reta dot com.comis the eses in the house. we'll talk about entrepreneur ship and social media. ♪ o lisa fletcher is away. omar what is our on-line community saying they'rjazzed about alexus being here. we have all kinds of people that want to pick his brain. how to turn web being into reae

for over 30 years, violent clashes occurred between rebels and the jakarta government, until 2004, when a peace treaty was signed. over 15,000 people died in that conflict. two years after the peace treaty, aceh was hit by a series of deadly floods, killing dozens. experts believe extensive logging in the surrounding hills caused the floods. >> [speaking local language] >> after such adversity, many communities are just trying to rebuild. and for young farmers, like sabaruddin, elephants and other wildlife pose a threat to their livelihood. >> [speaking local language] >> with money on the line, it's often hard to find solutions that are good for both people and elephants. but with no solutions at all, the conflicts can turn ugly. baby elephants are often captured, domesticated, and used for entertainment. >> [speaking local language] [elephant growls] >> this is rajah the elephant. he's been named by the villagers who found him in a trap, on a plantation about a month ago. apparently he's just over a year old. as cute as he is, it's a really tragic story. he's on his own, chained up, p

something a little edgier to help burn off some stress and book your tickets on the next flight to jakarta that's because the indonesian capital is the home of the high crime the yes you heard me right height on the site visitors of the bali heritage reflexology and spot in jakarta and choose among a wide array of massage options with a python massage is by far the most intense customers who decide on this treatment allowed two or three snakes to slither across their back for hours at a time or in the spa zone or snake massages help reduce stress by raising a drone a little of it think although it probably sounds counter-intuitive to some people true believers say it helps heal the body and mind you know i. i'm all for alternative medicine something tells me a python doesn't come without it. it's the good the bad of the very very joke a serious oil ability the good. clinton ohio residents of this toledo suburb celebrated christmas earlier than usual this year to help cheer up thirteen year old david coleman who is terminally ill with brain cancer on sunday afternoon hundreds of his neighbo

jakarta deployed to iraq twice and schieffer survived not one but two. excuse me three separate idea explosions. and when she was well enough she deployed again. you know it's almost celebrating as you say no she was she was really joyful to jump back in there and combat i mean what effect do these multiple redeployments have on soldiers i just want to expand i would like to compare that with the current focus on concussion than the n.f.l. i mean i read your show that the n.f.l. and the military are doing partnering on some kind of research behind that since they are fairly similar i mean you get banged on the offensive line and that fellow and you get your brain rattled by a i.e.d. in your conforte and the injuries are similar or different from different circumstances but so they're working together and hopefully there will be some definitive research coming out of there will be useful to especially the military folks and you know veterans also make up about seven percent of the u.s. population yet thirteen percent of all the homeless people in this cou

that harm tighten security and ensure a pain in the cigar but also someone that u s ambassador to jakarta to clear up the allegations. ask and it continues to deepen the menace park at all former nsa contractors were snowed in. i found a job in russia. the russian lawyer eighties snowden said thursday that he will start work in november provided support for a large russian website. she noted. the edits the series recent pivotal game seven on friday night and we happened to him and stephen j joins us to phyllis and all the details of the series deciding game stated. hey guys one team was going to go down in history as though that they're now let's get straight to our last video highlights of the season. it's the bears you he'd climb on the mountain versus the lions tied it one time. now we go on to the first of their skin on two hits and one that bears are on the board first now to the bottom some songs walk on he comes in like this and why it's what one side ok now to the third that there is usually comes home on a life. well two one two sons. got some strong ties to the end of day in the

between them indonesia has summoned a straight as ambassador over reports that is the embassy in jakarta was used as part of a u.s. led surveillance network in asia. the digital currency bitcoin a reached a record high this weekend of five hundred dollars each it's having a roller coaster ride with its value and reputation because its frequently links to intern a black market transactions despite it rapidly becoming the twenty first century money spinner washington still not sure it can be trusted and that's the trick our report. there is around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big coin is still a very small phenomenon but it's growing and very rapidly the value of a bit coin has increased ten fold since early two thousand and thirteen bitcoin bypasses government currency this is not subject to any regulations and at the moment the government is looking at it with suspicion citing concerns that the virtual currency is being useful facilitating illegal activity like drug trade. we've seen things like bitcoin

in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress party's going to jakarta was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of girls right so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed that's the full pardon me i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this the dreams return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out

between the me that in the knees here had some industry as a master of the reports that its embassy in jakarta was used as part of a u.s. led surveillance network in asia. oh is topical conversation on this channel and a lot more to talk into which up next crosstalk on america's influence in the talks over iran's nuclear program the next news bulletin here in just over thirty two minutes time. there's now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness but a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because b

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. >> about 200 indonesians have been protesting outside the australian embassy in jakarta. they are upset over reports that canberra had spied on its officials, including the president. relations between the two countries are at their lowest in more than 10 years. indonesia's president said he'll frees military cooperation with australia. >> two seats have been declared in poland's elections. the conservative party won both. there may be trouble. there has been a demand for vote counts to stop because of irregularities. >> men unemployed for two years show faster signs of ageing. the findings were based on samples taken from 5,620 men and women born in finland in 1956. they found men who have been unemployed for longer than two years with twice as likely to have shorter. they are responsible for protecting the genetic code from degrading. women are less like i to be affected by unemployment. jessica bruxton is a researcher at the imperial college and joins us from london. explain the science behind this. how does unemployment accelerate ageing and how do you measure aging?

whether or not they're still in jakarta park, there are not, but we are the beneficiaries of what they did in terms of making this inequality. which is the core issue of our time, racial inequality, economic inequality, and so on. that is a magnificent a congressman by the young people who did that. now it is our task to bring that into the electoral moment, into governing, and so want to try to redress some of those things. i think it is impossible to overstate what that 99% meant in terms of people's conscience. >> i want to ask you about the role of the organized labor unions in terms of helping people to spawn and nurture irking families parties. a handful of unions have been like be pivotal groups who have finance and get working families going. how is that relationship in terms of the governments of the working families party? >> we describe ourselves as a community labor coalition. as such, we have a rule. you don't get to sit at the table if you don't represent someone other than yourself. we think it is important people have a base. -- leaders people are people that are follow

indonesia summoned its australian ambassador today after was revealed the australian embassy in jakarta is a hub for the u.s. by efforts. on thursday, john kerry issued some of his brightest remarks to .ate on nsa spying during a video appearance at a london conference, john kerry conceded some actions have "reached too far." >> the president and i and others in government have actually learned of some things that have been happening in many ways on automatic pilot because the technology is there, over a course of a long period of time. >> edward snowden is reportedly starting a new job in russia today. his lawyer told a russian news agency or snowden has been hired by major russian website. than 47 million people who receive food stamps in the u.s. will see a decrease in their aid beginning today as a temporary boost from the 2009 stimulus expires. bybed the hunger clip critics, the drop will reduce monthly food stamps for a family of four $36 each month. according to the center for budget and policy priorities, food stamps will now average less than $1.40 per person per meal next year

in an era when someone can step on a plane in jakarta at wreck -fest and be in los angeles by lunch, we are increasingly focused on the threat posed by global pandemics. at the same time we have continued to support governments and health care providers across the region to improve public health. for example we are working closely with bangladesh on our joint pledge to end preventable child deaths and we are collaborating with indonesia to improve maternal and infant health in rural communities. america has a stake in asia's children, growing up to be productive members of society. that is why we are investing in early childhood education, expanding access to post-secondary school training at universities and vocational institutions all throughout the region. we are working especially closely with ozzy on nations on this goal, establishing several new programs to help young people of southeast asia develop new skills and opportunities and equally we have an economic as well as a moral state in elementary -- in every facet of asia-pacific and therefore we are helping to prevent and re

europe, and i went up on the top of the crane, of a building they're building one on the edge of jakartaenormous story. >> all right. thanks for clearing that up. thanks. we'll see you later. >>> coming up, janet yellen heads to capitol hill for the start of her confirmation hearings. we'll hear the future of the fed and a lot more. geoff: i'm the kind of guy who doesn't like being sold to. the last thing i want is to feel like someone is giving me a sales pitch, especially when it comes to my investments. you want a broker you can trust. a lot of guys at the other firms seemed more focused on selling than their clients. that's why i stopped working at my old brokerage and became a financial consultant with charles schwab. avo: what kind of financial consultant are you looking for? talk to us today. >>> gellin' with yellen on the hill. >> i don't know what we're yelling about! >> what will the senate say about the next fed head? >> she has beautiful highs and her hair smells like cinnamon. >> mm-hmm! >> loud noises! >> we break down the day's big hearing and talk -- not yell -- about wha