>>> good evening and thanks for joining us i'm maya angelou, sitting in for joie chen.h risks and high rewards. that's what is at stake in a proposed marijuana initiative in the state of ohio. a group of wealthy investors are backing up legalization campaign, a "america tonight" investigation finds a small group stands to make a lot of money. lisa fletcher along with the center for public integrity tracked the story in ohio from the capital to the corn fields to find out if voters are aware of fine print and if they care. >> you a registered voter. >> reporter: in the heart of ohio, the famous swing state and political barometer of the nation the movement to league at his marijuana is growing like a weed. if these blue shirted workers succeed, ohio could be the fifth state to legalize recreational use of the drug. >> you want to sign to help legalize. >> reporter: they have gathered more than 550,000 sits across the state. nearly double the requirement to qualify for the november ballot. >> if done properly and regulated, tested and taxed, if you do it the right way, th

. >> i'm joie chen you're watching "talk to al jazeera". our guest is classical superstar lang lang. >> you do quite a bit of work with young people very young talents, who are also interested in piano, and also want to be like lang lang, i guess. is that possible? particularly here in the west. i know in asia it's different. you're still a rock star. do you imagine a moment where classical music will have that kind of rock-star status in america? >> it depends. i mean, the - that - actually that doesn't really matter whether it feels like rock star in america or not. because what i'm thinking about is just - there's no music class in public schools here. and that's - that's really kind of - from day one, when i arrive in '97. my high school didn't have music class. >> and that surprised you? >> yeah. so, i'm like, "what!" wow, in china every school has a music class, at least. >> of course. >> you know? and i'm like why in america? i mean, this is, you know, considered to be the superpower. and doesn't have a music class? i mean, it just d

. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. as new details emerge about the killer and grim motivation, experts began to draw connections between shootings in charleston and other hate crimes. what could trigger violence that could claim the lives of nine worshippers, what pushes someone with hate in mind to strike out and kill? "america tonight"s "america tonight"s lori jane gliha indepth on what we know now about crime and hate. >> reporter: in photographs from facebook the accused shooter in the south carolina church massacre wears flags from apartheid south africa, and drives a vehicle, ordering to police, showing a confederate flag. details of the shooter's motives are under investigation, officials say what happened at the church was rooted in hate. >> reporter: the department of justice opened a hate crime incident. >> a woman identifying herself as a survivors relative told n.b.c. the shooter made that clear as he pulled the trigger. >> he said "i have to do it." he said "you rape our women, you're taking over our count

thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. they looked unstoppable. the fighters of the self proclaimed islamic state scooped up wide swaths of northern iraq, claiming territories far beyond, tens of thousands of nearly helpless yazidi people left starving and stranded in their home land, mount sinjar. you may recall the u.s. decision to step in with air support. but cushzkurdish fighters, from correspondent carson stormer. >> my name is carson stormer i'm a german freelance journalist and i've been covering the war in iraq and syria since the rise of i.s.i.l. left a trail of death in the wake massacring thousands of the yazidi, leaving others in the mountains to die. credited with breaking the siege and saving the yazidi. but recently i spent a week with another group of fighters who deserve just as much credit for halting and preventing the further slaughter. they are the fighters from the pkk. the kurdish workers party considered a terrorist organization by the united states and most european countries. they may be sinjar's best hope for defeating

good evening everyone, thanks for joining us, i'm adam may sitting in for joie chen tonight.h risks and high rewards. that's what's at stake in a proposed marijuana initiative in the state of ohio. our "america tonight" investigates, seeing that a small group stands to make a lot of money. our lisa fletcher, from the capital to the corn fields, to find out if voters are waish of aware of the initiative and if they really care. >> reporter: in the heart of ohio the famous swing state and political barometer of the nation. >> legalize it. >> reporter: the movement to legalize marijuana is growing like a weed. >> thank you you too. >> reporter: if these blue-shirted workers succeed ohio could be the fifth state to legalize the recreational use of the drugs. they have already gathered more than 550,000 signatures across the state, nearly double the requirement to qualify for november ballot. >> if done properly and regulated tested and taxed if you do it the right way this will become a multibillion dollar industry. >> reporter: een.ian james >> reporter: ian james is executive d

thank you for joining us i'm joie chen.all the demands keeping california going with the flow farms face the toughest accusations of draining away the precious resource, water. california is in the fourth year of a drought. water cuts took effect and environmental charged favouring farms obvious fish and other wildlife. the fight is on as "america tonight"s michael oku found. california grappling with a tough question. whose water is it. you are looking at santa barbara, anything but a lagoon these days. nothing much to see, except some weeds. another casualty of the drought. >> it's bon dry, bone dry. >> carol lee says residents and businesses are paying the price for a severe dry spell. >> we have been given small allocations, and if we go over them we are fined hely. >> what is re heavily? >> i was told for example, that there are some heavy user paying $50,000 a month. >> 50,000. >> in fines. >> reporter: in fines. statewide communities are forced to cut consumption or face fines, with an exception. you want to see wate

. >> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. >>> a deadline looms one that could be the trigger for america's next migrant crisis. you will recall the wave of young children some with their mothers, some unaccompanied that threatened to whoax overwhelm officials last year. a federal judge stands poised to release a thousand of them but even that will raise concerns about what happens next. "america tonight" christof putzel meets families in a facility not far from pennsylvania's exeal citypennsylvania's capital city where they wait in limbo. >> translator: i thought they would give me asylum quickly and coy leave with my family. >> reporter: criminal gans gangs had an abducted her as a child. they were placed in a detention center where three-year-old katherine started vomiting up blood all over her clothes. >> translator: when i brawrt her to the medical -- brought her to the medical staff they told me nothing but cleaned her up give her water and make sure she gets sufficient rest. >> reporter: how long did it take to see a doctor? >> four days. when should i looked really pame really pale

. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. the numbers can never truly tell the whole story, but have sent up an early alert about violence and the summer ahead. gun violence. what is more alarming, how concentrated the research was. baltimore had an uptick after a few better years, and chicago - again chicago, a dozen gunned down over the weekend. it was the worst violence in over a decade there. many more survived the shootings, but at what price. tonight's sara hoy with a look at the high cost, and how in some ways we all pay the price. >> it was july 27th, 2005. it was a hot day. i got paid that day. it was a great day. some guys was outside of my building asking me questions about the job. we were talking. the shots rang out. >> reporter: derek o-wednesday was 21 -- owens was 21 when a stranger shot him twice. >> the worst pain i felt. i couldn't make a sound. it was like hot lava. i felt i was burning. >> reporter: doctors confirmed his worst nightmare, he was paralysed. he would never walk again. >> i was 21, i felt i w

thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. it's one of the biggest money makers for the big pharmaceutical companies, making sense that the little blue pill viagra, is highly thought of by its parent, pfizer. you may wonder why a little pink pill is not available to women for their sexual dysfunction. a viagra for women is not led by big pharma, the force behind it introduction of this drug is a curious coalition. lori jane gliha votes why. >> i have been silent for a long time on this issue, as far as my own personal problems. >> reporter: carmen is talking personal. >> my husband and i have been married 33 years, and i would say for about 30 years of our marriage, we were really having difficulty connecting sexually with one another. and the big problem was that i have very low sexual desire. >> reporter: carmen says therapy helped, but not enough, and she was diagnosed with hypoactive sexual disorder. >> it affected my ability to be a good mum, i was discouraged about this. then she learned that there was nothing to treat i

i'm adam may sitting in for joie chen. european leaders gathered in brussels, hoping to come up with a solution to the growing refugee crisis that threatened to overwhelm the region. hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in africa and the middle east have fled to europe, with most landing in italy and greece. as "america tonight"s sheila macvicar found out, that crisis divided the european union and is undermining the spirit of unity. >> reporter: as the european union grapples again with the european refuge crisis. the flow of asylum seekers continues nonstop. all week long naval vessels have been plucking migrants were the sea. on this night the turkish coast guard rescued 70 syrian refugees after the boat capsized. six of those on board died. the u.n. says some 2,000 migrants have already died this year. nearly six times as many as during the same period last year. these images offer a glimpse of what is to come. summer is the high season for crossing the mediterranean as smugglers take advantage of calm

thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. the most vanl moment valuable moment in any new mother's life is to hold her healthy baby but in indiana some low income mothers felt their babies were put at risk for profit and they have found an unlikely champion, a physician who oversaw care at their facilities and now allegation they were part of a cost cutting scene to compromise their are health care. lori jane gliha reports on that government paid a high price too. >> reporter: this was supposed to be the happiest moment of nancy koge rferg's life. >> you could see where the suction thing was on her head. >> the birth of her only child denise. >> during this time you were over here. what was going on in your head? >> i couldn't hear any baby noises which alarmed me. >> yes she's breathing. >> reporter: within seconds of her emergency c section the new mother could tell something wasn't right. >> there is your baby. >> i was worried i wouldn't see her again she wasn't breathing wasn't moving, they wouldn't let me touch her. i w

i'm joie chen. >> when we think of torture chambers medieval dungens, abu ghraib, maybe, comes to line a police department in a big city where victims say decades of vicious abuse, outright torture took place. on chicago's south side the presinct was known as the house of screams, where lisa fletcher found one of the darkest chapters took place. survivors told you the tale. it uses racial abusive language that you would not normally here on tv but it will help with the terror that took place. >> reporter: ronald kitchener never thought he'd here these words. >> we have ways of making knickers talk. so >>> he has in the hands of the police. >> he said i'll use a big old knif stick and beat the [ bleep ] out of it. so i'm sitting there, and as he's telling me telling me you did this. we know you did this. >> reporter: this was a highly publicised quinn tuple murder that when police picked up kitchen, he told them it was for auto theft. after a few hours, kitchen says he realized the auto theft arrest was a means to an end. >> he tells me stand up niger. stand up to the wall handcuff me b

. >> thanks for joining us, i'm adam may sitting in for joie chen tonight. it's the middle of summer and the temperature is not only thing on the rise. many cities around america are seeing spikes in violent crime but nowhere worse than baltimore maryland. taking a look at the dangerous streets of a city in crisis. his name was kevin jones 22 years old number 123 on blower's growing murder list for this year. another statistic another homicide another father's son. reginald jones carries no pictures of his only boy. just a high school diploma. >> why are you carrying this around? >> it's the only thing i got right knopf now. it's the only thing i got right now. >> just before dawn on the morning of the preakness stakes, kevin was walking to his job acrossatthe pimlico race track. he was killed in the parking lot. >> i was incarcerated. he came to see me when i was first in prison. he couldn't even walk. >> yes reginald jones was largely absence from his son's childhood. even with his father locked up and his mother out of the picture, kevin jones found way t

. >> and thanks for joining us, i'm adam may in for joie chen tonight. >>> the rash of heroin has hit the united states pretty hard, cheap and pure, in new hampshire, the state is struggling with record numbers of overdoses. induce treatment maysubstance abuse treatment has not followed suit. the new hampshire state prison for women. >> what percentage here in the yard are addicted to heroin or have a heroin addiction? >> as i look around now almost everybody i'm looking at. for the most part, everybody but about three or four people. >> wow. >> yes, it's just unbelievable. >> reporter: joann kane, the number of prisoners addicted to heroin has seen a dramatic increase. echoing the the substance abuse. joann's third time behind these gates, violating her parole. >> 15 years of heroin addiction it was my first overdose. just a few months ago. yes. i pulled into a dunkin donuts, i kind of really don't remember. but i remember putting it in the spoon and pretty much that's all i remember. when i finally came through the woman said you are lucky you were dead. >> when did you start to not

. >> joie chen, al jazeera. >> you can see more on joie report at 10:00 eastern time tonight. >>> now a former beauty queen leaving her mark leaving her voice for the voice. >> kimberly motley is the only western lawyer working in the court system in kabul. she was drawn to the country after attending a education system program in the early 2000s. she has taken on egregious cases of human rights in afghanistan. giving legal assistance to people who would not have representation. >> we'll talk to her about a case that took her to the inner sanctums of tribal justice. >> the place of gay rights most moves closer to status. what it means to the community. . available for your apple and android mobile device. download it now >> the new york stone wall inn is one step closer to becoming a city landmark. there will an public hearing later this month to vote on the issue. the bar served as a flash point for riots and groundbreaking demonstrations that helped to spark the gay rights movement 40 years ago. it will be the first landmark for its role in the city's lgbt history. michael, the colu