i'm jonathan betz in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. >>> takes on president obama with harsh words for the commander in chief and the west. >>> it's happened again another near miss between two passenger planes. person of interest, a big break. tinsel town for new orleans. >>> russia'russia's defiant rula stern message to the leader of the free world. vladimir putin's words to president obama were not only pointed, they were an unmistakable sign. mike viqueria has more from the white house. >> there are two critical events coming up and vladimir putin's comments to the international conference in st. petersburg has to be confrontational words for president obama who had accused peupt of not telling -- putin ever not telling the truth. when he was not fomenting rebellion in eastern ukraine. that got the attention of a lot of people but perhaps more significant in putin's comments today, very conciliatory comments, towards may 25th elections, that's the first critical moment coming up on sunday in ukra

jonathan betz.first the big picture and oprice. the veterans affairs department is the largest health care provider in america. its annual budget is $165 billion for 2015. that is three times what it was in 2001. its workforce some 320,000. 1300 facilities and a desperate need for more doctors with 400 vacancies. to you to fix it? the options, first privatize medical treatment. gop law make rs want vets who wait more than 30 days for an appointment to receive private care, to regular hospitals at the expense of the va. remember, va doctors have extensive experience in combat-related experience. worries, that would limit the expertise. would rural vets be well received? option 2, expansion. the senate is considering funding as many as 27 new facilities. hundreds of billions of dollars. another option, reorganization. like establishing a national hot line so combats veterans receive attention immediately. home monitoring devices. there's also cloud technologies. integrating information statements woul

i'm jonathan betz in new york. john seigenthaler has the night off. >>> praying for help - families on the run from syria's war will meet pope francis and what they hope that will accomplish >>> a court rules on whether the u.s. military can force-feed prisoners at guantanamo bay >>> a looked at why six years after confessing their case has not come to trial. >>> stolen masterpieces - the federal bureau of investigation could be close to solving the mystery of one of the america's biggest art thefts. >>> we begin in syria where violence is spiking ahead of presidential elections. the suffering will be highlighted in a big way tomorrow by pope francis. more on the pontiff's visit in a moment. first an attack at a syrian campaign rally where dozens were killed. >> nobody claimed responsibility for this attack, but we heard from islamist rebels based in the region that today marks a new campaign, an offensive by them to support the rebels and the fighters who are there, fighting the troops of bashar al-assad. the gove

jonathan betz joins us, jonathan. >> new york university's troubling with these allegations, does notllow dissent and gives workers very few rights. well today nyu apologized to any workers that were mistreated while building its new sprawling campus. new york university's new home in the immediately is an island that means happiness in arabic. steep recruitment fees to get the job and were never reimbursed. had to work up to 12 hours a day to get the pay they were promised and forced to live with up to 15 people in a room whether the university wanted no more than 4. >> i'm not surprised at all by these allegations. >> nyu student chri chris chrisa visited. >> we are asking to take action and to really show that you know we care about our workers. >> the united arab emirates largely paid for billion dollar campus and the workers were hired by contractors not correct directly by the university. sparked controversy before the groundbreaking. and the universities had set a strict policy othe protect laborers. it tells al jazeera if the story is true then it's troubling and unacceptable

for more on that we go to jonathan betz. jonathan. >> john getting a lot of attention.ideo was fun to watch but as its popularity grew getting 165,000 hits on youtube, iran's police there caught on and the happy times were over. it is the latest example of how the islam ick republic is facing its own culture war. >> it seems innocent enough. young people dancing to a popular american song. ♪ >> but in iran, this video became a national scandal. the distancers were arrested forced to repent on national tv. and the video considered so sensational, television there blurred it. it shows six young iranians dancing to ferrell williams' song happy. the women's heads are not covered, dancing to western music and the website they used, youtube is illegal there. >> they often complain about cultural invasions from the west. western movies or videos. and eventually it will turn them against the islam ick republic. >> roxana saberi, was arrested and spent 100 days in jail. these things are not uncommon. >> i had a friend who got lashings because she was at a party with men. >> hous

for more here is jonathan betz. >> america's infrastructure needs a lot of work. when you look at the country's airports highways water plants, the mairnl society of civil engineers -- american society of civil engineers gives it a grade of d plus. one out of every nine bridges in the united states need major work especially in states lie pennsylvania, iowa and oklahoma. now the good news is construction has stepped up in the recent years and the number of bad bridges across the country has decreased. dams rank lower than bridges. they earn a grade of dx d. 14,000 are considered high hazard. the age is growing, average age is 52 years old. most people live downstream of old dams. in the past five years at least $75 billion has been spent upgrading thousands of miles of tracks. amtrak's ridership has doubled since 2000 and freight companies are now installing new rails. it is a start but to work through the backlog of all the engineering problems america needs to spend double how much it repairs. >> that's jonathan betz reporting. >>> wildfires, in the city of carl

jonathan betz joins us from outside the garden. how much is the arena benefitting from the tax break? >> reporter: well, i have to tell you it's approaching tens of millions of dollars a year. it's an american icon, a place for history. the maddison square garden had a winning streak over the years. three decades and no property taxes. it's a bad example of corporate rely fair that too many -- welfare that too many sports team enjoy. maddison square garden, the most famous arena. it's home to the nicks and the rangers, locked in a play-off battle. each year it attracts millions of visitors, and millions in profits. that is not always the case, in the '80s. rising costs force it out of new york. to keep it here, the state gave the garden a deal - stay put, pay no tax: . >> the quagarden and the owners rapiining -- reaping the benef. last year the council voted to end the exemption. it has been spare of paying $350 million since the 190s. the arena will avoid $17 million this year, and $54 million next year. that deal means new york

jonathan betz reports. >> it's the kiss turning heads and sparking anger. one professional football player tweeting horrible before deleting the comment. >> michael sam defensive end. >> a reminder not everyone is cheering nfl's first openly gay player. >> the tweets tell us it's not going to be an easy road for mieivelg sam. >> not an easy road for many gay americans. miervelg sam is heading to a state that largely does not protect gay workers. in missouri as across much of the country people can be fired simply for being gay. only 21 states and the district of colema colombia. >> i'm going to give everything i got to st. louis rams to help the rams win the championship. >> trying to focus on the field but already changing the game. jonathan betz, al jazeera, new york. >> a majorities of county clerks in arkansas denied gay people the right to marry today. waiting to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage. only five counties issued more than 200 of the same sex marriages today. arkansas is the fifth state to have same sex marriage overturned. alaska has

jonathan betz has that story. >> giving the changes are prompting anger. >> critics are upset about thethis week of two commanders. one of them timothy gonerman has a history of expensive force after partially burning off a protest erst's hand with a stun gun. >> it is a shock that police chief gordon eden would promote gonerman. >> the 18-year-ol 18 year veter, the report turned city to strengthen its chain of command. >> we found that officers posed deadly force against people who did not pose deadly force. >> rocked this city of half a million. many of the suspects were armed. >> get out. >> already the chief has prohibited officers from using their own weapons and now forbid forbids them at shooting at moving vehicles. like when a teenage woman was shot recently running from police. it's unclear if the officer actually turned on the camera. after the feds called the use of cameras highly crb suspect. >> the good news is this is an achievable goal. >> promoting those commanders was one step. for adepartment consistently facing confrontation. jonathan betz, al jazeera. >> al jazeera a

jonathan betz has that story. >> facing weeks of protest albuquerque's police chief promised changesut even the changes prompted anger. >> this one is particularly troubling. >> the promotion of two commanders, one of them timothy gunnerman, faces charges of excessive force after he burned off a part of a man's credit hands. >> it's a shock that chief gunnerman particularly the officer that the doj is skeptical of. >> he has learned from it and now trains other officers to avoid using force. the chief promoted the comearnsd after a scathing federal report last month urged the city to strengthsen its chain of command. >> we found that they used dangerous force against people who didn't pose an immediate threat of death or immediate harm. >> four shootings has rocked this city of half a million. many of the suspects were armed, the police has prohibited the credit officers from using their own weapons and prohibits them from shooting as moving vehicles. credit cameras on lapels, sometimes capture are shootings, sometimes they don't. it's unclear if the officer actually turned on the ca

for putting their health at risk. >> jonathan betz in manhattan. joining me live from memphis is reggie jones, a retired player flying for the new orleans saints. welcome. >> hi, thanks. >> what do you think. lawsuit? >> it's interesting. it stirs up emotions. i'm a former player convinced that the doctors' communication with me is relevant in my career coming to an end. i suffered two knee injuries, i played hurt for a period of time, and i think the damage became extensive as a result of the advice i was given. >> you talk about a shoulder injury where you took pain-numbing shots. tell us about that? >> absolutely. that is a fact. i got insured in san francisco. againls the 49ers. i was a starting quart are back. you are advised, encouraged as a starter that you are needed. your talent and production is needed. of course, you felt the pressure to play. in this particular zhans, along with three others, we were at the stadium four to five hours prior to kick off to take the pain numbing shot, and in this case with my shoulder injury there was a se

jonathan betz is here to tell us. >> reporter: as technology improves question focuses on questionablevictions. the brooklyn district attorney is spending a million dollars to free people who never should have been sent to gaol. >> the motion to dismiss the indictment by the people is granted. >> they are the words being repeated that should never be set. >> the defendant's motion to vacate conviction is granted. >> judges releasing people that never should have been convicted. it happened time after again in brooklyn after veptions into question -- investigations into questionable convictions, many dating back decades, many linked to lewis scarsela. >> we are investigating cases involving detective scarsela. >> years later he relied on the same witness to finger suspects. included in a murder case against robert hill and his brothers - a judge overturned their convictions this month. >> it feels good. i'm going with my family and taking a bath. >> and david, accused of killing a rabbi. he was set free after scarsel e coached victims. >> i said from the beginning i had nothing to do wi

jonathan betz is here with a look at the major issues. how much time do we have? >> how much money, that's the question. there's not nearly enough. there's a lot of work that needs to be done on america's infrastructure. look at the airports, the highways, the water plants. the american society of civil engineers gives it a poor grade of d plus. bridges are a concern, getting a c +. 67,000, one out of nine bridges in the united states need major work. it's especially true in peninsula, iowa, and oklahoma. the good news is construction has stepped up and the number of bad bridges has decreased. dams rank lower than bridge, earn a d. 14,000 are considered high hazard and that number has grown. the average age is 52 years old. engineers are worried because a lot of people are living downstream of old dams. the score for the rail roads has gone up, at the c+. the reason, in the last five years $75 billion has been spent upgrading thousands of miles of amtracks - they have doubled since 2000. freight companies are installing rails. there is a start. to work through the

jonathan betz is here with more and what's at stake. >> a lot of people concerned about afghanistan future t we see the taliban flex muscle this time of year with the spring harvest of poppy. it reached record levels last year. up 36%. this helps fund the taliban. fighting between it and afghanistan has been on the rise. last year, as one of the most violent since the war began in 2001, nearly 3,000 civilians were killed bast year. >> that's up foreign %. it's been especially deadly for women and children, the most killed in five years. now, that reflects the taliban's growing power. experts say it's unlikely the group will take major cities like kabul but it could gain control of rural areas and villages. for the first time, they are inflicting as many casualties on afghan forces as it suffered, itself. one reason is the united states has been pulling out. at the peak back in 2011, there were 130,000 foreign troops in afghanistan. but by the ends of this year, that number is going to drop no more than 12,000. >> that's if the new afghan president even allows that. meanwhile, afghanistan h

our jonathan betz reports. >> it was a brief moment but jeffrey deskovic's words would haunt him forars. >> i falsely admitted to a murder and rape after high school classmate. >> he was 16, a murder vicinitygation of a routine age girl consumed his small new york town. police quickly focused on him and after a seven-hour interrogation without husband parents, he confessed. >> i remember -- i remember -- i remember falsely telling them that there was -- that there was an argument and that i tackled her, ripped off her bra and hit her over the head with a gator aid bottle. >> a shocking admission that wasn't true. forced out, he said, by aggressive officers? >> they wore me down. i was an emotional wreck. >> they sent him to prison for 16 years, all of which could have been avoided, he feels, if the jury had seen the confession. >> i think it would have been clear to them, you know, that i was -- that i was fearful, that i was -- that i was worn down, that they played a lot of psychological games with me. i was an emotional mess. >> activists say it happens all too often. nearly a qua

jonathan betz is here with that story, jonathan. >> john after staying quiet for so long edward snowdenstifying revealing u.s. spying secrets. and the most wanted fugitive in the world says he wants to come home. >> this is a terrible failure of leadership. >> these are important national security programs. >> look he's confessed to trea treason. >> the man confessed to be a trait or and a criminal is interested in patriot iism. >> they don't pack up and walk away from their extraordinary, extraordinarily comfortable lives and burn down everything they love for no reason. >> edward snowden says he had no choice but to blow the whistle after seeing massive violations of america's constitution. in his first u.s. television interview the 30-year-old contractor raised the idea of clemency or amnesty. >> i don't think there's been any question that i'd like to go home. i've from day one said i'm doing this to serve my country. >> snowden realms in exile wanted on espionage charges. but after pulling off the bikest leak in history, legislators are not are. >> if he wants to come home and face

as jonathan betz reports, similar cases are cropping up around the country. >> the motion to dismiss the indictment by the people is granted. >> they are the words being repeated that should never need to be said. >> the vacation of the conviction is granted. >> judgment releasing prisoners wrongfully convicted. >> sir, you are free to go. >> in brooklyn new york it is happening time and again and investigations were launched into dozens of credible convictions, many dating back decades. two thirds of the cases are linked to one detective. >> we are investigating a number of other cases involving the detective. >> reports revealed he repeatedly relied on the same witness to finger suspects, including a murder case. a judge this month overturned their convictions. >> i'm going home with my family right now and take a bath. >> this is overwhelming. >> this is david, accused of killing a rabbi in 1991, set free after learning witnesses were coached. >> i said from the beginning i had nothing to do with this case. >> d.n.a. exonerated 300 inmates across the country in the past 25 years,

jonathan betz is here with that story. >> reporter: some estimate it costs the u.s.to $120 billion a year. china is considered the one who spies the most on america, followed by russia, and even some u.s. allies like israel and france. some argue back in 1986, it launched project 863. it was a big push to catch up with the west. more phones and computers got connected to the internet made this possible. operations like night dragon, ghost net, and shady rat hacked activists and companies, including all these big companies, all reportedly targeted by chinese hackers. but china says it too has been a victim. they were spying on the telecom giant. in 2009 china says an australian mining company stole state secrets. it allegedly cost chinese steal companies billions of dollars. and china's actually been blamed when it did nothing wrong, like in 2011, when they were accused of bribing renault heads, and that turned out to be just wrong. >>> all right. jonathan, thank you. joining us now is a retired special age went the fbi in sacramento tonight. james, welcome. >> good e

jonathan betz toured the plant that keeps millions of garbage parts out of landfills. >> every year, this general motors parts plant produces a million manifolds, 10 million fuel injectors and millions more engine parts, but hardly a pound of garbage. >> they put their trash out this morning. that's more than this plant would send to a landfill in a year. >> general motors has spent three years and millions of dollars figuring out how to recycle everything, absolutely everything that would otherwise be thrown away from plastic wrap to cardboard package to go industrial waste. >> we really did not expect to become landfill free. we didn't think that would be possible. >> especially challenging, oily sludge coming from grinding out small parts like. >>s. g.m. used to send it to an industrial landfill. the team spent months figuring out how to separate the oil from the dust. >> it starts out like this. >> separating them into these two. >> the royal's reused. what happens to the ashy looking substance. >> the powder goes to a waste energy facility used to generate electricity or steam.

. >> jonathan betz, thank you for that. >>> when authorities make mistakes overturning a wrong conviction can take years. looking how faulty fbi analysis is preventing one man's release after two decades. he's hoping dna will prove his innocence. >> we do have the best justice in the world in theory. the problem is it's run by human beings who make mistakes. >> reporter: mistakes that have manipulated evidence that may have led to wrongful convictions over the past three decades. one of the cases in question is lily manning who was sentenced to death for the death of two college students. hair was analyzed by the fbi crime lab and tied to manning. >> when you heard about the fbi sending out letters that there was bad testimony about the forensics in your case and a whole bunch of other cases, how did you react to that? >> that was a huge sense of relief, and exactly what i needed. it shed light on so many other cases. >> fred whitehurst was the fbi agent who blue the whistle on the crime lab. >> this thing about hair analysis, it's not science. it's a subjective nightmare. >> i believe th

jonathan betz has that story. >> there are real fears that the taliban's power will only grow. three years, 130,000 forces were in afghanistan. and they will essentially disappear by 2017. and the poppy harvest reached record levels last year of 36%. which pays for the taliban and it's on the rise. it's one of the most violent since the war began. 3,000 civilians killed. and that's up 14%, and a lot of them are women and children. for the first time, the taliban seems to be holding it's own against the forces, killing a record 1,000 afghan soldiers last year. >>> america has been building up the military, which is 340,000 strong. but that number may be trimmed, international funding possibly scaled back. and there are worries that afghanistan can only fund 2/3 of that force. >>> more troops and more equipment, some soldiers have had to ride into battle on horseback. the pullout also affects afghanistan's economy. in kandahar alone, 200,000 men lost their jobs as builders and drivers on projects, and some worry that all of those men may grow frustrated and join in the taliban's

for more we turn to jonathan betz for that story. >> researchers say that the sheer number of attacks are numbing people to cyber crimes. hundreds of millions have been affected. customers of target, ebay, snap chat are at risk after personal data was stolen. cyber crime cost $30 billion. n.a.s.a. was the tart of a dozen successful attacks. hackers were able to get to the controls of the international space station. militaries are getting a little concerned. in 2011 the pentagon concluded computer sabotage could be an act of war allowing the u.s. to respond with military force. the defense secretary chuck hagel announced he wanted to tripple the size of the defense unit, adding 6,000 more workers and investing $5 billion. to find the qualified workers, the defense department launched online camps, competition, scholarships to recruit students, and the pentagon is considering hiring hammers to help fight the cyber attacks. there's a problem. most can make more money working for private companies than the government. >> that's true. kevin mitt nick was one of the world's most wanted hac

. >>> i'm jonathan betz. "america tonight" with joie chen starts right now. >>> on "america tonight" an exclusive insiders look into medical care in arizona's prison system. shocking allegations of neglect by prison health workers that left inmates at risk. >> when i went back to his cell, i could smell blood before i went into the room. when i turned on the light, it murdered. >>> more on the continuing focus on crime and punishment as adam may follows up on privatized health care behind prison wars >>> also - against the law. hundreds protest the death of a californian strawberry picker at the hands of police. one down. >> it was recorded. >> two shootings by cops within days, outrages a migrant farming community, raising question about police power and the use of force. >>> swept away. what the tide brings, the artist shapes, and the water's return to the sea. >>> good evening, thank you for being with us, i'm joie chen. for six months "america tonight" vetted allegations of abuse and cover up in the treat

i'm jonathan betz in new york. john siegenthaler has the night off. >>> takes on president obama with harsh words for the commander in chief and the west. >>> it's happened again another near miss between two passenger planes. person of interest, a big break. tinsel town for new orleans.

but first jonathan betz is here with a look at some of the major issues involved. 12,349 america's infrastructure does need a lot of work. when you look at the country's airports, highways, water plants the american society of civil engineers gives it a poor grade of d-plus. bridges get a grade of c-plus. about one out of every nine bridges in the united states need major work, especially in states as pennsylvania, iowa and oklahoma. construction has stepped up in recent years, and the number of bad bridges across the country has decreased. dams on the other hand rank lower than bridges. they rank d. 14,000 are considered high hazard and that number has been growing. the average age of a dam is 52 years old, and engineers are worried because many people are living down stream from these dams. in the past five years $75 billion has been spent upgrading thousands of miles of tracks. amtraks ridership has doubled since 2000, and freight companies are installing new rail. american needs double how much money it spends on repairs. >> yes, at least. jonathan, appreciate it. thank you. president obama m

i'm jonathan betz in new york. john seigenthaler has the night off. >>> praying for help - families on the run from syria's war will meet pope francis and what they hope that will accomplish >>> a court rules on whether the u.s. military can force-feed prisoners at guantanamo bay >>> a looked at why six years after confessing their case has not come to trial. >>> stolen masterpieces - the federal bureauin

jonathan betz is near to tell us more. a lot of people want to know why. >> that's a big question. a lot of sky-high executive pays are propelled by the stock market. never already have america's c.e.o.s made so much funny, another sign of how the rich are getting richer. >> reporter: with stocks soaring, they have become the $10 million men and women. the medium pay of c.e.o.s reached eight figures. up nearly 9% from 2012, while the average worker's pay barely inched up 1%. it's in everyone's interest to have talented people at the top. >> how much does it pay? the chief of oil services was paid the most. behind him, c.b.s.'s boss. the highest paid woman. the c.e.o. of tj max and partners. not since the 1920s has there been a gap between the rich and poor in america. >> at some point, if average americans, working americans are not paid fairly, that consumer economy will lack the money to buy the goods produced. we are leading to a winner take all society. >> the company says the chiefs deserve what they make, generating billions for the companies. people who attract wealth - they

. >> jonathan betz, thank you. and now new tensions in thailand. martial law is in full effect. and veronica joins us from bangkok. give us an idea of what's on the ground. >> well, it would seem on the surface if you were going to work and school, as if 10 million people in thailand are pretty normal. on the first day of the national declaration, there was policerence and military presence that was visible in some areas, but as the day progressed, they went back it their bases, and the people are trying to assess what impact this will make on their minds. there are some in society who are happy that this happened, because they're stepping in at a time of political chaos, when there were demonstrations that were blocking business across the city. and there were those opposed to those demonstrations threatening to take their demonstrations into the city. and you would see clashes, a real possibility of violence, and now from the military perspective, people are hoping for a bit of a pause. thing is it will be martial law until considerable curtailment if the military so wishes, a

for more, and the reasoning behind the decision, let's bring in jonathan betz. >> this is the information that vinylists want. what chemicals exactly are pumped under ground during fracking. oil companies do not want to release it. north carolina is thinking about taking it a step further. lawmakers join in the debate across the country in the 32 states that allow hydraulic fracturing. how much information should drillers be forced to share with the public. >> reporter: for an industry focussed under ground, conseniors it is burying information. they don't have to reveal the chemicals used and north carolina is making sharing that information illegal. >> like on the side of a box of cereal, they tell you the ingredients. this bill keeps the people from knowing what the chemicals in the fracking fluid are. >> so free trapped natural gas trill drillers pump millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under the surface. the mix doors are trade secrets that supporters say should be protected. north carolina assist proposal makes the act of leaking the chemical lift a misdemeanour. the go

we begin our in depth coverage of the global crisis with jonathan betz. >> the word health organization calls violence against women a problem of epidemic proportions, their words, 35% of women across the world are victims of violence. the united nations is focused on key issues to stop it from those so-called honor killings to child brides. one out of every three girls in this world will be forced into marriage before she turns 18 years old. that is 64 million women across the plan net. they are more likely to drop out of school and have early pregnancies. in fact, pregnancy related problems are the leading cause of death for 15-19-year-old girls worldwide. another big concern is human trafficking, as we've seen with boko haram, more kids are being sold for their bodies. 20% of human trafficking victims were children in the mid-2000's, that number climbing. now it's nearly a third and most of those kids are by far girls. yet, these are not isolated problems. violence against women, whether genital mutilation in africa, violence against women is across the globe. >> honor killings happe

. >> that's jonathan betz reporting. north carolina doesn't even allow fracking yet, but lawmakers pushing the legislation hoping it will make the state attractive to oil companies, that bill now moving to the north carolina house. >> crews in arizona are still battling wildfires burning since tuesday. slide fire has destroyed thousands of acres. so far no homes have been damaged, but residents have been put on alert for possible evacuation. firefighters hope to get the upper hand today with calmer winds and rain in the forecast. the fire 5% contained is said to be man made. >> hail wreaked havoc. some of the haim the size of golf balls blanketing roads, pelting homes, cracking windshields and denting cars at part of an extreme weather system that included tornadoes. >> what a nice way to begin the holiday weekend and yes, we are looking at even more steer weather today. >> for more, lets bring in nicole mitchell. what's going on? >> it's been spotty where we've seen all of that weather. people in the auto body shop love

jonathan betz, aljazeera, atlantic city new jersey. >> some of the potential names on the calendar this season, hanna, kyle and vicky. >> the funny quote that became a serious issue yesterday. >> we have a three year ban on marijuana. i did not say that i'm going to change that ban. >> why he says marijuana is making it tougher for his agency to do its job. >> only 50% of a people after a stroke will actually get hand function back at all. of the 50% that do, most don't have very good hand function. we want to improve on that. >> we're going to talk about a breakthrough for stroke parties, a new study with stimulating result, giving hope to thousands of stroke advisors. >> the $20 billion mistake that has officials in france on the wrong side of the tracks. it's going to take a lot of money to fix the problem. >> a look at our images of the day and the competitors in the international association of athletics federation world challenge taking place in beijing. the challenge is the annual global competition that got its start in 2010. >> good morning. welcome to al jazeera america. >> uk

. >> that's jonathan betz reporting from new york. in the suit, the former players say they were never given proper instructions about the side effects, the dangers of long term drug use or risk of addiction to pain killers. >> there is an uphill battle ahead for the man in charge of fixing the department of veterans affairs. >> allegations that some of our bravest young americans died waiting for care at v.a. hospitals. the president's point man heading to the place it all started. critics say that is not enough. >> if you go and keep shutting down everything that's pertaining to our kids, you are saying to those badly minded folks you win, take over. >> desperate measures at an ohio elementary school, but the push to protect students has many parents calling it overkill. >> you are not married to your farm anymore. you can take care of your cows without being there 247. >> no more waking up early to milk the cows, robots taking care of it. >> nearly 2.5 million vehicles. >> not a traffic jam on the 405. it is our big number of the d

. >> jonathan betz, access, new york. >> dna evidence is not fool-proof.ingsz is taking a look at the justice system in "the system" with joe berlinger. this week, the focus is on flawed bruce other. a whistle was blown on the crime lab for, forensic procedures. 17 years later, the verdicts of dozens of cases are called into question. one is that of willie manning, a man convicted of double murder in 1994. his case is highlighted in part 3 of al jazeera's special series, "the system with joe berlinger". >> thousands of convictions have been called into question including 27 death row cases. the case of willie jerome manning was one of them. he was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of two college students in starkville, mississippi. hair found in the victim's hair was analyzed by the fbi crime lab. >> hair evidence had a significant impact on the case because that was the only physical evidence that put willie hanning in that car. his execution was set for may 7th. we received these letters from the fbi calling into question f forensic questioning a