i'm jonathan betz, thank you for watching. we'll leave you with a look at times square with millions of people are there to ring in the new year. see you there, happy new year. but for the youngest drivers the digital natives who had a cell known in their hand since they were little, it heightens the elevated dangers for them and other motorists on the road with them. driven to distraction - it's tonight's "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story", i'm ray suarez.

the news continues at the top of the hour with jonathan betz. athan betz. >>> this is al jazeera america, i'm jonathan betz in new york with the top stories. the 6-month hunt for notorious king pin joaquin guzman is over, his next stop could be a u.s. prison >>> protests in germany, demonstrators blaming a string of new year's eve sexual assaults on foreigners >>> also republican prent

>>> good evening, i'm jonathan betz in for antonio mora, and this is al jazeera america. china's slowdown. the world's second largest economy could be losing steam >>> homecoming - americans freed by iran reunite with their families, and there will be close eye kept on iran and the nuclear deal >>> and not enough to stop the finger pointing of politicians >>> china's commim growth has fallen to a 25-year low. just a couple of hours ago the country reported its growth fell to 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2015. overall china had a 6.9% economic growth last year. florence louie has more from beijing >>> well, the annual growth of 6.9%, really, has been something widely predicted. many analytic analysts predicted it would be in the region of 9.72%. it comes as no big surprise, and would be considered an enviable figure for many countries in the world, for china, it isn't. it's a country used to high single digit growth and single digit growth. it is really the lowest figure in 25 years. now, there's a lot riding on the numbers. it's not just about the chinese economy. it's s

i'm jonathan betz in for antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news how germany is trying to slow the number of refugees from north africa. >>> but first a look at the stories making headlines across the u.s. in our american minute. state of emergency over flint's water supply. national guard went to that city to help hand out bottled water. april 2014 whether the city began drawing their water supply from the flint river. since then, dangerous bacteria has turned up in the river. >>> 12 missing marines off the coast of hawaii, they found life rafts but little else. training mission crashed off the north shore of oahu. it is still possible to find crew alive rescue workers say. >>> in honor of martin luther king, jr. day, the fbi director laid a wreath at the national memorial. despite the organization's history of blackmailing the raciaindividual. physical. >> china, pakistan and afghanistan and united states met in kabul. no one from the taliban attended that meeting. >>> donald trump might be the fr

i'm jonathan betz. thanks so much for watching, but john siegenthaler is back right now. jonathan. we begin with iowa, the first test of 200 2016, three days aw, defying all conventional wisdom. the candidates are fanning around the state. shaking up the rhetoric. david schuster has more. >> with the iowa caucuses only three days away, donald trump who skipped the last debate managed to be absent from the entire state. >> last night i did something a little bit unusual. >> the billionaire was the only candidate not campaigning in iowa, focusing instead on new hampshire. the candidate has not much campaign i

. >>> happy new year, this is al jazeera america, live from new york city, i'm jonathan betz. fire works. a massive blaze in a dubai skyscraper with tens of thousands nearby >>> midwest floods - hundreds forced from their homes as rivers crest. tonight it is far from over. >> puerto rico is expect to pay back

i'm jonathan betz in for antonio mora. in most of the world it's 2016. people welcoming it with celebration and child works. in dubai, 16 hurt in a luxury skyscraper, despite the flames, the middle eastern city did not call off one of the biggest parties. >> flames brought the draws down to dubai. about two hours before 2016 began. >> we were waiting for the fireworks to start. near the hotel there was, like, a - more like an orange light. we thought they were maybe rehearsing for something. we didn't care about it. they kept growing and growing. there was smoke. we started recording. there was a fire. >> the 1,000 foot tall skyscraper, apartments and appellants. thousands rung in the new year, as flames rang above them. >> explosions heard from the tower. >> the fireextinguishers stopped the flames spreading. >> the most important thing was to support of the sprinkler system. it was protecting the spread of the fires from the outside to the inside. the skyscraper located near one of the largest shopping centers. the city's tourism department would be gi

i'm jonathan betz, thank you for joining us, for the news at any time. go to aljazeera.com. leave it here because ray suarez is up next with "inside story". have a good night. justices of the supreme court include one justice in her 80s and seven in their 70s. the next president may get to a point two, three, even four justices shaping the nation's highest court for a generation. is black robes, gray hair, it's tonight tonight's "inside story." welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. four supreme court justices are north of 75 years old. when the next president takes the oath of office they'll all be well, older. not wishing anyone ill health or impairment, it is reasonable to assume the next president who will serve from 2017 to 2021, will be able to put his or her stamp on the nation's court. look. >> of the nine justices on the supreme court, four of them are over 74 years old. antonin scalia is 78, stephen bryer, a steadfast linl i liber6 and b ruth bade rfertio bader gindburg ier ginsburg is is 82. if ginsburg has to retire, shifting the court to the right, as it sta

i'm jonathan betz. what they new about the flint water crisis, and how long they knew?n allegations against governor snyder and his administration. >>> and why a majority of police videos in chicago are missing audio. >>> a group of fired mexican workers were only asking

i'm jonathan betz. thanks so much for watching, but john siegenthaler is back right now. now. >> hi there jonathan. we begin with iowa, the first test of 200 2016, three days aw, defying all conventional wisdom. the candidates are fanning around the state. shaking up the rhetoric. david schuster has more. >> with the iowa caucuses only three days away, donald trump who skipped the last debate managed to be absent from the entire state. >> last night i did something a little bit unusual. >> the billionaire was the only candidate not campaigning in iowa, focusing instead on new hampshire. the candidate has not much campaigned in the state but polls show he's ahead. his decision to kitchen th skipx news debate after a war of words. >> i wasn't treated right, i did something that was very risky, i think it did great, i'm getting more publicity than if it -- you know? >> on the front page texas senator ted cruz, not for the reasons he wanted. according to iowa's biggest newspaper cruz had a bad night. cruz instead tangled with marco rubio. >> throughout this campaign you have b

>>> this is al jazeera america, i'm jonathan betz in new york with the top stories. the 6-month hunt for notorious king pin joaquin guzman is over, his next stop could be a u.s. prison >>> protests in germany, demonstrators blaming a string of new year's eve sexual assaults on foreigners >>> also republican presidential candidates take to the stage this year, three weeks before the iowa caucuses >>> a look of people in american politics, and how they view the race for the white house >>> and our top story this saturday night, mexico's most wanted man has been recaptured. he may face the rest of the his rife in an american prison. he hopes to grant a request to extradite joaquin guzman. he is believed to be behind billions of dollars in drugs. the king pin was captured on friday after a 3-hour shoot-out in his home state of sinaloa. >> we have this report from new mexico. >> mexican marines are positioned outside a house from where a gun battle takes place. authorities have been watching the property. they had reason to believe joaquin guzman used it as a base of oper

jonathan betz, al jazeera, new jersey. >>> more than two dozen people face charges after all but shuttinge of san francisco's busiest bridges. protestors blocked owl five westbound lanes on the bay bridge monday, among their demands, the firing of police officers and officials involved in recent shootings. traffic was backed up for miles. >>> there are growing calls for a boy colt of the academy awards for the second straight year. there isn't a single actor of color mom nailed in any supporting or leading roles. it brought back the hash tag oscars so white. >> the oscars are just about a month away, but the buzz isn't about who's nominated, but who isn't. the frustration over the lack of diversity now leading to a full fledged boycott by some of the industry's biggest names, spike lee and jada pinkett-smith won't attend this year's ceremony. >> begging for acknowledgment or even asking diminishes dignity, and diminishes power and we are a dignified people and we are powerful, and let's not forget it. >> her husband, will smith, was passed over for his role in concussion. >> what are you