nick spicer al jazeera berlin. >>> some of the largest chemical companies are skewing a small town inhawaii. what toxic chemicals are being tested should b shihab rattanzi. >> perfect for their vast open air laboratories. here on the west side of kauai, hawaii's garden island they don't grow food in these fields. they experiment with seed and pesticides. for daisd decades singenta, are pioneer du dupont and dow, have tested these chemicals and seeds. the soil is loose from the repeated tilling. and this is what blows into adjacent neighborhoods. >> right here, as you drove up on the right-hand side of the road, breast cancer. next house over, breast cancer. colon cancer, the husband. >> those who live in this small community long suspected the chemical-laiden soil was the cause of the high rates of illness in adults and children here. but the chemical companies insisted they were not spraying anything unusual. >> for island of kauai, we pray for her healing. >> an unconvinced community banned together to enforce action. and councilman gary ouza are got results. >> they are spraying in

nick spicer watched the match in berlin. >> the game ended. germany is world champion.fans burst into applause. tears in some cases much the partying has begun. this is the first time germany won since 1990, when it played as west germany. this is the first victory for the new reunified germany, the fourth world cup victory for a nation that, is its safe to say -- it is safe to say, is generally football mad and now is more so. the partying is ongoing, and it's not going to stop until well into tuesday, perhaps later in the week. tuesday is when the team returns here to berlin, when we are expecting hundreds of thousands to come out and celebrate the victory with the team. >> nick spicer reporting from berlin. they'll party all night long. 24 long years since they last won a world cup. >> what do we do now? >> wait for the n.f.l. football season. >> brazil's world cup ended. there are concerns the next world cup is behind schedule. we look ahead to russia 2018. families ripped apart... >> racial profiling >> sometimes they ask questions... sometimes they just handcuff p

. >>> meanwhile 7400 miles and five time zones away nick spicer is in berlin where fans on the germaneam are hoping for the best. what is the mood among fans there? >> nick, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you now. >> what is the mood among fans there, nick? >> well, they would be sitting on the edge of their seats if they weren't standing up. they are watching the match unfold. no one scored. there's been a lot of near goals, near miss, near goals by argentina, the team no one wants to see win here. the mood has changed from the festive atmosphere a few hours ago when there were tens of thousands of people celebrating, drinking beer, really high, if you will, on the victory of the semifinal over brazil. 7-1, putting a spring in the step of many germans, making many of them feel that the victory was really within their grasp, that this world cup was going to be theirs once again. the first time in 24 years. and now they are watching it unfold, and their team, for many people, is not as dominant as it has been in the past. it's a little tense. >> watching it unfold. nick spicer joi

and germany is level with italy and brazil topped the list of five wins and we will go live to nick spicer in berlin and good morning to you and the party obviously still going where you are. i imagine a few sore heads this morning. >> reporter: yeah, i think berlin, like germany, woke up groggy but extremely happy. last night was an explosion of joy here on the fan mile where there were hundreds of thousands of people, particularly way down at the end of this street, at the brandenburg gate where they watched the game-clinching goal on the giant temperature -- tv stream and said this was the fourth time as a unified country and celebrations went to the wee hours of the morning and they will start again on tuesday when the victory team comes at the airport and comes here in some kind of open deck vehicle and expecting over half a million people to welcome them, to congratulate them and to share in the feeling of victory. >> talking about the numbers i imagine of course there is a huge sense of pride among german fans but what are they saying and telling you, what is the reason being given

al jazeera's nick spicer was there. >> reporter: their victory lit up the sky and lifted the hearts ofation. but there was lots of angst. extra time. then the one goal of the game, the only one germany needed. when it was over many fans swore they were never in doubt. a victory for a team and for a country. people are wary of showing too much national pride. not here, not now. not on this night. >> i'm so proud to be a german. it's fantastic to be german. >> we'll party well into the night in berlin, and well into the next day, and well into the week. on tuesday, the victoriaious german team will be back in the capital on this area, hundreds of thousands of supporters expected to turn out to celebrate the first victory of the reunified germany, the last victory of 1990 was by west germany, this is a feel-good moment that people want to be a part of. sh [ cheering ] >>> well, violence erupted in buenos aires after argentina lost the final. these are the scenes from the argentine capital. police used water canon and fired tear gas at groups vandalizing buildings. 15 prifrs have been in -

. >> nick spicer has more now. >> reporter: angela merkel allies spying on allies was a waste of timeere are crises like syria. she is asking the top intelligence official of the united states to leave the country. there was an case of a 31-year-old intelligence officer who exchanged some 200-plus documents in exchange for over $30,000. the second incident involves a member of the military. it's not clear at what level this person was operating at or what kind of information they may have gathered. however, it was clearly just too much. the snowball effect here last october when it was revealed that america's national security agency was spying on angela merkel's cell phone, following other revelations about how the nsa was able to look into the every day lives of ordinary germans who are still weary from the nazi era spying on the lives of everybody back at that time. so the psychology here is just one of complete resentment towards what is seen as american interference into the every day lives of germans and at a governmental level a complete lack of trust coming from washington. >>

nick spicer is standing by. did you get any sleep? i believe the generations were ma'am -- celebrations were mammoth. >> not much. it's all well and fine. there was a heck of a party. as we heard from andy richardson, a lot of angst as the german watched on the giant tv screens for the one goal. when it came this was an explosion of joy, euphoria, the port started and it did not stop. it went on for hours. they had to walk home. people were sitting in the streets. it was like it was mid afternoon, a sunny day. it was a state of people's mind. above all, it was a time when a lot of people felt proud to feel german. some of the people we spoke to in front of the brandon berg gate. >> i'm proud to be a german. >> proud. >> reporter: and the newspapers - yes - the newspapers here today - well, pretty much summing it up quickly. world champion, and they have the other headlines "what a struggle, but what a victory", and then we have another newspaper, saying "we are heros" many in berlin and across the country would agree. another paper sa

a unified nation and on sunday night, they had a late start to the day in berlin where we find nick spicering by for us in berlin, is the party still going on, nick? >> reporter: i think people are taking it a bit easy this morning frankly. the streets were empty, completely unlike the way they were at around 3:30 in the morning when i went home. i had to walk home, there were no taxis, the people were happy, however, with the situation and sitting in the streets but not dancing in them. it all sort of kicked off obviously after the game came to an end, there was an explosion of joy right here on the fan mile right up at the end of this street which leads to brandenburg gate with a tv screen and the dancing and the drinking and the feeling of national pride that people haven't felt for a long time, something they are exceptionally proud of this fourth championship. we talked to some people last night and this is what they had to say. >> so proud to be a german. it's fantastic to be german. so proud. >> reporter: and the press today has, well, no surprise about the front pages, the world ch

from berlin, nick spicer reports. >> reporter: parliament's closed door meeting on the shadowy world of intelligence matters weighed the latest evidence of american spying. after private talks a clear public announcement. >> the federal government arrived the u.s. intelligence services representative in germany to leave the country in reaction to a lack of cooperation recording the investigations -- regarding the investigations into various allegations starting with the n.s.a. and the latest issues. the german public was enraged to discover that the chancellor's cell gon was tapped by the -- phone was tapped byment n.s.a. rm -- by the n.s.a. germany pushed hard for information sharing. months of efforts failed. with one of her ministers saying she was not amused merkel thursday questioned what the american efforts were worth. >> if what we hear now is true, i have to say from my point of view, spying on allies is a waste of energy in the end. we have so many problems, and i think we should focus on the important things. look at the challenges posed in syria regarding the islamic stat

nick spicer was there. >> reporter: the victory lit up the sky, lifting the hearts of a nation. there was a lot of anxious then extra time. and the one goal of the game, the only one germany needed. when it was over many swore they were never in doubt. >> we all were sure. >> reporter: a victory for a team and a country. people are wary of showing too much national pride. not here. not now. not on this night. >> i'm so proud to be a german. it's fantastic to be german. so proud. >> reporter: they'll party well into the night in berlin, and well into the next day and well into the week, because on tuesday the victorious team will be back here in the german capital, hundreds of thousands of german supporters are expected to turn out to celebrate the first victory of the reunified germany, the last victory in 1990 was by west germany. this is a feel-good moment that people want to be a part of. >>> [ cheering and applause ] >>> as you can imagine, it wasn't such a feel-good moment in argentina's capital. thousands of fans gathered in buenos aires to watch the time, but it all ended

nick spicer was there. >> reporter: the jumbo jet carried the team over a giant crowd.rating germany's first win as a reunified nation. last win for west germany came in 1990. >> it's a great feeling, because after 24 years, now we have won the cup. and now we are young and we can enjoy it. >> reporter: the team is young too. also keen to enjoy being germany's heros and capable of surprises even off the pitch. they started coming here at 3:00 in the morning. they come from east, west, north, and south, from across germany to be here to welcome the team, and increasingly they are flying this, the german flag. germany started -- [ inaudible ] [ cheers and applause ] >> -- hosted the world cup, now they are proud to be world champions. they are proud also of the team's efforts to get to this day. a decade plus of reforms. big investments in youth football, and the coaching style of making the best players work together for the team and not for personal glory. >> it's the first year the team is not just one player or two players, it's a team of everyone. and everyone who pl

nick spicer, al jazeera. >> you well away from the world cup miami heat fans are facing life without lebron james. he announced he will be heading back to the cleveland cavaliers. >> lebron james is coming home. the 29-year-old posted this picture on instagram and told "sports illustrated" i always believed i would return to cleveland and finish my career there. lebron was raised in akron," jus,, ohios, just 65 kilometers from cleveland. >> i'm happy. the best player comes to your team. that's a great learning experience for me. to play along side the best in the game. >> lebron broke the hearts of the cleveland fans when he left in 2010. but now all is forgiven. >> everybody is happy. everybody has a smile on their face. >> that's a wonderful thing. thank you, lebron, you've done a wonderful thing for cleveland. all is forgiven. >> this is a great moment in sport history. >> reporter: lebron reached the nba final in all four of his seasons there, and winning the championship twice. he's been a free agent since the start of july after opting out of the final two years of his contract

nick spicer, al jazeera, berlin. >> i'm joined by ray mcgovern from washington, d.c. former intelligence expert. thanks for being with us. account u.s. and germany put this scandal behind them, how badly has their reputation been damaged? >> as has been pointed out the close relationship of intelligence sharing is something that goes back a matter of decades. as a matter of fact, tom drake who testified on friday even talked about the bnd for example as being an appendage, unhanga is the engineer man word to the nsa and the u.s. intelligence establishment. so with that kind of history, it's going to be very difficult for mrs. merkel to assert her authority, and i see this as a kind of a metaphor for the unhanga, the appendage relationship that has existed between germany and the united states send the end of world war ii really. one of the things that has been lost sight of is that chancellor merkel was on the phone with our president, that is president barack obama on thursday night. the subject was not supposed ton this spy. the subject was ukraine. and u.s. and ger

nick spicer reports from berlin. >> often -- on monday the different government spokespersons said they had nothing to add. >> i can't comment. >> i can't tell you exactly how that's going to happen. >> but the german media report that a 31-year-old plan with a german spy agency sold over 200 intelligence documents to the americans for some $35,000. even chancellor angela merkel whose cell phone was tapped until late last year by the u.s. was restrained in her comments. >> if the allegations were true it would be for me a clear contradiction what i considered to be a trustful cooperation between agencies and partners. >> that cooperation goes back decades. this is a former listening post of the american national security agency or nsa. a cold war relic when most west germans accepted the need of knowing what's going on, on their soil. now germans take a much different view, like edward snowden living in moscow. >> snowden has offered to come to the area but the engineer man government has made it clear he will not be given asylum in this country. the intelligence sharing and diplomatic

we'll go to berlin where nick spicer, our correspondent, is joining us in the german capitol.he quiet confidence, has the 7-1 win changing everything? >> reporter: i think the german team has tried to be magnanimo magnanimous. they've been tweeting thank you to brazil in the 7-1 route. and it's definitely on people's minds. we're covering it, five goals scored in a half hour. people have felt that they had won, which, indeed, the team did, by halftime. the expectations are very high. some people will tell you-- [ man singing behind reporter ] >> as you can see people are pretty convinced you're going to win. germany is going to win? >> germany will win. >> well done. and done on television. well done for that young man there. we'll leave it there for now. the last time the germany they reached the world cup final was 2002 and they lost to brazil. >> it went out for the final and lost the final. everyone is hoping and expecting that this time we can take the cup home to germany. sometimes you have a mind that will have the possibilities. on one hand you have the experience. and

nick spicer watched the game at the brandenburg gate in berlin. the victory lit up the sky.t lifted the hearts of a nation. but there was a lot of angst. extra time. then the one goal of the game, the only one germany needed. when it was over many fans swore they were never in doubt. a victory for a team and country. people are wary of showing too much national pride. not here. not now. not on this night. >> i'm so proud to be german. i'm so proud to be german. >> we'll party into the night in berlin, and well into the next day and week. on tuesday, the victoriaious team will be back in the capital on this fan mile, hundreds of thousands of supporters are expected to turn out. to celebrate the first victory of the reunified germany, the last victory was by west germany. this is a feel good moment that people want to be a part of. >>> over in argentina people ran afoul of police officers in buenos aires. riot place used tear gas and water canons to disperse crowds. this, in fact - you are looking at live pictures. it happened hours after thousands gathered and peacefully watc

. >> nick spicer is in berlin to find out how germans are getting ready for the big day. >> reporter:ictory column celebrates 19th senato century military chimes. they display their hope for the modern day football victory. they're playing a little bit of bosas in nova, but it's used to inspire extra confidence. >> germany will win because they are the better players. up in until now they won every game. 7-1, brazil. in the first half, 5-0, there is nothing else to be said. >> reporter: the fan mil faces where the behavio berlin wall once ran. the football euphoria is almost impossible to describe. the opposing team then ass now with argentina the final score 1-0. there is a new flag waving pride in the nation that started when germany won the world cup in 2006. this year people are coming here to the capitol to see what they hope is nor history a fourth world cup win. i know germans will be absolutely thrilled. we would like to be part of it. >> reporter: it comes at a time when germany stands as a powerhouse in diplomacy and business. you get a feeling that some would swap all that

nick spicer watched the game with 200,000 fans at the branden burg gate.ere is his report. >> the game is over. german world champion for the fourth time. the first as a unified germany. last time it was west germany, playing against argentina, in 1990. the fans were convinced they'd win because of a crushing defeat germany imposed on brazil in the semifinal, 7-1. it was an angst-ridden evening. fans watching near goals, near misses and goals by argentina. not sure of when and if germany was going to win. then that one and only needed goal came near the end of time running out. there was an explosion of joy. the partying is really just beginning, so even though we are sunday night here, monday morning in berlin, the team is coming back tuesday on to this fan mile, to be welcomed by some 600,000 fans, to have their victory celebrated by them, and by the country. so the partying, i think, will go on for quite some time in a nation that is proud to once again be the football world champions. >> more celebrations again. more news ahead on al jazeera america. >

. >> nick spicer reporting. >>> target says it respectfully requests that customers leave their gunst home. in a statement it says it wants to provide safety for its customers, target has been facing increasing pressure from a group called moms demand action. asking target to ban shoppers from carrying weapons inside stores. >>> july 2nd, 1964. on that day 50 years ago, president lyndon johnson signed the civil right right bill into. lisa stark talks to one activist turned lawmaker about the past, present and future fight for civil rights. >> today eleanor holmes norton is a long time member of congress. remitting washington, d.c. but half a century ago, she was pushing for equality. and then came the signing of the civil rights act. in 1964. >> this was a monumental year. it was a year when what african americans had been trying to achieve for a hundred years began to metho mast itself. >> how much of a difference did the civil rights act make? >> it made a profound difference. to see us move from a period of extraordinary hostility to african american life to having now the first a

nick spicer has been following the story. >> the man military investigators are looking at is described as being part of the armed forces - it's not clear if he's a soldier or an officer. it's probably safe to assume he's a member of the armed forces of a high enough rank to have access to information that could be of interest to the americans, if it is proven that the americans have been trying to use him as a spy. now, this is, of course, embarrassing because the news comes just a week after a double agent was identified within the federal investigative service here. the spy agency of germany, a 3 is-year-old who collected over 200 documents and given them to the c.i.a. according to the reuters newsagency in exchange for 30,000. some of the documents were about a parliamentary committee looking into the question of american surveillance on german citizens and the tapping of german chancellor angela merkel's cell phone. an embarrassing revelation for the americans, if proven to be true. german chancellor angela merkel reacted to the news of a second spy being identified by saying she c

nick spicer, al jazeera, berlin. >> from international soccer to baseball here at home all eyes will on derek jeter during tonight's all-star game in minneapolis. he says this will be his last one after 20 seasons as shortstop for the new york yankees. maria ines ferre has the story. >> reporter: nike put together a tribute for derek jeter with recognizable faces that will air during tonight's game. take a look. go number two, derek jeter. number two. >> and the video shows fans and celebrities tipping their hat at the captain's spike lee and former mayor rudy giuliani took tribute as well as dozens of celebrities and athletes. even new york city police officers and firefighters all showing signs of respect for the captain as well as many fans and even rival fans as well. this has prompted folks to go on social media and tip their hat at derek jeter. hundreds of people have posted images like these, including pro golfer keegan bradley who wrote, respect to the captain. and a lot of these people are saying that they grew up watching derek jeter play baseball. and you even have this ri

nick spicer was with thousands of them in berlin. >> reporter: five in 30 minutes. we're only at halftime right now, but it already feels that the game is over certainly for the fans here. there's just no way at this point that germany cannot advance to the final. >> yes, the game is over, and germany is in the finals and wins the world cup and is great and is super! >> reporter: but the game wasn't over. germany scored two more goals ending with a 7-1 victory. the german team has broken what feels like a curse, competing in but losing with four previous word cup semifinals. but the size of the victory leaves fans wondering who wins the other semifinal on wednesday. >> i don't mind. i mean, i prefer [ inaudible ]. at least i hope so. >> reporter: the sentiment is the german national team is something close to unbeatable now, and the world cup will be raised once again in german hands on sunday. nick spicer, al jazeera. >>> brazil's arch-rivals argentina will look to fare better in their semifinal match against the netherlands later on wednesday. argentina will be wi