to change a culture of policing, it sounds like a tailor order you about he tells correspondent paul beban, this is the right time for change. >> hands up don't shoot. >> can't breathe. >> i think this is one of the most transformational moments in community completing. we have an opportunity to bring policing and communities together. we have had an opportunity to advance community policing like we vice president been able to in 30 decades. but advantages come in small windows, defining moments when we do have a national attention, we have captivated the attention of the country. people are very concerned and very committed in advancing it. and so what would make me lose sleep is the idea that we don't move forward. that i would finish my service and we would be in the same place as a country as we were you know yesterday. >> that's a phrase that we hear a lot this is a transformational moment, there is a window of opportunity. is that a polite way of saying, things are really bad and we need to fix things now? >> no, but i would say if things are just bad and there's no context no histor

many are live and well and living in the community. >> part 3 of paul beban's community tomorrow. that is our show for today. i'm david shuster in for ali velshi. thanks for watching. >>> theatre shooting - a gunman opens fire in a louisiana movie theatre, details on the latest deadly mass shooting. campaign stop... >> there's a huge problem with the illegals coming through. and in this section it's a problem. >> trump brings his tough immigration message to the boarder. >> uphill battle. >> it's not a better

it certainly has all the signs, they're making all the right sounds. >> paul beban reporting, paul we appreciate it. >>> on sunday be sure to watch a special "on target," invisible threat dangers of the dark web. we'll explore more of the secrets bought and sold and part of the internet you never see. >> the thing about the dark web is it's largely invisible to law enforcement right? that means all of the illegal activities you see in the physical world have sort of moved to the dark web. human trafficking narcotics counterfeiting illicit arms trade. >> teens young naked girls real rape, you find a lot of those? >> when it comes to sex sites you can find just about anything. >> dangers of the dark web "on target" airs sunday 3:30 p.m. eastern. that is our show today on behalf of ali velshi and the entire team of "on target" i'm david schuster, thanks for watching. >> rampage in louisiana. >> the shooter actually took his time and was somewhat methodical. literally had the keys on the tire of his car parked near the exit. >> new information about a gunman with a history of mental illne

many are live and well and living in the community. >> part 3 of paul beban's community tomorrow. that is our show for today. >> brittany menard's decision to take her own life last year. sparked a national debate. >> brittany didn't wan't to die, the brain tumor was killing her, she simply took control over how that process would go. >> now see what her husband is doing to keep his promise to change "right to die" laws nationwide. america tonight only on al jazeera america. >> turkey strikes isil targets inside syria and launches massive raids across the country to hunt out isil members. from doha, also coming up, we speak to refugees who say men from their camp are being recruited by rebel fighters. >> i will be bringing you the latest on barack obama's first presidential visit to kenya. >> why some taxi drivers in

paul beban talks with the guy at the department of justice, responsible for reforming police in america. we'll hear what he is doing to rebuild that trust.

many are live and well and living in the community. >> part 3 of paul beban's community tomorrow. that is our show for today. >>> when asked why he wanted to be the first to summit george everest, george mallery famously said because it's there. in the same spirit n.a.s.a. reached pluto, spending $650 million, to send a spacecraft billions of miles to get there. is it reason enough in an age of skyrocketed death and increasing space

paul beban is in colorado tonight. paul. >> it's been a little more than 24 hours since that resounding guilty verdict 165 times we heard guilty read over and over in the courtroom. this is really the first time in three months of the trial and really three years since the crime itself that this community has had a chance to catch its breath and evaluate what has happened. i spent some time today with really truly inspiring people, sandy and lonnie phillips. their daughter swres ca jessica was 24 when she was killed in the aurora theater. in order to attend the trial every single day they have been in the courtroom day after day. they are living in a camper not far from the crows courthouse in centennial. what it with was like to be there day after day and what it was like to be there for the verdict. >> when the first guilty came out it was like, you could hear the room just whoa and the tears started. and there was such a relief to just be able to take that first deep breath in three years. and -- >> first breath in t

tony. >> paul beban, thanks. >>> the new president of nigeria goes to the white house. coming up why the fight against boko haram gets muhammadu buhari face time with president obama only weeks after getting elected. >>> former president of chad, a warning to all dictators. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage all of taylor swift's music videos interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. >> nigeria's new be president muhammadu buhari, met with president obama at the white house less than two months after he was inaugurated. in context tonight pathy culhanepattyculhane looked at the issues. >> at the end of the day it does not appear that the obama administration is ready to make any drastic changes on that. they'll point out they have already bifn $34 million to the multinational task force that's fighting boko haram in the region. we do know some light arms are given othat group but they don't go to nigerian soldiers. the obamas, obama administration has grave concerns, that some are going

paul beban joins us. >> there's a long history of hostility between two groups back to the early 19dwhen -- 1960s, when burundi won independence from belgium, they've been plagued with massacres, coups and war. the tutsi-dominated military carried out genocidal mass killing, and it's estimated more than 100,000 people perished at that point. >> then in 1993 burundi held a democratic election and there was a measure of hope, hope for stability. the first houthi was elected head of state. he was assassinated. and that triggered violence. a plane carrying the newly elected president and rwanda's president, both houthis, were shot down. that sparked genocide. its neighbour to the north. that continued for years in the two countries, an estimated 300,000 were killed in burundi. and 800,000, perhaps as many as a little. finally the main groups signed a ceasefire, and the war was over and would take six years before the last of the houthi rebels would lay down the arms. the waves of protests that we see, rippling through burundi. when the president ran for a third arm, and opponents say it'

paul beban takes a look at the fire storm over the nuclear accord. >> the draft resolution has been adapted unanimously. >> within hours of the security council sign off on a deal to scale back the nuclear programme in return for loosening sanctions. president obama said it's the best way to stop iran from building a bomb. in is, by far, our strongest approach to ensure that iran does not have a nuclear weapon. there's broad consensus among the international community and because of a low [ ♪♪ ] >>> the national guard and local police are cracking down on massive marijuana plantations in california they are not only illegal, they consume vast amounts of a pressure commodity in that state - water. >> some is drained. we have this exclusive report. >> reporter: the huge clearing in this remote area in california is the dead give away to drug enforcement police officers cracking down on marijuana groves. we are following several federal and state law enforcement operators, as they swarm dozens of private properties to destroy tens of thousands of marijuana plants. in is no ordinary plant. thes

paul beban al jazeera, new york. >> on this 20th anniversary. kill killings, i am joined by mohammed shakerby, the former bosnian bosnian ambassador to the u.n. and the bureau chief for al jazeera balkans joining us from washington, d.c. tonight. thank you for joining us. bam ambassador, i will start with you. first, let's go back in time. and you were bosnia's ambassador at the time of the massacre. walk me through those days weeks, leading up to that moment. what was it all like for you? >> i was foreign minister at the time. my predecessor had just been assassinated. i would been called to sarajevo to take that roll on. i had stopped in paris for a meeting of the u.n. peacekeeping members, forces, and at that time, i already heard from the dutch defense minister that in fact an assault was being planned. this was very early june 40 days before it fell. what i tried to do was whatever i could to urge the nato allies the united states and others to act to stop this and floorl provide humanitarian aid for a situation that was becoming more dire

as paul beban has the story. that spelled the end for batts. >> former commissioner anthony batts just signed a new contract through 2020 and until now he had the support of city hall but today baltimore's mayor said it's time for the a new top cop. be stephanie rawlings-blake thanked anthony batts but said they needed a change. >> it is not an easy decision but one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. the people of baltimore deserve better. >> reporter: the mayor said an ongoing spike in murders demanded a change in leadership. batts firing came two and a half months after baltimore plunged into violence following the death of freddy gray. after the riots died down arrests in the city plummeted and the city's homicide rate spiebd. in may there were a reported 42 homicides, a 25 year high. batts called it a crisis and call for help from the federal government. >> this is all hands on deck. all hands every single resource, every single body, every single personnel on the streets of baltimore. >

paul beban is there with the verdict. the jury didn't take long to reject the in sanity argument. >> that's right, they took 13 hours to decide that they had taken three months of trial to argue after hundreds of witnesses, thousands of pieces of evidence. the jury rejected the defense argument that james homes was insane not able to term right from wrong at the time of the crime, and throughout the sentencing the reading of the verdict. 165 charges, james homes was standing virtually motionless as he was convicted of one of the worst shootings. >> we the jury find the deft guilty of murder in the first degree after deliberate raying. >> after less than two days of deliberation, the jury returned with a resounding verdict. guilty of murder in the first degree for each and every person killed in the aurora theatre. now he faces the death penalty. prosecutors put 200 witnesses on the stand pointing a picture of a calculating killer. >> one person was slaughtered. >> on vooul 2012, holmes entered the midnight premier of the

our paul beep -- beban reporting there. >>> paul lyons is a al jazeera national security contributor, it's all quite complicated mike so you get to explain it to us. this isil-free safe zone is this a realistic goal? >> it's a strategy. so now you have to put ways and means towards it. the only way that happens is if you have protection on the ground and in the air. so i'm not sure how that is going to work. there is going to have to be some kind of ground foersz in there. the syrian moderate resistance force does not have the ability to protect what potentially be a million civilians that will come across the boarder to live there. >> why now? >> i think they wanted until it looked like they would be more successful. and they want to battle the pkk. >> this is extremely complicated. >> absolutely. very complicated. and this gives turkey this opportunity to bomb what is an internal insurgent group to their country, and then they can say, we want to bomb isis as well. perhaps the united states did this because the race is on now, if we're doing out with manned aircraft out of their air

paul beban reports. >> prompted deep and unsettling questions about how to tackle an ideology so enticing persuade three teenage london girls to choose a life in an uncertain country to life in britain. david cameron's response is a 75 year multidiscipline strategy which implicitly implicitly admits. >> thinking of going out there you won't be some valued member of a movement. you are cannon fodder for them. they will use you. >> mr. cameron admitted religious and ethnic segregation is an issue in britain. but british values will increasingly be enforced. >> let us also recognize we'll have to enter some pretty uncomfortable debates especially cultural ones. too often we've lacked the confidence to enforce our values for fear of causing offense. >> lobby groups and scholars point out that values such as pleurallism, tolerance and human rights are mentioned as much in the koran as in the magna carta but president's use of force implies a degree of force in this. there is a potential for clash of cultures here. the speech has been criticized in some quarters for ignoring the impact of radic

and as paul beban reports that's exactly what families and victims were hoping for. >> reporter: nearlyhree years after the crime, after a trial that lasted almost three months with thousands of pieces of evidence, testimony from hundreds of witnesses, this was the verdict that so many here have been waiting for. guilty on all counts james holmes convicted in the deaths of 12 people in that aurora theater, and the wounding of 70 more. an emotional outpouring here after the verdict was read and family and friends and relatives came out of the courtroom. >> i was certain that's what it was going to be. i felt that only an insane juror could find otherwise. seriously. you could not come back with any verdict but guilty. >> and for a person who is anti-death penalty, i totally agree, i feel the sentence that he -- that he may get, which is the death penalty, is the only penalty that -- that fits the crime that he committed that night. >> reporter: the jury is in recess through the weekend until wednesday and that is when the sentencing phase will begin. there are only two options available

paul beban reports. >> reporter: at a news conference late wednesday afternoon, the mayor thanked themissioner for its service, and then sent him packing. >> we need a change. this was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. the people of baltimore deserve better. >> reporter: the mayor said an ongoing spike in murders demanded a change in leadership. his firing comes two and a half months after baltimore plunged into violence following the death of freddy gray. after the riots died down arrests plummeted and homicide rates spiked. in may there were a reported 22 suicides. >> this is an all-hands on deck. all-hands every single resource every single body every single personnel on the streets of baltimore. >> reporter: tuesday night gunmen jumped out of two vans and opened fire near the university of maryland baltimore. but even amid soaring crime, the mayor stood by her commissioner until now. even depending him in the face of criticism from his own force. on tuesday the police department released its own report on the response to th

. >> part 3 of paul beban's community tomorrow. that is our show for today. i'm david shuster in for ali velshi. thanks for watching. >>> theatre shooting - a gunman opens fire in a louisiana movie theatre, details on the latest deadly mass shooting. campaign stop... >> there's a huge problem with the illegals coming through. and in this section it's a problem. >> trump brings his tough immigration message to the boarder. >> uphill battle. >> it's not a better deal a unicorn arrangement involving iran's complete capitulation. that is a fantasy plain and simply. >> the white house pushes back against harsh criticism of the iran nuclear deal >>> and scorched earth - wildfires break out across the west fuelled by record drought and rising temp turls. >>> good evening, i'm antonio mora, this is islamic state of iraq and levant. we begin with breaking news. three people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a movie theatre, the grand 16 multiplex. one is the shooter who took his own life during the shooting. let's go to jonathan martin. what are you hearing in lo

paul beban joins us live from aurora, da colorado this morning.ow are people reacting to this verdict? >> there was an outpouring of emotion when the court let out and we heard from victims and relatives, victims who have waited for so long to hear this verdict. they have been waiting for almost three years now. >> i just feel so much relief justice is here. it's just good. it's closure it's finally over. >> i don't wants to vindicated, but i was certain that's what it was going to be. i felt that only an insane juror could find otherwise seriously. you could not come back with any verdict but guilty. >> jonathan, the jury will be in recess until wednesday, and that is when the sentencing phase will begin. >> so, paul, we have this verdict now, what are the penalty options now for the jury? >> well, since there was a guilty verdict there are only two options life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty. the way that's going to work is when the sentencing phase begins wednesday, the first thing the judge -- the first thing

paul beban has the story. paul. >> until today he had reliable support from baltimore city hall. but mayor stephanie rawlings-blake said it was time for a new top cop. she thanked anthony batts for his service but said they needed a change. >> it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. the people of baltimore deserved better. >> reporter: the mayor said an ongoing spike in murders demanded a change in leadership. batts firing came two and a half months after the city plunged into violence after the death of freddy gray. in may there were a reported 42 homicides a 25-year high. batts called it a crisis and called for help from the federal government. >> this is all hands on deck. all hands every single resource, every single body, every single personnel. on the streets of baltimore. >> reporter: tuesday night gunmen jumped out of two vans and opened fire near the university of maryland baltimore. three people were killed and a fourth was injured. but even amid soaring crime the mayor stood by her commissioner until now. even defending him in the face of cri

al jazeera's paul beban was there. >> reporter: thousands of people packed in along both sides of seventh avenue stretching from times square 42nd street down to about 40th. if the organizers are correct there's as many as ten to 2012,000 people12,000people here. the main sentiment stop iran, no nukes for iran, this is a bad deal both for the united states and for israel. this protest was organized by a coalition of conservatives and jewish groups from across the country, the main organized the jewish rapid response coalition saying they brought people from all around the country and all around the region. we've spoken to some of the speakers here, also some of the protests about why they are here today. >> there are several alternatives. either iran can change its activities in supporting international terrorism and a tyrannical government and be a peaceful nation and signal that. that's one option. that's their choice to make. the other option is, war will be in the middle east. >> this is not an equitable deal. this is a deal which gives iran everything they want and will eventually le

paul beban explains the news is grim. >> reporter: after more than four years of fighting in syria the scale of the crisis is staggering. since the spring of 2011 more than 4 million syrians fled the shattered country. nearly 2 million into turkey making it the country with the largest refugee population in the world. most poured into camps and communities in lebanon, jordan iraq. some made it to europe. more than 270,000 applied for asylum. inside syria the war displaced 7.5 million more virtually all of them according to the u.n. are enduring horrifying danger. what began in syria was unrest. it transformed into a war characterised by the complete failure to protect civilians. generating levels of suffering for most civilians. >> steven o'brien says government troops and other parties are making a bad situation worse. preventing humanitarian aid from letting them get to where they needed to go. in june 5% of the people who need aid in syria got it. courageous efforts should not hide the fact that it's shifting conflict lines, obstacles and resistance put in place by all parties, to h

paul beban reports. >> at a news conference late wednesday afternoon mayor stephanie recallings blake thanked commissioner anthony batts for his service and sent him packing. >> we need a change. this is not an he says decision but one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. >> she said spike in murders demanded a change in leadership. batts' firing comes two months after baltimore plunged into violence following the death of freddie gray. arrests in the city plummeted and the homicide rate spiked. in may there were 42 homicides a 25 year high. batts called it a crise and called for help from the federal government. >> this is an all hands on deck, all hands every single resource, every single body, every single personnel on the streets of baltimore. >> tuesday night gunmen jumped out of two vans and opened fire near the university of maryland, baltimore. two were killed. the mayor stood by her commissioner until now defending him from his own force. on tuesday, baltimore's police union released its own report on the response to the riots following the death of freddi

live from new york city, i'm paul beban.nvestigators are increasingly confident today in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. they've examined debris that washed up on an island in the indian ocean and they say it appears to have come from a bowing 777 aircraft. that is the same model as the plane that disappeared with 239 people onboard. the debris will be sent to france for investigation. tanya page is live on reunion island where that debris was found. what are authorities saying there this morning? >> >> the authorities of tight lipped about the precise location of this. it's under lock and key at the airport and they won't tell us exactly when it's going to leave the country. they were saying it would be on a cargo plane out of here tonight, now we're hearing that may not be the case, but at some point in the next 24, possibly 48 hours, we are expecting it to leave reunion island and be flown to france where it will be examined in minute detail. the australian officials say the finding of it confirms tha

. >> paul beban, thank you. >> dozens of people are still recovering in a tennessee hospital this morningfter a reason to derailment and fire spewed toxic smoke into the air. the smoke has stopped but a two-mile evacuation zone remains in effect. more than 5,000 residents were told to leave their homes when that train came off the tracks in a town 20 miles from knoxville. many are in shelters and not sure when they can return home. once the fire is out investigators will try to determine the cause of the derailment. the train was carrying hazardous materials. i want to get into this a bit more with matthew joining us now. what are the common causes of these accidents usually? >> what generally is the cause is poor track maintenance. if the track is damaged the train hits a bad patch and derails. in this case, the tennessee accident far less spectacular derailment than we saw in february in west virginia, similar part of the country where a whole bunch of train cars carrying crude oil went off and there was spectacular fireballs. in this case there was only one car on fire but it has promp

paul beban, al jazeera, new york. >> also this morning, north korea i also not interested in a deal similar to the one signed with iran. a government spokesman said the north's nuclear powers are not a play thing to be put on the negotiating table. he added approximate i don'teded ad pyong yang needs those weapons. >> the people who staffed recruiting centers in chattanooga are remembering the fallen and pledging to keep doing their jobs. >> at the strip mall where mohammad youssuf abdulazeez launched his first attack, the crime scene cordoned off all weekend is now open, giving people a chance to greet military personnel, shake hands say thank you. the restaurant next door is finally open again. >> whatever closed this, we're not going to let that ideas take us apart and make us quit doing our job and support our families and work hard. we don't want to show the weakness. >> the army recruiting office is open for business, windows shattered by bullets now boarded up. a soldier is talking to recruits by appointment only. around tennessee and across the country, the constant business of recr

i'm paul beban. a key u.s. ally in the fight against isil is stepping up its attacks against kurdish fighters. turkish jets targeted the kurdish rebel group the p.k.k. inside turkey today. so far turkey has only attacked them in iraq. the move comes days after turkey stepped up airstrikes against isil. bernard smith is in turkey in the kurdish city. how is that move by turkey complicating the fight against isil? >> we already know that in fact the u.s. has said that the introduction of turkey into this fight against isil, turkey allowing the u.s. to use bases in turkey is a game-changer, because it means u.s. fighter jets don't have to fly hours away down from the gulf and now just a couple of hundred miles to hit isil targets in syria. the concern of the u.s. and nato partners is if the p.k.k. gets drawn into the fight with turkey turkey and the p.k.k. start fighting all out again this could add to an already destabilized region, and the u.s. doesn't want another factor of fight against the p.k.k. drawing into

this is aljazeera america live from new york city, i'm paul beban. it may be the best clue yet in the search for a jet that went missing more than a year ago, malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared last march. now what looks like part of a wing washed up on remote reunion island off the coast of africa. it does appear to be the wing of a bowing 777, the same model of the doomed flight. >> what do we know? >> the fate of the malaysian air flight has been a mystery. this morning, the thoughts are many are expressed when the plane fragments are found a major break through. >> experts think the plane fragment that washed up on tiny reunion side might be our first glimpse of wreckage from malaysia air flight 370. eventually, the search concentrated on a 23,000 squire mile area off australia. experts are headed west off the coast of madagascar to examine that piece of debris. >> bowing and experts are traveling to the site so they can see firsthand and confirm whether or not this is a part of the 777 aircraft, and then as a further step, whether there's