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but the slaves on a british ship that are picked up by a pirate or privateer on a contract to offload them in south america and this was a standard procedure. >> i don't speak french, but believe it not, he had one arm. i never realized i wanted to start a book with a one-armed pirate until i actually did. he, yeah -- he was a part of the french revolution and was a sea fair of jack vene and in the case of latin america they were actually the merchant capital. they seized british goods because the french were in an n ongoing war and had relationships with south america merchants and brought the goods into the area and the most profitable cargo seized off the british ships were slaves. and one group that wound up on the trial -- >> the trial is the name of the actual boat. >> they were bringing them from chilly -- chile to lima. >> talk about, somewhere, but not as much as what we should, the slave trade in the united states and how that worked a little bit. but to the extent it was a huge part of the latin america area and the southern hems sphere is something you are expanding on here. it was as big of a

but the slaves on a british ship that are picked up by a pirate or privateer on a contract to offload them in south america and this was a standard procedure. >> i don't speak french, but believe it not, he had one arm. i never realized i wanted to start a book with a one-armed pirate until i actually did. he, yeah -- he was a part of the french revolution and was a sea fair of jack vene and in the case of latin america they were actually the merchant capital. they seized british goods because the french were in an n ongoing war and had relationships with south america merchants and brought the goods into the area and the most profitable cargo seized off the british ships were slaves. and one group that wound up on the trial -- >> the trial is the name of the actual boat. >> they were bringing them from chilly -- chile to lima. >> talk about, somewhere, but not as much as what we should, the slave trade in the united states and how that worked a little bit. but to the extent it was a huge part of the latin america area and the southern hems sphere is something you are expanding on here. it was as big of a

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america. tony's gripping new memoir "the last pirate" he writes if you smoke column bian weed in the 70s and 80sk you card. tony, tell us about your dad. >> my dad was one of hundreds of americans who got involved in the dealing business in the 1970s when it seemed like jimmy carter was going to pull the lever and say legalize it. he thought it would be smart from a business perspective, and then when reagan came along, he was already sort of deep in it, and there was no turning back. >> paid for my private school. that's what i mean by thank you. >> and, tony, you actually -- you didn't realize what was going on as you were growing up. how did you learn the truth about what was happening? >> i came to the brink of fatherhood myself. my wife was expecting, and i thought, you know, i heard rumors about my father, but it was time to get to the bottom of it. so i called the national archives, keeper of 1% of the paperwork produced by the u.s. government, the most important stuff, the stuff historians want, and i was, like, do you happen to have anything on the exploits of one anthony edward decoppe

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look at the state of weed in america, two people who know the subject well, jeff smith, former democratic member of the missouri state and the author the of the last pirategrowing up with a father who was a major pot dealer. we'll get your personal take as well. i want to start with you jeff on the politics of this. is this issue a winner or loser for democrats? >> i think it's potentially a winner. any time you have an issue that cuts across your party base, you're going to have apprehension about going there, if you will, the democrats have struggled for about a generation as being seen as the weak party or soft on crime party. consequently, some politicians like chuck schumer and dianne feinstein in california came of age in the 1980s when drugs were a huge issue. you still have a strain in the democratic party reluctant to move forward but the momentum is ir reversible. >> overcoming that -- >> yeah. >> tony, what do you think about the pragmatic reason for politicians to get behind this? we see huge revenues out of colorado. is that going to change the tide? >> i'm not competent that it will. i think that the polls are shifting but a lot of benefit

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america so he gets to keep more of his money. total phony. he's going over there because there's a huge market, and they can watch edward scissorhands and the piratesack to france because the socialist leader said they wanted to cut taxes. when these stars going to these countries, they have the best security, the best food, they walk the red carpet. they don't see what being a real citizen of the country is. i would simply ask johnny depp this question. which one of your children are you willing to give up for adoption? i assume it would be your younger boy because the girl was born first. i would ask him how much he loves his son and if he would be willing to give him up for adoption. >> good point. you have long been a supporter of the capitalist move in china. do you think this is a good and solid country? >> it's a first start, but you're right. they're still quasi-compnist. communist china. what they do is they have all these protectionist systems. so whatever is advantageous to them, they'll do it. if it hurts them at all, they push everyone else aside. they need to let the currency float. that's another thing, they play around with currency

pirate-copters... argh! hmm. it's so huge, it's being broadcast on mars. heroes...bad guys... asteroids. available only on mars. there's watching. then there's watchathoning. ♪ >> welcome bag to al jazeera america-- back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories. a possible new clue in the search for the missing malaysian airliner, a chinese ship heard signals, it's not certain if they are from the missing plane. the pings are consistent with the frequency of the plane's black boxes, as the search enters the fifth week malaysia promises not to give up. you are looking at a life picture from perth, where a news conference will be held at the bottom of the hour. we'll bring it to you live. >> and the nation's first democratic transfer of power. 7 million voters showed up making tonne out 60%. scattered attacks killed 20. >> investigators are focussing on an argument between ivan lopez and fellow soldiers before a shooting rampage. the dispute involved a leave request. >> now for the saturday segment "a daper look" -- deeper look", it's been 20 years since hundreds of thousands died in awe wanda's -- rwanda's gep site. tutsis had taken ref ug in a school, but were slaughtered when peacekeepe

pirate-copters... argh! hmm. it's so huge, it's being broadcast on mars. heroes...bad guys... asteroids. available only on mars. there's watching. then there's watchathoning. ♪ . >> we are glad you are watching al jazeera americahere are the top stories this half hour - president obama says rwandan genocide 20 years ago was neither an accident nor unavoidable. the flame of remembrance was making its way across the country. pro-russian demonstrations broke out in self cities in eastern ukraine. protesters stormed the building. demonstrators say they planned on staying overnight. in fort hood texas it was a day of prayers and reflection. iraq war veteran ivan lopez killed three and wounded 16 others, before shooting himself. >> it is sunday night, in time for our regular segment "the week ahead". tonight afghan's future. a lot is riding on the election. including whether american forces remain. we start with bernard smith, with an update from kabul. >> in the end the afghanistan election passed off comparatively peacefully for the country. the deployment of security personnel would have helped with that. there has been few allegations of fraud. the votes are being counted. it will be weeks before there's an offi

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america and this standard operating procedure. >> i don't speak french but believe it or not he had one arm. i never realized how much i wanted to start a book about a one-armed piratesut i actually did. but yeah he was in the french revolution and understood him as a seafaring gentleman. we have this perception of him being proto-amicus but at least in the case of latin america they were vanguards and seized british goods because the french were protecting ongoing internal war with the british. and brought them in contractual relations with south america and brought the seized goods into buenos aires and the cargo seas off of british ships were slaves. at least one group of west africans that want up in the trial -- >> the trial being the actual vote? >> that was bringing the west africans from chile to lima, came in from the liverpool slaves on the way to the caribbean and diverted. >> talk a little bit about -- some what aware but not as much as we should be what our country is built on ,-com,-com ma the slave. in the united states and how that worked a little bit. the extent to which it was a huge part of latin america the whole southern hemisphere is probably so

pirate-copters... argh! hmm. it's so huge, it's being broadcast on mars. heroes...bad guys... asteroids. available only on mars. there's watching. then there's watchathoning. ♪ >> welcome to al jazeera americaafghans head to the polls to elect a new president, marking the first democratic transition of power in the country if successful, but the taliban carried out several high profile attacks in the run up to election day, targeting polling centers and candidates. bernard smith followed one of the leading candidates, the runner up from the 2009 election. >> it was chaotic, crowded and almost out of control. that seems to be just but abdullah abdullah likes it. it is his second attempt to win the presidency. >> the size of this crowd isn't necessarily a reflection of the support for abdullah, but does show the enthusiasm and interest in the election process in afghanistan. >> abdullah has crisscrossed the country on his mission. to right or wrong, he and many afghans felt was committed in 2009 when he lost the election to hamid karzai. it was a poll with widespread ballot stuffing. >> the voters are much more aware of their rights. it's much better conscious decision than it used to be. the

pirate-copters... argh! hmm. it's so huge, it's being broadcast on mars. heroes...bad guys... asteroids. available only on mars. there's watching. then there's watchathoning. ♪ >> welcome to al jazeera americais seeing the damages effects of climate change. first, secretary of state john kerry is on his way to brussels at this hour, he was in jerusalem for peace talks with palestinians and israelis. israel said it wouldn't release palestinian prisoners, wanting assurances that palestinians wouldn't abandon the talks. the united states is considering releasing a spy to keep talks from collapsing. let me begin by saying the obvious. we have been here so many times before in this process trying to get to a peace process, why should we believe that we might see a breakthrough now? >> there's very little we believe that the talks themselves will yield any major accomplishment. a year ago, kerry scaled it back to a framework agreement, now the goal is simply to keep talking. i think this is important to keep the negotiations on going, but there's very little expectation on all sides that they'll result in any comprehensive peace agreement, let alone anything yielding a broader peace. >> one exper