i'm ray suarez. it's been fascinating watching the american reactions to the surge in unaccompanied minors, children traveling on their own, trying to cross the u.s. border from mexico to central america. some have reacted with horror, worried first about the welfare of these kids. others have shown more concern about whether and how quickly the migrants can be sent home in order to stop the human flow from guatemala, el salvador and honduras. still others have used what president obama calls a humanitarian crisis totally opposite. this unfolding challenge a proof for th the call for immigration reform has been a failure. or using the same events as proof that it needs to be fixed and right away. today on the program a closer look at the condition of these communities and the gamble of accepting kids north. north--sending kids north. >> reporter: 15-year-old trekked 2,000 miles in hopes of beginning a new life with his father, undocumented and living in houston. >> the trip was not easy because we ca

i'm ray suarez. millions have been out of work. millions who had lost jobs. millions who ran through extended jobless benefits and ran through the ranks of the uncounted and unemployed. yet when you look at the sunday classifieds in big metropolitan newspapers there are a lot of jobs on offer. so what's the problem? are employers looking for workers with skills that aren't widely available? did the education and work lives of unemployed people prepare them for jobs no one wants to pay them to do? the federal government says it has a piece of the answer. in an extremely rare show of unit union minutety, washington wants to match today's people with today's jobs. >> look at everybody smiling. we could do this all the time. >> with people unemployed across the united states. lawmakers moved last week to close the skills gap. >> our work can make a real difference in the lives of real americans. that's why we're here. we'll have more job satisfaction. the american people are customers, they'll feel bette

i'm ray suarez. in recent days the fighting men of the islamic state of iraq for the lavant claimed there was no long arrest syria, no longer an iraq but a state controlled by isis in both countries. now simply the islamic state. what they aim to do is erase the lines drawn across the middle east by the sykes-piko agreement, an agreement between britain and france that basically created the modern mideast from the ottoman empire. once those powers lost, the winners, britain and france, prepared to divide influence, divide the spoils from the forms otto man empire lands formed new kingdoms, iraq, libya, syria, and eventually israel. that last territory, from the iraqi turkish frontier down to the border with yemen is hardly known a day of peace. did the middle east created by britain and france already contagion russ amounts sources of conflict. or did those countries simply doom these states permanently welcome that's our focus this time on the program. joining us for a look on the new islamic state

i'm ray suarez. one of the main objectives by the new streamline law is to coordinate better with similar services already being offered by states. but peter, a little earlier you talked about th the difficulty in matching those two things up. do schools move in a way that resembles the speed of the job market? when employers make it clear they need something, phlebotomists in hospitals, people who know how to keep data records in hospitality industries, any specific need. by the time the school gets a training program in place do we even know if employers still want those things or want them in the same numbers? >> i think you're right, and that is a very big problem. i think that gets worse if the employers are one step removed. they're just sitting, waiting for students to come. i think everybody recognizes that bringing them closer together shortens that time lag, and i think with the issues we're focusing on here around manufacturing and technical skills, hands on skills, first we should be clea

i'm ray suarez. big interest groups left and right are all lobbying to fully fund highway transportation, but it haven't happened. congress can't do a long-term fix. john robert smith, why is it? they're talking about pension smoothing, which is basically playing games with pension plans in order to avoid and incur certain taxes. >> and ray, i appreciate that congress is finally wrestling with this issue, which we've known was looming since mack 21. we knew it was going to happen. this will get us through a patch between a three- to nine-month process. but you're right, it's taking ten years of revenue to support three months of expense. you can't do that very long. why are we in this position? one, transportation was never a partisan issue in the past. you covered the projects needed in mississippi, maine and other states and you got the necessary senators and congressmen to take action. we don't have that any more. it's gotten much more harder to put deals together. now you're asking for a deal tha

i'm ray suarez. bosses have told me over and over don't over do it on the numbers. people can't follow them, but some stories require numbers, no way around it. consider it the pile of money meant to pay to maintain the country's roads and bridges, the highway trust fund is replenished from the federal gas tax. that tax has not gone up in a generation. 21 years in which gas and highway repairs both got more expensive. inflation ate away as the $0.18 price of tax, and found ways to use less of it. no need to break out the green eye shade and play accountant, it's clear those numbers don't work. it's start to go look like it's not just the numbers that don't worry but our politics, too. crisis after crisis in recent years has been resistant to endurable, long-term solution. with the highway trust fund close to spending it's last buck congress has prepared a patch that just might get us to the end of the year. >> reporter: by august first the highway trust fund will not pay all the bills. with the summe

i'm ray suarez. the justices of the supreme court of the united states waited until the last possible day of the 2013-14 term to release their decision in the case originally called sebelius vs hobby lobby. hobby lobby is owned by christians who say that their religion for bid the type of birth control offered in affordable healthcare. rif ra gives employers the legal right to change what is offered in healthcare insurance. president obama changed them and supreme court changed them again. >> advocates on oil sides crowded the steps of the supreme court in anticipation of the final decision of th of the hobby lobby case. the court ruled for hobby lobby saying closely held companies can opt out of the federal mandate to provide birth control to their employees if it goes against the company owner's beliefs. as : he also argued that since non-profit institutions like churches can opt out, for-profit, closely held companies can as well. read from the bench: >> at the heart of the argument is rifra, it i

i'm ray suarez. in the last few years fast food restaurant workers made loud public demands for better working conditions and pay. when you train, learn the system, prepare the specified food and run the register in a mcdonald's, who are you working for? the illinois head quartered giant says not us, we franchise. the national relations board general council ruled on the question and decided it's not an arm's length relationship in mickey d's case. it may have an impact on the corporations, franchise holers and the millions that work for them. >> reporter: the golden arches will take on more responsibility for the employees that fall under its umbrella brand. tuesday the national labour relations board ruled that mcdonald's corporation could be considered a joint employer for workers in its franchise operations. the ruling has broad implications for mcdonald's and other franchisers as low-paid workers seek higher pay and the right to organise. 90% of u.s. based mcdonald's restaurants are franchises.

i'm ray suarez. when a special jetliner doesn't reach its destination, almost anywhere in the world is a strenuous attempt to keep the accident scene pristine. pieces of the aircraft of photographed, positions cataloged, bodies mapped as a source of evidence of both the way the plane was damaged and how it broke up. the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, block boxes are meant to provide a treasure trove of time, altitude, a plane's vital statistics, you might say, along with what the people who were flying it were saying. investigators want to create a time line, determine a cause, and no piece of data is too small, no detail too insignificant. in eastern you a crane, the crash scene was controlled by days by the very men suspected of causing the crash. the black boxes were taken away, then returned, bodies moved without the kind of forensic data an investigator would want to record. the investigation into mh17 is this addition of "inside story." >> malaysia airlines flight 17 was presu

i'm ray suarez.o say the road from concept to implementation for the affordable care act was rocky would qualify as an understatement of this young century. the titanic legislative study, the death of teddy kennedy and replacement by republican. the attempts by house republicans to repeal the law. the supreme court decision on constitutionally, and the lengthening list of challenges. the decision of a 3-judge panel concluding a key structure of the health insurance law, the system of subsidies for low-income insurance buyers was not legal. at the same time another federal appeals court was deciding the law was permissible as is. the hurdles for obamacare never seemed to end. the affordable care act passed in 2010 is 2400 pages long. this week's two opposing legal rulings hone in on one section. who qualifies for subsidies in the form of tax credits under the law. 14 states operate their open health care, and 36 opted not to create and run exchanges, letting washington do it in the form of healthcare.

i'm ray suarez. when israelis and palestinians open fire on each other, world leaders step in front of microphones. they deplore, urge, they call on the people who can make the fighting stop to do whatever's necessary to make the dying stop approximately the palestinian supporters clam the united states, because they believe washington has although influence necessary to change israeli behavior. at the same time, israel, the u.s. and others openly call for the palestinian authority and hamas's backers to push their ally to say make peace and accept the existence of israel. that's the public diplomatic work that goes on where people can see, but who really has the influence when the chilly periods of quiet give way to rockets and tanks? who can get the combatants, the parties to do anything? that's the inside story. let's begin with the events that got us here. >> it's been five days since israel began its ground operation to destroy underground tunnel networks in gaza and stop hamas fighters from fir

i'm ray suarez. for generations the federal government has amassed huge amounts of money, then used some of it to relieve the worst affects of poverty. some programs are dedicated to make people less likely to be poor. others to making being poor less dangerous and degrading. notably with the new deal and the great society, putting the federal government at the heart of programs to aid the poor set off big philosophical and practical debates. when washington sets the goals and makes the rules and disburses the money, does it deliver help where and when needed. for a long time republicans like representative ryan of wisconsin have answered no. this week the chairman of the house budget committee laid out a plan for a new model today on "inside story" a closer look. >> deep poverty is near record highs. we take a step back and look at all of this, and you have to think, we can do better than this. >> wisconsin representative paul ryan unveiled a new anti-poverty plan this week. it's called expanding op

i am ray suarez. the 2013 to 2014 term of the supreme court of the united states finished its year with a bang as it has in recent years with decisions in the hobby lobby case and in organized labor case involving mandatory dues. but there were other cases: about internet privacy, fourth amendment restrictions on unreasonable search and seizure, aero, a service that sentence recorded programs to customers was more or less put out of business by the high court. yes, there were hotly con testified 5-4 decisions, strongly worded majority opinions and brist ling dissents, but the court also had the most unanimous decisions since john roberts became chief justice. we'll look back at the term that was this time on "inside story." the court saved the most closely watched case until the final monday of the term in burwell versus hobby lobby, the justices ruled 5-4 that employers cannot be forced to provide obamacare mandated contraceptives to female employees if it goes against their religious beliefs. >> tod

. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. the islam state has proclaimed it's own country.simply is the islamic state and it's leader is a man who goes by al ba ghdadi. the islamic state said once god and his messenger makes a decision, they don't have a choice but to fall in line. who is abu bakr al-baghdadi? that's our focus this time on inside story. >> delivering a sermon in mosul, iraq, in this video, a man who appears to be the elusive leader of the islamic state spoke for a half hour. he introduced himself as, your new caliph ibrahim. >> if you see me on the right path, help me. if you see me on a wrong path, lead me. >> baghdadi claims to trace his lineage back to mohammed giving him, some scholars say, legitimacy as religious leader. he was captured by u.s. forces. after his release he took over as head of al-qaeda in iraq branch. the leader at the time. abu omar was killed in a raid. al baghdadi's road to leadership, last year he openly deified the leadership, and joined forces fighting in syria . there was a letter ordering bagh hdadi to keep forces separate. if

i'm ray suarez. you're watching a program as we cover the continuing crisis in ukraine. how do you undo the damage that's been done? can you undo the damage that's been done, and how can vladimir putin intervene in a way that gives everybody a chance to, well, move on and realize their best interest to stop the fighting. alexander, have domestic forces been unleashed inside russia that challenge the president? recently sergei lavrov has been quoted making much tougher statement than puti than putin has, and this was lavrov express ing his opinion. but in most countries mornin foreign ministers don't express opinions that is different from its leader. >> of course there is a debate going on. like in every country. there are different points of view. i would like to point out one important thing. that america has to really, really step back about what is has done in ukraine. when people start telling us about crimea becoming part of russian soil, it all started in february when there was a coup in kiev

download it now >> welcome back to inside story, i'm ray suarez.n this edition of the program we are talking about the caliph of islamic state. many will flock to that black flag. why? who are they? are they people who can just drop what they're doing in life and head to an unstable region in iraq? >> believe it or not, the answer is yes. let me explain why. this declaration of the caliph, this is very much embedded in history. there is religious literature that confirms to a lot of believers, there are many sects among muslims, but for a lot of followers, especially for those that if caliph is declared it's a religious obligation. it doesn't matter who declares it. it doesn't matter how they get to power. but if it is declared than those people are obliged religiously. maybe 99% of muslims won't, but i'm worried about the 1%. the muslim nation is over 1 billion people on earth. if you set this fact against the background that we've only seen recently more or less the imitation of political islam, and we've seen al-qaeda has really been cornered an

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i'm ray suarez. few blocks where were i'm standing yasar arafat and rabine who fought the egyptian army in 1948 at the birth of the state of israel shook hands with president bill clinton and each other at the white house. it was september 1993, and things that had not seemed possible in a long time suddenly were thinkable - that israel would recognise a self-governing palestinian state on land israel took in the 1967 war. that palestinians who had for decades denied the existence of israel and fought to push the jewish state into the sea would recognise and live side by side with it. once again the news is full of death, killing and counterkilling, and that sunny moment at the white house that brought hope with sober recognition of how much work was to be done seems a very, very long time ago. >> reporter: people run for cover in tel aviv. violence between israel and hamas terrified israelis and palestinians. rockets fired from gaza with ranges longer than previously seen are reaching into israel. s

i'm ray suarez. the fight over voter i.d.nd more restricted ballot access has moved to north carolina, where the new voter i.d. law is in court. the new election law makes it harder for young voters to register. not impossible, just a little more complicated and allows fewer days of early voting. all to protect the process say supporters, and all to keep out poor and minority voters say opponents. they say it's really about politics, because of who young and minority voters vote for, analysis? >> i would like to take it out of the realm of partisan politics. i think this is a challenge that we face as democrats and republicans and independents. we have to face reality. our democracy is in trouble. you know that in an off-year, in non-presidential elections, the percentage of young people to go to the polls is under 25%. fewer than one in four young people vote in congressional and off-year election. we know that the generation of young people that we're educating today in colleges in north carolina and elsewhere are a generat

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i'm ray suarez. if you spent any time on the internet you know how easy to look for articles. now search terms, an engine, key strokes and boom, almost too much to take in. inventing an idea, synthesizing sources, coming to a conclusion a clever turn of phrase, those things are hard. using any of those things already done by others and not giving the creator credit is easy. and the temptations writers, leaders an are finding hard to resist. if you google "plagiarism" and click news you'll find a list of academics, journalists and politician plagiarism is the act of using other's ideas, and in the digital age it's easy to do and easy to get caught doing . a decorated iraq war veteran and former general of his state's national guard. walsh is running for re-election in november. >> i'm announcing my candidacy to become montana's next united states senator. to bring our values to washington, d.c. where every montanan knows its badly needed 2347 in 2007 senator walsh got a master's degree from the united