ray suarez is next with "inside story"." on al jazeera america. >> in the same stretch of days muslim radicals killed 16 people in france and hundreds in nigeria. the two very different killings got two different reactions. in one case mobilization and worldwide condemnation. in another case, a shrug? it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. for boko haram the islamic extremist group in nigeria nothing seems beyond the pale. add to the long list of kidnappings, execution torture rape and mass murder the recent destruction of a whole town and the killing of its citizens and cases of young girls sentenced to marketplaces with bombs strapped to their bodies killing dozens more. haven't heard about it? don't be embarrassed. the world's gaze seems to be upon a different area of the world in the aftermath of murders in paris. >> millions of people from around the world flooded the streets of paris waving pens, flags, and signs repeating the message je suis charlie. i am charlie. 40 international dignitaryies linked arms, showin

i'm ray suarez.s syria descended into deadly civil war and remained there 3 million people fled the country. 3million. lebanon took in a million refugees and now says it can take no more. they said, we have enough. there is no capacity to host more displaced. that's our focus on this edition of the program. lena, if they can't go to lebanon where will they go? >> highly likely they would go to jordan or to turkey. these are the only other two countries surrounding syria that the refugees can head to, and which actually have been coping better than lebanon with the refugee situation, mainly because there are less refugees going into that those countries compared to those heading to lebanon. >> but jordan shares with lebanon that it's small, smaller than syria, poorer than syria was before the civil war. it could appoint come where they may say no more? >> yes, absolutely. to grind on and more and more people see syria, of course jordan is going to bear the brunt of this. right now jordan is coping bet

. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. for boko haram, the islamic extremist group in nigeria nothing seems beyond the pale. add to the long list of kidnappings, execution, torture, rape and mass murder the recent destruction of a whole town and the killing of its citizens and cases of young girls sentenced to marketplaces with bombs strapped to their bodies killing dozens more. haven't heard about it? don't be embarrassed. the world 's gaze seems to be upon a different area of the world in the aftermath of murders in paris. >> millions of people from around the world flooded the streets of paris waving pens flags, and signs repeating the message je suis charlie. i am charlie. 40 international dignitaryies linked arms, showing solidarity with french president franÇois hollande. this week france is still on high alert. 10,000 troops were deployed throughout the country. many standing guard at jewish schools. while france was in the middle of its crisis last week after the killing of 17 independent people by homegrown extrem

i'm ray suarez.he keystone xl pipeline has meant to take crude pulled from the tar sands of western kind and pipe it through the united states through the gulf of mexico. back to the debate is joined crude oil was much more expensive, and they were bringing it out of canadian canada by rail. today crude is cheap, oil is plentiful, and the senate is controlled by republicans. in a 63-32 vote the senate decided to move forward in the debate of the keystone xl pipeline: president obama has promised to veto the pipeline if the bill lands on his desk. it needs to 67 votes to override the presidential veto. >> we're asking the president to work with us, and the gridlock and get this project moving. >> reporter: the house of representatives also voted in favor of ski stone. >> as a new member of congress i'm proud in our first week we passed bipartisan legislation. the approvement of the keystone pipeline is will bring jobs. we're off to a strong start. >> reporter: the president and rankers are all opponen

hello, i'm ray suarez. around the world people who have concluded that staying where they are is just too dangerous hit the road, leaving their homes, crossing international borders into other countries. from honduras they've headed north to the west. fleeing gang violence and poverty. in the north africa republic tiny lebanon is staggering under the huge weight of syrians fleeing war and chaos at home. the country is now saying, we just can't take everybody. >> they come from all over somalia , indonesia, caribbean. many so desperate to escape their own countries they pay thousands of dollars for a spot on a rickety boat. >> we called on the plane immediately when we detected the ship. a woman took the call. she said we're alone. please help us. we're in danger . >> a record number of people are fleeing wars. more than 200,000 people crossed the mediterranean in 2014 just like the refugees in this boat. >> for sure this is very dangerous because one ship that navigates with nobody at the helm is like a bom

i'm ray suarez. all the big team sports in america have taken great pains to avoid gamblers and gambling keeping franchises out of vegas. but one thing that big-time sports hate, and i mean hate, a big pile of money that it can't get its hands into. it's game, it's raw material it's product, really, and yet does not pay those teams a penny. the new nba commissioner adam silver has had enough. he's opening the door a crack to green lighting betting on sports, and this time his league would get a cut. the end of a dirty little secret or the beginning of real headaches. there was terrific action. king james, lebron back with his home state cleveland cavaliers dropped 32 points. i would like to show you the highlights of this or any other game but i can't because to use any video from the nba i would have to license it at great expense from the league. the nba is rolling in money, according to forbes. the average team is worth $634 million , up 25% from 2013. the league just inked new tv deals with turne

i'm ray suarez. today millions of americans with a wide array of backgrounds and ages and needs will head to class at a two-year college. some will use it as a stepping stone to a four-year degree. it's one of the most popular answers to a broader array of answers. they're underfunded, highly dependent on part time faculty and too difficult to match up with four-year colleges . if we're going to give community college as the parting prescriptions to high schoolers, will this match the need of the works force? >> if they were capable of meeting the needs of the workforce, there is a huge question based on what is out there in jobs, whether we need to just produce more people with credentials, if we're going to use community college in that capacity, it seems like what needs to be happen many community colleges have to be more responsive quickly to the needs of the workforce and the needs of students. we'll see because of under funding, they're supposed to be inexpensive schools relative to four-year s

i'm ray suarez. the keystone pipeline will bring crude from canada through the united states to the gulf of mexico. back when the debate was joined crude oil was much more expensive. u.s. supply was not as large and canadian crude was making it out of canada by rail. fast forward to today crude is cheap. american supply is plentiful and the u.s. senate is controlled by republicans. so keystone's extension is once again in focus for legislators and for "inside story." the senate voted to move forward with debate around the keystone xl pipeline. president obama has threatened veto a bill authorizing the pipeline if it lands on his desk. bills need two-thirds support from the senate, 7 votes to override the presidential veto. >> we're asking the president again today, and to do that we're working against the gridlock to get this infrastructure project moving. >> as a new member of congress i'm proud we passed the legislation. and the keystone pipeline that will create thousands of jobs. we're off to a s

i'm ray suarez. as we've just heard from the last four state of union speeches immigration is high on the agenda. the president has repeatedly called for reform he's authorised a record number of deportations nearly 2 million. last march the president of the latino group called him the deporter-in-chief. joining us to continue the look in the battle overimmigration and how the politics will play during the run-up to the presidential election day, i'm joined by simon rosenberg. president of the new network. and a grad student from florida state, immigrant right's activist and hoping to get hits own status fixed by immigration, and igor former director of immigration policy and special jizor for refugee and asylum affairs at the u.s. department of homeland security. >> do you think this is a worthwhile tactic for getting done what they want to get done. threatening the dhs funding. a pinch point in politics. >> i think it's showing the extent to which the republican party believes that the president's

i'm ray suarez. in the run off to the president state of the union next tuesday he has been releasing policy proposals. one of proposals rolled out in the past week, making it easier for americans to get two-year college degrees by paying their tuition. >> at this, i'm announcing an ambitious new plan to bring down the cost of tuition. all the way down to zero. >> president obama made announcement last friday. the white house claiming the president's plan could help up to nine million students. federal funding would cover three-quarters of the cost with individual states picking up the rest of the tab. it's estimated that the program would cost $60 billion over ten years. what impact might this have? consider these numbers. between 2012 and 2013, with household income $25,000 a year or less compared to 15% from higher income backgrounds. and 50% of hispanic students enrolled a community colleges compared to 31% of african-american students, and 28% of white students. a key aim is the hope that two ye

." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. charlie hebdo has been insulting people of all politics, races and religiouses for more than 30 years. that breezy take no whoever approach was called provocative. thecharlie hebdo has been sued blasted by some of the most powerful people in france, but today the murders were too much for the world to ignore. there would be no court date evidence or testimony. cartoonists were killed for their insist tense that no one was off limits. >> 12 people are dead after armed men stormed the newspaper charlie hebdo . >> the individuals went into the magazine offices and went towards the main editorial room where all the journalists were gathered. they shot ten people. eight journalists, one protection policemen and an invited person. they shouted allah akbar. we'll avenge the name of the prophet. >> the assailants, who are still at large, took off in a car, which they abandoned, and they carjacked another. >> it's an the of barbaricty against a newspaper that stands for freedom of expression,

hello, i'm ray suarez. because a small number of americans had to deal with the restrictions you might have gotten the impression that since the embargo of trade and travel to cuba might have changed. things would freeze and thaw. there were high profile cultural exchanges. then there would be incident and provocation and the doors would slam shut. now the new administration in the face of angry push back against republicans are hoping to take the u.s. out that have freeze-thaw cycle for good. the obama administration moved on its promise on friday. the opening of banking relationships, and the allowance for americans to travel on a general license for authorized purposes and projects. americans who visit cuba can return up to $400 worth of goods. >> this easing of the economic embargo will allow lives to improve. >> this relaxation of rules comes days after the release of 53 political prisoners a step agreed to last year to start restoring ties. but the half century-old embargo can be relieved by congress,

i'm ray suarez.ed gunmen killed 12 people at the charlie hebdo satirical newspaper. here is an example. je suis charlie, i'm charlie. a slogan of grief and solidarity. >> and this one: >> you may remember that solomon rushdie was threatened. he wrote: >> still with us eric from the online magazine "slate." and katherine, professor of french and frank phone studies. does charlie hebdo get to hide under the same umbrella with lemond and other more conventionally journalistic publications? does it get protected by those same freedoms of the press that we hold dear when, in fact, some of the things they drew were pretty gamey. we won't show them. people can only imagine the cartoons, but it's not just the prophet muhammad sitting down reading or talking with his friends. there are some pretty filthy kind of cartoons that were included in the pages, meant to shock, meant to disrespect. must we stand with the principle that they get protected every bit as much as an exposÉ on a corrupt politician, let's sa

i'm ray suarez. the american relationship with the modern saudi arabia has always been, to put it politely, complicated. the u.s. has sold some of its most advance weapon systems and trained saudis in their use and at other times support saudis military as it went against israel u.s.' closest ally. saudi arabia has spread vast sums of money across the muslim world building mosques hiring clerics, and distributing educational materials all in the growth of a strain of fundamentalist arabs. and at the same time saudi arabia has been willing in the gulf war to apply with the united states. to expel iraq from kuwait, and to support the overthrow of the so-called islamic state. friend foe necessary ally, how have successive u.s. governments looked at saudi arabia? >> president obama and first lady michelle obama arrived in riyadh saudi arabia, and were greeted by the new king himself they came to pay respects to the late king abdullah, and then the new king salman abdulaziz. the u.s. has a long history of

i'm ray suarez. there were times when the president sounded like he was giving his last state of the union address rather than one with two years left in his final term. president obama delivered a self assessment set out an agenda over the next two years and developed plenty of time of what he called middle class economics. the speech was barely open when there was questioned whether such a thing existed. as an approach, as policies, as politics. what's middle class economics? we'll lift the lid and look at the parts this time on inside story. >> the verdict is clear. middle class economics works. expanding opportunity works. and these policies will continue to work. as long as politics don't get in the way. >> president obama's state of the union tuesday zeroed in on helping america's middle class but just skimmed over his administration's tax reform plan. it would include raising the capital gains tax from 24% to 28%. close certain tax loop holes including for cooperate jet owners and charge banks

. >> hello i'm ray suarez. as the president of the united states heads to the capitol to address a joint session of congress one of the fights of what to do with the people who come here to live and work in violation of the immigration laws. in the face of inaction on the part of cropping, the president has moved on his own in two big ways. first, delayed deportation of people who were brought to the country as children. next he gave temporary relief to the parents of the so-called dreamers. when the new house of representatives took their seats, one of the first big votes came on immigration telling the president you just can't do that. now they're on a collision course. >> we know that immigration policies are out of date and badly broken. a system that is holding us back instead of strengthening our economy and growing our middle class. right now we have 11.5 million undocumented immigrants. 11million men and women who live their lives in the shadows. many of them have been here for years. the he overwhelmin

i'm ray suarez.dance club in new york's west village in a clinic in san francisco, in a marks place in south africa, the word went out. people can stop the spread of hiv in its track by stopping, hiv, limit the number of sex partners because in terms of infectious disease you were having sex with every partner the other person has ever had. the pharmaceutical revolution that's transformed hiv and aids, lengthened lives reduced infection, has now moved to prevention. unraveled the message played day after day play safe. >> three years ago nicholas had the scare of his life. >> i was playing with fire by having unprotected sex. they didn't disclose their hiv status. >> gordine was left testing negative for hiv but the risky behavior, what it could mean. >> i was quite concerned deaf saited. -- deaf stated. >> devastated. >> prevada prep, preexposure proafprophylaxis. the centers for disease control says this reduces the risk of hiv infection if adhered to properly. >> where prep is so, important hiv do

ray suarez. collapsing economy, and it's latest golf just resigned. it appears to be a pretty weak building block, but that's what it is. the united states is poured hundreds of millions of dollars into yemen, the next door have given some $4 billion the aid. yemen is exhibit a about what is hard about making peace in a rough neighborhood. split ethnically regionally and religiously, it's factions getting help from different countries with different interests in the outcome. countries that also happen to hate each other, yemen is poor, unstable, unsafe, a training ground for terrorists and is islamic fighters and it is pulling america into a conflict with no apparent end. the strategy of taking out terrorists that threaten us, is one that we have successfully pursued for years. and it is consistent with the approach i outlined earlier this year. to use force against anyone, who threatened america's interests but to mobilize partners wherever possible, to address broader challenges to internationa

i'm ray suarez. if you're a writer you can't use someone else's work without attribution. if you're a securities trader, you can't use trades with information from forbidden sources. if "r" in professional sports, a world formatively bound by rules and regulations, you can't play with equipment altered to give you alone an advantage over your opponent. in all those cases to do otherwise is simply cheating. do people do it? what do we know about cheating? if people don't do it think it? the question at the heart of the deflate gate is easy to ask and hard to answer. was new england patriots' star quarterback tom brady a cheater? >> i don't believe so. i've always played within the rules, i wouldn't do anything to break the rules. i believe in fair play and respect the league and everything that they're doing to compete a competitive playing field for all the nfl teams. >> the nfl and the patriots are smack in the spotlight, and not simply because it's less than a week before the super bowl sunday. >>

i'm ray suarez. is hope, faith in the future a necessary pre-condition for continuing good for the country. i have to admit to feeling heart sick, a little less sure about the future when sitting in my living room watching the tear gas mingle with the smoke from burning cars a few weeks ago in ferguson, missouri. still with us, as we look back at 2014 and race relations in america, steve perry author of" push has to shove." ashley yates, founder of millennial activists united, and professor marshall, author of "race, law, and the american society 1607 to the present." steve perry, you were shaking your head as ashley talked about protests continuing. er why? >> she likened the protests to the montgomery bus boycott. it was a shutdown of an infrastructure that they were doing versus meeting in times square and lying down and protest of a notion that didn't take place in times square. there is a fundamental difference. and a birthday is not a birth. you can't compare the celebration or reenactment of o

it's inside story. >> hello, i am ray suarez. a collapsing economy, and it's

i am ray suarez.the world journalists are harassed, arrested, even killed. in many cases, what the people targeting them could call a crime, is very simple, they tell the stories powerful people don't want told. three al jazerra journal i haves, were arrested tried and sen tested to long prison terms for trying to cover the banned political party that only a few months earlier in 2013, had been running egypt. today on the one-year anniversary of their arrest. we are devoting this edition of "inside story" to the continued imprisonment of the peter getter, mohamed fahmy and bahar mohamed and to say once again to the audience in the united states and around the world, journalist is not a crime. buzzing newsrooms came to a standstill monday marking one year since al jazerra journalists peter greste mohamed fahmy and bahar me hommie he had were detained odd terrorism charges in egypt. al jazerra condemns the sentencing, arguing it is a journalist's job to get all sides of the store and it's channel is obj

i'm ray suarez. the world can look back on 35 years of terrible human tragedy, and now more than ever triumph. medicines have reduced mother-to-infant transmission, and added years of healthy life to people infected around the world. millions around the world are still infected by hiv. today we're looking at drugs when used by high-risk people can stop the spread of hiv. justin goforth, what has been the change when you look back at the change of the introduction of anti-retro virals. that could be a test case of how people take on new information and use it to inform the choices they make in their lives. >> that's a good point. we have effective anti-retro virals as far as stopping the spread of hiv in the mid '90s but it's now changed to once a day regiments instead of five times a day. we look at the option of staying on treatment as an effective way of keeping someone healthy that is liveing with hiv. pre-exposure prophylaxis is in its infancy. the one-pill truvada today is not the pre-exposure p

in washington i'm ray suarez. programme that is giving wealthy foreigners an opportunity to dream. >> i don't think we should be selling visas to people whose claim to fame is they have money >>> adam may on a steady flow of new investment, or is america selling out on citizenship >>> >>> also, hundreds of millions spent on the fight for ebola -