for ray suarez, i'm nick deleon. deleon. "america tonight" is next. [ ♪ music ] >>> good evening, i'm michael oku, this is a special edition of "america tonight". this evening we focus our lens on a 1300 acre scratch of south los angeles, it was referred to as a cattle ranch, then a major railroad junction. at one point nicknamed mud town for the many dirt roads that respect unpaved. after 1965, very few would call it anything but want.

for ray suarez, i'm nick deleon. goodnight. . >> a shock resignation, an announcement from libya's prime minister fol groed by con -- followed by confusion as to whether he's really going. >> you're watching al jazeera. coming up in the next half hour, a suspected boko haram attacks kills 70 people in north-east nigeria. >> costs of the attempts to rescue hundreds of thousands of migrants. >>

ray suarez is next with "inside story". have a great night >>> swooning stock exchanges followed the sun rise around the world. cun country after country, it bridges sell offs and declines. what was the match that lit the sell off feud. fumbling markets it's "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story". i'm ray suarez, it seems like a bling of an eye ago in historical terms, the phase, the chinese stock markets. might have met with a raised eyebrow. it helps to regulate the heart beat for better or worse. china's underlining economic health, growing louder and loudser set off the global sell off, a quake taking on a life of its own. will the world need a single from china in order to stop or slow plunging indexes. joining me now, the strategy. >> the search director at the policy institute, for several gays in a row. gentlemen have woken to the news, sell you have are offs -- sell offs, and bad news through america. what is happening. >> it was their fault for being asleep. nothing would bet past them. china's enormous eco

i'm ray suarez.ng chair best - scouting's new policy allowing gay adults to volunteer for the organization. this time on the programme, zach and roger are with me. as a practical matter now that the rules barring gay men and women from volunteering have been dropped, is a different clock run, a wait and the see, where people across the spectrum watch to see how the new policy will work. roger, are the religious organizations that wanted to keep the ban, willing to see how this plays out. >> i think you are going to see a different reaction depending on the organization itself. some organizations will let the local churches indeed the local jurisdictioning make the decision for themselves. what you are hearing is that at the national level several religious organizations, particularly the southern baptist, the catholic church and the mormon church expressed doubt as to the ability to continue in a partnership with an organization like the boy scouts now that it has not adopted a neutral policy. the bo

i'm ray suarez. if we were to look at homeless people in america as a single population, you would find many are living alone. but 40% live in family units. fewer than one in six are chronically homeless, living without shelter is a long-term fact of life. during the last sensis of the homeless, counters found almost 200,000 children and young people. the causes are many, joblessness, rising cost of housing, untreated substance abuse and mental illness. the solutions proving tough to achieve. al jazeera's courtney kealy has mo more. >> reporter: a homeless man in los angeles refuses orders to come out of his tent. police struggle: officers open fire - killing him. >> it happened in march, in l.a.'s skid row. there's a highest population. more than 2,000 are in camps. los angeles and county officials announced a plan to send more teams, substance abuse experts to l.a.'s downtown to reduce the number. >> new york city announced a similar plan. it's beginning to feel a bit like at lit '80s, and early 90

i'm ray suarez.n recent years we have seen the tragic stories of young men in their 20, 30, 40, with arthritic hips and failed knees, dimming intellect and are looking at the toll sports can take on adults. heartbreaking as they were, we may be reluctant to tell adults, they can't pay 30 minutes of hoops or deliver a hit at the line of scrimmage, adults eyes are open, they can decide how much risk to take on. what about younger athletes. how many coaches are praising a kid who sucks it up and plays hurt. little league pitch pounds are not stopping young players from getting serious arm and joint surgeries, at shockingly young ages. he's a strong and graceful young woman recruited for college cheer, told that the cheer leading accounts for the single largest number of catastrophic injuries to young women. we have this report on the faster, hardest toughest world on the youth in sport. >> reporter: this 17-year-old threw the ball hard. last year, while pitching in a tournament in atlanta, he felt somet

i'm lisa fletcher in for ray suarez. fast-paced world set in gear by high-speed internet access has transformed the way we learn, do our jobs and live our lives. 15% of americans are offline according to a recent pugh study, that fm has been on the decline since 2000. when half of americans didn't use the internet. the decrease flattoed. the details are noteworthy. >> 39%. 33% have less than a high school degree. 25% less than 30,000 dollars a year, and 24% live in rural america. 13% live in urban settings. starting in the south, a city has no from in high-speed internet. martin. >> reporter: with an appellation back drop. chattanooga prided itself on the river front and rail. service. >> it's about 100 times faster. it's driving growth in the small tennessee city. >> it's easier to do anything. >> reporter: chattanooga's fibre optic connection transfers data, four times faster then new york. it's on par with hong kong. world. >> we have the community as the big city, the first city to have a kig. city. >> reporter: it s

for ray suarez, i'm nick deleon. deleon. >> >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the al jazeera newshour. i'm here in doha, and here is what is coming up in the next 60 minutes. yemen's pro-government forces close in on a strategic city held by rebels for months. five are killed, many target residential neighbourhoods in central damascus. plus... >> i'm in south sudan. women walk here into the bush to

i'm ray suarez. tonight on the programme tumbling markets. this morning the boss came out of his office at a chicago securities trading house and gave employees some advice - don't look at your 401k balance. what does the rhythm following declines tell us to do with your own money now. was not checking your balance good advice. >> we turn to the dukes of data, sultan of stacks, a website that tries to take the measured road in all the numbers it throws off, and help you make some sense of it all. advice. >> it was great advice. more investors would take that and just - you know, rip up the 401k information, go out on a barbecue. read the sports section. they'd be better off through what happened today. >> but we have seen huge drops in the market indexes, not only here, but around the world. why is your own pile of savings reducing in value. you should relax about it and go to a barbecue. >> it is painful, difficult not to watch the news. i was watching it today. violating my own advice. first of all, half of americans don't own any stock at

i am ray suarez.than a century with very few exceptions people born in the united states were commonly recognized as american citizens. period. a lot of the discussion about birth right citizenship centers on the 14th amendment, ratified just after the civil war. it's suddenly an issue again because donald trump made getting rid of that legal status a centerpiece of his immigration policy proposal. and while political reporters were becoming comfortable about the notion of billionaire's larger than life impact on the race he wasn't credited with the ability to set the agenda, to shape the debate. but as al jazerra's david shuster reports, that's just what he's doing. >> i am here to tell you why i am running for president. >> reporter: on tuesday amidst the downpour at the iowa state fair, florida senator marco rubio literally rain odd the g.o.p. presidential parade on immaterial grapes reform. he said deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants is impractical and that denying citizenship for their c

i'm del walters in for luis suarez ray suarez. president obama showed frustration at getting illegal guns out of the hands of the dangerous and off the streets. >> you mentioned illegal guns, that's an area where - you ask me what is the one area i feel i have been most frustrated and most stymied, it's the fact that the united states of america is the one advance nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient consents and safety laws. >> if nothing else, the amount of gun violence in places where it's toughest to get it legally is a reminder that there's a patchwork of laws verifying ownership. that means what is illegal in one state is illegal in the next. robert ray has that part of the story. >> hello. >> reporter: this is little's bait and tackle shop in the small town of georgia. one of nearly 4,000 licensed dealers in the state. little is the owner. little is the source of the gun used to kill new york city police officer in may. it was stolen from the porn shop. this video took the video of the action. the guns make th

from ray suarez, i'm del walters. goodnight. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes saudi backed forces make significant gains against houthi rebels in a key province. parliament approves a sweeping set of reforms aimed at reducing government corruption. anger in japan as the country restarts its first nuclear plant since th

for ray suarez, i'm lisa fletcher.e a great weekend. >> marking 70 years since the end of world war ii, japan holds a special ceremony. from al jazeera headquarters in doha, i'm darren jordan. greece deploys a passenger ferry to process thousands of new arrivals. the death toll from huge explosion in cloin's port city of tienjin rises to 85. and

for ray suarez, i'm lisa fletcher.e a great weekend. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera. >>> well, to the "newshour" with the world's top news stories coming up in the next 60 minutes. seventy years on, china and south korea criticize japan's prime minister over his world war ii apology saying it doesn't go far enough. angry relatives of fire fighters missing in the recent explosion in china storm a gov

welcome to "inside story", i'm ray suarez.e know, or to be more accurate, we have known for years about the brain and body development of adolescence. their bodies want to make them wants to stay up late, sleep late. but high schools are under pressure to have first periods start earlier and earlier. it's easier to connour up a vision of kids in first year calculus, chins on arms, eyelids heavily. it's a cliche, because it's true. exhausted and grumpy teenagers barely able to during himself out of bed and get to school. it's have growing course. to let them sleep more and start the school day later. more than 20%, high schools and middle schools begin classes earlier than the recommended 8:30am start time. some start earlier than 7:30. the result, according to health professionals. tired and sleep deprived students, don't get the 8-9 hours of sleep that they need. >> sleep depravation has been studied and has impact. an impact that can lead to poor school performance, dangerous affects on teams. >> the doctor is director of th

i'm ray suarez. new orleans is still deeply scarred by hurricane katrina. it's easy to see if you stray far beyond the central business district or the french quarter. but the city is undoubtedly rebounding. the question is how? is the city not just back to where it was before the storm but transformed by it? al jazeera's jonathan betz is in new orleans with more of the changing face of the city. >> ray, new orleans is growing into something very new and very different. it's attracting a lot of young people, from the natural disaster and the ruins of that they saw opportunity. but with that comes change that many fear is not welcoming at all. for generations henry and emanuel's family have called new orleans home. she can't believe how different the city and the people look. >> i hope a lot of the black people come back. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. >> how to make sure some people aren't left behind in the boom of rebuilding. >> i think the issue that is near and dear to my h

for ray suarez, i'm lisa fletcher.eat weekend. >> on "america tonight": echoes of the watts riots still heard 50 years later. >> six days of rioting in a negro section of los angeles. >> the frustrations are really the same.

i'm sheila macvicar in for ray suarez. according to the quarterly data released. home ownership among all age groups is falling. the rates of home ownership among hispanics and blacks increased. is that a blip on the screen or the beginnings of a longer trend line. chief economist for trulia. thank you for joining us. one of the questions obviously is your city watching the markets trends as they unfold, you are seeing people buy and sell properties across the country. are you seeing - are you concerned that the counter decline that has been recorded by the u.s. sensis bureau, the harvard study and others will continue. do you thick think that is the way we'll see continued declines or is a change coming, do you think? >> as you mentioned, home ownership rate is at the lowest since 1967. the home ownership rate peaked in 2004 and has been on a decline since. i'm not necessarily concerned in this declining home ownership rate. it's largely driven by demo graphic changes anticipated for a while, and partially are due to some

i'm ray suarez.ore than 2 million men and women are in federal state and country lock ups across micro, the highest rate of incarceration across the world, just under 1% of all adults. authorities wrestle with costs, with the tendency of offenders to get in trouble again, societal problems of inmates concentrated behind bars. a widely used approach - provide more schooling. >> for those that left without a high school diploma, classes. for others, a chance to earn college degrees behind bars. the strategy keeps inmates busy, does it result in a facility easy to run, and men and women less likely to reoffend, likely to succeed when they are on the streets. here is roxana saberi. >> i'm kind of over whelmed with emotion right now, you know. >> reporter: it's been 15 years since johnny perez was last here. at the age of 21 he robbed a new york city convenience store. his daughter was two days old. >> my daughter had to go her life without me because i put a gun to one. >> perez would spend the next 13 y

i'm ray suarez. it may be fair to say no one, neither the people who want to close the military detention center at guantanamo bay, or the people that keep it open, are happy with the way things have gone since the place was open 13 years ago. the military tribunals have been carried out, and many of the detainees were found not to have important roles with al qaeda or the taliban. many were detained in error and cleared to go home. but couldn't because the home countries didn't want them. seven years after president obama promised to close the place down, it's open. and a thorn in the administration's side. >> jamie mcintyre has more. >> last week the pentagon visited the system. this week they are visiting the naval shipyard. they are looking to gather information about what it would take to pull prisoners to guantanamo. one of the options under consideration is supposed to go into a proposal to head up to congress. like most things involving guantanamo, it turned out to be a little more complicate

welcome to "inside story," i'm lynchlisa fletcher in for ray suarez. donald trump is ensuring he will continue to garner teang. attention. immigration led the way followed by race, the economy education and abortion. after all is said and done have the republicans gotten any closer to figuring out who will lead their fight to win the white house? al jazeera's david schuster picks it up from here. >> you nervous? >> soon after the opening photoop the prime time debate came quickly with donald trump raising his hand and leaving open the possibility he may challenge the gop winner unless it's him. >> if i am the nominee i will pledge i will not run as an independent. >> kentucky senator rand paul takes the first shot. >> he is already hedging his bet because he's used to buying politicians. >> the next question was more direct. megan kelly. >> you call women you don't like fat pigs slobs and -- >> only rosie o'tonl. what idonnell.it's fun and we have a great time. >> kentucky senator rand paul, christie supports the nsa's aggressive use of wiretaps. paul

ray suarez is next well "inside story." >> have a good night. night. [ ♪ ] . >> it's been a year since the shooting of michael brown, an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. brown's death brought outrage that had been simmering for years to the surface, thrusting the city of ferguson, missouri on to the world stage. a year later, that community is bracing for another weekend of protests. while the family of michael brown try to ensure that he did not die in vain. ferguson - one year later. it's "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story", i'm lisa fletcher in for ray suarez. when michael brown was shot and killed by a white police officer, the protest focused on the long-troubled relationship between police, and minorities in the country. almost a year later, the chosen for change foundation, the organization founded by michael brown's family is planning a weekend of peaceful events. to celebrate brown's life and remember his death. as you are about to see in tony harris's exclusive interview, her emotions are raw and the bitterne

i'm sheila macvicar in for ray suarez. thank you for joining >> >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour. i'm here in doha. here is what is coming up over the next 60 minutes. the cost of war. the u.n. says 5,000 afghan civilians have been killed or injured in conflict this year alone >>> protests in aman heads a possible closure of schools that could affect half a million refugee children >>> abuse of

i'm ray suarez. after any natural disaster people are forced to make choices, forces by circumstances to match resources to need. in the aftermath of hurricane katrina were decisions made that dictate the patterns of the city, if so who won and who lost. dana aness, welcome to the program. this was clearly a civil engineering disaster. when you put money back to rebuild what kind of decisions dictate what the future's going to be like in a city like new orleans? >> it's a civil engineering disaster but civil engineering opportunity to end all civil engineering opportunities. the moment we pivoted, and i think katrina helps us to do that, face our greatest fear, the water surrounding the city, and embracing it for what it was, a hugely large untapped amenity, that's really when the story of new orleans future begins. >> you know a lot of people learned more than they ever knew about the geography of the area, lake pontchartrain and a lot of the city below sea level. actually engineering a smaller new

i'm sheila macvicar in for ray suarez.ecretary of state john kerry was in guitar on monday, making the case for the iran nuclear deal to arab countries, a place not on his itinerary is israel. they have called the deal an historic mistake posing threats to israel and the region, he contends that lifting the sanctions iran will embolden tehran. binyamin netanyahu's concerns have been echoed by u.s. law lawmakers lawmakers, obama's team opposition. >> the agreement is not basements on expectations or understanding about what will be chosen to do. >> secretary of state john kerry is the salesman in the middle east, meeting in qatar with a number of gulf states, he is trying to convince quitics that the agreement with iran is not a threat. >> this agreement to some people's criticism did not focus on issues that we knew might take five years, 10 years to resolve. we focus the exclusively on iran's nuclear programme and the potential of iran having a nuclear weapon. >> this international effort follows weeks of grappling at hom

i'm lisa fletcher in for ray suarez. tonight's program indicting the grand jury. back to the colonial days, some 200 plus years later there is a growing force of critics. grand juries don't decide guilt or innocence but rather should charges be brought. most grand jury members don't understand the complexity of the law so they can be easily led by prosecutors. if grand juries no longer be point? al jazeera answer respects has more. andall pingts pinkston has more. >> choke hold death of eric garner, both cases involving police officers and unarmed brak men have led to questions about the grand jury process in this country. the united states is one of the only countries to still use grurs obe indict people for crimes. the grand jury is an institution that existed before the constitution. its purpose then is similar now, to protect citizens from government prosecution without just cause. what happens inside a grand jury room is supposed to be secret and for some, including new york state's highest ranking judge, that secre

i'm sheila macvicar in for ray suarez. thank you for joining hour. >>> on "america tonight" - the unlikely fighters in fires. >> i don't think the nation really know how much that they contribute. but when they are saving those, the community does not care whether they are inmates. >> sara hoy joins a crew of inmate firefighters, finding redemption on the front lines of danger >>> also tonight - policing 101.

from ray suarez, i'm del walters. goodnight. goodnight.