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hello, i am ray swarez. in 1972, a mother of ten named jean mcconnell was taken from her home and disappeared from her belfast neighborhood. she was presumed dead her body was not found for 30 years. her killer or killers was never punished. attention focused on recordings made by an interviewer and oral historian under the hospices of boston college. mar tis pants were assured their identitied would be protected but prior toish pros it prosecutors were not playing along. the arrests of shin feign leader in connection with the killing was a reminder of the troubles unanswered questions. the so called hard men of northern ireland strife, those that wanted to join the irish republic, ore keep their hometowns in the united kingdom, still walk the streets today, along with their victims and their victims survivors. point four days in jail last week, he was questioned in connection with the abduction and murder of gene mcconvoy. adams maintains his innocence, and has always denied he was a member of the ira. >> i

you can reach me directly at ray swarez news, see you for the next inside story, in washington, i'm raywarez. >> targeting cyber crime. crime. >> hello, welcome. i'm steven cole in doha. the government struggles to unite the country. on strike in aleppo, protesting rebel fighters. >> reporter: i'm simon mcgregor in paris. attaching the fringe and expression of their devotion o

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hello, i'm ray swarez. a viz is tor the the french minister. the minister said with pride, he knew what every third grader in the french umpire was doing on that particular day. down to the page of the third grate textbook they would be reading. by tradition, and design, our k 12 education system resists central control and uniformity, and celebrates disbursed authority and low scal control. before we are going to spend a lot of time and money testing every kid throughout their careers how can you compare a fourth gradener california with a fourth grader in maine, if fourth graders are taught different things. common core started with a simple is enough proposition that standards would make assessments more valuable. but it ended up with a nasty political battle and growing disarray in the shared curriculum standard. >> common core has been adopted by 44 states in the district of columbia. the standards were drawn up in 2010 by the national governors association, and leaders of state education departments. >> your turn. >> the idea was to natio

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you can reach me directly at ray swarez news, see you for the next inside story, in washington, i'm raywarez. >> new raging blazes force tens of thousands to flee. with thousands of acres scorched already, the unusually hot dry spring threatened to ignite more disaster. the state of execution. struggles to find death draws botched execution and even in a state that puts more convicts to debt than any other, doubts the system can be fixed.

hello, i am ray swarez. when the former left his country, and headed to russia, the parliament quickly seated a new team, and called elections for may. russia plucked crimea from ukraine, and called the new government in kiev illegitimate, not one that represented the countries people. carriesion that carries the potential for the country to make a fresh start to suddenly looking fragile. >> killing at least a dozen troops and wounding more than 33. >> we destroy add check point, the fastest ukrainian army deployed. seven it happened 20 miles south of done necessarying. a city that declares independence from ukraine earlier this month. and in the town just outside shelling destroyed several homes. residents complained, about being caught between the troops and rebel cross fires. what can i say about these people that shot at us. what can i tell my son about the people and whey that do. power to ukraine? can i say that? i don't understand it. >> the escalating regional instability comes just days before ukrai

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brings us to end of this edition of inside story, thank you for being with us in washington i'm ray swarez. >> the united states is changing the way it operates in space. territory that was once largely monopolized by nasa has slowly been ceded to the private sector. >> like all good corporations, these companies are armed with slick promotional videos. and their excellent pr machines are generating hours of airtime, >> well i think we could probably send the first person in about 12 years. >> wow >> and mostly positive news reports. >> it's going to be an incredibly exciting year. and we're very, very happy to be a part of this project. >> but there seems to be a lack of some fundamental questions. how has this all come about? and what does the future hold if corporations-who hope to generate huge profits-hold the key to the final frontier? >> in the spring of 1961 the united states is locked in this very desperate struggle with the soviet union over the cold war. and it's really a battle over the economic and political systems that are going to rule the world. >> on april 12th, 1961, the

this edition of inside story, thank you for being with us in washington i'm ray swarez. on american tonight, extreme, or routine? >> we have been through tropical storms and hurricanes, like ivan and dennis back to back, and we still did not have is this much water. >> wind, water, and what is left. after days of stormy weather batter the eastern half of the country. i set out to save the world with nuclear power. >> and a desperate plea to bring back our girls. and what's behind the masked kidnapping of hundreds of school children? >> good etching and thank you for joining us. the extreme weather that has tested millions this week, makes us wonder if we out to be bracing for more spring disasters. it has been a stunner, more tornadoes this week than in the first three months of the year. that same is system is dumped record amounts of rain, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage, and at least 38 deaths this week, just from the weather. as is skies clear, you can see what those storms left behind, the long reach from the florida panhandle well into the northeast,

that is the subject of today's inside story with ray swarez. >> thank you, tony.even those elections are said to take place sunday. the man who seized various cities are threatening to keep the balloting from happening. while an election holding the potential for the fresh start, the with on going unrest, how much can an election help. we have two guests in kiev, monitoring develops in the run off to election day, join us at the top of the hour for inside story. >> the cyber attack compromisessed ebay 5 million users. passwords and other information. >> the overlay caused some of the software to fail. facebook is tightens it's settings to keep thing as little more private. the social network with is changing it's settings to only friends being able to see your post. before anyone can see your profile, facebook also says it is doing an expending privacy check up for all of it's 1.3 billion users. mavericks owner, mark cuban is fending off criticism over an interview where he talked about ratism. cuban told inc. magazine that the company has come a long way at putti

ray swarez has been following the hearing and is taking a closer look, tonight. >> beyond the allegations of deceptive waiting lists and questionable care, for many of those that rely on the v.a., the system as a whole faces huge challenges. vietnam vets are getting older at the same time as an increasing number of iraq and afghanistan vets also need help. okaying for military veterans and fixing what doesn't work, is our subject at the top of the hour. inside story is next. on al jazeera. new records coming out of the operations of the department of vetted remembers affairs has identified one way the v.a. dropped backlogs. by lying about them. secretary eric was in the hot seat it reese the inside story. ♪