. >>> i'm roxana saberi and you are watching "talk to al jazeera".guests are marc and deborah tice, their son austin working as a journalist has been missing since 2012. >> you may know a bit about my background. i was imprisoned for 100 days when i lived and worked as a journalists. i talked to my parent and asked what the hardest part was. and it was they didn't know if i was alive for two weeks. and then they got a phone call. what is the hardest part for you? >> waking up and realising that it's not a nightmare is the hardest part of every day. feeling disconnected from my own life. it's really hard. i really am just a mum. i do groceries and laundry and children. and so every single thing that - that has defined my life for the last 2.5 years has been something unfamiliar to me. it's challenging. i don't feel available to you know, my other six children. >> you know it might be hard to imagine what austin is thinking now. it's universal no child wants their parents to suffer because of them. i was moved because of what kayla mueller wrote in a l

only on al jazeera america. >>> this is "talk to al jazeera" i'm roxana saberi speaking with the parentsaustin tice, missing in syria since the summer of 2012678. >> -- 2012. >> i know a lot feel sympathetic for austin, but a lot say why should the government be responsible for someone that puts themselves at risk and goes to a dangerous place like syria. what do you say to them? >> a couple of things. one, i would ask them how do you know syria is a dangerous place. >> you know that because journalists have gone there and reported that. you know, we have all seen that governments don't necessarily tell us all the bad stuff. it takes journalists sometimes to witness it and share it so that we know what is going on. if you don't think people should go in harm's way, you are going to be blindfolded. the other thing that debby mentioned, there is established paradigm, internationally that journalists journalists are encouraged to go because of dangerous places and share information. we have to be informed. secondly, it is an established function to protect citizens. circumstanceses. >> if y

roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> yemeni analyst writes her blog yemeneri. , it's good to have you with us. with the houthis overrunning the country, the president fleeing now saudi arabia gets involved with these air strikes. but is this too little too late to save the yemeni government that was allied with the united states? >> i think in my opinion any kind of action that's going to create more trouble on the ground, any kind of warfare any kind of attacks are not going to result in peace. the situation was already tense. in the north we had a houthi militia supported by the form he president saleh and in the south, the president hadi, president hadi was pushed out of aden, we don't know whether he's fled the country or not for sure but it's clear the houthis have captured aden the city he was in and now we see that saudi arabia has decided to intervene. it's important to note that while the houthi rebels are in fact a militia are not an official authority and are also allied with former president salel, i think a attack is scaring people, it seems a little bit unnecessary and a little

roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: 16th december 2012 around 8:30pm a 23-year-old medical student was on her way home from a movie with a male friend. they boarded a bus where five men and a 17-year-old boy took turns raping the student. they threw her on to the street. she died 13 days later. the gang rape set off protests across india. and now even more outrage. in a new documentary the bus driver speaks from prison blaming the victim saying a decent girl will not roam around at night:. >> two defense lawyers find fault. >> never ever allow a girl to come out of the house from 6:. 30 to 7:30 with an unknown person. >> it's important necessary. she should go outside. but meet the family members. >> after indian tv broadcast films, clips, a court ordered tv stations not to show the documentary. a minister said a convict shouldn't be allowed to air his views. british film-maker said that the ban is an assault on freedom of expression. >> perhaps the government is not happy that the protests will be reignited from a fim showing gender -- film showing geppeda inequality is live and w

roxana saberi, al jazerra. >> the u.s. is stepping up attacks against isil and iraq. the pentagon say they have launched air strikes over tikrit. the u.s. official had had no role in the offensive but military officials say the iraqi government requested help. the u.s.-led coalition had been flying surveillance missions over at that tikrit. >>> now to france where there are new developments tonight in the investigation in the crash i've german airliner. rescue crews are work to go recover the bodies of 150 people on board including three americans. now they may have a major clue about what caused that plane to crash in to the french alps. john terrett is here with more. john, it's a major clue that raises more question. >> yeah, it does indeed raise more questions than it answers. as often is the case, because french investigators say that they have recovered audio from the cockpit voice recorder of flight 9525. the new york times reporting this evening quoting a senior military official saying that audio indicates one of the pilots actually left the cockpit and could

roxana saberi reports. >> reporter: for this composer and conductor, music keeps memory of tragedy and triumph alive. >> my whole existence relates to the genocide. it's been always part of my inspiration. >> in 1915 troops from the otto mon empire arrested and killed armenians, mostly from al jazeera. many say 1.5 armenians died in what armenians called the genocide. >> my grandparents perished during the genocide. >> reporter: his parents were children, and found safety in lebanon after fleeing. 100 years since the start of the massacre, a group of armenians are launching an effort to save 100 stories about the people that helped them survive. >> there was a light. it was my light. >> reporter: when he was orphaned age 4 he lived in maria's orphanage in beirut. through her, he found music. >> she had an old weather grammo phone, i still here music drift across the corridors. >> reporter: along with thousands of orphans, he found compassion. >> she used to say that you will grow up like a tree by a well-watered river. the people behind 100 lives hope jacobson's stories in spire others

roxana saberi with more for us. >> reporter: tony, debate over the film is growing in india. since we told but this story yesterday, the interior ministry has accused the british filmmaker of exploiting a tragedy to make money. but the director said that india is censoring a story that needs to be told. >> more than two years after a gang rape on a pus bus in india this topic is anglering top indian officials. >> india banned tv stations from airing "india's daughter." some authorities are upset that the film crew got into this jail to interview this man. he was the bus driver, one of four men convicted of rape and murder. in the film he blamed the victim victim. >> new delhi police had called for the ban arguing that the film could cause public disorder like the protest that spread across the country after the rape in 2012. british filmmaker a rape survivor herself said she's being censored. >> i say calm down. it's time we all joined hands together. >> she said that critics are taking the bus drivers' comments out of context. >> they don't understand that these comments are

roxana saberi is here with that story. >> reporter: fema says it is trying to fright fraud and waste, states of new york and new jersey are also asking homeowners to return grant money to them. ted refuses to repay new jersey money it says he owes. money it gave him in the form of a grant to rebuild his home after superstorm sandy. >> this is what they are asking back for the 26,005 calendar days. >> reporter: the state says he owes the money because repair estimates changed, and he also received money from other sources. that was eight months ago. and he says he still hasn't paid. fema says it needs to make sure federal dollars are spent correctly. so far the agency has sent letters to more than 4600 storm victims, telling them to return a total of nearly $24 million. in a statement the agency said: but many homeowners say they shouldn't have to pay the government back for mistakes they didn't make. and others say they can't afford to return any money. >> people are so upset that they are being asked to repay money, with they used for their sandy recovery, and they can't understand w