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 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.

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 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

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sheila macvicar there with the city's mayor. aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> a troubled prison and a new attempt to protect prisoners. >> a clash with police, another victim falls. i need to talk to you. saying keep them alive. she'll have to be on a machine, she'll be a vegetable, 24 hours care. i can't imagine leaving my sister like that, you know. >> why some deaths pass unnoticed. name. >>> our fast-forward segment takes a look at a crisis in a troubled prison system. it holds a large population where corruption is a problem. michael oku went inside with a look at the trouble behind bars. >> lying face down with my face on the ground, hands behind my back. and i have four or five officers around me. >> reporter: that is what happened says this man when he went to visit his brother, in a notorious gaol. men's central gaol in downtown los angeles. in july 2010, he got a zone call from his younger brother, arrested and held at the gaol. juan, a veteran of desert storm had trouble adjusting to civilian life since leaving the ar

i'm sheila macvicar in for luis suarez thank you for joining us. >> august 25, 2014. michael brown is laid to rest by his family and friends he was 18, and unarmed when gunned down by a white police officer in ferguson missouri. an autopsy showed he was hit at least 6 times, twice in the head. ...his body lay on the street for over 4 hours. his death unleashed an anger that had been building for decades at a system the community here says is stacked against them from birth. ...and raised questions about policing and race in america. >> everything that's happening in ferguson is everything that's wrong with police-community relationships, particularly when it comes to black men. >> one of the reasons that black young men are angry about this because they all see themselves as a michael brown. it could have been them. >> that anger would continue for months to come but while the legal process ran its course a community held back ...watching and waitingfor justice to be done. fault lines was there during that time in this special extended episode we look deeper into why

an example, tom christy, a former pentagon weapon's test jor told sheila macvicar that this is in his words, a sham. >> the programme has been embarrassing. they are just at the point saying we are going to take whatever we get. >> the pentagon insists the f-35 programme is back on track after years of problems and they blame it on what was a serious miscalculation the idea that they could buy the plane while it was developed, test it and the bugs worked out. that violated a basic pentagon missive that you have to fly before you buy a weapon system, and this is the most expensive weapon system history, $400 billion to buy 2400 planes over the next 30 years. >>> all right. thank you. we'll have more on the f-35 and the questions about its safety on "america tonight". that is at 10 o'clock eastern time tonight. first, there has been a rash of oil tanker derailments in the united states lately. the fires result and they are difficult to battle and many firefighters are unprepared. the new efforts under way to change that. science and technology correspondent jacob ward reports. >> report

i'm sheila macvicar in for luis suarez >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the newsour i'm jane in doha the top stories anti-houthi fighters recapture yemen's largest military base. >> i'm charles reporting from cali where thousands of migrants are determined to cross the channel and get to the u.k. >>> the victims of conflict in sudan's south state. and we report on the $700 million corruption scandal that is shaking malaysia's government. ♪ anti-houthi fighters have recaptured yemen's biggest military base from houthi rebels, at least nine houthi fighters were killed in the operation at the base in the southern province and it is prove tone be news by the u.s. launched drone strikes against al-qaeda and we have details. >> reporter: this is the gate to a military base the largest now under the control of pro-government forces. they took it from houthi rebels and forces loyal to saleh and the battles continue since may. popular resistance used heavy weaponry with tanks and vehicles provided by saudi arabia and emirates and saudi-led coalition for weeks. this one bri