i am rory challands in southern russia with a story of the country's army deserters. >> inspot with the rugby world cup, find out if australia could upset reigning champions. ♪. >> haitians will begin voting. tennessee of thousand have been returning from the neighboring dominican republic which recently started cracking down on immigrants. forei more than five years after the devastating earthquake, it's estimated 60,000 people are living in camps. security is still a concern, but the size of the u.n. peace-keeping force is expected to be reduced next year. the world bank says haiti is the poorest country in the americas and one of the poorest in the world. highly dependent on foreign aid it will have to cope with decreasing donation in future years. more from port au prince. >> reporter: at this talk radio station in port au prince, it's all politics all the time. in a country so poor that televisions are a luxury and where more than half of all adults can't read or write, radio holds the key for politicians. >> radio is the best medium in haiti, and you have to use them with a lot of

we have more from southern russia. >> alexander is a young man who doesn't like the direction his life has taken. the enlisted soldier faces 10 years in prison for two charges of going absent without leave. he insists he'd been left with no choice. the beatings, the bullying, the abuse had become too much to bear and the army was ignoring his resignation letters. >> if people want to leave they're asked for money. we're openly told this on the parade ground. we submitted our tenders but were told if you want to leave pay your commanders. >> alexander's isn't an isolated case. at least five soldiers from bases here in the city are being prosecuted for going awol after they were transferred to the ukrainian border. the statistics are murky and the real figure probably runs to at least 60, maybe more. one of the things we've heard repeatedly here is that bullying and abuse are not the only reasons why contract soldiers are running from the russian army. people say that unidentified recruiters have been working the army bases, offering cash to soldiers to go and fight in ukraine. understan

i'm in southern russia with a story of the country's army deserters. >> a reminder of the top stories, thousands gathered in the occupied west bank for the funeral of a palestinian man who died from injuries of a suspected arson attack by israel settlers on his home. >> it's been a year since u.s. led airstrikes in iraq and syria, but many on the ground say the fight is not being won. >> former egyptian president mohamed morsi has complained his prison food happen tampered with. he made the comments in court. >> haitians will begin voting sunday in the first of a series of elections after four years of delays. senators deputies, local officials and president before the end of the year. we have more from port-au-prince. >> at this talk radio station in port-au-prince, it's all politics all the time. in a country so poor that televisions are a luxury, and where more than half of all adults can't read or write radio holds the key for politicians. >> radio is the best medium in haiti, and you have to use them with a lot of capability to assist in politics. >> running for office is expensi

. >>> farmers in southern russia are desperately trying to save their crops. a ferocious swarm of locusts has invaded the region and a heat wave might be to blame. details from matthau chance. >> reporter: not for 30 years say officials has russia suffered a plague like this. vast areas of the country's agricultural south are seeing swarms of locusts devour entire fields. officials say at least 10% of crops have already been destroyed. it's devastating the livelihoods of local farmers like piotr stefenchenko. "look," he says. "there's nothing left on the corn. the locusts ate it all, from the leaves to the cobs." officials from the russian ministry of agriculture say they're stepping up efforts to save the harvest, declaring a state of emergency and spraying the crops with powerful pesticides. but officials admit the locust swarm is moving too fast across southern russia. >> translator: volgograd, dagest dagestan, there is no more food left for locusts there. so they have flown to a new source of food. they have wing spans of nearly 12 centimeters, like small

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russia and the u.s. come together in doha to reassure gulf nations. hello, i'm maryam nemazee. forces against houthi rebels take control of an important air base in southern yemen. >>> u.s. president announce he his country's biggest attempt to control global warming. and puerto rico defaults in paying debt. hello, our top story: u.s. and russia have offered their support to gulf states as the region is in crisis. gulf cooperation council summit in the capital of qatar, doha. john kerry reassured the region that recent nuclear deal with iran would create stability. hashem ahelbarra reports from doha. >> a delicate mission for u.s. secretary of state. john kerry is trying to convince long standing allies that iran's nuclear deal with world powers will bring peace and prosperity. >> translator: the five other european countries have technology and knowledge in the nuclear field. the countries of the council welcomed it on this basis and on what john kerry demonstrated about iran's development stop tm obtaining nuclear weapons. we hope for more than this not only for iran but to move them from the middle east. >> reporter: in a bid to allay their fears the u

southern position. all of these details still emerging, but a serious situation. >> thank you, harry. >>> russia has the worst record for spills and leaks. we report now on how the cleanup operation is going. >> reporter: as any detective will tell you, the work is far from glamorous. he's no detective, she's an environmental activist for greenpeace. she's on the hunt for evidence and finding it. the coverup hasn't been particularly thorough. >> company brings fresh sand, the soil, and just cover the entire oil spill under the layer of the fresh soil. >> reporter: on june 23 an unknown amount of crude oil burst into the river in western siberia. a slick spread out across the flood plain. >> they announced they spilled 450 kules of oil. but there are traces all over. even on that bank, the small part of the river. we see that 450 cannot pollute such a great, such a big area. >> as the oil spread, residents started posting pictures of black water gushing from taps and animals coated in crude. a month and a half later they are still tallying up the damage. >> everything that was here, potatoes, carrots, on

chinese listening station which the chinese used to spy on central command, southern command, special operations command and russia. the cuban sponsored terrorism even though we remove them from the list of sponsors of terrorism. >> 1.5 years ago they were caught shipping weapons to north korea in violation of human sanctions. despite all of this, the united states under this president has opened up a deal of more trade travel and remittances and exchange what are they giving --? nothing. the deal was signed in december they have arrested 3000 additional people. last weekend and the weekend before they rather up and beat and arrested over 90 dissidents. they haven't been shy about this at all. if you ever have the unique opportunity to listen to anything official from the cuban government here is their characterization of this deal -- we won and you lost. thee taken all of concessions we asked for and are giving nothing in return. nothing is changing. in fact they are now demanding that we pay them reparations for the embargo and that we turn over guantanamo. i guess other than all of that it is a good deal but i

southern england. it slammed into a highway. 11 peo e were killed in the crash. another crash in russia killed 7 people. an accident in switzerland killed a pilot. >>> a state of emergency is now in effect in florida tonight, as tropical storm erika inches closer and closer. the storm swept across puerto rico today, but spared much of the island from damage. here's storm team 4 meteorologist janice huff. >> right now, it looks like the dominican republic and haiti are getting soaked by rains. it's headed toward cuba. all these white clouds indicate big thunderstorms and lots of heavy rain. maybe as much as 10 inches, which would result in flash flooding across the countries. now, the center of circulation is 40 miles west of port port-au-prince. the winds dropped moving over the last mass. the storms to the west-northwest. next, it'll be cuba according to the latest track. moving across cuba on saturday. looks like all day, the storm will be across much of the country. possibly making a landfall, regaining strength over the water as a tropical storm over the florida keys on sunday eveni

southern border and fighting in damascus suburbs. is he suggesting therefore that the u.s. should work with russia to cross the rebellion. i don't see how it would produce a solution to deal with i.s.i.l. >> let's talk about the training in the last 24-48 hours, training has become a big issue with forces in syria, saying that the u.s. has not been transparent to him, who they were trained to fight. >> this is exactly correct. it seems like the vetting criteria training the programme, you couldn't fight the bashar al-assad regime you had to focus on i.s.i.l. the problem is it had no credibility on the grounds in syria. anyone that could ask the vast majority of rebels would say the fight against bashar al-assad is intertwined. it seems there's a significant intelligence failure calling into question u.s. policy makers. when they inserted the u.s. trained fighters into an area. the district where there was an al qaeda presence. the al qaeda also has been targeted in the air strikes. is there any wonder that al qaeda would attempt to move against the us-trained fighters it's been a failure. >> thank you very much for that.

southern england. a jet slammed into a busy highway last saturday and at least 11 were killed. an accident in russia killed seven and an accident in switzerland killed a pilot. >> nearly two months later police found him dead. authorities believe gary russo took his own life. a passer by discovered his body yesterday in a park in queens. the 54-year-old gained national attention four years ago because he was serenade new yorkers on their breaks. >>> divers finally succeeded in recoverying a body from a sunken fishing boat. they went down on tuesday and was found at the bottom of the sandy hook channel on wednesday by police divers using sonar. investigators say the body is that of a missing boat owner tom anderson. they have not yet positively identified. it was recovered by private divers. they hired a private accompany as well to recover the boat. >> new this morning, a man facing charges after a series of robberies in midtown. police say they arrested 27-year-old tracey. police say they broke into 13 midtown offices since may. they steal laptops and other electronics. police are still searching f

russia. there is not only an immigrant issue, but a difference in a per capita income between the northern and southern numbers. -- southern members. we see that between the u.s. and mexico. countries to the south of morocco and algeria, multiply that by a couple. we have the problems that those problems have. it is one of them that is a big feel the state, which is libya. -- a big failed state. the arab looking -- arab awakening, whatever you want to call it. have algeria that suffered the arab spring 10 years back. pretty well.ing this is not solid in the whole region. the small that, groups linked to al qaeda, some of them linked to isil, get weapons from the armory of gaddafi. business of human oldficking going along the lines of trade in africa. it has been taking place in the last five years at least. now the most successful trade is going from libya. that.h suffered in 2004, the attacks were done by immigrants. kim: the european union countries have failed to address this problem. bringing people across the mediterranean, that hasn't gone anywhere and is probably not the right solution. your for

not to be a part of southern iraq, even though we have done a lot of work to be prepared to participate. but we did not see economic returns. we have not seen economic returns in russiaust yet. but i don't necessarily regret those decisions. erik: john watson joined chevron 35 years ago, right out of business school. he started as a financial analyst and rose to become cfo and executive vice president of strategy before being made chairman in 2010. >> he is very intense. he is a quick study. he is not an engineer by trade, which is different. everyone that runs exxon must be an engineer. having said that, he made good decisions. served shareholders well. sometimes, it is luck. sometimes it is brains. but at the end of the day, it is results that count. erik: next, chevron makes its biggest bet ever in australia. that is big. and overspends by the billions. plus, why there is a future for big oil >> we are going to need energy. erik: "inside chevron" returns. ♪ >> it is the biggest project of its kind in the world. erik: 37 miles off the coast of northwest australia, here, on a remote island with no full-time residents, chevron is building a $54 billion liquefied natu

southern, who should have spent years in jail, should have gotten that. >> robert ray in your face, that's aljazeera, thank you. >>> among all of the oil producing nags, russiaas the worst record for oil spills. thousands are reported each year. in western siberia, they're recovering from a recent spill. >> reporter: as any detective will tell you, the work is far from glamorous. she's no detective in the true sense, but she's an environmental be activist for green peace. and she's on the hunt and finding it. the investigation has not been particularly thorough. >> the company brings the fresh sand into the soil and it's covered under the layer of the fresh soil. >> on june 23rd, unknown amounts of crude oil flood food the river in southwestern siberia, and it spread out across the flood plan. >> the company announced that they spilled only 450 kilos of oil, but you see all over the traces of the oil all over, and even on that bank right there, there's a small part of the river, so we see that 450 kilos cannot pollute such a big area. >> as the oil spread across the landscape, residents started posting pictures of black water gushing from their taps, and ani

cooperate and come up with a good system are russia and asean, yes, certainly russia is in the area and asean as for the southernchinese plants would be in the area. but i guess again i was not sure about opening up this organization to wide before truly established itself. but maybe take a two track then and let the trm applause kind of you to talk shop that these countries are aware of what's going on with each other, but trm really focus on the trilateral cooperation to get that going. but certainly having other countries, and at least be aware i have a venue to share some of their thoughts would be a good thing. transparency, well, a lot of these issues though i think you need to be transparent for public acceptance of nuclear power, but i also understand why some countries or even operators don't want to be completely transparent because it opens up and exposes maybe their vulnerabilities, the weaknesses. but at least as a researcher i would ask her all of the more to be put on the trm website. it's pretty vague what's up there right now. least i think have come if you come up committee to join exercise ple

then we worry about europe and southern europe and now it's china. it could be russia it could be brazil. every single place we can't raise because of that? >> they may it clear they don't want the repeat of 1937. the fed doesn't want to derail the us. so they have been extra cautious but what we would say is its very typical when you're getting this close to the start of normalization to actually see a normalization in volatility and investors should not be fearful of this volatility. they should try to use it to their advantage. >> okay. all right. thank you. you did fine. you were not intimidated at all. >> relief. >> do you have anything interesting? >> i do but we're going to switch gears. i was pointing because we're switching fwegears to a tragic story. we have details about the mind set of a hand that shot and killed two former colleagues a tv reporter and videographer. he faxed a document to abc news in which he described himself as a human powder keg waiting to go boom. nbc's sarah reports from roanoke, virginia this morning. >> colleagues describe allison pa

southern england we told you about last weekend. a vintage jet slammed into a busy highway last saturday and at least 11 people were killed. another crash in russia killed seven people and an accident in switzerland killed a pilot. >> we don't need to tell you seriously. when a tsa worker asks you to do something you usually comply. one screener went too far. convincing a passenger to take part in a bogus secondary screening. >> reporter: after a 13 year career as a tsa supervisor, matt no longer has a job. according to police, a tsa screener approached a 21-year-old korean flier that spoke minimal english and said hey ma'am, i need to scan your body and luggage. he lifted up her shirt, unzipped her pants and touched her inappropriate inappropriately. in court, his defense lawyer argued he has no complaints against him in his entire career and married with two daughters. regardless, he lost his job and the tsa released this statement. tsa holds their employees to the highest standards. we expect our employees to conduct themselves with respect. the bail is set at $3,000 that he could not make. >> divers have finally succeeded in recovering a body

. >> the southern parts are barely 30 miles from your capital tbilisi, and during the war in 2008 russian troops made it to the suburbs. do you have any defense against russia if it decides to move further south and get closer to the capital? >> georgia is stronger today than years ago. the military is stronger, defense capacities are stronger now than in 2008. we learnt the lesson from the war and they are on a progressive role. on the other hand, we strongly hope that georgia will not be left alone. and our allies stand with us in difficult times. we are trying our best not to get involved in provocation, if roger is against georgia on a daily basis. >> there's a lot of support in georgia for the country to join n.a.t.o., what can you tell us about your meeting with the secretary of defense, ash carter, do you have promise of u.s. and n.a.t.o. support. >> yes, there's a huge support in the country, people are optimistic about georgia getting there. we had a good friendly meeting, and it was promising. >> do you think georgia will reduce measures. >> the reason baltics are there today. they are there, and the reason why russia would think twice to act will

russia and the u.s. come together in doha to reassure gulf nations. hello, i'm maryam nemazee. forces against houthi rebels take control of an important air base in southern yemen. >>> u.s. president announce he his country's biggest

russia. there is not only an immigrant issue, but a difference in a per capita income between the northern and southern numbers. -- southern members. we see that between the u.s. and mexico. countries to the south of morocco and algeria, multiply that by a couple. we have the problems that those problems have. it is one of them that is a big feel the state, which is libya. -- a big failed state. the arab looking -- arab awakening, whatever you want to call it. have algeria that suffered the arab spring 10 years back. pretty well.ing this is not solid in the whole region. the small that, groups linked to al qaeda, some of them linked to isil, get weapons from the armory of gaddafi. business of human oldficking going along the lines of trade in africa. it has been taking place in the last five years at least. now the most successful trade is going from libya. that.h suffered in 2004, the attacks were done by immigrants. kim: the european union countries have failed to address this problem. bringing people across the mediterranean, that hasn't gone anywhere and is probably not the right solution. your for