. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. it only seems logical if you want to develop a wing for a military plane or a switch that will route millions of phone calls or a process to process metals. it's cheap for steal it than develop it. chinese officials were rifling through american computer, government files and private business. the attacks were even narrowed down to one specific building in shanghai. the u.s. has complained, cajoled, warned, now it's taking specific action. >> this is a case alleging economic espionage. the range of trade secrets and sensitive information stolen in this case is significant and demands an aggressive response. >> for the first time ever the justice department is bringing cyber hacking charges against another country. five members of the chinese military are alleged to have stolen trade secrets from six american companies, attacking with just a desk and a computer. >> the indictment ledges that these officers maintained unauthorized access to steal information that would be useful to thei

i'm ray suarez. a jury has decided a mom at the possible in london, is guilty of 11 terror charges. american prospects charged the preacher with organizing the kidnapping of western tourists, and thing to establish a terrorist training camp in oregon. the jury deliberated on two days after a six week trial. the trial held at the district court in manhattan. in the united states, when the obama came to washington in 2009, the new president and the attorney general, eric holder, said that there was nothing stopping the u.s. from trying suspects on american soil in normally constituted criminal courts. it was an implicit knock at the bush administration, and suspects held in guantanamo. the system for trying suspects for terrorism-related crimes is the "inside story." masari faces life in prison after the jury arrested a verdict on monday. >> he attempted to portray himself as a creature of faith, but he was a trainer of terrorists. >> reporter: known for his speeches when he was a a cleric, he was conv

i'm ray suarez. sometimes it's hard to remember that they're talking talking about the the same guy. his critics say he's weak-kneed. the president's defenders say he ran getting the u.s. out of iraq and information. did one and is well on his way to the second. he promised he would be far more selective about the use of american military power in the world, and there are no american casualties from syria, libya or the black sea. there have been no military airstrikes on iran's suspected nuclear program, and iran has come to the negotiating table. his speech to graduates at the military academy of west point rests on two main pillars, the united states remains the indispensable nation, and there is not a military solution to every problem. >> the question we face, the question each of you will face is not whether america will lead but how we will lead. not only to secure our peace and prosperity, but across the globe. >> reporter: president obama told thousand was a cadets dressed in uniform that ame

." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. spin a globe and drop your finger on a random spot. where you stopped somewhere in the long march of history one group of human beings probably did something terrible to another group. but we responded in different ways at different times in history from ignoring or denying what happened to apologizing with no compensation to acknowledgment, and trying to make a victimized people whole. japanese americans sent to interment camps during world war 2 were compensated. american indians get various kinds of benefits and programs, but they don't get manhattan island back. now more than a dozen caribbean nations are demanding pay back for the victimization of the distance past. >> the enslavement of over 50 million people over 400 years, that is a horrendous issue that has gone unredressed. this is where it all started. >> that dark history hurts the island nations of the caribbean every day. more than 4 million men, women and children were imported as property to the caribbean islands forced to live out their lives working for free for plant

in washington, i'm ray suarez. >> showing he cares. turkey's president visits the town where 282 minors were killed. and anger protesters say the thr brothers should not have had to die for profit. >> hello, japan alarms china with proposals to allow japanese troops to fight over

i'm ray suarez, from washington. >> 120 mine yours still trapped underground in turkey.the prime minister says 238 are now known to have died. ♪ >> hello there, you are watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also on the program, fearing more mass kidnappings like this villagers in northern nigeria have reportedly killed dozens of boko haram

i'm ray suarez. maybe you've heard about nigeria in the news in the past few days. the kidnapping of school girls is making headlines worldwide. it's less likely you've heard much about the country's troubles in recent years. nigeria is struggling with islamist insurgency and rising violence between muslims and christians. like a lot of places nigeria's borders weren't drawn by nationality or history. it was drawn by britain after repeated wars in west african kingdoms. london cobbled together two vast territories that never woul woud have sought nationhood on their own. during the 1950's and 60's, britain left behind a nigeria. over the decades the huge population would head to the polls only to see elections overturned by military coups. word came from an attack that left hundreds dead and a smoking ruin. boko haram rising violence and promises of american help on this "inside story" 37 only now are the troubles there getting the attention of the wider world. on tuesday americans turned ought acros

i am ray suarez.chool lunch is more than just the midday meal eaten during the school day. it's a barometer of social trends. once upon a time, lots more kids headed home at lunch time or brought a meal prepared at home. millions more children now live too far from school to go home, attend schools that are closed campuses that don't allow students to leave the building during the day and even if they could head home, there is nobody there. women with school-age children now work at a much higher rate than decades ago. throw in a higher child poverty rate and making policy around lunch gets complicated. what's the best school meal? a cheap one? a new atrocious one? one a school kid will actually eat? all of that and who gets to say what should be in a school meal is not the responsibility of nutritionists or educators because it involves money, the argument centers around politicians and a woman who is influential, well known and hasn't been elected anything. michelle obama. >> as the end of the schoo

i'm ray suarez.ising tensions and violence in the cities of eastern ukraine pulled the united nations security council back into emergency session. the russian ambassador to the united nations called for a swift halt to all violence and drew a skeptical reaction from the other permanent five members, like france, whose ambassador accused moscow of releasing bands of thugs on ukraine. there was more criticism from the white house. george, with the german chancellor and the american president gave a news conference much how have the powers in the west been doing in countering the moves from moscow? >> the west has been doing too little, too late. most with criticisms and tiny sanctions. we need more than words and tiny sanctions. we need substantial economic cost put on vladimir putin for the violence and disruption that he's causing in his neighbouring state. >> what is the leverage. russia is so rich in other things. it's close to boning a self-sustaining -- being a self-sustaining place. >> russia i

. >>> i'm ray suarez. 100 thus are dead, syrian cities in ruins, millions are in jordan, lebanon, turkey. there's no prospects for them going home. the military tide is turned in favour of the government in damascus, and president bashar al-assad. now what? the leaders of the main syrian umbrella group head to the white house at a time when it looks like bashar al-assad might hang on - hang on to what - his country is in ruins, people scattered, continent destroyed. militants met asitiesized through the country. it's harter than at the beginning of the war to imagine what syria looks like, how it becomes a normal country again. today is day 1,153 of the syrian conflict, and the fighting rages on. and after nearly two years of trying to end the war,iations arab -- united nations arab league convoy lakhdar brahimi announced his resignation. >> i am sure the crisis will end. the question is everyone with a responsibility and influence in the situation have to remember that the question is how many more dead, how much more destruction. >> more than 150,000 have died, according to activists.

i'm ray suarez, from washington. >>> on "america tonight" - making babies beyond borders. our investigation into international sur gassy and what can go wrong. cautionary tales from would-be parents who lost tens of thousands on dreams of having children. and the risky business of spending money for nothing. >> there's no guarantees. it's not babies are us, or you walk away with a child nine months after paying. >>

that's inside story. >> i'm ray suarez. from the earliest days from the signing of the protocol in 1997 this question has been quietly hidden in the debate. would you in st. charles, missouri or in rochester, new york, change the way you run your daily life or change the way you look at the world if climate change threatened to flood an island or brought mosquitoes. the latest focus of climate change focuses on the united states and the affect on americans instead of the big world full of people you don't know. the white house unveiled it's 2014 national climate assessment on tuesday. climate change is not a thing of the future, it's happening right now in every corner of the u.s. from increased hurricane risks in the northeast to longer droughts and bigger wildfires in the southwest. from longer more intense heat waves and public health risk notice midwest to an increased demand for water, energy, new agricultural practices in the great plains. from a dangerous rise in sea level across the southeast stretching from texas t

i'm ray suarez. charles dickens began his tale of two cities with these now familiar phrases. it was the best of times. it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom. it was the age of foolishness. in the united states widespread foolishness in the housing market plunged banks, economies and millions of american families into the worst of times. some cities that never had a bubble never had to watch it burst while go-go markets like las vegas and phoenix saw crisis and catastrophic loss. every week statistics pour out of banks and governments that show a housing market that limps in some places and runs ahead in others. with cities on the mend they will now be a change at the top of the federal department assigned to help them prosper, housing and urban development. house secretary sean donovan who came in 2009 is set to head to the office of management and budget. and the mayor of america's seventh largest citywidely talked up as a democratic star has been invited to washington to become the n

i am ray suarez. after the brack-up of the sovi t union, the largest republic, russia was in freefall, influence in decline, life expectancy dropping, national self-evide -- self-esteem takin beating. china surged and became an engine of the world economy. china sucked in resources from every corner of the earth and sent out ships piled high with finished consumer goods. in big tower turns, the u.s. still had an open field to run in during the 1990s. nato expanded east into the old warsaw packet. parts of the empire joined the union. china became washington's banker buying a prod i knigious amount of american debt but was not in a world power like the world meant it in the days of the cold war. now, it's the u.s. having trouble working its will in the world, china making new friends and buying new friends in africa and latin america and russia undergirding its economic by selling natural resources for top dollar. >> it took 10 years to cut a deal, but china and russia, two world powers and formerly bi

." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. if you know a really old person ask them what it was like before antibiotics. people regularly died from common diseases or infections or suffered long and hard until an illness passed. then came medicines that meant millions no longer died from pneumonia , tuberculosis, or suffered from long-term debilitation from diseases like gonorrhea. making wonder drug after wonder drug more available and drove prices steadily down. but we overused some drugs, improperly used others, and now the infections themselves evolved. now the great gift to the world, cheap effective treatment for potentially fatal ailments is now in the future. >> reporter: the world may be heading to a post antibiotic era, modern medicines can no longer stand up to common infections like me known i can't, e. coli and mrsa. >> over the last 20 years bacteria has developed sophisticated resistence and we don't have the antibiotics to treat the patients. >> reporter: the "world health organization" released it's report wed

. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. honeybees have lived closely with human beings for thousands of years. it's hard work, corporation, and selflessness. the bee is more honored than other animals not because she labors but because she labor more than others. you probably don't think about bees working for you, but they do. the today the shelves of supermarkets piled high with produce depend heavily on the work of bees. fruits and vegetables grown from seed fertilized by bees. and the bees are dying by the hundreds of millions. there are theories. there are suspected culprits, but the tragedy for the insects themselves may also be a disaster for us. >> well, this area is really a paradise for bees, the huge amount of plant diversity. >> for several years now, tibor has watched large stocks of his beloved honeybees die off. >> bees just sitting on plant leaves, hundreds of bees running around in the grass not coming home, twitching and spas spasmin fronts of the hive, a good population of the colony has disappeared. >> reporter: the flight is part of a crisis among the colonies. according t

i'm ray suarez. unless congress acts sometime this summer the highway trust fund . it has not increased in 20 years while americans are buying less gas. we're talking about the gas tax and aging infrastructure, and chri chris edwards, do you support a raise in the gas tax something more proportional to something that we're paying for gasoline itself? >> i don't agree to a tax gas increase. i think state governments can raise their taxes any time they want, th so for example, the $2 billion project inside washington, d.c. to widen the beltway in virginia there is a lot of broad agreement. to think that the federal government should repeal or take back its tolls on the interstate highways. the interstate highways are owned by state governments and i believe the states should be allowed to solve their own transportation problem. part of that is putting in new electronic polling system in congested areas of the interstate to reduce congestion but raise money for state infrastructure budgets. that makes a

i'm ray suarez. even before india started it's long march to economic reform, moving citizens into a new global class india's democracy showed something important to the world. it showed the developing country could hold free and fair elections, could have robust discussions and hand over power peacefully between one faction and another again and again. there is all that, gathering and counting 550 million votes. but now that india is modernizing, deeply anchoring in an economy, what it makes and what it takes matters. in a big, big way. how long does it take to have $1.2 billion people to have an election? about two weeks as it turns out. there are 800 million registered voters, and hundreds of parties and candidates, 272 seats are needed to make a government. exit polls are unreliable in a country this large, but all the signs point to a sweeping change for india and it's economy, the third largest in asia. if the exit polls hold the new prime minister will be narendra modi or arvind kejriwal. >> m

i'm ray suarez. apple with its itunes reshaped the industry and put a few brick and mortar storie stores to the. creating billions in sales. since itunes is a story that carries just about everything and never runs out of shelf space. but now the financial sometimes reports apple may be getting ready to do something big in response to the rapid rise of streaming. after making white ear buds, apple may be getting ready to wrap beats around your head before jumping into the stream. >> reporter: apple took a big bite out of the music industry with the invention of the i pod andy tunes music store at the turn of the century. it changed the way people bought and listened to music. itunes is still the largest music seller but for the fires time itunes sales decreased just .1% but still a decrease. now there is direct competition for itunes from online streaming services like pandora and spottify. it's a huge growth business. revenue from music subscription services rose 50% last year to more than $1 billio

that's the "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. cast your mind back to the language ago time of late 2012. the dust was still settling from the national elections and pundits said the immigration reform was suddenly looking more like a slam dunk. latinos just re-elected president obama by 2-1, the fastest growing group in america. therefore there was an issue circling the obama presidency. it's been a year and a half later, the president's approval rating has dropped but not as low as republicans. the two groups continue to blame each other and house speaker john boehner insists there is still time before campaigners go out to campaign. the what, the house, the whether, and the when are the "inside story." >> the pentagon is the latest place president obama is turning in an effort to change immigration rules in this country. the department of defense is evaluates whether to allow immigrants who came to the u.s. illegally as children to gain legal status while serving in the military. young people with a work history and a pardon un

i'm ray suarez. you know how american pundits sagely note how good or bad weather in texas, the midwest or northeast may affect turn out in an election? in this last day of india's election the mercury soared above 100-degrees. how long would you have waited outside to cast your ballot. part of the emil modi gave --part of the appeal that modi gave to the rest of the country, is that the case. >> there are two parts to that answer. certainly he campaigned and steered the political platform to one focused on economic growth and good governance, and that struck a nerve with indians and young indians, i heard from a many about the prospect of jobs and opportunities and getting back on track to help deliver benefits on a personal level has been very appealing. the second part to that country. it's a federal system like ours is, so it's different to governor. will they be able to carry the platform of summit growth and economy throughout the country. >> with economics front and center in this election did

i'm ray suarez. the veteran's administration medical system was overwhelm with new cases from america's recent wars and the needs of vietnam vets well into the highest needs years of life. reports coming out of the veteran's affairs showing reduced waiting time. cleared out backlogs and high levels of satisfaction from the veterans. then bad news started to seep out. first, some were faking their new numbers. the waits were much longer. and systemic lying, untreated medical conditions, and evening managers reaching goals never achieved. they weren't confined to a few bad apple offices , and erik shinseki resigned. >> the resignation came this morning. >> i said we would not tolerate misconduct, and we will not. there are too many veterans receiving care who deserve our best efforts, and an honest assessment if something is not working. >> the president thanked the retired four star army general erik shinseki . but after repeated reports of poor care and mounting criticism, the president decided he wo

i'm ray suarez. after eliott roger's rampage in california, there has been a lot of blame, and the signs missed that roger might be dangerous. in case where is an individual decides to kill people we hear after the fact that others, family, employers, work mates, knew there were serious problems but didn't quite know what to do. this is an area of medicine and law where a lot has changed over the past decades. privacy laws regarding medical treatment. making involuntary commission really difficult. putting an individual in charge of medical care after the age of majority. getting the balance right is the challenge. how did you protect the interests of those struggling with mental illness and those around him. the video and messages eliott roger created before killing six people and himself on friday leave little doubt he was mentally disturbed. reporting and a statement from a parent suggests the 22-year-old had for years grappled with severe mental issues, and had treatment with therapists. but as r