the freedom of the seas in asia, align in the water.t's "inside story." >>> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. with america's stated intention to maintain the status quo in the south china sea, one important bystanders are the countries bordering the region. the list includes fast-growing trading nations, china enemies, and long-time american friends. what is their stake and their role? my guests are with me, and who has got a lot to lose here in. >> so there's four southeast asian states that have claims to the south china sea. indonesia is an interest party because china's nine-dash line claim does overlap the waters. and you have a number of other countries as well that have an interest in peace and stability, for example, singapore. but the block has drieded us. some are claimants others are not. some are closer to china, others are not. but there is a basic position with respect to maintaining peace and stability in the south china sea, as well as the code of conduct. and china's actions in the south china sea have bee

here we have another species of sea cucumber. we call it the leopard sea cucumber. yes, when a fish try to eat them, he will release those sticky filaments, and the fish will get stuck. but here in french polynesia, before, they didn't have shoes, so what they did is they took those sticky filaments, wait till they become hard, put it under their feet, so like this, wait, become very hard, and after they could walk on the reef without getting hurt. or to take the lobster without getting hurt. do you know what this is? young girl: um, it kind of looks like a rock. julie: no. i won't show the under, otherwise it's too easy. >> ohh. girl: oh, it's a starfish. young girl: it's a starfish. julie: it's a fat starfish. in french we call them shark pillow because there is a sweet legend here that the shark used like this. that's why their skin look like the skin of the shark. so they are very heavy because they're full of water. they love to eat the giant clams. so here where you have the shape of the star, it will open just a little like this. you will have some small tenta

and the south china sea. in order to do that we need strong allies. the strongest ally in the region for us is japan. it is very important for japan to support us. >> i wanted a perspective on the south china sea issue. >> the economic problems china has been phasing makes it more important for china to maintain friendly relations with its neighbors than ever before. china needs investment from japan, from the united states and from other regions of the world. allowing these kinds of disputes to get out of control would not be in china's interest especially given the fact that china is still military far behind the united states. however, at the same time it is very clear that on a political level china is deeply committed to not giving up these issues. i'm afraid we are headed for a long and difficult period where these kinds of disputes both in the east china sea and south china sea will remain problems that the community will have to deal with. >> thank you very much professor berger. >> senior commentator

people are forced to take the dangerous sea root. the greek coast guard says it rescued more than 1400 people on saturday and sunday. still to come here on the program we will be telling you why the quality of public sector education is getting worse in africa's most populous nation. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >>> welcome back. reminding you of the top stories. the french president is in china seeking beijing's support. hal already beening lande met with chinese leaders. russian say elements have been found on the plane crash site in egypt that were not part of the plane. there's still confusion about how all 224 and crew were killed. the mayor of the greek island of lesbos says there's no more room to bury the refugees who drowned in the sea. the columbian have rescued due ban migrants rescued at sea. they were left as their boat broke down. >> reporter: for three hours their boat

on les works the sea may be calmer, but nerves are on edge. when the refugees make it ashore, the sense of relief is equipped by the growing outrage. >> i cannot imagine. i feel ashamed that i'm a european, i'm from holland. i people a big shame from this european union. union. it's not the union. for me it's not the union at all. >> this is one of many here committed to helping. >> i saw babies dying, elderly people dying. i cannot imagine that you can live with yourself, when this is your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees, while grateful for the happy know life will not get easier any time soon. for many, choosing to stay in their homeland may have been a riskier option. >> if the choice is between dieing in the sea or iraq, i take the sea. he tells me that he, his wife and four children had no other choice. in iraq it's the children who are sacrificed, he says. ministers don't die, officers don't die, it's the children and families that die. here the kids are a priority, trying to make their fear recede, even if just for a few minute

on lesbos, the sea may be waller, but nerves are on edge. when the refugees make it ashore, the sense of relief is eclipped only by a growing outrage. >> can i not imagine. i feel shamed that i'm a european, that i'm from holland. i feel a bit shamed that european union, union? for me it's not a union at all. >> maryke is one of the people here committed. >> almost dying, i cannot imagine you can live with yourself when this is your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees while while extremely grateful for the help know life won't get much easier any time soon. but for many, choosing to stay in their home land may have been an even riskier option. yet the choices between dying in the assess says ahmed and dying in iraq, i take sea. ahmed tells me that he, his wife and four children, have no other choice. in iraq, it is the children who die. presidents don't die, ministers don't die. it's the kids who die. the children try to make their fear recede even if it's only for a few minutes. over 200,000 refugees arrived in europe by sea in october

military patrols in the south china sea. a u.s. naval vessel last month sailed near an island built by china in disputed waters. >> translator: the japan self-defense forces have no plans to take part in the u.s. freedom of navigation operations. currently, sdf personnel are not engaged in sustained patrol and surveillance activities in the south china sea, nor do they have such plans. >> the leaders of japan and the united states discussed the south china sea issue on thursday. president obama suggested that such patrols will become a routine mission. prime minister shinzo abe indicated that his government will closely watch developments in the area and their impact on japan's security and consider possible activities by the self-defense forces. in an interview with nhk, a white house spokesperson talked about possible roles japan could play. >> in principle, since japan and the united states have a very strong relationship and see eye-to-eye on our philosophy towards freedom of navigation and good international order, we welcome a

says more refugees crossed the sea last month in the hope. volunteers set up to save peoplpeople >>> hello there. this al jazeera live from london. turkey's president urges the world to accept the a.k. party's election victory. the russian airline whose plain crashed in egypt >>> the u.n. says more than 218,000 asylum seekers arrived by sea last month. that's more than the total number of people for the whole of last year. despite colder weather and rougher waters, the massive influx of people continues. the e.u. response is falling far short of what's needed. on the island of lesbos we have this report on the volunteers stepping up to help. >> reporter: with all the tragedy they've seen, still the aid workers keep looking. the sea may be calmer, but nerves are on edge. when the refugees make it ashore, the p sense of relief is-- sense of relief is eau clapsd only by outraged. >> i am not major. i feel a bit shame that i'm a citizen zen from european union. for me it is not a union at all. >> reporter: this is one of many here committed to he

in that condition, i was the tech at some place in the south china sea. i did not cite an aircraft, but i was looking around, and i saw something out there on the horizon. i looked closer and i thought i saw movement. i headed the submarine toward it, called the captain, and when we got over there, we found this wooden raft -- i suppose 15 or 18 feet square floating around in the middle of nowhere with a japanese soldier aboard. we got him aboard the submarine, and he was in pretty bad shape. this raft did not have any canvas or topping on it. he was out there in the sun with the saltwater washing over him for some several days, i don't know how long. i don't know whether we ever determined that. however, we got him aboard, and our pharmacist nursed him back to health over the next several days, and then the captain got him into wardrobe, somebody had a japanese-english dictionary, and captain foley used that and questioned the soldier, and i guess got his name, rank and serial number. and may have got the ship he came from. i was not in on that interrogat

naval vessels in the south china sea is not new. what is new is dredging and militarization. >> defense ministers of japan and china have discussed china's activity in the disputed area, but they failed to narrow their differences over the issue. china's chan wanquan held talks after attending the aasean ministerial meeting. this was the first time the defense ministers of the two countries met in about four years. nakatani expressed concern and expressed the importance of securing freedom of navigation and maintaining order in the region. chang responded that it needs to be resolved among the concerned parties. the two ministers agreed on the early launch of a defense hot line between the countries to prevent accidental clashes in the air or sea. >> they have been talking about the economy and joining us now from the business desk, tell us, who was there and what did they discuss? >> this was a pretty high level meeting and included the chinese premiere and also the chairman of japan's biggest business federation. the two sides were

the coast guard rescued a group of cuban migrants abandon at sea and left behind by traffickers aftert broke down and gerald tan has details. >> for three hours their boat was adrift in the caribbean, the group of 15 men and five women were found without life jackets or any kind of safety equipment. the two traffickers to provide safe passage left them after the engine on their vessel failed. >> translator: they found the boat adrift and when an inspection was carried out there were 20 people aboard of cuban immigrants and nationality and we were shown the people who transported them the migrant traffickers abandon them in the middle of the sea. >> reporter: the recent foreign relations with the united states has paved the way for business in cuba, international companies are scrambling to enter the market and the u.s. company sprint has just signed a major roaming deal the first of its kind between the two countries but cuba is still under embargo and most people there feel left out. >> translator: i left cuba because of the economy, the economy is very weak and everyone needs to fol

the drilling shell will start here, is on everyone's mind. >> how do oil spills and sea ice mix? what happens when the two are involved? >> fortunately, nobody really knows because it hasn't happened yet. if it does happen it's going to be a mess. >> andy mahoney is an ice researcher on board the healy. >> it's going to be extremely challenging to separate the oil from that ice. ice will be somewhat like a sponge, and so you'll have a mix of oil covered ocean, oil covered ice, and oil impregnated ice to deal with. >> and if it gets in the ice it could also move as well? >> that's right and that's why it's important to understand ice motion. >> dr mahoney is working on enhancing ice radar so it can track ice movement as well as ice presence. >> so we're looking here at a screenshot from a radar that's mounted up in the bridge of the healy. >> this is a time lapse of images from that radar, as the healy navigates through ice. the ship is in the middle. >> the white, brighter areas show us where the ice is, and the dark areas indicate where there's likely open water. we use an image

on lesbos the sea may be calmer, but nerves are on edge. when the refugees make it a shore, the sense of relief is eau clipsd only by growing outrage >> translation: i feel a shamed that i'm a european and from holland. i feel a big shame in this. the european union - union? it's not a union. to me it's not a union at all. >> reporter: she is one of many here committed to helping. >> translation: i saw babies dying and elderly people almost dying. i cannot imagine that you live with yourself when you - when this is your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees, while extremely grateful for the help, know life won't get much easier any time soon. but for many choosing to say in their homeland may have been an even riskier option. >> translation: the choices between dying and the seas or dying in iraq, i take the sea. he tells me that he his wife and four children have no other choice. in iraq it's the children who were sacrificed, he says. minimum officers and officers and presidents don't die. it's the children and the families that die. he

in antarctica it's very different of the sea ice is actually gun decreasing slightly. the continent is warming. and ice is being lost there in the antarctic peninsula in west antarctica. but over the large expanses of the interior we find it's gaining mass. we need to continue the measurements, we have seen the mass loss have his increased in part of antarctica and the gain that his we are seeing over the large interior have been going on for a very long time. so the increases will catch up. the increases in loss will catch up with the gains that are taking place probably in 20 or 30 years. >>> in nepal the police are using batons and tear gas for clear protest presser a bridge near eights main border crossing from india. demonstrators from the ethnic minority community have been camping out. they are unhappy by nepal's new constitution, which they say ignores their demands for a separate state. meanwhile hundreds of indian trucks stranded in nepal for twofer two months due to the blockades of the boarder were finally able to pass. >>> 60 refugees including children hav

but it has been on patrol in the south china sea area. veral countries including china have overlapping claims to those waters and the islands. >>> dozens of people are dead in south sudan where a russian cargo plane crashed. the plane came down on the banks of the white nile river. officials saying fishermen on the ground were killed as well. at least three people survived. >>> the first refugees to be resettled from greece now arriving in lucks um -- luxembourg today. tsipras says not all of the e.u. countries are pulling their weight. >> translator: it's a drop in the ocean. we would like this drop to become a stream and then a river of humanity. >> many of the 600,000 refugees who have made it to greece this year landed on the island of lesvos. but more than 400 have died in the sea just trying to get to the island, trying to reach europe. mohammed jamjoom reports lesvos says it is running out of room to bury the dead. >> reporter: at this hour in greece, the sky darkens as quick as the fear sets in, but still they come. attention turn

. >> and phil, both weather and climate change are huge parts of the story because the sea ice in the arctic is receding. >> and i actually got to see that sea ice receding in action, and the scientists up there that were monitoring this are overwhelmed by the speed that this is actually happening. >> well it seems that the more the ice recedes, the easier it would be to drill right? >> yeah but what happens is actually different because even though the sea ice is gone, the extreme weather conditions remain and that's causing big problems for big oil. >> the arctic - remote, breath-taking - and one of the world's harshest frontiers. for years it's been a front line in a battle over the future of energy and climate change. temperatures here are rising twice as fast as the rest of the world. but the arctic may hold 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil. in july, 2015, shell began its controversial journey to the arctic. its mission - to drill an exploratory well in the chukchi sea, hoping to find that untapped potential. the stakes are high - for shell - and for the environment. th

on lesvos, the sea may be calmer, but nerves are on edge. en the refugees make it ashore, a sense of relief is eclipsed only by growing outrage. >> i cannot imagine. i feel ashamed that i'm european. that i'm from holland, you know, i feel a big shame. this european union, union, it's not a union. for me it's not a union at all. >> reporter: this is one of many year committed to helping. >> i saw babies dying. i saw elderly people almost dying. i cannot imagine that you -- that you can live with yourself when you're -- when this is your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees while extremely grateful for the help, know life won't get much easier a any time soon. but for many staying home may have been an even riskier option. if the choice is between dying in the sea or iraq, i take the sea. he tells me he, his wife, and his children had no choice. he said ministers don't die, officers don't die, presidents don't die, it's the children and the families who die in iraq. here the kids are a priority, trying to make their fear recede even if ju

>> "by the sea" is the most 14-year-old son maddux got to take part in the film. of the movie? cambodia about his country and his hist so we love working together. >> set for the film is still being built. one thing is for sure, the entire family will be on location together. >> it's so much nicer for me to not have to divide my tim home with my time at work. so now the kids are rushing to be home schooled. so now they're really determined to do all their work so they can finish early on a day and get out to set. so it's >> let's remember, they have six children. i don't care how much help you have. the fact they can make it to a red carpet, shoot a movie, do anything is impressive. >> i'm so amazed. >> "by the sea" isn't the only big premier. "the hunger games" gang hit london. we have all the details. >> jennifer lawrence did it again. she looked absolutely stunning in dior. by the way, all the ladies of "the hunger games" turned this premier into a real fashion feast. >> it's bittersweet. i'm going to miss the c much. >> the ladies dressed contrary to their characters in "mo

because of the sea breeze, the eight miles per hour continues through the afternoon. so with that southeast wind, i don't think we will see the 70's this afternoon. but even right now, 59 is above normal. farther inland, the numbers are in the middle 60's. norwood, 65. nashua, 64. is air is dry. all sorts of sunshine for the afternoon. a fantastic fall day. with temps between 61-66. the city later on today, 62. merrimack valley, metro-west, 495 belt, temps in the mid-60's. tomorrow, morning clouds. a little fog tomorrow morning. and then warmer tomorrow afternoon. especially friday. in fact, near record warmth on friday. we will talk more about that in a few minutes. >> christa: the teen charged with killing his teacher inside danvers high school called to court. this was phillip chism's first appearance in a courtroom since his trial was put on hold. that was three weeks ago when his competency was called into question. right now, let's go to salem with 7's victoria warren. what did the judge have to say about that today? >> reporter: well, christa, judge ruled phill

tsipras, we saw boats coming across the sea. people were jumping into the water and swimming to the beach. we're truly facing a dramatic situation here. >> reporter: they went to see a so-called hot spot, where new arrivals are supposed to be registered and sent on to other wealthier e.u. countries. >> these people take the boat of death and take the risk in hope that some day they will have the chance to live in europe. >> reporter: a few yards from the airport we met this family from damascus. they looked as they might be on hliday. 77-year-old omar is getting pretty good at skimming. hard to imagine what they were going through night before last as a smuggler crammed them into a boat on the turkish coast. >> he told us 30 people only. then maybe 50 people, 70 people, i don't know. >> reporter: so you were really crowd. >> yes, yes, yes. he told us, no, it's very, very dangerous. he shot his gun, pow, pow. >> reporter: so he threatened to shoot you? >> yes, yes! >> reporter: around the port, we found hundreds of the people stra

the officials say they have monitored 22 such operations in the east china sea near okinawa this year. that's double the number over past years. the officials say the ships have either entered japan's exclusive economic zone without advanced notice or they have entered areas not previously agreed upon. in both cases japanese patrol ships have called on the chinese vessels totop operating. none of the chinese vessels have entered japanese waters but their crews were seen lowering what appeared to be wires in the sea. >>> hong kong's pro democracy movement has been given a boost. several young candidates inspired by last year's protest have won seats in district council elections. the election committee announced the results of sunday's vote for 431 cities -- seat local media report tt eight young candidates who were involved in the pro democracy protests were winners. >> translator: i hope the candidates inspired by the protests were stay true to their objectives and contribute to hong kong society. >> the protests caused problems for traffic and business. i don't want the candidates t

the sea dragon and look at the difference. plant with power great speeds on the surface and underwater, range and endurance. we didn't think we would have to refuel any sooner than five to 10 years. story, except on sea dragon, we were going to be the first submarine to be transferred from the atlantic to the pacific via the north pole. so this was the captain george he ruled that no crew would have to hot bunk. with two othernk officers and most of the thomas leapt on three chairs lined up. there you can see sea dragon on the surface, here was our mission. we were to go here to the bay and we got permission to spend one week looking at the underside of icebergs. it was the first and only time that it was ever allowed. then we were to come in and survey for the first time in history the entire classic northwest passage. deep route that the submarine can safely go from the bay to the arctic ocean with no trouble at all. north pole,he bering strait and pearl harbor. navigator captain, and the scientists we had on board. he had m

on lesbos the sea may be calmer but the nerves are on edge.the refugees make it ashore the sense of relief is eclipsed only by a growing outrage. >> i cannot imagine. i feel ashamed i'm a european and from holland i feel big shame. european union, union, it's not the union. for me it's not the union at all. >> she is one of many here committed to helping. >> i saw babies dying, i saw elderly people almost dying, i cannot imagine that you can live with yourself when you -- when it's your responsibility. >> reporter: the refugees while extremely grateful for the help know life won't get much easier any time soon. but for many choosing to stay in their home land may have been an even riskier option. >> the choice between dying in the sea or dying in iraq i take the sea. >> reporter: he tells me that he, his wife and four children have no other choice. in iraq it's the children who were sacrificed he said. ministers don't die. officers don't die. presidents don't die. it's the children and the family whose die. here the kids are a priority, trying

of political provocation with its patrols in the south china sea. the advice foreign minister made the remarks at the meeting with the leaders in the summit. it has been a focus of discussions at the summit. it didn't take long, did it, before we got comments about the south china sea issue. >> reporter: absolutely. what we heard it was very interesting to see how there was a rhetoric shift here at the summit. on the first day there were bilateral kind of mini sum its with the members and the united states and china and in those meetings it was discussed the south china sea territorial dispute was discussed but there wasn't direct finger pointing. the last hours of this summit and we are hearing much stronger language coming out, particularly from the gentleman you just spoke about. what was interesting in the way he said it was yes that they queues the united states of testing beijing on its resolve in its territory claims in the south china sea with these b52 bombers that did a close fly by in the month but they hate back at something obama said at

there is life along the sea floor. that increases the probability of discovering the same thing on the moon in jupiter. or possibly even tighten or saturn. we did not mention this in the lecturer national geographic, there was a young woman who got excited. andsaid if i lived be 100 have not stopped here and forever. i'm getting a lot of dietary information. none of this is good. it is all kinds of vegetables, prime ribs and stakes are not on there. say before i got into diving for the titanic, there is a long amount of time before is ready for the sea again. this holds true. the male bonding i need for the next 100,000 years. i do not need those close quarters. that is my last slide. if there are any questions you might have, i am always looking. there is no such thing as a stupid question. there are dumb questions. i'm looking for a dumb one that i heard this last october. >> zodiac we're cruising ransom icebergs. this lady to my right says how far are we above sea level? said about that far. any questions? i got out

. >>> the tensions over competing claims in the south china sea have led to an impasse at a southeastefense summit. i joint declaration raise of the asean nations was due to be signed wednesday, it's now been canceled. chinas been lobbying to block any mention of its man main islands in disputed areas of the sea. >>> caan emirates us professor. saying the division is having an impact on the berrick an block. >> earlier in the career malaysia it is the chair of the asean committee tried to cobble together something. that means at this time the defense ministers meeting plus with its eight dialogue partners they can't even mention that in a joint statement. they alone can preventure consensus from being reached and in this indication we have u.s. officials saying there were a number of asean countries wanted it mentioned but majority doesn't rule. one can block the entire group. and it also means that china is able to reach if to a regional organization and get its way. >>> an earthquake of magnitude six about the pitt on the struck near dili. causing minor damage it was recorded at a d

we have the latest. >> as waivers crash into the sea wall, strong winds and torrential rain flood the coast of the gulf of aden. at one point on thursday, this tropical psych loan was close to a category five hurricane, with winds of up to 250 kilometers an hour. it has weakened, but is still hurricane strength and it's unprecedented. >> there have been on rare occasions fairly weak tropical cyclones that have moved on to the coast. the last time there was a tropical storm strength cyclone in yemen was in 1960. >> a weaker tropical depression strength cyclone hit yemen in 2008. that storm killed at least 180 people and left quite a lot of damage behind. this is much stronger. coastal areas are flooded and forecasters expecting floodwaters to cause mudslides. it may bring 250 to 550 millimeters of rainfall. >> that's a few years worth of rain falling in just a day or two. >> the cyclone has made landfall south of the yemeni port city. the area has been under the control of al-qaeda since april. >> june it's expected to weaken. some relief organizations worry groups are not equipped to

a lot of changes and challenges including the making of their new movie "by the sea" which angie wrote and directed. i joined them at the l.a. premier last night. >> you get married, happiest time of your life and then you go and do this dark movie >uple on the brink of divorce. >> it was an odd choice. a few weeks into it we wondered if it was a good idea f it doesn't work, it's the worst honeymoon ever. if it works, you learned something. >> angelina wore a champagne colored custom versace gown and brad classic as ever in a simple tux and slicked back hair and underneath it all, they're totally united. >> what it is like work together and taking direction from your wife?>> she knows when i'm faking it better than anyone else. >> talking to your husband, he said there is one person that can tell when he's not giving everything. >> i think can you tell with me saying anything as my husband. he can kind of look at me and i can say, fine. and he'll go, no, you're just saying that. >> what's cooking, good looking? >> "by the sea" is the most personal project yet and their 14-year-old son

but we didn't have to die in the sea. now even for the refugee who is managed to escape with their lives its death that seems closer than ever. al jazeera, lesbos, greece. >> the united nations is warning of a crisis of statelessness for syrian refugees in neighboring states. it's refugee agency the unhcr say that around the world a child is born stateless every ten minutes. now researchers talk with children about the experience of growing up without the rights that go with national. most statelessness go along with minority groups. unhcr are warning that a growing number of syrian children are at risk of statelessness because syrian's nationality go through the father, and many children have no father and no birth certificate. we go t to beirut to look at the problem. >> two-year-old mohammed, one year alan, and her cousin malik, they were all born in lebanon. syrian who is escaped the war but are now faced with another crisis. >> she said that she sees no future for her children. they don't have proper identification pa

half the passengers survived, but the sea closed over more than 200 men, women and children who were elow the deck. you would think a disaster like that would be legendary. but the "st. joseph" was a slave ship, and the screams bursting from the hold were the cries of cargo. today, the silence of those lost voices is unbearable to lonnie bunch. he's the founding director of the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture, now under construction in washington. bunch found that, to tell history, the smithsonian would have to make history. and so began a quest for the remains of a shipwreck in a land so unchanged that an 18th- century slave would recognize it today as the last shore he called home. mozambique island defies the erosion of time. the portuguese colonists who claimed it 500 years ago would still find the cut of the cloth that borrows the wind as familiar as the cut of the stone that framed their city. ♪ ♪ lonnie bunch came to this capital of the slave trade because he was determined to launch america's new national museum on the remains of a ship. >>

we greeks we also were migrants, but we didn't have to die in the sea. w even for the refugees who managed to escape with their lives, it's death that seems closer than ever. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera, lesvos, greece. >>> we now know the cause of that fatal shooting in a northern illinois police officer. the sheriff's department announcing that he committed suicide. investigators say it is the result of a police officer who broke the law. >> the investigation found he has been stealing and laundering money from the police explorer post. this had been occurring over the past seven years. he was also found have forged signatures on official documents. thousands of dollars were used for personal purchases, travel expenses, mortgage payments, personal gym memberships, adult websites, facilitating personal loans, and unaccounted cash withdrawals. >>> he was found dead of a gunshot wound. before that he told dispatchers that he was chasing three suspects. that manhunt shut down the area for days and drew nation-wide attention. >>> voters in ohio overwhelming

. >> reporter: back across the sea, you can hear the air horn. chants from police officers saying what do we want? contract. when do we want it? now. they may be getting it within a matter of days. news4 has learned once the arbitrator determines that recommendation for 1% for two years is final, it is binding. then they would have to begin negotiating again with city hall. that only covers two years retroactive to 2012. they would have to start the process of negotiating all over again. on the upper east side, andrew siff. >>> a retired nassau county police officer is demanding $24 million in damages from the department she worked for. she claim she was falsely arrested in her words, abused by two fellow officers while on duty. greg cergol spoke one-on-one with that woman today.

the sea ice is actually been decreasing slightly. and part of the continent is warming, and ice is being lost there if the antarctic peninsula in west antarctica. but over the large expanses we find that it is actually gaining mass. we need to continue the measurements. because we have seen that the mass losses have increased, and the gains that we're seeing over the large interior have been going on for a very long time. so the increases will catch up. the increases and the loss will catch up with the gains that are taking place probably in 20 or 30 years. >> more analysis and video on demand everything we're covering right there. www.aljazeera.com. >> mechanical failure or intentional act? investigators trying to figure out just what brought down a russian jet over the skies of egypt. bias in the jury box. the supreme court considers a case that could effect hundreds of criminal prosecutions. plus seattle votes are deciding on an unique to fund campaigns but some advocates are crying foul.