american reporter roxana saberi jailed in tehran. >> i was jailed for several hours blindfolded, facing four men and i was in solitary confinement for several days. >> the charges against her are baseless. she is subjected to a process that is arbitrary. >> we have been told that she will be freed today. >> i'm so happy to be back home in the land of the free. >> i went to iran to learn more about my father's native country and to learn the language. i learned to love the country. i definitely hope to go back some day. >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. why where ten years ago, we're were doing a story on the strait of hormuz. this has been a point of contention for decades. it is the choke point where the oil from the oil producing countries goes out to the world. every day about 17 million barrels of oil goes out there that point. at its narrowest, the distance between i

ourselves in the future. >> reporter: roxana saberi, al jazeera, new york. >> thank you for joining us. i'm richelle carey. the news continues next, live from london. >> this is al jazeera. >> hello everyone i'm felicity barr and you're watching the newshour live from london. coming up: tension in ouagadougo, now burkina faso's army is marching on the capital to disarm the coup leaders. >>> reelected. greek prime minister alexis tsipras is sworn in after winning this is second elections in a year. >>> volkswagen faces new inquiries whether it rigged

the immigra immigrant, indigent, and the poor. our own roxana saberi is there in the throngs of crowds. the pope, tell us about the scene that you're seeing right now. >> i'm sorry, david, i couldn't hear your question. >> i was just asking for the scene. you can see the shaking hands with 250 kids, blessing them, putting his hand on them, kids taking selfies. these are kids at four different catholic schools, two in the bronx, two in harlem, and such a huge deal for them, and in a minute we're going to see the pope go into one of the schools. give us a sense of what you saw as we look over the pictures as the pope's motorcade came down. >> well, the pope drove by just a couple of minutes ago, and the crowd here, thousands of people lined up and down the streets, cher cheering wildly. there is a lot of security, as you can imagine. he turned the corner and went up one block north where he's meeting the students from our lady queen of angels school. and from there he'll probably have one of his most unscripted moments in his whirlwind tour in this city. >> in addition to our lady

coronation was mixed. many cheered, others wondered if she could represent japan. roxana saberi, who is half japanese went to talk to ariana and learnt what it means to be hafoo in japan. good to see you. it was hard to say the term, is hafoo. >> there's discussion about that. all the hafoos say they don't feel insulted, they need the term to describe who they are. i heard from parents of kids that are mixed in japan, saying they prefer to call the kids a word coming from double, inside of hafoo that comes from halve. it's an issue of debate. >> they take the seemingly japanese pronunciation of english language and incorporate them into their own. that. >> let's look at your story. >> in the native land, japan, foreigner. >> my appearance is not asian, but i'm japanese on the inside. >> reporter: in japan, she's called an hafoo >> i don't think the equivalent words exist, but in japan you need to to explain who you are. >> reporter: how much does japan embrace diversity? >> translation: how should i put this, i think we have a long way to go. >> reporter: she may be making the biggest s

stink" movement. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> another significant move from pope francis, making it easier for women seeking abortions to seek forgiveness. all priests will be able to ab solve women during the upcoming year of mercy. beginning december 8th. right now only high-ranking clergy can forgive abortions. >> i hope this pope will continue to make the church, generally, a little more attractive for many people, young people. >> i think we are 21st century, and church and people need to change >>> according to catholic teaching, abortion is a grave sin. those that have the procedure can be ex-communicated. the move coming weeks before the pope visitors the united states >>> francis kipling is the president of the center of the health, social policy, and the former president of catholics for choice, and a former nun. she j

rights lawsuit. roxana saberi was there. roxana. >> tony, the policy of the school district has been to send students like aden to adjoining districts. >> aden coloren was supposed to start seventh grade today. >> i was hoping to walk him into middle school with friends and family and the entire community. >> instead, he went through a protest. >> i made a protest for aden because i think he should be in the school. >> the 12-year-old has down syndrome. last spring he graduated from elementary school. but the local district says it doesn't have middle schools or high schools with programs tailored for him. so they usually bus him to an adjoining school district. >> if aden went to another school district, no one would know him there. he would be just the student with down syndrome. everybody loves him here and acceptance him. >> all children with disabilities free appropriate education. >> it doesn't state with specifics where that public education has to be provided. so the law doesn't get into the particulars of which school district or which actual campus a child has to atten

are also keeping track of pope francis who has got a full day in new york. roxana saberi joining us live from harlem. and the hope is going to be going to where you are later this afternoon to meet with this school that is 75% hispanic. most of the kids live under the poverty line. tell us about the event and why so many catholics are suggesting this may be the most important event on the pope's schedule. >> reporter: the school is significant because most of the students are minority and many of them require financial aid to go to this school. he is also going to be meeting with a number of immigrants as are a number of people out in this audience. they say the pope's message and focus on immigration and poverty is very important to them. he will be driving up this street, taking a turn, and going up to the next block where he will visit the students in that school. and meet the immigrants there. that school used to have a sponsoring parish, but it was shut down eight years ago. every sunday morning this 91 year old joins this group of fellow catholics to pray and sing. ♪ >> we a

. he >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. the carpet bizare in tehran is in the southern part of the city. >> the carpet bazaar in tehran is in the southern part of the city. it's dusty, it's conservative, it's a little more religious. we were talking to these guys who have been in a business that is ancient for persia, you see the rug but there are weavers, diers, carpets everyone in the world would think were beautiful, before the sanctions this one little shop that i was in this one little owner would ship a container full of these carpets to the united states every week and you'd buy them in fancy stores i suppose. and since the sanctions he sells no carmtsz to the unite carpets. his entire business -- being the economics guy that i am, i said this is a problem for you, if the sanctions are lifted the demands for your carpets will increase a

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about to see are disturbing. roxana saberi reports. >> hajj, the annual journey to mecca attracts 2 to 3 children. >> you couldn't do anything more active. the most best thing you can do. >> being one of the five principles that define miz lamb, most believe it's the ultimate experience. believers perform it if they are physically and financially. this journey takes place over five days, with that many in the same place and time it's been prone to disaster. >> the latest event is one of the worst tragedies to strike hajj. since 1990, when 1400 pilgrims were killed in a stampede. in the last two decades. disaster marred the event numerous times. >> in 2006 thousands of muslims tripped over luggage, causing a crush killing 360 people. after that incident the saudi government tried to improve safety. three years earlier several lost their lives performing the same ritual. >> in 2004, 250 were killed in a crowd crush. this site is notorious for farming bottle necks of crowds that can become dangerous. >> it's the last ritual. a lot of pilgrims are worked up. and so there's a lot of tens

government to continue to guarantee the safety of pilgrims taking part in the hajj. roxana saberi, al jazeera. >>> pale is the founder of crowd manager stram i strategies. he joins us from los angeles. paul, good to have you on the program. look. >> thank you. >> pleasure to have you. this is not the first time something like this has happened. >> correct. >> what about the saudis do in response? we just heard from roxanna, billions spent on comfort and security. did they miss something? >> well, i -- there certainly is a problem, yes at the hajj. and the saudis have dedicated millions of dollars, many, many millions of dollars to try to improve things. but -- and they brought in experts from around the world. what gets my attention is that it seems to be a meis mila preach or at least done in stage when a express i have crowd safety approach -- comprehensive crowd safety approach, physical and management is really needed at the same time. they have just moved the problems or maybe what they have done has created a problem somewhere else. that often can occur when you don't have a com

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saberi traveled to japan to cover the 70th anniversary of the attacks on that area. roxana. >> now, i was able to live in my father's native country, iran, but now this was the first time i was back to my mother's native country, japan. >> these are the customs and the high speed trains i remember from my previous trips to japan. my mom sent me here three times to get in touch with my japanese heritage. i often neglected it growing up in north dakota because i wanted to fit in. the last time i was here teaching english to junior high school students. i saw things this time i didn't see before. more young people asserting their individualality. individuality. i learned more of the nuances of being a hasu in japan. i never knew that being half black in japan, was more difficult than being half japanese in iran. after speaking of supporters of america's military presence in japan and those against it. ♪ >> we're supposed to write messages of peace and hope on parchment like this. >> what i feel most strongly on this trip is that despite our differences, part of one humanity. >> to offe

same. roxana saberi reports. >> reporter: president obama celebrated workers rights at a union rally in boston. >> the fight against social security, medicare and retirement. they are sampled with the union label. >> reporter: there's a gain the president wants to add, paid sick leave. >> i required a new executive order requiring federal contractors allowing workers to be paid. >> the white house said it will apply to contracts in 2017. but the white house hopes it will spur private employees to follow suite. >> it will be good. many small businesses say they can't afford the expense. >> if people are not there doing work, you lose money. no one is servicing customers. the president wants them to pay the workers who are not there. it's a double point of business. >> reporter: nearly 40% of workers in the private sector or 44 million americans can't call in sick without losing pay or worried about getting fired. tracy returned to work as a security guard after recovering from a medical emergency. she said her company suspended her for three days without pay. >> they confiscated my ba

reaction from roxana saberi who was there in the school outside the school when he paid a visit. being. >> reporter: these crowds in east harlem waited patiently for hours to see the man they say speaks for people like them. >> he talk about the schools speech in there, i saw in the congress, he do excellent job in there. and everybody i see the tears whether he's talkings. so beautiful. >> we need some change. maybe this visit can change the way that our politicians see the immigrants. >> when he rode by in his fiat cell phones went up and cheers rang out. >> holy father we love you! >> students greeted the pope with chants and selfies. in return, the pope asked for a song. ♪ >> reporter: about 70% of the students in this inner city school rely on financial aid. most are black and latino, many are immigrants. fitting on the pope's focus on the poor and the marginalized. later in the school gym pope francis met with refugees and immigrants including these teenagers who play on a soccer team in the bronx. they fled from central america without their parents. they presented him

america. part of that new life involves their love of soccer and as roxana saberi reports they are about to share their love of the game with the pope himself. >> reporter: soccer is helping these teenagers remember where they came from, what they loved, but also why they left. >> translator: i used to play in my country every day, just like i'm playing with these guys today. it hurt me to have to leave my country, but i had to come because it was too dangerous. >> reporter: he and most of his soccer team in the bronx fled central america without their parents. they are part of the recent wave of children who have crossed into the u.s. illegally in the past two years. he grew up in honduras and left because he feared for his life and wanted to join his mother in the u.s. >> translator: you can't be caught alone on the street there. if you run into issues ju could get killed or kidnapped or forced into a gang. if you refuse, they will kill you. >> reporter: if you get sent back, would you try to come to america the same way you did before? >> translator: i would try. even if i had to do i

see mixed race people commonly accepted. >> journey to japan. >> i'm roxana saberi in hiroshima. a city known to many through history books and images seared into our collective memory.

boss, it's tonight's "inside story". >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. story". i'm ray suarez. fast food companies dictate menus, work rules, uniforms and training for tens of thousands who fry potatos, pack sandwiches at stores across the company. arriving the company, and they maintain they employ a fraction of the workers. why? after controlling everything that goes on inside a store, down to the embossing on the napkin, why the willingness to give away authority. we are looking at a ruling that the big companies are employers. back with mike layman and craig becker, why is this such an enterprises? >> i think there's different have been and industries in different places. many are legitimate. it's not always an attempt to avoid the obligations as an employer. what is important is there's not a binary subdivision. it's not necessari

roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. ♪ >>> now a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. hungry's foreign minister says all the refugees arriving in the country will be sent back to where they just travelled from. authorities have closed the main train station to stop refugees from traveling onward to austria and germany. >>> police have forcibly remove prod testers who had occupied beirut's environment ministry. the protesters from the youstink movement are demanding that he minister resign because of the country's ongoing garbage crisis. >>> and children should be removed from a prison on the island of nauru after allegations of abuse. >>> doctors in yemen are warning of the devastating impact the war is having on children. they estimate that up to 60% of the children in the country are malnourished. victoria gatenby reports. >>> father places his baby o

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in tokyo, i'm roxana saberi. it's the city is down. i'd like the health to get better. >> i'm working, surviving without being to be street. >> deconstructing. >> we're giving individuals reasons not to commit this act. >> since april 22nd, took the opportunity to show the bad side. but the young people that i'm seeing they want a chance to turn that around. >> baltimore is my adopted home. i moved here more than a decade ago, i quickly fell in love with its neighborhoods and its rich history. i'm adam may. as a reporter that covered the death of freddy gray, the rioting that broke out afterwards and the bloodshed and murder it struck me that too many stories are going untold. stories of people trying to solve root problems, problems like poverty, joblessness and drug addiction. tonight we highlight the inspiring stories, the innovative ideas of those who are trying to save baltimore. >> i love it, it was challenging, something i had never done. >> bernadette buxon celebrated her first anniversary working in deconstruction. tearing down some of baltimore's vast stretches of ab

' rebuilt. >> can they rescue their city? >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> russia in early august laid claim to 463,000 miles of arctic territory, a bid ruled n by the united nations. russia submitted a similar claim in 2002. the u.n. rejected it for lack of support. rather than debate the merits of the claim, i want to talk about what it represents to the rest of the world. some say it's the latest example of russia waving a new cold war. some rejected that, he wrote an opinion piece for reuters headlined why russia's latest attempt at a land grab is a farce. i'm joined from the officers of carnegie endowment washington. >> i wanted you to listen to the story i put in it, with all the reasons staked that russia is after something, an expansionist russia. you can argue there's reasons, a spring idea for it's vladimir putin's influence

. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> welcome back. it is 10:49 eastern. a federal judge has thrown out tom brady's four-game suspension. brady says he was not involved in deflating footballs so they were easier to catch. >>> turkish officials say they have released to journalists from prison. they arrested three wiess employees earlier this week and charged them with aiding terrorism. >>> and a new report is not allaying concerns about crude oil trains exploding. an associated press survey found that most big cities are not prepared for an explosive train accident. cities are still scrambling to form late emergency plans. >>> two brothers in north carolina have won a major court battle after serving 30 years for a crime they didn't commit. they have been awarded $750,000 each by the state. the pair were wrongly convicted in the killing

and at aljazeera.com/techknow. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >> welcome back to techknow we're about to talk whales. they are giant, majestic creatures, that are intelligent, complex, but they're also threatened by a variety of man-made environmental conditions and in some cases they're in danger. >> right many attempts have been made to observe these creatures in their natural environments but a lot of the traditional methods, like planes or helicopters, are really noisy and invasive, or can be really expensive, which is prohibitive. >> but now there's a new method that's relatively silent, it gives us a pair of eyes in the sky to study animals like whales. and we caught up with a team off the coast of california that's using drones for a use that's a lot more peaceful than what we're used to. >> most times when you see images from a

easy especially for kids. roxana saberi is here to tell us about it, roxana. >> john, the teenagers we met have developed a new community in new york around soccer. and they'll meet pope francis. soccer reminds these kids of home and why they had to leave it. >> i used to play every day like i play with these guys today. it hurt me to leave my country but i had to do so because it was too dangerous. >> ariel fernandez fled central america without their parents. they are among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have crossed into the u.s. illegally in the past two years. >> why did you bring these kids soccer? >> it's something they love you know? >> elvis says soccer is helping these kids adjust their new lives. just as it helped him when he fled honduras more than a year ago. >> i know why soccer is so important to me not only to immigrate into thintegrate into. >> he and his two younger brothers escaped because they feared for their lives. >> translator: you could get killed or kidnapped or forced into a gang. if they recruit you and you refuse they will kill you. >>

to see mixed race people commonly accepted. >> journey to japan. >> i'm roxana saberi in hiroshima. a city known to many through history books and images seared into our collective memory. when the u.s. dropped atomic bombs here and on nagasaki 70 years ago, it led to the quick end of a long war. for people here and across the world, things would never be the same. we traveled here to japan to learn about the legacy of those fateful days and to look at america's continuing influence on these islands. we begin here in hiroshima and our conversations with two survivors of the atomic bomb. >> it was a bright day with a blue sky, hot and humid like today. what a nice day! >> setsuko nakamura thurlow was 13 when the enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of hiroshima, japan. thurlow saw a bluish-white flash, and the walls around her came crashing down. >> and then i had the sensation of floating in the air. obviously the blast just was collapsing the building. >> a mile and a half away, kenji kitagawa was at school. he was playing the organ before class when he saw the same fl

family. roxana saberi traveled to japan to cover the anniversary of the nuclear attacks on that country. japan is her mother's moment land and roxana found a very different world from the one she last visited 20 years ago. ♪ >> reporter: these are the crafts. the cut. s. and the high speed trains i remember from my previous trip to his japan. my mom sent me here three times to get in touch with my japanese heritage i often ignored it growing enough north dakota because i wanted to fit in. the last the last time he was here he was a teenager teaching english to high school students on. this fourth trip for work i saw things i didn't see before. more young pima certifying individuality in a culture that emphasizes the team on. this trip, learned more about the nuances of being in japan. i never realized that being half black in japan, like ariana, could be harder than being half japanese and half iranian. i wondered if one reason i always felt welcome here is because i am considered light skinned. i also felt torn between my mother's native land and mine, after speaking with supporters

in pa moment of final thoughts. rights votes and struggles, stay with >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> before we leave you, a word about a fallen civil rights leader. when julian bond was nominated as vice president at the n.a.a.c.p. the voting rights act was three years old. bond, a young man in a hurry was a leader of the pivotal student nonviolent committee, and a georgia state representative while still in their 20s. and just to remind you what a different state america was. bond would sue for the right to take his seat after the georgia house barred him being sworn. he was a founder and early leader in the southern poverty law center. he was quick wide. shark. making him a tof opponent. the man who had seen it all from freedom rides, sits-ins, did not think north america solved its racial problems or that the legacies of slavery

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roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >> welcome back. crews investigate an oil spill near columbus, kentucky. a barge ruptured causing thousands of gallons of oil to spill into the river. no one was injured. it's not clear how long the river will be closed. >>> police in california are searching for a gunman behind a deadly shooting at a college campus. three men were shot in a sacramento city college parking lot. one was pronounced dead at the scene. another was seriously hurt. the victims' identities have not been made public. >>> the airman who was injured when he and two other americans helped tackle a heavily-armed gunman on a paris a born train is now in california. spencer stone arrived thursday night at travis air force base. sacramento plans to honor the three men with a parade on september 11th. >>> in just over an hour, thousands of people are expected to att

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to 4% of its gross domestic product. roxana saberi reports on how russia is increasingly flexing its military might around the world. j russia's decision to deploy fighter jets to syria is one of its latest moves. >> clearly the presence of aircraft with air-to-air capacity as well as surface to air missiles raises questions. >> with the potential of rival u.s. and russian air operations oversyria, the u.s. and russia agreed to look for ways to avoid accidently attacking each other. the two former cold war adversaries say they share a common enemy in syria: isil. but president bashar al-assad, seeing him as the driving force behind the country's devastating civil war. russia's president said that moscow's military support for assad will continue. >> we have supported the syrian government. i'd like to say that. we have provided and will provide all the necessary military and technical support. and we call on other countries to join us. >> russia's build up in serie- syria comes months after naming nato as a top threat to russia. russian officials say that russia has been beefing up i

, japan 70 years after the bombing of hiroshima, roxana saberi's personal journey to japan on al jazeera's special report coming up at 9:30 eastern. tbl >> a possible politically shift in war torn syria. syrian president bashar al-assad is willing to hold parliamentary elections. assad agrees changes are necessary and willingham to share power with a, quote, healthy coalition. >>> announcements comes a day after a boat filled with indonesian migrants sank off the western coast of malaysia in rough seas. as the report from the area, rescuers are still searching for survivors. >> just as rescuers had lost hope they find another survivor. barrebarely alive. >> looks very confused and not very stable. to say that he's happy also, there's no feeling on him. >> reporter: alive but this is not welcome they had hoped for. officials say they are demeanor indonesian migrants, 42-year-old said he worked on a construction site to support his two children. he was on his home to the indonesian island of s sumatra when the boat capsized. >> i hung on, i wanted to save myself. >> accidents like

world in motion. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >> here are the headquarters of the nation's crack law enforcement agency: the federal bureau of investigation. the bureau maintains the most modern and completely equipped crime detection laboratory in the world. >> the discipline of microscopic hair comparison was developed not by scientists, but by law enforcement. >> comparisons show that the strand of hair from the assailant's scalp is exactly the same as the hair of one suspect being held by police. >> the fbi pioneered hair analysis, and used the technique across the country for over fifty years. >> hair microscopy involves two things. one is that a properly trained hair comparison expert can make an association between a hair found at a crime scene, and a suspect hair. >> even a single hair may supply evidence! >> and then two is

will see it then. i am john seigenthaler reporting. >> tonight... roxana saberi returns to her mother's homeland in a personal and revealing journey from hiroshima, a moment that still resonates 70 years later... >> there were corpses and bones everywhere, it's hard for me to come here again. >> to okinawa, where the presence of u.s. troops remains contentious. >> no osprey! >> and, in a culture resistant to change, how one woman is blazing new trails. >> in the future, i hope to see mixed race people commonly accepted. >> journey to japan. >> i'm roxana saberi in hiroshima. a city known to many through history books and images seared into our collective memory. when the u.s. dropped atomic bombs here and on na

next. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> russia is not the only country competing against the west to get a foothold in the arctic, so is china. the prize - new shipping lanes and 13% of undiscovered oil and natural gas. melting polar icecaps are unlocking new ice caps to the region, the trick is to be there before the ice is gone >>> three factors matter in real estate and geopolitics - location, location, location. and for those interested in water front property with breath-taking views, plenty of wildlife and the potential for future riches, this island could be a hidden gem. up here in the high norwegian arctic it seems there's nothing but land. little is for sale, save for a parcel on a mountain across the bay behind me. you can't see it for the snow and the fog. what is interesting is a chinese businessman wants to buy that lan

. >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >> i'm lisa fletcher and this is talk to al jazeera. my guest this week is the architect designing the national museum of african american history and culture, david adjaye. >> most architects spend years, and years pursuing a degree. you have one year of formal architectural training. what do you think... >> you did your research. busted! >> well, it's very interesting, though. what gave you the courage to just carve your own path like that? >> when i started, i was extremely scared about the whole thing. but i was also incredibly inspired by this thing. when i did my research into how architecture was being taught at that time, and what the big voices were, i found that i just disagreed. and i didn't have empathy with the discussion. because i felt that the discussion had become very formal. had become

you. welcoming up in the next hour: a special and personal journey to japan. roxana saberi joins us now with a preview. and this really was a personal assignment for you. >> it was a personal assignment, a great opportunity. we actually went there first to cover the 70th anniversary of the bombing of hi hiroshima. it was the first time in 70 years i went back to my mother's home land. the look at atomic bombings, the question of identity inside the country, japan's government says just over 3% of children born in japan each year have a foreign parent or parents. the reigning ms. japan is half african american, first half black japanese woman to win the title. i asked about the criticism she faced, from some people, who says she doesn't deserve the title. >> it wasn't such a big surprise for me but of course those kinds of comments don't make me feel good so i try my best to turn them into positive motivation. >> also in the next hour i'll share my personal reflections on going back to japan. as we were just saying she is beautiful. >> absolutely. what was the most powerful moment fo

words on the power of pictures. stay with us, it's "inside >> follow correspondent roxana saberi on a personal journey. >> this is the first time in 20 years i've been back to my mother's homeland. >> a special in-depth look at japan. the legacy of the atomic bomb. controversial american military bases. and the country's evolving identity. >>> this world of ours got real connected real fast. so images that shape the world's impressions of events become something closer to universal. faster than before. i'm going to guess that you know who the two young british people are, even if you are not interested in their lives. you can probably go to the remotest places in the developing world, places you think are beyond towers and tv, and you'll find people there know who this is. which is why little elan may move people in the way few pictures of the terrible toll of the syrian war has done so far. if i say a name, you may have no idea what i'm talking about. what if i show you this. a terrified little girl, her back severely burned in a bomb attack, a gripping images of america's long war

. roxana saberi joins us. >> he's using it to share his views on the complexity of islam and how it relates to the world. >> clarity, a word he uses often, the destination of a journey across continents away from his faith and back. >> human rights as believed deeply engrained in all of us. >> nasser was born in war torn sudan. a beautiful, mystical islam. he discovered a more complicated side, dogma tix. >> i used to blog anonymously. things i do but now with my name on camera. >> two years later at 26, he finished his memoir. my islam how fundamentalism stole my mind and doubt freed my soul. the book was controversial about that nasser applied for and got political asylum in canada. with a sense of clarity now both about his faith and his purpose. >> and the story just has to be told. this is it, this is story. >> and earlier i sat down with nasser, asked him how thinks experiences have shaped how islam gets expressed throughout the world. >> islam gets expressthrough individual experience and culture. very traditionallallist, i have conservative culture, islam will be expressed tblai. in