. >>> women in oregon now have the option of getting birth control without their doctor. instead they can get their precipitations filled at local pharmacists. oregon is the first state in the nation to allow pharmacists to write precipitations for birth control and it will reduce unintended pregnancies. >> we know from research in studies that's been done that consistency, particularly in pills or patches, is the most important factor in the effectiveness of the medication. and by having available in her medicine cabinet or wherever she stores it, a full 12-month supply of birth control that women can give herself a chance at 30% reduction in the likelihood of an unintended pregnancy. that's a very big advance for women. >> al jazeera takes a closer look at the effect of the law in oregon tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> the armed group occupying the national wildlife area in oregon is asking supporters to send in supplies. the stand off now in its second week. the leader of the occupation is rejecting calls that he leaves. he said that will happen when he sees the

state of oregon are occupying several government buildings for a fifth day. this is a challenge to the government's authority that many locals fear will end badly. hour correspondent reports. >> reporter: our correspondent reports. >> reporter: the first rays of morning light bring another day of stunning beauty on the plains of eastern oregon but also another day of anti-government protesters standing guard at the main entrance of a federal wildlife refuge complex that they've taken over and occupied since saturday. the protesters, numbering in the dozens at most, a majority of whom are not from the area, they say they're here to help the local ranchers get what they insist is their land back from the federal government. >> we do have a plan as we have stated from the beginning and we are going to work, and we are implementing this plan. we have been in communication closely with many, many community members that are assisting us in that, and we see a time coming very soon where the community will begin to participate more in that. >> reporter: this is cattl

adam schauffler, who is in roseberg, oregon, the seen of the shooting at a college this past october that left nine people dead, the president visited roseberg after the shooting, but he did not get a warm reception there in the wake of the shooting. >> no, indeed, it was not a warm reception. several hundred people turned out to protest and let the president know that they were not happy about him coming to this town so quickly after that shooting. we should say that most of those people at those protests were not from here. not from roseberg. in fact, i would say they were from anywhere on the west coast border-to-border from the folks we talked to, but they converged in roseberg to send a message. there were raw feelings in this town. not because of the politicalization of the shooting when it happened in october, but because of the immediate politicalization by the president. he went on television and spoke out about the need for further gun patrol measures. a matter of hours when the shooting took place when the campus was still being buttoned down. many people here did not take

. >>> standoff against the government, protesters vow to hold an oregon refuge until federal land released. >>> gun control and president obama prepares sweeping new actions for his final year in office. >>> former president bill clinton campaigns for his wife as donald trump has a campaign spending spree. ♪ welcome to your world this morning i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters and tensions between iran and saudi arabia boiling over this morning a day after the kingdom announced it's cutting ties with tehran and bahrain will be cutting ties with iran and saudi officials saying iranian diplomates have one more day to leave their country and shia protesters storming the saudi embassy on sunday angry over the execution of 47 men accused of terrorism including shia cleric al-nimr. >> began three days of mourning and he has been buried in an undisclosed cemetery and he was a central figure and protests by saudi arabia shia minority and arrested in 2012. this morning iran's foreign ministry accusing the kingdom of covering up the executions. >> moves to another and this indicates its intentio

government building in oregon to support father and son ranchers who have been ordered to return to jail. the demonstrate orders are angry over the prosecution of dwight jr. and steven hammond convicted of arson on public land. they insist they were acting to protect their laundfrom wildfires. the court found their original senltsdz were too short and ordered them to return to prison. the united nations has started the new year with a new set of sustainable development goals. world leaders met in new york last september to approve steven new targets of tackling hunger, poverty and other global problems. the gloel globes replace the millennium goals that expired in 2015. governments will use the objectives to frame their agendas and policies over the next 15 years: in sri lanka the president stopped housing projects around the oldetnate reserve to ends deforestation by 2020. now, fernando reports now from the national park. nature in all its beauty a century ago, 80% of sri lanka was covered by forrets. today, less than 30%. even parts of the country's oldest and largest nature reserve ha

al jazeera's carol mckinley is live in oregon where the refuge is located. what are people saying about these latest developments? >> the community here, there are about 7500 people and i happen to be standing about i would say 50 feet from the very opening where the path is to get down to this refuge. there's a truck there guarding that gate. behind me as you see, the organizers of the refuge protest here have put an american sign, american flag over the sign which opens into the refuge. at this point, it's a waiting game. it's been four days and sheriff dave ward came out yesterday with a very short press conference, a minute long with a resolute message. that message is go away. >> i want to talk directly to the people at the wildlife refuge. you said you were here to help the citizens of the county. that help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed occupation. the ham monday have turned themselves in. it's time for you to leave our community, go home to your families and end this peaceful >> the citizens are getting tired of this but the f.b.i. has

. >> reporter: meanwhile federal authorities in the state of oregon are weighing what actions to take against a group of armed protesters who have taken over a public building in a remote wildlife refuge and promised no violence but refused to recognize the authority over the land. >> a strong tradition of gun ownership in the country. >> reporter: will follow-up executive orders later this week with the national broadcast devoted to gun violence and in the last year as president demonstrating his determination to curb an epidemic of gunfire expected to claim more american lives than traffic accidents. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. >>> a plaque honoring the people killed in attacks in paris a year ago has been unveiled by the french president and francois hollande led that ceremony and 20 were killed after a gunman opened fire on the magazine charlie hebdo and a kosher supermarket and four cartoonists working for the magazine were killed and heavy security is in place. still to come on al jazeera we will take you to the scene of that standoff in the u.s. state of oregon where

. >>> the leader of the group occupying a national wildlife refugee in oregon left a meeting with an f.b.i. agent today. he objected to conversation being in front of cameras. the armed occupation will super its third week tomorrow. the iowa caucuses are less an week away and conservatives are opening fire on donald trump and he is hitting back. >> reporter: just over a week until the iowa caucuses and republican front runner donald trump is now taking fire from more than a dozen conservatives in the nation. against trump, the national review magazine wrote that he is a philosophically unmoored opportunist, hockster. many added their own comment trees: sna >> reporter: at a news conference donald trump was dismissive. >> it has got the circulation way down. not many people read it any more. people don't even think about the national review. so i guess they want to get publicity. >> reporter: new polls suggest that donald trump has retaken the leave in iowa over ted cruz. the latest cnn survey of iowa republicans indicates donald trump is ahead 37% to 26. ted cruz is important trying

and the fbi released a video said to show how a member was shot dead by oregon police. the anger of the man's family saying he was shot with his hands in the air. kristen saloomey reports. >> reporter: the fbi says it released a video to dispel this information about what lead to the death of the boy. a spokesman for the occupiers seen here at the wildlife refuge. two vehicles are seen stopping at the road block established by oregon state troopers. he is driving the white pick up. ammon bundy is a passenger in the cheep. if you look carefully, a person that left the truck can be seen in the lower right of the screen, with his hands in the air. 4 minutes past as the agents demanded they scenarioed. >> as the struck approaches the road block, there's a spike. finegan missed it as he attempted to drive around the road block. he nearly hit an fbi agent as he manoeuvres to the left. the truck is stopped. >> that's when finny can gets out and reaches to his jacket where, according to his fbi, he was carrying a weapon. state police opened fire. we did everything we could to b

state of oregon have been arrested during a shootout at a police roadblock. one person was killed during the incident on tuesday. the police made their move on the mri sha leader and his supporters, while they reportedly travelled to a community meeting. let's go lye to our washington bureau, where tom akerman has been following the story. what more details have emerged, tom? >> we expect to get the official version within the next half hour at a news conference. but from what we have been learning from people on the ground, the accounts that we're getting are -- and that includes people who were members of the occupation group, was that two cars, proceeding down a road to a town about 100 kilometers away, were stopped by law enforcement authorities, the fbi and the state police. one -- one group surrendered peacefully, and the other one, apparently, he just drove -- he just got out -- he jumped out and charged at -- at law enforcement authorities after they had given chase to him. the man who was killed is the de facto leader or spokesman rather of the group

we have more from burns, oregon. >> reporter: f.b.i. said it released this video for miss information about what led to the death of the spokesman for the occupiers seen at the wildlife refuge. two vehicles are seen stopping at the roadblock, established by oregon state troopers. and he is driving the white pickup and militia leader bundy is a passenger in the jeep. if you look carefully one person who left the truck is seen in the lower right screen with his hands in the air. nearly four minutes past as the agents demanded the others surrender and then he speeds off. >> as the truck approaches the roadblock there is a spike strip across the road but missed it as he attempted to drive around the roadblock and nearly hits an f.b.i. agent as he maneuvers to the left and the truck gets stuck in the snowbank. >> that is when he gets out and reaches towards his jacket and according to the f.b.i. he was carrying a weapon. state police opened fire. >> we did everything we did to bring this situation to a peaceful resolution. second, as was not

in the small town of burns, oregon, the local sheriff was clear. >> i'm here to ask those folks to go home. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: many agreed with the sheriff, saying the time is up. >> and we're in trouble if we don't tell these people to pack up their stuff and go home. [ applause ] >> reporter: but some ranchers are thankful the militias are bringing their attention to their fight with the government. >> these people down here at the refuge, i just came from there, and i talked to them, and they ain't hurting a damn thing down there. [ cheers and applause ] >> but they brought us all together. they are waking people up. so i think they are going to work this out. they are just making a statement to wake us up. >> reporter: but with the militia men heavily armed, the thread of violence and bloodshed is not far off, so schools and government buildings in town have been shut down for safety reasons. with no end in sight to the standoff and deep divisions in the town, emotions sometimes boiled over. >> and my boots are shaking, but i proud of who i am. i'm proud to be a

state of oregon has asked his supporters to stand down. ammon bundy and eight others were arrested during a shoot out with police on tuesday. another protester was killed. the government accusing the government from illegally taking land from ranchers. >> reporter: a very interesting change for three and a half weeks now we've heard the governor of oregon, the f.b.i., local sheriff is the occupiers of the national wildlife refuge to leave, to just go home. today we heard the acknowledged leader of that group, speaking through his lawyer, saying it's time to stands down. this issue is in the courts now. please please stand down, go home, hug your families, legality us take it from here. clearly an indication that whatever happens here locally in south-east oregon at the refuge that has been occupied for so long, whatever happens here, whatever kind of resolution comes out, it's clear that the broader issues of land reform, land use and federal control of property here is not going away. this is a movement that we will see again. ammon bundy

the occupation at an oregon national wildlife refuge is heading into the third week. today the group protesting federal land policies and hope to meet with residents but that didn't work out. al jazeera has more. >> reporter: two full weeks into the armed occupation of federal buildings in a wildlife refuge in haern county, oregon, and the friction grows between the protesters and local officials. the mayor of burn with a population of about 2700? >> it's time to go home. we would like to see you leave our community and so we can get our lives back to normal. recall ready for you to go. please do that. we have gotten used to the daily theatre of protests. the defiance: come and get us stance. they said they wanted to meet with the community in burn to outline an exit strategy. the county judge refused to allow them to use the community hall as a fair ground. the site of last week's emotional community gathering. >> what was wrong it with that decision not to allow us to have a public meeting? it infringed upon my constitutional rights of free speech and my right of as

state of oregon where some armed protesters continue to occupy government lands. the changing landscape of the oil industry in the u.s. where fraking oil was promising riches. >>> welcome back. you're with al jazeera. looking at the top stories. the w.h.o. is warning that the zika virus is spreading in the americas. the mosquito-born disease could infect up to four million people within a year. news just this is the united nations is investigating new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers in the car. the knew cases involve troops from france and georgia who are accused of sexually abusing children. some of the main opposition groups in syria are refusing to attend talks due to start in geneva today, that's friday. sources have told al jazeera they won't attend until their demands are met, including an end to attacks on civilians. just four occupiers remain on the u.s. wildlife refuge that was taken over by an armed militia early this month. the f.b.i. has released videos that led to the death of-- of a stop that led to the death of one. >> r

police arrest the leader of an armed militia in oregon. denmark passes a controversial bill to seize refugees' assets and valuables. >> translation: if we had an education it would be better than this >>> afghanistan's children trade away their future to provide for their family >>> it's two days to go before proposed talks on the syria crisis and there is confusion and disagreement over who should take part. it does seem clear that one of the most influential kurdish groups, the pyd, will not be attending. russia says their participation is necessary but turkey says their group is terrorism. >> translation: negotiations without the kurds at the table cannot be inclusive. we're not against the attendance. it is unacceptable to let the terrorism organization join into talks. they cannot sit together with the honorable groups. if someone wants to see the pyd it should be on the syrian regime. the pyd which co-operates with the regime cannot be for the people >>> some groups have been invited but they have not officially accepted. they say th

the governor of oregon had urged the federal authorities to put an end to this. it had been lasting 26 days. and so the roadblocks that are set up here are really intended to--to end the situation peacefully. now, what happened yesterday on tuesday was according to eyewitnesses was that the two cars carrying these leaders of the group had been stopped by february and state police on the road. one group surgeoned peacefully, and the other one apparently gave just--let off and the authorities gave chase after about a kilometer or so. the car wound up in a snow bank, and according to one of the members of the occupation group, the man who was killed, the de facto spokesman for the gro group, just got out of the car and charged at the law enforcement officers. he had previously said just the previous day that he would not go peacefully. he said the authorities want to take us over and we will not let them. now the leader of the group is in custody right now. the question is who is leading the group inside the compound now? a man named jason patric has been speaking t

the group is occupying a remote national wild life refuge near burns oregon, led by ammon bundy. his father led another anti-government standoff in 2012 at a nevada cattle rank. bundy said they are prepared to stay for years if they have to. al jazeera's carol mckinley joins us on the phone now live from burns. this protest has federal workers saying home today. what are authorities doing to break up this stand your? >> the f.b.i.'s gotten involved now. they came in yesterday and they'll pro bowl be out here today trying to make sure that there's some kind of negotiation or a process which is not violent, because a lot of these occupiers have weapons. right now, we're at the mouth of where the refuge is. there are thousands and thousands of acres of snow and prairie. there's a lake here and these guys say they are going to stay as long as it takes. we know they got a load of food in yesterday. hoop knows who's going to win out on this one. >> this all began over the quicks of these two local ranchers, but they say that bundy doesn't speak for them. >> that's right. in fact, they

. >> tonight armed protesters in oregon say they have no intention of backing down until their demands are met. their occupation of an empty federal building is now in its fourth day. adam schauffler is in burns, oregon, near that wildlife refuge where there are new developments. >> absolutely new developments tonight here john. you see the gentleman sitting on the ground behind me, that is one of the spokesmen for this group. he came out here maybe 20 minutes ago. we want to roll videotape, we'll tell though is a little bit rough. he said that he had evidence, we have not confirmed this, that there were reports that the fbi had warrants for the three bundy brothers, for him and for somebody else, and he's saying if you have a war rent for me this is where i'll be. come on out. i'll stay here so you can come and serve that warrant. we have no confirmation that those warrants have been issued at this point. they could not confirm that. >> they had half of the media following him to the hammond research 25 miles south just to record what is happening there. they believe that the hammonds

some of the demonstrators are part of a right-wing militia in the state of oregon, saying they are supporting two farmers they believe were wrongly convicted of arson. >> the opposition in venezuela is choosing the next president of the national assembly ahead of tuesday's inauguration. the democratic movement party won a landslide victory in des's elections, meaning the opposition will take control of congress for the first time in a decade. the supreme court wants to block the inauguration for opposition member. we have more from caracas. >> reporter: this tuesday venezuela is scheduled to swear in a new national leader for the first time in 16 years. it will be dominated by the opposition. on december 5th, venezuela headed to the wall to elect a new congress. they gave the opposition 112 of 167 seeds. the vast majority means the opposition will have the power to draft a new constitution, and set in motion a referendum that can see maduro leave congress. the government has taken a series of measures that critics are saying may revolutionize the win. the government rushed to send in new judg

a huge sink hole has opened up in an oregon highway stretching 80 feet wide. it lays next to another one that opened up two months ago. there has been no injuries or vehicles lost in the process. they are a result of recent heavy rain and landslides in the region specialists think. looking at those pictures, i mean that is some serious damage there. is that because of the rain? >> reporter: when you get too much rain or too little rain, both of those situations will cause sink holes. oregon is known for the sink holes. things for them are better. you can see the rain here. this area of cloud that you see right here in the pacific doesn't look too bad right now, but over the next several days it is going to be intensifying and become our next winter system as it makes its way in. we're not seeing too much in terms of any snow with that particular system, but the winter storm warnings and the watchers are up anywhere from california all the way up here towards iowa where we're going to see sun, monday and tuesday, big, big problems across that entire region. let

in the 70's it had the highest per capital income in oregon. but government regulations proud logging almost to a halt. closing local mills driving the timber industry and jobs out of the county. doug used to work in the now closed mill, he is now the control technician there is so much resistence to logging any more, watching movies you ever seen a good logger? kids watch movies and people that are logging are terrible. shay destroy the land, they kill everything. >> he says he is frustrated with the way federal lands are managed. saying current practices aren't just bad for the timber industry, they are bad for everyone. they have overgrown with brush. you used to be able to put a fire out if it was bad, now 100,000 acres almost is normal. >> he is also frustrated with the tactics of environmentalists. >> it is their way of the highway. just up the road they think they may have an answer, trying to find ways to meet the forests needs, tonight we will introduce you to the people behind the blue mountain forest partners, how they are looking to

police in oregon setting up roadblocks around that occupied center. seven others are now said to be in police custody. all of this coming almost a month after they took over the federal building. john henry smith has the latest. >> reporter: authorities in burns, oregon have released few details about the confrontation that began with a traffic stop tuesday afternoon. the fbi and state police stopped vehicles carrying several of the protesters about 20 miles north of the wildlife center they have been occupying for almost a month. it ended with a shootout, and several members of the movement arrested, including the leader, ammon bundy. bundy's brother ryan was shot and injured. a group's spokesman was shot dead. he was a rancher who had taken on the role of speaking for the group. >> tell them to serve the warrant right here. >> reporter: he put up numerous videos and talked about the occupation earlier this month with our allen schauffler. >> this grievance is widespread throughout the west. rrm the protesters seized the refuge on january 2nd, demand

what are they doing in princeton, oregon right now? >> well, they say they want to restore and defend the constitution. and the thing about this is, that's mysterious is we don't know how many people are inside that refuge. it's about 30 miles away. i'm in front of the sheriff's office right now because law enforcement is getting ready to have a press conference any minute. thissing location is a bird sanctuary 30 miles down the road. they did this because they say they want to support this father and son who burned their property, having to report to prison today, the sheriff in burns oregon, 30 miles from where that person was, that they wanted to take down the city and state government, they have more of an agenda. >> the hammonds, just to repeat this, are the hammonds affiliated with this group at all? you mentioned they are going to turn themselves in. do they have any affiliation to the citizens for constitutional freedom militia? >> no, in fact, the citizens for constitutional freedom as they now call themselves, came here on th

. >> the armed occupiers of the government building in oregon say they have drawn a line in the snow. why one of the spokesmen says he is waiting for the feds to come and arrest him. >>> armed protesters in oregon say they have no intention to back down until demands are met. allen schauffler is at the wildlife building with new developments. >> the leader of the group tonight said that they are taking a defensive stance, and they certainly are. road range material has been built in to block the road to the administration buildings that are occupied. we are seeing armed presence that we haven't seen before, and take a look at the video. one man taking an emotional stand. drawing a line in the snow, believing that the arrest may be imminent. saying he'll wait by the road, armed for federal marshals to come out and serve a warrant if that's what they'll do. it seems that the broader complicated issues of land use management in the west and around the country are coming to a head in remote oregon. >> reporter: an infrastructury of activity at the wildlife refuge tuesday night, as the lea

. >>> now to oregon where a district court judge has ruled that ammon bundy, the organizer of the wildlife refuge takeover will remain in custody. katherine barret is live with more on this. so what is the latest there katherine? >> reporter: well, jonathan that hearing is still underway for the remaining defendants who have been arrested here in oregon. they were argued -- all of them to be a danger to the community. prosecutors filed papers earlier today arguing that they ought to be detained until their cases are resolved, also because they demonstrate an inability to follow the law. they have been given amble opportunity to do things that theyry fused to do. so that was an argument. and also because of the chance if they were released they could perhaps return to the refuge which is still actively occupied, or perhaps even arrive at another federal facility. the judge said that she would only consider release if and only if this occupation here were to end, jonathan? >> thank you katherine. >>> still ahead, three days to the iowa caucuses, the debates are over, but now candidates are m

. >>> oregon arrests. wildlife center members in police custody. one dead >>> donald trump pulls out of the iowa face-off. the reason he will not take part in the debate. >> there's no treatment for this virus. if you get infected we can't geoff you a drug to cure you. >>> the zika virus confirmed in another state. now there are guidelines to keep people safe >>> this morning the armed

in recent weeks we've heard the governor of oregon is the occupiers here to give up and go home. we've seen the sheriff of the county ask them to give up and go home. we've seen people in the city of burns tell them to give up and go home. now ammon bundy, the leader of the people, is telling them to give up and go home saying through his attorney in portland today it is time to stand down. this is in the courts now. we will take it from here. go home and hug your families. so far we haven't got word of any significant movement out of that refuge, which is about 30 miles south of town. this isn't quite wrapped up yet. law enforcement tightens the perimeter with roadblocks set up on the true approaches to the isolated wildlife hearsay. eight are now in custody, seven in oregon, another in arizona, all facing at least one felony charge >> it is the actions and choices of the armed occupiers of the refuge that has led us to where we are today. they had ample opportunity to leave the refuge peacefully and as the f.b.i. and our partners have clearly demonstrated, actions are not witho

the fbi is looking to trying to get the remaining protestors to come out of the eastern oregon protest. trying to get them to leave the compound and go home. >>> rick snyder appointed a team of experts to oversee a solution to the problem and provide health care to flint children exposed to lead in the city's water supply. >>> the u.s. government is taking steps to prevent the spread of the zika virus. anyone who has visited any of the countries in the outbreak will no longer be allowed to donate blood. >>> summit of latin american and caribbean leaders, experts are warning that the virus could affect hundreds of thousands of people. official say they need to work together to find a more permanent solution. al jazeera's lucia newman has more from santiago chile. >> it wasn't on the agenda at the annual meeting of latin american and caribbean heads of state but then the speed with which the zika virus has spret throughout the americas scroant been foreseen. >> translator: we are aware and we will all make an effort to cooperate with technological and scientific research. cooperating at

. >>> standoff against the government, protesters vow to hold an oregon refuge until federal land released. >>> gun control and president obama prepares sweeping new actions for his final year in office. >>> former president bill clinton campaigns for his wife as donald trump has a campaign spending spree. ♪ welcome to your world this morning i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm de

arrest the leader of an armed militia in oregon. brazil deemploys more than 200,000 troops to battle the zika virus which may be linked to deformitys in new born babies. a japanese emperor

. >>> plus tribal leaders in oregon now taking on those

the condit dam on the salmon river, four dams on the california-oregon river, set for congressional approval and funding and especially on washington's elwha river, where environmental groups finally brought down two aging hydroelectric dams, the biggest project in u.s. history. >> we will have fish in the river most of the year, just as we did in the past. >> robert elafson has been active throughout the entire complicated process. he sees tribal participation, patience and a willingness to deal with all parties involved as critically important. >> we can undertake efforts that, like this, that take a lot of time. >> and is that a lesson for other people, other tribes in other parts of the northwest? >> absolutely. i mean you know the tribes generally take pride in taking seven generations ahead. >> rebecca miles former councilmember for nes nez pers. >> in exchange for millions and millions of acres ceded to the united states government we were promised fish. >> all sides agree on the snaik and elwh rarvetion are very different rivers. the four dams on the lower snake river are the newest

. >> -- gun violence, like the tragedies in roseburg oregon or charleston, north carolina that. >> laws resulting in it beings easier in too many neighborhoods for a young person to purchase a gun than a book. >> that's why our community for life people don't value us because when there's a mass shooting, everybody get outraged and they talk about it and then when it's police brutality, people get outraged around talk about it. but when one black person shoots another black person nobody says anything, that's okay. >> all the while, homicides continue to climb daily, in communities across america, including chicago, that saw it's deadliest year in decades. >> the caskets are becoming smaller and smaller and for 30 years i've seen the same thing. poor schools, lack of jobs, lack of housing, lack of options. up to 30 years when you he keep seeing the same thing nothing is changing well dohh, why don't you wake up. >> we have lamar johnson. >> we have gun violence but people here working hard every day that take pride in the city and their neighborhoods but unfortunately it is not being po

. >>> wildlife refuge in oregon, organization is now destroying property on land, tearing down a fence keeping cattle from grazing on the land. >>> the pentagon says it has transferred one more detainee out of guantanamo bay. the saudi arabian native was sent home after 14 years of being held without charges. 17 prisoners have been cleared for release this month. he is the fourth released so far. a group of u.n. human rights experts is calling on the united states to close the facility. they say the u.s. is transitioning often a war on extremism but ahas not made amends on the so-called war on terror. 118 men remain detained without charge. >>> protests in london mark 14 years since the arrival of the first detainee. shakir alar sat down with al jazeera to discuss what he think should be done about guantanamo bay. >> we want justice, we want these people to go home. if they did something okay, tell us what they did. if they didn't do something they should come home tomorrow, not after one day, one year, no, tomorrow. i think britain have a big role to play in this because they were the

>> i worked my butt off. >> reporter: he owns a large cattle ranch in southern oregon. he is unaffiliated with the protesters, but reernl shared his distrust of the federal government when it comes to land management. an energy come is planning to use federal laws to run a natural gas pipeline through the middle of his property >> it was set up for a good reason. it was for the betterment of everybody. it was for public need and necessity. >> it is a bunch of foreign investors to make a tonne of money and it is not going to bring anything to the american people. >> reporter: this backs up to public land managed by the federal bureau of land m or pl m. >> it is going to go down this road right over here, down this ij. >> reporter: ornlly in the 1800s, an earlier version of the bl m over saw land that no-one wanted. while westward expansion changed that, the federal government has retained control of hundreds of thousands of acres. in all, about one-eighth of the u.s. land mass. ranchers like this man, a card carrying republican, feel like no-one is listening to modern-da

coming up, a story of men with gun in oregon. they say the u.s. government is guilty of land management over reach and they over run a refuge for wildlife. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >> they just turned a blind eye. >> within two blocks, three people have serious cancer. >>> republican presidential candidates continue to complain about executive over reach coming out of the white house. of course, they are complaining about president obama's executive actions announced today meant to kerb gun control violence in america. critics on the right say the president's move is a latest example of over reach coming out o

the latest from outside the city of burns in oregon. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the protesters said not to expect any guns and any questions about how many protesters were here were left unanswered during our 45-minute tour of the national wildlife refuge property that this group walked into and attack took over >> reporter: how is it going? >> it's an emotional roller-coaster. it's up and down. it's going great. there's no blood shed. this is not not a violent or hostile situation. >> reporter: there are 15 or so buildings here, dozens of idle government trucks, swamp boats for the marshes and heavy equipment. this is one of the sleeping areas. we took video through a window of people preparing food, but were not allowed into this kitchen. we didn't visit every building, but we were allowed to roam on our own and saw no signs of damage or vandalism. >> we want to be plilt, we want to be-- polite, we want to be neighborly, citizens, we want to be respectful of one another. >> reporter: this man is an arizona rancher who has emerged as one of the main spokesman. where is this going?

two weeks are seen stopping at the roadblocks established by oregon state troopers. he is driving the white pickup. militia leader ammon bundy is a passenger in the jeep. if you look carefully one person who left the truck can be seen in the lower right of the screen with his hands in the air. nearly four minutes passed as the agents demanded that the others surrendered. and then the man speeds off. >> there is a spike strip across the road, but it appears he missed it. he nearly hits an fbi agent adz he maneuvers to the left. the truck gets stuck in the snow bank. >> reporter: that's when he gets out and reaches towards his jacket, where according to the fbi, he was carrying a weapon. state police opened fire. >> we did everything we could to bring this situation to a peaceful resolution. second, as was noted in the video, and as you will see when you download the video, that we waited a very long time. we were able to get one individual out of that truck, safely, back, and in custody. >> reporter: the fbi say negotiators are working around the clock to get those re

. >> the logging industry in oregon has been working for years to make it more sustainable. and it has been positive. we report on new found productivity on the frontier. >> so you see that fir there, that wouldn't have been here in the past. >> he runs a collaborative group for ten years. loggers and politicians and scientists and politicians try to find common ground. this area was logged heavily without much thought for the land for a century. >> the government increasingly litigated and shut us down, so they were impacting our livelihoods and what we knew and valued as a lifestyle. and when that happens, it creates a lot of anger and distrust. >> reporter: less timor cutting meant more growth, more tree infestations and more fuel for fires, and similar conditions exist across the acres. but getting tree huggers and tree cutters to sit down and be talk is never easy. >> it never happens until everyone's back is against the wall. until everyone is losing. we weren't getting enough wood to keep our mills going, and our backs were against the wall. and where the environmenta

oregon it stand off. the fbi is urging the remaining occupiers though leave after the death of a member. >>> the next front in the fight against isil, where the u.s. is considering use military action. and going organic. it's a big investment for argentina, though it's not in

authorities say shots were fired during the arrest in the state of oregon. at least one person was killed and another injured. local reports suggest the f.b.i. are sending reinforcements to the wildlife refuge that some people still occupy. the group has been at the site near the city of burn since the beginning of january. the takeover began in support of two farmers ordered to go to jail for setting fire to government land. the occupation later became about landownership. the armed protestors accuse the government of illegally seizing land from farmers in the area of the decades and demanded that it be returned to local control. gabriel has been monitoring from new york and sends this report. >> it appears that a car van of militia members had left the wildlife refuge and were on their way to some sort of a community meeting. details are still unclear but at some point on a rural highway outside of the refuge is when f.b.i. and local law enforcement officials confronted these militia members. that's when a gunfight ensued. five militia members arrested and

kristen saloomey, al jazeera, burns, oregon. >>> the african union getting together in ethiopia at the moment. heads of states will be investigating the potential need to send peace keepers to burundi, a country which has faced months of violent unrest in the run upto presidential elections last year. catherine soi sent this update. >> reporter: the heads of state who will be meeting in this hall will be considering a report that will be table by the chair pern of the a.u. on the situation in burundi. and they are going to be talking about the deployment of a.u. peace keepers to burundi. this is a very controversial issue. the bush rundy government has rejected such a move, so the heads of state will be considering different options. there are provisions within the constitution of the a.u. that mandate the a.u. to do this, but then for that to happen the heads of state have to endorse such a move, and it also has to be an proved by the u.n. security council. a lot of people who follow burundi and a.u. affairs will tell you that many heads of state will be reluctant to endorse such a mo

. >> reporter: meanwhile federal authorities in the state of oregon are weighing what actions to take against a group of armed protesters who have taken over a public building in a remote wildlife refuge and promised no violence and refused to recognize the authority over the land. >> gun ownership in country. >>> obama will follow-up executive orders later this week with a national broadcast devoted to gun violence, in his last year as president demonstrating his determination to curb an epidemic of gunfire expected to claim more american lives than traffic accidents. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. >>> so a group of anti-government protesters in the u.s. refusing to end their occupation for western wildlife sanctuary, the group had been protesting against new jail term for two local ranchers and the men turned themselves in on arson charges and their lawyers say the protesters at the sanctuary do not speak for his clients. and land disputes between the federal government and ranchers for generations. allen has the latest from just outside the city of burns in oregon. >> report

police arrest the leader of an armed group in oregon. some time to move past a painful war-time memory. a japanese emperor visits the philippines. >>> and danish laws to seize refugees valuable. >> so, two days away from proposed talks on the syria crisis, and there is uch confusion and dghts over who should take apart. an influential kurdish group is not attending. turkey says they are linked to terrorism. >> translation: representation in the talks with the kurds is a necessity. we are not against the presence of the kurd, but we are vehemently against the pod and others who oppress the kurds. it's unacceptable to let the terrorist organization join the patients. they can't sit together with honourable groups fighting against the regime. they should be on the table. the regime can't representatives the struggle of the syrian pilot. . >> it's been driven in part by soured relations with turkey. >> i think russia think to achieve both goals. on the one hand they want very much to punish the turks for downing the russian jet. and the infl

princeton oregon, thank you very much. some of the other things happening right now, fiat, chrysler, are both saying they are reporting their best sales year in at least nine years. total figures come in at 17.5 million. also stocks in this country, you are watching your 401 k. the volatility asian seas, shares in china, hong kong, falling again. there is concern that any ban on selling by large stake holders can expire in the coming days. al jazeera has our details from beijing. tuesday was another bad day for stocks. the hong kong markets -- but the rout wasn't as bad as it had been on monday. when shanghai closed down around 7%, and more than 8%, and hong kong almost 3%, the reason for the continuing jitter ms. the market is this. on friday, restrictions over the selling of shares are due to end, these restrictions were imposed during the market turbulence in the summer. presumptioning prices down still further, because of that, the china security regulatory commission on tuesday, issued a statement saying they would ta

state of oregon, an armed group occupying the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge have rejected the police's bid to end the standoff. the ranchers took control of the site after a dispute on land rights. >> reporter: fourth generation rancher knows his land better than anybody, and he knows the problems too. like so many other ranchers in this part of western america, he says the problem is the federal government's management of the land, which restricts the area his cattle can graze, affecting his livelihood. the u.s. government owns and manages nearly 70% of the land here. the imagine yourty is run by a government agency most ranchers say ignores their concerns. >> nobody listens. it's hard to get our voice out there. that's the biggest problem. we have our representatives, our congressmen that fight for us, and it's getting that word heard at a serious level. >> reporter: it's this kind of frustration with government that lead armed militia to take over a nearby wildlife refuge. shane and others like him, support their demand that the government give locals land they say they

authorities say shots were fired during the operation in the state of oregon. at least one person was killed and another injured. denmark has passed controversial legislation to confiscate valuables from refugees. police will be able to seize assets worth $1500 from asylum seekers. president obama has met health and security teams to discuss the spread of the zika virus. the u.s. says it is joining the search for a vaccine. scientists in brazil are investigating a suspected link between the illness and birth defects in babies. troops have been deployed to crackdown the mosquitos that spread the virus. >> reporter: there is a somber mood here, seats, fencing and food stands are all drenched with insecticide. in two weeks it will be packed with thousands of people celebrating brazil's carnival. it will be a key venue when brazil hosts the 2016 olympic games. both occasions risking the spread of the zika virus. >> translation: any crowded place is considered a strategic place to combat the mosquitos. we have a different treatment over the entire year for those pla

an armed group takes over government buildings in oregon. and. >> it will potentially take care of some violence in america. >>> and sport, former france international replaces rafael for real madrid. >>> saudi arabia's allies have rallied to its side in a growing diplomatic dispute with iran. for the kingdom's execution of a dissident shia cleric. cut all ties with iran, while saudi arabia says it will hold all air traffic and commercial relations. andrew simmons reports. >> transiting here and dubai airport, as they were evacuated, comes similar action he by some of saudi arabia's allies, among them neighboring bahrain. after two days of protests from shief muslishia muslims. the action he followed the arson attack of the saudi embassy in tehran. saudi arabia accused iran of doing nothing to prevent it. a war of words is escalating. >> we decided to cut off all diplomatic relations with iran. we would also be cutting off all air traffic to and from iran and commercial relations with iran and have a travel ban against people traveling to ir