>>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. a former defense secretary, starting a war of wards. robert gates taking aim at the white house in a new tell-all book. >>> a deadly helicopter crash in the united kingdom, killing four u.s. servicemen on board. >>> and the poverty struggle in america, many struggling to meet their basic necessities. ♪ >>> former defense secretary robert gates lead the pentagon during two administrations and two separate wars, now he is taking aim at his old boss, president barack obama. rosiland jordan takes a look. >> reporter: at the engineer of 2009, u.s. president barack obama told the nation it was time to renew the fight against the taliban in afghanistan. >> i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 troops to afghanistan. after 18 months our troops will begin to come home. >> reporter: but behind closed doors, the former defense secretary says the president waffled about fighting a just war. robert gates accuses white house staffers of undermin

edition of al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford, thanks for watching. new rules that may mean you have to pay for the quickest ride on "the inside story." >> hello. i am ray sworees. put a plug in a wall socket. an e licktricity powers an appliance. it's the same juice applied to your neighbors in maxes or shacks. head into a hotel lobby, people who stay more often have their own check-in line, get a different level of service and access to a nicer room. you can stay but you may not get the same service reserved for better customers. a federal court was asked basically: is the internet like a regulated utility or a private business, free to provide different levels of service? that eyes-glaze-over term, net neutrality may not make your pulse race but the court's decision may slow down some web traffic. here is how it all happened. >> the fcc has to go back to the drawing board if it wants to keep fast, broadband internet service open to all. a ruling for the district of columbia struck down federal communications commission rules protecting the openness of the internet. it's the l

increased pressure with three al jazeera journalists in detention accused of communicating with members of a terrorist organization and spreading lies harmful to the state. they join two of their colleagues from al jazeera's arabic news channels who are also behind bars. al jazeera's network of channels has been accused of failing to report the story in a balanced way. al jazeera is not the only news outlet that's feeling the heat. not even state-owned television is immune. the head of nile t.v. was fired for airing a documentary on depose president mohamed morsi. many argue that in times of political crisis media freedom must be curtailed for the sake of national security. news organizations, many of their journalists, bloggers and pupts, even puppets have been affected. our starting point this week is cairo. for journalists at the moment here is like in america after 9-11. >> there is hardly any room for dissent on egyptian t.v. >> the egyptian government seems to believe it's an opportunity to shut down a media that progress opposition alcon tent. >> they are doing their job and they get

on al jazeera america >> good afternoon, and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live from new york city. here are the stories we're following for you at this hour. a state of emergency in california where the water is getting dangerously low and wildfires continue to rage out of control. >> two were shooting at people inside the restaurant. >> and the very latest on a suicide-bombing by the taliban that killed 21 people including two americans. >>> plus safety concerns over the shipment of syria's chemical weapons create violent protests at a fishing port. >>> and why one tactic of chinese diplomacy is not as black and white as it seems. >>> too much fire and too little water making for a dangerous situation in california. the wildfire that ban two days ago in the l.a. suburb of glendora is still burning, and now the state's governor has declared a drought emergency. >> reporter: this fire is just one consequence of the drought crippling california. >> today i'm declaring a drought emergency in the state of california. >> reporter: the governor of the state jerry brow

>>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. it is the latest tell all and the talk of the town in washington. a new book written by former defense secretary, robert gates. >>> a u.s. military hospital crashing in england. >>> and later one big show in las vegas, where there are no high kicks involved. ♪ >>> taking aim at president obama former defense secretary robert gates criticizing his old boss in an explosive and candid new book, but the hardest attack involves vice president biden. writing . . . our white house correspondent mike viqueira is in washington. mike how is the white house responding so far? >> well, dell, this is really remarkable when you consider the former secretary of defense, he is a republican, and served both republican and democratic administrations, but the scathing sworn for congress just soaked through with sarcasm in this book. gates himself has written an op-ed in the wall street journal, just remarkable how much he had to say. you mentioned that quote about joe biden. that's certainly gatherin

in depth series. america tonight only on al jazeera america >>> good afternoon to you. welcome to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford, live from new york city. here are the stories we are following for you right now: tens of thousands clash with police in ukraine defying the ban on protests. we are live in kiev. anti-government protesters in thailand, bombs injured more than 200 people. >>> new allegations at another accusation of political payback. >> i am live in west virginia. we are following what's happening on the ground with the water supply. residents still very concerned coming up on al jazeera america. ♪ >> anti-government protesters are back on the streets a in ukraine, defying new laws aimed at stamping out protesters. they clashed. you are looking at live pictures. earlier, they were hitting them with sticks as they tried to overturn a bus. >> that's where jennifer glass is joining us, live from kiev. what are the protesters calling for right now, jennifer? >> reporter: right now, those live pictures that you are seeing are about 400 meters that way. i can hear

only on al jazeera america ♪ this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to another news hour from doha and our top story, taking the fight to south sudan's capitol and marching on juda. they killed three people. new york declares a state of emergency, as a huge snowstorm hits the united states. and packing a punch and why obesity is a problem in the developing world. ♪ the united nations say rebels in south sudan are marching on the capitol and as cease fire talks get underway in neighboring ethiopia and the u.s. embassy is evacuating all nonessential staff from the city and let's get straight over and talk about this in the capitol duba and mohamed what is the latest there, how far away are the rebel soldiers? >> well, according to officials of the united nations, rebels are 150 kilometers away at a town called mcwhite and this is 150 kilometers north of duba and it's causing jitters here in duba particularly among the diplomatic community with the american embassy and they are taking nonessential staff from dub and and asking any of the citizens in duba to make it to the airport so

>>> welcome to "al jazeera america." i'm del walters. here are the stories we're foming for you. >>> there's growing doubt in israel that the palestinians are committed to peace. >> a renewed effort to bring peace to the middle east. john kerry heading back to israel. >>> plus an explosion in lebanon. at least six people dead in a hezbollah stronghold. >>> the northeast is bracing getting ready for another major snowstorm. >>> secretary of state john kerry's visit to the middle east topping our newscast at this hour. he's in that region setting up the framework for peace talks that he hopes will come later. kerry landing in israel earlier today. al jazeera has more from jerusalem. >> reporter: palestinians and israelis have been meeting for six months and had 20 meetings as part of these peace talks, but they're nowhere closer ton agreement when they started in july. secretary of state john kerry arrives here with a very simple, direct message to both sides. now is the time to decide whether you will make any compromises for peace. >> as i said not so many months ago at the airp

come up on a body >> now, in a breakthough television event, al jazeera america takes you beyond the debate. experience first hand the tragic journey of these migrants. >> a lot of people don't have a clue what goes on when you live near the border. >> six strangers with different points of view... >> i don't believe in borders... >> our government is alowing an invasion... >> get to experience illegal immigration. up close and personal... >> it's very overwhelming to see this many people that have perished... >> a lot of families that don't know where their babies went... >> i wanna make sure her life, it's remembered... >> what happens when lost lives are re-lived? >> the only way to find out is to see it yourselves... >> on... the borderland... only on al jazeer america >> hey guys wanna come to the united states? >> and welcome back. before the break our "america tonight" special correspondent soledad o'brien reported on boundary hopping. that's a phenomenon when families sneak their kids out of the districts into good schools. sol ada o'brien introduces us to parents who suffer

>> good afternoon, and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford, here are the stories that we're following for you rite now. fighting for fallujah, a key iraqi city, no more u.s. troops on the ground, says the u.s. >>> hundreds of thousands of people serve search for a safe haven in south sudan. >>> opposition boycott, then dangerously frigid temperatures in green bay where nfl fans gear up for what's the coldest nfl game on record. is good afternoon and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. deadly sectarian violence continues to escalate in iraq from the capital to its western provinces. in baghdad today, another series of suspected sunni militant car bombs killed as many as 100 people. meanwhile, battling iraqi security forces right near fallujah. secretary of state john kerry said the u.s. will support the iraqi government but wouldn't put any more troops on the ground. the anbar province is notorious for, slammic state of iraq and the levant are reportedly still in control of two key cities there. al jazeera's imran khan has the story. >> the iraqi army is

welcome to al jazeera america, these are the stories we are following for you. children among the nine people who died. atlanta flaws while officials are still getting slammed about their response to the snow jam. george's governor now saying the buck stops with him. police in california taking on farmers trying to cash in on marian waythat with illegal crops. nine people are dead after a house fire in western kentucky, most of the victims were children. it happened that was about 130 miles southwest of louisville, police say 11 people were inside when the flames broke out around 2:00 a.m. al jazeera jonathan martin is live at the scene, and jonathan, have we learned anything else about the victims? >> wilt, dell, those nine presumed dead they range in age from four to 15, right now on the scene, investigators say they have located the bodies of six of them, and searching for the three others, again, all nine presumed dead. as you mentioned 11 people were inside when this started. the father and his 11-year-old daughter they were the only two able to escape the fire and get out. a

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>> good afternoon, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford and here is what we're following for you right now. wildfires burn as california deals with the worst drought in its history. and the breeding ground for international hackers, we'll go inside the private it school attended by nsa whistle blower edward snowden. >> syrian rebel leaders greed to attend peace talks in geneva just four days from now. the syrian national coalition voted yes in istanbul. their attendance is vi vital. the violence is now spilling over into lebanon. >>> too much fire and too little water, a dangerous combination for california. in the l.a. suburb of glendor ga the fire is still burning. >> reporter: this fire is just one consequence of the severe drought crippling california. officials hope the governor's declaration will help farmers and protect california's $44 billion agriculture industry. >> today i'm declaring a drought emergency in the state of california. >> reporter: the governor of the state, jerry brown, made the announcement after mounting pressure from applications, bus

>> this is al jazeera. >> hello and welcome to the news hour. i'm steven cole in doha. coming up. mob justice in bangui. we're live in the capitol of the central african republic. are. >>> revenge for the death of a taliban leader, attack leaves 22 pakistani soldiers death. >> i'm mary ann moore. rallying on the right to protest. >> but first: a lynching. in the capitol of the central african republic. it's a sign the sectarian divide in the central african republic is becoming ever more dangerous. al jazeera as well as other media was there, when it took place. and we warn you, some people will find this video disturbing. it began when a mob heard that two men who were suspected of being part of another incident of sectarian violence, were nearby. the mob found the men, set upon them, killed them and then dragged the bodies through the streets burning them. the men were muslims, the mob was christian. >> we will continue to do this for as long as muslims will go on. >> barnaby phillips is in the capitol. bangui. he joins me live. a dreadful example of mob violence barnaby but th

his cause as just. al jazeera. meanwhile, more bonds have been dropped killing antifamily. activists say eight people and five children were killed in the explosion. and this is reportedly the scene in rebel strong hold in aleppo, activists say eight people were killed in the air strikes. an international aid has reached a palestinian camp in damascus, hundreds of residents camp are now gathering to get food supplied by u.n. relief agencies. the camp has been besieged by government forces for more than six months. we are starving we want to eat and drink. >> in iraq, at least went people have been killed after armed men attack add government building in northeast baghdad. a number of people hostage, inside the building and the security forces managed to get most of the employees out. and staying in iraq another 19 people have been killed in a series of car bombs in baghdad, mainly shiite districts were targeted. no group has claimed responsibility for the blasts. the ukrainian can president has gone on sick leave right in the middle of the political crisis. for the latest, let's go t

are out of time. thank you to all our guests. see >> this is al jazeera. >> hi, and welcome to the news hour, with the top stories from around the word on al jazeera. ukraine you turn, anti-protest laws are appealed the prime minister resigns, but the opposition still unhappy. while peace keeping troops head to the central african republic, as the country continues to slide into law lessness. we report from banghi. >> with more news from europe, including who orders the war crimes. the former bosnian serve leader and general face each other in court. and put your royal household in order. britain's monarchky is told to get more commercial about it's money. but first, ukraine's par limit has voted to scrap it's onty laws. the opposition still aren't happy. >> the message couldn't have been clearer. parliament throws out anti-protest laws introduced just a week ago. with a resounding majority. the vote came hard on the heels of the resignation of prime minister, immediately accepted by the president. and according to the constitution, that meant the whole cab net was out of office we

welcome to al jazeera america. these are the stories we are following for you. ukraine eagles clash is leading to a meeting of the minds. the fighting raging on in aleppo, as serious civil war taking center stage. and -- >> i felt embarrassed by it. well, not embarrassed, i just don't want nobody to know that i was in a shelter. >> and a special series al jazeera takes you into the lives of america's homeless children, to see their struggle first hand. >> . >> time has run out now for that fragile truce between police and protestors in ukraine. very violent demonstrations the president finally meeting with opposition leaders in the capitol. earlier calling for an emergency sex. now all of this began two months ago when the president pulled out of the trade deal. tens of thousands of demonstrators repeatedly taking to the streets and calling for his resignation, the protests are an attempted coupe. jennifer glass standing by live, the time is up so what's next? wright now as we speak, there are a number of orthodox priests standing on european square trying to keep that truce holding

>> good afternoon and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford. here are the stories we're following for you right now. toxic mess, residents in west virginia say the water is safe but it still smells. >>> chris christie, another mayor accuses him of political pay back. >>> protestors defy a ban. >> i'm rory challenge in london, this one, the lord isn't invited. >> after ten days without water, west virginia residents can finally drink their tap water again. but even though the ban was lifted a day ago, many are still complaining about the bad smell. our robert ray is on the scene in charleston. robert if residents don't trust what's coming out of their taps what exactly are they doing as an alternative? >> reporter: using a lot of bottled water. as a matter of fact, the restaurant that i'm in right now you can see a lot of people having brunch here on this sunday morning, early afternoon. this restaurant is not using the tap water to give to its customers they're using bottled water. that's sort of the mantra here as most of the people in charleston west virginia are going

on the hour only on al jazeera america >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live from new york city. here are some of the stories we're following for you. fires burn in california while it deals with the worst drought on record. plus how presidential reforms will change spying by the national security agency. >> hi and dry out west, a wildfire that began in the hills of glendora, california, is still burning. firefighters have stopped the flames from spreading but there is nothing they can do about the state's historic drought. stephanie stan stanton with morn that fire and that drought. >> reporter: good morning to yon to you, morgan. this fire is 30% contained. we do expect to get some updated numbers throughout the day, but this fire is just one consequence of the drought that is crippling california, and the governor's recent drought declaration is hoping to actually alleviate and prevent some of the damage from this drought, especially the the drought for the agriculture industry. >> reporter: mounting pressure from politicians, business leaders and farmers s

>>> good morning, and welcome to "al jazeera america." i'm morgan bradford live from new york city. syria talks continue in geneva as prisoner exchanges top the agenda. both sides work to get humanitarian aid into homs. >>> they are digging in their heels. demonstrators in the ukraine reject the president's concession and vow to keep on going. >>> edward notice den tells a german television station that government spying helped big businesses right here in the u.s. >>> unfortunately, the super bowl is played in new jersey, unfortunately. >> here it comes. the battle line has been drawn, and that line appears to be the hudson river. new jersey wants the whole world to know the super bowl isn't happening in new york. >>> this in third day of peace talks they have not come to agreements. these are the first face-to-face meetings between the two sides of the conflict that killed 130,000 people since it began. the two sides have nots yet spoken directly to each other, but today's meeting focus on two items, prisoner exchange and how to get aid into homs. the united nations says it would be prepared to start sending food, medicine and other supplies to homes as early as today if both sides agree, but so far they haven't. tomorrow the u.n. hoping to discuss political transition, but the syrian government has so far refused to discuss even that. nick joins us now where the syrian government and the opposition leaders are meeting. nick, a lot has been made about this prison exchange, but what exactly is on the table? is it the community of prisoners? what's at stake here? >> reporter: what the coalition is talking about is about 1500 prisoners who are women and children. they point to a recent study or a recent leak from police photographer that came out of syria and provided to news organizations photos of what he alleges are 11,000 prisoners who have been tortured. hosh, horrific photos that reminded a lot of people coming out of gas chambers during world what two. the coalition is says this is an example of the regime brutality and what's going on in the prisons. they say this isn't happening in our prisons. we'll talk about some of our fighters you have. right now the two sides are talking preliminarily about those prisoners, but they haven't come to an agreement yet. >> nick, we know both sides are discussing bringing aid into homs. what's keeping them from just being a really quick agreement? >> reporter: yeah. this is the key point of the discussion today. we've heard from both sides trying to argue. the answer to that question depends on who you ask. if you ask the u.s. coalition, they blame the regime. they say they have blockaded medicine and water from homs in the past few months. a man in homs thoughed me he was eating bark. that's all they had. let's listen to the coalition, the opposition, trying to put pressure on the government to alleviate the pain in homs. >> nick, it sounds like we're missing that sound bite. we'll come back to that leader. if the syrian government lets relief supplies in, is that a good faith move to build trust at the negotiating table? >> reporter: that is exactly what the opposition and the u.s. says. they say, look, we're not getting to a full agreement or get to any kind of peace deal in the next week or the next few months. what they hope to do is get the two sides to agree on anything, really. the main things that they're discussing are prisoners and homs. some kind of aid, any kind of aid into that besieged city. they say homs is easy. it's not a big area. there's not a lot of people there. there's only 1,000 families left down from 1 million people there before this war began. if we can get homs -- get some aid into homs in that small area, then perhaps we can expand that into larger areas. >> nick is life from geneva. thank you. >>> protesters in ukraine are stanning their ground after rejecting the president's offer to join the government. the unrest stepped up in recent days with demonstrators attacking a government building overnight with police officers still inside. let's go to our correspondent jennifer glasse who is live in kiev following the developments since the begin. cull tell us what's happening right now? >> reporter: you know, dark has fallen again here in kiev. it's been a relatively quiet day, but we see demonstrations spread further across the country in two more cities today as demonstrators take over buildings associated with the government. now, that's something we saw here in the ukrainian capital late last night. in the heart of the capital, ukraine's besieged the former lenin museum, afraid police inside were waiting to ambush demonstration. this is the latest civil unrest as the anti-government movement grows. with demonstrations spreading across the nation, president yanukovych meets with opposition leaders. he's now offering to share power and to reform laws for speech and assembly passed just a week ago. while the three opposition leade leaders. >> translator: our clear position is to ascend these laws. our commands are to hold presidential elections already this year. and we are not stepping back. >> reporter: they also want the release of dozens of demonstrators detained by the government. while they have barricades, there's little time to worry about politics here. this is the public face of their battle against the guard. concessions by viktor yanukovych too late too late. many say they're going to take their country back. this is their fight, and they want to show the people that they are here to stay. they're ready for a fight, even if it's just with stones. as protesters try to take over the museum, they broke windows and used fireworks as missiles. the leaders have urged peace in the movement. right now it's not clear who is in charge. and so now the question beginning who ends up in charge. the political jokeying is starting, and the presidential offer of joining the goth rejected by the opposition. they say negotiations will continue, but they continue to keep up the pressure not only here but around the country. also, a new ultimatum today. they say the president needs to release everybody who has been detained during these demonstrations in the last eight weeks. they say if he doesn't do it himself, then they're going to step things up and try and free those people on their own. >> in talking about stepping things up, jennifer, help us explain something. this thing started almost as a pro-eu verse russia discrepancy. has it morped into something more, more like an east versus west? >> reporter: that's exactly right. president yanukovych failed to sign a long-anticipated trade agreement with the european union. that brought people out in the streets. they hoped that agreement might change things here. corruption is seen as rife, and transparency international called ukraine the most corrupt country in europe. the people hoped the trade agreement with europe would help at least bring corruption under control and give regular ukrainians a chance at success here. when the president didn't sign the agreement in november, they came out on the streets and he ignored them. when they cracked down, instead of quelling the protests, the protest just grew and grew. eight weeks later this is where we are with the president now negotiating with the people he opposed. >> it still sounds like it's growing. jennifer glasse live for you in kiev. >>> former contractor edward snowden says national security isn't the nsa's purpose. they collect dat to help u.s. corporations have an unfair advantage. >> they spy on other successful german companies to prevail to have the advantage of knowing what is going on in the scientific and economic realm. >> i don't want to preempt the editorial decisions of journalists. i will say there's no question that the u.s. is engaged in economic spying. if there's information at siemens the national interests, they'll go after that information and take it. >> that interview was conducted at an undisclosed location for german tv. a russian lawmakers says moscow plans to extend the offer of asylum to snowden beyond august. >>> the police have identified the gunman at dares nor began. there's no word on the motive or if he had ties to the victims. lisa stark has more on how saturday's events all unfolded. >> reporter: a busy shopping morning turned into chaos. police, s.w.a.t. teams, ambulances rush to the mall arriving after 911 calls began pouring in reporting a gunman. inside there was panic. >> i see people running, and i heard some people screaming and i heard it again. it was just boom, boom, boom. people just started screaming and running. it was just complete madness. >> reporter: police say the first officers were on scene within two minutes. they found three people dead of gunshot wounds, one of them the shooter who was armed with a shotgun and apparently killed himself. the two victims worked in a store on the second floor alled zoomies. they have now been identified at 21-year-old brianna and 25-year-old tyler johnson. five people were injured, one with a gunshot wound to the foot. the others apparently hurt in the rush to get out. authorities had to comb the mall to make certain there weren't other shooters and to he is court to safety shoppers and employees who had scrambled into hiding. >> the tactical teams went through every inch of the mall, and it has been cleared. >> reporter: it took hours to clear the mall. andrew mueller and his 4-year-old son evan finally left in the afternoon after being interviewed by police. >> i think i initially thought -- it was also thought that can't be shots. >> sheez scenes have become all too common. >> our hearts and the police department's hearts go out to the families of people that love their lives today. this shouldn't happen in the columbia mall. it shouldn't happen anywhere. unfortunately, that's where we are in society. >>> next, an american father's frustration. he's been stuck in the democratic republic of congo for months now trying to bring home his adoptive son. >>> president obama gets ready to face the nation for his state of the union address. we'll look at the issues topping his agenda. >> evey sunday night, join us for exclusive, revealing, and suprizing talks with the most interesting people of our time. >> our journalists are the best journalists in the world. >> she's the first female executive editor of the new york times. >> there's no question that the editorial stance is a liberal point of view. >> the head of the paper of record goes on the record with talk to al jazeera. only on al jazeera america. >>> welcome back to "al jazeera america." i'm morgan radford, and these are the top stories. >>> we get a preview of what to expect from president obama's state of union address this tuesday. the white house released an e-mail to supporters on saturday forecasting a set of proposals to strengthen the middle class and push immigration reform. a top aide says three words sum up the message, which are opportunity, action and optimism. >>> a tennessee couple is among dozens of americans desperate to bring home adropted children in congress doe. there are thoughs of orphaned children in the nation, but they suspended foreign adoptions leaving parents with little to do but hope and wait. we have the story. >> reporter: she has everything ready for her two adopted boys. their room is filled with shirts and stools and a cute stool to sit on. no one is here to use them. >> it just breaks my heart. i want to adopt as many as i can. they don't have anybody to love them or take care of them. >> justin carroll left for congo in november thinking he'd come home shortly with their sons, but months later they're still 7,000 miles from home. elena asked us to hide the faces in these photos for security reasons. justin has missed a lot in the months. the biggest change is the new daughter born on december 25th. >> she doesn't look the same as she did when she was first born. she's 2 months old almost. she's changing and growing and out of her newborn stuff. it's just getting hard. >> reporter: here's the problem. last year the democratic republic of congo suspended exit permits for families with ato wanted congolese children, even though that met the criteria. >> it has nothing to do with adoption, but has everything to do with politics. >> reporter: bob is a nashville lawyer specializing in adoption. >> usually adoption as a foil, as a tactic, suspending adoption as a tactic to achieve some other kind of diplomatic win, no, it does not work. >> the motive for stopping the adoptions is unclear. the state department says applications for exit permits are being held up because of concerns about falsified documents. the rc authorities have said it was over concerns about abuse or abandoned children or that some children were, quote, sold to homosexuals. whatever the reason, eilelena a her husband have no choice but to communicate through skype. it's the only way to see the boys, and dad can see his new daughter. justin told us even though it's an unstable and possibly violent situation, they feel safe. >> with any couldn't like the congo, you know, instability, something can always happen. there's that chance that you can wake up one day, and it's a very, very unsafe day. >> elena will keep the christmas decorations up until they come home from africa and a dad can see his daughter for the first time. jonathan martin, al jazeera, nashville. >>> one of the thailand's most senior opposition leaders has been shot dead. he was attacked in his car moments after giving a speech. this follows days of large protests where demonstrators are blocking access to polling stations trying to stop early votes in the upcoming elections. scott has that story. >> reporter: he was gunned down after he and fellow anti-government protesters finished their assign. of the day. he was in a pickup truck when he was shot. >> translator: they shot us several times. bang, bang, bang, they shot us. >> reporter: several other pro teers were injured in the shooting. the concern is about the violence, and what it could mean for the general election slated for february 2nd. the protesters were successful in shutting down most of the advanced polling positioning on sunday. in bangkok out of 50 districts the election commission stopped voting in a total of 45 districts. 33 districts in central bangkok, and 12 districts in western bangkok. >> reporter: so the concern here is that more violence and confrontation will take place if the general election is held next sunday. the election commission wants it postponed. the protesters are demanding the resignation of the government and its care taker prime minister that they see as corrupt. the opposition is boycotting the election, the protesters were blockade it and the government is it standing firm saying the only way to postpone is if the protesters end their shut down. they will hold talks on tuesday but there's no indication either side will change its stance. >>> coming up next on al jazeera america. >> they should know that the game is being held in new jersey. >> there you have it. the seahawks versus the probron isn't the biggest match-up. instead it's new jersey versus new york coming up next. >>> plus, breaking with tradition for the very first time, girls are performing at england's kantcanterbury cathed. those stories and a whole lot more when "al jazeera america" returns. in the village the deputy mayor remembers him and wonders where >>> good afternoon, and welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm morgan bradford live from new york city. >>> protesters in kiev reject the plans. >>> it's day three of syrian peace talks in gentleman neef va where the united nations says it could send aid to homs as early as monday if the two sides can agree. >>> three years after the uprising, a toppled president hosni mubarak, egyptians gathered in cairo to celebrate. they were in stark contrast of the violence that killed 49 people on the third anniversary of the revolution. >>> the super bowl is just a week away, and as fans get ready to walk the seahawks and broncos duke it out on the turf, there's some confusion over exactly which turf they play on. alan explains why. >> reporter: the official logo says nynj, new york new jersey. ask people across the country where the big game is played this year and they'll likely tell you -- >> new york. >> new york. >> the big apple. new york. >> unfortunately, the super bowl is being played in new jersey, unfortunately. >> reporter: that's the problem, isn't it? there's the city over there. gotham, the big apple, the city that never sleeps. it is a hell of a town to be sure, but the game is going to be played over here, one state line and a couple of rivers away in east rutherford, new jersey. so new jersey in sight of but so far from the center of the super bowl universe across the hudson can be forgiven if they're a little miffed. >> everything may be directed at new york, but the game will be held in new jersey. >> if you look at the ticket itself, it just shows manhattan and show jersey city with a little circle like that. i don't think that's fair. >> super bowl advertising is new york centric. look how the nfl is promoting the game. all over manhattan you find super bowl reminders, including 12 blocks of broadway through times square that have become super bowl boulevard. not to be sidelined on this issue, jersey city's columbus drive will be known for one glorious week as super bowl drive. also, both teams are staying in jersey city, and the circus that is media day will be held in newark. certainly hundreds of millions will be spent here, and none of this comes as a shock to the garden state. >> we appreciate all the accolades and all of the advertisement and all. we appreciate all the attention. but the game is being held in new jersey. >> reporter: for jersey the whole thing is a bit of a familiar cold shoulder, from the first cold weather super bowl in nfl history. alan shock ler, al jazeera, east rutter ford, new jersey. >>> talking about the cold, it's a chilly start across the big apple and new jersey. we're going to have to continue to deal with that cold air as we move closer and closer to the super bowl. that's right. the temperatures we experience at the beginning of january, well, they're on their way back. look at this deep trough in the jet stream. all that cold air out of canada bringing alberta clipper after alberta clipper. right now we're on the heels of a storm that pushed across the region yesterday and another one is coming across the ohio valley now. going to push into western portions of pennsylvania in the next couple of hours and also on its way to the i-95 corridor. that chilly air is continuing to push towards the south. we have really chili temperatures on the way. we're talking about temperatures around the freezing mark as we head into tonight, and the wind not helping it at all. the winds gust around 20 miles per hour in new york city right now. it feels like 3 degrees. morgan doesn't like the cold and i don't either. we have blizzard warnings in effect across portions of north dakota and down into iowa. it's making it even chillier with the winds blowing around 29 miles per hour in rapid city. it will create blizzard-like conditions with blowing and drifting snow reducing visibility later on today making travel possibly very hazardous. you need to be careful along i-94 and i-90. look at the temperatures right now in chicago. it feels like minus 4 degrees in the windy city, and the winds are a problem through the course of the day, morgan. back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> one of britain's oldest cathedral puts an end to a 1,000-year tradition. the all girls choir gave their debut performance on saturday. we were there at the rehearsal. >> reporter: the ancient stones of canterbury cathedral are no stranger to the human voice and song. it's been atradition for centuries. under the small roof, the faith of that tradition is changing. this is the cathedral's first all-female choir. >> we started it with the fact ladies sing in church. boys were taken to formal traveling. we're really delighted to have this opportunity to give girls from local schools the chance to come and sing in this building. >> reporter: 16 of them selected from the 40 or so who applied in november. on saturday they'll perform songs in the cathedral purple kasiks. >> we were really excited when we found out, because it's exactly the same as the boys and men. >> reporter: is that important to you? >> yeah. we finally got here. now we're equal. >> reporter: some of the statues here at canterbury have been gazing at congregations coming and going for the best part of 1,000 years, and there was a church here way before the cathedral. never in all that time has there been an all-female choir. that's some tradition to be messing around with. the dean here, robert willis, denies there was any specific reason for bringing male choral domination to an end before now. >> why not really? the tradition had lasted a long time, it just felt to us and around us, we must do this. there are girls certainly who want to sing, and we have the resources to do this. >> reporter: to begin with they depp ties when the boys are on holiday, but the girls' role will surely grow. unlike a young boy, a girl's voice doesn't break with adolescence, and including girls doubles the available talent pool. an all-female choir clearly makes sense, and it's just taken this venerable institution 1,000 years to realize it. al jazeera, canterbury. >>> thanks so much for watching al jazeera. i'm morgan radford. see you shortly. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, i am richard and you are at the listening post. this week turkey's prime minister accuses the media inspiring against his democratic elected. but they say he is just blowing spoke. a number of reporters have signed up with the obama administration. three more journalists are murdered in pakistan and the taliban say they did the

>>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. in the wake of a scandal, new jersey governor chris christie preparing to make his state of the state address. >>> reviewing the nsa, a senate committee set to review the recommendations by the presidential panel. >>> and egyptian voters go to the polls deciding on a new constitution. >>> updating our breaking news coming out of roswell, new mexico police confirming there has been a shooting at a middle school there. that school now on lockdown. three students were injured. they also say a suspect is now in custody. roswell police saying they will hold a news conference around 3:00 this afternoon with more details. >>> facing a series of scandals, governor chris christie will deliver new jersey's state of the state address today. last week we learned that a top aide ordered lane closures causing a massive traffic delay, and now there are questions over how governor christie used funds from superstorm sandy. >> reporter: the feeling is he has got to nengs. it has become too big in his

, and al jazeera america is doing just that. >>> good afternoon to you, and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live from new york city. >>> syria talks in geneva are on and off as they try to get both sides working on humanitarian aid in the city of homs. >>> they are digging their heels in. demonstrators in ukraine reject the president's offer and vow to keep on going. >>> a gunman that shot and killed two mall workers before shooting himself has been identified. >>> unfortunately, the super bowl is being plaid in new jersey, unfortunately. >> there you have it, folks. the battle line has been drawn, and that line is the hudson river. new jersey wants the world to know the super bowl isn't happening in new york. >>> just moments ago the united nations mediator gave an update on the ongoing syria peace talks in geneva. he says he will meet jointly with two of the syrian parties on monday. let's listen to what he had to say. >> in the morning we had discussed humanitarian issues. we talked a great deal about heal health. you know, that the center of the city has been under s

to "talk to al jazeera," jill. >> thanks so much, john. >> tell us what it's like to be the editor of "the new york times" for the last couple of years. did you dream about this? >> it's something i have dreamed about since i've been a professional journalist. i never expected that i would actually have this job, but some part of me always, yes, certainly dreamed of working for "the new york times." i grew up here in manhattan. my family actually had two home delivery subscriptions to ""the times"," because my mother was a passionate puzzler, but she couldn't stand to have the puzzle ripped out. she didn't want anyone to touch the section the puzzle was in. my father had to have his own "new york times." >> let me dive right into the news, then, and talk a little bit about the nsa and edward snowden. danielle ellsburg was quoted as say he was a hero. do you see him as a hero or traitor? >> i see him as a very good source. we have published many of the nsa and gchq documents that came from snow den, and so i view him as i did julian assaunge and wikileaks. as a good source. >> some

suny buffalo law school. and bill schneider, a contributor for al jazeera english, and professor at the george mason university. year of action that jay carney is referring to. the president says he has his pen and his phone and it's shorthand for bypassing congress with executive powers. some republicans are saying he has to follow the constitution. are we in for worse gridlock. >> to the first point, executive orders and directives are not unconstitutional. unless the republicans find something that he signed, that they want to make a court case out of, that is not going to do it. it's almost a diminished presidency,if the president has to concede he has to bypass congress and he's talking of using the telephone and his pen to get things done. it's not the strongest starting point. the white house is saying he wants to strike an optimistic note going in. nothing wrong with that. it will be hard to have a year of action that the president is talking about. >> we are talking about not having a strong starting point. president obama going in with record low numbers. a gallop pole fou

>> this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to the news hour in doha. our top stories... >> opposition fighters come under more pressure from the syrian military as they hold they are told the peace summit in switzerland has to go ahead. >> we hope that it will take place in the expected time line and with full results. >> the body of the former israeli prime minister lies in state in jerusalem before a private burial on monday. >> hello is there. in london, with the latest from europe, including... accusations of more crimes and torture could the alleged conducts of british troops result in prosecution in the international criminal courts? >> right now in rome. asking whether this is the beginning of the end of italian opera as austerity measureses here take their toll. >> a peace conference aimed at ending the fighting in syria will definitely go ahead later this month. that's the message from 11 top international enjoys who have been meeting in paris. but it is still not clear whether the main opposition coalition will take part in any capacity. that is despite the fact that opposition fighters appear to be coming under more pressure from the syrian military. in a moment we will be speaking about that fighting in syria. but first let's speak with jackie about it. jackie, the message seems to be the conference is going ahead with or without the opposition. >> well, really the meeting of the friends of syria today in paris was to deliver a clear message to the syrian umbrella opposition group that really talking, this planned meeting in switzerland is the only game in town. events on the ground, which will be hearing about in a moment, indicate that far from withdrawing the syrian government forces, if forces if anything are making gains so americans have been telling the syrian opposition that you can't hope for a military victory. it has been three years now. the only solution really has to be a political solution and that is so the message spelled out clearly by the french ministeria short time ago. >> we have renewed our full support for the national coalition at a time when the syrian people is facing major difficulties. >> following an extensive discussion, we have unanimously adopted this text. presenting our position on the crisis, on the direction in which the international community must follow, and which requests that the geneva 2 conference take place following the expected timetable. >> so, a very clear message there from the french foreign minister and part of the whole of the friends of syria grouping that this really is the only opportunity now. it is the only option. talks at the end of january in switzerland with the aim of creating a a transitional government with full executive powers. they are determined that meeting must take place. all right, jacky, as you saw there, the president of the coalition was there with laurent fadius. this is what he had to say. the most important aspect if is if we all agree that there is no future in syria. the alafad family has no future in syria. >> it is not clear whether the coalition will appear the geneva 2 talks. i think we have a clear idea. >> well, really, the syrian opposition leader, the representative there from the syria national coalition was in a way being selective when he talked about everyone being unanimous. he said that everyone is unanimous about the departure of al asad. not only from him of syria but from the political scene, and his family. they made it clear they want no one linked to the former president involved in any transitional government. of course fabius caught an end to it. which is quite interesting on the part of the syrian swiss, which there was no explicit commitment to take part in the meeting in switzerland. we previously heard from opposition groups they were planning to take a position on the 17th of january. they appear to be giving themselves a few more days before they will formally respond to the international community that they come to the talks. jacky rowland in paris. while that meeting is going on. syrian government forces are advancing on rebel positions on the outskirts of alepo city. an industrial area on the outskirts lies some 10-kilometers northeast of the city. the district is a major transport hub with infrastructure leaks to turk bring. if it falls, rebel sly lines from the north will be cut off. let's go live now to beirut to get the latest on the fighting in that area. what are you hearing? >> well, what we understand is that fighting continues in a number of areas across the opposition controlled north. activists are really worried about them falling into the government's hands. the government has not been able to reach that area but they have been trying to. this is what we understand from our sources on the ground. is strategic territory. fighting, the battles have been fierce. up to 700 people killed in the past 10 days. fighters and civilians. while the rebels are bogged down in their own war. the government is taking advantage of this. and the people of aleppo city are worried. this is a divided city. the east is controlled by rebels and west is controlled by the government. and it lies northeast of the city. while they are fighting each other, there is this unprecedented unity. if we can call that it, among rebel forces. but still, that alliance is not unified and their future vision of syria. some believe in a civil democratic state, others believe in the creation of of an islamic state. while we see them united. in no way does this suggest they have a common vision of syria. on the ground the opposition on the ground is just as fractured as we heard from jacky earlier on. >> thousands of ordinary people of course are trapped by the fighting that is going on there. the u.n. humanitarian chief has been expressing her concern over the humanitarian situation there saying that some people are starving. >> yes, the humanitarian situation is worsening. what valerie is referring to is people are living in the suburbs of damascus, yarmuk, for example, is a district south of the capital. when we understand is that up to 12 people have died from malnutrition since september and people are eating grass. so the international community doing its best to try to get assurances, guarantees from both parties, from all the warning factions, not just the government. they want safe and unhindered access. not just to the besieged areas but battle zones as well. >> given the number of opposition groups on the ground, we are also talking to them. we have had guarantees from some of them that they will make sure that humanitarian workers are safe. we are looking for the same guarantees of government who have said the same thing. the u.n. will be holding a donor conference in the next few days. they are trying to secure up to $7 billion so they can provide much needed assistance to the people of syria, inside and the refugees outside. but u.n. officials have told us they are hoping to raise awareness as a need to create the humanitarian corridors. >> zeina live in beirut. >>> in iraq, two car bombs have killed 13 people and injured 30 others. the first bomb exploded in a bus station in central baghdad. at least nine people were killed there. the second went off in a parked car in the suburb of the capital. four people died in that attack. >> well, they come after weeks of sectarian strife. several armed groups are fighting government forces there. various sunni groups are in control of both cities. here is our report. >> it is almost three weeks since fighting broke out in the province. the government says the military is trying to root out fighters linked to al qaeda. the army is using newly obtained u.s. made hell fire missiles and surveillance drones. the government also says that local tribal leaders and their fighters are engaged in the battle against what they call terrorists. but that is not how these fighters or the residents see it. after soldiers cleared an anti-government protest site and arrested a sunnim.p., tribal fighters took it upon themselves to protect their areas. the fighters were able to control parts of fallujah and rumadi, but the government says fighters are still present there but the local tribes deny it. it was at the heart of sunni insurgency and the tribes that help american forces reverse the tied against al qaeda, the so-called awakening councils. but since the u.s. withdraw its soldiers in 2011, iraq's deal has crumbled. sunnis started anti-government pro-nests six provinces, accusing the government of sectarianism and marginalizing them. more seriously baghdad was using the army to target sunnis, one reason why the people refused to allow the army to enter their areas. the government denied the accusations. but this crisis is not internal, it is linked to the war in neighboring syria. the islamic state of iraq and the territory on the border between iraq and syria which allows them free movement. critics say he is using this for political reasons to boost his image and target opponents before general elections in april. but maliki is winning support not only from his voters but also from the u.s., which is speeding up the process of selling more weapons and equipment to the iraqi regime. though washington is adamant that u.s. troops will not return to iraq. this is iraq's biggest crisis since u.s. forces left and could have serious consequences for the area. >> former israeli prime minister ariel sharon's body is lying in state. hundreds have been to pay their respects. it is an emotional time sharon was looked upon as a father figure by many israelis. he will be buried in his farm in southern israel on monday. >> columnist for the up in joins us now. good to have you would us. you said in your column yesterday that while sharon was certainly israel's most courageous politicians, he was also the cruelest. what do d you mean by that? >> i think there were two sharons. the early sharon and late sharon. sharon a, the early sharon most of his career was a warrior, courageous officer and commander who taught israel the language of military power, brutality and many times even in times of war. the late sharon, the sharon of his last years realized too late, but still on time, realized that israel cannot leave on its ward forever, cannot use only its military force as a guarantee for its existence and there are some limits to the use of force. this happened in his last stages. and then he went for the disengagement from gaza, which might have been a beginning for a bigger pull-out from the occupied territories. >> you go on to write about that transformation and then you say in later life that should have taught the israeli a lesson but didn't. you say that was his biggest failure. in what way? >> because unfortunately israely is back to square one again believing only on its military force. not seeing the limits of it. ignoring totally the position of most of the world, if not the entire world and that it would guarantee the future of israel, this was the early sharon and now we are back in the same place with the current government who believes in the very same values that the early sharon believed in and totally ignore his late legacy, which was opposite. >> what do you think will be his lifetime legacy? how will history and israel remember him? >> in two meetings points, two milestones i would say. the lebanese war, one of the most criminal israely wars on one hand, and the disingaugement from gaza, which was a courageous step pulling out all the settlers, pulling out the idea. he did in a wrong way without negotiation, without getting to an agreement with the palestinians, while ignoring the palestinians but he did it. and israel lacks a courageous leader who will do more of the same, but i don't see anyone around who had the capeability or has the capability and the courage to pull out settlers like ariel sharon did. the man who brought them there was also the man who took a small part of them out of there. >> gideon, also good to talk to you. many thanks for being with us. live in tel aviv. >> still to come here on the news hour, in thailand, they try to force out the government. >>> tropical cyclone battles. >>> and a look for the win, the top of the english premiere league, a little later. >> the transitional leader of the central african american remember is calling for calm. interim president at the president was forced to resign by regional leaders on friday. >> i promis to work with all the forces of the nation without distinction. in order to achieve that goal. i ask each central african to remain calm and trust the action we are launching today in order to carry out the transition in peaceful and safe conditions. >> more now. >> there has been more looting and more shooting overnight in the capital of the central african republic. the peacekeepers here are struggling to restore some sort of law and order. the problem is that nobody is in charge and control of this country. local politicians, nonetheless are going through the motions, at least, of trying to choose some sort of transitional leader. they are holding meetings today, sunday, but we don't see a single figure emerging who can unite this country who is not divisive. meanwhile, people are leaving. mainly muslims. there will be more flights two more flights to the capital of neighboring chazz today. thousands of people have gone. many of these people are leaving, really one has to treat nationality as a fluid concept. they might have been born in this country. they speak zango the local language but origins come from neighboring countries, and that is where they are going to. women and children typically, men staying behind, waiting to acities situation and hoping, hoping that one day will be safe to come back to the central african republic. >> and continuing to push for a cease-fire in suedan. enjoys from the united states and south sudans neighbors have met. the head of the rebel forces have been fighting government troops. the u.n. has been pressing the government to release political prisoners to facilitate peace talks. here is our report now from bentu. driving along the road, you can't stay for too long. they are a little bit nervous because the rebels might be on the outskirts. what we are seeing is a lot of destruction. since the fighting started i have been there. but you see obviously bodies of military personnel on the road. a lot of them are hiding out. many are too afraid to come back. the city is like a ghost town. parts have been charred. and walking around, there are lots and lots of soldiers. they seem to be in control but there are still militants so we can't stay in one place for too long. >> five al jazeera journalists are still being detained without charge in egypt. they are accused of spreading lies harmful to state security and of joining a terrorist group. al jazeera says the allegations are fabricated and is demanding their release. the other two journalists from are from our sister channels. they have been detained for the past five months. >> fighting between rival tribes in the lybian city of saba has left 15 people dead. the death of a militia chief on thursday prompted several days rough running battles. >>> meanwhile, the deputy industry minister was shot dead on sunday. he is the latest in ana string of high profile killings. he was the city's representative on the national transition council which took part taft revolution. >>> anti-government protesters in thailand have been gathering with the aim of shutting down the capital bangkok. demonstrations are plannedded monday to force the government from office before next month's elections. so far eight people have been killed in protest related violence. more now from veronica in bangkok. >> they are calling it bangkok shut down. thousands of protesters like the ones you see around me are planning to paralyze the capital city of thailand in order to throw out the government, the prime minister. this stage itself is going to be shut down. it has been the base of protests for more than two months. but instead, the protest stages will be set up right around the city in major arteries. it is going to be a big threat to business. traffic is expected to be terrible. the plan is to shut the city down for 15 to 20 days. now government is putting in place 14,000 troops and police to prevent law and order problems. this is supposed to security the -- to secure the jake it is not clear how far they will go to try to put the city back to normal. and at what point that might happen. the threat is that there could be violence on the streets, of course. six people were injured on saturday when anti-government protesters and pro-government protesters clashed outside bangkok. and then inside. not far away from here. 7 people were shot by under identified gunmen on motorbikes. and they were mostly anti-government demonstrators. so the situation really has the potential to spiral out of control. there are efforts to try and resolve it. the government is considering putting in place an executive order to put together a reform committee to try to address demands for reform that these protestors are making. there is also elections scheduled for february 2nd. the people here though, want to shut down bangkok are not willing to wait. they want an unelected council in place. >> in bangladesh, three opposition politicians have been appointed to the government's new cabinet that follows last week's disputed elections which returned. more than 24 people were killed during the vote, which was boycotted by the opposition. international observers in some foreign nations have called for a new inclusive poll. >> emergency services in tonga are trying to help thousands of islanders affected by one of the strongest storms they have ever seen. sigh cone ian papassed over the pacific nation on saturday killing at least one person and injuring several others. more now from caroline. >> this was the seen after cyclone ian hit tonga. winds gusting up to 287-kilometers per hour left parts of the island flattened. tonga's director of emergency says there is more damage than they anticipated. it was one of the strongest storms to hit in decades. >> 70% of the houses is either damaged or blown away and the rest of the 30% left is affected by water. >> the military and aid groups are trying to reach people by boat. but it has been difficult to get to some of the worst hit areas because of rough seas. >> more than 80% of the infrastructure has been affected so, we will now wait to have a look at. >> new zealand is also helping. it sent an air force plane to try and assess the damage. supplies are also ready to be flown out from there when conditions allow. car line malone, al jazeera. we are approaching the halfway point on the news hour. we will update in a few moments. 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comes as syrian government forces advance on rebel positions near aleppo. >>> in iraq, government forces are fighting al qaeda linked fighters. these are pictures from the city of flukea where various armed groups are battling for supremacy. and the head of the transitional governing body is calling for calm between christian and fighters. >>> a suicide bomber has killed two people. in kentuckya bye ul, a police bus killing cadets and wounding several others. the afghan taliban told local media that it carried out the assault. >>> afghanistan's president karzai long accused the united states of trying to push him out of office. now he has one major voice backing his claim, the u.s. secretary of defense. robert gate's new book is likely to further strain ties between the two countries. jane ferguson reports now from kabul. >> it was an accusation often dismissed as paranoia. during his reelection campaign karzaira cuesed the u.s. of trying to get rid of him. >> there were a lot of stories of the plans in washington and in london to bring a change into the structure of government in afghanistan and to weaken the government of afghanistan and to go to the strong men that they like in afghanistan and to put resources to afghanistan. >> now excerpts from then u.s. defense secretary roberts gates writes that was true. he writes about richard holbrooke's attempts at what he called a push saying home brook and others extended support to many of karzai's challengers. the deputy spokesperson in kabul has reacted with an i told you so. >> what secretary gates has revealed in his book further proves the righteousness of president karzai's claims that there were deliberate efforts to disregard and to manipulate the very genuine votes of the afghan people. but karzai was also accused of foul play at the time evidence of a campaign to rig the votes if his favor was widely reported. new allegations by administration -- of interference by the obama administration could discred it the election. >> they don't know who to trust anymore. the people have been misled so many times by so many players that sometimes they have lost -- at times they have -- they don't have the self-confidence that is sufficient for a nation to act on in their own interest. and it is very dangerous that we have depleted a nation from its self confidence. >> revelations about possible u.s. interference in the last presidential elections here come just a few months before afghan's go to the polls to vote for their next leader. president karzai has warned repeatedly against foreign manipulation. a warning that now seems to hold more weight. jane ferguson, al jazeera, kabul, afghanistan. now here is an intriguing proposition, could some of the prominent faces the british side of the iraq war about to apoor officially accused of war crimes, it is not beyond the realms of possibility in criminal court it seems. straight to our news center to explain why. >> the icc has been formally asked to address alleged war crimes in a dossier. it details allegations of beatings, mock executions and sexual assaults. it names among others, the former defense secretary, the former defense minister and the head of the accomplish army. the document draws on 400 iraqis that are thousands of allegations of mistreatment amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. it wants an investigation held under article 15 of the rome statute. the report is the work of the european center for constitutional human rights and a number of british human rights lawyers. one has been speaking to al jazeera. >> we analyze over 400 cases of torture, although they are now over a thousand of those cases. and we look in particular at the torture techniques that were part of the uk's interdation policy, interrogation and tactical questioning. there is also a great deal of abuse, a great number of unlawful killings, and a number of those just like the people who go into british facility very much alivend within a few hours or a couple of days they are very much dead. >> and you stated that you believe that the abuse was system attic, what evidence is there for that? >> there is a massive material. we have analyzed this being disclosed to us in various court proceedings and all point to the top. it all shows very clearly that those at the top new exactly what was being trained, and knew exactly how those unla techniques, which constitute torture and cruel and inhuman and degrading treatment meant that inevitably in iraq, hundreds and hundreds of iraqi civilians who were detained and then questioned or interrogated were subject to torture and unsurprisingly, some of them didn't survive. >> now, you are actually naming names, you are including civilian and military figures. can you tell us more about that? >> we are focusing on those at the top. it is not good enough for the m.o. d. to peddle a few bad apples. it is not people just at the bottom on a frolic of their own. it is trained and authorized and sanctioned at the very top. >> the m.o. d. are misleading the public to put it mildly. there is nothing to show for 10, 11 years it has been since the first deaths in iraq which started in april 2003 and here we are january 2014, the m.o. d. are simply not telling the truth. i suggest you go back to them and insist that they tell you the real facts. had you might ask them how many deaths in custody are they aware of, we found 111 and they repeatedly refused to tell the courts how many they are aware of. perhaps they might answer that question for you? >> well in response on sunday the military of defense gave al jazeera this statement. >> these matters are either under thorough investigation or have been dealt with through various means, including the iraq, historic allegations team, independent public inquiries, the kk, courts and in parliament. as such, further action through the icc is unnecessary when the issues and allegations are known to the uk government and the uk courts have issued judgments. should we be approached by the icc we will take the opportunity to explain the extensive work underway to deal with historic allegations of abuse. we reject the suggestion that the uk's arm forces, who operate in line with domestic and international law have systematically tortured detainees. but of course the uk government regrets the small number of cases where abuses have taken place. where allegations have been substantiated we have compensated victims and their families. >> now the last few minutes we started getting reports that the department of the french is in hospital. according to the french up in he was admitted to a paris hospital on thursday. reports suggest she will be released in a few days. she was admitted following claims that her long time partner has been having an affair with a french actress. >>> in ukraine, tens of thousands of people are continuing their protest in the center of can i i have. opposition -- kiev. the square has been the focus of anti-government protests. protests after the decision to freeze ties with the west. >>> the number of people going self-employed in croatia has rocketed. and there is a reason. many are getting cash from the government. entrepreneurs can pocket $5,000 to help boost the economy. here is the report. >> freshly squeezed apple, a juice that is unusual and popular mix. but the real recipe for success came down to hard work, persistence and belief in herself. >> 5 months ago he was unemployed so decided to open a fresh juice shop with help from the government. during the first year of business, he will get up to $5500 u.s. dollars. he will repay back to the state. as his business grows, he has employed others. >> three of us are working here right now. we plan to have one more next week because business is growing. in spring we will probably extend to one more shop. this is a son september of health food that is in today. people want that. >> more and more unemployed people in croatia are becoming self-employed. three years ago that number was around 700. but last year it increased to over 5,000. but for a country with more than 370,000 unemployed people, that is still a small figure. >> small businesses will get more than 15 million u.s. dollars from the state and four and a half million more from funds. but the individual stimulus will be up to 4500 u.s. dollars. >> that is new from this year. we are getting smaller amounts for stimulus and everyone will get the same, regardless if they are apply forget a business or craft company. we will give them money according to their business plan. >> anyone who needs money to start a business has to come to the bureau with their idea. and if it is approved, and the stimulus is granted, the business can be registered. and most croatians support the idea despite concern of public spending during a time of financial crisis. >> any amount of money for stimulus is absolutely positive thing. >> if someone is successful he doesn't need much. >> that seems like a lot of money to get at once but i think the whole thing is much more expensive. >> they require business owners have their own start-up money before they apply for the grant. if they don't use the money on the business, the government will take it back. while many are taking advantage of this, some say more needs to be done to help the hundreds of thousands of others who are still unemployed. al jazeera, zagreb. >>> they save it isn't over until the fat lady sings. he is certainly appears to be losing her voice in italy where an old favorite is hit by the financial crisis. a report on whether the final curtain is falling on italy's operas. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they are the heart and soul of the opera. the chorus of rome's famous opera house. pavarotti and maria calas have performed here. but the opera house is in trouble. it owes 50 million. if management can receive a bailout but only if they cut jobs. >> the opera is one of italy's most cultural institutions. on par with the coliseum or any painting. it should be protected by the state and our constitution guarantees that. >> the financial crisis initially is forcing the government to slash funding for the art. the government has to save billions of dollars in the next few years. opera houses in italy are mostly state funded. some have had no choice but to cut confirmances. or in some cases close down. >> this is one of rome's oldest theaters founded in 1727. the los angeles official performance here was in 2011. campaigners are trying to raise enough money to keep this place open. >> the i stallian government spends more than a billion a year on culture. much of the money goes to restoring ancient sites like the coliseum. the minister of culture insists opera will survive the financial crisis. >> they have to manage the administration more carefully. so the tradition can survive for many years. it is of course my duty above all to respect the profession of these people. i think it will be difficult to match the future where culture is not at the heart of things. >> in roam's opera house, the performance of swan lake. when musicians went on strike last month, the orchestra was replaced with a cd track. for now, the artists are back. they say the show must go on. but it is not clear for how long. for al jazeera, rome. >>> and the show continues here on al jazeera now back to adrian. many thanks. the 2014 rally is passing through the salt flats in bolivia as the race continues through south america. the raceback began in argentina and winds through bolivia before ending in chile on friday. now bolivians had vowed to block motorcycles and all-terrain 6 vehicles from the sea flats but the protest was called off when the government announced that it was sending in the military. we were hoping to take you live to bolivia, unfortunately the technical gremlins have got the better of us. we will take a break. >>> just ahead all the sports, including all the ups and downs for olympic mogul champions. all the details in just a moment. >> >>> an auction has outraged animal rights activists in the u.s. and beyond. up for grabs, the rights to kill an endangered black rhino in africa. the permits went for 350,000. here is our report. >> space inside the dallas convention center was at a premium as 45,000 hunting enthusiasts from around the world attended the dallas safari club convention. this is our single biggest fund-raiser. >> jewelry, rifles and furs were available for purchase. but this time the big item up for auction was a permit to hunt a black rhino. that brought protesters to dallas. >> shouldn't be putting animal hunting in this way. that is wrong. >> they say the auction was inhumane. >> we need every single one of these animals, not even one should be taken out. into the dallas safari club says all proceeds will go towards saving the supervise. >> a lot of people think wildlife just exists out there it takes care of itself. it doesn't. it is a managed wildlife. it costs money. namibia doesn't have a lot of excess money. they need money to manage the wildlife and in this case to protect and increase the population of the black rhino. >> he was able convince the people of namibia because of the money he would be bringing back into the country. >> this is the first time this permit has been auctioned off in the united states. >> protesters say the club should just give the money directly. >> the rhino killed will be past breeding age and aggressive to other wildlife. an american will pay anything to kill the species, protesters say. >>> time now for sports. here is jo. >> thank you. >> >>> closing in on the top spot of the english premiere league. there is just five minutes left in the match. three points from chelsea and arsenal making them the third team in two days to occupy the lead. >>> fellow title hopefuls liverpool are currently 6 in the league but a win could lift them up to 4th. spanish league champions barcelona were at madrid. very few chances in the first half. but should have added to his 19 goals for the season. second half straight away he got a warm welcome. the barcelona star picked himself up to almost grab a winner. nil-nil is how it finished. they remain locked on points at the top of the table. fourth place in la liga, they opened the scoring as they raced to a 3-nil lead in the first half an hour. before the break, bilbao completed the 6-1 rout. third place real madrid will narrow the gap to three points if they win at mid-table espanol. the top tennis players are placing themselves for another scorcher in melbourne. temperatures expected to top 40 greece degrees sells yules -- celsius. they may have to postpone matches. >> andy handed out chocolates at a news conference before they could turn into a sticky mess. the experience of playing many times in australian summer over the years definitely helps for the preparations. but, i don't change anything in particular in my approach. everything is more or less the same. and i am expecting to play in a big heat. you always have to expect because you can't really predict whether it is changing a lot. >> staying in the melbourne heat. the aussies thrashed england. australia chased down the target with 26 balls to spare to win by six wickets and keep up their perfect record since the english arrived in australia. sri lanka beat pakistan with nine wickets in hand to take a 1-nil lead in the three test series. >>> on to the nfl playoffs. for a third straight season the new england patriots have reached the american football conference title game. the pats beat the colts in the playoffs. new england will face the winner of sunday's game between the denver broncos and san diego chargers. n. the seattle seahawks won their national football conference playoff. the top seeded seahawks beat the new orleans saints 23-15. seattle will host either san francisco or carolina who play each other a little later. >>> the south african gophers made it four years in a row to have won the tour event in the calendar year. the open winner retains his title in derwin on sunday. finishing with 12 under par. >>> german skier is count can down to the start of the marks hoping to add the downhill gold to the world cup a

government and the sunni groups in anbar province are at a stalemate. imran khan. al jazeera. >> civilian protest again the tactics and the islamic state in iran in the levant. anita, battles are still being fought. so the question has to be, what is your understanding of what is going on? >> reporter: beginning to get a sense of a broad brush detail of what's going on. for want of a better term, the moderate syrian forces are the ones who have decided that they have had enough of the actions of the islamic state of iran in the levant, now of course occupying many areas particularly in the north of the country. so there is a new grouping, a more effective grouping it would seem at the moment of moderate forces facing the islamic state of al qaeda force force ifs in e levalentine. big powerful block of fighters, the were form emerier, towards the end of last year. there was 11 big brightsd briga, are they siding with the free syrian forces? at the moment they are not saying what they are doing. but we understand they are assisting the free syrian forces. they don't want to open up a war wi

>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. critical shorming, california takes emergency action, with water levels running dangerously low. >> climb through only to see that i was actually in her bedroom and she was in bed with half the building on top of her. >> return to northridge. look back to the devastating california quake 20 years ago and what has changed. cyberin security. the president changes the rules but the spying will go on. >>> there's gold in those mountains, cinematic gold by those at sundance. the film festival at 30. >>> and we begin with the drought emergency that's in effect tonight in california. the governor telling citizens they need to be prepared to cut back on their use of water, and that it could be that way for a long time. the announcement comes on the heels of a wildfire still burning in the foothills of los angeles. >> it's important to know we still remain guarded january 17th, it still feels like it's summertime. and so we guardedly, guard it as we continue to move forward, as we still continue to have that offshore wind

... >>> this is al jazeera. >>> welcome to the news hour. al jazeera news centers in doha. these are the top stories. a powerful explosion hit southern beirut. four people are dead. iraq's bloody year, 2013 recalls the biggest in five years. fighting continues in south sudan as rebels prepare to begin peace talks in ethiopia. and how this puppet commercial got one in egypt in trouble. >>> with the latest from europe, including security issues dominate as russia presses ahead with its preparations for the winter olympics in sochi. >>> welcome to al this this this this. >> they didn't want the lebanese to be part and it would open the way in lebanon. >> no one. but for many lebanese, it started to reach them. the politicians, president terrorism. they called for the unity of the lebanese. but this this >> this is one of the main groups fighting in syria. >> that's prompted the she aled group. to try to restore order local tribesmen have joined the police in the city of ramadi to try to take police buildings that the fighters have occupied. there is anger here over the arrest of a p

good afternoon and welcome to al jazeera america, i'm morgan rad radford and live from new york and we are following a chemical spill and residents told tap water is safe but many say it still smells. new allegations against chris christie and another mayor of new jersey accuses him of political pay back. plus clashes in kiev as thousands of people speak out against new laws indirectly at shutting down public protests. ♪ after ten days without water all west virginia residents have finally been told they can now drink from their taps again and the ban was lifted a day ago many are complaining about a very peculiar spell and robert ray is live on the scene in charleston and say the water is safe now so what exactly are residents still concerned about? >> well, the residents here in charleston, west virginia are concerned about the fact that you know it's been a few days since the water bans are lifted and people have been flushing their pipes out but a lingering odor is rounds like an licorace or candy and after the water is flushed out describing the smell inside their homes and o

joining us on al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. , a botched camp fire morphed into a massive wildfire. san gabriel mountains, causing evacuations in nearby city of glenglendora. police say they have the culprits who may have started that fire. al jazeera's jennifer london is in glendora with more. >> what started as an early morning camp fire quickly spread to a wildfire out of control. within hours the wildfire burned 1700 acres and caused evacuations of 5,000 people. the colby fire as it is called, 600 to 700 firefighters are trying to increase that containment level. firefighters do say as night fell they began to get the upper hand and were able to stop the forward movement of the flames. the hope is that the wind does not come up overnight, to bridge the fire lines that workers worked all day to establish. three people have been charged with recognizelessly starting th it was fired in the early morning hours. while they believe it was started as an accident, they could be charged if it was determined it was started on federal forest land. the severe drought like conditio

joining us on al jazeera today. >> my pleasure. >>> you are watching the news hour on al jazeera. still to come, the killing of a top envoy casts a shadow over reconciliation talks in yemen. >>> and a ground breaking scheme is drawing the educational talent out of children against a backdrop of prejudice and poverty. >>> plus a sock shock for jock. details with jo a bit later. ♪ >> a baum blast targeted a bus in western pakistan, and we believe at least 22 people have died. it happened on the pakistan-iran highway. pilgrims were returning from iran when the bomb ignited. can you update us on this attack? >> reporter: [ inaudible ] the bus was traveling from the pakistani border town along the iranian border it was [ inaudible ] on their way back from iran when the bus came under attack on the main road just a few hour's drive from [ inaudible ]. it was an explosive device according to the security forces in the area, up to 100 kilograms of explosion was used the bus was destroyed and we were told there were 50 people on the bus. [ inaudible ] security forces. some of the wounded inclu

>> good afternoon, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford live from new york city. here are the stories we're following for you right now. the storm has passed, but dangerously cold temperatures are threatening the northeast. and secretary of state john kerry said there is progress in his mideast mission. >>> and in the florida every grades a mission comes to an end. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry said there is progress towards peace in the middle east. at least to talk about it. kerry said he's optimistic that talks can happen, and is now trying to encourage talks between israelis and the palestinians. he's in jerusalem now after spending the day with the palestinians' president. also in jerusalem is our nick schifrin, who was at the talks in ramalah today where he joins us live. nick, we understand that kerry came out this morning and said's making progress. but what exactly is on the table this time around? >> reporter: all kerry is trying to do in his words to create a framework for the guidelines of talks. he's not trying to solve mideast peace this weekend b

>>> good morning. welcome to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford live from new york city. here is the stories we are following for you right now: the nation braces as a wave of cold air heads south and growing concern about the stability of iraq. >>> meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people search for safety in south sudan. first, we begin with a number. >> that's negative 35 degrees farenheit height. >> that's how cold it is expected to be in parts of minnesota tonight. >> that's not as bad as it will get in the next few days. the national forecast in just a few moments. but first, for more on the extent of that danger and just how the nation is preparing for it, we turn now to al jazeera's very own kilmeny duchardduchard e there may be records set in the midwest and northeast. how dangerous are these temperatures? water freezes at 32 degrees nooirnt aonce it drops to negative 10 degrees, frost isbite can occur within 30 minutes. at negative 35 degrees, your car's anti-freeze may no longer work, and at negative 40 degrees, it can only take five minutes for frostbite to set i

see you online. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> welcome to the news hour, live from doha, coming up on the program, still talking, the syrian government and opposition agree to face-to-face discussions in geneva on saturday. >> we never expected to be easy, and i'm sure it is not going to be, but i think the two parties understand what is is at stake. >>> the first of four blasts in egypt. at least six people have died in a day of violence. >>> hello, i'm here with all of the news from europe. ukrainian activist is laid to rest. we talked to the friend who was with him when he was taken from hospital. >>> and an awkward encountering at respondents of the french president's affair, he meets pope francis. >>> well it has taken three years of fighting, more than 100,000 lives have been lost, but finally the syrian government and the opposition are going to meet face-to-face. >> tomorrow we expect, we have agreed that we will meet in the same room. when we started talking about this process after the russian and the american meeting in moscow on the 7th of may, we never consi

♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ and you join us for the al jazeera news hour and welcome for me, david foster and this is some of what we have coming up, in the next 60 minutes. they crucified me, an activist missing for 8 days claims he was kidnapped and tortured. it's the great barrier reef at risk and australia gives the go ahead for millions of cubics of mud to be dumped nearby and bangkok protesters step up the bid to topple the government. and the biggest e waste site in the world where young people risk their lives to make a living. ♪ and we start in ukraine, two disturbing stories of intimidation right in the middle of the country's political crisis and one involves journalists attacked by police, the other a 35-year-old political activist demetri says he was beaten, tortured and part of his ear cutoff and also that he was crucified and we are live from kiev and what does he say happened to him? >> and we are still trying to establish the full scope of what exactly happened to him but what we know comes from a brief interview he gave last night. as you mentioned the

... >>> you are watching al jazeera america, live from new york city. i am jonathan betz. fighting for fallujah. iraq's brian mim sister proms to take over a group that's taken over parts of the country. brutal weather spreading from the mid kept bringing dangerously low temperatures. rescuing the rescue you'res, another stip is trapped in the antartic ice. ♪ wake up, little susie. ♪ wake up. >> we look back at the life after rock in' roll pioneer. >> battles ranging in iraq have u.s. officials concerned. the iraqi government is fighting al-qaeda-linked militants for control of parts of western iraq. you can hear the gunfire in fallujah where 8 have been killed. fallujah is one of the two main cities in iraq's rambar province. ramadi has been under siege. they are affiliated with al-qaeda. they call themselves, the islamic state of iraq and lamont. that grew wants to set up a sunni islamic state in iraq and across the border. al-qaeda has taken over control of parts of syria as well. for more, we go to imran. >> the fighters claim they have taken over the main highway into the

to deal with the violence is growing. i'm with al jazeera. >> reporter: now we have the director for the south asia center of the atlantic council and joins us from washington d.c., good to have you with us and i'm sure you remember when the ledders of the taliban were killed by u.s. drone strikes some predict we will see the pakistan taliban take a tougher line is this, in fact, what we are seeing today? >> yes, and the travesty in pakistan is for having a proactive strategy which is to hurt the pakistan military and civilian forces whereas the government does not have a clear strategy. there is now expectation that a new government policy will be announced in the next few days, but the government has failed to shape the environment and to get the public on board as to exactly how it's going to have a strategy that will be proactive, that will not only address the violence but also address the need for economic development in the area where the taliban are most active. the borders with afghanistan. >> reporter: up until now the government was talking about peace tracks and tryin

makes sense, and it's just taken this venerable institution 1,000 years to realize it. al jazeera, canterbury. >>> thanks so much for watching al jazeera. i'm morgan radford. see you shortly. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, i am richard and you are at the listening post. this week turkey's prime minister accuses the media inspiring against his democratic elected. but they say he is just blowing spoke. a number of reporters have signed up with the obama administration. three more journalists are murdered in pakistan and the taliban say they did the killing. and when a masterpiece comes to life. that's our web video of the week. there is a huge political story unfolding in turk and it's media aren't just reporting they represent a key subplot. prime minister's government is caught up in a cryption standsal and some journalists and media outlets chasing the story have been paying the price with fines, prosecution and some times their jobs. the country was the world amounts biggest jailer of journalist long before the scandal came to light. we have reported before here on the listening post on the corporate c

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, welcome to al jazeera. also ahead on the program. the first batch of chemical weapons is taken out of syria by sea. >> north korea celebrates kim jong un's birthday, by announ announcing elections. >> and taking aim at the commander-in-chief. a former u.s. defense secretary attacks barack obama in his memoires. >> there's tension in egypt as the trial of deposed president mohamed morsi resumes in cairo. he's due before the judges shortly. there has been protests near the court. these are the pictures from the nasser city area. tear gas is being fired on anti-coup demonstrators. >> this is the scene live outside of the courtroom at cairo police academy, where he'll be appearing shortly. security is on high alert. mohamed morsi is on trial with 14 muslim brotherhood members, accused of inciting the killing of protesters during mohamed morsi's presidency in 2012. the prosecution says mohamed morsi incited his supporters to use violence and commit murder. the case looks at the deaths of people protesting against a decree extending mohamed morsi's powers in 2012. he's accused on calling on

>>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >> we are going to go there and try to minimize the suffering of the syrian people. >> heading to geneva. the key players hoping to reach common ground on syria's civil war. >>> take two cold snap and heavy snow slowing down the northwest and northeast. >>> and looking at a couple facing jail time for sending their daughter to an out of district school. ♪ >>> delegates are arriving in swizer lan for peace talks aimed attending syria's civil war. those talks almost derailed after the un secretary general invited iran to the talks. iranian officials say the un's move is a mistake. >> translator: we are disappointed about two things. one that mr. bankky moon withdrew his own invitation due to the pressure imposed on him. >> i have a kind of mixed feelings. we are going to go there to try to minimize the suffering of the syrian people. this is the most important thing, i think to do. >> for the latest we go to james bayes. >> reporter: in the coming hours important preliminary meetings

. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! this is al jazeera america. i'm tony harris. >> former defense secretary robert gates writing a new book. white house jay carney addressed the issue in the briefing and was quick to defend biden and the president. >>> the military investigating two helicopter crashes. in norfolk, virginia, five people were on board and one died and one is still missing. and another happened in norfolk, england, four service members killed in that crash. >>> in the trial of egypt's former president mohammed morsi was delayed today blamed on bad weather. morsi supporters spoke out against the delay. in cairo more than a dozen people were arrested, and dozens of african migrants protested outside of israeli prime minister today. the prime minister has declared them infiltrators. i'm tony harris from new york. al jazeera is next. have to be universal. >> ira glass hosts a show "the american life," listened to by millions. there are stories covered often with humour. >> we did the funniest hair on gaun tan ammo >> he talks about being an reme

the united states. will live online for the entire world to see. but that isn't the same as the community possessing and caring for the very proof of its existence across centuries. rosalyn jordan, al jazeera, washington. >> it's a friday to forget, disappointment with the monthly jobs report. i'm going to bring you the story behind the numbers. also how fake friends on facebook can translate into real sales for business, and fasten your seat belts, the detroit auto show gets started. i'm going to start kicking the tires. i'm ali velshi and this is "real money". this is "real money" you're the most important part of the show so join our live conversation for the next half hour at are twitter or facebook. call it a nasty december surprise in january. the news that the u.s. economy created just four,000 net new jobs in the -- 74,000 net new jobs in the last month of 2013. way below the 182,000 average monthly gain in 2013. now, blame brutal winter weather for part of that drop. put a chill on construction which lost 16,000 jobs but the cold doesn't explain the health care sector losing 6,000 positions. that's the industry's first monthly decline in ten years. now you may have heard that the unemployment rate fell from 7% in november to 6.7% in december. that's the lowest number the more than five years. that's not good news. most of that drop in the unemployment rate is because 347,000 people dropped out of the labor force last month. and that's why the labor force participation rate fell in december. labor force participation rate, that's this, represents the percentage of the working age population that's either working or looking for work. now, this fell a bit last month. you can see there down to 62.8%. that is near a 36-year low. now one reason for that is that baby boomers continue to retire. but a lot of it is that people are growing discourage with an economy that's not creating enough jocks so they give up and they drop out of the job search. earlier today i asked u.s. labor secretary tom perez how we can get people back into the labor force and looking for jobs. >> part of the reason we see a reduction in labor force participation is because the population is aging. so there are those demographic trends. part of the reason is because we need to create more jobs. and you are correct, that the reduction in the up employment rate last month, two-thirds of it was a function of reduced labor force participation. and that's why the extension of emergency unemployment compensation is so important because one of of the requirement of the receipt of those benefits is you have to keep looking for ajob. and the studies have pretty consistentlconsistently shown iu are removed from those benefits and you don't have that requirement then you tend to become discouraged faster and you stop looking. so that's why these benefits are so critical. but really the long term solution to the very good question you ask about labor force participation is, we need to grow the economy. the big eggs force that drives -- biggest force that drives employment is gdp. it's consumption. we've got to put money in people's pockets so that they buy more things and we do that by raising the minimum wage. we do that by investing in our infrastructure. >> is there going to be another plan? is the white house going to come up with another suggestion despite the fact that it might get shot down by republicans again for a federal infrastructure bank? >> i tell you, the president put fort a tax cut proposal cutting the taxes in the corporate taxes and there's one-time savings that results from such atax reduction and the proposal was to take that one time savings and invest in infrastructure. you know i spent a lot of time meeting with business he and with chambers and you know, the two or three things i hear the most from the business community when i meet with them is, you know, we need to invest in infrastructure because the failure to do so hurts our bottom line. we need to pass immigration reform because it grows the economy and we need the workforce and we need certainty and predictability from government. those are the three things that i hear most of the business community and i couldn't agree with them more and that's why -- >> three things we don't have at the moment. >> these programs need to move forward. >> well, the quality of jobs america is creating as the economy recovers is another cause for concern. in december once again many of the new jobs came from low wage industries like time and money to earn college degrees. as patricia sabga reports, don't make use of their higher education. >> when poly sci major whitney mcdonald graduated she was positive about her prospects. >> i had graduated top of my class and i felt great when i graduated. >> three years out the 26-year-old has yet to land a job in her chosen field. >> since graduating i've been working in a restaurant for five days a week and nannying three days a week. >> in 200134% of college graduates were underemployed. by 2012, that number had vaulted to 34%. new grads have to compete in a saturated labor market. >> there's more demand for skill and education than there's ever been before. that makes it harder on young people even those with a college degree. they have less experience and skill than workers who have been in the labor force for a long time. >> transitioning into the ivory tower has been a challenge for recent college graduates but finding a good job has never been harder for them. the share of recent college are graduates swelled in 2000 to 20% in 2011. but different degrees have different outcomes. 75% of recent engineering education and health, require a degree compared to 40% for liberal arts graduates. >> there was a time when college degrees pretty much guaranteed a position irrespective of what you chose to do. >> living expenses and a $1,000 a month student loan payment limit her options for taking unpaid internship that could lead to full time employment. >> to do a job search. >> despite the challenges mcdonald still believes her education was a good investment. >> i'm still feeling good. i hope something -- i know something will break out. something has to break eventually. >> patricia sabga, al jazeera new york. >> words of bob bruno a labor professor at the university of illinois, he calls america's job market bipolar. thanks for being with us. >> the my pleasure. >> you heard that story, this yuck woman has grawd from university, this woman's doing temp jocks and she's doing nannying and working in food service. that was always a precursor to getting something else. you're saying that's not necessarily the case. this poor woman may end up working in that for a long time. >> i think that's a great fear. there used to to be something full time and if you had that college degree it would unfold into a career with career ladders. but what we've seen not just in this last jobs report, is that people are cobbling together part time jobs. one, two, sometimes three and a good portion of these folks more than almost a third actually have college degrees and almost 40% have some college. so my great fear is this is becoming a kind of new normal, a hole in the labor market. >> tell me what the rich is to the fact that we had a recession, people lost their savings and so people stayed in the workforce longer in some cases, some of these entry level jobs that would have been latter jobs are only available because the other people stick around. >> you see the elimination of a lot of pension plans certainly in the private sector, you have seen the reduction and elimination of those and the public sector so folks who had planned to leave the job market and open up what would be new spri level positions -- entry level positions are now not opening up because people are hanging on longer than they anticipated they would work. >> bob, we have been with us rks the belonger you keep people on unemployment benefits the less likely they are to be examine employable and to look for a job, what do you think of that theory? >> i think it's nonsense in a word. i think we do have to be concerned about the long term unemployed. this is through no fault of their own, these people haven't been able to find work. they will not look for work in fact many people are looking for work of the problem is there are about three or four people looking for work for every job opening. so there's simply no credibility to these kings of the arguments. >> it's san lerks year and start hearing about what politicians are going to do, what does our labor situation marine for the middle class? >> it doesn't mean a lot of good things. that made work valuable, that offered people an opportunity to build a career. we simply haven't attacked if you will the institutional supports, minimum wage, unemployment benefits, ways of medium moving into education and training. the opportunities are not there. >> what a pleasure to have you, thank you for joings us. today on twitter and facebook, i've been asking you, what is the worst job you ever had? 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i'm not so sure. >> heddy is not so sure, she says my tap is are valid at, bicker network. we've now got like 2.5 thousand which is are real followers on twitter and we've got money eight likes ofacebook. >> in a social media world where size does matter, stacy tisdale, new york. >> be sure to like and follow people back. they also recommend advertising on social media sites. well, a big media battle is heading to the supreme court, it could have abc, cbs, nbc and fox has been trying to shut down a stream live tv broadcasts on mobile devices and onto television sets for much less than cable companies charge. well it's show time for the auto industry after a big 2013 prospec.keep it here. while you were asleep news was happening. both my parents are journalists. my grandfathers are journalists. it's just something that's in the blood. there are so many stories out there that need to be told. we want to go in to the trenches, we want to go in the corners that are less looked at. everyone at al jazeera america is dedicated to tell the story the best way that it can be told. our political liters or some of them at least are rich. it is also worth reminding them however that most americans are not rich. especially when congress takes up raising the rate of minimum wage. i'll be from the detroit auto show, showing you everything new and cool in the the state of automobiles. thanks for watching. i'm ali velshi. >> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city and i'm morgan radford with your headlines. fema is sending clean water to west virginia in the wake of a toxic chemical spill. now thousands in the state cannot drink or even bathe. an investigation has been launched to find out just what happened and who may be responsible. until then the water supply is off limits. attorneys general in new york and massachusetts saying they are joining in the nationwide propose of target's data breach. the company now says that at least 70 million customers

. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> is syria's best hope for peace since the violent conflict began falling apart in a public way. with peace talks to begin in switzerland on wednesday, u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon announced he had invited iran. after an outcry from the u.s., saudi arabia, and the syrian opposition, he rescinded the invitation. will the peace talks survive this controversy days before the talks were slated to begin. joining us is p.j. crowley, former secretary of state for public affairs. great to have you on the show. why did ban ki-moon invite iran to the peace talks when iran supported the bashar al-assad regime and rejected the main precondition to the talks, which was a transition involving assad losing power. >> whatever is going to happen in syria will - iran will have the opportunity to shape that. potentially culentively -- constructively, more likely destructively. i think they'd rather have iran in the room, rather than undermine the process fro the outside. why did he extend the invitation? he probabl

>> this is al jazeera. >> i'm david foster with the al jazeera news hour. glad to have you on. this is what we have coming up in the next 60 minutes. we were nearly at war, now sudan is asking south sudan's leader to make peace in his fight against rebels. >>> iraq, prime minister urges the people of fallujah to push al qaeda linked rebels out of their city. >>> schools closed, peep to stay in-- people told to stay indoors to prevent life threatening arctic temperatures. >> i'm sarah burns, with stories including: lawyers of the party of egypt ousted president outline their ca case against te military in london. >>> the london black cab gets a new year makeover. >> south sudan's president has requested the deployment of joint forces with sudan, to protect oil fields which are threatened in if south. salva kiir is peteing in juba the capital of the south. nearly came to war over issues less than two years ago. less than a thousand people have been killed, in recent fighting with government forces in south sudan. those loyal to kiir's ex-vice president, riek machar. in we came here to understand what we can do to stop this war. our belief is that military solutions does not sof the problem, and the problems are very complicated so the people will at the end sit and negotiate until they reach an agreement. >> in the capital khartoum. we come to you sort of in the middle. what do you know of the negotiations taking place in addis ababa? >> yes, conflicting reports about the negotiations in addis ababa. the main negotiations is that they are somehow stalled because of the rueful of the south sudanese representative delegation there to accept their and in thademands that were prey the rebel side basically to organize elections, for more participation and specific conditions that they have submitted there, and the juba side, those represent manage salva kiir are still refusing to accept those conditions. we also know that in sudan activityada itself,south sudan l cease fire to the rebel leaders. in fact, he has not been participating actively in the recent fighting but he was a rebel leader and he was a separatist, break away faction there in the south for some time there, for several months he has been a headache for the government in juba and now they are saying that they want him to do the same thing, they want him to declare a cease fire and juba would like to show that it is making progress both in terms of its relations with khartoum and the support khartoum has shown, to the president, and the cease fire with one of the rebel actions, saying this is a tremendous progress and gaining ground against the rebels. >> you make the point that yaya and his forces, have been against the government for some time. now they're peripheral to what we're seeing at the moment and possibly something aside what the government wants to put forward saying look, we're making progress and with this lot you should do the same. >> yes, if i understand your question well, juba has capitalized on these two developments today that the visit of rm many president bashir on the one hand and what seems to be a cease fire with one of the rebel factions, they are expecting the rebels to respond to this by either realizing their fight against juba and trying to top the government is a lost battle and they have to get concessions in addis ababa during those talks or at least realize that they can't actually make any advances against juba. but the world is now waiting perhaps for the reactions of mr. riek machar main rebel leader in the fighting to topple the regime and advance against the capital of juba, waiting for his reaction to see if these two developments, they are going to dent his resolve to advance towards capitol. >> when you say the world is watching it is not an exaggeration is it? taking part in these talks in ethiopia, with all the oil there, i want you to give me an idea there of the significance of a possible joint protection force between ada and south sudan. to over-- between sudan and sowd south sudan in these oil rich areas. >> good question david. let me start by saying this conflict has drawn the attention of not only the world but western powers, the united states and other countries for many years to bring stability to sudan and to help south sudan decide its own future. now they are keen on seeing positive developments there. that is why i say the world is waiting for the reaction of the rebels. april your question about cooperation between sudan and south sudan, it is a great surprise to see that because the government has been showing complete neutrality. they have not sided with either of the sides, but this visit today shows that omar bashir, has decided to come out, and khartoum has agreed to send 900 holy technicians to the south to -- oil technicians to the south. are he hasn't said how he's going to do that because the oil wells are still under the control of the rebels. discussions with joint forces i think in the next few days we'll show where that is going to be a fact on the ground very soon. >> mohamed, thank you very much indeed, regardings negotiation regarding south sudan. thank you. >>> drive out what called terrorists, al qaeda backed forces called islamic state in iraq and the levant, imran khan reports. >> reporter: confident fighters prepare for ooh afternoon assault often fallujah by progovernment sunni tribes. they say they are ready to face any challenges. elsewhere in the city is is the effect of a shelling campaign. iraq's army is also prepared for the attack. troops have circled the city and are led by sheik abdur al risha. >> withdraw the army from the cities and go through the islamic state in iraq and the levant, this is due to some bl i.s.i.l. rebels there. i.s.i.l. rebels were trying to bring the battle to cities of fallujah, they will be thoroughly defeated in the desert. >> all the indications that it could welcome soon. but how did we get to this stage? for much of 2013 the sunni tribes in anbar province protested, their prime minister nouri al-maliki, the were blocked with both sunni and shia l political parties. this was seen as a provocation to the tribes. the i.s.i.l. was formed taking advantage of the political power vacuum and waging a bloody being battle across the country. the anbar tribes unofficially accepted their preference and just last month i.s.i.l. fighters killed over 20 iraqi soldiers. by that time al-maliki had enough. sunni tribal rivalries came to the fore. will this operation be able to bring peace to the region? perhaps not. perhaps when al qaeda and other groups have been supportings it, they simply regrouped in other areas. imran khan, al jazeera. >> the fighter for syria there too it's under pressure too. rebel groups have been trying to drive the fighters outer of their strong holds. the battle has stretched to the town of el rocca beings. troops being run by i.s.i.l. in that area the group has apparently withdrawn from several bases in syria, handing them over to jabat el nusra another al qaeda backed groups. >> they have emerged as one of the two strongest groups in syria fighting president assad. now, it's not the first time they clashed with rebel groupings but it's the first time we see a united front formed by rebels whether islamist or not against i.s.i.l. this united front seems to be determined that they will rid syria of this group. the attack honor i.s.i.l. has extended to many groups outside syria and what is very interesting ask 92 thee groups have managed to get the fighters in i.s.i.l. to leave their positions to even run away from outside syria. this is the main objective of this attack, they want to rid the area of such an extremist group and they feel it is necessary in order to rally the international community with syrian opposition. >> we're getting reports that at least ten people have been killed in the village of balza, in the eastern city of aleppo, the atax carried out by the government. bangladesh's prime minister has insisted her reelection is legitimate despite the boycott by opposition parties. she will not enter into any talks until they stop what she calls terrorist activities. jarrod hall reports from abeing dhaka. are. >> she denied that there was a crisis in the country. the way forward she told me is now in the hands of the opposition. >> now we realize that they made a mistake, not participating in the election. they may come forward to you know, discuss with us or make or are but they have to leave all this terrorist activities behind. >> earlier i melt a senior official in the bangladesh party and asked him how far he was willing to go towards a compromise. >> where can't say except to say that the government has to be acceptable to all sides that can guarantee a level playing field. >> the electoral commission says voater turnout was higher than expelled. have the opposition says the count was rigged. most aspects of sunday's election in bangladesh are in dispute. sheik there hassin went on from our meeting, despite her insistence, she accuses the opposition of terrorism for organize straighting violence over the election. they in turn have their very long list of demands. there seems to be little room for compromise. >> while the parties have argued the country has suffered debill taillighting strikes, these opposition shots were filmed on monday. in dhaka's central hospital, thousands of civilians caught up in violence over recent moss. this man told me his wife is in intensive care. >> for many people affect by them. but i am quite -- i -- i can't say it. >> she was on her way to work when men with petrol bombs attacked. >> i can understand what happened here. this is our female being to hide this, this is my question. why they doing this? >> reporter: there are few besides the prime minister who believe there is no crisis in bangladesh. assuming there is only the country's leaders can solve it, if they're willing to try. jonah hall, al jazeera, bangladesh. >> coming up. anger in israel why thousands of african migrants are marching to the american and european ex bases. also. >> you can buy drugs you can buy people. >> we take a look at the dark side of the worldwide wek. web. and coming up, sports fans pay their rment respects to a footbl knowledge hero. fans pay their respects to eusebio. >> legal team to london and barbara sera in our london center will fill us in on the reasons why. >> david, lawyers for the freedom and justice party were in london to outline their case. international criminal court last december, he sent us this update. >> the international legal team have been outlining exactly why they say the international criminal court should look into their allegations. although egypt is not a state party to the icc, the team here have issued something called an article 12 declaration. that's when a country in effect gives the icc jurisdiction to investigate what's going on in its own country. now as long as the icc accept that the morsi government is the legitimate government of egypt and the team here say that they probably will do, because the african union is also of the opinion that the morsi government is the democratically elected government of egypt and stilt in effect the rulers of that country, they say there's no reason for the icc to delay. >> i'm quite convince they'd in this case the evidence that shows very clearly that the situation meets the test of gravity. and so the icc should exercise jurisdiction. of course this is dependent upon the failure of the military regime to itself conduct proper investigations into crimes committed in egypt. but at present there is no indication that the military regime is carrying out such impartial fair investigations into what has happened in egypt. on the contrary the evidence seems to suggest that the military regime has control not only over the security forces but also for the judiciary. >> now at the press conference on monday the team have been stressing exactly how strong their case is, in their opinion. they've got video evidence, they've got photographic evidence and they've got statements from eyewitnesses both inside and outside egypt. they say this proves beyond doubt that the security forces fired live rounds at unarmed protestors. notably when they cleared out two sit-in camps in august 2013, they say in total between july and november last year at least 1120 people lost their lives but the true number could be even higher. they say all these incidents add up to what they call crimes against humanity. now, the legal team have stressed that if their plan mand wamandatewas extended to beforee 3rd of last year, they could be prepared to look into abuses under president morsi. they haven't been asked to do so. they are stressing that at the moment there's a clear case to answer by egypt's current leadership. >> we're going to have more news later in the news hour. let's go back to david in doha for more in egypt. >> barb, thank you very much. egypt has summoned one of iran's prechts tiran'srepresentatives,e involving egypt's army and peaceful as it puts its protestors. day after at least 17 people were killed on friday. one of al jazeera's egypt based producers has been interrogated by state prosecutors and will be questioned again on wednesday. mohamed fahmy has been held without charge for the last five years. fahmy, baher mohamed and peter greste have been accused of joining a terrorist group. al jazeera say the allegations are fabricated. they are being held separately outside torah imah prison in ca. mohamed fahmy is an accomplished author and baher mohamed has been working with al jazeera as a producer for most of the last year. >>> african migrants in israel are appealing for international support in the face of the israeli government's determination to drive them out of the country. thousands have been master planning to the u.s. and to european embassies as partly of protest demanding work rights and better treatment all round. tom ackerman reports >> reporter: for the second day troops turned out, relevant representative accepted their petition, ignoring their situation. being. >> i do think it is time to really revisit some of the policies in the past. because in the end, what we would like to see is that israel lives up to the spirit of the 1951 convention. >> reporter: brought along his israel born daughter maya to the demonstration. his visa, being expires in two days. the immigration office has refused to act on his extension request. so he, his wife and child will be subject to removal to the government's new self described conditional use facility. deep in the negev desert, a place of indefinitely detention. >> did i not come here for work or for money. i'm asking for asylum. i was forced to be a soldier in eritrea for four years. if i go back i'll have a problem. >> protestprotests won't help nl strikers. >>> further migrant rivals netanyahu says, "now we are determined to remove work infiltrators." >> who were pressured to leave voluntarily in 2013. what happens to the other 45,000 he didn't say. tom ackerman, al jazeera tel aviv. >> snow and icy weather conditions have brought many parts of the united states to a complete standstill. the midwest has been hit by some of the lowest temperatures in two decades. northern and central parts of the country, thousands of flights have been disrupted. schools in some places have had to close and people are being warned to stay indoors and before they do so to stock up on supplies. usher kareshi has the latest in a very cold chicago . >> we are looking at temperatures in the minus 10 to minus 15° fahrenheit and it is about minus 40 below. it is brutally cold here with wind chill, chicago public schools have been closed session down, classes closed today because of the temperatures. that's something happening in schools across the midwest because of the cold snap. in illinois, governor says warming centers have been offend up, for people whose heat isn't working. according to noaa, fros frostbis likely. it is very dangerous out here and people are basically being told that if you do not go outside you should not go outside and you should stay indoors as you weather this cold standpoint which we expect cosubside here in the midwest add least sometime mid week to later this week. >> the alleged founder of an online black market is awaiting trial in new york. russ albrect is accused of operating the secret silk website. john hendren takes a tour of the deep underweb. the shady underbelly of the intrpt. >> there is a place on the internet it's become a black market bazaar for crime. >> you have everything there. you have hits for hire. you can till people. you can buy drugs. you can buy people. i mean, there is everything we in society say shouldn't exist in sistledzed society. if it's not there, ask for it, and somebody might produce it. >> you can pay an assassin to go after a certain person for, you know, $6,000 plus. >> reporter: just don't ask him to videotape it. this killerrer has standards. there are teenagers for sale. unregistered guns you can make on your 3d printer or have delivered to your door. and drug sites together with checkout counters from happy, presumably high, customers. >> you can purchase whatever you like, cannabis, stimulants. >> welcome to the deep web. hundreds of times larger than the worldwide web and unnervingly easy to navigate. >> all made possible by the onion router, which masks the computer's address. >> you've connected to a bunch of medicines around the world. >> and by bitcoin, a digital currency experts say ask untraceable. the fbi's shut down of the drug site the silk road, replaced two months later by the silk road 2.0, but those rely on human sources. >> i can use it to kidnap people, rob banks, bringing a pregnant woman to the hospital. a car is a car, can you stop it? >> it's no surprise criminals and pornographers are early adopters, but so are the green party, any minority seeking a safe haven on the web. an era in which the u.s. national security agency has tapped into much of the communications of the world, the deeb weapon may be fulfilling one of our most unusual fears, but free speech on the internet. john hendren, cambridge, massachusetts. >> human rights workers say assaults against women are becoming increasingly brutal. and milking it, why the world's biggest milk producer, india, could soon be delivering around the world. >>> andrew's president, raul will be here with all the details on that. is and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america >> no doubt about it, innovation changes our lives. opening doors ... opening possibilities. taking the impossible from lab ... to life. on techknow, our scientists bring you a sneak-peak of the future, and take you behind the scenes at our evolving world. techknow - ideas, invention, life. on al jazeera america >> david foster with the al jazeera news hour. let me update you with the top stories. iraq president has called on the people of fallujah to drive out what he calls terrorists. al qaeda fighters belonging to the islamic state in iraq and the levant. the political wing of the muslim brotherhood has sent a political wing to london, freedom of justice party filed a complaint at the international criminal court in december. the alleged crimes include the killing of thousands of peaceful protest oorgors and illegal detentions,. >>> protecting oil fields threatened by rebels in the south. salva kiir has been meeting with sudan's president in juba. the two countries nearly came to war on oil and other issues nearly two years ago. let hear from l ahmad salomon. who excess he believes they've put aside their differences. >> they've had a quite checkered past together, armand bashir and salva kiir. but they've had some agreement over oil fees between sudan and south sudan. that money is vital for both countries. if it were to stop like in the beginning of 2012 it would be really detrimental. we had 16 months where the countries weren't receiving oil and south sudan, 98% of its revenues come from oil. i think it's going to be really difficult for sudan to have its troops permanently stationed in south sudan. talking about the oil fields, that's something differently and if there were an agreement where they could provide a buffer in the sort term then i'm sure that that would be something that might be positive for all parties. but certainly in terms of the economics of this it's important for both countries that the oil continues to flow and riek machar himself has said that that is also his aim. >> thousands of people in the democratic republic of congo. >>> who quild our soldiers. we know that, we know some people who have killed them, we know them, we would like for the government to set for those people from now on. >> at least three people have died in a suicide attack in afghanistan. police there say that three people were killed when a car bomb exploded, three others injured. the t