in washington, i'm ray suarez. somebody once said to me "what's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage?" i said, well, there really isn't a difference. >> in 2008, voters in california approved proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. two couples challenge the law in a case that went to the u.s. supreme court. half of the plaintiff team is chris perry and sandy steer. >> you grow up believing you are a second-class citizen from the moment you recognize you are gay or lesbian. and until recently, you didn't think you ever would be equal. >> the other couple involved in

joining us from washington, d.c. is gordon gray, director of fiscal policy at the american action forum. good to see you. thank you for your time. mitt romney senator rand paul two republicans believe inequality is a problem in this country. the president said that it is key to moving the country forward. do you believe it is is problem and if you do, what should be done about it? >> i think there are a number of economic challenges that the nation faces, and i think its just a matter of priorities. i think the most important challenge that we face is that we're six years past a recession, and we're only just now seeing some of these signs of recovery, yet we're only projected to grow at 2-point% to 2.5% over the next ten years. i did not hear from the president how he's going to change that project tore. >> what did the numbers suggest in your mind should be done? >> i think if you ask anybody out there about our tax code, i think just about everybody would agree that it's broken. i think we can all agree that the r

in washington, i'm ray suarez. today on "talk to al jazeera." astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an astronaut is nearly impossible. >> the research lab a politically complicated program coordinated between 15 countries, including the u.s. and russia.

let's speak to patty listening to that from washington d.c. and patty we have president barack obama describing counter terrorism cooperation with france as being excellent and said that the u.s. would do all it can to help authorities in paris track down the perpetrators of this attack. >> from the u.s. perspective the biggest question is what exactly does the u.s. provide. we heard from james and saying the f.b.i. is going to send a team to work and possibly send a team and work in his words with their counterparts in france and this brings up the question we may never get answers to but nsa we know because of edward snowden has a huge spying apparatus in europe and will they provide information on the mysterious attackers so obviously the president hinting at that with counter terrorism abilities and have a that relationship with france and that they are willing to provide the help in order as the president in his words to hunt down those responsible. >> how would you describe the general mood the sentiment there in washington d.c. obviousl

it's a new day in washington, and it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. the new congress starts work this week.

because many in washington, d.c. don't know their hiv status. every year there are an estimated 50,000 new hiv cases in the united states. >> youth think a whole lot differently than we did in my generation. if you were ten years old in 1996, now as a 28, 29-year-old you have never seen that death and dying. we have changed power behaviors because of fear of dying. >> i've seen friends get sick but never die from hiv. >> 24 yeerd devon bearington ward has chosing to take truvada. >> is something about truvada or prep, seeing so many of their friends die off and not wanting to see that happen, we have to recognize that we are in a different space in the etch demic and have to evolve in the times. >> he knows he lives and daylights in a community with some of the highest hiv rates in the country. >> i know the statistics not just from a place where i read them on paper from the epidemiology report, but those are my friends. those are people in my sexual networks. those are people in my community. at this point in my life, i do know more men who ar

lisa stark is in a very snowy washington d.c. this morning. why did the countdown stop with just over a minute to go until launch? >> it was a disappointment for sure the problem wasn't weather in florida. it was a technical glitch. it was 1:21 before lift off when engineers said we are calling halt to this. it was a problem with a steering system for that second stage of the rocket. the stage that actually lifts the capsule into lower earth orbit into space. they knew that it would automatically shut down closer to lift off so they shut down to try to figure it out. this is the second time in two months that a technical problem has stopped the launch of this space capsule. they're going to have to hope the third time's the charm. >> walk us through this landing. space x is doing something different with this booster rocket trying to land it on a floating pad. why are they trying to do it in the ocean? >> well absolutely. here's the problem. with these lift off the rocket, basically the rocket engines are jettisoned and lost, not used again. i

mexico's president meets pram in washington. american capitol joins us live from the white house, see a few lines are coming out of that meeting what are you hearing about it? the president, president obama running just a little bit late, so we are just now starting to see the two leaders video cameras were allowed in able to play just the beginning of president obama's comments and the issue of human rights in the 43 missing students that was a top of the agenda, i can tell you the protestors that have gathers would have liked to have seen that and is that the mexican government has made reformates he applauded it wasn't even then that he brought it up. commerce and funding of infrastructure and trade. than he got to the 43 students basically saying we have been following the tragic events of the students whose lives were lost. basically said the obama administration supports those reforms. >> global stock have fallen for a second day in part driven by fears of the oil prices which fell below 50-dollar as barrel on monday it is

libby casey is live in washington with that. libby. >> once when are john boehner was speaker four years ago but it was the way the invitation was extended that's caught washington off guard and it was certainly intended to send a message. >> good morning everybody. >> he's not the commander in chief but house speaker john boehner is taking foreign policy into his own hands just one day after the state of the union inviting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to address congress next month bypassing a surprised white house. >> i don't believe i'm poking anyone in the eye. >> the speaker framing it as a rebuke of president obama's nuclear negotiations with iran. >> there is a serious threat that exists in the world. and the president last night kind of papered over it. >> reporter: republicans eager to impose more sanctions on iran if negotiations stall and warning of a nuclear iran. >> you go over the time line, it's been impressive how they've been able to use this process. another five years maybe we'll build the bomb fo

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lisa stark is in washington d.c. with more. >> reporter: john, do same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry? that is the key civil rights question the u.s. sprorlt will now decide. they will decide it in the case -- u.s. supreme court will decide. they will decide it in four cases, michigan, ohio, kentucky and tennessee all ban same sex marriage. earlier this session the supreme court punted on that question. really their hand was forced because in november the sixth circuit ruled that there is no constitutional right to same sex marriage. and that conflicted with rulings by other appellate courts. so it is up to the supreme court to decide. now, the court has touched on this issue in the past. it did decide a case but on procedural grounds that allowed same sex marriages to proceed in california. they didn't really decide that one on the merits of the case though. and they also threw out part of the federal defense of marriage act. they said the federal government does need to recognize same sex marriage

billions seized by police, washington's limits to that release. >> penn state gets back its vacated wins years after the sandusky abuse scandal. and poverty in the classroom. the sobering new report on america's kids. we begin tonight with what european authorities are calling a crack down on islamic terrorists. in paris 12 people arrested and questioned for possible ties on last week's attacks on "charlie hebdo" and a jewish supper market. two people in custody suspected of having links to i.s.i.l. and in belgium 13 arrested after two suspects are dead. more from neave barker. >> police stand guard buildings stand the effects of a raid. this was one of a dozen across the country. imminent attack on a grand scale. >> this operation was meant to dismantd ldismantle a terrorist cell and the network behind it. this investigation for the time being has shown that these people had intention to kill several police in the street. >> gun fire and explosions ring out as federal police storm the building. the man that filmed these images has lived on the street for seven years. >> no situations th

godeski has been homeless in washington d.c. for nearly 7 years. last night, like most, he slept outside. with affordable housing getting increasingly scarce here there's been a spike in the number of homeless. churches, food pantries, the city, are all scrambling to meet the demand. at the public library's main branch, homeless individuals rush in when the doors open, some are even dropped off by a shuttle bus from the homeless shelters. once inside, they log onto computers to job hunt or check email. they meet friends or just read protected from the elements. >> for many years we would sort of open our doors and say "okay, we've done our job", because we're providing them a warm place to go if they've got no place else to be. >> now, social worker jean badalamenti will help provide information on homeless services and will "sensitize" staff. while government, residents and local businesses argue over the role of the libraries, david godeski is just glad they're here. >> having a place like this where things are controlled, it's a godsend. >> so g

washington, ray suarez. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. >> overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that's one overdose death every thirty minutes. >> the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. >> that's a massive increase. >> massive. >> over the past 10 years, we've had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. >> the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over

john isn't standards the same whether it's washington or south carolina or anywhere, u.s.a? >> it's supposed to be the same. the tooling you use to check is supposed to be all the same. so if there's different quality coming out of the different plants that should be a concern to management. and listening to cynthia a few minutes ago and also listening to one of the reporters earlier one of the things that comes out pretty loud and clear is, the employees' dissatisfaction with not being listened to which always leads to a disgruntled employee and public disclosures. so boeing's management has a responsibility to their employees to listen to their concerns and address them and that's clear from what's been said here that that hasn't happened. now how much of that is going to equate to an unsafe product at the end of the day from afar i don't think any of us can say one way or the other that it's going to definitely lead to an unsafe product. but the drug use in the facility is a concern. and if, you know, no matter where you are there are abuses of produce. you go into toulou

. >>> homeland security, a public divided whether washington is doing enough to keep the country safe. al jazeera america' first national poll on national security. >> this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i'm tony harris. in three hours time president obama deliver his sixth state of the union address. for the first time he'll be laying out his legislative goals before a republican-controlled congress. we'll have a look at what is coming up. first a power grab in yemen cap two days of turmoil in the yemeni region. houthi rebels storm the presidential building and kill two presidential guards. the president came under cheltenhaming. in a nationally televised statement, they blamed the houthi to enact better reform. who controls the government now is largely up to debate. the yemeni's official residence came under attack making hadi a prisoner in his own home. witnesses say it was largely between houthi and elite guards. the president's unwillingness to negotiate led to today's crisis. >> our country is suffering a domestic level. many of the internal forces in terms of the

and how we plan to make washington focus on your concerns again. we heard the message you sent in november, loud and clear and now we're getting to work to change the direction washington has been taking our country. the new republican congress also understands how difficult these past six years have been. for many of us, the sting of the economy and the frustration with washington's dysfunction weren't things that we had to read about. we felt them every day. we felt them in red oak the little town in southwest warn with a where i grew up and am still proud to call home today. as a young girl, i plowed the fields of our family farm, i worked construction with my dad, to save for college i worked the morning biscuit line at hardy's. we were raised to not waste. it's a lesson my mother taught me every rainy morning. you see growing up, i had only one good pair of shoes. so on rainy school days, my woman would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. but i was never bashessed because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of you

they'll only accept final assembly done in everett washington. every day when you go to work, not only are you doing your job, but you are looking at the previous job to see if someone messed something else up on that and chose not to tell anyone. >> to be sure everything is done correctly and the plane is safe, boeing has inspectors payne takingly checking every step of the work. in south carolina, this inspector says he only signs off on finished jobs. >> which do you think is the quality? >> schedule. >> these people have decided that today they will be arrested >> i know that i'm being surveilled >> people are not getting the care that they need >> this is a crime against humanity >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's emmy winning, investigative, documentary, series... [ ♪ music ♪ ] >>> if it's a constant battle between quality and schedule

he joins me from washington. seth one does not need to be an expert like you to understand that jobs create prosperity. so why is the reality that these jobs are not moving wages up? people associate gaining wages with becoming more prosperous, and they're rightfully not seeing that. >> ali we are doing a lot better on jobs, 3 million jobs last year but still not enough jobs for the number of people who want to work and can work. we still have millions and millions of americans who are working part time when they want to be working full time. we have people who have left the labor market who like to come back this. we still have people looking for jobs who are not finding them. with that slack in the labor market wages are not going to rise and workers do not have enough bargain thinging power and force their employers to give them a little bit more in their paychecks. >> one thing that the people have come to understand is the relationship between tighter employment, lower unemployment, more jobs, and wages is n

they talk about wanting a big overhaul of the tax code that has been in washington for years now. unless the big companies are willing to give up tax breaks, i don't see democrats moving on that. as libby said with tax and spin you're also going to hear from the president the follow up. he's going to want a seven percent increase. they're not going to want to go along with that either. >> is that an open bargaining point? in the past the president has seemed to give his best offer first and then democrats accuse of negotiating with himself. is he striking a hard negotiating stance right now? >> i think he's laying out what his vision is and the contrast in the event that nothing can get done. he wants to show where democrats stand and what their ideas are for targeting aid to the middle class in conjunction with hillary clinton. her aides his aides they've been talking a lot. their allies in the think tank have been talking a lot. you i think what you see is a you gauntlet being thrown down. president obama has two years to finish his legacy. he thinks that he will if he can get a

from washington, d.c. we we have a report. >> reporter: organizers fell short of their goal of creating a sea of blue to show support for the police in washington d.c. on saturday. but the exasperation of those that did gather was deep. >> we were just tired of no support for our law enforcement officers if you look around whether it's the media whether just walking down the street. there is lack of support everywhere. >> reporter: since the police killing of unarmed black teenager mike think brown last august there have been regular demonstrations around the country, calling for police reform. but the organizers of this march feel the public is forgetting that this it is the police putting their lives on the line every day. should people be worried that a young black man is 21 more times likely to be killed by police officers than a young white person for? >> no, i don't think so. i think that we really need to look at our statistics. and i think that -- that honestly if you are not outdoing the crime the

the minimum wage in washington d.c. climbs to $10.50 in july. >> triple a says americans saved $14 billion last year due to falling gas prices and the trend continues. the cost of regular gasoline drops for a record 98 days in a row. stix states pay less than $2 a gallon. missouri is the lowest. the national average down to $2.24, over a dollar less than a year ago. the drop attributed to a price war over oil prices. >> former new york governor mario cuomo was once a political rock star. the democratic icon passed away. he served three terms as governor from 1983 to 1984. his keynote address at the democratics national convention made national headlines, repelling the fiery speaker to front-runner for the presidency. mario cuomo would never accept the challenge to run, retiring after being defeated in an attempt to win a fourth term as governor. he died of heart failure hours after his son andrew was sworn in as new york's governor for a second term. mario cuomo was 82 years old. professor of political science joins us

i met will in seattle, washington and we met with a group of employees of boeing corporation who make that aircraft. my introduction to the story. i asked them at one point would you fly on the aircraft? this is months after the airplane have been put back in the air because the battery problem is supposedly fixed. about half them said they would not. that told me immediately that there was something other than the battery that was raising concerns within the boeing workforce. the people who seemed to know that plane best of all. i didn't know much about the planes at all, but when we began digging into it it took a very long time, a year. >> we have our online community third host of the show we see sometimes lisa they usually tweet in using the #ajam stream. has the failure come from a new model in employing contractors? and specifically there has been some discussion that boeing has changed some practices after the 97 merger with mcdonnell dug last, what is your short answer? >> the short answer is yes after 1997 boeing merged with mcdonnell douglas, another large aerospace company

i am picking this up even in washington that washington wants top rachet up support for niger a i can't to deal with it because people are asking questions: why so much help against isis and why so much focus on what happened in france but boka haram's issue hasn't gotten much attention. >> meanwhile, chad is struggling to cope with an influx of nigerian refugees. mohammed ado reports from the capitol. >> reporter: on the shores of lake chad the crisis spawned by boka haram is laid bear beyond nigeria's borders. these are some of the victims of the group driven from their villages in the northeast. this camp is now their home. the camps here are quickly filling up as hundreds of refugees cross the border daily. >> we have seen a massive influx of nigerian refume ease into chad from the third of january. more than 11,000 people arrived during this period. the majority are civilians. >> the refugees also include members of pro-government militia. aluba abeki is one of them. >> they kill our people. they attack them. and the military nigerian military they just run away. >> reporter: the n

libby casey live in washington. all of this stemming from accusations that petraeus shared secret data with his former miss stretch, paula broadwell. >> she wrote the biography "all in the education of david petraeus," published in 2012. he was a four star general led american troops in iraq and afghanistan, went on to head the c.i.a. he left that post amid scandal. revelations about his affair with broadwell and the f.b.i. found documents classified documents on her computer. >> the story first appeared in the new york times. justice department officials weighing charges against retired general david petraeus for leaking classified documents to his mistress. the recommendations were made to eric holder in 2013. when asked how he would proceed on sunday, he only said this. >> i don't want to comment on an ongoing matter. >> while holder isn't talking publicly lawmakers like senator dianne feinstein are voicing their support for the exmilitary leader. >> this man has suffered enough. >> the senator said petraeus made

it likes like the next two years, gridlock in washington. >> but there could be some areas, taxes and trade many are saying the tax rate is too high for corporations. in terms of trade the president would love to see a deal with urine, an asian trade deal and republicans could get on board because traditionally they have been on board a trade deal. >> ever since nafta when another democratic president bill clinton, pushed that through congress. the next person to live in the white house is going to quickly take over all the debate and rhetoric in washington in 2015. if the congress and the president are going to come together they going to have a very small window to do it. >> and the senate is comprised of many who want to be living right here. ted cruz and rand paul taking shots at each other to emerge as a republican leader. >> two presidential candidates, bernie sanders the fire brand from vermont no doubt he's going to be running and elizabeth owens no doubt she may be considering it. >> mike viqueria and libby casey, thank you. >>> detroit is facing a new financial challenge. th

we'll get an update from our correspondent in washington, d.c. but first let's remind you of what happened. on december 30th, a group of soldiers attacked the presidential palace and four people were killed. it's president returned to the country from neighboring chad the following day saying things were back to normal. he announced the failed coup was based by disdidn'ts in the u.s. u.k. and elsewhere. >> reporter: the authorities arrested two men who are described as finance financier and leader of the conspiracy, and another man with gambian descent descent, and according to the criminal affidavit the two men were members of approximately 10 to 12 members of the conspiracy who entered the gambia in an attempt to carry out the coup and hopefully to inspire other dissidents inside the country to rise up against the government. now in addition to that we had reports that two members of the conspiracy who were killed, including a colonel an american an american american asylummee and another who was killed, as i said. the united states had previou

. >> doctor gary franklin is a medical official in washington state. he was one of the first people to sound the alarm about the adverse effects of opioid prescribing. >> somebody would come into our system with a low back sprain, and be dead three years later from an unintentional overdose of opioids. i was shocked. i mean it was the saddest thing i had ever seen in many years in my job. >> franklin has worked to implement guidelines that limit the prescribing of opioid drugs in washington. since the rules went into effect overdose deaths in the state have dropped by more than a quarter. >> these are avoidable deaths. >> there's a sea change going on in practice and i think that the regulatory agent the fda in particular, rather than being out in front of the sea change, is being carried along. >> we would not be dealing with this problem today had the fda been doing its job properly going back to 1996. >> with well over 100,000 deaths this is the worst manmade epidemic in history. when i say manmade i mean made by organized medicine. >> catch more "f

around theand the same thing on 16th street in washington d.c. the former cuban embassy now cuban intersection will once again become the embassy of cuba. >> you have said recently that cubans are going to move slowly that they're afraid of risk. cuban foreign ministry said that it should down play further break throughs this week. should that say the cubans are getting everything out of this and the united states should stifle thoughts about democratic reform about north korea and venezuela. >> first of all i think one of the reasons that president obama has not given the policy, because it really is a detrimental policy is perhaps because he feels that at there point he doesn't want to given give his critics any more fuel. so he is going to proceed a little bit slowly. and the cubans of course they have a different agenda. that's why we have talks. the cubans want to hold onto power they wants to get the most out of these talks that they can possibly get. so they are hard negotiators. they are not -- >> talking about negotiations, the cubans to

we'll see you next time in washington, i'm ray suarez. >> the mountains of west virginia have provided generations with jobs in coal. but on january 9th, 2014, the state woke up to an example of the costs of it's industrial economy. a tank containing a chemical used the process of coal production had leaked its contents into the elk river, just a mile upstream from the largest water treatment plant in west virginia. >> water is scarce following a warning from west virginia's governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water.., >>...chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility... >>...the states health department says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm... >> a federal investigation is on-going - but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in west virginia - where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. fault lines has come here to find out how the state's main industry affects its most vital resource. >> little testing have been done on the chemic

i've been arguing in washington that it is an international problem. when mali had problems three or four years ago there was a presence of boko haram. they've been around since 2002. they've attacked cameroon. it's definitely not a nigeria nigeria-only problem. it's about time. i'm glad that the african union is focusing on it. >> and what do you think the nigerians themselves are going to make of it? historically they've always had a certain ambivalence of having foreigners involved in their security matters and of course we're just a week or so away from elections. >> i think that if i might say so that is a great question. i think yes in general they're quickly saying we don't need help. we give help. we're the big guys. but against boko haram the army has struggled. i think the elections make a big difference. president jonathan, one thing he has been criticized for the most especially here in washington, corruption may be a second, but they have been crashing them. he claims he can do a better job. he feels he can do a better job. my expectation

we'll see you for the next inside story in washington. i'm ray suarez. >>> on "america tonight" - gone to pot. one year in the rocky mountain mother load big money is changing hands. the rise of the legalized marijuana trade is a downer for some communities, hospitals and law enforcements. >> we want the supreme law in this land, the supreme court to look at this issue and tell us once and for all whether or not what colorado did was legal not.

with "the washington post" reporting that the u.s. government is reporting 11 billion, news organizations have a fight on their hands, a fight >>> ever since the advent of the printing press, the past few years tells us that mobile in the hands of people are just as powerful. conventional news is struggling with the process, they need to adapt to keep up with the devices in the pocket and i way it's used. it used to be a place for legacy, and big name newspapers to represent their front pages digitally. big media needs to have a host of new line platforms to deliver stories they are interested in in the form that we want, whenever and wherever we want them. the "the listening post" in some of the shifts we are seeing in news technology and engagement and changes to come. >> translation: traditionally speaking journalists and editors find what is fit to print. consumer technology is giving news consumers the choice not just of the news they want, but when, where are and how they want it delivered. we in the news decide what happens. wh

right now washington, d.c. has the highest at $9.50 per hour. washington state is next at $nine.47 followed by organize at 9.25 per hour. right now 29 states have a minimum wage that is higher than the federal mem wage my knowledge minimum wage of 7.25. i asked andrea morveaux about this. >> are john boehner talked about increasing the benefits to the people at the tom not progressive pacs but at the same time they did very little for people at the bottom. and so when you capture economic growth and people are saying the last quarter will be something around 4%, who's benefiting from it? wages went up overall at about 2% tony and when you look at the $8 an hour minimum it is $21,000 a year. that's above or below the poverty line, just slightly above the poverty line for a person, and two children. so you have people who are surviving as the person in the piece said, on little of nothing. so no, these folks are not wrong when they say the deck is stacked. that -- only that, the numbers that we hear, if i tell you it's 21,000 at $8 an hour that's

here in washington, the president is set to lay out his plan for the year, in his state of the union address. we're curious what you think our nation's priorities ought to be right now. "america tonight's" digital team wants to hear from you, in the award winning editor podus project. we asked you to weigh in and thousands of you did tweeting and e-mailing us about the issues you wanted washington to take on. this year we've reached out to some people we've met on "america tonight," like sarah wolf a remarkable woman who did almost the impossible. she got lawmakers of both parties to back her bill, the able act, allowing people with disabilities to save for their own futures, without receiving penalties to their benefits. sarah has already a box for tuesday night and another item on her to-do list for president obama. we will report on a family who what happens when the person comes home. cin kinsey says, her message to the president, end a ban on medicaid fund he abortions. try to keep it short, take a lselfie, and e-mail it to sharingmy mystory@al jazeera.net. you can find more inf

now for view from washington, we have my colleague. >> thank you. yes. u.s. leaders effusive in their praise for the late king, president obama talking about a serious and warm friendship with the king. both he and the secretary of state john kerry singling out the cooperation in key achievements. the king's death comes at an interesting time for u.s.-saudi relations, saudi arabia incensed with the obama administration for its engagement with iran over its nuclear program and interestingly the u.s. has been more outspoken about saudi arabian conduct. in a rare rebuke, saudi arabia was criticized for its sentencing for 1,000 lashes for a saudi arabia political activist. very rare for that to happen. much discussion about whether that relation is changing as the u.s. becomes less reliant on saudi oil and saudi arabia becoming more assertive. it's fascinating to see how the late king is treated within the u.s. media very respectful materials, even though he was a vowed opponent of democracy and western conceptions of human rights these key american values but ac

i'm picking this up even in washington. washington wants to ratchet up its support for nigeria to deal with it because people are asking questions. why so much help against isis and why so much focus on what happened in france, but boko haram's issue has not gotten much attention. >> thousands of supporters of the spanish far left party has-rallying in the capital of madrid. the party is hoping to repeat the success of the tsapras party, which won in greece last weekend. they want to end austerity measures imposed by international creditors. we have reports from the spanish capitol. >> reporter: yes, we can. that famous political slogan has become the rallying call in madrid too. parents, children, retired people and students, they all came out in the winter sunshine. >> we're fighting because this is over and we cannot go on like this. >> as you can see there are a lot of people here and what these people want is change. the government we have at the moment is lying to us. >> officially this is a march of political change

ambassador to 2009 to 2013 and is in washington d.c. roim. >> good to be with you. >> talk if you would, about the man you knew. what was he like? >> well we saw him many times in a little over four years in saudi arabia. >> he was a simple man, a map of the seth and prided that he was close to the desert. i remember when robert gates came by and sat with king abdullah looked distinguished with white hair and explained that he was retiring. and king abdullah looked at him and said "but you are so young." he had a wonderful sense of humor, he was kind to me. he had a deep fashion for the future of the arab world, and the people of saudi arabia. >> we saw a picture of him with robert gates and the king. how would you characterise the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia. >> it's a strong relationship. we share many many challenges. and we have together faced a lot of the challenges that resulted in 9/11 and the period afterward. so we have a strong relationship on energy. a strong mill to mill relationship. a strong relationship

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there are no alerts coming out of washington or new york. we ever more to get caught up on including the airasia flight 8501 the black boxes have been found. al jazeera continues right after this break. this break. >> an attack in paris as gunman opened fire at the office of a very controversial french magazine. 12 people are now dead. we are live on the ground as french leaders there pledge to find those responsible. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america i'm del walters. >> i'm erica pitzi. we begin this morning with breaking news. >> 12 are dead at the headquarters of that satirical magazine, charlie hebdo in paris. two gunmen broke into the office. there was intense gunfire and then the men fled he. >> in the past, charlie hebdo published cartoons similar to mad magazine. a cartoon depicting the prophet muhammed sparked outrage. >> people are waking up to another attack. >> this is a massacre at a french magazine in the heart of the french capitol paris. it's a very serious story indeed, one that will have ramifications for sometime

the king is also, so far the news is just breaking in washington. we expect there will be some statement from the white house not in person because a lid has been called. probably a paper statement and i wouldn't be at all surprised if we saw president barack obama trying to make it to saudi arabia for the funeral to show how important the u.s.-saudi relationship is because lately it has been a little rocky. >> that's terrific. patty, i know you have responsibilities to our age colleagues but we'll get you back as soon as we can. michael shure is with us. your thoughts on the news that saudi arabia's king abdullah has passed. >> it's a complicated relationship but a long-standing relationship through the white house, through the presidencies. one thing that we're not talking about is what a good customer saudi arabia has been to our defense department in terms of buying our aircraft and munitions. they've done that with us and the united kingdom. not to mention the politics of it. jeb bush, his family was very tight with the saudi royal family and j

>> tom ackerman live for us in washington, d.c. tom, thank you. let's go back to our expert in the studio from the london school of economics. what have you made listening to the reaction from the u.s.? >> what do you expect the americans to say? the americans have very few options? they are very much concerned about their allies japan and jordan. they have very few options. they want to fiber optics on the good news. the good news is that the fall of kobane to the kurds. major setbacks are being suffered in iraq. the reality is barbara, we all know, this is a long long fight. this is really the beginning of two, three, four, five years' fight against isis. every time we say the hostages isis or dash has run out of hostages, they keep coming. >> are we going to keep on seeing this this sort of grammar of someone is captured from one of the main countries. we see the first videos and then, you know, we live under the shadow of the latest video coming out with the person being killed? >> they have plenty of hostages some journalists

let's take a look at your states that you named as the worst ones. >> washington state. >> washington state. the 12th fastest growing state in the nation. florida, the 11th fastest growing state in the nation. texas, tennessee, i moved here and arizona, the third fastest. the others are lousy states, too, you i agree with you. but these are great states. these are states that are attracting people from everywhere because the economy seems so much better. let's take california. your beloved california, the highest taxes in the nation, the most progressive tax structure the highest poverty rate in the nation. the highest paid school teachers, the lowest rankings, the lowest rankings in. >> if you want to add california we have to look at new jersey and new york. add illinois to that. let's go back to texas for a second. >> in illinois they rank very high. go for it. it's crazy what these rankings are. you want to look at growth. >> when you look at texas, i don't know that the argument is texas is growing because of its tax regime. texas is growing. it has the high immigration. it has v

it's a new day in washington, and it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. the new congress starts work this week. a new senate majority takes up work putting republicans at the legal ams of all the economies as chairs, and kentucky's mitch mcconnell in charge as majority leader. speaker john boehner of ohio will lead the large republican majority in the house of representatives, but there were two dozen members willing to stand as candidates against him or vote against him. since the democrats were soundly beaten in the 2014 midterm election speculation has been growing of what it would mean to have republicans back in charge of both chambers since 2006. it's a new year in washington, that means new jobs for 58 representatives. >> congratulations. you're now members of the 114th congress. >> and 13 senators. >> i'm going to ask you to please raise your right hand. >> it's the first time in decades the republicans have had this strong of a majority in congress. all but one of the new senators sworn in tuesday were members of the g.o.p. >> we recognize the em