mike viqueria. >> good evening barbara. it is widely expected that the president will make the announcement in panama, before he sits down with some of the session he and bilaterals he has scheduled for the day the recommendation to top aides is being reviewed by the national security council and the president is likely to make that decision tomorrow. what will that be? a top aide was told, cuba should be be removed, what is in the eyes of the administration, a relatively notorious list. cuba is joined by only syria iran and sudan. there are any number of restrictions that go along with that no doubts will want to be removed, assets frozen, banking very difficult to do business in the united states with u.s. banks and therefore around the world. one of the president's top national security advisors, deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes, briefed journalists, and why the president wants to go forward with normalizing relations with cuba. here's rhodes. >> we're in new territory here and the reason we're here though is

i'm breaking barbara serra. im. >> i'm stoiment. >> a look at the stories making headlines across the united states. senator marco rubio announced his presidential candidacy today becoming the third republican to join the race. the florida senator attacked the administration's policy, including a deregulate attack on hillary clinton saying the secretary of state represents the policies of the 20th century. >>> in atlanta the judge is giving ten school teachers a chance to make a deal. friends and family begged for leniency the teachers were convicted of inflating their students grades. >> manslaughter after a fatal shooting in which he claims he mistook his pistol for a stun gun. he became a reserve deputy in 2008. he faces a maximum.four years in prison if convicted. >> four private security contractors were sentenced monday for killing iraqi civilians in 2007. the men claimed they opened fire because they were under attack. as shihab brittanzi reports. >> car was then blown up. in the meantime, the others in t

good evening i'm barbara serra. >> and i'm antonio mora. we begin tonight with the humanitarian crisis unfolding in europe. europeans plan to hold a summit to deal with the situation brought about by north africans traveling across the mediterranean to europe. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon urged europeans to take on the issue. >> the mediterranean is becoming a sea of injury for migrants. more than twice as many migrants have died at sea in the past year than on the titanic. >> that included the tragic boat disaster over the weekend. >> italian vessels responded to two more distress calls in the mediterranean today and three people drown after a small boat carrying migrants crashed into the rocks off the greek ga island of rhodes. paul brennan has more in italy. >> being battered by waves clinging to what remains of their boat. a woman is seen trying to protect a young child. focus is on pieg migrants leaving north africa. this boat broke up on the greek island of rhodes. this child was saved but three people are already confirmed dead

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora. i'll see you again in an hour. >> often "americaon "america tonight". the last rights. >> why can't he do everything he can? i am doing everything i can. i'm doing everything i think is best for everyone involved myself and the family. >> the most important conversation a family can have with the dying and how to begin it. also ahead a team torn apart by violent tradition. >> i felt like i was playing for my

barbara serra is here. barbara. >> a grim anniversary the use offing of chemical weapons in world war i. during the course of the war 1.3 million soldiers on both sides were killed or sickened by poison gas. today there is a coordinated effort to destroy the remaining stocks of chemical weapons. >> chemical agent destruction is a hard role. it is a high hazard operation. >> coming up in the next hours a look at which nations still have chemical weapons and how effective efforts have been to destroy them have been. john. >> thank you barbara. john ridley is a playwright and oscar winning screen writer of "12 years a slave." i talked to him about diversity in hollywood and how he went from "12 years a slave" to "american crime". >> the morning after the academy awards i got on a plane and met with felicity huffman i was on a plain i was down to austin, texas where we filmed the show and we were shooting about six days later. so it was from a night that i never expected that would have happened, was like a dre

i'm antonio mora. >> and i'm barbara serra. coming up this half hour. sentenced to seven years in prison. >> also retracing a journey of a french warship critical to america's independence. >> monday marks the fifth anniversary of the bp deep water horizon explosion causing the worst tragedy in u.s. history. global fishermen are still facing hard times and recently found a dispersant of oil is causing death to sea life. >> outbreak of measles started last december at disneyland. the state department of public health warned another outbreak is possible, though. california is considering legislation to mandate meams measles vaccinations. >> 26 states came together to protest the u.s. policy of undocumented immigrants. >> 20 libyan migrants who were badly injured in a gas explosion were rescued off the coast of italy. smugglers forced them onto a boat even though they hadn't received medical treatment. italian prime minister mateo renzi visited the white house and addressed the crisis today. >> i think mediterranean is a sea and not a cemetery. the problem

. >> barbara brown is a community activist and a long time resident of reno, texas. >> yeah, this is definitely a concern. >> and reno is not alone. colorado, arkansas, oklahoma ohio and the rest of earn eastern texas, not known for seismic activity are sunlt on surnld on suddenly on the earthquake map. magnitude 3.0 and larger compared to 20 quakes from 1970 to 2000. data that is beginning to show stories like barbara's are all too real. >> the earthquake came and went through the center of the house. everything shook. i went out my front yard and said, where did my yard go? >> she believes this is the cause of the quakes, hydraulic fracturing more commonly known as fracking, a process where water mixed with sand and chemicals are pumped underground to release gas fracking fluids are brought back out, identified as fracking waste water and is considered too contaminated to use. in texas and several other states, injection wells store the contaminated wells. injected deep into the ground come. it is this process that many suspect is increasing the seismic activity in the reno area. >

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora. "america tonight" is up next. i will see you again in an hour. >> bye-bye. >> on "america tonight". he's got fans all over the world, but who is this maestro called stromae? >> being on the stage means you are a bit pretension, who are you to be so pretentious, to be one meter

barbara? >> tom, thank you. we'll be checking in with you for the next few hours to see what developments there are from baltimore. thank you. now let's speak with vincent karen. sir, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. it was very interesting. we heard president obama speak and he called for national soul searching over what's happened. what do you take him to mean by that? >> well, barbara this is one of those points where i disagree with the president. the leadership moment here is not to call for calm, not to call for more dialogue and reflection. the leadership moment is to call for change. the reason why people are so anger in baltimore is not just because of the suspicious killing of freddie gray, it's also because the baltimore police department has a long and torrid history of brutalizing people in over a three-year period. they have paid $5.7 million to people who have been brutalized and beaten by the police department. so what we have here is had a scenario where people are calling f

barbara serra has more. barbara. >> in the next hour we'll take a look at the physical and psychological impact in indefinitely incarceration has on the prisoners and the effect on descra illinois israelis and palestinians. john. >> scott simon as his mother was dying he kept a sort of twitter diary of her last months of life. he's written another book about her called unforgettable. i asked him what he remembers most about his mother. >> my mother was always very funny, very high spirited, i hate to say irrepressible but she lived through a lot and managed to come out of all of it. when i joined my mother at the intensive care unit i didn't know she was going to die there. the confines of the world i used to see shrunk to the walls of the icu. that was not necessarily confining. my mother was just so funny and interested. >> you say -- you tweeted at 8:00 a.m. on july 27th, 2013, you said mother i don't know why this is going on so long. i'm late for everything, i guess. tweeting what she said. you know, th

barbara? >> reporter: john visitors from the chinese region will only be allowed into hong kong once a week. it's the closest mainland region to hong kong. tens of millions have made the short trip to capitalize on lower taxes, but people in hong kong have long complained that the influx of shoppers has driven up prices and driven out local businesses. >> reporter: this is definitely going to be an issue for me. i often come here because it is much more convenient for me to buy quality medicines for my family. >> translator: i welcome this policy, because it can free up the streets and more importantly reduce rental prices for shops, so we avoid the situation of hong kong stores only catering to mainland tourists. >> reporter: also is an issue of the number of traders who buy goods in hong kong and sell them in mainland china. >> all right. barbara. thank you. >>> coming up next the special effects whit behind "game of thrones," shows us how the magic is made. ♪ >>> millions watched the seas

barbara is here with a story you'll see in our next hour. barbara. >> john, we are talking about the surviving 39 of 52 hostages held by iran from 1979 to 1981. many have already spoken out about the negotiations over iran's nuclear program for them the issue you runs deep as they can never forget the terror that they felt for the 444 days that they were held by supporters of the late ayatollah khomeini. they were beaten, threatened with death and even southed to mock executions. the events marked the beginning of course of decades of strained relations between the two countries. survivors have been seeking hundreds of millions in compensation from the iranian government and now they are calling on congress to include that in any deal over iran's nuclear program. well, in our next hour we'll be joined by don cook who is one of those former hostages now pushing for compensation. >> really interesting story barbara, thank you. >>> coming up next, abram link none his own words rarely seen personal letters about the civil war, slavery and more.

. >> i'm barbara. we begin with the summit of the americas. president obama arrived in pan ma an hour ago. the historic gathering is bringing together the leaders of cuba and the u.s. for the first time in more than half a century. it could see a breakthrough in relations between the countries. >> a major issue is whether cuba will be removed at a terror list. president obama today hinted at a change in cuba's status. >> it's a powerful tool to isolate the countries that genuinely do support terrorism, when we make the designations we have got you will strong evidence that that's the case. as circumstances change that list will change. >> tensions rising the vice president criticizing washington for calling venezuela a national threat. >> lucia newman is in panama city with a free view of the summit. >> reporter: shouting matches and squirmishes. a warm-up for the much anticipated handshake between u.s. president barack obama and cuban leader raul castro >>> former u.s. president bill clinton praised cuba's presence, calling it a historic move

barbara thank you >>> an estimated 1.5 million armenias were killed by the ottoman turks. there is a new effort underway to remember and honor the victims. roxana saberi reports. ♪ >> reporter: for composer and conductor, music keeps memories of tragedy and triumph alive. >> my whole existence relates to -- to the genocide. it has been always part of my inspiration. >> reporter: in 1915 troops began arresting and killing armenians. many historians say around 1.5 million armenians died. >> my grandparents perished in 1915. >> reporter: his parents were children when they fled. eventually they found safety in lebanon. now 100 years since the start of the misser can, a group of armenians is launching an effort to save 100 stories about people like this and the people who helped them survive. >> there was a light. mario jacobson was my light. >> reporter: when he was orphaned at age four he lived in maria jacobson's orphanage near beirut. through jacobson he found music. >> i used to hear classical music drifting across the corridors. >> reporter: and along with thousands of

on edge, and barbara is there with that. >> a large portion of the south china sea have been in dispute. china lays clean to much of it. the surrounding nations claim parts as well. the smaller countries say that china is trying to strong arm them out, because the region is rich in oil. newly released satellite images show nine islands that china is building with sand in disputed territory. construction china defends as within its right. . >> translation: the relevant construction is reasonable, justified and laughful within china's sovereignty. it does not impact or talk to any country and is behind reproach. >> reporter: of concern to the u.s. is the sea includes prime shipping routes. the white house asked china to back off tactics. in the next hour how the south china sea plays into washington's efforts to forge a better relationship with budget >>> arts programs in america's public schools had a tough time. budget cuts are the first to go. the one school in miami found a unique way to engage students and show the world why art matters. andy gallinger has more -- gallagher has more.

barbara, thank you. oscar winning screenwriter john ridley talks about race in america. >> from the beginning we asked for the same thing. a review of how the case against my brother has been handled the prosecutor making this a hate crime with punitive, not real. my brother doesn't hate whites. he has a caucasian girlfriend. >> what does that mean? >> the d.a. has overreached. we want a fair examination. >> that's a scene from "american crime." the shows' creator is john ridley. a novelist, play wright, and oscar winning screenwriter for " "12 years a slave." he talked to me about many things including how the news influences his work, and i asked him how the show "american crime" got started. >> abc approached me about doing "american crime" before "12 years a slave" was released. before the film was widely known. to get a call from a broadcast network, and to say to me that they wanted to tackle subject matter that dealt with race, that dealt with religion, that dealt with socio-economic backgrounds a

barbara? >> mohammed with the latest from kathmandu. thank you. >> the nigerian army said it has rescued nearly 300 women and girls. they were found in the sambisa forest, a boko haram stronghold. let'slet'slet's go to yvonne ndege. when we were speaking at the top of the news hour the news was just breaking. do we have any more details? >> we managed to speak to major general the spokesperson, about the details of these 293 women and girls who have been rescued from sambisa. >> they will explain in some instances what the military believes is that some of the children, the women the girls that they come across in sambisa now could be relatives, wives, of the boko haram operatives who have camps in the area. in a separate statement me say photographs are to follow with more information about the 293 who have been rescued. right now interest is a screening and profiling process on going in which the military will try to determine who they are, where they come from. it could be incredibly difficult. as i say many, many people have within

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora. "america tonight" is next. i will see you again in an hour. >> on "america tonight": sex crimes on campus. lessons learned after a groundbreaking year of reports. >> did you know that title 9 was something that could be applied that universities could be held responsible under title 9 before this happened to you before you saw oreport? >> i never heard of title 9. i was one of the people that thought oh it's never going to happen to me. >> "america tonight's" christof putzel on the falsely accused. >> they don't get the due process rights that many americans would expect to have occur. >> harsh crack downs are universities going too far or not far enough? sex crimes on campus, "america tonight's" special report. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. it is a story that rocked and royaled, the university of virginia twice and because up sexual assault on all campuses across the country. the rolling stone article did reignite the campaign on a continuescontinuing sex crimes on campus, avoid sanction with feder

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora. "america tonight" is up next. i will see you again in an hour. >> bye-bye. >> on "america tonight". he's got fans all over the world, but who is this maestro called stromae? >> being on the stage means you are a bit pretension, who are you to be so pretentious, to be one meter above everyone with a plaintiff,. >> an international superstar you haven't heard of yet. >> also behind bars and beyond belief the gang leader who proclaimed, i am the law. >> one woman who was fixing his home cooked meals every day and one woman who was smuggling a personal purpose. >> that's tip of the iceberg "america tonight"'s adam may and a look behind bars, why the inmates may be the only ones running things on the inside. thanks for joining us i'm joie chen. they call it charm city but right now baltimore is rhode islandroiled inturmoil. shaken the community's faith in law enforcement. it is a devastating story and no less shocking than another baltimore case that has put prison guards behind bars. "america tonight"'s adam may repor

barbara you asked me a similar question on monday night. you have been asking that time and time again. to the military offices. and it appears there is a muttle. the theory that they are getting in is a sort of bottleneck because of the one runway. the military commanders i have spoken to that the system even though it looks chaotic. the capacity right now is not enough. not enough food and choateing or basic ever caking utensils. we went to a town which was about 40-kilometers outside of the katmandu valley. there must have been 40 casualties flowing into our hospital, it is the earthquake, had just happened injuries serious injuries back injuries head injuries this was from a building that has just collapsed. people being treated on the bare floor, people outside people in the street. getting basic triage, before entering the hospital because of the problem. they were doing a remarkable job, they were doing an incredible job keeping hygiene up, despite the extraordinary situation. there offense a desperate immediate, and the calls are be

understand that researchers at florida state university and at the university of california at santa barbara say they have found it. that it actually seeped down onto the ocean floor and it's mixing up with some of the sediment there and they say it could be as much as 10 million gallons. >> holy cow! what does that mean? if scientists really have found the missing oil can they be sure that it's affecting the catch? >> well, they can't be sure at this point. we have to say that it's just a fear at this point. there are certain things that people say are certain. people believe that some of the sea mammals that we are washing up on shore dead dolphins that that's directly attributable to the oil spill. that's what many of the environmentalists in the gulf say. what they fear is that oil is actually sort of seeping into the food chain and eventually getting into some of the fish that we may consume. >> "america tonight's" michael okwu thanks. >>> next kick the habit who's being drawn in. and sarah hoye, community schools, after a shamed school, can they follow a blueprint for change? change? >

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora, fault lines is up next. i'll see you again in an hour. >> bye-bye. ye. >> 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'

. >> she said her lack of success against barbara in 2010 is due to the fact that she's in a democratic leading state. the idea that she'd run for governor is out there. this is something she'll want to do. she'll be one of the more entertaining figures. she can play gender politics with hillary clinton, and she can go after hillary clinton in ways that may seem unseemly it not true from some of the other colleagues. she's about as big a long shot as there is right now >>>ment >>> the i.r.s. admits its automated system hung up on 8 million people. of those able to connect. 40% spoke to a person. the agency blamed budget cuts. they slashed 1.2 billion since 2010. republican lawmakers say the problems are due to bad budgeting, including a focus on bonuses, rather than tax paying assistance. >> for women wrongly imprisoned are getting another day in court. today how an accuser changed her story. >> after 40 years of silence, a volcano erupts and sends people running for safety. safety. >>> a major volcanic erugs in southern chillie. the army is effectuting more than 1500 -- evacuating more

i'm barbara serra. >> i'm antonio mora. i'll see you again in an hour. >> often "americaon "america tonight". the last rights. >> why can't he do everything he can? i am doing everything i can. i'm doing everything i think is best for everyone involved myself and the family. >> the most important conversation a family can have with the dying and how to begin it. also ahead a team torn apart by violent tradition. >> i felt like i was playing for my life. i felt that just because of the fact that i wasn't going to let them it was going to beat me nonstop. >> in our series sex crimes in sport, "america tonight's" lori jane gliha investigates a silent crime in locker rooms even at high school level violent hazing and how players get weighed way with away with it. >> a darker side of the locker room rituals is violent even abusive hazing and it may be more common than you would expect. one in five student-athletes report they have been victims of hazing. charges of sexual assault "america tonight's" lori jane gliha find that oft

came in reaction to the 1969 oil spill off the coast of california that fouled the beaches of santa barbara for years. the reaction against that was strong. not only was earth day created, they called it a teach in at that point. it had a certain degree of spontaneousness about it. it resulted in a whole lot of environmental legislation including the formation of the environmental protection agency itself signed by a conservative republican president, richard nixon. try to imagine that happening today. and as far as the legacy or the spirit of earth day, yes, it has changed like many other things. a lot of people think it has been something coopted by the business community where they can once a year demonstrate their environmental bona fide but nevertheless it's still an important day for the environmental community and for president obama and politicians to make the point they're working on one side or the other on this urgent issue of climate change. >>> there was a little stream across the street from the school in baltimore, maryland. that's what i remember. my goodness. all the inform

the government's representative santa barbara turned up on wednesday. this document includes things like discussions of humanitarian issues and what they call the fight against terrorism. what we believe it doesn't discuss is the fate of bashar al-assad syria's leader. that is important. the national coalition, the main opposition group in syria has been boycotting the talks and sees the removal of bashar al-assad as a main precondition for negotiations. but, the landscape force - for the opposition groups shifted considerably. >> recently we see the rise of islamic state, and this replaced bashar al-assad as the bogieman in the region for western governments. so we have detected a noticeable softening language that the united states is using. the other thing that has happened is the nuclear deal with iran. when sanctions are lifted with iran this, will allow iran to operate more freely as a regional power. one of those allies is bashar al-assad. what is good for bashar al-assad is bad for the syrian opposition. >> meanwhile, 14 palestinian groups are b

with me are jamal abdi, policy director at the national iranian american council of and barbara slaven, oo nonresident member of the south asian center and author. jamal, let me start with you. do you come down a little closer to henry's caution and skepticism, or the optimism and freely openly made statements thing? >> well, i do think everybody won. i think i came down on the side of everywhere at the netting tail. i think the sides overperformed. everyone got something they can go home and tell constituents we won, we got what we wanted. that's the bottom line. >> is it so complicated to carry out. this is a fearsome set of requirements, that there's going to be, instead of lowered suspicion, heightened suspicion for a while? >> you know, trust was the big gap here, but i think the parties, by talking, for 18 months, managed to bridge. now, is the deal too complicated? i don't think there a way that you get a deal dealing with nuclear physics. international sanctions, and seven countries, many with no love loss with one another, and you put something together that is simple than the

. ♪ up >> hello there i'm barbara serra. this is the news live from london. the rescue of hundreds of girls from a forest but can't confirm if they are from the chibok kidnapping. >>> pulling out survivors from saturday's earthquake and up to 10,000 people may have died.

we also have barbara, i would love to pick my channels 20 or 30 would be just fine. >> probably bad news, for 24 hour news channel, hopefully we will find a way to survive. thank you very much. here is a question that how should cable companies react? cut the cord reduce the prices. people actually want, the own # no crap. we are all for no crap television. how can cable companies compete with this? >> they often have cheaper bundles. they are not heavily promoted. >> they off something is lighter. because they see that's what people want. they find it is a very good option, but if you want to pick your own channels at least right now, it is not that. and if you want to avoided advertisements not all the channels have dvr features. you may find yourself thank you to our guests. senior writer when we return a new battleground and the inspection age, some governments are making hundreds of edits on wikipedia pages. are they serving the public >> monday - a climate emergency. >> those species could not be here in 10 years. >> nasa steps in to help protect the future of the planet. >> the tr

barbara says she wished she could elect a new mayor. >> i'm not happy with him, and i haven't had a chance to sign a petition. if someone comes to my door i will. >> bristol could get her wish. >> this is the petition that we are passing. >> nick and a group of residents are collecting names in a drive to recall the mayor. >> i'm an advocate for a good government in ferguson. in order to get good government in ferguson some things will have to change. the mayor is one of those things. >> knowles, in his second term angered some when he said there wasn't a racial quite in the community, after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen. he came under fire for a report citing bias in the police department and court. that report led to the resignation of other city officials. at a recent forum city council candidates were divided on whether knowles should stay or go. >> he's done a job that i don't think anyone in the room could have done better with anyone attacking him on a constant basis. >> he had to know about the discriminatory culture, or else he is incompetent. there's n

. >> barbara said she wishes she could elect a new mayor. >> i'm not happy with him. if someone comes to my door, i will sign a petition. >> she could get her wish. >> this is the petition that we're passing. >> nick and a group of ferguson residents are collecting names in a petition drive to recall mayor james knolls. >> what i am is a an advocate for good government in ferguson and in order to get the government in ferguson, some things are going to have to change. the mayor is one of those things. >> the mayor angered residents last summer when he said there wasn't a racial divide in his community after a white ferguson police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen. he's come under fire for a federal report citing widespread racial bias in ferguson's police department and municipal court. that report led to the resignations of other city officials. at a recent forum city council candidates were divided on whether knolls should stay or go. >> he's done a job that anyone in this room could have done much better with everyone attackerring him on a constant base.

hello, i'm barbara, this is the newshour live from london. in the next 60 minutes - i.s.i.l. comes to the syrian capital, seizing large areas of the palestinian refugee camp in damascus. as saudi arabia air strikes continue yemen's foreign minister calls on the foreign minister to defend aden from houthi attacks. nigeria's president promises to heal wounds. >> it is time for our negotiating partners. to seize the moment >>> power in the hands of western documents - nuclear deal is elusive. >> and a man who accused india of influencing umpires resigns as the president of world cricket. thank you for joining us. fighters from the refugee camp. it was the focus of heavy fighting in 2012 when rival opposition groups move in and a government siege last year saw camp residents pushed to starvation. stefanie dekker has more from beirut. >> the fighting is ongoing between i.s.i.l. and a group, a palestinian group affiliated with hamas. there are other groups in the camp some al qaeda affiliated groups. the activists say they seem to remain neutral. it started as a turf war - not a tu

epitomized by the 17969 oil spill off of the coast of santa barbara. within three years of that disaster the environmental protection agency was created and the clean water act was created. all signed by president richard nixon. today, the environment has become another hot button initiative. a new gallop poll says that every group in the country will be felt by global warming except one florida's conservative republicans. rick scott has reportedly banned state employees from using the terms climate change and global warming. and the white house said that scott was invited to today's event, but he declined. in his budget, president obama asked for a $70 million funding chretien for the everglades this year, but he has repeatedly asked for more than congress has been willing to provide. >> simply refusing to say the words, climate change, doesn't mean that the climb at change isn't happening. we know that in our own lives you have a coming storm you don't stick your head in the sand. you prepare for the storm. >> as for earth day, it has been a success

barbara wished she could elect a new mayor. >> i'm not happy with him. i have not had a chance to sign a petition if someone comes to my door i will. >> reporter: she could get her wish. >> this is the petition. >> reporter: nick and others are signing a petition to recall mayor james knowles. >> i'm an advocate for good government in ferguson. in order to get good government in ferguson things will have to change. the mayor in one of those things. >> reporter: knowles in his second term as mayor ended some when he said there was not a racial divide in his community after a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen and came under fire for a federal report citing bias and ferguson's police department and municipal court. that led to the resignation of other cities. at a forum city council candidates were divided on whether knowles should stay or go. >> he has done a job that i don't think anyone in the room could do better with everyone attacking him on a constant basis. >> he had to know about the discriminatory culture, or else he is incom

barbara sarah is sarah serra is here with more. broocial. >> the reactor's massive radiation shield was damaged an radiation escaped in the atmosphere. died of radiation exposure within three months but even today that radiation still takes a toll with higher than average rates of cancer and birth defects. >> this baby was so big and so strange. not usual. be very high brawbility can be probable can be related to chernobyl disaster. >> funds for in ukraine are sparse. >> hard to remember it was 28 years ago. >>> 27% of americans suffer a positive image of muslims. we have a slightly better image of congress, you know but that's not saying much. >> daily show aa sfertionif aasef monsi and his decision to call it quits. >> aasef monzi rose to fame as a correspond for the daily show but he's taking his humor and shartsharp wit. online. it's called halil in the family. he's best known for his work on the daily show. >> boom that's right. >> where he's covered everything from snow storms in the south to the controversy over fracking. >>

i'm barbara. >> i'm antonio mora. coming up, the corruption scandal threatening it bring down the president of brazil. and a movement to turn india's spaces in a hot spot >>> first, u.s. officials are sounding the alarm about chinese activities in the south see. the satellite picture show landing strips off the parasol islands. they could handle surveillance planes and fighter jets. images of first hard evidence that china is building an airstrip in disputed territories much the u.s. military commander in asia warns it could be a power grab. >> the implication is that if the activity tips, is that it would give them de facto control in peacetime of much of the important waterways, where the economic energy is created. it would - if they desired, it would, in the future give them an opportunity to put long detection raid areas in there. they could put war planes. >> the senate arms services committee was told moves by china threatened security and the u.s. was watching it carefully. >> the u.s. sent air and equipment t

waters it would rank up to the santa barbara spill of 1969 and the exxon valdez spill of more than 20 years ago now. >> tell us five years retrospective, what did the industry get wrong and what is it still getting wrong? >> i think the major issue is we placed enormous faith in the blowout preventer that that would cut off the flow of oil and gas coming forward. and that failed at the end of the day and that was a sort of a pearl harbor moment for the industry. that's what the industry got wrong most centrally. >> mr. deans let me ask you this. is that something the industry should have gotten wrong from the standpoint of environmentalists, is that something that they should have known was not going to go right? >> well, certainly the blowout was the result of a long change of mishaps miss judgments finally the failure of that blowout preventer. the question is now could it happen today? sadly unfortunately it could. the industry has taken steps to remove the risks of an operation at sea but we haven't made it safe we can't make it safe and in fact del just last year there were more

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. >> yes, barbara. she came from boston to teach me because teachers quit their jobs. they didn't want to teach black kids. she was amazing. she made school fun. she didn't care what i looked like. >> did she talk about her feelings or concern? >> no. she just taught you. >> she tried hard to keep my mind off the screaming and shouting outside the window. >> why were you in an empty classroom? >> why was i? the first day, maybe, everyone was absent. but every day - i didn't see them on the playgrounds. i wasn't allowed go to the cafeteria. >> you weren't allowed? >> no i could smell the food cooking. i remember that the kids met in the cafeteria at my old school. for a long time i thought the kids are in the cafeteria, i can't go because they are threatening to poison me or harm me and screamed that outside. so the marshals instructed my parents prepare my lunch and eat it at my desk. >> her parents knew that her integration was crucial to the civil rights movement. it came with consequences. threats to your family. >> threats to my family. my father lost his job, and

. >> it's one of the worst history, ranking with the santa barbara spill, and the spill from the gulf of mexico. it's one of the most severe spills. ranks up there for ecological damage with the exxon spill of more than 20 years ago. >> tell us five years now, retrospective, what does the industry get wrong, what does it still get wrong? >> the major issue is we placed faith in the blow-out preventer, the fail safe device at the seabed that it would cut the flow of oil and gas coming forward. that failed, at the end of the day, and was a pearl harbor moment for the industry. that's what the industry got wrong most centrally. >> let me ask you this. is that something that the industry should have gotten wrong from the stand point of environmentalists. is that something that they should have known was not going to go right? >> certainly the blow out was a result of a long chain of mishaps, ns judgments and mistakes on the part of operators and the failure of the blow out preventer. the question is could it happen today. sadly it could. the industry and the government is taking steps to

the news continues next with antonio mara and barbara snow. bara snow. >> >>> prelude to the summit. >> this is a theatrical farce, where they think enemies will talk and sing a song of piece. unacceptable. >>> havoc and chaos rule as the nations of the americas gather for an historic meeting >>> a break through hint. >> as circumstances change, that list will change. >> president obama singles change in the status of cuba as he prepares for a face to face

. >> yes barbara henry. she came from boston to teach me because teachers have to quit their jobs. they didn't want to teach the black kids. she was an amazing teacher. she made school fun. i loved school because of her. she didn't care what i looked like. >> did she talk about her feelings or concerns during that time. >> no. >> she just taught you. >> she just taught me. she tried hard to keep my mind off the screaming that was outside the window. >> why were you in an empty classroom? >> the first day, maybe, everyone was absent. every day. i didn't see them on the play grounds. i didn't see them - i wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria. >> you weren't allowed. >> no, i could smell the food cooking. i remember the kids met at my old school. i thought kids were in the cafeteria, i can't go, because they threatened to point or harm me. they kept screaming that outside. so the marshals instructed my parents to prepare my lunch and have me eat it at my desk. >> her parents knew school integration was crucial to the civil rights movement. it was a courageous decision that came with