we turn to antonio mora of "consider this." he's also cuba and a long time resident of miami. you've seen these politics play out, and i wonder about this particular event between president obama and mr. castro and the perceptions of it. the white house is quick to come out and say, no, this was not a setup. this was not preplanned. is that how it seemed? >> it's hard to say, joie. as i watched, if he had avoided shaking raul castro's hands it would have seemed small-minded and offensive to the spirit of the man they were there to honor and his spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. i don't think he had much of a chance but to shake his hand. if he snubbed him, we'd talk about that, and the i think the reaction to that would have been even worse. my question really is for the white house folks. where were the advance white house people in planning? they certainly could have figured out some way of president obama getting to his seat and not having to walk right past raul castro, so that raised questions. on the other hand the president in his speech had a clear criticism of

i'm antonio mora. >> we start with thanksgiving. moviegoers and animal lovers may want to pay attention to the pledge that no animals were harmed during the filming. a stunning investigation details injuries and deaths during the productions of last years' blockbusters including life of pi and the hobbit and unexpected journey. joining me is gary baum. >> and finally from us tonight. for the first time since the late 19th century there was a collision on the holiday calendars thanksgiving and hanukkah shared a day a jewish delicacy was scarce during this hollywood. there was a carolin knish crisi. >> there is more to the shortage than the dishes a dish. >> on september 24th the biggest can. carolina knish. >> there is a one way to caution cause afire storm in new york is deprive yo us of this delicacy. >> once ordered by the dozen and sold in street carts and delis and grocery stores around the country the square knish is more ewilelusive in manhattan. good morning. can i get a carolin knish. no knish. to be honest i have never eate

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? the stream is uniquely interactive television. we depend on you, >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> the stream. weeknights 7:30 et / 4:30 pt on al jazeera america and join the conversation online @ajamstream. ♪ >>> and welcome back. now we're going to introduce you to a man who with just one little sentence stopped traffic in tennessee. he is the voice of chattanooga and has been on the air since before slinkies wer incent -- invented in the 40s. here is his story. >> this is wdef, radio chattanooga, 5:30 after 9:00. >> reporter: he is unlike anybody else. he is chattanooga. >> i'm looking out my hotel window and see nothing but a beautiful morning in chattanooga. >> reporter: at 91 he is the oldest broadcaster in this the united states. his career spans more than seven decades, and he still types his

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? have been telling you in the san joaquim river, freeze warnings in effect. never seen too much in terms of rain. los angeles, you are going to be seeing some beautiful weather all the way to sunday even into the low 70 did or high 60s, partly cloudy conditions, overnight, about 44 degrees. texas also dry for you as well. we saw rain showers and a mix of precip just a little bit up here towards the north. temperatures for dallas at about 42. san antonio at 55. for houston, well, you are going to be seeing rain by the time we end the week. 59 degrees there. that will will last one day. your weekend should look better with a high of 63. over here towards the southeast, some rain showers pushing through orlando right now. atlanta is going to be about 56. an american auto maker making history. the newer ground general motor is making as it names its latest ceo. >> eve

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. i'm phil tor

"consider this" with antonio mora is up next. see you back here is the 11 eastern, and you can get the latest on aljazeera.com. see you later on. >> shocking statements from the heads of the house and senate committees. talk of increased terror threats and mal-esso lens from extremists across the globe. are americans less safe than a few years ago. former house senator jane harman joins us. the heath care website is up and running, are people falling through the cracks. >> plus an article about women not having it all went viral. what is anne-marie slaughter saying about it today. >> millions of americans wrap up holiday shopping, did the supreme court make your future shopping seasons more expensive. >> i'm antonio mora. we begin with the question after the worse in iraq and al-qaeda - are we safer. osama bin laden was emim nated. he'll fire missiles from drones killed al qaeda operatives, and barack obama said it time and again. >> the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat. our nation is cure, and our homeland is safer. >>

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. >> on high alert tonight following a second deadly terror attack in two days. the latest attack happened monday morning on a packed bus during the height of the morning commute. at l

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim in farming. they call it "vertical farming." these fields grow on floors on at industrial park and farmer john adel and his staff agrees user. >> my shipping proceed did you say 1500, 2,000 miles to get are. >> the plant of the indoor -- as the indoor formers call it doesn't grow corn or soybeans but mustard, high end micro greens on the plates of white-napkin restaurants. these fish supply the vert liser that number issues the ♪ >>> and welcome back. now we're going to introduce you to a man who with just one little sentence stopped traffic in tennessee. he is the voice of chattanooga and has been on the air since before slinkies were ince incent -- invented in the 40s. here is his story. >> this is wdef, radio chattanooga, 5:30 after 9:00. >> reporter: he is unlike a

"consider this" is next with antonio mora. i'll see you back at 11 eastern, south pacific time. >> the a.t.f. under fire for sing operations that reportedly manipulated mentally disabled people and plied minors with alcohol and drugs. did the a.t.f.'s activity encourage crimes that the bureau was supposed to be fighting. a worldwide battle over internet sites. an internet called "the dirty" is appealing a jury's decision against it in an internet lawsuit. why are google, amazon, microsof taking action to help "the dirty." >> are we speeding to a new future on the roads? we'll have the latest on self-driving cars and how they could come to a showroom with you. >> and the man that many laughed at representing "the rent is too damn high party" have it right all along? we'll explain. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". we deal with a troubling story about tactics used in six sting operations conducted by the a.t.f. the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives. in an investigative series in the milwaukee journal

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> every morning from 5 to 9am al jazeera america brings you more us and global news than any other american news channel. find out what happened and what to expect. >> start every morning, every day, 5am to 9 eastern with al jazeera america. on august 20th, al jazeera america introduced a new voice in journalism. >> good evening everyone, welcome to al jazeera. >> usa today says: >> ...writes the columbia journalism review. and the daily beast says: >> quality journalists once again on the air is a beautiful thing to behold. >> al jazeera america, there's more to it. >> and now, a techknow minute... >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. it's been more than a month since typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. we want to turn our discussion over to the relief efforts and the millions of filipinos displaced by the storm. with us is john, director

hello i'm antonio mora. we begin with president obama's final press conference of 2013. >> has this been the worst year of your presidency? >> the question quickly dodged but it largely set the tone for a barrage on the nsa, iran, the winter olympics and of course obamacare. >> you know what they say it's the most wonderful press conference of the year. i firmly believe that 2014 can be a break through year for america. >> for more i'm joined by james warren, the washington, d.c. bureau chief for the new york daily news. he joins us from our studio in chicago, illinois and michael roy, in los angeles tonight. great to have you on the show. the press conference had the feel of let's get 2013 over and head to hawaii. the president's approval rating has been at an all time low. 56% of americans disproving of the job he's doing, only 41% approving. do you think this press conference helped at all, michael? >> i can't say absolutely that it helped. reading the transcript, watching the president, like you said in

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >>> lackluster sales, mixed weather, five shopping days left before christmas, the heat is on for the nation's retailers. they are pulling out all of the stops which is why some stores are bringing the goods to you. de-live just announced a partnership to bring same day delivery service to several malls across the country. founder and ceo is at hugo boss in westfield century city mall. >> hi. >> i avoid malls as much as possible because i don't want to carry stuff around. tell me what you guys do for me. >> we can do everything for you. de-live is same day delivery service for merchandise bought online or in the store. we deliver it to your doorstep drivers. >> when you say -- tell me what drivers. >> yeah, crowd sourcing is a very innovative cost effective and flexible staffing model where we build up a community of independent contractors, and in our case they

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? kauai. >> time now for listening post news bytes. in december 9th, vladimir putin announced that the news agency will be dissolved, to be taken place by what translates as russia today. public life of the russian federation. , ria had recently been known for independent reporting on sensitive issues, such as the rash of antiputin protests in 2012. given the appointment of ultra ultraconservative many knowledge newsman. in russia's landscape, appeared to point to a tightening of control in the heavily affect affect-- controlled news sector. >>> critical charges a speech by the prime minister which makes a potential mockery of a fair trial. taraf, the secret documents the paper published, dealt too much power behind the science in turkish politics pfn baran revealing state secrets cannot be considered freedom of expression, it is simply treason. demanded that the c

"consider this" with antonio mora is next. you can get the latest information on the website - aljazeera.com. >> u.s. troops are photographed shuttle more -- poised to shuttle more americans to safety. does the evacuation put america at risk of being caught in the middle of another country's civil war. >> a holiday gift - an unpopular legislative year. if you think this year was bad, wait for 2014 - an election jeer >> december 25th - a sweet idea to get some folks home for the holiday tripled in size thanks to real-life santas. >> n.a.s.a. set for a spacewalk, but space suit issues left the astronaut with cold feet. >> i'm david shuster in for antonio mora. welcome to "consider this". we begin with the deteriorating situation in south sudan, and the hundreds of americans that may need help to escape gun-happy militia. according to the pentagon 150 marines are in position to get the americans out after a week of fighting between government troops and rebels, claiming 500 south sudan lives. close to 400 americans have been evac

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? kauai. >> time now for listening post news bytes. in december 9th, vladimir putin announced that the news agency will be dissolved, to be taken place by what translates as russia today. public life of the russian federation. , ria had recently been known for independent reporting on sensitive issues, such as the rash of antiputin protests in 2012. given the appointment of ultr ultraconservative many knowledge newsman. in russia's landscape, appeared to point to a tightening of control in the heavily affec affect-- controlled news sector. >>> critical charges a speech by the prime minister which makes a potential mockery of a fair trial. taraf, the secret documents the paper published, dealt too much power behind the science in turkish politics pfn baran revealing state secrets cannot be considered freedom of expression, it is simply treason. demanded that the cou

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? al jazeera america sundays. >> it i. >> if one was to guess where the worst case of a mass murder of journalists took place, countries like iraq sudan and syria would come to mind. traveling as part of a politicians convoy killed, 34 of them were journalists. four years on there have been no convictions and during this year, seven journalists have been murdered. >> doing stories about criminal acts, about corruption in government, or in collaboration of crime sector or any sector can really put you in danger. being a journalist. >> the philippines is a unique case i think we have a very robust democracy, a very noisy press. i think we're the freest in southeast asia. at the same time, we are not a model for what good journalism is all about because we have journalists are being killed. >> the current president, beniquo aquino iii, says they are working to resolve

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back to "techknow." phil is about to tell us a little more about this incredible exosuit. >> the technology is amazing. the stories behind the test pilots, that's what hits you. check it out. we talked about the science and technology, let's talk about the human elements and the miracles and what they experience with it. since it was first introduced e exo helped people who never thought they'd walk again take more than 3 million steps. >> that's the best part. >> not just amanda and jason, but patients in more than 40 hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres around the world. >> this one means a lot. >> it's coming from your foot. here we go. >> some of those centers are investig

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> time now for listening listening post news bites. >>> the late jaing song thiek, all changed with his very public arrest, even before his subsequent execution, north korean watches, saw references to him removed, removed from official videos and mass deletion of almost the entire archive of the kcna website. tens of thousands of articles that were published prior to october. another 20,000 articles were reportedly removed from the archives of the rodon sin moon, the state newspaper. deleting over 100,000 articles since executing jiang on friday, we have witnessed an unprecedented purge of both power and the press. given the fact that such a small percentage of north koreans can access the web, it is for the wider world for the peacock kingdom. >>> on december the 15th, tv presenter naras al nuemi was shot and killed in mosul. she became the sixth journalist ki

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> if you've ever gotten lost in a book in boston public library or hustled through grand central station, you may have missed the opportunity to take in a great scene. the story behind these great and brilliant works, here is america tonight's christophe putzel. >> the new york public library, grand central terminal, the national history museum in washed. these iconic buildings have a secret. to discover what it is, you have to look up. these vaulted buildings were designed by a father and son, they're method sparked a revolution in architecture. >> it was almost as if they were dropped here from the 14th century into early 20th century u

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> ♪ ♪ >> throughout israel's relatively short history, media and politics have been closely intertwined. perhaps never more so than the crop of journalists and politicians sworn into the 19th knesset. in the field of journalism to another field, politics. >> what's happened is that this objective media has changed its nature and became very opinionated. >> in 2011 we saw the rise of the journalist our the media person as a celeb. and once that happened, personal politics went up so the two things emerged if a way and gave rise to the possibility that a journalist or media person who is a celeb could go quickly and efficiently into politics and that is definitely evident with the lapid. >> lapid has made the world of politics look easy. in 2005 he interviewed another journalist turned politician. did it exactly the same thing. lapid gave up his anger chair, a

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> a program that connects us to where our food comes from. by serving healthy locally grown meals and giving us hands on education opportunities that helps make lasting changes in the school's food environment. >> welcome back. what you're looking at is a video from the national farm to school network. the organization estimates more than 10,000 schools across the country participate in the program. it's one of several innovative ideas that school systems are using to get kids excited about healthy eating. waj, i'm looking at the tweets coming in, and just before the break, julie was saying give control back to the lunch lady. this needs to go back and go local. >> yes, we should make the #empower the lunch lady go survival. viral. >> jean, waj raise as interesting point. when i was in school, the lunch ladies pretty much prepared everything from scratch on site

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? millions who need assistance now. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. >>> up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next. >> hey guys welcome back to "techknow". i'm here with crystal, lindsay and marita and they're telling me about their experiments this week. lindsay, tell me about your mushrooms. >> you won't believe this but we're talking about packaging goods. >> yeah, you know every cubic inch ever this soil here is teeming with millions of inches of mycilliul. there are fungi growing everywhere. a. >> a walk through the woods is pure pleasure but with two geniuses like gavin and evan, you are sure to stumble on something scientifically complex. >> you see this growing into the lock. >> and somehow it involves a mushroom. >> we're h

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> time now for listenin listent news bites. >>> the late jaing song thiek, all changed with his very public arrest, even before his subsequent execution, north korean watches, saw references to him removed, removed from official videos and mass deletion of almost the entire archive of the kcna website. tens of thousands of articles that were published prior to october. another 20,000 articles were reportedly removed from the archives of the rodon sin moon, the state newspaper. deleting over 100,000 articles since executing jiang on friday, we have witnessed an unprecedented purge of both power and the press. given the fact that such a small percentage of north koreans can access the web, it is for the wider world for the peacock kingdom. >>> on december the 15th, tv presenter naras al nuemi was shot and killed in mosul. she became the sixth journalist killed in

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? ♪ chocolate rain, a baby born with an iv, chocolate rain, the school books say it can be here again ♪ >> that was chocolate rain, a video that went viral in 2007 long before the world viral became a household word, and the man behind it all. welcome to "the stream." >> thank you for having me. >> i love that voice. looking back and knowing what popular? >> a lot of people say i have a voice body mismatch. some people say that the song is catchy, their two year old can't stop singing it at bedtime, and a smaller group of people resinated with the meaning. what does this song mean? so these three reasons. >> did you set out to be famous? >> absolutely not. i set out to record music in my living room because it was easier than singing at open mics and dragging my keyboards to mom indianapolis. >> there are two guys who have had fame heaped upon them, the norwegi

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >>> welcome back, we are talking to george takei. have? >> it's over 4.7 million. >> how many twitter followers do you have? >> over 800,000. >> at the tender age of 76 you have become the king of social media. how did that happen? >> it's taken a long time, 76 years. >> but, i mean, clearly - when media? >> about three years ago. again we were talking about combining the various interests. we developed a musical "allegiance" about a subject too many don't know too much about still. and we have invested a lot of funny and talent and energy and time, and we needed to build an audience for it. the best way to get the word out, so to speak, and to educate people was, i thought, social media. i began

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? was -- prince william was dating kate middleton. >> ross shimabuku is here with sport. >> dennis rodman is in north korea to train basketball players for an upcoming player. he wants everyone to know he's not a joke. this is the same guy who dressed up in a wedding gown and will rite a book with his bff, kim jong un. the 52-year-old rodman, who never shies away from the spotlight arrived in north korea >>cross-border killings by border patrol agents and complaints over a culture of abuse within the agency have spurred on-going protests along the border. we're following protestors as they march to the site where 16 year old jose antonio was killed in nogales. but as in other cross-border killings, the agent may never be tried since jose died on the other side of the international line. no one from the office of inspector general, fbi or attorney generals office wi

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> you probably heard of company starters. like kick starter. stacey tisdale explains. >> reporter: ask nathan sharp, the founder of price tacking nifty.com how he was able to start a business and many of his former classmates in an entrepreneurship program were not, and he'll tell you it was a question of economics. >> you got to have the ability to go for some time without income, to go some time putting your entire reputation on the line. >> reporter: sharp was able to do that thanks to a company called up start which gave him a new kind of loan. a loan for starting a business, paying down student loan debt. instead of paying the money with interest, borrowers pledge a percentage of the income. >> a total of $50,000 through up start and pledged 2.5% of my income. >> reporter: dave gerard, a former google executive said the majority of borrowers use the funds t

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> the challenges that i know about are who is going to care for us. one of the big problems is as our population gets older there are going to be more cases of alzheimer's. but the middle age population, sons and daughters, there are fewer and fewer of those. there are going to be fewer unpaid caregivers. >> welcome back to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. that's dr. hilfiger. he has been blogging about his own alzheimer's experience and give people a riching sense of what is at stake for our country. continuing our discussion now i want to ask you, dr. peterson, researchers in the united states and around the world have spent considerable amounts of time and money in the past generation trying to find the causes and treatment for this scourge. are you more confident than you were a year ago, two years ago that we're getting closer? >> i think so, ray. i think we

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond t

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> and now a techknow minute... >> fault lines investigates... fracking >> shale gas development could actually double the economic growth rates in the province. >> this is our land for thousands of years... >> do you drink money? you must have a lot of money to drink... >> as tensions rise, and protests turn violent, where will the debate lead? >> the situation was no longer peaceful or safe... >> they were bashing my head with their boots... they had their guns on me and everything.... >> how much more real can this get? >> fault lines only on al jazeera america >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. the government says health care.gov can now handle 50,000 users at a time and the president calls the fixes significant progress. we're continuing our conversation now on the progress and the challenges ahead as the deadline for enrollment approaches. i

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? imoflt who have done their duty in their efforts to if find job but there are others who do not. it's time to step up and take care of one ever its own. after seven years, our family should not be struggling each day without this loving, caring man we love so much. the rawrnian government excess they don't know where bob levinson is, the video was sent from a pakistani internet cafe but then the investigation goes cold. randall pinkston, al jazeera. >> trueman national security project and a former marine corps intelligence officer. andrew let's start with what we heard from the government, which has >> welcome back to "talk to al jazeera." i'm talking to former president jimmy carter. we are talking about the passing of nelson mandela. status quo in south africa before the end of apartheid was pretty good if you were white. it's a good place to be. it's a beauti

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> we're backbreaking down how local police factor into counterterrorism. check out my screen . the senate subcommittee did 13 months of reporting originating from the fusion centers in 2009 and 2010, could not identify a single terrorism threat or a single contribution made to identify a terrorist plot. mike you have read this story. can you name anything in >> absolutely. as far as that first report that came out in october of last year, there's been a subsequent report that came out in july of this year that kind of addresses many of those issues including the information that was collected and plots that were thwarted, information that was recovered, and just looking back, you know at the last ten plus years of the 45 plots that were terrorist plots that were being acted upon within the united states, we had six of those that were disrupted through suspicious

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? while you were asleep news was happening. >> >> guys, we will back to tech know, i am phil torres here with richelle, crystal and lindsey. crystal, you got to do a pretty classy story. valley? >> i did. i visited shaffer vineyards. and they are using technology and application of realtime data in their wine making process. you know see here some of the amazing different processes that they use. let's check it out. here on the hillside in napa, these pickers are harvesting grapes the way it's been done for thousands of years: by hand. 20th century technology has a hand in almost every step of the process from vine to wine. >> i am an innovator when it comes to making the best wine possible, whatever it takes. doug shaffer is the president of shaffer vineyards. he has been working here since 1973 when his father bought the estate. wine making, experience, innovatio

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> evey sunday night, join us for exclusive, revealing, and suprizing talks with the most interesting people of our time. this sunday, >> i spent my whole life thinking about themes and thinking about how to structure movies, so this is highly unusual. >> the director of the sixth sense, says there are five things we can do to fix education in america >> the united states has education apartheid, that's the facts... >> talk to al jazeera with m. night shayamalan sunday at 7et / 4pt on al jazeera america >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> and welcome back. we look tonight to a highlight of an old east-west tug of war. at the latter of it is ukraine and while the cold war is over the economic pull between moscow and the west has

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> on high alert tonight following a second deadly terror attack in two days. the latest attack happened monday morning on a packed bus during the height of the morning commute. at least 14 people were killed, more than two dozen were injured. both suicide attacks happened in the city of volgograd, formerly known as stalin grad. before the 2014 winter olympics in sochi. , as many as two terror attacks in as many days, the attacks linked, devices used in both explosions were similar, police calling them acts of terror. both attacks targeted transportation. monday's attack tore through a trolley bus killing 14 people and wounding 28 others. the day before, surveillance cameras captured an explosion inside volgograd's main holiday station, 17 people were killed in an attack by a suspected female suicide bomber. volgograd, a city of about 1 million is a major transpo

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> welcome back to al jazeera america. investigators in arizona have a huge task in front of them. they're trying to figure out what happened to thousands of child abuse reports that were ignored by the state's child welfare agency. the numbers are just stunning. more than 6500 reports of abuse or neglect over the last four years. all of them marked "ni" not investigated. now they're determined to check on every child involved those reports and find out why they were ignored. theye's mind, tony, how could something like this happen? >> we see over 100 children every single week for therapy sessions. among some of those kids are children with broken legs. we have a child who will be in the wheelchair for the rest of her life. >> reporter: when it comes to children in harm's, christie murphy has seen more than her fair share. but she was stunned that arizona's depa

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >> and welcome back. tonight we're looking in depth at health care in privately run prisons in america and in the second part of his investigation, america tonight's adam may, said that in an effort to save money, privatized care has sentenced some prisoners to death. >> it's a growing trend, states looking to trim budgets. to date, at least 28

>> i'm antonio mora, welcome to consider this. we begin with another school shoot, after newtown, connecticut 27 people including 20 students died. students with their hands up being fleeing arapaho high school. a female snunt her mid teens was shot, she's in surgery in critical condition. a second student has minor injuries. a third student is hospitalized but it's not known how that happened. the gunman took his own life. one mother described her feelings as she waited for her child. >> scared to death. scared. we moved here right before columbine so i'm really nervous. best thing ever to know she's okay and all of her friends are okay so i'm good. >> meanwhile in newtown, connecticut, families have requested a media blackout for this anniversary weekend. found parents trying to work through their pain and use it as motivation for change. >> here it is (laughing). >> oh cute. >> at any time care for her dress so much back then. >> joe sil ver lights up as he tells about his daughter lauren about. >> she was always smiling, alway

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? the stream is uniquely interactive television. we depend on you, >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> the stream. weeknights 7:30 et / 4:30 pt on al jazeera america and join the conversation online @ajamstream. reaction to the report suggests is it's not one to bring clos closure to those t lost so much that day. >> what we now know doesn't answer the sing ol single most t question. why did he go it. >> why did adam kill his mother in her bed and a drive to the school and launch his rampage? there were new disturbing decembedetails in the report ane isolated young man who covered his bedroom window with trash backs and communicated with his mother by e-mail. e-mail.. the school shooting. left for doom. owe collected articles some dating back to the 1800's detailing the killing of children kept troubling p

hello i'm antonio mora. we begin with president obama's final press conference of 2013. >> has this been the worst year of your presidency? >> the question quickly dodged but it largely set the tone for a barrage on the nsa, iran, the winter olympics and of course obamacare. >> you know what they say it's the most wonderful press conference of the year. i firmly believe that 2014 can be a break through year for america. >> for more i'm joined by james warren, the washington, d.c. bureau chief for the new york daily news. he joins us from our studio in chicago, illinois and michael roy, in los angeles tonight. great to have you on the show. the press conference had the feel of let's get 2013 over and head to hawaii. the president's approval rating has been at an all time low. 56% of americans disproving of approving. do you think this press conference helped at all, michael? >> i can't say absolutely that it helped. reading the transcript, watching the president, like you said in your open, antonio, it seemed

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america on wednesday, a new state of the art visitor center will be unveiled. the british government says they did this to restore the dignity of the site, and to better handle more than 1 million tourist whose trek to the ancient monument each year. around 1 million people come to see this every year. >> what endures about this place, is the puzzle that it prevents. because no one has been able to say with total certainty, what stonehenge is. >> some say it was a solar temple, others believe it is an ancient astro no, ma'am call computer, there are many theories. but what is clear, is it's popularity. and now after years of rangeling visitors can

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? we bring you the story of one attempt to navigate the system without being able to hear his own trial, and his struggle to then survive in prison. >> . >> i am a deaf person. things happen in prison that you never see. they don't tell you -- you have to watch out for yourself. somebody has a knife, because -- there's no. >> they want everything that you have. you fight for the shower. you fight for your food. there is no question that individuals with disabilities in prisons and jails face very very scary life. we know from the research that's been done on the national level, about prison rape and abuse. that individuals who have mental illness individuals who are elderly, individual whose have a physical disability, or who have a mental disability, are often times targets for sexual abuse and assault. >> it is laughable because it seems so completely far out the

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >> to the 35 million people around the world living with aids there is certainly some big developments to report. in the approach to this terrifying disease , 30 years since the clinical trials first started scientists now understand what the root cause raid. university of california san francisco identified a surprising process in how the aids

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? al jazeera america is growing and now more americans are getting the high quality, original, in-depth reporting al jazeera america is known for. >> to find out more about al jazeera america go to aljazeera.com away. >> the long walk to a final rest has begun in south africa. where leaders are moving in now to remember nelson mandela. nearly 100 heads of state and leaders, former president of the country, nelson mandela died thursday at the age of 95. a national tribute to mandela will take place at a johannesburg soccer stadium with thousands of ordinary south africans, including cube afternoon president raul castro. al al jazeera's ali velshi is joining us from south africa. tell us what you're seeing, there are so many dignitaries there for the commemoration of his life. >> i heard said, short of the united nations, this is the largest gathering ever held. like

. >> hello, i'm antonio mora, welcome to a special edition of "consider this". the man known as madiba said courage was not the absence of deed. born to a royal tribal family naming him rolihlahla dalibhunga, which means trouble maker, he lived up to his name. after studying law he dedicated himself to apartheid. a system imposed on the black african. nelson mandela was arrested in sentenced to life in prison. he spent 28 years behind bars, mostly in a tiny cell on robin island near cape town. nelson mandela's brutal imprisonment led to tuberculosis and damaged eye sight. his fame grew and the world clamoured for the release of a man the symbol of the civil rights movement. finally he walked out of prison. four years later he was elected south africa's first president. let's examine the man behind the status. our first guest had a strong connection. his grandfather taught mandela and his grandmother visited the south african leader in prison. it's a pleasure to have you here. i know you are the headmaster of the groten school. i'm glad you took time on what must

. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? >> from our headquarters in new york, here are the headlines this hour. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> a deal in the senate may be at hand and just in the nick of time. >> thousands of new yorkers are marching in solidarity. >> we're following multiple developments on syria at this hour. >> every hour from reporters stationed around the world and across the country. >> only on al jazeera america. the stream is uniquely interactive television. we depend on you, >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> the stream. weeknights 7:30 et / 4:30 pt on al jazeera america and join the conversation online @ajamstream. that is the scene live. where people have gathered outside nelson mandela's home. >> it is quite late in the night but still the comme

i'm antonio mora. welcome to "consider this." we'll talk to authors about intriguing books. we begin with benghazi, a new book inspired by the disaster. >> dozens of heavily armed militants attacked the u.s. embassy. ambassador christopher stevens and shaun smith were trapped in a burning mission building, where they died of smoke inhalation, despite the ests of a security team that fought to save them. hours later c.i.a. contractors, glen doherty and tyrone woods were killed when their post was attacked. >> a report produced for the state department investigating benghazi and security forces blamed the benghazi in pardon state department officials, criticising them for identifying conditions in the city, and approving benghazi as is diplomatic post. the panel highlighted long-standing problems in the security practices, including blurred lines of authority, a lack of accountability, no risk management model for high-threat posts or intelligent analysts, inadequate diplomatic security training and many vulnerable low-risk posts. >> fred is a former diplomatic security agent