ali velshi reports. >> blow up an old stadium. build a newer, bigger one costing $1 billion or more. it's a pattern that's been repeating itself over the last 20 years among the nation's professional sports leagues. and some say these new stadiums especially income the success of the national football league or nfl, whose total revenue is $99.4 billion. but a large part of funding from these new stadiums comes not from the pro leagues like the nfl but from taxpayer dollars. some critics see it as a form of corporate welfare. and what few people realize is that even after a stadium is blown up and no longer exists, taxpayer money is still being used to pay off the stadium's debt. the king dome home to the mariners and seahawks, blown up in 2000, has outstanding government debt of $83 million. and giants stadium, demolished in 2010, has an outstanding government debt of $266 million. which won't be paid off until 2025. and yet, when it comes to football stadiums, cities keep building new giant facilities with state and local governm

i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. thanks for watching. >> it creates a huge opportunity for the small business owners. >> these are all different strains. >> saudi backed forces say they have recaptured a yemen province from houthi fighters. hello. you are watching al jazeera, we are live from doha. coming up on the program, anger in japan as the country restarts its first nuclear plant since the fukushima disaster. an accidental toxic spill as a

ali velshi reports . >> blow up an old stadium. build a newer, bigger one costing $1 billion or more. it's a pattern that's been repeating itself over the last 20 years among the nation's professional sports leagues. and some say these new stadiums especially income the success of the national football league or nfl, whose total revenue is $99.4 billion. but a large part of funding from these new stadiums comes not from the pro leagues like the nfl but from taxpayer dollars. some critics see it as a form of corporate welfare. and what few people realize is that even after a stadium is blown up and no longer exists, taxpayer money is still being used to pay off the stadium's debt. the king dome home to the mariners and seahawks, blown up in 2000, has outstanding government debt of $83 million. and giants stadium, demolished in 2010, has an outstanding government debt of $266 million. which won't be paid off until 2025. and yet, when it comes to football stadiums, cities keep building new giant facilities with state and local governm

. >>> i'm ali velshi "on target", harsh reality growing up in black in america. what some parents feel they have to do to protect their kids. black votes matter, why so many african-american men are missing at the polls. black lives matter, it's a phrase and a movement aimed at raising awareness at what the group's founders call antiblack racism perm yalting our society -- permeating our society. it began after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin. it gained momentum after michael brown and others. black lives matters are making views clir to candidates. including hillary clinton. she met with several members in a meeting described as tense and raw. here is a reason for that. former president bill clinton signed harsh sentencing laws that had a disproportionate affect on black members convicted of violent drug crimes. sent to 1 million of the population of 2.3 million is black. that's 40%, greater than the 13% blacks represent in the overall u.s. population. for the record, hoirnt acknowledged -- hillary clinton acknowledged that the laws had undesirable conseque

. >> i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. "on target" tonight, money for nothing. how wealthy sports teams get away with building stadiums and making the taxpayer pay the bill and the 2016 race for president. american football fans are counting down the days until the nfl season kicks off. it begins two weeks from tomorrow, when the defending super bowl champs the new england patriots host one of their favorite rivals, pittsburgh steelers. the fact is that in the past few years the nfl, the national basketball station and even football has seen a stadium bing and the taxpayers have been footing the bill. tonight we'll take a look at these deals the good and the bad. what is clear is the cost. the book public-private partnerships, have shown that a whopping $12 billion in public financing went to 51 stadiums. hidden subsidies, and lost property taxes that team owners forced cities to pick up when new stadiums are built. another thing that's clear is nfl owners are very skilled in pressuring cities into funding new stadiums by threatening to leave town. the los angel

ali velshi reports. [ explosion ] >> blow up an old stadium build a newer bigger one costing $one $1 billion or more. it's a pattern among the nation's sports leagues. some say these stadiums especially reflect the success of the national football league or nfl whose total revenue since 1995 is $99.4 billion. but a large part of funding for most of these new stadiums comes not from the pro leagues like the nfl but from taxpayer dollars. some critics see it as a form of corporate welfare. and what few people realize is that even after a stadium is blown up and no longer exists, taxpayer money is still being used to pay off the stadium's debt. the kingdome home to the mariners and the seahawks, is still being paid off. and giants stadium has an outstanding department of $266 million, which won't be paid off until 2025. and yet when it comes to football stadiums, cities keep building new giant facilities with state and local governments on average paying for 57% of all construction costs. that translates to over $6 billion taxpayer dollars to build fancy football stadiums since 1995. ta

>> that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. joining us. market turan might. the end of a bruising week on wall street. a global sell off pushes u.s. stocks down to their biggest drop in four years. taken out. isil's second in command and logistics masterminds is killed in a u.s. air strike in iraq. the white house calls it a blow to the group's operations. train take down. >> i came to see my friends on my first trip in europe and we stop a terrorist. >> american passengers overtake a gunman foiling an attack on a packed high-speed train headed to paris. on the brink. escalating tension on the korean

. >> more perspective from ali velshi later in the hour. >>> after days of marathon talks, north and south korea have reached a new deal aimed at diffusing resent sense at -- along the border. >> reporter: after a session of talks lasting more than 33-hours, the delegation called a 2:00 am news conference. a dispute that began with a land mine blast in the southern side of the demilitarized zone which maimed two south korean socials and escalated with the rebroadesting of south korean speakers, and the threat against them, was he said at an end. >> translator: north korea expresses regret over the land mine incident in which two south korean soldiers were injured. south korea in the absence of any normal situation, will end

ali velshi is with me right now. how rare is it for the dow to drop this precipitously. >> very rare. in 2008 the day the house did not approve the stimulus bill, the dow dropped later in the afternoon and then recovered. we had the flash crash, most people don't count that. that was not a sentiment-driven thing. it was a technically-driven thing. that is the biggest drop the dow has ever seen. to look at 640 points lower and think, wow, that's an improvement of 400 points from where this was, we're just a half hour into trading. this is a fairly serious matter. the dow is do yo down 1600 points from in the week. >> we saw this i, and it was not surprising. what is the sentiment that is driving this? >> first of all on friday night you saw that the market closed down more than 500 points. one thing that we look at when we follow markets, it closed down on a down tick. it was going down when it closed. >> closing stopped it. >> closing stopped it from going down furthers. what always happens as asian markets pick up o

. >> that's our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. joining us. market turan might. the end of a bruising week on wall street. a global sell off pushes u.s. stocks down to their biggest drop in four years. taken out. isil's second in command and logistics masterminds is killed in a u.s. air strike in iraq. the white house calls it a blow to the group's operations. train take down. >> i came to see my friends on my first trip in europe and we stop a terrorist. >> american passengers overtake a gunman foiling an attack on a packed high-speed train headed to paris. on the brink. escalating tension on the korean peninsula, the north issues threats and prepares for war as the south rejects an ultimate i have risking military action. >>> and state of emergency. >> this is an unprecedented cataclysm in our state. >> at wild fires devour large parts of the west. the president answers the call for federal assistants while local officials ask for any and all volunteers to help beat back the flames. notes notes. >>> good he can, i am antonio mora, this is al

. >>> i'm ali velshi "on target," the tale of two cities - the haves, or have not in new orleans. 10 years after katrina, and why the mentally ill are more likely to land in prison than a hospital. hospital. >>> saturday is the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina making land fall in louisiana. while the category 3 storm brought destruction. nowhere suffered more than new orleans. that's where the levy system that the city depends on failed, bringing kat as trafy to its residents, some 12500 die the in new orleans, or nearby as a direct result of the storm. half the population was forced to flee the area. some never came back, in many places there was nothing to come back to. that compounded the mental trauma that many contend with, even 10 years on, particularly hard hit, is the african-american community, shrunk by almost 100,000 people since hurricane katrina hit. devastated neighbourhoods have been rebuilt. they are teaming with people. many are newcomers moving into the city after the storm. the sense of community defines people's lives, it's harder to rebuild. the changes left

>>> i'm ali velshi, "on target", a battle over birth right citizenship, the candidate, constitution and what it means to be an american, plus, stock market slammed. what is next for a brutal friday for your investments >>> who is an american, the term birth right citizenship is loaded with controversy, especially among some republican candidates running for president in 2016. before we start debating rights granted to natural born citizens, let's refer to the law of the land. the constitution states all persons born or nationalized in the united states and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united states, and of the state wheren they reside period. listening to presidential candidates, you get the impression that many of them think that granting automatic citizenship to people born in this country is un-american. >> it makes no sense right now, that millions come illegally to this country, and that the law grants citizenship. >> i don't think they have american citizenship, and if you speak to some good lawyers, many will e agree, they do not have american citizens

[ ♪ ] >>> i'm ali velshi, "on target," unspeakable acts, a fight to keep children being bought and sold for sex online, and the use of deadly force by police in america. the puzzling truth about who is not keeping track. been >>> america is a nation of rights and laws based on a constitution designed to protect citizens from a variety of threats, inclue ght the government itself. sometimes they come into conflict, forcing lawmakers, judges and other to weigh the cost of the protecting principles laid down by the founding fathers. think of the second amendments right to bear arms and the problem of gun violence in america. tonight a focus on how the right to free speech granted under the first amendment is coming into play in a battle involving sex trafficking and society's most vulnerable citizens, children. instead of guns, some of the criminals involved use a weapon the founding fathers never imagined - the internet. the best known example involves craigslist, a website. this site decided in 2010 to close the profitable adult services section as part of its business. that section allo

. >>> i'm ali velshi, and i'm devoting the show to the [ ♪ ] >>> i'm ali velshi, and i'm devoting tonight's show to t trafficking of children as sex workers, a crime most think happens somewhere else. it's happening here in the united states. and the website that listed her for sale. mary snow has the story. >> we did everything with the kids. that was our philosophy as being parents. trouble.

i'm ali velshi, thank you for >> al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. have a good night. >>> almost half of the 116 prisoners remaining at guantanamo bay naval base have been cleared for transfer. many of them have been languishing for years because the u.s. cannes convince other countries to take them. one prisoner on a huger strike says he's near death. another detainee asked a federal court if your own president says war in afghanistan is over, why can't i get out of here. the obama administration wanted to close the place for years, but congress wants to block any soil. closing guantanamo bay - it's "inside story".

>>> i'm ali velshi, and i'm devoting the show to the [ ♪ ] >>> i'm ali velshi, and i'm devoting tonight's show to t trafficking of children as sex workers, a crime most think happens somewhere else. it's happening here in the united states. and the website that listed her for sale. mary snow has the story. >> we did everything with the kids. that was our philosophy as being parents. trouble. >> reporter: tom was a stay at home dad, his wife nicole a preschool teacher. they lived a typical life when the youngest of three children entered high school. >> she was part of a national junior aimish society. played violin, volunteered at the school, and was on the soccer team, was an all child. >> reporter: then the all american child did something unexpected. she disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a note. >> you'll bedisappointed in me because i was messing up in school. so i told them i was going to go and experience seattle. i was excited. go hang out. i didn't really know what i had coming. i didn't really thing all that through >>> how quickly did your life change? >> pretty darn q

i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. >>> surveys of courage. >> -- face of courage. >> now i feel... i'm prepared for anything that comes. >>> former president carter talks candidly and hopefully about his cancer diagnosis and treatment >>> gaining support - president obama's nuclear deal with iran may be closer to getting through congress as more democrats come

. >>> i'm ali velshi "on target", harsh reality growing up in black in america. what some parents feel they have to do to protect their kids. black votes matter, why so many african-american men are missing at the polls. black lives matter, it's a phrase and a movement aimed at raising awareness at what the group's founders call antiblack racism perm yalting our society -- permeating our society. it began after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin. it gained momentum after michael brown and others. black lives matters are making views clir to presidential -- clear to presidential candidates. including hillary clinton. she met with several members in a meeting described as tense and raw. here is a reason for that. former president bill clinton signed harsh sentencing laws that had a disproportionate affect on black members convicted of violent drug crimes. sent to 1 million of the population of 2.3 million is black. that's 40%, greater than the 13% blacks represent in the overall u.s. population. for the record, hoirnt acknowledged -- hillary clinton acknowledged

. >> ali velshi on target >> top stories on al jazeera. the malaysian government confirmed that debris found on reunion island is part of mh 370. as many as 200 migrants are feared drowned off an overcrowded fishing boat. 25 bodies have been recovered. about 400 people have been rescued. u.s. president is appealing to americans to back the iran nuclear deal saying that without it, there will be war in the middle east. mr. obama has been presenting his case at the american university. >>> japan is marking the grim anniversary of 70 years since the hiroshima atomic bombing. 55,000 people, including representatives from a hundred countries observed a moment of silence at the historic hiroshima peace memorial park. the bomb dropped by the united states in 1945 killed tens of thousands of people and changed the face of global warfare. jeffrey kingston is the director of asian studies at temple university and joins me live via skype from japan. thank you for joining us here on al jazeera. let's talk through the event itself and the significance

>> i'm ali velshi. "on target" in philadelphia, tonight, black votes matter. why so many african american men are missing in the polls. plus history in havana, how so many americans could profit from opening of diplomacy. >>> the watts riots in los angeles started when a white highway patrol officer stopped a black motorist suspected of drunk driving. on lookers rushed in. many believed they were witnessing another example of excessive force against african american men. the rage quickly deinvolve devoa long six days. later urged law enforcement agencies to change their policing methods in black communities. it said those methods promoted a quote deep and long standing schism between the two, in the decades since, the mistrust is still there. even triggering deep tensions in places like ferguson, missouri. this week's one year anniversary of the shooting death of michael brown was marked by more protest and more violence. even though officer involved was exonerated in the incident, the investigation found that local police purposely target ed african americans

. >> ali velshi on target >> tonight in our fast forward segment we take a look at a dark chapter in chicago's history. from the early '70s to the early '90s more than 100 men were tortured to give false confessions by members of the chicago police department. i recently sat down with one man who spent half of his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. >> i'll take the big old nightstick and put it (bleep) as he's telling me you did this we know you did this. >> this was a highly publicized quintuple murder but when police picked up kitchen they told him it was for auto theft. >> they said stand up nigger. stand up to the wall, handcuffed me to the back and he put his nightstick between my legs. and he put it against the wall and he lifts me off my feet and he grinds. and he grinds an he grinds and he grinds. >> for more than 16 hours, kitchen says, a revolving door of officers beat and interrogated him, until he had no fight left. >> i said okay okay okay, whatever you want me to do i'll do it. >> signed a confession? >> i signed. >> fast forward now for the first time the c

i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining >> there's a line of police advancing toward the crowd here. >> ferguson: city under siege. >> it isn't easy to talk openly on this base. >> and america's war workers. >> it's human trafficking. >> watch these and other episodes online now at aljazeera.com/faultlines. >>> for every 10,000 americans, 20 have no place to live. across the country that homeless population would be big enough to fill the state. in good economic times and bad, the number of homeless is difficult to push down. what drives the loss of shelter and works in getting a roof over

. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" in philadelphia, tonight, black votes matter. why so many african american men are missing in the polls. plus history in havana, how so many americans could profit from opening of diplomacy. >>> the watts riots in los angeles started when a white highway patrol officer stopped a black motorist suspected of drunk driving. on lookers rushed in. many believed they were witnessing another example of excessive force against african american men. the rage quickly deinvolve devoo a long six days. later urged law enforcement agencies to change their policing methods in black communities. it said those methods promoted a quote deep and long standing schism between the two, in the decades since, the mistrust is still there. even triggering deep tensions in places like ferguson, missouri. this week's one year anniversary of the shooting death of michael brown was marked by more protest and more violence. even though officer involved was exonerated in the incident, the investigation found that local police purposely target ed african america

. >>> i'm ali velshi "on target", the push to ban the box. checking the wrong box on a job application could ruin your chance at a second chance. plus market whiplash, the wild stock market swings and why we should have seen them coming. last night i explained why america's economy was in better shape than the last time the stock market wiped out trillions in wealth. it's true. america re covered all the 8.7 million jobs lost between 2008 and 2010. the u.s. created 11.7 million jobs, during the recovering, but tonight i want to talk about a group of people who remained at a disadvantage when looking for work in the united states. men and women that served time in prison or gaol. former prisoners are among a larger group of americans with a criminal record, anything from a misdemeanour to a felony conviction, estimates put the number as a million. studies showed that disposing a criminal record on a job application can reduce chances of employment by as much as two-thirds. that's why a growing number of cities and state are pushing employees t

. >> reporter: i'm ali velshi, on target, america's new asylum, how a broken mental health system puts the mentally ill in. vortex of violence. plus treatment versus punish: the story of one inmate that says time behind bars saved her life. tonight we continue our conversation on america's mentally ill, cycling through our criminal justice system. even though an estimated 9.6 million americans live with some form of mental illness, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depreparation, the vast majority do not pose a threat to public safety. nevertheless a disproportionate share are entangled in the criminal justice system because micro's strained health system fails them, it's an assumption that people with mental illness tends to be more violent, research shows the opposite. the prevalence for violence among those that take their medication is lower than the general population. mental health patients are 2.r5 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than perpetrators of violent crimes, those that do pose a threat to publish safety, linked to their in ability to receive proper

i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. >> it isn't easy to talk openly on this base. >> and america's war workers. >> it's human trafficking. >> watch these and other episodes online now at aljazeera.com/faultlines. >>> debate night. he's hedging his bet on the clintons, okay. if he doesn't one as a republican, maybe he supports clinton or runs as an ingint. >> top tire g.o.p. candidates -- tier g.o.p. candidates face off >>> mh370 investigation. confusion and anguish for families of the people on the

>> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, power play, we'll show you how small but vocal fringe group wields power, bringing further to the right, while no one is impressed with the steady growth in jobs. >>> america's economy is cruising, 215,000 new jobs added in july and the unemployment rate steady at 5.3%. this is lowest level since the 2008 recession. but even president obama's administration admits there is still slack in the labor market. after all those layoffs. later in the story, i'll speak with christopher lew. >>> meanwhile, the republican party debate, the first of many for a presidential election that is still 17 months away, we didn't hear much from the gop about jobs and economy but a country under threat and leaders from countries who take these leaders astray. >> to be honest for you this country doesn't have time. this country is in big trouble. we don't win anymore. we lose to china we lose to mexico boat in trade and at the border. we lose to everybody. >> i get it. >> as conservativ

h >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. the sea water, to beat california's drought is a costly mistake. plus to stop a threat to marine life as we know it all over the world. california is into its fourth year of a severe water drought. it's the worst in years. the dryness is responsible in part for large forest fires in northern california that have taken two lives if recent weeks. the state has responded to the drought by enacting your honor precedented water cutting measures on california residents. there's growing pressure on the state's farmers to conserve more water but that's a tall order in a state where water distribution is a billion dollar business. ask anyone about california's water problems and the answer will inevitably be: it's complicated. there are hundreds of water agencies ranging in size and scope from whole counties and cities to individual mobile home parks. state and federal officials are working with these agencies as well as private companies to try to solve california's massive water shortages. w

. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, campaign contributions to get elected, how can they staying independent? and more mainstream than ever. tonight we're putting judicial elections on trial. that's because the honor of some american judges is being jeopardized by the potentially corrupting influence of politics and money. in some states judges have to pay for election campaigns to win seats on the bench meaning they take financial contributions from donors, donors who may one day appear in the winning judge's court. to understand what i'm talking about let's talk about how judges win seats on state sprorts. supreme courts. the 28 just in red appoint judges, after that they are set for life or face uncontested elections, this is not where voters worry about money polluting election, the 13 states in orange they've got so-called nonpartisan elections where judges are listed on ballots without party affiliation but then there are the nine states in gray. they have partisan elections where judges run un

i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining >> could normalization change cuba forever? >> i'm afraid for cuba. >> we ask cubans about their hopes and fears. >> i would love to see my business grow into a transnational company. >> north korea's leader orders his troops to be ready for war. >> we are in doha. also ahead, just hours after the greek prime minister quits, members of his own party announce plans to go it alone. >> the terror, the confusion. it was something unbearable. >> two years since chemical attacks in syria kill hundreds. we speak to survivors still waiting for

i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. joining us. >> >>> rough ride - a nearly 600 point drop with fears about the global economy, and as markets open across asia, investors brace for the possibility of another bruising day. fierce storm. >> on a scale of one to 10, this is a 15. >> washington state battling large fires in the history, thousands fighting a ground

. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. the sea water, to beat california's drought is a costly mistake. plus to stop a threat to marine life as we know it all over the world. california is into its fourth year of a severe water drought. it's the worst in years. the dryness is responsible in part for large forest fires in northern california that have taken two lives if recent weeks. the state has responded to the drought by enacting your honor precedented water cutting measures on california residents. there's growing pressure on the state's farmers to conserve more water but that's a tall order in a state where water distribution is a billion dollar business. ask anyone about california's water problems and the answer will inevitably complicated. there are hundreds of water agencies ranging in size and scope from whole counties and cities to individual mobile home parks. state and federal officials are working with these agencies as well as private companies to try to solve california's massive water shortages. within thi

ali velshi joins us to try to put son context and perspective on this whole thing. down more than a thousand points. now down 150--normally we would not be talking about a dow that is down 1%. there have been a string of down days, that would make us want to talk about this, but when the market opened it opened in such velocity. now as you said it was in response to what happened overnight in shanghai and asian markets. in america the dow closed down more than 500 points. i could tell that it was closing with such velocity and heading down that it was only the closing bell that would stop that fall. we've never seen a real 1,000 point drop on the dow. we saw that flash crash a few years ago, but it was technical and over within a few minutes. this was dramatic. now it's very clear from looking at this thing where the dow is down less than a percent right now that some investors and some smart money in there saying this is over and done. for context, this market has not had a correction, which is a 10% pull back in, well, since it started it's run march 9, 2009. mark

. >> ali velshi on target >> you are watching al jazeera. here's a reminder of the top stories. angry relatives of the victims of malaysia airlines flight mh 370 have stormed the company's beijing office. they are angry because they do not believe the wing fragment found on reunion island. they confirmed that the piece was from the missing boeing 777. people in fallujah are caught in the cross fire between isis and iraqi army. isil fighters swept through fallujah in january and iraqi forces are trying to recapture it. tens of thousands of people gathered in japan to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in hiroshima. the bombing killed 140,000 people. >>> more than 200 people tried to cross the mediterranean are feared to have been drowned. about 400 people were rescued. >> reporter: blood from the mediterranean, a family reaches safety. this one-year-old gill wa was r. she's alived. but the trauma is etched on her face. she was among hundreds packed on to a fishing boat which capsized. the vessel had begun its journey when it issued a distress call. rescuers from the

. >>> i'll ali velshi, on target. america's asylums where the mentally ill are likely to land in prison than a hospital. prevention not punishment - a quest to keep the sick out of the criminal justice in the first place. are. earlier this month president obama went to prison to make his case for reforming the criminal justice system. in particular the reform of guidelines for federal inmates. visiting a correction institution near oklahoma city, making him the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. the bill will go before congress with provisions expected to include early release for prisoners participating in job training and drug treatment programs while in federal prisons, and america's local and state prisons and gaols in need of reform too. in particular, something needs to be done about the surging numbers of mentally ill cycling in and out of incarceration. according to the national institutes of health, one out of every 17 adults in the country lives with a serious mental illness, chances are you

i'm david schuster in for ali velshi. thanks for watching. aljazeera.com. >>> the battle lines in the gun control debate have been drown and they are well defined. they are creating an enforced system that is riddled with holes. recent developments have given some hope of keeping guns away from people everyone agrees should never get their hands on a gun. armed. "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story". i'm del walters in for luis suarez ray suarez. president obama showed frustration at getting illegal guns out of the hands of the dangerous and off the streets. >> you mentioned illegal guns, that's an area where - you ask me what is the one area i feel i have been most frustrated and most stymied, it's the fact that the united states of america is the one advance nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient laws. >> if nothing else, the amount of gun violence in places where it's toughest to get it legally is a reminder that there's a patchwork of laws verifying ownership. that means what is illegal in one state is illegal in the n

. >> ali velshi on target >> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera, thailand's army chief says the bomb does not match tactics used in the past. 20 people were killed near a shrine popular with tourists. rescuers have found the bodies on board a plane that crashed in indonesian they found the aircraft's black box. it lost contact with air traffic control shortly after takeoff. there is a power sharing deal to end two years of fighting. he needs two more weeks to decide. >>> amnesty international is condemning all sides fighting in yemen. the human rights group recorded that eight saudi led coalition air strikes killed 141 civilians. the attacks targeted heavily populated areas. there were no military targets nearby. they investigated attacks between houthi rebels and forces supporting the president. another 68 civilians were killed in those attacks. one of the worst was on july 19 when pro-houthi fighters killed 45 people, most of them civilians. the u.n. has recorded at least 1,916 civilian deaths in the last five

. >> ali velshi on target >> the top stories this hour on al jazeera. police in thailand are searching for clues to find out who was behind the bombing in central bangkok. at least 20 people have died in the explosion. sri lanka's parliament elections with results expected to be announced in next hour. yemen has shown a wanton disregard for the safety of civilians. >>> let's take a closer look at sri lanka's elections. we are joined from new delhi. it's too early to call the result. but the former president already concedes defeat. if he doesn't win, is that the end of the road for him politically? >> i think even if he has conceded defeat, what we have to bear in mind, this has been an extremely close election. the support for him within the psa, the power of this con finiscontingent will he legger d will be quite decisive in terms of the future of sri lanka. in terms of powers and demilitarization. there are lot of issues that he could still be quite a crucial force to recon with. >> is it then at risk of getting messy? you have the current president

i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. losing control. hackers taking your car for a joy ride while you're driving. how vulnerable are you and what other mayhem are cyber criminals cookincooking up? plus 70 years after hiroshima, two survivors remember. this week, thousands of professional computer hackers are descending on las vegas for the annual black hat convention. the big topic they're talking about is cars. today's auto industry has transformed itself into one of the most high tech industries in the world. cars now have as many as 10,000 lines of computer code in them. one of the most anticipated announcements of the black hat convention, two infamous hackers, chris and charlie revealed today how they were able to hack into a 2014 jeep cherokee remotely. they hacked into it from their living room while someone else was driving it down the highway compromising the car's security and endangering the car's security. how dangerous our cars are today. while the feat was attempted before by academics,

ali velshi is here with more. ali what the heck happened today? >> oh, my god, that's a big question. we had a continuation of friday's selloff. a lot of people will tell you it started in shanghai, but it didn't finish in america on friday. but what we saw in china, the aggressiveness of its selloff, 8.5%, i think fed the aggressiveness of the u.s. selloff, so you see this thousand-point drop on u.s. markets. as we watched through the course of the morning, it deteriorated, it became a very small drop off, but i thought there is some chances markets might even close in positive territory. but while people thought the market was oversold in the morning, and bargain hunters were buying up some of these stocks, by afternoon you had all of those people who got so spooked by what happened on friday today, saying my stock has come back a little bit, now i'm selling it. and that's what happens in a turbulent market. we were hoping it would be balanced out by today. looks like it is not done yet. >> okay, so it is true or false, this selloff today has ev

you can watch "ali velshi on target" at 10:30. david schuster is coming up. >> as we continue our coverage on historic events in cuba, its changing feelings about the lgbt community, the daughter of castro. plus. >> country asking protection, it's treating them like criminals. >> we've got an update on a story we have been following, parents of migrants held in prison, many of them are getting out but the challenges are not going away. and the painkiller oxycontin can now be prescribed for children as young as 11. whether it could put kids at risk of diction. addiction. >> thank you david. david schuster will be up next, and then the international hour with antonio mora live from cuba. have a great evening and a great weekend! >> hello everybody, this is al jazeera america, live from new york city i'm david schuster. just ahead. >>> history for the first time in 54 years, the stars and stripes fly over the u.s. embassy in cuba. the flag raising a symbolic gesture met with celebration and anger. we'll have live reports from havana.

. >> ali velshi on target ♪ ♪ >>> hello again. the top stories on al jazerra. south sudan's president is expected to sign a peace deal to end nearly two years of fighting. u.n. security council is threatening him with sanctions if he doesn't sign the power showering agreement. >>> about, power sharing agreement. >>> more refugees taken from greens, taken to a train station and conning their june i further north in to the eve e.u. >>> to nato soldiers have been shot dead in afghanistan, the gunmen were wearing afghan military uniforms, it's the first so-called inside attack since april. >>> it's been another volatile day on china's stock market. beijing cut interest rates on tuesday in an effort to restore confidence and address fears that the economy is faltering. in the chin as capital beijing, clearly it's not working. >> reporter: clearly not, jane, it was a very volatile day in lots of ways for the asia pacific. when they opened markets in japan, south korea, singapore, up not much, about half a 1% to it at least 2%. all eyes on the shanghai composite which

joining us now, host of on targets, ali velshi. ali, let's start with how worried should we be about a slow down here or abroad because of the turmoil we're seeing in the global market? >> it's all relative. china is definitely experiencing a slow down, but it's still in the 6% to 7% range. we still have new numbers. the u.s. is growing. this isn't like 2008 where everything was slowing dramatically. some economies were dropping 9% to 10%. that is not what this is. this is investors disappointment that things are not growing at a pace to which we have become accustomed to the last six years. the dow mirrors other markets. europe was down a little more. asia down a lot more. we were down more than 6% at the open, which was one hour ago, and in the last week the dow prior to this in the s&p, had shed 3%. now we might be at this point we're down 6% from where you were a week ago. that's the kind of money you make in an entire year or lose in an entire year. >> you sound relatively sober in your reaction. i want to play the reaction fr