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oncompass with sheila macvicar we trail it from mexico into the united states. it's something he would not consider carefully, where the drug it coming from. >> it didn't use to come from mexico. that makes the drug cheaper, easier to get to the united states, and u.s. officials are overwhelmed in the amount of material that is being moved, the amount of material coming into the country. the people that were selling heroin know where the market is, and know that their markets are in mostly small towns. towns like west virginia. >> martinsburg, west virginia, coming into small communities, places that we thought were fairly insulated. >> well, according to a study published in the journal of american medicine, the average hero wix, h 23, and living in a suburb. that is a dramatic change of of the epidemic of 20 years ago. but it is killing at an astonishing rate. 2013, 23 people died because of country. >> 23. >> every day. >> and the trend is going up. it is not an epidemic that is slowing done. it is an america. >> it has to be a growing challenge in law enforc

"america tonight" reported the now correspondent sheila macvicar follows up with forwards on the ground in communities slated to host the joint strike fighter. >> never before has the air force put a bland new fighter bomber at a commercial airport. usually they go at air force spaces in remote areas, and do that purply, because new aircraft crash more. >> reporter: the plane is the f-35 fighter. from ith stealthy design to the millions of lines of computer code that act as an artificial intelligence, it's hailed as the future of combat aviation. [ chanting ] >> but many residents of this town see it as a very real danger. >> the burlington airport is not a suitable venue for the f-35. it is a commercial airport, it is not a military base. the people were here first. >> rowan was leader of a group fighting to keep the f-35 out of the local airport at burlington vermont. burlington is home to the vermont air national guard, and is scheduled to refuse 18 f35s by the year 2020. it will be the first air national guard unit in america to get the plane, replacing a unit of aiming f16s. the bu

"america tonight's" sheila macvicar finds that it's welcoming a new batch of entrepreneurs. >> their first reaction was why why would you want to go back somewhere where we worked so hard to leave. >> ask any american at one of the many ex-pat bars in ho chi min city. once-in-a-lifetime adventure overseas. >> every day we're seeing more people come in. i think the more american businesses come over here, the more vietnamese businesses that pop up to support those. >> take the advertising business which really didn't exist ten years ago. now the largest american ad agencies have set up here. >> the demand of vietnamese americans, the demand is so greatly. >> i didn't really tell my mom. i sort of just called her one day and say hey i'm moving to vietnam next week. when i was in the u.s. i worked at a school, santa coffee shop as a barista and i've been living here for five years and i've produced many commercials and films in l.a. there is a lot of rules union rules that you have to go by. >> people come over here because there are a lot of opportunities, they're not going to get that

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> now shelling by houthi rebels in yemen has forced saudi arabia to close all schools in the southern border city and flights from the regional airport have been suspended. >>> a dramatic rescue of people in a sinking dinghy. the vessel was able to come to their rescue. >>> the syrian government's use of barrel bombs amounts to war crimes and explosives kill more than 300,000 civilians in aleppo last year. we have heard from police in nepal that nearly 200 people died in one avalanche that followed the earthquake outside of the capital of kathmandu 120 people in nepal and foreign nationals are missing. andrew simmons went there he has this report of what is left of that village. >> it's a valley that leads to one of the most popular places in nepal. few would want to go there now. what you see below used to be a large bustling village. trekkers from all over the world traveled here. local people made a good living out of their presence. now there is nothing left. one earthquake followed by an avalanche destroyed everything.

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> the new 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 on the news. weeknights on al jazeera america. >>> good to have you with us, these are the top stories a exit poll, in the u.k. is, predicting that david cameron will stay, for another term. >>> they will be just short of an absolute majority, and stun had by massive losses but ed has managed to hold onto the seat. >>> saudi arabia has offered a temporary seize fire to allow aid in, and houthi rebels, must end their attacks before this can happen and the site intelljection group says a leader, has been killed in a u.s. air strike. >>> he and his younger son were killed in an air strike. >>> u.s. defense secretary ash carter says american troops have started training a small group of fighters to combat isis. it will be a few months before they will be deployed. >>> these trainees are re

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. >>>welcome back, you're watch, al jazeera. a reminder of the top stories, there's air strikes in yemen near the international airport in sanaa. saudi arabia offered the houthis a 5-day truce that could come in effect on tuesday, but only if the rebels agree to end the fighting >>> russia is marking 70 years since the defeat of the nazis. several are watching from moscow. most are absent in protest to the ongoing crisis in ukraine >>> the world health organisation declared liberia ebola free after 42 days without a new case of the virus. other parts of west africa are dealing with the disease. >>> david cameron says he'll press ahead with a vote on the u.k.'s membership in the european union. he is staying in downing street after an election that took experts and pollsters by surprise. simon

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ >>> a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, shelling by houthi rebels in yemen have caused saad -- saudi arabia to close all schools. >>> human right's group amnesty international says the syrian government's use of barrel bombs amounts to war crimes. >>> and there has been more protests in burundi after the constitutional court ruled the president can run for a third term. critics say his efforts to stay in power are illegal. >>> all right. to the migrant crisis in the mediterranean now, new video has emerged of a dramatic rescue operation to save people crammed into a rubber dingy which appears to be sinking. it's believe to have happened on sunday in the sea between libya and sicily. it's still not known how many were saved or whether anyone drowned. meanwhile hundreds of other migrants have been brought to shore in southern italy. nearly 7,000 people have been pulled out of the mediterranean sea in just the past few days. hundreds of migrants have also been pulled by the sea by tunisian fisherman and coast guard

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> tomorrow. >> do you make anything that ends up in walmart? >> yes. >> child labor. >> how old are you? >> 12 years old? >> sweatshop conditions. >> says "old navy". >> who's making america's clothes? >> if walmart doesn't know, it's because they choose not to know. >> "faultlines". >> what do we want? >> al jazeera america's hard-hitting... >> today the will be arrested. >> ground-breaking... >> they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> emmy award-winning, investigative series. >> we have to get out of here. >> "faultlines: made in bangladesh". tomorrow, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> and we continue to follow that breaking news at this hour. two gunmen are dead and a community center outside garland texas. the center was holding a controversial draw muhammed contest. heidi zhou-castro is life there. good news concerning the security guard. >> reporter: that's right del, we heard from the garland independent school district which onus this building but i must say was not hosting this event, just rented the v

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ >> very good to have your company. i'm david foster. this is the al jazeera news hour live from london. in the next 60 minutes saudi arabia closes schools cancels flights in part of the country of yemen the shelling much houthi fighters. >>> we talk to migrants rescued from this dinghy. >>> and hundreds of nigerian women and girls rescued from boko haram fighters. >> an avalanche that destroyed an entire village killing everyone. i'm in nepal. i will have more details of what happened. >> we have sport. juventus beat real bedrid. madrid. >> war in yemen. the bombing campaign backed houthi rebels after the first time five shells targeting saudi civilians. well the war in yemen was high in the agenda in riyadh along with iran, whose nuclear talks with global parties are to resume tuesday. >> yemen dominated the agenda of the corporation summit. it comes during one of the most crucial moments of the region. the war in yemen enters it's sixth week without clear results. instead of being pushed out of aid no one sanaa the h

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macvicar. >>> coming up. my conversation with jazz guitarist john pizzarelli. with his all star collaborations. y right now... >> al jazeera america >> now to our friday art segment and in the spotlight tonight john pizzarelli, he's been in the rhythm business since birth. his father is an icon. now john in high demand, paul mccartney recently came calling. he said it was a lot of the beatles why he got started. >> i had two older sisters and they had all that beatle music in the house. that's when i tught you could actually perform it, watching them play was a big deal but i always heard my father play the guitar. >> your father was a young. >> yes it was like when i was six or seven or eight my mother i'll never forget it, she said, go tell your father you're going with him today. i would go with him and go from being studio to studio. >> you started at six? >> on bass guitar because that's what my father's musicians taught me. >> where would it be like to grow up in a household where everybody was singing?

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america hello, again, welcome back to the news hour. shelling in yemen has forced saudi arabia to close all schools in the region. all flights from the region have also been suspended. human rights groups says the syrian governments amongsted to war crime. the ex-lives kills more than 3,000 civilians in aleppo last year. new video has emerged for a dramatic rescue t maic. the pictures the shots from the commercial vessel, which came to the rescue. all right let's talk more about the situation in yemen. thank you for coming in to al jazeera. >> thank you. >> i know you are in touch with friends and family, what are they saying at the moment about the situation on the ground. >> i was just a month before this war started and things were already bad because of the conflict that was happening in yemen. but now with the blockade, and with no aid coming in yemenis rely on imports for 90% of theired foos they rely on imports for fuel, for medical aid. and with this blockade and this war the situation is becoming catastrophic. >> is this acros

in the next hour is the debut of "compass", sheila macvicar travelling to italy to bring us the journey after the journey >>> for a former migrant in kentucky, an unlikely milestone. he was one of sudan's lost boys, and came to the u.s. this 2003. there he met a retired teacher who took him under her wing. he is refusing his masters degree in social work and he says it's the american dream come true. >> my heart is moving up and council down, up and down because this day is a special day for me. it will spend a message to immigrants and americans if you work hard in america, you still get what you need. >> it's a remarkable experience to met somebody who has been abused and hurt and starved. this individual has great things ahead for him. >>> like so many others, mark was orphaned in sudan in 1987. he spent 15 years in refugee camps before making his way to the u.s. >>> it's been two weeks since the 7.8 magnitude in nepal. the biggest thing is disease. there's thousands in nepal that survived the quake. we have this story from kathmandu. >> reporter: they are the youngest affected by th

as sheila macvicar points out one accident could turn the city into a hazardous waste site. >> never before the airports put a brand-new fighter bomber at a commercial airport. er usually they go in airport spaces in remote areas and they do that purposely because new aircraft crash more. >> the plane she's talking about is the f-35 fighter. from its stealthy design to the millions of lines of computer code inside that act as a kind of artificial intelligence, it's being hailed as the future of combat aviation. but many residents of this town see it as a very real danger. >> the people were here first. >> did not greco is leader of the group trying to keep the f-35 out of the local airport in vermont. the vermont national guard is scheduled to receive 18 f-35s by the year 2020. it will be the first in america to get the plane replacing the aging f-16. consider the record of the f-16. since its introduction in 197 5, the u.s. air force has lost more than 320 of them in crashes and mishaps. out of a fleet of 2,230 that's one in seven. >> if something happens with take off and landing o

. >> you can see much more on this topic coming up this weekend on compass with sheila macvicar, sunday at 9:30 p.m. eastern here on aljazeera america. >> calls for united response to stop a migrant crisis in asia. international meetings underway searching for a solution at thousands try to escape persecution. >> he was once for it, now against. why new jersey governor chris christie is calling for the end of the common core standards. dards. >> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:27 eastern. parts of texas are waking up to more storms this morning after an you can spected lull later today, storms are expected this weekend. people near houston are packing up to leave. 24 people have been killed in texas and oklahoma. >> former speaker dennis hastert is accused of financial fraud. he is accused of withdrawing nearly $2 million for hush money opinion the charges say he was paying off someone to cover up misconduct. >> the u.s. will not support seth blatter for another term of president of fifa, up for reelection today. voting is set to get underway shortly. 14 top officials were indict

sheila macvicar, al jazeera burlington vermont. >> jeb bush is doing some damage control and reversing his position on the second iraq war. >> people think we're all supposed to answer hypothetical questions, knowing what we know now, what would you have done. i would have not engaged, i would not having into iraq. >> the former florida governor said that last night a complete reversal from his comments earlier in the week. monday, he said knowing what we know now, he would have authorized the invasion of iraq. he said he misunderstood the question. >> baltimore is trying to move forward after last month's riots. sand town, a neighborhood that erupted into violence is mostly black with double the national average poverty rate. we look at what happens to promises and money. >> what happened in this neighborhood after the riots? >> five or six people have been killed and 16 people have been shot or shot at. >> this is what it looks like when a family is caught in the crossfire of a political system that fails. when the broadcasters left, the bullets started flying again and the bodies co

sheila macvicar has more. >> at this nursing home outside houston, president kirk is trying to visit an old acquaintance. reverend john stat a ward of the state thanks to a court ordered guardianship was moved here out of his apartment against his will in 2010. >> what i call a legendary texan. >> he was a nasa chaplain during the days of the race to the moon. he convinced edgar mitchell to take bibles to the moon on apollo 14. kirk covered the story for u.p.i. and he and stoke became friends. >> this is 1,254 pages of the king james version of the holy bible. >> before he was made a ward of the state, he was active on the internet emailing friends and writing letters. he was also the keeper of the lunar baseballs now worth a fortune, but an apparently disagreement over how he was dealing with some of his assets led to his guardianship. >> one bible sold for $56,000. if there were even 60 in that apartment, which we're fairly sure they were, do the math, that's worth millions. >> the state has seized hills assets and while keeping him in isolation is using his money to pay for lawyer

you can watch the series premier with sheila macvicar this sunday at 9:30 eastern right here on aljazeera america. >> death in venice beach police in california kill an unarmed homeless man prompting more questions about the use of lethal force. >> it's back to earth for a russian spacecraft that's been hurdling back to earth since its launch. >> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:30 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. pam stan is looking at what caused a helicopter crash willingkilling ambassadors. pakistan's military said six died, including the pilots. >> italy's navy is trying to figure out why doors were locked on a boat that sank last month killing up to 900 people off the coast of libya last month. the wreckage was just found in the mediterranean. hundreds of bodies seem to be on the ship. >> british prime minister david cameron has met with queen elizabeth and gotten approval to form a government. his conservative party won a surprising victory. many polls suggested the election was too close to call. >> i've just been to see her majesty, the queen and i will now fo

>> compass with sheila macvicar >> compass will challenge the way you look at the world >> a different look at foreign affairs >> talking about big subjects >> first hand... >> telling human stories >> giving you a real look at the world today. desperate, hungry and risking it all... >> these people wanna get as far away as they can >> the migrant crisis sweeping europe, are governments turning their backs on those that need help the most? >> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. >> now everybody in this country can hear them. >> at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. >> at the end of the day we're going to give you an intelligent, context driven, take on the day's news. >> then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. >> this is a complicated situation, how significant is it? >> and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. >> sending their government a message. >> organizing themselves. >> people say they're finally fed up. >> weeknights on a

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