This is bbc world news america. Amidst the worst violence in iraqis go tos polls, but these elections might only increase tensions. Thise fear is that election could make matters even worse. One of northern irelands most prominent politicians has been arrested. Hes being questioned in connection with a murder 40 years ago. Known as the black five, these basketball players led the way in integrating their sport. Tonight, we bring you their untold stories. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. People in iraq went to the polls today in the first parliamentary elections since American Armed forces withdrew from the country three years ago. Security was tight as the country tried to cope with a surge in violence. In the past week alone, 160 people have been killed. A warning that this report contains violent images. Iraq is a matter of life and death, but this rally hdad election watch the white van on the right. It tore through the shiite crowd, killing 33. Anni militants delivering grizzly start to the elections and a country already drenched in sectarian violence. Out andy, they came they voted. Its a matter of courage here. The ink on a finger is proof of a ballot cast. The Prime Minister blames outside sunni forces for the rise in violence. West of baghdad under armed we had to anbar province. This is the road to falluja, the city that american troops fought so hard to take. It has fallen to al qaedainspired militants. Just one hour from the capital, governmentiraqi control pins. This is as far as we can go. Were told the province is not safe. The fighting means this province will not be able to vote, which will further marginalize iraqs city community. Politics here has been about exploiting sectarian divisions. The fear is that this election could make matters even worse. Unseen,odus largely nearly half a million have fled their homes. Few are willing to talk for fear of reprisal, but hes women wanted their story told. Their homes have become a battleground. Falluja and ramadi have been cursed by god. Since the day we were born, weve had no piece. The government need to help us. What sin did these men, old women, and children commit . This man says the world has forgotten his country. Click the set thing is that this is happening under the very eyes and years of the International Community, and we see a country which is systematically being destroyed. Is the polls close this evening, iraq stands as a rare thing, a democracy in the middle east. But it is a country in crisis. This vote may not be enough to deliver it from the brink. For more on where iraq stands, i spoke a short time ago with the former ambassador to the united nations. Sayits hard to that these elections are free and fair when there are is so much violence going on, isnt it . This unfortunately, this is been the problem. Too often, we equate democracy with simply whether or not it an election is held, and while elections are an important part, there are too many institutional factors that are missing in iraq erie we have in the last 8, 10 years not created the institutions necessary for democratic governance. Relying onl personalities. Will these elections help either the creation of a stronger democratic institutional structure or reduce the violence . , as the expression goes, past is prologue. That one would be justified in not being terribly optimistic. This time around seem to be as sectarian or perhaps more so than they were in 2010. The parties are more polarized than they were in 2010. The violence is escalating rather than decreasing. We are seeing again horror epic levels of violence horrific levels of violence. I think that it is a very worrying sign, and i am very worried about the next four years. Who do you blame for this insecurity . Say thatcally, i can the entire iraqi Political Class has failed to serve the people of iraq well. I have always said that i think the people of iraq deserve better than they got after 2003. Having said that, i have to say that i must begin at the top, the top for the past eight years has been the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has shown has made a number of promises to the kurdish parties. He has made a number of homocysteine at the time the former he has made a number of promises to at the time the former Prime Minister, and he has reneged on all of them. He promised to reintegrate the awakening council and to the Iraqi Security forces. He has reneged on promises made to virtually all of his coalition partners. Really, the blame has to begin at the top. Do you agree with the assertion that the world effectively invaded iraq and then washed its hands of it . Yes, i do, although that was sort of inevitable. Those of us above a certain age will recall the images of the united dates leaving vietnam with the boots of the marine kicking off the vietnamese trying to hang onto the helicopter. That is in the nature of things. Certainly, there is fault to go around the International Community, but knowing that that is the nature of things, i would ask the iraqi Political Class and those in positions of power now what have they done to minimize the predictable effects of a loss of interest by the International Community . Thank you very much for joining us. Pleasure. Thank you. The sinn fein leader gerry adams has been arrested by police in northern ireland, arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of a woman in 1972. The window was abducted from her flat in west belfast and shot by the ira. Her body was not found until 2003, more than 30 years later. Adams denies any involvement. June kelly has this story. This mother taken from her children and murdered. , oneas abducted by the ira of the socalled disappeared. It was years later in 2003 that. Er body was finally found tonight, gerry adams, the republican leader sainted by Prime Ministers and president s, is being questioned by those investigating the killing. Before he went in to see officers from the Police Service of northern ireland, he made this statement first of all, im going voluntarily to talk to the psni because there has been a lengthy, Malicious Campaign against me. I will tell them that i am innocent totally of any part in the abduction, the killing, or the burial. Last month, a veteran now 77, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder. It was another republican who implicated the sinn fein president. Widow left 10 children, and her disappearance came to symbolize one of the many dark chapters in ira history. [inaudible] tonight, gerry adams spoke about his past and the ira. I never will dissociate myself from the ira. I do not agree with everything they did, particularly in the case, which i think was wrong, grave injustice and horror to her family, but thankfully, the war is over. So the murder of a mother has tonight drawn in the man who went from being an ira chief to one of northern irelands leading politicians. Gerry adams in Police Custody and described as a suspect. Today, hundreds of nigerians marched through the capital abuja to deliver a message to the government that they need to do more to secure the release of 200 abducted schoolgirls. The students were kidnapped dust over two weeks ago by suspected islamist militants. Will ross has the latest. They want the girls home alive. The aim is to put pressure on the Nigerian Government and the military to help free the more than 200 teenagers. There has been very little official information about any rescue effort. We meet people from the missing teenagers town, a Close Knit Community united by anger. We want the government and International Community to come and help us. The girls were taken from this boarding school in the night, loaded onto lorries and driven deep into the forest. The gunmen are thought to be from a group whose name translates in the local language as western education is forbidden. It wants an Islamic State and has attacked hundreds of schools. There are fears students may have been taken over the border into cameroon or chad. We secured a rare interview with the government, which is under fire over its handling of the crisis. We have tried to locate these girls and fun are you telling me then these girls have not yet been located . Y the military more rallies are planned. They are determined that the plight of the abducted girls is not ignored. Tonight, the International Monetary fund approved a twoyear 17 billion loan package for ukraine. It comes as Russias Foreign Ministry is calling on kiev to tone down the rhetoric after ukraines president says the countrys military is on full combat alert in case of invasion. Moscow claims he is trying to intimidate his own population. For more, i spoke with republican senator john barrasso, who has recently returned from a visit to the region. If i could start with the news that has come in from the International Monetary fund of the 17 billion loan package for ukraine. Do you welcome that . I do. I think it will be helpful, and the message from putin continues to be a significant propaganda in russian broadcast all around the region. You hear it in latvia, lithuania, moldova. All concerns to the people there because it is a lot of lies from putin, which are trying to undermine what is happening in. Kraine how tense was the situation in ukraine . I was there the day the Russian Helicopters landed just north of crimea and tipped over the gas plant, which tells you to Important Energy is russia as part of driving their economy. Half of all the revenue that comes into russia comes from exporting gas and oil, and im working to use american oil and gas specifically as a geopolitical tool to undermine russias ability to continue to fund and finance their operations. The last time you and i spoke, you had just proposed a bill for america to impose sanctions on the Russian Energy sector. That has not happened yet. Do you think the american response has been robust enough so far . I think the american response so far has been a gentle pat on the wrist. It has been tepid, and russia has had a huge sigh of relief. You take a look at the ruble rising, the stock market rising, and it showed that sanctions were not adequate. That is why today, republicans in the senate put forth a proposal that would deal a much stronger sanctions, beefing up nato, trying to undermine putins propaganda as well as weapons, antitank weapons, specifically antiaircraft weapons to the people of ukraine. When you look at the mood among the american people, do you feel you are pushing against the current . There really is not any appetite in this country to get further involved in the ukrainian situation, is there . I think there is no appetite to put men or women on the ground, boots on the ground, but in terms of helping the ukrainian people fight for themselves, the freedom loving people there to be able to fight with the military that at this point, the military has told me nothing works, nothing shoots, nothing flies, they are asking for help so they can do the job themselves, and i think we ought to provide that a right now as well as undermine the russia possibility from an energy standpoint to continue to use its energy as a weapon against not just ukraine, but also the region as well as he europe. Do you fault president obama for weak leadership, briefly . I think the president s actions, when you look at the reset with russia five years ago that has completely failed i think the president is being tested on a daily basis, not just there, but in iran, syria. You see it in north korea, and i think right now, we are at the point where the united aids is that our enemies do not fear us. Our friends do not trust us, and that just emboldened putin to move forward. Thank you for joining us. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, a lethal injection goes horribly wrong in the state of oklahoma, raising serious questions about the way the Death Penalty is administered here. A large for Syrian Refugees is opening in central jordan. It is said to be the best plan to sell it he for displaced people bestplanned facility for displaced people. We have a look. At the moment, it looks a bit like a ghost town, but very soon, the first Syrian Refugees will be moving into this area. It has been over a year in the making, but it is said to be the best camp of its kind that has ever been built. We have been taking a look around. An area like this with this group of shelters would probably be used to accommodate an extended family. You can see theyve got their own bathroom facilities. If we look inside one of the shelters, a maximum of five Syrian Refugees will be living in here. You can see that the home has been designed with a high ceiling. This really helps with ventilation, and it is actually quite cool, even though we are in the middle of the harsh desert. There are these wires so that partitions can be put up by the family, and they will have received all kinds of Household Items when they arrived things like mattresses, a gas stove, also a charger things that will help them settle into their lives here. There are still final preparations being made, but the aid agencies and Authorities Say they have learned a lot of lessons run their troubled. Xperiences here, each area or village, as they are calling it, will have its own clinic. It will have its own school, and there will be a central supermarket. Security should be much better. Initially, up to 51,000 Syrian Refugees could be house here housed here, but with no end in sight to the conflict next door, in future, it could be expanded to take in as many as 130,000 people. The governor of oklahoma has called for an independent review into the botched execution of a death row inmate. Last night, officials halted the he convulsed and tried to lift his head despite a doctor declaring him unconscious. He later died of an apparent heart attack. Shooting convicted of a 19yearold woman and watching as his accomplices buried her alive. His was to have been the first of two executions using a new thisnation of drugs at oklahoma prison, but something went horribly wrong. After being strapped to the gurney, a doctor injected him with a sedative at 6 23 p. M. A 6 33, he was declared unconscious and a short while later was injected with two more drugs to end his life, but at 6 36, he began writhing and shaking on the gurney, breathing heavily and trying to speak. At 6 39, he is still lifting his shoulders and head off the gurney, grimacing, and appeared to be in distress. Asit officials have prison official has been expected to confirm his execution to waiting reporters, but at the time passed, it became clear there was a problem. I notify the attorney generals office, the Governors Office of my intent to stop the a stay for 14 days for the second prisoners execution. And its later, he suffered a massive heart attack and died. Oklahomas governor has promised a full review of the states execution procedures. Expect the review process to be deliberate, to be thorough, and it will be the first step in evaluating our state execution protocols. Lethal injection is now the most commonly used execution method in america, but sourcing the drugs has become increasingly difficult. Bannedopean union has their export, and American Drug companies demand anonymity. Lawyers have sued the state to reveal his drug supplier. The case was rejected by the to protectrder suppliers from the possibility of legal action. The white house says president obama believes the Death Penalty may be warranted in certain circumstances, but in this case, something went badly wrong. We have a fundamental standard in this country that even with the Death Penalty is justified, that it must be carried out humanely, and i think everyone would recognize that this case fell short of that standard. The slow death has put the execution of Charles Warner on hold for two weeks at least and has reignited the debate about whether any execution can be carried out humanely. Now to the world of basketball where this week, much attention has been focused on the lifetime ban of the clippers owner Thomas Donald sterling, for racist remarks. Ironically, his comments come nearly 65 years after the the National Basketball association became fully integrated, but even before that, africanamerican basketball teams were taken were taking the court against white players. Recently, we spoke with the curators of the museum devoted to the black five. In the old days, basketball teams were known as fives, for the five starting players. In society, that was segregated, the game of basketball was also segregated. They were called black fives, negro fives, and we thought that it was true to the history but also designate resonated today. Historic society has a. Istory of segregation spans from when asked about was introduced to africanamericans for the first time in a ghost all the way to 1950, which is when the nba became racially integrated. People do not understand history. They think it is just one general progression and there are no general side trips. Sometimes the side trips are more important than the general progression. In the case of the black fives and the case of sports and civil rights and how these things became combined, it is extraordinarily important. Becamer League Baseball integrated with jackie robinson, but black teams and white teams in basketball were playing each other even before 1910, and they played each other through the of0s, so this idea integration actually started and was pioneered in basketball ever before it got to baseball. The reason i was able to come in and find these items on ebay or elsewhere was really partly because nobody else is interested in creating this type of a collection. We also do the history of fashion at the New York Historical society, so we were delighted when fashion became part of the black fives exhibition, and there are extraordinary hipster a. K. A. Brooklyn sneakers from 1910 that are in the exhibition. Amateur teams gave way to semiproteins and eventually, the professional business model. Ook hold be innovative or was a man named robert bob douglas, who was the owner of the new york rams, and it went on through even the 1940s to be the dominant basketball team. One of the things i find most discerning as there was a od of National Basketball championships prior to founding the nba, and three black teams won championships, and no one knows. This championship of professional basketball made everyone realize that black basketball talent was not only great but here to stay. Black 5 changing basketball in america for the better. From all of us here at bbc world news america, thanks for joining us. We will see you back here tomorrow. Funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newmans own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, union bank and charles schwab. Theres a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. Around here, you dont make excuses. You make commitments. 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