Welcome to panama. Id heard the stories of a rich and diverse forest. Hi, buddy id be lying if i didnt admit that i was psyched to be here. Id find plenty of butterflies and a heck of a lot more. Did you see that guy . Thats what i could count on. But then, panama surprised me. Techknow came here to check out the massive panama canal expansion project but this trip would become much more. This is techknow. A show about innovations that can change lives. The science of fighting a wild fire. Were going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and were doing it in a unique way. This is a show about science. Oh, my god by scientists. Pink and purple paint the skies over a downtown city skyline. It could be any city in the world. But this is panama. A country stuck in the middle. One of latin americas richest. With overwhelming poverty, smack in the middle of incredible wealth. But most of what makes panama great is its incredible canal. More than one hundred years old, and stil
Highest rate of Child Marriage in the world. Im wayne haye reporting from northern malaysia where woe talk to separatists fighters from Southern Thailand about their hopes for a peaceful return home. Russian air strikes inside syria are continuing for a third day. Syrian monitoring groups say overnight air raids on isil positions killed 12 fighters in one province. Opposition groups are also said to have been targeted. Turkey has asked russia to stop attacking syrian antiassad forces that are largely supported by the west. It says moscows military intervention will escalate the fighting on the ground. France which has also started air strikes against isil this week, says russia shouldnt target groups other than isil. [ inaudible ] u. S. Assistant secretary of state under george w. Bush. I certainly think that they have larger Strategic Interests in reinserting themselves back into the middle east and becoming a power broker in this region, but within syria itself its not simply an issu
Do. The connection. It felt lick you were talking to someone in a vegetative state. Sheila macvicar investigates the deadly risk of drugging dementia thanks for joining us, im joie chen. Its often the vulnerable among us at risk. Dementia patients losing the ability to communicate and control their own behaviour. We cant know what they are thinking. In an attempt to calm them, Nursing Homes will often use powerful drugs. America tonights Sheila Macvicar has investigated the affect it intent have on dementia patients and tells us theres evidence the drugs could be more dangerous, deadly than previously thought. We childproofed the doors to make shoe she wouldnt get out. When marias mother developed dementia, she began to wonder rer. She worried her mother would not be safe unless in a nursing home. This is the person who sacrificed and did everything she did for you. How can i, as her daughter, just say hey, i cant do this. So i struggled with it. My aunt said you need to put your mum i
Wakeup call. Author d watkins beat the streets of baltimore. He talks gun violence, Race Relations and the law. Philipp, the man on a wire. Hollywood has the new movie, but we have the real thing. His mesmerizing story of walking between the twin towers. And we begin with the mass shooting at a Community College in oregon. There is a lot of new information on the massacre and the gunmen. Were going to get to all of that. But first the innocent lives lost. We have their names now, and we want to share them with you. First, lucero alvarez, Trevon Taylor anspach, rebecca ann carnes. Quinn glen cooper. Kim saltmarsh dietz. Lucas eibel. Jason dale johnson, and Lawrence Levine and sarena dawn moore. The suspect is 26yearold chris mercer. Now the shaefer ha sheriff refused to officially release his name, but the name has been reported. We have the latest sabrina . Were here this evening at the Douglas County fairgrounds. You can see the flags flying at half staff for the victims of the shooti
Actions defended in syria gaining forimpact. Hurricane joachim described as dangerous as this moves across the caribbean and towards the u. S. Changing the system. Everyone in prison is going to be given the kind of tools they need to come out and become productive citizens. Democrats and republicans join forces and get behind a bill to cut prison terms for nonviolent offenders. Good evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. We begin with live pictures from the town of roseburg in southwest oregon. People there are holding a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of a massacre today on a nearby college campus. The Douglas County sheriff says 10 died in the shootings at Umpqua Community college. The gunman was among the dead. His identity has not been made public, nor the names of any of the victims. Let me be very clear, i will not name the shooter. I will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. Media will get the name confirme