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>> in doha we have all your sports. two runners failed drug tests at the world championships. >> it's a toll which keeps rising, now another 50 refugees are known to have died trying to make it across the mediterranean. they were discovered in the hull of a boat off libya. hungary is considering sending troops to the border after fighting broke out. the tensions peaked after some refugees refused to be fingerprinted. in germany, germany chancellor was jeered an. and thousands arriving in macedonia every day. >> unrest of the european union border. u.n. troubled registration center. with the build. of security forces there are fears of violence here. police are trying to play down the crisis. >> there was a small conflict that erupted as several people tried to approach the fence. the police tried to stop them, and they used tear gas. >> a three meter high fence is being put up on the border, but right now thousands of people are getting through sections with where there is only razor wire. police here are failing to make arsenal. the hungary's root win right wing government will make plans to deploy the army here. >> up to 3,000 a day have been boarding buses bound for the hungarian border. their record numbers, refugees say they've been treated better in serbia than in macedonia, but they're worried about getting into hungary. some of belgrade's parks have become the last transit points. most of the refugee here's are syrian. this woman fled from horrendous violence in aleppo. now he's holding over head to go hungary because she's scared. >> we're here because we're worried about hungary. as politicians prepare for a summit on thursday to discuss the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war on the ground, the situation is worsening. andrew simmons on the hungar hungary-serban border. >> another 2,000 refugees have just arrived in the athens port. we have this update from lesbos. >> i'm standing in one of two makeshift refugee camps on the island of lesbos. the numbers are straggling. 33,000 people are said to have landed on lesbos alone. that's the rate of a thousand new arrivals every single day. it is said that there are 0,000 people on the island as we speak waiting to be processed, to be given paperwork that would allow them to remain in greece and then help them off the island. sanitation is poor. the sun beating down on them every day. ngos and voluntary groups doing what they can, but they're doing it with absolutely no help from central government in athens. people i've spoken to in this camp express surprise, disappointment and even bemusment in the conditions they find. one man said that he thought they were all going to be put up in hotels here in greece. well, that perhaps is a story put about by people smugglers on the turkish shore trying to encourage this journey in the first place. >> german chancellor angela merkel has been heckled during a visit at a refugee center. they booed and called her a traitor. she's promised that germany will not tolerate xenophobia. >> we must put all of our efforts into making clear there is no tolerance for people who request the dignity of others. there is no tolerance for those who are not willing to help when legal and human help is required. >> joining me now in studio, a member of the european parliament, former head of the joint council thank you very much for coming in to talk with us. are we going to see an agreement, do you think the open border agreements will collapse? >> it's about reality has hit european union. europe does not have an government. what has happened is that refugees are coming to the border, having filled up turkey, lebanon and jordan and syria. lebanonens are coming because we were over there, and that is now a dysfunctional state. and nigerians and afghanis are coming because they're being pushed by the push factors, poverty and so on. what is happening they expect to come if the european union with one cohesive policy, but that does not have one. they're coming to country, they want to come to countries like germany who are doing their bit, who are quite liberal, but who are being embarrassed by incidents like yesterday and today. >> they have been quite tolerant. we've seen ugly incidents and perhaps the rise of the far right. >> it's the paradoxical incident because the relationship of those countries have been decent and liberal, but the populations are having doubts about accepting refugees. this is because of the european union is not one entity. there are different country. and the center of gravity, are populations we have it here in the united kingdom. you have the national front in france. you have now in germany the kind of protests that merkel was trying to dampen down. they're getting confused by this, but they should not be confused. what should be happening with the european union is getting organized to help them, and to deal with the geneva convention. >> so far that getting their act together has not happened. what do you think it will take for that change in policy to be a more unified approach. >> you're right, it has not happened, and it should happen. we have an obligation just as turkey, jordan and lebanon did. we should be taking certain numbers. not a few thousand. we should be taking decent numbers in an organized way. there is moral obligation that we have. therefore, we've invited this idea that people will chance their luck through trafficking. that's not an organized approa approach. the e.u. should visit. an organized approach is extension. otherwise we'll be sending a political message that we're disorganized. >> people who are intent on causing chaos, that has been raised as a reason to crackdown on refugees. >> i think that is a red hearing. there will always be concerns in the mix. but that's a red herring over all. al jazeera has a right to talk about refugee because syria has recommendings, libya has refugees, afghanistan, there is a gray area. but yes they are refugees. let's call them what they are. but when they come here their cases should be tested. we have a convention which has collapsed. that's about applying in the first country where you should be applying. germany is relaxing this. this is a governmental agreement not an e.u. law. when people come to the borders in the european union they should have a decent organized approach to their applications. what they're finding is chaos, and they've been treated badly. this is a bad situation for europe. we're building fences. we're fort flying tunnels ironic for the european union given our history. >> thank you very much, indeed, for share area thoughts. thank you. now south sudan's president is finally signed a peace deal aimed at ending the 20-month civil war. he refused to do so last week. we have reports from juba. >> when the fighting started in december 2013 people fled to the safety of u.n. bases in several towns. now 20 months later more than 200,000 people are still living under the protection of the u.n. what began as a fight between soldiers killed and injured thousands of people in juba. but the violence spread from town to town, destroying neighborhoods and leaving tens of thousands of dead in its week. it's everyone in the area is affected by conflict has a story to tell. fighting came to this woman's village, and she was forced to run. >> sometimes my heart believes that he is an alive. but sometimes i get depressed and think negative thoughts. but people have told me that others have faced a worse fate than you, so stop thinking about it. >> when the conflict began, the army split into two factions with the former vice president announcing that he was in command of the rebels. for the last 20 months war in south sudan has dragged on wit on. even those who did not support either side were not spared the violence. >> they cut me with a type of machete. i fell down. i didn't even know what was happening. after two or three hours i found myself in hospital. >> the united nations has been demanding that post sides come from a peaceful resolution. the international community is optimistic that the signing of the deal mines the end of the war, but many are not so confident because many of the top commanders have split, and they've made it clear that this peace deal means nothing. unfortunately for the people of south sudan, this could mean that the war is not over. al jazeera, juba south sudan. >> how realistic after so much flood has been spilt after 20 months of fighting how realistic is it to expect true reconciliation between two peoples. well, i think that south sudan deserves peace. the people themselves, they deserve peace. there were reasons for the war. i believe that this peace agreement has addressed these reasons. if you take it chapter by chapter, the system of governance is addressed. we hope that we move to a system where there will be reforms, and they will be instituting the army, the security, the police, and also this impunity which has gone on for long. i think it has been addressed, and we hope that nobody again create war in the south sudan. both sides, both president and your own forces have been accused of committing gross human rights violations, atrocities. can you guarantee transparency? can you guarantee cooperation and accountability in investigating these claims and bringing those responsible to justice? well, you know that we ask the e.u. to--the a.u. commission report, this is because we're committed to combating impunity in the country. and up until now this report has not been made public, and we're calling for the report to be made public. this underlines our commitment to insuring that anyone who has committed atrocities would be brought pup. >> a plan to boost closer ties between egypt and russia. and will manchester united's manager be all smiles after the champions league playoffs? >> an american repor journalist and cameraman were shot in virginia. >> the very latest is that the suspect, who is identified as former employee of the television station, which actually ran the live interview and the fatal shootings, has died in hospital after apparently killing himself or shooting himself. that was reported just a few minutes ago by the virginia state police. and there was one other victim, th the interviewee who is recovering and is in stable condition in the hospital. the authorities have not described any details about the motive for this, but the station management has said that this was a former employee who had anger management issues and was dismissed because of his inability to get along with other people in the station. he also had filmed the videos from his videophone of the shooting himself and posted them before he was captured. also he tweeted several messages expressing his frustration and anger with both the photographer, who he accused costing him his job, and the report, who he said had taken over. >> we want to take you now to virginia, the franklin county sheriff office is holding a news conference with the date les the latest details. we just heard from one of our correspondent from al jazeera english, let's listen to the county sheriff right now and get an update on all of this. >> this is awfully hard from the tragic events that have taken place earlier this morning. i just want to make sure that through this we continue to keep our prayers and thoughts with the family of alicia parker, and aaron wade. excuse me, aaron ward. as well as the wwdbj news family. at approximately 1:30 p.m. today the suspect from this incident, this shooting, died at fairfax and nova hospital in northern virginia as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. i want to express my condolences to wwdbj seven tv for their loss this morning. we know this has been a very difficult situation to manage professionally and personally, and we appreciate their cooperation and assistance with the ongoing investigation on our search efforts. we're keeping thi keeping miss vickie gardner who continues to undergo treatment for injuries sustained in the shooting. i want to thank the residents for their support and vigilance as we conducted our search efforts and response in relation to this incident. the tips and information that came in from our local residents and across the commonwealth have been extremely helpful over the course of the past seven hours. the quick response to this investigation resolution are due to the dedicated and quick efforts of our public safety partners with the bedford county sheriff office, office,. >> flanagan left the airport in a chevrolet that he rented earlier in the month. onth. >> he was traveled along interstate 81, and we noted local and state law enforcement along the interstate 81 corridor to assist us with a look out to suspect vehicles. this has been confirmed already. the virginia state police then located the flanagan vehicle on interstate 66 and took him into custody. we're still peacing together the timeline of event leading up to this morning's shooting. flanagan was a former employee, and flanagan sent a lengthy multi-page facts to a news station in new york about this incident. we now have a copy of t and it's use in the course of this investigation will be continuing. that's where we are right now. we still have a lengthy investigation to conduct. i'll turn the mic over to the virginia state police. >> thank you, sheriff. shortly before 11:30 a.m. this morning, virginia state police trooper pam neff was on patrol along interstate 66. her license plate reader lpr alerted to a license plate on a chevrolet sonic traveling east. she called the vehicle a short distance as troopers responded to assist her before she activated her lights. once that back up was there she lighted up her emergency equipment in attempt to stop the vehicle. the driver of the sonning also known as bryce williams, refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. it was only a minute or two later when the sonic ran off the road into the median. when trooper neff approached the vehicle, she found flanagan suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he was flown from the scene to a hospital where he died at apracticely 1:30 p.m. today. the bureau of criminal investigation salem field office andorr and our salem field office will continue to assist in the investigation into the shooting. sheriff? >> thank you very much, sergea sergeant. i will spry to entertain some questions you may have. >> did he know this morning that he would be located at this remote location during a broadcast? did he see it aired that morning as many people were watching. we're looking into that and trying to discover that. >> what was the motive for the shooting? >> not sure. we're looking at all of those dimensions of what that may look like, but right now there has not been a motive as per se. a lot of you have gotten the correspondence, e-mails that have been sent out. it's obvious that this gentleman was disturbed in some way the way things had transpired at some point in his life. it would appear that things were spiraling out of control, but we're still looking into that. >> is there a racial component that has not been reported? >> i have no comment on that at this time. >> did he say anything to authorities when he was arrested? >> i can't sing about that at this time. [ inaudible question ] >> it shows what was going on in the gentleman's mind the night before and the chain of events of how things happened. >> how instrumental was that license plate readerrer, once entered into the system, that reader will be able to identify that plate as it passes. >> license plate readers are a great tool. the state police have several of them throughout the state, and it helped, of course, i haven't talked with trooper neff, but it helped in this case to identify the vehicle. [ inaudible question ] >> it's under investigation. >> did. >> did you foe who this person was? >> once we secured the scene, we were able to identify mr. flanagan as a potential suspect and we continued from there. >> have you had a chance to speak to the general manager of his former employer? >> i have no comment on that right now. >> was there a trespassing order. >> i'm not sure what steps had been taken if there was a need to at this time? >> when did he come into view? >> we're still looking at all possible video. i'm not even sure at this point in time if the individual steps were--if they realized that he was even there. >> can you confirm that flanagan posted the video himself? >> i can't confirm that, no. >> how long had he been planning this? >> can you tell us where the investigation goes from here? and. >> it's going to be a long investigation because there are a lot of components to this investigation. we're still right in the beginning stages of it, so it's going to be quite awhile. the officers have secured the area and a search warrant will be executed. >> no one saw him. >> we're looking at video to see exactly how that transpired. >> do you believe that he was targeting two individuals? >> i can't confirm that. i could sit here and second guess who that might be. >> how long had he been planning this? >> we'll take three more questions. >> thank you. it was extremely difficult this morning. i actually did a remote with ms. parker and adam about three weeks ago when our schools opened up here. we did the same type remote. >> this has stopped me in my tracks this morning. like many viewers i was watching this morning's broadcast, and i couldn't understand really what was happening myself at that time. >> was it emotional for you, sheriff? >> very emotional. >> what difference would it make if this was a person they knew versus someone they didn't? >> right, we're continuing to investigate it as a criminal investigation, a homicide investigation at this time. thank you all very, very much. continue to keep these families in your prayers. >> all right, we've been limping to a news conference, an update from bill overton, sheriff from franklin county, virginia. let's go over what we know. mike viqueira is standing by with us as well to help us out on this. horrible day. horrible news story. the suspect in this shooting, mike, this is the top line from the news conference, and then i'll turn it turnover to you an you can share what your take aways are from the news conference. the suspect, in this horrible shooting on television. >> as typical in these cases in the initial hours after a violent crime, pressure little in detail. i thought it was interesting that the sheriff did say that he was not sure of the motive, but it's obvious that this individual is disturbed in some way, and it appears that things were spiraling out of control in his life. also clear implication that there was some forefront thought in this. he named the subject. known as bryce williams, but flanagan died of self-inflicted wounds. he was on his way to washington from roanoke, and then heading east on i-66, ultimately found by that virginia state trooper, looking at that technology, utilizing technology that identified the license plate wa was--flanagan, the trooper tried to stop flanagan in that rented vehicle. evidently he shot himself, crashed, a and then was flown. we assume flown by helicopter to the washington suburbs where they have now confirmed that he died. vicki gardner, the third victim in this shooting, we're told. going through the hick cock, it's interesting that he himself was watching wbbj the roanoke station there. at 6:43, victor lee flanagan identified as the suspect, 41 years old, approached and started shooting. flanagan himself posting this point and view video that he took from his own device, whether it was a go pro or his enseveral, we don't know, posting that lurid and disturbing video on twitter, and then of course this happening live on television. and this frame grab almost haunting the specster of what is alleged to be mr. flanagan holding the gun and shooting. and adam ward mortally wounded at that time. he was located in a 2009 must take sometime earlier, not necessarily stay, he head he was located on i-66, and ultimately attempted to be at pre-henned by the state police. during the course of that chase he shot himself, a self-inflicted wound. a horrific someon scene. to say that this could happen on an early show in the roanoke area, the chamber of congress being interviewed by these individuals and the tragic dea death. >> it looks like ms. gardner is going to be okay. someone from the chamber of commerce was speaking just a short time ago, but all situations at this time is suffering from lon non-life threatening injuries. mike, i have to share this with you. this pops up on the "washington post" website. interviewing the father allison parker, and this will bring it home. my grief is unbearable. is this real? am i going to wake up? i am crying my eyes out. i don't know. i don't know if there is anybody in the world or another father who could be more proud of their daughter. andy parker quoted by the "washington post," speaking about his grief and offering a remembrance, a quick one there on his daughter, allison parker. mike, appreciate it. thank you. mike viqueira covering the story from washington, d.c. for us. we'll take a break and come back with more after this. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target weeknights 10:30p et >> the whole neighborhood was under 20 feet of water. >> a decade after hurricane katrina, soledad o'brien investigates new orleans divided recovery. >> white home owners and black home owners had a very large gap. >> the residents forced to flee. >> escorted onto a plane by gun point without someone telling me where i'm going. >> and the city's future. >> why should a business come here when this neglect has been allowed to go on? >> an america tonight special, katrina: after the storm. >> this was the worst civil engineering disaster in the history of the united states. >> 10 years after hurricane katrina. >> it was like a nuclear bomb had gone off - everything smelt like dead bodies. >> one constant. >> music has been the essence of this city. >> inspires a community to rebuild its city. >> we gonna bring this city back one note at a time. >> and overcome hard times in the big easy. >> we are bigger, we're better, we're stronger. >> there is criticism about the use oens isil. >> the u.s. military advisers in iraq have been training and equipping sunni tribesmen in anbar province as part of their strategy to defeat isil. hundreds of them are already on the front lines. the obama administration believes their role will be crucial to recapture the mainly sunni region. the program is backed by the iraqi government, but there are powerful voices who are raising questions. a top commandedder in the popular mobilization forces which groups shia pai paramilitary forces which replaced the army on the ground. >> if the americans are concerned about the sunnies, then they should not violate iraq sovereignty. they should give the government the capability to train them. america is creating a sunni force. this is a plan to divide iraq. >> the he heads the military council which has a strong presence in parliament. he does not height his good relations with iran. after all, it was founded there in the early 1980s. sunnsunny. >> this has been a good start. the u.s. trained 7,000 sunnies in anbar, but they still did not give them proper weapons. these men are under the control of the defense ministry, but we hope one day parliament will approve the national guard project and each province will have its own force from its own people. >> the people in anbar province have a long history of animosity with shia led government in baghdad. it seems that there are efforts to keep it from taking part in isil in ramadi. they said that without them the battle cannot be won. >> the battle in ramadi is in its sixth week and if there was cooperation between the army, popular mobilization forces, the police and the sunni tribes it will be easily won. >> today some describe this man as one of the most powerful men in iraq. he is openly criticizing and integral part of the u.s. strategy. al jazeera, baghdad. >> stocks are raidin raid trading higher today. the dow soared nearly 400 points at the open. the shanghai composite trading down again. and there were major rebounds ending a six-day losing streak. republican presidential candidate donald trump is defending his actions. stephanie sy has that story. >> yes, please. >> excuse me, sit down. you weren't called. sit down. >> the tense exchange between republican presidential candidat candidate donald trump and univision reporter ramos. ramos was asking him about his immigration policy. >> you haven't been called. go back to univision. >> ramos was escorted out of the room. when he was allowed back in, the two clashed over trump's policy of ending birth right citizenship. ramos said that trump clearly gave the order to throw him out. something that he never expected. >> what i expect is to ask a question, but i didn't expect to be thrown out of a press conference. it was very clear with his body language that he was giving orders. >> trump spoke to northbound show saying ramos was out of line. >> i was being asked a question from another reporter. i would have gotten to him very quickly. he stood up and started ranting and raving bike a madman. frankly he was out of line. most up in reports said that i handled it very well. univision ceo has invited trump to sit down for an in-depth interview to talk about the specifics about the immigration proposals. but there is a deeper history. trump is suing envision. this isn't the first time that trump has sparred with the media. the head of fox news demanded that he apologize for his repeated attacks on megyn kelly. including this latest tweet. . >> one of trump's main proposal is to go a wall across the u.s.-mexican border and said that mexico should pay for the border. >> this is the u.s. side of the border fence in downtown nogales. you can see that it's made out of steel and it's very tall. it looks impenetrable. but it's not. people climb over it. we saw two wrong men go over this fence and back again in seconds. we assumed they were drug smugglers. they are wearing backpacks. we caught it on camera. take a look. donald trump said that's going to stop young men like those and everybody else trying to cross this frontier by replacing this fence with a wall. a wall that runs from coast to coast from the pacific ocean all the way to the gulf of mexico almost 2,000 miles of border. the question is that practical. is that physically possible? we'll take a look at the facts on the ground and the fence. we'll have that story tonight. >> and you can watch paul's full report this evening. more reaction today to a new study that finds a huge racial disparity in student discipline. the study by the university of pennsylvania looks at 13 southern states and said that these are the states that account for 55% of all suspensions and expulsions nationwide. earlier we spoke with one of the coauthors of the report, shawn harper. he said that the study quantified for people something that they long believed. >> the research is very clear on this, that black students tend to be targeted and suspended at disproportionately higher rates for reasons that are incredibly subjective like the kid was rude or giving me attitude, or, you know, the kid perhaps was loitering in the halls. where the research shows white students tend to get away with those things and not be referred to principals' offices for disciplinary action. instead, they tend to get referred to principals offices for things that are considerably less objective like skipping school or smoking or property destruction and vandalism. there is definitely a racialized element to the numbers we provide in the report that i think are inextricably linked in the ways that we've all been socialized to think about black people as criminals and deviant. i think teachers perhaps unknowingly go into schools, into classrooms having been socialized to think about young black people in these deeply criminallalized ways. therefore, you know, a kid does anything, and there is this hyper response to get the kid out because this kid is a probable like so many other black people are thought to be problems in our nation and in the southern context. >> well, harper said that he hopes that parents and families who veal victimized will use the data to demand change. a new accusation of bias in napa valley, california. a nap that valley wine train has been accused of kicking off a group of women off the train. >> the nap that valley wine train said it was 100% wrong when it kicked a book club of mostly african-american women off the train this weekend. police escorted the 11 women off the train. the group said that it was humiliating. >> at no time were we loud with them, we were direct and we were asking questions, but at no time were we loud with them or inappropriate with them. >> they may have let it go with the company's initial social media response, a facebook message that was later deleted read in part: >> that is absolutely untrue. we never touched anybody. >> a company spokesman said that the post was clearly a mistake. >> the bad thing about social media is that people want to respond right away. many times thoughtfulness is actually more important than speed. >> we made it y'all. look at us. we're getting ready to get on the wine train. >> the incident caused a stir on social media with the hashtag laughing while black. a reporter six seats away from the group said that they were just having a good time. >> they were loud, they were loud from the moment they got on the train. they were just happy. >> she said that the women should not have been kicked off the train. >> it's not a movie theater. it is not a library. it is basically a wine bar. people are there to drink wine, take in the scenery and have a conversation. >> the ceo of the company has since apologized to the group contacting one by phone and writing a letter that reads: . al jazeera. >> ten years after hurricane katrina, we meet a shrimper who are built his business after losing it all. >> a colorado judge has formerly sentenced james holmes for killing 12 people and injuring 70 others during a rampage at a movie theater in 2012. >> for the first-degree murder o, the defendant is sentenced to life in imprisonment without the possibility of parole. >> that was just one of the sentences. all told, holmes received more than 3,000 years in jail. the judge called holmes an angry quitter, who gave up on life and turned his hatred and murder and mayhem against innocent victims. all this week we're looking at the impact of hurricane katrina ten years later. now there is a new trend, younger people moving into town. jonathan betz has that report. >> for generations henrietta's family has called new orleans home. now she can't help but notice how different the city and the people look. >> i hope a lot of black people still come back. >> it's been a concern since katrina emptied new orleans. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. [applause] >> how some people won't be left behind in the boom of rebuilding. >> i think the issue that is near and dear to my heart is to make sure that those individuals who were born--they don't feel that this new orleans is moving forward, and there is no place for them in this new city. >> while 67% of the city used to be african-american it's dropped to 58%. the percentage of whites has grown slightly. >> so for the first time we have young people coming here. many of them anecdotally are white. folks have a feeling that it's a whiter city. >> a new younger class is emerging. some drawn by adventure. others drawn by opportunity. lauren came to sell t-shirts from her living room. her online business quickly grew into four stores. >> in los angeles you have to be beautiful. in new york you have to be smart and successful. but in new orleans, you just get to be you. that's what i love about being here. >> people of all colors are coming for opportunities hard to find any place else. >> before katrina, i thought there was a closed insular network that was scared and closed to change. but now there are new people. >> people like patrick who moved from new york to new orleans and started a digital company. >> how many times in important cities in america go through a complete renewal, and you're invited to participate in that process. that's an once in a generation opportunity. >> but many worry that change is keeping others out. >> new orleans is a lot more affluent than it was prior to the storm. disproportionately there are more blacks who cannot come back because of the economic situation in the city of new orleans. >> officials say that it's more complicated. there are still just as many people living in poverty. and african-americans are choosing to move to the suburbs. >> the assumption is that it was the rich that could only return and rebuild, and you're saying-- >> i'm saying that there were a lot of people who chose not to return. >> and is it did not matter how much money you had. >> that's right. a lot of people--a lot of people may have had the means to return and chose not to. >> for henrietta, there was not any other choice. she had to be home. >> i'm hoping and praying that a lot of other people come back, too. >> until then, as new orleans changes, many know how to keep the spirit the same even if the city looks different. jonathan betz, new orleans. >> katrina had a profound impact on those who relied on the gulf for their livelihoods. >> one of louisiana's coastal waterways doing some shrimping with joe, i met joe ten years ago just a week after at a trina hit this coast. >> it was bad. real bad. it was bad. there are reaves no more. we had islands, they're not there no more. it was a big change, quick, overnight. >> how is the business right now? >> right now it's bad for the fisherman. then if they agree to that pacific trade deal, vietnam is going to come into. vietnam is the biggest exporter of shrimp in the world, bar none, they're the biggest. they're going to be shipping over here. >> so this is an industry under considerable pressure right now. katrina, the bp oil spill, imports from overseas, the high price of doing business. it's tough for scrimpers. i'm allen schauffler we'll have more tonight. >> you would like the latest on any of our stories, we encourage to you head on over to our website. www.aljazeera.com. have a great afternoon. an we'll see you tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >> the growing cost of refugee crisis. 50 people die trying to make the desperate journey across the mediterranean. and on the hungarian border refugees plead for help as the country considers sending the military to the frontier. hello there, you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program. south sudan's president reluctantly signs a peace agreement staving off the threat of u.n.

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>> in doha we have all your sports. two runners failed drug tests at the world championships. >> it's a toll which keeps rising, now another 50 refugees are known to have died trying to make it across the mediterranean. they were discovered in the hull of a boat off libya. hungary is considering sending troops to the border after fighting broke out. the tensions peaked after some refugees refused to be fingerprinted. in germany, germany chancellor was jeered an. and thousands arriving in macedonia every day. >> unrest of the european union border. u.n. troubled registration center. with the build. of security forces there are fears of violence here. police are trying to play down the crisis. >> there was a small conflict that erupted as several people tried to approach the fence. the police tried to stop them, and they used tear gas. >> a three meter high fence is being put up on the border, but right now thousands of people are getting through sections with where there is only razor wire. police here are failing to make arsenal. the hungary's root win right wing government will make plans to deploy the army here. >> up to 3,000 a day have been boarding buses bound for the hungarian border. their record numbers, refugees say they've been treated better in serbia than in macedonia, but they're worried about getting into hungary. some of belgrade's parks have become the last transit points. most of the refugee here's are syrian. this woman fled from horrendous violence in aleppo. now he's holding over head to go hungary because she's scared. >> we're here because we're worried about hungary. as politicians prepare for a summit on thursday to discuss the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war on the ground, the situation is worsening. andrew simmons on the hungar hungary-serban border. >> another 2,000 refugees have just arrived in the athens port. we have this update from lesbos. >> i'm standing in one of two makeshift refugee camps on the island of lesbos. the numbers are straggling. 33,000 people are said to have landed on lesbos alone. that's the rate of a thousand new arrivals every single day. it is said that there are 0,000 people on the island as we speak waiting to be processed, to be given paperwork that would allow them to remain in greece and then help them off the island. sanitation is poor. the sun beating down on them every day. ngos and voluntary groups doing what they can, but they're doing it with absolutely no help from central government in athens. people i've spoken to in this camp express surprise, disappointment and even bemusment in the conditions they find. one man said that he thought they were all going to be put up in hotels here in greece. well, that perhaps is a story put about by people smugglers on the turkish shore trying to encourage this journey in the first place. >> german chancellor angela merkel has been heckled during a visit at a refugee center. they booed and called her a traitor. she's promised that germany will not tolerate xenophobia. >> we must put all of our efforts into making clear there is no tolerance for people who request the dignity of others. there is no tolerance for those who are not willing to help when legal and human help is required. >> joining me now in studio, a member of the european parliament, former head of the joint council thank you very much for coming in to talk with us. are we going to see an agreement, do you think the open border agreements will collapse? >> it's about reality has hit european union. europe does not have an government. what has happened is that refugees are coming to the border, having filled up turkey, lebanon and jordan and syria. lebanonens are coming because we were over there, and that is now a dysfunctional state. and nigerians and afghanis are coming because they're being pushed by the push factors, poverty and so on. what is happening they expect to come if the european union with one cohesive policy, but that does not have one. they're coming to country, they want to come to countries like germany who are doing their bit, who are quite liberal, but who are being embarrassed by incidents like yesterday and today. >> they have been quite tolerant. we've seen ugly incidents and perhaps the rise of the far right. >> it's the paradoxical incident because the relationship of those countries have been decent and liberal, but the populations are having doubts about accepting refugees. this is because of the european union is not one entity. there are different country. and the center of gravity, are populations we have it here in the united kingdom. you have the national front in france. you have now in germany the kind of protests that merkel was trying to dampen down. they're getting confused by this, but they should not be confused. what should be happening with the european union is getting organized to help them, and to deal with the geneva convention. >> so far that getting their act together has not happened. what do you think it will take for that change in policy to be a more unified approach. >> you're right, it has not happened, and it should happen. we have an obligation just as turkey, jordan and lebanon did. we should be taking certain numbers. not a few thousand. we should be taking decent numbers in an organized way. there is moral obligation that we have. therefore, we've invited this idea that people will chance their luck through trafficking. that's not an organized approa approach. the e.u. should visit. an organized approach is extension. otherwise we'll be sending a political message that we're disorganized. >> people who are intent on causing chaos, that has been raised as a reason to crackdown on refugees. >> i think that is a red hearing. there will always be concerns in the mix. but that's a red herring over all. al jazeera has a right to talk about refugee because syria has recommendings, libya has refugees, afghanistan, there is a gray area. but yes they are refugees. let's call them what they are. but when they come here their cases should be tested. we have a convention which has collapsed. that's about applying in the first country where you should be applying. germany is relaxing this. this is a governmental agreement not an e.u. law. when people come to the borders in the european union they should have a decent organized approach to their applications. what they're finding is chaos, and they've been treated badly. this is a bad situation for europe. we're building fences. we're fort flying tunnels ironic for the european union given our history. >> thank you very much, indeed, for share area thoughts. thank you. now south sudan's president is finally signed a peace deal aimed at ending the 20-month civil war. he refused to do so last week. we have reports from juba. >> when the fighting started in december 2013 people fled to the safety of u.n. bases in several towns. now 20 months later more than 200,000 people are still living under the protection of the u.n. what began as a fight between soldiers killed and injured thousands of people in juba. but the violence spread from town to town, destroying neighborhoods and leaving tens of thousands of dead in its week. it's everyone in the area is affected by conflict has a story to tell. fighting came to this woman's village, and she was forced to run. >> sometimes my heart believes that he is an alive. but sometimes i get depressed and think negative thoughts. but people have told me that others have faced a worse fate than you, so stop thinking about it. >> when the conflict began, the army split into two factions with the former vice president announcing that he was in command of the rebels. for the last 20 months war in south sudan has dragged on wit on. even those who did not support either side were not spared the violence. >> they cut me with a type of machete. i fell down. i didn't even know what was happening. after two or three hours i found myself in hospital. >> the united nations has been demanding that post sides come from a peaceful resolution. the international community is optimistic that the signing of the deal mines the end of the war, but many are not so confident because many of the top commanders have split, and they've made it clear that this peace deal means nothing. unfortunately for the people of south sudan, this could mean that the war is not over. al jazeera, juba south sudan. >> how realistic after so much flood has been spilt after 20 months of fighting how realistic is it to expect true reconciliation between two peoples. well, i think that south sudan deserves peace. the people themselves, they deserve peace. there were reasons for the war. i believe that this peace agreement has addressed these reasons. if you take it chapter by chapter, the system of governance is addressed. we hope that we move to a system where there will be reforms, and they will be instituting the army, the security, the police, and also this impunity which has gone on for long. i think it has been addressed, and we hope that nobody again create war in the south sudan. both sides, both president and your own forces have been accused of committing gross human rights violations, atrocities. can you guarantee transparency? can you guarantee cooperation and accountability in investigating these claims and bringing those responsible to justice? well, you know that we ask the e.u. to--the a.u. commission report, this is because we're committed to combating impunity in the country. and up until now this report has not been made public, and we're calling for the report to be made public. this underlines our commitment to insuring that anyone who has committed atrocities would be brought pup. >> a plan to boost closer ties between egypt and russia. and will manchester united's manager be all smiles after the champions league playoffs? >> an american repor journalist and cameraman were shot in virginia. >> the very latest is that the suspect, who is identified as former employee of the television station, which actually ran the live interview and the fatal shootings, has died in hospital after apparently killing himself or shooting himself. that was reported just a few minutes ago by the virginia state police. and there was one other victim, th the interviewee who is recovering and is in stable condition in the hospital. the authorities have not described any details about the motive for this, but the station management has said that this was a former employee who had anger management issues and was dismissed because of his inability to get along with other people in the station. he also had filmed the videos from his videophone of the shooting himself and posted them before he was captured. also he tweeted several messages expressing his frustration and anger with both the photographer, who he accused costing him his job, and the report, who he said had taken over. >> we want to take you now to virginia, the franklin county sheriff office is holding a news conference with the date les the latest details. we just heard from one of our correspondent from al jazeera english, let's listen to the county sheriff right now and get an update on all of this. >> this is awfully hard from the tragic events that have taken place earlier this morning. i just want to make sure that through this we continue to keep our prayers and thoughts with the family of alicia parker, and aaron wade. excuse me, aaron ward. as well as the wwdbj news family. at approximately 1:30 p.m. today the suspect from this incident, this shooting, died at fairfax and nova hospital in northern virginia as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. i want to express my condolences to wwdbj seven tv for their loss this morning. we know this has been a very difficult situation to manage professionally and personally, and we appreciate their cooperation and assistance with the ongoing investigation on our search efforts. we're keeping thi keeping miss vickie gardner who continues to undergo treatment for injuries sustained in the shooting. i want to thank the residents for their support and vigilance as we conducted our search efforts and response in relation to this incident. the tips and information that came in from our local residents and across the commonwealth have been extremely helpful over the course of the past seven hours. the quick response to this investigation resolution are due to the dedicated and quick efforts of our public safety partners with the bedford county sheriff office, office,. >> flanagan left the airport in a chevrolet that he rented earlier in the month. onth. >> he was traveled along interstate 81, and we noted local and state law enforcement along the interstate 81 corridor to assist us with a look out to suspect vehicles. this has been confirmed already. the virginia state police then located the flanagan vehicle on interstate 66 and took him into custody. we're still peacing together the timeline of event leading up to this morning's shooting. flanagan was a former employee, and flanagan sent a lengthy multi-page facts to a news station in new york about this incident. we now have a copy of t and it's use in the course of this investigation will be continuing. that's where we are right now. we still have a lengthy investigation to conduct. i'll turn the mic over to the virginia state police. >> thank you, sheriff. shortly before 11:30 a.m. this morning, virginia state police trooper pam neff was on patrol along interstate 66. her license plate reader lpr alerted to a license plate on a chevrolet sonic traveling east. she called the vehicle a short distance as troopers responded to assist her before she activated her lights. once that back up was there she lighted up her emergency equipment in attempt to stop the vehicle. the driver of the sonning also known as bryce williams, refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. it was only a minute or two later when the sonic ran off the road into the median. when trooper neff approached the vehicle, she found flanagan suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he was flown from the scene to a hospital where he died at apracticely 1:30 p.m. today. the bureau of criminal investigation salem field office andorr and our salem field office will continue to assist in the investigation into the shooting. sheriff? >> thank you very much, sergea sergeant. i will spry to entertain some questions you may have. >> did he know this morning that he would be located at this remote location during a broadcast? did he see it aired that morning as many people were watching. we're looking into that and trying to discover that. >> what was the motive for the shooting? >> not sure. we're looking at all of those dimensions of what that may look like, but right now there has not been a motive as per se. a lot of you have gotten the correspondence, e-mails that have been sent out. it's obvious that this gentleman was disturbed in some way the way things had transpired at some point in his life. it would appear that things were spiraling out of control, but we're still looking into that. >> is there a racial component that has not been reported? >> i have no comment on that at this time. >> did he say anything to authorities when he was arrested? >> i can't sing about that at this time. [ inaudible question ] >> it shows what was going on in the gentleman's mind the night before and the chain of events of how things happened. >> how instrumental was that license plate readerrer, once entered into the system, that reader will be able to identify that plate as it passes. >> license plate readers are a great tool. the state police have several of them throughout the state, and it helped, of course, i haven't talked with trooper neff, but it helped in this case to identify the vehicle. [ inaudible question ] >> it's under investigation. >> did. >> did you foe who this person was? >> once we secured the scene, we were able to identify mr. flanagan as a potential suspect and we continued from there. >> have you had a chance to speak to the general manager of his former employer? >> i have no comment on that right now. >> was there a trespassing order. >> i'm not sure what steps had been taken if there was a need to at this time? >> when did he come into view? >> we're still looking at all possible video. i'm not even sure at this point in time if the individual steps were--if they realized that he was even there. >> can you confirm that flanagan posted the video himself? >> i can't confirm that, no. >> how long had he been planning this? >> can you tell us where the investigation goes from here? and. >> it's going to be a long investigation because there are a lot of components to this investigation. we're still right in the beginning stages of it, so it's going to be quite awhile. the officers have secured the area and a search warrant will be executed. >> no one saw him. >> we're looking at video to see exactly how that transpired. >> do you believe that he was targeting two individuals? >> i can't confirm that. i could sit here and second guess who that might be. >> how long had he been planning this? >> we'll take three more questions. >> thank you. it was extremely difficult this morning. i actually did a remote with ms. parker and adam about three weeks ago when our schools opened up here. we did the same type remote. >> this has stopped me in my tracks this morning. like many viewers i was watching this morning's broadcast, and i couldn't understand really what was happening myself at that time. >> was it emotional for you, sheriff? >> very emotional. >> what difference would it make if this was a person they knew versus someone they didn't? >> right, we're continuing to investigate it as a criminal investigation, a homicide investigation at this time. thank you all very, very much. continue to keep these families in your prayers. >> all right, we've been limping to a news conference, an update from bill overton, sheriff from franklin county, virginia. let's go over what we know. mike viqueira is standing by with us as well to help us out on this. horrible day. horrible news story. the suspect in this shooting, mike, this is the top line from the news conference, and then i'll turn it turnover to you an you can share what your take aways are from the news conference. the suspect, in this horrible shooting on television. >> as typical in these cases in the initial hours after a violent crime, pressure little in detail. i thought it was interesting that the sheriff did say that he was not sure of the motive, but it's obvious that this individual is disturbed in some way, and it appears that things were spiraling out of control in his life. also clear implication that there was some forefront thought in this. he named the subject. known as bryce williams, but flanagan died of self-inflicted wounds. he was on his way to washington from roanoke, and then heading east on i-66, ultimately found by that virginia state trooper, looking at that technology, utilizing technology that identified the license plate wa was--flanagan, the trooper tried to stop flanagan in that rented vehicle. evidently he shot himself, crashed, a and then was flown. we assume flown by helicopter to the washington suburbs where they have now confirmed that he died. vicki gardner, the third victim in this shooting, we're told. going through the hick cock, it's interesting that he himself was watching wbbj the roanoke station there. at 6:43, victor lee flanagan identified as the suspect, 41 years old, approached and started shooting. flanagan himself posting this point and view video that he took from his own device, whether it was a go pro or his enseveral, we don't know, posting that lurid and disturbing video on twitter, and then of course this happening live on television. and this frame grab almost haunting the specster of what is alleged to be mr. flanagan holding the gun and shooting. and adam ward mortally wounded at that time. he was located in a 2009 must take sometime earlier, not necessarily stay, he head he was located on i-66, and ultimately attempted to be at pre-henned by the state police. during the course of that chase he shot himself, a self-inflicted wound. a horrific someon scene. to say that this could happen on an early show in the roanoke area, the chamber of congress being interviewed by these individuals and the tragic dea death. >> it looks like ms. gardner is going to be okay. someone from the chamber of commerce was speaking just a short time ago, but all situations at this time is suffering from lon non-life threatening injuries. mike, i have to share this with you. this pops up on the "washington post" website. interviewing the father allison parker, and this will bring it home. my grief is unbearable. is this real? am i going to wake up? i am crying my eyes out. i don't know. i don't know if there is anybody in the world or another father who could be more proud of their daughter. andy parker quoted by the "washington post," speaking about his grief and offering a remembrance, a quick one there on his daughter, allison parker. mike, appreciate it. thank you. mike viqueira covering the story from washington, d.c. for us. we'll take a break and come back with more after this. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target weeknights 10:30p et >> the whole neighborhood was under 20 feet of water. >> a decade after hurricane katrina, soledad o'brien investigates new orleans divided recovery. >> white home owners and black home owners had a very large gap. >> the residents forced to flee. >> escorted onto a plane by gun point without someone telling me where i'm going. >> and the city's future. >> why should a business come here when this neglect has been allowed to go on? >> an america tonight special, katrina: after the storm. >> this was the worst civil engineering disaster in the history of the united states. >> 10 years after hurricane katrina. >> it was like a nuclear bomb had gone off - everything smelt like dead bodies. >> one constant. >> music has been the essence of this city. >> inspires a community to rebuild its city. >> we gonna bring this city back one note at a time. >> and overcome hard times in the big easy. >> we are bigger, we're better, we're stronger. >> there is criticism about the use oens isil. >> the u.s. military advisers in iraq have been training and equipping sunni tribesmen in anbar province as part of their strategy to defeat isil. hundreds of them are already on the front lines. the obama administration believes their role will be crucial to recapture the mainly sunni region. the program is backed by the iraqi government, but there are powerful voices who are raising questions. a top commandedder in the popular mobilization forces which groups shia pai paramilitary forces which replaced the army on the ground. >> if the americans are concerned about the sunnies, then they should not violate iraq sovereignty. they should give the government the capability to train them. america is creating a sunni force. this is a plan to divide iraq. >> the he heads the military council which has a strong presence in parliament. he does not height his good relations with iran. after all, it was founded there in the early 1980s. sunnsunny. >> this has been a good start. the u.s. trained 7,000 sunnies in anbar, but they still did not give them proper weapons. these men are under the control of the defense ministry, but we hope one day parliament will approve the national guard project and each province will have its own force from its own people. >> the people in anbar province have a long history of animosity with shia led government in baghdad. it seems that there are efforts to keep it from taking part in isil in ramadi. they said that without them the battle cannot be won. >> the battle in ramadi is in its sixth week and if there was cooperation between the army, popular mobilization forces, the police and the sunni tribes it will be easily won. >> today some describe this man as one of the most powerful men in iraq. he is openly criticizing and integral part of the u.s. strategy. al jazeera, baghdad. >> stocks are raidin raid trading higher today. the dow soared nearly 400 points at the open. the shanghai composite trading down again. and there were major rebounds ending a six-day losing streak. republican presidential candidate donald trump is defending his actions. stephanie sy has that story. >> yes, please. >> excuse me, sit down. you weren't called. sit down. >> the tense exchange between republican presidential candidat candidate donald trump and univision reporter ramos. ramos was asking him about his immigration policy. >> you haven't been called. go back to univision. >> ramos was escorted out of the room. when he was allowed back in, the two clashed over trump's policy of ending birth right citizenship. ramos said that trump clearly gave the order to throw him out. something that he never expected. >> what i expect is to ask a question, but i didn't expect to be thrown out of a press conference. it was very clear with his body language that he was giving orders. >> trump spoke to northbound show saying ramos was out of line. >> i was being asked a question from another reporter. i would have gotten to him very quickly. he stood up and started ranting and raving bike a madman. frankly he was out of line. most up in reports said that i handled it very well. univision ceo has invited trump to sit down for an in-depth interview to talk about the specifics about the immigration proposals. but there is a deeper history. trump is suing envision. this isn't the first time that trump has sparred with the media. the head of fox news demanded that he apologize for his repeated attacks on megyn kelly. including this latest tweet. . >> one of trump's main proposal is to go a wall across the u.s.-mexican border and said that mexico should pay for the border. >> this is the u.s. side of the border fence in downtown nogales. you can see that it's made out of steel and it's very tall. it looks impenetrable. but it's not. people climb over it. we saw two wrong men go over this fence and back again in seconds. we assumed they were drug smugglers. they are wearing backpacks. we caught it on camera. take a look. donald trump said that's going to stop young men like those and everybody else trying to cross this frontier by replacing this fence with a wall. a wall that runs from coast to coast from the pacific ocean all the way to the gulf of mexico almost 2,000 miles of border. the question is that practical. is that physically possible? we'll take a look at the facts on the ground and the fence. we'll have that story tonight. >> and you can watch paul's full report this evening. more reaction today to a new study that finds a huge racial disparity in student discipline. the study by the university of pennsylvania looks at 13 southern states and said that these are the states that account for 55% of all suspensions and expulsions nationwide. earlier we spoke with one of the coauthors of the report, shawn harper. he said that the study quantified for people something that they long believed. >> the research is very clear on this, that black students tend to be targeted and suspended at disproportionately higher rates for reasons that are incredibly subjective like the kid was rude or giving me attitude, or, you know, the kid perhaps was loitering in the halls. where the research shows white students tend to get away with those things and not be referred to principals' offices for disciplinary action. instead, they tend to get referred to principals offices for things that are considerably less objective like skipping school or smoking or property destruction and vandalism. there is definitely a racialized element to the numbers we provide in the report that i think are inextricably linked in the ways that we've all been socialized to think about black people as criminals and deviant. i think teachers perhaps unknowingly go into schools, into classrooms having been socialized to think about young black people in these deeply criminallalized ways. therefore, you know, a kid does anything, and there is this hyper response to get the kid out because this kid is a probable like so many other black people are thought to be problems in our nation and in the southern context. >> well, harper said that he hopes that parents and families who veal victimized will use the data to demand change. a new accusation of bias in napa valley, california. a nap that valley wine train has been accused of kicking off a group of women off the train. >> the nap that valley wine train said it was 100% wrong when it kicked a book club of mostly african-american women off the train this weekend. police escorted the 11 women off the train. the group said that it was humiliating. >> at no time were we loud with them, we were direct and we were asking questions, but at no time were we loud with them or inappropriate with them. >> they may have let it go with the company's initial social media response, a facebook message that was later deleted read in part: >> that is absolutely untrue. we never touched anybody. >> a company spokesman said that the post was clearly a mistake. >> the bad thing about social media is that people want to respond right away. many times thoughtfulness is actually more important than speed. >> we made it y'all. look at us. we're getting ready to get on the wine train. >> the incident caused a stir on social media with the hashtag laughing while black. a reporter six seats away from the group said that they were just having a good time. >> they were loud, they were loud from the moment they got on the train. they were just happy. >> she said that the women should not have been kicked off the train. >> it's not a movie theater. it is not a library. it is basically a wine bar. people are there to drink wine, take in the scenery and have a conversation. >> the ceo of the company has since apologized to the group contacting one by phone and writing a letter that reads: . al jazeera. >> ten years after hurricane katrina, we meet a shrimper who are built his business after losing it all. >> a colorado judge has formerly sentenced james holmes for killing 12 people and injuring 70 others during a rampage at a movie theater in 2012. >> for the first-degree murder o, the defendant is sentenced to life in imprisonment without the possibility of parole. >> that was just one of the sentences. all told, holmes received more than 3,000 years in jail. the judge called holmes an angry quitter, who gave up on life and turned his hatred and murder and mayhem against innocent victims. all this week we're looking at the impact of hurricane katrina ten years later. now there is a new trend, younger people moving into town. jonathan betz has that report. >> for generations henrietta's family has called new orleans home. now she can't help but notice how different the city and the people look. >> i hope a lot of black people still come back. >> it's been a concern since katrina emptied new orleans. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. [applause] >> how some people won't be left behind in the boom of rebuilding. >> i think the issue that is near and dear to my heart is to make sure that those individuals who were born--they don't feel that this new orleans is moving forward, and there is no place for them in this new city. >> while 67% of the city used to be african-american it's dropped to 58%. the percentage of whites has grown slightly. >> so for the first time we have young people coming here. many of them anecdotally are white. folks have a feeling that it's a whiter city. >> a new younger class is emerging. some drawn by adventure. others drawn by opportunity. lauren came to sell t-shirts from her living room. her online business quickly grew into four stores. >> in los angeles you have to be beautiful. in new york you have to be smart and successful. but in new orleans, you just get to be you. that's what i love about being here. >> people of all colors are coming for opportunities hard to find any place else. >> before katrina, i thought there was a closed insular network that was scared and closed to change. but now there are new people. >> people like patrick who moved from new york to new orleans and started a digital company. >> how many times in important cities in america go through a complete renewal, and you're invited to participate in that process. that's an once in a generation opportunity. >> but many worry that change is keeping others out. >> new orleans is a lot more affluent than it was prior to the storm. disproportionately there are more blacks who cannot come back because of the economic situation in the city of new orleans. >> officials say that it's more complicated. there are still just as many people living in poverty. and african-americans are choosing to move to the suburbs. >> the assumption is that it was the rich that could only return and rebuild, and you're saying-- >> i'm saying that there were a lot of people who chose not to return. >> and is it did not matter how much money you had. >> that's right. a lot of people--a lot of people may have had the means to return and chose not to. >> for henrietta, there was not any other choice. she had to be home. >> i'm hoping and praying that a lot of other people come back, too. >> until then, as new orleans changes, many know how to keep the spirit the same even if the city looks different. jonathan betz, new orleans. >> katrina had a profound impact on those who relied on the gulf for their livelihoods. >> one of louisiana's coastal waterways doing some shrimping with joe, i met joe ten years ago just a week after at a trina hit this coast. >> it was bad. real bad. it was bad. there are reaves no more. we had islands, they're not there no more. it was a big change, quick, overnight. >> how is the business right now? >> right now it's bad for the fisherman. then if they agree to that pacific trade deal, vietnam is going to come into. vietnam is the biggest exporter of shrimp in the world, bar none, they're the biggest. they're going to be shipping over here. >> so this is an industry under considerable pressure right now. katrina, the bp oil spill, imports from overseas, the high price of doing business. it's tough for scrimpers. i'm allen schauffler we'll have more tonight. >> you would like the latest on any of our stories, we encourage to you head on over to our website. www.aljazeera.com. have a great afternoon. an we'll see you tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >> the growing cost of refugee crisis. 50 people die trying to make the desperate journey across the mediterranean. and on the hungarian border refugees plead for help as the country considers sending the military to the frontier. hello there, you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program. south sudan's president reluctantly signs a peace agreement staving off the threat of u.n.

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