Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
Tell us about Climate Change. Dr shini somara is a mechanical engineer, from land slides to crystals in space. Well show you some of the most Exciting Research conducted in the caltech labs. What is it about the environment is recreating what happens in nature. It may help us solve some of the most complex problems. Im phil torres. Im an intoe meteorologist. Our trees thats right trees responsible for smog. Thats our team. Lets go some science. We are in the Historic Town of pasadena, at the California Institute of technology, known as caltech. It ranks amongst the top universities in the world for science and engineering. N. A. S. A. s jpl was founded at caltech in the 30s and leads the way for robotic space exploration. In this edition of techknow on the road we take you inside caltech to show you the future of the scientific discovery. Im phil torres and joined by dr shini somara, and dr crystal dilworth. Crystal, you got your ph. D. , that caltech is a hot bed of scientific discove
Kurdishs. Reporter could obama stance to iraq lead to a rocky relationship with israel and also ahead. We keep finding carcasses poisoned by poachers using cyanide and i will show you what is happening inside a game park in zimbawbe. Reporter but first it is one of the Biggest Challenges facing Southeast Asia in years and that is thousands of refugees setting off by boat to australia and many drown to the journey to what they hope will be a better life and at least 13,000 have already made that journey in the First Six Months of this year. The newlyelected Prime Minister tony abbot made immigration a priority and he is in indonesia where the boats set out from and this is days after 28 people died after a boat carrying seekers sank off the coast. And he wants to send boats like that one back with the help of the Australian Military and im joined by Al Jazeera Steph who is in west java and tell us more about where you are and why you are there. Yeah, im here at the place where actually