and, cosmic close up. 25 years of stirring images from the hubble telescope. protecting the american people, but at what price? we're asking that question tonight after the deaths of two hostages in a u.s. drone strike in pakistan where hundreds of other innocent men women and children have been killed. from these unmanned military missions president obama says a review is underway. that is one step. but what about answers and accountability? after admitting a drone strike mistakenly killed two hostages, president obama assured the nation of his confidence in the system. >> the united states is the most professional most capable most cutting edge intelligence community in the world. >> the president addressed intelligence staffers just one day after apologizing for the deaths in january of an american and italian hostage in a u.s. drone strike. the strike was aimed at al qaeda fighters along the afghanistan pakistan border. >> the work you provide is vital for me being able to make good decisions. >> attempts to rescue other hostages offer more difficulties that the president highlighted. the case of james foley and stephen sotloff. >> my name is luke summers. i'm 33 years old. >> and attempt to rescue luke summers, was also thwarted, when his captors were tipped off and killed him. >> it highlights the challenge that our counterterrorism officials confront every day in terms of balancing the need to use our significant capabilities to protect the american people with the need to carry out these operations consistent with the values we hold dear in this country. >> dr. dane egley is a senior advisor for hostage accountability. dr. egley, thank you for being here. >> thanks lisa. >> something going on that is changing the reliability of intelligence-gathering? >> no, i don't think there's any significant change. you are seeing all the elements of the fog of war. the remarks by president obama reflect his confidence in the program. and the efficacy of the drone program. what you have is something that happens. you put together a launch package which has as much validity double checks, triple checks that you can get. but the reality is, there are a lot of factors that make it a low probability rescue operation on hostages and you have to have as high a probability on drone attack and sometimes the two areas intersect. >> what are some of the issues that are difficult to acquire accurate information about where the hostages are how they're being held? >> that's a great question and we struggle with that in the interagency the joint arena and the coalition. there's no one silver bullet. you have to put together a holistic approach. and if you do not have a comprehensive force in theater boots on the ground, other human intelligence it adds to the complexity. we always try to go after multiintelligence. which is using technology, using interviews interrogation and also technology. so in this case, we find that who knows? i mean the opposition has the advantage of knowledge local knowledge. we got to have the weather conditions in our favor. and don't rule out the technique of jihadists putting hostages in an area where they think there could be an attack and using that to their advantage in strategic communications. >> dean, you mentioned boots on the ground. and critics of current intelligence gathering say look, we don't have enough on the ground intelligence, we've gotten rid of those guys and gals and we are allowing on strong eeives troping eavesdropping. is there any truth to that? >> well, certainly the level of difficulty increases any time you do not have eyes on target. you need command and control capabilities. isr and other systems in place. but in the absence of that there is a lot we can do. and to that effect, we -- look, any time where there's a mission where we launch and we miss james foley or stephen sotloff or you look at kayla mueller all those cases have a negative sad aspect to them. but we also do a lot of exploitation in conjunction with those raids and also collecting data that allows us to do some creative things after that. because keep in mind, lisa, this is a long term proposition. it's not just focusing on these two losses and this drone attack. it's looking at how do we in a long term collective action with the joint military interagency coalition members bring a solution that's going to make it more difficult for them to even take hostages and then, of course, when they are taken increase the precision with which we try and get them out and also if there is a drone attack in that region, that it's deconflicted in a way that we avoid having happen what did happen. >> is it acceptable policy for the u.s. approach to stick with something that broadly benefits the american public, but is at the expense of american hostages? >> well, i mean you have collateral damage in any conflict. you try always, in any battlefield scenario, to maximize the precision of your attacks. any kinetic action that's taken has a degree of risk. so that's why we have combat and commanders. that's why we have task force commanders, senior military leaders, diplomats all comparing notes. and i don't know that i would characterize it, they know they're in a high risk area. so we end up taking on some of that risk when we go in for a mission. and that risk never goes away. you put together the best solution you can. but there's never a perfect security or perfect scenario. >> all right dane egley thanks for being with us. ceremonies and durations around the world are recognizing 100 years since the armenian genocide. leaders including french president francois hollande and vladimir putin attended a ceremony there. rallies in istanbul, a memorial service was held in an armenian church there. turkey'sturkey's eu mints attended service there. minister attended services there. michael shure is live in l.a., michael. >> lisa, you wouldn't be able to tell it now they are cleaning up after a very long day. los angeles is pretty much the capital of armenia in america. the fact that the pope recognized the genocide, there was a lot of age most of it directed towards washington and the world. from the first drum beat marchers in los angeles would not be ignored. stopping traffic in hollywood from the air you can see the crowd, estimated at 35,000 strong walking six miles. calling for official recognition of what they see as genocide. the massacre of as many as a million and a half armenians a century ago. >> almost everyone walking here has lost a cousin, grandfather grandmother, neighbor. >> greater los angeles is home to half a million armenian americans. one of whom we met walking with her child. >> it's interesting to be with my seven and a half-year-old asking me questions that i have difficulty answering. why did this happen? what did we do wrong? >> reporter: questions spurred by a new generation and an increasing number of countries recognizing the 1915 slaughter as not just a massacre but a systematic annihilation. >> the 19 different events are all coordinated into one event. a march along sunset boulevard to remember the armenian genocide. a race extermination is in progress here, that's the definition of genocide, these people want president obama to acknowledge that. >> democratic representative adam schiff is frustrated with president obama's refusal to recognize the yen side. >> dogenocide. >> do you understand the conundrum he may be under? >> he is pressured by turkey, just like other leaders have been. angela merkel has tetched stipulated stepped forward. she has demonstrated the courage of her convictions. that's what we need to do. >> tell me why it's so important to have this acknowledged as a genocide? >> i think pope pope francis said it the best that he said, when you have a wound that is not bandaged, it continues to bleed. that's exactly what happened. from generation to generation, this wound has been passed down. i myself is a granddaughter of four joan side survivors. >> keep fighting for recognition, remembering those who they lost while marching on. >> yes, we're commemorating a horrific crime but i'm commemorating survival. i'm commemorating my people surviving. >> so lisa it's a somber remembrance, a somber march but i would say today's march is marked by optimism, the fact that germany and austria recognized the genocide and they are hopeful that that will become contagious. >> i remember when i lived in l.a. armenians would take the day off and but was l.a.p.d. expecting such a large crowd? >> you know l.a.p.d. was not. i spoke to a police officer early in the day said they were expecting over 10 to 15, another said 50 to 100 and they were expecting somewhere in between but 100 they got what they wanted. >> eric begozian is of armenian defense. telling the story of a group of people who targeted those responsible for the slaughter. begozian spoke to john siegenthaler earlier in the week and talked about turkey's didn't of the genocide. >> to this date turkey does not acknowledge there is this concerted killing of all thee civilians. >> why? >> i would say they don't admit it because they don't have to. >> the white house doesn't call it genocide either. >> there is a state department relationship to turkey that i feel and many of us feel does what turkey wants them to do and they don't need to do what turkey wants them to do. i think it's -- i hate to use the word cowardly but i don't really see why the united states the most powerful country on earth needs to do what turkey wants them to do. >> what do you want people to take away from this book? >> i think this is an amazing story, and anybody interested in history needs to know this story. i've never heard about anything like this. if somebody can tell me about a group of people who basically remove annal entire government in retribution -- an entire government in retribution please tell me where this has happened in history. iran denies providing arms to the houthis. officials say nine ships are now heading northeast away from yemen. this week the u.s. sent several of its own ships to the region to monitor the activity there. coming up, a brave new world. altering the genes in a human embryo. why it's causing backlash among scientists. plus. >> i don't see myself as a hero which lots of the kids say. i do see myself not as a role model. >> ruby bridges on her role for civil rights and what she thinks about race in america today. today. >> baltimore is bracing for a major demonstration tomorrow, over the fatality of a black man in police custody. al jazeera am john terret is in baltimore today with what happens next, john. >> that's right lisa, good evening from west baltimore in freddy gray's neighborhood. all is quiet but not tonight. there is to be a mass demonstration around downed baltimore in the city hall area. we are told as many as 10,000 people may be turning up. to that end, in the course of that we leonard more about the ongoing investigation into freddy gray's death. a late friday afternoon press conference by baltimore police, the investigation honing in on a gap in the day he ran from is officers. >> there is a gap for me, where mr. gray rap from officers and where the video picks up. we don't see what occurred there so we have to clear that picture. >> reporter: scenes baltimore doesn't want to see repeated. the weather forecast is good, baltimore's mayor aware that tempers may flare. awaiting for the investigation into his death to be completed. >> i understand when there is a situation such as this, there is often a desire to say you know, somebody's got to pay someone's got to go. it's not that i don't understand that sentiment. this is a horribly tragic incident. and i'm determined to get to the bottom of it. >> the protestors want that process speeded up. and for the city's police can commissioner to go. he's dodging that but after speaking to gray's family he says he's determined to implement reform. >> we prayed together, stood together, i promised to them we will change the culture of this organization that i'm driven by making that happen. >> reporter: the commissioner says he's for the protest they're calling for the entire shutdown of the downtown. >> you are not going to flip it on the demonstrators and those have suffered too long and that's why they'll be taking a stand tomorrow. >> reporter: some city officials are concerned the event could get out of hand, the phrase that people from outside baltimore could come in and stir up trouble. brandon scott says, though people want questions answered quickly, that can't simply happen in gray's case. >> if you want justice for gray's family and community we should not release information that cannot legally be released. >> the focus shifts to tomorrow's protest. all police leave cancelled. they hope they don't need them. >> to any and all that would seek to bring chaos to our city, the people of baltimore will not tolerate you hurting our community. where we live. where we worship. where our kids go to school. >> reporter: well, that march and protest will begin tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon in west baltimore and they'll march and be in the downtown for early evening. freddy gray's body has been released to his family. it is at and undisclosed funeral home. funeral will be slated for monday. lisa. >> john thank you. civil rights icon ruby bridges has a unique perspective on race and violence. in 1979, she became a symbol of the movement, only six years old she was threatened and cursed and years later her teen aged son was shot and killed. she talked about both with john siegenthaler. >> ruby bridges the brave little girl whose daunting walk to school became a symbol of the civil rights struggle chose to lead a private life for next 30 years. her journey is remembered in this iconic painting, the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. >> you became the face of integration in some ways. did you see this? >> i did not see that until i was about 17 or 18. but you know my child psychologist who was dr. robert coles was friend with norman rockwell. and so he did this one and a few other pieces. but this was i think one of the first. >> when her psychologist published a children's book about her story bridges found herself back in the spotlight and the story caught the attention of sculptor mario kioto, who captured her face on the remember them monument in oakland, california. commemorating civil rights leaders around the world. >> how do you see irs? the artists and people in this community see you among the greats. how do you see yourself? >> i don't see myself as a hero which lots of the kids say. i do see myself not as a role model. >> but bridges says racism and violence are very real problems today. in 2010, her eldest son was gunned down in new orleans. he was only 17 years old. >> we are being divided. there is an us and a them. but i think what's dividing us is good and evil. evil stood over my child and shot him. evil comes into our schools. and evil looks just like you and me. but then, so does good. good looks like you and me. >> so when you look at what's going on in the country today and you think about ferguson, missouri and other places across the country where there continue to be cries of racism and concern about how people get along, what do you say about that and how far have we come? >> i get that question a lot. how far have we come? amazing. i mean, we have come such a long ways. and when i think about ferguson, again, you're speaking to a parent. that lost a child to violence. by the hands of someone that looked exactly like him. i think once obama was elected it was like taking gasoline and pouring it onto a fire. i think racism just bubbled up. once he was electricked. so even though he made that progress, you know it was like two steps forward and three back. and it's like living through the civil rights movement all over again. >> hi hi hi! look at you! >> today at 60 bridges travels to schools across the country teaching students about attorneys. >> you know about forgiving right? >> yes. >> you have to put that behind you. >> you've dedicated yourself to kids schoolchildren and schools. why? >> because i remember. i remember what it was like, sitting in that classroom. i know what it felt like when the little boy said i can't play with you. and he didn't even know me. and i see so many kids that are struggling. i can see the pain in their eyes sometimes. just yesterday i mean, i was here in california visiting another school and a little boy looked at me and he said, i've been bullied. i've been beaten up, you know, bleeding. i know what that's like. >> among the top honors she's received over the years bridges says she's most proud of this. >> like all of these kids, like coming home. >> the ruby bridges elementary school in alameda california. after 30 years for being threatened and bullied and cursed just for going to school, this school now bears her name. >> what is it like to come into a school like this, the school named after you and you see the kids an you think about when you were in school, what's that like for you? >> coming here it's really amazing for me. i'm in a school almost every day now because of what i do. i travel across the country and i speak to kids. and the kids are so excited when they know that i'm coming. >> do you think it's important to educate the students today about what happened to you? >> oh, absolutely i do. and i do feel a sense of responsibility to share my story and explain to them that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of kids. that it's adults that pass it on. i believe if we are to get past our racial differences, it's going to come from our kids. and since my experience is that other child i choose to work with kids. >> guys, i'm going to leave. i'm saying good-bye, okay? >> you can watch more of john siegenthaler's interview with ruby bridges on aljazeera.com. coming up dna hacking the steps taken by chinese researchers that many say cross medical and ethical lines. and on the farms seven million birds exterminated because of the bird flu. we'll look at the potential impact on humans. impact on humans. >> hi everyone this is al jazeera america. i'm lisa lisa fletcher, john siegenthaler is off. changing the dna in human embryos, testing the limits of medical ethics. bird flu a key bait over factory farms. >> breathtaking images from the hubble telescope. plus jean-michel basquait. a trail blazing artist. >> researchers in china have gone where nobody has gone before altering the dna in human embryos. jacob ward is on the story. >> quite a mouthful means small stretches of repeated dna but don't worry about all that. worry about what it could mean. crisper is the base of an exciting and frightening gene editing technique. not just way of changing people. crisper is a sort of defense mechanism inside dna. it can destroy an attacking virus, cutting up the dna of that virus like a knife. researchers say they can trick the dna wherever they want knocking out certain genes. they know how to use it to insert new genes in dna. one group found out how to activate certain genes that are dormant. it seems as if it can work in almost any common organism including human beings. it could be a remote control for altering say a fetus inside a pregnant woman. chinese researchers now say they have used it to modify human embryos, turning off the sequence of a potentially fatal blood disorder. exposing us to common afflictions like diabetes. parents could pick their child's eye color or hair color or even determine height or body type. it's amazing technology with amazing potential. but research into humans is the line that no one has dared cross before now. that's because if we fiddle around with dna in that way we're changing not just this one person's body but the genetickic genetic inheritance. whatever tinkering has been done. that might be good, swap out the dna comes after that person. we're messing with the future of the human species. and this is not a system, crisper technique worked as they intended only about half the time. again any mistake made is a permanent alteration to genes that are passed on to the next generation. that is why a group of leading researchers including the scientist who discovered the importance of crisper they found we're not ready to play around at any level yet. now chinese researchers have gone ahead and done it. they're deeding the basic components of human beings. now. >> at nyu arthur thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> have the chinese gone too far? >> they have. they have basically crossed a line which has never been crossed before. engineering gene changes that can be passed on to future generations. up until now people tried to do a genetic repair of a disease it was in your body, they didn't make a baby but the mere fact that they engineered an embryo,. >> so they used an embryo. talk a little bit about the ethics of the study. did they have to use a human embryo to do the study? >> well crisper lets you snip out a lot of dna and they wanted to see what would happen in a human embryo. they dit in a rabbit embryo or a chicken embryo or a plows embryo. i think the only reason they went to humans. >> you mentioned they created these modified cells that in a human being would be passed down generationally right? >> correct. >> fundamentally altering someone's genes without their permission that seems to raise an ethical question. i realize the person is an embryo when this is going to be done. is this part of the technology as this moves forward? >> i'm so upset that they took this step, do we want a discussion do we want to do it to get rid of genetic diseases, we have all heard about angelino about angelina jolie's breast cancer gene, we have had things to talk about. i know people are thinking well ulg just,you know, just leave it alone. those kids can't consent. >> so a japanese bioethicist twiern of them have laws or rules in place that don't allow this kind of dna alteration, right? china is one of them. >> right. >> but then you look at china and they say they don't allow ultrasounds to determine the sex of the baby. >> yes. >> they don't allow sketchy stem cell facilities oexist yet both of those things exist. even though laws, bans are put in place we've got the issue of enforcement. how do you do that? >> i'm not sure we need to be in everything. elimination of disease things, they're pretty good but if you are going to enforce these things, you have to have penalties that are real, dealing with nuclear programs you have to have inspections saying what are you doing? training if i publish i'm first. and the big thing is journals have to say, if you don't have the right approval, we don't publish. nothing kills the idea in the science fast enough, if you can't get credit for it. it's big in science and medicine. >> if science doesn't place limits on itself do you think public fear and outrage will force limits on the scientific community? >> i do. the scientific community to its credit a couple of papers have been written saying, we need a moratorium on this stuff just knowing that rumor had it, this was coming. it can't be left up to, the questions are talking about do you want to get rid of genetic diseases, some enhancement of your children, this is a question for everybody so you need a broad dialogue. >> that's what i was asking, who should have a say of who should be genetically modifying human beings? >> all of us. we need to do it at the legislature, at church, at the civic organization, at the high school. let's face it, some of these questions are for our children. they should be engaging them in high school, in college it wouldn't bother me if we would have a few of legislative hearings or talking about it here. that's the way we get these going. >> give me your theory 25 years down the road. >> 25 years from now we're going to have one heck of a fight over making our stronger taller faster. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> a deadly avian flu no known human cases so far but the outbreak poses a big threat to america's poultry industry. minnesota has been hit extremely hard. migrating birds are carrying it in the states. al jazeera's erica pitzi has more. >> a state of emergency in california. >> outminnesota. >> i'm declaring a emergency. >> lightning speed. it hit turkeys first and now chickens. >> you know what a healthy bird looks like and these looked a little bit sick. under the weather breathing difficulty a little bit of foaming from the mouth. >> there have been no known transmissions from bird to human. but as an abundance of caution tamiflu has been offered to bird workers. once a single member of the flock has been taken drastic steps must be taken. all birds must be destroyed. a huge financial hit for minnesota. 46 million birds a year, the state produces more than any other place in the world. 11 and a half million for eggs. annual egg production in the state averages nearly $3 billion. >> avian flu for myself would be deaf stating if it came here. -- devastating if it came here. anything on the farm . >> for the consumer, that could mean higher prices for chicken turkey and eggs. erica pitzi, al jazeera. >> dr. michael gregor, humane society of the united states, author of bird flu a virus of our own hatching. he joins us from washington d.c. dr. gregor, a farmer mentioned if his birds got sick, the price of poultry would increase everywhere. the price of turkey and eggs. >> the flu virus is the only pathogen we know of capable of infecting millions of people within months. the only time it spread from bird to person, 1918 flu epidemic that killed 50 to 100 million people. now what mutation led that jump in birds into humans, the more animals that get sick, the more spins of genetic roulette this virus has the higher likelihood to potentially trigger a human pandemic. that's why it's critical that we need to rethink the way we raise these animals for food. >> talk a little bit more about that. how does it spread? these states are next to each other but this thing has gone thousands of miles. >> look birds have been migrating for hundreds of years keeping chickens for thousands of years. the reason these highly disease causing strains of bird flu these factory farms could be thought of as breeding farms for these disease. the ammonia from the decomposing waste, lack of fresh air and sunlight put these factors together and what you have is the perfect storm environment of the emergence of superstrains of influinfluninfluenza. >> we think it arrived on our shores fall of last year, from some of the fly ways, from the h5n1 virus. there is a new virus we don't know what it can do. but only long term solution, since there's no guarantee that this virus won't enter these facilities it can enter through a fly. the only way is to eliminate these factory farm powder kegs ready to explode with these virus by following recommendations, they call for no factory farms. the public health community has been shouting from the rooftops for years but we don't tend to kind of shore up the levies until after a disaster. but this case the disaster, human pandemic can be so catastrophic that we really need to rethink the way we're raising these animals and give them some more breathing room. >> dr. gregor you referenced something i hadn't heard about the actual monetary cost of these birds being killed being passed on to taxpayers. >> yeah, in fact so this is the second largest outbreak so far. in '83-84, there was a pennsylvania outbreak that cost our country about $400 million. the government indemnifies these flocks the price at the supermarket, the concern that this virus could spread to people and then from person to person. if you think about this iowa farm that got struck, this egg operation, 5 million hence you say wait a second, how can you put 5 million hence on one farm? you do this by cramming them stacked up down long rows in these windowless sheds. these cages have been banned in europe have been banned in california there are steps being made to get rid of some of these most intensively confining practices. these birds can't even spread their wings. this is dangerous for human health as well. >> dr. gregor thanks for being with us. another disease malaria kills thousands every year. antonio mora is on board with that. >> half a million people in the world more than 3 billion are at risk of contracting malaria. in africa one child dies from the disease every minute. now after decades of work a vaccine is in trials. >> this shows that this vaccine does have some impact over a four year period. it reduces clinical attacks of malaria and severe tacks of malaria by about 30%. >> is 30% enough? >> no. we would like it to be 90%. >> coming up in our next hour we'll take a look at this development and its impact on the scourge of malaria a scourge that has lasted forever and been stubborn to beat. >> thanks antonio. in chilly, residents are preparing themselves for more eruptions. the ash still falling. some has spread as far as buenos aires. >> you can see calbuco is still huffing and puffing behind me, the real question is whether it's going to blow more houses down the restaurant directly behind me collapsed under the weight of volcanic ash stones like this. everything here is covered in volcanic ash and rock. everybody in this town about 4,000 people has been obliged to evacuate. in fact authorities allowed some of the people to come back throughout the course of today to check on their animals to try to clear the roads to their houses. it's really quite amazing. you can't see it but it's in the air. most people are wearing masks here to avoid breathing disorders. that's what authorities are most concerned about. but the real problem we don't know when it's going to end. this explosion there haven't been any more major eruptions but seismologists say there could be another one at absolutely any time. >> hard to believe but the hubble telescope was launched 25 years ago today. it has sent back some of the most remarkable images ever. it's the first person account. still taking our breath away. >> my name is ken i'm an astronomer and i work at the space telescope science institute. the hubble telescope launched on april 24th, 1990. the launch took place on space shuttle discovery a chance to see nasa's first great observatory put into orbit. it took several decades to get into orbit had an idea to put a telescope in space above the earth's atmosphere to be able to see light that couldn't penetrate earth's earth's atmosphere. you have crystal clear observation. hubble has recorded approximately a million images. in the last 25 years we've learned that the universe is not static that it is actually a very dynamic place. that it's changing with time. we've learned that galaxies look the same everywhere we thought that they might. the very deep fields, the most distant objects that hubble has observed were observed when hubble was pointed in the blank pieces of sky. only upono you find there are thousands and thousands of things in the field. it's amazing that hubble could find them when no other devices have done that. anandromeda galaxy, kind of interesting to think that there might be people or beings somewhere else in the universe taking similar images in which we are just a small dot as well. >> those pictures, mesmerizing. nasa is planning to replace hubble with the james webb telescope in 2018. eric holder delivered his fear farewell address today. in an ploacial 15 emotional 15 minute speech he told his workers their work would not be forgotten. >> i told in 2011, robert kennedy's 50 year anniversary that would be a golden age. 50 years from now people will look back at the work that you all did and say this was another golden age. >> holder is the third longest serving attorney general. an artist who died far too young young, jean michel basquiat. >> tonight the genius of jean michel bafng basquiat the painter died when he was just 27. his paintings are striking raw and haunting. a new exhibit at the brooklyn museum is giving us insight into him. >> movies have been made about him. >> how long do you think it takes to make famous. >> songs about his work. and about his short and tragic life. john michel basquiat, creating large pieces in studio and on the streets. primitive and child like but often had a different meaning. this one like irony of a negro pleaseman. relationship between the black community and law enforcement. his personal journals give a new insight into his art and his life. 168 journals are now on display at new york's brooklyn museum. >> what are we learning about for the first time with the notebook? >> you can see the artist's process, all these scenes that he fleshed out and returned to. you can see him experimenting with text image concrete imagery and word play. >> you give the foundation of his artwork. >> sometimes it's a literal reference to a phrase or word that he has visited before in the notebook. >> tricia laughlin bloom is the curator. >> we take pride that the basquiat family, his membership card with his signature on it. >> most of his education came on the streets of new york where a young poor basque basquiat used art to support himself. >> at the time nobody knew who was creating these symbols. they were signed samo and samo was really a pseudonym for a collection of artists him and a friend. at the time he left his home in brooklyn, dropped out of high school decided he was going to get his education on the street and wanted to make the on the streets. >> all of a sudden, people were paying more than $50,000 for a basque wrathbasquiat original. the two creative minds he and andy warhol, struck up a friendship. >> he said early that he wanted to be famous, wanted to be great. becoming friendly with and being mentored by warhol was a way of achieving some sense of accomplishment. >> how did jean michel handle fame? >> when you listen to his journals, you hear a lot of ambivalence about getting so famous so quickly at such a young age. >> it seems the more famous basquiat came, the deeper he fell down a rabbit hole of drugs. then his mentor andy warhol died. >> losing andy warhol and his own heroin use it seems like this downward spiral and it's just a tragedy. >> riding with death is one of basquiat's final pieces. found dead in his art studio in august of 1988, 27, victim of an apparent heroin overdose. only two years ago a basquiat painting sold for nearly $50 million at auction. thomas drayton, al jazeera. >> the news continues with antonio mora. i'm lisa fletcher. a globaling day of remember -- a global day of remembrance. often the centennial, people across the word remember the genocide of more than a million armenians. the politics of genocide. >> we understand people may want to hear different words used. >> the tight rope walked by politicians over historical fasks. >> getting ready to blow. >> it's terribl

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