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attorney joins us. and what makes a woman beautiful. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more on what is ahead. >> the islamic state of iraq and levant has declared the area it occupies in iraq and syria as the new islamic state. >> the announcement comes as iraq's military gets help - russia sending jets to iraq. >> what is the state of nouri al-maliki, struggling to put together a government. >> a major ruling involving the hobby lobby case. >> companies refusing to pay for certain contraception. >> the supreme court decided americans don't give up religious freedom because they open a family business. >> five justices ruling that discrimination against women is not discrimination this their books. >> and journalist has you thinking about beauty, saying sent this untouched photo asking "make me beautiful. >> there's no universal standard for this. more american troops are heading to iraq to battle i.s.i.l. fighters who declared an islamic state. the pentagon announced on monday that 300 soldiers are on their way to baghdad, along with a detachment of helicopters and drones, bolstering security at baghdad's airport. russia delivered 12 su 25 ground attack fighter jets and sent russian experts to prepare the plain. fighters from the islamic state continue to struggling with forces for control of the home city of tikrit. on sunday a spokesman for the leader declared the creation of a calafat, a muslim state he would rule under the title of calaf ibrahim. it was said that breaking the border between syria and iraq was the start of their ambitions. >> this is not the first border we will break. we'll break others. chalet will break the barrier of iraq, jordan, all. in a bombastic statement, it was claimed he was the leader of all muslims, and declaring outline other groups devoid and under his control. reuters was told the calafat was an illusion. >> i'm joined from baghdad by "new york times" correspondent rod. thank you for doing this for us. this group says the new calafat is the loyalty of all mus lems. you've written that the announce was little more than a propaganda ploy showing the ambitions. how has it been received by the iraqi government and the people in baghdad. >> with a lot of mirth. it shows the huberous of this group. as far as any practical consequences, it's doubtful. what it has down is arouse the hornets nest amongst the jihadi community who don't feel like they should be their leaders. now, on the other hand the islamic state is holding on it tikrit, saddam hussein's city. the government's offensive to retake the city has stalled. it's not as if the ricky government is making a lot of progress. >> no, but they have stopped the advance. that is important. they are fighting offer tikrit and up tos -- and towns around it. it's stail mated. a week ago we were worried about the possibility that they would push on to take baghdad. the longer they are stalled 100 miles north in tikrit, the less worried everyone gets. that gives the government a boost in moral and support. >> there's a lot less concern that the fighters might move south and attack the capital. >> there's a lot less concern. i don't think people would dismiss them. they are not likely to become the rulers of the known muslim world. they have a lot of capacity and weapons. they controlled much of syria and defeated jihadis, and have a huge chunk of iraq under their sway. they are a serious threat. iraq took delivery of 12 russian su 25 ground support planes, and, you know, the strange bedfellows, that we are on the same page with the russians, and the you rainians, and to some extent -- you iranians and to some extent the irrians, and you wrote that three special forces teams are said to have been deployed north of baghdad. a lot of talk was most of the advisors would not be far outside the green zone. what are they doing, how closer they to the fighting, raising concerns that there could be a slippery slope and may be mission creep. >> perhaps. i don't think anybody with much knowledge of the situation would think they'd sit in the green zone and gi advice to headquarters. -- give advice to headquarters. they have to get out for a number of reasons. they have to get out if there's going to be air strikes, in order to have ground forward air controllers. to see what the younts are like, what -- units are like, what condition they are in and need. a characteristic is clear, that iraqi generals are lying up the chain of command no prime minister nouri al-maliki, and there's a lot of delusion going on at all levels, and they want to get out and see for themselves what the military needs and what they can do for them. >> you bring up nouri al-maliki, the iraq parliament is supposed to meet tuesday to start the process of electing a prime minister. is nouri al-maliki still expected to win a third term. there's a lot of push against them. he's been very sectarian, hasn't included the soupies and the kurds. heats has the largest block of seats of any group in parliament. >> he has the largest block of seats, he's a long way from a majority. we are hearing that his participation collision partners are not willing to play. certainly the sunnis and the kurd will not accept any government with nouri al-maliki, and a lot of the fellow shi'as said they don't want to make a government with them. we are hearing that a couple of other names, shia leaders who might come forward and topple nouri al-maliki. >> lots of developments there seemingly, by the days, and by the hours. rod of the "new york times", plarure to have you -- pleasure to have you with us. thank you for joining us. for more, soim joined by washington d.c. by the former director of the counterterrorism center. robert grenier, good to see you. a states department spokes woman said it was a critical moment to stand together and a spoptionman for the islamic state said the announcement of the calafat opens a new era of jihad. >> what does that say about the threat from the group calling itself an islamic state? >> well, this is in line with the aspirations all along. not only members of what we used to call i.s.i.l., but many lib minded jihadis, i wanted to recreate a calafat. they don't recognise international borders, that said, there's a lot of hype involved. people haven't consolidated the gapes. they are a lopping distance from establishing anything like a viable islamic state. >> right now it controls a lot of territory in iraq, syria - most empty desert. does seizing all this territory by force and dollar yourself a new transnational state, will the country make it a state to get some sort of international recognition, were they an army of thugs. >> i don't think they care much at this point about international recognition. what they care is seizing the intention of lining-minded people in the islamic world. the declaration may have that effect. it may encourage some international jihadis. many have joined them in increasing numbers. the downside may be more serious. there are others who are allied with them, particularly in iraq, for whom this is a marriage of convenience. there has been a wilful inspection of disbelief on their part, trying to fool themselves into thinking they can control the people while using them against the nouri al-maliki government in baghdad. i think this tells them that they are going to have to deal with the people sooner or later and it may be a more potent threat than they realise. into how much is bombastic. islamic state and its leader, claiming leadership of all terror groups worldwide. charles lister , a senior fellow says, put simply, says: . >> do you think that happened here, that al qaeda is, in effect - you know, there's animosity, and how will al qaeda react. >> there is animosity, and, in fact, perhaps the most potent winning of al qaeda is actually accepted by the al qaeda leadership, the al nusra front in syria. al nusra front has been fighting with i.s.i.l. for about six months now. so these are people who essentially are living in their open world. there's a tremendous amount of bombbast. it gives us insight into their thinking. these people are thakfiris, they believe they understand god's will and under god's law better than established islamic scholars. they believe they can decide who is a muslim and who isn't, and reserve the right to kill non-muslims. again, by making this bombbostic statement, it's a very potent reminder to muss limbs around the world what the people actually represent. they are not going to get much of a following in the islamic world. >> there are rumblings that fellow sunnis are not happy because of heavy-handedness that these people are displaying. >> everywhere the people rule, they have - many are willing to fight with them in the short term because they want to throw off the oppression of the government in baghdad, but don't want to live pontly under a so -- weren'tly under k permanently upped a so-called -- under a so-calledest lambic state. >> -- called islamic state. >> given the fighters were europe and the united states, is defeating this islamic state just as imperative today as attacking al-qaeda in 2011? >> the short april is yes. not only is the islamic state - the people now refer to themselves as islamic state, but other groups are focussed on their own issues, they've been at war with the bashar al-assad, with one another, and the nouri al-maliki government in iraq. sooner or later the situation will stablilize. once that happens, their tendency will be to refocus on what they see as the western powers propping up their enemies, including the government. right now, as i say, they are concerned with their local parochial issues, more so than when attacking the united states and the west. they'll turn that way again. there were a significant number of westerners who have established themselves - whom they now trust, who received training at their hand, and they could pose a threat. no question about that. >> talking about the threat, and you mentioned al-nusra, as this islamic state is doing what it's doing, the al nusra people are looking into creating a new generation of undetectable bonds that will be put on commercial claims. the reports claim homeland security and fbi have been looking into this, thinking about boosting security at airports. a threat said:. >> apparently, al nusra is also working with al qaeda in yemen, one of the most dangerous branches much al qaeda. how worrisome is this for those of us in the west? >> this - it's hard to judge at this point. we only have a few glimpses into this, and maybe that's the way it should be at this stage. i'm a little skeptical of these reports. we are talking about different groups and dispirit geographies coming together. to the extent that that may be the case, because there's personnel links, no question about that. having the desire and the intent to develop new aviation capabilities and achieving the knew capabilities are different things. it's difficult to judge the threat at this point, but the larger point we made before is valid. sooner or later as much as the people have been focussed on local issues and not so much international terrorism, a day will come when they'll focus on the united states and the west. we do need to be concerned about that. >> good to have you with us. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> now for more stories from around the world. we begin in israel where the government forces have unleashed air strikes against hamas after finding the bodies of threeize raily settlers. they had been -- three israeli settlers. they'd been missing since june 12th. the remains were discovered near hebb rob in the wayning -- hebron, in the west bank, not far from where they disappeared. binyamin netanyahu pointed the finger at hamas saying: . >> israeli planes retaliated by dropping two dozen guns on hamas controlled gaza. next to nigeria, where boko haram is blamed for a new wave of attacks. the militant group is said to have burnt churches, happening in three villages near chick okay, a town where 200 schoolgirls were abducted in april. >> we enter-washington d c. president obama nominated former proctor&gamble's bob mcdonald. he will be tasked with repair aring the veterans administration, fighting claims that overworked there's and thursdays may have contributed to the deaths of more than 1,000 veterans and cost the united states $845 million in medical malpractice suits. on friday a review found evidence of a corrosive management culture, and a lack of response and inability to manage or communicate at veterans' affairs. that is some of what is happening around the world. coming up, from religion to obamacare. a controversial ruling handed down. we'll hear from one of winning side. and border patrol - president obama asks for more money and blasts the house. the speaker of the house fires back. >> and what is trending at the web? >> a lot of people are mad at facebook, saying they crossed a privacy line in a recent experiment. i'll tell you more. what do you think? you can join the conversation: in perhaps the most hotly debated ruling. the supreme court ruled that employers with religious objections can opt out of supplying come contraception for their employees. it marks the first time the highest court allowed for-profit companies an ability to declare a religious belief. the dissenting judges believes it opens the law for other companies. the white house called on congress to make contraception widely available. >> today's decision jeopardizes women employed by these companies. we'll work with congress to make sure anyway woman will have the same care as anyone else. we are joined by an adele from the company that represented hobby lobby. you must be pleest with the ruling -- pleased with the ruling. what do you say about those that disagree. the obama administration saying requiring contraception promotes public health, encluring that women have equal access, and doctors and emploirs should decide what is best. >> absolutely. we are at the becket fund for equal liberty believe doctors and patients should make their own decisions. it's the government, not the greens dragging them into the doctors office. the greens are a family who established hobby lobby as a business in their garage in 1972. they are unusual as far as american corporation because david and barbara green and their daughter and two sons open all of hobby lobby, and make the day to day business decisions. they are the ones that sit around the table and decide what will go into the health plan. they have a great plan, it's a gold standard, it takes care of employees well. they know that. that's part of their faith that they have to take care of their employees. they pay twice the minimum wage, they close on sundays, losing $100 million a year to do that and excluded abortion and abortion causing drugs from the plan. there has been a new class of contra-september is, the merge -- contraceptives, the emergency contra-september is that can driveway a newly developing life. many groups object to the contraception. the southern baptist and southern bishops all object to it because of their belief. you are fighting for dropping early after pills and iuds, but not other birth control. the issue is methods tantamount to abortion. >> the greens cover the pill and other cop tree tensions, not this -- contraceptions, just not this class. we face questions of moral complicity, and for many, faith informs how we decide the issues. the obama administration adopted this knowing it would violate the believes of millions of americans. they sold them that repeatedly. they received 400,000 public comments when they voted the rule. as far as i'm aware, that's the most public comments submitted on any federal regulation in american history. they knew they were doing this, and did it nonetheless. >> what do you say to those that say there could be unintended consequences that may be worse than what the greens intend. requiring the coverage would reduce unintended preg nans yeas and abores. if -- pregnancies and abortion. if people don't have access, you could have more abortions. >> sure, that's one way to look at it and many americans draw the line that way. but the groops and the hahns didn't -- greens and the hahns didn't draw it, the catholic bishops, bapt tists and others didn't draw it that way. what the first amendment says is you are still protected by the first amendment. you have the fundamental rite of religious freedom. if you happen to incorporate the family business. it's a no-brainer. it's limited to corporations held by a family like the greens. what do you say to justice ruth bay der and the dissenters, who lamb basted the opinion. she said this could lead to a parade of hor ibles, including a slew of companies coming forth and saying any law they don't like is a burden on their religious freedom. she brought up skypetologists that don't believe in psychiatric med cases and jehovah witnesses that don't believe in blood transfusions. >> today's decision was limited and balanced. that's right. the religious freedom account has been on the books for years, they have balanced claims against the government's interest. in a case involving the drug transuse, i've never heard a case with jw tried to limit someoneless's use of blood transfusions. they have never come up under 20 years, during which some time skype tollses and jehovah witnesses were free to bring the claims and didn't do it. let's talk about what is really going on, the got is continuing to impose a mandate even after today on the little sisters of the poor, and mother angelica and the catholic television network. at midnight mather angelica was facing millions in irs fines, and only because the schett court of appeals -- circuit court of appeals jumped in and blocked the irs. we have to be focus on an effort to coerce americans with deep-seated objections. the government as lots of willing partners. they can go to planned parent hood, using federal dollars for free. why not partner with the people that agree with the policies, why coerce the little sisters of the poor, and the greens and the hahns to do something faith forbids them to do. the court protected hobby lobby. i hope the government gets the message and will act to protect the little sisters of the poor. >> so many issues. for more on what the ruling means we are joined by al jazeera legal contributors, jamie floyd. kaiser family foundation, 85% of american corporations offer contraceptives as part of their health insurance, we know that hobby lobby offers a bunch of cop tree septemberives, it was a -- contray septemberives, it was a few tantamount to aworkings. is this a mind field or are we talking about a narrow opinion. >> that remains to be seen. it could affect a lot of companies. they try to narrow the majority opinion. the four or five justices, but the for who sign on to the main part of the opinion, with kennedy in the swing, they tried to limit it and narrow it as much as they could. we are talking about this set of facts, these closely held companies, family businesses, but in my opinion out of 10 companies are held, as the dissent points out closely held doesn't mean small. it means mars candy, toys r us, and hipz, the ketch up people. big companies, mutty billion. with tens of thousands of employees. it could be narrow or as justice ginsberg warns, it would be lots of companies, depending on who wants to avail themselves of their opinion and how the court applies the ruling in the full court. >> the concern is it will use this as a precedent. >> at the same time let's look at the whole issue of corporate person hood, and something that was written - the majority, justice samuel alito wrote the corporation is: you heard what the hobby lobby judge told me, she said that, you know, that this has never happened, that a corporation has taken this any further than this, and that this is exceptional. >> that was a terrific interview, she's a great spokesperson. the 20 years she talked about were pre-affordable care act years, and now there's lots of companies coming to the court about the affordable care act, which is brand new legislations, and that which they have to follow. >> as justice ginsberg points out. this has been established as constitutional law by the u.s. supreme court. you point out that the majority, the four justices represented by justice samuel alito in his majority opinion and the concurrence by kennedy. they get close to the citizens united case, finding kormss and people are the first amendment. >> this is not a first amendment, it focuses on the freedom of information act. it was passed by both houses of cop grs, that -- congress. if you force the family to provide cop tree septemberives. >> the greens. >> wouldn't you violate the law. >> that's why they don't go far in this case to find that a corporation sa person for purposes of this case. it's a narrow decision. they don't have to get there, they are saying we can't force the greens. under the religious freedom restoration act it's too much of a burden on their religious rights as religious people to put the mandate of obamacare, or the affordable care act on the greens or any other family that owns a company. it's really about the greens not about the company. justice gens berg says "i'm not buying it, it's close to calling them the company, a person for the purposes of not the first amendment but the freedom of restoration act." >> gallop find 30% of americans approve of the supreme court. it's down 7 percentage points. congress would wish to have 30% approval. it's bad for the supreme court. >> here are a couple of tweets. chris and washington dc about the justices "they are an atroshes hard of misfits hell bent on ridiculousness. pat says "my dream with scalia has come to a halt. that love affair is over", you and i know the court has gone through the ups and downs. we are both lawyers, we know that. all the branches of governments go through popularity and justice roberts knows it too. he's trying to build the institution. these trying with yunanality. the majority of the decisions have been unanimous. >> an awful lot or the past few years. good to see you, al jazeera legal contributor jamie floyd. thank you. >> turning to the crisis on the border. president obama lashed out at republicans for failing to pass immigration reforms, vowing to bypass congress and act on his open. >> i take executive action only when we have a serious problem, a serious issue and congress chooses to do nothing. >> house speaker john boehner called obama administration's announcement sad and disappointing, adding that the american people don't trust him to enforce the law as written, and blamed the policies for the humanitarian crisis on the border. the president's fix is to ask congress for $2 billion. hundreds of unaccompanied children are arriving at the border every day. >> the system is so broken, unclear that folks don't know what the rules are. i'm asking the homeland security and the attorney-general to move resources from the interior to the border. the president is unlikely to find many allies. for more, we are joined by an attorney and senior programme officer at the immigration advocacy group, the women's refugee commission and she joins us from washington d c. the letter the president september to congress asked for 2 million, more immigration judges, detention facilities and deporting people more quickly, a colleague of yours said: is this what you think the president is trying to do? >> you know, i think what is happening is he's conflating an immigration issues that are not happening in congress, with humanitarian crisis, and a form of foreign policy. i think the migration that the children are coming on their own, women are bringing babies, crossing the desert to get here. it's not an immigration issue, it's a humanitarian issue. he needs to be careful to treat them separately. i think he's right to push congress to keep moving. i don't think rolling back the protections for people coming here, seeking safety, will help anybody. >> the letter seems to take a middle ground and talks about the u.s. fulfilling legal and moral obligationing to make sure that we take care of the kids. >> exactly. asking for money is what we need. this will be a short-term problem. i think we need to take care of the people here, we need to remember these are children first, how would we want our children taken fair of by someone else. we need to spent the money, and that we are complying with due process and applications. making sure the children get an opportunity to talk to a lawyer, go before a judge. i think we support the asking the money, not the rolling back of applications or not allowing central american children to see judges, because there's too many of them. the u.s. doesn't dictate pollie based on numbers of people. we have long-standing human rights application and we need to stick by them. we wrote a report on child migrants and asked kids why they made sa dangerous trip to the border. it's hotly debated by everyone. what is the main reason children gave you? >> when i spoke to children, when i speak to them, they say to me, i felt like i was being pushed from my home. i was in a dangerous situation and did all i could do. >> there's a lot of talk is this driven by rumours or immigration reform. whether or not there's a rumour that someone might get a piece of paper giving them 30 dies, they will not risk their lives and leave their families and communities because they may have a piece of paper. they may capitalize and decide to go now. but no one will make that decision lightly or take the journey without thinking about it. >> we heard that. we had the series "borderland", where people followed the trails of some - in one case a 13-year-old boy, and they heard about why they were leaving, why they were afraid of the gangs and why there was the homicide rape. >> we see video of the train called "the beast", and there's the danger of the border crossing. it's dangerous. we have known that this is happening. you did your report two years ago. "borderland" last year - there were children in the series, talking about how they would risk their lives. is there not a partial responsibility that are smou inspiring them to get here. >> i think what we need to think about is what has been the foreign policy to the rojon. there's a lot of -- region, there's a lot of money on drug enforcement and not as much on security, helping to install rule of law and the government crack down. i think we just turned a blind eye to it. i think in a similar situation, similar situations of children neeing and dangerous, and children recruited, we don't think about it in the same context of central america. we can think about it as a tragedy. if it happens in africa or the middle east, i think this is something that we could prevent. it's a long game. we cap go into the countries and provide the services. for example, creating child welfare systems. they don't really have that. if we help them do that, that will stem the tide. it's not really locking them up. turning a blind eye created the crisis on the border and in those countries. >> a pleasure to have you with us. time to see what is trending on the website. >> facebook is the target of a lot of outrage. users say the company abused its power in a social experiment. in a news study in the national academy of science, researchers from cornell explored how social media affects users and emotions. they manipulated and 700,000 saw in a news feed - half of the group was positive or happy, and the other half mostly negative or sad. what they found is that the users who saw mostly happy contact in the feed were likely to post positive things themselves, same with the group that saw sad posts. the people are not talking about the studies results, but they are angry that facebook allowed researchers to manipulate users' moods. the privacy advocate tweeted:. >> there was so much negative rehabilitation it prompted a researcher to apologies. and in a facebook wrote adam kramer wrote: not every one was angry or surprised. the company is always manipulating your feed using algorithms to get you to click on posts to make you money. >> some said: facebook denies a wrongdoing, and said people agree to be part of the research when they sign up. let us know what you think. tweet us, or leave a comment on the facebook page. back to you. i know how much you love these. >> they agree in the small print that no one reads. >> exactly. >> clashes could heat up in ukraine after a ceasefire ends. also - concerns for college grads, why are americans falling behind others. later - a modern day lesson in beauty around the world. ukraine's fragile ceasefire with pro-russian forces is over. monday the troops will go on the offensive, ending a 10-day failed attempt to pause the voums. his office issued a statement saying we will attack and free the country, the ceasefire was intended to give the rebels a chance to disarm and begin a peace process. separatists did not give up the weapons, and rejected calls to allow international mon forking of the ceasefire. a photo judgist joins us after two stints covering the crisis in ukraine. you've been in and out of ukraine, and you've witnessed a lot of the fighting, but you thigs we are not -- think we are not getting the full picture. >> i agree. social media has been taking over a lot of the information people have been getting. twitter is a big propaganda use in the pro-russian and ukrainian side, disappearing all kind of information on the internet. more often than not the mainstream media takes this without checking. >> you think there's a lot of this information because of new technology allowing this to get outlet let's look at your -- to get out. let's look at your pictures. first is april 16th. things getting ugly, russian forces. it's well public sized. they seized ukraine vehicles, stripped weapons. these are pro-russian separatists, faces covered and well armed with weapons from the ukrainians much itched they captured the guys and set them 23r50e678 -- free, taking the tank, and weapons. >> do you think they were getting weapons from russia? . i wouldn't be surprised if smuggling was going back and forth. >> this is the following day in donetsk, a hot spot. there was a rally in favour of the ukranian government. this is a powerful picture much thousands of people supported the government, but they needed the police to protect them. there they are with the shields. this is a playgrouped, a kids' sand box. >> there was about 4,000, they were prebd because there were -- protected because there were rumours that the pro-russian youp would come -- groups would come in and disperse them. the police at times couldn't protect themselves. you were in the middle of a frightening moment when a group of separatists took over the state prosecutor's office. there were dozens of police officers there, and they were overwhelmed, as we see in this picture. you have pro-russian separatists throwing anything they could get their hands on, bricks, scments, anything much. >> yes, there were about 100 riot police protecting the building and they were dispersed and went back into the building to seek protection. they tried to negotiate with the other side to stop the fighting. >> they had to put the shields on top of themselves and hungered down -- hunkered down. you can see them hunkered down behind the shields. there was a brave ukranian police officer that talked to the protesters. some of the police had been beaten. this guy was braf. what happened there. he tried to couple of situation. he came out in front of the men and calmed everyone down. they didn't work considering what happened in this footage. the police officers were all put toot. they lost the equipment and the shields, guns everything taken from them. and there was all kinds of equipment used. you know you were a witness to another fight between the ukranian forces and the pro-russians, and in this case the ukranian forces won. what we are seeing is a tactic by the pro-russian forces to protect themselves. >> usually the checkpoints, the more technical areas are manned by an armed older man, some young pro-russians, and the ukrainian army, if they come in and shoot, which happens, the way to cover it is to burn the tides, which burn for hours. >> and the smoke covers them. >> exactly. >> they are amazing pictures. you have witnessed a lot. it's a shame you see this. you are continuing there. and the ceasefire is over. great to have you with us. come back soon. coming up a 20th century experiment goes viral and proves how beauty is in the eye of the beholder. and why the u.s. does not have the best colleges in the world. our data dive is next. today's data dive questions conventional wisdom on american colleges. while many think the u.s. has the best universities, new data raises questions. the upshot, the new york times data driven venture took a look and found the u.s. dominates most polls, thanks to the ivy league. when you look at theed broader picture, america's college grads are lagging behind universities in other developed countries. the organization for economic cooperation and development tested college grads in 24 countries on a series of skills. >> americans had below observing maths skills and one in five scored at the top levels. u.s. students placing 18th out of 24 countries, the times report a third of americans with a bachelors failed to make the third level of the five level numeracy skills test. when it comes to technological and literacy skills, american grads faired better but only hovered around the oecd average. things seemed to go downhill. the tombs reports when a similar test was given to 15 americans in the year 2000 they stored above the international average. that same group, now college grads is below the average. these sub par scores look worse when you consider the sky-rocketing cost of a college education. >> coming up, which face is prettiest. a look at how people around the world view beauty through an internet experiment. vé beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. those words attributed to plato more than 2,000 years ago are as true today as in ancient greece, and never more so from my next guest. she decided to test the old adage by asking people around the world to digitally enhance a picture of herself with a simply direction to make herself look beautiful. the results will surprise you. joining us is esther. it's good to have you with us. let's start with how this started. you learnt about a freelance k site and used it to contact people that could photo shop pictures, advertising their skills. you hired them, sent them a picture of yourself, asked them to do what you wanted to do and asked them to make you look beautiful. what did you expect? >> i expected to identify patterns, if i sent an image to several workers, in the same country i'd get results that would look similar, or maybe i would sea commonly assumed stereotypes in those images. ididn't see any of that. what i saw was striking. every image i got, each image was distinct. >> let's get to the images, what was the one that surprised you the most. >> the image that stood out to me was an image from morocco. the individual, when i prompted him with a request to make me beautiful, it brought in elements to a conversation of beauty standard that i had never assumed before. it opened my eyes to a different element in the conversation, and that was insight. . >> what surprised me about that, you had the conservative hijab that he put on you and then make-up. it was a contrast between the conservative and not so conservative. and the u.s. pictures were ones that struck me. i was terribly disappointed by the american one. they were some of the most shocking images to reveal. owing the inbox, they were images that gave me a bit of a shock. >> we are looking at one with long hair, and another we'll pop up. you also - as you talked about how each country - how you didn't find a pattern, nowhere was more striking than the philippines. in one picture they made you look dowdy and in the other a total glamer pus. >> absolutely, that's an imaging, the individual opted to put me in what looks like a 1980s business suit. i'm not sure the variation are are drastic, and you know, i feel like we are, again, something important to remember about the project is yes, we are looking at cultural concept, but we are looking at the individual's personal as thetition. what that saw, compared to what the other philippines saw are two different things. >> one of the things that struck me is how many lightened your eyes. >> absolutely. some lightened my eyes, others my skin tone. i think that says something about the euro centric beauty values, and speaks heavily to the concept of globalisation and how that affected what people perceive as beautiful. >> i was surprised that some made your knows smaller or changed your jaw. personally, i thought the best was the ub retouched picture and it's proof you don't need to guilt the lily. it's fascinating. nice of you to join us. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> that's all for now, coming up tuesday, an angle you are not hearing. a growing debate on how to treat millions of migrant children. the conversation continues on the website, aljazeera.com/considerthis or on facebook or google+. see you next time. hello everybody, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster, john seigenthaler has the night off. it's 11:00pm in the east, 8 appointment in the evidence, and you are watching the only live news cast at the hour. just ahead - total recall. g.m. calls another 8 million vehicles off the road for safety issues. acting alone. the president says if congress will not move on immigration, he will. >> retaliation - israel launches
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