About why most people develop most types of cancer. Its not your behavior or your genes. Box off bust, hollywoods lowest show in years is it a history of things to come. Doubling down on the theory that north korea was involved in hacking sony pictures. Ten leadership officials and organizations, the Obama Administration acknowledges that they have not established a connection between the north korean leaders and the attack. Ablimg theblaming the attack to the officials in the first place. Libby casey has the latest. Senior Obama AdministrationOfficials Say this is the first imposing sanctions on a country because of a cyber attack on a company, sony pictures. The nature of the hack which they say was destructive and coercive and u. S. Officials are standing by the assertion that north korea was responsible for hacking sony pictures. They say that this is part of a larger plan to push back against the threat of cyberattacks. Now there are low pressure sanctions in place on many north Korean Organization he including the ones today. The group that will feel the sanctions is the research and development and komed maim exporter of equipment and good having to go with equipment and weapons. Sanctions on ten individuals most of whom are woking in the Ballistic Missile field for north korea. Now senior Administration Officials say these individuals may not be directly connected to the hack but they are responsible for efforts that undermine and go against the relationship with the u. S. Government. Its not yet known if those individuals have assets in the u. S. But Officials Say if they do they will be frozen and hope that this generally sends a Chilling Effect to the message. Someone hired to break into a Computer System and uncover security vulnerabilities, the founder much tribal media the evidence points to not north korea but someone on the inside. Explain why . It is a very sophisticated hack. They have stolen newly released movies emails and scripts. This stuff does not reside in one place. They have to perform multiple sophisticated attacks. My money is on an inside person. The white house keeps saying, insisting everyone doesnt have the kind of intelligence that president obama has in his hands. This is a person who is most sophisticated in blaming governments but he was persuaded. It will not reveal the source and method, but to say here is why this is north korea what would that evidence look like . Its really hard to say. Any kind of proof had to be manufactured and would only prove that the attack away performed from north korea not necessarily by north korea. Thats step one in hack. You hack into a low security computer which means you can hack into high security computer from there covering your tracks. Is it possible everyone was right, yes there was an insider and one that had been coopted by the north korean government, in which north korea is bragging about the local we have inside sony and what fun we will have . Is it possible . It is possible, if the person does or does not work for north korea, thats the only way i can see that happening. How about a person feeding information to north korea . Whether it comes to spy games it doesnt really matter. It is too fine a line to draw. I still think its possible. What do you think about the north korean official have flog to do with lacking they are connected to systems . How are more sanctions going to help north Korean People in general . I dont understand. Doesnt the administration need to deter other state actors who might be tempted to pull off something similar . Its a great argument assuming we buy into the premise that they did cause this mess to begin with. The white house is again insisting that its great people are picking apart and thinking this is Bush Administration all over again where intelligence has been cherry picked but they insist no, we really have this. Release it, let the Security Officials review it and lets let the chips fall. What is the administration going to do to prevent this from happening again . They have a huge pr mess to clean up, they are definitely focusing on that. In terms of their improving their security for their infrastructure, are its hard he to do that than to write code that works. From credited credit cards to media organizations, what should we be doing . Theres basic stuff that you as an end user can do. Make sure youre using really safe secure passwords. Complex passwords and whatnot. Look at what youre clicking open right . Be very careful about phishing attacks, spelled ph, rather than f and the reason hack groups are revealing these security flaws is to show look at all these data that corporations are keeping its worth asking why are they keeping there information . And their answer is to Service Better ads. David, i challenge you to envision an online World Without ads. There would be no reason to keep and store data. I understand that, dino, thanks for coming in. Thank you david. For second time this year tilts is dealing with applying rants. After a ship was put set sail and put on auto pilot. David lee has the story. A vessel designed to carry cattle not people. How exhausted they must have been. Italian medics were waiting for them with a level of sympathy towards refugees so european so many europeans lack. The greedy human traffickers who speculate on desperate people. The Italian Coast Guard had been forced to board by helicopter, after dark. After the transporters and crew had abandoned it and left it at sea. After nearly another vessel with nearly thousand on board had to be rescued close to the italian coast before it, too became wrecked. The commander of the local Italian Coast Guard told al jazeera he believes the crew had deliberately abandoned it with the knowledge that the italians would rescue it. They have no respect for human life. Do you think they would do more with this . We expect that there can be other there can be new cases. We worry we worry there will be new cases. Herding refugees around in a boat thats designed for cattle might sound unbelievably cynical, but it is incredibly lucrative for moving hundreds into europe at a time when small boats and dinghies simply would not be able to cope with the waves. That is a huge problem for europes border agencies. They are all safe for now but there is a huge challenge for the italian navy and the European Border forceex. 2015 it seems has begun predictions of greater numbers than 2014. Have al jazeera southern italy. More bodies from the java sea and tonight there are reports that two large objects have now been spotted on the sea floor. 162 people were on board an airasia flight for singapore when it went down saturday. Five of the 21 bodies found today were still strapped in their airline seats. Investigators are still searching for the black boxes convinced the flight data recorders will provide the best evidence for crash. Palestinians are a step cloaker to joining the International Criminal court. In hopes of eventually pursuing war crimes charges against israel in the war in gaza. Kristin saloomey reports. Where this goes from here is far from clear. This is a very significant step in which we will be going through it to seek justice. Through a legal option. It is a peaceful option. It is a civilized option. It is an option that anyone who uphold the law should not be afraid of. If the palestinian leadership has its way the court will investigate the 2014 war in gaza which voferred the involved the death of 2,000 civilians. How far back the Courts Authority will ultimately apply is up to debate. War crimes including firing rockets into israel and while most countries already recognize palestine as too the state israel doesnt. This unilateral step, palestine is not an independent state, they dont have the right to go to icc right now. People will expect that icc will there accept their being situation. The spokesperson for secretarygeneral ban kimoon says the United Nations has received the application and is considering appropriate next steps. Even if the application is accepted without hitch, it will take 60 days before the sanctions to kick in and to consider whether to take up the case. Kristin saloomey, al jazeera the United Nations. Sultan abdalla serves as a second largest highway to mosul. Air strikes on i. S. I. L. This time its targeting the groups headquarters in syria but i. S. I. L. Fighters still continue to make gains across syria and iraq even as United States steps up its assault. It has executed nearly 2,000 people. Now, i. S. I. L. Controls land if more than a dozen provinces stretching from aleppo in syria down to baghdad in iraq. And the Group Continues to grow. The cia estimated over the summer that more than 30,000 foreign fighters have joined i. S. I. L. Most came from arab countries like tunisia jordan and saudi arabia. Some from russia. I. S. I. L. Captured the Largest Oil Field al omar, able to produce 75,000 barrels of oil every day. Millions have fled more than 3 million have left syria a million each in lebanon and turkey. The u. S. Continues to fight back with air strikes, more than 800 in iraq, 500 in syria. On the capital raqqa. Including recapturing the critical mosul dam. That is a key site there in iraq. In the last few days be Kurdish Peshmerga forces, gain ground against i. S. I. L even then, david. Basic ebasic services but in some parts of the country the taliban have their own power structures and court systems. Jennifer glasse reports. Reporter a Taliban Court called into session in kunar province eastern afghanistan. Three men are accused of using their fighter status to steal livestock from a neighboring district. Translator we question the criminals and the owners of the livestock. In the end its been proven that these men are indeed criminals and thieves. They must pay a fine about 2,000 each and replace their the goats they tome. Stole. The mens hair is cut off. The punishment is cut off immediately. Thats the attraction of the taliban justice system. It can mediate, it is local and its cheap unlike the governments system. The government refused to comment on the court system. Theres corruption in knowledge approximate in the government courts and instead of solving the case they create more problems. Thats why people come to the Taliban Court. Reporter convicted men are put on donkeys and put in the public share to be immediately shamed. They pay for this by collecting taxes from the people. We dont have a specific income like the government level like pakistan or any other government to get help or other financial support. We dont have a specific source except donations from people. They say their fight isnt just against foreigners. Its against anyone who opposes them including afghans who support the government. Translator well fight whoever tries to stop us. Reporter god is great they charnt. Long life to the islamic regime and they say the fight wont end in afghanistan. They say they will travel around the world to help their muslim brothers wherever they are needed. Jennifer glasse, al jazeera kabul. Up next, perceptions about transgender people in america. Plus the role that luck plays in whether or not you get cancer. The parents are a transgender teen who committed suicide over the weekend are speaking out. They say theyre devastated and that they loved their child but a lot of people say the parents are clueless. Paul beban reports. 16yearold lee la was born joshua she killed herself by walking in front of the of a truck. The parents dont accept their childs gender identity and now supporters are having their say. It was still dark on a cold december morning when leila alcorn headed for a stroll. Heading south along interstate 71. When a southbound tractor trailer came rolling by, leila stepped in front of it. That morning her mother wrote a statement, my beautiful son went for a walk and was hit by a truck. She set up her own suicide the note to post to the web automatically. The life i would have lived isnt worth living because im transgender. She wrote that since she was four years old she felt like a girl trapped in a boys body but her family, quote wanted me to be their Perfect Little straight christian boy. Her conservative mother and father had sent her to christian therapy, taking her out of school and keeping her off the media. Calls to hot lines have soared. We noticed 80 of our emails that are coming in from people are around issues of gender identity. Leilas story has really put a face to feeling that people have had for a very long time. Leilas suicide note is a cry of desperation from an emotional targetar tick lal teen i live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself, she wrote, there is no winning dmom way out. Speaking of the childs desire to live as a woman the parents say we told him we loved him unconditionally, we loved him no matter what. Some of leilas supporters arent buying that support as un. Angry messages, youre disgusting your daughter killed herself because of you. They have posted both of leilas parents phone numbers online. Her father said, we have no desire to enter into a political storm or debate with people who did not know him. At the same time, there is anger and anger at the situation i think is justified. What we do with that anger is the most important thing. We can turn it in a way that will help other people tar still struggling. Leila ended her note as a me, the only way i will rest is if other transgender people are treated differently than i was. Fix society please. Leilas funeral was today. The family pastor said the service was moved after receiving threats. David, online petition for her chosen name to be placed on her head stone has received 60,000 signatures. Har wrenching story. Appreciate it. Florida times Union Reports that duvall clay and baker counts have banned all courthouse weddings if same sex marriage becomes legal in florida the court clerk will be forced to issue licenses to gay people. There is a new theory about why some people get cancer. In many cases its just bad luck. Researchessers at Johns Hopkins say twothirds of cancer types are caused by random mutations of cells. Roxana saberi reports. Reporter smoking, eating too much and lifestyle most types of cancer has to do with less lifestyle and more bad luck. Many people in oncology have speculated about and many believed for some time, and that is that some people can do everything we say you should do to prevent getting cancer yet youre still going to get cancer. Our cells naturally divide and replicate themselves but sometimes mutate and become cancerous. 31 different tissue types including breast and prostate cells, and found they develop and produce cancer, a far greater number of cancers than do hereditary and environmental factors. They say those factors influence only about a third of cancer types. But some doctors caution this doesnt mean people shouldnt take care of their bodies. Overexposure to sun can lead to skin cancer. People shouldnt take from had article i dont need to practice prevention. That is absolutely not true. People with bad do diet or physical activity have more likely clinically preventible preventible cancers. They conclude that Health Care Experts should focus more on finding ways to detect those kinds of cancers at early curable stages. Roxana saberi, al jazeera. Up next communities with a higher minimum wage than if i recall rate, does it improve quality of life. The british invasion of music in the 1960s. Al Jazeera America presents somebodys telling lies. It looks nothing like him. Pan am flight 103 explodes december 21st, 1988 was the right man convicted . So many people, at such a high level, had the stake in almegrahis guilt the most definitive look at this shocking crime the major difficulty for the prosecution that there was no evidence al Jazeera America presents lockerbie part three what really happened . Hello everybody, this is al Jazeera America. Im David Schuster in new york. Just ahead. The uphill battle, to wage one of the lowest minimum wages in the country. Detroits next crisis, tens of thousands of homeowners are face facingfacing foreclosure this year. And after a down year at the box office. The new year is bringing a little more cheer for millions of workers. The minimum wage went up in many states today but not in georgia and wyoming where the minimum wage is the lowest in the country. Robert ray reports, there are some activists in georgia pushing for change. Reporter on new years day, the minimum wage went up in 20 states and in the district of columbia. Im just making it, just getting by, you know what im saying . Who wants to get by . This is a life changer and comes almost exactly a year after president obama called to raising the federal minimum to 10. 10 an hour. Today a mom or dad working full time on the minimum wage doesnt make enough to make ends meet. Thats not right thats wrong. Thats why its long pastime to raise the minimum wage. The president s effort however is mired on capitol hill. But throughout 2015 three other states plus five major cities will be boosting the minimum and although many low wage workers will be getting a raise in 2015 that is just not case in some spaitsstates especially here in georgia. State president of the Labor Council dewey mclane is trying to change that which would take the minimum wage up to 15 an hour in the peach state. It is right now 5. 15. I would like to be put 20, but im already being called way out the box with 15. So this will start the conversation. According to mclane he has plenty of support from fellow democrats and will be working to convince republican lawmakers that the states current rate is not high enough. The push back that i hear is that theyre saying that we wont make as much profit.