truck in texas. all in the families, courting the country, but getting the cash from just a few, how a very small group is playing a big part in electing the next president. plus, rouge nun. >> what it is saying is that you are a woman in a man's shirt, and that this is -- this is an institution that belongs to the men. >> sister's powerful message to the pope. ♪ we begin in turkey, a key ally of the united states, the government says it is near figuring out who is responsible for saturday's twin suicide bombings. still many people in turkey are angry. they protested against the government, blamed their leaders for failing to protect them, as more victims were buried today. the government says it believes isil may have been responsible for the blast who killed 97. mohammed jamjoom reports. >> reporter: you can see it in their faces. you can hear it in their sighs. with each passing hour, sadness deep ens. with every passing day resentment grows. >> translator: in heart of the capitol, and these explosions occur? this just raises so many questions. >> reporter: since the attacks here the main train station on saturday, two of this man's nieces have been missing. this one was mother to three children. the other, on the right, was the mother of two. in the painful wait to locate their bodies, he and his relatives are as angry as sad. >> translator: how can anyone say there is no security weakness when it comes to this situation? how do these people bring the bombs here? how do they enter the square? how do they detonate the bombs? >> reporter: satisfactory answers have yet to be found. these tents were set up immediately after the attack to accommodate families of the victims. most of the people we have spoken to today are kurdish. family members wait outside the medical forensic authority complex. this farmer had been working the fields in her individualage when she heard the news. >> translator: my daughter came here for a peace rally, did she have a gun in her hand? no. she came empty handed. she just came to ask for peace. >> reporter: she accuses the government of treating her like a second-class citizen. >> translator: i have been here for the last three days. i have gotten no information whatsoever. is my daughter dead or alive? is she is dead, then she me her body. no one here is helping. >> reporter: at a time of great tension in turkey, it's clear more and more of the kurdish population feels aggrieved and targeted. >> translator: we lived together for 1,000 years, how come today they call us separatists. >> reporter: so many people being killed at a rally demanding peace, only makes it that much more painful. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera, turkey. in syria, the kurds are working are arab rebels with any fight against isil. the newly announced alliance calls its the democratic forces for syria. they are expecting a fresh supply of weapons from the united states. zana hoda reports from beirut. >> reporter: syria's kurds has been the moefktstive fighting force against isil on the ground with the help of the u.s.-lead coalition air strikes, most of the border is under their control. they have now formed an alliance, they call themselves the democratic forces of syria. >> after the intervention of russian air fighters and air strikes in syria, so now the situation is changing very quickly, so this force is made up, this kind of, we can say unification on the ground. >> reporter: the new group says its role will be to fight isil, and one day become syrias new army. its leaders say they have the backing of the u.s. and russia. the announce was made days after the u.s. said it was abandoning plans to train some of the rebel fors and provide weapons to commanders who have already been vetted. they have worked with brigades who are part of the democratic forces of syria. russia hasn't sighed away from saying it is targeting opposition groups. among the groups coming under fire are conservative brigades like al-nusra front, and they are not part of the new alliance and are not supported by the u.s. now russia says it is ready to cooperation with the u.s.-lead coalition: >> reporter: the democratic forces of syria is an existing force that was supported by the u.s. coalition, but now has a kurdish and arab face. russia has drastically stepped up its bombing campaign in syria. syrian officials say that is helping the army regain territory. moscow's increased air campaign is increasing tension with the u.s. >> reporter: john, good evening, president obama is working hard to push back on the notion that there is a new proxy war going on between the united states and russia, but with president putin's own jets bombing cia-backed rebels on the ground in syria, it does rather play into that narrative. >> reporter: u.s. made toe missiles seeking out targets of forces loyal to president bashar al-assad. they are said to be driving rebel gangs in the northwest of the country. video posted online purports to show u.s. weapons smashing into russian tanks. it's beginning to field like a cold-war era proxy war. two great powers facing off without actually facing each other in combat. >> putin has begun a proxy war with the united states. this was no accident. targets were provided by the syrian regime, and they were accurate. >> reporter: retired army general making his point to congress last week, but not everyone agrees. >> tow weapons quite frankly may have some impact in the near term, but in terms of being the basis of a proxy war between russia and the united states, i believe that is pretty far overblown. >> reporter: these so-called assault tamers are reported to have been delivered to syrian opposition forces to help the opposition forces destabilize the regime. but president obama said plans to train opposition fighters at a cost of $500 million fell woefully short. >> this is why i have been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to create this proxy army inside of syria. my goal has been to try to test the pop situation, can we be able to train and quip a moderate opposition that is willing to fight isil, and what we have learned this that as lo as assault remains in part, it's hard to get those folks to focus on isil. >> translator: our task is to stabilize the legal government and create the right conditions for reaching a political compromise. >> reporter: some defense analysts say though there have been proxy wars between the u.s. and russia for decades, this is a new one, and with it comes bears of the russian bear stirring once more. >> they are not interested in defeating the islamic state, they are interested in keeping assad in power so they can maintain access to their warm water port in the mediterranean. and he said the better question at this time is the u.s. going to take appropriate action to focus on its critical national security interests like the russians are focusing on theirs. >> john tear ret thank you very much. today a series of stabbings and police shootings in jerusalem and the occupied territories. andrew simmons has more. >> reporter: this is the ugly reality of what is happening here. a young palestinian in agony shot by police who say he has just been part of a random stabbing attack on two young israelis. in the background a crowd goating on the police, one man is shouting shoot him in the head. the teenage is in hospital with serious injuries along with the two israeli victims. police say they shot dead his accomplice, another palestinian teenager. this is one of a trial of knife attacks and police shootings. monday was one of the darkest lated in -- occupied east jerusalem. later another 17-year-old, a schoolgirl, is shot and injured. police say she stabbed an officer. isra israel's prime minister called it knife terror. he said tougher measures against offenders, including minimum jail sentences for stone throwers will be part of a fight back. >> translator: we are fighting on all of the fronts, we have added forces and security forces all over the country. we are taking on responsibility ourselves. we are wiping out the people against us, and the islamic movement. we are fighting against the molotov cocktails and the stones and taking revenge for the people who have been killed. i expect the support of the opposition parties in these actions, and also establishing the law against this wave of terror. >> reporter: israel's opposition, while agreeing tough action is needed accused netenyahu of failing to take control. as the politicians debated their next moves, came another attack. this time a palestinian stabbed and wounded a soldier on a bus. according to the police he tried to get the soldier's gun and civilians grappled with him. the bus stopped and police bordered it, opening fire and killing the palestinian. there's a deep fear that pervades every street here. this isn't about suicide attackers or car bombs it could be anybody with a grudge short notice, pulling a knife, crude, random violence. and there is another fear. as these attacks continue, questions over the tougher measures police are using, increase. palestinian leaders believe the police are using summary justice, killing before considering any alternative. no one is sure how or when this cycle of violence will end. andrew simmons, al jazeera, west jerusalem. the united states is calling for the immediate release of journalist, jason rezaian. the "washington post" tehran bureau chief was convicted on espionage charges today in tehran. the executive editor is calling it outrageous. lisa stark has more. >> reporter: are zion's supporters are frustrated. even now it's not clear with this latest action by the iranian court means for this american journalist and his family. jason rezaian conviction was announced by iranian state television, which said simply there had been a verdict and that on appeal was possible. he had faced a secret trial for espionage and other crimes. his brother called the verdict, quote: at the "washington post," foreign editor, douglas gel, called the conviction appalling and outrageous. >> this comes after 15 months of detention, months without access to a lawyer, a sham trial, two more months of waiting, and now this verdict without ever any indication of what it was that iran believes jason did. >> reporter: the post says it will file an appeal, but knows it will make little difference. >> none of us have any hope that this is going to be resolved in the courts. it will be a matter that has to be resolved at the political level, resolved by iran's senior leaders. >> reporter: jason's wife and mother went to iran's revolutionary court monday to try to learn details about the verdict. they were turned away, told no translator was available. jason and his wife were both arrested at their tehran home in the middle of the night in july 2014. he has now been in prison for 437 days. longer than the americans held during the iran hostage crisis in 1979. and iran and the u.s. negotiated a deal over nuclear deals, the faith of jason and others held in prisons was brought up on the sidelines repeatedly, with no resolution. the state department said it has no official confirmation of a verdict in this case, but in a statement, the spokesman said: many believe jason has become a pawn in the battle between hard liners in iran and those more open to the west. >> i think jason is an innocent person who has been caught in the collision of much larger forces inside iran. >> reporter: forces that have not budged despite appeals from jason's family, condemnation by though united nations, and governments worldwide. there's also some belief that jason is being used as a bargaining chip, the iranian president has suggested a possible prisoner exchange with iranian citizens held in u.s. jails for jason and two other iranian-americans held in iranian jails. there is no indication at this point that any such deal is in the works. john? >> lisa stark. coming up next on this broadcast, the shocking video of dozens of migrants smuggled into texas, and what it tells us about the crisis at the border. and the surprising new edition coming to a georgia monument to confederate heros. ♪ prosecutors in the rice case are responding to tough criticism. two reports found a cleveland police officer was acting responsibly when the shot and killed the 12-year-old boy. bisi onile-ere has been following this story. she is in detroit. bisi. >> reporter: john, prosecutor mcgensy has received a lot of criticism. they feel he is trying to taint the grand jury process. the grand jury will ultimately decide if the officers involved in the shooting death of rice will face any criminal charges. it has been nearly a year since rice was killed by the officer. the little boy was playing with a pellet gun outside of a rec center when he was shot. the attorney said the rice family and clevelanders have always said they want the officers who rushed upon and killed the 12-year-old held accountable: now the prosecutor did respond to some of these acquisitions that his office is trying to taint this grand jury investigation. and he says basically that these two reports have no impact so far on his case as he goes through, though some people, a lot of these activists really question the timing of this release. john? >> all right beessy thank you. we turn now to immigration. in the 2014 fiscal year, 66,000 families were caught trying to cross the southwest border. this year it was 34,000, a dramatic decrease. but the numbers are far from the whole story. the video is from september 18th, taken from a u.s. border patrol agent's body camera. the scene is a convenience store parking lot along interstate 35 south. packed inside this white trailer, people, dozens of them, migrants hoping to reach the u.s., desperate for food, water, air. some airily able to stand. in all, federal prosecutors say 39 men, women, and children were inside. all from guatemala, el salvador and mexico. all hoping to reach the u.s. we have seen this before with horrific results. in europe scores perished in august in an abandoned truck. drew carter was charged in texas on charges of smuggling. he says he didn't know migrants were in the truck. michael is a retired fbi agent and security consultant in kansas city, missouri tonight. give us your reaction to the numbers which show a decrease in those number of people trying to cross the border. >> well, the numbers never tell the whole story, just as a spike wouldn't tell the whole story either. after the spike in 2014, where human traffickers were convincing people they could get their children into the united states where they would be welcomed. after a while when the families and children were returned and word gets out that that was not working, it stops. after a while when there are new targets, it will pick up again. but when you see a spike in numbers, sometimes that's just the result of better intelligence, increased activities, or they just become more adept at finding these trafficking patterns. >> so when we see video like this, does this reflect something that has gone on -- that something that is very common? >> unfortunately this is very common. back in the '90s, we were focused on the drug trafficking organizations, and we were getting intelligence of them engaging in human trafficking, based on the fact of established routes and the no-how of smuggling into the united states. >> what about the suspect's claim that he was just paid to drive the truck and didn't know they were in there. do you buy that? >> often people are paid to move a vehicle. and they turn a blind eye to what is really going on. but you cannot turn a blind eye to criminal activity. >> what can the united states do other than charge people like that? >> we have to keep up our enforcement activity. working with foreign governments is key to trying to attack criminal organizations in another country, so we have to work closely with them. but looking at mexico, i know from my own experience, it's very difficult. we have to trust them to a certain degree, and work with them, but we are often betrayed by corruption, and it also takes the political will of these governments to take on these criminal activities. >> michael it's good to have you on the program. thanks for your incite. >> thank you. coming up next, deep pockets a few wealthy donors giving the majority of money to presidential candidates. plus l.a.'s homeless system, why their policies are failing. hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. citizens divided, how a handful of rich americans are driving the 2016 presidential race. our panel debate on money and politics. epidemic, los angeles says it will declare a state of emergency over homelessness. >> l.a.'s response for decades has been an attempt to arrest their way out of poverty and out of homelessness. >> why critics say more money will take little difference. plus sister act, inspired and outspoken. >> you can't say when life is in the hands of a woman it is at all times unacceptable if that life is not brought to fullness >> we talked to the catholic nun and activist with an earful for the vatican. and we begin with the race for the president and for the moment a truce among some of the consolidates. today eight took part in what is being called a no labels convention. >> reporter: it's called speed dating with presidential hopefuls. one by one they appeared in front of a highly sought after crowd, a thousand undecided voters. including ron, who drove in from up state new york. you could hear these people on television, why did you want to be here? >> because it's my responsibility and -- as state sin, to make my voice heard, and being in the audience, i want to be here to make things happen and let the candidates know that people are watching. >> reporter: eight presidential candidates, three democrats, five republicans, most fielding questions from the audience. >> within your first 100 days of office, which bipartisan office would you take john boehner to? [ laughter ] >> i didn't know that restaurants were partisan. i thought that food and alcohol in fact were decidedly non-partisan. >> reporter: the gathering was thrown by the group no labels, which encourages politicians to work together. bernie sanders and donald trump spoke to the same group. >> let's treat each other civilly, respectfully and let's not try to demonize people who may have disagreements. >> reporter: sanders didn't take questions from the crowd, but trump did. not facing his typical republican base. >> i don't think you are a friend to women. how -- [ cheers and applause ] >> i respect women. i love women. i cherish women. >> reporter: he was the only one to hear both cheers and boos. >> a lot of people feel that way. >> reporter: what did you think of the room? >> i thought its was great. >> reporter: questions too tough? >> no, they were fine. that's who we are. i thought the response was great. >> reporter: organizers say they are bringing opposites together hoping to find maid l ground. >> as we're as angry as anyone else in america about how our government in washington is not fixing american's problems. >> reporter: ron certainly arrived angry, yet after sitting for hours, and hearing dozens of speeches from candidates and others, he leaves new hampshire as he arrived, undecided. jonathan betz, al jazeera, new hampshire. now to a new finding about money and politics. donors to the 2016 presidential candidates are overwhelmingly white, male, older, and rich. $176 million, nearly half of the money donated to campaigns so far as some from just 158 families. the cash has gone overwhelmingly to republicans, just 20 of those familiar list contributed to democrats. let's bring in our political panel. senior reporter at the center for public integrity. he is in washington. and executive director of the new york state democratic party, plus our own david shuster joining us as well. david let me start with you. a small number of mega donors what sort of impact are they going to have on this campaign? >> they certainly have the potential to have a major impact and arguably they already have, just to know date effectively whatever they want to political organizations. we know super pacs most prominently, but also political active non-profit organizations that in the post citizens united world of politics we have had for five-odd years now, they have the ability to play a much much larger role for better or worse of an incredible amount of money they can bring to advocate for or against politicians. and a lot of these super pacs have very, very close relationships with the candidates both on the right and left. >> but it doesn't sound like the voters care. >> voters know there is a lot of money in politics. what they are looking for are queues from the candidates as to how motivated they are by this money. campaigns and elections have changed probably forever because of citizens united. democrats realized they needed to pick up to be competitive. >> david a large number in the polls of american citizens want a change in the law when it comes to money and politics but they are not voting on that issue. >> not yet because in part even with all of the ads, there are more ads with a greater frequency, but people okay, well, we're now in a sickle where we'll see ad all year long, and just tune it out. in they can see a connection between money and policy, that's maybe when you might see a break through that maybe something is wrong with this. >> are those donors enough to get somebody into the white house really? >> it could. we have of course have about two dozen candidates right now. so what i think it is doing at this point in time is keeping candidates who otherwise might not have much of a chance at all or would be struggling, even have dropped out right now, very much alive in this race. you think of somebody like ted cruz who is meandering somewhere in the middle of the polls, he's got super pacs several of them that are supporting him to the tune of 10s of millions of dollars. that is real money. but there's a little bit of backlash here too. you look at somebody like donald trump who says i'm a billionaire. i don't need anybody's money. something like that has really resinated with people. and then bernie sander's his whole thing is big money in politics is a bad thing. you have this populous refrain. >> to his point of running a campaign jeb bush is sitting on more than $100 million that his super pac got. jeb bush doesn't have to win iowa new hampshire, he doesn't have to do strongly to get the winfall of money to keep him going. he has enough money to keep him deep in the calendar. >> but i do think that message always goes ahead of money. history is replete with a lot of very wealthy people who did not win, because i think ultimately what voters will settle with is do i want this person governing. donald trump, they love to see him on stage, but do we actually want this person governing. >> a lot of people will have their eyes on your former boss, hillary clinton tomorrow night. what do you expect? >> i expect her to be very policy oriented. i don't expect her to be on the attack mode. one of the things that hilary is very strong and good at is articulating policy, so i think bernie sanders, i think his supporters will look for attacks against hilary. o'malley will attack process, but i think she will stay on policy. >> a couple of big issues tomorrow? >> i think fundamentally the candidates will have a lot to say about income insee quality, and that is bernie sander's sweet spot, and hillary clinton has to articulate her cam pin on that issue. and i think there may beish beishes -beishes -- be issues on guns. >> i think there will be a lot of discussion as well on foreign policy, especially syria. gentlemen thank you very much. there is a sixth democrat running for presidency. he didn't qualify to be on stage tomorrow night. but i talked to him about his number one issue. >> we have to make it so these politicians aren't sending all of their time bending over backwards for the tiniest fraction of 1%. >> how much money should we spending on elections? and why should the american people spend the money? >> we spend more money advertising soap than electing a president. so i'm talking about -- >> we're talking about a billion dollars to run for president of the united states. >> we are, and that might be too much, but the problem is not the amount. the problem is who it's coming from. if there are 400 families providing half of the money. you have know those 400 families at the front of line are getting a different kind of america than the rest of us. >> you are saying the system is rigged. >> the system is rigged because when we try to pass any legislation that americans care about, whether it's dealing with associates, trying to change minimum wage works, whether it's trying to get actually a healthcare proposal that people can afford, any time that happens, in the end it's the money that is blocking the change that makes it take place. >> so why are you running this time? you probably felt this way for a long time. was there some event that suddenly you said i have got to do something about this. >> this is the most amazing election cycle we have seen in 50 years about this issue. and the republican party the three leading candidates are the outsiders. the leading candidate is the guy who says the system is corrupt. on the democratic side we have got to have the same thing. i'm the only non-politician running. i'm the only person who would be willing to stand on that stage and say what you are saying is important, but we don't get it until we deal with this corruption. >> more of that interview at 8:30 eastern time, a preview of the candidates and the issues. at 11:00, our one-hour wrap-up of the debate. we'll focus on the facts, the issues, and how voters are reacting. now to georgia there's a debate over a tourist site, stone mountain, a memorial to the confederacy. now there are plans underway to top the sight with a monument to martin luther king, jr. >> reporter: stone mountain, a massive rock rising outside of atlanta. site of the second founding of the ku klux klan in 1950. it is one of the most popular parks in georgia, and it is surrounded by mostly black neighborhoods, and it was the place that martin luther king, jr. was referring to when he said let freedom ring from the stone mountain of georgia. now the stone mountain memorial association wants to construct a bell tower in honor of king above the massive carving. >> the confederacy was only four years of our history, and the confederacy seems to dominate the perception of what is historic georgia, and that's really far from the case. >> reporter: head of the georgia chapter of the sons of confederate veterans, said the plan is insulting: the head of the stone mountain memorial association says discussions began two years ago, but with outrage over the con federal flag this summer, support for it increased. richard rose has strong opinions about the sons of confederate veterans. >> what they celebrate is treason against the united states of america. and those people who wave that obnoxious flag apparently are not patriots. >> reporter: the kkk even made an appearance back in may. >> i am with the kka, and i'm very proud to standing up for my heritage if these people knew what the hell they were talking about they would know that the kkk was started by six confederate soldiers. >> reporter: and so what does the flag mean to you -- >> it means my heritage. my forefathers died for this flag. >> reporter: but the kkk means hate. >> no, it doesn't. there have been more white people killed by blacks. >> reporter: no matter the emotions, the governor has approved the king monument plan, and before then of the year, the details will be made public. it will be made for by parking revenue, and the entrance fees to the park. in los angeles, city officials are taking a new approach to address homelessness. they are pledging tens of millions of additional dollars to deal with the crisis. critics say the city has criminalized homelessness for years, they wonder if a new plan will make a difference. >> reporter: on the destitute treats of skid row in los angeles, this is a crime. these tents, tarps and shopping carts must be removed by 6:00 a.m. how many times have you been arrested for sleeping on the streets? >> probably 13, 14 times. >> reporter: over the course of how long? >> over the course of three years. >> reporter: he has lived on the streets in the shadow of downtown los angeles for nine years, but in the last few years he has seen more homeless, more camps, more arrests. >> we said we're not going to take our tents down just because you want them down. >> reporter: jimmy bennett says the police make lives on the streets even harder. >> they have a loud speaker early in the morning, beep the horn all of that. they seem to want to give you tickets. if you can't pay the ticket, well, they take you to jail, and they leave you in there for three days to a week, and then they release you. they will do it every month. >> reporter: you won't find skid row on any official city map for los angeles, but it's boundaries are well-known. right now i'm driving into the heart of the highest concentration of homeless people in the country. still it has largely been iing knorred by the city and county of louisiana. but this homelessness up more than 10%. and $87 million a year spent on policing the streets, l.a. is taking the unprecedented step of declaring a homeless state of emergency. >> if you walk down skid row, you wouldn't think you are living in america in los angeles. our past approached have failed. >> reporter: a surprise admission from l.a. city council member. skid row is in his district. >> we're hoping through a local state of emergency, would allow us to extradite construction for necessary house. >> reporter: and downtown undergoes commercial and residential revitalization, the area is shrinking. with the emergency declaration any city is making a promise to tackle the epidemic. >> some of it may be in allegations we make in next year's budget cycle. >> reporter: inside city council chambers, a new pledge of $100 million sounds like a strong commitment. but pete white says it means very little especially when you consider the city already spends close to that each year with little to show for it. >> it is indeed window dressing until the community and others apply or put teeth in it. when we talk about moneys and dollars, we think it's important to talk about what is actually happening today with a real $100 million. >> reporter: and what is happening today? >> so what is happening today with that $87 million of the 100 million is people are being arrested and cycled through jails. l.a.'s response has been an at defrt to arrest their way out of poverty and arrest their way out of homelessness. >> reporter: if the city gave you $100 million, how would you spending it? concrete things you would do? >> i would invest the lion's share of that in the permanent support of housing. i would also build non-permanent infrastructure, public health infrastructure for poor people on the streets. mobile showers, mobile water stations, mobile rest rooms. >> reporter: joe-joe smith is also skeptical. >> there is a big distrust in the system in l.a. because all of the money is going towards law enforcement to criminalize us. >> reporter: for you, what is the solution? how does the city of l.a. get you off of the streets? >> build housing. >> reporter: house keys, not handcuffs, an urgent plea from the streets as homelessness goes from an epidemic to an emergency. the united nations has promised to protect women caught in conflict zones now a few report suggests that pledge has been hard to keep. >> john, the u.n. now says the rise of violent groups around the world is increasingly threatening the lives of women. women raped and enslaved by isil to schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram. but the united nations says governments are becoming more sensitive to the violations of women's rights and that equality could take a big difference. the head of u.n. women's this includes giving women more prominent roles especially in peace situations. >> in situations where women also participated, women influenced the quality of the negotiations and the agreement in such a way that it did not punish one side or the other, but united the sides that were fighting. >> coming up in our next hour the successes and failures of the united nations promise, and how the changing role of women, john, could change the world. up next on this broadcast, the catholic nun challenging the church. ♪ sister joan has been asking the tough questions for decades. the roman catholic nun has challenged the vatican on issues from the treatment of the lgbt community to the ordaination of women. >> in this day and age where consciousness has been raised to such a level, what it's saying is you are a woman in a man's church, and that this -- this is an -- an institution that belongs to the men. now good things happen to women. through that tradition. the theology, the spirituality, are sound, and -- and -- and to be revered, but when -- when it doesn't come down anyplace, when that spirituality, that theology, is in women who are the exception, it says to a woman, i'm -- i'm -- i'm an outsider in a foreign land. this is not my church. i am in church, but it's not my church. >> do you think that women should be priested? should you be allowed to be a priest? >> well, i happen to believe that women -- if the theology about discipleship and the equality of the sexist is true, then of course women can be priest. would by a priest? no. if they called me to a cathedral to ordain me tomorrow, i would not go. why? because i have no internal call to the priesthood. >> the church is opposed to abortion, the church is opposed to contraception. you talked about women priests. you disagree with the church on a number of issues, right? >> i am opposed to abortion as much as anybody i have ever met is, but i do not believe that there is absolutely no case ever, ever, in which abortion may not be imperative or at least underable, now there are times. we know in our court system, we say there are degrees of guilt in terms of manslaughter cases. you can't say that when life is in the hands of a woman it is at all times unacceptable if that life is not brought to fullness, and then at the same time say, well, sometimes men have to kill in war, or men have to kill in the state prisons when they pull the -- the hammer, or a man when he kills under these circumstances that isn't as serious as when he plots it militialy and sets about to destroy someone deliberately. this is an important theological question. >> another real question is the church's position on gay marriage, and whether people can live in the world and be who they are, and you say? >> when -- when i was young, the whole gay question was a question of -- of either some sort of -- of personal aberration, or of choice, and yet we know now science has told us, people are born with this orientation, and if -- if what you have is a life population born with a given or renation. then you have to look at the way that person can develop through life as a full human being, and that brings you to the question of, what binds a couple? is it sex only or is it love? or -- and -- and -- we have to listen to a lot of people until somehow or other inside ours we say that sounds right. that seems right. i -- i hear that. >> when you speak on these issues, it -- it's very powerful. do you worry about some disciplinary action from the church? >> no. i believe -- i believe -- i believe we're a church of seekers. i'm not the only one can asking these questions. i'm simply pointing out that they are questions they have to be addressed. >> a new biography of sister joan was just published. thanks our broadcast, thank you for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. the news continues with antonio mora. ♪ anger and resentment. >> i've been here for the last three days. i've gotten no information whatsoever. is my daughter dead or alive? >> turkey points the finger at i.s.i.l. but angry turks are blaming the government for bloodshed. >> endless violence. tensions between israelis and