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people were killed and dozens injured. skwr*z cannot independently confirm those reports. the syrian conflict has spread due to refugees and the threat of military strikes in syria has heightened fierce. they have vowed to defend themself and says it's still a powerful allie. >> reporter: the syrian's president report has supporters here in lebanon and across beirut. iran warned the united states to stay out of the conflict and not expected to retolerate against israel. >> that's not an empty threat if the survivele of the assad regime is in question. he's specific for his own survivele. the war in syria threatens to

escalate beyond its boards. it's warning the syrian president made back in 2011. when you play with it, there could be an earthquake that will effect the entire region. that region includes israel where people crowded distribution centers. israeli government also deployed missile defense in preparation far possible syrian attack. in jordan, people are just as afraid even though the government said it will not allow its territory to be used to launch attacks against syria. but syrians state media has accuseded the jordanian government in participating in what is called a u.s.-led aggression. a man recently hosted a meeting of countries likely to take part in any military intervention. >> translator: >> things can be resolved without a military strike because it will have consequences the arab the people and syria's neighbors don't need. >> reporter: and syria's foreign

minister said the country hasn't attacked jordan in the past two and a half years and it would be a shame if that had to change. a divided arab league have not had the restrictions if the they strike syria. >> translator: >> this is part of america's plan to divide the middle east it started with iraq and now syria and this is an israel's interest. tra*p>> translator: it happenedn iraq and maybe in syria and maybe egypt. >> reporter: the syrian government promised to defend themself against attack. the fire in syria won't stop at its borders. al jazeera, beirut. >> the tinspection team in syria could take two weeks to release

its report but the u.s. will wait on findings -- will it wait on findings before launching any attack. james is at the u.n. the ambassadors of the five members of the security council on their way to a meeting. this wasn't a formal session along the horseshoe table the final court of international security. the place where historically so many decision about global war and peace have been taken. instead, the last of the arrive at a meeting of the u.s. secretary general with the ambassador of the country will take security council. the weapons inspectors have made good progress taking samples of witness statements inside syria at the sight of the chemical attacks. they will now take their scientific evidence to europe for laboratory testing. >> they are doinging their upmost to expedite the process

of analysis but while keeping this in mind, they also have to keep in mind something else which is need for rigorous attention to maintaining the integrity of the process. >> reporter: that laboratory work could take days maybe weeks as the u.s. prepare to wait. right now the corridors beside the security council are empty. this is supposed to be a three-day holiday weekend for the united nations but many security council canesly mats will tell you they expect their break to be interrupt bid military action. and joining me from chicago tonight is ian herd at northwestern university. professor, welcome. >> thank you. >> so you wrote in the "new york times" that you believe intervention in syria would got be legal but you're for it. why? >> i think we need to be clear

now we're talking about sper srepbgwe're talkingabout interva broadway. i think that could have negative consequences. if you want to talk about enter srepbs more broadly without military strikes and the chemical crisis will help us get to a solution by making diplomacy and other tools more sharp. so, you call ate moral intervention but explain what that would be. i think things that happened last week with the chemical weapons are clearly shocking and they're atrocities. the point that i make in that piece is international law is not really a very good tool for guiding our response to such aprosties. sometimes international law permits too much. sometimes it prohibits too much. is there anything to help the people in syria.

military strikeless do the opposite and make the situation worse for the people in syria. >> what would you suggest? >> i think that we have to use the chemical crisis to put further pressure to those keeping assad in power. oh others who are providing supplies and money and contracts. so, i think that we have to use those sorts of tools, economic leverage, diplomatic leverage to try to isolate the regime and discourage it from further aprosties. >> so you would say if the bombs were to start falling tomorrow, which we don't know if they ever will, that would be a bad thing for this country and for syria. >> i'm extremely worried that would be the case. it would be a mistake to use military force to try to use this situation. i think that we might actually be in an unfortunate situation where we need to exercise self restraint and not let the moral outrage that we feel after these

atroatrocities and in to counter productive military operation. that's the real danger. >> let me play devil's advocate for just a second. you saw the pictures we showed. i'm sure you saw the pictures of the alleged chemical weapons attack and turned out to be if that's true. if these tell call attacks continue -- if these chemical attacks continued would you change your mind? >>ty think the real question would be do we think that that outside intervention is going to help the situation or make it worse? i think that's the judgment to be made. the point that i tried to make in the "new york times" is international law doesn't give us a lot of leverage on bad question. that policy question. what are the effects of the actions going to be? are we going to help or make it work? >> there's the a lot of people asking that question tonight. we thank you for joining us from chicago. we appreciate it. >> and more ahead tonight on

syria includinging the people who have tried to find safety outside the country' boarders. the growing refugee crisis coming up.

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worried. i spoke to one of the conservative rebels. the tower is relative to all the countries around the world. it's balance toward former developing countries in asia, after cars, south america. it will be the event that show us if the british missed an opportunity to make the world a

safer place. >> despite it's still issue. jackie roland reports from paris. >> t*b t president obama talks about the french president on friday. he had a great determination to react and they should not go unpunished. now the two presidents shed the intelligence and evidence that it's about in damascus and said they were both and set the attacks and still the assad regime was responsible. now president obama said they are going to remain closely in touch it seems that the mood now is not so much with us a*bs will

be taken but rather when. >> that's jackie rolands reporting. jim is an international security analyst at the massachusetts institution of technology. it's good to see you. >> happy to be with you. give me your rea*bs to the development of the day. >> big, big. i this thought the speeches today were very significant. big news in them. things that we had not heard before and then the idea that the u.s. intelligence community has with high confidence concluded that the syrian government used this. now, for a lot of folks, it's something -- the bush administration say that about robb. >> they didn't. after iraq there was whole rethink and reform and they decided to reform the system where they said we're not going to just give assessments. wear going the to say here's our

assessment and here's how confident we are. we have to be clear here. i'm a little curious. i oppose the war in iraq. i thought iaea said there wasn't evidence for nuclear. i have been against interveneing iin civil war. i'm confident it was syria that did this. it was not from eia, it was not from an intelligence agency at the top of it it says, government assessment. that's a little weird. i was surprised by that put the information in that assessment strong heights. >> they also -- the secretary of state went as far to say they are concerned also that if we let this happen we may have trouble we ran. yeah. >> but north carolina, access of

evil. >> they will do all over again, right? >> i hear you. first of all, i thought it was great speech. does that mean all the arguments were often. credibility arguments as scientist an stuff. if we say something and don't do it. i think the evidence pointing to syria is pretty strong. let me show you some pictures of the u.n. damascus. now they are leaving several hours earlier. they will not have a report for the next couple of weeks. when they deliver that report, all their mandate is to fine out whether chemical weapons were used not who is responsible for those chemical weapons. >> absolutely.

>> so the united states wait? >> what was telling about this. again, to report that it put up today. it wasn't a national spell skwrepbnational documents.they . >> the united states. >> yeah, and they have other intelligence that the u.s. and the u.n. inspectors don't have and they have signals intelligence and a bunch of other stuff. obviously the u.s. will not take any action while they're on the ground. i think that is something that will happen the sooner rather than later. what's risk of stirring up a whole region. >> sit a risk without doubt.

the scenario is the effect. this thing didn't start as a sectarian war but it's taken that character and what's happening in egypt. it also is how the syrians respond. i don't want to say the syrians are stupid where they launch the missiles in to israel. i think it's a real question as to what happens next. >> it's interesting to watch. thank you for joining us. thank you. >> well nearly 2 million syrians have fled their country easyville war an many are hoping a u.s. attack will mean they can go home soon. aid agencies say that's not likely. >> reporter: less than two weeks

old and the tents already look weathered and old. news that a military strike is hope with the syria's refugees where they can be home soon. she's looking after her family and hopes she won't be here for long. >> translator: we would like someone else to replace president assad. if he's the the same type of person then it's no good for us. look at our situation. we would rather go back to our country. >> reporter: her views are ebg code around the camp. >> translator: we hope an air strike will come soon and we can go home. >> reporter: others say any military action will lead to more refugees and aid agencies are already stretched. >> translator: we have plan in place. if there's a massive influx of refugees then we'll have to ask others for help. right now we're at capacity. >> reporter: who they will ask remains a question.

the u.n. refugee faces a funding crisis as well as the others involving refugees. the kurdish on regional government has promised help but how much is unclear. military action says they can return home sooner rather than later. there's a lot of disappointment in the camp. disappointed that the west hasn't acted sooner but misunderstanding but the people say that any strike against syria will topple president assad and they will be able to go home. that's unlikely. what is more likely is we'll see more things like this and more refugees. al jazeera. and the obamaed a pheup administration is trying to convince the need for strikes in syria but the proving it to the american people could be difficult. the appetite for war, next. >> egypt is getting less attention but no less fractured.

more on the deadly clash. the young folks. >> what are the laws going to begin to take effect? >> reporter: the laws do not go

welcome back to al jazeera. cameras caught them as they left in a convoy of white suvs. they were in a highway out of the country and also learning that the white house is expected to brief more members of congress tomorrow. paul is live in washington, d.c. >> reporter: this is another bit of evidence suggesting how difficult it is to remain for the white house to convince congress of this case for a*bs against syria. earlier tonight the press office of senate minority office mitch mcconle tweeted that there will be a conference call tomorrow between the white house and the senate gop. now, we learned from other sources that that call is expected to take place some time later in the afternoon. there's breaking news tonight. we've learned that t*upb inspectors are leaving syria earlier than expected. they are on a convoy of vehicles

heading toward lebanon. there won't be a report from what they've learned for some time to come but they are on their way oh out of the country earlier than expected. >> paul in washington. paul, thank you. >> as the u.s. prepares for a possible attack on syria, one new poll suggests that there's a lot of public opposition to the idea. stephanie joins us now from los angeles with more on that story. >> good evening to you. the reu t*e rs poll suggests that many americans believe that the u.s. should not intervene in syria even if chemical weapons were used. now the survey was done over the last five days. it lasted nearly 1400 people this question. if the syrian government is using chemical weapons against syrians, should the united states intervene? and 45% said no. now 29% said yes and nearly 27

were undecided. we talked to people here in los angeles as well as around the country. >> i'm a bit torn. there's a big humanitarian crisis going on put the u.s. economy is just getting pack onn track. >> i think there's way too many problems domestically to be involved in foreign chu foreignt this point. >> i feel bad but i don't think it's good for us to go in to another war. i think the united states should get involved on. half of the people who cannot defend themselves. you don't have the support of our allies. we have chemical warfare. >> i don't think we should get involved in military efforts and acting in self-defense in the war. >> i think it's very frightening but i don't see how we're going

to be able to avoid it. what's going on there is totally unacceptible. i like everyone else hate to size get involved in another war but sometimes you can't be avoided. >> and while merely 1/3 of americans say they would support u.s. action, many americans, according to this poll at least, say they're his stand about thet getting involved in syria. in jerusalem families waited hours in line for government-issued gas masks. >> as crowds swelled. inside a mother from california pled for help. >> he's part of the family. she's among thousands now desperate for gas masks so

nervous she didn't want her full name used but her family moved to israel just two weeks ago. >> it doesn't feel real yet it seems like something you do to be ready but we haven't experienced anything thaes ao really frightening at this point. >> reporter: she needs five masks but the government is firm. >> she gets only four since she doesn't have the needed paperwork. >> that's the boy that won't have a mask on oh his face. it's easy to do it. it would be easy to do. you know that. >> reporter: governments actually made gas masks available for free for years it's just now they are especially in demand. >> reporter: fights have broken out put she this waits. she's been here for 7 hours. >> i'm nervous that something will happen and i won't have a mask for my child because me and my husband have a mask for ourselves. >> reporter: the polls shows that most israelis don't want this country involved. but people here worry they're

the ones most at risk made in revenge if the u.s. strikes syria. the government urged for calm and most doubt israel will ever be hit. >> the last thing on the regime's mind will be throwing israel in to the circle of conflict and providing itself with a enemy. >> along the border e extra israeli troops have been called in while the missile defense system. >> so he dies with the family -- back in jerusalem. the pleas went unanswered. >> that's wrong. very, very wrong. >> so she left short one gas mask for their new life far from california. in jerusalem. al jazeera. >> and jim walsh is with me again. he's an international security analyst with mit. first of all, in israel, there's big concern about retaliation.

>> sure. >> and you can site there on the face of the people that are trying to get gas masks. >> and in turkey too. >> you call that the nightmare scenario. >> i think it is unlikely. i this the last analyst you had in this piece, prior or the this point, syria is something -- then they start winning. so if you're winning, why do you want to drag in more powerful enemies. the u.s., israel, turkey in to fight, pause that means you're going to lose. at one level that's illogical. it was u all going down and this was your last thing. but, it has to be said that the syrian government i think made a gigantic strategic error in doing this. obama didn't want get in to this and now we are so if they made one mistake, other mistakes you can't write off that.

>> we have a map going back to what the u.s. might do in syria and we want to look at oh potential targets in syria. one would be chemical weapons storage facilities. explain to me how you attack a chemical weapons facility. >> that's very controversial. if you attack it and create a plume of tel chemical agents thn that's a bad thing. so the air defense so the u.s. airplanes can come in without being threatened. that's first. >> the toma hawk missiles. then u.s. planes then the question is, john, this is what what we haven't talked about. what's the objective? now, is it to second a message. president obama said a shot across. do this again and wear coming

after you. others depend -- the two play that don't do this or we're coming after you. the second message, possible objective is we're going to try to take that chemical which is super the tough. >> limited means a few hours. >> no. no. it does not mean a few hours. because, i think we're talking days, weeks, yeah, because people think, well, we have all these toma hawks. this' not the way it works. first of all, the missiles have a limit that is re relatively small. that only gets soft targets not hard targets. you go and shoot.

you shoot and figure out whether you got it or not. we don't have every target. we have a 50% probability. you have to go after this for a while. if you look at any past campaign it's always taken time. even against libya. libya had nothing and it took time. syria is a more capable country than libya. >> does the united states knock out their air forces? >> again, back to objectives. so what -- we can talk about targets but the place you have to start is what are you trying to accomplish? what's your goal? you want to protect your folks when you go in there. >> it's air defense, so radar and some missed planes, run ways but then after that, so are we going to go after leadership? that's the question that we don't have an answer to. so much is driven by objective. so, let's take a look at what's

on syrian tv at the moment if we have that picture again. >> we will this turn up the volume a little bit. pr-bgbit. [ arabic music ] >> clearly some syrian military propaganda as they get ready. >> it is. >> is it really? >> we heard reports that, we don't know for certain that civilians are being moved to military bases in the country. >> here's the problem, president obama is caught in a terrible delimma. you have to go the to your public and make the case to a nervous congress and skeptical public. the longer you wait an make that case that's more time for your adversaryry to make the preparations to disburse the

chemical agent, to novembercy me civilians. >> it could be a target as well. so, absolutely. but the first question is what is the objective of the mission? >> you have an answer for that. >> all right, jim walsh, thank you tkpepb. >> thank you. egypt is still as fractured as ever. al jazeera reports on the latest protest in cairo. >> reporter: a display of crowd control by protestors in the streets of cairo. they want to show that they're well organized and to mobilize thousands. the alliance of stand against the military-led government defied the state of emergency for another friday. and chanted against what they call a coup sphere head bid defense minister. i left home today.

not because i'm muslim brotherhood. i in never will be. but tkpwaus tpwa*us government wants to go backwards. >> translator: i came here for egypt. we deserve to share the wealth. >> allah akba! >> reporter: after prayers the protestors led several marches. tanks an special forces stationed at intersections and blocking access to kilo case like tahir square and the mosque where clashes left hundreds dead two weeks ago. some too scared to join the street marched waved from their apartments. many stood by the 7:00 p.m. curfew but behind the scenes, cairo clashes broke out in the evening and the military

disburseed the crowd with tear gas. after promorsi protestors reportedly clashed with residents. the cities in alexandria had violent confrontations that left three dead and several wounded. ththe muslim brother brotherhooo fight on. they are urgeed to keep up the pressure put with a heavy handed approach by security forces it feel -s as though the show downn egypt is far from over. the building tense in syria sending oil prices through the roof. ali velshi has a look at that next. and the pittsburgh pirates who posted 21 consecutive losing seasons. this year their sights are set much higher than just a winning record.

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>> an interesting debate. coming up, a school where students don't read books. instead they use ipads almost in business, tensions the in syria have been pushing oil prices higher. "real money" ali velshi has more. >> all the the attention oh on syria have brought in to to oil. before settling at $107.65 a barrel. this as officials in the obama administration issued statements talking about an attack on syria. oil markets are freaked out that an attack, even fit's limited can spark a wider regional conflict that disrupts oil

supplies in the middle east. the middle east supplies 30% of the world's oil. now america imports 40% of its oil demand. it's biggest oil use near the world. while that sounds like a lot, it's actually the reverse of where america was in 2005. back then, america imported 60% of its net oil needs from abroad. what's happened since then? mostly advances in extracting technology especially in deep sea drilling in the gulf of mexico. there's another event that's more controversial it's called hydraulic fracturing. it's known as fracking. it's by drilling deep in to rock formations and injecting them in to water chemicals that crack our fracture the rock.. that releases oil and gas which is collected at the surface. opponents sayss it leaks gas and toxic chemicals in to the water table it uses very large amounts of water which can compete with the water needs ofing a culture.

earthquakes are occurring in areas of high fracking activity. many say it's no coincidence. all across america there are oil and gas deposits trapped in shale. all together, there is more oil trapped in shale in america than there is conventional oil in saudi arabia. america is now projected to overtake saudi arabia as the world's number one supplier of oil by 2020. that need may not last for long. the implications are of course especially as the u.s. contemplates another adventure in to the middle east. this new domestic energy boom will fuel america's next big economic boom. ironically all of the u.s. oil production may not translate to lower places at the pump. it's global cannotty. china, india and brazil are

expected to increase their demand for it in the future. that has american oil firms salivateing and moving more in domestic oil production after years of expansion abroad. america's energy boom the is real. >> thanks to you. and pakistan's leaders are under fire nor response to catastrophic flooding. the disaster effected more than a million people and claimed 170 lives. now band groups are steping in to meet the needs of survivals. >> reporter: the flag of army of god fly proudly as they scan the waters looking for people in need. the group is baned in pakistan and consider a terrorist organization by the united states but that hasn't stopped it by delivering emergency aid. at this relief camp sponsored by

political and charitable arms they are given food and medical assistance. zora lost everything. she is givingen two bags of cooked rice. >> >> translator: the flood has destroyed my house. all our farm land is gone and our livestock is dead. we have nothing left and no one is helping us except them. thanks to them, i can feed my family. >> reporter: they are charitable efforts are not just aimed at winning over hearts and minds. it's also part of the calculated campaign to improve its image. its parent organization is accused of carrying out the 2008 mumbai attacks and been involved in the kashimir economist confl.

the government is criticized for not doing more from preventing the disaster from happening nape are credited from saving thousands of lives. one of the cam's organizers. she staid group is.ing treated unfairly. >> translator: our core mission is to serve the community. we are helping those who are suffer egg and yet we are accuse odd of being involved in terrorism. we want people to know it's not true an we are only here to offer help. >> reporter: and those kwords ed by the floods are grateful for the help. the summer has flown by an

it's unbelievable that we're almost to the world series. >> the thao*eus race in major league baseball is the central division thanks to the stretch where the cardinals won the of 17 games. st. louis over took the division lead taking an advantage in to this three game series in pits n pittsburgh. they posted a winning record and pittsburgh wasted no time as they scored two run miss the first inning and two more in the fourth by jared jones and russell martin and that's more than enough support for francisco who allowed only two hits over 2 8 innings on the way to his 15th win of the season as the pirates pour in to the division with a 5-0 win. two more games to go over weekend. oh another division race to watch is the american lead center where the champion is trying to keep the pesky indians

at bay. the biggest for the tigers is miguel cabrerra with a sore abdoman. they took control of the game. detroit led 7-2 and the game was called in 27th innincalled in 7o rain. now to tennis and after seven-plus tours on tour. he heard criticism for his inability to win the big one. something put to rest by winning the gold medal at the london olympics and the london title a u few weeks a go and become the first brit to win that championship in 77 years. and that the years *urs open the defending champ is seated third. both players born on the same

day. he's a huge hit an forced him to run all over the court to return those powerful ground strokes. that's an area which murray kpeld and that's what he did in this match winning the last five games in a row and a 7-5, 6-1, 3-6, 6 -1 victory. >> it's very difficult for wimbledon for example an it's something that u you need to enjoy. there's always noise during the points. you hear words at wome at womene quiet. >> the placing 87 ranked of germany and the number one player in the world placed two set points early in the second

round match but saved both of them and then needed less than an hour to close out a victory in straight sets. 7-6, 6-2, 62. >> in golf, the second leg of the fed-ex cup added to the off today in boston and the marquee group featured the top three players in the world. tiger woods number one, scott number two and phil mickleson number three. he bier did 7 of his first 9 holes. putting 59 well within his reach and lost momentum in the last nine holes on his way to an 8 under 63. >> tiger came in to this tournament as the fed-ex standing leader faced on five victories this season and opened with a solid three under 68. scott couldn't keep up with his partners today. he struggled to a two over 72. as we take a look at the leader board. mickleson not the only player to

shoot 63. brian davis also posted 8 under. mickleson's front tkphaoeupb wae only on tour this year. one other note pass along. evans from the cincinnati bangles was suspended for the first eight games due to a drug violation. >> thank you. rebecca steventon is back with the check of the hour. coming up at the top of the hour "america tonight" stay with us.

we have two cold fronts across the united states tonig tonight. otherwise, those two cold fronts we're going to see them drag through and bring showers in places we've been seeing and for the last few days but as we get in to monday we're going to get more and more rain

coming down especially along the eastern sea board stretching up across maine and down to boston and new york as well. as for temperatures, those are going to pull slightly tomorrow an then come up by a degree or two each day. wear going t -- we're going to s briefly bringing that cooler air in but the air behind the cold fronts. misleading because it's not really that much cooler. wear only going to get a couple of degrees. by monday, expect temperatures to still be in the 90s for the midwest. now, also going on in nevada is the burning man project. that's in a part of northern nevada where smoke from wild fires in through will give beautifully colored sun sets because the smoke particles in the air bend the rays of light and give it that great orange red color