♪ 2 million refugees and counting, the u.n. says syria is the great tragedy of the 21st century. ♪ and the numbers grow as talk of military strikes continue, hello and welcome, i'm in doha. making the case for attack the u.s. secretary of state will be on capitol hill later trying to persuade senators to back a strike. and microsoft has a money buyout to try to catch up with the

mobile phone rivals. and the street in mumbai because the hospitals are crowded. ♪ as the u.s. and allies press their case for military strikes against syria the people continue to suffer. the united nation says more than two million people have fled into neighboring countries and three quarters of them are women and children, a million refugees left in the first five months of this year alone and over 1100 -- 111,000 fled to egypt and jordan took in more than than and three quarters have gone to lebanon and we will speak about it in a mfl and half a million in turkey and lisa is there for us and in

iraq more than 170,000. and we are on the border and joins us now. so you have seen numbers there increase substantially in the time you have been there. what is expected to be the impact of more talk of military strikes? >> well the impact of military action will mean there are more refugees crossing the border and coming to camps like this and let me show you here. when i arrived here two weeks ago the camp was a third full and you see it stretches across the hill there. and let me give you some figures, 52000 people have arrived in the last couple of weeks and i've been speaking to a few of those and what i'm getting is a sense of anger, disappointment and because this is what they face and confusion as who that any military strike will mean and they hope the strike will be decisive and will

topple over al assad and disappointed the west has not acted sooner. there is a massive funding crisis here in iraq and across the region. the unacr and the refugee agency told us in iraq they have a third of the money they need to cope with the refugees and promised more money by the international community and the money has not arrived and save the xhirn is working hearsay we are up to capacity at the moment and any more refugees means we are going to go to the international community and they have not given the money they promised for more money and seems unlikely at the moment so a real funding crisis and a nightmare for the people that are here already and the kinds of things we hear and the kinds of conditions the people are living in are incredibly tough and incredibly difficult. now these people do want to go home and want a peaceful syria but that is one thing the 8

agencies and the kurd government cannot offer them. at the moment they are relieved to get here and escape and find some sort of peace but that doesn't last long and they become frustrated quickly and the frustration angers when we have seen riots not in this camp but in other camps that is set up for a year in the last few months and also real worries that any anger could spread to this camp and it becomes more established. >> reporter: and live from iraq. let's go over now to the refugee camp in turkey. anita at one point they put a limit on the number of refugees they were willing to accept. how does that stand now? >> well, everyone's red lines are blown out of the water by the syrian conflict. i remember a time when the turks were saying they could handle 100,000 refugees and no more and that was the red line. at that point by implication turkey's military would have to

do something and not clear about what or wanted to see the international community impose a buffer zone on northern syria and no fly zone and corridors and the phrases and concepts were batted around in the turkish arena and beyond back in 2011, early 2012. and look at us now in the last 18, in the last year 1.8 million more refugees flooded across. i remember when the camp was being built. it was designed to hold 15,000 but we thought that was pretty extraordinary. it's now holding 32,500 and it's just one of several camps right across turkey's southern border and more than 200,000 registered refugees but more than that, they say more than 300,000, they can't put a figure on it, refugees not registered floating in and around turkey. so the turks never expected the conflict to go this long.

refugees never expected the conflict to go this long. when they say the camp for the first time they were all palled because it was like a prison camp and going to a turkish camp and didn't want to come here and now it's the only refuge they have and we are no closer to a political settlement that allows that to happen than we were a year or 18 months ago. >> reporter: in turkey for us, thank you. and we are in the refugee camp in lebanon where syrians are seeking shelter and it's home to thousands of palestinian refugees. dana, the situation for refugees is slightly different because they are not pinned in by walls but what are the conditions they are living under? >> dire conditions and over a million syrians live in the country. the u.n. says over 700,000 have been registered before over a million and a lot are unable to

make enmeet and the difference in lebanon is you see behind me they live among the community, the local community and to a certain extent it has cross tensions here. speak to lebanese and what do they say, the syrians have taken our jobs and ready to work for lesser pay. the price of apartment, the rent is sky rocketing, more than one syrian family, they are renting rooms and the prices are sky rocketing. so a room here used to cost $150, now it's $300 so the tensions are brewing and the lebanese government cannot cope with the crisis and lebanese are poor and unable to make ends meet and they appealed for help from the international community and the fear here now is that if the west decides to strike against the syrian regime we are going to see a new wave of refugees because it's most likely the targets will be in

damascus and they have ties to lebanon and saw that last week when there was talk about the possibility of strike. we saw thousands of families come in. the lebanese government unable to cope, tensions rising and more importantly the lebanese are starting to look at syrian as a security problem. they say their presence here as destabilizing the security situation and we have seen a number of incidents like bombings and kidnappings related to the syrian conflict. >> reporter: thank you very much. thanks to all our correspondents who are monitoring the refugee situation which now hit 2 million according to the u.n., that is iron and iraq and dana in lebanon. the u.s. government will try to press the case for action in washington later on tuesday. the first public hearing debating military action will begin before a vote next week and patty has more.

>> reporter: john mccain and graham at the white house to hear an appeal from barack obama and they say the plan does not go far enough and want him to topple the assad government. the president says that is not his plan. what he wants to do launch cruise missiles at syrian targets sending a warn message to president al assad and they might vote for authorization if the president agrees to give more lethal support to the opposition. >> i think it's encouraging, but we have to have concrete plans. we have to have concrete details and we have to be assured that this is a dramatic difference from the last two years of a policy of neglect which has led to the deaths of 100,000 people. >> for members of congress who received a briefing sunday the bigger question seemed to be should the u.s. do anything at all. one issue the evidence. >> they absolutely do not know

anything from inside the regime. why did he invite in the chemical weapon inspectors? i mean, this doesn't hold together. >> reporter: another question is the impact. >> he was functioning or i believe he is functioning in his self interest and don't see how that will change by this attack. >> reporter: others wondering what are the risks? >> we don't know what the results of the attack will be and will it be effective and what response will be under taken by israel and iran and us in the realm of terrorism. >> reporter: and the common question why should the u.s. get involved. >> what is the relationship to the united states, in other words, is there a threat. >> reporter: many in congress agree with the president's reasoning. >> if this goes unchecked it will invite every terrorist organization in the world to feel that they can use poison gas against their own people

with no repercussions and i don't think that is something we really want to talk about. >> reporter: some say that is not credible because in the past when chemical weapons were used and u.s. did not intervene it did not lead to more chemical weapons. there is another issue before congress and that is credibility. the u.s. president promised to act, there are those who say if he does not that more than anything will hurt u.s. national security in the long run. that is expected to be a big issue if congress begins debate on tuesday. patty al jazeera, washington. >> reporter: and it has new evidence that syrian government forces used chemical weapons last month killing hundreds. the french say they won't attack without allied help. >> translator: president assad used chemical weapons on the people and nobody denies the reality and u.n. inspectors and

what we retained hold the regime responsible. the issue is to prevent assad from reusing the chemical weapons and france is there forth determined to sanction use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime by applying firm action. >> reporter: and in response syria's president warned france that there will be consequences if there is an attack. the paper le figaro say if they are hostile to syrian people the state will be their enemy and went on to say there will be repercussions, negative ones obviously on french interest. and bashir warned the middle east the powder keg and not only talk about the syrian response but what might happen after the strike. nobody knows what will happen and everyone will lose control of the situation when the powder keg explodes and chaos will spread, there is a risk of

regional war, stark words from assad and you can go to our website and we have a special page on syria with new, analysis and the latest update on the situation there. still to come on al jazeera, unity in name only and south korea unification church tries to get over the death of the founder after one year. in the record books and age 64 the first person to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage. ♪ disorder in a mexico court. why this judge lost his cool. ...hed rsey, and

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♪ hello again and let me go through the top stories on al jazeera, the united nations says 2 million people fled from syria into neighboring countries and three quarters of them are women and children. u.s. secretary of state john jerry will press syria later on tuesday and they are appearing before a senate committee trying to persuade congress to back a strike. and syria's president says a foreign military strike could start a regional war and assad told the paper it's volume tile where chaos and extremism could spread. and for more on the syrian refugee crisis i spoke to paul from world vision and told me more funding is crucial to help deal with the thousands of refugees. >> the sheer scale of the crisis

is what is the main challenge. as we are seeing in lebanon, if the rates of refugees continue, by christmas there could be one in three people in lebanon could be a refugee, so the sheer scale of this crisis is the biggest challenge. and having funding to respond to the challenge is the main concern for organizations like world vision. and it shows the need, the huge need that is out there. and really to impress upon people this is a massive crisis, this is one of the biggest humanitarian crisis we have seen from my personal experience being in jordan a family i met to flee syria when the house was destroyed the family traveled for days to get into jordan and the mother was 9 months pregnant and gave birth as she arrived in jordan and it's these stories we hear day after day that we try and get out there to the world

so people understand that while the numbers are huge behind the 2 million figure there are 2 million stories and each person is having their lives destroyed by the crisis. >> reporter: egypt shun ho helicopters have carried it out and dozens of fighters have been killed after they fired 13 rockets and this happened in two locations near the border town and violence escalated after mohamed morsi was deposed by the army in july. the japanese government spends more than $470 million to deal with the fukushima nuclear disaster. hundreds of tons of radio active water are leaking since 2011 and the government will build a shielding wall to stop the leaks. in china the head of a watchdog

that regulates companies have been sacked. the officials news agency records that they were at the center of a corruption investigation and he is the chairman of the biggest oil company and four top executives are under investigation. and the share price has gone up 40% after the news that microsoft is buying out the mobile phone business and it's worth more than $7 billion and the computer technology giant will have access to the patents for at least ten years. and they are a market strategist with etx capital and is live from london and good to have you on. as we have been saying the shares shot up and much optimism over this buyout, but one must wonder if microsoft is coming in late in the game as apple and

samsung have spent lots of money on research and development and time on their smartphones. >> yeah, absolutely and that is a concern in the deal that microsoft is now addressing the smartphone market. i think microsoft really just had to put themselves in a position where they only -- the only thing they can do is buyout nokio hand set division in order to continue being a force in the smartphone market and it was a case if they continue and they continue if they can't they have to quit. and through the acquisition of the hand set business they pose a formidable threat to the likes of apple and andriod systems and they have 5% of the windows phone operating system on the market share, global market share of hand sets and it's looking to address the issue and part of microsoft's wider strategy to transform itself

into a company more focused on the hand set system as opposed to the declining pc and tablet market which is seen microsoft sales massively over the past few months. we saw that earlier and that also signalled the resignation of steve. >> reporter: so what happens to nokio and does this leave a gaping hole for them to deal with? >> i don't think so, it will get 3.2 billion euros on the back of the deal and can focus as a player and it has a number of divisions ranging from network solutions and services to messages and media and the hand set division is a problem child as they were by the curb and addressing the situation and not being able to really address the pick up by apple and samsung over the years and started

seeing deterioration in the market space which is one of the last holding areas for them to make headway and with this out of the way it seems they can start focusing on the wider business and return profitability back to investors and i think investors in nokia are pleased with the news and can put this behind them and start focusing on bigger things. >> reporter: where do you see this microsoft, nokio market taking the market, where to next? is this a positive thing for the market? >> it is a positive thing in the market. i mean it's competitive with the likes of apple and samsung all in the marketplace and i think the key thing for microsoft here is that it offers an alternative operating system and apple has ios operating system and samsung

and other makers use android and they will provide the windows phone which has some adoption in the last few years since the re-lewis of the lumia phone and could have a threat to rivals. i think microsoft is looking to really fill the gap in here and really try making some headway when it comes to the strategy. it is part of the -- it's consistent with what they want to do in the future and it's a hand set maker as opposed to the pc market which is declining and tablet marking on the back of this nokio position. >> reporter: good to speak to you. thank you. >> good, thank you. >> reporter: every year tens of thousands cancer patients go to mumbai and pay little in one of the hospitals in the country and overwhelming demand and property

prices some have to make the streets around the hospital home and we have more. >> reporter: camping on a dusty patch of pavement she does what she can to make her critically ill comfortable. 2 1/2-year-old has a cancer tumor in his nose, in search of help his family traveled 18 hours on a train to mumbai and a place to call home is hard to come by but treatment at the hospital has not. >> translator: the doctors checked his medical history in the places we had, soon after they began treating the cancer and we don't know much about it but the doctors are taking care of him. >> reporter: despite the conditions the patients and families face, they are the lucky ones. for every one person who makes it to the hospital in mumbai for treatment many more across the country go without. living on the streets while under going cancer treatment is far from ideal.

but with wards overflowing and shelters full and the property market prohibit expensive the poor of the poor have no choice and 35,000 people come from all over india to receive low-cost care. >> it's minimal and investigations are also which is very minimal. the patient gets benefit for each and every part of a very subsidized place. >> reporter: despite their financial position, all indians receive the same treatment and efforts to cure the worst off financially are often undone. >> we have to go back to the slums or maybe less cleaner villages and that is where sometimes after chemotherapy when immunity is very low they

are susceptible to infections. >> reporter: and if more are not built the pavement may be more crowded, al jazeera and mumbai. it has been a year since the main person in the chufrp died and the family feud could tear him apart and we have the story. >> reporter: his widow leads the church he founded and when they held a ceremony to mark reverend moon's passing she led the events. and he was the messiah and brought his religion to a hundred countries and a year after his death the followers seem no less devoted and there are more than 10,000 people from all over the world.

a year on and the grief runs deep for some of his folders and in the absence are his sons, particularly the two who were appointed to succeed him in the church's business and religious affairs. in the months following his death, both sons stepped down from their positions. some believe there is a power struggle within the family. >> translator: what is happening is destroying the legacies and orders that he left while he was alive and his son himself said it hurt him. it appears his mother is talking with respect to his intent. >> reporter: the church denies such allegations and says the changes are part of its growing process. >> translator: and they are following his will and promoting world peace and family values. >> reporter: stories about a family feud do little to dampen devotion. >> translator: i understand there is a disagreement among

family members but does not effect our faith. our true parents are not ordinary religious leaders, they are messiah here to create a new history and ideology and ideas have been implemented, i don't see how there will be a problem in the church in the future. >> reporter: so far the unification church which was built around the personality of one man seems to have survived the first leadership transition. but the true mother as she is known to the church is already 70, the church existence may depend on her succession plans. florence with al jazeera south korea. >> reporter: and american woman has become the first person to swim from cuba to florida without the protection of a shark cage and it took 64-year-old diana nyad more than to days to travel 165s and she

battled the waters and sharks and she told supporters she would never give up and on monday the 64-year-old proved them right and swam between cuba and the united states. >> you are never too old to chase your dreams. >> reporter: this is the fifth attempt and she had been with jelly fish attacks and stings and a newly designed face mask would help her with the water. >> the jelly fish protection we spoke about is better than i think it will help me get through the animals. >> reporter: the first attempt at a crossing was back in 1978 when she was 30 years old and that failed and she gave up swimming for decades but in the 60s she was back and more determined than ever, now at 64 years of age, she has completed

a feet of human endurance that few thought possible. miami, florida from al jazeera. >> reporter: and before we go let me -- i remind you you can keep up to date with the news on our website and you will find that at al jazeera.com and take a look, it is good to have you here. treem streemen stream." young people now dare to dream whether it comes to immigration reform. they grew up hiding in plain sight. a diverse group of young people who say they feel invisible whenever immigration policy comes up for discussion. roughly 27% of the estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the u.s. came