the u.n. security council reached a deal to get rid of syria's chemical weapons. tonight to talk about the agreement, it's expected to be approved. they have what they called a constructive discussion with iran's foreign minister. he says he hopes this is the first step in lifting sanctions. talks will resume next month. the government shut down deadline is tuesday, but there's a plan in the works to avoided it, at

least temporarily. the senate is expected to vote on a bill this weekend that will keep the government running until mid november. at issue, house republicans pass add bill, that would keep the government open, but also defuncts president obama's healthcare bill. some democrats in the senate say the bill doesn't stand a chance of passing. those are the headlines at this hour, consider this with antonio morrow is next. i'll see you back here at 11:00 eastern, 8:00 out west, the latest news you can check out our website as aljazeera.com.

>> is al quaida the strongest it has been in years? consider this, a few years after the death of osama bin laden and other key figures, has al quaida lost its leadership but gained power? and home school is becoming big business with 1.77 million kids getting taught outside traditional classrooms. but as the industry grows, so do concerns as allegations of abuse pop up. also, what role do celebrity play in helping international aid relief. golden globe nominated california coalition tress joins us to say why she is recruited a listers to help in humanitarian cries seize. welcome to consider this, we begin with al quaida. just a few months ago, president obama boldly declared the terror group was on the path to defeat, but is it? as courtney explains al quaida is stealing support from u.s. backed rebel, in the shopping mall massacre revealed the on going threat, from what may be a resurgent

terror group. it will not include the threat of force against syria, president bashar al asaad's government fails to applied. the chief spokes men for the coalition said the opposition remains weary of any u.n. deal, with asaad. >> . >> -- >> but while the u.n. here in new york weighs in on the war, 11 syrian rebel groups issue as statement, calling for the establishment of law in syria. it is a key defection, three of the groups were aligned with with the u.s. backed opposition. sal la discounted the new alliance. >> these groups are not part of the revolutioner, these groups do not represent the syrian people, they represent a small minority. >> but it remains unclear if the statement is one of discon feint over opposition, or real pledge of allegiance to

al quaida. the president is also warning that al quaida is saming a come back feeding off the anger of the poisoned arab spring. most recently, the sectarian violence and the coupe in egypt. he pointed to 2 assassinations. >> they didn't assays nate one person, they also did assays nate a whole nation. >> hundreds of young have gone to fight for al quaida, and fears what their return to the birthplace of the arab spring will bring. this is the al quaida linked al-shabaab staged the nigh robe by mall attack, the largest attack since the u.s. embassy bombing in 1998. al jazeera new york. >> joining me now are jack rice, a former c.i.a. officer who covered the middle east extensively.

thank you both for being with us, it seems like so much for al quaida on the run. more than a dozen affiliates of al quaida and iraq, syria, a number of african countries, and countries pretty much automobile over the world, it doesn't include the presence in the far east. al quaida is swaying more hold over according to the economists've more territory right now and is recruiting more fighters than at any time in its 25 year history, do you agree with that. >> i think it is true. that we are seeing is an expansion of the affiliates. but what is also critical is there is no command and control. there is no control from al quaida meaning in afghanistan, and if you can't coordinate attacks it makes it much more difficult, and yet at the same time, we have to realize that when you have really truly independent organizations it is hard to take the organization as a whole down.

because you have to fight them one by one. >> it said tactically we may have defeated the valleyedish ship, but strategically they are winning. what do you think? are they winning? woman, i don't see them as winning to tell you the truth, because they have really shifted. really the threat to the homeland and to the european mainland i think is much deminnished. these affiliates have expanded, yes, there are more of them, they are in more places, yes, but other than al quaida and the arabian peninsula, they are all focused on the country's whether they are operating. the al quaida affiliates in syria are trying to oust bashar al asaad. al-shabaab is focused on east africa. so it is a different

threat, i think that's the wrong way to look at it. we need to -- it is an evolving threat. it is a different challenge then it was on the eave of the 9/11 attacks. >> stop with syria, the chemical weapons deal is moving forward, any unified opposition to al-asaad -- some of the strongest fighters joined al quaidaling. a spokes men for what is more and more fractured tried to put a good face on things let's hear. >> the coalition represents the majority of syrians. we stay we are in a state of war. we are not elected and this is the reality. if we request represent 80%, we have done a tremendous job. as he says they may have the most support among the syrian population,

but some experts are estimating that now about 80% of the 100,000 or so rebel fighters are leaning moderate to hard line. how do you square these two statements in. >> well, let's face it, they are trying to face this up. you can't simply say this isn't a big deal, it is a big deal. and i also think if we think about who is supporting whom, it isn't just about the civilians. there is 2 million plus people that are refugees or displaced people inside of syria. by we need to talk about the fighters, who those people are, and if they are going moderate to many extreme, how do you get the coalition to take the leadership role with those guys? and that's a real problem for them. >> it is beyond just semesterring. this year we awe the free army killed an al

quaida links leader, a curdish fighters also killed another leader, there seems to be a lot of -- sort of a civil war within a civil war. what happens now? how does the west, the u.s. in particular, figure out what to do and whom to support 134. >> it is one of the biggest problems. when you start looking at syria in general. one simple example. the curds, the pkk, they cross not just syria, but they cross parts of northern iraq, they take out large swath of turkey, and how do you convince those groups to be a part of a broader coalition? while at the same time you are looking at other elements that may not be with with the coalition, but that doesn't necessarily make them al quaida. i think one thing they are afraid of is afraid of repeating the mistakes we have made in afghanistan, where all of a sudden, we were actually funding organizations. we were funding people, and eventually those

people turned against us. >> this is what john mccain said about the western backed free syrian army. >> overwhelming majority of the syrian people want bashar al asaad gone. and by the way, they are not extremist. and the syrian people would reject extremists. >> ken, common thread is that all the rebels want asaad gone. by with all this fighting what does happen if asaad goes? if the strength is really in these less moderate hands, what will happen? >> and i think he is going to fall fairly soon. even this rebel infighting is not really material to the overall fight. the rebels are still advancing. province, dara province in the south, even as this infighting is going on. what p has after he

has -- look, syria is a very mediterranean, coastal, western looking secular society. it is not like afghanistan of the 1980's -- >> not like yemen. >> but so was lebanon in the 1970's and look add what has happened there. >> but even the islamist groups are very different than the taliban, or yemen, saudi islamist hiss, bake basically real radical islam takes root in the interior of the peninsula, the dessert. the cold tool areas tend to be more moderate, more cosmopolitan. radical movements tend to be rejected or waters down very substantially. if you look at the muslim brotherhood in egypt.

syria is going to be syria. it is secular, it is mediterranean. it is coastal, and it's going to water down these very pure tan call tendencies. >> a lot of reports are these groups are much better organized, much better funded and also creating problems the for the west, as to whom to give money to. >> that's one of the biggest problems. if we think about this from an american perspective, the americans have been trying to figure out how to support the coalition. yet they have been petrified some of those resources will end up in the hands of the al quaida affiliates or other extremist groups, but what happens when you deny essentially resources to the coalition, it makes the coalition seem weak. it maims them seem incompetent. by denying the resources you strengthen the groups

saying look, these guys are not doing anything. >> let's go back to big al quaida. and he issue as warning in early september to anyone who would work with the west, specifically in syria. >> the ice and its alleys tried its best, but they failed. they started to form new awakening in syria and they will also fail, but i warn my brothers and families not to form any relationships with these parties and what happened in egypt is the perfect lesson on this. >> >> is he just more of an inspirational figure. >> i see no evidence of any significant connections between the so called al quaida fighters in syria.

they call themselves al quaida, but if you look at what they do, i mean i think they are using the al quaida brand, so to speak, to recruit to bring in people from chechynia, north african jihaddist, libya, elsewhere, al quaida, as we think of al quaida it is bin ladennism. it is trying to attack the new york, washington, and that trend is really on the decline. we with have to look at al quaida really as a group of local movements, all focused on the politics and the environment of the country's they are operating. and i sigh stew wary as having no influence on what is going on in stir yeah at all. >> jack, i saw you nodding in agreement? >> i agree, we look at what he has said, his influence is far more in egypt than it is in syria. he is originally from egypt himself when you look at the arab spring,

and realize what has happened there, that influences there because i think he has that personal connection. but there really is no command or control, and that has been one of the things that the west has been effective in lopping off. that doesn't mean they are gone, just means it is not being directed from elsewhere. >> you are in minneapolis where there has been strong recruiting being behind the mall massacre. there's even a video orb consider onumber of videos about the so called martyr martyrs the h to paradise. >> if you even knew how much fun we have over here. this is the real disneyland. come here and join us. >> now that young man apparently went on to be a suicide bomber. we know that al quaida, the leadership did years ago send fight es to africa. do you see some of the people we have talked to actually has not gotten stronger.

that it was sort of an act of desperation. >> we take a look at one of their last international attacks this one again, going after soft targets, if they were going after african union troops, going after kenyan troops it would show their power, but it also shows their willingness to get out there and swing. but again, i agree with ken in this point, if we look at what they are doing generally speaking they are in east africa. they are inside of somalia. they are just touching kenya. but that's tied to civil war issues. they are not reaching beyond that, they don't seem to have that capability. certainly not at this point. >> what does this mean for america? i know you have said you think the way they are functioning now, that attacking abroad is getting harder and harder. but with these kind of lone wolf attacks oral groups especially when you have people coming from the united states to train in those places do we need to be worried? >> as we are seeing the

diplomats in the region need to be worries. >> i think it is substantially less threatens than it was in 2001. >> all right, let's hope that's the case. really appreciate you joining us tonight. after this break, obama-care suffer as little set back with small businesses, and what do you think our social media professor is fielding your questions. please join the conversation on twitter at a.j. consider this and on our facebook and google plus pages.

where just five days to go, the president took to the stage at a maryland community college on thursday to defend his signature program. the president admitted that roll out hasn't been exactly perfect. >> like i said, there will be glitches along the way, every law has hiccups when it is first starting off. >> the latest hiccup, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees were told thursday they will have to wait until november to enroll online for coverage. for more on the problems and the millions that will be left out after enrollment does start, i'm joined by megan mccardle. who writes on economics, business, and public policy. and with us from ann arbor michigan, is annoyer editor at the new republic, and he is the author of sick, the

untold story of america's health crisis. you posted an article yesterday that detailed some of the many technology problems that are happening with the obama-care roll out, beyond this latest delay, what are the biggest problems in. >> well, i don't think we know yet. this is the big suspensibility moment. what is the news drop we get around tomorrow at 6:00. which is normally when administrations like to announce that nothing is going well. so i think this weekend is actually when we will know what the biggest issues are. what they haven't told us. it is not very promising that they have been doing things like releasing reports on the changes and specifically forbidding the journalists to talk to any outside experts that may have opinions. you know, next week people are going to start looking to enroll in these exchanges and it looks like in a lot of places that functionality won't be there yet.

d.c., where i live, has announced that you can apply online, and sometime in november, they will get back to you as to what your subsidy amount will be. so i think these are the big issues. is there going to be something that will make it easy to enroll. now getting coverage, are just going to say you know what, this is too hard, skip it. >> jonathon, you and megan don't agree on all of bashar al ma care issues on this one, you have also written about the problems the internet problems that obama-care managers are struggling with. don't freak out. but shouldn't americans with freaking out a little bit. let's look at the other delays we have seen. transferring medicare applications to states. more choices for small business employees right now they are only getting one, and of course the

big one, the employer mandate. is a little freaking out in order? they are not really critical pieces of obama-care. the employer mandate is an important piece for the money it generates and if they don't -- they have delayed it one year. if it needs to come online at some point, or they need to find a way to get the money. it's not like the pillar of the program. as for the i.t. issues this is complicated. me gang's article is very good, she identified the reasons why it is taking a long time. this is a complicated project, but they also left themselves a nice long time to get it right. open enrollment is supposed to start october 1st. you have until december, the middle of december to

sign up if you want insurance for next year starting in january. and you have all the way through late march and that's when the open enrollment window closes. now that is a lot longer than you see with an insurance plan for private insurance, or for public insurance, and historically if you talk to employment -- employers when do people tend to sign up, well, they do it most my at the last minute. what happened with medicare part d, people signed up at the last minute. the pattern is for this to ramp up very slowly. so there is a accusation built into there. >> yeah. >> if we are here in november, and still are meeting core functions then i think we have a problem. >> but it does seem like more and more things are coming pup p realtively conservative democrat came out today and he said that he would support a one year delay in the individual mandate, something that republicans want. megan, given all the problems should the fellow democrats accept that one year delay in

implementing the program, or will that be the death nail of obama-care? >> i think technically the right thing to co would be to delay this, until they can get a lot of the core functionality working. i think the employer mandate is pretty important, both in terms of the coverage and as noted because it is one of the big funding mechanisms. when they were doing reports it was hundreds of billions of dollars of difference. whether you had an employer mandate or not. and simply with the i.t. i think the right thing to do is sort of policy thing to be to delay it. i don't think so. an issue going into the 2013 elections. i think it may be the right thing to do for the country. going forward was essential in order to make the system work, but

again, jonathan -- in your article you have to ask the freak out question, if the problems do kind of keep coming up, and delays in getting on, and megan brought this up, if young people who are essential to this program end up not signing up, could the whole system come crashing down? >> again, as far asky tell, and i have been listening and i have been sort of writing for a while, there are going to be i.t. glitches lit take a while. i really don't think we are in that situation right now. and i have no reason to believe we won't be ready to go in time to get enough young people. now, delaying a whole

year, you are talking about depriving people of health insurance for an entire year. you are also talking about drilling a system that is basically on the launch pad and ready to go. the insurance industry is geared up for this, employers have geared up. >> my biggest concern about obama-care is a bad brand despite the good it does. it needs better marketing, what is your response to this? >> so i think it's turned out to be -- you are right, it is not a good planted, at least among people that don't like obama. >> it is more than that, every single poll has showed pretty substantial opposition. if you map the people that oppose the plan to the people that oppose obama, there's a lot of overlap. there's not one with to

one, but there is a lot. i think in general the proof of the program is what works. what people see when they go to buy insurance. do they think as good deal. do they want it. if they do then lit be aux says. if they don't like it won't be. it is that simple. >> if you are young adult or entrepreneur striking out on your own, you are covered. if you are a young couple who previously had insurance but didn't include maternity benefits that's suddenly you need some maternity benefits you are covered. [applause] >> if you lose your job, and your healthcare with it, you are covered.

he left out the 31 million people that won't be covered. millions of low income american whose live in 22 states that have either passed expanding medicaid programs or leaning against it. megan leaving that many people without health insurance, is that the biggest law. >> well, i mean i think this was all big to the law, it has gotten a little bit worse with the republican is states that are pulling out, but it was always true there would be people that weren't covered for one reason or another. either they didn't make little enough money, but not really quite enough money to buy insurance. as you say undocumented immigrants. and for various other reasons there will be people that are left out. if you look at how hay did the math to get to everybody, it was difficult. i don't think there was any political support for covering undocumented imn't grays.

so i don't think that's the biggest flaw, i think it may be an issue, especially for more people than the cbo, has projected, again, that's likely to be the healthy people that are paying more into the system than they are getting out. those young invincibles. >> should a government program have winner winnerd losers? ingly aside from the people that aren't insured we have seen how the rates will vary dramatically with this program. >> right, we have a dysfunctional healthcare system with a lot of winners and losers. in the sense that everybody has a guarantee, that everybody can get health insurance, for the cost for no one person, there are people that do well by the system today. and inevitably when you fix that system, they might not be as well off.

any public policy there are always trade offs. when they passed the minimum wage, employiers lost some money. how many winners, do many losers, do the winners outweigh the losers. are we really doing anything that will harm them, or still getting benefits. i would argue, with obama-care the winners far out number the losers. a few years from now and everybody is using this to get coverage, there are going to be a whole bunch of folk whose say yeah, i always thought this provision was excellent. [laughter] >> it will not be called obama care. so if it is good it won't be called obama-care. what is your prediction? >> i think lit be still be called obama-care for

good or ill, that is the name it has got. it has stuck. i think the president may be a little overoptimistic about how much people will love various provisions, for good or ill, which is the central thing his presidency will be identified with? >> i think they will like the obama-care, and forget about the name. >> all right. thank you both. straight ahead, the unseld story of home schooling, reading writing and in some cases abuse? serious concerns about a rapidly growing industry. now she shifting her focus to relief work, she joins us later to tell us why. women's prisons. >> the system is setup to do exactly what it's doing - to break people and to keep them broken.

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kids that are abused while home schooled. he runs the john holt gws web with site, and he is authored several books about home schooling. heather before we get to talk about the broad picture, in the u.s. today, i would like to hear about your experience. you were home schooled and while you have gone on to graduate school, you said that your eight sibling are mostly ill lit rate and you were abused. >> well, not exactly. i'm the oldest in a family of 10. and my sibling are -- everyone is doing very well today. but things could have very easily gone in a different direction. i was at -- i was home schooled until age 14. but things changed when i turned 12 years old and i called my grandparents and asked them for help. and they did help us. before then my parented had registered as a private school, in south louisiana, which home

schoolers can do, and they turned in the paperwork once, and then no one ever checked on us again. and i was with the only one of us to learn how to read. i didn't know how to tell time on a clock with hands or what months came before others, or -- a lot of very basic things. and i spent a lot of time doing child chair and helping with the family business. when i ended up being put in public school, i did very well. i graduated with honored. i graduated from college with honored. my sibling are all doing very well today, but i think what it was, is i thought this was more just my experience, and just a few other people i knew. and it was when i was in graduate school that i started to researching home schooling and realized that the kind of loophole that allowed my family to fall through the cracks exists in a lot of places around the country. ten states are completely

deregulated. >> you chose to home school your kids they have all gone on to college, why did you make that choice. >> well, first of all, i wound up working with a man named john holt, who starting grows without school magazine, in 1977 is. a secular corporation, so so to speak, the first people on the block with that. but he had -- he was a teach who changed his attitude about school, because he said i teach but they don't learn. and the more he investigated is because school is quashing children's innate abilities to len. their self-directed learning that they do before they go to school, was very impress i, and he works with that. when i came into the company in 1981, i was a single guy, and i thought his ideas were pretty crazy, just there to learn some word processing skills. >> they were beyond home schooling he believed in unschooling which is doesn't mean no schooling at all, it means much

more sort of naturalistic learning? >> yes, thank you. he didn't like the term home schooling the learning didn't have to take place at home, or look like school. the whole idea is based on the way they learn is they have -- free exposure to the world, and they ask a lot of questions. and that kind of gets reversed in school. >> heather, you brought up the issue of lack of regulation. i think that home schooling is perfectly legitimate and it should be available. but like with any other educational method you have the have and is the v notes and one of the issues is that you give -- the idea is you give then't pas freedom, and then the parents will give children freedom, and it will lead to high

quality education, but it doesn't always work that way. there is a number -- too many people end up using home schooling as a way to control or indoctrinate their children, and because there aren't any protections in a lot of states, you request have home schooling be used as a cover for abuse or neglect. like. a child is being found with bruises at school, the parents will pull the child out of school and home school them, and then the child doesn't have access to mandatory reporters. that's one issue. >> there are a lot of documented cases of abuse, include as case from florida where a little girl was allegedly badly abused by her adoptiven't pas she died. her twin brother was found in critical condition, the boy was found in bad shape along with his sister's body in their truck. now red flagged has been raised but then she was taken out of school, supposedly to be home schooled. nobody was around to

notice, but i know you told one of our producers and i am quoting here, to regulate home school to stop child abuse is the wrong argument, why? >> i think -- as hare has described. this is more an issue of parenting than it is of education. home -- child abuse happened in the home whether the children are in school. or not. it's just -- that's the way it is. and it is unfortunate, and child abuse -- >> if kids are in school, at least some teachers could see indications of abuse, and could call attention to it. >> yes, but we know that that -- doesn't work 100 100% -- i don't know what percentage it does work. pediatricians are also mandatory reporters. not all of these cases get caught. and the fact is that heather's family and many of the families that she describes on the website are religiously motivated. they are not coming at this from a point of view

of trying to help children learn and grow, they are trying to protect them from the world. and these -- and that's why i say it is a parenting issue. they are not reading john holt. they don't ask me to come down and talk to hem. if anything i have been -- john holt has been pretty vilified by the religious rake. >> there's certainly very extreme situations. where it advocates whipping children even when they are months old, very extreme treatment of women too, i know there is that issue on the fringes. but the reality is that home schooling has gotten increasingly popular, it is growing by leaps and bounds. the most recent numbers show that 3.4% were home schooled, that's nearly 1.8 million. there are big businesses involved. including laurel springs.com, k-12.com.

now this is far from just religious parents. it has become popular for young athletes and musicians because it allows them to train at what they hope will be their trade. it can be good for a lot of people. >> well, yes, i think kit be good for a lot of people. and there are many different -- there are several different subsets of the home schooling movement, pat has addressed that, there's the unschooling sides, there's the charter school stuff that you mentioned, and then there is the fundamentalist christian side. and that actually isn't a small group at all. they don't represent everyone, but they are very politically powerful, p home school legal defense association is one of the premier advocacy organizations in this country, so they really help set the agenda. they are helping deregulate and stepping create the environment where children can fall through the cracks. >> and they have advocated against background checks for the parents to check and see

regrys weren't on before. i don't understand that, i don't understand why -- >> i don't understand that either. in the book teach your own, 1981, john holt wrote that that would be a reasonable thing to do. background checks see if they are a quarry report or something. >> we with have a viewer question. does home schooling question prey children of social interaction. >> it can. as my experience, and the experience of vast majority of home schoolers, no, because we aren't using the home to isolate our children, we are certainly using the home as a base of operation. letting our children go out into the world, use the museums and all the tonights that are out there. >> i think that a lot of it -- it depends on the type of family.

i know within like the fundamentalist christian environment, there is a lot of issues with socialization outside of the conservative christian bubble. being an issue and there is also a serious problem with children being isolated within the home. often if the parents are shy reserved people, they may not be the type that are taking their child out to go to museums and go join group sports and things like that, and the child can end up spending a lot of time at home by themselves. so it really just depends. i think that like socialization is important for home schooled kids and some of them can do great. and some of them can do terrible and suffer from debilitating social anxiety, when they get older. that's the thing, it really depends on what then't pas are doing. i know pat had said it is an't paing issue, but really it's also a schooling issue. so i don't think that we

with can divide those things. >> some studies do show that home study schools do on standardized tests. they don't do necessarily as well, some colleges now have become more accepting do you think that home schooling is going to become more the norm in years to come? i have all of 20 seconds left? >> short answer, yeah. >> disgoing to increase, i don't think it is going to be the norm where everyone does it at all. but i think with distance learning with learning centers, and more democratic schools and different opportunities and all the different alternatives to school, that are out there, i think it is inevitable. >> i and know that heather hopes there will more regulation. we will keep our eyes on this, we really appreciate your joining us tonight. coming up next, millions of americans make buying

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film fans no seeany that miller as a global globe actress that has graced red carpets for more than a decade. the group has done relief work around the world for three deck kates. to coincide the commitment to action, miller has helped launch a first responders program. she joins us yesterday and started by filling us in on her work with the group. >> it's basically we are trying to enable people in communities to become self-sufficient. so the best kind of

response to a disaster is from the people on the ground, from the communities themselves. so that is our commitment here at the clinton global initiative. we have also launched the celebrity first responder whose is a group of people i havening maaed to get together that will lend their names in appeals which will hopefully spike traffic etc. how important is it to get those people involved. >> i think in the culture we live in, people respond from that kind of assistance. i think it does make a huge difference. so i feel very fortunate to have got the people we have managed to recruit. >> i know you have been very active. you have traveled to the -- through your role as an ambassador. now what kinds of things have you seen? what has struck you the most? is. >> i have seen so many things. too many to recount. i have seen a woman who flat lined in a makeshift tent in port-au-prince, and six minutes later

after resuscitation, she came back to life. that was probably the most profound experience. but met victims of g.v.v., and malnutrition, and tar vagues, but it is all very encouraging because you see what is being achieved and what is being done with the staff, most of them are locally trained and local individuals. so it isn't going in and putting a band aid on a problem, it is going in and training a community to become resilient, which i think is vital. >> so the positive con wednesdays of what you see, overcome -- just very tough situations that you have faced death, disaster, how do you deal with the suffering you witness? how has it changed you? >> well, it is impossible not to be effected by it. it is devastating. but in a sense it is a huge gift. you realize how fortunate we are, how fortunate i am in my life, and it is a wonderful dose of perspective. it is devastating.

it is heartbreaking and very hard as a new mother not to feel effected especially by the children, who are victims of disease and poverty, and a lot of it is preventable. but you try and stay optimistic, and shine a light on the fantastic work, that the organization is doing. you know, keep working at it. >> arguably, the greatest humanitarian crisis going on right now in the world is in syria. there are a couple of million refugee whose have left the country. you have 5 million people displaced within the cup. now international medical core has been working in syria since 2007, they started doing work helping out iraqi whose are threing the iraq war, now they are in the middle of another crisis, i know that conrad hilton foundation just gave international med kale core a big grant to help syrian refugee whose have gone to turkey. how much have you heard about what the organization is doing there? it is not somethingly talk about now, it is obviously a delicate situation. and it's a terrifying

crisis. but international medical core is in 70 countries and our focus here is really on african. our commitment is to give 600 men women with and children to enable them to become self-sufficient. >> and the international medical core is in about 30 country it's responded to to the ruin dan again side to the tsunami, the challenges must be enormous, when the organization goes and faces those kinds of cries seize. >> yes. >> they have been around now for about 30 years it is a significant organization. >> it is. >> what would you tell people who would like to support them? >> i just think it is an organization that really is -- it's completely incredible. i have seen the work first hand. as i said before, they really train the community to been self-sufficient. so it is empowering. it is respectful of the

country's that we are visiting. and the work that they do is incredibly beneficial for tons of people. i think it is an organization they should definitely look into. >> how does the organization coordinate with other humanitarian organizations? what have you seen when you have gone and helped in responding to these crisis? >> well, you know, it is obviously last year i was in africa, and obviously ton of n.g.o.s there. there was a big crisis with the famine. the u.n. tends to run the whole thing and a lot of other organizations. everyone pitches together so you can be doing nutrition, sanitation, specifically after a while, people get allocated to different things. it doesn't tend to be too competitive, i think everybody is there ultimately for the goal of helping as many people as possible. and of course, that means cooperating with other organizations. and we as an organization worked with many many different people over the years. and continue to do so. i think our incentive is

just to reach as many people as possible. >> interestingly, we're a bunch of news people here, and none of us -- we are having a suggestion earlier had heard about the medical core, even though it has a total revenue of $13,030,000,000 that's well up there with organizations like doctors without borders that everybody knows about. why do you think the international medical core which by all reports is very well managed? why has it managed to sort of fly under the radar with such an important mission? >> i think it's -- the focus for the organization really has been on the work. and obviously it is incredibly beneficial to have exposure, and that's what we are trying to do. to try and shine a light on the organization. but a lot of the under thing and the money that people sometimes spend on advertising we put into the field. and into the work and the programs we are running. but obviously, exposure is important. so this is why with a group of fist responders with have people from john ham, anna winter, a really great group that will hopefully try and get an international

medical core more on the map. as you say, we doing incredible work, but people haven't necessarily heard of us. >> important message to get out. what country would you like to or do you hope to work in next. >> well, hopefully planning a trip to jordan. i would love to go back to the congo. it was beautiful, and obviously in such crisis. i fell in love wit, but there are tons of places. all the programs are so inspiring. i'd love to visit them all. sienna miller actress and international medical core and global ambassador, we thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. we wish you the best.