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>> welcome to aljazeera, i'm stephanie, and here are the top stories we're following right now. time is running out before a possible government shut down on monday. to avoid the shutdown, the senate is expected to vote on a bill. and the republicans without the deal to delay the affordable healthcare act. the democrat senators and president obama said that they won't allow is that. an agreement to rid syria of its chemical weapons. the full security council met in new york to discuss the resolution. members could vote as early as
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friday. and john kerry had what he called a constructive discussion with iran's foreign minister. more talks will take place next month. >> two farmers in colorado have been arrested. they are accused of causing a deadly wisteria outbreak that killed people and made others sick. the blows did not properly clean the cantaloupe and they have pled not guilty. those are the headlines. consider this is up next.
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>> is al qaedas strong as it has been in years in consider this, after the death of osama bin laden and other key leaders has al qaeda gained power? and homeschool, 7 million kids are fought outside of traditional classrooms, but as it grows, so are concerns as alwayses of abuse pop up. and what role do celebrities play in international relief? sienna miller says why she's recruiting a-listers to retail the crisis. >> just a few months ago, president obama declared that al qaeda was on the path toe defeat. bow is it? they're stealing support from u.s. backed rebels in syria, and the nairobi shopping mall
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massacre revealed the ongoing threat from the terror group. >> the u.n. will pass a resolution to require syria to ban its chemical weapon arsenal. the chief spokesperson for the syrian national coalition said that the syrian opposition remains wary of any u.n. deal with assad. >> can you trust someone that commits such atrocities? >> syrian groups issued a on statement, calling for the establishment of law in syria. and saleh discounted it. >> these groups are the small minority. >> but it remains unclear if the rebel group is dissented over
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syrian leadership or has allegiance to al qaeda. also warning that al qaeda is staging a comeback, beating off the anger of the poisoned arab spring, most recently in the coup in egypt. he pointed to the assassinations in tuneisha. >> it's a whole nation. >> he said hundreds of tunisians have gone to fight in syria, and what the birth of the spring will bring. al-shabaab staged the mall attack. and the u.s. embassy bombing. joining us are jack rice, a former cia officer, who covered the middle east extensively, and a middle east expert who has been tracking al qaeda's evolution for more than 20
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years. he joins us from washington d.c. thank you for both for being with us tonight. and it seems like so much for al qaeda on the run. look at the map. more than a dozen affiliates of al qaeda and iraq, syria and a number of african countries, and yemen, and countries all over the world. that doesn't include its presence in the far east. al qaeda is swaying more holdover, according to the economists, more holdover the territory and it's fighters any time in its history. jack, do you agree with that? >> i think it's true. what we're seeing is an expansion of the affiliates, but it's critical, there's no control from al qaeda, meaning in afghanistan, and if you can't coordinate attacks, it makes it much more difficult, but yet tainment, we have to realize that when you have really truly independent organizations, it's hard to take them as a whole because you have to fight them
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one-by-one. >> and they had ray quote from the counter-intelligence source: ken? are they winning? >> well, i don't see them as winning to tell you the truth, because they have really shifted. really, the threat to the united states homeland and to the european mainland i think is much diminished. these al qaeda affiliates have expanded and yes, there are more of them, but other than the al qaeda peninsula, all of these affiliates are focused on the countries where they're operating. for example, al qaeda in iraq is trying to destabilize prime minister maliki, and syria, and it's a different threat.
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i wouldn't say that we're win org losing, it's an evolving threat and it's a different challenge than it was on the eve of the september 11th attacks. >> moving forward, any unified opposition to bashar al-assad, some of the strong fighters join al qaeda-linked fighters, and joining that, a spokesman for a more modern coalition tried to put a good face that. >> the coalition represents the majority of the syrians. we are not democratically leaked. if we can get 80, 90% of the syrians, we have done a tremendous job. >> jack, as he says, they may
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have the most support among the syrian population, but experts are estimating that 80% of the 100,000 rebel fighters are moderate to hardline jihaddists. >> when you see them split the way it is, you can't say this is not a dig deal. this is a big deal. and when you think about who is supporting whom, it's not just about the civilians. there are people who are refugees or displaced people inside of syria itself. but we need to talk about the hundred thousand fighters, and if they're going moderate to extreme, how do you get the sole list to take the leadership for those guys? that's a problem for them want. >> it's beyond the splintering. there's ongoing fighting between the faxes.
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factions. this week, we saw the syria leader killed and al qaeda, and there seems to be a civil war within a civil war. what happens now? and how does the west, and the u.s. in particular figure out what to do and whom to support? >> it's one of the biggest problems. when you start looking at syria in general, let's take one simple example. you look at the kurds in northern syria, the kurds crossed not just syria, but northern iraq and a large swath of turkey. and how do you convince those groups to be partly of a larger kroll listcoalition. but that doesn't necessarily make them al qaeda. one of the things that the u.s. is afraid of, back in the 80s,
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we were all of a sudden funding people. and eventually they turned against us. >> this is what john mccain said about the better than backed free syrian army. >> the overwhelming majority of the people in syria the bashar al-assad gone. and they're not the extremists. >> the common threat is that all of the rebels the assad gone, but what happens if he goes? the strength is really in these less moderate hands. what will happen? >> yes. i think that he's going to fall fairly soon. you look at a battlefield map. and he lost a tremendous amount of territory. the rebels are still advancing. hamad province in the south.
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and even after this is gone. syria is a very mediterranean coastal, secular looking society. it's not like afghanistan of the 1980s. and will it's not like yemen. >> but so is lebanon in the 1970s, but look what happened there. >> even the islamist groups, very different from say the taliban, saudis, really radical groups are mainly in the interior of the arabian desert. the coastal areas of the middle east tend t to to be more modere and cosmopolitan, and the radical tenants tend to be renterejected or watered down. it's more moderate than many
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islamists in yemen or saudi arabia. syria is going to be syria. it's sec lash, it's mediterranean, and it's coastal and it's going to water down these very tendencies. >> these groups are much better organized or better funded and it's creating problems for the west as to who to give money to. >> that's one of the biggest problems of all. when we think of this from the american perspective, what the americans are trying to do is figure out how to support the coalition, and they're petrified that if they support them, some of the resources will end up in the hands of al qaeda affiliates or other extremist groups, but what happens when you deny resources to the coalition, it makes them seem weak and incompetent, but by denying
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them, you strengthen the other groups and they say look, these guys aren't doing anything. >> let's go back to the al qaeda, the one remnant that's left. and he issued a warning in september to anyone who worked with the west in syria. >> the united states and it's allies try its best to support the secular parties with israel, but they failed. and they try to awaken more in syria, and they fail. i warn my brothers not to form any relationships. >> there's a central leadership, and it's all going to spread out. but does he have anything to with the al qaeda folks in syria, or is it organic and he's an inspirational figure. >> i see no evidence between
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zawahiri, and they call themselves al qaeda, but what they do, they're using the al qaeda brand, to bring in chechen fighters and libyan, and elsewhere. and as we think about al qaeda, it's bin ladennism, trying to attack the new york and washington, and that trend is on the decline. we have to look at al qaeda as a group of local mob wants, all mi see zaer wary as having no influence on that. >> are you nodding in when you
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look at the arab spring and you realize what happened there, that influence is there because i think he has that personal connection, but there really is no command and control. and that's one of the things that the u.s. has been effective in lopping off. doesn't mean that they're gone, but it's not redirected from elsewhere. >> and the martyrs, the path to paradise it's called. and here's one of the comments from that video. >> it's a disneyland. and come join us. >> that young man went on to be a suicide bomber.
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>> it was an act of desseparation, what do you think. >> we look at one of the international attacks in ugandi in 2010. it showed their power, but it shows their willingness to get out this and swing. but i agree with ken at this point. if we look at what al-shabaab is doing, they're in east africa and somalia, and touch on kenya, but that's civil war issues that kenya is in. and they don't seem to have that capability, certainly at this point. >> and finally, what does this mean to america? i know you said that the way that al qaeda is functioning now, fighting abroad is harder and harder. with these lone wolves, especially when you have people coming from the united states to
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train in those places, are you worried? >> diplomats in the region need to be worried, other installations in the persian gulf, and security, and installations in africa. i think u.s. personnel, and u.s. citizens in the middle east, north africa, south asia region, i think that the dangers have increased, but in the terms of the homeland and european mainland, think it's substantially less than 2001. >> let's hope that's the case, and jack rice and ken, thank you for joining us tonight. and obamacare suffers a setback, and your questions, please bring them to us. on google plus pages.
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>> with just five days to good before americans can sign up for obamacare. president obama defended his signature program. president admitted that the rollout hasn't been exactly perfect. >> like i said, there are going to be some glitches along the way. every law has hiccups when it starts off. >> the latest hiccup, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees were told they will have to wait until november to enroll online for coverage. the millions that will be left out after the enrollment starts, i'm joined by megan, a columnist for bloomberg view. and with us from michigan, jonathan, the author of sick, the untold story of america's
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health crisis. thank you for joining us tonight. and megan, you posted an article yesterday that details some of the many technology problems that are happening with the obamacare roll out and beyond this, what are the problems that we're seeing. >> we don't know yet. this is a big suspenseful roll out that we get tomorrow after 6:00 p.m. and other administrations like to announce that things aren't going well when everybody is getting ready for the weekend. this weekend, we'll know what the biggest issues are, and what they haven't told us. it's not very promising that they have been doing things like releasing reports on the exchange's underembargo and specifically forbidding the journalists that have been releasing them to to talk to experts about reports. next week, people are going to start to enroll in these exchanges, and it looks like in
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a lot of places, the function at is not going to be there yet. and in washington d.c., they will get back to you on what your subsidy amount will be. these are the issues going forward. is it going to be easy for people to enroll? if it's not easy, the big danger is that the young, healthy people who you need to subsidize all of the other people getting coverage, they're going to say you know what? it's too hard, skip t. >> and jonathan, you and megan don't agree on everything, but on this one, your article was obamacare online is glitchy and don't freak out. these include the spanish language website, transferring to states, and more selections
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for small business employees, and the big one, the employer mandate. is a little freaking out in order? >> i'm a pretty erotic person by nature, so i freak out about many things. i'm not freaking out yet about these delays. one is because at least some of the delays you're hearing about are not critical pieces of obamacare. the employer mandate, it's for the money they generate. they delayed it one year, and they need to find a way to generate. as for the i.t. issues, i thought that megan's article was very good, and she's telling were it's taking a long time. but they left themselves a nice long time to get it right.
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open enrollment is supposed to start october 1st, and you have through late march, and at that point, it's the open enrollment window closes. that's a lot longer than you typically see for an insurance plan. and historically, if you talk to employers, when do people tend to sign up for their plans? they do it mostly at the last minute, and the pattern is for this to ramp up very slowly. so there's a cushion built into it. if we're here in november and we're still missing core functions, we're going to have a problem. >> but it does seem that more and more things are coming up. a conservative democrat said that he would support a one-year delay in the mandate, something that republicans want.
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and should the democrats accept the one year delay in implementing the program or is that going to be the death of obamacare? >> i think that technically they should delay it until they can get the functionality. and as he noted because it's one of the big funding mechanisms. when they were doing reports on this, it was hundreds of billions of dollars in difference whether you had an employer mandate or not. and as a policy thing, to delay t minimally, are the democrats going to do it? i don't think so. they don't want this another live issue going into the 2014 leaks, and they don't want to hand the republicans a victory. so i don't expect to see this. but it would be the right thing for the country. >> and carney dismissed comments, it saying that going
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forward was essential in order to make the system work. but again, jonathan, in your article, you asked the freakout question. if the problems keep coming up, and delays getting on. and young people essential to the program, to have the whole system crashing down. >> certainly, the system needs young and healthy people to sign up. an insurance system that's based on a broad program, you need healthy people to cover the costs of the sick. again, if we're here in late move, and the systems are not working, we're going to have a problem. but as far as i can tell, i've been listening and writing for a while, there are going to be i.t. glitches and i don't think that we're in that situation now, and i don't think that we will be enough to get young
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people. delaying a whole year, you're talking about depriving people of health insurance for a year, and you're talking about disrupting a system that's on the launch pad and ready to go. insurance companies are geared up for this, and employers are geared up for this. and it's not that easy. >> we have a viewer question now. let's go to our associate producer for that. >> jonathan, the viewer says, my biggest concern about obamacare is that it's a bad brand despite get that it does. it needs better marketer and what's your response to this. >> you're right, i think it's not a good brand, at least for people that don't like obama. >> it's more than that. every single poll shows substantial opposition. >> it is, if you map the people who oppose the plan and people
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who oppose obama, there's a lot of overlap. i think in general, what's going to be the proof of this program is whether it works. you know, what all of us are saying on tv, it's going to be what do people see? do they think it's a good deal? if they do, it's going to be a success and if they don't, it's that simple. >> the president made this comment about who is getting covered by obamacare. >> if you're a young adult or entrepreneur, striking out on your own, you're covered. if you're a young couple who previously had insurance that didn't include maternity benefits, and suddenly you need maternity benefits, you're covered. if you lose your job and your healthcare with it, you're covered.
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but he left out some of the 31 million people who won't be covered by obamacare, undocumented immigrants, and those in 22 states who are underinsured or leaning against it, and leaving that many without insurance, is that obamacare's biggest flaw? >> there are a lot of republican states pulling out of medicaid, but it was always true that there were people not covered for one reason or another. they had enough for subsidies, but not enough for insurance. as you say, undocumented immigrants are not insurable. and other people will be left out. when you looked at how you did the math to get to everyone, it was difficult. i don't think there was political support for covering
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undocumented immigrants. so i don't think that's his biggest flaw. i think that that may be an issue, especially with more than want office has projected. if we get fewer people taking it up than projected, again, it's likely to be people paying more into the system than getting out the benefits >> the so-called invincibles, and should the government program have winners and losers? aside from the people who are going to be shunned, we have seen the rates vary dramatically in this program. >> we have a functional healthcare system today with lots of winners and losers. everybody in the sense that everybody has a guarantee of economic security. and everybody can get health surface at the cost. and no two persons are too strong.
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inevitably when you fix that system, they migh might not be s well off. when they passed the minimum wage, the employers, the taxes went up. and how many winners and losers? did the winners outweigh the losers? and are they okay? are with harming them and are they getting benefits? i would org that with obamacare, the winners far outweigh the losers. >> a few years from now, when people are using this to get coverage, and everybody is feeling good about all of the choices and competition they have got, there are going to be a bunch of folks who say yeah, i always thought this provision was excellent. it will not be called obamacare. >> so if it's good, it won't be called observe care, and megan,
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what's your prediction? >> i think it will still be called obamacare, for good or ill, that's the name it has got. and it has stuck. i think that the president is overoptimistic. but that's what he'll be known for. >> i think the life of obamacare the law, and don't forget about the name. >> thank you for being with us tonight. straight ahead, the untold story of home schooling, reading and writing and in some cases of abuse. and sienna miller has graced the silver screen on the cover of vogue, and now she shifts to relieve work.
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>> for decades, conventional wisdom held that most homeschoolers were conventional christians so they could uphold their beliefs. but that's not the case anymore. there are almost 8 million kids being homeschooled across the country. she grew up homeschooling, and she documented dozens of tragic
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cases of kids who are abused while being home schools. and also joining us, pat feranga, and he has that ared many books about homeschooling. before we get to the broad experience in home schooling today. i would like to hear your experience. you went on to graduate so a, and most of your eight siblings were abused by your parents. >> not exactly. i'm the oldest in a family of 10, and my siblings, everyone is doing well today, but things could have easily gone in a different direction. i was homeschooled until the age of 14, but things changed when i was 12 years old and i called my grandparents and asked for help. and they did help us. before then, my parents had registered as a private school
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in south louisiana, which homeschoolers can do, and they turn in the paperwork once, and no one checked on us again. i was the only one of us that knew how to read. i didn't know how to tell the hands on the clock, and a lot of basic things. i spent a lot of time doing childcare and helping with the family business. when i ended up going to public school, i did very well, and i went to college with honors, and my siblings are doing very well today, but i think that what it was, 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 researching home schooling, and realized that the kind of loophole that caused my family to fall through the cracks exists in a lot of places in the country. and ten states are completely
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deregulated. >> poot, yo pat, you chose to ha your kids, and why did you not send them to public school. >> first of all, i started working with a man, john holt, who started a magazine, and we were the first people on the block with that, but he was a teacher who changed his attitudes about school, because he said, i teach, but they don't learn, and the more he investigated, he realized that schools were squashing a child's ability to learn. and he worked with that. and when i came into the company in 1981, i was a single guy. i thought his ideas were pretty crazy, and i wanted to learn word processing skills and get out. >> his ideas were beyond home schooling. he believed in unschooling, but
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naturalistic learning? >> thank you, he didn't like the term, home schooling, but he was talking about learning that didn't have to take place at home. and it didn't have to look like school. his idea was the way that children learn before they go to school, it's exposure to the world and they ask a lot of questions, and that kind of gets reversed in school. >> heather, you brought up the lack of regulation. and you brought up homeschooling, and the lack of regulations and what's happening to some of these kids. what do you think needs to happen to the industry? >> well, i think that home schooling is a perfectly legitimate educational option, andished it be available. but like with any educational method, you have the haves, and the have notes, and one of the issues with change in home schooling, the idea is that you give the parents freedom, and then the parents will give the
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children freedom. that will lead to high quality education, but it wasn't work that way. too many people will end up using cooking to control or undocument their children. and because there are not a lot of protections in a lot of states, you can use home schooling as a cover for abuse or neglect. like in the child is found with bruises at school, the parents will pull them out and they don't have access to reporters. >> this was a case in florida where a little girl named nubia she died. and her brother was found in critical condition, after being doused with chemicals. and the by was found along with the simple's body in the father's truck. nubia was taken out of school,
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supposedly to be homeschooled. and nobody was called or given attendance to their plight saying that homeschool is going to stop child abuse is the wrong argument, why? >> this is more of an issue of parenting than it is an issue of education. child abuse happens in the home, whether the children are in school or not. that's the way it is, and it's unfortunate. >> but the point is that if the kids are in school, the teachers could see abuse and call attention. >> but we know that doesn't work 100%. and i don't know what percentage it does work. pediatricians are also mandatory reporters, and not all of these cases get caught. the fact is that heather's family and other families are religiously motivated.
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they're not coming at this from the point of view to help children learn and grow in the world. they're trying to protect them from the world. it's a parenting issue. they don't read john holt. and they're not asking me to talk to them. if anything, john holt has been dillfied by the religious right. >> and there are extreme situations. there's a book that has gotten half a billion people to buy it, it calls for whipping children, and extreme treatment of women too. and i know that's on the fringes, but home schooling has gotten creamingly popular. 3.4% of kids in the u.s. are homeschooled. that's 1.8 million of them. and there are big businesses involved, laurel springs been,
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and this is far from just parents. it's popular for young people. and what they hope will be their train. and heather, it can be good for a lot of people. >> yes, i think it can be good for a lot of people. and there are several different subsets of the homeschooling movement. there's the unschooling side. and the charter school stuff that you mentioned and then there's the fundamentalist christian side much that's not a small group. they don't represent every, but they're powerful. the homeschool defense association is one of the premier advocacy organizations in the country, and they help to set the agenda. they're helping to deregulate where children can fall through the cracks. >> they have advocated against
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background checks for the parents, to make sure that they're not on sexual abuse rem industries before doing homeschool. and i don't understand that. >> i don't either. in the book, teach your own, it was written that that would be a reasonable thing to do, background checks, to see if they have a reporter associated with them. >> we have a viewer question. >> thanks, antonio. does homeschool deprive children of social interaction? >> it can, but no. we're not using the home to isolate our children. we were using the home as a base of operation to let our children go out into the world with opportunities, and museums and all of the opportunities out there. >> heather, you want to say something? >> i think that a lot of it, it depends on the type of family.
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i know within the fundamentalist christian environment, there are a lot of issues with socialization outside of the conservative christian bubble being an issue, and there's a serious problem of children being isolated within the home. so it depends on the individual homeschool. and often, the parents are shy and reserved people, and they're not taking their child out to glow to museums, and the child can spend a lot of time on the home on their own reading books. homeschool is good for some kids, and some can do great. and some can have social anxiety when they get older. that's the thing, it really depends on what the parents are doing. pat said earlier, it's a parenting issue, but also, it's
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a schooling issue, and i don't think that we can divide it up like that. >> we only have 30 seconds left. but some it's show that homeschooling kid do better. and some colleges now are more accepting. do you think that home schooling is going to be more of the norm with 20 seconds left. >> it's going to increase, and i don't think it's going to be the norm where everyone does it at all. but with the learning centers, and more democrat schools and different opportunities, and all of the alternatives to school that are out there, i think it's i everybodytable. >> aninevitable. >> pat, heather, we appreciate you joining us tonight. coming up next, millions of
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americans area making choices based on reviews.
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>> today, in the world of online business reviews. and if you're like me, you check user reviews before you make a reservation at a restaurant or book a hotel room. but one in six reviews on yelp, the popular review site, are bogus. a restaurant would be more likely to post a good review if they had trouble on yelp. and negative reviews on a
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competitor. all of this comes as eric snyder man said that 19 companies were busted as operation clean turf. they had a yogurt shop. and asked the companies to come back on reviews. the companies were asked to post fake reviews on sites. they are are accused of using spoofing techniques to cover their tracks. they allegedly pay writers from distant places in the philippines, and bang are a desh and europe to post reviews. "real money" is at stake. recent findings say that they were altered by reviews.
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and 86% changed their minds with the postings. and a harvard business school said that they boosted the rates. cornell researchers found that a 1 point increase on a five star case, such as trip adviser, allowed hotels to raise rates by 1.2% without losing any business. as always, we need to be aware. >> coming up, sienna miller doing relief work.
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>> film fans know sienna miller as a golden globe nominated actress who has graced red carpets around the globe for a decade. but she has been with a medical group since 2009. and the group has done work for three decades. miller has launched a first responder's program. chef joined us yesterday and started by filling us in with her work on the group. >> it's basically, we're trying to enable people to be
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self-sufficient. so the best response is from the people on the ground and the community itself. so that's our commitment here. and we launched a celebrity group, people that i managed to get together, who will be hopefully -- >> how important is it for you to get those people involved and to help out? >> i think that we respond to that kind of assistance from well-known people, i think that it makes a huge difference for the organization, so i feel very fortunate to have gotten some of the people that we are able to recruit. >> you've traveled to congo and haiti through your role as ambassador, and what struck you the most? >> i've seen so many things, too many to recount. i have seen a woman who
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flatlined in a hut in port-au-prince, and she came back to life. and that was the most profound experience. but ggb and malnutrition and service. starvation, and you see what's being achieved by it. and most of them are locally trained and local vigs. so it's not going in and putting a bandaid on a problem, but training the community to be self-sufficient. and i think it's vital. >> so the consequences of what you see, overcoming very tough situations that you face, that disaster, and how do you deal with the suffering you finance and how does that change it in. >> it's no you realize how fortunate i am in my life.
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and it's a different perspective. it's hard as a new mother to not get upset about the children. but a lot of it is preventable. and you try to shed light on it. and the organization, i'm so proud to be doing what it's doing, and keep working at it. >> arguably, the greatest humanitarian crisis going on in the world is in syria. there are a cop of million people who have left the country. and 5 million displaced within the country. the international medical corps were going to damascus, and now they're in the middle of another. a big grant to help syrian refugees who have gone to turkey and how much have you heard about the organization this. >> it's not something that i'm going to talk about now want
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it's akerfying crisis, but our focus really is on africa, to get 600 men and women and children to be self-sufficient. >> and the international medical corp is about 50 countries, ethnic cleansing and genocide in rorwanda. the challenge is enormous when you face these crises. they have been around for 30 years, and it's a significant organization. what would you tell people who would like to support them? >> i think it's an organization that is completely incredible. i've seen the work firsthand. and as i said before, what they do, which is really different, they really train the community to be self-sufficient. so it's empowering and it's
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respectful of the countries that we're visiting, and the work that they do is incredible. >> talking about ngos, how does the organization coordinate with other humanetarian organizations? what do you see when you respond to these humanitarian crises? >> i was in the horn of africa, and the un depends to run the thing, and there are other organizes, and everyone pitches together. you could get allocated to different things. it doesn't tend to be too competitive when you're in that situation. everybody is trying to help as much as possible, and it works with many, many people owe the
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years. and we're successful in reaching as many people as possible. >> interestingly, we're a bunch of news people, and none of us had heard about the international medical corp. this it has had a total of $133 million since 2011. and that's up this with organizations like doctors without borders that everyone knows about. why is the international medical corp been able to fly under the radar? >> i think that the focus has really been on the work, and obviously, it's incredibly beneficial to have exposure, and that's what i'm trying to do, to shine a light on it as much as possible. but a lot of the funding that people spend on advertising, we really put into the field and into the work on the programs that we're running, but obviously exposure is port. so we have john hamm, and robert
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pattinson and a great group of people we're trying to get international medical corp on the map. and people haven't necessarily heard of us, but that's where i come in. >> important message to get out. what country do you hope to work in next? >> i'm planning a trip to jordan and i think that's going to be intersection on the agenda. i would love to go back to the congo, and it's stunning and in such crisis. but i fell in love with it, and all of the programs are so inspiring. i would love to been in them all. >> sienna miller, we thank you for joining us, and we wish you and the organization the best of your efforts. if you would like to learn more about sienna miller's organization f. go to international corp.org. go to aljazeera.com/consider this, or go to twitter@aj consider this.
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