>> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city, i'm tony harris. the united nations security council is holding an emergency meeting this hour. for those who want january 1st to be covered by national health care insurance, today is your last day to sign up. controversial ban released. are. the u.n. secretary general wants to send 5,000 troops to

south sudan. whether to add infantry battalions, more than 1,000 people have been killed in a week of fighting. the u.n. noted its resources are stretched thin. >> i'm determined to ensure that unmiss has the means to carry out its essential task of protecting civilians. i'll be sending most of today -- i'll be spending most of today calling regional leaders and others to bolster military support for unmiss, as well as political backing for efforts to defuse the crisis. >> haru matassa is in juba. >> peter riat said he was attacked by people carrying

machetes. young people with no apparent loyalties to either side, started to attack with blades that looked like m machetes. >> i don't know what's happening. of the two to three hours i was just in the hospital. >> reporter: and more people are expected to get hurt. president salva kiir says, currently control by rebels. >> the army's duty is to protect the citizens in the republic of south sudan. bring them under the control of the government of south sudan. the army concentrations are on their way. >> things could get worse. that's why this woman won't leave this u.n. compound. even though conditions here are bad. >> there's no water, there is no food. if we are honoringary and we

want to find some food or water, we're urch unable to. >> that doesn't include the people who are looking for shelter in churches, in the cathedral in the capital, in the bush hiding, i've had countless reports of people who have told me that actually leaving the city centers or going back to their villages or hiding out in the savannah is where they feel the safest. >> this camp in juba is stretched to capacity. >> it had to make way for thousands of people who say they are too scared to go home. >> the violence is taking its toll on people. an escalation in fighting between soldiers and rebilities will only worsen the humanitarian crisis. hale matasa, al jazeera, juba. >> let's bring in john 10th.

>> i've been doing these stories and i've been reminded how huge, absolutely huge these countries are. south sudan was one of the largest country in south africa. religion, race resources, that sort of thing. used to say the biggest country in africa, because in 2011 it completely split in two. as you can see 99% of the people in south sudan voted in favor of independence, making south sudan the world's youngest nation. which it is today. the snort still known as sudan, it has 90% of arabic speaking muslims. south sudan is actually more diverse than that. there are more than antoinette ethnic group but christianity is the most prevalent, about 60%

celebrate christianity. tribal region of the dinka and the nuer. and they have fought each other for decades. their conflict is the separate, worth pointing out but does often overlap with sudan's broader conflict between the north and the south. both south sudan and sudan itself depend on oil for its income. most of the reserves are in the south but there are appliance going up through the north, taking the oil by mediterranean to the ports here. the government of sudan has admit completely losings control of unity state which borders with sudan itself and this is where most of the oil is and now there are fears around the world that there could turn out to be an all out civil war breaking out soon in south sudan. president sal ca kiir is a d owners val virginia kiir is a

loyal dinka, the vice president controls most of the country to the north, that unity province where he and his troops are stationed at the moment. the united nations has said in the past couple of hours only and they are meeting at the security council in new york now that 45,000 people are trying to get protection in their main camp in south sudan. the state department said that all the americans in the u.n. camp in bor were safely evacuated after four navy seals were earlier shot in an evacuation attempt we reported here on al jazeera america. one footnote i think is very interesting, in spite of all the oils that both countries have, south sudan the world's newest nation is still one of the poorest in the world. when it succeeded, there was only 65 miles of paved roads in

the whole of the vast country. to give you how big south sudan is, you could fit arizona and new mexico into that country. >> the critical issue is why is this in our self interest? the united states has hundreds of millions of dollars invested into south sudan. it is a big deal. >> it's political, us versus china, money, oil. >> and human rights. >> sorting out the situation, so the oil can be safely extracted. it's all of that. >> ian levine spoke to my colleague, said this violence could drag the country to civil war. >> all the elements are there. you have 200,000 armed man in the spla in the southern sudan army, you only have 10,000 peace

keepers. you have generations of conflict between the dinka and the nuer. it is important for both men to step back and take their time, not through the kind of conflict and attacks on receivables we have seen over the past week. >> president salva kiir said he was willing to speak with machar. french troops shot and killed three former seleka rebels over the weekend. those rebels say they are being targeted more than other troops. mainly through muslin seleka fighters and the christian

ballica group. rulings president vladimir putin has been busy recently releasing prisoners, the two remaining members of the controversial russian punk rock band pussy riot are the latest to win their freedom. peter sharpe reports from moscow. >> maria walked free just after dawn from the remote prison colony where they was serving a two-year sentence. she didn't ask for this amnesty and didn't want it. >> the prison had received an order and that's why i was brought here. i would like to meet human rights activists and would like to engage in human rights activities. >> reporter: the final member of the punk band pussy rois was released from her siberian jail

a few hours later on monday morning. calling for nothing less than a boycott on the russian ploiks. >> i am calling for boycott, i am calling for honesty, i'm calling not to sell yourself for oil and gas that russia can provide. i'm calling to use all humanist traditions and roles which europe talks about so much. >> both were serving a two year sentence for taking part in a demonstration in a moscow cathedral. interrupting the morning services with "mother of god press putin away". >> the largest in moscow is the hoylest of holys. no wonder that pussy riot's antiputin rant at the altar drew

outrage and criticism from church and state in equal measure. the court case was carried around the world. three members of pussy riot jailed, sentenced to two years in a penal colony, after being found guilty of a riot based on religious issue. at president putin's marathon press conference last week he announced they would be free along with 25,000 other prisoners. >> i feel sorry for pussy riot, because of the disgraced position. >> on moscow streets opinions are different. >> they haven't committed any crime. the maximum punishment they deserve is a crime. >> the girls have shown thaird

attitude against putin and society. i would recommend another place to do it. >> charm offensive ahead of the winter olympics. >> the olympics are very close. already we have a statement from the american president that he is not coming, neither the first lady of the united states. we have a statement from the french president that he is not coming either, we have a statement from the british prime mints that he is not coming. >> labor cop colony hundreds of miles away from their children in moscow. both had suffered, during their imprisonment. maria had requested solitary confinement for her sentence. peter sharpe al jazeera in moscow. >> more people are visiting healthcare.gov as today's key

deadline approaches. the federal insurance exchange website had 850,000 visitors as of 2:00 p.m. today. -r l officials say, thr more than 2.8 citizens enrolled in the website. the white house has been making a huge effort to get young and healthy americans to sign up for healthy insurance. melissa chan reports it's been a tough sell. >> it's right before christmas and tory and sarah may have last minute shopping to do but one thing neither of them plans to buy after work is health insurance. the obama administration wants badly for young pairns like this to -- americans like them to enroll. >> the only thing i've seen about obamacare is on saturday night live. >> i did not because i think hearing should be free. >> the congressional office says

it would like to see a third signed up. it's not about the number of people who sign up for obamacare the, it is about the distribution. in order for the system to work enough young, healthy americans must enroll to pay for the health care costs accrued by older americans. if too few young and healthy americans enroll premiums go up. the fear is that they'll become so expensive that they'll discourage enough people from buying which will force premiums higher still, making the system unsustainable. but some states have done well, california's enrollment exchange enrolled 22%. that's on target as a proportion of california's population. >> they don't rely on health care dove, the ferm federal

plan, they just use their tone system. >> holding town halls and workshops to reinforce out and educate the public. some argue for patients saying what's happening in california and other states shows that if done right, obamacare works. >> i think it's worth being cautiously optimistic, given what's coming out of california, given the numbers we're seeing out of new york. i don't think it's the case that plans are unraveling now. >> meantime, young americans won't sign up by monday. >> i've been living this long without health insurance. i'll continue to do the same thim thing. >> continuing on without health insurance even if it means paying a penalty. melissa chan, al jazeera, new york. >> the weather is putting a damper on shopping and travel. sadly, i don't think it's the first time this scene has

happened to the airport. passengers were taken back to the terminal, no one was injured. a tornado swept through arkansas. three adults and a child were injured in the town of hughes when winds ripped through three mobile homes. oklahoma, massive sheets of ice, there it is. falling off the roof of a shopping center and crashing to the ground. no one was injured. kevin is here with more on the weather around the country. kevin. >> tony, well if we had to have any weather april before christmas, i'm glad it mapped this weekend and not as we go towards christmas on the 24th and as we go towards wednesday. i want to show you specifically a look specifically at she boig sheboygan, michigan, over here towards salina kansas city, that was just in a day.

towards the northeast is the rain, the icing and the snow is going to be ending with the storm as we can push out here towards the atlantic and you can see the line out here just to the north of new york city is beginning to end but we do have delays la guardia. two hours delay, boston you could be going down the storm is still really close to you. we are seeing ice storm warnings still in effect for parts of new hampshire as well as maine, the icing was a major event there and temperatures right now albany has risen to 40. we're looking at 52° for new york and philadelphia is at 53. tony. >> kevin appreciate it. thank you. analysts say the housining market is slowly recovery, the syrian regime has a new weapon, low tech and destroying

indiscriminately. destroying the center of that country's economy. back in a moment. here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim in farming. they call it "vertical farming." these fields grow on floors on at industrial park and farmer john adel and his staff agrees user. >> my shipping proceed did you say

1500, 2,000 miles to get are. >> the plant of the indoor -- as the indoor formers call it doesn't grow corn or soybeans but mustard, high end micro greens on the plates of white-napkin restaurants. these fish supply the vert liser that number issues the

>> you know, many analysts say the real estate market is on the solid path to recovery. still a good number of people have given up the american dream of owning a home. but rising rental prices are squeezing out many people. tanya moseley has the report. >> searching online for affordable places to live, rome is homeless, sleeping in a men's shelter. he's been on the waiting list to get into the city's subsidized housing program for three years. >> a reversal of fortune is amazing how quickly it can happen. >> the scarcity of affordable housing particularly for low income people is happening not only here but in cities all across the country. the joint center for housing

studies at harvard reports, the rental options for them is going down. between 2001 and 2011 renters making $19,000 a year or less surged from three million to nearly 12 million. while the rentals is holding firming at 7 million, the occupants are higher income. >> amazon workers can pay a higher first and last month rent. people in lower socioeconomic levels are not always the winners in that. >> few months ago this person's office opened up a waiting list. there were 2,000 slots available. 20,000 applied. >> when you are looking at the projections for the rental market the supply and the demand is pretty flat.

so i don't see that we're going to be coming out of this very soon. >> as the demand for rental housing soars, middle class americans are feeling a squeeze. >> i feel like the rent we pay for this house is absurd and i feel we got a good deal. >> they competed with others for this $1500 a month rental. >> i don't see how anyone can break out of this sort of cycle. >> william rome is hopeful. >> we'll be back on top some day. >> perhaps out of the shelter he now calls home. tanya moseley, al jazeera, seattle. >> christmas is around the corner but big box retailers are still having a difficult time attracting shoppers, even with the deep discounts. david shuster is sitting in for ali velshi. he will be talking about this on

ree"real money". how did the shoppers do david? >> store visits on friday and saturday, as you know those are two of the four most important shopping days of the season, they dropped off by an estimated 7% compared to the same time last year and that's compared to an annal itics firm. that method of shopping is just a slice of the overall pie. when you think of is it would seem to add up that consumers are still not feeling very confident as 2013 winds down. >> is that the message that consumers are sending to

retailers? >> there is a study from the university of michigan which you know i love. consumer sentiment figures have now risen to their highest levels since july. >> really? >> there's a report from the commerce department that consumer spending ticked up, it all means with employment picking up home prizes picking up, the stock market on steroids, americans are more confident but also trying to save a buck. the official deadline for obamacare in order to have coverage start on the first of the new year, is midnight. however the obama administration has extended that for 24 hours. what the key is to having a good on experience 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on "real money." >> david, thank you. three class actions have been filed against the retail giant target seeking more than

$5 million in damages. lawsuits are in response to target stores being hacked. affecting up to 40 million credit and debit card holders. chase bank is now limiting how much its customers can spend in the final days before christmas. it is trailer limiting its withdrawals to $100 a day and card purchases to $300 a day. they are recommending that consumers go to bank branches for additional cash. from the death of nelson mandela and nuclear deal with iran. al jazeera is looking back to the top stories of 2013. mornmore than 300 drowned while trying to immigrate to italy. >> this is a scene he will never

forget, the sea was his second home but two months ago he wpsed a tragedy that made him scared of the open waters. >> translator: we were sailing back to the port when we spotted a strand he boat. i saw a lot of heads in the water. we rushed to their help. >> reporter: at the beginning of october he and his brother were one of the first rescuers to arrive to the aid of the capsized ship. that night domenico and his brother pulled 18 migrants from the sea. he is happy that he could help but is still haunted by those he had to leave behind. >> i've had pal by tairgses ever since. -- palpitations ever since.

>> the idea of leaving the port sends him into a panic attack. but rather than worrying about himself his thoughts go to those he saved. >> are i hope they'll be happy wherever they go, god help them, they have nothing. it is hard for us here, we have a home, they don't. >> for i a seaman like domenico, home is at sea. until his feelings subside, he will stay at home watching his brother go to sea. lampledz. >> they would rethink the country's immigration policies. after a judge said utah has to allow same sex marriages, the state is mounding a legal -- mounting a legal battle. the next is steps in that state coming up. a family's daughter is declared brain dead. why the family is fighting to

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here's a look at your top stories tonight. you have until late tonight to enroll in a health plan if you want your coverage to begin january 1st. but the obama administration says there's a one day grace period if there are issues with healthcare.gov. the website has seen heavy traffic today. the two controversial members of the group pussy riot has been released, it is a latest of a series of parsdz ahead of -- pardons ahead of the olympic games in sochi, russia. conditions getting increasingly worse in the south sudan. cacatl turner, can you tell us

about what the u.n. is discussing? >> this is a letter from the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon. very substantial increase in troops. 7,000 troops are there, 4.5 thousand, are security troops. 223 extra police on the ground as well as 7 extra mements. this is t-- helicopters. a ver serious situation an emergency meeting called with really not very much notice here, considering how slowly things can move in this corridor, 45 minutes notice, they're just to come out shortly i'm told by my producer. they are looking to try to request troops from the neighboring areas such as democratic republic of congo and

from liberia as well. already in the area, such as india, nepal and bangladesh. they are looking at passing this resolution tomorrow morning our time. >> this is interesting because you're talking about how slow things move in the halls in the united nations. compare that to how quickly things are generating. one wonders if the extra troops can really make a difference, given how quickly things have gone downhill there. >> good question. it has been a surprising move of speed here and i think that the u.n. officials here have watched increase being horror just how quickly the swais in south sudan -- situation in south sudan has deteriorated. when the troops get on the ground the u.n. has made it careeclear that this is a reacto the violence, their mandate to

protect south sudanese civilians. this is not a solution to the violence, this is just a way to protect civilians. they are still going through the formal channels are trying to get diplomatic solution. this is really just to try to protect those civilians. more numbers on the ground? sure that is going to help in the short term but you look at that attacked happened on kobo on the weekend where 90 people were outnumbered by 2,000. you were going to get run over no matter what. >> kath appreciate it. one of the key reasons demonstrators are so persistent is anger over widespread corruption. jennifer glasse reports from kiev. >> he knows too well of starting a business here. >> you know very big corruption in ukraine because everything think you should pay. >> for small to medium businesses like his the

landscape is bleak from navigating bureaucracy to dealing with endless inspections and laws that aren't easy to understand. >> we try to figure pout away what taxes we don't have to pay, the ones we have to pay, and whom we have to pay them to. >> reporter: it's not just in business. ukrainians say it affects police health care education almost anything connected with government. >> transparency have international namedden ukraine the most corrupt. viktor yanukovych and those around him siphon billions away every year. >> the president's son alexander his businesses have skyrocketed since his father took office. >> from 7 million to 510 million. >> in three -- >> less than four years. >> and while there are laws

against corruption, they're not enforced. >> there is a problem in ukraine with law enforcement agencies. they will never, ever start progression accusation of corruption of high officials. >> reporter: constantine's business is prime real estate and someone wanted to force him out. >> this shop is known all over kiev and the world. >> after three years of court cases his only solution was to trailer put the historic building in the care of the -- to temporarily put the historic building in the care of the city. >> no chance of winning. >> reporter: he says all he

can do now is wait for ukraine's current leaders to leave office. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kiev. >> a judge's ruling allows uta utah's same sex marriages to continue at least for now. while the appeal is working its way through court system. friday's decision that made utah the 18th state to legalize gay marriage and joining me on the break down decision is civil rights attorney jennifer bonjine, good to have you here. so civil rights leaders won on behalf of the state. >> what they wanted to do was stay the proceedings. and the plaintiff's attorneys and the judge agreed that their arguments for stay were basically repackaged arguments from the merits of the case that they had lost, that they didn't

give any good basis for the stay, that there was no reason to stop the process from moving forward, and for the individuals of utah to go ahead and start getting marriage licenses. >> what would have been the effect of a stay on scenes like what we're seeing here? >> well, it would have prevented the effectiveness or the enactment of the ban, and people would have to hold off on getting their marriage licenses. >> they would have to hold off. >> they would have to hold off on getting their marriage licenses until it went through the appellate process, depends on whether it's a temporary stay or a permanent stay. >> this case is going to proceed, where does it go next? >> the next place it will go will be the court of appeals. >> the federal court of appeals. >> correct. this is in the federal district court. >> where is that? >> this is the 10th district court of appeals. >> have we seen anything like this? >> you have to remember that this case is very new in the sense that it comes post

windsor, wind was the case where the ut -- windsor was the case where the u.s. supreme court struck down doma, defense of marriage act. it is very similar but very different. >> okay. >> in the windsor case the question was whether the federal government could prevent a union between same sex marriages. this is a different question. the question is whether or not the states can prevent marriage between -- >> all right i'm confused. you got me confused. >> yes. it's the federal government versus state government. >> gotcha. >> that's one of the underlying principles. because the doma decision the windsor decision never really decided whether the states could prevent marriage. >> an important decision or a distinction without a difference? >> i believe it is a distinction without much of a difference and i believe shelby made that, the

windsor decision turned on the individual rights of two people to marry two people of the same sex to marry and that seems to be something that's going to prevail here, whether it's the state's trying to interfere or whether the federal government is trying to interfere. >> i wonder if you are in utah and thinking about getting married and you're a same sex couple and you are considering this now, is there a bit of a risk? are you thinking about this carefully now because there could be a situation where the appeals court does uphold the ban. it may be a small possibility, but there's a possibility isn't there? >> yes, i think there probably is something that is in the minds of same-sex couples that maybe their marriage will not be ultimately ratified. but i think a lot of people are anxious to move forward. >> you think this is settled all? >> i'm not saying it's settled all. >> jennifer do you believe this

is settled law or not? >> i believe it should be settled law. i think it eventually should be settled law but there might be outliers out there and this may have to go back to the united states sprort -- supreme court. >> thank you for coming, i know the traffic was difficult. a complication in a tonsillectomy of a 13-year-old girl. a judge has entered a second opinion on the girl's condition. he's tapped the chief child neurologist at stanford university, jehai mcmath went into cardiac arrest. the hospital says her condition is irreversible. the child's family is asking for support. >> please don't give up on my baby. she will wake up. i don't have a doubt. she will wake up. the doctors don't know. they don't know.

god got the final say though. >> hundreds gathered in oakland to support the mcmath family. a spokesman for the syrian government says it will not attend until the government stops using barrel bombs, used on the citizens of aleppo, our report we should warn you has images that viewers might find disturbing. >> children running for their lives. a sign that something terrible has just happened. inside, men tried desperately to free students pinned under the collapsed roof of a school. it's not clear whether all these children survived, but at least one did.

these are the latest pictures from aleppo, a city that already had large parts of it flat end after two -- flattened after two and a half years of conflict. but the aerial bombardment of recent days shattered much of what's left and killed hundreds of people. but many in the city remain defiant. >> we've had a seize of massacres. bashar al-assad thinks we will be defeated by these massacres. we'll tell him that we won't. >> to limit government air strikes these rebels are firing on one of the airports. for over a week, the government has been dropping barrels filled with explosives and shrapnel from aircraft. their powerful and destroyed wide areas. syrian forces don't appear to be targeting anything specific. >> he used to strike us with can

ons and tanks. we were able to tolerate this. but air raids and barrels this reflects how weak he is. because if one wants to show how powerful he is, he has to join the conflict on the ground. because of its strategic importance, aleppo used to be syria's commercial hub. coincides to the runup to planned peace talks in switzerland. as strong a bargaining position as possible for when the negotiations begin. meanwhile the battle to survive, the military onslaught gets more complicated by the day. >> as we were telling you the united nations held a security council meeting just a while ago now and we're getting reaction, here is u.s. ambassador to the

u.n. samantha power. >> to fulfill its mandate. to that end the united states has just circulated a draft resolution responding to the secretary general's request that the council increase unmiss's troop ceiling. the cries i must be resolved through a negotiated solution of political differences and our special envoy don booth was in juba today to help with mediation efforts. i'm pleased to report that special envoy booth was able to meet with the 11 detained opposition leaders, and he found them to be secure and well and very open to ending the crisis through dialogue and reconciliation. so that was an important step today. we're also encouraged at the news that the office of the high commissioner for human rights will be strengthening the work of the unmiss human rights office to begin immediately recording the basic facts about any atrocities and human rights abuses that are occurring. this is a priority and must

happen immediately to be effective. those who commit atrocities might be immune now but we are documenting these abuses and those who are responsible will be held responsible and to effect their calculus. international human rights law must be held accountable and that is something also that the security council agrees upon. the future of south sudan is in jeopardy and this moment demands urgent leadership to avoid further bloodshed and to restore stability. when south sudan was born a short two and a half years ago, the united states proudly stood with its people and its leaders pass this much anticipated new state came into existence. as president obama has said now is the time for south sudan's leaders to show courage and actual leadership, to reaffirm their commitment to peace unity and to better actions for their

people that they have promised. they can return to the political dialogue and spirit of cooperation that helped established south sudan or they can destroy those hard fought gains and tear apart their newborn nation. before i go to your questions which i will do imminently i would like to discuss two other issues that i think require all of our attention. the first is syria. on sunday, a reported 25 civilian were reported --s were reported killed in aleppo, attacked by so-called barrel bombs that are packed with high explosives and shards of metal, deliberately designed to kill as many people indiscriminately as possible. the attacks killed 300 people many of them children. i strongly condemn and the united states strongly condemns these deadly strikes which have no purpose other than to sew

terror and drive people from their homes. attacked the humanitarian crisis in syria by making it more difficult to deliver supplies in aleppo, in one of the neighborhoods that is being bombed ruthlessly. instead of preparing in good faith for talks aimed at ending the violence in syria the assad regime continues to perpetrate atrocities against its own people. we made it clear that a red light for one weapon must not become a green light for another and i join the u.n. join special rept lachtar brahimi to stop these barrel bombs immediately and to engage workers to do their jobs. i just returned from the strearl african republic, where i witnessed how dire the situation

is on the ground. we discuss south sudan and syria but i'd like to say the situation in kiir begs the world's attention. we met with one woman whose husband had been stabbed in front of her, his body doused in gasoline aand set on fire in front of her very eyes. part of what those who survive violence of this nature are crying out for is justice and one of the worries we came away from the central african republic with is those who are not seeing justice being done are increasingly tempted to take violence into their own hands and you are seeing a cycle of retribution that is very alarming. we have a tradition of religious co-existence and harmony. we have lived this way for a long time.

an intermaicialg his or her own or a child of an intermarriage across faith and people describe catholic children going to schools, going and being instructed by the imam and muslims being instructed by the catholic priests. this is the type of intermingling that has gone on for a long time. but it is incredibly important that we support the central african republic, so that vision for kiir prevails. with that why don't i take a few questions. >> thank you, madam ambassador. two questions. first, on south sudan. is the united states ready to respond to the secretary general's request for help in transporting the additional troops, police and equipment to

south sudan and secondly, ambassador cherkin just said that yes, there was council support. but he questioned some of the, what he called editorial comments in the u.s. draft resolution. and i wonder if you could tell us what he might be referring to. >> i -- let me take that question first. he seemed very supportive of the need to both approval the secretary general's notional plan, that was the overarching message. i'm not sure what he was referring the as he departed. but again overwhelming consensus, overwhelming desire to move quickly. you know very significant alarm on the part of councilmembers by the accounts by edmond and

others of the possibility of imminent confrontations at u.n. bases where civilians are gathered. i mean there was -- this was not a politicized or ideologic or editorial meeting. everyone was rolling up their sleeves to see how can we help as quickly as possible. when the security council has authorized troops in this the delivery on those sort of forced realignments will not be immediate. so that is again another reason for the urgency. both the gravity of the situation on the ground, the sense that worse could come, and the recognition that it's going to take at least a few days to actually move resources. on the question about the u.s. disposition towards the request, honestly, the level at which we have received it now is very,

very high level. it is referring to specific missions from which they would -- that they would recommend deploying moving troops and where, and this comes back to an earlier question i think was asked, where they assess that those troops can be loaned without doing damage to the extant sort of source country mission. so i think they have gone through that exercise themselves on the specifics of how troops would be lifted or again what the general means by which these redeployments would occur, those proposals have not yet come to us at least did not come to us in this meeting. >> does the is resolution put a time limit on the increasing of the authorized number of troops for south sudan and the former vice president said today he was willing to start negotiating if those 11 prisoners were

released, just want to get your thoughts on that. >> there's been no resolution yet, we got some very thoughtful comments from a number of delegations oso we're need to incorporate them. again everyone's on the same page so it's about creating the best product possible, recognizing we're desiring to move this asap, we would want the secretary general to report back to the council. whether these deployments themselves will provide sufficient rormts in order to ensure that u.n. peace keepers themselves are also not isolated and vulnerable the way some of them have been. so that's one question. and the other would be what has been the effect of the missions from which those troom troops he been drawn. that would lead all

councilmembers to check in with the secretary general and do so quite quickly. with regard to musharraf's comments that i believe he made to reuters by coincidence, i guess what i would say is, we were encouraged that president kiir licensed special envoy booth to go and see the detapeees and also then follow through on that. there had been a previous commitment to egad because those ministers also wanted to visit with the detainees. we take this as an important step in the right direction. president kiir has said he will sit down for negotiations with no precns. riek machar has laid this out as his preconditions. there are a whole host of differences, these included. for as long as these two individuals are at loggerheads

refusing to sit down with one another nent people are being killed on nothing other than ethnic grounds in the south sudan. thanks so much. >> all right, there you have it. let me lose this picture hereby. we'll talk about the central actors in just a second, john terrett is with me as we sort through what was said by the u.s. intor to the u.n -- ambassador to the u.n, samantha power. >> the key line, as long as the two leaders are refusing to sit down and talk. >> riek machar -- >> who was the former vice president who was fired by the president. there's samantha power the united states ambassador to the u.n. saying look as long as these two long time rivals, they have never liked each other even when they were in the cabinet. >> they have the same ambition,

they both want to run the country. >> innocent people are going odie many of them along ethnic lines. she was saying that the council has drafted a resolution, that will be sent back to capital cities tonight and there could be a vote on this on tuesday. the basic situation is to beef up the peace keeping force and 400 policemen as well all of this in south sudan and all of this to try and stop this incredible violence which is going on. >> what is the mission, is the mission to protect civilians, to get civilians out of the country or is it to somehow mediate this dispute? what then becomes a mission? >> i think what you have to remember, what is never very clear from looking at the map, is our big these companies are, you can't police them, they're huge, it's impossible. the best thing you can do is

send troops inside to help keep them from killing each other. the marines are going to djibuti, which has 100 people -- >> let's talk about the rentals. you mentioned these long time guys don't care about each other, they have ambitions to do the same, riek with machar has ambitions, thought of as a very ambitious man and wants to run the country. he is essentially holed up in unity. the position that puts the president right now is what do i do about the situation in unity, do i send my troops to recapture this territory, here is salva kiir right there. that would mean a lot of bloodshed right? >> you must remember about the country of south sudan, is the

world's newest country. 60% christian. 200 different ethnic groups there, we don't know for sure who shot at the american soldiers on intersaturday, could be any one of 200 groups. a very basic issue there, a very tribal society and pulling it together is tough. >> it is tough. we'll continue to talk about this plenty. john appreciate your time. we'll continue to follow the elements of the story, a draft ef whrution is being circulated by the neighbor states, are photoed on tomorrow. i'm tony harris and until then, headlines coming up next.

this is "al jazeera america" liver from new york city. i'm tony harris. the u.n. security council is set to vote on tuesday to increase the troop commitment to south sudan by more than 5,000 soldiers. there was an emergency meeting of the council late today. tens of thousands of refugees factions last n. bases since week. the two remaining members of the controversial punk band pussy riot have been released from a russian prison. they were jailed last year. it's the latest on the series of pardons ahead of the olympic games in sochi, russia, this coming february. today is the deadline to sign