>> america not coming to iraq? president obama holds off giving more u.s. military aid. we'll have a talk with an american general who trained iraqi troops. a "consider this" exclusive, afghanistan goes to the polls. we could speak to the man who could be the country's next

president. and so much for science fiction, a real star ship enterprise at the very planning stages at na nasa. hello i'm antonio mora. welcome to "consider this." more on what's ahead. >> the americans may have left iraq but the war goes on. >> thousands of shiite civilians are pledging to fight back against sunni militants. >> we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq. >> tight security is in place across afghanistan ahead of sat' run off election. >> could affect voter turnout. >> abdalla abdalla and nashraf gani. >> bowe bergdahl is in a texas military facility for further

evaluation. >> might give you a menu and say choose what you want to eat. >> united nations raising extreme alarm over summary executions, rapes, beheadings of civilians in iraq as islamic insurgents show no sign of pulling back. president obama says no u.s. troops will be sent. >> the united states is not simply going to involve itself in a military action in the absence of a political plan 50 iraqis, that gives us some assurance that they're prepared to work together. >> but the deep divisions in iraq were on display again friday as iraq's most influential shiite cleric encouraged followers to take up arms and defend their country from the sunni insurgents of the islamic state of iraq and the

levant, the sunni group claims it has already executed 1700 shiite soldiers. joining us from washington, d.c, is retired u.s. army general pawrpaul eden. he was in charge of training iraqi forces during operation iraqi freedom. general real pleasure to have you with us today. so the bottom line from the president today no imminent air strikes on i.s.i.l. i know military operations take time to plan, but informs overran the iraq's second largest city two days ago. what are we waiting for? >> this is something the american military can react quite quickly to. if actually motivated to do so. so i would expect the president to be fairly aggressive with his team to get things moving quickly. because there are a lot of

things that we can do. short of slow movement of men and materiel. >> some of the reports have been the u.s. military planners are concerned that aerial attacks can be problematic because we don't have great intelligence on i.s.i.l, and even if we did, they don't work in traditional ways with clear supply lines and bases that lend themselves to aerial attacks. you said this week you were convinced that the specter of the united states killing more arabs with air strikes is a bad optic. what can we do? >> antonio, part of what i.s.i.l. does, they hug local inhabitants. the idea of collateral damage would be a serious one to consider. these folks don't present targets in isolation. what we can do, we can do what we do very well throughout the world and that is to provide

advisor support at certain headquarter level, a small team of advisors, several hundred men could have a significant difference in the performance of iraqi units. we have a -- american military when embedded in units have a stiffening capacity for those units. and we see it wherever we work with armed forces worldwide. >> but how easy will it be to get those kinds of teams into iraq, given the political situation there? >> well you mention the political situation. what the president has said is we're exacting a political agenda here with mr. maliki, because what created the absence of americans to begin with was the failure of the maliki government to achieve a status of forces agreement that would basically give the protections

to american military deployed in iraq. so the stage is set. we can get teams in and they would be able to work with the iraqi military that is moving as we speak to defend the city of baghdad. and i believe that they would have a positive effect, with our iraqi friends. we developed close relationships with the advisors that we had in the past. so this is something that would not be hard to achieve and it would be very doable political politically, provided the prime minister does the right thing. >> right but the question is how long do we wait? we heard the president talk about political change before we do this. the iraqis seem desperate, how quickly can we do this? it really is a quandary.

the irony is we have to help al-maliki and his thuggish sectarianism is the problem. >> i understand but i cannot see into the phone conversations that are going between u.s. leadership and iraqi leadership. we have to have on the table an agreement and a request, in order to deploy our guys. that may be in the works right now. but i also know, talking to folks who have worked with the al-maliki government in the past, that they don't move quickly. and it's tough to get a decision, particularly when we're talking about bringing americans back into iraq, wheel we have the kuds forces working side by side with the iraqi army. so this is a political problem that is besetting mr. al-maliki

as well as our own president. >> and how about the geopolitical problem we're facing? again al-maliki's sectarianism, he has favored shiites, the cirdz havkurds have an almost as site in the northwest, and the kurds up in the north and northeast? >> we have seen that, i would expect there's a simultaneous action going on with a regional diplomatic campaign plan whereby the united states, where a secretary of state brings in the foreign ministers of the countries who have a dog in this

fight. and we need all of them who have an interest in the outcome, that's jordan, turkey, syria. we have to work with syria. they're a significant part of the problem. iran is certainly a country that has an interest in the outcome. we have to work with everybody who has an interest and has the possibility of assisting. >> we talked yesterday about the reports that iranian forces were already coming in to help in iraq and today reports that officials in rawfn are saying that they would be even willing to work with the united states? does any of that surprise you? but yet on the other hand, secretary of state john kerry says he doant want sort neighbors to get involved. >> i think it's a good idea for neighbors to get involved in a positive way. and iran -- people tend to get mad when i say this -- iran is a

national ally with united states. there are a number of iranian interests that line up with our own breasts, not all of them. but whruz are working with a country that is in sync with your own it can have a very positive outcome. >> final question. has this been a failure of foreign policy by not getting involved in syria, letting i.s.i.l. become more strong in that war, getting significant amounts of money, controlling oil fields and allowing them to have the power to move into iraq right now and who knows what kind of terrorist activity could occur? >> i believe that we have a regional comploamentic failure.

i believe a morals aggressive regional circumstances could attenuate all the drama going on now. >> a lot of people dead, the u.n. says, 800 people have been displaced already. retired u.s. army veterans paul eaton. thank you for coming. >> thank you for vieting me. >> bowe bergdahl, who spent five years captive, finally arrived back in the u.s. friday. bergdahl will now begin a new face of medical and psychological treatment at brooke army medical center in san antonio, texas. an official said he was in stable condition but has yet to have any contact with his family. >> during his stay here sergeant

bergdahl will engage in rera integration. the necessary toofl to regain physical and emotional stability. >> while his homecoming bore no resemblance to those from the vietnam war, every kay is uniq unique. doctors said friday, sergeant bergdahl has non-not been informed of his release. he's a retire u.s. navy counselor who has council pow pows. word is that he was confined in a cell that was not large enough for him to stretch out his arms. the threat of being killed.

>> as you mentioned earlier, we now know that he endured two years of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation. that amount of time will have a significant am of tress on secondary credit state, what i would refer to as cognitive functioning you have treated vietnam pows who were hired some cases, two years of his five years in captivity in solitary confinement but you would see them come back, stand before reporters as i was saying, without any long reintegration process? why the difference? >> as you mentioned, my work was

in world war ii many ii. 591 vietnam pows were returned. most of them were air crews, pilots or special operations personnel. number of these individuals also had the opportunity to go through sear trainings which prepared them in the event that they were captured. so they were functioning at a. different level. often they were in groups with fellow comrades. so they had their own support group. in fact, they were able to establish military protocol and rank and structure. that's very different from the experience of being isolated, being the only one. and in fact, complete period of isolatioisolation for the perio. >> what will be the next phase,

post captivity isolation? >> if i recall they're going to go at a pace that wee worked bet for him. getting him acclimated to being in the u.s. military. then they will start the process of debriefing. right now, they allow him to talk about his experience in almost a story type of fashion. once they feel he is ready he will go through a formal debriefing. this is structured, specific questions, he will talk about the time line of what happened up to the point of captivity. he'll talk about captivity. and as he's going through process of discussing his captivity they'll be asking clarifying questions as well as address issues that they want

further information on, that he might be able to identify. >> you know, another difference with vietnam pows and this is something that people are speaking a lot about. bergdahl apparently does not want to see his parents yet and we heard this at the press conference. >> it is the retur returnees' ce when and where he is reunited with his family. >> he was taken hostage. he was isolated. we're not sure of the level of maybe interrogations that he underwent. we don't know if he was tortured. we know he dealt with a great deal of sensory deprivation. in fact he probably for a period

of time lost english language. that's allow he was having difficulty in speaking english when he was released. i wouldn't be surprised if he was even at the point in time where he was thinking in peshtoon rather than in english. it is pretty much a shock that period of time, in coming back the ak la maition is going to ad as a hostage for that period of time. >> the process for bergdahl could potentially include a lot of people, members of his former unit, doctors, lawyers, they may hold back the mention of why he disappeared from his unit. how long do you think the process will take, i know i'm

making you speculate here, before the point where he actually gets debriefed? >> i think it's going to take longer than expected. here's an individual that there were indicators of mental instability before he was captured. we learned recently, that in fact, he was he went into the coast guard and he was released from the coast guard because of psychological issues and he went into the united states army. >> that has raised a lot of questions on its own as to how that happened. >> good question. we're not sure if he falsified the information. we're not sure if simply the two systems were not talking to each other. or it might have been just a simple oversight. but i just find it pretty awkward that he was rejected from the coast guard, he was released or discharged from coast guard services and he was able to get into the united states army. that's something that baffles

me. >> final question. you describe just the horrible situation that he was in and that kind of de deprivation on o many different levels. does anyone ever get over that kind of isolation and treatment? >> no. they get distance from it. they go through a process of reacclimated, to return to normal life. but the question is how much of that is going to continue to shape him or haunt him for rest of his life or become a horrible experience as time goes on is a distant memory. >> doctor we appreciate you joining us and giving us your insights. thank you. now for some more stories from around the world. we begin in ukraine, u.s. state department officials confirmed on friday that separatists have

obtained tanks and military equipment from russia. >> in the last three days a convoy of three t-scour tanks several bm 21 or grad multiple rocket launchers, crossed from russia into ukraine. this is unacceptable. we call on russia to use this opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to peace to stops fighters crossing into ukraine. >> this despite the fact that russia denies supplying are separatists with weapons. mariupole is on a major road to russia. june 4th four long range russian bombers came near american air space. they were interceptby u.s. fighterfighters in jets in alas.

the russian planes never breached american air space but they did come into the 200 mile u.s. air defense identification zone. norad spokesman jeff david said plane are intercepted several times a year but it was a very professional encounter on both sides. new orleans, chris christie joined jimmy fallon. they danced around what could happen in 2016 but the real dancing came when fallon and christie's evolution of dad-dancing. and fallon's latest "the bridge

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comcast business built for business. >> afghanistan's political future is at stake this weekend as the u.s. prepares to ramp down its troop presence there after nearly 13 years of war. security has been tightened after taliban threats of nonstop attack. the current candidates are abdalla abdalla and dr. ashraf aghanghani. i was joined by ashraf ghani.

also worked as an official at the world bank. >> dr. ghani thank you for joining us. i wanted to talk about this poll that came out. the fact that you plagued a rather distant second, you now expect to win. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. yes, i do. the public has been genuinely mobilized. our program for reform of the country has been welcomed and the debate has been very encouraging and this poll shows that we are leading, and we are fairly confident of victory. >> one of the concerns of course as always in afghanistan is that the taliban has again threatened to attack polling places. it has stepped up its attacks in recent days including going after your opponent, abdalla abdalla, in a bombing that killed a number of people.

how concerned are you that these elections will be fair and safe? >> well, thank god that my esteemed colleague, dr. abdalla abdalla is safe. we condemn in the strongest terms this attack on the convey and condemn the loss of life. whoever will be isolated from the public, we call on all our funds to allow the ballot box to replace the bullet because we have a genuine opportunity to solve our problems through political process and engage the citizenry. it is critical to prosperity. >> certainly one of the things that has helped you in this election process you named abdul rahsin dosdem as your running mate. he was instrumental after 9/11,

a strong man who controlled the militia. you yourself called him a known killer a few years ago. you called him the kind of power broker that afghanistan needs to get rid of. how does that jell with the way you have portrayed yourself as a reformer taking afghanistan and making it a modern country? >> first of all, bought into my reform program. he's not engaged in corruption. thirdly, if we are going obring genuine peace to the country we need to include people who have been engaged in conflict. and fourthly, he has been the only person in the past that has publicly apologized to the public and has been willing to take a new lease on life. he is a leader with charisma

that has transformed him self from a political party and has paved the way to take leadership in civilian ways. he is going to come as civilian clothes as the vice president not as the head of a military force or a militia. and the support that we've gained shows that he has public roots and public support. and that's what we are going to harness for building of a modern afghanistan. and that moder afghanistan will represent the will and wishes of the majority. >> he brings you the uz beck us, your rival, abdalla abdalla l,

is half tajik. are you worried those divisions will help tear afghanistan apart? >> no. we have crot cutting ties -- crosscutting ties. the concerns of the youth are not on ethnic grounds but on generational grounds. we have a million people with the civility, we have five million refugees, we have a million internally displaced. teachers, security personnel, merchants, investors. these are cross-cutting ties. dr. abdalla has in his camps of people who represent all named groups in the country and so do i. so it's a difference in approach. to governance and to problem-solving, rather than who we were born into. >> another thing afghanistan has been cursed by over the years is

violence. you support the bilateral pact that president karzai has refused to sign. you said you would sign it immediately. are you disturbed by the fact that president obama has said he would pull out the troops by 2016? >> we are encouraged by the amount, we will focus on the reform of the security sector in earnest to show both to the u.s. administration and particularly the u.s. congress who, after withdrawal of u.s. security forces, are going to be key players in determining allocation of security in afghanistan. i welcome this opportunity because it forces us to form to

think the partnership with united states and nato very seriously in work to thank our partners for their sacrifices in treasury and blood, to demonstrate that the resources they are allocating for us or being built for stability that we will overcome the cancer of corruption and create those institutions that would be answerable to our people and thereby contribute both to our own security and to global stability. >> but you see what's happening in iraq with sunni islamic fighters from i.s.i.l. overrunning major cities and really creating a tremendous civil war already in iraq. can afghan forces control afghanistan facing the threat of the taliban, facing the threat of islamic extremists if u.s. forces withdraw? >> the reform of our security forces now is an imperative

because a time line has been put. a time line concentrates the mind because it shows that responsibility is ours, and among my first actions as president, will be to activate the office of the commander in chief and take responsibility for a national security strategy, a defense strategy, and a security strategy that can be implemented credibly. with this, the threats that we are facing from extremist networks are not national. they are regional and global. so we hope that in the light of the experience of iraq and our commitment to reform, the parameters of this partnership will be reviewed and we'll be able to consolidate, expand, and build upon a foundation that is very necessary both for our security and that of the united

states and the world. >> will you be a better partner for the united states than hamid karzai was? >> hamid karzai functioned under different circumstances. i will be assuming the presidency when massive u.s. presence in afghanistan would be a thing of the past and i would make every effort to enter into and consolidate a partnership that is both with the u.s. government, u.s. congress, the u.s. public, and the u.s. economic and culture actors. partners work with each other to design a process, understand, change of circumstances, adjust to each other's requirements, and build and enter upon friendships that are going to be enduring. >> now, some analysts believe that the taliban aren't even the biggest threat to afghanistan

because the country now faces a deadline because it hasn't taken action when it comes to money-laundering. afghanistan is being threatened by being black listed by the international country. one of the very few countries that would be black list said that way that could hurt any kind of foreign investment. is the economy, is the issues of corruption and the government is that a bigger problem moving forward than the taliban? >> we have, we have the natural resources the water resources and most significantly the entrepreneurial energies of our people. but we need to fashion an economic system that can produce profits, legitimate profits for the investors, revenue for the government, work for the people and standard products for the consumers. this is a fundamental challenge, because this is the challenge that will overcome the

recruitment into extremist networks. peel who live da day to day and cannot make ends meet are easy prey and we need to make sure that every afghan man and woman becomes a stakeholder in an economic and political system that gives them a lease on life and therefore makes them defenders of the system. >> one of the challenges you face economically is that 15% of the economy could be opium cultivation, you have to deal with that. you wrote a book fixing failed states. can you fix afghanistan? >> i very much hope so. i've worked at this for 40 years. i know the region, i know the world, i'm known to negotiate hard but then to deliver.

and delivery is what the public who would have appointed me, the mandate would be to deliver to the public what the public wants, which is lasting reform. so i see myself as a catalyst for the younger generation assuming management and leadership of the country and equipping a country that is on the top to prosperity and stable politically and secure to the future generations. >> dr. ashraf ghani, it's a pleasure to have you with us and i hope you will join us after the elections. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. the battles in the field are rivaled to the riots in the streets. a relatively new are holiday, father's day.

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>> day 2 of the 2014 world cup is over, protesters seem to have been quieted.

opening day was marred by protests across the country. thousands happy excited fans were making their way into the games. begging the question: are brazilians that unhappy with the world cup. joining us from rio de janeiro, dave zyron, host of edge of sports radio, and author of dance with the devil. you flew into rio on thursday, there have been all these protests and strikes. one of them was airport workers. did you have problems coming in? >> well, when i came into rio the strike had ended at the airport, but all around, symbolic, there were stickers that airport workers had actually pasted up in the airport, whose world cup will

this be? i saw workers furiously trying to scrape them off the walls. as we were coming into the airport. there is an effort by the airport officials and the brazilian government to make this as clean a ride as possible especially for visiting tourists and journalists, for the rest of the month. yesterday at most you had a thousand people marching actually right behind me at copa cabana beach, fifa fan fest, where tourists gather to celebrate the start of the world cup. you haven't seen the protests like in 2013 where over a million people took to the streets. it's very stunning to me once you get out of the official neighborhoods around where the

world cup is and around where the sponsorship trucks are and the hotels, just frank reply how few brazilian flags you see. there's a lot of excitement about the cup but that should not be confused with people being excited to host the world cup. those are two different things. on the opening day when the camera panned to the president, and the cheers quickly turned to rather resounding boos. >> brazilians going into the game, after the brazilian team's victory in the opening game. couldn't it be about for brazil in the end, some of the facilities are going to be used in the future, brazil gets unbelievable publicity. we heard ernst and young say

that brazil will get a 17% boost in tourism and that will carry over to the future. >> especially the thousand of hotel rooms that were built for the event, i was a place called a favela, just a five minute walk from the famed maracana said yum. 700 people lived in the favela, they are all gone now. all that's left is store fronts, and piles of rubble. the goal was to pave over this favela and make a parking lot. now at best they are saying, there will be parking lots for the 2016 olympics. all that's left is broken toys and sofas with stuffing pulled out of it. you are really talking about two different brazils, where

thousands of wealthy tourists are rushing in and then the brazil that's left behind and that brazil isn't going anywhere and keep an eye on this thursday, the one year anniversary of the confederations cup and that's the day the protests are called to be held. >> if it's such a bad day for host countries and host cities should the events only be held in the richest countries? >> not necessarily the richest countries. brazil is the fifth largest comi in the world. there's nothing wrong with the wealth. it's the infrastructure that these games demand, with regard to the security demands that are made and i have to tell you i've seen some military hardware on the streets antonio that would make g.i. joe blush. it's so intense.

it's just to say you need to have the world cup and the olympics i think in a stable rotation of locales, so it has use value beyond that event. otherwise you have a situation in greece where the homeless are living under dilapidated olympic structures that have gone to rot. >> the world cup and the olympics are watched by billions around the world. so important events for so many. but again you have to take into consideration. >> sure. >> the people who are suffering as a result of these events. dave, it's good to have you with us. the book is brazil's dance with the devil the world cup the olympics and the fight for democracy. dave glad to have you with us. in a quick programming note, al jazeera's original sers series,e

system, focuses on parole boards. you'll see how board members are still on edge whenever they release a prisoner back into society. society. >> whenever i see something that is happened in the news my first reaction is to say please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole. >> did you fight with a nine month pregnant ex girlfriend? >> all i did was not push her but moved her to another room. >> somebody is going oget out, they are going to do something, it's heinous, it's going to happen. we are dealing with career criminals. >> i thought my life was in danger. >> the ones that are low risk those are easy. it's the ones in the middle that can go either way where you sit and think, oh, if the planets align just right will this guy

kill somebody? >> that new episode of the system air here at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. space taxi program. first, how did father's day start, much younger than you think. most of you are much older than the official holiday. data dive is next. next.

>> on techknow. we're heading to cutting edge cal tech campus >> here's a look at just a few of the students shaping the future of science >> see the latest research, discoveries and breakthroughs inside some of the worlds most advanced labs. >> how do you scale somethig you learned from a jelly fish? >> techknow every saturday go where science meets humanity. this is some of the best driving i've ever done, even though i can't see. techknow. we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >> today's dats dive breaks down father's day by the numbers.

dads get less than moms. in fact father's day is an also-ran when compared to other holidays. the national retail federation estimates, americans will spend $114 on dad this year, and $112 less than moms got this year. that's right, moms get twice as much on gifts on mother's day, than dads to on father's day. it's still a retail day, with an estimated $5 billion spent. but father's day takes nearly fifth biggest holiday. mother's day is second, valentine's day, even the easter bunker commands more spending than fathers. at least we're ahead of halloween. 1928, a church in fairmont,

virginia, honored the men who died in a coal mine disaster. and got astate holiday in washington state. calvin coolidge urged all states to celebrate the holiday. there was a push to combine mother's day and father's day into parents day, but retailers needed two holidays rather than just one. father's day didn't become a national holiday until 1972 when president nixon signed the proclamation. so happy father's day to all. coming up, could kci phi become a reality? reality?

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al jazeera america, take a new look at news. >> science fiction may get a whole lot more real soon. nasa has just revealed its mockups of a real sprps. that's right, a - enterprise. new images of what a warp speed spacecraft might look like. it was designed by a physicist by nasa's advanced propurgs team. it certainly looks great, something out of star trek and supposed to travel faster than speed of light, hmm? >> it's a gorgeous design and i

hove that spacecraft eventually look like that some day. if it were only as easy to make the physics work, we would be across the galaxy in no time. this is a hard nut to crack. trying make something go faster than speed of light is rife with problems. einstein pointed to problems that still exit today. the idea of this spacecraft is compressing the time ahead of it, and sprettin spreading the a behind it. you reduce the space you're going to cover. that really isn't a trick to make something like that happen, and really physicists don't have a good idea how they could do that just yet. >> how much of this is pie in the sky? this does sound like something out of space time continuum something you would see in star

trek. >> you always have to throw in space time continuum just to make it sound good antonio. but the reality is what physicists are beginning to understand is at the quantum level of physics, the very smallest levels of physics there are some very strange things that can happen in fhotons, the suggestion that a possibility of this might exist. but that is athe photonic level. moving a spacecraft or something of enormous size is a different thing. this is going to call enormous, enormous, did i say it clearly antonio, enormous amount of energy. that's the difficulty. >> let's turn to some other pretty cool news. boeing is creating a space taxi. the company unveiled a mockup of the cst 500, would transport

astronauts to the space station. the boeing space taxi is much smaller than the shuttle. how would it work? >> the idea is that it's only meant to be a craft, a vehicle to take astronauts from the surface of the earth to lower earth orbit, to rendezvous with another spacecraft. they're not going to spend any time in this. just go to lower it other. it only takes eight minutes to get from the ground to other, that's to begin with, then in another 90 minutes you're ready to dock with international space station. we're finding that's how stroanlts go there now. -- astronauts go there now.

you're in the capsule for two hours, two and a half hours, not very long at all. this is what this would do. there is another spacecraft being developed by lockheed martin, called the orion, doing the large job of carrying astronauts from the moon to mars. >> this would be ready in 2017. >> it would be reusable. the very important point, it can be reused over and over again, the actual cost that goes into developing it is driven down by the number of times it's used. since it's just a space taxi and we have the technology in hand, it's not unreasonability to have reuse. it's the reusability that's important. >> how does it work?

it just looks like a capsule, how does it take off and land? >> it has to go onto a launch vehicle. so nasa is in the process of developing launch vehicles that will carry it from the surface of the earth into lower earth orbit. you put it on a rocket, the rocket blasts into space, this space taxi goes on to the space station and that's recovered for reuse also. >> don't have much time left but i do want to take up, google isn't confirming that it's taking up space in virgin galactic. trying to plan these space tourism flights. is the company having problems? >> it is the idea that these other companies like google see opportunities in the work being done by virgin galactic. not only is virgin galactic

doing the space tourism part but they're also developing their own spacecraft technology. this is yet another player that can provide launch services for much, much cheaper than nasa can do it. the government infrastructure that makes thing so much more difficult so it looks like a great opportunity for google to get its space on that platform. >> and bring internet accessibility to more people in the world. >> absolutely, global communication. >> lot of fascinating stuff in the space world. darryl, good to see you. >> thanks antonio. >> that's all for now. widespread wrongdoing on wall street, helped create the financial crisis. yet who were the ones to pay with their jobs. also, we'll go under the sea, to talk with jacques cousteau's grandson.

hoping to break a record set by his grandfather. are we'll see you next time. >> hello everybody and welcome to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster in for john siegenthaler. it is 11:00 p.m. on the east coast, 8:00 p.m. out west and you're watching the only life national newscast at this hour. just ahead. >> we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq. >> the president is clear. america will only go so far when it comes to the crietio crisis . plus. >> i made the film so that soldiers