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are arbreaking news tonight. there may be, may be hope for a ceasefire in gaza. 1:00 a.m. eastern time. an israeli delegation is also expected to head to egypt for negotiations on a more lasting truce. earlier, a senior hamas leader spoke to al jazeera about the truce. >> we have a road map for ending the israeli attack against gaza. we hope the israelis will be committed and with it respect the upcoming 72 hours and if that happens, we hope we can work out the whole agreement about the ceasefire and the lift of the siege on gaza. >> but even with this potential new disagreement many in gaza really skeptical. charles stratford filed this

report from gaza. >> many are tucked up in bed and fearful for more air strikes. even if they are pretty cynical about these latest proposal, you are looking at a population that has suffered a month of pummeling. a military bombardment that has destroyed thousands of homes and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and glaise dispd them. you only have to go into the schools and talk about how cynical they are about having been voted back and told by the israelis they can go back in the last couple of days. what is interesting though is that this latest proposal comes almost at the same time as we were getting reports by israel that they had destroyed all the tunnels, that the military campaign certainly on the ground what they said was their initiative, what was their real aim was to smash these tunnels

was all over. although we have had three ceasefires before and they have all failed this one does come in a particular interesting context. certainly amongst the palestinians here they have better than as cynical as they have been in recent times over previous ceasefires. joining me, ben ma -- alan. pass ceasefire have not held. why will this be any different? >> i think as you mentioned from the reporter, some things change on the ground, namely israel's stated objective, the destruction of the tunnels, that mission has been accomplished. there is another objective, they

have been criticizing israel for indiscriminate bombing, perhaps israel wants to show it is humane and it is willing to accept a ceasefire. it has offered that before and it was the palestinians who violated it. the other thing is the palestinians in gaza are putting a lot of pressure on hamas to accept some sort of negotiation because they are in desperate, desperate situation. these three factors are important, give me the feeling, the impression that the ceasefire may last through the 72 hours, although anything can trigger the resumption of violation. >> absolutely. so alan what's thing significance if any of egypt's role in the ceasefire? >> very, very so.

notwithstanding the animosity between egypt and hamas, egypt remains the only significant player, because of the geography, because of the interest to prevent islamist organizations such as hamas from causing further fatalities and damage to egypt itself. it has very great deal of interest trying to quiet the situation and work out a more sustainable ceasefire. >> alan will this lead to more talks on alasting ceasefire? >> it is possible. on my article for the week i am mentioning one thing. to me, there is an opportunity, probably unlike any other in the past, for israel as well as the palestinians, to seize this opportunity, having concluded from this terrible, terrible war that lasts nearly a month that

there will be no winners, absolutely no winners. both sides will be losing from a different perspective. and the time has come for them to reconcile two things, for israel to accept the fact that there is a hamas that has to be dealt with and bring about the ending of the blockade and for hamas to recognize that to end all are violence, to enact a political solution. there is some ground although very, very small to build on that. >> would any discussion of a more permanent ceasefire have to include discussions on demilitarizing hamas and i know how difficult that discussion would be, and in addition to lifting the blockade of gaza that both of these items would have to be on the table for there to be any legitimacy about talks of any lasting ceasefire? >> there is no doubt about it. that is the objective of hamas

is to lift the blockade completely and the objective of israel to demilitarize gaza. you are asking sit possible? this is possible but it has to be done in phases, has to implore reciprocity and has to inspire trust. you can't do it in a month or two, probably two or three years provided that both live up to the commitment they are making. so it is extremely difficult but it is possible if you have the bill will -- will and the leadership to pursue this avenue. >> that is the big question, leadership in this issue. alan ben mayer. thank you. >> my pleasure. tensions arising after an attack o on jerusalem's are sc

scenes. a report. >> as this was happening a pedestrian was caught underneath and has since died. and the police were nearby. one policeman, he immediately opened fire at the excavator's driver and killed him. his body is beneath that whieft plastic there. tension has been running obviously high in jerusalem with what's going on in gaza with alerts going out for any potential attacks. the police say that they're treating this as a terrorist attack. and they say that the dead man is palestinian. they've carried out a search of the area around. >> so here is a look now at the toll of this conflict. so far nearly 1900 palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians. nearly 9500 people have been injured. united nations say 475,000 palestinians have been displaced, 265,000 of them are staying at u.n.ing.

>> 350,000 people have been told not drink the water in the western end of lake erie where the algae bloom the concentrated due to high winds. officials are saying the water is safe and residents are yet still concerned. bisi onile-ere joins me from toledo. the mayor brought hope to hundreds of thousands of residents but what exactly did he say? >> yes tony, some residents are still skeptical. the mayor said after numerous tests the city's water supply is safe. the mayor michael collins went so far as to have a drink of water just to show people that it is safe. this algae bloom in lake erie really paralyzed the small city.

tens of thousands of people trapped, dependent on the city to provide fresh bottled water. so many fears over the tap water, the contamination could call illness in people and could also kill animals. there is a lot of relief that this is over. but the sense is over at least for right now, tony. this might not be over. >> bisi, my understanding is this kind of thing has happened before and i'm wondering if folks are nervous it would happen again. >> as i mentioned there is a sense of relief but also worry. considering that this algae bloom season hasn't really peaked. that doesn't happen until september still anything is possible. take a listen. >> can i say no, i can't say absolutely not. the issue is a chronic issue and we'll keep on having this until we address the situation, we

have to get the funds and resources in here to look at how do we stop this? >> and some analysts say that it is environmental pollution from farms say manure and runoff from those farms that wind up going into lake erie and causing these toxins to create so people say more needs to be done when it comes to environmental pollution to prevent something like this from happening again tony. >> and bisi, how can a problem of this magnitude ultimately be solved? >> well, the mayor was actually candid about that today, as well, he says he feels that federal moneys are needed to basically have more oversight into something to prevent it from happening. take a listen what he has to say. >> we now as a result of this must recognize the faculty that we sit with 20% of the fresh water supply of the entire planet at our doorstep. and if we hesitate to respect that, then we are going to jeopardize this entire corridor of our united states for the

future of our children. >> so the mayor is giving the all-clear when it comes to using tap water here in the city of toledo. but they're saying that hey there's a very good possibility that this could happen again. and until i think residents feel more comfortable about the situation many are still holding out on using tap water and instead they're using bottled water, tony. >> i think it's understandable. bisi onile-ere, in toledo, thank you. now a look at the science behind this how a bloom of algae led to this water ban. jake ward, from san francisco, explain to us how it is that an algae bloom can threat everyone the city's entire water supply? >> as bisi said, the cull sprit the contamination of rainwater running the fertilizer into the local water supply which eventually carries to lake erie the phosphorous has overfed this

algae called microcystis. toledo is an unlucky place in that the wind has blown that bloom into the intake valves for the city's water supply. that is really the culprit here. >> what protections are there for other cities that actually draw water from lake erie? >> that is really the most alarming part of this story as bisi's reporting brought up, federal authorities and federal oversight is what is needed here. there is no oversight on microcystin which is the issue, we even know this was happening, people in other cities, in the along the shores of lake erie home to 11 million people could be suffering from the same conditions and have no idea. because there is no federal standard for testing for this stuff. until there is we're going to be sort of guessing at what might

be causing flu symptoms across the country. it is not restricted to lake erie, reservoirs that have this condition, are columbus, ohio, it's everywhere. >> jake ward, thank you. detroit shutting off water service to people with unpaid water bills, people have until august 25th to pay up or set up a payment plan. an unpaid backlog of water bills, detroit has shut off service to 17,000 homes and businesses, former white house press secretary and gun control advocate james brady has died. brady launched a campaign after he was wounded in a 1987 assassination attempt. the bill is named after him.

josh ernest said today that brady revolutionized the job. he died today, he was 72 years old. a lull in the fighting has loud international experts to reach the yash sites of malaysia flight 17. investigators believe 80 bodies are still at the crash site. meanwhile kyiv is trying to get back more than 300 soldiers in russia, ukraine says the troops were forced across the border during battles with separatists but russia says the being soldiers are asking asigh luxury. barnaby phillips reports. >> not gun shots but the sound of reconstruction. ukrainian rebuilding in slovyansk. to convince people that the worst is now over. but it's a big job. they have been left to fend for

themselves. like ilia's home bombed into ruins. ten years of investment is gone, and no sign of the promised compensation from the government so far. in the town center freedon show me where the separatists had their headquarters. long bulldoze weighed. freedon spied on them for the government and says not all of them have run from slovyansk. >> according to our information there are some 200 to 250 people including some 50 russian specialists hiding in the surrounding forests. they are still active and they are threatening to come back and this frightens people. is. >> reporter: in this battle-scarred town ukraine's government needs to win over hearts and minds. but it also wants to punish those who actively supported the

separatist republican i don't know. in the town square lenin now wears the local colors. at this rally everyone wants to stress their loyalty to ukraine. galina is leading a discussion of what should happen to people who supported the separatists. >> each case needs to be treat individually. it depends whether someone was armed or whether they killed someone, maybe someone should be forced to clean the streets. perhaps others should be sent to prison for a time to help clear their minds. >> reporter: as long as the war in eastern ukraine drags on, people in slovyansk feel their lives are in the balance. barnaby phillips, al jazeera, slovyansk. >> roads covered with mud and debris, thousands of people

stranded after thunderstorms triggered the floods. san bern bernardino county sherf assesses the damage. >> moderate to major damage in the forest falls area with two outbuildings that have been completely destroyed. >> and prater says that hundreds of people who have been attending a retreat have been rescued. kevin corriveau reports. >> very heavy rain showers indeed. what happened was, this low pressure system out of the four corners region, make its way to the west. over southern california bringing quite a bit of rain into the area. lets put this into motion.

what happened yesterday, very heavy rain showers in some locations, anywhere from four to possibly six inches of rain they're still determining that in a two to three-hour period, mountains here just to the east of los angeles. what they look like mt. baldy is there, very high terrain, a lot of canyons, a lot of valleys, of course that all gets funneled and when that happens, when you tray all this -- when you take all this water, mudslides, landslides, you gopt to remember, this area has been hit by fires, and makes it susceptible of landslides. we up towards the north are unfortunately not getting the rain where those wildfires are. >> kevin, appreciate it. coming up on al jazeera america, new information after a man showing up with the ebola virus,

the latest from the hospital, that's next.

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>> well, doctors in new york are investigating whether a patient in a manhattan hospital has ebola. the man recently visited a west african country that has the virus. have a listen. >> the patient came to mt. sinai's emergency room in the early morning hours, with symptoms of fever and recent travel to west african country. the patient was promptly isolated and placed at a strict isolation facility at mt. sinai. >> test results are expected tomorrow to determine if he has the virus. meantime the second american aid worker infected will head back to the united states. it comes as the first infected aid worker is doing better. robert ray from atlanta, how exactly are these aid workers being treated right now? >> good evening, tony. well the first aid worker that came in on saturday, dr. kent

brantly is in the first floor of emory hospital right behind me in a special isolation unit. basically at this point physician he are monitoring his vitals, making sure electrolytes are going through. and making sure his body is able to fight this infection. he was given a serum before he left liberia forthe united states, he was in a gravely ill situation, he actually said to his doctors, i think i'm going odie. they administered this special serum made by a private pharmaceutical firm, mz 003. hasn't gone through any clinical trials, only tried on monkeys.

samaritan's purse whom the doctor was going through basically went through a chain of situations to get that treatment to him. now, as you said also, the new -- the second aid worker dr. or nancy writebol, she's not a doctor, she is just an aid worker, will be landing in atlanta, in the same isolation center but in a different room tony. >> nigeria is the largest country to report case he. tell us how the virus is spreading there. >> it's the fourth country in west africa to report the ebola virus. there are four people currently infected with ebola and one lye we'rian patrick sawyer who -- lye we'rian patrick sawyer who has come down with the virus. always people around the infected, where the bodily

fluids somehow gets into the healthy person and unfortunately it spreads into their body. tony. >> robert ray for us. thank you. a nurse with doctors without borders reefnlt returned from guinea. i askedder how you treat to ebola virus. >> how we treat the ebola patient, it is supportive care. to this day there is no particular treatment we can give to fight the virus itself. rehydrating the patients and giving them antibiotic, we need to rehydrate the patient snuches we expect. >> what -- as much as we can. >> dr. brantly was given the experimental serum that has been tested on animals but hasn't been given to human patients yet. do you see it being used in guinea and liberia and sierra

leone yet? >> no it hasn't been used. >> are you aware of it? >> yes yes, i'm aware of it, we are not using it in our facilities in doctors without borders. it hasn't been part of the protocol. >> what are the protocols the information you're providing to the community as to how the community can safeguard itself. one thing we are hearing is that you wash your hands -- >> exactly. >> -- a lot. >> we need to explain how ebola is transmitted. >> what do you tell them? >> we tell them that it is transmitted through bodily contact,ing exchange of bodily fluids, people sleeping in the same bed. how to protect themselves if they are infected in the family.

>> the u.s. is expected to announce $1 billion in partnerships and deals with several countries. africa has some of the fastest growing economies in the world. now mayor of toledo, ohio says the city's drinking water is safe again but the problems that caused the contamination over the weekend are still happening. and a rescue at sea, find out how a group survived in the ocean after their boat went down.

>> so concerns over the drinking water in toledo, ohio remain despite officials saying the water is now safe. some 400,000 residents were told not to drink the water after health officials found it may have been contaminated with algae. take a look here, the algae

bloom is concentrated due to high winds. the residents are still considered. let's bring in larry sykes. a councilman. the costs of this are in, $130,000 plus police overtime, people weren't able to work. you're just out of a council meeting. what came out of that meeting? >> well, two things. we're not sure exactly what the cost, the total cost will be. i'm sure it's going to be in the millions of dollars mr. harris because a lot of businesses had to shut down. hospitals had to shut, dentists continually do dental work. the costs will be tremendous, especially for individuals who didn't get paid, how their ability to pay the bills. we don't know what the cost is. just got out of a meeting talking about how we're going to address this. and i think good thing about

this and i use this analysis, i'm 15 years cancer-free. 15 years ago, it was discovered that i had cancer and i took care of that immediately through some surgery. here, 20-some years ago we knew that we were eventually going to have a problem with our water system and put it off put it off, people talk people talk no one listening. now they're going to be like a cornfield, all ears because everybody is impacted personally. that makes a difference when you are impacted personally and see it visually. now the governor and elected officials, congressmen and women and our elected officials, we're going to be moving forward. >> i like that line, like a cornfield all ears. you had to fly water samples out to be tested. the preliminary results are back. i'm wondering if you are as certain as the mayor appeared to

be today, actually downing some of the water that the water in the system is now safe? >> well, i've been away from home all day. like a lot of other people. normally i'm in a suit and tie. i thought i was going out to potentially help credit work with the water. i have not drank any water yet. i'm sure that the water is safe. and i want to make sure that everybody else understand that. that it's okay to drink the water. i just circulate not had an opportunity to shower. like i want to. and shave. but i'm pretty sure it's safe. our mayor would not do it. >> so councilman, do you have an antiquated water system? is that part of the issue here,

infrastructure? and when will the toledo infrastructure being complete and how might that improve things? >> well it's going to be, it's almost a $550 million waterway initiative that started some 20-some years ago, because of a federal lawsuit. we are halfway through it. weawe were in a meeting today because the cost has gone up. we have three more sites that we're going to have to finish. can we address this problem? i think we can. but we're going ohave to bring in some experts -- to have to bring in some experts to address this algae problem that we have out on the lake around our intake which is two miles out. so whenever the wind blows, and the problem that we've had with the dredging it creates a problem. and the sun, and you know the other things that are creating this problem is going ocontinue unless we do something to counteract that.

>> councilman is it fair to say some of this is unavoidable? we're hearing that farm and fertilizer runoff is the cause here. how much of that sun avoidable in a big farm based community like yours? >> you're right mr. harris. this is a agricultural state. but you know, when you look at farm thears have -- farmers that have a thousand head of cows or sheeps or pigs that create a lot of manure or use pesticide, there has to be form of legislation that address that. i'm sure there's pesticide out there or fertilizer that farmers can use that does not create a problem with the ecology. i think runoff in the water we're going to have to address that also. marvin gaye years ago told us what's going on. with this ecology and the fish

and everything else. so it's time to look up. >> you've gone from vin gaye to corn fields and everyone is all ears right now. i hope this all works out, we've enjoyed having you on the program, councilman sykes a pleasure sir. >> thank you. >> all right chinese rescue workers have found more than two dozen survivors in homes destroyed by yesterday's earthquake but rain is slowing down the search effort. a magnitude 6.1 earthquake killed at least 391 people. adrian brown has the latest. >> relief and rescue workers are doing everything they can but their efforts are hurt by communications and poor weather. search teams have been able to reach the edges of the quake zone. >> translator: all these houses already claptioned when we arrived. there were dead bodies

everywhere, lots of dead people. >> the place rescuers have to reach on foot. the people's liberation army is involved. to reinforce those already in the disaster zone. the operation will be exprfd by china's premier who arrived in the area early on monday. this mountainous area of southwest china is prone to earthquakes. adrian brown, al jazeera. >> in bangladesh a ferry with 200 people inside capsized others could have reached safety on their own. the government says the ferry was only licensed to carry 85 people. for the first sometime iraq's government says the air force will support kurdish

peshmerga troops, pushing back after losing three towns and a strategic dam outside mosul. the dam supplies electricity through much of iraq. the u.n. says as many as 200,000 iraqi civilians have been forced to flee their homes and in libya, lawmakers are stopping violence that will destabilize the government. fighting between militias and government forces have spread to major cities. the newly elected government says national unity is the only way to restor restore balance. rula amin reports. >> in a hotel under the protection of a heavy security

presence. are fighting between different libyan militias has thrown country into the turmoil yet been. a new house of representatives has called for a national unity government. >> the transitional government is proposing an urgent vision, at the core of which is to put in place all necessary solutions for security. using all means possible that would produce a balanced situation in libya. >> reporter: the instability caused libya's oil production to drop below 450,000 barrels oday, well below the 1.4 million barrels it produced a year ago. britain is the latest embassy to close its doors and pull out diplomatic staff. u.s., france and other countries had done so days earlier. libyans and foreign nationals

continue to cross the border into tunisia to escape the fighting but thousands remain trapped including these egyptians. they are stuck on the border as tunisia has restricted those leaving. only solid proof they will leave for egypt can get in. the egyptian for minister has agreed on the relief of those stranded. >> we don't have a precise estimate of figures considering there are many more citizens blocked on the libyan side. we can say there are 5,000 to 10,000 people, there are some difficulties to move them to the tunisian border. we have repatriated about 2500 citizens. >> the minister are visited the border area, reassured that the egyptian government is doing the

best to end their nightmare. an air lift is underway but it will take days to get all those who want to leave out of libya to tunisia, and then to where they want to go. rula amin. >> maria ines ferre has the headlines. ines. >> attorneys to give him additional information before issuing a final order. today's rulings comes days after a similar law was blocked in mississippi. a droit man -- a detroit man testified at his trial today. be wafer said he heard loud noises outside, opened the door slightly and saw someone quickly come from the side of his house. that's when he fired his gun. mcbryde walked to his porch after crashing her car nearby.

prosecutors said he should have stayed insides and called for help if he was scared. probe comes amidst allegations of sexual assault, drug use and cheating. the academy has a student body of 4,000. a local report exposed cases of alleged misconduct among some of the school's athletes. and workers in tewksbury massachusetts, protest over an ouwhere ousted ceo. the board stands behind its decision to replace him. workers who walked off the job must return by today or they will be replaced. >> i'm not going in there so i'm guessing i very well could be fired today. >> reporter: in fact the store ask holding a three day job fair starting today to replace those workers. and some grateful boaters in hawaii are telling their

survival story today. the coast guard saved four teens and four adults after their vessel sank yesterday. >> water was just coming in too fast for bilge punch to pump the water out. and that caused the back of the boat to sink down. when we started to turn around to outrun the waves the boat was already heavy and it just sank under. we were waiting for about two hours, when we saw it, we were so stoked. it was such a great sight to see. >> the adults and teenagers were able to tie kayaks together. the boat had an emergency beacon that was caiflte activated aftet sank. >> they were in trouble but figured it out right? >> they sure did rescued as well. >> very wonderful for us to see. ines see you later.

five obama administration meant to bring political change to cuba. also, disturbing social media, look at this, at an orphanage, beating kicking the children but now his wife making sure it doesn't happen again.

probably will be a good town again some day. tonight starting at 7, only on al jazeera america >> so we are learning more tonight about a controversial program from the obama administration that secretly sent young latin americans to cuba. the goal to turn people into political activists and force political change. both controversial programs were run by u.s. aid. the program said u.s. aid did nothing wrong. >> this is not a covert program. programs done descrelt --

>> but the mission of the program undercut the work which ngos tell me that they are trying to conduct because the first thing that people will ask them is how do we know that you're not cia? >> well strengthening a civil society empowering a civil society to be more capable is something that, that was the focus of this program. >> hmm, its activities in cuba could derail u.s. aid operations around the globe. it provides aid to people in more than 100 countries. with us is peter cornblue, an anlt at the national security archive, peter good to talk to you. i was a little outraged when i read this a little bit but you talked me off the ledge. i'll have you explain it because you say it much better than i do. the context is this kind of thing has happened before,

right? >> well, it was in the mid 1970s that a special senate committee led by senator frank church did its -- the first significant investigation into cia covert operations and revealed the cia was using u.s. aid officials, peace corps, journalists as cover, for covert operations. literally, cia operatives were posing as peace corps workers and aid officials in various third world countries. the criticism was that that endangered all development specialists, journalists and peace corps workers around the world. and then comes u.s. aid itself conducting quasicovert operations they call them quote discrete operations but it is really covert operations.

it is amateur hour. >> is u.s. aid supposed to be in this business of espionage of fomenting revolutions? they wouldn't use the last line. i just used it. >> of course not, they're not supposed to be in this business they insist they are not. because if you are in the business of covert operations the agency and the organization are supposed to inform congress. there's no plausible denial that all covert operations have to be sent to congress and authorized by the president. and here you have a whole set of covert operations that are going on in cuba, run by u.s. aid and a very shady office over at u.s. aid called the office of transition initiatives, if that's not aa euphemism for regime change i don't know what is. you have u.s. aid in the business of regime change in

cuba despite all their denials. >> what about u.s. oversight, doesn't it scream that there needs to be more? >> yes can if u.s. aid insists on doing covert operations then the senate and the congress should be overseeing those operations. it's funny we haven't heard from those corporations on the zunzuneo operation you referred to earlier and all the regime change programs that the u.s. aid says is discrete programs going on in cuba. these are programs that are illegal if they are not sent to congress and congress is not informed. >> peter, maybe attack this in two different ways. doesn't a revelation like this, make it more difficult, i don't know whether he was guilty of or not guilty of, the contractor

allen gross who has been in prison there for more than four years now? >> i just read a story coming into your studio, about allen, last time i saw him late last year in december of 2013, i came away convinced that he was suicidal. and that he was planning to kind of are a suicide by escape type of plan. and now the story says that he has said good-bye to his wife and children and that he is so depressed over the death of his mother and over being in prison, the fact that his government isn't doing anything to get him out. this story is going to depress him even further. after he was arrested in cuba was sending in innocent teenagers and college students basically to pose as covert operatives and gather intelligence on dissident cuba

and actually recruit future opponents of the castro regime. this is extraordinary dangerous stuff. it will be laughable because it seems so key stone cops but, allen gross is a living embodiment of how sad and tragic it is. really, allen gross is a victim and students are victim and all these programs are victim of a dinosauric age old policy -- >> you're out there on that ledge i was on earlier. now you're all fired up! >> these policies are -- we have a cold war policy in the 21st century in cuba that literally is prime to change and it would be so simple to change it and bring u.s. cuba relations into the modern world. >> you talked me off the edge earlier, let me bring you in, peter cornblue, josh washington

university's national archive. good to talk to you earlier and here. coming up on are al jazeera america, child porn bust, actually raising questions about the privacy of your e-mail, we'll explain next.

>> so there are new questions today about just how private your e-mail is. police in houston say they arrested a man after google tipped them off that they found child pornography in his e-mail. roxana saberi joins us, talking about the potential implications of this, roxana. >> tony i talked to the deblght on this and he says he's glad that technology is part of this. police say google found pornographic images that john henry skillern sent to a friend.

a detective working on the case told al jazeera they sent me the photos they saw and with that information we got a search warrant for his residence and for his account. while police say google helped them the company's report is stirring debate among experts on internet freedom. >> it's both a good thing and raises issues about privacy. it has revealed to gmail users that google is to some extent and we don't know what extent readinreading the contents of tr e-mail. >> google automatically scans e-mail accounts to target spam. if they become aware of such content they will report it to authorities. hashing, each image gets a unique code. until now google has never confirmed that it searches for these images in their private

e-mail counts. >> again my take on it is if you are using a free service like google google you don't have the right to reasonably expect them to not scan your e-mail information. >> required by law to report suspected child pornography. tony one of those experts i talked to said one of the issues she had with google's ability to scan e-mail, she don't know what google ask defining as illegal. >> roxana thank you. a video shows a than beating children in a orphanage in cairo, egypt. maria ines ferre has the story. ines. >> we want to tell you this is disturbing to watch. take a look. the video shows children being beaten by a person who has been identified as the manager of the

orphanage. that man is apparently punishing the kids from opening the refrigerator and turn on the television. the man's wife said she shot the video because she couldn't stand quiet any longer. the ministry of social affairs says the man has been arrested, the investigation is underway and the government transferred the children and order he that the orphanage be shut down. many complaints about physical abuse of that same orphanage from several years ago. if the only person getting punished is the guy abusing them and not the government officials then there's no justice. proof that social media can help, tony. >> that is really disturbing stuff, it really is, ines, thank

you. today marks 100 years since the start of worl world war i. on august 4th, 1914, one of the most disturbing conflicts in world tift. >> 100 years ago they were locked in a war that was meant to end all wars. today fralings always approximated.floobleapproximatee came as allies. drawn into the fray. in all the speeches, the message was the same. the blight of war still stalks the world. but it was the french leader who raised the bloodshed in gaza. >> how can we stay neutral when a deadly conflict in gaza is lasting now for more than a month. we cannot remain neutral. we have an obligation to act and it is europe that must take on

these responsibilities along wrt united nations. >> it was the city of leige when the first battle of the war was fought on the western front. advanced through bell jim and expected to overcome the defenses within two days and move on paris. but the soldiers helped them to bar their way. leige was left in ruins. this was the last of the forts defending the city to fall. this huge crater was the birth place of modern warfare's weapons of mass destruction. just one german shell landed here weighing 800 clogs. kilogr. this was the artillery piece that fired it known as big bertha. inside the fort they have recreated the sound of the barrage and the moment the shell scored a direct hit.

it was a horrifying foretaste of what was to come. david chater, al jazeera, leige. >> "real money" with ali velshi is next on al jazeera america. ♪ the ebola outbreak is spreading. new reports say a patient in new york is being tests. we'll have the latest. another ceasefire in gaza, but hamas is insisting that israel lift its block aid. and why economists say slack salaries are just as worrisome as high unemployment. i'm ali velshi, and this is ea