>> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america as israel and hamas fament to reach a longer term peace deal, gazans return home to massive devastation. the plos chief negotiator joins us. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". that and more ahead. for the first time in nearly a month it is quiet in gaza. >> a 3-day ceasefire appears to be holding. >> there's a sense of desperation, a sense of hope, a desperate hope.

>> fighting rages on in donetsk. >> as ukranian government forces close in on the rebel strongholds. >> russia nearly doubled the military presence near the country's border near ukraine. >> the numbers are not the key metrics. what matters is the numbers are reinforced. >> the second worker arrived back in the united states. >> ebola killed close to 900 people in west africa. >> the c.b.c. assessed that there's no risk faced by americans in the united states. >> a 2-star u.s. army general is dead. >> a gunman sprayed. >> an insider attack. >> it's impossible to eliminate the threat. we begin with all eyes on cairo, where an israeli delegation arrived on tuesday to begin talks, aimed at securing a longer termed deal to end the war with hamas and israel.

there are conflicting demands from both sides. the 3-day truce that began tuesday has held. israel officially withdrew ground forces from gaza. the israeli military declared the mission to declare hamas's tunnels accomplished and said 900 militants were killed during the operation. the next move will be determined by what hamas does. >> the next 72 hours are crucial to see what happens and do develops. we are taking a defensive stand and there to prevent further infiltration and attacks from gaza, originally from gaza. >> in gaza, people that return home for the first time in a month were shocked at the scope of the devastation and lose. 1900 palestinians have been killed, more than 400 children. on the israeli side 64 soldiers and three civilians have been killed. joining us from jericho is the chief negotiator for the

palestine liberation organisation. a pleasure to have you with us. you've been involved in the negotiations. this ceasefire is similar to one proposed by egypt weeks ago. why is hamas accepting it now, when it could have then and saved hundreds of lives and thousands of injured. >> the time was not right that time. time is right now. that's all i can say. i believe that israel's symptoms of the initiative in the early days was a practical acceptance. as a matter of fact i was involved in nine attempts to achieve a ceasefire, 24 hours, two days, three days. well, now both sides - both of us accept the ceasefire. we need to sustain the 72 hours. we are working now in order to extend the 72 hours, behind the

72 hours. the most important thing is to distinguish the fire. >> are you hopeful to sustain and extend, as i know you said before, and keep the ceasefire in place. >> yes, i am. i'm hopeful. i think it's doable. what we need to do in pa lel is sustain the ceasefire, and work on the extension, and -- parallel, sustain the ceasefire and work on the extension. and we call on the united states, europe, arabs, japan - who have it can - to have aerial bridges to bring together the humanitarian relief needed. gaza is with no electricity, no water supplies, no sewerage system, 480,000 people, one-third. population are

homeless. i was speaking to mr robert secretary kerry this morning -- robert serry, and the chairman and the commission general of the u.n. relief work agency suggests. they are talkingserry, and the commission general of the u.n. relief work agency suggests. they are talking about a humanitarian disaster in gaza. these are the things we are working on now. in parallel, sustaining the ceasefire, extending and appealing to the nations. we cannot wait to repair that generator, the electricity jeerptor. we -- generator, we need a new one. it can be in place in hours. in our hospitals in gaza there's 10,000 wounded - that's an accurate number - mostly women

and children. we are in short supplies of medical supplies, doctors, surgeons. anyone that can give a hand, that will be appreciated at this difficult hours. >> it's a terrible situation. moving forward, i know we looked at some of the points that palestinians proposed in further negotiations in egypt, and in the past palestinian negotiators accepted demilitarizing gaza two decades ago, and point from the paper, part of the palestinian position is decommissioning should be linked to the occupation and independence of the state of pal stain. what do you hope to see happening. what are you proposing? >> once we extend the accuracy fire, once we deal with the humanitarian needs and the human catastrophe that hit us so hard by the israeli military machine, gun, f 15s and f-16s, i think

the day after this we ask a simple question - do you want to rebuild gaza so another israeli prime minister can destroy it in 2016, and another in 2018. do we want the international community to call us back to negotiations and once we are back in negotiating table, binyamin netanyahu and his government go business as usual, dictation, settlements, incursions, doing what it takes to undermine the two-state solution? >> no, sir. this status call will not continue. the status call no more. >> the day after the sustainabilitiy of the ceasefire, the humanitarian needs provided in gaza, the question to the international community - do we see an end to the occupation. do we have a time ceiling that came to my home town jericho. in this house i was born in when

i was 12 years old. i'm 60 now. i have 60 grandchildren now. it's time for the israeli occupation to ends, and if mr binyamin netanyahu chooses to play games and continue his public relations blame game assignment, counting the congress and the senate to blame us, he'll find himself responsible for the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem. that's the honest truth. the situation cannot continue. either the international community will stand tall and bring about an end to the israeli occupation, and once we end the occupation, the west bank, gaza - the components - we are committed to one gun and the rule of law. if mr binyamin netanyahu chooses to continue the occupation, dictation, settlement, incursions, siege and closure, he is not a partner for piece. we will not continue the

business as usual any more. we cannot take it any more. we cannot afford to have 12,000 palestinians, have been killed and wounded in the last 28 days. antonio - every hour on the hour of the last 28 days, 17 palestinians were killed and wounded. you don't see us in the united states. you don't humanize us. an israeli soldier that said he was missing. the cameras are on the family, father, mother, brother, an israeli soldier is hit, hospitalized, face, mother next to him, have you seen us. have the american media focused on us to see the human faces. a palestinian child aged between two months and two years as killed every three hours in the last 28 days. these are war crimes that were committed. we cannot afford it any more. 12,000 complains, nnt.

that the business continues, and israel goes with impunity. we are teeking ways to join the i -- seeking ways to join the i.c.c., the international criminal court. what is happening is war crimes. we hold israel accountable for it. >> we have seen and shown horrible pictures of the children who have died, the children who have suffered in gaza. you raise the partnership for peace, and signed a unity government deal with hamas. their charter doesn't recognise the existence of the state of israel. after all this, will hamas - can it not - will the palestinian authority have more influence, and be able to lead a gaza that can be a partner for peace and lead to a two-state solution. we, as you have in the united states, as israel has. we are the palestinian government, the palestine liberation organization is the government. we have 26 parties.

we don't ask parties in countries to recognitions. as a matter of fact, the coalition in israel - not only they don't recognise the state of palestine, some of them, like bennett and others don't recognise us. we not asking parties to recognise the palestine. i'm a member. plo committee, we recognised the state of israel right to exist. there, i challenge any israeli member of this cabinet to stand and recognise the state of palestine to live in peace and security in the state of israel on the 96 lines. hamas is a party, fatah is a party, a faction. >> it governs an important part of the palestinian territories. >> say no more. we have a national consistent government. we don't have a hamas government in gaza. we are in charge.

that is why - that was one of the reasons for wearing a war waged against gaza, because binyamin netanyahu's political end was to keep gaza in the space of palestine. he knows that no palestinian state in gaza, no palestinian state without gaza. he waged his war to undermine the reconciliation, keep the split going. at the end of the day he doesn't want a palestinian state. binyamin netanyahu is not o 2-stater, that's the truth and why he waged the war. now, as i'm telling you, there's the government of pal stipe, the plo recognises the state of israel's right to exist. can we hear an israeli cabinet member or prime minister stand tall and say to you and to the israeli people, it's time to put an end to the occupation and conflict. it's time to live and let live

and recognise the state of palestine to exist so it can live in peace and security. you're not going to hear it, we are not going to hear it. >> doctor, we appreciate you joining us to give us your important perspective. thank you. >> turning to the ukraine, where russia reportedly doubled its forces on the border while ukranian troops go on the assault. heavy fighting broke out in donetsk. two civilians were killed. ukraine has been preparing assaults to dyke donetsk -- -- take donetsk and luhansk from the separatists. they say they'll resist. n.a.t.o. officials say russia amassed 20,000 troops on the border and could mo in a matter of hours if ordered to intervenes. joining us in new york is a fellow of the world policy institute, a member of the council on foreign relations and professor at the new schools in new york. and she is an author. great to see you. >> thank you.

>> let's start with petro porashenko, the president of ukraine. he said he will break the separatists. they are fighting in donetsk and luhansk, two of the biggest cities in eastern ukraine. can he afford an all of out battle in a city of donetsk. >> it seems like he's going for that. he has great advances and has to be careful because civilians are killed. they are using artillery and before, they are no longer seep by many as liberation forces that are going to keep united ukraine. are seen as the government that is killing its own people. he needs to be very careful. for now he can avoid great criticism because there's a threat of russia, when you compare the two, russia is the biggest threat. as we know, 300,000 people are displaced, flooding the area. it will turp soon into humanitarian disaster. >> talking about russia, the

foreign ministry called for an international humanitarian intervention in eastern ukraine. are those code words, is it a beginning of creating an excuse for russia to go in if it doesn't like how the fighting it going? >> it could be an excuse. russia is good at code words, and when vladimir putin says it's humanitarian intervention, prove otherwise. it would be difficult to. on the other hand they team to not really go into the full battle. the petro porashenko troops, the ukranian government has been advancing for weeks, if not months. russia has been resisting going in. >> you never thought that vladimir putin would ipp vade. >> i never thought that vladimir putin would invade, and i never thought that three months ago. the mh17 flight changed the situation on the ground. also vladimir putin's option

vis-a-vis the west. >> all the bluster coming out of vladimir putin, if the ukranian government breaks the back of the separatists, what will they do? >> there are many scenarios. he can, as you said. humanitarian intervention is one. all the people that were - are displaced, being displaced in donetsk can flee to russia, they are doing so. or he will ipp vade. he's careful. three months ago i said he won't. it's changed. he might insa vade. he'll -- invade. he'll have face harsher consequences from the western community. >> what about the sanctions? he's talking about hitting the west with sanctions. >> fine, but the options are limited for russia more than for those who hit russia. for example, the big fore is that russian travel industry is

actually going to already collapse. a lot of people are stranded all over the world because of all the other... >> because the travel agencies have gone bankrupt. >> exactly. it's the beginning. i think vladimir putin probably is very careful, calculating his military options versus what he's going to get back as an economic problem. >> you have billionaires complaining that the golf streams can't get surfaced. >> you wrote that vladimir putin's rhetoric is winning fans among some of the rich people, even though we expected a lot of people may turn. you wrote the tool is one that he's using is one adolf hitler used, which was the big lie. one thing most striking that you wrote was that you said so much of russia remains the soviet union. >> so much of russia remains the soviet union. we barely as politics, as we notice with recent developments,

because we use force or threats. politics, the manipulation of the opponent, or the conversation with the opponent is not a big thing. in some ways russia is a great propaganda state. it tells the people how to think about the event, instead of hearing them. >> you are saying the smart people in russia. >> and the greatest propaganda scholar tells you that it is the smart people, those educated are more susceptible to propaganda, because they thing with their education you are immune. once you pose as poor we were victim, actually for russia that has been what this anti-western mentality for thousands of years, it's easy to get to everybody, including the very educated. >> incredible. good to see you. that's correct. >> now for more stories from around the world.

we begin with a wild scene in nevada, where storms and flash flooding turned a highway into a raging river. some areas receiving an inch of water in 15 minutes, flooding sweeping two cars off the road, flipping one of them. one man had to be pulled from the rushing waters. no deaths or serious injuries reported. parts of interstate '95 were watched out, stranding cars for hours. many roads throughout the area were flooded. next to manchester england, where a tense situation unfolded on board a qatar airways jet on its way from doha. a passenger made a bomb threat prompting the royal air force to send a fighter jet to escort the plane. >> it was terrifying. >> the man was arrested. no bombs were found. >> we end in new york city where

two double decker tourist buses crashed in the middle of times square, injuring 4 #. debris was thrown on to the sidewalks. one bus was empty the other with a few passengers. the rest of the injured were pedestryians, the rest of the 43. the tour guides were not in life-threatening conditions. double decker becauses have crashed sofrl times. >> coming up, the ebola spreads into a popular city. the second of the two american medical workers infected arrives in lapt atlanta. an afghan soldiers guns down on american general, one in mean stretches of violence from the middle east to india. and the top stories on the web - what is trending, harmeli aregawi. >> new restaurants gaining a unique experience, bringing

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the death toll from the worst ebola outbreak in history is rapidly rising as the spread of the disease is picking up speed. eight suspected cases in lagos nigeria, one of the world's most popular cities are alarming british air suspended flights from and to liberia and sierra leone until november. a serum, zmapp is raising hopes after being given to two infected medical workers and contracted the disease in liberia and are recovering. nancy writebol arrived tuesday morning, and kent brantly on the weekend. what is the danger of the outbreak becoming an epidemic, what do we know about the zmapp serum. the director of the national institutes of health joins us from the nih in bethesda

maryland. the virus killed 900 people in africa. we know it's in four countries, and one of the biggest cities in the world. how concerned are you that this will spread further? >> it may spread to other african natures because of porous border. i don't think you'll see, i'm certain you will not see outbreaks in countries that are developed nation was a health care system, to be able to recognise, isolate and care for people under the proper protective conditions that are essential for essentially preventing an outbreak of ebola. the conditions in africa propagate the disease, i see it as being a danger in west africa

and beyond. if a patient gets on a plane and is infected in an african country and go to a developed nation, the u.k. or the united states or australia, what have you, european countries, and then get out. if they got sick in that nation, there's little threat of their being an outbreak because of companies of handling these kinds of infections. >> we heard that ebola is transmitted by bodily fluids, you have to be in direct contact with someone symptomatic. where is it spreading quickly? is there no airborne transmission. >> yes. transmitted by airborne transmission. if you like at what is going on in the countries in west africa, it's the kind of behaviour, understandably, because it's customary of how people take care of the sick family in the moment, as well as bodies of people who die of the disease, touching the body and

contaminating yourself with the bodily fluids. that's why it's propagating in the west african countries. the only which the disease, the virus is spread, is by direct contact with fluids, body fluids such as blood, faeces and vomit when someone is sick and you are trying to take care of them. >> i know the nih was part of getting zmapp to the workers, a cocktail of anti-bioddies that block the contact. how does it work. >> the mih was not directly involved, it was involved in the research associated with developing this particular antibody. but the answer to your question, how does the antibody work, it's a cocktail of three separate antibodies that the body makes, that actually can block or fight infection, if you want to put it

in lay terms. usually aind bodies are -- antibodies are made by being exposed or vak sipated. these were -- vaccinated. these were artificially induced, made, and when administered to the individuals appeared to have an effect that was a positive effect. we can't giptively -- definitively prove it. there's only one or two patients. when you have one or two patients, it's difficult to relet the improvement -- relate the improvement in the patient with the use of the antibody. >> you can't know exactly how well it's working. to sigh it's experimental is almost an understatement. it had been tested on a few monkeys when they were treated after infection. dr brantly received it more than a week after he got sick. do we have a sense of how important the timing it? >> we don't. but obviously when you have someone

that is sick and you administer something to them, you administer it to them as soon as you can. with so little experience - this is only the second person in whom the antibodies have been administered. it is in the early stage, and the supply of the antibodies is small. the company that makes the antibody has in their possession about three treatment courses. it's impractical to think in terms of it having an impact on a number of people infected. >> how quickly can production be ramped up to see whether it can help to see whether these people are suffering? >> unfortunately, not quickly. i have heard again - had is second hand from the company, that it would take a few months to make a moderate number of treatment courses. it's not something that is in the stage of being mass produced by any means. >> and i know you are working on a vaccine, and you believe that there are early

results. >> yes. the vaccine has been quite successful in a monkey model and we are getting ready to go into phase one, human trials in volunteers in the washington bethesda maryland area. that will start in the middle to end of september. that will probably occur at the end of january. if it's successful in that, it is safe, and induces a response that you predict will be protected we'll expand and go into wider studies, and produce something used in people, mostly health care workers putting themselves at risk when they take care of patients with ebola. >> such a scary disease with a my mortality rate. and i everywhere, i am sure, are rooting for you to have success in your efforts.

dr anthony from nih. thank you. time to see what is trending on the web with harmeli aregawi. >> a first-ever restaurant for the deaf. it's a unique dining experience. named sirnings the toronto-based eatery employees an almost entirely deaf wait staff and encourages staff to order and interact using signs. they offer a cheat sheet for the menu and basic praises, how are you, nice to meet you, everything is great. the owner was inspired after struggling to communicate request a deaf customer at his previous restaurant job where he was a manager. he says it provide people in the deaf community an opportunity to work in the industry that they wouldn't otherwise be able to work in. this is one of 50 waiters, and it's his first full-time job. with the help of an interpreter he describes the experience. >> it's wonderful. i'm excited to be here.

it's a deaf environment, where hearing people come in and experience our world, and our culture. it's amazing. really amazing. it's a challenge for me, but a great challenge. >> signs is not the first restaurant that caters for the deaf community. san francisco's restaurant has deaf openers and staff, but the concept is rare. it's a beautiful story. >> what a great idea. >> straight ahead, an american general murdered by an african soldier on a military base. violence scars countries from afghanistan to libya. what do they have in common? also, how did a 5-year-old boy become a mayor in minnesota, and who would take the office away from a little boy. >> and major arrest, >> aljazeera america presents a break through television event borderland... >> are you tellin' me it's ok to

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[ ♪ music ] large parts of the muslim world were seared by the flames of conflict tuesday. from kabul to tripoli, terrorists and well-armed groups threatened struggling governments. u.s. army major howard green was killed and dozens of others wounded when an afghan troop filed on the group. a german general was among the bounded. near sinda, tens of thousands of members of the aseedy sect say fighters from islamic state, formerly i.s.i.l. committed atrocities when it captured the down. in the lebanese town of arsal. fighters in the al nusra sent lebanese fleeing for safety. in tripoli, libya, fighting and planes drove the parliament out of the capital so it could elect the leader in the eastern port

of tub ruck. >> for more on the fire scorching the middle east i'm joined by douglas oliphant serving as director at the security council for bush and obama, and an army officer. he's a senior national security fellow at the new america foundation. good to have you with us. we have an american general killed in afghanistan, the islamic state group claiming territory in iraq. fighting that came over the syrian border. they were having a civil war. that move into lebanon. libyan militias forcing the parliament to move outside the capital. conflicts everywhere. in that broad area. how - what kind of commonalties do they have? >> it wasn't a good day. >> i think we can divide it into two camps. the center and the periphery. in the center we have the threat

presented by the islamic state, i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.l. the islamic state in iraq or syria and lebanon, that continues to expand its control. i think a very broad-handed way to think about it is they weren't able to push south towards baghdad, and so they turned to the north and pushed up into the kurdish controlled areas where some of the aseedy citizens are. it's hard to keep track of. got a hold of the small minority group that lived under kurdish control, that committed atrocities. groups you are pushing towards lebanon to the west. >> if you go then to what is happening in libya and afghanistan. is this all - all these struggling states and extremism involved in all of them. >> i think on the periphery we see less islamic extremism. it's there.

the taliban can be painted as extremists. we have the active chapter in libya. the conflicts are more tribal. certainly in the case of libya. you have various factions, and to call this as something driven by extremism would be to whitewash over all the various factions and politics that are going on in libya. like wise in afghanistan. multiple factions. we don't know what motivated the shooter of general green and the other soldiers today, but we have not heard a claim of responsibility by the taliban. they are usually good about getting out in front of it. i suspect they are not behind this one. the u.s. has been involved to some extent. we left iraq, planning on leaving afghanistan, we had limited involvement in libya and syria, the source of what is happening in lebanon, too.

should america be playing a more active role in bringing the conflict under control of. >> i think america can play an active role diplomatically, invest more resources and time and executive attention from the white house, but this is a far cry for calling for a return of troops to iraq, or a - you know, a - draw a - a slowing of the draw down in afghanistan. these are not situations where necessarily u.s. military forces are helping. >> highest ranking officer. what is it saying about the effort there, and our allies that our attacks were on, was it one of these things that we can't do anything about? >> it's something that we are not good about doing something about.

this does seem to be a high ranking combat casualty that the united states is experiencing. since i believe that general casey's father, major general casey in vietnam. it's still not clear what is driving this. what we thing drives most of these attacks is perversely cultural insensitivity, and a sensitivity - heightened sensitivity to cultural lights or calling into question one's mann hood. most attacks have little to do with anything larger, political that. >> do you think the islamic state group can be stopped? >> the islamic state can be stopped. certainly if we get enough allies in the region it can be stopped. the beauty of the regional politics is it's in everyone's interests to stop the islamic state.

it's in iran's interests. saudi arabia's interest to stop the united states, in united states's interest. there's the makings of the right coalition to thank the islamic state. everywhere has to realise how important it is to do this and put second and third-tier issues aside. we can go back to fighting over those later. the concern is the move into lebanon. >> final question about libya. the parliament can't meet in the capital. the fighting there is diffused between all sorts of different militias, both islamic and non-islamic. people that want more of a return to muammar gaddafi days. situation? >> i'm not sure if it's intractable. it's immensely complicated. it's very difficult to see a way forward here. if this were just one thing, if it were just, you know, the former gaddafi loyalists, that

may be something that could be solved. if it was the islamist we may be able to find a way to placate that situation. because it's to many different centers, it makes it very, very difficult to find a way forward. >> doug oliphant, good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> thanks in large part to the conflict we discussed. the world witnessed the greatest displacement of religious movements. the latest report on religious freedom found 75% of people in the world live in countries that don't respect religious freedom. secretary of state john kerry singled out the fighters. those in syria and iraq were non-sunni muslims. >> just the other week i.s.i.l. declared that any remaining christians in mosul must convert, pay a tax or be executed on the spot.

>> for more we are joined for our studio in washington by stefan falstein, serving as the secretary of state in human rights and labour. good to have you with us. that is a grim report card on the state of religious freedoms, you single out countries, going from east asia, china, north korea, soviet republics, middle east and africa. the map shows the worst offender. the next are russia, afghanistan, turkey, cuba. >> you say in the report it's the worst situation in recent memory, how bad are things compared to 10 years ago? >> well thank you for the question. thank you for having me on. with the 2013 report, religious violations in countries are among the worst performers, in places like north korea, iran, syria. we saw rising incidences in new

conflict emerge, places like the central african republic, continuing turmoil in the middle east, leading to a whole and larger significance when it comes to rising tide in a worst trend line when it comes to religious freedom. what is different, and we haven't quantified this, but what we'll want to report and what is important it the trend line for last year was bad. >> one of the big concerns in the report is in much of the middle east, the christian presence is becoming - the report says a shadow of its former shelf. hundreds of thousands fled syria, and that civil war. the arab spring brought a lot of time utility use times. where do you see the worst of it in the middle east? >> well, i think looking where the ongoing conflict is centered, looking at syria and iraq in particular, and some of

the surrounding countries there. that's where we see a large amount and where we have the greatest alarm where it comes to religious freedom. i think you are right. when you look at the persecution of the minorities, including the christian minority community, there's grave abuses. in terms of what these communities based, not only for hundreds of years, but longer. we are looking at communities that peacefully coexisted in harmony for decades, and all of a sudden with the onslaught of new violence and chaos, we are seeing them displaced and removed from their homes and communities, and into unknown and dangerous situations. >> they have lived in peace, in some cases for millennia. they are coming out of iraq, with the islamic state jihadist. they have gone after shiite muslims and their shrines,

killing members of the sect. this is labelled not just iraq, but the issue in general is a top priority for the obama administration. what is being done? >> that's correct. first of all, there's two way that is we have tried to approach the issue. on the one hand we provid assistance. providing for those, whether it's in iraq, syria or neighbouring countries, it means making sure they have access to water, food, nutrition, shelter. that's phase one. making sure that the communities are able to continue on. step two is the longer and harder part. it's trying to figure out what is an approach and salesian to dealing with the displacement and conflict we are seeing, stemming from i.s.i.l., that is causing deep-rooted

unsettling - causing the deconstruction and whole-sale removal of the communities. >> that would be a challenge. the secretary of state noted that 75% of world's people live in countries that don't respect religious approval. including countries that the united states is friends with, like hungary, france, greece and saudi arabia. how are we doing op working with those countries, those friends freedom? >> when it comes to the issue of anti-semitism, that is something that we may have highlighted in the report. we have seen worry some friends in places in countries in europe, some of which you have mentioned, and to us that represents something that is alarming. in recent polls, they have been undertaken in different countries in europe.

upwards of 66 to 76% of jewish communities, they felt more threatened and under duress than they have in the past several years. what that means to us is that we need to find constructive ways to approach the issue. we have a special envoy to combat anti-semitism. our mandate is to travel to 15 different countries, many of them friends, many in europe. they are engaged in dialogue with jewish committee leaders, government counterparts and society to say what are constructive ways to alleviate the issues, and how can we break the trend line. >> it's a shame we are seeing it happen in the 21st century. appreciate your time. coming up, the man that allegedly supplied a-rod and others with drugs.

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only on al jazeera america is major league baseball biogenesis scandal about to go into extra innings. anthony bosch, director of the south florida biogenesis clinic turned himself into the deo. they are facing charges of conspiracy to distribute testosterone to athletes. it happens a year to the day that bud selig handed down the toughest round of suspensions. he helped to broiffed selig -- provide selig the information to take access. could evidence give the league fresh evidence to use against more players. let's bring in. the co-author of blood sport, alex rodriguez, bio-zen sis and

the quest to end baseball's era. the deo said it's not targetting athletes, in this case going after the distributor. sources say the evidence names as many as seven players not uncovered in the investigation. could we see another round of the scandal hitting baseball. >> i figure it's impossible. just as was the ace in major league baseball's operation to suspend the clients connected to biogenesis last year, tony bosch agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. he's worked out a deal to plead guilty. obviously they have reams of documents from the clinic to use as evidence. if, indeed, there are players that didn't come up in major league baseball's case, certainly the names will come out in discovery, as the case goes forward. and i think major league baseball wouldn't have a choice but to suspend them like they did with alex rodriguez and the

other players. >> what about the mixed signals from major league baseball. how much does it care about players using performance enhancing drugs you mentioned that alex rodriguez was using testosterone in 2006, with permission, which was one of his best years as a player. >> it's a result of the terrible scandals. you mention the alex rodriguez ex-'em shop, and that was part of the league worked out with the players union. he was able to present evidence to a doctor. they had a medical condition. baseball has to look at the policy going forward. testosterone is a drug you don't want players taking unless there's a need for it.

i think it's fair to say with response to biogenesis and the policy in place, especially in comparison to other pro leagues, major league baseball takes seriously. >> you mentioned balco, and time being served in prison. he says that he still thinks it is very easy to take performance enhancing drus, and failing a major league baseball test means he failed on iq test. >> tony said something similar when he sat with '60 minutes", comparing it to taking candy from a baby. they have self-interest in promoting themselves as a drug genius. some of tony bosch's clients failed the test. clearly he was able to evade it. alex rodriguez never failed a test.

what is important is the famous report after the scandal put together bit the senator, the testing will never be enough. they'll find their way around, and that's why they need a plan in place. they can come in with the team. if you believe tony bosch. none of the guys failed him. they were able to get the evidence to suspend them. forward. >> isn't it important for a serious policy, to send a message. aside from a-rod, they are all back in the field, some voted into the all star game, a few are mvp contenders. it feels like the league is not making a strong argument against this problem. it's a great point. the incentive is there tore guys willing to take the risk. if you look at the finances.

alex signed a record-breaking $275 million deal the same year he was allowed to use testosterone. a 100 million extent was signed when one failed a test. one inspected, comeback, had a great play-off, and had a record contract from the st. louis cardinals in the off season. until the league adds financial dis-ipp sentive, it's not a powerful enough statement for the guys, who are willing to take the risk being dragged through the mud if they are caught. they'll keep trying. >> pleasure to have you back on the show. good to see you. >> that's all for now, coming up wednesday on "consider this". have you heard of menopause, now

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