>> on the stream, >> they sacrifice their lives for the country. so why are some are some of america's men and women in uniform stuggling to put food on the table join us on the stream. on aljazeera america >> i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isis terrorist con voice. >> a significant american escalation and some say policy reversal in iraq, president obama authorizing airstrikes against islamic state militants, plus cargo planes dropping supplies to those trapped by the violence. >> new violence between israel

and hamas after talks in egypt fall apart. >> this morning, i am declaring the current outbreak of the ebola virus disease a public health emergency have international concern. >> the world holt organization raising the alarm over ebola. the almost effort and longest in history.

>> i authorized two operations in iraq. targeted airstrikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water. >> the president says the u.s. military would carry out airstrikes against the group that calls itself the islamic state. his concern, americans in iraq could be in danger if the rebels advance toward the capitol of

the kurdish region, where a u.s. consulate in located in addition to a joint u.s.-iraqi security base. >> we intend to stay vigilant and take action if our personnel are threatened in iraq. >> he is trying to avert a cries he calls an act of genocide. tens of thousands of iraqi families are a member of iraq's religious minty, driven out of their homes by the islamic state fighters. >> earlier this week, one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. >> u.s. cargo planes escorted by f18 fighter jets dropped fresh drinking water and ready to eat males. the u.s. is prepared to continue

these humanitarian deliveries, but the president will nothing send in more ground troops, adding he doesn't want americans to be dragged into another war in iraq. >> the president has authorized airstrikes not just to protect u.s. people and assets, but also potentially to help bridge the siege of the area, that is a significant development. the authorization is limited in scope. it does not extend to other you canary witness such as syria. >> there are also those fierce of mission creep, the president promises no boots on the ground in iraq, but aren't there already u.s. troops stationed there? boots on the ground. >> yes, the significant word is combat troops. last month, the president authorized special forces to go into iraq in baghdad to be the eyes and ears on the ground and also serve as consultants to the iraqi military. now, they are not there for

combat mission, but they are able to help protect those u.s. assets in baghdad. u.s. officials are aware that americans have grave concerns about mission creep and engaging in a ground war in that country. >> libby casey, live in washington this morning. thank you very much. >> as libby just reported, the u.s. airstrikes would be focused in northern iraq. that is where our reporter is. >> bracing for expected automatic air strikes and a continuation of this humanitarian crisis. overnight, there were airstrikes, about 40 miles south of here. those are believed to be iraqi on islamic state positions after fighters moved into a whole new region of that territory between the city of mosul and occurred i should controlled territory. the united states has said that it will protect its consular people here, it's diplomatic mission as well as try to stop the onslaught of islamic state fighters, but that's a

multi-pronged process. a lot of it rests really on what happens in baghdad, as well as what happens here in northern iraq. a constitutional deadline for later friday for a new prime minister to be named appears to be coming and going with parliamentary groups still deadlocked on who should replace foreign minister al-malaki or before he should stay in power. without the new government in place, the united states is reluctant to commit more military aid as well as to put their own people in harm. they are con tom plating another additional force of up to 2,000 people once they have an agreement with the iraqi government. for now, security in the kurdish capitol are extremely tight. iraqis are trying to arrange flights out of here. pretty much all the roads are blocked outside of the region, and it is becoming increasingly cut off. >> as you see those scenes, keep

in mind that for months, the region had been left alone as the islamic state group took over cities in iraq. >> now those rebels are closing in, leading to a humanitarian crisis. >> for the tens of thousands of iraqis dropped on a mount in in northwest iraq, some have arrived from the air after president obama ordered u.s. military planes to drop food and water, a move that could be followed with airstrikes on the rebels. >> we intend to stay vigilant and take action if these forces threaten our personnel anywhere in iraq. >> the group known as the islamic state marches deeper into iraq, capturing the largest dam and 15 towns, including an ancient christian village many thought was safe. >> we were under fire and mortars, children started to cry and we're in fear, so we had to get out last night. we gathered our stuff and fled.

>> rebels attacked iraq's semi you a to know moss kurdish region. photos show islamic state group fighters now manning a kurdish border checkpoint. for months, rebels had been rampaging through iraqi towns, slaughtering people, did he say destroying shrines and demanding people of other faiths convert to islam, pay a tax, or be killed. to fight back, volunteers are lining up to enlist with kurdish forces. some have never picked up a gun before. soldiers worry it's not a fair fight. at one shows off a rifle made in 1972. >> it's 42 years old, but islamist state has very developed weapons all built in 2010 and above. >> weapons were seized by fleeing iraqi forces. as the siege gross, the u.s. is listening. >> we are seeing christians be

persecuted and ethnic minorities be persecuted because of their eye dentes. that is barbaric. >> we will discuss what the u.s. is doing in iraq and the potential for more military action. >> in gaza, the 72 hour ceasefire is over, israel restarting its military operation, launching airstrikes, saying hamas fired dozen was rockets, including some before the truce ended. charles stratford is in gaza this morning. >> we had reports of a strike on a building, 11 people injured in that air strike. that's to add to the 14 other people that have been injured in other strikes around the gaza strip. as you reported, there have been one child killed in an attack on a mosque in an area.

so far, this morning, there's been another attack on another mosque and reports of injuries there. we're hearing at least 33 rockets fired from israel, at least -- i'm sorry, from gaza, at least two casualties in israel, reports there. we had this statement from islamic jihad, holding the israelis responsible for breaking the ceasefire, for not meeting the terms that they want. as we speak now, friday prayers have started at the mosque behind me, you can hear the sermon there, a great rallying cry, if you like, by the -- in the sermon, for the resistance movements and for people to stand with the resistance movements. it's quiet in this neighborhood, but we are hearing reports of on going airstrikes and tank shelling in various locations across the strip. >> israel said that hamas fired

first, sending rockets across the border. we are in jerusalem. >> everyone was expecting that this temporary truce would be extended for a few more days, until the two sides in cairo are able to reach some sort of a agreement for a more durable ceasefire. early this morning, as soon as the rocket fire resumed, we were hearing statements from different ministers and the government saying that israel should not be in these negotiations in cairo anymore, because hamas has chosen to resume fighting. we've also been hearing an israeli official and unnamed israeli official quoted saying israel will not negotiate when it is under fire and that the talks in cairo will be frozen as long as hamas is firing rockets at israel. also we are hearing that people are very frustrated, the israel public is especially those who

live on the border in communities close to gaza. a lot of these areas were evacuated, people have been out of their homes in these areas close to gaza for a month and in the last couple of days were told by the government to return to their homes only to find that the fighting has resumed again, so they say that the government in israel has not completed its obligations or its responsibilities in gaza, and that it should have been more firm while forces were inside the gaza strip and ordered to stop the rocket fire. >> also this morning, nato calling on russia to withdraw its troops from the ukrainian border. there are concerns that russia will invade. 20,000 russian soldiers are stationed on the border, the u.n. security council meeting to discuss steps it can take to deescalate the situation. >> the world health organization declared the ebola outbreak an international health emergency. the virus is moving faster than

they can control it. it has now killed 900 people in west africa. we are live outside emery university hospital in atlanta where two americans infected continue to be treated. how significant is that declaration and what will it mean? >> good morning. it is a very significant move by the w.h.o. the last time that they actually issued this was in may, when there was a polio outbreak. they did that because polio was thought to be cured and then popped up in a few places around the world, then in 2009 with the swine flu. they hope new aid from around the world will rush into west africa and that heightened emergency situations will go on in airports and hospitals around the world. also, the c.d.c. director yesterday said that this is going to be a long and hard fight, at least six months at a

minimum. dr. margaret chen of the w.h.o. came out and addressed the entire planet. here's what she said. >> it's adviced to me, annualed the sirius and unusual nature of the outbreak and potential for further international spread. also, the need for strong international coordination of the response. >> >> you can see that the relieve is what they need over there. they need more boots on the ground, so to speak, as far as scientists and people trying to figure out how to stop the spread, because the main thing here is that it's going so quickly that they can't control it. >> in another development, the u.s. or the families of embassy staff in liberia are ordered to leave. how significant is that move? >> it's big. it's big. the state department has said that the families of u.s.

embassy workers in liberia need to get out at this point, just as a safety risk. there's no reason for them to stay there. the actual state members will stay there and keep working, but also, if you look at british airways, just a couple of days ago halted flights in and out. it's not an unexpected move, but a very smart and safe move. >> finally, how are the patients, kent brantley and nancy writebol in that hospital behind you, how are they doing this morning? >> they are in the isolation unit behind me on the first floor. dr. kent brantley arrived saturday, nance writebol arrived tuesday, they are in stable but serious condition at this point, vital signs being monitored. they are still receiving that experimental drug that was made out of san diego by an independent firm, so doctors hoping for the best, but no one

can tell you exactly what the outcome is going to be or the prognosis of these two american aid workers at this point. >> robert ray in atlanta, thanks. >> a busy news morning. a state of emergency now in effect in hawaii as it braces for back-to-back storms. tropical storm iselle making landfall as we see. >> and tropical storm julio is behind it. >> hawaiians haven't experienced hurricane conditions in more than 30 years, this could mean flooding, and mudslides. both storms bear down on thized and the 1 million people who live there. >> the ocean, normally bright and blue, looked dark and ominous as the outer bands of tropical storm iselle descended on hawaii. >> everybody knows that a real

rough time is coming and the expressions of support, the expressions of aloha, the confidence that whatever comes, we'll reach out to one another, island to island, brothers and sisters connected to one another. >> the governor made sure they had enough supply to say last a week. supplies are flying off the shelves and gas and fuel being bought to prepare. officials say this set of storms is life threatening. >> if they haven't completed preparations, just take ref final inside. >> a hurricane warning is in effect for the big island of hawaii that's supposed to bear the brunt of the first storm. it could not come at a worst time, peak vacation season, wimp brings in 750,000 tourists in the month of august alone. >> folks on the big island around the state need to realize

this storm is anticipated to hold together and make a landfall on the big side as a hurricane, a low end hurricane, high end tropical storm. >> that means a serious storm surge which has streets flooding and rivers rising. heavy rains and high winds gusting up to 85 miles per hour. all of that, as nighttime fell on the islands. >> as if hawaiians are not overwhelmed enough with these back-to-back storms, yesterday while getting ready for iselle, an earthquake hit the big island with a 4.5 magnitude. guys, can they catch a break? >> not right now. >> let's go to nicole mitchell. the outer bands are now hitting the island, as for the eye of the storm itself? >> technically, there's not an eye anymore, because it's a tropical storm. the eye is when you get the ring of thunderstorms around the outside and then a clear spot in the center, that's where the air is descending in the center causing that. you can still pick out that eye

more with julio, but iselle has definitely been falling apart. here is the radar. you can pick out the more open circulation, but as this starts to fall apart, then that fills in. we don't have the eye anymore, but a technical landfall is when the center of the storm goes over land. we haven't had that yet. now that it's a tropical storm, we will not technically have a turk landfall. with all of that said, still as the initial part of this was coming on, it was a hurricane, we still have the hurricane warnings up, because we have the high winds, the heavy rain and the rest of our islands are under the tropical storm warnings. >> as iselle continues to push onshore, we are also watching julio behind that, a category three right now. looks like this will pass a couple hundred miles to the north, but a big enough storm to kick up the waves. north and east facing islands will watch for the waves to pick

up. you definitely don't want to be anywhere in the water. >> coming up, we're going to go live to hawaii for the latest as this tropical storm makes landfall. >> president obama authorizing airstrikes against extremist rebels in iraq. >> will this lead to another long-term military involvement? we're going to talk about that with retired army major mike lyons. >> the surrogacy scam and the man who claims he's the biological father of all the children. >> a letter carrier caught on tape tossing mail that was supposed to be delivered into the dumpster. >> $429 million is today's big number. >> it is the price paid to take a troubled airline private again. @

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it is being deleted from the makes stock exchange. >> at the oscar pistorius murder trial, lawyers defending the olympic star, making their closing arguments, saying that he didn't intend to kill reeva steenkamp. he shot her through the bathroom door. he insists he thought she was an intruder. his lawyer blamed his disability. >> little boy without legs, you experience daily that disability, and the effect of this. you experience daily that you cannot run away. with that disability, over time, you get an exaggerated fight response. >> prosecutors say pistorius killed steenkamp after a fight, the judge deciding the case could take up to a month to rule. >> a conviction in the killing

of an unarmed 19-year-old on a michigan porch, a jury found three door wafer guilty of second degree murder. he shot and killed ranisha because bride when she knocked on his door in the middle of the night. he said it was defense but a jury dismissed the claim. her family said it's been a long nine months waiting for the verdict. >> i wanted justice, looking at him knowing justice needs to be served. you did cold-blooded murder. that was murder. that was no accident or self defense. he did murder. >> justice was served today. >> yes, it was. >> justice was served today. >> yes, it was. >> and i'm done. >> wafer will be sentenced august 21, the maximum punishment would be life in prison. >> we've been reporting the president authorizing u.s. airstrikes in iraq. >> he said as necessary in the fight between kurdish forces and the islamic state. >> the president saying airstrikes would be used to

protect americans near humanitarian bases there. humanitarian air drops are also underway. u.s. military delivering supplies to thousands of iraqis stranded on a mountain fleeing the islamic state group. mike lyons is with the truman national security project and joins us in studio. is the authorization of an air strike just the beginning of a long term involvement or as they say so often, mission creep? >> it depends on the enemy at this point. if isis decides to attack into the area, there will be airstrikes, no question about that. the question comes back to the refugees on the mountain top, and what happens there, if they go after them so slaughter them, what happens then? airstrikes are not going to protect them. there's going to be a lot of destruction and whether or not the president authorizes it for

that. >> the air strike area is hundreds of miles away from the mountous area. they can overrun a very strong and disciplined peshmerga army? >> they didn't stay to protect those on the mountain top, because it's too far away. if urbile third base falls, kyrgystan falls. isis has better equipment, they took it over from the iraqi security forces. they have rupp guard trained forces. >> what happens if the islamic state group which has a lot of u.s. supplied military equipment they gathered when the iraqi soldiers ran away in the battle, what happens if they manage to shoot down just one of those

planes flying u.s. support? >> that's another great question, because they have to fly low. they could be surrounded with all the air support possible, but a missile could get to one of those. that what does the president do then, what's our reaction then. he leads with no boots on the ground, but at some point, if we're going to defend some of these areas, we might have to move a quick reaction force in there. the president has to open up more options, instead of closing them down. >> thanks so much. >> coming up in 10 minutes, we'll talk to the former u.s. ambassador to iraq, james jeffery about the president's decision and the controversy it has created. >> the police charged a deer hunter with starting a huge wildfire that tore through the california mountains last year. he started a campfire anti had burned 400 square miles, including part of yosemite

national back. >> let's get to hawaii being hit with the first tropical storm in more than two decades. >> nicole mitchell is back with the latest. >> of course we've been watching two storms out here, and you can see iselle and followed by that a category three right now, julio, we don't have a lot of records past the 1960's that are completely accurate before we had weather satellites but for the last 50 years, we haven't seen this set up. they have to get through colder water, weakening the storms and close to the islands, wind shear, so things that get close to the islands tend to fall apart. iselle is starting to do that now. as it got to land, it was losing strength. the mountains will chew this up. because of the mountainous terrain, that's going to funnel the water, land slides possible, heavy flooding areas and julio

heading to the north of the islands, that could still cause definitely some wave problems. >> nicole mitchell, thank you. >> president obama, as we have been reporting authorizing airstrikes against the islamic state group in iraq. >> who's behind the group that seized control of a large portion of iraq in just a few months? former u.s. ambassador to iraq, james jeffery, joins us to talk about the crisis. >> on the 40th anniversary of his in famous white house departure, new video of richard nixon.

>> theodore wafer was convicted for killing iselle mcbride. we'll talk with the attorney for the mcbride family. >> a look at our top stories, the ebola virus declared a international public health emergency. more than 900 people now dead from this latest outbreak. >> fighting is flaring in gaza. the temporary ceasefire is over and israel resumed airstrikes. israeli finishes say hamas fired dozens of rockets back over the border, peace talks in cairo on hold. >> president obama authorizing u.s. airstrikes in iraq, the president saying they are designed to protect americans in

a kurdish city. the u.s. military is air dropping supplies to iraqis stranded on a mountain that is surrounded by the islamic state group. >> we are in iraq live. these u.s. airstrikes should be focused on arbile. what is the focus of people where you are? >> they are focused in the sense that one of the aims president obama is to halt the advance of the islamic state fighters. they are as close as 40 miles from here, and that's one of the things that really the u.s. is

concerned about and that the iraqis have also been targeting with airstrikes overnight. >> jane, do you have any sense that these airstrikes are imminent? >> there's really no census to the timing of them. one thing is clear, this is kind of a last resort by the united states. it was pushed into this action, because we have this image of thousands of women and children from an ancient small, already endangered minority with babies essentially dying of hunger and thirst on this mountain top. they had to do something about that and had to do something to make sure that their allies, the kurds which have stood with the u.s. military particularly are not in trouble here militarily. whether these attacks are eminent is really unclear, but what is clear is the u.s., apart from sending in its own fighter

jets to launch airstrikes is helping iraq with it's own airstrikes. kurdish officials tell us this is a multi-regional effort. as for the air drops, we've spoken to people on the mountain stranded there, talk by phone from car batteries. >> do they want the help? the folks on the mountain and in erbil. >> the folks trapped not only want u.s. help, they want to leave iraq. this country's frogment since the war. there are now hundreds of ires and the population displaced on the mountain and in refugee camps are religious minorities, christians included, who have

not felt safe really since 2003. they are desperate. i've spoken to people from the mountain who are sheltering there under the rocks with no food and no water. what they are saying is very blunt. they are saying please tell the united states, the united nations and europe to come and help us. they are desperate for help. the kurdish government is desperate for help. the iraqi government would like help but has trouble accepts it. it's a very complicated dynamic but a lot of the folks here, the people on that mountain want help from wherever they can get it. >> live in erbil in northern iraq >> is the u.s. closer to getting

drawn into another military conflict in iraq? >> well, first of all, we're closer to military action, but we haven't taken military action yet, other than to drop supplies on the mountain. secondly, getting drawn in is a passive term. the united states will take a decision sooner or later to strike isil, because they will continue to advance and threaten american interest and the homeland. at this point, i don't think president obama is there yet. it's going to take further disasters, further slaughter to get him to move towards actual military strikes to support our allies and friends. >> are you saying that the u.s. air strike should go beyond erbil in protecting american personnel and reach wider, the airstrikes to strike at the heart of is i will operations in moss as you will and fallujah?

>> we need an inclusive government in baghdad. we don't have one. we need to work with the people in the sunni areas to rice up against al-qaeda, ice i'll as they did in 2006. the immediate problem is isil is moving militarily. this is a threat that can be stopped by air power with other people's boots on the ground, but if we don't act, they are going to keep on rolling. >> what happened to the obama doctrine of multi-lateral military action? why is the u.s. again going it alone in iraq? >> well, as i said, we haven't gone it alone yet and there's some possibility that the turks

have also dropped supplies, that report is out there. i think that the international community will support us against isil. the u.n. security council has taken action over the last 24 hours. we have international support for this, but in terms of international muscle, there is only one country on the face of the earth that can act effectively, militarily against isil and stop them from rolling forward and that's the united states. that's a reality. >> thank you so much for your insights this morning, sir. >> coming up, the latest on the president's decision to authorize airstrikes and the reaction in iraq. >> lamar alexander holding off a tea party challenge, the race seen as the last chance this year for conservatives to out of the an incumbent senator from their own party. he was called out of touch.

>> john walsh is ending his reelection bid six months after taking office. the democratic and army war college graduate has been caught in a scandal over allegations he plagiarized his master's degree thesis. montana democratic officials are set to choose his replacement in coming weeks. >> it was 40 years ago tonight that president richard nixon resigned. >> he was caught in the watergate scandal and about to be impeached and a newly released conversation, he talks the moments after he gave that famous speech. >> he went back to the residency part of the white house, his family there waiting. >> suddenly, they all got up and they came around and surrounded me. it was sort of a huddle, sort of a family embrace, saying nothing, and saying everything, and then trisha said daddy, said you're wet! your coat's wet through, and i

began to have a chill. what had happened was that the room had been so hot and the tension was so great that i was perspiring clear through the suit. >> well, dan rather reported on the scandal. he told aljazeera's john siegenthaler that nixon might have been undone by his own ego. >> he was a brilliant president in many ways, the flaw was, he was a hater. it wasn't good enough just to defeat your opponents. they sought to destroy them. >> could a cover up of this magnitude happen again? >> i'm sorry to say i think it could and in some ways, i think it might be easier, because the power of the presidency has increased since the nixon times. >> it's a fascinating interview. you can see more of john siegenthaler's interview tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern time right here on aljazeera america. >> thailand is trying to ban the practice of hiring women to have babies. >> an australian couple

abandoned their surrogate son in thailand because he was born with down syndrome. >> thai police have now discovered another case. >> when police raided a bancroft flat, they found nine babies, their nannies and a surrogate mother four months pregnant. a rich japanese man said he is the father of all the children through surrogates. the flats are called a baby factory. if proven to be true, the case is likely to be more complicated than that of baby gami, born with down syndrome. his mother said an australian couple paid her to bear their child. she had twins and accused the couple of taking his healthy sister, rejecting him because of his condition. the couple denies this. authorities are scrambling to catch up on these revelations and the intense media scrutiny. >> when these children are born and there is a problem, the law

requires the government and department of social development work to take care of them. no matter what happens, the children will be protected. >> these are websites that advertise the surrogate mothers. there's been a boom of births by surrogates in thailand. the medical council requires the mothers to be relatives and not profit from births. a new law was drafted but will not prohibit the practice, but will discourage it. >> there are lots of women in thigh land who, you know, they are positioned to become a surrogate mother, so they need money. >> the vast majority of surrogate births are not controversial, but it's a complicated, painful business as shown by these cases.

>> the baby is kept at this government orphanage for the time being. the child protection act prevents us from filming them. at this point, no one can say how long they're going to be kept here or where they're going to end up. this is just the start of the crackdown on surrogacy the. there may be more babies put in the same position. >> there are further worries that babies are being born to human trafficking and medical treatments, adding to the sense of urgency to tighten regulations. aljazeera, bangkok. >> it costs $70,000 to have a surrogate baby in asia. >> the price tag in the u.s. would be almost double that. >> big colleges may soon have more power over how they operate their sports programs. the ncaa is moving forward on a plan that will let big five conferences right their own rules off the field, the wealthy colleges say this will help provide better medical coverage for athletes and bigger cop lag

ships. >> all 40 incidents substitutions working on behalf of athletes, keeping competition open to all, keeping the revenue distribution, but at the same time, allowing a certain degrees of freedom or autonomy to hire resources, very important interns of support for student athletes. i think it's wonderful that division one stays intact and can move forward. >> opponents argue this will make recruiting harder for schools that are not in a top tier conference. >> a not so special delivery caught on camera in ohio. a postal worker appears to be throwing mail into the dumpster. the residents haven't been getting their mail for a week. a postal spokesperson calling it unacceptable. hard to believe. >> >> we're in moscow to show you

what foods may soon be in short supply, plus talk to an american business that could get hurt by the ban. >> is this a walking bear or a guy in a bear suit? the viral video that has plenty of people talking and laughing on line. it's yogi. >> a prehistoric creature the size of a fox. the find is our discovery of the day.

>> it's time now for our discovery of the day. a new dinosaur has been uncovered in venezuela, about the size of a fox. researchers believe it walked on two legs. >> dates back 200 million years to the early jurassic period. >> it means lizard of la quinta.

it ate meat and cockroaches. >> that was a huge cockroach, too. >> farmers worrying about being hit by the sanctions in russia. >> fish and produce have been banned. that could hurt people inside russia. >> french cheeses, italian olive oils, spanish hams, russians have got used to eating the same food as western neighbors, but that's about to stop. >> russia is introducing a total ban on imports of beaver, pork, paulry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy products from the european union countries, the united states of america, australia, canada and norway. >> at the market in central moscow, the produce glistens invitingly. >> what is here you are going to

have to problem finding after the import ban? >> this is from france, which is also from france. the carp is ours and lobsters are from canada. >> life is going to get quite tough for her once these import bans kick in, because pretty much 50% of what she's selling here is going to be restricted. >> the middle classes are wailing on social media about the return of soviet era bare she was and a future devoid of parmesan. it might not be them who suffer the most. it will primarily affect the poor effort people who are buying the cheapest import goods. if the government does not find alternatives, then prices on meat and vegetables will surge. >> russias intent is to hurt europe, the united states and their allies and the e.u.'s ambassador acknowledges there

will be pain. >> it is significant. it's about 10%, but 10% of entire e.u. exports to the russian market, and that's why we're going to take the measures seriously. >> the embargo has been introduced for a year, but pretty much everyone hopes it won't last as long as that. >> we want to go now to the chief financial officer of sander son farms, the third largest poultry producer in the u.s. he joins us via skype from mississippi this morning. how will russia's ban on poultry imports affect your business? >> you know, last year, our company sold russia 87.5 million pounds of product, right at $40 million worth of chicken. that's a good customer and we hate to lose a good customer, but on the other hand, they are not nearly as important as they wont were.

russia has banned us before in 2003, and at that time, they represented 40% of our total industry exports. now, they represent less than 7%, so it's not that big a deal for us. right now, chicken is doing very well. we are well positioned in relation to the price of beef and pork and there's a lot of demand worldwide for our product, and we will replace this customer. we will find other places to sell the product. >> let me ask you this. in years past, i'm going back to word war two, which is ancient history for some, americans were asked to share the sacrifice. in this case, $47 million is a lot of sacrifice for your firm. do you see this as being part of your civic duty and are you asking americans to eat more domestic chicken? >> well, americans are already eating a whole lot of chicken and eating more chicken this year than in years past. we'll find other export customers for this product,

angola, kass he can stan, south korea and mexico, which is our largest export partner are eating more chicken than they used to. it does sound like a lot of meat and it is a good customer, but we will find alternative markets to sell this product. >> do you think this is going to hurt people in moscow more? >> no doubt about it. american chicken is much cheaper, or much less expensive than russian-produced chicken. they have an industry and they produce their own chicken, but it's very expensive and the consumer that buys our chicken is those in a lower economic class, ones that can afford our product, the product's not going to be there for them. >> thank you very much for being with us. >> really great to have his perspective on that story. >> let's look at other stories

making headlines. china is planning to introduce its own version of christianity. officials want to ensure the religion complies with the correct theological thinking and promotes the government's view of individual's roles in society. >> you were stationed in china for more than a year. >> more than a year. christianity in china, most is underground, because it is so tightly controlled by the state. christianity has grown in mainland china and this is the chinese government's way of controlling it. >> you want to look at this, a racist homophobic light show to target president obama. new york magazine showing us the pictures of a celebration held by students in moscow for president obama's 53r 53rd birthday. it shows him swallowing a banana. they came it's a protest against the u.s. handling of the crisis in ukraine. interesting now that the sanctions that you just heard

him talking will be hitting russia. whether or not that will thank their perspective on vladimir putin. >> a lot of people will view that as a blatantly racist statement being made there. >> the wall street journal reports a 2-year-old squeezed through the bars in the fence. the secret service scrambled to grab the little kid. a spokesman for the secret service jokes they were going to wait until the toddler was old enough to talk to question him. he was given a timeout instead. >> knowing washington like i do, they probably will when he gross older. >> residents in who way urged to stay indoors. iselle downgraded to a tropical storm, making land foul overnight, not far behind it, julio, which is now a powerful category three hurricane, it, too, strengthening overnight. >> our meteorologist nicole mitchell has been tracking both. >> both storms were major hurricane, at one point in time,

julio still, and iselle back farther away from hawaii, now to a tropical storm, as it continues to push on to land. it's doing that on the big island. you can see already the heavy bands of rain and kind of the center of that storm around the coastline, so this technically not making its land fall as a hurricane. it's been quite some time, but still, high winds reported, gusts over 60 miles per hour in some cases. heavy rain is associated with all that, that's why the island is still under the hurricane warning for those conditions, and definitely with the terrain here, you've got the two big mountains. that funnels the rain and wind, so they're having impact there overnight during the night tonight. >> big changes could be coming to your credit score. the nation's largest credit scoring firm will no longer include medical debt in the

calculations. it plans to get rid of past drink wet debts. the changes will take place in the fall. the average consumer could see their scores rise at a result. >> detroit that a plan for how to collect millions of dollars in overdo water bills. the city has been under fire for turning off service to thousands of residents who have not paid the bills. the plan includes affordable payment options and wave late payment penalties. there is water funds where elderly residents can get help for the bears. >> in new jersey, a bear spotted, they believe he may have been hit by a car, injuring him, forcing him to learn to walk upright. some folks are convinced little a man dressed up in a bear suit. you be the judge. >> ahead, a michigan man convicted of killing an unarmed teenager on his front porch. we'll get reaction from the

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>> on the stream, >> they sacrifice their lives for the country. so why are some are some of america's men and women in uniform stuggling to put food on the table join us on the stream. on aljazeera america >> i therefore authorized targeted airstrikes if necessary to help forces in iraq. >> president obama changing course in iraq, authorizing u.s. forces to carry out airstrikes against islamic state fighters and deliver aid to refugees caught in the violence. >> the 22 hour ceasefire in gaza has come to an end and talks for peace fall apart.

>> the hawaiian islands brace for a second storm to hilt. >> a groundbreaking decision by ncaa giving colleges and universities more power in making their own rules to abide by. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. president obama is authorizing the first use of military force in iraq since 2011. he ordered airstrikes to protect americans in iraq, but says there won't be u.s. boots on the ground. >> there is a u.s. humanitarian mission underway. the u.s. is sending badly needed supplies to thousands of iraqis now stranded on a mountain. >> the u.s. is sending three military cargo planes. they are escorted by 2f18 fighter jets and delivering 5,300-gallons of fresh drinking water and 8,000 ready to eat meals. we have more. >> u.s. fighter jets escorted

planes with enough water and meals for 8,000 for those trapped on the mountain. more drops are expected. u.s. president barack obama announced the u.s. military will help iraq's forces break the siege surrounding the mountain in the comes days, sending another warning to the islamic state group to stop their advance. >> i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist con voice should they move toward the city. we intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorist forces threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. >> the president had said he would not act until an iraqi government was in place that represented all iraqis, but senior administration officials say the polite of the people and unexpected effectiveness of the islamic state group forced their hand. they are pushing for a new government, promises more aid to

iraq once a government is put in place. the u.s. president promised americans this would not lead to another full scale war in iraq, but said what is happening in iraq could be genocide and the u.s. has to prevent it. >> we have a mandate to help in this case a request from the iraqi government and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. >> aljazeera, washington. >> let's go now to libby casey in washington. good morning. the president has authorized airstrikes in iraq. what about the use of u.s. ground forces? >> there's a definite clarity from the white house that they are not engaging in a ground war, but there are u.s. troops on the ground in iraq already. last month, the president authorized the use of special forces. they number 800 now. they were not sent in as combat groups. they were sent in like advisors

to the iraqi military and to do military work to do eyes and ears on the ground. they are tasked with the mission of protecting u.s. assets in baghdad. u.s. officials say they are very aware of concerns americans have of mission creep and the lack of a desire to get engaged in a ground war. >> as commander-in-chief, i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. even as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, american combat grooms will not return to fight in iraq. because there is no american military solution to the larger cries in iraq. >> president obama also saying that they are watching closely the formation of a new iraqi government and going forward may

hinge on that. >> leadership specifically before authorizing the use of airstrikes and also before the humanitarian effort was launched yesterday, it's resisted here in d.c. and very quiet in terms of members' response. we have seen reaction from democrats giving their support. also we saw a statement come out last night from senator john mccain of arizona and lindsey graham supporting what happened so far, but saying it's not enough, there must be a more strategic response from the u.s. militarily. >> libby, thank you. >> during his remarks last night, the president pointing out the humanitarian concerns behind his decision to authorize u.s. airstrikes and send those supplies into iraq. >> earlier this week, one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today, america is coming to help.

>> the penalty was responding in part to the desperate pleas of an iraqi lawmaker. her cries in parliament have gained international attention. take a listen to her emotional appeal. >> as the president said last night, her appeal was heard. coming up, retired army major mike lyons will break down the president's decision and whether we may soon see troops on the ground in iraq. >> violence returned to gaza as a ceasefire came to an end.

negotiations for a larger truce have come to an end. >> we are live in jerusalem. good morning. how did the israeli government and public react to the resumption in fighting? >> firstly, the israel government instructed the army to carry out airstrikes on so-called targets in gaza after we started seeing the incoming rockets being fired from gaza after the three day truce expired. as well, the army said that it is going to strike hamas, its operatives and infrastructure because the resumption in fighting was unacceptable and intolerable. we heard ministers call on the government to withdraw from the negotiations on a durable

ceasefire that were taking place in cairo. we've seen that israeli delegation return to jerusalem before the truce expired. we also heard some angry comments from israelis, especially those living in the communities close to the border with gaza, where people said they were very frustrated, because some of them had to evacuate their homes for a month and in the last couple of days told by the government that it's ok to return to their homes and now they are seeing more rockets. they feel that the israeli government didn't really complete the job in gaza. >> reporting from jerusalem, thank you. >> nick schiffron spending the last month covering the conflict oak is with us here this morning. how disappointing is the end of the ceasefire to the people of gaza? >> extremely. every time there was a ceasefire, we've now had nine failed ceasefires, life returns to gaza city. there are markets there still, despite the wars. >> kids coming out to the

playgrounds, which is just fascinating how quickly they come out and become kids again. >> they come out even when one of those playgrounds is attacked. the desire to resume life, come out and be kids or adults or be parents or just ever a little bit of breath. you have to understand that so many of these people have been hiding in their homes scared. >> they've got cabin fever. >> and they are simply scared to be bombed, simply scared of israel strikes or drones, the drones are constant. as soon as they get just that brief glimmer that maybe there is peace, maybe a ceasefire, they come out and immediately when the strikes start again, they go into hiding again, so there is deep disappointment. >> 36 rockets were fired from gaza, some of them did land in israel, some of them fell short and landed within gaza. would you expect everyone to be heading back to shelters, the streets to clear again at this point? >> the main problem in gaza is that there's nowhere that's safe. shelters have been hit, schools

hit, some of the places that they thought were the safest places have been hit and there's nowhere to go. israel blockades one side of gaza, egypt the other. what they will likely do is go into gaza city and hunker down in private homes. >> are the people of gaza now like the people of london in world war ii, which is regardless of how much they are bombed, they will be defiant no matter what, because they have defined israel as the enemy? >> i think there's a real split here. i think there's a lot of people if you ask in gaza who say keep firing the rockets, keep resisting. that's the word they use, keep resisting until israel agrees to opening the borders and lifting the blockade. those are the two things being negotiated but haven't come to the conclusion. israel is not saying they are unwilling to do those things, but it hasn't gotten there yet. some in gaza say keep going until it happens. others are absolutely exhausted, sick of war, sick of the

fighting and they want anything just to keep their families safe and they will take a ceasefire at any point now, so there's a real split between the two. >> nick schiffron, i know you are going to be heading back there. thanks for sitting here in the studio, appreciate it. >> coming up in 25 minutes, we'll talk with a palestinian-american journalist who was in gaza about how people there view hamas. >> there is a state of emergency in hawaii. tropical storm iselle making landfall, but right behind it is hurricane julio. it is a kathy. jennifer is live in honolulu. how bad is it there right now? >> it's pretty windy, we've had rain coming down pretty heavily at times. it's nothing compared to what's going on in hilo where they're having storm surge, having this tropical storm, the leading edge of which has been on them for

most of the afternoon into the eek and now into the early morning hours here in hawaii. it's just after 2:00 a.m. here. it's been a very busy day of storm prep and right now, they are just looking for the eye of the storm to finally come onshore, even though it's been downgraded to a tropical storm, iselle still is producing damaging winds, just really the difference of five miles an hour between hurricane and tropical storm. it slowed down a little bit, but it is still coming ashore and is a direct hit to hilo. >> what have people been doing to get ready now that a state of emergency has been declared in hawaii? >> mostly, it's been sandbagging. there have been a few places on the big island where they boarded up windows and the classic things you see when they are preparing for a hurricane. here where it's different is to interact with the volcanos. when it hits the island, it

could stall out and just dump tons of rain into the higher elevation and the runoff mixed with storm surge could cause major flooding. all the island chain is under a flash flood watch, hurricane warnings still in effect, even though it's a tropical storm, the damaging winds are still there, so it's still a hurricane warning on the island of hawaii and tropical storm warning here on the rest of the islands. >> thank you so much, live from honolulu. >> let's get the latest on the track of these storms with nicole mitchell. she is in honolulu. i didn't see a lot of waves and wind. >> the big islands of hawaii, versus oahu, which is quite a distance away, as you look in the atlantic, here is iselle losing intensity, now a tropical storm. julio is small, a very defined

eye, that is a hurricane, category three. iselle has just been downgraded more from winds at 70 miles an hour just under a hurricane to 60 miles per hour. as it interacts with land, it really starts to tear apart these storms. of course we have the two big volcanos on the island, but that is also a place that rain runs in some places up to a foot of rain, it can funnel. watch for mudslides and flooding. we have high surf around the big island. smaller islands, especially with that next storm on the horizon could get above 20 feet. you want to stay away from the water. >> my reserve job is at a hurricane hunter. i leave at the end of next week, so my colleagues are out there flying right now. >> the world health organization declares the ebola outbreak an

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companies, the powerful storm in canada producing golf ball sized hail. it did cause a lot of damage. this driver captured the video of his car getting pelted before the hail eventually cracks his windshield. >> up next, the attorney for the family of a young woman shot and killed by a michigan man has been found guilty of murder. >> there's been a huge development in the ebola outbreak, the world health organization declared it is an international public health emergency that's killed more than 900 people. it is spreading much faster than it ever has before. we are live in atlanta where the two americans are being treated. what will this declaration mean? >> the declaration is really serious. the world health organization, you remember the swine flu in 2009, that's one of the last times they declared such a

declaration, an international button that you can push to put people on alert at airport and hospitals. they hope that perhaps this allows more aid to head into west africa so that it can stop this unbelievably fast infection from continuing to spread. the chief of the w.h.o., dr. margaret chen made comments last night. >> it's advised to me, acknowledges the serious and unusual nature of the outbreak and the potential for further international spread, but also, the need for strong, international coordination of the response. >> now, dr. thomas friedan yesterday in a hearing in washington made pretty unbelievable comments about this infectious disease spreading. he said it's going to be a long

and hard fight, could be six months to stop the spread, but they think they can do it. >> the u.s. also not taking any chances in liberia, now ordering the families of the u.s. embassy staff there to leave. >> exactly. a small precaution by the united states states department. the employees are going to stay, but they've said this is a fight that's going to go on for a while. why put families and kids at risk, get them out, back to the u.s. or wherever they are going to go, out of the hot zone. >> thank you very much. >> in detroit, a guilty verdict in the murder trial of a white man who shot and killed a black teenager on his front porch. >> we the jury find the

defendant guilty as follows. >> it took two days for the jury to return i said verdict. >> count one, murder in the second degree, guilty of murder in the second degree. >> he was also found guilty of manslaughter and a gun charge. last november, theodore wafer shot and killed 19-year-old ranisha mcbride on his front porch. the jury's decision brought her mother to tears. >> it was overwhelming. i kept the faith, and i stayed positive. also ranisha's father, he just kept telling me, it's going to happen, so i'm very pleased. his lawyers argued self defense, saying he thought someone was trying to break into his home early that morning. he shot her through a locked screen door. the prosecution convinced jurors he had other options. >> look at the facts, look at the elements, look at the credible evidence in this case and render a just verdict. justice for ranisha mcbride.

mr. wafers actions were unnecessary, unjustified and unreasonable. >> evidence and testimony shed light on the events leading to mcbrides death, an afternoon of smoking marijuana and drinking vodka, photographers showing the severity of the car crash she was involved in hours before she was killed. her family believes she arrived on wafers doorstep looking for help. >> two questions for you, and that's all you to have break down. one, you have to decide amongst yourselves, was ted in fear of his life or great bodily harm that night, and two, was danger eminent. did he feel like that danger was

eminent? yes and yes. >> through most of the trial, jurors only heard from wafer through 911 and police audio recordings, but he did take the stand. >> why did you pull the trigger? >> to protect and save myself, defend myself. it was -- it was them or me. >> wafer was immediately taken to jail where he'll await his sentencing. no word yet on an appeal. ranisha's parents believe that race was not a factor in this shooting. they believe what happened to their daughter could have happened to anyone. bisi onile-ere, aljazeera, detroit. >> here to talk to us is the attorney from the mcbride family. her life mattered. that is how monica mcbride reacted to the verdict yesterday. is that what you think was on

the minds of this jury, they wanted to show that this young woman's life mattered? >> i think what happened was the defendant kept lying in his testimony, and the lies just perpetuated themselves, they kept going on and on and on and the jury just couldn't believe a word that came out of his mouth, because he was such a liar. i can give you some examples, where he was -- >> you're pointing to the inconsistencies between it is first police report and what he said on the stand? >> that's a gentle way to see it, inconsistencies. he said it was an accident, he doesn't know how the gun went off and there was a problem with the trigger. the defense and prosecution had the gun examined and the trigger was find, it took pressure to pull the trigger. then he said he didn't think the gun was loaded. if he didn't think the gun was loaded, why did he take the

safety off, why did he rack it so that the bullet would go into the chamber and why did he pull the trigger if he thought the gun wasn't loaded? there are many inconsistencies as you would put it, i call it lies and the jury would not believe anything that came out of his mouth. >> what does this mean to gun owners or homeowners in general in the state of michigan? >> people can have guns to protect themselves but you don't use them as a first resort. he was behind a locked steel door. he had no reason to open up that door and confront whoever was out there. all he had to do was call 911 or yell through the door, i just called the police, i've got a shotgun here, get away from my house. he opened the door and decided to blow her head off and that's what he did. >> he will be sentenced in a few weeks, sir, the maximum penalty is a life sentence.

do you believe he deserves that? >> well, the family believes he deserves that because he took a life, but according to the guidelines, he'll probably get around 15 years or so. >> ok. attorney, that you can for your time this morning, appreciate it. >> let's get a look at the weather across the country. we turn to nicole mitchell. >> we'll have more updates on the tropical systems, the one currently impacting the big island and julio, which is a category three, by the time is passes north of the islands. we'll have more on all of that in a few minutes. i do want to get to the weather around the united states today. we've had a couple of active areas here, too. we've had the heavy rain moving through the midsection of the country. now it's more in the upper mississippi valley, but right along the coast we could see more activity fire off through the course of the day. as we watch all of that, that's

those afternoon thunderstorms in florida and a little more heavy rain to the north of that, but not as significant as in missouri. for places like the northeast, great lakes, pretty nice weekend setting up. that's good news heading into the weekend. that's friday. one other area i want to highlight, temperatures again today, 90s in parts of texas. we have heat advisories. heat indexes could hit 105. if you can stay in the air conditioning back again. >> nicole [ coughing] mitchell. >> bless you again. >> president obama authorizing u.s. airstrikes in iraq. could american troops be on the ground in iraq again? >> game changer, ncaa giving more power to biggest colleges in sports.

>> how the human brain can be used for effectively. >> a look now at our image of the day,s escalating situation in iraq and president obama's meeting with security advises in the situation room ahead of his call for those u.s. airstrikes to combat islamic state fighters. ters.

>> you're taking a live look at pretoria, south africa where closing arguments in the oscar pistorius murder trial are taking place for a second day. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. the violence in ukraine intensifying as nato issues a warning to russia. >> a major vote by the ncaa

shaking up college sports and giving more power to the conferences. >> first a look at our top story, a state of emergency in effect in hawaii, being slammed with the first of two stores, tropical storm iselle followed by julio. >> israel resumed airstrikes after hamas fired dozens of rockets. >> president obama authorizing u.s. airstrikes in iraq. >> to stop the advance on erbil, i directed our military to take strikes against is i will con voice should they move toward the city. >> he said the goal is to help stop the surge by islamic state fighters and begun a humanitarian mission dropping supply to say thousands of iraqis taking ref final on the mountain. >> retired army major mike lyons

joins us. what is the risk for the u.s. getting involved, both the risk to u.s. forces and the risk to the people of the mountain area? >> first and foremost, we've got to assume air superiority. if planes are shot down conducting humanitarian missions, we might have to rescue pilots to fall behind enemy lines and then we'll be engaged with isis. they run the risk of not being able to get out of there, fundamentally surrounded, great swaths of land on all sides of them, to get them to turkey or another location is going to take force. >> we first began discussing the issue of sending those military advises in. military advisors don't want to talk about mission creep. is this the classic definition of mission creep? >> it looks a lot like vietnam,

should the mission escalate, rescue downed pilots or send in special forces troops to help with this refugee mission, we're now engaged and we're engaged with isis. in some ways, we've got to figure out what they want. do they want u.s. engagement, drag us into the battle. it seems that might be the case, isis will use us as a trump card going forward. >> i want to take a broader view of this strategy. if the u.v. is going to core out a humanitarian mission in iraq, why is it not carrying out that mission in syria? >> another great question. a lot of it has to do with focus and what we can and can't do. you've got resources ready to go, teed up, military advisors there. we don't have a relationship inside syria that can control things on the ground. there's likely other things going on covertly that they are not saying. that mission in syria would be riskier. >> you're a military man.

is it possible we are talking about a humanitarian mission and airstrikes, but not having a lot of soldiers stationed just in case one of those planes happens to get shot down? >> i think the quick reaction force, someone's on alert right now, no question about that and there's a brigade in the world ready to go and get there if they have to. the key is an air field outside the mountain right now controlled by isis but if a battle ensues, it would likely go there first. that's the egress point for a refugee mission to get them out of that area, it's got to come out of there. if u.s. forces go back in, they will land at that air field and take that back. >> thanks for being with us. >> some significant developments out of afghanistan this morning. we are learning that feuding presidential candidates there agreed to settle a major election dispute, sign ago deal to cooperate on forming a national unity government. the break through comes at secretary of state john kerry

arrived in kabul last night on an unannounced visit. he spoke with former foreign minister abdullah abdullah and former finance minister. the two men have been locked in a dispute over who kill succeed president hamid karzai. >> residents of gaza fleeing their homes this morning after the ceasefire ended. peace talks are breaking down. israel relaunching airstrikes saying hamas has been firing back with rockets. >> >> we are joined from gaza city. every time hamas breaks a ceasefire and starts firing rockets at israel, which is what israel said happened this morning, the israeli army, don't they have a pretext to resume strikes that have over and over again claimed the lives of women and children? why does hamas keep firing rockets? >> well, first of all, hamas

didn't break the ceasefire. it ended at 8:00 a.m. this morning. the terms that hamas put forward with the support of all of the palestinian factions and much of the arab world involved ending the siege of gaza, which in and of itself wimp according to most people you talk to in gaza is an act of war. what the israels asked for when the ceasefire ended was for hamas to stop firing rockets while they claim the right to continue the siege of gaza. >> they are not letting up, but do people of gaza leave hamas is doing the right thing, that this is the right strategy. >> everybody that i speak to here exhibits a sense of defiance that i haven't seen in gaza in the many times i have been here in the past, and people are determined to get beyond the eight years of a blockade, to have access to the outside world, and these things we to have remind ourselves are very practical. we are talking about open access to the sea. there's a port here in gaza

which has been effectively out of bounds and off limits to palestinians since the 1967 war, and the times where it has been active, the israelis have limited fishermans ability to fish, for example, to three kilometers out. what the palestinians are asking for is something very legitimate and practical and these are things that the israelis can answer but have chosen not to. that is why we have the renewed violence we have today. >> you were in gaza city. have you heard or seen any israeli airstrikes? as soon as the ceasefire was put in place, people were on the streets again, life starting to return to normal. what's life like there today? >> obviously people are staying indoors today. there's a little bit of movement outside. from where i am in the middle of gaza city, just like virtually everybody else in the gaza strip, we can see airstrikes, we can hear artillery fire and see

the effects of it. we have a good vantage point of the sea and can see the battle ships stationed just off the coast of gaza, as has been the case for the last three and a half weeks, the israelis are taking aim at a civilian population with an arsenal of weapons that is absolutely atrocious and the civilians here are paying the price. >> samar, thank you for your time. >> the head of nato call on russia to step back from the brink of war, saying russia amassed 20,000 troops near its border and warns ukraine of a possible invasion. this comes as the ukrainian military is tightening its grip on donetsk. >> parts of the city came under fire yet again. people in donetsk were left picking through the pieces. this was once part of the hospital, now reduced to rubble.

>> he died. another one was brought in by his relatives, just walking past here. his left lung was injured and his heart just stopped working, a very painful death after 10-15 minutes. >> the city home to the separatist movement, the donetsk people's republic has been in the silents of the ukrainian military for weeks. around half of its population are thought to have already fled to try to escape a possible onslaught. now, the man who's led the separatists for months is stepping down. alexander, who is russian is accused of having too close ties with moscow. >> i think that the donetsk people's republic should be ruled by a person originally with blood and person of this kind is among us. please welcome him.

>> in slovyansk, this would have been unthinkable months ago. this city was controlled by separatists but now back in the hands of the kiev government, but not without heavy losses on both sides. what authorities are trying to do it not just rebuild trust with the community, it's to try to heal the wrist between the people themselves. >> this is an uneasy peace watched closely by everyone here. aljazeera in slovyansk. >> the city council in donetsk is working to keep transportation running and rare gas lines and apartment buildings, as well. >> malaysia airlines is becoming state owned again. the government has delisted the troubled carrier from the stock exchange and will purchase the outstanding shares at 8 cents apiece. the airlines is $4 billion in debt and stock has become all but worthless since flight 370 disappeared in march. >> seems the stowaway couldn't stay away from the airport.

arrested thursday in los angeles for violating that retraining order. she was arrested earlier this week after sneaking on to a flight from san jose to los angeles. >> detroit that a plan to collect millions of dollars in overdue water bills, including affordable payment options and waived penalties for late payment. city hall has been under fire for turning the water off for thousands of residents who hadn't paid. >> the average house in detroit paid $80 more on their water bill because the people who didn't pay their bills last year. $80. the average house is paying for those who didn't pay last year. if dwsd hadn't done something, by next year, they would be paying more than $100 on their bill for those who weren't paying. the goal was the right goal, i just don't believe it was executed in the right way. >> water shut offs are postponed

until august 25. a water fund has been created where eligible residents may get help with bills. >> a big story in college sports, there is a big problem forecasting the weather in the fill teens, meteorologists are leaving their jobs for more money abroad. >> a country considered one of the most vulnerable to extreme natural disasters. we have more on the brain drain. >> working as a forecaster for the state-run weather bureau for almost 30 years, the salary is low and the working hours unpredictable, but he says this is not why he is here. >> i stayed because i want to help our country, to serve our people, and aside from that, a few years from now, i'll be retirable. >> some of his colleagues have been leaving. five meteorologists have left just this year. lured by overseas jobs, mostly

in the middle east. the president says the departure of these professionals shouldn't be a concern. over 30 new forecasters have been recruited this year, but the state weather bureau admits the problem is not in finding good people in the country, it is in keeping them. >> we need to raise the status of the meteorologists in the philippines, because actually, i think we're moving on with what we have now, but still, we need support, continued support, because with the technology change, we must not be left behind from other countries. >> forecasters abroad get paid at least five times more than they make here. those who have opted to stay say they hold on to the promise of better benefits and improvement of their outdated equipment. their jobs have becoming crucial following natural disasters. >> the typhoon left more than 400 people dead with the city unprepared for a disaster of

such scale. government officials here say lessons have been learned since then, but for residents here, the fear of another disaster remains. >> some communities have found ways to cope, learning to monitor weather changes and setting up their own systems so they are able to respond faster. the world risk index put the philippines as the countries most vulnerable to extreme natural disasters. the typhoon left more than 7,000 people dead last year. experts say it is expected to get worse. some weather forecasters here stay on. they do the best they can, they say with what little they have. >> the forecaster complain their salaries are delayed and they missed work because they couldn't afford bus fair.

>> big news in college sports, a vote by the ncaa giving big schools more power and changing college sports including the issue of whether athletes get paid. >> we talk with the chancellor of athletics at the university of denver about this groundbreaking decision and the big money tied to it. food on the table join us on the stream. on aljazeera america

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>> thoughts on everything from the origins of the universe to how meditation can cure global conflict. we'll have more coming up. >> the ruling that can pave the way toward giving the athletes part of the pie. >> what this means is a fundamental dare i say seismic shift in the college athletics scene. it definitely seems eminent. the biggest named universities will most likely being paying athletes sooner than later unless enough schools rise up and protest the ncaa ruling. >> the governing body voted to macon presences more powerful. >> it's wonderful that division one stays intact and can move forward. >> the ruling allowed the 65 universities from the five richest conferences to write their own rules rewarding student athlete benefits.

that means traditional powers like u.s.c. of the pack 12, ohio state of the big 10, alabama of the s.e.c. and oklahoma of the big 12 might soon be free to pay players a few thousand dollars in addition to free tuition. ncaa president said: >> the ncaa has been facing mounting pressure to address the rights of student athletes, including the right to share in the millions of revenue dollars the athletes help generate. >> anybody who looks at the big time college football cable channels, all of the basketball schools with their nike contracts, or the ncaa tournament itself can't help but conclude that this is a big business. >> intensifying the pressure has

been exbasketball star's lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of players' names, image hours likenesses and attempts led by northwestern football players to have players recognized at employees to they may unionize. >> it reassembles a dictatorship, the ncaa places rules and regulations on these students without negotiation. >> from here, the ncaa difficulties one schools have to vote on autonomy amid criticism that it widens the gaps between the haves and have notes. if 75 schools feel that way and vote against it, then the ncaa board will reconsider. short of that, the new policy could begin as early as john, 2015. >> the benefits above tuition, room and board we are talking about here is being termed full cost of attendance. that could run from $2,000 to $5,000 per athlete, lead to

better medical coverage and the chance to bet disability insurance for big time college athletes. >> thank you. >> let's go live to the vice chancellor of athletics at university of denver. she joins us from denver, colorado this morning. thank you for getting up early. do you agree with the ruling? >> great question. i think the ruling itself creates a tipping point to have on going discussions. having the autonomy for the big five conferences is something that has been talked about for the last 30 years. now, with the board of directors' vote yesterday, passing this means 60 days of intense conversation across the country on the impact this means for individual institutions outside of the big five conferences, as well as conferences that are outside the big five, how it affects competitiveness, the branding of their athletic democratic and where do we go from there. i think although the university of denver, we are opposed to

paying our athletes, because we don't do that for our post docs or doctoral candidates, we think as long as there is transparency and accountability for the money spent. >> do you think the foxes are in charge of the hen house? is it the responsibility of the ncaa to address these issues and aren't they passing the buck giving the authority to the people that are really the questionable parties in the first place? >> i do think that you bring up a good point. it is critically important to have chancellors and presidents, board of trustees, board of regents involved in these hot debates. are we creating an environment where athletes will be further outside of the main mission of the academic institution.

i do believe there is time for strong ethical leadership now more than ever on the future of college another athletics and hopefully as we move forward and have discussions of what it looks and feels like, as people threaten possibly an override of what was just passed, i think it's a great time for conversation, and saying -- >> 77% of players now in the nfl are bank result within five years of leaving the league. is there a concern that if you start paying college players, and those players graduate without getting a good education first, that it's doing more harm than good? >> certainly that's a concern, but i think it's important to remember in the early 1980's, student athletes got miscellaneous expenses. back then it was called laundry money, pizza money. i do think that institutions, if we recruit a young man or woman,

we have a moral obligation to make sure they get a meaningful degree and make sure that they are somewhat protected, knowing they may, a very, very small percentage may may go pro and make money. there should be oversight to make sure they don't end up bankrupt, like the large percentage you talked about. >> excellent point by saying small percentages make it on to the pros. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> author of integrated medicine has a book called "super brain." he explains how we can optimize our brains. >> a super brain is an integrated brain. we have three parts to our brain, we have a represent tillian brain which goes back 300 million years, which is only involved in fight or flight,

it's survival. it still dominates right now. i'm using my hand right now, because this is a nice model of the brain, the spinal cord, the represent tillian part, this is the emotional brain. you're emotional brain actually regulates your hormones as we now know, all the things we spoke about earlier. then there's your brain where we reflect, imagine, make choices, orchestrate conscious intention, creativity, all of that. so the ideal super brain, integrated brain, really, you don't use your reptileian brain at all. you stop, take three deep breaths, smile, observe what's happening in our body and proceed with compassion and awareness. >> i also talked about michael

jackson. he was a close friend of the late star. >> michael was like a brother to me. i met him a long time ago, around the time when thriller was in the world, you know, the big album. he was very innocent, very joyful. he was a genius in terms of his -- >> in terms of his craft. >> he could go into a state of consciousness that i would only call transcendent. he was not of this world when he went in that state of consciousness. the tragedy was the pepsi accident after which he started getting pumped with narcotics and doctors became perpetuators and caused his addiction or perpetuated his addiction and finally he was killed by a prescription drug. >> did you try to another vice him? that seems antithesis to what

you would advice him. >> i was talking to him, but he would totally disappear when he wanted to. when he disappeared, i knew that he was now -- somebody was enable him and it was usually a doctor. >> you could catch my full conversation with him saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> we have breaking news out of iraq. according to the pentagon, u.s. military aircraft of now fired on those islamic state forces. >> there are no further details, including whether there were casualties on the ground. the british military announced that like the americans, they will also drop food and other supplies to the people who friend to an iraqi mountain, afraid they might go killed by islamic state fighters. >> we are tracking storms hitting hawaii right now. hurricane julio on its way, iselle hitting the island right now. let's go to nicole mitchell. >> julio not expected until

later in the weekend and passing north of the islands, but right now iselle pushing on land. we've had the impact and of course with the mountain terrain, that funnels the rain. sometimes you can get 12 inches. the storm itself is at 60-mile per hour sustained winds. the surf up to 15 feet, but smaller islands, especially with the new storm coming in could be higher, so definitely stay out of the water. back to you. >> thank you very much. that is it for us here in new york. >> coming up in two minutes from doha, more on the rapidly changing situation between squeal and hamas and which is the latest in iraq. >> we'll see you back here monday morning.

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