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strain it's putting on u.s. russian relations and a possible cold war. an investigation is underway after nascar examplion tony stewart kills another driver during a track confrontation. good to have you with us. together a temporary ceasefire in gaza appears to be holding. the truce took affect a few hours ago, egypt brokered the deal. israeli and palestinians agreed to stop fighting for 72 hours. it followed a weekend of violence. the last agreement arranged by egypt expired. jane ferguson followed the latest develop for us from jerusalem. good to see you. here we are three hours into a ceasefire. where do we stand?

>> well, as you have said, the ceasefire seems to be holding alt the moment. it will last for 72 hours if all goes well. >> we are hearing from the israeli press, quoting sources that the israeli delegation will not return to the talks in cairo until monday. after they have seep ceasefires in good faith and that it is holding for one evening. it seems the indirect talks about begin tomorrow in cairo, on monday, if the ceasefire continues. it's been a dramatic day here of international diplomacy. this morning it started with the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu emerging from a security cabinet meeting saying that israel's mission and operation in gaza would continue, and some cabinet members have been pushing for it. they have been pushing for ground offensive to be started

in gaza. the israelis were saying they would not come back to negotiations until a ceasefire happened, until hamas agreed to stop firing rockets into israel. the egyptians were breakering the deals, and they managed to persuade the palestinian side to guarantee they would stand by a ceasefire. it panned out food through a busy day of intense discussion. >> another busy day. it's a temporary truce. what feeds to happen for the israelis and palestinians to reach a long-term deal? >> well, both sides need to show a real willingness to actually sit and tackle the issues as you said, we have seen a 72 hour ceasefire already, one that expired on friday morning whenever rocket fire was resumed. for this to work, the palestinians and the israelis will have to get to grips with

what they both want. it will be challenging. we are dealing with issues that have been argued over for years. the blockade is what is needed to be lifted if not eased. it restrict the movement of people and goods in and out of gaza. they are looking for a seaport that would free up the blockade. the israelis want the disarming of hamas, wanting the armed wing to be completely disarmed in gaza. that is extremely unlikely to go down well with hamas themselves in gaza. there's a possibility of some sort of deal focussing on the palestinian authority, who do have - who have taken part in talks with the israelis before, trying to get more leverage in gaza that would be more palatable to the israelis. lots of complex, intense issues. if the discussions could be taken seriously, it would seem likely that the 72 hour

ceasefire could be extended. >> no easy solution. sense the fighting broke out. 64 have been killed in israeli. over 1900 in gaza have been kill. >> reporter: another funeral, another broken palestinian family. friends and relatives mourn as men carry the body of a 35-year-old woman to her grave. she was killed in an israeli air strike in the southern gaza strip. close by in the town of rafah, children climbed over the rubble after more air strikes on homes. >> translation: when they said we have five minutes to leave, we run away. they attacked two houses. mine and my brothers were destroyed. we are residents, we work all our life and in one minute they

destroy it. >> in the refugee camp lay the body of a refugee camp, another young life ended, her home hit like the mosques attacked close by. >> about 2am they told the people to leave the house. when the people left, they fired a warning missile. up to 45 minutes they fired two missiles towards a mask. they destroyed it. >> drones hovered over the residential area, built with money donated by the yooupted arab emirates. another densely populated target. >> thousands living in the building, residents say that there was an initial drone strike as a warning, and 10 minutes later a massive air strike, it's a miracle that no one was killed in the attack. it seems not even the resting places for the dead in gaza are safe any more. >> some sem it ris like this in

gaza city have been hit. graves destroyed. efforts to secure a lasting truce are as remote as ever. ceasefire after ceasefire has failed, with both sides blaming the other. >> the situation is terrible. there is no power, no water, no work. people are searching for gasoline and food. there is no life here at the moment. we have suffered weeks of this war. there are many displaced people. there is a water crisis, houses destroyed and we pray that will end. >> the people of gaza endured more than a month of not knowing where to run and when peace will come. the people exhausted and afraid. turning our attention to iraq now, kurdish forces took two towns in northern iraq back from the group calling itself the islamic state.

it's the first victory by kurdish forces u.s. fighter jets are targetting the islamic state group with a fourth round of air strikes. they destroyed app armed vehicle, firing on kurdish forces. also thousands of iraqis received a plane load of humanitarian aid. the u.n. made its first aid drops to the area. many fled to erbil after homes and towns were seized. a big capture was in mosul. the group took control of mosul's dam and are closing in on the kurdish capital. jane is in erbil with more. >> reporter: the fathers of the peshmerga forces fought from the mountains for decade to get rid of saddam hussein. former fighters and volunteers are reenforcing the peshmerga to

hold on to gains made. it has not been enough. u.s. air strikes after the peshmerga withdrew are meant to stop the advance of the islamic state, 40km from erbil. they are meant to help kurdish forces stand up against a better armed enemy, known as i.s.i.s. by some. >> they have acquired huge amounts of modern weapons, of mooupitions -- munitions, tags, armoured hummifies, long-raping artillery pieces. you name it. there was no comparison between the firepower of i.s.i.s. and the peshmerga forces. yes, there has been some reverses by the peshmergas, some disorganization, some withdrawal of certain parts. but this is not a classical war. >> reporter: this conflict a

spillover from the war in syria that no army has foughtment the combination of american fighters with suicide bombers and american weapon seized made it difficult to stop. >> we need this to buy time, to regroup, to re-organise, and to go on the offensive. one of the priorities will be to retake the mosul dam, the biggest in the country, now falling to islamic state fighters the. at risk are oil fields protected by rocky security forces and the peshmerga, within territory held by the radical group. mosul, the center of power for islamic state fighters is 60km from here. the city of erbil is the kurdish capital and a major economic hub and a main target of the group. the united states believes the air strikes will defend the city, but propping up kurdish security forces will be a longer

mission. air strikes ordered by president obama could go on for weeks or months. that's according to a statement made saturday. law makers are questioning the strategy. john terrett has more from washington. >> well, the war in the sky turned into a war of words. the forum is the sunday broadcast. ruch cans accusing -- republicans it willing the administration that it is ipp effective, its strategy in iraq. we'll hear from two senators, john mccain, a senior senator on the armed services committee and dick durban from illinois. john mccain says if he was in charge he'd bombthe kurds. offer training to the iraqi forces. according to senator mccain there's no leadership on the issue coming from the white

house. >> decisions have consequences, and the consequences of our failure to leave a residual force and our announcement that we are leaving the area in a vacuum of leadership, especially in that part of the world. we are paying a price for it. >> reporter: not surprisingly democrats are hitting back. here is dick dush jun, the majority whip in the senate. saying the white house has planned a careful strategy in iraq, and he says "i can tell you escalation is not in the cards." neither the american congress people want to the escalate the conflict. this is a limited strike. he has congressional support at this moment. to go behind will be a challenge. >> a footnote, the state department issuing word saying that the console ute in erbil and the embassy are sending

documents to secret locations in ord that they be safer than they are now. consulates and the embassy are open for business. with the diplomats gone, the work will be slowed down. that was john terrett in washington d.c. one is dead in fighting in the town of donetsk in eastern ukraine. the military is advancing on the state trying to drive out the pro-russian vatists. the fighters want an accuracy fewer, but the ukranian -- ceasefire, but the ukranian government will only agree if they surrender their arms. many are flowing to moscow. those cut off from food, water, electricity and are in need of medical aid. >> reporter: they have been given their orders for the day ahead - receiving mug shots of people that the plus want to found. each day the station receives

almost 100 calls from residence reporting crimes committed during separatist rule. and there's a new man in charm. police force, which was chased out of slovyansk, whp the separatists -- when the separatists arrived. the police never had to deal with such a situation. we are used to work and live in peaceful times. now we are living in post war times. police me and citizens need psychological help. for three months we were under occupation, there was a threat of killing or kidnapping, especially for civilians. >> the police tried to deal with the crimes of separatists and supporters, there are concerns. outside the police station we met vladimir and his mother. he filed a report saying he would be beaten by me in

military. he said he was wrongly accused of being a separatist. >> he has beaten me and tape my car. i don't know what kind of justice will be served. i hope they don't kill me, and my car will be returned. >> the editor in chof of the local paper reported to work. they stopped printing whp the separatists arrived. each though they have gone, they still wield some power here. >> the separatists came here and destroyed the infrastructure and killed people. i thought the people who supported the separatists would change their mind. there were a lot of people that changed their attitude. i'm amazed that there were a lot of people that didn't learn anything from these event. they think that the kiev government is a hooupta and they are illegal. they think the bp r is good. many are keep to move forward.

forced to hold back their opinion, a trade-off for peace. we invite you to stay with us for our segment "the week ahead". and we'll look at how relations between u.s. and russia are marked by growing mistrust. that'll be at 8:30 eastern, 5:30 pacific. and ahead - the fall out from a police shooting in the st. louis area. the mother of an unarmed taken is demanding justice. a group much missionaries working with ebola patients are returning to the u.s. officials want them quarantined.

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tensions are running high in the st. louis area after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager on saturday. all the details have not been revealed. attorney general eric holder asked the justice department to monitor developments in the case. this is after the n.a.a.c.p. called for the federal bureau of investigation to participate in the investigation. morgan radford has the details.

[ chanting ] >> reporter: rangry resident -- angry residents rallied in ferguson, missouri, a st. louis suburb, outside the police station. they are protesting the death of 18-year-old michael brown, shot and killed saturday by a police officer there mere his grandmother's house. brown was in a police car. it's unclear why. somehow became involved in a struggle with an officer. >> it was a physical altercation in the police car between the subject and the police car, that extended into the street. and that is, in fact, where the shooting occurred. the fatal shooting occurred was in the street outside of the police car. >> asked how many teems brown was shot, the police chief said... >> it was more than a couple, but i don't think it was many more than that.

>> brown was a high school graduate due to start college. as word of his death spread though the community, the rehabilitation was shock and anger. >> i said he's 18, graduate from high school. >> reporter: country officials have taken over the investigation from the police kept. >> we should make note this is an officer of the ferguson police department, a small municipality called on the st. louis county, a large police department. already they are wanting to remove themselves to give more objectivity. with the justice department with eyes on the case is important, in light of what happened in new york with the choke healed case and the -- chokehold case and the determination that that was, in fact, a homicide. tensions are really at an all-time high in afghanistan can manufacture american -- african-american count yes and distrust for police officers can't be under estimated.

the officer has been placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation goes forward. a group of missionaries in contact with ebola patients in liberia are coming home to north carolina, but officials say they'll be guarantee eened for 21 days. they belong to a missionary group in charlotte and show no sign of the infection. they worked alongside nancy writebol, one of two american workers who contracted the virus. she is treated at emory university hospital. her family says it will be a long road to recovery. >> she is doing well. unfortunately, she has a long way to go. at this point the doctors are trying to care for her and keep her as comfortable as possible. >> reporter: nancy writebol, and the other american doctor, brapt

kent brantly is also at the same hospital. a nigerian trader is in hong kong, being tested for ebola after falling ill. the world health organisation says this is the largest outbreak taking 961 lives. 1800 are infected in four countries, ginee has lost 367 people. people in affected countries are facing new crisis. the virus is strapping services. border cross iping in guinea were closed with arm soldiers enforcing the ban. the cost of the food is escalating. traders in nigeria say supplies are running short. >> reporter: this is a large economy fighting an ebola outbreak. prisoners are feeling the pinch.

they service locals and neighbouring countries. weak domestic fears is taking the toll on traders. the small traders are feeling the effect of caused by the outbreaks some of the suppliers have been staying away. >> economies see mixed fortunes for major businesses. >> we lose the airline industry. nigeria has a huge population that travels in and out a lot. the industry that we gain added sanitary industries, who are - the business is booming. people are looking for hygiene products. liberia, sierra leone and guinea are the worst hit by the outbreak. all three are emerging from internal conflict. they are forced to revise

economic growth rates as they struggle against the virus. in the nigerian capital the fear ebola generated is affecting everything from food prices to transport. it's trade between west african nations that ebola dealt the biggest blow to. african countries cannot do without trading to each other. nigeria is 79% of the economy. most products made in nigeria have been exported to other countrie countries. >> reporter: despite the slow down in the economies and falling revenues ebola-affected countries have been funding the fight against the virus on their open. indications are that up to 12 million in government revenue has been lost in liberia since the emergency began. small money by international standard, but a huge figure for liberia and foreign neighbours.

in tuckey the country's prime minister has been elected president. a short while ago recep tayyip erdogan are thanked supporters. >> translation: i'm thanking every until brother and cess ter of mine who vote - who went to the vote to the polling station to vote today, whether they voted for me or not. i'm thanking every citizens who have contributed to this historic election. >> it's the first time the turkish presidency has been decided by a popular vote. jamal has more from ankara. >> an historic day for turkey as they usher in the 12th president. recep tayyip erdogan, who is a controversial figure in turkish politics has been at the

forefront of the government for a decade and moves to a new position as president or president elect. unlike his usual fiery for devicive speeches, he struck a conciliatory tone addressing supporters that gathered outside of ankara,ing it that many will draw hope from as turkish politics has been polarized. there was no loser, it was a victory for turkey and democracy. he promised that he'd continue in the reforms to ensure that there was more modern country, a modern republican that was referred to. it and there would be more development. on the international front he said that this was a victory to the free-loving people. world, and made references to gaza,

syria, egypt and other countries that turkey has solidarity with. a significant day. although the tone was conciliatory. the message is the same. >> ukrainian military happens been advancing to donetsk to push out pro-russian separatists. when we come back, we look at how this and other issues are drive the u.s. and russia further part. that's on "the week ahead". stay with us.

welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories - a new ceasefire is holding in gaza after a week of violence. the deal was brokered with the palestinian and israel sides agreed to a 72 hour truce. egypt is urging both to find a longer term solution. kurdish forces take two towns in northern iraq back from islamic state. u.s. fighter jets and distrons

are targetting the islamic state -- drones are targetting the islamic state troops. tensions are running high in a st. louis missouri suburb after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager. dozens rallied outside a police station in the st. louis area. a full investigation is pending. it is sunday night and time for the regular look for the week ahead. ties were strained in recent years. in contrast following the cold war relation, they are marked by tension and mistrust. the two are stifling each other. we begin with this report from heal. >> fighting rages in donetsk, the largest pro-russian rebel strong hold in eastern ukraine. the rebels say they want a ceasefire. but ukranian officials demand

surrender. president obama and other world leaders are keeping an eye on russian president vladimir putin, warning that intervention by moscow would be a violation. >> we say to mr vladimir putin, if you continue on the path of arming separatists with heavy armaments that evidence suggests may have resulted in 300 innocent people on a jet dying, and that violates international law. and under territorial integrity, then you'll facionses. >> reporter: responding to western sanctions russia retaliated with a sweeping band on food products from the we.. dmitry medvedev made the announcements covering imports of meat, fish, fruit, vegetable,

and product from australia, canada, european union, norway and the united states. the ban will last a year. it's doubtful russia will see empty shovels and stores reminiscent of soviet times, but russia imports 40% of needs, and will likely drive up prices for ordinary russians, it's meant to show vladimir putin's resolve to open a new front against the west. >> the trump card may be that russia may be able to give up cheap energy. >> that's his calculation, he's right. if he sends droops in europe will get tough. >> vladimir putin has high approval ratings at whom and is known not to respect nuance. >> he group up in the kgb where the strong survive. it's a battle for rest eem and face. that is the -- prestige and face. that's is the danger. it's important for vladimir

putin to be seen as stopping up for the americans. >> regardless of what happens next, it will not likely retare tattered u.s.-russian relationships. >> that relationship has been growing colder. the crisis raised tensions to levels not seen since the cold war. another conflict is syria, russia and china blocked the resolution. then there's edward snowden, the u.s. wants to try him on espionage for leaking secrets of the national security agency. he has taken asylum in moscow. his permission to stay there was extended for three years. i'm joined in new york by an associate professor of international affairs of the new school and the deputy director of the ennan institute at the

woodrow wilson center. this has been a bumpy road. we have spoken several times. the swaituation is getting wors. >> it is getting worse. vladimir putin decided there's no way he can coordinate or communicate with the west. in his mind the west is an enemy, the united states is an ene enemy. he's not going to take a bluff. he'll continue with his road, when isolation, as it comes, he'll blame everybody else and will be a hero to the russians. >> what is the quest. is he trying to strengthen a national identity. >> a national identity has been anti-western. russia defined itself by what the west was nod. vladimir putin has been doing 150% of that. he thinks that the more he's anti-western, the more he can

unite russia around him, and therefore the longer he can stay in power. >> what do you make of the relationship between the u.s. and russia? are we at cold war levels. >> wr at a post cold -- we are at a post cold war lows. when you thip think the relationship can't get worse, it does. we have sanctions imposed by the united states and russia, the irony is that the sanctions imposed by russia, on the recent food band is more damaging to russia than the west. we have reached a new post cold car low and things don't seem to turn up at all. >> why is the relationship important. what is american center. >> america has interest in working about russia, and solving the issue. it was mentioned in iran and north korea. we have, since the collapse.

scoounion worked with russia to address the issues. that is an porp thing that tried to bring russia and the united states together. the other, of course, is that the united states has strong allies in europe. which want to support europe and the territorial integrity and the border that exist in europe, and the actions in korea threaten that and u.s. security. >> ukraine, if you will, is a storm between u.s. and russian relations. >> something to add to the point is russia is a country in europe. a lot of it is in europe, and therefore is important to the united states. ukraine is a buffer zone between europe and russia, something that during the cold war poland was, the last line of defence for the west, now ukraine is the last line of defense for the west. now vladimir putin argues if n.a.t.o. borders - that will be the end of russia.

a lot of his rhetoric is aimed at the military strength as the war rhetoric. russia's defense or security, the way he understands is something he needs to protect and ukraine is crucial. would weakening u.s. relations with other countries benefit russia. >> a lot of the tactics that vladimir putin chooses is that he wanted to split europe and the united states. after the cold war the west has not been as monolittedic as it was during the cold war. i think the aim was that russia has its open relations with europe. europe has its relationship with the united states. and whatever is left - he says to europe "i'm going to be your friend or your partner as long as you are not with the united states." russian propaganda or

press was big op saying vladimir putin has his own relationship with angela merkel and she has to choose between russia and the united states. that was a goal which at this point i don't think really has worked. i think that's why he went full circle. >> we talked about the sanctions. last week the u.s. played sanctions on several banks in the area. do you think that tougher sanctions - i'll turn to you mr palmer, that tougher sanctioners the answer? >> tougher sanctions are a response. the issue is how does the u.s. and e.u. and other nations respond. the united states made a choice that it is not going to intervene militarily, and pretty much has tape tape that off the table. the u.s. believes there must we a response. this wasn't enough of a response to deter him in crimea.

so far it has deterred vladimir putin from drlently intervene in ukraine. will it stop vladimir putin from intervening. if he believes it's in russia's actions to intervene. i don't think so. i think vladimir putin will assume that russia will accept the consequences and make the sacrifice in order for russia to maintain the military power. the goal of the sanctions has been to at least show russia and vladimir putin that there are cost to his actions. >> you wanted to add? >> i agree. i think that the russian sanctions would hurt russia more tan they would hurt the yate. or europe sh for that matter. that's where vladimir putin is hemming his bets. he -- hedging his bets. he's deciding russia has to sacrifice independents. his idea is that russia will not

become a superpower, but would prevent the united states from continuing to be one. >> what about russia's role as a global player? >> it has been a spoiler. that's what i think it will continue, but the question is the big spoiler is going to be, or the lesser spoiler. vladimir putin plans to be a grandiose spoiler, that's his vision of his leadership for russia, that's how he'll become. >> you don't think he'll care about international pressure? >> to a degree, but he believes - i want to go back to the administration, at the beginning between carter, at the time the general secretary of chunist party. in 1977 there was a hope that the relationship would go into the progressive direction, and then they ultimately deteriorated and there was almost the worst in corn

temporary -- contmpry time in history. there was a lot of misunderstanding, and i think that at this point we had the same kind of misunderstanding and misconceptions not drafted in any way because they see each other as enemies. >> where do we find areas of cooperation between the u.s. and russia? >> i don't think we'll find many in the short term. what we have to do is basically apply some element of pressure on mr vladimir putin, and see if he's willing to negotiate a settlement over ukraine. that is really the immediate issue that we face. i think general proposals have been put forward. i think that there are general issues that can be agreed upon. really, it's up to mr vladimir putin to decide to end the crisis. it would mean that he wouldn't have a direct say, but there's reason to thing that the u.s.

and e.u. could agree that n.a.t.o. membership is off the table for the immediate future. i think that right now in terms of u.s. russian relations the immediate crisis is in ukraine. once that issue is addressed, they can turn to other global issues. in talking to russia as a global player, it has that issue. >> the point we should make to europe, which i think got the point, is that there was a cold war saying better dead than red. now it's better cold than dead. because russia really has not been acting responsibly. it doesn't seem to be in interest of europe to continue to sort of nod to russia because it has all this leverage with oil and gas. i'm not - i'm not sure that this is - that's what vladimir putin is betting on.

i don't know if europe will take it back. as to what the future holds, i don't see that the administration can resolve the relationship. vladimir putin may change his mind when the new president comes in and may decide he likes him better. clearly he does not like president obama. >> and in citing vladimir putin, he has support. >> he does. technically it's 82%. i don't believe it's 87, but it's probable around 87. when i talk to people in moscow, i don't see too much love for vladimir putin. there's a lot of fear. so far people have been arrested only sporadically. fear is that if he goes, russia would go. >> chaos, and that's how russians are afraid, when the supposedly strong hand goes, russia will be worse off. so far he sfand for the russian -- stands for the russian pride and that is

important for the russians. >> where do we go from here? >> again, we have to deal with the issue in you withdrawn, and obviously a lot will depend as mentioned about the level of support that vladimir putin maintains. a lot of what they are doing is directed towards a domestic audience. in short, it's 80% support. if, indeed, as an as a result of u.s. and e.u. sanctions that have been introduced, people begin to suffer inside russia. then his political situation may be a little more precarious. that will not happen overnight. if he continues to isolate russia as opposed to integrate russia, there could be consequences that catch up to vladimir putin. >> the conversation will continue. we'll have to leave it there.

great to have you with us on "the week ahead". before we go, let's look at other event coming up in the week ahead: tuesday - lebanon's parliament to vote. wednesday - pope francis head to south korea, holing a mass in sole. he was not able to bring together people were the north and south after a delegation from pyongyang refused his invitation. friday - the seattle hunt fest gee gips, the public to be educated on the benefits of cap bys. a horrific site for race car fans as a driver is hit and killed. why officials say nascar's tony stewart may not face criminal charms. stay with us.

hawaii's governor lost. aber come gri outspent his opponent in a bid for a second term. the loss could end his 40 year political career. nascar driver tony stewart is not facing criminal charges. yesterday he struck and killed fellow driver kevin ward on a dirt track. the video he's about to see shoes ward stepping on to the track seemingly to cop front stewart after the car made contact. one car almost hit ward, and then stewart strikes him. we spoke about what legal steps

come next? >> the da and the county can empanel a grand jury if they feel there's as inity ooep if the -- necessity even if the police - and it looks like they are treating it as a tragic accident. probably there'll be, given stewart's wealth and fame, there's be a civil suit. there's another blush to this. that may or may not be successful as we go forward. >> tony stewart released a statement. an having is under way. officials called this a tragic accident. the controversial keystone xl pipe line could create more pollution. once built it will carry oil from canada to the united states.

consumption and pollution may go up, producing 4-times more greenhouse gas than previously thought. the meteor shower - thousands of shooting stars will appear in the skies. this year it coincides with a super moon. meaning the moon is at its closest point to earth - about 30% bright are. all the extra light may wash out the view of meteors. astronomers say the best chances of catching the stars is in the hours before dawn. rebecca steven son with us with a look at the forecast. i was driving home and the sky was beautiful. >> astronomic allied along the east coast. some coastal flooding around new jersey and southern new york. it's interesting to see these things happen. i want to go back to the story on water quality and concerns.

i want to talk about how crucial they are to monitoring the oceans and the water. here is a picture from a satellite. it was filtered so you could see plankton blooms. it looks like an artistic picture. they float with the current, going with the flow, so to speak pt the problem is watching some of the plankton blooms, they cab be thick and toxic. they are good. happen a lot. but the more toxic kinds happen this time of year in the tumor. and o temperatures are a big player. you can't go out and dig for clams. you can't eat shellfish. ha sa toxic algae. it doesn't get - it depletes the water of oxygen, so the species

that filter the water get the toxins in them. the baltic sea is the largest known dead zones in the world. we have one here in the united states, the second largest dead zone is off the coast of mississippi, a lot of fishermen and tourists are familiar with the times they can eat the shellfish, the delicious time. gnat a plank tom bloom due to textures and fertilisers and the run off this the ocean we had a large number of deaths off the coast of fort miers, as we look at what is going on across the border, there's a lot of water out of the sky. we have a lot of storms coming in to the mid atlantic. >> active into the weekend. that's the look here.

beach goers in italy no locker need to bring a book for a read or the shore. a literary activist group is expanding a free library programme. it's opened so libraries. many are located near beach bars. the idea promotes culture and literacy. 60,000 books have been donated. next on al jazeera america. liquid batteries. the high stakes race to revolutionize the power grid and bring down number costs. >> this is not how you are supposed to exit a ride. the day an amusement park was turned upside down for folks in

baltimore. welcome back. amazon.com is in another feud. this time it is fighting with disneyment according to "the wall street journal," physical copies of disney movies - you were not able to get on amazon.com. they did not comment on the issues with disney. it's the latest fight with a

content provider. it's battling hatch et over the price for e-books. today a group called authors united ran a 2-page add in the "new york times" criticising amma zone. volkswagen is recalling cars between 2009 and 2014 are affected. bubbles can form in the fuel tanking making it tough to start a car. >> there's a movement to build a better battery. not for the laptop and cell phone, but so big did powerful they could replace power plan. ali velshi explains. >> if i could boost this nation's electricity production by 30% without building a power plant. who is not going to cheer about

that. >> reporter: donald thinks his idea for a battery is the best. he developed a battery made you up two liquid metals and a salt solution. each company has a combination of ingredient that makes up sa battery that this believes will set it apart from the rest. >> we look at this as a market opportunity. it has the backing of bill gates and the french energy company. >> the technology company i compare it with is reframe ration. storage is sort of like refridge ration for the grid, and provides a great deal of resilience to the supply chain. >> the battery serves a function, to store energy. there are plenty of other batteries that exist to do this, but they are too expensive for not reliable enough. the perfect battery could be a game changer for renewable

energyies. now we can make wind and solar. you can draw electricity from the sun. batteries can go to the basement, supply backup pour and restore number for neighbourhoods, and the biggest challenge is batteries so powerful and reliable that could replace power plants. much of the grid built it supply for a few days, during the hottest days of the year when airconditioners are on full plast. >> in america the tur bip, is running 2% of the time. imagine running a hotel that you didn't keep full except 2% of the time. it's an expensive proposition. a battery could be an energy warehouse, storing electricity at night when demand is not high, spitting it out during pack hours when everyone turns

on the lights. >> by eliminating the peaking generation and using energy storage it could save dollars. power companies like new york's con edison are paying close attention. it's working with battery companies, including ambry. the race it produce the perfect battery is in full force. >> at this point the technology wins. they hope to deliver batteries by the end of 2015 or erl ci 2016. it could be years or a decade before the batteries are used. we'll show you a scene. six flags - officials say the roller-coaster failed. rescue crews worked for four hours to remove writers stranded 45 feet in the air. the jokers jinx ride stalled at the topment it goes 60 miles per

hour, and turns upside down four times. operators say the system performed and no injuries. >> thank you for joining u i'm thomas drayton in new york. i'll be back with another hour of news at 11:00pm eastern. thanks for watching. >> two hours in, we came up on a body... >> this country is crazy man..you have problems with somebody...they him them. >> knowing this is the kind of violence that is so prevalent in the culture...are you telling me that's ok to just open up the borders and let em' all run into the united states? >> the good news is , is that you'll be coming home soon... the bad news is...you'll be