a quality of yoga, witnessing awareness. >> thank you so much? >> thank you. >> great to meet you? >> yeah. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm tony harris with a look at the day's top stories. we look at humanitarian aid. >> the u.s. considering sending more advisers to iraq. to support gains despite airstrikes. and they will not identify

the officer who shot michael brown for fear of his safety. ukraine and russia are fighting over humanitarian aid in eastern ukraine. hundreds of russiaukraine. the ukraine and the west believe russia is using convoys of a pretext of sending in troops. >> you don't need tanks and artillery to bring food and medicine to civilians. stop the aggression. stop the russian terrorists. stop the shelling. stop the cynical propaganda, and there will be no need for any human man tearan aid. >> we can tell you that aid is badly needed.

>> reporter: she has been offered refuge at a friend's house. she's 75, and knew it was time to leave. she was hit by shrapnel. >> the shell fell 20 meters away from me. there was explosion, lots of dust. there were small pieces of metal. i first i thought i was seriously injured. i was lifted up. then i fell down and was ther deaf for a few hours. my hearing came back but i couldn't live there any longer. >> reporter: valley tina is staying with nine other refugees. the population of this town has grown by roughly a quarter. the red cross say 50,000

refugees have arrived in the past two months and it's time to act. >> the situation to improve the world should support the peaceful people who live here. they should help to avoid the humanitarian disaster. the help that they've given is too small and not sufficient. >> reporter: in the straightist strongholds the fighting goes on. people are struggling here and are running out of supplies. russia which has been accused of supporting the separatists is sending what it says is an aid convoy. ukraine will not let it pass its border unless they check what is being sent. >> we won't even consider the possibility of a russian convoy into ukrainian territory. this delivery has to be done according to ordinary procedures. delivery through the border and then it has to pass through

customs. we're ready to do this because of the large amount of aid the red cross is responsible for the coordination and delivery of this aid in. >> reporter: all this for the family to rely on one another. waiting for the conflict to end so they can finally go home. al jazeera, eastern ukraine. >> russia is trying to expand its influence in the middle east. vladimir putin met with egyptian presidentialcicy president al sisi. the leaders talked about expanding military operation and president obama will send more advisers to iraq. american fighter jets and drones that carry out the islamic state group as fighters threaten to

overrun kurdish forces. american advisers are on the ground to help the kurds turn the tide. what can you tell us about this? >> reporter: well, tony, when people start telling us about more advisers being sent by president obama into iraq, which is a hot war zone. the alarm and elsewhere really grows, something that president obama has warned that the u.s. military will not be involved in no combat troops on the ground. even having said that, as many as 70. more advisers, remember the numbers, there are 700 american personnel in iraq protecting the u.s. embassy among other things. 250 of them are advisers. they're taking stock of military capabilities. the capabilities of the islamic state group as well as the kurdish fighters, they carry this fight against those islamic state group fighters who are

besieging erbil. president obama in a surprise move at the white house authorized airstrikes against those islamic state forces now considering sending 70 more fighters to take more stock to see what the airstrikes are, and we do expect to hear from secretary of state chuck hagel, who has been traveling in australia. he stopped in marine's camp pendleton. we'll monitor that later in the hour. >> would that be the mission for these advisers if they move in to assess the impact of the airstrikes? >> reporter: right, keep in mind we heard from a general at the penalty gone, the germ in charge of this operation for the joint chief of staffs. he said this is taxcal not strategic. we're not trying to defeat the islamic state group. we're trying to provide

breathing room for those in erbil as well as the yazidis trapped on the mountainside. this is not something that we're trying to turn the tide of war. what these is advisers are going to be doing is see what affect this bombing campaign has had so far. >> thank you. iraq's new prime minister, haider al abadi. nourianouri alal can i al maliki refuses to give up the position of prime minister. >> reporter: it was a clear message from nouri al-maliki. he's still command center chief and he still directs security forces. >> i'm scared al-qaeda and the islamic state group might try to make use of the current tension. we must carefully check with our

convoys and armed men and armed enforcement. there are those who would try to take advantage of the crisis. they'll take their chance to loot and steal. be aware of those who would try to do those things. >> reporter: while al maliki and his supporters who say his job is his to keep, most iraqi political leaders have moved on. kurds and sunnies are welcoming the nomination of eidur al abadi as a chance to try to put th crack back together. >> we did whatever we could to build that new iraq. in power shooting. we do hope that he'll be able to do that. if not, this is the last chance for iraq. >> reporter: the governor of nineveh, his home city of mosul taken over by the islamic state group said this is a new page

for sunnies. >> most of the problems for the people in our area--some of them come with isis because of the problems of maliki. >> what kind of problems? >> southbounding people to prison, collection in the army and military. >> in 9 streets of baghdad most iraqis were relieved that the political crisis might be over. >> we hope that the new prime minister will provide the security and stability and all humanitarian necessities. >> reporter: not a lot to ask but after a decade of crisis for most iraqis those things are a dream. now he's still hanging on, the political deadlock is not over

yet, but iraqi politicians say the nomination of a new prime minister is the best hope in months for iraqi leaders to put their differences aside and form a common front to prevent this country from falling further into crisis. >> dep credit, hi murga was knocke--depeche murga back on its heels. >> kurdish forces were able to retake this territory on sunday but only with the helped of u.s. military. it was the u.s. airstrikes that helped the islamic state fight tours pull back and to retreat to mosul. we are now in the center of the town. as you can see behind me, scars of the battle. it is quite difficult really for kurdish forces to hold the line. they are sharing a 1,000

kilometer stretch of territory with the islamic state group. so now the islamic state fighters have been pushed out of the town. you barely see any civilians. people are still leaving. they're packing their belongings and saying we still don't feel comfortable. we know the kurdish forces alone cannot protect our town. people are still afraid. the governor of erbil is here. he's been trying to coordinating with commanders on the ground. he promised to provide kurdish forces with weapons. what we do know is that they told us that the u.s. military is providing ammunition. but it's just not enough. you're going to need heavy weaponry to confront the islamic state group. because the islamic state group was able to capture a lot of weapons last june, u.s.-made weapons. weapons. >> people in the area are doing what they can to piece their

lives together. israel and hamas held indirect talks to end the five weeks of fighting. nick schifrin has the latest from jerusalem. >> reporter: the two sides are negotiating in cairo with officials from the israeli and palestinian side say that both sides are dug in, no, sir necessarily close to an agreement but both sides wants to to make an agreement. that will lead them to not only stay in cairo but programs extend the 72 hour cease-fire. the focus is on four things. the most important is the rafa border crossing, the lifeline for gaza so long until it was closed a year and a half ago. a real talk and real focus on reopening that border crossing. the other border crossings are also on the table. hamas push forgive construction materials. some of that construction material in the past has been used to build tunnels from gaza in israel.

also expanding the ability for gazaen fishermen to fish six nauticals off the coast. that's part of the israeli blockade, and exchanging palestinian prisoners who have been kidnapped in the last six weeks for the remains of the israeli soldier who was kidnapped at the beginning of this conflict. what is happening in gaza, people are trying to grab live again. we saw people filling the markets today, but we also saw people who were returning to their damaged homes. 100,000 people have lost their homes or have severely damaged homes. so the reconstruction process which has not even gun will be mastiff. the humanitarian crisis is still massive. the world food program distributed food and water to 137,000 gazaens who need food assistance. that's one in two gazaens.

as the diplomacy continues and as the two sides try to get to a cease-fire, the needs of the gazaens remains high. >> president obama released a statement a short time ago on the controversy surrounding the shooting of an unarmed plaque team by police in missouri. he says the death of michael brown is heartbreaking. in ferguson, missouri, they would remember this young man italy reflection and understanding. we should talk to one another in a way that heals. the shooting that happened on saturday sharked looting. diane estherbrook, a few miles away from where michael brown was killed. but it seems that the reaction to this incident has been surroundinspread to go surrounding towns like the one you're in.

>> reporter: in about an hour there is going to be a community meeting at this church behind me. it will include residents, clergy and law enforcement. they want to address some of the solutions or talk about some of the solutions to cure the racial divide they say that runs through the country. >> reporter: anger through the county over michael brown's death. demonstrators paraded down the street demanding the immediate arrest of the police officer involved in the shooting, and an end to what they say is a history of racial profiling here. >> and i want the society to see this as just african-american thing. we just want justice, period. for youth. for our people. the people of cloud cover, for all people period. that's why we're here. >> we don't want a cover up. we're very, very scared, a

historically we've been racially divided. an officer shot a teenager multiple times saturday. the shooting sparked riots, lt. looting and stand offs with cops. they refused to name the officer involved in the shooting. civil rights activists reverend al sharpton joined brown's parents and attorney downtown today demanding the officer's name and justice for the slain teen. but sharpton was clear. he also wanted an end to the violence and rioting. >> no one has the right to take their child's name and drag it through the mud. don't be so angry that you distort the image of who his mother and father told us he was. don't an traitor to michael brown.

>> reporter: and sharp to be and brown's parents are expected to be at the meeting tonight. >> you mentioned death threats directed at officers. are police taking any extra precautions there? >> reporter: they absolutely are. they're sending two patrol men out at a time, and they say when they have to answer a call, they're often sending sometimes three and four police officers to a call just to be on the safe side. >> all right, diane estherbrook for us in missouri. there was more rain in detroit today. one day after thunderstorms caused massive flooding. monday's storms dumped several inches of rain leaving roads full of water and stranding motorists. the mayor said it's th heaviest s rain we go to bisi onile-ere.

>> reporter: if you take a look behind me, you can see that there is a large area here filled with water. i'm going to take a couple of steps this way, and you can actuallily see that traffic is being backed up for miles because of all the flooding. this is a scene that we're seeing all across metro detroit. there are a number of reasons to blame, including the regions aging infrastructure. from the city to the suburbs when the rain started coming down it came fast and hard. as much as six inches of rain drench the area making it the second heaviest rainfall in michigan history.

one woman died and her vehicle was stranded in three feet of rising water. flooding shut down a portion the free way for hours. >> you could be here for a couple of days. you can try going up here if you want. but unless you get permission from the boss to drive through six feet of water, it's probably not going to happen. >> reporter: his only way out was to back up like all the officers. in the meantime there is still a long road ahead for tow truck driver joe melville. >> i'll be glad when this is all over. i'm sure every else will be, too. >> hours after the storms there are signs that the water is beginning to recede. forecasters predict that more rain is on the way.

they say it's a result of the area's deteriorating sewer system. it is in need of $30 billion in upgrades over the next 15 years. >> reporter: i want you to take a look at the debris we found in the road. it's causing major problems because it's not allowing the water to drain. the governor of michigan, rick snyder, he said he would really like for residents to stay home if they don't have to hit the road. >> i start to see vehicles trying to get on the free, but clearly the area ahead of them needs to be cleared. >> so the system that caused the flooding in detroit is heading east. >> reporter: this is the same system we're going to be seeing a lot of problems across the northeast. let's go towards detroit. we still have rain coming in. as you can see this low pressure spinning and these bands of rain

are still falling. we'll pick up another two or three hours of rain. but it was historic. in 1964 they saw two inches of rain, just a little bit over. and yesterday it was four and a half inches, and that four and a half information turned into five feet in low-water crossings. that system moving towards the northeast, this is what we expect to find loose the area. all new england state has flash flood watches. new york towards the coast and we're talking about flood advisories. then over here in the northern part of the peninsula we're looking at flash flood warnings. the rain is coming, i think i would see lots of delays at the airport. >> that galaxy likthat looks

like it's coming in. >> the banks say it's enough not enough. ail is here. and imitating brain function in a lab, and it could be a real brain changer.

>> boy oh, boy new numbers show america's banking sector made near record profits between april and june of this year. for more on this, because we need to talk about it, right. a little bit of context, that's always important. ali, always good to see you as always. we're talking about big numbers here. >> this is six year after they triggered the worst financial crisis since th the great depression. they totaled another record profits in the three months ending in june. that's not the highest profits, it's only the second-highest profits and proves that the financial ruin that they nearly visited upon us all is not holding them back just a few

years after the crisis. the job market, the wider economy, they're still picking up the pieces put but the very bangers who gambled with our prosperity are doing just fine. >> it suggests that they're still too big to fail. why are they complaining? >> yes, they say the current environment is hurdin hurting their ability to turn a profit, notwithstanding the $40 billion. last month citigroup said it would settle charges. and bank of america is said to be ready with the biggest of them all shell out $16 billion to settle with the government. despite the big fines the banks are paying they combine that tough new regulations, lower rates, and the sub dutied

housing market makes it harder to make money off their core business. >> they just want it their way. how are they managing the narrow margins they're making right now? >> yeah, well, business is doing well in america. so banks are lending more to americans. commercial loans shot up in the spring months by 716% compared to last year. growth in consumer lend something picking up two non-mortgage consumer lending. we've seen these ott sales the auto loans are up 6%. credit card lend something up. on one hand that's good but it worries me a little bit. banks are benefiting from better credit risk, bore res who are able to repay their loans because jobs are created. that's how they're making their money. it's not mortgages but everywhere else. >> what else do you have for the program? >> we're going to talk about two

interesting things. the right--i'm going to talk about the black market for weed, pot, ganga. the illegal trading grass is going strong in seattle. it's legal in the state of washington, but the black market is actually doing better. i love that story. >> can't wait. >> this is not an endorsement of weed. >> disclaimer. >> it's just economic inertia. >> see you at the top of the hour for more real money. it could be another sign that the job market is start to go bounce back. the labor department said that in june employers advertised the most job open negotiation 14 years. jobs up more than 2% in may. human rights accuse egypt of

killing more than a thousand protesters in a matter of vehicles. details and egypt's response. also the race to get experimental ebola drugs to the people who need them most.

>> human rights loss is calling egypt the worst massacre in modern history an advocacy group released a report saying that egypt killed 1,000 protesters last july and august. we're here with the latest. >> reporter: toney human rights called what happened last summer a crime against humanity. egypt said it was responding to violence by the protesters, but this new report said that security forces set out to disperse and kill them.

on august 14th last year egypt security forces opened fired on protesters. many people died and many were seriously wounded. >> i was shot in the face more than once with bird shot. it hurt but i could handle it. after that i was hit by live rounds. they entered my arm and in my chest. two in my chest. one in the arm. >> human rights watch call the attack a massacre. using live ammunition from the get-go makes clear that this was a systemic planned attack. >> reporter: local hospitals overthrowed with the dead and injured and that security forces open fired on two of those sites. >> around 43:00 p.m. armored personnel carriers arrived, and they began firing directly into the hospital.

>> the protesters were calling for the return of ousted president mohamed morsi. they were holding sit-ins across the country. forces violently broke up six of them. >> they were supported by snipers that fired at top nearby government buildings. >> reporter: the group wants the u.n. to investigate top leaders including al sisi. he's now egypt's president. his government has said that protests threatened public order and it was responding to gunfire by protesters. it says that research is unbalanced and unfair. >> reporter: least eight policemen were killed and a team flew to egypt to present its report but was blocked from entering the cairo airport. >> that's right, and ken rotherham, who is throth was there. ken, it's good to have you on the program. we did an hour with a good

conversation. it's back to be in this report. >> since i couldn't be in cairo to present the report i'm happy to be here. >> i really want to dive in the nuts and bottles of this, i in 2013, your organization is calling it one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a recen recent history. >> that's right. each of those the estimates have killed 400 to 800 protesters. in this case in cairo just a year ago at minimum 817 people were killed in 12 hours. as you know, the toll could be as high as 1,000. >> in comments about the report, you said that reactions on the day quote hearing were not nearly a case of excessive force

but poor training. what was this? >> this was a very well planned operation led by the interior minister, whose immediate boss was the current president al sisi who was deputy prime minister for security affairs. they anticipated an operation that would kill thousands. when the event happened and a thousand were killed. they said it went as planned. gave bonuses to the troops who participated and erected a monument in honor of the security forces. >> should the president now, al sisi, stand at the dock at the hague facing crimes against humanity charge? >> we have called for him as well as ibrahim for

investigation. unfortunately, the courts at the hague do not have jurisdiction so we're asking the human rights council to launch a commission of inquiry to be a genuinely independent investigation. nothing has happened in egypt. there has been no investigation. not a single person has been brought to trial for this disproportionate use of weapons. >> i'm going to get right at that. you found that some protesters fired, through rocks, threw some molotov cocktails. >> yes. >> there was gunfire as well. >> yes. >> how do you describe the response of the egyptian security forces to those actions? >> it's important to note that there was some violence on the part of the protesters. but out of the tens of thousands of protesters found that day, 15 gowns were found. eight police officers died compared to 817 protesters.

the police officers did not make a targeted effort to go after the violence against them. snipers picked off people in the crowds. at one point they were targeting anyone who walked through the hospital. police would stand on top of armored personnel carriers, obviously not fearful for their safety and indiscriminately fire through the crowd. >> what is your critique of the international community response to what happened on that day? >> it's been appalling. there has been an eager effort to cosy u up to thal the al sisi government. nobody sees the progress. it's a short-sided approach. it's impossible to build a democracy on the basis of impunity of a crime of this magnitude. the security forces are subject to the rule of law.

they can't arbitrarilily kill people. >> why were you and your colleagues stopped from entering egypt? >> human rights watches have been entering egypt freely for 25 years. we never have had any problem. i showed up sunday night to present this report. we've given an advance copy to the government, and the government simply did not want me to do that presentation in kay row. they held us overnight at the airport and put us on planes. it was a very dumb move on the egyptian government part because it gave us response to this report. >> what is your statement tha your response to the statement that it has no legal status, and they regard the report as bias and negative. >> well, the report is certainly negative. i'll grant them that. biased, no, we talked to 200 witnesses and corroborated all

accounts. and here they're worried about international law, killing demonstrators, but it's worried that we might conduct an investigation in egypt. >> ken, thank you. ken roth, the executive director of human rights watch. >> thank you. >> y. general secretary ban ki-moon said all hands are needed on deck to fight ebola. personnel and resources are needed in west africa. ebola has made more than 1800 people sicked in guinea, sierra leone, sierra leone and nigeria. the first to get sick was a priest who received an experimental serum to treat his infection. they hope that drug manufacturers will be able to manufacture that drug for wider use. >> reporter: he was a dedicated aid worker. father paree did is the first to

die from the ebola outbreak. the 75-year-old priest was being treated in spain after being evacuated. he was eving an experimenting u.s. serum, and his death comes as the world health organization said it was unethical to use unlicensed treatments with unknown adverse affects. there is no known cure of ebola, officially called a health emergency that has now claimed a thousand lives. >> it is ethical to offer u unintervention of treatment or prevention. the criteria must always guide the such intervention. these include transparency above all aspects of care in full consent. freedom of choice, respect for

person and preservation of dignity and with the involvement of the community. >> z map has shown promising results to the u.s. hospital treating two american missionaries. infected with the virus while working in africa. but the manufacturers say that all of its available supplies have now been sent to west africa. liberia said it will treat two infected doctors. the first africans to receive the treatment. the epidemic in one of the world's poorest rings where healthcare systems are unable to cope has opened an ethical debate on the use of trial drugs on humans, including who should receive priority for the limited supplies. tim friend, al jazeera. >> in uganda the president is urging lawmakers not to rush a law.

they've asked to consider the economic consequences of passing the bill again. they spended millions of dollars of aid in our began da. in libya masked gunmen a. lawmakers have been meeting inner for weeks now because of fighting at the capitol. they're trying to stop militias that help to overthrow the government from libya's future. and in columbia, a crackdown on smuggling food and other goods are heavily subsidized in venezuela. items are snea sneaked in, and that hurts economy there. we have more from the venezuela

and colombia border. >> this is one of the most important bridges traiting columbia from venezuela. on a regular night it would bel first night for the closing of this bridge and the entire border between columbia and venezuela. the columbian and venezuelan government are trying to reduce the smuggling of basic goods and gasoline from venezuela to colombia, that the government of venezuela considers to be responsible for the shortages that have been affecting the country. >> i agree with the closing. hopefully in this way we can find food. these people take it all away an we can't find a thing. >> reporter: they say 40% of all venezuelan goods are being smuggleds into colombia, but most of the people we talked tonight are saying this measure will probably not do much.

>> no. >> i don't think it will do much. contraband has always been here. if they close the official crossings they'll just go somewhere else. >> a lot of people don't seem to be aware of the new measure and have told us we'll probably have to spend the night here waiting for the bridge to reopen tomorrow morning or they might try to get in illegally crossing the river. this is an experiment for now that will go on for 30 days, and we'll see if it will be able to reduce the amount of smuggling between the two countries. >> tony a doctor working for the family of an ohio inmate executed in january said the prisoner experienced pain and suffering before he lost consciousness. dennis mcguire's excuse was not humane was a medical

perspective. he said neither of the drugs used could be relied on to reduce rapid loss of consciousness or death. his children filed a lawsuit stating that his father suffered needlessly during the execution. an niecologist said that they will sue if chelsea manning has not been able to receive her treatment. she chased her name to chelsea and serving 35 years behind bars for leaking classified documents. a police officer speaking out about his dance moves on the streets of kansas city. a neighbor caught this all on camera. it started when they saw some local kids dancing and this officer just loves to dance his partner challenged him to see if he could outdance the kids. he explained why he agreed. >> when i went to the academy,

and when i first got hired on. i said i wanted to interact with the community. and i felt like if we build a rapport with them they're more like throw call us when they need us. >> he likes to show off his opt puokay pus moves. he said he was not the best dancer, he may need to add dance class for new officers. >> those aren't grat great moves, but the sentiment is terrific. the idea of building rapport with the community. that's right on point. bio engineers at tufts university were able to create a fake brain. until now brain models could only look like a brain. this break through could help us understand the mechanics of the brain. jake ward joins us from san francisco. why is this study so important? >> reporter: well, tony, let's get it out of the way that this

looks nothing like a brain for those who aren't better trained. a little donut, six rings of combined silk protein gel. what these scientists did was take a rat neuron out of the brains of rats and put it in this little thing and had them grow connections off a center off the donut. that allows them to treat this as a little miniature portion of the brain. it's gray matter that grew in the lab. up until now you haven't been able to study the effects of explosives. i.e.d.s on our nation's fighting men or women or the con cusssive affects of hard hits of football unless you had dead brain to study. you can't study people's brains while they're alive. this allows the scientists to impact the brain and observe all kinds of stuff. they're really on to something that is really interesting tiny model of the real brain that they can experiment on. >> jake, there you go.

if scientists managed to build a whole model of the brain in this way, what could they do with it? how could they run experiments on it? >> that's right. that's the major question. imagine one lego piece of a whole house that they would need to build. if you have this whole functional model of the brain, what you could do is do things like put a prosthetic implant in there. right now we're studying with teach brain stimulation that would help with parkins sons. you could put drugs and see how they move through the pathways. that's something that you can't do on a human brain. this is something that you can do without cracking open anybody's head. >> jake ward for us in san francisco. good to see you. donald sterling fought it as much as he could, but the sell of the los angeles clippers is official. the new owner, and what it means for the team. that's next.

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>> it is a done deal. the los angeles clip verse been sold. donald sterling tried to oh block the $2 billion, put together by his estranged wife. we're talking about the deal here. but as of today, former microsoft ceo chief steve ballmer is the new owner. michael yves with more. is this the end of the line for donald sterling? is there something that he could do to stand in the way of this? >> depending on who you ask. his career is based on lawsuit. his legal team says they believe there are appeals that they can pursue. however-- >> they're taking money from this old guy. >> the attorneys from the nba feel that the latest court ruling in california guarantees

the transfer of ownership cannot go back to sterling. it's going forward with the sale of steve ballmer. that's th it was voted that the sale continue. >> so the minute he made these statements, was this the only possible outcome? we started hearing that players in the team and in the league were willing to sit out. >> i think that moment became true when adam silver, the new commission of the nba, when he came out and banned him for life, that's the only outcome. not only from the league but the players. some of the players union had to discussion what they would do if sterling was the owner when the season started. they didn't have anything in concrete, but they had discussed it. but the league--the management

and several team owners didn't want him to answer your question, this was the only outcome. >> steve ballmer, what kind of owner--we'll have to figure out what kind of leader he was in microsoft and make figure out what kind of owner he will he be. >> when he was ceo of microsoft he oversaw $120 billion in revenue growth. that's impressive. from a basketball standpoint he seems to be a basketball junkie. jamal crawford who plays for the clippers is from seattle, and he has seen him at basketball events. he said he will give anything to give this team a chance to win. that means money. >> he has two new tv deals, he's not hurting. >> michael, good to see you. come back and see us tomorrow. scientists have long been fascinated by the search for a mysterious substance called dark matter. it is responsible for holding

together everything advisable in thvisible in the university, buuniverse, but it's never been detected. >> it's a long, long way down to the bottom of this abandoned gold mine, a kilometer and a half to be exact. once these tunnels produces billions of dollars of precious melt. now it's scientific gold they're after an and an elusive thing called dark matter. >> we don't know what dark matter is. we know that it is everywhere in our galaxy. it permeates the universe. it's a ghost-like matter that passes through the earth, you and me like we're hardly there. >> reporter: and there is an awful lot of it. it's five-sixth of all matter. it's presence provides the gravitational glue that holds

the universe together. >> the universe would look completely different if it weren't for dark matter and allows ordinary matter to come together to form galaxies and the earth. >> reporter: the scientists had to go far underground to shield from background radiation. experts from 17 different research labs in universities from the u.s. and abroad, came together. inside in unite tank there is container of pure zenon child to minus 100-degrees celsius, and it's there that researchers hope that they'll be able to identify the first traces of dark matter. >> dark matter particles scattered from the denon nucleus with a flash of light that we can detect with an array of very

sensitive light detecters. >> reporter: professors and students put in long hours underground in hopes of being part of the scientific break through. >> i feel a great amount of stress when i touch anything on the experiment because i don't want to screw it up. >> reporter: it has been up and running for a year. so what have they found so far? >> we saw nothing but we've seen nothing better than anybody else so far. we're the most sensitive dark matter experiment in the world. >> reporter: the race to find dark matter is on. with more than 30 prongs under way all over the world. the winner will get to basque in scientific flooring and perhaps pick up a nobel prize or two. al jazeera a kilometer and a half below dead wood in south dakota. >> michael: intended to deter alcohol abuse.

controversy about rape victims details up next.

>> secretary of defense chuck hagel just announced moments ago that 130 new military advisers have arrived in erbil northern iraq. speaking at camp pendleton secretary hagel said this is an attempt to stop the games of the islamic state group. the new advisers joined more than 200 military advisers sent to iraq earlier. secretary hagel also said that this is in no way a combat mission since president obama has made it clear there will be no new boots on the ground in iraq. and anti-alcohol poster has been criticized for blaming rape victims. ines is back with that story. >> reporter: the picture of the post made was recently tweeted by someone who saw it at an u.k. clinic. it reads one in three reported rates happens when the victim has been drinking. now critics say this type of ad

blames the rape victim. it didn't take long for someone on the internet decided to change the victim to read like this. three in three reported rapes happens when someone decides to commit rape. this version of the poster has been rehe tweeted over 18,000 times in the last week and a half. tony, someone else recently posted another version of this ad with this message at the bottom. alternatively don't rape. a college student started the petition to have these posters removed. this petition has been signed by more than 108,000 people. the department of health in the u.k. tony, said that these posters haven't been in cory suealation for years now. and they're downloadable, though, on some sites. the government agency said its up to each hospital or clinic to take these down but activists say this poverty should never have been made in the first place. >> yes, and it started because someone saw this poster in a

clinic. >> they saw it. they tweeted it out. >> ines. thank you. have a good evening. you, too. from new york, i'm tony harris. ali velshi is next on al jazeera america. >> the not financial crisis is now ancient history to the banks that helped trigger it. the banking industry is awash in near-record profits, earning nearly $40 billion in just a 3-month period. i'll look at how the banks recover so quickly while the rest of the economy is picking up the pieces. plus, billions of dollars collecting dust. how you can claim t and weedless in seattle. how a supply problem is keeping