a kid's game. that's our show for today. i'm jen rogers. thanks for joining us. ♪ >> this is al jazeera mentioner. john segal that willer has the night off. the threat from islamic state group, the pentagon's new tire warning that the danger to the united states is greater than anything officials have seen before. and the new details about the failed authority rescue american journalists james folly. draw down, missouri governor orders the national forward out of ferguson. plus. >> today is a miraculous day. i am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to

be reunited with my family. >> a second american with ebola released today, and is relieved to be disease free, can the treatment he received help thousands of others? and. ♪ . >> song freedom, tonight's concert, 236 days ago. we begin tonight in american aid worker where the obama administration said today that the islamic state group, now pose as greater threat to the united states than al quaida did 9/11. the traumatic rhetoric are came during a briefing. chairman of the joint chief of staff, they said islamic state is now better funded and better organized than anything

they have ever seen and that defeating the would require attacking state forces in syria. joins us now from washington, mike? >> david, more air strikes against islamic state group inside iorack, if not syria, will definitely not syria, at least that's not what they are saying at this point, politicking it to 90 now. these two are around the team trying to get some breathing room. the stated goal reare mains to protect american individuals in baghdad, and other locations, around iraq, and yet there seems to be an opening gap now between the rett are rick that they are using to vilify the islamic state group, in the wake of that twosome video, it is not a tough sell. and the stated and the means to get there.

contrast that with what chuck said today, here is a sample. >> the president, the chairman and i are all very clear eyed about the challenges ahead. we are pursuing a lon term strategy against isil, because isil clearly poses a long term threat. >> we should expect isil to regroup, and stage new offenses. >> chuck hagel also saying that the islamic state group momentum i

inside iraq has now stalled on account of the joint efforts of the forces, and of course, american air strikes. and the u.s. volment, he says is certainly not over. this as you pointed out. isis can't be routed. this was his words. >> what's going on here, are the officials making up the policie policies ary deliberately? >> i think the irony is is the president is winding down the longest war in american history, in afghanistan, the result of american forces routing al quaida, and the taliban, who are ensconessed in. they will pursue terrorists in matter where they are, and of course that raid ultimately unsuccessful. put the question of going inside, a very far reach, right now, obviously with the on going civil war. >> remarkable day in american aid worker with the rett are rick are that came out about the islamic state, thank you.

pent gone also offered new details on the secret mission to try to rescue james foley and other american hostages. he was beheaded this week by the group. today chuck hagel called the attempt flawless. there was only one problem, the hostages were not there. paul joins us now with more. >> well, that's right. t white house never intended to disclose this operation, but sided to go public last night because of the number of media outlets were on the verge of reporting it. now the details remain scarce, what we do know is the rescue was over quickly, and tragically, of course, we know it was a failure. >> sometime early this summer, the u.s. reportedly stage add nighttime raid on a compound in northern syria. with cover from drones and fighter jets dozens of special forces in black hawk helicopters swooped in and fought their way to where they thought james folly and other hostages were being

held. but when they got there the hostages were gone. several state fighters were killed during the fire fight, one american was lightly wounded, all the americans were flown out safely. at a pent upon proofing secretary of defense and general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff defended the mission. was this a failure of intelligence? >> no, the fact is you all know, intelligence doesn't come wrapped in a package. this operation by the way, was a flawless operation. but the hostages were not there. some have questions the was tom of reare leasing the information. it opportunity really -- they knew we were coming the if they didn't know

before, they know now, since we attacked them, so telling them after that didn't tell them anything they didn't already know. >> president obama has vowed to pursue the self-declared state especially when american lives are at risk. we will continue to do what we must too, question p will vigilant and reare lentless. >> so far the u.s. side of the battle has been largely limited to air strikes, at the pent gone thursday, secretary hagel seemed to warn it is going to take more than that. >> they are beyond just a terrorist group, they mary ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. they are tremendously well funded. oh, this is beyond anything that we have seen. so we must prepare for everything. and the only way you do that is take a cool getlly heart look at it,

ready. >> the vatican says pope francis spoke with the family today, and offered his condolences. they told reporters yesterday, that their son's strength came from god. >> paul, thank you for that report. james foley has been working as a freelance reporter. his global post ceo, roxanne that spoke to him today, and is here with us in the studio tonight, roxanne that. >> he told me he watched the video of the execution, and it was the hardest thing he had ever done. he also said he communicated with the captors last year along with the family, trying to secure the journalist freedom. we were focusessed on a much smaller amount that we believed would be sufficient, but the captors never enbeiged in a real me negotiation. of course, we were aware of the fact that it is

against the law to pay ransome to a terrorist group. but based on our own research, the our own communication with the government, the family felt that they could pursue this course of action, would not be subject to prosecution. we have heard, the read in different reports that countries in europe, like spain, and france, have offered great sums of money to get their hostages tajes released, so is that something you wish the u.s. would do as well? and maybe jim would be here? >> i think in light of jim's horrific killing and in light of the fact that the islamic state has risen to a new level of power, and menace, in the world, that it may well be appropriate for

the united states government to consider some change in their policy. you said you watched that video, and it was very difficult to watch, obviously. what do you feel towards the people that killed him. >> i -- i don't feel hatred. i imagine that john and dianne foley feel the same way. i pray for them. as i pray for jim. >> he said he could understand why foley went to report many syria, he wanted to tell the story of the syrian people, david, he told me foley died going what he loved to to. coming up, our conversation with the long time friend, about his courage, and how he made a difference as a journalists.

con gregal when it released five taliban leaders earlier this year, the government accountability office says the pent gone famed to notify at least 30 days before the exchange as it is required to do. he was held prisoner of after ban stan for five years the pent gone used almost $1 million of wartime money to make the transfer. the g.a.o. says the use of the funds was another legal violation. the pentagon says his recovery was conducted lawfully, but only after consultation with the u.s. justice department. in ferguson missouri we now have the strongest signal yet, the unrest after the killing may finally be easing. for the second straight night, the streets so far are peaceful. and earlier today, the governor ordered the national guard to pull out. robert ray is live in ferguson ton, and robert,

tribe the move there? this is by far the most peaceful night we have had, by far. look out on the streets there's one police vehicle over there, if we turn the camera this way, there's no protestors walking on the streets we just had about, i don't know, eight or ten people with signs walking a couple of kids across the street. about ten people over there, it is a minimal amount of activity tonight. as the national guard makes their way out of town. waiting to be deployed out of the reare john. the police, there is not a lot out here, last night, there were dozens of vehicles i count about three or four tonight. so the activity is very low. there was an earlier day protest a rally that we are told that had just a few dozen people that came out. of course that could be because it's 97 degrees

here today, with high humidity. now over the course of the weekend, lit be temperatures about 100, so who knows if more will come out, but all signs not really pointing to that. earlier today, state senator came out and made a statement about the prosecuting attorney for the county, thinking that he has a bias in the case. here is what she had to say. people have made a statement, that they have no confidence in his ability to be fair and impartial. no confidence, you heard her, people think that he is biased his mother and father were on the police department, he has other relatives that were on the law enforcement in the reare john. his father was shot out on the street whole he was patrolling so people want him off, and they think perhaps he is not going to p able to get

the proper evidence to this franked jury. many the meantime, there are pamphlets being passed around, and i think the peaces is finally settling in here. >> his recent article, the real looting explores racism, welcome, i want to ask you about that what it means what do you make of the news? that it is peaceful for the second straight night, this appears to be dissing. >> obviously it is good in terms of see there ises is offuation where people are are not physically harmed. my big fear, while i was there covering the story is that once things dissipate and simmer down that the bigger questions that have been raised by this may fall by the wayside, and there is still a lot of ways that people are are vick are times are violence. it is more economic and less visceral are. i think that's the real problem.

are are are are. >> is why you write the real looting is legal? >> i was talking to the reverend jesse jackson after he marched to where mike brown was killed to the church a mile away, and he was asking people not to lewd, but also alluding there were bigger questions to be asked. and there is a lot of legal looting. if you drive through those areas. you will see these huge neighborhoods where it's payday loan shining, fightle loan places food, and bambling. and that's nothing to build an economy off of, as we have seen has blown the lid on how many african-american people are in a small area that has no economic opportunity. and also, huge structural issues that leave wide swaths of the population unable to be a part of american society, you have a third of african-american men who have been convicted at some point, that only effects them right now, but it makes them unable to get jobs ben.

you smoke with a lot of nose young men, in the st. louis area, when you were there, what were there impressions? i talked to a family of five boys the three-year-old didn't have much to say, but the six-year-old brother did. it was interest talking to the boys how they had internalized fear, but also internalized expectations from people that they are not going to accomplish much in their lives. i think in the immediate yea we go into situations of tragedy, the we often ask the children how this effected you, how has it effected you, and we are very protective about it. they are already projecting on them at a young age that they are expected to become a criminal, expect you to flunk out of school, and you are regardless of what we expect psychologically, the fact remains there's very little economic opportunity in that area. and the rage the young people must feel when they are told we don't

have expectations other than bad ones does that play out in these frontations? this is a lot of rage there, and also a lot of simmering rage, there are people that aren't out there at night, at night you see young men, but there is a lot of justified rage of mothers, families, that there isn't much opportunity for their family, and they know that once kind of the cameras trickle away, maybe some things will be addressed and try to curse fighter the police force, but things like that respect even possible, if your population already has connection to the criminal justice system. they won't p able to take a part, and then that will be bigger economic questions. and the lack of jobs that there is a lot of

frustration. >>frustration. >> yeah, you can see these issues throughout the nation. but i think as a reporter you can see them very clearly in st. louis. here in new york, and san francisco, there are places in the country where i think the poor at least have an illusion of having connection to other parts of the cities, to be able to have economic opportunities, and to have jobs. but in st. louis, that imlewis isn't there, people are extremely segregated there isn't transportation, the local government, the county government has actively embedded that face by outlaw the public transportation to the white suburbs down trading it even in the black suburbs so people become extremely segregated and so i think we can keep the lid on the rage a little bit more, because there are illusions in other cities but in st. louis, uh can't get around it. you see large tracts where people don't have

much. >> thank you for coming in, appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> a second american infected with the ebola virus is home from the hospital tonight. officials say dr. kent brantley a nancy right bowl who was released tuesday are both free of the virus and pose no health risk to other people. the medical team says they have taught them a great deal about ebola. food i am pleased to announce that dr. brantley has recovered from the infection. and that he can return to his family, to his community, and to his life. without public health concerned. >> i am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. i can not thank you enough for your prayers, the your support. i am forever frail to pod for sparing my life. and i am glad for any

attention that my sick has attracted to the plight of west africa in the midst of this epidemic, please, continue to pray for the people of west africa. >> and up next, the children of the israeli hamas conflict, how a special type of therapy is helping young israelis cope with the invisible scars of war. plus, a volcano is on the verge of erupting we will tell you about the threat it could pose to airline passengers.

there was a claim after responsibility tonight for the summer that touched off the summer of violence. that group was behind the kidnapping of the three teenagers in the west bank. one of the founders of the wing, called the kidnapping a heroic operation. the claim of responsibility has not been confirmed by any other member of hamas. the three teens were

found dead, in june. >> today was an especially violent day, with hamas firing more than 100 rockets and israel launching dozens of air strikes. more now from jerusalem. today was one of the most violence days on both sides of the border, in addition to some 100 rockets fired from gaza, into israel, gaza fighters fired about 12 mortars into a sickle community. along the worder, one of mortars hit a house, another hit a local barn, the one landed and shrapnel pierced the chest of a local resident. all across this rejohn, so omany people are being traumatized by the fact that the rockets and the air strikes are coming in so constantly, the u.n. says some 300,000 gazan children need constant psychological help right now, and israel tens of thousands of parents and children, are living under the constant threat

of rockets. today, we saw a group of americans come in to teal with the inevitable trauma that comes from those sirens and air strikes on the israeli side of the border, and their form of therapy is not what you would expect. >> just one mile away, the kindergarten is a bomb shelter. for every group that laughs for the camera, there's a five-year-old girl traumatized by war. these children live hundreds through hundreds of rocket attacks. >> many have difficult time going to sleep. >> fear and anxiety lives to post traumatic stress, proximity to war creates invisible scars. >> their childhood has been robbed in a sense, they don't know how to normalize the situation, because they shall always on edge of can i go

there, can i go there, where is the shelter where do i need to go. >> the form of therapy is art. she doesn't try to get children to talk, she tried to infuse them with strength, without them realizing it. >> asking a child to verbally articulate themselves can be very threatening, and very confronting so presenting something oh, true an animal that's strong. how are you strong about that animal. so on this they, children who have seen war, true the strongest animal they can imagine. they were brown lions and folden lions and a daughter true an elephant. >> have you explore with your child, what makes this animal strong. children need to hear those messages of resilience from their parents. the group create add box for parents to by their kids. >> plowing bubbles slows down breathing and reduces anxiety. >> who are you yo

helping, how are you helping each other. >> and traces hands sparked a conversation, about how families take care of themselves and each other. parents to have to stop everything, and start with our kids. >> all of them have been held in these buildings and they are all designed in a similar way, you can hear this. each one has seriously reenforced concrete, as you move inside, there's a blast door that's heavy, and that closes from the inside. and when you get inside as welshes it is also reenforced with concrete, and the windows are covered because this is a bomb shelter. >> gaza is so close, it is visible through the fence. tanks are parked just across the street, and every building has been reenforced with the green roof for protection from rockets. inside, they are building protections from trauma, one animal at a time. >> i asked dozens of

people in that community, mr. they felt like they had to leave, whether they wanted to, and some said yes they did for a few theys during the war, but david, every single person, said they would not leave their homes a place where many of them have lived for decades. >> in jerusalem, up next, the rise of foreign fighters in syria, why americans and others are signing up for groups like the islamic state. and the racial wide in st. louis, why a lot of people say it is still a very segregated city.

america, i'm davidera chuter, john siegen that willer has the night off. just ahead, an american journalist executed by the islamic state group, why the united states refused to pay a ransome and the failed rescue mission to try and save his life. police, air travel threatened by a volcano, what the airline are doing about it. and 236 days ago, three al jazeera journalists were imprisoned in egypt, tonight, there is a benefit concert to raise money for their cause.

quo are keeping an eye on ferguson missouri tonight, police are hoping for another kie yet evening, today the national guard has been ordered to begin pulling out, but there was some racial tension in the suburb, long before a police officer shot and killed a black teenager nearly two weeks ago. robert ray reports tonight. >> david, good evening as ferguson has become an epicenter for discussion of race, and economic stability here in america, and also, not to mention police being heavily arms, we wanted find out why this has occurred here, in the suburb, so we spent the day driving around st. louis, watch this. it is america's monument to western expansion, the beat way armed wing, the symbol of a journey towards a future, yet, in

st. louis, life is still bound to a history of racism. >> this is st. louis, st. louis has been this way for a long time. they used to sell slaves during the civil war, i don't think that's ever left. >> at the car wash and repair, murals pay homage to slain leaders. inside, a racial profiling survival kit is tacked to the wall. >> i have one instant where i just left my house, i was going up to the gas stations up here, just to get me a pack of cigarettes and then the officer stopped me right here. >> just for walking down the street. >> just for walking down the street. yeah. >> how does that make you feel? >> it makes me feel bad, sad, in a way. but then ben, i don't know, what's going through anybody's mind. >> poverty is only one aspect of it. the other aspect is a lack of investment in your urban core. carrol heads the center

on urban research, at washington university. and in neighborhoods like these, where low income residents are more likely to be black, the con travis between have and have not broes as the tax base crumbles. the result, schools and other programs that move people forward, suffer. >> so america is a land of opportunity for those who have the preparation, to take advantage of those opportunities. however, the disinvestment for the young, and the poor, has not been, that's where the promise is not fulfilled it's reality. >> across the united states, there are many cities that have segregated neighborhoods and divided areas, but here in st. louis, if you drive down del mar boulevard, the you get out and talk to the people here, they call it the del mar divide, it's because whites are on that side, and plaques on this the other side.

the disconnect is social, economic, the geographic wide where you have persons of color, largely living in one segment of the city, and the county, and whites living in another segment of the city and the county, only exacerbates that. >> st. louis residents acknowledge it exists here o. >> just going into the north city, if you are white, most people just think i can't go there, whether it is racism, whether it is just a community that you just don't interact with, which is sad. i think there are underlying racism. >> some compare to native americans being put on reservations. >> but if you break it down, in that way, you will get a better understanding of how you are being manipulated, how you are being shoved. and what is being into your community. and why you have this

type of thing. >> bought a house in this neighborhood fur thousand dollars one investment at a time can make a difference, a difference he hopes can be ignited by the racial flash point in ferguson. and perhaps david, you can see this picture above of the street that i am standing on right now. very few people out here, but some walking the street on the sides. the sun is almost down here, some police officers are out. but boy i tell you, this is a different feeling than every other night we have had sing this council man was shot just two doors town. michael brown 18 years old, people are tired and they are ready for some peace, the ready for real discussion, and perhaps attorney general eric holder's ovisit, and the promise of change, and an open dialog and

discussion, not only about police tactics but race, and economic disparity in america, is ready to happen. and people are set. david. >> robert, thank you for that great piece about the situation there, and the late news about how things are going tonight. the piment gone released details today about the attempted rescue of journalist james foley and other hostages held by the state group. defense secretary says the secret mission was flawless, but no hostages tajes were there. he also said the group was better funded the organized than anything they had seen, the group has attracted thousands of young men from around the world, many of them werners. roxanne that reports. the last voice james foley heard was his killers the u.k. says it probably longed to a man who was british. >> far too many british citizens have traveled to iraq, and to syria to take part in extremism, and violence.

>> the u.s. says dozens of americans have streamed into america too. >> from america. 22 years old. >> he left behind h chilling message, before he carried out a suicide mission in syria earlier this year. >> russia, nato, everyone, has gone into lands the killed many muslims. >> this study found that foreign fighters have gone to syria from 81 countries. one reason they are attracted to this, they don't have any local ties so they can commit act of violence, without any hesitation, or concern this may be a friend of their cousin. >> some are seeking an identity and purpose, and they find it in what they feel is service to islam.

as this video shows. to deal with the broing number of fighters in the east, but stopping citizens from traveling there to fight will be hard. >> they make their way from the third country to iraq, or syria. some may still believe in the causes they left for. >> security experts say english speakers are valuable to the state group, they help the fighters share their message with the world, like james foley's killer did. david. >> roxanne that, thank you. foreign policy columnist is on the syrian border last year, beating the journalist held hostage

and the everies being made to release them. james, we got confirmation today of ransome discussions negotiations between foley's employer, his family and kidnappers can paying the ransome made a difference? >> well, sure. paying a ransom is could gotten him releases sod the question is that the right thing to do. it is important to wish between a private person paying a ransom and the government doing so, it ises not even impossible it would be wrong to stop any individual, loves one of somebody from paying a ransom to release somebody god knows if i were captures i would want my family to to everything they could. the hard question is what should a government do, and so the big distinction is that the united states and the u.k. take the position that excruciating though the dilemma is, if we do this, if we pay the large sums of money, that will tell the kidnappers this is basically bottomless source of funding. they won't do it,

european governments will -- just yesterday, a dane was taken a japanese was taken we will see what happens. >> but given your experience, if they changed the policy and started paying the money, would that convince these groups that we should start kidnapping more because this is a money source? >> i think -- we don't know the answer to that question, what we know is that there was actually an extraordinary pieces about a month or so, which talked about this in great detail, and said in the last year alone, isis and other al quaida related groups had earned $66 million just in kid p thatting alone. a if we are trying to to everything we can to choke off their sources it means we have to not pay for kidnapping. >> who was trying to free foley, what did he tell you about it? >> what happens you go to these places the of course there's a desperate demand.

so that produce as supply. so i had this fascinating conversation with this sidney green street type figure, that told me everything about how he had been taken and i think some parts were true, but the fact is he couldn't have gotten him out. once they are in the hands of isis there's an enormous effort to find out where they are, and who to contact. those buys do not want to be found or talk. >> what do you make of the strategic value that isis has now placed on journalists and how is it different from how they were operating say a year ago. >> it's not only journalists it is aid workers as well. it is hard to be inside the heads of these buys they don't talk, and the people that talk to them, tend to thin of them is unreachable. but theyly have some vision, which says werners are deno, ma'amic, and the very peek of the world is americans and britts.

so when they take one of these people, they don't think about it as a bargaining trip, they think we have seized those evil people. the bargaining thing that was much more recent. for a long time they wouldn't bargain. thank you forel cooing in we appreciate it. >> matthew vandyke is an international security analyst is a friends of james foley. he was imprisoned around the same time that foley was. he was a real professional, he loved journalism, he had a real passion for it. he wanted to tell people stories and i never heard anybody say a bad thing about james. when i arrived in syria, working on a film i met syrians who asked me if i knew james, because they had met him and liked him. he was a special person.

can you paint a picture of what it is like to be held captive. >> you don't know if you will ever get out, you don't know what your family is thinking. you feel guilty about what your family is going through. you hear people being tortured and wonder each night if they are coming for you, you don't know if you will be executed it is a horrible experience. it is torture being in a prison and not knowing what will happen to you. >> a lot of people don't understand the drive that film makers or photographers or journalists have to go to places that are so dangerous, i wonder if you can try to explain what motivating people like yourself, and james and stephen? >> it is a calling you feel that you have found what you are meant to to. feel like you are doing

important work, and showing the world what happened and the effects of war, and hopefully that leaves to changes of wohlsy or behavior. i wonder if there is any man memory about james that you can share with us, that haven't been widely reported? is something about him that stay with you for years in h, there i remember a time, as tripoli, i had been in solitary confinement, i had not spoken to anybody in nearly half a year. so my conversations joking around, were with james, and getting caught up on all the things that had happened in the past six monos. you know, he was instrumental in sort of my reintegration into interaction with other people. and that's somethingly never forget. he was i hadn't talked to anybody in so long, and he was a great person to talk to. >> he says he is

concerned about the publicity over the military effort to rescue folly, and believes that could endanger others still being held. the islamic state group has been he that will on the battlefields. it appears they are skilled at raising funds as well. >> right now the council and foreign relations estimated the groups war chest is about $2 billion. that's money raised just since entering the war in syria last year. the group is believed to make $8 million a month, from extortion, and boarder tolls between syria and iraq, it probably gets two point $5 million in ransoms from kid p thatting foreign recorders and aid workers the takes in one points $7 million a month to turk brokers. >> now we are not talking

about state actives or official transactions or official trading. we are talking about elit sit illegal, trading that happened through basically some groups that they have been trying to do that for many years. >> the money the group makes fund as tack, pays fighters buys weapons is secures the loyalty of regular people. many of them very poor and facing shortages of food and medicine is. the group has also used the money to have base especially if britain itvices showing that it ises innot just after military control, but an actual state to govern. >> experts have called for an empargo on's trading out of the areas that the group controls. hi, joey. >> good evening, david, on america tonight, we will take a look ben at

flash point ferguson, and is the way forward. to epidemic h us understand how the death led to protests across the country and around the world, we ask what was its about michael brown's death that provoked so much emotion. who knew him in his final month and two teacher whose had known him for years. >> no matter what picture has been painted of him, he was a kid kids do things. kids can be forgiven, and move on. michael, did not deserve what was presented to him. correspondent in ferguson missouri on the final months of his life, and how long the protests sparked by his death will last. that's coming up the top of the however, we hope you join us.

>> tonight iceland is under an aviation alert for an increased risks of volcanic eruption. four years ago volcanic ash disrupted air travel for more than a month. phil, what is going on here? >> airline are bracing and scientifics are watching as a volcano may erupt at any time, and send the air traffic industry utter chaos, yet again. the volcano spewed a seven-mile high plume of gooses and sill can ash that proud air in the region to a halt, stranding passengers for days and costing airline at least $1.7 million in lost revenue. nothing the happening.

>> and now scientists are warning that another volcano, in iceland, may be getting ready for a repeat performance. at least 3500 small to moderate earthquake shaken the area, located under the largest play they are. so scientists the underground rumbling suggests that molten rock, is moving upward, towards the vock cano crater, because it has been measured to within six miles of the surface of the earth, it implied an increased risk of an eruption. as a result, the color warning code was raised to arrange, warning of a potential corruption. airline and meteorologists have vastly improved models to understand danger stones are the ash may flow, and thousand it would effect the safety of nearby planes. ash contains large amount f of silica, and it mets into a type of glass, which coats and damages

the inside of the jet gin. airline are now making contingency plans to avoided the problems they face during the 2010 interruption, and if it does erupt, iceland is preparing for instruction. major flooding fed by the melting play they are ice, is expected. and a widespread uation order is in effect which is part of a national park that is a popular attraction. now, the main difference between this event and the past volcanic eruption, is in the past airline had a complete no ash policy, but now thanks to science, they have realized that planes can fly safely in some ash, so in the meantime, they are actively monitoring this volcano, in a land that is hoping for the best, but definitely preparing for what might be the worst. >> they can go through some ash, but airlines in general any bet equipped to deal with this situation, and any lessons that have been

learned over the last year? >> definitely, i think they reelize that they were a bit overcautious, in the past, which is good. but what they now know is that airplane engines can take about 4,000 micro grams of volcanic ash, per cubic meter in the air. and take that and add some increase meteorological data, they now know precisely where planes can fly, and where they can't. >> phil, we appreciate it as always, you can catch phil on techno, saturday nights on 7:30 eastern on al jazeera america. the als ice bucket challenge dominating social media for weeks now, is turning out to be quite profitable. since july, donations to the association have added up to almost $42 million donations inspired by people recording themselves dumping ice water on their heads, fighting

says $10.3 million came in yesterday alone, and compare that to the $2.1 million raised last year. there is one group you will not see doing the challenge any more. members of the house of representatives. today the head of the administration committee reminded lawmakers they cannot use official resources for any private cause. 70 representatives promptly pulled their videos some of the lawmakers have also been called hypocrites for previously voting for a bill to cut government funding for a, wills. up next, musicians, poor, justice. a benefit concert to support peter the wrongly convicted journalist jailed in egypt.

it is in the eastern opacific, put it is going to continue out into othe open water, not really impacting anyone, except for bringing that motorcycle into the u.s., stretching it right up across the rockies and around into the great lakes and that's part of the reason we have all that moisture, the humidity, heavy humidity in place, speaking of humidity, add in that trier weather, because of the humidity doesn't make it feel try, but it will feel like 100 to 105 to the midwest to the southeast on this friday. al jazeera america news, continues.

since three journalists were put in prison in egypt, today a benefit concert was held in his honor, andrew thomass reports now. >> 900 ticks sold out fast. the crowd is here not just for the big names on stage, but for the cause. supporting the family of a man firmly believe has been wrongly imprisoned. peter crester jailed for going his job. >> i was stunned. it was one of the greatest miscarriaging of justice i have ever seen. >> i was hear fied. >> watching rehearsals

with peter's brother, he said knew all about this. >> he would be jealous to see the talent we have on tonight, many are his childhood heros. >> the event was organized by musicians the lawyer incredulous of what they see as a travesty of justice. nick had the idea, biota, he's a supreme court judge. but now, drummer, for one of the lesser known bands on stage, the lex. >> he was in prison for going his job as a journalist, so something had to be done. we had to find a way to support him, and his family, and maintain the awareness among people generally. >> ticket sales the donations were raised thousands of dollars to keep the campaign fresh. they with faced with disbelief. the campaign has been

high profile all year, this just gives it another boost. >> that's something peter in a letter from prison read by his brother appreciated. >> i know the noise from this place combined with hundreds of thousands of other supporters is being heard. a simple aim, fund for a cause, the hope is that this one will have a follow up soon, that is just fun, one peter and his colleagues will be able to attend. >> andrew thomas, al jazeera. coming up tonight, at 11:00 p.m. eastern. taking the music world by storm, neon trees is about to launch a u.s. tour, the panneds front men tyler glenn, talks about his success, and overcoming personal challenges at the same time. plus, as we learn more about the failed rescue of the american journalist killed by the group, we will talk to a

former fbi agent, these stories at 11:00 p.m. eastern, and we end tonight with this picture out of ferguson missouri a protestor with a message the sign says go kill isis and leave us alone. for a second night in a reopro tests on the streets have remained peaceful. i'm david chuter, america tonight, is next. i feel like that kid that doesn't need to go to practice. >> 15 stories one incredible journey edge of eighteen premiers september 7th only on al jazeera america

on america tonight, is it a cire? an experiment stall drug helped two americans refrom ebola. >> today is a mir reclose rag louse day. i am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and tock reunited with my family. >> but that kind of medical help remains out of reach for many in africa, infuriatessed by what the ebola outbreak has done to their communities now the question, can more help come in time to save them. also tonight, return to flaspo