. >> nato leaders are meeting the ever what's been described as their most crucial summit since the end of the cold war. ukraine is at the top of the agenda. i'm james bays near newport in south wails. ♪ >> updates from moscow have eastern ukraine, where fighting has continued on the've of a possible cease fire. this is al jazeera live from london. iraqi forces launch a defensive.

plus. >> in napeles where one of the most promising vaccines against ebola was developed. it's been described as the most crucial meeting of the end of the cold war. aimed exactly at major global crisis. the reaction, and analysis on the summit so far, from correspondents in eastern ukraine, moscow and newport itself. first to our diplomatic editor, who is in newport. james, so far a strong message to pull back, what more can we expect. >> well, i think you will

see announcements and strong language. in terms of concrete things on the ground, i think the main thing will be to spearhead troops already nato has a reaction for us. these will be very very rapid. that can respond just two days later. now the idea of that is to deter moscow, but at the same time, to reassure those nato allies. that live in the east, close to rush are sha's back door, nato is there, and nato is willing to respond. of course, the situation in ukraine isn't the only thing being discussed here, a range of global crisis being discussed among the other important items on the agenda, the situation in syria, and iraq, islamic state, and their control of large areas that is also under discussion. i hear that the prime minister. that the meetings tonight.

>> is unhappy we are told. >> for groups like it to get their hostages out, so that's another important issue here. >> as a crucial summit, my colleague has been looking at the development so far. >> . >> in south whales world leaders gather in multiple crisis in afghanistan to libya, the rise of the islamic state group, and russia's activities in ukraine, nato hasn't faced this level in decades. >> the summits in the history of our lives. the crucial summit and a crucial time. we are faced with a dramatically changed security environment.

u.s. president. both will be working hard on the sidelines to build the coalition. and a strategy. >> russian troops are illegally in ukraine. the extremist threat has risen in a new form in iraq and syria. these are just two of the threats that we face. nato is the anchor of our security. and over the next two days we must reinvigorate and refocus this alliance. to tackle new threats and to ensure it continues to foster stability around the world. outside the boundary, they gather war against war, the only way out is dialog. that should have folded after the end of the cold war.

difficult, difficult. but nothing impossible. if there is a will, there is a way. it could be a lot more, to chat about in the future. the summit is also about nato itself, thrust back into the limelight, a cold war alliance that had seemed to be losing it's relevance. al jazeera, newport, whales. so maul, any reaction to the announcement after the nato summit that he

will order a cease fire for the plan tacks are confirmed? it was interesting just after the president issues that, and for a time on his predicted cease fire, and that's 11:00 o'clock a.m. gmt. the two leaders of the two separatist in this part of the world. and the two separatist leaders of those came out with their own statement, saying that after the contact group talks, they too would be putting forward a cease fire plan. they would have concrete proposals to exactly how that cease fire would be and if the agreement was reached. they they would be prepared to order a cease fire starting at 12:00 o'clock g.m.t. that's an hour later than the president's proposed cease fire. so you can see, there is already some political bartering, some point scoring i would suggest,

taking place ahead of that those peace talks. and whether they will stick, well, i think the two sides are extremely far apart. and what we have seen in reality, away from the politics is yet more fighting and more conflict here in eastern ukraine. down in mario, we know that the pro-russian forces we believe backed by russian tanks we have seen tanks moving towards that city, at least ten tanks. they have advanced several kilometers and there is -- there are battles and fire going on. just outside. and here in donetsk, just a couple of hours ago, there was a very early artillery bombardment. it came from the northwest, it happened just to the north of where i am now. we went out to investigate, a civilian area, as far as we can see. two people are killed and ten people were injured, we were told, we saw one

woman lying in the street, coming in the morning, and there were places there which clearly indicated the trajectory, came from the northwest, and directly northwest. which is currently held, by a small contingent remaining from the ukrainian military. now, of course, there is claim and counter claim, but certainly the direction was from the airport, you can see that although the cease fire is eminent, the conflict cons on the ground. thank you very much, indeed. lye in moscow, any reaction there to the fact that ukraine, which is not yet a nato member, is getting such a high level of support from the organization. >> i think the focus of moscow, russia has come in at the nato summit. and that left lavrov form

minister angry. he contends this anti-russian rhetoric, at a time when he said the russian state is, whoing very hard to try and get both sides together in the peace process. and he also actually had a warning to nato. saying listen, do not, whatever you do, extend membership to ukraine. to the -- for the alliance, to become part of nato, he said it would derail any peace process, and set back the cease fire talks which are scheduled for tomorrow. here is what he had to say. >> the exactly where approaches have started to move towards certain projects exactly at this time, demands have been heard from kiev about the need to give up the status, and start the process of joining nato. this is an open attempt to disrupt all the

efforts to launch a dialog. he has been talking to some of the members by phone today, briefing them on what he hopes will happen at this contact group meeting. tomorrow morning, the signs look pretty good, i mean on the face of it. there is the rebels are saying they will sign up to it, they said he will sign up, and they will be using the putin road map, the 7-points that he scribbled on a piece of paper flying out to mongolia two days ago. that will be the working text, and we will see what comes up. there's two as we heard from paul brennen, two deadlines we think, the rebels say they will sign at 1100 g. minutet., and the ukrainians won out later, but the diplomacy and the talks will continue, and we can expect lavrov who has had a very busy today, to be in touch with other nato members to brief them

about the possibility and the holes for this conference. >> thank you for bringing this live from moscow. another major concern is the rising influence of the islamic state group. the city was captured by isis fighters in june, now iraqi force have had launch as three pronged defense toy retake the city. separately a truckloaded with explosives is blown up at the gate of an army base. meanwhile, fighters of the islamic state group, have kidnapped at least 50 men, the abductions happened in the sunni village around 65-kilometers southwest. the group members fought with armed tribes men in the same riel large on tuesday. the air force has also launched air strikes on positions. more from the northern iraqi city.

>> the air strikes are effective in blocking troops from moving from one area to another, they can keep troops contained essentially, which is what those air strikes are trying to do around the area of mosul. trying to cut the islamic state from their supply lines in syria. what they cannot do is fight the kind of urban battle. apparently warning -- that is likely before air strikes and possibly a larger ground operation there in moss soul, but again you cannot do that, simply with air strikes. just to give you the latest on that car bomb, i referenced, it sends a truck filled with ex-blowsives, exploded at the gates of camp spiker, that is north of decrete, just the latest example of a very bloody war going on here.

>> delegation from the international federation, and the federation of arab journalists have met egyptian prime minister with three journalists detained in egypt for 250 days. the legal process must be allowed to conclude before looking at new avenues. their convictions are being appealed. the case has been raised by the u. n. secretary general, in a conversation with the egyptian president. was also held by egyptian authorities he was released in june, ten months after being detained without charge, he was on hunger strike for since months in prison. they have also called for the release of the three colleagues. it's been over three weeks for them now in jail, they have to be let go. egypt, the world is watching.

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also discussing the crisis in iraq, and syria. >> and iraqi forces have launch add three prong defensative retake the city of decrete after it was captured by islamic state fighters in june. stood in silence to commemorate those who have been killed in the course of the mission. nato want wants to hand ovr security by tend of this year. as if a reminder were needed at least 18 people have been killed in a taliban attack in central afghanistan. >> the pressure those security forces are under, 17 of them were killed in gazeny this morning when 19 taliban attackers launched an attack on two. they started with two massive car bombs along with the 17 members of

the police, and intelligence forces one civilian was also killed and more than 130 people injuried in that attack. all of those attackers were killed what a brutal fighting summer this has been for afghanistan. 350,000 security forces across the country, the tab ban have not only launched the attacked we saw in ghazni we saw today, but also there's more traditional fighting going on, in the south, in hellman process, that has been going on for many months and we know the security forces have taken heavy casualties there, those forces are going to continue to need nato help, past the end of that nato mission, which finished at the end of this year. >> they are in constant alert, not far away, this was attacked a month ago,

and the forces say almost overrun by 300 taliban fighters. trying to surround and capture the 16 afghan soldiers manning it. we were sleeping in here, they hit us, they tried to attack, but we opened fire. this is the valley, where the mountainous and in favor of fighters. it was easier here when there were planes overhead. >> if we had air cover, not even one of the enemy would be alive, because they didn't run away, and they didn't go far, people calledtous tell us the taliban was still around. the taliban are trying to take control of a major road. he called in his biggest guns. but this air tillry isn't enough to hold back a resurgent taliban. the best forces can hope for is to keep the roads

open, they don't have new surveillance to protect them during patrols so they rely on chien points. the locals say it isn't working that the taliban controls 90% of the district. >> the government is in the cities and towns. the rest of the area is controlled by the taliban. >> afghan forces face over challenges too. their food budget has been cut in half to about two u.s. dollar as day, per soldier. not enough fuel or spare parts for their vehicles and most cars are riddled with bullet holes. and yet, morale among the men is high. it's one of the steadiest jobs in afghanistan, and they say they are proud to be serving their country. but they know they need more than patism to fight off an increasingly aggress i enemy. al jazeera, kabul. ebola may be spreading in nigeria. more than 400 people are being monitored after coming in ton contact with a doctor that dies

of the disease. at least $600 million is needed to fight the ebola outbreak. it's experts in geneva to discuss ways of treating the disease, and african union is due to hold an emergency meeting next week. it is a great worry for our population, and has very important socioeconomic consequences which are beginning to be felt. even if there isn't enough drugged to fight this disease, researchers must work quickly, to make important medicines available, and to face up to this epidemic. because after this, others can follow. >> world health organization is continuing a serj. reports from napeles in italy, where scientists are hoping they are taking a step towards stopping the virus. >> . >> tucked away in the

outskis of napeles is this small unassuming lab. and yet, this is where one of the most promising vaccines against ebola is being developed. >> he started developing the vaccine five years ago. they didn't know it would be ready just in time for the worst ebola epidemic in history. the vaccine has proved effect i on lab animals. human testing in the u.s. was approved in a record two days. 20 americans volunteers at the center in maryland were given the vaccine this week, but time is running out.

ready to be damaged in the world health organization, if and when the vaccine is deemed safe. already at least 120 of them have died while treating patients. >> a key to a treatment as soon as possible. that we don't think it will solve this right now. very important for the future. treatment and isolation centers the labs, to have more people. >> two older vaccines will undergo human clinical trials by early next year. if all goes well, they will join the battle to contain the world's worst ebola outbreak. al jazeera, napeles. >> the united nations is warning of a food crisis in somalia, according to

the u.n. food and agricultural organization, more than 1 million people are facing starvation, and the delayed rainy season, coupled with conflict, if nothing changed somalia is heading toward as second famine in three years. >> over 1 million people in country face acute food insecurity today, up to 20% compared to six months ago. to over 3 million people. >> opposition leader has arrived back in the capitol, after coming out of hiding to campaign in the upcoming elections. led to the central mountains last year, after accusing the government of going back on the terms of the peace deal. this update from tonya page. >> after nearly a year,s met by joy by his

supporters and relief. they have an appetite for a full scale war, and it has been said that they don't really have in recent tiles the capability, of winning on the battlefield. however, they claim to have won at the negotiating table having managed to get these preliminary government to meet some of the core demands including a promise to integrate fighters into the national army, and also winning the pro vince of international election observers to be here on the ground. that crucial october 15th poll, claiming that the government has re-negged on many of it's promises, however, they are hitting into this election, from a slightly weaker position, polls suggesting that it could be overtaking by the mdm, as this country's main opposition party.

so the leader will be wanting to hit into the next few days this reemergence, and the signature on friday, alongside the president pushing this image of him as a winner, someone who has won at the negotiating table, they claim, in order to project the image of a winner, ahead of that presidential election. the watt tear carvinged the canyon itself is in short supply. and development around the park is threatening to siphon off what little is left. the two part series on the water politics of the canyon. it's oldest community. there are new roads between the havasupai nation and the united states. when the rest of their home, grand canyon was declared u.s. property. their name means the people of the green blue water. and the waitedder down here in cat rack creek still runs actively

green. but they know that threats remain on the plateau above. >> we don't do things like the white man divides. into one cell, we don't do that. everything to us is collected. gives us life. >> from the silver rush of the 19th century, and the west expansion, the led, zinc, and you rain i am mining they have watched the wilderness erode. they are not passive observers they have battled in the courts to reclaim their lands and to protect their most sacred resource, water. >> every grip, every spring that we have here, this is little drip, comes into havasupai. this water, we are this water. >> the grand canyon original inabn't thats fought the development as a national park, but now both tribe and park service have joined forces against the developers of the canyons gates.

leverage it's position as the closest town the the grand canyon to become a major tourist destination. be uh the developersn't have explained how a projected 4-point increase in water demand will be met. >> currently, with pumping of water that the town is using right now, it's decreased the water source at this spring, specifically, by 30%. already. >> now they want to expand. >> and now they want to expand. >> the drier winters have already decreased the water available to the annual 5 million visitors. if it ex-nd pas park officials fear all the species that call the grand canyon home, will suffer. >> this all one resource to the tribes, and it's all one resource to us. it is a system, in that we then have different purposes within that system. but we'll be effected the same. >> they face a consortium that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

to secure political support and the rights to the canyon's sub train i am water supply. al jazeera, the grand canyon. >> fast food workers in the u.s. are holding a mass walk out, demanding better wages and healthcare. organizers say 150 cities are participating in marchs. to increase their wages to $15 an hour, so they can make ends meet. several people were hurt afterren experiment testing how tornadoes work went wrong. what happened in a museum the state of nevada. 13 people including children were wounded. officials have launched an investigation.

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