♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ and a warm welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm david foster and this is what we have coming up, in the next 60 minutes. >> if we agree the united kingdom will contribute 3500 personnel to the force. >> the britain prime minister says it's time to ramp up their alliances capabilities. hundreds of thousands of indians jailed without trial now have hope of being released thanks to the supreme court.

kurdish and iraqi forces press forward against the islamic state group in dekrete. there is a syrian wedding taking place but it's not quite what it seems. find out why shortly. ♪ well, nato and ukraine is high on the nato agenda but alliance is looking at the rise of the islamic state group which is taking control of large swathes of iraq and the crisis on syria also on the minds of those in whales and learning about the plan rapid reaction force aimed at deterring russian aggression and we want to hear from bill faucet in eastern ukraine but first we go to whales and we have the talk and idea and now we have those trying to put meat

on the bones. >> absolutely, trying to come up with nato's response and looking at two things, what they will do militarily and in some ways particularly with regard to ukraine, the thing that will frighten russians any more is the spending for all of this and the idea they will try and encourage all the nato members to come up with more money which will then of course give them more fire power. with regard to the military measures, david, as you say is this new force they are going to have which will be on 48 hours notice, sometimes can respond within two days, sometimes it will take up to five days depending on what we have to deal with. there are 4-5,000 troops in this force but i'm told by nato because they are on 48 hours notice they need very regular rotations and there are more forces for this. i'm also told the official data that nato designation proposed one anyway is going to be the

very high readiness task force, the v hr tf but that is not the name that david cameron the uk prime minister used and he did not use that cumbersome name when he announced details of this earlier on. >> i hope that today we can agree a multi-national spear head force deployable anywhere in the world in just 2-5 days. this would be part of a reformed nato response force with headquarters in poland and allies and equipment and infrastructure to allow exercises and if necessary rapid reinforcement if we can agree this united kingdom will contribute 3500 personnel to this multi-national force. >> reporter: well, as those nato leaders were talking in whales and they were getting ready for talks and the pro-russia rebels and ukraine

authorities and we go to harry faucet in eastern ukraine and we see the president of ukraine saying he is optimistically optimistic but on the ground it still looks pretty nasty. >> i couldn't quite hear your question but i can say if this is to be the day that a ceasefire is agreed then it started not very well augered in a sort of way with a lot of shelling going on overnight on the fridges of eastern naripol and it was still going on and in the last couple of hours there has been a little lull but we are speaking to people of the regular ukrainian army, one group saying they were planning to make a counter offensive against a very well armed, extremely well equipped and russian looking it has to be said advancing force that was coming this way. another tank group had tried to make such counter offensive in

the day and they were forced back and lost a tank and said they required reenforcements and what you see coming the other way you can understand why. heavy armor and several thousand russian troops and hundreds of tanks and this is what we saw heading down the road from the russian border, 11 battle tank, 2 personal carriers and rocket system and mobile pieces by a town which fell last week heading into ukrainian territ y territory. this is the main road to the russian border and we were along it and stopped at the first check point by a very professional group of fighters who had three main battle tanks at that check point and one giving instructions with a wristwatch set to a russian time zone and apart from military vehicles coming the other way, we seen no kind of military

installation before getting to russian border and we are told the travel back down this road is simply too dangerous. it was soon clear what that danger was, this was the assault on the town halfway back to maripol and the shells were coming down close to the main eastern defenses already looking seriously out gunned. the unit further advanced had come under direct fire losing an armored personnel carrier he has no doubt who his men are fighting. >> the regular army because it may be a terrorist but most of them is regular soldiers. >> and putin and poroshenko talking about a ceasefire and you are hit with artillery, what do you think about that? >> what he say and what he do. >> reporter: i talked about unseen defenses that a ukraine politician had talked of. >> translator: we haven't seen

them either. >> reporter: the man in the blue suit is the politician in question, the kiev-backed governor of donetsk now in exile. >> translator: i'm sure with tanks and machine guns they do not plan to make peaceful negotiations and surely want to seize the territory but do not have much chance of success. >> reporter: both sides in the conflict are now talking about a ceasefire starting on friday afternoon local time. the question is whether by then maripol will still be in ukraine yanukovich hands or succumb where the main square already looks like a historical relic and a soviet era is twitching back to life. >> maripol in harry report in the separate hold of donetsk shelling of iranian forces killed at least one woman and paul brennan is there and this is what he saw. >> reporter: rounds came in the

afternoon when people were out and about of their houses and came indiscriminantly and no way of describing this area of anything other than a residential district and you see a half finished church and blocks of flats and these are apartment blocks and not a military target whatsoever, if he can pan down, i warn you it's a grim site and a woman has been killed in her 30s and if we look further around with the camera man you see the damage of the building over there and behind the fighter in the corner you can see the bloodstains down in the corner there. now, we can also look at the craters themselves, one crater there, another crater is over there and if you stick with this one, the trajectory of these points backwards towards the donetsk international airport and that is an area which is still held by some ukrainian forces. with a ceasefire supposedly just hours away it doesn't seem as though the ukrainian government

is wanting to win hearts and minds here in the east. more on that if we get it. the other big topic of the nato summit is rise of the islamic state group in iraq and syria and cameron said unified action will defeat the fighters. >> what is required is action on the ground from the kurds, from a new iraqi government, from the neighboring states, all that pressure being applied and then, yes, of course there is a role that countries like britain and america and others can play and we are playing the role and arming the kurds and helping the iraqi government and employing over iraq and supplying humanitarian aid and americans taking part in air strikes which we support. all those things need to go together. >> joining us now live from erbil in northern iraq and we are talking about having some kind of collected will to try and defeat the islamic state there. but the people are trying to fight them on the ground at the

moment need their weaponry. >> exactly, david. interesting to see the british prime minister david cameron saying they want action among other with the kurds and the kurds say we are ready for action but we don't have the weapons. we are hearing all these different foreign nations are sending weapons into iraq to try to arm us here and not seeing them on the front lines. one commander 25 north of mosul was telling me yesterday we have what is left of the russian arms we had for years and no ammunition left and we really need not necessarily heavy weaponry but more supplies of weapons. talking to the deputy prime minister from the kurdish regional government, dr. showers and he was saying it seems to be a problem. a lot of this stuff is coming into baghdad or red tape or somebody not having energy to push it up to erbil and they said to baghdad can you please send an inspector to erbil and

fly closer to the front line. no reaction from baghdad to them but seeing a compromise possibly on the ground to allow weapons to touchdown in baghdad, the inspector on the paperwork and come up. they desperately need it here and if there is a push in places like mosul where we expect it to happen reasonably soon we need the weapons sharpened. >> thank you very much indeed, rounding up our coverage from on the ground in these troubled areas. let's go to our diplomatic editor james who has been following events here. and we talked to a great extent what they will do about the situation in ukraine, give us an idea of what is occupying them and as they get down to the council meeting rather than just a nato meeting. >> a council meeting will be concluding we think within the next hour and we will hear from the nato secretary general giving a news conference of what has been achieved and we will

get more details on that new spear head reaction and details about the nato budget but i think he will be asked about the islamic state. now i think really the problem that you heard saw talking about there is not going to be dealt with nato as a group, it's going to be involving nato countries that deeply concerned many about it and what they are trying to build is some sort of grand coalition with western nato countries, with regional and arab countries and turkey is key in this because it is in the region and it's also a nato ally. get all of them together to try and deal with the problem of islamic state. i think we will get more details in the coming hours, david. >> we will be back with you for that, thank you, james rounding up our coverage on events at the meeting in whales, u.n. report says 1-10 girls worldwide has been raped or sexually abused by the age of 20.

corruption, money, lies and the future of the grand canyon, that is coming up. . and also roger federed down to sets in the semi finals and we will give you that and the rest of sport a little bit later. ♪ more than 450 fast-food workers protesting about low wages have been arrested across the united states. on thursday 150 cities and towns took part in the walk out. workers protesting in favor of a $15 minimum wage per hour and the right to organize, kristen reports from new york. >> reporter: from new york to los angeles and at least 150 cities in between, fast-food workers literally stopped traffic, dozens were arrested,

calling attention to their campaign for better wages and the union. they are demanding $15 an hour, twice the federal minimum wage and she makes $8 as a mcdonald's cashier and not nearly enough to support her children. >> they should hear us out and make some changes and getting us higher wage and get the union because i'm pretty sure their family is well taken care of and that is the only thing we try to do is have our family well taken care of as well. >> reporter: some chains argue they can't afford such an increase which would force them to cut workers' hours and raise prices. the national restaurant association said this is nothing more than attempts to boost their dwindling membership by targeting restaurant employees. mcdonald's and other fast-food restaurants have refused to sit down with the union, arguing they don't set the wages, local franchise owners do. a resent ruling from the national labor relations board

supports the workers' point of view and given fresh momentum to their campaign. on monday, lay day in the united states, president barack obama expressed his support. >> all across the country right now there is a national movement going on made up of fast-food workers, organizing to lift wages, they can provide for their families with pride and dignity. there is no denying a simple truth, america deserves a raise. >> reporter: economists say there is growing evidence that wages are a barrier to economic growth which hurts the overall economy. >> when you leave the people at the bomb out of economic growth that slows consumer demands and creates general volatility of economic performance and leads to political instability that can undermine financial performance as well. [chanting] . >> reporter: many americans can relate to what fast-food workers are going through as they watch rising corporate profits and lagging wages nationally.

kristen with al jazeera, new york. the energy company bp is facing fines in the united states for the gulf of mexico oil spill four years ago, an american judge said they acted with gross negligence, the company could be forced to pay close to $18 billion and additional fines it has already agreed to pay $4 billion in fines and penalties and $27 billion in cleanup costs and compensation. a third american mich artery who contracted ebola in west africa is on his way to the united states for treatment, he will be taken to a medical center in nebraska but officials say there are no more doses of the experimental dose of zmapp and the medicine was given to two of his colleagues who since made a full recovery. >> rick is clearly sick but that he was this very good spirits and he was -- and he walked on to the plane.

so we are really encouraged by that news and looking forward to reuniting with him. >> reporter: i tall yanukovich scientists say a vaccine they are developing for the ebola virus is showing some promise and have been working on it five years and it is proven effective on lab animals. it's now being tested on 20 volunteers in the united states. health workers are preparing for an outbreak of malaria and the most vulnerable refugees from neighboring bali who cross the border to escape fighting. mohamed reports. >> reporter: it's the rainy season here and a blessing in the country cannot survive. majority of people live off the land as farm earliers -- farmers but malaria spreads between humans and animals here during

the wet season and signs of an epidemic are already seen across the country. >> translator: malaria reaches peak september, october and november and may start with a fever and stomach aches but can lead to coma and death. [crying] every year 24% of malaria infected children die and women infected is as high as 35%. >> translator: malaria is the number one cause of sickness and death in this country. last year we registered there were 3 million cases. we had over 4,000 deaths and lots of pregnant women have lost their babies. the government has done its best including the mosquito nets, insecticides and diagnosis equipment and medications but it's obvious considering the vastness of the country and the size of the population that our available means are not enough.

>> reporter: private and international relief organizations are trying to help. >> translator: we are now at the stage of what we call big may lay yar, at the early stages we check the patients and if positive we give them basic modifications but if they start to have seizures then we consider the case severe and we hospitalize the patients until they recover. >> translator: we built this medical center in order to provide free medical care for under privileged patients who cannot afford to pay for treatment. >> reporter: on top of the potential list of those under privileged are these refugees from neighboring mali, some of them are already infected. but medical service in this camp in northern asia is clearly basic and it's not certain for many of them, however, that they can survive a malaria epidemic if it breaks out here, i'm with al jazeera. the scale of abuse is

extraordinary, in a report compiled by the u.n. children's agency it revealed that data from 190 countries, 95,000 people below the age of 20 were murdered in 2012. that makes up about 20% of all homicides globally and also notes the third of all students between the ages of 13-15 regularly face bullying in school and perhaps most alarming of all 120 million girls below the age of 20 were forced to have sex in 2012, that is 1 in every 10 girls worldwide. of those child abuse cases africa was by far the worst performing continent, congo top the list when it came to number of girls forced into sex last year and new in uganda were widespread, high number of girls in new guinea were abused and the figures were startling in zambia and camaroon where that

is common in the lives of under age girls and we will bring in james who works for unicef in africa and life from the kenya capable nairobi and were you surprised by what you discovered? >> i think the enormity. >> we have a problem with that, a small problem and we will try and reestablish contact with james from unicef in a moment. in the meantime, have we got james? let's try one more time. james, i was saying and i think you were about to give us the answer whether you were surprised at the scale of what you discovered at unicef? >> i think so, yes, no matter how long we looked at the areas and given the numbers you just mentioned they cannot be anything but alarming, 1-10 is a staggering extent of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and really what it does is it reveals there are attitudes

across the world that unfortunately perpetuate unjustified violence, no matter how close you are to the front line of this or in the communities, the enormity of the numbers would shock anyone and they are very, very uncomfortable facts. no government or parent would want to see them. they are sort of numbers you say 1-10 but we must confront reality that each of these wears a child's face and each represents a childhood that is being violated and i think that until we get to a mindset to understand that it's not normal and not permissible then the problem will continue. >> because the difficulties you face, you allude to there because what you may think is abuse, what i may consider to be abuse is not necessarily considered as such in some societies. >> reporter: no, you're right. and that is why dealing with this is so complex and we never take away the fact that every time you hear the story of what

happened to a young children or often a young girl then you understand that it has an influence across generations so we can't let the complexity slow us down or prevent the work but you are absolutely right and this goes back to gender roles and societies across this part of the world and many other parts of the world that often define masculinity and goes to women and often leading to greater acceptance of violence against girls. and of course it involves deep-rooted culture beliefs and leads to things like childhood marriage which is incredibly damaging for girls and from mutilation so combine these things that lead to violence becoming acceptable and when you have violence that is acceptable it goes unpunished and occurs in a family and they are reluctant to report the violence even if it occurred to one of their children. are you and other agencies involved in investigating this and trying to change values finding there is more acceptance

about the rights of what you are saying but a great deal of resistance and perhaps hostility towards you? >> i think that is absolutely spot on and the world has come a long way in 10-15 years and there certainly was more violence in western nations 15-20 years ago and must not forget they are not immune to this and the numbers out of switzerland and 15% of young girls had some sort of sexual violence at a particular age. this is not limited to any particular part of the world but yes there is great resistance in some areas, but we have come a long way. we are starting to understand what works. but unfortunately what works is not straightforward. we need better laws and much more policing of them and much better support and then we need as you and i just spoke about this idea of looking at again gender roles and this is not a thing but we have to understand where communities are coming from and reenforce the simple

fact that an abused child will become a child who historically will be less likely to get a job, less likely to be a functional member of society, less likely to be a good parent, more likely to be someone who then has violence in their own relationships, so many good arguments in practice and principle why societies starting with moms and dads really need to eradicate and protect the most vulnerable girls. >> thank you, james talking to us from nairobi. this is an electronic reader, an e book, what about the real thing? ? ba bangladesh the library is a quiet storm as people say, 30 libraries sprung up in the country side and many of them small rooms in people's houses. and we have more from the pages which are being turned in the town here.

>> reporter: that is his real name, used to spend a lot of time outside school being bored like most students here then the library came along. it's just a bunch of books in a small room in this man's house but for many young people like him it's an indispensable part of village life. >> translator: it's like an entertainment center for me. before i had so much time on my hands, it wouldn't seem to pass, now these books are like my friends, i spend time with them the way people do with their friends. >> reporter: the library in the village is part of the village library movement, the movement was started in a small room in his house. he would ask friends and family to donate books and would share them with the united states -- youth and this is where they gather for lessons and of course to read their favorite novels.

>> translator: there is plenty of violence where students are for elections this van but in our village it did not happen and people in different political groups came to vote and there used to be violence but because of the library there is a unity among the students. >> reporter: near village's in the country desperately need this kind of unity to thrive. >> people don't want to stay in the village and social ties are falling apart and you don't have the same connections, no one wants to support each other as a community. >> reporter: as more people follow the example and set up remote libraries it seems the message is being heard. >> for years young people had been moving to the cities. it's a pattern that has been repeated across the country and has devastated the social fabric of village's like this. the village library movement here is about more than just books, it's part of a struggle to make village's strong

communities once again. i'm with al jazeera in bangladesh. >> reporter: 40 people died after heavy rains in pakistan. many of the fatalities were caused by collapsed buildings and electrocution from broken power lines. the country's metrological department want this to stop from further rising levels. it's appropriate time to bring in everton fox with pakistan and surrounding countries with the weather there. >> that is right, david, the weather has no borders and that is certainly the case here. you see the massive cloud up to the far northwest of india into that northeastern side of pakistan. massive cloud here. we have seen very, versus heavy rainfall. and a cloud over the last 24 hours we seen 250 millimeters of rain. look at this, 189 millimeters of rain in only 6 hours, hence the

widespread flooding we have seen here and move across the border into the northwestern corner of india and this is the kind of conditions people have been contending with here, widespread flooding here as well and rescues have taken place, the army, the fire department and indeed the police force helping out with a rescue mission in place here. i think the flooding may well continue through the weekend. i think the rain should ease a little but it's still there or thereabouts. you can see how close it is to the border going through saturday. by saturday i suspect the weather will make its way to the eastern side of india and northern parts of this country and this will go south and west through sunday and very heavy rain continuing here. looking to the northwest toward the northeast corner of pakistan and further showers and rain to come here, david. >> everton thank you very much indeed and ahead on the news hour, finding the american dream alive and kicking with the kids

who made it into the country all alone. and how belgium performing to losing to argentina in the world cup quarter finals and we have the rest of sport in about 15 minutes time. ♪

i'm david faucet and you are watching the al jazeera news hour and time to round up the headlines and prime minister david cameron promised troop for a rapid response force aimed at deterring russia and others and

speaking of the summit in whales and once formed it could be deployed in two days anywhere it was needed. ukraine president porteshenko say a peace deal is possible and talks will begin in a few hours. u.n. report has found 120 million girls worldwide were victims of forced sex in 2012, in the same year 95,000 people under the age of 20 were murdered. india's highest court ordered the release of hundreds of thousands of prisoners who are in over crowded prisons without having faced trial, none of the inmates are convicts, inthey have been in custody for years, waiting trial for the slow justice system and the landmark ruling from the supreme court could see as many as 250,000 prisoners freed. to qualify they must serve half

of the maximum sentence they could have received if they had been found guilty. sue is the director of the asian center for human rights joining us live from new deli. this is a vast number of prisoners. has the supreme court reached this decision just because india's jails were deemed to be hopelessly overcrowded or for any other reasons? >> well, the government itself has a problem and there is element of the criminal court in 2005 under the code and section a and/or more that that and he or she should be qualified to be released and the fact the supreme court had nothing to bear in the last nine years it also reflects the problem because this has been in existence since 2005.

in 2014 we find the supreme court is talking about the issue. >> to what level do the offenses go? is it anything from theft up to murder perhaps or at least manslaughter? >> no, i don't think the offenses are less than seven years, so in that case, petty offenses for which large number of people indicate and sometimes simply because they are not able to pay their bill on the amount. >> do you think it has changed because india has a new good evening? >> no, i think as i said, this is a right that is given to prisoners and it shows in a large number of prisoners despite having the legal right to exercise this and until the support court rules on the issue, the problem is somebody

cannot pay 500 or 5,000 bail bond or cannot hire lawyers themselves, there is no other option for the court to come in the direction they are to be released. >> as many as a quarter of a million prisoners we are talking about here, there will be those who don't want to see these people come out of jail so soon. >> well, surely but at the end of the day when something is established in the large sense and there is questioning the legality of it. >> thank you, thank you very much indeed and we appreciate your time and good to have you with us on the news hour. >> thank you. syrian rights group say government forces killed 18 foreign ners fighting with the islamic state group and killed in iraka and the town is a stronghold of the group since the start of the year. one of the foreign fighters killed is believed to be from

the united states. al jazeera continuing to demand the release of three of its journalists who now have been detained in egypt for 251 days. mohamed and fahmy and greste received long sentences and political motivated and the case is by a u.n. secretary general with a conversation with the egypt president and you can join the campaign by using the hash tag free a.j. staff on twitter and you can find out more by going to a special page which you will find if you log on to al jazeera.com and that is al jazeera.com. good stories coming out of the united states and in a moment we have a report from san francisco and a young mexican boy who says the american dream is still possible. we are also in arizona and the imagi

magnificent grand canyon and a fight with an italian company there over water rights of the colorado river but first to washington and a federal investigation has begun into the police in ferguson, missouri where an unarmed black teenager was shot by a white officer. kimberly has that story. >> reporter: a federal investigation into the conduct of a police force thrust into the international spotlight because of images like these, violent clashes between police and unarmed protesters followed last month's shooting death of an unarmed teen in ferguson, missouri. >> following extensive review of documented allegations and other available data, we have determined that there is a -- there is cause for the justice department to open an investigation to determine whether ferguson police officers have engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of united states constitution or federal law. >> reporter: as part of the

probe the justice department civil rights division will investigate whether there is pattern of excessive force and rights violations which existed over a period of years. the probe will focus on the department's policies, not individual wrongdoing. [siren] this is in addition to an investigation by the same department, along with the f.b.i. which is looking into the conduct of the officer involved in michael brown's shooting on august 9. eyewitnesses report seeing brown's hands in the air when he was shot multiple times. [chanting] aftermath of brown's shooting sparked a national condition in the u.s. about policing, civil rights and treatment of minorities. >> we have been making strides over years to improve that and we hope that the department of justice will recognize it. >> i take no personal offense to it at all. in the end the justice department is going to try to improve the quality of policing in the nation. [gunfire] the family of michael brown says

it's encouraged by the new federal probe and hopes it brings transparency to law enforcement and build trust in the community, the investigation could take months and consequences may range from an agreement to improve police conduct to charges in federal court. kimberly with al jazeera, washington. >> this week water experts are in stockholm looking at challenges to make sure people have access to clean water in a fast developing world and we are going over the pond to the bottom of the grand canyon and the colorado river to take a look at a fight over water rights and we have that. >> reporter: this is the grand canyon and this is its gate way. a few blocks of restaurants and hotels just outside the national park eastern transcript and many residents live in trailer homes provided by employers. the town's mayor wants to change that and he hopes this small part of land will one day be

developed into low-cost housing. >> status quo you lose your job, you lose your home. doesn't matter if you have two or three kids and they are born here or whatever, you lose your house. and that is wrong. >> reporter: this was given to the town as a sweetener by a consortium to transform this into a tourist resort for two decades and it was blocked by a referendum in 2000 and they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the tiny community incorporated as a town. it then heavily funded prodevelopment candidates in the subsequent town council election and they voted to approve the development of nearly 300,000 square meters of new commercial space at the canyon's edge and the consortium right to the canyon water and that is raising concerns. >> we are in the desert and beneath us here the groundwater

is vitally important to feed the springs of grand canyon. so if that water supply gets depleted which scientific models show any more drilling will do that, it will harm grand canyon national park and the life inside it. >> reporter: the stealer group declined to appear in the report despite multiple request and all but one of the council has a connection to the consortium and they are not concerned about the water? >> i have not heard any concerns from them, no. >> where we have proposed to --. >> reporter: the mayor's main concern is his housing project and hopes the consortium will not drill wells but import the water from nevada. >> they have rights on the lower colorado. >> showing you the paperwork. >> i have not seen the paperwork, no, i have not seen the paperwork yet. >> is it important to see the paperwork? >> i don't have to see the paperwork, if they cannot supply the water they are not going to be able to build. >> reporter: the grand canyon is one of the world's 7 wonders

and the eco system rests on a small town at the gate, i'm with al jazeera, the grand canyon. every month thousands of children enter the united states on their own, no parents or grown ups at all to look after them and some, well, they get into trouble and others manage to make a life for themselves. and melissa chan is at a school in san francisco made for just vulnerable children. >> reporter: mario is 15 years old and like most teenagers getting ready for a new school year. >> translator: i came to the united states for school and make progress in studies and learn another language. >> reporter: he is starting school at san francisco international high, 3,000 miles from the home he left behind in honduras and risked his life to come to america. >> translator: in mexico it becomes much more difficult because there things change.

there are thieves that rob you, you may have to sleep on the streets and it's very difficult but when you get to the border of the united states and mexico you have to walk a lot and be strong because then there is the desert. >> reporter: many here have a similar story and every student is new to the country, every student is learning english, many show up alone without parents with absolutely no one. >> let's go. >> sometimes they are living in group homes or shelter, sometimes they are living with a friend of a friend, sometimes they are renting a room and paying rent on their own. >> reporter: san francisco school district has seen more than 1,000 new recently arrived immigrant students enrolled this september, part of the national influx of more than 66,000 unaccompanied children who crossed the border over the past year. the spike has come from central america, all salvador and guatemala and honduras. >> he was looking for an uncle but now lives with a foster

family. one challenge, one irony is that many students escaped gang violence back in their home country only to find it here in san francisco, in places like the mission district. if they avoid gangs advocates feel they might have a chance at success and while many of their needs are like those of other teenagers, these students are different. >> we work with some of the most motivated and resilient and intelligent students i've ever met in my life. they have navigated countries and borders. they managed to navigate systems so much bigger than school. >> reporter: mario says while the journey was difficult and dangerous he is glad he is here. >> translator: when you get here, everything is different. it's liken tearing a new world, everything changes, your routine, everything, your way of life changes. since my arrival in the united states i've been treated well. >> reporter: his american dream, to graduate high school,

attend a community college and become a mechanic. melissa chan, al jazeera, san francisco. the american comedian jones ris died at age of 81 and she was in show business for 50 years and she broke the barriers of a first woman to host a late-night talk show and recently known for her wit for red carpet events and jokes about indulging in plastic surgery and making her well-known and controversial figure and she died from complications what is believed to be routine throat surgery. still to come here on the news hour, a famous footballer celebrating like he scored a goal when he meets the pope. that's ahead in sport. ♪

♪ we go to sport. >> thank you very much, david. tennis and roger federer had a great escape in quarter finals of the u.s. open and 17 time grand slam champion had two points to beat his opponent and we have more. >> he faced two different types of roger federer in the u.s. quarter finals and 26 unforced errors in the first two sets. that helped frenchman take them 6-4-6-3 and 78 minutes.

but the roger that won the u.s. open five times returned in the third set, winning it 6-4. and he was then on the verge of reaching his second grand slam semi final but federer forced off two match points and taking the fourth 7-5. momentum was now with the 33-year-old, federer winning the set 6-2 and putting his place in the semi finals for a ninth time. >> the finish line and i knew i could play better tennis and got off to a good start and actually feeling all right but then when it was down to match point is when i wasn't feeling so great anymore and i said this is it. this is the last point, man. just go down fighting. don't miss an easy shot and let him have it. >> reporter: federer will take

on the croatian, 6-2-6-4-7-6 to reach the semis for the very first time. and he missed last year's event due to a four-month ban for failing a drug test. >> it was a difficult period. i didn't know when i would start back but it was a good period for me. i matured a bit more and i was working day after day and not relaxing and not doing nothing. so i think that helped me to improve physically and also it helped me to have enough time to put some new parts in my game which are helping me to play this good now. >> reporter: the men's semi finals will take place on saturday, richard par with al jazeera. football and the world cup quarter final defeat to beat australia in friendly.

and put them ahead in the first half and made it 2-0 giving australia the defeat and belgium will play israel in the 2016 qualifier next week but that is postponed due to the resent conflict in gaza. and the other game two world cup winners went head to head but it was france that came on top of 2008 champions, spain, 1-0 and the win for china and pakistan and gave sweden 2-0 win and antonio got the better in the coaching debuts beating netherlands 2-0. >> translator: the most important information i got from the match is the guys started to understand my idea of a game plan in six trainings and devoted themselves to it. what pleased me today is they played as a team with great humidity, determination and

courage. >> reporter: brazil striker has been named as the new national team captain ahead of their friendlies, 22-year-old will replace hurt silva since 2011 and the re-march of quarter finals and 2-1 and friendly miami is the first match back in charge of brazil since departure of louis. nfl is back and the superbowl champions seattle seahawks continue where they left off and beat the green bay packers 36-16 in the season opener and lynch ran 110 yards and had two touchdowns for the seahawks. world number one roy mcilroy is fine tuning his game for the world cup which starts in a few weeks and had a lead after the opening round of the bmw championship in denver and he shot three under par, 67,

putting him in a tie with american spies and gary wood land and it was suspended due to poor weather with nine players still to finish. >> i felt i was going nicely and even though i have a couple holes coming in, the scoring isn't that good, it's not that good but it's not low. it's tricky and the greens are firm and playing a little bit like a u.s. open but not quite as difficult as that but thick rough especially on the greens and firm greens. that is the only recipe needs to keep the scoring the way it is. >> england are trying to get some consolation and one day series at home to india, 91 for 2 and 5 in leads and won all three of completed matches in the series so far. and the man famous for the hand of god has been spending time at the vatican with pope francis

after a charity match and handled the ball leading argentina to victory at the 1986 world cup and 53-year-old appeared to be pretty happy at getting a photo with the pope. and there is more on our website including a chance to meet the sports team check out al jazeera/sport. that is it for me, back to you. >> you should have got some help, excuse me. thank you. toronto international film festival and in ten days 400 films will be screened. we can see here getting things underway robert downy is there for premier of the judge and daniel mac. >> welcome to festival week in downtown toronto, an entire block closed off to traffic

except cars taking celebrities to and from world premiers and galas and it's the judge and robert downey junior and duval are arriving on the red carpet just over there. a lot of people come here for celebrity spotting for the hollywood films but many people who come to the festival and this is the biggest ever with a half a million people seeing close to 400 mill -- films from mali and all over the world, i ran, china, korea and you name it and collaborations between countries and john stewart his first film rose water is here, story of a iranian journalist in captivity and you see that and horror films that show after midnight, the film festival, the biggest so far.

>> hard to equate the pictures behind me of a film festival with events happening in syria where according to the u.n. about 3 million peoples have been forced out of the country because of the war. many of them head to europe, their journey many times is a periless one and a new documentary being shown at the vent us in film festival shows refugees trying to evade border controls and phil has the story. >> reporter: it's a long way from the war in syria to the venice red carpet but the two are linked this year. behind these smiles, a story of pain and sorero -- sorrow and this shows attempt to find syria's displace to home and fled to europe on a boat and sweden in their sights but no way to get there. the local film makers came up

with an idea, smuggling them across countries and borders dressed as a wedding party. every sunrise brought the risk of arrest and charge of people trafficking, their only hope who is going to ask a bride for her paperwork. >> from one side you can look which way and the other side you can which laws we obeyed too because we obeyed to our humanity and we were sure it was the right thing. i mean 500 meters in front of you there are corpes at the bottom of the sea and it's really a strategy. >> reporter: this was almost in every way a wedding, the bride had her hair done and wore white and extras came along to make it look genuine and it lasted four days all be it without a ceremony and with a lot of traveling. safety was in sight for five refugees who had made a pearless

journey across the sea that has killed so many people. on thursday they held an event on the beach here, a service of thanks that they were rescued, the cruel sea that has taken so many desperate souls and laughing just feet away. >> it will change everyone who put an end to immigrant because we cannot let people die and like nothing. we are still human. i still believe like we are equal. so i think we have to fight. >> reporter: the directors risk 15 years in jail if the authorities come after them. but they ask what price for freedom, whatever it is they will pay. phil with al jazeera at the venice film festival. that is it for me david from the news hour team and i leave you in the capable hands of darren jordan in just a minute.

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