right now... >> from oscar winning director alex gibney, a ground breaking look at the real issues facing american teens on, the edge of eighteen only on aljazeera america ♪ this is "al jazeera america" live from new york city. i am richelle carey. here is a look at today's top stories. despite provocations, the tenuous day-old cease-fire in ukraine seems to be holding. the battle against the islamic state group rages on northern iraq. oil from the kurdish region of iraq is flowing into turkey and fueling anger from baghdad. a white house delay, immigration reform gets past the mid-term election.

it's been less than a day and the cease-fire in ukraine has been violated but not yet broken. both sides are blaming each other, but the president of john boehner isn't giving up hope. they say the path to peace is not yet de-railed. the country's east, it will take more than a piece of paper to bring peace. harry faucet. >> the plains east of mariupol were quiet saturday. a day earlier, they had been a battlefield. it was a battle waged amid the villages of this contested territory, brought to the doorstep of a kindergarten. this, one of three ukrainian tanks that took up positions here. >> how can the ukrainian army, our defenders, hide in a kippeder garten. there was no warning. what if there would have been children inside. these her os come and hide in the kindergarten.

where are they now? scared of our own destiny. >> the smell of burning metal, file that took place inside a school yard when both sides knew that a cease-fire was just hours away. >> some lesson for the children who won't be coming back here any time soon. children who, locals say, now feel sick when they see a soldier in the street. 500 meters another tank lies split in two and beyond it, nervy soldiers, we're told, guarding more mangled metal. nearby shirikinaa noman's land, many families are deciding to get out. not much trust here in this cease-fire. you don't have to go too far to see why.

these people lived here for years, raised a family, grieved for a husband. in and out, this 63-year-old widow knows the difference between the sound of a ground rocket and a howitzer shell but doesn't know where her life goes from here. >> translator: i didn't believe it could happen. i heard the sound. there was shelling somewhere, but we weren't afraid. but this time, it was such a big explosion. now, we're afraid to walk the streets. >> on friday, we filmed these images of concentrated rocket fire just a few kilometers from mariupol. this was the target. late on saturday, they managed to salve one field gun and started to take it back into town. en this was a sensitive operation. so we filmed these images, soldiers fired shots to warn us away. for now, the cease-fire is holding in this part of eastern ukraine, but achieving real peace between opposing forces

and in the weary minds of the people who live here will be another battle entirely. harry faucet, al jazeera, southeastern ukraine. >> russia is a key negotiating partner in this tenuous peach peace but denies military involvement. president obama said sanctions were instrumental in reaching a cease-fire and are about to hit peter with more. peter sharp with more. >> president putin believed that the latest round of sanction would be averted by this cease-fire that he helped to bring about between the ukraine military and the rebel republics in the east. he will be very disappointed. the trouble is, i think, that putin's credibility with the west is just about exhausted. first of all, we had russia admitting that there were, in fact, shanelle troops involved in the annexation of crimea and there aren't many eu states that don't believe that russia isn't heavily involved in the fighting in eastern ukraine.

so, a lot of people will believe what the john boehnerian prime minister said yesterday, that the cease-fire is nothing but a smoke jean to avert these sanctions. we understand the safrmingsdz will be introduced in brusselsnl be introduced in brussels on monday. understand that the eu may be planning to bar russian oil companies from raising capital on european markets. now, this hit the big boys like gazpromt would be those companies with more than a 50% state ownership. russia's response. we simply don't know. they certainly are promising repercussions. >> peter sharp reporting from moss co. now, to the latest in iraq. kurdish fighters are hoping for more help from nat 0. they say they have made gains but that much needed resources are slow to reach the front line. a report from erbil.

>> reporter: the iraqi forces have made some inroads into the city of mosul across to the east and the gaza mountains, the peshmerga have taken those mountains from the is fighters. away to the north in a town called telescof which we were in two days ago, they have benefited from an airstrike. they managed to make progress into the next town held by islamic state fighters, meaning they were closer to the perimeter of the city of mozul. this is despite constant calls for the nato nations to recognize that they need the weapons that have been sent to iraq. these weapons are stockpiling, according to them n warehouses in baghdad held up by red tape instead of being up towards northern iraq and to the front lines. they are hope, though, with this new coalition of nato countries formed after the summit in wales that there will be much more attention as to where the various supplies are going, and this will mean that that stockpile gets to be moved up

towards them and they can benefit on the front line. >> sue turman. >> there is world the islamic state group beheaded a second soldier captured along the syrian border. >> comes as a french journalists says one of his can't orders was the shooter at the jewish museum in brucels earlier this year. >> reporter: kept it secret for a long time. now, after revelations in the french press, he has spoken out. french journalist who was held can'tniv syria for one months said one of his jailers was madina mush. tests accused of shooting four at the brett issue museum in may. >> after the arrest for the actsez accused of in brussels, i was shown a number of audio visual documents that allowed me to formally identify him and

they decided to keep this secret. >> one reason for this according to him was when he and three other journalists were freed in april, they left a number of hostages behind and wanted to protect them. namush was one of a small number of french fighters affiliated with the islamic state group supervising dozens of prisoners. he said he was particularly fear feared. >> he mistreated me. i don't know if he mistreated other western hostages but i did hear him torturing prisoners in this place we were in, which was basement after hospital. >> arrest extradited to belljam the lawyer who represented him said he is surprised by the latest allegations saying the question was never raised. >> there was never any question of the role he allegedly played as a jailer, which i am reading about in the press.

it surprises me a bit because if this turns out to be the case and with people's lives at stake, why didn't someone ask him the question? >> he is facing trial over the brults killings. a judge is due to rule on his continued detention at a hearing next friday. barber, al jazeera. >> the war in syria had already forced thousands of syrians to cross the border into turkey. now, they are being joined by thousands rescued for the sinjar mountain region. authorities in turkey are doing their best to accommodate neighbors in need. . >> this kurdish chant for those left behind. these yazitis are safe in a camp but many still have relatives threatened by the murderous advance through northern iraq, a group that calls itself the islamic state. kasim is one of thousands trapped encircled by i.s.

fighters. >> we walked for a long time over rugged landscape and reach the mountain. it was just one small water spring. the peshmerga and the iraqi army disappeared. we couldn't defend ourselves. we ran away to protect our honor. we and our religion are targeted. the islamic state group singled us out. they meant to kill us all. >> the camp offers schooling and healthcare for almost 3,000. it costs $50,000 a day to run. next door, a reminder of the refugee crisis turkey has already been managing for more than three years. at the top of the hill, 1 of the more than 20 syrian refugee camps in this country. >> the facilities here are of a high standard. but the camp is full, and for now, this is the last yazid tive. camp that will be paid. the government is paying for three more camps but it's building them over the border in

kurdish iraq. security concerns about the final location of the camps in iraq have to be changed. now, they are expected to be ready to host 35,000 yazidis by mid-september. >> we have been in cooperation with the local authorities to ensure that the site where we are building the camps, a, will be safe; b, will allow us to continue providing services, the same quality services we have been doing here. >> machine jazidis said they could never go back to iraq. their ancient religion draws you influences from islam and christianity. i s. fighters have shown little for fellow muslims who deviate from the hard-line interpretation of their faith. so many yazidis wonder what chance they would have. al jazeera, southern turkey. >> iraq's kurdish region is resuming oil production despite the is look at lammic state

group. they say they will send barrels abroad even with opposition from baghdad. more from the kurdish regional capitol, kirkuk. >> this flame has been burning for longer than recorded history. herodatus, herodatus, it has fueledtentions for enormous treasurer. it's wedged between a rock and kurdistan. it's no secret that the kurds long for independence. but the kirkuk area is a mix of arabs, turkmen and kurds and baghdad isn't keen to let kirkuks become part of kurdistan. >> kurdistan without kirkuk is unthinkable. if you look at it, the land is kurdish land. there is no dispute about it. >> what is disputed is what's beneath the land.

>> that's oil. kirkuk is home to one of the world's oldest and rich est oil fields. there is enough there t could tip the balance of power in the region. when the islamic state swept across northern iraq, the kurdish army out-gunned and overwhelmed, retreated across hundreds of miles of territory. but in kirkuk, the peshmerga found the resolve to surge forward even as the iraqi army which had been guarding the oil fields fled bringing kirkuk under the influence of the kurdish government. while they had the fields in their possession, kurdistan has yet to benefit from the oil. >> production and export of oil from from kirkuk has basically stopped. really production has come down for example, when i started, it was around 450,000,000 barrels a day to about 230, 250 barrels a day before these events started. so we are now down to nothing basically. >> kirkuk is the richest oil

field in northern iraq but it's not the only one. in the last few years, the kurds have developed other fields, built a pipeline through turkey and much to the dismay of baghdad, they have begun exporting their own oil, filling tanker ships with crude and trying to sell it on the world's open market. they find themselves fighting for economic independence on another front, the u.s. courts of law, a shipful of $100 million of oil was seized off of the coast of texas in august. the iraq oil ministry filed a lawsuit to stop the kurdish oil from entering u.s. refineries. baghdad has withheld bucket payments which the kurdish government needs to pay employees leaving the regional government billions of dollars short increasing need for the oil revenues. once the oil in kirkuk does begin to flow again, it will course through kurdistan. the kurdish government has it completed the infrastructure of completing kirkuk to its own

life line. mitt what they had failed to so far politically and taking one more step toward an independent kurdish nation. josh rushing, al jazeera, kirkuk, iraq. >> al shabaab is threatening great distress to its enemies in retaliation of killing the troop's leader. he was killed in his car on monday near mogadishu. the president of kenya is thanking the u.s. for targeting the leader of the al-qaeda-affiliated group. they had taken responsibility for the deadly westgate mall attack in kenya a year ago. boca haram rebels have taken control of a attorney forcing thousands to leave their village. they launched at attack, having taken over six towns in the borno state. more than 26,000 people escaped the violence by flacking to the capitol. but they say the capitol is

their next target putting the displaced in the firing line one more time. >> a report indicates boka haram is on its twie establishing a caliphate. >> al sisi says $12,000,000,000 is needed to upgrade the country's power grid, that egypt is facing a crash crisis. mohammed val has more. >> it's one of egypt's worst power crisis in decades, a vital nerve in kcairo's metropolitan life. it carries more than 3 million people being stopped in its tracks on friday. thousands jumped from the windows when doors failed to open. the incident came after what authorities described as mechanical glitches during maintenance work in the main power station outside cairo. but the crisis has been going on for some time, several cities across egypt. people live in the dark. bakeries can't supply bread.

basic services are disrupted and egyptians are outraged. thousands took to the streets across the country to demand an explanation. enough trouble t seems, to warrant a t.v. address by the president who says he normally tries not to speak much. >> translator: this problem will not be solved soon. we are facing many challenges and no government or president will be is able to overcome them along. but egyptians say they have heard words like these before especially from the new leaders. the problem they say is that it's not just a power shortage but a range of problems. prices across the board continue to rise and the unemployment rate is soaring. sisi promised us a great luf of happiness. look how miserable the situation is. we have no jobs and the price is only going higher. >> the president spoke in very

general terms about economic difficulties and appealed for billions of dollars which he said are needed to fix the problems. he blamed those in his words who would undermine the welfare of egypt. many want to criminal the efforts aimed at improving our daily life. you may ask why: it's simplicity to age tate and caused egyptian people to rise in anger. . >> anger of the formederfield marble who ran for president after he topelled egypt's first elected president. the prospect of a fresh uprising because of this that seems to cause real concern for the president. al jazeera. >> al jazeera is demand, the release of three journalist who have been destained in egypt for 352 days. they received long sentences after a trial seen by many

observers as politically motivated. their convictions are being appealed. their cases raised in a conversation with the egyptian president. join campaign to get al jazeera's journalist freed by using the hash tag freeajstaff on twitter. the white house changes strategy on immigration reform. american citizens con ttributin to the immigration crisis. >> i feel sympathy for the people coming out. but the smugglers, i have no sympathy. >> deplorable and dead conditions in the desert, al jazeera takes an inside look at human smugglers and the struggle to keep them in check. we know what happens when we can't pay bills but what about cities and states who don't have the revenue needed to make their obligations in our deeper look segment. >> that's tonight at 5:00 p.m. pacific.

♪ the white house says president obama will not delay any decisions on immigration reform until after the november congressional elections. it is a sharp reversal from the president's previous finds where he said an overhaul would happen

by the end of this summer. live from washington, d.c. kymberlee, what reasons are the white house giving for this delay? >> reporter: well, the white house officially is saying that it doesn't want this issue to be further polit sized. so, if this can be delayed until after the elections, this will allow for a comprehensiveae situation to take place. it's politics on both sides motivating this decision. the big concern is that this has become highly partisan, the issue of immigration reform and there is concern that if this is a decision that is unpopular with voters, democrats, especially in the u.s. senate, the fear is that democrats could lose control of that body and, as a result, there would be a real difficulty in the final two year's of the president's term in getting anything done with this u.s. congress. >> what has the reaction been to this decision, to this announcement, kymberlee?

>> the top republican in the u.s. senate has issued to congress he is highly critical of the president's decision to force through reform. he said what's cynical about today's announcement is that the president isn't saying he will follow the law. he is just saying that he will go around the law. once it's too late for the party accountable in the november elections. this is not sitting well with immigration activists in the united states who have come out in full force all across the country and on the lawn of the white house, the side of the white house and, also, the lawn of the congress. many are sailing that the president made a very clear promise. he said something would be done by the end of the summer. there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the united states that were waiting for him to make true on that promise and now, it is being delayed possibly until the end of the year. they are saying that this is a real letdown. it is simply unacceptable. >> we will talk more about this issue later on today as well. kimber lie halkett, kimberly

thank you. in texas along the mexican border, sheriffs are trying to catch up with human smugglers. many my grants say coyotes -- pay coyotes to take them through the desert. if they can't keep up, they are often left to survive on their own in these inhumane conditions. heidi jo castro reports. >> a great chrysler 30. >> a dispatched call on a remote stretch of highway 70 miles north of the border. >> the vehicle that dropped off -- they are coming up on 755. >> roll down the back window. >> brooks county sheriff's deputy deposuty george esparza pulls over a suspected kote. another. >> i am telling you right now, i know what you are doing. >> this suspected human smuggler will get away. he claims he took out the backseat not to pack the car with migrants but to haul a washing machine and those foot fingerprints on the floorboard,

well, they could be anybody's. >> get out of my county. unless we fine some illegals and they put him as the driver, that's about the only thing. >> you have to let them go. >> yes. >> must be frustrating. >> a little bit because i know he is lying. >> here in falfurrias, it's common knowledge that human smuggle ling is a thriving business. the sheriff acknowledges kote did hide under his nose. >> we go to the coffee shop. you sit down with them. you never know, you know. >> next to the sheriff's office is evidence of the problem's scope. most of these impounded vehicles belong to kote did who abandoned them to escape deputies. this s.u.v. is so fresh, the smuggler's personal belongings are still inside. >> a bible, some family photos. >> when you look at their picture, they have kids. they don't look like criminals? >> i know. >> they just look ike your neighbor? >> a neighbor.

>> but these are neighbors who leave people to die. kote did not only drive migrants north. they lead them on foot through the desert. the sheriff's department picks up two to three bodies a week. the remains of migrants who couldn't keep up with the smuggler's pace. >> not everyone can run an 8-minute mile. >> that's why we get a lot of immigrants that are in distress because if they twist their ankle, if they fall down, when they are resting, if they rest and they fall asleep and they don't wake up in time to go with the group, they leave them behind. >> herded like livestock, many wear adult diapers so they are not left behind during a bathroom break. they also bring tooth brushes and deodorant, attempts to hold on to some dignity. >> i feel sympathy for the people who are coming out and but the people -- the smugglers, i have no sympathy for them. if i can get every single one... >> the sheriff estimates only 5%

of coyotes are arrested and prosecuted. most work unhindered. >> over this trampled gate is a stash house, where the coyotes will put the people for a few days to catch their breath. let's go inside. >> the stench is overwhelming, filthy mattresses, cans of rotten tuna, brought in by radz rats. >> unbelievable, dehumanizing, the condition people live in for dawes as they wait for the next leg of their journey. they leave people without food, water, electricity. they are made to live like animal did. >> they pay the coyotes $3,800 but few migrants really know this is what's in store for them or how deadly the journey can be. >> heidi jo castro, brooks county texas. >> nato's pledge to stand by ukraine in and the realities that make that pledge a real challenge. also, how a video game that

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>> talk to al jazeera with alex gibney, only on al jazeera america welcome back to "al jazeera america." here is a look at your top stories. officials in somal i can't say al shabaab is planning retaliation. amed gazon, he and al that bab took responsibility for the westgate mall attack a year ago. peshmerga is calling for more weapons to defeat the islamic state group. they say much needed resources are being held up by red tape. the cease-fire in ukraine has been violated a day after signing. each side blaming the other for the infractions with the leaders saying the deal still holds. they say a lot needs to happen if there is to be a lasting peace in ukraine.

argues paul brennan reports from the heart of the separatist tear tory in the eastern part of the country. now more than 24 hours into the cease-fire and according to both sides there have been violations. have they been enough to actually rip up the whole deal that was signed in minsk and start again? not according to the two leaders who have spoken by telephone. the president has released a conversation he said he had with vladimir putin. both have agreed in general >> the cease-fire is holding. what what they did say, though, it was also necessary for further steps to take place in order for the cease-fire to be put on a more stable footing. boat leaders underlined the important role of the osce. the role that they have in all of this. they are going to be acting as arbitor, referee, monitoring the borders, making a ruling on who is breaking the cell phoase-fir

who isn't. thing hold the cards and connections. it also needs is discipline on the ground because the inhe have tablety is this, when you are dealing withforce which are not always talking professional is that there is going to be in discipline, ill feeling between the two sides and so it's go can to take some degree of time before everything starts to calm doup. i think the other thing that is absolutely necessary is for a quick resemption of talks that started in minsk. they need to move to a substantive phase. we saw the frame worked signed but now we need substantive talks here in eastern ukraine. >> sean cape, professor of politics at ohio at lane university, we appreciate your time professor. so were you incurraned by anything you heard coming out of nato this past week? >> nato is succeeding, i think, in striking an important balance

between the need to reassure the new members like the baltic countries that have joined the conversation and at the same time, signal the unacceptable behavior russian has been doing in eastern rohn, calibrating that in a way that doesn't add fuel to the fire because there is this deep visceral view in russia that nato is part of the problem here and part of the future solution of ukraine is most likely to be a situation in which ukraine agrees it will not join nato in the future >> what's your reaction to the plan to develop this rapid response force? >> well, it's important, again, to reassure these new members and signal symbolically that nato has committed to the collective defense principle of the alliance. the way these things are organized are kind of complicated because, of course,

once you have that in place, it requires consention sus in the organization if you were ever to use it. >> sure. >> and that means a political decision. one thing i like about it a lot is that we have been needing for a long time to rebalance the north atlantic treaty organization so european forces will be in the lead with regard to their security. this particular 4,000 troop force is going to be led mainly by britain with other european allies. i think that's important. >> europeans being out front as opposed to the united states always being out front? is that what you mean? >> yes. i think that's a trend we are seeing, even if you think about isis as well. at the end of the day, it will have to be regional actors on the ground supported by air power. the americans said for a long time now and i think they would be pleased to see wealthy and capable european allies taking the lead with regard to this

kind of operation. it doesn't mean america would be there. there will be there playing an important role in fostering this deployment dpaesty but the important thing is it is sending a message to putin that these allies are hands off in eastern europe and reassuring them at the same time but not going so far as to further feed into putin's narrative as to what he says russia's role is in the crisis. it's not just a putin problem there this is a deeply embedded problem going back to the 1990s in terms of how they have viewed nato and its roll especially as it is enlarged toward eastern europe. >> you talked about isis. let's pivot to isis kwijt. that was brought up at nato as well. are there any countries you feel should be on board in this fight against isis that have been silent or that should be speaking more? >> well, i think we are seeing a slow rollout of a process here

so we've got the european allies that have indicated unanimously that they see isis as a serious threat. a handful of allies commit to go take part in a coalition. >> can grow what will matter is key act orders taking the lead when nato has been effective, for example, in bosnia in 1995, it was when local forces on the ground supported by air power were anal to shape the balance of power on the ground and that led to a peace agreement and effective outcome in bosnia. i am not saying that's necessarily what will happen here. >> calibration of local act orders is going to be crucial. do we reach out to syria? do we reach out to iran? what's the role of jordan and saudi arabia for example? at the end from the day, the iraqi people, themselves will have to stand up and take responsibility about you yeah, i mean i think it's important,

gradual coalition. i would expect to hear more about that. >> all of this of course goes much deeper than just the tough talk. this comes to forming coalition and strat employees. professor sean kay, we profess your insight so much thank you? >> my pleasure. >> the government of syria has launched a series of airstrikes against the islamic state group. 25 people were killed in eight airstrikes. the video up load today sorry media site by the groups' members shows the aftermath. one missile hit a bakery, 16 civilians and 9 fighters were among the dead. the syrian government is filing on several fronts with some of the most fierce battles playing out in aleppo. government forces rained more barely bombs killing 11 people. there was not a single rebel fighter in the area. mary ann a hand reports.

>> it's difficult to pick out anything here that might indicate this was once a popular taxi stand. people had been lining up on friday hoping to catch what little public transport was available in the city of aleppo. two barely bombs reportedly fell rescue user mostly found the dead, a child among them. >> all of the people here are civilian workers and passengers. people were killed and dozens injured from the bombs. this is a totally residential area housing workers. there is not a single militant here. >> this is the difficulty for the few people trying to scrape out an existence in this beseeched city. according to human rights watch, the government's weapon of choice, the barely bomb, is indiscriminalnant and wildly inaccurate but the bombs have hit and killed hundreds of civilians. the number of dead in aleppo is

growing. the area's second largest city is close to the border with turkey with access to crucial supply routes. it's not just forces eyeing the strategic advantage of holding aleppo. rebels have had to confront a new foe, the islamic state group. rebel are being squeezed between government and islamic state fighters. aleppo's people are trapped and suffering in the middle. al jazeera. >>ler monsoon rains and floods killed more than 120 people in pakistan. the floods are dataerred across eastern pakistan, over 100 others died east in india. indian administered cashmere. some areas are facing the worst flooding in two decades. pakistan's disaster management

authority said it's dispatching tents relief items and helicopters to evacuate people. more rain is forecast in the coming days. more than 2000 people have died in the latest wet african outbreak. the world health organization says they are not sure that number won't be much higher. 4,000 people are infected with ebola. a quartantine where most people will be asked to stay at home for three days starting on september 9th meanwhile china is ramping up inspections at its har borz. it will be carrying out quarantine measures subjecting tlipz to thorough inspections by authorities to make sure ebola does not make it into china. officials warn china will close all high-risk reports if the outbreak gets worse. >> world health officials are trying to figure out how to stop that from happening and hoping vaccines result soon. randall-off nogle reports.

>> a third american infected returns from west africa, his plane at a u.s. air base. rick sackra was working for an aid group when he contracted the virus? >> he has a serious infection. we know they can be associated with mortality. we are going to aggressively support this patient and hope for the best. >> he will be treated in a secure isolation unit in r nebraska. while the other two americans have, the west african strain of the vitters has so far had a 50% fatality rate. hospitals inside the affected countries meanwhile are struggling to find enough staff to help treaty bowl a patients. many local staff have fled in fear and it's been difficult to educate the public on how to keep themselves safe from the virus. the u.n. secretary general has mean while receipted his call for $600 million to help contain the outbreak. >> the goal is to stop ebola transmission in affected cust trees within six to nine months.

and to prevent the international spread of the virus this can be done only if the urgent and necessary mobilization is done in the affected countries and by the international community. >> until switzerland, around 200 experts have been meeting to discuss a roadmap for tackling the virus. the world health organization approved the immediate use of the blood of those who survived the virus to treat new patients with transfusions. >> two promising vaccine can dits were identified. chim panzines and vsb ebola. safety studies are currently on the way in the united states and soon to start in europe and africa. >> resulting in animal trials but the first data on humans won't be available until november. only thin will they be able to

decide whether to start mass production and distribute them inside the affected countries. >> this is a huge scertain yes, sir challenge. we are organizing to meet it and i am convinced we can. >> there is no quick solution. containment and widespread effective treatment is still months away. randolph nogle, al jazeera. >> researchers are looking for helped from an unlikely group. gamers. a solving a virtual puzzle could save lives. >> you are inside a protein molecule attached to the ebola virus spinning in cyberspace. >> we want to design a protein, this colorfulful yellow thing over here. >> it's a game called "fold it." popovich calms it a 3d jigsaw puzzle. >> what is the other piece of the puzzle that would fit nicely in one little spot there? and if it fits in that spot, all

the sudden, the virus wouldn't be able to do stuff that it was doing. so, it would inhibit that virus? >> that's right. >> the idea that the solutions to these pennsylvanunzs generats essential to doling vaccines. players all over the world participate and have already developed anti-aids proteins. the whole point for the 700 gamers who have tackled the ebola puzzles says to have a real world impact. the journey from those own-screen solutions to laboratory testing, in this case, it's about five steps. all made possible by improved software, faster computers and cheap dna. >> so that's a strand of dna? >> it's a lot of strands. >> dna made to order, not found in nature. david baker runs the university of warrant's institute for protein design where the ebola folded effort has already given scientists new leads. >> it's very exciting.

there are brand-new proteins that never existed that the players have made that work. >> the ebola puzzles have been online for months. the receipt outbreak adding urgency to the game. there is no ebola virus anywhere in this lap, just computer simulations of it but there is progress. >> we can design stuff on the computer that has never existed and in the lab be working with it. >> you are doing it with the ebola proteins. >> translating that could take a long time with gamers becoming keyboard bio chem i was as they play. >> alan schofler. >> a strike by italian air traffic controllers has left hundreds stranded in europe. flights were cancelled when air traffic controllers walked off of the job for four hours saturday afternoon. airlines were scrambling to re-schedule those flights. straight ahead, this woman was

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let the journalists live. sgrafrnling. several new york women are taking a stand against cat calling, using the power of their smart phones and cameras to document their agressos. kaelyn forde brings us a story of the women who are hollering back. >> for photographer caroline thompkins, new york city hasn't always felt like home. >> when i first moved to new york from ohio, i found myself feeling incredibly unsafe just walking to school or walking to

work or whatever. i felt like i was part of a previousance that i didn't ask to be in. >> from cat calls and wolfe whistles, harassment is something she has battled nearly every day. >> i mean i have been grabbed. i have been -- i have been surrounded by men at night walking home. until terms of what they are actually saying, i mean where they are going to put their genitals on me, you know, what kind of thing, it is relentless. >> three years ago, she decided enough was of any and began turning her lens on the men who cat called. she wears a small dark room capture what she experiences. >> i am going to take your picture. >> no. >> caroline posts her photos of the men who hair as her online. so far, hundreds . >> i am exerting my power. i am showing them that there can be consequences even if it's just a photograph. >> caroline is hardly alone.

activists say cat calling a global problem. holler back, an organization dedicated to end street harassment works with groups in 79 countries. >> john /* joany rory said it starts with street harassment. >> behavior allows for all other violence to happen if you are saying it's okay for someone to comment on your body as you are walking down the street, what's to say it's not okay for them to then follow you and ask you, can you talk for a second? or what's to say it's not okay for them to follow you home or to even grab your arm if you don't respond the way they wanted you to. >> in response, holler back has created a smart phone appear. so far, more than 7,000 stories have been shared. advocates say holding harassers

accountable is part of the solution. the group trains bystanders on how to safely intervene and the app let's users report law. >> everyone has allowed it to continue. it's everyone's responsibility to end. >> ending harassment that will make streets all over the world a little more comfortable to walk. kaelyn forde, al jazeera, new york. >> according to the hollaback group, manya t. >> the n.f.l. season gets underway together. the players union said the league wants to be able to immediately suspend anyone charged with driving while drufshing or on drugs. under the current policy, the n.f.l. can't discipline players before they are convicted of dwi or dui? >> the proposed roll would allow to team owners, coaches and league employees. substance abuse is one of several issues confronted the n.f.l. the league's popularity

continues to soar along with the cost of atedding the game. the average price of an fl ticket is 84.23 and some fans are willing to pay more. half of the leagues in the team are using variable tickets. the con vo versial name of the team in washington continues to stir defiance and demands for change. take a closer look at the issue coming up tonight at 6:00 p.m. ea eastern, three p.m. pacific. tomorrow serena williams will defend her title. >> there was a time when the top tournaments always seemed to have americans in the final round. not anymore. kristen saloomey looks at bringing back the sdmruns dominance in the sport. >> dani palarito picked up at

tep is racket at age 3. no american has held the title sense. this 14-year-old working hard to change that, practicing six days a week. >> i had to really explain to my friends that tennis is not just a sport about running borpth and hitting a tennis bood ball. there is so much emotion to it. really have to care about what you dop it's /* looning with a sense of strategy. >> american players, they hit the ball great but they don't really know how to play. >> in 1984, six of the world's top 10 players were american. john masonry, jimmie conners & dra agassi and pete sampras were household names. >> turn threw to encourage the next generation of tennis pros, the united states tennis association is working to increase cooperation among training facilities so the best

players can train with and learn from each other. >> what's happened is you have little factions of great players and the great players, that's a big part of the problem in american tennis right now. >> he said they are drawn to less expensive and more traditional team sports like football, basketball and baseball. >> the u.s. maintains dominance in women's tennis. the williamses encourage little girls to pick up the racket. it's the boys who are in need of a role model. kristin saloomey, new york. >> if you build it, they will come no matter what you use to build it. a school district in upstate new york has broken ground on a new softball field. garbage and recycling. it's made using compost gathered from the school's cafeteria over

the last two years. coming up, a new chapter for book loofrz, an inside look at the future of the library in the digital age.

earth will have a close encounter with an asteroid tomorrow. there is no need to be alarmed. nasa says it will not hit earth. it was discovered a few days agoanding will miss the earth aboutboo about 25,000 miles. it will fly over new zealand around 2:18 eastern time sunday. >> as it becomes easier to read bestsellers on a tablet, libraries are trying to attract new users. you might not recognize the library the next time you go drawing wag options, other mythical creatures may not inspire every child to read a book but that's the hope at the

library of birmingham. >> encourage them to go down to the library after they have done this task. >> books, yes, but the library is the award winning design in the once dreary square has brought new life to the city. >> we have never been just about building a library. it is all about building a city. it's about place making, about about people's pride in the city, a sense of community, sense of place. >> it's clearly a hit. nearly 3 million visitors will have passed next month. the pursuits of reading and research are still there ping pong, strategically placed pianos. and music practice rooms bring other visitors. >> i come here often to pick up bikz, comments or like music notes. so, yeah, i really like it.

>> lunch time poetry performances draw enthusiastic crowds. >> multi-media. books are still at the very heart of the building. but the library is all about the new. new use of space actichties to strabismused new visitors. >> the library is always looking for new gaways to engage the community. single's night, yoga classes and a drop-in health clinic, re-inventing a library for the 21st century. jessica baldwin, al jazeera, birmingham, england. >> in california, blue whales are making a comeback after a almost becoming ex tink. there are more than 2,000 blue well. the international ban in the 1960s helped the population rebound, thank goodness. they are the largest animal in

the world. talk to al jazeera, featuring the edge of 18 is next. check out our website, aljazeera.com. >> i got shot five times. >> just because you are pregnant doesn't mean anything. >> take this curse off of me. >> it's the latest project from film maker alex gibny. he won an oscar for taxi