the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people, and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. >> on "america tonight": a growing threat and tough decisions. the president weighs how far to send u.s. fire power in the fight against islamic state. as he campaigns for support at home and abroad for that fight, and keeps the pressure on other forces. bent on strike beining out agait americans. also, the new political lightning rod and the battlefield is your child's classroom. is the common core, obama care?

>> what is it about common core? >> "america tonight's" michael okwu, with an why-depth look at how the fight over school standards could play out in this fall's ballot box. and we begin looking at overcoming disability. the life of america's differently abled. define ring expectations. >> when i was an advocate for myself that's when i learned if i can do it for myself i can do it for other people. >> sheila macvicar with an exceptional young woman overcoming disability. and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. this is a critical week for the president as he maps out a get

tough strategy to take on terror force hs across the globe. the immediate question, how far mr. obama will go to bring islamic state forces under control? taking control of the key haditha dam, a series of attacks he has directed without seeking congressional approval. the president will meet however with congressional leaders to -- on.tuesday to urge control of lethal aid for rebel fighters in syria. on the ground in iraq meantime, a watershed day as the placement approved a new government. al jazeera's jane arraf joins us. how did the vote go? >> there is an immense amount of pressure on prime minister haider al-abadi to come up with

a government before the deadline of wednesday. now the deadline has been met but that inclusive part is a little bit in doubt. f the kurds came late to the session, it wasn't clear they would come at all. but they were willing to sign on for a three month trial period basically. they are demanding more negotiations on sharing oil revenue and settling boundary disputes. the sunnies are not entirely happy either. there's no interior minister or defense minister in the government. the prime minister has promised within the next week there will be agreement in those two posts. the program he offered that was passed by parliament pledges to fight the islamic state group to settle displaced people, more than a million iraqis have fled their homes and also to do things like provide essential services, provide jobs and raise the standard of living for most

iraqis. it is an ambitious agenda even more so when the country is still at war. there's fighting in the north and the west. but now the government says with a new cabinet in place and a new willingness by sunnis including some of the tribes fighting with them that it can begin to tackle the islamic state fighters. >> that's jane arraf reporting for us. u.s. aircraft leading strikes in somalia against an al qaeda group known as al shabaab. shabaab has said it has already killed americans. crutle on thamericans. christof putzel on the story.

>> targeting a convoy of african peace keepers outside mogadishu. workers for an american private security contractor. the blast came just hours after the group vowed to avel avenge s leader's death. stronghold port of barawa. the 37-year-old trained and fought in afghanistan before assuming leadership of al shabaab in 2007. alabama are native omar hamami killed by loyalist fighters late last year. reaching beyond somalia's borders, targeting regional aneighbors to send troops to fight them and he did it with

substantial support from al qaeda. bounty leading to gadani's death and capture. year ago this month coordinated attack on the westgate shopping mall in the nier kenya, a -- nairobi kenya. somali national army have been steadily winning back large swaths of territory in central and northern somalia. their sites now set on the group's last stronghold, the port city of baraway. >> fighting on us from the rooftops but i'm so sure they all fled towards baraway, you better know it's my next target. >> following gazani's death, al

shabaab named akmed as their new leader. long running u.s. campaign to pick off al shabaab leadership. drone strikes killed other ranking members last october and january. >> we are going to continue to use all tools at our disposal, financial diplomatic and of course military that threaten the u.s. interests as well as the interests of our allies and partner nations. >> christof putzel, al jazeera. >> big question now, what does his death mean to the future of al shabaab, professor, appreciate your being here and talking to us about this. is there going to be a big impact on be al shabaab future? >> i'm not sure of that joie. osama bin laden was killing in afghanistan, are and landscaping

which al shabaab is operating is quite different than afghanistan very quickly they have been able to retaliate against us in the united states, it's going to be a long drawn out war without a political program drawn out for the country. >> history says that when al shabaab's leadership was attacked before it came back. >> it certainly came back and it came back by taking four americans today. so i think what needs to be done is, there somali people are sick and tired of al shabaab. but international support for a democratic political program for the country seems to sustain al shabaab, and we seem to play into their hands by engaging them in the kind of violence that they seem to relish. >> let's talk about their future and the possibility of future recruitment, both in somalia and in the united states. we know that -- we have reported here on "america tonight" on efforts to recruit young forces young players from somalia, are

from your area in minnesota. can you talk to us about whether they will be in any way influenced by what's happened here? >> no, i don't think that will matter. i mean when the previous leader of al shabaab mr. hasan eiro was killed that didn't have any impact. and i don't think the disappearance and the death of godaneh will have any difference. the ability of the state of minnesota and the united states government to be able to come to terms with a large number of alienated young men, increasingly maybe some women who are alienated from this coat and how to -- society and how to bring them back on board i don't think will have substantial impact on their recruitment here. >> is there any sense it will draw more forces in a fight against the united states? >> i don't think that -- i think it's a neutral question in the sense that as long as young men in somalia don't have any

opportunities for livelihoods, because of the absence of a clear political and economic program for the country, despite us vechg heavily in that country -- investing heavily in that country, i think those young men will be enticed as long as there is noing alternative, but i don't think the killing of godaneh will have any impact at this time. >> we appreciate you being with us sir. mr. pleasure to be with you. >> after the break -- a new len in education, comor core, is it a break through in political standards or another political football? >> how is what you were doing now different than what you're doing before? >> old systems, here's your quiz. 20 multiple choice matching, whatever. new system, explain how you did that. justify it with textual evidence. you can't copy it, you cabinet

fake it. >> correspondent michael okwu, in class with students and teachers, challenged by the common core. also ahead, a back to school headache. the rapid spread of a rare virus so severe it sent dozens of kids to intensive care units and health workers warn: it's going to spread further. spread further. the incredible journey continues... on the edge of eighteen only on all jazeera america

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with parents raising serious concerns about the way children are learning. michael okwu went to louisiana to find out why the common core is facing so much controversy. >> how we can reach our answers in various ways, okay? >> reporter: it's the first day of school in mcdoare donough public school, a charter school. one look and you'll see for yourself. instead of memorizing multiplication tables, instead of tackling stacks of addition problems by rote, students are feeling their way through problems. >> so many words are missing, why? >> reporter: english is different too it will. in trace rag land'land's can a ,

students are learning different. >> why can't he come right out and tell the guy, the pilot's dead? you think he's not sure? >> reporter: how is what you're doing different than what you were doing before? >> old systems, here's your quiz. 20 multiple choice, matching, whatever. new system: explain how you did that. justify it with textual evidence. you can't copy it. you can't fake it. >> reporter: this new approach is inspired by common core. a set of national academic standards in math and english going into effect this year. the initiative outlines what every student in america should know by the end of each grade. >> we saw our job as defining what students needed to learn. >> phil darrow, a san francisco

based math educator, was on the three person team that wrote the new math standards. they modeled it over the curriculum of japan. >> our curriculum was a mile high and an inch deep. in japan they might spend a week and a half on a topic and here, we would spend three days. it's not necessarily magic why more of their students learn it. the transition is tough for teachers and school districts. >> reporter: how difficult has it been to make the transition? >> it's been a really, really steep learning curve. you know, teaching for 15 years, i had every lesson plan you could possibly think of. oh, you know, comparative adveshzadverbs i could do that y sleep. as a result, these common core kids will be able to think critically. >> the students learn at a

deeper academic level. >> mickey landry is the executive director of choice foundation which runs this school and two others in nornlz. his staff trained -- new orleans, his staff trained for two years to learn it and he's confident they will benefit. a bipartisan group came to the same conclusion when they developed the standards in 2010. they were building on the bush administration's accountability driven no child left behind policy. the obama administration embra embraced it and encouraged states to do the same if they wanted in on federal "race to the top" funds. in 2012, louisiana governor bobby jindal announced common core with his supporters by his

side. but this summer the governor did a 180, announcing he wanted louisiana to join three other states, oklahoma, south carolina and tennessee in rejecting the states. >> how could he in 2011 come to one of our schools declaring he is going to raise the rigor for curriculum because that's what our children needed to live in the world as adults. then pull the rug out from under us. >> is that what it felt like, pulling the rug out from under you? >> absolutely. it totally baffled me. but when you look at the political world he lives in and the competition he's got for republican presidential nomination or vice presidentsial nomination, they had all pulled away from common core. and i guess that's the

calculation he made. >> landry and a group of educators sound governor india jindal. governor jindal filed suit against the obama administration, claiming it's forcing states to adopt the common core. "america tonight" requested an interview with governor jindal but he declined. it's not just louisiana. across the country republican governors who once signed on to the core are now distancing themselves. pushed in part by conservatives like glen beck, who's casted as the latest big government intrusion. in july he hosted a live event, broadcast at movie threerts accreditation ththeatersacross .

obama core, the new obamacare. >> if you like baumcore, you're like, i'm a vietnam era veteran not a communist. i could just as easily call those people clansmen because they are keeping my children back from succeeding at a much more rigorous are curriculum. >> would you consider yourself the tea party? >> no. >> across lake porsch ponchartrn there are real reasons to oppose it. amy dutch was so worried she decided to home school her two young boys. >> i have an issue with standards being national

standards. i have an issue with everybody needs to be doing exactly the same thing. >> reporter: but what really seems to be bothering parents like amy dutch, the standards change. >> i'm still fixing, jim had two quarters and a nickel and he wants to buy a candy bar that's worth 50 cents. five questions later, asking the same number problem and at the end it said explain how you arrived at your answer? he said i know because i listened. i know that kid was correct. >> there was a problem that was phrased a variety of different ways essentially asking the same thing. >> right, which a valid method but i wasn't seen the, let's also make sure we know all these math facts so that we can answer the problem.

>> reporter: across the country parents have raised similar concerns. comedian louis c.k. appeared. >> bill has three goldfish, he buys who more. how many dogs live in london? [ laughter ] >> but common core's defenders say these methods have worked in japan and singapore. >> two plus two equals four. the kids still have to be fluent with arithmetic facts. but being able to calculate is no longer sufficient. >> thank you for your efforts to help get us out of common core. >> that explanation hasn't satisfied amy dutch and hundreds of other louisiana parents.

who testified at the state capital pleading with lawmakers to repeal the core. at least five legislators have said they would vote to get rid of it but for now it's still the law. at the center of this political storm the students here, still getting used to this new way of learning. the only question, even their teachers can't answer, is how long it will last. michael okwu, new orleans, al jazeera. >> common core, how did this education initiative turn into such a political lightning rod? maybe it's a football. joined by dr. jason johnson. it has been several years since we first started hearing about the common core. came up early in president obama's first administration. yet it has taken a while to get on the plit radar, as it were -- preliminary radar as it were why? >> because we're in the silly season.

everybody is look at 2016. a lot of people who are republicans and trying to run as outsiders, they realize attacking obamacare only gets you so far. but common care is a brand-new boogie man you can attack. that's why it's become a new issue. >> starting to use the term obama core, making the leap between obamacare and common core. how does governor jindal explain his 180° change so suddenly? >> bobby jindal rvetion is not the only one to do this. you have rick scott a republican running in florida who was strongly in favor of complon core. jeb bush was in favor of common core. much of this on the ground isn't necessarily about whether or not

the standards work oor they don't. it is being crafted as a message to get pack at washington, get back at poim and that's why these -- president obama and that's why these guys are changing their positions. >> it is different from obam obamacare, it's not in common core itself, i wonder how parents are seeing this, it is at the political level or grass roots level is there public opposition to it? >> mainly, parents don't like change. if you grew up learning phonics, that's what you expect people to be learning and what your kids are learning. when there's anything that's going to change, how and when their children learn. an issue for mid term elections it wasn't because there was a ground swell. it was because many elected officials needed something to grab onto, they needed something to connect with teachers and

moms at home and common core was a good wait way to pay attention at olow turn out mid term. >> safe conversation after all who's going to say they're opposed to improving american education? so it's sort of paradoxical that all of a sudden this is going to be hot button. >> that's the issue. there are so many different things you can run on this fall if you are running against washington. you can say obamacare is awful, that i.s.i.s. is taking over, you have a gender gap, losing to your opponent 15%, common core may be the way to close that gap. you can't go wrong saying i'm running against washington. people don't realize that it was governors that came up with common core, not washington. it's the stilly season. >> thanks very much dr. johnson. >> thank you. >> education and politics at a

political level, a bipartisan approach has been coming up on that presidents george w. bush and bill clinton have teamed up and launched the presidential leadership program, to give an inside look at how presidential decisions are made. former rivals made the announcement at the museum, there is po manual for being president of the free world and sometimes, by the way, that means leaning across the aisle and asking for a little presidential insight. >> i want to say one thing nice about my friend here. [ laughter ] >> i'll say more than one thing. but this particular one thing i will say. [ laughter ] >> he used to call me twice a year in his second term, just to talk. we talked, depending on how much time he had, because he was busier than me. somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes for several years. it meant a lot to me, we never talked about it, never talked about it in public.

we talked about everything in the right world. he asked my opinion. half the time he disagreed with it. but i felt good about that. i felt like that was a really healthy thing. >> insight behind the curtain, president bush had advice for soon to be grand father bill clinton. he said get ready to be the lowest ranking person in the pecking order of your system. when we return, not just another back to school cold. kids in the united states end up in intensive care unit. with a health problem spreadings rapidly. >> more kids involved than other respiratory virus threas we see. >> a new bid to fast-track a vaccine for ebola. @

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confirm the pregnancy to dispel rumors. the new baby will be fourth in line for the crown. ray rice after a graphic video, punching his then fiancee jeneee palmer. rice was first suspended for only two games of the season but the nfl has suspended rice indefinitely. former new orleans mayor ray nagen has started to serve a ten year sentence for corruption. nagen, who served from 2002 to 2010, was convicted on charges including bribery and filing false tax return. he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes

before hurricane katrina and the city's recovery. a rare virus sending children to the hospital right at the start of the school year, it's the enterovirus d-kay. though d-68. although other enteroviruses are common, it could seem like a common cold but will's mother suddenly realized, this was serious. >> he was nonresponsive, laying on the couch couldn't speak to me, was turning white and had blue lips. >> one of thousands of children throughout the country suspected of having the enterovirus. children's hospitals emergency rooms and clinics report

treating 900 suspected cases in the last month. no deaths have been reported but the number of cases and the rapid spread leave health care workers with serious concerns. >> more children are going into the hospital with these viruses than any other viruses that we commonly see. >> how dangerous is this virus? dr. william shaffner joins us. it does in this case like this is the common cold but the number of cases really seem stunning. >> yes, absolutely. that's case. these enteroviruses, they are a very large family and they usually ar active in -- are active in september, october, august. it's spread so very widely and cause this respiratory infection

characterized by asthma attacks which last sent any number of children into the hospital and even into the intensive care unitunit. >> there is no vaccine for this, what can we do to help this from spreading? >> as you say, there is no vaccine for this. tell children not to share drinks and things like that, wash their hands. that is hard to intervene on as you can imagine. >> especially kids going back to school. let's talk abouting the case, ebola, the vaccine effective in monkeys providing infection for as long as ten months. how significant a development is this? >> well, it's exciting and the vaccine development now actually two manufacturers, different kinds of vaccines are being put on the fast track.

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story of a remarkable young woman, who has been helping to lead a campaign to allow disabled people to earn and save their own money. "america tonight's" sheila macvicar brings us her story of overcoming disability. >> reporter: from an early age, sarah wolf has been defying expectations. sarah was born with down syndrome. >> what do you want people to know about you? >> i'm a good person. i want to help people. i have a good heart. >> that thin thing that you do - >> reporter: sair rah is on several boards. she's a gifted public speaker. >> we treat her the same as anybody else in the family. >> her father said that the family decided from the start not to let her condition define

her. >> you have to advocate, you have to advocate for any child. if you don't get involved in the very beginning it's not going to rg work. my wife made a commitment, she worked hard. very hard. but she got it done. >> reporter: . >> reporter: her mother's pins paid -- persistence paid off. >> they started a buddy walk. >> reporter: what's a buddy walk? >> set up by down syndrome society, to promote awareness of those with down syndrome. >> we thought that thrifty people come and show up for support and we had over 800 people that came. >> reporter: wow! >> i learned i was an advocate for myself. that's when i learned, oh, if i could do it for myself i could do it for other people.

>> good afternoon. i'm sarah, happy to be here. >> that year sarah was recognized for her work and along with barbara walters was honored by the national down syndrome society. >> that was my first public speaking engagement in front of an audience. and i was not nervous. >> a lot of people would find that experience of standing up in front of a ballroom full of people completely intimidating. >> i don't know if people think that would be intimidating because i think that if you just, you know, just go up there and do your thing, and they see you do it? and they just you know -- it's the coolest feeling see people ab'ab's reaction. >> how do people react. >> just amazing.

like wow, i don't believe she could speak like that. >> there was never a sense that sarah was in any way unable to do something. she just did it. hi sarah, how you doing? >> todd o'malley is sarah's godfather and boss. o'malli ordemaly offered her het job. >> i do drink coffee for 13 years, that's where i started. >> she is not writing briefs but she's filing. she goes from day to day and helps a case manager with complex things, putting together settlement packages and everything. >> reporter: today sarah not only works as a law clerk but also in the advocacy office of the arc ever northeastern pennsylvania, an advocacy group helping people with disability.

don is the executive director. >> she's a very talented young lady and has a wonderful skill to be able to present to large groups of people. appears to be effortless. >> reporter: but this woman who has worked so hard to overcome limitations is now blocked by limits imposed on her by federal regulations. sarah captain save more than $2 -- can't save more than $2,000. if she earns more than $700 a month she will lose her disability benefits and her health insurance. so she cannot get a raise or work full time. sarah, like every other developmentally disabled person in the united states is legally obliged to be poor. >> good morning. my name is sarah wolf. i am 31 years old. from pennsylvania and happen to have down syndrome. >> reporter: now sarah is on a mission. >> i'm excited to share my story

today. >> reporter: testifying before a senate committee hearing in washington, d.c. in july, sarah is close to doing what others could not. >> this is the fair and right thing to do. >> reporter: persuading congress to address this long standing disparity for people with disabilities. >> what did you want those senators to know, the message you wanted to tell them? >> i wanted them to know that people with disabilities, and different kinds of disabilities, and those with down syndrome have the right to live on their own. >> the bill noble as the able act, short for achieving a better life experience, would allow people with disabilities and their families to create tax exempt savings accounts up to $100,000. sarah wier is at the forefront of the lobbying effort. >> it sends a message to people in congress that people with

disabilities in 2014 can work. specifically people like sarah wolf could work full time, take her paycheck and deposit it in this account without making herself ineligible for medicaid. >> reporter: the able act would help people like jerry, five years old and works with sarah at the arc of northeastern pennsylvania as a handyman. >> in times he would make in competencexcess of the 2 thown,. this would allow him to put money aside for his future needs, whatever they may be, as he gets older. >> reporter: it would also mean more security for sarah herself. when she left her mother her lifelong support and inspiration to cancer. >> what did she do that helped you get to the place where you are now? >> everything. everything.

she helped me with schoolwork, helped me with everything. basically. it's hard to talk about my mom, but i like talking about her because it encourages me to do better. >> she was really important. >> yes, very. still is. >> if this law is passed what difference will it make to your sister's life? >> i think it will make a huge difference in her life and then also, in my life. i mean one of my fears is, with the passing of my mom, it really, it really brings to light just how realistic the future, you know, could happen tomorrow, in terms of i worry about then the day that my dad's not around. and financially, sarah needs to be able to support herself. and it's really hard to do that

when you're pretty much linked to poverty. >> reporter: sarah has traveled the country to raise awareness about the realities of living with down syndrome. in april she started a change.org petition to pass the able act. it went viral. it has over 250,000 supporters. the able act has 380 supporters in the house and 74 in the senate. in july, the house ways and means committee passed the bill unanimously. it could become law as early as september. how many people do you think will benefit from this? >> millions of people with disabilities will benefit from this. the able act allows them to create this tool where they can actually fund their own dreams, aspirations, and goals, and make sure that they have, and contribute to society in the ways that they wish.

>> i want people to know that i'm just like you. i could do whatever i put my mind and heart to. >> sheila macvicar, al jazeera, moscow, pennsylvania. >> on tuesday on this program we'll continue our series overcoming disability. with the look at americans with disabilities act. it's been almost 25 years since the civil rights law was supposed to level the playing field for people with disabilities. >> i'm stuck. someone help. you come with me. >> okay. >> a lot of great kids out there who happen to have some kind of a disability, deserve to have access to the same playgrounds, the same schools, the same opportunities, that able bodied kids have. >> despite a groundbreaking law there is still a growing call to increase access and strengthen protections. tomorrow, "america tonight's" adam may travels to a place

close to everybody's heart, the playground. where the fight rages. tuesday on the "america tonight." and ahead here on the program. time doesn't standstill. even some of the most remote places on earth. a photographer who has documented change over three decades shows us how our planet has transformed.

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as adge al jazeera's kim vanel reports, from iceland, how much things have changed. >> rapidly changing and the unforgiving landscapes they inhabit. icelandic photographer has spent three decades going back and forth to the coldest places on earth. >> i can't paint, it's horrible. my paintings are my photographs. and i wanted to get something and then i just saw what was happening. and thinking like, this is fading away. it's disappearing. and i have to document that. i have to do it in a way like, how would a painter do it? >> in doing so k exerson, better known as rex, has done, rex knew

things could quickly go wrong. >> he had lost all his bullets from the pact. we were there on the ice with three polar bears. we had to fight the weather and the ice was cracking. >> this exhibition was special to rex. these he says are his favorites. icelanders themselves say that rex has helped shine a light on the nordic country. >> he is once of our best photographers and has been for like three decades. >> reporter: praise that's difficult for rex to take, as he sees his work as both a blessing and a duty, in the face of climate change abroad and at home. >> iceland is kind of something

like, you have a nose on your face but you don't see it. you have to look in the mirror. so i see it more in other countries than here. but it's changing in front of me. >> a daunting prospect for a man deeply connected to this region, as he watches and captures, it's slowly melting away, kim vanel, al jazeera, reykjavik. >> that's it for us on ircht "americ"americatonight." if you would like to comment, join us on aljazeera.com/americatonight. or on our facebook page. we'll have more of "america tonight" coming up tomorrow.

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