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former haitian dictator jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier. and al jazeera's special report "five days of fear - escape from i.s.i.l.", a growing refugee crisis as hundreds of thousands try to escape a brutal enemy. >> reporter: the fight for democracy does not give you the right to occupy the streets and disturb us. we have a mortgage to pay and need to make a living. we can't sleep at night. defiance in hong kong as act visits ignore police orders to disperse. it is late morning. demonstrators hunker down in the financial center. police are urging them to leave. protesters are accusing police of failing to protect them. the occupation has been claimed

to prevent the local residents from working. hong kong officials warn acts endangering public order will not be tolerated. the people from hong kong have been pushing for greater rights. despite a promise of one county, two systems, the relationship with beijing has grown more strained. on june 10th china's government issued a policy paper saying that they have comprehensive jurisdictions over hong kong and there are restrictions to what they enjoy. 800,000 people took part, and beijing denounced a vote. >> in july, hundreds of thous apz of pro-democracy protesters marched through hong kong. at the end of august beijing rejected pro-democracy reform, insisting it would have to

preselect candidates in elections. right now the chief executive is elected by a pro-beijing committee, demonstrators are urging a popular vote. on september 22nd, students boycotted classes, and it morphed into the massive sit ins that we see in key parts of the sit. >> protests will continue until the chief executive resigns. al jazeera's didier reports from hong kong. >> reporter: put up your umbrella and stand together. it is a song written for the protesters, and sung to the thousands gathered in the admire ate district. >> -- admiralty distribute. >> translation: i came to let the protesters know that many citizens support them. >> see that. we stable.

we make focus our objective of this movement. >> the scenes are reminiscent of when the mass protests started earlier this week. things are calm. you get the sense that people are settling in, despite the government warnings to clear the roads. earlier the leaders of the protest groups told the crowds to keep the movement peaceful and be vigilant of anything that may lead to violence. >> over the last few days focus on the hong kong protest movement shifted from the umbrella to the heated argument. this is mongkok, where the transition began. for the first time there was violence between citizens of hong kong on friday. the police were in the middle. one historian sees similarities between riots in 1967, during which people were killed and what is going on now. both caused by police violence. then, the people of hong kong were on the same side.

>> right now it's not quite so clear. it seems you have interesting class divisions. you have divisions between students and nonstudents, but among the non-students you may have differences too. >> in the wake of the 1967 riots, the government worked to close the gap between the state and society, leading to reforms. many feel that it cannot go on for much longer and will come to on end. unlike those of decades ago, few expect concessions, just an expanding division within the city's population. >> earlier i spoke to sharon, executive director of human rights in china, and paul zimmerman, an elected official who has been active in the protest. >> there's a three part strategy that beijing has clearly launched in response to the demonstrators. this is the strategy that they

are using on the mainland to control the citizens, and that is first hard line rhetoric through the propaganda mouth piece. and this is the same hard line tone that we are hearing. secondly, it's been dragged out. they are trying to drag them out, wear them down so citizens will be discouraged. the third strategy, which i am not saying now because reasonably who can ascribe who the triads are, is the appearance of thug violence which on the mainland is common with the local police or the authorities condoning or standing by or doing nothing. those three part strategy is a strategy. what beijing will do to respond to this is come up with a different strategy, and that would be instead of violence, hard line and waiting them out. they may try to negotiate and

listen to the voices of the people. >> a couple of options. i want to get your take. what will it take. do you see beijing compromising with the protesters. >> we don't know. today we'll see a d-day. it may be a poor choice of words, but the government has that ultimatum. we have to see how they'll respond. because of the days of violence, people have been attracted that are looking for a role, and you can go, and there's people running, chasing people, and it's mayhem, sending out the wrong messages. it's been instigated by folks trying to come in aggressively a few days ago. it is different, it's occupied by people who are high spirited, have a love and peace attitude about things. they have basically decided that they could be carried out by the police station, and they will not portray violence. central admiralty around the

government office is a fluid situation. there are a lot of different people that gathered there, and there are many there. some have been strained by the original organizers in how to do peaceful demonstrations, others had no training, we don't know where they'll take it. today is the d-day. the ultimatum has been set and we'll see what happened. >> the only solution to ending the protest is for china to come up with concessions on political reforms. >> the man treated for ebola was listed in critical condition. thomas eric duncan contracted the disease after travelling in liberia. he is believed to have been in contact with 50 people - all tested by the c.d.c. diane eastabrook has been following the case from dallas. >> thomas eric duncan's condition was downdefrauded from serious -- downgraded from serious to critical.

his symptoms are being treated. there's not a lot they can do. there's an experimental drug, zmapp. it was administered to two americans and contracted ebola whilst working in west africa. at the moment the problem is none of na drug is available -- that drug is available. the company that ran out of it is making more, they have run out. it won't be available for a month. there's no guarantee that zmapp will be effective on thomas eric duncan. >> in terms of experimental treatment, it's up to the treating positions and the patient and patient's family. the available experimental treatment is one that we don't know if it will work. it may cause a problem if administered. it would be available to them if they wished to use it. >> there was good news. 10 people at high risk of contracting it. that ma'am has been reduced to

nine, the nine people include the family members, and health care workers that were in contact with them in the ambulance for the merge dpi room. medical professionals are monitoring those people. they are taking the temperatures as none have begun to show symptoms. two passengers were taken off aye planes in biohazardous suits. the man had been vomiting. they were from belgium, and were believed to have travelled from liberia. they were checked out and were fine. >> 100 possible cases of ebola appeared to be false alarms, in the past few days. a different concern. entero virus is causing illness across the u.s. the state medical examiner linked it to the death of a

4-year-old boy. it came a day after the 4-year-old was ruled to have contracted the virus. there has been nine cases of the virus in new jersey: the strain is virulent. it would attack young children, preschoolers, toddlers who have, for the most part, compromised immune systems. >> we should point out there are at least 500 cases of the violence around the country. most of them children. some developed polo-like paralysis -- polio like parr allies. >> vice president joe biden apologised in the president of turkey for saying they were partly responsible for i.s.i.l., biden contacted president recep tayyip erdogan to apologise. he said turkey didn't properly second fighters going through

turkey into syria. recep tayyip erdogan demanded an apology. meanwhile, four i.s.i.l. positions around kobani were bombed last night. the syrian opposition coalition is warning of gene side there -- genocide there. i.s.i.l. released a video appearing to show the beheading of british aid worker alan henning, and threatened 26-year-old american peter kazzing, a u.s. army ranger supplying aid in syria, after keeping quite for a year, kazzic's parents published a message to their son. >> our son is abdo rahman formerly known as peter, disappearing last year near raqqa, syria. >> please know we are praying for you and your safe return. most of all, know that we love

you. our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so we can hug you again and set you froo to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in greatest need. we implore those holding you to show mercy, and use their power to let you go. his parents referred to the muslim holiday as eid as further reasoning for his captors to show mercy and release their sir. >> news of mass graves close to where 43 students in southern mexico were seen, witnesses came forward reporting that students were taken away in patrol cards during a police shoot-out. there's no confirmation that any of the bodies in the mass graves are those of missing students. we are joined from mexico. what do we know about the

grazes, adam? >> we were outside the graves a short while ago before the sun set in south-west mexico. there was a security perimeter. we spoke to someone from the national commission of rights. and he said he can't confirm they were the students, but the bodies were charred, recently put there, and were filling with flood water. this was just perhaps a couple of miles from where the students were tape a little more than -- taken a little more than a week ago. you have local and state officials un willing to confirm this. at the same time in mexico, the leading television anchor confirmed on twitter and his blog, that these are the students, and that he has confirmation from officials investigating that. but saying that for the viewers, it's important to say that state officials are holding back, some

confirming it, they are sending in the remains for d.n.a. tests and further forensic study. we can't confirm the state officials themselves are saying it. >> are local or national officials saying anything about the disappearance of the student. >> they are doing everything they can to find them or the bodies or the students to prove that they are, and that they'll give support to the families. keep in mind, it's been going on for eight days, and the complaints of the parents seemed to fall on deaf ears. the students come from a poor and violent state, and they come from poor and violent villages. much of this area is controlled by control organizations or corrupt police or both. the parents felt they were screaming into a void and officials were not taking on their case. they didn't get a response from the governor, and the governor blamed the mayor, he said he didn't hear about it because he

was at a local dance and didn't have time or attention to pay to it. that's an example of the community we are dealing with. these are poor student, one woman had to sell her missing son's bicycle to get to the town and speck to officials. it's an illustration of officials struggling against the wave of powerful officials. now because it's in the media. international media and organizations are pushing to do on investigation, only now is it giving it the attention it deserves. >> thank you, adam raney. it's after 6am in bulgaria, and polls are open for voters to choose the fifth government in two years. the eastern states struggled. an influx of syrians dominated the election reason. a center right party is expected

to win most of the results. sunday, brazilians will vote for their next president. the current president dilma rousseff may not get over 50% of the votes to make her the winner, forcing a presection election. coming up next, the life of jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier. on the edge of eighteen only on al jazeera america

haiti's former dictator jean-claude duvalier died of a heart attack. nicknamed baby doc he called himself president for life. he fled in 1986 but returned after the 2011 earthquake. jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier took over after his father's death at the age of 19 in 1971.

he was head of a brutal agency, tonton macoutes, that his father created, named after a myth logical creature that eats children for breakfast. according to human rights watch, jean-claude duvalier and his father francois duvalier ordered the deaths of many thousands of haitians. many executed. tens of thousands of boat people tried to flee haiti for the u.s. shores. jean-claude duvalier's response was to demand kickback from the smugglers. he made attempts at human rights reforms, releasing prisoners to placate jimmy carter. refugees fled the violence. he lived a lavish lifestyle. his wedding believed to cost between $3 million to $5 million.

after an election where he claimed 99% of the vote, protesters erupted. >> he failed to put down the uprising and fled the county in 1986. a u.s. military transport plane to a self-imposed exile in france. >> in the late 1980s, a u.s. firm estimated that he stole $400 million from the government. >> he returned to haiti 25 years later in january 2011 and was arrested the next day on charges of embezzlement and huge yp rights abuses. he said the -- human rights abuses. he said he returned to help after the quake. whilst awaiting trial, he stayed in an expensive hotel in the mountains. he died awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. >> i'm joined by kim i'ms,

editor and found are of haiti's newspaper. this is a man that left behind a lot of pain. >> yes, a lot of pain, and a lot of people are saddened that justice was never found for the crimes. >> when you look like, the people were optimistic that things would be different. >> they were on the cover. he lickeralized somewhat. the essence of the state was in police. in some ways he was a hybrid. he married the sectors. it came together under the government. that was the beginning. >> you know the life of the people well. what was it like under 15 years

of rule? >> it was a terror. people were terrorized. i shot a film clan deftinly. we had alias, we did it under colour, we controlled everything, it was different to get everything done, we spent months getting permission from the palace. it was a complete dictatorship in the pure sense of the word, despite efforts to put gloss on it. >> he didn't like anyone that challenged his rule. >> no, he was conscious of controlling the media. especially in haiti. in 1980 there was a spring that they thought would emerge after president jimmy carter pushed the human rights agenda in latin america and haiti.

two days after the election of ronald reagan, they figured it's back to the good old days, and the media put it back to the hard ways. >> he was polarizing, living a lifestyle. >> he was speeding around in mazza rarties, throwing dimes out the windows to bes ants. it's a caricature of a thoughtless dictator, what he would do. >> he left in 1986 after a popular uprising, do we know why he returned in 2011. >> no, we don't. you hear the theories he was running out of money, the billion that he stole from the treasury, he burnt through that. there was, i think speculation that martelly was coming in, and

michelle martelly was a successor, of the nature of jean-claude duvalier. you mentioned the current president. he sent out a tweet saying "condolences for to the nation for the loss of a loved son, love and conciliation must prevail", what do you think of the quote and how will the people react? >> that's it. jean-claude duvalier came back under martelly's predecessor, and they started prosecution. when martelly came in, basically through u.s. intervention in the sovereign process, he immediately slammed on the brakes on the prosecution, and essentially jean-claude duvalier was off the hook and spent his days going around haiti's finest restaurants. people are resentful.

>> that will do it for me. thank you for joining us. in new york, an al jazeera special report "five days of fear - escape from i.s.i.l.", see you tomorrow night at eight eastern. be safe.

>> announcer: scale from i.s.i.l. - -- escape from i.s.i.l., refugees in the hundreds of thousands, trying to get away from a brutal enemy. fighters recruited to join a cause. can the international effort to stop i.s.i.l. work? as families are torn apart, our special report "five days of fear - escape from i.s.i.l." hi, i'm john seigenthaler, the islamic state of iraq and levant is waging a campaign of fare and violence across two

countries - iraq and syria. nick schifrin has been reporting from the turkish border and has seen how i.s.i.l. recruits fighters, smuggle them across the border into syria, we begin with the human costs - thousands of families forced to leave their homes to escape i.s.i.l. here is nick schifrin. >> reporter: in this war thousands of women are effected. if you are a young child, three years old, your country has been at war all your life. they start here. u.s. air strikes hit nearby, the battle striking an exodus of the syrian war. the recorders of the refugees are children and women. this family bring what they can carry.

for a 4-year-old, a bottle of water and a back pack shaped like a doll. the 7-year-old sister is strong, no tears. the 6-year-old brother has seen too much. mother tries to stay strong, but it is impossible. i.s.i.l. terrifies her. >> translation: i'm not afraid of the shelling because we are already dead. we are completely destroyed. i'm not afraid of death, i'm afraid of them. >> as they leave the border, eva grabs her sister's hands. they have lost three homes in two years, walking to an uncertain future. 50 miles away a doctor walks away fearing her future will never life up to the promises of the past. >> this was the worst day in my life. >> women as young as nine are

forced to wear nikab, public whippings. this was the only female doctor that stayed. why did you stay in the hospital? >> i had to do something. there's so many. they need help. >> when they tried to save a female patient's life, purity trumped necessity. she was dying. >> yes. >> reporter: they wanted to cover her face and she died. >> she died. >> reporter: she cannot practice medicine in turkey, and will not show her face, because she's scared of i.s.i.l. finding and killing her. >> do you think you'll go home one day? >> i hope. i don't think so. >> what do you think about the future? >> i don't feel anything. what can i count on. my husband has gone back to fight. i have no place, no house,

nothing. >> she will live in her brother-in-law's house. it's not much, 20 refugees to two rooms. she criticizes the u.s. for standing on the sidelines, launching ineffective air strikes. >> it's been four years. the houses are destroyed, so are the aims and children's future. they are giving us hope, nothing else. there's nothing done. >> this war created the largest refugee crisis since world war ii. they create a generation growing up too fast. >> al jazeera's senior digital writer returned from iraq and lebanon and has been reporting on the crisis. we are glad to see you back and have you in the studio. tell me, first of all, you went

to erbil in iraq. how many people have fled i.s.i.l., what did they tell you? >> it's in several hundreds of thousands at this point. you have refugees coming in from syria. they told me stories that would chill your blood. for those that are minorities, yazidi, christians, or the shia who are not a minority but not considered real muslims, they are facing extinction. for those that are the right sect. they are facing a future that is uncertain, and one that they have little control over. >> the women and children flee, and the men as well. >> a lot of men fled as well. the people that i visited in the camps are full families. >> what are the conditions? >> bleak, terrible, nothing that any of us would want for ourselves or our own family. the weather is temperate. it's not a terrible situation, but as the winter propose, it will be rough.

>> in some ways we are creating a group of homeless people - i don't mean us, the world - where you an a group of homeless people perpetually homeless. people from syria fled last year, and they have been gone for a while. >> so many people when they recount these stories, these moments where they say to their spouses is this really what our lives are, are we not going back. they tell me the story and replay it and turn to me "is this our lives, is it possible that this is what comes next, day after day. >> you visited lebanon as well. >> yes. >> talk about what is happening with the refugees there. >> well, lebanon is a different situation. it's a place that is saturated. where people are living on top of each other. each individual family makes their way inside a country that can't handle them, doesn't have

the resources for its own people. >> when you say saturated, what do you mean. >> it is a small country. population increased in the past few years, it is a lot for a small place. >> hundreds of thousands of people. >> they were talking about millions. >> again, what are the people telling you? >> you know, they tell me about the houses, the things that they miss, that they have left behind. they ask me more than they tell me. they ask me is the world not going to do anything. is it true that the children are not going to go back to school. is it true the house where i made the curtains and picked everything to look the way i wanted it to look, is that gone. >> what do the people in lebanon say. >> lebanon is a thicker skin. it has gone through the civil war. >> they have a flood of refugees. >> they say we can't take it.

they don't want the problems. people have picked sides, and they don't want to blow back coming into their country. >> do they move from camp to camp. >> i went to the palestinian refugee camp, which if you can imagine, it most syrian refugees, others rent a room. each family had to navigate the situation. >> it's a story that conditions to grow. and sadly without a big solution. good to have you on the programme. >> there's a culture of fear and misinformation inside the ranks of i.s.i.l. some saw the danger and ran for their lives. they told us why they joined and how they left. once again, here is nick schifrin. >> 30 miles from the border, each time he walks into a

mosque. he steps into a sanctuary and closes a door. this is the mosques's night car, and the boss is the man's save jur. if not for this man, he would have been a suicide bomber in the islamic state of iraq and levant. >> i thought they had the highest understanding of religion, based on the koran. >> eight months ago he was one of 30,000 young men in a training camp like this one. the i.s.i.l. video may be propaganda, but it is said to be accurate. >> he learneded how to fire an assault rifle. how to fight as part of a group, how to fight hand to hand. >> when you joined, what did you think they offered you? >> i didn't join them because i thought they'd offer me anything or because i wanted something from them. i joined them because they provided the best religious path. >> abu said i.s.i.l. made him

feel like a holy soldiers, organised like a military, in a company led by amir or prince. like the man in this video. the day he realised he needed to leave i.s.i.l. was the day he killed a man. >> translation: i wouldn't want to kill a chick, let alone a human being. i was forced to kill. what could i do? i regret it. i was brain washed. >> across town, this man joined i.s.i.l. for religious reasons and military mite. he was an officer. i.s.i.l. offered weapons, hired salaries and bonuses for successful missions. >> as an f.s.a. fighter i'd come to a base. friday be no food or money, i.s.i.l. provided these things, and protection. >> he realised that commanders were former lieutenants in

saddam hussein's army, and said they lied saying they were formerly israelis. he found them corrupt and brutal. >> he is scared them, that's why he won't show his face. >> translation: we saw they were criminal. criminals that only showed the lives of men implementing their own goals. >> the sheikh urged them to flee by offering them a job and a different kind of religious inspiration. he used to fight with guns, was a moderate commander. today he fights with ideas. he travels to syrian refugee camps, arguing about a brutal and distorted islam. . >> translation: what is better - to wait on the battlefield to kill a woman or help to create an intellectual, a man that can bring to life a nation with his thinking. >> this is the shake's greatest

agreeation. he reject i.s.i.l., but nose the group is strong. he is applying for asylum in europe. the on way he'll feel safe is as far from syria as possible. >> i.s.i.l. is attracting foreign fighters. according to latest estimates, between 20 and 32,000 fighters joined i.s.i.l. that's an increase from earlier estimates of 10,000. the c.i.a. says recruits are coming from 80 different nations. 2,000 are believed to be from western countries. the crisis on the border goes both ways. refugees flood out of syria, hundreds of fighters get in to join the ranks of i.s.i.l. nick schifrin talked to a smuggler showing how easier it is to cross the border. >> the mountains that separate turkey from syria is not an obstacle but an invitation. >> he is a smuggler sending

fighters across the border. >> translation: people around the world wanted to help. their hearts went out to the syrian people. >> to get to syria, all you have to do is walk to the edge of the city, into this forest. >> reporter: this is a turkish city and this is the only thing separating this city from the syrian distribute. the military controls the area, now there's nobody to stop me hopping over and heading up the hill to syria. >> local residents say turkey kept the border with syria porous. wanting them to fight bashar al-assad, even if they joined i.s.i.s. >> we have people who have brothers from bangladesh, iraq, cambodia, australia, u.k. . >> the fighters fuel i.s.i.l.'s rapid rise. >> it is the cure for the depression. >> reporter: they inspire i.s.i.l.'s unprecedented media

campaign. hundreds of propaganda videos, highly produced, well filmed. many featuring photogenic protagonists, helping to recruit other foreigners. >> i'm from the u.k. >> i'm your brother from south africa. . >> foreign fighters reject their citizenship. more than 15,000 fighters joined i.s.i.l. a few dozen are american. will the u.s. believes many of the men crossed from syria into turkey. the turkish parliament decided to close the border. >> translation: we will fight against the islamic state, and other terrorist organizations within the region. >> the crack down is starting. today omar has given up

smuggling. he runs a road side fall afel stand. the turkish government made his old job too difficult. that's why he will not show his face. >> there are reservations about the policy and all the countries made i.s.i.l. the bogeyman. >> shutting the border is impossible. from now on turkey says the only things officially crossing into syria are its tanks. >> still ahead - i.s.i.l. needs men to fill its tanks. how the group recruits and keeps fighters on the front lineses and how it's tearing families apart. >> kentucky, a state that's hurting economically. >> when the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. >> some say it's time for a change. >> mitch has been in there so long.

>> while others want to stay the course. >> all the way mitch! you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. >> communities trying to cope. what does the future hold? >> the economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime.

>> announcer: an al jazeera special report. "five days of fear, escape from i.s.i.l." all week long we have been featuring our series. nick schifrin spoke to former i.s.i.l. fighters, to syrians that fled the brutality, to the

front line fighters that battle i.s.i.l., and the smugglers that helped foreign fighters join i.s.i.l. nick joins us from istanbul for the story of a father and husband who nose how powerful and persuasive i.s.i.l. has become in the region. pash . >> there's no country closer than here, turks are a tart of recruitment for men to fight the war, men and women populating the self-declared islamic state. >> every time this couple looks through the photos and comes to work and flip through the payments, he feels the family lee has may never return. i remember the beautiful days. i remember when i lived. it's impossible to forget the days, the day the violence

returned. he was a muslim from turkey, she was a christian from kurdistan. she liked to travel, drink and have fun. they were happy and had a son. the boy loved his father, walking towards him on the sidewalk, looked at him from the pool. after their son was born, his wife changed, spending hours online, converting to islam. first she wore a headscarf, and then changed her name. she arrived for a divorce because she wanted to marry a fighter in the islamic state of iraq and levant. >> translation: she isolated herself. her brain was stone, her soul blinded, her eyes closed. >> reporter: because the boy was three, a judge awarded her custody, and they disappeared. he scoured for them online, creating a fake facebook account. posed as a woman, and had a breakthrough. detective work brought him to this neighbourhood and that

building. it was an i.s.i.l. safe house. this is in a poor area, full of disaffection that i.s.i.l. prays on. svet lana and her son were lured here by a recruiter. by the time he arrived it was too late. sv svetlana and his son had left. >> reporter: she fled to the epicentre of i.s.i.l.'s brutality. this is called i.s.i.l.'s headquarters. on the streets women must be covered. dozens of foreign women pilgrimaged here. in an internet cafe, one woman spoke in frenchs. >> i don't want to come back, what you say is bullshit. i'm happy here. they know his son is not happy. >> do you feel the connection with your son, like you know what he's going through?

. i saw him in my dreams, he stretches out his hand. i try to take it, i'm paralyzed. >> i.s.i.l. is presented as family friendly. propaganda videos feature foreign fighters with their kids. >> i think like i'm in a dream world. >> i.s.i.l. recruited thousands of families. ripped thousands of families apart. >> he hasn't opened his door in three months. this was his son is room. his favourite shirt. the hats he wore when they sailed together. the rocking horse that he ate breakfast on. >> you keep the room as it is because you expect him to come back. >> i want the world to help me. i want my child. give me back my child. his place is here.

>> he searches every night on the boat. it's named destiny, after his son. >> he will hunt for not only his own son, but on behalf of thousands of families whose children have been kidnapped or currently living in that islamic state of iraq and syria. >> there has been a lot of political back and forth in the region, i want to talk about the human element. can you describe your week. is relief being given to the refugees flowing out of syria. >> it is really important that as we talk so much about the strategy to defeat i.s.i.l., about their brutality, the success on the ground, this is a humanitarian story, a story about a syrian civil war, the largest refugee crisis since world war ii, where 9 million syrians, a third of the country no longer live in the homes they

lived in three years ago. 60% of hospitals destroyed, 30% of homes damaged or destroyed. when you talk about the scale of this crisis, clooabsolutely not the answer. we spend a lot of time on the border as a lot of syrian kurds were fleeing. we have seen hundreds of people living in wedding hauls, for example. we have seen children lining up outside turkish red crescent stands, where they get soup and a bowl of rice. something they hold in one hand, and it's supposed to feed seven people. turkey spends 3 billion trying to help 1 million refugees in the country. unofficial numbers are higher. it needs a lot more help. that can't arrive soon enough. >> what is the perception of

u.s. air strikes? >> i think this is really interesting. i think across the syrian turkish border, four or five or six towns or villages or cities, among the syrians we talk to, there's thankfulness, a gratitude. there's a split. most of the people i speak to is they say the same thing. if you target i.s.i.l., you need to target the regimes. the free syrian army, the moderate syrian who needs to be on the ground - they have been fighting on two fronts against i.s.i.l. and other groups, and the regime. to a person, all the fighters and commanders that i spoke to say we need to attack the regime. if not, we will not be able to defeat i.s.i.l., and push oille in the front lines.

there's another strand which is interesting that the u.s. strikes went too far. the first night the u.s. said it targeted the leadership. it's a small group made up of osama bin laden, who had designs to attack. no one has heard of the group. when they looked at the strikes, they saw targets of al nusra, the al qaeda group in syria. the fore is by some of these people. by targetting al nusra and i.s.i.l., they'll unite. there's a lot of gratitude on the notion that the u.s. is coming in. there's a lot of criticism. >> there are many people who criticize them. is there a sense of training what the government needs to call the moderate syrian

opposition. >> there's a moderate syrian position, can they take on i.s.i.l. on the ground. >> your skepticism are right on. there is a question of whether to find the right groups. whether they are moderate. let's say these groups, who have been fighting are more modified. there's a lot of american intelligence ates, c.i.a. officials figuring out which are the right people. that training will kick into full gear, thanks to saudi arabia. that deal for $500 million. no, the training has not started yet. we spend a lot of time with fighters and commanders on the syrian border. they say where is the training. you have been talking about this, we haven't heard a thing. this is an example of the u.s.

talking about helping the free syrian army, talking about helping people that are fighting. one leader put to this way saying "you have given us enough to five, but not enough to be aggressive and push the front forward. if the help does not come soon, they'll lose to the regime. >> are you getting any sense of how long u.s. officials you talked with predict they'll fight back i.s.i.l. to defeat i.s.i.l.? >> there's not a single political appointee, meaning someone appointed under the obama administration that expects when he or she losses their job, when the next president comes in, the war will be over. everyone believes this will take years. in a year, you can train 5,000 moderate syrian troops, free

syrian army members. general dempsey, the chairman. joint chiefs of staff says we need 20,000 to defeat i.s.i.l. and push back the regime. this will take years of air strikes and training. that is the single-most important things, whether iraqi troops can push forward inside iraq, and whether the moderate fighters can push against i.s.i.l., and cannot be done at all. we will be talking about the wars in syria and iraq for years to come. >> nick schifrin in istanbul. thank you very much. >> that is our special report for tonight. thank you for joining us, i'm john seigenthaler. >> consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no

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