>> adjustment military moving beyond airstrikes now dropping military aid to help kurds in syria fight isil. who says arming kurdish fighters is a mistake. >> victory in the middle of a continuing battle. >> 48 people exposed to ebola emerge from quarantine declared clear of the virus. the c.d.c. is putting new guidelines in applies that

protect health care workers on the front line. >> city streets blocked in hong kong. >> hawaii gets soaked but avoids a direct hit from tropical storm ana. another storm poses a threat to europe. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. we have breaking news out of back dad. 17 people are dead after a suicide bombing at a knee i can't mosque. >> no one has claimed responsibility. it is the 30th bombing across the country this month. we'll have a live report in baghdad in a few minutes, but first, the u.s. is stepping up its efforts to protect kobane, syria, against isil fighters. the u.s. military has air dropped weapons and medalliccal supplies to the kurds trying to defend the town. libby casey joins us live from washington. why did washington decide to help arm the syrian kurds now?

>> the u.s. said these drops serve both a humanitarian purpose, because u.s. officials say the kurds under siege in kobane could be slaughtered if isil manages to take control of the area, but also say it serves a military and strategic purpose. they hope this helps the kurdish fighters push back isil. u.s. officials say there was an urgent need to resupply. >> another fierce day of fighting in the syrian town of cocaine as isil fighters launched attacks on kurdish defenders. even though the town is still in danger of falling, neighboring turkey has refused to allow weapons and equipment kurds need to go through its border. late sunday, kurds got what they have asked for as the u.s. dropped 27 bundles of small weapons, ammunition and

supplies. hours before the delivery, turkey said he opposed arming the kurds. he said they are designated as a terrorist organization. >> it would be wrong for the united states, with whom we are friends and allies with nato to say yes to supplying arms to a terrorist organization. we can't say yes to it. >> the lethal equipment and aid comes on the same day u.s. central command announced that american military jets and their arab partners launched 135 airstrikes in total against isil targets in kobane. while the pentagon said the airstrikes have killed hundred of isil fighters and damaged large amounts of quite some time and infrastructure, many say it lacks impact. >> we have dropped a bomb here, missile there, but it has been a

photo photo op. >> they say it needs to make sense big picture, not just targeting syria with bombs. john kerry said this morning that it would be irresponsible and morally difficult not to help the kurds fighting isil forces. >> last week, secretary kerry down played the importance of kobane. why are officials focusing on that city now? >> really, because isil is focused on it. it doesn't fit the u.s. strategic mission. the u.s. talked about going

after oil refineries, trying to take out arms and weapons centers and really the hive of isil, but because isil focused on it and it's close to the turkish border, it has become a central focus. if isil is pouring more resources in there, it becomes more of a target, because the u.s. and occurred irsyrian fighters can take out more isil fighters if they are con 10 traded in that region. >> a sigh of relieve on the ebola front in the u.s., 48 texans have now been declared ebola-free, including the family of thomas eric duncan. they had been watched for 21 days. the c.d.c. will issue new guidelines for american health workers focusing on better protective gear. the pentagon is training an ebola response team to be deployed in case anyone else is

diagnosed with the virus. we are live in dallas. it has been 21 days since duncan's family were quarantined. what are they saying? >> you can well imagine that this family wants to return to at normal a life as possible. that could be a challenge, something that public officials here in dallas expressed concern over, that this family, relatives and friends would be stigmatized and discriminated against and they're trying to combat that. the family themselves have thanked the city of dallas and expressed concern for those two nurses that are still battling ebola in maryland and at emery university in atlanta. that's amber vincent and also nurse nina pham. >> there are dozens of others who continue to be watched. what do we know about them? >> what officials say is that in the coming days, we are going to see more and more people get off that 21 day watch list and be in the clear.

now we have to sort of depends on how you calculate it. we have to keep in mind nurse nina pham did not leave the hospital until thursday of last week. for those health care workers who treated her thursday, they have to count from thursday forward. dallas is not going to be able to confirm that it is ebola-free until about two or three weeks from now. >> the c.d.c. set to issue new health rules for workers. will they differ significantly from what's already in place? >> we expect it to be more specific in terms of protective gear and how to put it on and take it off. the tools are important, but the procedure, the protocols are incredibly important. we also understand that they will address and clarify how to deal with human biological waste from ebola patients. this is what the doctor from the national institutes of health had to say.

>> the guidelines did have some exposure of skin in the sense you had a mask, but there was some skin exposed and hair that was exposed. that's the thing that now in our setting of tertiary area we want to make sure that that's no longer the case, that you have essentially everything covered. >> the big challenge for hospitals is just how much they are going to have to train nurses and doctors. we have to keep in mind of course we've been reporting that thousands of americans get the flu every year and die from it. we've had a few ebola patients here in dallas, how much in terms of resources hospitals must allocate. that's something that they're going to have to decide. each hospital is independent. it's going to be a big challenge in terms of priorities, del. >> a very big challenge indeed. melissa chan live in dallas, thank you very much. >> we want to bring in simon mcgregor wood on assignment in berlin where the world health summiting being held.

ebola is the prime focus. are there substantial recommendations coming out from experts there about tackling the outbreak? >> in a sense, i think the world community, the global community, the health community is now understanding what needs to be done. there's no surprise as to what needs to be done to get this present devastatingout break under control. what we've been hearing today in berlin, a number of different medical experts and public health officials all who have been personally involved in the fight against ebola and trying to get this particular zone of infection in west africa under control. they are saying that the donations, the pledges of money, all the fine talk from the different countries in the united nations now needs to be converted into action on the ground. what we really need to see, they say, are clinician in the infected countries, the health

care systems in those three he countries are unable to respond on their own. we know that. what now needs to happen is foreign countries need people on the ground to create clinics to start treating the people and prevent the spread. >> there were representatives from west african countries there, as well. what were they saying? >> i think the most sympathetic sperring at this symposium was liberia's ambassador to germany, speaking emotionally about how her country is suffering. she said there is only one doctor for every 75,000 people in liberia, 96 health care workers have died of the disease. the prediction are on the current projections of infection that her country, liberia will suffer a shrink in its economy of 12.5%. she needs more of everything, including, sadly, body bags.

>> nigeria has prevented ebola from gaining a threshold, no longer on the list have affected countries. it was able to control cases that had crossed the border. senegal also removed from the list just a few days ago. 4500 people have died from the virus so far, mostly in west africa. >> coming up at 7:35, we'll speak with a doctor about the race to find an ebola vaccine. >> breaking news, a deadly bombing in baghdad, emron co i e there. tell us what happened. >> against mosque in central baghdad, not a place that's been

traditionally attacked. when we see them in neighborhoods, this was actually in the center of baghdad, a suicide bomber entered the prayer hole and exploded his vest. we are expecting that death toll to go up. although nobody's claimed responsibility for this, it is likely to keep the sectarian pot here boiling and a lot of people are very worry that had we might see a return to the levels of violence we saw when this country was ripped apart by sectarian violence and nearly driven to civil war. >> isil forces on three sides of baghdad, what is the iraq government doing to protect its

capitol? >> the iraq government insists that the capitol is safe, releasing video that they have heavy weaponry and troops on the baghdad belt, using airstrikes against isil targets within anbar province, securing the main roads between baghdad and the north. there's a very big p.r. offensive, but isil fighters keep pushing and pushing. they are coming on to the down of ameri, linking anbar province, a huge stronghold of isil fighters with baghdad and the south. if that town falls, it gives isil a straight shot into baghdad and it's likely they will use that. the americans are concerned about all this. they mounted airstrikes in recent days that seem to be helping, but there's a lot of people asking questions about what you do next to really try and defeat the group within the towns it controls.

>> thank you very much. >> more bloodshed in libya, rival militia's fighting for benghazi, more than a hundred people have been killed in the last 10 days. former generals are fighting for control of the western part of the country. three years ago today, muammar gaddafi was killed by rebels who ousted him from power. >> the prime minister of yes, ma'am anyone is trying to establish a government and end weeks of violence, top officials meeting with him trying to stop the fighting between soon any tribes man and shia houthis. >> a top israeli official making an unprecedented appearance this morning, testifying before the u.n. human rights officials. she is the highest ranking civil servant in the style just democratic, facing questions about the conflict in gaza and

the west bank. never with this kind of delegation has been been done, why now? >> israeli since the war ended in gaza has been worried about war crimes allegations and see this is as a rare public venue to defend itself. someone who has never been to this particular committee before will attend. we're hearing from the deputy attorney general and member of the military, who will be talking about how the army chose and executed targets inside gaza. the idea is not only to defend israeli's actions, but also when it comes to allegations of mistreatment of african migrants as well as palestinians in the occupied west bank. >> at this point in time, do we know what if anything she is saying about israeli's records of human rights? >> the argument, dell, that

we're hearing from amy and her colleagues is the same israeli has put forward for months, that hamas hid rockets and mortars in civilian areas, next to hospitals, near schools that were later used at shelters and that israeli executed restraint when it chose those targets. that is the main thing the army official is also talking about, how it pulled back pilots when some of those pilots saw civilians. israeli makes an argument that it can police itself when it comes to claims of civilian casualties, that is an attempt to basically shut off the possibility of war crimes accusations in the future. the script six is not only by the u.n. but by so many here is that israel did not exercise restraint. the u.s. says three quarters of the people in gaza killed were civilians. the israeli military itself during the war for all of us, reporters who were there admitted sometimes that

civilians were killed when a senior target was surrounded by civilians, so the criticism will remain harsh despite today's testimony. >> nick, thank you very much. >> a state of emergency this morning in southern mexico, at least six people killed when heavy rain set off flash flooding that led to mudslides. it was caused by the remnants of tropical storm trudy. at least 4,000 people are in shelters near acapulco. >> tropical weather causing concerns in hawaii. >> let's bring in meteorologist dave warren. >> the big prop is the terrain of some of these islands, lead to go flooding. this was hawaii from hurricane ana, now tropical storm ana. roads were cut off because of this flash flooding that occurred. did not take a direct hit. you can see the center of the storm there passing just to the south of hawaii. a direct hit would have been if that eye wall made landfall, but that did not happen.

you still get these heavy bands of rain over the same area. often when you see these areas parallelling an area of land, you get an area of rain that goes to the same area, leading to the flash flooding. it is now a tropical storm. it could reintensify to a hurricane. that's the forecast, but it will turn to the north and move out into the pacific, away from hawaii. that is the story there, the storm is moving away. it was just a quick track with trudy there, went from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, dumping a lot of rain over mexico. it was just a short track and you often see that with these storms, doesn't take much, but it's a lot of rain over the same area. >> pro democracy demonstrators readying to meet with the government in hong kong. >> hours after the city's chief executive blamed outsiders for influencing the movement.

we are in the middle of the protest with what demonstrators are saying now. >> dozens of war criminals cashing in on u.s. government money even though they were stripped of their citizenship. why the government let this happen. >> heavy duty crane topples over, crushing cars, damaging a home. the operator amazingly makes it out alive. >> $3 billion is our big number of the day. >> why the leaves changing colors could mean a lot of green for some states.

>> today's big number, $3 billion. that's much northeastern states of set to earn this year from tourists out to see the leaves change. >> lingering warm weather means leaves stayed on the trees longer meaning a longer season for tourists. new hampshire expected to win $1.6 billion. >> maine is looking for improvement over last year. it took in $581 million in 2013.

vermont's business got $460 million from leaf peepers in 2011. >> bold allegationses from the leaders of hong kong as pro democracy prepare for another night of demonstrations. it's just after 7:00 p.m. in hong kong. mostly peaceful demonstrators camps out after controversial comments by the executive, saying there were outside forces sparking some of the often violent demonstrations. the protestors deny that. >> there are external forces, yes. >> from which countries? >> different countries in different parts of the world. i shant go into details. >> he claims organizers have lost control of the movement. let's go live in hong kong so sarah clark. what is the reaction on the ground to these allegations by

mr. leone? it certainly was an entering interview last night. the fact that outside forces from our countries are blamed, that is rejected by students saying he is trying to distract from the issues, the political unrest, these demonstrators or students pushing for pro democracy. the united states consulate also rejected those accusations, saying you can't blame the united states or other countries for fanning this. this is a domestic event about the people of hong kong and has nothing to do with foreign forces. >> similar allegations were made into the lead up of the tiananmen square crack down. have they lost control of the movement? >> the government suggested that

the movement is out of control. where we are, there are two demonstrations site. this has been very much a peaceful demonstration for the last 21, 22 days. we have workshops down below. we've got an outside art exhibition down stairs. it's very much a peaceful rally. the only violence was the first night when police used pepper spray and tear gas. this is more of a people movement. we've seen violent clashes over the last few nights and the violent confrontations have been sparked when police moved in to remove barricades. both sides said there were radical activists who might be trying to infiltrate the crowd, but in no way can you say the movement is out of control. >> let's go to the editor in chief of the harbor times newspaper right there in the thick of things. you've been in the thick of things since day one.

what are you hearing about these outside agitators? >> beijing and people allied with them have been pushing the outside forces line for sometime now. if you listen to how he coached husband phrasing, he was very careful not to make it a heavy for example, the c.i.a., he was careful to say outside forces. it could have been read as the kind of normal outside forces, the national democratic institute has been active here anyone's 1997, supposedly strengthening democracy, holding seminars, fairly innocuous stuff. he knows his most sophisticated listeners aren't buying it, but workers here holding semis and conferences going on for decades. >> what about the allegations that the student demonstrators are losing control of the situation. are there actual signs that that is happening? >> we've found that in fact they

haven't really had as much control as everyone thought in the first place. on multiple occasions, they have asked the demonstrators to go home and the demonstrates said no. here in particular, everybody seems to know by now that this group does not answer to the student leaders and they have very little moral suasion with them. >> the parties leadership is showing no signs of backing down soon. >> people here are pretty clear who is pulling the strings and calling the shots. some say the leadership in hong kong is just delivering messages from beijing. we'll find out some more when the students and political leadership of hong kong have their first face-to-face discussions with the students which are going to be broadcast live. >> the students and government scheduled to hold talks tuesday. how likely is that that that -- that this will happen?

>> so far, so good. they've canceled talks on a few occasions. we're waiting to see if everybody is going to show this up time. whoever cancels is going to lose political capital. both sides have lost support canceling in previous rounds. whoever pulls out now is going to lose a lot of support and i don't think can afford to do it. i think chances are really high. >> thank you very much. >> it's a busy weather day. >> talk about a busy weather week now. it will be a few days of this coming storm. hasn't developed yet, but you felt the cold in the northeast today, cold air is in place, cold continental air, warm tropical air, the warm pretty warm to the south and hits the boundary, could lead to storms that developed just off the coast. this is the upper air pattern,

look at this blue air separates, gets cut off and just sits over the same area. this will be tuesday, wednesday and thursday, area of low pressure aloft at the surface. there's an area of low pressure, leading to the nor'easter wind. >> the old nor'easter. >> guidelines for treating ebola patients. >> how are they changing and could a vaccine be near? we discuss it next. >> she disappeared five weeks ago, now the remains of that missing university of virginia student may be found. the reaction to those who looked for her for weeks. >> got to get out of there! >> a dramatic rescue as people run into a home to save a man trapped inside. >> a club foot, buck teeth and the product of incest, the

shocking revelations about king tut, one of the stories caught in our global net.

>> welcome back. you are looking live at the turkey-syria border where fighters are receiving u.s. weapons. ahead this half hour, dozens of suspected nazi's who once lived in america getting millions of dollars from an unlikely source, the u.s. government. >> the stair of a funeral home in chicago, making sure victims of gun violence get a proper funeral whether the families can afford it or not. >> in our next hour, new evidence in the ferguson police shooting of michael brown, could it impact the grand jury considering whether to indict officer darren wilson. >> the u.s. is bringing weapons and supplies to the syrian kurds in kobane, dropping those

supplies overnight. isil fighters have been trying to take the town tort past month. >> top israeli official is making an unprecedented appearance in geneva, testifying before the u.n. human rights officials there, facing questions about the conflicts in gaza and the west bank. >> dozens of people in texas now declared ebola free. this as the c.d.c. issues a revised set of protocols to keep health care workers safe, also training an ebola response team to handle u outbreaks. >> an infectious disease specialist joins us this morning to discuss the latest developments. thank you for being with us. what is the c.d.c. basing these new died lines on. >> we learned what works in africa isn't necessarily going to work in the u.s. in the u.s. we are able to perform life-saving procedures but there are certain risks to health care workers.

for example, if you put a tube down somebody's throat, intubation, you can create aerosols. >> is that why we're talking about no exposed skin in these guidelines and hair, is because of droplets that might be coming out? >> that's exactly right. it's the droplets you produce when you perform a procedure on a patient that can be infectious, you can get it on your skin and then eye and mucous membranes. it's against those droplets we are trying to i am move our protection. >> is this something that wasn't really understood until u.s. health care workers treated an ebola patient? why weren't these protocols in place? >> it's exactly that. we hadn't had to treat somebody in ebola in this country with all the additional resources and also bring with them additional risks. >> i read that the n.i.h. has been working on an ebola vaccine, and that it just needs

to be tested on humans. how are these trials going to work? >> an epidemic is in some ways the worst time to do this kind of study but also the best time. with ebola, in order to know if a vaccine works, somebody needs to be exposed to the vaccine and see if you get it. you don't want to do that for purposes of a study. in an epidemic, people are going to be exposed and you can be opportunistic about it, give some the vaccine, not others. >> that's the ethical question. usually in a trial, you have a control group that gets a pro seen bow. is that ethical in this case when you know some will be exposed? >> it's not the first time we've dealt with this ethical conundrum. you can study those who get it first and not getting it in the initial phase, but you can

essentially take advantage of the fact that you can't possibly vaccinate everyone at once, and so do the comparison early on before everybody gets it. >> there's a possibility this could be manufactured, a million doses by next year. pretty exciting stuff. thank you so much. >> president obama may by pass congress if he's able to secure a nuclear agreement with iran, a senior white house official saying they wouldn't seek congressional approval for years, administration arguing they would have the authority to repeal economic sanctions. some top lawmakers saying they only have that power. >> what's app, vibr and tango outlawed in iran. they said it was used to spread immoral information about leaders. >> a possible new lead this morning in the hunt for the

suspected police killer. a woman reported seeing a man with a rifle, saying his face was covered with mud. erik frein has been on the run for over a month. today d.n.a. test results are due found in a search zone. >> police in virginia believe they may have found the remains of missing student hanna gram. >> the search teams continue to look for even more clues. john henry smith is up in the crow's nest now with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. hanna gram has been missing for five long weeks. while it's not definitive that the search is over, police are saying this is no longer a missing persons investigation. >> this sadly is now a death investigation. >> police say they were fortunate saturday to make the unfortunate discovery of human remains they believe to belong to missing university of

virginia student hanna graham. >> we were getting ready to head back to base and pick up another assignment, and it was just divine intervention, something said to keep going and we decided to, and in doing so, we discovered what we were able to discover. >> they century mains for tests to answer whether or not the search for graham is over. those remains consisted of a skull and bones as well as a pair of dark-color the pants. she was wearing dark-colored pants the night the 18-year-old disappeared. on sunday, investigators continued to search for more evidence at the abandoned property located about a dozen miles from the university of virginia campus in char lotsville. nearby residents couldn't believe what they were seeing. >> it just made it very real. you hear of things on the news that are just like, oh, that's in new york city, or that's in, you know, d.c., or somewhere like that, and to have it this

close acknowledge real, it's very touching, very sad. >> the area where the remains were found is roughly five miles from where the body of virginia tech college student morgan harrington was found after she disappeared in 2009. police say there is a forensic link between that case and 32-year-old jesse matthew, the man arrested in connection can graham's disappearance. he was seen in video surveillance with graham, the last known images of her alive. back on the campus, students reacted to the news. >> it's really sad to hear this recent development. we're heartbroken. >> a lot of people have been waiting for news and i'm hopeful for the family that they are getting closure. >> jesse matthew has yet to offer a plea on charges of abduction with in tent to defile. police say the area they found the remains this weekend is one matthews knows well. he has family in the area. >> thank you very much. >> in los angeles, two people are now in police custody in

connection with the death of a calendar state north ridge student. police discovered a body in palm desert on thursday. he was an electrical engineering student from saudi arabia. >> the family of a chicago shooting victim begging the mayor to take action this morning. 18-year-old alexandra was killed. she had gone to pick up a sibling when gunfire went through a wall and hit her. that enabled was once considered safe and quiet, now gun violence common there. >> most of the shootings in chicago have happened on the cities south and west side, many linked to gangs and drugs. >> that's left families planning if you know release for young children. we met with one man helping those families in their darkest hour. >> funeral home. >> over 100 families, i personally had to deal with with in 2012, whose loved ones were victims of homicide. >> running a successful business

on chicago's south side is a blessing and curse. >> our business has always been a service-oriented business when there's a death in a family. >> he's the president and c.e.o. of lincoln sons funeral momentum for more than 20 years, having started working for his father when he was just 12. it's more than just a family business. he'll never forget the little casket that carried the lifeless body of a six-month-old, killed last year while sittingner father's lap when gunman opened fire. >> it's a tragic thing to bury a junk adult, but a 60-month-old baby, that is a terrible situation, not only for the funeral home -- the family, but the funeral home also. >> in the south side, the business of death is unfortunately thriving. >> nothing left to say. i don't know where they find the

strength to go on. put one foot in front of another. we are a better city than that. we are better people. >> it goes back to that old say that mothers and fathers shouldn't be burying their children. >> of course, they should be, but that is not the case in so many instances here in our community. >> we named the chapel here the martin luther king chapel. it is our largest chapel. >> as a time capsule of african-american history in chicago. >> my father taught me and i'm teaching my children that we should always be there for any family, no matter the circumstances financially. our mission statement for our business is that we should never turn anyone away, that our business is designed to give anyone who has a death in their

family the opportunity to give that -- their loved one a decent funeral. >> he takes solace in the service he provides and despite the violence and death, he has faith. >> this is not all there is, that there is something else that comes after this, that is far more special than life itself. >> aljazeera, chicago. >> there have been at least 330 homicides in chicago so far this year. police insist the crime rate is down from a year ago. >> in nepal, rescuers believe they have found all the stranded hikers in the hi him lay i can'. >> the pope reformer who oversaw

changes in the church in the 1960s was beatified. we'll talk to father luke sweeney about the beatify occasion and votes. >> good morning. after world war ii, many nazi war criminals including s.s. guards secretly came to the united states, many lived and worked undetected for decades. one of them, a 90-year-old, now living out his days in croatia. as a young man, officials say he patrolled the auschwitz death camp in poland. afterwards, he moved to the u.s. and owned a plastics company in

ohio. he was stripped of citizenship in 1989 and agreed to leave the country. according to an investigation, he's been receiving a $1,500 social security check each month for years. in addition to him, there are three other living nazis getting similar checks. dozens of others were also paid benefits but have since died. >> the united states of america, the country that was one of the two principle leaders leading the fight against the nazis is rewarding these perpetrators by paying them money and pension. it's true that they worked, but it's also true that they lied about who they were. >> this loophole needs to be closed. i will work hard to close it and not only now, but in the future. >> the social security loophole is part of a practice which is known as nazi dumping, starting in the early 1980's when the justice democratic suspected war criminals and it wanted them out of the country. they were keeping their

benefits. they agreed at the time if they left the united states, they would go and still get the money and so the benefits of the justice deparent was that they avoided lengthy and often complex deportation hearings. sometimes, there are no words, i think. >> also a lot of them brought over here as part of project paper clip, a secret scientists program. >> a lot of people would find that appalling. >> what makes people angry is these payments have been going on for so long and still going on today. >> thank you very much. >> a rescue at a home on fire in california, as everyone fled, one man was still stuck inside, and you could hear a woman screaming for someone to help him. >> everybody out? >> no, there's a man inside! >> witnesses say this hero comes out of nowhere, saves the elderly man. >> oh, thank god!

>> the fire is currently under investigation. >> take a look at this, a tree removal crane tipping over in largo, florida. the train operator jumped to safety, but the complain flattened a car and damaged a house. >> lets take a look at other stories caught in our global net. one woman held prisoner for more than a decade in cleveland now forgives her factor. michelle night took part in a live radio interview sunday afternoon and said of course she hated aerial castro at first. she realized at this point that he had a disease. aerial castro of course committed suicide in september while in prison. she was held in captivity for 11 years and appears she has forgiven castro. >> bad news this morning, a virtual autopsy revealing the fails of king tut. the london sunday times said he had a life of agony, he had buck

teeth, a club foot and likelihood trouble walking. they say they found that his likely parents were his brother and sister and that he relied on a walking stick for his short life. he suffered a hormonal imbalance that led to his death. >> getting away from the death and destruction theme for just a second, the most powerful woman in london is mrs. george clooney. the london evening standard put out its list of most powerful people and she is the highest ranging woman. she is a human rights lawyer. most recently, she's negotiated the return of antiquities from the u.k. to greece. that's a huge case. >> clooney himself also active in causes overseas in africa, including sudan, so a very good couple. >> the nation's high court putting the voter i.d. law back in texas. >> political expert takes a

closer look at the battle over i.d.'s at the polls and what it's really about. >> this group of free-falling women taking a dramatic plunge, trying to set a sky diving record. >> in today's discovery, the history of sex, why scientists believe they have uncovered the first creatures to ever do it nearly 300 yea 5 million years ago. operations. >> i wanted to be in on the big game and to be paid top-dollar for it. that's it. >> many of these involved targeted informant led stings. >> to them, everyone in the muslim community is a potential informant or a potential terrorist.

>> it is time now for one of today's discoveries. this one is over the other inof sexual inter course. australian researchers say it was a fish that first had sex

385 million years ago. >> it lived in ancient lakes in scotland. the male and female developed genitalia that allowed them to mate. within a thousand years, finish went back to spawning. it's not clear why, but copulation didn't become common again for millions of years. >> i.b.m. is getting out of the computer chip business, announcing it will pay global foundries to take the business off its hands. i.p.m. will focus more on services and developing high-end computing systems. >> starting today, you will be able to use iphones to pay in thousands are storms. apple pay becomes operational. banks and major credit card companies are taking part on that only some stores have devices to read the phones and it can only be done from the i-phone six. more than 200,000 passengers are stranded this morning because of a pilot strike.

nearly 1500 flights have been canceled impacting travel in europe. tomorrow the walk out expands to include overseas fight. >> the supreme court justice reinstating a voter i.d. law in texas, voters have to have some sort of government issued i.d. going to the polls. the law is called disdiscriminatory, three justice agreeing. a weekend ruling, no signature attached, clearly this was a ruling that the court not necessarily too proud of. >> really surprised, 5:00 a.m. saturday morning, obviously early voting starts in texas this morning, 7:00 a.m., the court had to get their decision out. it's a classic supreme court non-decision. they didn't say why they were doing it. they just said the only

indication we really have is that they didn't want to stop it, because it's been in place for two election cycles, so close to monday morning voting. they didn't rule on the merits but did say they can go forward with this stringent voter i.d. law. >> one side or the other argues they have been damaged by a ruling but the vote doesn't take place. now the vote is going to take place so we will see evidence that there may or may not have been damaged. >> they have a very important gubernatorial race going on in texas. the secretary of state is up 14 points, not to mention all the lower ballot races. it's a very important race in november. we're going to see in her really scathing dissent, ruth bader beginsberg joined by two other justice said the court really this amounted to a poll tax, 600,000 people can be disenfranchised. >> denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of

eligible voters. this f. that is true, does it work to one party's advantage? >> absolutely. if those numbers play out, it's going to help republicans. let's not forget with mid term election is all about turnout. if you disenfranchise 600,000 largely african american and minority voters, you are going to lower the turnout from democrats and republicans will benefit. this is a very important ruling. thank goodness for democrats, they don't have a big senator yell race in november. >> is there evidence that voter i.d. laws might be needed? >> the supreme court that said they are absolutely legal. the question is the type of i.d. you have in texas seven forms that can be used, among them your concealed gun permit, but they are not allowing college students, who are traditionally kept out of the polls to use college i.f.'s, people look at

that and say you are allowing gun permit i.d.'s, not college i.d.'s, there is in equity here. the amount of time and money it takes to get the necessary i.d.'s makes it what people are calling a poll tax. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> tennis superstar serena williams is grand slamming a high ranking russian. he referred to her and her sister venus as the williams brothers on a talk show. he insists what he said was a joke but he's been fined and banned from the women's tour for a year. >> peyton manning is now the nfl touchdown king. the 38-year-old denver broncos quarterback broke brett favreed record sunday night, throwing his 509th and 510t 510th touchdown. that's two more than favre did in his career. manning said he is humbled and honored. >> a record-setting sky dive,

117 jumpers from 28 different countries combined for the largest formation in history and they were all women. they also get the distinction of being the largest all female two-point formation as well. it took 18 practice jumps just to get it right. >> let's get a check of your forecast with meteorologist dave warren. >> we're tracking the storm across the atlantic, now just a most tropical system. along with this high area of pressure, it continues to move over the north atlantic and no longer a tropical system but a powerful storm that will impact england and parts of europe. this will be gale forced winds. even though no longer a tropical storm, it is now just a rem manual low. >> a coastual storm will develop tuesday, wednesday and thursday, a long event here we are talking about across the northeast with

high pressure to the north, low pressure to the south, coastal flooding, very heavy rain not only along the coast, but inland. >> a earth got lucky, but it was a close call for a neighbor, the comet whizzed past mars this weekend, the closest recorded pass for a comet ever. orbiters had to get out of the way to oh ooh void a hit. it's a rare front row seat to study the comet and secret it carries about the far reaches of the solar system. >> sculptors in california with the great sanity cattle contest. the winner was a fisherman catching and octopus. >> we'll talk about the legal fallout from ebola. >> why growing fears could lead to lawsuits. >> an international game of underwater cat and mouse. the swedish military thinks

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reject landmark changes. >> a historic nate for peyton manning, the denver quarterback passing brett favre setting a new touchdown record. >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. >> i'm stephanie sy. the u.s. is supporting occurred issue fates battling for kobane, syria, dropping weapons and medical supplies. the secretary of state said saying that syrian border turn to is not a priority a week ago. we'll have more on that in a moment. >> president obama's new point man on ebola begins work today. this is the c.d.c. plans guidelines for health workers to protect them from the virus. the pentagon is training a medical response team to be deplayed in case of another diagnosis in the u.s. >> we begin on the ground in dallas. after weeks of what some would say was paranoia, dozens of people today learning good news, they don't have ebola.

>> yes, absolutely and what officials here tell us is that served expect more and more people getting off that 21 day active monitoring list and being in the all-clear. as long as another ebola patient does not appear in dallas, it will be it would oh are three weeks and dallas will be ebola-free. >> 48 residents who had contact with thomas eric duncan have been told they are no longer at risk for ebola. that includes duncan's fee an eight and her family, who have been in isolation for 21 days. >> it's a victory, but it's a victory in the middle of a continuing battle. >> in a statement, she said even though the quarantine is over, our time of mourning is not. >> she lost her fiancee, the father of her son who is 19 years old. she lost that, her plans and dreams. >> the hospital where two nurses contracted ebola apologized for

mistakes in a full page ad in local papers. this morning, nina pham is in an isolation unit at the national institutes of health in maryland. her church in dallas continues to pray for her. >> i know that she is doing well, and her health is improving. >> nurse amber vincent is in isolation, being treated at emery university hospital in atlanta. vincent has been criticized for traveling to cleveland. her family said the c.d.c. gave permission to fly. they say suggestions that she ignored protocols recommended to her are untrue and hurtful. the c.d.c. plans to change the federal guidelines to better protect health care workers. >> we want to make sure we have people who are pretrained, predrilled over and over and have the right broughticcal. >> sunday, a carnival cruise

shipped docked. a health care worker was off the ship. two countries refused to let the ship dock. >> we were very frustrated. >> at no point was this technician showing symptoms that could have spread the potential virus. >> just to explain more about this 21 day period and why it's going to take two or three weeks before dallas is in the clear, keep in mind the nurse that treated that first ebola patient, thomas duncan, left texas health presbyterian hospital thursday of last week. health care workers who treated her will have started counting from that thursday forward. that's why it's going to be another two or three weeks until we're truly in the clear here. >> why did the c.d.c. decide to change guidelines for health workers dealing with ebola patients at this time? >> one of the lessons learned from texas health presbyterian

and what happened here is that the c.d.c. guidelines were not specific enough. we do expect the guidelines to be more specific on protective gear and emphasizing as we have reported that the protective gear has to cover every single inch of a nurse and doctors body, no skin exposed. that was a huge issue. certainly from the nurses, there were complaints from the nurses' union that, you know, they were wearing gowns with exposed next, so that was an issue. >> melissa chan in dallas, thank you. >> let's go to simon mcgregor wood in berlin, the world health summit is taking place there. >> this is a gathering of the great and good from institutions all over the world and of course ebola dominating the gathering today.

the different themes have all been shared by speakers, speaking of the unprecedented nature of this outbreak. they all speak of how the international community has been far too slow in building its response. they talk very eloquently of the need to make sure this doesn't happen again, by building up the infrastructure, health systems and health infrastructure of countries affected. they spoke of how these countries never had a chance, given the health care systems and how they are rebuilding their systems from years of civil war. they spoke of a need for greater coordination. the title of the symposium is the need for global wake up call at the end of it, the representatives who are treating 60% of the cases on the ground in the three worst affected countries said the timing -- sorry the time for talk is now well and truly over. the international community is moving into gear, but still more

needs to be done. >> simon telling us last hour that a representative from liberia at the summit says their country now left with just one doctor for every 75,000 people. >> experts say that's not nearly enough. >> switching gears here, the u.s. is taking new step to say help kurdish fighters try to stop isil in kobane, syria. the u.s. is now air dropping weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to the kurds. for the past month. the u.s. has targeted isil in kobane with airstrikes. meantime in baghdad, a suicide bomber struck a shia mosque. seven people are dead, at least 25 more injured, and there was a triple car bombing where 16 people were killed. no one claimed responsibility for either attack. let's go to imran khan in the iraq key capital. are these attacks in baghdad becoming more frequent?

>> this is the fifth such attack in 24 hours. we are in the holy month, the first month of the islamic calendar, a time of heightened sectarian sensitivity here in iraq. last year, we saw a number of attacks. we he likely will see a number more of these attacks because of the isil situation. this is one of the centers of shia learning and history here issue iraq, it's not surprising that that was attacked, the shia mosque. another attack today is all part and parcel of the same thing. the sectarianism is linked to the rise of isil and isil allowing sectarian attacks to increase. it is part and parcel of the same thing. we expect much more attacks. baghdad has been blighted, almost 60 car bombings over two months opinion across iraq, we've seen nearly 30 suicide

bombers alone in the last 45 days. it has already been very bloody. we're not expecting that to let up anytime soon. >> meanwhile, isil forces, as you've been reporting, are on three sides of baghdad. what is the iraq government doing to protect the capitol? >> the iraq government, all-out offensive to convince people that the capitol is safe. they've released video of heavy armor and troops on the baghdad belt, the border. they say there are airstrikes continuing, that they are winning the battle against isil. it has to be said that isil hasn't pushed toward baghdad yet. they are surrounded on three sides of the city and pushing towards a very key town, the town in anbar province. if that town calls, it effectively gives them a straight run into baghdad.

they can push through to another town, as well. it's very worrying, but they say the iraq capitol is safe. >> thank you. >> let's go to libby casey now in washington, d.c. the u.s. sending in those supplies to the kurds in kobane to face isil, up until now focused on airstrikes, so why the shift? >> secretary of state john kerry is calling this a crisis moment. he said it would be irresponsible and morally difficult not to help the syrian-kurdish fighters try to keep kobane. that city is in danger of falling, and could still fall. the head of central command, that's the army general whose essentially in charge of all u.s. middle east forces, said friday that it is highly likely kobane will fall. what he has done in the past two weeks is launch 135 airstrikes to try to help the fight there,

and changed the game plan this weekend by sending in eight in the form of weapons and the forms of equipment, supplies, 27 bundles dropped by c130 cargo planes, no resistance frog the ground, it was a clean drop. officials say this has a humanitarian purpose. they say if the city is overtaken by isil, kurdish forces will be slaughtered. there's clearly also a strategic goal as well to try to do what they can to help the kurdish fighters keep that city. an administration official says there could be more drops in the coming days. >> we are also hearing now that turkey is helping the iraq kurds cross the bored tore fight in kobane. what can you tell us about that? >> this is certainly a big switch, 30 years of fight between turkey and the p.k.k., the kurdish forces. the turkish foreign minister has said the country is assisting the peshmerga, those kurdish

fighters across the border. turkey refused to allow weapons and supplies go across. that's why the u.s. had to go to the measure of doing the drop over syrian air space. there is the question of whether or not more supplies would be allowed, not just the fighters. u.s. officials say conversations are ongoing with turkish leaders now. >> thank you very much. >> a top israeli official being questioned this morning about her country's actions in gaza and the west bank. she made an unprecedented appearance before human rights officials in geneva. she's the highest-ranking civil servant in the israel justice democratic. nick schiffron is live in jerusalem. what does it say that israel sent this representative to geneva? >> it says that israel is very worried about war crimes allegations, ever since the gas war ended this summer and then it see this is as a rare public

arena to try and defend itself. that's why we're getting this unprecedented representation by israel, in front of this committee, not only the top senior civil servant inside the justice ministry, also the deputy attorney general and member of the army. the idea is to defend israeli. >> the u.n. human rights council is looking into other things. israel questioned the legitimacy of these human rights officials in the past. is this a change in that perspective? >> this is a particular committee that israel believes is neutral or at least relatively neutral and listening to the committee, there was a lot of criticism by members of the committee, not only about actions in gaza, which israel

defenders, of course, but about those african migrants inside israel, as well as home seizures for example in east jerusalem and occupied east em, wimp the palestinian claim as the capitol of their future state. what israel sees this committee as different from for example the larger human rights council in geneva is that this committee gives it a fair shot and that's why this is so important for israel, that it goes to this committee and make a public defense of its policies in gaza as well as in israel and the occupied west bank and a wear one to defend itself are cut off from war crimes. >> controversial new allegations from hong kong's chief economic, saying there were outside forces sparking demonstrations. this comes a day before he meets with protestors there.

we have more from hong kong. >> in a televised interview, hong kong's executive has stated he believes these demonstration, out of control and blamed other countries for getting involved and fanning this demonstration. today, students rejected that accusation, suggesting that he is trying to avert or distract from the political situation at hand and should be addressing this as a domestic event instead. the u.s. consulate has also rejected those allegations saying it is a distraction from the issue and what is happening now is about the people in hong kong. tomorrow night is a key day, tuesday in hong kong between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. local time will be televised negotiations between the hong kong government and the student leaders who are overseeing this pro democracy movement. this will be televised, so people from both sides will be able to watch this.

the mediator has been appointed by eight universities to oversee the negotiations. he said he would act impartially despite his links to the executive, he was the advisor to him in the 2012 election. he said he'll work hard to facilitate tomorrow's discussion and try to make sure it's peaceful and they discuss all issues at hand. >> it is estimated those protests ever cost hong kong retailers 200 ate million dollars in loft business already. >> people in hawaii breathing a sigh of relief after tropical storm ana missed hitting the islands. >> it was a hurricane as it was passing by to the south, but not a direct hit. that would have been a have beee wall went over land. the heavy bands going over the same areas, leading to flash flooding across much of the area. it is flow moving away. it was a hurricane, now a

tropical storm, still seeing this area of convection around the center. you see how it blows up. not a hurricane, just a tropical storm. that may change as it tracks over the pacific. long gone, staying well out over the ocean. >> trouble here in the mexico, this was from the raiments of tropical storm trudy, just a short-lived storm. went from a tropical storm to tropical depression, tracked this as a cyclone for 36 hours. >> started out slow, but became very active toward the end. >> the pacific's been active, but the atlantic is heating up, as well. >> the violence in libya intensifying as rival militias battle for power, the political deadlock help to go fuel the violence and instability. >> a different type of swedish fish, a military mystery, the

underwater vehicle raising alarms and reviving memories of the cold war. >> flooding in pain takes a deadly turn. that video and others captured by our citizen journalists.

>> time now for the videos captured by our citizen journalists. celebrating the inauguration of the new president, supporters leading a national parade to a monument after he was sworn in during a ceremony at parliament. secretary of state john kerry was among those who attended in iindonesia. >> in england, it took firefighters two hours to get control of a fire. it's unclear what parked it. >> heavy rains in spain lead to widespread flooding, at least five killed. that has been so bad in some parts that entire roads have been washed out. >> in libya, rifles battle for control of ben gas. >> more than 100 have been killed over the past 10 days. former generals, many from muammar gaddafi's army are fighting for control of the western parts of the country.

we have more. >> this mosque is one of the few remaining buildings still functioning in libya. battered homes and streets tell what happened here. many residents of the town have left after the heaviest fighting since the fall of the regime in 2011. some had nowhere else to go. >> the house was hit by a rocket that detonated in the front causing serious damage. it terrorized my family and damaged two cars, mine and a friends. this is unprecedented. >> dozens have been killed here in the last 10 days. groups and forces loyal to the renegade general are trying to take control of the western mountains. the opposition fighters are backed by the dawn of libya and alliance of conservative militias. these men wait for reinforcements and until they

arrive, making improvised rocket launchers from old rockets. they have been able to stop the advance of better equipped tribes man and troops with their limited cache of weapons. >> it hits residential areas. we are all with dawn of libya. >> as the fighting goes within object we -- as the fighting goes on, the down of libya fighters appears to have the upper hand at the moment, but are not recognized by world powers. the elect the house of representatives influence is limited to the eastern city but has international recognition and regional backing. >> besides the western mountain, there's been more fighting in

ben gas, more tribesman believed to have advanced forces. libya's dawn negotiations say remnants of the former regime must be defeated. the fighters are confident they'll win the battle but the war they're fighting appears to have no end in sight. aljazeera. >> today marks three years since muammar gaddafi was killed by rebels who ousted him from power. >> in yemen, new reports of violence between sunni tribesman and shia houthis as a government is being established there. there is a temporary ceasefire that started on saturday and fell apart on sunday. >> the rescue of trekkers off the himalayas, where 38 were killed in blizzards and avalanches.

more than 200 were rescued. >> swedes royal navy is scouring its coast for a foreign vessel. >> they suspect a russian submarine entered their territory. we report on the escalating tensions. >> it's an underwater search reviving memories of the cold war. more than 200 swedish military personnel are trying to locate what's thought to be a disabled russian submarine in the bat particular sea region of stockholm. >> it could be a submarine or small submarine, a diver using a moped like vehicle and could be divers that don't have any business in our territory. that's where you have the span of what could be foreign underwater activity. >> a russian military spokesperson denied righties, claiming that none of thor submarines have run into mechanical problems and that current missions are going as planned. this type of alert is not new for sweden. in the 1980's, a number of

soviet vessels entered territorial waters. one incident led to an 11 day diplomatic standoff. the search comes at a time of increased tension between russia and the nordic states over what's happening in the ukraine. last month, two russian fighter planes were reported to have violated swedish air space. >> officials have had at least three credible sitings of the sub. >> a state of emergency this morning in southern mexico. six were killed when heavy rains set off flash flooding that led to mudslides caused by the remnants of tropical storm trudy. >> the remnants of hurricane gonzalo will be causing problems across the atlantic. we have more. >> that will be moving across the north atlantic causing problems in england and europe. we have problems off the east coast here. this is not the remnants of

gonzalo, but a coastal storm which will develop as high pressure builds to the north. you get that northeast wind, we'll have coastal flooding, wind damage likely. this will happen for days here, both tuesday, wednesday and thursday. it's a persistent wind called a nor'easter, it will lead to in land flooding with rainfall of three to five inches. we are talking about the other storm gonzalo. this is the remnants. going around that high area of pressure, it's still a powerful storm. here it is, this area of low pressure moving quickly across the north atlantic will create gail forced winds and most likely flooding and damage from gusting wind across england, the united kingdom and europe as it rapidly movers across this area. no longer a tropical storm, but still a tropical storm. >> business in bermuda said to be back to normal. >> it moved out quickly. >> catholic bishops reject a

landmark shift in the vatican stance on gays and divers. we have whether discussion about whether change is still possible in the church. >> the legal fallout from ebola. agreeing fears could lead to lawsuits. >> one man's acts causing quite a scene after getting stuck in his chimney. the rescue operation to get her out and the charges she's now facing.

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that case is putting on dill low mattic ties. >> an historic night for peyton manning, breaking a touchdown record. we will have all the highlights. >> a look at our headlines we are following this morning, dozens of people have been declared ebola-free in texas. their 21 damon forking people has ended. the c.d.c. will issue a revised protocol to keep health workers safe. >> the u.s. military dropping supplies and weapons to kurdish fighters. >> in geneva switzerland, a top dial official is facing tough questions about israel's actions in gaza. >> at the vatican this weekend, the church honor add reformer while blocking some

controversial change. >> on sunday, st. peters square was filled with cheering catholics. for once, the pope they came for was not francis, nor was it the other pope, the america's benedict xvi, who made a rare appearance. they came to celebrate the beatification of foul vi, credited with modernizing the catholic church in the 1960's, but criticized for reaffirming the ban on birth control. fifty years later, change in the catholic church is still hard to come by. sunday's mass also concluded the so-called 1 16-synod.

>> a catholic italian gay couple has just had their marriage officialized by the mayor of rome. they were surprised and delighted. >> this change in language is almost revolutionary. pope francis was the first to refer to us directly, acknowledging our existence. we hope words are followed by actions. >> when it comes to language in the catholic church, the devil is in the detail. >> the report published on monday recommended that the church should welcome homosexuals. by thursday, that changed to a much softer approach, stating gay people should be provided for within the church. on saturday came the final wording, stating that homosexuals should be treated with respect.

>> the change in language shows there's a split between those who agree with pope francis that the church should welcome everyone including homosexual and those who strick to tradition. the pope has one year to reassure the conservatives. >> the synod's report laid the groundwork for another larger summit of bishops next year. only then it will become clear whether pope francis has performed the miracle of finally resolving how the church should deal with homosexuality. >> father luke, does the church welcome gays and divorced people

or what? >> the church is meant to welcome all. what is happening now is a first draft, we're at act one of a play. it's not even the intermission yet. still a lot more discussion needs to take place. >> if the church welcomes all, why the controversy? >> the church makes a distinction between welcoming the person made in the image and likeness of god and sometimes disagreeing with a person's activity or lifestyles there, because the church is meant to bring people into the path of discipleship with jesus christ and sometimes that is not easy. >> who wins in a battle between the bishops and the pope? >> obviously when it comes to things, the bishops with the pope in unity. they gave him a four minute standing ovation at the end of the synod. what's going on is that the pope has asked them to be frank, truly discuss things. this is probably the first time they've gotten into a really

frank and back and forth since the 1960's, since vatican ii. pope francis indicated and affected this incredible change of tone and of openness, transparency and when it comes to dialogue. he even said he would have been surprised if everybody was in agreement or if people remained silent and didn't speak their mind at an event like this. >> how much of this is will religion, how much did dollars and sense. >> first, it's about the salvation of souls. the pope is the pastor of souls, meant to bring people to an encounter with christ, to heal their wounds and bring them into salvation and heaven. he reminded the bishops that is their job, as well, to go out and bring people to that encounter. the church is concerned when we see catholics fall away or leave the church or fall into misunderstandings, and this process is a process about

reaching out to those who have never heard of christ in the church, or those that might feel disaffected. >> pope francis warning the bishops about the hostile rigidity in the church. >> the holy father summing up said that we have really gone through what a synod means, a walking together, a certain solidarity with each other. there were joyful times. there were times when the church wanted to tackle great issues during this synod. he also said frankly that there are tensions within the synod, as well. he not only pointed to the fact of trying to hide behind language which might be already decided and not reach out to the person, but also says we have to be wary about being too progressive and binding people's wounds before we apply the medicine to the root of the cause. >> how difficult is it for a

church to speak from one page when there are so many opinions worldwide on the issues of gays and divers? >> there is truly a universal spiritual family and the church needs to be very careful that its language is understood, its gospel proclamation is understood, whether in ghana, the philippines, sydney or in the bronx. when the church raising issues, we might have more burning issues in the western culture, but there are other issues still burning in other parts of the church and the holy father as a good shepherd has to be cognizant of that. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> the u.s. is now bringing weapons and supplies to syrian kurds in kobane. the military air dropped the supplies overnight. isil fighters have tried to take control of that border city for a month. we are joined by journalist

rasha. we are not using her last name for security reasons. she joins us via skype from lebanon. thank you for your time. u.s. airstrikes now number 130 in kobane. there's been this air drop of weapons and supplies. how does giving arms to the opposition affect their fight against isil? >> well, any little bit helps, but unfortunately, you know, this is no ordinary enemy that the syrian kurds are fighting in kobane. the isil fighters are vicious, not only are they not afraid to die, many of them want to be martyred to have no shortage of suicide bombers, which is a very effective weapon they've been using when they gain territory. these are the same fighters that manage to overtake an entire air base from the syrian government, along with elite soldiers who were there, and this despite

airstrikes. this is not easy. the kurds say it's great we are given more weapons, more ammunition, but they still feel like they're doing this alone. >> do you have a sense from your sources in syria whether the opposition is more focused on the fight against isil, which the u.s. wants or the fight against bashar al assad? >> they're definitely focused on the fight against isil, but, you know, as far as most elements within the opposition go, there is no real fight without a fight against assad. isil creates immediate danger in many parts and have active front lines, but they are very worried with this on going fight with isil, that the damascus government is taking advantage and slowly advancing to take back territory. the assad government remains a high priority. >> i know you have a lot of contacts in syria. how would you gauge support for the assad regime at this point?

>> well, it's interesting, because even among the loyalist community that have stuck with president assad all along, there's rising resentment. they keep having to bury their sons who were fighting to protect this government, yet feel, you know, the surviving loved ones feel for saken by the government. recently there was a glitzy new shopping mall that opened up in a loyalist area, where most people have lost someone in the war to fight for the government. they're wondering why is the government opening the shopping mall now, you know, that we can't even afford to shop and none of us have jobs and most of our sons are debted? what's happening. >> that is quite a contrast you just described. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> investigators in new hampshire trying to figure out what led to this mayhem at a

pumpkin festival. police broke up the crowds with riot gear. a lot of the rioters were students. dozens were injured, several arrested. >> a suspected serial killer is in custody in indiana. a 43-year-old man from gary confessioned to the murders of four women. their bodies were found over the weekend. the man has not yet been charged. he admitted to killing others in the area around 1994 and 1995. >> another murder investigation putting a strain on ties between washington and the philippines. >> the victim is a transgender, the suspect a united states marine. >> john joins us now. this is sparking outrage in manila. >> the story's been going on for a week now and protestors demanding justice for jennifer.

the suspect will remain in american custody unless he is found guilty. >> a u.s. marine is held, accused of murdered. >> it was said that he would keep the u.s. ships here until there is clarity to the situation. >> a situation involving private joseph, facing charges in the death of the transgender philippine, jennifer. she was murdered in a nearby hotel after the two met. >> i cannot comprehend where he got that much anger and hate that he killed her like an animal. >> u.s. embassy officials are cooperating with authorities. for now, there are no plans to hand over the serviceman. he may appear in court tuesday, but whether he shows in court or not is up to his lawyers. the philippine department of

foreign affairs have questioned four our marines in connection with the sleigh. it is affecting diplomatic ties between the u.s. and the philippines. >> this will knocked affect our relationship with the united states. >> anger over the death has been boiling over on to the streets, tension that could affect the way ordinary filipinos view the presence of american troops stationed in their country. >> even once they are over, the prosecutor can decide whether or not to bring charges or to drop the case. if he's convicted of murder, he faces life in prison. >> still questions remaining in at a case. thank you very much. >> a major airline strike leaving more than 200,000 passengers stranded this morning, right now affecting european flights. tomorrow, the pilots' union will expand their strike out to cover

flights overseas. >> adidas is looking to buy reebok. plan to go bid $2.2 billion. >> if you own an iphone six, you can use it to make payments. 500 banks and major credit card companies are taking part as are walgreens, mcdonald's and whole foods. >> he admits they made mistakes. the c.e.o. of the texas hospital where two nurses became infected with ebola speaks out in an open letter. >> this is a live look at the news conference in dallas. we will discuss whether that opens the door to court action against the hospital. >> a comet has a close call with mars. nasa views it all. >> tough talk for british prime minister david cameron in his government efforts to curb

immigration there. it would be an historic mistake if on these issues, britain were to continue to alienate its natural allies. >> who said it? the answer next. with al qaeda. >> since 9/11 the us has spent has spent billions of dollars on domestic counter-terrorism operations. >> i wanted to be in on the big game and to be paid top-dollar for it. that's it. >> many of these involved targeted informant led stings. >> to them, everyone in the muslim community is a potential informant or a potential terrorist.

>> who said this: "it would be a historic mistake if on these issues britain was to continue to alienate its biggest allies." >> manuel warning david cameron that he is making an historic mistake trying to curb immigration. >> a woman and her 17-year-old daughter face assault charges in st. louis, arrested when a protest outside the rams game turned into a scuffle. the crowd demonstrated over the police shooting of michael brown. some confronted the group about flying the american flag upside

down. there was spitting and punching. >> "the new york times" says officer darren wilson told investigators brown shoved him back into his police cruiser and tried to grab his gun. wilson later shot and killed brown, who was unarmed. brown's blood was found inside the cruiser, on wilson's uniform and on his gun. let's talk about this with jami floyd. good morning. this is testimony that the grand jury already has, but they also have witness accounts that tell a very different story. what's more important? >> well, excellent question and extraordinary, right, because this is all supposed to be secret grand jury. >> but it's leaked out. >> that's troubling, because the system only works if the grand jury can work in secret. they are supposed to come to a decision by january but are told they will come to a decision as early at next month before to indict. the question you ask is very important. they do have witness evidence, they have forensic evidence.

i think in a case like this, the forensic evidence will be more significant, because the witness evidence is terribly in conflict, and nobody had a really good vantage point except for two people, officer wilson and mike brown and mike brown isn't here to speak. i think this grand jury is going to rely heavily on the forensics which now we have access to. >> based on what we know are you willing to venture a guess whether they will indict. >> i hate to do it, because we're fanning the flames. >> fair enough -- you will? >> yes, because gran grand jurie loathe to endied police officers. when in the line of duty, they are rarely indicted and this evidence that's come out underscores what would have been my prediction for two reasons, one, it supports darren wilsons theory or defense that has been out there that every version of the fact he's given and he's

talk to authorities before, this is the fourth time he has talked to the authorities all along. second of all, the law in missouri really works in favor of police officers when they are working in the line of duty. if he had been off duty, it might have been a completely different thing. if you look at the law of missouri, he's not likely ton indicted. >> i want to shift gears to other legal issues rewarding the ebola response in texas. i understand that the second nurse, amber vincent has now retained a pretty high profile lawyer. who could she have a legal case against? >> we know the hospital or c.e.o. of the company who owns the hospital issued an pal gee as to at least some of what's gone on there, an extraordinary event that they would say anything publicly acknowledging mistakes that were made. she has a hospital, anyone who worked in the hospital that could be in family any offed by the hospital and the there is the question whether the c.d.c.,

obama administration, federal government, all who had a role abany of those are liable. these people are working in emergency conditions and presumably in good faith. the law says that if you're working in good faith and in the line of duty, you really can't be sued. you have to have some malfeasance. >> what about the c.d.c., are they in the clear? the the accident hospital suggested the protocols were not all that clear. >> there has actually been a lawsuit filed against the c.d.c. by a group called freedom watch. the real question is what standing do they have. they weren't infected, don't have the disease. the claim that people passed through the airport. the president of the organization said he was at the new york airport and 150 people from liberia passed through the airport, so he was at risk for the infection. there is some degree of governmental immunity if you're working in good faith as a c.d.c. official. unless you're doing something with malfeasance in your heart,

you're not likely to be liable. >> it sounds like an uphill battle for plaintiffs. all right, thank you so much. >> tough news cycle but happy to be here. >> missed it by that much, a close call for a comet that narrowly missed hitting mars, all caught on camera. >> there is a very small -- approaching plan net mars. >> the feed is from an italian observatory tracking the comet. it has come from the far reaches of the solar system, traveling for more than a million years towards the sun. along the way, it slowly warmed and develop add tail full of gas and dust, moving at a speed of 34 miles a second, it swung by mars, missing the planet by just 82,000 miles. close enough to shower it with gas and dust from its tail, the this interaction was recorded by five spacecraft.

throw orbiters, including one from india and two nasa recoveries on the surface observing the com melt. >> space missions orbiting around mars are very sophisticated with high resolution cameras and spect tom tress and things that study mars in unprecedented way. it is an enormous advantage to have a comet come so close. >> it is all part of an effort to understand the role external forces play in shaping the atmosphere. billions of years ago it was very different from the thin colt of carbon dioxide that surrounds the planet. >> mars has a very dense atmosphere and it had liquid water on the surface. all that is gone. most of the atmosphere of mars has been lost in space. havingle comet is an additional input and will be a major bonus. >> dust and gas may cause

auroras in the passion atmosphere. the space craft were uniquely positioned to record these, along with the exact motion of the comet. it's information they say will help us better be prepared for the next close comet encounter. >> nasa saying the comet didn't pose a threat to earth and is now headed back to the outer reaches of the solar system. >> we have breaking news out of ukraine. a huge blast rocked a chemical factory in donetsk in eastern ukraine. the blast wave shattered windows in houses more than a mile away. the explosion was so loud, it was heard across the entire city. local militia members say it was struck by a missile, but there has not been independent confirmation of that. >> switching gears considerably, a record breaking night for peyton manning, now connected with another amazing mark. >> he that ha thrown more career touchdown passes than any other quarterback ever. quite a memorable night. >> absolutely.

if you remember, it was just two years ago that manning was coming off neck surgery and many wondered if he was done as an nfl quarterback. he's been better than ever since he left the coats to join the denver broncos. he needed three touchdown passes sunday night against the 49ers to set the all time record for most quarterback passes. he tied the record at 5:08. before half time, he threw his record of 509. with that, he passed brett favre as the nfl's touchdown passing king. afterward, his teammates treated him like court jester, playing keep away. manning talked his place among the all time greats. >> i've always been a fan of quarterbacks, whether it's brett favre or dan marino or john elway. i'm very honored and humbled to join a pretty unique club and

then when you're passing guys that were my dad's heroes growing up as well, it puts it in perspective and i have great appreciation for it. >> the ball used will be object display at the pro football hall of fame in canton, ohio, starting this afternoon. i'm sure he's going to be there, his bust, anyway, sooner or later. >> if they can manage to get that ball from the other players. thank you very much. >> let's get to this. a stunning rescue in california. a woman had to be pulled from safety from a chimney. she was then arrested. firefighters say she was eight feet down inside the stack. the homeowner said this was no average break-in attempt and calls her no stranger. >> i met her on line not too long ago, and i thought she first pretty normal, as you meet people on line. i let her know i wasn't interested in even having her by my property at all and i guess she tried to pay me a visit through my chimney.

>> he says this was not the first time she had trespassed on his property. she faces charges for illegal entry and providing false information to the officer and no, she was not carrying a sack of presents. >> tomorrow morning, medication mishaps in children. what can be done for kids taking the wrong drugs. that's tomorrow morning. >> that is it for us here in in the morning. >> there were no milk or cookies either. coming up, the latest from kobane in syria where u.s. air drops are helping kurds fighting isil. >> we want to leave you with the images of the day. tens of thousands in spain gather calling for early regional elections. >> this comes after a plan for referendums on independence were declared illegal by madrid. >> we will see you back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. t 7:00 a.m.

♪ this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the newshour at our headquarters here in doha. in the next 60 minutes, turkey said it's prepared to allow peshmerga fighters cross from iraq to help defend kolbane. winning the battle, nigeria begins the second west african state to be officially declared ebola free. >> a birthday