u.s. and jordan.ith the but can it ease tensions with palestinians? who are expecting to hear from mr. kerry and his jordanian counter parts at any moment. we will be live as soon as that happened. ♪ also coming up on the program. >> isil continues to represent a serious threat to our allies and the middle east. >> the defense secretary lays out progress and set backs in the night against isil.

liberia lifts it's ebola state of emergency as infection rates plummet. football's governing body is accused of a cover up but it's own investigator, after they are cleared of corruption charges. plus, we will show you pictures from out of this world. welcome to the program, we begin in aman where israel's prime minister has held talks with jordan's king, and the u.s. secretary of state to try to end violence in jerusalem. also in the capital but is not taken part in the talks. tensions have been worsens since israel closed the mosque in's jerusalem last month, a site that is revered by muslims and uses. and there has been

attacks by both, while jewish settlers are being blamed from burning a mosque on wednesday. standing' by in new york, with full analysis. let's start in jordan's capitol, we are of course waiting for that news conference with secretary of state considerry and king abdullah, just remind us uh why jordan's role is so key in all of this? >> it isn't often people forget about how important jordan's role is, jordan under the peace treaty which was signed 20 years ago, looks after islamic and christian shrines until they reach a settlement and determine the future of that city, so in recent months jordan has been feeling that israel

has been underminding this role by storming into the mosque and by restricting access to palestinian worshipers, so this is why jordan, and especially the king has become so angry, and it took the secretary of state of the united states to come and mediate a meeting between the king and between israeli prime minister, in order to sort out their differences because i don't think steal is in a position to compromise it's relationship with jordan. streels only has two peace treaties in the region, and the one with jordan is a bit stronger, and the security coordination must more sophisticated. >> what about jordan's relationship with the united states? because of course, right now, in the u.s. most sides are focused on the

fight against isil, what kind of role does jordan have in that in relation to the u.s.? >> this is exactly why query is here, giordanos it is a strong u.s. ally, it is a main player in the international coalition against isil, it is striking the long side the 6 targets so it feels that the u.s. has a responsibility towards jordan to use it's leverage over israel and to make what jordan described as violations by israel especially in east jerusalem stop. not only between jordan and israel, because it feels that perhaps the u.s. owes it to jordan since it is a fighting a war in the region, alongside the u.s. that it tried to stop what is happening in israel so

definitely feeling that the u.s. has a role to play and that it owes that role to jordan, and recently the king said that he is frighting islamic extremism, but on the other happen, no one is fighting what he described as extremism. very strong words he used and only a few days after that, we saw therm storming into a mosque and this is when jordan decided to recall the ambassador. >> we will of course cross back to aman as soon as we get it, for the moment, thank you. let's go straight to east jerusalem, of course, east jerusalem, the old city, the focus really of the most recent protests. just walk us through what is happening there in sense of some security measures.

>> indeed. although the israeli prime minister making this dramassic step by going to aman jordan to meet with the king and indeed the u.s. secretary of state in the background of all this we still see protests we understand a few hours ago, it was a fairly heated contest. clashing with israeli forces, but we also have comments coming from israeli minister whose have suggested that they want to install facial recognition technology at the compound, as well as metal detectors. so while it is very clear that the prime minister is trying to diffuse the situation, has gone to aman in the the attempts to do just that when it comes to the situation on the ground, that indeed policy is very little is being done to prevent that, particularly with the news that 200 new settlements or units will be built to move that has

been condemned. >> and of course, you mentioned that benjamin going through aman is a boal statement, in itself, and sends quite a message, but how much of that is for domestic consumption? considering that he does head a coalition that could be fragile. >> indeed, in fact, if you listen to most political analysts on the left, at least here in israel, many of them are saying that the prime minister is only focused on keeping that coalition together and is ignoring the serious problems that are occurring in occupied east jerusalem, and in the west bank, in israel. now, very clearly trying to deflect that, but it would appear that at least as coalition partners those parties from the far right, will not be very pleased with this decision.

and want the prime minister to crack down and that appears to not be working for him, so it is a difficult situation thank you, so that is the latest from the region. but now let's get analysis of all this by speaking to al jazeera senior political analyst. good to see you. what do you think all in all, john kerry can achieve by going to aman and speaking to the parties? certainly what they are trying to do is put off the fires. so that the policies of some of those and the government. the on going illegal settlements and occupied territories and now

especially in jerusalem, and the recent attempt at changing the status quo in the holy places all of that is leading to major crisis and is inflaming palestine and the rest of the world. so what the secretary of state tries to do is bridge whatever the differences are today between israel and jordan. helping the israeli prime minister to mend fences with his friends in the region. as you know, there's a peace treaty, and as we heard earlier, certainly jordan is very upset with the way the government is hanling jerusalem, and the palestinians are enranged by what is going on. so i think all and all, secretary of state kerry will try to get some guarantees from the prime minister. in order for the jordanian danes. but you know, just -- for our international viewers to be clear on the situation there, we have

an occupied territory called east jerusalem, the israelis have been continuing to escalate the situation there. that certainly is imflaming. that will mean more radicalization, both in palestine and israel, and netanyahu's own allies will probably grow in size because of escalations going on. all the of that does scare. when they get out of hand. because we are waiting for the secretary of state and his jordanian counter parts to speak in aman. you can see those live pictures there, we will go straight to that media conference as soon as it happens.

>> . >> the u.s. coalition forces are making progress in the fight against isil in iraq and syria, but lit be a long and difficult struggle. those are the ors of defense secretary, who has been testifying before congress about president obama plan to expand their mission. here is what the president wants. an extra $5.6 billion in what he called the next phase of the fight. more than 3 billion of that would be used for military oppositions. the u.s. began it's attacks in august. also testifying earlier was general martin dempsey, the chairman of

the joint chiefs of staff. he said it will take change within iraq and syria to defeat isil. >> broadly our strategy is to reinforce a credible partner to address the 20 million disenfranchised sunnies they have to reject the ideology from within. >> and joins me live now from washington, d.c. what else was said that you think is worth mentioning. >> well, there were questions coming from notably some republican whose are considered to be pro military, questioning whether the added 1500 troops that would be going into iraq to assist with the training mission, as well as with the overall strategic planning with the iraqi military, whether that's going to make a difference.

there was considerable skepticism about the obama administration's plan to make this work, especially in light of the fact that the u.s. may have spent as much as $6 trillion all told, on the wars in iraq and afghanistan, and then pulled u.s. forces out. there was also the question about the legality of the u.s. mission inside iraq. under the war powers act, the u.s. military can essentially deploy for 90 days on anum beof operations but afterwards there needs to be official permission from congress whether the obama administration is trying to artificially restrict what u.s. troops can do because the president has said he does not want to deploy ground forces inside iraq. and whether or not the u.s. has a firm game plan for ending the u.s. operation in iraq.

when would these troops come back home. there were a lot of questions raised but not many firm answers. well, iraq's prime minister hasdy missed more than 30 commanders. the army has been criticized for the way it has dealt with isil. when isil captured cities and townses back in june. more now from baghdad. they want to send a message to those fighting on the front line, this is a fight that was about iraqi unity. brings in offices for all

of the society, and making sure that this was an iraqi national unity army, also what we have been told, is that the allegations of corruption leveled against some of the offices were a concern, to the prime minister, and he wanted to clean house, a lot of these offices were very loyal to the previous prime minister, ten of them have been given early retirement, and another 26 have been removed from their post and now waiting reassignment, also, the office has been briefing journalists in the last few hours saying this wasn't about a, policiesing blame or assigning blame, for any of the failings of the army, when isil swept through uh parts of the territory, in june, but more about putting the right officers in the right places to be effective, in the fight against isil. >> there have been battling in the syrian city between government troops and nonisil rebel fighters. these pictures appear to show the after math of an area by the army.

people were seen running from the scene, helping the injured and also looking for survivors. in this video, it is said to show the al quaida linked front parading through the city. still to come, here on al jazeera, under attack, two embassies are targeted by explosions in the libyan capitol, tripoli, plus. >> a brand new euro star train, has it done anything to make friends of the french and the english? >>

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jazeera.op stories on al israel's prime minister has held talked with the u.s. secretary of state aimed at ending violence. also in the capitol but is not taken part in the discussions. the u.s. secretary of defense secretary has tested after a congressional hearing about a plan to ex-pan the u.s. mission against isil, in iraq and syria. the u.s. president wants an extra $5.6 billion for what he called the next phase of the fight. meanwhile in iraq, dismissed more than 30 senior military commanders in his first major shake up he says the move is part of the campaign to tackle corruption now uh, fifa investigator will appeal against a decision to

close the investigation into the world cup bidding process. football's governing body releases a summary of his report, clearing the 22 and russia 2018 winning bids. allegations of corruption have hung over two world cups for four years. both russia 2018 and qatar 2022 cleared of wrongdoing overall, but as so often in this saga, a twist. the summary presented because challenged by investigator michael garcia. who said the decision contains numerous materially incomplete ander remember nows representations of the facts and conclusions. the american loyal will appeal in how the report has been represented. at being cleared of wrongdoing. >> the result today, is a

confirmation of what we have all believed. we have been transparent in term of the investigation, and cooperative in terms oif overall process that looks into the 2018 bidding process. >> the bidding did not escape venturing the report. we complied what more can we do. >> encountering probables with russia, but the other -- praised in the oathics report, garcia is understood to have been more critical of the leadership, so it lasted hours. >> earlier this year, the sunday times newspaper print add significant amount of documents that formed allegations against the qatar world cup bid.

but crucially the prescribes were judged to have been for his own benefit and not the benefit of 2022. on land itself is one of the losing bidders. the english f.a. will concluded to have bows to the improper demands of the corrupt vice president. the fa rejected the crick similar, be uh the spotlight wasn't on them for long, for five garcia garcia's outburst was a quick check on reality. >> that the two chairman of the ethic committee, of different opinion when it comes out and when we are talking about such important things as football five that has released a statement welcoming a degree of closure, but the bomb shells mean closures the ever this world cup remains as illusive as ever. al jazeera, london.

>> now this disn't happen often, but we do have good news, and it is about west africa's ebola outbreak. liberia's government is lifts a state of emergency which imposed to help contain the virus. around half of all the deaths from the ebola outbreak have happened in liberia. for the past three months it's been in a state of emergency. they say that is no longer needed. her country has seen a big drop in the number of new cases. the news comes on the date of the aid agency doctors without borders and plans for clinical trials in three treatment centers. one will concentrate on a therapy based on blood drawn from survivors while the other two will focus on drug treatments. >> there is no other way to diminish the mortality in the context where we are. -- so the only way we have to diminish mortality, in the centers

where we work is to find new therapeutics. the only choice we have is to look at trucks that have been given promising effects. >> one of which is the general antidrug, it works by preventing the virus spreading from one cell to another. so far it has been tested on mice that have been effected with the virus, all the an mans responded well, with none dieing from the virus. this was taken to the a small sample, and there is no guarantee it will work as well in people. >> the need for an effective treatment has been demonstrated by the news of more ebola deaths in mali. one of the latest was of an elderly who traveled to guinea. >> he died from the disease that was not diagnosed as ebola so he was monitors for

everything except ebola, and not the -- it was not done in a safe manner, so there is potentially many people that were in contact with the dead body. >> the safeties pose sal is one of the elements of this outbreak that the world health organization says is of paramount importance. al jazeera. >> now the world has been given it's first close up view of the surface of a speeding comment. the space probe has been backed these remarkable photographs giving us an incite into the surface of the comment. technology editor sent us this report from the space agency mission control. first the imcontains numerous materially thats beamed to earth from it's surface. it shows a rucked rocky outcrops. >> is talks to us,

rewound, fired and thend laking gear has been moved inside, so he is sitting on the surface. later it was revealed that the harpoons to fix it to the surface has failed to deploy. >> you first want to know what sort of status -- you don't want to fire them at the wrong moment. >> the release of the lander came after a ten year 6 billion-kilometer pursuit, it's lanning was a feat described azoresly difficult. for the hundreds of scientists working on this, the probe on the surface was a huge relief. but now there's uncertainty about whether the possibly is attached as it should be, they are also not sure whether it

will be able to do the testing that they hoped it would. >> the lander has ten scientific instruments onboard, and there's still hopes they will be able to exam the rocks as it warms. >> we have to land now, while we are still quite far from the sun, because we don't want the comment to be too active. scientists are still hopeful these images will give us clues into the origin and evolution of both the solar system and life on earth. al jazeera, germany. >> euro star has unveiled state of the art new trains that are even faster than normal. and it comes exactly two

decades after they first became operational. >> it's been 20 years since the first time you were able to do this. step on to a euro star train in london, and a short reasonably comfortable few hours later step off the train and into the heart of paris. it is a journey that's brought two nations closer together, building greaten bos of friendship -- hang on. i am not sure that is true. certainly it has revolutionized the aide and speed, and done wonders for business and tourism, but i am pretty sure the english and french feel as much as they always have done about each other. >> london has become the 7th biggest french city,

something like that. >> quite expect that some of the deaf seeded differences between the two cultures will take something more than just a bridge. oh well, still it is 20 years ole, so back in london euro star threw a party. >> they have seen -- london between more continental, even more french in some ways and they are becomenning more british. but never anyone will admit it. travel journalists enthused about the spanking new train on show. soon tock traveling to even more continental destinations. and there does seem to be one simple truth. they will always say that we have the better economy, we have the better government, we have the better culture, but ultimately, the french quite like coming

here and we love going to france. >> al jazeera, onboard the euro star. >> and you can find much more on the website aljazeera.com. entertainments that are made for there is not good reason why you will. representation on screen. matter what ge t