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>> our top story, president obama and other ligeaders of th world's 20 largest economies gather ner australia. day 1 began with the promise to provide help to struggling structures throughout the world. it turned to ukraine. putin was lambasted by members of the european union. climate change made headlines but president obama urging leaders to commit to fighting global warning. more on the first day of the g20 summit. >> reporter: the focus of the speech was expected to be the united states's pivot toward asia with a nod to the g20 economic talks to come, but unexpectedly, one of barack obama's main themes was the environment. >> as we focus on our economy, we cannot forget the need to lead on the global fight against

climate change [applause.] more than six minutes of the president's speech was devoted to climate change in what likes a die correct rebuke to australia's prime minister who made it clear he did not want clooim change discussed at the g20. if tony abbott was stunned vladimir putin was isolated, all but ignored by other world leaders over lunch. russia's actions in ukraine loom large in brisbane. an obligatory handshake later was more firm than friendly. >> few people were protesting against putin but there were mars calling for action on climate change, more than rights for aboriginal australians and higher taxes on banks. it is economic growth that will dominate the main g 20 talks. they could affect people like engineer jose sanchez. he left spain when its economy

started going backwards. for three years, he has been working a cross-brisbane road turn. >> after three years of very hard work to be able to drive your family around and being able to say, i cooperated in doing some of this, it is really, really, very rewarding for us. >> the economic activity the tunnel will help generate should repay its cost many times over. for the leaders meeting 5 kilometers from here and somewhere up there, this is the sort of scheme they want to see more of. the aim is tom increase global economic growth by two % more than is projected over the next 5 years pushing big infrastructure schemes is one way they think they can achieve it. >> australia asked each g 20me to bring their solid proceed appeals are for growth to brisbane. >> yes, our world can grow, and, yes, our world can deliver the jobs that you are people want. this conference is about how we

will deliver. >> official talks only began late afternoon, brisbane time. by the same time on sunday, the aim is to have a firm action plan to boost the world economy. andrew thomas, al jazeera, brisbane. >> it's not all business, that is, at the summit. german chancellor merkel took a selfy with customers outside a bar in brigs obtain. >> the chairman of the joint chief of staff is in iraq today. this is the general's first visit since the u.s.-led coalition began launching airstrikes against isil. they are discussing advancing the operation there. meanwhile in the capital city, 15 people were killed in a car bomb overnight. more than 30 occurs injured. >> leaders meet in iraqi. an assault against if neighboring syria. 20 airstrikes there in the last three days. seventeen of them were around the northern border town of

kobane. there has been fighting over that town for the last two months now. forces say they struck an isil training camp outside of aleppo. the accuracy and casualties from this airstrike, so far, that's all unclear. an al-qaeda-linked group is making gains in syria, accused of seizing territory from scald mod rats in what has been viewed as a power grab. al nursr fighters have a different take on their mission. >> al nusra front has been a powerful front in the syrian civil war for a long time now as al-qaeda's affiliate in syria, it is now the dominant group in the northwestern prove incident of idlib. earlier this month, it seized territory and weapons from rebel forces in the area and that raised concerns that el nusra front 's new strategy is to become the unrivaled leader. the group's leadership denied its take over was a power grab. we were told this was a war

against corrupt rebel leaders who use weapons to oppress people. >> translator: just look at what's happening elsewhere in syria, alepo and idlib. we fight along others and the groups. >>es alruf has been accused of corruption in the past. it was forced out of its strong if you wouldn't. el nusra targeted the haza movement, both backed by the united states government. >> at the moment, in the north, al nusra seems more worried about american-backed rebels and the american-led international coalition. will it could not to confront rebel groups with whom it has been working? it's difficult to say. >> it's a critical time. the u.s. insists that these airstrikes targeted the group and not el nusra front but on

the ground, the feeling could not be more different because both groups share the same territory. the fighters who belong to al nusra front do feel threatened. their group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. and their vision for a new syria is not accepted by all. >> translator: what we are plan something for islamic law to be implemented. we don't want to be the only rulers and we will share to implement the laws of god. >> reporter: there are no indications that the u.s.-led coalition plans to widen its campaign for now but el nusra front feels it has been targeted. it's not clear if their present offensive in idlib is part of a new strategy. what is clear is that the group managed to get rid of potential enemies on the ground. al jazeera. tens of thousands of georgia angels have taken to the streets to protest against russia. they are saying moscow was trying to an exregions of their country and that their own government isn't doing enough to defend them.

al jazeera's robin walker has more from georgia's capitol. >> it's been a quiet couple of years in georgian politics until now, that is. last week, there were major resignations in the government in protest as a dismissal of georgia's defense minister. all of these ministers came together to say that they fear georgia is in danger of losing its commitments towards closer european integration and towards event annual nato membership. and this uncertainty in those cracks in the government are going to be exploited by the opposition. they will be hoping to capitol eyes on that today because this is about them saying that georgia is under threat, that it faces a real danger of being next on russia's list of t afte ukraine. they are particularly concerned about new agreements that are being put together between

russia andga's break-away territories, the disputed regions that would give them closer ties with russia militarily and politically and they are saying that this government is weak, that it's shown its weakened by divisions within the coalition and it isn't willing to take a strong enough mind against moscow. >> in hong kong, protests spread to the city's airport after three student activists were prevented from flying. dozens of pro-democracy in the it students gathered. three were on their way to beijing to meet with chinese officials but they were denied boarding passes and told their travel documents were invalid. the students said the move was unreasonable and a violation of their rights. there were procetests in italy, thousands of people marched in rome speaking out against immigrants. the commonsstrators are blaming foreigners for crimes committed afternoon the capitol.

they say they want better security and are calling on rommes mayor to step down. several protesters carried signs depicting the president as pinnochio. they say more than sixty groups took part in the demonstration. a bitter fight looming in washington where president obama may take executive action to push forward his immigration reform agenda. the white house says the idea is to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. kaelyn forde spoke with one man racing against time to stay with his family. >> it was journey of more than 300 miles 4 undocumented immigrant luis pacil, it ended here the father of two says he doesn't know when his last day in the united states will be. >> translator: i have lived day-to-day with anguish. the time passes much more quickly, thinking any time they are going to sends you back to your country. we come here looking for a better life, not because we expect them to toss us out like animals. >> luis's case gang two years

ago when his cousins called the police on him during a fight over rent. the charges were dropped, but the police had already sent his finger prints to immigration and customs' enforcement and luis was detained. he has been fighting to remain with his wife and children ever since. his baby son is a u.s. citizen. >> that's why he has vowed to do everything in his power to stay, including three government agents tasked with deporting him together with five other undocumented immigrants and a nobody profit group, he has filed al lights against i.c.e. >> they say the president and his administration have presided over 2 million deportations but it's not too late for him to take executive action that could stay the deportations for people like luis. last week, obama admitted his policies needed review. >> we are deporting people who shouldn't be and not deporting people who are dangerous and

need to be deported. >> we have here a public trial. >> salador says the president could change that now. >> he could have done that yesterday. he could have done that a year ago. and there is really no excuse why we should be dealing with the injury, the harm, the hurt and the pain of over 2 million people is that have been taken from our families and from our communities. >> for its part, i.c.e. says it remains committed to immigration that will folks us on priorities. luis insists he is not a threat. >> i don't know why you don't let us come in. i am not armed. i don't have anything with me. he left it on his their do doorstep. he said they may offer parents like him the chance to stay has given him home. >> in my mind, there is always the idea to be with my children, to take them to school, to thshe

may life with them. these ideas are just dreams that are erased with everything that is happening to me. for luis what seemed impossible a week ago may yet become a reality: christmas with his family here in the united states. kaelyn forde, al jazeera, washington. >> a doctor who contracted ebola in sierra leone is seeking treatment in the u.s. this is martin salia's plane. he is the third ebola patient to be treated at the nebraska medical center, arriving there in an ambulance, of course, standing by as you can see to get him in to the hospital. officials say he is a native of sierra leon but a permanent resident of the united states. the centers for disease control and prevention released new ebola numbers. liberia has the most cases of ebola with about 6800. sierra leone has a little more than 5500 and guinean has almost 2000 cases of people with ebola. this comes out as the health minister to the democratic radio

publicblic says his country is ebola free. >> the wait continues. residents are anticipating a grand jury ruling on whether there will be criminal charges in the case of michael brown's death, the black teenager who was shot and killed by white police officer darren wilson last august. >> sparked weeks of protests and allegations of racial profiling. john ter represent joins us from ferguson. john, the latest development is video that we are seeing. officer wilson just hours after the shooting. tell us more about that. >> it shows darren wilson leaving the president, on the 9th of august and going to hospital to have his injuries treated. now, from the video, you can see that he's surrounded by fellow officers, including his union rep presentative and, later on in the video, he walked back in

to the police headquarters having been treated in hospital. now, this is the work of the st. louis dispatch local newspaper. they uncovered this video and published it today and they have also put together ems tapes and police emergency tapes from the day and from that, they have worked out that the whole incident opinion canfield drive where michael brown was shot that day here in ferguson took less than 90 seconds. we have had a response to all of this from the brown family within the past hour or so speaking through their lawyers, they say that it's clear from watching the video that the injuries described by the police department here of officer wilson were exaggerated. they say that the enter the action had nothing to do with the earlier robbery at the convenience store and that the system here, which needs to be changed, they say, is steeped in favor of law enforcement and against citizens. so quite a lot of movement in the last 24 hour news cycle as we wait for this grand jury decision to be handed down. richelle? >> john, are prosecutors getting any advance notice on when that

grand jury decision is coming? >> reporter: you know, it's the question that everybody wants the ants to and it's in the back of everyone's minds here in missouri right now. and i am afraid we just don't know. my understanding is today is the earliest day that the decision could be handed down, but it could come sometime next week or a lot of people think it may come a lot later, when the weather is a lot colder so that any, you know, rioting, for example, might be quelled because the weather is likely to be so cold as the year goes on. the one thing we can say with susta certainty, though, is that the local police department have let the local school department know that should the decision be handed down at the weekend, then the schools will be given 24 hours notice and should the decision come on a week day, they will be given three hours' notice for the children to be sentence home. that's all we can say with any certainty at this time, richelle. >> john terrett live in ferguson, missouri. thank you, john.

women continue the discussion on ferguson. we will update you on the struggle of new orleans 9th ward. voters rejected a plan to help the district from recover from hurricane katrina. later, a look at how isil is fuvenldzing the war in iraq and syria. you are watching "al jazeera america."nding the war in iraq syria. you are watching "al jazeera america."

continuing now with our discussion of the situation in fergusonr, m your e, the aftermath of the shooting of michael brown, thank you for joining us. can you describe for me what the feeling is in the community as

they are their continues to be this anticipation about the grand jury decision? >> reporter: yes. right now, the community is on edge. we are tired, since august 9th, we were approached by a mil t tarized police force, tear gassed, shot at by rubber bullets. th just approached in a negative prospect aggressively from the police. everyone is tired of it, and they want to see justice, while we are pleading out justice for mike brown. everyone is on edge and everyone is necessary to figure out what's going on. >> of course, the sdmonstrations that you described, yes, they were indeed very tension. have things calmed down since then? >>. >> yes, things have calmed down a lot. there are not that many protests. people are planning for direct, and next step is following the justice and then the announcement. no indictment.

>> can you talk about any if changes you have seen or not seen in police interaction with the community? >> the police are up to their same old tanthics. last week, there was a million mass march around november 5th account, and they trapped us on a one-way treat. they were still up to their same old tactics and being the agressors, that is, and messing up people's first amendment rights and everything. >> we do not have a representative from the ferguson police department or st. louis county police right now to say what their position is. i want to be clear on that. so what do you think the legacy of what has happened in ferguson will be? what should it be? >> you said if there was a legacy what would happen? >> what do you think the legacy should be and possibly will be?

and that may be difficult to answer considering we don't yet know what the grand jury is going to do but what do you hope comes out of this? >> i hope there is age indictment. if there is not, we have a special prosecutor come out and maybe get him on trial or anything because that wasn't right and he deserved to be in jame. local activist rika tyler. s alaska knows bill walker will be the next governor. the race is too close to call. it came down to 20,000 absentee and challenged ballots. walker is the first candidates to win office who was unaffiliated with a party in alaska's history. a ballot initiative to help development louisiana's 9th we ared was shot down during the mid-term elections. it was it was a crushing defeat for a community trying to rebuild.

our reporter went to new orleans see why it was defeated. >> the comeback has been painfully slow of the lower 9th ward. fewer than half of the residents have returned since hurricane katrina. in this low-income community hardest hit by the storm, there are hundreds of vacant and blighted properties. >> and here we are, nine years later, still struggling. >> vanessa garrenger was all but certain a new plan to repopulate the neighborhood would get support from louisiana voters. >> we were surprised because we really thought it would pass unanimously. >> the measure did unanimously pass the state legislature and was signed by louisiana's governor. it called for the city to acquire 600 vacant lots in the lower 9th ownth by the in other words redevelopment authority and sell them for just $100 each. it was seen as an incentive to get people to move back here and rebuild. >> because no developers, you know, no realtors, no one is buying them. and we are saying that we want to buy them.

>> since the plan involved selling property well below fair market value, state law required a change to louisiana's constitution. doing that needed voter approval voters rejected it 60 to 40%. >> they thought the developers would come in and buy the entire lower 9th ward. >> state representative wesley bishop who introduced the bill said some were misinformed. >> there was a profession that said that that continue happen. people had issues, they said t would drive down property value. what drives down your property value in having 10 lots next to you that nobody is own can and the grass is 10 feet tall. >> it was a well-intentioned piece of legislation that was clumsy liberty fence company done. >> janet howard says many voters objected because the measure would have meant the state was forcing the city to acquire and sell property it doesn't currently own. >> and it was forcing it to do

so am $100 a parcel that doesn't cover the process of processing the sell. >> beneficial sees that as a technicality and is drawing up a new proposal to address voters' concerns. >> we are going to continue to fight for our recovery. it's not afternoon question about stopping. >> those frustrated by the overall lack of progress, vanes a garinger said those in the lower 9 haves been encouraged seeing their fire staying and a community center return this year. she insists the real growth can't happen here until more homeowners return. jonathan martin, al jazeera, new orleans. >> still ahead, russia's aggressive campaign to over all and renovate its military. without power, the next lander may be over for now. what have we learned from its mission? those stories coming up on "al jazeera america."

with welcome back to "al jazeera america." here is a look at your top stories. russian's involvement in ukrainian unrest dominated talks in australia during day 1 of the g20 summit. vladimir putin was lambasted by president obama, angela merkel

and other members of the european union, calling for mores sanctions unless russia ends separatist. waiting to learn if criminal charges will be filed against police officer darren wilson who shot and killed michael brown last summer. the grand jury could return with a decision really at any time. u.s. forces have carried out 20 airstrikes in syria and iraq in the last three days. 17 of them were around the northern border town of kobane. there has been fighting over that town for the past two months. forces say they struck an isil training camp in the area. video of an attack on the egyptian army that killed more than 30 soldiers in sanaa has been posted online. the group that carried out the rain is an ally of the isil and threatened to carry out more attacks on the army unless the military stops its campaign against people in sanaa. more: ♪ >> in a half hour long video

posted on the internet, the group formerly known as mucta ask. show cases what it bills as its latest triumph. al jazeera can't verify the authenticity but is said to show the attack on the egyptian army last month that killed at least 30 soldiers. the video shows the groups' fighters killing some of the soldiers, shooting them in the back of the head. the footage is accompanied by a 7-minute long message from one of the group's leaders which has sworn allegiance to isil and renamed to what means the state of sanaa. >> we have warned you time and again but you do not listen. women and children, bombed our homes and continue to expel us from our lands and despite what we have inflicted on you in thistthis attack, we tell you, the war is yet to begin. >> it says it has taken up arms in response to the egyptian army's campaign to forcibly transfer people from the sinai.

the military is trying to to create a buffer zone with the gaza strip and israel. hundreds of families have had their houses demolished. many of them remain homeless. the president says a buffer zone is needed to combat what he calls terrorism. but attacks against the army as well as other acts of violence have only increased since he has come to power. intensifying even more after the military began its operations sinai. the message makes no reference to the muslim brotherhood which the government has acted of being the main source of violence in egypt. supporters of the brotherhood and its allies in the anti-coup movement continue to ex press their dissent on a daily basis. protests continue to be held across egypt. this week under the banler: return to your baracks, a demand that the army withdrawals from politics. they say the security situation in egypt has deteriorated

because the military has abandoned its primary responsibility in favor of ruling the country. abo about. the release of this video is likely to only raise further questions about the egyptian army's ability to maintain security. jamal ashal, al jazeera. earlier, my colleague spoke to mora mizid, a middle east specialist with the university of washington. she was asked of the significance of the attacks on the egyptian military. >> the significance of this is that this is direct evidence that the. isil or isis is actually expanding into the egyptian territory. so, it's claiming the responsibility for attacking military target. but these are home-grown -- this is a home grown insurgency. these are not foreign heers coming in. >> i disagree with this. what we are witnessing in the entire region is way beyond egypt, itself. we have now a proxy war within

egypt to the extension of islamic state in syria and iraq now it became islamic state in iraq and lebanon and now, the islamic state. so in order to expand, it is creating ties from within the countries that they are in and that's the making of the group. it's localizing its outreach by tying itself to elements, but it's very important to understand that these elements are not representative of the egyptian population. i just came back from field work in egypt, and i have spent three months investigating civil military relations. that's my area of research. i was surprised against general view from internal national media that the egyptians are actually finding themselves reacting to the militarization

of islamic politicians that is exported to them, come from iraqis. >> did you go to the sinai peninsula? >> i have not but i am affiliated with other news organizations where friends were actually doing field work in rafaa and all over sinai some of the their report is that this face of egypt, sinai, is turned into a zone and even the question within the turkish border where it's home-grown grievances about economic or political. >> theically claim to have been neglected it economically. >> yes. >> and developmentally and therefore, they feel margin marginaliz marginalized? >> and someone comes and taps into that and it becomes an alliance that is regional. so let's go back to isis or isil or i.s. this development is crucial. it is a resistance movement that was coming from iraq and syria

to turn iraq, that used to be an arab pilar, and then after the war, in iraq, it became more or legals an iranian zone. >> that's a reaction that development created isil. >> today marks the 322nd day since mohammed fahmi, mohammed famar were thrown into jail until egypt. he script claims they were working with the banned muslim brotherhood. access dmapdz dmapdz all of the charges and demands their immediate release. it takes bullets to fight a war and money to buy the bullets. that's the reality that led isil into using captured oil to fund the machine. nick schifrin got a look at the process. >> reporter: down a bumpy road from the syrian border, we sit out in search of isil's search of income. our guide: a 22-year-old female smuggler. her tools, jerry cans earmarked

for oil. in a discrete hotel room in a nearby city, we see how isil resecurities. our recruiters is a 27-year-old it expert. his tools, keyboard and mouse as opposed to facebook and twitter. >> on the river in istanbul over cups of tea, we learn how isil is organized. our expert: a syrian once employed as an isil salesman. >> how did you organize? >> translator: isil took over factories. it needed civilians who weren't connected to them. i helped sell the products. >> three people, all of whom demanded an animity showed how isil's organization and wealth are dependent upon foot soldiers' who is main motivation was income. they worked for a self declared islamic state that might fly the flag of islam but at its heart is corporate.

>> every aspect of the organization is extremely structured. the smuggling we saw just a little bit of right there, that is structured through its own hierarchy. the twitter and facebook that you saw of one of those men right there, that has its own hierarchy and its own structure and its own sophisticat indicat. those videos are incredibly well put together but also incredibly successful at continuing to recruit more and more foreign fighters which then allows isis to be more victorious. this just goes to show how difficult it will be to defeat isis and how pervasive, how far flung its foot soldiers are. so many people whom i have met over the last month talk about isil members, not the fighters that we see on t.v. every day. not the people who are ruthless and bar barrick. >> that's the kind of public face of isil. the heart of isil is so many civilians, so be many who join

the group for money, for any other reason. they are not true believers at all but without those people, without a legion of civilians, isil would simply not have had the successes that it has had so far. >> nick schifrin reporting there. world leaders criticized vladimir putin while he continues top rebuild his nation's military. more from patricia zabga. >> reporter: a top prior to for pla vladimir putin modernizing the armed forces, consumed it up to 3 down for of russia's economy every year since he came to hour. >> they are halfway from that tra transformation of a cold war style of military which was focused on being able to conduct large scale combat operations on the europeanconcom continent to a smaller, lighter, faster force that can try to push around their neighbors. >> western sanctions over the crisis in ukraine cafalling oil

prices and blistering inflation are hammering russia's economy. so far, the kremlin has not tempered its 578 bishes goal of bringing 2/3rd of the nation's military hardware up to date by the end of the decade. >> it will take a bite out of the budget in ream terms, the kremlin is allocating 4% toward defense spending next year. a gdp commitment, nato's mean members are nowhere near matching. >> nato is an alliance of 28 countries tasked to secure the member nations populations. >> they have agreed to spend 2% of their gdp on defense, an obligation met by the united states and only three european members last year. a estonia, geereece and the unid kingdom. members close to russia have upped their spending commitments with lithuania and latvia pledging to meet the 2% target by the end of the decade and

poland by 2016. further away, some of the alliances' biggest european members have yet to step up their defense spending including germany, which recently suffered several embarrassing episodes involving poorly maybe tained military aircraft trying to deliver support to the iraq and ebola aid to africa. >> if german spends more, it will seminar signal to sharp it's serious about the problems russia has created and serious about incurring costs and willing to tolerate a higher level of tension overall about russia while reports of rising provocations in the air and on the seas have yet to convince some of nato's biggest european members to jack up defense spending, the alliance still wid vastly superior military capabilities thanks in large part to the united states. >> pulling out the red carpet. >> a selfy with my wife.

>> it's not hollywood. it's not disneyland that's drawing crowds of chinese tourists to southern california. open enrollment began for the 2015 coverage of what's known as obama care. we will take a deeper look this evening at the people who have applied and, also, mounting criticism of the program, itself. don't forget to tune in. 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific.

on his trip to china this week, president obama announced plans to make visas for chinese tourists valid for 10 years when they come to the united states, most have vacation money to is spend. a report on what's drawing them there. >> reporter: the world famous hollywood sign, the santa monica peer, venus beach, must see places for most visiting los angeles but chinese tourists aren't like most. the single largest groups of overseas travelers visiting southern california's shore have little interest in going there.

instead, they are coming here to the outlet malls. i met jerry dau from shanghai while his wife was hunting for brand name bargains. >> i spend most of my time shop with my wife. >> outlet malls like the citadel shops are so popular with chinese tourists, there are welcome bags and a red carpet awaiting their arrival. there is a vip room and currency exchange. signs and maps are in mandarin train tracy markell says the stores are china-red what time does at that mean? >> they have been trained on the chinese custom. they know how to speak chinese. most hired chinese associates and accept union pay which is the china debit card and credit card and our whole shopping center is china-friendly and china. >> much of la is china ready. they serve a chinese style breakfast.

massey's accept's china's union pay card. universal studios offers their back lot tour in mandarin? >> catering to kichinese touris has never been more critical. a report finds tourism from china nearly quadrupled from 158,000 in 2009 to 570,000 visits in 2013. the surge in chinese travelers is fueled, in part, by china's emerging middle clts. 400 million strong and growing. the newly affluent chinese want to travel and spend money shopping. >> why not come here? okay. they like going out to see the world, to buy things. >> the ironis that correct much of what the chinese tourists are buying here in los angeles is made in -- you guessed it -- china. but it is significantly cheap tory purchase it here, by as much as 50%. >> they are looking for authentic purchases and designer

labels that represents that western experience because that's what they are connecting to more than anything is this culture that we have in california. >> chinese tourists in southern california buying in to and bringing home a piece of the american lifestyle with luxury goods made in their own backyard. jennifer london, al jazeera, los angeles. >> two people are dead and several others injured after a building collapsed in south china earlier today. the collapse happened in a six-story building in the district of guongdong. they described racing out of the building before it toppled. it was under construction and the collapse was blamed on possible flaws in the foundation. investigation is already underway as rescue efforts continue. it's been more than a month since 43 students disappeared in mexico. despite knight concrete news about their whereabouts, family members are still holding out hope that they are alive. racial levin has more from these families from guero state.

>> placing flowers on her tombstone, he remembers his wife who died in august. his whole family is with him except his 18-year-old grandson jorge. he is one of the 43 university students who disappeared last month at the hands of local police in the troubled state of guerrero, his uncle put school photos of jorge on the family altar. he said his nephew wanted to be a teacher so he could help support his mother. >> translator: we are all very sad. every time we sit down to eat, we ask ourselves, what about jorge? is he eating? sometimes, we just lose our appetites. >> every day, tirso makes his bed and tidies up his clothes hoping he willement walk through the front door. like most families of the students, the cruzes are poor farmers. they live off of the corn and bean crops they grow, but since

jorge was taken, they vicinity been able to tend their fields. >> we don't have any money. whenever we get some, we give it to my daughter, jorge's mom. it's sad. we just try to survive. >> naefrn town is on high alert and security is even tight earn ever. >> reporter: these are community police and they are checking this car before it goes in to town. it's yet another example of the measures people here have to take in order to feel safe. the disappearance of the 43 students sadly is nothing new. >> hidden graves like this are part of the landscape here people killed in shootouts between r i have a l gangs or kidnapped by police are often dumped in the hills in the middle of the night. more than 26,000 people have disappeared since 2006 when the mexican government declared war on organized crime. when roberto met with the

president, he demanded to know why his grandson is still missing. >> translator: i told him if he had lost a son, i am sure in one or two days, the police would find them. why can't you find our children? >> reporter: a question many in mexico and around the world are asking and praying will soon be answered. rachel levin, al jazeera, guerrero am, mexico. >> the united states and india have reached a bargain that will pave the way for a new trade agreement. at issue was the way the indian government stockpiled food. a report from new delhi. >> feeding her family is a daily struggle. the indian government says she lives below the poverty line and is entitled to discounted food. subsidized grain from the government is a big help for my family. if we didn't have this, life would be even tougher. we already have a lot of

expenses. >> more than half of india's 1.2 people buy grains like wheat and rice through the national public distribution system, often described as the biggest government-run food program in the world. >> for families in this neighborhood, food subsidies are a necessity. many say that without them, they would struggle to survive. >> to feed hundreds of millions of people, the indian government go stock piles food that local farmers produce. this has until now been a st sticking point during negotiations at the world trade organization. while india has reached an agreement with the united states, a country it has long opposed at the wto, some observers say the real problem is india's domestic food policies. >> we have been using procurement and stocking and subsidies and livelihood security for farmers. i believe there are ways to achieve both objectives at lower cost.

>> supporting farmers costs the indian government billions of dollars every year. it's a huge burden at a time of slow economic growth but activists say it's an essential expense. in a large country like india where the government, itself, has identified 67% of the population don't get food, it is crucial that we ensure that production, because for feeding 67% of india's population, we can't depend upon imported food. >> she doesn't know about the global negotiations that have perhaps saved her monthly food bill from rising, but she does know that she can still put the money she saves, thanks to food subsidies, towards building a better future for her children. al jazeera, new delhi. >> coming up on "al jazeera america," out of power but not out of hope. what's next for the comet lander and what we have learned from this experiment.

a doctor who contracted ebola in sierra leone is seeking treatment in the united states. he arrived about a half hour ago. he is the third ebola patient to be treated at the nebraska medical center in omaha. officials say he is a native but a permanent residents of the u.s. the probe that landed on a comet wednesday has run out of power. the 22 pound robot lander is perched on the side of comet 67 pt it was built with sol area panels to keep it operating. wednesday's landing wasn't quite perfect. morgan radford reports. >> reporter: when it touched down, small har poons attached to the lappeder's legs should have fired and anchored the lander to the surface. they didn't work. the lander bounced not once but twice and ended up balancing on two of its three legs in an unknown location that's heavily shaded from the sun. >> you see we are just in the shadow of a cliff.

>> that's as, as you will understand, part of the problem. >> the lander was designed to get six or seven hours of sunlight. it was getting less than that. eighty minutes on just one of the three solar panels. mission controllers proceeded with the plan friday morning, activating a drill to cut into the comet's surface. they were also able to man oofr the lander into a new position they hoped will receive more light and perhaps even restore power. morgan radford, al jazeera. >> joining us, an analyst with the fulton corporation and aertd of the space review. mr. fouft thank you, thank you for your time. we 70 ronnotic explorers to land on the moon, mars, venus, saturn, all of that. cur put in perspective what this particular accomplishment means? >> this is the first time we have landed on the comet. we have thrown projectiles at comets in the past. this is the first time we have

attempted a soft landing on the comet to better understand the come position of the structure of these bodies. >> despite the fact that there seems to be a bit of a setback right now, could you talk ablthsdz more about what you just mentioned, what we hope to learn from this? >> the spacecraft completed it's primary mission. we hoped it would return more data but scientists going to spend months, yeefrnz analyzing the data coming back from the spacecraft to better understand what this comet is made of, what its structure is like and what that can tell us about the originalins of our solar system. >> there are plenty of other exploration missions going on right now, many more planned. what really is the future of exploration? >> well, there is a die reverse range of missions out there as you mentioned. spacecraft orbitting mercury, the planet closest to the sun, en route to pluto, a former

planetnds in between. we have a lot of robatic missions out there. nasa has a program of human explorations planned for later this decade into the 2020s and beyond, eventually leading to humans on the surface of mars. >> could you expound upon that? so much of what we have been hearing are robots. >> that's wonderful. what role do humans play in this in the future. >> a lot consider them as precursors foremuhammad missions. they can go places humans can't go or go before we are ready to send humans, in the case of mars. and really lay the groundwork for homeland security human missions. they have the creativity and the imagination that robots, synthesis, lack a human geologist can do as much in a day on mars as a robot may be able to do in months or years >>. >> that's exciting. are we getting closer to a time when we will look to mine resources from the moon, from

asteroids? it sounds far-fetched. but could that happen? >> yeah. asteroid mining has been a long-term staple of sciencefication but there are long-term plans to spinned spacecraft to asteroids, extract resources which could range from water ice to minerals and bring them either back to earth or use them for other applications in space. it's sciencefication now. it may be science fact in a decade or two. >> before i let you go, what's next on the agenda for nasa? >> nasa next month is going to do the first test flight of the orion spacecraft from florida and do a couple of orbits and splash down in florida. it won't have a crew but it will test out the spacecraft before future missions which will be used to send humans to the moon, to asteroids and eventually to mars. >> fantastic stuff, geoff faust, thank you so much.

it would be an understatement to say author george r martin's "game of thrones has become a pop culture statement. it shocks fans and he talked to david shuster and said reaction to the surprises makes him feel he has done his job as an author. >> i want to engage my readers' emotions or my viewers' emotions. you don't want, you know -- death is a big thing, you know, when we experience death in real life, it affects us when your parents die, or god forbid one of your children dies, it affects you smoemings. if we are creating characters that we really care about, we should react in a similar way when they die in fiction or on television. it shouldn't be just, okay.

that character is dead. let me go out and get a sandwich during a commercial. then you are not doing your job. i want to -- i want to grab hold of my readers and make them cry and make them grief and make them laugh as well and experience joy, experience the world on the page as if they were living them. >> that's the dream of me at least, and i think of most writers. >> the fact we were traumatized from the red wedding means he did a good job. the rest of that interview is next on "al jazeera america." also, open enrollment began today for 2015 coverage, what's known as obama care. we will take a deeper look this evening at people who have applied and the mounting criticism 69 program, itself. so be sure to tune in at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. i am richelle carey. i will be back. keep it here. thanks for your time.

very few people get up in the morning and say, oh, i am evil. what evil can i do today? >> he wrote the epic novel, a song of fire and ice, the basis for the hbo series "game of thrones" now in its fourth season, george r.r. martin is working fotin issue the series. >> there are days i wonder if i bit off more than i could chew. did it have to be 17 king dotcoms? >> his