board. they will even help you if you forget the name of your vice president. >> is today's power politics. i am david shuster. thanks for watching. this is "al jazeera america" live. i am richelle carry. here are today's top stories: sharp criticism of russian vladimir peaten from other leaders gathered for the g20s summit. the russian leader pushes a plan to upgrade his country's military. an anxious be community awaits the grand jury decision a doctor who con traltd ebola in west africa arrives in the united states for treatment.

♪ ♪ our top story: russia's support of separatenists ukraine dom natures day 1 at the g20 summit in australia. the /* leeders in brisbane, the g20 summit began with a promise to jump start structures around the world. the topic turned to russia's involvement in ukraine. vladimir putin was criticized by president obama. german chancellor angela merkel and other leaders of the european union. climate change made headlines with president obama urging leaders to commit to fighting global warming. andrew thomas has more on the first day of the g20 summit. >> the focus of his speech was expected to be the united states's strategic pivot toward asia with a nod to the g20s's economic talks to come. but unexpectedly action one of

baracks 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 looked like like a direct rebuke to australia's prime minister who made it clear he did not want climate change discussed at the g20. but if tony abbott was stung, vladimir putin was isolated, all but ignored by other world leaders over lunch. russia's actions in ukraine loom large in brisbane. the handshake between host and guest was more firm than friendly. >> few people were protesting against putin but there were marches on climate change and more rights for aboriginal australians and higher taxes on banks. it is economic growth that will dominate the main g 20 talks and

they could affect jose sanchez who left his native spain when its economy started going backwards. for three years, he has been working a cross-brisbane road tunnel. >> after three or four years of very hard work to, to be able to drive your family on the tunnel and being able to say, i co-op rated in doing some of this is really very rewarding for us. >> the economic activity the tunnel should regenerate should repay the costs 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 to increase global economic growth by 2% more than currently projected over the next five years and pushing big infrastructure schemes is one way they think they can achieve it. australia asked each g20s member to bring their own solid proposals for growth to brisbane. >> our world can grow and, yes,

our world can deliver the jobs that our 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's economy. andrew thomas, al jazeera, brisbane. world leaders criticized vladimir punishment. the russian leader quietly continues to rebuild his countryts military. nato is taking notice. more now from patricia sabga. >> reporter: a top priority for the russian president, modernizing the nation's armed forces, an upgrade that consumed between 3.3 and 4.1% of russia's economic output every year since putin came to power. >> they are halfway through their transformation from a cold war style military which was focused on being able to conduct large-scale combat operations on the european continuent to a

smaller, lighter, faster force that can try to push around their neighbors. >> western sanctions over the crisis in ukraine, falling oil prices and blistering inflation are hammering russia's economy. so far, the kremlin has not perfecterred it's ambition goal of bringing two-thirds of the nation's military hardware up to date by the ends of the decade. inflation will take a bite out of the budget in real terms, the kremlin is on track to allocate more than 4% of the nation's output toward defense spending next year. a gdp commitment nato's european members are nowhere near matching. >> nato is an alliance of 28 countries tasked to insure the defense of its member nation's populations. >> they have long agreed to spend 2% of their gdp on defense, an obligation met by the united states and only three members last year, estonia, greece and the united kingdom. since the summit this fall, 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 policy land 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 maintained military aircraft trying to deliver support to iraq and ebola aid to africa. >> if germany spends more on its defense, it will signal to russia that it's serious about the problems that russia has created and about incurring costs and to tolerate a higher level of tension overall with russia. >> while reports of rising russian 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. patricia sabga, al jazeera. chairman of the joint chiefs

of staff martin dempsey is in iraq, the first visit since the u.s. coalition began launching airstrikes against isil. he is nep iraq to discuss advancing the military operation there, meeting with u.s. troops and iraqi officials with the government and army and in the capital city, at least 15 people were killed in a car bomb overnight. and more than 30 others were injured. while leaders meet in iraq, the coalition kothsz continues its assault against isil in neighboring syria. u.s. forces carried out 20 airstrikes there in the last three days. 17 of them were arrest the northern border town of kobane. there has been fighting over that town for the past two months. u.s. forces say they struck an isil training camp in the area and they also attacked a group outside of aleppo. the accuracy and casualties from these airstrikes so far, that is all unclear. an al-qaeda-linked group is making gains in syria, accused of seizing territory from so-called mod rats in what has been viewed as a power grab.

as access reports, they have a different take on their mission. >> reporter: el nusra fronts has been a pour player as al-qaeda's affiliate in syria, it is now the dominant group in the northwestern province of idlib. earlier this morninth, it seize territory from rebel forces notice area and that raised concerns that el nusra's front is to become the unarrived leader among opposition needers. the group's leadership denied its takeover 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, aleppo and idlib. we fight along other forces and our there are five groups. >> malruf is a controversial

figure who has been accused of corruption but his group was not the only one forced out of the stronghold. nusra fronts targeted the much movement. they are backed by the united states government. >> at the moment in the north, nusra seems more worried about american-backed rebels and the american-led international coalition with, 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 these airstrikes targeted the group and not el nusra fronts but on the ground, the feeling could not be more different because both groups share the same territory. the fighters who belong to el nusra front feel threatened their group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. >> what we are plan something for islamic law to be implemented. we don't want to be the only

rulers and we will share the other faxes of fighting to implement the laws of god. >> there are no indications that the u.s.-led coalition plans to widen its campaign at least for now but el nusra front feels it has already been targeted. it's not clear if the recent offense responsive part of a new strategy but what is clear is that the group managed to get rid of potential enemies on the ground e zana hoader, al jazeera. >> an attack on the egyptian army that killed more than 30 soldiers in sinai has been posted online. the group that carried out the raid has threatened to carry out more attacks unless the military stops its campaign against people in sinai. al jazeera has more. ♪ >> in a half-hour long video posted on the internet, the group show cased what it billed as its latest triumph. al jazeera cannot independently verify the video's authenticity

but it is said to show the attack on the egyptian army in the sinai peninsula last month that killed at least 30 solids. the video shows the groups' fighters killing some of the soldiers, shootion 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 aleakens to isil and renamed itself to what means the state of sinai. >> we washington, d.c. you time and again but do not listen. our children and women, you expelled us from our lands and despite what we have inflicted on you in this attack, we tell you, the war is yet to begin. >> it's taken up arms in response to the egyptian army's campaign to transfer people from the sinai: the military is trying 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 the 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 in sinai. the message makes no reference to the muslim brotherhood which the government has accused of being the main source of violence in egypt. supporters of the brotherhood and its allies and the anti-coup movement continue to express on a daily basis. it this week, under the banner, return to your barracks, ab demand that the army withdraw 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. and the release of this video is likely to only raise further questions about the egyptian

army ability to maintain security. jamal alshai, al jazeera. >> earlier, me colleague spoke to mara nazzeed and she was asked of the significance of the attack 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 targets. >> these are home-grown -- this is a home-grown insurgency. these are not fofrners 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 justice lammic state. 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 military relations that's my area of research. i was surprised against general view from enternational media that egyptians are actually finding themselves reacting to the militarization of islamic politics that is exported to them. >> did you go to the sinai peninsula? >> i have not gone to the sina tive. peninsula but i am affiliated

with other news organizations where friends were actually doing field work in rafaa and all over sinai so their report is that this case of egypt, sinai, is turned in to a zone that and even the kurdish question within the turkish border where it's a zone, home-grown grievances about economic or political. >> they claim to have been neglected economically? >> yes. >> and developmentally and therefore, they feel marginalized. >> and someone comes and taps in to that and it becomes an alliance that is regional. let's go back to isis or isil or i.s. this development is crucial. it is a resistance moment that was come 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

less an iranian zonelar, and th war, in iraq, it became more or less an iranian zone. >> that's that reaction to that created isil. >> today marks the 322nd day since three journal wrists thrown into an egyptian jail. he script claims they were working with the banned muslim brotherhood. access denies all of the charges and demands their immediate release. pro-democracy protests have spread to hong kong's airport. dozens of pro-democracy protesters protested for three who were prevented from flying. they were on their way to meet with chinese easy officials. they were denied boarding passes and told their travel documents were invalid. the students said it was unreasonable and a violation of their rights. there were protests in italy today, thousands of people marched in rome speaking out against immigrants. they were blaming foreigners for crimes committed around the capital. they say they want better

execute and are calling on rom's m or to step down and some didn't ied the may as pinnochio. 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 i am grasped from deportation. kaelyn forde spoke with one man racing against time to stay with his family. >> it was a journey of more than 300 miles but for undocumented i am grant luis pacil, it ended heretr here. >> reporter: the father of who says he doesn't know when his last day in the united states will be. >> i have lived day-to-day with anguish. the time passes much more quickly when you are thinking at any time, they are going to send you back to tour country. we come here looking for a better life, not because we expect them to toss us out like animals. >> luis's case began 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 is sent his finger prints to immigrations and customs enforcement. luis was detained. he has been fighting to remain with his wife and children ever since. his baby son is a u.s. citizen. >> not one more deportation. >> that's in why he has vowed to do everything in his power to stay, including suing the government agency tasked with deporting him. together with five other undo you think immigrants in a nonprofit group, he filed a lawsuit against ice for failing to respond. >> they say the president and his administration presided over $2 million deportation but it's not too late for him to take executive action that could stay the deportation of peep like luis. last week, obama admitted his policies needed review. >> we are deporting people who shouldn't be deported and not deporting folks who are dangerous and need to be deported. >> so we have here a public

trial. >> i am grassed' rights agent visit said the president could change that now. >> he could have done that yesterday. he could have done that a year ago. 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, ice said it remains committed to sensible policies including convicted criminals and other public safety threats but luis says 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 refused to receive his lawsuit so he left it on their doorstep luis says reports that obama may offer parents like him the chance to stay has given him hope. >> in take them to school, to share my life with them.

these ideas are just dreams 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. >> appear doctor who contracted ebola in sierra leone is seeking treatment now in the u.s. he arriveda and is the third ebola patient to be treated at the nebraska center in omaha. officials say he is a native of sierra leone but a permanent resident of the u.s. the 70sers of disease control has released new numbers. liberia has the most with 6800. sierra leone has a little more than 5500 and guinean has almost 2,000 cases of people with ebola. this report comes out as the health minister to the democratic republic of congo says his country is now ebola-free. more than three months since michael brown of shot in ferguson, missouri. now, residents of the area await

a grand jury decision on whether to indictment the police officer who shot and killed him. also, the struggle of new orleans 9th ward after voters rejected a plan to help the district recover from hurricane katrina.

in ferguson, missouri, the wait continues. they are anticipating whether there will be criminal charges in the case of michael brown's death. he was a black teenager who was shot by white police officer darren wilson last august. >> has sparked questions of racial profiling. john terret reports from fergson. >> reporter: the video shows darren wilson leaving the police station here in the town to go to hospital to have his injuries treated. in it, you see that he is surrounding by colleagues including his union rep presentative and the video continues so that you see him coming back several hours later and, having been treated. this is the work of the local newspaper, the st. louis dispatch which has been digging into ems and police radio calls

and from that, they have worked out that the whole incident took less than 90 seconds. there has been a response to this from the brown family speaking through their lawyers thing say the videos as described by ferguson police were clearly exaggerated. they say that the interaction had nothing to do with the earlier robbery at the convenience store and that the system which they say must be changed is waited helen in favor of law enforcement and not citizenship and that they look forward to the outcome of the grand jury deliberations with great interest. richelle. >> john terrett reporting there. alaska knows who its next governor will be. after an agresstive challenge by sean parnell. the race is too close to call. it came down to 20,000 absentee and challenged ballots. walker is the first to win office who was unaffiliated with a party. an a ballot initiative to

development the lower 9th ward was a crushing defeat for a community trying to rebuild. jonathan martin went to new orleans to see why this initiative was dpeeftd defeated. >> the rebuilding has been slow. in this low-income community hardest hit by the storm, there are hundreds of vacant and blighted properties. >> here we are, nine years later, still struggling the. >> vanessa was all but certain a new plan to spark redevelopment and repopulate the neighborhood would get support from louisiana voters? >> we were surprised because we really thought it would pass unanimously. it did pass and was signed by the governor. it called for the city to acquire 600 vacant lots in the lower 9th owned by the new orleans 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. we are saying we want to buy them. >> since the plan is to buy them below market value, it needed voter approval. voters rejected it 60 to 40%. state representative wesley bishop said some voters were misinformed. >> there was a condition that said that that could not happen. people had issues they said that it would drive down property value. what drive down your approximately value than having 10 lots next to you that nobody is owning and the grass is 10 feet tall. >> i thought it was a well intentioned piece of legislation that was clumsyly done. >> janet howard runs a think tank based in noefrmz.

she says many objected because it would have meant the stace was forcing the city to acquire and sell property it doesn't currently own. >> it was forcing it to do so at a price that doesn't en cover the costs of processing the sale. >> bishop sees that as a technicality and is planning to draw up a new proposal to address voters' concerns wir going to fight for our recovery. there is not even a question about stopping. >> reporter: though frustrated by the overall lack of progress. vanessa says neighbors have been encouraging seeing their fire station and a community center return this year. but she insists, the real growth can't happen here until more homeowners return. jonathan martin, al jazeera, new orleans. ahead on "al jazeera america," without power, the next of the lander, may be over.

what have we learned. >> a report on how the group has organized and how its able to pay for the war, isil, in syria and turkey.

we know back to "al jazeera america." here is a look at your top stories. russia's involvement in ukraine was the main topic on day 1 of the g20 summit underway in australia. vladimir putin was sharply criticized. they called for more financial sanctions unless russia ends support of the separatists in eastern ukraine. >> residents of ferguson and the rest of the country are waiting to learn if criminal charges will be filed against police officer darren wilson. he shot and killed michael brown last summer. the grand jury could return with a decision at any time. u.s. forces have carried out 20 airstrikes in syria and iraq in the last three days. seventeen of them were around the northern board of town of kobane. fighting over that town for the past two months.

u.s. forces say they struck an isil training camp in the area. the u.s. led coalition is taking aim at the pocket of the islamic state group according to the u.s. treasury group, isil is rolling in cash, making millions of dollars every day by selling oil on the black market. an inside look at how it's done. >> reporter: down a bumpy turkish road a few feet from the syrian border, we set out in issim'sing search of income. our guide, a 2 two-year-old female simultaneousler. of her tools: jar cans earmarked for gas. in a heats room, we see how isil recruits. our recruiter is a 27-year-old syrian it expert. his tools, keyboard and mouse to post to face book and twitter. >> on the river in istanbul over cups of tea we learned how isil is organized. our expert: a syrian once employed as an isil salesman.

>> how did you organize it? >> isil took over factories. they needed civilians not connected to them. i helped them sell the products. >> three people, all of whom demanded anonymity showed how it is depend event upon foot soldiers. they worked for a self declared islamic state who might claim to fly the flag of islam but at its havert is corporate. our journey begins on the road with 22-year-old seth. >> a lot of people smuggling? was it easy to smuggle through this area? >> every night for 18 months, she would take this road to the syrian border: her destination, the turkish town, and on this day, our car had this road to its sell. it is so close to syria, it borders a river and refugees can

be rowed across. it is best known as a home to smugglers. tract orders used to transport and those jerry cans used to store isil's main source of income, oil and gas. the town smells of it. sete used to smuggle it across the river. >> where did the oil come from? >> it comes from syria. they bring it across the river. they take it to their village, store it in their homes. inside, isil controls a dozen oil refineetics. they estimate isil sells it for 1 to $2 million and it is smuggled into turkey. >> they recently recently discovered how. the gas is pumped through underground pipes or smugglers move it across the river in jerry cans. the gas is transported in vans or secret gas tanks inside of buses. we will construct a gas tank and make it bigger so it could hold

50 gallons. if there is no army, you can make good money. >> for these people, it's not ideological. it's business. people are like outsiders? >> not unless you come to buy de isil. >> we weren't buying. the town didn't like that. after we filmed those jar cans, smugglers stopped our car. we tried to get away. >> here you go. >> okay. okay. okay. we are stopped. they released us only after cete convinced them. anyone interrupting their business and profits isn't welcome the. >> how much money did you maybe? >> your income depends upon how much gas you bring. if you bring a ton, you make 400, 900, 1300. you bring 10 tons, you make 10 ,000 a night. it depends upon how good you

are. >> many points, the only thing that separates syria from turkey is a thin river. this area has long been a smugglers' haven. >> means not only goods like gas has been crossing the border but, also, fighters. >> we have brothers from bangladesh, from iraq, from cambodia, australia, the u.k. >> foreign fighters filled isil and fueled its rapid rise. >> they started the unprecedented propagandaa campaign, well 23i8d many featuring photogenic procetagn s protagnists. >> i am your brother from south africa. >> they reject their citizenship for membership in the islam iping state. a few dozen are american. we are going for you, barack obama.

>> this is the man who helped convince them to join. >> how easy was it to recruit all of these people online? >> they will follow anything you tell them. they have been brainwashed. we talked to them about religion, paradise and virgins. >> in a hotelroom, over half a pack of cigarettes, a 27-year-old who wants to be known as salam revealed isil's social media strategy. for a relatively large salary he and three others would spend days on line. they painted it as a pieous, popular and prosperous army and showed those who defied them as income pet event inif he had he wills? >> almost all of it was lies, exaggerations. we claimed other groups raped women. >> wasn't true. americans are always trying to hack into these accounts. how did you avoid other people gaining access to your accounts?

>> we changed the pats words every 12 house. we handwrote down all of our contacts so if our accounts were hacked, we could reach everyone again. ♪ >> it worked. he was free to paint isil as family-friendly. the u.s. says every month, more than a thousand foreign fighters join isil. propaganda videos feature foreign families. i am here. >> thephon fighters who already joined isil gave us their friend's contacts. media is the most important thing for isil to attract foreign fighters and create popularity in syria and iraq. twrie and create popularity that spans generations. isil calls them its can you bes, their hands not large enough to properly hold a cell. their minds not old enough to resist propaganda. >> a man who wants to be known

as omar saw those children up close. i he used to work for isil in their headquarters. >> what they want most is recruiting children. they are brain washington, d.c. at a young age. they become strong-willed and believe them find redemption when they are martyrs. omar used to sell goods isil stole. he says in rutga many civilians worked for isil. in this city. >> men pray on the street. women stay covered. and local commanders called emirs or princes keep the peace. they have changed dramatically since om mar first met them. >> at first, they brought in a thug, an alcoholic, and appointed him emir. now, they pushed them out and they have replaced them with educated people who can have a strong presence and lead people. >> the group is organized like a spider web. at the center, the kalif and his

deputies, each group are isolated. they receive orders but they have no communication with the leadership. they received orderers but their source isn't known. e even the emirs wouldn't know the original source of the information. >> a complex and effective structure in connecting every aspect the group's ruthlessness. they have no mercy. islam is merciful but for them, people's lives are cheap. through fear, through promises of prophets, they fill the state with people who might otherwise fight t today, isil controls an area the size of belgium. it's population is equivalent to new york city. u.s. officials warn the war to removal isil will take years. nick schifrin, al jazeera. >> after weeks of uncertainty,

mexican families grew more insistent the government give them as about their missing loved ones. california's tourist industry is booming. you may be surprised to learn why it's a favorite of visitors from china.

we are looking at our next big storm developing right now across the roches and moving here across the central plains. that is going to bring a lot of snow here across kansas and the great lakes over the next several days. once this front moves through, we are going to be seeing quite a bit of cold air coming in behind it. the highs here on sunday are just hovering around freezing for many locations. dallas and about 44 up to the nort, lincoln at 30. so, a we go towards the rest of the week, you can see the front moving through, clear skies here, but

we are going to be seeing those temperatures dropping. for dallas, the overnight lows are going to be well below freezing. see about 28 drivers degrees here on monday. 25 degrees as your low on tuesday. the northal high for dallas, 67 degrees. so we are looking at temperatures that are about 20s or more degrees below average for this time of year. as we go towards the north, this is where the artic air is coming from. so bismarck, they are only going to get up to about 19 degrees as we go toward sunday, only 17. you can see the temperatures are dropping. wind chills are going to make you feel worse than this. minneapolis, unfortunately, you are also going to be well below average for this time of year. normally 41 is your high. look at this sunday, 19 degrees is going to be your high. we are going to be seeing those temperatures overnight lows in the single digits and with the windchill, we are can look at temperatures going to be below zero. so you want to stay bundled up in this area. also snow is going to be an issue. getting better as we go towards next week.

>> kevin corr. veau. pom announced plans to mace make visas for chinese tourists valid for 10 years. most head tola with vacation money to spend. a report on what's drawing them there. >> the world famous hollywood sign, venus beach, met -- most see places but chinese tourists aren't like most. the sing largest group of overseas travelers visiting southern california's shore have little interest in going there. instead, they are coming here. >> coupons and maps, yeah. >> to the outlet malls. i met jerry dau from shanghai while his wife was hunting for brands-name bargains. >> i spent most of my time in shopping 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, a vip room and a currency exchange.

signs and maps are in mandarin. marketing director says the stores are china-red. >> china? >> they have been trained on the customs and know how to say basic phrases. most have hired chinese associates and they accept union pay which is the china debit card and credit card and our whole shopping center is just china-friendly and china ready. >> in fact, much of l.a. is also china ready. the hilton serves a chinese restaurants. universal studios offers their backlot tour in mandarin. >> catering to chinese tourits has never been more critical. a report from the los angeles economic development corporation finds tourim from china nearly quadrupled from 158,000 in 2009 to 570,000 visitors in 2013. the surge in chinese travelers is fueled in part by china's

emerging middle class, 400 million strong and growing. the newly affluent chinese wants to travel and spend money shopping. >> why nots come here? okay. they like to go out to see the world, to buy things. >> the irony is that much of what the chinese tourists are buying here in los angeles is made in -- you guessed it -- china. but it is significantly cheaper to purchase it here, by as much as 50%. they are looking for authentic purchases in designer lakes that represents that western experience because that's what they are connecting to more than anything is this culture that 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 clamps happened in a six-story building in guandong construction workers described racing out of the building right before it toppled. this building was understand construction and the collapse is being blamed on possible flaws in the foundation. an investigation into what happened is underway as the rescue efforts continues. more than a month since 43 students disappeared in mexico despite no concrete news about their whereabouts, family members are holding out hope they alive. rachel lavan has more with these family from guerr eo estate. >> he remembers his wife who died in august. his family is with him except his 18-year-old grandson jorge. he is one of the students who disappeared last month at the hands of local police in the troubled state of guerrero. his uncle put school photos on the family altar.

he says his nephew wanted to be a teacher so he could help support his mother. we are 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, his uncle makes his bed and tidies up his clothes hoping he will eventually walk through the front door. like most families, they are poor farmers. they live off of the corn and bean crop did they grow. but since jorge was taken, they haven't been able to tend their fields we don't have any money. whenever we get some we give it to jorge's mom. we try to survive. >> everyone is on high alert. security is higher than ever. these are community police checking this car before it goes into town.

it's another example of the measures people have to take in order to feel safe. the disappearance of the 43 students sadly is nothing new. hidden graves are part of land scale here people skilled in shootouts between r i have a l gauges 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 he met with the president, he demanded to know why his grandson is still missing. >> i told him, if he lost a son, i am sure in one or two days, the police would find them. why can't you find our children? >> a question many in mexico and around the world are asking. and praying is will soon be

answered. guerrero mexico. >> residents of england and scotland are still starkly divided on some issues. one example, the united kingdom's feature as a member of the european union. lawrence lee reports. this is rochester half an hour southeast of london. much of it looks like it did in 1850 but many people here thing jolly ol' england has had it. >> that's why ukit look like they will win their second seat in parliament. if you don't know, it's about foreigners even if there are hardly any in rochester. >> you think the immigrants coming over here want to work? >> i think maybe some of them, but a lot of them are freeloaders. >> yeah. >> you try to get into australia and you have to have a certain amount of money in your bank, a sponsor and very choosey about who comes in the country. we are not choosey at all. >> a lot are lazy? >> i don't think i am racist but i do struggle with -- >> you think we are being

swamped? >> yeah. >> you think britain is a swamp? >> yeah. i do. and the more it goes on, the more of a swamp it will be, you know. when i look at footage of how we used to be, i get very nostalgic. >> do you? >> yeah, you know, in the 50s, yeah. a lot of them come because the attraction are that they can scoop money from our benefit system. in the words of kennedy, what did kennedy say? what was his famous statement? john f. kennedy? >> don't ask what the country can do for me. what can i do for my country? and that is the issue. >> ukism t claim ton anywhere but that isn't quite true. the nationalism they feed on is as english as rochester castle. scotland, they have almost no support. all of the opinion polls suggest in england ukip couldwin dozens of seats at next year's national elections and exactly the same

way the scottish nationalalists look likely to in scotland. both are profiting from massive public disillusionment with westminster. that is where the similarity ends because the scottish nationalists wants more immigration just as ukip wants much less. that's why the debates over the u.k.'s place inside the european union with the freedom of movement that that allows is such a critical issue. >> the scottish nationalits are terrified ukip's success will lead to scotland being bounced out of the european union, so much so that they are pleaded to be he knewed from any future referendum. no one is listening, not even ukip who's entire proposal is based upon more democracy. >> scotland had their vote and they have decided to stay within the british union. therefore, it's that british union, our country, that makes the decision of whether we should be in the mean union. >> how ironic that the nationalists were told they

could never join europe as an independent country. now, they could be forced out against their national will by the english nationalists of ukip. lawrence lee, al jazeera, rochester. >> coming up on "al jazeera america," out of power but not out of hope, an update on the comet lander and open enrollment began today for the 2015 coverage of obamacare. we will look at the people who applied and mounting criticism as the program, itself. please be sure to tune in at 8:00 p.m. east he, 5:00 p.m. pacific.

>> all next week. >> a new cold war is a reality. >> from europe to the arctic circle. >> the ukrainian crisis has pushed the relationship over the cliff. >> ali velshi takes you to the front lines. >> one minute! >> new war games. the impact of sanctions on russia. >> the most immediate effect has been to consolidate support for president putin. >> how climate change is reshaping geopolitics. >> new shipping lanes created by the melting of ice in the arctic could save a lot of money. >> it would be tremendously benificial for russia. >> don't miss our in-depth series "the new cold war". all next week, 7:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. magnificent little probe that landed on a comet went has run out of power. the 22 pound filet lander is perched on the side of comet 67 p built with sol area panels to recharge its battery but wednesday's landing wasn't quite perfect. morgan radford reports.

>> reporter: when it touched down, small har poons attached to the lander's legs should have fired and anchored the lander to the surface. they didn't work and the lander bounced not once but twice and balanced on two of three legs heavily shaded from the sun. >> we are in the shadow of a cliff. that's as you will understand part of the problem. >> the lander was designed to get six or seven hours of sunlight but it was getting less than that. 80 minutes at most on just one of the three solar panels. in addition controllers proceeded with the plan activating a drill to cut into the comet's surface. they were able to man oofr the lander into a new position that hope will receive more light and perhaps even restore power. morgan radford, al jazeera. earlier, i spoke to geoff faust, an analyst and editor of the "space review" and asked him what makes it a unique

achievement? >> this is the first time we have landed on a comet. we have thrown projectiles at comets in the past. this is the first time we have attempted a soft landing on a comet to better understand the truck tour. >> despite the fact there seems to be a bit of a set back, could you tack a little bit more about what you mentioned, what we hope to learn from this? >> yeah. the spacecraft returned data back. we hoped for more but it did achieve its primary purposes. sign listed spendse years 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 originaliges of or solar system. >> there are other missions going on right now, many more planned. what really is the future of exploration? >> there is a diverse range of missions out there as you mentioned. spacecraft right now orbiting

mercury and en route to pluto, a former planet, a dwarf planet. some would consider it to be a planet. spacecraft in between. we have a lot of robotic missions out there. nasa has a fairly ambition program of human explorations planned for later this decade into the 2020s and beyond eventually leading to humans on the surface of mars. >> we have been hearing of robots. that's fascination. what role do humans play in this in the future a lot consider them as precussors for human missions. robots can go places humans can't go or before we are ready to send humans in the case of mars. really lay a groundwork for future human missions because humans have the creativity and the imagination that robots lack, a human gee october can do as much in a day on mars as a robot may be able to do in months or years. >> that's pretty exciting. are we getting closer to a time

when we will look to actually mine race horses -- resources from the moon, from asteroids? it sounds far-fetched, but could that happen? >> yeah. asteroid mining has been a long term stable of sciencefication. there are a couple of companies out there with long-term plans to send spacecraft to asteroids, extract resources from those asteroids which could range from water ice to minerals and bring them back to earth or to use them for other access in space. so, it's science fix now but it may be sign fact in a decade or two. >> finally before i let you go, what's next? what's the next against on the agenda for nasa? >> the first test flight from florida, do a couple of orbits of the earth and splash back down in florida. it won't have a crew on board but it will test out the spacecraft before future missions this which will be used to send humans to the moon, to

asteroids and mars. >> that was just faust, the edit of "the space review." i am richelle carey. "fault lines" is next. check out our website fror news around the world. aljazeera.com. thank you. ♪ >> as us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeera's fault lines travelled there. >> the taliban fighters, they're running towards the base now. they're trying to raid the base.