read more in general. good to talk to you professor bloom. i appreciate it. professor of community studies. follow her on twitter. that is our show for today, i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. retaking mosul. iraq gears up for a new offensive aimed at forcing i.s.i.l. from the second-largest city. the roll the u.s. military could play. superbug warning. warnings in los angeles and cross the country as two people die in a major hospital. many more could be infected. >> smart guns. companies roll out new

technology to stop accidental shooting. they face resistance and black beauty a legendary guitar selling at auction. its incredible history of beautiful music good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. a big development in the fight against i.s.i.l. iraqi forces have been preparing for an offensive to retake mosul. it's been in i.s.i.l.'s hands since summer. we know the time line for the assault. >> senior officials at the u.s. central command laid out the plan to retake the city of mosul in what most agreed was spiriting detail. officials spoke saying that the target time frame from the mosul attack plan was april or may, before the summer heat and ramadan. between 20 and 25,000 troops may

be ready by then to dislodge 1,000 to 2,000 i.s.i.l. fighters believed dug in in the city. the main attack force is five iraqi brigades and three small brigades in reserve. and three peshmerga containing i.s.i.l. from the north and west. rounding out the plan are mosul fighting forces, a combination of trible a fighters plus and special forces. despite what the u.s. military dismisses as tactical gains, i.s.i.l. can no longer seize and control lands. it shows attacks on i.s.i.l. fighting positions saying that the almost 2500 strikes in iraq and syria are destroying the fighting capability faster than

it can regeneralate. they lost cablibility, about it 11,000 troops. will admitting that i.s.i.l. is in decline, the april time frame is a goal one that seems achievable, but could slip until the summer if iraqi forces are not up to the mission. >> thank you. >> the u.s. is a step closer to training syrian rebels. washington signed a deal for turkey to host tlaping sessions. -- training sessions. the turkish government says they could begin next month. the goal is to go after i.s.i.l. but they could tart the bashar al-assad regime. president obama wrapped up the jackson whites conference on vint extremism saying force is not the only way to defeat groups like i.s.i.l.

political, economic and social issues helped to fuel violent groups, and another part of the problem is the mistaken belief outsiders are not welcome in some nations. >> we have to ensure that diverse societies welcome and respect people of all faces and backgrounds, and leaders set the tone on this issue. the president says it's an ugly lie that we are at war with islam. nuclear talks with iran restart tomorrow. secretary of state john kerry heads to europe to take part. the white house today objected to what israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been saying been the discussions,

acutesing him of cherry-picking details. binyamin netanyahu is scheduled to address the u.s. congress in they say than two weeks. anger and questions in venezuela's capital caracas after the arrest of the mayor. dozens of armed men were shown breaking into his office, a leading opposition figure in venezuela. protesters gathered outside the office. he'll be prosecuted claiming he was part of a coup attempt financed by the united states. >> health officials in los angeles sni. there's no larger threat to the public after two died from a superbug. as rob reynolds tells us 179 others may have been exposed. >> reporter: patients were infected at the ronald regan

medical center at the u.c.l.a. they had undergone procedures for pancreatic disease. the so-called superbug in this case is known as cre, normally residing harmlessly in the di guestive tract. if it enters the bloodstream, it can cause infection. >> patients developed severe infections after undergoing the procedure. >> reporter: the bacteria cannot be killed by powerful antibiotics. >> two scopes were used. they need to be cleaned andsterized. because the equipment contained small intricate parts, cleaning it according to the manu facturers specifications may not

eliminate infection. >> it's an arms race between organ ims that developed a capacity to adapt to drugs. infected scopes have been discarded. last september the u.s. centers for disease control warned of the potentially catastrophic consequences of cre and other types of drug resistant bacteria. saying that more than 20,000 people died from exposure to them in the u.s. every year one of women is telling her side of the story, asking us to conceal her identity.

she was an employee. she told her that it will be difficult to go forward. >> whether it's good or bad, if it happiness. there's a stigma that they won't get married. there's a stain - stay away from that world. >> four women, including lana filed a civil suit. they have been criminally charged with sexual abuse and aggravated battery. criminal charges are falls but have not responded to the civil suit. you can see more of the interview on the website aljazeera.com the largest employer in the u.s. is trying to shake its image as a place for dead end jobs. wal-mart announced it would give

raises to half of its workers. >> reporter: the global retail giant earning for than $16 billion in profit has become a glaring symbol of corpt greed to labour organizers and some disgruntled organisers. the logo is save money, live better while workers should be living better. >> we are making changes to the pay. strengthening the opportunity to progress within the company, and offering more choice in scheduling. >> reporter: over the next year it will boost wages to $13 for full-time workers, $10 for those less than $40. it's below the national ampgs, but higher on average than what the lowest level staff personnel are paid. >> the company promises to so

far part-timers more working hours and a chance to pick predictable schedules. >> the announcement comes as wal-mart announces its first shot in traffic. it is in part a response to competition among merchants for better trained workers. wal-mart's training wage falls short of $15 minimum demanded by campaigners. >> it's not enough for a full-time worker to keep the family out of poverty. many are not full-time workers. and they have been asking for full-time workers. the white house wants congress to raise the wage. half the states are raising their own minimum wage lels only a hand. ful as much as -- handful as much as walmarts. >> the first same-sex marriage

in texas will be celebrated. it was issued to a lesbian couple. under the order from a judge. they quickly married. the supreme court stepped in hours later blocking any other marriages. the ban is being appealed in federal court. next - why gun makers are reluct act to offer smart guns. >> the stigma of releasing a product that is cool you can't beat that technology to prevent firearms used by anyone but their openers, and the arts against it.

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at least 60 children a year are killed in gun accidents in the united states. in 199415-year-old kenso wrote down a 10-year plan. a month before school let out for the summer he went to the friend's house. his friend brought out a handgun. thinking he had unloaded it he pulled the trigger. the trigger in the chamber hit kenso's heart. his father spent the next decade in court trying to punish the manufacturer for making an unsafe gun. he lost. gun rights groups say that what is needed it getter training, not more regulation.

>> when you do things right with holsters and lock them you don't have the problems much there's still the children that have this happens. the nrma teaches kids to stop don't touch. >> some children are too young to understand. after christmas a to the ler accidentally killed his mother with a gun she kept in her purse. >> accessed a concealed weapon discharging it and a 3-year-old shot his father and mother in a hotel room. >> that's what happens when you don't secure a firearm and you are unsafe. children have easy access to them. people got hurt. >> a child cannot use a cell phone if it's locked. but in this cases, nothing in the design presented children pulling the trigger.

gun manufacturers have been addressing this issue usual. arm armatich tried to sell a smart gun. to try to prevent a child shooting a gun and prevent gun theft. law enforce. leeks the idea. >> coding the gun to the owner. go ahead. it's your gun, specific to you, and can't fall into the wrong hand. that would be a good thing. gun owners are hostile to the necks. >> they are not afraid of technology, you see news. you pull the trigger and move around and you are on tart. most of the push back for private citizens - the battery

is dead and you didn't know. >> politics plays a role here a state law in new jersey mandates when a smart gun is available to buy. aum handguns must become smart guns within 30 months it was written to promote research and development and manufacture of smart guns. it seems to have an opposite effect. when the of pistol went on sale. there was death tlath. >> there is a stigma of i might screw up gunrites. you can't be that manufacturer. >> kenso's father can see where his son is buried. 21 years after his death, he doesn't visit the grave as much as he used to. >> reporter: do you find

yourself marking the time. >> yes. i ran no a friend of his who is going to graduate school and sitting englishing and getting his ph.d. and i thought i wonder what kenso would have been doing phil watson is director for special events from the second amendment foundation and joins us from seattle. as jake mentioned, gun are exempt from safety products. do guns apply to all gun that is could be safer? >> not necessarily. the big problems is laws like what happened in the state of new jersey which mandate smart guns. once a smart gun is bought. a lot of gun rights activists and owners public polling shows are on the side of the military

and law enforce: and i thing there's a lot of staib holders and want to cloak in the gun safety ideology yet they have other motives like limiting or inhibiting the second amendment like the law in new jersey limiting choices. >> if there weren't any laws that mandated the use of the guns, would you have a problem with it? >> no public polling shows second amendment supporters wouldn't have a problem with the guns being veil. the problem is when people on the other side of the aisle are against the second amendment want to come in and use technology as a means to attack the second amendment and mandate these things, i think it's a

problem. a lot of gun owners are hesitant because when you deal with an emergency or deadly force, they want to know that the guns will work. they don't want to fumble with it in the dark or whatever. there's definitely hesitation there. >> some components argue that they are not trying to limit second amendment rights. there are gun deaths fewer, not by months in which guns are used. would there be a net benefit. exhale the number of self-defence uses far exceeds the accidents with firearms. the national centre for crime and crime prevention has documented that. again, awould like it say the problem is the mandate, and even

the people who trust their lives to a gun every day, the people in the military and law enforce. none have adapted so-called martyr safe guns, the proper procedure is look make them available. if people want to buy it that's fine that's their right to do so. >> would you have an objection if the laws went away and the technology got better and proved effective with no glitches? >> you know i wouldn't want to mandate any type of gun be sold simply for the fact that people should have the choice like you have the choice to write any time of look you want. freedom of speech is in the bill of rights. >> phil watson of the second

amendment foundation, good to have you with us. coming up frigid air from the arctic is bringing record low temperatures to a large part of the country. nicole mitchell with the forecast. >> and history that has this guitar worth a small fortune.

two cyclone are slamming na australia. -- into australia. psych loam lamb and marr she. she. lamb hit the northern territory packing 135 miles per hour. >> there are reports of widespread damage and power outments. for a lot in the u.s. the weather is not just cold it's breaking records. meteorologist nicole mitchell said the temperatures are dropping. >> it's spreading so far to the south, cold air in pleases like

cuba run, 10-20 below average. well below average in the east coast today and into tomorrow and through the night it will be cold, and we are going to sea that it stays in place for the next couple of days. a little relief. it will bring rain and nope. sydney -- rain and snow. the doesn't include the windchill. it will feel like minus 20. you need to be prepared tomorrow morning. i mentioned that we have a high pressure to the east of that. you get a warming flow. as far north as billings 44. that is warmer than atlanta in the cold sector. you can tell the contrast out there. i mentioned the next weather system. here it is. it's possible, and then this moves from tomorrow to the

north-east for saturday. some of that turns to rain into the second day, for maces like boston, that are sick of the snow and would rather have the rain. >> and les paul was a great guitarist and mark trickett guitar pioneers. among his preductions was a prototype known as black beauty. you are dressed for the weather. >> i'm dressed as a rock journalist. that's what we do. it's a guitar that some said was so significant to popular music history that it carried a price tag of up to 2 million. others attacked less significance and a lower price. find out who was correct after the story of the black beauty and the man that sold her at auction. >> reporter: the 1954 gibson prototype black beauty played here by tom doyle, paul's

right-hand man for years. >> i'm working with one of the greatest geniuses. >> reporter: les paul was frugal and tom worked long hours for little or no money. when he was given the black beauty in lieu of a pay check, tom said thanks. >> i said thanks. he said "it's yours, tom." tom is selling the black beauty at access with all of paul's pioneering tropics, stuff he wouldn't show anyone but tom. february's guitar playing magazine has it. this is ted playing it in a 1950s tv show sponsored by mouth watch. >> the point is this guitar was the beginning of what les wanted in an trick guitar.

>> which is why it is seen by some as the mother of all models that followed. >> where will you find iconic history like this. >> some rock stars say it wasn't the gibson black beauty that paved the way, many played by rock legends, but earlier models like those made up to two years earlier. is the black beauty the grail of guitars. tom says the problem is while the frames from the 1950s, the tropics are from a different decade. >> it has pick ups from the 1960s, which never really caught on. they have a distinctive, interesting sound, but not the sound that we associate with regards. in the auction rooms, supporters say it's that combination and up

to date technology that make the black beauty valuable. and tom would be happy if his instrument ends up in a museum rather that locked away. >> this would be appreciated and enjoyed as he has been privileged to do for deck tads. >> that is music to everybody's ears. >> reporter: he is such a nice man. let me tell you. is he a rich man. the auction ended a few hours ago with the guitar selling not for $2 million, but less. $335,500. the name of the buyer not released. as in keeping with most auctions, with all the history, i'm thinking that whoever has brought it has got a bargain of a century. 300 grand n.a.s.a. has redesigned the

space satisfaction to add two more docking spots. astronauts can only arriving using russian space stations. that should change. i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us. for the latest news go to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is up next. have a great night. hello, i'm luis suarez this week's white house -- ray suarez this week's white house conference wrestled with subject from new york, to paris, to baghdad - people ready to kill others to reach political goals, and it's hard to investigate, arrest or kill your way out of it. the global