>> inching closer to a resolution. iran's nuclear talks seem to be breaking down but word a break through may be made. western economic sanctions. in contact rebuilding gaza, six months after israel's shelling and why some believe there may be another

confrontation brewing. >> the head of the imf christine la garde. and why she believes women hold the key to a global economy. welcome to al jazeera america's international news hour. i'm stephanie sy. >> and i'm antonio mora. we begin tonight with iran and its nuclear program. a historic deal may be finally reaching resolution. secretary of state john kerry and ernest moniz met with the head of the iran's atomic agency. rm see this as a sign that a resolution is in the works. >> there is a sign that tehran is finding ways to undermine.

secret activities of iran's agents in africa. is f. >> first, john terret with where the talks stand. >> five days of unilateral talks between u.s. and iran, technical aspects of the program. that meant bringing in top members of the u.s. and iran, their job to hash out which parts of the program could be kept and which part of tehran's program needed to be banned. moniz and salehi helped to sharpen on some of the details and the question on international sanctions on iran was discussed. with five weeks left before the march 31st deadline, reports

that the talks were challenging and productive and appearing to be negotiating in good faith. in tehran, iran yafns want a deal that is a win win for them and the west. but would not be bullied into concessions that undermine their national security. that in context of secretary of state john kerry's statement that the u.s. is not willing to negotiate forever. >> i'm absolutely confident president obama is fully prepared to stop these talks if he feels that they're not being met with the kind of productive decision making necessary to prove that a program is in fact peaceful. >> reporter: more talks are likely in the weeks before the march 31st deadline and so too are the public declarations from both sides about what they're not willing to concede. john terret, israel.

>> officials in israel oppose the negotiations with iran saying tehran's nuclear ambition ambitions represent a threat to them. the agreement with iran as it is coming together now is a great danger to western peace and a threat to israel's security. eight days from now israel's prime minister is expected to echo those words when he addresses congress in washington. house republicans invited benjamin netanyahu to speak in what the white house has termed a breach of protocol. president obama will not be meeting with netanyahu but other democrats do want face time with him. richard durbin and dianne feinstein have invited him to a closed door session. >> co-director of the iran democracy project at the hoover institution. it's very good to have you with us. with these higher level players who attended these negotiations

are you more optimistic that a deal is going to be reached? >> i am. i think both sides seem to be very earnest in trying to arrive at a imroms compromise but both sides have a cantankerous home base. part of that attempt to assuage the angry home base, the radicals in iran and the conservative republicans in the u.s. that the deal that is being made is not compromising the security of the west or iran's dignity as they refer to it. >> right and the sticking points, the u.s. wants to limit the number of centrifuges that can enrich uranium. the iranians want the sanctions lifted quickly to help their struggling economy. first, the u.s. they want less than 1,000 centrifuges. but the grand ayatollah says he wanted 190,000.

>> i think the ayatollah was talking about 190,000 units it wasn't clear what centrifuges or the quality he was referring to. iran has 19,000 left to go and left 10,000 of them idle. it looks like 6,000 will be allowed to be working and that what they produce ask going to be by all indication, be put under very strict international controls, so they cannot be easily converted to weapons grade uranium. >> on the western side, the hard liners on capitol hill want tougher sanctions. the iranians want the sanctions loosened. can they back up whatever they agree to? >> i think the president of the united states generally have a lot of leeway in foreign policy and congress, while it can make trouble for the president, i

don't think it can trump his hand. so if the president decides there is a deal to be made i think he can move forward and try to make that deal. but i think he has to convince the home base, the international community, and israel, and not just netanyahu but there are others in israel who want by all indications, want some deal but don't want the deal that would make iran close to a breakout capacity. that is, the capacity to build the bomb if they make the political decision to do so. >> right, and we just heard stephanie tell us that the defense minister says this is a great danger to the west. could that discuss l an scuttle an agreement if an agreement is reached? >> i don't think so. i'm not sure that the entire political elite is of the opinion that no deal is the only good deal that can be had at this time.

i think there are -- every indication that i see that there are some in israel, some of the liberals, some of the labor party, mr. perez who think that some kind of a deal that recognizes some level limited control level of enrichment is the best that can be gotten at this time. and the motion notice that all notion that all enrichment has to be curtailed is a bit of a far reach i think. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> documents leading to our investigative unit, phil reese says its agents brought scrutiny in south africa. >> south african spice have been watching the knowledge agency, they also noted that one diplomat had a gambling problem

and iranian government ensured he did not build up bad debt. the cables include the 128 page secret dossier on iran, it describes a typical iranian spy as: >> hily motivated being highly persuasive. >> iran is working to build sanctions and buying materials to make weapons. british think so too. 2009 mi-6 cable it highlights an upcoming business trip to iran by a dual u.k.-south african citizen. >> we would be grateful for any action you could take to prevent the proposed visits going ahead. >> south africa spice seek news

agencies and airlines, including this cape town cultural group. >> also works in union with ministry of intelligence and security to collect information. do talent-spotting and to radicalize muslim communities. >> talking about iranian links people against gangsterism and drugs. >> do you think they spy on you? >> yes definitely. >> deny lerchtion to links to iranian intelligence. >> incorporate never got support from anybody. >> the report says spice have confirmed links -- spies have confirmed links. but despite the details, south africa failed to link.

they conclude the extent still needs to be established. phil reese, al jazeera. >> today a federal jury in new york found palestinian authority and the p all righto liable for attacks in israel. at -- 33 people dead and more than 400 wounded. the jury found the two palestinian organizations liable for damages under the u.s. antiterrorism act. it ordered them to pay $218,000 to the families of the four are victims. adding they saw the trial as a quote, attempt by hard line anti-peace factions in israel to use and abuse the u.s. legal system to advance their narrow political and ideologic agenda. >> a u.s. military commander says iraqi forces are prepared to drive i.s.i.l. forces out of a strategic town.

al baghdadi is close to a spot of training. 800 iraqi troops are participating in the assault to retake the town. terry also said that i.s.i.l. is on the defensive after sweeping through northern and western iraq last summer. >> the comments about al baghdadi come as ash carter, held a dmoinl council in kuwait. carter gave no indication that he thinks the current strategy needs to be overhauled. >> like any tool we use to complete the defeat of i.s.i.l i think we need to be convinced that any use of our forces is necessary, is going to be sufficient, that we've thought through, not just the first step but the second step, and the

third step. >> carter visited kuwait after going to afghanistan where he met with u.s. troops and the country's leaders. carter says the u.s. may change its plans to pull all its troops out of afghanistan. >> france today began using counterterrorism measures to stop the flow of people going to i.s.i.l. in syria. they confiscated the passports of six people suspected of going to iran to join i.s.i.l. the ban lasts six months. can be renewed up to two years. more people have gone from france to fight with i.s.i.l. than any other european company. trying cabinet members for treason if they don't go back to work. so far cabinet members have refused. yemen has not had a government since january 22nd when

president hadi and the cabinet resigned. now hadi says he is now still president. he says he resigned under pressure from the houthis and parliament never approved the resignation. he fled to the southern town of aden over the weekend. mohamed vall is there. >> he's been trying hard during the last few days to regain control. he has been meeting with the senior security advisors and also with governors in the southeast. he is also going to meet more governors from the north. we understand that many governments in the north have announced allegiance to president hadi. they want to meet him face to face and to show that support. we have seen many rallies in the south and in the north and sanaa itself, confirming they are behind hadi. they want him to talk strongly

work strongly and confirm himself as a president so they can work with him. probably this announcement tonight about him withdrawing his resignation will help him gain more support for those people who are waiting for him to really show that he is going to continue as president. >> that is mohamed vall reporting from aden in yemen. egypt has withdrawn all its diplomats in yemen and closed its embassy due to security concerns. other countries have shut down their embassy earlier this month. antidemonstration law, this was a retrial for allah abdel fatah, more than 25 people facing charges relating to a protest two years ago. more on are the verdict and backlash to it. >> and the activists could not

believe, the court said they broke the law by organize the protest without a permit and attacking security personnel. >> the court sentences the defendants to five years of hard labor and to pay the amount of $13,000. >> reporter: the families hoping for justice were disappointed. prodemocracy campaigners criticized the decision to punish peaceful protestors. >> translator: this is an oppression and a continuation to stifle dissent from the youth. they were only holding a peaceful protest. these youths did not have a violent record. this is one way to oppress the youth. >> reporter: many outside egypt have condemned the law. ah la's supporters were expecting leniency, april president abdel fattah al-sisi's

speech on sunday. there might be wrongfully arrested people in prison. he said over the next few days some in detention will be released. some analysts believed allah would be with them, for playing a part in anti-morsi demonstrations. but his role during the 2011 uprising is what got him praise from broad but enmity from those within his own country. >> to have committed a massacre in the world's eyes, on camera, all sorts of witnesses and then they try to turn it around and accuse us of instigating a crime. >> allah was given a 15 year jail term in 2013. he was freed after spending nearly four months in jail.

he will appeal the verdict and one more attempt to seek justice. his lawyer says that he continues to believe people have the right to peaceful protest. osama ben javi, al jazeera. >> the retrial for two of al jazeera's journalists jailed in egypt has been postponed for a month. the ruling was made after two witnesses failed to turn up in court. they were previously convicted of aiding the muslim brotherhood, and released after spending 411 days in prison. >> meanwhile in thailand, two students have been sentenced for two and a half years in prison, for insulting the country's monarchy during a play. they were initially sentenced to five years but that conviction was cut in half. in thailand's laws against insulting top members of the royal family are among the harshest in the world.

the country has been under martial law since a coup last may. >> a brief stumble as it tries to get off the ground. >> athens misses a deadline. >> and christine la garde .

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look at the situation on monday. >> global workforce. >> simply put the study finds that men still have more opportunity and make more money than women overall and that is hurting everyone. the report says that if there were as many women working as threr menthere are men that would boost economic growth by 5%. in japan it would grow by 9% and in egypt 34%. >> that's not happening according to the report 90% of countries have laws restricting people solely because of their gender. "america tonight's" joie chen spoke with the head of the imf christine lagarde first woman to hold that position. continual aspiring to keep women from the workforce. >> this is something we different we would expect from imf i

should say. why is it different as you as a woman? >> it is largely an untapped market in many corners of the world. there is pretty much everywhere a gender gap in terms of income, for instance. and there is a gender gap in terms of access and opportunities in many countries. >> this study is it as much a message to donor nations as it is to recipient nations about how they go forward about how women are seen in the workplace? >> i think key message we try to convey in this report is that not only is it important to have equal access to education equal opportunity in terms of childcare, equal opportunity in terms of parental leave and joint responsibility which is sort of, you know, common ground and conventional wisdom particularly in the advanced

economies, not so much in the low-income countries. >> why is it of so much person concern for you? >> there is a lot that actually conspires against women's access to the economy. and what is really striking for me is the fact that of all the countries that we have studied 90% of them actually have at least one obstacle for women to access honor an equal footing the economy through different means. whether you're talking bank account, access to the judicial system, ability to own assets and to provide collaterals 90% of the countries that we have studied have at least one obstacle. >> is this though truly a 21st century issue? i think people would regard this as being resolved. is it truly a 21st century issue? >> it is a 21st century issue and i hope it's not a 22nd

century issue. it is a battle that has been waged for many, many years now and still needs to be at the forefront of our agenda. >> will we regard, in the legacy of your tenure as the leader of the imf these kinds of issues? >> well, what i'm trying to do is not only look at numbers aggregate numbers you know, growth inflation unemployment, fiscal situation surplus volume of debt, public debt and so on, so forth, this is typically the realm of the imf i'm also trying to introduce the face of people. and by that i mean, we have focused on jobs, growth in jobs, what is the relationship, how can it be improved, we have focused on women's contribution to the economy we also are looking at the role and the impact of inequality. not that we've become the expert in women's issues.

there are many people that can do that much better than we do. but i think our responsibility is to identify the macroeconomic dimension of not giving proper access and fair access to women in the economy. >> well, in 1963, congress passed the equal pay act. it calls for men and women in the same workplace doing the same job to make the same amount of money. >> that still hasn't happened. when you compare overall earnings the white house says white women are paid on average 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. it's worse for black women who make 74 cents and hispanics who make 66. >> the pay gap has narrowed for younger women. pew found millennial women make slightly less than their male

counterparts. the gap widens in better paying managerial position he. jen xers make 7.fiefs% 7.5% less. >> honda one of several firms who had to suffer huge returns over the recalls he is now said to have a good time, to bring in new leadership and revamp honda's operations. >> the u.n. security council convenes to discuss peace and international security. >> but it's the insecurity of ukraine that is the topic. blame game. >> as people struggle to get their lives back on track in gaza after the conflict in israel.

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. >> and i'm stephanie sy. come up in this half hour of international news. putting the conflict and the rebuilding effort of gaza into context. >> also how media around the world are viewing the latest in iran nuclear talks. >> security drills were held at the mall of america in minnesota today just days after a video threatening an attack was made by the somali armed group al shabaab. al shabaab has ties to al qaeda and has recruited young disaffected somali nationals to take up the cause. jeh johnson has asked the country to stay alert. >> stefan de mistura is trying to are reduce the fighting

around aleppo, this marks the special envoy's 4th trip osyria since july. after leaving damascus he will head to turkey to speak with dissident groups. >> at least 70 people were killed when a passenger ferry and a cargo chip collided ship collided in the padma river. >> russian president vladimir putin said a war between his country and ukraine is unlikely. he spoke on russia tv as ukraine's military continues its retreat from debaltseve. leaving that strategic rail junction town, but they claim that continualing attacks are delaying their withdrawal. officials in kiev fear that rebels will advance deeper into eastern ukraine territory. the kremlin now calls new

russia. meanwhile, russia's role in ukraine dominated the talk at u.n. today. >> this was supposed to be a meeting of international peace and security with the 70s anniversary of the u.n. approaching in a few months' time but instead it became dominated by one ongoing conflict. russia represented by foreign minister sergey lavrov was one of the first countries to speak and he mentioned ukraine only briefly. but many other countries used their speeches to highlight recent violence and to blame russia for it. >> russia today is training arming supporting and fightings alongside russian separatists who have blatantly seized territory. one that is already cost some 5,700 lives and forced the displacement of more than 1.7

million ukrainians. >> ukraine's foreign minister told the council russia was turning his country into a shooting range. in an interview with al jazeera he told me wants eu or u.n. monitors sent to his country. >> we have been contemplating the idea of putting additional element, it could be a u.n. element, eu element on the ground and we need to stabilize the touch line in order to eliminate the possible threats for further attacks. it's exactly what we have in mind. >> ukrainian plan to get an u.n. for eu element would be difficult to achieve. russia is likely to veto that. meanwhile, going to eu route it's like hi most countries would be unthrieblg sendlikely that

most countrieswould be unwilling to sent their troops into the country. >> it is really important to keep the pressure. >> the security council has met to discuss ukraine about 30 times in the past year. they do all agree on the minsk peace deals but that clearly is not halting the bloodshed and on every other aspect of the conflict there is no agreement at all. james bays, al jazeera, united nations. >> as the fighting has greatly subsided the red cross has been able to bring aid to those stranded in debaltseve. the red cross say about 5,000 people stayed put. the town's eastern district suffered the most damage. relief workers said it was impossible to reach peep during the siege.

>> in gaza, six months since last year's war many neighborhoods still in ruins. >> as nick schifrin reports from gaza many see nothing but broken promises. >> reporter: today in gaza, factory floors are filled with destroyed machinery. the only power plant storage tanks are a crumbled happy and the damage, the destruction the devastation has obliterated entire neighborhoods. gaza averages never been well's never been well off but now, there's a fear it could lead to another war. >> why haven't your neighborhood rebuilt? >> all building materials are so expensive. >> a government teacher only

received 60% of his salary after israel cut off revenues to the palestinian authority. omar has no job. 60% of gaza is unemployed. the family has blueprints but can't rebuild without more help. >> the process is slow. a week ago i went to the ministry, they said the funds from the u.n. haven't arrived yet. >> that's another problem. the u.n. agency that helps palestinians known as unrwa is broke. >> i can only describe as unacceptable that an organization like unrwa has run out of funds to help refugees. >> he says the donors have paid up because of the conflict between hamas and the palestinian authority. >> there is a lot of that blood still between those faction he. we still have two different strands of civil administration in gaza. that of course needs to be

resolved. >> reporter: until it is there aren't even plans to rehabilitate devastated neighborhoods. nick schifrin, al jazeera gaza. >> the u.n. office for coordination of humanitarian affairs released these statistics about gaza. about 1.8 million people live there, over 50% are children. since last summer's war about 100,000 people have been displaced. during the fighting more than 2100 people died, more than 1500 were palestinian civilians including 538 children and 306 women, five civilians were killed by hamas rockets while 66 soldiers died during the conflict. in the aftermath to date, $254 million or 46% of the amount requested has been pledged with another $297 million or 54% unmet. joining us is richard wright,

director of unrwa, its mission to help people in jordan, israel israel, west bank. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> everyone have described conditions as abysmal. how far behind is gaza's recovery from what you expected six months on? >> well, i think the situation now is certainly worse than it was before the war. there's no doubt about that. and i mean the big problem now to be perfectly honest is the fact that, you know, we have been unable for the last three weeks to get any assistance to beleaguered palestine refugee population, what we call transitional shelter assistance, cash payments for refugees to begin repair of their homes. >> you've been unable to do that

because you've run out of money? >> we've run out of money. so basically within this total requirement of about $5.4 billion which was pledged in cairo, at the beginning of october, our part of it is around $720 million. we have had pledges of about $135 million so we're missing or if you like what we haven't received is $585 million wii is about 85%. >> and why not? >> well because donors have not come forward. and i think you know, the united nations is extremely concerned about this. you know i think we find it overall just not acceptable that pledges are made and not realized. what is the consequence of this? that people are living in you know deplorable conditions, they can't repair their homes. and, you know, the situation just doesn't improve. and i think what you're seeing now very evidently on the ground is a lot of frustration, a lot of anger and a lot of just

sheer exhaustion. >> in some cases the gazans are venting their anger at the united nations. >> at the end of january there was an ugly demonstration that took place not against our premises but the premises of mr. sera's office in gaza. >> the u.n. envoy there. >> yes this is a reflection of the frustration. bear in mind that people have lived through teen young children the three -- even the young children, three conflicts in seven years. this has had very deleterious consequences. leaving aside the question of reconstruction and repair which is absolutely vital of course the fundamental point here is that this gaza is unsustainable. you have a blokd that blockade since

2007. no exports from gaza. it's staggering to think that before the blookd blockade virtually no goods have left. last week, not one single truck left. so how can gaza be rebuild? the imports in number of trucks -- >> you point out the economic situation. gaza was already in dire straits economically before the july war. it was already dependent on are foreign aid. what would the total collapse of gaza look like or is that what we're seeing? >> what is a collapse? the situation now is if you take our palestine refugee population of about 1.3 million people, this year we will have to give food assistance to 868,000 people, that is what roughly

getting on to three quarters -- if you add take into account the other parts of the population who are supplied by the well food program the u.n. together will have to supply food aid to 1.2 million people. >> and because of the blockade they cannot leave they can't go anywhere else. >> that's right the movement both in and out is also severely restricted. businesses have collapsed so people you know the fact -- in the year 2000 we were giving food assistance to 80,000 people. so the number of people we have had to give food assistance has increased ten times. this tells you the story. >> richard wright, thank you for that update. >> okay my pleasure. >> stephanie many in the middle east will worry the situation in gaza will only flare up in the next few years. the deputy foreign minister of hamas, sits down with nick

schifrin, after the break. an ancient art that has entertained people in turkey for centuries, the effort to refive it and why people want to restrict why the whirling dervishes want to spin.

>> continuing our in context segment on the rebuilding of gaza tonight it's been six months send the since the end of the latest gaza war. >> nick schifrin talks about the rebuilding pace of gaza. >> we know that the rebuilding pace is slow, very, very slow and there's no money coming from the donor countries and israel still put some restrictions. they should not be is a step like that. it is not human. because why for example egypt to close the crossing for along time, more than 57 days. and we have some patients who are dying here. when you find for example about 40 or 50,000 people are not paid

for seven or ten months. and they cannot bring piece of bread to his family. people became crazy became mad. >> do you blame the u.n, do you blame israel, do you blame the palestinian authority or everyone? >> especially palestinian authority. we are just exchanging accusation between one and gaza. we expect from the head of the political system mr. abbas, 22 years in negotiation and peaceful talks with israel and the result is big zero. justifying with one wink and he is not backed by hes people. when he goes to the security council he is not backed by hamas or islamic jihad he is negotiating with no teeth he has no power card in his hand. >> has iran remained a loyal

ally? >> our relationship with iran is not on such good and like in the past because we have a deep difference about the syrian issue because we feel that we have so far the he revolution with the syrian people. >> israel says it's worried about reconstruction materials being used for tunnels. as far as you know has any reconstruction materials been used for tunnels? >> we want them to be worried. it is our enemy. we don't want to be a piece of bread we want to take the in one moment. we have to be strong we have to be qualified and also we have to be alert in order to not give israel any chance to attack our people without being reprisal. >> vernon bergman is an intelligence correspondent for yediat mr. bergman thanks for joining us. it has been six months now since

the war in gaza ended. reconstruction has been slow. what is the guarantees that history won't be repeating itself in gaza? >> things are possibilities are quite slim. if things don't progress we are just going to see another term another time of relatively quiet as we have seen after the 2008- 2008-2009 operation. then another escalation and another round a war between the hamas government in gaza and the israeli defense force he. and unfortunately, i don't see anything happening. the leadership of all three sides, hamas the palestinian authority and israel, just not up to make real concession, concessions. and coming to real negotiation. enabling rebuilding of gaza. >> what do you think israel has learned from last july's war?

>> i have pointed out in the new york times just short after the beginning of the war that israel is going to lose, militarily and from the intelligence point of view, because hamas has learned from previous rounds of fire and adopted new methods of prevention of intelligence penetration from israel and the urban guerilla fighting. it is now israel's turn to learn the lesson and what we are going to see in the next round of fire would be israeli intelligence trying to know more about hamas tunnels? hamas urban guerilla drills and tactics and israel would try to diminish as much possible the number of israeli casualties, especially from the soldiers, troops the soldiers ranks to a minimum. losing soldiers in the line of

fire from the israeli point of view, from the public point of view is even worse than losing a civilian and this would be the main consideration the main priority for the next round. and let me tell you stephanie there is no doubt among israeli high rank officials in israeli military intelligence, secret service and the military that the next round will be coming in i would say two to three years maximum. >> in fact an israeli politician politician item zack yitsak hertzog said. >> back in 1994, following gaza and jericho agreement before the palestineian liberation organization, the plo

generously contributed quite a bit of money from the golf, from saudi arabia, mr. european, from north america have learned that much of the money they give is either spent on corruption or later is wasted because war between the both sides is are just destroying any kind of rebuilding of infrastructure in the west bank as well and especially in gaza. so i think now having the next round of fire into consideration many of the contributing states though giving their guarantee that they are going to fund, fund quite a lot of finance to the palestinian authority and to gaza are quite reluctant they are quite hesitant, they want to see a much stable ceasefire agreement between both sides not something that would yield into another clash between hamas and israel. >> ver nanvernon bergman.

joining us from tel aviv. >> days of rain. >> entire villages are underwater and people are kept out of their homes. >> traditionalists worry about the practices being spun today.

>> torrential rain an flooding in bolivia have forced hundreds of people from their homes. the northern area has been hardest hit at least 25 people have died since the rainy season began in october. wading for food and other aid to be flown to the area. people are not favoring better in peru, this picture shows a river bank collapsing. heavy rains to peru's southeast overflowing rivers and leaving entire towns inundated. more than 6,000 have been left

homeless. >> now it's time for our global view. as reports surfaced today that the u.s. and iran are moving closer to an agreement on tehran's nuclear program two contrasting programs caught our attention. >> entitled iran's nuclear program is a threat, says iran must agree to cooperate fully and unconditionally with the international atomic are agencies. >> press tv, a state run english outlet, has a piece rouhani reaffirms, illogical pressure, trying to prevent other states from joining the club. they have always maintained that nukes were part of their

program. lining up at cell phone stores, the government is concerned about untraceable sim cards, steiny cell phone chips that hold the information of the phone's owner. pakistanis are now required to provide their fingerprints in order to match phones with owners. >> whirling dervishes to their religious roots. >> diseendersdescenders. >> a practice that is 750 years old. legend has it that as the islamic scholar walked through the market and heard the hammering of gold smiths and the chanting of god's name, reached

oneness with the divine. roomi was a devout muslim. his followers said the deeply spiritual ceremony the sama is being turned into entertainment. farook has lumped campaign to reclaim his ancestors' practices. >> translator: today we have whirling dervishes spinning at weddingwedding receptions. they are only doing it to make money. our order has really been diminished. >> he says he has met officials to discuss his worries. but despite official promises to protect the ceremony there are performances today that roomi probably wouldn't recognize. >> there is a regulation that

bans the ceremonies from being performed at entertainment venues. it is of course not enforced. >> they understand the mentality. three minutes we show normally 25 minutes they are talking about 30, did he vicious together. >> this is an acceptable way to show it you say? >> yes yes yes. >> this group the medlana culture and art association says it's without that control the family fears the unique skills needed for the sama will be lost. bernard smith, al jazeera istanbul. in the 1920s the turkish

government banned the whirling dervishes from performing, it was eased in the 1960s to attract more are tourists to the ceremony. north korean authorities have banned all phones from entering a race citing ebola fears. while no ebola has been cited anywhere near the borders 200 foreigners ran in the marathon. cuba's annual abanos festival began first festival since the u.s. and cuba began the process of reestablishing relations. festival authorities say cuban cigars could take as much as 30% of the cigar market. >> how fast the tide of history.

barrel bombs by bashar al-assad's regime. that's it for this edition of al jazeera america's international hour. >> i'll see you in an hour. fault lines is up next.