universe. >> reporter: a window likely to produce even more revelations about worlds yet to be discovered. tom ackerman al jazeera, green belt maryland. there is much more news on our website and the address to click on to is al jazeera.com, al jazeera.com. the u.n. security council discusses a syrian refugee crisis and neighboring countries say they are stretched too thin to help. meanwhile more than a dozen people are under arrest in italy for planned attacks on the vatican. and comcast drops a multi million dollar bid to buy fellow cable giant time warner. ♪ look at this plus high school go flying as a stage collapses.

♪ welcome to al jazeera america, i'm tony and humanitarian crisis in syria is mounding is the word from the u.n. as it asks for help with the growing refugee crisis there leaders from across the world meeting at the u.n. syria's neighbors say they need more aid to provide housing protection and other services to the more than 4 million people who fled syria in the past four years and james has the latest. every month the u.n. security council gets a report on the humanitarian situation in syria, every single month that report shows the situation is getting worse, it's now believed 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict the u.n. says 7.6 million syrians have been

displaced. this month they decided to talk about all of this in an open session to try and get the world to take notice, just listen to the word of the u.n. humanitarian coordinator valorie amos. >> the government arms and terrorists groups continue to kill maim rape torture and take syria to new lows that seem unimaginable a few years ago. people have become numb to figures that should everyday shock our collective conscious and infer urgent action. >> reporter: sitting next to ms. amos other key humanitarian officials including the special envoy for unhcr the u.n. refugee agency who is the actress angelina jolie and she is there because the u.n. know the media are not covering every twist and turn of the syria crisis in the way that al jazeera is doing and hoping with her presence they

will get headlines. >> reporter: u.n. invited the government and opposition groups to separate peace talks in geneva next month a bid to end the civil war comes as they launch war at a check point today and we have a report. >> reporter: a great view from a plane in northwest hama and the vast area overlooks village to the north and south, once a peaceful countryside it now has become a battlefield and government forces have been using it as an attack position against opposition fighters. >> translator: this area was one of the first to revolt against the regime and was badly bombed and targeted now it's time to counter attack. >> reporter: opposition fighters launched the attacks by firing artillery, and targets with three checkpoints and the objective was to isolate village loyal to regime from those

opposing it. >> translator: we started by launching artillery against barricades and advanced with infantry and in the coming hours we will have control god willing. >> reporter: attempts to control the area by government forces have been met by fierce resistance. the area is strategic to both sides, it connects hama idlib provinces and it's the regime's only link to homs in the south and northern aleppo. >> translator: our main objective is to destroy checkpoints to the city. if we succeed in that we will cut all supply lines from regime forces. >> reporter: whatever the outcome this is an important front line in this conflict without an end, al jazeera. italian police arrested several men in a terrorism raid and investigators say the al-qaeda suspects planned attack

on the vatican and plotted attacks in pakistan 18 suspects include two reported former body guards for bin laden and allegedly staged attacks in pakistan in an attempt to topple the government there and police say accused suspects also finenessed terrorist movement in afghanistan and pakistan. two crew members at the helm of a deadly migrant boat crash are in court in italy and the captain and first mate face homicide and human trafficking charges in deaths of 700 people aboard the vessel and comes as european leaders promised to boost funding and legal aid to tackle the migrant crisis, more than 160 africans mostly from sudan are living under a bridge in the center of paris. simon mc-greger wood finds how they plan to make a new life for themselves in europe. >> reporter: 50 mostly sudan migrants living in tents by the river and some have been here months made the hazardous

journey across the see from libya and escaping war at home and hoping for a better life and have no papers and rely on charity for everything, it's a kind of migrant limbo. mohamed, not his real name spent three years working in libya and paid $1100 for his place on a boat which made it to italy and now this. >> translator: it's not the life we imagined finding in europe. we don't know what to do. but we are obliged to be here. this is the path we took. but i have to ask myself why are we here and eu states don't seem to be interested in us any more. >> reporter: helping migrants in france say people like mohamed are victims of a system which is intentionally slow and designed to discourage. >> the arguments which is brought forward by the government is always that if you welcome them well more will come and it's not true. people in sedan or syria do not

think i will ask for asylum in france for a shelter, they only think i have to leave home and i cannot stay there otherwise i will day. >> reporter: this unprecedented surge in member of people reaching europe unfortunately for them seems to be matched by a hardening of attitudes here in france to immigration as a whole. so finding the political will to help migrants settle more quickly and in greater numbers is going to be very hard. the rise of the national front in france is mirrored elsewhere in europe tempting politicians into a tougher immigration posture and economies and soaring unemployment you can see why the tragedies in the mediterranean have them focusing on ways to keep migrants out rather than welcoming and it's not how to get asylum but avoid being sent back to where their long journey began, simon

mc-greger wood paris. >> reporter: the war forced 150,000 to leave homes in yemen in the past few weeks and many are a part of the growing number of migrants escaping on boats in search of safety and those still in yemen say they lost everything. >> translator: what is happening here is humanitarian crisis and homes destroys and victims as a result are what politicians have done to yemen. >> reporter: saudi-led coalition carried at least 20 air strikes on thursday across yemen despite earlier announcement it was ending its campaign and casualties are mounding in yemen and more than 500 civilians have died since the end of march and 115 of those deaths have been children and as we report the resources are now stretched the limit. >> reporter: there is a semblance of law an order here despite no clear governance in yemen a bomb disposal unit has come to work not far from here

is a military base that was hit in an air strike this week. and spent ammunition liters the streets. >> translator: the area is mostly of chemical substance and we examined the area with detectors and collected the remains of explosives and now being moves to be disarmed somewhere else. >> reporter: residents say it was the largest blast they have had with the saudi-led campaign began. look around and you get a sense of hundreds of lost man hours and the thousands of dollars that will be needed for reconstruction although none of this is of urgent as caring for the hundreds of people hurt in that one bomb inging and 20 minute drive away is the largest hospital in sanaa and intensive care unit is where some of the most serious cases will be seen. the hospital director says that may not be the case for much

longer. >> translator: electricity supplied by the government has been cutoff and using generators but there is not enough fuel this has been going on for a week and if it continues i'm afraid the hospital will have to close. >> it's not just this hospital in trouble, the world health organization is warning that yemen's entire healthcare system is on the brink. meanwhile the red cross director in sanaa believes keeping the hospitals running is even more pressing than the need for food. >> if we don't find a quick solution now it will be a catastrophe in two days. hundreds of people can die because they don't have medicine. >> reporter: he says while medical aid started to arrive his staff face yet another pitfall, delivering them to the hospitals in places where there is fighting i'm with al jazeera. comcast says this morning it is dropping its bid for time warner cable, the merger would have been worth about $45

billion and both the justice department and fcc raised concerns the deal would not benefit the public and here is what ceo of comcast said about the decision we would have liked to bring our great products to new cities but we structured this deal so that if the government didn't agree we could walk away. coming up, on al jazeera america an somber anniversary and remembering the armenian massacre.

today the 100th anniversary of killings they call a genocide and arrived for respects and russia president and others were among who placed a yellow rose on a wreath to commemorate the day and more than a million people were killed in world war i and paul has more. >> reporter: it's been raining all day and that has not stopped

people from walking up to the eternal flame to pay respects to those who died 100 years ago between 1915-1923 and earlier today was the official commemorative ceremony and putin and others were here and the serbian and greek president and they had an official memorial and went off to hold bilateral talks later this afternoon. in armenia there will be a torch procession that will walk up in the center of town to the memorial and also be an orchestra performing revival concert. >> reporter: there are also many events underway in turkey today not just to commemorate the massacre but also to honor the thousand whose died in world war i battles. there have been several commemoration events across turkey and in regards to the centennial anniversary of the armenian issue where it is

believed thousands were killed or transferred from their homes, the government allowed the armenian community to celebrate it freely behind me the street in center of istanbul thousands of armenians are gathered for a memorial earlier and they took to the streets as well and those who followed the narrative that many ottomen turks killed by armenians themselves and they went out to market obviously the government itself has been marking 100 years since world war i where thousands of turkish soldiers died there protecting the nation essentially and it's very significant because the founder of this was so instrumental in those battles and he is someone who is greatly revered up to today in turkey and it's important to know also there are many in the community here the government says it has

demonstrated that it does not discriminate against and not now and neither has it in the past, in fact, the church ceremony taking place in the cathedral home to the most important armenian community in turkey and that was actually renovated by the turkish government so there has been some sort of building from the government here which says it wants to look to the future and not focus on the past. >> coming up on al jazeera america a sleeping giant has been awakened and people keeping a close eye on the volcano in chile plus it has helped to uncover some of the universe secrets and it is still going strong, more on the hubble telescope, straight ahead. ♪

let me show you live pictures now from hollywood, is this hollywood in california as the armenian genocide is being commemorated in los angeles and thousands taking part of events in the little armenian section of the city and we will go to michael in los angeles and michael i'm not sure where you

are but tell us about the events happening today. >> reporter: yeah, tony this is a commemoration of the armenian genocide 100 years since that and you know it is an somber event but the armenian is the large nest the country, close to 300,000 and are energized by the fact the pope francis acknowledged this as genocide and germany and austria this week said the same and showed a picture on the stage of president obama who was booed earlier tony because the united states for region of strategy probably has not acknowledged this is not a genocide and why they are here and reminding the world this is something that happened to armenia. >> okay michael, i apologize we just are not able to hear you very clearly but we will stay on the pictures here again, this is the commemoration of the armenian genocide that is going on right now in los angeles, actually in hollywood, california, look at the numbers

there and michael will have more on this later today on al jazeera america. british scientists say they have discovered a root cause of asthma researchers at a university and kings college in london identified the cells that cause airways to narrow blocking patients' breathing, a drug that tr targets it is on the market but marketed for people who have osteoporosis and could cure asthma in a few years. a teenager is back home after being being mistaken for someone else and the family is relieved but want to know how such a thing could happen. >> reporter: a moment that 14-year-old was taken from her school in mexico. federal agents who were carrying out a court order forced the distraught teenager into a car and across the state to texas, a

u.s. citizen garcia claimed that she was her missing daughter and dna tests carried out after the girl was taken showed the teenager is not related to the woman. on wednesday she was reunited with her parents. >> translator: first of was upset because i never been so far away from my parents then i calm down a bit and felt weird and a bit scared. >> not clear how the apparent mix up happened and authorities say they were enforcing the law and many are questioning why a dna test wasn't carried out in the first place and her mother says the authorities ripped her daughter from her arms and she still feels rage over the incident and she is now happy to be home while the search for garcia's missing daughter goes on andy gallagher. chile bracing for a third volcano eruption and monitoring the volcano today, this is the first time it has erupted in more than 40 years and it's already erupted twice in the

past two days prompting evacuations and a state of emergency. today marks 25 years since nasa launched the hubble space telescope in honor of the anniversary they had a 3d visualization showing the gum 29 nebula and as tom ackerman reports nasa officials say it has completely transformed how we view the universe. >> reporter: in new york city's time square this week the tourists are getting a real time display that is literally out of this world, far, far out thanks to the hubble space telescope which launched in 1990 since then from the orbit 500 kilometers above earth the instrument sent back 1.2 million observations, by hovering past the earth's atmospheric haze hubble visual accuracy is liken to seeing fire flies in japan all the way from the east coast of north america as a result scientists have gotten their

most accurate look of planets in the solar system and for the first time identified more planets beyond it. >> the mirror is down on this end and this part points out into space. >> reporter: wanted deeper appreciation of the immense space. >> we know thanks to the deep i'm and images there are 200 galaxies in the universe filled with stars. >> reporter: startling insights in the course of the universe itself and tracing it backward in time to places 13 billion light years from earth. >> galaxys are not only flying away from each other and accelerating and this tells us the universe is filled with a mysterious energy they call dark energy. >> reporter: the only scope to be serviced in space by astronauts, in 1993 a fatal flaw discovered in its largest mirror almost made it worthless. but nasa dispatched a repair crew that corrected the error. hubble is expected to keep operating for the next few years

but an instrument 100 times more powerful the web space telescope is due to be launched in 2018. >> one of the big hopes is we have web and hubble operating at the same time and will open up the universe. >> reporter: about worlds yet to be discovered tom ackerman al jazeera, green belt maryland. >> i don't know if you have seen the video, a dozen students recovering from injuries at a stage collapse during their high school musical. there it is. that moment as you can see captured on video as the stage is literally gave way last night at westfield high. that is about 30 miles from indianapolis and most injuries were minor thankfully and the school is open for classes today as investigators try to figure out what the heck happened here. detroit suburb of river rouge, michigan has been called the dirtiest zip code in the state because of poor air quality and as we report one healthcare

worker has her hands full just trying to keep up with new asthma cases. >> reporter: then the coughing at night mom is the telltale sign. >> reporter: elizabeth work takes her all over metro detroit. >> coughing you know something is going on. >> reporter: when she started this eight years ago she had 20 clients and now she serves nearly 300. >> we want to stop it in this zone. >> reporter: milton is an asthma educator and her first stop today is river rouge a heavy industrial area with some of the highest asthma rates in michigan. >> have you tired or very pale sometimes. >> very tired. >> reporter: 12-year-old derrick as a been suffering with asthma since he was born and it's getting worse. >> about every household we visit has some form of asthma if it's just one child or one adult that is effected by asthma they are being impacted by it.

>> reporter: a community short of doctors milton's days are nonstop and refers clients to specialists and educates them on the latest medicine and life-saving technology. milton worries about the impact the power plants factories and refineries that surround river rouge are having on our clients. >> is there a link between you know the air quality and these plants and the illnesses that you're seeing? >> absolutely. the air quality we know will effect and cause asthma. we know that. >> reporter: we first reported last month on what many residents call michigan's dirtyist zip code and our cameras were rolling as hundreds packed a town hall meeting voicing their concerns. >> a lot of us are getting our dreams cut short because we don't have the opportunity to breathe like normal people in normal areas. >> reporter: air monitoring showed sulfur dioxide levels were so high they violated federal standards according to

environmental protection agency and can trigger asthma attacks and other breezing issues but mdeq say they have the problem in check. >> in an interview with the deq, the mdeq last month, the spokesperson said that the air here is safe. >> is it everything it could be? maybe not. but it's industry. it's an industry area. is it conforming to state and federal clean air laws? yes, it is. >> do you believe that? safe for whom and who determine whose is safe for us who determines that, someone who doesn't live here or doesn't even care about the people here? it's not safe for us if our asthma rates are continually increasing. >> i always cough everyday. i wheeze like two times a week. >> what do you think is the cause? >> our air and pollution in the

air and something has to be wrong. >> why do you say that? >> bad smells and stuff in the air, it has to be. >> epa gave mdeq until april 6 to reduce suffer dioxide emissions, the state missed the deadline. >> the dangers posed to health by sulfur dioxide are worry some in wayne county. >> reporter: attorney with the great lakes environmental law center. in your opinion who should be held accountable for making sure the air that people are breathing in southwest detroit is safe? >> well, you know, i think we really need to rely on deq here they are the agency in charge of enforcing easy this permits and permitted levels and really should be able to trust them. >> reporter: we need our elected officials and we need our governmental regulatory agencies to do their job which is to protect our health and protect our air. >> reporter: elizabeth milton is not alone in the fight for

clean air. she and many of her clients hope that a push for federal intervention will begin to gain momentum. i'm with al jazeera, river rouge, michigan. got to tell you it sounds like science fiction but researchers getting able to clean a wolly-mamoth and have been extinct for 4,000 years but scientists managed to reconstruct much of their makeup from samples from two carcus eric s buried in arctic ice and think sequencing will explain what happened to them and it did not but it's a major step to cloning one and isn't that what we all want, i'm tony and the news continues next live from london.