keep adding on more rigs and oils producing and moneys a flying nothings going to happen no way. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. >> the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> officials confirm the amtrak train that crashed into philadelphia was speeding when it derailed. the iraqi military said the second in command of isil has been killed in a u.s.-led coalition airstrike. celebrations in the military in burundi as they stage a coup.

>> a migrant crisis. by quota. and we begin tonight with the investigation into that deadly amtrak crash in phillip seymour hoffman last night. we now know the train was traveling at 106 miles per hour when it derailed at more than twice the speed limit. at least seven were killed and 100 were injured. jonathan best joins us in philadelphia and what happened at the scene and what can we expect in the coming hours? >> yes tony, we learned a lot today. and this is a very active scene here in philadelphia, where the crews are analyzing the tracks

and the railcars, trying to figure out exactly what happened in the investigation. the ntsb did reveal late this afternoon that the amtrak train was traveling at 106 miles per hour. and that is more than twice the speed limit for that part of the track. clearly, it was going too fast. and why it was going that fast is unknown and obviously a big focus for the investigators at this hour as it approached the curve in philadelphia to new york city last night. moments before the accident, the engineer did hit the emergency brakes, but tony, it was simply too little, too late and it was devastating. seven people killed and hundreds hurt. and why the investigators say the quiet ride suddenly turned chaotic as they were thrown from their seat and luggage was flying. >> the train was going pretty fast. and i remember like a hit. and the luggage flew all over

me. >> people screaming and falling over. >> so again the focus is on why the train was going twice the speed limit for that area. and the hope is that the engineer may provide some answers. ntsb has not spoken to him yet. he did survive the accident, but he's currently inside of the hospital. and they're hoping that he might provide some clarity onto why the train was going more than twice the speed limit. >> so the best information is probably going to come from some of those passengers who were able to walk away with minor injuries, and i'm curious, we heard a little bit there, and what more are we learning from the passengers on board the train before it crashed? >> yeah, a lot of passengers described the same story. it was at night obviously the train headed from washington d.c. to philadelphia, onto new york city. and it was a quiet ride. nobody expected that anything was wrong and a lot of them

didn't expect that it was going too fast. the train does go 100 miles per hour in the corridor, but it was not supposed to be going that fast. they heard a bang and the sound of metal tearing apart as the locomotive and the train started to part. a lot of people injured and a lot of screaming and a lot of devastation, tony. >> all right jonathan best for us in phillip seymour hoffman. phillip seymour hoffman -- philadelphia. and trying to figure out exactly why that amtrak train was going so fast. lisa stark joins us, a news conference, and what nowhere have you been able to learn in investigators as to what happened last night. >> it's amazing that we know as

much as we do, less than 24 hours since this tragic accident curled. the train had left the station in philadelphia at 9:10:00 p.m. and the accident happened just about 11 minutes later. by that time, as jonathan said, the train was traveling over 100 miles per hour as it went into the curve. the engineer did notice, and did figure something was wrong obviously, because he tried to apply full emergency braking but that wasn't good enough. here's more from ntsb board member. >> maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied the train wastrelling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> and in fact, when the data ended just a few seconds later that is likely the moment of impact, or i would say the moment the train left the

trail, it was still traveling at 102 miles per hour. this engineer of course will be interviewed at some point by the ntsb and they said today he has had a very traumatic experience, and as you can imagine, they're going to give him a few days. so far he has declined to talk to the police investigators and that's not that unusual. they want to talk to him and the crew members and all of the passengers as well >> so we have this evidence to sort through but generally speaking, how safe is amtrak? does it have any major issues? >> well, amtrak passenger rail is relatively safe in the u.s. this is the deadliest amtrak accident since 18999. 11 people then died in illinois when amtrak ran into a tractor-trailer that was trying to beat the train across the tracks. so generally, it's not very common for people to die on

amtrak trains. certainly it happens and there are derail wants but you might have minor injuries. but amtrak has a lot of maintenance and upgrade it wants to make to the rails and the cars, and that takes money and there's a lot in congress trying to cut amtrak's funding and we'll see if that makes a difference in the political fight. >> lisa stark in washington. we reported that at least seven people were killed in the crash, and hundreds thrown from their seats when the train rolled over off the tracks. >> tony, in adjust the last half hour or so, we have learned the name of it another victim. wells fargo their senior vice president for the finance group is among the dead. tony i've ridden this train and i've ridden it, and late at night, it's quiet. for many, it's a routine

commute. it's filled with fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and at least seven families are mourning a terrible loss. within minutes of pulling out of philadelphia, amtrak train went from a ride to harrowing confusion. >> when i heard it, i was on the side. and someone told me that i had been delirious and they had carried me off. >> stunned passengers emerged from the wreckage, bloodied and battered. more than 200 were injured and at least seven were killed. doctors said that if they had given the force of the crash it could have been far worse. >> we're fortunate that there were not nowhere deaths. >> one of the victims was a sophomore at the naval academy on his way home to visit his family in new york. >> he was a loving son and family member. >> a football player, and very

well dicktorium of his high school clax, and he wanted to be a navy seal. a spokesperson said that the washington post the family is heart broken. >> jim gains was a video software engineer for the associated press. the 479-year-old was known for his dedication and passion. qualities that earned him the coveted geek of the month honor in 2012. gains was in washington for meetings on tuesday, and he was on the way home to princeton new jersey when the train jumped the track. rachel jacobs was the ceo of a communications firm who commuted from philadelphia back home to new york. her company confirmed that she was on amtrak 188 headed home to her husband and son but she

has not been heard from since the crash. wednesday on twitter, thank you for your prayers for our ceo rachel jacocks. we're still looking for rachel and hope that she'll be home soon. some passengers were as old as 80. and as young as 20, and they were from france and germany and spain and albania among other places. this was a popular tourist route as well. and all of the injured are expected to survive. >> funding over amtrak has always been a battle. and last night's accident has brought into sharp focus the divide between democrats and republicans. libby casey joins us now. >> tony, that divide has been there for decades and it's not just between gems and republicans. but it depends on where you live in the country. that determines how important you see amtrak is as part of america's way of getting around. well those divisions mean that

the fight that amtrak has long had in getting funding through congress and that came to the forefront today on capitol hill. the morning after the derailment, the republican-led house appropriations committee voted to slash their funding. the timing a coincidence. the markup was scheduled but democrats say that the $250 billion cut is the exact opposite of what they need. >> we do know if we don't invest in the capital infrastructure -- >> with accept spending, not safety. and it still has to get through the full house and senate. but yet still democrats fought bitterly to stop it. >> i find it very ironic, as we sit here, they are proposing to cut $290 million from the amtrak capital grants program.

i would say that that program is already somewhat insufficient, since amtrak has a $21 billion state of good repair backlog. and you know, it's deteriorating every year. >> instead of cuts, democrats pushed to nearly double amtrak's nearly $1.4 billion in federal spending, but republicans accuse them of trying to blame tuesday night's accident on lack of funding. >> don't use it, that's beneath you >>you. >> it has been going on for 34 years, it's publicly funded but run like a board corporation which makes no profit. they ordered it to become self-sufficient within five years or face dismantling, but lawmakers backed down from that threat. they still hope that more funding could fix amtrak's woes >> the concept that it's

always, no matter what, more money that is the solution, is not always want case. >> the rail line has powerful supporters including vice president, joe biden who commuted on it for decades between his home and washington. arriving for his inauguration on the vintage train car and he dedicated $8 million in stimulus spending to advance high-speed rail. it didn't go as planned. gop governors rejected the money, which was spent on less visionary funding. spokesman josh earnest did throat administration's support behind a strong and safe rail system. >> the administration strongly believes that these kinds of investments in infraing structure make good sense, and

there's no reason that it has to be hart of the issue. >> amtrak fakes regional fights, with northeast congressmens who live along the corridor as far more concerned about its future than those who live in the rest of the country. tony earlier this year, democrats and republicans did get together to form a new plan for amtrak. it would keep the money earned in the northeast corridor last night, it would stay there. it's a profitable part of amtrak. that would help the northeast corridor but help other rural parts of the country. the other partly of the plan was to have states do more matching of federal grants. so there's more local investment as well. that was able to pass the house, but now with more scrutiny, there's a question of where funding could go, and the budget cuts, like the one that passed today would really go forward. >> libby, thank you. and now to afghanistan where the u.s. embassy says that a

u.s. citizen was killed in an attack in kabul. they stormed at guest house and dozens of americans and fighters were trapped by government rescuers. and jennifer is on the phone. what else do we know about this particularly attack? >> well, tony, a very harrowing and long night for the afghan security house for those inside of the guest house. a small hotel attacked late last evening here. it's almost 4:00 in the morning here in afghanistan as the siege lasted for five hours. they somehow got into the restaurant of this hotel which not only had the guests of the hotel in the restaurant, but they were election hosting a concert. so another 50 or 60 people in the compound. the afghan police chief spoke to us, and five have been killed, including one american,

and 6 injured and 54 people rescued in a siege that went on for five hours. hours it in the tree line, you could hear gunfire and one explosion that went on during the siege that lasted for five hours. the security forces, the afghan crisis responded to the scene and the police are shutting down parts of the city. >> sounds like this is an area of kabul that certainly wouldn't be used to this kind of speak attack, correct? >> there was an attack about a year ago again, on a foreign guest house in this section of kabul. the security has been very tight. it is inside of the so-called ring of steal. the series of police checkpoints where the police watch who is moving around the city and who is coming into the town, and one of the things that the police chief said that they will be investigating here how those four gunmen got into the hotels, and how they got past the security of the

hotel with the weapons. >> jennifer it glass on the phone with us from kabul. good to talk to you. and reports of whether a single isil commander was killed along with coalition of other isil leaders who are not meeting west of mosul. and technologies the second report in a week of a top commanderring killed. >> reporter: the iraq ministry claims that al fare, a refuted leader was killed in a coalition airstrike and bag daddy himself was reportedly wounded in the attack in march seriously wounded but the pentagon says that it has no information to confirm the demise of either of the leaders, and it's more focused on the battle raging on the ground right now from the strategic baji oil facility. the u.s.-led coalition is

continuing to found isil targets in iraq. a video released today by the u.s. central command shows what's called an isil fighting position going up in a huge fireball, near mosul. this is video from last week. the pentagon says by its own count, it has knocked out more than 1400 of these kinds of fighting positions destroyed 1700 buildings, in a list of targets released today totaling more than 6,000 targets hit since the air campaign began nine months ago and while the pentagon can not confirm the supposed death of abualla al fare, or al baghdadi, it does say that it has killed more than 10,000 isil fighters, including some of the top leadership, and that's something that the u.s. is insisting that it degraded it's capability and

demoralizing, but it says that killing the isil commanders is not as important as what's going on, where it says that the oil facility is in danger of falling into isil hands. >> we have no doubt that they will seek to exploita for propaganda. they need a win in iraq, because if you look around the rest of the country, they turn do not have the command that they once had. >> right now the iraqi forces are essentially cornered, holding less than 20% of the facilities with isil fighters controlling 80% of the territory. and isil also controls the territory outside of the fence east and south with iraqi forces holding to the west. meanwhile, self fresh iraqi fighters are trying to breakthrough isil lines on a main route from the south for

the embattled troops, and even as the pentagon says that baji is geographically important because it sits on the road to mosul, all of the fighting has reduced the facility to rubble, or as one pentagon official said -- >> all right we lost jamie mcintyre there. there's still no sign of a u.s. marine corp helicopter missing in napal. it was on a mission to bring supplies to earthquake survivors in a hard hit part of the country. six marines and two nepalese were onboard. they are continuing to search for survivors in the rubble. and at least 90 more people have now been confirmed dead and 34 injured. the shock came two weeks after the 7.9 earthquake that killed more than 4,000 people.

coming up at this hour, the new deal to deal with the migrant crisis, and plus, new reports of a political purge in north korea. why the defense minister might have been executed.

>> after the military claimed that it had taken over the government. but officials are denying the attempt to overthrow the president. the leader is seeking a third term. protests to get the president's re-election bid have been going on for over two weeks now and more than 20 people have died in the unrest. malcolm webb has more. >> right now we just heard from gunfire across the other side of the square. and a lot of the protesters that filled the square are running this way. hundreds of thousands are

celebrating in the square in the last few minutes. and the people are clearing, or if somebody is shooting in anger. they're getting down on the ground. and we're going to camera off. we have had quite a lot of gunfire in the last couple of hours, they were shooting and engaging with the police. loyal to the president but some of them are clearly on the side of the intermediary leader, and some not. hundreds of protesters, and they are using crowd control. >> so new details have emerged in the parent execution of the north korean defense minutester. the south korean spy agency said that he was killed in the

crowd of hundreds with antiaircraft guns. more from seoul. >> was this the moment that the north korean defense minister sealed his fate. he dozed off during this military meeting in april and he was executed days later. seoul says young pictured here was killed for season with kim jong il's leadership. some see it as consolidation. >> some want it to be a fearful atmosphere for kim's regime. >> just last month, he was envoy to kim yong un's leadership. 15 other officials have been ex

countied since the start of this year. >> there has to be better ways to ensure the order of the system, rather this quick removal. the quick removal. the way that it was carried out indicates the weakness of the system and not the strength at all. >> jong un's uncle before his execution in 2013, this time there has been no announcement. the death was violate shot by heavy caliber and heavy machine guns in front of a crowd of hundreds. it's not the first time that jong un has been accused of killing people in this way. human rights in north korea released this satellite image showing what it says is a similar killing in april. anti-aircraft guns, aimed at targets just 30 metres away. north korea has already shown off its ability top launch a ballistic missile undetected

toward a submarine. the effects on north korea's leadership in what it's calling a reign of terror. >> the united states may challenge china over its reef building project in the china sea. china is creating several artificial reefs. china said that it's seriously concerned about the reports that the united states is sending military ships into the region. and john kerry is set to discuss the issue when he visits china this weekend. after the break what the ntsb is learning about the amtrak derailment.

>> so the latest now on our top story.

federal investigators in philadelphia want to know what caused yesterday's amtrak derailment. it was traveling at least 106 miles per hour just before the derailment. and at least seven were killed. and 200 others were injured ten of them critically. the engineer refused to give a statement after the crash. he was treated at the hospital. and as we try to find the cause of that crash we turn to one of the most pressing issues today. shipping crude oil on trains. yesterday, the oil industry filed a petition to stop a number of safety rules issued by the obama administration. and joining us now from philadelphia duarte, you why

were in the neighborhood where the derailment occurred. and are passenger trains in philadelphia? >> 700,000 people live within half a mile of the evacuation zone. the areas where people would have to live immediately should one of those oil trains rupture. the ntsb recently released these photos of the accident scene, and in it, you can see the investigators measuring the distance between each of the wrecked cars, and in the upper quadrant, you see several of the oil trains. they were not ruptured, but the question is, had they been, 30-65 of those oil trains pass through philadelphia every week, and because of those numbers, tony, there's a huge concern in this neighborhood, and in this city about what would happen should one of those oil trains ever get

attacked? >> . >> and measures to increase safety, especially in light of accidents like this. what's the argument? >> . >> the rules that if you are transporting haws dus materials, you need to have cars that don't leak, and the oil industry's idea is purely based on money. that's not a value judgment, it's a fact. they say that forcing them to use new cars would require greater expense and raise the price of oil. and they argue that the new breaking systems haven't been tested properly. and there's no guarantee that they would have prevented an accident like today. >> do we know whether or not those oil trains that you are

referring to, were they actually carrying fuel and were they loaded? >> i spoke to the ntsb, and they told me that they don't believe that the oil trains were actually loaded, but the image of them, so close to that wreckage, so close to this deadly accident. >> more on train safety tonight. ali velshi on target at 10 p.m. right here on aljazeera america. >> millions more cars are being recalled because of exploding airbags. toyota, and the concern is that they can deploy at normally and even rupture. now, the recalled cars were made between 2003 and 2007, and

they were made by tackatta. and this afternoon jurors began to deliberate whether boston marathon bomber, dzhokar tsarnaev shh spend his life behind bars or be executed for attacks. >> so the jurors began deliberating and they will continue first thing in the morning. this trial has lasted ten weeks, with the jury hearing from more than 150 witnesses. today they heard both sides and the backdrop of more pictures of the bombing victims, and shear agony including eight-year-old martin richard. and the federal government said this is what terrorism looks like, and they pushed for the death penalty. and wrote a note before he was captured. i don't like killing innocent people, but in this case, it's allowed because america needs

to be punished. these are the words of a terrorist who is convinced that he did the right thing. but the defense said that dzhokar was under the influence of his older brother tamerlan, who was the real mastermind of the bombing they say. and the defense told the jury, if it was not for tamerlan, this would not have happened. adding that dzhokar tsarnaev is not the worst of the worst. and that's what the death penalty is arrived for. the worst of the worst. a sentence of life in prison is for justice and mercy. the jurors, seven women five men, and they have 30 counts, 17 of which allow for the death penalty. >> it only takes one juror to vote for a non-death penalty resolution, and then he gets life in prisonment. >> if the jury sentences him to death eve for one of those

counts, he faces the possibility of execution. >> the way of telling the jurors why they should not sentence tsarnaev to life? >> they said to the jurors, if you give him life, this is the reality for him. he can earn a college degree while in prison, he can exercise outdoors, watch tv, visit with his family. but the defense really pushed back on that, saying look, this is not a resort. this is the most rigid and punitive prison in america. >> so novel argument from the prosecutors, and the reality is, this is really an uphill battle to sentence dzhokar tsarnaev to death particularly because of the state where this trial is taking place. >> absolutely. long history here in massachusetts, which abolished the death penalty 30 years ago, and plus, even recent polls are showing that the majority of massachusetts residents do not want to see the death penalty given even in this case, and

then you have got many of the victims, including the youngest victim martin richard his family came out and said in the boston globe just about a month ago, it saying look, we don't want to relive this horror every single time it comes through the appeals process. give him life in prison, and that will be justice. >> all right. thank you. let's get you back down to the amtrak derailment story. sumwalt, is a member of the national transportation safety board. and he's joining me in philadelphia. philadelphia robert, you are ready to go. and you're a very busy man particularly on this day. can i get to a basic question here? we listened like everyone else in the country to your news briefing this afternoon. and it seems pretty clear that

it's being called an accident. if the train derailed at the proper speed but at 1086 in a 50-mile zone, is it pretty clear that speed caused this accident? >> well, we're certainly not here to say anything about the cause of the accident. we're just here to collect the information. but we will see how it played a role. and i'm going to guess that it did play a role, but not to draw a conclusion. >> who does that? you'll be issuing a final report, won't you? >> absolutely. we are the agency that will determine the cause of the accident but while we're here, we're not doing any analysis at all, that's not how the process works, but we're here to collect the evidence, but to draw a conclusion right now would actually not be responsible for us as a

reputable agency. >> gotcha, and was there a system on this train or track -- i don't know how this works -- that at a certain point, it screams to the engineer you're going too fast, is there such a system on this train or on this track? >> yes, there is indeed, and it's a system that amtrak calls aces and it's called positive train control. and one of the things that it's designed to do is to prevent overspeed derailment. and so since we have an overspeed event here that derailed, i can say that positive train control would have prevented this accident if it had been operational. but the thing is, that amtrak has this aces system throughout much of the northeast corridor, and they don't have it on this particular section of tracks, and we want to find out why

that's the case. >> i think that i heard you say that this particular system has long been at the top of your wish list, so clearly it wasn't in place in this particular section of track. how long has the system been on your wish list, and what kind of deployment would you like to see for this system, throughout the entire amtrak system? >> it's not a matter of us wanting it. you're right, we have been calling for a system such as this since 1970, and we're really curious it for the last three years. congress is interested in it. they have mandated the installation of positive train control by the end of this year. >> why isn't it in place? we have been talking about it since 1970 and does it come down to as most things do, money? >> i think that it comes down to money, and also, the system

is just now really coming to maturity. the system that we called for in 1970 was not exactly the system we have now. the system we have now is based on gps and we didn't have a lot of gps in 1970. so the system is coming to maturity. and we feel it's mature and ready to be implemented. and again congress has mandated it. >> so robert, i don't expect you to answer this as fully as i like, but i'm going to ask it. has the train engineer agreed to talk to the ntsb, and what do you want to know from him. >> we have not talked to the engineer and not reached out to him at this point. you have to remember, less than 24 hours ago this engineer was involved in a very traumatic event. we are usually going to give somebody a couple of days to convalesce and get their thoughts together. and we'll probably reach out to him through his attorney tomorrow.

and see if we can get an interview scheduled. so it's not unusual to have not interviewed an engineer at this point. but we certainly hope to. we want to get his perspective of what was going on. was the train handling the way that it should have. and we think that's going to be a key factor in this investigation. >> so are you going to ask him keeping in mind your answer to the question a little earlier are you going to ask him, what happened here, and is this the kind of interview where it could reveal information about what happened, or is it more likely that he'll lawyer up? >> i don't know, we're interested in safety and in finding out what happened and if we can prevent it from happening again. it's okay if he lawyers up as long as he talks to us b. you

what is right whether or not to talk to us or not. most people who have been through tragic events like this, they do agree to talk to us because they're interested in making sure that it doesn't happen again. we are people that they will be able to talk to. >> that's a better answer than i thought i would get. one more answer before i let you go. in the course of these investigations, and you know this better than i do, some things you can figure out pretty quickly. and you officially had a handle on the speed less than 24 hours later. and other things in these investigations take time to develop. and i think that you would agree with me on that. what more are you expecting to know tomorrow at your briefing, and what will take longer to develop? >> one of the things that we hope to have tomorrow would be a better time line of how the train accelerated coming out of the last exit stop. and when the speed reached it's

maximum speed. went to know those types of things. and other things that take longer, is the survive ability analysis. we want to see how these cars held up under these conditions, and we want to drama where people were seated and correlate that to their injuries so we can see and understand why some people received more severe injuries than others. so those things take longer. >> let me see if i can sneak in another quick one. can you explain the engineer-conductor relationship. who is at the controls, and what does the other person do? >> the engineer is the one actually operating the train. conductor is in the back of the train to take up tickets and also the conductor is corresponding with the engineer because that's the system of checks and balances. as the engineer sees traffic signals, he or she is supposed to call them and the engineer

is supposed to acknowledge it. so it's in some respects like having a second crew member in the operating cab but not entirely. >> robert seminal a member of the national transportation safety board joining us, and robert, appreciate your time. thank you. and tune in friday night for our special report, derailed. how safe are america's trains? the european union is ready on it take on the migration crisis it taking on a plan that calls for mandatory quotas. >> it is a very broad and ambitious strategy to deal with the migrants crossing the meld rainion, to possible military measures to prevent smuggling networks in libya putting them

in harm's way and then deciding where the people should go next. herein lies atrocity of the plan requested to take asylum seekers, and things like gdp. population and unemployment in the various countries but that's meeting some resistance, notably from countries like britain, but they're not alone in suggesting that account people should be sent back, if they're economic mig ants instead of refugees. problem is that britain and ireland have arrangements to opt out of things like this. but there are many countries with right wing parties and problems with immigration and they won't like the idea of increases to immigration and how will they be compelled to

take people in if there are three countries that can't be compelled to do so. plenty of questions over the plan, with the leaders in the council meeting behind me in june >> so mark is a visiting scholar in europe, andent former eu ambassador in turkey from 2010 to 2011. and he spoke with us from brussels, and he said that it's about time for europe to deal with this crisis. >> the images of people drowning as finally, at the price of many lives triggered a policy response, and so that's the good news. the good news, at long last, the eu and the commission are providing a comprehensive policy. >> to what extent is an anti-immigration sentiment a nationalist movement, sweeping through member states that lead also, and maybe contribute to the pushback that we see here? >> well, i was looking a moment

ago, by definition, there's a relationship between prosperity and migration. you can see that germany is more tolerant to the migrants than the poorer countries in the eu. and the other thing people are feeling that they have lost control, governments have lost control, and there are these waves of migrants, and something has to be done, hence the ridiculous idea of military operations. that's a different subject. but essentially, it's a sort of wake-up call, if you want. the countries with a strong tradition, like sweden, asylum

seekers, in some towns and cities, they have 20% of the population asylum seekers and refugees, and they're reaching their limits. and the idea to spread the burden. and some of course sensible technical criteria, the population, and the number of refugees that you have accepted and employment and so forth. that's fine, except that it goes against the strand in european politics. extreme right politics, populist parties on the rise, and therefore this comes of course as a dedelicate moment. >> it does, and ambassador, you commented a moment ago a take from your comment there you may not think this is a good idea. but i'll ask you a question. should eu commit ground troops to libya to pursue these human

smugglers? >> first of all today, she rejected that idea. and they announce that helicopters were take out migrant boats well, very simple. they're going to leave them in the port loaded with gasoline, so tv will be excellent. but meanwhile, in the warehouse, 1,000 feet from there, they will have these inflatable dingies with small engines, and as soon as the operation is over, they will launch ten dingies and 10,000 people. in tackling the networks, in the countries of origin. >> ambassador, thank you so much for your time. coming up on the program.

jeb bush is criticized over his latest comments on the war in iran. iraq.

>> in 2016, presidential campaign news presumed gop frontrunner, jeb bush, is under fire for comments about the iraq war and some are convinced that his approach has been so misguided that bush may not be electable. >> tony, even jeb bush supporters acknowledge that this has not been a very good week. >> engaged no damage control jeb bush says that he misunderstood a question this week about support for the invasion of iraq, carried out under his brother george w.'s administration. >> i interpreted the question wrong, i guess. i was talking about given what people knew then, would you

have done it, rather than what we know now. >> but hannedy, asking would you have supported the war? he punted. >> in 20/20 hindsight would you have made a different decision? >> mistakes were made. >> iraq is a difficult issue for the bush family and for most of the american public. the war resulted in 4,488 u.s. dead and 230,000 u.s. wounded. it cost the u.s. more than $2 trillion. and according to the most recent poll, 71% of americans and a majority of republicans believe the iraq war was not worth it. a few months ago, jeb bush gave a major foreign policy speech and tried to create distance from his brother's policies. >> i'm my own man and my views are shaped by my own thinking and experiences. >> but he told a private

gathering in new york that his brother is advising him on middle east policy, and this week, there was the interview on fox news. >> knowing what we know now would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have, and so would have hilliary clinton and everybody confronted with the intelligence they got. >> in retrospect, he added that the intelligence was faulty, and instead, it was a mistake for his brother's administration to topple saddam rather than not focusing on security. but decision making. >> in this world where you're trying to find space between me and my brother this may not be one of those. >> it the statements have left conservatives in shock. >> you can't still think going into iraq now as the same human being was the right thing to do. that's that you have no ability to learn from past mistakes at all. >> and potential rivals for. presidential nomination are having a field day.

>> if we knew then and we know what we know now and i were the president of the united states, i wouldn't have gone to war. >> headlines, was jeb dropped on head as child? and democrats circulating a george and jeb attack video. >> shame on you. we can't get food again. >> the bush campaign says that the attacks are unfair, and bush himself said that getting involved over hypothetical over whether to invade iraq is a disservice to u.s. troops. it's still a muddy position on a war that most americans regret a very dangerous political ground. >> it still feels that he's trying to find an answer to the question. we appreciate that. but the top of the hour, john

seigenthaler is here. >> coming up tonight more news from philadelphia and the deadly train derailment and what the authorities are learning from their investigation, and why they have learned nothing from the train's engineer, and plus we'll hear from passengers on the train. the vatican recognizes palestine. we'll have reaction from both sides. and today oscar winner and it goodwill ambassador, susan sarandon, talks about the desperate situation in napal after the quake. >> i think that they need everything. and it's going to be a long haul. i don't think that there are as many people buried in that area and i don't think that kind of thing is happening. but even trying to get to the airport, there are reports that there's a lot of damage at the airport. so even trying to get in to bring help or supplies has been very difficult. >> those stories and a lot more coming up in three minutes. >> john, thank you and thank you for joining us for this

news hour, tony harris in new york city. john seigenthaler is back in a couple of minutes.

>> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. speeding. new information and new questions from last night's deadly train crash. survivors speak out. >> i'm not sure, you could just feel things hitting you. >> the engineer at the control stays silent. taking a stand. the vatican rks the recognizes the