>> risking life and limb. arrests in italy and hungary, a day after hundreds of refugees die at sea and more than 70 suffocate in the back of a truck. >> of course we're sure that these people were refugees and more precisely were probably a group of syrian refugees. >> political puzzle. former yemen's president saleh,

as houthi rebels enter for the first time since the conflict began. bracing for storm. tropical storm erik erika leavea path of destruction as it travels towards florida. and making his case. >> this deal blocks every pathway that iran might take in order to obtain a nuclear weapon. >> president obama takes his sales pitch for the iran nuclear deal directly to jewish americans. good evening, i'm antonio mora. this is al jazeera america. we begin in europe where authorities are cracking down on human traffickers responsible for the soaring number of refugee deaths on land and sea. the continent is still reeling from wednesday's gruesome discovery near the border of

austria and hungary, where bodies are found in the back ever a truck. at the same time, 52 bodies are found in the hull of a boat, italian authorities rafted ten people in connection with that disaster. while in hungary police arrested three bulgarians and an afghan connected to the truck. barnaby phillips is with the latest. >> the remains are taken away for autopsy. but we know they must have faced an ag agonizing debt, agonizingy suffocation. >> we know they were probably refugees and more precisely probably syrian refugees. >> austria is a transit country

for people hoping to reach germany but a destination in its own right. the number of asylum seekers almost three times the number of 2014. this is outside vienna, the reception center is overflowing and the streets are full of people from the middle east and africa. somalia, nigeria, iraq, afghanistan and of course syria. ayman who is here with his wife and five children fled from darra. >> we find people here, nice people, good people, always give us food, medicine some water, very nice people here in austria, yes. >> reporter: this extraordinary wave of the arrivals has stoked violence reactions in the legislature, well in elections later this year but we've also met

australia ranaustrians. katy who has come with her mother to hand out toys clothes books, to whoever want them. >> i think it is the least we can do because these people have been through things we can't imagine and they have been through hardships so the least we can do is make it easier for them to be integrated and make a new life. >> austria's government says there must be a coordinated european response to treat these people humanely to determine who should have the right to stay and to prevent more tragedies at the hands of human traffickers. barnaby phillips, al jazeera. in hungary, the government is building a fence on another of its borders to slow down the flow of refugees. a spokesman for hu hungarian

government spoke to al jazeera. >> the first phase is going to be finished by the weekend, the end of the month. and subsequent elements will be finished within weeks as soon as possible. we are trying to achieve a physical closure of the green borders which are being exploited by the influx of illegal migrants and channel them to the official crossing points. it is completely unacceptable, to have people coming in these numbers and we have reached 146,000 this year, to date. to come illegally illegally and that will. we need to reestablish some kind of discipline into accepting receiving these people. there's always been and there's always going to be a means to apply in hungary for asylum and refugee status. we are going to push forward that but definitely we'll stop the flood of illegal mie migran.

>> authorities are bracing for the increase in antiimmigration sentiment. that sentiment sparked protests in hungary today. the country has become a focal point lately as many middle eastern refugees arrived. arguing that the refugees are noneuropean nonchristian people who do not belong in their countries. other european nations have seen similar protests. an estimated 300,000 have crossed the mediterranean sea to reach europe. about 200,000 have reached greece. authorities say another 200,000 could arrive by the end of 2015. many have reached the island of lesbos. many feel they are better off there. >> it is hard to leave our country syria, great syria.

but no -- no other choice is toward here and here we are >> the greek government is asking the eu for help handling the influx saying it faces a humanitarian crises in addition to the economic crisis. >> british man in syria believe to be i.s.i.s.'s primary recruiter. death by drone strike is the latest example of how the u.s. is hitting targets with pinpoint accuracy. jamie mcintire has the story. >> u.s. drones apply the area on a daily basis. they are extremely accurate killing machines but drones are only as good as the targeting information fed to them. this year u.s. officials say that information has been stunningly on target. monday a drone took out jeneaid

hussain who the pentagon said was the prime cyber-hacker. hussain was traveling in a vehicle in the i.s.i.s. held stronghold of raqqa. he was standing alone. a missile killed him and no one else. hussain is believed to be the brains behind a lack, that developed a kill list, against u.s. military and government employees, many whose names and photos were posted online. he is suspected of communicating with the gunman in the may attack in garland texas in a contest to draw the prophet muhammed. he claimed responsibility on his twitter account. >> this individual is very

dangerous. he had significant technical skills and had expressed a strong desire to kill americans and recruit others to kill americans. and you know so he was working to inspire lone wolf attacks here in the u.s. and elsewhere so he no longer poses a threat and that's a good thing. >> reporter: the killing is just the latest in which the u.s. seemed the know just where and when top i.s.i.l. leaders would be vulnerable. in may, abu sayaf who oversaw i.s.i.l.'s gas and oil operations was killed by u.s. commandos and his wife captured. in june, ali al harzi was killed in a strike in mosul, the next day his brother was killed as well. i.s.i.l.'s leader in pakistan was killed by a u.s. drone and just this month, i.s.i.l.'s reported number 2 in iraq was also killed in a drone strike.

jamie mcintire, al jazeera, the pentagon. national security advisory susan rice is in beijing tonight hoping to smooth over tensions between the u.s. and china. rice met with senior chinese leaders, ahead of a visit to the u.s. by xi jinping. rice says, differences should be addressed on regional issues. military exercises between the u.s. and south korea have ended. for two weeks about 2,000 soldiers took part in the annual live fire drills 20 miles south of the demilitarized zone. days after the lathest agreement between the north and south to reduce tensions. harry fawcett has more. >> largest live fire exercise carried out, after north and south korea settled a deal that

at least was the most serious set of tensions on the peninsula, as well as the sheer size its exercise is interesting in the terms of the types of scenarios that are being rehearsed here. a war time and also a peace time scenario, going after the source of a provocation but also supporting forces and the command posts responsible for it. that's very much a playing out of park geun-hye. , a reflection of her government's harsh stance. a harsh reaction to military testing, we have plarntion for e

family reunions between north and south that ended in 1953, also plans for more regularized meetings between northern and southern negotiators. however, there is an anniversary of the people's workers party. it could be these new slightly wammeslightlywarmer relation heh and south that could find themselves tested soon. >> harry fawcett reporting. cross border clashes between india and pakistan, in the northern region of kashmir, both sides insist the other opened fire first. last weekend planned nuclear talks were called off at the last minute. this week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war of 1965 between india and pakistan. florida has declared a staifnlg astageas tropical stors

caused havoc on the caribbean island of dominica. >> across that island, they have said that because the roads have been really damaged, and in accessible, there are communities that they have not yet gotten to, to determine what we are looking at in terms of casualties, people that are injured across that region. as well as, they're saying that the only way into dominica, is by helicopter because of the damage that was at the airport.

so unfortunately they are going to be seeing quite a few problems over the next couple of days as well. i want to take you back to the wall. this is what we're looking at with the storm. the storm is making its way to the southern shore of haiti. haiti is one of those islands because of deforestation they're expected to see aquite a bit of flooding into the overnight hours. theons hurricane center put this track out of parts of haiti and eastern cuba. they are saying the storm is going to be riding that northeastern coast, we are going to see the interaction with the island and the problems is we'll see that system come down to a tropical depression we think, make its way to the florida keys, come into interaction with very warm water and potentially we could be seeing some intensification with the storm. these are what we call the spaghetti models and as you can see, most of the models take the

storm up towards florida but there are a few had take it out towards the west so we're going to b be watching this very carefully. >> kevin thanks. who is ali abdullah saleh in context, next. and later, the you stink movement in lebanon, protesters demanding an end to the trash crisis. and president obama tries to sell the iran nuclear deal to jewish americans. allen dershowitz joins us. ns us.

>> civilians in yemen are rallying to fight houthi's ally, ali abdullah saleh. hashem ahelbarra has the story. >> now, they have been recruited to join yemen's new army. the country's military is known for being divided along tribal and sectarian lines. some of these trainees were forced to retire under former president saleh, under his administration there was inherent mistrust of people from southern yemen. a fear they might form a break away state.

>> translator: we formed this battalion a few weeks ago, right after we defeated houthi fighters and pushed them out of the southern cities. there are 4700 soldiers, who fought off the invaders. >> exiled president hadi's return to power depends on an army that is loyal to him. a province on yemen's border with saudi arabia. some of those, had links with the houthis, thousand they are switching sides, they are joining with government forces to recapture the province of saada. >> we are making preparations to start a military campaign to save the province. we regret not taking arms against the rebels in the past now we will hunt them and defeat

them and seize their territory in the saada province. >> it remains outnumbered and outgunned by forces allied with the houthis. on some of these fighters are more loyal to their tribal leaders than the army. in the past few months, many military units defected and joined the rebels. for now, there are two armies fighting for control. the one in the north is mainly shia and the one in the south is mainly sunni, leaving an uncertain future, hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> former president saleh has aligned himself with the houthis courtney kealy has the story. >> ali abdullah saleh nearly died in a bombing in 2011, suffering burns to his face and wounds to his torso.

after numerous operations now 73 years old, saleh has regained much of his strength. the former yemeni leader may not hold a title but has great power. at his 71th birthday celebration his followers made their feelings clear. >> this shows the love the yemenis have for him. he still has the respect of the people. >> saleh was born in a simple family and had little formal education but came into power in 1978. the previous two presidents had been assassinated. few had confidence saleh would survive but he did. when the south and north became one nation in 1990 he became president and ruled until 2011. he also became a close ally in the u.s. and the so-called war on terror that followed the

attacks following 9/11. unlike egypt, libya and syria, saleh agreed to resign. a international court gave him immunity and then abd rabbu mansour hadi would become president. but supporters called for his reinstatement. >> i'm here to show solidarity with our leader saleh. >> reporter: and some say he never had any intention of leaving power. >> he's a man leaving a lot of the centers of corruption in yemen. >> sint fled yemen, still battling saudi led coalition forces for control over the whole country. now yemeni soldiers still loyal to saleh are offering military

backup to the houthis and saleh looks like he once again has no intention of backing down. courtney kealy, al jazeera. >> joining us is pete salisbury, based in yemen until the end of 2013, currently a senior fellow with chatham house. he was no friend of the houthis when he was president, the houthis blamed them for death of their leader, now he is allied with them. what is going on? is he just in it for himself? >> absolutely. saleh is nothing if not a pragmatist. it is important to remember for around 30 years until 2011 saleh was part of an islamist group, he struck upon the houthis. >> so the peaceful transition to the hadi government that was a

mirage? >> it was not so much a mirage, as a media campaign. there was this belief among a lot of people involved in the transition that if you could build confidence through good pr that things were going well, that they would be able to get to a point where there was enough confidence in him as a president. >> in hadi but then why did saleh turned against hadi? >> well hadi to saleh's mind betrayed him and hadi had been saleh's vice president for the better part of two dates before 2011 around some of the decisions he made was to get rid of saleh loyalists and family members from the military. saleh didn't like that one bit and thought hadi would erode his control of the state especially the military and he struck back. >> what about the americans? they supported saleh until the arab spring.

is there any connection between u.s. and saleh right now? >> i don't think so, not anymore. swhearnl we've seen iwhat we'vef the gpc, the general people's congress, in cairo about a month and month and a half ago but that really hasn't yielded anything. until the saudis are ready to engage in a peace process it's going to be very difficult for the americans to really do anything. >> i'm talking about the saudis. that adds to the confusion because the saudis used to support saleh against houthis and now saudis are bombing the houthis and in fact the saudis have recently this week just gone into northern yemen. do you think this fight is going to continue to escalate? because it does seem the saudi led coalition has helped the

forces in the south and may help the houthis and their ally saleh backing up. >> i think what we saw the last week or so a lot of noise around a campaign by antihouthi forces, going into sanaa. and certainly the saudis would like us to believe that's a distinct possibility and that's coming soon. the issue they're having is in the south there was no support for the houthis, people fought back against them from day 1. they indiscriminately shelled areas, they have a base of support in the north and the main effect of the war is the saudi bombing campaign. >> can there be a negotiated solution, or splitting the country into north and south yemen? as the country was split at one time? >> you have plaques mallist positions. the salehs and houthis think

they have enough cards in their hands to have a good deal here, to be given a chunk of power and a slice of everything else, where the saudis believe they can get rid of them entirely, they can force them into an unconditional surrender. as long as there is that mi mismatch, it's going to be difficult for them to sit down for a deal. >> and meanwhile, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the most dangerous al qaeda group, is gaining strength. thank you for coming in today. president obama speaks to the jews. up next, his fight for support to pass the iran nuclear deal. allen dershowitz will join us.

a missing nazi train that could be filled with gold and jewels that disappeared 70 years ago. ago.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news, president obama reaches out to the jewish community for the iran nuclear

deal. but first a look at the stories making headlines across the u.s. in our american minute. former presidential george w. bush returned to new orleans. his administration was criticized for the 2005 storm that killed more than 1800 people. a set back for privacy advocates in their fight against nsa surveillance. a judge in washington, d.c. thrown out metadata, hearing arguments next week over whether an injunction should be imposed to halt the program. a mixed verdict for a new hampshire prep school student accused of sexual assault. 19-year-old owen lebree once on the way to harvard was convicted of sexual assault, using a computer to lure a minor for assault. he was found not guilty of rape. senior salute at st. paul's

where graduating senior competed to have sex with younger students. president obama is stepping up his lobbying campaign for the iran nuclear deal. he made a direct appeal to jewish groups to support it. kimberly halkett has the story. (f). >> president obama had an online web address that the agreement with iran is the region's best chance for peace. >> this deal blocks every way, every pathway that iran might take in order to obtain a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: the online appeal comes just weeks after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed the u.s. jewish community online as well to rally support in opposition of the nuclear agreement. he argued the deal would make the middle east less safe. >> this is a very dangerous deal

and it threatens all of us. there will be more attacks and more people will die. >> reporter: support for and against the agreement between iran and the six world powers designed to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief has deeply divided the u.s. jewish community. roughly 46% support the deal, 31% oppose, with so many still undecided major u.s. lobby groups like the american-israel public affairs committee or apac, are spending millions lobbying congress to oppose the deal. >> i think president is trying to overcome some perceptions that he is not favorable to israel and he is not taking israel's interests into account. >> reporter: currently in congress the 28 members that identify as jewish just 11 are in favor of the u.s. brokered agreement. the u.s. vice president joe biden is scheduled to meet with american jewish leaders in

florida to try and win over their support. kimberly halkett, al jazeera. >> allen dershowitz, joins us on skype tonight from martha's vineyard. allen i know you're no fan of this deal. we have heard opponents of the deal argue that no deal is better than a bad deal. but you raised the question could rejecting the deal be worse than approving it? >> first of all it's not the jewish community being opposed to the deal. americans in general are opposed to the deal. there is more support along the jewish community to the deal than the nonjewish community. the majority of congressmen are opposed to the deal. there are two questions. one is this a good deal? the answer is absolutely not, it doesn't provide for momentary

inspections, it doesn't tell us what happens after ten years 12 years 15 years, it's a bad deal. the next question is would it be worse to actually recorrect the deal than accept it? i say the deem begins in the preface with the statement that iran reaffirms that it will never seek nuclear weapons. congress should pass a statute saying that represents american policy that iran will never in any circumstances be able to obtain nuclear weapons and authorizes the president to take whatever force necessary to enforce that form of the deal. that would turn many of the americans who are opposed to the deal to be in favor of the deal. >> the president to use force if iran violates the deal? >> that's right. and the deal includes that iran will never under any circumstances be able to get the deal. not only my idea, tom freedman

supports the deal. i've talked to several congressmen and senators who support the deal. it should be given traction in the senate and the house. passing the deal without that guarantees that iran will get a bomb in 15 years. >> you also argue that there are better alternatives and the president dropped the deal by not following through on promises to never allow iran to obtain nuclear weapons or even have the right to enrich uranium. how clear is it, that other world powers including russia and china that have differing agendas? >> i think it's nearly certain we could get a better deal. in my book the case against the iran deal, i catalog, i chart what the president said in his first term. never under any circumstances will you be allowed the military options on the table. by the end of the second term, he took the military option off the table. if the president had said to iran this is a constant, we will

never let you get bomb now let's see if we get rid of your sanctions. it would have been a better deal, negotiating from strength not weakness. tom freedman said we are allowing the iranians to negotiate with us as equals. we play checkers with them and their ayatollahs, check mated us. >> what about their agreement that would make war a certainty? ehud barak claimed that israel was on the verge of bombing iranian facilities in the last three years. >> israel bombed the iraq facility, no war, israel bombed the syrian facility, no war. israel could bomb the iranian facilities without causing a war. there is a big difference between a war coupled with occupation and a single strike to destroy a nuclear reactor and

iraq never tried to rebuild. syria never tried to rebuild. i don't want war, i'm much in favor of peace but the iranians must understand that the military option's on the table otherwise they're not really losing anything by accepting this deal which gives them their $150 billion or whatever it is back with sanctions removed and if they cheat what's america going to do at this point? we don't have 24-7 inspections, it's 24 days inspection, why would they want 24 days unless they expected to cheat. allowing self-inspection, imagine if restaurants were allowed to self inspect or athletes were allowed to self-inspect for drug use? yet we let the iranians self-inspect. >> your book raises a lot of thought provoking questions. allen always good to have you with us. >> pleasure thank you.

>> lebanese activists will take to the streets of beirut. people are angry how authorities are failing to deal with issues, including a major garbage mess. jamal el shael has the story. >> upper class are neighborhood where the rubbish bins are empty but you have to start holding your nose, the smell is revolting, the rubbish piled on street corners. after weeks, antigovernment protesters are pretending to resolve the problem or at least make it go away. waste has been taken off the streets but the question many have been asking is where to since the mainland fill is closed. take a look at this. meter after meter. rubbish as far as the eye can see. the capital's waste is being dumped by the sea next to

beirut's port. one of the arab wall's most famous sea ports, a symbol of romance is now being lined with rubbish. beirut is surrounded by mountains and greenery from mount lebanon to mountai mount . lebanon's natural habitat is one of the things that attracts tourists each year. i'm putting the mask on because of this scene in front of me. the smell is disgusting. piles of rubbish authorities have been dumping for weeks now. the amount of rubbish was now three or four times as much, locals tell us some of it was burned, others claim it was dumped into the sea but the amount was huge. this scene is replicated across several other mountains around

beirut. that is what's putting lebanon's natural environment at real risk. joey ayub is one of the activists calling on protesting against government's failure to deal with the rubbish. he's hopeful that saturday's demonstration will not only stop the rubbish dumping. >> know it quite clearly and face it all the time. we want to show them that they can demand for something new that they can demand for the rights as a lebanese citizen living in a nation. the basic system that you would have in most developed nations at least. it's really as simple as that at the end of the day, which is don't have the basic standards of living. >> reporter: changing lebanon's political reality could take years if not more. right now however a solution has to be found to deal with the country's rubbish because the environmental damage that could be cause code very well be irreversible.

jamal el shael, al jazeera, beirut. officials in poland say they are 99% sure what could be a lost nazi train supposedly loaded with gold and jewels has been found. they are asking treasure hunters to stay away, for security reasons. the head of poled's national heritage ministry says he saw platforms and cans and image from ground penetratings radar. >> as far as i know nobody has accessed the train since world war ii. the information about its location was given orally by a person who was among those who buried the train. that person revealed their secret on a death bed along with a sketch of where the train was hidden. >> officials say apart from untouched treasures they expect some dangerous materials from world war ii could also be on board. the train vanished in 1945. in nigeria deadly attacks

carried out by boko haram has, learn how to cope with the trauma they've spend. ahmed idris reports. >> this is what boko haram doesn't want them to have: an education. these children are often whose parents are thousands of people who are killed by the armed group in northern nigeria. their school and home for now offers them a new start but the transition has not been easy. >> we are trying gradually to bring them out of the bad experience, at least let them forget about some of the bad experience. we can say it's a drastic process no it is a gradual process and they are coming out of the bad situation. >> it's been six months since

they've had to adjust. most of them trying to be kids again but some of them will live with the experience for the rest of their lives. some of them have seen what no child should ever see. some of them are still in shock. young plan was still particularly sad. boko haram fighters decapitated his father in front of him. he says very little and he says he wants to be a doctor and help people in pain. his adjustment to life has been particularly lard. the impact of boko haram fighters, are physical and psychological. he was shot in the face and the four-year-old is having nightmares and behaves abnormally. the school which is run by the cano state government has 100 children and more are expected. >> it is not for us to take care of these children in the primary school.

we believe it is a matter of will, it is a matter of determination and we have that determination, we shall not allow these children to be disadvantaged in terms of their normal growth as individuals. >> reporter: back at the school, it's play time. at least to help take their minds off what they've been through. the teachers say they keep asking when their parents will come for them and when they're going home. ahmed idris, al jazeera, cano, nigeria. the trial of journalists, accused of aiding the muslim brotherhood. their case has shed lights on how egypt treats journalists. the dead sea, now it's in danger. er.

>> the legal battle in egypt over the fate of three al jazeera journalists may come to an end tomorrow. natasha guinane has the story. >> for the past 20 months, these al jazeera journalists have been waiting to hear the words, not guilty. to deliver the justice they say they deserve. baher mohamed, mohamed fahmy and peter greste spengt more than a year of their lives in an

egyptian prison. they were arrested in december 2013. they were charged with aiding the now banned muslim brotherhood. in june of last year a court sentenced them to seven to ten years then last january the court of casation threw out their convictions and ordered a retrial. >> i'm living day by day. idon't hope for anything i don't expect anything. >> last year greste was deported to his native australia. mohammed and baher were held in the country. >> what is meant for the other guy, there is still a very serious danger that they could wind up back in prison and that for all of us would be just devastating. >> reporter: the men's ordeal has inspired a global force of support. >> the issue was al jazeera

journalists in egypt we have been cleared boast publicly and privately they should be released. >> evidence against the men called the entire court process a farce. there are six other al jazeera staff members who are being trite in absentia. the verdict comes at a time when those working in media in egypt are facing perhaps their biggest threat. the committee to protect journalists says there are more journalists sitting in egyptian prisons at any time since it began keeping track in 1990. >> i will keep the face-to-face for those who are behind bars who are in desperate need of our support and help. >> but mohammed and his colleagues are hoping they will clear their names first. natasha guinane, al jazeera. >> 67 year old joseph weselowski

was found guilty of paying boys for sex. the case had been seen as an important test of pope francis's zero tolerance policy. the vatican says it appears he died of natural causes. australian prime minister, gathered in protest. >> it was supposed to be a flag ship policing mission. but instead operation fortitude became operation ineptitude. australian police forces had to admit the the checking of people's visa status on the streets of melbourne was handled poorly. >> this is orwellian.

>> sparking fears that they might racially profile. once again though it was social media, that spurred a protest movement. a cause put out on a microblowinging site twitter and hundreds gathered. the reaction was such that the australian force had to issue a statement and the protest was cancelled. the protesters celebrated their success but also managed to bring the city to a standstill disrupting both public transparent and road traffic on friday. operation fortitude was compared to an action by a fascist government. >> we fought this in 1945. >> now it's a win for the protestors and a loss for the state government ever australia, imran khan, al jazeera. >> coming up the legendary dead sea and why vienlt environmentae

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now to our global view segment with a look at how news outlets across the world are reacting to various events. nepal's himalayan times, not threat but opportunity. the paper says the eu should look at the situation as a chance to invest in the economies of the countries bearing the brunt of the crisis. i.t. accuses the european unions their own need for mieg race in thmigration inthe past. from united arab emirates says the time for a no fly zone

in syria is now. why the u.s. should create a steasafe zone on syria's border. the article says it would send a message to bashar al-assad that the u.s. has run out of patience. >> and the mumbai warrior. power of dialogue, as the countries fire across their bother and blame each other for starting a conflict this week, the paper says the most versatile strategic tool available to us is the ability to engage the other side in meaningful constructive and sane conversation. tomorrow on al jazeera america, katrina after the storm. ten years later a look at the changes that came about after the tragedy and the personal stories of survival from new orleans residents as they reflect on the past decade. tomorrow night beginning at 7:00 p.m, issue.

doctors without borders is taking action against bollywood. the film is called phantom. the international charity organization says the film's misrepresentation of the group could put aid workers in conflict zones at risk and that its workers do not carry guns or hire armed guards. the dead sea is slowing dying. the world famous body of water strat les israel the west bank and jordan. officials say mining and heavy use of its water are having disastrous consequences. imtiaz tyab reports. >> it's one of the most popular areas in the region. but the dead sea is shrinking rapidly. the salt lake has been losing a meter of its waters every year.

an israeli tour guide says the decline of the dead sea and apparent indifference of neighboring governments has been shocking. >> i see the dead sea as an international property. it is really one in a kind in the world. and it should be an international world heritage. and instead of we're destroying it and it's being just degraded from day-to-day. >> the dead sea is shrinking because 70% of its natural water sources are being diverted mainly by israel but also jordan and to a lesser degree syria for farming and drinking. the result is degraded by israeli and palestinian potash operations, they're worried about the sinkholes that have opened up, some as big as a two

story building swallowing up roads and power lines, resulting in closure of nearby beaches and businesses. >> actually the basic reason for sinkhole development is the drop in the level of the dead sea. and associated with that drop is the drop in the groundwater level, and that causes areas that were previously within salty water to be washed with sweet water, fresh water. >> to save the dead sea, environmentalists warn the it could be decades to repair the damage. and unless starting diverting waters to the ancient lake it's all but certain to dry up. imtiaz tyab al jazeera at the dead sea. >> that's it for this edition of al jazeera america news. i'm antonio mora. thanks for watching.

"america tonight" is up next. i will be back with more news in an hour. gls gls >> we see development in other areas of the city that are definitely not happening out there. >> discrimination in the housing market. >> we're trying to push forward into a more positive future. >> reply community. >> new orleans as everybody knows it. even in vietnam? >> sweet home. >> when you look back there and think it's been