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>> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i am passed debate happening now in the british parliament as the nation considers launching airstrikes against isil in syria. prime minister david cameron is using some strong language to make his case. he says britain is in danger from terrorists plotting to kill and radicalize british children. stiff opposition is coming from lawmakers who want more details on the plan. >> there's a time when already too many aircraft of facing too few targets. what concerns many of us is the lack of a comprehensive strategy, both military and non-military, including an exit strategy. >> dana lewis is live in london. how is prime minister cameron trying to make the case for conducting airstrikes in syria? >> he's making it in very vivid

materials. that is essentially to say we either hit them there or they hit us here, and that is resounding with british m.p.'s and certainly having an effect on the british public. he has used very strong rhetoric today. he said he is no longer going to refer to them as the islamic state saying they are unislamic, not a state and using the drag tear term daish, which is insulting and translated in arabic. he used very strong rhetoric. let's listen to what he said earlier this morning. >> british muslims are appalled by daish. these women raping muslim murdering mid evil monsters are highjacking the peaceful religion of islam for their own ends. >> last night, prime minister cameron said anybody who didn't support the vote today was a terrorist sympathizer. that was leaked to british press today. the opposition became very angry

and derailed the whole discussion about whether in strategic terms bombing is a good idea or not. the opposition started demanding apologies, he was asked about 12 times this morning an in fact one opposition female member of parliament stood up this morning and said let me give you some motherly advice, prime minister cameron. you should take that back right now and it will guarantee you a much better success in the vote today. if you don't, you're going to lose support. >> we see some of that opposition on the streets with anti war protestors in london. for the most part, what is public sentiment on escalating the war with isil? >> well, i think you alluded to it in setting up that sound bite which talked about a control presencive strategy. on an emotional level, people are saying we've got to do something. the public says it supports bombing, but support has

dwindled over the weekend as the debate became more specific. are there really 70,000 troops on the ground, not troops, but members of the opposition rebels that are fighting assad that the british army or the british air force, british air force, because there are no boots on the ground for the army, could they work with those groups, are they willing to work together and what is the long term military strategy here. there appears to be no end game and it could be that they are bombing a certain patch of desert for years to come, so there is a lot of concern. >> there are similar concerns here as it regards the greater strategy. the vote is expected in a couple of hours. if approved, house could we see british airstrikes in syria? >> some have said within a matter of days. it's funny within a matter of hours, you have eight war planes in the fight. they are already bombing iraq. it's just a shift over to start hitting targets in syria.

>> we know you'll continue to follow that debate, thank you, dana. >> secretary of state john kerry kerry applauded the global response to the isil threat. >> i was impressed by and in fact moved by the absolute broad based understanding that daish is knew proven reality and threat throughout the world. >> the u.s. is planning to send more troops into iraq to help forces battling isil. defense secretary ash carter says they could turn the tide. al jazeera's jami macintyre has details from the pentagon. >> the u.s. has more than 3500 troops in iraq, including special operations man doughs that have already carried out raids against isil targets in both iraq and syria, but back in october, after the u.s. forces

assisted kurdish troops in freeing prisoners in northern iraq, secretary carter promised there would be more raids and the sending in of additional troops is a way to make good on that promise. >> in more than three hours of testimony before the house armed services committee, defense secretary ash carter and his top military advisor faced predictably skeptical questions. >> you've indicated that it's war. are we winning, mr. secretary? >> we will win. >> are we winning now? >> we're going to win. >> have we currently contained isil? >> we have not contained isil. >> both democrats and republicans seemed dissatisfied with the standard pentagon talking points that the anti isil effort is making progress, gaining momentum. >> if i'm climbing mount everest, i can climb five feet and tell you i'm making progress. if i run the next 15 feet, i can tell you i'm gaining momentum.

>> carter did unveil one new wrinkle to the war plan, the specialized expeditionary targets force, a standing force of u.s. commandos to be based inner bile, iraq that would conduct raids in iraq and syria, sometimes jointly with iraqi forces, and sometimes unilaterally. withs mission to free hostages, gather intelligence and capture isil leaders. >> it is an important capability. it takes advantage of what we're good at, intelligence, mobilities, surprise, we have the long reach that no one else has, and it puts everybody on notice in syria that he don't know at night who is going to be coming in the window. >> carter argued recent ground gains in iraq and syria could create a snowball effect in helping to convince more local forces, such as these members of the syrian rebel alliance to join the fight. >> they do exist, but they are hard to find and we're going to try to make a snowball and get

more. >> he pointed to recent strikes that destroyed more than 400 fuel trucks as evidence the campaign was picking up. >>. a senator responded. >> the snowball said been going in their direction the last 18 months. >> special operations troops to syria announced a month ago and which have yet to show up, the new troops going to iraq won't get there anytime soon. pentagon sources say no deployment issues have been issued nor identified to go. >> jami macintyre reporting from the pentagon. >> in a claim of responsibility for a bomb that exploded in istanbul during evening rush hour. five were hurt when the bomb went off near a train station. turkey has been on high alert since october when two accused bomb attacks killed more than 100 people. >> the illinois attorney general i guess asking for a federal

review of the chicago police department. the department's superintendent gary mccarthy was forced out an tuesday. there have been days of protests in chicago over the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer. that officer is now charged with murder. critics say the public has been shut out of the investigation into laquan mcdonald's death and they want an independent auditor hired to oversee the police department. >> they have not gotten an adequate explanation at all. nobody has actually said well here's what wove been doing for the last year and here's why it's taken a year to do anything. i think there has been a coverup. i think a lot of people here in chicago are very disappointed in our leaders. i think this is a political scandal at the highest level of our government here in chicago, and while i applaud the mayor's move in removing gary mccarthy, who was part of the problem, i do think that allowing the mayor

to oversee this task force, two people of which that are on the task force are on the city payroll and answer to the mayor already, is not enough. we need somebody from the outside to come in. >> a separate federal investigation last year found unconstitutional police be happened under gary mccarthy when he heade headed the newarkw jersey police department. >> with my porter is one of the six police officers charged in the death of freddie gray in baltimore. >> there is remarkable progress in seating the your for the trial of officer porter. opening statementses are anticipated this afternoon, much sooner than anybody expected. >> as jury selection enters its third day, arguments and

testimony are expected to begin this afternoon in the trial. porter's one of six baltimore police officers charged. he's accused of failing to put a seatbelt on gray after he was placed in the back of a a police van. prosecutors say porter ignored gray's requests for medical care. >> freddie gray's death sparked violent protests in baltimore, memories still fresh, hundreds of prospective jurors were interviewed, nearly allaged they'd heard about the case. >> they are responsible for what happened to him because it happened in their custody under extraordinarily suspicious circumstances. >> he doesn't step up to seatbelt him. is that a crime? does that rise to the level of such unreasonable conduct on the part of an officer? not every wrong is a crime. >> if convicted, porter could face more than 25 years in prison. he and the other five officers have pleaded not guilty.

in freddie gray's neighborhood, family and friends hope this trial will hope to answer the question who is responsible for freddie gray's death. >> somebody need to pay for that, because six police, and then he goes in the hospital and dies, spine injury? no. >> judge barry williams said the trial will end no later than the 17th of december. >> a big weather system is moving east after dropping a lot of snow. the storm hit sioux falls and dumped half a foot of snow on that that city. it left almost a foot of snow in minnesota. >> an investigation into the c.i.a.'s interrogation program, the new push for a criminal probe into what has been called torture. >> armed in the stands, why some police officers want to be able to bring their guns to nfl games.

>> half a million fields will lie fallow. >> if we had another year of this severe drought, i'd say all bets are off. >> u.s. officials admitted a yemeni man has been wrongly held at guantanamo bay for more than 13 years. the government released documents on tuesday showing he was the victim of mistaken identity. the pentagon thought he was a courier, trainer for al-qaeda. they now believe he was just a low level fighter. he is still held at the military prison. >> the organization human rights watch is demanding a criminal probe into the c.i.a.'s treatment of suspects. as al jazeera's lisa stark reports, the group wants the obama administration to investigate two dozen former

u.s. officials. >> this is too serious a crime to ignore, too grave to ignore. >> laura pitter is the author of the human rights report. it's clear where she stands, that the bush administration sanctioned and put in place after the 9/11 attacks. >> the state sanctioned global program whereby men were abducted from all over the world, put in secret detention and tortured. >> the practices detailed in a heavily edited congressional report released a year ago included waterboarding, sleep deprivation, isolation, exposure to extreme temperatures. >> the c.i.a. program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. >> california senator dianne feinstein fought to make the report public. >> it shows that the c.i.a.'s actions a decade ago are a stain on our value and on our history.

>> human rights watch says no one has ever been held accountable. it wants a criminal investigation into nearly two dozen former bush administration officials, including president bush, vice president cheney, c.i.a. director george tennett, attorney general john ashcroft and national security advisor condoleezza rice. the group called on president obama to appoint a special prosecutor to look into possible charges. it wants the president to acknowledge u.s. wrongdoing, apologize to victims, and offer compensation. in a statement, the c.i.a. told al jazeera it has acknowledged "the program had shortcomings and the agency made mistakes." the c.i.a. pointed out that the justice department previously investigated and decided not to initiate criminal charges. president obama as one of his first actions in office banned these interrogation techniques.

some of the 2016 gop candidates have defended the practices and even embraced them. >> would i approve waterboarding? you bet your ass i'd approve it. you bet your ass. in a heartbeat. in a heartbeat. >> that concerns human rights watch, which says accountability is critical to send a message to other countries and future u.s. presidents. >> without clear signal that what would happen was criminal, there's a real danger this could happen again. >> we reached out for a comment. a spokesman ned price told us that the president has made it clear that u.s. law prohibits torture without exception. as for any possible criminal investigation, the department of justice tells us it is reviewing the human rights watch report.

>> lisa stark reporting from washington. >> congress has reached a deal on a $300 billion noon shore you were the nation's aging infrastructure. the new five year plan boosts highway spending by 15%, transit systems will see an 18% increase and 10 billion will go to amtrak over the next five years. a vote is expected later this week. the current bill expires on friday. >> the latest snapshot of the economy is due out at the end of the week. that is when the labor department will release the latest job numbers. the national unemployment rate now stands at 5%, half of what it was at the height of the recession in 2009. economists say millions of americans are underemployed or unable to move up in their jobs. labor secretary tomas perez told ray suarez the employment picture is getting better. >> in the three months before the president took office, this economy lost 2 million jobs, we were in the ditch. that's the reality, and we've

come a long way. 68 months in a row, private sector job growth, 10% in 2009, the unemployment rate, now we've seen five and a half straight years of private sector growth to the tune of 13.5 million jobs. >> you can see ray's full interview with the interview tomorrow night at 6:30 eastern on "inside story." >> black friday marked a new record for gun background collection in the u.s. the f.b.i. processed over 185,000 background checks for potential gun owners last friday, up 5% from last year. the previous record was set december 21, 2012, the day after new town elementary saw that massacre. >> guns are up for debate in n.h.l. stadiums, some asking to let off duty officers bring in fair arms. it is currently banned.

>> since 2013, the nfl has banned anyone not specifically hired to work security at its games from carrying guns into its venues. in days following the paris attacks, the fop sent a letter to nfl commissioner roger goodell by the f.o.p. urging a change, saying not allowing them to be armed could leave fans and players in danger. isil pick targets based on how much damage they can inflict. there have been similar appeals to the league. georgia carry said repealing the stadium ban makes sense. >> i think it's a great idea. it gives an unfold source of officers with plenty of experience handling something like this. >> the nfl said it sees plenty

of negatives, saying paid security officers are fully trained in league procedures and are not allowed to drink alcohol during games. that, he says, reduces the risk of an accidental shooting, but for gun rights activists, the benefits of having more armed people in the stands outweighs the risks. >> when you do that, when there are more people armed, people are not going to go in to start things in those areas. >> using cameras to show where sharks are most at risk.

>> the allen institute for brain science opens this week in seattle. the very design of the building is designed to promote science. >> this is the allen institute, a research organization dedicated to brain science and cell science, also an organization dedicated to sharing its information, data with the rest of the scientific world. this building itself, the architectural design of this $200 million building is also all about sharing, sharing space and sharing ideas. you won't see a lot of long straight and narrow hallways here. it's a circular, open design. it's meant to encourage communication between people outside of their immediate work space, the laboratories like the one i was just in. you'll find benches along the hallways where you can sit and

talk with someone and little conference rooms every once in a while where you can sit and has hash out ideas with a colleague. it looks like that's exactly what's been going on here, we see someone using the wall to connect and work through ideas. it's a physical environment meant to encourage intellectual exchange. >> it epitomizes our value, we are about team science, open designs. the building facilitates exchange. when you constantly run each other, it's better than crossing multiple buildings. >> you'll see that design concept carried through in a lot of different ways. for instance, the coffee room, here it is. this building is 270,000 square feet, 350 employees or so, six stories, but only one place you can get a cup of coffee and this is it. if you drop by, you're likely to bump into a colleague and maybe

have a conversation. the grand opening for the allen institute it set for this friday night. tonight, we'll find more about what they do here, how they do it and why. al jazeera, seattle. >> you can see the full report at 8:00 eastern. >> researchers in florida are taking new steps to save sharks, baiting them for their own good. >> one by one, sea creatures on this reef in the pacific are unaware their every move is being recorded as they swirl around the camera baited with fish. the cameras are part of a worldwide effort to bait sharks. an ocean away off the florida keys, marine biologist mike is taking part in the first of its kind census. the process is tedious. >> on any one day, we may only put five or 10 cameras in. >> video cameras sit below these cages. chunks of ground up fish are put

inside each cage, then lowered 60-80 feet. >> now the waiting period starts. between the kind of bait that goes in the water and type of sharks, it could be a couple minutes or longer. >> after an hour and a half, the cameras are lifted back up. on this side, plenty of fish tried to get the bait, but not one shark came by. in the bahamas, researchers captured close ups of the top predators. the count is far from exact science. >> how can you tell you're not counting the same shark over and over? >> we kind of go through the frame and find out one frame, what's the most we see at any one time so you can't possibly count the same shark twice. >> for the next three years, expeditions like this will take place all over the world, with

cameras capturing activity at more than 400 reefs, generating 50,000 hours of tape. >> in general, where you have lots of sharks, you have healthy reefs. what we want to know is why that is so we can prioritize areas we might want to protect sharks or where sharks are in trouble where you might want to rebuild their populations. >> that can be a challenge. scientists estimate some 100 million sharks are captured every year for fins and meat and slower to reproduce than other fish. some can take more than a decade before having offspring. scientists hope the collected data leads to conservation efforts. >> there are a lot of people that rely on sharks for resources. it's about how do we work with coastal communities to make sure they are sustainable from the human and economic perspective but also the environmental perspective. >> getting a clear picture now of life underwater is critical to making that happen. al jazeera in the florida keys. >> i'm stephanie sy. the news continues next live

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