welcome to al jazeera america. coming up on al jazeera investigation is raising new questions tonight about some of baseballs and footballs big stars and their possible use of drug enhancing drugs. allegations they die. peyton manning is one of the players linked. he calls can complete garbage. we will give you part of the interview maning gave today and

we will have the reporter who helped lead the investigation. recover efforts are underway after a string of tornadoes kills at least 11 people. a warning on blood transfusions. t they are unnecessary and may make your condition worse. we will look at the forces driving u.s. foreign policy in our sunday evening look at the week ahead we begin tonight with new accusations about the use of banned drugs in american professional sports. according to media reports the national football league and major league baseball say they will investigate questions of doping raised in a documentary, the dark sides, secrets of the

sports dopers. our unit infiltrated the world of sports doping with the heap of liam colins. conversations with doctors and pharmacist who made claims about professional baseball and football players claims the players deny. the entire documentary will air here one hour from now. debra davies has a preview. >> reporter: charlie sly advises british athletes leak collins on the use of drugs banned in professional sport. >> an abolic, this delta 2 stuff. it is a steroid but it will be great for you for strengthening. there's a bunk of baseball players who take it >> reporter: liam collins isn't a drugs cheat. he is working undercover for our investigative unit to expose

what athletes call the dark side. the alleged use of performance-enhancing substances. charlie sly claimed connections to several top sports men in american football and baseball. one player was filmed in his participate discussing his own use of the delta 2 drug. >> i used it last year. i was very - i was scared to be honest with you. i took it for, like, two weeks and i was also taking peptides. >> reporter: he alleges that when he worked at the anti ageing clinic, a banned substance was shipped to the wife of football stair peyton manning. >> we would be sending ashleigh manning drugs all the time. it would never be understand peyton's name, but under her name. >> reporter: pay tonne manning has responded to the allegations in the program. >> it is completely fabricated,

complete trash, gar badge. there are more add you can jackedtive-- adjectives. >> reporter: we were given the date charlie sly worked in their pharmacy in 2011. he issued his own video denial. our investigation also infiltrated a doping network in canada. we filmed a pharmacist and doctor who supplied our undercover athlete with drugs and offered to destroy medical records to cover it up. >> we're going to get into the bad shit. if you want to go black ops so to speak, i can document everything not in this chart but on my own chart and if somebody ever comes sniffing for it, there's the decoy. >> reporter: we didn't get responses for request for comment. other athletes and professionals

named in the program who did respond deny the allegations. al jazeera's undercover investigation peyton manning is the highest profile star named in this investigation. nearly five years ago he was trying to recover from a neck injury he suffered as a quarter back. the past four seasons he has been with the denver broncos and he is one victory shy for setting the record for wins for starring quarter back. manning has mounted an aggressive common against the al jazeera report. here is part of his interview >> it makes me sick that it brings ashleigh into it. her medical history and her medical privacy being violated. that makes me sick. yawned that.

-- i don't understand that. to talk about this, it's not right. i don't understand it. >> reporter: have you ever used hgh or any performance-enhancing drug? >> absolutely not. what hurts me the most, whoever this guy is, this slapstick trying to insin ewe eight that in 2011 when-- insinuate when i had a broken neck, four surgeries, i had a bad neck and i buffeted my butt-- busted my butt to get healthy. i saw a lot of doctors. i went to a hydro- baric chamber. i don't know if it helped. it didn't hurt. it was a hard work and that it really, it stings me whoever this is that said i broke rules

to get healthy from washington dc is the reporter on this debra davies. he says it is a complete job and made up. what's your reaction? >> reporter: what they say is eight months of a very, very rigourous journalistic investigation. we spent about six days filming undercover with charlie sly, sometimes two/three meetings a day, 20 plus hours of footage. every time we looked to what was in it, we primed liam with more questions to get more details. we have confirmed absolutely charlie sly worked in the clinic. i rang them directly before the program went out and they gave me the precise start date that he works there in 2011. we know for sure that growth hormone was shipped to ashleigh manning in florida peyton manning's spokesman

says that sly was an intern in 2013 and he was not there in 2011, so there is a conflict. can you resolve that, but what about also the accusation that al jazeera is relying on private medical information about ashleigh manning to tarynish her-- tarnish her husband. >> reporter: not at all. the allegation in the program which he hasn't actually addressed in his denial is a growth hormone was shipped to her in florida. if that is the allegation, the questions that haven't been answered is how long did those shipments go on, how much was shipped, what was the total cost spent on human growth hormone, but also here is the key question. growth hormone is a very, very severely restricted drug. it is not like almost any other medicine. there are only three very, very serious medical conditions for which it is legal. not just banned practice, but

illegal to prescribe for anything other than you know it was shipped to florida. how do you know that? >> would we've in it confirmed by people within manning's own camp. they have not denied that. the question is how long, how much and what. if it is for ashleigh manning which it may well be, and no-one wants to intrude on her medical records, then they need to confirm whether she did or did not have any of these three medical conditions for which it would be legal. anything i don't understand that, not the mannings but the doctor who has shipped it has committed a crime. that's the question that needs answering regarding your charlie sly, as you mentioned, he issued a video. we will play a little bit of that. >> okay. >> reporter: recordings of me

were made without my knowledge and consent. it is my belief that an individual liam colins made those recording. liam is a reputed fraudster who is banned from running any investments. any thing that al jazeera plans to air is absolutely false. i am redcanting any such statements and there is no truth to any statement of mine that al jazeera plans to air there you have charlie sly denying the claims. we have peyton manning denying the claims, the denver broncos, all denying. a lot of people may be confused why move forward with the film. can you explain that decision? >> reporter: yeah. because charlie sly's denial came something like three and a half weeks after we contacted him to tell him precisely what was in the program. he didn't reply to us. you have to question whether someone who has spoken to you for 20 plus hours when they

don't know they're being filmed says one thing when they clearly have something to hide. you've seen drugs in his fridge, a baseball player turn up at his apartment. do you believe what he said when he didn't realise there was anything to hide or do you believe what he says when he knows he is about to be exposed another person exposed is eddie demingas. he estimates 20% of players are taking drugs. why give credibility to him given that he was terminated with cause two years ago. doesn't he have an axe to grind? >> no. they restructured their investigations unit and everyone was laid off and he one of those. he was the only one who refused to sign a gagging clause which means he is pretty will the only one free to speak. mlb when they spoke to me on the

phone off-the-record tried hard to smear eddie. he spent six years in that unit struggling to fight and catch the dopers. in anyone knows what they are talking about it's him i want to circle back to the conflict of charlie sly and when he wanted the geyer-- went to the geyey institute. it is said he wasn't there until 2013. >> i can tell you that i phoned the geyer. i said i want you to do a verification check. a person said yes, she knew. she came and gave me a precise precise date that she was reading from the records of when he started there in 2011. i asked her did he work in the pharmacy and she said he was there a couple of months. i said it sounds like you know him. she said "yes. i remember him".

that's from the geyer itself thank you. the al jazeera report provided n.f.l. commenta torques rs plenty to talk about today. that story now >> reporter: al jazeera's investigation into question of sports doping is having swift reactions from the sporting circles. >> i've never seen peyton any angrier. >> if he said he didn't do it, it didn't happen and it didn't happen. he didn't do it. >> you hate that it is legit miced as a story as well. >> reporter: knowing pay tonne manning and everything he stand for: >> reporter: his former female

said: >> reporter: the quarter back hired former white house press secretary is part of his team. he said there is no truth to it. on twitter another writes: another says: >> reporter: the league is not commenting on the documentary, but reports from the washington post quote sources close to the sport you can see the full documentary al jazeera investigates the dark side, secrets of the sports dopers

tonight at 9 p.m. eastern. in texas the death toll from a string of tornadoes that rolled through dallas last night has risen to 11. at least 10 twisters in texas, arkensap and oklahoma. residents of the texas pan handle are told to stay off the road tonight because of snow drifts. altogether the severe weather across the south is being blamed for more than 40 deaths. >> we pray and support those who have lost a family member. we pray and support those who have had their homes destroyed and their lives turned upside down. i want you to know that texas is doing everything we can to help

you piece your lives back together, to help you better deal with the challenges that you were facing right now the latest weather forecast. >> reporter: think about this storm as we've seen so much devastation already. we have another two days to go with this storm before we can say it will be all over with. take a look at what is happening here. across the satellite you can see texas being hammered by severe weather. i'm going to go closer and show you the big picture of what is happening. last night when i was, we were talking about the attorney dose that were-- tornadoes. the devastation now that the sun has come up across the region. one of the tornadoes was an ef3. equivalent to 165 miles per hour. another one an ef4, 200 mile per hour winds across that particular area. tonight we are watching what is

happening across parts of arkensaw. right now three tornadoes have touched down there and we are not over yet. we have three states that are under tornado watchers. the other part of the storm is the winter part of the storm. take a look at all these warnings and advisories for winter weather. going over here to mexico. this is what a blizzard looks like in that area. a state of emergency has been declared. wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. snow drifts up to ten feet. we are looking at about 200 miles of highway 40 that is closed because of the blissard. winter warnings and where you see the purple, that is freezing rain.

that will come later on. temperatures right now 25 degrees, but take a look at the winds. we're talking about 35 mile per hour gust winds there. when you factor in the winds as well as factoring in the temperatures, lubik feels more like minus 1 with the windshield. very cold and dangerous situation. then if that wasn't enough, we are dealing with flooding for many states, all the way up towards the great lakes. i want to show you what is happening across the tennessee river where the river is flooding its banks now but we're not done yet because they expect it to go two or three feet. this is going to be the highest river levels they have seen probably in 10 years. what is going to happen tomorrow, well, pretty much more of the same. we are looking at snow through parts of texas, severe weather into mississippi. more flooding is going to be a problem all the way up to parts

of the great lakes. it's not going to be done until wednesday no breaks now. >> reporter: no thank you. authorities in chicago say that police officers last night responding to a domestic disturbance shot and killed two people. the victims were 19-year-old and 55-year-old, both were black. his father says he called the police on his son who was reportedly trying to break into a locked bedroom. when officers arrived officers say he posed a threat and so they opened fire. >> no mother should have to bury her child. especially in these circumstances. you call for help. the police supposed to service and protect us and yet they take the lives.

what's wrong with that picture? the shooting comes in the wake of the shooting and killing of laquan mcdonald. a new group of syrian refugees will aarrive in canada on monday done. >> they keep telling me is this true? is it happening? we cannot believe it until we hit the ground in vancouver just ahead you will meet a syrian woman who is preparing to meet her family. it is the same family whose death in this image seemed to wake up the world. that story is next. beyond the soundbites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is.

in iraq there are mixed reports today about the grounds gains. images of troops hoisting flags and celebrating uosting i.s.i.l. fighters in ramadi may be premature. they are unable to confirm claims that forces have cleared the government center. as our correspondent reports, success in key neighborhoods does not spell victory. >> reporter: these are some of the first pictures after iraqi troops entered parts of northern ramadi. they launched a major offensive in tuesday on a final push to retake the city after months of battles. they're helped by air support but progress is slow. government forces are facing stiff resistance from i.s.i.l. and in the areas they have taken, booby traps and houses rigged with explosives are

further slowing their progress. what began to defeat a hundred i.s.i.l. fighters is proving harder than anticipated. they're still determined. >> god willing, in the next few days we don't want to fix the , but we will take over >> reporter: i.s.i.l. has not only planted land mines but have been hiding in houses waiting to blow themselves up. an area has the police headquarters and provincial and council buildings. iraqi support forces say they've taken over these important locations from i.s.i.l. they are considered key to taking over the city of ramadi. the anti terrorism forces say they have withdrawn from the government complex towards the east of the city. in the north there have been multiple i.s.i.l. attacks in neighbours. if government forces take these areas, this they will be able to

cross the river and enter the city from the north. it is urban warfare and the battles are being fought one house or one building at a time. more civilians have left their homes, but there are concerns that there are those trapped. the popular mobilization forces of shia militias are not taking the driving seat. it will be a challenge for the shia majority government to rebuild and rehabilitate what used to be a sunni majority city the united nations is trying to keep a deal in place in syria to help end the fighting, but the efforts have been complicated by the death of a key rebel leader. our correspondent has the latest. >> reporter: the deal between the government on one hand and i.s.i.l. on the al-nusra front about the safe passage out of

damascus and paving the way for the fighters of the families to pull out from those areas and go to areas under the control of i.s.i.l. or the opposition is still on hold for different reasons. i.s.i.l. and the al-nusra front are looking for guarantees that they are going to be safe and they're waiting for more logistics to be able to take their families in one go out of the capital of damascus. i.s.i.l. and al-nusra fronts will have to cross some areas under the control of rebel groups, particularly one group. they saying they will revenge the death of their previous lead alloush. the syrian opposition says that is going to go to geneva to talk with the government about a way out.

however, they say there are two conditions that need to be met. first, a ceasefire with the government should be committed to stop using barrel bombs, air strikes, missiles against civilians. number two, a political way out from an opposition perspective can is the the following. a transitional following with full executive power bashar al-assad has to go, but bashar al-assad has been saying in the past and he has been backed by the iranians and the russians, it is only the syrians who have the right to say whether bashar al-assad should stay or go thank you for that. another group of refugees is set to arrive tomorrow in canada. the family of island - time with team albeit is prepared to welcome her relatives. >> reporter: this lady shows us

her new salon where she is going to work side-by-side with her brother. >> he used to own his own shop. >> reporter: he and his wife and five children are scheduled to arrive this week after fled their native syria. they're a few of the 25,000 cleared to immigrate to canada which plans to take in another 25,000 next year. >> they keep telling me that is it true, is it happening? we cannot believe it until we hit the ground in vancouver. that's when we know, yes, we made it. >> reporter: but it should be a happier story than it is. it is hard to celebrate this small personal victory, she says, while the syrian war continues and while refugees stream out of the region seeking safety and new lives in new countries. >> they have been victim, they fled their country by force, not

by choice. never speak about my family only. i always speak about the suffering of refugees. >> reporter: the kurdi family knows that suffering intimately. having played a painful role in waking up the world of this humanitarian disaster. these images drew international attention. they were the family of the younger brother. he was on board the same small boat but survived. survived to birchall his entire family in their home town. >> he didn't really care if anything happened to him. he said to me, "i have three grave and if something happen to me, it will be the fourth one and i would be more than happy to sleep with them". he has stayed behind to help refugees and has no plans to

leave >> he said the poor and needy are my family now. >> reporter: meanwhile, she and her husband and son are making plans for seven more people in their home east of vancouver. spare bedrooms have been furnished, a new bathroom is going in. pictures on the mantle mean the family that were destroyed on the refugee trail won't be forgotten. >> to me to welcome here only one family, one brother and his family, it's make me happy, but i'm still, i'm not finished. >> reporter: not finished helping others and not finished asking world leaders for help. >> i want to tell the world stop the war. stop the war. do something about it. >> reporter: moham ed and his family should arrive monday

coming up the week ahead marks a new year and possibly a new role for american foreign policy. we will examine how president obama intends to tackle the global issues and what the white house is offering up as alternatives.

here is a look at our top stories. media reports indicates the football league and baseball

league are involved in doping. we have an investigative report in relation to specific baseball and football players, claims they deny. a pharmacist is on camera saying growth hormone was shipped to ashlei ashleigh. the pharmacist disavowed his own statements caught on hidden camera. the founder of the clinic disputing the pharmacist's claims as well. it is airing half an hour from now here aal jazeera. it is sunday night and time for a look at the week ahead. this marks the beginning of a new year. voters in many states will begin taking a closer look at candidates running in presidential elections.

for all the campaign promises and pledges, the responsibilities for another year will belong with president obama. in the wake of the recent attacks in paris and san bernardino, obama has called i.s.i.l. a top priority. republicans say his policies are not aggressive enough. the president will also need to focus on other foreign policy concerns, including the trance pacific partnership and withdrawing most u.s. troops from afghanistan. al jazeera's correspondent has more on the foreign policy agenda for 2016. >> reporter: many of the issues that commanded the intention of u.s. foreign policy makeser in 2015 are likely to dominate the agenda in the new year as well. i.s.i.l. is likely to top the agenda now that the united nations council has approved a diplomatic road map in syria.

differences in substantial, including the competing objectives of global and regional powers as well as the future of syrian president bashar al-assad. as diplomats talk, the human toll in syria continues to rise. more than a quarter million people have been killed in the conflict while millions have fled. a humid tide that shows no signs of slowing. how to deal with the crisis is fracturing europe along east-west liness. obama's pledge to take in a mere 10,000 refugees has become a flash point in the presidential race. tackling i.s.i.l. will be relations. russian economies getting western sanctions, vladimir putin used his end of year press conference to say he wants improved relations with the united states and would like to see the conflict in ukraine

settled, whether it is possible to reach a settlement that would satisfy both moscow and the west is hard to say and russia's deepening involvement in syria only makes its relationship with the u.s. more complicated. in the meantime, i.s.i.l. closes out 2015 facing challenges. by one estimate the armed group has lost 14% of its territory this year and evidence is emerging that the u.s.-led strategy of targeting i.s.i.l. oil refineries, tanker trucks is starting to ache a bite out of the group's finances. it hasn't stopped i.s.i.l.'s recruiting machine or its ability to inspire attackers both in the middle east and other parts of the world. turning to u.s./china relations, beijing and washington came together on climate change and started to talk more about cyber spying but they moved further apart over south china sea.

both governments have managed to keep tensions and the rhetoric from escalating out of control but with the u.s. president election on top of 2016, the public discourse surrounding china's muscle flecking and the spear of u.s. influence could become far more heated. a challenging agenda for 2016 james trobb is a senior fellow on international cooperation in new york university and another dean of the school of diplomacy and international relations at seatonne hall. there's a clear divide among candidates in terms of the priority with circa i can't. some say bashar al-assad must go and others say because the russians are supporting him, let's leave him in there for now and try to get the russians and bashar al-assad and everybody to focus on i.s.i.l. who is right? >> the ones who think that

bashar al-assad cannot be a partner against i.s.i.l. are right. there is an argument about how much bashar al-assad actually assisted the rise of i.s.i.l. i can't be certain about that. at the very least he ignored them for a long time. his focus has always been on the domestic rebellion. i.s.i.l.'s focus was not on bashar al-assad. it was about seizing their own territory which bashar al-assad didn't contest. now, because i.s.i.s. has begun to threaten assad, he has turned towards them a little bit. if you look at his military effort and russia's military effort, it is against the nationalist or mainstream rebels who the u.s. believes are the only potential future source of legitimacy in syria. if there is going to be a solution, it is not going to be with assad, it will be without assad do you agree? >> no. i don't. i think the future is going to be for those with knows who negotiate. peace process must be created.

you cannot have a solution. one of the problems we had in the past is that people put too many conditions in to starting, even thinking about a possible political solution. we do not know actually what the outcome will be, but it is important that they are starting to talk and that the talks actual continue when hillary clinton says we have to do both at the same time and i insist that assad must go, you suggest that she is wrong by putting that priority there? >> i think that the americans are pragmatic enough at this point to actually enter into this negotiation as they are and i think that he is not the president at the moment. i think that kerry has been involved in these attempts to at least explore possible political options. i would be surprised if the negotiations are completely on assad.

they think syria is a complicated parcel. it is complicated parcel as far as putin is concerned, though, isn't there are i danger if the u.s. continues to operate at odds in terms of priorities in syria, that there is a flash point between russian forces that are trying to help assad and u.s. war planes that are trying to help opposition groups >> sure: one of the arguments i would make about why obama should have acted in 2012 before russia was involved and for that matter before iran and hezbollah were involved, is that it might have been possible then. i don't know that it would have been. it might have been possible then for the united states to have more aggressively supported the mainstream rebels and actually forced assad to make the political decision to withdraw. now it is vastly more complicated. if you think about having a no fly zone, for example, does that mean you're barring russian planes from the no fly zone doesn't that say because it

is too complicated, we will give putin what he wants, assad can stay there and we will focus on i.s.i.l. >> there are several problems. if you let assad stay we can focus on i.s.i.l. the russians do not accept the distinction. the syrians do not accept the distinction between i.s.i.l. and the rebels who the united states are supporting. from their point of view this idea of focus on i.s.i.l. is wrong. they won't do it. so if you could make a pragmatic case, not a moral case, forget about the fact that bashar al-assad is a war criminal. nevertheless he might be the instrument to putting an end to i.s.i.s., that would be a serious argument, but he is not and therefore we can't make that argument given the relationship between putin and the united states, novel, how important is it whether there with a candidate with donald trump saying i am going to have a good relationship with putin. we respect each other. is that practical and do you believe that relationship is worth the cost?

>> i think that relationship is very important but very dangerous. i think it is very important to have principle sense of what a relationship is. i think it is very important in the syrian case to have the russian on board and to have kerry announcing the agreement of the security council together. i think that is something very, very important about russians and americans working together. i don't think that you can only have a putin focus when you have such a complicated puzzle in syria what about the issue of refugees. how does the world essentially solve this given the fears that so many people legitimately have that some of these refugees are really i.s.i.l. fighters who are trying to slip into europe or the u.s.? >> a lot of i.s.i.l. fighters are actually in the united states in europe. they're not just leaping. i think they were not necessarily people that came here. i think it's very important to recognise that actually the refugees are refugees because

there is a war. so the sooner we solve the war, the sooner we have a political agreement that gives the ability to the region, the less possible it is for i.s.i.l. to actually have that kind of pressure. >> let me distinguish between the american and the british reaction. there is reaction-- european reaction. they can not integrate these people. in the u.s. that's really not the issue. it is the issue of hyper bolic fear of i.s.i.s. we can't close that and there will be noisise. in both cases the effect has been an earthquake. i think in both cases in the united states and europe, liberal values, including the responsibility to accept refugees, are under an incredible amount of pressure isn't the pressure also, though, they don't trust the

institutions, that the government is going to do a good job of looking at the background of these refugees and trying to keep the wrong ones coming in >> politicians have a responsibility to the public, to hear them speak in this fear monday angering language as if america is somehow helpless before this hoarde of people. canada, which faces the same threats that we do, take 25,000 people and does so with remarkable calm. it forces you to ask what's wrong with the united stated they have taken two thousand over the past four years and ratchet that up to 10 thousand next year. afghanistan, dealing with the refugees, president wants to remove all u.s. troops from afghanistan over the next year. is that possible? >> i don't think so. i think the american troop will stay in afghanistan for a long time. in one way or another. i think it's another long-term investment for the american presence. i can't imagine it being capable

of having the peace process that he is dreaming without the american sport. i think obama needs to be prudent about setting any kind of deadline, in that what we will see is the actuallity of the plan the taliban is in the midst. >> it is not clear how significant a role i.s.i.s. is playing in afghanistan, but our experience is that you see a little i.s.i.s. pin trick and then it grows. so in afghanistan you have this too. i think that will increase obama's already existing concerns about the threat, the taliban posed. this distinction of topes, no troops, it's a little artificial. there will be troops. they will have increasingly constrained roles, the numbers of them will be smaller, but i think there will be troops for a lock time talking about the u.s. chinese relationship. it seems like the united states

seems somewhat constrained in terms of the chinese being more aggressive in the south china sea. where is that going? >> in u.s. china relations there are some things that are zero sum and some are positive sum. obama's clearly wired to focus on the plus. the problem with the south china sea is that it is zero sum. it is either yours or mine. either china's or philippines or vietnam or whoever. i think the u.s. in its very traditional role of guarantee of patrol of the open seas and protector of international law, i think it has to play the role that it has to say china is not allowed to unilaterally annex these things. that will be a source of friction are the chinese laughing at the u.s. given the climate change arrangement is announced.

there's no enforcement mechanism. no way to make sure that countries will meet their obligations? >> no. i don't think so. i think countries will do their best. as in the case of u.s. - they did very well. better be expected there's nothing making sure that china keeps its objectly gayings >> >> that's the point. they will surprise the world on the ecology. i think it has interest in being more serious about that particular agenda: when we also need to look that it has been one of the remarkable success stories of the last 50 years. very peaceful after vietnam. i think it is a very interesting shift in this famous pacific peace and i think that to see these only as a u.s.-china bilateral issue is wrong. there are many countries that

have a very, very significant interest in keeping the political dialogue open. so i think that we can actually be surprised by the capacity of asia to come up as a model for evolution for the planet as a whole five weeks now from the caucas, what sort of impact will the campaign have on all these issues? >> i suppose mostly bad but also trance tree. that-- transitory. that is to say what is going to happen is to be so turbulent. if people are thinking in europe, what would it mean for donald trump to become president? i think trump is going to fall flat is my guess. he will do worse than people think in the primaries. what would it mean if ted cruz will become president? the world is obsessed in the u.s. in a way americans have trouble in understanding. they follow the primaries but they also know it's a big crap

shoot is there any issue that you think is not so obvious to us that we should be keeping a watch on in 2016? >> i think that the evolution of the international system itself is under strain. you have a lot of situations in which tensions are emerging. the question is will people, will state, will non-state actors, will intron entrain position be able to cope with that strain. >> i worry about the rise of right wing parties in europe. in switzerland, in austria, in france, even in sweden believe it or not where the party that polls the best is the right wing nationalist nativist party. i worry that this threatens the liberal center of europe thank you to my guests before we go, a look at

other stories that we will be watching in the week ahead. russia will begin building two nuclear reactors in iran. a total of nine. traffic is being restricted. cars and motorcycles will be restricted in italy. passengers payments will resume for the football coach who was convicted of abusing ten boys. the court ruled that the state pension system should not have stopped his payments when he was found guilty. still ahead, religious patients. a key medical group says there are benefits in many cases to say knowing to a blood trance figures.

>> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target. the american medical association says blood transfusions are one of the most over used therapies in the u.s. it turns out that modern medicine may be able to learn a few things from religion. >> reporter: kimberley brown suffers from a number of medical issues, including a tumour in her breast. as a practicing jahovas witness she refuses anything that involves blood transfusion. witness eps believe it contains the essence of a person's life or soul. >> i was raised a witness all of

my life. that's all i know. i have complete trust in faith that if anything happens to me, my family will be okay, but i'm human and i do get nervous. >> reporter: when it came time to remove her tumour. they indicator here-- cater with bloodless medicine >> this is a surgery where you expect high blood loss. you want to make sure the patient is optimised, to take iron or whatever to build their blood up. if there is a surgery which is not losing a lot of blood there is nothing special the patient has to do. >> reporter: her procedure is fairly routine, but in an emergency her beliefs take a common treatment option off the table. her father and brother underwent open heart surgeries here also without transfusions. the practice of treating patients without the use of

blood transfusions was developed for those who have religious objections to them. it turns out that there are medical advantages to so-called bloodless medicine. as a result, the number of transfusions in the united states is going down. doctors can bank or recycle the patient's own blood as an alternative, as was the case in this open heart surgery. because transfusions cause an immune reaction and blood can be contaminated they come with risks. in recent years stats have confirmed what research has shown. less blood often leads to better outcomes for patients. of >> for some patients that risening is worth taking because the good the blood do for them may outweigh that risk. we do 40 to 60% of blood transfusions to no good reason >> reporter: when kimberley says she would risk death rather than accept somebody else's blood, she is happy scientists have

found alternative therapies to give her chances to live without compromising her beliefs that is our news cast for this hour. i will be back in another hour of news at 11 eastern, 8 prime minister pacific. gnashing the dark side, the secrets of the sports doppers. we will leave you with a final shot of the empire state building lit up for christmas, the holiday colours. thank you for watching. we will see you again 11am eastern. losing control. >> 50 and broke. i live with the consequences every day. >> harsh realities. >> i did two tours in iraq, when i came back i couldn't find a job. >> fighting to survive. >> bein' a man and can't put my family in a home that they deserve... that's a problem for me. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. a real look at the american dream. "hard earned".

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