his father, the president of the american university of beirut had been assassinated by terrorists. no one would have blinked if this young man stepped away from the game for a while, but two days later kerr was back on the court, leading his team to an upset win over rival arizona state. for him, it was an escape from grief. a safe place to forget, if only for an hour. >> well, you know, obviously, that's the most difficult thing i've ever gone through, or probably ever will, hopefully. what i learned was that basketball was more than just a sport for me. it was a release. it was a getaway, and ultimately it would become my life's work. so that night i didn't even think about not playing. not playing would have been a lot harder because i would have just been thinking about what happened. but to get out on the court was the best thing therapeutically. and i guess it just taught me that, man, if you love the game this much and you can immerse yourself in it and enjoy the relationships with your teammates and coaches, might as well stick with it. so that was sort of the beginning of

commemoration to his mark the occasion of. [ inaudible ] let's go to stefanie dekker live now in beirut for us. as we mentioned before, shiites are marking it in lebanon, given the sectarian mention that country, no doubt security has been stepped up. >> reporter: that's right. more significant is that the security measures are the most extreme that they have ever been. you can actually see the processional just step out of shot and get ali our cameraman to show you this is an extreme time for the shias they are commemorating the death of the grandson of the profit mohamed and this is something that we have been seeing here today the extreme security measures taken by hezbollah because of the sensitive times here in lebanon and, of course, this has to do with the still over of the war in syria hezbollah is fighting with bashar assad. it's caused extreme tensions here, many people will tell you including the army they believe there are sleeper cells here. this is why it's so tense, there are positions all over the roofs here. we are not allowed to show you any of the security, hezbollah

on the hostage crisis, having rose gardenin the at several events and then where about theking beirut at first in before we even dealt with larger hostage crisis, but the original crisis in beirut, you knew how upset about this he was. you could see it. led you to call and find out that he opened his intel briefings every day. you knew that he was tasking them to do something about it. they then, at the nfc, were taking that as marching orders. we understood this better later on, but it also helped us to how important that issue was for him. it as a personal mission to get those people out. and it was the first thing and most important thing to him. accessly, not having the to staff, i mean, the control that i see being asserted by the communications people in the press office over what cabinet not only oncan say, camera and going out on the sunday shows where they used to own discretion, but who can be surrogates for the president? mostnk this white house, importantly, is not served well by not having more senior people that they can send out, whether or gaza orlth care now on ebola.

zeina has their story from bay beirut. >> reporter: she is a business graduate and a balance a a dancercafe trying to make a living. that's because a war in her native syria has made her a refugees. the 26-year-old is just one of over a million syrians who now live in lebanon and just like the others, the conflict changed her life. >> when somebody take everything from you and leave you with nothing you have to start all over again, it's hard. actually each hour i can't see a future base even hope now is like a very fresh us thing. >> reporter: the cafe where she works is frequented by syrian refugees. at least here supporters and opponents of the government are able to sit together. he doesn't support either side, he is an artist from aleppo, who doesn't like to discuss what divides syrians. for him, the focus should be on rebuilding a society which has been the real victim of the conflict. >> it's destroyed because you can say 40%, they leave, they left syria. 20% died, 40 percent stayed. so the sunni society is destroyed now. there is no like community anymore between the people. ♪ ♪

. >> from beirut, i'm joined by michael downey, a close friend of peter. michael downey, thank you very much for joining us. i wonder if you could talk about a little of the emotion that you've been through since you heard the terrible news about your friend. >> it's been a really long year. a lot of not knowing, hoping, little bits of information, and then this past month has obviously been the most difficult. and when it's this long, you're so emotionally drained, that it's just -- no one should have to go through this. and i can only imagine what his family is feeling right now. but, you know, we're a really close community here in beirut. it's like a family. so there's a large void that's missing with pete gone, but, you know, we're focusing on the man that he was and the wonderful work that he did, and, you know, we're not giving in to any of the isis propaganda. you know, we're going to celebrate him for who he was and not this brutal monstrous act that they committed. >> tell us about the man that he was. tell us how you met. >> sorry, what was that

. >> i had the opportunity to meet him in beirut before he went off. this was talk of chemical weapons attack inside syria. a group of foreign journalists we were all in beirut and he was dloes several other foreign correspondents who covered the the region and had a chance to come out with us. we spent the afternoon together in beirut, had lunch and had a chance to get to know each other in a very casual, relaxed setting. he was a very amazing guy. quickly you could feel the warmth he had in his personality and for those of us who had just melt him met him at that point, we were drawn to his charisma, his passion for what he was doing. he was telling us about it. despite the risks and concerns we expressed about what it was like to go back into syria at this time, he was still very much driven way sense of purpose. >> ambassador, this is the third american, sixth video from isis. this is different from the past. the quality is different. they didn't show the act of the beheading and they did not parade a hostage. do we make anything of these differenc

. >> cuando otros iban a la playa Él fue a beirut. y decidiÓ convertirse al islam y cambiar su nombre por abdul fue secuestrado en un viaje a la frontera consiguen el 2013. cuando se cumple un aÑo despuÉs de su familia pedÍa por su hijo. >> le suplico a los captores que muestran piedad. >> abdul antes conocido como peter era del Único hijo. les enviamos condolencias a su familia. >> luego de una semana de lejanÍa y silencio regreso el presidente enrique peÑa nieto quien encontrÓ que la conmoción social por la desapariciÓn de recepciÓn de ser normalistas no da tregua. el mandatario hablÓ de la situaciÓn del paÍs. >> la indignaciÓn por el caso de los 43 normalistas desaparecidos en iguala, guerrero continÚa. ciento de personas salieron hoy domingo las calles de la ciudad de mÉxico para formar parte de la marcha llamada acciÓn global por ayotzinapa para y apoyar esta causa. despuÉs de darse a conocer la existencia de la llamada casablanca donde el portal asegurar que pertenece la actriz angÉlica rivera esposa del presidente enrique peÑit

. >> she works in this cafe in beirut trying to earn a living, that's because the war has made her a refugee. the 26-year-old is a member of a million who live in lebanon. the conflict has changed her life. >> when somebody when it's hard, each hour. i can't think future because even hot now is a very are precious thing. >> the cafe where dema works is frequented by syrian revolution. doesn't like to discuss what divides syrians. a society which has been the real center of the conflict. >> you can say 40%, they leave, they left syria. 20% died. 40% paid. so the syrian society has destroyed now. there is like no, like, community between the people. >> silencing the guns will mean nothing, syria is a place where wounds run too deem fo deep for. >> i'm not sure syrians you know, see a solution. as you know, there are multiple ideologies and multiple factions of the same society, but for sure they all want just for this war to stop. >> for now, even that is just hope. >> i don't know, it's like a nightmare. you wish to wake up but you don't. because every time we think that we can go bac

. >>> peter kassig loved here, in beirut, very well like he, and so clearly dedicated to helping others and, they are believing to hold a female worker and so far no threats have been made. >>> a former navy seal who says he killed, bin laden made an appearance for the redskins game. >>> he took part in a pregame ceremony, which saluted the military. and he made headlines, when he said he delivered the fatal shot, to bin laden, and, the former navy seal spoke to them, at a team meeting. >>> as for the game, it was disappointing for the redskins, they could not get a win, against another team with a horrible losing record. >>> now, what happened. >>> do i have to join you? [laughter] >>> it's my job. >>> well, he's the guy to lead this team, didn't do a great job, sacked six times. and two interceptions. >>> the very first play, rg3, back to pass, and, got a short one and, he it gets picked off. one of three for the skins and despite ail the problems, they did get it into the end zone, and get the screen-pass, and, goes untouched for 30 yards, and down, 13-7 at the half. >>> they showed

it was a casual day in beirut. we had lunch. saw a young man driven by what he set out to do which is this organization he created to help syrian ref yugeerefugees. he was at peace despite knowing the risks. being the journalists that we were, we were skeptical about the environment he was going into to be careful and watch out with who he was working with. he had a network of people he was relying on. the circumstances of his kidnapping were to us still somewhat mysterious if you will. he was great guy. he was an individual. very calm person who was driven by a great sense of ideals after several years of questioning what happened around him in the middle east he felt he had the purpose in trying to help syrian ref yugees refugees. >> a former army ranger. >> he served in iraq. >> he decided he wanted to go back and help. an aid worker. it's remarkable. i saw the atlantic monthly tweet yesterday an article where they said there was a time when islamic radicals actually tried to court journalists and explain why they were doing

. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resources to take the fight to al shabaab. >> more bureaus, more stories. >> this is where the typhoon came ashore. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. >> al jazeera, nairobi. >> on the turkey-syria border. >> venezuela. >> beijing. >> kabul. >> hong kong. >> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> we are just learning that three suspects in mexico have confessed to killing dozens of students that have been missing since september. police recovered six bags of unidentified human remains. and are testing the dna. 43 students were last season being taken away by police in a city in southern mexico sparking wide protest. rachel levin, what do we know about these confessions? >> with the, it was a chilling press conference where they showed parts of taped confessions from these suspects where they describe in very much cold blood the way that they had these students arrive. they put them in trucks. they shipped them off to a dumpster

tienen que su hijo sea recordado >> cuando todos iban a la playa Él iba a beirut. >> decidiÓ convertirseefugiados irÍa en turquía. fue secuestrado en un viaje a la frontera con siria en el 2013. cuando se cumplÍa un aÑo de su secuestro su familia suplicaba la liberaciÓn de su hijo a travÉs de las redes sociales. >> le suplico a tus captores que muestran piedad y usan su poder para dejarte ir. >> estos mensajes parecen no haber conmovido los lÍderes del grupo terrorista. abdul antes conocido como peter era el Único hijo. les enviamos condolencias a su familia. >> en la fila de los grupos terroristas que operan en los paÍses hay muchos menores de edad. el llamado grupo isis no es la excepciÓn. los infantes llegan cinturones con balas y estÁn presentes durante las decapitaciÓn. >> este muchacho de 15 aÑos de edad servÍa en la organizaciÓn terrorista. cargaba un cinturÓn lleno de recibos, una pistola y una aka. dice que Él y su padre se unieron a isis voluntariamente. asegura que el nÚmero isis reclutÓ 1000 niÑos que fueron sometidos a fuertes doctrinalmente religiosos para inculcar las idea

i have forces in the race in beirut. every sunday i must be there. chicken, fish, we are looking for the nature of food. as farmers we are all near the sea. i would be happy when i have the old people, the whole family, all the neighbors are happy. and 14 years the war came here and i am now 51 years. these days we cannot live as all the peoples in all the areas. they are working out of lebanon. meaning we have something wrong in our country. the world becomes as a village now. all sharing this support, a good thing and a bad thing. to share others, to work with others, it is a good idea. you must do it. we need something. they need something. this gives the best for all the nations. >> if you would also like to share your view of the world, we would love to hear it. fill out the questionnaire and you might find your answers right here on the program. here's how it works. >> we want to get to know you. become part of the global 3000 community and answer our questionnaire. what does globalization need to you? >> to me it means respecting differences.

. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resources to take the fightal shabaab. >> more bureaus, more stories. >> this is where the typhoon came ashore. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. >> al jazeera, nairobi. >> on the turkey-syria border. >> venezuela. >> beijing. >> kabul. >> hong kong. >> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> they call it africa's joint. big news from nigeria. the nigerian president goodluck jonathan has big ambitions. he has said that he will run in next year's general election. how this election could impact the united states. it was an announcement nigerians. were expecting. >> of reception to present myself. >> reporter: at a political rally at the capital on tuesday, president goodluck jonathan tolls the people he will run in next year's presidential elections. africa's most populace nation, not because of its growing wealth as an oil producing country, back in april there was outrage of the kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls. >> we hav

cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh joins us from beirut now. you knew peter kassig quite well. what was he like? what kind of person was he? >> reporter: he was a very giving person who obviously you could tell by what he chose to do with his life, bringing medical aid to syrians, teaching them how to heal the wounded there, gave a lot of himself, anything he really could, frankly. that's what i think is the most powerful thing you saw about the choices he made and what he chose -- the risks he chose to put himself through. but a character like this endures risks like that, was in the army rangers for a bit, also a very meek, polite and gentle person. i remember once giving him the keys to my flat and saying, you can stay there while i'm away for a few weeks. and i came back a little bit worried that i'd walk into a party aftermath once. and he said he was never in there once, said he was worried about messing the place up. a gentle soul who gave everything he could of himself. >> what memory do you have that sticks out most in your mind? >> re

. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resources to take the fight to al shabaab. >> more bureaus, more stories. >> this is where the typhoon came ashore. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. >> al jazeera, nairobi. >> on the turkey-syria border. >> venezuela. >> beijing. >> kabul. >> hong kong. >> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> that's selma adams taking her oath of office. marking the first time in history that 100 women are serving in congress. also one of african american women serving on the hill. that doesn't make up equal representation. women make up 50% of the population but only one fifth congress . libby casey reporting. >> what a night! we did it! >> and our problems aren't just going to go away on their own. but we can overcome them. >> it's been almost 100 years, 1917, to be precise, since the election of the first congresswoman, jeanette rankin, from montana. she says, i might be the first woman in congress but i won't be the last. but it has bee

. >> he lived here in beirut. a very well-liked and passionate young man. so clearly dedicated to helping others. isis is believed to be holding another american, a female aid worker, but so far no threats have been made against her life. abc news, beirut. >>> an extremely sick surgeon continues to receive treatment in nebraska after contracting ebola in his native sierra leone. the doctor arrived in the u.s. yesterday. he's the third person to be treated in omaha for the deadly virus. his medical team believes he might be sicker than other ebola patients brought to the u.s. he first tested negative for for ebola after he developed symptoms of the disease, then he tested positive. so many are concerned about ebola, we posted a detailed list of seven things you need to know, including its origin, symptoms and how it's transmitted. that's at abc7news.com. >>> new video has been released of the officer involved in the shooting death of an 18-year-old blackman in ferguson, missouri. tensions there are mounting as a grand jury comes close to deciding if it will

. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resources to take the fight to al shabaab. >> more bureaus, more stories. >> this is where the typhoon came ashore. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. >> al jazeera, nairobi. >> on the turkey-syria border. >> venezuela. >> beijing. >> kabul. >> hong kong. >> ukraine. >> the artic. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> six big global banks are paying more than $4 billion in penalties for rigging the enormous market where foreign currency is traded. it follows a yearlong regulation by regulators in britain, the united states and switzerland. the bangs are yp morgan chase, bank of america and citigroup. the royal bank of scotland as well as switzerland's ubs. regulators say traders used chat rooms with names like "the three musketeers" to secure profits for themselves. the u.s. authorities are continuing trade investigation. >>> it has an impact on what the rest of us pay when we travel, it means your stronger daughter buys more croissants in france, a

. >> let's go to beirut and talk to a columnist.t's your view on this when a man of his profile as far as human rights activists in the middle east goes is given this sort of reprieve for a little while at least? >> this is not the first time that will mr. nabil rashab has been in jail. there are others, of course, who are in a similar predictiment. this will go on oh, my goodness the most famous individual in jail. his daughter is what marine a.m. so this is an ongoing process. we will see what happens when the trial comes around. >> at the very at least, it's a reminder that the movement is still alive this he seemed to be crushed by the bahraini government but the movement is still there after it started in bahrain. a great deal of blood shed, various promises made by the governments successively during the past 3 or 4 years. we are essentially where we are when we were back in 2011. i think that the dialogue that has been promise did between the two sides has really not started although there could be good intentions to go ahead

it feels like it's beirut over here. >> beirut over here, but we're in missouri.actually here one of the big reasons for the national guard out, triple the number that was out yesterday. 2100. this market was being looted last night. it's deserted tonight. >> steve harrigan, we'll check in. >>> the forensic evidence that convinced the grand jury not to indict darren wilson including pictures showing the struggle that took place inside the patrol car in the "kelly file" investigation. >>> plus coverage of the scene in ferguson. we'll speak with the state's lieutenant governor who had harsh words tonight for governor nixon and president obama. >> here's my question that the governor must answer. is the reason that the national guard was not in there because the obama administration and the holder justice department leaned on you to keep them out? >>> breaking tonight just 24 hours after the ferguson decision we're getting a better picture of the evidence the grand jury considered. trace ghallager reports from our west coast newsroom. >> officer wilson said he told b

he had come to beirut many times before. and getting the people who were suffering. >> motivated by the best instincts and putting everything on the line in the end. so many have come with the best of intentions met the worst fate. we have to assume that that will cause the blow back for the executionistis executionistists. >> no doubt about it, they have among many in the region lot of credibility and more importantly is completely rejected. and they are widely despised. >> i know and the planet earth just concluded the warmest october ever. take a look at this. i found this interesting. a heat map from the university of alabama. .67 degrees. it feels like the opposite. extreme cold. on that front, a new blast of snow moving south and east. freezing temperatures reaching as far as tennessee. ahead of the arrival of that cold, there is the threat of tornados for parts of the south including georgia and florida. there is already a report that a tornado touched down near a state prison. it damaged cars and knocked over fences.

. >> kassig lived here in beirut. a very well-liked and passionate young man. so clearly dedicated to helping us. isis is believed to be holding another american, a female aid worker, but so far no threats have been made against her life. alex marquart, abc news, beirut. >>> san francisco police are investigating a deadly stabbing officers say a man was stabbed in the chest last night. they found him lying on the sidewalk. was he taken to san francisco general hospital. he died minutes later. police don't have a description of the suspect. >>> this morning a woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a truck in a san francisco's neighborhood. she was in a crosswalk at 46th and utah street just before 6:00 p.m. yesterday when chefs hit by the truck which was turning left. police have not said if they arrested or cited the driver. >>> walnut creek police are looking for the driver involved in the hit-and-run of a pedestrian. authorities say the pedestrian was walking it intersection of walnut avenue and hutchinson road when a dark-

end of this works in from the mediterranean and gave heavy downpours and didn't look impressive but beirutmillimeters of rain and far more than the average in the month that we expect which is 67 millimeters and we are above that. for the problem generally it gave a large amount of flooding for us and see some parts of the region were better than others but these pictures are from the west bank showing how miserable conditions were and this is edging to the east and the east coast of the mediterranean and flood water on the ground will eventually evaporate and we have a huge area of clouds down to kuwait city and showers on tuesday as it goes eastward and on wednesday it has broken up and like most of us will have a drier day through wednesday. a few little bits of cloud are stretching further south so there is a chance we could see the shower around saudi arabia as well but here in doha it looks like it will stay mostly dry, you have , julie. >> reporter: restricting nuclear test is conducting a test in jordan and seeing whether or not a nuclear explosion has taken place and this is from

before we even dealt with larger hostage crisis, but the original hostage crisis in beirut. you knew how upset he was about this. you could see it. so that led you to call and find out some stuff. that he opened his intel briefings every day with, what do you know about the hostage crisis. you knew that he was tasking them to do something about it, and they at the nsc were taking that as marching orders. i mean, we understood this better later on, but it also helped us to know how important that issue was for him. he viewed it as a personal mission to get those people out, and it was the first thing and the most important thing to him. similarly, not having the access to staff, the control that i see being asserted by the communications people in the press office over what cabinet secretaries can say that only on -- not only on camera and going out on sunday shows where they used to have discretion, but who can be surrogates for the president. i think this white house most importantly is not served well by not having more senior people that they can send out, whether it is o

stephanie decker has more from beirut. >> reporter: the united states has made it very clear the groupas been on it list. back in september the group was hit. this is the second time since then that they have been targeted. but what is different this time is also one of the groups one of their headquarters close to the turkish border was hit as well. they say none of the groups fighting against the assad regime now seems to be safe, and also questioning the intention of those air strikes, certainly when the narrative initially had been it was only against isil. civilians inside syria have been living under regime bombardment for almost four years now, and now there is a feeling they are also coming under bombardment from the coalition. this is a key city, the government is trying to take back. they control the west. the opposition controls theis. there have been barrel bombs there in the last 24 hours. this is a city besieged by the government, one of the tactics now is the government is keen to try to cut any supply route off from the rebels there to retake it, and it's extremely conc

i'm joined by item in beirut for more. i understand you actually knew peter.an you tell us about the man he was? >> peter was a man that set out to make a difference. he came to the region to try to do everything he possibly could to help those he found it needs because of the conflict in syria. he first came here in the summer of 20 torrent walls -- the summer of 2012. that's when i met him. it was clear how driven he was to really try to make a difference personally and to do everything he could possibly do to help people. on the ground, face-to-face, and in places where they were not getting aid otherwise. and perhaps in some ways in a very small personal sense, but to help people where others could not. i first met him in 2012. he worked in refugee camps, at a hospital in the north into italy. he was treating -- in tripoli. he was treating people who were hurt in the syrian conflict. he did an emergency medical technicians course. and together with those experiences, he set up his own organization which did two things. first of all, he delivered medical tr

the story from beirut. >> the syrian military has always had an advantage. because it controls the skies. it has documented almost 1,600 in rebel held areas in the past month alone. some 400 civilians were killed. some say this could be part of the strategy to get rid of whatever is left of the so called moderate rebels. while the international community focuses on fighting the islamic state of iraq and the levant. >> . >> syria's al quaida branch seems to have the same strategy. earlier this month, forced the rebels out of their bases in the province, and other areas car bombings and improvised devices are being used against those groups allied to the u.s. >> the opposition is growing increasingly frustrated. for the rebels it is not enough to fight isil, they want the coalition to target the government as well. >> it is not just that, some people say the strategies helping the government on the ground we have directly helped the regime that we are fighting not iraqis, these islamic state units were not fighting the moderate opposition, they were fighting t

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bomb maker working for the hasan group and that was al-qaeda off shoot and stephanie is live from beiruttalk about what seems to be expansion of the u.s.-led air strikes. >> that's right. well, we know that the u.s.-led coalition is targeting this group, the u.s. in particular has said that these air strikes happened back in september and targeted isil positions and also targeted this al-qaeda linkeded and also linked to al-qaeda linked al-nusra front and saw a video at the time a french man and leader killed and u.s. retracted and said they believe they perhaps had not hit their target. this is the first time since then that they have managed to target those areas. we do have to remind you however that the u.s. is being cautious and say they are assessing the outcome of the strikes but initial reports is they had the intended results. what is different this time is they targeted a group that has a conservative interpretation of islam and part of a wider coalition called the islamic front and we heard from one of their spokespeople who said that it seems that no group now in syria fighti

we have the latest from neighboring beirut. >> well, the syrian president bashar al-assad said he is ready to study the proposal. he made that statement after meeting to push for this initiative. in is about freezing the conflict in certain areas. this will ease the suffering in certain areas. they believe that there is no peace deal. peace talks, they've tried that before in geneva. they need to find a way to reduce the violence. they need to allow aid to reach the millions of people. mistura is heading to homs to hold talks. this is just a first step. this is an humanitarian intervention, if you like. but groups we've talked to said that this is very important. they need to send monitors and peace keepers on the ground. there is a new initiative on the table. but we have to remember that the war is in its fourth year. >> the final vote in former vote from spain. it does not show more than 80% favor a split. they have been celebrating the symbolic victory. they hold the rehearsal for the referendum in the future. chinese president ping and japan niece prime minister abe met in talks

the arab world and beyond have been moved by the lebanese singer, and said she die in her home in beiruta ghoneim looks back on the singer's lengthy career. ♪ >> reporter: fans nicknamed her the singing bird. ♪ >> reporter: when singing a ballot, her voice seemed to reach into the soul. ♪ >> reporter: she leads her first song in 1940. she continued to move and entertain generation after generation in the arab world and beyond for the next 70 years. she was a prolific artist, producing an estimated 3,000 songs, and acting in about 90 films. she is often uttered in the same breath as beloved and influential singers. she was the first arab singer to perform in the u.s., paris, and the sydney opera house. in her 80s she remained a glamorous presence on age, though she was sometimes mocked for her outfits and relationships with younger men. but it also gave her fans another reason to love and admire her. >>> before we go, let's tell you about a rather difficult journey that has been making the rounds on social media. this plane was frozen to the ground in russia. the temperature was minus 52

it feels like it's beirut over here. >> reporter: beirut, but, in fact, we're in missouri.he governor has said the violence we saw last night is unacceptable. he's going to activate more national guards, so people here really tense after a night of surprising and shocking violence, unexplainable violence to many people wondering what we're going to see tonight. will the violent protesters be back out in force again? neil? >> i remember in the middle of your phenomenal coverage last night, you had said there was a difference between august and last night. that last night was worse. wasn't it? >> reporter: it was a dramatic difference. in august it was a lot warmer, big crowds were out on the street protesting, some bottle throwing, some rock throwing, but last night we heard more than 90 gunshots, people were taken to the hospital, policeman was injured, buildings were set on fire, a much more dramatic, much more violent escalation, and i thought it was going to go the other way. these authorities had three months to prepare. things have gotten worse, not better here in ferg

this may be the first step to ease the suffering in beirut. >> staying with syria, five nuclear engineers have been killed. anti-government fighters have attacked the group, one of the engineers was iranian. >>> trying to break a siege of isil fighters after the capturing of a refinery. >>> other world news bombs have struck three afghan cities including the capitol of kabul. a bomb went off near an university there wounding three people. south of kabul in eastern province a suicide-bomber targeted police headquarters killing nine officers. it is reported that the bomber was dressed as a policeman. in another province three policemen were killed by a bomb planted in a rickshaw. >>> in yemen there has been intense fighting between houthi rebels and sunni tribesmen believed to be backed by al quiteby al-qaeda. 30 people have been killed where there is heavy fighting for weeks. they try to capture mortar tore in the predominantly sunni region. >> reporter: it all started when tribesmen asked shia houthi fight tours leave areas that they recently occupied. when the houthies refused the stand

hassan nasrallah spoke to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of beirut. the head of the shiite militant group usually addresses supporters via video link for fear of assassination. hezbollah forces are currently fighting in syria alongside the troops of president bashar al-assad. meanwhile france's foreign minister is calling for more help to be given to syrian rebels and that country's city of aleppo. the battle for kobane is absorbed much of the focus in syria in recent weeks, but in a column published in three international newspapers today he said the islamic state fighters turning back from kobane would instead turned to aleppo, already torn apart by syria's civil war. >> are unesco world heritage site in an ancient city. aleppo is now a battlefield in ruins. syria's second largest city happened the largest remaining stronghold in the opposition against bashar al-assad, but according to the french foreign minister, it also risks falling to the islamic state organization. in an article published in three papers including "the washington post," the gro

and let's not forget that it was iran that attacked the marines in beirut. so, yes, we've come a long way. the fact that we're this negotiations with them at times is very important. but the world has changed, as well. look at iraq. we're exceptionally the ally of iran and iraq against isis. so i think we're cholecystect y cholecystectomier to some sort of formal agreement than we've been in all these 35 years. >> it's interesting, i might dispute the use of the word ally when we talk about iran, but iran is also dealing with very low oil prices. about $83 a gallon. when iran is reportedly about $35 a barrel just to balance its budget. so is iran really suffering? because by the looks of it, they don't seem to much care when you look at their political leaders. >> well, of course they don't appear to care. but it really does hurt the sanctions have worked. we put them in a corner. they have got a quickly growing population, high unemployment. they have a lot of subsidies. they haven't gotten rid of. so, yes, if oil keeps on falling, there will be real proble

stephanie decker has more from beirut. >> reporter: this has been marked by the tightest security evernds turned up here to commemorate the death of the grandson of the profit mohammed, and what was significant here, this is an area controlled by hezbollah is the extreme security measures taken. you have security check points every couple of meters, men on the roof tops taking care that nothing is happening. hezbollah is fighting hysteria on behalf of bashar al-assad. this is an incredibly sectarian society already. we also heard there the secretary general of hezbollah who appeared by a video link. his message to his people was that their fight in syria is against extremists. that, his message clear, saying they will stay in syria just to protect the borders here. >>> ukraine's president has called an urgent meeting of his security chiefs after sunday's disputed election in rebel-held areas in the east. he was inaugurated as prime minister of the so-called donetsk people's republic. they say they have been given a mandate from the people proving their legitimacy. >>> a major operation

a correspondent in beirut met with some of the relatives and sent us this report. >> a stone's throwrom the lebanese parliament sits a protest camp. a gathering point for relatives of people held hostage by the islamic state. his son was kidnapped in august. >> what did this boy do to anyone, that he was taken hostage? i raised him for 30 years, he is my only child, and now i must experience this? >> they attacked the border city at the beginning of august. several soldiers and policemen hostage. they beheaded two of them. now the militants want to exchange some of the hostages were fighters held in lebanon. refused. >> many are following closely what has happened to the hostages and their families. however on the streets there are mixed feelings about whether the islamic state is an imminent threat to lebanon. >> god willing, i hope they don't come here, they are very dangerous. they don't think like us, they only want to kill us. it is dangerous and chaotic. >> if we can come together as lebanese to support the army, then they can hurt us. and but if we cannot unite against them to

more now from al jazeera's steph decker in beirut. >> reporter: this has been marked by the tightestever. thousands turned up here to commemorate the death of the grandson of the profit mohammed, what is significant here is the extreme security measures taken. you have security check points every couple of meters. you have men on roof tops. the spillover of the war in syria, hezbollah is fighting in syria on behalf of bashar al-assad, and that has caused problems here. it is an incredibly session -- sectarian society already. we heard from the head of hezbollah, and he said their fight is against extremists, it is a fight against extremists, saying they will stay in syria just to protect the borders here. >> the leader of separatists rebels in eastern ukraine has officially been sworn in after an election that was criticized by the west. the government in kiev has refused to recognize the result. and has threatened to pull out of the deal offering greater autonomy to the regions. >> reporter: the leader was sworn in as head of the break away group of donetsk. a ceremony that could th

i'm with al jazeera, beirut. >>> the afghan parliament approved two security deals governing the roleoops in the country after december, the by lateral security agreement with washington and separate nato agreement both passed by majority vote. meanwhile u.s. troops in afghanistan will be allowed to target taliban fighters next year under new guidelines approved by the u.s. president and originally the role had been limited to tackling al-qaeda and training afghan troops. charles stratford has more from kabul. >> reporter: voting for the go ahead of both the security arrangements one with u.s. and nato forces and comes at a time where president obama has an expansion of the role of troops that will remain here to train the afghan military. the exact details of what, in fact, these troop also be doing remains unclear but it certainly comes at a time where afghan forces are struggling to meet the taliban threat. we have seen a different strategy used by taliban in resent months and sometimes 400 taliban fighters targets the south and east of the country and three big attacks here in kab

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effecting vulnerable refugees who mainly live in beirut. the u.n. up its support offering extra aid to help them survive the harsh winter. inside syria activists say several people have been killed in government air strikes. about 30 civilians and rebel fighters have also died in an army ambush. syrian rebels have been batting government forces in the country side. they have also been fighting pro assad forces in aleppo city. al jazerra cannot independently verify these pictures. >>> more than 40 fighters from isil have been killed in french air strikes in northern iraq, the air operation took place south and west of the city of kirkuk. seven people have been killed in iraq's capital after a bomb exploded inside a mini bus, 10 others injured in an attack in sadder city, a shia neighborhood of baghdad. ♪ ♪ >>> still to come this half hour, protests in india as investigators say the alleged rape and murder of two young girls in may was actually suicide. and the cricketing world mourns of death of australian batsman philip hughes who died a few days af