>> well, if you take olook at the polls, over 70% oa look, its existed through history. a lot of the taiwanese have felt that their economy has been subsumed by this enormous china. from 20 years it's gone from became of nothing to the second largest economy in the world. this is a little overwhelming, china isn't coming on strong deliberately but they are coming on strong economically. so politically the questions are still out there and people are trying to get comfortable about how they feel about where that is. and right now most of the taiwanees are not comfortable with a fast paced reyoourvetion. reunification. >> we'll leave it there. we'll speak to you after mr, makes a public address. >>> active video shows the aftermath of fighting in akshan. syrian forces took over the village just last month. >>> days of relative calm, an elderly palestinian woman was shot by israeli forces at a petrol station in hebron. the autopsy of the 72-year-old showed she died later. israeli forces said she was shot speeding towards a group of soldiers. >>> a 22-year-old palestinian ma

take olook at what we have seen through the evening, ten tornadoes in iowa. , that is where we see wind damage gusting up to 60 miles per hour and tens of thousands of people this evening, illinois to kansas is without powrt. severe thunderstorm watch is in effect. be pushing to illinois as night progresses. take a look at high wind warnings, across the great lakes as well as even western new york tomorrow. the wind is still going to be a major problem. >> an awful lot of people will be seeing those storms. thank you kevin. >>> the white house appears to be pushing harder for a diplomatic solution to the war in syria. secretary of state john kerry and russian minister sergey lavrov spoke. significant advance against i.s.i.l. al jazeera, zeina khodr has more. >> reporter: this is a significant break through and a strategic gain, the siege of queris military airport last now been broken. i.s.i.l. has been pushed back. the syrian government and its allies have an air base in the north of the country after losing control of others over the years. if the mill tri is abl militaryn ground, the

this weekend, al jazeera america takes olook at the work of one grat rootgrass roots organizati. here is a look at the documentary shelter. >> i went out to iraq in 2009. and we got bombed every thursday. they would lop off rocket rounds, more tar rounds, whatever they had. -- wifn of those rounds hit three or four guys and i think one of them survived, i don't really remember, kind of burnt my memory with meth to try the forget about it. but we lost three guys, three mps. you talk about numbness. when i got back i had no fear, period. i wa would walk into the middlef the hood, to get weed to try to calm me down. >> how did numbness equate with the using and eventually with thought having a home? how did that dynamic play out? >> i could have made it well if i used unemployment, i got unemployment for two years, if i used it right. to use it to quiet my fears and my feelings pretty much i could have went somewhere but i didn't. i just -- i don't know how to explain it. >> that scene is one that mark deal knows all too well. mark is the executive director of the california organiz