tom ackerman is there. there was a sense of frustration from the u.s. secretary of state. i imagine he's a relieved man now. >> yes, in fact, this actually - they thought that this deal would have been announced several days earlier, and required a lot more phone calling and threats from kerry to contenders before they finally came up with the agreement to sign the agreement, the power sharing agreement. the secretary in a statement today said americans know very well that the road to democracy is contentious and challenging, and leads to the best place. we had our own contentious collections, and witnessed the aftermath. elections are not the end. they must be the beginning where afghanistan and its people move forward, making improvements in the process. the reference to living some of those - the aftermath of elections is referenced to his own defeat at the hands of george w. bush in 2004 at the presidential election, at which there'd been a lot of dispute as to whether he should have fought out the vote counting. in the end he deferred and decided that he would concede

tom ackerman, al jazeera, detroit. >> coming up, images of young people in lebanon burning the he's lackm state group's flag. and it's going viral. we have details coming up. >> images of young leib niece citizens burning thing from of the islamic state group has gone viral. ines is back with that story. >> it all started when this picture of three lebanese teens burning it's i.s. flag went viral. this happened in an christian neighborhood when there was a beheading of a lebanese soldier. they have a twitter account posting in video. he's challenging the whole world to burn the isis flag. well, as far as the campaign it has not gone worldwide but it did prompt a response from the lebanese primar prime minister of justice. he said that the symbol was sectarian and not the i.s. group. >> we talked about this a couple days ago where there are cartoons mocking the islamic state group. >> and it was on middle eastern stations. >> thank you. and that's all of our time for this news hour. "real money with ali velshi" is next on al jazeera america. >> i'll tell you what the plan to stop a vladim

tom ackerman reports from washington. >> my foal he americans. >> if there was a underlying vision in his call to action against the islamic state, these words came the closest. >> this is a core principle of my presidency. if you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. >> it is not the first time he has promised to follow that rule, just as he did in pursuing and killing osama bin laden. but as to a overarching doctrine, obama has been more explicit in saying what he will try to avoided doing, with america's armed forces. >> america must always lead on the world stage. >> last may he told garage way oz f the west point army academy. >> since world war ii some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences. without building international support, and legitimacy for our action. >> in keeping with that u.s. secretary of state john kerry began intensive talks with egyptian gulf and other muslim allies to mold a coordinate strad teenic campaign against i.s. >> arab nations

from detroit tom ackerman explains. >> reporter: surrounded by the concrete, a two block square of dirtprouting peppers, leas leeks and more. >> this is caltrans plant. it needs water. >> urban farming goes back a century. but in the past ten years the number of crop-producing gardens has grown from 80 to 1400. some of that produce is served as one of the city's biggest businesses, the mgm grand casino and hotel widow nateed the land just across the street. >> we have hundreds of acres if not thousands of acres available. this may be a stepping stone for the rest of the community to get involved. >> ashley atkinson helps run keep growing detroit, whose ambitious mission is to make their town achieve what it calls food sovereignty. >> many studies have been done including one by michigan state university that found only on a couple of thousand acres we could be producing 76% of the vegetables that we currently consume, and 41% of the crops currently consumed using the same methods. >> but it's a project that needs many partners like jack van dyke. detroit's farmer markets he sells the pr

tom ackerman reports. >> reporter: this was the scene moments after the attack on the african union convoyouth-west of the somalia capital mogadishu. a car packed with explosives rammed into a truck, according to the local governor. he said civilians in a mini bus were among those killed. a spokesman for al-shabab's military manned said the target was a military commander training special forces. the soldier and three others were kill. al-shabab said the bombing was in retaliation for the u.s. missile strike on tuesday, which killed the group's leader ahmed abdi godane. in announcing his successor, al-shabab reaffirmed formal ties to al qaeda, and promised enemies great distress. somalia's government warned citizens to expect revenge attacks on targets. >> the enemy is not far, as we speak. they are around the town. the somali government will eliminate al-shabab from the whole country, bringing the lives of the people back to normal. >> for the past year the pentagon deployed a number of trainers and advisors, and a military coordination cell in somalia, to support african union peacekeepe

. >> tom ackerman in washington, d.c, thanks tom. >>> amasom are being accused of preying on vulnerable women and girls. human rights watch published a report. citing incident of rape sexual assault and sexual coalition exploitation. few reports do not mean at a the abuse is widespread. >> the african union and amazon take those allegations very seriously, they will be investigated and proper measures will be taken and if found responsible will be dealt with, under the mechanism we have in place under the african unio unn zero tolerance policy on misconduct. >> now to a warning from the world health organization that september will see a exponential increase in the ebola virus. conventional methods be used to control the outbreak failing ohave an impact there. the agency is calling for aid partners to increase by four fold the efforts. >>> be liberia is already the worst hit 61. at least 1089 people have died there. 400 have died in sierra leone, seven in nigeria. last we'll week the outbreak also spread to senegal where one person was infected. the overall death toll was as of late las

tom arkman al jazeera detroit. -- ackerman, al jazeera detroit. >>> a look at the science behind thisseason's new football helmet. fp helmet >> good evening, i'mmeteorologi. you are looking at the newly formed hurricane norbert. it went from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane. going very slowly, expect it to be a category 2 then back to a tropical storm. the big problem that we expect to see here is the amount of precipitation that is going to be coming out of this storm over the next couple of days. a couple of forecast models show it later on making a turn to the north and then to the northeast. which means, baja california and california could be affected by this storm. as we go into next week which means major flooding across the region. we are right now looking at tropical storm warnings for cabo san lucas. as we go through the forecast, thursday, notice how the precipitation starts to move in on friday, we are looking at southern arizona with major flooding going on as we go towards saturday, that also increases to parts of california. so this is something we're going to

tom ackerman has more. >> reporter: if there was an underlying vision in president obama's call for action against the islamic state, these words were the closest. >> it's the core principle of my presidency. if you threaten america, you'll find no safe haven >> reporter: it's not the first time obama followed that rule, as he did in pursuing and killing osama bin laden. he has been more explicit in saying what he'll avoid doing in relation to the armed forces. >> reporter: last may he told graduates. >> from world war ii our mistake was not from restraints, but rushing in without thinking though the consequence, without building international support and legitimacy for our action. >> reporter: in keeping with the belief, u.s. secretary of state john kerry bescan talks in saudi arabia with -- began talks in saudi arabia with allies to wage a campaign against i.s. >> arab nations play a critical role in that coalition, the leading role, across all lines of effort. >> republican foes in washington have not challenged a pledge that u.s. ground forces will not be sent into combats, but they sa

tom ackerman looks at the controversial place the famous tune has in american hearts. >> reporter: theentury old fought that guarded the harbour of baltimore attracts 6,000 tourists because of the song that has become america's national anthem ♪ oh say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light >>> it was the successful defense of fort mchepry by the ipp -- mchenry by the british, and the flag that flew that inspired francis scott key to quite the words. recited every day. >>. >>.....tis the star-spangled banner >> reporter: if not for the anthem the americans way have forgotten the war, gaping them neither territory or political advantage. before it ended the british burnt down much of washington d.c., including the white house. it has critics, much too wordy, too many high notes and the melody is not even american. it is a tune composed for a london gentlemen's choreal society. >> when i speak about it, they have no idea what we talked about. we inspired the american national anthem. yes, we did. your national anthem. >> what you are holding... >> reporter: one to which americans take f

tom ackerman has the story. >> net neutrality what is it... ... neutrality is all about... >> no, the stuttering video is not the fault of a tv or computer connection. it's a way that internet websites from netflix and google to veinio and reddick staged a symbolic online protest, saying this is how the internet would be affected if the u.s. federal communications commission adopts a proposal to modify the policy of what is called net fruit reality. >> it's not up to your cable company to decide which websites work and which don't. simply net neutrality means no discrimination. >> reporter: critics of the proposal fear it will allow cable providers to charge extra to allow some customers priority high-speed broadband delivery. president obama appeared to side with the critics. >> you don't want a different sheegs in how accessible the internet is to various users. you want to leave it open so that the next google or the next facebook can succeed. >> under fire, the commission chairman says his plan would not permit class warfare. >> and come up wi

. >> tom ackerman, al jazeera, baltimore. >> beautiful. richelle carey, fau"fault liness next. our website when you get a moment, aljazeera.com. plenty of news and updates from around the world. thomas drayton will be here at the top of the hour. so keep it here. >> the first stop for many child migrants to the united states is this border patrol facility in mcallen, texas. >> "good afternoon, welcome to the rio grande valley processing center..." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent children, fleeing desperate

although they previously said the number was closer to 10,000, as tom ackerman explains, this increases the urgency for the international coalition. >> before president obama announced the goal of degrading and destroying the islamic state, u.s. war planes flew more than 2700 missions, dropped 253 bombs and missiles, and destroyed more than 200 islamic state targets. there's no indication on how many i.s. fighters have been killed or injured. intelligence has been tripled to as many as 35,000. >> the increase is an indication that the group had recruitment success after the battlefield successes demonstrated in june. >> the pentagon says the stronger ranks are not as important as the split cap effort required to curb its growth. the numbers certainly got bigger and intensifies the scope of the energy, i don't think there is a direct line between that and the duration of the conflict or the difficulty of the conflict. according to the woest "the washington post", president obama expanded orders to conduct air strikes. it now include targetting individual i.s. leaders, and as obama indica