>> rose: welcome to the program. last week i went to damascus syria reporting for cbs new's of 0-- "60 minutes" for a conversation with bashar al-assad the president of syria. >> military opposition is te a opinion gun and try to destroy and kill in the streets, this is terrorism by every definition in the world. >> rose: the president of syria for the hour next. funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the syrian civil war has been going on now for four years. in march of 2011 pro tests against president bashar al-assad's rule were metway violent response from his regime. the conflict has since become one of the deadliest in the region. more than 200,000 syrians have been killed and 11 million lost their homes. jordan lebanon and turkey have almost four million refugees in t

government and neighbours with designs on one outcome or another, in many ways leaving the people of syria to their sad fate. it's "inside story". >>> 20 non-governmental organizations and n.g.o.s issued a report called failing syria, they targeted the united nations security council, and the international community. according to the n.g.o. the 15 members of the council have not lived up to the commitments spelt out in the very resolutions passed by the security council. the report about the syrian conflict says this spiralling catastrophe is a stain on the conscience of the international community, concluding that without action by individual governments, u.n. resolutions means little more than words on a page. it can no longer be ignored. among the n.g.o.s - oxfam, save the children and the refugee council. we begin with the secretary-general of the coup and a former united nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. good to have you with us. in the years since the united nations resolutions were passed. how has the world failed syria? >> the security council has failed syr

subcommittees held a joint hearing on syria's humanitarian crisis. they heard from state department and usaid officials about the level of aid to syria and how it's tracked so that it ends up in the right hands.r&z<',qa9jf+okó[74wk r]íoÑy1e1g after recognizing myself, as soon as they come for five minutes each for our opening statement i will then recognize any other members seeking recognition for one minute. we will then hear from our witnesses and without objection the witnesses' prepared statements will be made a part of the record and members may have five days in which to insert statements and questions for the record, subject to the length, limitation in the rules. before i begin my opening remarks i want to take a moment to offer our most sincere condolences to the friends and family of kayla mueller. our thoughts and prayers are with them in the most trying of times. kayla was taken hostage while doing humanitarian work in syria, which is the subject of our hearing. helping those who -- who are in such dire need of her help and all of america mourns her loss, and the family's loss

negotiations with syria. i spoke to bashar al-assad last week for 60 minutes. here is the full conversation. thank you for allowing us to come here. we asked for this interview because your country has been at war for four years. it is a humanitarian crisis. perhaps the worst on the crisis. -- planet. 10 million have left their homes. life expectancy is down. 50% of your country is occupied by hostile forces. it has he come a battleground for outside forces. what is next? we have seen, since i last visited, they rise of isis. hezbollah. the united states becoming increasingly concerned about isis so much so that the president and the secretary of state have said there is a need for a negotiated settlement. president assad: the meaning of your question is exaggerating the numbers of it. -- a bit. families who lost their dear ones, it is a tragedy that has been going -- every family has lost something and their livelihood. a few thousands or hundreds of thousands, it is a tragedy. every conflict should end up with dialogue. article solutions between different parties. that is what we have bee

we aring on syria's humanitarian crisis. they heard from state department and usa idea officials about how it's tracked so it ends up in the right hands. >>> with all due apologies to the members who are not here yet, i'm going to start because pretty soon we'll be going back into the session, and be voting. thank you very much, and i know that the members will be coming right quit and when they come here i will recognize their -- them for their opening statements. so the joint subcommittees will come to order. after recognizing myself chairman smith ranking members deutsch and bass as soon as they come for five minutes each. i will recognize any members for one minute. we will hear from our witnesses, and without objection, the witnesses prepared statements will be made a part of the record, and members may have five days in which to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length limitation and remarks. our thoughts and prayers are with kayla mueller in this most trying of times, she was taken hostage while doing humanitarian work in syria, which is the sub

pakistan. at least 14 are dead. >> the war in syria is in its fifth year with the number of refugees about to surpass 4 million. the human costs of the conflict and impact on syria's neighbors. >> aid arrives after a cyclone pam. the true scale of the damage still isn't clear. >> hamilton with help from arnold schwarzenegger sends out an ominous warning to his formula one rivals. >> when it comes to the next race i'll be back! ok? >> defending world champion starts the new season with victory in australia. >> taliban fighters in pakistan have claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches packed with sunday worshipers. at least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in lahore. victoria gatenb. >> reports. >> the pakistani taliban timed attacks for maximum devastation the two churches packed with those attending sunday services. there were chaos in the moments after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. >> i was on guard inside, a small gate was open. suddenly, there was the sound of a blast and the gate was blown away. i turned around and all these splashes of blood f

years of blood, misery and death in syria, aid agencies accuse the united nations of failing to protect civilians. >>> at least four people are dead and 25 trapped under rubble as a russian shopping mall burns down. >>> i'll have all of your sport, including . . . it has been called the richest fight in history, boxing's biggest names come face-to-face, ahead of their highly anticipated showdown. ♪ >>> ferguson's story is beset by allegations of racism, and disrespect for human lives. black lives and now police lives. st. louis county's police chief says he could have buried two officers last night. he charactered the shooting as an ambush and said that catching the perpetrator was the number one priority, but he also called for healing and reform. >> i have a lot of confidence in the community. i understand exercising people's first amendment rights but this is beginning at times to be very difficult for any law enforcement agency anywhere to really wrap their arms around. i want everybody here to understand how difficult this is to do it the exact perfect way. >> al jazeera's sheeha

individual child. but these kids are losing their childhoods. >>> from syria and iraq, to the central african republic and south sudan - 2014 was the worst year for young people since world war ii. >> if you look at now the map of the world and imagine the countries in crisis, and tell me which one looks like it's going to get better. >> war aside, millions of children die every year from preventible causes. >> those kids dying every day are an abomination. >>> even some of the wealthier countries are failing to care for their own youth according to u.n.i.c.e.f. >> no society is healthy if the inequalities in that society are growing. >>> lake has served in a variety of roles for the u.s. government, including as national security advisor in the clinton administration. his advice for president obama now about the wars in syria and iraq... >> join with other nations and do everything you can through bringing influence to bear through diplomacy to end this war. >>> i spoke to anthony lake in new york. as i sit and speak with you your office put out a frightening report about wha

addition to that because it's a relatively sophisticated society, syria was a middle-income country, really and people have cell phones and so on. so we actually have a system where when food is delivered, they can send a picture taken from the cell phone with the bar code so we know exactly where it went and when it arrived. >> well, thank you. let me interrupt you here a second. >> we have multiple systems like that going on. >> to safeguard. let me ask about majority of assistance. to go through the u.n. and third-party implementing partners or directly to the party? >> and thank you for that question, chairman. about 72% -- through a joint effort, really, in terms of collaboration. you know our number one humanitarian objective in this crisis is to get as much aid through as many channels as we possibly can. whoever is best placed in certain circumstances are the ones that we ask to deliver. obviously to the extent that they are comfortable delivering given all the challenges that are actually there. you asked, in particular, about the crossing lines and cross-border ranking mem

years since the beginning of syria's civil war and the country seems as far from piece as ever. great to have you with us. as many as 20,000 came to walk the edmund pettus bridge in selma today. what happened in 1965 became the catalyst for the voting rights act. it was in selma 50 years ago when police assaulted some 600 protestors. they were trying to march from selma to montgomery. the weekend celebrations also came with caution. even after 50 years the fight for equality is far from over. tony harris begins our coverage tonight. >> brown chapel ame church. the organizational muscle of the selma marches was the epicenter of thirst and activists. >> we brought down a bus load of children. >> freedom ride! >> we had a chance to vote, we had a chance to do so many things because so many people walked across that bridge, cried across that bridge, bled across that bridge. politics gets who what when where and how. >> 50 years ago, the names were james orange, malcolmx and martin luther king, jr. providing fuel for future civil rights campaigns. >> i'm concerned because our voting rights ha

vital supplies can be delivered to millions of suffering children in syria. >>> i'm reporting from a chinese village 19 months after a devastating flash flood here. along with the damage serious doubts remain about the official government story of what happened here. ♪ >> the stream, >> your digital community >> you pick the hot topics and express your thoughts the stream it's your chance to join the conversation only on al jazeera america ♪ >>> hello there, david foster there with you on al jazeera. egypt's gulf neighborings are to inject they say more than $12 billion to support egypt's economy. after years of turmoil, egypt's president is under pressure to turn the economy of his country around. >> translator: the egyptian society is 25% of the population of the middle east. stability in egypt a very important role for the civility of the whole region. >> nigeria's government has admitted that its armies troops are being trained by what it calls quote, foreign contractors. hundreds of mercenaries are believed to be in the country helping in the fight against boko haram. >>> sw

afghanistan. it is not what we are seeing on the news and iraq in syria it is spreading all over the sunny world. he is claims he is the savior of sunni islam. it is a thousand year war in which we are caught in the middle and they still kill fellow sunnis like the jordanian pilot. o >> under line all of this, it is not in any way getting smaller or staying as is. this is expanding. >> we heard after the murder of the jordanian pilot this was going to go far. it 2 turned them against them. >>al baghdadi not only goes out and kills people they put it up as propaganda he also puts out proclamation of he is the answer to the expansionism of sheet islam -- shi'ite islam. we have seen the rest of it most people thankfully have not. they are all over the middle east africa and parts of south asia. they have seen that whole video. that is a recruitment tool for foreigners to come joyin their cause. >> you asked how isis came about. let's take a look. >> isis clearly is one of the terrorist groups. it is a territorial jihadist state. >> he has a ph.d. in islamic history and serves as an

-lethal assistance. the opposition has been losing ground to hard line elements within syria. rebels want the u.s. to take more direct action against president bashar al-assad. let's go to the white house where mike viqueira is there for us. so far the president has been reluctant to take more direct action. >> well, it's certainly true, and of all the foreign policy problems nat president has faced, syria is the most vexing and gained the most critics towards president obama and his policies. in the most violent year yet in a conflict of four years. >> millions forced from their homes, 220,000 dead. what can the president do to stop it. so far many experts agree what he's trying isn't working. >> mr. obama's approach to stay out of the area with troops on the ground, that far he's succeed something far. >> six months into the civil war the president said assad must go. three and a half years later the carnage conditions continues and assad is still there. >> what are i see are enormous gaps between what the the obama administration claims they're trying to do there. >> in 2013 the p

are dead. >> also coming up, the war in syria is in it's fifth year with the number of refugees about to pass 4 million. the human cast and affect on its neighbors. >> the true scale of the damage of cyclone pam still isn't clear. >> it's still 2015, but apparently. this is what the future will look like. noisy, isn't it? >> taliban fighters in pakistan claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on churches packed with sunday worshipers. at least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in lahore. victoria reports. >> the pakistani taliban timed attacks for maximum devastation, the two churches packed with those attending sunday services. there was chaos in the moments after the bombs exploded within minutes of each other. >> i was on guard inside, a small gate was open. suddenly, there was the sound of a blast and the gate was blown away. i turned around and all these splashes of blood fell on my clothes. we got busy with the rescue effort. the bombings were in the neighborhood home to more than 100,000 christians. >> today in lahore, our churches were attacked. we strongly co

the sea. northern syria. >> and a reminder that you can keep up-to-date with all the news all the time on our website, www.aljazeera.com. the very latest on the situation in yemen where the violence is escalateing between outy rebels and other factions. do stay with us. credible messages from credible source that is we can never trace back to their origins, you know, that austin is alive. >> people have, you know, had no reason to lie to us as far as we can tell. >> reporter: american journalist austin tice has been missing in syria in 2012. a video appeared on the internet, he's blindfolded and led my men. >> we think the message, the title of the video "austin tice is alive." everything else about the video prompts more questions than gives answers. >> reporter: his parents say no one made demands in return for austin's freedom. >> i believe he's held in syria. who he is holding him, we have no idea. >> reporter: austin was a marine captain in afghanistan and iraq. after leaving the service he went to law school, but took a break in 2012 to go to syria and tell stories most medi

us as far as we can tell. >> reporter: american journalist austin tice has been missing in syria in 2012. a video appeared on the internet, he's blindfolded and led my men. >> we think the message, the title of the video "austin tice is alive." everything else about the video prompts more questions than gives answers. >> reporter: his parents say no one made demands in return for austin's freedom. >> i believe he's held in syria. who he is holding him, we have no idea. >> reporter: austin was a marine captain in afghanistan and iraq. after leaving the service he went to law school, but took a break in 2012 to go to syria and tell stories most media were ignoring. his parents called on president obama to do more. >> we want him to engage diplomatically in dialogue with the syrian government. >> reporter: i spoke to mike and deborah tice. they were preparing to launch the free austin campaign. tell me about austin, he's oldest of seven of your children. tell me about him? >> he's a great guy. he has a huge personality. we hear regularly from friends of him, from people we haven't met.

pass >>> after four years of civil war in syria, the u.s. says only negotiations with president assad can end the conflict. >> hello. you are watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up: at least 14 killed and dozens injured when taliban bombers target two churches. devastation, cyclone pam may have destroyed up to 90% of homes. a show of force from venzuela's military as parliament votes on strengthening the president's powers. ♪ hello. it's four years to the day since the incidents which triggered syria's civil war on march 14th the syrian government began cracking down on demonstrations. five protesters became the first victims of the could be conflict. army did he have if we can't orderses announced the formation of the free syrian army. the next month hundreds of people were killed by government forces in the town of hammas. the opposition formed it's syrian national council. in august 2014, the syrian government was affordable care acted of hilling hundreds of civilians. by the following summer the islamic state ofra iraq two months latter, the u.s. formed a coa

in syria, aid agencies say the world is failing people in desperate need. a factory collapse has left dozens of people policing and five people dead. s are cuers are searching the wreckage hello there and thank you for joining us. eric holder has called the shooting of two police officers in ferguson missouri a heinous assault. the attack happened at demonstrations took place following the resignation of ferguson police chief tom jackson he quit after a scathing report about racially based practices about local law enforcement as the protest ever were dwindling after misdemeanor night, the shots were heard. >> we mare what we thought were fireworks up the street, turns out happened three more times it was gunfire because we saw the plus soul fire from the gun. so we were just all ducked down and then we saw the cop was shot right next to us. >> one police was shot in the face another in the shoulder the police chief thomas jackson planned to resign. jackson has long maintained that there was no racism on his watch, but following a damming report on his police department he became

newshour live from doha. i'm mart -- martine dennis. syria's war enters its fifth year. how the conflict wrecked lives, broke homes and left a nation divided. twin blasts at a church in lahore. 10 killed many wounded. their homes stood mere. the island nation of vanuatu tried to recover from the deadly cyclone. and lewis hamilton with support from arnold schwarzenegger. >> when it comes to the new race - i'll be back. >> the defending champion starts with victory in australia. >>> march 15th, 2011. there was a civil war in libya between muammar gaddafi, and opposition groups. the world feared a nuclear disaster at the fukushima plant after the japanese tsunami, and tickets went on gaol for the olympics games. and the beginning of the syrian war. the government responded by cracking down on demonstrations. five protesters in deraa became the first victims. in july a group of army defectors turned their weapons against the government and announced the formation of the free syrian army. the next month hundreds of people were killed by government forces in the town of hama. the oppo

here come our headlines. failing syria. humanitarian groups say the international community has abandoned millions of refugees. >> our correspondent in eastern ukraine exphrorz the devastated airport. >> and the widow of a murdered russian agent tells us she's still searching for the truth. >> a damming report by 20 human rights groups says that the international community has failed syria. the situation for people there has not gotten better and numerous u.n. security counsel resolutions have not been implemented. >> more than 20,000 people and more than 11 million displaced the worst refugee crisis in the world. >> for this family home is now a refugee camp in jordan. they thought they would be here for just a few weeks but four years on they have no idea if they'll ever go home. it's attacks such as this one a few days ago that forced them to flee. civilians are being killed every day in syria and the war has already claimed more than 200 200,000 lives and destroyed the infrastructure. the country is on the brink of collapse. these satellite images paint a dire picture. syria

>>> broken nation, syria is on the verge of a major milestone. five years of conflict. now some international observers are taking aim at a global response that they believe is bankrupt. >> can't they see the impact that their failure to compromise is creating in this situation? >>> and the remains of aleppo the day are you will he at of life for pima mid the ruins. after four years of fighting, syria's health system has collapsed. >> most of the doctors were either killed or fled. >> in ukraine, the slide from ceasefire back in to full scale war seems to be underway. >> now we are strengthening the stretches. preparing to responds to their attack. >> and u.s. foreign policy under the microscope. >> our friends no longer trust us. and our enemies no longer fear us. >> how the bitter division in washington is lead to go sharp questions from american allies and adversaries. >> translator: someone for once iran can say to us are you credible in the offers you were making. >> the strengths of american policy now being questions. ♪ ♪ >> good evening and thank you for up jog us on

we'll be covering over the next 60 minutes. syria's war enters its fifth year, how the conflict has where he could lives broken homes and left the faith divided. >> twin blasts at a church in la fore, 14 killed and many more wounded. >> thousands of brazilians call for an investigation into the president against a backdrop of power cuts and water shortages. >> in sports, lewis hamilton with help from arnold schwarzenegger we knows out a warning. >> when it comes to the next race i'll be back. right? ok. >> the defending world champion starts the new season with victory in australia. >> it began with peaceful protests against a president but soon exploded into a vicious civil war. the conflict in syria is now entering its fifth year. among the latest victims a group of people in rebel-held areas of douma. activists say as many as 20 people including children died in airstrikes on residential building in the town and you said damascus. dozens more have been reported killed and injured in the last days. that as the air force steps up attacks in that area. thousands of syrian children h

constantly on the news in iraq and syria is spreading all over the world. it is part of proclaimed to be the savior of sunni islam from the shiites. the shiites predominant in iran. it's a 1,000 year war in which we are caught in the middle and they still kill fellow sunnis. it's the most brutal terror organization we have ever seen on the planet earth. >> and it is expanding. this is not in any way getting -- this is expanding. >> we heard right after the murder of the jordanian pilot that maybe they had gone too far. it probably turned the kingdom against them in jordan but it is a recruitment tool for the most vicious group of people on earth. not only goes out and kills people and put it up as propaganda, he also puts out proclamation of he is the answer to the expansionism of the shi'a islam. they use the horrific video that was broadcast all over the middle east, all over africa, all over parts of south asia. they have seen that full video and that's a recruitment tool for foreigners to join their cause. >> we asked you to dig into how isis came about. let's take a look. >> i

with the kurds to be on the front line in syria. and the duchess comes to downtown abby. it's a royal occasion as kate takes a tour behind the scenes of the wildly popular show. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. tonight the city of ferguson, missouri, is once again in the spotlight after two officers were shot outside police headquarters. the shooting followed the resignation of the police chief yesterday and months of unrest sparked by the death of an unarmed black teenager. the officers have now both been released from the hospital. the bbc is in ferguson with the latest for us. laura. >> well, katty. it's a beautiful, sunny evening here in ferguson, but the mood is extremely tense. there has been a manhunt here as officers search for those who may have been behind the shooting of those two police officers. now, that shooting which happened behind a little after midnight is threatening to undermine the community trying to move forward after months of division. and people tell me that the report into the culture of policing h

-out war. the conflict in syria enters a fifth year. hello, i'm martine denise, with the world news from doha. also to come: i.s.i.l. is accused of using chlorine gas during attacks in iraq. entire communities have been descrid butdestroyed but the first aid is on the way to vanuatu and: >> apparently this is what the future will look like. more in the program. >> a group of children were arrested anti-graffiti protests on a wall in syria no one could have predicted what had happened. 7.5 million have been displaced another 4.5 million are hard to reach or displaced. registered as refugees in another country. rurula amin looks back at how this began. >> reporter: these are the images that helped spark the war in syria. >> when we took to the streets each one of us felt as if we had a revolution simmering inside of us waiting for the right moment to come out and we could feel free. the fear barrier just collapsed. we all went out my mother, my brother, my entire family, the chanting came from our hearts. >> gardenia is not her right name. but she says she cries when she looks at pict

>>> syria's war enters the fifth year. we look at how the conflict wrecked lives, broke homes and left a nation divided. hello, i'm martine dennis you are with al jazeera live from doha. also to come. twin blasts from a church in lahore. 14 kill and more wounded. their homes stood here. the island nation of vanuatu tries to recover from the deadly category 5 cyclone, and... >> phil lavelle - it's 2015 - not the future. apparently this is what the future will look like. noisy, isn't it. find out more later in the programme. >>> when a group of children were arrested for scrawling anti-government graffiti on a wall in syria, no one could have predicted what would follow. the protest which began is now in its fifth year. the united nations says more than 220,000 syrians have been killed. more than 7.5 million people have been forced from their homes, but have stayed within the country. 4.5 million are thought to be trapped in areas that are besieged or hard to reach. in all, more than 12 million syrians are in need of help inside their own country. 4 million others registered as refu

current situation in syria. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everyone and welcome on this very snowy day. this book roundtable with david phillips. i am professor of political science at barnard and deputy director for social sciences and programming. on behalf of of the hammer institute and columbia university and want to welcome you to this book launch, book conversation "the kurdish spring" a new map of the middle east authored by david phillips sitting here to your right. david is director of a program on peacebuilding and rights about the study of human rights. he has worked as senior adviser to the united nations secretariat and the foreign affairs expert and senior advisor to the u.s. state department. so positions, different academic universities conflict resolution program director at the american university program on conflict and peacebuilding. he's a visiting visiting scholar for middle east studies and a professor at the academy of kenya. he has written numerous books. this is the latest one and he has been involved in peacebuilding operations practice, theory

the city. u.n. needs another $3 billion to help the people of syria and comes on claims that the u.n. has not done its job and also this hour i.s.i.l. accepts pledge of allegiance from boko haram in nigeria and a car crash outside of the white house means more trouble for the u.s. secret service. >>> your spot including formula one is back just like 2014 it was hamilton and rosburg and the grand prix and action from practice coming up. ♪ we begin this news hour in iraq where the government is confident that victory in tikrit is now just days away. the iraqi army backed by shia malitia and sunni tribesmen have been advancing on several fronts and on wednesday they recapture some western neighborhoods and fighting focuses on the presidential complex and city center and we report. >> reporter: pounding enemy targets on the outskirts of tikrit on the huge offensive and 3,000 soldiers and police have been attacking positions held by i.s.i.l. as they try to reach the city center. they are backed by 20,000 malitiamen known as the popular mobilization forces and a vast smaller number o

high after two police officers are wounded. >>> and secret service scandal. >>> and syria, a broken nation. millions live in what has been called a nightmare of suffering. ♪ >>> so as of this hour the county police in missouri highway patrol are taking over security in ferguson missouri two officers, one from the county, the other from a neighboring force were shot during a mostly peaceful protest last night now a manhunt is underway for whoever opened fire. eric holder has harsh words for the shooter. >> what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson this was a damn punk. punk. trying to sew discord in an area that is trying to get its act together and bring together a community that has been fractured for too long. this disgusting and cowardly attack might have been intended to unravel any sense of progress, but i hope that does not happen. >> diane eastabrook is live for us in ferguson, any update on the search for those responsible for this? >> reporter: tony what i can tell you is today several people were taken in for que

jazeera america. >>> the u.s. says it will have to negotiate with president assad to end syria's war. ♪ ♪ hello, live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up in the next 30 minutes. >> we do not know whether our families are safe or not and as a leader of the nation, my whole heart is for the whole people of the nation. >> vanua thank you. atu's president says years have progress have been wiped out. >> reporter: i am adam ably in brazil. 30 years after the end of military rule in this country the president who herself was tortured by that same regime, is now hearing calls for her impeachment. >>> and powers to make laws, venezuela's parliament allows president ma maduro to rule by decree amid rising tensions with the u.s. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, u.s. secretary of state john kerry says washington is willing to negotiate with the syrian president bashar al-assad for a political transition. up until now the u.s. had insisted that the assad had to go before any deal could be made. kerry is in switzerland for talks on iran's nuclear program. our diplomatic editor james bay is his th

>> joining i.s.i.l. new video shows three british school girls preparing to enter syria and the man helping them, turkey says he's an intelligence agent who was working for the coalition. >>> tax scam. the new warning from the irs about phone calls demanding money. the scam has already cost thousands of americans millions of dollars. >>> ferguson flight. >> i don't want to live in the neighborhood in which my child doesn't feel safe. >> some residents are packing their bags from the town that's become synonymous with racial tension. >>> and dirty water. a visit to the county in alabama where even in 2015, many families flush raw sewage right out into their own yards. >> good evening i'm antonio mora. this is al al jazeera america. we are learning more about three london school girls who fled their homes and may have joined i.s.i.l. today a new video emerged showing the girls trying to cross the border into syria. the man they're with is now in turkish custody. john terret is here, there are lots of questions who this intelligence agent is. >> yes there are we are learning more anton

power. the death and destruction carried out by bashar al-assad's regime in syria is on display at the united nations. a new political play. the confirmation of a would-be attorney-general loreta lynch is delayed >>> health concerns and looming lawsuit. a battle over pork and pollution. >>> a 20-year-old man is under arrest. police say he is the gunman that wounded two police officers and ferguson, missouri last first. the officers were shot outside the police department during protests in relation to the resignation of police she have thomas jackson, the sixth public official to resign or be fired following a scathing report by the justice department documenting racism in the police and court departments. the report is in response to the shooting death of michael brown by ferguson police officer darren wilson. more arrests may come. >> at this point in the investigation, the investigation is ongoing. there's a lot to be done. >> st. louis country prosecuting attorney announced the arrest of jeffrey williams connection to a shooting injuring two police officers. >> essentially we c

. >> it says something about the desperation of people who are desperate to get out of syria. why would the turkish coast guard use live ammunition on a civilian cargo vessel and there were children aboard this vessel? >> reporter: we still do not know that. what we understand from turkish officials is that they fired warning shots and the warning shots were ignored. but what we also know is that turkey has come under a lot of pressure. turkey is now the transit point, really for people trying to make their way to europe. it has been criticized for not doing enough. so maybe this is the turkish authorities trying to show that they are doing something to stop this massive influx of people heading to europe. it really has become a huge problem. people sometimes take boats from libya trying to reach italy, so turkey under pressure under a lot of criticism, maybe trying to show the world that it is trying to do something. >> zana many thanks. >>> the iraqi government is confident that the victory in tikrit is just days away. the iraqi army and sunni tribesmen have been advancing. the

in some cases their right to life. in syria those who escape the horrific attacks of extremist thugs do so only to face a brutal dictator who gasses his own people starves them as a weapon of war and continues to barrage with barrel bombs that fall on their schools, their hospitals, their mosques, their children and women in disand anyone who has seen the i'm j -- images will never forget them with eyes gouged out and emaciated prisoners and defies anybody's sense of humanity and in north korea tens of thousands of people live as virtual slaves in 2015. there is no freedom of expression worship or political dissent. kim jung-un executes those who disagree of them and purging the country of anyone he knows or imagines to be loyal and they subrogated citizens starving and torturing and incarcerating them or worse. hundreds of thousands have lost their lives and then there is the crisis in ukraine and here i urge the council, look at the facts. do not allow yourselves to be misled. in crimea and the separatist controlled areas of eastern ukraine, men, women and children are being

ideology. you know if you look at the history of baathism in iraq and syria, saddam hussein did horrible things to shiitess and to kurds. he used chemical weapons on his people basically attacked civil civilians. you know quite well what the assad regime is doing today. but also his father did the same thing. so the track record of baathism is all violent from day one until today. now, when saddam hussein islamized this ideology, we get a very dangerous mix. basically, got like maybe unintentionally because he, you know, after the first gulf war or around, during the war there was a shiite revolt in the south against his rule. so he started to feel a lot of pressure from within. so he used that campaign to kind of encourage, you know, kind of legitimize his regime. and, you know, what happened usually is that a lot of bath u.s.es leave -- baathists abandoned baathism and took on salafism because salafism is more, you know, invigorating, more like, it's more pure let's say, than baathism. although they have a lot of similarities. so saddam hussein towards the end of his regime st