The rights guaranteed by the through. Our allies in the region. The person responsible for the rise of i. S. I. L. Its badly timed truthtelling. Islamic state of iraq and town. Sides. President obama is looking at new measures to protect americans from ebola. I consider this a Top National Security matter. Entero virus d68 is blamed for the death of a student. Its been little more than a seen. North koreas number two korea. Weird stuff. Movie. Using nukes to save the earth from an asteroid is not Science Fiction any more. We begin on i. S. I. L. And the capture of a key border town of kobani. Two i. S. I. S. Flags were raised ominously in the city. Kurds moved to turkey. Some conditioned continued to fight. The air strikes have done little. We call on everyone to support the fight for kobani, and stand together. The fight to keep americans from joining the terrorist group assistance. Authorities arrested an illinois teenager trying to board a flight in an airport that would have taken them to vienna. According to a complaint notes were found at the home, including the words come to jihad. In an interview federal bureau of investigation director says the bureau is doing Everything Possible to monitor the americans they know are fighting for i. S. I. L. Reporter how Many Americans are fighting in syria on the side of the terrorists . In the number of a dozen. Reporter do you know who they are . Yes. Reporter every one of them. Of the dozen, i think i do. I hesitate because i dont know what i dont know. Joining us douglas ol fant. Director of iraq during the bush and obama administrations and served two fours during the iraq war and led the Planning Team that helped to coordinate the surge. Hes a senior National Security fellow at the foundation. Kobani under siege for three weeks. Now i. S. I. L. Appears to be taking control. Despite air strikes, the terrorists havent been stopped. Has the coalition failed here . Well, certainly to all external looks it seems so. Maybe theres an internal reason you dont understand. Looking at it as an outsider. Its hard to understand why air power couldnt have been used more effectively, particularly against the tanks and artillery pieces. Kurdish offenders have none of those. The tanks and artillery pieces, they were moving through through territory that was open. Not a lot of trees. These were easily visible. Its inexplicable. It will be interesting to see whether theres an extenuating circumstance. It doesnt look good. What about the kurds. They have been vocal that the air strikes are hard enough. They are got getting it. Ago. If you look at this on a map, its salient in a sea of black. The Islamic State controls the Turkish Border for at least 50 miles on each side of kobani. And this is the last little outpost. It wouldnt be hard to get ammunition to them. Obviously, there are concerns between the turks and the kurds. What is the deal. They have a whole bunch of tanks and moved more there. This city is within sight, about a mile from the border. Its not as if its easy for the turks to have done something. Not only would they have done something, but let other kurds, its my understanding that they are being stopped from going back to the town. There are several opportunities, even if the turks dont want to get their own hands dirty. You talked about how they control significant territory on both sides. The reality is theyll control most they are looking at a map. They are showing an area contested or controlled by i. S. I. L. Its shown most of the border with turkey and into iraq. This is a little salient. At a strategic level, it doesnt matter. It matter a lot to the kurd that love there. It seems the humanitarian disaster has unfolded. Most of the civilians that have left. They turned into combatants. Its hard to see an outcome, even if they were able to hold the town, as the map shows, its a dot in the see of black. Its not like the in habitants will want to go back soon. What message does it send not only to i. S. I. L. , but the kurds and the rebels, that the coalition starts to take action, bomb in syria, and i. S. I. L. Keeps on gaining ground. Maybe we have misunderstood what is going on in syria. The primary intent is to push i. S. I. L. Out of iraq. We are confused about the syrian policy. We havent had the right proxies. In the kurdish towns to the north, we do. These could have been reinforced. Maybe they were missed in the planning. Im trying to come up with an explanation. Its baffling. What happens to the syrian rebels. There are reports that the pentagon is yet to assign anyone. Which ones they trust to be the ground force in syria. This is unfolding slowly. We dont have someone to conduct the checks on the syrians, it will be difficult to do this. This is a country that lives on paper records. Most of those people live in towns, how do you check a background when theres no paper trail. Theres no one to do this. We dont have an moi or mod in iraq, and dont have a military officer. You mentioned iraq. There are conflicting reports that i. S. I. L. Mortars hit the i. S. I. L. Zone, that they are within firing zone of the baghdad airport. On the other hand it seems the u. S. Is taking more control and using Apache Helicopters. Right. The Apache Helicopters are the key that Something Different has changed. I. S. I. L. Has been in baghdad for a period of time. They have been blowing up car bombs, it came down a little bit, it never stopped. There has been cells and enclaves for a long time. The fact that someone took it seriously enough to take the Apache Helicopter and use them in a direct fire role means that we had an kags that something was occasion that something was going bad. A tanker and artillery piece getting closer to the airport. We are determined to keep the line open. You heard the federal bureau of investigation director talking about americans, he knows a dozen are fighting in syria, with i. S. I. L. And how many others there could be. Theres an illinois teenager, he was about to get on a plane and head over. He left a letter for the parents, saying he was joining i. S. I. L. How concerned are you that this is a growing problem . We should be concerned. There are reports that it was more like 100. The federal bureau of investigation is telling us theres only 12. We know there are hundreds of e. U. Citizens. This is something that we need to be concerned about. Probably more about the lone wolves in the country. Who might decide they want to emulate i. S. I. S. , by doing their own independent terrorist attack. Its something for us to be concerned about. James said he wanted the lone wolves called lone rats. Because that was more accurate. Im with him. Good to have you with us on the diplomatic front Vice President joe biden had to apologise for comments made at the Kennedy School of government. Blaming the allies were helping al qaeda said rise. Our biggest problem is the allies, they poured hundreds of millions of dollars, tens thousands of tonnes of weapons into anyone that would fight against bashar alassad. Extent the people who were being supplied were al nusra, al qaeda, and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world. For more, im joined from paris by Christopher Dicky who wrote about the controversy in a post entitled vp biden apologises. Chris, good to see you. Turkey, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was enna quotic after hearing bidens rocks, saying in response the state Department Released a statement saying that you, however, believe that biden was telling the truth, however undiplomatic the truth may be. Well, yes. I think he is telling the truth about the countries and the supplies to all sorts of organizations that wound up funnelling those arms and funny to i. S. I. S. It is selfsupporting, it doesnt need that. In 2012, 2013, there was an effort to build up the opposition. The turks, the emirates, the saudis were indes criminate about how to do it. Its something that worried the administration, a reason they were reluctant to get involved in building up the antibashar alassad forces. Essentially because they feared all that would end up in the hands of terrorists. That is the word that he used, and his apology. I wasnt saying that you were did. Not completely an apology, although he gave a call to Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Biden made comments about turkey, qatar and saudi arabia. Lets listen to some of that. Now saudi arabia stopped the funding going in. Saudi arabia is allowing training on its soil of American Forces under title 10, open training. The qataris cut off the support for the most extreme elements of the terrorist organizations, and the turks, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan told me hes an old friend, saying you were right, we let too many people through, now they are trying to seal the border. Qatar and saudi arabia havent commented, but the white house said Recep Tayyip Erdogans comments were mischaracterised. It isnt clear. I think hes saying pretty much what he heard Recep Tayyip Erdogan say. Although, you know how conversations are. Biden may have said to Recep Tayyip Erdogan hey, you let a lot of these guy throughs, and maybe Recep Tayyip Erdogan shrugged and said, maybe, and thats now joe biden rewriting the conversation. Who nose. The fact is Recep Tayyip Erdogan let a lot of people through, thousands. You couldnt go to the border region without seeing young jihadis, men and women, waiting to be taken into syria, and the turks turned a blind eye to that. Now they are paying the price of it. And also crossborder operations to sell oil and finance itself. I. S. I. L. And they are still doing that. I mean, right now you have a dramatic situation around kobani. Its a kurdish down about to fall to i. S. I. S. Everyone can see it from the turkish side. 32 turkish tanks are lined up on the border. They are sitting there, not doing anything. Defeated. Turkey has been, at best, a reluctant partner. Could bidens remarks risk any more for from the turks. Seeing what happened, they have done nothing. It is clear before that they were going to do nothing. There were headlines saying the parliament passed a law that says they can move their troops into turkey. As soon as they passed a law, they said that they would not do it. Theres a certain effort by biden, consciously, unconsciously to shame the turks and some of these countries, and he said that they have all woken up to the threat in i. S. I. S. Poses. I think the saudis are clear about that. The qataris are clear, and the united arab emirates. Its not obvious that the turks are clear, that i. S. I. S. Is a bigger threat to them than bashar alassad, or their own kurdish population. That is a big part of the problem. As mentioned, the united arab emirates, they demanded clarification. One thing that this does raise, and some allies raised is that much of this would not have happened had the United States helped to arm the moderate syrian rebels, how much blame in all this should go to the u. S. . I dont know, i dont know. Thats now a hypothetical situation. Lots of people said we should arm the moderate syrian rebels. I think there were doubt within a lot of the administration, among a lot of people in the administration, key decision makers, the president himself, about the wisdom of doing that. I think the theatre all along was you start arming the people you think are the moderates, and the real hard liners, the crazies defeat them and take their arms, or buy their arms or enlist them in their own cause. That is as old as the history of american interventions in the middle east, as hold as the history of americans training different armies to do their bidding or serve what is thought of as the general global interest. This the end you have local priorities taking precedence, and all the training goes to nought. We saw it in the 80s, and i think it happened again and again. We saw it with the iraqi army, trained at the cost of billions of dollars, and then Prime Minister maliki tried to turn it into the own thiefdom. If they couldnt train up the iraqi army, everyone said it would be an okay government in iraq. The idea that you can take a lot of miscellaneous motley crew of freedom fighters, train them up and it would be okay is naive. Its a terrible, intractable situation. I dont think it was an obvious solution about would have, could have, should have, and what the obama will face in 2012. A lot of people are dying. Millions of refugees are displaced. Good to have you with us. Now for more stories from around the world. We begin in brazil where more than 150 Million People went to their countrys president ial election. Incumbent president Dilma Rousseff led the way receiving 42 of the vote. Because she failed to receive more than half, therell need to be a Runoff Election in three weeks. The tenure has been marred by protests over how billions in the world cup and olympics was sent. A senator will be an opponent. Theyll finish second with 34 of the vote. Next to mexico, 43 College Students vanished, an anonymous tip led police to a mass grave. The students had been protesting sweeping reforms when police and gang members opened fire on buses, killing and injuring 17. 30 people have been arrested. Authorities stressed not to speculate on the identity of the newly found bodies. Identifying them could take months as they were badly burnt. We head to hamilton, where a 4yearold boys death was the first linked. Eli waller had a case of pink eye when he went to bed. He never woke up. Monday the medical examiner declared that the brain and lymph node swelling that killed him was a result of the virus. Four others that tested positive had died. The c. D. C. Is trying to determine what role the virus played in his doth. More than 43 cases have been confirmed. Thats some of what is happening around the world. The u. S. Will step up screenings for an ebola virus, and declares the disease a top priority. A surprise nondecision by the Supreme Court opens the blood gates for america. Harmeli aregawi, is tracking stories on the web. A pan handler not as desperate as she appears to be has turned up. If you want to hear about the kentucky, a state thats hurting economically. When the mines shut down it affects other businesses too you know, it hurts everything. Some say its time for a change. Mitch has been in there so long. While others want to stay the course. All the way mitch you know exactly what these people needs in kentucky. Communities trying to cope. What does the future hold . The economy, the struggling coal industry and healthcare are all impacting their vote. America votes 2014 fed up in kentucky. All this week. Only on Al Jazeera America. O president obama declared ebola a Top National Security matter on monday. We have learnt lessons in terms of what happened in dallas. One of the things we discussed is how we can make sure we are spreading the word across hospitals, clinics, any place where a patient might first come in contact with a medical worker to make sure they know what to look out for. This is it governor rick perry announcing a task force, saying the federal government need to do more. In dallas, Thomas Eric Duncan is getting an experimental drug to help fight the disease. Hes in critical but stable condition. The freelance cameraman who attracted the disease walked into a nebraska hospital. He is able to receive an experimental drug. While president obama tried to project calm, the first reported case outside of africa was reported in spain. A nurse who cared for two people flown to madrid from west africa tested positive to the disease. We go to dallas, to a doctor from the center for Disease Control and is currently a professor of public health, and a staff writer for the news. Good to see you. Lots of ebola news on monday. Lets start in dallas. Thomas eric duncan is getting an experimental antiviral drug. His nephew told al jazeeras america tonight, his uncles condition is to trail, when he visited, they were trying to communicate over closed circuit camera. Is there a sense of how much the antiviral drugs might help . They are experimental drugs. Thats the most important thing to remember. Already. Another is tkmebola, still experimental and can make the patient sicker to begin with. The one that Thomas Eric Duncan will receive hasnt been tested in animals or humans, and has done well in lab tests. Its hard to note. These doses are being given to a few humans, not constituting a proper testing protocol. Ashoka mukpo, the n. B. C. Cameraman, he is getting an experimental treatment. He talked about and believes he may have been infected because he was disinfecting a vehicle where someone died from the disease. If that is the case, does it raise concerns about how long the virus can survive outside a human host. He said to his father it could have been when he was spray washing his car, and he added that he was not sure. He had been in ebola clinics and patient for three years. Its hard to say, what was the specific ebola. In terms of your question, we know the virus can survive on some surfaces for a few hours or days. We had to have direct contact with the fluids, and it can be easily disinfected with things like bleach. They have to do more, but theres little indication from the federal government that that will happen. The president wants greater screening, what do you think we might see from people coming from west africa. There are screening primes in liberia. Thomas eric duncan had his temperature taken as he boarded the plane. There are talks of screening u. S. Airports. Or fill out questions about have you been in an ebol