[ music ] and welcome to al jazeera. Were in washington, d. C. For this historic day as thousands make their way to the nations capitol to remembering down independence avenue and casting the mlk memorial which was there 50 years ago. Then theyll address the exactlt today means 50 years later. Racism now is has raised its head in vicious ways, but in the language of politicians. We need the constitutional right to vote. We cannot let the voting right go back. We need the constitutional right to vote. We need to fight the war on poverty. Young people with good minds cant afford to go to school. Revival the Civil Rights Commission and a ban of foreclosing on urban america. Its not so said there is much that needs to be changed by america. This movement is broader. Its africanamericans, its latinos, its also whites who share progressive beliefs in the values of freedom and justice. Its asians and American Indians and native americans. Its a broader movement, a stronger movement, and also a movement that i think were really determined on a day like today to the man who now sits at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. The march on washington happened way back in 1963. I was just ten years. My parents were very keen in watching it, trying to understand what this meant. He was talking about jobs, talking about freedoms. So it was a great event. Now 50 years later where are we . I think dr. King gave us the plan, and its up to us to implement it. People always ask me where we are in the year 2013 looking back at dr. Kings dream in is the 63. I have to say quite honestly in some sense it was the best of times and the worst of times. We did not make the progress that i expected us to make in 50 years. Some of the very same things that king talked about in 1963 are now issues for americans. They are marching for jobs 50 years ago, and now theyre marching to get a job. Theyre qualified to get it but they cant find work. Dr. King said that negroes lived in a vast land the poverty in a land of prosperity. You know, in 2013 it hasnt changed. When we look at the divide between the black haves and the black havenotes it tells us were going in the wrong direction. When you think of the criminal Justice System we have 2 Million People in jail, and over a million of those are africanamerican. It tells us that weve moved backwards in that sense. We dont think about treatment. We dont think about ways of rehabilitation, and the reality is number one cause of death is not disease, its not illness, its homicide, killing each other. The battle is still on. We still have an africanamerican president elected for the second time. Thats promising. When president obama was elected in 2008 the world cried, worshiped, celebrated. It was just a glorious moment. To see him reelected with the sense of yes we can, the sense of hope, all those were themes that made people really embrace him and embrace the country. I dont think president obama will be the last africanamerican to be elected president. He is the first but not the last. When you think about looking back 50 years from now in 2023, i wont around by my granddaughters will be around. Justice without regard to color, class, doors are opening. We see black ceos, runs universities. That ility is blacks are the wouldnt graduate that year. But it struck me as important to recognize that the more they resisted my being there, the more it told me that this was something more than my educati education. It was about changing life in the south. Rep in the theater. You couldnt sit in a restaurant. It was no, no, no. As a teenager looking at the emmett till, looking at the montgomery bus boycott i knew there were alternatives. I wasnt sure how i was going to fit it, but i knew i would be one of those who said yes instead of no. Reporter 50 years later so M Los Angeles to arkansas. So i spent the first three years of my life in a camp in the delta region of arkansas. Reporter s as much about us as it was about africa americans. And by us i mean two things. One is japaneseamericans, asianamericans, there are so m. No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. [cheers and applause] sure that stories dont escape them. Every day a storm of views. How can you fully understand the impact unless you heard angles you hadnt considered. Consider this, antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo. Stories that matter to you. With an autographed jersey, and obama shared a few praise. Coach shula retired with more wins than any coach in history. Each time that record has been challenged, team after team has fallin short. Michael eaves joins us to talk more about that. The president was having a lot. Well take you back there shortly. Now to other stories were covering today. President obama is meeting with security advisers at the white house to discuss the alleged chemical attack in syria. Meanwhile the u. N. s top disarmament official has arrived in syria, and wants access to the site of the apparent attack near damascus that occurred on wednesday. Al jazeera is in washington, mike, what are the options that theyre actually considering . It seems that the president has said what transitioning of forces. Mike, keep us posted on what happens today. So joining me now to discuss the humanitarian efforts taking place in the satri refugee camp, thank you so much. With this laters possible chemical attack will we see more people fleeing syria . Reporter i just came from the camp, the largest camp here in jordan, and the new arrivals have told me today that the fear is spreading in syria that there will be Chemical Attacks elsewhere. They have all heard about what happened. But of course theyre already fleeing, 4 million inside because there have been war crimes now for two years. Its not like it just started last week. Its been going on for two years, and more importantly beyond that is that hope is gone inside. There is no supplies, work, there are no school for the children. So a desperate number of people want to flee to the countries we have visited the last six days. As you say there is no hope as we look at pictures of these children. So many of the children have been separated from their families. How do you begin the process of reuniting children with their families . Were talking about thousands of children. Reporter i cannot hear the question. Absolutely. I said there are thousands of children separated reporter the children are particularly no, go ahead. Reporter yes, the children i,i think the children are most vulnerable of all. Two million inside, and you have a right to point out that some of them are even without parents, completely on their own when they come to cross the border. So several organizations are working for them, unicef save the children, what do we do . Well, we provide the hope they havent seen yet. Some are given hospif families. Many are in the end reunited with relatives or even in some very lucky cases their parents. But there are heartbreaking stories every day among the people coming across the border, and we know that the borders are not that open all over. Inside there are tens of thousands of children who are not able to flee. What do you need from the International Community . Reporter what we need, number one, more resources. It is fought just another war and another crisis. Its a generational challenge. All together 6 Million People displaced, fleeing inside syria and outside. We need help to get access inside syria. The humanitarian space, the humanitarian access is really lacking. There are areas where the refugees today come from where there is no relief, and beyond anything we need help to make a ceasefire in these hostilities, and an end to the senseless slaughter that is going on in most parts of the country. I was recently in the kurdish areas in Northern Iraq and saw the exodus of 40,000 people coming from the kurdish parts of syria where it was peaceful, but where there is now fighting. Thank you so much. With the refugee council, thank you. Firefighters work to control wildfires. This fire threatens a major city supply of electricity. Unfortunately, Mother Nature will not provide relief to california but a beautiful weekend in store across the northeast, stay tune, well have all the details coming up soon. Welcome back to al jazeera, funerals have been held in londonlonetripoli after bombin. The explosions came one week after a huge carbo car bomb kil2 people. There are fears rising that syrias conflict is now spilling over the border. Were live in beirut. David, how have the bombings increased the tension in lebanon, explain this to us. Reporter one of the reasons why is because of the way the bombings took place. Those bombings took place virtually inside the mosques themselves, and as far back as people can remember, and as bad as things have been here since 1975 when the civil war began here in lebanon they cannot remember a time when the bombing was triggered to go off inside a mosque during prayer like that. That alone is heightening of the calamity going on. The two going off at the exact same time in response to the 27 people who were killed just last week has give us tremendous death toll of almost 75 people, 500 more still injured here. 65 in critical condition. Its an upping of the ante on both sides as the sunni and shiites go after each other with ferocity. The mosques were sunni. The suspect arrested also sunni. How is that . Reporter thats a particular complication. Youre right. The suspect is a sunni, and these mosques that were blown were sunni. Allegedly the reason for that is because he has ties to the shia elements south of where we are here in beirut. So shias are connected to the sunni of attack in this way. The sunni had been responsible
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