Rocket just meters away. Hundreds of thousands of rakes especially yazidis. Up to 25,000 children are in dire need of humanitarian aid. It spread more rapidly. The Ebola Outbreak is spreading. Hackers allegedly stealing 1 billion user names and passwords. Rowstta meeting with a comet. Were on the comet. This guy flipped and became trapped in the gap. Rallied to free his leg. Ladies and gentlemen that is teamwork we begin with questions over how long peace will last in the middle east. As we fleer the end of a three we near the end of a three day ceasefire. Israel has agreed to extend it under its current terms but hamas has not it will negotiators in egypt trying to deal with competing and potentially irreconcilable demands from either side. On wednesday, israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says israelis are safer now than before the fighting began. He vigorously defended the attack on gaza saying it was needed. Israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty. Every single one. We have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualty. Hamas has gone to extraordinary length to ensure they had civilian casualties. Spotting suspected members of hamas assembling a rocket in a residential neighborhood. The. We are witnessing something very, very unusual in ooh afternoon aabandonned profit land by our hotel. A blue tent came up this morning and there are two men moving in and out of it. It is fair to guess that this is a potential hamas rocket launching site. It also establishes something which hamas has always been accused of, that they actually use densely populated civilian areas to fire their rockets. You see that this is an area very heavily built up, a lot of residential and hotel buildings, all around. Hours later, nd tv filmed a rocket as it was launched from that same location, minutes before the 72hour ceasefire between hamas and israel dpan on tuesday. Joining us began on tuesday. Joining us is al jazeera correspondent Nick Schifrin, just back from gaza and israel where he has been reporting very effectively since the conflict began. Youve done very, very good work and thank you very much for joining us and its good to have you. Thanks for having me. We see nvtv video and now we see french video showing children playing on top of a Rocket Launcher. None of whom has been willing to admit that these rockets are launched from populated areas. What kind of things did you see . Is there any doubt at this point where rockets are being launched from where people live . No, there is no doubt. Every reporter who has been to gaza would say there are rocket launch eshes near for example hospitals and hotels where journalists stay and in general densely populated neighborhoods. You have to understand all of gaza is densely populated and so what happens is that the targets are very close to those residential neighborhoods, to homes. And many of them, when theyre struck, not only take out the Rocket Launcher but something right next to it whether its a home or field. Or people who may be on the street. Or people on the street so we are seeing Collateral Damage from people on the streets, even though those strikes generally from drones or fsceans are actually more accurate than some of the tank fire and artillery fire from the israelis. So yes, almost everything that is targeted in gaza is in a residential neighborhood or commercial gaza because most of all of gaza is like that. President obama was very harsh today, had very harsh words for hamas saying he had no sympathy for them whatsoever. He did say he had much sympathy for the plpian people who have suffered Palestinian People who have suffered in this conflict. Remember hamas acts extraordinarily irresponsibly when it is deliberatel deliberag Rocket Launchers in residential neighborhoods. Not showing enough of these rocket launches but reporting from a war zone is extremely difficult and reporting from an urban war zone, urban warfare can be horrifying at times. It can be horrifying, it is more horrifying for people who live in it than the reporters who come in and out. You can notify the israelis as where you are and at one point you can leave. Right . Thats right, so many people cant leave. It is difficult covering iran or afghanistan or wherever because everyone is so close. So the effect of that of course is that the war becomes more emotional to cover and ive covered half a dozen and its extremely difficult to deal with the families. Because the families are affected, the children, so many wounded so many killed, 400 killed and so many traumatized. The parents, one woman i spoke to one mother who actually moved her children around to different rooms every night so she felt if the israelis struck one room at least she wouldnt lose all of her kids. Its horrifying. Some of your reports have shown the horrible suffering of the people and the children. Just how bad is the devastation, gaza is twice the size of washington, d. C, it is a fairly small place, densely populated, whole neighborhoods are gone. How wide is that distribution d . The people who live there and who are older than i am call it dresden, looks like syria in shujayea, it looks like aleppo. You are talking about widespread are some areas intact . Of course. That is we highlight the conflict, we have a very narrow lens of war. We dont focus on the market, there is a market working in gaza city, people are shopping. But definitely, the deaf takings is in the millions, gaza doesnt have the money to pay its own people, let alone reconstruct, the powerpoint,al the facilities. Israel will come in at great expense and reconstructing and a lot of that will be paid by United States. War led by israel, the reconstruction led by israel and the United States. Now of course what happens with the ceasefire . We spoke yesterday with chief palestinian negotiator, how israel will deal with the factions in palestine. We dont have a hamas government now in gaza, were in charge. Thats what other palestinian leaders have told us. But weve also seen quotes from chief political leader of hamas saying that the military was completely separate, the military wing would continue to operate independent of the palestine unity government. Thats not encouraging for peace in that area because the israelis pretty much have said that unless hamas gets demilitarized, theres nowhere to go. Take one example of evidence of that, there is no Palestinian Authority ministers running the ministry. Hamas is still very much in charge of gaza, thats the split between the military and civilian wings of hamas, remember we went through eight ceasefires before this, and they say we dont buy this sorry, were going to keep launching rockets and were going opush this. This is perhaps the piggest thing. Its not clear hamas has total control over the political or military factions inside gaza. The notion that you have a consensus government only on paper, that can control gaza it doesnt really exist on paper. Now that said there are ways that theyre going to work on in cairo, the diplomats to have more authority. Palestinian authority maybe their officials will be on the board between egypt and gaza, that hasnt happened yet. That can happen, can ex power the Palestinian Authority but right now they are not. Lets hope they can extend some way the ceasefire. Nick schifrin, thanks for being here. And more of nick, stay tuned for 30 days of war, thats 11 eastern, 8 pacific. In the mountains of iraq, Iraqi Kurdish said 50,000 members of the yazidi 2nd, the yazidi fled towns and villages overrun in the past few days by the Islamic StateGroup Formerly known as i. S. I. L. Who consider the yazidi devil worshipers. Many yazidi men slaughtered and women enslaved. Credible reports that the yazidi who fled are starving and dying of thirst in the mountains. Peshmerga said they have attacked south of the kurdish capitol of erbil. With so much suffering and the growing threat to the region from the Islamic State is it time for the u. S. To intervene . For more im joined from washington, d. C. By ambassador uranium jeffrey, he served as americas ambassador to iraq under obama, deputy ambassador under george bush. Ambassador it is great to have you. You urged the u. S. To launch selective air strikes on the Islamic State sooner rather than later. The humanitarian issue that has been caused by the jihadists, with this terrible suffering by the yazidi kurds. Why have we waited so long when the president on june 14th said an Islamic State could not be tolerated . That is a mystery to all of us who worked for this administration. The president s signature has been the killing of osama Bashar Alassad and the erosion of al qaeda throughout the middle east. Suddenly we have this offshoot of al qaeda, i. S. I. L. That has seized a swath of territory in syria and iraq, i and others have been urging action since after fallujah fell to i. S. I. L. In january of this year. The president basically signaled he was preparing to do so, thats why he sent 800 troops to iraq back in june. But we havent seen any action on the ground other than intelligence sharing and other things that clearly have not succeeded in slowing these people down. I. S. I. L. Will continue to attacking sunni positions and Iraqi Government positions around baghdad until theyre stopped. The question is even if were not going to take action directlily, can we do it indirectly, helping them against Saddam Hussein husseins bruta, kurdish officials went to washington and asked for help but the administration brushed off the request. Why would the administration refuse to help them . Government fighters are still capable of fighting. The administration is providing arms to the Iraqi Government, thats good, 9 necessary but not sufficient. Were not trying to retake land from i. S. I. L. Thats going to take a long time and a different political calculus in iraq and syria. This is all about stopping a motorized conventional military force that is defeating conventional military force he and moving forward. Thats exactly what u. S. Air support is designed to stop and defeat. Its doing nothing to help that. Nothing else will help. They bombed this base in mosul and apparently killed a few dozen Islamic State fighters. Can iraq and the kurds do it themselves . They cannot but here is why what you just said was important. Nouri al maliki did provide air support for their own operations. The more the rakes show theyre willing to cooperate together, the more to dismiss to take military action on the basis of the fact that our own allies are fighting each other. Right now our own allies have their backs to the wall, sunni are fighting with the iraqi army in anbar province. Now we have this other humanitarian crisis, there were others in iraq, this is how iraqs recheiraqs representatif described the yazidis, they are completely cut off and surrounded by the Islamic State, it is a disaster, a total disaster. You know back in 1991, at the end of the gulf war, secretary of state james baker traveled to the mountains of kurdistan, tens of thousands fled there to escape, and they delivered a lot of support to protect the kurds, to need the kurds, should the United States launch a similar humanitarian mission to help these yazidi. Absolutely. Because this is even more dire, because these people are even more at risk. But we need to remember, provide comfort wasnt just care packages and water bottles. It was u. S. Boots on the ground which im not recommending right now but it was u. S. Military force and it was followed up by more than a decade of u. S. Fighter planes in the air over Northern Iraq almost every day to protect the kurds. You cant have a humanitarian operation when youve got people trying kill these yazidis or these kurds without military force backing it up and complementing it. You also warned in your post that Islamic State fighters could launch a wave of fighting in baghdad terrorize the population and that could provoke an all out shia sunni war. And sure enough, car bombs in baghdad and the Islamic State is fighting to take control of two important hydroelectric dams. How concerned are you about where this group is, and whether it could actually significantly expand its influence within iraq . Im very concerned. It cant take baghdad, but as we saw with insurgents when i was there in 2004 with 100,000 troops it can isolate baghdad, blow up the brimtion bridges, block the transmission of oil and other supplies and beleaguer the rest of the city. Thats a great concern. Im also concerned that the administration is missing these things. I and dozens of other analysts are predicting whats going to go on. Confidential reports every day that flow into the white house and nothing flows out. A lot to be concerned about there. Ambassador thank you for providing your insight. Thank you. Now for more stories from around the world. We begin in west africa where the ebola death toll has climbed to 932 and the number of confirmed cases has exceeded 1700. Thats prompted the cdc to issue its highest level of alert reserved for the worst Public Health emergencies. Saudi arabia a man died after showing ebola symptoms following abyss trip osierra leone. The World Health Organization announced on wednesday that it will consider declaring an International Health emergency if the situation continues to worsen. Next we travel to san antonio, texas. Where the army dpins to question bowe bergdahl. This is the first time he has addressed the circumstances of his capture that led to five years in prison by the taliban. Depending on the investigations outcome bergdahl could face a courts martial. He could receive no punishment at all. Perth, australia, an unlikely commuter, slipped, unable to pull himself free. After train workers struggled for ten minutes, a crowd of onlookers came to his rescue, joining together to tilt the train, to pull him out. The train left only 15 minutes late from the station. Thats some of whats happening in the world. The world faces its most difficult challenge since the end of the cold war. The author of a provocative piece that asks could we see another world war, joins us. Our social media producer, Hermela Aregawi is tracking the trending on the web. People asking this question if an animal takes a selfie who owns it . The photo and the arguments on both sides coming up. And while youre watching let us know what you think. Join the conversation on twitter ajconsiderthis and on our facebook and google plus pages. Living with violence the stories you havent heard 30 days of war hosted by John Seigenthaler only on Al Jazeera America world war i started 100 years ago this summer and while a third world war might seem unimaginable, there is no doubt that the intensity of conflicts raiging from ukraine, china, middle east, raises serious concern where were headed. Mad len albright offered a serious conversation last weej. There are a lot of things going on butter to put it mildly the world is a mess. Roger cohen, whose most recent article in the atlantic, yes, it could happen again. Conflict in the east china sea, the drugger points for world war iii are in place. Roger, thanks for being with us. Very interesting. You argue argue there was an opm back then, when the cold war ended, the unimaginable can occur. Hypothetical situations, as if world war iii might b not be unimaginable. Im not saying its true but there could be a possibility. World war i there was a moment of prosperity in the world, connected under not like today, but still, nobody thought a war could break out in which 16 Million People could be killed and four empires would collapse. I think today clearly the way the world is interconnected, the growth of institutions, like the u. N, make it unlikely. But ive not seen in my lifetime a world that feels so fragile or so dangerous or a world in which the United States seems to have pulled back from things, in a way that calls into question pax americana, the u. S. Guarantees on Global Security that existed since 1945. Lets bring up some of the things you bring up and one of the points you raise is if there were to if the bigger conflict were to break out, it could happen accidentally, not just intentionally. Yes, i think these things generally do happen accidentally. We dont see what the trigger points could be. When a serbian nationalist killed arch duke ferdinand, in 1916, nobody imagined the scenario. When i was dreechg up that magazine piece you imagined, i considered the possibility with Russian Troops massed on the ukrainian border, ppt sayin pret putin saying he would defend russianspikers anywhere, estonia a member of nato, you could imagine a scenario where america feels drawn in. I had not imagined that the separatists in Eastern Ukraine might shoot down a civilian airline and that without restraints on both sides could have easily escalated. We have seen the first forcible change of european borders in crimea and your concern with russia is the narrative there inside russia is the west is trampling on russian dignity and you point out that National Humiliation can be a tremendous catalyst for war. I think thats right, the war in bosnia for two years, i think president putin today is what are Slobodan Milosevic did. Biggest largest nation in the earth, russia is encircled to be punished by the United States and western europe and he has let loose this wave of aggressive russ