Five years after a Devastating Oil spill. She is suffering through it, and if someone who has been through that wont feel shame. A bold act, an after dan actress tries to break social barriers by addressing the topic of rape. U. S. President barack obama has promised to get diplomacy a chance. Addresses the American People, he said he will push for an International Deal for syria to give up its chemical weapons but he says the military will be ready if no achievement is achieved. A congressional vote on military action would be postponed, he said secretary of state john kerry would meet russias foreign minister in geneva on thursday. And now, sources in the u. S. State department are telling al jazeera that kerry may also meet the syrian foreign minister w actionlid later this month. More from us from washington. U. S. President barack obama addresses the nation. And uses the same arguments to try and convince the majority of the American People, and members of congress, the u. S. Should strike the syrian military. So far, he has been unsuccessful. The president called on allamericans to look at this video. Arguing that a response is morally needed and justified. And that the u. S. Is in the unique position to send a message, chemical weapons cant be used. But he did say, there is a chance diplomacy can work, the president embracing the plan his own staff at first dismissed as unlikely, while taking system of the credit for it. Over the last few days we have seen some encouraging signs. In part because of the yesterdayle threat of u. S. Military action, as well as constructive talks that i had with president putin, the russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the International Community in pushing asaad to give up his chemical weapons. The syrian foreign minister says syria will sign the ban, and destroy its stock piles. We are ready to declare the location of the chemical weapons stop production, and show these facilities to the representatives of russia and the United Nations member states. Our commitment to the Russian Initiative aims to end the possession of all chemical weapons. U. S. Secretary of state will meet with the Russian Foreign minister on thursday. To talk about what to do next. But there are a few sticking points. Russia says first, the u. S. Should remove the threat of force. Obviously this all makes sense and can only work if we hear that the american side and all those who support the United States in this sense reject the use of force. The president made clear in this speech he isnt moving u. S. Navy destroyers currently off the coast of syria, and while meeting on tuesday, he specifically asked them to keep open the possibility of a strike, by delaying a vote, which would authorize they want, he says it is to give diplomacy a chance, critics say is because he doesnt have the votes. I think president obama has decided to slow this process down, because nothing is working the way i believe he and his advisors thought it would. The American People have heard the president , his top aids make the argument he repeated on tuesday. So far, the majority have told pollsters and politicians they dont want the u. S. Do intervene. The Obama Administration hoping that a new speech in a new setting begins to change that. Al jazeera, washington. Our correspondents are standing by, james bays is at the u. N. In new york, key roland is in paris, first, lets meet with barn by phillip whose is in moscow. Theres some elements that russia definitely not happy with. In fact, the ambassador to france says it is a trapped aimed at keeping the door up to military intervention. Yes, and the russians i think wouldnt expect that kind of threat against their syrian allies. What they are saying to the french and more importantly, to the americans is look, we have brought the syrians a long way, they are now admitting publicly to the world that they possess chemical weapons. They say they will reveal them. They say they will join the chemical weapons convention. Implicit to that is the destruction of their weapons. So the russians say look, this is progress. Lets not upset the apple cart after this point in time. Obviously, part of their calculation is that president obama domestically as wow were hearing is in a very weak position. He doesnt have the support, he may be looking for a way out. That is the russian card, if you like. What is crucial, clearly, is going to be the talks between already love and john kerry. Indeed, thank you for that. Lets move on to jackie in paris. No doubt this is a pretty tough resolution. France seems to be determined to punish president s asaad, even if theres no military intervention. Holding the regime responsible for it and having an implicit threat, that if they do not comply with the mechanisms put in place to control the chemical weapons then the option for military action would still remain. And you can see why, the russians wouldnt be happy with that kind of wording. Two french have indicated that they have some scope for flexibility, but only within certain limits. A spokesman said that its a very important that the principles and the objectives of the french resolution remain intact. Mainly to neutralize any possible future threat from the regime of using chemical weapons. But i think the french would see the flexibility that we have seen from the syrians in the last 24 hours as vindication of the tough stance they have set. Its obvious that when there is going to be a military strike, if it isnt credible then it is not effective, then i think it is quite significant that france has repeated on wednesday, that they are still determined to punish syria if syria doesnt comply, keeping the pressure on syria at this important stage. Jackie, thank you for that. Our diplomatic editor is at the u. N. In new york, james, clearly some tense negotiations going on. What are you hearing. The draft resolution is already one draft of it thats been written by french diplomates. We know they have been lee crazing very closely with their colleagues from the u. And the u. K. On this. We understand there will be more meetings before dawn here right now at the u. N. , but in the coming hours there will be more meetings on the text, also, i suspect, russia will be having meetings with other countries as well. About the russian plan on the way forward. I think they are getting everything in place, but as barnaby said, i think that big next step is the meeting taking place in geneva. It is worth remembering those two men have a good relationship, there may be a very tense relationship with president obama and president putin, and maybe some tense problems around the Security Council table, but we know that kerry and lavrov get on well. They have known each other fur a long time, and i think people are looking closely to see if those two men can do business together, and then after its been in geneva, after we find out what has happened it will come back here. If this idea is doing to go anywhere, the idea of hander over syrias chemical weapons it does have to be a formal mechanism, and that needs to be a Security Council resolution. Its just not clear what form that resolution would take, and if they can agree on a form for the resolution. Okay, james, just stand by with us for just a moment, because i waynt to bring in a report, which has just been released by the u. N. Human rights council, it is a report into syrias conflict. Here are some of the findings. It says. Government forces have murdered, tortures, rapes while trying to cap thursday territory. It also says that antigovernment armed pruitts also committed crimes including murder, torture, and hostage taking. That concludes theres no military solution to the conflict, so that war criminals must be proud to justice. James, a comprehensive and detailed report, but difficult to see what will come out of and it who will be held responsible. Yeah, this new report, i read it, and the shocking thing is when you read the detail in it. Of the offenses that are violations the breeches of international law, that are listed in this report. It is a grim catalog to read this, this covered just a three month period, these reports come out pretty regularly, they are saying that they should be a resort to international justice, but again, we get back to the Security Council and the divisions around the Security Council table. I think this report is important, at a time when we have all this discussion about diplomacy, about doing something about chemical weapons in congress, you hear all the talk there should america go to war in syria, this report reminds everyone, the war is already going on in syria, it is raging in syria, and the levels of brutality are getting worse and worse. James, thank you very much. Thanks to all our correspondence, james in new york, jackie in paris, and baraby in moscow. Now the Dutch Foreign minister has told his country is ready to help put syrian weapons under international control. We have the organization, the opcw is in the hague, in the netherlands so we have a lot of expertise in this area. We have some institutions that can actually analyze chemical weapons, so we are always prepared to help the obcw and the National Inspectors if that is needed. So as diplomatic efforts are solved the Syrian Crisis go on, thousands of refugees continue to cross into neighboring countries. There are around 30,000 syrian children in the refugee camp in jordan. Only a third of them are getting any formal education. The school year has just started for syrian children the second largest refugee camp in the world. And although the school is full, fewer than half of the School Age Children are actually attending school. Many children here have to work to support their families. And in some rural areas of syria, it was already common especially for boys over the age of 14, to drop out of school to work. But some students still value getting an education, even while in exile. Education is important because we are going back to our country one day, and no one is going to rebuild syria but us. We are the generation that will hopefully rebuild syria. Three official schools here teaching the jordanian curriculum, but has more registered students than seats. Over the summer, a back to School Campaign based on the efforts of School Children and aid agencies encouraged more families to send their children to school. Some children are afraid of getting lost on the war to school, because the scamp is so big. Some have dropped out a long time ago, some have to work to support their families and transport watt tore their tents and others are afraid to be beaten by teachers. And some families dont send their children to school because that gives them a sense of permanency in the catch, that they dont want to feel. But more funding is needed to provide more syrian children with access to education, education is the least funded sector and the camp schools can only accommodate less than half of the number of School Age Children living here. Units have only received a third of the 34 million appeal to fund this years program. The most pressing need now is for 11 million to Fund Urgently needed school supplies, build new schools and train teachers. In some cases there might be donor fatigue, for now we have seen a very good donor response. But we are definitely worried for next year, for instance, we are not sure how the level of funding will be. The plight of these Syrian Refugees could be one that dragged on for a while. Thats why aid agencies feel funding education is important, to prevent the loss of a generation of young syrians. An explosion has severely damaged Libyan ForeignMinistry Building in the eastern city of benghazi. Five car bombed caused the mast, there are no reports of casualties. The explosion happened on the First Anniversary of the attack on the u. S. Consolate. Four americans including the ambassador were killed. Here with the al jazeera news hour, still to come here on the program. Im simon mcgeiger where the fuel pumps are running low again, but this time the reason could be more serious and it could last a lot longer. And facing their final curtain, why a famous opera house could be weeks from closing. Al according to Egyptian Military sources suicide pommers have attacked. Lets get more from our correspondent. We arent naming for security reasons good to have you with us, can you tell us any more about these attacks. Yes, way are starting to get more details from state television, and al jazeera sources. And we are hearing that two cars are driven by suicide attackers, they drove into the outside gates of the military intelligence building. Now one of them exploded at a check point, and the other one was able to get further inside and it exploded at the building. Four soldiers were killed, now reports of around 20 people perhaps more than 20 injured. And the two attack ebbs diesed and their body parts are being found on the scene now. Aside from the attack with the vehicles, rockets were also fighting in the area, and this is just part of the on going instability that we are seeing over the last few months. There is a large Egyptian ArmyCampaign Going on, the army says that it is targeting so called terrorists groups. Its has helicopters, carrying out air strikes in the area, and we are seeing these sorts of attacks carries out on military buildings, Police Buildings and check points as on on going scene at the sigh nigh. They are obviously taking advantage of the recent problems and instability in egypt, who are these groups what is it they want. Theres many different groups operating in the siania. Some are aligned to various groups. Some of them are aligned to al quaida. We had one group claim responsible the the attempted assassination on the interior minister, but its not been confirmed the f that down was responsible or not, but they certainly claimed responsible, that was a taking advantage of the instability. It has been a lowless place for a long time. The Central Security faces have had difficulty extending their control. Across that area, it has operated fairly independently the rest of egypt, but at the moment, the situation is highly unstable, and really seeing the military escalate its campaign there over the past couple of weeks. Okay, thank you very much indeed for that, that was our correspondent reporting from cairo. Gun fighters started between the Philippine Military and rebels. The army has surrounded the city to free up to 180 people taken hostage. They are being held by muslim separatist fighters. The stand off began on monday when the military arrests five of the groups armed members. Its been three days since fighting out in the Philippine Government forces and more in National Liberation front, the city remains in lock down, curfews are still imposed and the airport is still, in fact, closed. Other 180 civilians still remain hostage, by fighters in several villages here. Its become increasingly a humanitarian concern for several human rights observers and red cross volunteers as more and more families remain trapped in the area where fighting is concentrated. They are unable to get food and help, and its unknown what the situation is like in there. Now, im sure whether negotiations are even underway, monday afternoon the mlf made two demands, they will be able to do to the center of the town, and hoist their flag, who with the hostages without getting shot at with government forces. Now the liberation front signed a Peace Agreement in 1996 with the Philippine Government that was never fully implemented. Now say they they are against the on going peace talks with another break away group. The slammic front, they say these talks are not insulinnive and does represent the needs of the people in the philippines. It seems to be what the founder is trying to say is that no matter what kind of peace government the Philippine Group will have, this does not mean an end to the rebellion, and militarization here. Those in south korea have agreed to reopen the industrial zone. The two koreas poll their workers because of rising tenses on the peninsula. The zone just inside north korea is home to more than 100 south korean factories. It was one of the two similar polls of cooperation between the two nations. Now Oil Giant Shell has begun talks with a Nigerian Community on compensation and clean up. Five years ago one of the pipelines burst, twice, and spilled thousands of barrels of oil into fishing ponds. More from podo in river state. Christian shows us the damage caused to his fish pond. They were destroyed when a poorly maintained pipelined owned by the Oil Company Shell burst twice in 2008. Thousands of barrels of oil gushed into the pond. I discovered all the pond was covered with oil. I see the fish trying to escape for life, but it was dark, and when i saw the money that had been put in, and the level in fact i nearly fainted. Our livelihood is totally destroyed. For me to survive now, it is just by the grace, i who used to give to others is now the common beggar. Shell admit it caused the damage, the company has agreed to pay compensation and clean up the area. But it disputes how serious the damage is, that disagreement could effect how much compensation it ultimately pays. Shell says around 4,000 barrels of oil were spilled here. But victims say it was much higher around 500,000 barrels. Getting shell to agree to pay any compensation is a legal