Americas youngest aspiring scientists. Our work was gone. Six days until the midterm election. A race where mudslinging has replaced issues. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city, im tony harris. Today new help in the fight against isil, Kurdish Forces are getting a boost, as they try to hold on to the Syrian Border town of kobane. Dozens of peshmerga fighters and heavy wednesday across the border of turkey. Kobanes soldiers are also getting a surge from syrian soldiers. We have more from the turkeySyrian Border. Reporter for turks its an unprecedented sight, armed kurdish fighters being escorted through turkey by turkey convoys. These are peshmerga fighters who are on the way to syria. The turkish government are allowing 150 fighters to going through its territory under u. S. Pressure to do for to fight isil. Turkey does not see iraqi kurds as a threat, so its letting them through. As the convoy made its way, the coalition launched more airstrikes focused on the border crossing. It was there, so is a place of focus of repeated assaults from isil fighters. Instead of finding a way to reconcile between the different parties the United States now decided to arm more people, and to train for people, and this will only prolong the war more thanand this will be more heavy than it is now. The peshmerga are bringing with them heavy weapons such as artillery and mortars. Its this hardware that they say they need. For more than a month they held their ground with small arms and grenade as well as airstrikes. There are reinforcements from the Free Syrian Army. Added to the peshmerga, it means about 200 men, but this is a battle where both sides have thousands of fighters, and where isil particularly seems to be able to easily and rapidly replenish its ranks. Bernard smith on the turkeySyrian Border. The fight will last a long time. John allen told al jazeera that it has plans to set up three facilities to train free opposition fighters. Allen said that those fighters will take on syria and other groups. We expect that the Free Syrian Army elements will be built into a credible field force that will hold its own, and deal with daesh, and also the al nusra elements, and to be able to defend itself against the regime. We want the free syrian elements to be able to defend itself. Thats the intent. Were building a Free Syrian Army that can be supportive of the moderate Syrian Opposition, and as we talk about the political outcome in syria, which is what we seek, a political outcome that does not include bashar alassad, that the moderate Syrian Opposition becomes not a prominent, not only a prominent voice in the political outcome, but the preeminent voice in the political outcome. Okay, we want to warn you now. The images youre about to see are another reminder of the brutality of syrias civil war. [ screaming ] [ sirens ] activists posted this video, which is said to show the aftermath of a barrel bomb of a refugee camp in northern syria. Activists say that 60 people were killed. Stephanie dekker has more. The man filming this has just arrived on the scene. This is what is left after the Syrian Regime dropped a barrel bomb on a camp of people who have been forced out of their homes. What he has filmed is too gruesome to show. A dead file is picked up, and there are many more dead here. [ screaming ] shame on you where is your conscience, this man screams. Your anger is not directed to the government in damascus but rebel groups here. Have you forgotten who the enemy is, he asks. There has been fighting between those two groups around idlib province. This shows the al nusra front taking control of the village area. Al jazeera cannot confirm with authenticity. There is a lot of tension in these areas because of the infighting, especially between Free Syrian Army corp and the al nusra front. You dont see people in the streets. People are nervous because of this infighting. Reporter while this goes on the government is making head way on the highway to the south that leads here. And idlib city remains in government hands despite an attack on monday. Syrian state television wants to show that everything is under control despite the many casualties suffered. Syrias war is not a simple one of opposition versus regime. Many groups and many allegiances it seems like nothing in this war is clear any more. Stephanie dekker, al jazeera, beirut. President obama met with his Public Health and National Security teams on the response to ebola. He once again talked about heroism. Lisa stark, tell us more about what the president had to say today . Well, tony, he did call these men and women american heroes. He said theyre willing to go into the heart of the ebola epidemic. And the president said that when they come home they need to be treated with respect and dignity. He said these workers need to be encouraged, not discouraged from going to west africa. What we need right now is the shock troops out there leading globally. We cant you discourage that. We have to encourage it and applaud it. And the president said these troops and american efforts in west africa particularly liberia are really making a difference, although he stresses this is a significant outbreak and there is still a long ways to go. Now the president also reiterated something that he said before, which is to really insure that ebola does not come to the u. S. In any major fashion we need to attack it at its source in west africa. He also talked about the fear obviously of the American People with all the headlines, news reports. He said that we have to make decisions based on science, not on fear. Yes, and lisa, that point, has the administration addressed the situation with tracy hickox, the nurse who is challenging her confinement . Not directly, although in a veiled way i think the president was talking about this case. She came back from sierra leone. Flew in to newark. The governors of new jersey decided she needed to be isolated in this hospital tent. She said shes not sick. She doesnt have symptoms. Shes now in maine where she has been sent to maine where shes from, but shes saying she doesnt want to quarantine herself. That there is no need to do so. Here is ms. Hickox on the today show. I believe this is not scientifically nor constitutionally just. Im not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when i am not a risk to the american public. Reporter and today under the cdc guidelines unveiled just this week she does not need to be quarantined. She needs to take her temperature twice a day. Meet with a Public Health workers once a day, all of this shes willing to do. The governor of maine said he may take legal action to force her to stay in a quarantine. Well have to see where this goes. One more point, lisa, secretary of defense chuck headac hagel, announced measures that the military will be taking on this front. Reporter what the secretary has announced is that the military, the troops, who will be going into west africa, there will be 4,000 of them rotating in and out, when they come out, even though theyll have contact with the ebola patients, the military said it is going to essentially quarantine these men and women for 21 days. Now they say they will reevaluate this policy in about a month and a half, but for now that is the plan to quarantine them. They say theyre doing that in consultation with the military families as sort of an extra measure of support in a sense and extra measure to make everyone feel a little safer. Sure, lisa stark for us at the white house. Good to see you, lee sarks thank you. Today, Al Jazeera America spoke to ebola survival nancy writebol. She was working in sierra reloan as a missionary. We asked her about quarantine in the United States. Medical workers should be able to go back and forth between west africa. Were afraid if quarantines are put in place where theyre isolated for 21 days, that the volunteers that would be willing to go wont go. Maimly because they just dont have the time, you know, doctors and nurses leave their practices and their jobs, and can donate two or three weeks. But then they have to come back and be in a mandatory isolation could really hurt the volunteers, and i just really think that if they are asymptomatic, that its not necessary. Well sense recovering, writebol has donated blood to other patients including dr. Craig spencer, who is being treated art now in a hospital in new york city. Now heres is a closer look at ebola by the number. Almost 5,000 team have died from the virus in the epicenter in liberia, there are 6,535 cases 3, but the rate has been declining. In sierra leone, there is 2535 cases and in guinea, 1906 people have been infected with ebola. The United StatesSecurity Council is meeting to discuss the israeli settlements in jerusalem. Its been heavily criticized, including the white house. Al jazeeras diplomatic editor james bays joins us from his post at the united nations. What has come from this meeting today . Reporter well, this meeting follows the announcement of new settlements coming at a very delicate time. A time of real tension in the situation regarding the israelis and palestinians. After all, some have claimed over 2,000 palestinian lives. Well, the israelis announced they were going to build new settlements, legal homes in occupied East Jerusalem at the beginning of the week. The palestinians asked for a Security Council meeting. During that meeting they got condemnation from the israeli clan from all around the table, including this unusually Harsh Criticism coming from the u. S. Representative. We urge all parties to refrain from provocative actions, including settlement activity by israeli authorities, settlement activity will only further escalate tensions at a time that is already tense enough. The United States views settlement activity as illegitimate, and we have made unambiguously clear, as weve made clear our opposition to any unilateral attempts to make end runs around the hard work of negotiations. Condemnation around the Security Council table today. No action, no resolution, but thats where this goes next. The palestinians want there to be a resolution. They are proposing one that would set the end date of the occupation to 2016, november 2016. That, i think, will be the big test for the u. S. Yes, hard language today in the Security Council, but would the u. S. Really go against israel in a vote like that . I think most believe in the end the u. S. Even though it really doesnt want to use its veto at the Security Council would do that, and we think that meeting could happen in the next couple of weeks. James bays for us at the united nations. At the same time the debate over israeli settlements is happening, presiden Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu blasted back. An official claimed that netanyahu is more interested in political career than making a peace deal. Netanyahu said hes under attack for simply defending israel. Jen saki say that the comments do not reflect the u. S. View. The u. S. Israeli relationship remains strong, and the ties between our nations are unshakeable. We remain committed to israeli security. On the comments we think such comments are inappropriate and counter productive. I spoke with the secretary about in this morning, he feels strongly that a war of wards i words is no productive. The defense minister was snubbed visiting washington, days after making negative statements about secretary of state john kerry. The families of the missing 43 missing mexican students will pete witwill pete meet with president pena nete. In this town 15 kilometers from where were standing, they found remains, it could be the 43 missing students. Theyre taking though remains to the capitol, mexico city, for further investigation. Meanwhile, parents who are desperate to know more about this case and werent even told about this mass grave until they heard about it on the news, theyve finally secured an audience with president enrique pena niete. The president will receive them at his official residence. Were not sure what hell be telling them, but he may be updating them on the case. He may be trying to show them that hes supporting them emotionally as they go through the process of grieving. The students come from a very poor area in the state of guerrero, and their parents have been living at the school where they studied trying to organize there and get answers. But so far theyre not satisfied that what theyve been hearing from the government, and they hope on wednesday theyll get clearer answers to all the questions theyve been asking. Investigators are trying to figure out what happened to cause an unmanned rocket to explode seconds after launch. Weve lift off. You saw this in this hour just yesterday. The rocket with 5,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space station burst into a cloud of fire and debris. Well, you see it there, as it took off from virginia last night. The force of the explosion shook buildings for miles. It was the first accident since nasa started relying on private operators to take cargo to the International Space station. Roxana saberi has more for us. Reporter the company that made the rocket is looking into what happened. Nasa made orbital to nearly 2 million to make the deliveries as part of a trend to commercialize the space industry. Investigators are surveying the damage. Caused by tuesday nights rocket explosion. The company that made the rocket said that something went wrong just seconds after the launch. Well find out what that is. Well determine the root cause, and well correct that. Reporter orbital is one of two companies that nasa has hired to fly supplies to the International Space station since retiring its own space shuttles three years ago. It pays the companies billions of dollars. Tuesdays accident is now raising questions about the shift to privatization, but advocates say that the trend will continue. There is no reason why a private company like orbital cannot provide safe, reliable service. Just the same way that its never true that the government nasa specifically, was always flawless. No one was hurt in the explosion, but it destroyed several students science projects on board, including one led by these four eighth graders. I was so upset. I couldnt think but all our work is gone. We never are going to reach it again. Reporter this was what they were working on, an experiment testing the use of iodine taplets to make water cleaner for astronauts. The project was one of 18 chosen from 1500 proposals across the country to fly on board the rocket. Weve got experiment experiments in microbiology, stem cell research, nano tubes. Reporter it was the result of a year of hard work and a science experiment for these girls, refugees who moverred from iraq a year ago. I Love Learning about space. I would go to school, and i didnt know that much about space. Reporter the students now have a chance to keep learning about space, and wednesday morning the head of the program said all 18 projects will travel on the next rocket. I was so happy, like, i dont know. It feels like our hopes didnt go. Reporter russias space agency has offered to help the u. S. Get supplies to the space station, but nasa said that it has an enough foods and water to last it awhile. Those young people, so smart. Reporter theyll get their project on the next rocket. Lets make it happen successfully. Roxana, thank you. Reporter sure. After the american rocket was destroyed it was the returns who camethe russians who came to the rescue. On their own unmanned rocket launched in kazakhstan. 5,000 pounds of replacement supplies reached the International Space station around 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. One of isils most potent weapons is its money. Ali velshi explains how the group gets its money, and how the u. S. Is trying to stop the flow of cash. And a hidden camera exposing harassment women face as they simply walk down the street. So the Federal Reserve is ending a bondbuying program known as kwan at quantitative easing. The government has been buying up bonds and securities. Todays action marks a major milestone. The fed will keep shortterm Interest Rates near zero to boost recovery in the labor market. Wall street saw the fed coming. The dow lost 31 points. S p 503 points and nasdaq 15 points. Isil is not your run of the mill organization. Besides seizing large amounts of territory in iraq, its very well funded. That cash is making it difficult to defeat the organization. Reareal money with alireal moneys ali velshi was more on this. How does isil get the money it needs to support its operation. Reporter we look at the role that cutter may make, other areas that may have some role of keeping isil afloat. Those countries all deny it, but we started to pick away what the issues are. Isil gets so much of its money from the sale of oil. They come up with 50,000 barrels a day and sell it at a discount, but there is a man in the u. S. Treasury, david cohen, the under secretary for terror financing. He runs a department within treasury that has 700 employees, this is what they do. They follow the money. They try to find out how they can break the back of isils funding, which is so much stronger, tony, than any other Similar Group that is not state funded. State funded terrorism comes with lots of money and resources but these random groups dont. We talked about the oil. We talked about the citizens in some cases in gulf countries who are supporting isil, and whether the countries involved are doing enough to stop that. We talked about kidnapping, ransom and the difference between the u. S. And u. K. Both of which say no to ransom payments, versus ot