Money. Ifill plus, voters in scotland weigh in ahead of a crucial vote for independence from the United Kingdom. I mean itll be a tumultuous event. Most significant for the last three and a half centuries by far. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there were reports of heavy damage today after hurricane odile smashed ashore on mexicos Baja California peninsula. The storm struck near Cabo San Lucas overnight with torrential rain, and sustained winds of 125milesanhour. At daybreak, residents and tourists emerged to find debris and destruction everywhere. The storm blew out windows in homes and resort hotels alike, and left extensive flooding in its wake. Its now confirmed that two mediterranean shipwrecks have killed more than 700 people trying to reach europe from africa and the middle east. The International Organization for migration said today the deaths equal the total for all of last year. The latest incidents occurred within the last week, off the coasts of malta and libya. More than half of air frances flights worldwide were halted today, as pilots began a one week strike. The walkout targeted the airlines plans to transfer much of its european operations to a lowcost subsidiary. The head of the pilots union said thats unacceptable. translated air france pilots are not against the development of the new company. But what we see here is the prospect of delocalization of our jobs. That destroys pilots plans and that destroys jobs that exist today. So this is about the project of delocalization and social dumping, and that is why pilots are angry. Ifill air france says only 40 of flights are guaranteed to take off tomorrow. Meanwhile, pilots at the German National carrier lufthansa plan to walk out tomorrow, in a dispute over an early retirement plan. Ifill back in this country, the number of deaths linked to faulty ignition switches in General Motors cars has risen from 13 to 19. G. M. s compensation expert, kenneth feinberg, made the announcement today, and said there will certainly be others. G. M. Has admitted knowing about the switch problem for more than a decade. Recalls did not begin until earlier this year. Two soldiers who fought in vietnam were awarded the medal of honor today by president obama. In 1966, Sergeant Bennie Adkins battled north vietnamese troops for 38 hours, and rescued wounded comrades despite being wounded himself. Adkins is now 80. He finally received his medal of honor after Congress Waived the usual threeyear time limit. Sometimes even the most extraordinary stories can get lost in the fog of war or the passage of time. Yet, when new evidence comes to light, certain actions can be reconsidered for this honor and it is entirely right and proper that we have done so and that is why we are here today. The other recipient, Army Specialist donald sloat, was killed in 1970, when he used his body to shield fellow soldiers from a grenade blast. The Minnesota Vikings re instated player Adrian Peterson today. The running back is charged with child abuse in texas, for whipping his young son with a switch. Peterson said today he never meant to cause harm. The team said it wants the Legal Process to play out. Peterson did not play in yesterdays 30 to seven loss to new england. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Ravens running back ray rice is expected to appeal his indefinite suspension from the n. F. L. , for domestic violence. Microsoft has officially announced its buying mojang, maker of the wildly Popular Video game minecraft. The Purchase Price is 2. 5 billion. The move comes as microsoft is investing further in its xbox Gaming Platform and trying to boost mobile phone sales. On wall street today, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 43 points to close at 17,031; the nasdaq fell 48 points to close below 4,519; and the s p 500 lost one point, to finish at 1,984. Still to come on the newshour. The push for partners to combat the Islamic State group. How free and open should the internet be . Voters in scotland voice their opinions ahead of a crucial vote for independence. How to slow the rise of pre diabetes and diabetes, which affect nearly half of all american adults. And, how one big American Company turned diversity into big profits. Ifill the public is making itself heard in the big debate over whats called Net Neutrality, or how content should be delivered over the web. Earlier this year, the federal Communications Commission proposed allowing the creation of faster and slower traffic lanes on the web. Companies could charge more for faster delivery. Today was the last day for comments. The issue may sound arcane, but it has apparently struck a chord. More than three million comments have been registered at the fcc, so far. Hari sreenivasan, in our new york studios, turns to a well known tech writer and columnist to find out why. Sreenivasan joining me is david poge of yahoo tech. Imagine without the sock puppets, the Net Neutrality debay. What is it . The idea that all internet traffic should be equivalent. It shouldnt matter whether youre netflix or a startup. The carriers of your internet signal, come cast or so on, should treat it all the same. Just as if they cant presume that you will say on your phone call. All internet traffic is treated and charged the same. Sreenivasan thats the status quo. Yes. The Cable Companies and like verizon and comcast say ne netfx is responsible of 30 of all data going on all pikes. There are no current rules specifying whether theres Net Neutrality. Its just always been. So lets put laws down. Well say in general were in favor of you will internet traffic equally. However, you the verizons and comcast, its okay to make deals with the big providers and to charge them more for the right to have their data to go stutterfree and go faster. They want a faster lane for internet communities who want to say more. Thats upsetting to consumers because that means, a, well pay more on our end, consumersen and, b, what about interesting Startup Companies, the next facebook or twitter . They dont have the big bucks to pay for the fast lane. Youre going to stifle the setups. So the verizons of the world are saying what . No, actually, these are the costs we need to have to make sure the infrastructure survives . The verizons are saying were building out for the next generation, better towers, faster pipes, need money, which they really dont. Verizons profit last year was 11 billion, comcast was 8 billion or so. So theyre doing just fine. The really interesting thing is were this close to having Net Neutrality written into law. So 2010, the f. C. C. Said, guys, Net Neutrality, heres the law, and a District Court threw it out, not because they didnt believe in the principle, but because the f. C. C. Itself this is where it gets complicated the f. C. C. Itself years before that had classified internet providers like verizon not as utilities like phone companies but instead as an information service, like a tv studio or something. Therefore, the court said, so its not that we dont believe in your rule, its you dont have the jurisdiction to govern them. You yourself classified them as not a utility where you would be able to govern them but as an information service. Its not your business. Sreenivasan so if these rules were to change, whats an example of something that would be different for joe consumer . Its already begun. Netflix is now paying comcast, not because it had to but because i wanted to, for faster delivery, stutterfree delivery of netflix videos. The data showed netflix streams were getting slower and slower to people so they felt they had to. So the only answer was higher prices. Its going to mean we pay more, if this f. C. C. Rule is permitted to go through. Theres a concern some of these people like comcast own content creators so they could favor one over the other. Comcast owns nbc, so whats to stop comcast from helping nbcs signal to get through faster and stutterfree and maybe slowing down pbss a little bit. Sreenivasan wha the head of the f. C. C. Said, no, that wont happen, well write it in the rules. The head of the th f. C. C. Isn charge of writing this stuff. He spent 30 years before this job as chief lobbyist for the telecommunication and Cable Companies, its the fox guarding the henhouse at least thats how its perceived. He says, no, no, no, thats not going to happen. We promise, were for an open internet, he says. So his argument is we put this clause in, as long as its commercially reasonable, these side deals will be permitted. We wont let anything bad happen, hes saying, so hes asking us to trust them. Sreenivasan so during this open comment period, it has been amazing to see hundreds of thousands of emails, comments, phone calls to congress. Are you surprised . This is a ree relatively wonk Ch Technology corner. Its legal, wordy, a long history. The way the Government Works behind the scene suddenly flashed in the faces of the public. So theres a bad guysgood guys picture painted here. Its more nuance and more complicated than that. Its not saying youre going to pay more and the Cable Companies win, its not that simple, but its been reduced to a black hatwhite hat situation. Its more complicated. I bet many people commenting at sec. Gov dont understand the history, the business of classification of the utility, all that stuff. But i can say for sure if the f. C. C. Rules go through as proposed, we will wind up paying more and, yes, the little interesting internet Startup Companies will need more money sreenivasan thank you so much. Thank you. Ifill following another beheading of a westerner by the Islamic State group over the weekend, representatives from several countries met today to figure out how to stop the militant group which has taken over large swaths of iraq and syria. More than two dozen european and arab nations convened in paris, pledging to fight Islamic State extremists by any means necessary. translated the fight of the iraqi people against terrorists is ours as well and we have to act together and this is the whole purpose of this conference, we have to stand by the iraqi authorities, clearly, loyally and strongly and theres no time to lose. Ifill the president of iraq, fouad massoum, echoed that appeal, and urged that Islamic State forces be targeted on many fronts. We are asking for Airborne Operations to be continued regularly against terrorist sites. We must not allow them to set up sanctuaries, we must pursue them wherever they are. We must cut off their financing. We must besiege them with laws that forbid people to work with them, we must bring them to justice and we must stop the fighters in the neighboring countries joining them. Ifill the conference followed president obamas call last week for a Broad Coalition to fight the Islamic State in both iraq and syria. Todays Washington Post reported several unnamed arab states have offered to assist in u. S. Air strikes. And the French Foreign minister announced his country has begun reconnaissance flights to set up its own air strikes in iraq. But few others have made concrete commitments at least publicly. White House Press Secretary josh earnest said specifics will come in time. We want to make sure that their commitment matches whats actually needed and that were not duplicating efforts and that the country that is in the best position to fulfill a specific need is the one that actually follows through and fills that need. Ifill while that process continues, the sense of urgency amplified over the weekend as british aid worker david haines was beheaded in syria. Hes the third hostage to be killed there by a british accented militant. Today, attorney general eric holder announced new efforts to deter americans from joining terror groups. These programs will bring together community representatives, Public Safety officials, religious leaders, and United States attorneys to improve local engagement; to counter violent extremism; and ultimately, to build a Broad Network of Community Partnerships to keep our nation safe. Ifill no such cooperative effort is coming from iran which was not invited to the paris conference, at the insistence of the United States. Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei claimed that in fact, tehran rejected overtures from washington. translated the americans hands are dirty. How can we cooperate with those whose hands and intentions are dirty . The u. S. Secretary of state, who has personally asked for irans cooperation. After iranian officials rejected their requests, they now say we dont want to invite iran for the talks. Ifill but secretary of state john kerry said while he wont rule out working with iran diplomatically, he would reject any military coordination. He also rejected any cooperation with the syrian government. That drew criticism from the russians. Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov argued syria and iran are natural allies in the fight. There cannot be double standards in the war against terrorism. Terrorists cant be good or bad. We must be consistent and not involve our personal political projects, not prioritize them over the general goal of fighting terrorism. Ifill the debate over crafting a coalition moves next to congress, when secretary of state kerry testifies at a Senate Hearing on wednesday. So, how much support is the u. S. Getting for its coalition . For answers, we turn to retired colonel derek harvey. He was an Intelligence Officer and special adviser to general David Petraeus and is now director of the Global Initiative on Civil Society and conflict at the university of sou florida and steven simon, he was senior director for middle eastern and north African Affairs on the National SecurityCouncil Staff from 2011 to 2012. Hes now a senior fellow at the middle east institute. Thank you both for joining us. Colonel harvey, how well is this coalition we talk about coming together . Its too early to tell at the moment. But there are major concerns. I applaud the efforts to hold the conference in paris and the right things are being said. Given that, moving beyond that, the coalition is going to be required to do heavy lifting and the test will be in the substantive and meaningful actions by coalition members. Contributing in the ke kinetic realm and verbally with information campaigns and some legal mechanisms to diminish recruitment, and that means an arab country or countries need to get out front and be there in the kinetic operations and not just offer inkind assistance. Air refueling, intelligence support, basing. They need to be participants in this because it cant be the westerners doing this alone. Ifill do you see it happening, the involvement of the arab countries . I think it will be a battle in washington. Secretary kerry approached it with his customary energy but i think the president has given him a very hard job. The arab states whose cooperation were seeking are mostly concerned about unseating assad in syria. Theyre concerned about regime change there. Theyre not so concerned, i think, about defeating i. S. I. L. Or i. S. I. S. Theyve got their goal and they have been maneuvering toward that goal for several years, now, fighting essentially a proxy war in syria against assad. So what the United States is asking them to do, really, is to shift gears and change direction in a fairly major way. Now, i dont think its an impossible battle in terms of air support. I mean, real kinetic, as derek harvey put it, kinetic support for u. S. Operations from the United Arab Emirates and perhaps saudi arabia. But the saudis seemed very focused on providing armed and train help for the fight against i. S. I. S. The u. A. E. Has staged operations and staged them rather far from the United Arab Emirates, as far away as libya. So its quite possible they would join the United States in these kinetic attacks, in the air attacks were talking about, but i think these will take a while to arrange. These are complicated thing