Woodruff then, migrant youth caught by the u. S. Border patrol wait for their day in court while attending American Public schools. Theyre all arriving poor, facing englishn7o language serious, and manyni them arrivingni facing social and psychological needs, no doubt because of the conditions they left bind in their countries. Ifill and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. 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. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their 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. Woodruff five days of u. S. And arab air strikes in syria have done serious damage to Islamic State forces. That word today from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, army general martin dempsey. He said the militants command and control and logistics are now disrupted. Dempsey also said, with enough manpower, westernbacked rebels in syria could finish off Islamic State or isil. There has to be a ground component to the campaign against isil in syria, and we believe that the path to develop that is the syrian moderate opposition. 5,000 has never been the end state, theres. Weve had estimates anywhere from 12 15,000 is what we believe they would need to recapture lost territory in Eastern Syria. Woodruff meanwhile, Islamic State forces were able to press their offensive to seize the town of kobani, near the syrian turkish border. Kurdish fighters have been struggling to hold that area. Ifill the u. S. Led coalition against Islamic State won new support today. The british house of commons voted overwhelmingly to join the air campaign in iraq, but not in syria. We get a report from gary gibbon of independent television news. The r. A. F. Is now expected to join the attacks over the weekend but only on targets inside iraq. David cameron said Islamic State forces were a threat we could not ignore. Left unchecked, well face a terrorist caliphate on the shores of the mediterranean and bordering a n. A. T. O. Member with a declared and proven determination to attack our country and our people. This is not the stuff of fantasy, it is happening in front of us, and we need to face up to it. This is multilateral action prompted by a legitimate democratic state, and a world order governed by rules, if it is about anything, must be about protecting a democratic state, which is what this motion before us is about. I believe, although this is difficult, it is the right thing to do. Reporter after negotiations with the coalition behind the scenes, the labor leader had the bulk of his party on the side. The minority of n. P. s challenged the Prime Minister with even this limited action proposed today at risk of repeating the mistakes of the past. Indeed theyre made up of murderous psychopaths. Thats not the issue. We know that. Iraq, afghanistan and this government libya, number of success stories. Are we going to embark on actin that could last forni years . The factco is this isnini abt psychopathic terrorists that are trying to kill us and we do have to realizenh ey whether we like it oryk,vw have already declared war on us. There isnt a walkonby option. There isnt an option of just hoping this will go away. Reporter Royal Air Force tornado jets based in cyprus are expected to be involved in a short burst of attacks in iraq potentially followed by more in the weeks to come. The military attacks today by the u. S. Led coalition were in Eastern Syria where most of the first wave targets are thought to remain. Ed miliband said he worried that while the iraqi army would try to occupy the vacuum left after attacks on Islamic State forces in iraq. In syria no one knew who would benefit. In the case of iraq, it is the iraqi army and the kurds that conduct those operations. Outstanding question about who would perform that function in syria. Reporter one minister said, over time, the British Public would be won over to the idea of attacking syrian targets. The truth is no one truly knows what military efforts will be needed, how much time it will take to defeat this very unconventional enemy. Ifill belgium and denmark also approved contributions to the air strikes in iraq. Belgium will contribute six fighter jets. The danes will send seven planes. Woodruff the state department is telling americans to leave yemen amid fears of allout civil war. The announcement today also says the u. S. Diplomatic staff in the country will be reduced. Shiite rebels have been battling sunni militias for control of the capital. The proamerican government is caught in between. Ifill in afghanistan, Security Officials warned that hundreds of taliban fighters are close to capturing a key district, and could use it as a base to attack kabul. Scores of people have died in the fighting in part of ghazni province. Thats just 60 miles from the capital city. Police say the militants have beheaded at least a dozen people. Woodruff the russian government moved today to take over another major oil company. A court in moscow approved seizing the majority interest owned by billionaire vladmir yevtushenkov. He has been under house arrest for ten days, accused of acquiring the company illegally. The case echoes the seizure of the giant Yukos Oil Firm a decade ago. Ifill flights in and out of chicagos two airports were stopped for nearly five hours today because of a fire. The resulting delays and cancellations rippled across the nations midsection. The blaze broke out at an air Traffic Control center in the suburbs of chicago. Police say it was set by a worker, who then stabbed himself. Suffering from nongunrelated, selfinflected wounds. We evacuated 1530 people from the building. There was no explosion. We are being cautious and thats why youre seeing a lot of equipment come in. Woodruff authorities ruled ifill authorities have ruled out terrorism as a factor in the fire. Woodruff about 70 of the migrants caught at the Mexican Border this summer have now vanished into the u. S. According to the Associated Press the department of Homeland Security acknowledged as much in a private meeting this week. The migrants were released, and told to report to federal immigration agents within 15 days. As many as 41,000 never did. Ifill in economic news, growth hit an annual rate of 4. 6 in the spring. The best in more than two years. That news helped wall street bounce back today, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 167 points to close at 17,113; the nasdaq rose 45 points to close at 4,512; and the s p 500 added almost 17 points, to finish near 1,983. But for the week, the dow lost 1 . The nasdaq and s p were down about one and 0. 5 . Woodruff still to come on the newshour. Why anger persists in ferguson, missouri. Ukraines Prime Minister on steps forward for meaningful peace with russia. How a surge in Migrant Children are challenging public schools. Saying goodbye to new york yankees star derek jeter. And, mark shields and david brooks on the weeks news. Ifill we return our attention now to ferguson, missouri, where an unarmed black teenager was killed last month by a white police officer, sparking protests and continuing unrest up to and including last night. It started tuesday night, with gunshots and looting, after fire destroyed an impromptu shrine to michael brown. Then, yesterday, police chief Thomas Jackson issued a video apology to the brown family, nearly six weeks after the shooting. I am truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. The time that it took involved very important work on the part of investigators, who were trying to collect evidence and gain a true picture of what happened that day. But it was just too long, and i am truly sorry for that. Ifill last night, jackson emerged, in civilian clothes, and marched with protesters. But a fight broke out, and in the end, seven people were arrested. All of this, as a grand jury continues investigating browns death. St louis county prosecutor Bob Mcculloch said this week the panel should finish by early november. Ifill i went to ferguson last weekend, and to the lee theater at the university of missouri in st louis, to moderate a pbs town hall on what the conflict there revealed about the town, the region, and the nation. Among other things, it gave people who see events differently, a chance to talk to each other, rather than at each other. In this excerpt, the point has just been made that young people of color should get more involved in politics. The first speaker is a young man who formed a group called dream defenders after Trayvon Martins death in florida two years ago. One of the last things that dr. King said before he died was that he feared that he had brought us into a burning building. And so, if youre getting people elected into a system that by its very nature was meant to cannibalize and kill communities, then youve only done half of the job. And so, i think its a yes and, we need people that look like us, but black officers ive had interactions with black officers that were way worse than white officers. And so, its not a matter of just having a representative thats on the city council or in the Mayors Office or on the police force that looks like you, theyve got to come from the community, know the issues of the community, and then theres folks in the community that have got to remind them every day that we pay your bills, and were watching every single day to ensure that the platform on which we elected you with is followed, and also defend you when those people that seek to calibrate the system and right the system as its been built, seek to come at you for that office. Ifill now heres the thing phillip. applause everybody doesnt agree with you, everybody doesnt see the root of the problem, Ross Kaminskys one of them. Ross kaminsky writes for American Spectator and he thinks, in fact, that a lot of folks should be looking at themselves in the mirror. I want to be really clear on this, because i agree with what the mayor of ferguson said, that middle class white guys like me havent lived the African American life. That said, from what we see on the news, from what we read, there seems to be a real dearth of leadership among African American young men, especially in their neighborhoods. And the other thing is, if i could react to what phillip said, i get the feeling, i understand this feeling of this system isnt fair, its biased against us. But then when you start going to this idea, 400 years of repression in a system thats still designed to hurt us and still designed to keep us down, that starts feeling to me like racism against me just because of the color of my skin. My parents werent here 400 years ago, my family arrived here way after the civil war, we had nothing to do with it, and i think that a lot of people in the rest of america feel like were being blamed for things that we didnt cause, and in fact, that we would like to help, because we should care. Ifill for everybodys who laughing and snickering no, let me make a point to you. St. Louis there was a st. Louis county poll done just last week in which roughly 60 of the people said, you know, i think that this is a problem, and those 60 of the people were black and then 60 of white people said i dont think its a problem. There is a real, real, true divide, and a lot of people who agree with what Ross Kaminsky said so i want this conversation to take that into account as well, even if you disagree. Gwen, can i just say . Ifill sure. Im not saying that i dont think theres a problem, i think theres a huge problem, and i think that middle class white people who dont live near black neighborhoods should understand that its a problem for them too. What im saying is that the language, when it starts being turned that when it. In a way that even just implies youre the problem because youre white leaves ends the conversation and removes any chance of a positive conversation. Ifill is that what youre saying phil . No, absolutely not. So i never mentioned black, white or people, i mentioned systems and so the arrest of darren wilson, if it happens, and the conviction of darren wilson, if it happens, though the system and the history would tell us that it may not, will not alleviate the problems that are happening here and that are happening around the country. This is a for example, i can sit here with a great amount of empathy and say every day George Zimmerman woke up and saw that black men were evil. Every single day since he was a little kid, he woke up and saw on television, on cops, on the news, on his t. V. Shows and videos that black men were filled with malice and had criminal intent in every movement that they made. And so with a great amount of empathy, i could say that he may not be to blame for a very subliminal reaction to what he did when he saw a black man in a hoodie, right . Im not mad so much at George Zimmerman, im mad at a system every day that stakes its claim on saying that theres a certain segment of society that is a criminal element. But George Zimmerman, on the other hand, as i recall, was a big brother to a young black boy, and i dont think theres an evidence to show that he had this pervasive approach that youre talking about. I think we cant say it, but we can say the evidence does show that the images that are put forth of people that look like me, that have tattoos like me, that speak like me and come from where i come from scared the crap out of him every single day. And no, he may have been a big brother, he may have been a great person with a spotless record, though we know he doesnt, but the society that we live in, and that is my issue, our goal with dream defenders is to be a catalyst for change in how we are represented in this society. I think that were not going to have progress on this till we really can have a conversation, and the language that needs to be used in the conversation needs to be language that isnt just pointing fingers at each other as long as we believe were all people of good will. Ifill america after ferguson airs on most pbs stations this evening. Check your local listings and Hari Sreenivasan will be live tweeting with you throughout. Just use the hashtag afterfergusonpbs. Woodruff there were signs of hope to a peaceful resolution to the conflict in ukraine today. But as Margaret Warner reports, ukraines Prime Minister has reservations. Reporter welltive calm prevails across much of Eastern Ukraine after months of heavy fighting that claimed more than 3,000 lives. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko highlighted the turnabout yesterday. It is the first day in many, many weeks and months when ukrainians have not had a Single Person killed. Warner on september fifth, kiev signed a 12step ceasefire blueprint with prorussian separatists including steps to stop the shooting and grant granting more autonomy to ukraines eastern regions. It also calls for a buffer zone. Ukraines military says it met with russian and separatist officers near donetsk today to outline it discuss the boundaries. But the russians denied being involved. They also denied backing the separatists long offensive, nor sending Russian Troops forces in to assist. Though earlier this month, nato estimated several thousand russian combat forces troops were inside ukraine. Meanwhile, a war of words continues. U. N. Arrivals and switched on wednesday, president obama told the u. N. That russian aggression in ukraine threatens world order. This is a vision of the world in which might makes right a world in which one nations borders can be redrawn by another. Warner in his speech, ukrainian Prime MinisterArseniy Europe to maintain sanctions on warner in his speech, ukrainian Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk urged the u. S. And europe to maintain sanctions on russia until his country regains all its territory, including crimea. I spoke with Prime Minister yatsenyuk late yesterday in new york yesterday. Warner mr. Prime minister, thank you for having us. Its a privilege for me. Warner president poroshenko, your president , said thursday in kiev that he thought the worst part of the war was behind you. Do you share that view . So your president said that he thought actually there had been a transformation, that was his word, in russias attitude toward ukraine. Do you think so . Im very skeptical about russia and the russian president. I just dont trust them. I do understand their ultimate goal which is to recreate soviet union to do something that resembles these soviet style empire, the brand of evil as obama said in his address to the United Nations general assembly. It wasnt related actually to the soviet union,