are the sunni muslim insurgents who grabbed territory in iraq and syria, wreaking havoc in both countries. president obama has vowed to degrade isil, and in six weeks of fighting isil has sized almost half the town within eye shot of turkish troops from their side of the border. in a new development turkey opened up it's territory to 150 kurdish peshmerga fighters who began crossing into kobane with heavy weapons. they're being joined by 50 arab fighters from the free syrian army, the rebel group. while media attention is on kobane, forces continue to make gains hundreds of miles of iraq. what makes isil so successful is a question that many are asking. it has a bureaucracy that regulates trade and revenue in the territories its conquer. that poise as daunting challenge for the obama administration. >> it's a principal that sets isil apart from other armed militant groups. a void outside funding. >> it's been very resistant to receiving funding from foreign patrons by the states or private dinars, partly because it does not want to seed autonomy. >> reporter: a strategy patrick

-span, two recent u.n. general assembly speeches from syria's deputy prime minister and is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu -- prime minister benjamin netanyahu. later, a discussion on middle east policy. deputy prime minister accused the u.s. of holding a double standard when it came to striking militants in syria and supporting rebels with weapons to fight isis. he went as far as to call the situation a recipe for violence and terrorism while addressing the u.n. general assembly. his speech is 20 minutes. >> i would like to congratulate you and your friendly countries on your election as president of the general assembly in its current session and wish you success in leading the work of the session for the enhancement of the role of the general assembly. i thank your predecessor mr. john ashe for his presidency of the previous session. mr. president, many events and significant transformations have taken place since i stood here last year. they survived many of the countries present here today but not us because we have been over the past three and a half years warning and rei

war in syria and the fight against eyes as they are. this is hosted by the woodrow wilson center in washington d.c.. it's just over 50 minutes. >> thank you very much for coming today to hear about the history of the future of syria. we are very fortunate to have with us christian sahner from princeton university. he is the author of "among the ruins" syria past and present, which you can purchase after his presentation. he will discuss today with us what is happening in syria and what took place in the last four years and he will pay special attention to u.s. foreign poli policy, the growth of terrorism and especially isis and also the fate of minorities in syria. mr. sahner it is a historian of the middle east and he has spent a number of years in the levant, i believe the last seven years. he is a graduate of princeton university and started oxford as a rhodes scholar. he has written for "the wall street journal" and the times literary supplement. for those of you who are frequent visitors who are meeting know that we try and reach out to new experts, new faces, new ideas so we a

, goingitish to syria and joining the jihad, joining isis. an organization that has a message that powerful and so nefarious -- isis was thrown out of al qaeda for being too violent. this is a scourge on humanity that is going to kill more people and do far more damage than even ebola has appeared host: kerry in ohio. -- terry in ohio. caller: you are a most intelligent man. like you, i'm a veteran of the vietnam war. i trained at fort knox. i would like to open up the possibility -- since you recognize isis as operating as a state come in 1934, franklin delano roosevelt recognized the soviet union as a nation. it took us many years from the october revolution in 1917 to recognize the soviets as a state. why wouldn't the united states , whichze isis as a state would change the political ramifications of pursuing them? we recognize them and then we have a state we can declare war on and we haven't open the legal -- weound the politics have an open, legal way around the politics to go after them. guest: thank you for your service as well. the president has all but declared war on ice is alrea

fighting in syria. everyone who joins saut wave is on the run from some shia policeman or they don't have money or are trying to get support from isis or whoever. >> let me just ask quickly without getting the tribes on side, what are the odds of success against -- and again i guess there's two different ways to put it. what are the odds of success in defeating isis and what are the odds of success in quelling a sunni rebelion letting the sunnis know that in spite of the tossing over saddam hussein that the sunnis are still a part of iraq? what are the chances of either? >> well, so far isis has been in the tribal areas. they haven't had any big wins except for mosul. and over there it's mostly -- it has 2 million people. but many of them are still tribal. so we're talking about tribal areas. so the tribal would be the instrumental fighting force in that part. to defeat isis i would say we have to get the tribes that are still out of isis. for example, one of the strong tribes were pro-assad. you might know one of them, the syrian ambassador in iraq who defected he is from that area.

>>> thank you. >> let's head to syria now where the civil war has left millions displaced inside their own country. thousands are living along northern syria close to the attract border. seasonal rains are making that life even more difficult. >> reporter: there is no protection from the heavy rains. this is northern syria along the border with turkey. there are countless camps like this. >> translator: we are being humiliated. the men, our women, our children, our tents are destroyed. nobody cares about us. we are flooded here. there is mud everywhere. nobody is helping us, only god will take care of us. >> reporter: millions of syrians have been forced out of their homes. it is difficult for aid to reach them and winter is coming. syria's winds are cold with heavy rains. the season hasn't even begun

going on in syria and iraq, we have to ebb gang on what is going on in the middle east, so it is one of the many issues that we have to manage, and handle and engang in. and we will continue to do so. this was a clearly described mill goal, in our government declaration, and i think this is what has been reported also in media, and that's why we are having a very intensive debate, we know that it is also controversy, and that's why we see the reactions we have gotten so far. both amaze and separatists. >> now, israel has closed the mosque to all visitors after fighting broke out between security forces and some palestinian news. security has been set up following the right wing rabbi, and the killing of the palestinian suspected of attacking him. an aid to the president says if israel's aggression continues, it will amount to a declaration of war. we condemn and rufous the israeli ex-collation over the holy shrines. we will take all legal measures to hold israel accountable, and to stop these repoeted attacks because the continuation of the aggress and dangerous escalation will cause mo

syria's chemical weapons from georgetown university, this is 50 minutes. >> i am here in my foreign service capacity, and the assad regime launched a large-scale chemical weapons attack on a rebel held suburb of damascus, killing more than 1000 individuals, including hundreds of children. chemical weapons had been used previously by the regime, or, at least, there were allegations of the effect -- to the effects, this marked an escalation of the regime's brutality, and it set in motion a series of events, including the prospect of a potential american strike on syrian facilities, that culminated in the 2013 agreement brokered by the russians, where syria would let their chemical weapons under international control and dismantle them, and in exchange, the u.s. would not strike serious. in the course of about nine months, the syrian stockpiles were transferred out of the country, and most, i don't believe quite all yet, have been destroyed, but they are all out of the country, as far as we know. with more of the u.s. or international response to those events, i think the elimination o

guerrilla force trying to establish what it callings the islamic state is fighting the government of syria, the u.n. air force and kurdish in syria, and now a new alliance in middle east forces in iraq. with all that firepower aimed at them, isil is still on the verge of taking a major town on the border between syria and turkey. how it's happening, why it's happening is all part of the tangled story of friends and enemies in one of the world's most complicated neighborhoods. islamic state in iraq and the levant or isil, have bee sieged the syrian town of kobane for weeks. the reports from the kurdish fighters defending it say that 9,000 have pushed the defense. so close that the turkish troops have been wearily watching but have not yet engaged in the fight. >> you see what we go through. they behead our children and set our houses ablaze. they play dirty games on kurds. >> ten people i knew were killed right in front of my eyes. they hang the bodies on poles and don't remove them for at least three days. >> the kurdish militia defending the town appeared to be outgunned by the islamic st

more airpower to defeat the islamic militants who have swept across large areas in iraq and syria. with a first round of drones and missiles unleashed inside syria even before he spoke at the un, the president has plunged america into the midst of a civil war that involves over one thousand different militia. you need a mighty big scorecard just to figure who's on whose side. we've asked a couple of experienced hands to help us do just that. jonathan landay is a senior national security and intelligence reporter for mcclatchy newspapers. he's also an unsung hero of washington journalism. during the buildup to the 2003 invasion of iraq, landay and his colleague warren stroebel dug deep to find evidence refuting the bush administration's case for going to war. you can see landay and stroebel at work in our documentary "buying the war," at billmoyers.com. matthew hoh fought in iraq as a marine corps captain. he then joined the foreign service and became the widely praised senior american civilian in afghanistan's zabul province, that's a taliban stronghold. he resigned in protest whe

syria. >> the missteps... >> the intelligence analysis continued to point to what could happen. >> the view was, "this is iraq's problem, let them deal with it." >> and the ancient tribal hatreds that fuel... >> these are not muslims, and frankly, they're barely human beings. >> "the rise of isis." >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> the last

coalition against isis. on october 53 new plants in iraq in syria pledged allegiance to isis, which tells us that the tribes so far do not seem to be betting on the united states or its allies. then, so many reports and criticism against the syrian opposition, the tribes, we call them cops. they're not up to the fight. so the question is, how come all of the tribes who fight on our side are the losers and the tribes to fight on the side of iran and has block are the winners? here you have it iraq-backed fighting and winning. the air power to take them down. the answer to this question is that we do not pick the tribes. they picked us. this is important because this goes back to how the tribes behave. their is a tribal code, and a tribal structure. a tribe is usually known by name and by genealogy, and even the horses have a genealogy. they are known for their territory, usually at demarcated. so they are not as ambiguous as they seem to be there are junior ranking, second ranking. then there are strong and not so strong. what has happened everest's sixth synthesized and syria knew how to

worker. they say american is up next. a key kurdish city in syria. >> in syria he would be the fourth hostage beheaded by i.s.i.l. the video ends with peter kasich, a former army ranger, he was working as an aid worker when he was beheaded, in coalition for coalition air strikes. >>> prime minister steven harper said canada's jets would participate. harper said canada will not deploy ground troops. >> syria is angry over turkey's decision to take part. meanwhile i.s.i.l. fighters are closing in on the town of kobani in syria. bernard smith reports from across the border in turkey. >> reporter: with tanks taken from the iraqi army, islamic state of iraq and the levant against fied their shelling of kobani on friday. a few,000 syrian kurdish fighters. shoot the tanks one commander tells the fighters. these men and women are unlikely to be able to hold this town for much longer without outside help. >> we wouldn't want kobani to fall. we welcome our brothers who came from kobani. we'll do whatever we can to prevent this from happening. >> reporter: but there's no indication that turkey's

from afghanistan to syria to al qaeda. it doesn't make sense. al qaeda related groups including isis. can you shed some light and turn this? with knowledge of tehran with al qaeda and groups in syria. thank you. >> i'm a visiting researcher at georgetown university and my question is do you think there is a measure of control and balance in the revolution in regards to clarify how much power do you think the revolution gained before somebody stuffed them inside iran? is there a threat after the revolutionary guard being so much more powerful than they can shake the fundamental governance of iran and the supreme leader or not? just free to do whatever is they want? >> if it is suggested the saudis have a hands or an interest in keeping with the price of oil down and certainly something on the iranians, the iraqis and russians what do you think would be the iranian response? secondly if there is no deal on the 24th what should we expect? >> why don't we take that first question on the alleged iranian support to extremists or al qaeda? >> i can't speak to the specific alleged support to

. john and christine. >> our thanks to joe for that report. >>> in syria at this moment, the historic city of kobani is about to fall in the hands of isis officials. they also admonish that it's not a priority for the u.s.-led coalition. joining that coalition is canada. the canadian approved air against isis in iraq, though not in syria. they deployed six f-18 fighter jets. steven harper praised the vote saying we do not take the step lightly.threat posed by isil is real. if left unchecked, the situation mr. grow and grow quickly. of course this says nothing for the people of kobani under siege. we'll have more with arwa damon in about ten minutes. >>> this morning, london on edge. scotland yard arresting four men on tuesday on suspicion of planning an act of terrorism. officials are offering no details or specifics on what the four all in their 20s allegedly were planning. mike, do officials believe there's a link here to islamic terror groups like isis? >> certainly, that seemed the case. this is related to islamic terrorism. they say these four men are suspected of either preparin

. >> so al-nusra is based in syria. that say group that is officially affiliated with core al qaeda. they are-- they've set up shop in syria, very permissive environment and they are a formal affiliate of al qaeda. but even beyond the diversity of the actors,-- . >> rose: do they speak to each other? >> they do. they definitely do. they speak to each other. they share resources like fighters, weapons. they share tactics. and they take advantage of poor supporters like in north africa. >> to move people and resources and material. so there's definitely a degree of collaboration and cooperation. >> rose: so explain to us where isis came from? >> so isis is not new. isis has been around since really 2004 when it was al qaeda in iraq. that's the origins of the group. zarqawi was the leader, vicious guy, swore allegiance to bin laden at the time, in 2004. and was focused on carrying out attacks in iraq. >> rose: had a lot to do with the sectarian conference that a rupted there. >> exactly. took advantage of that and ferr amed more of that sectarian conflict. that lead, as you recall, to

need to close off the border. the wildcard here is clearly syria. that's not a border that anyone controls. i.s.i.l. is able to get across from iraq into syria, to the safe haven in syria. the coalition air strikes damaged them up in raqqa, which is slightly further up, but what they have done is on the border with anbar province, there's safe havens that i.s.i.l. has, in syria, so that's the weakest link. you still have the empty border crossing with syria. >> thank you imran khan, reporting from the iraqi capital, baghdad. >>> crossing to turkey, president recep tayyip erdogan gave his clearest indication that his country will take action against i.s.i.l. the group has advanced inside turkish army conditions on the border with syria. kurdish fighters are trying to keep i.s.i.l. from taking over the northern sound of kobani, we are joined from the area by bernard smith, to tell us what is going on in kobani. >> thank you. we managed to go to the eastern side of kobani, along the border fence, where there's a lot of cars parked, belonging to cars on the other side of the border, t

nusra. >> they are based in syria. they are officially affiliated with al qaeda. they have set up shop in syria. they are a formal affiliate of al qaeda. even beyond the diversity of the actors -- >> do they speak to each other? >> they do. they share resources like fighters, weapons. they share tactics. they take advantage of porous andthey take advantage of porous borders like in north africa to move people and resources and materiel. there is a degree of collaboration and cooperation. >> explain to us where isis came from. >> isis is not new. they have been around since 2004 when it was al qaeda in iraq. that is the origin of the group. zarkawi was the leader. vicious guy, swear allegiance to focusedn at the time, on carrying out attacks in iraq. >> a lot to do with the sectarian conflict that erupted there. >> and fomented more of that conflict. that led to the sunni awakening of 2007, the backlash. it was aided by our presence there. and iraqi counterterrorism. that put al qaeda on the run. what we saw, 2011 week withdrew. the iraqi government became less effective. as a coun

iraq and syria. in iraq, that was huge. they lost the mosul dam. they wanted to be able to provide services. provides water and electricity to the people living in northern iraq. they wanted to be able to show that they had a better capability to provide services than the iraqi government. they also lost two oil fields. part of the u.s. strategy now, we need to be able to exploit those operations opportunities. when isis loses key infrastructure, we need to be able to say that. one of the thing that is happened with u.s. air strikes, before that we saw u.s. captured equipment move to syria because they would face a lesser air force capability by the assad regime. key leaders started moving back to syria as well also to the sectarian fault lines along the baghdad belts. what was left behind were foreign fighters. these fighters another opportunity to exploit isis who actually comprises isis. these foreign fighters, a lot of them came in wanting to fight assad and they were moved to iraq to do these things. so remember what mosul is. if you do back of the envelope math there's 750,00

take back territory. that was the first strategic loss that isis had suffered in iraq and syria. in iraq, that was huge. delos the mosul did they want to go to provide services to the mosul dam provides water and electricity to the people who live in northern iraq. they wanted to show that a better capability to provide services and the iraqi government. that was taken away from them. they lost two oilfields. part of the used strategy now, we need to exploit those operation opportunities. when isis loses key infrastructure, we need to be able to say that. one of the things that happened with the use airstrikes, before the soyuz captured equipment to say it because they would face a lesser air force capability by the assad regime. key leaders at use airstrikes started and to go in mosul dam s.t.a.r.t. ii steery as well also to the sectarian fault lines in baghdad and along the baghdad belts. what was left behind were foreign fighters. another opportunity to exploit isis who actually comprises i suspect these foreign fighters, a lot of them came in wanting to fight in 10 and then move

coalition air strikes against them in iraq and syria. the coalition has been bombing groups for nearly two weeks now. tonight canada has joined the fight. prime minister steven hopper says canada will participate in u.s. air strikes. up to six months. canada also plans to send refueling aircraft and two surveillance planes to help. harper says canada will not deploy ground there is toops in the fight. bernard smith reports from across the border in turkey. >> with tanks taken from the iraqi army, fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant intensify their shelling of kobani on friday. the town on syria's border with turkey is being defended by a few thousand syrian kurdish fighters. shoot the tanks one commander tells the fighters. unlikely to be able to hold the town much longer without outside help. >> we wouldn't want kobani to fall. we will do whatever we can to prevent this from happening. >> reporter: but there's no indication that turkey's military is about to get involved in this battle. it could if it wanted to. there's more domestic legislation, to fight what it de

into syria. recep tayyip erdogan demanded an apology. >>> meanwhile, four i.s.i.l. positions around kobani were bombed last night. the syrian opposition coalition is warning of gene side there -- genocide there. i.s.i.l. released a video appearing to show the beheading of british aid worker alan henning, and threatened 26-year-old american peter kazzing, a u.s. army ranger supplying aid in syria, after keeping quite for a year, kazzic's parents published a message to their son. >> our son is abdo rahman formerly known as peter, disappearing last year near raqqa, syria. >> please know we are praying for you and your safe return. most of all, know that we love you. our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so we can hug you again and set you froo to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in greatest need. we implore those holding you to show mercy, and use their power to let you go. >>> his parents referred to the muslim holiday as eid as further reasoning for his captors to show mercy and release their sir. >> news of mass graves close to where 43 st

clarissa ward speaks with a fighter waging war in syria. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but its freedom, he will bite you and he will bite you hard. >> oh. >> and accusations of excessive force by police during a traffic stop for a seat belt violation. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, october 8th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. federal aviation officials are investigating the deadly crash of an air tanker used to fight a wildfire in yosemite national park. the plane slammed into the side of a cliff yesterday afternoon. search crews reached the crash site overnight. the fire forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in foresta. andria borba of our san francisco station kpix is in nearby el porta. andria, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the crash happened around 4:30 while the pilot was trying to stop the dog walk fire from growing in size. the pilot was the only person aboard the plane when it crashed. here are some photographs of t

appears to have links going back to iraq and syria, another indication from reference that this has links to isis. the police are not saying that directly yet, wolf. >> they haven't named these four individuals. is that right? >> they haven't. they've said only suspect a, b, c, and d. that is normal in these cases. the british are often very tight lipped but what we do know is that in recent weeks the terror threat rate has been raised. there was fear that several hundred have gone from britain to join isis in iraq and syria. the concern is that they will come back and perpetrate attacks here. what we're hearing from other sources, this may have thwarted an active plot, wolf. >> and they are on the highest state of alert in britain. the prime minister david cameron only announcing that they were going to the severe level. is that right? >> severe, wolf, correct me if i'm wrong, is just one below the highest threat level. what that means is that an attack could be imminent. so this is a very, very real concern here. if this is as it appears to be at the moment, links going back to ir

islamic state. there is a claim to do it now in iraq or syria. it might be very dangerous for the parties in the region, to the western interests in the region. there is an aim to create this caliphate, the islamic state. so far, they are far away from israel. they are deployed along the border with syria along with lebanon. they fight hezbollah in lebanon as they syrian armed forces or the kurds in kobani, in syria. they should be stopped anyhow. they are on the march. they attracted jihadists from all over the world to join them. the idea, we call it the awakening of the west, creating two coalitions to deal with them, it might be successful. it will not include just air superiority, but supporting the ground elements, like the kurds in iraq, the kurds in syria, other moderate position elements in syria, supporting them against isis. >> what is the threat they told to baghdad today? >> they intend to take over baghdad and whatever is available, like damascus. they are already close to baghdad. this coalition is going to use our superiority in an effective way. they can be stoppe

kilometers away. >> millions of people have fled the fighting in syria. a meter international conference in berlin looks at what help they will need in the future. >> and 100 years after a bloody battle at flanders field, germany and belgium look back and remember the dead. help is on the way in the fight against islamic state in the syrian city of kobani. >> kurdish soldiers have entered turkey and are making their way to the border area to join the fight against the jihadists. >> sources say about 150 well armed and trained fighters are expected to arrive later tonight to help the relief effort. >> we'll have more from just outside kobani on the turkish side of the border. first, here's this report. >> freshwater is in short supply for the few that remain in kobani, besieged by islamic state militants for more than a month. these images filmed exclusively for deutsche welle are some of the first to exclusively show the damage inside the city. >> we have neither food nor water. whatever we get we pick up at the turkish border because of the heavy shelling. for the past week, we have hea

two, a taxi driver, who volunteered to take a group of muslim aid workers to syria. a short bit of the statement, he said, "the fact he was taken hostage when trying to help others and murdered demonstrates there are no limits to the depravity of the isis terrorists. we'll do all we can to hunt down murderers and bring them to justice." no sign of backing down from the prime minister, which is what isis is demanding, an end to the coalition air strikes, which the british parliament agreed to take part in just last week, and, certainly, that decision to take part in those air strikes was highlighted in this latest isis video. the british man with a british access who killed mr. henning, reference to the air strikes as the decision being the reason why the man was killed. the difficulty, obviously, for the government here is that they have taken that decision and really, it would be difficult for them to back down, that policy, to be seen given into terrorist demands and mr. cameron in parliament last week said we need to be prepared for a long fight that will not just take weeks and

identifying this english-speaking isis executioner. clarissa ward is inside syria with a rebel fighter who has has a warning for america. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but the freedom, well, he will bite you, and he will bite you hard. >> pelley: the texas ebola patient is put on a ventilator. john blackstone looks at whether america's health care workers are ready for the disease. caught on video-- dean reynolds on a traffic stop that turned violent. and chip reid takes us 9,000 years into the past to hear the stories told by kenowick man. >> i truly consider him an ambassador from an ancient time period. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the government is nenlisting your help tonight in the war against the sunni muslim terrorist group known as isis. the f.b.i. posted video today of an isis fighter it is trying to identify. he speaks english, and the bureau says he's appears to have a north american accent. the f.b.i. describes the video as a recruitment tool to attract westerne

buffer zone in syria. the u.s. steps up screening for ebola in airports, after the first person to be diagnosed with ebola dice. -- dice. >>> they are almost 140 years old. the cave paintings in indonesia could change what we know about ancient art. >>> breaking news out of yemen. a suicide bombing kills 20 people in yemen's capital sanaa. the attack happened in the center of the city in tar here square. no one claimed responsibility, and we'll bring you more on the circumstances. we can speak to our correspondent in sanaa, who we are not naming for security reasons. what more do we know about the explosion? >> yes, we know an hour ago a huge explosion rocked the capital, including in the area, and later on the spokesman of the houthi rebel movement said that it was an explosion that targeted houthi fighters, and it had caused the death of dozens. he used the word dozens, and it seems that it has targeted the houthis at a time when they gathered, organising central sanaa in the square, in central sanaa. according to observers here, it bears the hallmarks of al qaeda, the sign of al qa

, conflicts from afghanistan to syria, iraq, sudan, and saudi arabia. no one is suffering more than children, and relief organizations are overwhelmed. women face abuse, and religious freedom is under assault from china to russia, and attacks on people who tell those stories, journalists, happening around the globe, including here at home. we begin with a staggering number of refugees world wild, as the list of armed conflicts around the world has grown, the people forced to flee their home now exceeds 50 million, the highest since world war. launching a massive operation to bring aid to half a million people driven from their homes by islamic state fighters. >> most still living in schools, mosques, churches, and unfinished buildings. >> so 9 million people have fled their homes because of syria's brutal civil war. almost 3 million refugees have escaped to neighboring countries, turkey, jord and not iraq, and south sudan in africa, half a million refugees, some internal, and some in caverns in uganda. and meanwhile, muslims in the central african republic has led to 30,000 refugees

was going to get in touch with once he got to syria. >> do we know how the fbi got tipped off that this individual was planning on not only supporting but getting involved in a terror organization? >> the affidavit does not say. we know that they are watching a lot of online forums where people are talking about this type of thing. so it may well be that that's the case. we may find out down the line when this case goes to trial. >> this 19-year-old, jeffrey, is in a lot of trouble right now. this potentially covers, according to this document, maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $200,000 fine simply for expressing an interest in going over there to support isis. >> well, the charge is that he attempted to provide material support. that's the key phrase here. material support can be an individual volunteering for service in the military. but in his defense, as we can say, in advance, he never left the united states and one of the peculi peculiarities of the complaint is he that he purchased a round trip ticket which meant that he was probably coming back. that's one fact th

northern syria and western iraq. have you seen the news reports, the convoys, the pick up trucks, the rocket -propelled grenades and machine guns. who are those guys? who is willing to drop everything back home and fight in northern syria? if you're a 22-year-old guy in chechen capital or the british capitol of london, what could someone say to you to get you to smuggle you are way into syria and join an army that is murdering its way across a big chunk of the middle east? the shutting off the flows of fighters loom as a strategic goal as important as shutting off the flow of weapons or money. >> president barack obama met with military leaders from 20 nations in andrews air force base . >> there is going to be a long-term campaign. as with any military effort there will be days of progress, and there are going to be periods of set back. but our coalition is united behind this long-term effort. >> reporter: tuesday's meeting followed another round of u.s.-led airstrikes in syria? in the strategic border town of doob, fighting between the islamic state of levan fighting testify. people

, takin taking exception with the obama administration's strategy in syria. let's go to barbara starr. what have we learned about this memo? what did the secretary of defense say, what does he want to do? >> a senior u.s. officials is now telling me, indeed, defense secretary chuck hagel earlier this month wrote a very private, very blunt memo to national security adviser susan rice expressing very direct concerns about the administration's policy regarding syria. very few details, obviously, made available. hagel is very private about these matters. what we are told is that the secretary has some concerns that the administration policy is not sharply focused enough on how to deal with assad, the syrian leader, bashar al assad, and how to get him out of power and that he feels there is a potential that the gains being made with air strikes in syria, could be at risk unless the u.s. can better deal with the question of how to get rid of assad. okay. all of that said, this is not coming out in public. there is no way this memo is likely to be made public by the pentagon. they won't even

american casualty of the u.s. bombing campaign in iraq and syria. u.s. naval forces central command announced the death of 21-year-old marine corporal jordan spears of memphis, indiana. he was serving on the uss macon island in the persian gulf. the macon island is an amphibious assault ship deployed to the gulf in support of the u.s. air war in iraq and syria. the corporal was one of the crew members. and the v-22 osprey was taking off, it's a tilt rotor aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter, but they can fly like a plane. for some reason the osprey in which he was serving lost power shortly after takeoff on the deck of the ship. corporal spears and one other crewman bailed out as the aircraft descended toward the ocean. interestingly, the two pilots remained on board the aircraft and were able to regain control and safely land back on board the uss macon island. but the search and rescue mission for the two crew members who bailed out, that was only able to recover one of the two crewmen. efforts to recover corporal spears were unsuccessful. he's considered lost at

next 60 minutes, the fight for northern syria, control of the town near the turkish border as isis forces advance. >>> demonstrations in hong kong turn violent. the president ahead of the presidential election. and in london, low-income families struggle to afford a home in one of the world's most expensive cities. >>> we start in northern syria, where there's a fierce battle now over the town of kobane. the fighters in isil are trying to take over the kurdish-held area. group has already taken over large areas of iraq and syria, and it wants to establish in the region. the town lies on syria's border with turkey, and turkey itself is considering sending forces to fight isil, but syria said any such move would be considered aggression. there's heavy artillery around the town, landing east and west. the kurdish official haven't entered the town, but they're advancing from the southeast, using armored vehicles and tanks. >>> we go live now to bernard smith, on the turkish/syrian border, and you're very close to kobani, and what have you witnessed in the day? >> well, there have been