its roots began in the late '80s in, in the refugee camps of afghans in pakistan, with bin laden and ayman al-zawahiri, who is now the head of al qaeda. >> reporter: but is it only what happened there? saudi arabia itself has been accused of basically sowing the seeds of islamist radicalism. you write the book, "we simply tolerated saudis to fight in afghanistan if they wished, and we had never thought when we encourage young men to go to pakistan in the 1980s, it might change their political ideas." in retrospect, do you think that was naive? >> it was naive. but at the time, yani, during the soviet invasion of afghanistan, everybody supported the mujahedeen. when finally al qaeda established itself in afghanistan and bin laden in 1989 came to me, to, to ask me or to inform me that he would like, as he said, to bring his mujahedeen to go and fight the communist regime in south yemen at the time, and i told him that basically we don't need your mujahedeen, basically. so, don't call us, we'll call you. the same year, 1990, the iraqis invaded kuwait, and bin laden didn't come to me. but he w

(jolani speaking arabic) >> smith: jolani switched his allegiance to bin laden's successor, ayman al zawahiri. at one point, he even harbored some of zawahiri's men suspected of plotting to attack the west. jolani denies it. he insisted to me that he always remained focused on fighting assad. >> mix fm syria. >> mix fm syria, syria, syria. >> new music first. (dance music playing) >> smith: that year, 2015, i traveled across syria's regime-controlled areas. >> (speaking indistinctly) >> smith: this is latakia, the heartland of syria's alawite community, a small but powerful religious minority aligned with assad. the alawites have lost thousands of young men and women fighting nusra, isis, and other rebel factions. their pictures line the streets of the provincial capital. (engine roaring) nearby, syria's rich frolic on latakia's mediterranean beaches. in part, this represents what they are fighting for: a secular way of life away from islamist influences. >> (speaking indistinctly) >> smith: in latakia, i met a pro-regime militia commander who invited me to visit his mountaintop vill

reporter: ayman harrison, the 23-year-old fromd orthern irelo appeared in in dublin today on the european extradition warrant. detectiv suspect he was thelu driver of thislorry cap which dropped off the refrigerated trailer in c zeebrugge.fore the debt -- it traveled on this cargo ship the commenting. essex police want toxtradite harrison because by the time the trailer got less than two miles away, 39 people were found dead inside it. please a -- police also want to talk to wrote in hughes and his youngerth ber chris hughes. theettive leading the investigation was in northern ireland today to make this direct appeal. >> ronan andph chris, hand yourselves in to te police serv northern ireland. we need you both to come forward and assist this investition. reporter: ivietnam, the national broadcaster showed pictures of police launching an investigation there as two people were taken into custody on suspicion of people smuggling.it what started wthe discovery of 39 people dead in a refrigerated o trailan essex industrial estate has turned into an inrnational vestigation, with police looking

the leader of the group, lawmaker ayman odey said the 13 members decided to recommend gantz to prevent another term for netanyahu. the last time arab lawmakers commended a prime minister was in 1992 when two arab parties backed yitzhak rabin. h greek polie arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a t.w.a. flight froms that resulted in the death of an american naval service member. the arrest of the 65-year-old onpect was made on thursd the greek isnd of mykonos after authorities received a warrant from germany. the hijackers beatnd killed 23-year-old u.s. navy diver robert stethem. the other 146 passengers and crew members were releasedfter 17 days. in iowa today there was a significt shake up in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. for the first time, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren leads among liky voters in the february 2020 iowa caucuses. the des moines register poll shows 22% of likely caucus-goers now say warren is their first choi. former vice president joe biden follows with 20% and1% chose vermont senator bernie sanders.e bidein all three of the previ

ayman odeh heads thepr ominately-arab coalition of parties called the "joint list"" >> ( translated ): we are not against a group of people. a we are againstacist prime minister. but he is against a whole nation. that is the big difference. ce reporter: a polling station visited in kfar qassem, an arab town outside tel aviv, appeared to have an outsized police presence. one man told us the police had demanded campaign signs be taken down. sabaa taha said she saw it ase her duty to preserve arab'sn identi increasingly right-wing country. arab representation in parliament marginally grew. >> t more we vote, the more change something. so that's whwe want to vote, we want to change something. >> reporter: israel's elortion has leftquestions than answers. >> woodruff: and ryan joets us now fromyahu's election night headquarters in tel av . so ryan, it sounds complicated. what ppens next? >> it is a bit complicated. israel's president now will sit down with the leaders f the nine political parties that are poised to get into parliament. i say "poised" because all we have now are the exit po

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ayman javers is at the white house for us tonight. >> reporter: some back and forth over the past 24 hours here at the white house over the idea o a payroll tax cut. yesterday the white house denying the news report that suggested that the white house wanted to move forward on a payroll tax cut. weay, t the president said he's considering it. here is what the president said today talking to reporters in the oval office, and also mentioning the idea ofnding capital gains, another tax cut sroposal the white house considering. >> a lot of people have been talking about indexingy for m nkars, and it is something that i am certainly tg about. i can say that a majority of the people in the white house at the level that does this kind of thing, they like indexing. so it is something i'm thinking about. payroll taxeee i've thinking about payroll taxes for a long time, whether or not we do it n or not is -- it is not being done because of recession. >> reporter: the president there obviously sensitive about the idea tt there's a recession looming. he insists there is not and it is not why the

ayman javers is at the white house. >>> it was smiles and handshakes in shanghai as u.s. and chinese negotiators wrapped up two days of conversations on the fate of the trade relationship between to two superpowers. while the body language was positive, the outcome was less than clear. the white house r statement calling the talks constructive but not listing any specificoic specutcomes. instead they said the two sides discussed topics like agriculture. they confirmed their commitment to increase purchases of united states agriculture exports. >> we have people inhina right now. >> as negotiators were on the ground in shanghai, the presidentuggested that the chinese simply wanted to stall n.til after the 2020 presidential elect the chinese made an accusation of their own as chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman saidt t the united states continued to flip-flo e concrete development that markets were looking for, the two sides said talks will continue. the next session will be in washington in september. for "nightly business report", i'm ayman javers at the white house. >>>

ayman al-zawahiri was also volved in these wars. he is not starting out with the battlefield pedigree his father had. whether he can move into that, we will have to see. u jane: seth jones, thank r joining me. seth: thank you very much. cne: you are watching "bb world news america." still to come on tonight's program, we speak to a photographer who traced the steps of slaves seeking freedom along the underground railroad. scientistsant the british that jointy said i've shelf -- ice shelf may crack and follow a. in a form -- in may form an iceberg that is larger than the city of london. reporter:heesearch bases like something from a sci-fi movie. a space station on the ice. thit is here tha do cutting edge science on the climate. y it is also where tscover the hole in the ozone layer. but it has a growing problem. this huge crack is breaking through the floating shelf of ice on which the b says. any day now, this fissure will spawn a city-sized iceberg. it is one of the hazards of working in his frozen landscape. every so often the e

coalition leader ayman odeh pulled out a black flag, and, as the parliament speaker objected, odeh called the law evil. >> ( tran law, a black flag hovers over it. this is a law that hovers over it a black flag >> schifrin: israel has promised the law won't impede minorities' rights. but in mixed towns like haifa, with bahai world center up the hill, near a 100-year- mosque, and a nearby church, awopponents criticized theor reducing arabic to a "special status". kayebalan is a shopkeeper. >> ( translated ): this new law, that this is a jewish state and not a state for all its citizens, this is something that we are ashamed of, and we dot accept it. >> schifrin: but the bill's supporters argue they e just acknowledging reality: that s 80% jewish, guarantees jewish immigration, and needs to defend its status as the jewish homeland. amir ohana is a member of the ruling likud party. >> ( translated ): this is not a bi-national state, this is not a bilingual state, this is not a double-capital state, this is state of a single nationality of the jewish people, its language is hebrew, and its ca

for show i'm ayman jabbers at the white house. >>> a key economic ioricator fell the third month. retail sales dropped 1% in bruary dragged other by reduced spending on cars and gasoline. it is the latest report to suggest that the m economy not be overheating afterall. following the release of that report jp morgan lowered its first quarter economic growth estite to 2% even from 2.5%. >>> it is a time to take a look at some of today's upgrades and downgrades. ford's rating was raised to i don't have weight at morgan stanley. it's ford's first upgrade by the firm in four years. the analyst sites ford's turnaround plan and the value of its f-150 franchise. the price target was hiked to $15. the stock rose 2% to 11.02. >> nvidia's price target was raised at rbc capital. the firm says there are enough positives to drive the stock to new highs like spending and gaming. the analyst maintains his outperform rating and the city council rose a fraction to $278.74. >> sunoco's ratingas cut at goldman sachs. citing head winds for t committee company including vised earnings calculations. s

ayman javers is at the white house. >> reporter: we are told tha the president began making edits on the speech on the plane ride over the davos switzerland last week but the speh writing began as far back as december. there has been a lot of prep time forte tonight's s of the union. the white house has given a sense of some of thet topics t will be included. look at the list of those. topics including the economy, also infrastructure, the question about immigration and how that will be handles, trade, national security. all of those will be pillars o this speech tonight. of the economic valentine's day advisors who has been helping the president on the draft said today the president is going to be talking about infrastructure a give us a price point snees going to talk about two key principles on frastructure. he is going to talk about $1.5 trillion of revestment. mo importantly he is going the talk about streamlining the approval process on infrastructure. >> something else to watch for tonight on a day in which the dow has been down significantly throughout the afternoon, will the

ayman javers reports from washington. >> president tru began the day extending an olive branch of sorts, a trip to his golf coue for lindsey graham. president trump has called graham a nutjob and a disgrace in the past. on this columbus day, the two men spent several hours together. all that comes after a weekend in which the president engaged hi a twitter feud with senator on twitter, the president wrote, senator bob corker begged me to endorse him for reelection in tennessee. i said no. and he dropped out. said he could not win without my endorsement. he also wanted to be secretary of state. i said no thanks. he's also largely responsible for the horrendous iran deal. the senator fired back writing, it's a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. later senator corker gave an interview to "the new york times" in which he said the president is running the white house like a reality tv show and said he could be putting the nation on a path to world war iii. all of this coming at a time when the president will need repub

. >> neither osama bin laden nor his deputy ayman al-zawahiri were terribly impressed with him. he seemed and acted like a thug. he was not very sophisticated. in fact, they considered him a rather poor recruit to al-qaeda. >> narrator: zarqawi would leave kandahar determined to continue jihad, and to prove bin laden wrong. in 2002, he saw his chance. as president bush signaled saddam hussein had to go, zarqawi moved to a terrorist camp in northern iraq. it set off alarm bells at the cia. cia operations officer sam faddis, who ran a kill/capture team, was assigned the case. >> headquarters is extremely, extremely interested. i mean, the number one time-sensitive priority, as of june '02, when i left headquarters, was go collect on this islamic extremist enclave along the iran/iraq border. >> narrator: it didn't take long for faddis to find zarqawi and learn what was going on in the camp. >> we literally had guys that were working for us that were inside the camp. they're working on chemical and biological weapons. they were doing a lot of work with cyanide-based things. >> narra

a warning today from the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al-zawahri. in an online video message, he threatens "the gravest consequences" if the surviving boston marathon bomber is executed. dzhokhar tsarnaev was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection. the 2013 bombing killed three people. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch voiced regret today about a meeting earlier this week with former president bill clinton. they spoke monday, for about 30 minutes, after his private plane landed near her government aircraft at the phoenix airport. it stoked criticism because the f.b.i. is investigating hillary clinton's e-mail practices as secretary of state. today, in aspen, colorado, lynch repeated that she and the former president never discussed the investigation, but she understands the criticism. >> i may have viewed it in a certain light, but the issue is, how does it impact the work that i do and the work that the department of justice does? and i certainly wouldn't do it again, because i think it has cast a shadow over what it should not, what it

for more on what the battle for ramadi means, i'm joined by ayman oghanna, a multimedia journalist with vice news, who has recently been embedded with iraqi special forces near ramadi. and retired army colonel peter mansoor, a top aide to general david petraeus during the u.s. surge in iraq. ayman oghanna, since you have been with the troops most recently, tell us what kind of progress is being made and how you measure that progress. >> well, before this trip in ramadi in may has been taken, it's night and day in terms of spirit in morale amongst the men. they are moving forward and feel confident they should have full control of the city soon. >> ifill: they're doing that how, exactly? >> basically, the u.s., according to the men on the ground, they said it's a matter of increase in the u.s.-led coalition's use of air support and airstrikes. there is a dramatic increase since russia in syria. they said before we had a problem getting hit which coalition aircraft and now the coordinates they're giving, they get hit. the the targets get hit and the special forces move forward and take th

ayman mann rent, with $1 houn ho,000 in debt. did not work. >> i have never been good at math but that math i got. >> rose: so you ended up at-- where you were a trial attorney. >> yeah. >> rose: at some point you worked yourself to near exhaustion. >> yes. >> rose: because of ambition, because of what? >> that is an interesting question. no one ever asked me that before, why, why did i do that. well,ed law say jealous mistress. and it demands much of those who practice it. but i do believe it is baked into my personality to be an overpreparer. and to throw myself into whatever project i'm doing. and in fact, when i was making the switch from journalism-- or from law to journalism, i said to myself, whatever profession you pick next, you better make sure it's something that can have an end to it at the end of the day. which law does not. there's always another brief to write, there's always another case you could read, always more research you could do. one of the things i love about journalism is this will literally yesterday's

ayman jeffers. >> reporter: part of the standard playbook. over the past several years, we've seen it again and again. when he wants to pressure republicans on capitol hill he turns onallies in the business community as you say the business roundtable and urges business to make his case up on capitol hill. he says he does not want to see a government shutdown over an issue if they don't come together on a deal. here is how the president made the sales pitch today. >> two years ago republicans shut down the government because they didn't like obama care. today some are suggesting the government should be shut down because they don't like planned parenthood. that's not good sense and it's not good business. the notion that we play chicken with an $18 trillion economy and global markets that are already skittish all because of an issue around a woman's health provider that receives less than $0.20 out of every $1,000 in the federal budget, that's not good policymaking. >> but guys, with the rise of donald trump and the campaign trail among repub

in an audio statement, ayman al- zawahri declared, "we don't recognize this caliphate," but he also said his followers should join isis in attacking u.s. coalition forces and shiites in iraq and syria. back in this country, the california assembly today approved a bill allowing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. the bill now goes to the state senate, which is expected to endorse it. four states-- washington, oregon, montana and vermont-- have already legalized assisted suicide. thousands of teachers in seattle went on strike today after failing to get a new contract. the walkout came on what was supposed to be the first day of school and kept 53,000 students home. seattle teachers have gone six years without a cost-of-living raise. president obama made a pitch today, a fresh appeal to make two years of community college tuition-free for all who want it. the plan has gone nowhere in congress burks at a community college in warren, michigan, the president charged his opponents are badly out of step. >> at a time when we should be growing our investments in job training

ayman jaffers on the case. >>> twitter reports today, facebook reports on wednesday. and the companies seem to be going in very different directions. julia borsten explains why. >> reporter: it's a tale of two very different social stocks. facebook shares up about 16% in the past three months while twitter lost 34%. facebook soaring to around an all time high as the company continues to grow users and ad revenue. on optimism about the potential to make money from the company's other fast growing apps. messenger, instagram and what's app and their new video apps. >> one of the important things is the sense is facebook is slowly grabbing attention from advertisers away from google in video in particular. >> in contrast twitter is in the midst of an awkward transition on the hunt for a new permanent ceo called project lightning which won't launch until this fall. while investors are bullish in the potential to use human curators we won't see the impact for several quarters. >> it's a project that twitter sorely needs. it's one that's supposed to make it easier for new us

and there could be some big ramifica ayman, what's going on? >> hi tyler. the alliance over the past number of years, in the wake of the big fight in indiana over gay rights gay marriage and religious freedom, we're seeing a bit of a rift between social conservatives and big business. take a look at some of these quotes that we're starting to see in the media, starting with senator ted cruz. you get a sense of the kind of feeling among social conservatives. quoted in the new york times saying, the fortune 500 is running shamelessly to endorse the radical gay marriage agenda over religious liberty. look at tony perkins, at the family research council group. he said you want to roll back religious freedom, good-bye wal mat, hello conservative grocery. apple and walmart helped sink laws meant to defend religious liberty. a clear schism emerging between the social conservatives and big business folks. social conservatives saying they don't necessarily worry about the value we hold dear in the conservative movement. >> recognized domestic partnerships and provid

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it's getting harder to warn people to not click those links. >> thank you, ayman jabbers. >>> if you look to make a donation, zwriwe have some advin how to choose a charity. >>> more trouble tonight for the struggling radio shack chain. the key financial backer notified the store they're in breach of the term loan that was finalized a couple of months ago. sellers is not impressed by how some of the money has been spent>>> it is so cold giving tuesday, the charitable answer to black friday and cyber monday, if ease of online donations to increase the giving on this day as it has in years past. how can you be certain the charity you're giving to is not a scam? your contribution, big or small, will have max impact? sharon eferson, how to choose a charity wisely. where do you look? >> a couple of places. do some research on your own, go to web sites like guidestar.org or charitynavigator.org or charitywatch.org. those will tell you about the financial health of the company. make sure the charity has a form 990 on file with the irs. check at irs.gov to make sure it's a tax exempt organiz

the group's leader, ayman al- zawahri, issued a videotaped message. >> ( translated ): my muslim brothers everywhere, i announce to all muslims in the world and especially in the indian subcontinent, the founding of a new branch. this is to help raise the flag of jihad and the return of the islamic rule in the subcontinent. >> woodruff: al-zawahri charged muslims in india have long been subject to injustice and oppression by the hindu majority. al qaeda has recently been overshadowed by the islamic state, an offshoot that broke ties with the main group last year. fast food workers across the country walked off the job today. staging one of the biggest protests yet over pay. they demanding hourly wages be doubled to $15 dollars. organizers said employees and supporters were taking to the streets in more than 150 cities. from new york to detroit to las vegas, dozens of people were arrested, largely for blocking roadways. international monitors are calling for cutting the catch of juvenile bluefin tuna in the pacific by half to save the species. the western and central pacific fisheries comm

for nightly business report, i'm ayman jabbers in washington. >>> placing a bid on fine art will soon be a click away. ebay and sotheby's are teaming up to make it easier to buy collectibles online. they plan to broadcast live auctions from sotheby's new york headquarters that way you can bid live in realtime from anywhere in the world. the terms of the deal not disclosed despite the news. shares of ebay were down slightly today. sotheby's was up 1% to $40.9. >>> shares of riverbed technology tumbled after the company blamed lower sales in north america because of a delay in closing some of its larger deals. following the announcement, the hedge fund reaffirmed its bid to buy that company, the stock nevertheless down 8.5% at $18.60. >>> home depot will start selling statuses 3-d printers in stores beginningtoday. they will have the product in 12 of its locations in california, illinois and new york. customers can use the printers to create parts like cup holders, making 3-d printing a little more mainstream. shares of stratuses edged up slightly. >>> domestic steel producers like u.s.

disavowed the islamic state earlier this year in a dispute between baghdadi and bin laden's successor, ayman al-zawahiri. i.s.i.l. had been the latest incarnation of al qaida's franchise that took root in iraq after the u.s. invasion of 2003. now, it is aiming to eclipse al qaida in reach, assets, manpower and lethality. >> woodruff: and margaret joins me now. this government in iraq already having enough problems. what is this announcement of a caliphate mean in addition to that? wrg we've always known this group which called itself isis and now isil is a military left. well-trained supposedly, u.s.-trained iraqi army just fell back and melted away. what we saw today in that parliament was that it's also political threat, because while it has a cohesive mess niche unity, what you see in baghdad is that after really ten years of some kind of governing, they have yet to create an inclusive , cooperative, kind of national identity in which all iraqis feel a part. and so when you talk about a unified iraq, essentially, it's already happening de facto slow motion what this issel or -- isil is ca