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good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. isis is escalating its relentless assault challenging areas of northern iraq now, areas that had been thought secure near erbil. casualties on both sides. in washington president obama will be speaking this afternoon about how to counteract domestic extremism here in the u.s. but first for all of the developments in iraq and overseas nbc's keir simmons joins me from london. lot of action and fighting and it's hard to sort out from the battlefield who is gaining ground frankly. >> yes, it is andrea. i think really the big picture is that the map is fairly frozen, because of course the allies have air power, so it's difficult for isis to move but at the same time without a real

push on the ground it's difficult to push isis away from the areas that it's held since last year but what we saw overnight, as you say, was close quarters combat between isis and kurdish forces that continues for hours. senior iraqi security official said tens of isis fighters were killed and injured and some of their vehicles were destroyed. local sources told nbc news isis launched several waves of attacks before being repelled by reinforcements and crucial air strikes. it was close to the key city of erbil where isis tried to push towards that city in august last year. it's a place where there are u.s. officials based and this fighting suggests that despite the bombing campaign isis still feels confident to launch these kinds of attacks. >> at this stage, what does iraq need, the iraqi forces is it only the peshmerga forces that are organized enough to withstand these kinds of close combat attacks or is the iraqi

army being able to step up? how is the training proceeding? >> well from what i'm hearing, there is training proceeding including crucially some of the sunni tribes in the anbar area of iraq, and they will be vital to try to push back in that particular area but i think that from what we're hearing, it will be sometime yet before the various sides, baghdad, the kurds, perhaps some of those sunni areas, feel able to make a concerted push against isis across iraq and i think that's what you would need to see. by the way, andrea on another issue, the video, the propaganda video released by isis of that terrible killing of the coptic christians, the person in that video who is speaking english, and that analyst is telling us this afternoon that it does appear that person has an accent

that is certainly u.s. influenced, perhaps not native but very close to native. so it is suggesting that perhaps that person might have been able to might have gone to a u.s. school or been around u.s. a lot, so there's clearly going to be further inquiries who that person is and it clearly goes to illustrate how isis is spreading and sucking in recruits from all around the world. andrea? >> indeed and of course there's intensive efforts by american intelligence as well as british intelligence to try to identify that person who is dressed differently and had not been -- this is the executioner who had spoken out on that horrible video. thank you, keir simmons. >> all right. president obama in laying out his plan to fight terrorism in an op-ed today for the "los angeles times" writing it say battle for hearts and minds and cannot be won by military force alone. it's a point the president is going to drive this afternoon when he speaks at the summit.

congressman adam schiff joins me, the top democrat on the intelligence committee. there's been a lot of criticism and pushback against the administration for the way it is laying out the summit pointing out that it's not focusing enough on what is really happening in the field on isis trying perhaps too hard to avoid identifying this as only islamic extremism, trying to look so broadly that it is missing the point. >> you know i hear this argument made over and over again, but i don't find it very compelling. what the president is trying to do is not frame this as a war on islam. if that's the way people perceive this i think it would have disastrous consequences. he needs to talk about and is talking about how someone would pervert the faith of islam but this isn't a fight between religions or western civilization and islam. that's a point that he really has to underscore so i understand people are piling on the president about this but

frankly, i don't think that argument is very weighty. >> here he has the summit no heads of government coming, the participation has not been at a particularly high level. we'll have foreign ministers, we'll be speaking to the egyptian foreign minister shortly who will be participating but there hasn't been a whole lot of support from europe or the middle east at a very high level for what the president is setting out here. it seems to be more of a dog and pony show. >> i think it's important in terms of what we're doing here at home and we coordinate our efforts with our european and other allies. we have been fortunate in not having many attacks in the united states. i think it's in part because our muslim communities are better integrated. we have a better level of cooperation between our community-based placing and the community and religious organizations. that's something that i think europe can profit from those experiences, and i think we also need to work on our intelligence sharing with europe and our other allies. so i think it's an important summit. i can't speak to why we didn't

have other participation but i think it's an important undertaking. >> what about the community, some of the community concerns that community involvement, homeland security involvement is really surveillance. we have to reassure them about their privacy and also that this is not just intelligence gathering, that this is a sincere effort to deal with their concerns. >> that's absolutely right and that concern is prevalent from where i come from in los angeles. this is an invitation to a greater surveillance and there's a deficit of trust that has to be rebuilt. this has to be a partnership, not a let's get close so i can keep an eye on you but in many parts of the country, there are good relationships and i think that will be true in los angeles and that's developing in los angeles and it's really going to be key to avoiding the kind of home-grown radicalism that we're seeing around the world. >> keir simmons referred to trying to identify who this horrible executioner is with an americanized accent speaking

american accented or north american accent in english, possibly canadian. any way that we have so far to identify who this person is? >> i can't speak to the effort in the gruesome video. his accent probably underscores the fact from the united states we've had a great many people join the fight from the european country, many thousands of foreign fighters. we're looking at one person in the video as gruesome as that person is probably the greater threat are those that have not been identified or can't be identified because they don't appear in a video and can come back with a greater anonymity. we have a lot on our plate to guard against. >> should we be selling drones to some of these allies -- today's ally may not be tomorrow's. >> that's true. we have to be extremely cautious about it. it's one of the reasons why what example we set in terms of the efforts that we make to avoid

civilian casualties that we have to set the bar very high because others may not, but also means that we have to be very careful about anyone we might sell that technology to. >> and finally on the war powers debate coming up there seems to be a lot of division between those in both camps, those who say that the president should be somewhat restrained should not have a blank check, and others who say that the president should not be giving up powers that he's the commander in chief. where do you come down? >> well i come down much more on the side of let's learn from the mistakes we've made. we've had two broad authorizations that are continuing on and of course many many years after they were wrip to fight written to fight a foe that didn't exist at the time. congress wants to have an aggressive role in the checks and balances that the founding fathers have in mind. we can't do if we write another blank check that doesn't allow limits on geographic, time

limits so i come down on a narrowly tailored organization. >> adam schiff the top democrat on house intelience. stay here on msnbc, watch his speech live on msnbc, supposed to start at 4:15 eastern. up next more on the fight against isis. we'll talk to egypt's foreign minister just out of crisis meetings at the u.n. today. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. i don't miss the other stuff. meta health bars help promote heart health. experience the meta effect with our multi-health wellness line. ♪ ♪ ♪ know your financial plan won't keep you up at night. know you have insights from top investment strategists to help set your mind at ease. know that planning for retirement can be the least of your worries.

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egypt has been flying against isis targets after the brutal beheading of 21 christians in libya over the weekend. president al sisi is calling for

a u.n.-backed coalition to deal with the threat. i'm joined by egypt's foreign minister in new york. thank you very much for being with us. i know you're dealing with this horror of what isis has done in libya. what response are you getting from the u.n.? what can the u.n. do besides talk? is there any action that the u.n. is willing to take dwens this isis threat? >> we believe it's necessary at this stage to reinforce or support the government of libya to undertake its responsibility to fight the terrorist threat and also to gain the support of the international community in that struggle. we don't find it at all logical that the government of libya should be restricted in this fashion by the security council at a time when it comes under severe attack from the terrorist organizations from the isils of libya who are associated to the rest of this organization but the spreading across the african

continent and the middle east. >> on that horrible tape the executioner threatened other egyptians who remain in libya. there are thousands and thousands of egyptians, mostly workers who have gone there for jobs. are you making any effort to evacuate people? what can you do for your citizens who are under threat? >> we are of course concerned about their safety and are trying through the government in toboruk and in terms of our relationships and contacts with various tribes and political entities in libya to provide them the necessary security indicated those who wanted to department can do through by the tunisian government and border. they provided the facilities to do so. we continue to monitor closely and in cooperation with the libyan government and tunisian government and nigerian one to hopefully extract themselves

find themselves in the way of harm and continue to protect those who remain through the structures of the tribes of libya. >> has your intelligence been able to identify who this leader is who appeared on this video? we've been trying to figure out his accent seems to be somehow north american, perhaps canadian, perhaps american influenced by education here but do you have any idea who these people are? >> personally, i don't. of course there is a high degree of coordination and cooperation between our intelligence services in egypt and the united states and in the past we've always been able to achieve results by such a close cooperation with other allies as well. we are hopeful that more collaboration between us will lead us to be able to impact these organizations from within more effectively. >> what more do you need from the united states? there was a hold on some spare

parts for f-16s and others after your government replaced the elected government the muslim brotherhood government. do you need more military aid? do you need more other kinds of support as you try to hold off isis now, so close to you in neighboring libya? >> well certainly, but let me say that it wasn't the government who deposed president morsi. it was the people of egypt, and -- >> understood. >> and in the strength of 25 million. we have been somewhat restrained and we find it's been difficult for us to meet the challenges in the sinai and in addressing the threats at our western border. without being able to have the spare parts and fly the apaches that are so crucial in the fight against the terrorist organizations in sinai. i think it is very important that egypt remains militarily strong. it has been an element of

regional security and dependence by the united states on egyptian facilities and capabilities and we certainly feel that we are somehow restricted at this stage and will hope these restrictions were lifted. >> is that something you're going to be talking to secretary kerry, when you come to the state department tomorrow? >> well i usually talk with secretary kerry on all the aspects of our bilateral relations and this has been an issue constantly brought up in our various meetings over the last period. >> and what about the threat from isis and isis supporters now in the sinai. this is a new level of threat part of your country. >> definitely. they have sworn allegiance to isis and are operating within the operational and cooperative structure of this organization, and they have shown a degree of sophistication and the ability to wage more vicious attacks on

our security forces and it's quite apparent they're receiving more sophisticated weaponry and this goes to show the relationships that exist now from nigeria to iraq between an organization that is growing and that we need every resource and commitment to be able to fight and to eradicate. >> is egypt going to request drones now that the administration has a policy where it's going to be willing to sell drones to allies? >> we will always seek to enhance our capabilities to fight this threat to be able to impact them and degrade them eradicate them to the best of our abilities, and certainly drones are an important aspect in this fight, and if it is available to us we will certainly be very willing to utilize them. >> minister shoukry, thank you for coming to our studios and we will see you tomorrow.

>> thank you. now to another blast of arctic air that taken over the eastern third of the country, showing no signs of letting up. it is so cold that niagara falls has frozen. it's not trick photography, it's the real thing, taken yesterday from the canadian side of the falls. in boston the big dig continues. more from the weather channel's chris warren. >> reporter: andrea we're in boston's long wharf area where the sun is shining. it looks nice. frustrations are mounting and in part because of this. this number right here 11.3. that's how many more inches are needed for this season to become the snowiest season on record for boston. the snowiest season is 107.6 inches. so far this season 96.3. did the math down here and that is 11.3 inches away from tying the all-time snowiest season here in boston.

so with that getting around is difficult. public transportation running on modified schedules. if your stop is open. you might have to go to a different stop. in some cases, the commute, andrea is tacked on by an extra two hours before and after, and now it looks like even more snow and cold on the way for the northeast, and right here in boston. i'm meteorologist chris warren. back to you, andrea. >> unbelievable chris warren. still to come politics, jeb bush trying to put some distance between himself and his family family. does that work? first searching for answers at the site of another fiery train accident. more from west virginia coming up next.

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cars themselves. this was a 109-car train. 107 of those cars were tankers carrying oil. around 30,000 gallons apiece. those are new tarnger cars tanker cars designed to do a better job of withstanding a crash. we can tell you that 19 of those cars burned in this derailment, so that's one of the things they're going to be taking a look at. as for the water issues here near boomer west virginia i can tell you that they did all kinds of tests along the river and in the two water treatment plants that they shut down. they found no detectable levels of oil, and so the taps have been turned back on but there is still a boil water order in effect here for some 2,000 residents. andrea, back to you. >> and our thanks to anne thompson in west virginia. up next how should president obama change his policy on hostages? he's reviewing.

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at a vigil in her hometown of prescott arizona. the 28-year-old was captured in august 2013. her death was confirmed last week. her death and the executions of three american hostages will be on the docket for the summit. karen, you did extraordinary reporting this weekend on the time line the hostage rescue efforts and the administration's pushback against criticism they waited too long. can you go through that now? they first got some information specific information from a danish released hostage, and knew where they thought these prisoners were the americans, including kayla in racca and syria. what happened next? >> i think it's first important to note that they really have had very little intelligence from inside syria, until very recently, there was no what they call overwatch, there were no

surveillance planes traveling over syria and the hostage accounts from the released hostages were the only information they had. group of europeans had been released in the spring. some of them had been held with the americans, some of them had not, and they've been moved to different places. so they thought they had an idea when this danish hostage was released in mid-june, they interviewed him, in denmark, and finally felt like they had a firm idea of where the americans were being held. they had a preliminary plan in place, and they quickly finalized it sent it to the white house. the white house approved it and about a week later on the morning of the 3rd of july the mission was launched. in syria, of course sadly, when they got there, the hostages were no longer there. >> and in terms of the time line, they began to be you

know getting some intelligence march and april as you pointed out in your reporting, finally in june interviewed that danish hostage. did it take too long? this is a complicated and as you were reporting, white house officials were saying this was one of the riskiest missions but that the president interestingly approved it as soon as he was briefed on it. he did not hesitate. >> right. i think that the white house obviously, a lot of people a lot of the families some of the counterterrorism people and investigators who worked on these cases felt like it had taken too long. i think that if you look at how it actually went through the white house as these things go it went quickly. it arrived there late on a thursday night. friday morning there were meetings all day with the deputies, cabinet deputies and then with the cabinet principles on friday. it went to president obama on saturday. he had a meeting with secretary

hagel, and other senior advisers and approved it right in that meeting. one of the problems it then took another four or five days before they actually landed in syria. this was a lot of people to move from the united states to the middle east, where the mission was launched. there was a lot of aircraft involved that had to be moved around. all together about 100 special operations, troops that were involved. so there were a lot of things that had to be done and i think as these things go it was probably done fairly quickly. where there was delay to the extent there was delay, it was before the plan went to the white house, and i think the administration and the military would argue that that was largely because they just didn't have the intelligence. they didn't know exactly where they were. >> chris, one two argue they should be forward based, that these kinds of teams should be in theater ready for some kind of action.

i did interview john foley, james foley's father along with diane foley friday on the question of ransom. the europeans get out because clearly they pay. there have been private efforts. some of the family are frustrated, the fbi warns them they'd be violating the law. this is what mr. foley had to say on friday. >> isis knows it's going to come sooner or later, after the european hostages release, we mounted the mission and i'm very, very grateful to the military personnel who were involved, but they weren't home. isis is evil and vicious, but i don't think they're stupid. >> they know we're coming after they release hostages they know we're debriefing the hostages. what do you think will come out of this review of the policy? the president made very career in his interview with buzzfeed he's not going to consider paying ransom. >> right. well i think they are conscious of the fact that the families of

these victims quite unhappy, and part of it is you know i think it has to be said that through their grief, they obviously would like to blame someone. you know the question of ransom, the white house has been very firm on it. they have launched a review in order to figure out ways so that they can be more forthcoming to the families more cooperative with the families the families feel like they're more a part of this whole process, and that they are getting all the information that's available, but again, from the president on down there's been no give at all. they're very definitive that they are not going to be promoting the payment of ransom. >> karen deyoung, extraordinary reporting. thank you for sharing with us today. >> thank you andrea. overseas greece is asking for more help from its european partners on greece's terms, though. the government led by its new prime minister is seeking a loan extension, that's their spin on the bailout program, set to

expire at the end of this month. it is not getting a lot of support from eurozone leaders who want greece to stick to austerity measures. . a compromise isn't reached, what next and what could be the impact on our economy? wall street already keeping an eye on all of this. joining me is jillian tepp u.s. managing editor at "the financial times." what happens if the talks fall apart or if an accident takes place along the way? >> we're seeing a great drama, if not a greek tragedy here. the bailout plan is clear, there's a strong level of hostility inside germany and other northern eurozone countries towards what the greeks are suggestioning. the greeks think it's time for northern european countries and germany to cut slack and many argue get more realistic about the difficulties greece is facing in terms of repaying its

debt. at the same time the germans are concerned about setting a precedent which could be copied by spain and portugal. and the crucial thing that people should be watching right now is not just the actual numbers about the debt burden and the difficulties of repaying it. it's also what's happening politically. inside greece today, the government's enjoying an approval rate of 75%. that's frarkly probably higher than anywhere else in the western world right now, because greek population are just fed up with the austerity measures. but inside germany, angela merkel is enjoying strong popular support because the germans are fed up with the greeks and that really is a big problem. >> if greek is this popular, the new prime minister is popular for pushing back against the eurozone he's not going to be motivated to compromise any further. >> well right now the market is still betting that some kind of deal or political fudge, frankly, will be found to

pretend and extend and try to conceal and pay for thediciouses but what every investor should be asking themselves is what's going on in greece really the european equivalent of the lehman brothers moment, because once again you have a problem developing that has the potential to spin out of control and create a crisis and the really big question right now is what were the unintended consequences and the spillover effects of any crisis be? >> jillian tett thanks so much keeping an eye on all things from the markets. joseph clancy has been named as the next director of the u.s. secret service. he has been serk as the interim director since october and he was formerly back before he left the service for a break in the private sector working for comcast, our parent company. he had been the head of president obama's security detail, so he has a good relationship with his first family. critical factor there.

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jeb bush is in chicago today where he is about to guff a foreign policy speech. he'll be staking out a fairly hawkish foreign policy navigating a tricky terrain, trying to separate himself from his brother and his father's legacies. but not too much. joining me now for our daily fix, managing editor of postpolitics.com and molly ball political writer at "the atlantic." the policy he laid out and the foreign policy advisers that he has identified what does that tell you about how he is going to challenge hillary clinton and also not be disloyal to his family name but try to identify his own foreign policy. >> well i think he's going for a post obama presidency foreign policy. i think the excerpts we've seen

are against the way in which obama has positioned us in the world, he made promises and hasn't kept them. that said look an advisory committee is just that. these are not promises these people will serve in the administration if jeb bush gets elected but paul wolfowitz, john negroponte, many high profile people his fathers and more importantly his brother's administration, many of which are quite controversial, i wrote a piece saying jeb bush can't have his cake and eat it too. you can't benefit from the last name being bush fund-raising placed in the race part of republican royalty but also not have the issues he'll have when you name an advisory group like this that includes many people from your father and your brother's administrations that a lot of the country may not agree with their vision for the country's future. >> does include james baker, who was notably absent from his

brother's advisory informal kitchen cabinet on the decisions to go into iraq and that is a significant difference with the former secretary of state. one of the excerpts an important excerpt from the speech he's about to give reads "i also have been lucky to have a father and a brother who both have shaped america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs sometimes in contrast to theirs. i love my father and my brother. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make but i am my own man and my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences." molly ball chris cillizza says he can't have it both ways. he says i am my own man. >> he's got to lay something out. jeb will come under pressure to start putting specifics behind the big symbolic statements he's making. so far we've had the, we've got to talk about what we're for, not just what we're against,

speech, that didn't lay out much of what he was actually for. we've had the we've got to talk about poverty in a way that broadens the appeal of the republican party speech that then didn't actually have a lot of specifics about how he would address it and in this speech based on the excerpts we're seeing there's this claim that i am my own man without a lot to back it up without a lot that distinguishes him from the policies of his father or his brother and so you know he's going to have to back up the symbolic statements but i give jeb some credit for the assertive way that he is defining himself. we don't see hillary making these sorts of even symbolic statements saying this is who i am. this is what i'm about, and sort of giving people a framework through which to view her as she does the sort of pre-candidate dance. >> speaking of pre-candidate dancing the new quinnipiac poll of swing states with head-to-head matchups showing her comfortable ahead in both

colorado and iowa, a tie in virginia, a tie for democrat in virginia even with democratic friend terry mcauliffe as the governor. this is treacherous territory for both parties. chris without announcing and because she hasn't announced she has some advantages. >> absolutely and i think part of the reason she hasn't announced is because she has these advantages and they the clinton world, see no advantage in her getting into the race. they figure the less political she is viewed the better she tends to do which is true and there will be plenty of time for her to run. i think it's interesting, andrea, what we said in 2008 in 2012 was this expansion of the democratic coalition into north carolina although obama lost it narrowly in 2012 into virginia into some of the other states. the question is can hillary clinton do the same thing? she might run a little bit stronger than barack obama in let's say ohio although he carried the state twice.

can she expand the map in the way that he did? some of that depends on who republicans nominate certainly. it's a broader question. the obama coalition does not equal the democratic coalition and does not equal the hillary coalition. what does her coalition look like? molly makes the right point. we don't know all that much because she doesn't say all that much at the moment. >> we know from maggie haberman's reporting she met with elizabeth warren the one democrat who could help her reach the left branch of the party, the more progressive branch of the party. clearly not running but an influencer, an influencer on hillary clinton's positions going forward. i want to take a moment before we go though to ask you about this president before we move on to 2016. we've got the immigration battle and the fact that molly, the president, because of this federal court ruling s not going to be taking applications for deferrals so he's got to put his executive action on hold while they challenge it in court.

>> that's right. although the administration has said that they plan to appeal the ruling and so they seem to be focusing theirerts there but the injunction is going to prevent time with the implementation schedule previously planned and also scrambling the equation over the fight over dhs funding in congress where some republicans are saying this lets us off the hook. we can fund dhs because they can't put this thing we object to into practice anyway. it's scrambled all of the sides of the immigration debate. >> that would be a huge relief for jeh johnson at the counterterrorism summit today, chris, was arguing again for his appropriation, which at the end of february creates huge problems within his agency. >> so i think republican leaders, i think, are looking for a way out at this point, an dree with with mcconnell and boehner at odds over who should go first and how it should happen. this could give them in a very weird way a way out of that

funding fight to your point saying well, look it's not going into effect so what different does it make? let's give dhs the money. the problem is at some point the legal wrangling will get sorted out. if it goes forward in terms of president obama's executive order, then they're right back at square one with conservative activists. it may be a temporary reprieve but it's just temporary. >> just temporary, including this segment. thank you chris cillizza and molly ball as always. and today in texas in the "american sniper" murder trial, eddie ray ralph's defense team will have a first full day to present their defense, their argument ralph was criminally insane and therefore not guilty when he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield. charles, what happened so far today? >> reporter: well today on the stand was ralph's brother,

alora, at home that ralph came over driving chris kyle's truck and she asked ralph where he got the truck and he said that he had traded his soul for a new truck. she said the man that came to her house that day was not her brother, that he was out of his mind, and not talking normally. he was saying such things as "pigs are eating at my soul" and "is the world freezing over? do you feel it?" saying bizarre things like that. she knew something was wrong, and she asked more about what happened to him that day and he said that he killed two men that he traded his soul for a pickup truck. she said "you need to call the police." eddie ralph said "i need to leave" and at that point, he left. but before he left she said "i love you," and she said he turned and looked at her, and she recognized that that was the brother she knew but when she continued the sentence and said

"but i hate your demons" he look instantly changed again and he left. she called 911 and even drove to the police station for fear that man would come back to her house that day. andrea? >> charles hadlock in texas, thank you very much. before we leave, a quick look at jeb bush at the podium at the chicago global affairs council. >> -- nuclear enrichment now it seeks merely to regulate it. prevention of nuclear weapons in iran was once a unifying issue in american foreign policy. leaders of both parties agreed to it. when he launched his negotiations, president obama said that that was the goal stop iran's nuclear program. now we're told the goal has changed and the point of these negotiations is to solve the problem is to manage it. iran's intent is clear. its leaders have openly expressed a call for the annihilation of the state of

israel. this is an existential threat to israel and to the world including the united states. we can face large-scale proliferation issues throughout the region if iran has the ability to launch a nuclear weapon. iran's neighbors will want their own nuclear capability because of this existential threat. no wonder some democrats in congress have lost confidence in this administration's efforts as it relates to iran. congress should -- >> jeb bush and his foreign policy speech taking a hard line against the president's negotiations with iran, and siding with israel a sharp critic of course of those negotiations. thank you for being with us. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" and tomorrow, robert ford former u.s. ambassador to syria. follow us online on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome;

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online right now. nearly 89,000 mentions in the start of lent just today. we have a lot happening this hour. first up reports of a horrific new attack by isis to iraqi politicians. burning iraqis alive in the town of al baghdadi. this hasn't been independently verified. the town is near the al assad airbase where 300 u.s. marines are currently training iraqi troops. these reports come just weeks after a jordanian pilot was shown being burned alive in an isis video. also following developments on this from london with our team there, keir simmons. keir what do we know about the victims of this attack? >> ronan, we understand from reports unconfirmed that they are members of iraqi security services. it is one of the, a colonel there, member of the police force, who