we'll be taking all of this up here tonight with a former ambassador to iraq, christopher hill. but first, more on the tragic death of james foley. senior administration officials tonight reveal a u.s. special operations team tried and failed to rescue foley and other americans held hostage in syria during a secret mission earlier this summer. it took place in a remote area of syria where commandos exchanged fire with terrorists and militants but did not find those hostages. that is likely to provide little comfort to james foley's friends and family. his parents today spoke about their son and his killers outside their home. >> jim's captors believe very strongly in what they're doing. they knew jim was innocent. >> they're very ruthless. they knew jimmy was a symbol of -- >> the goodness in america. the best of america. >> they realized that he would be a person of concern and that anything bad happening to him would be -- >> would hurt. >> would hurt. >> the foleys went on to ask isil for mercy for other americans held captive. the terrorists are now threatening to kill them

ambassador to the country christopher hill ambassador hill just before the break we were talking about the years since this tense on departure and. i saw you i read i think you say a couple of weeks ago that. iraqi president nuri al maliki has served for too long he has been too in a fact if and that he needs to step down what will happen if no al maliki takes your advice and throws in the towel what will happen to iraq well first of all nuri al maliki just came out way ahead in the lection and was certainly on his way to forming a coalition it's not for me to remove him or keep him it's up to the iraqi people and up to the iraqi political forces i think to some extent he's overwhelmed by this crisis. he is certainly not proving himself to be someone who is a good reconciler he's certainly not anyone who would be confused with nelson mandela and so i think he does have some problems but putting that aside what we have today is a very serious threat to iraq's territorial integrity indeed to its to its sovereignty and my view from here in the united states is the united states needs to b

ambassador to iraq christopher hill and reuters investigative reporter david rhode. ambassador hill, what do you think is within the reasonable realm of the possible for the u.s. on this mission? >> well, certainly i think the humanitarian mission will certainly help. unclear how much it can help, but it will help those people that are currently trapped up there. secondly, i think they can, with this threat of air strikes, dissuade any isil formation from attacking kurdish lands in erbil. the kurds have a lightly armed but well-trained and well disciplined force known as the peshmerga. so air strikes could in fact deter isil from attacking kurdish lands. beyond that, hard to say. i think you always have to ask the question, and then what when you've used military force? because it appears that nobody is prepared to go into ninewa, into the center of ninewa and push the isil out of that province or out of anbar. so we have a serious regional problem, which goes well beyond the issue of governance in baghdad. to be sure, the u.s. has tried to make clear that we would li

ambassador to iraq christopher hill now. he is the author of the upcoming book: "outpost." ambassador hill with us live. for our viewers, these governments don't form immediately, obviously. the newly -- well, the prime minister designate comes in and begins to form a government and at some point transition will happen, previously in an orderly fashion. if is not orderly, if al-maliki thinks he is the save your -- saviour of iraq, decides he doesn't want to go, what happens and what affect might that have big picture? >> well, obviously they're trying to manage him in he's hours and days. i don't think he has a lot of support at this point, and i think there's a view among many people that three terms would have been one term too many. at the same time, mr. adaddy is from al-maliki's own coalition so maliki has hard case to make this is a coup d'etat and they're giving people the prime ministership who shouldn't have it. i think it's a matter of kind of calming things down in the next couple of days. the big question, the big thing to be looking at in the next few days, wha

. >>> i would like to bring in former ambassador to iraq christopher hill. good to see you. welcome. let's talk about defense secretary chuck hagel who said the new marines are in iraq for assessing only. let's listen to what he told marines last night at camp pendleton. >> as the president made very clear, we're not going back into iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in iraq. >> now the kurdish government and local fighters say they need drones and other advanced weapons. are you worried at all about mission creep here? >> well, i think there will be some mission creep, but i'm not worried about it. i think it's probably the right thing to do. first of all, it is very clear that air dropping water is not a long-term solution. so i think part of the mission will be to assess what can be done to get the people off the mountain and into safety. so that's issue number one. but i think, also within the plan to somehow help the peshmerga providing weapons, and, by the way, continuing air strikes in support of their operations is also very much u

political calculus well to discuss that i'm now joined by christopher hill a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the current dean of the joseph her both full of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show my pleasure now the ukrainian crisis if i could start with that was about security both for russia and the west and i think both sides want very far in defending their security interests and yet somehow despite the continuing blotches in ukraine you know the events in the arc really seem to preserve the security of dangerous security challenge of a totally different magnitude i wonder if he can be a sort of reality check for some of the decision makers in washington as far as what the real danger really is ok well let me first say that i think the ukrainian crisis is still with us and i think it's and everyone interests that ukraine emerge from this crisis with its sovereignty intact with its territorial integrity intact so my hope is that there's an understanding that it's necessary to work with the new ukra

of isis in iraq change washington's political calculus well to discuss that i'm now joined by christopher hill a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the current dean of the joseph korbel school of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show right now the ukrainian crisis if i could start with that was about security both for russia and the west and i think both sides want very far in defending the security interests and yet somehow despite the continued blotches in ukraine you know the events in the arc really seem to preserve a security danger a security challenge of a totally different.

isis in iraq change washington's view political calculus well to discuss that i'm now joined by christopher hill a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and the current dean of the joseph horrible school of international studies at the university of denver ambassador hill thank you very much for being on the show my pleasure now the ukrainian crisis if i could start with that was about security both for russia and the west.

christopher hill dean of international studies. ambassador hill are you surprised that islamic fighters have made such progress against kurdish in iraq? >> i am surprised. peshmerga is highly trained and motivated so it's unclear at this point whether there were kind of strategic retreats on the part of kurdish forces or whether they were somehow defeated but clearly we have a very dangerous situation, it is highly appropriate that our president and his team are huddled together to look at options. options are always tough in the middle of these things but clearly something needs to be done. >> you heard lisa stark reporting that the white house declared the humanitarian situation is barbaric, maybe the wrong way to describe it because there are reports of nearly 1500 ethnic minorities were executed yesterday alone. i wonder if you can talk a little bit to sort of the religious tensions, the religious component of this in terms of the islamic state or their age are or attacks possibly on these minority groups. >> well the islamic s

and christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to iraq. i want to start with you, general ham. you know mosul, erbil so well, i spent a lot of time there with you over the years, as you look at these small strikes on artillery, mortar positions, can they really have a long-term effect on isis? >> martha, i think the initial strikes are already having some effect. a few strikes by the united states, many more by the iraqi air force which is encouraging, it appears to have at least given pause to the islamic extremists as they seek to advance toward erbil and other cities, bubut much more effort will be required to achieve a positive outcome longer term. >> is there a danger of mission creep here? >> i don't think so. the president has very clearly stated no combat forces. it remains to be seen how much support the united states is ready to provide in my view, first to the kurdish regional government in iraq and their armed forces, the peshmerga. but longer term, to help hopefully, a new iraq government rebuild the iraqi military. >> you heard what the president said what his goa

ambassador to iraq, christopher hill, will join us next. shingles affected me tremendously as a pilot. the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space to move to change radio frequencies. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. as a pilot that meant i was grounded. lou: a court victory in 7 for answers in "fast and furious" gunrunning scandal, a federal judge ruleed that justice department must turnover documents related to the "fast and furious" scandal, by the first of october. chairman of house oversight committee, said those documents quote, will bring us closer to finding out why the justice deputy hid behind false denials in wake of reckless conduct that contributeed to violent death of border prae patrol agent brian y and countless mexican citizens. >> in iraq, the obama administration ramping up airstrikes, and weighing additional troops following the beaheading of american journalis

. >>> christopher hill talked about the kind of threat these fighters have posed to the entire region. >> what we have seen is i.s.i.s. continues to confound the experts in that it has proved to be a very effective fighting force and even signs that it was able to push back the peshmerga for a few days. that seems to be changing and u.s. air rates are decisive but the peshmerga is a highly dmind welhighlydisciplined force, andy get more weapons, there will be a difference. whether these sunni arabs are able to push out this i.s.i.s. extreme sunni organization. i think in the long run what you have to see long run, few weeks, months, we need to see the reconstituted iraqi army, an army that's well led and loyal to the government. i think when that happens, they will be able to push the i.s.i.s. out of places that they've occupied in fallujah. you know these are a very sort of -- there are not a lot of people out there in these fights. i mean i.s.i.s. has several thousand soldiers to be sure. but you can see very quick reversals in these situation. we are not talking about million-man a

ambassador to iraq, christopher hill now the dean of joseph korbel center. thank you for your time ambassador. >>> says afghanistan is not holding u.s. forces responsible for possible war crimes. jennifer glasse has the story from exab kabul. >> mohamed sabir has only pictures. they killed his wife, sister, niece and two brothers. >> we want justice, we demand a trial. they should be given death penalty. they should explain to us why they killed innocent people. do they think afghanistan aren't humans? >> reporter: one ever over whoon100afghans. >> structurally, demander driven, there are too foo incentives in fact there are disincentives for proper investigation and follow-up with prosecution where it's warranted. >> reporter: amnesty says it knows much only six cases where soldiers have been tried. 16 afghan civilians murdered by u.s. soldier robert beales. he's now serving life in a u.s. prison. they take allegations of casualties seriously and investigate them fully but they couldn't say immediately how many investigations have taken place and cite their

ambassador to iraq christopher hill and reuters investigative reporter david rhote. ambassador hill, what do you think is within the reasonable realm of the possible for the u.s. on this mission? >> well, certainly i think the humanitarian mission will certainly help. unclear how much it can help, but it will help those people that are currently trapped up there. secondly, i think they can, with this threat of air strikes, dissuade any isil formation from attacking kurdish lands in erbil. the kurds are lightly armed but well trained and a well disciplined force known as the peshmerga. so air strikes could in fact deter isil from attacking kurdish lands. beyond that, hard to say. i think you always have to ask the question, and then what when you've used military force? it appears nobody is prepared to go into ninawa and push the isil out of that province or out of anbar. so we have a serious regional problem, which goes well beyond the issue of governance in baghdad. to be sure, the u.s. has tried to make clear that we would like to hear about a new government and a p

ambassador christopher hill, a pleasure having you with us. thanks. coming up israeli air strikes intensifies. and w.h.o. designates ebola an international health emergency. >> tonight. gaza, experience what it's like on the ground, first hand, as our crew gets caught in the chaos. the reality of war. shujayea: massacre at dawn. tonight, 10:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> rockets and missiles are flying between israel and gaza again. five palestinians were reportedly killed including a ten-year-old boy and several israelis were injured. attempts by negotiators to salvage peace continued in cairo with little help for a break through. israeli delegation left egypt after rejecting palestinian proposals calling for a lifting of the israeli blockade on gaza. >> they broke the promise of the talk and there will not be negotiations under fire. >> for the latest we're joined in jerusalem by al jazeera correspondent jane ferguson. good to see you again. is there hope for a break through now with the palestinians staying in cairo and the israelis lea

ambassador christopher hill, a pleasure having you with us. thanks. coming up israeli air strikes intensifies. and w.h.o. designates ebola an international health emergency. >> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. ah, got it. these wifi hotspots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? what do you think a wifi hotspot smells like? i'm thinking roast beef. want to get lunch? get the fastest wifi hotspots and more coverage on the go than any other provider. xfinity, the future of awesome. >> rockets and missiles are flying between israel and gaza again. five palestinians were reportedly killed including a ten-year-old boy and several israelis were injured. attempts by negotiators to salvage peace continued in cairo with little help for a

. >> the former ambassador to iraq, christopher hill talked about the kind of threat these fighters formedthe entire region. >> what we have found is that i.s.i.s. continues the confound the experts in that it's proven to be a very effective fighting force and even there are signs it was able to push back the peshmerga a few days. that seems to be changing, u.s. air forces have been decisive in that regard but peshmerga are very well trained highly disciplined and well led force and i think as they begin to get more weapons and that appears to be happening you'll see some reverse always in the -- reversals in the north. whether sunni arabs are willing to push out this i.s.i.s. extreme organization. i think in the long run what you have to say long run few weeks months we need to see the reconstituted iraqi army, an army that's well led and loyal to the government. i think when that happens, they will be able to push the i.s.i.s. out of places that they've occupied in fallujah. you know these are very sort of -- there are not allot of people out there in these fights. i mean, i.s.i.s. has s

. >> former ambassador christopher hill, general barbaro, thank you so much. >>> you're looking at pictures now. from our affiliate ktvi and kplr in ferguson, missouri. and there have been some protest there's. police firing tear gases at some of the protesters who got a little bit violent there we're trying to figure out exactly what is going on. our reporters and producers are on the scene. and also, we want to tell you tonight that there is a new eyewitness that has come forward to the shooting death of this teenager by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. there she is. she will join us for a live exclusive right here on cnn. coming up. well, we grow a lot o. we also waste about a third of what we grow. so, we put our scientists to work. and they found ways to keep the food we grow fresher, longer. using innovative packaging. there are still a lot of hungry people in the world. but we have a lot of scientists. this is the human element at work. dow. this is charlie. his long day of doing it himself starts with back pain... and a choice. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all da

ambassador to creak, christopher hill and cnn military anne lift major general spider marks. thanks for joining us. start with ivan. i want to get reaction there from the ground. what are iraqis saying about this round of u.s. air strikes? >> reporter: i think the kurds are very much relieved, victor. some of those air strikes were hitting just about 20 minutes drive west of erbil, the capital of the kurdistan region where i'm standing just past the kurdish-held town which gives a sense of how close the isis militants had gotten to the kurdish safe haven, not only a place hundreds of thousands of iraqis have fled to within the last three days, also home to some 1 million-plus kurds who would presumably also join a mass exodus of people fleeing if isis was able to reach this place. so senior kurdish officials very grateful that the u.s. has stepped in. take a listen. >> that's why we are most grateful and express our gratitude and deep, deep appreciation. for president obama and the u.s. administration, and for the courageous u.s. army and airmen who are now patrolling the ski

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special adviser to the national security staff and a senior adviser to ambassadors ryon crocker, christopher hill and james jeffrey in baghdad. he also served as a lead negotiator and coordinator during bilateral talks with the iraqi government in 2008. since july 2013, elissa slotkin has been performing the duties of the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy. previously limiss slotkin worke at the state department and served on the national security council staff as director of iraq. without objection the witnesses' full prepared statement will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit statements or questions or any extraneous materials that they wish to put into the record, and, mr. mcgurk, if you would please summarize your remarks, we'll have you testify first. >> thank you. good morning. chairman, royce, members of this committee, i want to thank you for inviting me to discuss the situation in iraq with a focusen the u.s. response since the islamic state of iraq or isis attacked mosul. let me review why this matters. isis is al qaeda. it may

christopher and robert belajonas. >> "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry joins us at that scene in drexel hill and she has been all morning long, syma, what is the latest. >> reporter: police identified this man as keith belajonas. they say he is armed and dangerous. they believe he killed his wife and took off with their two young children. as you can see investigators are ready to go inside the apartment. they say woman was found fatalry shot and two boys were taken by the husband. again he has been identified as keith belajonas and he is armed, dangerous possibly with two semiautomatic weapons. police say after the shooting he drove off with the two young boys named christopher and robert belajonas but cannot confirm if he is their biological father. shooting happened around 200 block of abby terrace 2:30 this morning. police found woman in her 30's shot once in the head and may have been stabbed as well. neighbors told police they heard a scuffle before seeing belajonas leave the the apartment with the two boys age four and six. police say man is from new york and may be heading there right now with the ch

hill where we have just learn that the children's name, syma. >> reporter: that is right police have given the children's name christopher and robert belajonas buty do not know just yet if keith belajonas is the biological father. their mother was found fatally shot in the second floor apartment. right now they are looking for the man keith belajonas. they say he is armed, dangerous, possibly with two semiautomatic weapons. again they are looking for a man named keith belajonas. they say he drove off with two young boys after the shooting, this happened on the 200 block of abby terrace around 2:30 this morning. police found woman in her 30's in the second floor apartment and she was shot once in the head, she may have been stabbed as well. neighbors told police they heard a scuffle before seeing belajonas leave with the two boys age four and six. police say belajonas is from new york and he may head there right now with the children. i talk to one neighbor off camera and they say that they believe the family has been here for less than a year. this is what superintendent l

hill with the latest details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the children have been identified as robert and christopher belajonsapolice are looking to get a picture of the children as they search for the man and two children. police have suited up, they have entered the home on abbey terrace, as they begin to look at the crime scene. police have released a picture of the man, keith belajonas, 6 feet tall, got into a gray path finder with a pennsylvania license plate, jdh-7477. the body of a woman in her 30s was stabbed and shot in the head. a neighbor saw the husband come down the stairs with the kids ages 4 and 6, police say one of the children asked is mommy dead. he loaded them into the gray paght finder and took -- path finder and took off. >> i hope he took the children somewhere where them be safe. they are innocent of everything. they happen to be there when this tragedy happened, but, again, the thing that bothers me he has a gun, at least one gun, probably two. >> reporter: and once again, the vehicle police are looking for, the one they have issued in the amber alert is a gray nissan path finder with t

hill. >> dear god. >> come on. >> please hurry. >> back up, back up, back up. >> just when things looked grim, fellow officer christopher hunt arrives and immediately helps phillips lift seamans. >> i was able to start doing chest compressions on him right away. >> phillips knows the odds of him surviving are slim. 92% of those who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital don't make it. seamans has now been in full arrest for close to four minutes. >> stay with me, dear god. >> he wasn't responding, wasn't breathing, didn't look at me, nothing. he was just laying there. >> if we didn't get things going quickly, he was losing brain function every second that we waited. >> dear god, jeff, stay with me. >> officer michael frybarger arrives next carrying an automated electronic defibrillator, a device used to start the heart. >> a heart doesn't actually stop, it's in fibrillation. it's quivering, not actually pumping anything out. what the ad does is stops the heart completely. someone needs to be there to administer the chest compressions to get it going in a proper rhythm again. frybarger attaches two pads to seamans chest.

christopher and robert. police believe that bellajonas is armed and dangerous and they think he might be headed to long island. they are looking for him after his wife was found dead inside of this drexel hill apartment here on the 200 block of abby terrace, in drexel hill. again, police looking for 31 year old keith bellajonas, he left here, with two children, sometime around the 2:30 this morning, police say, they think he's traveling in a dark gray 2006 nissan pathfinder, with pennsylvania plates, jdh- 7477. and again, he is wanted, in connection with thinks wife's death. she suffered gunshot wound to the head, and might have stab wounds. police describe this as violent altercation that they got into prior to her death. >> police heard neighbors heard, and looking for keith bellajonas, amber alert has been issued. they believe this man is traveling in a dark gray nissan path finder pennsylvania plates jdh-7477. obviously still very active scene. police are trying in the process of getting a search warrant to go inside the home and begin searching for evidence. but they do believe he is armed, with at least one gun, and they are on the hunt for him right now. kerrey, chris? >> let's hope

hills city council condemned the government of brunei. at the time the dorchester collection tried to distance the hotels from their controversial owner. we spoke with c.e.o. christophertion have an opinion of the laws implemented in brunei? >> no. i don't have any opinion whatsoever. >> reporter: you don't think they are wrong? >> i'm not prepared to comment on that. >> reporter: the sultan is reportedly offering $2 billion for the plaza as well as the dream hotel in manhattan and another in london. the seller is an indian business tycoon serving time in jail for not paying investors. he need it is money to pay off debts and set up an office thds his cell to negotiate with top bidders. they say the office is 600 square feet. i don't think he's in a maximum security prison. >> what's the likelihood that will happen? >> the sultan has a lot of money. this guy is in desperate need of some. it could ha >>> a family went alligator hunting for the first time. what they found broke a scale. look at that. and a record. that story is next on "cbs this morning." wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters shopping online is as easy as it gets. and even piano tuners wer