and that happened. >> matthew van dyke.lier the bbc gave me this update on the killing of james foley from the iraq city of erbil. >> this video shows, this is the first westerner being beheaded by this group. it shows why many people in this region are afraid of them. in the past few months, many people, many, many yazidis, many shia, many tribesmen who oppose them have been beheaded and k l killed in a very brutal fashion. that's why many people are actually afraid of them. obviously this is the first time they are killing a westerner and reaction to american air strikes, american help for the kurdish security forces, peshmerga and yesterday the -- one of the most important, in the control of isis militants fall to the hand of the kurdish security forces and, of course, it would be impossible without the american air strikes. and obviously the video clearly warning american if they continue help and they might execute more people and they will -- they piraaraded another american journalist in front of camera and said his

. >> reporter: matthew van dyke cheering the rescue attempt, but mourning the execution of the man he calls his best friend, photo journalist james foley. >> it's been a tough day. >> reporter: the murder has failed to stop the us from continuing air strikes. van dyke fears rebels will kill another journalist, steven. >> it doesn't look like a good situation. >> reporter: the president angrily condemned the killers. >> no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. no just god would stand for what they did yesterday and every single day. >> reporter: foley's parents focused on their son's life. >> he was an inspiration to us and for so many others. so we miss his courage and his love his determination his laugh, his smile we must take consolation in the fact that he died doing what he believed in. >> reporter: van dyke met foley in libya where van dyke who grew up in baltimore, was a fighter and captive of moammar kadafi. his rampage across syria and iraq is the west's failure to act sooner. >> before isis even showed up in syria, modern opposition had been supported in syria. there w

matthew van dyke is a documentary film maker says his two best friends were jim foley, and the other st, steven sotloff. matthew, thank you. i'm so sorry. >> thank you. >> first of all, it just sounds like there couldn't have been a better guy to be out gathering information to give people the kind of things they need to make decisions about what is going on in the world. >> right james was a true professional with a passion for what he did. i never heard anyone say one bad thing about james foley. he was really -- >> the work he did was important, there are not many journalists left in syria. we don't know what is going on there because either corporations have pulled them out, or people who do it on their own have been run out. >> right. and he was still willing to take the risk. even in libya, when detained he went back to libya to continue reporting on that war. then went to syria. he took smart risks, and calculated risks but had courage to do what he believed in and get stories told >> steven sotloff is the man at the end of the video militants say could be next. tell us what yo

as we remember jim, we bring in a close friend of him, matthew van dyke. >> he's an award winning films seen of foley. some of the last moments captured on video. thanks for being with us. i'm sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> as we take a look back, tell us what you loved about james. >> he's one of the best people i've known. he was honest. he was hard work. he had a real passion for what he did. even after in libya when he was captured, he went right back to reporting the same conflict. then onto syria. i don't know anybody who ever said a bad thing about jim. he was loved by his colleagues and his friends. >> talk about how things changed once isis came into the picture, once we started hearing, we only became really familiar with it publicly really over the last few months. it's become a household name in this country. but what happened in that region when isis started to pour in? >> the whole revolution changed. isis arrived on the scene in spring 2013. and syria became a black hole for foreigners. journalists would go in and disappear, including numerous friends of mine, inc