andy moore has this report. >> reporter: he was a journalist drawn to war reporting.viously in libya, he was captured and held by militants for more than 40 days. >> then i was hit several times with an ak-47, punched and dragged into a vehicle with my hands tied behind my back. >> reporter: on a facebook site campaigning for his freedom, james foley's mother seemed to accept that her son was dead. she urged her kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages. the militants say they're taking revenge for recent american air strikes on islamic fighters in iraq. it is one of the few ways they can hit back. in a video too graphic to be shown, a man with a british accent is seen executing foley who went missing in syria two years ago. the executioner goes on to threaten that unless president obama stops attacking the islamic state, the life of another american hostage is at risk. the u.s. first authorized air strikes against the jihadi fighters earlier this month to protect refugees and stop the advance on kurdish areas. since then, they have been instrumental in

we have the report from the bbc andy moore. very sadly we can't bring you that report right now. spoke to bbc in the kurdish capital and she gave me this update. >> reporter: extraordinary 24 hours. the situation remains fluid. the u.s. said they were considering military operations to rescue refugees stuck on mount sinjar. they sent a small team of 20 special forces that said the situation is not as desperate and dire as originally feared. there are just a few up there, not tens of thousands originally suspected. many of the refugees from the community are believed to have escaped the mountain in the dead of night. for the time being, united states said they're not condu conducting military which would have been risky any way. that doesn't take away from the major humanitarian crisis. u.n. raised the level to category 3 emergency, the highest level. 400,000 refugees have come to irbil in the region of kurdis n kurdistan. >>> now, in a deal that came down to the wire, israel and hamas have agreed to extend their ceasefire by five days. the news of an agreement was coming to. so t

moore with his teeth than the holy spirit. [laughter] then the difficult but successful sun andy grove. [laughter] then there is all sorts of passion and teeeighteen relationship with bob is really complicated i am not sure i understand it now i gave him the very last words in the book of what to his office and talk to him i will not give you the last sentence you can read it but what andy said about his history with the other two founders it knocked me out of my chair because it is just the opposite of what i thought. to suggest even he does not fully anderson and his relationships so i had to call it a trinity. >> the history of theology and paranoia and actually it does not stop with intel if you look at of past the life of steve jobs it borders on a following. not just respect but following. >> it is interesting a series of key figures and then packard is the first world historic figure to come out he is a leader through the '60s. then robert noyce acts as a father figure but steve grew up right over here about 12 blocks that way. and he was a lost kid. he could not find a mentor wo