though only ruins remain nimrod was one of the greatest cities of a syria -- assyria. islamic state militants are destroying what is left. the news is creating outrage in baghdad. >> antiquities are not just for a rec's. they are for the whole world. look how people from all over value egypt's archaeological sites and visit them. isis is destroying our heritage. the destruction of artifact is just one of many crimes committed by i.s. they started with the killing of the iraqi people. now, they are destroying ancient ruins. before that, they destroyed mosques and other archaeological sites. >> islam at state is evidently trying to wipe out traces of iraq's pre-islamic past. the world now waits to see the extent of the losses and nimrod. >> to israel now where five people have been injured in an attack at a tram stop in jerusalem. a palestinian man drove a car into a group of people. >> for israeli border police officers were among those injured. israeli police say the car driver tried to stop bystanders before being shot and injured by a security guard. that was a serie

it describes how the pilot was sited in the strong hold of assyria being paraded through the streetsn the cage. there was another piece of twitter traffic toward the end of january that showed the japanese hostages are already dead and the video is on the way to production. these are clues in fact the hostages were dead and isis was not negotiating in good faith. >> they were not intended to. it was bogus from the get go. >> obviously they wanted it to come out at a specific time. that is what they did released it when they were ready to do so. ifr i think there has been blow back from jordan certainly in what we have seen the last few days. i am not sure there's blow back in the rest of the world. the universe are 120 different languages they do sub titles, chyrons. are people in abu saeff between philippines motivated to go off and try something on their own. not that they are going to coordinate it but inspiring people to go out and commit these are the kinds of actions if you are on the winning side you can do these kinds of things and the infidels and her ticks can't stop it. >>

>> the request from syria is to defeat that isil threatened a work assyria policies lie will refrain.> is a that incongruity? id and node with the syrian fighters are but today they fight isis' then they fight assad then retrain them to send the weapons? that ukrainian people ever said there were fights united states or kill us? have the ever said anything like that? direct certainly we will register your strong position on this issue but i will say 180 million but i hear your. >> at the end of my time we your sending defensive weapons will escalate the problem. not sending them will escalate because there will be no more ukraine. i yield back. [applause] smith know we go to the lady from florida. >> the ridges like to ask anyone to the ukraine last year, thank you for your testimony. to want to say i feel anxiety when i hear my colleagues with their unflattering remarks. i have three questions when we were in ukraine reheard time and time again have a correction of the ukrainian government would undermine the government to create an environment that they thank you alluded to of rushe

let me explain the campaign in iraq and assyria. at this point, we have a main effort in a supporting effort. our main effort is in iraq, because we have a credible -- to degrade and defeat isil inside iraq. we do not have that in syria yet. we are taking steps to build that partner. we are attacking isil where he can. we are disrupting their activities, so they cannot help each other. isil, before this effort, could transit freely. they are isolated, while we conduct our main effort in iraq. to the other question, whether the legal authority exists, the answer to that is no. the administration has not added a syrian regime. what support we would supply. militarily, there is a very pragmatic reason. let me not speak to that, but rather >> if i could congress has approved a significant amount of money to train and equip against isis. we know assad will bomb them, or lease their members. the president has sent us an amf that doesn't allow us to protect them what they will be facing down the road. with the previous steps to train and e