he is christian and an assyrian, a proud ethnic group that trieses its heritage to ancient babylon, as estaifan shilatia reminds his passengers. >> we were the first to believe in jesus. we speakera may abbing. >> estaifan shilatia had to keep his christianity cit. in his taxi he displace it. >> you have a cross in your car. >> all the time. i'm christian. >> the pride and fear ta his faith would end his boxing career led him to leave his trophies behind, back a suitcase and flee. first to jordan, and then to greece. he was thinking about going to australia but a young woman caught his eye and life took an abrupt term. >> she said my family is in america, and i go to schick , and we were going to stay in chicago. >> i told her "do you want me to change my plans? ". >> she said "if you love me, come with me." i checked my plan from love to go to chicago. >> young love brought you here. >> right, right. i swear to god, she hit me in my heart. life. >> in 1979 the young lovers came to chicago. the city of big shoulders, lake shore drive and wrigley field, so far removed from the desert la

many of them cast early ballots yesterday at the assyrian national council in skokie... one of nie polling places across america. at stake are 328 seats in iraq's parliament, the body that will choose the country's president and prime minister. old st. pat's church is celebrating the 30-th anniversary of the world's largest block party! to commemorate this years celebration, they'll hold a 'battle of the bands' competition. 9 chicago area bands will compete to perform opening each night of the festival. only two bands will be chosen. starting at 10-am you can log online to vote for which band you'd like to see perform at the block party. the block party will be the weekend of june 27-th in the west loop. sundresses and beer. everything you want. >> mild temperatures. every day this week be prepared for rain. periods of rain off and on this entire week. we're not really expecting any completely dry days. 41 degrees right now in waukegan. 48 at the lakefront. further to the west we have readings at 44. down to aurora its 48. geneva is in the upper 40's. our radar shows rai

samaritans to try some ancestry to the north and east of the kingdom which was destroyed by the assyrians in seventeen twenty piece states and many similarities in the fight that judaism hundreds of members of the unique units he got that just because some muslims some type of special mountain top ranked last week the samaritans have the right to the first time and of cos i thought that this whole thing although she was a sacrifice offered to call for the holiday. samaritans have that one person off the tour up and partied on a similar two to which one was inclined to dance and in the south especially off the six inch ee pc babylonian who thought that it from the rich who fights. as you the controversial program that allowed the newark police department it right down the everyday lives of muslims living in the city has been dismantled near me or things don't go classy and his stated commitment to a critical step forward to ease tensions between the truth and the communities they serve. like his predecessor michael bloomberg was a staunch defender of the nation's largest intelligence gathe

bolton's marriage is subjected to physical and psychological sometimes sexual abuse minions assyrians is seeking refuge in camps in neighboring states that pierce the heart to hear about in our reports becoming more widespread the cats got a family travel to jordan to refugee camp that to me that some of these women and goals or risk capital suspect's guilt as haitians trying to help them out. is it. once the tide has fallen over on my name somewhere on the streets of the jordanian capital. as you read refugees into the stands from afar she seems to be selling vegetables but one of our contacts tells us that this is the front. in reality she is overtly engaging in a very different type of tree we fill our conversation with the camera. she implies that she can provide services which involves some of her female compatriots. she offers. secondly there are no case that smoking is good tv show that's fine. as planned we see her again the next day after we tell her that we are journalists. she agrees to go into detail about the true nature of her business. only that the sweet sixteen. she c

. >> if assyrian is winning the war -- if assad is winning the war, he's winning in one part of strong. >> there's large sections that i don't think asaad can recapture. the conflict will continue. if he solidifies his control over parts he retains and takes back border areas, this conflict will continue for a long time, because of the gross human rights violet eightses, the borderline genocide activity. there'll be a part during the world down while the bashar al-assad regime stays in power. it's not going away soon despite the rhetoric we here. >> we are not talking about genocide, we are talking about thousands dead and missing. 2 million refugees, and a gas attack last weeks. u.s. ambassador to the up, samantha power said the u.s. is trying to figure out what happened, let's listen to that. >> the president made clear how alarming he finds chemical weapons used, how outrageous he found it, that's why he put the force of military on the table, and destroyed and moved half of the chemical weapons. certainly the point of what we have done is prevent use, not just removing for removing

prince william and kate are expected to visit brisbane adelaide canberra and the iconic symbol of the assyrian go back lor. also known as ayers rock before meeting the twenty fifth of april and competing for second rate compared to wear chelsea clinton has announced that she is pregnant with because grandchild of former president bill clinton inform us that just makes me tense and chelsea age thirty four conceive a child with the jewish investment banker husband mom kaczynski age thirty six to do with the mother in side by side on each asana stages new york city event on empowering women tend to live in the news of the world smile mark and i am very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year. and . and i certainly beyond. all that bad or whether it's a girl or boy. and that she or he will grow up in a world full of so many strong young female beaters to take you for inspiring me and thank you for inspiring future your nations including the one that will be lucky enough to welcome into our family this year. whether it's unclear how news of the first clinton grandchild would a

and we are helping to support and this includes assyrian oppositional council. i'm sure that this firsthand in haiti come after the earthquake is a difficult situation all the time and they have worked hard to make sure that we are not duplicating that are coordinating our league. and is that going on an official basis? >> and we will be launching this and that would be a vehicle for doing that. do they have any programs currently going on in russia. >> so no come out we don't currently run the programs in russia. our partners in the state department continue including a broad range of civil think by the in that context and i can't speak to the details about that. that usaid is not currently present their. >> all right, thank you, mr. chairman. >> a gentleman your back. and within pakistan i tend to focus on the province as it is. and we have historically marginalized these areas impact of van and usaid has been a number of projects in the same province and i want to thank you for that effort and i want to push for more. >> i hope that -- well, please provide fo