where a cabinet member said his government is open to talking with the radical group boko haram. that. as u-s military surveillance planes join the search for the kidnapped school girls. the outside help. is highlighting nigeria's failures to deal with the crisis on its own. rawya rageh has more. they're not only the face of the latest attack by the radical group boko haram. but the missing girls of nigeria have also become the latest symptom of the country's political paralysis. the current deadlock is between president goodluck jonathan, a southerner, and the northern political elite. it involves his governing peoples democratic party squaring off against the all progressives congress. >> the federal government has failed in providing security and equipping the military to contain boko haram and in applying resources appropriately across the states of the federation. but the states themselves are equally culpable, so it is not squarely in the terrain of the pdp, but cuts across both the ruling party and the opposition. >> the north is where most of boko haram's attacks take place. it is bad

boko haram. the state department designated boko haram as a terrorist organization in november of last year. they are responsible for government and civilian targets over the last several years. one attack killed 160 innocent civilians s is in september 20. boko haram's name translates literally to western education is a sin. the group opposes education of women under its version of sharia law. cnn's isha asay is in nigeria. just get me up to speed on what is happening today and what the government is doing about this. >> hi there, ashleigh. that is the question that we are on the ground trying to get clear answers on. what is the nigerian government doing to find these 200-plus girls that were snatched from their bed almost three weeks ago now in the middle of the night from their school there in northeastern nigeria. actually, an important point we need to make clear to our viewers, the school, that town, was under a state of emergency, so there was a mobilization of large numbers of nigerian military in that area. and yet boko haram for all intents and purposes were able to move into that school and take those girls and they have not been seen since. it is a great disappointment on the part of many the nigerian gov

in the air sources in nigh year ya's joint task force are telling abc they believe boko haram is hiding some of the girl s in caves in the northeastern part of the country. at a summit in paris to discuss the islamist group, algeria's president warn odd a growing threat. >> al qaeda in south africa. it is no longer the boko haram that came with the sentiment that with education is prohibited. >> reporter: summit leerds have agreed to work together to liberate the girls. >> i think it's become our girls, not just nigeria's girls but the world's girls. >> the families are angry. the slow military response to free their daughters. they no longer believe nigeria's military alone can bring the girls home. it is clear the u.s. and western allies don't trust the nigerians to do this prop erly and there's suspicion about what the u.s. is doing here. all of that must be overcome before these girls can be found and brought home. abc news, nigeria. >>> three months worth of rain have fallen on bosnia and serbia in three days setting off the worst flooding since records began 125 years ago. 25 people died and thousan

mideast analyst says boko haram has a credibility problem, and so does the nigerian government. >> the biggest issue is credibility. boko haram in the mid 1990's started as a group to preyed on the grievances of northern nigerians. they tried to fill a gap where the government was not seen as credible or worthy. obviously, the nigerian government did not manage to step up and fill that void. >> in the past, one problem has been nigeria's reluctance to ask for outside assistance but that appears to be changing, asking for international aid including help from the u.s. to find the girls and to stop boko haram's violent attacks. aljazeera. >> year joined in studio but the deputy director of the african division of human rights watch. we were talking this kidnapping taking place april 14. what does it say about the nigerian government that they waited close to a month before asking for any international help in finding boko haram and these kids. >> you are seeing protests because the government is answer to go allegations that the as i had napping of the girls was almost forgotten until people started mobilizing saying they wanted the girls back,

school girls were cade napped. 32 were killed wednesday morning, dozens of boko haram fighters stormed through the three towns in a.t.v.'s and motorcycles. >> the head of homeland security faced tough questions today. according to a document racily published, the government released 36,000 undocumented immigrants from prison last year, all convicted criminals critics in congress say it endangers public safety. >> america tonight with joie chen is up next. you can get the latest news on line at aljazeera.com. >> players take the field. >> where's your pain? >> right here. right here. right here.

we want to concentrate on the current crisis, particularly on the boko haram terrorist activities, we shouldn't also forget the issue s of the upcoming elections. i would like to close with a personal story. three years ago i was at a wedding. boko haram. soon as i arrived, i heard multiple explosions, serving as a painful reminder of the violence affecting the residents. you could not move freely even with the current celebrations was made because of the lack of security. it is warm to my heart to see how resilient my family were as well as friends and neighbors. despite the terror, women still went to the market and children went to school. i strengthen my commitment as a peace builder to ensure all nigerians, christians and muslims can walk together and live free of fear. i tell you this story to remind you that my experience is not unique. millions of other people throughout north eastern nigeria are affected by this violence. i hope my testimony today represents them all. i also want to thank the senate for this opportunity to speak and showing interest and support to overcome these challenges. in particular, i a

we want to concentrate on the current crisis, particularly on the boko haram terrorist activities, we shouldn't also forget the issue s of the upcoming elections. i would like to close with a personal story. three years ago i was at a wedding. boko haram. soon as i arrived, i heard multiple explosions, serving as a painful reminder of the violence affecting the residents. you could not move freely even with the current celebrations was made because of the lack of security. it is warm to my heart to see how resilient my family were as well as friends and neighbors. despite the terror, women still went to the market and children went to school. i strengthen my commitment as a peace builder to ensure all nigerians, christians and muslims can walk together and live free of fear. i tell you this story to remind you that my experience is not unique. millions of other people throughout north eastern nigeria are affected by this violence. i hope my testimony today represents them all. i also want to thank the senate for this opportunity to speak and showing interest and support to overcome these challenges. in particular, i a

s is "the so does #diplomacy work? 300 girls were kidnapped by the muslim terror group boko haram. it caused outrage around the world.musl celebrities like ellen degeneres and p diddy have taken to twitter with a hash tag bring back our girls. those like michelle obama and others have tweeted out. >> i just think this is pathetic. i just amke stunned. we got 300 nigerian girls kidnapped by an al-qaeda group and nobody cared to talk about it for a while. hillary wouldn't call it a terror group of the all of a sudden, we're on a big push to get them back and this is how -- the sad thing is that the lows information crowd that's puddling around out there on twitter is going to think we'ret doing something about it. it is just unbelievable. bring back our girls. they're nigerian! >> rush goes on to say, are we this powerless that that's all we got is a hash tag? >> yeah. it is sad.ss a it's a hashtag, they're holding up a sign. i understand their hearts are in the right place, but i would like to have seen some leadership in a real significann way. results oriented. doesn't everyone wa

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s. >>> the nigerian military did have advanced warning of a boko haram attack that led to the abductor of hundreds of school. two politicians have told us from borno state, they were given 4 hours' warning but failed to act. the claim has been supported by amnesty international. from aguja, yvonne dega reports. >> could this have been avoidd sources have told al jazeera and amnesty international that nigeria's military ignored warnings that boko haram was about to attack this school. it left the islamic extremists free to kidnap more than 200 girls. just seventeen soldiers were on duty in the area where boko haram fighters turned up. >> out by the number of boko haram fighters and they had to flee for the their lives together with some other villagers who fled to the bush. and that is as shocking a revelation. we have been repeatedly calling on the nigerian authorities to provide add vequate security fo the people of nigeria an especially for schools because these schools have become vulnerable targets in the past couple of years. >> the nigerian government's slow response has led to p

s and around the country. >> why are we seeing this behavior from boko haram, does this play into their strategy. >> reporter: well, a lot of people including the government will tell you that boko haram, the criminal boko haram, the ideological boko haram, probably boko haram has infiltrated the government. there have been members of the government who accuse the opposition in different parts of the country. the opposition would come up and deny this. but now people are seeing more and more violence, probably boko haram, following the state of emergency a year ago, for some time boko haram was quiet. and then r resurgence of violene in the northeast and it has become beholden. where are they getting their weapons, and why are they attacking at will with little response from the authorities. >> indeed, a lot of questions to be answered. thank you very much. reports live from adamawa state in nigeria. thank you. >>> in balkans region record rain has caused widespread flooding let's go about fill lessty. >> reporter: millions have people have been effected. hundreds of thousand of already struggling families h

point if they work with other world powers to chase insurgent skp s and go after the girls, that can make significant progress against boko harammitted the government faces significant challenges so far in the war. it needs all the support it can get really to continue. >> okay. it's got some support now clearly from people who should know how to manage things. give us a sense of the territories they're having to step into. >> it's massive territory. north eastern nigeria involves three states. these areas are scrub forest area as where girls could be. so the nigerian military has been in this area. there's a state of emergency in this whole region. but so far this has not brought much even with the deployment of nigerian army there. they've had special operations there almost a year. so far that's not yielded but fruit. that's why foreign support will help with extra surveillance and gathering further intelligence they can use to find these girls. >> suppose that's the point a lot of people beyond nigeria will be wondering, what have they got in terms of extra resource that's the nigerian military with all its local knowledge

boko haram. the terror group claiming responsibility for this devastation. for one of the girl s lucky enough to escape her abductors, it's a message she's received loud and clear. >> never go again. >> reporter: you'll never go back to school? >> yes. >> reporter: because they made you afraid? >> yes. >> reporter: what did you want to be? >> doctor. >> reporter: you wanted to be a doctor? >> yes. >> reporter: now that seems far out of reach. daniel and his family fled into the bush the night of the attack. luckily altogether and all safe. but what he witnessed that night still has him shaken. this area has been under siege for years. >> fear is all other. fear is everywhere. presently what we are seeing that has happened to our girls here now, for those that escaped and for those that are yet to be taken to school, now there's a big question mark for every parent about what to do about the lives of our children. because no one can afford losing their daughter. >> reporter: but he's not giving up hope completely. he prays a day will come when his daughters will be free to pursue

boko haram in the long run. >> let's leave it there, live from abuja >>> the u.s.'s first lady michelle obama is holding her husband's weekly radio address. >> we can only imagine the anguish that their parents are feeling now. many may have been hesitant to send their daughters to school fearing harm might come their way. they took that risk because they believed in their daughter's promise and wanted to give them every opportunity to succeed. the girls, themselves, also new full well the dangers they might encounter. their school had recently been closed due to terrorist threats, but these girls still insisted on returning to take their exams. they were so determined to move to the next level of their education, so determined to one day build careers of their own and make families and communities proud. what happened in nigeria was not an isolated incident. it is a story we see every day as girls around the world risk their lives to pursue their ambitions. it's the story of girls like mallala youcef from pakistan. she spoke out for girl's edu caution in her communi

obviously not a very effective government but by us designating boko haram as a foreign terrorist organization, we could have taken measures sfashs fu so the state department to work with the nigerian government. also i think they said the nigerian government doesn't wasn't this designation made. we can't allow nigeria to determine our foreign policy. as lisa monica pointed out in the letter, she was holder's deputy attorney general, that this was a potential threat to the united states and a potential threat to american interests in africa. as far as boca hko haram, as fa giving them notoriety, they already had notoriety. they carried out massacres. they killed people. murdered i don't know how many people in a christian church on christmas day. they were carrying out massacres around africa. they were attacking u.n. inst l installati installations. so everyone who had to know in africa about boko haram knew about it. by us not designating a foreign terrorist organization, if anything, it was being perceived in african as a sign of weakness, rather than somehow a sign of diplomacy. >> i want you to stick around. other issues i want t

boko haram terrorist network released this video today. showing some of the girls. the group's leader says, the girls won't be set free. until nigeria releases fighters from his group who have been captured. the u-s has sent surveillance planes and satellite images. to help nigeria find the girls. the first lady famously joined the "bring back our girls" movement. with this image on twitter last week. kron 4's alecia reid shows us how silicon valley pushed the movement forward tonight. community can together at this vigil to show coming up: what is leading to dangerous antics like these on the approach to the golden gate bridge. more video of drivers behaving badly. " i'm not a racist and i've never been a racist." what *else clippers owner donald sterling had to say. in his first t-v interview since his scandal. but first: a teenager goes missing in sonoma county. what we know about this girl's disappearance. we need rig awa we cnot t thfansown. n't rry! the itedtatepost serce wi gett the onime with priory ma flatate ippi. our iori haslwaybeen sang t d. beuse r prrity. azin ..s yo e aming ideran 2 delivered thenite stat posl seice. look out this haul from contra costa county. a sheriff's deputy

>>'s president said his country will win a war on terrorists after another attack by boko haram rebelscused of killing 300 people in a town on the border with cameroon. >> accept are activities in eastern ukraine plan to go ahead with a wrench did you mean on independence from kiev despite russian president calling on them to postpone the vote set for may 11. >> dozens of syrian soldiers killed by rebels in aleppo. opposition fighters decimate add bomb in the hotel used as an army barracks by government forces. >> the african national congress has taken a lead in south african elections with 60% of the vote with half the ballots counted. we have more from pretoria. >> we are at the nerve center of the election center where all the collecting and counting is going on. the people sitting there are counting. the party is seen as helping to end apartheid. imagine you live in a country where you're treated badly for the color of your skin by the majority. you won't let your children forget that, and you'll stay with the party that helped end apartheid. across the border, many people support

. >> there were twin blast s leaving 118 people dead, and the attack bears the hallmarks of boko haram. how are the people on the ground dealing with this crisis? >> well, this attack sort of highlights the reign of terror that people in nigeria have been living under. the people of nigeria are trying to get the government to stop the flow of violence. we report on these attacks nearly every week. bombings, fire bombs of people's homes. school attacks, as you know, jake, this horrific attack where on april 18th, the boko haram kidnapped 276 girls and six weeks later we're still unable to find these girls which is why i think you see the united states starting to step in along with other countries. france, china, all part of an inter-agency operation and a regional plan to try to bring these girls home. >> stay safe, my friend. >>> coming up, the president promising accountability. the veteran's hospitals are being looked at. >>> he is against the killing of u.s. citizens overseas even if there are terrorists plotting to kill other americans. next, i'll ask senator rand paul why he is f

boko haram kidnapped over 270- girls from their school 37 days ago. they've not been seen since. u-s officials say they believe the militants moved the girls into smaller groups by now. a house committee will investigate the terrorist attack in benghazi, libya that killed four americans in 2012, just before the presidential election. now, illinois congresswoman tammy duckworth has been chosen as one of the five *democrats who will join seven republicans on that committee. republicans say the obama administration intentionally lied about the motive for the attack, to protect obama's re- election prospects. democrats say benghazi was a tragedy, but not a conspiracy. president obama is facing new criticism, after he declared a half million acres along america's mexican border a national monument. the president's signature provides wilderness protection for the "organ mountains" in southern new mexico. but local authorities warn that the area is a hotbed of crime, driven by the mexican drug cartels and human smugglers. and they say, president obama's declaration does not allow local law

>>'s government willing to negotiate with boko haram for the release of the kidnapped school girls. a video was posted offering to exchange the girls for prisoners. the government is being pressured for the way it has handled the situation. prime minister of britain is moving to ban boko haram in noise country. >> we are taking the steps for banning boko haram as a terrorist organization. in banning boko haram, australia will be acting with nigeria and our partners, the united states, the united kingdom, canada and new zealand. >> there is a growing international search for the girls. the united states has already labeled boko haram a terrorist organization. >> ukrainian's government has agreed to national unity talks today. ukraine's prime minister and national lawmakers are attending, but separatist rebels are not part of the talks. the craneian government said six soldiers were killed in the eastern part of the country, blaming armed separatists for attacks. the attack happened on the same day as the visit to kiev by germany's foreign minister. he is calling for a diplomatic solu

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at the white house, meantime.word that the u-s is doing what it can to help. the nigerian-based 'boko haram calls western education 'a sin".and tells girls to instead 'go out and get married.' >> catherine: adding to the controversy -- nigeria's first lady reportedly met with some of the protest leaders only to tell them to "keep quiet" -- saying they were bringing shame on the country. >> catherine: she's even accused of ordering two of the protest leaders to be arrested >> catherine: coming up at 5:15. have researchers at stanford. found the proverbial 'fountain of youth'? >> pam: the promising experiment that seemingly reversed aging. >> pam: then at 5:30. >> pam: the latest on clippers owner donald sterling's lifetime ban for racist comments. we'll take you inside one of his rental buildings. and talk to a tenant who sued >> pam: and next. are new 'healthy' guidelines for school lunches. doing more harm than good. >> jacqueline: we will take a look at[doorbell rings] hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywh

the u-s is now getting involved in the search for the hundreds of girls who were kidnapped in nigeria. the terror group boko haramre than 270 girls from their school about a month ago. at least eight more girls were taken over the weekend. the nigerian government has been getting criticized for its response. it's now accepting the u-s offer of military support, in the form of advisers.. not soldiers. one father says nigeria is not doing enough to find his daughter. >> these men went into the bush. >> >> you say they have been successful? >>in a video, the leader of boko haram says he is selling the girls into slavery because that's what god wants him to do. his group believes girls should not be educated. local nigerians are joining forces with the reverend jesse jackson, to call for an international response. >> we cannot allow the tragedy of these girls being kidnapped and sold. >> how can this happen? >>some local nigerians say they fear going back to their homeland because of terrorist groups like boko haram. reverend jackson says a destabilized nigeria threatens the entire continent because of its importance

the u-s is also examining this video of the victims, to see if anything gives a clue to their location. the militant group, boko haram, says the girls won't be released until its fighters are released from prison. the nigerian government is rejecting that offer. taking some heat for this picture that says bring back our country and set to bring back our girls which is the campaign for those kidnapped girls. someone has taken the picture and changed the signed sow is simply says i. salk. another one says ... a hot dog is a sandwich. >> pro-russian separatists in east ukraine have declared an independent state following the weekend referendum in which voters approved breaking from kiev. the leaders of the donyestk people's republic are asking russia to absorb the region, as it did the crimea in march. the government in kiev, the u-s and the european union all consider the referendum vote illegal. germany's foreign minister arrived in kiev in a fresh attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the ukraine crisis. former treasury secretary timothy geithner accuses illinois senator mark kirk of some un-patriotic actions in a

the s-p-c-a is working with the d-a's office on possible charges. next on the kron 4 morning news.. after the boko haram kidnappings of hundreds of schoolgirls, nigeria's president acknowledges offers of help from several other countries. ice we'll have the latest. plus. beaten on the job by a patient -- only on kron four -- a local certified nursing assistant says. hospital violence is spiraling out of control. her story. and the developing plans for a abdomen of nurses protest today. next. his a nursing assistant who says she has been attacked on the job. takes a stand against aura of wall hospital violence. iskron 4's philippe djegal unknown healthcare workers from across the bay area. are planning to hold a rally who wiltshire as light what they are calling an epidemic of hospital violence. a whole what you're taught all. and though it is pretty nice. absolutely. a warming trend is toward a market. if >>erica: not right now is, aceves much as half are for school. if i definitely need it is not what i'd result of a close moderately the last of all clouds out there and a little weight talked with all

s role when a less familiar foreign policy issue comes up, like boko haram did in just the past weekr so here in the united states? it's become such an intensely talked about issue in nigeria. what is your role in sort of forming that discussion? >> well, there's important work always going on here in the background. we have, for instance, the center for preventive action run by my colleague, and what they do is they prepare scenario papers. so if there are crises in different parts of the world that might affect u.s. interest, they bring together groups of experts, councilmembers and others to try to think through, well, what could be the u.s. responses in those sorts of situations. >> we are going to get started. we are so delighted to have this program today with the women's policy group. i have to say at the outset, as someone who worked at the news hour some years ago, it has been a thrill to watch the growth of this organization. a thrill to bring together women who are not only interested in foreign policy, but who are accomplishing things and foreign-policy. as we heard earli

s use of soft power. learning what we did in iraq and afghanistan. the first mission the military will do there is try to take down this boko haram network. its arms around it, and blanket the area with regards to communications. and the second thing will be an accessment of the situation, see what kind of military assets we'll see. for example, drones. drones would be a tremendous resource to the nigeriian government. they could survey the land and report back. >> what about spy satellites? >> they are not fast enough? they won't give you that real time information. we have this capable to get in there real time, and fly 24-7. in the old days we might do that with pilots. >> what about the -- is there a national conflict between, you know, who is running the operation? obviously it's in nigeria, if the united states comes in, what is the relationship there between the u.s. and the nigeriian military? >> i think the u.s. has to be very careful not to get on in any way that suggest that there are boots on the ground. this is probably a face-saving operation for the president and government there. we cannot get involved with anything, becau

boko haram are killing the girls. it's extremism. >> the threats are water off the back these days. nobody listens to his latest whatever. do you think the freshness of this,s that this is a novel new group that's so offensive will cause that international scrutiny to come to form? >> i hope so. i think the way it would have an effect is by embarrassing the president. and so far the nigerian authorities have been very focused on boko haram. they haven't really cared about violence in the provinces in the north. >> so it's out in the country. >> it's hoout in the country. it's low on their priorities. and you know, this is a case where international community can actually begin to shine a light on that and perhaps make president jonathan and the military change their priorities. >> and sigh friday from a military memorable name, what kind of government is he running. is it corrupt? >> it is corrupt. and this is rich country. nigeria is a well off country. they have the military. and they have the sentiment after boko haram, partly because of these bombings. but they have -- what they have done is to go around and round up every young man in areas where boko

s in clearly a political event, so i don't think we would be talking about benghazi, this is a state department, and maybe a process is when you talk about boko haram. not just about hillary, that it is about hillary is convenient for republicans i don't think it is the kind of thing that sticks. benghazi they will try to make stick, they wouldn't be doing that if it weren't for a presidential election. there's precedent for it not working. and george wh bush still won with the contra hearings. these are always happy events to the opposition, but they don't always stick. >> attars of impeach but it's been ten years since anybody has heard from her publicly. she just came out with an essay, what do you think about the timing? >> first of all, the timing, i think david speaks to the obvious and apparent candidacy of hillary clinton. i think monica lue winski who has nod control over the story, and why would she at that time, had no control over the story and the after math of that during the clinton itch peoplement now wants some control of the narrative. i am woman hare me roar, and then have it go away, rather than have the media, if there is a cli

. >> reporter: mohammed and s andusama -- not their real names -- are government informants with the terrorist group boko haramave seen the group's influence spread and lure in their friends. >> after convincing you, they take you, once you move to their training camp, that is it, that is the send. you won't come back again. >> reporter: recruiting from among the poor who tend to make up their rank-and-file fighters and drawing in the educated, trained in explosives. the two informant wes met described their links to boko haram as being to mid-level fighters. they're not from the same state where more than 200 school girls were kidnapped. that is here, borno state, this is the capital where boko haram's radical ideology was born. unchecked by the government, the group grew more violent and ruthless, kidnappings becoming common. >> take them to the bush then they will force them to join. it's either you join or they kill you. >> reporter: the informants have heard of shadowy links to al qaeda. their friends who who joined trained in sudan and smolia. they claim to know exactly where boko haram's camps are in th

boko haram abducted over 270 girls from their school several weeks ago. they say they will sell them into slavery. yesterday militants massacred up to 300 people when they attacked a market and police station. the u-s is now deploying a team of military and civilian advisers to help the nigerian government, that appears to be overwhelmed. an international outcry to find the girls continues to spread. malala yousafzai is among those speaking out for the girls' they are extremists. they don't really understand islam. it's a message of taking knowledge and education. how can they deny that you should go and get knowledge and educated? >> she is among those speaking out for the girls rescue. so is michelle obama, who tweeted out this picture with a sign that reads "hashtag bring back our girls." russian president vladimir putin says he is withdrawing his troops from the ukrainian border in an effort to ease tensions. but, nato and officials in the u-s say they haven't seen any evidence that the russians are backing off just yet. putin is also calling on pro- russian separatists in ukraine to postpone a referendum vote planned for sunday. the rebels are seeking independence for two provinces in the east

s. but in and around abuja is very, very difficult to move and tomorrow they have asked for public holidays so they have less people on the streets than they had today. >> boko haram abducted another eight girls. this time from a village. have you been surprised by how brazen boko haram has been, and what do you see as driving all of this? >> well, i think that they are looking at the fact that there is this economic forum going on where you have more than a thousand prominent figures and leaders here in abuja, in the capital. it's so they have access, they can get close enough to the city so they can do something as horrific as kidnapping the young girls who, right now, we understand, some have been moved cross the border. going back to the earlier point, donors like u.s. and others can help control the border more and help with human intelligence. >> the border has 190 points, 60 manned by nigerian government entities. isn't the border porous. >> there's a number of things that when special teams come in, they can help the nigerians with. better ability to control the border. we have a lot of technological equipment that can be used. there are aircraft that we u

boko haram. haram, the the same terror group that announced on monday that it had had already kidnapped hundreds of of s school girls to turn them into slaves.erday se yesterday secretary of state john kerry told nigerian president that the the u.s. will send a team of hostage negotiators and intelligence experts to help. >> we remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these young girls, and we want to provide whatever assistance is possible in order to help for their safe return to their families. >> reporter: their plight and the nigerian's government failure to rescue the girls or communicate with their families is drawing worldwide outrage and igniting an international socialan inter media campaign the hash tag bring back our girls first used one week after the attack has gone viral, repeated on twitter more than a million times. on sunday three weeks after the kidnapping, president jonathan publicly acknowledged the abductions for the first time th and admitted that he had no ideadea where where the girls might be.be. on tuesday he finally accepted u.s. help. amnesty international's adotei akwei

boko haram after the girls were kidnapped. they seized hand propelled grenades and other deadly weapons. welcome in, congress. >>> in addition to the manned surveillance vehicles, there are five state department officias s and ten defense department planned advisers and four kidnapping agents all assisting the nigerian government, and what are you making of these new developments, and this assistance? is it enough? >> well, it is a painful experience. and it is painful to talk about it. but when have we seen nations all over the world with compassion coming there to try to help, because it is not 200 nigerians, but it is an atrocity against human kind. and we all pray and hope those of us who have children that this ends up with all of the girls being safe. but it is remarkable that the voices of the spirit chual lead, because this is not a political issue, but it is man versus humanity, and we have experiences where the people have been murder and the church has been quiet and apologize, but now is the time for all of the spiritual leaders all over the world to say, this atrocity, it is against everything that human kind believes in. and all we can do is to pray and hope that the expertise that we have

. >>> nigerian official s believe they can positively identify 77 school girls in this video posted by the terrorist group boko haramdnapped from their school. >>> a convicted rapist and murderer got a last-minute stay of execution in texas last night. robert campbell was set to be the first inmate put to death since the botched execution in oklahoma last month. campbell's execution is now on hold while an appeals court reviews his intellectual disabilities. >>> as we debate the best way to humanely kill convicted killers, a question for you. can you be both pro-life and pro-death penalty. it's the latest topic of my op-ed. i was in the middle of a heated debate with a group of friends over the weekend. i wanted to know what you think. i reached out to albert, the president of the southern baptist theological seminary who told me it's not an eye for an eye kind of thing. retribution is not the same as a demand for justice. genesis 9 god speaks to noah after the flood. when someone takes a human life, they forfeit their own life. you can visit my facebook page facebook.com/carol cnn. >>> one day before veterans affai

s role when a less familiar foreign policy issue comes up, like boko haram did in just the past week or so here in the united states? it's become such an intensely talked about issue in nigeria. what is your role in sort of forming that discussion? >> well, there's important work always going on here in the background. we have, for instance, the center for preventive action run by my colleague, and what they do is they prepare scenario papers. so if there are crises in different parts of the world that might affect u.s. interest, they bring together groups of experts, councilmembers and others to try to think through, well, what could be the u.s. responses in those sorts of situations. that information can be very useful for the state, for the white house, for the national security council. i mean, in the specific case of nigeria, one of our fellows was u.s. ambassador to nigeria, to seo a lot of expertise in that area. i haven't talked to ambassador campbell, but i'm sure he's been speaking privately to help them think through their response. again, the idea is for us to be a resour

boko haram included, and what really worries me is the lack of discussion on the pooling of al qaeda elements in the east of syria at a rate we've never seen before, including, literally, thousands, with an "s," of those getting combat training and eventually will come back home. that's a huge problem we'll face in the near future and a deadly one. >> stay with us, mr. chairman. we have a lot more news to report on. >>> we're getting new information on terrorists in nigeria. they are holding hundreds of schoolgirls. general carter hamm was the former africa commander. general, stay with us. mr. chairman, stay with us. we're going to expand this conversation into what's going nearly 300 schoolgirls have been kidnapped. >>> also, we're learning new details about that near collision between a u.s. passenger jet, a u.s. airways plane and a drone aircraft over the skies of florida. we'll update you on that. frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky. not chalky. temporary. 24 hour. lots of tablets. one pill. you decide. prevacid. ♪ 24 hour nehey!r! [squeals] ♪ [ewh!] [baby crying] the great thing about a subaru is you don't have to put up with that new car smell for long. the versatile, 201

boko haram. meanwhile, the nigerian army arrived in the town where the girls were taken. live from abuja, nigerinigeria,sn addition to the u.s. assets you pointed out helping with surveillance, with reconnaissance, they'll also do intelligence gathering and providing hostage negotiation techniques for the nigerian government, we're learning now after speaking to parents in chibok, americans arrived in the town yesterday. eight pickup loads of them in the town. a lot of residents still not trusting the military will be able to get the job done on their own but this is a welcome sign. in addition to the startling video released yesterday, which purports to show not only the leader of boko haram, abubakar shekau with the girls he kid na napped. they're looking at all options to secure the release of these girls. kate? >> let's continue the conversation and focus on the video and how to get those girl backs. with me, retired general, a cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. spider, let's lay ought, once again, where we're talking and why it poses such a chall

s another another angle of this is kind of the nigerian government's own motivation of protecting its own citizens because according to amnesty international nigerian security forces knew about boko haram as armed raid in a boat yet failed to do anything about it i mean what does that tell us about their motivation certainly what i think the motivation of the nigerian government is completely. certainly has nothing to do with protecting their own citizens if they wanted to protect their own citizens they would not allow seventy percent of people in the northern part of the country to live in abject poverty they wouldn't allow the niger river delta be completely and totally destroyed by oil and other types of pollution ultimately what it is when it becomes a problem for them when the stability becomes an issue then they want to try to find a security solution to contain the problem but not solve the problem because the roots of the problem as we discussed earlier go to the very heart of their entire method of ruling this kleptocratic type of regime and so it's only when groups like boko who are you know huge embarrassments to them on the international scene in situations like this this