we'll hear from a young man from brittain. you'll hear him explain why he joined isis after this. >>> welcome back. the journalist freed on sunday is now back home in the united states. his release came just days after isis militants executed fellow journalist james foley. now that execution was meant as a warning to the u.s. to stop airstrikes against isis fighters in iraq. curtis was greeted by his mother nancy late tuesday in boston. he had been held by 22 months by fighters believed to be connected with the connected al nusra front. they did not pay a ransom. nancy curtis spoke about her feelings just hours before finally seeing her son again. >> i don't think anybody's in the mood for celebration. we're relieved. after the events of the past few weeks and knowing that those other children of my friends are in danger, no. i have conflicted emotions. >> another american was killed in syria over the weekend, but they say douglas mccain was no journalist, he was there to fight and die for isis. u.s. officials say there are ma

brittain has raised it's threat alert to the second highest level.ameron says his country faces a greater and deeper terror threat now than ever before. the response to isis and weather the threat level in the united states should be raised. barbara star has more. >> two leaders with very different public messages on isis. british prime minister david cameron announcing the threat level is raised to severe in the uk. >> this is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home. >> i don't want to put the cart before the horse. >> president obama not ready to any time to fighting isis with air strikes in syria but brittain clearly feeling the pressure that isis could strike at home. the new warning means an attack is highly likely. >> the idea is to create is a threat to your own security here in the uk. >> particularly worried because it was a british voice on the tape showing the murder of american journalist james foley. anst mated 500 people have traveled from brittain to fight in syria and iraq along with hundreds of other europeans. they be

. >>> on monday brittain marked 100 years since the start of world war i.nce william, the duchess marked the occasion in belgium when the occasion first started. it was germany's invasion that prompted brittain's declaration of war. >> reporter: in the hot summer of 1914 austrian arch duke fran france ferd nant's death started the conflict. this monday representatives of many of the former enemies come member more rated the determine man invasion into belgium. they remembered the victims. 16 million dead and many more wounded. a senseless statistic in a century of war. it was here in belgium in eap that chemical weapons were used. french president hollande said. in all those years, those four long years, hundreds of thoughts of soldiers perished here. africans, canadians, new zealanders, and australians. the duke and duchess of cambridge represented the british queen on a day of commemorations. 100 years ago to the day brittain had declared war on germany. >> we were enemies more than once in the last century and today we are friends and allies. we salute t

brittain would argue for the kind of sanctions that would hurt france or germany and as a result there a standoff. did the airliner break that log jam? >> the airliner and the treatment of the bodies of the victims and the fact that they came from a number of e.u. countries definitely mobilized politicians in europe. and crucial was the packet put together by the european commission which spreads the pain of sanctions on our side fairly. of course, i expect the russian side to respond with counter sanctions and they'll probably try to divide us again. >> how hard will that be for poland? 90% of your energy imports come from russia. >> well, russia needs to sell its energy even more than we need to buy it because we can buy energy from other directions, from norway, where i am currently, also from north africa oil can be shipped. we are just finishing an lng terminal. russia is an important trade partner. for poland twice as important. so there will be losses all around, but we just cannot stand idly by when russia a nnexes a neighbor's first province and now supplying so phisticated we

the leader tells brittain's channel 4 news that isis militants killed hundreds of men and abducted at 1,000 women and children but cnn is unable to confirm those numbers. it does appear the scale of the isis massacres continues to grow. two months ago hundreds of cadets at a military academy in tikrit were executed. >> in the baghdad city, anything p nick peyton walsh spoke to people. >> reporter: internally, dying. cadets from military academy overrun by isis militants in june herded to slaughter. isis filmed their murder, perhaps the most infamous shock video yet. used to speed their advance. here they chant, isis forever. anything. in the dusk the masked men take turns and the anonymous, endless killing of perhaps 1700 people. in baghdad's satyr city they have a loss. he watched his brother die. the last time they spoke on this same phone he said his base was surrounded. would he look after his children. i felt that his life had just ended, he says, that he is dead, because of the way he was speaking saying things like, take care of my children. i said to myself, he knows he's goin

. >> one of the problems is it's gone unabated for nearly two years and that draws people from brittain to across europe, even the united states to go and join the fight. they see that as a winning ideology, a winning strategy and they want to be a part of it. that's what makes it so dangerous. they are one plane ticket away from u.s. shores. >> they're not the j.v. team anymore. they're the most prominent terrorist organization in the world, but they're not the only one. they're in competition for the other jihadist group and the gold medal will be awarded to the one that can hit america. >> the president has to understand and when america hasn't, a lot of bad things happen. this is not lining the earthquake in san francisco. all of this could have been avoided like leaving a resit dual force behind in iraq. >> the biggest earthquake to shake the bay area in nearly 25 years has sent more than 200 people to the hospital, left thousands without power this morning. the 6.0 magnitude quake struck in the dead of night near napa around 3:20 in the morning sparking fires and crippling water m

now brittain, france, and germany are among allies now committing to give supplies to the refugees or equipment to those battles the militants. >> susan mcginnis. thank you, susan. >>> this morning pope francis became the first pope to visit south korea in 250 years. the pope arrived in seoul to begin a five-day visit. he will hold a mass, participate in a festival for young catholics. the north koreans declined to send a delegation to the mass. the north fired three rockets into the ocean before the pope arrived and then two more after he landed. >>> this morning a slow moving record setting rainstorm that caused widespread flooding is heading out to sea. right now it's moving over maine. the storm soaked an area from north carolina to new england with drenching rain, but today promises dryer weather. new york's long island got hit with a downpour of historic proportions. parts of the island got over 13 inches of rain in nine hours. dozens of drivers got stuck in rising water and had to be rescued. one man was killed in a storm-related traffic accident. >>> well, coming up on the mor

it was during that month that germany declared war on russia and france and brittain declared war on challenge question of the week, which military weapon was first developed in world war i, the machine gun, napalm, pilotless drones or agent orange? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. >>> this week's book of the week is "excellent sheep." by william derisivich. this is a powerful book. it shows we are teaching our kids to look at a narrow achievement instead of things that are much more important like intellectual curiosity and character. it's written in a spirited, passionate style by someone who spent years teaching at yale. >>> now for the last look. take a look at these images. this looks like interesting modern art hanging in a gallery, right? well, it is that, but how that art was created might be the most interesting part of all. these paintings were created using something that you wouldn't normally associate with beauty or whimsy. they were painted by a drone. maybe the future of drones isn't all scary. let's just hope this drone artist keeps to the canvass. th

cameron of brittain is beginning to be deeply engaged and so forth and so forth. i think the nature of the game is changing. we now, i think, are going to take a strong stand. incidentally, i think we should talk privately but very seriously to the chinese about this. the russians, i'm not being smart about this, the russians are claiming privately that the chinese support it. my view is different. i think they know if putin's adventurism causes a conflict, there will be a severe threat to global well-being. that for them will be a fundamental disaster. i think the chinese ought to be more active in telling putin to layoff and changing borders nowadays so many decades after world war ii and earlier world war i is not the way to deal with international problems. they ought to take that stand. they're a major power. they're a partner of ours. they cannot be silent and simply sitting on the sidelines. one question on the islamic state before i let you go. when you look at this problem, you've got it feels to me almost like a 12-cornered fight. you've got the islamic

. >>> this week marks the 108th anniversary of brittain's role into the great world war.tice day is the 11th of november. pop yis are being planted in the moat at the tower of london. i had a look. it's a rare privilege to be allowed into the moat here, particularly during this installation which is truly spectacular when you are here. it's growing all the time. the latest three people to plant pop yis were no less than the duke and duchess of cambridge and the prince harry. each represents someone being here. the artist, paul cummins, said he was inspired by the will of the soldier who died. it was the blood. >> what you see here is a flowing series of waves, particularly the way some come out of the tower and as you come out there's a breaking wave of pop yis. every poppy is a soldier who lost his or her life in the first world war. it's a mass but it's a mass of individuals. >> to think this project isn't nearly complete. it's creating a sea of red around the spectacular castle. >> you've been watching cnn's special coverage. i'm max foster in london. do stay with us b

you'll notice right now that france, the czech republic, brittain are doing the same thing. they are beginning to move in and arm kurdish forces on the ground. why? because it's very much in our interests to stop them there before they come back and take the fight or -- you know, they're very good at bombing, right, creating explosive devices. we don't want to see that in london, paris or the united states. >> douglas ollivant, my concern is whether we have an answer, a correct answer. the "times" addresses this whether they fall into the taliban category which means not good people but not exporters of terror or are they of the al qaeda stripe and therefore pose a security threat to the united states. i'm not being -- i'm not being overly simplicity when i say my concern is whether they want to establish a caliphate in indiana, not in syria and iraq. >> i don't think they'd want to establish a caliphate in indiana, but that doesn't mean they don't want to attack it. i think we need to be worried about this in two senses. first we need to be concerned about isis itself, its

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and brittain are dropping few and supplies. american war planes also launched airstrikes on isis forces. kurdish towns have been recaptured. a third has fallen. the front line between kurdish soldiers and isis is baron, vast, and nearly deserted. the kurds and the militia called the pashmoga know it's only a matter of time before they grab more land. we have the story from northern iraq. >> reporter: a pile of dirt across a baron highway. this, the first line of defense for iraqi kurds fighting against isis militants said to be a short drive away occupying this village. in this eerie no man's land on the kurdish front line a tent city recently abandoned. this camp was a temporary home for thousands of iraqis who fled the isis mill taitant capture oe nearby city of mosul. when isis went on the offensive, they fled. some ran so quickly they left their cars behind. it is here among the other abandoned cars of this sun baked plain that kurdish fighters are digging in, building fortifications and regrouping after a chaotic retreat f

about from where i sit is that the same story and the same talking points from officials about how brittains, australians, canadians, americans are joining this fight is identical in an echo chamber around the world. >> that's true. >> how do you know? how do we know? >> because we have extensive intelligence assets on the ground. all of these countries have cia, mi 6, turkish intelligence. there's a ton of evidence. let's also remember that the administration's declaratory policy and functional policy are two different things. they're hyping isis and the president is deciding not to confront isis in syria. it's not as if the pentagon is pushing us. >> not what i'm suggesting. >> right. >> so what's the point of the hype? the idea is the point of the hype is it's sort of a cover your butt mission by the administration. they know that americans after the death of james foley are very concerned about the isis threat. i think the bottom line here is that we have a lot of first-hand information because people on the ground without the filter of -- >> who? who? >> you're saying youtube videos. th

was looking for coalition assistance for potential involvement in syria, most notably with great brittainnd france, those two countries said they would not get involved. it seemed to be a very different situation, as the president pointed out, his conversations with the french president and british prime minister david cameron. what's the difference in this situation? guest: i think there is a deep sense at the whitehouse that this is a much more acute crisis on the humanitarian level. i mean the situation you had in syria last year was a civil war. you had refugees of some sort fleeing the fighting, but this is much closer to the international legal definitions of jenk side. the president used that word in his remarks on thursday night announcing these operations. and, you know, i think that that's probably felt by the british and the french as well, that this is -- this is just a much more urgent situation that e volks yugoslavia and rwanda than what we saw in syria a year year ago. >>. host: host: how long can the airstrikes last? and we found some reports including within from abc new