this is not the caliph. this is not the caliphate. go to work tomorrow. >> this is interesting because something that was mentioned it doesn't matter how the caliph is declared. regardless, it becomes obligatory for everyone to succumb and pledge allegiance. that is not actually true. there is a lot of talk amongst the scholars today about a means towards the end. it is not sufficient just to say the caliphate, which is the unity of muslim technically, that it's obligatory, that it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there. right now, one of the scholars today, in an interview he said if the means end in bloodshed as isis has been doing it can turn the obligation into impermissible because you're causing more destruction on your path, and you're disturbining the peace, so it does matter. when it doesn't matter when the miss limbs are i wil illiterate . a lot of muslims are not aware of their own tradition. so when they see the work of al baghdadi, it is very--and that goes back to something, , trying to gain legitimacy

he talks about this caliphate and how he says the idea of an islamic caliphate's absurd, a feckless delusion that's never going to happen. i want to get your reaction to what he said. this is all prior to isis in syria and iraq. >> our strategy is also shaped by a deeper understanding of al qaeda's goals, strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade. i'm not talking about al qaeda's grand dlpds iose vision of global domination through a violent islamic caliphate. that vision is absurd and we're not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. we are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are. >> i actually believe radical islamists that say they want a worldwide caliphate. he said that actually prior to what happened in syria. and he said that prior to all these cities being taken over by isis in iraq. what's your reaction? don't you think that the threat of a caliphate by the radical islamists is real? >> certainly. and i think those were ill-chosen words.

>> that facility is in that same gwozo, where they are claiming to established a caliphate. it took until saturday evening for the inspector general across nigeria to finally, acknowledge this attack. he says the 35blem are still missing. he said it's premature to speculate on their whereabouts, whether they have been kidnapped or killed in action or whether they are hiding in the bush until the situation calms down. all of this indicates how the group has been emboldened in recently months and how despite their efforts and agoing state of emergency for the past year the nigerian security forces unfortunately do not appear to have the upper hand in this ongoing fight. >> report from abuja. thank you. back to europe and military parade has taken place in kiev to celebrate ukraineian index day. it's an act of defiance. probe russian separatists organize a counter parade in eastern ukraine. dozens of prisoners of war were paraded. they called them fascists. barca has the latest from eastern ukraine. . >> the parading of prisoners by the separatist forces through the streets of

nigerian caliphate. they launched an uprising in 2009 with the aim nigeria governed by sharia law. it has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds. the government to clearly state of emergency in may last year. the massive military operation to flush out the group showed initial success. but analysts say the government failed to sustain pressure allowing boko haram to regroup and capture key roads and towns in the region. >> israeli airstrikes have left another four palestinians dead this monday. among them, two women and a three-year-old boy. israel and hamas have been withing for nearly 50 days any sign of a lasting truce still far away. sunday marked the first day of the new school year in gaza but there is still no definite date as to when classes will begin. we have more. >> at this school in gaza, the bell rings on the first day of the school year. th day of the conflict as children line up in the courtyard, there will be no classes. the development agency, a return to school is a priority. >> even

it may not be a caliphate.got nhs, schooling, ability to step out of my house without the threat of being killed. >> if you're not happen with britain offering you those things, go to a place you feel islam is implemented in proper format. then live by what is over there. i think we often describe the caliphate as something scary. in actuality, if you look at the group and country that share the interest and want to go by similar or same principles, why should they not work together and have a unified lead senator. >> what do you think of the fact it finds laws of this country objectable thinks isis is better way of living. >> many living in britain may feel the government has pressed them to a state they are free to express religion. >> when it first came about, why was it the case they can do it themselves. all opinions can get together and agree and unify. it's the very thing we look for in the beginning. how can we look to it mow especially in the day and age there are many different opinions. how is it fea

terrorism is different than having a caliphate.e know very little about the geographic scope of isis. we have to learn more about them. how concerned should we be. i wouldn't be complacent. third, the issue ruth and the others talked about. i'm a law professor. law enforcement in and of itself is not the answer. if you are a public international lawyer as ruth and i are, there is an issue of where the response fits in. both in iraq and syria. we have been asking about the government, putting them down. hopefully that will be better as the weeks go on your ready in syria, much trickier. my enemy's enemy might be our friend, but we may not admit assad is our friend. we should have high morale. confidence in ourselves. we have to beat them. i think we will. i think a program like this gives us a sense of how large and amorphous and complicated this is a so many other things are today. >> thank you very much. we have time to open a discussion. state your name. ask a question. then we will try to open discussion. raise your hands. pat m

there is a caliphate out there used by the jihadists to attract those who want to caliphate their work. you can monitor taking the war back to europe or back to australia or back to central asia. some have commented upon taking the attack back to the united states here as well. you notice right now, france, czech republic and britain are doing the same thing. they are beginning to move in and arm kurdish forces on the ground. why? because it is very much in our interest to stop them there before they come back and take the fight or -- they are very good at bombing and creating explosive devices. we don't want to see that in london, paris or the united states. >> douglas ollivant, my concern is the answer. the times addresses this of whether they fall into the category of not good people, but not exporters of terror or are they of the al qaeda stripe and pose a threat to the united states? i'm not being overly simplicity when i say my concern is if they establish a caliphate, say in indiana, not iraq. >> i don't think they want to establish a caliphate in indiana, but we have to worry a

>> a muslim caliphate, a single islamic state. >> everything about the caliph's outfit is meant to evokeamic empire. >> jon: they want a caliphate, much like the empire ruled by the umayyads's in the seventh and eighth centuries. i hope you notified your recruits that life in the caliphate will be less pizza hut and more hut. [laughter] but setting aside the historical authenticity of isis methods, why exactly do you want your own country? you seem quite adapt at the depraved killing part. are you really prepared to do the little things you need to do to run a functioning state. >> they provide a modicum of order. >> they have their own courts. >> they're issuing license plates. >> isis militants now direct traffic. >> jon: oh, you're directing traffic. that must be so hard in a city with eight cars left. [laughter] you know, i wouldn't be so proud of accomplishing a job where you could be replaced by a colored light, all right? here's a question for you, guys who want to establish their own state, who is going to pay that guy's pension? how are you going to raise money to maintain those

in history, the caliphate marked a.unnimarked a period of dominance and is being touted as the proper form of government for all real muslims. however, this challenge also has a very immediate tactical aspect. violence on the streets chaos,hing anarchy and attracting the four horsemen of the apocalypse. that part of it must be. with today, somehow, someway. requires muslim nations to see isis as the threat it really is to them. this has been a problem up to iraq, most, including have been mired in religious divisions of their own nature. many have had their own relations with extremists of one sort or another. isis has financing from a number of people, donors in kuwait. saudi arabia furnishing weapons, not worried about where they are going. weapons flowing across borders. i recently came across an e-mail which rather sarcastically but accurately describe the situation. "are you line was, confused by what is going on in the middle east?" " we support the iraqi government in the fight against isis. we do not like isis.

he said the idea of a caliphate's absurd. want to play this for you. >> our strategy is also shaped by a deeper understanding of al qaeda's goals, strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade. i'm not talking about grand vision of global domination through a violent islamic caliphate. that vision is absurd and we are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen. we are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they are. >> it sounds like a pre-9/11 mentality to me. and how do you answer what he said as israel got hit with 175 rockets in the last 24 hours? aren't they pushing for a caliphate there? >> i think it's really disturbing as i listen to that is that it shows a man who clearly refuses to recognize what has to be crossing his desk as the latest intelligence. he can read the study report. he can listen to what the director of the cia says, about the advance in doubling of size of terrorist

>> what the caliphate is it's an actual movement to bring the caliph back. they believe when they rid a region or the whole world, and there's different ways and thought processes for this, they believe once they rid a certain percentage of the world of non-believers, either by converting them or killing them, that their caliph will come back. you have al qaeda who likes to do global -- really big events to bring fear and recognition. isis, they are kind of old school in the way that they believe beheadings and videos and really bloody attacks of christians and children will do it. >> do you think they overplayed their hand? one of the arguments you heard ask that they have done so many awful things and hurt their image, so to speak, that now they have got usually passive countries very angry at them in responding to them. what do you think? >> i don't think they think that at all. the video of the beheading of this reporter shows that they are being wise in what they are doing. if anybody watched that video, they didn't actually show him getting killed. the

this is a real caliphate. this is a dream of bin laden and al qaeda actually happened on the ground. so for al qaeda people to top that, they are going to be the one who can strike at the west, bring down the united states, economy, and other structures. this is what they are trying to do. >> why are not going to see a merger of these two terrorist groups? we're going to see instead of a competition who can outdo the other? >> that's an excellent question? actually you are predicting the future. they will try to top. they will try to move forward. only when they show the jihadist that they can do, then the two councils of advisors will say now we are equal, now we can come together. >> how is it that they got kicked out -- isis got kicked out for violence what was it. >> actually it was not for violence. al qaeda same violence they have beheaded, they have attacked against cities, leadership. zawahiri number two historical leader of al qaeda and al baghdadi and little war lords on the ground who on their own d

so until now, we cannot really say the group has established any sort of caliphate in the northeast ofire year i can't. there are believed to be around a million, half a million guns in circulation getting those weapons off of the streets. there is a priority for african union troops charged with keeping the peace. from mogadishu, al jazeera mohammed ado sent this report. >> after years of struggling, the somali government seems to have realized the need to scoop up illegal weapons. african union peacekeepers and government troops raid the houses of people they call war lords and suspected militia leaders. officials call this operation a success and say they will continue until they bring back a measure of stability to the country. >> we will not stop until we reach a point where we will need only a warrant of arrest and not guns to arrest criminals. the current chaos cannot continue forever. not every militia leader has been disarmed. this man is one of those keen on keeping their private a armies. the former war lord says his men fight for the government and that has earned him enemi

there's a virtual caliphate out there being used by these jihadists to attract those who want to caliphate into this part of the world where they begin their work, but at the same time you can monitor their comments about taking the war back to europe or back to australia or back to central asia. and some have commented upon taking the attack here to the united states as well. so clearly it's in our interests. 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

. >> reporter: she even addresses baghd baghdady but his self-appointed title of caliph. >> you the caliph can grant amnesty. i ask you to spare his life. >> reporter: sotloff looking forward to a homecoming similar to peter theo curtis earlier this week. >> total strangers have come up to me and said hey, we're glad you're home. welcome home. >> reporter: cambridge in cambridge, massachusetts, with his mother held after two years of captivity by a different jihadist group. >> i say a huge thank you from my heart, from the bottom of my heart. >> reporter: this as we're learning about more americans on the other side of the fight, reports that douglas mcarthur mccain, a minneapolis native killed fighting for isis in syria over the weekend, isn't alone. according to a syrian coalition fighting against isis another american also fighting alongside the group was killed. he has not yet been identified. now it should be noted that mccain was fighting for isis when he was killed, that james foley was killed by or at hand of isis, and mr. curtis who lives right down the street from here, he was re

you know, it took the entire time to get out of him he wants a worldwide caliphate.nd that's what they're pushing for. and this is a real danger. and how do you react to the president of the united states, and that is it's been a pretty much nonresponse. the official position today is still that ft. hood was workplace violence, not a terrorist attack. >> well, the president of the united states was elected president, as you know, on a very different world view, get us out of iraq. by the way, he did. and it was his decision. and it was a huge mistake. and we predicted all that is happening at the time because it was so predictable. but he doesn't view the united states of america as a nation that needs to lead the world. that does not mean sending troops everywhere engaging in every war. but when america's leadership is absent, bad things happen. and all of this could have been avoided. sean, it's not like hurricanes or earthquakes and natural disasters. it has to do with strategy and policy and outlook of the united states' obligations in the world. could i just men

i'm not talking about al qaeda's grandiose vision of caliphate, that vision is absurd.e are not going to organize our counterterrorism policies against a feckless delusion that's not going to happen. we are not going to elevate these thugs in the murderous aspirations into something larger than they are. >> isn't israel one of those that want to wipe off the map. isn't convert or die a push by now the most radical islamic radicals out there. isn't that a push for their genocide, isn't that an example of a caliphate they're pushing? >> absolutely is. isis knows no boundaries. they're going country to country. >> how can the cia director of this president be so wrong? >> he was completely out of touch. and i can tell you from my people that are being massacred because they're refusing to convert, all they want right now is a chance to live. >> how many people do you estimate have been amassacred? >> thousands. at least every day around 500 since it started. so you're talking eight weeks and 540,000 at least. >> so far 40,000 people have been slaughter snd. >> either slaug

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caliphate, that is compelling. al qaeda was not serious about that. they were -- they would talk about it in theory, but were not serious about doing it in practice. the muslim brotherhood talks about it all the time, but it was not seriously going to happen anytime soon. now, for the first time, in a more coherent, compelling way, there is something called the islamic state. isin, this kind of precedent very dangerous because, for the foreseeable future, we are going to see copycats. we have seen them already in nigeria. now, whenever there is a political to, and this is where the failure of governance becomes very important. when you do not have governance or state authority, you have that vacuum. of instant that a lot extremist people who are less extreme think, maybe we can start our own state in this territory -- so that kind of mental block that groups like the muslim brotherhood and al qaeda had has been removed. on u.s. policy. so what can we do? , wee take it seriously understand the origins of isis' rise. we understand the syrian civil war a

we'll look at what the caliphate is and indeed who supports it.e consequences of the fight for the countries in the region, that all starts from 1500 gmt here on "bbc world news." >>> in japan, at least 27 people have been killed after a series of landslides struck the city of hiroshima. dozens of houses were buried when a hillside collapsed after torrential rain. a short time ago, i spoke to the bbc's rupert winfield hayes from tokyo. he told me we don't yet know the full extent of the devastation. >> i think we're still expecting the death toll to rise a bit further. the rescue services and soldiers are on the scene going through the smashed houses one by one. but obviously there is also a lot of mud, a lot of rock. there were at least ten of these mudslides that came down out of the mountains on the northern edge of hiroshima earlier this morning because of this absolutely enorm ous rainfall that they got overnight. and some of the houses, some of the roads, cars and so on are buried under very thick mud. it will take a while for them to go thr

popularizing the notion of establishing a caliphate, the efforts to force a theocracy, the sunni arabs in particular. too impressed of what the i.s. is doing, the i.s. is too extreme for al qaeda, and they've been fighting for a while. unfortunately, it does seem to be attracting the vast majorities of foreign fighters who are traveling to the region to join a jihadist entity, that is probably because of a few factors, one, their use on the ground, two, and three, their premature declaration of

a powerful tool at their disposal the group it's fighting known as isis has declared an islamic caliphate on the territories it controls in their advance geodes or take. the advantage of the weaponry left behind by or treating government forces militants have already outmaneuvered the army seizing dozens of u.s. supplied howitzers they also added four thousand machine guns to their arsenal and fifteen hundred humvees that the iraqi army abandoned its fear that the missiles could end up in the hands of extremists as well and you are activists brian becker thinks that arms dealers are the ones who benefit most it's five thousand missiles these are important unishe and they could be have a devastating impact on the battlefield it's good for u.s. arms manufacturers and puts the us back in a position of perhaps a strategic significance in competition with iran with the central government in iraq will it change the equation in the battlefield we don't know that if we step back and look at what's really happened since two thousand and three the united states because of its military intervention

militant group formerly known as isis that declared a caliphate in the northwest of the country say it's only a matter of time before they reach palast and to fight quote the barbaric jews the group notorious for its atrocities in iraq and syria captured key sunni cities and forced more than a million iraqis to flee and a right of former u.s. army colonel says the islamic states involvement won't help the palestinians. gaza is pretty well surrounded on you know on all sides so that isis fighters themselves would be getting in there i'm not particularly i don't i don't know that that would happen however the pressure that can be put from other areas onto israel their support in lebanon and the other parts of syria to open up a another front on israel that is where i think israel would would be very concerned about we all ought to be outraged about what israel is doing isis is want to but they certainly don't help the cause of the palestinians because of what isis has done in syria and in iraq. online investigating an eight year old cold case in the u.k. launching a probe aiming to shed li

a caliphate i'm not sure it's caliphate but it's spreading.s it any worse than it was 20 or 30 years ago? i'm not sure. it's been bad for a long time. they've been fighting for 3,000 years. >> now they have technology. they are against technology. they are against technology but now they use planes. they want to go back to the sixth, seventh century but they use planes to kill us. >> are we seeing it more? it's that old thing. is crime going up or we just seeing -- is violent crime going up? >> the attacks are more catastrophic and potential for them to get their hands, one of those terrorist groups get their hands on a biological or nuclear weapon. we are in the middle of world war iii. we don't call it yet. the only way for us to win is to be better, smarter and stronger and not just militarily but economically as well. >> k.g., do you believe we should have a terror week and would you host it. >> i would gladly host it. bob and i, there will be a midnight kiss when we defeat terror completely. you know it's a bad situation when the pope was

now the group is coming out to formally state that it is beginning to set up its caliphate.e this group hoisted the flag there and also blows up bridges. it's trying to carve out its own territory in defiance to the military. >> what's your reading of comments from the authorities, the government indeed? >> reporter: well obviously the military not saying that it is not in control of these towns. we know these towns are under the control of boko haram militants. military trying to say it will fight back and will try to control -- from the statement we got from the defense department, they say that the country as a whole is sovereignly intact. that's month indication these towns are under the control to boko haram. it's not exactly confirmation or denial from the military. we've heard recently from the army they will be restructuring the way the force works and try to get things working a bit stronger. recent admissions from the military things have not been going as smoothly as they should be. >> looking at the broader picture, if you're a hard lined organization declaring a

they just wanted the problem to go away, the way obama wants the islamic state caliphate to kind of just disappear. and so the frustrating thing to many of us, those of us who had been out in the world in pakistan, central asia, turkey, saw these threats coming. and the bad guys weren't trying to hide it. in clinton's washington there was no interest -- i mean, it was like obama in the sense that he cared far more for his personal popularity with his base than about america's security. so bubba was obama before obama. >> it's relevant to today in a lot of different ways. we see the secretary of state, we see the president pressuring israel to have a cease-fire, which by the way has just happened for 72 hours. they're pressuring them to have a cease-fire, but if i had 3,000 rockets fired into america, i would want to defeat and prabre up the infrastructure and find the tunnels and rockets they were using to attack america's towns and people. there seems to be a missing which i am here. a lack of understanding to radical islam even to this very day. >> there certainly is. it's just disgrac

>> i think all of it has taken everyone by surprise, the speed of which isis established the caliphates and threatening lebanon and now threaten the kurds and kurds traditional will fight to the last drop of blood to defend their homeland. what we're seeing is that even they are struggling. i am at a lot to understand why this one action is in a way laudible but a bit of a pinprick after one side. it will try to stabilize the situation. you have here the establishment, islamic callie fate by a group brutal determined and how to see how we're going to stop them. >> andrea, you talked about the red line in syria, it seems for this white house, the falling -- the fact that the isis has been able to penetrate was almost a red line for this administration, a signal that things have gotten from bad to worse. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. they were really surprised at what they described to me as the lightning speed of what happened on saturday night, the collapse of the forces and the fact they were routed by isis in such an efficient and strategic fashion. they are describing and pr

they are now establishing a caliphate in northern iraq. they are armed with actually heavy armor. they have an actual army. it's not just a bunch of ragtag fighters. so to suggest that the only reason we should be intervening in this minor way is the protection of americans or the protection of this religious group, that's fine enough. but the reason we need to be going in there is because we cannot allow a caliphate to be established in the heart of the muslim world. it's fundamental threat to american security. >> explain to me the delay in taking any kind of action at all? we've seen this coming at us. why the delay? >> i think he started in his statement thursday night for the last five years we've hit al qaeda in yemen with drones. obama had no problems in pakistan going after al qaeda there. he, himself, has an issue with iraq. and it's really all about him. it's a very -- he didn't want to go into syria or iraq, because he didn't want to do what george bush did. because as he said in his speech, i was elected to end the war in iraq, but it's a very juvenile behavior as comm

the bottom line is this guy's not about to open a store front mosque in the caliphate.e's not going to go out there. he's nothing compared to the threat that al baghdadi who really does pose to us. and unfortunately what we saw today, eric, in that press kmps is a president who doesn't understand the difference. choudri incites people. the bottom line is al baghdadi is built a terror army that is unlike anything we've ever seen before. it is not only the best financed, it is the best armed. and it is the biggest. the numbers now vary somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000, some 12,000 in which may well be americans, canadians, brits, australians, people with western passports who can get into this country. so -- >> colonel, let me ask you. i agree with you, the size and major threat that isis has become. how did they miss it? how did the white house, how did the defense department, how did the intel community miss isis? where as recently as a couple months ago president obama calls isis the jayvee team. they were so off base. but how? sfwl because the president, first of a

this islamic state is meant to be a caliphate that sees no border. they talk about ignoring the agreement between the u.k. and france dissolving the ottoman state after world'd world war i. they want to establish a caliphate that spreads beyond iraq and syria. these are not just terrorists and i are you are gents seeking to attack for attacking's sake. they want to build a base. it shows young kids and other declaring their desire to attack america. they want a home base to do so. martha: it reminds me of what we heard from hezbollah in you want to gain power longer term you have to offering some to the people out there. the nazis did the same thing. do you agree? >> they learned a lot of lessons from brutal organizations who used too much brutality and not enough addressing of grievances. the video talk about the sharia courts established to provide justice. in syria there was no fair application of justice. citizens want peace and stability. they are willing to live with a few chopped off heads to get it. they know they can provide the basic needs

building up a caliphate there.his organization which used to be called al qaeda in iraq has not been directly involved in a single terrorist plot against the west. that includes the period where the united states was going after it in iraq during the insurgency against the united states there. but the concern is that if the united states now targets isis, particularly in syria, that could be crossing a red line and the group could use its very significant resources to try and attack the west. they have many westerners in their ranks. they're also very cash rich. they're raising millions of dollars every day. they burn through a lot of that money. but they're likely still to have tens of millions of dollars of cash reserves. and the 9/11 operation by contrast only cost $500,000, natalie. >> well, it sounds like there's really no decision as far as whether the u.s. wants to have an impact on stopping isis other than going to the source in syria. if it does that, what kind of dance or arrangement or what have you must

how far is the caliphate?ot near to what it was in the time of the empire, but it was an actual caliphate. otes for this qu group. it is way out of bounds. within your studies, what should be the u.s. response? do you agree with the present prescription or should there be a different response? >> it is interesting that hillary clinton said that we should have done more in syria. i agree. what should we have done? the president is doing what he is doing now. that may just be a first step. this may stopped him a little bit. the idea of u.s. ground troops would not be politically feasible. it is not just what the u.s. should do, it is with the world should do o nthis. we should not be the only ones out there. >> the name suggests grand plans. how coherent is the leadership? and who, if anyone, has influence? baghdadi isy, mr. running things with an iron fist. the people behind him seem to be well disciplined. however, lots of people are ask prisoners and throwaways from al qaeda. that could be problematic if they

the ideological vision against with the fact the the islamic state is caliphate. for most of us does not mean precisely what it once did so well -- so i will explain their version and not precisely what most ordinary muslims think the term means. in their vision, there can be only one caliphate, which is traditionally actually not true. there can be only one ruler of the entire muslim majority world or community as sometimes it is put. so that is their vision. beyond that cow if it is supposed to expand until the word of god is asked -- the highest. -- the caliphate is the highest. so their vision they are ready begin with a concept that is global. whether it are united states would be of particular target or not is a separate question. the fact is they have expressed a desire to attack the united states and kill americans. will that displace their immediate desire to take on the homeland of iran or shiite in general? that is a good question. what we can see if they are are ready putting out feelers to a lot of other countries to carry out attacks, not just the po

you want a worldwide islamic caliphate. >> of course we do. >> great. that's not all he said. we'll have more coming up. >>> massive rip currents slamming coasts across the country as two hurricanes pack a punch just ahead of the holiday weekend. what were the hurricanes thinking? >> mornings are better with friends. >> it's time for "fox & friends." >> good morning, everybody. thanks for being with us here. hey, steve. >> hey, brian. >> good to see you guys. >> a lot happening. >> in the middle east, here and president also fascinating, he thought this was a great time to bring up global warming. >> at least he's not golfing. i'll tell you what, we start this hour with a fox news alert. ainsley earhardt joins us to tell about another bp explosion. last one very bad. >> this happened while most of you were sleeping. rocking bp, this time in indiana just east of chicago. a compressor blew up sparking a fire. the fire department didn't have to wait for that call. they actually felt the blast and they called bp. the fire is out, thank goodness. n

. >> the ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of iraq and syria is a threat to our own security here in the u.k. >> nato says russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed into ukraine. a clear violation of the country's sovereignty. moscow denies the accusations. and with charlie's chocolate factory originally a little more crowded. we'll tell you about the role of the characters who didn't make the cut. >> welcome to our news on public television in america and around the globe. today, the u.k. raised the terror threat level from substantial to severe in response to the conflict in syria and iraq. that means an attack is highly likely. but the government says there's no intelligence to suggest that it's imminent. here's a portion of british prime minister david cameron's remarks explaining what led to today's announcement. >> we've all been shocked and sickened by the barbaric murder american journalist james foley and the voice of a british terrorist recorded on that video. it was clear evidence not that any more was needed, that this is not some foreign co