i.s. summit. >> john kerry reported progress tanks to more than 1000 airstrikes launched since august. >> he emphasized that the fight will take years. we'll have more from that meeting in a moment, but first, this report from northern syria. >> this is what is left of kobani. the mainly kurdish population has fled, leaving a shattered ghost town that has become a similar the threat posed by jihadist islamic state. stopping the group's brutal rise is the ambitious goal. cooperation between western and arab states is being touted as its first success. >> our diversity is in fact a source of remarkable strength because it gives us the credibility and breadth of reach to move against i.s. not only in iraq and syria but to counter any support that might exist for it anywhere in the world. >> the german foreign minister said the gulf could play an important role. as islamic countries, they were in a unique position to counter the i.s.'s propaganda. >> europeans and americans cannot do it. it ha

the i.s. is saying that it was done by a heat-seeking missile, which of course will raise questions about the level of armament that they can deploy and also the countermeasures. normally you have his distracting balloons if there is jeopardy. so there will be a lot of questions why this event has occurred. >> the statement was pretty brief, one was confirmation, and the other saying they hold the islamic state responsible for the pilot's safety. there will be huge concern now over that issue. >> reporter: absolutely. i.s., we all know, specializes in brutal beheadings and killing of captives. so they certainly wouldn't turn a hair on the idea of certainly gaining maximum publicity by putting the pilot to death. obviously there will be a delicate game going on, the jordanians will be trying to put pressure. already they're on the wrong side of the fence as far as the i.s. is concern, they're part of the american coalition, jets are going around taking action against i.s. it could be the i.s. w

the i.s. is saying it was done by a heat-seeking missile, which raises question about the level of armament they can deploy and also the counter measures. they're normally using heat balloons. so there are a lot of questions about why this event has occurred. there will be huge concern now over that issue. >> absolutely. i. >> as we all know, obviously there will be a delicate game going on. the jordanians will try to put pressure. already they're on the wrong side of the fence as far as i.s. is concerned. they're part of the american coalition. so obvious think there are great fears for the pilot's life. but it could be that iceit will hang on to for i think we're going to see a lot of behind-the-scenes pushing and pulling over this unfortunate pilot who has fallen into i.s. hands. >> jim muir there in beirut, thanks very much. we have with us a consultant fellow at the think thank and he was a former officer. what's the clearly i.s. saying they shot the plane down but that may not in terms o

card the i.s. has released.e bears responsibility for his safety. so confirming that one of its pilots has been captured. this is the film i.s. has posted on social media. the jordanian army saying a pilot has been captured and the islamic army bares responsibility for his safety. the jordanian authorities said to his father they were doing everything they could to ensure his safe return and his father appealing to i.s. not to harm his son. those the latest official reports coming from the jordanian army. >> now, in the democratic republic of congo, the unemployment rate there is extremely high. one of the safest career paths is to become a priest or pastor but it's no easy endeavor. it's become being increasingly competitive. several worship schools have emerged and they teach what has little to do with theological knowledge and more about show business. >> reporter: if you don't possess pastoral talents, go to teaching school. it helps them also how to put on a great show. >> there is competition because churc

. >> and i.s. has pasted that picture of the pilot himself being surrounded by militant and his father making a direct appeal to i.s. as well. >> absolutely. it's a very grim and unfortunate situation. he looks as though he was fished out of the river there. he seems to have jettison's his uniform. maybe he was trying to evade capture or whatever. we don't know. as you say, the photos are of him surrounded by large number of islamic state militants. raqqa the effective capital of the area controlled by islamic state and a number targets we know have been struck in and around the city over the air, during the air campaign in the past few weeks. >> do militant experts think i.s. has the weaponry to bring down a fighter jet? >> i don't think it's a surprise. they have a shoulder fire missiles that are rife in the region. the interesting thing will be if this plane was brought down, what brought it down. islamic state in the past has brought down iraqi and syrian helicopters. they've overrun large numb

despite i.s. claims that it was hit by a missile, the american military insisted it was not shot down, but crashed. as the militants retrieved bits of the jet, the americans and their allies were launching an urgent investigation, which they said would take some time. the plane's cockpit cover and other parts are now being shown off by i.s. as trophies. they have a ferocious record of butchering captives. the first lieutenant and his family will be praying he's more valuable to them alive than dead. jim muir, bbc news, beirut. >>> stay with us here on "bbc world news." still lots more to come. shopping online is increasingly a trend online, but how do all those packages get to the customers? we follow china's internet giant. ♪ wellllll... ♪ earlyfit ♪ latefit ♪ risefit ♪ fallfit ♪ ballfit ♪ wallfit ♪ pingfit ♪ pongfit ♪ pingfit ♪ pongfit ♪ rowfit ♪ throwfit ♪ slowfit ♪ olliefit ♪ oopsfit ♪ otisfit ♪ thiswayfit ♪ thatwayfit ♪ daddyfit ♪ pappyfit ♪ datefit ♪ weightfit ♪ goalfit ♪ gooooooalfit ♪ step

i.s. advanced with tanks. we only have humvees.hat we need our helicopters, combat aircraft, and aerial support. they are saying the conditions were wrong, but the weather is fine now. we stopped the irs offensive. they are terrorists. they suffered many casualties. we are desperate for air cover. it could make all the difference. after a few hours of sleep, they are ready to face i.s. again. territory that took two weeks to gain was lost in just four hours. if we look over there, you can see the perimeter of the base. outside is anbar. most of that province is in the control of islamic state and sunni militants. for the moment, all that is standing between them and the islamic state are these men. airstrip, the dead and injured week together. the men have been hit hard. they hang from the camp perimeter mourning the loss of the fallen. we thought we came here to see a military offensive. instead, we found a retreat. the soldiers are on edge. they cannot stay on the ground for long. movement is spotted nearby. warning shots are fir

it accused i.s. of carrying out mayhem and murder against innocents in syria and iraq, and held it fully responsible for the pilot's life. he's been identified, described by his family as a dedicated airman and a devout muslim who believed the extremists had to be combatted. can i.s. now use him as a bargaining trip to prise jordan away from the coalition? that seems unlikely. >> jordan will continue its fight against terrorism and we know we will win, because this is the right thing to do and this is for the sake of our security and stability. of this country. >> reporter: at the pilot's home in southern jordan, great concern among friends and relatives. he comes from a well-known family. >> translator: we are asking our king to save moaz, to rescue him by any means. moaz is one of those that we hold dear. the whole tribe cherish him. >> reporter: activists on the ground said the plane came down in the eastern part of raqqah province. the american military insisted it was not shot down, but crashed.

there's a lot more work to do to clear i.s. from the whole area, and of course, the town of sinjar, which lies to the south of the mountains on the far side, remains in islamist hands. so the work is still there lying ahead, but the kurds i think are pretty happy that this operation went very swiftly and basically they have achieved their objectives in less than 48 hours. >> right. a big operation for them, clearly. so. 8,000 peshmerga involved. how big would you say -- how big a deal is this in terms of the ebb and flow of the conflict with i.s.? >> well, if you're taking it as the overall struggle against i.s., the whole shebang, this is just a nibble at the edge, right. because you've got the whole of the rest of these sunni areas of iraq, plus, of course, big parts of northeast and northern syria to contend with. and the complications outside the kurdish area are massive. both iraq where the army has really not been in very good shape. a lot of shia militias are piling in, but that's complicated. you can't overrun very safe

how shall we fight down i.s.? isis is much stronger than the afghan taliban, and i know the afghan taliban very well. i met their leaders and i met their fighters. this group is much stronger. >> you talked about life on the ground among the islamic state militants, how they are building schools, how they are building loyalty among sunni muslims. you did not talk about the systemic rain of sunni women and children something we saw in horrific detail in a report by amnesty. did you not witness any of that going on? >> i did not see that. if this happens, if a systemic rain would happen, then they wouldn't show it to me. but i saw prisoners, normal prisoners. i saw a lot of things, a lot of horrible things. it is very clear they have killed many people, made women to slaves. you can buy slaves. you have slavery in this country, and this is something that i can not accept. but they think that slavery is normal. slavery was normal under christians at the beginning -- >> did you see children taken as slaves? we had gir

this point where i'm standing now until just two weeks ago was held by i.s. organization forces. just recently, the kurds have managed to push them back. we're understanding now the forces whose mood has been boosted enormously over the last few days and the news which has just come in of the operation the other side of mosul on sinjar mountains where there is a big operation with 8,000 men has managed a corridor 70 kilometers retaking several villages from i.s. organizations, making it possible now for the refugees, for the villagers who were sieged by i.s. to leave the area if they want to. the operation is being described by the kurdish government the biggest victory in their fight against the i.s. forces. but they're critical, it has to be said, of the baghdadi government saying if they had had the heavy weaponry they have been demanding from the iraqi government in baghdad they could have done things much more effectively. they're demanding, again, that it's not just coalition aid they need, which they've been praising for the bombing attacks that have been launched over the

it's been under siege by i.s. militias for weeks. kurds say not only is turkey turning a blind eye when goods reach the terrorists, they're also able to get additional weapons and fighters. a kurdish-affiliated television station managed to shoot footage of a group of armed men crossing the border without being stopped. shortly afterwards, they were shot and killed, presumably by kurdish units. to prevent more fighters from illegally crossing the border, kurdish volunteers have secured the area near kobane. for weeks, hundreds of self-appointed guards have been holed up in border villages. they go out on patrols each night, according to these kurds from istanbul. >> when we catch someone crossing the border, we hand them over to the authorities. but the police here are not to be trusted. >> they try everything to drive us out. but i.s. is able to organize resupplies of weapons and additional fighters without a problem. and they go the other way. if they get cornered, they flee over here. >> on this night there's not much activity. th

muslims are denouncing i.s. violence. >> we must get together and try to stop this group from damaging islam. >> there are loads of muslim people from various backgrounds, cultures, speaking out and condemning the actions of isis, kind of regarding them as a kind of terrorist organization, basically saying, this is not what our religion stands for. this is a religion rooted in peace, only peace, and this is not what we believe in. >> but the i.s. propaganda machine has also successfully used social media to recruit young people to its cause. in this video, british muslims try to persuade their countrymen to engage in jihad. but some 500 fighters in syria and a rat come from the u.k.. they also target young women, urging them to come and cook and so for the fighters. and estimated 60 british young women may have joined the jihadists. among them, this 15-year-old from bristol, who is believed to be in syria. she cannot understand why. she is 19 and is pursuing a degree in oriental studies. she thinks muslim women

it's been under siege by i.s. militias for weeks. kurds say not only is turkey turning a blind eye when goods reach the terrorists, they're also able to get additional weapons and fighters. a kurdish-affiliated television station managed to shoot footage of a group of armed men crossing the border without being stopped. shortly afterwards, they were shot and killed, presumably by kurdish units. to prevent more fighters from illegally crossing the border, kurdish volunteers have secured the area near kobane. for weeks, hundreds of self-appointed guards have been holed up in border villages. they go out on patrols each night, according to these kurds from istanbul. >> when we catch someone crossing the border, we hand them over to the authorities. but the police here are not to be trusted. >> they try everything to drive us out. but i.s. is able to organize resupplies of weapons and additional fighters without a problem. and they go the other way. if they get cornered, they flee over here. >> on this night there's not much activity. th

the campaign against i.s. may be a long one but many wonder what will actually be left in this scarred region even if this battle can be won. jonathan marcus, bbc news, brussels. >> pretty blown-up there. to more on the battle of the islamic state, i spoke a short time ago to former nato ambassador nicholas burns who joined us from boston. nick burns this, fight against islamic state, whichever way you look and whatever the evidence or not of iran's involvement is producing strange bed fellows, sent it? >> it certainly is. i think this is an important meeting today. in addition to the air strikes that the united states and allies have been conducting, there has to be a political coalition that's willing to isolate isis and try to interdict finances and try to discourage young men and women from joining its ranks but you're right, producing strangest possible partners. here you have two countries that have not talked to each other much, u.s. and iran on the same side of the struggle thrk particular struggle. i

and i think i.s. is quite a big brand at the moment and therefore association with that brand is something that extremists might seek and that is something that we are seeing and not an enormous extent but to some extent looking both east and west and the area you describe and areas of north africa. >> all of these are manifestations. some of them regional, cultural, of this extremist ideological and now the islamic state for the loyalty and the allegiance or baghdady and what you talk about in pakistan and afghanistan, is a manifestation of issues we've had in al qaeda and taliban areas and afghani. and through a slightly different prison with i.s. so the brand name which we picked up, and the arabian peninsula, is becoming a bit of i.s. in the fatah, i.s. in the saw hill. there is a bit of competition for that. which brand is most attractive. but the core of it is this very, very unpleasant ideological. aol. . . idealismological. idealismlogica. .

the danger on its home territory suspect from i.s. but from the militants' ideas, and those it's struggling to keep at bay. quentin sommerville, bbc news, ma'n in jordan. >> we've just had news through the world food program that has announced it is suspending critical food aid to more than 1.7 million syrian refugees in neighboring countries. this includes refugees in jordan, lebanon, turkey, iraq, and egypt. it says that without food aid, many families will go hungry this winter. do stay with us here on "gmt." plenty more to come, including the business in the next half-hour. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it's so, what's the word?... sexy. go national. go like a pro. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know,

others suggest an extension of prisoners between jordan and the i.s. terror group. jordanian authorities say they would do everything in their power to save the fighter pilot. it's the first time in aircraft has gone down since the start of airstrikes between i.s. and the u.s.-led coalition, and the circumstances are still unclear. the washington and allies were quick to deny the plane was shot down by militants. web users have been voicing opposition to the territorial reforms that would see alcase merge with other local regions. a lot of locals are unhappy with the plan. even though the national assembly has already passed the proposal. france's new regional boundaries bringing the number of departments under 13 is set to come in a force on january 1, 2016. who to sleep at 6 p.m. and got up at one a.m. to go to work. he went to bed at 3:00 a morning and got up at 10:00 to start writing again. sigmund freud spent just six hours per night between 1:00 a.m. at 7:00 a.m. sleeping. this was put together by "new york" magazine m pacifica this is democracy now. >> it is

what's the sense of progress against i.s. is it made or not? >> reporter: i was at the front yesterday. southwest of here an hour's drive they have cleared six villages from i.s. i talked to a general that said american strategy is going to only be making slow and difficult progress as long as the kurds who are doing much of the fighting in this area are not armed with heavy weapons. >> thank you. >>> thousands of people have lined the streets of eastern australia for the funeral of the 25 phillip hughes. he died last week after being hit by a bull in a match. john is in his hometown. >> today australia paid tribute to the young boy from the country who made the big time. an estimated 5 now, mourners attended the service in the tiny town where phillip hughes grew up. among them, great and good of cricket world as well as the australian prime minister tony abbott. the bowler who bowled the fatal delivery was also here. most have huge sympathy for him. the the congregation heard of a young player knocked down at the prime of life. >> phillip's sp

they were preventing i.s. militants to reach the mountain. now they say they have recaptured an area the size of around seven hundred square kilometers and this has received by kurdish community, by yazidi refugees with joy. many people are hoping this might pave the way for recapturing the city of sinjar. >> now, i remember you making trips and overflights of this area over recent months, and you obviously focused on the suffering of the yazidi civilians. what is the latest we know about those hundreds, maybe even a few thousands civilians who have remained on the mountain? are they now leaving? are they able to leave? >> well, many of them, they don't want to leave. we don't know exactly how many w yazidis are trapped in the mountain, because it's massive, big in the middle of the desert. many people in different corners of the mountain were hiding. nobody knew exactly how many people were there. some of the families have expressed they want to leave the mountain and join their relatives and families who are in refugee camps in some other a

. >> when you look at what's happening now with i.s.utting out these videos of beheadings, what is that meant to do? >> it's meant to deliver a message especially a message to the west. groups lie is, groups like al-qaeda, the only thing they want in this world is they want a religious war. they want civilizations, the essential element was a sectarian war in syria. >> brought a lot of recruits from around the world. but we cannot take that war in syria without taking what's happening with the global jihadi movement, the narrative that has been ignored since 2001, and has allowed to make bin ladenism today a bigger force than it used to be in 2001. in 2001, for example, september of 2001, bin laden had 400 followers. today, there are thousands and thousands of people who adhere to the idea of bin ladenism all the way from nigeria to southeast asia. there are many reasons that's making people join. however, to the most part, there is one thread in common between all of these people that's come from about 90 different current tries to fig

with i.s,i.l. routinely firing on the helicopters as they leave. and the local persmerga general have come down to report back to the kurdish president. >> translator: every hour that passes is crucial. it's urgent. i'm very worried about the civilians in a dire situation. >> translator: asking the international coalition and particularly the u.s. and also everyone who cares about this injustice to help because winter is coming and my people are desperate. >> reporter: the general says a joint force of volunteer fighters and kurdish soldiers are protecting as many as 10,000 people. and he and his family escaped but they fear for those left behind. >> translator: our people need clothes because they are freezing and food because a thousand families are trapped. this is urgent. we need to get people off because the weather is freezing. >> reporter: with the weather still good the helicopters load up again. making as many flights a day as possible and take as much aid as possible on to the sinjar mountain and evacuate people off the mountain and it wi

i'm guessing, i don't think it's something directed by i.s. i expect it's one disturbed, possibly deranged person thinking he's doing the work of allah, but he's not. >> what about tony abbott's position in this. he's been described as a hard liner, he's obstinant when it comes to international positions vis-a-vis australia and what is happening in the middle east. he's not likely to change, is he? >> no, i don't think so. abbott follows the conservative line you expect to get from david cameron in brisbane. to some extent from president obama in the united states. but it's not just an abbott thing. you'll find that the opposition, the labour party is at one with the government on this sort of thing. a rigid and village leapt opposition to terror. if this is some lone half wit, it's an act of terror to take hostages, and to wave a black flag is an act of terror. >> mike, thank you very much indeed. get back to us if you see or here of anything you think we may be interested in. >> writer and historian, mike carlton in sydney. these are picture

they could weaken i.s. capabilities by 70% to 80% through more air strikes. >> reporter: this is just one victory that comes after a string of major defeats. but coalition air strikes and training are making a difference. iraq's army are back in the fight. quentin sommerville, bbc news, northern iraq. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge are still in new york where they've attended a basketball game. there were protests outside the stadium over the decisions not to indict white policeman who killed unarmed black suspects in separate incidents in ferguson and staten island. this report from nicolas mitchell does contain some flash photography. >> back in new york after his brief visit to washington and the white house and reyoited with his wife, and once again william was spreading the message about the importance of wildlife conservation. they joined hillary clinton and her daughter chelsea at a reception in aid of wildlife charities supported by william. and once again, he spoke about the threat posed by

and i think i.s. is quite a big brand at the moment and therefore association with that brand is something that extremists might seek and that is something that we are seeing and not an enormous extent but to some extent looking both east and west and the area you describe and areas of north africa. >> all of these are manifestations. some of them regional, cultural, of this extremist ideological and now the islamic state for the loyalty and the allegiance or baghdadi and what you talk about in pakistan and afghanistan, is a manifestation of issues we've had in al qaeda and taliban areas and afghani. and through a slightly different prison with i.s. so the brand name which we picked up, and the arabian peninsula, is becoming a bit of i.s. in the fatah, i.s. in the saw hill. there is a bit of competition for that. which brand is most attractive. but the core of it is this very, as i said, the scale and the l velocity of the isis advance through the direction back then. that's what was surprising. >>> a

areas in syria and in iraq, the i.s.g to carry out effectively and enforce program of additional fighters from men and young adolescent boys? >> i think it is fair to say that's what's happening. there's a sense of fear that the isil uses in order to force individuals who perhaps when they are -- with intent to fight. britains, some of them who have returned or come back to europe have said that they were monitored and if they were seen not to continue to fight with the same level of energy that they went out there, then they would actually be killed or somehow persecuted. you are right. i think there's a massive amount of fear and brutality that isil is using in order to contain the ranks. >> at the moment, the consulate is running from a seventh floor. is that good enough? doest allow service? >> i visited. when we arrived, i share my surprise that we had arrived at the consulate's location. what is fair to say is that where things were in june, where the country was -- where the kurdish region was going in june is in

it does not say because caused the crash but confirms the i.s. is now holding the jordanian pilot hostage. those are the headlines for you here on france 24. thank you for joining us. first, pope francis's celebrity christmas today at the vatican with his traditional message to the world's 1.2 billion catholics. he used those words today to focus his attention on all of those weeping in the world this christmas, singling out refugees, hostages, and all this suffering and conflicts in the middle east, africa, and ukraine. >> jesus is the salvation for every person and for every people. i ask him, the savior of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in iraq and syria. for too long now, they have suffered the effects of ongoing conflict. together with those born to other ethnic and religious groups, they are suffering a brutal persecution. collects>> let's go to the vatican to get more from our reporter. >> it was a very strong message a somber message for those around the world celebrating what is normally a joyful occasion, the birth of

but president i.s. has suggested he would have preferred the have the journalists deported. perhaps a sign that he was aware of the damage this case was doing to egypt's reputation. but as 2014 comes to an end, al jazeera's team remains in jail, having committed no crimes. andrew simmons, al jazeera. >> while the social media campaign to free our colleagues has reached around the world the one year rk ordeal last played out online. >> whilst we prefer the have them outside this is #freeajstaff hashtag sort of afternoon during europe, mortgage in the united states and evening through asia and asia pacific. there's good strength particularly through europe, london and the netherlands were strong and africa, that is where peter greste was based based in nairobi before he was arrested. how does that actually translate into numbers? if we look at the graph this is 3:30 p.m. doha time. 12:30 london time, just after a big protest had started outside the egyptian embassy. 317 tweets per minute with the #freeajstaff hashtag in it. the average was three every 9 and a half minutes. wha

mosul is i.s. heartland. no westerner has been over since he took over. he found i.s.hen -- unperturbed. everyone left must abide by strict shari'a law. he found women virtually invisible. men are even instructed on how to position themselves when they pray. now safely back home, he told me of a terrifying trip. >> i thought i would meet a brutal terrorist group, and i met a brutal country. the leaders are fighters of a very brutal and very powerful country. >> in mosul, he heard the police no longer need to carry out violent punishments. fear, it seems, is a powerful e deterrent. he negotiated access with the german jihadi for months, managing to get paperwork from the so-called office of the kalif. >> i had the impression they want to show that their islamic state is working. >> he saw how they're pumping out propaganda. >> these are new brochures, which explain to the population of mosul, of the islamic state how to treat the slaves, how to treat women, how to pray, and so on. >> reporter: women are left in no doubt how they must dress. children who should be in sch

for instance, i.s. in the middle east. or is he purely a self-starter, a loan actor work by himself. >> if it does emerge that he has acted alone, is this the kind of thing that australian officials were bracing themselves for? >> to be honest, it's the kind of thing that a lot of countries are bracing themselves for. we've seen a shift from large scale plots by groups towards so-called lone actors. sometimes one or two. sometimes radicalized on the internet. sometimes by contact with a few other people. and we've also had calls from the group calling itself i.s., islamic state, to go out and do something effectively, to just do something, rather than organize something, just go out and act themselves. so we've seen incidents, for instance in canada, but also in australia, we've seen concerns recently and arrests regarding this growing concern about the self-starters or lone actors, which are much harder for the authorities to spot. the large cells or networks connecting and communicating with each other and perhaps groups

i.s. uses social media as a powerful tool to put across its propaganda.ic state is well ahead of the game when it comes to using social media. >> if you look at islamic state in particular, they have a media wing, which produces jihadist hymns and it has a very high productivity and a very large reach. >> and why is it, do you think, that it works so well? i mean, there's no one actually challenging it half the time, is there? >> exactly. that's the greatest problem we face. at the moment, there are a number of different groups of individuals, supporters of jihadists, whether they be in syria or islamic state in iraq and syria, there's not that many voices that are actually challenging the narratives that these guys are promoting. and that does make for a very large problem. >> and what are the main narratives? how are they selling themselves? >> the primary narrative is that there is a war on islam and that these are the jihadists. these jihadists are the vanguard, which is seeking to overturn the global status quo, so that means getting rid of israel, g

-led campaign against i.s. started back in september. this month, air strikes have been intensifying as the mission to degrade and destroy islamic state in iraq and syria continues. >> this is the first time a pilot coalition hs been captured. so far, there have been no public demands or conditions set for his release. islamist gunmen in somalia attacked the main base of african union peacekeepers today. the al-shabab militants struck in mogadishu, the capital city. an a.u. military spokesman said eight of the attackers were killed in the resulting gun battle. al-shabab controlled much of mogadishu for four years, until 2011, when the peacekeepers drove them out. and in indonesia today, thousands remembered a day of disaster. ten years ago tomorrow a catastrophic tsunami killed nearly some 230,000 people in 14 countries, most of them in indonesia. today, a church in banda aceh, a city that was all but wiped out by the giant wave, held a special christmas service. and, thousands flocked to a mosque that was one of the few buildings to sur

i.e., enjoy this while it lasts. >> i know you've talked about the snow in the sierras as well. we've seen plenty of snow up there. it great for businesses around lake tahoe. some hotels are completely booked through the new year. local restaurants and businesses are saying it's setting up to the the best christmas they've seen in the last three or four years. >> and sure an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so the saying goes. but how about an advil? >> does an advil a day increase longevity? >>> we told you jake peavy resigned with the giants. now norris has signed with another team. it did not take long for the warriors to get back on the winning side of things after busting their 16-game winning streaks to beat the oklahoma city thunder last night. you'll recall earlier in the week that the warriors did have a 16-game winning streak snapped by the memphis grizzlies. >> you know what they say about an aspirin a day? some found regular doses of ibuprofen extended the life of fruit flies. women are going to be cracking those little things open, smearing them all over our face.

this should be a decision, i.e. sending combat troops to iraq and syria. it should be taken by the united nations or by the anti-isis coalition by itself. but as we all know, only u.s. sentence advisors there or u.s. military advisos and troops to iraq to train the iraqi army as well as peshmergas. but it will be dangerous for turkey to unilaterally send its own forces to fight against isil. so, i think in the anti-isil coalition should make a decision that the iraqi forces, the peshmergas in syria are not enough on ground to defeat isil. i think turkey n my opinion, should allow more to the peshmerga. earlier pathway to turkey to syria to join the uid fors. >> i am afraid we are running out of time here. i have to thank you. thank you so much for your insight. appreciate it. military analyst from turkey. >>> in other news, a highly sought after leader of al shabaab has been caught in the genno region. the state department offered $3 million for information leading to his arrest. heavy rains in southeast asia have led to major flooding and landslides. more

that it has people inside of pakistan that may have been sympathetic before looking at things like i.s. and saying oh, no, that could be us. >> i wish that were the case. we've seen these so-called water shed events in the past we've seen them make demands and then renege. thithese are times when pakistanis would stop and ask what are they doing. you see public support for taliban decline, in other words, becoming more ambivalent, and that attitude relaxed within a month. i think the real problem that pakistan has, and i think it's fundamentally revealed by this issue this issue is they may be saying we're not going to differentiate between good taliban and bad taliban. they will identify those individuals who will kilpack stakillkill pakistanis. i remain skeptical. and then there are larger structural matters. pakistan's rule of law systems have long come under criticism. even if there were a will to do things quite differently, you would have to go through the laundry list of things that have to take place that involved legislation in a country that is notorious fought to legislature