here, muslims also believe abraham came to visit ishmael and together they built ishmael's first housey built the first house of worship. the bible doesn't mention mecca. instead, it tells us abraham finally found a permanent home in kanaan. he and sarah had settled into their old age, perhaps at last enjoying some measure of tranquility after all they had endured. then, unexpected visitors appeared and changed their lives again. >> abraham looks up. he sees three men. he greets them, he welcomes them. sarah hurries to make them a meal. hospitality is quintessential. >> in nomadic cultures, travelers in these barren landscapes could never have survived without the kindness of strangers. >> when you're out wandering into a new village and you meet someone and they offer you a cup of coffee or tea, i mean, those are the moments that define abraham for me. >> thank you. >> what do we have here? i'm christiane. very nice to meet you. afnagoran brought me to a stop where a baudoten named nasser offers travelers of all faith to share a meal with him. delicious. his meal is one like sarah and

he had already been told to send his first son, ishmael, away.ac was left at home. >> abraham, for better or for worse, is used to hearing god's voice. and one day, as the torah tells us in genesis 22, god decides to test abraham. and he says, take your son. your only son. whom you love, and offer him as a sacrifice at the place that i will show you. >> god was telling abraham to kill his own son. ♪ >> you would think that that story is so barbaric that it would have died out over time. instead, jews read it in their holiest week of the year on rosh hashanah. christians read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year, on easter. muslims read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year. >> to this day, the story is commemorated by muslims all over the world on a holiday called aid al atta. the hassan family are american muslims living in new jersey. one son, youssef, is about the same age abraham's son would have been. and he's trying to imagine how he would have felt. >> he was probably extremely scared at what was going to h

he had already been told to send his first son ishmael away.ft at home. >> abraham, for better or for worse, is used to hearing god's voice. and one day, as the torah tells us in genesis 22, god decides to test abraham. and he says, take your son. your only son. whom you love, and offer him as a sacrifice at the place that i will show you. >> god was telling abraham to kill his own son. ♪ >> you would think that that story is so barbaric that it would have died out over time. instead, jews read it in their holiest week of the year on rosh hashanah. christians read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year, on easter. muslims read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year. >> to this day, the story is commemorated by muslims all over the world on a holiday called aid al atta. the hassan family are american muslims living in new jersey. one son, youssef, is about the same age abraham's son would have been. and he's trying to imagine how he would have felt. >> he was probably extremely scared at what was going to happen. an

i say ishmael reporting that from janet's back. recheck of small stores were falling across the world and remembering the victims of typhoon high tea on the following last month's deadly storm a memorial service held at the philippine city of talk about today. local people help sessions this well was the site of mass graves containing the remains of some of the five thousand seven hundred people lost their lives and that the most powerful storm on record calling out for a unilateral ceasefire following on from a round of peace talks and have kanye colombia's top rebel group is calling for homes to lay down for thirty days starting on the fifteenth of december. watson long running home conflict with the government the heads of the president on monday when santos has so far made no such offer of a ceasefire the drubbing at the polls the most is a key test ahead of next year's general elections india's ruling congress party suffered heavy defeats in state polls losing ground to the hindu nationalist policy and to a new anti growth pol

. >> the only exception to that rule tonight, is 40-year-old ishmael. >> i just know that i'm here and arrested and read my right. >> okay. >> you don't know why you're here? >> i'm going to read my right. i'm not going -- there is not wrongs, there is nothing -- i'm just -- you know -- >> although police have him on the phone making a deal for sex with a female under cover, this native of morocco insists he has done nothing wrong. >> you took your phone, you dialed a number. >> okay. >> you made a date with a girl to buy sex. >> no. >> oh, what were you doing then? >> no. >> what were you doing then, if you weren't dialling the number and calling undercover officer to have sex, then what were you doing? >> no, no, no. >> you're smart man. >> i'm a smart man. >> are you educated? you seem educated. >> nothing about nothing. there is nothing about sex that was discussed with anybody. >> then why are you here? were you grocery shopping? >> no. >> so they jumped out and got you for nothing? because you did nothing? >> yes. >> what is your excuse for being here? >> i have no -- what is my

when maintenance man ishmael strickland found the lifeless body of a boy. >> on the seventh day a maintenancean spotted a body tossed down into the woods behind a parking lot at a suburban office complex. >> the bank was fairly steep. >> medical examiner joseph burton had to hold on to a rope to get down to the scene. >> he had a ligature mark on his neck like if somebody had a ligature and they were behind you or off to the side behind you and they closed their hands or fists together and pulled the ligature, basically. >> in other words, killed from behind. >> most likely, yes. >> all right. let me place another sample on this side. >> state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. >> i can recall at one autopsy pulling a fiber off of one of the victims. it was a green carpet fiber and mounted the sample on the slide went over and looked under the microscope and it's the same one. >> you knew right then? >> knew right then. >> apparent it's another victim of atlanta's child killer or killers. >> local television carried these pictures live from the crime scene. >> as it was

. >> in the end, of course, ishmael lived, isaac lived. >> taking this journey with my own son broughtn the most profound and visceral way. it was a reminder of how personal the stories of our ancient relixed texted can feel, and why they can remain so powerful even to this daise. >>> coming up, from the holy land to america's heartland. so why are we headed for branson, missouri? and what koo we uncover there about the spectacular story of joseph? the answer when "back to the beginning with christiane amanpour" returns. cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat all that. it doesn't? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. oh, what a relief it is! plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. if yand you're talking toevere rheuyour rheumatologistike me, about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists and turns. this is humira helping to

is omar ishmael, policy advisor for enough. it aims to end genocide and crimes against humanity.e understand that south sudan government committed to a ceasefire. realistically how long will it last? >> i don't know how long it will last. we see that the fighting will continue up north, around the town of malaka and around the oil fields in bentiu and other locations. we are not sure if that suggestion of a ceasefire will last. the government of south sudan appeared to have committed themselves to this. but dr riyadh had not. he is setting up conditions that had to be met before he can commit himself to the ceasefire. >> behind the cease fire the conflict took a toll in a couple of weeks. more than 1,000 people have been killed in the last two weeks. over-120,000 have been displaced. given everything that is happening, what do the south sudan need most right now? >> the south sudanese need security. the people in juba and in other towns and villages across south sudan are moving. and they are displaced. a number of people reported, between 150 to 200,000 have been displaced. we n

twin sons survived a throw from their three-story window. 11-month-old twins israel and ishmael, andtell me how this all went down? >> well, we woke up to, like, the smell of smoke and jermaine was screaming, get out of the building, get out, everybody was on fire. >> and you're downstairs? where are you at this point? >> i was actually in my apartment. so we're on the same floor, but i got out early enough to get to work. i was exiting my apartment and i smell it. so i opened the tore. i went down the stairs. as i'm going down the stairs, the smell started to get stronger. so i knocked on the first apartment on the second floor. standing there, i looked to the left where the next apartment was. that's where it was black with the smoke coming out on. so i ran to that door and i started knocking. i called the neighbors downstairs. >> so you're a hero for so many people in this building getting them out because you smelled it first. but what are you thinking about? you're worried about your little boys and getting them out. >> definitely. because at first, we were trying to go through

. >> reporter: on the streets of soweto, ishmael and peggy both came of age under apartheid rule, spentart of the day showing their 6-year-old daughter where mandela once lived. >> and about our history and what has happened before. >> reporter: mandela's death presents a teachable moment for parents of south africa's so-called born free. those born post-apartheid. in terms of the day-to-day reality of living under apartheid, what things couldn't you do that she can? >> oh, like go to the school of my choice. go play in a park if i wanted to. >> reporter: meantime, also over the weekend, details of mandela's final hours began to emerge. johannesburg's sunday times weekly reporting mandela's last breath was his own. for now, however, it is his life, not his death, that the people of south africa choose to remember. >> i am judged by the content of my character and not by the color of my skin. >> reporter: president obama expected to arrive here early tuesday south african time. he will speak at the memorial. we don't know what his remarks will be. we're a few days away from summer here s