we have karl penhaul with more. >> reporter: david haynes is in his 40s from scotland. he was kidnapped by isis fighters in march of 2013. he was helping out with tents and delivering water and food to some of the refugee populations and displaced inside syria close to the turkish border. no word on any government efforts to negotiate his way out or perhaps rescue him. the government said all options are on the table. as you look at him and also look at the execution who is believed to be british as well, people in britain are saying what is in the mindset of britains to fight for isis in syria. over the weekend, i was talking to the family of the man who became britain's first suicide bomber in february. they described he was a normal person by all accounts. not within the profile you would expect. he was a pakistani origin. his parents were pakistani. he was born and bred outside london. he was in his 40s. he had a wife and three children. he initially went to syria with an aid project with the aid convoy that goes there. at the refugee camps, that is where he met isi

es karl penhaul, periodista de la cadena cnn. nos. >> me parece que estos han sido de blancos de oportunidad mÁs bien, o sea, porque la cantidad de periodistas han entrado en siria desde la frontera con turquÍa para observar, para reportar sobre la guerra interna, sobre la guerra civil de siria desde hace varios aÑos, isis, cuando empezÓ a cambiar desde otros grupos yihadistas a esta forma mÁs extremista, entonces dio la oportunidad de agarrar, de secuestrar a civiles extranjeros, y en este caso la gran mayorÍa era o periodistas o personas que habÍan ido a siria para ayudar con esfuerzos humanitarios y simplemente era un blanco muy fÁcil. >> ¿cÓmo creció isis, karl? ¿por quÉ a estados unidos y al presidente barack obama parece que los tomaron por sorpresa? >> a mÍ me sorprende un poco que estamos hablando de la llegada sorpresiva de isis. es muy claro la ruta que tomÓ para crecer en lo que hoy en dÍa es el estado islÁmico. empezÓ con al qaeda en irak. o sea, yo me acuerdo incluso en los aÑos 2005, 2006, cuando estaba en irak cubri

cnn's karl penhaul is live with more in london and the isis media machine. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, christine. as you say, john cantlie, a photo journalist, was kidnapped in november of 2012. he was traveling with james foley, the american journalist executed. they were kidnapped at the same time. what the pair were working on was, in fact, a report about a previous kidnapping that cantlie was involved in in 2012 for a period of seven days and managed to escape. he was taken in 2012, november, that was the second time around for him. now in the hands of isis fighters, he has been there much longer. now this new video that isis has put out is very different from the previous hostage videos. it shows cantlie sitting at a desk almost broadcast news style and saying he will put out a series of reports in the coming weeks of the truth about isis. he says yes, you may think i'm saying this because i'm a prisoner. of course i am a prisoner. he also says he is doing this because he feels he has been abandoned by the british government at a time when

karl penhaul is joining us from london right now. w that they've posted still photos, karl, on twitter and elsewhere, is that right, this is coming from isis? >> wolf, in fact, a video has also been posted online. we're showing you right now, the stills, again, that is part of our editorial policy. not to show and reflect the isis propaganda videos that are going out and also to try to remember these people in life rather than in death. but, yes, this isis video, a little over two minutes in length. once against, we are seeing a man with an apparent british accent dressed in head to toe in black. apart from sand colored desert combat boots. he has a knife in his left hand. the opening words there from steven sotloff saying that "you know who i am by now and you know why i am here." that is the prelude, really, to what then comes, and later on in this video, we see, once again, that apparently british accented executioner then pointing his knife into the camera once again, as he did with that brutal execution video of james foley, sayi

thank you, karl penhaul. >>> 37 minutes past the hour.ent launching a massive social media blitz against isis by using the terror groups footage. they hope the video "welcome to the isis stateland" hurts recruitment. more than 100 americans have traveled overseas to join radical groups. urging viewers to think again and turn away from the terror organization. secretary of state john kerry is heading to the middle east as early as today to strengthen the coalition against isis. >>> time for an early start on your money. mixed with the poll showing scotland favors independence causing uncertainty in the u.k. u.s. stock futures are lower. stocks are in record territory. s&p closed at a record high on friday. the bull market has been running for more than 2,000 days. this is the fourth longest rally since 1928. the average bull market is 900 days. this run is already twice as long as typical. so when will the rally run out of steam? some analysts believe stocks are in a bubble that could pop soon. there are plenty of optimists who say it is n

karl penhaul, desde londres.o puede garantizarle la vida a sus habitantes frente a la amenaza de los narcotraficantes y criminales. en la entrevista, mireles retÓ al presidente de mÉxico, enrique peÑa nieto. mireles poco despuÉs fue arrestado por el supuesto cargo de posesiÓn ilegal de armas. esta es parte de la entrevista que tuvimos aquÍ con mireles, y empezamos hablando de las razones que tuvo para crear este grupo armado. >> no habÍa un absoluto control del crimen, veÍamos nosotros sin poder comentar nada que los criminales desayunaban con los federales, con los militares, con los policÍas, y sentÍamos los pobladores que eso era una burla hacia nosotros mismos, porque no tenÍamos contra quien... con quiÉn quejarnos, o a quiÉn ir a acudir para buscar ayuda. >> ya, ¿eso cambiÓ con las autodefensas? >> entonces surge la idea, duramos dos aÑos planeÁndolo. exactamente. yo le puedo garantizar que en los 14 meses que levantamos en armas este pueblo no ha vuelto a haber un secuestro, una ejecuciÓn, una extorsiÓn, mu

cnns karl penhaul. it was a dramatic speech yesterday. >> reporter: it did sound dramatic, but it was a copy paste of what he said on friday before parliament came back from holiday. what he did do is put a little more meat on the bone. so the kind of powers he is going to be looking for to fight this dreaded radical islam at home is greater police powers to seize passports and question people at airports if they are suspected of heading off to join isis. he's looking to beef up control ordered or terrorist prevention measures here in britain. that could mean taking terrorist suspect, not arresting him, not putting him on trial, but essentially putting a number of restrictive orders in place that he can't associate with old colleagues or plot terrorist measures. one of the most radical measures he was proposing is withdrawal passports of britains who were already abroad and that would prevent them from returning, effectively a modern day abanishment. this is going to have to be debated by parliament. ma

the white house, national security analyst and former cia analyst bob baer, an anna coran and karl penhaul. let me begin with you, karl. you have seen the video. i have not. walk me through what you see. >> yeah. just to set it out for you, a video of about 2 minutes and 45 seconds, very similar in style to the execution of the other u.s. journalist james foley a couple of weeks ago now also in the production of this this appear to have used two cameras. most similar, steven sotloff wearing the similar orange uniform that he was shown wearing in the threat to kill him two weeks ago and also quite importantly the apparent executioner appears to be the same man as in the james foley execution video. he appears to be the same height, weight, same build. he's waving a very similar combat knife in his left hand as was the previous man. he's also wearing some kind of pistol or automatic weapon under his left armpit as the previous man was and clad head to toe wearing a black ski mask. the only thing that changes that is the desert-american style desert combat boots. he appeared to be wearing the

. >> karl penhaul joins from us london.ow the uk foreign office released barbara henning's statement. is there a significance in that? >> well there certainly is if you look at the wording of that statement, christi. it's a very carefully worded statement, designed not to offend isis, not to condemn them in any way but to appeal to their humanity. we saw the same kind of tactic tried by steven sotloff's mother, shirley, and that, of course, unfortunately did no good but i think what is significant here is not just this statement released by alan henning's wife, but really the galvanizing of public opinion here in britain right now, both among british muslim groups and also among non-muslim groups coming together and calling for henning's release, very different from the other hostages, there seems to be a sense here that henning went in on a muslim aide convoy. he was the only non-muslim in that convoy, and so those who went with him on that convoy feel that they have the bond of trust, which is part of islam, one of its fu

our karl penhaul is in london. karl, what is the latest on this?> well, it's certainly a long trail that takes us from an islamic radical purportedly who fought in syria to an attack in brussels, in europe, and what the french journalist came out today and said at a press conference was that he believes one of the men who is responsible for beating him and torturing him during his time as a western hostage in syria is one in the same. it's the man who carried out that killing spree at a jewish museum in brussels in may and he says he holooked at video and photos offered to him by police after the attack and positively identified the man who held him and other western hostages in syria. one of the key things here, of course, is that investigators will be looking at this and seeing to see what evidence they can get. but it's unlikely that they're going to get any actionable intelligence to save other western hostages held in europe because he came back to europe in december or january and that's when he was planning for the attacks in belgium, poppy.

i don't know. >> reporter: karl penhaul, cnn, london. >> wow.rl penhaul for that. >>> coming up next, we are gonna talk with peter bergen about whether the isis threat is being overblown in terms of the threat to the homeland, to the we were world. he thinks it may be. why? we will discuss next. [ mom ] with life insurance, we're not just insuring our lives... we're helping protect his. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lo

karl penhaul, thank you. >> $1.5 million apiece, incredible. more on the battle against isis after the break. we're going to be going live to iraq. >> also ahead the latest on the search for a suspect after a police officer is shot in the tense u.s. city of ferguson, missouri. >>> welcome back. >> we'll get to the top stories but talk about the war against isis. joining me now from irbil is cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman. so, ben, we're just talking to karl penhaul about the air strikes joining us from london and know there were air strikes around irbil southwest of irbil. how are the kurdish peshmerga forces taking advantage? >> well, they are taking advantage by trying to regain ground that was lost earlier in august. to isis and to a certain extent they've been successful. they've taken a variety of villages on the road to mosul which is just about an hour's drive to the west of here but getting back to what karl was talking about with the british jets flying over iraq, but not finding targets, it seems to agree with wh

karl penhaul, cnn, london. >> karl penhaul, thank you.t jeffrey toobin. first person i thought of when i saw what the prime minister announced yesterday was you because we have this little thing called a constitution here which gives us rights and freedoms. how many of them actually match up with what the prime minister did in britain? why couldn't that happen here? >> well, it's actually a similar situation here. what people should know is the united states government, through the state department, had been taking passports from people for a long time if they are suspected of being involved in terrorism. >> suspected. >> well, this is the standard. what the law says is you can have your passport pulled if your activities abroad are causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or the foreign policy of the united states. if you're likely to cause harm to the united states, your passports can be taken. as part of the so-called war on terror, which george w. bush started, a lot of americans have lost their passport.

karl penhaul looks at how it's affecting a community. >> we are in the middle of a generational struggle. >> reporter: the prime minister's battle cry to fight radical islam. a few miles away, one of london's most deprived neighborhoods. catholic nun hand pating for her struggle 45 years. fun days like this to help everything get along. >> a bit of wisdom, if i had a cup of tea with you or i got to know you a little bit, then it's going to be harder for me to be cruel to you. >> reporter: the biggest threat, she says, is not extreme islam, but the extreme gap between rich and poor. here in the east end, social housing sits in the shadow of a premier financial district. >> we were sure there would be trickle down. it's now 20, 30 years and the trickle is awfully slow. >> critics suggest they ruled out muslim extremism for fear of appearing racist. at a bingo game, born and bred east enders speak frankly, by political correctness. >> i think it's wrong when they talk. it makes you feel -- >> they are unsettled by unfamiliar customs. >> i don't agree with that, but what can you do? >> repor

. >> so what do we know about this individual and the isis executioner in it, karl penhaul is live in london with that later this half hour. >>> the president has still not commented on the beheading of steven sotloff and the possible strategy to strike back against against isis. he's in estonia this morning to assure the allies that the u.s. will protect them against any russian aggression. we will bring it to you live. i want to bring in matthew chance, he's live from estonia's capital city tallinn. they want assurance that any future aggression they will not be alone? >> that's right, there's a couple of crises that president obama is having to deal with, first of all, this isis problem that we expect there will be a statement later on today. certainly, he'll be asked about it in the next half hour with the estonian president. the reason that president obama is here is to reassure estonia and the other baltic republics as well, the three nato states that in fact border russia, the united states stand with them. and allies stand with them in terms of russian aggression in terms of o

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cnn's karl penhaul is live in london to give us a sense of what this means. good morning, karl. >> reporter: good morning, john. this is john cantlie, as you said, an experienced photo journalist. he was kidnapped in 2012. he was traveling with james foley, the u.s. journalist executed in the horrible isis video back in august. the pair were taken at the same to time. the second time cantlie was kidnapped. it was july of that same year, he was smanatched and held for several days before he escaped. this video is different from the previous videos which isis showed hostages. it shows cantlie at a desk delivering his message saying over the coming days of the coming weeks, he will deliver a series of programs or reports on what he said the truth about isis. he said, of course, you say i'm going to say that because i'm a prisoner. i am a prisoner. reflecting duress in the message. he did appear relaxed given no presence of any isis members with knife in hand in the screen shot at least. he also went on to say that he felt abandoned by the british government while

karl penhaul is in london. karl, you spoke with people in henning convoy. what have they told you?porter: john, we spent a lot of the weekend up in his hometown in northern england. they describe alan henning as the taxi driver with the heart of gold. we have to remember about him different from the other hostages. he wasn't paid to be in syria. he was a volunteer. he went on an aid convoy from britain to syria at christmas time. we know from friends that he sacrificed christmas and family time and spent his weekend washing cars to raise money for the syrian effort. that is why friends and family say he shouldn't be there and does not deserve to die. talking to a doctor on the convoy with him. this is what she had to say to isis. >> please do not make him pay for the actions of western foreign policy. this is not his crime. and killing him will not change this. it will only undermine you and your cause. please let him go. and release him back to us and to his family and friends and his children who are waiting for him. >> reporter: alan henning was a taxi driver and nicknamed gadge

. >> cnn's karl penhaul joining us. so touching.return as an aide worker, but will this have any impact on isis. the mother of steven sotloff pleaded for his life and isis still killed him. >> reporter: i think the real frustration is that the clock is ticking down. it is a plea that comes from desperation. they are hoping, of course, that isis will hear, they are hoping that their appeals are couched in a language that isis will respond to, that they will see it is not a challenge to them, but more plea to their humanity. but steven sotloff's mother made that plea -- a carefully worded plea and isis paid no attention and beheaded him. possibly the difference here is so many muslim groups are making an appeal on bee half of alan henning because he was the only non-muslim on the convoy and the muslims felt they had a bond of trust, it was their duty to take him into syria safely and bring him back home and they hope that isis leaders will listen to that plea and to that aspect and this is why islam should be respected and they should

. >> karl penhaul is out front in london. british ambassador to the united states said they're close to identifying that man. they said that ten days ago. but at this point, do they even know who he is? >> there's certainly a lot of political tough talk going on, erin. what we wouldn't expect british intelligence services to do is come back necessarily and tell us that they have identify the man that media here have dubbed jihadi john. that executioner with the british accent. but certainly people have been working around the clock to try and identify the accent, try and identify height, stature and see if that fits with anybody that they have in the database, any of these suspects they may have been tracking before they even traveled out to syria and to iraq. so that has been going on behind the scenes. but we don't know whether in fact they've now narrowed it down, if they know who this man is and if they know, also, who his associates and possibly even who his family are back in britain, erin. but certainly they think that

. >> let's bring in cnn's karl penhaul live in london.hat do you make of that new pop beg propaganda video put out by isis, it's a different tact, right? >> reporter: absolutely carol, different from the previous hostage videos we've seen alan henning, of course, is the other briton under threat of execution by isis. we saw him kneeling at the hands of this man we know as jihadi john waving a knife over him, pretty much like steven sotloff and james foley before them, but the video with john cantley was different, he was sitting at a desk, almost broadcast news style. his hands were not tied. he was free to move his hands around, and at one stage he said oh, you may think that i'm making this statement because i'm a prisoner, and then kind of puts two fingers to his head as if to say well, yes, i am a prisoner, of course, and he says, but what i'm going to be doing over the next few days, over the next few weeks is bringing you a series of programs, a series of reports to tell you about the truth of isis, so we're going to have to keep ou

karl penhaul, cnn, amman. >> all right.short break but coming up here on cnn, new air strikes on isis, who flew the latest bombing runs in syria and what they hit. >>> plus, we'll get details from an activist in raqqah. stay with us here on cnn. ad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head-up display for enhanced driver focus. all inside a newly redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. ♪ the all-new c-class. at the very touch point of performance and innovation. ♪ at the very touch point of performance and innovation. you know.... there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. mmmm. these are good! the tasty side of fiber. from phillips >>> thanks for stay with us. we certainly do appreciate it. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. we want to check the headlines for you this hour. the pentagon says the latest coalition air strikes in syria took aim at the mobile oil

cnn's karl penhaul has that. >> i've spoke with the family. >> is this the first time you've spent christmasfrom him? >> yeah. >> reporter: that was christmas day. >> you got some presents from other members of the convoy didn't you? >> yes, i got a nice t-shirt and some aftershave and chocolate and biscuits. >> oh. >> reporter: father of two henning was the only nonmuslim on the british aid convoy. this woman and her family drove with him. >> he really wanted to make sure that he was counted as somebody that got up and did something, not just made a simple donation and sat in the comfort of their own homes. >> reporter: members of the 50-vehicle convoy affectionately nicknamed him gadget. >> uncle gadget, as my children called him. we traveled with him on several convoys. has a love for all things that are technical. and he really was -- is the guy that fixes everything. >> there we go. >> reporter: the convoy was taking ambulances to help syrian civilians caught up in the war. henning dedicated his vehicle to a british doctor, purportedly held earlier. >> you know, it's one of my favorite

i want to bring karl penhaul back along with our counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. independent investigators at this point say they think they know where james foley's execution took place. that's the horrible video we saw 13 days ago in which stephen sotloff appeared. they say it's outside the town of raqaa, i could be saying it wrong, but es that outside the northern city of syria. do we think this was filmed in the same place? >> i suspect it was because my guess is the organization is trying to limit the footprint they show to anybody studying the video. they know western security services look at this. they know there might be identifying characteristics they can't fully understand but they believe we can exploit. my guess is they're trying to find as nondescript a place as we can, limit our exposure by hooding the person that's doing this, by creating a backdrop that's difficult to identify. let's do it in the same place so we don't give them too much to look at. >> if it's in the same place, what does that say about fact that no one in the united states or ot

imams have asked them to release alan henning, the latest hostage they threatened to kill and karl penhaul on the aid worker who went to wore-torn syria for just one reason, to help people. >> always smile when you see what is needed get to where it goes. >> reporter: that was christmas day last year, alan henning taking aid from britain to syria. he was the only non-muslim in the convoy. his fellow volunteers nicknamed him gadget. he was deeply admired. henning sacrificed christmas, weekends and family time to do his bit for syria. he was kidnapped by isis a day after that video was made. he's now under threat of imminent execution. as the clock ticks down, those who made the trip with him are making this plea via youtube to isis leaders. >> alan was moved by the suffering of the syrian people, in particular the children that he devoted all his free time and raising money and awareness. please do not take his life to pay for the crimes that the international governments have committed. alan ignored advice from the british government and took the risk to travel to syria to help the people.

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she spoke with cnn's karl penhaul about her colleague and his abduction. >> is this the first time you've spent christmas away from them? >> yeah. >> reporter: taxi driver alan henning on a mercy mission to syria. that was christmas day. >> you've got some presents from other members of the convoy, didn't you? >> i got a nice t-shirt, aid for syria t-shirt. some aftershave. some chocolates and some biscuits. >> oh. >> they're all great lads. >> father of two henning was the only non-muslim on the british aid convoy. fellow volunteer dr. shamila islam sufariq and her family drove with him. >> he really wanted to make sure that he was counted as somebody that got up and did something, not just made a simple donation and sat in the comfort of their own home. >> reporter: members of the 50-vehicle convoy affectionately nicknamed him gadget. >> uncle gadget, as my children call him, he traveled with us on several convoys. has a love for all things that are technical. and he really was -- is the guy that fixes everything. >> here we go. >> reporter: the convoy was taking ambulances to help syri

karl penhaul is in london. good evening to both of you. pamela, i'm going to start with you first. i want to get the breaking news in tonight. more u.s. military personnel headed to iraq. what do we know about that? >> yeah, don, we're learning today the u.s. is sending over approximately 350 additional military personnel on the ground in baghdad to provide additional security for the embassy and other diplomatic facilities over there. and this brings a total numbers of troops who are providing diplomatic security in iraq to 820. don, a statement from the white house notes the troops will not be serving in a combat role on arriving around the white house is filling a request from the state department as the country continues to fight isis. >> and i want to turn now to that gruesome isis video, carl. you have seen the video in its entirely. describe what you saw. >> don, it's close to three minutes. it's a video with relatively high production values. at least two cameras appear to have been used in that video. steven sotloff, the 31-year-old american journalist appears once again i

. >> let's talk more about this video with cnn's karl penhaul in london. d karl, beginning with a point we made yesterday when everything was breaking, asking about this executioner, do we know yet if this masked terrorist is, in fact, the same man in both videos? >> reporter: well, certainly britain's foreign secretary, phillip hammond, thinks so after an emergency meeting this morning in london. he came out and said in both videos the executioner appears to be the same man and appears to have a british accent. the kinds of things they'll be basing themselves on, obviously, not the dress. anybody could wear that black uniform and black ski mask. but things like height, stature, build, the fact that he's left handed in both videos or appears to be. and quite tellingly that accent language experts at cnn say that appears very much to be a london multicultural accent, multicultural accent in this case means somebody speaking like they have grown up in a multicultural area of london. where english isn't necessarily the first language, brooke. >> so with -- whe

i want to bring in correspondent karl penhaul in london. know karl you spoke with an aide worker in syria. what did that aide worker tell you? >> ana, we spent the whole day in the town of a hard scrabble blue collar town in northern england and that is where henning has the modest home that he shares with his two teenage children and his wife. down on the street, nobody really was in the mood for talking. at the taxicab company where he worked, nobody wanted to talk either, both out of respect for alan henning and also to make sure they didn't say anything that could provoke perhaps the hostage takers. but there are on lamp posts, on street signs and on some of the trees in that neighborhood yellow ribbons, well wishers who are hoping against hope that alan henning will come home safe and sound. we also talked to a doctor, doctor sulfiqua, one of the female doctors on the aide convoy, she rode in the same van as alan henning as they headed from britain through to syria. and she has a plea. she made a plea through cnn directly to isis. let'

. >>> but first, karl penhaul in london outside 10 downing street. and karl, the uk is now saying all in with the growing coalition to fight isis, flying its first missions today over iraq. how hard was it for david cameron to really sell this to parliament, given how vocal he's been about the isis threat? >> reporter: well, deborah, all in may be overstating the british participation somewhat, and that is that david cameron has had to go softly softly on to get parliament first of all to agree, britain participating within this coalition at all. now, britain's participation right now is limited to six fighter jets and their actions are restricted only to iraq, against isis positions in iraq, not at all in syria for now. and that is because of the stiff opposition that britain faces or the british prime minister faced against any involvement in syria last year in 2013, even though the motion on the table at that stage was to fight the assad regime directly. and so right now, prime minister david cameron is going bit by bit. so six british jets have be

karl penhaul live from london with us. karl, appreciate you joining us.r western hostage, a british man who we have seen on video. what do we know about his condition today? >> well, poppy, the critical thing is that isis could, in fact, be holding several more western hostages, but a lot of these cases have been covered by kind of a blackout. it's because both the u.s. and british governments have preferred the media not to talk about these cases for fear of endangering them even further. what we do know in general terms about this group of hostages is that some may be aid workers. others may be media workers and in the case of the man that appeared in this latest isis propaganda video david haynes, he appears to be an aid worker. he's from scotland and he was working for a french aid group when he was abducted in northern syria last year near one of the refugee camps. it could be that he was perhaps giving safety and security advice to that convoy. but little more than that we know about him. the british government has said only this last week that they

but our karl penhaul did. he was a producer or so-called fixer for sotloff. they were kidnapped just inside syria by gunmen in august of 2013. sotloff never made it out alive. >> they can hit him with the gun and say close your face. in arabic. i explained to him, steve, close your eyes or they will hit you. uh-huh. they hit me and say to me, shut up. don't talk english. do you know who is us? i told him, i think you are isis. islamic state. he said, yes, you are in islamic state of iraq. should we kill you because you are a spy, you work with america, with cia and fbi. we will leave you now because you have these papers. you can go now. but if you -- if we hear you're working with journalists again, we will kill you for sure. >> we reached out to the fbi, and while they wouldn't comment on his claims, they did give us a statement that reads in part, "the fbi is actively investigating the savage murder of steven sotloff. we are committed to bringing the murderers to justice." just an incredible story. it raises some serious questions about the u.s. response t

retired lieutenant general mark herd ling is a cnn analyst and karl penhaul joins us from london. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, carol. >> first to you, carl. how are the british reacting to the threat to two of its citizens? >> well, people are absolutely horrified. certainly the threats against alan henning seems to have been what has galvanized this repulsion. why? because he wasn't a journalist, he wasn't a trained aid worker. this guy was a cab driver. he was a taxi driver with a heart of gold, he was persuaded by some of his muslim friends to go out and take some aid to syria and he ended up giving up christmas, family time and weekends to do just that. and now he's being caught and so i think a lot of britons feel that this is every man, the guy next door who went out to do his bit and now he's been nabbed and this is what is horrify ago lot of people, carol. >> general, the other video where we saw mr. cantly, a journalist, and he was clearly under duress while he was making this video supposedly on behalf of isis. what do you suppose isis' strategy is here? >> t

joining me now, correspondent karl penhaul is live in london and he's seen this video. karl, athena jones, terrorism analyst paul crookshaink. paul, let me begin with you. you've seen this video. tell me what you saw. >> it's a video of about 2 minutes and 45 seconds, brooke. we see steven sotloff once again in an orange jump suit, the type of uniform that guantanamo bay uniforms would have worn. the man is holding a combat knife in his left hand and he appeared in the james foley execution video two weeks ago as well. from what we can tell, these two videos do not appear to have been filmed at the same time. they are filmed in a very similar style. seems both were filmed with two separate cameras but there are a number of differences that indicate that the sotloff video was filmed much more recently. first of all, look at sotloff himself in the video two weeks ago, his head was pretty much shaven and didn't have much of a beard. in the video today, he's got more hair on his head and the stubble of a beard growth as well. a number of days have definitely passed there. al

karl penhaul live for us. thank you. >>> the u.n.'s refugee agency says as karl was referencing, an estimated 60,000 syrian kurds were fleeing. isis has captured dozens of villages in northern syria in the last couple of days. turkey did open its border to refugees after livid yes showed how they were suffering. many show they were planning an assault on the kurd hitch town of kabani. >>> in egypt, two people are dead in a blast. according to state media, it happened at a police checkpoint in the central part of the capital city. the victims, the report says, were a major general and a police con script. >> the white house is dealing with the aftermath of a second security incident just one day after someone got into the white house. the secret service says a driver failed to stop at the entrance saturday. the man eventually got out of his car, they was then going to be charged with illegal entry. >> he's tried to enter the house from another gate. >> authorities say the man who bent it and made it into the building was armed. earlier

karl penhaul, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> the u.s. is looking for more control in the attack in yemen. witnesses say men on motorcycles had shoulder fired rockets near the diplomatic missions. u.s. authorities doubt the embassy was a target. now the group say the embassy was targeted. >>> and police in the st. louis, missouri, area are looking for suspects in two separate incidents during which police officers were shot at. now the most recent happened when a gunman opened fire on an off duty police officer driving on the highway near the airport. that officer suffered only minor scratches. earlier a ferguson, missouri, officer was shot in the arm during a burglary. his injuries were not threatening. ferguson has been the scene of tension ever since an unarmed african-american teenager, michael brown, was shot by a police officer two months ago. they don't necessarily think that this particular incident tonight was related. take a listen. >> i don't think it is. it didn't happen within the proximity of the protest area. this is an are

cnn's karl penhaul met relatives and friends to find out what motivated this 41-year-old father of threegroup recently splintered from isis. >> reporter: he is a son who never came home. abu waheed majid with his first bicycle in the 1970s. fast forward to moments before his suicide mission in syria. he phoned his brother back in england a week before. >> he said that he loved us all very, very much. and he said i know you're looking after the family, you're doing a very, very, very good job and that, you know, if i've done any wrongs in my life, that i hope maybe you can forgive me. >> reporter: majid was born outside london. pakistani parents with what appears to be a normal childhood, childhood friends, a new car and relatives who fought in the british army. here in his hometown, media investigations link him to a muslim hate preacher and a muslim radical convicted of a terror plot. but he was never accused of any crime. >> he wasn't as other speculations say a jihadist, a man who wanted to fight and commit terror on the streets. >> reporter: last summer, majid, who drove a highway ma

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karl penhaul has more on what could be learned from this new video. that what they used to brag about their horrible actions may be used to take them down, right? >> reporter: absolutely, chris, and you'll remember about ten days ago now the british ambassador to the united states said the british intelligence services were very close to identifying james foley's executioner, the same man appears once again on this video showing the brutal killing of steven sotloff. this morning biddan's foreign minister saying, yes, they do believe the executioner is one in the same. let's take a look at see what we can look by comparing both those videos. >> i'm sure you know exactly who i am by now. >> reporter: time ran out for american journalist steven sotloff, and isis knife man warned he'd be next to die in a propaganda video two weeks ago that showed the beheading of fellow reporter james foley. >> the life of this american citizen, obama, depends on your next decision. >> reporter: intelligence experts in britain and the u.s. are analyzing the images. severa

karl penhaul, thanks so much, from london. >>> a big target of those air strikes has been isis oil facilitiess joining us now from new york. so elise, we know that isis fighters are in the crosshairs of the u.s. and coalition members, but what's in the target of these oil fields and refineries, which provide a lot of finance, a lot of money for isis? >> reporter: well, fred, you've heard president obama and secretary kerry say, this is not just a military campaign going after the flow of foreign fighters and finances that isis is awash with cash is really the lifeblood of this group. and going after that is just as important. and that's why the first strikes in syria went right after the isis pocketbook. isis is not just one of the world's most dangerous organization, it's also a ruthless terror corporation, earning millions of dollars every day from this. oil crude. pulled from beneath the sands of iraq and syria and sold on the black market at a discount. >> they use these financing to expand their recruitment operations. >> reporter: experts say isis intentionally focused on seizing large