it is in the koran, too. it is not just in sharia. >> a man can unilaterally divorce his wife, but a woman needs his consent. >> absolutely. >> a man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is nine years old. >> yes. it happens today. have you heard of the yemeni 8-year-old girl who filed for divorce against her husband? she got the divorce in saudi arabia and she was sent back by the court to her husband. 8 years old. >> theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand. >> yes. >> have you ever seen that yourself? >> no, i have not seen it in egypt because egypt does not follow criminal law. there are too many robbers in egypt to apply this law. but saudi arabia does. yemen does that, all of the islamic countries of south sudan who are serious about it. sometimes i learned, in villages, even in egypt, they apply sharia law without even the government's consent. >> i want to show you another imam who we saw a lot of back in 2010 when they wanted to build the mosque right there by grou

the word terrorism is not mentioned in the koran. it talks about the other kind of jihad which is to do within yourself. when i was growing up in the middle east, jihad was war and violence. >> let me show you some video of ofegyptian clerk in the name mohammed hussein jack lew -- yacoub. it is an example of what you can find on the web of some imams and what they say. >> how much is that what you hear in mosques all the time? >> it is very common. it is on the streets, it is everywhere. just the word jew can make a person feel scared. >> there are 1.6 billion muslims 15the world and about million jews around the world. why is everything based on this? >> because islam, by nature, unfortunately, they like to find evil outside. it is not like the , whichhristian culture demands that people look within before they look outside. when i came to america and i attended churches with my family , i noticed that they , onentrate on redemption fixing themselves. concentrates on fixing others. >> sharia law, what does it mean and -- you hear pe

the other was the koran for dummies which shows the level of knowledge of the koran etc. that they had. now we have seen that terroris terrorists, forensic psychiatrist have made extensive studies of terror suit took part in the 9/11 atrocities and also those who were picked up after the shoe bomber richard reid or the boston verifone bombers. i found in 20% of these people had a conventional muslim upbringing. the vast majority were either converts like the canadian gun or a week or two ago or they were nonobservant like that austin marathon bombers or they were self-taught with a smattering view of islam derived from such tokens as islam for dummies. no way they come from? in some ways i know exactly how they give the impression of going back as you said two or 3000 years with their hideous beheadings but these are all very strategically focused. this is essentially also a modern movement. it expresses the dark side of modernity in which mass killing has been sadly a feature for sense the french revolution. they joined the french revolution in one year 17,000 men, women

now, until recently, nobody read the koran on its own. just as jews don't read the jewish scriptures, the hebrew scriptures, without the -- you see the jewish scriptures through the lens of the rabbial which has been developed over centuries which was very much concerned to mitigate extremely violent passages in the hebrew bible. we all have vie violent passages because we're violent people, and the muslim world, too, nobody just picked up the koran and picked out a few passages from jihad and ignored the rest. this caution of reading the scripture in the lying of all this tradition actually held extremists' opinions at bay. now, why there is so much terrorism in the muslim world now? because i said earlier, mouse limits have had a much more difficult passage to modernity than we have. number one, they were a great world power. they were -- when the british and the french came in and subdued them in their empires, they were reduced overnight to a dependent block, and that humiliation goes very deep, and humiliation is often a huge cause o

they gave us lessons on the koran and someone came and gave us lessons. i was in prison for eight months and only once went outside and then they played propaganda videos all day and night.

not what the koran says.most significant. >> reporter: and bringing home, a strong supporter of women's rights, his wife is breaking by tradition, appearing by her husband's side in public and giving interviews. >> i'm very happy that his wife is so vocal and wants to be involved in aspects of afghan life. i think it's a very positive step. we afghan women need a role model like that, you know, so visible. >> reporter: already, it seems, women are feeling empowered. like this join film maker driving a car. a taboo in afghanistan where normally only men are behind the wheel. >> for a woman living in afghanistan, not easy. but i believe that if we, like me, we start to be part of the big changes, so it will be good. so maybe for next-generation. >> reporter: shared hopes and aspirations of so many afghan women desperate for a brighter future. anna koran, cnn. >> yeah, a lot of hope resting on the afghanny first lady to be a champion of women's rights in that country. thank you for joining us, i'm zane asher. fo

under pakistan's anti-blasphemy law, desecration of the koran is punishable by death or life in prisonof pakistan said they are shocked and saddened by the callous murder. this incident stemmed out of a dispute over money the kiln's owners claimed the couple owned them. >> it was a false allegation. they dragged them away towards the brick kiln and lifted the lid and threw them into the burning kiln. they burned them up. >> reporter: a pair of slippers are all that remains of this husband and wife as their relatives struggle to come to terms with their death. >>> preparations are under way in germany for sunday's 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. >> more than 800 people died trying to flee east berlin. >> reporter: when berlin was divide august 13, 1961, she was 23 years old and in the final stages of her medical studies. she and her parents immediately knew they couldn't live in the communist east and decided to flee. we were unhappy in east germany. we were christians and liberals. that was just impossible in communism. it was something i couldn't deal with. their way

it's central to the koran infected isn't a. it is a struggle sometimes you have to fight when the community was threatened with extermination by the establishment but also it is a struggle to share your food with somebody worse off than your self when you've hardly got any resources for yourself but is also a struggle. that is a very famous saying that attributed to the prophet mohammed when he's returning from a battle he says to his companions we are returning from the lesser jihad, that is the battle come and going back to the greater jihad. that is a far more difficult and yet much more important struggle reforming around the society. and that has been the muslim policy throughout the ages. at the time they ran the biggest empire the world had ever seen. and it is about the defensive warfare by this time that expansion has stopped and they knew that they could expand the empire any further and that it had reached its limits but they have to defend the frontier. so it is very much a defensive warfare and not an aggressive wa

put whoone online for an hour, knows very little about islam, shelittle about shariah, misquoted the koran, the life of mohammed. accurate,lutely not i find itn refute -- very offensive and am completely shocked, as someone who watches it respects c-span, to see this program completely shocked. programo say the worst i have seen on c-span in 20 years. >> i wanted to comment on the "q&a" on c-span with the author. she has given the

there are pictures of that fire-bombing of burnt korans itself. a very incendiary picture. very tense. this comes hard on the heels of a shooting yesterday of a palestinian youth in disputed circumstances. he was killed. and the situation right now is very tense. and anything like the burning of a religious site in any event is a real potential trigger for further destabilization, john. >> in some cases, the leaders are calling for a certain degree of calm. although some of the rhetoric is not held. the question is do they have control over the population. >>> the two-month-old cease-fire in eastern ukraine coming undone as fighting has begun again. officials saying that russia has amassed 8,000 troops on the border. u.s. and ukrainian officials also say that a convoy that russia claims was humanitarian did not go through an independent inspection. an obama administration officials conceded that u.s.-led sanctions are hurting economically but they have not deterred russia when it comes to ukraine. >> putin has been had almost immune to that pressure even as the ruble has fa

theb bc is reporting police in that northeast nigerian town say they suspect the terror group boca koran is the suspected group. the bomber was disguised in a student uniform. you have to remember this is the group that kidnapped more than 200 school girls over the summer. the group's name means western education is sinful. they believe school should consist only of studying the koran and girls should not attend. >>> officials will be back at the scene of a deadly plane crash in the bahamas trying to figure out why the plane went down. nine people were killed, and this picture was tweeted out by nbc news. miles monroe, the leader of bahamas faith ministries died in this crash along with his wife. the plane was attempting to land in freeport for a global leadership forum. the u.s. military is trying to confirm that this man, the head of isis was injured in an air strike in western anbar province. the iraqi military says abubakar al baghdadi was hurt sunday. this is video of al baghdadi in june. his only known appearance publicly to deliver a sermon in mosul. there's a $10 million price ta

it's a week of briefings on everything from parliamentary for seizure to the koran. -- parliamentary procedures to decorum. >> mitch mcconnell, poised to be the next senate majority leader, welcomed the new republicans. theif we are here to make play function again. >> with all that first day of school excitement all capitol hill, there still a lot of work to be done by the current congress, who will be in office until early january. the lame-duck agenda includes the government spending bill, a plan for training syrian rebels, and a new authorization of military force in the fight against isis. in the senate, maybe even a controversy will vote on the keystone pipeline. lame-duck congress is only expected to be in session about 15 working days before packing up for the holidays. news,travers, abc7 capitol hill. >> south carolina's ban on same-sex marriage struck down, but marriage licenses is will not go out just yet. a district judge has ruled untilt the ban but gave november 20 two review the ruling. rescue we cannot stop watching. >> how crews rescued the window washers stuck on a

. >> the mullah read from the koran and said he's a single guy.hould be given what the koran said 100 lashes and let him marry her and the judge said, no, she was a child. you're getting 0 years s is in prison. that was the most significant part for me. >> reporter: the election of the president there has also brought hope. while he's a strong supporter of women's rights it's his wife rurul ach rula who is breaking with tradition appearing by her husband's side in public and giving interviews. >> i'm very happy that his wife is so vocal and wants to be involved and aspects of afghan life. i think it's a very positive step. we afghan women need a role model like that so visible. >> reporter: already it seems women are feeling empowered like this young filmmaker driving a car. a taboo in afghanistan where normally men are mind tbehind t wheel. >> it's not easy but i believe that if we like woman -- like me, we start to be part of the big changes so it will be good for maybe the next generation. >> reporter: she has hopes and aspirations of so many a

they were ordered to read verses from the koran and then shot in the head at point blank range. nine women and 19 men were killed. amomongrel among relatives -- >>reporter: the attack happened near the kenyon border with somolia. the bus had been traveling towards nairobi when it was ambushed. it's believed there were about ten gunmen. police say they're now trying to track them down. >> we continue to make inroads to make sure that we bring to justice those responsible. >>reporter: al shabab said it carried out the attack in revenge for attacks on mosques. >> they're the ones who closed the mosques. this is a war between muslims and nonbelievers. we're told to fight nonbelievers. they should withdraw their troops from somolia if they want peace. >>reporter: kenya has suffered a series of deadly attacks since it sent troops into somolia in 2011. the assault on the westgate shopping mall in 2013 resulted in the death of 37 people. late on saturday, the bodies of those who died in the latest attack were flown by military aircraft to nairobi. at the airport gates, relatives waited

it doesn't acou courcour courcc koran. widea you can define people as pagans, falling away from islam, is not in the tradition of islam. the chaos in that part of the world, by the way, it stretches to nigeria with boko haram. it's truly shocking. i've never seen this in my 40 years in the middle east. i can't believe this happened, frankly. >> you make an important point, this isn't just isis. boko haram, kidnapping, torturing hundreds of young girls. why, though, do you think isis is advertising this? why put this on social media? does it actually help them gain followers? >> it doesn't, but this is a form of ethnic cleansing, a purification. they think they have to completely purify their region, the caliphate which also involves in destroying, for instance tombs and the rest of it. anything they define as unislamic, whether it's a church, a mosque, anything that they don't like, they will simply tear it down. so they go after people, they go after architecture. they have this bizarre interpretation of the koran which i

. >> even though they have their bible or koran, whatever religious preference they are, they'll stille dope in it, and weapons in it. you'll find razor blades and dope stuffed in the bindings. everybody finds god in prison. if you're looking for him, this is where he's at. come on in. >> we've met some inmates that have seemed very devout, even as they grapple with the realities of their crime. ♪ >> it was in the middle of central california we heard the sounds of the muslim call to prayer emanating from a cell at kern valley state prison. cellmates jose garza and rehan ali bhutto explain to our crew how their religious practices aren't hindered by prison bars. >> at 5:00 we come up and do prayers. we begin our day like that. >> talk to me guys, why this cell is so different from the other cells you've been in. >> it's based on cleanness. we have to be clean. we keep ourselves clean and organized. islam is islam. in here or the street, it's the same. >> but bhutto and garza have more in common than religion. >> my sentence is life without a possibility of patrol. >> i'm charged with m

> reporter: witnesses said the victims were forced from the bus, ordered to read passages from the koran, forced to lie down and shot in the head one by one. 60 passengers were on board. 28 were killed. nine women and 19 men. among relatives, waiting for new, one man told how his brother had an amazing make. he lay still pretending to be dead, and those around were shot. >> they were shooting the people. those besides my brother. they would have killed him. he lay there, pretending to be dead. people went away. he lay, not knowing what to do. >> the bus had been travelling to nairobi, and was ambushed near the town of mandera. >> it's believed there were about 10 gunmen. kenyan police are trying to track them down. >> they fled towards the boarder. >> the kenyan government said it was determined to bring them to justice. >> we can confirm some offensive had been taken. they have been identified where they came from, and they continue to make inroads to make sure that they bring to justice those responsible. >> the islamic group said it carried out the attack for revenge on a number of ra

in history, she misquoted the koran. misquoted the life of mohammad and historical facts that absolutely are not accurate and one can refute on very -- i find it very offensive and completely shocked as someone who watches and respects cspan to see this program, i'm completely, completely shocked and i dare to say the worst program i have seen on cspan in 20 years. >> i wanted to comment on the q & a on c smspan with the author noni darwich. she has given the complete and precise, articulate explanation of the muslim religion in the modern world that i have heard of and i am a religious scholar of over 65 years, she should be commended just for this speech. thank you very much cspan. >> and continue to let us know what you think about the programs that you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. or join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> with live coverage of the u.s. house on cspan and the senate on cspan 2, here on cspan 3, we complement that coverage by showing you the most relevant p

sending out through attacks like this, or at least attacks in the past has been boys should only get a koranic education and girls should not go to school at all. >> will ross in lagos. many thanks. >>> some breaking news now from israel, because a soldier has been reportedly stabbed in tel aviv. the soldier was near a train station when the attack happened. he's thought to be in a serious condition. police suspect there were nationalistic motives for the attack and are treating it as a terror incident. details coming in on the afp news agency, that police believe this was a palestinian from the west bank who was responsible for this attack. in the northern west bank. i should stress that we cannot confirm this. emergency services again saying a man of about 20 was very seriously hurt and footage has apparently showed medics trying to revive the man. obviously very distressing incident. we're not sure of the details yet. we will get more as soon as we possibly can. >>> let's move on, because president obama has announced that china and the u.s. will start granting visas to each other valid for

they were ordered to read classes of the koran. they were forced to lie down before being shot in the head at point blank range. 60 passengers were on board. 28 were killed. nine women and 19 men. among the relatives waiting for news, one man told how his brother made a mistake. he survived by pretending to be dead. those around him were shot. >> the blood from the people besides my brother. they killed him. he kept laying there. the reason he went away. he was laying there. >> the attack happened at the kenyan boarder. the bus then travelling forwards the capital, ambushed near deraa. it's believed there were about 10 gunmen. kenyan police are trying to track them down. >> the attackers led towards the border. >> the ken yen government said it was determined to bring them to justice. >> already some offensive have been taken. they have been identified where they came from, and we continue to make inroads to make sure that we bring to justice those responsible. >> the islamic group al-shabab said it carried out the attack in reveng

the people who are iran-- myself, they were reciting the koran, but i'm not such a believer so i hadhings. i had to go through my life experience experience. my conversations with my loved ones, my father and my sister who you see in the film. my travels, the books i had read, the music i had listened to, and the films so i had to go through all that in order to empower myself. but also what empowered me was that i knew one day, i would come out of prison, and i would write that book, and i would just tell the world what was happening in iran to people like me, but also what is happening to many thousands of journalists around the world who are going through the same experience every day all around the world. >> john: i have to go to a break. i'm not used to doing that. normally, hboi just throw to "game of thrones." this time i have to throw to a commercial, a different speed. thank you very much. the book is "rosewater." the movie is "rosewater." the great maziar bahari. we'll be right back. vo: no one ever claims to be ordinary. everyone wants to be the best. but what does that re

aftertrations in pakistan a christian couple was killed after being accused of desecrating the koran. .e were beaten to death more than 40 people have been arrested. korea's news agency has released a set of photos showing jong-ung-il and -- kim walking without the aid of a stick. analysts believe he may have had an operation on his ankle. there are lots of dangerous jobs in the fight against ebola, but one of the most risky is the disposal of dead bodies. infected corpses are particularly contagious. the task is even harder because the men and women doing it are being stigmatized in their own communities. andrew harding spent time with one woman on the frontline of fighting this epidemic in sierra leone and he has this report. my name is -- to be always wanted nurse. her family is quietly proud of the way she is finally following her hearts. for the past fortnight, early each morning, she set out to her, squeezing into the public buses that so many now fear might spread ebola. then it is time to put on her uniform. it is not quite a nurse's job. , one of body collector a tightknit te

police found ellington shot in the koran merion street and he later died at einstein medical center. right now there are in suspects. the younger ellington played high school ball at episcopal academy. >>> police in chester county are trying to figure out if a pair of pepper spray attacks are connect. on saturday night the manager of the pizza house in caln township said she left the restaurant with a bank deposit bag in her hand when a man ambushed her and stole the the the bag. almost 24 hours later and just a couple hundred feet away an employee leaving amelia's grocery outlet was attacked and pepper sprayed in the face. >>> concerned parents, educators and lawmakers will rally in philadelphia calling for increased security at a city school. this is video of a substitute teacher right there lying in the hallway at bartram high school in king sessing after a student threw him to the ground, slamming his head to the floor. three teachers have been assaultedded there in the past month. today's rally wither will be at the high school and we will have a live report coming up later this

whic justified their enslavement of these women arguing it is allowed within the muslim holy book the korane iraqi kurdish authorities are calling this a genocidal policy, the scale of this kidnapping is mind blowing, barbaric and frankly hard to even comprehend even for somebody like me who has been traveling through these blood-soaked lands for more than a decade. ivan watson, cnn reporting from istanbul. >> oh, and there's a lot more. you have to stay with us to see what's on the other side of the break. we'll give you rare access to the 2,000-degree lava flow creeping through a hawaiian town. is rain helping the disaster or is that lava just surging forward? >>> but, first, we're shining a spotlight on the top ten cnn heroes of 2014. who ultimately wins is up to you. this week's honoree is giving kids a strong weapon to fight the fear that yips them. >> i really hate when it hurts. it's a really sharp pain. i get all teary. the shots really scared me a lot and they still scare me now. >> i don't want it. >> when children get a diagnosis like cancer or any major disease, they lose any se

police located the the empty koran north lambert street a short time later. authorities identified a man who turned up at jefferson hospital with the gun shot wound to the arm as a driver. the officer only suffered minor bumps ape bruises. >>> new this morning normal services are expect to resume on septa's trenton regional rail line after a minor train derailment in north philadelphia. "eyewitness news" on the scene at fifth anal gain any fair hill where police say a conrail freight train with an oversized load got stuck under an overpass causing two boxcars to derail. no injuries were reported. >>> president obama's latest stop on his asian trip is miramar, resting country amid questions about whether its government will follow through on the promisedded political and economic reforms. critics say u.s. made too many overtures to the long isolated country too soon rewarding promises rather than result. >>> neighbors are outraged in a community meeting in south philadelphia after rumors spread of a new casino going up in that area hundreds came out to last ni

this is the pivotal memo koran chase wrote where he basically said we haven't really looked -- we have explored the nastiness and the pressures, but we haven't explored the suite approach that may entice castro back to us. headline that u.s. accommodates. ejects soviettro union from western hemispheric. cuba back into western orbit. this was the then he put on it. he cast the baton being an intermediary to extraordinary reporters from abc news. it was a woman named lisa howard. anybody remember seeing her? the most famous female journalist of her time. she was the first female correspondent for abc news. the first to have her own new show. she has been called the first barbara walters. her whole scheme was to find powerful world leaders and interview them, and make headlines with that. her first was with nikita khrushchev when he came to the u.n.. then she set her sights on fidel castro and pepper the human mission in new york to let her go to cuba the camera to -- camera crew. he had not given any major interview since 1959. she finally got permission to go in april of 1963. as wayne

they were ordered to read verses from the koran to separate out the non-muslims, forced to lie down before being shot in the head one by one at point blank range. 60 passengers were on board. 28 killed. nine women and 19 men. among relatives waiting for new, one man told how his brother had an amazing escape. he survived the attack. those around him were shot. >> he lay down, pretending to be dead. then people went away. he kept laying there, not knowing what to do. the attack happened near the kenyan border. the bus had been travelling to the capital. it's believed there were about 10 gunmen. the police say they are trying to track them down. >> the kenyan government said it was determined to bring them to justice. >> offensives have been taken. they have been identified with they came from, and continue to make inroads, to make sure that we bring to justice those responsible. >> the islamic group said it carried out the attack in revenge for a number of raids by security forces. during the raids, man was shot dead and 300 arrested. after police said the mosques would be used to recruit f

she misquoted it koran and the line of mohammed. cans inaccurate and one basis on a very scholarly . and amit very offensive completely shocked as someone who watches and respects c-span to see this program, completely shocked. i dare to say the worst program i have seen on c-span in 20 years. >> i wanted to comment on the "q&a" on c-span with the author darwish. she has given the most complete and concise, articulated explanation of the muslim religion in the modern world that i have not heard of. and i am a religious scholar of over 65 years. she should be commended just for the speech. thank you very much, c-span. >> continue to let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. , or send us al us tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> now, supreme court justices clarence thomas, samuel alito, and sonia sotomayor. the three-year-old graduates returned to their alma mater in late october to receive the alumni award of merit and discuss court traditions, technology, and other

referring to criticize islam because they believe the violence we see is inspired or derived from the koran. your argument is that religion is like an ideology, it's up to the individual to interpret it. >> it's not just my idea, it's basic religion, that people insert their own values into their text. we assume that every individual comes away with the same interpretation, and that is looun assy. that is empirically false. nevertheless the notion that there is a one to one correlation between belief and behaviour, that the extremist versions of religious faith across everywhere in the world, simply for the fact that it shared a measure of belief with the moderates in that religion, is essentially equivalent to the entire religious community. that rhetoric is so normal, that for the vast majority of americans they believe that islam is different. it is not privy to the same culture or historical or nationalistic revolution. no person would say all 2 billion christians in the world think or believe in the same way. but it's commonplace for people to look at islam as monolithic, as static and

also i would like to thank the dpr, north koran government that allowed me to come home and be united with our family. >> bae was arrested in 2012 while leading a tour group to a north korea economic zone. >>> overnight tonight president obama boarded a flight to beijing. tomorrow he'll talk to the president. yesterday he nominated the attorney general. >> reporter: president obama nominated lynch listen to fill -- loretta lynch to fill that post and replace eric holderrer as the next attorney general of the united states. it's one of his top cabinet positions and a fresh new fails for an administration in transition. lynch is the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york. >> she has spent years in the trenches as a prosecutor fitting terrorism, financial fraud and cyber crime while defending civil rights. >> reporter: she is not part of the president's inner circle. the white house is looking for new blood for the president's final two years in office. if confirmed she will become the first african-american female attorney general. >> she was inspired by stories of her grand

she was a child, you raped her, you are getting 20 years in prison and you are not getting what the koran says. that was the most significant part for me. >> the president there has always brought hope. while he is a strong supporters of women's rights, it his wife who is breaking with tradition, appearing by her husband's side and giving interviews. >> i am glad she wants to be involved in the aspects of afghan life. i think it's a very positive step. we afghan women need a role model like that, so visible. >> already it seems women are feeling empowered, like this young filmmaker driving a car, a taboo in afghanistan, when normally only men are behind the wheel. >> women living in afghanistan, not easy, but i believe that if women like me, this car, big changes, it would be good for maybe the next generation. >> it sheds hopes and aspirat n aspirations for afghan women desperate for a brighter future. >> so much progress has been made. the united states agents for international development, us aid, is launching a project to make sure afghan women have a better future. the promote initia

translation: don't you know the 200 schoolgirls converted to islam and have memorized two chapters of the koran. >> reporter: he denies a negotiation. >> translation: what negotiation, it is a lie, a lie. we will not negotiate. what is our business for negotiation. >> reporter: last week the government announced it reached an agreement with the armed group. raising hopes that the kidnapped girls had returned. >> because of the previous arged that did not translate to the girls being released. >> an official said they were hopeful that the dialogue initiated will lead to a breakthrough. >> boko haram resisted ceasefire. people are beginning to think it could be a failed attempt to end the violence that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands. in the past week there has been many more breaches by the armed group and more territory taken by the fighters. with the new video released, all nigerians can do is wait. wait for a breakthrough or a victory by the government >>> still to come on al jazeera. why the chelsea manager has it in for his team >>> and the world's richest horse race -

arguing that it is allowed within the muslim holy book, the koran. the iraqi kurdish authorities are calling it a genocidal policy. the scale of the kidnapping is mind blowing, barbaric and frankly hard to comprehend, even for somebody like me who has been traveling through the blood-soaked lands for more than a decade. ivan watson, cnn, reporting from istanbul. >>> u.s. military advisers could be on the way to iraq's province soon. that is an isis stronghold. a correspondent reports iraqi forces very much want to help. >> reporter: this is one of the most volatile provinces in iraq. a powerful base for isis just west of baghdad. a scene of some of the fiercest fighting, including the isis massacre of 400 sunni tribesmen in two days this week. now the pentagon is developing a plan to send u.s. military advisers. a u.s. military official says this will better enable to forces to protect themselves and take the fight to isis. >> we need to expand the assist mission into the province. but the pre-condition of that is the government of iraq is willing to

even though it is about washington as well, and gridlock , it is the president whose that the koran that -- at the core of that. >> are they embracing an entire part of the political life form? it is single issue politics. a little comparison, imagine if bill clinton had been in .ffice he would have been all over the country. when the president came back to his reelection and wanted to reach out to congress, he took them to dinner at the jefferson hotel. i couldn't believe that. don'tt know anyone who have an ease that buckle may walk into the white house. wing and putest his arms around them. he was taking them to the jefferson hotel. a lot of this has to do with the fact that he gets hammered by fox news on the right and by talk radio, which is a huge voice in this country. i was in the midwest listening, i don't know who the guy was, but he is saying obama's voters are people who live in excrement . they expect us to lift them out of excrement. a hand.going to lift that was the language. that penetrates. i think he has been an imperfect president. you look back on moving the line in s

they had accused the couple of desecrating the koran.ights groups said it was more likely a dispute over money with the owners. the couple had three young children and the woman was expecting their fourth. >> well, prince charles has described threats to christians in the middle east an an undescribable tragedy. >> he's alling on governments around the world to do more to ensure religious freedom. and his he's urging religious leaders to promote tolerance between people of varying faiths. >> reporter: for 2,000 years there's been a christian community in the northern iraq city of mosul. but in jewel july, militants swept through, giving christians a voice, convert or die. the city had been purged of any other religions, thous driven out, others killed. appalling acts that were widely condemned. but prince charles says religious leaders need to do more to defend christianity, in particular. he recorded this message for the chaurty aid to the church in need. to a company there, they report on religious freedoms under threat. >> it is an in

fizaga speaking about matters regarding the koran and current events. >> operation flex began to unrafflen montey's aggressive approach alarmed community members. >> i started receiving reports saying that there's this gentleman who keeps asking these strange questions, almost in a pushy way mainly about violence, by jihad. my name is houssan, director of the care. >> after many complaints he called tidwell. >> the mini said it's a convert, he's in irvine, he said oh thank you, houssan, i'm glad you reported that we'll take care of it from now on. i said steve, i haven't even given you the name and i could only imagine what's in his mind at that moment. that the same informant we've sent to entrap muslims is being reported by these same muslims that we suspected. >> at that point mr. aloush alerted some people from the mosque. and that began to place me in a compromised position where certain muslims didn't trust me anymore because they thought i might be working with the fbi. >> the body builder's cover was blown. frustrated by the fbi's handling of the case he switched sides. montey agr

it very offensive to put who knows very little about islam and syria and very little about the koran and history, she misquoted the carotid and misquoted -- the koran and misquoted the life of mohammed and was absolutely not and can refute on a scholarly basis that i find very offensive. someone that watches and respects c-span to see this program completely shocked. i dare to say the worst program i have seen on c-span in 20 years. the wanted to comment on q&a on c-span with the author, she has given the most complete and concise articulated explanation of the muslim religion in the modern world that i have not heard of and i am a religious scholar for over 65 years. she should be commended. know whate to let us you think of the programs you're watching, call us. e-mail us. for send us a tweet. conversation,an like us on facebook follow us on twitter. special envoy for climate change todd stern recently talked about how environmental issues affect foreign policy the recent agreement with china. for the center for american progress this is just one hour. you excited to congress he ha