from there, it pushed into the neighboring villages and towns across this region, known as the nineveht area that's been home to christians since the first century after christ. much of what took almost 2,000 years to build has been lost in a matter of months. ( chanting ) on the side of a mountain overlooking the nineveh plains of ancient mesopotamia is the monastery of st. matthew. it's one of the oldest on earth. the voices of its monks have echoed here since the fourth century, uttering prayers that have not changed. you do the service in aramaic. >> joseph ibrahim: yes. >> logan: which was the language of jesus. >> ibrahim: yes. >> logan: are you among the last people on earth to speak this language? >> ibrahim: we think so, because we kept this language through the language of prayers. >> logan: prayers through centuries of persecution. father joseph ibrahim is one of only seven monks left here. he told us the monastery was founded in 363, and has survived the persian and ottoman empires, mongol invaders, and kurdish conquests. today, it's threatened by the islamic state, whose f

if you are thinking of the sculptures on the site of ancient nineveh being drilled by jackhammer, that is enough tragedy for me. >> thank you very much for being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> now to look at reports run the world. the u.s. central intelligence agency is announced it is undertaking one of the most sweeping reorganizations in its history. dcaa director john brennan -- the cia director john brennan says that outside agencies have analyzed what does not work. released after 15 days in jail for handing out leaflets out of a political rally. his release comes a week after the murder of boris nemstov. he is now seen as the most strident critic of putin. the plane was flying from waterloo but to beijing when it disappeared. our transport correspondent asked two experienced pilots who apply in the same type of aircraft what they think might have happened. >> it is still larger believe that a modern airliner carrying 239 people could simply disappear. not a single seat cover, piece of luggage, oxygen mask, has been offered up by the ocean. the last message from the cockp

we are working within this to would, with the people of this places, people of nineveh and people of other areas. they will be with us and they are with us at the moment. i think there is over seeing the whole organization of this military operation it has to be military execute and civil operation to safer gard the people and to look after the wellbeing of the people. >> in syria, the u.s. backed rebel group has joined forces with the hard-line opposition group after the group suffered heavy defeat in the al-qaeda affiliate, the nusra front in aleppo on saturday. fighters and six nusra front fighters were killed in those clashes. this is rebel forces radioject a proposal to establish a temporary truce in aleppo. u.n. envoy some pushing the initiative is currently in damascus. he said the syrian grooument has sent a fact-finding mission to the war-torn city. the rebels say they will only discuss a peace plan if it involves the resignation of the bashar al assad. sisi has been in saudi arabia holding talks due to discuss sisi's proposal for a joint anti-terrorism force. he said it coh

isis of bulldozed nineveh.raqi fighters have launched a new offensive to retake the city of tikrit. china's cutting pay for top executives of its biggest banks and other state owned companies in effort to fight income inequality. senior managers of the nation's five largest lenders, all of which under government control will make no more than $95,800. a chinese smartphone maker is planning a huge investment spree. the ceo says the company was to emerge -- in fast in 100 emerging tech startups. they are hoping to expand. was turned back to our special hour with cohost john zimmer the president and cofounder of lyft. it is all about passengers, the quick >>, he says. what about the drivers, how do you keep them happy? we did pick you at random. we just had to pick up one of the people on our staff. john is sitting. you guys have not met. everything you wanted to blame him for, you can right now. why did you decide to start doing this? >> i had moved to northern california from southern california. i just finished

there has been an international effort to protect hatra and nineveh and nimrud.is proving difficult. they have still have yet to reach tikrit. they cleared towns and villages along the way but they're not quite into the city. they want say that they and iraqi partners have taken back the town al baghdadi. it is close to a military base where the u.s. and other coalition members operate. but sources on the ground there including provincial and local politicians say it is around al baghdadi. as we've seen in tikrit, iran are back in the lead, but the u.s. has made clear that it has and wants to remain a key partner in this fight particularly in places like western anbar. >> isil tonight stepping up its attack on christian villages. they say they launched a new assault near hasaka where isil kidnapped hundreds of assyrian as last months last month. we'll look at the deepening crisis in syria tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. a fifth explosion from outside of the city wounded a soldier and members of a defense unit. >> in northern nigerian these are victims of the late

vianda is a member of the iraqi parliament representing nineveh providence the land of jonah from the and the area being over run by isis. annie of those being slaughtered by isis were those in the iraqi minority. last year on august 5th as the bodies started piling up she sounded the alarm. ignoring orders to stop talking, she then caused the assault on-- called the assault on her community a genocide and said brothers i appeal to you in the name of humanity to save us. she collapsed on the floor of the iraqi parliament. i recently met her. >> any one who sees the video of you making that speech in the iraqi parliament can see the pain you are feeling over your people>> i want to show that tragedy, that big drag de of israeli people, the drag de of those women of those people, of those children. >> did you see response from the iraqi parliament? >> after that nothing happened. i don't know why. >> she doesn't think genocide is too harsh a woshd to word to describe what isis does when it offers the people it conquers a choice. that is no choice at all. >> you have two options. religio

iraqis and iraqi antiquities organization last summer and predicted that isis in control of mosul and ninevehe would set about destroying biblical history. we're talking about the history you read about in the old testament. of the bible. the assyrians and eventually the babylonians if they can get to that part of iraq. they are doing their best to wipe all of that out and i think the world should be concerned. obviously, there's slaughter and abuse of human beings is terrible, but for generations to come for all of mankind and history, they're out to start at square one as if history began with them or at least their prophet muhammad napthat is an extremely dangerous thing and not much the u.s. or coalition can or will do about it. >> what a trach jigedy. thank you both for being with me. >>> after the break, the spotlight is on two gop 2016 hopefuls. jeb bush wraps up a fwhndweekend in iowa and wisconsin governor scott walker gets ready to sign right to work bill. how is this playing for voters? we'll break it down. >>> plus the fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old man this weekend. live

the obvious counter to isis is effective governance 24/7 and places likes anbar province and ninevehprovince where isis has toon root. obviously one option is u.s. forces which is what we did in 2007 and 2008 during the surge. there is obviously not the will to do that at this point. i think our best bet is working with local forces. if they are seen as legitimate they can then take out isis and replace its control with control that is more benign in u.s. eyes. but the, so the difficulty there we have have to create those forces because buy and large they don't list. very little left of the iraqi army. we should work with the small core that is left, iraqi special operations forces. much the fighting being done by shiite militias which have no effect in sunni areas and could not employ a coin strategy if their lives depended on it because they're seen as enemies of local people. we need to mobilize the local sunnis into anti-isis coalition. once that happens, if you create awakening type forces they can dot counterinsurgency type operations with a good deal of credibility. >> there a