northern iraq, northern turkey, jordan and above all, lebanon. lebanon has taken by far the most. it received only 14% of the funding it's asked for. some refugees have told us about their struggles. >> some names were leaked to the authorities. so they were afraid of possible retaliation of their families back home. some of them still for the most are afraid to be recognized as refugees. >> i want to be safe. because lebanon in this situation for syrians lebanon is a part of the regime. >> the very mixed emotions there from some of those among the million who are now in lebanon from syria. jim muir joins me from beirut. i was struck by the first man there saying life was better in syria than it is in lebanon. what does that tell us about the conditions they're in, jim? >> well, certainly conditions for many of those refugees are extremely grim. not all of them. some refugees have money. they can afford to representative apartments and so on. quite a large proportion, 30% are living in squalor, shanty settlements, some of them exposed and outlying. they go back to the good old day

information about bin laden's courier came from a detainee while he was being questioned by kurds in northern iraq long before he was taken to a cia prison and given enhanced interrogation. >> chris, i am aware that simply learning a fact is not the same thing as learning the importance of that fact. >> stephen: exactly, the c.i.a. may have already known the name of bin laden's courier, but that information didn't sound important until it was being screamed through a wet rag. (laughter) point is... what was the point? >> director panetta, when asked by the congress to comment on "did the interrogation program help with getting us to abbotabad," said very clearly that that information was part of the information, part of the intelligence stream that led to the killing of osama bin laden at abbotabad. director panetta went on to say, and we'll never know whether or not we may have gotten that information through another way, but he did not deny that information from this program helped pinpoint bin laden. >> stephen: yes, we'll never know whether or not we may have gotten that information another wa

in northern iraq the kurdish community makes a fifth of the population. the semiautonomous area has its own government. further south is a mix of sunni arabs and kurds in oil-rich places. over a third of iraq's population are sunni muslims, in central and western parts and accuse the shi'a-led government of discrimination. from the capital baghdad and surrounding areas, it's historically been a mix of sunni and shia muslims. the majority population concentrated in the east and southern iraq, including cities like basra, generating 40% of iraq's oil revenues. let's speak to an editor-in-chief inside iraqi politics. joining us from the kurd anian capital. no single party is expected to win the elections currently taking place, to win a majority of the elections going on in iraq. can up explain the system of proportional representation? >> sure, so the way it works is that iraq is divided into 18 districts. one district for each province. there are 328 seats in the parliament. three more than in 2010. they are divided roughly according to population. what wil

fact of the courier before he was questioned before the enhanced interrogation by the kurds in northern iraqit's yes or no -- >> yeah, and the real answer is i don't know the details. chris, i am aware that simply learning a fact is not the same thing as learning the importance of that fact. it was the totality of information, including information from this program, that illuminated the path to abbottabad. >> one last question, then we'll move on. the general conclusion, the cia misled the congress and the public about the severity and significance of the enhanced interrogation. true or false? >> i think it's false because, frankly, although you pointed out this all happened largely before i got there, i was the one who decided to inform all of the members of the house and senate intelligence committees to move the prisoners out of the black sites to guantanamo and go public with a significant portion of the program -- >> i understand. but -- >> i believe -- >> before you, you must have had a sense of what was going on. >> right. i'm telling you what i said was what i believed and continue

up the name of the currier and the fact of the currier while being questioned by the kurds in northern iraq? is it a yes or no? >> and the real answer is i don't know the details. but, chris, i am aware that simply learning a fact is not the same thing as learning the importance of that fact. and it was the totality of information including information from this program that illuminated the path to bin laden. >> one last question and then we'll move on. the general conclusion, the cia misled the congress and the public about the severity and significance of the enhanced interrogation. true or false? >> i think it's false. frankly, chris, i know you pointed out this all happened largely before i got there, i was the one that decided to inform all the members of the house and senate intelligence committee to move the prisoners out of guantanamo and go public with a significant portion of this program. >> i understand. >> in the years before you, you must have had a sense of what was going on. >> right. and i'm telling you is what i believe and continue to believe is true. >> all right. this w

. >> 10 people have been killed in a suicide attack at a polling station in northern iraq. it happened in kirkook. 200km north of the capital. security is being stepped up ahead of parliamentary elections. it's the first election since the withdrawal of u.s. troops in 2011. the united states is investigating whether syrian soldiers attacked civilians with chlorine gas earlier this month. amateur video shows dozens of people struggling to breathe. rebels and the government blamed each other for the alleged attack in hama province. the syrian government has until the end of the month to hand over a stockpile of chemical weapons. >> the head of the u.n. says syria's newly announced presidential election will undermine efforts for a solution to the civil war. the opposition says the vote for june 3rd will be a farce. the government says it's committed to the election, a referendum approving a new constitution in february 2012, allowing a number of parties to run in the vote three months later. presidential candidates may run only if they have lived in syria for three years with

bomber struck several polling stations and other locations in a wave of attacks in baghdad and northern iraqonday and tuesday. dozens of people were killed and injured. female announcer: get three years interest-free financing on brand name mattress sets. plus, get free delivery, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. sleep train's interest free for 3 event, ends sunday. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ welcome back to the kron4 morning news trickling up efforts underway in the southern part of the country this morning after severe weather that's been around since sunday. though some self pushed floodwater into the florida panhandle and other parts of the gulf coast. this is video of the cleanup efforts to mayflower arkansas. this is where a half mile wide tornado karsten 80 mi. pass through little rock's of birds. >>darya: our weather is focused on the heat. and this is not a problem if you have air-conditioning. >> yes it's our extreme weather will put it that way. the matter where you are here's a quick look at where you could be had with a record-breaking temperatures we

let's get the view from two different parts of the country and take you to bbc who is in northern iraq are also in baghdad 400 kilometers away. let's go to you first in baghdad. what's the situation there? how frightened are people about the security problems? >> reporter: well tim, what seems to be a normal day this morning for army forces, police forces, ended up being a very bloody day for the last three or four hours. a series of seven attacks have taken place around the country. two of which in baghdad. those two cities are very troublesome as far as security is concerned due to the fact there has been a lot of confusion and conflicting interest in the city between the government and various groups. basically that is likely to affect the turnout amongst the police and army? very unlikely. most this voting now should have been finished or winding up at least. >> okay and what is happening there? >> reporter: well of course in the relatively safe a tutonomou region in iraq. no bombings or attacks. there were chaotic scenes in the polling station i visited this morning. they are doin

in northern iraq, the kurdish people, areas further south are a mix sunni and [ inaudible ] sunni muslims largely in central and western part. they accuse the current government of discrimination. the area around bagdad has been a mix, and the shiite population is in the eastern parts of iraq. we're joined now in the studio for more on iraq's elections. very significant day for iraq as a country as a whole. proving they can hold elections without u.s. security. >> obviously this is what we're seeing now that the government has tried to have these elections quite. it doesn't seem the case because there are some accidents some places. >> some. >> but i think in mallky will be happy to have a report by the end of the election with less people killed or injured in this -- on this day. of course the atmosphere itself has not been changed. we still in iraq suffer from, you know, the sectarianism at different levels and i think the elections is concerning this more and more. and i could say in iraq we are witnessing more evidence on rooting and having sectarians rooted in society in iraq, which

they have since occurred in cambodia, northern iraq, bosnia and rwanda.e are told what the international community can take away from the atrocity in rwanda. >> the lessons we take away is killing can occur rapidly. in is r 100 days roou wantan -- rwandan genocide killed close to a million people, but what it took to end it - force and will. these are lessons we need to keep alive, if not - the rwandan genocide should be an arc logical piece that captained artificial status, and the living lessons apply to the real crisis of today. >> let's bring in gerald cap lip, he's with us and the dollar of "rwanda, the preventible genocide." do you think humanity learnt its lesson from rwanda? >> i would be oddly surprised. there are many lessons. one is that it appears so long as there are us, there'll be gen sides, going all the way back to the book of the old testament, to roman and greek history and some called our era the century of gen sides suggesting that we are going back as a species. you don't think we have moved forward, recognising some of the mistakes

i served northern iraq 2004 and 2005. i was a machine gunner in a combat engineer unit. is that better? okay, great. primarily our job was driving the highways and byways and looking for bombs among other things but that is how i spent a great deal of my time over there. in the book the yellow birds comes out of that experience. i wonder now you have another book which comes from that experience but obviously a very different book and that is a different form turning to poetry now. was there something you felt -- obviously you are trying to render your experience in of both books so it something you can do in poetry that you couldn't do in the novel that drove you to the second second book? >> in the way, yes. because i was working on many of the poems and the novel at the same time it was really almost a practical hoping that if i used all the forms available to me that perhaps i could get close to approximating the experience. so because as i said i have always turned as a reader to both poetry and fiction in particular the novel i wanted to make sure that i kind of wa

it occurred in cambodia, northern iraq, bosnia and rwanda.t wasn't outsiders that ended the killing, but the president. we have this explanation. >> it was ended not because outsiders intervened, but rather from within. the rwandan patriotic front, let by the now president of rwanda defeated those carrying out the genocide militarily and put an end to the kitting. that's the other element. not just conscious inches, but the force and political will to use the force. unfortunately in many of the crisis we have seen in the last 20 years, the second element, the force and the will to use it has been missing. the united nations kaud the war the worst sips rwandan genosigh. the author of rwanda says each crisis is different. there's no set formula for fixing the situation. >> i don't see any solution at the moment. the only party we can figure out is to stop the regime. is russia. he has no knengs of doing that, nothing will stop the mixed bad, men terrorists, from keeping up the opposition. no one can stop him from doing that. i regard syria with

and we went to visit northern iraq. and the hotel manager, when we said where do we go to hike?told us, a good place to go. we went there, and soon we found out it was not such a good place to go, we didn't realize how close it was to the border. >> but it was beautiful, you think it is war torn land and what american in their right mind would go there? but it is like the alpine, the sierras, there are waterfalls. you have an idea as tourists. let's get a sense of your mindset. >> it's hot, it is because i'm in iraq, yo, it's hot, because i'm in iraq. someone get me a fan! someone get me a fan! because i'm in kurdistan! someone get me a fan, someone get me a fan because i'm in kurdistan! >> i could have done that for you live. now it's too late. >> we blew it there. but i just wanted to give you a sense, carefree, young friends and lovers hiking. you were playing this game, would you rather -- you were hiking on the hill? would you rather come across mountain lions or al-qaeda. but you had no idea that iranian guards were even in the mix. so you go up the trail, you see a sarah,

in northern iraq the kurdish makes up a fifth. the semiautonomous area has a kurdistan government.reas further south are a mix of sunni, arabs and kurds in oil-rich kirkuk and mosul. a third of the population are sunni muslims and are in central and western parts, accusing the shi'a-led government of discrimination. baghdad and its surrounding areas have been a mix of sunni and shia muslims. both wrestled for control of districts and neighbourhoods. the majority of the shia population is concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of iraq. including cities like basra. >> so for iraqis heading to the polls, it's not just sectarian challenges, there are regional ones as well. >> iraqi president is showing the rare public appearance at a hospital in germany where he is being treated. the ballot he is passing is for the first parliamentary elections since 2011 when the u.s. pulled out of iraq. these elections are seen as crucial. voting in some regions is expected to be difficult. in places like anbar, there's intense fighting between the army and members of the islamic state in ira

at that time going to unify say northern iraq has left at least ten people dead police say a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the campus while a gunman and another bomb were killed by security forces bloodshed have been searching across iraq as a prepares for parliamentary elections later this month. portables historic sad tale paul also was once a glittering tourist hot spot attracting thousands of visitors i guess but now many of its neighborhoods have turned into miserable flannels residents say three hard years of a stereotype art and blame for the city's descend into squalor his and her family had a look around. every year thousands of tourists come to enjoy portugal's picture postcard city it is a world heritage site renowned for its impressive architecture and famous red wine but there is a new tourist trial on the block here in port au designed to show the city's less flattering side far from the iconic dome louis bridge i booked myself on the excursion which calls itself the worst tools pedro forgave reid always one of three local architects who started it j

the deadly attacks in northern iraq losing sleep because flights and on into a schoolboy city of mosul killing five civilians and five security personnel. flowers are a separate suicide bombing left six people dead and checkpoints in the northern town of tickets. initial results from afghanistan with just ten percent of votes counted the formal court to stop the law appears to be in the lead. the academic types of honey is in second place still the success of heights or not but our dishes affordable widespread announcing his resignation offer just one month in the job it is interim prime minister says he's stepping down. abdullah and tommy gave the reason being that he and his family and all that i just say yes ma'am accompanying wrapped up in algeria today the country's presidential elections on thursday. the seventy seven year old incumbent of the season to feature is widely expected to clinch a full time just watching him pull health resulting seen throughout the campaign made a rare tv appearance on saturday night. turkey is his closest rival former prime minister ali of interest.

the kurds in northern iraq are fighting against each other for power and control so i don't think it's a good time for them to talk about a. so i guess what i'm saying is for better or worse a rock will survive, but i also think that despite all of these difficulties iraq is making economic progress. now the second-largest producer of oil. i think there is room for some kind of something which is a little more encouraging. >> it is a great question. i agree with doug. the relations that come out every six months, three or four parts. iraqi nationalism, it is pretty strong. it does hold people together. you have all locked. different communities. and still has appealed. these intangible are there, but the major incentive is though country is tied to the zero build. the most likely is the independence anytime soon, there won't go that route. to the three years to build. at the moment it is completely dependent on baghdad. the region does not have an independent revenue stream. as a result have to work with baghdad for that revenue. half for other areas you will hear calls of from separat

this hour officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least ten people and one in twelve more in northern iraq the attacker drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a security checkpoint in the city of mosul and then detonated his payload iraq seeing some of its worst violence in years with nearly eight thousand civilians and over a thousand security forces killed and twenty thirteen. a massive forest fire has left four people dead and destroyed over five hundred homes in chile around alerts been declared in the port city of el paraiso from where thousands of residents have been forced to evacuated to safety watch parts of the area are without electricity a man and a residence are said to be suffering from smoke inhalation the blaze first erupted in a nearby forest but was pushed towards the sea by strong pacific coast winds. tear gas and rubber bullets have been fired at crowds of anti-government protesters and venezuelan that's despite peace talks between president maduro and the opposition the clashes are being fueled by the country's continuing political crisis at least thirty nine peop

and attack on a shiite private college in northern iraq has left at least ten dead police say a suicide bomber blew himself up against a campus gunman and another bomber were reportedly killed by security forces bloodshed has been rising across iraq as a prepares for parliamentary vote later this month. catch up on the week's business stories next with katie bill being. a little while back a monument at a michigan university that resembles a wrecking ball was removed due to waves of students trying to imitate the sexy miley cyrus music video where she swings around naked on a wrecking ball well they did take down monuments that are magnets for acts of public stupidity is not important what is important is that this illustrates just how much the media affects us all monkey see monkey do is a reality after avatar came out every person hollowing paid themselves bright blue and when i was a kid literally every child want to jump off their bed and be a pro wrestler like hulk hogan heck every little opiate mayberry now wants to become a rap star people say that religions traditions and govern

in northern iraq they are fighting against each other for power and control and they don't seem to be interested in either one of these groups so i don't think it is a good time for them to talk about it. so i guess what i am saying is for better or for worse iraq will survive but despite all of these difficulties, iraq is making progress and is the second-largest producer of legal and there is movement on the oily hydrocarbon with the kurds. let's hope that it goes to the next level. but there is room for some kind of something which is a little bit more encouraging than the gloom and doom that we have talked about. >> i do agree every six months [inaudible] it does hold people together. so you have a lot of different communities. that still has an appeal to the iraqis and the same tangible incentives are there for the major incentives is the fact of the oil revenue is the most likely to seek independence any time soon. even if they want to go that route, they have to work for years to go because at the moment it is completely dependent. they are completely dependent on baghdad for t

two people were killed on wednesday by a roadside bomb near a polling station in the northern city of kirkuk. iraq's electoral committee has postponed voting in some parts of the western province of anbar sectarian violence across the country is now at its worst level since us troops left. it's influenced by the civil war in neighboring syria. the ballot boxes clothes on wednesday and celtic will start soon after this is the fourth time the iraqi people are voting in a national poll after the fall of saddam hussein some have been disillusioned with the democratic process but others are holding onto their hope. nhk world scary missile to hear reports from baghdad. photo is old. to line up. polling stations rose to the top. many of the youth team and the cost of this. by the trade talks she is just as i look freaking choose a government that will work for the benefit of all the people a solitary an end. this will bring a change he said. fifty seven years old. all need to do what he wanted to. but far away from his home. he and his tummy he came to a few months ago. sustained winds were numb by robots

more than 660,000 crossed syria's northern border into turkey, 220,000 spread into iraq. in georgia half a million syrians have been forced from their homes. 135,000 have been received in egypt. >> let's go to tripoli in northern lebanon. a staggering figure for lebanon alone. where do the refugees end up when they arrive in lebanon, and how are they being supported? >> this is one of the first places they get to. it's a united nations registration center. they come to register their name. there are thousands of them. some of these people arrived three days ago, they come to renew the registration. they come, register and are called back a month or 25 days later for verification, and then they get some of the services provided. it's food rations, health services and education. today more than one million registered refugees have been connected for. everyone in lebanon knows it will be the minimum number. there are thousands who left the country and came to lebanon who are not registered. >> lebanon's resources to provide for the refugees are increasing by the day, there's

and a suicide bomber has killed at least six policeman in northern iraq the attacker drove his explosivesaden vehicle into security checkpoint in the town of debates and then detonated his payload fifteen other people including civilians were wounded in the attack. two separate bomb blasts in india targeting officials have killed at least twelve people maoist rebels are suspected and they are conducting a campaign of violence to disrupt the ongoing general election and insurgents have staged frequent nationwide attacks over several decades pushing for india's poor to have a greater share of the country's natural resources. carina was a petro spare or die is this week as it poll is hosted a formula one grand prix and it's an event that gets lavish sponsorship from western companies despite the country's human rights concerns the ruling modern key has been waging a three year long crackdown against pro-democracy protests now last month alone thirteen but some of them teenagers were jailed for life after being found guilty of attacking a police vehicle in march twenty eighth for tasker's wer

right now the small official say a suicide bombers killed at least ten people wounded more in northern iraq the attacker drove a vehicle loaded with explosives onto a security checkpoint in the city of mosul and then detonated those explosives in iraq six of his worst violence in years with nearly eight thousand civilians and over a thousand security forces killed in twenty thirteen. massive forest fire here at least sixteen dead and destroyed over five hundred homes in chile thousands of residents had to be evacuated from the port city of el paraiso all the thousand firefighters several planes and helicopters all trying to battle right blaze large parts of the area without electricity many residents are said to be suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation to the fire first apparently erupted in a nearby forest that was pushed towards the city by strong pacific coast winds really bad luck. to get probable that they've been fired at crowds of anti-government protesters in venezuela now is despite ongoing peace talks between president would do and the opposition is clashes are being fuel

opposition group kidnapped them but the finger has been pointed at the islamic state of iraq, an branch in northernnd eastern provinces of syria. journalists have paid a heavy price in syria's war, almost 60 have died and dozens have been kidnapped, sometimes more money, sometimes for an exchange of prisoners. >> france takes great pride in securing the release of its kidnapped citizens wherever they are taken. for a president beset by political would hes with an approval rating of 18%, this latest release has provided a rare moment of good news. simon mcgregor wood, paris. >> it's now been one 13 days of imprisonment for three colleagues. they were all arrested in cairo on december 29th the, charged with aiding terrorism. after being adjourned several times, their trial is set to resume this week. another al jazeera stamp, abdullah al shami has been detained 8 months. the charges against our colleagues are rejected and we demand their immediate release. to iraq, a series of bombings have killed at least 18 people and wounded nearly 50 this weekend. the surge in violence comes less than two weeks a

iraq in 2011. >>> and residents along chile's northern coast experienced a powerful 7.6 magnitude aftershock wednesdayf serious injuries of damage. it came one day after a magnitude 8.2 earthquake killed six people. >>> today a funeral will be held for michael kennedy, a boston firefighter killed in the line of duty last week. on wednesday family and friends paid tribute to the other firefighter killed. elaine quijano reports on a promise made to his widow. >> reporter: 10,000 firefighters from across the country and some from as far away as australia stood at attention as a fire truck carried the remains of lieutenant edward walsh. the 43-year-old died in this wind-fed fire that trapped him and firefighter michael kennedy in the basement of this brownstone. lieutenant walsh's brother cared his helmet. that is his nephew saluting his casket. walsh's sister kathy malone. >> he lived more in 43 years than many of us will do in 80. he was destined to do great things, and he did. >> reporter: but one of the most moving tributes happened out of public viewing. it began with a request from walsh's widow, kr

been a clear record of foreigners coming in to join these in northern syria in the assad regime, and the fight against hezbollah inside iraq. there is this centrifugal force because they know this is where the action is. >> frightening to see all those al qaeda people all together in one place, and seemingly sending some message to the united states. brigadier general mark kimmet, great to have you with us. >>> are the numbers lying, chicago magazine has just published the first of a two part investigative report that contains explosive charges. after a year long investigation the magazine says the city has used various quebility techniques to artificially -- questionable techniques to artificially show numbers. joins us from chicago, we asked the chicago police department for a statement but have not received one. elisabeth good to have you with us. big cities doctoring crime statistics has been an issue before. this is an especially big deal because this has become the murder capital of the country. >> it gave chicago quite a black eye on the world stage. getting those statistics down is a pretty major deal for rahm eman

spread of its ideaology across a wide swath of the muslim world in africa, the northern and eastern parts, in syria, in iraq, and so both sides have had a great victory. and the threat to americans remains very significant. and congressman, i am deeply concerned the threat is going to grow in the years ahead. >> and do you think the fact of whether or not in the beginning it was inspired by the news media from the protest or whether it was a planned attack and at this point how would that make a difference on the finding of terrorist or dealing with the situation? >> there was no doubt in the analyst mind or my mind that this was a terrorist attack irregardless of what motivated them or if there was a protest >> i would think from that we would move forward and focus on catching the bad guys. the other question quickly i want to get into is we as americans care about our men and women on the ground whether it is military or intelligence. our theme is we never leave an american behind. and there is allegations we left the americans behind in this situation. can you discuss, i think it is important, the longs

iraq war veteran. he never saw combat though. >> strong after shocks are rattling chile's northern coast this morning.'s strongest was 6.1. that struck the same area hit by tuesday's 8.2 quake which left six people dead. no new major damage, you can see what the previous quake did. also a heavy police presence is there keeping order. >> a developing story as the search for the missing malaysian airlines plane continues deep in the ocean. the underwater search is under way, crews hoping to detect pings from the two data recorders. the crews do not have time on their side. the recorders stop transmitting after about 30 days after the crash, and that's a few days from now. the plane of course disappeared march 8, 239 people on board. weeks long hunt hasn't turned up a single piece of wreckage. >> happening now a 1-year-old girl seriously ill off the coast of mexico on a boat could soon be out of harm's way thanks to bay area crews. chase cain is live at moffett field with defails of this sea rescue. >> reporter: pretty incredible, peggy. the group that left from here yesterday, they had to fly out over t

yemen, syria, you've had egypt going through very, very difficult passage, iraq still very difficult, afghanistan. you look at northern africa and libya in a very difficult situation. that is spreading down into the northern part of africa. you need each country to do what you can in respect to the security situation and fighting terrorism and getting the country on its feet and to develop but then we've got to deal with this wider issue of this poisonous and corrosive ideology that is taught to children at a young age. >> so are you fearful of another 9/11? >> i'm fearful of, for example, we in u.k., our biggest security worry, our own people, citizens who have been brought up in the uk going and fighting so-called jihad in syria and returning to the uk and becoming a major security threat because they are battle-hardened, radicalized, and they are angry. >> so what was the point in iraq, afghanistan, all of the trillions that were spent, lives lost if this threat is potentially in your own analysis even greater today? >> here's the problem. all of this, in my view, has one central origin. that is this toxic mix of r

iraq. security forces say the deadly effort blast took place in the northern area.ted as patrols passed through. ten were killed there, dozens more injured. a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check point, killing eight. >> thousands forced to flee their homes in chile as crews try to stop a deadly wildfire. firefighters are having a difficult time getting this one under control. >> an early leader taking shape in afghanistan's presidential election amid claims of widespread fraud. how voters are using social media to combat poll rigging. >> the price of coffee climbing higher thanks to a drought in brazil. the jolt its giving coffee farmers on the other side of the world. >> welcome back. a look at whether eastern ukraine will follow in crimea's footsteps and realign with russia. >> first, here's nicole mitchell. read 'em and weep is what she is now saying with the temperatures. >> we had the warm weekend, there's always another side of that story, so really warm air on the east coast. it is 67 on the coastline, but new york at 64, warmer than los ange

. >> it has been a deadly day in iraq, three police officers killed when a suicide bomber drove a tanker filled with explosives into a checkpoint in northernad. another five were injured, including two civilians and two civil service workers with iraq's minister of electricity shot and killed this morning by unknown gunman using silencers in a baghdad neighborhood. americans are warned by the u.s. embassy in baghdad not to us baghdad international to a specific threat. >> a tornado watch in the u.s. is in effect right now. >> some parts of the country also facing flooding rain. let's turn to our meteorologist. >> it's all across the southeast. we have a little bit of it all, a lot of wind, along with some of these storms that are firing up. it's not just the rotating storms, but also straight line winds. this is the area we are going to watch later today, although area shaded in red, stretching from mobile, alabama into the carolinas. we have a slight risk of severe weather. we still have our tornado watch in effect including the new orleans area, creating really strong winds, more of a marine warning right now. storms move further in land

foreigners coming any to join this fight in northern syria against at a time assad regime and the fight against hezbollah and the fight against the shia inside of iraq. there is this centrifugal force where these fighters coming from around the world because they know that this is where the action is. >> it's frightening to see all of those al-qaeda people all together in one place and seemingly trying to say -- send some message to the united states. brigadier general mark kimmett, good to have you on the show to talk about this. >>> turning to the crisis in ukraine where what the government called an anti-terrorist organization by ukrainian troops in the eastern part of the country has resulted in a trail of demoralized fighters meant to show strength against pro-russian forces but some ended up defecting to the russian side and putting russia's flag on what used to be ukraine i can't believe combat vehicles. others dismantled their weapons when faced by pro-russian protesters. pro-russian insurgents have captured police stations and government buildings in at least nine cities. a concerned nato announced it is deploying more forces in eastern eur

of ideology across a very wide swath of the muslim world from northern nigeria into this a, across north africa, in east africa, in syria, iraq. and so, both sides have had this great victory and the threat to americans remains very, very significant. and congressman, i am deeply concerned the threat is going to grow in the years ahead. >> and you think back to whether or not in the beginning it was inspired by the news media from the protest or whether it was a planned attack at this point? .. we never leave an american behind. we always stand up for our people. there have been allegations of debt i have heard often on that we let our americans fall behind in the situation. can you please discuss the longstanding security expectation and procedures sca stations and bases, particularly in remote and dangerous parts of the world? does the ca expected military assets of the above to provide immediate protection the matter where they are in the world? what i'm getting to is a you have your own security, and they're well trained. even in this situation if it were not for the smoke, hopefully looking back it does happen, but we ho

ideology across a very wide wath of the muslim world, from northern nigeria into the sahal, across north africa, in east africa. in syria, in iraq, and so both sides have had this great victory. and the threat to americans remains very, very significant. and congressman, i am deeply concerned that the threat is actually going to grow in the years ahead. >> and do you think the fact of whether or not in the beginning it was inspired by the news media from the protests or whether it was a planned attack at this point how would that make any difference on the focus of finding terrorists or dealing with a situation as it occurred in benghazi? >> there was no doubt in my mind -- and there was no doubt in the analyst's mind although they said extremists rather than terrorists but there was no doubt in my mind or the analysts' mind that this was a terrorist attack regardless of what motivated them and regardless of whether or not there was a protest or not. >> well, i would think from that position that we would move forward. and our focus is catching the bad guys. the other question i want to get into is we as americans care very much

iraq. five died when improvised bombs were set off in two baghdad neighbourhoods. one exploded in a busy marketplace. eight from killed in anbar provin province, deaths in ramadi, and the northern city of somalia. >> an air strike in aleppo. 45 people have been killed in the attack. this video posted online shows what are said to be rebel attacks. the organization overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons says damascus can meet an april 21st deadline. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says the deadline is still realistic. the syrian government plans to resume operations in the coming days. >> 2.5 million people fled the civil war in syria seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. syrian women have been reporting rape and abuse in refugee camps. this report from jordan. these are among vulnerable women, facing violence in syria and in exile. they need a space to share experiences. this woman says this session is her only outlet, saying she became depressed and her marriage and family are suffering. >> translation: i no longer am able to communicate with my son or husband. i spent a lot of time teaching my son and playing with him. i stopped. i

iraq was done. but the official end of the war was december 15th, 2011. that same morning, december 15th, 2011, a gunman opened fire at a small courthouse in a northern minnesotaup against the canadian border. he shot the local prosecutor multiple times and he wounded two other people. that was december 15th. less than two weeks later on christmas morning, it was a mass shooting in downtown chattanooga, tennessee. a crowd of young people leaving a christmas eve party after midnight when the gunfire fired into the crowd. nine people were shot. january 10th, philadelphia, pennsylvania, four teenagers riding in the same car were ambushed by an armed 30-year-old man. all four of the teenagers were shot. three were killed. february 21st, norcross, georgia, near atlanta, a man storms into a spa own and run by his family. he shoots and kills four of his own relatives then kills himself. february 26th, jackson, tennessee. a gunman fires into the crowd and shoots 21 people. miraculously, 20 of those people are wounded and only one person dies. the next day, february 27th, it's chardon, ohio. a 17-year-old high school student takes a gun from a relative, brings it to sc