none of the refugees that i met were happy to be in northern iraq. all wanted to go back to syria all of them knew the situation in syria is very, very difficult for them. virtually every refugee i met was stealing themselves about having to stay in northern iraq for a protracted time because the violence in syria, there appears to be no end to it. i was struck, also, by the generosity of the local community that welcomed the refugees. the camp i vivid was built overnight in a matter of a week to accommodate the influx of thousands of syrian refugees that crossed the border. the year before. i was also struck by the fact that these neighboring countries like where i was in the kurdistan region of iraq but also, lebanon and egypt and turkey they have enormous problems of their own. this influx of refugees is a strain on their social services, on their economic situation. it behooves all of us to see this not as the problem of a handful of nations, neighboring syria, address. we can do our part to help ease the burden for those countries as refugees co

kurds have lived semi semi autoously in northern iraq. now with the upheaval in iraq the kurds share a 600-mile border with the new islamic state. forces are fighting the sunni insurgents and pulling away from baghdad economically and politically. >> the time has come for us to determine our own fate. we must not wait for others to determine it with us. >> president of the semi autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq. they live upon some of the richest oil fields in all of iraq. as the government in baghdad fractures in sectarian divisions the kurdish pull away in states that they can take care of. they threatened off advances of isil and declared their own islamic state. the fighting has made the question of borders and security even more important to the kurds who see the baghdad government and nouri al-maliki as opposite of their goals. >> it will hurt you and it will take the region in a maze that you cannot exit. secondly, you already decided to be part of a democratic and ferrell iraq. you have your own federal region. there is no

they are native people of northern iraq and threatened by armed gangs of islamic state. there are reports, unconfirmed, christians in northern iraq are being forced to stop and abandon belongings and cash they're carrying. persecution of christians in northern iraq is part after troubling trend as violence escalated throughout the middle east and north after cam the persecution of religious minorities has also grown. asked about the orchestrated campaign by the islamic state known as isil to take over churches and expel christians the state department spokeswoman monday condemned actions. >> these are a bomb minutable acts. they are very clear isil's mission to divide and destroyer rack. they have absolutely no place in the future of iraq, we could not be more clear. >> reporter: in a recent report, the human rights group amnesty international documented persecution of christian minority in egypt, specifically revenge attacks at christians after violence and opponents of the morsi government. jenna: catherine, thank you. jon: we told you at top of the hour the big news.

we welcome with the mujahideen back to northern iraq is god is greater. not god is great but god is greater. the sin in their eyes is that they are christians and they are forcing them either to stay and pay that tax, face execution or flee and most are fleeing. >> when you think of all the blood shed, american blood and others in iraq and you see all the effort, you know, that went try to fix it after, you know, after everything that went down and you now you see what we are leaving behind is something that is going to turn into genocide for religious reasons awful, horrible, rotten evil people these what they are to the core when you see the video and listen to the interviews and look at the photos, what you see is that a religious group is being wiped away from northern iraq. this is a group that considers themselves native people. >> not the only people in the world president ba sure a lot of places in the world killing people for just being christians. thank you. >> you are welcome. iraqi christian terrorized by pure evil people. michael faulkner joi

the mayor says those days are gone now, at least for the kurds of northern iraq. >> the freedom we have now makes us feel secure. everyone here makes an effort to support and defend this freedom. we have our own military organization, secret service, and police. >> another factor is the spectacular economic development of iraqi kurdistan. new high-rises and shopping centers are popping up all over, most of them built by turkish developers. turkey, the kurds' one-time arch nemesis, has turned into kurdistan's biggest investor. the kurdish leadership is delighted that turkey no longer treats the kurds as enemies. >> kurdistan is pursuing its own national security, and kurdistan really wants to have balanced relations with all the neighbors. it is a win-win situation, not only that kurdistan is benefiting from the relationship with turkey, but turkey is also winning in that relationship, and that is the way of doing politics on the neighborhood. >> the kurdish administration is still a work in progress. whatever problems crop up, the mayor steps in personally. he lived in germany over 20 y

teams to get into northern iraq and to figure out what to do there because the iraqis are not even there right now and no indication, at least at this point, that they can or will mount the kind of massive wholesale attack that would be needed, current attack, to take back that massive swath of northern and western iraq, that would be a very tall order. >> incredible to think that's the status quo. isis controlling a big part of the country. thanks to barbara starr at the pentagon. >>> the july 4th holiday could be dangerous for much of the east coast. arthur is churning and marching north. we'll tell you when it's expected to grow into a hurricane next. and later, tensions on the rise between israel and the palestinians, tragedies on both sides are adding to a volatile situation. we'll talk with ambassador ni nicholas burns about what's at stake. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. you wouldn't have it she any other way.our toes. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for dai

zena hoder reports in northern iraq. >> two countries that are breaking up. in this corner of northwest iraq the kurdistan regional government is the authority on the ground. and it is moving towards secession from iraq. but this is a political fault line. the northwest of syria is run by the pyd, an offshoot of the kurdistan workers party or the pkk. kurds long believe this broke you up their border. on both sides of this border there are de facto kurdish autonomous regions. but they are run by long time rivals who don't cooperate and each blame the other for preventing the movement of people. the traffic however seems to be one way. >> translator: there are no humanitarian corridors to reach the syrian kurds. people are suffering there because of the war with the self declared islamic state. this crossing is the only exit point and the pyd doesn't allow people to leave. >> reporter: this is one of two crossings of the iraq and syria. the other has been closed since the kurdish peshmerga took offer the offensive in june. >> pyd doesn't allow people to cross.

day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflaged in a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally both shooter and target aircraft were quipped with. a specially designed electronic equipment something we call. a den a five friend or foe and this is equipment designed specifically to prevent this type of x. and remember her. so how in the world could this happen. the helicopters were

. >> reporter: on this waste land in the town of northern iraq hundreds of families have sought refugeng from the latest round of fighting that has thrown the country in turmoil and are a drop of the ocean of hundreds of thousands of people displaced and men, women and children and mainly sunni z who homes and livelihoods destroyed and this 60-year-old man is one of them and he has three little girls. he is now unable to provide for them. >> translator: there was shelling, continuous and indiscriminate shelling from all sides and shells landing on our roofs so we had to flee. >> reporter: no doubt who is to blame. >> translator: i blame the government, those we elected, once we elected them they turned against us and had we elected foreigners they would have treated us better. >> reporter: and four-year-old and his father are here and he is paralyzed from the neck down and the shelling was so intense in his hometown that his father had no time to grab anything else, not even his wheelchair and he picked up his son and ran. now the child struggles to cope in the scorching heat and the f

last minute early morning trip was scheduled to get peacekeepers to or below the town deep in northern iraq when the pilots entered the no fly zone that morning they were alarmed to see two helicopters appear on their radar nobody's supposed to be in front of them that day so you're already your expectations these are probably enemy helicopters that speeded that out too that this sense of all you're trying to figure out is a hit as in which soviet designation a home. through. the army's rules of engagement the f. fifteen approached the blackhawks to visually confirm that they were enemy aircraft before firing they were trained on this they take a lot of pride in this but of course a black cock a u.s. army black hawk. was configured these two black hawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that chan

in northern iraq the last local christians are fleeing. a deadline passed for them to convert it is lame, pay a tax -- islam, pay a tax or be killed. many of the christian communities have been in place for 2,000 years. islamic state claimed responsibility for four bombings in baghdad on saturday. the attacks killed 27 people. meantime the kurds in northern iraq heading for a momentous event. they are preparing a vote of statehood. we have this report from erbil in the kurdish region. >> reporter: these days could be the last for iraq to remain united. the kurdish region is preparing for a referendum on self-determination. >> translation: we have suffered a lot as kurds. it's already. at the kurdish parliament, arrangements and technicalities are being worked out. >> translation: we'll hold a referendum in areas that have come under our control. and then the second stage - we will decide our future either as an independent nation or part of federal iraq. >> reporter: the kurdish region enjoyed autonomy since 2003. stability brought billion

day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflage and a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and.

pilots a last minute early morning trip was scheduled to get peacekeepers to appeal a town deep in northern iraq when the pilots entered the no fly zone that morning they were alarmed to see two helicopters appear on their radar nobody's supposed to be in front of them that day so you're already your expectations these are probably enemy helicopters that speeded that out too that this sense of all you're trying to figure out isn't hip isn't something which soviet as a nation you have to come through. for the army's rules of engagement the f. fifteen approached the blackhawks to visually confirm that they were enemy aircraft before firing they were trained on this they take a lot of pride in this but of course a black cock a u.s. army black hawk. was configured these two blackhawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks are going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these litt

paying a price forfaith, christians in northern iraq flee their homes for safety. ♪ good to have youh us. in the ukraine today, international monitors got limited access to the site where malaids i can't airlines flight mh-15 was shot down. they have not agreed to clear a cave corridor for international investigators. ukraine's government is accusing rebels of looting the site, removing items from what should be declared a crime scene. rebels have removed vict isms'bodies to another rebel-held area in donetsk. >> you certainly start from the donetsk administration. there was an important case yesterday a number of borders for me, it's going beyond any sort of moral ground and moral consideration. >> the dutch foreign minister told crain's president his people are furious over reports that bodies of crash victims were disturbed. international monitors from new york got limited access to the site. ashlingsz's scott heidler was the first t.v. reporter at the scene of the crash. >> the first memorial site for the 298 people aboard flight mh-17. her son's house meters away from the 777. >

iraq. people fled. clearly, isis in control of that major northern city in iraq. barbara, thanks for that report. >>> president obama is under pressure to respond to immigrant children crossing the border illegally. they are blaming the obama administration for the problem. the president traveling to texas on wednesday. the challenges for him is for ahead of the situation. >> it would be nice for him to come to the border. i think he is one step behind. they knew this was happening a year ago last year. again, they are just -- they are not reacting fast enough at this time. >> michelle has the latest over there. the president will be there in texas on wednesday. any plans for him to go to the border and see for himself what's going on? >> this has been a question. multiple times a day in the afternoon briefing it comes up. why doesn't the president go down there? he is going to be in texas. why isn't he going to be at the border? the administration keeps calling this an urgent humanitarian crisis. doesn't he want to see it with his own eyes? the answer has been co

. >> reporter: on this piece of waste lan in northern iraq -- land in northern iraq, thrown the country into turmoil. they are but a drop in the ocean of the hundreds of thousands of rakes who have been internally displaced as a result. men, women and children mainly sunni whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed. this 60-year-old man from dialla is one of them he has three little girls and is now unable to provide for them. >> translator: there was shelling, continuous and indiscriminate shelling, from all sides. shells landed on our roofs so we should to flee. >> foad is in no doubt who's to blame. >> translator: i blame the government, those we elected. once we elected them they turned against us. they would have treated us different. >> paralyzed from the neck down. the shelling was so intense in his home town that his father had no time to grab anything else, not even his wheelchair. he picked up his son and ran. now the child struggles to cope in the being scorching heat. this is another suffering child. she is unable to move her legs. her mother had almost saved enough mon

netanyahu said he will not bow to international pressure to stop the offensive. >>> bomb attacks in northern iraqls 31. a checkpoint manned by kurdish forces were targeted. many of the victims were refugees fleeing fighting else are. >>> thousands of people are on the streets in northern ireland for the peak of orange men's parade. it marks a victory for protestants over the catholic community, many parades passed peaceful peacefully, some that pass through nationalist areas are underway. >> well, the atmosphere is one of celebration to the arrange men here, of course. >> the march that is passing comes to a halt. it's one of the back up vans factored there. either side the march with the banners, as you see earlier, it is contentious. the risks comes later on in the day, perhaps with previous years, when the marches go to areas when they are not supposed to argue. the other side lives there, and regards this as provocative. >> your a community worker. what is your view of all this. throughout the year you try to resolve arguments. do you think this ban succeeds. we work all year around building

kurdistan in northern iraq have been independent. they want full autonomy.ecision is up to regional leaders. not everywhere is convinced a kurdish state is a good idea. >> these days could be the last for iraq to remain united. the kurdish region in northern iraq is referring to a referendum on self-determination. >> we have suffered a lot as kurds. >> after kurdish parliament, arrangements and technicalities are being worked out. >> we'll hold the referendum in the dispute areas that have come upped our control, and the second stage we'll decide the future either as an independent nation or part of federal iraq. the kurdish region enjoyed outony since 1991, remaining stable and prosperous in 2003. that stability brought billions of dollars investment. the discovery of large oil reservesers start of oil production has revived kurdish operations. kurds made territorial gains in june when iraqi army troops collapsed after fighters from islamic state and sunni rep else in a number of cities or towns. kurdish forces moved in to control all the areas that it had

the kurds in northern iraq have long been a strong ally of united states and they have played an important role in countering the rapid advance of isis. when i went to iraq a long time ago the bullets were flying. the kurds, i found them to get what this was all about and there were so much prejudice against the kurds. the kurdish militia offered his support iraqi security forces when isis began its offensive in mosul. kurdish forces have kept much of northern iraq out of terrorist hands. kurdistan has become a destination for hundreds of thousands of iraqis fleeing from isis controlled territory and you know i have to say as i watch mr. maliki, i don't think he appreciates it. as the iraqis continue to work to determine their future i am asking you what role can the kurds continue to play and should the united states acknowledged that the kurds should have a significant amount of autonomy? i think they have earned it and i wonder what the administration's position is vis-À-vis the kurds and more autonomy for the kurds? >> thank you senator. we are in a very active conversation with all th

>> let's say, first of all, failed state maybe yes, but look at northern iraq. kurdish areas are prosperous. this is not only about iraq. it is not primarily about iraq. it is about al qaeda and this al qaeda in the islamic levant in iraq. and that's our real enemy. >> so what should we do? >> yes, there is a sectarian dimension to it. but when you say sectarian, people sensibly say let's stay out of it. when you say al qaeda, they wake up and say, yes, there is a problem. the second thing i would say is we need to look for friends everywhere. we still have a few left. an awful lot of people do not believe in us, our friends and enemies. but we should be looking for them. and i would say start in syria. sunnis in syria are the most actively fighting this isis organization. >> so on those insurgents in syria, that is what you would do. -- arm the insurgents? >> at least arm them. we may have reached a point where we need to do more. >> would you send american forces? >> i hope we do not have to. >> but you would not take that off the table. >> you can never take a

many left the town after isis seized much of northern iraq. the country is home to one of the world's most ancient christian communities. i'm joined in the studio by a guest from the episcopalian church in paris. thank you for joining us. how many christians are still left in iraq? >> about 200,000. 1.2 million before the war in 2003. >> there been a growing number who have fled the country, but this is the absolute crunch, it isn't it? >> it is really astonishing. this islamist state, so-called, tok over mosul and decided reimpose what was done in the seventh century, choose death, pay the tax, or leave. most people are not able to afford $400 per month, so they left. as they left, they were stripped of all their goods, including their automobiles, and walked to the nearest small villages that are still open to christians. >> there are some here in france on the far right who have questioned and voiced their concerns over the offer to give asylum to these questions. >-- christians. >> france has a great tradition of being the land of asylum.

. >> reporter: on this piece of waste land in northern iraq hundreds of thousands of families soughte and fleeing from the latest round of fighting throwing this country this turmoil and they are hundreds of thousands of iraqis being internally displaced as a result, men, women and children and mainly sunni whose lives and livelihoods destroyed and this 60-year-old man is one of them, he has three little girls. he is now unable to provide for them. >> translator: there was shelling, continuous and indiscriminate shelling from all sides and shells landing on roofs so we had to flee. >> reporter: she in no doubt as to who is to blame. >> translator: i blame the government, those we elected, once we elected them they turned against us and had we elected foreigners they would have treated us better. >> reporter: more severe cases in the camp like he and his father and he is paralyzed from the neck down. the shelling was so intense in his hometown that his father had no time to grab anything else, not even his wheelchair and he picked up his son and ran. now the child struggles to cope in

appearance by the man behind the recent offensive by islamic extremists who have captured towns in northern iraq and western iraq, and declared a cal fate or islamic state. for more about that and the counter offensive by iraqi government forces we are joined now via skype from baghdad by matthew bradley of the wall street journal. >> matt thanks for joining us, what is the latest at this hour? >> the latest is the .. last couple of hours is the appearance of the islamic state leader abu who made his first video appearance just today .. and in the last couple of hours, a video that was on social media and supposedly shows him giving what is called a hukba or sort of like a sermon to a meeting of muslims in a mosque in mosul, a city in iraq yesterday. so this is a very big deal because abu is only, the only known photos of him available and he is a notoriously elusive character and now a lengthy video sequence of him for the first time, and it is a very interesting development. we are now putting a face to a name of a jihadi leader who really has eclipsed al qaeda and the leader of al qaeda in th

her first glimpse of them is on t.v., being bussed to safety and kurdish control in northern iraq. >>ranslator: it was as if i was dying every day. i will never let them go back into war zones or where the islamic state is even if it means we have to beg. >> the turkish government hasn't revealed how these men were released. 49 other turks including diplomats are still being held. they are at least coming home. bernard smith, al jazeera on the turkey/iraq iraq boarder. >> violence on the lebanese/syrian border is in the form of air raids. the bombed positions say the border town, four people have died. more protests in egypt in support of ousted president mohamed morsi thursday marked the one-year anniversary when a popular uprising removed him from power. protests left five people dead. early today, egyptians held more rallies. some were peace if you will like this one in the village of mac mood dia. >> reporter: the aftermath of a bomb blast on a train in alexandria, the homemade device was put under a chair and exploded, leaving several passengers injured. there have been bomb atta

military advisers may head into northern iraq as was originally planned because, of course, northern iraq is still very much under isis control. jake? >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you so much. joining me to talk about this is fareed zakaria host of fareed zakaria. they say they believe that those iraqi forces will stay and fight for baghdad. is this what the conflict has basically come down, is it holding baghdad? is it all won or lost in that city? >> that's a hugely important issue, right? whether you lose the capital or not, but baghdad is now essentially a shia city. it used to be mixed. sunnis have been driven out and of course, there are still many, many sunni, but it's mostly a shia city and has become part of the shia-dominated government's strong hold. so the reason that the iraqi government lost lots of territory and these are scenarios. the locals were, if not sympathetic to the insurgents and sympathetic to isis they were pretty anti-government and that's not true in baghdad and the army will fight it as a shiite core that will fight there, but it it only reenfo

the kurds in northern iraq have long been a strong ally of the united states, and they have played an important role in countering the rapid advance of isis. when i went to iraq a long time ago, the bullets were flying. the kurds -- i found them to get what this was all about. and there's so much prejudice against the kurds. the kurdish militia offered to support iraqi security forces when isis began its offensive in mosul. kurdish forces have kept much of northern iraq out of terrorists' hands. kurdistan has become a destination for hundreds of thousands of iraqis fleeing from isis-controlled territory. and i have to say as i watch mr. maliki i don't think he appreciates it. as the iraqis continue to work to determine their future, i'm asking you what role can the kurds continue to play and should the united states acknowledge that the kurds should have significant amount of autonomy? i think they've earned it, and i wondered what the administration position is vis-a-vis the kurds and more autonomy for the kurds. >> thank you, senator. we're in a very active conversation with all of

iraq. an extremist islamic group called isis holds part of northern syria and a large section of iraq. isis is of the sunni branch of islam. it's fighting iraq's government which is dominated by shi'a muslims. a kurdish ethnic group in the north is also seeking independence. yesterday the iraqi parliament failed to form a government to reconcile these factions and today the prime minister announced something else has to come first. charlie d'agata is in baghdad. >> reporter: this is iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki's top priority, defeating isis militants, he said today, must come first. politic was come later. there will be no new government as he had promised until the fighting was contained. there's been no sign of that. while sunni insurgents and largely shiite forces fought for control of parts of the country, in the north the kurds have drawn their line in the sand too. kurdish troop troops known as the peshmerga have been reinforcing defences and raising their own flag outside the city of kirkuk. the peshmerga quickly took over this oil-rich city in the wake of the isis adva

the kurds in northern iraq have long been a strong ally of the united states. and they have played an porn role in countering the rapid advance of isis. when i went to iraq a long time ago, the bullets were flying, the kurds, i found them to get what this was all about. and it is so much prejudice against the kurds. the kurdish militia offered to support iraqi security forces when isis began its offensive in mosul. kurdish forces have kept much of northern iraq out of terrorist hands. kurdistan has become a destination for hundreds of thousands of iraqis fleeing from isis controlled territory. and, you know, i have to say, as i watched mr. maliki, i don't think he appreciates it. as the iraqis continued to work to determine their future, i'm asking you, what role can the kurds continue to play? and should the united states acknowledge that the kurds should have a significant amount of autonomy? i think they earned it, i wondered what the administration position is, vis-a-vis the kurds and more autonomy for the kurds. >> thank you, senator. we're in a very active

forces continue to take control of oil production facilities in northern iraq. oil ministry called on the kurds to withdraw or face dire consequences. what do you make of this threat? >> well, threats from baghdad weigh less and less because if you are in the oil ministry in baghdad, would you drive to kirkuk? you couldn't because isis is in between you and the kurds. so they are not really in a position to make effective threats. they can make it difficult to sell this oil. it's complicated for the kurds. but possession is 90% of the law in this case. so, it's impossible to see what baghdad can really do to stop the kurds taking over the kirkuk oil fields. >> remains to be seen patrick cockburn, we certainly appreciate your time. >>> on al jazeera america, fear of the ongoing violence is sending some ukrainian civilians to find security in russia. in the yemeni government, they vow to crack down on rebel fighters. . >> two candidates have agreed to abide. john kerry is in afghanistan to mediate the agreement. bothmen accuse the other of electoral fraud during l

we have reports in northern iraq. >> these people have spent weeks on the road. this is a transit center where these formally displaced families waiting to relocated. they won't be going back home because th they are no longer welcome in the district under the control of the self-proclaimed islamic state group. they cannot go back. so they're going to shia areas in the south. >> we no longer have homes. we lost everything. we lost our livelihoods. >> reporter: it is not just that. for these people coexistence between soonies and shia is a thing of the pass. iraqi forces have also been accused of extra judicial execution of sunni detainees in the direct. many here believe that iraq will never be the same again. >> they want to do this. strong country. >> but the kurdish region in t the. >> i want to tell you clearly that we're not forcing these people to leave. they're the ones who want to go to the south. we're cooperating with the government in baghdad to facilitate their transfer. >> for more than 4,000 here anxiously wait for their turn. >> we just want to get

the vast majority of those we met made the trip from northern iraq by road, what should be a harrowing or four to seven days, forced to navigate their way around isis strong hold. we brought nothing, not even close, just horrors, this man says, as he drives off. most of those who made it are shia, relying on the kindness of the community. but at least here in iraq shia heartland, they are safe. basic food supplies are distributed through religious organizations and residents donations. so far, some 23,000 and counting have arrived. >> the refugees are being sheltered in houses that line this entire stretch of highway between the two holy cities of karbala and nejah, normally used by the millions of pilgrims that come here during a shore up. >> sadness etched in the elders' faces, a mother lost in thought as she stares at her youngest, while other children play around with donated pillows and mattresses. the twins' cousin lying next to them was born a refugee. the baby's eyes are all lined with -- a tradition believed to strengthen their sight and protect them from evil, evil they have

. >> islamic state fighters ordered christians to leave mosul and northern iraq. many christian families are live in fear of persecution. >> gormg is not his -- george is not his real name. we concealed his identity because he hopes to return to his home town of mosul. he's a christian who fled with his wife once the ultimatum was issued. >> they stopped us on the way out. took my idea and found i was a christian. they took my money. i lived and worked all my life in mosul. >> his wife said all that is there was gone. >> i begged them the money and gold i had was for my son's wedding. they told us to leave or they would take the car. >> since the fighters took control of mosul in june they have been marked in red and confiscated. >> this is the closest we get to mosul. the islamic state group issued a religious ruling giving christ three option, to convert to islam. pay tax or be killed. that ruling terrified many. the church is now home for tens of families. this is the priest and he fears for the worst. >> we had been targeted before. never to this extent. the g

>> i think one of the best reasons to pay attention is that these areas in northern iraq now that isis is controlling, i think it's not unreasonable to draw an nail joy between what isis wants do there and what the taliban did in afghanistan prior to 2001. so in as much as it's a big threat to countries around the world to have a group like isis controlling large territory and marshaling a lot of resources, it's a threat to everybody. >> what about the oil? [laughter] is the oil okay? [laughter] are they being cruel to the oil up there? >> i can assure you that the oil is actually safe right now. most of iraq's proil duction is in the south, which is shia majority. and isis is a radical sunni group, and they're more in the north. so the oil production is not affected so far. >> stephen: can't we sit back, like you dump a bunch of red ants and a bunch of black ants in a pile, and you pour a little honey in the middle, and you just make them fight. can't we just do that? why do we have to stick our big toe back in there? [laughter] >> well, i think if we don't stick our big toe back in t