representing the greek orthodox patriarch theophilos iii in jerusalem, the orthodox initiative has partnered with u.s. churches for several projects, including distributing food and other essential aid. >> it's our moral duty, it's our obligation, it's our christian presence, and our christian witness, they're both related, and we cannot just close our eyes on a crisis that is happening to other people and say, "well, let the u.n. agencies deal with it, or the government." we are part and parcel. we are part of the fabric of this area. >> reporter: religious groups here are asking for more aid. many are also urging the international community to work harder to find solutions to the conflict inside syria, so the refugees can ultimately return. >> we have this ongoing hemorrhage of innocent blood in syria. i think it is the time now that we raise our voices. >> reporter: the situation may seem insurmountable, but faith leaders say it's not hopeless. >> i think sometimes it's easier to say, "this is too overwhelming. this is beyond me." and i don't think compassion and assistance is ever beyond

those critics are activists, journalists, religious activists who are not russian orthodox and being perceived as disa approving of the self-proclaimed. it's as simple as that. then of course other people are not really activists. for example they have voiced a critical opinion on social media. the documented cases like that or people who neighbors reported as insider for ukraine. that's enough for insurgents to come and get them and torture them actually to use them as hostages. when talking about torture, most of the people we interviewed and is overall we interviewed dozens of former captains, there was talk of beatings and torture that usually occurred the first night or first to second day. that's the roughest period of all. they also said to us that even though they were tortured during interrogation, they're not really trying to get any information from them but rather aimed at breaking their will and punishing them. >> is there any evidence this is being carried out by ukrainian soldiers as well? >> well, indeed we actually received some reports about ukrainian forces volunte

he is an ultra orthodox student that has been in israel studying there. nora muchanic joins us live in lakewood, ocean county, where friends of teen spoke a short while ago. >> this student's disappearance has rocked this community, his family say large one and well known in lakewood. he graduated here and was in israel doing post graduate work when he disappeared. he was expected to return to class tomorrow. tomorrow in a news conference, community leaders and politicians are calling on israel and the united states to do everything they can to find this young man. >> do everything to bring back my brother, and bring him back in good health. he was among those pleading with officials to do all they can to locate aaron, of lakewood that went missing in israel on friday. >> i want to say to the israeli government, treat aaron as if he was an israeli soldier is missing. we know what the government does when an israeli soldier goes missing. >> we know the concerns of the possibility of an abduction, no claims have been made and that is a good sign. >> he was

the reform, conservative movement, orthodox movement with their divisions. they create their own educational institute. >> you have orthodox colleges and reform colleges. >> you have schools associated with those different movements. >> different ethnic origins for different movements. >> origin outside the united states that map onto ethnic groups. yidish speaking don't always finding common cause with thoeds who came together in the 19th century. these are some of the groups tensioned by group, region that there will be divisions from america as well not. some of the tensions with see in the course is the tension between being jewish and american. >> the heart of judish or in fact we see a lot of these. rel relit religio religions play out in questions of how american or jewish can and should you be. how do we play with the concept of religiogioureligious, et cet. today we're going to look about how these different tension had now with all of these jews have a long tradition of taking care of the poor of orphans jewish relithe othe lithe. the way of ethica

several of the lake's islands also host ancient orthodox monasteries.t the region's resources are under threat. a german conservation group is trying to help. >> the fishermen on lake tana start at 6:00 in the morning. it's the best time of day for them. >> i love my work. i'm happiest when i start to fish in the morning. i'm alone on the lake, i'm out in the fresh air, and it's just beautiful. >> others have formed collectives and have already finished catching fish by 10:00 in the morning. entire families can live from fishing, but the stocks are threatened. >> we've noticed that the fish stocks are dwindling. there's no one structuring who's allowed to fish when. nobody observes the season. until now, people have fished whenever they wanted to and as much as they could. that's why the stocks are diminishing. >> and the fish can't spawn in peace anymore. the shores of the lake are in danger. the fishermen still cut papyrus to build their boats, as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. the german nature and biodiversity conservation union wants to

the qatari group and in march, a group of greek orthodox nuns were released after being held for three months by syrian rebels. more detail still coming through on that release. . >> to libya where violence between warring malitias continues to escalate. armed groups have lost control of the airport in tripoli. he script has denied accusations it was behind airstrikes against the capitol. it adds to a picture of chaos and confusion as dominic kane reports. >> a battle for control of tripoli airport. until this weekend, it was held by fighters who broadly support libya's new parliament. it's now in the hands of militia from mizrata who oppose this. on saturday, airstrikes were thank youed killing more than a dozen. the spokesman believes other countries are to blame. >> based upon the intelligence we have, the egyptian and the uae governments are involved in this heinous attack. we stress we have good relations with the good people of egypt and the uae. the libyan rebels wants to make it clear that we will always defend the sovereignty of our homeland against this aggression. he script

some part of -- for example, orthodox jews i come from a jewish background are of more sexist in my mind than reform jews are. but why -- my question is, of course in a situation where you don't have women priests. some churches don't even have women local leaders where women can't do this or they're not seen as that just because of gender. for somebody to come out and say it. somebody creditable to come out and say it. >> because i think that women are afraid to speak out against their relodge on and against their church. i think that is part of it. >> so is it women's fault that they allow this to continue because women are the backbone of every church. why aren't they out there saying, i'm religious, i belief in god, i don't believe -- >> they are. i think women increasingly are doing just that even nuns are coming out speaking out about birth control. i agree, it's an interpretation issue. what is really important that part i doing is full religion topic can be controversial people are scared to say anything. you get attacked, it's real. >> from who? >> from the extremists. any time

in the orthodox jewish faith, one is laid to rest within 24 hours. >> the orthodox religion, we do not do autopsies. >> reporter: now, officials here in lakewood we can tell are you not only working with family members here close to home, but also in israel. they plan to bring an audio hookup of aaron sofer's funeral to the people here of lakewood so that they can share in his pain and the prayer of his passing. live in lakewood, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. >>> a fundraising visit today for vice president joe biden. he was in center city, raising money for democratic candidates. he headed to pittsburgh for an event with the democratic national committee. this afternoon, he is taking part in a conference call with the president and members of the national security council. >>> now to the latest on the jersey jam bridge scandal. new jersey lawmakers are trying to get phone records for a top aide to governor chris christie. they subpoenaed at&t for a month of data from last december. that includes text messages sent or received by regina agia. the aide told the lawmakers last month she

that is the orthodox view. and speaker boehner if you raise a it he will get less of it. but this is odd since 1980 the wages of ceos have gone up 30 times media wage up at 500 times since 1950 they have gone up 1,000 percent. not one that has outsourced the ceo job where automated we have more than ever before. so to for financial services workers. higher wages created less employment then they could not be growing. silicon valley has highest wages in the country and unemployment is virtually zero. it is not true when wages go up employment will go down. is a corkscrew has cost increase business hope to hold them down in a shed workers but that is the third order of fact the first when people are paid enough money to shop in the stores, they can't and that generates then need for those businesses to hire more workers. this is why high wage places around the world have low employment and low wage places of high unemployment the congo is a plays a very high unemployment and switzerland has very high wages have very low unemployment. it is obvious if for first don't have mo

certainly not the orthodox trinutarian christians. are referred to as nostiy, who rejected the motion of the trinity, and so for the prophet muhammad, he would have been very familiar with this one particular version of christian thought. by the way, just as he would have been extremely familiar with judahism, because they were successful and well-established, all of this is to say that the prophet muhammad was born and grew up in a world steeped in jewish and christian thought, jewish and christian mythology. there's a reason why, when you read the koran, when it sometimes restates the great stories of the hebrew scriptures, be it stories about jacob or joseph or moses or abraham, it often begins those stories with the words "recall" or "remember." recall when moses received the commandments. remember what happened to joseph when he fled from his brothers. the reason for that it is quite simple. the koran is repeating stories that it assumes its audience is already familiar with, and indeed they would have been familiar with it becau

it happened in an ultra orthodox jewish community. police shot at the driver of the construction vehicle. we haven't got more details at the time. police describe this as a possible terror attack. more on that as soon as we get it. >>> a rescue operation is underway in china after the massive earthquake that struck the remote area in the southwest of the country. we are hearing at least 400 people have been killed. the president has called for all out efforts to find survivors and put out thousands of troops to help. this morning help finally arrived at the center of earthquake. bad weather had stopped military helicopters for landing. once air born, the extend of the quake's lethal destruction was clearly visible in this remote mountainous region. surveillance camera footage showed the moment it struck at 4:30 in the afternoon on sunday. a time when many would have been at home. those that could rushed to the safety of the outdoors. >> translator: on the first tremor, everything shook seven or eight times. our house collapsed almost

we have the reform movement, conservative movement, orthodox, ideologies, synagogues, with their own rabbis, institutions for producing rab issuings, religious divisions, socioeconomic divisions, what else? >> their own educational institutions. >> create their own educational institutions such as? >> orthodox colleges, reform colleges. >> so you have these different colleges for making rabbis in particular. also later some different secondary education schools associated with those different movements. yeah, tracy? >> ethnic origins. >> ethnic origins such as -- >> such as german jews mostly reformed jews and also eastern european immigrants who came later. >> so we have origins outside the united states which map onto ethnic groups. so the first being spanish and portuguese heritage, then the wave of the german migration brings people mostly from central europe. eastern your mean, mostly yiddish. those don't necessary find common cause with the germans who came in the central decades of the 19th century. these are tensions which exist within american jewish community. groups by cul

we orthodox believe. so of course. what about jogging muddier how much. three so long way to go. so thinking this journey over and. over made my decision yet. it will be time in support. of this. to be with me even if. it's hard no one minoan supports me in this. idea to go. to go to syria. it's hard you know no one need training no one. i used to work in these places i want there to work there we know the area we know people there we know rules. and smoke like. geography teacher is going. to rebel held territory in syria you know it's not like this. where you can worry but at the same time support right at least show solidarity something like that. my friend tell me. man should be here. it's like. man is a hero i don't look at these from this perspective who's here is not here. i need to be there to support that's. what. we're. trying to do a life that i. know there is for most of the balcony with what the judge can see from the photo of. the live shot from here there the barricades independence square and everything. because of those. dark. forces on the first satisfy you so yo

the ultra-orthodox student was separated from a friend. now hundreds of volunteers and police have combed the area. there is no indication of foul play but authorities are pursuing all avenues. >> i want my brother. forests in the same where the burned body of a palestinian girl was found last month. politicians are now calling on the u.s. and israeli governments to help more in the search. :00, we have new information about hundreds of claims tied to gm's faulty ignition switches -- ignition switches. there were more than 100 deaths. that number far exceeds the 13 lives lost they originally attributed to the problem. they are being evaluated to determine whether the ignition switch was directly response will. 7 is on your side now with a consumer alert. to airlines have pulled listings from orbitz because of a contract dispute. it is merging now and will disappear on september 1. your ticket is still valid if you bought one. marylnd's newest casino is now open, the horseshoe casino in baltimore. it opened about two hours ago. here's a loo

he's an ultra orthodox student at yeshiva. >>> a flying bullet missed a crib where a toddler was sleeping much it happened on sunday night on sixth and walnut streets in darby borough. a bullet crashed through a window and landd in a wall inchs from a child. we'll have a live report coming up in our next half hour. >> upper darby police dubbed one suspect a drunk uncle after he put a nephew behind the wheel. clarence hairston is charged with dui after police spotted his car driving erratically on saturday. officers followed him back to his home and that's when they noticed his eight year old nephew in his lap steering the wheel. police say hairston had a beer can in his hand. another nine-year-old child was unbuckled in the back seat. >> the guy's a total moron is the best way to describe him. puts them in harm's way but then who else in the neighborhood? i mean, he almost hit a parked car. it's a highly residential area. >> hairston remains behind bars. neither of the boys were hurt. >> 5:36 now and new on "action news," we are learning more about a flight from newark, new jersey, to den

either get out of rome, converted to orthodox christianity or die. what happens is you have this flooding into the land of the middle east of these christian communities who want to maintain their faith but cannot do so. but in the prophet mohammed arises, she is living in a world that is full of christians but not the kind of orthodox christians that you see in rome, certainly not to the orthodox version of christians. these are referred to sometimes as those that believe that jesus only had a singular niche or be it only human or only divine who rejected the notion of the trinity and so for the prophet mohammed, he would have been very familiar with this one particular version of christian thoughts. just as he would have been extremely familiar with judaism were also many and quite successful and well established. all of this is to say that the prophet mohammed was born and grew up in a world steeped in jewish and christiathe jewish an thoughts and jewish and christian mythology. there's a reason why when you read the koran when it sometimes restat

and in the orthodox faith, determining the exact cause of death may come without an autopsy. in a remote stretch of jerusalem forest that borders an arab neighborhood is where search and rescuers discovered aaron sofer's body. >> the forensics and the different police units are still in and around the area much the area has been closed off and the investigation is continuing. >> reporter: sofer, who was in israel for religious studies, vanished friday while hiking. world traveled quickly from his parents who were overseeing the u.s. and israeli government large-scale search effort to his siblings. nine of them here in lakewood. >> very sad, you know, there's a range of siblings from is 0 or 11-year-old to mid-30s. >> reporter: during his visit with the family today, he learned sofer asked his mother if he should take a hike in the forest, given tensions between jews and hamas. it was the same day a cease-fire was issued. >> there was some closure to the fact that this may very well have been an accidental death as opposed to their son being abducted. >> reporter: despite no s

orthodox jews are opposed to autopsies, so his cause of death will be hard to determine >>> detectives say surveillance video shows 8 young adults marking up buildings and part of the track. it happened early wednesday morning. officials say it will cost $2,000 to clean up. anyone with information is asked to call police. >>> new this morning, the university of pennsylvania museum is unveiling a skeleton they pulled out of a closet. they rediscovered the 6500-year-old skeleton in the storage room. him it was unearthed in 1930s and sat in the basement for decades. it is believed he is 100 years old. it will be displayed in the arrest fact lab. >> the spider can be blamed for car problems. up next, a warnings for owners who could find a tangled web in their fuel tank. >>> cats and dogs getting a new oh, hi there bill. hey! are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. make the most of the weekend before it's gone. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! be a weekender and book your stay at hampton. feel the hamptonality. >> good morning, it is 6:00 a.m. it is f

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. >> because the body was decomposed and the exact cause of death is hard to determine, orthodox jews are opposed to autopsies, he will be buried in israel, the community in lakewood had a large prayer vigil. >> we'll have an audio hookup, the funeral will be quick, per jewish tradition. and it's late there now, and before the morning you'll have a burial there. >> now, with the seven hour time difference, sofer's funeral should take place in the night. he was one of 10 children and governor christie offered condolences as did congressman chris smith, who was involved in this. >>> police found key evidence in the stabbing of three men thrown in the schuylkill river in fairmount park, inside of a southwest philadelphia home, police found heavy bucketed similar to those used to weigh down the men, two of whom died. david henry is live now at police headquarters with more. >> monica, police are gathering quite a bit of evidence and they know who they are looking for. he is the ring leader of a drug gang that is literally quite cut throat, drug gang with connections all over the country s

so what did he think when you started sort of exploring these you know orthodox therapies. >> in theeginning, he was very disappointed because he thought i had wasted my education. >> he really had wanted you to be a doctor? >> yes. he very much wanted me to be. but when i explained to him the science behind what i was doing and how this was one day going to be -- i never heard the word "epi general itics or neuro plasticity which are now very common words, but i had an intuition about the fact that themselves. >> do you feel like science has somewhat validated these are that you were talking about? >> science totally validated what i was talking about ain the '80s, i wrote a book called "quantum healing," which by the way was very popular with the lay person. so whatever i said was very popular with the general public. but not with medical people. i was called a charlatan, fraud, all kind of things. >> one of the things you espouse is this mind body connection and meditation is the vehicle by which you seem to say we can sort of gain control realties? >> medtation as in mindfulness

members of the ultra orthodox community began to leave the village in march, after getting in legal trouble in canada. some resettled in guatemala, others returned to canada. >>> rescue workers freed 20 trapped in a goldmine. the miners are dehighlighted rated but -- dehydrated but otherwise in good health. nine are missing. >>> marina silva opened up a double digit leave five weeks before election in venezuela. it's adding to antoine roussel's wows. the government's approval rating plunged to 35%. elections talk place on october 5th. >>> now, a volcano in papua new guinea erupted sending smoke and ash high over the pacific island. people living near the volcano have moved to safer grounds. >> iceland is on volcano watch. the aviation warning has been downgraded. an hour-long red alert was nut place after a small eruption in the bardarbunga system. a no-fly zone remains. >> india's prime minister narendra modi has begun a 5-day visit to japan. they'll discuss a nuclear energy deal, and they hope to lure african investment. it's an attempt by japan and india to balance the rising influence.

south 1st avenue is shut down by the russian orthodox church stay with us on strode avenue. it will be an easy alternate to south 1st avenue which is blocked because of the police activity. in chester we have a motorcycle crash in upper oxford. ray void route 896 newark road at route 10, lime stone road. we are getting a crash at county line road and meeting house road by meeting house dental care. another day of construction in bucking ham township that will close street road at windy bush road. with that closure stick with atkinson. on the big picture, building volume around the region, but so far speeds do not look too bad, as we head outside along girard avenue. we have the sun coming up, we'll have sun glare. building southbound traffic from allegheny to girard. the off ramp from northbound side of i-95 is closing to girard. that happened last weekend and happening this weekend, official detour will take you up to allegheny and flip. if i were you get off the vine street express way and work north into fishtown. >>> a 13-year-old wisconsin girl is facing dui charges. po

word trickling down here through this mostly all tra orthodox jewish community that the body of 23 year old aaron sofer was in fact found in a forest in jerusalem. his parents identifying the body earlier this afternoon. the 23 year old man was israel studying in rah bin in a cal school he weren't out for hike last friday with friend then separated at a steep incline. that is the last anyone had seen of him. for the last six days, us rally search teams have been scowering that 310-acre forest. it had been feared that sofer may have been abducted or even killed by palestinian militants or the hamas terrorist group, but the family seems to indicate this may have just been a horrible accident while police say they'll now try to find an exact cause of death. >> obviously the investigation taking place at this moment in time to so what the background of the incident was. if the student fell and went missing or if it's a murder case. the forensics and the different, are still around the area. the area has been closed off and the investigation is continuing. >> although foul play hasn't been o

her father was muslim, her mother, an orthodox christian shelf married a christian in 2011.is something muslim women in sudan are not allowed to do. by law, children must follow their father's religion. >>> summer camp isn't just for kids these days. adult summer camps are popping up all over the country and becoming more popular every year. they feature everything from wine making to ballroom dancing. brian is live in our new york newsroom with more. >> as fun as it sounds about, a million adults are vacationing at grown-up summer camps raunds the country. kids summer camps that double as grown-up fun. it is an industry growing about 10% a year. >> this is great. you hike through woods from keg to keg to keg. >> welcome to summer camp for adults. this is club getaway in connecticut for $300 to $500 a weengds, grown-ups follow the director of fun. >> i never went to summer camp so this is so much fun. >> they hike, play sports, zip line, ballroom dance, even do yoeg. a there is canoeing, wake boarding, water balloon fights and yes, frozen margaritas. >> i used to go to camp

catholic and orthodox patriarchs this week visited christian refugees in northern iraq who were brutally forced from their homes by isis. tens of thousands of iraqis have been displaced by the fighting, adding to an already burgeoning international refugee crisis. according to the united nations, there are nearly 50 million refugees worldwide, the highest number since world war ii. >> pope francis surprised some this week by lending his measured support for military intervention in iraq. >> on the trip home from a visit to south korea, he said it was permissible to use force to stop a "unjust aggressor." the pope also said he had cleared the way for oscar romero to be beatified. romero was the archbishop of san salvador and an influential figure in the liberation theology movement. the pope was coming off a busy week in south korea, where he beatified 124 korean martyrs in a mass before a crowd of 800,000. he also met with many lay people and visited a home for disabled adults and children. >>> there was good news for the two american missionaries who were infected with ebola while worki

. >>> the chabad lubavitch movement is the best known of several ultra-orthodox hasidic groups that began in the 18th century. 20 years after his death, schneerson has a profound influence as kim lawton reports. >>> in queens, new york, thousands of members of the chabad lubavitch movement have come to the grave site of their spiritual leader. they pray and leave notes which are usually torn up after they're offered. schneerson died in 1994 and two decades later, his followers still want to be near him. >> there's a feeling the rebbe had a close connection with god so people beseech him to intervene on their behalf and when they go to his grave site, they feel more connected at that holy place. >> rabbi joseph telushkin is the author of a new biography of schneerson. in the 20 years since schneerson's death, the movement has tripled in size. he's called the most influential rabbi in modern history. >> there is no other comparable figure in modern times who had such a reach. >> schneerson was the seventh rebbe of the movement which began in the 18th century. he was born in ukraine and came

. >> orthodox jews are opposed to autopsy so an exact cause of death will be hard to determine. so he will be burried in israel. >>> a half million more low-income pennsylvanians will be eligible for federally funded health insurance. today's announcement sets long running dispute between governor tom corbett and government. they will accept medicaid skangs part of landmark healthcare law. private insurers can administer that coverage by following medicade rules. governor wants sum changes incentives to reduce premiums and ability to deny coverage if copays are not paid on time. corbett has been under pressure since money available on new year's day toy accept expansion funds and enroll arement for new plan called healthy pennsylvania is expected top december 1 with coverage kicking in january 1. governor corbett will have to make significant inroads on voters to get connected according to the latest poll. the franklin and marshall college poll says 49% of registered voters favor tom wolff. corbett is backed by 24% and 25% remain undecided. results have really not changed much s

the buyers or sellers, often they are the brokers and it has a lot to do with a view among some orthodox rabbis that brain death which obviously is the optimal circumstance for organ donation is not actually death, and as a result, organ donation rates in israel are very low and people have few places to turn, other than the black market. >> and they are trying to take some steps to change that, right? >> they have, they passed a series of laws in 2008 and the numbers have been improved, a significant decrease there. >> and you also looked at where they go and the supply-side and you focused on close, costa rica, what is the circumstance that people are selling their kidneys about this. >> the way we went about to to illustrate how organ trafficking works we trace add single network from beginning to end and this was a network in which israelly brokers sent mostly but not exclusively israelly recipients to costa rica where a prominent nephrologist would connect them with kidneys sold by poor costa ricans. >> so there was a price tag, and what are the health out comes in the surgeries? >>

they never were willing to exchange white racism for blackm orthodox.they were all about the people. i their argument was, and that i as a man am part of the people and i insist on being respectedb as such throughout that -- theis books. and then the fourth thing that s really blew me away and that i find amazing to this day is how young they were. we are talking about 22, 23, 24 years old. ent what we call today a young sando adult.x aware of consigning an entire a4 generation of y people to sand o citizenship. they were speaking out at 24 years old when this happened. so i would like, first of all, to go back to that time and i'm going to exercise my prerogat e prerogatives as the only 72-year-old up here and call you young men by your first names. and ask about what took you to , that place? how did you end up at that place? why don't we start, jim, with terms of this. how do you end up in that placet at 23, 24 years old? >> i was very fortunate to havea a great mother, no father. went to high school with a great coach. a great mentor, kenny malloy a

. >> reporter: elect and religious leaders spoke before some of the lakewood's large orthodox jewish population on tuesday and they are calling for u.s. israeli government to increase support in sofer's search. his brother mayer told "eyewitness news" he hopes policy makers will treat aaron their their own son. >> should have mercy on us and everyone should pray for him to make sure that he comes back to us. >> reporter: sofer's family says there is a hundred thousand scheck also, 28,000 u.s. dollars. community leaders in lakewood says prayers are continuing at all local synagogues. we are live, cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> cleve, thank you. >>> a new jersey man says he was brutally attacked by philadelphia police for in reason and now he is taking the department for court. new at 6:00 tonight he shares his story with "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson. >> reporter: there was a moment in the hospital when 31 year-old marcus bow saw him self for the the first time after he says he was see severely beaten by a philadelphia police officer. >> when i saw it i was like

the sector of christians are in community with the russian orthodox church. >> how big, when we talkion? >> we're looking at under a million, and around 500,000 in iraq. and continuing, and you know again, we're seeing aid and by the way i said the russian orthodox church i mean the roman catholic church. and the syrians have been persecuted. the the cheldians, have been persecuted so what happens now, does the pope's visit do something? i want to read you a tweet from the pope. what he's saying is that those driven from their hopes in iraq depend on us, i ask all to pray and for those who are able to give material assistance. so i can only be certain that people all around will be praying in churches today. and interesting enough, sinjar mountain is the resting place or supposedly the resting place of noah, so let us hope it doesn't become the resting place for too many more yazidis. >> thank you so much. >> next hour of your "new day" starts now. >>> good morning to you. i hope the day has been good to you so far. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day sunday."

reverend at the syria orthodox church and christian senior advisor documentary filmmaker jordan alak. the brutality we are hearing about is unthinkable. you have both been in contact with christians in iraq. what are they telling you? >> what they are telling me is really nothing has changed. the situation is getting worse and worse. people are not receiving any of the humanitarian air drop, food or drinks. they say the water gets blown up in the air before it gets to earth>> they a oo. >> they are not getting food? >> it is in the growned and they have to pick it up from the ground or they have to look with the water? >> what are you hearing? >> we have many contacts in the mosul and irbil area. the situation has been getting worse over the last couple weeks. one man in particular i have been talking to the last few days he is pretty much hold up in his house. two-days he was able to get out. he's afraid to leave. he has been told to stay in his home. he doesn't have food or water. a friend ch his tried to leave he was shot on a motorcycle in the area. his family is concerned. what i

orthodox christian doesn't matter.he people must be so disappointed. >> the people are disappointed unfortunately. right now you and i understand it. terrorists are the ones that are causing these problems. >> how do we stop them? >> first of all we need to make them hear our voice. those groups that are supporting and funding our terrorists to stop funding them, please. we ask that you stop hunting them -- funding them, please. >> who is funding them? >> i don't know. >> isis is taking over the banks. >> they took over the banks and took all of the moneys off these people especially the christians and everything they have. they not only took their money, they not only took their money but they made them leave their homes. got to the borders with the clothes on their back and nothing else was damaged than a too dollars cash. they made them sign away the deeds to their houses. >> they accept their villages and montessouris we have there and people's homes that are our own christians. >> you know something that this dest

reverend at the syria orthodox church and christian senior advisor documentary filmmaker jordan alak. the brutality we are hearing about is unthinkable. you have both been in contact with christians in iraq. what are they telling you? >> what they are telling me is really nothing has changed. the situation is getting worse and worse. people are not receiving any of the humanitarian air drop, food or drinks. they say the water gets blown up in the air before it gets to earth>> they a oo. >> they are not getting food? >> it is in the growned and they have to pick it up from the ground or they have to look with the water? >> what are you hearing? >> we have many contacts in the mosul and irbil area. the situation has been getting worse over the last couple weeks. one man in particular i have been talking to the last few days he is pretty much hold up in his house. two-days he was able to get out. he's afraid to leave. he has been told to stay in his home. he doesn't have food or water. a friend ch his tried to leave he was shot on a motorcycle in the area. his family is concerned. what i

it had the blessings of the russian orthodox church. ukraine doesn't want them crossing because they are suspicious of what is inside. >> the level of russia cynicism knows no bounds. they fired on ukrainians and then send in water and salt. >> this is after the heaviest fighting took place in donetsk. the death toll has doubled. there is a humanitarian crisis where residents need food and water and medical supplies. there was a plan to have a neutral red cross to distribute the aid. the russian trucks took off before a deal was signed before the pears. the red cross is in a holding pattern. this may be resolved the red cross said. top brass are headed to ukraine and moscow in the coming days and didn't give us the exact iteninary. but in the meantime president putin is in crimea. >> trust but verify may be applied here as well. >> certainly a lot going on in the world. investors are are shrugging off the turmoil overseas. looks like america is a good place to invest. macy's and john deere with sales for the year. despite that cut, the

he's become quite popular as a matchmaker, also known as a shidduch, in this orthodox jewish neighborhoodh his customers every day. >>"hey georgia, how are you?!" after trying for years to make a >> match, it finally happened. earlier this year terry set up 2 of his young customers who just got married. "make a delivery at the house of zevy goldin i said to the mom, 'would zevy like to get married i have a nice girl for him' and that's where it all went on." newlyweds zev and chana goldin invited me into their home to talk about their unbelievable story. >> "people ask if it's a joke. yeah, people ask if i made it up. after shrugging him off several times it was his persistence that actually got us to actually go out." >> terry was at the couple's june wedding - and their engagement party, where this picture of the 3 of them was taken, and this one from the wedding- featuring specially made ups cookies. >> "somebody being nice and just taking initiative and talking to you and suggesting you go out somebody else you know you definitely changed two people's worlds." >> vicki liviakis u-p-s

a very orthodox area. you can probably see behind me a lot of people crowded around. up on the rooftops as well and in the windows, people are overlooking this area and there's a helicopter flying above as well because we understand there are search operations underway in surrounding areas as well. and the driver of this digger has now been identified as a palestinian resident from east jerusalem. he took the digger, he drove it up this road through this area, first he hit a car and then he turned the bus over. now, what we understand is the driver of the bus was the only one on board. he's been seriously injured. and a pedestrian that was walking past has been killed. as far as the driver of the vigorous concerns, there was an encounter with police. what i'm told, anderson, is that police in this area were in a life-threatening pursuit. i asked, why didn't you arrest him for questioning or know more about the motive? they said, in a life-threatening situation like this, police officers are given permission to shoot to kill. that's what they did. until a short while a