all of it revealing that raqqa's far from the paradise that isis claims. isis has hunted down and murdered the group's act -- activist, even when they're over the boarder in turkey. mohammed massara is a former high school math teacher who helped found t raqqa group and later fled to turkey where the death threats followed him. "we've become numb," mohammed told us. "it's not easy to talk to your friends at night and discover next morning they've been killed." what will happen to you if you stay in turkey? "every time i go outside, i have this feeling i'm being followed," he said. "but i need to stay alive, keep getting the word out and not give in to isis." barbara kashmar is now seeking asylum in europe but still can't bring herself to bring her youngest daughter anissa that her father is gone. >> it's so hard. i don't want to die. i want to live and to do everything i can. >> reporter: mohammed massara left turkey yesterday and also now seeking asylum in europe, but, scott, he told us that other activist from the group remain inside raqqa, risking death

this is all spawning from raqqa. comes out of raqqa. goes through turkey into western europe. what they found there was there is remnants of it. atp, which is asset tone peroxide. this is mother of sate ton for bomb buildings because so volatile but it is there. coming from schools in raqqa. they're teaching people how to do it. bringing videos across. one of the videos was captured. it will get worse as long as we let raqqa continue tobruk call. continue to be middle of jihad. melissa: in your training as navy seal what is step one? do we need to go in? we know where raqqa screen hadi university is? should we go blow it up? >> i've been saying personally we need boots on ground with unilateral operation with marines and u.s. army to take them out initially and worry about the coalition stabilization afterwards. if we do it with bombing that's great. way we're doing right now isn't working because we're too lax, our rules of engagement, there is too much there. everything from dropping leaflets to continued worry about collateral damage will be there anyway, that is the way is

and remain objective of this meeting was to bring together all of our allies and to determine that raqqat be taken, and by allies, i mean italy, canada, the u.k., france, germany, and the netherlands. we have to make sure that syrians can take back the territory which has been taken by isil. this effort can, however, only be successful if there is a political process, a process to reintegrate all elements of society under the president in iraq, for example, and an intra-syrian process, which must be acceptable to the entirety of the syrian population. and so that all of the military forces of the country can concentrate their efforts to push back daesh and isil. it is important also to uproot the idea of isil in people's mentality. this is a war of religion. this is something which is happening across the border in syria, iraq, but also in north africa and here in our own territories, our own countries. our youth is being seduced by the propaganda of isil. there are a number of french nationals and u.s. nationals going out to syria to join them. and that in the interests of installing so

all of it revealing that raqqa's far from the paradise that isis claims. to stop the truth getting out, isis has hunted down and murdered the group's activist, even when they're over the border in turkey. mohammed massara is a former helped found the raqqa group and later fled to turkey where the death threats followed him. "we've become numb," mohammed told us. "it's not easy to talk to your friends at night and discover next morning they've been killed." what will happen to you if you stay in turkey? "every time i go outside, i have this feeling i'm being followed," he said. "but i need to stay alive, keep getting the word out and not give in to isis." bashra kashmar is now seeking asylum in europe but still can't bring herself to bring her youngest daughter anissa that her father is gone. >> reporter: mohammed massara left turkey yesterday and also but, scott, he told us that other activists from the group remain inside raqqa, risking death to report on what isis is doing to their city. >> pelley: holly williams reporting tonight from istanbul. holly, t

i said from raqqa and he said yes. from the islamic state and he said yes. i said he looked very westernized. how do you see the situation there? he said sir it's the most secure part of iraq. but they are imposing this coming code on women and girls and westernized women. he said look people in the middle east, people in iraq in particular are looking for security, looking for law and order. before the islamic state there were several militias, warlords terrorizing the people. so now you have one government to deal with and they said water is fair and safety as they are, the police are there and traffic is there so he said the needs of the people are satisfied. yes it is brutal and yes it is savage but if you don't provoke them, if you accept their loss at least temporarily you are not touched. many people think the islamic state consists of those people with a dirty beard and baggy trousers and they can manage one thing, to burn people to death. this is a very wrong concept here. they have highly educated people they were educated in west point and other u

stronghold raqqa was also hit. at least 27 people, including women and children, are believed to have died there. russia has also been accused tough of targeting areas that are not controlled by i.s.i.l. activists say at least 8 civilians have been killed close to the border. >> reporter: russia says it's air strikes are attacking terrorists, but the pictures on the ground tell a different story. this is in north-west syria. the town is not an i.s.i.l. stronghold. it is mainly in eastern syria. instead this area is dominated by rebel groups that oppose bashar al-assad, a russian ally. volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings. they're from ray group called the syrian civil defense. it was formed two years ago and now has more than 3,000 volunteers. in the absence of a functioning state, these volunteers take the injured to hospital and clear the dead from the streets. they keep working despite russian bombs dropping around them. saudi arabia has criticised the russian air strikes and dema

we also know this is going on in raqqa. doesn't it say that we have no choice but to go in and level raqqa? >> i think we want to check how many civilians are living there but it's a challenge. reason why it is unprecedented is because, isil or isis represents a hybrid. before we have had non-state actors. these were little groups with no affiliation. we either battled governments like saddam hussein or non-state actors. they're in between. they're a terrorist group trying to set up a country that gets oil for revenue. melissa: right. >> when they have those sorts of resources then they have money to spend on labs and research. melissa: jim, you say kind of a throwaway, you want to see how many civilians are living there but talking about sending these bomb-makers out into europe places where there are lots of civilians. i understand we need to say to go in attack the area civilians there, but they're targeting civilians everywhere else. becoming something, it has been very complicated. gets more complicated. thanks to both

and really placing a lot of pressure on isil's capital, raqqa. we also see a change in techniques in terms of what the enemy's doing on the ground. his ability to counterattack is diminished. and he's much, much less effective in those counterattacks than he would have been several months back. i hope i answered your question. reporter: the secretary talked a little bit about the forces on the ground. there's obviously been a lot more emphasis on -- [inaudible] i was wondering if you could talk about how you foresee the next year and what role your forces will play over time. mr. votel: i think special operations forces provide a unique capability in the way we do things. i think that's what you see us trying to leverage there. that said, i would just tell you that special operations forces, u.s. or otherwise, aren't in this by ourselves. we are very dependent on our conventional forces. we couldn't do anything without the conventional force support that we get from general austin and the rest of his components there that is absolutely vital to t

a member of the activist group raqqa is being slaughtered silently said before her death, hassan said -- "i'm in raqqa and i received death threats, and when isis me -- arrests me and kills me it's ok because. i have dignity its better than in humiliation with isis." she was 30 years old. in turkey, iraqi kurdish journalist mohammad rasool, who worked for vice news, has been released after 131 days in prison. rasool was accused of assisting a terrorist organization. he was arrested in august in southeastern turkey, where the turkish government has imposed curfews as part of a wide-ranging crackdown. human rights groups have recorded well over 100 civilian deaths in the area. a report by the committee to project journalists last month called turkey the fifth worst jailer of journalists in the world. in venezuela, right-wing opposition lawmakers have taken control of congress for the first time in 17 years. the opposition won 99 out of 167 seats in elections last month. the new legislature sets up a challenge for president nicolÁs maduro as he seeks to continue the socialist revolution

we know exactly where it is in raqqa, it's a certain part of that university. why aren't we taking that university and bring them to the 72 virgins now? i don't know how we're watching this. we're waiting for something -- now they're going to have heat-seeking missiles that can take down an airliner, so now we have a whole new range of weaponry that they're developing there. let's wipe 'em out already. instead of this president having executive action on gun control, on this issue right now you have an executive action to go in there and take out this college. look, there's going to be ancillary damage, but we'll take out what they're teaching people right now. sandra: it's an old equestrian field in raqqa. they know exactly where this is. we haven't seen a huge response from the white house right now. julie: i don't know that we haven't taken them out. there is bombing going on in raqqa and syria. i don't know how old this video is. what's disturbing about me, actually, it's a small tidbit, but in one of the videos a man speaking in russian takes the camera th

and collapse its two power centers in raqqa and mosul. second, to combat the isil tumor worldwide. and third, to protect the homeland. i also laid out the operational concept behind our campaign, to

a british film crew comes back from raqqa with evidence that isis is vigorously pursuing chemical weapons, heat seeking missiles and remotely piloted-- remotely controlled vehicles. more evidence comes out about isis operatives who are already in the united states, and in europe. china lands aircrafts on these islands it has constructed out of the south china sea. not to mention iran shooting missiles in violation-- or shooting missiles at u.s. navy vessels and then, of course, yesterday taking 10 american sailors and their boats. if you look back just a few more weeks, we read about leaks about a russian nuclear torpedo that could devastate, of course, coastal areas. and about iranian hackers infiltrating the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from new york city at the same time they were attacking the websites of u.s. banks. and, of course, the fbi helping stop four attempts in the last five years by russian gangs to sell radioactive material to mideast extremists. who knows what the next two weeks or two months in 2016 are going to hold? the world is more dangerous today

in many of its horrific propaganda videos.isis has confirmed he was killed in a u.s drone strike in raqqa in november of last year.this is an image from his obituary the terror group just published. a mothers plea.how you can help bring a murderer to justice as police struggle to crack the case of a 23 year old shot outside a bar last gmts anim"you're watching good morning tri-state at 4:30 on 9 on your side!" this morning...a simple, and painful plea from a hamilton mother.help find the person who killed her 23 year old son. 9 on your side's ashley zilka explains why detectives are struggling to crack the case. 12:54 "police tell 9 on your side robert goens was shot right here in this parking lot. witnesses surrounded the area but as of now no one is in custody." 0210:56 they didn't just take robert's life, they took ours as well. 57sheila mccloud holds her daughter's hand as she thinks about the last moments of her son's life. 02:41 "when i held my son's hand for the last into his hand it just tore. you tear families apart, 54 hamilton police say 23 year old robert goens is one of two v

, in syria, and unless you basically defeat them there, and unless you force them out of raqqa, it'sng to be very difficult to claim the islamic state has truly lost. but it's very difficult in a sense to succeed in syria if you don't have the sunnis with you and right now when we hit isis harder, but the russians are hitting he nonisis sunni targets it looks like it's a war on the sunni, and you can't get the tribes to join with us. >> i only have 030 seconds left. talk to us about the obama administration residents as separation for theave anna peace process. >> the -- the vienna peace process. >> it could work if you have a real cease fire. the key right now is putin. itself putin chooses not tone force a cease fire and not to force assad to enforce a cease fire and shown barrel bombs, nothing is going to change. the place to watch is does putin enforce the cease fire, force assad to open up humanitarian corridors. that it happens the sunni is may join us, if it doesn't, whatever we say, that's knowing go to do it. i. >> thank you for joining us. >> the so-called affluenza team co

syrian, confess to acting as spies for britain- filming videos showing isis positions in the city of raqqa in syria.nats arabic at the end of the video, an english speaking boy appears.nats of boyhe says "we're going to kill the non- believers over there."isis has recently released more videos - following losses of territory in iraq. wendy gillette, for cbs news. 3 still to come on siouxland milita- men..protesting the prosecution of two ranchers-- have occupied an oregon wildlife refuge adn have vowed to stay indefinitely. more on this story, coming up. eseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseses3 3 3 3 3 jetske and kayla talk about the weather. 3 tonight calls for dense fog conditions with temperatures in the teens. tomorrow will be cloudy with temperatures in the lower 20s. cloudy conditions continue through out the week as hi

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stronghold of raqqa in northern syria. this video posted by the armed group onlinr is said to show the aftermath of the air raids, with at least 43 people reportedly killed. >>> doctors without borders managed to get a much-needed shipment into yemen. they have seen some. worst fighting in the 10-month conflict. saudi-led forces carried out a wave of overnight air strikes on sanaa. national security buildings, the tv compound and the military camp were hit >>> and forces loyal to the yemeni government are gaining ground. in the provinces nearby. they have made gains in mountain areas within sanaa provinces itself. >>> a suicide bomber killed 13 and injured others at the home of a prominent leader. people gathered at the leaders house to celebrate the release of his son from the taliban. we have the latest from kabul. >> reporter: this is a prominent tribal leader belonging to a powerful tribe in eastern afghanistan near the border with pakistan. what is interesting is he and other tribal leaders in the air called for an up

accused of installing cameras so the british could observe isis movements in it's syrian stronghold raqqa where coalition air strikes have pummeled islamic state positions. >> this is a message to david cameron. >> reporter: the video features a masked man who speaks english with a british accent threatening the u.k. and its prime minister. >> on one day involved your land will be. >> and comes just days after david cam ro-- cameron's new year video message promises to continue the battle against violent islamic extremists. >> i want us to be very clear. you will not defeat us. >> reporter: the video ends with a chilling a paryns by a child in military fatigues threatening nonmuslims. >> the grew some video is the latest in a number of highly produced violent propaganda messages aimed at the west and used as recruiting tools. its timing may be no koins dengs, coming in the aftermath city of ramadi says michael morell dep tree correcter-- director of the cia. >> i think this say message to their supporters that they are still in the game after these series of defeats particularly ramadi. i

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stronghold of raqqa in northern syria with at least 43 people reportedly killed. this video posted by the arm group online is said to show the aftermath of the air raids. the u.n. is demanding unrestricted access to help starving children in syria. aid workers have finally reached the besieged town of madaya where tens of thousands of people are trapped. the secretary general ban ki-moon says starvation is being used as a weapon of war. you may find some images in this report disturbing. >> reporter: these syrians are demonstrating to keep the world's attention on the suffering of civilians struggling under blockade. these images of severe hunger and starvation in madaya forced the world to remember syria. they were posted by activists and circulated on social media. there was no way of verifying them because the town was besieged by government forces. the scale of the suffering only became clear when u.n. aid workers were finally april to reach the town. this boy can hardly muster the strength to say i'm tired of this condition, get me out. he is among the hundre

and there is no strategy to take raqqa by this president. martha: you hear this, you see the attack in paris. remember the attacks in beaches in tunisia at hotels and terrorist sites. characterize what you think we are facing in the next 3-5 months from isis around the world. >> this is the first time a terrorist organization has had a territorial base with which to operate, train and equip. they even set up bomb factories. as long as they are able to do that, it's now exaggerated by the flow of refugees. that i know al-baghdadi is bringing young men on and say joint refugee flow and contact us on a secure site. it's going to continue. the tragedy is as we celebrate retaking ramadi, the second largest city in iraq is still under isis control. you will continue to see this base of operation and effective attacks around the world. martha: what you are saying is pervasive in terms of american sentiment, in terms of how we are dealing with them. 65% of americans polled believe the obama administration has mostly failed when it comes to isis. let

he seems to have left indonesia and headed towards syria believed to be based in raqqa and is thought to be the mastermind behind the attacks here in jakarta and possibly one of the individuals trying to gain preference with the hierarchy of senior is leaders >>> our correspondent reporting from jakarta. thank you. the indonesia government needs to look at how to prevent people joining groups from i.s.i.l. and figure out what is driving them to do it. >> i think we are seeing a shift from attacking the soft target as you mentioned early, individual inspired by islamic state, so they carry out bombs and grenade, but in terms of capability, i don't think that they are capable enough, but the danger here we are seeing an individual who believe and is inspired by islamic state cause in indonesia. they are willing to die for the cause. i think in terms of security, yes, the government is capable to understand the threat of coming from the group. they were very effective since the first bali bombing, they have arrested 1200 suspects, terrorists, and in jail. the they have to deal with the p

the iraqi city of tikrit and stretch of highway between raqqa transferring sole errs and supplies. >> when you are talking about such a dangerous and heinous group like isis, containing it while it's continuing to survive in itself is not good news. that's bad news. >> reporter: bad news in the sense that despite losing territory, experts say, isis will still take time to defeat. and one major reason for this, according to the heritage foundation, is the lack of u.s. advisors on the ground in iraq and syria. >> the u.s. needs to imbed advisors with those groups to get closer to the battle front. to get better intelligence. >> reporter: that intelligence according to phillips is also needed to cut off foreign fighters from joining isis ranks. >> more than 25,000 have flowed there to join isis. so the quicker isis is defeated militarily, the sooner that flow of foreign fighters will dry up. >> reporter: this loss of isis territory may come as good news but there is still much to do. >> they're still around. they're still powerful and unfortunately any time soon. >> reporter: in washingt

. >> russian airstrikes targeted the isil stronghold of raqqa in northern syria. this video posted by the armed group on line is said to show the aftermath of the air raids with at least 43 reportedly killed. >> 17 isil fighters have been killed in combat with iraqi forces near ramadi. government forces are taking place in the assault on an area still held by isil east of the city. iraq's military said 12 soldiers have been killed in the fighting. >>> u.n. secretary ban ki-moon said $12 billion is needed to help a u.n. crisis. $40 billion is needed annually to help people in desperate need around the world. the international community currently provides $25 billion in aid, leaving that $15 billion funding gap. despite the fort fall, the world is spending 12 times more on aid than it spent in the year 2000. the u.n. is appealing for more help globally. >> humanitarian action is now the u.n.'s biggest activity, even more than our piece keeping operations. the report rightly points out that while record sums are being given to the noble cause of humanitarian action,

in the footage the men confessed they filmed in raqqa. they're shot to death by mass executioners and mock prime minister david cameron and promise to invade the u.k. >>> a militia that took over the federal building on saturday after a judge told two ranchers to surrender and will serve longer sentences for setting fires to government land. >> people have been abused long enough, really. their lands and their resources that have been taken from them to the point where it's putting them literally in poverty. if we do not do something, if we do not make a hard stand that we will be in position where we won't be able to as a people. >> al jazeera's live by phone in burns, oregon. federal workers are not at work because that have stand off. any idea how long this might last? >> well, you know, it's hard to tell. in fact, i think that there are about two dozen of the protesters holed up there in the wildlife refuge, and really there are more media here than there are protesters at this point because everybody is here wondering if there was go

stronghold of raqqa in northern syria. this video posted by the armed group online is said to show the aftermath of the operation in which at least 43 people have been killed. syrian refugees in cologne have been protesting against a spike of xl assaults on women. they gathered to show unity against sexism after more than 200 complaints were made to police on new year's eve. 19 suspects have been named, all foreigners. candidates in the u.s. are holding their forth debate on sunday. that is just before is a day of hope. there isn't a single black candidate on stage for the debate. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: he is one of the lesser known presidential candidates campaigning in south carolina. still businessman willy wilson has succeeded in getting on the ballot in 13 states, but when those hoping to be the next democratic nominee hold their fourth debate on sunday, wilson will be absent. we will have three white candidates on the stage talking about african-american issues. 56% of this state voting is african am