let's speak to patty listening to that from washington d.c. and patty we have president barack obama describing counter terrorism cooperation with france as being excellent and said that the u.s. would do all it can to help authorities in paris track down the perpetrators of this attack. >> from the u.s. perspective the biggest question is what exactly does the u.s. provide. we heard from james and saying the f.b.i. is going to send a team to work and possibly send a team and work in his words with their counterparts in france and this brings up the question we may never get answers to but nsa we know because of edward snowden has a huge spying apparatus in europe and will they provide information on the mysterious attackers so obviously the president hinting at that with counter terrorism abilities and have a that relationship with france and that they are willing to provide the help in order as the president in his words to hunt down those responsible. >> how would you describe the general mood the sentiment there in washington d.c. obviousl

. >> doctor gary franklin is a medical official in washington state. he was one of the first people to sound the alarm about the adverse effects of opioid prescribing. >> somebody would come into our system with a low back sprain, and be dead three years later from an unintentional overdose of opioids. i was shocked. i mean it was the saddest thing i had ever seen in many years in my job. >> franklin has worked to implement guidelines that limit the prescribing of opioid drugs in washington. since the rules went into effect overdose deaths in the state have dropped by more than a quarter. >> these are avoidable deaths. >> there's a sea change going on in practice and i think that the regulatory agent the fda in particular, rather than being out in front of the sea change, is being carried along. >> we would not be dealing with this problem today had the fda been doing its job properly going back to 1996. >> with well over 100,000 deaths this is the worst manmade epidemic in history. when i say manmade i mean made by organized medicine. >> catch more "f

joining us from washington, d.c. is gordon gray, director of fiscal policy at the american action forum. good to see you. thank you for your time. mitt romney senator rand paul two republicans believe inequality is a problem in this country. the president said that it is key to moving the country forward. do you believe it is is problem and if you do, what should be done about it? >> i think there are a number of economic challenges that the nation faces, and i think its just a matter of priorities. i think the most important challenge that we face is that we're six years past a recession, and we're only just now seeing some of these signs of recovery, yet we're only projected to grow at 2-point% to 2.5% over the next ten years. i did not hear from the president how he's going to change that project tore. >> what did the numbers suggest in your mind should be done? >> i think if you ask anybody out there about our tax code, i think just about everybody would agree that it's broken. i think we can all agree that the r

in washington, i'm ray suarez. somebody once said to me "what's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage?" i said, well, there really isn't a difference. >> in 2008, voters in california approved proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. two couples challenge the law in a case that went to the u.s. supreme court. half of the plaintiff team is chris perry and sandy steer. >> you grow up believing you are a second-class citizen from the moment you recognize you are gay or lesbian. and until recently, you didn't think you ever would be equal. >> the other couple involved in

in washington, d.c. i'm ray suarez. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. >> overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that's one overdose death every thirty minutes. >> the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. >> that's a massive increase. >> massive. >> over the past 10 years, we've had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. >> the food and

it's a new day in washington, and it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. the new congress starts work this week.

we'll see you next time in washington, i'm ray suarez. >> the mountains of west virginia have provided generations with jobs in coal. but on january 9th, 2014, the state woke up to an example of the costs of it's industrial economy. a tank containing a chemical used the process of coal production had leaked its contents into the elk river, just a mile upstream from the largest water treatment plant in west virginia. >> water is scarce following a warning from west virginia's governor, do not drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using tap water.., >>...chemical leak, a chemical used to clean coal, leaked from a storage facility... >>...the states health department says the water was contaminated with a potentially harmful chemical, mchm... >> a federal investigation is on-going - but this spill was just the most visible of many incidents in west virginia - where, in the past decade, the coal industry has recorded thousands of water violations. fault lines has come here to find out how the state's main industry affects its most vital resource. >> little testing have been done on the chemic

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with "the washington post" reporting that the u.s. government is reporting 11 billion, news organizations have a fight on their hands, a fight >>> ever since the advent of the printing press, the past few years tells us that mobile in the hands of people are just as powerful. conventional news is struggling with the process, they need to adapt to keep up with the devices in the pocket and i way it's used. it used to be a place for legacy, and big name newspapers to represent their front pages digitally. big media needs to have a host of new line platforms to deliver stories they are interested in in the form that we want, whenever and wherever we want them. the "the listening post" in some of the shifts we are seeing in news technology and engagement and changes to come. >> translation: traditionally speaking journalists and editors find what is fit to print. consumer technology is giving news consumers the choice not just of the news they want, but when, where are and how they want it delivered. we in the news decide what happens. wh

because many in washington, d.c. don't know their hiv status. every year there are an estimated 50,000 new hiv cases in the united states. >> youth think a whole lot differently than we did in my generation. if you were ten years old in 1996, now as a 28, 29-year-old you have never seen that death and dying. we have changed power behaviors because of fear of dying. >> i've seen friends get sick but never die from hiv. >> 24 yeerd devon bearington ward has chosing to take truvada. >> is something about truvada or prep, seeing so many of their friends die off and not wanting to see that happen, we have to recognize that we are in a different space in the etch demic and have to evolve in the times. >> he knows he lives and daylights in a community with some of the highest hiv rates in the country. >> i know the statistics not just from a place where i read them on paper from the epidemiology report, but those are my friends. those are people in my sexual networks. those are people in my community. at this point in my life, i do know more men who ar

we'll get an update from our correspondent in washington, d.c. but first let's remind you of what happened. on december 30th, a group of soldiers attacked the presidential palace and four people were killed. it's president returned to the country from neighboring chad the following day saying things were back to normal. he announced the failed coup was based by disdidn'ts in the u.s. u.k. and elsewhere. >> reporter: the authorities arrested two men who are described as finance financier and leader of the conspiracy, and another man with gambian descent descent, and according to the criminal affidavit the two men were members of approximately 10 to 12 members of the conspiracy who entered the gambia in an attempt to carry out the coup and hopefully to inspire other dissidents inside the country to rise up against the government. now in addition to that we had reports that two members of the conspiracy who were killed, including a colonel an american an american american asylummee and another who was killed, as i said. the united states had previou

colorado and washington were the first two states to green light marijuana for recreational use and now kentucky and arizona, a number of others may be following in their path. but is there a right way or a wrong way to go about this? entrepreneurs promise to capitalize on what is a very lucrative industry. some say that regulation and oversight are mere after thoughts, leaving a public health crisis as one of the unintended consequences. here with us is is the martha stewart of marijuana. and the author of marijuana legalization, what everyone needs to know. mark has written extensively on this topic, and michael gordon cush tourism, colorado's first marijuana tours. so michelle, you look at the trends and the polls, and it's really true, a lot of people do believe that it's just a when, and not an if. some estimate that the next decade or two, from your perspective, where is this conversation at right now in the u.s.? >> i actually think that it's going to happen much sooner than people realize. i believe that by 2016 we'll see a revenue of $32 billion. and they're looking at colorado

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he joins me from washington. seth one does not need to be an expert like you to understand that jobs create prosperity. so why is the reality that these jobs are not moving wages up? people associate gaining wages with becoming more prosperous, and they're rightfully not seeing that. >> ali we are doing a lot better on jobs, 3 million jobs last year but still not enough jobs for the number of people who want to work and can work. we still have millions and millions of americans who are working part time when they want to be working full time. we have people who have left the labor market who like to come back this. we still have people looking for jobs who are not finding them. with that slack in the labor market wages are not going to rise and workers do not have enough bargain thinging power and force their employers to give them a little bit more in their paychecks. >> one thing that the people have come to understand is the relationship between tighter employment, lower unemployment, more jobs, and wages is n

mexico's president meets pram in washington. american capitol joins us live from the white house, see a few lines are coming out of that meeting what are you hearing about it? the president, president obama running just a little bit late, so we are just now starting to see the two leaders video cameras were allowed in able to play just the beginning of president obama's comments and the issue of human rights in the 43 missing students that was a top of the agenda, i can tell you the protestors that have gathers would have liked to have seen that and is that the mexican government has made reformates he applauded it wasn't even then that he brought it up. commerce and funding of infrastructure and trade. than he got to the 43 students basically saying we have been following the tragic events of the students whose lives were lost. basically said the obama administration supports those reforms. >> global stock have fallen for a second day in part driven by fears of the oil prices which fell below 50-dollar as barrel on monday it is

in washington, i'm ray suarez. this is al jazeera. this is al jazeera. >> a very warm welcome to the newshour. i'm mary ann lamaze in doha. in the headlines. egypt said the plane should thought have been in the air before it crashed. what tafnl investigates are italian investigators are looking at

lisa stark is in washington d.c. with more. >> reporter: john, do same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry? that is the key civil rights question the u.s. sprorlt will now decide. they will decide it in the case -- u.s. supreme court will decide. they will decide it in four cases, michigan, ohio, kentucky and tennessee all ban same sex marriage. earlier this session the supreme court punted on that question. really their hand was forced because in november the sixth circuit ruled that there is no constitutional right to same sex marriage. and that conflicted with rulings by other appellate courts. so it is up to the supreme court to decide. now, the court has touched on this issue in the past. it did decide a case but on procedural grounds that allowed same sex marriages to proceed in california. they didn't really decide that one on the merits of the case though. and they also threw out part of the federal defense of marriage act. they said the federal government does need to recognize same sex marriage

in washington, d.c. i'm ray suarez. >>> meet troy, the dog who may have saved his master's life >> numbers ling up against me zzling up against me. researchers put them to the test under laboratory conditions. >> dogs can identify any kind of cancer sample? >> dr. shini somara, a mechanical engineer. tonight, can doctors save lives by bringing them into suspended ant i medication? dr. dilworth, a molecular scientist and i am phil torres. i am an entomologist. >> that's our team. let's do some noedz /* [ music ] >> guys, welcome to "techknow." joining me are car a santa maria, shini somara and krista dilworth. i am excited for today's episode because it involves one of the best animals out there, man's best friend, the dog. and cara, you got to play with a bunch of dogs. we know dogs make us happy but they can also potentially make ? >> yeah. so there is evidence to show that dogs can actually detect cancer. and i got to visit the laboratory, some training facilities and even meet a woman whose dog detect

godeski has been homeless in washington d.c. for nearly 7 years. last night, like most, he slept outside. with affordable housing getting increasingly scarce here there's been a spike in the number of homeless. churches, food pantries, the city, are all scrambling to meet the demand. at the public library's main branch, homeless individuals rush in when the doors open, some are even dropped off by a shuttle bus from the homeless shelters. once inside, they log onto computers to job hunt or check email. they meet friends or just read protected from the elements. >> for many years we would sort of open our doors and say "okay, we've done our job", because we're providing them a warm place to go if they've got no place else to be. >> now, social worker jean badalamenti will help provide information on homeless services and will "sensitize" staff. while government, residents and local businesses argue over the role of the libraries, david godeski is just glad they're here. >> having a place like this where things are controlled, it's a godsend. >> so g

he got into it with a research assistant with a washington based think tank known for strong pro israel views, he used a word translating to explanation, but his cold for activists trying to portray israel positively, lobbyist and p.r. types included. clancy went after his young critic: >> his next memorable piece of writing came a week and a half later in his resignation later: >> the networks chief middle east correspondent was fired in 2010 after a controversy yell tweet about a hezbollah cleric. >> over the years here, we've examined the work of cartoonisted and satirists around the world. we thought it would be worth checking in with them in the wake of the charlie hebdo story. one who has been a thorn in the side of governments going back to apartheid in chile a country still coming to terms with its part, a magazine goes with the mainstream media dare not go, respecting no taboos. in spain the public warmed to the cartoons of another cartoonist. he takes aim at the monarchy, politicians and if necessary the media. the u.s. based cartoonist was the first on line to win a pulitzer

it's a new day in washington, and it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. the new congress starts work this week. a new senate majority takes up work putting republicans at the legal ams of all the economies as chairs, and kentucky's mitch mcconnell in charge as majority leader. speaker john boehner of ohio will lead the large republican majority in the house of representatives, but there were two dozen members willing to stand as candidates against him or vote against him. since the democrats were soundly beaten in the 2014 midterm election speculation has been growing of what it would mean to have republicans back in charge of both chambers since 2006. it's a new year in washington, that means new jobs for 58 representatives. >> congratulations. you're now members of the 114th congress. >> and 13 senators. >> i'm going to ask you to please raise your right hand. >> it's the first time in decades the republicans have had this strong of a majority in congress. all but one of the new senators sworn in tuesday were members of the g.o.p. >> we recognize the em

mark ruleman joins us from washington. mark how do you rate president obama's efforts on trying to deal with student debt issues both existing student debt and the potential for accumulation of it for students who are going into school? >> well i think as you've shown the president is faced pretty unrelenting opposition not just from congress but from state governments that have slashed higher education funding. throughout the recession and even before that. and that's what's caused rising tuition. i think this administration has credit for understand that and taken.steps for lowering student debt payments and expanding pell grants and up until now, up to two years free community college tuition. part of rising debt students shouldn't have to take on. we are talking about three or $4,000 or even more. more than half of community college students have children work 20 hours a wook or more and four in 10 college students are taking on debt in order to graduate. that was unheard of 20 years ago. and president obama deserves c

a mention cab president is in washington, with organized crime high on the agenda. we beagain in turkey where a suicide bomber has blown himself up in the historic district. one officer was killed and another is injured. the blasts happened is popular with tourists, and is home to the blue mosque and mow seem. bring you more on that information. the israeli court has given three life sentences over the kid map and murder of three israeli teenagers. the court found that was guilty of planning and finance thing the abduction in june. the bodies of i.l. were found in a field near the city. more details from jerusalem. >> upon reading the verdict, the judge stateses this one of the worst cases of kid happening and murder, in israel's history. it also said that it let to an influence a great influence on the security situation here now, of course, he was accused convicted of financing and planning the kidnapping of the three teenagers and murder, they were found buried in a plot of land that he owns in the occupied west bank and what prompted this in the end the massive

we'll see you for the next inside story in washington. i'm ray suarez. >>> on "america tonight" - gone to pot. one year in the rocky mountain mother load big money is changing hands. the rise of the legalized marijuana trade is a downer for some communities, hospitals and law enforcements. >> we want the supreme law in this land, the supreme court to look at this issue and tell us once and for all whether or not what colorado did was legal not.

it doesn't need to be dictated from philadelphia or washington because the guys in west virginia know what's best. >> why do companies have a hard time not violating their permits? it seems like permit violations are part of the game? >> i don't know if they are part of the game. there are so many moving parts on a mining operation and so many standards to meet. you're going to have some interruptions. if they are serious they need to be fixed. the vast majority of the people and the people i'm proud to represent they are wanting to do the right thing because they live here. they are not going to do anything to mess up the future of the state. dj estep is trying to help his community face the uncertainty about the health of the water supply after the freedom industries spill. most people in the us never have to think about whether the water in their tap is safe - dj has been thinking about it since he was a teenager >> 17 years old, having back pain, throwing up blood, you went to a doctor and what did you find out? >> it was a rare kidney disease >> a rare kidney disease. do they kno

another security meeting that will be takes place in washington on february 18th. a couple of main things there. but also there was talk about how you can tighten up security on the internet, tighten up recruiting for the kind of groups that have attacked france for the couple of weeks. these are difficult issues, and they're not going to be resolved by one meeting and one afternoon in france. they are thorny problems that europe and the united states, governments all around the world have been grappling with over the years. it's not going to be resolved in one day. >> thank you very much. overlooking the place de la republique. where 1.5 pebble are march to go place de la nation. and another million showing solidarity for the victims of last week's attack. we're going to take other news now, but we will be returning for our extended coverage on this france rally of unity. >> now we're getting breaking news that two child suicide-bombers, both believed to be young girls blew up in the market in the southeast. it was showing mobile hand sets in yorba state. we can g

they'll only accept final assembly done in everett washington. every day when you go to work, not only are you doing your job, but you are looking at the previous job to see if someone messed something else up on that and chose not to tell anyone. >> to be sure everything is done correctly and the plane is safe, boeing has inspectors payne takingly checking every step of the work. in south carolina, this inspector says he only signs off on finished jobs. >> which do you think is the quality? >> schedule. >> these people have decided that today they will be arrested >> i know that i'm being surveilled >> people are not getting the care that they need >> this is a crime against humanity >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosions going off we're not quite sure... >> fault lines al jazeera america's emmy winning, investigative, documentary, series... [ ♪ music ♪ ] >>> if it's a constant battle between quality and schedule

lisa stark is in a very snowy washington d.c. this morning. why did the countdown stop with just over a minute to go until launch? >> it was a disappointment for sure the problem wasn't weather in florida. it was a technical glitch. it was 1:21 before lift off when engineers said we are calling halt to this. it was a problem with a steering system for that second stage of the rocket. the stage that actually lifts the capsule into lower earth orbit into space. they knew that it would automatically shut down closer to lift off so they shut down to try to figure it out. this is the second time in two months that a technical problem has stopped the launch of this space capsule. they're going to have to hope the third time's the charm. >> walk us through this landing. space x is doing something different with this booster rocket trying to land it on a floating pad. why are they trying to do it in the ocean? >> well absolutely. here's the problem. with these lift off the rocket, basically the rocket engines are jettisoned and lost, not used again. i

john isn't standards the same whether it's washington or south carolina or anywhere, u.s.a? >> it's supposed to be the same. the tooling you use to check is supposed to be all the same. so if there's different quality coming out of the different plants that should be a concern to management. and listening to cynthia a few minutes ago and also listening to one of the reporters earlier one of the things that comes out pretty loud and clear is, the employees' dissatisfaction with not being listened to which always leads to a disgruntled employee and public disclosures. so boeing's management has a responsibility to their employees to listen to their concerns and address them and that's clear from what's been said here that that hasn't happened. now how much of that is going to equate to an unsafe product at the end of the day from afar i don't think any of us can say one way or the other that it's going to definitely lead to an unsafe product. but the drug use in the facility is a concern. and if, you know, no matter where you are there are abuses of produce. you go into toulou

i met will in seattle, washington and we met with a group of employees of boeing corporation who make that aircraft. my introduction to the story. i asked them at one point would you fly on the aircraft? this is months after the airplane have been put back in the air because the battery problem is supposedly fixed. about half them said they would not. that told me immediately that there was something other than the battery that was raising concerns within the boeing workforce. the people who seemed to know that plane best of all. i didn't know much about the planes at all, but when we began digging into it it took a very long time, a year. >> we have our online community third host of the show we see sometimes lisa they usually tweet in using the #ajam stream. has the failure come from a new model in employing contractors? and specifically there has been some discussion that boeing has changed some practices after the 97 merger with mcdonnell dug last, what is your short answer? >> the short answer is yes after 1997 boeing merged with mcdonnell douglas, another large aerospace company

change her or that she is going to change washington? >> no. i did note at some when she was talking about her relationship with congress and the committee she talked having a new and improved relationship. obviously that wasn't anything said specifically -- >> in fact she has to deal with a republican and the president. >> i think it's been very smooth sailing for her thus far as we talked about at the beginning. i've been through a lot of these hearings both as a journalist and when i worked in the white house, she seems comfortable in the chair. didn't seem shaken even by the tough questions from senator sessions. i think she'll come back after the lunch break and give solid answers. she seems honest, focused and very poised. that's what you want in an attorney general and most of all, independence. >> jami floyd alan vinegrad, thank you both for being with us. the questions today was polite. that could change with more pointed questions on other issues but that said, no one believes that at the end of the day the person that you are

. >> our whole behavior and philosophy and everything is so diametrically opposite to washington d.c. in general. it is pathetic...we don't want anything to do with washington d.c. >> speaking of nasa, when you say you don't want anything to do with dc, but you've signed a contract with nasa for $18 million dollars. >> being willing to criticize nasa, or government in general doesn't make us stupid enough not to take the money when it's offered to us! >> the rocket burner burns for a bit and it turns off. and the moment it turns off-everything inside the ship will become weightless-so you'll be able to get out of your seat, unbuckle your seatbelt, float around the cabin, and then come back in. and we'll ask people to get back in their seats. and you'll just do a glide using the wings of the vehicle down to the runway that you took off from. >> virgin galactic - the space offshoot of british aerospace giant virgin -plans to take customers for a ride into low-earth orbit to experience zero gravity. flights are expected to begin this year. leonardo di caprio and justin bieber are signed-

. >> peno nieto was in washington. he spoke about how mexico could help the united states in the effort of bringing democracy to cuba. do you think there's a positive not just for change in the long temp but a stronger positive influence of the united states and the whole caribbean region because a lot have not been happy with the u.s. ostracising cuba. in that way do you think we could see a positive step? >> absolutely. whatever the risks are, this really recalibrate the relationship. brazil has been active trying to gain a foothold in cuba. the cuban - brazilian beer companies holds their beer company. they were trying to position themselves to be a broker. now you have mexico and the united states and it makes it ease year to criticise the human rights commission. it's a positive step regionally. it makes it - removes what has been a traditional pumping bag for a lot of government and demigods. like e.v.o. moralize for criticizing the united states. we have removed that part. >> it's an important story. good to hav

i'm picking this up even in washington. washington wants to ratchet up its support for nigeria to deal with it because people are asking questions. why so much help against isis and why so much focus on what happened in france, but boko haram's issue has not gotten much attention. >> thousands of supporters of the spanish far left party has-rallying in the capital of madrid. the party is hoping to repeat the success of the tsapras party, which won in greece last weekend. they want to end austerity measures imposed by international creditors. we have reports from the spanish capitol. >> reporter: yes, we can. that famous political slogan has become the rallying call in madrid too. parents, children, retired people and students, they all came out in the winter sunshine. >> we're fighting because this is over and we cannot go on like this. >> as you can see there are a lot of people here and what these people want is change. the government we have at the moment is lying to us. >> officially this is a march of political change

from washington, i'm ray suarez. ♪ >>> september they had 400 followers. today, there are thousands of people who adhere ladenism. >> a counter-terrorism expert runs an intelligence firm that bears his name that advices governments and corporation >> the only thing they want is a religious war. >> he led the investigations of the the uss cole bombing. >> one of the biggest mistakes we did after 9-11, we didn't have a strategy. >> he intear gated many including azu bu bada. it put him at the center of the torture debate. he says so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like those used by some at the cia not counter counterproductive counterproductive? >> i don't know what accurately get. >> he wrote a book, "the black banners," which was given the okay by the fbi but heavily redacted by another u.s. intelligence agency? >> the cia claimed authority over the manuscript. i think they try to control the narrative. >> i spoke to ali sufan at our studios in new york. >> you are a guy who has followed terrorism as we know it today, this new incarnation of terr

it comes as the mexican president travels to washington, d.c. for his first official visit to the white house. >>> it has been 100 days since afghan president took office but he still hasn't formed a government. the taliban has repeatedly mocked him over the delabel. jennifer glasse has more from kabul. >> reporter: outside most of afghanistanian's ministries afghans are forced to stand in long lines. this man helps afghans fill out forms for nearby government offices. >> translator: there is some work going on in government offices, but not like it used to be. it is so slow because ministers have not been appointed, so other government officials can't do their jobs. >> reporter: when papers are signed it's by acting ministers and often no one will enforce them. this man can't solve family dispute. he blames the president. >> translator: i voted for ashraf ghani as president so he could uncover corruption but now he covers up corruption. i made a big mistake voting for us a traitor. >> reporter: gani is ruling with abdullah abdullah some site th

>> tom ackerman live for us in washington, d.c. tom, thank you. let's go back to our expert in the studio from the london school of economics. what have you made listening to the reaction from the u.s.? >> what do you expect the americans to say? the americans have very few options? they are very much concerned about their allies japan and jordan. they have very few options. they want to fiber optics on the good news. the good news is that the fall of kobane to the kurds. major setbacks are being suffered in iraq. the reality is barbara, we all know, this is a long long fight. this is really the beginning of two, three, four, five years' fight against isis. every time we say the hostages isis or dash has run out of hostages, they keep coming. >> are we going to keep on seeing this this sort of grammar of someone is captured from one of the main countries. we see the first videos and then, you know, we live under the shadow of the latest video coming out with the person being killed? >> they have plenty of hostages some journalists