How pope francis gets a warm welcome in the latest leg of his tour. Now the United States and britain say they are working on a special initiative to help tackle the boko haram armed group in nigeria. The killing of hundreds of people last week was a crime against humanity. Amnesty international has released images of what it says is the devastating images of those attacks. This was on the 2nd of january. All around you can see streets and clusters of buildings. Here is the same time from january 7th. An estimated 3,000 homes schools, and clinics have been destroyed. Its a similar scene three kilometers away. Another thriving town and this is how it looks five days later after the attacks by boko haram. At least 20,000 people fled the area. Amnesty internationals daniel eyre says it has received disturbing testimony from survivors. Witnesses are telling us that boko haram attacked more than one week ago. They went housetohouse pulling people out of their homes and shooting them in the
Text from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Tonight in an exclusive interview with King Abdullah of jordan, the king of jordan came to washington at a crucial time. His part of a coalition against tos and was also born refugees into jordan. He met senior officials and the vice president. Today, he met with president obama. We spoke with him yesterday in washington and we began with the threat of isis. Here is that conversation. Your majesty, thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you during your visit to the United States. Let me talk about isis and what you see as the threat today from isis. From isis, and the like. We have to understand this is a Global Jihadist Movement and its not just the threat that we are seeing today, although the dealing for many of us with syria and iraq, we have to also remember that we have to. Ook at sinai we have to look at libya, the other elephant in the room. Ali, molly, nature m ali, nigeria. Se are all different organiza
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Tonight in an exclusive interview with King Abdullah of jordan, the king of jordan came to washington at a crucial time. His part of a coalition against isis and was also born to refugees into jordan. He met senior officials and the vice president. Today, he met with president obama. We spoke with him yesterday in washington and we began with the threat of isis. Here is that conversation. Your majesty, thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you during your visit to the United States. Let me talk about isis and what you see as the threat today from isis. From isis, and the like. We have to understand this is a Global Jihadist Movement and its not just the threat that we are seeing today, although the priority for many of us dealing with syria and iraq, we have to also remember that we have to look at sinai. We have to look at libya, the other elephant in the room. Somalia, mali, nigeria. These are all different organiz
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin with the middle east. Leaders across the globe are united and outrage about the video released by the Islamic State. It shows militants burning a jordanian pilot alive. The King Abdullah of jordan returned home wednesday for crisis talks. Authorities in jordan released two convex in response convicts in response. They also promised a military response. Kenneth pollack is a senior fellow at the brookings institution. Let me begin with this question. Name almost any outrage in the middle east. Iraqs invasion of kuwait. The gassing of kurds to read the bombing of the uss cole. The gassing of kurds. The bombing of the uss cole. The protagonists would find both apologists and detractors. But with one breathtakingly vicious murder, the Islamic State change that dynamic. I want you to give me a sense of that dynamic. Ken . The arab world especially the sunni arab world, has been ambivalent about the fight against isis. They don
Iraq and is committed to consulting with congress and congressional leaders regularly. The president hoshosted a meeting the last week in july or first week in august where he invited democrats and republicans from the house and senate to talk to this. And there is consultation that has been done from senior members to congress members. Those conversations continue. But in terms of what maybe required if the president were to take or order a specific action i am not in a position to guess. This can be done with the consent of congress or it can be done passively by attaching it to a bill that has to be passed. Would the president want some kind of congressional approval . I am not going to guess what kind of approval is requested or required based on military action that hasnt in ordered. There has been a number of war power notifications that have been submitted as it relates to specific orders in iraq. The president is committed it this process and consultations but i am not say what