Get under way. Leaders of member nations are gathering in wales. On thursday, they slammed russia for fueling separatist fighting in ukraine and vowed to support the government in kiev. They also talked about efforts to stop isis terrorizing iraq and syria. Now for details and a look at the day ahead, live from newport, we speak this time yesterday, nick. How did the day conclude . Yesterday there was a dinner of the nato nations. What we are now told. Just had sort of a briefing, if you will, by a nato official, on what was discussed this at that leaders dinner. It was a wideranging discussion focus on russia and the threat posed by the islamic state. Last night the leaders discussed the challenges, today theyll focus on natos response. There is widespread concern by the threat of the socalled islamic state. They intend on how to focus on using all available tools to deal with the challenges. The challenges here, being the islamic state, being russia as well. So this is what were hear
A National Address on wednesday to explain what he calls his game plan for the offensive against the terror group. The president has been clear, no boots on the ground or in syria, listen to how he explained it on meet the press. This is not going to be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops. This is not the equivalent of the iraq war. What this is is similar to the counterterrorism campaigns that we have been engaging in consistently over the past six or seven years. Reporter and we expect the president to explain his strategy like whether or not he will seek air strikes in syria, it will be tricky because the u. S. Does not support the syrian government. Now we will wait to see if he seeks approval. Many think he should, like senator ted cruz. It should absolutely take congressional approval. Now president obama said he wants the American People to understand why isis poses a direct threat and that the United States can do something about it. Up until now it has been unclear what
Friday. Diana magnay joins us with the latest on a fragile situation out there. Diana . Reporter it is. I wouldnt even call it a fragile truce, george. From my perspective it feels broken, even if it hasnt been declared as such, by authorities, by poroshenko. Last night around midnight, heavy artillery fire at the eastern checkpoint heading east toward the rshian border. Very heavy shelling there. Much closer into town than it has been before. Taking out that petrol station. Burnt vehicles there still on fire this morning. And as we and many other journalists were standing there earlier on, we heard another round of incoming mortar fire. You can imagine how fast people ran. The soldiers also running to get away. We didnt hear an impact, but this the shelling in this city continues as though the ceasefire never really went into effect. There was also machine gunfire last night. We saw many people driving as fast as they could from the eastern outskirts to get back into mariupol. Also sa
And on television, we look back at the life and work of the late comedian joan rivers. We begin this hour with a number of developments in the fight against isis, first, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry will be called to testify before congress to explain the Obama Administrations plans for fighting the terrorist group. The House Foreign Affairs chairman says the committee needs to hear a comprehensive strategy at the september 16 meeting. Australias Defense Department says it has successfully completed a second delivery of military equipment to northern iraq. Tony abbott said on wednesday he was prepared to make australian jets available for air strikes on isis targets. The u. S. Is looking to its nato partners to try to build a consensus on a strategy for fighting isis militants. Its been a key topic at the nato summit underway right now in wales. As our pentagon correspondent reports, u. S. Miltsly leaders are preparing plans of their own. Iraqi Government Troops use machine guns
Welcome, everyone, weve got more details emerging on the beheading of a woman at a Food Processing plant. The suspected attacker is hospitalized and they are waiting for him to regain consciousness before arresting him. Investigators say the man beheaded one former coworker and was attacking another when a Company Official shot and wounded him, putting an end to a rampage of police say could have been even worse. He had the presence of mind when he was notified that there was an assailant in the building to go retrieve his vest, his Law Enforcement vest because he knows when the s. W. A. T. Team or Police Officers come in the building and hes carrying a rifle. They are going to be looking to him first. He grabbed his vest and put it on and grabbed his assault rifle, then went after the individual. Following all of the developments. Heres more from our new york city newsroom. The fbi is investigating. The motive behind yesterdays attack because coworkers say kn nolan a recent convert to