Well as isis training centers. They made it back safely. The city about 200 miles from the egyptian border on the mediterranean coast. Der na has sent militants in wars, jihadis to fight abroad. This is a city that isis took quickly, recently. Now this video that we saw shows these 21 christians being brought out onto the beach, as you said some saying oh god, jesus, a message from one of the militants giving warning to the christians here in egypt. To the Egyptian Government. Europe libya is on the doorstep. What this video shows most is how isis has a Firm Presence in libya. Last month they attacked a hotel if tripoli, showing how theyre expanding, taking advantage of the political and security void that is libya after the 2011 uprising that tloefr through mow mar go davie backed by the west. For egypt, this is concerning they have iskis militants they are with theling, hundreds of security personnel who have died in that with thele. Now they have another front in libya. Alisyn. Ian,
Fate of so many in the caribbean who lost everything. You can see just how enormous this hurricane is from space, right behind it, hurricane jose, about to bring more havoc to already hardhit areas by irma. Elizabeth thanks for joining us. Welcome to this special threehour edition of americas news headquarters from washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland its going to be a very long weekend for folks down in florida and beyond. Nice to be with you, great to be with you at home. A lot of Team Coverage here, im leland vittert. Were awaiting a News Conference from governor rick scott who is going to be in rare park, florida, and hes checking on preparations and already 7,000 natural guard troops called up, back to the governor in minutes. Miami beach, high winds and rain are lashing the beach. Hurricane irma is 22 miles south of miami and barrelling toward the florida coast after literally flattening a number of caribbean islands. The storm has been downgraded to a category 3, but the offic
Facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg says regulation of social media may be inevitable during his last day in washington but congress could not pin him down on how he plans to protect private data. On the number of executions carried out last year around the world fell compared to the year before that according to a new Amnesty International report on Capital Punishment. And italy has been without a government since an indecisive election last month a new push to form a Coalition Kicks off today a reporter went to rome to ask politicians why it is so hard to find any agreement. With. Brian thomas thanks so much for being with us the trumpet ministration says all options are on the table but that no final decision has been made on. Military action in syria President Trump took to twitter yesterday telling russia to quote get ready and that missiles will be coming fueling expectations that a strike on syria is imminent now in a moment well be crossing live to our correspondents for the very
The United States commitment to nato is very strong, we mains very strong. But primarily because everyone, the spirit they have, the amount of money they are willing to spend, the additional money that they will be putting up. Germany has agreed to do a lot better than they were doing and were very happy with that. We had a very Good Relationship with angela merkel. Im meeting with president putin on monday and i think we go into that meeting not looking for so much. I hope that we are going to be able to get along with russia. I think well probably be able to. He is representing russia, im representing the United States. So in a sense were competitors. Not a question of friend or enemy. He is not my enemy. And hopefully someday maybe he will be a friend. Bill that was in brussels. Kevin corke is now in london. Good afternoon. There appears to be a disagreement over exactly what the president was able to get our allies to agree to. Where is the discrepancy and where are we now . Listen
A political and military alliance between north america and europe. One that rose from the ruins of world war ii in part a response to potential soviet aggression in western europe. The atlantic pact, eight nations agree the United States, canada, great britain, france, belgium, holland and norway. If one is attacked, the 0 others would consider attack. In other words, i got your back, you got mine. A complete 180 for centuries that guidedup rip. The idea behind that, look out for yourself. In 1949, president harry truman called nato a positive, not a negative. Added its influence will be not only in the area that it specifically covers but throughout the world and no doubt its influence has grown. Nato officially started with 12 founding members. It outlasted the cold war and now includes 29 nations. Among them, former members of the soviet union. Even after the berlin wall fell, nato continued to play a pivotal role in world piece. Nato helped implement the military end to the war in