where it s unclear if that request was compiled with but clearly, they were tracking the phone communications from this actress kate del castillo and sean penn s visit played a key role in the drug kingpin s capture. pamela, thanks. today, iran released the ten u.s. sailors detained after entering iranian waters but not before these images were aired showing the sailors after their capture in the persian gulf yesterday on route to bahrain from kuwait when it happened, another video showed one of the sailors apologizing while president obama was giving his state of the union address, he didn t mention any of this. secretary of state john kerry was working behind the scenes to secure the release. jim sciutto tonight joins us with the latest. anderson, two of the key questions have been one, how did those sailors end up on their knees disarmed with their hands over their heads? that under duress? at gunpoint? the second one, was at any point
actress kate del castillo and sean penn s visit to the drug kingpin played a key role in the drug kingpin s capture. pamela, thanks. today, iran released the ten u.s. sailors detained after entering iranian waters but not before these images were aired on state television showing the sailors after their capture in the persian gulf yesterday. they were on route to bay rain from kuwait when it happened. another video showed one of the sailors apologizing. while president obama was giving his state of the union address he didn t mention any of this. secretary of state john kerry was working behind the scenes to secure the release. jim sciutto tonight joins us with the latest. so what have you learned? anderson, two of the key questions here have been, one, how did those sailors end up on their knees disarmed with their hands over their heads? that under duress? at gunpoint? the second one, was at any point during this episode, was an apology issued?
handing over confidential information to south korea. cnn international correspondent will ripley is live in pyongyang. he has the exclusive. what do you make of the situation? reporter: well, chris, for the north korean regime, this is all about political leverage. just days after the nuclear test that really irritated the entire world and after the u.s. in a b-52 bomber close to the border between north and south korea, now they present this man who carries a united states passport and confesses to us that he has been spying and sending information to south korea. an american citizen saying this. now, we don t know if he was saying this under duress. we do believe that our entire conversation was being monitored from another room at the hotel where we conducted the interview. but listen as he describes in detail what he says he did. how did it work, how did you pass on the information that you collected? translator: i brought the local resident and had him gather important mate
strategy to identify all who try to return to the u.s. to commit terror attacks. chairman of the house homeland security committee mike mccall says with more than 30,000 foreign fighters were 100 different countries joining isis the threat in the united states has never been greater. we have had 5,000 individuals with person passports so that s a great concern when it comess to visa waiver countries. we have had over 250 americans travel from the united states to the region, many of whom have returned to the united states. at the same time we are learning the obama administration granted asylum to more than 1500 foreigners with ties to terrorist organizations last year because they were deemed to have provided support to the groups while under duress. those figures come from an annual report sent to congress this month fwby the u.s.
while under duress. western lawmakers give president put tin the authority to send troops into syria. now the government there is ordering the united states to remove its planes from syria immediately. a senior defense official tells fox news u.s. warplanes will not comply with that order and it has no plans to change its operations overseas. they said the u.s. was expecting russia to take some kind of action given the recent build up of the military in syria. kelly dissenbende gissendander was put to death after a fire hour delay after several appeals. she is the state s first female to be executed in 70 years. two men behind bars in a