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I wish to assure the country of the governments commitment to deal with political incitement and caution political leaders inciting the public to desist from destructive politics and ethnic profiling that may be responsible for this heinous act. Ifill a state Department Spokeswoman today reiterated its warning to american citizens traveling to kenya, citing terrorist threats in nairobi and along the coast. Russia cut off natural gas deliveries to ukraine today. Gazprom, the russian state Gas Authority had demanded nearly 2 billion for ukraines past due bills. And it wanted upfront payments for future supplies. In kiev, ukraines Prime Minister rejected the move, likening it to russias annexation of crimea, and the ongoing separatist insurgency in eastern ukraine. translated it is not about gas. It is a general russian plan to destroy ukraine. We are not going to subsidize russian gazprom. Ukrainians are not going to pull out of their pockets 5 billion every year for russia to buy weapons, tanks, and planes to bomb ukrainian territories. Ifill ukraine says it has enough reserves to last until december. Meanwhile, ukraines president Petro Poroshenko said hes offering up a peace plan that includes a ceasefire with pro russia rebels. But he noted Ukraines Armed forces have to get the border with russia under control first. The u. S. Army launched an investigation today into the 2009 disappearance of Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Bergdahl was captured and held by the taliban for five years. But former members of his unit have said he walked off on his own. A twostar general is in charge of the probe. Bergdahl, who is now recovering at an Army Medical Center in texas, will not be interviewed until his caregivers give the go ahead. One of the candidates in afghanistans president ial run off has called saturdays vote a fraud. 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Formulaone racing legend Michael Schumacher has emerged from a coma, and was moved to a swiss Medical Center today. He was in a skiing accident late last year in the french alps, and has been hospitalized with brain injuries since then. His manager said schumacher will continue the process of rehabilitation and recovery in switzerland. Baseball hall of Famer Tony Gwynn died in california today of cancer. Gwynn played 20 seasons with the san diego padres, earning his nickname mr. Padre. He had 3,141 hits over his career and won eight National League batting titles. In 2010, he had the first of two operations to remove tumors in his right cheek. Gwynn attributed his cancer to using smokeless tobacco throughout his career. He was 54 years old. Still to come on the newshour militants in iraq extend their gains, taking a town near the syrian border; the Supreme Court weighs in on gun sales and campaign ads; high hopes for the business of Recreational Marijuana; a story of murder and mercy in texas; plus, a wellknown jazz musician becomes its mainstream champion. Ifill the crisis in iraq continues to escalate, with reports of mass killings by sunni extremists, as Government Forces lose more territory. Jonathan rugman of independent Television News is on the ground. Some viewers might find elements of this report disturbing. Reporter this is Iraqi Air Force video of helicopters attacking i. S. I. S. Militants outside tel afar. But it was not enough to stop the city falling to jihadists overnight. A city official said families have been trapped in their houses by the fighting and many people were killed. And from i. S. I. S. Another shocking video of another apparent atrocity. Five iraqi soldiers in all seen pleading for their lives in the desert. A man identified as jafar zaki is ordered to swear allegiance to an Islamic State. When he refuses, the footage goes on to show that all the men are shot dead. God is great. I killed a shiite, says a voice on the tape. We cant verify this appalling scene, nor these photos of a mass execution of soldiers which appeared on the internet yesterday. But as more volunteers flocked to baghdad to enlist, an Army Spokesman said the photos were authentic. But of 170 troops killed he said, not 1,700 that i. S. I. S. Claimed. translated false news has been circulated about an exaggerated number of soldiers and volunteers killed by isis gangs. This news is baseless and Baghdad MilitaryOperations Command has denied it. Reporter and in this escalating spiral of violence, hundreds of thousands are believed to have fled the fighting in the last week alone. The combination of reported atrocities by islamic militants and Government Air strikes is continuing to drive iraqis from their homes. And with no sign of a new Coalition Government being formed in baghdad, theres no political solution either to iraqs widening sectarian divide. We headed into the city of kirkuk, where Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been battling isis on the outskirts. A school had been taken over by families fleeing from tikrit, which had been fell to isis last week. The mussa family saw their local mosque badly damaged by fighting. Its not you weve come to hurt, the jihadists told them, but the iraqi government. Mr. Mussa seemed terrified by both sides, so i asked him if the time had come for separate states with sunni and shia apart. translated yes. They are getting further apart because there are so many provocations. As there are no wise elders, everyone is enflaming the situation. Reporter the u. N. Is expanding its operations here and planning for a humanitarian crisis, as evidence of atrocities continue to mount. Ifill the u. S. Is sending additional military assets to the region. The u. S. S. Mesa verde, a transport dock ship entered the persian gulf today. It joins the Aircraft Carrier u. S. S. George h. W. Bush, which moved there on saturday. Secretary of state john kerry told katie couric of yahoo news this morning that the president is still considering military options. And he did not rule out the possibility of talks with iran. Were open to discussions if theres something constructive that can be contributed by iran if iran is prepared to do something that is going to respect the integrity and sovereignty of iraq and the ability of the government to reform. Can you see cooperating with iran militarily . I at this moment, i think we need to go step by step and see what, in fact, might be a reality. A lot of analysts over the weekend were talking about the fact that air strikes are not going to be effective because there are members of this organization scattered among the population at large. So whats your response to air strikes just arent the answer here . Well, theyre not the whole answer, but they may well be one of the options that are important to be able to stem the tide and stop the movement of people who are moving around in open convoys, in trucks, and terrorizing people. I mean, when you have people murdering, assassinating in these mass massacres, you have to stop that. Ifill the Administration Later sought to clarify kerrys comments, saying there are no plans for military coordination with iran. But u. S. And iranian officials may discuss the regions security on the sidelines of unrelated Nuclear Talks in vienna this week. Republican senator john mccain of arizona said such collaboration would be the height of folly. The white house said the president S National Security team will present the president with options tonight. The latest sectarian uprising in iraq has caused the u. S. To move some embassy employees out of baghdad and, accoring to the associated press, consider sending special forces in. Tonight, we look at the insurgents behind the violence. The group is known as i. S. I. L. , the Islamic State of iraq and the levant, also referred to as i. S. I. S. For more on who they are and the threat they represent, we turn to Brian Fishman, a Counter TerrorismResearch Fellow at the new america foundation. Hes also a Research Fellow at the west Point Military academy. And Rania Abouzeid, an independent journalist who has written for the new yorker and time magazine. Shes spent time with sunni militant fighters in northern syria. Welcome to you both. Brian fishman who is, who are i. S. I. L. And why do they feel, seem more dangerous . Well, i. S. I. L. Is the modern incarnation of the organization that was originally founded in iraq by al czar caw oui, it began in the early days after the u. S. Occupation of iraq, it turned into al qaeda and iraq in 2004, was later after his death in october of 2006, an entity called the Islamic State of iraq was declared. And that was the first time that this organization really wanted to attempt to govern large areas in iraq. The isis at that point was largely defeated in the tribal uprising against al qaeda and u. S. Forces. But with the beginning of violence in syria with the civil war, the isis was able to regain strength and in 2012 began calling itself i. S. I. L. Or Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Fundamentally this is the organization that was begun by al zarcawi back in 2004. Rania a buz ed this organization seems to have Great Expectations of what it can competition even bound the borders of iraq. How does it compare to the al nousra front, for instance. Well, the al nousra found was formed by the isis. The leader sent a group of men into form al nusra front in late 2011 just a few months after the start of the syrian uprising. It became quite a potent force in syria. And in you know april 2013 the isis leader decided that he was going to form isis or i. S. I. L. And merge al nousra with isis. The leader rejected this move. Now the two groups are very different. Even though they basically share the same ideology which is that they want to see they want to establish an Islamic State in syria and in iraq. And they want to restore th the they differ however in terms of who should lead their operation in terms of strategy and their tactics. Al nousra for example are very careful not to antagonize the local populations in which it is based. Isis, however, doesnt seem to share that concern. And it actually imposes its rather harsh ultra conservative understanding of islam on the local people in the areas in which it is based. Ifill Brian Fishman what we keep houring is abu bakr albaghdadi, tell us about him. He was born in samara which is a town north of being dad. Baghdad. And hes sort of exalted in an interesting way by the jihadi that support him. He is a rags to riches story of a very poor boy that wound up going to study perhaps for a doctorate at a university in baghdad, studying islamic theology and poetry. We know for a fact that he was imprisoned in a u. S. Facility during the insurgency back in 2005. Exactly when he was released and the conditions, the circumstances of that release are not exactly clear. But what is clear is that he was radicallized in prison and then rose through the ranks of the isis and i. S. I. L. And he is somebody that unlike other jihadi leaders very much is willing to stay out of the limelight. He seems very focused on sort of the Practical Application of force. And the Movement Towards his strategic objectives. As rania said that doesnt mean that the i. S. I. L. Hat those has not been bruts all. It has been extraordinarily brutal but it is significant that albaghdadi as opposed to zawahiri is very focused on his longterm objective and does seem to be more flexible in herms terms of how he applies his understanding of islamic law in various places. So you see i. S. I. L. Taking a much harsher approach in syria than it has in iraq, for example, where it has been able to rebuild some relationships with tribal groups and other sunni militant organizations that it had alienated previously. Rania abouzeid who pays for all of this. How did this organization suddenly bloom or at least to us it seems sudden . Well, in syria, for example, isis or i. S. I. L. Has taken over vast waves of the eastern part or the oilproducing part of the country. It also finances itself via racketeering, via imposing taxes on some of the