i think this is probably as we ve seen with islamic state, the communications have been very efficient. we ve seen this for a period of time from when they held the hostages with emwazi. right across the border. and they ve been very, very good at the way they ve been able to get their message across. they ve decentralized parts of the communication to get messages in various languages so that they spread across the globe. but this is part of a propaganda war. this is another thing that we have to try to tackle with, to try to tackle this extremism, trying to counter it. i think certainly states in europe and in the u.s. are also waking up and realizing that the impact this can have. in the uk recently, we convicted a 15-year-old boy. he s now the youngest terrorist
jihadi john has been targeted in a u.s. military air strike. but we don t know if he s dead or alive. plus more than 40 people killed in suicide bombings in lebanon, a suspect says he was sent by isis. and as we speak, more than 7,000 kurdish soldiers are fighting to retake a key iraqi city from isis control. hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. i m isha sesay, news room l.a. starts right no uh. now. this is cnn breaking news. the pentagon says they targeted jihadi john in an air strike in syria. he appeared in videos allegedly showing h imbeheading isis hostages. he s a british citizen believed to have been born in kuwait. and the senior u.s. official says authorities are confident emwazi was killed, but the
masked man that we saw in the videos being the mouth piece of isis. it is reasonably certain, says the government, that mohammed emwazi, jihadi john, is dead. we are reasonably certain that we killed the man that we wanted to kill, jihadi john. this man is a human animal, and killing him is probably making the world a better place. we go to the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. have you learned more details about the strike, and what can you tell us? wolf, what we now know is that the military and the intelligence community had been tracking jihadi john mohammed emwazi for several days. they had picked up his trail and discovered that he was making his way to raqqah, and began to follow him. they had three drones overhead equipped with missiles, and they
let s turn to nic robertson. actually, let s go to david cameron making a statement on the drone strike. good morning. last night, the united states carried out an air strike in raqqah, syria, targeting jihadi john or his name is mohammed emwazi. we cannot verify this is successful, but let me be clear, i always said we would do everything to track down emwazi and stop him taking the lives of others. we have been working with the united states literally around the clock to track him down. this was a combined effort and contribution of both our countries was essential. emwazi is a barbaric murderer. he was shown in the videos of the beheading of the british aid
and that they say he is certain that he is dead. and also, families of the hostages that jihadi john had killed were know notified before. and we are following news around the world. kurdish troops have said that they have chased out ter isis from sinjar, and also once again, another big story, it is reasonably certain a that the jihadi john who is the masked man seen in many videos beheading hostages is now dead. one called him the manifestation of evil, and one called him grotesque, and fond of sadistic torture techniques and now his reign has come to an end. and now, mohammed emwazi is the