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It out. if we stay were leading. lead us in the right direction. >> one major fear is that if the u.s. doesnt do more, iran will happily fill the void and expand its very considerable influence in the region. >> the administration isnt helping but also isnt condemning iran for its role against isis. especially iraq. what is your view of iran and isis? >> part of me says we have to tell iran you get the hell out of iraq. let us try to help the rest of this -- let us try to help iraq and the regio...

Until they get the weapons and the support that they desperately need, its going to be a long and drawn out fight. >> thats benjamin hall in northern iraq. when we come back, the fight in washington over how best to deal with isis. ♪ nice! gr-reat! a shot like that... calls for a post-game celebration. share what you love with who you love. kelloggs frosted flakes. theyre gr-r-reat!

By isis. many of those being slaughtered by isis were members of the yezidis. those are her people. last year on august 5th as the bodies started piling up she sounded the alarm. ignoring orders to stop talking, she then calls the assault on her community a again sidegenocide, and says, quote, brothers i appeal to you in the name of humanity to save us. she collapsed on the floor of the iraqi parliament. i recently met her. anyone who sees the video of you making that speech in the iraqi parliam...

Through northern iraq in 2014. but late in the year there was a counter attack. it came from the kurds. the middle eastern ethnic minority more concentrated in the area. their fighting force the person mere georgia, backed by international air strikes succeeded in opening up a corridor to mount sinjar where thousands of yezidis were trapped. our reporter benjamin hall was there when the peshmerga faced a renewed offensive from isis. at the time the village of cojo was controlled by isis and comp...

The kidnapping of those women and those children. >> did you see response from the iraqi parliament? >> after that nothing happened, and i dont know why. >> she doesnt think againgenocide is too harsh a word to describe what isis it does when it offers the people it conquers a choice. thats no choice at all. >> one person in isis says you have two options. change your religion and come to islam and honor the kwororan or i kill you. most will say okay kill me. >> the yezidis worship one god like ...

Filled the vacuum was isis. and one group that is paying for that? are the yezidis which brings us back to this family. >> you have been in america now for a number of days. >> she came to washington, d.c. last december seeking help for her beleaguered people. >> im here to have some person organization to help us. >> she made the rounds including an appearance at the congressional hearing and met with u.n. ambassador samantha power. her message? her people needed more than american air strikes....

Has their weapons. >> meanwhile others are rallying toward them. >> whether its coming or going, i couldnt tell you at this time. >> patrick, a 37-year-old american doesnt want us to use his full name. hes one of the handful american and european adventure seekers who have joined the peshmerga. >> at lot of rpgs. i dont know how many they have but its an endless barrage. mortars? they shake the earth, man. >> while i was there they were having a standoff inside sinjar city. the forces are separa...

Would rape her. its a tearful reunion as they return to the camp but him and his wife cannot rest until theyre reunited with all of their children. >> translator: i wish i were dead and they were here at least, with their father. i prefer my death to them being there with isis. there is no normal life for me. >> some such as president obama a year ago compare isis to amateurs. a rag tag bunch who, if anything, would love to draw us into war. others compare them to the nazis in their early days. ...

If she wanted to keep her baby it was now or never. >> translator: he told me had he something to do and when he came back he would put me in asylum. then he asked me if we needed anything to eat. then i kept silent. >> as soon as he left she took a knife and used it to pry open the door and escape. luckily she was able to find a house nearby that would take her in. >> translator: i spoke with my husband through the internet and i told him i was in a friendly mans house and gave the number to my...

Constructed trailer parks. most of the women taken as slaves are still missing. some have been able to get messages back to their people. their plea? dont worry about our safety. bomb our isis captors. one of those messages -- >> translator: please help us. we are raped many many times in a day. we need to die. >> and the unthinkable a plea from an iraqi mother that her kidnapped daughter be put out of their misery. >> i have five girls and they tell me please, can you make someone kill us? anyt...