It bothers me, you know, the police feel they can do whatever they want because thats not true. Theyre here to protect us, not harm us. Woodruff plus, the story of a virginia furniture maker who saved hundreds of American Manufacturing jobs in an age when many factories have closed and moved overseas. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill u. S. Warplanes and drones have launched new attacks on the Islamic State group in Northern Iraq. The strikes hit targets near the mosul dam. Kurdish forces recaptured the dam this week, and are trying to establish a buffer zone. Yesterday, Islamic State militants who beheaded journalist james foley, threatened to kill another american, if the air strikes dont stop. Well have more on the killing of james foley after the news summary. Woodruff israel and hamas attacked each other today with fierce new rounds of rockets and air strikes. One strike targeted the head of hamas military wing. Gazan officials said he escaped, but his wife and infant son were killed. Jonathan miller of independent Television News filed this report. Reporter in gaza, it was a loud and dangerous night. 22 killed; many wounded. This, one of the five missiles which killed the hamas military chiefs baby boy. Thousands of chanting mourners urged the hamas alqassam brigades to target tel aviv. Which they did. The baby was buried today with his mother, along with the cease fire, which had lasted 10 days. Israel says nearly 140 rockets have been fired by palestinian militant groups into israel since hopes of renewing the truce disintegrated. Code red alerts in tel aviv and jerusalem. No one killed; no one wounded. Israel responding with a vengeance; more than 80 drone and f16 strikes. By dawn, the gaza ghetto was going up in smoke yet again. More houses visited by the israeli air force, from beit hanoun in the north to rafah, here, right down in the south. We cant reach our homes. One day theres a truce. The next day its off. What kind of life is this . We want to live like everyone else in the world. We are human beings. A few miles away, inside israel, target of 3,400 unguided missiles, which have killed three civilians, that indignation and frustration is mirrored. Its impossible to live like that. And im sure that every mom, or father who lives across the board, not in israel, have to understand that this is not a normal way to live. Reporter the israeli Prime Minister appeared live on national t. V. Channels. Hamas will not wear us down, he said. This operations not over. Hamas will be hit with unprecedented force. Woodruff later, there were still more rockets and more air strikes. In a statement, u. N. Secretary general ban kimoon urged both sides not to let things escalate. Ifill police and soldiers in liberia fired live ammunition and tear gas today to enforce an ebola quarantine. Its unclear if anyone was hurt. The Security Forces opened fire when angry residents stormed barricades around the west point slum in monrovia, the countrys capital. The government quarantined the neighborhood on tuesday, in a bid to curb the spread of the ebola virus. Woodruff in pakistan, thousands of demonstrators blocked entrances to parliament today. They demanded that Prime Minister nawaz sharif resign over for an alleged fraud in last years election. Crowds chanted go nawaz go at blockades in front of the building. Sharif and other lawmakers managed to leave through a heavily guarded back exit. translated god has given us victory and we have reached parliament house. God willing, we will not go back until this system changes according to the will of our leader and a complete victory comes to us. Woodruff later, the head of Pakistans Army called for the government to negotiate with the protesters. Ifill back in this country, the Supreme Court delayed a Lower Court Ruling that struck down virginias ban on gay marriage. Samesex couples in the state would have been allowed to get married, starting tomorrow morning. The high court did not explain its action, but most other rulings allowing gay marriage have also been put on hold. Woodruff the u. S. Navy is discharging at least 34 sailors in a cheating scandal at a Nuclear Training site. That word today follows februarys announcement that sailors in charleston, South Carolina had cheated on qualification exams. They were being trained to operate reactors on submarines and aircraft carriers. The navy says the cheating dates back to 2007. Ifill republicans in alaska have chosen their nominee for the u. S. Senate as the party tries to capture control of the chamber in november. Former state attorney general dan sullivan held off a Tea Party Challenger in tuesdays primary. Hell face democratic incumbent mark begich in november. Woodruff on wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 59 points to close at 16,979. The nasdaq fell a point to close at 4,526. And the s p 500 added nearly five points to finish at 1,986. Still to come on the newshour, remembering american journalist and newshour contributor james foley, the humanitarian crisis in refugee camps along the iraq syria border, local perspectives on the protests and violence in ferguson, missouri, keeping American Manufacturing jobs from moving to china and how a Warming Arctic is made worse by creating more methane. Ifill as family, friends and colleagues mourned the death of american journalist james foley, president obama today had strong words for the sunni extremists who killed the reporter. Jim was taken from us in an act of violence that shocks the conscience of the entire world. Ifill the president condemned james foleys killers, in a brief appearance at marthas vineyard. Their victims are overwhelmingly muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day. From governments and peoples across the middle east, there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of this kind of nihilistic ideologies. Ifill the National Security council confirmed it is foley in the gruesome video posted yesterday by the Islamic State group, and titled a message to america. The newshour has chosen not to show any of the images. Foley was abducted in syria, in november 2012, while reporting for the news site globalpost. A grim routine has taken hold in the fight for syrias largest city. Ifill just a few months earlier, he filed this report on what life looked like in a rebelcontrolled neighborhood of aleppo. His career as a freelance photojournalist spanned a number of countries and conflicts. In 2010, reporting for the newshour in afghanistan, foley found himself in the line of fire, as he shared a firsthand look at a taliban ambush on an american infantry unit. It was only after this near catastrophe that we see the convoys front truck is on fire, and, worse, the soldiers have pulled a casualty to the side of the mountain, as others frantically begin to work on him. Ifill in 2011, in libya, foley was held for 45 days by forces loyal to former dictator muammar gaddafi. Following his release, he spoke about that kidnapping on the newshour. I never worried that i would be in captivity for, lets say, a year. I was concerned, i was really concerned to tell my mom that i was okay. And when we hit that twoweek mark, i knew, okay, this is going to be a long time. Theyre telling us two to three days, but theyre just playing mind games with us. Ifill it was unclear who initially abducted foley in syria, or when he fell into the hands of Islamic State forces. But his death marked the first time theyve killed an american citizen in the syrian conflict. It haunts me how much pain he was in and how cruel this method of execution is. Ifill still shaken, foleys parents emerge from their home in rochester, new hampshire, today to remember their son. He ifill still shaken, foleys parents emerged from their home in rochester, new hampshire, today to remember their son. Jim had kind of had nine lives. I mean he came out of libya and i guess we just never gave up hope either. We just kept thinking somehow were getting closer we know hes alive we just ran out of time. He ran out of time. Ifill foley was 40 years old. The same video also showed another american journalist Steven Sotloff who has written for time magazine. The militants threatened hell be killed next, if u. S. Air strikes in iraq continue. Ifill the committee to protect journalists estimates at least 20 other news professionals are being held in syria. It is an act of murder and murder without any justification. Ifill meanwhile, british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron announced a manhunt for the hooded militant with a british accent who appeared in the beheading video. Joining me now to talk about james foley and the threat that reporters like him Face Covering conflicts today. Is globalpost cofounder and journalist Charles Sennott and Robert Mahoney, Deputy Director of the committee to protect journalists. Charles sennott, first of all, our condolences to you and your colleagues in the loss of james foley. Whats can you tell us about him and how he came to be held. Thanks, gwen. The best way to start to describe who is james foley is probably to start with the way his parents talked about him today. Anyone who saw how much faith they have, how strong they are, they know where james came from, and thats really important to understanding him. Jim had strong faith in himself, but his parents had tremendous faith in what he did as a journalist. They understood that jim wanted to do work that mattered. He wanted to do work that made a difference. They understood his motivations and they were unwaveringly supportive of it, and that really is who jim boehei jim foe was a courageous report who took great risks to bring the story was gwen ifill do we know where he physically was yesterday when this happened . We dont. If youve seen this video and i hope you viewers have not seen it, its the most dark and horrific thing ive ever watched its about four minutes long. Its very clear hes under great duress. Its clear the statements hes making are forced and its in a barren landscape that could be syria or iraq. Its very difficult to distinguish that and we dont know precisely where that happened. Ifill have the people who have been holding him been in touch asking for ransom . There was a report there was a threat made they would kill him a week ago. Thats correct. Our c. E. O. Has really tirelessly followed this every day for two years and has amassed really quite an extensive body of facts and information through a lot of information weve gathered from Law Enforcement, private investigators, our own private investigators, and importantly from colleagues on the ground. You know, we have a lot of colleagues who really cared about jim and every bit of information they could glean would come to us and would be filtered and its hard to sort of share in great detail without putting some of the other hostages who may still be being held and whose lives as we know are hanging in the balance, we cant share a lot of that information, but it is safe to say that at first there was information he was being held by the syrian government. That information changed shape over time. It appeared quickly he was being held by islamic militants. Thats when fear really set in. He was held in different locations, first in arepo and later in a different location. The guardian reported that location. We thought it better not to report it but it was a known i. S. I. S. Center inside syria. Ifill Robert Mahoney, how does syria rank as a danger zone for journalists . Its the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist, has been for the last year or so. Weve noted 70 journalists have been killed in syria since the conflict started in 2011. Ifill many syrians, right . Most of them, actually, are local journalists. Also, to james story, syria is the single worst place weve seen in the entire history as an organization where hostage activity is happening in the zone. Ifill its difficult to negotiate or to figure out a way to rescue these hostages. Whats are the special problems, the special delicacies for someone like you or the u. S. Government, for that matter, in trying to free people like james foley . Well, in many cases, the families or the News Organizations that some of the journalists work for dont want to jeopardize their safety and dont want us to publicly talk about where they might be or even who they are. Stephen sadler, for example, appeared in the video this week, we knew about him but we did not publicly disclose that because we just dont know sometimes who were dealing with. There are very many groups. Theyre splintered. Some were Holding Hostages for criminal ransom and others were holding them for political purposes. So with all that uncertainty, it was very difficult to get precise information about the captors. Ifill bob, is it more complicated when theyre free license journalists not working for major News Organizations . Absolutely. And we at the committee, you know, are very, very concerned for the freelancers. They dont have the big institutionl support of journalists going in for big News Organizations and the majority of the journalists now around there are people like jim working as freelancers. Ifill charl charl, james foleys phat Charles Sennott, james father said today they were considering raising money for ransom. Were you involved in that . I was not involved in that. Sadly, we have been down this road before with james and other correspondents, and what you abide by is the family will dictate what will be made public. This is their decision. We feel thats extremely important and weve always deferred to the foley family. Just to speak to the point of freelancers. Globalpost, we deal with freelancerfreelancers every dayd theyre deeply at risk. Theres a concern about how to build a News Organization that has a culture of caution and caring for if correspondents on the ground. Weve worked with a lot of journalists and different organizations to think that through and i think jims death, this horrific news, theres a lot of sobering lessons to learn and one is we are responsible as News Organizations for the people we send into the field, we take that seriously, but its also really important to remember this is a deep reminder that there are journalists doing courageous work. We live in a cynical time where theres a lot of criticism of the media from the left and the right, but there is also time to remember there are journalists like jim foley out there representing News Organizations, believing in what theyre doing and doing the best they can outside of the big Network Production companies or the big newspapers, theyre doing the best work they can to bring home the stories that matter, and i think thats important to remember today. Ifill bob mahoney, how hard does it make it to get reporters out of syria at this point . Makes it hard. Who and what has happened will be rushing into syria especially freelancers who dont have the backing and dont earn the money that will make it worthwhile going in. What we rely on and the News Organizations rely on, the local journalists, some of whom are outside, theyre the ones who have born the brunt in terms of death and capture in this conflict and theyre the ones who dont have necessarily an international voice. Ifill Robert Mahoney and Charles Sennott, thank you very much. Thank you. How has social media adapted to deal with violent terrorist imagery . Hari sreenivasan spoke with the chair of the Journalism Department at quinnipiac university. You can watch their conversation online. Woodruff other victims of the Islamic State in recent weeks include christians and members of the yazidi miniority. Most who were lucky enough to escape have flooded the kurdish controlled region in Northern Iraq with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Tonight, chief foreign affaris correspondent Margaret Warner takes a close look at these newly internally displaced persons or i. D. Ps and efforts to contain their suffering. Warner the boeing 747 touched down in the afternoon heat of erbils today, carrying 3,300 United NationsRelief Agency tents the first wave of fresh supplies since the u. N. Announced last week a heightened level of emergency for northeastern iraq. Were not just getting the materials we already have in stock but are bringing them from around the world. Reporter the tents will shelter 20,000 people, just a fraction of the estimated 1. 25 million iraqis who fled into th