Network to work for a wide range of companies, from Small Businesses to major corporations. Hat can we do for you . And now bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, im nora. Islamic state militants release a video which shows the beheading of a second american journalist, steven. These fighters in afghanistan say theyre considering joining forces with the Islamic State. We have a special report on what can be an alarming alliance. And a hack of hollywood accounts raise questions about what you need to do to keep your information safe. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. For the second time in two weeks, Islamic State militants have released a video which appears to show the beheading of an american hostage. It is thought to be steven, a journalist abducted in syria last year. A militant in the video threatens to kill another hostage who is said to be british. This report by our security counterfrank gardner, doesnt include the entire video, but viewers may still find it distressing. Steven before he was kidnapped. A freelance american journalist, he crossed into syria a year ago and was seized almost immediately. Tonight, Islamic State jihadists provided a video nline, a gruesome, an a beheading by a british jihadist. Im back because of the arrogance toward the Islamic State. President obama made no immediate comment but the white house was quick to condemn the killing. This is the second u. S. Hostage to be murdered by i. S. In syria in two weeks. If the video is genuine, were sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another life of an american innocent citizen. The Islamic State militants have been holding a number of western hostages in syria. Several european nationals were released. Reportedly in exchange for huge ransom payments. Within a week, i. S. Threatened to kill him if u. S. Air strikes continued. They did. But his mother made this desperate lastminute appeal, now seems in vain. He traveled to the middle east to coverage the suffering of muslims at the hand of tyrants. Hes a loyal and generous son, rother and grandson. Hes always trying to help the weak. We have not seen him for over a ear and we miss him very much. It follows the beheading of this u. S. Journalism, it appears to be by a british jihadist. Intelligence is trying to establish who killed him but so far no public announcement has been made. The Prime Minister was told of the latest video today. To fers his condolences he sotloff families. Make no distinct between muslims, christians or any other faith. We have already been working hard, he said, to keep british people safe and we will continue to do all we can to protect our country and our people from these bar barrack terrorists. Barbaric terrorists. There have been over 100 u. S. Air strikes in northern iraq, largely halting their rapid advance. Britain has not joined in. Only dropping humanitarian aid to refugees instead. But to want for the first time Islamic State threatened in its video to murder a british hostage its been holding. Two things are significant about this latest video from i. S. Its clear that the recent u. S. Air strikes have ridden back their fighters from the most you will dam are hurting Islamic State. They cant fight those air strikes militarily so this is their way of hitting back. Its called asymmetric warfare. Then secondly, by threatening the life of a british hostage, this effectively drags britain into the fight against Islamic State in the middle east. When it comes to the west, the jihadists are making no distinction between america and britain. The coldblooded murder of the journalist, steven sotloff, will shock many around the world but its likely to deter them from action against i. S. It may even redouble it. Frank gardner, bbc news. For more on the release of this video, im joined by the former director of central intelligence, who is now the chairman of the foundation for defense of democracies. Thank you for joining us. Good to be with you. So the Islamic State has now beheaded two americans. How should the president respond . I think he should do several things. First of all, he should substantially increase our military assistance to relevant orces that are opposed to i. S. I think the kurds would be one good example. He ought to lean very hard on countries such as qatar that are sending money and resources to isis. And i think that he ought to do everything he can to pull together the sunni tribes. Its not going to be easy but we did it back in 2007 in the surge. And he needs to do Something Like that again. Meanwhile, u. S. Lawmakers are increasingly calling for legislation that would authorize air strikes against the Islamic State in syria. Do you think thats the answer . I dont think they need legislation. After 60 days they might. I dont think they need it now under our war powers resolution. But in terms of strikes, the president , i think, has a lot of authority under his constitutional powers and i think that he ought to substantially increase the strikes against isis because they are doing this sort of thing. Wouldnt they behead more hostages . Doesnt it become very murky, very complex, very emotional . I dont think it becomes murky. These people are genocidal empure yorists. They love crucifying, literally, burying alive, literally, their victims. Theres no way to compromise with them. Theres no way to be moderate and hope theyll turn moderate. Thats been the president s mistake so far. You cant do that with this kind of group. Do you think this group, the Islamic State, is now eclipsing al qaeda . They certainly seems to be in terms of propaganda. In terms of actual influence in the middle east . They seem to be pushing hard to have attacks against westerners, not necessarily outside the mideast, but that may come next. That is attacks in america or britain or europe. Do you really think thats a possibility . Do you think they might have the infrastructure here . Oh, certainly. The infrastructure for 9 11 cost about 500,000. It was a few people who were trained to fly airplanes. But could the brutality of these videos really backfire against them, do you think . I mean, thats supposed to be a propaganda recruiting tool. They dont think it is. The people they are trying to recruit, as i said, seem to be genocidal, basically empeerialists. They are a caliphate. They are establishing a religious empire in which theyll kill everyone who is not of their religion. How about the payment of ransoms for hostages, something the u. S. Doesnt do, something that britain doesnt do, but something that some European Countries apparently do do . Is there a time for that to end . No. We should not pay ransom for the hostages. If one is captured, one has to egard ones self as ready to die. That is that sort of compromise, which gives them something hoping that they will back down is exactly the wrong kind of thing to do with this kind of totalitarian movement. Thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. As the world focuses once again on the brutality the Islamic State, we have a disturbing report on some who may join their ranks. Some in afghanistan allied to the taliban told the bbc they are considering joining forces with the Islamic States. They say theyll fight against the Afghan Government even if nato forces leave afghanistan at the end of the year. John simpson traveled to meet the insurgents in northern afghanistan. The landscape is extraordinarily beautiful, but its also very dangerous. We drove north for seven hours on new roads which, thanks to corruption, are often breaking up already. This is a war zone. We can plainly see the battle scars on the police posts as we headed into the town. Its a prosperous agricultural center, bustling. Theres plenty of nervousness as well. The countryside around this town, the taliban and their allies are operating. Everyone here is aware of them. When we were in the town we were safe enough. Its under government control. But directly you get outside it, youre in hostile territory. Out here kidnapping is a real threat. But weve had the promise of a safe conduct from the fiercely radical group were going to see, and were pretty confident we can trust that. The meeting happened late at night on a dusty track not far from the main road. Only our afghan cameraman was able to be there. Out of the darkness the groups leader emerges with his bodyguard. The commander belongs to an extreme group, fighting alongside the taliban in this area. And though western troops leaving their ways wont lay own his weapons. Well keep fighting until the rule of the koran is installed here. We will not accept the americanmade constitution. Our struggle will continue until we establish shahrya law throughout the world. He says he gets many of his weapons from the afghan army and police who hand them over in order to keep with him. He and his fighters are very much their own men. Now hes considering linking up with Islamic State in syria and iraq, formerly known as isis. He called it by its arabic name. I know about isis and we have links with some isis members. First islamic caliphate in the world. Isis is expanding, conkerg parts of syria and iraq concurring parts of syria and iraq conquering parts of syria and iraq. If they do were ready to join them. Theyre great islamic fighters and we pray for them. The increasingly brutal threat posed by these men is deeply disturbing to senior political figures back this kabul. We are suffering. You are right. Its getting worse . In some places, you are right, getting worse because they have become very, very brutal. Very brutal. God willing, the commander says, well go to palestine, syria and iraq to defeat the infidels. Any linkup between the fighting there and the fighting here in afghanistan would be pretty worrying for the west. John simpson, bbc news, northern afghanistan. Now news from around the world the u. S. Has carried out a military air strike in northern somalia. Its unclear if one was killed in the drone strike. A spokesman said it was assessing the results of the operation. The air strike comes days after Government Forces launched a major offensive aimed at seizing key ports from the rebels. Pakistans parliament has held an emergency session over the current political crisis in the country. The meeting of both houses is an attempt to rally support behind the Prime Minister. Clashes between Security Forces and demonstrators continued for a third day on monday in the capital of islamabad. Theyre calling on the Prime Minister to resign. A break through in hopes of finding a cure for dandy fever spread by mosquito bites which kill more than 20,000 people a year. At least 34 people are believed to be infected in japan. The countrys first outbreak of the disease in almost 70 years. The world is losing the battle against ebola, thats the warning from doctors without borders. The president says the organization is completely overwhelmed as it treats patients in west africa. The warning is being echoed by the centers for Disease Control here in the u. S. Which says cases are likely to increase over the next two weeks. It comes as a missionary group says another american doctor has contracted ebola while working at a hospital in liberia. For more i spoke to dr. William shaffer in at vanderbilt safner at vanderbilt university. Do you believe that the battle against ebola is being lost . And if so, how can it be won . Laura, its a very serious matter. The ebola epidemic continues. We still havent gotten our arms around it. We need a combination of things. We need better clinical care. That will allow patients to come from home to the hospital. If they get out of their home, they wont be able to infect family members. Theyll need good treatment and then we also need a Public Health response. Well need to find out all the contacts of those individuals and keep them under surveillance. We need a lot more education of the population so that they recognize what the dangers of ebola are and how to prevent its transmission. All of that needs a lot more effort. We havent succeeded yet. Now, why is this Ebola Outbreak spreading so much more quickly than previous ones . Well, the previous Ebola Outbreaks occurred in rather remote rural villages, so when detected, the teams could go in and generally get their arms, if you will, around those outbreaks and there was not the opportunity to keep spreading as it is now in large urban areas where theres much more tumult and much less control of circumstances. And also, the families have not been convinced that taking sick patients to the hospital is a benefit to the patient, so theyve kept them at home and consequently you have spread to family members and so the epidemic rolls on. Now, the time manufacture built isolation rooms in liberia one some of their employees got ebola and then they identified everyone, the patients they come into contact with, but how easy is it to replicate that across countries . As you say, laura, its very, very difficult. The very magnitude of the outbreak ive been told already by those in Public Health is such they can barely track the cases and there are more cases, of course, than officially reported. Remember, i said a lot of those patients havent come to hospitals, to medical care. Theyre dying at home undiagnosed. So how should wealthy nations like the u. S. Be responding . What should they be doing, sending their doctors . Doing everything, sending their doctors, sending the appropriate Infection Control equipment and sending Public Health teams. Our c. D. C. Has sent actually over 70 people there already. More of my colleagues are on the list to go. This is going to require a larger and very sustained effort. Doctor, thank you very much for joining us. My pleasure. The grave and increasing threat posed by ebola, youre watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program after hitting rock bottom, detroit is now in court to see if they can chart a better future. Three men linked to a group to firebomb the airport in the philippines have been arrested. Jenny reports. These homemade bombs were designed to explode if very public locations, teaming with people. Recovered from a car outside manilas international airport, they were carefully placed before the media. The recovery of i. D. s can create loud explosions accompanied by a huge fireball enough to deliver with force fragmented material and burn Combustible Materials and properties situated near the blast. As a result to fire. Selfproclaimed antichina Group Planned to set the bombs off in four different locations across the philippines capital of manila. The international airport, the Chinese Embassy and ethnically chinese owned Shopping Mall and the bmci. Government agents found the bomb inside this vehicle after being tipped off. The group behind the foiled attacks want the filipino government take a tougher stance over the ownership of the islands in the south china sea. This is a misguided group. And they call themselves they claim to be defenders of the filipino people, and considers china and in eunquote engaged monopolistic Business Practices as their enemies. The leader of the group and two other men have been arrested. An operation to find the rest of the members and to establish whether it has links to militants in the south is now under way. A federal judge began hearing evidence today in the detroit bankruptcy trial, the largest of its kind in u. S. History. The city hopes to cut out the 12 billion debt to 5 billion. The case could take over a year to resolve. Meanwhile, nearly half of the citys residents struggle to maintain even basic services. E report now from are detroit. This is a scene that is beginning to play out on many streets in detroit, workers are turning peoples water back on. Carmina camin without water. Its kind of hard because it was limited on taking a bath, cooking and cleaning. So it was kind of nerve racking. Her waterless days are now behind her. Yeah, the water is on. But its not the case for many detroit residents who wait hours in line to pay bills so their taps can be turned back on. Now is not the time to cut water off. Activist and Community Leaders are outraged, but the Water Department is owed more than 80 million for a city that is trying to dig itself out from under crushing debt, it cannot afford that many unpaid bills. Were standing up and were saying no. No one expects to be talking about the lack of water in a major american city, especially one that sits next to such a large source of fresh water. But such are the harsh times that have befallen detroit. The once prosperous home to americas Auto Industry is now known for being the largest city to ever file for bankruptcy. Abandoned homes litter many neighborhoods. At its peak in the 1950s, 1. 8 Million People lived in detroit. Roughly only 700,000 remain. Of those almost half live in poverty and many struggle for water. Jobs are gone. Were barely making it as it is. The government has cut pensions, paychecks and everything else, and now you going to take the one thing that we need to really sustain life . Sonya brown is giving away water from her home so people without can get some for free. Its a sign that even as detroits infrastructure crumbles its sense of community has not. Now the city is waiting for the courts to do their part and approve a new financial plan. O detroit can begin to remr. Rebuild. Pregnant women without water in approximate americas heartland, think of that. Apple said today some celebrity accounts were deliberately targeted