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Workers killed bay drone strike in pakistan. it happened in january. we learn more about it from u.s. security correspondent jim sciutto. >> reporter: it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda, including one american, warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. al qaeda compounded been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know it is that weinstein and giovanni were held and hidden inside. in this proof of life video, weinstein, an aide worker, pleaded for his fre...

January. live video now from armenia where a memorial is taking place to commemorate the tragic event that began one century ago today. armenian groups say turks murdered more than 1 million ethnic armenians during the first world war. their descend ends call it a genocide but turkey always rejected that term. parts of southern chile are under alert after the calbuco volcano erupted twice in 24 hours. thousands of people are being evacuated. wednesday's eruption was almost the first in a 30 years. officials were forced to cancel some flights and argentina. >> the u.s. is promising financia...

I remember when warren weinstein was abducted in 2011. an aide worker that was loved in lahore among the people. then news of the drone strike shortly after that. i have been speaking to one of the intermediaries acting as liaison with the captors of weinstein and his family. that source telling me the last proof of life was a phone call between weinstein and his wife elaine back in june of 2014. they were hopeful of another phone call or some form of proof of life and then they heard about this. the pakistani government john reacting just in the last hour releasing a statement talking about t...

Those hostages, american warren weinstein, italian aide worker lopgiovanni lo porto. president obama made phone calls to weinstein's widow and the italian prime minister. as jim was saying this all unfolded back in january when the cia conducted that drone strike on the compound near the afghanistan/pakistan border. after what officials say was hundreds of hours of surveillance. the white house said intelligence officials said they had no idea hostages were in this compound. senior administration officials said weinstein was dead back in february but only confirmed his death within the last se...

About this operation but the integrity of the drone program as a whole. it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda including one american warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. the al qaeda compound had been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know was that weinstein and the italian giovanni lo porto were being held and hidden inside. >> i again appeal to you -- >> reporter: in this proof of life video weinstein, an aide worker pleaded for his freedom. >> it...