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So glad to have you with us i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and joining us from around the world. first up the breaking news u.s. special operations forces have killed a key isis figure in syria. cnn was the first to report that abu sayaff is dead. the plan was to capture him, but he fought back and in hand-to-hand combat and was killed in the raid that's what we're learning from the defense department. >> his wife umm sayyaf was captured and is in military detention in iraq she's believed to have been involved in human trafficking and ...

Sayyaf. it means little else at this stage. it is important to notice how the one captured person they have from this,isemale. is now being interrogated. if i remember rightly, not a lot was gained at the interrogation of bin laden wives. it wasn't like he brought them into the family business to give the phrase so to speak. soy think yes a lot of scrutiny will be upon umm sayyaf at this stage. i think it's also reasonably sensible to limit your expectations of what intelligence she may be able to yield. it may be more of a case of the cell phones perhaps they found on abu sayaff computers, ot...

Syrian kurdish opponents, who we've seen them fight against. so a lot of confusion about the white house story at this stage. from i'm soo what i'm seeing thon on this side of the atlantic. >> there could be this narrative that's built. we talk about al-baghdadi. who was enter a severe spinal cord injury or not. we did receive the audio message, there's the report from the iraqi military that al affri was killed and the pentagon says there was no confirmation of a high-value target and now this going after what they call a key figure most people who study this don't recognized name. is this at...

Now in iraq being interrogated. we've talked a lot about the effort to recruit women into isis. but at that level, at the top, maybe middle management of the hierarchy, is it credible to believe that she has a lot of organizational knowledge about isis and would know all of the intricacies of that level? >> in the shortest answer is no really. we do know that isis' notion of where woman's place in society is not particularly 21st century. we know some women are attracted to that ideology. we know women who promote them on social media we know women have a role in their organization but it's no...

And the capture of his wife are being trumpeted by the pentagon now, as a good reason they say in hindsight, that came out of it. bear in mind too, we have this one yazidi woman who is effectively a slave there, who seems, has been rescued. her life massively changed by being reunited with her family. we're hearing from the national security council that umm sayyaf. the wife of abu sayaff these aren't real names, they're just nom de guerre father of sayyaf and mother of sayyaf. she's currently being debriefed at this sthaj, believed to be in iraq. she may yield information, but there's a discr...