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Thank you sir. i appreciate your expertise. what with paut putins motive be to interfere with american election? what would he get out of it? >> cant think of any. you said i am a meritous. it means old. i have never in my 40 years -- maybe longer than youve been alive -- studying russian-american relations seen anything like what we are in at the moment. i think we are in uncharted perilous territory. before this began, hacking allegations, we are in a cold war with russia fraught with hot war ...

Air strikes and believe isis only has between 12,000 to 15,000 "battle-ready fighters" adding the terror group is no longer able to replenish its ranks. for more on this fight, fwling our senior international correspondent ben wedeman joining us from erbil in iraq now. ben, youre not far away from mosul, second largest city in iraq under isis control now since 2014. what are you hearing about the battle to try to liberate the city? >> reporter: certainly initially there were quite dramatic advan...

Fronts here in syria and isis back on the scene. isis militants over the weekend managing to take back the ancient city of palmyra with the ancient roman ruins. these are of grave concern because isis is known to destroy archaeological sites. they attacked under cloud and fog cover. the offensive was pushed back. the syrian government is trying to muster a force to launch a counter attack. john and alison. fred, thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he is excited about the ...

Surprise offensive. the syrian government says it is trying to muster a force to launch a counter attack. john and alison. fred, thank you. two days of mourning now observed in nigeria after the collapse of a church killed 50 parishioners in the southern city over the weekend. it happened during the dedication ceremony for the church which was still under construction when the building fell apart without warning. the steel girders gave way before the roof pancaked on the pews. the governor was...

Flee that area. all this was happening while fierce fighting going on. there were children who were too weak to walk. there were some almost falling asleep while walking because they were so tired. people we saw malnourished. we saw others walking while wounded. all trying to just escape that fighting that was going on. the syrian military now says it controls 90% of aleppos city pushing the rebels further back. syrian army losing here in syria and isis is back on the scene. isis militants over ...

Little boy scream out loud, "i dont want to die," to watch a family that youve overnighted with run out of their home in bare feet to try to get to their neighbors because they think they will be safe there, those are the images that say with you. and this is just the beginning of the battle for mosul. >> the scenes that you have been describing, arwa, are terrifying and also heartbreaking. you actually witnessed at one point during the 24-hour siege a cab driver shot and killed as he was runnin...

Who could walk to come up to the roof and defend this position. the reason why backup couldnt arrive. based on what we were told, the units that were supposed to be coming at reinforcements also got bogged down because of classes that they were undergoing with isis. this illustrates the challenges that the iraqis are going to be facing as they try to clear iraqs second largest city. >> the family, arwa, in those notes that you send back in the midst of all this. you talk about the family with th...

Conducted those attacks. and perhaps most importantly, our two final points that dont get a lot of attention. they havent said exactly what the objective of these russian attacks or other state actors may be, what kind of outcome are they going towards and trying to achieve. and the other thing that, you know, i am surprised, you know, joe biden a couple weeks ago hinted that there was going to be a counter-attack, a cyber attack, against the russians. thats something that, especially in cyber s...

>> donald trump and mike pence are suggest iing there will be counter attack. it strikes me that one of the main arguments that trump made for using bill clintons past is that its relevant because hillary clinton allegedly went after these women. so she victimized the victims is the allegation. >> correct. they were going to -- >> isnt this the same thing hes accusing hillary clinton of having done? by going after these women? >> no. if we are going to take the "new york times" at face value as ...

Determined the next president. so florida totally key. >> quickly, this was shot just before the trump/billy bush video came out. >> the "access hollywood" tape. >> have they changed their minds? >> not one. we of course after that tape went out went back to all the trump supporters in the series and said are you still standing by him, are you still supporting him. every single vote that we talked to, even ones that were in this piece that didnt make the edit, every single one are standing by tr...