Journalist foley. Well look at the efforts to feel the slaip journalist. Plus in america. Im thrilled to be alive and well and reunited with my family. An emotional die for the doctor that survived ebola. Leaving the doctor disease free. And a concert for our own peter gres peter greste gaoled in egypt, the concert in australia. We begin with the crisis in iraq. Tonight iraqi forces are fighting to keep the country together, out of the hands that calls itself the Islamic State. Iraqs military has reportedly attacked Islamic State forces in Anbar Province and the city of tikrit. They are trying to push back fighters from an organization that the pentagon called a bigger threat than al qaeda pre9 11. Seven months ago president obama compared the Islamic State to a Junior Varsity basketball team. Today the United States launched a fresh round of air strikes against the group as part of the effort to assist iraqi and kurdish troops on the ground. Islamic state grabbed americas attention wh
Seeking a second term in brazils president ial election. I am Andy Richardson with the latest sport. Formula one driver suffering a serious crash at the japanese grand prix. He has a severe head injury following the incident in suz suzuku. The battle guess isil continues in iraq and syria. Isil says it has taken more territory in anbar provnts even though iraqs army and the sunni fighters continue to go after the group. Imran khan reports from the iraqi capitol, baghdad. Reporter this furious exchange of fire shows the battle against isil isnt slowing down. Backed by tanks and heavy weapons, these Government Forces are in the town of amaria. This is a strategic town linking am bavr with baghdad in the south of the country. Holding it against isil fighters means supplies from the capitol can reach anbar province. We will never leave oub city. This is our homeland that we cannot abandoned just because there is a conspiracy on this country. We will fight them whether they call themselves
142 million registered to vote in the tightest president ial election in decades. And a crackdown in hong kong for the protesters to leave is hours away. The words from the United States is that it has hit a number of i. S. I. L. Targets in the last 24 hours, both in iraq and syria. Air strikes northwest of raqqa have destroyed a large unit, and further east i. S. I. L. Tanks were hit and artillery destroyed. Across the border near the iraqi city of pham uma, u. S. Planes destroyed two fallujah, i. S. I. L. Planes destroyed targets. Despite the air strikes, the group fought to the nearby town of fallujah. We explain why that is significant, imran khan. This furious exchange of fire shows the battle against i. S. I. L. Is not showing down. Backed by tanks and heavy weapons, Government Forces are in the town. This is a strategic town linking anbar with baghdad in the south of the country. Holding it against i. S. I. L. Fighters means they can reach anbar province. Translation well never
The past 30 years. In the next hour you will see clips with u. S. Central command adviser david crist, author of the twilight war, abraham sofer, former Legal Adviser to the state department, and author of taking on iran. And president of the National Iranian American Council and author of a single roll the dice. We start with David Christian author of the twilight war, the secret history of americas 30year conflict. He sits down with former National Security council official to discuss internal debates within the American Military government over relations with the wrong. How to manage the iran problem, how to act. Clear signals about redlines an element, without being so confrontational that the only option is to escalate military tensions buried at the your book had some really original material on some of these debates within the military. I wonder if you could talk to us a little bit about said, is out in the arena. Trying to set the course of u. S. Policy. A few stories at thank
Build upon and leverage what were doing here. Communications, that was one of the first things. Its different with our active duty forces because you see here, we send our aircraft all around the world. We cant necessarily just invest in some components in the aircraft and call it good because those assets may be gone and deployed but we have work arounds for that. We are looking forward to that as well in addition to the training. Lastly is we again kind of relish the opportunity to participate in the operations against an active enemy. At least here, its fire. We appreciate the fact we can go ahead and enter a Tactical Command air control. Those are operations that are familiar to us and they are, its a great exercise for us tactically as well. We are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fire itself. Those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. Thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, id like