B braces itself for the next bloody chapterer, having been ravaged by 13 years of war. As donald trump insists the elections are rigged. To rig thethey want election. There is a lot going on. They say there is nothing goingg on. People that have died 10 years ago are still voting. Illegal immigrants are voting. Amy we will speak with someone who says the election is eating rigged, but not by democrats. Finally, the Police Killings no one is talking about. I got a call about the death jacqueline. She was shot to death. When i started looking into this , i found studies showed that they were the group most likely to be killed by police. Amy we will speak with stephanie woodward. Rideout. S all of that and more, coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The pentagon has confirmed u. S. Special forces are on the ground in iraq. Isily face an estimateded 5000 fighters. The e operation isis going as planned. A military commander told cnn that bad weather could prolong the battle further. Pres. Obamama it will be a difficult fight. Isil will bet defeated in most soul as well. Amy the United Nations humanitarian coordinator says as to 200,000 people might need shelter. In yemen, a 72hour ceasefire is slated to take effect at midnight tonight local time. The ceasefire calls for the u. S. Backed Saudiled Coalition to lift the blockade and put a halt to airstrikes. It also calls on the Houthi Rebels to stop their attacks. The temporary ceasefire seeks to allow food and other humanitarian aid into besieged areas, some of which are on the brink of famine. In election news, Hillary Clinton and donald trump are slated to face off tonight in the third and final prpresident l debate at the university of nevada in las vegas. The final dedebate comes as dond Trumps Campaign is reeling from a series o of accusations of Sexual Assault from nine different women now. Donald trump has denied these allegations. On tuesday, People Magazine published an article quoting six different people who all corroborated People Magazine journalist natasha stoynoffs account of being sexually assaulted by donald trump in 2005 at his maralago resort. Stoynoff says trump pushed her against the wall and kissed her against her will. Articlecited in the include two People Magazine editors and one of her coworkers, paul mclaughlin, who said i advised her not to say anything, because i believed trump would deny it and try to destroy her. Clinton, meanwhile, is facing increasing questions about her newly released and leaked emails, which reveal everything from Clintons State Department prioritizing friends of bill clinton while assigning aid contracts after the 2010 haitian earthquake, to clinton bashing environmentalists and antifracking advocates during a meeting with the Building Trades union in 2015, at which she said the activists should get a life. Ahead of tonights debate in las vegas, people are placing bets on everything from whether clinton will take a drug test as trump has called for to whether trump will show up at all. We have odds of 151 that hillary will take a drug test before the debate. 81 thatet odds of donald trump will walk out during the debate. 251 that he does not show at all. These are great things. Amy donald trump confirmed he will bring president obamas halfbrother to the debate. Tonights debate comes as Hillary Clinton and donald trump are facing record unfavorability ratings, and the widespread characterization that this years election cycle has been a circus a description that is angering some professional circus workers. As a clown, i am a professional clown. I have worked my whole life. His is a dream of mine i have gone to school. I have had training. I would never associate the president of the United States of america as a clown. I would never do that. In the selection, doing that is an insult. Amy democracy now will be broadcasting the third and final debate live, with commentary both before and afterwarards. From 8 30 our special to 11 30 p. M. Eastern time at democracynow. Org. Tune in for our to our expanding the debate special. The final debate comes as early voting has begun in georgia where tens of thousands of people have waited for hours in long lines to vote. Local Officials Say they h have never seen so many people turn out for the early days of early voting. Has confirmed that it has temporarily cut off Internet Access in its embassy in london amid accusations that he has been interfering with the u. S. President ial election. This comes after wikileaks released atrophic of emails revealing how the democratic Hillary Clinton and worked behind the scenes to discredit and defeat Bernie Sanders in the president ial primaries. Wikileaks has released a trove of emails from the account of Hillary ClintonCampaign Advisor john podesta. Hundreds of thousands of women are slated to join a womens strike to protest violence against women. It comes after the rape and murder of a 16yearold argentine girl. Cornered was alive, we want us. In north dakota, a sheriffs been arrested after being found passed out in his car. Deputy fowler faces charges and has been put on paid leave. Seattle, more than 2000 teachers are slated to arrive at schools across the Seattle Public School system wearing tshirts reading blacklivesmatteratschool. Many teachers will use the day to lead discussions about institutional racism and what black lives matter means. Faculty members are on strike to cuts to theiric health care in pennsylvania. A. It is the first time in the unions 34 year history faculty members have gone on strike. France, a court has rejected a bid to stop the french government from demolishing a refugee camp known as the jungle. For months, french authorities have been seeking to shut down the camp, which is home to thousands of refugees from iraq, afghanistan, syria, sudan, somalia and other wartorn regions who are seeking to reach england by crossing through the channel tunnel. On tuesday, a court in the city of lille rejected an appeal from 11 charities, which had sued the french government over the plan, arguing the camps demolition violates the refugees rights. In light of the ruling, some of the charities are arguing as many refugugee children as possible should be permitted to resettle in england. The dismantling should happen this way. Take people who we have a solution and take them to england. On tuesday, about a d den of the camp costs more than 1000 children and teenagers were permitted to resettle in britain. Those are some of the headlines. Show in iraq. s Led Coalition force of about 30,000 includes Iraqi Security personnel, kurdish fighters, Sunni Muslim Arab tribesmen and a shia muslim paramilitaries. Isilface an e estimated 5 5000 fighters in and around most of. Commandersrs say the opeperatios gogoing as planned, though isiss fighters slowed advancing troops with suicide car bomb attacks. A peshmerga military commander to cnn it could take two months for the troops to recapture mosul, which isis has controlled for two years. President t obama said iraqss fight to take mosul will be successful, but difficult. We are seeing the iraqi andes with the coalition andr nations moving forward encircling musclmosul. The intention is to drive isil out of its first urban major stronghold. It continues to be one of the key organizational and let just leadership hubs for isil. Tough fightto be a and a difficult t fight. Amy president obama says plans and infrastructuture are in ple for dealing with a a potential humanitatarian crisis in mosul, which has a populationon of abot 2 Million People. The united natations huhumanitn coorordinator for iraq said as 200,000 pepeople might n need shelteter during thehe the offensnsive. Humanitarian workers say the first large group of nearly a thousand civilians has now fled the city and crossed the border into syria. Some expressed concern isis l fighters would use the civilians as human shields as iraqi forces get closer to mosul. This is courtney lare with the Norwegian Refugee Council in the iraqi city of erbil. They are prepararing for massive waveves of ththis claim. We a are expececting up to 200,0 individuals. The humanitarianan community is trying to prepare. Amy well for more we go to london to speak with patrick cockburn, middle east correspondent for the independent. His recent article is headlined, mosul braces itself for next chapter, having been ravaged by 13 years of war. His book has just been published titled, age of jihad Islamic State and the great war for the middle east. Welcome back to democracy now this is a decisive battle. This was the great victory of islam escape. In junek it by surprise 2014. Is different from what one has been seeing on the television. The forces attacking at our fragmented. Iraqi army,d the , they alllitaries have different agendas. They have extreme rivalry. Of the things keeping the islamist state and business in the past and will affect the course of the battle. The other thing to bear in mind, it would not be happening without u. S. Support. Usled airstrikes by the coalition. We have had people describe victories by the Iraqi Government forces taking solutia reate taking solutia fallujah. One town only has four buildings left. It is a usled operation. It has not gotten into the city yet. We will see what happens when street fighting starts. You have ae of mosul level playing to the east. People have fled two years ago. The kurds said they will not empty will not enter the city. When it getsts engaged in street fighting, wewe will see whwhat happens. S. I it call in the shia paramilitaries, will it escalate the bombing . Amy you begin your piece by saying the government and its l from may capture mosu isis, but it could be a new chapter in the war. Explain. Mosul haseen been captured or recaptured five times since 2003. Amost immedediately, there was babattle. Herere was mass looting andowd came out as a mosque identified kurds as enemies and looters and were threatening to lynch my drivever, somomeone persuaded them against doing this. I wewe to a local hospital. This is a deeply divided place. The u. S. 101st division came in. You may remember the battle for led by the marines, the iraqi armed opposition came in , a muchptured mosul bigger city. They moved out after a week. This is illustrative of the divisions. Oful ststands at a juncture ethnic d differences. Turkey wants to be a player there. It has 3000 troops nearby. Many ways the situation could go. It will be going towards more war, not peace. Amy can you talk about the relationship between the kurds , as well asd mosul u. S. Troops . The kurds have fled. The kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the christians. Forces were advancing, but very much under u. S. Air cover. Iraqi armynows the fled when it was attacked by isis. Each of these sites, they have some troops. Kurdish troopss had not been paid for much for months. It is much more ramshackle than it looks when you see it on television. Officers look as though they are very much in control. What is going to happen when they get close to the city. There must be some chance isis will withdraw, but i doubt it. This w was their big victory. They are probablbly betttter off fighghting in muzzle. Ul. Fighting in mos the likelihood is that it will be a long battle. Amy they said it was uncertain how long the operation would last. Not aware of a specific time frame for when the operation would he completed. This represents the next important step in our campaign iraq. T isil in there is a coalition to support e Iraqi Government as they seek to rid isofrom their country. Amy this is Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov speaking tuesday about mosul. Of course we are following this operation. We are all interested in defeating the Islamic State. I hope itow why, but is because they simply couldnt do it. This corridor were still exists. Amy Iraqi Foreign minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari said tuesdayy that he was relying on support from the internanational communy in the fight against isis. It will not stop at iraq. We must look at it from this perspective. Iraqi is not only fighting to defend itself, but also divisive and but also to defend all countries of the world. These fighters come from more than 100 countries. We say we are defending ourselves and all countries of the civilized world and we are defending democracy. Amy as you hear them talk about significance,nal and also w what this means for syria. Everything that happens in countries aside. Factions and different parties within the country allged into outside allies, of whom have their own rivalries and who have their own agendas. They dont necessarily lead towards peace. Turkey is saying it wants to preserve sunni dominance in mosul. The kurds and the Iraqi Government have their own agendas. How does this impact syria . One of the reasons they took the city was they were able to expand into syria during the war, take advantage of the Syrian Civil War and their own experience and money and weapons offices to move into the war zone and take over most of eastern syria. That will be affected by what is happening in mosul. Amy what about the humanitarian situation, a city of 2 million, what this means . Is lefty knows what there. It is probably over one million. The thing is, all of these sieges have a certain amount in have, whetherouou it is the various districts in damascus, aleppo, ramadi, fallujah, mosul. Government forces want to separate the f fhters fromom the civilian population. They do that by bombarding these places. Those defending the places, in this case, isis, dont want to lose the civilian population, so they prevent them leaving and they are described as human shields. Basically, who is whoever is on thehe defenending side has te interest to keep the civilian population there. Amy dont they have to be desperate to flee into syria . Has been the way out. It may seem that way. Out, itho have gotten seems to be easier before this happened, it is about 600 per person to get out. You would cross into the kurdish controlled area of northeast. Yria they would move to camps they are and move on word from there. They would move to camps there and move onward from there. I talked to people who came from mosul, they paid money to guides. They were e walking through fied who they thought there were es there. It seems to be safer to go west rather than east. Geographically, it is much longer. Amy talk about this in terms of Hillary Clinton and donald trump on the middle east. Be to fall, itld would be a plus for the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton. What would the effect of the outcome of the up president to on that for Hillary Clinton and a number of her leading candidates for high positions have talked about, fly zones in making a ked about ssad targets to fight both. They have been trying that for four or five years. It has failed, almost become a joke. Fly zone sounds benign, but are we going to shoot down and stop the third world war . Who will control things on the ground . I dont know how far they consider these practical policies. It could change. It could change for the worst. A lot of expectations in the middle east. Toont know if that is going be. If there is more information, it will go the same way as these other interventions. Do badly. They make bad situations worse. Amy patrick, we are going to leave it there. We will link to your article. Book donald trump says the elections are rigged. The nationak with s ari bergman. Stay with us. [music break] amy i am amy goodman. We turn to the u. S. Election. It is now 19 days away. On tuesday, president obama criticized republican president ial nominee donald trump for claiming the elelectin will be e rigged. He said it was unprecedented for any president ial candidate to discredidit the elections before any votes were even cast. Obobama defended the integrity f the election process and told trump to stop whining. Pres. Obama i would invite mr. Trump to stop whining and to make his case to get votes. If he got the most votes, it would be my expectation to offer a concession speech and work with him to make sure that the American People benefit from an effective government. Amy for weeks, donald trump has claimed the election would be rigged at the voting booth. The guardiaian reports he has hired the former head of the Koch Brothers intelligence gathering operation to run an Election Protection effort. On monday he said dead people and undocumented immigrants are voting. Mr. Trump they want to try to rig the election at the polling booths. They say there is nothing going on. Years agot have died are voting. Illegal immigrants are voting. Smarts ofthe street some of these politicians. Corrupt. Ities are amy trumps claims of a rigged election have been widely criticized by both democrats and republicans. Is week, o ohios republican secretary of state said trump is wrong and engaging in irresponsible rhetoric, adding, i am in charge of elections in ohio, and theyre not going to be rigged. Meanwhile, experts say cases of voting fraud are very rare. One study by Loyola Law School found just 31 instances involving allegations of voter impersonation out of 1 billion votes cast in u. S. Elections between 2000 and 2014. All of this comes as this years president ial elect