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Supplied by iran firing rockets artillery and mortars and lines of snipers firing into the isis fighters who are trapped in that city's center. that is or was a pretty intense feet. i say was, because iraq's defense ministry say they have stalled or stopped their advance. they are looking for reinforcements. they say because isis planted hundreds of ieds in tikrit and hundreds of snipers and that they are all ready to die. quite why you need reinforcements if you've got 24,000 men beseething the city is another question. for now that assault has stalled. the other battle front is here in erbil...

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Syria. unlike previous beheading videos, this one shows journalist john cantlie alive seated alone in a room. the largest counterterrorism raid ever in australia. massive sweeps through the suburbs of sydney. 800 police officers. at least 15 people detained. authorities intercepted phone calls indicating that isis supporters in australia were going to carry out public beheadings of random people on the street. >> this is not just suspicion. this is intent. >> reporter: yesterday france said it would help with u.s. air strikes against isis targets in iraq. the white house said this was a signif...

Videos, this one shows journalist john cantlie alive seated alone in a room. the largest counterterrorism raid ever in australia. massive sweeps through the suburbs of sydney. 800 police officers. at least 15 people detained. authorities intercepted phone calls indicating that isis supporters in australia were going to carry out public beheadings of random people on the street. >> this is not just suspicion. this is intent. >> reporter: yesterday france said it would help with u.s. air strikes against isis targets in iraq. the white house said this was a significant contribution to a growing i...

Kurdistan's independence. let's shift to the conflict in iraq. hundreds of pro-iraqi military volunteers will fight the isis group. iraqi army officials say they are in control of that massive oil refinery 120 miles north of iraq. despite the army's claims they have control. latest reports indicate fighting continues and the oil refinery is iraq's largest. it kicks out about a third of the overall oil output. so the battle front there remains a very key and critical one. >> thank you. as we hear more than 1,000 people have been reportedly killed in iraq this month alone in this new bloody vi...