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but no structure is designed to maintain its integrity after a sustained artillery or rocket attack in the case of the heavy machine gunfire would damage these or the shut down of power, a meltdown, a loss of water to the plant or operator mistakes could cause a fukushima or a style meltdown of these reactors. and then you're worried about radioactivity spreads over tens, hundreds, even thousands of square kilometers contaminating the soil, the water and the air around the plant and far into the rest of ukraine and even russia itself. >> and joseph it doesn't seem that there is much preparation that is going to prevent if there is the ramifications of some sort of event. >> well, the iodine tablets you spoke about is something you would do to prevent radioactivity being absorbed by the thyroid but radioactivity
it is almost over, but not yet. >> and did i just see a flare behind you? what exactly is going on? >> reporter: probably what you saw behind me was there were flares earlier in the day, but just a moment ago, they are tracers. heavy machine gunfire that is coming not only from the syrian democratic forces, but we've seen return fire as well. so there continues to be resistance by the isis jihadis as we expected to the last breath that some of them would fight. and that is despite the fact that over the last four or five weeks we've seen thousands of jihadis surrender. we've spoken with many of them, we've spoken with many of their wives as well. they continued to hold fast to the ideology of isis. but isis as a territorial ent y entity, as a so-called caliphate is in its final days if not final hours.
syria. and, you know, land is one thing. their land has been shrinking. their grip on land has been shrinking, but thidaelg if you listen to the u.s. intel community, it's still there. >> yes. the ideology is still there. sleeper cells, we've seen them attacked in various places in syria and iraq the last few months. and we know that many of the isis fighters have managed to escape, blend back into the local population or go to remote parts of the deserts or the mountains and continue to operate. as a geographical entity, there's not much left to it. just about one square mile. but what we saw this morning is they are launching a serious counter attack. the reason why we're here and i'm not wearing a flack-jacket and a helmet is that in the morning we were woken up by heavy machine gunfire. we went up on the roof where we've been doing lives from for
u.s. backed fighters report fierce resistance as they attack the last isis enclave in syria. they launched an operation on saturday. it is a small valley town near the iraqi border. and it may also hold some of the most battle hardened isis fighters determined to fight to the death. ben, you did have to pull back from the front lines there. talk to us about what's been happening in the past few hours. >> reporter: rosemary, we woke up to the sound of heavy machine gunfire just down the road this morning where we were in our previous position, which was about a kilometer and a half from the front line. we went up to the rooftop of our building where we've been doing
long is coalition aircraft flying overhead, striking targets just about two kilometers from here, as well as fairly constant heavy machine gunfire as well as artillery and rocket fire going into the town. there doesn't seem to be much resistance yet, but we're told that in the morning is when isis may well counterattack. i'm ben wedeman reporting from outside baghou al fawquzi. a man was seriously injured losing four fingers during yellow vest protests in paris saturday. it happened as police were protecting the parliament building from demonstrators. this, the 13th straight weekend of protests against french government policies. venezuela's standoff over humanitarian aid continues. the sitting president maduro
office and said i need to go. in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation, enduring freedom, john was part of a highly trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of takur ghar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land onto the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire, and a rocket propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and onto the top of the mountain as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. a horrific crash. the team survived the crash, and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the
engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly-trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of tarkurgar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land on to the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and on to the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the mountain. they wanted to get neil.
in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of a mountain. in the early morning of march 4th, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land onto the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and onto the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. it was a horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation, they volunteered to return to the mountain. they want it to get neil.
that is when we heard a heavy machine gunfire at times, we also heard tanks being fired and there were air-strikes in the northern part of gaza, and jake, this is just the first day, we're expecting all of this to happen again tomorrow. >> ian lee in gaza for us. thank you so much. when it comes to saying sorry in the trump white house, that is in internal matter. wait, does that miss the whole point. stay with us. itis tries to get in my way? watch me. ( ♪ ) mike: i've tried lots of things for my joint pain. now? watch me. ( ♪ ) joni: think i'd give up showing these guys how it's done? please. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are changing the way they fight it. they're moving forward with cosentyx. it's a different kind of targeted biologic. it's proven to help people find less joint pain and clearer skin. don't use if you are allergic to cosentyx.
resistance gone as well? >> reporter: resistance that seemed relatively heavy, but the peshmerga came in and saw and joined ourselves in overwhelming numbers. hundreds of them on foot moving at about 11:00 this morning. they initially encountered a lot of heavy machine gunfire and isis appeared to melt away relatively quickly. they left in their wake a staggering number of booby traps, tunnels dug under the roads connected to barrels of explosives. they have gone underground and some disguised as peshmerga. at one point, a group we were traveling with, that caused thunderstorm to fire back and two of their number were injured. they think by annists i sniper. it's obvious the peshmerga have control of this. they haven't flushed all of isis