has lost more than 17,000 square kilometers of territory in northern syria over the course of last year and now cut off from all but 68 miles of the more than 500 mile long border between syria and turkey. >> reporter: the u.s. central demand says over the past ten months kobani and tikrit in iraq. >> instead of waving black flags and traversing big swaths of the country, capturing large swaths of new territory you see an adversary that is losing ground steadily on nearly every front. >> but president obama's critics including many of the republicans who seek to replace him, insist that i.s.i.l. could be defeated swiftly if u.s. changed its approach. >> to destroy i.s.i.s. it is necessary. >> we've got a president who instead says we're going to change hearts and minds. sometimes you win a war by killing murderous evil terrorists. >> if you are running for president of the united states and you don't understand that we need more american ground forces in iraq, and that america has to be part of a regional ground force that will go into syria and destroyed i.s.i.l. in syria then you're n

positions in northern syria and the government wants u.s. help to create an anti-i.s.i.l. zone there. to complicate that picture, most of the syrian border is complicated part of the u.s. backed fight against i.s.i.l. >>> well professor gulna ibas, joins us live now. thanks so much for being with us on the program. the turkish government of course would have known there would have been reprisals when it began attacking kurdish bases in iraq. why do you think it believed that the risk was worthwhile? >> well i mean the turkish reprisals as you mentioned happened only after the attacks happened against the pkk and they broke the fragile ceasefire going on with the peace process. they must have realized there would be reprisals. there is a two pronged approach, at the same time carrying out operations within turkey, arresting scores of people belonging to pkk and its other affiliate organizations like the one that carried out the attack on the u.s. consulate this morning, so they've tried to carry it out as a two pronged approach but obviously some back lashes were expected.

from an area in northern syria that borders turkey. they will continual to engage ankara. >>> two dozen gay lesbian and transgender people in iraq, told the u.n. scoirch security counct i.s.i.l. executed 30 people that were accused of committing sodomy. the tell bl in palm ra temple in considered a war crime. >>> commander of forces is accusing western countries ever interfering in iraq's affairs. zeina khodr is in baghdad with details. >> reporter: a newly formed force made up of thousands of iraqi soldiers and sunni volunteers has been trying to advance into the i.s.i.l. controlled city of ramadi. many received u.s. training. the leader was on a defiant mood but the reality on the ground is different. dozens of his men have been killed in ambushes over recent days. it is proving to be a difficult fight. this battle is an important test for government whose army and police units abandoned their positions after i.s.i.l. arrived in may. washington has asked president haider al-abadi not to use shia militias, those militias who are known

fighters in northern syria. monday's attack was launched from the incirlik base in turkey. first time the u.s. has used a turkish base to attack syria. there is plans to create an i.s.i.l. free zone on the turkey-syria border. >>> 22 people were killed in march when a gunman opened fire at the bardo museum in tunis, second attack in sousse left 33 dead. another attack is likely. >>> tragedy in the mediterranean. a boat capsizes before rescue boats can reach it. >>> and fighting bureaucracy, making sure the american translators in iraq and afghanistan get what they are promised. >> it has happened again. a boat carrying hundreds of migrants to europe capsized in the merche mediterranean today. hundreds were rescued but hundreds are feared dead. jarrod tan reports. >> a family reaches safety. this one-year-old girl is taken onto a rescue boat where medical teams are standing by. she's alive but the trauma of the experience is etched on her face. she was among hundreds of migrants packed onto a vessel. it issued a distress call less than 30 kilometers off the libyan coast. res

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the administration is refusing to set up a no-fly zone in northern syria despite turkish requests. today a syrian war plane went down killing 27 civilians, an example of how complicated the skies over syria remain. as the one-year anniversary of the start of the air war against isis occurs the white house defendssil can no longer enjoy freedom of movement. >> i do believe da'esh's momentum has been slowed. >> reporter: the next head of the marine corps spoke frankly at his hearing. >> you believe isis is losing? >> no, sir, i do not. >> you believe they're winning? >> no, sir, i don't believe they're winning either. i believe they're at a stalemate. >> reporter: as of ugh, 4,5-- august 4,563 air strikes have occurred. air strikes, in other words, have done little to diminish the size of isis. >> thank you. >>> rome will not ask its citizens whether it should continue its effort to secure the 2024 olympic games. boston you remember dropped out last week. officials in italy say there will be no referendum on this issue. there are problems both natural and manmade. amy kellog reports

one reason there's no wider agreement was turkey's assistance of creating a safe zone in northern syria. that's something that the pentagon is not interested in doing, not just because it sees it as military significant, but also, it suspects that turkey's motives in seeking that protected area is more about keeping syrian kurds from consolidating territorial gains than it is about battling isil. >> jamie, thank you. >>> europe is struggling with the continent's biggest refugee crisis since 2002. they are calling for a response for the thousands of refugees daily. and andrew simmons talks about the effect that it's having, and first, how greece and macedonia are coping >> reporter: of the many stages in their long journey before and still to come, this 12-hour ferry crossing has been perhaps the most comfortable and secure. they paid 50 euros each to the ferry operator rather than to the people's smuggler, and they arrived safely on dry lapped. >> w we don't have a country, ad people are killing each other, so we came from our country. >> are you happy to be here? >> yes, we're so happy

in northern syria, at least five of the initial 54 u.s. trained syrian rebels now captured by the al qaeda affiliate known as al nusra. it is near disaster for the u.s. plan to train a rebel force that is supposed to be the boots on the ground in the fight against isis. >> that's the main focus of our efforts. we want to protect them from other possible attacks. >> the rebels captured after fleeing their compound in the wake of being attacked by al nusra. the pentagon now scrambling to figure out what to do next. >> there is no military logic for putting that small a force in the field. one, they're incredibly vulnerable. and two, they are certainly not going to attack anybody with 40 or 50 people out there. >> senior pentagon officials privately admit the decision to put the small group of rebels into this area of northern syria was a major intelligence failure. the u.s. did not think al qaeda would attack. they only thought isis would. just a few weeks ago, defense secretary ash carter did not seem to think this could happen. >> my presu

>> sunni rebel alliance in northern -- in northern syria. the conquest army. you have another alliance in aleppo. the aleppo countryside called the levant front. [speaking at the same time] >> al-nusra as -- >> they are not part of the -- [speaking at the same time] >> not true. >> they want here is i can't law, al-nusra themselves have killed villagers, executed people in aleppo. they have just been killing from among those 60 u.s. trained fighters. that's al-nusra front. >> i have to correct you. al-nusra is not part of the conquest army. [speaking at the same time] >> they were just pushed out by the sunni rebels out of a hleb owe. >> have they announced their departure. [speaking at the same time]. >> fair enough. well get to you. >> forget -- >> it's a wide spectrum. [speaking at the same time] >> let's forget al-nusra. they recently put out a message of support and condolence when the taliban leader died syria. >> that's right. >> they want sear. [speaking at the same time] >> these are the guides -- >> but they are not -- >> you can. [speaking at the sa

-led air strike targeted a city in northern syria yesterday and killed more than a dozen civilians. syrian opposition sources have made that claim, saying the hair strikes also destroyed a weapons facility. central command said no coalition forces were conducting air operations in that area. >>> crews are putting the finishing touches on the u.s. embassy in cuba ahead of its formally entry on friday. this will be the first time in 54 years that embassy will be open. secretary of state john kerry is expected to be there. this comes after officials restored diplomatic ties between the two countries earlier this year. >>> in japan, an investigation is under way into what caused a u.s. army helicopter to crash, injuring seven people. the helicopter made a hard landing on a navy ship off the coast of okinawa. the injured people were taken to a navy hospital. ten others aboard the navy helicopter were not injured. the tail was broken off and part of the body covered with an orange tarp. military officials say they were in the middle of a training mission at the time of a crash. >>> a sout

syria, and will not extend to syrian troops righting isil in the south and other parts of the country. pentagon sources say as of now, all of the armed strikes carried out in syria have been done by drones, because the u.s. has not neutralized syrian air defenses. in addition the pentagon announced the first armed drones are flying out of the air base in turkey and in a few weeks man flights will be taking place out of there as well. but the plan now is for those manned flights to hit targets in iraq. >>> jamie mcentire thank you. >>> as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast at least 27 people died today when a syrian war plane crashed into a small town held by rebel forces. >> reporter: this girl is looking f rescued, wounded, and in shock. in the chaos after the destruction, the helpers didn't seem sure where to take them for help. >> translator: it is a popular market that is packed with vendors who you can see are under the debris. the war plane, its pilot and rocket hit the market and damaged it completely. >> reporter: more than a dozen were reportedly killed and many more wo

overall, isil has lost 17,000 square kilometers of territory in northern syria. that's over the course of the last year. >> the pent gone says so far they have spent $41 million on training a fraction of the cost of the overall campaign. they insist they will succeed, the strategy will work, it is just a matter of time. at al jazeera, washington. >> serious questions hang over security in afghanistan's capitol after a series of bomb blasts, jennifer glass has the latest from kabul. injured hundreds of after ban civilians the then on friday evening the taliban claiming responsibility for an attack on the police academy that target there, police cadets and staff of the police academy, the then a third attack just outside of the airport here in kabul. peace talked for the taliban scheduled for last week were he railed when they announced that omar was dead, we understand there are tuitions between commanders over who should succeed him as the leader of the taliban, the whether peace talks should be resume at all. hoping that peace talks will get underway again but t

jets are now using turkish bases in northern syria. the main target has been the p.k.k. of turkish strikes. the government has moved against a group known as the revolutionary people's liberation party front, or dhkpc. many of their members have been arrested in nationwide raised since july. a group was behind a suicide bombing in the embassy two years ago. a specialist on turkey's domestic politics joins us now. let's look at who might have targeted the u.s. consulate. could this group, the dhkpc be responsible again? what do we know about them? >> this is a radical marxist group with an anti u.s. perspective. their attacks, operations petitioner extremely amateurish and limited. it would not be terrorize surprising that this group today targeted the u.s. consulate in istanbul. >> would it be linked to the other attack we've seen on the asian side of istanbul. >> i think on the asian side, it appears that perhaps the p.k.k. may have carried out an attack in which one policeman was killed. we also saw the p.k.k. also, the kurdistan workers party whose attacks tend to be

he says that if fighting intensify ins aleppo in northern syria, then there could be yet another million or so refugees heading this way. he's warned europe to expect more. one of the reasons a conference is being held in austria is for the european leaders to work out how to share the responsibility for looking after increasing numbers of migrants, many coming through turkey, refugee seekers that are arriving in europe, but a reminder germ chance angela merkel wanted to remember the 50 refugees found dead in a truck in and you say thea, a reminder of how perilous that journey can be. >> we're all very shaken by the news that up to 50 people lost their lives in a situation where criminals facilitating illegal border crossings didn't care about them, even though they were on the way to places they thought they would be safe. >> turkey also has reminded the european leaders that it spent $6 billion so far looking after the syrians who were here in turkey, there's also 225,000 iraqi refugees, i should add. it said that europe's promised it $70 million to help cover the cost of looking after

and turkey have detailed plans of operations against isil in parts of northern syria. turkey said the plan is to flush the group known local i in some areas as daish out of the turkish border area. >> we have united to have better operation or joint operation against daish, and we signed a deal and technical talks have been concluded these days and yesterday and soon we will start this operation, operations against daish. >> france's president francois hollande called on key players such as saudi arabia and iran to find a solution to what is happening in syria. in paris. >> the final condition which will likely be decisive is that all the players involved need to find a solution. i'm also thinking of turkey. it needs to be involved in the fight against isil and needs to relaunch dialogue with the kurds. >> a man accused of attempting a terrorist plan on a train in france had planned his operation. french prosecutors say the man had watched what he described as an extremist video just before boarding a high speed train with weapons. french authorities have opened a terr

syria or northern iraq with the catastrophe for the world, it would be a disaster for australia, because what we have been saying on an almost daily basis is the continued lure that this terrorist group, this insipient terrorist state is providing to misguided and impressionable young australians. >> the u.s. is also asking turkey to do more in the fight against isil. defense secretary ash carter said ankara needs to step up efforts to protect its border. carter talked about the need to shut down the prison camp at guantanamo bay. he said there are those who can be transferred overseas and those the u.s. still needs to hold. >> as long as this facility remains open, it will remain a rallying cry for jihadi group began da. the taxpayers are paying too high a financial price to keep this facility open. additionally, closing the detention facility is not something we should leave to the next penalty. >> he said sites include fort leavenworth in kansas to transfer detainees. south carolina said she will fight any effort to have them brought to her state. >> ushering in big changes in the mil

syria. the turks want u.s. help to create an anti-isil buffer zone there. most of the syrian side of the border is controlled by fighters from another kurdish armed group called the ypg. >> group, part of the u.s.-backed fight against isil. the u.s. state department had this reaction to what happened to its consulate. >> there was a security incident at our consulate in istanbul. nobody in the consulate was injured. we are working with turkish authorities as they investigate this, and i really wouldn't go beyond that right now. i can tell you that the consulate will be open for business tomorrow. >> let's bring in our washington, d.c. correspondented for the turkish newspaper. why do you think there has been this rise in kurdish violence? given that over the last few years, we have seen a betterment in relations between authorities in ankara and the kurdish parties. why now? is it because it's been apparent that the turkish authorities have been going soft on isil until quite recently? >> we

. >> reporter: jordan and costa both in this photo were fighting in northern syria with the militia known as the ypg, the local kurds fighting to drive isis from their towns and villages. they're most famous for their battle of kobani where international air power helped push isis out of the key town by the turkish border and since continued to make significant gains through the region. these men say there are currently around 50 people from western countries fighting with the kurds and they're grateful. >> when it is someone that is not even from that community that was willing to come and paid the ultimate price, that's not something they're going to forget neither will i. >> reporter: costa's grave, his parent's grief, are proof of the risks these men have taken. but they say his death makes them more determined to return to syria soon and rejoin the fight against isis. phil black, cnn, london. >>> you're watching "cnn newsroom." ahead, in one of the world's wealthiest countries, the number of children growing up in poverty is staggering. we'll look into that story. >>> plus three doze

has lost more than 17,000 square clo kilometers of territory in northern syria that's over the course of the last year and they are now cult off from -- cut off from all but 68 miles of the 500 mile long border between syria and turkey. >> the u.s. central command says over the last ten months centers have been retain from i.s.i.l, including kobani in syria and in iraq. >> like we saw last year capturing large swaths of new territory. you see an adversary that's losing territory steadily on every front. >> president obama's critics insist i.s.i.l. could be defeated quickly if the president would do an about-face on his refusal to put american combat troops back in the fight. >> i would not place one american life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary. but to destroy i.s.i.s. it is necessary. >> we got a president instead who says we are going to change hearts and minds. you know what? sometimes you win a war by killing murderous evil terrorists. we are going to take political handcuffs off the military. >> if you are running for president of the united states and you don't unders

lost more than 17,000 square kilometres of territory in northern syria, over the course of the last year. >> reporter: the pentagon spent $41 million on training, a fraction of the cost of the overall campaign. more than $3 billion, 6,000 air strikes. in the first year of a fights the president says could take a generation to win. they insist that the strategy will work, it's a matter of time >>> okay a military specialist at the middle east forum, and he joins us live from tel aviv. thank you for joining us. where do you think we are in the war, one year on? >> i think overall where we are at is a strategic stalemate whereby there's a lot of ebb and flow in the war. i.s.i.l. may gain place and lose territory in another. they have indeed lost territory, losing the border town thanks to air support given to the militias. now, i.s.i.l. keeps pushing on the deserts, pushing to whom city taking territory from the forces. this is a problem that came up with the coalition strategy. the air strikes are politicizing who is deemed acceptable with air strikes, and considering the excesses of the b

a strip of land in northern syria stretches along part of the turkish border and separates the country from isis-controlled territory. >>> the rebel group said it would pull out of the proposed safe zone. the al qaeda-linked fashion opposes isis but does not want to cooperate with the turkish government. a moderate group said it would support the safe zone. >>> meanwhile, isis is keeping a strong grip on territory inside of iraq and syria. >> because of that, the u.s. is trying to find new ways to pressure the militant group. cnn's barbara starr looks at the u.n.'s options and obstacles in this region. >> reporter: american f-16s at anytime could begin to strike isis from their base here at incirlik turkey. some strikes may be aimed at the tushish-syrian border where isis forces just moved in after al qaeda left. strikes will try to pave the way for putting u.s. trade, moderate rebels back in to syria after their unit was decimated in an attack. this has been a difficult process, to vet these people, train them and get them back in to what is a fluid, dynamic situation. >> reporter: th

jets are now using turkish raids into northern syria but the main strikes have been the p.k.k. the turks have launched hundreds of air strikes against the kurdish armed group so far and claimed to have killed hundreds of their fighters, inside the government has moved against a group known as the revolutionary people liberation front or the d.h.k.p.c. and many members arrested in nationwide raids since july in the embassy two years ago and joining me via skype from ankora is a military analyst and turkey correspondent for jane's defense weekly. we are just going to start out with this very probably little known group has targeted the u.s. consulate. what do you make of that? this is very amateur. >> no, not really. in fact, the d.h.k.p.c. as an organization that was set up years ago in 1994. and it's a left eest marked gro and it was resurrected in 2003 with a attack, all side bomb suicide bomb attack in 2013 and the organization claimed responsibility for this u.s. embassy in 2013 and then in another attack in istanbul in the police station, the d.h.k.p.c. claimed the responsi

overall isis has lost more than 17,000 square kilometers of territory in northern syria. >> still u.s. officials warn that the fight against isis will last year in fact the president pledging no specific timetable. not spieding he will hand thwart to the next president. >> i think my key goals when i turn over the keys to the next president is that we are on track to defeat isil. >> the u.s. says it is masse progress is the corekorason group. usual officials had said last fall they believed there were imminent attacks, but believe because of the pressure and the air strikes, the group still exist, but the threat is less immediate than a year ago. >> just to change subjects briefly for one second there are these reports that the head of iran's elite qods force, qassen soleimani traveled to russia. >> i am told it is truffle he did travel to russia it is in violation. he's still under u.n. sanctions, add ambassador powers said today if he were to travel there would have to be some sort of exemption given, but that exemption was not given. administration officials will say, well, that sh

. >> sunni, sunni rebel alliance in northern syria the conquest army. you've got another lions in alln aleppo called the el nusra front. >> el nusra themselves have killed druze villages, executed in aleppo. there have been killings from among those 60 u.s. trained fighters, that's el nusra front. >> clarification, nusra is not part of the conquest army. pushed out by the sunni rebels. there's a great deal of potential -- there's a great deal of [simultaneous speech] >> not just [simultaneous speech] >> it's a wide spectrum. >> let's forget nusra, let's look at ararashram. they just recently put out a message of support and condolence when mullah omar died. >> these are the guys these are the guys [simultaneous speech] >> not the only ones okay? yes they are absolutely problematic and statements like that are absolutely problem take but they are absolutely options in syria in alternatives of sunni airbus that the west can't support. >> some qualifications. no one said that i.s.i.s. or el nusra are just a product of the sunni-iranian fight. you have bloo

al jazeera, southern turkey. >> isil has been pushed back in northern syria and iraq since the u.s. backed coalition launched airstrikes against it. in iraq, the group lost territory around the sinjar mountains and mosul dam, as well as tikrit, which is on the road to baghdad. in neighboring syria, isil lost control of the border towns kobane after intense battles with kurdish fighters, but despite losses, isil still controls large areas of both countries, including raqqa in syria and mosul in iraq. >> a research sort at the massachusetts institute of technology in the u.s. joins us now. thanks very much for being with us. we've got activists saying that the u.s. strategy is failing to make significant gains against isil. why is isil proven to be so resilient? >> well, i think there are a couple of things. it's really a mixed bag here. on one side of the ledger, isil has made a series of really bad strategic decisions. they're trying to fight everyone at the same time, normally that's a losing strategy, but what's been in their favor is their adversaries are divided and weak. despit

syria. the turks have asked for that and would like to see some kind of regime by our air assets in the north. was that in any way part of the discussion to obtain the use of incirlik? gen. allen: no. it is not part of the conversation. >> not part of the discussion at all. >> thank you. >>>> hi, mike with joshua news." for mr. glaser. conflicting reports after the iran deal was signed that general soleimani was ready to have sanctions lifted. was he in line to have been lifted? was your office consulted before his name was put on the list? mr. glaser: i'm not here to talk about the details of the nuclear negotiations with iran. as a general matter, as everyone knows, the nuclear-related sanctions will be lifted at the time that iran's compliance with the agreement has been verified. with respect to details, i would have to get back to you. >> is he on what list? mr. glaser: general soleimani to extent that he's involved with terrorist activities, he would remain sanctions. to the extent tha

syria, 99 yosemite, partly cloudy. 80 los angeles. and we are looking at temperatures today about 81 degrees san jose. slightly cooler tomorrow and below average come monday and tuesday. then just a modest warmup into the end of next week. so nothing extreme. just the way we like it. 85 los gatos. 79 in sunnyvale. look for upper 70s in redwood city. you were 85 yesterday. cooler for you. 64 pacifica. san francisco little change at 67. newspaper the north bay. 81 in santa rosa. getting warmer in clear lake and lake port. still 76 san leandro. 80 fremont. you head inland and it's a typical warm summer day here with 87 in pittsburgh. 85 for you in conquer. oakland, should be a nice mild evening with 70 degrees with the indians in town, dropping to about 63 by 10:00. look for the cooling friend trend more so tomorrow. five five degrees of cooling inland, and then below average numbers inland monday and tuesday with more low clouds and fog, 60s and 70s around the bay. so finally a break in that heat for everyone. >> we will take it. lisa,

administration is refusing to set up a no-fly zone in northern syria despite turkey's insistence. a syrian warplane went down near the border of turkey killing 27 civilians on the ground. an example of how complicated skies over syria remain. since august 1st, the u.s. has conducted 4560 airstrikes in iraq and syria 78%. coaltics total. more than 5500 coalition airstrikes have done little, some say to change the size of isis which u.s. intelligence estimates at 20 to 30,000 fighters, jenna. jenna: so walk us through the differing opinions. as we approach the one year mark. is the air campaign working and will it be continued? >> reporter: if you ask the president's envoy to syria and iraq he says yes but here is the next head of marine corps. >> so you belief isis is losing? >> no sir i do not. >> do you believe they're winning? >> no, sir, i believe they're winning either. i believe they're at stalemate right now. >> reporter: complicating matters the president's nominee to be the navy's top officer has expressed concern there will be a two-month gap which the u.s. will not have

air strikes in northern syria will be aimed at killing isis. but they will also support kurds, known at ypg, something turkey opposes. >> the only effective force against isis in syria has been the ypg. it is unlikely that the united states will stop fighting with the ypg and stop its alliance with them. >> reporter: u.s. authorities tell cnn they will send additional helicopters into turkey very soon to be on stand by if any u.s. pilots go down. but until those arrive, the u.s. is willing to take the risk with the rescue helicopters they already have in the region. >> that was our barbara starr reporting there. meanwhile, inside syria, the al nusra front says it's pulled out of some front-line positions. >> they are unhappy with turkey's plans to set up a buffer zone in the area. sur key turkey's aim is to protect itself. >> for years now, the war in syria has been brutalizing the population. >> fred pleitgen is live with the fear and heartaches. >> reporter: the syrian military appears to be increasingly strained after four years of this ongo

syria. before the u.s. had access to bases in southern turkey, american fighter jets had to fly from the persian gulf, flying a thousand miles to reach their targets and then a thousand miles back again. now from the bases in southern turkey, american jets can be over isis targets in just 15 minutes. that's a significant tactical change. nbc news. >> thank you so much for that. >>> back now to politics from a foreign policy perspective. isis has a big place on the 2016 debate stage as the two dozen candidates set out this week. jeb bush blamed the obama administration for the unraveling situation in iraq. >> like the president himself, she opposed the surge, then joined in claiming credit for its success. then stood by as that hard-won victory by american allied forces was thrown away. when the president and secretary clinton, the storied team of rivals took office. so eager to be the history makers, they failed to be the peacemakers. >> and donald trump told morning joe he's open to putting

again, accelerate that process of degradation in northern syria. there are a lot of other components, many of which will be discussed at this coming general assembly. always, a great indication to check in on our progress to look at the gaps in the things we still need to make progress on. the other facets are every bit as important as the military. that's the foreign terrorist foreigng, the flows of terrorist fighters, and the need to ensure that the borders are sealed and the data is being shared across boundaries. we already have a session here in a long ago where secretary jeh johnson was in the chair for the united states, extremely important that interior ministries are speaking to one another, and again, enhancing ,heir efforts, public diplomacy isil's use of social media is having the many have commented on. people,ential that those who are stuck living under rifle or even those who were lured by the illusion that going to fight with isil would be a great romantic journey, that their stories are told about what life under captivity is like

the two countries will try to create an isis-free zone in northern syria. great! but as with most things in the middle east the truth is more complicated. in the first set of strikes, it seems that the turks are also attacking kurdish fighters in iraq many of whom are allied in the struggle against isis. why? well fearing kurdish separatism at home turkey has been at odds with military kurds elsewhere in the region as well. the turks' second ulterior motive according to observers, is political gain at home. the president's party failed to win a majority in the recent elections forcing it to seek a coalition government with other parties. the strikes could stoke the strikes of kurdish nationalism around him, allowing him to call another election and get a majority. after the elections, well some observers think the air strikes with peter out once they've served their domestic purpose. but at least turkey is now doing something. the strange reality is that, while isis is a mortal threat to its neighbors, its neighbors don't seem to be doing much about it content to

and i don't believe in fact the kurds support in northern syria a separate governmental entity. but we also have been very clear that the elements of the population that have found themselves liberated from daesh in the course of these military activities in the border have been very clear, the u.s. has been very clear we expect that populations that have been liberated will return to their own system of administration. they will administer turkemem. it is important that as a partner that has ultimately been unable to defeat daesh, not become an occupying force but it's become an enabler to defeat daesh, and those populations are able to return to the nature of their self-administration that we have seen before. we're very tentive to how that has gone. undeniably, it's been successful in rolling daesh back, and in the course of doing that kobani has been stabilized. there was a large kurdish population there, there was a large free syrian -- fought inside kobani as well. the ability for us to motivate free syrians to be a credible sunni arab partner in the future. we've taken of

long wanted permission to use that base against the isis strongholds in northern syria. some of those, just about the 125 miles away. now the u.s. military officials are the no telling us exactly when the strikes will begin, if not in the coming days, certainly next couple of weeks. they have been expressing, as others have, their concern that turkey might just be using this cooperation with the u.s. on isis to strike out at various kurdish groups and some, have been helpful to the united states. washington apparently wanted the use of that incirlik base so bad i also, might have been willing to go along with the other stuff but you can see, not easy, not clear. pretty complicated. back to you. jon: what a mess. greg palkot live from london. thank you, greg. jenna: new reaction here at home as another illegal immigrant is charged with a brutal crime in california. the suspect released from jail just days before police say he broke into a woman's home in santa barbara county where he is accused of raping, torturing and killing the 64-year-old woman who was an air force ve

turkey has plans to create an isil-free buffer zone in northern syria, while washington has committed to providing air cover to syrian rebels in the area. >>> the remains of 17 people missing since the april 25th earthquake in nepal have been found. they were pulled from landslide debris in a hiking destination north of kathmandu. it's not yet clear if these remains were of local resing identify -- residents or treshgs. >>> aid workers in myanmar are struggling to reach areas hit by floods. flooding and landslides have killed 69 people. hundreds of thousands of others have been affected. the united states says it will provide an aid package after myanmar's government appealed for help on monday. florence looi has more. >> reporter: this is largely escaped the floods that have averaged other parts of myanmar. but the people here have been moved by the plight of their fellow citizens in flood-effected areas, and have started soliciting for donations. on wednesday the u.s. said it is preparing an aid package for myanmar. japan and china already assisting in flood relief efforts, and this

officials say isis recruits often travel through turkey to fight with the militants in northern syria. prosecutor says the man shared his extremist views on social media and posted photos of beheadings and several heads. they also say a member of the community tipped off investigators, and thought the man was a threat to the area. david lee miller with more from the newsroom in newcsu york. how long have officials been watching the man, and who is he? >> name is arafat naji and they have been eyeing him more than a decade. remember the half dozen yemen questions arrested after traveling to afghanistan to fight with al qaeda. he was a friend of the group and questioned but not charged. following his arrest last month he was denied bail. the judge cited this violent history. published reports say he threatened to decapitate his own daughter, the first trip to join isis was in 2012 and end in one day because of gallbladder attack help was arrested because he was planning a third attempt to make it to syria. >> the anticipated august 2015 trip was the last decisive action by this defendan

foreign fighters in this war inside syria fan northern iraq. so as -- syria and northern iraq. and now they have repatriated to their own countries. they are twisted enough that they hooked up with people who cut off the heads of children. now they are back in civil society. those people are walking time bombs, they shouldn't be trusted, and we are dealing with people saying we can't do anything because they haven't broken the law. jenna: as you watch the news coming out of europe, the sentiment is this an overwhelming problem we can't solve because we are not willing to dofl. is it an insurmountable problem or is it stoppable? >> one of the things we can do -- not we the united states -- this is a european problem. we have our own internal communications problems between law enforce -- and intelligence agencies. but the europeans have massive problems. europe is made up of a bunch of of countries totally different from each other and they have separate laws and different intelligence agencies. they will look for soft targets. al qaeda used to

the two countries will try to create an isis-free zone in northern syria. great. but as with most things in the middle east, the truth is more complicated. in their first set of strikes, it seems that the turks are also attacking kurdish fighters in iraq many of whom are allied in the struggle against isis. why? well fearing kurdish separatism at home turkey has been at odds with militant kurds elsewhere in the region as well. the turks' second ulterior motive according to observers, is political gain at home. president recep tayyip erdogan's party failed to earn the majority election for the first time in recent years, forcing a coalition with other parties. erdogan's strikes could spark the fires of nationalism around him, allowing him to call another election and get a majority. and after the elections well some observers think the air strikes will peter out once they have served their domestic purpose. but at least turkey is now doing something. the strange reality is that while isis is a mortal threat to its neighbors, its neighbors don't seem to be doing muc

as everyone knows, northern syria looks like somalia at the moment. so if we're talking about american troops on the ground to protect people underneath american planes, then we're right down the path that led us into trouble in iraq in the first place. >> hardin lang, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, a new version of dr. king's, i have a dream speech as you've never heard it before. >>> plus, 50 years after the watts riots, the positive steps we've seen, and the change we still need to fight for. emax. gear up for school. gear up for great. >>> we're back with a story that we couldn't bring you yesterday because of breaking news. historians have released a new audio version of dr. king's i have a dream speech. it was given a year before the march on washington at a high school gym in north carolina. >> i have a dream tonight. one day men will do unto others as they would have others to do unto them. i have a dream tonight. one day my little daughter and my two sons will grow up in a world not conscious of the color of t

overall, isil has lost more than 17,000 square kilometers of territory in northern syria. that's over the course of the last year. and they are now cut off from all but 68 miles of the more than 500-mile longboarder between syria and turkey. >> reporter: u.s. central command says over the past year 10 major population centers have been retaken from isil, including kobane in syria and tikrit in iraq. >> instead of masked isil forces waving black flags and that versioning the country sides of iraq and sear request in big convoys like we saw last year capturing large swaths of new territory, you see an adversary that's losing ground steadily on nearly every front. >> reporter: but president obama's critic including many of the republicans who seek to replace him insist isil could be defeated quickly if the president would do an about face on his refusal to put american combat boots. >> i would not place one american life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary. but to destroy isis is it necessary. >> we have a president that says we are going to change hearts and minds. so

and turkey are planning a joint campaign to push isil from a 60-mile-long strip of northern syria along the turkish border in hiroshima, japan, temple bells tolled this morning as a solemn crowd marked 70 years since the united states dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the city. shock waves, radiation and heat rays took the lives of some 140,000 people -- nearly half of the town's population. hiroshima mayor kazumi matsui marked the anniversary by calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. >> in order for us to live together, we need to end the use of all nuclear weapons, the ultimate in inhumane pure evil in the moment to get this done is now. amy: three days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima, the united states dropped a second atomic bomb on nagasaki, killing another 74,000 people. we'll have more on the bombings with nobel prize-winning japanese novelist kenzaburo oe after headlines. in other news from japan, at least 25 people have died amid record-breaking heat. tuesday marked tokyo's fifth consecutive day of temperatures over 95 degrees fahrenheit making it the longes

and turkey over a so-called safe free zone inside northern syria to provide air cover tore syrian reb

. >> reporter: in northern syria at least five of the initial 54 u.s.-trained syrian rebels now captured by the al qaeda affiliate known as al-nusra. it's near disaster for the u.s. plan to train a rebel force that is supposed to be the boots on the ground in the fight against isis. >> that's the main focus of our efforts. but you know, we also want to protect them from other possible attacks. >> reporter: the rebels captured after fleeing their compound in the wake of being attacked by al-nusra. the pentagon now scrambling to figure out what to do next. >> there's no military logic for putting that small a force in the field. one, they're incredibly vulnerable. and two, they're certainly not going to attack anybody with just 40 or 50 people out there. >> reporter: senior pentagon officials privately admit the decision to put the small group of rebels into this area of northern syria was a major intelligence failure. the u.s. did not think al qaeda would attack. they only thought isis would. just a few weeks ago defense secretary ash carter did not seem

. >> the white house pointed to significant gains in recent months in northern syria as anti isil forces moved within 30 miles of raqqa. they didn't say the progress was made by kurds who have so far proven to be the most effective anti isil forces on the battlefield. al jazeera, the pentagon. >> one year after the shooting of michael brown, we go back to ferguson missouri. how the town has changed since then. >> it's been one year since massive protests in ferguson, missouri. the fatal shooting of michael brown by a white ferguson police officer sparked outrage and spot lighted the region's troubled justice system. after a report from the justice department accused ferguson courts of profit earring off african-american residents they promised reform. >> this was once key anna williams home and the car she was in when police arrested her last june. >> i went straight to jail and i stayed there two weeks. >> it isn't the first time she had been locked up in st. louis county but it was enough to make her stop driving. >> how many times do you think you've been to court been to jail gotten

last week isis militants seized five villages from northern syria. that advanced near an area where turkey and the u.s. talked of setting up an isis-free safe zone. >>> in today's installment of "beyond the dream" we focus on general motors. the auto giant is investing heavily in america's future. here is an example by helping the youth one student at a time through the gm student corps, empowering these students that are making a powerful, positive change. every summer in detroit some students are hard at work beautifying rundown neighborhoods, rebuilding playgrounds or any other community service project they plan to do. and they're getting paid for their efforts. these are the members of the gm student corps, the program started four years ago after general motors invested $27 million into the detroit public schools, but the company wanted to do more than just give money. so it created the student corps, putting gm retirees back in service to not build cars but to build lives. >> what if we give students jobs in the summer? what if we could pay th

air strikes into northern syria, into northern iraq from these new bases in southern turkey could be coming really at any point. those aircraft now in southern turkey. they are essentially ready to go. the pentagon talking already about trying to establish a second base in turkey to focus on search and rescue for any pilots going into that very tough combat zone. >>> checking on some other top stories for you at 49 minutes past, two wisconsin teenagers to be tried as adults for stabbing their friend 16 times. they face attempted first degree intentional homicide charges. if convicted, they >>> donald sterling is suing tmz and former friend over leaked recordings of him making racially charged remarks. they left sterling being stripped of his ownership of the l.a. clippers. he's heard telling her that she shouldn't associate with black people. sterling's lawsuit claims his privacy was violated and that several statements on the reporting were altered by stif ya know or her associates. >>> and this video will make you cringe -- oh, oh my gosh, flew into a nearby race, race support car.