before this outbreak, a lot of the electricity for mosul came from the mosul dam. is that dam still providing electricity to those living under isis? does anyone have an answer? is isis collecting money from the people who receive that electricity? >> my understanding is that the dam is not under their control. they're not -- from any of it. >> they don't control the dam. but how are they getting the electricity from mosul? >> the government that controls the dam is allowing electricity to go into the city because there are citizens who live there. isis collects for that electricity. >> i don't know that that last part is true. >> well, we do know that they are in a position to collect for the electricity. >> we know they're able to tax for anything they want. for the air they breathe or anything else. >> when we were serious about world war ii, we didn't provide electricity or food or anything else to the people of france when they lived under nazi occupation. yet you are saying the iraqi government is providing electricity to mosul. is the iraqi government being

, then people ought to be able to drive from north mosul to south mosul. we are preventing them from exporting oil, have we done everything possible to prevent them from producing enough oil for the civilians under their control? professor? >> again, i think this is, as we have already discussed, a very important source of income from -- >> i'm not talking about exporting the oil. i'm talking about providing for the millions of civilians under their control. >> i don't think it has been a priority. i don't think it has been a focus -- >> so turning off, we did not hesitate to bomb oil fields during world war ii. we did not think that making sure that the people of france could drive around paris was essential to retaining the support of those civilians. the idea that there would be people driving civilian cars to mosul, but somehow the tanks captured by isis would not have -- obviously, a lot of this hearing is focused on the oil exported by isis. but isis has no shortage of oil for military operations and even for the civilians under its control, i yield

we're the voice of the vulnerable in mosul. we're trying to lessen the fear about isil that is propagated in the media. >> but it's not just the use of isil. they had this video recently. it shows anti-isil militia inside mosul interrogating and then shooting dead a captured isil fighter. >> we're delivering the resistence. we need to show that whoever subscribe to isil's ideas will be punished. >> this is isil radio. the broadcast location is not known. we picked it up while parked in a refugee camp in northern iraq. the presenter invites people living under isil to phone in with every day problems. advises them on random matters such as where to get drinking water or about children's education. what i'm living to is an isil radio show that can broadcast scenario this area of northern iraq. it shows you the efforts that the organization is trying to make in terms of its propaganda and reaching out to people in this area. isil also uses video such as these to spread its message. this video is on the internet called "flames of w

before there outbreak, a lot of the electricity for mosul came from the mosul dam. is that still providing electricity to those living under isis? does anyone have an answer? is isis collecting money from the people who receive that electricity? >> my understanding is that the dam is not under their control. not money from any of it. >> they couldn't control the dam. how are they getting the electricity in. >> the government that controls the dam is allowing electricity to go into the city because there are citizens who live there. >> that's basically the point. the electricity goes into mosul, isis collects for that electricity. >> i don't know that that last part is true. >> well, we do know that they are in a position to collect for the electricity. >> we know they're able to tax for anything they want. for the air they breathe or anything else. >> when we were serious about world war ii, we didn't provide electricity or food or anything else to the people of france when they lived under nazi occupation. yet you are saying the iraqi government is providing electr

left the bank vault open in mosul and elsewhere. the problem is the government in baghdad, we under a previous administration installed mr. nouri maliki, a man whose evil is only exceeded by his incompetence. a man who refused to enter a status of force agreement not only with this administration but refused to enter a long-term agreement with the prior administration that had installed him. and instead, wanted and succeeded in getting american troops out so that he could further oppress the sunnis in the middle of his country. secondly, we talked about how powerful isis is. let's keep in mind, the hezbollah, assad, iran alliance access has par more money and greater ability to carry out terrorist agendas outside the area. we have had discussions of their export and the smuggling of oil. do we have -- and this comes from the gentleman from illinois, mr. foster, do we have the technology to sample oil that might be on sale in turkey? and say we know what field that oil came from? that came from an isis-controlled field in syria. that

>> what prevents most directly the citizen in mosul from conducting transactions is isil. the efforts are controlling that territory. the use of the banking system to facilitate a transaction coming out of mosul is something that we are as i noted earlier, attempting to protect. >> you have answered this question, but with two inconsistent answers. if you get an international banking transaction where a civilian business person not affiliated with isis, but located in mosul is moving investments around on wall street or is trying to buy replacement parts for his factory, is that something where if a bank is involved in that transaction, they will be sanctioned? >> it is not related to isil in any way? >> no, except it's the guys located in mosul. >> so there is obviously an intelligence question embedded in there. is this person affiliated with isil. >> when we get serious, it will be. we did not wage world war ii and say every marseille businessman can conduct international business because we love the french. we notice that was nazi territory. i yield back. >> briefly. >

, then people ought to be able to drive from north mosul to south mosul. we are preventing them from exporting oil, have we done everything possible to prevent them from producing enough oil for the civilians under their control? professor? >> again, i think this is, as we have already discussed, a very important source of income from -- >> i'm not talking about exporting the oil. i'm talking about providing for the millions of civilians under their control. >> i don't think it has been a priority. i don't think it has been a focus -- >> so turning off, we did not hesitate to bomb oil fields during world war ii. we did not think that making sure that the people of france could drive around paris was essential to retaining the support of those civilians. the idea that there would be people driving civilian cars to mosul, but somehow the tanks captured by isis would not have -- obviously, a lot of this hearing is focused on the oil exported by isis. but isis has no shortage of oil for military operations and even for the civilians under its control. i yield

the lights are on in mosul. not all the time, but electric -- electricity continuity is shoddy in most of iraq. outbreak, a lot of the electricity from ozone came from -- moz will came from -- sul came from the mosul dam. is isis collecting money from the people receiving electricity? dam,don't control the but how are they getting the electricity? >> the government is allowing electricity to go into the city because there are citizens that live there. >> that is the point. l.e electricity goes into mosuk when we were serious about world war ii, we did not provide electricity or food or anything else to the people of france when they lived under nazi occupation. yet, you are saying the iraqi government is providing electricity. if the government thing paid for that? >> i don't know. >> it supports the economy of mosul. isis taxes those people. war ifery hard to wage you supply strategic assets to areas under enemy control. i have never seen not done in the past. >> i hear your point. we are short of world war. if

christian whose family fled from mosul as isis advanced. he said, according to him, it's true that they were only about 800 to 1,000 isis fighters who made the initial push into mosul. but he said the next morning there were 10,000. what does this mean? mere membership of isis is very fluid. people see isis as the winning side. they've managed to defeat a 20,000, 30,000-strong iraqi army. but this is why i think isis can't maintain their supremacy in these areas because they're kicked out, successfully, very successfully, kicked out the mutual enemy, and now their attention is focused on each other. who that will be, i don't know. the islamic army of iraq, other non-islamist tribal forces. it's not clear who is going to come out on top, but isis is losing ground today. sunni tribes are turning. some sunni tribes are turning. and sunni tribes are usually a good indicator of which way the winds are blowing. that's why i see the power is going to diminish. also they have massive economic problems to deal with, especially in mosul. i can't reme

to self mosul. we are preventing them from exporting oil. i wouldn't everything possible to prevent them from producing enough oil for the civilians under the control? >> again, i think this is, as we've already discussed in a very important source of income for -- >> on a talk about exporting to him talk about providing for the millions of civilians under the control. >> i don't think it has been a priority but i don't think has been a focus. >> so turning off, we did not hesitate to bomb oil fields during world war ii. we do not think that making sure that the people of france to drive around paris was essential to retaining the support of those civilians. the idea that they would be people driving civilian cars in mosul but that somehow the tanks now captured by isis would not have, obviously, a lot of issuing us focus on the oil exported by isis. isis has no shortage of oil for its own military operations, given for the civilians under its control. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. the

and the governor of erbil has been here to discuss how to launch an offensive to retake mosul. it is isil's strong hold, and very close to the dam. we hear there are already around 5,000 volunteers that escaped mosul that are ready to be part of a potential force to take that offensive on in mosul, and there is beginnings of discussions as to whether those 2,000 kurdish volunteers, being also involved on that push towards this major isil strong hold. so certainly some very interesti interesting diplomatic developments here today. >> indeed. thank you very much. >>> syrian fighters say they have seized u.s.-made weapons in rival groups. >>> al jazeera has obtained exclusive video from inside a city in western syria. it was one of the cities where anti-government protests were held at the start of the conflict more than three years ago. now opposition groups are trying to recapture it from opposition forces. >> reporter: this amateur video shows the city within reach of opposition fighters. it's in the province in western syria and is under control of the syrian army. opposition

it's a miserable situation now in mosul, no electricity, no water, no healthcare inside the city, so it's very bad situation. >>> there has been fierce fighting in yemen with several loud explosions heard. at least 29 houthi rebels have died in attacks by tribesmen al-qaeda linked fighters. there have also been three u.s. drone strokes which have reportedly killed at least 12 al-qaeda fighters >> hundreds of people protested against edgar luga's dismissal. police fired tear gas into crowds overnight. lunga is expected to become the new leader of the country. >> we violence has not recurred today. and the statement has been issued, signed by the acting president, and also the secretary general, appealing to their membership to stop the violence and continue to mourn the death of the president and have all other issues addressed after the burial next week. >>> boko haram has carried out a series of attacks in nigeria. a suicide bomber killed at least 29 shia muslims. in the central state gunmen blew up a prison. and more than 140 inmates escaped. and a boko haram takeover of mubi has f

(laughter) that the united states in a bombing raid somewhere around kam or mosul has killed or injured the leader of isis or some other [bleep] guy. who was maybe just trying to beat the rush-hour traffic between mosul and kam and had an old isis shirt stuffed with newspapers so he could use the h-o-v lane. not exactly front page news. more of a military blind items. how did this story get so murky? >> turns out it was a tweet that set off rumors of baghdadi's injuries. >> this tweet, original tweet was allegedly from the isil spokesman, however that was very quickly denied by other isil sources who said that this twitter account was run by jordanian intelligence. >> jon: great, no, so we think we killed baghdadi because jordanian intelligence is catfishing isis, that's just great. so for the foreseeable future, we have to assume baghdadi is both dead and not dead. the paradox known as schrodené's terrorists. look, hopefully this will discourage people though now from joining isis. >> foreigners looking to join isis an other militant groupsÑi are now traveling by cruise shipñr to av

then gaza intervened and mosul fell. it seems to me that something could have happened there that fell apart. and as far iran, don't you think that after mosul and the lack of intervention on the part of the turks at least visibly, the iranians did not gain ground and then helped the people in krg. >> the woman, please. >> i'm national defense expert and also in the national defense university here. my question is very simple. i would like to know the difference between decides the difference between sunnis and shias, which is the difference between the education of those groups and why if there is a big gap? >> from safe foundation. just wanted to point out from what we heard frothers too, it seems like the u.s. invasion of iraq was the main problem and is what has created all this turbulence in iraq and all this. and in fact, the syrian situation that's gone on was also planned by cia and u.s. military in terms of sneaking in all these groups into syria. because they have once said if you don't cooperate with us, you'l

one is this group has been making my, its money at least in mosul come in basically the same ways for at least the last six years and probably longer. this is nothing new despite the change in the groups name and it creeping up on the united states and the world after the u.s. withdrawal. but the group has been there and using a lot of same kinds of methods that it's using now. the main difference and really what's going on in mosul and with isil is the skill in which it raises funds. what we are able to see through looking at the groups capture financial ledgers is that in mosul in 2008 and 2009 the group known then as the islamic state of iraq was making about $1 million total from on average. now as we know just oil revenues alone, revenues have been estimated between one and $3 million per day. it's an enormous increase and one that if it takes to be appreciated when we think about how threatening we did al-qaeda and iraq in the islamic state of iraq and then with the additional finances that the group has now. what that might mean for the capabilities and also for their ability s

we are starting to work in the exact plan to liberate mosul. we need some counties of the coalition to attend these forces, and also we need that they give them some weapons, we ask baghdad. baghdad sent to finance this. they have no - not enough weapons, and they have not - also, they cannot have them in the way we need. it's a miserable situation. in mosul. no electricity, no water, no health care inside the city. so it's a bad situation. >> amnesty international is accusing israel of committing war crimes by targetting civilians in the 50 day war with gaza. 2,000 palestinians and dozens of israelis were killed. human rights says israel targeted homes full of families, and palestinians were not given warning and had no chance to flee. they described israel as using aerial bombs to destroy buildings. amnesty international says many deaths could have been avoided. the group accuses palestinian armed group of committing war crimes by firing thousands of indiscriminate rockets into israel. israel rejected the findings of the report >>> world heal

ten vehicles outside mosul. they don't know who those vehicles were carrying. al bagdadi was not the target, but that collection of isis vehicles provided them with an opportunity that they decided to take. what is important, though, in all of this, is if al bagdadi was injured or potentially killed, isis structure and the way he personally restructured it after he took over from al bagdadi is one if the top leadership is taken out, the entity can still continue to survive. that is one of the many challenges that is facing u.s. forces and the coalition as they try to advise and assist the iraqi security forces. those 50 troops you mentioned arriving in anbar province at the air base. this is a province that has a very dark history for the u.s. a lot of fierce battles were waged there against back then al qaeda in iraq. it is from the ashes of al qaeda and iraq and evolution that we now have isis. in some ways, history is not necessarily repeating itself, but we are seeing transpiring hasek has echos of the past. >> president barack obama takes his stand on free

mosul is going to be a critical area. the iraqi security force in peshmerga effort to retake mosul will occur and has to occur in order for the iraqis to regain the territory they have lost. province.unt of anbar they will have to take mosul back. >> what is the nature of our cooperation with iran? >> we have no coordination with iran. >> with respect to the nuclear negotiations, do you think they will meet the deadline? people,tary kerry's with our partners, are working towards that deadline. obviously be hope that it will end up -- we hope that it will end up with something that we can agree on but the president has been very clear. a bad deal is a bad deal and we will not take it. no deal is better than a bad deal. and we get that, we all understand that. we all hope that this issue of , as tonuclear future their capabilities of building a nuclear weapon, that i can be peacefully resolved. -- hopefully can be usefully resolved. resolved.lly we have to see that happen. >> what happens if we do not get a deal? theill not

. >> mosul is going to be a critical area. the iraqi security force in peshmerga effort to retake mosul will occur and has to occur in order for the iraqis to regain the territory they have lost. a good amount of anbar province. they will have to take mosul back. >> what is the nature of our cooperation with iran? >> we have no coordination with iran. >> with respect to the nuclear negotiations, do you think they will meet the deadline? >> secretary kerry's people, with our partners, are working towards that deadline. obviously be hope that it will end up -- we hope that it will end up with something that we can agree on but the president has been very clear. a bad deal is a bad deal and we will not take it. no deal is better than a bad deal. and we get that, we all understand that. we all hope that this issue of iran's nuclear future, as to their capabilities of building a nuclear weapon, that i can be peacefully resolved. -- hopefully can be usefully resolved. -- peacefully resolved. we have to see that happen. >> what happe

general dempsey saying the iraqi forces would need help with retaking mosul. good evening. >> good evening. >> the fact that general dempsey said that he is considering, i guess, the president is considering, that seem to me to be a significant change. >> well, i think within the pentagon, there's widespread dissatisfaction with the approach that the administration has taken. obviously, we do have civilian control of the military, the chairman of the joint chiefs is not going to flatly contradict the president or the secretary of defense sitting next to him. i thought it was a very telling statement. a technical military come. the one that reflects the view in the pentagon, reflects real, that the u.s. current strategy is not working. >> he could have said it another way. but i thought it was significant. he said he would consider to fate alongside and we are certainly considering it. if he were sort of trying to, if he didn't want to do it or want to frequent white house in sending traps to fight, there could have been a very truthful way to say the but didn'

we saw the evidence of that poor leadership in mosul when the division crumbled in mosul, it wasn't the rank and file who fled first. it was the officers. you have to purge the military of officers like that. >> that's a good step. it also demonstrates, perhaps, that abadi has more strength and influence we would give him credit for coming out of the shadow of it malaki who is still there as a vice president. i think the stronger he becomes, the better it is for everyone because he has an opportunity to break away from the rather poor reputation of prime minister malkey. >> from fredricks burg virg, virginia, randy, republican line. caller: yes. i just don't really see how we can have snuksz iraq basically because the people there, they put their religion before freedom and the values that we value. if they are not willing to fight for their own freedom, i think all we do is create a dependency, you know. we were over there 10 years and you couldn't build an army in 10 years and then, you know, as soon as we leave, they fall. so, i mean i just don't blame president obama for not wanting

we are the voice for the vulnerable in mosul. we are trying to lessen the fear about isil which propagated in the media. >> reporter: it's not justice ill that uses violent propaganda to spread it'ss message. this video was aired recently. he says it shows anti-isil militia interrogating and shooting dead a captured isil fighter. >> we are delivering the message of resistance and showing that resistance is legitimate. there is an argument as to whether we should show these videos. but we need to show that whoever cooperates with isil or subscribes to their ideas will be punished. >> this is isil radio. the broadcast location is not known. we picked it up while parked in refugee camp in northern iraq. the presenter invites people living under isil to phone in with every day problems. he advises them on random matters such as where to get drinking water or about children's education. >> what i am listening to here is an isil radio show that is being broadcast across this area of northern iraq and it shows you the efforts that the o

there is no question about that but, having retaken mosul. what do you do next? and i think that's still biggss the question especially in light of news reports by the associated press and others that isis and the al qaeda affiliate al news al news are a, may have. >>> it raises the question what the strategy and debate should be. there will be a huge debate over the administration's request for a $.6 billion of additional appropriations. that's really congress' role here. not to vote on the declaration of war. if they don't like it. vote against the money. >> ambassador, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> and straight ahead. he fought for his country and now he is fighting for his dog. get, this the soldier's battle is with the u.s. army. they stole his best friend. that's next. and follow me on twitter right now. it's a brand new handle at greta. our mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do, sleep. add breathe right to your cold

she used to fwravt mosul. the staff left when isil entered the city in june. they broadcast from a city in erbil. the company's ceo says the channel's mission is to spread the word that i want sil can be give feet? >> our aim as a channel is to show that isil doesn't represent anything to do with islam. we are the voice for the vulnerable in mossum. we are trying to lessen the fear about isil which propagated in the media. >> reporter: it's not justice ill that uses violent propaganda to spread its message. he had this video recently. he said it shows anti-isil militia inside mosul interrogating and shooting dead a captured isil fighter. >> wore sglifring themental of resistance and showing resistance is legitimate. there is age argument as to whether we should show these videos we need to show whoever cooperates with isil or subscribes to their ideas will be punished. it is at this ill radio. the broadcast lotion is not known. we picked it up while parked in refugee camp. the presenter invites people living underis ill to phone in with every day problems. he

not mosul yet. they will, but the mosul dam i mentioned in my comments, zumar, beiji oil field, a lot of good news there. but, yes, any time they hold specific identifiable cities or pieces of geography it makes it more difficult. >> and we should remember that osama bin laden operated from a cave, a say safe haven in the middle of afghanistan and was able to conduct mass murder around the world. achieving a stable iraq, can this be done with the personnel that you have sent, or what do you anticipate? >> first, we, the united states, cannot assure a stable iraq. the iraqi people will have to do that. as i have said, we are supporting them. we are doing the things that we think are most important. the things they have asked us for. they have requested from us, and that's a significant difference from recent years. they have invited us in to help them with our coalition partners. but i believe the president and others understand the seriousness of this. it's imperfect, but they have to do it. >> than

army's 3rd squadron, 3rd armored cavalry division are on patrol in mosul, iraq. captain conrad brown is on command. >> mosul was mostly al qaeda insurgents that had been pushed out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. >> it's the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buildings were difficult to see from the windows. narrow alleys leading up to those roads and those particular intersections. >> but on this day the major supply route for both u.s. and iraqi forces looks clear and the squadron decides to take it. >> i got it before every attack, that pit in my stomach. that's why i decided to take out the camera and start filming, just based purely on hunch. >> staff sergeant jason catrel is acting as lead scout standing up through the hatch of his bradley fight

there was a coalition air strike near mosul in northern iraq over the weekend. they had a convoy of ten vehicles in an area the u.s. says they know that isis leaders congregate. they thought they were hitting battlefield command commanders. no reason at this point to think baghdadi was there, but now they're seeing statements from these various parts of the government. so they're looking into it. what they don't have right now are those precise confirmed intelligence indicators. they don't have cell phone chatter, they don't have statements on social media that they can verify that he's wounded or perhaps killed. so they're -- what we're told is they're looking at all of that now. they're looking at all the indicators and seeing if there is something that they can come up with that would confirm it for them. it would be good news but most experts will tell you even if baghdadi was wounded, out of commission or dead it's noting? that will make isis fold up and go away. >> certainly not. >> we'll wait for confirmation. barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks so much

the iraqi government should take advantage of this, and get ready to take mosul back. >> reporter: the iraqi government has put aside fears that whe mons it supplies to the kurds could be used against it in a bid for kurdish independence. >> translator: is this is an international fight for humanity. we need as much help as we can get. >> reporter: this peshmerga soldier at least says he is ready. >> translator: we learned a lot from our british instructors. we are prepared for the battle. >> reporter: but it's a battle that is far from won. >>> syrian government forces have dropped more barrel bombs here aleppo, killing at least 20 people. a second bomb was dropped when residents gathers at the scene of the first attack. >>> the u.s.-lead coalition in syria has also targeted the al-qaeda linked group in air strikes. >> reporter: these areas belong to the al-qaeda affiliated groups fighting in syria. the coalition says it targeted them from air strikes. it is only the second time that groups other than isil have been hit by the coalition. al-nusra front has been making headway in the l

coalition aircraft carried out air strikes with mosul. high- ranking isis officials and no word on what targets were killed. molly is live in washington tonight. back to the troop increase. 1500 more troops, why not more? >> reporter: the pentagon said that is the number of troops they need to train and advise iraqi forces. here's more on that. >> you want to get 12 brigades trained. nine iraqis and there will be mixed skills and capabilities and this is based on best estimates of how many people to train and how many sites and what the quality of those sites are. >> reporter: republicans warn that 1500 servicemen and women may not be able to counter the isis. >> you will be needing north of 10000 north american advisors and attack helicopters and a c 130 gun ships to liberate fallujah and mosul. ground that we bled for. >> reporter: he said the obama administration should have sent in troops in september before isis could take so much ground. >> how are law makers reacting to the president's request. 5.6 billion to fund the fight against

north of 10,000 american advisers to train, american helicopter, gunships and liberate fallujah and mosul, ground that we bled for. >> the only administration is requesting $5.6 billion for the operations. and chairman of the house armed services committee said in a statement, "i remain concerned that the president's strategy to defeat isil is going to explain how this additional funding supports a new direction." nancy pelosi says about the request to fight isis, she said, quote, congress now needs to make some decisions about the money. arthel? >> molly, thank you very much. >>> counterterror police arresting four men in connection with an alleged islamic terror plot following raids across west london. earlier this month, police learned that they would be increasing security at the event as a result of increased fears of terror attacks. all of the men were under the age of 30. also in london, prime minister david cameron visiting the tower of london today. they were marking remembrance day. >>> and a programming note for you. peter has a two-night special, the man who called osama bin l

close to turkey is mosul, still under isil occupation. that's a big problem for both countries, as well. also taking a look at the relationship between the turks and the kurds, the city of mosul is about a thousand kilometers away from the kurdish capitol erbil, so clearly of concern to all of them, so security's a really big issue. the second issue is security. turkey doesn't have any domestic capacity. it has to export everything. one key thing it's been doing is exporting from the kurdish region to turkey. that's angered the federal government here in baghdad over the last year saying effectively they were stealing revenue back door trading oil from -- without getting their do. the federal government does get a slice of that money, so this was a press conference that was really designed to showcase that the two countries were talking to each other, that this wasn't a strained relationship, that this was a very positive relationship. >> police in egypt arrested a top muslim brotherhood member, detained on thursday morning at his home no

but now we are starting to work in the exact plan to liberate mosul. we need some counties of coalition to attend these forces, and also we need that they give them weapons. we ask baghdad, they accept to finance, but they have not enough weapons, and they have - they cannot have them in the way we need. it's a miserable situation. no electricity, no water, no health care inside the city. it's a bad situation. >> security forces in the democratic republic of congo arrested several men in connection with the killing of more than 100 people. the men are being held in benny in the province of north kefu. >> reporter: a group of men is brought into beni under armed guard. local military authorities believe these people are rebels from the allied democratic force. as many as 120 people have been killed in night time raids by the rebels in recent weeks. so the soldiers are taking no chances. the adf is active in the mountain area along the border between the d.r.c. and uganda. this man insists he is from there, and says he was keeping himself to himself. but

the minister of defense is claiming he was attacked outside mosul. the u.s. confirmed they struck a ten-vehicle convoy outside of mosul, but they do not know who was in the vehicles. that strike was carried out because it was a target of opportunity. no information just yet on what the fate of al bagdadi is. if he has been injured, this may be a victory, but is not going to deal a decisive blow to isis ability. christine. >> arwa damon in southern turkey. thank you. >>> in less than an hour, president obama has his first one-on-one meeting with chinese president xi jinping. a crucial meeting. two are set to enjoy a walk and private dinner and tea. hanging over the meeting is an array of tensions with the governments. u.s. concern that pro-democracy demonstrations could end in violence and then the suspected chinese hackers breaking into the u.s. postal service and stealing data on 800,000 of employees. nevertheless, a crucial relationship. a lot of expectations for the meeting. let's go to cnn's david mckenzie live in beijing this morning. good morning, david

imran khan, the battle for the mosul dam quite intense. what are you hearing about what is happening? >> what we have been told in the last few moments from a kurdish military source from the peshawar, that this was a major attack on the dam. beginning around 11:00pm, where two i.s.i.l. bombers attacked the craig berube forces and i.s.i.l. fighters moving in closer to the dam. there are varying figures on how i.s.i.l. fighters are involved, anything between 240 i.s.i.l. fighters. they moved in to the dam. the kurdish peshawar forces fought back, and 40 minutes into the fight coalition air strikes came in hitting i.s.i.l. position, beating i.s.i.l. back. and that is the sum of what had happened. that took five or six hours at least with the news coming to us in the morning when first light broke. mosul dam is crucial. where iraq's life line effectively is. if you control them, you control the waters into much of iraq. it's important. it was taken over by i.s.i.l. when it swept through iraq, kurdish forces took it back from i.s.i.l. around a

militants from ey iraq and levat overran mosul and claimed large swaths of both iraq and syria. >> today our men and women in uniform are taking the fight against isil in iraq and syria and chuck helped build the international coalition to insure that the world is meet this is threat together. >> while the president praised hagel at the white house monday, the secretary was seen as out of step with the president on isil. in august, he called the militants an imminent threat to every interest we have. both he and chairman of the joint chiefs, jeanmar tin dempsey, talked openly about the need to ground forces against isil, even though the president said there would be no u.s. boots on the ground. reports of internal tensions center around a foreign policy team close to the president that increasingly sidelined hagel. in october, he penned a letter to national security adviser susan rice urging a more defined strategy against syria bashar al-assad as the conflict with isil raged. it was in october that discussions began between hagel and the president about him moving on. today president ob

area, get them to get some footholds back in mosul and begin the fight to retake the entire city. this would be a huge defeat for isis, a big gain for the u.s., a big gain for the coalition and of course the iraqi people. mosul, the isis fighters have been posting brazen photos and videos of their control of the city. it's going to take a long time to make it all happen. but they at least have that mark on the wall now. they want to try and get started on this in january. brianna? >> how does all of this, barbara, play into the president's choice for a new defense secretary? something he's hoping to do very soon. >> reporter: you bet. he needs to get a name out there to congress. isis will be a top priority for any new nominee. right now, one of the things we're noticing is the names on the list, what we're mainly seeing is names being taken off the list. senator jack reid, a prominent democrat, from rhode island, has already said he's not interested. the hunt is really on. president obama scrambling for his fourth defense secretary in six years. tonight the short list of candidat

isis still holds one of the biggest cities, mosul. what's the status of that fight there? >> it's interesting when you talk about other friendlies. reportedly involved in that field battle, too, for the city itself. >> huh. >> interesting bedfellows as we've pointed out in the past. you know, the thing the number of positives coming up in the last -- it's nice to say a couple of positive things. we've seen the new government. he's actually started arming some of those sunni tribes in anbar to try to get them to rise up against the isis militants which are really just west of the capital. we also saw him put a broom through the upper echelons. everyone from the iraqi military commander to the head of baghdad command. all of them tossed out and new people coming in. he basically got rid of a couple of the capable generals that the americans used to work with and replaced him with his own lackeys. so that's some good news, as well. and we even saw the iraqi president visiting saudi arabia a week or so ago, which would have been unthinkable. he was accusing the saudis of backi

, i'm not predicting that i would recommend that the forces in mosul would need to be accompanied by u.s. forces but we're considering enforcing it. >> general, what do you think about doubling down at this point? >> well, i support the president's attacks on isis from the air, but if there was ever a lesson from vietnam in particular is that you cannot fight for people who won't fight for themselves. the shiite army is a disaster. the shiite militia is not a disaster but they are terrorists. we ought not to have troops on the ground. i understand a few advisers. i get that. the idea of american troops going into combat is a huge mistake. our allies, they're reliable. the kurds. we have a great relationship with them, we're not bosom buddies with iran, which is always a mistake. i think the president needs to watch out. i'm supporting him on isis. i'm not going to support a bunch of advisers, nor will i support combat troops in mosul. >> right now we have a choice, do we support the president's decision to double the advisers or troops, as he is saying today, we may go into combat? >

the isis -- isf forces have taken much of that back, not mosul yet. they will. but the mosul dam, the dams i mention in the my comments, baji oil field, a lot of good news there. but, yes, of course. anytime they hold significant identifiable cities or pieces of geography, it makes it more difficult. >> and we should remember that, indeed, osama bin laden operate from a cave, a safe haven, in the middle of afghanistan and was able to conduct mass murder in this country and around the world. and in regard to achieving a stable self-reliant iraq, can this be done with the personnel that you've sent, or what do you anticipate? >> well, first, we, the united states, cannot assure a stable iraq. the iraqi people will have to do that. as i have said, we are supporting them. we are doing the things that we think are most important, the thins they've asked us for, they've requested from us. and that's a significant difference from recent years. they've invited us in. they've invited us with our coalition partners in to help. but i believe prime minister abadi and others

. >> i'm not predicting at this point i would recommend that those forces in mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by u.s. forces but we're considering it. >> you heard him say any such troops would accompany iraqi forces but make no mistake. americans would be fighting side-by-side with the iraqis. in the meantime, there's word the leader of isis is not only alive, he is in essence challenging the united states and its partners to bring the best fighters to him. that leader, of course, is abu bakr al baghdad. he recorded a message strowing to fight to the last man standing. the video shows he did survive a recent airstrike. the message is full of propaganda and claims the u.s. airstrikes are failing and the has to send in ground troops to their death and destruction. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. so there's not a strategy change here but we're not new at this, and it's clear what is happening. >> well, what is interesting, shepard, is general demsey was basically talking about when and in the iraqi military gets ready to take mosul -- he has said it before

in iraq, it's slowing them down around mosul. but having said that, i think the president was wrong to make this pledge in the beginning not to put troops on the ground. he's realizing we need them to provide training and coordination. we also need them to carry our special operations and to be spotters for the air attacks. >> but president obama has increased the number of troops to be doing a lot of the things you just mentioned. is there anything you think u.s. forces need to be doing that they aren't currently doing or are about to do? >> i think we need a greater amount of troops. i don't see how 3,000 is going to be enough for all that he's talking about doing. once the president gets a strategy -- he hasn't really come up with any strategy that's consistent. first he said that there was no strategy. then he said, we're going to degrade and destroy. now he's saying he wants to isolate isis in iraq even though he said last month, he was going into syria. until we get a coordinated strategy, it's hard to give an exact number

iraqi and syran forces can take back tikrit and the target is mosul. 23 themosul if they can get thay back, with over 1 million people, they can get back to syria. >> mike, appreciate it. >>> many muslims around the globe say that this were voices of moderation have been drown out by groups like isil. and now a muslim youth group is reaching out, they have a plan to stop isil's call to violence. >> in the prayers, with the united nations, the youth association is confronting a different problem. muslim youth who become radicalized. >> we have a trend with isil, for example, lone wolves in the united states, time square, and my hometown, portland, oregon. >> it's a problem for the somali community in indianapolis. >> we have lost a lot of kids to al shab at and isis. they seem to be very effective. >> in new york, representatives of 30 nations, including the u.s., are exploring ideas for how they keep their unique safe. >> we wanted to work with the u.n. lead,, and those who we can share w how you replicate this around the world. >> about 100 merns have attempted to join isil. some, li

she used to broadcast from mosul. the staff left when i.s.i.l. entered the city in june. the channel broadcasts from a villa. abdullah is the c.e.o., and says the mission is to spread the word na i.s.i.l. can -- that i.s.i.l. can be defeated. >> our aim as a channel is to show that i.s.i.l. doesn't represent anything to do with islam. we are the voice for the vulnerable. we are trying to lessen the fear of i.s.i.l., which propagated in the media. it's not just i.s.i.l. that uses propaganda to spread its message. this video was made recently. it shows anti-i.s.i.l. militia inside mosul, interrogating and shooting dead is captured fighter. >> translation: we are delivering the message of resistance, and showing that resistance is legitimate. there's an argument as to whether we should show the videos, but we need to show whoever cooperates with i.s.i.l. or subscribes to their ideas will be punished. >> reporter: this is i.s.i.l. radio. the broadcast location is not known. we picked it up in northern iraq. the presenter invites people living under i.s.i.l. to phone in with e