a new report says iraqi security forces played a part in a deadly mosque attack that killed 34 people back in august. in eastern ukraine rebel elections get under way. kiev say it is is illegal. and a full investigation now under way, looking for answers in virgin galactic's deadly crash. and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. polls are open in parts of eastern ukraine where pro-russian separatists are defying the u.s. separatists seeking to legitimatize their power. matthew chance is monitoring the vote for us and joins us live from moscow. let's talk about why this vote is so controversial.

>> reporter: what is controversial, it apparently violates, according to the west, the u.s. and the europeans, it violates the terms of the cease-fire agreement which was brokered back in september. and they were meant to hold local elections in december under ukrainian law, but instead they're going ahead with it and organizing themselves. the voting in these ukrainian areas has been under way for about five hours. people going to polling booths across the region. the rebel leadership says this is the next logical step following a referendum that was staged in may, which gave overwhelming support to the idea of them becoming independent from ukraine. as i mentioned, ukraine, the

united states, the european union all saying they don't recognize the legitimate macy os vote. despite a truce with government forces on paper, on the ground, sporadic fighting continues. authorities in kiev say the vote is illegitimate. >> translator: a just society can be built opponent where there is the rule of law, where there are fair elections, unlike the sue dough elections. they want to demonstrate a fake expression of will. >> reporter: but across areas under pro-russian rebel control preparations have been made to hold a ballot. local residents say they're determined to vote, despite the security threat.

day and night we hear shots, says tat yawna. we don't want to go back there. that's why we're preparing for the elections and hope for something better. mostly people are afraid, says valentino. of course we should go and vote to reach something good in life. last weekend, the bulk of ukraine under government control held its own parliamentary elections which returned pro-western parties to power. but country continues to be torn between west and east, and russia is rejecting calls to distance itself from the rebel vote. >> translator: we will of course recognize the results, wan we expect that this election will be free tan that no one will try to disrupt it from the outside. >> reporter: and that kremlin recognition means the prospect of reunifying ukraine under

government control may become a little more distant. the election result is a foregone conclusion because all of the candidates that are standing today are pro-independence. so the vote, whoever recognizes it or not is unlikely to change the situation on the ground in the short term. >> all right, matthew chance, thank you very much, live from moscow. u.s. officials say more than a dozen federal investigators will be in the mojave desert examining the huge, 8-kilometer site of the galactic disaster. it was heavily documented with six cameras aboard. the experimental spaceshiptwo when it broke apart high above the desert and crashed, killing one pilot and injuring another. the agency says it could take a year before the investigation is

complete. virgin galactic founder says the dream of space tourism will live on. he met with reporters in southern california saturday. here's some of what branson said. >> we are determined to find out what went wrong and are working with the authorities to get that information. it is too early for me to add any details of the investigation at this stage. we've always known that commercial space travel is an incredibly hard project. we've been undertaking a comprehensive testing program for many years, and safety has always been our number one priority. this is the biggest test program evercaried out in commercial aviation history, precisely to ensure that this never happens to the public. in testing the human capabilities of technologies we are standing on the shoulders.

yesterday we fell short. we'll now comprehensively assess the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward together as a group of friends and their company. we do understand the risks involved, and we're not going to push on blindly. to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this tragedy. we're going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance. and then move forward together. >> one thing authorities hope to learn soon is whether the two pilots took a black box or flight recorder along with them friday. investigators have yet to interview the injured pilot who is currently hospitalized. more on the pilots and the investigation from stephanie elam in california. >> reporter: we can tell you that the pilot who lost his life

was michael alsbury. the pilot who survived the crash, his name is peter siebold, and he is 33 years old. the entire virgin galactic community is trying to figure out ha happwhat happens from he out. this is huge not just because they lost the spacecraft but because of the loss of life. what happens going forward depends on what the ntsb discovers. they are looking into this crash. it's the first space-related crash they are taking the lead on. although they were part of the columbia crash and the challenger crash as well. they have a little more than a dozen people here, and perhaps more than they would normally have in a plane crash because it is different. hopefully the data that virgin galactic was gathering might give them clues as to what exactly went on. as far as the company is concerned, sir richard branson

was here, and he did convey concern over the loss of life and what this will mean for the project, but it's also clear that he very much would like to see these commercial flights into space to continue. to that end, he says he hasn't had any person who's already put down the $250,000 to take the ride into space for the six minutes or so of weightlessness to ask for the return of the money. he says the money is there if they wanted. they've never used that. they just wanted to know that people were interested in this. but at the same time, one person did come along after the accident and said they wanted to be a part of this journey into space and put their deposit in. at this point they are really focusing on what went wrong in this accident, and they do plan on moving forward. ha that forward will look like, that's what everyone would like to know. stephanie elam, mojave, california. human rights watch says shiite and iraqi security forces

staged an attack back in august. the gunmen killed 34 people at a mosque, dozens of others were wounded. some of the attackers wore police uniforms. human rights watch is asking for the u.s. to stop providing military support to iraq until they crackdown on pro-government militias. it is feared that isis may have carried out another magnificent execution. militants abducted more than 50 people from the town of hit on saturday. isis seized the city last month and has already killed hundreds of tribes men. some have been publicly executed. others found in mass graves. in nearby baghdad, car bombs

exploded. kobani is getting help from peshmerga fighters. a convoy has arrived to help defend the town. forces came equipped and ready to fight. >> reporter: days of beckickeri and delays and they've arrived. one local fighter said he didn't know whether to cry or grin when he saw them arrive. you can see now how complex the crossing must have been for this sort of hardware. the official border point mortared, they crept through a hole in the western fence friday night. now kobani's defenders have mortars of their own to fire back against isis. even coalition air strikes have not shaken. the fight for kobani taken on a significance even greater.

a chance to hold a 100 kilometer stretch of border. and to use the cameras on the hills to send a message about the firepower. kurds in paris and across the world, all 30 million of them, stood up for kobani. the kurds finding their decades-long struggle thrust into the spotlight with the fight against isis. now the reenforcements are here, the fight will intensify, the stakes growing. boko haram releases a new video in nigeria. ahead, we will show you what the militant group's leader says about the fate of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls. plus clashes in paris, france. why protesters say police have crossed the line.

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festival. thousands of police and paramilitary police will guard mosques to prevent any die vens. in recent years, sunni attacks marred the biggest ve esgest ev shiite calendar. in nigeria, boko haram is dashing hopes that more than 200 kidnapp kidnapped schoolgirls will be set free. in a recent video a leader denies boko haram ever agreed to a cease-fire. he says the girls have converted to islam and married off. earlier, my colleague spoke the reaction to the latest video.

>> caller: they've didnbeen say for days now the talks were ongoing and expressing optimism that the girls would be released. and now we see the leader saying that was never indeed the case. speaking to a nigerian government -- who is the coordinator, what happened here. he appeared genuinely shocked and bewildered. he said the claims made on the tape contradicted all the things they've been working on, not going into detail as to how this could have happened but that they are investigating and leaving all of us bewilders. >> reporter: what are the prospects of those girls ever being set free? >> caller: that is the question

for many tonight. and our hearts go out to the families of these 219 girl whose have be-- girls who have been held. it appears very, very slim for the government of nigeria. where do they go from here. you have a group saying openly that they are not prepared to negotiate. that the way forward according to shekau is the bloodshed. there have been a number of attacks. more than 60 women and girls have been taken in recent days. the abductions continue. the question is where can the y nigerian government go from here if you have a group saying they are not open to negotiate. >> little is known about the

leader, abubakar shekau. he's said to be in his mid-30s or 40s. he became leader of boko haram after the group's founder was killed in 2009. shekau considers himself a holy man but is also a ruthless killer, blamed for attacks that have killed thousands of inch septemb -- innocents. he has had a $7 million bounty put on his head by the u.s. and he continues to resurface in new propaganda videos. it is a slow but unstoppable force in hawaii. 2,000 degrees of molten rock inches closer to one hawaiian town. we'll give you a unique look at the hot zone, next. crest gaand the other, a crestwhitening toothpaste.. here's what they thought. i can't tell if the paste whitened. well the whitestrips worked. yeah. the paste didn't do that.

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edge and bracing for the worst and you can see why. lava continues to flow out of a volcanic crater towards the town of pahoa. it hasn't taken any homes yet, but it is now less than 100 meters away. john mann spoke with martin savage as he flew right over the lava flow. >> reporter: martin savage joins us now. what are you seeing? >> this is 2 miles up slope from the town of pahoa.

look outside the helicopter here. we're about 100 feet off the ground. this is the lava flow. look at it. it's almost mesmerizing. we can start heading towards town a little bit. we had some rain that just went by a short time ago. so what you're looking at there is the water got down into the lava and the seem that rises off as that water is literally boiled off. now we're going to follow the path that this lava is taking in the direction of town, and you see the destruction. of course this is not liquid rock anymore. what you're looking at is the crust. but underneath is a 100-foot wide tunnel. that's the lava tube. 2,000 degrees of lava in a subway system that is transported all the way to

pahoa. the lava doesn't stop for anything. went right over the roadway there. and the other problem along roadways are the power lines. and you can see that they, too, are threatened to lose those. you lose power and telephone. so they're trying to keep those protected. now we wind our way ever closer to the front. the front of this lava flows 150 meters wide. but it's the back flow that is starting to break out and move in different directions. little fingers that go off and they become somewhat unpredictable as they move into town. but this is about as far as it's come, right here. but you can see the town is just right after that. and then there's main street. and it's expected to come there in a day or so. and that causes real problems with transportation.

but look back. this is all the way up to the original vent, which is 13 miles away. it is all still coming in the direction of pahoa. john? >> reporter: unbelievable. and it's been going on for months. is there any way to stop it? >> no. you're right. it has been going on for months. people have two mind-sets here. some of them say we have to divert. we have to fight. they have to use technology. there is also the philosophy of the island that no, this is what made hawaii. this is what created the paradise people came to enjoy. you can't stop what the volcano is doing. if you divert it, you only push it into somebody else's yard, somebody else's town. it will eventually, probably, make its way all the way to the ocean. this town, its future, is undecided at the moment, but over a geologic clock, it could very easily be wiped away. they just had to prepare,

unfortunately, they had lots of time to do that. no lives have been lost, and so far, not even a single home. >> reporter: that's extraordinary thing, the amount of time that they've had. we tend to think that they're dramatic, fast-moving beasts. but there are some estimates that suggest that the front end of the lava has been moving 5 or 10 meters per hour. that's the pace of a small child walking down the street. >> it is, yeah. i should point out that there are times when the lava can move very, very quickly. but that's up by the source. the flow yesterday was at 90,000 cubic meters per day coming from the source. and up there, it's moving at about 10 miles per hour. but when you get down to the end of the flow here, it's moving at literally, maybe meters per hour. and, as i say, the front is actually stalled. so you go through these periods of rapid or quick movement,

advancing lava. then it stops a bit. then it starts again. it's frustrating and paebfinfulr the people in town waiting. because you would like to know one way or the other how this is going to end, but it just drags out. and that's the nature of these disasters. >> really incredible to see all that black and the lush green. jerusalem is still tense over access to a holy site. we're live in jerusalem. plus the race for the u.s. white house can't seem to get here soon enough for some. up next, how some potential 2016 candidates are getting face time. i guess she looks familiar to a lot of you. stay with us.

we all want to hear an update of the top stories we're following on cnn. pro-russian separatists in ukraine are holding elections. rebels say the vote will validate their control there. kiev and the west say these elections are illegitimate. authorities say the pilot killed in friday's virgin galactic disaster was michael alsbury. he operated the craft known as spaceshiptwo. pilot siebold was somehow able to parachute to the ground. he's still in a hospital. the new york city marathon gets under way in just a few hours. more than 50,000 runners will

race 26 miles through the city's five burroughs. and the fan favorite is the winner of the boston marathon. france is now treating an ebola patient. the person who has not been identified to the media contracted ebola working for the u.n. in sierra leone. it isn't known if the person is french. officials evacuated the patient to an army teaching hospital near paris which has a high-security isolation unit. jerusalem police tell cnn they have completely re-opened one of the city's revered holy sites. clashes broke out between police and palestinian protesters after police closed access to the temple mount known as the noble sanctuary. we are joined live from

jerusalem with more. and hopefully now that it's re-opened tensions will begin to simmer. >> reporter: while israeli police are saying that the site has been completely re-opened, a cnn producer who is at the entrance, one of the entrances to the site says police were only allowing muslim men over the age of 40 into the site and there was a small protest of women outside protesting the fact that they had been turned away. meanwhile, at 8:00 this morning, the deputy speaker of the kennes et was there. glick was shot by a man on a motorcycle. now both of them had been at an event which called more morris raley jews to go to the temple

mount or noble sanctuary to bray. and it's that tension as well as increasing visits by the far right to the site which has infuriated many muslims. as for the broader security situation in jerusalem, israeli police saying they've arrested some 17 palestinian youths for disturbing the peace over the last 48 hours. and according to the red crescent, some 40 palestinians have been injured in clashes in various parts of the city. >> are there any statements being made by the leadership on either side? >> reporter: right now there really seems to be a concentrated attempt on the part of the israeli leadership to calm the situation, especially when if comes to the noble sanctuary or temple mount. benjamin netanyahu releasing a

statement and asking them to show responsibility and restraint. it was the decision to close the site on thursday that really infuriated senior members of the leadership. the spokesperson for the p palestinian president calling the act a declaration of war. thousands of police officers were out in eastern jerusalem on friday. surveillance balloons in the skies. we saw a surveillance balloon over the palestinian neighborhood, but so farthings here relatively quiet. but as in the past, when it comes to this, one incident can trigger a sequence of events that can make the situation much, much worse. >> hope it doesn't come to that. meantime, the historically strong ties between israel and

the united states have been tested. both countries insist their relationship remains strong. >> reporter: the long simmering feud between the u.s. and israel is getting usually. one obama official quoted in a recent magazine article making a derogatory comment about netanyahu. the thing with bibiis he's chicken [ bleep ]. not surprisingly, the white house was on the defensive. >> comments like that do not represent the administration's view. >> relationship is not in crisis. it is fund amountly stronger than it has ever been. >> reporter: netanyahu shot back that he was under attack. and he praised the deep connection with the u.s. the deep connection, however, is

being severely tested. >> no two allies agree on any single issue, and when we disagree, we raise it as friends do. but we believe the best place to do that is privately. >> reporter: tensions boiled over earlier this year with the collapse of the israeli peace talks. and the u.s. remains angry over continued israeli settlement construction. house speaker john boehner called the comments disrespectful and demanded the administration official who made them be fired, saying, quote, the president sets the tone for his administration. cnn. potential white house hopefuls are making stops in the politically important u.s. state of iowa. they're campaigning for candidates in tuesday's midterm election, but the visits are also raising their own exposure. cnn chief congressional

correspondent dana bash has more. >> reporter: hillary clinton in the hawkeye state to help get out the vote for the democratic senate race. >> you will never or twoey where bruce braley stands. >> reporter: oyoe sentenceably o help others. but she has her own work to do in this state since she came in third. the tight senate race allows white house hopefuls to get here early and often. florida republican marco rubio spent the day with gop senate candidate joni ernst, pressing the flesh with iowa voters at many stops. >> how iowa goes is how the senate goes. it may very well be decided in

iowa. >> reporter: rubio was an early supporter of ernst. the bonus for him is undeniable. >> this is the third time you've been here to iowa since -- >> we've been here a few times. >> reporter: any republican even considering for president has made a point of popping up in the hawkeye state this midterm election year. chris christie, ted cruz, bobby jindal, rand paul have all come to iowa. pauline had the good fortune of being chosen by the chamber of commerce to appear in their closing ad. >> if you're a freedom-loving, liberty-loving person i urge you to get out to vote. >> will you convince mitt to run? >> i don't know. you'll have to ask him.

>> reporter: unlike eight years ago when hillary clinton was trounced in iowa, she doesn't have much kcompetition here for now. >> yes, for now. that was dana bash reporting for us. in just two days, millions of americans will go to the polls to vote in u.s. midterm elections. here's what voters across the country will decide november 4th. all seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs, along with 36 of the 100 seats in the snatenate. in the house, republicans, also called the gop hold the majority. they have 17 more seats than democrats. while in the senate, democrats, the party of president obama outnumber republicans 53-45. two independents also caucus with senate democrats.

be sure to tune in for coverage and results and analysis. cnn's coverage begins at 5:00 eastern time and midnight wednesday in london. iraq was home to some of the oldest societies. ahead we'll show you how a modern war threatens priceless antiquities. believe i'm eating n and rich creamy cheese before my sister's wedding well it's only 100 calories, so you'll be ready for that dress uh-huh... you don't love the dress? i love my sister... 40 flavors. 100 calories or less.

the blackout in bangladesh is now over. bangladesh imports its electricity from india. this is bangladesh's worst power failure since a 2007 cyclone damaged the grid. a court in egypt has sentenced eight men to three-year prison terms for appearing in a video allegedly showing a same-sex wedding aboard a riverboat on the nile. the men who hid their faces during the trial were convicted of inciting debauchery. it shows a man slipping a ring on another man's finger and sharing a kiss. one called it a satanic ceremony with images that anger god. although egyptian law does not

explicitly ban it, homosexuality is taboo. isis fighters are trying to wipe away iraq's history by destroying its antiquities. ben wedeman shows you what's at risk as the terror group takes over more of the country. >> reporter: few are the lands that can boast a history as deep and rich as iraq. and nowhere is that more apparent than in baghdad's iraqi museum. the director takes us on a tour. this is from 3,000 b.c., he says, pointing to an sumerian mosaic. the people mastered the first mathematics system, literal and

law. its past is threatened by the nightmare of its present. the group calling itself the islamic state, isis, is not only at war with the state of iraq but the very identity, blowing up religious shrines, executing its enemies. and what it hasn't destroyed, isis is selling on the black market. they cut these relieves and sell them to criminals and antique dealer, usually they cut off the head, leaving the rest because the head is the valuable part. the area around mosul is replete with ruins, now in paeril. this comes from a city that isis

took over a few months ago. >> they are now using the site to store weapons, train fighters and execute prisoners. their palaces, statues and isis is living among them. i'm afraid they'll do something crazy, he says. isis has taken over the museum, turning it into an office to collect the tax levied on n non-muslims. their history is full, and they said the tigris ran red with blood and black with the ink of

manuscrip manuscripts. they're people from another planet, he says, they take pride in nothing. their mentality is completely petrified. they don't think of this as the plirkment plirkme accomplishments of humanity. aliens bent on destroying history. >> what a shame if they can't protect those lovely antiquities. up next here, seeking a better life by risking their own. a record number of migrants crossing the waters from cuba and haiti, hoping to reach u.s. shores. ring ring! ...progresso! you soup people have my kids loving vegetables. well vegetables... shh! taste better in our savory broth. vegetables!? no...soup!

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what would you bet for a better life. cnn's alina machado shows us there is another crossing which can be far more dangerous. >> we got eyes on them. >> reporter: a dramatic scene plays out in the florida straits, a u.s. coast guard plane spots this small boat, packed with cubans, women and a young boy. the boat is taking on water. yet, when the coast guard cutter

more get norvel arrives to help, they refuse help. eventually the group gives up and gives in, growing the growing number of migrants rescued while making this dangerous journey to the u.s. >> we've been seeing the highest levels in ten years. >> reporter: roughly 10,000 have been found in this area. that's more than 3,000 than the year before. the biggest spike, cubans, whose numbers have doubled since the government lifted travel restrictions in 2012. >> you have to be pretty desperate to jump into the open water and just try to make it. >> it is. >> it's very dangerous. >> most of it is economic. they're looking for a better, a better way of life. >> reporter: the lieutenant is the commanding officer of the norvel. one of the agency's newest

high-tech ships. >> this is the front line of coast guard operations. this is where the action happens. >> reporter: we wanted to get a first-hand look at the action. so we spent a few days on board the norvel. and what we saw was sobering. a few hours into our journey, the norvel takes on ten migrants. the lights in the u.s. shine in the distance. this is the closest this group will get. a doctor is concerned the last one may be suicidal, refusing to eat, after telling the coast guard this was his ninth attempt to reach america. so you sigh, they've put the man on the stretcher, on the cutter, safely. but it doesn't appear that he's responding at this point. 's unclear what they're going to do with him. we know that the remaining nine migrants are all in the same area on this boat, and they'll probably be here until the process runs its course. in the early morning hours,

another group of cuban migrants is found barely moving, idling in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. each one is given a life vest before being transferred to the cutter. the small boat is then filled with gasoline. and shot up with a .50 caliber machine gun. a fire sinks the tiny boat. on the cutter, the survivors wear tie vek suits to stay dry. they're given rice to eat and a rubber mat to sleep on. some interact with coast guard officials. >> it's difficult to see the situation that they're in. >> reporter: in all, we saw about 80 cuban migrants in four days with the coast guard, all of them with desperation in their eyes. for most, their search for a new life over at least for now. of the 80 migrants we saw, 29

cubans who were found on a u.s. territory were actually allowed to stay in the u.s. because of a long-standing policy that only applies to cubans. most migrants who are found at sea, regardless of their country of origin are usually sent back. alina machado, cnn, miami beach. people in a small norwegian town are waiting for rocks to fall. >> we'll drop the meteorologist title now and talk about geology and geography. how about the imminent landslide across norway. this is the small town, or i should say a county.

you can see this mount. it is the area in question. and it's a significant deal for residents who live within this valley. they've evacuated, because there's an imminent landslide or rock slide from this ridge line. you can see here. there's been fractures and disruptions that have been noted across this particular ridge line by geologists. and we've actually witnessed the rocks slide about four centimeters per day. now i know for you, and for me, that doesn't sound like a lot of movement, but trust me, that is significant, and it's a big red flag, warning people that something is about to happen in this area. the difficulty is, we can't pinpoint exactly when this rock slide will occur. so people want to get back to their houses. they've evacuated. they want to live life back to normal. but unfortunately, they just can't do it. it's just too dangerous across this region with rain and snow continuing to batter this part

of norway. it's only going to exacerbate the potential for that imminent rock slide to take place. but we've also had a minor mudslide in southern california. take a look at sol of these visuals coming out of this area. this is early saturday morning in ventura county north of los angeles, an area that had a significant wildfire back in may of 2013, saw record rainfall, and that caused what you see on your tv screens here. one person was actually trapped inside the house, but they've been rescued successfully. you can see some of the rainfall totals from this rain that moved through. natalie, back to you. >> thank you, mr. geologist slash meteorologist. >> i like that. >> thank you for joining us. for viewers in the u.s., new day is just ahead. for everyone else around the world, best of quest starts after a break and a quick check of the top stories. thanks so much for joining us.

well, are you up bright and early? and you've got a whole extra morning to brag about it. >> 6:00, 6:00 now. we hate daylight saving time in the spring but love it in the fall. >> hey, listen. we need to start with some overnight developments in the virgin galactic explosion. >> we're learning it could take up to a year before investigators learn what happened during friday's test flight. this space plane broke apart above the mojave