absolutely accept the outcome of the u.s. election if he wins. he is seeking to clarify his position after commenting last night he would be alarmed. iraqi troops and their kurdish allies are advancing on mosul after than expected. they are optimistic on day four of the offensive. we have a reporter with the troops, as they liberate a town seven kilometers from the city. a former general will become the

next president of lebanon. -- michel aoun could be the end of political deadlock. ♪ mark: -- anchor: troops are advancing on the city of mosul faster than expected. the iranian army and their kurdish allies are advancing on two fronts. more towns and villages fell .nder iraqi government control what hundred kilometers have been retaken since the offensive began on monday. james is with the troops fighting to liberate territory to the south. here is his latest report.

7:00 on the base. a convoy has returned. tos man's mission is liberate a town seven kilometers from mosul. stops before the i.s. held territory. are tens. the area was recaptured a day before, and it isn't safe. >> today we expect to run into heavy resistance. there are over 100 cash fighters. we are expecting car bombs and minds. -- mines. james: the column enters the zone cautiously has the boulder potential mines. the operation has been planned

in detail. >> move forward, occupy the field. follow orders. tanks in front. deploy on the high ground, back. the special forces deployed a drone to monitor operations. vehicles have to stop. they detected a car bomb and a sniper leaving explosives that need to be destroyed. the convoy can move on. in the meantime, artillery destroys i.s. positions in the villages. the commander is coordinating the artillery strikes from this truck, telling us he is getting

information from residents opposed to the islamic state. closing toehicle is the village. residents moveh, towards the soldiers waving white flags. end of two is the years under the rule of the islamic state group. women and children are in shock after a day of heavy shelling*. >> we stayed hidden at home. we are afraid of the bombardment. i was a rate for my children. -- i was afraid for my children. soldiers wrap up the whole village. people are taken to screaming. arrest potential collaborators before they flee. gave me a false name, but i have her real name on her id card. her husband and brothers are with daesh.

i am positive. just shut up. where are they, then? stop lying, we have just recaptured, we have not arrested anyone for the moment. jihadi militants were arrested or killed. they fled before the army arrived. the strategy slowed the army down, and they get ready for the last stages of battle. mosul to talk more about and iraq, i am joined by a former pentagon official, now at the american enterprise institute. thank you for being with us. four days into this event. it appears this is working together pretty efficiently. do you expect that given the sectarian tensions in iraq? >> there are great sectarian

tensions, but sometimes we overemphasize them in the west. they did give thought to iraq is to defend mosul, a sunni city, an example of the cross sectarian iranian -- iraqi nationalism. and you have the person who is recognized as a moderate, the kurds get a word -- get along with him. he can sometimes be indecisive, but in this case, he is being mightily decisive. mosul,and the battle for which is a densely populated city, is moving. some people wonder what it what happens after. we don't want another insurgency. >> that is the case. field, ite mine

hasn't been fully worked out. more than a decade ago, when the iraqi kurdish peshmerga first entered mosul, they created a great deal of sunni-kurdish tension. we always talk about shiite -sunni tension, and you have basic issues about how much local control mosul has. and then you have a lot of christians and other minorities saying, were who are haven't fared well under any government, so we want our own self-rule. and so the only thing they agree on is let's not divide power any further. laura: what about isis? it looks like they will at some iso--- mosul. the western strategy against the islamic state has focused on syria and iraq.

that is like playing a game of chess and only focusing on two squares on the chest toward because the islamic state is in 30 different questions. we need to worry about libya, egypt, but it will be a lot easier to, if you will, eradicate islamic state control, but it is another thing to eradicate the islamic state. they will look like every other person in mosul. whoever has the job of occupying will be in for a long haul. the initial invasion of iraq went quickly. we were in baghdad in a few weeks. the insurgency started afterwards and without political consensus, it is deja vu all over again. laura: they got mosul pretty quickly. will this go down as a foreign-policy win for obama? it certainly will.

everything will be caught in the vortex of election-year rhetoric , so people will say, obama should not have allowed it to get this way. that was the theme of donald trump in the debate. they will sort it out, but it is always dangerous for anyone to claim victory. when we claim victory, when the white house claims victory over ladenda, once osama bin was killed, it turned out to be the beginning of the beginning, not the beginning of the end. laura: thank you very much. french president francois hollande has been chairing talks on how the plan for mosul's future is. abandon therun -- i city once it is over. over 1.5 million people live there. he has vowed to protect of getting aid to the hundreds of thousands expected to flee as the fighting gets worse, and

make sure none of the insurgents just -- escape with them. : the challengede is military and political. it is why it was so important to gather all of you today not only to show the engagement of their respective countries and also tons underway, but understand that we will stand together for as long as it takes to ensure iraq has our full support, can recover territorial integrity, and can work in peace. nations triedted to evacuate wounded civilians from aleppo friday. foria will cause bombing another 24 hours. for weeks, the eastern part of this syrian city has been pounded as the russian airstrikes.

residents are leaving the city. we have the story. reporter: as this message is played out aleppo, they should achieve -- seize the chance to evacuate, gunfire breaks out. there were reports of clashes at eight designated eric -- evacuation corridors. the rebels have refused to abandon their post. monitoring,m video ambulances and buses were seen on the county road with little sign of residence heeding the call to leave. russia will extend the truce of by a further 24 hours on the condition fighters from the other groups leave the city. >> our intention is to extend this as far as possible based on the actual situation in the areas. we will do this as long as we don't face active resistance

from rebels. inorter: the u.s. will send eight convoys on friday, having received the great light from the russians and armed operation groups inside. >> this will be a dangerous operation. a lot of things could still go wrong. we have learned that from better experience. peopler: hundreds of will be evacuated from eastern aleppo with their families, with the choice to go to government , with the choice to go to government controlled west aleppo or opposition controlled it lived. -- iblib. food and supplies to get here, where almost every medical facility has been affected by airstrikes. laura: to lebanon now were a former general, bit -- is set to become the next president. political deadlock means this has been empty for two years. was a christian

leader and outspoken critic of syria before he was first out. -- forced out. he switched sides. lebanon's opposition leader has given his backing. he says it is necessary to protect lebanon. we can go to beirut. our correspondent is there. what can you tell us about michel aoun? reporter: he is a love him or loathe him figure. the largest christian block in the country parliament, he has been accused of an aggressively christian agenda, something that has been dampened. he focuses on his ultimate goal of becoming lebanon's president. he was here during the civil war where he became the youngest head of the army, leading campaigns against syrian forces inside lebanon.

at the end of the war in 1990, he fled to france, trying to escape political persecution for crimes committed during the war. he switched sides, he went into , whiche with hezbollah was deeply entwined with the syrian government. with basharided al-assad against rebels in the country. so he divides opinion. it will be interesting now he has been endorsed by the most senior position in the country, how easy it will be for him to secure the presidency. described, lebanon has a delicate and obligated power-sharing system. it has been in gridlock. with the president and that? nadia: it is a very complex system.

the president must always be a christian, prime minister sunni, speaker of the house she. -- she -- shia. vital clinical, decisions dealing with massive influx of refugees from over the border or the garbage have caught up in this web of alliances and pandering to other groups. that is how it ended up being gridlock. he wouldhere he said endorse his long-term rival michel aoun for the presidency. but the system itself is unchanged. beirut,e he is here in that a president has likely been found, the nature of the system goes on. we may see [indiscernible] laura: thank you.

no stranger to controversial statements, but u.s. presidential candidate donald trump has angered his critics and supporters with his latest performance during last night's live television debate with hillary clinton. he refused to accepting the outcome of the vote on november 8, something clinton calls horrifying. he fought to clarify his position. he would absolutely accept the results, but only if he won. donald trump: i would like to promise and pledge to all of my , and tond supporters all of the people of the united states, that i will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if i win. [applause] laura: a poll taken after the

debate showed most viewers thought clinton came out best. we have more on the clash in las vegas. reporter: a frosty opening as they refuse to shake hands. that sets the stage for the final debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. it was trump's last chance to save his campaign where he has already broken multiple traditions with the u.s. presidential campaign. this was no different. he shot anyone he said he may not recognize results not in his favor. >> you were on the stage tonight, do you make the same commitment, you, sir, you will absolutely accept the results of this election? >> i will look at it at the time. hillary clinton: let's be clear. he is denigrating, talking down our democracy, and i for one and appalled -- i for 1 am appalled.

the two candidates tackled foreign policy, especially relations with russia. trump has been accused of being too close to vladimir putin. donald trump: he said nice things about me. if we got along well, that would be good. respectng i see has no for this person. hillary clinton: that is because he would rather have a puppet as president. it is pretty clear -- reporter: trump responded to accusations of sexual assault, laying the blame on printed's camp. donald trump: i didn't see any of these. the one on the plane, i think they either want fame or her campaign did it. i think it is her campaign. polls suggest she won the debate but by a slimmer margin. days left before

election day, early voting already underway in many states. laura: forget the impressionists. contemporary art is taking over paris. .20 galleries are taking part we look at how this is going. barelyr: the fair has opened, and they are already tired. this american couple is a statue, one of the works by 1300 artists. americans,really really tired. it is true to a reality. reporter: this is the yearly must see, the art market. close to 200 art galleries from 25 countries. the entrance fee is 35 euros. >> you can get initiative and go from one to the other quickly, note down the address of the

galleries they like and go for free the rest of the year. reporter: last year there were 70,000 visitors. this year they will send out 400 works throughout the french capital. laura: that is what is going on in paris this weekend. let's go to business. we start with the yeast -- european central bank. they are not going anywhere. kate: the economy is not going as fair as the ecb wanted. there is a record low 0% since march. deposit rate also held that -.4%. people will have to keep paying access cash. mario draghi gave a few indications of what he planned to do with the bank bond buying scheme, something about 80 billion euros. that could either be extended next march when it would run out, or it can slowly be reduced . the ecb will give more details after the december meeting.

i spoke to the fixed income investment manager at aberdeen to get his thoughts on whether the quantitative easing program will be extended or tapered. we do expect them to extend the program in december, largely because of an economic expected of test perspective, they are not making the goals for reducing or ending that program. the way he tried to communicate that at the press conference, or tried not to communicate, suggests maybe there is disagreement on the accounts about how to proceed. consensus fort the program, maybe they need to make concessions in terms of the run rate. they are extending in december, but it is not a given they will extend the length of the policy at the same rate of purchases. kate: what does today's meeting

tell us about the state of the european economy? >> it doesn't tell us a huge amount to be honest. sometimes markets can be guilty of overreacting with the avenue and flow of data. -- ebb and flow of data. i don't expect a lot of change, but that means not a lot of change from a situation not particularly strong. the economy is growing at a anemic pace. unemployment is higher than the would desire. that means inflation is not particularly close to target. there are many structural issues making this more difficult. today, afrom draghi plea to politicians to try and assist with the process.

kate: given the challenges, do you think this stimulus program has not been working? >> that is a good question and a contentious question. certainly think the qe program has prevented things from getting worse. it has been successful in keeping lending costs and the peripheral countries down. you have seen the spread between the italian government bonds and german much narrower since he began buying bonds. the additional support and stimulus is not really being achieved by the program. for now, it is maintaining status quo. kate: let's take a look at how the markets are reacting. the major european indices dropped in the immediate aftermath of that decision, but did recover to close in the green. the dax was half a percentage

point. the euro jumped before trending back downward. wall street is more muted, stocks fairly close to the flat line. nasdaq very flat, dow jones and s&p just in the red. oil rises have fallen. the sharply. tesla announced all the cars will include self driving hardware. the executive of the california brand said it will be a supercomputer in a car. hands on theth no wheel. this could be the future of the industry. that is if tesla gets its way. the american company says all of its vehicles from now on will be made with driverless capabilities. tesla has cameras, sensors and radar that could make electric cars safer than any other. >> full autonomy will enable

tesla to be safer than the human driver, lower the financial costs of transportation for those who own a car, and low-cost on-demand mobility for those who do not. reporter: tesla introduced the autopilot system last year. that allowed some functions like automatic braking, changing lanes, and keeping up with traffic. but it suffered a setback in may after a man was killed in an accident while using the system. he was found to have been speeding. the new technology would replace the autopilot system used in the incident. tesla has to prove the capability despite traveling by the endn new york of 2017. google is among competitors, trying to push through self driving technology.

it will take years before fully automated vehicles are allowed on the roads. laura: global wine production will fall 5%, to its lowest level in four years. the organization of vines and wine said bad weather in france and south america is waiting on output. italy would hang onto the top spot as the leading producer despite a slight drop. france is number two, but it will produce 12% less wine than last year because of unseasonal frost, hailstorms, and drought. the u.s. is number three and four. prices are unlikely to be affected at the downfall. good news for wine lovers. laura: yes. thank you very much. thank you we will take a short break. don't go away. ♪

10/20/16 10/20/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! mr. wallace: sir, that you will absolutely accept the results of this election? mr. trump: i will look at it at the time. i will look at it at the time. i will keep you in suspense. mrs. clinton: let me respond because that is horrifying. thingsime donald thinks are not going in his direction, he claims, whatever it is, it is rigged against him.