i'm tonya beckett with the latest headlines.nforcements for kobani, a free syrian leader says forces are inside kobani and peshmerga troops are also heading towards the town. >>> disaster in virginia as nasa's unmanned rocket bound for the international space station explodes seconds after takeoff. >>> and alice is here to tell us the latest on winding down of quantitative easing a called tapering. >> absolutely right. we've talk sed so much about it. federal reserve looks to end the $4 trillion bond buying program on wednesday. it's known as quantitative easing or qe. it was originally a life support system for the world's biggest economy following the financial crisis. national outburst, employment and government debt are back to pre-crisis levels. analysts are speculating when the rise in cost of borrowing will come. >>> we're also looking at a pilot strike. air france, europe's biggest airline, made 247 million euros in three months ending in september. the dispute over retirement benefits has forced the carrier to cancel th

i'm tonya beckett with bbc world news. our top stories. peshmerga troops are in turkey heading for the syrian town. >>> an unmanned u.s. rocket going to the international space station exploded in takeoff. >>> zambia's president has died at 77. >>> the largest islamist party leader has been sentenced to death for war crimes. >>> welcome once again. the syrian free army says a small group of syrian rebels have entered kobani to help extremist fighters. they are on route to syria. one group from iraq to turkish port. another group carrying weapons including artillery are travel ago separately through r turkey. the battle has so far lasted six weeks. more than 800 are believed to have been killed during that time. the fighting has force 2d 00,000 to flee across the turkish border. the bbc joins me now from the syrian turkish border. what is the progress as far as we know on these troops a arriving in kobani? >> reporter: in different small groups. in one hand they don't want people, local people to actually see them. they don't want media to