government forces reach the river tigris and the top commander says i.s.ill be chased out of eastern mosul within days. we talk to a reporter just back from the front line. also coming up, germany's chancellor says the state must act faster to prevent terror attacks like the one in the country's capital last month. north korea's leader kim jong un celebrates his birthday and rattles his saber. our missiles can hit you, he tells the united states. we'll ask whether that is true. also on the show tonight, he haunts germany still. adolf hitler's manifesto for the third reich, "mein kampf," is selling well here a year after being published for the first time in postwar germany. we will find out why it is selling like a bestseller. and "la la land" sweeps a politicized golden globes. we will show you what happened when hollywood rolled out the red carpet for the these names in film and tv around the world. ♪ brent: it is good to have you with us. tonight, iraqi special forces battling the so-called islamic state in mosul averaged the eastern bank of the river t

air strikes blowing up nearly 100 boats on the tigris.s that isis was using to have their fighters escape across the tigris river from the east side of mosul to west side, fleeing this iraqi ground offensive that has been happening there with u.s. support. well, now that the eastern side of mosul has been cleared of isis, one of the day to day consequences of that for the little kids of mosul is that those kids are now able to go back to school. isis had shut down all of the schools in mosul in that giant city. and the u.n. now says that 30 mosul schools have reopened. that means something like 16,000 little iraqi kids as of today are finally able to go back to school after more than two years of being kept at home because isis shut the schools. and you see in some of these pictures matching backpacks, little blue backpacks. those are donated backpacks from unicef. it's an emotional thing to see the kids running back into their classrooms, right? finally able to get back to school. it's just great at a human level. they've been out of sch

then they will go to the tigris river, the left bank of the tigris river, and then cross over.hey will mount a defensive. that has always been our plan. it is going for you much according to plan. charlie: when do you think mosul will -- sec. carter: in war, you don't predict. charlie: plans change. sec. carter: the plan is clear and our plans have not changed. we are pretty much on schedule in our plan but i would rather over-deliver. that is what our commanders have consistently done. let me put it this way. i'm confident of the result. certainly it will take place in 2017. and about raqqa? sec. carter: same thing. i do. that is in the plan. that is every reason to have that expectation. again, i always want to say that and the dynamics can always intervene. we have the momentum, we have the plan, we have the forces. we are assembling the forces. i'm confident that it will occur. charlie: you think you will capture or kill -- sec. carter: eventually. charlie: do we know where he is? to do think he is in raqqa? sec. carter: if i knew exactly where he was, first of all, i would

iraqi special forces have reached the banks of the river tigris.

then they will go to the tigris river, the left bank of the tigris river, and then cross over.nd now the offensive. that has always been our plan. it is going for you much according to plan. charlie: when do you think mosul will -- sec. carter: i never -- this is a war. in war, you don't predict. charlie: plans change. at the point of first contact. sec. carter: the plan is clear and our plans have not changed. we are pretty much on schedule we thought ryan our plan, but i rather overdeliver. that is what our commanders have consistently done. let me put it this way. i'm confident of the result. no doubt. charlie: it is going to take place in 2017? sec. carter: i believe so. yes. absolutely. charlie: and how about raqqa? sec. carter: same thing. i do. that is in the plan. that is every reason to have that expectation. again, i always want to say it is war, and the reality and the dynamics of war intervene. but we have the momentum. we have the plan. we have the forces. we are assembling the forces. and i am confident that it will occur. charlie: you think you will capture or ki

they have now taken the east side of two of the five main bridges that cross the tigris river, that iver, that runs through the city, dividing mosulfrom runs through the city, dividing mosul from north to south. they aim to ta ke mosul from north to south. they aim to take full control of the eastern bank before they can lodge a tax on the west, which islamic state fully controls, as the battle for mosul continues. freedom of movement is one of the four principles of the european union. it means any citizen of an eu country can live and work in another. but high levels of immigration was one of the main reasons people in the uk voted to leave the eu, and it is an issue in many other countries, too. 0ur economics editor kamal ahmed has been speaking to the deputy prime minister of the netherlands about why it is so controversial. 500 years old, a fort in amsterdam, and a reminder of a time when europe's borders were the subject of wars, not debates about freedom of movement. those borders are open now, open to workers who live in the eu to work within any other member state. but that h

iraqi special forces have reached the banks of the river tigris. coming up at ten o'clock, we will be here with the full round—up of the day's news but first, we look at how tens of thousands of children in ghana have been trafficked into forced labour. she joins ghana have been trafficked into forced labour. shejoins a team of charity workers. ghana's biggest fishing ground, lake volta, holds a dark secret. tens of thousands of children who work on its waters have been trafficked into a life of forced labour. given up by poorfamilies on the promise of a better life. many face violence, and some even die on the job. he's a child, but he's no longer a child. he's been through things us as adults haven't been through. the government has pledged to eradicate this illegal practice. there's so many children who could be rescued and could be put into this facility, but at the moment there's no—one in here. with the numbers dramatically on the rise, why are so many children still taken and forced to work like slaves? yeji, a small town on the banks of lak

here's where the fight has come to a stand still, right along the banks of the tigris. major arkan hashim battalion commander with the federal police said he and his men come under a regular barrage. >> where are the mortars coming in from? >> there, that is in yellow. >> there is a school over there. >> yeah. >> the yellow building. >> the yellow building. >> he showed us where mortars had come in just a few hours before we got there. this happens every day? >> yes. >> i will make sure i'm not here at 11:00. morale is high as iraqi forces prepare for the final assault against isis in mosul, what no one knows is what isis has left, how many bullets and suicide car bombs and whether they saved their strongest fighters for a final stand. charlie d'agata, cbs news, inside mosul. >> quijano: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said beny the american embassy in israel should be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem. president trump has promised to make the move, angering palestinians who have also claimed jerusalem as their ave all. on saturday netanyahu supported ur. trump

they have taken the east side of 2 of the five main bridges that cross the tigris river that runs through city, dividing mosul from north to south. they hope to take full control of the eastern bank before they can launch attacks on the west, which islamic state still fully controls. as the battle for mosul continues. laura: you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, the commoner who married into royalty. we look back on the life of lord snowdon, former husband of princess margaret, who died at age 86. refugees and migrants are dying in europe from europe's sudden cold snap and the united nations refugee agency is urging governments to do more. they have called on greece to move migrants from poor conditions on the island to better facilities on the mainland. reporter: desperate to get out of the bitterly cold waters, these are just some of the 800 migrants and refugees rescued from the mediterranean sea yesterday. the italian coast guard help them off this rubber boat they were trying to cross in. freezing temperatures in europe over the last week have caused the u.n. to c

[gunfire] >> reporter: today america's war against isis came to a dead stop on the banks of the tigriser that slices mosul in half. isis holds the high ground on the western side of the river, firing a constant barrage of mortars toward iraqi troops on the other. major akam hashm. where are the mortars coming in from? >> there's a school there. >> reporter: soldiers showed us a house that isis fighters recently fled. in one of the bedroom, forbidden toys that isis militants had confiscated. with iraqis and american soldiers fighting a common enemy, one resident told us he couldn't understand why president trump might tighten restrictions on iraqis traveling to the u.s. "why wound you ban us? we are the victims. in fact, american isis fighters have come here." troops showed us an s.u.v. that militants had stripped, ready to be turned into a car bomb. the most feared weapon in the isis arsenal. [explosion] you see huge craters like this in areas that saw some of the worst of the fighting. u.s. and coalition air strikes specifically targeted big intersections in order to disrupt the path

airpower-- are nearing total control of mosul east of the tigris river and now control three of the city's five bridges. the united nations estimates 140,000 mosul residents have fled the city and its surrounding areas since the offensive to retake mosul began three months ago. read about california's emergence from its five-year drought at www.pbs.org/newshour. >> stewart: finally, "the greatest show on earth" is coming to an end. after 146 years, the ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus will shut down in may. 500 employees will lose their jobs. ticket sales have declined for ten years and fell more sharply after the circus-- pressured by animal rights activists-- stopped using elephants last year. the elephants went to a wildlife preserve, and the circus says it will find homes for the rest of its animals. tomorrow on "the newshour," a georgia town comes to grips with its past, when black citizens were forced out. that's all for this edition of" pbs newshour weekend." i'm alison stewart. good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgb

iraqi special forces have reached the banks of the river tigris that divides the city of mosul almostths after launching their assault on islamic state forces in the city. the advance is the latest gain by iraqi counter—terrorism troops who've recaptured two districts in recent days. protesters have marched through nigeria's capital to mark 100 days since nearly 300 chibok schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram militants. the girls were taken from a government boarding school in april 2014. most remain in captivity. nigerian president muhammadu buhari says he's hopeful they will be rescued. staff on london's underground network have launched a 24—hour strike that threatens to make monday morning a painful commute in the british capital. it's after talks broke down in a long running dispute over job losses. millions use the tube network each day. let's take a look at these pictures from the us state of pennsylvania, where a huge spool of wire fell off a truck and then proceeded to roll the wrong way down a motorway, causing havoc and forcing cars to swerve out of its way. luckily no c

-backed troops reached the eastern bank of the tigris river for the first time since their offensive began three months ago. former iranian president akbar hashemi rafsanjani died today after suffering a heart attack. he was 82-years-old. rafsanjani was at the center of iranian political life since the 1979 islamic revolution and was a top aide to its leader, ayatollah khomeini. as iran's president from 1989 to 1997, rafsanjani was considered a relative pragmatist and reformer who sought better relations with the u.s. and the west. he later supported iran's nuclear disarmament deal with world powers and was a mentor to the current iranian president, hassan rouhani. today, there are about 5,000 juveniles incarcerated in adult jails and prisons in the united states. all 50 states give prosecutors the discretion to charge juveniles as adults, usually for the most serious crimes, but only two states, north carolina and new york, still require 16 and 17-year-olds to be charged and prosecuted as adults for all crimes. in tonight's signature segment, "newshour' weekend"'s ivette feliciano r

iraqi special forces have reached the banks of the river tigris which runs through muscle. the result. the advance of the latest gain by counterterrorism troops who have reca ptu red counterterrorism troops who have recaptured two districts in recent days. we are told it is an important move. extremely significant. it shows that iraqi forces are seizing the initiative now. there has been a lull, if you like in military operations started back in october ata time operations started back in october at a time there was hope that the iraqi army would be able to retake muscle fairly quickly. aided by airstrikes from the united states and now is. however, things have not gone according to plan. the islamic state fighters have been using a hit—and—run tactics to slow down the advance army and the iraqi army at some stage seemed to be logged down in the skirmishes around the city. the british prime minister, theresa may, has suggested that the uk will leave the single market when it leaves the european union. in a television interview, she insisted that britain klim 0ur political c

the river tigris.nths after launching their assault on islamic state forces in the city. the advance is the latest gain by iraqi counter—terrorism troops who've recaptured two districts in recent days. protesters have marched through nigeria's capital to mark one thousand days since nearly 300 chibok schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram militants. the girls were taken from a government boarding school in april 2014. most remain in captivity. nigerian president muhammadu buhari says he's hopeful they will be rescued. these pictures come to the us state of pennsylvania. where a huge spool of wire fell off a truck and then proceeded to roll — the wrong way — down a motorway, causing havoc and forcing cars to swerve out of its way. luckily no cars were hit. the spool finally came to a halt after colliding with the side barriers. taiwan's leader has met the texan senator ted cruz in houston. mr cruz said he met tsai ing—wen despite a request not to from the chinese consulate. ms tsai is stopping over in

[gunfire] >> reporter: today america's war against isis came to a dead stop on the banks of the tigris river that slices mosul in half. isis holds the high ground on the western side of the river, firing a constant barrage of mortars toward iraqi troops on the other. major arkam hashim. where are the mortars coming in from? >> there's a school there. >> reporter: soldiers showed us a house that isis fighters recently fled. in one of the bedrooms, forbidden toys that isis militants had confiscated. with iraqis and american soldiers fighting a common enemy, one resident told us he couldn't understand why president trump might tighten restrictions on iraqis traveling to the u.s. "why wound you ban us? we are the victims. in fact, american isis fighters have come here." troops showed us an s.u.v. that militants had stripped, ready to be turned into a car bomb. the most feared weapon in the isis arsenal. [explosion] you see huge craters like this in areas that saw some of the worst of the fighting. u.s. and coalition air strikes specifically targeted big intersections in order to disrupt th

in fact, iraqi security forces are approaching the tigris river as we speak today. >> decision by presidentever folks want to interpret it now got interpreted as something was going to happen and then when nothing happened it created this vacuum. do you tend to agree with that premise? >> i wasn't secretary of defense then. that was then and now is now. >> has it made your job harder? >> for the russian behavior in syria has certainly made the ends of the syrian civil war there harder. >> would the russians be there if the united states had forced the read line? >> i can't say that. i think theaw an opportunity there to play a role which could have been fine because what they said they were going to do which they could uniquely do is help assad move aside gently, bring the moderate opposition into the syrian government and put it's related and there was an op ed this week by one of your predecessors and former secretary bill perry and he's concerned about some sort of nuclear bomb that's used somewhere, anywhere, that this is a crisis that we're not paying enough attention to. you co-wrote

. >> one of my patrols was ambushed on the east side of the tigris river.ee american soldiers were killed. >> at the same time, it was part of our duty to you assist the special operations command. an elite saw the element. their focus was really hbts. high value targets. >> coalition governments have identified a list you have key regime leaders, 5 individuals who may be pursued, killed or captured. >> the special operations forces could go into the most dangerous target and do it with zero casualties because of their skills. these are extraordinarily gifted and trained men. you did not want to be the objective of their attention. >> in 2003, the organization i was assigned to was deployed to hunt down and capture the deck of karksds the priority being saddam hussein. >> what was your job? >> going out, conducting raids. sometimes it was going after people in the deck of cards. sometimes it was going after people that were known associates of the deck of cards. >> you can't be on the offense unless you understand the enemy. in this context, especially the

here's where the fight has come to a standstill, right along the banks of the tigris. major arcan, battalion command with the federal police, said he and his men come under a regular barrage. where are the mortars coming in from? >> the yellow building. >> reporter: he showed us where mortars had come in just a few hours before we got there. this happens every day? >> yes. at 11:00. >> reporter: i'll make sure i'm not here at 11:00. morale is high, as iraqi forces prepare for the final assault against isis in mosul. what no one knows is what isis has left. how many bullets and suicide car bombs and whether they saved their strongest fighters for a final stand. charlie d'agata, cbs news, inside mosul. >>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the american embassy in israel should be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem. president trump has promised to make the move, angering palestinians who have also claimed jerusalem as their capital. on saturday, netanyahu supported mr. president trump's call to build a wall along the mexican border. >>> here in the u.s., a fire

iraqi special forces are closing in on the river tigris and a strategic bridge which crosses it. other troops are advancing in parallel. the fighting is intensifying but isis has been driven out at the district east of the river. they still control the west of the city but once iraqi forces to reach that river it will be harder for isis to hold on. iraq used heavy firepower from the air and the ground in a fresh assault. this is of course the last major issa stronghold in iraq and they have been putting up fierce resistance putting up snipers and suicide bombers but the iraqi army says they have tamed down those isis fighters. the operation to take mosul started in october of last year but slow down when street marches began. iraqi troops now have control over a quarter of the city and better coordinates and is helping them in the campaign. of course they are backed by u.s. airstrikes. because of this people are story returning to homes in their present and clear but around 120,000 people in all want to leave. despite this recent military success in mosul at may take some time be

a spokesman said forces have made their way to the tigris river.s the islamic state's last strong hold in that country. dozens of veterans swimming with bottle-nosed dolphins yesterday in the keys. the wounded warriors helped to organize the event for therapy for veterans. the news continues with shepard smith after this. to help reduce my risk of progression, including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything. >> president-elect trump says he will talk about his son-in-law's role in his administration at a news conference this wednesday. the senior transition sourceewsp has chosen jared kushner to be a senior advisor in his white house. kushner is married to the president-elect's daughter, ivanka trump. he currently serves as a closed a visor to the president-elect and heads up the multimillion dollar real est

government troops reached the tigris river which divides the city, they are facing tough resistance fromsis fighters but troopssay they are clearing the last isis remnants from the east now waiting on words across the river. >> after we have liberated the area we set up a new front line and are waiting for orders to move on. >> isis is running out of steam and the suicide bombers are in non-armored cars making them easy pickings for iraqi artillery, but the fight is taking a massive toll on the population many refusing to return to what continues to be an unstable situation. >> mortars were falling on us we were worried the children would get hurt. >> further west isis under pressure in syria, government troops opening a new front against the terror group south of rocca the self-proclaimed isis capital, tribal forces say they have isis on the run north of aleppo. >> the turkish brothers are helping us and they are providing us with a logistic information and the work continues to liberate the area. >> european foreign ministers are meeting in brussels hoping to coordinate humanitarian ai

. >>> iraqi counter terrorism forces have reached the east bank of the tigris river. it is the first time they have reached the river since the operation began in mid october. troops have also retaken a key hospital in mosul. security forces killed more than 125 isis militants sunday. hundreds more residents are fleeing mosul, and troops recaptured neighborhoods. the u.n. says more than 125,000 people have been displaced in all this, and about 2300 people each day are fleeing. >>> iran has lost a pivotal figure in its modern history. the former president died. he was 82 years old. state media report he suffered a heart attack. he was the president from 1989 to 1997. becky ander s dederson has a lo at hishistory. >> reporter: the somber announcement, the former president dead at the age of 82. known for his political tenacity, rafsanjani dominated the political land skam scape i for more than three decades. a close confidante of ayatoll ayatollah khomeini. he was elected in 1980, a position he held until 1989, a period coinciding with the iran/iraq war. under khomeini'

iraqi troops made their way to the tigris river, running through mosul. it's their deepest advancement to take the city. troops control the eastern side of one of the cities five bridges, all of which have been disabled by u.s.-led air strikes. up next, what the start of the trump administration means for the u.s. economy. news from our fox affiliates. fox 2 in detroit, a second executive from volkswagen is facing criminal charges in the scandal over emissions testing. a top engineer is accused of programming diesel powered vehicles to turn on pollution controls during testing, then turn them off afterward. the company has agreed to pay $15 billion in penalties and reparations. fox 40 in sacramento, sacrament, california. weekend storms topple a famous pioneer cabin tree. the tree is known for the hole that allows visitors to walk through it. the hole was hollowed out in the 1880s. this is a live look at tampa. college football's national championship game. top-ranked and undefeated alabama takes on second-ranked clemson in a rematch of last year's title

but soon beginning to cross the tigris river, and that divides mosul.t the three-month operation has taken longer than some military analysts expected. there has been some complaints that the operation has not gone as fast. both iraqi and u.s. commanders say the important thing is that progress is being made. one of the ways that they know there is progress being made, not only in terms of the land and territory that isis is losing, but reports are that a lot of senior isis commanders have fled mosul, and some lower ground fighters right there. of course we are also hearing that there were a lot of civilian casualties put hundreds more, more than 100,000 or so have fled the area. many, many more are still stuck in the isis held territories. a big concern for iraqi and u.s. commanders as these iraqi troops move into mosul. if they are trying to limit the deaths and injuries. but isis has put the booby-traps, trying to slow the iraqi advance. this is the big concern. something that unfortunately they say cannot be fully avoide avoided. >> jenna: connor, t

forces spent part of last week blowing up dozens of boats on the tigris river outside of mosul to stop isis fighters from using those boats to get away from mosul as iraqi ground troops continued to clear isis fighters out of mosul. there are 5,000 u.s. troops in iraq who are engaged in the fight alongside iraqi forces. except now the new president of the united states says the reason u.s. troops might be there is to get our hands on iraq's oil. borzu agahi talks to iraqi fighters to get reaction from this, and they tell him exactly what you think they would say, they say what you or i would say if we found out a foreign country here to help us was actually here to steal america's natural resources. quote, he cannot do it, he cannot succeed, of course i would fight the americans if they came for the oil. quote, there's no way trump could take the oil unless he launched a new military front, and then it would be a new world war. says these folks right now fighting with u.s. troops. the senate foreign relations committee tonight approved the ceo of exxon to be america's new secretary of

in fact, iraqi security forces are approaching the tigris river as we speak today. >> secretary kerryew of sorts, seemed to say that whatever the red line decision by president obama on syria, however folks want to interpret it now got interpreted as something was going to happen and then when nothing happened it created this vacuum. do yound premise? >> i wasn't secretary of defense then. that was then and now is now. >> has it made your job harder? >> for the russian behavior in syria has certainly made the ends of the syrian civil war there harder. >> would the russians be there if the united states had forced the read line? >> i can't say that. i think the russians saw an opportunity there to play a role which could have been fine because what they said they were going to do which they could uniquely do is help assad move aside gently, bring the moderate opposition into the syrian government and put an end to the terrible tragedy there. that's what they said they would do, that's not okay. they doubled down on the syrian civil war. >> i'll ask you about something. it's related and

then they will go up to the tigris river. and then cross over and mount defense it has always been our plan. and so it's going-- pretty much according to plan. >> rose: when do you think mosul will. >> this is a war. and in war you don't predict. my answer to that is-- . >> rose: plans change at the point of first contact. >> our plan is pretty clear and our plan hasn't changed. we're pretty much on the schedule we thought in our plan but i would rather overdeliver. and that's what our commanders have consistently done there. let me put this t this way. i'm kf debt-- confident of the result. i have no doubt. >> rose: it has to take place in 2017. >> i believe so, yes, absolutely. >> rose: how about raqqa. >> same thing. >> rose: 2017. >> yeah, yeah,. >> rose: both of them. >> yeah, i do. i do. i think that that is in the plan. there is every reason to have that expectation am again i always want to say it's war and reality in the dynamics of war intervenement but we have the momentum. we have the plan. we have the forces, or

iraq's army said it was poised to capture all isis-controlled territory east of the tigris river. residents of the city said the fighting had forced them to bury the dead at a neighborhood rather than a proper cemetery. >> civilians are buried here after being liberated, isis targeted this area. any civilians in locations outside their rule is deemed an apostate, so isis papers would target civilians as they walk down the streets, resulting in deaths. there are no cemeteries. we cannot go to the cemetery's so we had to bury people in the school. amy: the u.n. said monday that fighting in mosul has left nearly 150,000 homeless, with more than 12,000 iraqis forced to flee their homes in the last week alone. the obama administration said monday it has released another 10 prisoners from the guantanamo prison to the gulf nation of oman. many of those released were held for about 15 years without trial and had been cleared for release awaiting a nation that would accept them. it is expected the prison will house about 40 prisoners when president obama leaves office later this week. pres