i've seen this before. >> this is by daesh. allah, islamic slogans. >> reporter: during our visit, an improvised explosive device isis left behind as a booby trap detonated outside the church. >> we are in danger. >> reporter: okay, okay we were just told we have to get out of here, because there are a lot of explosions happening, so it's time to go. >> we have to go. >> reporter: even if these towns become safer, that doesn't mean the christians who were forced out will be willing or able to come back, according to father emanuel. >> one of our immediate concerns is what will happen in these christian towns when they are liberated? because we have concerns that they'll be occupied. >> reporter: occupied by non- christians. father emanuel says there are signs that iraqi muslim troops, in particular shiites, are showing their colors in some christian towns in an attempt to intimidate christians. he's counting on christian militias to protect christian property. doglas aziz is a soldier in a christian militia called dwekh nawsha,

they attack those who fight daesh‘ not attacked daesh. russia so take us forward. you have described the areas described the areas of potential compromise, described the areas of potential compromise, but described the areas of potential compromise, but then you compromise, but then you see this relationship souring. compromise, but then you see this relationship souring. why do you relationship souring. why do you think it relationship souring. why do you think it will sour, and in which think it will sour, and in which policy areas? think it will sour, and in which policy areas? first, think it will sour, and in which policy areas? first, it think it will sour, and in which policy areas? first, it might think it will sour, and in which policy areas? first, it might create policy areas? first, it might create problems due to policy areas? first, it might create problems due to trump's problems due to trump's own personality‘ problems due to trump's own personality‘ he is problems due to trump's own personality‘ he is very known‘ problems

that will major practical and psychological affects on daesh. campaign for mosul is tough, it's getting into the city, it's getting into block to blockhouse to house fighting, but the iraqi security forces combined with the kurdish peshmerga are doing remarkably well backed by the coalition. we will succeed in taking mosul. >> when? >> i think this is a matter of certainly weeks and perhaps months. i don't want to put a time limit on it. again, as you get to the heart of the city it gets tougher and tougher. >> in the past when the iraqi army has liberated towns from isis it is has run into a problem which is that the soldiers are often shiite on kurdish, the locals are sunnis and after the liberation there is a round of bloodletting or the locals feel that they have been liberated from one occupier into another and it produces all the same dissatisfactions and tensions that led to the rise of isis in the first place which is to say sunni dissatisfaction with shiite or kurdish overlord's. how do you solve that this time? >> you're factually righ

his unit had set up a blockade to keep isis, known in arabic as daesh, from breaking through the front line. so, this morning, he's saying daesh sent a humvee packed with explosives that blew up right here on the other side of this blockade. and his soldiers with a 50- caliber machine gun, they were able to stop him. you can hear those 50-caliber machine guns right now in the background. you can actually see the remains of one isis fighter who was involved in that attempted breach of this blockade right here. he's clearly been covered up by the debris. as we explored the front line, we found more evidence of isis' battle strategy, using trucks reinforced with armor plating as battering rams. and in this abandoned warehouse, mass producing improvised explosive devices, i.e.d.s. the evidence was strewn around the floor. it's a brutal fight the kurds are especially anxious to win, fighting not only to stop isis but for greater legitimacy on the world stage in their struggle toward establishing greater independence from iraq. >> ( translated ): i think this is a historical moment for us as

it's not easy but we have taken about half the territory that daesh had. mosul is not going to be easy. we are on the outskirts of the capital in raqqa. i would like to see the general approach the president has taken to continue. i would like for donald trump to come out and say what president obama has been doing is right, but i don't think he's going to do that. his rhetoric is going from everyone to pull a ready out to send 100,000 troops in. he is advocating a more robust presence and to make it more american fight and i think that would be a huge mistake. you have to understand that we have defined partners in the muslim world and let them lead. they do not want a western christian nation to come in and tell them how to live and fix their problems and fight their fights. does donald trump understand that? does michael flynn understand that? i've got more confidence in the latter, but it's a low bar to jump over. three or four months from now, they are going to primarily be saying it is all hillary clinton's fault. republicans have not taken responsib

>> salam: yes. >> logan: how many operations have you commanded against daesh, do you know? >> salam: i don't know, we're talking thousands. a thousand. >> logan: how far is the enemy's side there? how far from u major salam used a drone, his eyes in the sky, to search the streets for any sign of the second bomber. suddenly, another drone was overhead-- it was the enemy's. everyone was ordered off the roof. (gunfire) isis makes their own drones. we were told this one carried c4 explosives and targeted major salam. salam wanted to show us how long open tunnel system not far from their base. it's purpose: to provide cover and run fighters from village to village. >> logan: this runs from where? >> salam: from bartella all the way to mosul. >> logan: all the way to mosul? and how far is that? >> salam: about 25 kilometers. >> logan: 25 kilometers or about 16 miles long. and nine feet down lay the bodies of isis fighters his men had just kil >> we try to know who they are. i mean, they are iraqi, arab. >> logan: the golden division punched through mosul's city limits last week.

he's proven to be one of iraq's the islamic state, or daesh, as they're known to iraqis. it happened so fast. >> salam: so fast because the houses are so close they just use civilian cars to attack our forces. >> logan: so this is more of what you can expect in mosul? >> salam: yes. >> logan: a black crater burned into the earth marked the spot where his men stopped the bomber. there was little left of the car, just pieces of metal strewn, and the engine, still smoking. you've been fighting isis ever since they took mosul in june 2014. right? >> salam: yes. >> logan: how many operations have you commanded against daesh, do you know? >> salam: i don't know, we're talking thousands. a thousand. >> logan: how far is the enemy's side there? how far from us? major salam used a drone, his streets for any sign of the second bomber. suddenly, another drone was overhead-- it was the enemy's. everyone was ordered off the roof. (gunfire) isis makes their own drones. we were told this one carried c4 explosives and targeted major salam. salam wanted to show us how long isis had been p

it is britain that is a leading member of the coalition supporting iraq to defeat the scourge of daesh that has agreed to send 800 troops to estonia as part of nato's presence in eastern europe. that is supporting nigeria in the fight against boca haram and that is reinforcings it commitment to peacekeeping forces in south sudan, somalia and kosovo. and it is britain that is leading the way in pioneering international efforts to crack down on modern slavery wherever it is found. time and again, it is british leadership, british hard and soft power that is at the forefront of how the world responds to the greatest challenges of our time. so i stand here confident that in facing these new challenges, once again, britain can lead. that together, we can shape a new approach to globalization, to enhance the prosperity of not just some of our citizens but all of our citizens. that together, by meeting this national moment with a truly national effort, we unite our whole country by making the uk a country that works for everyone. that together we can rise to this moment and seize this great g

. >> daesh, syria, immigration -- challenges we will deal with by working together.hat is what we have always done as britain and germany and what the u.k. will continue to do when we leave the european union, including through international groupings such as this. >> obama will not be attending those, and there was a warm goodbye from the german chancellor. obama leaves merkel with plenty to deal with -- a new tenor and transatlantic relations, a fracturing european onion, and the challenges facing her own political career. >> ok, let's bring in our political correspondent on this. he has been covering the president visit to berlin or us. i guess the main question is -- did obama managed to reassure us that his successor will remain committed to the transatlantic alliance? >> in this case, i'm afraid we know as little less the european leaders. right now, the problem is that barack obama more or less is the only source of europe has to know what is going on inside donald trump. over the last two and a half days, it became quite obvious that donald trump and angela m

i would just say we're catching daesh, isil, these terrorists by surprise. killing their leaders every single day. recently we killed baghdadi's number one deputy and this operation in mosul it is advancing on multiple axes of advance. isil does not know what's coming for them, and we are catching them by surprise. killing them where we find them. this operation is exceedingly complex. it's ahead of schedule. so i have to say let's watch the coming days unfold and it's kind of bizarre to hear that when iraqi security forces are just on the edge of mosul about to enter the city. >> trump also says by giving the isis forces so much advance notice, their leaders have already fled mosul. is that true? >> when we find their leaders we're killing them. we've killed about every three days or so take out one of their leaders. all of the deputies of bag dahd eliminated. things we don't talk about. i would say, wolf, a lot is going on here we do not talk about, but to prepare a campaign the size of mosul, this is the most complex thing the iraqi security forces have d

also called daesh. story is finished. >> the story daesh in iraq finished. >> reporter: you think they will be defeated? he said yes. as for how long it will take to get rid of isis, we probably got our most realistic answer from him and he ought to know. considering more than one million residents still in the city, he said it would take probably two to three months. grueling months. by the way, among those residents, his mother and three sisters. incentive enough to get into the fight. >> thank you, greg palkot. >>> tonight we continue our how we fight series from the white house. here's bret baier. >> the military has undergone a transformation but another major change is the way america approaches our traditional foes. when he first ran for president, barack obama promised he would meet with america's enemies without preconditions. >> the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration is ridiculous. >> reporte

fighter jets regularly take off from the french aircraft carrier to attack daesh terrorists in iraq andyria. and we're supporting this operation by protecting the carrier and ensuring its safety. >> the augsburg was brought into service towards the end of the cold war. it's specially equipped to track submarines. but times change, and so has this frigate. it's now capable of launching anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. but the biggest threat is posed by speedboats armed with explosives. that is why the augsburg's crew regularly runs practice drills. >> signal for the speedboat alarm. >> in this exercise, a speedboat is approaching, but it's not responding to the augsburg's numerous warnings. >> our weapons are locked on you. it turned away immediately -- turned away immediately. [gunfire] >> an officer takes us down to the engine room. the vessel has two diesel 5,300 horsepower engines. there are also two gas turbines that produce about five times that amount of power. this makes the augsburg the fastest ship in the german navy. >> if we need to accelerate to 60 kilometres an hour, w

there's only one group of people hoping to wake up and kill as many people as they can and that is daesh and al qaeda and those groups. my concern is to have a strategy to contain them and when the ideological war. reporter: something you have been fighting for a lot of years -- how is that going to change under a trump administration? mr. smith: i can make a prediction. tonow republicans would like send more inmates to guantanamo, but once upon a time, john mccain and a bunch of other people were in favor of closing one time of. has been allmp over the map on a variety of issues. what president trump does, we will have to see. is there time in the obama administration to close it or bring the number down even more? i forget the numbers now, but i think we're down , below 20 that have been deemed eligible for transfer, so we could possibly bring the numbers down a little more, but there is not time to close it. the law is very clear on that and there's no executive order that can turn it. what are the generals telling you that they need? mr. smith: i asked our intelligence, surveillance,

we have slowly taken about half the territory that daesh had. mosul is not going to be easy but eventually, it will fall. --are on the outset arts we're in the outskirts of the capital. i would like to see the general approach that the president has taken continue, but what is donald trump going to do? is he going to say what president obama was doing was right? probably not, but how is he going to change it? his rhetoric would have you believe that he was going to go from pulling everybody out to sending 100,000 troops in. anator mccain has advocated much more robust presence to make this more of an american fight and i think that would be a huge mistake. i think you have to understand that you have got to find partners in the muslim world and lead.em they don't want a western nation to come in and tell them how to live and fix their problems and fight their fights. does donald trump understand that? does michael flynn understand that? i've got more confidence in the latter but it is a more -- it is a low bar to jump over. i am worried about wh

. >> we should be conscious of the potential that daesh may attempt. >> the group is exploring a variety of means for infiltrating them in the west including in refugee flows. >> now even hillary admitted in private we can't vet these refugees. in other words she's willing to gamble with our life. donald trump, he supports extreme vetting of refugees, especially ones coming from countries in the middle east that have a whole lot of jihadists and represent a clear and present danger. have we not learn anything from europe? hillary apparently has. watch this. >> we're facing the worst refugee crisis since the end of world war ii and i think the united states has to do more. i would like to see us move from what is a good start from 10,000 to 65,000 and begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in. >> that make you feel safer? what she just said is a 550 percent increase. these unvetted refugees kill you, attack our homeland, she would be responsible. what about board ear security and trump's promise to build a wall. a country without borde

. >> if daesh stand in fight they're going to be killed. there's no question about that. they run, they'll either be captured or killed. they're not going to be allowed to escape. >> meanwhile iranian-backed shea militias are in the western in an attempt to cut office is escape group. the shea forces are not supposed to enter and in response to shoes shiite militias turkey sent tanks to border, tanks from capitol and turkey would be closely monitoring in northern iraq. iraqi special forces move to the city but the underlying problems which many people are afraid of that we will be watching closely in the next coming of weeks and we will keep you up to date. jenna: benjamin thank you. john: brand new developments in america's election headquarters and they concern donald trump and his taxes with "the new york times" obtaining documents that it says show that in the early 1990's as he scrambled to stay off financial ruin avoided reporting millions of dollars of taxable income by using tax avoidance maneuver his own lawyers advised him that the internal revenue service would

path because the most important thing is to be precise in targeting the terrorism, the extremism, daesh not doing anything which could help them to recruit. >> ( translated ): i think that the most beautiful response we can give the terrorists is love, joy, happiness, culture, music. so, we need to keep this going as loud as possible. so, yes, i hope we'll continue even stronger, that people will realize that life isn't about the money, life doesn't revolve around the little problems we might have, life is love. >> reporter: but while paris puts on a brave face, a new survey shows that terrorism remains the biggest concern of almost half the french population. they fear that islamic state will follow through on a threat made earlier this year to intensify attacks on france in revenge for its military role against the caliphate, a world away from notre dame. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in paris. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we remember leonard cohen, poet and novelist, a musical cult figure who became a hugely influential songwriting star. jeffrey brown has our look at the

when i talked to a peshmerga general that said we can defeat daesh, but isis is being kept alive.at the shi'a militias are there to areas.kirkuk and other because theyrning carry the iraqi flag so if the , peshmerga fire on them as they approach, it's treasonous. they're firing on forces carrying the iraqi flag. next to that iraqi flag is also a militia flag or a religious flag that sends a message to students, that we are coming not as liberators but we are coming to demonstrate we have primacy now. the message is not only to sunni iraqis, but to the peshmerga and the kurds as well that we are coming to take back what we want . this is what you hear from the leadership of these militias, foot guys.the they think they are doing some thing that is noble and right. mr. doran: you think we could frustrate those aspirations with a relatively light commitment of troops? if i hear you correctly, you are saying that the key is the political commitment and political consistency. and that that alone will have a beneficial effect as to the significant commitment of troops. mr. pregent: i'm

they said the mosul isn't about liberating the sunni population from isis or daesh, it's an operationto make between 2007 surge and this isis strategy today i was on the ground during the surge and i just recently came back. at no time will we have allowed or been a part of -- meaning supporting -- a military force that flies sectarian flags towards a sunni town and that's what's happening today. and as you look at the next 80 days, what can happen in iraq, we should all be concerned that iran, the militias, the parties that don't have the mission of securing the population or defeating isis believe they have 80 days to do as much as they want. this isn't only in iraq, also this in syria. they believe they literally have 80 days to get as much as they can and wait and see to see what happens with the u.s. election. i won't go into the specifics but we talked about that this morning. there's some interesting polling numbers coming out of iraq and it's not so much as who they prefer, they just want somebody to do something about it. 66% prefer hillary clinton, 19% trump. but both believ

quote, the success of liberating a huge area that daesh does not have the guts or motivation to fightthink the operation is on track and i'm hopeful we liberate the city before the end of the year, end quote. that will be a big job. the battle to take the second largest town started six weeks ago. the prime minister did not say how many iraqi troops have been killed since the operation first began. martha: the brazilian president declaring three days of national mourning after a plane carrying the brazilian soccer team crashed in colombia. 81 people were onboard this flight. a handful have survived. the numbers still unclear at this point but the mourning is deep in the country of brazil. the team was on their way to a tournament final. they were taking off from sao paulo yesterday, stopping in bolivia, crashing near an airport in colombia. phil keating in miami. any preliminary word what caused this plan to go down? reporter: we know this, martha, around 10:00 p.m. the pilots of this charter plane declared an electrical emergency. shortly thereafter, almost immediately all contact wa

we stand together in the fight against daesh.nato is stepping up by contributing awax aircraft to improve our overall intelligence reconnaissance. nato is moving forward with enhanced information-sharing measures and other capabilities as well. we have to remember nato's biggest military operation in afghanistan was a direct response to 9/11. as president obama and other leaders have noted in warsaw, we did far more than simply reaffirm our article 5 obligations to our common security. ally agreed to the most significant reinforcement of our collective defense at any time since the cold war. warsaw just this summer. one of the bumper -- well, the bumper sticker headline for warsaw was nato, an aessential alliance protecting our citizens and projecting stability. nato secretary-general stoltenberg recently at a discussion, he had in harvard just a month ago said kind of poignantly put this together in the phrase, standing together as we always have done, stronger together as we always have been. i think that summarizes where we ar

we stand together in the fight against daesh. nato is stepping up by contributing awax aircraft to improve our overall intelligence reconnaissance capabilities. nato is moving forward with enhanced information-sharing measures and other capabilities as well. we have to remember nato's biggest military operation in afghanistan was a direct response to 9/11. as president obama and other leaders have noted in warsaw, we did far more than simply reaffirm our article 5 obligations to our common security. allies agreed to the most significant reinforcement of our collective defense at any time since the cold war. warsaw just this summer. one of the bumper -- well, the bumper sticker headline for warsaw was nato, an aessential alliance protecting our citizens and projecting stability. nato secretary-general stoltenberg recently at a discussion he had in harvard just a month ago said kind of poignantly put this together in the phrase, standing together as we always have done, stronger together as we always have been. i think that summari

they said the mosul isn't about liberating the sunni population from isis or daesh, it's an operation to revenge or avenge what happened 1400 years ago. so the biggest problem i have is the comparison that i'm able to make between 2007 surge and this isis strategy today i was on the ground during the surge and i just recently came back. at no time will we have allowed or been a part of -- meaning supporting -- a military force that flies sectarian flags towards a sunni town and that's what's happening today. and as you look at the next 80 days, what can happen in iraq, we should all be concerned that iran, the militias, the parties that don't have the mission of securing the population or defeating isis believe they have 80 days to do as much as they want. this isn't only in iraq, also this in syria. they believe they literally have 80 days to get as much as they can and wait and see to see what happens with the u.s. election. i won't go into the specifics but we talked about that this morning. there's some interesting polling numbers coming out of iraq and it's not so much as who the

daesh -- dr. icenhour who is , here today on behalf of the oak ridge laboratory, leads a consortium for advanced simulation of light water reactors. we're looking forward to hearing his discussion of that. secretary said by the end of the year, the department that would begin to process moving forward with interim storage facilities for nuclear waste. solving -- that's something senator feinstein and i congratulated him for and have encouraged. i'm pleased to report after our hearing, the department took the initial step of seeking information on private interim nuclear waste storage sites. we need to move on all tracks at the same time to solve the nuclear waste stalemate. i appreciate the secretary's attention to this. sen. alexander: secretary moni's took that important step. new congress should take the next steps and pass the bipartisan nuclear waste administration act introduced last year by senator feinstein and i. congress should pass the pilot program that would allow the secretary to tak