taliban strikes in southern afghanistan killing five people and another 13 policemen and soldiers in helman the latest on the mass graves found in malaysia our reporter is at the scene, deep in the jungle. ♪ iraq has launched a military operation to try to retake anbar province from i.s.i.l. what we know is shia para military forces are involved in this operation that some fear could raise sectarian tensions i.s.i.l. fighters took over ramadi just over a week ago and emron has more from baghdad. >> reporter: we are hearing troops have been for ten days to retake parts of the anbar province this is a joint effort between shia forces iraqi forces and other iraqi forces and the police. it's quite likely to be a big operation mounted in stages along some of the roads in anbar province and anbar province is a desert and taking over key roads is crucial and they are are talking about ramadi and ramadi fell to i.s.i.l. and sparked a huge internal crisis. >>> somali armed group al-shabab said it killed 25 kenya police officers and they were ambushed north of the town here and there are conflicting

the interior ministry tells us that there is fighting in three did districts in helman province thatu said where the taliban forces got in and attacked at least -- captured at least three army checkpoints and surrounded the district headquarters. the interior ministry says reinforcements have been sent in. but the phones there appear to be down. usually basically around afghanistan they use cell phones the phones there appear to be down so would he don't have the latest on what's happening there in helman province. other mayors have been attacked also. but in just the laughed hour. in the last hour a suicide bomber attacked a court. he and two other a side bombers remember killed. two policemen were killed in at that tack. there is a siege in kandahar. two policeman on top of a roof, they have killed at least one woman in at that siege. it's been going on since last night. since late last night and in northern afghanistan there has been constant on and off fighting between the taliban fighters have have many of the villages and district headquarters surrounded and the provincial capi

taliban strikes in southern afghanistan killing five people and another 13 policemen and soldiers in helman

afghanistan. 13 policemen and 7 soldiers have already been killed in this siege and now zaad in the helmannce and the police chief appealed for immediate help from the afghan government and jennifer glasse has more from kabul. >> reporter: afghan officials tell us that fighting is going on in three areas of the province of afghanistan. and nowzad the standoff has been particularly difficult going on for many hours, the taliban taking at least three army checkpoints and surrounding the district headquarters at least 20 army and police have been killed so far in that attack. local officials have called to reenforcements and the interior ministry say they sent them but it's hard to get updates from there because the phone system seems to be down in the area and that is the latest in the series of attacks. there is a siege going on in kandahar with gunmen on the roof and surrounded by afghan forces and have killed one woman so far in wordak province we saw four suicide gunmen attack the local kourtsz -- courts with two gunmen and there are sporadic clashes between forces and taliban who are in

. >> direct helman can you talk to us?s and breaking news. >> what is going on in ferguson missouri. >> and wolf blitzer joins me now. wolf 35 years, i mean it's amazing to believe, it's hard to believe, you've been here now 25 years, i've been here about 13 years or so. what stands out to you in all the years, all the stories you've covered? >> all these stories, at least the 25 i've been here so many of them have been amazing stories, whether the first gulf war that really put cnn on the map, when we were covering what was going on in baghdad. we had three journalists, three reporters there. plus our photographers, our producers who were there, peter arnette, bernie shah john holman. they were literally risking their lives. i was at the pentagon reporting on what was going on. >> you had just started. >> i started on may 8th 1980 and saddam hussein invaded kuwait a few months later. so tv was a whole new world. and at that time you remember anderson the whole world literally was watching cnn, because we were the only 24/

. >>> let me bring in ambassador joe wilson and also caroline mechanical man hell helman. does this bush have any more credibility? >> no. he has the same advisors who skewed the intelligence to make case for war in the first place. they're now skewing facts to make themselves look good and avoid any sort of accountability whatsoever. i might add mr. bush likes to say that he likes his parents. we're going to to get over that. inlike his parents, too. i'm over that but i'm not over him and he should not be our president. >> aren't we getting a replay here from jeb bush? he says he wouldn't have invaded iraq. but moving forward right now with his criticism of president obamand a and the way he's handling isis doesn't that lead us to believe he would be enthralled put pentagon troops on the ground which the american people don't want? what about that? >> i think he and in fact a number of the other candidates have got these neoconservatives on their foreign policy advisory staffs. for these neoconsciouservatives, it really is how many arabs are you going to kill today, tomor

she ran the veterans affair and now fire director sharon helman is suing to get her job back. them to look at the firing and the va blasting the suit and saying that all firings are final. we will see. >>> and a living veteran in north carolina say that is he got a letter from the va telling him that you're dead. he was not. the notice cancelled the ben fitds that he depends on. they sent checks to his ex-wife to cover funeral expenses. the the va saying that they're trying to correct it. >>> four years we have seen the 100 k bike ride with former president and according to the president, this was the best year yet. >> if i had to give them a rider award, it would be you. people at fox do not know it but i recognize it. >> the medical a team joins us now. he seems proud. >> i worked hard to train for this. >> you're "the cycle" champion. >> he was riding on two partial knee replacements this year. you can not tell. i heard that he is riding better than ever. i witnessed it. he relates and knows where they are in the trail. a personal commitment. i got to talk to him about the