degradation of isis is not the end goal. we must defeat isis. i recognize there are many pressing challenges in the middle east, but defeating isis is the united states' number one goal in the region. as we said before, when everything is a priority nothing is a priority. we must continue to keep our focus on the most urgent matter at hand. at this moment we are still in a phase characterized by major military operations, the expansion of isis hasses necessitated a large-scale military response and our measures are reclaiming iraq and syria in which isis has had a large and destructive footprint. our end goal in this phase is the regional elimination of isis through military force. the military power of the coalition will remain where this fraudulent caliphate has existed in order to set the conditions for a full recovery from the tyranny of isis. under president trump's leadership and with the strength of this historic coalition, our common enemy will remain under intense pressure. soon, our efforts in iraq and syria will enter a new phase defi

isis suspects. and in this part of iraq most people are sunnis. >> navai: what are the chances you've got some isis fighters in that room? >> navai: but it's such a hard process to really tell if somebody is an ordinary guy or if he's an isis fighter. how can you be 100% sure? (shouting) >> navai: so the guys just pulled this man away. they're telling me now that families here have said that he tried to blackmail them. that when they were fleeing, he said if you don't pay me, if you don't give me money, i'm going to go and tell isis that you're fleeing and they'll kill you. >> navai: it's suddenly got quite chaotic here. they're accusing him of being an isis fighter. we weren't allowed to follow him. we don't know where they've taken him. one of the militia leaders takes us to a building where they're holding isis suspects. as we approach the building, we keep filming with a phone. the militiamen tell us the prisoners were picked up among refugees fleeing isis territory. we don't see the man who was

isis is losing the fight in iraq and syria.ut that they not be enough to loosen its grip on the minds of many of its followers. holly williams, cbs northern iraq. >>> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible results in as little as 12 hours. but can it fix this teen's skateboarding mishap? nope. so let's be clear: clearasil works fast on teen acne, not so much on other teen things. the following ad for your viewing convenience. so i just switched to geico. what took you so long? i know, i saved a ton of money on car insurance. that's what i'm talking about! geico also gives you 24/7 access to licensed agents! booooyah. good game, you really crushed it. no son, geico crushed it. ♪ ♪ >>> sheryl crow has a new album dropping next month called "be myself. "and these days part of being herself is making women aware of the importance of early cancer detection. she's a survivor and discussed it all with rita braver. >> reporter: this is where we're used t

isis is not an individual. isis is an ideology. the way that they are in iraq with president bush or dick cheney and the rest of his cronies, all right they said we have a war on terrorism. how are you going to fight that? that's like saying let's go fight sunshine and bring it back. host: thanks for the questions. guest: thank you, james, for that question. thank you for your service to our country as well. this president has called for about a 3% increase in military spending. some of us, myself included, believe that is not nearly enough to get our military back on its feet, to make her military strong again to confront the threats that we face. ae testimony we hear on weekly basis before the armed services committee would suggest that each of the branches in our military have a long ways to go, years to go to get back on their feet, even with substantial increases in spending. you hear testimony from the navy that half of the aircraft cannot even fly marines, that they testify that they have to take parts from museums and salva

i see isis as, in a way, being two separate entities. one is the territorial entity in iraq and syria that's subject to the local dynamics of syrian and iraqi politics. and the other is this kind of global caliphate idea that's energizing people in many different countries, and that will probably survive the extinction of the territory of that first caliphate. >> reporter: as you interviewed some of these isis supporters and followers, influencers, did you feel they were trying to convince you of their righteousness, their rightness, or even to recruit you? >> yes. in many cases, they were speaking to me because i think they thought that i might join their movement. and they would explicitly phrase it like this. they'd say, "we're giving you an invitation. we like you," they would say. "we don't want you to burn forever. we want you to be on our side and share in your part of paradise." i was able to have interactions with them that were enjoyable, that were social, that were things like playing soccer, like hanging out in cafes, like ha

. >>> also, amal clooney is taking on isis. trying to fight the terrorists the best way she knows how. not with a gun or a bomb but with a legal brief. >> this is a global threat. it need a global response. part of it cannot only be a judicial one but also on the battlefield. >> they explain the horror of isis' crimes and how justice can be served. >>> finally, 75 years of world history told through cia maps. from the eastern front to cuban missiles, central moscow to central baghdad. >>> first, here's my take. we do not yet have the official agenda for next month's meeting between donald trump. it might be remembered as the beginning of a handover of power from the united states to china. after 75 years of leadership on the world stage, trump seems determined for america to retreat opening a space that will eagerly be filled by the communist party of china. trump railed against china on the campaign trail bellowing it was raping the united states. he vowed to label it a currency manipulator on his first day in office. in his f

caller: there is no evidence isis exists. how me evidence that isis exists and doing everything you guys claim they are doing. they are not. host: greg myre, do you want to pick that up? guest: i think people in iraq and syria would certainly disagree with that. controlled en and territory, it caught the u.s. and others by surprise back in 2014. that territory has been shrinking dramatically and again ed earlier, envision scenario in the coming month longer they may no control territory in iraq or in still be they could effective at low level insurgency, carrying out car bomb necessary major cities, those type of things. not saying they will disappear, controlling territory and claim thanksgiving islamic very much is threatened in iraq and syria. hey have presence in libya and afghanistan, so the notion of completely seems way off and individual attacks like car bomb necessary multiple countries, could still be there. we are hitting on crucial point of they will be able to hold territory. host: what is the expectation isis on

we are going to fight isis house to house. but we put a safe sector for the civilians if they want to come to us. >> reporter: bearing a victorious move on the front line, and it's easy to understand why. nearly three years ago, isis swept triumphantly across northern iraq, as many iraqi putting up a fight. the extremists captured mosul with ease. a gang of violent fanatics who claim to have established a new islamic state. now iraqi forces have regrouped and isis have been beaten back. some iraqi commanders told us they'll retake the entire city within weeks. they already have isis surrounded in mosul and they're pummeling the extremists. [ explosions ] but this is the cost of liberation. >> down the street the main government building. >> reporter: a city smashed beyond recognition, its people frightened and exhausted. they survived more than two years under isis, only to see their neighborhoods turned into battlefields. god bless you, said this woman to the troops. it's been a horrible week. on this street, they've defused

nadya and other young girls were taken by isis, raped by one after another, traded and bought by isiss one of the young boys who became what they call a cover for the caliphate. and what happened to her and her family happened to many young girls in 2014. there are still some 6,000 members of yisidi who are still being held. i wanted to try to help nadya and people like her to try and bring isis to justice and one of the ways we're trying to do that is to convince the security council to set up an investigation and start collecting information in iraq on these crimes. >> coming up, i ask amal clooney for advice to those who say it's their civil war, why should the rest of us get involved. she will explain. because she knows that the most comforting thing about comfort food, is who you're sharing it with. marie callender's. it's time to savor. real milk has eight times more protein than almond milk. real milk has naturally occurring calcium, almond milk doesn't. and it also only has 2% almonds, which looks like this. what's the other 98%? get real, get naturally nutritious real milk. o

john: either isis is done and it means nothing or isis is not done. which would you pick?ichael: isis is not done. they have been planning for this. the dearly departed spokesman was the administrator of all of syria. in his last communique in may of last year he said -- it was , implicit in his message -- we are going to lose our state. what we have to do is return to the desert where we reconstitute ourselves and built up our forces and marshaled resources in the 2008-2011 period after the sunni awakening in iraq and the so-called surge drove us out of that country. they are planning to do that again. if america says you have lost mosul, fallujah, ramadi, now you lost raqqa, we are out of here. guess what? isis 2.0. it may not look exactly the same as it does now. i can tell you i am noticing a transformation i never thought i would have noticed with an organization like this. when it was founded as al qaeda in iraq, it was led by foreign fighters. over time, it underwent an iraqization, taken over by native iraqis, including former members of hussein's organization. as

iraqi forces, pounded isis. and the people of this once wealthy city, fled with their bundles of possessions. sometimes with just the clothes on their backs. a part of the world so ancient it is mentioned in the bible. now, brought to its knees. in the neighborhood, around 150 yard from the front line, mohammad yunis made it to safety with his young fame loo. he told us isis fighters are hiding in people's homes. including four in his. before it was hit by a mortar. as the the iraqis claw back one street at a time, isis has smashed its way from house to house. so its fighters could move without being detected from ir tuesday. but today we couldn't get within a block of it, the general told us isis is still sniping at his men. contesting every inch of territory even as it is forced to retreat. and when isis is finally pushed out of mosul, which could be in weeks, scars will remain. assan ali fled with his wife hallah and five children. but told us they had to leave behind the body of his father, after he died a w

they give rorer participating in this conference was to counter isis' it is encouraging to see the forces of isis to engineer a tv in their computer monitors they will seek a combined 68 nations and organizations to share a resolve of isis or daish lasting defeat the coalition is united to stop the nicest resurgence halting global ambitions and we're ready to grow stronger in battle. with the joint session of congress to make clear it is the policy of the united states to demolish and destroy this barbaric terrorist organization many of us represent countries that marks one year since 32 illness and people were killed and 300 wounded with the attack on brussels. the fourth minister home says this is a solemn day but we are grateful to have him with us today in the same month lead child was killed and 600 iraqis injured and i sis has carried out horrific attacks in paris and in stable of - - install and also on social media the phenomenon we're working to combat together with the major point of discussion today. has become a memory and warned let us honor him with the unwavering dedication

analysts i'm talking to believe this may be isis, if this is an isis attack, isis' first real attack in london. it also is of note that isis has put out videos featuring up to six brits fighting within their ranks, and in those videos they call for attacks against uk targets, again at this hour, we don't know the authorship of this attack. we don't know the motivation and we don't know whether this was directed by any terror organization, or inspired by terror organization. intelligence officials here in washington and in london and among all of the key counterterrorism partners around the world are resolutely focused on the possibility, the probability that eyeis continues to want to attack targets in the west so this is a very real serious issue that will be torn apart by our intelligence analysts on both sides of the atlantic. >> how well integrated are our count gerrer counterterror with those in london. i know they're back and forth communication from virginia but presumably we have counterterror officials at the our embassy in london and are they integrated within the metropoli

isis.ot 25, not 35. 135. when omar in 19 killed 49 american and her window, what did he stop to do halfway through? he picked up his cell phone and did what? called 9-1-1, not to bring that to swear allegiance to the islamic state. things that the last administration's attorney general tried to censor from the transcript of that call. jesus is serious and the worst jihadist threat we've seen in almost a century. but on january 20th, 27 and at 12:00, it all changed and the president -- [applause] we are going from eight years we are going to ameliorate the threat. we are going to degrade the threat. how about this, we are going to eradicate isis. [applause] >> mike waltz, u.s. special forces found her. have you see isis and also russia's vulnerable mess? >> you know, i'll share with your personal experience of mine on the ground in afghanistan. there's been a lot of discussion and hand wringing and we are 15 years into this war. if their nations longest word. a lot of folks don't realize we

he wants to defeat isis, as he said.t some point, he's going to have to explain this, talk to the american people about what he is doing. we heard reports about the increased air war against isis, hearing now but these ground troops. he's going to have to explain this. he has a long history of saying, we don't want to give her what we're doing, we need the element of surprise. >> bret: a fair point. >> that's true, but one thing obama didn't do well was talk about the wars we are fighting, we kept fighting in afghanistan. the president and commander in chief owes it to the troops and the country to talk about what we're doing. >> bret: is your sense come out tomorrow, that there is a full court press here? that he wants it faster, not like this long-term plan? >> i think he wants it faster, but how many more troops as a going to take, how long did that to be there, even after you get rid of isis in a certain area, how long you have to stay? this is a problem had an iraq and afghanistan. he is making a commitment, he says

isis attacks in egypt aren't confined to the sinai. in december, a bomb at a church in cairo killed at least 25 people, including many children. isis also claimed responsibility. the government is failing to protect christians. he is the latest arrival from north sinai. he requests that we conceal his identity. he has family left behind. we are told to either convert to islam or pay a tax. we refuse. a familiar isis threat and a stark choice for christians living in the north sinai. >>> team trump's russia connection isn't over. next, we take you live to moscow for the russian view with our matthew chance. today, unlimited gets the network it deserves. verizon. (mic thuds) uh, sorry. it's unlimited without compromising reliability, on the largest, most advanced 4g lte network in america. (thud) uh... sorry, last thing. it's just $45 per line. forty. five. (cheering and applause) and that is all the microphones that i have. (vo) unlimited on verizon. 4 lines, just $45 per line. >>> welcome back. i'm natalie allen. >>> u.s. president, do

isis is going to create the son of isis. i don't know what it looks like, it may not be successful but what i'm saying doesn't advocate the idea but it is important to do what we are doing. isis is losing and that is great because it makes them less attractive. people don't recruit through group losing, they recruit to group winning. the number of people joining isis in the west has dropped off and that is good, but the political issues that have created this group in the first place are unlikely to be fixed soon. host: our conversation is with peter bergen, written a number of books, including "the osama bin laden i know," and back in :001, the book "holy war inc. inside the secret world of bin laden." in seattle, washington, good morning. caller: good morning. i appreciate the program and the ability to ask questions. i was curious in your research of what you found. when i see a lot of these attacks, the first thing that think of is where did they get these ideas? were they finding them on the internet or was that perhaps

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and they were lured in by isis propaganda., they are trying to escape its deadly grip. >> reporter: why would you still join when you had seen them committing atrocities like that? this is the "cbs weekend news." >> morgan: good evening, i'm demarco morgan with a western edition of the broadcast. as he plans a fortified border wall, president trump apparently needs a sturdier fence around his own yard pain man with a backpack holding cans the mace hopped on to the white house grounds just before midnight. the president was home, the intruder eventually arrested not far from mr. trump's bedroom window. it was supposed to be a quiet working weekend for the president, but with the reignited debate over health care, and questions swirling around mr. trump's wiring accusations against president obama, things are hardly quiet these days. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: 26-year-old jonathan tran of california appeared in court saturday. the d.c. metropolice report says he claimed to be a friend of the president and that he had an

isis is well skilled in this. they have professionals who have expertise in this particular area so they know how to manipulate the information environment and create situations that they know will cause concern for us in western countries. as i mentioned in my comments to you, i do believe they do concern touse our operate at higher standards and prevent civilian casualties as a way to distract our campaign. it is important we recognize that. that has not changed how we approach things, does not change our values, adherence to law, and the fact that we do operate at a higher standard. it is an important thing to recognize about our enemy. mr. thornberry: i will conclude by saying, we want to be informed of the results of the investigation. we share your commitment to make sure we do things the right way. but the investigation needs to a core, and then you see what it finds. i will trust you and your folks to keep us fully informed once you are able to reach conclusions on that. let me yield to the ranking member.

killed by isis.he air, helicopters providing much of that coverage as opposed to high-altitude bombers and now forces are moving ever closer to the next main target, the famous mosque from where isis leader first declared the caliphate. in other disturbing news, a video released by isis shows children armed with weapons training to clear houses using life targets. we cannot show all of the scenes, safe to say at the end, the children execute bound men. isis from their very inception have been brainwashing children, training them how to kill. one of the great worries now as a whole generation of iraqis knows nothing but the brutality of the terror group. moving forward, surely that will be another major concern. >> melissa: thank you for that report. >> eric: new information on isis and the danger it may posted one of our nato allies. after we just heard from benjamin about the progress in retaking mosul from the terrorist group, a new report finds that the islamic state is gaining a foothold in turke

but i still support isis.pport their violent ideology, after the paris attacks, my prayers are with the attackers and be with the victims. what do you do with someone like that, wolf? you can't criminalize and ideology. you can't put someone in prison for having offensive beliefs. how do authorities know who is simply a radical extremist type and who might be the next ticking time bomb? >> we have heard the stories over and over again. young men going to fight with isis, then coming back to hire home countries. are europe and u.s. making the necessity for recruitment? >> i think they are are making progress. i think the u.s. was ahead of the curve from europe and i think that europe particularly countries like belgium have kind of been scrambling in the aftermath of some of these brutal takes that we have seen from isis returnees. they are now scrambling to staunch the believeding so to speak. there was an attitude when a lot of extremists left in france and european countries that maybe it is better to get ri

isis is going to create the son of isis. i don't know what it looks like, it may not be successful but what i'm saying doesn't advocate the idea but it is important to do what we are doing. isis is losing and that is great because it makes them less attractive. people don't recruit through group losing, they recruit to group winning. the number of people joining isis in the west has dropped off and that is good, but the political issues that have created this group in the first place are unlikely to be fixed soon. host: our conversation is with peter bergen, written a number of books, including "the osama bin laden i know," and back in :001, the book "holy war inc. inside the secret world of bin laden." in seattle, washington, good morning. caller: good morning. i appreciate the program and the ability to ask questions. i was curious in your research of what you found. when i see a lot of these attacks, the first thing that think of is where did they get these ideas? were they finding them on the internet or was that perhaps

isis has been using them as shields. they been corralling them and they are fighting from those positions, using them as shields. they know the american airpower will be very hesitant to strike at targets where they are using a high number of civilians. there fighting from hospitals and places like mosques and schools. they have done dug tunnels under that part of the city so they are able to move and pop up where they want. it will be a significant fight. harris: what happens when we take mosul? we will take mosul. reporter: i think isis will lose that part of the rack. they have less of an ability to claim their caliphate, but members of isis will go into the mountainous area and change their tactics from the battlefield army to striking as a terrorist organization and in an insurgent manner. the big question is what happens next. you have a shiite government in baghdad, a sunni majority, the tensions there are what gave isis the ability to cover the ground because essentially they did have a message saying look, you'r

nic robertson has more on his ties to isis. >> reporter: the news agency associated with isis says they claim him as one of their soldiers. they did exactly the same with the attacker in nice last year, the two attacks very similar. what isis on this news organization is saying is that this has been done in response to their calls for attacks on the coalition. so this is very much in keeping with what we've seen isis do before, claiming him as one of their soldiers. what we learned from the authorities here, british born, prime minister theresa may saying british intelligence services, mi5 investigated him being periphery to another incident several years ago. they decided he wasn't relevant going forward, not under recent or current investigation, but what police say they're doing now is looking at his motivation, looking at his preparations and looking at his associates, the point of his associates overnight last night armed police raided the building behind me, used a battery ram to get lou the door. people people arrested there. eight people total from six different locations. it's

we have to defeat isis.s isis remains, they're going to continue to conspire -- inspire this type of inspired lone wolf attack that we've certainly experienced here in the united states. we have to be concerned about directed wolf pack attacks, we've seen that around the world as well. so we have to address by taking it seriously enough and acknowledge the reality that islamic terror is a growing, metastasizing, evolving problem and we have to address it because it's impossible to be 100% perfect here in the u.s. sharyl: by all accounts, islamic extremist terrorism has vastly expanded in recent years. on president obama's way out of the office, though, he declared that no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack in the u.s. and he's right if he's talking about lone wolf have happened here in larger numbers, versus these network attacks directed directly by isis, for example. does he deserve credit for what he says having no isis-connected, al qaeda-connected attacks on u

radicalized isis recruits. watch c-span's washington journal live at seven eastern saturday morning, join the discussion.the us central command head general joseph votel test avoid by the before the house armed services committee announcing the military has launched an investigation to determine that the us was responsible for recent civilian casualties in mosul, iraq. he had knowledge the military has not relax the rules of engagement. this hearing is an hour 45 minutes. >>. [inaudible conversation] the committee will come to order. today we turn our attention to the central command area of operations or much of the nation's military power has been engaged since 1991. we are rightfully putting attention on other threats such as a resurgent russia and the newly assertive china. the threat of terrorism has not gone away. in fact, we just start hearing a few weeks ago is difficult to see how isis is eliminated from syria and al qaeda with its various branches has not disappeared either. and while terrorists have

it's been critical for isis. >> this is actually a first in the campaign against isis.everyone understand what's the military calls an air assault operation you put infantry on and we have airstrikes going in support of it and ground artillery firing in support of that operation. that's a first. it's important because of the dam to be sure and the road or the line of communication that leads into raqqah they want to cut that off and the town there at the dam is a place where isis actually had its headquarters in the early stages of their campaign and probably still remnants of leaders there. so it's critical and part of a shaping operation to encroach the area all around raqqah and squeeze it and cut it off and eventually conduct a ground assault. >> shannon: many analysts say it will bleed to other areas and we'll only see more as what we saw in london because they'll want other targets and "the wall street journal" said some feel the threat has diminished but worse may come as they're forced out of sanctuaries in raqqah and syria. general. >> that's absolutely the cas

a 28-year-old isis veteran. rare insight into the mind of an unrepentant isis supporter. >> we are muslims who are dreaming of a caliphate. every muslim in the world even if he has a beard from one meter to one millimeter, a muslim has to believe in a caliphate. >> reporter: that dream led unis to the civil war in syria and to isis. he says he never killed anyone there. let me ask you something. if you had been asked while you were in syria to execute someone, would you have done it? >> look, in islam there is the pledge of allegiance. >> would you have done it? >> because you have to obey the amir. >> so you would have. >> it's islamic law. believe me, it's not a funny thing to execute people. it's something terrible, but yeah. >> how did he -- because as i was watching that, i was saying to you, he looks just like such a normal person. how did he end up joining isis? >> well, i think what unis really shows us, don, in a sense is that islamic extremism is no long their remote external foreign threat of dark men

isis just adds to that.eople crazy when you have a democracy and 350 million muslims living relatively happily within that. sadly, it will continue. i hope it is the last one and i hope this intelligence agencies continue to do the good work they have done up to do the good work they have done up until now because it has been surprising that it has taken this long for them to do one. in europe, not the same issue, but it is linked. the headlines here about teenagers arrested after gangs of school pupils were running riot in their various schools. teachers barricaded in classrooms. that's the picture we are told. this is in the suburbs of north paris. it says race on that. i think we can read between the lines and work out what the newspapers are saying and what marine le pen will talk about. muslims, that's what she will focus on. you remember with the us election, donald trump constantly mentioning problems in paris, even sometimes when there were issues, now there are, and i think marine le pen will will d

ultimately, getting rid of isis is everyone's goal. it's the-- not just the americans and the russianes, but even, say, the saudis and the iranians, also major players in the region, and the turks, would all like isis to go away. but there are other equities, and exactly how you want the chess board to look once isis is gone, on that, there's no agreement between government major powers >> sreenivasan: and in the meantime, the humanitarian crisis continues. >> absolutely. as you said, half a million dead, tens of millions who have been disbursed, many of whom sov bound drownd in one of the oceans or have been picked up by human traffickers and subjected to various indignities or death. it's a true humanitarian tragedy >> sreenivasan: and continuing to add pressure on all the countries neighboring syria as well. >> that's right. in countries that don't have much stability to begin with, places like our ally jordan, like lebanon, turkey-- they've all received literally millions of refugees, as has europe, and none of this is helpful for

they were by isis in the neighborhood on that day. they are saying from what they are hearing from civilians is that isis detonated these trucks to slow the advance of ground forces of iraqi forces. they are also saying that civilians are telling them they are being used as human shields and being brought into this area. their houses are boobytrapped. anything to slow down iraqi forces. none of the information has been independently verified. this is what we are hear frg civilians fleeing mosul. take a listen. >> reporter: we're being fired on. an islamic state would not let the families out. we went out in the middle of the night. people were killed. thank god we managed to escape. we were fired upon from the coalition air force. the snipers go to the top of builds that have families and the air force strikes these buildings killing them and everyone in the house. >> now, ivan, both iraqi and u.s. military officials say that this isn't going to slow down the operation despite the calls from some local provencial leaders to do so. the

how did he end up joining isis?> well, i think what eunice really shows us, don, in a sense is that islamic extremism is no longer this kind of remote external foreign threat of dark men with long periods speaking in different tongues in far flung parts of the world. islamic extremism now exists very much in the west within our own societies and authorities are struggling to grapple with trying to ascertain which young men like eunice have actually become severely radicalized to the point where they would actually carry out violent attacks on their own people and which are maybe partially radicalized but still not violent. it's a very gray, gray area. eunice' specific case, he had a slightly troubled upbringing, converted to islam about 17 years old and after a few years took his mind and twisted them. >> is he dangerous? >> this is what authorities are left trying to grapple with. based on the time that i have spent with eunice and the conversations that we have had, he is very insistent that he would not carry out

lot of the men are separated, the lot of the men are then screened to make sure that they are not isis fighters or sympathisers, and then, this is the place that they will call home for the foreseeable future, we don't know where this operation will end. as far as the eye can see, there are tents and many of the people here get 12 meals a day, it is much better, the situation that they were facing in the west but if you look at the current situation and where we are standing. we are standing in former isis headquarters which is now rubble, utter devastation and it is where the children spend most of the day. they have turned this place into a playground. the un says, that more than 200,000 people have now fled the fighting. 400,000 others are still trapped and they are expecting 300,000 more to the west mosul, as this operation enters its final stages. russia's opposition leader, alexei navalny, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison, for organising the biggest anti—government protests the country has seen in several years.tens of thousands of people attended the rallies in several ci

isis claimed responsibility for the attack. please continue to question two other men detained since the attack which left four people dead. american troops are headed to the fight against isis. lucas tomlinson tells us how many and where they are going. >> u.s. defense officials tell fox to companies from the 82nd airborne division based at fort bragg north carolina, some 200 troops and all, will be departing soon for the ice has spiked in mosul. this comes days after the uss george h.w. bush entered the persian gulf to begin air strikes against isis in iraq and syria. the pentagon is ramping up operations against terrorist groups around the world. u.s. officials tell fox the deferment of homeland security's recent man on electronic devices larger than cell phones on flights to the united states from some muslim nations was imposed in part because a laptop was used to bomb this somali airliner last year. elsa bob in smalley acclaimed responsibility. the top u.s. general for africa said the terrorist group could strike again. >

our first look at the secret plan to defeat isis that president trump asked for. why it might surprise you. >>> family horror. kids find their parents dead from an apparent overdose. the father's job raising big concerns. >>> and breakthrough cholesterol treatment dramatically lowering the risk of a heart attack. "nightly news" begins right now. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. president trump still looking to justify his thus far unproven and widely rejected claim that his campaign was spied on by president obama today gave oxygen to the newest white house claim. that british intelligence was in on the alleged surveillance plot. it happened during what was already a potentially delicate meeting between the president and german chancellor angela merkel. meantime tonight, another major u.s. ally, the british government, is simmering over the allegation. nbc's peter alexander has details. >> i think it was -- >> reporter: tonight confronted by a european reporter for his wiretap allegation

today's conversation is built on three mutual long-term goals, working together to defeat daesh, isis, building stability in region, and bolstering economic dies between our two nations. turkey has been a nato ally since 1952. we continue to exercise military cooperation in that alliance and in the global coalition to defeat daesh. our discussions today re-affirm that we will prevent the resurgence of daesh in previously held territory, and aggressively stop the emergence of new terrorist threats on the ground as well as recruitment of terrorists online. over the past 18 months the u.s. military's ability to operate from turkish bases has enabled to us increase operations against isis by 25% without the united utilization of any aircraft. the u.s. toes top the influence of foreign fighted into iraq and syria. turkier troops have pushed isis of the turkey syria border and the united states is grateful for turkey's important contributions as member of the counter-isis coalition, including the participation last week of four minister the recent coalition meetings hosted by the state depa

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isis is holding the civilian population hostage. if isis catches them they turn them back at gun point. they don't allow families to use isis uses as fighting positions. this was one of the biggest concerns even before this began, the fate of the civilian population. >> we turn back to politics in the united states and the white house will be looking to pivot from a week that offered no victories. >> president trump is coming ta off collapse of a push to repeal obama care. his chief of staff say if republicans will not work with them, then he could turn to moderate democrats. >> i think it's more or less a warning shot that we're willing to talk to anyone. we always have been and i think more so now than ever, it's time for both parties to come together and get to real reforms in this country, whether it be taxes, hillary clinton, immigration, whether it be infrastructure. this president is ready to lead. sort of, you know, over with the games and the legislature. >> president trump is expected to sign an executive order this week t