way that is terrifying, it's painful, and we have to defend ourselves. >> reporter: even if the islamic stateed back, christian and sunni neighbors won't easily trust each other again. there's little faith left here. quentin somerville, bbc news in northern iraq. >>> the united states' top public health agency has warned that the experimental ebola drug zmapp is not going to be available any time soon. the first ebola patient diagnosed in the u.s. is still fighting for his life. thomas duncan, who caught the virus in liberia, is being treated in an isolation ward at a hospital in dallas. nora westbrook reports. >> reporter: unconscious and heavily sedated, thomas duncan is on a ventilator unable to breathe on his own. mr. duncan caught the ebola voi rus in his native liberia. he is being treated here at a hospital in dallas. >> we understand that his situation has taken a turn for the worse. we know that ebola is a very serious disease. and we're hoping for his recovery. >> reporter: his family remain under close watch, but they are symptom-free. they are among 50 people who require daily mon

i think this is -- -- they want to validate their narrative that the islamic state is the protector of islam, that it is protecting the people, the faith, the culture of their lands from the quote, unquote, "crusaders," for lack of a better term. >> i think there's a deeper problem here, and it's one that i haven't -- -- that the president has touched on. he touched on it in his speech to the un general assembly and i think it's one that could really prove to be the undoing of this campaign that he's unleashing and that is the immediate threat is the islamic state, but it's a phenomenon. it's a consequence of decades, centuries of despotic rule in that part of the world by dictators, by kings who have provided no semblance of responsible governance, no accountability. if you look at what's going on in the middle east today, you have enormous poverty. you have this huge youth bulge, the enormous number of young men between the ages of 17 and 30 who are underpaid or have no jobs, you know, lack skills. you have this massive corruption that favors a very thin elite in all of these countri

this is a booby trap from the islamic state. don't walk over there. we just crossed about three quarters of mile of open territory to get here with the pesh soldiers, to find out that they're behind this wall because there's actually a sniper around the corner here and they sent a unit out this way to clear out the sniper. >> in suleiman bek, we didn't see any iraqi troops. but we did come across a commander from the government's ministry of interior, who told us he was helping to coordinate the battle. >> but they're not just fighting isil. shia militias and the peshmerga are trying to consolidate control over disputed areas along the islamic state's border. >> things on the ground indicate that it is a fight for more territory. it is a fight for more natural resources. it's a fight for power. >> not far from the iranian border we met a peshmerga officer who is part of the siege of the city of jalawla. the kurds have never been able to hold on to the city as part of their territory. but they hope that will soon change. >> our forces start from there,

these are live pictures of kobane, which islamic state militants are trying to seize. our correspondents there say a ferocious gun battle has engulfed the eastern edge of the town. we're going to take you live to the border for the very latest. >>> did turkey secure the release last month of dozens of its hostages from islamic state by handing back militant fighters in exchange? >>> one week on, protest numbers, as you can see, have dwindled in hong kong. which side has emerged as the victor in the standoff between pro-democracy campaigners and the authorities? >>> and a british man pleads not guilty to murdering his wife while on honeymoon in south africa. he reveals as well that he was bisexual. we'll have more from outside the court in capetown. >>> aaron also joins us looking at the brazilian election of what policies could win or lose this election. >> absolutely. seven years ago, brazil was a shining star reporting record economic growth, but not now. the country is in recession, so there is no doubt it's the economy that's likely to decide this election. we're g

the islamic state.this is not like the north, where there were sunni co--religionists, some of whom gave aid and assistance to the islamic state. as they pushed into baghdad with its predominantly shia population, they would encounter a very, very hostile environment and probably be thrown out fairly quickly. >> are i.s.i.s. troops able to go freely from syria to iraq to get reenforcements and move troops and supplies? >> i don't think they are moving as freely as they were before we started air strikes. and that's bulk of what we want the air strikes to do on the syrian side, we're dropping bombs or destroying targets but it's less about destroying things on the syrian side of the border than making them unable to act freely to be able to reinforce in the manner you've been talking about, push resupplies, be it material or troops across the border. they are still coming, you can't close that border but they can no longer come in convoice of 50 suvs flying the black flag. that's not happening anymore. >

islamic state captured dozens of tufrkish citizens in iraq. some of thept diplomatic staff, soldiers and children but the militants released the hostages last month. some analysts say turkey's participation in the fight against islamic state could be significant, especially if it's wide ranging. >> if turkey decided to crack down on the islamic state's support, treatment, fund-raising and oil networks that run through turkey that would have a major impact on the islamic state's ability to take and hold territory in syria and iraq. >> turkey's defense minister has called islamic state a threat to national security but he says don't expect immediate steps. u.s. officials are welcoming turkey's participation in this conflict. they say both sides are going to be holding talks to decide what role the country will be playing. >>> nhk world's craig dale. >>> the u.s.-led coalition is gaining more support from countries around the world. australian and dutch leaders say they're sending forces to iraq. and they're committing more aircraft to join the a

troops to syria if other countries don't do the same. >>> the latest hostage video from so-called islamic stateeatures john cantlie claiming he's in the contested city of kobane. >>> mexican authorities searching for a group of missing college students have found human remains in a new area of southern guerrero state. they're being tested to see if they do belong to the young men who were last seen in police custody a month ago. investigators found the mass grave based on statements provided by four people who were arrested on monday. with me is the bbc's mundo reporter. let's start with those four arrested on monday. what do we know about them and why were they picked up? >> they were gang members. authorities say they took part of the abduction of these students disappeared on the 26th of september, and they were the ones who told them about these new mass graves. as we remember, there was another mass grave near iguala where the students were abducted, and the remains there were not from the students, were from another violent crime. and these ones, we don't know if they're going to really h

in arabic, it is a wordplay on islamic state.shows the militant group hard-line ideology and its members violence. [no audio] >> i took heart in this to fight with my own tools. i'm fighting with my own weapon, art. as you can see, this group has caused panic among most people. we have turned terrorism and killing and brutality into a comedy. >> some of the actors are performing under a different name, fearful they could be in danger of retribution. but the iraqi public doesn't seem to mind. the show is a hit, through and through. >> ok, it all started with the price of chocolate pudding, an israeli in berlin proving how affordable the standard of living is compared to back home. >> but when he started facebook page urging fellow israelis to leave their country and create a better life abroad, he triggered a storm of controversy. >> the story has raised some difficult questions about the realities of living in israel and what it means to be israeli, especially for those who have come to live right here in berlin. >> they are from

nato wants turkey to actively turn efforts against islamic state.urkey has said, thanks, but no thanks. is there any effort i could get them to make a decision to step in? >> their message is clear. the price for turkey joining the engagement against islamic state is safe haven in syria protected by a no-fly zone and that the defense be brought against the syrian regime. for now, nato has said no. but to -- turkey realizes it has the crucial airbases that the coalition needs to use and has a half a million soldier army, which it is prepared to use if its demands are met. these are key demand. ingres is in a very strong met -- strong position and it -- ingres knows it is in a very -- ankara knows it is in a very strong position and knows it can wait. the police there are in a strong position and countries like france now appeared to be warming up to its demand, and even secretary of state john kerry saying they are prepared to look at it is emboldening the turks. >> the demise of assad regime drum -- trumps everything else for ingres -- four ankara.

the islamic state is reeking the havoc you're describing. >> abadi came in when really all the control on the ground by the government was lost. the fall of mosul shattered the idea that the state could enforce any form of law and order. and the state that he inherited is a very corrupt one. it lacks efficiency and when you look at the[: ground the areas e not controlled by the politicians who are in government. and many sunnis are playing on the fence. when they look at baghdad they say we found it oppressive. militias are out now sighting alongside the arm eyes. what is better the islamic state and the militia or this weak government. for prime minister abadi for him to sendly wave a magic wand in the middle of a hurricane, it's impossible to expect that suddenly you could reverse things that are still entrenched on the ground. it's a very tough job. >> woodruff: a long way to go and a tough job indeed. ned parker, we thank you very much. >> thank you. great being with you. >> ifill: we turn now to the rapidly approaching midterm elections. if you want to understand why the senate de

i asked them about foreign fighters of islamic state. >> translator: islamic state fighters hardly spoke arabic. many were speaking french. even if we pleaded for help they did not understand. they refused to listen to women and children. anyone who did not obey their orders was killed. >> reporter: islamic state advance is pushing more people out of their homes. and refugees are multiplying, creating a new humanitarian crisis. kenji goto for nhk world, suruc, turkey, near the syrian border. >>> it's time now for business news. ai uchida joins us with the latest. >> regulators in some western countries are clamping down on people who move to tax havens to avoid paying taxes on profits from stock trading. japanese officials are looking at adopting a similar policy. some japanese avoid taxes by moving to places like hong kong or singapore. financial ministry officials said that what countries have done to prevent the tax avoidance. panel members will introduce steps to deal with the problem and consider waving taxes for people who dent sell stocks during a certain period of time before ret

one radical gathering in support of the islamic state. it also operates an internet site in the middle east. >> translator: many young muslims support among people who have been skeptical of the islamic state. >> reporter: they say more than 15,000 have traveled to syria to fight for the islamic state. but they have not yet put together an overall picture of the fighters who are said to have reached the middle east through pakistan and other countries. there was concern expressed by people from countries joining the islamic state. >> our estimation today is probably about 1,000 potential aspiring fighters that have moved from this region, based on kind of our overall assessment. that number could get larger as we go forward. >> reporter: as concerns spread through the international community, the government in august banned expressions of support for the islamic state. the existing law in the country does not allow authorities to detain someone unless there is evidence that the person is involved in acts of terrorism. so they cannot suppr

they want to roll up division after division against the islamic state which the president says it's not islamic. notes it's not a state. they fly a black flag just like al-qaeda flies a black flag. if thrpz not so serious, it would be laughable. we have crossed into the absurd. this country isn't awakening to it. there isn't a single official with the guts to say, this is stupid, obama. this is stupid to all the flag officers in the pentagon. it's got to stop now. we have got to right this ship and we've got to do it now. >> couldn't agree more. this is not a war we can win. the american people understand -- we don't really care. we can now get our oil from home. we don't need middle east oil. let them kill each other. lou: do you realize we've had four star generals, the head of the cia, and i'm talking about david, created the doctrine for us military, the long war, we now have people talking amiablably in order to defeat the islamic state. what kind of mindless nonsense are they spewing and they believe it that a superpower cannot contend with a -- (?) with an ideology that is so

attacks by islamic state.ressure is going to give them more support. >> the battle is intensifying once more. this was a day of colossal explosions. aircraft from the us-led coalition launching another series of dramatic airstrikes. one of these columns of smoke came from a suicide truck bomb driven by a single jihadist will stop the kurds say they blew it up before it reached its target. close to the border, we listen to the sounds of battle. it was relentless. fighters from the so-called islamic state entered the city and there have been furious street battles. today was by far the most intense. the kurds say airstrikes are helping to push the attackers back. we cannot verify the claim or these pictures which report to show captured islamic state weapons. other images too gruesome to broadcast showed that militants nearby. border, a defiant demonstration by turkish kurds. they have gathered in groups large and small along the border to watch with mounting horror the assault on their syrian cousins. kurds hav

i asked them about foreign fighters of islamic state. >> translator: islamic state fighters hardly spoke arabic. many were speaking french. even if we pleaded for help, they did not understand. they refused to listen to women and children. anyone who did not obey their orders was killed. >> reporter: islamic state advance is pushing more people out of their homes. and refugees are multiplying, creating a new humanitarian crisis. nhk world, turkey. near the syrian border. >>> now, a glimpse of a place we rarely get to see. tides along the coast of the sea of japan has created remote caverns. few images of the formations existed until now. nhk underwater cameraman shares what he saw when he took the plunge. >> reporter: this island lies 500 meters from the west coast of wakasaka. no human lives here, but according to legend, it's the home of a god. accompanied by a local guide, we explore the island's caves. a rock sits in front of the island. there's an opening at the bottom. the waves have carved out a sea cave. i dived in and beheld a magical sight. erosion has created a vision of beaut

in kobani kurds are battling islamic state. a kurdish doctor says that every week, the field hospital changes locations. since very little aid is coming from turkey, doctors are lacking in equipment. to save a life, mohammed had to give him a blood transfusion from his own arm. he says the hospital is going to run out of supplies. jason takes us to cairo, where rooftops are getting color. during an artist residency, he painted satellite dishes. he and his team have been welcomed by residents as long as they do not mess up signals. now for music. 17 years old mr. crazy. this young rapper describes life in casablanca's poorest neighborhood. he was arrested in august and accused of immoral acts. he should be freed in early november. our observer says this is a parody of justice. [speaking french]

some say if islamic state captures it there will be a massacre. a constant stream of syrians, mostly ethnic kurds, has been flowing into turkey, fleeing the fighting. turkish authorities have been accepting these refugees, more than 150,000 in the past couple of weeks. that's on top of the more than 1 million syrians who have gone to turkey to escape the civil war in their countries since it began in 2011. turkish leaders weighed a number of different and complicated factors before they decided to join this conflict. one is their violent history with the country's kurdish minority. they were locked in a three-decade-long conflict with the kurds, and peace talks are still continuing. even now turkish authorities have been stopping kurdish civilians from going into syria to fight islamic state. they don't want the kurdish separatist movement to gain strength on the back of this conflict. kurds in iraq, for example, have taken more territory as they pushed the militants outof areas the iraqi couldn't defend. a second factor here was hostages. islamic

but the events of today do add or underline the potential danger that the islamic state represents and certainly our cousins, the australians, have discovered that with a couple of incidents that have happened on their soil recently. >> it is interesting. we think of britain and the united states as really being the primary focus of islamic state's ire, but i think people around the world would be shocked -- and of course we don't know what happened today in canada -- but that canada, too. any country that joins this mission is potentially a target. >> and it is not necessarily joining this mission. there are other countries that are not involved militarily or have just contributed humanitarian aid that are just targeted because they are western nations. the underlying or the foundation of belief for the islamic state is that there are apostates and non-apostates, and we fall into the category of something to be targeted. >> you have written about this. is the threat of home-grown terrorism in canada something the canadian government is looking at closely? >> it certainly is, as all co

what kind of effect have they been having on the islam of state forces? -- islamic state forces?> there were some saying the wrong lot of airstrikes this morning and her lee afternoon, but they were not hearing a lot of fighting. that could be that they are streetfighting in the city of kobani. we don't know for sure. if that was the case, you probably would not have isis shelling parts of the city where there are people fighting in the streets. i might explain why people -- that might explain why people are saying there is less fighting today. we will see tomorrow. this is something that has been going on for something like three weeks and there are hundreds already dead. we saw many casualties coming into the hospital today. >> what about those left behind in kobani? have they been managing to get out somehow? >> this is the problem, that the kurdish fighters are telling them to get out. this is the fight to the death. the problem is, they cannot easily get into turkey. turkey has troops and tanks at the border, but they don't want more kurds to minion. they've already take --

the islamic state is also holding a british photographer.oday, his seriously ill father made a desperate appeal for his son's life. >> to those holding john, please know that he is a good man. thes only there to help fromn people and i ask you all that is sacred to help us and allow him to return home who he loves and who love him. usehe islamic state of war.ng as a tactic there have been more violent her -- proween -democracy leaders and those opposed. the talks have been called off saying they cannot negotiate while there is still violence on the street. click some are calling it the siege. -- pro-china camp has found its voice. a city divided. police try to keep them apart. they accuse the democracy camp of hurting hong kong. and demand that they leave. i asked her what she is upset about as she said the students are blocking roads and making daily life nearly impossible. residents say local are a minority. they say they are under attack from the government to drive them out. the police have come down here and the our testers are angry. ,

washington sees turkey as key to defeating islamic state.dding to that, turkey has been inundated by over 150,000 syrian kurds come into turkey, bringing the number two over 1.5 million. there was a feeling ankara really had to get involved. >> dorian jones on the story for us in istanbul. thank you very much. >> we spoke earlier to the cochair of the german green party, a vocal backer of the u.s.-led military action against islamic state. he supports germany armin kurdish forces in the region. he told us what steps he would like to see from annkara -- ankara now. >> just a few kilometers away from the turkish-syrian border, a massacre might take place even in the following hours. it is obvious turkey should not watch that happening. that is very crucial for the kurds, but also very crucial for the future of isis. so turkey has to do something. let me repeat, turkey should act together with theth the allies,h those countries already fighting against isis. i would not suggest turkey to act on its own. i would suggest turkey to act together wi

having carried out three separate suicide bomber tax islamic state militants -- bomb attacks, islamic state militants claim to control half of the embattled syrian border town. also on monday, u.s. and coalition aircraft pressed on with their bombardment of jihadist strongholds in the area. the airstrikes started last week and have targeted dozens of positions held by the islamic militants. strikes have helped kurdish troops hold on to most of the town today. now with their grip slowly slipping, the british prime minister is asking for additional help. >> it clear that we need more advanced heavy weapons antitank, helicopters, and more advanced weapons to fight against isis because they are well-equipped. they have heavy weapons. and because we need support from the international community. >> kurdish fighters say to could get -- to defend kobani, they also need turkey to open its border to allow arms and additional fighters pass through, something the neighbors have been reluctant to do. the extremist group already controls a vast stretch of territory, covering hundreds of miles from

now they are preparing to take on the syrian army and islamic state. >> we are fighting is..s. becaue they kill civilians. >> rebels like islamic front could be potential partners as the coalition to stop islamic state looks for moderate syrian groups to support, but is is islamic front really moderate? leaders say they are in that they have thousands of fighters. all they need was more weapons. >> we are fighting against islamic state and fighting against the assad regime. that's our job. we are fighting against the powers of evil in syria, fighting against those who sees free land and destroy everything . if we are doing all those things, why should we turn around and suddenly become evil? >> it's an old dilemma -- how can western governments be sure that they are not supporting the wrong people? instead, the u.s.-led coalition is relying on airstrikes, like this one aimed at a leader of the al-nusra front, a group affiliated with al qaeda. locals say it only killed two of the targets daughters. >> we've heard they were fired, but we do not have anything to do with either al-n

syrians and jordanians to learn to live side by side. >> in the meantime, security experts say islam it state has some 3000 fighters in its ranks from europe. >> today in belgium, that country saw the opening of the biggest case yet against until -- alledge islam is. >> belgian prosecutors have charged 46 members of the islamist group sharia for belgium of belonging to a terrorist group. >> they are also charged with recruiting young men, even voice, to fight with islamic state in syria. >> security was high as the accused arrived at court. they were all members of the sharia for belgium group. only eight out of the 46 defendants came to the hearing. those absent are presumed dead or still on the front lines. one of the defendants will also be called as a witness to explain how these young men became jihadist fighters. his father says the state is also to blame. >> i don't see any prevention in belgium. i don't see anymore border controls. today, i see -- i confirm that miners, youngsters are still going without permission from their parents and being landed by isis. >> prosecutors say this m

the islamic state is using religious justification. i think the more population is aware this is not tied to religion, it strips away any claim they have in terms of the false name of the islamic state. >> ifill: manal omar of the u.s. institute of peace and david jacobson of the university of south florida, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> ifill: online you can hear more from the 15-year-old girl who escaped from islamic state group militants. you can watch that on our world page at pbsnewshour.org. >> woodruff: the new supreme court term kicked off today with a case about the religious freedoms of prison inmates. should muslim inmates be allowed to grow beards for religious reasons or does that pose a significant security risk to prison guards? that was the question posed to the supreme court today. we start with a look at the case at the center of today's arguments. it comes from tim o'brien who filed this report for the pbs program religion and ethics newsweekly. a warning: it contains some graphic images and details. >>

he is sympathetic to islamic state, which is hostile to europe and the united states and aims to build a country based on islamic law. he has sent many young indonesians to syria and iraq. he may have sent as many as 150 indonesians, including the recruiters in the video. >> translator: he's in iraq to organize our comrades. >> reporter: he says he sends young people overseas. after getting fake visas they go to neighboring malaysia. they travel to pakistan and then are smuggled over land into syria. young people seeking to join the islamic state group from all over the country flock to him. >> translator: i'm following god's will by going to the middle east. i want to save the islamic believers who are dying in the fighting. >> reporter: we asked why he keeps sending young people to the group, an organization strongly criticized by the international community. he said he is simply trying to help young people realize their ideals. he also feels he is helping to keep indonesia stable. >> translator: if people who want to be active take up arms here, security in this country will get wor

kobani, even if we were told the islamic state by kurdish fighters, whether it's the fact that the islamictate continues to take place after based in iraq, the third in three weeks, another now threatened. and advances in syria. is there any sign whatsoever that the coalition has one on one battlefield in one firefight at any time that you are aware of? >> the only thing that we have been able to do is we took that the dam and we stopped the slaughter on the mountain. that is the two things that are tangible. and i'm not sure they would seize the deal. but you put your finger on it. they are on the move in their advance has not been stopped despite the most powerful and it tells you that our level is not right. and to put your finger on some of this is we need air ground controllers to facilitate this fire when they're so close to population centers. lou: general jack keane has been calling for those air controllers to be on the ground and to guide those jet fighters and smart weaponry, which apparently has happened to some degree in the city of kobani in what remains in the islamic state.