and if you think about kobani, there is a general perception that turkey has not supported kobani. but also, i need to put one fact about this as well. turkey, i mean, which was not mentioned here maybe. most of us knew this. turkey has helped peshmerga forces through its supporters and to go to kobani and fight against isis. and there are other helps that, assistance that turkey gives, especially to peshmerga training and et cetera. so fighting isis is a priority. it's very important. my question is, is a general one. i just, there are some clues that i heard, but maybe if the panelists can comment on it. why do we think the pkk has chose to, opted for stopping this peace process and violent, starting a violent acts, because it started just after surge by pkk. thank you very much. >> i think i kind of elaborated on that at some length. i explained to you what i thought was the pk k's vantage point, but i really don't have much to add to that. >> okay. let me just, one important issue that you brought up. the fact that the turkish government allowed the peshmerga to cross from nort

in kobani, when the turkish government made it clear they would love to see kobani fall to the hands of i.s. and be saved, that was a psychological break for the kurds and turkey and erdogan. in a way i think that is the breaking point when it comes to kurds and erdogan. look, every reason why the kurds should be thankful to erdogan. erdogan has done more in pushing the ideas that kurds and turks can live in one country, and a peace process. he talked to the pkk. even if he did not mean to, even if his heart was not in it, as we think. as i think people now think is the case. the fact of the matter is that the major threshold was crossed. that threshold was talking to the pkk. talking to theomy. that is a point you can't go back from. in that sense, it's a very important threshold. conservative kurds who don't necessarily like the pkk would have voted for mr. erdogan and his party. he came on television with great glee made it clear he wanted kobani to fall. and the fact that the united states had shifted sides and helped the syrian kurds gave the kurds a great deal of self-confidenc

in kobani, when the turkish government made it clear they would love to see kobani fall to the hands of i.s. and be saved, that was a break for the kurds and turkey and add juan. in a way i think that is the breaking point when it comes to kurds and add juan. look, every reason why the kurds should be thankful to add juan. add juan has done more in pushing the ideas that kurds and turks can live in one country, and a peace process. even if he did not mean to, if his heart was not in it as i think people now think is the case, the fact of the matter is the major threshold was crossed. that threshold was talking to the pkk, talking to the enemy. in that sense it's an important threshold. conservative kurds would have voted for mr. add juan and his party. he came on television with great glee made it clear he wanted koe ban cancer to fall. and the fact that the united states had shifted sides and helped the syrian kurds gave the kurds a great deal of self-confidence. but once election results became obvious and mr. add juan, technically he's a constitutional president. he is not suppose

but kobani was a major psychological break. because erdogan came on television with great glee, made it clear he wanted kobani to fall. and the fact that the united states as amberin said, shifted sides to the student kurds also kind of gave the kurds a great deal of self-confidence. ..

but kobani was a major psychological break. because erdogan came on television with great glee, made it clear he wanted kobani to fall. and the fact that the united states as amberin said, shifted sides to the student kurds also kind of gave the kurds a great deal of self-confidence. .. so almost immediately after the election, he started to essentially maneuver in such a way theory be another election. so if you can't win this time, maybe he hopes he would when i set a time. he maneuvered the process in such a way that is exactly what happened, which means there will be a new election november 1st bid in between we have an increase in the violence between the state and the pkk. that is quite puzzling to me in this that if you look at it from the pkk perspective there's absolutely no reason for it to escalate the process. here you have htp. it has 80 seats in parliament, as many as a national body that came in. technically one member of parliament kicked them out. so htp has more seats in parliament and national. so you have a

and we saw that in kobani most recently. that was a turning point and a shock for turkey when the americans airdropped weapons and other supplies to the ypg. that is what propelled turkey in fact, to open that corridor to kobani. and of course once that was sort of digested in ankara, they decided what they needed to do then was open it. they needed to somehow get americans on their side because they became very, very nervous about this deepening cooperation between the united states and the ypg. so what we now have is this sort of understanding that the ypg won't go into jeropolis. to that extent you can say turkey's policy of opening injali kim has been somewhat successful, but for how long? many kurds in turkey believe that part of the quid pro quo of opening it is that turkey would get to attack its own kurds, that is the pkk. so of course the idea that you can have good kurds and bad kurds, and that the americans can maintain this fiction, i think is very unrealistic, because we all know the truth, that however much the

he will take the bodies back to their hometown of kobani and syria.hree-year-old washed up on a turkish beach on wednesday morning, his five-year-old brother and mother also drown along with 15 others on two boats. >> translator: we went into the sea for four minutes then the captain saw the waves were so high that he steered the boat and we were hit immediately. he panicked and dove in the sea and i took over and started steering and the boat flipped and i took my wife and kids in my arms and i realized they were all dead thousands who transit know the risks and men, women and children from syria, pakistan, afghanistan and elsewhere wait for a chance to sale to europe. sail to europe and give them a right to work if they want it but feel europe offers better opportunities. mohamed paid $1200 to be smuggled from here to a greek island. >> translator: there is no work. we don't have enough money and planning to go to germany from greece, there is work and life there. i couldn't find any work here. the house rental in turkey, they are asking for $350-$7

and a few things about kobani, if there is a general perception that turkey has not supported kobani, but also i need to put one fact about this is what the turkey can which is not mentioned it can maybe some of us did not knows. turkey has helped -- [inaudible] and to finance the fight against isis. and the our other helps, assistance that turkey keeps, especially to peshmerga united states pics of fighting isis is very, very important. my question is, is a general one. to our some i heard that maybe if you can comment on that, why do you think the pkk has chose, opted for stopping this peace process and violence starting? because it started just right after switch by pkk. thank you very much. >> well, i think i kind of elaborate on that to some length. i explained to you what i thought was the pkk's vantage point, but i we don't have much to add to that. >> okay. let me just come one important issue here you brought up. the fact that the turkish government allowed the peshmerga to cross from northern iraq into kobani. you have to number a decade much, much later the it after the uni

never did abdullah think he would return to kobani to bury his wife and young sons. their death has shaken the world and at home, the tragedy is almost too much to bear. i have no future anymore, he says. my future is gone. i was trying to go to europe to give my family a future. on the beach where the body of his son washed up, there is little vestige of the horror. some came to pay their respects. almost 2 million syrians are in turkey. the sheer numbers means it is easy for turks to become desensitized to their fates. what happens here? the image of aylan kurdi's body washing up has profoundly shocked this country and highlighted once again the refugee tragedy. four men have been charged with the attempted smuggling, but the mother of one said her son was not a criminal and he had tried to leave and encouraged >> is that enough to help them? has the world done anything to help them? >> i'm sorry, no. they are popular now. now the whole world heard them and i wish they did when they were alive. jane: one of the key launching points for migrants is libya, where the

kobani was the main waking point for turkish kurds. irrelevant respective of what happened with the peshmerga, the peshmerga operation was a way to signal to those conservative kurds i mentioned earlier who eventually defended from the akp to stabilize that constituency and it didn't work. as far as why the pkk started it, look, i think what amberlin said, i think the pkk decided when in kobani that the turks were not serious about -- it's not just kobani, it's also during the election process. if you remember during the election process, i'm talking about the june 7 in the period coming to the june 7 election both mr. erdogan and the akp press went wild in terms of accusations against htp, there was a campaign against htp because they understand that hdp was the single most important threat to akp getting a majority in parliament or not. so you have essentially a government that was waging war on hdp, on the kurdish party, while at the same time engaged in the peace process. that contradiction is also one of the reasons why the pkk de

>> and it did ultimately. >> in the end, the support of the coalition, with credibility partner, kobanield. when you think about to where we were a year ago to today, i don't agree with the articulation of the formulation. >> the russian foreign ministry just finally acknowledged they do have some personnel in syria, aiding assad's regime in its fight against isis. do you have a problem with russian forces in syria on assad's side, but fighting isis? >> we've been watching this closely over the last several days, watching the buildup to see what it might mean. >> we don't know whether or not it's a good or bad thing? >> i think it's a bad thing, if they use combat forces to prop you have assad. assad is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of his people. to prop him up with military force creates an additional crisis in the region and in fact could bring russian forces in confrontation with coalition forces. >> the u.s., as you mentioned, tried to train some moderate syrian rebels to fight isis on the ground. $500 million was spent on the effort. ultimately reports came out t

they're from kobani in syria. this is that town just across the border from turkey where last year there was fierce intense fighting between isis and the kurdish fighting force. the family fled back then when isis was eventually pushed back. they returned to kobani and then isis launched several smaller scale attacks, trying to retake kobani and that was when they finally decided to leave. this family's story is incredible. the mother was pregnant when she was aboard the dingy. in fact, she was almost due. when the dingy finally arrived on greece's shores she couldn't walk any longer. she began getting contractions. she gave birth in greece. then she walked the entire day with what is now an 11 day old baby. this just shows you the lengths to which some of these families will go in their attempt to secure a future for themselves. but for many more importantly secure a future for their children. >> oh my goodness. that is one strong woman. arwa damon reporting live for us this morning. thank you so much. >>> there

ofocal point for the refugee crisis. 3-year-old alen kurdy was laid to rest in his home town ever of kobani, syria. his mother and brother were also drown. his father does not plan to make an additional trip. third of its aid to countries sheltering syrians. that includes the 229,000 in jordan who stopped receiving food aid already in september. the agency says it needs at least $236 million to keep the program funded through november. countries have not fulfilled their commitments to donate funds so there's not enough money to keep pace with the need. >>> malasian authorities continued their search for the survivors of an overloaded wooden boat. one plan was rescued earlier today bringing the number of survivors to 20. the u.n. expects more migrants to set out in boats headed to southeast asia once monsoon season ends next month. >>> saudi arabian king salman is meeting with president obama. the king declined to attend a summit at camp david in may. mike viqueria has the story. >> it is a duty usually set for a protocol officer but president obama greeted the king at the driveway. moments

instead, it ended back in kobani with his funeral.he 2-year-old buried alongside his older brother and mother. his broken father, abdullah kurdi, mourning the loss of his entire family. >> translator: is there someone whose children are not valuable to them? the children enrapture you. they wake you up in the morning, daddy, i want to play in the water. is there anything better than this? everything is gone. >> reporter: the family had been trying to reach greece by boat when it capsized. kurdi tried desperately to save his wife and two sons but was unsuccessful. the heartbreaking picture of aylan's lifeless little body washed up on a turkish beach was shared millions of times on social media. seen around the world. the image becoming a symbol of a humanitarian crisis. bigger than any in europe since world war ii. prompting some world leaders to open up their borders to more refugees and rethink how best to help thousands of people fleeing from war. according to turkish media, four syrian nationals have been arrested in connection wit

he was in kobani where daesh was hidden where i.s.i.s. was hidden and the fact of the matter his father took his little body to his home town and he was able to take him there, bury him there, have a ceremony there. we can help the people stay in their home town and helping them live there rather than taking them out of the country. nevertheless when they reach out we are required to help them and the syrian americans are ready to help. >> syrian americans in the united states are very well organized civically active. take us behind the scenes. are there lots of conversations with members of congress , staicht, what'statedepartment, e day to day? >> we are well organized. when we talk to them they say definitely it is a topic that we need to discuss. but their insistence that they need to change the government in syrian is overweighing every other topic, we like to see it the way it is. no matter who is in charge, no matter who is against whom, syrians should sit and talk to each other with the help of the international community and stop

they had fled war torn kobani and syria, hoping to reach canada where the boys aunt said their motheras scared of the sea and couldn't swim. and over the same sea, thousands more crossed to greece. tempers are flaring and no wonder. it's a matter of life and death. >> reporter: in hungary. they wait at the budapest train station, desperate for their dreams to come in, dreams of germany and beyond. the train did come in, destined, people thought, for the border and it was mobbed but some were suspicious. skeptical because hungary has taken a hard line. its official policy is to put all migrants into camps. until their asylum claims can be processed. they boarded the trains anyway. and about 45 minutes later, the skeptics were right. the train stopped, riot police waiting. european passengers off loaded to another train and refugees a man drags his wife and baby to the tracks. i won't move, he screams. they were dragged away. as night fell, some agreed to get off the train. several tried to run for it and were chased down. >>> this morning an all time high for donald trump. a new poll h

the family, syrian kurds from near kobani. the town was nearly levelled in a battle with isis this year. so they fled to turkey, paying smugglers their more than $5,000 to help them cross to a greek island in a 15-foot rubber boat. they came to this beach. abc was there this week when another refugee group waded through the surf piling into the flimsy dinghy, children lifted in, heading into the waves by flashlight. today abdullah kurdy remembered how he desperately held one boy in each arm when the boat went over, keeping their heads above water. but they tired. so did his wife. and he lost them all. at the morgue today, identifying the bodies, he says -- "my kids were the most beautiful children in the world." >> i can't even imagine any father or any mother, their kids to die in their arms. >> reporter: abdullah's sister teema had been waiting by the phone in vancouver, canada. she tried to bring the family there earlier this year. >> it's a wakeup call. my proceed said to me, it's my kids. it has to be a wakeup call for th

so the president you will recall earlier this year made a decision to reply kurdish fighters in kobaniho were under siege from isil fighters sr. because they were resupplied the kurdish fighters mounted an offensive against isil fighters and drove them out of kobani and drove them out of a large swath of northern and northeastern syria. so there have been elements of that strategy that have been successful against isil but ultimately, despite that important military activity that is critical to protecting the basic fundamental national security interest of the united states, the president is keenly aware of the fact that there's no military solution that can be imposed by russia or anybody else on to syria and this the root of this problem can only be solved with the kind of political transition that results in president assad leaving power. >> so you're listed some priorities and you've listed some operations that have taken place but can you give me in short what is our strategy in syria? >> well, our strategy first and foremost is to protect the basic core national security interest

. >> they'd fled war-torn kobani and syria. over the same sea, thousands more crossed to greece. tempers are fleeing. no wonder. it's a matter of life and death. this is richard angle in hungary. they wait at the train station desperate for trains to come in, trains to germany and beyond. a train did pull in destined people thought for the border. it was mobbed. some were suspicious. skeptical because hungary has taken a hard line. it's official policy is put all migrants into camps until the acclaims are processed. they boarded the train any way. 45 memberships later, skeptics were right. trains astonished, riot police waited. passengers off loaded to another train. refugees told they could go no further. a man dragged his wife and baby to the tracks. i won't move, he screamed. they were dragged away. as night fell, some agreed to get off the train. several tried to run for hit and were chased down. >> an awful human tragedy there. that was bill and richard reporting. >>> this morning, all time high for donald trump. a new poll has him on top of the gop field and whopping 30%. d

he was from kobani in syria. his boat sank last night on the way to greece, and the mediterranean keeps claiming lives with 17 more bodies appearing on libya's shores, more than 100 feared dead in that sinking. these are the fortunate ones, saved by the norwegian coast guard today. on dry land, austrian police stopped this truck on the way to vienna, freeing 24 teenagers welded in with no air. and in france, the high speed train from paris to london

they fled the syrian town of kobani, which was decimated when isis tried to seize it earlier this year, leaving nearly everyone there homeless. abdullah's sister, tima kurdi, who lives in vancouver, said she gave the family money to pay a human smuggler. >> his wife told me on the phone a week ago, "i'm so scared of the water. i don't know how to swim. if something happen." >> reporter: over 300,000 people have attempted the dangerous journey to europe this year, and more than 2,000 have paid with their lives, including many other children whose names we don't know. but it's these images of aylan kurdi that have finally brought the tragedy home to people in europe and pricked the conscience of european leaders. abdullah kurdi will crofg back into syria tomorrow to bury his wife and two young sons. and, scott, a friend of the family told us they paid around $4,000 to be smuggled to europe but then did not have enough money to buy lifejackets. >> pelley: holly williams, thanks. today, south carolina prosecutors said they will ask for the death penalty against dylann roof. he is charged w

he was from kobani in syria. his boat sank last night on the way to greece, and the mediterranean keeps claiming lives with 17 more bodies appearing on libya's shores, more than 100 feared dead in that sinking. these are the fortunate ones, saved by the norwegian coast guard today. on dry land, austrian police stopped this truck on the way to vienna, freeing 24 teenagers welded in with no air. and in france, the high speed train from paris to london ground to a halt after migrants tried to climb on top. here in london, hundreds of passengers were left stranded as the morning trains were canceled, while on the other side of the english channel, two trains had to turn back because the tracks were blocked. some passengers even asked to listen for footsteps on the roof of the train. tonight the leaders of germany, italy and france are call on all 28 eu nations to take in their "fair share" of refugees. >> we just need the politicians to listen to their hearts, you know, act like human beings. >> reporter: while europ

area between kobani and -- it's not a kurdish territory. arab sunni. the kurdish want to join all this territories, and i don't know if putin will help them to succeed because is not very agree with this strategy, but the only mean to destroy the syrian opposition -- military opposition in the north of syria, it's to close the border. you cannot successfully counterintelligence policy if the border is open so you can use the kurdish to close the border if turkey still continue to support the military opposition. so, i think that russia have two scenario in syria. one which is the syrian coast, russia protect, and offensive scenario which is offensive around aleppo. damascus is under the iran umbrella. latakia will be under russian umbrella. russian troops, i think latakia could fall or could be divided in the sunni rebel area and otherwise area, and if latakia fall it will be of course less easy to protect the territory to create this military -- like i said, it's sure that you will have soldier, many officer, refuse to fight in damascus an

familiar with the successful operations to take back kurdish territory in iraq to defeat isil in kobani and to more recently to retake tikrit as well as other successful engagements. on the political front, prime prime minister abadi continues to demonstrate the resolve necessary to confront isil and he's striving to manage what is a very difficult political landscape in baghdad. in syria, we've seen some opportunities emerge that we didn't envision a year ago, particularly in the northern part of the country where syrian kurds working with syrian arabs has successfully pressured isil along the turkish border. over a year ago, the president outlined a whole strategy to degrade and ultimately defeat isil and he emphasized it would be a multiyear campaign. when secretary carter was here outlined a whole strategy to in july he outlined the nine lines of effort that comprise our strategy so i won't go over them in detail but i will emphasize that it will take more than the military campaign to be successful. we also need to dry up isil's finances. we need to stop the flow of foreign fighter

the city of kobani has been ravaged by isis attacks. tried to reach greece when their boat cab sized. the body washed ashore in bagram, turkey. this is one of 11 million refugees fled from syria in the outbreak of the civil war there. the u.n. also believes that at least 200,000 syrians have been killed since those deadly up ridings began more than four years ago. lieutenant colonel oliver north, fox news military analyst and author of, "counterfeit lives." joins me here this morning. food to have you here. >> thanks, martha. martha: heartbreaking picture and we've seen so many heartbreaking pictures of people crammed on trains, families sleeping all around the train tracks as they try to get out. what is your assessment what is going on here? >> this will not be the end of it. there will be a lot more what we've seen and a lot more of this because this is the legacy of the obama administration's failure to lead. this is the consequence of what occurred as starting, as civil war inside of iraq, now a dominant isis operating all over the

buried with their mother in the town of kobani on the turkish border. and, hours earlier hundreds began walking in the direction of the austrian border. thousands of others are still stranded in the hungarian border town. jamjoomohammed jamjoom is here. >> please let us leave screamed the syrian mother. she and her deart two of the dae few who escaped the conflict in syria. >>> still refuse to leave the train that had stopped in hungary. when i asked them where they wanted to go, the answer was clear. >> germany germany. >> some wave their travel documents. others held up signs. where is humidit humanity wreed. implored the media to shine a light on their suffering. while hungarian riot police prevented refugees from getting too close to the train. some asked 93 to share their stories. here, not you just babies clinging to their parents, girls and boys exhausted by the life of a refugee. water was exhausted but refugees said they needed much more. our view was obscured when the train drew up. fears grew and hundreds fled. a short distance away we came u

. >> reporter: this restaurant is called kobani and it's named after a very important kurdish city in they've been feeling the deep pain of watching what's going on overseas and they like so many people have family members there in the middle of this international crisis. >> reporter: tucked into a small space, anin's restaurant serves up a different kind of comfort food. kabobs and couscous salads are crafted with love. food for the soul. >> being a refugee is basically the worse thing that you would taste in life. >> reporter: he's tasted that bitterness. a chef now he says he was tortured by turkish police and nearly paralyzed until he came to the u.s. in 2000 as a political asylum. now he cooks a world away from the refugees fleeing syria. >> people suffer and their life is gone. fair families are gone. there's thousands and thousands of people. they lost their families. >> even though we're very far from what is happening we're very close. >> reporter: in san francisco today they say they've raised relief money, sent letters and called congress members to ask for help. >> there's

this syrian who escaped kobani is worried about his children. >> what should we do? i don't have food or milk for them. what do we do for now. what's the solution? >> the refugees chec can't checo a hotel even if they had cash. so they set up on any sidewalk around town. lately syrians were taken to this transit camp. living conditions are very poor, little running water and little sanitation. >> in syrian syria we were hit by barrel bombs. we escaped war, this is worse, why are they doing this to us? >> the optimism spills out onto the streets but no matter how hoda abzel hamid, al jazeera. >> we should not use the word migrant. migrant is a political word to take away the real status of these people. they are refugees, they are running away from war. they actually like their homes, they are not leaving their homes because they want to live in italy or iermd. ireland. they are leaving their homes because they have no more homes. >> to the race for the white house now and brand-new poll numbers show hillary clinton fading fast. she is now trailing senator bernie sand

he was buried with his brother and mother back in kobani, syria. the image of elan's body washed ashore on a beach in turkey has become a symbol of the human tragedy. elan's aunt in canada says it's time for the world to step up and put an end to it. >> he was so proud of his kids. because they were the victim. they are the wakeup call, basically. he's proud of them, that somehow or someone is going to do something to this and end it. they need help. they should open their heart and their country to those people who are suffering from the war, and they're taking that route and suffering even more. i don't want this for my people. enough is enough. >> elan's family was hoping to make it to canada. now his father says, quote, i don't want anything else from this world. and at that border between hungary and austria where so many people are trying to reach new life and to get into germany, our fred pligtgen is there. talk about the condition and what happens next for them. >> reporter: good morning, george. and the conditions here are certainly a lot

i think all of us today are haunted by the picture of alan kurd eva, a little boy from kobani who washed up on the shore in turkey. he symbolized every displaced person in iraq and syria and the horror that we face with europe acting like a fortress. it is shameful. kurdistan region has taken in 1.8 million displaced people. europe has accepted about 600,000 asylum seekers, 28 countries, 600,000 asylum seekers versus one part of iraq taking in 1.8 million people. 60% of the displaced in kurdistan region, i'm afraid, i don't know about the rest of iraq, 60% of the children in the kurdistan region among the displaced region haven't been to school, that is despite all of our efforts, the u.n., us aid, and others trying to help, that is a ticking time bomb for all of us in iraq. the u.n. is saying they can't raise enough money to help the displaced in iraq. the u.n. launched an appeal for $500 million in june to see the displaced and the refugees through the six months from june to december. they have raised less than half of that amount. this is a ticking time bomb. i know you said you didn

the kurdi family was from kobani where the kurds made a courageous stand against isis in syria and hereat the city looked like before the war and what it looks like now. again, before and after. the question is what would make a family risk their lives to flee to another country? this is the answer. a question of what other nations should be doing applies to every wealthy nation from england to canada to the u.s. joining me now congressman joaquin castro from texas. as someone whose mother came to this country who comes from people who move one place to another. what is your reaction to watching this unfold in europe? >> sure. my grandmother came in 1922 as a young orphan. the images coming out of europe are just absolutely heartbreaking. many of them shock the conscience. the image of the 3-year-old boy who died off the turkish coast and that soldier carrying his body, that was on the front page of so many newspapers today. i've got to imagine it played a part in the uk changing its tone and accepting -- agreeing to accept more refugees. the united states and canada should follow suit.

this syrian kurd who escaped kobani is worried about his children. >> what should we do? we left to save our children from war. i don't have food or milk for them. what's the solution? >> the refugees can't check into a hotel even if they had the cash so many set up shop wherever they can. in the port or any sidewalk around town. lately syrian families were taken to this transit camp. here to, it is congested, little running water and sanitation. >> in syria we were hit by barrel bombs. here we feel we are drying every day. we have sick children, how long is this going to last, we escaped war, this is worse, why are they doing this to us? >> reporter: the frustration builds online the street but no matter how loud they shout the aanguish is far from over. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera. >>> secretary of state andrew mitchell on the phone with us. mr. mitchell we have seen the people who have had to leave they say syria and other place of conflict. we saw them there trying to get on in europe. is there a way of making the people who remain in syria for example feel like they

60 countries strong, has been taking on isil for more than a year by liberating sinjar mountain, kobani, and other areas where hundreds of thousands of residents have returned home and resumed their lives. defending the adam and protecting baghdad and killing isil leaders and facilitators and taking away the entire northern border of syria from isil. at the same time, we have mounted a campaign to cut terrorist financing, curb recruitment of foreign fighters and expose the lies that isil is perpetrating. today as we speak, south of kirk, villages are being liberated from isil under the airstrike and we continue to admire the courage and resilience that has been demonstrated for four long years of struggle by the operation against assad. the operations are grounded and well established military procedures firmly based in international law and the request that neighboring states for collective self defense under article 51 of the un charter. that foundation has not changed and we will continue our sanction with the full permission from international law. the coalition has now conducted 3,

will recall, ma'am, this is the element -- a portion of this element where the folks that hung on at kobani valiantly. there was question if they could survive and continue on. they increased their size and activity and they made a significant difference in the northeast part of the country. and so what they asked from us over time is sustained airpower, sustained strikes and they have benefited from those strikes. because of their aggressiveness, they made a tremendous difference in the northeast. senator ayotte: so just to be clear, they haven't asked for arms? and how does turkey -- how is turkey acting on the ground here n terms of obviously -- first, i want to know what have the syrian kurds asked for that we haven't given them? i understand air support. how do you view turkey's role in all of this? because as i see it these four or five u.s.-trained fighters, let's not kid ourselves, it's a joke. if they're the only force on the ground doing something, what more can we do to help them? general austin: up to this point they have not asked us for arms, but it doesn't mean that they won'

. >> reporter: this particular family tried to go to kobani after they fled, because they thought ite, but then isis launched a counter attack, and then they decided to leave. this woman, who is in the red sweater, she actually gave birth when she arrived in greece. she was pregnant in the dingy, and when they landed, she could nout walk anymore, and she had to wait in greece when she gave birth, and that baby, the little girl, she is just 11 days old, and they made this entire journey a big risk for them. >>> all right. this morning the european commission made a proposal to address the crisis as thousands are streaming into the european union everyday. cnn is covering the story literally by land and sea. arwa damon is in the holding area in hungary, and ivan watson is in a boat near the aegean sea. and first, arwa over to you in front of the fence there, and what is the very latest? >> well, we wanted to show you what the border looks like, because this is the wall that hung gar is in the proce -- hun building to try to stop the flow of those coming across the borders, and so this

toward syria and iraq of the kurdish population, teams,o off of medical peace workers, of those in kobanihich is an independent region that the kurds have saved from the hands of isis, and syria were there basically practicing a less autonomous government. so it is at a strategic point. , you're a berktay member of the hdp. can you explain what it is? it is not just a party of kurds. explain how it came together. we only have about a minute. hdp is a very democratic party. it is bringing together armenians and arabs and turks -- all the different people living in turkey, a different believes in different social groups, women, into bt, villagers, workers -- lgbt, villagers, workers, government off -- not government, but people working for the state like teachers. it is an organization with the philosophy of making sure to represent all the different voices of the country who have not been heard until now. to allow space in the political structure and in the political system, allow space and voice and will for those who have not been heard until now. and to find a democratic solution to pro

turkey's attack now on the kurdish groups in syria and also the iraqi kurds who, for instance, liberated kobani. is the turkish attitude helpful? and how do you see that? >> i think the most, the kurdish attacks you're talking about have been in iraq, not in sear yeah, but clearly this is an additional and very significant complication to the situation. the military people have always thought that the involvement of turkey would be key to resolving the situation in northern syria, and the fact that turkey has an agenda which is different, frankly, from the agenda of any of the other players, because it's focussed on their own tensions with the kurds as much as it is focussed on tension with isil and the syrian regime, is a complicating factor. and it's just one more complicating factor. each one of the players, the significant players here has a different set of agendas, and we're only going to move forward when we can find common threads that all of the players can sign up to, and we can act together accordingly. >> may i just ask you about a statement that was made in the house. that there wo