local police tell al jazeera that 16 died including iraqi soldiers and tribal fighters happening near the military base hundreds of u.s. advisors are taken there. the base 50 miles were ramadi is safe. they have fallen for i.s.i.l. control. >>> the nation's next defense secretary got a vote of approval from the senate. ashton carter is expected to take office in the next few days succeeding chuck hagel. carter has been the chief operating officer, and held a number of key posts during the defense career. >>> coming up a worse stoppage at dozens of ports. >> it affects every part of my business. it affects my customers, for sure. >> a labour dispute on the west coast is stalling trade. we'll see what it means for the workers and the fallout for the american economy. also, the chemical cloud that forced tens of thousands of people to seal themselves indoors. >> america's first climate refugees >> this is probably a hurricane away from it being gone. >> who's to blame? >> 36% of land lost was caused by oil and gas industry... >> ...and a fight to save america's coastline. >> we have kind

over part of central iraq today and launched a multi team assault from two directions and local police tell al jazeerat 16 iraqi soldiers and ally tribal fighters died. happened 50 miles from iraq's largest military base where hundreds of american advisors are stationed and pentagon says that base in ramadi has not been breached but the nearby town of al-badadi has fallen to i.s.i.l. control and to the north the coalition claimed iraqi forces liberated soldiers who months had been caught fighting in the city of beji and recovered the strategic oil refinery but i.s.i.l. controls large parts of the oil and this is a report from the iraqi capitol. >> reporter: after 103 days under siege by the islamic state of iraq and lavante this special forces unit is finally free. mid november iraqi forces retook the town 15 kilometers from one of iraq's largest oil refineries and they were stretched in securing the oil refinery and unable to hold the center of the town and i.s.i.l. took advantage and pinned the unit down every day for 103 days they fought and neither side advanced and it was stalemate and two days a

. >> we'll tell you where these ethiopian expats are thriving, but the locals are not too keen on them. details coming up. >> hello again the top stories on al jazeera. police in mexico captured one of the countries most wanted drug lords. gomez other americans, also known at la tuta is the leader of the knights templar dug cartel, the prime target in the president's drive to recontrol of the state. >> nearly 200 have died in afghanistan, soldiers are helping in the search and recovery operation after an avalanche. >> a strike is believed to have killed nine civilians and isil fighters in anbar province. isil seized a bridge used by the iraqi and u.s. militaries close to the air base. >> the u.n. in condemning the destruction of iraq's ancient history by isil fighters. the statues are from the capitol of the ancient syrian empire. some pieces date back to the ninth century b.c. archeologists described this destruction as a nightmare. iraq has more than 12,000 registered archeological sites and around 1,800 of them are currently under iceville control. we have this report. >> the ancient statues from syrian palaces are in a inspire reaction for this man. he