they see the fight for raqqa being the bloodiest fight of this war. equivalent to the battle of kobani in which thousands of kurdish lives were lost and the city was just destroyed. so i think there is a real reluctance for the raqqa battle, which is seen as the final battle, the place where all the isis fighters, people who flee iraq, the people who flood other parts of syria will concentrate in raqqa for what will be a fight to the death. >> what's the role of americans on the ground, special forces and other americans on the ground, both in iraq and syria? >> just to begin that, and turn to eric, i was lucky enough to travel with general, our sentcom command near syria and see the american special operations forces who were training both the syrian kurds and the syrian arabs for the battle in the east, preparing for the battle in raqqa. it's a powerful sight to see how the u.s. organizes. >> charlie, at the pentagon just this afternoon, peter cook, the spokesman acknowledged that there were u.s. ground spotters on the ground, who were traveling as

hundreds of heavily armed terrorists with suicide belts have arrived from raqqa, syria.ghold the pentagon says could be targeted in the coming weeks. >> reporter: the top u.s. military commander sounding an alarm about raqqa, a city of nearly a quarter million where the tough isis commanders, including abu bakr al baghdadi, have thank you been thought to be hiding. >> there is an imper tiff ativet isolation in place around raqqa. our intelligence feeds tell us there is a significant external operations attacks planning going on, emanating centralized in raqqa. >> reporter: how urgent is it? >> we think it's very important to get isolation in place around raqqa to start controlling that environment. on a pretty short time line. >> reporter: this, as the fight for mosul in iraq goes on. emotional scenes of families being reunited. defense secretary ash carter says this second front in raqqa will begin very soon. >> i think it will be within weeks. that's what i want to say. >> reporter: from earlier fighting in northern syria, the u.s. already has intelligence on isis plot

in syria as well in terms of what happens there, you know, and if, in fact, i.s.i.l is defeated in raqqa, if that happens and they take the battle somewhere else, and you end up with a civil war there, just the civil war -- >> well, we already have one -- >> rose: that's what i mean, but that's the primary fight there against the assad government and rebels. >> it's more complex than that because there are so many shades of opposition groups in syria and, of course, the added complexity of the russians who very much want to keep their beachhead to a hold, whatever figure you want to use, in the mideast, and by propping up what has been a staunch ally of theirs. again, you know, that just adds to the complexity there. >> rose: it's likely assad will be empowered when president obama leaves. >> well, that's a fair guess, yeah. >> rose: so what do we do? what's our strategy? >> not my department. ( laughter ) >> rose: what worries you the most? >> hmm? >> rose: what worries you the most? >> well, in general or -- >> rose: about syria and about where it's going and about whether mosul will m

and allies are ready to drive isis out of raqqa, and most of mosul. >> do you agree?. the forces that occupy iraq iraq, this is the headquarters of isis where most of the forces actually are. those who are not going to fight and stay in mosul will go to raqqa and we don't have the combat force we had in iraq. in iraq it's close to 30,000 participating in this attack on mosul. mosul a larger city. what we have in syria is paling by comparison. we have a few hundred sunni syrian arabs and a few thousand and that's all, syrian kurds, assisted by some of our best troops dish. >> what is our role there? what are we doing. >> trainers and advisers. we help a little bit more with air power. calling in air power for them and we've got some guys right down there. they're probably as close in the fight as any of our advisers are and have been for some time. but that's not enough combat power to take raqqa. >> has come up in on election year but one thing donald trump mentioned we're seeing the likes of general patton and general eisenhower spinning in their graves by pre-announ

has a substantial arab element to it, otherwise deliberation will not be welcomed by the people of raqqa. so it is important that it is sufficiently strong but also sufficiently arab. laura: at least 26 people have been killed in russian provinces in a syrian this week and most of the victims were schoolchildren. claimed they were hit while waiting outside a school. by syrianuently hit forces. turkish police in a southeastern city used tear gas to disperse protest against the arrest of two politicians in the kurdish stronghold. they denied being pkk sympathizers and say they are working to stop all out war. our correspondent has more. basically accused of supporting the pkk, making speeches in support of the pkk theallowing them to use office of municipal facilities, and they are accused of incitement to violence. the latest we've just heard is that they will be detained for five days. if you could just allow me to make a personal note here, i've had a press breakfast with her, i've had a long interview with her with one other journalists and i have listened to her speech of a kurdish ne

native of raqqa and invaded by isis and do journalism under cover. marlon started sending photos that he took in raqqa of children going to the trash to finding things to sell or the long bread lines or isis fighters in hospitals recovering and i would draw from these and he would do accompanying texts. he did in raqqa and aleppo and we are currently working on a book together now and i feel so privileged to get to work and to learn from such, you know, an extraordinary peer and such an extraordinary journalist, so perhaps it's more natural to me because i'm an artist and able to go into my role as an artist and have someone else take the role as a writer or work with them in that way but i think i've learned so much from this collaboration and been so lucky to have them. >> i think when you start with the professions i think you internalize the norms without thinking about it, because you kind of came in as an outsider that helped you have a fresher perspective of what journalism can be. >> that's a very good observation. it's very similar to the fi

the taking back of the syrian city raqqa of. they gave no timing, saying this will coincide with the fight in mosul, so that is thestep. another worry is the threat of returning hikers to europe. they say they are trying to prevent that but everyone acknowledges there's no total security. that is what is on the agenda to prevent further terror attacks in europe. brent: now to the terror threats within. german police carried out more than a dozen anti-terror raid throughout the country. authorities say they targeted chechen asylum seekers, including a man suspected of wanting to join islamic state in syria. the search included the states of hamburg, saxony and bavaria. as yet, no arrests have been made. at least 11 people have been killed and more than 20 injured in an attack in central. the bombers are of explosives into african union peacekeepers. six soldiers were among the den. the mission in somalia says they killed 10 fighters believed to be from the islamic terrorist group, al-shabab. the group has sought to overthrow the

charlie: whatever happens in raqqa, isis will be with us in some name. james: right.ie: when you look back in terms of the intelligence world you inhabited, what mistakes that we made, for example with the focus on terrorism and all we have to do by nature, did we take our eye off what russia was doing? james: that is a good question. i have been concerned about just as, for the program i manage, the national intelligence brown program, which funds the agencies and the other components of the intelligence community is the very large proportion of that that is devoted to counterterrorism. while at the same time, keeping our eye on all the other challenges that we have, major nationstates like russia, china, north korea, iran, we are focused, so consumed and preoccupied with counterterrorism. i do worry about that. how we allocate resources in proportion to each one of those targets is not unilaterally the intelligence community's decision. we have lots of help from policymakers and from the congress as well. to determine those priorities. sitting in my position, i worr

herd from witnesses insides mosul, most of them foreign fighters have been pouring in to mosul from raqqaear dg stingtdive uniforms and suicide belts. they're carrying light weapons pm these are apparently suicide squads dispatched to mosul. they will night death. and speculation that isis may pull back from the eastern side of the city to the more denseply packed western old city pack ofmosisal where it's harder to have the urban khan compat. and so what we're hearing is that indeed steams be to happening. inal to the western parshz of the city. and they've been mined with exhoegzives. the plan for that is it oo floi it up. but not now. and dozen of truck and car bombs have been prepared. along with rocket launchers. preparations to defend mosul well underway, cresteen. frrsz >>> the u.s. senate stepping into the controversy over national startd guard members being told they needed the be this way. they're asking them to cease and it zoois. the defense department says they received bonuses they should not have been offered. >>> and james clapper said the prosose of getting kanye to luke

he then hooks up with a guy named jennae hussein, a british born terrorist who moved it raqqa, syria, located at the heart of the islamic state. >> rose: headquarters of isil. >> headquarters of isil and culs through that list of 1208 ennames to make a kill list. and then he uses twitter, and this is the threat we face now which is more complex than it's ever been before, when it comes to terrorism, using twitter, american-made and vent-- invented technology, he sends that kill list back to the united states to their add herents and say kill these people by name, by address, they are government employees, kill them. because we worked it together, even though it crosses, involves people from five different nationalities and moves at the speed of sieb, we were able to take effective action here. the individual-- gets arrested on u.s. charges in malaysia, brought to the u.s was just sentenced a couple of weeks ago to 20 years in prison. and general'a living in that ungoverned space in raqqa, syria, is killed in a military strike. >> rose: in a drone strike. >> the military announced it w

raqqa we can take down if we use air power appropriately, i would not recommend iraqi forces going inre. that what is going to complicate that. aleppo is another case in point. russians are going to use air power with, assads ground forces but that is complicated . that is a very convolute the operation. this is not an easy answer, i'm not going to give you an easy answer on that, it will take time. charles: the quagmire will get worse before better? >> absolutely. we have to keep our focus, 8 days we'll have a new administration, we will not have the administration, this is in january, but people already start shifting places. charles: a heck of a tangled web over there, thank you very much. >> thank you. charles: at home we appreciate when you watch, now lou dobbs. lou: good evening, 8 days until the election, and fbi is on the hunt for potentially classified e-mails that may be relevant to hill he's illegal use of a private e-mail server, agency now gearing up to sift through estimated 650,000 e-mails, discovered on a laptop use by top clinton aide huma abedin, and her estranged hu

raqqa. it is the isis from rock is overwhelmed vast areas. and yet senator kaine still sits there, loyal soldier, i get all that. insane the foreign policy of hillary clinton and barack obams somehow made the world more secure. it really is astonishing. on the date that iran released for american hostages, we delivered 400 million in cash as they reins and payment for americans held by the radical mullahs in tehran. >> moderator: the dayll mr. trump said putin has no respect for hillary clinton and no respect for obama. why do you think he would respect your administration? pence: strength, plain and-- whu simple. t it's donald trump, nonsense their donald trump, donald trump is a strong leader who -- [talking over each other] pence: we are going to rebuild. our military. this whole putin thing. look, america is stronger and russia to our economy is 16 times larger than the russian economy. america's legal system is superior to the crony crop atlas system and russia in every way. when donald trump and i observed that as i said in syria, and a

this offensive and are heading west toward syria towards some of the strongholds isis has there --raqqa for instance. whether that includes abu bakr al-baghdadi and his family, we don't know. charlie: we can't tell whether they have closed the route from mosul, which has been a primary route from mosul two raqqa? that is still open for them to flee? holly: they still have territory those cities. charlie: thank you so much for joining us. back in a moment, stay with us. nharlie: zeid ra'ad al hussein is here. he is a you and commissioner for special rights. he addressed a specials us in, calling aleppo a slaughterhouse. he also warned of the possible use of human shields. i'm pleased to have him back on this program. zeid ra'ad al hussein: thank you so much. charlie: i think this is the first time you have been here since your election to the u.n. high commission for human rights. you said that the bombardment of aleppo constitutes crimes of a historic proportion. tell me what is happening, and why it brings such strong language? zeid ra'ad al hussein: even on the scale of the atrocities

facto "..we've already begun laying the groundwork with our partners to commence the isolation of raqqa. as we meet here, we're helping to generate the local forces that will do so." on cam tag the white house envoy to the u-s led coalition says other attacks by the militants around this country have not diverted resources away from the battle to re-take mosul. in irbil, iraq, benjamin hall, fox news. it's time for your news and milwaukee with four homicides-- the latest happening on the city's east side this morning. milwaukee police say 23-year-old kayla baw-ski was found dead in a home on arlington near brady. a 22-year-old man was arrested in connection to the case. since yesterday afternoon-- three other men-- between 23 and 47 years old-- lost their lives to gun violence. charges are pending for the 23-year-old man accused of causing a triple- fatal crash over the weekend. attorney is reviewing the case after the driver turned himself in monday. he's accused of smashing into an uber vehicle... killing three ?female passengers.. and critically injuring their driver. the suspect is

raqqa, de facto capital in syria whether that includes al-baghdadi and his family, we just don't know> rose: but we can tell whether they have closed the route from mosul which has been a primary route from mosul to raqqa. that is still open for them to flee? >> they still have territory that connects those two cities. that's correct. >> rose: holly williams, cbs news. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: zeid ra'ad al hussein is here, u.n. high commissioner for human rights. he addressed the human rights council in a special session friday about the ongoing crisis in aleppo calling the city a slaughter house. with coalition forces advancing in mosul against i.s.i.s., also warned of the possibility of human shields. i am pleased to have him back on the program. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> rose: you said that the bombardment of aleppo constitutes crimes of an historic proportion. tell me what's happening and why it brings such strong language. >> well, even on the scale of the atrocities we have witnessed in syria -- not just in syria, also in iraq, it's almost one battle s

the u-s-led coalition against isis is laying the groundwork for retaking al raqqa -- the de facto isis capital in syria. that's the next phase in the group. this is a new video of dozens of people leaving their villages to get away from isis. take a look at this video showing a man violently attacking workers at a big lots. police are hoping someone will recognize him before he strikes again. investigators say the man walked into the store near the 95 and tropical just before closing time on sunday and attacked the cashier.. with a large stick. back office hitting one of them repeatedly. police say he put his hands around that employee's neck and threatened to kill them if he didn't get money. he took off before police got there, but didn't get any cash. metro is making a big change that they say will keep you more safe... but it comes with potential controversy. they're now making personal phone calls to crime victims for example -- if you had a family heirloom stolen but don't have a picture of it... metro might call you one week after the report and say sorry but the case is closed.

. >> raqqa. >> raqqa. >> leave aleppo alone, please. >> wiehl has written 18,000 books. >> i don't think sleeps. she writes more than trump. >> the only person who writes more than me is wiehl. you have a new book out today. what is the book. >> the candidate. we have a cable tv news reporter covering the two candidates in the last couple of months of the presidential campaign. and she realizes she covers the first female candidate and the first male hispanic candidate married to a billionaire wife with close ties to china, this billionaire wife that something is really. >> it's a thriller. >> it's a thriller. she has to discover what's wrong with one these candidates before that person gets elected. and the whole united states goes through a heck -- the clown -- put in a clown. >> clowns of terror. >> no clowns. lots of terror. there is lots of terror in this book. >> the book's name again is what? >> "the candidate." >> "the candidates." lis wiehl, everyone. she has a kid in college. give her a break. few weeks ago we covered the hillary clinton email situation here involving attorney

first, we have to go to raqqa. is an ideological struggle we are involved in to try to stop this radical islam which the president of the united states refuses to call islamic terrorism. we are want to have this fight. the problem is, due to barack obama's spell your leading from behind, isis has missed us a size throughout the world. , malaysia,a indonesia, other places because when america leads from behind some other really bad people leave him in front. we need a leader who will lead. yvonne: thank you. rep. kirkpatrick: it is a two-prong approach. we have to take out isis leadership and prevent them from exporting terror. john sen. mccain: solution is to send in more trips anytime there is a crisis. send in more trips. i don't want to send in more trips and until we have a plan to bring them home and a plan to take care of them wants to get home. i was the one who said we were losing the war in iraq and we had to have the surge. i wanted the secretary of defense fired. that was with george w. bush. sacrifice,e

he might have a victory in raqqa. but the problem is that isis is everywhere. isis is in paris. and so this becomes a prime challenge for him. >> but raqqa is a headquarters -- >> it is a headquarters but smash down on that but you will scatterer. >> you compared it to the zika virus? >> i think of zeke cashi zika, you will control it but never completely eradicate it. isis you will not eradicate it in the short term. you push them out of their territory, that is a good thing. but it's not -- it's not the definiti definitive. >> a good thing in part because a rallying cry for recruitment? >> a lot of presidents face a lot of scrutiny. you've interviewed him and he is clearly irritated that -- he compels him to treat saudi arabia as an ally. how has he changed the map who is our allies and how he treats traditional allies? >> he has questioned some of the underlining functions of foreign policy and still an ally of saudi arabia. he doesn't like it and he signals that in some way saudis feel it but we are still alive with them and too much to do with them together. >> he runs over

going to be tough fighting, but i think we can take back mosul and then move into syria and take back raqqa. this is what we have to do. i'm just amazed that he seems to think that the iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on mosul to help me in this election. but that's how donald thinks. he's always looking for something. mr. trump: we don't gain anything. iran is taking over iraq. chris: secretary clinton -- secretary clinton, it is an open discussion, but -- i'm sorry, please let mr. trump speak. mrs. clinton: he proves it every time he talks. mr. trump: wikileaks action just came out. john podesta said some horrible things about you, and boy was he right. he said some beauties. you know, bernie sanders said you have bad judgment. you do. and if you think that going into mosul after we let the world know we are going in, and all the people we really wanted, the leaders, they are all gone, if you think that was good, then you do. john podesta it said you had terrible instincts. bernie sanders said you had bad judgment. i agree with both. mrs. clinton: you

defense secretary ash carter says the next phase in destroying isis is retaking raqqa in syria. that could happen in the nt he also says the fight against isis in mosul is going according to plan. >> the iraqis are fighting with still and commitment and curage. and -- and courage. >> forces are within three miles of the city on three different sides. it's estimated there are about 4,000 isis fighters left in mosul. >>> and more violence in killed 30 people. the people captured were headed into the mountains to collect food for the winter. from the terrorism alert desk, i'm michelle marsh. >>> there weren't many questions about how he would vote, but harry reid cast his vote today. his early voting location was on the las vegas strip with cullin culinary union workers. he's stepping down when his term expires. catherine cortez masto or joe heck will replace him. >>> one town is taking drastics this is to stop selling soap and toilet papers. some say the ban works but others say it goes too far. >> i haven't been egged or -- no shaving cream. i give the big candy bars, they better

. >> smith: this is raqqa, a city of over 200,000 people. seized months before mosul, raqqa was capital of the islamic state's self-declared caliphate. >> smith: it was clear that routing isis from here would require a large ground force. bombing alone would not work. >> (man shouting) >> smith: isis was intermingled with the local population and was attempting to build a state. >> smith: they fixed roads, collected garbage, repaired phone lines, ran the banks, and carried out justice. >> smith: the question was who would fight them here. >> so then do you do an iraq-style invasion, or afghanistan invasion? president obama was not going to do that. the congress would've never gone along with that. the american public would've run away. we've never been in this spot before. >> everyone knew that we needed to have boots on the ground. the question was always whose boots would they be? no one wanted large numbers of american boots. there weren't many europeans who wanted their boots on the ground, and nor did any of our gulf arab partners want

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could fall back on raqqa possibly in syria. what about all the foreign fighters? some experts, including members of the e.u. commissssion, warned that a number of the foreign jihadists could wind up back here in europe. is that a serious risk, and are we prepared to handle it? amir: it is a really serious problem for the western countries, in europe, because most of these fighters will already have fled to syria already. we are talking about hundreds of raqqars going back to or other cities. we should put in mind, you defefeat an organization militarily, but not the ideological. this ideological, some people find this idea is very sexy, t o have a state as the culprit and so on. we shoululd make a lot research about this ideology, and how can we face it. melinda: finally, refugees. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for iraqq once we could see a humanitarian catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of refugees. do you think that is a serious risk? if so, are we prepared to handle that? alan: it is not a risk. it is certainty. i think they are preparing for 400,000 refuge

and its allies plan to force isis out of its capital city, raqqa, syria, shortly after the city of mosul, iraq, is won. that, according to u.s. defense secretary ash carter today. the liberation of mosul by iraqi american air power and special forces is still likely many weeks away. holly williams is with refugees who are spilling on to the battle field. >> reporter: the refugees are a fraction of those still trapped under isis inside mosul. but there are fears already that isis fighters could use the exodus to escape or launch terror attacks. at this camp, housing some refugees from separate the men on arrival to interrogate them. these men told us they welcome it because they fled here to be safe. but ahmed, who came from hawija in the south, is accused of being an isis fighter. he admits that his father and two brothers joined the extremists, but is adamant that he did not. why did you flee now? why not before? for people, even they had family members in isis," he said. "so i came to find out." he can only join the other refugees if he can prove he's innocent. awakened to the mosul of

the coalition wants to make sure mosul don't take refuge in raqqa, but a senior military official cautions it's unlikely both major operations would be be conducted at the same time. >>> some new very manies to tell you about in the case of those national guard members asked to repay bonuses. house speaker paul ryan is leading other leading lawmakers in calling on the pentagon to suspend efforts to recover that money. president obama has ordered the hasn't backed a waiver of the repayment. the defense secretary's promising to resolve the issue. >>> a deadly amusement park accident in australia is now having repercussions in the u.s. busch gardens in tampa has closed a similar ride while investigators try to figure out what went wrong in australia. both rides sent participants on circular rafts down a river into a pool of water but four people died in australia when one of those rafts bumped another and flipped over. >>> and with the cleveland cavaliers celebrating their world chamon the plaza, the cleveland indians got a little closer to theirs. >> they were doing so some 97 steps away the

and its allies plan to force isis out of its capital city, raqqa, syria, shortly after the city of mosul, iraq is won. that according to u.s. defense secretary, ashe carter today. the liberation of mosul by iraqi american air power and special forces is still likely many weeks away. holly williams is with refugees who are spilling on to the battlefield. >> reporter: the refugees are a% fraction of those still trapped under isis inside mosul. there are fears already that isis fighters could use the exodus to escape or launch terror attacks. at this men on arrival to interrogate them. these men told us they welcome it. because they fled here to be safe. but ahmet who came from the south its accused of being an isis fighter. he admits that his father and two brothers joined the extremists, but is adamant that he did not. >> why did you flee now? why not before? family members in isis. he said. so, i came to find out. he can only join the other refugees, if he can prove he is innocent. awakened to the m ocht sul offensive. they're outgunned and outmanned. but fighting back with its trademark