over the proposal to create a buffer zone along the turkey-syria border. the secretary of state john kerry said it was worth looking at. the white house said the idea is not under consideration. turkey wants to protect the border with syria. the initial plan suggesting demilitarized zones would be created in idlib and aleppo. more from al jazeera's rosalind jordan. >> at least 11 bombing runs in and around kobane tuesday and wednesday. u.s. and allied fighter jets launching an 11th hour effort to take on the i.s.i.l. fighters. with residents seeking refuge in turkey, the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan wants the u.s. to do more, wanting a buffer zone inside syria, to send the refugees back. >> francis hollande endorsed the idea. and the u.s. secretary of state was open to the idea. >> if syrian citizens can return to syria and be protected in an area across the border, there's a lot that would commend that. at the same time you'd have to guarantee safety, guarantee there wouldn't be attacks by the government, other kinds of things would have to happe

will turkey have to be involved in syria's war whether it wants to be or not, and will it be able to dictate the terms under which it is involved. are events moving in such a way that turkey will be dragged in whether it gets everything president erdogan wants or not? >> i think the real trigger for ground intervention would have to be an isil attack on turkish territory. and for me in my view if this doesn't--i don't think isil has this in mind. for isil turkey is still valuable as a source of muggled in goods, which they can use for direction and the running of their state--across iraq and syria. and secondly turkey is also a blackpool market area for smuggled oil. and so i think that would have to be the trigger under which turkey would intervene directly with a ground force. but i don't see isil engaging in an attack on turkish territory for now. and maybe that's in terms of who does turkey see in terms of evil between the pyt or isil i'm wondering whether isil can have it it's way in this circumstance. are there things happening that are so dangerous to turkish national interests

there is this piece process ongoing at the moment in the kurds with turkey, turksey worried by arming the kurds in syria, could those arms end up being used against turkey in the future? this is one of the problems they face. this is why you haven't seen turkey militarily take action. it's u.s. air strikes that have so far helped keep bill isil at bay, keep them away from the town center, but tissuing, as i say, there are other things that turkey might be able to do behind the scenes without you seeing the turkish military go in to syria. interesting. >> very interesting. barnards smith there, pretty close to the border with syria. thank you. the syrian government stepped up its effort to drive opposition fighters from the city of alep. o. it tacked rebel petitions on friday the town is two and a half kilometers from aleppo and over looks the road which connects the city to rebel supply lines. a report. syrian government is on the move in aleppo. it controls parts of the city such as the central prison and now, it also wants the rebel-held countryside on friday, government forces attacked two other vill

syrian kurdish political party and it's ally to tell kurdish workers, the pkk which operates across turkey, syriaraq, a party which turkey has been engaged in a 30-year conflict and you can understand turkey's reservation and this is what erdawan had to say. >> translator: pyd is for us equal to the wkk and also a terror organization and it's wrong for the united states with whom we are friends and allies in nato to talk openly and say yes to supplying arms to a terrorist organization. we can't say yes to it. >> turkey resisted supplying arms to the kurds because it fears one day those arms could be used against them. it fears also creation of a tonomos region and they are afraid it will give them a sort of idea. >> live on the turkey, syria border. at least 23 youthies killed in central yemen and the rebels seized the town on friday. and in the capitol the governor of sona province resigned after they stormed his office and now to the yemen capitol and al jazeera is there and tell us what is going on in this town, oma. >> reporter: well, we understand from sources there that the death toll has r

turkey. it's also worried about army the kurds to fight in syria. ey fought its own long still unresolved armed conflict with the kurds and then there is the risk that taking part in a campaign to push back isis in syria, may inadvertently help president bashar al-assad. erdogan told his audience that turkey isn't just in a fight against isil. >> translator: one of turkey's priorities is to have a strong and just government in damascus. we cannot be indecisive about the situation in the gulf and the larger middle east. how can we remain uninterested given the crisis on two fronts on our barredders. we will not sit idle. >> reporter: on thursday, turkey's parliament will likely approve motions allowing turkish force to his join the fight against isil in turkey and iraq. also allowing foreign force to his use its bases. that means the possibility of u.s. jets taking off for iraq and syria from an air base in southern turk i bernard smith, aal jazerra on the turkey syria border. >>> a top thine ease official is reportedly heading to hong kong as beijing

has any -- turkey has not said it will send troops into iraq and syriathis is legislation which kept lemn sleighs that already existed allowed that to happen should the government decide it wants to do that. it also allows which is as significant is it allows form forces to use bases for them to launch military operations in syria and iraq as well. there's been pressure, of course, from the u.s. for turkey to allow the u.s. to use it's bases in this country. >> meanwhile, bennard, isil fighters have been closing in, not far from the border where you are, the border between turkey and syria, tell us about the latest on the ground. >> it's been a guy yeter day, that still has. fighting and we spoke to an activist one of the syrian kurdish fighters trying to defend that town. there is still fighting going on, they have a french around that town, and the isil fighters have been using hit and runch tactics to try to preach the defenses. they have not done that yet, we were filming there earlier on, and we did see isil vehicles moving around, we saw one -- two

let's now get the latest on the ground near the turkey/syria border. greg is live for us there as the battle for kobani is happening not too far away. greg, what's the latest? >> yeah. the battle for kobani seems to be in the crucial stages. we spent the day on the turkey/syria border and experienced most intense fighting we've seen in the weeks that we have been here. right in front of us, right on the front edge of this city today, there was a huge blast. early reports indicate it was a u.s. air strike. later others claimed it was an isis suicide car bomb. and a big one targeting kurdish fighters. just a sign of the dangerous level of fighting here. and while the kurdish militia had claimed they were pushing isis back, the sound we heard from the center of the city told another story. small machine gunfire all day, along with an eerie quiet on the east side of the town that leads some to speculate isis might be making further inroads there. centcom confirms there were six air strikes against isis targets, all of them outside of the city. again, as th

. >> turkey's potential involvement in the fight against isil is drawing anger from syria today. the syrian government wrote to the united nations saying that turkey's decision to authorize military operation was an act of aggression. meanwhile isil fighters are closing in on the town of kobane in syria. we report from just across the turkish border. >> with tanks taken from the iraqi army, armies intensified their shelling on kobane on friday. the town is dealing defended by a few thousand syrian kurdish fighters. shoot the tanks one commander tells her fighters. these men and women are unlikely to be able to hold this town for much longer without outside help. >> we wouldn't can't kobane to fall. we'll do whatever we can to prevent this from happening. >> but there's no indication that turkey's military is about to get involved in this battle. it could if it wanted to. there's new domestic legislation that allows turkey to fight what it finds as terrorism and iraq. for now turkey is a refuge for kobane's residence. syria's kurdish fighters have been given weapons. they say that

the turkey syria border. greg, fox news. melissa: thank you so much.tion airstrikes seem to be working on the ground in kobani. but wouldn't airborne isis force us to change strategyy strategic analyst james freeman is back. colonel, let me ask you, you know, how does that change things, and do you buy it, that they could be learning to fly jets? what would that mean? >> you've got a lot of u.s. pilots hoping they'll be the first one to spot the isis jets and shoot them down. i mean, there's zero threat to the u.s. air force rom those old training pilots, military pilot is a long, drawn-out process. the one danger, the single danger from those jets are other isis aircrafttto useethem as flyyng bombs. to fly them into a facility obviously our embassy in baghdad would >> it seems like we're hearing they're working. the next they're not. today, it seems like they're working. how do you sort through all of it? >> they've been doing more of them. that's probably the answer here. the numbbr of missions in this conflict was historically low. i think it's grea

are studying the idea of setting up a buffer zone along the syria-turkey border. the attacks have helped to contain the surge of isil fighters, but the group's changing tactics and changing position, the isil have launched a new offensive from the east of kobane. on wednesday carrying out a suicide attack using a truck bomb in the industrial zone of the militia target. >>> a curfew has been imposed in southeast of turkey just over the border of kobane. they want turkey to allow more webs, more fighters kurdish fighters, and more to return to turkey. this is what they had to say about that buffer zone. >> michael: the becauser zone is an idea that's been out there. it's worth examining and looking at closely. there are anothe others forced out of kobane. this should not be a problem thrust on lebanon and jordan where they bear an incredible burden with respect to their societies. if syrian citizens can return to syria and be appropriated in an area across the border, there is a lot that would commend that. but at the same time you would have to guarantee safety. an

the turkey-syria border. 12,000 civilians, mostly seniors, aretached.dish forces were able to push back a pre-dawn attack by the group with the help of coalition airstrikes. isil is on the add vanths moving into the city from two sometimes. stefanie dekker is on the turkey/syria border with the latest. >> reporter: martyrs never die. the chant of a final fair well. the bodies of two fighters of the ypg, kurdish group fighting it isil in kobane are laid to rest across the border in turkey. >> these two people who we buried today were taken to hospital here in turkey. they were injured. now, they have lost their lives. >> on saturday, the non-stop sound of that standoff, sources inside kobane tell us there is a fierce fight underway on the southwestern edge of the town. there have been more coalition airstrikes here many say they are helping but this is a battle that is far from over. turkey's military has a strong presence here look kobane's border. you can see one of the tra transformations. one of the sources of anger is the fact the military hasn't do

if these peshmerga forces from iraq actually do come through turkey and into syria, that also might provide the final help. but i think certainly some changes are in play here on the ground and if turkey is realizing that it wants islamic state to be pushed away from its borders, it's going to have to bow to the inevitable in a sense and help the kurdish fighters there on the ground. >> mark lowen in istanbul. many thanks indeed. >>> now, nigeria has been declared free of ebola by the world health organization. just 20 cases have occurred there with eight people dying and no new infections reported in the last six weeks. another west african nation, senegal, was given the all-clear on friday after the recovery of the one infected person there. some other developments to bring you today. the spanish nurse, teresa romero, who was the first person infected outside west africa, has now tested negative for the disease. she'll need a second test. the 21-day incubation period for the family of a u.s. ebola victim is ending. and the british nurse who was infected with the virus has returned to sier

can i just ask you about kobane, lyse, upon the turkey-syria border. because the turkish government does seem to be quite clear it will not allow that town to fall. how important, whether as a symbol or in reality, is one town like that? >> it's extraordinary in this kind of a world when you're talk about vast areas of land, how one small area can be a microcosm, can be such a powerful symbol of which side is the winning side. this one small area kobane is right on the turkish border, and if the islamic state fighters take it over, they have a corridor right there, right on turkey's frontier. the prime minister yesterday was absolutely clear that turkey will not allow kobane to fall. now, we're getting counterterrorism from socritici from some of the fighters, the kurdish peshmerga who say they're not bombing the right targets. they're taking the fight to the streets. so even with the air strikes. first of all, they said there's not enough air strikes. now with the air strikes, they're not sure they're engaging in the right way with the right targets.

the town lies on syria's border with turkey, and turkey itself is considering sending forces to fight isil, but syria said any such move would be considered aggression. there's heavy artillery around the town, landing east and west. the kurdish official haven't entered the town, but they're advancing from the southeast, using armored vehicles and tanks. >>> we go live now to bernard smith, on the turkish/syrian border, and you're very close to kobani, and what have you witnessed in the day? >> well, there have been constant barrages throughout the day, and they shook the ground beneath us. we have seen from the west, gunfire, and mortar fire, and it has been relentless. they have been trying to fetched the town earlier today. the held of the turkish forces defending kobane, he said we're operating from a small besieged area, and my expectation is for general killing, massacres and destruction if isil make it into the town. so there's an enormous amount of pressure on the syrian/kurdish fighters today, trying to defend kobane. >> meanwhile, the warnings are coming from damascus to anch

most sustained air campaign against the islamic state of iraq and the levant near kobani on the turkey, syriader. the attacks have helped, it is hoped to contain the movement into the city. but the group has remained defiant and launched a new offensive from the east of kobani. on wednesday carrying out a suicide tack by a truck against a militia target. a crew few has been imposed in turkey after protests. the kurds are blaming the turkish government for not helping more inside of kobani. they want more weapons allowed through and sometimes even more fighters through. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has said, that turkey's advance will become clearer after general john alan's visit on friday. mr. kerry said that turkey is committed to fighting isil but needed to tread carefully. >> these things have to be done in a thoughtful and careful way so everybody understands what is doing what, and what the implications are and where you go as a result, and i am absolutely confident that tomorrow the discussions will take place directly with ambassador and general allen, and general lloyd aust

he's on the border between turkey and syria. richard, other than the loss of life, what's been accomplished here? what's isis trying to accomplish with these executions? >> reporter: good evening, brian. by executing this british aide worker and threatening an american next, that soldier who went to syria to help provide some humanitarian relief. isis is trying to provoke a response. isis wants to get the u.s. more deeply involved in this conflict, which isis firmly believes will be a quagmire for the united states and any other country. look what isis is doing on the ground, on the battlefield. right now isis is focusing on the city of kobani. kobani is right on the turkish border. there are many other towns and cities inside syria that isis could be attacking. but it wants to attack kobani right under the noses of turkish soldiers. now turkey is considering getting more militarily involved. that's the isis strategy, expand the war. >> richard engel on the turkey/syria border for us tonight. richard, thanks for your reporting.

. >> syria is angry over turkey's decision to take part. meanwhile i.s.i.l. fighters are closing in on the town of kobani in syria. bernard smith reports from across the border in turkey. >> reporter: with tanks taken from the iraqi army, islamic state of iraq and the levant against fied their shelling of kobani on friday. a few,000 syrian kurdish fighters. shoot the tanks one commander tells the fighters. these men and women are unlikely to be able to hold this town for much longer without outside help. >> we wouldn't want kobani to fall. we welcome our brothers who came from kobani. we'll do whatever we can to prevent this from happening. >> reporter: but there's no indication that turkey's military is about to get involved in this battle. it could if it wanted to. there's new legislation that fights terrorism in syria and iraq. right now turkey is just a refuge for kobani's refugees. they blew up this french tank with antitank missiles but they say they need reenforcements. there's been a handful in recent days just enough it seems to keep i.s.i.l. at bay.

. ♪ >>> turkish president has given his clearest warning yet that turkey will fight against isil in syriae group that he branded terrorists have advanced within sight of the turkish army on the border. he also demanded that bashar al-assad leave power. he said turkey can't afford complacency while the crisis unfolds. >> translator: one of turkey's priorities is to have a strong and just government in damascus. we cannot be indecisive about the situation in the gulf and larger middle east. how can we remain uninterested given the crisis on two fronts on our borders. >>> there are reports of gunfire and shelling in the frontier town that lies a few kilometers from the turkish border. fighters have been advancing on the city forcing thousands of mostly kurds to flee to kobani. the kurdish fighters who remain say they booby trapped the town in case isil attacks. bernard smith has more on the turkey, syria border. >> reporter: all day long there has begun fire in kobani, you can see smoke rising just behind me. fighters in the town say they have managed to hold off isil forces so far. they als

bernard smith object aljazeera on the turkey-syria border. >> syria's border is now lined with military tanks. nick schiffron has more from the turkish border town. >> the mountains represent say the turkey from syria aren't an obstacle. he is a smuggler. >> people around the world wanted to help. their hearts went out to the syrian people. >> to get to syria, all you have to do is walk to the edge of the city into this for evident. this is a turkish city. this barbed wire is the only thing separating the city from syria. there's nothing to stop me from heading up the hill into syria. >> the border was kept porous. they wanted foreigners to fight bashar al assad. >> we have people from all over the world, brothers from bangladesh, iraq, cambodia, australia, u.k. >> those fighters helped fuel isil's rapid rise. >> they inspire isil's social media campaign. runs of propaganda videos, highly produced. each help recruit other foreigners. >> i'm from the u.k. >> i'm your brother from south africa. >> foreign fighters proudly reject they are citizenship for membership in a self declared islam

concerned in another regard there is international pleas for them to allow kurdish fighters in turkey to go in syriaghters in kobane and turkey not allowed to do that, why? >> they perceive them as a threat going forward and as they cross the border and gain more kurdish parter ers in syria they can come back and from turkey's perspective they are going against each other and let them deplete and decide before they step in. >> turkey will decide how this thing kind of plays out because if they get involved they want some support from the u.s. and don't want assad coming over because that is a huge issue as well so they are trying to get something out of this in terms of giving their help to what is going on to the fight against isil. >> that is right and if the border is protected the president can tell the citizens they are fine and turkey is fine and in their best interest and look at it from their eyes and best interest to let this battle go on and not join it. >> but they would also have issues with the kurds in turkey who are upset with what is going on and protests across europe from kurds up

kobane is on the border with turkey and currently surrounded by syria and territory won by ice ill. ey's military has yet to intervene. bernard smith has more from southern turkey. >> reporter: from across the border it's clear the battle for kobane is more intense than it's ever been. fighters breach defense t defenh the town. since then kurdish fighters have been taking on isil street by street, building by building. the kurds are motivated and determined. isil is more a customed to swing through areas defended by soldiers with little appetite to fight. kobane is different. u.s. air strikes have hit isil positions, but the kurds say the strikes aren't enough on their own. they want turkey to provide more weapons. turkeys president visiting a refugees camp for syrians says he thinks kobane will fall to isil. erdogan says a ground operation is needed to defend the town, but turkey won't go it alone. >> translator: the problem of isil cannot be solved with air strikes alone. we had warned the west we wanted three things, no fly zone, cure zone parallel to that. and the training of mod

air space, so that they can enter from the turkey syria border. charles stafford is in iraq. some of the vehicles hitted out with machine guns. wearing the traditional dress and carrying weapons. heading north towards the turkish border, now, the deployment of these forces is causing questions to be asked as to what kind of impact it will have on defending a border of over 1,000-kilometers with this region of iraq. the curds here, say that they are poorly equipped and have asks the coalition forces for more powerful weapons in their defense of that front line. it may be a small contingent of forces but it comes at quite an important time, as well. the beginning of winter where things like cloud cover quite easily have impact on the ability for air strikes to strike their targets. but yes, after more than a week since turkey gave the go ahead to go into turkey, and head towards cabarney, the convoy has finally left syrian fightingers say that they desperately need reenforcements to prevent isil from taking full control. that risk their own lives er

this is northern syria along the border with turkey. there are countless camps like this. >> translator: we are being humiliated. the men, our women, our children, our tents are destroyed. nobody cares about us. we are flooded here. there is mud everywhere. nobody is helping us, only god will take care of us. >> reporter: millions of syrians have been forced out of their homes. it is difficult for aid to reach them and winter is coming. syria's winds are cold with heavy rains. the season hasn't even begun yet. >> translator: over 400 tents were destroyed by the flood and we ask the international community and the united nations just to give us our basic human rights. as you can see the camp is totally flooded. >> reporter: as the international community focuses on fighting the islamic state of iraq and the levant this country is on its fourth year of war. there is no proper drainage or sanitation. it is extremely difficult for journalists to travel to syria so there are many places the displaced live that we cannot see. they are the vic

are calling for reinforcements, our correspondent bernard smith is there near the border of turkey and syria the latest on the fighting. well, elizabeth as you say it looks like last night saw some of the most intense fighting. there has been much of it focused on that border crossing. it's important, we think, because the suggestion is that isil want to control that border because they want to stop any potential reinforcements coming through, whether that would be iraqi peshmerga reinforcements or reinforcements from fighters allied to the free syrian arm i nevertheless, kurdish fighters were able to repel that attack. they came at them apparently from three different angles armed the town to try to take that border. but it was the air strikes that in the end made the difference and it was the air strikes that helped the -- that has kept that border area in the control of the kurdish fighters. an indication really of how totally realigned they are on the air strikes. in fact, they were worried that the air strikes came in quite late and they were worried that they weren't going come in in e

bernard smith reports from the turkey syria border. >> for turks its an unprecedented site. kurds being escorted with a military convoy of turkey. the turkish government is allowing about 150 fighters to transit its country after pressure from the u.s. to help kobani from falling to i.s.i.l. letting them through. as the convoy made its way the u.s. led coalition led more air strikes, focused on the border crossing. a place has been a focus of repeated assaults from i.s.i.l. fighters. >> instead of finding a way to reconcile between the different parties, the united states now decided to arm more people and to train more people. and this will only prolong the war and this will be more heavy than it is now. >> the peshmerga are bringing with them heavy weapons such as artillery and mortars. it is this equipment that the kurdish army say they desperately need. there are also reenforcements from the free syrian army. added to the peshmerga it means about 200 men. this is where both sides have thousands of men and i.s.i.l. seems to be able to easily and rapidly replenish its ranks

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reported cases in six weeks. >>> let's turn to syria now, where the civil war has left millions displaced in their own country. thousands are left in camps on the turkey border. stephanie decker reports. >> reporter: there is no protecting this camp in the heavy rain. this is northern syria along the border with turkey and there are countless other camps like this. >> translator: we are being humiliated. the men, our wen, our children, our tents are destroyed. nobody cares about us. we are flooded here. there is mud everywhere. nobody is helping us, even the arab and islamic countries. only god will take care of us. >> reporter: it is difficult for aid to reach them and winter is coming. syria's winters are cold with heavy rains and the season hasn't even really begun yet. >> translator: over 400 tents were destroyed by the flood and we ask the international community and the united nations, just to give us our basic human rights. as you see, the camp is totally flooded. >> reporter: as the international community focuses on fighting the islamic state of iraq and the levant, these people are enduring their fourth year of war, there is risk of disease

the crisis along turkey's border goes both ways, refugees flee out of syria as hundreds of foreign fighters trying to get in to join the ranks of i.s.i.l. nick schifrin says how easy it is to cross the border. >> reporter: the mountains that separate turkey from syrian aren't and obstacle, they're an invitation for omar. >> translator: people around the world wanted to help. their hearts went out to the syrian people. >> reporter: and to get to syria all you have to do is walk to the edge of the city into this forest. this is rahanli, a turkish city and this barbed wire is the only thing separating this city from the syrian district of idlib. the military usually controls this area but right now there's nobody to stop me from hopping over and heading over the hill to syria. >> turkey said it kept its border porous. it wanted forces to fight syrian president bashar al-assad. >> we have people from all over the world who have brothers from bangladesh from australia from u.k. from cambodia. >> if you are depressed, the cure for the depression is. >> reporter: they inspire i.s.i.l.'s unpreceden

turkey. bernard smith on the syria-turkey border. >> meanwhile, an attack in idlib. residential buildings in the area have been damaged. 20 people, half of them children killed i in thecy of homs. the attack happened in a neighborhood. >> reporter: the apparent target of the bombings was a school. many of the casualties were children leaving classes at the time of the explosion. a car bomb was remotely detonated outside of the schoo school's gate before a suicide becomesuicide-bomber blew himself up within the crowd. dozens were killed and injured. this neighborhood is controlled by the government, and it is one of many districts where alawites live. they are members of the same sect of bashar al-assad. it was not the first attack of its kind but it was the deadliest in months. the government managed to regain role of th recontrol of the city of homs in may. we know's bombings were undoubtedly a mention to the government and it's supporters. the opposition has not given up its fight. >> reporter: and neither has the government. it has stepped up an aerial campaign fo

occupying the town on the turkey-syria border. fresh air strikes have been carried out against i.s.i.l. positions. that's offered respite to some, but it is not safe. there has been calls for an internationally enforced buffer zone in syria to protect the area close to the turkish border. n.a.t.o.'s secretary-general said it is not being discussed by member states. during talks in ankara he urged greater turkish involvement in the fight against i.s.i.l. >> we have deployed a system as in turkey to enhance the air defense of turkey, but turkey being a strong nation has the ability to defend itself. we will be ready to support turkey in defending itself because that's part of the alliance, and part of the collective security which the alliance is built on. >>> al jazeera's correspondent is on the line from the turkish-syria border. what is the latest you are hearing from kobane. >> right now we can hear clashes and also, like, we heard shells landing into the west of kobane. but one hour ago we saw war planes. not in the defence like

our correspondent reports from the turkey, syria border. >> reporter: these are the men who have beend picked to fight islamic state in syria. here attacking government forces. the syrian rebels with some training and a few american weapons. now they're to be president obama's boots on the ground as he vows to degrade and destroy islamic state. >> together with our partners, america is training and equipping the syrian opposition to be a counter weight to terrorists of isil and this regime. >> when u.s. planes took off, the president's allies in syria had no clue the bombing had begun. the air campaign against islamic state is now well underway. the ground strategy is shaky. the 13th division is one of the local groups that is vetted. it's supposed to get the training and weapons president obama has promised. >> translator: it's all words. nothing is materialized yet. we haven't gotten things we've asked for. we have nothing, not even weapons. >> but islamic state has. after their success in the wreck, they're better funded and armed than ever. they've been advancing westward across s

greg joins us live from the turkey/syria border with the latest. hi, greg. >> reporter: things are sounding desperate today, one of the best sources is saying that the syrian town of kobani could fall to the terrorists in just a matter of days. there is amateur video reporting to show isis fighters inside kobani, if accurate gives a face to the savagery, they are having no problem getting replied and reinforced and more fighters and heavy arms are flowing into the place. the kurdish defenders are getting neither. we're also told there's fighting all sides of the town, including the very center. the new air strikes against isis in an around kobani in the last 24 hours but also they are not enough and maybe they are too late. remember, for days before isis entered the town when the tanks and vehicles were out in the open, there were barely any air strikes at all. we've been watching the tanks of the turkish military, they seem they do not want to get involved. there are reports they have agreed to train 2,000 moderate fighters inside syria to help in

bernard smith has more now from the turkey-syria border. >> all that spraye separates tuy from syria here, is a little bit of bashed wire. if they wanted to, they would be allowed to cross they don't want to leave behind their cattle or their vehicles. most of them have elected to stay there and have been there for weeks really since i.s.i.l. started to encircle and push on kobani. in the distance over there is kobani. this entrance to the area is one of two that could potentially be used by the iraqi peshmerga when and if they come to kobani. you can see how close we are. just hearing the gun fire and the artillery in the distance. the other border crossing, right in the center of kobani, is where i.s.i.l. forces have been shelling with mortars. because they want to stop. they want to take control of that border crossing to prevent the passing of the peshmerga so they can control access to kobani there. that is why this border might be the one that is used instead because here the turkish military are on control on this side and just on the other side that for the time being remains

>> primetime new live as isil continues their brutal campaign, nick schifrin reports from the turkey - syria border... >> that's the black isil flag above the town center... >> five days of fear: escape from isil only on aljazeera america >> mistakes and how a dallas hospital first dealt with the ebola patient, lead to more than a dozen people being mornltded for the disease. >>> and some discord in the coalition as fighting rages in iraq and syria. i'm antonio mora, those stories and more straight ahead. >> officials are rushing to soothe public anxiety about the first ebola case to emerge in america. >> rest assured our system is working as it should. >> this is not west africa. the chances for it being spread are very, very small. >> a sea of pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. >> cy lynn has to step down immediately. >> the agent's embattled director julia pierson. >> she believed it was in the best interest of the agency. >> netflix is getting into the movie business. >> crouching tying are hidden dragon on the same way as it hits theaters. >> we have to find way to change the status

a lot happening right now on the border between syria and turkey. one kurdish official warning, quote, a terrible slaughter is coming. >>> one u.s. congressman now claiming isis members have been caught trying to cross the southern border of the united states. the department of homeland security has just issued a formal statement categorically denying that. we'll try to get to the bottom of this bombshell claim. >>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. 9:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the sad news out of dallas, texas, today that thomas eric duncan has lost his battle with ebola. the 42-year-old liberian man died this morning ten days after being diagnosed with the disease. we're also learning about new significant changes to u.s. policy on flights coming out of the so-called ebola hot zones in africa. our correspondents are covering all angles of this very important story. elizabeth cohen is in dalla

so some analysts say turkey doesn't trust it, and worries helping kurds in syria, might help the pkk,hich might turn on turkey. but turkey's hesitation has sparked riots as well as frustration from world leaders. >> we face security challenges both to the south and to the east of our alliance. >> reporter: for now turkey's army is simply sitting on the border. its leaders want more assurances, including a plan on how to topple syria's government. >>> iraqi soldiers and kurdish fighters are also trying to prevent isil from seizing two towns in northern iraq. imran khan has exclusive video north of bagdad. >> reporter: it might not look like much, but this makeshift bridge has become a key strategic point. if this bridge goes, then the town will be exposed to an isil takeover. they have already blown up the permanent bridge. isil fighters have moved to isolate the town from the rest of iraq. everyone here wants to stop that from happening. >> translator: we are the local fighters of the tribes. we are all ready to fight. we have been attacked by isil over that orchard, but we managed to

near the turkey syria border. greg fox news. lou: president obama with no clear strategy to degrade and disloi the islamic state terrorists and there is no clear ending at least in sight to those negotiations on the iranian nuclear program. what is the president trying to do? we take it up here next. lou: in the midst of a world seemingly in chaos both ukraine and russia have taken steps to defuse tensions. russia president vladimir putin ordered nearly 18,000 of his troops deployed along the ukraine border to return to their home bases. a ukrainian president says his government now expects a full cease-fire deal when the two men meet again friday. fighting intensified in the border -- some confusion about turkey's role in the coalition, at least amongst members of the administration. comments from the national security advisor, susan rice contributing mightily to that confusion. >> they have said that there are facilities inside of turkey can be used by the coalition forces. american and otherwise to engage in activities inside

near the turkey syria border. greg fox news. lou: president obama with no clear strategy to degrade and disloi the islamic state terrorists and there is no clear ending at least in sight to those negotiations on the iranian nuclear program. what is the president trying to do? trying to do? we take it up here next. [ breathing deeply ] [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took a deep breath... [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] and made the decision to quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. now we invite smokers to quit, too, with our comprehensive program. we just want to help everyone, everywhere, breathe a little easier. introducing cvs health. because health is everything. introducing cvs health. an unprecedented program arting busithat partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to

imports of syrian antiquities having up. >> we are on the turkey-syria border. have fighters crossed into syria? >> they've not crossed yet. the half that arrived by air to the city they'rest waiting not far from the border for that convoy to arrive. they've got the other half of the fighters plus the heavy weapons. that's making its way through turkey. it's taking a long time, a slow convoy. it might come here later today. we think they might not go into kobane until they have the cover of darkness. >> the turks have fought them going into kobane for quite some time. why that is? >> essentially it's because the turks view the syrian kurds in kobane as part of a group allied to the kurdistan workers party, the separatist group of turkish kurds who turkey has been in conflict with for 30 years. turkey is worried by arming the syrian kurds there, it is arming people who could one day surgeon those guns on turkey. that is why instead, turkey's happy to see these iraq kurdish peshmerga come through because they don't see them as such a threat. >> turkey has been call

this new cemetery near turkey's border with syria, is for fighters from kobane killed defending their. it's filling up. today there will be three more burials. the coffins are draped in the kurdish flag. hundreds of refugeeses from kobane have come to mourn. meadow, like most here, wants to show solidarity. but the first time she came, it was to bury her husband. >> translator: he was martyred he wouldn't leave kobane unless it was as a martyr. i hope the blood of these martyrs won't be wasted and that kobane will be freed then i can go home and take my husband with me. >> reporter: there were no relatives ahead today's funeral the chaos of conflict makes it hard to keep track of who is where. some family members may not even know that their son or husband has been buried today. the graves are shallow. when the fighting is over the kurds want to move the bodies and bury them at home. the funerals are a reminder that as well as more heavier weapons the kurds need reinforcements but there is no indication yesterday of when the iraqi peshmerga might arrive. there was heavy fighting on ko

>> reporter: let's go live now to bernard smith on the turkey, syria border.ngs up to date on the latest from kobani, what has been happening on the ground? >> reporter: darren what has been fascinating today is what has not happened. in the three weeks or so that my colleagues have been reporting, it has been to the background noise of gun and fire and occasional artillery fire. there have been some air strikes we think about five, and it seems that those air strikes have really made a difference because what we're hearing is that there hasn't been the street-to-street fighting that we have been seeing in the past nine or ten days in the center of kobani, so there seems to be a real change in fortune. and just to emphasize that, you may hear it, are the kurds from kobani who have been watching what has been going on in their town, and they are newly enthusiastic about the hopes that maybe the tide is turning. >> and what have the kurd kurder -- kurdish fighters been telling you? >> reporter: well, last week they were desperate, and when they were telling us o

. >>> syria says turkey's involvement for the fight of border town of kobani is blatant violation of reignty. it has allowed fighters to cross over territory and into syria. the convoy reached the area on the turkish side of the border early on thursday. so far at least 10 peshmerga fighters have managed to get into kobani. dozens more will cross the border later. bernard smith has more now from the border area between turkey and syria. >> reporter: the iraqi peshmerga fighters have spent the night at a town near turkey's border with syria. earlier this morning, thursday, about 10 of them went in advance essentially on something of iraqi before the bulk of the fighters and the heavy weapons make their way in. the belief is they will wait for the cover of darkness before that go in, and the suggestion is they will go in an area in the west. the trees behind me is under the control of isil fighters. we saw some of them moving around in an area targeted by u.s. air strikes only on wednesday, and it was from that area that a lot of the shelling was coming from. that shelling because the i

we're joined now on the turkey-syria border. what sort of numbers have been allowed across and how much difference is it making on the ground? >> reporter: well, the troops arrived last night. i think they haven't entered the city yet. seems to me there is a lot of issues. they have to inspect the situation. what we are hearing, the kurdish peshmerga, they arrived last night around 3:00 a.m. in the morning. a team of them this morning have gone to the border to inspect the situation, and possibly we are hearing from some sources that they might cross the border today or sometimes tomorrow. we don't know yet exactly when they are entering the city. but obviously, there is a lot of hopes in kurdish community, and those people who are watching the city under fire. so they are hoping this peshmerga, who are equipped with heavy weapons and artilleries, they might make difference in the fight, because that's what the kurdish fighters in the city have been asking for all along in the past six weeks. they have asked for fire power and s

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on the turkey-syria border, smoke could be seen. fierce fighter has been -- fighting has been going on as kurdish forces t to push back and isis advance. the chairman of the joint chiefs hestaff told martha raddatz believes the extremist group will take control of the syrian town. the u.s. and partners continue airstrikes in the area but it is not stop the extremist advance. general dempsey says targeting isis locations has become more difficult. rexam decoy more savvy in the use of electronic devices. -- >> they are becoming more savvy and use of electronic devices. .hey do not fly flags they do not establish headquarters that are visible or identifiable. >> isis fighters are now hiding in populations, which means the u.s. needs to rely on partners in the region for intelligence. >> next thursday, abc 7 and news channel 8 will host a live national town hall on the new terror threat and you can be part of it. log onto wjla.com, and click on the townhall meeting audience form. that is happening thursday, october 16, at 8:00 p.m. on n

the ball of kobane would give isil control of 500-kilometers off the turkey-syria border. >>> 200,000meanwhile are said to have fled dough ban i and the surrounding villages, but as stefanie dekker reports, not all of those who have crossed in to turkey are being given re refer ref luge. >> reporter: they fled to seek safety in turkey but are now detain ed by the authorities. outside relatives have been waiting for days. >> translator: the turkish police arrested my husband from the border think they put them in a bus and dropped them here. it's been 11 days. i have been waiting for him with my children. i lost everything. i have no money to feed them. i am sleeping in a park just waiting for him to come out. >> reporter: the police chief here tells us that 260 people are being detained and the reason he is giving us is that this group of people is believed to have linked to the ypg which fishing i believes is a syrian arm of the p.k. k which they deem a terrorist organization. following a 30 year insurgency, the p.k. k. or kurdistan workers party and turkey have agreed on a peace pro