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In iraq, a third city has fallen to a group of fighters called the Islamic State in iraq and lavant and they have advanced on a fourth city. Advancing to crete and kirkuk, and they have moved onto the oil rich town of bayji. They are worried that baghdad may be next. And theyre calling it terrorism. Meeting at this hour to discuss the situation. They are backed by fighter jets, out chasing fighters from isil north of tikrit. And the forces in tikrit say that its still under the control of isil. You saw the fighters, and now we have a statement. And according to that statement, they call themselves the fighters of iraq, and let me read you a little bit of what came in that statement. It said, we liberated mosul, tikrit and kirkuk, and we are continuing this liberation until we liberate all iraqi cities. Its called on the iraqi people not to be scared. And they promise them they will protect their lives, the public property and buildings. So its a pretty Strong Development to have a grou
President step down after 27 years in office. And fears for thousands of migrants as italy scales down its search and rescue operations in the mediterranean. Hello. Well the iraqi army says it is making important gains in the fight against isil. The armed group has captured large swathes of territory in the north and certain central parts of the country. Vital to both sides is a oil refinery in the area. The iraqi army controls parts of the facility, but its goal is to force isil out all together. Imran khan reports. Reporter this is what most of the fighting against isil now looks like. Streettostreet in deserted neighborhoods. Isil fighters are just a few hundred meters up the road. This is less than 20 kilometers south of one of iraqs largest oil refineries, and a city which is an isil command center. This special forces unit of the iraqi army has made gains and the commander says he is confident. Translator as we advance we have managed to fully clear the town. After securing these
That theres a second scaffolding thats being lowered. The reason theyre doing that is because the glass is just too thick for them to cut through. Their plan was to cut through the glass. They cut through one layer. They were not attempting to cut through a second layer and realize it was too thick so now theyre trying to lower a second scaffolding to try to see if they can do the rescue that way. Remember, this building is very, very knnew and glass is very ne and security is reinforced quite a lot. A lot of different layers of security around the building and the glass is probably thicker than what officials are used to and so now they realize they cant get through glass. Just a second. Lets put that picture back up. This is a picture from twitter thats from the inside of the building, which is what the inside of this very new building as weve been paying attention to it recently, and this is the scene as these two window washers are stuck inside of this apparatus. How did this happe
They took the shot. Another official tells cnn emwazi was in a vehicle near raqqa. Emwazi appeared in a series of isis beheading videos, documenting the murders of several murder, american and britain japanese hostages, he was seen taunting u. S. And british leaders. Well continue to strike the necks of our people were this morning, the uk government saying britain was working hand in glove with america over the jihadi john drone strike. This was an act of selfdefense, the right thing to do. Reporter emwazi, in in his mid20s. If this strike was successful and we still await confirmation of that, it will be a strike at the heart of isil. Reporter one of the things that he also said was that this was a longterm operation of the two Intelligence Services and also said this is a clear message to isis as well that the reach of the u. S. And britain is long and that they will not forget the fate of their citizens. All right, fred, thank you for that. Meanwhile, day two of operation free sinj