The United States is only giving token support with its intensified airstrikes from above. Isis fight user are shelling the singleBorder Crossing with turkey right now. Lets bring in greg talcott, and hes actually not too far from the action, and in the last hour we saw more smoke rising up from that town. Greg . Reporter yeah, harris, those steppedup u. S. Airstrikes might be slowing the isis terrorists down, we heard that, but we also saw that they are definitely on the march. Just about for the entire day we were listening to a real battle royal coming from that government section of the town that is in the center of the town. Our sources codo confirm that isis has taken the headquarters of the kurdish defenders, but we still hear a lot of fighting, so that thing is not going down easily. Isis basically controls the one Border Crossing between kobani and turkey. That is important because that is the only way civilians and casualties can get out of kobani, and its the only way reinfo
Landed wednesday on a comet. But the landing did not go as planned. News of the landing was beamed all the way back to earth. More details about the landing problem and whats coming up. The harpoons are expected to tether philae to the comet. They didnt deploy. How could this affect the mission . Well, they are still working on that. Let me explain what happened. I do have some models with me this morning, john. This is a small model of the comet, the typical rubber ducky form weve gotten to know. The spacecraft landed about right here. Thats pretty much exactly where they wanted to land, which is pretty remarkable considering all of this is happening about 510 million kilometers away from the earth and they had absolutely no way of steering the lander. They just threw it off the spacecraft and it landed in exactly the right place. I have a model of the lander itself. It dropped very, very slowly towards the comet spurs. This thing weighs 100 kilograms on earth but only one gram in spa
Im martha maccallum. It comes down in many way ways to the city of kobani. This town terrorists are fighting to seize. The headquarters of the Kurdish Forces has fallen to isis. Bill back to greg palkot live on the border, center of it all. Greg . Reporter bill and martha for the past two hours or so weve been listening to a battle royal going on in the syrian town of kobani the i will ask my cameraman mal james to zoom beyond me. You cant see too much. I think you can make out a line of trees. That is the center of kobani. That is the headquarters where kurdish defenders are. That according to our best source inside of the town has just fallen to the isis terrorists. Weve been hearing a lot of shooting, a lot of firing around there. The fight might not be over but that would be a big, big strong hold for isis terrorists if that were to happen. Were hearing the border crossing, between kobani and turkey, the only border crossing, is controlled by isis. If that is confirmed, that is the
Busy hour ahead here on cnn. Wed like to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im john vause. Good to have you with us. Im zain asher. A host of nations are gathered for the economic summit of the association of Southeast Asian nations or asean. But the pace of democratic reform in myanmar would be one of the main topics. President obama is scheduled to meet with myanmars president later today. He is expected to raise questions and concern cans about the countrys human rights record and freedom of the press there. Cnn International Correspondent ivan watson is in myanmars capital. She joining us live. We have seen a number of sanctions imposed on myanmar, some of them have been lifted, but have they done anything to increase the pace of democratic reform in that country . I think, if anything, u. S. Officials are arguing that the democrat ic reform process has slowed down, as have a number of human rights organizations. Growing concern here and in fact a Top Wh
And what happens in the courtroom when the mother of the vikck tim sees a photo of he her son, and the jury does not know about it. And i want to get to the breaking news that the u. S. Is moving assets to iraq to fight isis. And now we have our correspondents around the world, and we will begin with you in iraq, and what are are you seeing there michelle ka zinosinski . These aircraft are moved and shifted on a constant basis as the location of the air strikes are changing, and what you can gather from this is that there is more action many this area in northern iraq, and talking about e over the flights and the air strikes, and any of the situations with where the pilots are overhead and as a result would be at risk and clearly the u. S. Military wants to make sure that the rescue assets are there, and just in case something happens. I think that it is going to be interesting to see if h this is a result of jordan promising more air strikes in the near future. We will have to wait an