Together and blow, steve. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the United States moved closer today to new moves to rescue thousands of yazidi refugees in northern iraq. Theyre trapped on a mountain, surrounded by fighters of the Islamic State group. The u. S. Military is already airdropping supplies, and 130 american advisors have arrived to assess things. Today, Deputy National security advisor ben rhodes said the president is awaiting their recomm
Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the United States moved closer today to new moves to rescue thousands of yazidi refugees in northern iraq. Theyre trapped on a mountain, surrounded by fighters of the Islamic State group. The u. S. Military is already airdropping supplies, and 130 american advisors have arrived to assess things. Today, Deputy National security advisor ben rhodes said the president is awaiting their recommendations. There needs to
In iraq. They are there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off that mountain. This would be a humanitarian effort to get them to a safe space. There are different ways for doing that. We have not made decisions about how to carry out that mission because we want to get the readout from this Assessment Team first. What do you expect the president to get recommendations from his team . I think relatively quickly here in a matter of days. Some of them have been able to escape but, again, we want to get options in place to move them to a safer place. There are a range of ways for doing that. Again, were going to be cooperating with Kurdish Forces who are operating in the region, other International Partners and, again, our goal here is to work with the iraqis and with International Partners so that these people can get off that mountain to a safer place. Again, we dont believe that that involves u. S. Troops reentering a combat role in iraq. It involve
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