It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london, and 4 00am in the morning in mosul, in iraq, following a day where thousands of Iraqi Government forces have advanced on the city, the opening day of an offensive to recapture the western part from so called Islamic State. The first target appears to be mosuls airport. Is militants are fighting back. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville is with the iraqi forces. This is his report. Just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called Islamic State. Thousands of men, and hundreds of armoured vehicles, ina line of attack that spread for miles. The iraqi army are starting their assault on Western Mosul, theyve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the Islamic State. Theyre only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. Theyre dug in, and the assault on Western Mosul has started. Leading the attack, iraqs Emergency Respons
inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t
moment. syrian state television trying to show that the state of homs has returned to normal. they showed this video today after bombarding the city for months. especially the baba amr nabt. neighborhood. cleanup crews, cars on the streets, even ordinary people returning. that s what they showed on syrian state television. on video posted on youtube today, video how the of homs, you get a far different picture. the streets as you see empty of cars and people. rubble is deeper. destruction more complete. a top u.n. official who just got inside homs today say parts of the city were completely devastated. those were her words. she says authorities kept her out of certain areas even though they promised her complete access. authorities have still not allowed the red cross in to bring humanitarian relief into the besieged neighborhoods. in homs, the guns were still firing. as always we re not there to see for ourselves because the regime keeps out reporters when it s not shelling
syrian state television trying to show that the state of homs has returned to normal. they showed this videoarve bombarding the city for months. especially the baba amr region. cleanup crews, cars on the streets, even ordinary people returning. that s what they showed on syrian state television. on video posted on youtube today, video how the of homs, you get a far different picture. the streets as you see empty of cars and people. rubble is deeper. destruction more complete. a top u.n. official who just got inside homs today say parts of the city were completely devastated. those were her words. she says authorities kept her out of certain areas even though they promised her complete access. authorities have still not allowed the red cross in to bring humanitarian relief into the besieged neighborhoods. in homs, the guns were still firing. as always we re not there to see for ourselves because the regime keeps out reporters when it s not shelling or killing them. the estimat
on potential plotters who use more than one phone or phone number or device with a single court order. also expiring is the power to seize all considered relevant to a national security investigation. finally, the lone wolf provision allowing non-u.s. citizens who may be up to no good about who aren t connected with a foreign power or group. the you. a senate vote is hung up over civil liberties concerns. but democrats are s, harry reid complaining about the road blocks raised by tea party champion rand paul. listen to this. unless the senator foreign policy kentucky stops standing in the way, our law enforcement will no longer be able to use some of the most critical tools they need to counter terrorists and combat terrorism. if they cannot use these tools, tools that identify and track terror suspect, it could have dire consequences on our national security. i am somehow to be told that, because i believe a judge should sign a warrant that i m in favor of terrorists