Killing its way and burning across the country towards baghdad. Two areas were focusing on right fowl, the Iraqi Military which is not holding up against this group called isis, they are waiting for the arrival of u. S. Military advisers that could be coming in the next few days. Also fighting is raging this weekend on iraqs border with syria. Were getting reports of iraqi troops being killed and wounded. Two of cnns Senior International correspondents are in iraq this evening. Nic robertson in baghdad, arwa damon in erbil. Where are iraqi troops fighting right now and how high is the concern that baghdad could potentially fall to this militant group . Reporter deb, i dont think theres a concern that baghdad is about to fall. But the Development Today is hugely significant and cannot be underestimated. The border town of the iraqi to syria border town after three days of fighting has fallen. The iraqi brigade there has been overrun. This is coming from an Iraqi Security source in the w
Is it going to take effect . Reporter well, we thought that they were going to give us some information in the last half an hour. We have not heard from hamas. They have maintained that they want to be able to bring more items and have the, basically to bring more items into gaza and as you just heard earlier, that is not likely to happen, though we know israel has said it will continue for a 24 hour, another 24 hours in a ceasefire. We have not heard of anymore rockets coming, but we do know the devastation is great in gaza and our ian lee has been seeing the scene there. Has been talking to the residents there who are looking at vast swaths of gaza that have been destroyed, now more than 1,000 people, were talking 1,049 from gaza officials who say that they have all died, and most of them are civilians. Well, sara, the ceasefire is definitely over. Both sides are trading. The areas we were at earlier today are once again the front lines, and when i was out there, one of the things th
In the path of the other plane. Moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. 601, stop the turn right there, sir the. Stop your turn. Stop your climb and stop your turn. Reporter the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. The roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. 601, you know what happened there . Basely over the top of each other. Thats what it looked like from my perspective. I have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. Reporter this was the third incident with where where passenger planes got too close for comfort. A similar incident over Newark Airport and another over the Pacific Ocean near hawaii all involving passenger planes. All right, well, again the faa is investigating. For some perspective, the big picture here how often this happens in the skies, we know from faa numbers from 2012 that about 4,400 close or too close for comfort
To get themselves and their families far away from places important to the militant group hamas because its not safe. They could be bombed at any time. So far those have not been empty warnings. The Israeli Military says it has struck more than 1300 targets. What they call terror targets over the past few days. According to Palestinian Health officials 168 people most civilians have been killed. An appeal today from the pope. Stop migfighting in the middle t and continue working towards peace. Pope francis said from the vatic vatican. The pope met with both leaders last month. John kerry and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone today. The israeli leader stressed his countrys right to defend itself against rockets launched from gaza. Kerry offered to help facilitate a ceasefire. Lets talk about that, the diplomacy, the help from outside now that its been offered. Michael orrin is not only cnns middle east analyst, he used to be israels ambassador to the United States. Mr. Ambassador, thank
Significantly damaged an isisheld building. The u. S. Military has conducted a total of 115 air strikes against isis in iraq. This comes as secretary of state john kerry has written a strongly worded oped in the New York Times calling for more nation nations to help the u. S. Fighting isis. A much fuller response is demanded from the world. No civilized country should shirk its responsibility to help stamp out this disease. As concern over russias actions in ukraine continues to grow, were hearing a frightening warning from one of the top european leaders meeting in belgium today. He says russia is nearing a, quote, point of no return in ukraine. Meanwhile, a cnn team in the port city of maria paul saw ukraine kran forces stre thernt evening defensive positions on the outskirts of the city, reenforcing checkpoints, digging trenches along roads leading toward the russian border. This a day after russians foreign minister denied accusations that they crossed into ukraine despite these na