find out how battle hardened they are and they are launching a ground offensive to retake mosul to the north. and this is another important fight continues for the city of ramadi. and they are battling isis and they are trying to it take the tea from all four sides and iraqi security forces and police have managed to repeal those attacks at this point. it is in western iraq and an isis strong hold and there are gains made and headway and with help for the air strikes. as for retaking tikrit. and military commanders say that could happen in the coming days if not sooner and isis militants have two choices. one surrender or two, do i. john? all right.
of the iranian nuclear program. and so the reality we ll have to live with a screwed up policy ing to address the threats and hope and pray that one, cares about this and has better answers than this guy and hopefully more time. because we are doomed in the next two years i am sorry. and james it is fair to point out the negotiations with iran are about a decade and they are buying for more time and working toward a nuclear weapon. james, even though it is sobering we look forward to your thoughts on the topic. thank you. and isis cuts a brutal path over the middle east how will america and the world respond? iran is fighting isis on the ground and through iraqi security forces and many say what is happening with isis
leads back to how we are dealing with iran. we have an interesting presentation. unholy war. the march of isis by bret baier starts tomorrow night on the fox news channel. it can be tough for new moms to get back to work they are taking a whole new approach. it starts with 16 weeks worth of. and hearing graphic testimony on the murder of a young mi t police officer. molly? reporter: we heard from a medical examiner today. and also moved on to the testimony of the man who allegedly was kidnapped by tasarnaev and his brother tamer lintasarnaev. we ll have more details coming up.
over the islamic state. jon? reporter: jon, this is the largest ground offensive in the fight against isis in iraq. and the iraqi forces are pushing deeper in tikrit. and surrounding isis militants that it are held up in the city center. isis is fighting back and trying to resist the advances by using road side bombs and sniper fire to take out those iraqi troops and shiite militia fighters as you mentioned, jon. they are pushing deeper in tikrit. and at this point iraqi fighter ares have taken estimated 80 percent of the city. and this is an important fight as we talked about because of tikrit s location. it is to it baghdad to the south and mosul to the north. and it is it a important test to
gains, there are precautions. the other thing is, it was over the summer that it looked like the president s foreign policy was in fact falling apart. the russians invasion and the march of isis. these things tend to be cyclical. i wouldn t imagine if in a few months we will be wonder what the heck happened. can vladimir putin get out of the economic crisis without the help of the united states? it s a very interesting question. there s already a pretty live debate, is this the russians ruble crash that barack obama caused, i think most experts would stay was contributing but not the main crash in the price of oil. and russia has a heavy economy on oil and gas is largely driving it. russia is increasingly isolated