Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. California fire officials said today theyve turned a corner on the wildfires that devastated northern parts of the state for the past week. Still, 11,000 firefighters from california and surrounding states are battling 16 large fires in areas north of san francisco. The fires have already burned 218,000 acres, an area larger than new york city. And 75,000 people remain under home evacuation orders, down from 100,000 yesterday. The fires have killed at least 40 people, making this the states most lethal set of wildfires since modern Record Keeping b
And around the globe. Iraqi Government Forces are in control of kirkuk after seizing it from the kurds. Iraqi troops launched their military operation in response to the kurds voting for independence in last months referendum. Thousands of people have now fled the city, which had been controlled by kurdish fighters for three years. President trump says he wont be taking sides in the dispute. From kirkuk, our middle east correspondent orla guerin and cameraman duncan stone sent this report. Pledging to defend kirkuk. Peshmerga fighters began the day with defiance, but this small band was no match for tanks. Nor were the locals, armed with whatever came to hand. We lost 2,000 men fighting is, he says. Were not afraid of the iraqi Prime Minister. But thats not how it looked deeper in the city. A checkpoint on the outskirts now a tense new front line. The kurds, who fought is with iraqi forces, now fearing an attack by theirformer allies. Locals said they were closing in. Shia militia unit
And around the globe. Iraqi Government Forces are in control of kirkuk after seizing it from the kurds. Iraqi troops launched their military operation in response to the kurds voting for independence in last months referendum. Thousands of people have now fled the city, which had been controlled by kurdish fighters for three years. President trump says he wont be taking sides in the dispute. From kirkuk, our middle east correspondent orla guerin and cameraman duncan stone sent this report. Pledging to defend kirkuk. Peshmerga fighters began the day with defiance, but this small band was no match for iraqi tanks. Nor were the locals, armed with whatever came to hand. We lost 2,000 men fighting is, he says. Were not afraid of the iraqi Prime Minister. But thats not how it looked deeper in the city. A checkpoint on the outskirts now a tense new front line. The kurds, who fought is with iraqi forces, now fearing an attack by theirformer allies. Locals said they were closing in. Shia militi
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. A surge in immigration raids ordered by the Trump Administration has led to the detention and likely deportation of hundreds of immigrants across the United States. The department of Homeland Security tells the newshour during the past five days there were targeted enforcement operations against criminals and undocumented immigrants from a dozen latin american countries. Without releasing total arrest numbers, d. H. S. Says the operations have occurred in california, illinois, new york, north carolina, South Carolina and georgia. Immigration rights advocates say there was a
This war that happened a0 years ago and what happened to these people was not properly understood, and not just for the world, but for the people of the country. Iraqi Security Forces have been pushing forward in a major offensive aimed at taking full control of their second largest city, mosul, from so called islamic state. The city was seized more than two years ago as is moved into northern and western iraq. The offensive to remove the group began last october, with iraqi troops securing the eastern part of mosul last month. But the western half of the city is home to around three quarters of a million civilians and stiff resistance from is fighters is expected. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman nick millard are the only Television Journalists on the frontline with iraqi forces. They sent this report. Just after sunrise, iraq bagai and what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called islamic state. Began. Thousands of men and hundreds of arm