And buildings catering to billionaires and altering the sky line. When is too high too much. We begin with the ebola crisis. Theres a lot of fear, much unfounded. We have no interest in adding to the hysteria. We heard from dr john freedon of the c. D. C. , saying that we all have to work to ebola is not the worlds next aids. His warning came as the president of the west bank says it will take a global effort to stop the threat. More on that in a moment. First from dallas, encouraging news. Heidi zhoucastro is there with more. Hey, john, the Dallas County sheriff deputy, who was watched at the hospital. The good news is that he was discharged and tests came back as negative. On the heels of the first death in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan. And had People Holding their breath. A sigh of relief for the dallas community, the gouty this felt fatigued a week after entering an apartment tested negative. The results confirmed the assurances of health authorities. A point dallas countr
Overseas. Good evening, the Islamic State in iraq and the levant or isil is on the verge of a major victory in syria. Isil fighters could capture key town of kobane. [ explosion ] as you can see in that video there has been fierce fighting between isil fighters and Kurdish Forces defending the town and the u. S. And Coalition Partners carried out more airstrikes today. Kobane is on the border between syria and turkey and is an isilcontrolled territory. While turkey is keeping a close eye, turkey has yet to intervene. Its clear that the battle for kobanes is more intense than its ever been. Fighters from the Islamic State in iraq and the levant breached defenses to the east and south of the town late on monday. Since then kurdish fighters have been taking on isil street by street, building by building. The kurds are motivated and determined. Isil is more accustomed to sweeping through areas defended by soldiers with little appetite to fight. Kobane is different. U. S. Airstrikes have hi
To resandstorm for highlevel talks. So we begin this news hour with developments in syria and the fight against the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. Syrian border town of kobane where fighting has driven thousands of people away. Surrendeaway. Kurds angry at the perceived lack of action. In its strongest statement yet the turkish government said it will do whatever it takes to prevent kobane from falling, and protect its troops t. Lets go to southeastern turkey. Just give us the latest situation on the ground. Reporter nick, artillery fire coming from kobane. Just behind me isil fighters trying to push on the town. But this time the Syrian Kurdish fighters in the town have been telling us that they feel more confident about their abilities to protect. There is a bit of a crowd behind me at the moment bus turkish kurdish mps have been allowed to come in to speak with the syrian fighters. They have come out and told the people waiting here that they feel that after a couple of airst
Our top story, president obama and other ligeaders of th worlds 20 largest economies gather ner australia. Day 1 began with the promise to provide help to struggling structures throughout the world. It turned to ukraine. Putin was lambasted by members of the european union. Climate change made headlines but president obama urging leaders to commit to fighting global warning. More on the first day of the g20 summit. Reporter the focus of the speech was expected to be the United Statess pivot toward asia with a nod to the g20 economic talks to come, but unexpectedly, one of Barack Obamas main themes was the environment. As we focus on our economy, we cannot forget the need to lead on the global fight against Climate Change [applause. ] more than six minutes of the president s speech was devoted to Climate Change in what likes a die correct rebuke to australias Prime Minister who made it clear he did not want clooim change discussed at the g20. If tony abbott was stunned Vladimir Putin wa
Welcome Uhuru Kenyattas president home. We look ahead to 2016 as roy hodges england prepares to face the worse team in football. Kurdish forces are engaged in a battle to defend kobane, in northern syria. They are fighting street by streeght, and house by house to stop i. S. I. L. Occupying the town on the turkeysyria border. Fresh air strikes have been carried out against i. S. I. L. Positions. Thats offered respite to some, but it is not safe. There has been calls for an internationally enforced buffer zone in syria to protect the area close to the turkish border. N. A. T. O. s secretarygeneral said it is not being discussed by member states. During talks in ankara he urged greater turkish involvement in the fight against i. S. I. L. We have deployed a system as in turkey to enhance the air defense of turkey, but turkey being a strong nation has the ability to defend itself. We will be ready to support turkey in defending itself because thats part of the alliance, and part of the col