President ial election. And in london, lowincome families struggle to afford a home in one of the worlds most expensive cities. We start in northern syria, where theres a fierce battle now over the town of kobane. The fighters in isil are trying to take over the kurdishheld area. Group has already taken over large areas of iraq and syria, and it wants to establish in the region. The town lies on syrias border with turkey, and turkey itself is considering sending forces to fight isil, but syria said any such move would be considered aggression. Theres heavy artillery around the town, landing east and west. The kurdish official havent entered the town, but theyre advancing from the southeast, using Armored Vehicles and tanks. We go live now to bernard smith, on the turkish syrian border, and youre very close to kobani, and what have you witnessed in the day . Well, there have been constant barrages throughout the day, and they shook the ground beneath us. We have seen from the west, gunf
News of a big grudge match, as northern south korea goes head to head thats all coming up later in the program. Turkeys far limit has voted to allow foreign troops stationed in turkey, to use its military bases. That could mean u. S. And Coalition Forces launching attacks on isil could do so from inside turkey. Turkish soldiers also have a renewed mandate to cross the border. Lets get the details who joins us now near the turkey syria border. Tell us, first, what this vote in parliament means and how did it go down . What happens interesting is there was hardly any mention of isil, and indeed in the legislation itself, the talks about terrorist threats, mentioned isil. What you heard in the debate, was talk about the threats turkey faces principally in this parliament, they talk about threat from the asaad regime. They talked about the threat of syria destabilizing the border area, they talked etch about the threat from the kurdish workers party, the pkk in Northern Iraq. As well as al
Helping tourists at the eiffel tower to see paris in a completely different way. Fighters from Islamic State of iraq are shelling the center of a town of kobane as fighting intensifies and there is air strikes on isil positions on forces and we are on the turkish side of the border near kobane is on the phone right now. What more can you tell us about the Coalition Air strikes and what more have you been seeing on the ground . Reporter air strikes are started and so far we have four air strikes entering in kobane and especially targeting in the past they were targeting east point of kobane but this morning we have seen they are mostly targeting northwest of kobane. And kobane by isil forces three parts, the north part of kobane is Turkish Border and we came from Turkish Border after air strikes we see the black smoke on turkish side. And so far after especially after air strikes we also seeing isil forces shelling mortar inside the city center and they are targeting there is one in the
To analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the pakistani girl who was almost killed by the taliban is now the youngest Nobel Laureate ever. Malala yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize today, for advocating education for girls. Shell share the honor with Kailash Satyarthi of india, whos campaigned for decades against child slavery and labor. Malala heard the news in birmingham, england, where she now lives. I felt more powerful and more courageous because this award is not just a piece of metal that you wear or an award that you keep in your room but this is really an encouragement for me room but encourag
Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the pakistani girl who was almost killed by the taliban is now the youngest Nobel Laureate ever. Malala yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize today, for advocating education for girls. Shell share the honor with Kailash Satyarthi of india, whos campaigned for decades against child slavery and labor. Malala heard the news in birmingham, england, where she now lives. I felt more powerful and more courageous because this award is not just a piece of metal that you wear or an award that you keep in your room but this is really an encouragement for me room but encouragement to go forward and to