Discover the best memories of your life. And now, bbc world news. This is bbc world news america. A struggle being waged along the Syrian Border with turkey. Patient diagnosed with ebola in the United States has died in a texas hospital. And shes a teenager on a mission. From onem a year young lady about her highflying ambitions. Failure is not an option. I dont want one obstacle in the way to stop me from going to mars. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. Fighting is continuing around the Northern City northern syrian capital. Attacks by Islamic State. Pressure is going to give them more support. The battle is intensifying once more. This was a day of colossal explosions. Aircraft from the Usled Coalition launching another series of dramatic airstrikes. One of these columns of smoke came from a suicide truck bomb driven by a single jihadist will stop the kurds say they blew it up before it reached its target. Close to the border, we listen to the sounds of battle. It was relentless. Fighters from the socalled Islamic State entered the city and there have been furious street battles. Today was by far the most intense. The kurds say airstrikes are helping to push the attackers back. We cannot verify the claim or these pictures which report to show captured Islamic State weapons. Other images too gruesome to broadcast showed that militants nearby. Border, a defiant demonstration by turkish kurds. They have gathered in groups large and small along the border to watch with mounting horror the assault on their syrian cousins. Kurds have come from all over turkey and further afield to express their solidarity and their anger about what turkey is doing and not doing. It is even a delegation here today from iraq will stop martin is a kurd living in finland and a former waiter on the qe2. We dont need their weapons, we dont need their support, they just should stops the hurting isis. The desperate struggle threatens chaos throughout turkey. This, the aftermath of a night of street that of involving the police and furious kurds in a southern city. Eight people died here. Violence that echo the worst worst days of the pkk separatist movement. Kurds for their part are convinced the turkish islamist government has been siding with Islamic State all along. Suspicions that threaten to undermine a fragile peace process. The pkk pass jailed leader said the fate of talks depends on the face of the fate of this city. Of smokeowering column rises above the town. The pentagon says it has forced some fighters to leave the city but it says airstrikes alone will not save the town. Airstrikes have continued in other parts of iraq and syria as well. Six days ago, and Islamic State stronghold was hit by a British Royal air force plane. Our correspondent has been to the scene of the strike. You might find some of the images in his report distressing. This is what is left of the unfinished hospital after raf airstrikes helped Kurdish Forces capture it. Islamic state militants held out here for three days. Attack in theirst raf in iraq. The kurds say it sped up their operation. The bodies of islamist fighters still lie rotting in the ruins. The other side to heavy casualties also. Two weeks earlier, we happen to film one of their special forces commander on a trip to the front. Of his men were killed in a single incident in the battle. He died, right on the east side of the city on that day it fell. Isis fighters launched seven suicide vehicle bombs here. The deadliest was an armored truck that got through because they say they didnt have the right armor piercing weapons to knock it out before it got to them. After losing the city, Islamic State militants lost eight launched a counter offensive on the same front, but the peshmerga were ready. They turned it into a killing field. We saw at least 20 corpses sprawled in the dirt. Some had been blown apart either own suicide vest. On this body, the detonator was still clearly visible. Leaders, including the president are planning more offenses. They are fighting for her to stand, but top Officials Say they are also fighting for the whole world but are not being given what they need to be Islamic State antiarmor weapons, tanks and helicopters. We are not getting what we need. Its going to be a very tough fight and we are going to lose people. We are here and they are giving their lives. We need the rest of the world to help us with the weapons to defend these people they are fighting on behalf of of. They are fighting the terrorists that have come from all over the world. The kurds are grateful for the airstrikes, but they feel the world should be doing more to help them when this deadly struggle. President obama was at the pentagon today, discussing the fight against Islamic State. Generalwith retired wesley clark who served as nato supreme allied commander for europe and is the author of the new book dont wait for the next war. General clark, he was admitted today that airstrikes alone will not save the town will stop can Islamic State be defeated without roundtrips . Actually we cannot do this with airstrikes alone. We are going after a Terror Organization like this, airstrikes work in kosovo because we were going after slobodan milosevic. But were not going after any particulars any particular leaders mindedness case. We have to destroy capabilities. But saying you need soldiers on the ground doesnt mean western soldiers, either british or u. S. , could do the job will stop in fact, there would that they would be in or miss recruiting magnets that would strengthen isis. We have to empower local forces to go in there. That means we need the kurds, the iraqis, and maybe the turks. That is the theory, but when you see those troops, do you think they are up to it . Fax they will be they will be if we train them. If you are isis, you can react quickly and move here and there a delay quick strike, but you dont have staying power. If you are nato, turkey, the United States or britain, it may take longer to get in there and train the coalition, but you have staying power. Outladimir to ms. Finding or as qaddafi found out, once you get the United States, britain and nato engaged in something, you dont let go of it. We can handle it up with the right package together. We have to have a local outcome in this case. The president would his military adviser was there. What advice would you offer . I would say weve got to be able to turn this area over to a government. Since we cant use bashar alassads government, weve got to strengthen the Syrian Opposition government. Theyve got to get on the ground and to that, we have to provide a nofly zone and temporarily have some help from turkish troops. There are military measures we can take, but we will ultimately have to have the state department and other agencies help us strengthen the civilian government for the Syrian Opposition so they can govern the area all stop the chairman of the joint chiefs said today that Islamic State fighters are hiding along the people and not using mobile phones will stop is it difficult to track them . Thats why you have to have local people on the ground. If you had u. S. Soldiers there and rest indoors, you dont know who you are talking to. Mostly, you can talk to them. You have to have local forces. We proved in iraq that the United States and britain can beat any foe. But we did not prove as we can set up a government by having our own people on the ground. And so all these quarrels and squabbling that goes on that leads to violence. We cannot do that. That is a local challenge and the syrians themselves have to do it will stop you say that war is a poor substitute for Strategic Vision. Do you think the white house has a strategic asian in syria and iraq customer i think the Strategic Vision we need to have a disease in is even larger. We were misled into iraq by the previous administration. Some people say it was a fiasco. We eventually got out of it and got rid of saddam hussein, but the larger Strategic Mission of the United States is to hold the United States and europe thether to manage ascendancy of china and deal with chronic threats like terrorism, Cyber Security and Financial System instability and to come to challenge come to the challenge of Climate Change while keeping in system keeping them place a system of governance and trade and the peaceful settlement of disputes we have been pushing for the last 70 years, since world war ii. That is the real Strategic Vision for the United States. General wesley clark, thank you for joining us. Today, the first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States died in a dallas hospital. Thomas eric duncan was a lie. National who flew to texas in late amber. As a precaution, the u. S. Is introducing new screening for cedars five key airports. Our north american editor reports. Ebola arrived in the United States nearly three weeks ago and today im of the man being treated for it at this texas hospital died. Thomas eric duncan had come from liberia will stop his death was announced as the u. S. Government overranking up interest the outbreak. The secretary of state had a passionate appeal to do more to tackle ebola. I am here this morning to make an urgent plea to countries in the world to step up even further. Progress, wemaking are not where we can say we need to be. New controls are being introduced at the countrys five biggest airports. The temperatures of all passengers arriving from liberia, sierra leone, and ginny will be checked by border agents. If there are concerns, the traveler will fill out a questionnaire before so the centers of Disease Control decides to hospitalize the person. The aviation support vessel is being deployed to west africa along with three helicopters to provide critical support to medical teams and aid workers. Ebola Treatment Centers will be established along with a training academy. In all, some 750 military personnel will be sent to the region. The disease is an unprecedented threat that knows no borders. We have to get ahead of this disease. But if we get ahead of it and rise to the challenge, we can contain it and beat it. Flex the british response has been lauded by the americans. A so, other countries. The administration has taken the usual step up publishing a list of who is getting what, essentially naming and shaming countries doing too little and those doing nothing at all. But its not just the question of money in west africa. There is an urgent need for expertise, an urgent need for basic infrastructure. Need experienced medical staff, not only the facilities. We need people. Until that happens, the gravediggers here in sierra leone will struggle to keep pace with demand. This west african crisis has become a Global Health emergency. For more on the ebola out rate, ice boat to dr. Jesse goodman. Eric duncan has tragically died. We do know the hospital initially sent him home even though he said he had come from west africa. What are the lessons to be learned . First, i would like to share with you in a outing the tragedy for him and his family and every day for people in west africa. Keyink there are some lessons, many of which have been discussed in recent days also although so much has been done, we need to up the awareness and alertness of the Health Care Profession in Health Facilities that travel history is taken and if someone has come from that area of the world that has an unexplained illness, fever that they get isolated first and diagnosed. That they get care probably. U. S. The cdc is saying the Healthcare System needs to increase its preparedness. There is a tremendous awareness. But put yourself in the position of this very busy emergency room or clinic with people seeing many asians and our will stop any patients and our. This speaks to the need to continually reinforce that. I think a lot has been done but i feel every Health Care Facility that has a risk of seeing such a patient should exercise its response and plans, not just have plans on the shelves. Here in the u. S. , at five airports, passengers will be screened coming from the affected areas will stop is it too little, too late . I think first of all, there is that kind of screening in place now where the the epidemic is going on. The point is to keep people from key people who are ill most of them dont have ebola, but to keep them from getting on a plane and infecting others. About their ask exposure to ebola and to not have those people travel to the u. S. From what we saw in this case, although we dont know the details, its a good idea to have a backstop. Lets say the passenger is transitive somewhere or develops a fever on the way over this will add a layer. Ebola ispossible that being transmitted in ways we just dont understand . I think we need to continually be on our guard. Right now, theres no evidence of that. I think it almost all the cases there have been identified lapses in personal protective equipment or in the immediate isolation of the patient. I have heard in the transmission and health care in spain that recently occurred that perhaps the patient was not initially isolated even though it ebola was suspect that. E have to keep an open mind theres never been an outbreak like this. We have to be sure to be on alert more mechanisms of easy transmissions do not occur. Thank you for joining us. You are welcome. You are watching abc world news america. Tilts still to come, we introduce you to a teenager with her sights set high. Her resume is already out of this world. For thousands of years, theyve been hidden away but some of mans earliest cave paintings have been uncovered in indonesia. We have more on what they reveal on human creativity. Lush mountains here, theres a cave that contained them of the earliest taintings ever discovered. Inside is art which transforms our ideas of how human creativity first emerged. There are handprints made by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. Heres one of the earliest known paintings of an animal. Its a type of wild goat. In southernas found sulawesi. This is at least 40,000 years old. There are people here who have been making cave paintings for at least 30,000 years. But the emergence marks a surge in human intelligence. The people who produced the paintings aimed to represent their thoughts and the forms of pictures and symbols. Paintingt to this which is just as old and looks very similar. But it was found in caves on the opposite side of the world. In northwestern spain. The pictures in spain are thought to be the earliest cave paintings. It led some to believe human art began in europe will stop the discovery of the paintings in indonesia shatters that view. As complex which is as the european art and as old as the european art shows us that art was there among humans as a red more than 40,000 years ago. Now they have to rethink when and where art first emerged. Key moments when our species became truly human. In other news from around the world, the United Nations has at least 300 or the people have died in violence in eastern ukraine. Betweensefire deal government forces, the u. S. High commissioner for human rights thousands of people have been killed in the past six months. The president of kenya has become the first head of state to appear at the International Criminal court in the hague. He facing charges of crimes against humanity, accused of instigating the widespread Ethnic Violence that engulfed after the disputed elections in 2007. He denies the allegations. Hundreds of people have been forced out of their homes in kashmir as indian and pakistani troops continue to Exchange Fire in the region will stop for civilians are reported to have been killed. Violence have died flared up on monday. Now to a teenager who is dreaming big a third teen, any of us wonder what will i be when i grow up . But she already knows she wants to be an astronaut on mars or stop she has attended all three of nasas world space camps two senators skywards. A bbc pop up team is currently in louisiana and tells her story. Standing by for separation will stop i want to go to mars because its a place no one has been stop it completely deserted right now. I want to take that first step. Prepared to activate. At the nasa visitors center, i get the chance to do away the hair shoot and land curiosity on the popular on the proper landing site on mars will stop on mars. I think i have a high chance of going to mars basically because ive been training for nine years will stop as i get older and continue to do more things, the resume will just get longer and it will help me stand out and help me look unique compared to other people. I absolutely think she will be on mars. Theres not a doubt in my mind because of how hard she works to try to get their. There is not doubt in my mind that her dream and her passion will drive or to that place. Her are taken seriously by nasa. Shes the perfect age to become an astronaut and travel to mars. She is doing the right wing and taking all the right steps to actually become an astronaut. We have french, spanish, chinese, and english langu