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36 american air strikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. charlie d agata is with the kurdish peshmerga forces. reporter: the battle to reclaim sinjnj began in the air. u.s. air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. dug in on the mountainside, kurdish peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u.s. advisers. this is one of the forward fighting position where they re helping to pick targets for air strikes. soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes it s just five minutes from the moment they call it in, to the time it s delivered. kurdish fighters are so close to isis militants, they can hear their conversat ....
from the moment they call it in to the time it s delivered. kurdish fighters are so close to isis militants, they can hear their conversations on simple two-way radios. there s an airplane in the air the voice said. stop, hide. sniper mazan maraq is watching. they re inside houses, he told us. they move from house to house. they re behind the rubble. maraq and his family fled sinjar when isis militants overran the city 15 months ago. tens of thousands were uprooted in the terror that followed as isis murdered, raped, and enslaved members of the yazidi sect. today, the 22-mile stretch of highway that kurdish forces took control of breaks a key isis supply route from syria. but the fight is only starting. as the day wore on, kurdish militants on the move and scrambled into position. maraq says he hopes isis will be defeated and his family can return home. and when do you think youill liberate sinjar? hopefully tonight, he said. this fight is going to go house to ....
the view doesn t get much better than this. lee cocon went for a ride with a photographer who captures new heights every time he reaches for his camera. reporter: at first glance, his images look more like circuit boards. they have been centers surging with energy. but while thesese are h hs of activity, they re not in our computers. these are the world s great cities, photographed the way the heavens see them. sparkling spectacles below. you re feeling the arteries, the blood flow of the city. you literalalerceive the depth and the three dimensiolity of the earth and you see distances in a different matter. they look much smaller, much reporter: vincent has taken aerial photographyhyo new heights. a glittering strip of sin cit and made london s big ben look nor like a big jewel. it was almost an out of body experience, because it s just so beautiful from up there. reporter: and just a few ofof his god-like glimpses that he s publishing in a new book. fittingl ....
i think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with. that s what i ve been doing. look, if we can find common ground, we can on highways, we will on funding the government. hopefully we can on tax policy. those are three things that will produce certainty in this country in the next few months. let s go do that. there was a time on capitol hill when the other guy had a bad idea. and now on capitol hill, the other guy s a bad guy. yeah, i think that s right. how do you heel that animosity? it s your job now? leadership by example is the way i look at it. i have friends on the other side of the aisle. i have shown we can negotiate and compromise without compromising principle, that people with different ideas aren t bad people. they just have different ideas. somewhere in this we got into impugning people s character and motives if we didn t like their ideas. we ve ....
actress juliette binoche talks about some unusual turns in her career, and taking on greek tragedy. all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. 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. ifill: a new front opened today in the war with no apparent end in sight. kurdish forces in iraq, with u.s. support, launched an assault on a key city that links islamic state holdings in two countries. american airstrikes hammered sinjar, on i ....