War vets provide humanitarian help in the worlds most dangerous area. And we will start with iraq where the military is trying to take back strategic terry and an Islamic State and tab taliban and trying to take back the oil refinery for three days and this is the oil refinery seized during the aggressive advance in june stopping production at the facility and that significant and used to produce that much, that is about a quarter of iraqs daily supplies 300,000 barrels of crude a day and using desperate tactics to maintain control of the facility and we are in baghdad with the latest. Reporter well, i can tell you in the last hour iraqi forces pushed further in the town and taken over two key buildings, the mosque and the local Police Station and these are important because it gives them a Vantage Point in the north and east of the city where isil fighters remain in large number and iraqi army are pushing Forward Harder than they have done before and on offensive and think they have t
Nigeria looks to become the second west africa state to be declared ebola free. Kurdish forces in kobane have confirmed that we have received a las large cash of wes and ammunition. Weeks of battles in kobane along with a number of u. S. Led air strikes have devastated the kurdish trial. Isil is trying to surround the town and take control of a strategic Border Crossing in to turkey lets take you to the turkish side of the border with syria. Bernard smith is there. Tell us about the air drop. Three Coalition Aircraft were involved. Reporter well, adrian we think it happened to the west of kobane, out to my left hand. That area from the edge of the town out to some villages about threekilometers of it is controlled by syrian, kurdish fighters and we have had a look through your binoculars just this morning and we can see some wrapped up ballots on the backs of a couple of loris. We think that is where the air drop went. The syrian cureds inside co began i has confirmed that received wea
African state to be declared ebola free. Kurdish forces in kobani said they received large supply of weapons to help them fight and u. S. Military planes made air drops along the border with turkey and weeks of battles with u. S. Led air strikes devastated the kurdishtown and isil is trying to surround the town and take control of the Border Crossing in turkey and we will take you there on kobani on the turkish side of the Syrian Border and tell us more about this air drop. We understand three Coalition Aircraft were involved. Reporter yeah, three planes and 27 bundles of ammunition, weapons and medical aid and think it was dropped to the west of kobani over in that direction because the syrian kurds defending kobani control three kilometers out of town to villages out further over there and we seen pallet sks and the kurds confirming they received these weapons and grateful for them and with the weapons they now will be able to push isil forces and fighters out from kobani town and a
Female cabinet ministers resign in a corruption scandal. And we report on assets to create the world east largest marine reserve. We begin this news hour with the fight for kobani and what could be a Major Development and turkey fighters from iraq to travel across the territory and that is good news for defending kobani and resupplied by the u. S. Airforce and ammunition and supplies were dropped from the air and we have reaction from inside syria. Reporter isil forces surrounding the kurdish town of kobani and what stands in their way Kurdish Forces on the ground and they had weapons air dropped in the heavily devastated town. Translator in the earlier hours a good quantity of weapons, ammunition and equipment were air dropped by american planes over kobani and the quantity was great and not bad at all and will help defend kobani and america and we hope for more support and aid. Reporter after dozens of u. S. Led air strikes on kobani Kurdish Forces were calling for more weapons and i