Famine. We have more on premier league games coming up. Hundreds of iranian soldiers have taken part in a joint operation inside iraq with kurdish forces. Thats according to forces on the front line. It is believed to be the first time that iranian troops have been involved with fighting thon scale. They have the peshmerga taking the town from Islamic State, what more can you tell us about the iranian fighters who are there . Reporter well, it was an operation aimed by iranians protecting their own border. The place theyre fighting is to kilometers from that frontier. There has been iranian involvement in this fight in the sense of advisers, iranian backed militias and Security Officials that come and go between the two countries. They say they were engaged in the fighting and retreated very early this morning back across the border. The peshmerga said they were going to continue their effort to retake the town of diyala. The Iraqi Government is participating with helicopter strikes an
Where the funeral of Michael Brown is an emotional affairs. Air sometimes in 48 hours plus. Im andrew thomas, ive joined indigenous australians, to help them connect with their his their culture and their ancestors art. We begin hour in iraq. Where monday has been another day of widespread violence with car bombs south of baghdad, bringing the daily death toll to at least 41. Wave of attacks targeted commercial areas in and around baghdad. A bomber blew himself up. Target of poamtion i bombings oa cooperating on the front line against the Islamic State group. Kurdish forces and Iraqi Federal police stand together at this entrance to kirkuk, an unlikely alliance. Further south is territory under the Islamic State group and other sunni armed forces. The two authorities on the ground here have long competed for control of this strategic city. Now theyre facing a common enemy. On the ground they are cooperating but this official says dont identify him because no one in charge. The iraqis h
Victory. And in chad the africa union agrees to send a joint force to take on boko haram. Egypts president says the country faces a long hard battle after one of the bloodiest attacks on the Security Forces for years. Sisi was speaking after meeting top military officers following thursdays attacks in which 45 people were killed. He announced a new joint force to combat armed groups operating in sinai. The attack was claimed by a group pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of iraq and levant. This is very tough and very bad, this will take a long time. The egyptians are now paying the price. The sons of the army, the sons of the police are all paying the price for the sake of this country. We will never leave sinai. Well never leave sinai to anyone else. Sigh knee issinai is ours, and well die for it. The Egyptian Court has banned the group hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization. Ruling was denounced by hamas as a dangerous political decision. This is a dangerous precedent
A speaks bottom form white house said we are working to confirm the videos authenticity. The United States condemns isils actions and call for the Immediate Release of all remaining hostages. She added the u. S. Stands in solidarity with its ally, japan. Lets cross live to the jordanian capitol and speak to our correspondent there andrew simmons, following developments not just tonight, but throughout the unfolding crisis that weve seen very much linking the fate of kenji goto with that of the pilot also captured by isil. Very tense moments now in the jordanian capitol i imagine. Most certainly. This has come as a real shock. However, the fear had been that the next development in this crisis would be something along these lines the grotesque ritualistic death of a civilian journalist who was well respected in japan and the procedure weve seen. Now this is the sixth time of a video which obviously has to be verified but undoubtedly would seem it is the worst possible scenario for this
Free speech or hate speech . A court in france is about to rule on the case of a controversial comedian. Hundreds of people have gathered in jordan to mourn a pilot who was brutally killed by isil. Many including his father are crying out for revenge. In the early hours of wednesday jordan executed two convicts in retaliation. The king is now back in the country after cutting short his trip to the United States. We have the latest from amman. Jordan warned of an earth shaking response to the murder of its pilot and that response came swiftly. At down wednesday the authorities executed iraqi prisoner sajida alrishawi. She had been on death row for eight years for taking part in a 2005 attack in amman that killed 60 people. Another iraqi prisoner was also executed. He was sentenced to death by hanging for murder ago jordanian truck driver in iraq. The government confirmed its pilot was killed on january 3 a month before isil released the video, apparently showing him being burned alive.