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High unemployment and widespread corruption. Bracing for haddad. More than 100,000 in india are moved to safety as the cyclone makes land fall we begin in iraq, where there has been an attack to the northeast of the baghdad in dial yes. The Kurdish Security base was the tart. Well go to er target. Well go to erbil to zeina khodr. She can tell us more about what has happened. We are getting more details. This was a triple suicide car bombing, targetting three different locations in close proximity to each other. Now, these are key buildings. Two of them were used as bases by the Kurdish Security forces. A third by the puk Political Party. A wellcoordinated attack. We understand from official sources that 20 Kurdish Security forces were killed, and 10 injured. We understand from sources on the ground that the number is much higher. It happened not too long ago. The area is not far from the front line, where Kurdish Forces have been in a military standoff with the Islamic State of iraq an