French fighter jets have bombed the i. S. I. L. Held town in Northern Iraq and several strikes over the past through days killed dozens of fighters there and pershmer gshg a forces are ready to launch a ground offensive and dominick reports. Reporter fighters in the hills above and from the positions they can look down on the village that is controlled by i. S. I. L. And since it fell a few months ago more than 70,000 people have left to escape the violence, now the pershmerga want to take it back and the plan is based on a combination of air strikes and ground attacks. On friday dozens of i. S. I. L. Fighters were killed in bombing raids, on sunday Coalition Planes came back and carried out a second operation. [bomb sounds] the vent coalition rates were effective and more than 40 i. S. I. L. Fighters were killed and forced i. S. I. L. To leave 17 locations and ready to progress and storm the village when we get the order to do so. Reporter and the significance stems from the closeness
The Gulf Cooperation Council about the proposed iran nuclear deal. Southeast asia is facing a migrant crisis. Hundreds have been rejected by governments in the region. Veronica sent this update from bangkok bangkok. Reporter in a dramatic motion they dropped food parcels to help a boat from 300 or so migrants from bang lash desh and myanmar. It looked like humanitarian assistance in the sense the food was dropped off, but at the same time the Royal Thai Navy denied them the ability to land on theyre tear to her and pulled them out to international waters. This is a shortterm solution. The thai authorities want to show theyre serious about cracking down on Human Trafficking, because it wanting to improve its record. Its being categoried in the bottommost tier when it comes to the report issued by the United States every year. Whats happening is the actual people involved is they are stuck out at sea being pushed away not just by thailand but by malaysia and indonesia. A few people do ma
And 11,000 children are estimated to have died in the conflict and two president ial candidates are claiming victory in honduras with neither showing any backing down. Well demonstrators in thailand forced their way in on a second day of protests and they scuffleled with protesters since sunday and threatening to occupy more government buildings until the Prime Minister steps down. Now tens of thousands of opposition supporters are spreading out right across the capitol and organizers are calling for people to gather at 13 locations city wide. That is all happening in bangkok and we will go to the thai capital and what is going on in the finance ministry, veronica . The finance ministry is across the road from where i am now, just a few meters away and in the last hour or so there has been a dramatic build up of crowds coming into the area. My understanding is that the rally organizer has said that he wants to shift the central rallying point away and what we saw at least 70,000, possi
Tech giants. Footage has emerged of hundreds of syrians refugees rescued off the maltese coast after their boat was shot at and sunk. It happened earlier in month, but the videos only just been released by the maltese coast guard. The refugees say they were left to drown 160 kilometers from the show. Survivors say they were attacked by libyan traffickers after an argument about payment. Its feared more than 200 people may have drown. For more on this lets join carl in the maltese capital. These refugees allege that their boat was deliberately shot at and sunk . Reporter yes, adrian. This is one of the many dramatic stories we hear from many survivors who managed to make it to shore after being rescued about by the maltese and italian navy. Thousands have reached the island, and many recall and tell the stories of being attacked at sea by who define themselves to be the coast guard in libya. All rebel forces. They are all acts of piracy, many of whom are members of organized crime in li
Where a brain disease is effecting thousands of children. Developing story in france where a diplomatic roe is brewing with the United States. The National Security agency is accused of spying on french citizens and we have a man in paris and the tell us more about it, tim . David, this has come as something of a bomb shell on monday morning. The french have woken up to discover that during a 30day period between december and january this year the United States intercepted no fewer than 70. 3 million phone calls in france over a 30day period. Lamond the highlyrespected french newspaper has broken the story and the fallout has already been swift. The u. S. Am ambassador is being called and its shocking news and seems it was just not suspected terrorists that the u. S. Was monitoring, it was also people from the world of business, from the world of politics, and during that period under an operation code named u. S. 985 d like something out of a spy novel which of course it fully justifi