This morning u. S. Air strikes are pounding the iraqi town of sinjar. They are there helping Kurdish Forces in their battle to retake the key northern iraqi city from i. S. I. L. Good morning, welcome to your world, im del walters. Im stephanie sy. More than 7,000 peshmerga fighters are closing in on sinjar on three fronts. Sinjar is important. Sitting on highway 47. A key resupply route for i. S. I. S. Force. By seizing sinjar, we believe it will restrict the supply route. We go to jamie mcintyre, National Security correspondent. What are you hearing from kurdish fighters. We are hearing from Kurdish Forces that the offensive will take days. What they are doing at the moment is moving towards towns and villages on the outskirts of sinjar, they are taking those and are going to use it so go into sinjar. Some suggest theyll be within sinjar, and there may be a penalty of a week of strikes. They have been planning this operation for a long title. I. S. I. L. Knew they were coming and met
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside of the palace in bagul going straight to jennifer glass who joins us live. What do you have for us . Reporter thousands of people paraded through afghanistan. They walked kilometers carrying the coffins of those seven people who were beheaded. They were abducted several months ago. They were found in the city. Thousands of people now at the gates of the president ial palace. Members of ethnic groups from around the country. They are standing sidebyside. They are calling for justice. They blame the president ial palace. They say that the palace has sold out the people of afghanistan. They want security, theyre calling for unity and they have been calling for the resignation of the president and his chief executive officer. This is the largest demonstration anyone can remember in history in recent history in afghanistan. People out reynold about the murder of these men women and child we see a lot of violence in afghanistan. How does this d
Also an combination by the master of suspended club churs. Hello, russia could be banned from olympic athletics competition after dammin damnint from wada. Coverups and extortion in russian selects. There are allegations that money was demanded from top athletes to bury medical tests showing doping. Report also implicates world governing body iaaf, preventing it from catching drug cheats. In the swiss sunshine a dark day from the sport of athletics. An independent Commission Set up by the World Antidoping Agency, wada, that russia should be immediately banned from the sport and if it doesnt fix problem, no russian athletes at the rio, 2016 olympic games. Some of whom had been coerced into doping programs. The exploitation of doping, and results at london 2012 called into question and the world governing body the iaaf failing oact. Commission chaired richard pownd says the problem goes beyond one sport and one country. It simply cant be only russia and only athletics. We know theres a p
The University Entrance exam that brings south korea to a virtual stand still. That breaking news first out of the lebanese capitol beirut. The reports are that at least 16 people have been killed in twin explosions in the south of the capitol beirut. That area is a shia strong hold, a hezbollah strong hold. Let us get an update from zana hoda live on the line from the lebanese capitol. What can you tell us, zana. Reporter like you mentioned two explosions in beiruts Southern Suburbs. Initial reports are suggesting that this is the work of suicide bombers who approached on foot. Now the first bomber, detonated his explosive, and when people gathered, the second bomber approximately five minutes later, the second bomber detonated his explosives. Were getting reports that there was a third bomber, but he was killed from the pressure of the previous explosion. This is considered a hezbollah strong hold, but it is more accurate to say that hezbollah supporters live in this area. The explos
Is a big draw and one of the Worlds Largest air shows will be in dubai. Russias Sports Ministry has said it is not surprised by latest allegations that drug cheating is widespread in athletics but in a mixed message they completely rejected the worlds antidoping agencys conclusions and described the accusations that doping in russia were state sponsored as baseless and fictional and also insisted russias doping agencies are totally independent and says they collect 15,000 samples annually with disqualification of roughly 2 of the athletes tested and he is accused of double standards saying investigations are not commissioned in other countries and lets speak to rory challenge live in moscow and rory tell us more about what the russian Sports Ministry is saying because there is some confusion if its agreeing there is a problem here. Well, it does take a little bit of analysis to unpick the different comments that have come out of the Sports Ministry in the last few hours since the wider