Record crowd fills the philippine capital on the last day of the popes trip to asia. [ cheering and applause ] hello. I. S. I. L. Released 250 captives from the minority Yazidi Community in Northern Iraq. Transported to kurdish held territory its not why they were released. The yazidi captives many who are elderly, were taken to hospital for checkouts. Thousands of yazidi are believed kill or kidnapped by i. S. I. L. After its advance across large parts of the north. Mohammed adow is in erbil. Reporter most of the yazidi released by i. S. I. L. Are said to be elderly or people with medical problems or infants. A commander for Peshmerga Forces were taken 8km away from kirkuk to the city of mosul, an i. S. I. L. Strong hold. We are not far away from the response line before they were released. If i. S. I. S. Wanted them to take them out of their territory, and bring them into the hunt for the peshmerga, taking them to a medical facility on the road where they are receiving medical treatm
We talk a lot about infrastructure. Let me remind you what the state of americas infrastructure is. If you had a grade, it would be d , im talking about roads, bridges, communications more. Collectively nothing more than a d . This report card was put out by the American Society of civil engineers. They may have a dog in the hunt. Not only are we not doing enough to modernize public infrastructure, we are barely maintaining what we have now. President obama spent years calling for a publicprivate Infrastructure Bank that could jumpstart financing on big projects. The idea would be to attract billions investment from the private sector to Fund Infrastructure fixes and upgrades. In return, investors would receive guarantees from the federal government that could serve to attract more private investors into public projects. That cd has gone in respect. And its going nowhere now that he has a republican dominated congress run on a platform of Less Government spending and less spending in g
Manila where around 3 Million People have gathered to celebrate the popes final mass on his tour of the philippines. Isil has released more than 200 captives from the minority Yazidi Community in noun iraq, they were transported from anyone have province to kurdish held territories not yet clear why they were leased the captain captives many think who are are elderly were taken for check ups. Mohamed adow is in iraqs kurdish capital irrelevant erbil. Reporter most of the yazidis released are said to be elderly examine people with mel problems and also infants a commander for the Peshmerga Forces were on the frontline away from kirkuk, told us they people were brought from the city of mosul which is an isil strong hold driven through the town not far away from the frontline before they were released near the frontline as if isil fighters wanted them to take them out of their territory and bring them in to the hands of the peshmerga. He say they have now taken them to a medical facility
Mosque in pakistan. Robert mu mugabe confronts several challenges on the continent. We begin with attacks by Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Isil fighters have killed at least 15 solders. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives close to an iraqi army base. At least ten were walkeded in the exchange of fire that followed. Isil fighters have killed a senior kurdish soldier. Gunmen stormed the hotel in the oilrich city triggering a fire fight with police and Kurdish Forces. Dozens were injured in the violence. The Kurdish Forces took control of Kirkuk Province in june when the iraqi army abandoned its position there. Al jazeera has gained a rare incite into what life is like for People Living in the iraqi city of mosul, which is under the control of fighters from isil. Mosul with considered iraqs second largest city. Tense of thousands have since fled the violence there. It is considered strategic because of the nearby mosul dam which supplies most of the countrys power. Right
Im Andrew Thomas and the most talked about art gallery in australia. If you think the exhibits are strange, a machine that deaf cates, wait until you hear about the story of the man who is behind the museum. Well, it start starts in nigeria. There have been an taken in the borno state northeast of the country. Lets go to our course upon correspondent. Fill us in on what you know. Reporter well, the latest is coming out from the nigerian menster of defense. They tweeted there has been an meet curfew put in lace in maiduguri. This shows the extent of the attack by boko haram militant. We know so far that the attack went on after midnight and went on throughout the night. We engaged suspected boko haram fighters. What we dont know is how many attackers they were, what we dont know is whether there have been any victims in materials of casualties. What the ministry of defense is telling us they would telling us more and it seems that it was quite the defensive going on. You might imagine t