International this new years eve thank you for joining us. This week has shed light on the fate of an iraqi ethnic and religious minority the years e. D. s despite the fall of Islamic States thousands of the kurdish speaking group are still being held hostage many of them are children who have been abducted and sold at slave markets. The men would offer us as gifts and in the evenings they would get together and treat the women and have their fun with us. It was indescribable funny laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldnt do anything not cry. Well according to iraqi officials in twenty fourteen alone almost seven thousand. People were kidnapped by iso and three thousand a still missing i guess day of reports on the long way home from terrorists captivity. Age. Ten thousand dollars russia. Location. Fifteen thousand dollars keenness age eight location syria. Dollars. Age fifty. Baghdad soul put two and thousand dollars d was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousa
But perhaps not for much longer the Syrian Democratic forces backed by the United States have the city center surrounded and believe theyll have total control of iraq to within days or even hour its does it mean the end of. Grip and as what happens to the everyday syrians who once called rock the home. Both on the ground south sudan peace has been hard to come by ever since it cant its independence in two thousand and eleven but in east African Mediation Group is in juba trying to reestablish political case and maybe ease some of the suffering of south sudans people and in venezuela an election twenty three of them actually to appoint governors right across the country but with venezuela as a whole still an economic crisis this will inevitably become about the popularity of president of the road and whether he has the political capital. Fountain of right only to someone on their knees and in. And im going to fix kashmir now women are being attacked on the streets hundred their homes to
Hello there im Julie Macdonald this is sounds easier live from london also coming up Sebastian Court says projected to become the worlds youngest leader after victory in australias general election. Kenyas opposition made to stages a mass rally urging his supporters to boycott the president ial election. On a surprise first prime victory encourage astounds president ial contests. A very warm welcome to the program a massive bomb attack in the center of somalias capital on saturday is now reported to have killed more than two hundred people hundreds of people have been protesting on the streets of mogadishu voicing their anger at what happened it was the most powerful bomb blast to ever hit the city which suffers regular attacks a Residential District was also hit by a smaller car bomb somali as it declares three days of National Mourning. Well its still not clear who carried out the bombing a senior al shabaab members denied responsibility Catherine Sawyer reports from i will be in nei
Opposition from Kurdish Forces. Looking like itll be your watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up. We can understand this present and confusion the Spanish Government reminds Catalan Leaders they have until thursday to withdraw the bid for independence. Thank you hes now the worlds youngest elected leader the victories for austria sebastian signals the nation shot into the political right also in the bever sector this ridiculous horrible unfair most definitely last thing. Attacks on sodas to help fight obesity is one of americas largest cities loses its face. Breaking news out of iraq this hour the iraqi army says its taking control of the city of kirkuk according to the Security Forces troops moved inside the government building in central kirkuk with no opposition from Kurdish Forces deployed in the city a dozen humvees from the u. S. Trained Counterterrorism Service arrived at the building into position in that vicinity alongside the local city police lets take it straight
Coming up scores of people still missing after saturdays powerful truck bomb in the somali capital mogadishu think splosion killed hundreds of people and the death toll may still rise even further. And voters turned right in australia a thirty one year old is poised to become the countrys new chancellor at the head of a conservative nationalist government we will take a look at what this could mean for europe. Plus the dawn of a new era in astronomy as at hand that is what the physicists say scientists have been discussing the existence of Gravitational Waves are hundreds of years from now they have proof for the first time that they exist get ready to find out why these waves are so important. And in a t. W. Exclusive we will meet a man who is helping the authorities in germany hunt down. For the socalled Islamic State. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us. Iraqi Government Forces have moved into the disputed city of care coke in a bold move to retake land from