Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. The Guerrilla Army that roared east to take over. Narrator it was early 2014. Isis has seized many iraqi cities. Narrator they seemed to come out of nowhere. In northern iraq, a number of districts have been taken over by fighters. Milit
And coming up in sportsday on bbc news, the return of rooney to goodison park. But would wayne win as everton started their Europa League campaign . Wayne rooney has been sleeping in Everton Pyjamas for 13 years, waiting for the day that he could put the full kit back on. Double sessions, holiday winning, spin classes and whatsapp messages. He is a competitor, he is a leader he back. Good evening. Weve a Special Report tonight on the devastating human cost of a war that has been raging in a remote corner of the middle east for two years. The un is calling it the worlds worst humanitarian crisis with the country on the brink offamine. Yemen is split by a fierce civil war between the internationally recognised government backed by a Saudi Led Coalition and houthi rebels, allied with iran. Yemen is now on the brink of famine and has become a Breeding Ground for disease. Cholera has swept the country with nearly 2000 deaths since the outbreak began in april. The situation there now is desc
After about 30 minutes. And as you probably know or may not know, this is being filmed by cspan. I think she has a very interesting and very truthful take on all sorts of issues in the region and what happens in washington and if you read any of her coverage about the iran nuclear deal, it was absolutely spot on, so we are honored to have her with us and so we will begin and they will start taping, i guess, so thank you for coming. Thank you, everyone. Good to be here and i have to say reading geneive abdos a book over the week and being interjected with a terror attack in turkey, another tack in egypt , its really brought it full circle. I think most off you have been in washington i really find sense of realism and such a real touch from the region that geneive brings into this a book. I think what i like about it is it paints a very good base picture of whats happening in the middle east. There is no nonsense no wishywashy talk about the future of the liberal democracies in the regi
As your book very eloquently lays out the history of isis and that what we want to try to understand because many people focus so much on the brutality, but your book goes much further and much deeper than just talking about the violence. You talk about the ideology, you talk about the religious dimension, which are so important for English Speaking audienced to understand. But just as starting point i wanted to just talk about the first chapter as a beginning, and you mentioned many factors for the rise of isis, and we know there have been many radical groups that have evolved over the lost 30 to 40 years, and isis is just the most violent that has evolved, and you mentioned some of the causes. U. S. Invasion of iraq, for example. You mentioned the failure of arab states, particularly after the arab uprising, the fraying of state institutions. The economic collapse of arab states and, you also mention something that is very interesting, is how isis is able to provide services for sunn
The secret history of isis. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, at fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. The Guerrilla Army that roared east to take over. Narrator it was early 2014. Isis has seized many iraqi cities. Narrator they seemed to come out of nowhere. In northern iraq, a nu