it takes a lot to up stage leo messi but if any team is bigger than the little genius it s iceland the smallest country ever to qualify for the world cup york. d.c. is the viking whole descend on twenty four team finalists argentina along with a talented nigeria side right sure roundoff one of the toughest groups. for most of footballing history iceland went on anyone s radar it was known for stuff like this. and. how can a country and just three hundred fifty thousand people compete with giants like germany and brazil well that s all changed now. by slick finally qualified for the first ever major tournament the twenty sixteen european championship by sundin just my kids here are twenty six they play with the stars of the show. a first in a major tournament win against austria help them finish above eventual champions bullshit goal in the group and they didn t stop then in the round of sixteen they
the pilot recounted how they had left behind an enormous inferno whose glow they could still see three hundred kilometers away. in one night three hundred fifty thousand homes were destroyed the working class neighborhood of hama brooke was totally demolished all told there were forty two thousand six hundred deaths in what was known as operation gomorrah. an eyewitness noted. i saw roofs lift off into the sky bodies caught fire like tinder the asphalt was boiling are so two women trapped in the top they looked like thrice stuck in the burning rats of a. handle the air in the shelters have become an breathable for lack of oxygen.
i think if the syrian regime doesn t get in now i think that turkey will stay there and try to get rich off the p.k. so if you have a look on a friend who s living there we see that we have about three hundred fifty thousand people living in a free and well yes to billions of of course civilians. and in the will interest interestingly about one hundred thousand of them not kurds but arabs mostly refugees of course so this is the civilian population and then we have the y.p. gee they re the most syrian military branch of the p.k. k. which is for several years at ministering the region and many of the currents living there particularly would like to get rid of the y.p. g. because it doesn t have a good record on human rights but of course they don t want to have turkey in there and they don t want to have the regime in there too but we ve seen these very dramatic images earlier from eastern how to if there s
last. the air on the night of july twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred forty three british bomber command launched one of its largest raids against hamburg germany second largest city. the pilot recounted how they had left behind an enormous inferno whose glow they could still see three hundred kilometers away. in one night three hundred fifty thousand homes were destroyed the working class neighborhood of hama brooke was totally demolished all told there were forty two thousand six hundred deaths and what was known as operation gomorrah. an eyewitness noted. i saw roofs lift off into the sky bodies caught fire like tinder
this time is different than their previous attempts because to a surgical people all three hundred fifty thousand civilians who are trapped and have nowhere to go it really is going to take being at a political level to make this stop and we need not only a cease fire but then the ability to get supplies in in the area has been under siege for six years now and we need ways to get eighty in safely and securely to help the injured help them out nourished help protect people who have been living under these conditions so how difficult is it for it organizations to get access to the area and what do you see as the most immediate priority is that. it s very difficult to work in eastern looked at because it is under siege you know there have been sound stockpiles of food that people managed to get in over the last several months but now the warehouses are being hit and whatever supplies are available it s hard to move them from one town and he s in good shape to another