The remaining fighters are leaving the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders and members of the group attacking civilians with them as human shields. As more from one talk unit took his border with syria. Negotiations are still underway in iraq to convince. To live the city i mean tribes and fighters from the pub been have been trying to. Convince foreign fighters affiliated with to leave in exchange for free passage now were getting some conflicting reports about what is happening now some say that its just a matter of time before everyone leaves that are others suggest that some of the battle hardened. I see the fighters say that they are committed to fighting to the death now the u. S. Led coalition has been distancing itself from this deal saying that it wont tolerate to see those foreign fighters leave and then resurface in different parts of the country but this remains a very crucial moment the as the though remains confident that its just a matter of a few hours before they can officially declare that iraq and that control if that happens is going to be a major setback for ice which in two thousand and fourteen declared iraq that stronghold now as the fighting intensifies and the push continues to evict. From dealers or thousands of civilians remain still trapped in those areas of thousands more are fleeing to safety abandon they feel betrayed with nowhere to go there live and a very tough camp conditions are serious demanding turkish troops withdraw immediately from its Northwest Province more than one hundred soldiers and twenty Armored Vehicles crossed the border two days ago theyre there to enforce a socalled deescalation zone which was brokered with russia and iran to reduce fighting austrians are voting in an election that could see the far right Freedom Party enter a Coalition Government election is a year early after the government fell apart in may with a conservative Peoples Party leading the polls austria could elect the worlds youngest leader that would change or has more from vienna. You can characterize this election as mainly a fight between the center right and the far right that looks like the two parties that might enter a Coalition Government on monday after we get the results and as for the issues involved really very few have come on the on the debate apart from immigration immigration immigration. Venezuelas opposition parties are projected to win a majority of seats in sundays election the votes being viewed as a test of president Nicolas Maduro support as he battles months of political and Economic Crises to bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu have killed at least twenty people the first explosion was so powerful it brought down buildings in an area full of government Offices Hotels and restaurants and he said people are still trapped under the rubble four people have died after a plane crashed into the sea in the International Airport in ivory coasts largest city of the six others on board a cargo plane chartered by the French Military were injured a Civil Aviation authority says it crashed during a heavy thunderstorm the plane was flying from the capital ouagadougou. Man was marking two years since the signing of a cease fire with several armed groups eight of me and mas twenty one ethnic groups signed up to a peace accord in twenty fifteen but many did not participate including range of fighters the inlaws army has been accused of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State the Oscars Academy has expelled a Film ProducerHarvey Weinstein hes accused of raping and sexually harassing more than two dozen women including the actresses Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow and winds of up to seventy kilometers an hour fanning the fast spreading wildfires further in the u. S. State of california thousands of extra firefighters are now battling the blazes across Northern California forty people have died and more than ninety thousand have been evacuated its the worst outbreak of wildfires in the States History. Well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera to aljazeera correspondent such an absolute i thought. Wow. Once youve taken over these businesses in these small towns you are locked in for your career however many decades i last. I want to know his motivations in getting into the business i would like to know the conversations he had with my grandpa how he felt when he realized this trend in our family i want to know what it was like fred first began working earnestly in the business if it was hard for him to get over these more difficult parts of it that i feared growing up if there was times where he doubted what he was doing if you could do it all over again and again said thank god its possible so yes it is a real question for him of course because i had the same experience i had he grew up in the same dynamics that i grew up in. Who else would be able to relate more to our feeling than him. I was so surprised the stooge youre seeing parents going through the series. He really probably would have wanted to be a hockey player. If i think of thats what dad said he would have wanted to do if he wasnt back here but lack of skills. My familys own a funeral home in our small canadian town of st thomas for over ninety years it may seem strange to grow up around death but for us it was a part of everyday life. Im the first son in four generations not to become a funeral director my decision has weighed heavily on i worry about what it means for the future of my familys funeral. Do you think for the Service Today i dont know if we had to register but just down for the race and know you go and you know you get here is this if you like to sign the register book and im like to going to visit with the family this is our son this is blake and so next generation going in the same to know hes a producer with your so thats why it was hard for time yeah so different business yes yes hes mr smart fresher than me. My grandfather was brother paul he was ok oh ok sure yeah we had to register but just on the right to mention it was the walls farm yeah that was one of the it was sentenced to life serve their time we have also we dont know. Why and asked if anyone could sing and no one was able to know someones going to and why not someone in the family. Surely meant to mean the end of the children loving. Them to sing sung to grandma. Great grandma as the artist found her hurt you. Or your hair to bring their. Own. Every. Day you. May lose to the. Oh. Nice. Highly we got lucky because like i did maybe i have. Already heard that that you know that you know i mean if you really want soup. Ill let you know. That it was very nice you know it was very nice and theyre doing really well all right im going to change ok because its ludicrous that im in the soup. And i was in high school i would help with visitation so holding the door helping to show people where to go and then other than that around the business like helping with the lawns and washing the cars and putting on the serving in the funeral it was kind of maybe a little glimpse of what it might have been like if i had if if i had done that job i wouldnt say id five years old and look at the businesses that are doing that so it was that i felt rather Different Things i was always very interested in history it was the idea of the power of witnessing moments of well history is made of. This was my childhood bedroom this is where i would be asleep in the middle of the night when my dad would get a phone call from you hear footsteps and see the light underneath the door he would walk. From his bedroom over here through this hallway to the bathroom to get ready get dressed and we were very aware that he was going to put a suit on that he was going to go outside in the cold and that he was going to go pick up a dead body i have very striking memories of our funeral of my aunt jennifer grew up around the funeral and also moved away from st thomas we called it the bassem one of the battling it was gallant we called it the funeral home but i think that youre right that it was it was hacked and it had all these like intercom buttons and we call them the bow and you had to and and whatever called whatever hour the day whatever youre doing it were after and thats perfect actually we were maybe we were back to. That phone ringing it still sparks a little moment of things i wish everybody stopped everybody be quiet when im home briefly however briefly the phone rings i shut up as vacillated its a strange thing. Id be interested to know how he prepared himself to do this work because i dont think he was actually built for it just like i dont feel like i was actually built for. Im going to talk to call and haskett a young funeral director in a neighboring community hes around my age and in a way i feel like he provides a glimpse of what my life might have been like if i decided to become a funeral director this is my great great grandfather Charles Haskett and then his son which is William Haskett and then well you had two boys clarence and then my father bill so there are six Funeral Directors in five generations thankfully were all passionate about it and i think thats for Family Businesses get into trouble is when people feel obligated if you love what you do and its easy to keep a clear direction and were all on the same path so this is my very grandfathers our family used to transport the deceased by horse and buggy im kind of allowed to say that i dont wear hats like that and i dont transport people by horse and buggy anymore when i was four years old i made the decision that i was going to be a funeral director and at that time it was because my dad had two separate riding lawn mowers that he used to cut the cut the grass of the funeral home and i thought what a cool thing to be able to drive two different lawn mowers it was for as well when i kind of realized for the first time there was this trend in our future home it was my great grandfather started the funeral home in one hundred twenty six and then my grandfather and my father and every generation there was one boy born in every generation they did it and i was four years old when im like wait a second great grandpa grampa dad do i have to do this and from the moment i first asked that question my dad always said you dont have to do this you can whatever makes you happy you can do if you want to be if youre a director thats fantastic but if you want to take a different path thats thats fine too so i dont know maybe if you had riding lawn mowers i would have i would have been i would have been a better selling point what do you think the stereotype of a funeral director is black suit dark tie and white shirt and you know maybe not very. Personable and certainly not very comforting and you know just sort of this this creepy this creepy image of someone that deals with the dead every day and thats certainly not how i would describe myself at all im far more suited to dealing with the living than i am the dead and its just the ability to do both which makes me go to a job im just the guy that lives down the street that doesnt know how to build decks but i do know what to do when your mom dies ok that would be great and if theres anything that comes down i will let you know and myself thank you very much but did you have a direct line from the funeral home to your home growing up you are standing in my better this is where i grew up really yeah we were very much have a direct life i believe very strongly that my number one goal and my number one job is to stay in business were increasing our reception facilities and were having different types of receptions and were selling alcohol and thats not necessarily because thats exactly what i want to do i just want to make sure that we remain profitable so that we can continue to do what it is that we love to see if i can pull something out here weve got all kinds of different options and now you can get rings you can get type pins you can get coffee links this is actually d. N. A. Keepsake so lots of different options. I have done some neat things with the cremated remains we have put people in their taco boxes in their recipe boxes actually we have someone here that was just placed in their cowboy boot as an urn i had a gentleman the strangest one yet every night before you went to bed he had a bowl of ice cream with his granddaughter so he is in a nice cream tub people are tired of what we would refer to a cookie cutter funeral a lot of us in southwestern ontario are smaller operations Family Businesses we have some larger corporations coming after the independent Funeral Homes on our own none of us would survive in this business for certain. We decided is if we could do it collectively then we can all do a good job and thats exactly what weve done with. Cremation is becoming increasingly popular but loved ones are rarely present i have never witnessed a commission myself. I grew up around the funeral home ive been to the funeral home. Constantly my whole life ive seen. More bodies than i could remember in the setting up in the in the main room of the funeral home with made up of suits with with flowers and framed photographs but maybe its the volume maybe its being here and within the last few minutes just seeing so many bodies coming in from from from the region. I think that i could have done it. The men who tend to this long process tell me the last muscle is that. Occasionally i would bring stress home from work. It didnt happen very often did it but it did happen and im the first to admit that it did happen and i cant believe theres not a few more director out there that it has and they havent brought it home and so but there was a quote in and and blake said in the article my sister used to yell back at him if he would explode because maybe we were too loud when he just got off the phone or and and i would just take it and but his quote was. We knew we were not the. Source of his anger and anger that much and it didnt take much to know what was he knew i had brought home from the funeral home right. Growing up i saw firsthand the toll Funeral Service took on my father many of his days were spent helping other people through the worst days of their lives we saw the side of it that wasnt always great and he dealt with it very well but there were times that it was stressful and if you asked me at those moments you know you want to be found out id say hell no there are circumstances that happened here that i feel like walking out the back door when the family are walking in the front door the thing thats going to make me retire is families not agreeing and i mean absolutely not talking to each other and probably after the service is over i never talking to each other again. So youre on the way to the hospital. Oh ok. Yeah. Well do is all. I think since youre way there and. You wont be released tonight i dont think from the hospital so all the phone can ring anytime you can ring at nine fifteen i can with three oclock in morning its a release for your dad his you expressed what he. Had wanted to so you know well again my condolences to you and all ill call them in the morning. You know people call because theyre ready so. When i think about the connection of brennan the funeral home i think about the fact that he had this cool parking lot where everyone just play i could play hockey and they they stored the nets in the garage. All right. But you can do old wooden sticks they dont make them like this anymore those gloves will big. And you know if you do it are above the. Law you walk in the house all right replace hockey ok otoh when. Ive been playing hockey sense i was traveling with a seven eight year old i played travel hockey for many many years my dad missed yours were a few games of mine he taught me how to play goal right between their house and the funeral home. After i wear is a tribute to my dad but i was also born in one nine hundred fifty eight this was my playground this is this was where you know i grew up you know i learned to play tennis i assume that my parents always knew that i want to be a film director but we really never sat down i mean i heard about from my High School Counselor that oh i guess parents going off to humber to take Funeral Service i never i guess assume that they knew but quite frankly i thought i was going to be a professional hockey player or a professional tennis player but i think lack of talent sort of got in the way were going to go in the funeral right. And who goes in there you know and. So here you. You know what my grandfathers name was. Leonard. And you know what leo leo was short for matter. Good job. I was all here youre like kasey here. You. Know life here you know and theres to understand when i quit and theres no ghosts here no ghosts here theres no ghosts here i remembered as a kid just being so so afraid by that idea like are you fraid of the being around the deputy forgive the bodies i guess id seen like you know zombie movies or monster movies or something and remember him just being again it was just like a lightbulb was just like well no because theyre dead like to be more free of the mailman for example then you should be of the dead body in the in another room because the living people going to are you dead people cannot hear you this is not a monster movie this is real life. Oh. Oh oh your own phone oh that i cant help but wonder if perhaps one day when will develop a passion for this profession where i didnt. Do you. I did. My dad since i was you know its eleven or twelve years old he would send me on errands that would include sometimes going to Doctors Offices to sit and wait in their office until a. Certificate was signed and i see this was there that was a Doctors Office at one time there were. Doctors and corners there i think companies came through here. Stars came through here when they were on the trains and theres a platform as side