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There are religious and ethnic minorities scattered across the middle east. In mean cases members of communities thousands of years old. Christians in lebanon, syria and egypt, jews, samaritans and the yazidis an off shoot from the ancient religion. As isil tightens its grip it brings a particular level of abuse against those who proclaim against all odds of their airport faith. This is the scene in early august. Thousands of yazidi trapped on mount sinjar, surrounded by isil fighters. The seen,...

We begin in missouri. There is new found anger after an africanamerican teenager was shot and killed by a white Police Officer in missouri. It happened about 14 miles from st. Louis and five miles from ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot and killed by officer in august. Berkeleys mayor said there is a difference between what happened on tuesday and what happened in nearby ferguson last august. What i saw in this incident is not what people portray. This is not a policeman in the city of berke...

Two little boys knocked on my door and said the police just shot your son twice in the stomach. A mothers grief, speaking out about the death of her 12yearold son at the hands of Cleveland Police. She is calling for the cops to be convicted. A royal backlash in brooklyn, demonstrators greet the duke and duchess of cambridge outside a basketball game. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. U. S. Troops are on high a letter, the report on interrogation method...

Of ebola. Hello there, thank you for joining us. The pakistani government has stepped up its military campaign against the taliban. Al jazeera understands that the suspected mastermind of does ease School Attack may have been killed in an airstrike. He is one of 21 suspected taliban fighters killed in the area. He claimed responsibility for the attack, which left more than 130 children led. We have reports from peshawar on the strong reaction provoked by tuesdays killings. The show of sympathy w...

Officers are sdhot dead by a man refusingring on social media. To iraq where execute forces have had to retreat from beiji, soldiers have been trying to rekay tour the Northern City from the Islamic State of iraq in the laughent. This is a fight in the sinjar. The 2350i9 has been intention. For almost a week, Kurdish Peshmerga clarifies fighters have faced stiff resistance of isil fighters who are in control of the town at the foot of the mountains. Sinjar has been aware isil has committed some ...

China. We start with some developing news coming out of saudi arabia two security personnel killed on the border with iraq and happened in a patrol area and Police Say One of the two attackers wore a suicide vest and on saturday the Foreign Ministry said it would reopen the embassy in baghdad that close nearly 25 years ago and says the border area is a concern for the border police. Translator one of the border paroles in the province on the northern border came under gunfire at what the interio...

Bad luck rather than other risk factors, according to a new u. S. Study. Kurdish peshmerga troops have been engaged inhouse to house battles with isil. The peshmerga just recaptured a strategically important village around 80kilometers south wests city of erbil. Three peshmerga fighters have been killed so far. As they hunt isil fighters who may be hold up in homes. Sultan abdullah is on the banks of the tie agrees river and the road to mo sus the largest iraqi city controlled by mosul mohamed a...

Bring peace to bean Ukraine Eastern ukraine. Reporter in namibia guard dogs protect herd from cheetahs and lyo laons. Isil says it shot down a fighter jet near the northern stronghold of raqqa. Reporter this is the jordan pilot captured by isil fighters. His plane was brought down outside of the syrian city of raqqa. Jordanian officials have confirmed one of their warplanes did go down. They called the pilot a symbol of heroism and sacrifice. If you take a look at jordan, his father flew aircraf...

Threatening the future of a muchloved cosmetic product. The Syrian Government has agreed to participate in negotiations to restart peace talks in moscow. Russias Foreign Ministry said that it hopes to host talks between Bashar Alassads government and syrias divided opposition in late january, but its still unclear who will officially be taking part. We go to Vice President of the building syria state party, in damascus. Speaking by phone, he says that only a political solution will end the confl...

Charges. After years of focus on efficiency automakers are focusing on speed and power. But first boko haram, a Nigerian Armed group attacked a military base of neighboring cameroon. It is located north cameroon near northeastern nigeria. Bring us uptodate with the casualties and tell us why this base in cameroon was a target. Well, so far what we know is that the security sources weve been talking to have confirmed one soldier dead and many, many boko haram fighters killed when they retaliated....