Lets start with some breaking news coming out of iraq. Kurdish Peshmerga Forces have launched a major offensive against i. S. I. L. In the north, backed by the u. S. Led air campaign over 7,000 trams battling with i. S. I. L. Troops battling with i. S. I. L. To take sinjar. In the Northern City over a year ago, killing and enslaving residents in the community, sinjar is on the main highway which linked cities, the bastians in iraq and syria. Speaking to correspondan. This is a key strategic zone, isnt it . Yes. The operation is called free sinjar. It began in the early hours of this morning when Ground Troops went in. Theyre attacking, and theyve taken the north, a humanitarian operation that took place in december and now theyre going in to take the rest of the sinjar town. This is really crucial, as you say, because it does link i. S. I. L. Territory in syria with i. S. I. L. Territory here in iraq in the city of mosel, a strategic key road to i. S. I. L. What theyre hoping to do is
Worlds smallest and isolated countries could save the global bee population. The e. U. Has signed off on an agreement that creates a 2. 2 billion dollar Emergency Trust fund for africa to help tackle the refugee crisis. They have been meeting in malta. What is this money exactly supposed to buy for the europeans . Reporter well, its a sweetener, to be honest. Thats not my opinion. Thats what a senior european official described it to me last neat night as being. It is basically trying to get over the migration crisis is to appeal to african countries and say, look, if we give you this as an additional amount of money for economic development, then in return we expect you, they say this is legally binding, to help remove African Economic migrants from the continent and help repat tree eight them into africa. Theyre wanting to send money back home and more managed migration, but this trust fund was always going to be the center piece from the european perspective of their offer, if you l