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Good afternoon, ples precincts in cities and towns across the u. S. On alert today two days after two new York City Police officers were shot and killed by a man who said he was upset over the deaths of eric garner and Michael Brown. Ismaaiyl brinsley suffered from Mental Health issues. Mayor bill deblasio, is urging people to stop protesting against police. Mayor and Police Commissioner holding a press conference right now. Lets listen in. Putting together the story of what led up to this murder, seemingly senseless murder, and were going to share with you as the chief did yesterday, once aga...

Of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Translator i ask the savior of the world to look upon our bothers and sisters in iraq and syria. Pope francis says a special prayer for those in war zones as christians around the world observe the Christmas Holiday. We will have more on christmas coming up in just a moment, but we begin with the fight against isil. Kurdish fighters appear to be regaining ground. Mohammed has this exclusive report from near sinjar in northern iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters raised their flag in one of the villages they recently recapt e recaptured from isil. They wan...

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, which raised fears of genocide was one of the reasons president barack obama launched airstrikes aga...

Some say that the government is not doing enough in afghanistan to keep the taliban out of their town, forcing them to confront the fighters. A tough story. Beji caid essebsi has won the tunisian election. He has won the runoff vote with nearly 60 of the vote. Essebsi is the first fole freely elected president since independence from france. They have declared essebsi as the winner. Are we likely to see his rival, marzouki to challenge the results . Reporter its not likely that hell challenge the results because the gap is so big. It is around 10 difference. However, marzouki did try to hang o...

Of cuba. We hope in the normalization process the people of cuba are going to change cuba. In the rules of raul castro cuba has agreed to nothing. Children were slaughtered in their school by the taliban. One of the worst attacks i by the taliban in years. If this does not jolt us out of the inability to come together, maybe nothing will. The nature of terrorism has been shifting. Taking advantage of social media with its own form of propaganda. The problem is that youre fighting an idea. Thousands of yazidis still trapped in the sinjar mountains in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Theyre hung...