BBCNEWS Newsday October 16, 2017
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and two am in kirkuk in northern iraq, where the iraqi army has seized control from Kurdish Forces. Kurdish forces also known as peshmerga had run the city for the last three years, after iraqi forces pulled out in the face of advancing troops from the so called Islamic State. But a row over kurdish plans for independence have left two regional powers, who co operated to overcome Islamic State, shooting at each other. The us has called for both sides to work to restore calm. Our middle east correspondent orla guerin and cameraman duncan stone have this...