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Are regularly subjected to violent attacks. Churches are burned, and copts are often murdered. And christians are not the only targets. In myanmar, the government is accused of persecuting the rohingya, a muslim minority. In Northern Iraq in 2014, Terror Organization Islamic State seized control of areas inhabited by yazidis, a religious community. The groups holiest site is located in the lalisch valley. The peacock is an important symbol to yazidis. It represents the angel melek taus, who for them acts as an intermediary between god and the faithful. Yazidism has about a million adherents wo...

Are regularly subjected to violent attacks. Churches are burned, and copts are often murdered. And christians are not the only targets. In myanmar, the government is accused of persecuting the rohingya, a muslim minority. In Northern Iraq in 2014, Terror Organization Islamic State seized control of areas inhabited by yazidis, a religious community. The groups holiest site is located in the lalisch valley. The peacock is an important symbol to yazidis. It represents the angel melek taus, who for them acts as an intermediary between god and the faithful. Yazidism has about a million adherents wo...

Its monday the 24th ofjuly. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The parents of Charlie Gard Return to the High Court Today, with the judge set to consider new evidence from a us neurologist. His parents want to take their terminally ill baby to america for experimental treatment, but doctors at great 0rmond Street Hospital believe it wont work, and say the ii month old should be allowed to die with dignity. We can speak to our news correspondent, helena lee, whos outside the high court. What are we expecting . The case is expected to begin at 2pm this afternoon, in what has become an incredibly comp...

This program is one hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen let me welcome you to the United States institute of peace. We are very pleased to welcome you here this afternoon. My name is phil taylor on the executive price Vice President of the institute of peace, very pleased to be able to cohost this was with our kurdish friends. We will have an opportunity to introduce everyone at the right time. The Kurdistan Regional Government Special representative Bayan Sami Abdul rahman is here and we also have the ambassador from iraq ambassador fareed yasseen. Welcome, gla...

Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. The so called Islamic State may be coming under pressure in both syria and iraq, but still, accounts emerge of atrocities carried out by them. The minority Yazidi Community has been amongst one of the most persecuted groups of people, living mostly in Northern Iraq. They have been killed, forced to convert to islam, and the women and girls have been held in sexual slavery. My guest is psychologist jan kizilhan, a Yazidi Kurd Living in germany. Hes helped bring 1,000 yazidi females from camps in iraq to germany to start a new life. How does he decide...