iraq's prime minister is in paris to drum up support in the fight against the islamic state. he tells the coalition it is an international problem that has to be solved. over 400 elderly chinese tourists are feared dead after their ship sinks in a storm. just over a dozen people have been rescued so far. hundreds of migrants are cleared out of a makeshift camp under the paris metro. also coming up this hour, a late-night meeting with some surprise guest but are greece's lenders close to a deal to stave off its looming debt crisis? fifa denies new allegation that set -- that sepp blatter's right-hand man made a controversial payment. our top stories. genie: first rescue teams in china are frantically trying to save some of the 458 people on board a ship that capsized monday night in the yanks the river -- in the yanks to river. the ship's captain and engineer have been rescued and are in custody. >> it was meant to be a relaxing cruise on the yanggzte river. the cruise line called the eastern star got caught in a storm and capsized. aboard 458 passengers, crew members, and tou

islam is a barbaric religion. i would be very hard pressed to figure out how these people are worshiping god. i knowledge that. this is largely because of what people do in the name of islam. that is number one. the perception that people have is based on extremism, a violent manifestation of the religion. we don't -- for example, lucy is walking down the street, and she slipped on a banana paeal, and we blame lucy, but is because of the banana. this goes back to the argument that if you're going to empower dictators, don't blame the religion. it is the dictators that are dumbing the people down. if you look at islam in various times in history, the theologicians where the scientists. it is false to say that the muslim world cannot do it, it is because of the religion. it has a situational attribution to it. the last point, you're right. if u.s. is going to go there to force religion, that is the same thing with democracy. you cannot force a society to come to a system of governance that does not resonate with the

think the islamic state is the baath party and a new guise. one thing that does strike me as her important at the moment, and i have just been in northern iraq and northern syria, talking to people who have come from islamic state, is that it is recruiting people all the time. it has introduced constriction. it is calling up tens of thousands of young men. it is an expanding organization. i don't think the outside world in america or anywhere else in the world has quite taken on board how to have this organization is and how quickly it is growing. and every so often, we hear accounts that, you know, it has gotten weaker and so forth, then it takes another affiliate. it took mosul. it has taken ramadi and palmyra and now it is getting close to aleppo. once the biggest city in syria. and it is threatening western syria. so people talk about it is going to take some of the decades to get rid of this organization. but the problem is much more immediate. this is an expanding organization. it is a military machine that combines religious fanaticism

troops to iraq pass anbar province to assist islamic forces in the fight against the islamic state amidst mounting pressure to stop militants at the request of the iraqi prime minister. jon sopel starts our coverage. jon: the unseen command center in the persian gulf is where the around-the-clock campaign against the islamic state is being ways. here they decide which targets to hit and watch in real time as the airstrikes are called in. >> i think there is progress in the campaign. we like to see them seek cover in terms of physically digging into positions. jon: today's announcement from the white house is not feeling like enough pressure. >> the strategies we have discussed today, in terms of brain thing up training advising, and assisting missions reflects the concern about the anbar province. jon: until ms -- until mosul felt we were not taking this seriously. if the iraq flogag -- the iraq flag flight -- it galvanize the public. action was demanded and came. the evolving policy against the islamic state envisioned there would be no american boots on the ground, then just 300 u.s. tr

islamic state militants are restricting cell phone usage to avoid leaks of information. this camp is 70 kilometers east of mosul in the suburbs of the northern iraqi city of erbil. people here say the number of those displaced from mosul have dwindled in recent months. mosul is now full of checkpoints and residents are strictly forbidden to leave the city. a man who escaped mosul said people in mosul must obey rules of the islamic state militants who have imposed an extreme form of islamic sharia law. >> translator: women are not allowed to leave the house without a scarf covering their faces. smoking is prohibited. violators are whipped ten times. >> reporter: the man also said the insurgents have started enrolling children aged 14 and 15 into what they say is a school to undergo training and become fighters. >> translator: children are now forced to join the islamic state fighting force. these children are being taught how to kill. >> reporter: he also said islamic state insurgents have recently prepared to fend off future attacks by iraqi government forces. >> transla

to help the army push back the islamic state. the troops will advise iraqi soldiers. obama has been criticized for being too soft. here is the white house spokesman. josh: it's hard to give yo ua rea -- a real clear sense of exactly what other things are on the table. the present has been clear about what is not on the table and that is a large-scale ground combat operation. the reason the president has rolled out that option is the president does not believe it is in the national security interests of the united states for us to do for the iraqis what they must do for themselves, and that is to provide for their security. >> our washington correspondent i asked him if today's announcement would satisfy obama's critics. >> there has been a lot of criticism for not having a strategy or not adjusting it rapidly enough. this is an adjustment to the strategy. that is the kind of term the white house would use. but certainly what we will see very soon is the pressure will really ramp up to see - whether this increase in troop numbers 450 altogether, will have an immediate

tell us where the islamic state gets its money. indira: i want to take a closer look at this because today is the one your anniversary the largestok over city in iraq. as part of that take over, they were able to take over oil refineries and fields. one of the major things they made money off of last year was $100 million in oil sales, illicit oil sales last year from iraq and syria. i wanted to step back and look at the years since then. we have had nine months of airstrikes. what has happened and half the u.s. been able to curtail the money they make? they are the richest terrorist organization we have ever known. it turns out this group has proven itself to be incredibly resilient, like a many headed hydra. it has made many forms of moneymaking as the u.s. cuts one head off after another. the biggest way they are making money now is through taxation. they control such large swath of land. and are able to tax an extort money from people and businesses at will. pimm: there has been a recent cache of documents taken by the u.s. gov

troops to help iraq and the battle against islamic state. criticism in washington is growing that the u.s. appears to have no clear strategy for fighting i.s. this comes on the one-year anniversary of the fall of iraqi city mosul to islamic state forces. a huge loss for the iraqi government. further south, the iraqi government is also battling or spoke effort and an bar province where attacks have been edging closer to the capital. >> rubble is all that remains of the restaurants and shops in the streets of baghdad. the attacks killed 20 people. the target was innocent civilians because this is not a military barracks or government building. they were just ordinary people out doing their shopping. it was indiscriminate terror showing that even in the iraqi capital, no one is safe from the i.s. the group has taken control of large parts of the region. the black i.s. flag now flies on the syrian turkish border to ramadi. mosul was the first major city in iraq to fall to i.s. faustus the a year ago. they only needed a few thousand writers to ta

we have a war with islamic terrorism. the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can start combatting it. we have a president who has buried his head in the sand with it. americans are beheaded. christians are drowned in cages and allied pilots are burned alive. american teenagers are self-radicalizing and taking up arm against our own people. i'd say we're at war and we're losing. any wonder why we're losing when we've trained four terrorists to get back one man? i know they're not al qaeda or isis, but we're about to make a deal that would give iran nuclear capabilityiescapabilities. iran is the global leader in terrorism. they train jihadists. they have an integrated terror network that isis and al qaeda can tap into for the latest techniques. and we're aggressively trying to do a deal with them? it is crazy to think we can trust this regime. time to wake up and declare war on terror and unleash the most powerful military on the planet. send some jihadists to the afterlife. thank you for watching this special edition of

they say the men were inspired by the islamic state terror army online. police say they approached one of them yesterday when he pulled out this knife and lunged at them. soon after, they raided a house and napped a second man. they say he was part of the planned attack on police as well. we caught a glimpse of that suspect as police took him into custody. he's due in court in 30 minutes. we'll update you on that if it happens. meanwhile the fbi and police searched a third location in live. witnesses say police were asking around about a man named nick. one neighbor often sees nick in his front yard praying. another says she used to be friends with nick and his brother, but lately the brothers had changed. >> they just kind of kept to themselves and stayed in their house after the past few years. and we haven't seen a lot of him, but we used to see him walking around the neighborhood. and he looked different. he was completely different from when i knew him. >> not hearing from police yet on their search in rhode island but a source confirmed to the globe

and radical islam. given what we would say the failure of the arab spring and just about every country except tunisia what would you recommend going forward for the united states in terms of its policy and do we support the rise of democracy and who they might collect or do we go were temporary security and go with the devil you know? >> super complicated. there is no one answer. there is no one-size-fits-all answer their so the word democracy to emerge in saudi arabia, hang onto your hats. the most radical islamic country population in the world the number one funder of al qaeda 15 of the 19 september 11 hijackers and they have got more radicalized and sense of democracy in saudi arabia is not something i'm in favor of. and so this isn't believed one of the reasons the obama administration is pursuing a relationship with iran. the iranian population is the exact opposite of his pro-american population with a thin veneer of an anti-american government. i would not be surprised if saudi arabia and iran f

was alton nolen's attachment to radical islam? his hatred of america to blame? in the last part of our interview i put that question to his only living victim. >> nolen had been radicalized. were you aware of that? >> no. >> you heard the arabic phrases. what else had you heard about him and his radicalization? >> nothing really at all. >> were you aware of the fact that he was trying to convert people at vaughan foods to islam? >> not until later on down the line. >> found that out after the fact. >> the fbi was initially involved but they concluded that there are no rinks to terrorism here. they appear to have classified this as work place violence. was this an act of terrorism? >> i don't honestly really know. it is hard to tell. it's just a hard situation. >> do you feel like you were the victim of a terror attack? >> with him being the way he was and being muslim and everything like that that's why i think it was a terrorist attack. >> do you think this man was motivated by radicalism or racism? >> racism. to be honest. >> do you think this was about a man

was alton nolen's attachment to radical islam? his hatred of america to blame? in the last part of our interview i put that question to his only living victim. >> nolen had been radicalized. were you aware of that? >> no. >> you heard the arabic phrases. what else had you heard about him and his radicalization? >> nothing really at all. >> were you aware of the fact that he was trying to convert people at vaughan foods to islam? >> not until later on down the line. >> found that out after the fact. >> the fbi was initially involved but they concluded that there are no rinks to terrorism here. they appear to have classified this as work place violence. was this an act of terrorism? >> i don't honestly really know. it is hard to tell. it's just a hard situation. >> do you feel like you were the victim of a terror attack? >> with him being the way he was and being muslim and everything like that that's why i think it was a terrorist attack. >> do you think this man was motivated by radicalism or racism? >> racism. to be honest. >> do you think this was about a man

we have to win this fight again the islamic state. that's the president's stated goal to he's simply not providing the resources need to do achieve that goal. >> you went to harvard law school you graduated, a lot of lucrative career opportunities ahead of you, but you decided to join the united states army. you have deploy to do iraq in a combat role. i guess the bottom line question knowing what you know now, what is going on in iraq, would you do that again? >> wolf absolutely i would leave my law practice and join the army again if i had the chance. it was one of the great privileges of my life to lead my fellow americans in combat in defense of our freedoms and safe and security. of course like all veterans who serve there, i'm heartybroken when i see places like fallujah ramadi and mosul fall to the islamic state. that means in my mind we have to redouble our effort to make sure we don't squander the victory we had in hand a few years ago, and we commit to defeating the islamic state. >> what do you say to the families of the 45

people in mosul live in fear from islamic state. nhk world's hiroshim shi sake has more. >> reporter: nhk has a recent video of mosul secretly recorded by a resident. a motorcade is seen careening through the city's streets with islamic state militants inside waving their black flag. this was once a government office building. it's now under the control of the insurgents. downtown shops are closed. islamic state militants are restricting cell phone usage to avoid leaks of information. this camp is 70 kilometers east of mosul in the suburbs of the northern iraqi city of arbil. people here say the number of those displaced from mosul have dwindled in recent months. mosul is now full of checkpoints and residents are strictly forbidden to leave the city. a man who escaped said people in mosul must obey news of the islamic state militants who have imposed a sharia law. >> translator: women are not allowed to leave the house with a scarf covering their faces. smoking is prohibited. violators are whipped ten times. >> reporter: the man als

they see all around them that everyone hates islam. hates islam. when you see people making cartoons and mopping -- mocking our profits, and you flip the script and say does racism. you can't say there is freedom of siege and insult people's most sacred views, and then when it insult something of yours you say, it is not free speech in this case. these are things that young people are saying and try to make sense of. they are not able to make sense of it or they struggle. host: when you mentioned cartoons of mohammed. when you see violence that stems out from that, what initially goes through your mind? would you call it justified? guest: it is never justified. what goes through my mind is how does this help our cause? the paris attacks. what happened with that -- it was a struggling publication, they were making fun of everyone, and then these guys shot them out, and their subscriptions went up 500%. i take the utilitarian approach. i detach the images. it breaks my heart to see that. i don't insult people's fa iths. the koran says, do not insult

duty by fighting and that they are going to create a better society, an islamic society by undertaking armed jihad. >> reporter: in 2006 predominately christian ethiopia sent in its soldiers to help the transitional government, forcing al-shabaab from the capital mogadishu to its strongholds in southern somalia. but al-shabaab used the foreign intervention as a rallying point to attract supporters. it is funded by somali individuals in the diaspora other terrorist organizations, kidnapping and piracy. as al-shabaab attacks continued african nations including kenya sent in troops that pushed al- shabaab back to the countryside. the group responded by making kenya a target. even today, al-shabaab continues to use foreign interventions to appeal to somalis and specifically to muslims. >> it's saying, we are defending you muslims. you happen to be somali, but we are defending you muslims from these interventions that come from unbelievers. >> reporter: in some areas under al-shabaab's control the lawlessness ended, electricity was restored and public works projects were restarted. but the

these patrols have become a common sight since islamic law was introduced in 2001. violators kc punished by caning in public like these unmarried couples who were recently caught. for the mayor of banda ace beingh the ban is not enough. she has issued a ban after 11:00 p.m. >> translator: after 11:00 p.m, places of gathering are very dangerous. if women work later than 11:00 p.m, it's not that 47 bit by that time, women should be able to rest. >> like many other women in banda aceh she needs to do night shifts to support her parents. >> i'm trying to make a living, i have a decent job i think the government should look at what work we women are doing and what work we do. >> guide the police she is in no intention of giving up her job. her employer can lose his license if she works yodged 11:00 p.m. about women who have been punished for wearing the wrong clothes and now they can't work at knight and fair and human under islamic law. they say because a regulation has been issued in the name of religion only a few women openly dare to protest. >> translator: this regu

one of the main threats is from the radical islam and many from the radical islamic terror organizations that are active in this region. >> this classified mossad briefing was written after an assault by al shabaab militants on the westgate shopping mall in nairobi, which left 67 dead. it reveals concerns that israel's assistance to kenya's counter-terrorism units during the attack was leaked to the media. and it claims that al shabaab is planning further, more 'extreme' violence in kenya - including attacks on western and israeli targets. >> they teach you how to eliminate people? >> i think that the kenyans they have the authority and the right to run their own affairs. so if they decide to run a targeted killing operation, i don't think that we will condemn them. >> a part of the prevention sometimes is to kill the terrorist before trial. this is a necessary option not only legitimate. >> we do not hide behind any walls and curtains. we use it in our fight against terror. it is a very effective tool. >> the israeli foreign office, however, told us: under no circumstance are "eliminati

many are sunni muslims like islamic state members. the kurdish commanders say many locals welcomed the islamic state group and the leaders have been persuading them to take up arms. this man said he teamed up with the militants soon after they seized the city. >> translator: i fought because the shia government forces would do us harm in our assumed territory. >> reporter: the kurdish commanders a long struggle ahead to take up mosul. not to mention the rest of iraq. tomoko kamata, nhk world. >> thanks for that update. >>> an international conference on ways to influence extremism has opened in sydney australia. cabinet members and researchers are taking part in the two-day conference. australian prime minister tony abbott referred to the islamic state group in his opening speech. authorities have foiled several terrorist plots by youths influenced by the group. >> the tentacles of the death cult have extended even here. >> abbott urged participants to share their experiences so they can better deal with what he called an internationa

fighters blew up two shrines they consider non-islamic. they are not from the roman era. there are concerns about the fate of the world heritage site. >> it's entirely possible the organization will destroy all of the historical remnants of palmyra. they started with the shrines that have islamic resonances a shrine to a companion of the prophet muhammad. >> reporter: it was reported that isil fighters placed explosives around the ruins. >> i think those photos were part of the original set that were associated with the blowing up of the shrines, but i have not seen any real photos that show mines being laid around the actual ruins themselves. >> reporter: isil has destroyed history both in syria and neighboring iraq dozens of shrines many belonging to the sufi sect have been blown up. they used a bulldozer to destroy a city in iraq after smashing artifacts in the city's museum. they are not just destroying monuments, precious antiques are also being sold. >> translator: isil is just like the syrian regime. it is destroying history and syrian civilization. this is especia

therefore, muslim states, we are anti-islamic. there are arguments against that. >> [inaudible] >> ok. jerrold green: this is what iranians believe he read that we do not like muslims. a guy was murdered because someone thought he was a muslim. we have reasons -- iran is indeed strangled. economic sanctions have worked. the iranians were strangled. they regard as an emotional type of strangling rather than one that resulted in geopolitics. if the u.s. is trying to expel it, isolate iran, we are. there is a reason for it. iranians believe that iran is a great nation, an ancient nation with local interest. they deeply resent what they think we are trying to do. this is all they knew. there are things about them that they don't like and so forth. it is certainly not going to change. they have their narrative. we have hours. what is ours? they took over our embassy. we have all seen "argo." great movie. i loved it. i've seen it twice. despite how inaccurate was, i still liked it. second of all, the iranian support terrorist and extrem

will: an algerian warlord of the sahara and former commander of al qaeda in the islamic maghreb. french security services had dubbed the man "the untouchable." he was the mastermind behind the attack on the gas plant in 2015 that killed 37 hostages. his path to radicalism began at 19, when he traveled to afghanistan, where he lost an ey e fighting with al qaeda. returning to and algeria in the grip of civil war, he joined the militant armed islamist group the gia and a breakaway salafist group gspc. when they merged with al qaeda in the islamic maghreb he headed a battalion in the desert between algeria and mali. he became known as mr. marlborough because of a lucrative trade in smuggled citizens. hostagetaking was a large source of financing for his jihad. he was strapped of his title as in the air when the al qaeda leadership claimed he was too autonomous. he joined a new group known as the signed in blood battalion or the masked man back grade -- brigade. he masterminded suicide attacks in niger and the attack in nigeria the following year. with an american bounty of $5 millio

equipment that has now fallen into the hand of the islamic state. this week iraqi prime minister abadi dropped a bombshell admitting security forces lost 2300 armored humvees when the islamic state overran ramadi. in addition to humvees the islamic state is said to have 40 of our m1-a1 battle tanks. 74,000 machine guns. 52 mobile howitzer systems. and now to analyze what the white house declared to be a winning strategy in the fight against the islamic state, we're joined by retired general robert scales commandant of the war college, and fox news military analyst. this equipment, topline battle tanks mobile howitzer systems we're talking about hellfire rockets my god how could the military, the u.s. military have left behind this equipment with this in prospect? >> just remember lou, when the military left in 2011 the perception was that they were leaving this equipment behind to equip what at the time appeared to be a competent iraqi military. remember, we had just finished what, almost seven years of training these guys is felt confident in the l

it has been one year to the day since the islamic state took the islamic city of -- the iraqi city of mozilla. one militant -- one million residents -- the iraqi city of mozulsul. one million residents are still there. coming up this hour in business, banking giant hsbc lays out its new strategy. job cuts are set to reach up to 25,000. and apple steps into the music more fray, unveiling its long-awaited streaming service. that and more on the way but first, our top story. genie: first turkey's ruling ak party is starting to look for coalition partners, this after it lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since coming to power in 2002. it came in first place in sunday's election, but it needs to try to persuade any of the three opposition parties to bring theim to the ak party for a majority. no one has excepted, but negotiations have just gun. for more i am joint -- have just begun. i'm joined by jasper mortimer. are we any further than we are yesterday on coalition talks where we were basically nowhere? jasper: we have progressed a little bit. yesterday, all the oppositio

these patrols have become a common sight of islamic law introduced in 2001. violators will be caned in public like this unmarried couple who were caught in the park. >> after 11:00 p.m. places of entertainment are quite dangerous. there are many problems. we've adoesn'ted islamic law so we need to implement it. if women work later than 11:00 p.m. it's not effective. but by that time women should be able to rest. >> this woman who works as a cashier in a cafe cannot forward toafford to rest at night. she needs to work night shift to earn money and support her parents. >> i'm trying to make a living and i have a decent job. i really think that the government should look at what we women are doing and what kind of work we do. >> despite the risk of being caught by the sharia law police, she said that she's in no position to give up her night shift. according to the new regulations her employer could lose his license if she works beyond 11:00 p.m. >> the sharia law was introduced 14 years ago since then women have been punished for wearing the wrong clothes, and

islam is a barbaric religion. i would be very hard pressed to figure out how these people are worshiping god. i acknowledge that. this is largely because of what people do in the name of islam. that is number one. the perception that people have is based on extremism, a violent manifestation of the religion. for example, lucy is walking down the street, and she slipped on a banana peel and we say lucy is a klutz. no, lucy slipped because of the banana peel. this goes back to the argument that if you're going to empower dictators, don't blame the religion. it is the dictators that are dumbing the people down. where they cannot even come up with creative ways of doing with their society. if you look at islam in various times in history, the theologicians were the scientists. there is a vast contribution to science, philosophy, literature by the muslims. it is false to say that the muslim world cannot do it, it is because of the religion. it has a situational attribution to it. the last point, you're right. if u.s. i

islam and terrorism. -- islamic terrorism islamic terrorism. why are more people willing to tell us? general flynn: i don't know. i would be guessing why. i just know what i have dealt with. and i go back to what i started my story about, my grandchildren. i believe that. i grew up in a family and in a country and i joined the army right? and i did ok. i spent my entire life doing this. i look forward and i see things. to me, we have to be really clear. and i don't think we have been to the american public because some of it is, don't worry about it, they will vote for you anyway. voting matters. what i do know -- did you say dorothy, what i do know is there is a lot of people like me that don't say it, but they believe it. and i don't know. i don't know why. for whatever reason. for whatever reason. i don't question their reasons but i just know there is a lot that you feel this way. i do wish more people would -- i am not on one side or the other. honestly, i go for leadership. i want the best leaders leading this country period,. [applause]

boots on the ground that's exactly what the islamic state is asking for. they want america to send boots on the ground back to the future back to the iraqi occupation. what you need to do is to keep the islamic state keep losing and continue where it is and let it fall on its own promise. and i think that will take some sometime, it will take strategic patience, it will happy ventionally. >> all right, peter neumann, thank you very much for joining us. >> sreenivasan: now to charleston, south carolina, and the funeral today of clementa pinckney, the preacher/politician killed in last week's mass shooting. people came from far and wide for the service, and the president delivered an impassioned eulogy. ♪ ♪ >> songs filled the air with some 6 thousand people filled the arena at the college of charleston. >> we come at this hour for the home boy celebration of our departed and beloved breath rend senator clenlt clenlt awe pickally. he was killed last week at the church. state senator gerald maloy served with pinckney and as his personal lawyer. >> senator

i believe that islam is superior and will not be surpassed. so i believe that the law of god is much superior to manmade law. >> ward: so, in that sense, you believe that islam and democracy are mutually exclusive, that they can't exist side-by-side >> choudary: allah is the only one to legislate. so, obviously, in that sense it's completely diametrically opposed. you cannot have man legislating and playing god in parliament, and at the same time, believe that allah is the only legislator. >> ward: you have the freedom to come here today. you have the freedom to speak on television, to worship whichever god you please. but you're advocating a system that essentially would take away all of those freedoms. >> choudary: allah created my tongue to speak. here, because allah created my feet to walk. so i walk, and i speak, and i look, and i hear, according to what god says. >> ward: choudary has been accused of inspiring hundreds of muslims from across the west to join isis. we went to a meeting he held in an east london basement. on the wall was a

the islamic state group has been gaining momentum in libya. the foreign minister of the country's interim government called for more international support for the battle to coast the militants. >> these terrorists who have fought syria and iraq some of them have decided to come back to libya and refine the ranks in libya so that we have indeed that we have faced with. >> he said the islamic state group set up strain camps and the threats have rapidly been growing. >>> the main stadium for the 2020 olympics and paralympics will kohr's about $7 billion. it's more than the initial estimate. they attend a meeting of organizations in the games. he said it will start in october. and may 2019 is the completion. >> the construction fe will be about $2 billion. this is because there is no time for the games to domestically change to save money. the new stadium is a major feature to host them. >> the operator of the facility came up with a basic design in may last year with an estimated cost of $1.3 billion. but said the project would cost twice as much

halla: kurdish fighters are within meters of the border housed by the islamic state group. fierce fighting has sparked a flood of refugees, thousands of whom are prevented from crossing into turkey by turkish security forces. >> exhausted, dehydrated, and no longer able to walk. after days spent under scorching temperatures these syrians are finally able to cross the border into turkey. ankara gave the order last wednesday to close the crossing, and these syrians were stuck here. water cannons were used to disperse the crowds and keep people from climbing over the barb wire fences. these men, women, and children were fleeing nearby fighting between jihadists that control much of the region and kurdish fighters. backed by the u.s.-led airstrikes, the kurdish militia managed to close in on a strategic point of entry for fighters, weapons, and supplies for the islamic state groups. the town is the link between turkey and the jihadist regional stronghold. taking back tall abiyad would be a strategic move. the kurds could become a future threat for turkey, claiming the fighters

all in the name of islamic law. which is a wrong version. -- interpretation. >> government ministers in jakarta want to review the regulations in aceh. while arna has autonomy, laws and regulations issued by the province can't contradict the country's constitution. >> translation: i will coordinate this with the head of women in parliament in aceh to review. it is discriminative. many work at night. they need to review this. i'll discuss it with the home minister because it's not the only regulation. in aceh violating gender equality. >> reporter: nearly midnight in banda aceh. not all women are obeying the mayor's regulation, most cafes are filled with men only. many are hoping that the government in jakarta will reverse the mayor's decision, and allow them to work and move around at night >>> andreas is the indonesian researcher for human rights watch, and says the law is unfairly targetting women and must be revoked. >> human rights watch asked the indonesian government to revoke all of this regulation, it's not

fighters blew up two ancient shrines they consider un-islamic. the shrines are not from the roman era. unlike other 2,000-year-old buildings in palmyra. there are concerns about the fate of the u.n.e.s.c.o. listed world heritage site. >> it's possible that the organization will destroy all the historical remnants of palmyra. they started with the shrines that have islamic residences, a shrine to a companion of the profit mohammed. a shrine to the medieval >> reporter: a few days ago syrian activists reported that i.s.i.l.'s fighters placed explosions in palmyra's ruins, but it was not clear whether it was around the shrines or the arc logical site. >> i think they were associated with the blowing up of the shrines. i have not seen any substantiated evidence, any photos, real photos that show mines laid around the actual archeological ruins themselves. >> i.s.i.l. destroyed history in syria and neighbouring areas. i.s.i.l. used a bulldozer in april to destroy a city near mosul in iraq. after smashing artefacts in the city's museum. i.s.i.l. is not

in march islamic state claimed responsibility targeting houthi mosques. more than 100 people were killed. the attacks come at a time when crucial talks to solve yemen's crisis are under way in geneva. the united nations has been urging the warring factions to agree on a humanitarian truce. but each party has pre-conditions, and there has been little or no progress. the houthis and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh say that the saudi-led strikes must stop. they insist they must stop shelling the cities. the saudi-led coalition said they'll stop bombing the houthis and allies once they pull out of the cities they control. in the meantime, the united nations envoy is on the offensive. he has only a few days left to salvage a deal. if yemen's rivals fail to make progress fighting will continue, and the humanitarian crisis will get worse with every passing day. the sanaa bombings might put more pressure on the parties gathering in geneva to solve yemen's crisis to face more instability that might play into the hands of al-qaeda or the islamic

they are taking the fight to the islamic state. they are in coordination with the army. much powers in the hands of this man. the leader of the brigade. he bristles at the accused and's of human rights violations against the sunni minority. >> of course there are no violations. when the british, when your soldiers make mistakes, you say they were mistakes of war. >> when it comes to rolling out the big guns, iraq's shia militia rely on old friends. a look to t they say the islamic state was here. they have now been flushed out of the area. they won the battle with help of arms from iran. they were happy to show off their iranian made ammunition. >> our government cannot buy weapons. with the iranians we get supplies quickly when we pay for them. we signed a contract with the u.s. in 2012 and we have not received our weapons. >> if the islamic state is to be driven out, many here have more faith in these men than in the army. they and their iranian backers are growing in influence. that has implications for the future of iraq. bbc news, baghdad. katty: i spoke with a reti