with nearly all the results now in, voters in a referendum in ireland have backed liberalising the country's divorce laws. it would give politicians the power to reduce the time that couples must spend apart before they can divorce. the race to succeed theresa may as prime minister has intensified, with more candidates entering the field. former brexit secretary dominic raab and the former leader of the commons andrea leadsom are the latest to say they will stand for conservative party leader. neil lennon has been offered the celtic manager ‘sjob neil lennon has been offered the celtic manager ‘s job permanently after the completion of a historic triple triple. here is chris

maclachlan. the 134th scottish cup final. for celtic, though, three was the magic number. their prize — a treble for the third year in a row. for the men in maroon, a single—single would do just fine. the first half was pretty much like the mid—may glasgow weather — all a little bit dull. hearts sat in to soak up what celtic could offer, and despite this edouard chance, the champions offered up very little. but, shortly after the break, the goal the game was crying out for. this could be a big moment. it could be a very, very big moment! first blood to the underdogs, but their lead didn't last long. celtic pushed, hearts tripped, penalty given. edouard's leveller providing relief for those in green and white. it all got a little bit stodgy again until ten minutes before the end. with history in their sights, edouard once again made hampden roar.

a victory, silverware, and enough for neil lennon to be offered the celtic job on a permanent basis. it wasn't their best performance. these supporters won't care about that, but celtic have made world football history. the treble—treble is theirs. chris mclaughlin, bbc news, hampden park. now on bbc news it's time for our world — which this week travels to iraq and syria to discover the disturbing story of the yazidis‘ secret children. the yazidis... an ancient religious minority and the hymns of one —— an ancient religious minority and the victims of one of the islamic state's most ritual attacks. but they are a minority now hiding a secret.

many yazidi women were forced into sexual slavery, and some have had children fathered by their islamic state captors. children who were often their only solace through years of torture. translation: i was in prison for four years, but i've been able to put it all behind me now because of this child. but women like rojin are being forced to choose between their children and returning to the yazidi community. children born of rape are not welcome. translation: i want to ask you, are we wrong to miss our children? i mean women like us, are we wrong? over the past year, i've travelled across northern iraq and syria to find the women reinforce being forced to make this agonising choice, and to tell their story, the story yazidi leaders want to silence.

in, 2014, these pictures of desperate yazidis fleeing islamic state fighters shocked the world. trapped on northern iraq's sinjar mountain, hundreds of men were massacred and over 6000 women and children were forced into captivity. the yazidis are an ancient religious minority of around 800,000 people, most of whom live in northern iraq. they've been persecuted for centuries, but the attack by the islamic state was different.

their main objective was to abduct women and girls to be traded as sex slaves. five years later, and with the so—called islamic state all but defeated, i've come to a safe house in north—east syria, where a group of yazidi women are about to be sent home after surviving years as is prisoners. the fate of these women has captivated the world's media. the ultimate tale of good versus evil. but part of their story is being hidden, and the yazidi leadership wants to keep it that way. after five years of rape and forced marriage, many of these women have had children with their islamic state captors.

sorry, sorry. hi, how are you? everyone did interview with her. but everybody, sheikh... this is the head of the yazidi community in syria. there are some women where you can interview them from the morning to the evening, while others, there are some speciality with that but she already did interview. but sheikh! so where is her kids? the women are swiftly placed

into some cars and driven off to the iraqi border to be reunited with theirfamilies. we followed, but were warned against further recording. this is the point where these women are finally leaving syria, and we know at least two of them here have had children with is militants, but it seems both of them are going back to iraq alone. some of these women have been forced to abandon their children before returning to the yazidi community. it makes for a bittersweet reunion with their long—lost relatives in iraq. because, for one family to reunite, another has been ripped apart. it was one year ago when i first met an islamic state survivor who had

been through this. because of the stigma attached to having a child with an is fighter, we have hidden herface and given her a different name. like thousands of other women, jovan‘s ordeal started on sinjar mountain. translation: all the women and girls were captured. while the men were gathered, and i believe they were killed. they took girls as young as eight. we couldn't do anything about it. they really tortured us. jovan was kidnapped with her three yazidi children and to keep the family together, she was forced to convert to islam and marry a tunisianjihadist. translation: that is

when the monster took us. i stayed with that tunisian is member for 11 months, until he was killed, but by that time, i was seven months pregnant, and three months after his death, i gave birth to my son. eventually, jovan‘s yazidi husband located her through a network of people smugglers and paid for their children to be brought back to iraq. butjovan remained in syria for another two years because her husband refused to accept the child fathered by her is captor. translation: i was being held with eight or nine other women and girls. they also had children with members of is, and so couldn't come home because of their families. her husband finally allowed her to return to iraq with her son, but she didn't keep him for long.

translation: i wanted to keep my son, but i couldn't. the community wouldn't accept him. is did terrible things to us. they kidnapped and killed lots of us. i didn't want to offend my community by keeping my son. a decision that continues to cause her pain. translation: i want to ask you, are we wrong to miss our children? i mean women like us, are we wrong? this is lalish, the holiest temple in the yazidi faith. the yazidis say that their religion is the oldest in the world, but it is a religion that is not open to all.

maintaining a pure bloodline is central to the faith. amongst this group are a number of young victims of the islamic state. five years ago, they would have been banished from the community for having sexual relations with someone outside of the yazidi faith, even though they did so under duress. but in a historic move, baba sheikh, the religious leader of the yazidi community, issued a ruling that those enslaved by the islamic state could rejoin the community. it is incredible to see these young victims of is being welcomed back into the community, and now thousands more yazidis are arriving in lalish to celebrate the new year. the yazidi faith seems to be modernising, yet another ancient doctrine remains in place.

to be a yazidi, both of your parents must be yazidi. so for women raped by is fighters, their children are not accepted. but if their religious leaders changed the rules once, couldn't they do it again? to find out, i've had to leave the celebration in lalish to meet ali khedar alyas.

so if it wasn't because of the iraqi law, would yazidi community, yazidi council, and baba sheikh, would they accept these children? but i met families that they said that there should be a fatwa. if there is a fatwa from baba sheikh, we will accept, otherwise, we won't accept these children. a week later, the yazidi council published a statement saying children born to islamic state

fighters are not accepted. despite what ali khedar alyas told me, this policy of non—acceptance had clearly been in place for a while. during our year—long investigation, we identified 20 yazidi women who had given birth to children under the caliphate. none had been allowed to bring their child home. we did find one woman who had kept her baby. we arranged to meet her in the privacy of my hotel room. she doesn't want the community to know she is speaking to us. rojin, not her real name, fell pregnantjust weeks before she was freed by the islamic state and gave birth seven months later when she was back in iraq. she is now secretly raising

the child, who we've called nadia, as a yazidi, with the help of her husband. translation: neither my parents, nor the community, know the truth about this child. i'm always worried about death. i was in prison forfour years, but i've been able to put it all behind me now because of this child. do you think that if they know, if they find out, they would force you to leave nadia? translation: yes, if they find out, they will take the child from me or i will be forced to leave my family. so it must be very difficult to live with all these concerns and fears all the time? translation: yes, it's really difficult. i was held by isis for four years and we suffered a lot — beating, thirst and hunger. but what would be even worse would be to have my son taken off me now.

this is the al—hol camp in north—eastern syria. it is home to over 70,000 women and children from the islamic state. they were rounded up when coalition forces defeated jihadist fighters. conditions are dire and many of the inhabitants still cling to isis's hate—filled ideology. yet it is thought that many yazidis are also among its residents, hiding the children they bore to islamic state fighters.

dr ghaufouri is a kurdish activist who searches the camp, looking for yazidi women and children, to persuade them to go home. how many women with is children are we talking about and how many children? those who are coming back now, eight of ten. and how many each? most of them, they have one, up to three or four kids. you know, the feeling of a mother, you know — you will not believe how they are holding their babies because a mother is a mother. the feeling, the love of mother comes above all kind of religion or belief or anything. dr ghaufouri helps the yazidi women and children who go home, even if that means leaving is—born children behind. she has a team of yazidi

women who escaped is. they have come to the camp to work undercover, dressed in niqab, to find the yazidis. it is a dangerous job. the islamic state's female police force still operate in the camp. a number of yazidi women have left al—hol. i spent months searching in north—east syria for their is children but no—one would tell me where they are. still, i am determined to find out what has happened to them. i have been told about an orphanage in mosul, in northern iraq, which has seen an influx of children since the war against is started. this government—run orphanage takes care of more than 50 children. sakineh muhammed ali is the local government official responsible

for running this place. i have discovered that sakineh knows jovan, the yazidi woman i met over a year ago who was forced to give up her is son who we called "adam". she tells mejovan‘s husband approached and asked her to take the child.

sakineh told jovan that she was only giving up her son for a week, knowing full well that her husband would not allow her to return and collect him. this would be the last time that jovan would ever see adam. months later, the orphanage ran into financial difficulties and decided to put some children up for adoption.

it turns out i am not the only one to have visited sakineh's orphanage. jovan did came back looking for her son but it was too late. the news he had been adopted without her consent must have been devastating. i wanted to find out how she is coping and decided to track her down. sadly, she is now living in a woman's refuge far from home, having been divorced by her husband. translation: my family and my husband were extremely strict and they separated me from my son. i got the depression and i left my other children. it is now impossible for me to go back to them. i betrayed him.

i did not want to abandon my child. i felt like i betrayed that child. i betrayed that kid. my three other children know that i have not betrayed them because they are old enough, but this child was just a poor, poor kid. it was such a terrible day when i left them. a woman has adopted my child, and has taken him for herself. my baby does not know me but i think about him every day. but i think it is betterfor him

to live with the other person now. it is betterfor him. it is horrible to seejovan so upset after losing all four of her children. ijust had to try to speak to her family to find out if there is any way they could have saved themselves from this pain. surprisingly, jovan‘s husband agrees to meet me and seems keen to talk. translation: i told you that the child is not at fault. i said it was god's will that the child was born. but when someone comes and kills all the men in a community and then that killer fathers a child with your wife, it does not matter whether they are is or from any other religious group — who would accept that child?

perhaps in the west that is acceptable but in the east it is not. we do not accept these kind of things here. it is an unforgiving position and one that i did not expect to find shared byjovan‘s son. translation: i do not want her to come back. she came back from isis and left us again. so i do not want to see her. you do not accept that child as your brother? no, it is true our mother gave birth to that child, but he's not our father's so it is not possible. he is the son of isis and we cannot accept him as our brother. jovan may have left the horror of the islamic state but the demands of the yazidi religion now casts a long shadow of her life but there are no winners when a mother is made to choose between her children

and her religion. translation: i decided to name him adam and i called this one after my son, hatton. i hope my children will not forget me. hopefully one day, if god has mercy on me, then we will see each other again. hello. for some, it's been a sunny start to the bank holiday weekend.

we saw a high of 25 celsius in london on saturday afternoon. this was herne bay, in kent, around about the same time. for others, though, a very different story. cloudy, outbreaks of rain across parts of northern ireland, northern england and scotland, and many of us will see some rain through the rest of the bank holiday weekend. it'll be turning cooler, as well, and the winds will be strengthening. this is all down to a front through the rest of the bank holiday weekend. it's certainly scotland which will see the lion's share of the rain through the early hours of sunday morning, and likely to keep it here through much of the day. rain initially across northern ireland on sunday morning will work its way eastwards across england and wales, turning more showery as it does so, so the rain a little bit more patchy across east anglia and south—east england. behind it, some spells of sunshine. fine afternoon across northern ireland. that rain continues across the far north of scotland, coupled with a strengthening westerly wind. could be quite gusty across northern and western scotland, so temperatures here

just nine or 10 celsius. elsewhere, 14—19 celsius, maybe 21 in the best of the sunshine. the rain across east anglia and south—east england starts to pull away. we'll keep some rain overnight across scotland. elsewhere, it should become mainly dry. there'll be some clear spells developing, and it'll be a slightly cooler night, under the clear skies getting down to six or seven celsius, holding up to double figures in the centre of town. still that rain persisting across northern scotland through bank holiday monday. elsewhere, it's a day of sunny spells and showers, the showers most frequent the further north and west you are, starting to see an improvement across the far north of scotland through the afternoon as things turned drier. butjust nine celsius here, and 14—19 celsius further south. we're going to keep the showers going on tuesday. they should start to ease off, so probably not as many as what we'll see on bank holiday monday, but still a cool north or north—westerly breeze. a drier day across scotland, save for a scattering of showers, but they're going to feel quite cool in the breeze,

and the cloud will be bubbling up through the day. nowhere immune from a shower, and temperatures at best 16 or 17 celsius across central, southern england. more like nine or ten further north. we keep this cool, unsettled theme through the rest of the week. a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. bye— bye.

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