this is. the long road back from what the united nations says was genocide in a special report we traveled to your ranks are home to hundreds of thousands of people who fled the invasion and the violence of islamic state four years ago families who say they are still too scared to go home also coming up how and when to get them out in northern thailand the rescue teams are weighing the options and the risks how to save twelve poised. trapped in

a flooded. good to have you with us we begin with breaking news coming out of the u.k. british police have just announced that two people who fell critically ill near the market town of salzburg were poisoned with the russian nerve agent nobody choke it is the second such poisoning in recent months after a former spy and his daughter were also attacked a british counterterrorism police are leading the investigation and they are citing the visited what site rather where the couple visited we understand those sites have been cordoned all we understand that the u.k. chief medical officer also saying that the risk to the. general public from this

incident remains tonight we're everything right now to get a line to our correspondent in london we're going to go to her as soon as we can until then we're going to move on to the other top story of this evening and that is the moment that they had to flee for their lives four years ago so-called islamic state took over the north of iraq and invaded the homeland of the a religious minority for many it's spelled there do you know c.d.'s are followers of an ancient religion with more than half a million believers in northern iraq around fifty thousand trying to flee from the terrorist to melt singe are their holy mountain but many didn't make it many were called by isis the u.n. calls what happened next genocide untold thousands were killed and thousands of the group's women and girls were kidnapped and sold as sex slaves many remain missing

the w.'s begins to show ends on their pages mond visited a family in the camp still suffering from the brutality they experienced at the hands of ah yes. well who do it is a still in bed. prepares bread for the day that her mind is far away stuff in the time when she and her children were captives of the i asked how the slaves raped and sold like cattle. three if the children a still missing. i would. give enough of them i can't think of anything else about what i'm just not known in the head of the movement of. a mob i went to the doctor but they said it didn't matter what medicine i took it wouldn't help a bit out because i just think too much i admire a lot about america. she

no longer knows how many people hurt them they were held for the last five months in a cellar her daughter her nine was six then she was eight. they didn't give us anything to eat peas they were evil they kept on helping themselves to the girls i mean. there's a kind of kindergarten in the mts and jack kemp. and her sister spend a couple of hours a day here. it's a chance to play and for a little while to forget. the i asked men kept taking the children to make them in desperation she tattooed their names on their own hands using a nail and i think. i. know where i could run navajo i don't know why they wouldn't forget their name so i did not get one out i took the children away from me the i.r.s.

would give them. the leader said if i see any money i'll cut off that arm so i stopped. look here. that i only did half and i. had years what it would have been what i took. she still doesn't know where her fifteen year old daughter and her two oldest sons are she doesn't even know if there were life routine helps to distract her and aid organization gave the family twenty sheep money from selling the milk supports them. but even here on the mountain they're afraid that the i.r.s. might return coaches husband mahmoud keeps a gun if they come back he says they won't get his family again because of what. i learned in the past we trusted our neighbors back then and so they were off friends with all of their children can even more. visit to their old

home. to read down the mountain is littered with the things people left on their way on estates let in panic from the i.r.s. four years ago. it was here the coaches family was cool. to get to their village we passed through a shingle because eating capital it lies in ruins. i don't care about the destroyed buildings. what awful is that they gave six seven or eight year olds to ten or twelve men. and that an ai is fighting a ten year old girl pregnant that's the worst thing we think. their home village from boosie has deserted. the house in which they invested all their savings wrecked looted. now they don't want to

go on. they say their muslim neighbors helped the ins there's no way cochon mahmud would ever return show i would have. many muslims still live in the next village over the road years edis will never be able to live with muslims again after what happened. back on the mountain protests for the night. they've been here for two years the holy mountain general is the safe haven but they don't want to stay here what they have got by that i'm a builder willing our children come back will leave iraq will go somewhere else i'm as mad and they had went down with iraq now that we suffered too much. as it out of what. they supply to an aid program which would enable them to go to australia. but the hope of seeing their missing children again keeps them on the mountain.

or we want to return to our ward top story breaking news out of the u.k. british police announcing that two people in wiltshire have been poisoned with the nerve agent nobody joke let's listen to part of what police said just moments ago. earlier today deputy chief constable gold medals for the bullshit police gave an update on the situation however i can confirm tonight that that has been a significant development and that the counter-terrorism policing network is now leading the investigation into this incident. this evening i've received test results from poll that showed that the two people up exposed to the nerve agent not the truck. at approximately ten fifteen am on saturday but. the southwest ambulance service was called. all right that was the british police there saying that

a significant event has indeed taken place let's go to our correspondent in london now very good masa she's on the story for us good evening to you better get so authorities have just held a press conference what more can you tell us. well there was obviously intense and speculation as to what this could have been because it already happened on saturday but it was only been made public today and i think a lot of people were already a little bit suspicious of why it took so long for the offer ickes to come forward in this city it was thought that pat had maybe abused drugs but then of course now we know that it is no he took and this is something that for a lot of british people i think and it secretly people who live in this area around salisbury would make them very very not just because we had this incident with it to russian citizens in salisbury and there were many areas cordoned off in

salisbury city itself but then the order authorities said that there was no no risk to the public and still at the moment they say that they think that the general public is not at risk but of course some people while from all we know not connected to school and sleep pods off with such severe conditions that will make people and very very nervous and that will make the risk up in the next day just luck the. british police saying that no one else has presented the same symptoms that we're seeing in this couple that has the symptoms of being poisoned by no beach show and we also are hearing from the police that there was nothing in the background of this couple just suggest that they were targeted and that they would have been the target of a nerve agent attack so they certainly don't have the same background or the same political pedigree as the script holes have

a kind of remind us about the screwballs and what happened in salzburg. well that's i guess we part used to be a spy and spy a russian spy you most what this spy swap has lived in the u.k. for years if any from all we know quiets knife and he and his daughter who was visiting him suddenly are coming to these really severe sentence that were then found out by the by the british doctors at salisbury to be the no agent no it's off and that's of course something that is extremely unusual and extremely rare and it's something that brings balance of alexander litvinenko the former russian spy who was that this isn't a critic of not being uprooted and who was poisoned in the middle of london with that another agent polonia says we had these we've had he's

a russian speaking targeted in london and the british government thinks that the russians we have claimed it just because it's such a red page and they they say they know where it was manufactured and it's has soured of course the relations between great britain and russia severely says this is something that still hanging over over the u.k. and that they had something that's that's still an ongoing friction between russia and the u.k. and of course if there is now at the risk of the larger british public if it's not something that is targeted at somebody in particular that of course makes the whole situation even more even more difficult and even more severe yeah and you also mentioned that the this couple that is in critical condition tonight charlie rowley

and dawn sturges that's the names of the couple they were found unconscious at a house on saturday and we just found out about this. case today what do you think or what is that doing in terms of confidence in the public safety and security that so much time has passed from the from the discovery of this couple to the reporting of this incident that certainly can build a lot of trust in the public can well of course with the other issues it's a finite and they have to be really sure of what they're saying because if they like the public gets the impression that there is nobody talk all over this city of course that would be a mass panic so they would have to be very very careful and i imagine it really also took a little was established that this was indeed the case and for

a couple that was not related to the swim pilots to come down with something it's also i mean something that's unexpected and that your thirty's that passed on it was drugs. but it's the fact that cools down the the military base is not fog as all the specialists that i think help them as it did in the case of this reponse to then to tom and hopefully also in this case because we have to remember that they are in critical condition in hospital following no hopefully it will also help them like the ski pods to give them the end to do it's just in time because we know that the ski pod states of by and they seem not to be in good condition but that was far from clear because this now aged is very very dangerous indeed. all right our corresponded. on this breaking news story out of the u.k. this evening thank you very much and just to bring you up to speed on what has happened right now british counterterrorism

a police have announced that two people in phil critically ill in wiltshire were poisoned by the nerve agent know if that is the case that would be the second case of poisoning in the u.k. this year. for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will back with more news at the top of the. daily lives or. works in the water. there.