this is due to the news live from berlin the northern iraqi region once ruled by the so-called islamic state is facing an uncertain future this strategic city was liberated three years ago but remains a ghost town we have an exclusive report from singe are the capital of. a religious minority i asked militants and tried to annihilate. us president donald trump says he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani the surprise offer comes a week after he warned him don't threaten us or you'll stop our historic consequences.

i'm sumi so much kind of good to have you with us we start in northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from the so-called islamic state when it swept through the region i asked targeted minorities like the yazidi don't follow the islamic faith militants killed kidnapped and enslaved thousands of years east and even now the group is still recovering from the i.a.s. genocide we're turning and starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital city or shingle as it's known and kurdish did it was travel there and brings us this exclusive report. on the capital of the years you to slice and ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed in its life thousands now. that these limits have been expelled only

a few residents have free to vent in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from my ex only three thousand families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. there's still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools or functional administration he has hedy's living inching gun feel abandoned by their politicians. the head of we've got no electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all over the place and they have to clear them. they've never put it with us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back. because the situation doesn't improve soon than we who have returned will leave again very soon got enough. stephanie yes wants to stay no matter what the twenty four year old

studied to be a teacher but there are no schools so he opened up a glass workshop with a friend the problem is that nothing is being rebuilt which means even his business is struggling. with people won't come back as long as there are so many different political groups here working only for themselves there are thousand different groups and they're all only looking after their own interests. he means the different militias that are still active in the city they run their own checkpoints and have their own agendas all parties want influence here in the singe amounts being close to the syrian border the region is strategically important to kurds to the central government and backed up to turkey and iran. she goes mayor fateh middlemarch says the city's people are suffering from this clash

of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. is the incentive that is hard treated like fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't yazidi these they would have taken care of us like they did other people. and we were more heartbroken residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on with rebuilding but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. on film that report with begin to show and she joins us in our studio to tell us more about this story good morning sandra thank you for joining us we should say that shingle is

what the kurdish call singe are for some of our viewers who might not know that name why is the reconstruction of this place taking so long well it is still a disputed territory first of all plus it is the homeland of a minority and of course other parts of iraq like mosul have also been destroyed most of the in the second largest city so you know it's not that the iraqi government has a lot of money to throw around for reconstruction and. it's also a rather isolated area i think they don't really see the need to put money into an area which is really disputed between central government and the kurdish autonomous government and also other forces playing out there like you know you could take a kurdish horse to syria and wipe the g. forces militia so you know it's really very congested up there real so heard one man say in your reports that you know the cities are like fifth class citizens did you see that as well they're well i mean if you see how people are treated there

that they don't trade or receive any oficial aid for reconstruction you know for rebuilding their destroyed houses for road clear and for the clearance of booby traps unexploded devices remnants of war you must assume that yes they are treated as for a fifth class citizens they don't feel that they are taken care of and protection they lack a sense of security given all of that and the appalling crimes that they faced yes he does feel safe enough to go back home i would say at the moment there is no real clear indication why they should feel that you know they can retake their home and like this young men said. if nothing happens those people that they have to retune will rather leave again as we have shown in other reports there is the holy mountain off they use these not to far away. mount century you still have about ten thousand people living up they are on the barren plateau in tents why do they choose to move there because they lack that sense of security and they don't really

feel that the former capital is still their capital and thousands of women and girls were also captured by the islamic state in slave by bam what is being done to find them and free them i would say petty little it's not like official missions go out and try to search for them there is a missing people it's office but mainly you know it lies with a family stay contect smugness smugglers who know the routes between iraq and syria which is right next door through sin jar runs the main connection line between mosul iraq for example to form my is from holds so they try to use the established smuggling networks to try you know and find their loved ones who are still like cattle over the border from one jihadi group to another from your reporting what is your sense of how they use it to feel about their sense of home does that still exist for them for some yes because they frankly tell you we only know this one

home so we try to make it work for most of them know those that we spoke to they all really want to leave iraq not just their homeland of iraq at all all right good at the center pages man bring us the very important reporting thank you so much sandra now to a developing story from afghanistan official that officials there say a coordinated attack is underway in the city of jalalabad which is near the pakistani border there been reports of several explosions a government offices including the department of migrants and refugees appear to be under attack a gunman are reportedly holding hostages there's been no word as yet on casualties . and let's get the very latest on that story with journalist dearie he is based in the capital kabul and he joins us for more hi tired good to see what more can you tell us about the attack in jalalabad. well for the audience who don't know about yet act at eleven thirty local time today a couple of insurgents groups they stormed the office of migraines and refugees in

jail a lot which has been volatile over the last few weeks until now that i spoke with this person not the governor. a dozen people have been killed and one day but we don't have you know the real estate to sticks yet but people you know people who we talked to this year is already gunfire around department and a couple of these insurgent groups insurgent soldiers go on gotten into the building and still they're firing at each other who are these insurgent groups here is any group claimed responsibility responsibility rather well it's a bit difficult to be all that to be honest not only you know at the end of these attacks these insurgent groups they come and claimed responsibility in the past we have got cases that the ice is normally come out and they say that we did it so it shouldn't come as a surprise later on if the isis comes and say we did it because i say this you know none of what is known as the main piece of isis in afghanistan doubt that operating

there for a really long time now. nobody asked planes anything because the afghan government . to top off. of. it is. it's just for our journalists to to hear for us in kabul to hear thank you very much for your reporting and we apologize for the quality of that line. now some other stories making news around the world north korea is reportedly working on new missiles u.s. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at a north korean sign that has produced a list of missiles in the past that's according to u.s. government sources speaking to the washington post the renewed activity comes despite north korean leader kim jong un promising to work towards denuclearization

at a summit with donald trump in june. russian police are real arrested four members of the pussy riot punk were moments after they were released they had spent fifteen days in prison for invading the pitch during the world cup final between france and croatia in moscow the group said in a tweet they could face another ten days behind bars russian authorities haven't said why they were again detained. hundreds of people have attended a vigil in the greek capital athens to remember the victims of the country's deadly wildfires one week on more than ninety people died and dozens more were injured when the blazes tore through several towns east about things last monday dozens more are still missing. and the philippines is flattened luxury cars and motorbikes worth almost five million euros the cars including limber guinea a porsche and a mercedes benz president were to go to tara to who witnessed the destruction wrecking the seize vehicles was a warning to anyone trying to import vehicles without paying due dates. vote counting is under way after presidential elections in mali president evo him

boubacar case and says partial results show he is substantially in the lead while the opposition candidates who majlis to say claims he's gained enough to vote for to force a runoff attacks disrupted voting at hundreds of polling stations mainly in the north and center of the country. u.s. president donald trump says he is open to meeting with the leaders of iran anytime they want this comes only a week after trump posted a tweet warning iran not to threaten the u.s. or quote suffer consequences the likes of which through a few throughout history have ever suffered before the truck made that offer after talks with the talon prime minister to suffolk county in washington county is seen as trump's major ally in europe they share similar views on major issues like immigration and russia. we are both outsiders to politics can you believe we are outsiders the power of so i look at all these wonderful politicians. it was a meeting most of my project both men were elected after

a surge of populism both came to power in large part due to their migration pledges . i agree very much what you're doing with respect to migration and illegal immigration and even illegal immigration at least taking a very firm stance on the border. a stance a few countries have taken and frankly you're doing the right thing in my opinion. something trump may hope to replicate after he threatened to shut down the government if he didn't get backing for his proposed wall along the southern u.s. border with mexico the leaders also find common ground regarding moscow's role on the world stage you need. those who think russia can be excluded well as president trump said if we want to solve problems we cannot choose our counterparts. we must accept things as i and sit at the table with them and negotiate and have a dialogue with those who are our counterparts. the trump administration has more

in common with conti's coalition government than it does with those of other european countries despite warm words for the french president and german chancellor due to their visits to washington the us president recently described the e.u. as a foe to be may well be a welcome and useful friend at this meeting from painted at another one which may be on the cards so i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with a wren if they wanted to meet and i'm ready to meet anytime they want if we could work something out that's meaningful not the waste of paper that the other deal was i would certainly be willing to make. after trump who have the iran nuclear record and warned its leaders against threatening the u.s. in the strongest of terror. if a meeting happens it would be the first between the u.s. and iranian presidents in nearly forty years and mark another foreign policy

turnaround for this most unconventional of presidents thank you for watching due to the use terry mark will have an update for you at the top of the hour. the. letter we were. when we were. eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship.