he is a yazidi, a religious minority targeted by isis. in august 2014, isis massacred hundreds of yazidi men. and as they stormed the region they took an estimated 3,000 women and children captive. (horns honking, men shouting) thousands of other yazidis who survived the isis rampage fled to the nearby sinjar mountain, where they remained stranded for weeks. (people conversing) >> narrator: khalil's whole village vanished. >> (translated): all the women from that house have been taken. all the women from here are in the hands of isis. this house, that house, they took everyone from these houses. they only left one person behind: an old man who'd had a stroke. isis left him for dead. >> narrator: khalil, his wife and daughter had moved out before isis overran the town. >> narrator: isis believes yazidi women can be enslaved under their interpretation of islam. >> (translated): this video was shot by an isis fighter. they're in their compound buying and selling girls. (video playing) it's devastating. >> narrator: in the video, the men refe

thousands of others were captured and yazidi men were killed. and children were either trafficked as sex slaves, forced into marriage, or imprisoned. some boys were forced to convert to islam and were sent to isil training camps. >> once they showed us the beheading video of the pilot and other videos where they carried out attacks and other executions everything was there. we saw how they were shooting. they brought it to us every week they showed us. >> this boy was sent to a camp in the syrian city of raqqa an isil stronghold. he said that he and other prisoners were told to practice beheadings on dolls. >> they brought dolls and they told us how to hold the sword and how to chop off the head because they said that these infidel yazidis were not good. >> after five months in the camp he escaped along with his brother, but they say that many others are still there victims of the seemingly never-ending conflict. erica wood, al jazeera. >> european leaders are meeting in brussels to seek an end to the deadlock on migrant sharing. but as those ta

fighters be overtook yazidi they killed but also took charge of yazidi boys. >> this boy who doesn't want to be identified, was taken to a camp like this after i.s.i.l. fighters took over his town in northern iraq. >> translator: they told us how to decapitate people. they told us about the koran. they showed us how to carry out an attack and how to use weapons. they also played with our minds saying they wouldn't go back to our families in iraq. >> in june last year tens of thousands of yazidi people were forced to leave their homes in northern iraq after their town was seized by seel i.s.i.l. fighters. some escaped to sinjar mountain. thousands of others were captured and yazidi men were killed. women and children were either trafficked as sex slaves, forced into marriage our killed. some boys were sent to i.s.i.l. training camps. >> once they showed us the beheading video of the pilots and other videos where they carried out attacks and other executions everything was there. we saw how they were shooting. they brought it to us every week and they showed us. >> this boy was sent to

. >> reporter: in june last year tens of thousands of yazidi people were forced to leave their homesrthern iraq after their towns were seized by i.s.i.l. fighters. some survived what the u.n. calls attempted genocide, by escaping to sinjar mountain. thousands of others were captured, men were killed, women were trafficked as sex slaves, murdered or imprisoned. >> once they head us the beheading video of the pilots and videos of attacks and executions we saw how they were shooting they brought it to us every week and they showed us. >> this boy was taken to the syrian city of raqqa. he says he and other prisoners were told to practice beheadings on dolls. >> they brought dolls and brought swords and told us how to behead because they were not good. >> victims of this seemingly never ending conflict. victoria gatenby. al jazeera. >>> four italian construction workers have been kidnapped in libya. italy's foreign minister says they do not know who took the men but they are working with intelligence services to try and arrange their self-release. libya has been steadily descending into c

to launch limited air strikes against isis and drop supplies to yazidis.n august 19th and again on september 2nd isis executed american hostages jim foley and steven sotloff. british and japanese hostages would subsequently be murdered by isis. september 8th iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki was replaced by haider al-abadi in the face of tremendous pressure from both inside and outside of iraq. two days later on september 10th president obama announced the international coalition to combat isis. and on september 24th 2014, president obama speaking at the u.n. spoke out against isis. isis supporters began appearing around the region at this time with groups in egypt's sanai and libya declaring allegiance or acting on behalf of isis. in february 2015, isis released a video showing the burning to death of jordanian f-16 pilot who was shot down during an operation over syria. isis also executed christians in libya, destroyed the ancient iraqi city of nimrud secured allegiance from boko haram in nigeria nigeria, and a massive suicide bombing in yemen. in may

as we moved to protect the yazidis. set ourselves up to say we are trying to fight isis, but we are only coming to the rescue of certain individuals, and that is not playing well in a sight that is sectarian in the middle east, and we are seen as fighting only the sunni and not protecting the moderate sunni that would otherwise look to the united states for support. the three major changes i would like to see compound of the discussions we have seen going on for the past couple months. >> i think katherine has such a great point there. if you state the issue of the radicalization, or the ideal edgy that you could -- ideology that you could turn into coca-cola right before your eyes. nobody is focused what is happening on the ground, nobody has been able to exploit what baghdadi is doing, because in all honesty we ignored it. in all honesty, nobody knew who to talk with in syria, who are the right players. we were fumbling around, trying to figure things out. as baghdadi was on the rise. you see the disenfranchised sunni

christian girl in nigeria kidnapped against your will because of what you believe, whether you are a yazidi off a mountain top by isis or someone in syria oru rack who got on the wrong side of isis and had to be crucified or was decapitated. this is your reality. and it isn't just, of course, a reality thousands of miles away with garland texas and all the current cases the fbi director has admitted we're investigating. this is a threat to the united states as well. let's go straight to the analysis of isis. this is the report that we compiled for general cleveland. if you want to have a copy, we have permission to release this. you'll see my e-mail at the end of my presentation. what's the base line analysis? this is all unclassified. based upon four metrics, isis is much more dangerous than al qaeda. i'm not peter bergen. i'm not going to tell you aq is dead. but isis is a graduate level threat. far more dangerous than al qaeda for four reasons. it's its own self-generated fully fledged transnational insurgency. al qaeda was a parasitic terrorist organization that attached itself to indig

the yazidis are not the only victims. all people are being exported around the world in the 21st century. there are millions of women, men, and children who are being subjected illegal trafficking. my fellow heroes, whom i appear he to represent, you have dedicated your lives to fight this awful crime, and they work incessantly to fight this serious problem and they are working to provide shelter and food to their victims and they also make sure that there is good the oh understanding about what trafficking means. we have to have more regular laws and pressure government so they can double their efforts and coordination with ngo's. without your efforts, more people would have been slavery today. we are all able to make a difference. it is a to us to help our sisters and brothers in their fight for freedom. thank you for your attention to the issue in the problem of the yazidis and all those in slavery. we hope together that we would have a human society that can enjoy peace and harmony and also where everybody -- thank yo

as we move to protect the yazidi and not the iraq in syria? we have set ourselves up to say that we are trying to fight isis on behalf of the muslim world. and yet we are only coming to the rescue of certain individuals. that is not playing well in a fight that is, in essence, sectarian in the middle east. and we are seen as fighting only the sunni. and not protecting those moderate sunni that would otherwise look to the united states and have looked to the united states for support. so, i think that's the three major changes that i would like to see come out of the discussions that we've seen going on for the past couple of months. >> i think katherine has such a great point there. when you think about how -- how do we face the issue of deradicalization or this ideology that seemed to turn into coca-cola in two years, you know, right before our very eyes. and nobody's focused on what is happening on the ground. nobody's been able to exploit what baghdadi is doing because in all honesty, we ignored it. in all honesty nobody knew who to talk wi

. >> ifill: tonight on frontline an inside look into the plight of yazidi women and children - who area religious minority in iraq, targeted by isis. according to survivors, women and children are held for months and girls as young as nine are subject to rape. one man is leading an underground railroad to rescue those who have been taken captive by the terrorist group but part of the operation's success depends on women fleeing their captors. >> narrator: the rescue operation begins. khalil's contact tells the family to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night and meet him in a car waiting outside. the contact will then guide them out of isis territory through a series of safe houses along the border of turkey and iraq. abu shuja heads toward the border to meet them, hoping that this time, they make it. >> narrator: after two hours the contact calls abu shuja, saying they've arrived. >> narrator: the women and children snuck out while their captor was asleep. >> (crying) >> narrator: medina's two daughters are nine and ten, the age when isis says girls can be forced into marri

yazidi. >>>. >>>. >>> .ome back, california legislature passing a historic one-of-a-kind bill on cheerleader pay dagen mcdowell on this. dagen: expected to be signed by the governor sent to the governor for signature, would require cheerleaders to be paid at least minimum wage, and overtime and sick leave if they work for professional sports teams in california. in many, many cases, cheerleaders clarified independent contracts a number of lawsuits over poor, poor pay for are cheerleaders sports teams a law refute alleging buffalo bills did not pay them at all they had to cover uniforms and maybeup team acted like they are lucky to be on the field, but here is an and will, raiders cheerleaders a lawsuit filed against raiders settled rairtsdz cheerleaders paid 125 dollars here home game 1250 per season, in a contract that included hours of unpaid rehearsals childbirth and commercial appearances used images, in marketing material, don't get compensated for that translated to less than 5 dollars an hour, it was