jackie roland, aljazeera, paris. >> a spokesman for the syrian democratic forces tells aljazeera that u.s. troops have taken control of an airfield close to the border. it was formally controlled by u.s.-backed kurdish protection units. and all of this fighting is doing irreparable damage, and isil is wiping out history satellite images show that fighters leveled the oldest christian monastery in iraq. they showed it before and after. it dated back 1400 years, but amid the rubble, thousands of people are still there fighting to survive. >> reporter: the streets look calm for now, but the mood remains tense. while many school children are back in classrooms, and bakeries. the remnants of the sectarian violence is eats to spot. it was frequented by shia militiamen, to the burned out remains in the market in the reprisal attacks. >> they are often accused of siding with isil and harboring terrorism. >> this sunni family are so scared, they have asked us to blur their faces and not to reveal their names. the last thing they wanted to do was to leave. >> we were ordered to go, and forcibly

jackie roland, al jazeera. >>> refugees are taking their chances in a dangerous new sea route between and sweden, a narrow stretch in the baltic sea and four kilometers wide and the waters are cold even in the height of summer, the temperature doesn't go above 12 degrees celsius and huge cargo ships passing back and forth and from sweden lawyers lee explains why this is the route of choice for many. >> half past nine in the morning and the migrant reception center is already full of people. these men, women and children are all new arrivals which means they have all come in the small period since sweden introduced border controls to try to stop them, one way or another they are still finding a way. >> possibility to get to sweden in some kind of way or illegal entry and that will still happen. >> reporter: by road and rail the obvious roads linking copenhagen and sweden they are checking people's credentials and some found a way through in car boots or in trucks and denmark sailing culture and liberal activism are playing to the advantage and these young people are part of a bigger gr

hour, back to you. >> jackie thank you so much and we will be speaking to you later of course, jackie roland. iranian government being criticized for executing teenagers, amnesty international has 73 cases where people under 18 were executed over the past decade. human rights group says iran has failed to follow-up promises made two decades ago to abolish the death penalty for juveniles and u.n. says at least 160 are on death row. in haiti political leaders are trying to find a solution to the political crisis following the indefinite postpone of election and runoff to choose a successor was cancelled following allegations of fraud and refusal to take part of opposition candidate was accompanied by anti-government protests. the president is said to be determined to leave office in two weeks even though he is not -- he has not had a replacement yet. >> translator: this environment there won't be an election while the president is still in power. we are discussing the situation and are many scenarios that could occur but in the end we could have the second around after they give us power which

let's go live now to rome and our correspondent jackie roland so who gets what out of this?well, obviously on this first day is economy and business and investment and both sides stand to gain because we have to remember that iran has been increasingly isolated since sanctions were in 2012 and with them lifted a week ago iran can get western investment, up to the minute technical investment in communications, energy, and the airliner, the company iran air whose fleet is very old fashion and desperately in need of upgrading and the flip side of the coin for the west obviously is they have the kind of equipment that the iranians are after so in the oil sector they will be looking to western oil firms to help upgrade their oil infrastructure and as well the state air carrier and buying from air bus and the deal will be signed in paris and also boeing, the u.s. aircraft producer, so both sides on the economic front stand to make gains. >> remember jackie it wasn't long ago and you touched on the idea of france and had a delegation in tehran, 130 people from politics, from big bu

territories in resent months there is no timeline for retaking the strongholds in mosul and raqqa and jackie rolande now from paris. >> reporter: this meeting which is jointly hosted by france and the united states is bringing together the seven international powers who are most heavily engaged in air strikes against i.s.i.l. and also in the training of forces on the ground who have been fighting the group. now, they are looking at ways to accelerate and intensify that fight and in particular they have been looking at ways in which to cutoff i.s.i.l.'s financing and why we have been seeing attacks directed against oil facilities and also looking at ways to interrupt and to break the supply routes over the ground through iraq and syria which enable i.s.i.l. to get the resources they need to carry on the fight. now france has been taking an increasingly prominent role in the international coalition against i.s.i.l. since the attacks here in paris in november. it is already immediately after the attacks called on other european union countries for support and what we have seen germany and the netherla

european tour since the lifting of international sanctions on iran earlier this month and live to jackie rolandn rome for us and the all important meeting with the pope and not so long what are we expecting to come out of that? >> it's a very important visit because this is the first time that an iranian leader has met a pope since when mohamed came to the vatican in 1999 to give you some idea of the time that elapsed and pope francis will be using the meeting or has been using the meeting to try to promote the cause of peace and of human rights, in particular he was expected to be urging, persuading president rouhani to use his good offices, his influence with the regime in syria bashar al-assad to try to promote the efforts to get peace talks started again. >> what is the purpose of this visit to europe? this first european tour of course since the lifting of international sanctions as we said, what is iran hoping to get out of this? >> this is all about ending iran's isolation both politically and economically. from an economic point of view, in fact, both iran and the west has a certain amo

italy this morning and hoping to sign a number of business deals with governments and leaders and jackie rolandve in rome and jackie put this trip in prospective for us and why is it so important for iran? >> well a lot was said during this visit is on the economic side and on business deals. clearly the iranians have been cutoff from international cooperation since sanctions were tightened in 2012 and have a lot of catching up to do particularly renewing the gas and oil infrastructure and renewing the fleet of commercial aircraft. also there is a very important political side as well. bearing in mind the influence that the iranian president can potentially bring to bear on bashar al-assad and the syrian regime with the syrian peace talks stalled right now and also there is a hope that he may be persuaded to do what he can to just bring down the temperature in the current tensions between iran and saudi arabia. >> so what do european leaders stand to gain from making these business deals with iran? is it just about money? >> partly, obviously money is a big element because if you can do a deal

jackie roland reports. >> a sense of urgency has spread through the waves of the jungle. volunteers are helping-joes to move their homes. people have heard that the local authorities want to tear away hundreds of tents and clear away the land used by the camp. >> the residents of the camp, yeah, it is very up in the air, there is no idea, we always want to move as fast as we can so we aren't wasting time. >>hese refugees are among those effected. they took down their home, moves it a few hundred meters and now they are in the process of transferring their stuff. the police two days ago, and you must moving your house. and we say okay. there's no choice for me. >> the local effort thats are encouraging people to leave their tents many of which are sinking into the mud, and to move instead into new accommodations. but some afraid, they think it looks like a detention center. we are given a guided tour. 125 containers with heating and electricity, designed to provide shelter for about 1500 people. the center opened on monday, and the first people have started moving in. the

. >> jackie roland live for us there in paris, thank you, still to come on this news hour protests turnlent across tunisia and why the country is facing instability. and the search for a president, palestinian reality show like no other. plus in sports serena williams had another grand slam title and we will have details later. ♪ so that is ahead but first 21 people have been killed in two separate attacks in iraq, i.s.i.l. fighters targeted army barracks and killed eight soldiers southeast of fallujah and 18 others injured when iraqi security forces tried to storm the village here and i.s.i.l. fighters destroyed the oldest christian church in iraq, satellite photos show the monetary reduced to rubble and it was built more than 1400 on a hill above mosul and i.s.i.l. fighters who control large parts of iraq and syria already destroyed buildings that they say is contrary to islam. political factions in libya have announced the makeup of a new unity government under pressure to provide stability and encounter the growing threat of i.s.i.l. and doesn't represent libyans fairly and rob repo

roland is suing the magazine. mag new court documents say thes sa subject of a story jackie completely invented what she wh told rolling stone. jackie has previously stood by her accounts with the washington post. the magazine officially retracted the story last april. also virginia gun owners are rushing to get gun permits from the state of utah. the reason they're worryieded that permits could be soon invalid. they're recognized in more than 30 states. sta last month virginia's attorney general said permits from 25 other states will no longer be valid. that change goes into effect february 1. utah is one of the states tough enough to maintain a reciprocity agreement with virginia. the secret service arrested a man who they say planned to kidnap the president's dog. do when he was arrested he had unregistered weapons and ammunition in his truck. he appeared in d.c. court today. the secret service tracked tr stacker down after one of his his family members reported that he planned to kidnap one of the obama's dogs.obam he wanted to talk to bowe the dog and take care can of him because he had the obamas were we not. sto