. >> thank you very much, irris ma kler. iraq's parliament is to get back to work next week. it had announced a five-week break after failing to agree on the name of the next parliamentary speaker, something that forced yesterday's session to be postponed. pressure on leaders to agree to a new government has forced them to rethink. parliament will now reconvene early next week. with baghdad in political deadlock, fighters from the islamic state continue their advance. they've taken control of a former chemical weapons facility northwest of baghdad, where 2500 degraded chemical rockets are believed to be stored. washington has played down the threat, saying that none of the weapons are intact and it would be difficult to use them for military purposes today. it is emerging that iraqi security forces have found the bodies of 53 men who had been bound and executed south of baghdad. the corpses were found south of the provincial capital, all with gunshot wounds to their head or chest. france is moving to beef up its anti-terrorism laws. the interior minister is presenting his mea