lucia newman sent us this report. >> taking off in this far away corner of the southern hemisphere is a beautiful dream, a dream to turn this back as close as possible to the place darwin found when he first set foot on patagonia. >> it's huge! >> reporter: until recently, the chilen region of asenne, not remote enough, says douglas thompltompkins. this 70 square mile hot spot for biodiversity is coming back to life. the fences are gone and the wild grass is growing. >> we come here and you think, god, this is like a paradise. because they're back where they belong. they know that they're not hunted. and that's why you can stand here, so close to them. and they don't -- >> they don't run away. >> they don't care. >> the native guanakos, cousins to the lam la llama are thrivin. >> this was a dream conservation project. >> the ex-ceo of the company patagonia used much of her fortune. to donate to chile for a national park. >> from coalitioexploitation to. but icc tompkins who now considers patagonia her home, feels that national parks are a line of defense to prevent the destruction of

lucia newman, al jazeera, santiago. >> the u.s. says coalition forces have conducted 11 air strikes against the i.s.i.l. sieislamicstate of iraq and thet fighters since friday. kurdish media say dozens of i.s.i.l. fighters including several commanders were killed on sunday. the armed group has been trying to recapture kobani for two months. >>> meanwhile the iraqi army has forced i.s.i.l. out of a town in a province, but the fight has left them devastated. imran khan has this report. >> she has incorporate to go noo go nowhere to stay. the men in her family tried to fight back but without backup, they were overrun. >> i.s.i.l. attacked us in the early hours of the morning. they swept the house he of the village and looked for those who were resisting them. when my husbands and two sons ran out of ammunition, they stormed the house and executed them but i managed to escape in an underground hole. after two days i got out with my grandchildren only to see that our house was burned down and i.s.i.l. had taken our car and electricity g

our latin american editor lucia newman is with us. tell us who we know about the kidnapping, and where it took place. >> it took place in an is rated area. the general and his group were kidnapped by, apparently, by f.a.r.c. this has not been confirmed, but it seems to be assumed that the f.a.r.c. rebels took him when he was in a boat in a river. he was dressed in civilian clothes and raises the question as to whether the rebels knew that they were kidnapping someone of that rank. it's the first time in more than 50 years of that civil conflict that a germ of this rank has -- general of this rank has been taken by the spark. it's an important development and blow to the piece process. president santos, as you say, suspending the peace talks. there's a massive search and rescue operation under way, meaning that this is a volatile situation. if there were to be a confrontation between the army and group, it's unclear whether the general may be able to survive that confrontation. in the past the rescue operations have been botched and th

our latin america editor lucia newman explains. >> the war between the colombian government and the farc rebels have one of the longest in the world. 2012 promised the chance of peace. but two years later, there's no agreement and now the kidnapping of an army general has led to the government suspending the talks altogether. general al sabe walked into farc territory wearing civilian clothing. >> unless they release the general the peace process is going to be suspended. we need olook now the response from. >> created the country's biggest guerilla group. the revolutionary or farc. drug trafficking that fuels its operations. in recent years many of the top rebel leaders have been captured or killed. and the farc's ranks have been depleted by half. the most recently negotiations between the government and the farc began in oslo, norway, two years ago. from there they moved to cuba where talks have focused on land ownership many the rights of victims, drug trafficking and the rebels reintegration into society. but one of the main challenges has been that the negotiations have been taking