he names none of the -- nineveh in iraq in particular. there are other actions that secretary kerry can take in his own portfolio in the state department. he should adopt these and put them into action. i will discuss them quickly, because our time is short and i want to answer questions. here are five examples. first is refugee resettlement visas to the united states. christians from syria have been grossly underrepresented in the numbers are -- in the numbers resettled. they constituted 10% before the war. there have been only 60 christians and one yazidi over five years of syrian conflict that have gotten pieces to resettle here. -- gotten visas to resettle here. here there have been six christians and no yazidis this year. they have a published database -- a published database that lists religion. we are bringing in 1000 refugees from syria. six christians is one family and zero yazidis. in iraq, most of the christians and yazidis are displaced in iraqi kurdistan. all of those years pushed them north into the city of nineveh. most of

in mosul, part of the attempt to retake the governate in nineveh. retaking be mosul which fell to i.s.i.l. forces in 2014. >>> belgian forces may be hunting not one but two suspects. belgian ministers offered their resignation over suspected failures. paul brennan be reports. >> reporter: how many attackers? cctv showed three, two known dead and one on the run. but be belgian officials believe there may be two still at large. and as the manhunt widens, serious questions are being asked about the belgian police forces. in january 2010, bakraoui was involved and in september 2010 he was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison but october of 2014 he was released on parole and subsequently absconded. the first be affiliation with i.s.i.l. was in 2015, a month later he agreed to be luntarily deported back to the nrldz. are netherlands. netherlands. >> what seems to appear from the investigation from what has happened, is that we have underestimated the role or the be intentions of a number of individuals. that's one thing. and the other thing is:

territory with an eye to the protection of minority communities, in particular, the liberation of mosul, nineveh province and iraq and parts of syria currently occupied by daish. that will decide whether there is still a future for minority communities in this part of the mild east. for those communities, the stakes in this campaign are utterly existential. this is the fight that daish has defined. daish has created this. daish has targeted their victims. daish has self defined itself as genocidal. we must bear in mind after all that the best response to genocide is a reaffirmation of the fundamental right to survive of every group targeted for destruction. what daish wants to erase, we must preserve. that requires defeating daish, but it also demands the rejection of bigotry and discrimination, those things that facilitated its rise in the first place. this means that as more areas are militia rated, residents will need help to repair infrastructure and ensure minorities can return in safety, that they are integrated into local security forces and receive equal protection under the law. our goa

. >> this week, the iraqi army launch add new offensive to try to retake the northern province of ninevehrom isil. that has left people homeless. >> our plan is to coordinate with local and international organizations to provide them a camp. there are 2,025,000 and 30,000 since the beginning of these operations. >> in baghdad, the pressure is on abadi. isil, a flagging economy, and political risk all challenges ires stability that the people won't let the prime minister ignore. gerald tan, al jazeera. >> the leader of libya's new unit government said he wants to work towards national reconciliation. the prime minister and his u.n. backed government defied threats of violence to return to the capital of tripoli. libya has been politically unstable since the 2011 overthrow of gadhafi. since 2014, he has had two competing forces, one in tripoli and the other than in the eastern port city of tobruk. >> the special representative of the u.n. general in libya is appealing for all libyans to unite. >> i would say there are two governments in tripoli which do not deserve the name which government

special correspondent jane ferguson reports from erbil and the nineveh plain, in northern iraq. >> reporteri christians celebrate easter's holy week, a time of re-birth, hope, salvation. but many here see little hope in their ancestral lands. they have fled isis's grip for the nearby safety of erbil city, and they have no idea if they can ever go home. father douglas bazi has worked to raise awareness around the world of the plight of iraq's christians. yet even he understands why most choose to leave a nation they struggle to feel a part of. >> the big problem here is when the christians are feeling that we are not belong to this land again, anymore. with this feeling, i am not feeling that i belong to iraq. i am not feeling why i am here. why should i be targeted every time. and don't, please, don't blame my people when they because always they say 'oh it's a shame, the middle east without christians, it's really shame the christians they are leaving.' so why you put shame on my people. why you are not put shame to those actually who force people to leave. >> reporter: the number of chris