isis found him in sinjar town.hey thought that he was useless to society, so they picked him up with 190 paralyzed and elderly people and they threw him in the border of syria. but in the midst of all this darkness, i see that there's light. light can breakthrough the darkness, and we need to take our role as human beings, push them and help them to survive and thrive. let me tell you what happened to joy. the heroes of today, the peshmerga army found him with the other 190 and they rescued them, and today they're living in safety and the peshmerga army, who's out there risking their lives, are doing this on a constant basis. they are constantly rescuing the innocents. one of those innocent girls that i met, i don't want to disclose her name for privacy purposes. she's 15 years old. and in one night in sinjar town, isis came in and took her with a group of hundreds of girls into a broken down building. and isis came in and they started to trade. trading her off. categorizing these girls as merchandise depending on

isis found him in sinjar town. they thought that he was useless to society, so they picked him up with 190 paralyzed and elderly people and they threw him in the border of syria. but in the midst of all this darkness, i see that there's light. light can breakthrough the darkness, and we need to take our role as human beings, push them and help them to survive and thrive. let me tell you what happened to joy. the heroes of today the peshmerga army found him with the other 190 and they rescued them, and today they're living in safety and the peshmerga army, who's out there risking their lives, are doing this on a constant basis. they are constantly rescuing the innocents. one of those innocent girls that i met i don't want to disclose her name for privacy purposes. she's 15 years old. and in one night in sinjar town, isis came in and took her with a group of hundreds of girls into a broken down building. and isis came in and they started to trade. trading her off. categorizing these girls as merchandise depending on

isis found him in sinjar town. they thought that he was useless to society, so they picked him up with 190 paralyzed and elderly people and they threw him in the border of syria. but in the midst of all this darkness, i see that there's light. light can breakthrough the darkness, and we need to take our role as human beings, push them and help them to survive and thrive. let me tell you what happened to joy. the heroes of today, the peshmerga army found him with the other 190 and they rescued them, and today they're living in safety and the peshmerga army, who's out there risking their lives, are doing this on a constant basis. they are constantly rescuing the innocents. one of those innocent girls that i met, i don't want to disclose her name for privacy purposes. she's 15 years old. and in one night in sinjar town, isis came in and took her with a group of hundreds of girls into a broken down building. and isis came in and they started to trade. trading her off. categorizing these girls as merchandise depending o

. >> there were so many allegations about what went on on mount sinjar, president obama called it an impending act of genocide others called it a humanitarian crisis. unfortunately it seems the entire incident was used as a sound bite in a presidential speech to justify us intervention once that sound bite was used no one remembered them anymore. >> where are you coming from? >> they've been on the mountain for about two weeks? how did they escape? >> for families tied to the land such displacement can be devastating. >> here comes another truck now. they're just now leaving syria about to go into iraq. they have the threat of the islamic state behind them, but what they don't know is that the hardest times may be yet to come. because what lies ahead of them is a humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people don't have access to regular food, water, shelter or sanitary needs. >> the refugee camps begin only a few miles east of the bridge. the united nations estimates about one million iraqis have been displaced since isil started capturing more territory. around six thousand

the way the delivery of food s, the people on a mountain in mount sinjar can save hundreds of lives. the way just deploring military advisors to africa has decimated the resistance army. the way as we discussed. an investment in ebola that the president makes galvanizes so i am more convinced about the good that the united states can do, the way that we can lead for all the talk of american decline. because we show up on isil 60 countries, you know, came to join us. with a showed up on ebola. that number is even higher including countries with cuba which at that time we didn't have diplomatic relations. and people are responding to us but also within government. i think that's just in a way there's an analogue also for individuals inside the system itself that when you're pushing an issue, when you bring the perspective of people who are suffering out in the field or groups that are seeing thing we aren't actually seeing. if you are concrete and rigorous and prescriptive and you stay at it long enough, you can get the weight at times of the u.s. government behind you. and that is jus

sinjar.for ramadi the white house says the president's goal to see isis driven out of that city. john and christine. >>> during a campaign stop in i, was hillary clinton addressing the controversy of her e-mails during her tenure as secretary of state. questions about her using a private e-mail account to the presidential campaign. clinton on tuesday urged a speedy release. >> i have said repeatedly i want those e-mails out. nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. i respect the state department they have their process that they do for everybody, not just for me. but anything that they might do to expedite that process i hartleyheart hard daly support. >> he's been talking to reporters, not people. >> reporters are people. i just want to clarify that. >> not all reporters are people. the clinton comments coming after the state department saying the department those e-mails. >>> a "wall street journal" report said when clinton was secretary of state her staff scrutinize

officials, that a yazidi woman, the religious minority was located they were trapped on mt sinjar last year liberated in part due to u.s. coordinated air strikes. still persecuted and one individual held as a slave by this couple, abu and umm sayyaf. reaction in washington is, of course applauding the military rehabilitation but criticizing president obama for the recent gapes. in the last 48 hours or four days by i.s.i.l. in vital towns very close to the capital city of baghdad. ramadi now tape over partially by i.s.i.l. forces and the oil refinely at baigy and the town -- baiji also under siege by i.s.i.l. forces as they try to trak it back after -- take it back after u.s. forces took it and touted it a success, a few weeks ago. back to you. >> joining us now is major mike lyons, an al jazeera security contributor. thank you for joining us. who do we know about abu sayyaf. how important is he in the i.s.i.l. operation? >> he is important. he's part of an organization, a finance organization with multiple people in it. he has control over oil and gas fields. we are using the military

carried out more than a dozen air strikes on islamic state fighters. 13 were in iraq including mosul, sinjar and ramadi. there were attacks in kobane and other areas. a combined task force says i.s.i.l. attacked the buildings and weapons buildings were hit by coalition war planes it comes as fighters launch a string of attacks in iraq. 20 iraqi soldiers were killed when i.s.i.l. suicide car bombers targeted on army headquarters near fallujah. >> with all the attacks across anbar. we see i.s.i.l. using car bombs to devastating effect. now, the iraqi security forces have a problem. iraqi military analysts say the security forces don't have the reconnaissance and intelligence to stop the suicide car bombs in advance. some of the weaponry they are using is ineffective or reinforced car bombs, and this is something that i.s.i.l. is good at. what they are doing is splitting iraqi forces in half and are able to attack military bases as well as civilian and military targets. we are seeing shelling of the air base, where the majority of the iraqi security forces are based. it's where they are reinfor

. >> you can see the people below trap ded on sinjar mountain. >> covering the devastation. >> i'm outside of this pediatric hospital. just take a look inside. >> we want out. >> some of these people have been waiting outside now for more than three days. >> i've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in mississippi. >> as far as we can see under blue sky, ooilths it's totally leveled. >> the drama. >> princess diana has died. >> george zimmerman not charged with anything in this case. >> the terror. >> about a third of the building has been blown away. >> there has been a second explosion. >> what normally would be the world trade center is no more. >> two possible suspects in the boston bombing. >> and triumph. >> the rescuers are making progress literally by inches. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> it is so rare that we get to cover stories that have a happy ending. >> making news. >> director hellman, can you talk you to us, please? >> and breaking news. >> i can't move. >> what is going on in ferguson, missouri, in downtown america.

sinjar where they racked uchd questions raised by the president's strategy. as for ramadi it's the president's goal to see isis driven out of that city. >>> during a campaign stop in i, was hillary clinton addressing the controversy over e-mails during her tenure as secretary of state. questions about her using a private e-mail account to conduct private business have dogged her presidential campaign. clinton on tuesday urging a speedy release. >> i have said repeatedly i want those e-mails out. nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. i respect the state department, they have their process that they do for everybody, not just for me but anything that they might do to expedite that process, i heartedly support. >> and rejecting the proposal of 50,000 pages of e-mails. the judge for the department could consider releasing the e-mails in batches. >>> also reported when clinton was secretary of state, her staff blocked the release of politically sensitive e-mails. >>> scott walker has not revealed his presidential intention. at some point

sinjar. so the advances have come where the troops involved have been closer to a home base.is al anbar province is the capital. a largely sunni arab area. shiite troops of the iraqi government are aliens there they're far away from home and so it seems to be more difficult for them to make progress under those circumstances. >> there seems to be continuity in this respect, anbar province was the heart of the insurgency when american forces are there. american forces are a tremendously difficult time taking territory in precisely those areas. and there's some evidence to support the contention this is basically the same essentially group of people who are fighting american troops then fighting the iraqi government now. >> he sure. al anbar province was a hot bed of resistance to the u.s. military presence and to the construction of a new largely shiite dominated government. back in 2005, 2006, 2007, you had hundreds of people being killed every month çthere. in insurgency. and the u.s. did try to get some of the rural tribal people on its side in that area with some success.

isis found him in sinjar town. they thought that he was useless to society so they picked him up with 190 other paralyzed in elderly people and they threw him in the borders of syria. but in the midst of all this darkness, i see that there is light. light can break through the darkness and we need to take our rule as human beings. push them and helped them to survive and thrive. let me tell you what happened to joy. the heroes of today, the peshmerga army, found him with the other 190 and they rescued them and today they are living in safety and the peshmerga army is out there risking their lives doing this on a constant basis. they are constantly rescuing the innocent. one of the innocent girls that i met come i don't want to disclose her name for privacy purposes. she is 15 years old and in one night in sinjar town isis kamen and took a group of hundreds of girls into broken down building and isis kamen and they started to trade trading her off categorizing these girls as merchandise depending on whether they wer

speaking foreign language ] >> translator: so the front line that we have with isis in iraqi from sinjar is 1,050 kilometers but we're in the front line which is 1,050 kilometers from kobani. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: and it's a source of pride for the people of cork stan that we have been able to with stand the image of isis big invisible force. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: and also we believe that we're defending some common values, values and principles that the free world believes in and cherish and we defend these values. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: in addition to the cost of the war and the burdens of war and sustaining that war we're under huge pressure economically for providing refuge and sanctuary to the internally displaced people from the rest of iraq and the refugees from sere yo. all together is 1.5 million. the rest are from different parts of iraq, christians they all have found refuge and sanctuary is kirk stan. but their needs and expectations are far more the capability and the capacity o

members will recall last august to break the siege at mount sinjar, where thousands of yazidi refugeeilies have been trapped by isis. the physical security and welfare of displaced minorities is an immediate priority. options for u.s. assistance range from additional material support to friendly forces. all the way to creating safe zones, or no fly zones. and while it's important to weigh the cost of each option, we cannot lose sight of the fact that people are being kidnapped, people are being tortured, women are being raped, and children, and they're being killed every day. beyond that, we need to focus more on their psychological well-being. many of those people, especially women and girls, have been subjected to unspeakable traumas. the young men are mostly just slaughtered. and as with any displaced population, as their vulnerability increases, so does the threat of human trafficking. what can be done to better protect women and girls at risk of slavery? finally, what can and should be done to keep these evacuations from becoming permanent? it would be a tragedy if well intended