u.s. city of st. louishe shooting of another black teenager by police officers. >>> canada hopes to bring in 1300 refugees by the end of this year. but daniel lak reports that target isn't likely to be met. >> reporter: outside wintery suburban montreal. inside this apartment, reminders of syria, his paintings adorn the walls on a table a hand-written journal of family history. they came to canada earlier this year. they fled syria in 2012 when the eldest son was detained and released by the army. it was the toughest decision of their lives. >> he got out of the prison, you know, i feel we have just, you know, a little hope. okay? that i have my family beside of me. that's good. but from this time, okay, i decided to leave this area. >> reporter: canada has pledged to resettle 1300 syrians by the end of this year. 200 sponsored by government, the rest by private groups. by last month less than 500 had come. >> we have lobied a lot with parliament, and the answer we often got is that canada is proud to reset

u.s. city of st. louis after yet another fatal shooting of a black teen.say the 18-year-old pointed a gun at the officer who shot him. >>> the christian population in iraq is dwindling, more than half of the country's christians have been forced from their homes. the refugees are doing their best to celebrate christmas. but many fear the new year will be far worse for them. >> reporter: for children here the joy of christmas comes in very small packages. these children are from ancient christian towns in the north of iraq. the ornaments donated by a local charity. since the isil rampage began in june, more than half of iraq's 300,000 christians have been forced from their homes. the leader of the world's catholics worry they won't be going back. >> we are not supporting or encouraging people to leave, but also i think the situation has -- has changed. wherein there is a personal decision, a family decision to leave, we have to respect and we -- we don't have any right to tell them no, stay, because there is -- there is -- there is a -- a danger for them, a

u.s. state of missouri. the incident happened in st louis - the same city where unarmed teenage michael brown was killed by a white police officer in august. >>> back to gaza - we are getting reports that a palestinian has been killed. our correspondent imtiaz tyab is joins us from bethlehem. imtiaz tyab what can you tell us about this? i do apologise, we don't have the connection with our correspondent imtiaz tyab in bethlehem. we'll try to get him back in the programme. let's move on now. >>> to northern iraq, where kurdish are fighting to regain some of the ground lost to islamic state of iraq and levant. they are trying to free the town of sinjar near the syrian border. thousands from the minority yazidi kurd community fled to the mountains above sinjar, where they were besieged for months. they opened a corridor for them to escape to safety. i.s.i.l. fighters kidnapped 3,500 women and girlfriend, as mohammad respects, the families fear their loved ones are sold as sex slaves. >> whenever the family comes together, their discussion is dominated by their missing daughter. the 7-year-old was kidnapped by i