and as mohammed jamjoom reports, from a camp that many of the yazidis who were displaced simply don't want to go back anyway. >> reporter: for carson and his family, all internally displaced yazidis, returning home wouldn't even begin to help. >> translator: if my family isn't there, i don't have the heart to return to sinjar, because my heart is broken. it's like an open wound that salt was pored into. >> reporter: he shows us a picture of his oldest son whom isil kidnapped after storming sinjar in august 2014. his daughter, daughter-in-law, and grandson were also taken. written on every face inside this tent are stories of unrelenting pain, unbearable loss. his sister-in-law had two of her children kidnaps, a 14 year old, and a 3 year old. she has no idea if they are alive or dead. >> translator: how can we go back in we can never go back? i can't sleep a single moment at night thinking of them. >> reporter: at the camp in iraq, many have become accustomed to living in a kind of purgatory. children, women, and men steel against the bitter cold with a knowledge that worsening weather

we meet the iraqi yazidis displaced by isil. >>> plus hitler's controversial manifesto is published inny for the first time since world war ii. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >>> now a reminder of the top stories on al -- al jazeera. the u.n. says 400,000 syrians are under siege, many are dying of starvation in one of the worst-effected areas. >>> belgian investigators have raided anner apartment they believe may have been used as a bomb-making location in the attacks in paris in november. >>> and south korea has resumed its propaganda broadcasts. >>> it is now almost two months since kurdish fighters recaptured sinjar, but it is still deserted. and as

scared to return to sinjar, we meet with iraqi yazidi who are now too fearful to go home. and why a japanese aquarium is under fire for keeping a great white shark in captivity. >> a reminder now of the top stories here on al jazeera. 400,000 syrians are cut off from food and medical supplies. many are dying of starvation in one of the worst effected areas. >>> kingpin el chapo has been recaptured. >>> armed men have attacked a hotel used by foreign tourists in the resort town along the west seacoast. one of those attackers was killed. scott haidler reports from the border where they resume to the propaganda to the north damagely at midday south korea began its loud speaker propaganda broadcast. they say that the broadcasts are effective. >> there are people who defect after listening to the broadcasting. there are the soldiers equipped with fully armed weapons, these soldiers get a lot of ideological education but now they're exposed to the propaganda broadcasting. >> along the kilometer border here are not just anti-north korean government. they include global news, weat

and as mohammed jamjoom reports, from a camp that many of the yazidis who were displaced simply don'tto go back anyway. >> reporter: for carson and his family, all internally displaced yazidis, returning home wouldn't even begin to help. >> translator: if my family isn't there, i don't have the heart to return to sinjar, because my heart is broken. it's like an open wound that salt was pored into. >> reporter: he shows us a picture of his oldest son whom isil kidnapped after storming sinjar in august 2014. his daughter, daughter-in-law, and grandson were also taken. written on every face inside this tent are stories of unrelenting pain, unbearable loss. his sister-in-law had two of her children kidnaps, a 14 year old, and a 3 year old. she has no idea if they are alive or dead. >> translator: how can we go back in we can never go back? i can't sleep a single moment at night thinking of them. >> reporter: at the camp in iraq, many have become accustomed to living in a kind of purgatory. children, women, and men steel against the bitter cold with a knowledge that worsening weather is no

they have enslaved yazidi women, they have committed a genocide of the yazidis, they have killed muslims and christians and shia and sunni, they have gone down, i'm afraid, in the annuals of history as a true menace. >> you mentioned the genocide of the yazidi people, and the report says 3500 people held as slaves. now, the list of atrocities is long. people beheaded, drowned by being lowered into water in a cage, burnt alive. thrown off buildings. as a respected international and constitutional lawyer, is there any doubt i.s.i.l. is committing wholesale war crimes. absolutely not. these are - we use the words genocide as sort of almost a generically, but genocide is, in fact, a crime understand international law defined by treaty and statutes in the counter environment. whether we are faith to hunt the individuals down one by one and kill them to get them to leave iraq and ultimately on syria. i can't know. i know this is a dangerous enemy, which is a common enemy of all civilized mankind. it must be confronted and defeated. >> 3.5 million displaced. a million children. mohammed jamjoom

we talked to members of the yazidi community. they are afraid to go back to sinjar because the town is still did he have today and because mosul which is next door is still overtaken by isil. another example, in anbar province, there are members of the sunni community that are afraid to go back to their hometowns because they will be targeted by shia militias. a very complicated situation on the ground, much more so for the civilian population, something this human report is trying to highlight. >> joining us now is the spokeswoman for the u.n. high commission for human rights. lots to talk in this report. i'd like to focus on the yazidi slaves, the women and children. what are you hearing about them and why is it so difficult to get to them? >> we are hearing that there are about 3,500 people who continue to be enslaved by isil, but predominantly women and children and predominantly from the yazidi community. we have documented really horrible violations committed by isil committed against religious and ethnic minorities and peo

now sinjar has been cleared of isil fighters for about three months now, and still, the yazidis idp's cannot return. there's two reasons. one because there is no infrastructure to speak of in sinjar now, and there could be booby traps left behind. but also because mosul is still overtaken by isil fighters and nobody knows when the iraqi government is going to be able to start trying to retake mosul. and in anbar province, for example, there are several parts of anbar which sunni familiar list had left trying to escape, and they are afraid to go back, because they are afraid of being targeted by shiite militias. and in another province there is a city that experienced a lot of reprisal attacks in the past week. there are sunni families that have left and come to other places. they are telling us they are afraid to go back because they are afraid of sectarian violence. you look at these numbers, they are absolutely staggering to behold. 3.2 million people internally displaced in iraq, a million of that number, children. so it's a very, very dire situation. it's getting more dire now bec

neighboring sinjar, is still off limits to the yazidis who do want to go back.you look ruin. this brigadier tells me they can't allow yazidis to return until mosul is also cleared of isil, and there's no telling when iraqi forces will be able to accomplish that. but there's another reason too. >> the big problem for them is all the houses, you know, there is no buildings. it is ruined completely. everywhere they starting bombing all of the buildings, all of the houses, so this is one of the challenges and difficulties for them. there is no place to live in. >> reporter: but for this man, john of that makes a difference. his family's house is also destroyed, but even if it were still standing, without the rest of his family, he would never consider it a home again. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera. >>> bring you some breaking news now out of mexico. the president's twitter account has announced a recapture of the drug lord el chapo guzman. guzman who headed a cartel escaped from a high-security prison in july through a specially dug tunnel. we'll bring you more as we

. >>> still ahead here on the program, free from isil but wary of going home, iraq's yazidis continueve in fear. >>> plus testing the limits for [ inaudible ] as armed men continue to occupy government buildings in a small u.s. town. >>> and defending champion roger federer is given a stern test as the battles the flu. details later in sports. ♪ >> still living in these tent cities. >> we're back to square minus one. >> the city is a powder keg at the moment. >> you see transactional sex and no one is held to account for that. >> the united nations has never accepted responsibility for this. >> an ali velshi on target special: ♪ >>> hello, again, here are on headlines this hour. united nations says 400,000 people are living under siege in syria. they are completely cut off from aid, food, and medicine. the red cross has told al jazeera that aid won't arrive in madaya until sunday. >>> hundreds of israeli soldiers were deployed to find a palestinian who was shot dead in a shootout. >>> and belgian investigators have found an apartment that may have been used by one of the paris attacke

she said, why won't you arm the yazidi men? why won't you arm the kurdish men and women?by the way, 30% of the kurdish battalions are female, and they are fighting 40-year-old weapons. they are fighting isis. when you ask, the question is, well, baghdad, well, yeah, the shia-led government in baghdad does have a problem with this army, the kurds, or the yazidis or others in the region. but that's because of the influence of iran that doesn't want to see anything except shia militias operating across the region. why should we care about the pressure from iran on baghdad? why shouldn't we -- and i've got legislation, bipartisan legislation that i passed out at committee to arm the kurdish3 forces. you have 180,000 peshmurga. but as the kurdish soldiers tell us, we don't have artillery. we don't have long range mortars. we don't have antitank weapons. that is why it is so hard for us to stop isis. another question i have, besides arming the christians and the yazidis and the kurds and the sunni tribes who want to take their tribes back. . they would like to go back. they wou

it says an estimated 3,500 civilians are being held as slaves by isil, most from the yazidis minoritynity, and most held captive are women and children. mohammed jamjoom has more from baghdad. >> reporter: a new u.n. report pointing to a staggering number of civilian lives that were lost in iraq because of the crises in this country. the latest report reports to approximately 19,000 civilians who lost their lives between january and october of 2015 because of the conflicts throughout this country. in addition to that, the report points to 3.2 million internally displaced people in iraq. of that number, one million are dhirn -- children. it is a dire crisis that has gotten worse not just because of the rise of isil, but also cause of the conflicts going on, the number of internally displaced and rising sectarian violence. there are several reasons why this crisis is as bad as it is. in the north, my team and i were in erbil just a couple of weeks ago. we saw many from the yazidis community who left sinjar when isil took it over last year, they are in camps, and cannot return to sinjar,

she said, why won't you arm the yazidi men? why won't you arm the kurdish men and women? by the way, 30% of the kurdish battalions are female. and they are fighting with 40-year-old weapons, all right. they are fighting isis. when you ask the question is, well, baghdad. yeah, the shiia-led government in baghdad does have a problem with us arming the kurds or the yazidis or others in the region. but that's because of the influence of iran that doesn't want to see anything except shiia militias operating across the region. why should we care about the pressure from iran on baghdad? why shouldn't we -- and i got legislation, bipartisan legislation that i passed out of committee to arm the kurdish forces. you have 180,000 peshmerga, 180,000. you have 40,000 isis fighters. but as the -- as the kurdish soldiers tell us, we don't have artillery. we don't have long-range mortars. we don't have anti-tank weapons. that is why it is so hard for us to stop isis. another question i have. besides arming the christians and the yazidis and the kurds and the sunni tribes who want to take

now this camp houses yazidis internally displaced people from neighboring sinjar. when isil took over sinjar in august of 2014. it's very cold here. the rains have rendered the roads around and in the camp a muddy nightmare, hard to drive through, even harder to walk through, and one of the bitter, you know, real bitter truths that is the yazidis have to live with is sinjar was taken away from isil control in november, two months ago, and yet these folks can't go back, and one of the reasons they can't go back, security forces won't allow them, because the town that they would go to is completely destroyed. there is no truc truck -- infrastructure. they fear there are booby traps that they would have to face. even though most of these people would like to go home, they are not in a situation where they can do so, and all of the refugees -- well the internally displaced we have spoken to today have told us they would like to go back, and they would like to know when the iraqi army will render it safe enough to turn. >> reporter: the weather is turning at the moment

been on full display for months but perhaps no religious group has been a targeted more than the yazidisnorthern iraq. isis goes by many names. in the region it's called daish. a woman is helping families brutalized by isis with an organization called seed. >> reporter: one woman is trying to put her life together after being held by daish for three months. it haunts her. she says she was eventually taken to mosul and held with other women in a wedding hall. some were beaten and stripped. her friend slit her wrist. women being captured subject authored rent douse brutality and violence. their husbands being killed. sometimes their children being killed. the women were abducted. they were sold all over iraq. some many times. and they are there to service the soldiers. i think t for them to heal at home in kurdistan where people speak the same language. if we had the same resource to support them in kurdistan they can rebuild their lives and communities where they are. >> there are many more stories of yazidi women escaping isis. see the full interview and more of that discussing the seed

we saw many from the yazidi community who left sinjar when isil took over last year. they're in camps internally displaced. they cannot return to sinjar. they cannot return there because of the devastated infrastructure, and because in mosul, adjacent to sinjar, isil still has a stronghold. then you look at other parts of the country. you look at the diyala province where there was riding sectarian tensions this past week. sunni families began to flee, many saying that they are afraid to go back. because they'll be targeted by shia militias. >> libya's rival faction create a new unity government. a presidential council was formed. it's basically based in tunis. and we have more from tunis. >> the announcement of the government in libya is seen as a significant step forward because we're talking about a country that has been struggling to put an end to the political en pass. there have been marathon talks in morocco which resulted in the formation of the presidential council. now there is a national unity government. this is a government which is going to take over. th

and pieces of clothing were found at the site where a group of yazidi men were thought be killed around august of 20-14. that was right after isis took over the nearby town of sinjar. kurdish forces recaptured sinjar at the end of 20-14 with the support of the us-led air coalition. 3 winter weather is making a difficult journey even tougher for refugees heading to europe. hundreds of migrants and refugees arrived at a temporary camp in in serbia last night. they were battling low temperatures crossed into serbia from macedonia. most of those traveling have left syria in hopes of reaching germany. more than one million people seeking asylum entered germany last year... more than 400- thousand of them were from syria. 3 mexico held an annual religious ceremony -- for their four-legged friends. a large group of pet owners brought their dogs, cats and birds... to the front steps of a catholic church in mexico city yesterday. the ceremonial blessing is an age- old tradition. on january 17th... mexicans celebrate the feast of saint anthony abbott. he's known as the protector of animals. the p

dropped aid to thousands of yazidis fleeing isil in iraq. many say the environment in syria is more complicated and complex. madea is in territory held by the syrian regime who have access to sophisticated as far as to air missiles, so it is more complicated than in iraq. what do you say to them? >> the yazidis last year, naturally we needed to save them but they were in a more remote position than the people in syria are now and the syrian government and the herman that they have fighting for them would be absolutely in sane to shoot down a humanitarian airplane dropping aid on these places. if they were to do so, they would -- well, they're breaking international law already, but they couldn't possibly consider shooting down an airplane full of aid and food stuffs for starving people. it would be absolutely insane and they would regret it. >> are you confident, christopher that you'll get the 100,000 signatures and there about will be a debate will eventually lead to air drops for the syrians who are besieged white now in many areas across

we saw many from the yazidi community who have left sinjar when isil took it over last year. they're in camps for the internally displaced. they cannot return to sin center. they cannot return there because of the devastating infrastructure, and because in mosul adjacent to sinjar, isil has a stronghold. then you look at other parts of the country, in diyala province, an area where there was rising sectarian tensions many saying they're afraid to go back because they're afraid of shia militias. all the aid workers fear it is only going to get worse in the near term. >> libya's rifle has announced the make up of a new unity government. under that agreement, the presidential council was formed. it's currently based in tunis and has named in its government 32 ministers. >> the announcement of the government has seen a significant step forward because we're talking about a country that has been struggling to put an end to the political en pass. there have been marathon talks in morocco, which resulted in the formation of the presidential council. and now there is at national unit

systematic rape and brutality that the yazidi women and children have endured at the hands of isil.the situation has been detailed by a number of the media as well. rape has been inkressley used as a tool of terrorism to destabilize communities and exert control over women and girls there. and in the case of isil, to purposely hold thousands of i can't see elu-- yazidis, men, women, and children, in captivity. we have to expand and intensify our efforts to assist these victims. let me begin, mr. gordon, by asking you, what role the united states and its coalition of partners to help these people held by isil, how centcom can ensure that the partner training exercises being conducted in iraq are taking an interagency approach to this issue. >> thank you. it is impossible to oversta sts the ramifications of the refugee crisis. strategically it really does threaten the neighbors. and i think some of us may be surprised that a country like lebanon is still functioning, notwithstanding the fact that a quarter of its population are now syrian refugees. syria, jordan. we've talked about ho

. >> reporter: he p went on to inspire more art, yazidis, to the america artist jackson pollock. he worked through years of chaos, civil and world wars. his work contains ideas of freedom, important to the painter, ideas that still resonate today as many in catalonio strive for independence from spain. he described his studio as a vegetable garden, some over there and potatos over here, i work like a gardener. after london the studio will travel to new york. miro's garden is on the move >>> incarcerated with older inmates who they say brutally assaulted them. >> grabbed me around my neck and he told me he was going to. [ beep ] me. >> what we heard in the videos made us get to a plane to michigan. it was the starting point of our investigation in to the treatment of youth in the adult criminal justice system. >> we are now on the record. this goes the videotape deposition of john doe number one. >> and it began with an inmate that we'll be referring to as john doe one. >> 10:20 a.m. >> describe the weapon? >> it was about three inches

fragments of bones and pieces of clothing was discovered on the outskirts of sinjar where yazidi men were reportedly killed in 2014. the remains are believed to belong to 20 men who were captured and killed by isil fighters when they took over the town in northwest iraq. >>> several american citizens have gone missing in the last few days. their identities have not been released. local media said that militias kidnapped three americans and said to be traveling to the city's international airport when they were abducted. >>> morocco has arrested a belgium national. he was detectively linked to the group that carried out deadly attacks in paris on november 13th. we'll bring you more on that as we get it. >>> the head of the u.n. atomic watchdog has arrived for talks with president hassan rouhani. paving the way for sanctions to be lifted. the meeting head of iran's atomic organization. they're expected to discuss the iaea monitoring and verifying of tehran's nuclear program. >>> meanwhile, iran has decided to increase oil production by half million barrels a day. following the lifting

now in the past week we were in erbil, and while we were there, we met with yazidis who cannot go backsinjar, because not only is mosul, which is next door to sinjar, still a strong hold of isil, but also because in sinjar there is no infrastructure, because houses and buildings are still razed, because the town is still abandoned. those are some of the complaints you hear from the 3.2 million internally displaced. but in areas cleared of isil fighters there are sunnis that are afraid to go back to their town, because they are afraid of being targeted by sunny militia. and you have had sectarian reprisal attacks all week, and the sunni families fear they are going to have to flee. so it's the civilian population here in iraq that is suffering the most, and this report by the u.n. shows how dire the situation remains, how much worse it's getting. every aid worker that i have spoken with since i got here in the last couple of weeks have said they believe iraq has really been forgotten by the international community that the civilians are taking the worst hit of all, so many have been kil

>> i'm going to say the story that kept me up at night was about the yazidis, the women being attackedung girls and women that are being attacked and are being held as sex slaves. and so much terrible things are happening to them that kept me up at night. i guess in a way that's political as well. because i feel like we've not fulfilled our moral obligation to help them. >> what did you feel was the most important story nonpolitical? >> the only thing coy think of is the contrast between progress and regress. we're getting iphones, computers and all this great stuff and meanwhile on the east, there's a terrible wind coming this way of a group of people, who want to destroy all of that. there's a group that wants to go back in time while we go forward in time. that's a really weird story. we're at, maybe we're the anomaly. maybe we're not supposed to have progress is what i'm thinking. >> john r. what do you think the country will look like after new year 2016 happening? will it be worse or better? dana? >> as in tonight, at midnight, what-day think? >> i'm an optimistic person. think w

when isis swept through his yazidi homeland where the men, women, and children were rounded up from therth defenses circling the town. this was the site of an isis massacre. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> it breaks his heart, he says to leave the bones exposed like this to the elements. but no one has come to investigate, no one has come to document, so they don't want to undermine any findings. this grave is one of the hundreds, he tells us here is where they buried the women and the children. the young boys who refused to accompany isis, who refused to be conscripted as child soldiers. eyewitnesss say that the victims in these graves, more than 130 people had been singled out for transfer to a town. they refused. you can see the cloth ties that bound the victims' hands, both young and old, the prayer beads clutched until the final moments, the bullets fired by the executioners. a refugee camp in northern iraq. those who've managed to flee isis have found refuge here. cnn has found the abduction of 600 children. around 200 have since escaped and are sheltering in camps like this one

a group of people that burns people in cages, that is conducting genocide against christians and yazidis in the region, this is not a small scale group, they are radicalizing people in the united states, conducting attacks around the world. what needs to happen, it's a very simple equation, and will happen when i'm president. if we do not know who you are, when i am president, you are not getting into the united states of america. [applause] >> senator cruz, where do you stand? senator cruz? >> you know i understand why donald made the comments he did and i understand why americans are feeling frustrated and scared and angry when we have a president who refuses to acknowledge the threats we face and worse who acts as an apologist for radical islamic terrorism. i think what we need is a commander in chief focused like a laser on keeping this country safe and on defeating radical islamic terrorism. what should we do? first, pass the expatriate terrorist act, legislation i've introduced that says if an american goes and joins isis and wages jihad against america, that you forfeit your citiz

any christian, yazidi anything. anybody who gets in their way.oubt they are at war with us and civilization? >> it's all different religions. all different kind of countries. they will blow up a russian bomber, an airliner. they will threaten. >> tourists on it. >> but paris, united states,. >> it's just unbelievable. you're right. they blow up a tourist on a russian plane. it's endless. but, anyway, maybe president obama will listen to his former secretary tonight, but who knows? anyway, congressman, thank you for joining us, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> and breaking right now. the taliban launching a horrific attack at a pakistani university. atrx least 21 people dead when taliban gunmen stormed the college and opened fire. grn reporter jonathan is live in pakistan. jonathan, what happened? it happened yesterday morning as university day was just beginning at the:00. four gunmen from the pakistani taliban quite simply climbed over the back wall, supposedly security had been beefed up in every school and university in this country following the

they don't want the yazidis to be there. but the problem the majority of the people, they try to live under this rule. it is brutal and i wouldn't live one day enter the islamic state. i know i can see the differences that i can see the democracy, the human rights and the rule of law. in that part of the world and comparison with the surroundings it's not that. >> i thought a remarkable picture a couple of days ago a city worker in raqqa fixing a water main under a street. he had the uniform on and he was part of the public service of the water department in raqqa. we have kept you very late this evening. it's almost time for you to wake up in london so we very much appreciate you getting up and spending such time with us. [applause] >> i'm really thankful and grateful to spend time with you and i wish i am with you in person. i was really looking forward to come to you, your highly reputable organization but unfortunately that feeds the question deprived me from actually being among you and now you face to face which is a g

if you look at what the yazidi on clean energy with the extra pushing funding into inefficiencies, wecould all this activity that had nothing do with the private sector that allowed us to hit our targets much faster than we thought. if you apply that theory globally, if the signal coming out of paris is that there are market forces the driving direction clean energy and there's going to be investments in technology like along the lines of what bill gates announced, venture capital funds into space, five years from now those targets could be much more ambitious. instead of 2.5 decrease we get down to two degrees. that's all been a set in motion. some of this is inevitable. people say a new president comes in office, personal i think carrying out the deal the entire world have signed up to be a strange way to start your time in office. this isn't just the nuclear deal. this is 197 countries. i mean i guess you could do it but it would be a strange way to start your time in office. the second thing is this movement and the private sector is happening anyway. indian is getting into the so

a group of people that burns people in cages, that is conducting genocide against christians and yazidisthe region, this is not a small scale group, they are radicalizing people in the united states, conducting attacks around the world. what needs to happen, it's a very simple equation, and will happen when i'm president. if we do not know who you are, when i am president, you are not getting into the united states of america. [applause] >> senator cruz, where do you stand? senator cruz? >> you know i understand why donald made the comments he did and i understand why americans are feeling frustrated and scared and angry when we have a president who refuses to acknowledge the threats we face and worse who acts as an apologist for radical islamic terrorism. i think what we need is a commander in chief focused like a laser on keeping this country safe and on defeating radical islamic terrorism. what should we do? first, pass the expatriate terrorist act, legislation i've introduced that says if an american goes and joins isis and wages jihad against america, that you forfeit your citizensh

best do it by training the sunni tribes and arming them, by arming the kurdish forces, by arming the yazidisby allowing our u.s. pilots to hit these targets the way the french pilots were -- went in and hit all those training camps that we never hit. this is why we have to be on offense against isis now. >> ed royce is chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> we have breaking news about who may have been giving the orders pulling the strings for november's bloody terror attacks in paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. and is the ted cruz birther issue gaining traction today? senator john mccain is the latest to question cruz's eligibility to be president of the united states. stay with us here in "the situation room." this is how banks used to see me. ever since i had a pretty bad accident three years ago. the medical bills - the credit card debt all piled up. i knew i had to get serious my credit. so i signed up for experian. they have real, live credit experts i can talk to. they helped educate me on how debt affec