This is a download from the BBC. It's from our own correspondent.

We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service,

but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate A.D.

Hello, today the calamity facing families who've come down from the mountain in northern Iraq.

A Sunday morning lie in interrupted by the jihadists of Al-Shabaab.

Stressful moments on a nuclear submarine as an argument breaks out in the Panama Canal and

partridges in brine anyone a frantic shopping expedition for our correspondent on her

way to Cuba.

Kurdish sources say that dozens of men from Iraq's Yazidi minority have been killed by Islamist fighters in northern Iraq.

Some reports speak of villagers being ordered to

convert to Islam or face summary execution and of women being

taken prisoner. Earlier tens of thousands of Yazidis took refuge on a

mountain as they tried to escape the advance of the Sunni fighters of the Islamic State, formerly ISIS.

Many have now arrived in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The UN says they're exhausted and thirsty.

Caroline Wyatt tells us there's now serious concern about the health of those

who've come down from the mountain.

In Mosul, smokers are getting desperate, not content with crucifying or beheading their enemies

on the way there.

The fighters of the Islamic State who've taken over the city have now banned cigarettes from the shops.

At least I think they have.

Like so much that we hear these days in Iraq from the number of refugees to left on the mountain

to the fighting that's still very much going on. Some things remain

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