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

Hello. Today the Kurds put their dream of independence on hold.

Australia, the country of migrants, is taken to court. of independence She'll no longer wear the headscarf or hijab.

And who now cares that he once ordered 50 martini cocktails at the Ritz?

Paris, it seems, has fallen out of love with Ernest Hemingway.

Hundreds of thousands of families have now fled from other parts of Iraq

into the autonomous region of Kurdistan

in the north of the country.

They're escaping from the militants of the self-proclaimed

Islamic State who've taken swaths of territory in Iraq and in neighbouring Syria as well.

Kurdistan is a place which has enjoyed mounting prosperity in recent years. well. even to be heading for outright independence. But our correspondent Jim Muir, who is in the Kurdistan

capital E. Biel, says the current crisis is having a significant effect on the Iraqi Kurds and

on their dreams for the future.

The Peshmoga fighters thought it was terribly funny when a very loud bang went off

and I and my team practically jumped out of our skins and started looking around in panic

for something to dive under. It was in fact some outgoing artillery fire from Kurdish

positions nearby. It happened again several times during our visit, causing us to flinch instinctively,

provoking further hilarity amongst the Kurds. We were in the town of Bakarta on the dusty

plains southeast of Mosul.

The Kurdish Peshmerga forces had just recaptured it from the militants of the Islamic State,

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