Germany to arm Kurdish peshmerga forces

Germany has become the fourth European Union member state to announce it will arm Kurdish forces fighting jihadist militants in northern Iraq.

The US is also providing weapons to fight the Islamic State forces.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports:

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