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Hundreds of Yazidi women have now been captured by Islamic State fighters across northern Iraq. 聽The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, is an extreme Islamist group, fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate in Syria and the north of Iraq through the expulsion, execution and conversion of non-Muslims. Tens of thousands of Yazidis, members of a minority religious sect, have been displaced by the fighting. Their plight prompted the United States to begin the use of air strikes, to try to protect them. Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief for the Washington Post is in Erbil in Iraq. She has spoken to Yazidi women, and tells Jenni what is happening to those who鈥檝e been captured, and what the Islamic State plans for them.

This weekend hundreds of thousands of people will flock to London鈥檚 Notting Hill Carnival. Since 1966 this corner of London has dedicated a weekend in August to a massive celebration of Caribbean culture, but the origins of this celebration are even older. Film maker Nia Reynolds tells us the story of Claudia Jones, the civil rights activist who staged the first major celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in 1959, and who spent her life fighting tirelessly for the rights of black people.

Food writer Bee Wilson creates a perfect picnic for children using a variety of recipes.听 In Bee鈥檚 picnic basket is cucumber sushi, homemade sausage rolls and flapjacks.

Bee Wilson鈥檚 most recent book is .听

Teenage mothers are disappearing from villages around minefields in Battambang, .听 Some are found mutilated and murdered, their babies abandoned. Others simply vanish. The locals whisper that this is the White Crocodile at work - a mythical beast that brings death to all that meet it 鈥� but Tess Hardy, an English mine-clearance worker wants to get at the truth. Debut novelist K.T Medina joins Jenni to talk about her first book 鈥淲hite Crocodile.鈥� 聽

Many expect teenage girls to like pop and R&B music, but Radio 1's Head of Music George Ergatoudis聽recently said he鈥檚 seen them increasing enjoying hard rock 鈥� often seen as a very male world of music. Radio 1 rock show presenter Daniel P Carter says he鈥檚 seen girls and young women going along to hard rock gigs in such great numbers they鈥檝e sometimes outnumbered men. And now his programme鈥檚 moving to a primetime evening slot, straight after the Sunday chart show. But despite this, there are still very few female rock musicians. The Reading & Leeds Festival, with its big emphasis on rock, takes place this weekend - when fans will be out in force, when female icon Hayley Williams of Paramore will headline, but when the musicians on stage will be predominantly male. So what鈥檚 it like to be a young woman in rock, why is the music so popular with female fans, and how can we get more girls involved in making the music? To discuss, Jenni is joined by Guardian music journalist Caroline Sullivan, by young music fan Paige Bennett, and by Emma Richardson, bassist and vocalist for Band of Skulls.

Band of Skulls are playing at the Reading & Leeds Festival, which starts on Friday, and their latest album, Himalayan, is out now on Electric Blues Recordings