Kamîran: Yesterday we spoke about the obstacles to returning to Serêkaniyê; today there is a new step.

Ronahî: Yes. Displaced families in the Newroz camp in Dêrik and the Waşokanî camp in Hesekê have been packing their belongings since yesterday. Today, Wednesday, as part of the sixth convoy, nearly six hundred families are heading toward their original areas.

Ronahî: Since the month of August five other convoys have been sent. Some families reached their villages, yet others cannot enter. According to reports, Turkish military checkpoints and security risks in some villages and in the city centre are blocking the return.

Kamîran: So the convoys are moving, but not every family is sure of reaching home.

Ronahî: That is right. And winter is approaching, conditions in the camps keep worsening; this increases the urgency of the matter for the families.

Ronahî: The General Command of the Women's Protection Units, YPJ, issued a statement on the integration process on its official website on Tuesday.

Ronahî: According to the statement, in the discussions and assessments regarding this process, the YPJ maintains its place as an autonomous and distinct force. The force also made clear that it remains attached to its own identity.

Kamîran: The main message is that the YPJ wants to remain a separate force within this process as well.

Ronahî: Correct. Yet we must note that the statement represents only the YPJ's position; the positions of the other parties involved in the talks do not appear in the reports.

Kamîran: We turn to southern Syria, where military movement has not stopped.

Ronahî: On Tuesday Israeli forces entered the Tel el-Hewa area west of the town of Cebata el-Xeşeb, in the northern countryside of Qunêtra, with two tanks. More than five military vehicles and two additional tanks also moved toward the former governorate building in the city of Qunêtra.

Ronahî: A patrol of nearly twenty soldiers blocked the road toward the surrounding villages and prevented residents from coming and going. At the same time Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew over the countryside of Dera and Damascus. A young man who had been detained at a temporary checkpoint was released today.

Kamîran: All of this comes at a time when Washington is also raising its voice on the issue. What did it say?

Ronahî: The United States Special Representative for Syria and Iraq, Barrack, speaking at the World Security Forum in Doha, said that Israeli military operations in Syria must stop. According to him, Damascus and Tel Aviv may reach an understanding that includes a non-aggression agreement. Barrack also said that Ehmed el-Şera is managing the transition process under difficult conditions.

Ronahî: In Iran, the "No to Executions Tuesdays" campaign reached its one hundred forty-third week. Yesterday, on the twentieth of October, detainees in sixty-six prisons continued their weekly hunger strike and called for the complete abolition of the death penalty.

Ronahî: According to the campaign, seventy-two people have been executed.

Kamîran: That is a heavy number, and it comes from only one side.

Ronahî: Yes, Iranian officials have not responded to this figure in the reports. On another front, according to a report, more than thirty Iranian intelligence operatives raided the homes of seven members of mountaineering groups in Seqiz two weeks ago; five of them are now missing.

Ronahî: The Women's Commission of the Kurdistan National Congress also said in a statement that threats and executions against Kurds and opposition members have increased, and called for an end to pressure on Kurdish women.

Kamîran: And a final piece of troubling news from Latin America.

Ronahî: In Colombia's Nariño region, on the border with Ecuador, an illegally operated gold mine collapsed.

Ronahî: Fourteen people lost their life beneath the earth, and seven others were injured. Authorities announced on Monday that the search operation has ended. According to them, the region's inaccessibility and the presence of criminal organisations had made the teams' work difficult.

Kamîran: So both the workers and the search teams were in double danger.