Vice: A Kurdish State & Out of Space

''A Kurdish State'' The Kurds have played an instrumental role in the fight against ISIS in Iraq. Although the case for their independence is rarely made, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state of their own, and are one of the only peoples to suffer attempted genocide since the Holocaust. In Iraqi Kurdistan, Ben Anderson meets everyone from frontline fighters to their former guerrilla president, asking why the Kurds recently voted for independence and what hopes they have for achieving their own state. ''Out of Space'' More than half a million objects of man-made space junk currently orbit the Earth at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour, and even the tiniest pieces could potentially destroy any of the 1,700 satellites circling the Earth. Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson joins the Air Force Space Command to see how a growing military and commercial space presence threatens the ubiquitous satellites that are essential to humanity's digital way of life.