to export the islamic revolution ever since the islamic revolution took place and therefore they say that that continues to destabilize all these places whether it's iraq whether it's iran whether it's lebanon on. what's the way out again let's look at the fact iran is not spending billions upon billions of dollars exporting them throughout the world it's saudi arabia look at every mask look at every incident of terrorism in the region and in the world who are behind these acts of terrorism they're all financed both ideologically and. financially supported ideologically and pronouncedly by saudi arabia this is unfortunate iran has an idea that idea is available we have a democracy people participate in determining their fate my friend we drive our legitimacy and our security from our own people that is something that people like. we're not like sam who need a foreign law for their security we're not like some who have to purchase their security by buying four hundred billion dollars worth of beautiful military equipment what makes iran secure what makes you round progress is the fact

news the live from berlin islamic states defacto capital the city of brotha in syria has fallen. u.s. backed forces say that they have overcome the final pockets of resistance from the extremists if marks the end of an intense battle that started back in june so what now for the so-called islamic state. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appealed for calm. and a dangerous journey to escape persecution thousands of new rope him to refugees pour into bangladesh from myanmar not all of them are making it alive. i'm sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocka the city that the so-called islamic state considers its capital a commander of the troops fighting i-s. says that operations are under way to clear this. city of landmines and militant sleeper cells dozens of jihad it had made their last stand in the city stadium but it is unclear if they remain holed up there meanwhile still to celebrate its processes aeration as the four month

belonging to same tribe and losing love one to islamic state. "earthquake" was at university studying to be a human rights lawyer when he enlisted to restore human rights to victims of i.s. his demonstration with a meat cleaver was to explain how a friends fingers were cut off by i.s. when they caught him smoking. downstairs, "earthquake" told us about the entrance to a tunnel dug by islamic state and now covered over with furniture and debris because two days after he took this building, i.s. emerged from the tunnel to mount a counter-attack. this man is wielding a sword taking from a dead is fighter. the balaclava is to protect his identity which not even his comrades know because often he crosses the front line to pose as an islamic state fighter and collect intelligence. this is a y.p.g. spying operation inside raqqa last year. the bulb inside a motor bike headlight has been replaced by a camera. this an i.s. checkpoint. here, i.s. fighters leave a mosque. the streets are largely deserted, however, because people want to avoid the man questi

so might islam as a system of values also be emancipated. one movement known as muslim feminism thing so. it first took root in majority muslim malaysia but it also has arab proponents . moroccan as muslim or a bat is one of the most active she believes women have the right to interpret the . qur'an. when you go to indonesia malaysia or pakistan whether you're in deepest egypt or deepest algeria or morocco the same islamic rhetoric about women prevails. so rereading the holy books from a feminist and female viewpoint is very important. because at least it restores value to the female perception and. secondly it will open up a field that until now has been completely closed to women the interpretation of the text how can you accept readings that are fifteen hundred years old but bear no imprint of women yet they don't plan to this on. iraq or gained independence in one nine hundred fifty six during the rule of king mohammed the fifth he was a member of a dynasty still in power today it claims to sent from the prophet muhammad. constitutionall

the islamic state's foreign fighters here vanished. some may be hiding in these ruins. their leadership have already fled. the islamic state group may have abandoned their capital but they haven't abandoned their cause, so the fight against is goes on. this is an important moment where perhaps for the first time we can see a future in the middle east without the islamic state. we know that is brought chaos and destruction, we have seen that in raqqa but they also brought something else to the region, unity. they united against that common enemy, arabs turks and kurds altogether fighting against is, trying to bring about their defeat. that common enemy is now proceeding and already we are seeing those old middle east fault lines, in iraq in baghdad, those fault lines resurfacing. and the reality may be that because the conditions which brought about is still exist, that the middle east isn't much different once they've gone and that those old blood and that is well quickly resurface, even when is is defeated. quentin sommerville in beirut for us tonight. the head of the

so might islam as a system of values also be emancipated. one movement known as muslim feminism thing so. it first took root in majority muslim malaysia but it also has arab proponents . moroccan as muslim or a bat is one of the most active she believes women have the right to interpret the . qur'an. when you go to indonesia malaysia or pakistan whether you're in deepest egypt or deepest algeria or morocco the same islamic rhetoric about women prevails. so rereading the holy books from a feminist and female viewpoint is very important and hope and is because at least it restores value to the female perception and. secondly it will open up a field that until now has been completely closed to women the interpretation of the text how can you accept readings that are fifteen hundred years old but bear no imprint of women yet they're not clad to the south. america gained independence in one nine hundred fifty six during the rule of king mohammed the fifth he was a member of a dynasty still in power today that claims descent from the prophet muham

she converted to islam back in 2011. between august 2013 and april 2015, she made three trips to syria to join her son, not in the hopes of dissuading him, but supporting him ideologically and financially. she was arrested in july 2014 and has been in the custody of french authorities ever since. her son tyler, who traveled to tunisia before he went to syria, was arrested in 2014 on the suspicion he was trying to get back from syria through turkey into france, and possibly commit an attack on french soil. genie: tell us more about this .oman, christine riviere she was radicalized via her son? she denies the charges, it must be said. if you look into one -- into authorities are saying, and look at the skype between her and her son, that points to the contrary. her messages are chilling. when her son first decided to leave for syria, she's -- she expressed approval and sympathy. she expressed her pride and admiration at what she considered a promotion for her .on back in september 2014 in front of a judge, she said she acc

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized. it's like a prison i was present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was in a shop that he prison then came on so tear up my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank thing. they tortured us with. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was the pending on how much prison guard is happy at that day or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember their eyes so i want to get the vitamin but them all the time i want for the. purposes of the wood your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing are mostly from iraq and syria. is a puzzle in common those

what i wa nted calls itself islamic state. what i wanted to say about that is that the islamic state is suffering a major loss in territory is due to air strikes as well as fighting on the ground, but let's be clear, the ideology is not going anywhere. u nfortu nately, ideology is not going anywhere. unfortunately, it will go underground and go elsewhere, whether vulnerable, politically vulnerable countries where it can grow, and it will also feed on the discourse of grievance, that it has lost the islamic state, where the caliphate was, and it needs to get that back and we need to fight the good fight, so it will feed on a discourse of grievance with vulnerable groups, and that's the danger. the optimism of this photographs which is one of the opposition soldiers from the syrian democratic forces, waving a flag in celebration. we also saw that in mosul. the different bits of the alliance starts wobbling with each other. go back a decade ago and you can see al-qaeda. the whole question now, surely, is whetherthe hearts and min

the islamic state's foreign fighters here vanished. some may be hiding in these ruins. their leadership have already fled. the islamic state group may have abandoned their capital but they haven't abandoned their cause, so the fight against is goes on. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. final preparations are under way in beijing for the ruling communist pa rty‘s national congress. the event only takes place once every five years, and is used to set out the country's next steps. our china correspondent robin brant is in tjiananmen square in beijing. lots of security are would imagine around where you are at the moment. as ever, security is very intense for this event, which as say comes every five years. it lasts for about a week and it starts today with a significant moment, a speech from the country's president. more importantly today the general secretary of the chinese communist party xiejin ping and that will look back on the last five years, assessing how the communist party has done and did it did dell might live up to the pleasures of reform â€

in islam and then proclaim to represent islam. distorting its teachings. i think we must respect islam, the world's second largest religi religion, one of the three abrahamic religions. i think we must respect that religion and we must respect those who want to be peaceful adherents to that religion but we do have a group and they are based -- they are saudi arabia-based. it's the wahabiist sect, which is the greatest exporter of t violent extremism on earth in my opinion. [ applause ] wahabism is -- and until we can address the issue of saudi arabia's support for wahabism x and its spread of violent jihadist philosophy, then we will continue to kind of mire ourselves further into the mud. and i hope that we can wean ourselves from our dependence on oil, which seems to be the driving force of our policy toward saudi arabia so we can deal with this issue of wahabism to a greater degree than we do now. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. if i could sort of sum up here on a few thoughts, and the first is that israel is contending w

therefore he made his bed with islamic state that it's really that simple the notion that the u.k. should have any obligation to any such individual is bizarre and to furthermore to the point it's just been made you know we have these individuals leaving the u.k. to fight abroad none of them want to join the british show.

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized. it's like a prison i was present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was a national diety prison then came on so tara my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank think. they tortured those who're. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was the pending on how much prison guard is happy that they or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember their eyes so i want to forget the vitamin but them all the time i want for that and. the business of the world your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing are mostly from iraq and syria. is a puzzle in

this is not islam. none of is this islam. including the sacrificing and getting yourself killed at the end of a terrorist attack, none of that is islamic, it's anti islamic. and these people have created a belief system in which mass murder, as we saw on 9/11, and in the middle east, they kill more muslims than anybody else. murder is their act of worship. and that's just cultism. and there's virtually no way to stop it, once it gets in the mind of one individual, once he enunciates it or communicates it electronically. >> a u.s. government source tells us at nbc news, that this is the driver's license of the suspect picked up at the scene of the crime after being shot by police. tara, i guess the question is as always motive, and i think perhaps because he said he a prayer, allah akbar, that it has something to do with his notion of religion. but the idea of his pulling out the nonlethal weapon, it fits the pattern of these people committing suicide in the act, they want to be shot. >> we don't know the particular motivation

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized thank you. it's like a prison i present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was a national diety prison then came on so tara my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank. they tortured us with. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was depending on how much the prison guard is happy at that day or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember there i said i want to get the vitamin but them all the time i want for that in. the business of the word your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing a mostly from iraq and syria. is a puzzle in common those to me

what a cow if it collapsing looks like the ruins of the syrian city of rock the capital of so-called islamic state well today the city failed to us back to forces and into three years of hell on earth and tonight after the atrocities of rocket will anyone ever want to go home again i'm brant gulf and berlin this is the day. it was two thousand and fourteen when isis forces at the height of their power world into iraq stolen tanks spinning through the city's paradise square which isis would soon turn into with showcase of savage. today the same square aptly renamed paradise to help square with no capital and little territory isis is broken is a total defeat now imminent. also coming up they have fought together to push back islamic states now iraqi and kurdish forces may be turning on each other the u.s. refusing to take sides claiming it's really not that bad. aside from the incident from early morning hours on sixteen october south of kirkuk that we assessed as a miscommunication there have been no further reports of armed conflict or contact between the two groups. and we begin the day wit

one thing you noticed was the struggle we faced was radical islamists, and islam is a religion, islamism is an ideology. one thing you notice is that this is going to be a long struggle. it is not quite disappear overnight. i would like you to offer your perspective on the nature of the challenge, how we ought to think about it and why it is simply not going to disappear quickly. gen. petraeus: thank you for the -- thank you for a very kind introduction. i was delighted to save your taken by praising your to star -star boss. we were not there to lose gracefully, as you recall. it was take no prisoners time, metaphorically speaking. thanks to the hudson institute for the invitation to be here. thanks in particular for arranging for me to have the privilege of being on stage with one of america's great diplomats and certainly that dean of those who have wrestled with the problems of the middle east, dennis ross. i have enormous respect for the hudson institute. done a lot of events with them over the years and i'm very pleased to be able to be here for this one. i am a bit disappointed, i

state to bring down in damascus but then the islamic state showed itself to be. terrorist radical extremist force and i just don't do that actually because the former president against an army because i was on this program and made an extraordinary allegation as it was seen by some that the united states was helping in jalalabad al-qaeda linked groups in afghanistan that strike you as political what strikes me is that a launch goes of armaments designed for the so-called moderate opposition in syria somehow ended up in the hands of the islamic state and the accident well i. i don't think so actually i think that there was a system of directing those weapons to the islamic state and it was all over the world on t.v. how the islamic state fighters were parading on the hamster's of toyota's the to abort on the money of the state department the state probably explained that they were designed for the moderate opposition but somehow these two hundred toyo's with heavy machine guns ended up in the hands of the islamic state in the region of palmira and there is or it w

the head of that joint national task force against islamic extremism, again in chad. the reason there was so much international and regional activity against islamists ina part of the world is because isis had territory in that area. they had a lot of territory. and they were based in nigeria, and nigerian troops were fighting against them, but they couldn't do it on their own. that's part of why these regional efforts were brought to bear for the countries in the region. but there's a reason all these international groups were headquartered in chad. because all the experts say that pound for pound, that military from chad, and the chadian special forces, they're the best, most battle hardened most effective military for fighting islamic extremism in that part of the world. in early 2015, when boko haram held that huge amount of territory, they brought in troops from niger and from chad, they kind of routed them, they ran them out of town after town. boko haram declared that they had formed a new islamic militant branch in that part of western and central africa. but

of islamic state group held land to civilian populations since twenty fourteen. liberating more than six million syrians and iraqis from the extremist groups grant. for more on this as now bring in our correspondent in beirut adam flats and adam thank you so much for joining us. how much of a blow is the follow roccoco to the islamc statate group? becacause it's her heavy blw to his eyeyes state group bt one let's look say inevitable for quite awhile. ththat now and that ththe cy was one of the first had taken by islamic state grou. alerts nowhere near the size of mosel it was of course said that smsm self declare. that a capital of the so called counterfeits. and but i s say that it'ss n inevitable for sometime because the syrian democratic forces. have been making ground against the islamic state group hat for a while this offensive was really. that announced back in november twenty sixteen even before that they'd been taking territories ms i state group. at the fighting reach the town itself in june of this year event net roughly four months the street to stre

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news live from berlin tonight the biggest defeat in the war against so-called islamic state the city is claimed as its capital rocka that city has fault the announcement came today after a four month campaign to retake the city by u.s. backed forces a city left in ruins and riddled with mines and booby traps but how damaged is isis after this long also coming up they fought together against isis now they may be fighting against each other iraqi forces are pushing ahead with an offensive to retake disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appeal for calm and fresh protests erupt in the kettle on capitol barcelona the regional government there says it will defy madrid and is refusing to stop its bid for independence. it's good to have you with us tonight residents in the syrian city of raka are bringing to a close their first day free from so-called islamic state the city was the capital of the islamist groups supposed caliphate or u.s. backed forces took control of almost all of the city today the price has been high and the city has been left in ruins with reports of small

found guilty for spreading terrorist propaganda on children the latest example of the growing threat of islamic extremism in the u.k. hopefully go live comment on this. by kevin i we do this here are to moscow thanks for your company first that russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over the option of recognizing some u.s. media channels. here in russia and that moves being considered as a retaliatory measure to a campaign against r.t. in the us the channels editor in chief my bridges simonyan says r.t. is under president and pressure right now in america she believes draconian measures are being used to target not just this network's employees but also those linked to us to the campaign against our team has been based on claims that our channel influenced the twenty sixteen us election although no concrete evidence has ever been given or shown a ranking officials in washington though nonetheless continue to make the allegations. the r.t.s. on twitter were almost uniformly anti clinton and those i think you look at them and you have to conclude now there was a clear design in these a

one thing you noticed was the struggle we faced was radical islamists, and islam is a religion, islamism is an ideology. one thing you notice is that this is going to be a long struggle. it is not quite disappear overnight. i would like you to offer your perspective on the nature of the challenge, how we ought to think about it and why it is simply not going to disappear quickly. gen. petraeus: thank you for the -- thank you for a very kind introduction. i was delighted to save your taken by praising your to star -star boss. we were not there to lose gracefully, as you recall. it was take no prisoners time, metaphorically speaking. thanks to the hudson institute for the invitation to be here. thanks in particular for arranging for me to have the privilege of being on stage with one of america's great diplomats and certainly that dean of those who have wrestled with the problems of the middle east, dennis ross. i have enormous respect for the hudson institute. done a lot of events with them over the years and i'm very pleased to be able to be here for this one. i am a bit disappointed, i

this is c w news law a bomb for alleged a blow has been struck against the so-called islamic state with the capture of the self-proclaimed capital of its supposed that caliphate the city of droste in syria the months long fight has left the city in ruins but how much damage has this done to the militant group itself. also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to read to take disputed kurdish held areas as the u.n. and the u.s. appealed for calm. and from great hope to great misery south sudan is one of the world's newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one woman's struggle to survive and to feed her family. plus calls for justice grow louder in malta following the murder of anticorruption journalist tough enough to leave. and following the harvey weinstein sex abuse allegations stories of sexual harassment sweep across social media using the hash tag me to. i'm sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us. u.s. backed fighters in syria have retaken rocca the city that the so-called islamic state

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized. it's like a prison i was present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was a national diety prison then came on so tear up my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank. they torture those who're. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was depending on how much prison guard is happy at that day or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember there i said i want to get the item but them all the time i want for that and. the business of the wood your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing a mostly from iraq and syria do you suppose one common know

in islam and then proclaim to represent islam, distorting its teachings. i think we must respect islam, the world's second largest religion, one of the three abrahamic religions. i think we must respect that religion and we must respect those who want to be peaceful inherants to that religion. but we do have a group and they are based -- they are saudi arabia based which is the state religion of saudi arabia which is the greatest exporter of ideas of violent extremism on the face of the earth, in my humble opinion. until we can address the issue of saudi arabia's support and its spread of violent jihaddist philosophy then we will continue to kind of mire ourselves further into the mud. and i hope that we can wean ourselves from our dependence on oil which seems to be the driving force of our policy towards saudi arabia so that we can deal with this issue to a greater degree than we do now. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, if i can sort of sum up here on a few thoughts. the first is that israel is contending with a deep seeded hatred nurtured by leader

and is a frightening question with frightening answers how many former fighters for so-called islamic state are living here in germany estimates suggest that the figure could be in the hundreds a former i guess prisoner is now working together with germany's security authorities to detect is the most militants who were living here frank hoffman met the man who was helping to hunt down those terrorists this is historic. my suit a q a syrian kurd fled his homeland in two thousand and sixteen he and his mother used the so-called balkan route to travel to germany here they were greeted by muslims brothers and sister all of whom had already made the journey. i thought that the solution of leaving because of some skin to resist i was obliged to do that like any other person who was a life to leave his home the city this country but mustn't i kill is not your average refugee the former video journalist was prisoner for two hundred eighty days in the various torture chambers of the so-called islamic state. as militants ambushed him and his colleague as they're on their way to do an interview

led coalition in that country is dissolved saying the forces are destroying everything beyond islamic state. but meanwhile syrian government forces edge forward against eisel into areas or provinces antti witnessed his fierce fighting without correspondent reporting from the front line in one of the areas last terrorist strongholds isis is making it. is one of the jihad just briefly showing himself while spraying the way on for loto . spain's prime.

a new reality for raqqa after islamic state. jeremy corbyn has called for mps who are guilty of sexual harassment or abuse to be held to account. in a speech this afternoon, the labour leader warned that a warped and degrading culture was thriving in westminster. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth reports. jeremy corbyn‘s warning today was stark, he said sexism and misogyny were widespread in society and while the labour leader gave no specific examples or evidence, he used a speech in scotland to describe a culture in westminster where abuse had been accepted. it extends to a culture that has tolerated abuse for far too long. it is a warped and degrading culture that also exists and thrives in the corridors of power, including in westminster. his comments about these corridors follow newspaper reports of unnamed mps acting inappropriately. no—one has been directly accused or official complaints made, but those who know this place well say there is a problem that must be addressed. in westminster, there has been a long

he made his bed with islamic state that it's really that simple the notion that the u.k. should have any obligation to any such individual is bizarre and to furthermore to the point it's just been made you know we have these individuals leaving the u.k. to fight abroad none of them want to join the british army to fight abroad it's not strange if they if they have a desire to make a statement on the world stage why not fight for the british armed forces or as we've seen with so many of them fight against them i'm afraid if you take up arms against our country and our interests abroad then you abandon any possibility of ever getting back to the united kingdom the rule of law must always prevail i'm not means we do not appear and facilitate terrorists it's really very simple what you think of u.k. minister. that fight for all should be executed in syria that was a statement backed by the defense. correct. let's let's talk about what a great and interesting topic of conversation the reason is he was the i think it's the governor designit during the iraq illegal iraq war wher

the islamic state group and taliban have previously targeted shia sites in afghanistan. it has been a terrible week for many afghan, more than 130 people, most of them soldiers were killed in co—ordinated attacks by the taliban. many afghans hoped president trump's new strategy will improve security, but for now, they are desperately hoping for a respite from the spiralling violence. nine million people died in 2015 because of exposure to illness linked to air and water pollution, according to a major new study. heart disease, strokes and lung cancer are linked with toxins in the air and accounted for 6.5 million premature deaths according to a report in the lancet medicaljournal. water pollution killed nearly 2 million people. low and middle income countries are worst hit, with pollution linked to one in four deaths in india. china and africa are also hit hard by a problem which has become a global scourge. our correspondts round the world have been telling us more about this. —— our correspondence around the world have been telling here in kenya, about 57,000 peo

once the state of the islamic state's -- the seat of the islamic state's power, the fight for raqqa has left all of the city in ruins. reporter: a five-month battle is over for the syrian, kurdish, and arab fighters. backed by the united states, they killed dozens of i.s. in the final push. raqqa is now a shell of a city. "there is nothing left. we are near the end. we have not seen any i.s. militants. we have not seen them near the stadium ideas are. that's either. -- we have not seen them near the stadium ieither." i.s. took control of raqqa in early 2014 and made it the capital of its self-styled caliphate. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means a such as beheadings and torture to quash those who opposed to their rule. it became home to thousands of jihadists across the globe after a call by iborra baghdadi to migrate to the city. in recent months, the so-called islamic state has steadily lost territory in his syria and iraq. the fall of raqqa is a major blow to the militant group, but the extremists still controlled territory in neighbori

in islam and then proclaim to represent islam, distorting its teachings. i think we must respect islam, the world second largest religion, one of the three abraham that religion. i think we must respect that religion and we must respect those who want to be peacefully apparent to that religion, but we do have a group for mayor saudi arabia-based, the walkoff list sect of islam, which is the state religion of saudi arabia, which is the greatest exporter of ideas of violent extremism on the face of the earth in my humble opinion. what autism, and so we can address the issue of saudi arabia's support for wahabbism and the violent jihadist philosophy is, we will continue will murder ourselves further into the mud. we can wean ourselves further into the dependence on oil which seems to be the driving force of our policy towards saudi arabia so they can deal with this issue of wahabbism to a greater degree than we do now. thank you. .mac >> first, israel is contending with a deep-seated hatred, nurtured actually by leaders and nurtured over many years because th

this is deja vu news coming to you live from burning the de facto capital of the islamic states capital city in syria forced to u.s. supported forces. goodish midsole just celebrated in one of the last may just strongholds of the said star caliphate commander say the city of raka is liberated but cleanup operations are still under way also coming up bogged down pushes ahead with an offensive to retake the disputed kurdish areas in northern iraq as the u.n. and the u.s. the p.t. for calm. and a prominent investigative journalist is killed in a car bomb attack in malta the e.u. says it's hard to find at the death of duffy sia the son accuses the government of complicity. plus in sport the champions league hits the pitch on tuesday and it's crunch time for monday's the gun team's live says face portal one door twenty eight gone and it was both clubs need a win to get their respective campion's back on track. hello and welcome i'm under touchy about thank you very much for joining us. u.s. bank find is in syria had retaken rock on the city the so-called islamic state considered its de facto

led coalition in that country is dissolved saying the forces are destroying everything but islamic state. but meanwhile syrian government forces edge forward against eyes still in derry sole province witnesses fierce fighting with our correspondent reporting from the front line in one of the areas loss of terrorist from. isis is the key. here is one of the jihad just briefly surely give yourself whilst brain away on full auto. spain's prime minister demands clarification from catalonia about whether its declared independence the east threatens to suspend the region's autonomy. and a former presidential adviser to barack obama spills the beans on what was once branded a special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. . all these are the headlines here at and t. international coming to you live from moscow thank you for joining us i'm kate partridge. well let's begin with that top story from syria where the country's foreign minister has demanded the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition claiming the operation is nothing but a cover up for syria's destruction auntie's jacqueline figure

in a sense, the islamic state group foresaw this. it is hardly likely they did not know this military operation was eventually going to route them and wrest control of this territory from them. they are going to prepare for this. what they do is, they revert back to where they were before in proclaimed a caliphate june 2014. they are back in the desert. they are going to pockets of the desert, hoping they will slip through security crocs, benefit from the chaos and the lack of the sort of unified government, especially at this point in syria. iraq is starting to regain control. it is going to go back to the low-level or not level type of insurgency. even if you look beyond iraq, the islamic state group has set up de facto basis and a lot of other countries right now, from libya to yemen to egypt to afghanistan, and even in countries where they do not have an isis-branded, so to speak, branch. there are countries such as nigeria, where boko haram has been reportedly in decline. it is affiliated there. they can still work in alliance.

brent: the kurdish and iraqi forces fight together in the campaign against islamic state. what implications will this offensive have for the fight against terrorism? correspondent: i spoke to a major in the iraqi counterterrorism forces and he was in the central offices in kirkuk. these are the forces are taking i -- partaking in the fight against isis in mosul. this creates a headache for the americans. the u.s. coalition have armed and trained both sides of this conflict. there is a question about misuse of weapons supplied by the americans. definitely concerns going forward. i do not think it will impact isis in the area but isis could take advantage of the insecurity. let's hope they do not see an opening. brent: thank you for reporting for us north of kirkuk where the latest clashes between iraqi and jukurdish forces are clashing. to mogadishu now where a bombing took place. it is the deadliest single attack in the country's history. correspondent: two days after the blast, he once crowded street in the heart of mogadishu lies in ruins. emergency workers still recover

one thing you noticed was the struggle we faced was radical islamists, and islam is a religion, islam is not an ideology. this is going to be a long struggle. it is not quite disappear overnight. you to offer your perspective on the nature of the challenge. why is not going to disappear quickly. thank you for the very kind introduction. we weren't there to lose gracefully, as you recall. it was take no prisoners time, metaphorically speaking. thanks to the hudson institute for the invitation to be here. arranging for me to have the privilege of being on stage with one of america's great diplomats, and a great dean of those who have wrestled with the problems of the middle east, dennis ross. for thenormous respect hudson institute. i'm pleased to be here for this one. that the pinkted ladies were ushered out of the house earlier today. we had a very close relationship during the time i was privileged to command the surge. never was there an appearance on capitol hill that was not helped by their greeting to me. usually directly behind me with the cameras getting them in the frame. ofwo

the islamic state at differently fighting to keep it. translation: they are taking our positions here and there. now we are being targeted by snipers. the men quickly returned fire. for these men, it is personal. many have had family members killed by the islamic state. in another nearby village, and these fighters know the threat of his estate. the militants have been pushed out, replaced by syrian government forces. translation: our defensive line is over there, at the sugar factory. beyond that, the regime is in control. islamic state is no longer present there. we had an agreement that we will not target each other. but we have been shelved by artillery fire. the war he has drawn in the world's biggest players, and 110w in the world's biggest players, and now their proxies here each other. in this area, these us—backed forces 110w in this area, these us—backed forces now line up against syrian regime troops, which are in turn supported by russia. the stakes here are high. the big question is what will happen next. stay with us on

up so—called islamic state have signed upforan so—called islamic state have signed up for an organisation who has made an attempt to attack the west. if they end up dying on the battlefield it doesn't surprise me and i think this is something they ultimately would expect and were looking for. if we look at some of the cases and individuals who tried to come back who appear to want to change their ways, who are willing to come back and be open about what they have done on the battlefield and will show evidence of what they have participated in and go through due process is in the court of law here that and it that will solution as well. i don't think we'd execute them on the battlefield. if some of them on the battlefield. if some of them come back and they are willing to demonstrate and atone for their sins and pay their dues as the requires then we have a system in place to handle these people so that's fine. what do you think is the best way to deal with british extremists who go to syria to fight alongside islamic state is to mark there are two sets of rules, one is for the battlefield

state will rock as last be the beginning of the end for islamic state. i think it's all to do the end for the islamic state that's like a mixtape. you know all but a couple of months has expanded very quickly took all the territories from the you know scene and out. from different. you know groups and syrian had ak and then they found it so they have significantly. the international coalition has launched its open ation to take all that up so i think it's auditee the end for them isis is no longer. it's not i think more than twenty percent. of it's you know people follow it over a couple of years ago so yeah this is that so-called caliphate it is it is now taken all but from. there the militant side of fleeing bad and out to out in a video the smaller towns they had not a significant does more undock but some of them much. of it controlled but i think yeah this is this is the end that i would expect a couple of months before it i think it's completely. you know he moved. in that out that it's taken back by either the seat in the gmo aren't. you know foll

the so-called islamic state appeared well organized. it's like a prison i was present and this paper had been formed by an isis member he was from tunisia and that was a national diety prison then came on so tear up my suit was in six different ions prisons in all. thank. they tortured us with. with every with every instrument they can torture us. they started first of all to investigate and ask questions and during the answering they started to tortured me beating me by sticks on my legs on my back slapping me on the face pulling my hair and every day or every two day and sometimes twice a day it was the pending on how much the prison guard is happy that they or how much he is angry i can't for about their eyes the only thing i remember their eyes so i want to forget the vitamin but them all the time i want for that and. the business of the world your heart both iraq and syria are known historically for using the most savage torture methods and techniques and those doing the torturing a mostly from iraq and syria. is a puzzle in common

the saudis are said to sponsor a multi-million dollar effort to export wahhabi islam across the islamic world including to muslim communities in the west wahhabism is a strict and a virtually conservative interpretation of the faith and in the u.k. that saudi money has built mosques and islamic schools which in turn have played host to extremist preachers and the distribution of extremist literature. there are none of these would be a surprise to the british government downing street has been sitting on its own report for more than six months which details the foreign funding of terrorism and extremism its publication is deemed too sensitive for a government relying on the sale of billions of dollars worth of arms to its saudi ally. so what does this mean in reality if you've not the time to start claiming victim hood this is the time to be reflective and say we need to take them on a ship and actually collectively as a society we need to stand up and address this problem i mean alone is a politician on the local council she runs a think tank and she's a muslim. she's prepared to say wa

this is the first celebration since they islamic state we re celebration since they islamic state were driven from the city by kurdish, and syrian fighters. 0n the patio, a man's been spread and then spends prayer beads. theirs is sway as children run around and elders look on. a scene that would have been impossible during the three yea rs of been impossible during the three years of brutal islamic state rule. the group bang music —— the group and music and enforced a ban on certain clothing and make—up, and prohibit meeting of men and gcehimsmm able to return the family has been able to return to their neighbourhood and celebrate. translation: this is the first sign that we have got together like this. women used to have to stay here and men there. there was no mixing. now that they are gone, we can mix and we no longer have to wear the burqa. female guests, forced underjihadis rule to wear dour and complete clothing, now where make—up and colourful robes. many buildings were destroyed in large parts of the city, and many areas are off limits you to fear of unexploded ordinan

i see with the so—called islamic state now, the threat of islamic state now, the threat of islamic state now, the threat of islamic state now, slowly fading away, i see this portrayal of a new enemy, not that the us and iran were not at odds, but they have, the long list, now he is announcing iran the prime enemy of the united states, but there is another big list on the other side of grievances from iranian side which starts in 1953, coup, which was engineered and executed by us and british secret services and comes all the way through to 19805 when the iran iraq war, the support of the west for saddam hussein who was only recognised as an aggressor when he also invaded, kuwait and then shooting down of iranian airliner, the list goes on and on. there is a counter list on the other side as well. but in terms of substantially what he actually said, he said he does not certify iran's compliance with the nuclear deal and he will not and he said that this will be reviewed in congress. so basically, hitting the can down the road to congress so this is where i stand, i set america first. i sa