rocca tonight. syria is demanding the immediate unconditional withdrawal of turkish troops meanwhile from northwest syria saying that their presence there amounts to flagrant aggression turkish troops entered syria's northern italy province in a cross border deployment that began two days ago in other developments thousands of iraqi troops are locked in an armed standoff with kurdish forces in the disputed oil province of could cook kurdish peshmerga fighters say iraq central government has ordered them to surrender key military positions before a deadline of two a.m. local time on sunday and all the top stories the government minister in myanmar responsible for repatriating ranger refugees from bangladesh has told al jazeera they may have planned their exodus to give the appearance of ethnic cleansing more than half a million rand year of flooding military crackdown. at least twenty people have been killed after a large truck bomb exploded in somalia's capital market issue with fifteen more injured police say that people are still trapped under the rubble and they fear

that the death toll could rise. that's it for now there is much more news coming out for you in just less than half an hour's time i'll be back in about twenty five minutes coming up next the people in power looks at how different communities came together after the manchester arena bombing here in the u.k. and may. in may this year a suicide bomber targeted a pop concert in the u.k.'s manchester arena killing twenty two people and injuring

scores of others many of them teenagers were children the attack raised difficult questions in the off the mouth about how diverse communities in britain should deal with extremism in their midst but this reporter amos mcdonnell found out it also prompted the city to come together in the face of great stress. but to say. that there's. also.

the attack on manchester left twenty two people dead one hundred sixteen people injured. they've been attending a concert by the american pop star ariana grande day at the manchester arena. it became the single deadliest act of terrorism in the u.k. since the july seventh bombings of two thousand and five sees him as an exploration of. the suicide bomber is salman a baby a twenty two year old born in manchester libyan parents they'd fled the gadhafi regime the city gave them a home after our darkest of nights manchester is today waking up to the most difficult of dawns. it is hard to believe what has happened here in the last few hours the young the hopeful the innocent attacked on a night out it provoked an outpouring of national grief and for some that grief

soon turned to anger. the spotlight here turned almost immediately to manchester's muslim population and in particular the libyans these terrorist attacks are designed deliberately to drive a wedge through communities to pit everyone else against the muslims and they often work creating fear and hatred so that's why i've come here to find out if that's actually what's happening in manchester to find out how the muslims themselves are dealing with that. it's so important time to get outside. but this is a divided britain a troubled britain. used by elections that brings it and batter after a run of terrorist attacks. there isn't a lot to celebrate right now but there is a desire it seems to come together. everyone's probably stuck together you know

like you had a lot. in the face of it really you know no one's really being cowed by terror everyone standing about together which is such a close community in that there's the so much diversity here this no hate here. was. that's not quite how everyone sees it here far right groups like the english defense league have been holding rallies this one turned violent. in the month after the attack two hundred twenty four instances of anti muslim hate crimes were forged that's an increase of five hundred and five percent on the same period last year. and it's not just on the fringes there is to be frank far too much tolerance of extremism in our country things needs to change that will require some difficult and often embarrassing conversations.

it's clear britain is having something of a moment for terrorist attacks in just three months has left many questioning just how tolerant and old this society should be first the westminster bridge attack then manchester the london bridge attack and then a far right extremist drove a truck into crowds praying at finsbury park mosque. just andy burnham once had ambitions to lead britain's labor party he recently left national politics to become the first directly elected mayor of manchester and he took up the job just weeks before this attack you know it's raising my hard hearted society talked about it i mean to have a tougher conversation something papering next year maybe there is a conversation we do need to have a difficult conversations about what more we can all do to suckle extremism extremism of any kind of radicalization what more can communities do to spot to

talk and be honest about. manchester is a small city just half a million people so this is one of those places where everybody knows somebody who was there that night. hundreds of people were caught up in this attack including fifteen year old semi she'd waited months to see her arrival ariana grande. i was waiting for i when they called me because i knew she was on top and then i begged my brother buy me some think it. says that should finish we had like a loud bang you found. out. everyone was screaming and i saw someone covered in blood supply and you brought a stupor assessing the impact of that not very very great for initially and then obviously after that when you start to see the faces of the people who died in this really humanizes us that's when it starts to dawn on you that you know this is this

is a really kind of severe thing that we we've managed to escape the same as this terrorist attack having that conversation almost immediately turned to to muslims and to young people being radicalized how did you interpret that conversation obviously i fit the description in the muslim male in my twenty's from manchester so their feet a few similarities. and unfortunately that obviously makes other people maybe suspicious of people who fear my description and these people they would look at me like like like oh you know muslim leaders be like how it's done something like you know i was a victim of the it's happened. so it's that kind of suspicion exactly what the extremists want other muslims to feel i think that's their aim is to make us feel unwelcome to make us think some to divide us and make the muslims look at muslims

in a certain way so that they may obviously is this. you know look at the way they look you know this isn't your home you may have been born. and brought up here but this is this is where you belong come join us and those sorts of things for the moment when you're a victim of the extra you know suspect you know about. it so you just need to be strong and make sure you don't want to succumb to the. muslims make up five percent and britain's population in manchester and make up sixteen percent and right now it's the muslim holy month of ramadan. tonight i've been invited to break from. a well known family of libyans here in manchester oh hashemite i miss. thank you so much for having me.

this one in our. house which is just right. makes me not. like the family of the bombers so many. bones came here fleeing the regime of muammar gaddafi when we came we were running away for our life from a brutal regime that kills its opponents the hundred people in the streets and there's all sorts of things but she said after two for nothing in return you just enjoy and be a good citizen and your man you fans of course of course. it's very clear from talking to you that you've had a huge emotional reaction to what's happened here in manchester the first thing that came to mind this is this is our city being terrorized by one of our own.

world to start is a feeling of shame so it is time that we do something in return we do something to counter the doubt. and to prevent it from ever happening again english do you think there's been a sort of naivety or even a willful ignorance about the realities of what's going on in the community i think so i mean now i would have to say that has been and i see i mean if anybody has a monster in his own home we need to be a little over him a little bit him. report him straighten him what it will take. around the world i'm interested to know if this is just an elder statesman of the local debian community with his nephew abdul from a younger generation thinks the senate i remember there's been a mosque which is around the corner from here in the early ninety's at the end of

the. the first afghan war there was out of nowhere a lot of you know of jihadi fighters. ended up in manchester very quickly they tried to take the mosque over try to impose their ideas and if you didn't pray a certain way if you didn't look a certain way if you didn't you know so because there is knowing you were a muslim maybe looking back then i think you know naivety we. have too much if you like you know giving too much of the benefit of the doubt you have to own up to what happened that was a libyan who did it and. i think possibly other society is right in telling the libyans you know you have to. stand the bond be counted your own up to this so if there is a conversation that needs to be had what is it you cannot afford to be pacifist or

take a back seat. and leave the initiative to others initiative is taken by the radical muslims who are committing crimes in your name in your religion like it or not it will turn around and you will pay the price something i do said over dinner sparked my interest but did pretty mosque have been infiltrated by jihad spac in the ninety's. somewhat of a news to worship his father was them always and who performed the call to prayer rulers of unchecked radical elements in this mosque and rumbled around for years but elders deny the saying they report any extremist views including those of the baby to the authorities. but it turns out back in one thousand nine hundred ninety five to the soviets left afghanistan at least fifty jihadist fighters did appear and did pretty mosque many libyans their influence is being felt here ever since and now that's being repeated all over again during the arab spring in libya in

twenty eleven drives of young british libyan men went off to fight and overthrow gadhafi britain led the nato intervention with air strikes but it needed ground forces to do the real work men like our craft who went from manchester to fight. why were the british authorities so relaxed about people going off to fight in the day i know they're going for a good cause. yes i think they are tiriel this a lot easier the time that. we couldn't get rid of gadhafi ourselves through libya over the libyan have to rise up first. we now have some became radicalized qualifying islamist militias so was it a mistake to let them go and then let them come back because of a second instance say they made one people come back they didn't get their brains examined and checked out when everybody has been told was all in this some type of psychotherapy find out if he's. one of the i don't know everyone who goes off to

fight once to bring the violence back home to britain but counterterrorism forces can't always tell the difference and that carries enormous risks for countries like the u.k. . it's like a guys felt isolated. between the whole world would be ok and it's up to the community cannot accept about home would welcome the whole of what could be years away from here to call them that it's just a list of ideas of what it was. the lack of social cohesion without understanding what's going wrong with them helps a lot of these reporters are going to. britain the semi five is identified twenty three thousand suspects of interest posing a terrorist threat but security experts say that is just the tip of the iceberg. victories against isis on the ground in the middle east have led to a heightened state of alert in the west and when attacks do happen security

services play catch up that means acting fast to arrest and detain suspects. and come on the path to me and i've lived in the u.k. saw. tough it's it's hard call oh yeah i can rage in the way i am and it's just repeating itself completely in my head like. you know being able to sleep two pm constantly and you're like but it's like my brain is just on yeah the man is terrifying she has never told the story of this right until now it is an oh my favorite here and i was kind of semi awake and just out of nowhere all of a sudden i test hair and massive bang. it was so

loud you couldn't even tell. where i was coming from. and i can see people just storming into the house it's sunday twenty eighth of my six days after the suicide bomb went off at the arena across manchester and the region security services are conducting counterterrorism raids desperate to understand if so many baby was acting alone. as part of a network. and. it just the way they looked in my bag must fun and it was he. him others at home alone his street is cordoned off she had gone to the same colleges selman a baby but she says she had no contact and no relationship with one of them came in . under arrest suspected terrorist.

i was just looking at. life. what are you saying like. how how a mine has spread to terrorists i thought i. thought. i thought i didn't know what to say i don't know what to do. of the twenty two arrested in these raids across manchester not a single person was charged. you could have just knocked on the door who would have opened you would have asked as many questions as you want to had would have been. that's. the british government wants greater powers to conduct raids and detain terrorism suspects it also wants muslim communities to play a bigger role in monitoring extremism does your experience make you less likely to do that. no i wouldn't actually to because. i mean

if especially with someone he was reported five times so we kind of raise awareness of this person and. these extreme views so in a way we can we are kind of you know speaking go central to solving this problem of radicalization in the west is the need for security services to build confidence and trust with the muslim communities getting that right is tricky because it's exactly those relationships that come under pressure every time there's an attack it also means looking at root causes like the ideology that underpins groups like isis when they preach and recruit and that means talking about saudi arabia. since the one nine hundred sixty s. 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. is

a strict and overtly conservative interpretation of the face. 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. none of this 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 bombs to its sound gallery. so what does this mean in reality this is not the time to start claiming victim hood this is the time to be reflective and say we need to take them on the 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 what few others will the conservative cultural

practices within a fight could be connected to terrorism there is a rise of fundamentalism across the globe and actually if you want to say that if you go on with representing our faith then we've got to show that our faith isn't what these people claim to be which is a very black and white very politicized islam today i mean it is taking us to one of the local mosques. i want to cover up and be sufficient so what are you going to find out now with women are allowed in here to save them save them space for women oh i'm kind of what they do and you know kind of. interact with us right on cue the local imaam turns up to greet us. with the soup out of infection you know the president moshe that was given to me for i'm going to watch the night that the both of you because you think you just and i'm a normal right you know you know ok you know me here's the day how much i don't

know if anybody's going to move we are invited in but without the camera we told women. are welcome here but in truth there is no designated prince brace for women yeah it was for a number and it's not because i'm boiling that. he's a very friendly very open you know i mean he they are they want to be inclusive and they want people to know about you and you can see that if you want to make misrepresent the mosque or the faith but again going to shake my hand didn't make much i contact with me someone is that matter why is that important because there are some would say with us this is. the faith is practiced here you know what it matters because actually that may be how the faith is practiced here but then people use that to bash islam with in terms of your press your will mean that you don't believe in gender equality how does that make you feel about your faith you always feel that you are second class citizen you know we wouldn't tolerate separate entrances for blacks so much that was called apartheid you know and yet somehow we kind of turned

a blind eye when it's really just really when i just wanted to go to. the question of who are losing defines islam has always been a difficult one for a faith with no central authority but for muslims living in the west the vince a few seem able to confront that anyway. you need to be doing something we need to act on these issues and not be seen to kind of take them for granted that they just happen and we don't do anything to help. someone is a mother of two and a community psychologist together she and her friends are writing letters and poems to the people of manchester you have to place that brings out the healing you only knew from history and. we wanted to come together and do a project called love letters to manchester so when writing messages from all of us we plan on going into the city center and basically giving out the scrolls that

we've created here i think the biggest problem in terms of these issues is a. has been you know that online radicalization and how easy it is for young people to call and access incredibly dangerous people so would you put that sort of extremist online content is just one altogether from the internet yeah i mean i don't see why it should be an online spaces if it's extremist and it's full of hatred it should be on my pretty hard for any parent explaining and interpret in terrorist attacks to children is a challenge and for the muslim brothers there's an added dimension my eldest came to me i think she must have been reading some comments on various newspaper channels on the line and she said to me i can understand why they hate us now and i was like you know that really. sorry. i just don't know how to kind of deal with from you know given how that reassurance that you know that this is nothing to do with us this isn't about us you know this this is about an individual who's

psycho you know nobody could do this unless they were completely unhinged but i think there's a lot of work for us to do around young people's identities in this country especially when they're made to sometimes feel that they don't actually belong here but actually they do and that's what we need to be doing in. our doing a project called love letters to manchester and we're just giving out people from manchester a scroll with some letters that were written by libyan women from manchester and girls with some candles or just some sweets for. us. i came here to find out what happens after the terrorists and what we found is a government demanding difficult and embarrassing conversation a good one remaining silent home influence of saudi money and the fundamentalism it explodes. about him we have a love we have

a liberal with fellow muslims who genuinely want to engage in difficult to fight for the border to minute but still struggle to confront questions are who defines their own fight for the house and the libyan community to say we love manchester and hope you have a lovely day bank feet fake and in manchester we found the city still divided on the solution but in both grief and in spirit you know it.

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