hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. a wave of ethnic cleansing against minorities in iraq. amnesty says islamic state has turned parts of the region into blood soaked killing field. this is one of the first western journalist to enter the key town that was under siege by militants for weeks. >> reporter: we're told we shouldn't venture too far that way because there's still potential for snipers and shootings here. this is a town that's only beginning to come back to life.

dengue fever breaks out in tokyo, japan's first cases in 70 years. we visit the park where the outbreak is thought to have started. the kids from kampala dance their way from the slum to the stage. alice look at what's happening in one part of the united states. >> absolutely right. a historic moment. the city of detroit is going to court. bankruptcy proceedings begin, the city residents are battling to gain access to the most basic service services. it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. washington, 2:00 p.m. northern iraq where islamic

state militants are accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing. the human rights group says it has evidence the fighters have carried out war crimes including mass killings and abductions. it says islamic state turned the region into a blood soaked killing field. the comments come as iraqi troops and kurdish forces continue their battle against islamic state after breaking the siege in the town of amreli in the north. our correspondent tell temperatures us this is one of the first western journalists to enter amreli from where he sends this report. >> reporter: fighters from a local militia are going home at last returning to am -- to amreli after the long siege. our guide says there's snipers lurking around. we're skirting to the east trying to come at it from there because over to our right there are pockets of islamic state

resistance. amreli is a small shia town surrounded by sunni villages. local fighters held out against the islamists more than two months. it took an unlikely alliance of iranian backed shia militias, iraqi military and american air power to break the siege. he is looking for his family, but they're not home. he's had virtually no news of his elderly parents since the siege began. finally he finds his mother at a relative's house. then father is reunited with son. >> i haven't seen my son for three months.

my son. i'm his mother. they sell shelled us day after . they shelled my home. >> boys as young as 10 years old like this have been forced to grow up fast. >> translator: more than 1,000 rockets and missiles have landed on our town. they used tanks against us and heavy weapons. so all of these heroes here even the children were carrying clashes and organizing logistics. >> reporter: everyone in this town is on a war footing. amid the euphoria of victory, even the grannies fancy a pop at the islamic state. amid the palpable sense of joy at reunification of families and relief that the siege is broken; there's still anxiety on the streets of amreli. we're told we shouldn't venture

too far that way because there's still potential for snipers and shootings here. this is a town that's only just beginning to come back to life. when the firewood ran out, she stoked her bread oven. then the grain stores dwindled and she began digging holes looking for fresh water. and so the appearance today of a truckload of ice felt almost like a miracle. amreli has been iraq's biggest victory so far against the opponent that has swept through the country with terrifying speed. this is just one small town. the islamic state is still a powerful force. bbc news in amreli. let's get more from iraq. a middle east correspondent is in irbil. the effects of islamic state felt in so many places reports

now that relatives of iraqi soldiers abducted by i.s. have stormed the parliament desperate for news. >> reporter: that's right. it's linked to the islamic state or isis this was called in june when it stormed through iraq and took over the space in sue dam hussein's old hometown. there a large number of shias and soldiers surrendered to islamic who then documented what was a real massacre. they took many away in trucks and vans, took them to the desert, made them lie in shallow trenches and then sprayed them with gunfire. that is by their own admission and in offering that on the internet. there are hundreds of men and women missing. their relatives in baghdad are

extremely angry. they're pressing the government again the again about the missing. they've expressed anger by causing damage, setting fire in some places to make grievance enss met. iraqi officials are trying to focus on this. they're asking the commission to investigate the missing to try and investigate this one. that area is still held by the islamists. there's no way to carry out the detailed investigation at this stage. >> jim, i suppose that report by am necessity international saying i.s. is carrying out a wave of ethnic cleansing does t doesn'doesn't comes as a surprise? >> it soums up what we've said for some time. oddly enough, they don't publicize those killings.

we have heard from survivors from amnesty of accounts of survivors that found themselves under fipiles of bodies managedo call away at night and so on. these easy are not fighting forces that the islams are up against. they're not trying to strike r terror. they're trying to eliminate these people. we hear from human rights in syria women are sold there in the war. do stay with us. in around 20 minutes we'll talk about the issues surrounding foreign islamic state fighters. what happens to them when and if they want to return to their home countries. more stories to bring you around the world. u.s. military forces have carried out air strikes against the al shabaab network in

somalia. the top leader of the islamist group is targeted. this comes days after government troops launched a major offensive aimed at sizing the key port from the rebels. pakistan parliament is holding an emergency session of both houses in attempt to rally for support behind the prime minister sharif. clashes between security forces and demonstrators continue for a third day in islamabad with protestors calling for the prime minister to resign. pro russian rebels have taken control of eastern ukraine and ukraine's defense minister has declared russia has begun a full scale military intervention in the country. he said the kremlin brought a great war to the country. nick childs has this report. >> reporter: pro russian rebels in control here in eastern ukraine having pushed government

forces back in the latest fighting as fighters recount successes. kiev and the west insists it's increased direct russian military involvement shifted the balance of power in a conflict that's reshaping the the security land shape of europe. government forces continue to prepare their defenses outside the key city of mariupol. the kiev authorities unsettled by the setbacks of sounding alarm bells louder now on his facebook page. ukraine's defense minister says a great war has arrived on our doorstep, likes of which europe has not seen since world war ii. from moscow failed denials of direct involvement, it's pointing the finger of blame at kiev and the west for stoking tensions denouncing kiev's suggestion it will try to join nato. >> the party of peace was trying and still trying to advance negotiated political settlement of fundamental questions

ukrainians face. in kiev, the party of war is taking steps clearly aimed at undermining efforts. >> all this as they're getting ready in wales to host the summit in two days. alliance leaders are likely to dismiss the russian statement it will have to change the military doctrine to respond to nato. the summit, it will be announced more exercises and rapid reaction force to reassure eastern members further because it says russia has blatantly violated ukrainian sovereignty and own international security obligations. on the ground in ukraine's trouble east, the recent fighting has left a waste land around this part of the key city of donetsk. it also continues to lay waste to the post cold war assumptions about security and instability

in europe. authorities in tokyo are trying to stop the spread of dengue fever outbreak. the first outbreak in 70 years. 34 are believed to be infected, all thought to be bitten by mosquitos in the state park. a rash, severe joint pain are among the symptoms. >> this is the yoyo park, the nicest and biggest park in tokyo. it's a haven here from this enormous city. you can see this is now the epicenter of this dengue fever outbreak. there's a sign here on the gate. it says danger, warning, wear long sleeves, avoid showing skin, wearing sandals and bare feet. use bug spray. it doesn't say the reason, but we all know it's because of dengue fever. this is probably where the fever

began. a few days ago these ponds would have been filled with water. very wet summer in tokyo, lots of places to breed. they've completely drained the pond. a huge spraying operation has been going on to eradicate the mosquitos. the fever is passed from one one human to another by mosquitos. the only way to eradicate is by spraying for mosquitos. the last reported case of dengue fever in japan was 70 years ago at the end of the second world war. this is a disease people here thought was gone forever. this is the middle of one of the biggest city miies in the world. it's not a place you expect to go for a jog many the morning and get bitten by a mosquito

that can be a potentially fatal disease. it is thought from southeast asia or africa. it has been rapidly spreading out of those areas over the last 40 years further north and south from the equator. it is reaching countries like japan. the reason for that, twofold. first people are traveling more and carrying this disease with them. the second is condition for it to spread. hot, wet summers are also becoming more and more common. stay with us here on bbc world news. still to come, we meet a group of militant fighters in afghanistan considering linking up with others in iraq and syria. what could such a union mean. we'll ask our world affairs editor john simpson in a few minutes.

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fighters from a group in afghanistan have told bbc they are considering joining forces with islamic state formally known as isis and will continue to fight against the afghan government even after nato forces leave afghanistan at the end of this year. a new afghan president was due to be inaugurated today to attend the summit later this week to decide security agreements. june's presidential election remains disputed with to declared winner. john simpson travelled to meet the insurgents in northern afghanistan. >> landscape is beautiful but also dangerous. we drove north seven hours on new roads which thanks to corruption are often breaking up already. this is a war zone. you can plainly seen the battle

scars on the police post as we head into the town. it's a prosperous agricultural center active and bustling. there's plenty of nervousness as well. the country side around the taliban and allies are operating. everyone here is aware of them. when we were in the town, we were safe enough. it's under government control. directly outside it, you're in hostile territory. out here kidnapping is a real threat. we've had the promise of a safe conduct from the fiercely radical group we're going to see. we're pretty confident we can trust that. the meeting happened late at night on a dusty track not far from the main road. only our afghan cameraman was able to be there. out of the darkness, the group's leader emerges with his body

guards. the commander belongs to the extreme group fighting along side the taliban in this area. though western troops leaving won't i lay down his weapons. we'll keep fighting until the rule is installed here. we'll never accept the american made constitution. our struggle will continue until we establish law throughout the world. >> he says he gets many weapons from the afghan army and police who hand them over in order to keep in with him. he and his fighters are very much their own men. he is considering linking up with isis, the islamic state in syria and iraq as he calls by the different name. >> i know about isis.

we have links with isis members. this is the first caliphate in the world. isis is expanding conquering syria and iraq. we're waiting to see a if they meet the requirements for caliphate. if they do, we're ready to join them. they're great islamic fighters. we pray for them. >> the increasingly brutal threat posed by these men is deeply disturbing to see political figures back in kabul. >> we are suffering. it is getting worse in some places. you are because they have become very, very brutal. god willing the commander says, we'll go to palestine, syria and iraq to defeat infidels. any link up between the fighting there and fighting here in afghanistan would be pretty

worrying for the west. bbc news northern afghanistan. >> john is back from afghanistan with us here in the studio. imagine a potential future where islamic extremists have a strong hold in afghanistan. it would be a deja vu as if the last 13 years didn't happen. >> there's a loss in islamic extremism there in afghanistan. always has been the organization that this commander was fighting for which has been extreme for a long time. the difference is between what's going on in afghanistan and what's going on in the middle east. afghanistan has always been pretty much the kind of in itself mountains and deserts cut off from the outside world. they feel different, speak

different languages and so forth. the possibility of some kind of link up even with smallish groups like his, he himself says it's not terribly interested in that kind of thing. it looks as though it might be part of a wider deal if ever that come about in afghanistan. seems a long way away at the moment. individual commanders could well make links of their own. that would make things rather difficult. >> the political void in the moment at afghanistan. how much does that contribute to overall security situation, the vacuum? >> it's a really important part of it. everybody feels they're in a vacuum. people aren't paying their bills because why bother? you don't know what's going to happen. people are looking to other countries to go.

if you've got money, you tend to want to put it into turkey rather than leave it in afghanistan. still the politicians are failing to make this basic agreement between abdullah abdullah and ghani. until they manage that, then all of these, this lack of central control and a feeling that anything goes is going to continue. >> john, thank you very much. our world affairs editor. let's take you to uganda now. the group of children reverse their fortune by uploading the the video of themselves dancing to the internet. it went viral. they're now a worldwide hit. katherine went to meet the so called gheto kids. >> their quick steps, rhythm and swagger are taking uganda by storm. the gheto kids perform at the

biggest shows. audiences don't want to miss a move or a beat. >> gheto kids shot to fame with this homemade video uploaded to youtube in january. it's become an internet sensation with millions of views around the world. the group's success hasn't come easy. they train practically everyday rehearsing routines or doing exercis exercises. they wouldn't have it any other way. >> people are like our friends. if we grow out, we can help them. they get their needs as us. >> the brain behind it all is a mathematics teacher. he set up the collective as a way to help poorer children in his neighborhood.

himself a former street child, he says he felt he had to do something. >> i came up with dance to get somewhere money for school. s that how i was inspired to open up that group. >> several people have posted videos on youtube trying to dance like these guys. it's really catching on. i want to learn, so alex show us a move. now it's over to you at home. bbc news kampala. >> i don't think we're doing it quite as well as they do. coming up next on "gmt." we have been hearing about amnesty accusations. some islamic state fighters aren't from iraq and syria. it's estimated thousands are there other parts of the world. many from europe. coming up on "gmt," we're

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this is bbc world news. in this half hour, islamic state is accused of ethnic cleansing and mass murder. with so many foreigners among the ranks of i.s. fighters, we asked what governments can do about them when they want to return home. the burmese beauty queen demands an apology. also in the program, alice looks at what's happening in business and a blow to the island. >> that's right.

despite the verbal best interest, the plan for a new island airport is rejected. what's let's return to our top story. we've been hearing about the islamic state horrific war crime. it's estimated thousands of fighters, foreigners many from countries like britain, france and germany. reports like the one from today as well as the relief of shocking pictures including the killing of james foley having ignited the debate around foreign born militants. specifically the question is what to do with those that return to home countries?

should they be prosecuted, rehabilitated or both? david cameron has been taking about his country's plan. >> as we stand today we are able to deal with for instance foreign nationals that want to return to britain. they can be excluded. we can deal with nationals because we can take away british passport without rendering them stateless. a british citizen says he wants to come back to britain in order to reek havoc in our country who's pledge allegiance to another state. that's got to be properly identified and properly dealt with. >> from the organization that speaks to counter extremism and douglas murray a uk terrorism expert what do you suggest?

>> the uk has got to take the lead on this. there are 70 countries citizens are fighting along side the islamic state. britain has possibly the best talk in terms of legal response to this issue. we should be leaving, upholding international law and our uk common law and working out international solution to this global problem. >> douglas murray, do we have the equipment to deal with this situation already or is new will legislation, new measures like taking passports necessary? we have a lot of legislation on the books already. most is rather suspicious when a government says we need new legislation. apart from anything else you need to look at what legislation is on the books currently and not being used. there are a number that are very much underused by the government and previous government. membership described organizations for instance. a piece of legislation rarely used. there might be an opening for new legislation. there's certain aspects of this

conflict that might require that. the one i would flag out of being most obvious is a problem that effectively not britain but every other western country has. we have submersion treason laws on the books unworkable today. it might be an idea for this government to start to look at that whether or not there's a modern version of the law which might easily em compass the the problem we're facing today. >> we're seeing the potential of very frightening people coming back, having been in a brutal violent theater of war in northern iraq or syria. what are the other options? i know your organization talks even about rehabilitating people. some ask how could you rehabilitate someone who beheads

someone in front of a camera. >> reintegration are very important to try to win the hearts and minds back of these people. it's only an add-on to our existing legal solution to this problem. we should find a way of incentive vising people back to the uk, then use laws to prosecute them. in prison, we can use our successful channel program, a way of engaging and deradicalizing those ideologically committed to try and turn the time. we can do more than that. we've got to tackle non violent extremism. this is a large port from which jihadist can recruit. let's cut down the port. >> one exception is the idea of incentivizing people to return. i think it would be best if people did not return. somebody carrying tout most brutal attacks in iraq and syria, it's best we don't have

them coming back. we don't have to spend years working out how to keep them under control order, in prison or elsewhere to deradicalize. the best is not to deal with those people. they'll always cause a legal mind field. if they have return and it's impossible for them not to return, there are other options available. >> i think to just come back briefly to that point, the danger of removing british passports from british citizens who are a broad and rendering them stateless and a worry under standard u.n. convention. it's a worry in that we grant a level of lo legitimacy. >> is it not important to gather information for somewhere in a state of chaos?

how do you do that? >> that's not the main issue. i think this security service have adequate tools to monitor people's social media correspondents, look at internet history and look at their travel history to work out and piece together a picture of their intentions and previous acts. >> do you think you can pick up enough evidence, just one brief word to douglas murray? >> it's possible. i wasn't talking about removal of passports. i think it would be most desirable if the person that deheaded james foley is killed in northern iraq or syria. i think that would be more desirable than him coming back here. this is an extraordinary social media based conflict. on the other hand some are very active on media. others are not. you're right about the difficulty of collecting

evidence. we ought to learn from experience in the last 13 years. it's extremely difficult even if you pick people up on the foreign battlefield to have the evidence to have a prosecution in the western court. these are ongoing challenges. we faced them last 13 years. it's not a new challenge. it's an extension of it. >> thank you very much. very much more to discuss. i'm sure we will. thank you very much. for more on iraq, go to our website. lots of background to the latest situation and the rise of the islamic state. bbc.com/iraq. >> we change tone and turn to business news. alice has. that a particular part of the united states has been in the headlines over the recent decade. >> very much indeed. we've been following this months. after decades of mismanagement, detroit has hit financial rock

bottom. the trial for the largest bankruptcy in u.s. history is settled to start on tuesday. the city hopes to cut the current debt bill of $12 billion to a more manageable $5 billion with thousands of creditors and issues to resolve, detroit's bankruptcy could be for years to come. half of the city's residents are struggling to maintain a basic service. some reports now from the city. >> this is a scene that is beginning the to play out on many streets in detroit. workers are turning people's water back on. she is 38 weeks pregnant. she and her 5-year-old daughter spent days without water. >> i was kind of devastated not having the same abilities with water and transferring without water was hard. it was limited on taking a bath,

cooking and cleaning. it was nerve racking. >> her waterless days are now behind her. >> yea the the water is on. >> it's not the case for many detroit resident who is wait hours in line to pay bills so their taps can be turned back on. >> now is not the time to cut water off. >> activists and community leaders are outraged. the water department is owed more than 80 million for a city that is trying to dig itself out from under crushing debt. it cannot afford that many unpaid bills. >> we're standing up saying no. >> no one expects to be talking about the lack of water in a major american city. especially one that sits next to the large source of fresh water. such are the harsh times that have befallen what's prosperous home to america's auto industry

is now the largest city to file for bankruptcy. abandoned homes in neighborhoods another the peak in the 1950s. 1.8 million people lived in detroit. roughly only 700,000 remain. of those, half live in poverty and many struggle for water. >> jobs are gone. we're barely making it as it is. government has cut pensions, pay checks and everything else. now you take the one thing we need to sustain life. >> sonia brown is giving away water from her home so people without can get some for free. it's a sign even as detroit's infrastructure crumbles, the sense of community has not. >> now the city is waiting for the court courts to do their part and approve a new financial plan. detroit can begin to rebuild.

bbc news detroit. >> now key to economic success, the uk currently a key airport hub in europe is falling behind according to the outspoken mayor of london. on tuesday, a radical proposal to build a new island airport. the cost of the airport is a minimum of $150 billion. possibly well over $165 billion. london's concerned mayor pressed the point on the radio this morning saying other airports are competing hard for business. >> a hub in amsterdam is taking our business and eating our lunch. they have six run ways. they're about to build a seventh. we are lagging behind. >> how worried should we be about our lunch being eaten?

let's speak to the travel expert. simon, were you surprised that boar rous island plans for it were rejected? >> i think nobody in the aviation community was surprised. when this came out six years ago, i gave the island airport a chance in one in 1,000 of ever being bill. investment of $165 billion in a country which already has actually quite a lot of airports and run ways and is a fairly mature and compact nation. >> simon, talk us through the alternatives that still remain on the table. there is no doubt that we do need to expand london's airport capabilities. >> it is remarkable. for the last 70 years or so since the end of the second world war, london has the same number of run ways.

there are two heath row by far the busiest airport. the world's single busiest run way airport. what we're left with is a new run way which is 30 miles south of the center of london or a third run way at heath row about 15 miles west of london. great opposition locally to those proposals. there's no absolute guarantee even if the commission says we want a new run way that it will ever get built. london has gone through for a lifetime and still manages to somehow be by far the biggest aviation hub in the world. more passengers flying in and out than paris, tokyo, beijing. if if you combine both due buy and abdabi. >> are we in real danger that we

are going to lose serious ground to competitors? >> the the threat from europe from amsterdam in particular is not really significant. paris and frankfort do not simply have the same domestic market that london does. where the real threat lies is in the middle east, due buy, abdabi, dohar and europe ins stan bull where the turkish airlines is growing quickly. it may be london will lose out to those parts of the world. certainly in western europe, london leads the way with or without an additional run way. >> simon, always good to hear your views. travel expert on the island. now that's all from me this hour. do stay with us. more business on the website. >> thank you very much. we'll see you later. stay with us here on bbc world news. still to come, the storm over

the celebrity photo hack continues to brew. how did the naked images thought to be once deleted make it to the internet? we'll try to piece it together.

you're watching "gmt" with me here on bbc world news. our top story this is hour. the human rights group amnesty international has evidence i lanlic state jihadist have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern iraq. japan fights its first home grown outbreak of dengue fever many decades. 34 people are infected. here in britain, prosecutors are deciding whether to drop a case are from a cup that will removed their seriously ill son

from a hospital. the king's who's 5-year-old son ashya has a brain tumor spent the night in a spanish prison after he refused to return to the uk. ashya's brother has been allowed to visit him in the hospital. >> they say they only want what's best for their critically ill chide. the king's have now spent another night in custody accused of his neglect. the couple who are being held at this prison in madrid haven't been charged with any offense. the grand prosecution service in the uk has now announce had the the case is under immediate review. if lawyers decide there isn't enough evidence or that a prosecution wouldn't be many the public interest, the couple will be free to go. the european arrest warrant was put out for the pair at the request of hampshire police. they were taken to custody saturday night. after appearing in court

yesterday and refusing to be extradited, a spanish judge ordered the king's be jailed while he considered granting bail. ashya is cared for under police guard hundreds of miles away a a hospital. his older brother was able to visit him first time last might. it's thought the king's travelled to spain to sell their holiday home to pay for the treatment the nhs would not provide. the proton b therapy in the czech republic says it's willing to treat the little boy. if cps decides to drop the case against his parents, it's possible ashya could be about to be moved to yet another foreign countr country. now the fbi has said it's looking into allegations of the online accounts of dozens of celebrities hacked leading to nude photos of them being posted

online n online anonymously. jennifer laurence kim kardashian are among those who's pictures were released. a day or so after this first broke, have we got any clarity? we have got fast currents of speculation. every security expert in the world wants to comment on this. they don't have much information. we do know pictures first appeared on this site which is the well known site for prankste pranksters, people that want to share stuff. they were then shared more widely. there's been a, identify the person who's done this. one person has been identified and said it wasn't him. he was trying to sell the pictures and make money from them. and also to work out exactly how it was done and whether as there's been so much speculation

this was a vulnerable in apple i cloud service where people share their photos on online from one device to another. >> a cloud being somewhere you can back up photos, keep them safe so you'd like when you lose your phone. not safe if people are doing stuff like that. we don't know how they did it? >> we don't. the speculation centers around various ways which whoever got together the list of celebrity e-mails because they lad to do that and know all the e-mails plus pass words. then they had to set about finding pass words. one possibility is a brute force attack. apparently there was a vulnerability over the weekend in the am systems which would allow you to use user software to bombard with billions of pass words until one was right. usually if you use three and

they don't work, you get timed out. this is a long time collection by a group of people that decided to put this out there and maybe more photos coming. there's a speculation about phishing attacks where you get e-mails saying log in here to update security and they're fake. all sorts of ideas. very little information. what we're waiting for is apple to be slow off the mark to come out with what its investigations have shown. >> thank you very much. now her brief reign may be over, the first ever beauty queen is refusing to give back her $100,000 tiara after being dethroned. she was crowned three months ago. she was stripped of the title last week after being labeled a liar and thief by pageant organizers. we have the story.

>> this was the scene earlier this year as she was crowned miss asian pacific world. during decades of isolation, myanmar during this contest. for the first time it had a win ir. it was a small if yet tacky step with myanmar engaging with the wider world. last week she was stripped of her title. a stinging statement from the pageant organizers called her a liar and demanded she give back the $100,000 winner's tiara. on the website, her picture was replaced with a black box below the word dethroned. she still has her crown. like all the best beauty queens, she's come out fighting at a packed press conference. she gave her explanation as to why she had been sacked.

she said she had been made to lie about her age and would give the crown back if certain conditions were met. >> apologize to the country. apologize to myanmar. >> if police come after you, will you give it back then? >> there's been criticism here in myanmar who regard her behavior as unburmese. there's been a lot of support, people pleased at her active rebellion at what many see as the sexist and sorted world of beauty pageants. organizers of the competition have denied pestering her to

have plastic surgery. they say she was unprofessional and not ready to live the life they had planned for her as an international celebrity. >> i'll be back same time tomorrow if you want to get in touch with me on twitter @karen on bbc. thanks very much for watching "gmt." ised land of accomodation booking.com booking.yeah!

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