welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is lebo diseko. our top stories: iraqi government forces advance on the western half of the city of mosul — we have a report from the front line. they're now above the village, which is their main target. they're laying down fire, and they're about to call in some artillery strikes. sweden requests an explanation after president trump apparently invents an immigration—related security incident there. a bomb explosion outside a bullfighting ring in colombia — were animal rights activists to blame? and angelina jolie speaks to us exclusively about her new film — and her hopes it will help a new generation understand cambodia's genocide. this war that happened a0 years ago, and what happened to these people, was not properly understood. and notjust for the world, but for the people of the country. iraqi security forces have been

pushing forward in a major offensive to try and take full control of the second largest city — mosul. the city was seized more than two years ago by the so—called islamic state. the offensive to remove them began last october with iraqi troops securing the eastern part of the city last month. but the western half of the city is home to around 750,000 civilians, and stiff resistance from is fighters is expected. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommerville and cameraman nik millard are the only television journalists on the frontline with iraqi forces — they sent this report on the first day of the offensive. just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so—called islamic state. thousands of men, and hundreds

of armoured vehicles, in a line of attack that spread for miles. the iraqi army are starting their assault on western mosul. they've breached their own defences. armoured vehicles are lining up, getting ready for the islamic state. they're only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. they're dug in, and the assault on western mosul has started. leading the attack, iraq's emergency response division, police special forces. some of these men were surrounded by is two years ago. theyjust escaped with their lives. today, they threw everything they had at is. they're now above the village, which is their main target. they're laying down fire, and they're about to call

in some artillery strikes. but first came the mortars. the captain tells me there are three is fighters in a yellow building down there, and car bombs — "we're targeting them now." car bomb explosion just gone off. the men were trying to take it out. it seems like they managed to hit it. they'd set up a whole bunch of... we'll call these rifles, but as you can see here, they're getting ready with another rpg just in case. but it seems like they got it. there were four car bombs in total, but soon government forces were inside. they killed 13 is fighters, and sustained only one casualty.

translation: we are very glad to have liberated this area. we have killed lots of is, and we will soon get civilians back to their homes. we will continue to push forward, and will follow is to the border. here, there were no white flags, nor is black flags. for the first time in years, iraq's flag flew above alignatra village. the village is small, but important. it is the gateway to mosul proper, and the city's airport. and, as we discovered, homes had become fortresses. here, is weapons. and hidden inside a house, away from surveillance aircraft, another car bomb, disguised as an ambulance.

the bomb inside was still live. in these streets, though, a critical advantage. there were no civilians. in west mosul, there are 750,000 people, and thousands of is fighters. it took these men just six hours to take this village, their target. they made good progress, but with overwhelming force. beyond here is another town and another village. that town overlooks mosul airport and the city itself. from here on in, though, the going won't be nearly so fast. this was a victory two years in the making. but it is more than that. these troops, once humiliated by is, today celebrated a moment of redemption, for them and for iraq. quentin somerville, bbc news, on mosul‘s southern front. well, the wider fight

against so—called islamic state, and the security of the region has been talked about a major security conference in munich, and our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is there. well, iraq's prime minister, haider al—abadi, was here a minute before he rushed back to baghdad to launch the start of the mosul offensive. —— in munich. and everyone he saw here, including british officials, warn him that the fight is not just military. who is going to run mosul after is is defeated there? 0n the ground, you have iraq—backed militias, us—backed iraqi army, kurdish fighters. without a power—sharing agreement now, mosul will be plunged into another wave of violence and extremism. questions, too, over what happens over the border in syria, where is is in control of iraq. —— raqqa. we heard calls in munich for american special forces to go in and be on the ground, others saying that will just inflame tensions.

but one us official told me that, if president trump has an america—first policy, it has to be raqqa—first. there are said to be is gunmen holed up in front of their computers, plotting 9/ii—style attacks. so here in munich, a lot of talk about accelerating the fight against is, but a lot of worry that the right strategies are not in place. the white house has been trying to clarify remarks by president trump, in which he appeared to suggest sweden had suffered a recent security incident. none had actually taken place. mr trump himself has tweeted that he based his comments on a fox news report about rising crime and immigration. the confusion came from a rally he held in florida — where he spoke about security issues and terror attacks in germany and france. 0ur correspondent, laura bicker, reports. this is a us holiday weekend to celebrate past presidents. but, in new york and elsewhere, some decided to hold protests about the new one. it has been a difficult first month for donald trump. he took time out to step into the sunshine state and hold a rally with his supporters. this is firmer ground and more familiar.

the president of the united states! he promised a new immigration order later this week to replace his controversial travel ban. but some of his reasoning caused more controversy. you look at what's happening last night in sweden. sweden. who would believe this? sweden! they took in large numbers. they're having problems like they never thought possible. the swedish embassy in the us asked for a explanation. there have been no terror attacks there this week. the white house says he was referring to reports of rising crime, which he may have seen on fox news. it is the kind of distraction from his message that mr trump blames on the media. i also want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news. they have become a big part of the problem. they are part of the corrupt system.

president trump accused major us networks of being an enemy of the people. 0ne senior republican says lessons need to be learned from history. if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free, and many times adversarial, press. and, without it, i'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. that's how dictators get started. but the president's chief of staff says the media is constantly making up news. they're talking about russian spies, talking about the intelligence community, talking about how me and steve bannon don't like each other, and what's kellyanne doing? this is just total garbage, unsourced stuff. donald trump held this rally to revive his message. but it is also a reminder there is work to do. president trump seems far more comfortable at the campaign podium than he does in the oval office right now. he seems to feed off

the energy of the crowd. but he doesn't need to win friends here in florida. he needs them on capitol hill, if he is to get his agenda through congress. he also needs to find a new national security adviser, after his first pick resigned and his second turned down the job. he is holding interviews today. the rally will help donald trump reconnect with his voting base, but now it is time get on with governing. in other news: police and protestors have clashed in the ukrainian capital kiev, ahead of a ceasefire between russian—backed rebels and government forces which comes into effect on monday. at least seven protestors were detained after ultra—nationalists gathered to back a blockade between the coal—producing separatist east and the rest of ukraine, which kiev has warned could cause nationwide power cuts and job losses. the international arms trade is now bigger that at any time

since since the end of the cold war. a new report says global imports of major weapons have gone up by nearly 10% in the last four years. middle east and gulf states bought the most, while the us, russia and china were among the countries that sold the most weapons. the polls have closed in ecuador where people are choosing their new president. the former vice president lenin moreno who's been leading in the opinion polls — needs to win 40% of the vote for an outright victory. the main conservative challenger guillermo lasso, hopes to benefit if the election does go to a second round. russian opposition activist, vladimir kara—murzah, has left the country after spending more than two weeks in a critical condition with suspected poisoning. medical discharge papers said he was suffering from the effects of an unknown toxic substance. he has flown out of russia accompanied by his wife and a medic, to continue his recovery abroad. the colombian president, juan manuel santos, has condemned

an attack near the bullring in the capital, bogota. the authorities said around 30 people, mostly policemen, were injured in the blast when a device exploded in a sewer. caroline davies has more. taxis and motorbikes on bogota's streets this sunday morning. then this. the explosion was amongst ranks of police officers, preparing to manage a protest. they left their helmets strewn in the street, to help their colleagues. this was close to the santamaria bullring, and the planned protest was against the sunday bullfight. the case is being investigated as terrorism, and the city's mayor has said they currently don't think it is linked to those against bullfighting. the device was thought to have been left in the sewer near to a youth hostel. the impact of the blast was felt streets away. translation: it was horrible. we were a half—block away, and it was tremendous. the apartment on the

second floor shook. bogota's mayor said the police would go after those responsible. translation: it is a message to reject terrorism. we are going to pursue terrorism. we are going to do everything we can to capture them. i can tell you that we have the whole of la macarena secured. we have people injured. inafew in a few minutes, we are going to make way. although no—one was killed, around 30 people have been injured, most of them policemen. colombia's president has condemned the attack, and the investigation continues to find out who is responsible. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: our exclusive interview with angelina jolie. she tells us why she chose to make a film about the horrors of the khmer rouge regime in cambodia. this is bbc news, i'm lebo diseko. the latest headlines: iraqi government forces have recaptured

a number of villages, at the start of an offensive to retake the western part of the city of mosul from the islamic state group. the white house has attempted to clarify remarks by president trump in which he appeared to suggest sweden had suffered a recent security incident related to immigration. malaysia's foreign ministry has summoned north korea's ambassador over claims he made about the handling of the investigation into the death of kim jong—nam, the half—brother of north korea's leader. he died on monday after apparently being poisoned at kuala lumpur airport. malaysia has also recalled its envoy from pyongyang for consultations. celia hatton reports. the assassination of this man appears to have involved a widening cast of characters. four have already been detained in the poisoning of kimjong—nam, including a woman holding a vietnamese passport, who could be this person from the crime scene, and this indonesian woman, who said

she was tricked into participating. she says she thought she was on a television prank show. one north korean citizen is also in custody, thought to be the man escorted here by malaysian police. and now the authorities have asked for interpol‘s help to find at least four more north koreans, who all entered and exited malaysia using regular passports. and i can confirm today that they have left our country, the very same day the incident happened. and more suspects are also wanted, people of interest who might know how kim jong—nam's killing was carried out. four suspects have been identified, which could assist us very much in the investigation. but still the question of what will be done with kim jong—nam's body. malaysian law requires his family to come in person to claim his corpse. the next of kin has to come forward. i have given a timeframe. and, if still they don't come

forward, then we have to look for the next option. i don't discuss at the moment. we wait and see. it is unclear whether mr kim's children can travel to the morgue where the autopsy was conducted, or perhaps the law requires the presence of this man, the victim's half—sibling, north korean leader kimjong—un. south korea's unification ministry confirmed they believe pyongyang orchestrated the poisoning of kimjong—nam, the man once poised to rule north korea, before falling out of favour with his dictator father. while kim jong—nam was alive, the thinking goes, he remained a threat to his half—brother, and to kimjong—un‘s fragile grip on power inside north korea. celia hatton, bbc news. we heard in celia's report that one of the people arrested is indonesian

woman who claims she was carrying out a prank for a tv show. the 25—year—old's parents insist she is innocent and is being set up. our correspondent rebecca henschke has been to meet herfamily. siti aishah's mother, benah, says her daughter told her she had been offered work in malaysia as a model. siti, who had separated from her husband, needed money to support her son, she says. translation: she said she wanted to go to malaysia for a filming on a show, to make people surprised by spraying perfume on somebody else. she was offered a job by someone to become an advertisement model for perfume, and she's an innocent girl, that did it because it was good money. benah says she was deeply shocked when she heard that her daughter had been arrested by malaysian police in relation to the murder of kim jong—nam.

malaysian media reports allege siti stood in front of kim to distract him, while someone else approached from behind. her family insist she was set up. translation: i'm asking and begging for help, so that my daughter is not punished, as i believe she's innocent. before siti left for malaysia, she left here with her ex—husband's family. in this community, she was just one of millions of indonesians who go abroad each year looking for work, and now they're struggling to understand how she has ended up involved in such a high—profile murder investigation. translation: she was a very good girl. she really looked after her in—laws. she was very aware that she came from the village, and from a poor background, and she worked hard. i'm completely in shock. itjust doesn't make sense, and it's not the aishah i know. the indonesian government says they have repeatedly requested

access to siti aishah, saying they want to make sure that her legal rights are being protected. but malaysian officials said, at this stage in the investigation, that is not possible. rebecca henschke, bbc news, jakarta. the hollywood actress—turned—director angelina jolie says she hopes her new film about cambodia under the khmer rouge will help educate the world about the brutality of the regime. she has been talking exclusively to our correspondent yalda hakim. hollywood royalty meets cambodian royalty. the backdrop, an ancient temple. it is the biggest movie premiere this country has ever seen. the director, angelina jolie, says the film speaks to this nation's people. their actors, their language, their story. this war that happened a0 years ago, and what happens to these people, was not properly understood.

and notjust for the world, but for the people of the country. i felt that i wanted them to be able to reflect on it in a way that they could absorb. so it's through the eyes of a child, and it's a lot about love. the khmer rouge, a radical communist movement, vowed to take the country back to year zero. millions were forced out of the cities, in an attempt to create a rural utopia. you could be killed for practising religion, showing emotions, or even wearing colour. infouryears, 2 million people died. speaking to people here, i get the sense that they don't want to remember the past, but they also can't forget it. there are 20,000 mass graves across this country, like these ones. a visual reminder of what this nation has been through. the haunting portraits of death — hundreds of images of those who were tortured at

the notorious s21 prison. more than 12,000 people were killed here. in the end, only a handful survived. 86—year—old chung mai is one of them. they beat me for 12 days and i2 nights, he tells me. i was so hungry, when i'd see a cockroach, a lizard or mouse, i would catch it and eat it. if they caught me, they'd beat me up again. angelina jolie is keen to tell this story, and focus on this country and its past. but it has been difficult to keep the spotlight off her own personal life. we know that an incident occurred which led to your separation. we also know you haven't said anything about this. would you like to say something? uh... only that... i don't want to say very much about that. except to say that it was a very

difficult time, and... and we are a family, and we will always be a family, and we will get through this time, and hopefully be a stronger family for it. but this moment is about cambodia, and remembering the time when this ancient culture was almost wiped out. now, have a look at this glacial beauty. this is the deepest and possibly one of the oldest freshwater lakes in the world. lake baikal in southern siberia was host to the annual baikal ice marathon on sunday. more than a0 russians and 30 dutch nationals took part in one of the hardest events of its type in the world. the racing lasted three days, and its participants had to overcome a total of 205 kilometres. the winners from the two categories were unsurprisingly russian. and now, an awkward moment was narrowly averted

at the world biathlon championships in austria on saturday, following an anthem mix—up. have a look. we hear now the national anthem of russia. speaks russian. singing in russian. we are so sorry about that. i want

to say to the russian team, to the officials, and especially to the athletes. mistakes can happen. it wasn't on purpose, but it was great we heard the russian gold team singing the anthem. just time to remind you of our top story. government forces have reca ptu red story. government forces have recaptured a number of villages in the start of an offensive to retake the start of an offensive to retake the city of mosul from the islamic state group. lots more on that story online. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @lebo underscore diseko. this is bbc news. hello there, good morning. 12 or 13 degrees quite widely on sunday. the north—east of scotland got

to around about 14 degrees. air has come in from the middle of the atlantic and will continue to do, although we will see temperatures drop away from the north as we get to the latter part of the week. a lot of cloud out there. overnight tonight it will be spilling its way in from the west. some of the cloud will be quite low across western areas and there will be at least some rain to be had in the far north and west first thing in the morning. but it will be a mild night. nine or ten degrees fairly typical for most major towns and cities. those are the sorts of temperatures we should see in the daytime at this time of year. a grey start for many. the weather front is not particularly intense in terms of rainfall, but there is wetter weather to be had and windy conditions in the far north—west. in the far south—west there will be low cloud, hill fog quite extensive, some coastal fog as well, but it is a mild start to the day. dry for the most part, the odd spot of drizzle under this

low cloud out west. not quite so much low cloud for east anglia and lincolnshire but down towards the south—east around the coast, it is a grey but mild start to the day. few breaks in the cloud for the north—east of england but most places are starting off rather grey. not much rain until you get to get to the north—west of northern ireland and the west of scotland as well. cloudy and breezy as well. some parts of eastern scotland just about getting away with a dry start to the day, but it will be a blustery start on the eastern side of scotland and the north—east of england for a time through the morning. winds gusting to around 50 miles an hour, bear that in mind if you are travelling up and down the pennines, for example. into the afternoon, we are going to see some reasonable temperatures in the south—east, given a few cloud breaks. up to 16 degrees, may be higher in a couple of places, not quite as warm as it was on sunday in scotland. into the evening, we've got some showers in the north of scotland, and the area of rain

affecting some parts of wales in southern england. in between it is largely dry and not overly chilly but we are into single figures. dawn on tuesday, there may even be a touch of frost in northern scotland. not so further south, another mild night, nine or ten degrees. another grey start to the day on tuesday for wales and southern counties of england. low cloud and patchy rain through the morning. wetter weather getting into western scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon. temperatures through the afternoon will be well into double figures for many of us. through wednesday and thursday temperatures just dropping back into single figures across the northern parts of the uk. still hanging on to double figures further south, with a fair bit of cloud and a little bit of rain at times. still less mild by the end of this week. some places doing quite well, but still quite windy later this week. the latest headlines from bbc news. i'm lebo diseko. iraqi government forces have advanced into a handful of villages on the first day of an offensive to recapture the western half of the city of mosul from the islamic state group. their first objective appears to be mosul‘s airport. government forces secured

the eastern part of the city last month. the white house has attempted to clarify remarks by president trump in which he appeared to suggest there'd been an immigration—related security incident in sweden on friday. mr trump himself has tweeted that he based his comments on a fox news television report about rising crime in the country. colombia's president has condemned an explosion near the bullring in the capital, bogota. around 30 people, mostly police, were injured while preparing for protests by animal rights groups against sunday's bullfight. officials said they had no evidence the attack was related to bullfighting. time now for dateline london.