this is bbc news. the headlines at 4.00pm: the prime minister of iraq announces victory over so—called islamic state in mosul — he's in the city to declare its liberation. the parents of terminally—ill baby charlie gard deliver a petition to great ormond street hospital calling on them to let him go to the us for experimental treatment. we think that this has a chance. it has up to a 10% chance of working for charlie and we feel that that's a chance worth taking. government ministers say unacceptable amounts of drugs and mobile phones are being found in prisons. also in the next hour: going back to his roots — after 13 years away, wayne rooney rejoins his boyhood club, everton, as he says goodbye to manchester united. coming up at 10.30pm here on bbc news, witness speaks to paul mccatrney‘s brother, mike, who remembers one of the beatles most famous performances. good afternoon and

welcome to bbc news. the iraqi prime minister, haider al—abadi, has declared that the city of mosul has been liberated from so—called islamic state. the prime minister has travelled to mosul, where he's meeting fighters ahead of a formal victory speech later. earlier, iraqi forces were fighting to capture the last small area of mosul where islamic state militants were holding out. a short while ago, hanan razek from bbc arabic told me how the liberation of mosul would be perceived across the region. mosul used to be the second—largest city in iraq. it was the biggest city in iraq. it was the biggest city they could capture in the

country. now, as they are defeated in the city they will have to retreat to some role, smaller areas and towns, so it means that the victory against islamic state is very eminent in the whole of the region, notjust iraq. i suppose it is hard to think of many advantages of them being in control in mosul, but at least it meant there was one place you could look to clear them out from. presumably, the nature of their militancy is once they are split up they can do vanish into the civilian population, nobody would know who is or who isn't a fighter. absolutely. this puts a big challenge for the government now. most soul was a very densely populated city, almost 900,000 people fled the fighting. we know that around 600,000 of those fled from the western part of the city where the fighting was very intense

and it was very difficult because it has narrow streets, so it was street by street, our house by house and a fight. many people fled. it will put an extra layer of challenge for the government to know who is who and i think there will be some vetting processes and as the rebuild the city and after the fighters leave. rebuilding the city will be a huge task in itself, never mind the next stage of political rebuilding and trying to get people to think again as iraqis and share the country rather than be at loggerheads with one another. absolutely. now the city is mostly in rubble. there are no buildings that have escaped the fighting and the shelling: the destruction. now there will be a

long process of rebuilding the city, which we understand might require up to $1 billion to rebuild. also, there is the political challenge because iraq is a country faces a lot of sectarian challenges and rebuilding the city and having a political process inside the city, that will be at the questioning quite a long process, as well. and for the prime minister, temp three, how important is his liberation of mosul. it is a big victory for him politically, it enhances his position in the government, if it makes people regain trust in the iraqi government. i think he will use that victory to go forward with his policies. melanie markham is a spokesperson for the norwegian refugee council. thank you for being with us. the

flow of people as i understand that has been from east to west, so when people were escaping the city there we re people were escaping the city there were heading west to get to refugee camps. what sort of pressures has that created? we have actually seen the float to the displacement camps he is because the people from west mosul have been flowing to the east. that presents other challenges for organisations like the norwegian refugee council because we are trying to reach people who are disbursed to a large urban area. one of the things we have been trying to do over the last few weeks is rebuild our water plant in west mosul that would supply water to 100,000 people. we have been distributing cash, truck in the water and rebuild schools. it is difficult among a population that is disbursed as much as it is, but also ina disbursed as much as it is, but also in a city that is experiencing continued violence. aid agencies

like us, we are not expecting the violence to stop just because the battle for mosul ends. in those circumstances, what are the practical restrictions that you and your colleagues are working on when you're coming to try to do things like getting out into that part of mosul and beginning the process of reconnecting water supplies? the most difficult thing for us is the needs are most acute in the most dangerous areas. so this part of west mosul where the remnants of the battle are occurring is where people have been under siege for months, if not years. people have been blockaded, they haven't had supplies. there needs are extremely acute. the other problem for us, particularly with this water plant is unexploded bombs, minds that have been placed in a lot of areas which

is making it incredibly dangerous for aid organisations like us. what is the first priority for you? is it clea n is the first priority for you? is it clean sanitation, the water supply? it is really difficult to name a single thing that is the biggest priority. there are acute medical needs but temperatures in iraq at the moment are very high. needs but temperatures in iraq at the moment are very highlj needs but temperatures in iraq at the moment are very high. i fear we have lost the sound. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news this afternoon. good luck with all of that important work you are doing. the parents of charlie gard have delivered a petition to great ormond street hospital in london calling on doctors to allow their terminally ill baby to travel to the us for experimental treatment. the petition has been signed by more than 350,000 people. the 11—month old boy's case is due to return to the high court tomorrow.

what is the latest? i am a square right down the road from great 0rmond right down the road from great ormond street hospital and it is a square ormond street hospital and it is a square were ormond street hospital and it is a square were supporters of charlie had been gathering all day. charlie's parents thought they had run out of legal options but tomorrow there will be a fresh hearing at the high court about whether their 11—month—old son can get treatment in america and a lot hangs on that hearing. joining me now is chris and connie. thanks so much for agreeing to speak to bbc news. he had just handed in a petition to great ormond street hospital. can you tell us what you hope that will achieve? it shows the amount of support behind us. 0ver 350,000 signatures. we have support from around the world that believe

inc from around the world that believe in cand from around the world that believe in c and believe that he deserves this chance. you thought your son's life—support machine would be turned off. i worried are you about tamara's hearing? tomorrow is the first hearing them there will be another one later on in the week. that will be the scary one, the day we get the result. we have to stay hopeful, hope that the judge listens to these seven experts that we have that they say there is a chance this will work for charlie. we agree with them that charlie should have this opportunity, as do our supporters. did you think that battle had to an end? yet, we did. it was very close, very close. he is still fighting up there so we are still fighting. he said months ago that we would never give up on him and he deserves his chance so we will keep going. give up on him and he deserves his chance so we will keep goingm this fight taking away from being

with c? no, we spent all of our time with c? no, we spent all of our time with charlie, so there is someone up there with him now will be doing this and we will go straight back to him. we want to thank everybody here is supporting us, and the world's most powerful men tweeting about our little boy. we have raised over {1.3 million for his treatment. there are a lot of people who agree with us. parents know their children best but it is notjust about parents know their children best but it is not just about what we think, but what other doctors think. we are not slating great ormond, amazing things happen in there, but there are children are on treatment and art son isn't. he deserves it. doctors have said that treatment may not make a difference to him so how relieved argued that great ormond street hospital put in this request for another high court hearing? we are believe that it will be looked at. theresa may made a statement that if new evidence came to light

it would be looked at and that charlie's best interests would be re—evaluated. i hope that they do ta ke re—evaluated. i hope that they do take into consideration that there are now seven doctors. 18 children on this medication and they are all getting stronger and better. it is a miracle what happens. there is a girl who was on a ventilator like c, and a year later she was riding a bike. it is an oral medicine with no major side—effects. there is nothing to lose. president trump has come out in support of view. there have been people from america here today, including the reverend. tell me what it means to you to have that support. it is absolutely amazing. a lot of people agreed that what we are doing is right. we are just

normal people. we are not strong people, but what has kept us going is our love for our little boy. if he was in pain and suffering they wouldn't be standing here. have other parents got in touch with you, who are going through similar things. we have spoken to people previously. c to go and get the treatment and then they might bring that treatment here. how are you preparing for the hearing tomorrow. i don't think you can, really. the la st i don't think you can, really. the last nine months... i want to say again that we are not slating great ormond street hospital is a fantastic hospital. they are specialist in many many areas and

the nurses are amazing human beings. there are so caring and looked after him so well. we are asking them to ta ke him so well. we are asking them to take charlie from this hospital to another one so he can get this treatment. hopefully, charlie will get the chance he deserves. thank you so much forjoining us, chris and connie, charlie gard's parents, speaking of their hope to take charlie to america for treatment. the headlines on bbc news: the iraqi prime minister says the city of mosul has been liberated from the islamic state group. the parents of terminally—ill infant charlie gard have asked great ormond street hospital to let him go to the us for experimental treatment. hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of mobile phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. the government has described

the situation as "unacceptable". sport now and, for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here's reshmin choudhary. wayne rooney has returned to everton from manchester united, 13 years after leaving the club. the former england captain and record goalscorer for club and country had become increasingly sidelined at united in recent seasons. the 31 year—old re—joins his boyhood club for free on a two—year deal. richard conway reports. he is, quite simply, one of the greatest strikers in english football history. rooney! 0h—ho! that is absolutely fantastic! wayne rooney was a teenage prodigy, but his goal—scoring exploits endured. he leaves manchester united as their record goal—scorer, but with his playing time increasingly limited under manager jose mourinho, he is heading

back to where his story started, at everton. it would be good thing to get another evertonian in through the doors, one as high—profile as wayne. he shows where everton are. he would be able to come in and give everton a real strength in depth with regards to the striking position, which everton have not had over the past couple of seasons. wayne rooney announced his incredible talent to the world with this stunning goal against arsenal at the tender age of 16. he starred for england too and is now his country's leading goal—scorer. sir alex ferguson, who signed him for manchester united in 2004, has said rooney would have excelled in any era. but rooney's relationship with him and the old trafford fans was not always smooth and he came close to leaving for rivals manchester city on one occasion. there was talk about wayne rooney perhaps moving to china, maybe even america, but in the end he has opted to come back to where it all began for him as a young boy.

and the fans, well, they'll be walking through these gates at the start of the new season knowing that he is back in the blue of everton. the man who discovered rooney as an eight—year—old playing for a junior team in liverpool says he remembers a boy who simply loved to score goals. the strength of him. he was only a little lad, but that was young wayne. he has been a long time gone. too long, really. welcome home. with some critics thinking he is a shadow of the player he once was, everton fans will hope this move home can inspire a return to his very best. and, perhaps, for a player whose emotions are always close to the surface, there may be a sense of unfinished business at a club he's always held close to his heart. valtteri bottas has claimed the second win of his formula one career at the austrian grand prix. the finn lead most of the race from pole to claim the chequered flag ahead of ferrari's

sebastian vettel. his mercedes team mate, lewis hamilton, fought back from eighth on the grid to finish fourth behind red bull's daniel ricciardo. vettel extended his championship lead over hamilton to 20 points. chris froome has kept the leader's yellow jersey at the tour de france, but both froome's team—mate geraint thomas and race favouite richie porte have both crashed out on stage 9. thomas, who wore the leader's yellow jersey for three days, and was second overall behind froome, came off his bike on a descent halfway through the stage and was taken to hospital with a suspected broken collarbone. froome then had a mechanical problem on the main climb of the day and italian champion fabio aru attacked, which isn't usually done. but froome's other main rivals ensured the peloton waited for him. 0n the final descent, richie porte, the pre—race favourite, also came off his bike and his tour ended in the back of an ambulance. a six—man sprint for the stage win was won by french rider warren barguil.

froome finished third to collect four bonus seconds and extend his race lead to 18 seconds. england's cricketers still remain in control on day four of the first test against south africa at lords, despite a second innings batting collapse. they were bowled out for 233. but still have a significant lead of 331. having taken an overnight score of 119—1, the wickets fell thick and fast, as england lost 7 for a3. they needed jonny bairstow to steady the ship, whose half century set the visitors' lord's second—highest run chase. the south african fightback didn't extend to their batting order though, they lost three wickets before tea with bairstow taking a stunning catch. key man hashim amla fell lbw to liam dawson after tea. england's women are playing australia in their latest world cup match in bristol. after winning the toss and choosing to bat, england made a stumbling start.

some late big hitting from katherine brunt and jenny gunn set the defending champions 260 to win. if they make it, it will be the highest successful chase in world cup history. it could be a tight finish. they're on 131 for 3 with 18 overs remaining with the world championships now just under four weeks away, the british contenders for medals kept their preparations going at the anniversary games at the london stadium, which will be home to the world championships. and on the track that he won two olympic gold medals back in 2012, sir mo farah was at it again, winning the 3000m. the world championships will be farah‘s last track event before he moves onto road racing. that's all sport for now. we have been getting a couple of

news stories coming in in the last few minutes. the first is news from the general synod of the church of england that is meeting at the moment. they have voted in favour of the motion recognising the need for transgender people to be welcomed to their parish churches. the motion calls for special services designed for transgender people to mark their transition. that is from the church of england synod, which has been meeting today. we also have the latest on that vote from unesco about the lake district becoming a world heritage site. the late district has been designated a world heritage site, the 31st that i remember rightly in the uk to get that designation. it provides all sorts of international protections

and puts the onus on the governments of the member country concerned to ensure that the lake district is protected and its heritage status is preserved. unesco has been getting a bit upset over plans for redeveloping liverpool, involving some big high—rise blocks, which is a world heritage site. it will be good news for people in the lakes to celebrate this evening. world heritage status. but, let's face it, it didn't take them to tell us that, did it? thousands of people are expected to attend a rally in the turkish city of istanbul this afternoon to protest against the government of president erdogan. the event is being held to mark the end of a 280—mile march from ankara organised by the opposition to highlight the mass arrests and sackings since last year's failed coup in the country. we can speak to our correspondent selin girit, who is in istanbul. this started out as an individual

protest really by a politician from the opposition, but it seems to have grown exponentially. why do you think it has garnered this skill of reaction in the country where protest a nd reaction in the country where protest and dissent has been heavily constrained? never in turkey in the history of modern turkey has such a march taken place. we are talking about 25 days of marching to the capital city. the man nyon stage behind me, he is giving his biggest beach for a while. he is the opposition leader. he has been on the road for 25 days nonstop everyday. every day, step—by—step,

he walked from ankara to istanbul. this kind of protest was never seen in turkey before and since the attempted coup last year took place, no protests so big has taken place in turkey because of the emergency laws in place. the government has already called the marchers and those supporting it as supporters of terrorism. i think she thought she had lost us. we are still with her. that is the point at which you will have the polite. we will get back to her over the course of the afternoon. fascinating events taking place in turkey. it is a year ago this coming weekend that there was an attempted coup that very nearly brought the end to president

erdogan. his response has been swift and some have said he overreacted. this is the consequence of that. we will see what the official government responses once the marchers reached its conclusion. the shadow education secretary, angela rayner, has made clear that jeremy corbyn's suggestion that labour would look at ways of writing off student debts is only "an ambition". during the election campaign, the labour leader said the party would look at ways to reduce the debts owed by those who had paid £9,000 a year in fees. up up to £9,000 is what you could pay as an undergraduate in england if you go to university. it was a key pa rt you go to university. it was a key part of the labour campaign to scrap that. we heard jeremy corbyn allude to helping people who are currently paying off their student debt. he

didn't go as far as to say he would wipe it out altogether. this morning, angela rayner was asked about this on the andrew marr show. she made clear that although it is not quite a policy at it is definitely there ian and ambition to wipe out that debt for students. it is a big abacus that i am working on with that. it is a huge amount, 100 billion that they estimate. it is a huge amount of money. we have to deal with this debt crisis that we are foisting on our young people. it is not acceptable. they are leaving university with £57,000 worth of debt. it is unsustainable and we need to tackle that. aren't you simply spraying around huge spending policies to recklessly? another hundred billion pounds ride on tuition fees at the last moment. that is some sofa you have to find. jeremy said that was an ambition, something he would like to do. we will not announce we are doing it unless we can afford to. so, £100 billion is more than

doubled the defence budget and it is more than the government spends on education in england. it is a vast sum of money and it is not possible to suddenly find that money to wipe out student debt. that is why i think we are seeing labour happy to say that this is their ambition but not quite get the promise. the tories have gone back and suggested that labour is making as shambolic promise and the only way to pay for it would mean higher taxes. the newjustice secretary has pledged to tackle the problems of drugs and violence in prison after new figures revealed more than 200 kilos of drugs and 13,000 mobile phones were found in jails in england and wales last year. david liddington said the government was increasing the number of prison officers following cuts under the last coalition government. here's our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside. packages thrown or catapulted over

walls and security netting. prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what's happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7,000 extra sim cards. prison inspectors have repeatedly criticised jails for failing to stop the smuggling, which adds to violence inside. what i am determined to do is try to bring about improvements, to build on what my predecessor liz truss did in getting extra prison officers and putting in place effective measures to detect more accurately the problem we have with drugs, the new challenge we have with drones and mobile phones in prison, so they are more secure places. each jail in england and wales now has hand—held mobile phone detectors, and there are 300 more sniffer dogs looking for drugs. ministers have also pledged 2500 extra prison officers by the end of next year.

critics say that is still fewer staff than in 2010 and the smuggling will continue to have a huge impact. the numbers are pretty eye—watering, a huge number of finds for both drugs and mobile phones, that is a good thing because the trade in prisons is very dangerous, it causes bullying, violence and self harm inside the prison, and outside the prison families have money extorted from them to pay for all these drugs and phones. this is one of the biggest challenges, stopping gangs from using drones under the cover of night. walls cannot stop the airborne contraband so the police and prison governors are trying to identify the gangs behind them. so far 11 men have beenjailed for a total of a0 years, but most experts say many more are ou there determined to do are out there determined to do the same, because there is big money still to be made. dominic casciani, bbc news. so, confirmation from unesco, the

international organisation that supports heritage and education, that it supports heritage and education, thatitis supports heritage and education, that it is given the lake district world heritage status, recognising it as world heritage status, recognising itasa world heritage status, recognising it as a landscape of international significance. of course, it is the birth of conservation, one of the pa rt birth of conservation, one of the part of the country work was important. don't those pictures make you want to go straight out the door and embrace that wonderful vista? it will come to any surprise to anyone who lives in the lakes, works there or has visited there that it should be regarded as a side of global significance. people from all over the world visited regularly. what a i°y the world visited regularly. what a joy they have been enjoying with the weather in the last few weeks. a

good opportunity to celebrate, to raise a glass of something appropriate in the lake district this evening. my, the weather. contrasting weather fortunes take us through sunday evening. 0ne sunny spells for much of england and wales of those some cloud has built. for scotla nd of those some cloud has built. for scotland and northern ireland, more cloud here and outbreaks of rain for some of us. 0vernight, some possibly thundery showers in parts of this east anglia. at the end of the knights of this rain in scotland will feed into north—west england and north wales. a warm muggy night in parts of the uk, but there are fresher nights to come. monday will bea fresher nights to come. monday will be a day of and scattered showers. in part of east anglia and the forests at this stage —— a south—east of england could be intense downpours into the afternoon.