this is news coming to you live from berlin the northern iraqi region once ruled by a so-called islamic state is facing an uncertain future the strategic city was liberated three years ago but remains a ghost town we have an exclusive report from singe our capital. of only just minority as militants tried to annihilate. the u.s. president trump says he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani a surprise offer comes a week after he warned him don't threaten us or you'll suffer historic consequence

. and from cars to green football meet the beacon friendly pretty side of the world the first to be certified as carbon neutral by the united nations. hello i'm terry march and welcome to the program we start in northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from the so-called islamic state when it swept through the region i asked targeted minorities like the yazidi who don't follow the islamic faith militants killed kidnapped and then in slave thousands of c.d.'s and even now the group is still recovering from the genocide returning and starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital sin jar or. as. it's known in court as did

abuse brigitta should travel there and brings us this exclusive report. on the capital of the yes he does life in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed enslaved thousands now that these limits have been expelled only a few residents have returned in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from my ex only three thousand families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. there still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools are functional administration he has hedy's living inching gun feel abandoned by their politicians. have left the area we've got no electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all

over the place. they have to clear them. they'd never forgive us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back. because the situation doesn't improve soon then we who have returned will leave again very soon got enough. stephanie yes wants to stay no matter what the twenty four year old studied to be a teacher but there are no schools so he opened up a glass workshop with a friend the problem is that nothing is being rebuilt which means even his business is struggling. with people won't come back as long as there are so many different political groups here working only for themselves there are thousand different groups and they're all only looking after their own interests. he means the different militias that are still active in the city they run their

own checkpoints and have their own agendas all parties want influence here in the same germans being close to the syrian border the region is strategically important to kurds to the central government and backed up to turkey and iran. shiites mayor fatemi doma says the cities people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yes' eady put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself . is the incentive that is. treated like fourth or fifth class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't you know c.d.'s they would have taken care of us like they did other people. more than residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to press on with rebuilding but almost

pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. or for more of the story we're joined here in the studio by did there was a son of the peters mon she was in northern iraq for the making of that report as well to talk about a strange or shin god as it's called in kurdish it's a city that still in ruins after three years following the liberation are there any prospects of it being rebuilt icon foresee that at this moment because of what happened initially is the little bit of road clearance but then times seem to have stopped nothing else has happened ever after their only very few people as we've seen in our report that you know they have to return and what you see is a city completely destroyed as if someone had just used a sledgehammer and smashed it to pieces and also if you look at the surrounding

villages equally deserted hardly anybody living there and those who do and if they are they really have that sense of loss of their home and it's very palpable and also you know they feel insecure they don't know who is protecting them they're above all this city was a home and poor. and it's not like they have many other places they can go they've been subjected to unspeakable horrors that you know see these at the hands of the i asked and more than iraq and elsewhere what's being done to help them i mean a lot of people just decide to flee you know he's from sanjay many of them have turned to don't walk another city northern iraq in the kurdish autonomous territory and they live in refugee camps but then an awful lot has also have to decide to just leave the country altogether i mean just look at germany about one hundred thousand is e.d.'s have made it to germany and are living here now as refugees so these e.v.a.'s have basically they've gone to other places they some of them have

managed to get a broad it's not that easy to get to germany from that part of northern iraq do they have any clear sense of a home. and anymore. i don't think so of course if you speak to them they tell you this is the only place we know as home also if you look at that region since you are or shingle as they call it there is their holy land as well it's famous mount center which is holy mountain to them the place of worship and up there on that barren mountain plateau you still have about ten thousand people living in ten settlements this also ever since august two thousand and fourteen nothing really has happened for them and if you speak to them up there on the mountain as we did even there people tell you we have done with iraq we have treated as for the cause citizens and the way too many militias up here are competing you know for power it's contested territory between the iraqi central government the autonomous

kurdish government you have p.k. k. militia swipe e.g. militias from next door syria you have the iran backed militia xabi which is a really strong player in that region at the moment sponsored by iran who is again a major player in the war right next door in syria so it's all very complicated and somehow squashed in the middle east describe this contested area in northern iraq that massive power vacuum there there are many minorities the the as the these are an ethno religious minority they're faced with massive discrimination in the past are they still facing a lot of discrimination in their territory now given how contested it is briefly ken. let me give you an example we spoke to this mayor and t. told us you know if i had had the right to shoot i would have killed somebody the other day he was telling us of the sony farm who used to support i.a.s.

and he was basically grazing his sheep on a mosque raif maybe that your question center thank you so much and congratulations on your great work some of the papers spun your correspondent. well an unexpected turnaround in washington president doll has said that he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani without preconditions the statement comes a week after increased hostility between the two countries. even by president chump standards the statement made its a news conference with the italian prime minister was surprising their quality is the first time a u.s. president has offered to meet with an iranian leader since the islamic revolution nearly forty years ago. and i would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready yet to have a hard time right now but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous the i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet and

i'm ready to meet any time they want to and i don't do that from strength or from weakness i think it's an appropriate thing to do. this statement was all the more unexpected given the flare up of tension between tehran and washington over the last week on sunday the iranian president warned the u.s. to stop provoking his country. mr trump don't play with the lion's tail this will only lead to regret you will for ever regret it. true to form trump responded on twitter this time with an all caps to raid warning rouhani he would suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history to ever suffered before if he threaten the us again ending the tweet with the words be cautious. the two sides began to escalate their rhetoric in may after trump withdrew from the landmark accord aimed at limiting tehran's nuclear program and in an initial response to trump's new offer iran has stressed that there can be no

dialogue unless the u.s. returns to this nuclear deal and suspends new sanctions. u.s. secretary of state might point peo also say that while he's on board with trump's initiative he thinks iran should change its behavior before any such talks take place. but as president trump said in monday's news conference his meeting with north korea's dictator also compounded expectations but in his words produce positive results so maybe the international community could be in for another surprise when it comes to iran. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today north korea is reportedly working on new missiles u.s. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at a north korean site that has produced ballistic missiles in the past that's according to u.s. government sources speaking to the washington post the renewed activity comes despite north korean leader kim jong un promising to work toward denuclearization

at his summit with donald trump in june. alasia civil aviation she has resigned after a report on missing flight m h three seventy showed failures and air traffic control. controllers failed to put emergency procedures into action when the malaysia airlines plane vanished from the radar but investigators say they still don't know why the flight disappeared in two thousand and fourteen with hundreds on board. in bob way and officials are posting collimator results outside polling stations as the country celebrates a largely peaceful election with historically high voter turnout of seventy five percent still unclear who's ahead both both presidential frontrunners president emerson winning and nelson chamisa said they're confident of victory based on partial returns. and france has passed a wall banning school children from using smartphones at school people's age from

three to fifteen years old won't be able to use any internet connected mobiles during class or out in the playground along comes into effect in september. now to what's perhaps the world's greenest football team forest green rovers has become the world's first sports organization to be certified as carbon neutral by the united nations the club's chairman has even banned meat from being served at the stadium making for a screen the first week in football team as well here's a look at the march of the green army. on the surface home games at forest green rovers appeared just like any other football game play is give their all on the pitch and fans they cheer them along the forest green knows the green army is a different type of club. festival only vegan food is because of

animal welfare and health reasons second the pitch at forest green stadium is ok anik and cut by a solar powered robot lawnmower and ramos at its recycled the entire facility is powered by green energy and so the club have signed up for united nations initiative climate neutral now. so we become the first sports club in the world to be climate new true according to the u.n. which is quite exciting and. i'm sure he would do more with them i think we will because they're on the same page as we are sport looks to be a great vehicle to carry this is going to be the message. the united nations hopes for a screen's carbon neutral footprint will set a precedent for others to follow. well we're working on these sports. where we hope it. will be an example that we share the. green credentials have also been matched by strong

performances on the pitch for screamer recently promoted to the english football league for the first time in their history. could be gearing up for a new factory in germany to be here in just a minute with that story and much more in our business. they make a commitment. they find.