the country. starts december twenty ninth on w. . this is. the fight against so-called islamic state in the philippines as martial law was extended in the southern region of mindanao for another year we take you to the devastated city of and we talked with one young muslim ready to fight again yes also coming out. trying to break faith with the british people

by trying to stage a. british prime minister theresa may makes it clear again she does not want a second referendum on. parliament. plan but first in january. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the fight against so-called islamic state in the southern philippines president. has extended martial law for another year there to counter the ongoing threat by armed militants last year city on the island of mindanao was the scene of a five month battle when government troops were deployed to quell an insurgency by militants allied to so-called islamic state. more than a thousand people were killed and half

a million were displaced today the city of wise in ruins a team of reporters has just returned from the city with this exclusive report. this force the center today residents call it ground zero. we get the military's permission to enter a selective pots and a wall into ballot unexploded devices last year a few hundred i asked inspired fighters holed up in mosques and houses the army with help from the united states responded with relentless rates. in this type of warfare you have to flush out the enemy from their defensive position and you can only do that number one using bombs or heavy artillery bombardment if you look at the experience of. aleppo. all

of this experienced bombings but in the case of. the hour when we did the bombings it was we did it has been pointed to specific targets only. but people here paid a very high price for the five months long battle. hundreds were killed they have buried in these mosque graves. most of the victims were never identified denying their families closure. over sixty five thousand people remain displaced many are still searching for their left one. has lost four of her eight children she believes they were taken hostage and used as human shields. for the simply i feel a very deep pain inside of me i missed my children they were gone in a blink of an eye i can't be with them anymore. it hurts because i can

still feel them and have them. in the suburbs life is slowly returning to normal but the biggest muslim city in the philippines has been changed forever. martial law remains in force with soldiers everywhere the impoverished region has witnessed decades of conflict between muslims and christians who make up the vast majority of the filipino population many young muslims feel disenfranchised. last year afterwards spied on the military passing on details of troop movements to i.a.s. fighters holed up in morocco he tells us that he stood ready to fight for an islamic state. so. we have an advantage because we just blend in with the military cannot easily identify us as

fighters know how to use a gun. or i would not fight in my role we again or in any other muslim area here. in the same thing will happen again our own muslim people would get hurt. but if the battle happens elsewhere i will join. so my little one in a. like many others up to blames president roderigo territory for bombing merapi the government has promised reconstruction and great to muslim autonomy but until those promises are full of foetid angry young men like up to it will continue to pose a threat. well our reporters under papers and was part of the d w team that went to my city she's here at the big table with me now it's good to see you again glad you're here safe and sound when we look at this picture here how does this picture then go with what the military's concerning pinpoint accuracy of their

bombing attacks well that's obviously they have version of things i find that a bit hard to believe and even if they claim we don't need you know precision asked trikes i would say they must have been plentiful relentless mighty because look at that kind of destruction in the heart of the city is really vaunts to smithereens and sixty five thousand people have lost their homes you know they have to squat on the city's friend just in reconstruction hasn't started yet ok so you've got this situation of destruction which we know was a breeding ground for all times of radicalism you talked to a young man named abdul who said he would be willing to fight again for so-called islamic state how did you how did you find in all the filming that we did here was for a bigger documentary that. you and macho and of course we reached out to local colleagues on the ground to mindanao and they then reached out to muslim community leaders

spiritual leaders spread the words and then of course when we spoke we were on the ground personally i think i said you know it's ok to talk to them and that's how we met him and he basically chose a house that he considered safe but we also said it has to be inside the city not too far out that's what i always say you're. for your safety and what did he tell you when you asked him what are you fighting for or if i were to call you know again what would you be fighting for i think right now he does feel the sense of defeat feel that he was betrayed by those leaders that have pledged allegiance to why yes yes he's ready to fight again because there is a strong sense of being disenfranchised triggered by poverty by you know he's lacking perspective and also will not to add to educated in his case i would say very easy to be influenced they are anti easily believe easy you know

convinced and easily disappointed and all of that i think makes for a very bad mixture so he is very susceptible for jihadists propaganda and what about president what does he say about the campaign against i mean does he consider these images to be proof of success in the making i think he wanted to send a very very strong signal don't even try you know we will take strong national action i will not have to this you know he's campaigning with us nova not under my watch but at the same time because he's the first philippine president hailing from in the novel he is reaching out to the muslim community in the sense of offering them a future self-determination there is going to be something like a constitutional framework that could establish if everything goes according to plan something like autonomy for the muslim minority who will have to see what

becomes of that idea or borders under papers when it's good to have you back in the studio thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a renewed fighting near the yemeni city of data has left at least twelve people dead the flare up is casting doubt on the cease fire which was negotiated last week between who the rebels and us all back. government seventy percent of yemen's aids enters the country through the strategic red sea port the european court of justice has ruled that poland bust immediately suspend a new law more ring the retirement age of its judiciary the controversial measure bringing forward retirement by five years or so about a third of supreme court judges forced to take it early pension critics accuse the polish government of undermining judicial independence with that new iberia security guards have been filmed forcibly removing opposition members of parliament

from the headquarters of the national broadcaster take a look at this now it comes as a wave of anti-government protest grips the country and variants are protesting against new labor legislation it is the biggest demonstration of public discontent since white when prime minister viktor orban came to power in two thousand and. a british foreign minister theresa may says that she intends to hold a parliamentary vote on her breaks it deal in the third week of january next month she briefed the house of commons on talks that she held with european leaders a last week's e.u. summit and she warned lawmakers today against holding a second referendum on brics it and defended her decision to suspend the vote on her breaks it deal last week some of the resulting exchanges it is council will request but i make no apology. i make. a no apology for standing up for the interests of this house i mean.

i'm interested in the whole united. are at a correspondent barbara vevo she is on the story for us tonight in london good evening to you barbara said the prime minister it sounds like she has shot down the option of a second referendum for good is that the end of it. the end is not the end is only the end of to refer to the scene the end and breaks it and that has one hundred two days to run from today so she tries to shut it down and she try to shut down all other avenues that have throughout the last days to have something like an indicative vote like would people in the house of haldeman's like norway would they like heartbreaks it you know no they like some other solution what would they like after all but she shut their receiving down she again said and when you heard her before this is one prime minister who is not afraid to

repeat herself this is the deal on the table you got a vote for it because there is nothing else coming up and if you don't vote for it we're going to have to either heartbreaks it no deal or there is going to be no threats and so she is really trying to threaten m.p.'s and also she uses time she is running down the clock she hopes that over the christmas break exile had to go increase in the hearts of her own party and of course also on the opposition benches and then image and repeat will say ok it's so late we have nothing we can do nothing else let's just sort of vote for it and be done with it and we know barbara that last week her decision to delay that vote on a deal that basically coal the vote of confidence or no call for that that she survived within her own conservative tories part and now we've got the u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbett submitting a motion of no confidence in the prime minister what do you make of that. it is

more or less just a piece of parliamentary theatre because even if she loses that as she can still cling on as prime minister she should morally step down but she wouldn't because she just sort of hangs on to power and she hangs on to our jobs with all her might so she would continue even if she loses that vote it's not going to bring down the government say it was not sort of forced new elections so more or less it just says the opposition sort of tries to show three's a may how much they really hate her how much they really despise or it would be embarrassing for her but it would sort of be the end so that's a move on the side of labor that is coming late jeremy corbin has been sitting on the fence post so long over breakfast and he is still not really ready to get off it. to resume a today say again but what she's doing is representing the will of the british

people you have been talking to people there in london what have they been telling you about how the government is handling. people if you talk to the many many people sort of just make a grimace at you and don't want to hear the word anymore they are so fed up with it you hear the word shambles over and over again once in a while on the shambo it's a nice creation that was sort of made up throughout this whole breck's of pro says like everything goes wrong on all runs and many people do think that this has really sort of it hurt to trust in government and diminish trust in politics per se just politics on all sides of the house not only in the conservative party but also in the opposition because it's so undecisive so the result of this is going to be is sort of it really does and chanted populist bitter citizens who just want to turn away and said just leave us alone this is horrible we don't even want to watch it anymore yes shambles i think the adjective of the year may be shambolic

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