as the iraqi prime minister declares the defeat of islamic state and we look at how many lives it took to seal that. news that it's the least threatening to shut off its ports to one official rescue ships and get senior e.u. backing as the country struggles to cope with the continued influx. and way ticket inspectors of film forcibly dragging a black man off the train who reportedly not had the cash to pay.

by good morning a.t.m. here in moscow this friday morning the thirtieth of june this is the international . the iraqi prime minister has declared victory over islamic states the army has recaptured the mosque in mosul which is where i still declared a caliphate three years ago months of heavy fighting between the terrorists and the u.s. led coalition have devastated not only the city itself but also the lives of hundreds of thousands of locals. this morning the story of mosul's liberation is dominating global media coverage.

striving to say it is declaring it and. the end of the caliphate iraq's claim if it takes mosul famous mosque iraqi forces say they've taken an iconic mosque in the heart of mosul that was destroyed by isis iraqi forces battle of the last i think fighters in those all but not so widely discussed this morning is the cost of the liberation for the people of mosul more ago the city of spent over a month for doing that battle he explains why for some residents the word liberation does not describe what's happened in this city. liberation that's one way of putting it obliteration is another the goal was noble enough three thousands from isis isis the so-called caliphate is crumbling waiters have abandoned fighters to die local fighters are being left to rot where they fall remaining inexperienced fighters are making rookie mistakes blowing them selves and

fellow fighters up accidentally in preparation for combat mission accomplished mosul has been cleansed by fire a city almost the size of a room reduced to rubble it is difficult to describe you've got to be there walk down its blasted streets and you'll feel it this is what the off the mouth of a classic strike in mosul look like if you hear a really epitomizes what mosul has been through the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across rubble the street over there. it's the same story wherever you look the press was tightly controlled no freedom of reporting in mosul.

we saw what we were allowed to see but this was enough. on the little bit little along with the one hundred got it coming. that if not then i'm sure a half million. at the end of the time and if you tell us that on a map but i think that i've been with that power again all of now might a lot of thought of me just jabbered me. down but. not like the. streets and buildings can be restored lives canales children families whole neighborhoods was sacrificed to us strikes in the liberation isis made sure that civilians died they used them as human shields hoping that the coalition would stop its strikes they miscalculated the bombs rained

down until the end two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation when a single u.s. led air strike killed more than a hundred civilians i remember clearly how they tried but failed to contain that but first they blamed isis then they admitted to the bombing but still blame diocese perhaps civilians are being killed either by mistake or because the enemy is using a tactic that actually has them become part of the target that is on them not on us it's not our fault that we're killing civilians they said we'll remember this as a victory the liberation of mosul. but liberation may be the wrong.

in other news this friday morning russian foreign ministry's. washington's claims that syria's government is planning a chemical attack in the country the ministry is concerned that terrorists could instead take advantage of the threats coming from washington and carry out false flag attacks to encourage u.s. military action. and went to the u.s.

state department to get their response to them. the u.s. officials refused to confirm the claims with any facts the situation looks like a massive procreation both male trait and informational. i look at the u.s. experts and then he said openly the extremists could use these claims by washington provocations and shift blame onto the syrian government recent statement from the white house alleging that the syrian government was planning an upcoming chemical attack are you concerned that that could have created an opening for terrorist groups to carry out a chemical attack. now you're not concerned even though. the groups have been using chemical weapons in syria that's documented now next went on syria seems that washington doesn't share the concerns of russia's foreign minister now on numerous occasions the syrian government has been accused of carrying out chemical weapons attacks the most recent example was

in april in italy a province without any investigation with the united states launched fifty nine cruise missiles against syria targeting an airbase now when they were pressed for facts of the state department responded this way that's evidence kid share with us about this potential preparation for these chemical weapons because that was an absolutely right and nor would that be laid out because that would be considered an intelligence matter when you guys believe that it's in your interests you do what you say it's evidence of. intelligence i'm not going to get into that with you but this is a very serious and grave matter let's remember that back in twenty thirteen an agreement was arranged by russia in which the syrian government turned over their chemical weapons to the o.p.c. w. international bodies oversaw the process in which the chemical weapons were handed over to international authorities however these facts don't seem to matter the

united states continues to blame syria for chemical attacks regardless of having any actual proof or evidence. caleb maupin the syria commentator danny makki also believes washington's accusations risk encouraging rebels to launch attacks they can then blame on the government united states of america is looking for some sort of provocation in syria and is actually putting pretext for some sort of possible intervention and if history is anything to go by then truong definitely does not have any qualms in actually attacking syria militarily on the ground as we've seen so moscow the sentiment is pretty much spot on truong does seem like he wants to do some sort of intervention and he's looking for a reason to do so and what people need to comprehend is that we're at a stage in the war now where the assad government is almost. a victory towards the end and this wasn't the case a few years ago so the assad government would have no reason logical or rational or military reason to actually use these weapons at this moment in time worth the

rebels have every single reason to provoke such an attack and to possibly use these weapons themselves and see the reaction that they want from the united states and their allies internationally. italy is threatening to close its ports to migrant rescue ships operated by n.g.o.s which it suspects of being exploited by people traffickers the countries but increasingly struggling in recent months with tens of thousands of refugees reaching it shows. i. was. i. was i. was i i. well the italian prime minister says his country has been forced to take drastic measures one says e.u. neighbors to help. this message doesn't come from

a country that wants to break the rules or bend and tear in position it's a country that is under pressure and which asks our european allies for a concrete contribution money that they can give up limited i'd like to see that we want to help drastic issue to dissolution please if you can obviously we have to discuss the issue together we do believe we can't leave five italy or greece on its own italian problem is also stress that this country is bearing the brunt of caring for migrants under your rules refugees need to apply for asylum in the first member nation they enter that's the catch for italy but places norma's burden on that country because of its proximity to north africa where many boats arrive at tallinn journalists much of force says his country has been left to cope alone. if it has been left behind by the country's european union so far was not very effective on tackling this problem i mean he keeps saying that it will not lead

italy alone but in fact all the measures that they have forecast all who tried to take were not affected by the euro thing is that all the big majority of the immigrants be remediated on good to other countries the majority of the people in the good of the majority of the european people believe that these huge grecian of people is not acceptable anymore they are not willing to receive more immigrants equally or in europe and this is quite worrying because if you. will not be stopped the risk of a social crisis is a social tensions with russian patients we see europeans and immigrants will become increasingly higher and higher. meantime the mayor of a french town says he's going to put pork on every school lunch menu to promote what he says will be a more secular society but critics say it's going to spread intolerance and

marginalize religious groups instead. we are putting an operation in place so the children eat everything and their diets are balanced there is too much waste so we will teach them to eat meat meat poultry or pork today we're talking about secularism in a generally anti muslim way we see secularism as a tool of tolerance and living together and not exclusion any people who refuses to eat pork should feel. we have views from both sides of the divide which came down to a battle between integration and intolerance for the mayor who has decided that it is there is no tentative for the poor it's a way to say that we don't care about the muslim faith or the jew faith because jew jewish people don't eat pork also so it is very bizarre to notice that in that they want us to look at the country mayor who are a representative who has decided to not respect the law he's deciding to do this as the representative of his constituency so this is the first element to democratic

process second of all i think we must not underestimate the threat that this can represent to french society i mean definitely there is a problem with into really integration of of migrants of one part of the muslim community and i definitely think that right now he can know it's not the good time for the muslim community to be starting to ask for specific diets because what's the next step was the limit were is the school where everybody goes to school and it's normally and just has a fruit just have an ordinary meal this is the first point let's get back to islam first you can ask for specific meals then what are you going to ask for now the thing is that on behalf of security reason some people are who are clearly racist people are trying to handle this principle we're just not about racism in our islamophobia whatever this is about just creating communities within the french society french society is not going well the mayor is saying that to there's a cost behind that are there other people in this town ready to pay for that cost

there's a cost as an organisation also when you buy muslim food in some could. specific conditions you are paying back part of this for the money you're paying is going out to the muslim community do the inhabitants of this town want to be indirectly funding cultural centers or moscow stuff like that where is the limit you just go to school this is not a place to say we can just pick or choose and leave if you want teachers areas you know that in france you can have your hosley please a policy then you let people speak you know you know you just a fundamental in your unserious why don't why don't let me just say when that's all you are about just like you can't administer it shouldn't go to most of those you are seeing that most people want to have very own rules that's not true that's completely false that we french muslim citizens want to be equal we don't want to have more we don't want to have less also and you would have to make sure that disguised as consideration is just helping more stigmatization that's a good way to make sure that we're all living together sixty minutes past the era

mosco the small and how you fridays go and ok coming up still in the program same sex marriage could be legalized in germany later pitting the chancellor's polity against the way to public opinion the we're going to go we'll track it after the break. in a revealing video c.n.n. is shown as many critics of claims the network is more interested in the bottom line and a political agenda rather than reporting on real news we asked c n n's evidence free war against donald trump is really at the expense of real journalism. there's. the private company where sixty or seventy billion dollars. left including the c.e.o. who are going to parachute in.

on a billion dollars for. the company sixty's or not there's a lot of people speculating that the core business model. and this is going to go the way of enron as a. billion dollars. are going to want to have you know in so german row way ticket inspectors have been filmed forcibly dragging a black man off a train reportedly refused to pay the fine for not having a ticket please be aware the video coming up now does contain violence. i don't want you going because i didn't do it and you.

should be ashamed of yourself this is really what you're doing what is wrong a man is said to be a forty eight year old nigerian since he didn't have a valid ticket and he claims he didn't have enough money to pay the penalty fare exclaimed the ticket inspectors took more little cash the man had but he refused to leave the train which point the guards then forcibly injected him into germany train operator says it's unusual to take only part payment for the third largest national response the clip got dozens of comments online the condemning the guard's actions others focused on the incident as an act of racism how much of figs and ramadan foundation told us it's symptomatic of things what's happening across europe. i think it was inappropriate with the way the guards. try to get him off the train he was an aggressive from what for from what we could see in the video

and you know he should they should have waited for the police to arrive and allow the police to do that i think it was a sorry sorry episode and i think it reflects badly on german society but this is systematic of what is going on across europe where racism and xenophobia has been on the rise for a number of years and i think this is an example of where people think they can take the law into their own hands and operate in the way that these people were doing these types of activities are on the rise across europe and i think that's directly linked to the fact that when you have an atmosphere when racism against migrants and refugees is on the open then you will see more and more of these types of incidents. from the alternative for germany party on the other hand believes that refugees sometimes deliberately abuse the law. i personally know lots of cases where are so-called refugees enter the trade with our ticket and they

know that the people from the train companies checking their tickets they do you know dare to tear them out of the train because being afraid excuse the phrases so they say separate is great so far mainly so. you should situation they're treated we don't take it because they don't know for us not just the day or to tell about it but tearing out people who are not billing to leave to leave the train ticket this is professional behavior and i expect nothing more than the full backing of the authorities and the. railway company too big that they are checking stop quick to professional read and write. or also in germany this morning it's a big day coming up potentially germany's later going to decide on whether to legalize same sex marriage previous attempts been blocked by chancellor merkel's

christian democrats party even though as many as eighty three percent of the public said they'd support the measure our europe correspondent peter all of the next explains are how pharma money to change in order to keep a job here. it's almost nailed on that angle merkel will take the top job germany's election this year that would be her fourth term as chancellor but in order to do that she's almost certainly going to have to form a coalition government and potential suitors will they all come with their own demands it all boils down to what concessions for all merkel is willing to make if she's to go for a so-called grand coalition with the social democrats who are the second largest party and she's going to have to legalize same sex marriage. this means or ways of life. are included in this and that's why we will bring about same sex marriage in our future government. you have and will not sign any coalition agreement here in which same sex marriage is not featured. but the social democrats represent under

merkel's biggest challenge in this upcoming election and they'll be looking to try and form a government of their own if they can however a softening of her stance on gay marriage opens up a potential coalition with the green party for the incumbent german chancellor did i say a marriage for everyone thirty times would have placed this request thirty times it's been looked at and thirty times nothing happened but now we come to merkel and say that this is a matter of conscience if the green party don't get enough seats in order to form a coalition with it it doesn't look like they will do then the free democrats could also join not to make a three party coalition however the free democrats are likely to ask for something that i'm going to may not be too keen to give and it's an issue that in the book out the moment they want to see a pulling back of security services when it comes to their retention of digital data they also want to see less c.c.t.v.

video surveillance being set to open wide and across germany these are all issues that until a merkel's unlikely to give ground on for four years civil liberties of had no advocates in the grand coalition so which way will the chancellor bend well on friday the parliament theer are going to be voting on gay marriage legislation signaling a real change in her traditionally conservative view on this subject since two thousand and five her party has refused to grant equal rights to same sex couples when it comes to marriage but after twelve years in power she may have to change some of her ideas if she's to remain there peter all of. we spoke to the president of berlin's university of applied sciences who thinks mrs merkel has to yield to what society wants now. what you can see is that society changes the problems are not always the same and the politicians who.

want to drum up support for their party have to really look what people are concerned about the security surveillance issue can be negotiated in terms of you get more security you get a little less security where is the other issue when it comes to same sex marriage you cannot say you get a little more same sex marriage education maternity same sex marriage so the much more important issue for coalition negotiations. are the same sex marriage issue and not the security issue and so they. probably bound to find a solution if they want to have a coalition with the liberals. one hospital to suffer claimed republic of donetsk in east ukraine in the ongoing difficulties having in treating

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sober look to one part of life from our part of the world of ok you can cross all of stories twenty four seven don't call from evil good morning hope see good maybe not just over half an hour the next live news update between now and then donald trump's relationship with the american media is up for discussion next after the break in politic.

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a winning strategy on this edition. welcomes of politicking i'm laura schwartz in for larry king nearly from its start donald trump's administration has been at war with the media the president's claims of mainstream press reporting he calls fake news about him and his staff have become all too common of an occurrence but lately it seems the accusations have taken on a darker tone and the very important relationship between a free press and the white house seems to get a little more strained each day we'll get very different perspectives from breitbart senior editor at large joel pollak and from the former white house special counsel to bill clinton lanny davis let's begin with lanny who joins me from washington d.c. and addition to serving a special counsel to president clinton he is also

a strategic media and crisis management expert and co-founder and partner of trident d.m.g. welcome lanny thank you are nice to be back well it's good to have a say have you back with us here on politicking lanny this last week there was an especially divisive press conference at the white house where deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders in the briefing room ripped on c.n.n. for again this new term that's becoming familiar fake news and then a local maryland editor later accused her of being inflammatory there seems to be quite a dichotomy going on between the white house press office of the trump and ministration and the media mainstream and otherwise what do you make of it. well first of all i'm completely shocked shocked shocked that the trump white house is attacking the media it's like. casa blanco being shocked when he walked.