forget. the question. as the iraqi prime minister declares the defeat of islamic state in mosul this hour we look at how many lives it took to seal the victory. head to italy threatens to shut off its ports to unofficial migrant rescue ships and get sydney backing for it as the country struggles still to cope with the continued influx of people. and the french town's mayor sparks outrage by wanting to make pork obligatory on every school lunch menu he says to promote a more secular society we get views from both sides of the divide nature of the program. on behalf of secure is a some people who are clearly racist people trying to help this principle is not about racism or islamophobia or whatever this is not just creating

communities within the french society if we must not underestimate the threat that this can represent to french society. good morning just turned eleven the morning here in moscow money kevin zero in you're watching international broadcasting around the world from h.q. the. company first then the iraq recchi prime minister has declared victory over islamic state saying the army has recaptured the l. noori mosque in mosul which is where isis to clear the caliphate three years ago but months of heavy fighting between the terrorists and the us led coalition of devastated not only that city but also the lives of hundreds of thousands of locals .

within minutes of mosul's liberation headlines around the world were dominated by the recapturing of that city. iraq's prime minister is declaring a mind to isis in mosul the end of the caliphate iraq's bold claim as 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 the last isis fighters in those all in what is undoubtedly a victory in ridding a rack of the scourge of isis is important to remember too though the effect on the people of mosul more goes you have our correspondents spent over a month during the battle. 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 wieters have abandoned fighters to die local fighters are being left to rot where they fall remaining inexperienced fighters are making rookie mistakes growing 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 it's blasted streets and you'll feel it this is what the off the mouth of a classic strike in mosul look like view here 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 you little bit little alarm would deploy this one had you a good bit common. sense that then i am saying yes we have. had to alimta time and if you tell us that anaemic then i think that i've been the fall again of now much thought of the. devil and would. never. like that. streets and buildings can be

restored lives canales children families whole neighborhoods was sacrificed to u.s. 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 one hundred civilians i remember clearly how they tried but failed to contain that at 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 morning the russian foreign ministry sharply criticized washington's claims that syria's government is planning a chemical attack in the country the ministry is concerned that terrorists could take advantage of the threats coming from washington and carry out false flag attacks to encourage u.s. military action khaled maupin went to the u.s. state department to get their response to that. the u.s. officials refused to confirm the claims with any facts the situation looks like a massive probation he's both male training and information no. i look at the u.s. experts and then he said openly the extremists could use these claims by washington provocations and shift the 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 it'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 evidence kids 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. 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 rigged. so having any actual proof or evidence there are other developments to tell you about as well the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is confirmed that the victims of the april chemical instant in concert were exposed to sarin gas that's been made public now the report doesn't identify the who's responsible for the alleged attacks political commentator and historian addle darwish says u.s. intelligence is selective over syria this suggests that their intelligence sort of core. is about to use chemical weapons which is actually the biggest

believe if they have got this level of intelligence how come they still haven't found out who is supplying eisen with arms and finance was three years now so every time they seem to be really decisive battle against him you know just isis again is the other islam as we see the united states would either have a strike against the government forces or do some kind of stopping at least our dogs i think there's some kind of dirty deal is going in that bag around. italy is threatening to close its ports to migrant rescue ships operated by n.g.o.s which it suspects are being exploited by people traffickers the country but increasingly struggling in recent months with tens of thousands of refugees still reaching its shores. was.

i. was. going. with. the italian prime minister says the country's been forced to take drastic measures and he wants his e.u. neighbors to help. this message doesn't come from a country that wants to break the rules or bend and it's a humanitarian 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 italy into a drastic dissolution please if you can obviously we have to discuss the issue together we do believe we can't leave feiler italy or greece on its own or but through a tally and prime minister he also stressed that his country is bearing the brunt of caring for migrants too when they get there that's because under the e.u. rules refugees need to apply for asylum in the first member nation they enter as

often italy it places an enormous burden on italy because of its proximity to north africa that's when many of those boats arrive first thing to lampedusa italian journalist forward told us his country is being left to cope alone he worried. it is being left behind by the other countries european union so far was not very effective on tackling this problem i mean they keep 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 the only thing is that all the big majority of the immigrants be remediated on good to other countries the majority of the italian people and they get 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 in italy or in europe and this is quite worrying because if this

trend will not be stopped the risk of first social crisis is a social tensions of russian patients we see europeans and immigrants will become increasingly higher and higher. in their french terms says he's going to put pork on every school lunch menu to promote a more secular society but critics say it's only going to spread intolerance and marginalize religious groups 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 toll 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 wish 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 note is that in that they will have to look at your country mayor or a representative who has decided to not respect the law he's deciding to do this as the representative of his constituents and so this is the first elements of 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 an integration of of migrants of one part of the muslim community and i definitely think that right now he can no 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 food 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 no the

thing is that on behalf of security reason some people who are clearly racist people all trying to handle discipline simple words it's not about racism and or islamophobia or 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 the other people of this town ready to pay for that cost there's a cost as an organization also when you buy muslim food in some conditions specific conditions you are paying back part of this or the money you're paying is going back to the muslim community do the inhabitants of this town want to be in the rectory funding islam a cultural centers or moscow stuff like that where is the limit we just go to school this is not a place to say we can just pick or choose and leave if you want dishes various you know i'm sorry that in france you can have your way hosty appease a posse then you let people speak you know go you know you know it's a fundamental in your answer yes why don't why don't let me just say one that's only about the. just like you can't like most or should i go to most it's almost you are seeing that most people want to have 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 any we have to make sure that this kind of consideration is just helping more stigmatization not a good way to make sure that we're all living together. these are the last hour or so german m.p.'s voted to legalize same sex marriage pitting the chancellor against the way the public opinion it's among our stories after the break in more detail. the company were sixty billion dollars.

there's a lot of people. and this is going to go the way of. britain security services are facing legal action over the prime minister's secret orders to. the cases being brought by campaign groups reprieve and previously

international it comes off the government refused to reveal details of the existence of secret policy known as directions now their prime ministerial award is given to the intelligence services three of. one covered the interrogation of detainees held in another country by another was. personal data by the intelligence agencies and the third destroyed it in secrecy therefore leading to this is that the british government is hiding human rights violations we know the secret policy area. activity there is at least as serious and intrusive as interrogating detainees overseas and the mass collection of personal data the prime minister needs to tell the british public what her government is up to this comes amid promise of treason most controversial plans in the background here to crack down on tech companies and to regulate privacy in the internet initiative could allow the secret services to access private information on phones and web browsing history

for instance we were on the streets of london to see what people there would be willing to give up for the sake of security what kind of privacy. the story. also quite a little. about messages that you send to your friends well i hope they get to know pretty. i hardly use them anyway so it's not really that big a deal i'm more concerned about my children and what happened to them in the future when they grow up not just randomly you know not bothering to somebody checks is all i'm doing is having normal conversations about you know what the kids are doing so what i put off to the government should you see. everything what about the government having access to your browsing history i think i've got nothing to hide i mean i kind of think it's happening already anyway i wouldn't object so much what about your g.p.s. location. probably. does above mean visible pick

a triangular. data so whether you know you've given permission to access your location or not used to do it i think that's a step too far if it was for security and. not for anything else and lastly what about surveillance at home for example or your smart t.v. or something absolutely against that but i get up to what the rest of my family get up to in our own home is entirely all right just a little bit too much to know. that. i would like to know what is it my hair and my hair my and my home is my castle law whatever. in. german railway ticket inspectors have been filmed forcibly dragging a black man off a train you'd reportedly refused to pay the fine for not having a ticket now please be aware as the video coming up here is going to show you some violence. i know what you're doing because i didn't do it and you.

should be ashamed of yourself this is really what you're doing my duty and you should watch as they will the man said to be a forty eight year old nigerian he didn't have a valid ticket and he claimed he didn't have enough money to pay the penalty fare it's clear the ticket inspectors took what little cash the man had but then he refused to leave the train at which point the guards forcibly injected him the german train operator says quote it's unusual to take only part payment from fare dodgers end quote the clip though fired up the online community getting over a million views others focused on the instant is not to racism how much a fig for the ramadan foundation says it's symptomatic of what's happening across europe these days 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 and you will lose from the alternative for germany party on the other hand he believes the refugees sometime deliberately abuse the law this is what he's got to say about it personally no ots of cases were so all agreed. you cheese and took the train without a ticket and they know they helped other people from the train companies checking

their tickets they do not dare to tell you they all caught the train because you're afraid it's useless races so this case really is great so far mainly so. you should situation there's a train we go because you know your personal best but dare to tell you about what tearing out people who are out believe it will be. the train ticket this is professional behavior and i think more. of the story chiefs and the. company need to get their chicken start or fish story and write a developing story this morning of the past few hours the german parliament voted in favor of legalizing marriage and adoption for same sex couples it's likely to become more now than before the end of the year chancellor merkel had voted against

the move a self it was her efforts that led to the snap photo taken place none the less they were all over explains on how far she was ready to change in order to keep her job and popularity here. it's almost nailed on that angle merkel will take the top job germany's election this year that will 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 that's a girl and under lease means all ways of life. are included in this and that's why we will bring about same sex marriage in our future government. i will not sign any coalition agreement 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 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 open wide and across germany these are all issues that angela 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 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 a burly. thanks for being with us today just trying to get all our news twenty four seven r.t. dot com one or follows two on facebook you tube channel for a latest video stories the next program are for breaking a boom bust weighing up the demand for oil with the cuts and.

global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce thoughts predator tell you that what we gossip the public by itself a little more used. off the bad guys and tell me you are not pulling out and let's fight their product. these are the hawks that we along with are the ones. we have learned something in the muslim world you i don't have to show and therefore i don't think there's any interest in the movie every ball big.

and lindsey francis is being bossed broadcasting around the world in washington d.c. tonight a revised travel ban is set to take a fact it will hit those from a number of predominantly muslim countries and refugees across the board a big change from formidable we've had here also we take a look at where we are headed with oil it's way below what opec thought it would be for an extended amount of time and my gas and i take a look at what this could mean for the future and the upcoming eighteen tee time warner merger it's highly scrutinized plenty of critics say time warner c.n.n. could face a management reshuffle this comes after a very public embarrassment surfaced this week for the network stand by bus starts

right now. the state department has new guidelines for who gets admitted to the u.s. under the travel ban that was partially restored by the supreme court because applicants from six mainly muslim nations and all refugees will require a. most family or business tied to the united states to enter the move came after the supreme court partially restored president onil trump's executive order that was widely criticized as a ban on muslims visas that have already been approved will not be revoked but instructions issued by the state department wednesday say new applicants from syria sudan somalia.