more than two hundred terrorists have been killed as well this is according to the russian military now with these kind of figures and me such. would count as a big success in any part of syria but let me just point out the strategic and geographical importance of this particular one this islamic state convoy was heading to the city of dare as zoar and as you can see on this map this city is still controlled by the syrian government but it has been completely encircled by islamic state for three years now the russian army is now saying that if they manage to kick out state from this province and this case we will find ourselves in a situation essentially when we are very close to the end of islamic state in syria is indeed an insignificant if it can gain and i think has been losing a lot of ground in syria recently as well just look at this map the area which is

black is indeed the areas that are still controlled body still but if we looked at this map just three weeks ago most of this area this is mostly the hama and homs provinces was controlled by islamic state as you can see the yellow bits this is where the kurds in the allies have made significant gains north of their resort but again these particular gains and territorial advance advances by the syrian army they were made possible thanks to several successful operations by the syrian government army backed by the russian air force and as you can see in this particular case just east of hama they were even able to encircle islamic state.

well of course completely kicking state out of the their resort province is a massive challenge indeed a tough one but of course the military commanders in syria are contemplating god day when that can be done because this will really signal the final chapter of islamic state in syria meanwhile new witness accounts of refugees from rock the south proclaimed capital of islamic state in syria paint a worrying picture as the u.s. leaves the advance those who managed to flee the city describes what it was like.

to the civilian people who die either from clashes or from the aircraft we people died as a result and yes many people died would you think though many people died in the aircraft targeted the checkpoint is a was living it and then i was able to parse. i cannot cross live to our gas to a secretary general of the norwegian refugee council to discuss this further mr egeland it's wonderful to have you on the program with us now as we've just heard people are comparing u.s. led coalition as strikes in iraq or so i still attacks do as strikes always creates a risk of hitting civilians and creating refugee flows. yeah. warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties in iraq which is a heavily dense densely populated town that has been now been bartman from the

coalition for a very long time inside the islamic state by this. whole thing as civilians as human shields these people are really caught in a horrific crossfire we as human a terrence are in contact with the coalition they assure us that they're taking all possible measures avoid civilian casualties but when the fight this and the civilians are mixed you cannot avoid it. now there are even reports by humanitarian organizations that the u.s. coalition have been using white phosphorous ensuring the operation in iraq and now how potentially dangerous is that substance for civilians in the area. well i have no independent reports that what phosphorous has been used there those places where it has been used was used in gaza for example and elsewhere it has enormous

consequences for this of billions it's it's a horrible substance that courses tremendous burns should not be used in and warfare nor should. you know big explosive weapons be used in that kind of warfare they cost a quarter so much civilian casualties just look at the civilian toll in aleppo. now the u.n. investigator says that u.s. led airstrikes on rocco are causing as doctoring a loss of civilian life do you think mass effect comment given that there have been reports of hundreds of civilian casualties however the u.s. senate com has reported a much smaller number indeed in the jury is out on how many civilians have been killed both due to the crossfire due to the coalition bombardment and by islamic state you know shooting people in the back

as they try to flee or or using that them as human shields we know that there are casualties of very many we in the region refugee council are receiving those who flee from iraq we try to help them but at the search from my colleagues in a minute sense and doctors without borders that there are medical facilities have received very few of late it is very hard for people to escape from the remaining enclaves and rucka but i guess they would be fact to say that the liberation of iraq has come at a very high price in terms of civilian casualties. it's come at a high price. it's also my impression that the coalition indeed is very open to investigate or possible claims of

civilian civilian targets being hit there is a fluid contact with them and we urge them to take more precautions even and also discuss the possibility of a pause or some other way would that would allow us more civilians to get out on the river or in other ways and how the the operation to liberate lacker affected the flow of refugees have we seen a vast increase yes we have seen a big increase listen twenty seventeen is more of a year of displacement than people had thought one point three million times as syrian has been displaced as the times because some people have been displaced so we're time so it's not one point three million people if it's it's people being displaced one point three million times seven thousand people per day

has been displaced by conflict either that have was in aleppo you will remember the horrific. backlash over aleppo before that in homs now also in eastern must and then you have iraq in the in addition more than two hundred thousand people have been displaced from iraq alone and that is part of this larger picture what about be at least in syrian city of the arizona have we seen a lot of refugees coming from this area. less so far but it's coming as your colleague was explaining the results are now sort of a raise to liberate the day of a sewer coming from several angles it's a bit different in the. mean in iraq state qualms held all of the city in there to sue the syrian government is holding the town of

an islamic state is besieging is is is around. the way we have been rebuilt to reach as a human human a tarion is through you and lead air dropped from a great height but those have been successful and the people have so far been served but i also fear from there. a lot of casualties as the attack comes and they slam mixtape fight this use of billions as possible human shields. and a recent article by a middle east ah it revealed that testimonies of civilians who had fled from territories under the control and maybe reporting and the state of these refugee centers kept talking about horrific conditions poorly equipped i wanted the sohan to equip these count with the basics that these people need. well many of these

areas have been very hard to reach they are in so-called hard to reach areas. in syria syria has a very large relief operation a number of generous fundus in the european union and u.s. . among among the largest has been able to set up a very large humanitarian operation but because of the besiegement of too many towns and places and because of crossfire and because of so many activists on the ground it's very been very hard to reach. very many places there are also some areas where the the the camps are held by groups that are not allowing neither freedom of movement of the civilians no freedom of movement for humanitarian workers yeah that consigning thing that these as civilian testimonies

reveal is that it will say they're not being allowed to leave the camp even if they wanted to say was that not a violation of their human rights. it is a violation of their human rights. we have for example reports that some of these the death forces which are kurdish forces that are actually now round rocca have been not allowing said millions who fled rucka to have freedom of movement out of the refugee who will being sent this. day then claim that it is because they don't know who would be sympathizers of the islamic state what we say is that seven million do have a freedom of movement if someone is particularly suspect there is reason to believe that someone would be not civilian but fighting with one group or they have. person

should be charged. according to some of the residents in these camps that they said that some of these these refugee camps are being run by the u.s. bank syrian democratic forces but the s.d.f. have denied that he was right here well what's true is that the as the earth has imposed restrictions on freedom of movement of of syrian civilians that fled and that is where that's for sure and that's something we are engaging b.s.d.'s and indeed the u.s. and others on. let's move on to the liberation of the iraqi city of mosul if we we may if now widely reported that this city is in ruins in your opinion how long will it take to rebuild this ancient city and allow civilians that to live something resembling a normal life. well the rebuilding is already happening and the most important force to rebuild the city is. the people themselves the people of mosul

like the people of aleppo and many of these ancient cultural centers are extremely resourceful themselves however there needs to be a massive investment from from international and national sources to rebuild the infrastructure. large parts of mosul is to the ground. which is sewage systems water systems electricity system buildings have it we will rebuild and it's very important that that is done in a way that helps you know that people also feel that the whims of the war there is the sectarian tension between sunni and shia and the other groups and one has to learn from the past the population of mosul mainly sunni that

bug that shia led government needs to really come forward and heal that division in the pentagon has just issued a report seeking to make public strike targets in mosul whack american bombs did not explode to how dangerous these dug bone was full mosul residents. the. all old bombs on exploded ordinance is very is very. dangerous there are a lot of on exploded ordinance in mosul after this enormous campaign but also like like in aleppo where you know the russian led intensive bombardment that also brought a lot of civilian casualties has also led to a lot of unexploded ordinance. classic problems of urban

warfare and they the consequences of it is often underestimated. and also at the u.n. has reported that the flow from the iraqi city of tal a father who was and others thought is on the ground to provide help for them there is and they know we refuse counsel we are in the first line really of reception of civilians from tel afar as we where from as we were from mosul we have a very large operation there it is a well organized effort even though conditions are horrific forty five degrees celsius day eight people have to go through long areas from islam mixed faith you know control but where there to help them to do whatever we can to assist people in we have. a lot of

freedom of movement in iraq more so than we have. in syria. and we can help i mean even to the situation in yemen if we made a mistake alon we've seen you a public left to to the u.n. secretary general with proposals on how to resolve the appalling humanitarian crisis that do you expect your advice to be taken. well what we hope is that really the explosive cholera epidemic is an eye opener to all major cap of posts that that both the united states the united kingdom russia as security council members everybody understands now that yemen is the place on earth where most lives are at stake at the moment when seventeen million people now

need humanitarian relief seven million people risk being engulfed in an epic biblical famine. when i was in yemen in may there were two thousand cholera cases i saw a woman called lapsing in front of us in the. deserted hospital corridor or in the hospital where the nurses and the doctors had not been paid for nearly a year i mean now there are is gone from two thousand cases to more than five hundred thousand cases should be an eyeopener and we need an immediate cease fire until the correct that there is under control we need new political talks to resolve this senseless war we need an end to the saudi led blockade on commercial goods and even civilian travel and we need payment of government

salaries because this rebel government in not cannot pay their salaries salaries because the national bank has even been moved out of the place by the former government. yana a gallon secretary-general of the no we to refugee council thank you so much feel time in joining us here in our thank you national pleasure. now moving on the british prime minister to resign may has rejected an appeal by survivors and families of the nine eleven attack victims they were demanding the publication of a u.k. report into the role of saudi arabia in funding islamic extremism fantasy a check and a half the story following a series of appeals actually from campaigners m.p.'s and other politicians here in the u.k. nine eleven survivors now become the latest group to see a refusal from the british government to release the full contents of this quite controversial report focusing on extremist funding in the u.k. this was

a report that was commissioned back in two thousand and fifteen and is largely believed to be focused on saudi arabia's activities and now the nine eleven survivors had sent a letter to theresa may demanding answers we respectfully urge you to release the report now finished and finished we asked you to consider all the victims of state sponsored saudi finance terrorism families in the survivors in the u.k. and all over the world the longer saudi arabia's complicity is hidden from sunlight the longer terrorism will continue while the british government has long maintained really for months now that diplomatic relations with saudi arabia have nothing to do with this decision to not reveal the contents of the report they've also said that it's actually reasons of national security as well as private information contained in the report that's keeping them from publishing it and they've also said that the media has been misinterpreting this relationship with saudi arabia when it comes to this report let's take

a listen to what theresa may had to say on this at some point bush explained that her refusal is simply because the contents of the report would embarrass the government's friends in saudi arabia or is it because ministers care rather more about arms sales to riyadh than they do about public safety. it is absolutely nothing to do with that there is there is certain confidential information in the reports that means that it would not be appropriate for public. mine runs on the from the home secretary has made it available on the privy council basis to opposition parties well we have to keep in mind that despite the british government and the home office particularly saying that saudi arabia is not in fact the focus of this secret report and it's in fact something that looks at overseas funding in general criticism really has been running rampant that the british government would have released this report if they had nothing to hide specifically these nine eleven survivors who had sent this letter in the latest week to see the contents of call this decision of the british government quote shameful really believing that it's a special relationship that the u.k.

has long had with saudi arabia this marriage of convenience this cozy relationship that has led the u.k. to decide to not reveal this information again and again we have to say that obviously this is something that the british government denies but does have quite a history of protecting the special relationship they have with saudi arabia now here's a quick reminder of how similar calls from families were made in the u.s. in two thousand and two the u.s. congress began its inquiry into the nine eleven attacks two years later the families of nine eleven victims sued saudi arabia over reports of links between saudi government officials and the hijackers declassified pages of the inquiry reports later confirms those links with congress then approving a bill that allowed families to take legal action against the gulf. saudi arabia has repeatedly denied any involvement in the nine eleven attacks but the eagle son lost his father in the tragedy he says the fact the u.k.

report is being kept secret shows otherwise it's very clear to us and all the nine eleven family members that there is a relationship that exists between our government and the u.k. government between saudi arabia that our governments do not want to inconvenience or they do not want to interrupt this report that we're requesting to be released would be a very inconvenient truth to both governments this report makes clear connection between terrorist financing and the government of saudi arabia right now we are in a legal case with saudi arabia and as i stand right now we are going to court and a court in the united states and we hope that is really the only way that we think that the truth will prevail is just another small setback for us we've been facing setbacks for the past sixteen years but we don't give up we think that ultimately light needs to be shed on terrorism and this report will be that.

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ethnicities the company itself though one tank was misguided and the fact that so many people would have looked at this company and signed off on it before she went went out makes me think that perhaps transport for london they perhaps need more diversity training. in violent clashes erupted in berlin on sunday when anti fascist activists confronted a neo nazi march. europe's ultra rights groups gathered there to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the death of hitler's top henchmen rudolph hess there was a heavy police presence on the streets in a bid to separate the two groups however that didn't prevent impassioned verbal spats descending into a fist fight. however neo nazis marching in the streets is not the full extent of

it recently an investigation was launched amid allegations that members of an of an elite unit of the german army had been given nazi salutes and playing neo nazi rock music at a party on his macau francis santiago has been looking into the story. have you ever heard of germany's special forces command that's right probably not because this is a german special ops team the process to join which the so-called k s k a rigorous only a handful of soldiers are accepted out of hundreds for operations and conflict zones all over the world just recently a young woman came forward in german t.v. channel claiming that she had been invited to a k. ask a farewell party her task was to police the commander with the prize but it's alleged the chaos broke out nazi salutes were flying all over the room alcohol was being consumed to excesses and even a pig's head was being thrown about all to a backdrop of a german nazi song being blasted out of the speakers

a witness we called some of the lyrics showing how some feel nostalgic for the once powerful regime we are examining the incident the investigation may eventually be taken over by the stuttgart attorney and to lawful after ensues or symbols have not been confirmed so far headlines about right wing extremism in the ranks of german armed forces have been plaguing its military with some reports suggesting more than twenty five hundred cases have been registered in germany and unnecessary distraction to the many threats it's facing as of now it's scary as problem is. digital military is not really a threat and the more. of course you are of the military this is the model that is not accepted by the majority of people of your country when you were in the military and you are. expected by your friends and by the problem because you're going to take my left three approaches you are not really into this and you

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