this is not the baghdad. i knew it's not the baghdad any of my friends knew and i thought it was a pretty straightforward question turns out it was a really complicated answer because only five other people in the world knew what that answer was the answer it turns out is this plucky. a band of brothers in elite iraqi counterterrorism unit had managed to put one of their officers undercover inside the islamic state in one of the most daring feeds of wartime espionage of modern times, and they were getting real-time intelligence from their officer. that was helping them. keep the capital safe and keep the morale of the nation up while they were fighting this ground war to the north of the of baghdad. and i wasn't really expecting that huge answer but i started asking that question, but it turns out that i was unlocking an incredibly important secret weapon about how the iraqis ended up defeating the islamic state. i thought i was gonna have maybe you know sort of a a story, you know in the middle of the new yo

then found a plane going up to baghdad. landed in baghdad. found my way downtown, got on the bus. found my way to the palace. the republican palace. because i knew that was the headquarters. and said, "hello, i'm emma from england, come to volunteer." after a week in baghdad, we have enough people here, try the north, they said. they didn't say where, so i flew to mosul. they had someone there. they said, keep going. so we went to kirkuk. i was told, i am now the senior civilian reporting to the people in baghdad. in case you are wondering, i was never a mayor of the town in the u.k. let alone the governor of the province in someone else's country. i know brits used to do that. we have stopped doing that. [laughter] you know how to do this thing? it's not genetic. we learnt every generation. so that's how i found myself governing a province. the coalition provisional authority divided iraq into 15 provinces and said, we are going to have 10 americans in charge of them and five brits. we were a coalition. and this is a partnership. so i was put in charge of this province. i had a h

reporting to pwrepler in baghdad. in case you are wondering, i was never a mayor of the town in the u.k. let alone the governor of the province in someone else's country. i know brits used to do that. we have stopped doing that. you know how to do this thing. it's not genetic. we learn every generation. that's how i found myself governing a province. the coalition provisional authority divided iraq into 15 provinces and said we are going to have 10 americans in charge of them and five brits. we were a coalition. this is a partnership. i was put in charge of this province. hi a house downtown. and i realized that iraqis took my role quite seriously. in the first week insurgents came to my house and fired mortars at it. two days later it was r.p.g.'s at it. and they came into the house. fortunately the walls were solid. i was in bed upstairs. an explosion was taken out of the ceiling before it came landing right by my bed. i then decided i'm going to have to work with the u.s. military. much against my better judgment b

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returning to baghdad, the political scientist sees changes in iraq. yeah, the only bad machines in there, even though i'm not on the who now the care. i them, it's the club. he had a bullet. it was the last couple for there to find a jo ability judge ely, no. what. how did a novel, shabby, learned that the law for a jew who she marlena, whom men and for your call know in a duel let it possibly i'm to put them, had them out. they have no idea you know, and that could hear men a shove, arbitrarily. g room, i live in the love, it will done to joe a little bit role. let's see here the, we're done, the list you with me or any luck in sewell it, i well then when it was a start to look at the column, now they have cyber. if you hadn't met john, john in the world about the baghdad residents admit that since 2003, there's been one corrupt government after another. the corrupt government corrupt society says a concerning which i mean a highly and what i do a lot of them is that there have been, especially on a house, a lot, a lot of music, you know? so if you k

the baghdad taxi drivers complain about fuel prices. tony melbourne, see what our service advisor, lencioni barnesville buffy is live alone. it jonathan. why a suburb her? oh, can advise you wanna balloon? no. gee and her body in this way, lola holly, a little more, be her bill. it a small enough to saw the the listen to them while a lot of i know why we are from she had a sort of with see, well as the, how was your story? this also wants you to work well. everybody in the level the iraq oil is both a curse that promote all the recent wars and a blessing. 55 percent of the countries g. d. p comes from oil production or the economy sectors, services, construction, agriculture, all in decline. not just not store w nifty out what i keep thus my last god for the for missile dos. thought to look up at us lea, a gallon from the get go up here, or he's just the ye, me up list. her a small was seek on the mickey or darker. a bicycle is dinning, united florida. got her on the wires. i can call this donna eel for keys. just i need you to put a ca

the father has for the rest itself started with me arriving in baghdad. i didn't tell anyone when i'd be arriving all that i was coming back. it's old. i was sleeping out on the terrace when they sent troops to my location. that night i remember wearing a dished ashy. we were having dinner, my brother cook, make a bab. we love cabin a rocky cuisine, so we also had 3 and some other dishes. i wanted to visit my brother who had been arrested a while before. he couldn't tell me they wanted to arrest me also. he wasn't allowed to keep in touch with us from prison, so we had no idea what was coming. like i said i was sleeping when they came out of nowhere helicopter came right above me. troop as descended from it, grabbed me and clamped my mouth, shut. one of the moss, are you to right? i said yes i am. they had an interpreter with them who said i was under arrest. i was shocked since i hadn't done anything wrong. they took me to the helicopter, put me in some kind of basket suspended on oaks of any same things like that in the movies than we took off. i had no

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and joe will an a levy before the fall of baghdad. on april 9th, the general atmosphere was tense, visual. everything had been prepared to promote the only narrative that of the american army. they didn't want any other narrative to go. public. journalists in the iraqi capital were not biased. they were witnesses of the truth, but the u. s didn't want those witnesses to tell their stories about what was happening and what would happen later on, and the ha ah, according to commanders on the ground coalition forces came under significant enemy fire from the building where they al jazeera journalists were working and consistent with the insurance right of self defense coalition forces returned fire . sadly, al jazeera correspondence was killed in this exchange. and the subtle, gloomy hunter dismissal wasn't fired accidentally left. it was intended to kill, to wreak, and his colleagues in this unfair war on iraq. like many others, this case remains unpunished. he had the hidden, ah, some people so hot and there were commons coming from th

s. army and coalition forces entered baghdad and tore down the statue of saddam hussein in fear door square. lay the 1st 2003 u. s. president george bush declared victory in the iraq war. december, the 30th 2006, saddam hussein was executed december, the 15th 2011. a ceremony was held in baghdad to mark the end of the u. s. military mission. in reality, the u. s. army is still in iraq. but the steady she is c. m was near nist a home. my mom was saying a student from iraq came to russia in 2015. he's studying at kasan university. his dream is to become a surgeon on yet yet appro nee smith thrashed all that are not stupid, not with which and deal with like i said way some that has a very nice thing you them when you're about bushel ma frontier, correct g j dash which he's in your ratio dash he a bomber yoga ash that has some good lawyers and he's not just a student, but also a nurse. a mom is a rehabilitation therapist, as a new cousin clinic open during the pandemic. he helps those who have long been living with the aid of medical devices to recover amar's life is in russia, but he kn

a yummy at a bow during his stay in baghdad. and he was there for 4 or 5 days and he made 3 reports. and for me, each report was a reassurance of him being safe and sound ah, [000:00:00;00] with blue, with dizzy kenneth off al jazeera, did send the coordinates of its baghdad bureau to the american troops, to ensure the safety of the journalists while fulfilling their work and to assert that they are not to be part of the war. there is a sense that the office was deliberately targeted because they already knew the court and ecstasy. and joe will an a levy before the fall of baghdad. on april 9th, the general atmosphere was tense, legible. everything had been prepared to promote the only narrative that of the american army or joe, they didn't want any other narrative to go. public. journalists in the iraqi capital were not biased. they were witnesses of the truth. what the u. s. didn't want those witnesses to tell their stories about what was happening and what would happen later on. and the whole gyla ah, according to commanders

when the americans 1st arrived in baghdad fell. what we saw at 1st was very different from the reality i experienced in prison. the americans arrived with promises of security, democracy, peace and freedom. and we welcomed all that under so dam. there were belly, any freedoms left in iraq, so we said good that see what we could make of it. maybe we could start our lives in you. but then we saw the americans do things in the streets of baghdad, things that were very different from what they promised. we had people, we trusted our religious leaders, but the americans were invaded with whom you never knew if they were lying or telling the truth. we lived like that for a while. then came the arrests. people were taken at random and nobody knew why we watched this and we couldn't wrap our minds around it. where did the promised freedom and democracy go? what followed was a period of g had resistance against the invaders, initiated by religious leaders. now what's important about my row? i was seeing the people who filmed the invaders ge

on the we arrived at the baghdad airport, so it was a short flight. they took me out of the basket and brought me to a place inside the boat. i didn't know where i was, and i was wrapped like a mummy and state like that for 3 hours. and then for women soldiers came, they asked you to rate a value. i didn't know what i've done wrong. i said, yes, i am to write and talk to them for a while yet then an interpreter came wearing goggles and masks. he said, you're a terrorist. and i said, what have i done to be called a terrace? i'm not a terrorist. he said, all right. and he turned on a water hose and told me to undress right in front of the women when they hit me with a stick on the head and on the back and drenched me with water from the 00s. and it was a cold day, then they left me in one of the rooms where i stayed naked for about 4 days. it was hardly any food. they would bring some flat bread, say food, and throw it at us. it tasted like paper, we didn't really know what it was, bread or some other kind of bakery. i was very hungry all the time. they

however, baghdad knows terrorists still look on the border with syria. and some extreme is even buying for power. not care for asylum was hello darling gerard. laugh and i want them to join the air, and i let them interact with our lead. though little hello, look here that o'clock and are the 1st line shaneka to be is and i even to hobby o'clock, well ha, no up fee problem on other was an error either he and methodist a good idea or another silly a bit slow on the kidney but yeah, no food, something dash or a soft you can interest to finish up or less than me or them especially do my lie or less than my that nested in my live. it was minimal budget, a little bungalow busy now and this year also i live on while she issue him a can to how you would my by love the when would you to a home. why and then a long oh i learned china from austin there to a city or jewel there. i want to fund the research of the defendant. don't want to do the john. ah, i'm on with them. they come and throw on my sheila wall, myself or her mom to so tardy. alca b is a pool mas civ

so any baghdad in the center iraqi kurdistan in the north with air bill as it center. and she basrah in the south appeal will need that clinical copy. again, believe i'm kind of she one and a model, some will or if a daughter some all i wanna do now, so we have to bother but we are just kind of emergent in jamaica. so lasted couple i thought look, still, okay, let me look at dr. la la. hey there. the issue. and then yeah, time in the office. yes. here off here. i law. that shows little more on there are many was on an iraqi cumberland of course. and i was in the army, gave up to the 2003 invasion form. arrival she, i'd sunni's reconciled and launched a guerrilla war. the became a civil war. the u. s. army and coalition forces were losing control. wiki leaks revealed what had been carefully concealed the shooting of civilians in bagdad on july, the 12th 2007 was cynically described as can natural murder, president bush, and to don't shoot, thrown with him at the prince, come from make good progress. and we'll continue to work together to achieve peace. that's what we wa

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almost a 20 years ago, a large statue of iraqi leader saddam hussein was toppled in baghdad. the monument seen as a symbol of his rule in the country was brought down by a rockies who the hell with the help of us marines. he event received wide coverage in western media, which headlined the day as an end to the scene era. but us forces were not done in the country. 2 years after the invasion of iraq began, american troops, gun down 24 civilians, women and children were among them in the town of had the, for one of the 8 marines involved, pleaded guilty to negligence. all other charges, including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault, were dismissed. r t correspondence to sweeney travel to the country to hear firsthand about the cane this incident and the legacy u. s. military adventures them left behind. i isa was a town the very few people outside of iraq knew before, 2003, but it soon became known throughout the world. off to you, as marines went on, the rampage, massacring 24 people like fallujah. this was also a revenge attack. it followed the killing of a us so

maybe we can start our lives and do things in the streets of baghdad, things that were very different from what they had stayed our religious lead us. but the americans were invaded with whom you never knew. we lived like that for a while. then came the arrests pie. we watched this and we couldn't wrap our minds around it, where he go, what full i was a period of jihad resistance against the ins latest. now what's important about my row? i was seeing the people who have a crashes on high 5th street in the our wiley neighborhood and, and they are, i was filming the evidence is yet, but they cannot, it, in the provinces, we never saw any freedom or democracy only into homes, assaulted and dishonored all wives and sisters murdered people openings against anti townsend communities in the suburbs of baghdad. so what else could we do? there was not a single shred of freedom of democracies, openly cold them invade us. our politicians at the time sided with the american. that's what our country looked like for a while. one of the 1st to be arrested at the time i was filming the developments a

exactly 2 decades ago, a large statue of the iraqi leader, saddam hussein was toppled in baghdad. the monument was brought down by a rockies with the help with us marines. the event received extensive media coverage with many headlining it as the end of the hussein era. but it wasn't the end of involvement in the country for us forces. 2 years after the invasion began, american troops gun down 2004 civilians, including women and children. and the town of had date that one of the 8 marines involved pleaded guilty to negligence. all of their charges, including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault, were dismissed. archie steve sweeney traveled the country to investigate the incident and the legacy, the u. s. war left behind. i d. there was a town. the very few people outside of iraq knew before 2003. but it soon became known throughout the world of the us. marines went on the rampage, massacring 24 people like fallujah. this was also a revenge attack. it followed the killing of a you, a soldier and a roadside bomb here. but the victims were women. the elderly and children

please let me know how things are in baghdad and iraq right now on al-quds day. mobeen number about the trip to nakhale and also the preparation of this city and iraq, which is happening for the first time, and they say that it is important. in such circumstances, many americans tried but still the iraqi government officials have officially invited mr. ziad al-nakhleh to visit iraq and this is one of the important solidarity of the tehran government . a demonstration will be held in the movie square, god willing, after the important parts of iraq, we have seen a bad situation in the country of iraq in the past few days, but the people of iraq still insist that today in this event , as in the past 20 years, from this participant, article 20 last year after you despite all efforts to destroy tumors of quds day and despite all the special situations that were in the country, but this ceremony was held in its own time and there was no disruption in it, and those like him, god willing, witnessed the strong holding of this ceremony last night, mr. ziad al-nakhleh, with

was still a hit on al jazeera, how parts of iraq's capital baghdad are undergoing a green transformation ah, in the wilderness of northern scandinavia, a semi activist fight for indigenous rights with a needle and thread after 4 decades of her historic struggle against the establishment. the nomadic, some people now faced their greatest threat climate change. witness status for sup me on al jazeera ah feel production is responsible for around 7 percent of global c o 2 emissions. but his solution for this has been discovered as the say, b is sweet and largest sheets deal manufacturer. martin pay is leading mississippi's charge to become the 1st company to bring what's known as possible free steel to market green electricity is used to split tool to into oxygen which is released and via hydrogen which is captured to use energy. essentially we use 3 hydrogen to replace coal that we used today in the preferences and with ox week a 3 the suit to mission problems to make it. this is a huge project shrouded in secrecy. i can see the end product. so these are both, it's actually pure i i'm holdi

information on the persian language and literature of baghdad university was established in 1347. the founder was the late allameh dr. hossein ali mahfouz, who had completed his higher education in persian language at the university of tehran . accordingly, many iraqi students still prefer to welcome the universities of the republic. continue their master's degrees in most fields in iran, ehsas and master of international university, ph.d. from tehran university, when we started the cultural consultation of the islamic republic of iran in baghdad, the number of iraqi students was very small , less than 30 people now we have about 60,000 iraqi students who are studying in the universities of the islamic republic of iran. during our visit to the department of persian language and literature of the university of baghdad, we sat on the heart of the iraqi professors, who are working to increase the skills of the professors and make a part of the cultural achievements of the language. persian requests from iran, until today, there was no iranian professor, i mean for the persian languag

we're just watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad beingbeing dragged through the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing the statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in firdos square, in baghdad, was something that was really hard to comprehend. i was happy to see him gone but, at the same time, this was led by us troops and allies. it was not at the hand of iraqis, but at the hand of invaders. bbc analysis has found that over the past winter, one in every seven hospital beds in england was taken up by someone well enough to go home. one of those facing the wait is charlotte mills—murray. she may only have months to live, but is still in hospital many weeks after being cleared to leave. 0ur health reporter, jim reed, has been speaking to her. i'm stuck here, and just fighting to get home and to keep going. and i don't know how much fight i have left in me. charlotte has ehlers—danlos, a co

i've been talking to balsam mustafa a reseach fellow at warwick university about life in baghdad duringam hussein's rule. living under the dictatorship was very hard, and before the invasion also there was a wave of wars and conflicts, and also the economic sanctions. we were living through hardships and it felt like we were living in a big prison, and we were longing, or many of us were longing, to see saddam hussein's rule and the ba'athist regime come to an end one day, but we would never think at that moment that what would follow would be much worse, because saddam hussein's dictatorship and tyranny for us was the maximum level of brutality. just talk me through how you felt in 2003, then. we are watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppled and peoplejumping around on top of it and it being dragged through the street. how did you feel then at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing that statue, his statue, being toppled after one year

allow us to present a corner of the world quds day march in iraq to baghdad in iraq . it has been faced by the interim regime that we are silent about the recent events in palestine and these events are a prelude to the definitive destruction of this interim regime and the interim groups based on different geographical areas are united in the fight against arrogance and the interim regime with a united hand and common facilities. you move the joint plan, which is called rote the struggle is unlimited and we are fully prepared to participate and wherever the enemy is, the moon and the fields are united against the common enemy and its plans, our three ways are one, our goal is one, and on this important day, america must be united. let's forget that he committed corruption in our country and committed many aggressions and violated iraq and international laws on iraqi soil and created sedition and corruption in america in our country iraq. we have made it clear that the ambassador is doing something against america in iraq, contrary to all international customs and inter

geoff: you are based in baghdad for the invasion. did the drumbeat of war look from your respective when you were reporting out of saddam hussein's ministry of information? >> i was there when the weapons inspectors were there and it was a surreal place. it was a place full of fear. we had minders all the time, people that were assigned to us by the ministry of information that would inform on us, inform on the people that we were going to talk to. but i will never forget the day when it was clear that the united states was going to invade this quite feared and heinous member of the ministry of information. i went up to him and i said, you know, why aren't you preparing, and he looked at me and said, you know what, it might not be bad after all. all of a sudden, i realized this veneer, this facade that i had been sort of sold in iraq was very, very different from the reality and something else was coming in its stead. geoff: that's four to 2004, you were at a celebration effectively invited by a u.s. official as saddam hussein's pala

we're watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppledagged through the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing that statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in firdos square, in baghdad, was something that was really hard to comprehend. i was happy to see him gone, but at the same time, this was led by us troops and allies. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, hello from the bbc sport centre. the final round is underway at the masters. there's been a lot of golf at augusta, after much of saturday's play was abandoned because of the weather, the players had an early start to complete their third rounds before heading back out on the course. the american brooks koepka was two shots clear of spain'sjon rahm after 5a holes, they are playing together, this is the latest from the final round of golf�*s first major of the year. victor hovland had five birdies in a row as he

they also stopped a taxi that was carrying students heading to baghdad to study the executed them in cold blood. after that, they broke into the house of ai, it al gray, airy and killed 4 people. it was a terrible day. it terrified the entire city that the american military, the militants and al qaeda, one might say, we're playing a game of cat and mouse. and ordinary citizens were the only ones who really suffered from this. every day we heard shooting in the city, the result of which was always the cold blooded murder of civilians. hundreds of innocent people died in such incidents. he described drug cray soldiers who lost control as they went on a 3 hour killing spree la la foot and a 20 years after the americans evaded my country. iraqis still remember this with great pain and suffering because of the disasters the americans left behind. yes, my country suffered from economic weakness due to the devastating war with iran, but life was safe in the cities and in the country as a whole. however, with the arrival of the americans, that security ended before the american invasion. the

we're watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppledrough the street. how did you feel then, at that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing that statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in baghdad was something that was really hard to comprehend. i was happy to see him gone, but at the same time, this was led by us troops and allies. it was not at the hand of iraqis, but at the hand of invaders. here in the uk, health secretary steve barclay has accused the doctors' union the bma of taking a "militant stance" and pressing ahead with strikes that he says "carry a considerable risk to patient safety". mr barclay accuses the union of timing the four—day strikes to cause "maximum disruption". the national medical director of nhs england has also warned that the industrial action will cause "unparalleled levels of disruption" to the health service, as simon jones reports. chanting: one, two, three four! we can't take it any more

a doctor filled these scenes at a harder to hospital for baghdad. either there are still injured people in the hospital. medical supplies of very scarce no medical teams have managed to reach us due to lack of security and safety on the roads leading to the hospital. the injustice coming to hospital because of the current battles. if the fighting wasn't enough, some fear on polluters even more. cctv footage captures men dressed in military fatigues and carrying weapons breaking into shops. it's not clear who these men are or which side they belong to. both the army and rapid support forces accused each other of breaching law and order elsewhere in the country. the town jenny, not near the border with chad, has seen intense battles. the area has with miss ethnic conflict in the recent past. now the sound of gunfire can be heard as locals run for cover their reports. the city has no electricity and very limited form connectivity. concerns of return to civil war are high for many and are for the previous war lasted nearly 20 years and pitted arab tribe

we're watching images as we talk to you of that famous statue of saddam hussein in baghdad being toppledt that moment, when that was all going on? it was... i had mixed emotions. on one hand, i wanted saddam hussein to be gone, and so seeing that statue, his statue being toppled after one year of being set up in firdos square, in baghdad, was something that was really hard to comprehend. i was happy to see him gone, but at the same time, this was led by us troops and allies. it was not at the hand of iraqis, but at the hand of invaders. however, there was a sentiment of optimism and hope at least four people have been killed in an avalanche in the french alps. it's thought the victims were hikers. the interior minister, gerald darmanin, said several more people were injured on the armancette glacier. azadeh moshiri has more. now, this is what we know about the area where the avalanche happened. it happened in southeastern france, in the french alps. the glacier itself was near the mont blanc. now, four people were killed in the armancette glacier. several others were injured. but french