mosul lives again. ali: da'esh murals used to attract young people to join them, attract people to kill, to purge the city of the minorities, to impose their point-of-view, their dark point-of-view. so, it is very important to paint that dark era with beautiful colors, yeah. reporter: but the wounds of the past are still far from being healed. ali also feels a deep sense of mistrust, wondering who may have sympathized or collaborated with i.s. he makes a statement on social media with his photos and his blog. he believes that mosul is bebetr than its image. ali: mosul is not isis. mosul has always been living in a co-existential way. i have christian, kurds, kurdish students. i have yezidi students. and nobody thought to put a finger on a hair of them. what happened was something exceptional, was something brutal. and it was something that happened by the tiniest portion of muslims, of iraqis. reporter: photos from that dark era. ali took them secretly, and in doing so, he risked his life. the universit

the old city of mosul, where the extremists made their last stand.ted with the help of unrelenting coalition air strikes. making their way through the shattered shell of the city, a team of iraqi volunteers, trying to clear up the chaos. this was home to tens of thousands of people, trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered not just with bombs, but bodies, too. they could be is fighters and their families, or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. and next door, they have just found more. is suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble, but many innocents were killed alongside them. there are a lot of victims from the air strikes and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bare hands. the coalition dropped or fired nearly 30,000 munitions on this one city. mostly american bombs, but british ones, too. the ministry of defence insists it has seen no evidence it caused any civilian casualties. but a source inside the coalition has told us, that is simply not true.

mosul half of mosul is destroyed the hospitals are destroyed half of the whole town is destroyed and even schools so people who want to turn back to or to mosul are today they cannot return back you have around one million internally displaced iraqis who are still living in. camps and are not able to day to go back and vote although the government said we would allow them today to vote and make everything for them to vote but they say you know in times where we don't have our home back you're not building what we need why should we vote and they are they are questioning the credibility of today's election. it was the double correspondent jeff aboul karim in baghdad let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world syrian human rights observers say eleven the iranians were among those killed in israeli strikes on syria this week israel's army says it struck iranian military targets south of baghdad following a rocket attack on the israeli controlled golan heights which israel believes was carried out by iran. relations former prime minister najib razak ha

we will have a report from mosul . the italian millionaire owner of the englis united tells the bbc he does not regret taking the cup on a controversialrip to myanmar. the team faced widespread criticism for traveling to a widespreadused of ethnic cleansing of rohingya muslims. the owner denies he was putting his business interests over the reputation of the club. enour correspospoke to him in yangon. reporter: the day yorkshire came to yangon. united fans made the journey to myanmar, a choice of destination which plunged the club into a political row in light of the countries persecution of muslims. undeterred, the visitors post at one of buddhism's holiest sites. the club owner claims the trip was about using football to bring communities together and not just helping his commercial companies. iat do you say to people who say you are morenterested in making money than e reputation -- re we don't make any money out of this. rter:ou but yave business ventures in myanmar. >> of course i interest and i and wegood relatio

so you might have some support from especially from mosul and mosul might still play a turning point in the whole elections concerning iraq ok we know later today maybe tomorrow how long it's going to looks like within hours it's supposed to be like forty eight hours after saturday's so maybe today afternoon late afternoon but i guess to morrow morning might be like the hundred person because they're still counting we'll be talking about it again just short of the whole karim thanks so much for coming in for that you're welcome. well rand's foreign minister has started a world tour to try and save iran's nuclear pact after u.s. president donald trump's withdrawal left it on the brink of collapse mohan missouri has been in moscow where he's met with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov so it has reassured has received assurances that lavrov will in fact be backing the deal and moscow will stay in it says his aim is to prevent washington further destabilizing the region. on his world tour is a read his already visited beijing after moscow will stop off in brussels to meet the deal's e

nine months since the group known as islamic state was defeated in its stronghold of mosul, and it'sll not clear how many iraqi civilians died in the battle. the range of estimates is huge from at least 1,000 to more than 10,000. and reports suggest many were killed in coalition airstrikes. so far, only the us and australia have accepted any responsibility for civilian deaths. the official line from britain's ministry of defence is that officials have seen "no evidence." 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale, reports from mosul. this is the graveyard of the group called islamic state. it is also the tomb of an unknown

when i talk to the people here in iraq if it's here in baghdad or in mosul or in erbil they don't expect big changes they are some kind of confused and don't feel well about the whole elections they see it more as a show because they are they ask themselves having now an election in times where you face terrorism where unemployment is very high and if you look like to the north in parts of iraq in mosul which is like a year ago was under control of the i as i know was defeated according what the government here says there's no infrastructure in the city half of the city is destroyed and the people don't have a place to live you have a lot of internally displaced people around one million who are not being able to go back to their homes because their homes are destroyed and high corruption and all this together makes a big question by the voters and a lot of people you talk here on the streets i talk to them and they said i'm not going to vote because it's not going to change anything the same people the same game and that's why i don't want to be part of it. well this is being seen by ma

like most people in mosul they're sunni.ctarianism, the men said, it will destroy us. this man said that if iran left they could live in peace forever, and if it doesn't iraq is finished. many want the election to be a new start. part of a wave of younger candidates, he says the old guard used sectarianism to generate loyalty through fear. people now are more angry. in 2003 they were happy because saddam's regime was dismissed. in 2009 it was between shia and sunni, so people were busy fighting each other, not about their future. now i think that the majority of people look at the government and politicians, especially those politicians in iraq, to stop playing those games. let us rebuild our country. first, they will have to end corruption — powerful men steal public money before it gets to the people who need it. whoever wins the election faces some very big challenges. reconstruction, holding the country together and stopping the slide into another sectarian civil war. you can fix an alleyway, a street, even a town, but w

so you might have some support from especially from mosul and mosul might still play a turning point in the whole elections concerning iraq ok we know later today maybe tomorrow how long as you can it looks like within hours it's supposed to be like forty eight hours after saturday's so maybe today afternoon late afternoon ok i guess to morrow morning might be like the hundred person because they're still counting we'll be talking about it again just sure of the whole karim thanks so much for coming in for that you're welcome. orion's foreign minister has started a world tour to try and save the country's nuclear power act after u.s. president trump left it on the brink of collapse mohamed salary as arrived in moscow where he's met with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov zarif is seeking assurances from tehran's ally that it will still stay in the process and will not cave in to american pressure and reimpose sanctions on iran on his tour zarif has already visited china and after moscow will be stopping off in brussels to meet the deals european signatories here's what's at stake

like most people in mosul, they're sunni.he election. we don't want sectarianism, the men said, it will destroy us. this man said that if iran left they could live in peace for ever, and if it doesn't, iraq is finished. many want the election to be a new start. this man, part of a wave of younger candidates, says the old guard used sectarianism to generate loyalty through fear. people now are more angry. in 2003, they were happy because saddam's regime was dismissed. in 2009 it was between shia and sunni, so people were busy fighting each other, not about their future. now i think that the majority of people look at the government and politicians, especially those politicians in iraq, to stop playing those games. let us rebuild our country. first, they will have to end corruption — powerful men steal public money before it gets to the people who need it. whoever wins the election faces some very big challenges. reconstruction, holding the country together and stopping the slide into another sectarian civil war. you can fix an

fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. what did you not. only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild their homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us right mingling. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq sectarian divide getting wider. and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. camp in iraq. well ismail also known he was a brigadier general in the iraqi army he also served as iraq's defense attache in the us and he's joining us now from washington d.c. on skype thank you very much indeed for giving us your time so i so may have been defeated but there is still a strong suspicion that parts of it at least have splin

this was the crown jewel in nice and self declared islamic state a few years ago but control of mosul is back with the triumphant iraqi government and now the majority sunni city buzzing with election fever i did them a lot of candidates are using new ways besides their banners such as facebook and other social media voters from mosul face many difficulties because people are still displaced and more than seventy percent of its completely destroyed ice and says it's killed one candidate in mosul iraq's interior ministry says its plan to secure the border is being coordinated in strict measures that are in place for this it actions this appearance in baghdad and also all the provinces including. iraq everything now it's. we achieve all of. the federation the northern city of kirkuk used to be held by kurdish peshmerga now iraqi forces have taken charge when rich could group is also known as mini iraq because of its mixed population including kurds turkmen christians and arabs during this election the focus is on using the strength of diversity to solve the issue and. targets and topics

fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. one that i do not know what it is we only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild our homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq's sectarian divide getting wider. and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. camp. there from protests in the philippines after the country's highest court expelled the chief justice. she was ousted in a vote by fellow judges acting on a government petition seeking her removal sorrento has been critical of president were to go to urging people to stand up to his authority area richard hadari and as a fellow at th

fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps what to do not. only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded only after to rebuild their homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq's sectarian divide getting wider. and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. malaysia's new prime minister says that the king has agreed to part in the jailed opposition figure and why bring him here mohammed has also promised to reveal his cabinet on saturday the ninety two year old was sworn in on thursday after a win that swept the opposition to power for the first time on what you bring him as can custody on charges of sodomy and corruption charge

fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. we only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild their homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us. winning the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq's sectarian divide getting wider. from the hammered and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. strafford al jazeera sunshine camp in northern iraq. will get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then some good news for malaysia's jailed opposition leader just after a new prime minister is sworn in. plus a campaign for freedom we look at how an murder and rape case is drawing attention to the legal system in sudan. welcome back as we look at

jonathan beale, bbc news, mosul. laura:nawered questions in iraq. in other news, a fire at a skyscraper in brazil's biggest citysÃo paulo, has left one person dead. cthe buildingollapsed after being engulfed in flames. the abandonedbe offices hav occupied by 160 squatters. firefighters fear more people may have been trapped inside and others may have been killed whel the ng collapsed. the blaze is thought to have sibeen caused by gas expon. french president emmanuel macron has arrived in australia and met with the prime minister malcolm turnbull at the sydney opera house. both leaders are expected to agree to greater cooperation and in the pacific region to counter china's role. south korea has started taking down the loudspeakers along its border with the north. seoul says it believes pyongyang is doing the same thing. it is a series of symbolic gestures after a summit last week. ouboth cries used speakers to broadcast propaganda. today mike pompeo address to the u.s. state department for the first time as its top diplomat. the new secretary said h

jonathan: o an raf stripe on a truck stop in mosul last year. almost to civilians we certainly killed in the blast, but the mod said those killed were hhly probably i.s. fighters. uncertainty from the air and on the ground, too. this man says in the aftermath, women and men we screaming. he said some of them were wounded. others told us i.s. weren the area, but they refused o request to view the cockpit video. nor will it reveal the coordinates of other british airstrikes. but back in the old city, there is nubt that many were killed by coalition bombs. >> no one destroyed us except nee coalition. look, this was o of my daughters who got killed. this was one of my sons. >> where? where? where did they take care of civilians? there were just families in this house, and in that house over ere. why did they get hit? was isis there? jonathan: the mod says it took extreme care but cannot eliminate risk to civilians. but it has n er had anyone like this on the ground to vestigate.er thare just estimates of the number of civilians killed. what looks li

the old city of mosul, where the extremists made their last stand.ty, a team of iraqi volunteers, trying to clear up the chaos. this was home to tens of thousands of people, trapped in the fighting. nine months on, it is still a toxic wasteland, littered notjust with bombs, but bodies, too. it looks like children in there. there is a body here. they say they put out 130 from here. they could be is fighters and their families, or the civilians they corralled to use as human shields. and next door, they have just found more. in this one room they think they have found the remnants of 30 bodies. there are unexploded bombs around so we have to be careful but there is also the stench of death. the remains of one body is of a girl. the signs are that there were isis fighters here, but also civilians. is suicide belts lie strewn in the rubble, but many innocents were killed alongside them. translation:. there are a lot of victims from the air strikes and a lot of them are still buried under the rubble. we cannot pull them out with our bare hands. the coalit

it didn't happen also because he was the one saying we defeated in mosul but the results we have now speak another language so it seems unofficial to know that a souther is the winner right we're still waiting for an official vote count. karim thank you very much for your insights. and meanwhile iran's foreign minister has begun a world tour to try and save the country's nuclear pact after u.s. president trumps withdrawal left on the brink of collapse mohamed zarif has arrived in moscow where he has met his russian counterpart sergey lavrov sorry if it is seeking assurances from tehran's ally that it will stay in the deal and won't cave in to u.s. pressure and reimposed sanctions on iran on his tour sorry if it's already visited china after moscow he'll stop off in brussels to meet the deals european signatories. and that is because iran wants to know how europe plans to respond to those sanctions and sunni iran is giving europe sixty days to confirm the status of the nuclear treaty and guarantee they'll stick to its terms the iranian parliament's website says the e.u. must confirm t

it didn't happen also because he was the one saying we defeated i guess in mosul but the results we have now speak another language so it seems unofficial to know that assad there is the winner right we're still waiting for an official vote count what did happen is just our abdul karim thank you very much for your insights you're welcome. to men's tennis now with a german number one built on his already impressive season to win the madrid open on sunday he beat the formidable dominic team and in doing so the twenty one year old put a marker down as one of the favorites for the upcoming french open. germany's big tennis hope faced off with a fellow german speaker austria's dominant team is eighth in the a.t.p. rankings five spots behind but in their previous five meetings team one for spare of brokers a potent serve in the first game and took the first set six four under the watchful eye of idol boris becker team showed more promise in the second set but couldn't cope with the clinical opponents who made him work for every point. the school was one small six four at the end of the se

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i have come to find abu jaafar at his base outside mosul.ptive somewhere near here. but abu jaafar doesn't know that i know anything about it. he has agreed to see me to talk about his own community. from 2004 to 2014, we gave 1,735 sacrificed. people lilled? martyrs? people killed in terrorist attacks? yes. because they are shia and shabak. what we understand is that there is a group of people, women and children... isis women and children. and that you've been looking after them, is that right? from where you have this information? some of those people's relatives in russia, for example. we heard from them. yes, they are here. but this issue belongs to the hashd al—shaabi intelligence court, and iraqi court. it does not belong to me. roughly, how many are here now? including the children, all of them is, ithink, 200, 210. including the children? yeah, with the children. but they have got a very, very good place. like a hotel. 5—star hotel! wow! yes! abu jaafar wants to show me what kind of man he really is. he's taking me on a journey thro

need when i talk to them and especially when not see here only in baghdad but in north of iraq in mosul where d.s. one year ago was still there and a body always says like we defeated today that the the i asked talk to the people there day know that this elections will not change anything because even one year after defeating the so-called islamic state nothing happened there are no big changes you still have the old town of mosul is totally destroyed you still have bridges that are destroyed schools there are destroyed hospitals that are destroyed we don't have to forget that almost one million internally displaced iraqis didn't return back to their home so the politicians here are making big words and talking a lot when you say when you talk to people but when it comes to facts on which comes to doing they are not doing it and you can see this very well through the whole posters you have here and the big picture is hanging all over iraq and telling them we will build up iraq we will support you and you know it's kind of a joke that people here do their what what's written on this pape

ninety billion dollars to rebuild infrastructure badly needed informers law mixtape strongholds like mosul repeating local life here though is another matter they are not a share in it means nothing to me they have done nothing and nothing has changed we are living like the homeless we have no clue just north or no electricity look at this things are still the same they come and give us a kilo of rice or lentils and say vote for. the next prime minister will face several other challenges sneed angering islamic state support. correspondent kareen is covering these elections from baghdad in cooperation with iraqi channel al rashid the t.v. welcome to the prime minister partially a security curfew to encourage more people to vote or did this work yes well according to my impression of what i saw today it didn't work because on our way to a voting station you saw a lot of people walking and some of them complained because they had to walk for on four to five kilometers to reach the voting stations but after that after the curfew was set then it didn't change too because we were on our way back

fled the fighting in mosul in july last year she blames the government. and the suffering she and her family enjoy in the camps. one that i do not know if we only want to go home it's inhumane living here the other day it rained in our tent flooded we're only asking politicians to rebuild their homes this is the least of all human rights it's the fault of the government that brought this calamity on us and might mean to work with god willing the trust of mosul sunni population is going to be a major challenge for the new government if it is to prevent iraq sectarian divide getting wider for mohamad and hundreds of thousands of people like him the first step towards winning that trust would be rebuilding their home so they can start rebuilding their lives. can. place in turkey have detained another one hundred fifty soldiers for their alleged links to the attempted coup in twenty sixteen ankara has accused the us based preacher golan of orchestrating the current times in the one hundred fifty are among three hundred military personnel facing arrest suspect

mohamad shortcut and his family fled mosul in june last year during the battle against. their home was destroyed. like many of the two million people in iraq displaced by violence in recent years they live in a camp for the internally displaced yes we are asking politicians to look after everyone equally regardless where they are from and especially those living in camps we don't want charity we want to go home and we don't want money in return for our votes the iraqi government says one hundred sixty six polling stations are being set up in seventy camps in time for saturday's parliamentary election campaign cheaps say candidates from a number of parties have visited but apart from the post there's little sign of election campaigning. only around twenty five families of the one thousand three hundred fifty living in this camp have returned to the areas they fled during the battle against. the majority of the people here a sudanese and their homes have been completely destroyed is when you speak to people here many of them say that even if they could return to the areas

this was the crown jewel in iceland self declared islamic state a few years ago but control of mosul is back with the triumphant iraqi government and now the majority sunni city buzzing with election fever i did them a lot of candidates are using new ways besides their banners such as facebook and other social media voters from mosul face many difficulties because people are still displaced and more than seventy percent of that is completely destroyed eisen says it killed one candidate in mosul iraq's interior ministry says its plan to secure the vote is being coordinated in strict measures are in place for this elections this applies to baghdad and also all the provinces including. like everything now it's and we achieve all of. the northern city of used to be held by kurdish peshmerga now iraqi forces have taken charge when rich could kook is also known as many iraq because of its mixed population including kurds turkmen christians and arabs during this election the focus is on using the strength of diversity to solve the commission's. targets and. accords a stance between the cont

these are live pictures from the city of mosul, just waking up.nd since then the country has been transformed by several events. the bbc‘s rami ruhayem assess how these major events have reshaped the country's political, and electoral landscape. in june 2014, isis fighters took over mosul, iraq's second—largest city. as they advanced across much of northern and central iraq, the iraqi army fled without a fight. the prime minister, nouri al—maliki, came under intense external and internal pressure to step aside. in his place came haider al—abadi, a little known politician from the same party, the islamic dawa party. today, each of the two men heads a separate coalition and the party that's held the position of prime minister since 2005 is split for the first time. after the invasion, the world's most influential shia authority based here in najaf in southern iraq called on iraqis to volunteer to fend off the isis attack, which was threatening baghdad and even the south. a new paramilitary force took shape, known as the popular mobilisation units, o

injune in june 2014, isis injune 2014, isis fighters took over mosul, iraq's second—largest city.ntral rock, the iraqi army fled without a fight. the prime minister came under intense external and internal pressure to step aside. in his place came haider al-abadi. step aside. in his place came haider al—abadi. today, each of the two men isa al—abadi. today, each of the two men is a separate coalition. it is now split first time. after the invasion, the world's most of fish —— influential shia authority based here in najaf vended off the attack, threatening the south. but force took shape. known as the popular mobilisation units, or pmus, it was formed of shia factions and large number of volunteers who are influenced by the call of arms. call to arms. it falls came to be and is 110w to arms. it falls came to be and is now one of the main alliances contesting the elections. the religious authorities in najaf however maintain their distance from all coalitions contracting —— contesting the elections, including the ones born on the pmus. just as isis was losing its grip and recapturi