orla guerin now reports. the knees of the blankets, he is missing both arms. this young boy he was the victim car bomb. another wounded civilian is stitched up without anesthetic. the best they can do at the main emergency hospital. , a soldier wounded in battle against the militants. doctors say i.s. stivers have been focusing on the children. much of the suffering in mosul goes unseen, but in this hospital you get a sense of the cost of the operation against i.s.. woundedat are severely that survived come in for treatment. doctors are struggling to cope with the volume of new arrivals. they are preparing for more. staff have already received more than 100 casualties in 2 days. the operation theater is full. cases that passed away yesterday because of a lack of a place in the operation theater. there was no room to get operated on them. sometimes we choose those that have a chance to live and let the others pass by. that is how it goes on. , the on the road to mosul traffic of war. military vehicles going in. ambulances streaming out. the faces are testaments

orla guerin, bbc news, ankara.the so—called ‘sanctuary cities' which protect undocumented immigrants from prosecution. santa fe is one of them, and its officials are defiant. franz strasser reports. we will end the sanctuary cities. cities that refused to co—operate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars. we are not going to be bullied by federal policy that has us compromise values that we know are very defining for our community. what is a sanctuary city? well, all it means is that when a resident comes in contact with local law enforcement, he will not be asked about his legal status and the localjail will not hold undocumented immigrants for deportation proceedings unless they regard them as violent criminals. despite threats of funding cuts by donald trump, major us cities have already come out in favour of remaining sanctuaries. they represent a quarter of all undocumented residents in the us. and if they don't cooperate, it is going to be hard for the president—elect to enforce his deport

at the start of the siege, orla guerin and her cameraman were among the first journalists orla guerinrnalists to get into the village on the outskirts of mosul as it was being liberated from is. a harbinger of terror. we entered hostile territory, taking the battle to is, with kurdish peshmerga fighters. this was their second attempt to free this village. last week they faced heavy resistance. along the way, tension building, as we start to come under fire and to respond. we're moving forward now very slowly and carefully. we're hearing quite a bit of outgoing fire. the troops are trying to gauge how much resistance is in these villages. this was the answer. a massive roadside bomb just villages. this was the answer. a massive roadside bombjust ahead. it was one of four on our route. then the peshmerga moved to confront a suspected suicide bomber. they have to check him for explosives with their bare hands. this time they we re their bare hands. this time they were lucky, just a civilian. we arrive in what looks like a deserted village. locals start to emerge, tentatively to offer tha

orla guerin, bbc news, ankara.f the tunisian national anis amri, have been found on the door of the lorry used in monday's christmas market attack in berlin. two men have been found guilty of manslaughter, after last year's tipper truck crash in bath, which killed four people including a young girl. dozens of inmates take control of a wing at a jail on the isle of sheppey in kent. prison authorities say the disturbance is contained to one landing on a wing. let's have a quick look at some of the front pages of tomorrow morning's newspapers: the metro leads with news that the british public has helped raise over £75,000 for the family of the polish lorry driver who was murdered in the berlin terror attack. the times says the queen is supposedly disappointed with theresa may, after she declined to share plans for brexit during her first stay at balmoral. the financial times says china has warned donald trump that co—operation is the only way forward after the us president—elect appointed a china hawk to run a new whi

our correspondent orla guerin has been to meet bana and her mother.aleppo to the red carpet in ankara, bana alabed and herfamily are now being hosted by the turkish government, which opposes the syrian regime. when we met, this child of war told me how her own home was flattened by a bomb. translation: we were playing happily and planning to go out and suddenly it landed. so, we got scared and ran to the basement. when our house was bombed, we got out of the rubble safely, but we were about to die because the house was collapsing. from inside aleppo, her message echoed around the world, with help from her mother, who manages her twitter account. but some have questioned whose views were being shared. when your mum was tweeting, was she tweeting your words or tweeting her words? me and mum. together? yes. her mother, fatima, insists the twitter account was bana's idea, but admits it is a way to combat the regime. i think there now was a big fight out there. i think our words was a weapon. your twitter was a weapon? yes. but the tweets attracted threats

orla guerin, bbc news, ankara.ny times, if you want background information on the conflict in syria and its causes going back six years, you can find it online from bbc news. i'm sure you will remember us covering a few weeks back, speaking to taiwan's president of the fall and how badly that with them with china, that could be the start of it. peter navarro has been appointed as both the white house trade council. and this is a book written by mr navarro. "death by china — one job at a time". in it, he blames beijing for the closure of 57, 000 american factories and the loss of 25 millionjobs. his appointment give china quite a lot to think about. here's china's response to the appointment. china and the state is too large countries have brought common interests, corporations the only correct choice. we hope the us works together with china to maintain a healthy stable developer of ties including business and trade ties. this accords with the interests of both peoples and is beneficial to the world development and

our correspondent, orla guerin, has been to meet them.d all the chaos and violence of their home city. how difficult was the journey when you were leaving aleppo. do you think you'll ever be able to go back to aleppo? will you see aleppo again? yes. you believe you will? yes. some of thoses who have left aleppo in recent days talking to orla. we'll have more on the conflict in syria later in this programme when i talk to the former foreign secretary, david miliband, who's now president of the international rescue committee. he willjoin us in a few minutes time. our thanks to him for waiting to talk to us. there has been one development. retinitis pigmentosa is a rare inherited condition which causes blindness. until now, there's been no cure. but now nhs england says it will fund further testing of a so—called bionic eye implant, which surgeons say can make a real difference to sufferers. here's our correspondent, keith doyle. bionic eyes have been around for a long time in the world of science fiction, but it's only now that they're bein