yes, so raqqa is devastated. it is in a tragic state. enjoyeople stability, but still they are struggling for basic services. there is still electricity, no tankers.ept through the connection is weak, but most importantly, there is no serious effort from the anti-isis coalition to rebuild the city. now havehe states piles of rubble. if t coalition, the united states and their allies, do not put in an effort to rebuild the destroyed, we're going to risk a situation when isis will come back again. isis prey on situations like despair.people's planafraid if there is no for what is next, we won't have stability for long. amy: marwan hisham, thank you for the with us. we will do part two and put it online. molly crabapple. their new book, "brothers of the gun: a memoir of the syrian war." zñvp0x] laura: this week on the show, acclaimed activist anjanue el lis on her true life mission to get the emblem of the clan of her native flag. her native flag. and then, genesis be, confronting racism classmate by classmate. it is all coming up on the "

of a crucified body on the clock tower in the part of raqqa. and 40 days into its reign. i shot a ran on accusation of burglary and murder and hung his body against the base of raqqa's clock tower. what was going flew your mind? what you were frying trying to there? >> i looked at citizen videos taken sar tof this execution. the thing that stood out, wasn't just bree taeutality. everyone around him was taking photos on hair phones to. me this image represents the brutality of isis, but also the way that people were documenting it. >> but there were children there as well. yelling at, at the, at the crucified figure. i wonder if you can tell me. you had close hand, firsthand experience with isis. you were working in a cafe. they were your customers. >> i took it because i wanted, wanted this interaction with them. to understand and see why, why, are they basically those kinds of monsters who, who do all of these -- horrible things. the only way you can -- they're living in this kind of. doing something really great that is going to, build futhe future. >> molly again you w

after his death the city of raqqa. after his death thejury the city of raqqa.qa. after his death the jury heard she was back on social media talking about mounting an attack in the uk. she didn't realise she was communicating with undercover agents from the british security services. she spoke about using a carand security services. she spoke about using a car and a knife. she had previously discussed an ambush with grenades orfirearms. safaa boular allegedly planned to launch an attack here in the area around the british museum in central london. described in court as a cultural jewel and a popular tourist attraction. the jury was told this would have been an attack that at the very least would have caused widespread panic, but was intended to inflict serious injury and death. her barrister told the court she had been sexually groomed to be radicalised a man twice her age and herfamily had radicalised a man twice her age and her family had encouraged radicalised a man twice her age and herfamily had encouraged and celebrated her radicalisation. it can now the

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ok, is has lost its headquarters in raqqa in syria.l go and reformulate a caliphate somewhere physically, geographically, again? if not that abu bakr al—baghdadi led entity, whether it is boko haram or the taliban, the impetus, the desire, the craving, the madness to create a so—called islamic state is alive and well in large numbers of islamists and their violentjihadist cousins across the middle east, across the muslim world. unless we confront that idea, the belief that it is a religious obligation — by the way, it is not and muslim scholars have repeatedly said it is not — unless we move that idea from under theirfeet, they will continue to attack and yes, there will be another caliphate declared in due course. right, so you make it quite clear and most would agree with you that you need to uproot this objective that the extremists have and try to get rid of the cause. is it only through a confrontational path you can do that, because there are those who say look, we should talk? i'll give you an example. jonathan powell, who was t

that is what emile raqqa described as that quiet revolution.is is a second chance to treat eve ryo ne this is a second chance to treat everyone equally and with compassion and respect. we voted to look reality in the eye and we did not blink. earlier we heard from dawn mcavoy, the co—founder of ‘both lives matter‘, a pro—life organisation in northern ireland. both lives matter was formed because we believe that both lives in existence in every pregnancy do matter. as much as i can hear the celebrations behind you, for us this isa celebrations behind you, for us this is a very sad day. we don't except a definition of rights for women that is determined in as defined by an ability to end the lives of our unborn children. as women in northern ireland, we will continue speaking up for both lives. we are joined daniel faas, a professor of philosophy at trinity college dublin.... thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. how much of a societal change has ireland seen today? we have truly witnessed a historical day. 66.a% voted yes. one generation ago

raqqa palma 2008 looked like he could be the son of the man who was president now. i know all this wear and tear in your face will pose a special challenge for you. you more than all the men who preceded you will be judged on your appearance at how attractive you are. don't expect you'll ever -- to our more required for hair and makeup. those days are not behind us. no matter your age will be judged on your face, weight, clothing and hair and how long your face is a will age with the job. will acquire battle scars. i think your battle scars are a comfort to the rest of us. they will show us what we have endured and show us we can survive. i hope you'll let them show. i do. >> now i can never not do that. but i think i have lived a very eventful life and i want you to look at my face and cno that. i hope that it shows. i remember during the clinton white house it was the first time i started getting lines between my eyebrows and i thought it was really cool. it makes you look like you have dealt with a a lot of stress in your serious person you have matured. i really

according to reda hame, he was in raqqa, but we had no way of locating him. >> narrator: in fact, byptember, abaaoud was already back in europe laying the groundwork for the most ambitious plot yet. investigators say he slipped in through greece with the help of smugglers. policing of europe's external borders is left largely to individual nations, whose budgets and capabilities vary. >> (translated): so there's a gap, an abyss, and all the terrorists can rush in and easily circulate between europe, france, turkey, and of course syria and iraq. i believe it's one of the flaws of the european union: it has never been able to ensure the protection of our borders. >> (translated): it is completely porous. we are in a totally open system. they can use real papers, real fake papers, fake fake papers, real real papers. it's horrible, but that's how it is. >> narrator: abaaoud then took advantage of europe's open internal borders to travel freely from country to country. >> (translated): there are just no borders. there are none, clearly they do not exist. although we are under a state of e

safaa boular was thwarted in her plans to get to syria, and naweed hussain was killed in the city of raqqa agents from the british security services. she talked about using a car and a knife. she had previously discussed an ambush with grenades or firearms. safaa boular allegedly planned to launch an attack here in the area around the british museum in central london — described in court as a culturaljewel and a popular tourist attraction. the jury was told this would have been an attack that at the very least would have caused widespread panic, but was intended to inflict serious injury and death. her barrister told the court she had been sexually groomed to be radicalised by a man twice her age and herfamily had encouraged and celebrated her radicalisation. it can now be reported that her older sister rizlaine has admitted planning a separate knife attack in the area around the houses of parliament. their mother, mina dich, provided support and assistance. june kelly, bbc news, at the old bailey. shares in bt have dropped by more than 8 per cent, after the firm announced it's cutting 13,

> certainly if we have a -- >> we got 489 prisoners that we've captured from our operations around raqqa. they are going to get out of jail. they are in a makeshift prison held by the forces. and these are hazard core killers. two of them are the beetles. not the rock group but the beheaders. >> i do know the beetles. >> 206 the people are in our custody. and they are insisting on a fair process. but they cut off the heads of american citizens and our allies. and i know where you're at. i would appreciate it if you would push the administration to use it wisely when it comes to gitmo. >> i'll remain focused on that. >> when it comes to the war on terror, raqqa may have been taken back but we have to hold it. from your point of view, the threat streams are they growing regarding radical clammic threat towards the homeland? >> we don't think there's been any significant reduction. i do believe general mattis deserves credit for his tactics of crushing isis. and a lot fewer of them got out than perhaps they intended which means fewer of them are available to come to america to kill american

seats like in basildon which is currently in no overall control, we are watching colchester and there raqqa the road and also peterborough in cambridgeshire, the tories only need one seat to take control of peterborough, they need three seats to take control here need the old ukip votes to go their way, that's by no means certain. very interesting, thank you, we will talk to you later. very interesting in basildon, another fascinating talk to you later. very interesting in basildon, anotherfascinating one for us to night and we want to keep a close tabs on it in terms of the london contest, wandsworth, in south—west london, conservatives held as one of the great showpiece authorities because of the low council tax for decades. tim donovan is there, what are the signs? for so long, this place has been of the labour radar, they haven't considered it in play and the conservatives have got on with quite a miserable confidence running this place. but things changed the debate, last year, when there was a big swing, surge of labour support, they took jane ellison's big swing, surge of labour supp