weeks and months in raqqa. just in the past year, i have times,ck for four visited more than 100 sites of coalition strikes and interviewed more than 400 witnesses and survivors and carried out come on the ground, investigations beyond just collecting testimony. for example, i went to scrap yards to find how much they had received by way of used artillery shells and other pieces of munitions. as well as the on the ground investigation, we carried out extensive remote sensing with our evidence lab. we had a project whereby thousands of volunteers examined more than 2 million satellite image frames. we examined every single scrap of information that was available on open sources. and the findings of all of that is we were able to verify on the 640 civiliansan killed. and the rest come up to 1600, are cases where we have names, we're very strong and credible reports. the same is also -- this same information has also been collected by a air wars. so we have done a very large part of the job that the coalition shou

and they said "raqqa." i asked where in raqqa, and they told me to leave.y had a gun. >> reporter: once isis came, they destroyed the little that remained, smashing the faces c frvings, and turning the museum into a fast food kebab restaurant.t they couldize the mosaics off the wall so they remain, maged but still beautiful. dr. izou insists on tas upstairs, limping slowly, so he can show us all that is left there. the remnants of decades ofch painstaking logical digs, thrown down like garbage. the 4,000-year-old pottery. tis made it a trademark to try to erase any histot came before them. someone just gathered them up and put them in the old ser coof gus. like the rest of this city, there is now so little left to restore. yet, lifhere endures. every day, falafel is fried, bread is baked, and children play in the park. a spark of hope and color against the dull grey rubblebe this war lefnd. but many of the city's peoplest arl in refugee camps beyond the city. the destruction here is too great to sustain them. the city too damaged to heal just yet. for the p

i'm stuart ramsay in raqqa and this is "hotspots." tonight, we're gonna take you behind the scenes of the world's biggest and hardest-hitting stories. we come face to face with cops playing for keeps. from america's south, the teenagers being sold for sex. woman: women are being trafficked. children are being trafficked. ramsay: and we meet the

that we that west destroyed for example city of raqqa lies in ruins for libya right one and a half years after the revelation of record still lies in which is full of mines people are displaced. around by because they cannot come back they don't have a dignified life they cannot politically participates nor the sunnis in iraq no don't even think about it. think about it. there's also turkeys in the region you can't just point your finger at no less. no you can't point because europe really hasn't learned the lesson from the arab arising stake they miss understand dictatorship with stability this is what we see in egypt if you put a young activist into. egyptian presence this is really what create makes him an extremist in the in the elements would you agree that the west has a special responsibility to go back to syria to iraq to stabilize them in a way. that -- precludes islamic state from rising again. yes i would agree -- a one of the big problems in in iraq was for instance when the americans with them they had this -- after a kind of a rose paddling from members of the old army in t

. —— raqqa. in rucker and why were you a member of the is. -- raqqa.mes i wanted to pack up and i did try to. the reality was, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. it's a small group of very big fish which make all the decisions for all the people. it could be life or death decisions, decisions that change people lives completely. yes, but you joined that group completely. but willingly. the horrorfor you joined that group completely. but willingly. the horror for many people if they had no choice. assyrians, iraqis, yazidis, they are all displaced, raped, murdered by the islamic state. they does make you willingly joined the islamic state. they does make you willinglyjoined that group, they had no choice. if someone asked me ifi they had no choice. if someone asked me if i was willingly going to end -- join me if i was willingly going to end ——joina group me if i was willingly going to end —— join a group that was part of one, two, three, four. murder, genocide... nobody in their right mind would join the group. are you not in your right mind?” mind would

raqqa we will wait for it! that's all from the emergency brexit summit for tonight.'s more on newsnight on bbc two and on the bbc news channel, but now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. have a good night. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm hugh ferris. the healdines tonight. manchester united might need a miracle to make the finals, they lost the first leg of their quarterfinal onenote to barcelona. at old trafford or sports editor dan rowen was there, and dan you know we've given ourselves with a lot of work to do. i think it's fair to say the odds are firmly stacked against manchester united now. progress into the semi finals, barcelona had that's crucial away goal, they weren't best, the spanish league leaders, but they didn't really need to be, because in truth, you did feel there was something between the two sides, united were very energetic, they tried very hard, but they couldn't get that equaliser they crave, the opening goal, they knew the danger didn't they five times on player fear, that fantastic pass across goal to his team—mate luis to

worse for wear, despite the highlights in his beard — i guess they still have henna post mosul and raqqayalists and the isis fellow travellers. he is very much still in charge. the guardian newspaper reported two months ago there was an aborted coup attempt against baghdadi in eastern syria, i think in february this year, and the coup plotters had charged him with being overweening in his handling of isis governance. in other words, even some members of isis saw him as too repressive and authoritarian for their tastes. so here's baghdadi essentially declaring to the world he's still very much the boss of this organisation and, as you see, taking credit for terrorist attacks, including sri lanka, which isis has already put out in their propaganda and videos, that these were soldiers of the organisation. michael weiss there. for the first time in more than 200 years, a japanese emperor is about to resign. on tuesday afternoon, emperor akihito will formally give up his throne. the build—up to that moment is well underway. a short while ago, the emperor visited sacred areas of the imperial p

you realise you're on a drone hit list you might start questioning what the hell you are doing in raqqa that was a time to leave the group? yes, of course, there were many times when i thought it was time to pack up and there were many times when i did try to back up and leave, but the reality was it wasn't as easy as it sounds. it is a small group of very big fish which makes all decisions for all the people. it could be life 01’ for all the people. it could be life or death decisions, decisions that change people posit that life completely. yes, but you joined that group willingly. the horrorfor completely. yes, but you joined that group willingly. the horror for most people is they have no choice over it, syrians, iraqis, libyans, yazidis who were all either displaced, raped, murdered by islamic state. you willinglyjoined that group. they had no choice. islamic state. you willinglyjoined that group. they had no choicem wasn't any... if you were to ask me would you willingly go and join the group which consists of one, two, three and four... one, two, three and four being genocide, ra

families, accusing him of running away while they stayed and fought at baghouz and other places like raqqas own security reasons, sincejuly of seen, for his own security reasons, since july of 201a. seen, for his own security reasons, sincejuly of 201a. he has not been heard of in an audio message since august. some say, he abandoned us to fight. but others will sadly be encouraged by this to show that the movement isn't over. importantly, there is an audio message tacked onto the end of this video which refers to the easter sunday bombings in sri lanka, to update it, which would imply that the video it was recorded probably in early april and then more latterly, that bit was tacked on before they upload it to the internet. frank gardner, thank you. they have those hundreds of former iso joe's who they have in camps. they can question him about man that, they can provide intel about where he has been recently. american congress after two weeks with democrats still divided over impeaching president trump. this week, william barr is scheduled to appear to explain why in the view of many demo

says more than 1600 civilians were killed by the us—led bombing campaign to retake the syrian city of raqqaarabic. emmanuel macron has set out plans to respond to the "yellow vest" protests. among various announcement, he said he‘d implement significant tax cuts for workers. that‘s from bbc world service. well here we have kimjong un and vladimir putin have met for the first time. and president putin has said that america is not offering sufficient guarantees for north korea to shut its nuclear programme. he‘s also suggesting six party talks involving north and south korea, china, japan, russia and the us. today‘s summit took place on russky island, near vladivostok. here are some of the pictures like can middle a bit earlier. first of all there reformer talks between the two leaders, and a number of senior officials. you can see kimjong—un looking at his notes there. after that, there was a champagne reception. doesn‘t look like the atmosphere was two grades, but they enjoyed a drink together, and talked. then they exchanged gifts. president putin gave chairman kim jong—una sabre president

this is the fifth visit to ireland by michel barnier during the brexit negotiations, of course live raqqamanuel macron last week for the eu saying we are sticking with ireland in this process and what does that mean in practice? we've seen this throughout the brexit process, the fa ct throughout the brexit process, the fact is ireland, a small country but an eu member, the uk is a large country but leaving. and with that famous backstop for the irish border, whatever happens the eu stuck with ireland and irish concerns against the uk saying that the backstop is not workable and will put pressure on the united kingdom or pressure on the government and so on. when it comes to the idea of a no deal, although the eu really says it will have solidarity with ireland it means that over the peace process, the uk also says it has total solidarity with ireland over the peace process. but another issue is important from the eu and that is the single market and if there is no—deal brexit as it means the 500 kilometre border running down the island of ireland and between northern ireland and the repub