Canada marks its 150th Anniversary. 500,000 people attend celebrations in ottawa. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We begin in mosul, where, after intense fighting, Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken control of the so callled Islamic States main base. The militants have also been driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. But fighting is continuing around part of the old city. Commanders say they are confident a final victory is in sight. A symbol of victory, planted this morning in what was the main base of is in mosul. Troops, weary after driving the militants from this vast medical complex, but vowing to hunt down every last one of them. We will keep chasing them and those who support them, says this man, and we will throw them in the garbage. Commanders say they have removed a cancer here, but one that has already spread. 0ur message is daesh is not only an iraqi problem, says colonel falah al wabdan. Its international. Explosion he
Canada marks its 150th Anniversary. 500,000 people attend celebrations in ottawa. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We begin in mosul, where, after intense fighting, Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken control of the so callled Islamic States main base. The militants have also been driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. But fighting is continuing around part of the old city. Commanders say they are confident a final victory is in sight. A symbol of victory, planted this morning in what was the main base of is in mosul. Troops, weary after driving the militants from this vast medical complex, but vowing to hunt down every last one of them. We will keep chasing them and those who support them, says this man, and we will throw them in the garbage. Commanders say they have removed a cancer here, but one that has already spread. 0ur message is daesh is not only an iraqi problem, says colonel falah al wabdan. Its international. Explosion he
Canada marks its 150th Anniversary. 500,000 people attend celebrations in ottawa. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We begin in mosul, where, after intense fighting, Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken control of the so callled Islamic States main base. The militants have also been driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. But fighting is continuing around part of the old city. Commanders say they are confident a final victory is in sight. A symbol of victory, planted this morning in what was the main base of is in mosul. Troops, weary after driving the militants from this vast medical complex, but vowing to hunt down every last one of them. We will keep chasing them and those who support them, says this man, and we will throw them in the garbage. Commanders say they have removed a cancer here, but one that has already spread. 0ur message is daesh is not only an iraqi problem, says colonel falah al wabdan. Its international. Explosion he
Canada marks its 150th Anniversary. 500,000 people attend celebrations in ottawa. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We begin in mosul, where, after intense fighting, Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken control of the so callled Islamic States main base. The militants have also been driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. But fighting is continuing around part of the old city. Commanders say they are confident a final victory is in sight. A symbol of victory, planted this morning in what was the main base of is in mosul. Troops, weary after driving the militants from this vast medical complex, but vowing to hunt down every last one of them. We will keep chasing them and those who support them, says this man, and we will throw them in the garbage. Commanders say they have removed a cancer here, but one that has already spread. 0ur message is daesh is not only an iraqi problem, says colonel falah al wabdan. Its international. Explosion he
The streets where i grew up havent changed much. You cant say that for the Beating Heart of the capital. Now i know not everyone enjoys hearing a cardiff accent, like, and many people around wales view my city with suspicion. They tell me that almost daily on my radio show. And, in a way, i can see why, because, lets face it, cardiff has benefited just from being our capital city. But fair play to the place, its taken its chance, reinventing itself against all the odds. I used to come to butetown to go to the mosque. It was the docks back then derelict and depressed. Old, heavy industries were shrinking, as was cardiffs population. But then things began to change. Just look at cardiff now. This city has completely transformed itself in around 20 yea rs. The jobs are in government, theyre in media, in leisure and also in shopping. It describes itself as europes youngest capital and its got even more growing to do. My dad used to be a bus driver and finished up on this very route, taking