North korea has been saying in response to a south korean invitation to co host the 2018 winter olympics. Lets go to mosul, in iraq, now. We have covered the story many times in the last three years. Back in 2014 the Islamic State group seized the whole city. In October Iraqi Forces mounted an offensive to retake it. These are the maps we have been collecting along the way. You can see how the territory marked in red controlled by is has got smaller and smaller and smaller as the months have gone by. Now we have this map, provided by the Iraqi Military i should say, this area is still controlled by is, we estimate it to be 2. 5 Square Kilometres in the centre of mosul. The bbcs team of 0rla guerin, nico hameon, bader catty and rich stacey, have exclusive access to the battle area. Heres their report. Gunfire heading to the front line in mosul. You have to run. And beware of snipers, troops from iraqs Emergency Response division are advancing every day. The target here, the hospital com
North korea has been saying in response to a south korean invitation to co host the 2018 winter olympics. Lets go to mosul, in iraq, now. We have covered the story many times in the last three years. Back in 2014 the Islamic State group seized the whole city. In October Iraqi Forces mounted an offensive to retake it. These are the maps we have been collecting along the way. You can see how the territory marked in red controlled by is has got smaller and smaller and smaller as the months have gone by. Now we have this map, provided by the Iraqi Military i should say, this area is still controlled by is, we estimate it to be 2. 5 Square Kilometres in the centre of mosul. The bbcs team of 0rla guerin, nico hameon, bader catty and rich stacey, have exclusive access to the battle area. Heres their report. Gunfire heading to the front line in mosul. You have to run. And beware of snipers, troops from iraqs Emergency Response division are advancing every day. The target here, the hospital com
Bringing the near nine month battle for the city to an end. The Iraqi Military was made to fight for every street. Haider al abadi has been seen walking through mosuls streets, congratulating the troops alongside him. He was expected to make a speech, formally declaring victory, but that has not yet happened. A few hours ago, mr al abadi took to twitter to deliver the news. Iraqi Security Forces have been celebrating on the streets of mosul. Its three years since the Group Calling itself Islamic State seized control of iraqs second largest city. It still holds territory to the west and south of mosul. These images from the old city show the scale of the destruction. Earlier there were reports of continuing clashes, the so called Islamic State group still holds territory to the west and south of mosul. Our Correspondentjonathan Beale reports from the front line. What was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. Every building deeply scarred, or destroyed by months of war. We join
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De graaf to finally give birth. April the de graaf. Welcome to the programme. 12 iraqi civilians have been injured in what appears to have been a chemical weapons attack in the city of mosul. Two shells were fired into the government held east of the city from the Islamic State controlled west, releasing a fouls then gas. Iii year old boy suffered severe burns and blistering. The International Committee of the red cross has condemned the apparent use of chemical weapons but it hasnt actually identified what type they were. This comes as thousands of civilians continue to escape the embattled city. In bbc interview, a senior Ias Commander recently ca ptu red senior Ias Commander recently captured by a it iraqi forces, has justified the practice of using so called human shields. Next to the rubble of most wills bombed out university, a new campus has been built. A refugee camp on the 30,000 people. It was only opened 2000 two days ago, but aid agencies say it will be full within agencies