capital comes after dozens of actresses accuse the hollywood producer of sexual assault and rape there's that lines do stay with us one and one east taking back the rai is up next why for now. the battle against isis has come to southeast asia was packed. for five months fighters held the city of around in the southern philippines was. declaring it a new caliphate of the islamic state. but . it led to a bloody and deadly fight against the libyan forces. constant chatter on this episode a one on one east we're in the heart of the hour and is this just the beginning. were around he was once a thriving picture a city on a lake. the largest muslim city in the catholic nation of the philippines. today it lies in ruins. abandoned and destroyed. after i still can't remember we may government forces were in an all out battle to retake it. will. be faced snipers and thousands of hidden improvised explosives there. will be a check mail from. it was a slow and dangerous advance. trade in jungle warfare he had to learn how to fight in an urban environment. but. this is a typical hole the fighters punched through in the hauser's. yes there are. fourteen here captain are now karen dunn says hunting down the fighters has been tough. in order for from one building to another. it's a technique learn from meisel in syria and iraq. they've been training with the various. for a long time already. the military says it has evidence that well armed fighters from as far as saudi arabia yemen and chechnya join local government in the back. the fighting have been. bad and it's really hard because. our enemies have the same weapons as we do have. more than one hundred sixty philippine soldiers have been killed him around. what's been the hardest part for you. both times when we have. moved from a fire comrade. actually seeing them being blown away by both of you by getting shot and. knowing that. but for the army captain the worst weapon in isis arsenal has been child soldiers. pretty hard to see because you can imagine how hard it is for a sniper or a regular in part to pull the trigger and. we think we killed him what was his name like children like more linda danseuse sons have been drawn into this battle and when i. heard two boys were forced to fight for the armed group they were among dozens of christians held hostage by the mountain a local clan that sworn allegiance to eyesore. is. that thirty year thirteen year old story or a very smart guy who told me that he was going to be an ingenue an architectural ingenue. build their noses were all people and then you told me moma. everything million was no no no no no mo the rumor is the word will of course so where will. we were in a live only he didn't even know who he didn't even know doing the girl and. linda was working outside the city when the attack took place she learned of her children's fate when one of her sons secretly center a text message. mama do not worry got will not first take us as long as we don't lose our faith. believe in god. because he is the only one who can protect us. and. we're linda's husband was also taken hostage along with her seventeen year old daughter cherilyn she was forced to marry one of her captors it's so painful for me it's a very much pain for them knowing that their that your daughter was been married almost it's so hard very much when you were a mother knowing that you would you. do. i want you will be able. to get their dreams but no it will spin up mean when you were mean when you. were linda is one of three hundred thousand evacuees she spends her days in a temporary shelter just outside the city a few weeks ago the text messages from her son stopped. i still turned their battle here into a marketing and recruitment tool and will make the best. out of it. so. having suffered recent losses in the middle east the group is now directly muslims from around the world tunisia to engage in what it calls a holy war. and then you have. the government never believed i still would have the strength to take an entire city. philippine president rugby go to target predicted the battle would be over within weeks unfortunately we didn't have enough troops on the ground. the deputy commander in morality is colonel romeo brawner they surprised sort of surprised the government forces. were going to see them but it came as no surprise for i saw. this video believed to have been taken two years ago shows them planning the siege and using the location in a jungle hideout they detailed how to take over him around the city hall and military barracks. don't be deceived. me. if. fighters also learned how to make i.e.d. use the largest killer of philippine soldiers in morale we would you not say that this was a massive failure of intelligence well i personally personally i disagree because we already had the information that something might happen but there was really a lack of political will to deal with. this siege was triggered when the military tried to arrest a top i saw the leader. of this footage shows the firefight that called. after that the terrorists were able to escape. this started a series of other skirmishes around the city. the target of the military operation was is the law on happened on leader of i saw in southeast asia. but he was being protected by local brothers abdula and omar mountain. who reportedly led thousands of hardcore fighters. this was happening on safe house. there's not much left. inside here you can see how fierce the firefight was bullet holes riddle the walls and the ceiling to the right of me and entire side of the house has been blown out and here on the ground there are hundreds of shell casings. after nearly five months. and omar mounted were finally killed by philippine forces during a hostage recovery operation it came from at the back of our house back in the house over here yes cheryl did tong was one of the first hostages in. when the military raid began he and his family were in their home nearby so the military's in this area and the mahdi in your midst and said our house. so during the hours we are hiding to that room in that room and the multi-group was serious covering and this window and when all this fighting was happening what were you guys doing we are hiding we are i hate being under the. under his bed and the bullets are coming in he has a million scummy. too i saw members died here black clothes and blood stains are all that remain. at one point sheryl deeds says he met the group's leader he even told me that can you remember me can you recognize me and i was shocked because i think this man is familiar and the that man told me that i am on my i am the commander commander omar khayyam out there was your impression of him before you decided to understand but for me. my mouth is a kind and also he's a he softly and smote me i mean that's one of his characteristics why why the mouth to go have so many members cheryl dietz says omar let them go because they were muslim i know the impression on me that i'm very close to you know me and. so . i took him. out in the aga khan sharif a prominent muslim leader him around we knew the military brothers since they were children was. very harmless believe it. or not we are harmless when you see them they're very harmless they're harmless yes. when i so did you become. so what happened i think because of. what the amount tiger is the belief of the government of the republic of the philippines. sharif says the mounties join deisel after years of failed talks to give muslims in the southern philippines more power. you have good boys. good good with. you know religious leaders started in egypt. lead the prayer. it was after studying in egypt that aga khan says they began actively arming and training fighters we're inviting him in media invite me join us. this is the time. and. what do you think of what omar and of doing have done. and actually i told them that you have these three. something you said. this but you have this would be muslim. do you condemn what they've done yes i can be what they have and i don't like i don't support what you have. so how did these leaders convince their followers to commit acts of brutality and give up their lives for. thank you for agreeing to. in hiding since the siege began one young recruit shares his story yes just to call him abdul old were you there. turner eleven years old and i mean. some odd picture so i may need among sally. sara god jets and. protection through my e-file me and. asked me to mug. me. as. i says fight them. and i will only. abdul studied at the local islamic school for three years and says teachers took them on field trips to an ice all training camp at the foot of a mountain there was a top the reigning camps and. there are over one thousand every. one thousand fighters yes camp yes and you saw all these fighters yes there are real. earth daughter a jewel warehouse there. and all are. married. danielle abdul believes this i saw footage shows one of the camps he trained in here children mix with adults as they learn how to wage war. and you said they were foreign fighters there oh yes there's one in. fires like. this thing in their training training my friend. fires did they make you want to follow them yeah i think it was cool. young. thing it was. but you see. where your classmates now are some of them fighting for us here you know for their failing in there were no. abdul says he chose not to join the fight immorality because of his mother. my friends join me. because i am the only child of my mother and. father corn and i know my. i don't. mean where did i mean. mother. but of dual says he still shares the armed groups beliefs what do you think about these i asked fighters killing christians be having them. but they. non-believers. who. we want to visit the school says he was taught it's ok to kill nonbelievers. were only allowed in with an armed escort. so long like. steve or not as there is between. class is still in session this is your classroom. what is the paragraph talk about this. ok the values of allah what do you tell us about the war and i am glad. you have no comment but you do think they're right maybe something like. the school's head denies any connection with i so some students tell us that some of the fighters are students here. there's new student here. well known and i and what about the teachers also. from the school with would you say that. fighters here are not muslim no they are muslim but. there is something wrong. and islets. in late october the government declared victory. but there are still concerns isis war against nonbelievers has gained a foothold we believe that this is a foreign ideology this is not homegrown so really it has to be addressed also not just by the military but by the whole nation to be radicalized the minds of those who are radicalized already and prepare our youth for the right kind of islam and not the wrong kind of islam where they are being taught to kill nonbelievers. there are many i'm around these muslim community who are also worried. yes i said i i am still not here i'm sad i'm not i don't mean to be there's no meeting to come in thank you very much for me throughout so many people we have discussed here over and over this is the kind of momentum and i think it's a dunk bondo was a neighborhood leader immorality when i so moved in he a muslim hid more than eighty christians in his home he knew he would only people around christians in my neighborhood to go up stairs and that everything will be ok because i will stay on the ground floor with my children and family to defend them . i mean you know i was thinking if these people don't stay with me they won't be able to escape and it's possible they will be hated by isis. after days of hiding and being caught in the crossfire saddam decided they had to make a break for it. and someone on the streets we saw bodies of christians who had been be hated that's what frightened my christian friends this chief we're going back instead and i told them if they call back that will be dead end we've got all of us at one point we will stop at an isis check point and one fighter asked if all the people were christians or muslims i told them they were all muslims he came to look closer but i put my car and myself between them. the fighter let them pass and they made it to safety. with no place to go many of the families still live with saddam here at his sister's house in a neighboring city christians and muslims together under one roof. they spend their time helping collect and distribute food to evacuees you were willing to die for your neighbors why. was my husband not my great christians are the ones who helped my rowing process. i pray to god they didn't extend a ration of youth will not join groups like isis. like iraq we'll show them what happened to. that around them and. we'll show them how isis destroyed morale when. government officials say it will cost more than a billion u.s. dollars to rebuild iraq and that it could take years so down and many others warn if their city is left in ruins it could stoke further anger and resentment leading more to join. the government to support us in rebuilding our city this will produce. a ping hundreds. of their own this i'm afraid that if the government. i mean out of the city. but is it too late to stop isis ambitions in the region that i don't like them. and they. may. stop one. more than me then. was the fellow going in a month. it took five months of intense fighting to recapture murari. almost a thousand had been killed the city flatter. it's unclear how long it will be before people can return home and what the future of this troubled region holds what is clear is that the fight against i so in southeast asia has only just begun or. when. in india women as old as seventy or to find their range and having maybe one or one east meets these elderly mothers and asked how old is too old to give at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bring that story to the forefront. iraqi kurdish president. announces he will extend his term as protesters enter parliament.

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