:00:00. > :00:33.This is Mosul, Iraq's second city. There is nothing left, nothing that
:00:34. > :00:35.is not untouched. When Isis unleashed their reign of terror, the
:00:36. > :01:20.world watched in horror. For the people of Mosul, there was
:01:21. > :01:22.no escape. Isis have been routed. But what happened to the people who
:01:23. > :01:38.survived? The road to Mosul is
:01:39. > :01:41.long and convoluted. To reach even the outskirts
:01:42. > :02:15.of the city, you have to navigate But yet we are yet to see the full
:02:16. > :02:18.devastation of the war. It feels like this is now functioning again.
:02:19. > :02:21.There is also a war going on here. There are still pockets
:02:22. > :02:29.of IS fighters in the old city. The Baghdad government
:02:30. > :03:01.has declared victory. I was here in 2013 in Mosul then was
:03:02. > :03:06.one of the most dangerous cities on Earth. I was making a film about the
:03:07. > :03:12.Arab world's oldest Paragliding club. Oh, you're such a show off!
:03:13. > :03:26.Like life wasn't already hard enough. Shia-led military government
:03:27. > :03:32.backed by the government in Baghdad was suppressing a majority Sunni
:03:33. > :03:43.population. It was these conditions that helped pave the way for Isis.
:03:44. > :03:52.When Isis took the city, I tried to contact the paragliders I'd met on
:03:53. > :04:19.my visit here in 2013. Most had fled but this 42-year-old woman had
:04:20. > :04:25.decided to stay. I tried to keep in touch but eventually, the calls
:04:26. > :04:36.stopped. And this is what liberation looks like. Iraq's second largest
:04:37. > :04:48.city, just ruins. A legacy of the months of bombardment and intense
:04:49. > :04:52.streetfighting. The bulk of this city is just completely destroyed
:04:53. > :04:56.and devastated. There is nothing left, nothing that is now not
:04:57. > :05:00.untouched. I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like
:05:01. > :05:05.for the people trapped in this city. They weren't allowed out, Isis
:05:06. > :05:16.wasn't letting them, and there was constant bombardment here, and now
:05:17. > :05:18.everything is destroyed. Trapped beneath these ruined are untold
:05:19. > :05:38.numbers of bodies. Ishar Tahal is homeless along with a
:05:39. > :06:10.million other people in this city. Doctor Anjar Hasim is getting to
:06:11. > :07:22.work the only way he can. Mosul's only functioning hospital is
:07:23. > :07:25.overwhelmed. There is no one checking the people who are coming
:07:26. > :07:30.and going and so the security forces are concerned that some of these
:07:31. > :07:44.people could be Isis fighters or Isis supporters. This is shrapnel in
:07:45. > :08:11.the back and I am examine this side of the shrapnel and this...
:08:12. > :08:15.And just outside, another explosion. A reminder that this war is still
:08:16. > :08:42.not over. At the height of the fighting, Dr
:08:43. > :08:48.Hasim was treating up to 700 people a day. Now the numbers have dropped
:08:49. > :10:16.to 500, and not just from industries but illnesses caused due to the lack
:10:17. > :10:24.of clean water. Returning home could be deadly. According to the army,
:10:25. > :10:27.retreating Isis fighters have wreaked 90% of the buildings with
:10:28. > :10:52.improvised explosive devices. Do you have the resources? Coming,
:10:53. > :11:06.do you have enough men to... Is that another one?
:11:07. > :11:20.The Iraqi military is now accused of killing people they suspect of
:11:21. > :11:21.belonging to Isis. The government say they are investigating these
:11:22. > :11:38.allegations. When Islamic State swept into Mosul
:11:39. > :11:43.three years ago, the world watched in horror as they unleashed their
:11:44. > :11:55.reign of terror. Initially, many she welcomed Isis. They saw them as
:11:56. > :11:59.liberators from an oppressive Shia- dominated government.
:12:00. > :12:11.Once home to over a million books on philosophy, law and literature. Rare
:12:12. > :12:21.maps, ancient manuscripts and a ninth century Koran have all been
:12:22. > :12:25.lost. This is one of Iraq's most famous universities, it is now
:12:26. > :12:31.completely destroyed. ISIS was using this as a headquarters. They
:12:32. > :12:41.converted the science labs into makeshift weapons factories.
:12:42. > :12:45.Computer, mathematics. When Iraqi forces retook the east of the city
:12:46. > :12:51.they discovered what they had long suspect did and Fiat. -- suspected
:12:52. > :12:57.and Fiat. Eccles such as sulphur mustard. -- chemicals. According to
:12:58. > :13:04.the Pentagon, the university was central to ISIS Wall chemical
:13:05. > :13:08.weapons programme. We are just inside what used to be the computer
:13:09. > :13:12.department. There is hardly anything left here, but classes have now
:13:13. > :13:22.resumed so we are going upstairs to have a look at one of the
:13:23. > :13:31.classrooms. Hi, hello. This seat of learning represented everything ISIS
:13:32. > :13:38.stood against. Intellectuals like this man, announced Professor of --
:13:39. > :14:04.a renowned professor of law, feared their lives.
:14:05. > :14:08.You are a professor, that would have been hugely risky if they found out
:14:09. > :14:58.who you were. A sense of light flooding back into
:14:59. > :15:01.this town is palpable. -- the sense of life.
:15:02. > :15:34.Fikri was a student at the University.
:15:35. > :15:39.When ISIS came to power, she had to give up her studies,
:15:40. > :16:33.Religious police, known as the hisbah,
:16:34. > :16:41.Shaving, smoking, using a mobile phone, were all considered immoral,
:16:42. > :16:44.and the punishment for these transgressions, any thing
:16:45. > :17:50.For the three years ISIS ruled the city, very little information came
:17:51. > :17:55.out about life inside the caliphate. It's difficult to believe that as
:17:56. > :18:03.foreigners we can now drive freely in the streets. But it's a false
:18:04. > :18:08.sense of security. It's not safe here in East Mosul. There are fears
:18:09. > :18:13.that many ISIS fighters have just gone back into the community. Now
:18:14. > :18:21.checkpoints everywhere, we still have to be so careful.
:18:22. > :18:28.I've come to visit Dr Hazim, from Mosul Hospital,
:18:29. > :18:59.This is traditional food? We can come freely to go home now, but life
:19:00. > :19:22.was very difficult in the past three years?
:19:23. > :19:24.Over lunch, Dr Hazim explains that it was his profession
:19:25. > :19:26.that ultimately saved him and his family
:19:27. > :19:49.from the wrath of Islamic State fighters.
:19:50. > :19:52.Did that make you nervous that your son would go out
:19:53. > :20:47.Is there fear, then, that there could be another uprising?
:20:48. > :20:59.RU scared about the idea that ISIS may come back?
:21:00. > :21:06.Had used fuel now and then -- how do you feel now? Are you able to
:21:07. > :21:30.breathe freely? Thinking back to the paraglider they
:21:31. > :21:34.met here in 2013, I remember the love they had for the city. And the
:21:35. > :21:48.freedom they sought through their sport, soaring above Mosul. One of
:21:49. > :21:55.them was a true rebel. The wind is like a man's heart, it changes every
:21:56. > :21:59.two minutes! Through a contact, I discovered she had stayed in Mosul.
:22:00. > :22:04.She had even stood up to ISIS, running for election to the City
:22:05. > :22:11.Council. But that rebellious, outspoken streak was eventually to
:22:12. > :22:13.cost her. Friends say she was taken from her home and shot in the
:22:14. > :22:23.street. The people of Mosul now
:22:24. > :22:34.have to rebuild a broken The people of Mosul have suffered a
:22:35. > :22:36.great deal in these past few years. Now they have to rebuild broken and
:22:37. > :22:40.divided city. Real reconciliation
:22:41. > :22:44.will be a battle. And all the while, ISIS fighters
:22:45. > :23:30.are hiding among the population. Let's take a look at what the
:23:31. > :23:34.weather has for us this weekend. We will see some sunshine this weekend
:23:35. > :23:35.which is the good bit, there will be a few showers around and general
:23:36. > :23:36.rain