:00:00. > :00:00.place. Keep up to date of course as ever by checking out the BBC Weather
:00:00. > :00:23.Centre. Welcome to Outside Source. The
:00:24. > :00:26.battle for most Salah has begun and we are on the front lines. They are
:00:27. > :00:31.just about to move forward in the distance is only about 300 metres.
:00:32. > :00:34.Today, they liberated ten villages. But they will have to liberate
:00:35. > :00:45.another 70 before they are on the outskirts of the city. Update on all
:00:46. > :00:49.enrolments of the story from BBC Arabic coming up. Donald Trump is
:00:50. > :00:52.telling his supporters that the US elections have been wrecked. Not for
:00:53. > :00:56.the first time senior Republicans disagree with them. We will be live
:00:57. > :01:05.in Washington, DC to discuss that. There it is. The BBC got rare access
:01:06. > :01:08.to the launch of a man's Chinese space mission. I will play you that
:01:09. > :01:13.report in full and for the first time since they were released, we
:01:14. > :01:15.have heard from some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria. I
:01:16. > :01:40.will play you that as well. Night has fallen on the day one of
:01:41. > :01:48.the operation to retake morsel. And this matters because it was the fall
:01:49. > :01:52.of Mosul in 2014 vert helped the world pay attention to the Islamic
:01:53. > :02:02.State group. Iraq's Prime Minister announced the offensive earlier. The
:02:03. > :02:06.hour of victory has arrived. Operations for the liberation of
:02:07. > :02:09.Mosul have begun. I announced the start of this heroic operation to
:02:10. > :02:17.free you from the terror and the oppression of Daesh and God willing,
:02:18. > :02:21.soon we will meet on Mosul soil to celebrate liberation and your
:02:22. > :02:25.salvation. The ground offensive is approaching from several directions.
:02:26. > :02:29.It is also being supported from the air by the US-led coalition. The BBC
:02:30. > :02:34.has correspondence on all major fronts. First of all, lets go to the
:02:35. > :02:42.east of Mosul where Kurdish forces are gathering. Orla Guerin is with
:02:43. > :02:46.them. You can see some of the heavy weaponry that the Kurds have
:02:47. > :02:52.applied. We were with the Peshmerga units as they moved forward. They
:02:53. > :02:56.came across the plains here, kicking up clouds of dust. Lots of tanks
:02:57. > :03:06.moving forward. They advanced to this position and you can see the
:03:07. > :03:11.fighters at the top of this berm. Islamic State are just on the other
:03:12. > :03:16.side. The distance, we're told, is just 300 metres. The aim of this
:03:17. > :03:22.operation is to clear those villages so that the Iraqi army can pass
:03:23. > :03:25.through this territory and continue on the road to Mosul. That was a
:03:26. > :03:30.lull in the fighting but we have heard artillery and mortar shells
:03:31. > :03:36.being fired this morning. We have had at least two coalition air
:03:37. > :03:39.strikes called in when the fighters here thought they saw suicide
:03:40. > :03:44.bombers approaching in vehicles on the other side. In the last few
:03:45. > :03:50.hours, we have certainly seen the start of this long-awaited
:03:51. > :03:55.offensive. Trying to drive Islamic State out of the city, but this
:03:56. > :04:00.really is the first phase. Orla Guerin, to the east of Mosul.
:04:01. > :04:07.To the south of the city, our Defence Correspondent is with Iraqi
:04:08. > :04:18.forces close to the bermQayyarah airbase. Earlier, our correspondent
:04:19. > :04:22.tweeted this: I can now play you a report that has come in with him.
:04:23. > :04:27.This is a very different Iraqi army that fled in the face of Islamic
:04:28. > :04:30.State just two years ago. Not just because of coalition air power but
:04:31. > :04:36.many of these Iraqi forces have been trained over the past few months by
:04:37. > :04:42.British and American forces. Today they moved ten miles north, still 30
:04:43. > :04:46.miles short of the outskirts of the city. To give you a sense of scale,
:04:47. > :04:50.today they liberated ten villages and they will have to liberate
:04:51. > :04:57.another 70 before they are on the outskirts of the city. As far as
:04:58. > :05:03.resistance on the front line, we saw mortar fire and we know that there
:05:04. > :05:07.was also an anti-tank missile fired that killed an Iraqi soldier. But it
:05:08. > :05:11.was fairly limited and the Iraqis are confident, because they have one
:05:12. > :05:17.key asset, that they are getting intelligence from Iraqi civilians
:05:18. > :05:22.under Islamic State control who are passing on information about
:05:23. > :05:26.positions, strength in numbers on their movements, and what kind of
:05:27. > :05:30.weapons they have. As far as how long this will take, one Iraqi
:05:31. > :05:34.commander told me he thought it would be about a month and they
:05:35. > :05:41.expect fierce resistance when they reached the outskirts of Mosul.
:05:42. > :05:45.Remember, it has an estimated 2000-5000 Islamic State fighters who
:05:46. > :05:48.have died in there among a population of about 1 million. And
:05:49. > :05:51.there are worries about civilian casualties. Fierce resistance will
:05:52. > :05:55.come from the several thousand come from the several thousand
:05:56. > :05:58.Islamic State fighters inside of morsel. But it is not just the city
:05:59. > :06:09.where Islamic State is filling pressure. Let me show you this map
:06:10. > :06:13.from January. All the areas marked in red is territory controlled by
:06:14. > :06:18.Islamic State last year. Take note, to the west of Baghdad, and to the
:06:19. > :06:22.north of Iraq. Because when I bring in the equivalent map for where we
:06:23. > :06:25.are right now, you can see the territory that Islamic State
:06:26. > :06:29.controls has reduced. This is where we were at the beginning of 2015 and
:06:30. > :06:34.this is where we are now. Islamic State is losing territory. While
:06:35. > :06:39.that is the grand scheme of things, at the moment there is a lot of
:06:40. > :06:43.attention on Mosul, not just from a military point of view but from a
:06:44. > :06:46.civilian point of view. Thousands are still living there and they may
:06:47. > :06:51.well get caught up in this violence. The UN is saying it is concerned
:06:52. > :06:56.that this may cause up to 100,000 Iraqis to flee towards Syria and
:06:57. > :07:02.Turkey. They say plans are underway in Syria to receive up to 90,000
:07:03. > :07:05.Iraqi refugees. If ever there was a stark illustration of the flight of
:07:06. > :07:11.appears to be one of the better appears to be one of the better
:07:12. > :07:23.options now. We often turn to our correspondence, Edgard Jalled, from
:07:24. > :07:26.BBC Arabic. In the first age, they are looking to check how Islamic
:07:27. > :07:32.State fighters will face such an offensive. So far we have
:07:33. > :07:36.conflicting reports. Some people say that some of their leaders are
:07:37. > :07:40.fleeing towards Syria. Some other reports say that no, they have
:07:41. > :07:47.decided to fight inside Mosul and they are following the usual tactics
:07:48. > :07:54.in defending themselves, digging tunnels, trying to booby-trap,
:07:55. > :07:57.planting explosive devices around. They are ready for the fight. They
:07:58. > :08:04.know that there is momentum that they need to capture in this battle.
:08:05. > :08:09.And it is believed that there is a deadline that they have to meet,
:08:10. > :08:12.before the US elections. That is why the Iraqi forces are putting all
:08:13. > :08:19.their weight in this battle. That is only a few days away. That is why
:08:20. > :08:25.they are putting all their weight now to achieve this. The first day
:08:26. > :08:29.was focused on the eastern part of Mosul but saying that, this is not
:08:30. > :08:35.the most difficult part of the city. In the western part, Islamic State's
:08:36. > :08:42.defences are stronger. What they have achieved today is considerable
:08:43. > :08:48.because according to the Kurdish forces, they have retaken nine
:08:49. > :08:53.villages, and the president of Kurdistan has given a press
:08:54. > :08:57.conference. He said that 200 square commenters were liberated from
:08:58. > :09:02.Islamic State, so it is still the first day in a big battle so far. In
:09:03. > :09:06.terms of the civilians inside Mosul I mentioned that some may try to get
:09:07. > :09:12.to Syria but can they leave the city? Is there an easy route out? It
:09:13. > :09:15.is very difficult. You imagine with bombing and air strikes, it is
:09:16. > :09:21.difficult. The second challenge is difficult. The second challenge is
:09:22. > :09:25.getting away from Islamic State fighters, who are in a fighting
:09:26. > :09:30.mood. It is not easy for them and this is what aggravates the
:09:31. > :09:34.situation and worries the international community about the
:09:35. > :09:38.situation. Hundreds of thousands of civilians inside the city. That is
:09:39. > :09:42.one conflict we are covering closely. Another is in Syria.
:09:43. > :09:46.Particularly in Aleppo. There has been a significant announcement
:09:47. > :09:49.today. Russia says that attacks on Aleppo will be paused for eight
:09:50. > :09:54.hours on Thursday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city if they
:09:55. > :09:59.choose. Here is one quote. A senior Russian officer saying that during
:10:00. > :10:02.the eight hour period the Russian air force and Syrian government
:10:03. > :10:08.troops will halt air strikes and firing from any other types of
:10:09. > :10:09.weapons. Yet more harrowing pictures coming in from Aleppo, showing the
:10:10. > :10:15.aftermath. These pictures show a boy
:10:16. > :10:17.being rescued from rubble after an airstrike
:10:18. > :10:19.in Aleppo on Sunday. As you can see, he was left hanging
:10:20. > :10:22.precariously from the upper The EU Foreign Affairs Council has
:10:23. > :10:30.been meeting to discuss It has been updating us online.
:10:31. > :10:49.Today it said: In those conclusions,
:10:50. > :10:51.the EU condemned Syria 'clearly disproportionate' bombing
:10:52. > :11:03.and said that the regime's actions That is an echo of what the French
:11:04. > :11:09.president, Francois Hollande, said last week. The EU foreign policy
:11:10. > :11:12.chief also gave a press briefing earlier.
:11:13. > :11:21.The EU agrees on this is our common basis to call, urgently, for an end
:11:22. > :11:33.to military flights over Aleppo. The immediate cessation of hostilities
:11:34. > :11:38.to be monitored. And to end the conflict, with humanitarian access
:11:39. > :11:42.agreed. Our priority is to save Aleppo and save human life. And if
:11:43. > :11:51.you want more information on the conflict, there is a huge amount of
:11:52. > :12:01.background information online. Let's update you on the US election.
:12:02. > :12:04.This time last week, Donald Trump told us he was glad
:12:05. > :12:07.And we're getting to see what that looks like.
:12:08. > :12:09.A major fall-out with the Republican Party,
:12:10. > :12:11.sneering that a woman wasn't good-looking enough for him to have
:12:12. > :12:14.assaulted her as she claimed, calls for Hillary Clinton to take
:12:15. > :12:25.On Twitter, as you would expect, he said:
:12:26. > :12:30.Sad perhaps, unsubstantiated certainly.
:12:31. > :12:44.There was no evidence that has happened. But Mr Trump continued,
:12:45. > :12:48.saying: Browser goes there is no evidence? -- perhaps because there
:12:49. > :12:50.is no evidence? And then, in what is becoming
:12:51. > :12:53.somewhat of a routine for the Trump campaign,
:12:54. > :13:00.running mate Mike Pence contradicted We're going to accept the will of
:13:01. > :13:04.the American people but between now and election day we will work our
:13:05. > :13:11.hearts out. The American people are tired of the obvious bias in the
:13:12. > :13:23.national media. That is where the rate collection sense goes.
:13:24. > :13:36.The latest polls of polls shows the gap widening.
:13:37. > :13:38.And this graph from Politico shows that 41 percent
:13:39. > :13:40.of Trump supporters are deeply sceptical
:13:41. > :13:51.covering this from Washington. In a covering this from Washington. In a
:13:52. > :13:55.normal election cycle, if a candidate said something that was
:13:56. > :14:00.have their feet held to the fire by have their feet held to the fire by
:14:01. > :14:03.the press. Does that not happened to Donald Trump? Had does he avoid the
:14:04. > :14:09.comeback from this? I think there is a lot of questions being raised here
:14:10. > :14:12.about the voracity of what he is saying about elections here being
:14:13. > :14:18.raped. The Washington Post has done a study showing that between 2000
:14:19. > :14:25.and 2014 it found only 31 cases of voting fraud in the United States.
:14:26. > :14:28.New York University has come up with similar numbers and they are being
:14:29. > :14:31.put out quite clearly today. The press is asking Donald Trump what is
:14:32. > :14:37.evident is that the election is rigged. What Donald Trump is really
:14:38. > :14:42.talking about is something that Mike Pence was picking up on, that a lot
:14:43. > :14:47.of people on the right of American politics firmly believe that the
:14:48. > :14:50.press in America slants towards the left and is biased against
:14:51. > :14:56.Conservative candidates. And that is really what he is railing about. We
:14:57. > :15:01.have seen that in his rallies, the antipathy towards the press corps.
:15:02. > :15:06.You always get some of this. In 2008, following Sarah Palin's
:15:07. > :15:12.rallies, her base, not dissimilar to Donald Trump's, was very anti-media.
:15:13. > :15:15.Saying that it was a rate system. Conservatives feel like they cannot
:15:16. > :15:21.get elected in America because of the media bias, as they call it. I
:15:22. > :15:25.think that resonates more than the idea that there is actually fraud
:15:26. > :15:30.going on in the polling booths. And whether this is a good strategy or
:15:31. > :15:33.not, we will leave that to Mr Trump to decide but is he getting some
:15:34. > :15:39.traction? Because he needs something to stop this downward slide. Well,
:15:40. > :15:43.we have three weeks and one day. Only three weeks and one day, we're
:15:44. > :15:48.nearly there. We are at the finish line. He does need something. He
:15:49. > :15:51.needs something big to turn this around, potentially something to
:15:52. > :15:56.happen to Hillary Clinton. I'm not sure that there is more that Donald
:15:57. > :15:59.Trump can do two races numbers. Clearly his supporters are still
:16:00. > :16:04.with him. There was an extraordinary poll that came out today showing
:16:05. > :16:08.American voters see him as honest American voters see him as honest
:16:09. > :16:12.and trustworthy than see Hillary Clinton as honest and trustworthy.
:16:13. > :16:17.More photos also think he hasn't got the character to be president and
:16:18. > :16:20.they think that she does. These narratives are set in place and it
:16:21. > :16:24.will be difficult for him to change that perception of himself and his
:16:25. > :16:28.candidacy so probably something is going to turn this race around in
:16:29. > :16:30.the next few weeks, if it was to do that, it would have to be something
:16:31. > :16:35.dramatic happening to Hillary Clinton. And while I have you on the
:16:36. > :16:38.programme, I promise I will not turn your microphone down but you got
:16:39. > :16:42.involved in a sharp exchange with Ben Carson, a man who wanted to be
:16:43. > :16:46.president at one stage. You were disagreeing with him on MSNBC over
:16:47. > :16:50.the way that the coverage of these alleged assaults has played out. Is
:16:51. > :16:55.that still a political issue or are we in a remarkable situation where
:16:56. > :17:01.one week on, that has moved to the back of the agenda? The whole issue
:17:02. > :17:04.of assault, and the question I asked doctor Carson was whether he thought
:17:05. > :17:08.the women who had accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment were
:17:09. > :17:11.lying. It was a simple yes or no question but he did not like the
:17:12. > :17:15.question and he asked if my microphone could be shut off. I
:17:16. > :17:19.think 4-4-2 as this is a big issue. You could see that reflected in the
:17:20. > :17:23.polling among female voters. This is not going down well with women and
:17:24. > :17:34.it is not going down well with Republican women.
:17:35. > :17:38.And we are seeing a dramatic shift in the polling of college educated
:17:39. > :17:40.women from the Republican camp to the Democratic camp. That is very
:17:41. > :17:43.bad news for Donald Trump. I have told you this before but women have
:17:44. > :17:45.decided the last five elections in the United States. They vote more
:17:46. > :17:48.than men. He is going to have to turn his numbers around with them
:17:49. > :17:51.and the drip drip of allegations of abuse do not help them. Thank you
:17:52. > :17:53.very much indeed. Those of you watching, if you have not seen Katty
:17:54. > :17:57.Kay against Ben Carson, there is only going to be one winner when it
:17:58. > :18:02.comes to turning the might off. You can see it now on her website.
:18:03. > :18:04.One other important story to update you on.
:18:05. > :18:06.A Republican Party office was firebombed over the weekend.
:18:07. > :18:08.It happened in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
:18:09. > :18:09.A bottle filled with flammable liquid
:18:10. > :18:11.inside was thrown through the window of the Orange County
:18:12. > :18:14.Republican Party headquarters in the middle of the night.
:18:15. > :18:16.These pictures show you the damage this caused.
:18:17. > :18:17.A message reading "Nazi Republicans leave town
:18:18. > :18:30.or else" was also sprayed on a building nearby.
:18:31. > :18:33.No-one was hurt, but other Republican offices are now on alert.
:18:34. > :18:37.Donald Trump suggested Democrat supporters were behind the attack.
:18:38. > :18:39.In a tweet, Hillary Clinton described it as "horrific
:18:40. > :18:53.In a little while we are going to bring you the latest business and
:18:54. > :18:54.sport. I am also going to play you all of this report which contains
:18:55. > :18:57.some emotional scenes. Emotional scenes as the families
:18:58. > :19:00.of twenty-one of Nigeria's Chibok schoolgirls are reunited
:19:01. > :19:17.with their daughters. British detectives investigating the
:19:18. > :19:22.disappearance of toddler Ben Needham say they believe he died in an
:19:23. > :19:30.accident on the Greek island of Kos 25 years ago.
:19:31. > :19:33.Speaking in Kos - where they've been carrying out an extensive search -
:19:34. > :19:35.South Yorkshire Police say an accident remained "the most
:19:36. > :19:36.probable cause" of Ben's disappearance.
:19:37. > :19:41.It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an
:19:42. > :19:47.accident near to the farmhouse here where he was last seen playing. The
:19:48. > :19:54.events leading up to and following that incident have been explored by
:19:55. > :19:56.my team and experts to a great extent. The fact that we have not
:19:57. > :20:02.had a direct result during this visit does not protrude the fact
:20:03. > :20:05.that we know to be true. During the last three weeks a number of items
:20:06. > :20:08.have been recovered from both sides. Some of these 93 items will be
:20:09. > :20:23.brought back to the UK for further analysis. Our lead story this
:20:24. > :20:30.evening is that Iraqi government forces have begun a long-awaited
:20:31. > :20:34.offensive to recapture morsel from the Islamic State group. -- to
:20:35. > :20:43.recapture Mosul. The Austrian government has
:20:44. > :20:46.announced it will take possession of the house where Adolf Hitler
:20:47. > :20:49.was born and tear it down. There's been concern
:20:50. > :20:50.that the building had become a gathering place
:20:51. > :20:58.for neo-Nazi groups. And many of you have been watching
:20:59. > :21:02.this video of a humpback whale calf recieiving assitance after it became
:21:03. > :21:04.entangled in a shark net off The whale was accompanied
:21:05. > :21:08.by its mother which was trying All ended well and the mother
:21:09. > :21:16.and calf swam away You can see the video on the BBC
:21:17. > :21:18.News app. Earlier we saw emotional pictures coming in from Nigeria of
:21:19. > :21:20.some of the schoolgirls that were kidnapped by the Islamist group of
:21:21. > :21:26.Boko Haram and have now been reunited with their families. Before
:21:27. > :21:32.I play you that, reminder from one of the Twitter feeds supporting
:21:33. > :21:39.these girls, revealing that they have in fact been gone for 915 days.
:21:40. > :21:41.Martin Patience was there as some of Martin Patience was there as some of
:21:42. > :21:59.the reunions were happening. After two and half years, free at
:22:00. > :22:02.last. Uncontrollable emotions. Daughters reunited with their
:22:03. > :22:13.parents in the warmth of their embrace. It was a time for
:22:14. > :22:17.celebration. But also reflection. TRANSLATION: We are so excited. We
:22:18. > :22:23.never thought this day would come. These girls were among the 276
:22:24. > :22:26.students abducted by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. One of them
:22:27. > :22:35.describes the horrors that they endure it. TRANSLATION: I never
:22:36. > :22:41.thought I would see you again. There was a day when a bomb dropped nearby
:22:42. > :22:45.to where I was. It was only by God's race we survived. Some days we were
:22:46. > :22:50.without food but now we are here. The parents wanted their daughters
:22:51. > :22:55.to get an education but it was a choice that they thought had cost
:22:56. > :23:01.them their children. TRANSLATION: I said to her, are you really alive?
:23:02. > :23:07.And she replied, yes I am. We both burst into tears. What did she tell
:23:08. > :23:12.you about her time in captivity? They were told their parents were no
:23:13. > :23:16.longer alive, that we had been killed. All they did was cry. They
:23:17. > :23:24.us again. Officials say negotiations us again. Officials say negotiations
:23:25. > :23:32.are continuing. But dozens of students reportedly do not want to
:23:33. > :23:38.come home after marrying fighters. For now, these girls are free to
:23:39. > :23:44.rejoice, but recovering will not be easy, with so many of their
:23:45. > :23:53.schoolmates still being held. Martin Patience, BBC News, Abuja. Time for
:23:54. > :23:57.our business section. Netflix has results coming out later. This is a
:23:58. > :24:01.company whose performance has had people green with envy in the TV
:24:02. > :24:07.everything its own way. Last time we everything its own way. Last time we
:24:08. > :24:12.discussed this, the big issue was pulling up subscriber numbers in the
:24:13. > :24:15.they absolutely have to. In the last they absolutely have to. In the last
:24:16. > :24:18.few minutes we have seen that Netflix have released earnings and
:24:19. > :24:23.to give you an indication of how happy investors are with the
:24:24. > :24:28.results, in after-hours trading, the share price is up 20% because they
:24:29. > :24:33.really were able to increase their subscriber growth. They have
:24:34. > :24:38.predicted that they were going to get 2 million new subscribers. They
:24:39. > :24:41.actually got 3.2 million new subscribers and that is
:24:42. > :24:42.internationally. When you look at their subscriber growth here in
:24:43. > :24:48.United States, the expected 300,000 United States, the expected 300,000
:24:49. > :24:53.400,000. So that is really some very 400,000. So that is really some very
:24:54. > :25:04.encouraging news and when it comes to their overall moneymaking, I have
:25:05. > :25:07.to look down at my notes, and they saw $2.2 million coming from
:25:08. > :25:11.streaming revenue, 40% of that having to do with international
:25:12. > :25:16.streaming and that is really important. We see that Netflix has
:25:17. > :25:21.really expanded into about 130 countries. It really needed to
:25:22. > :25:23.capitalise on some of that and they have been able to do that at least
:25:24. > :25:30.in this last quarter. Thank you very in this last quarter. Thank you very
:25:31. > :25:33.much indeed. Let me quickly tell you that a number of airlines have
:25:34. > :25:42.followed what happened in the US in banning Samson Galaxy Note seven
:25:43. > :25:48.smartphones. This is a phone no longer made now because they were
:25:49. > :25:57.catching fire. They were banned on planes in the US and now virgin is
:25:58. > :26:08.following suit. I will be back with you in a couple of minutes. In this
:26:09. > :26:12.weather forecast we will be looking at typhoons, snow and flooding. The
:26:13. > :26:13.biggest weather stories around the world. First of all,