17/10/2016 Outside Source

Raise Welcome back. These are the main stories: Iraqi security forces

are launching an attack to free Mosul from the Islamic State group.

Reaching the city may take several weeks and cost many lives. Today,

they liberated 10 villages. They will need to liberate another 70.

And the UK politician who ended up in hospital after a row with a

colleague. Steven Woolfe said Ukip is in a death spiral and he is

quitting. The BBC has been given special access to the launch of a

Chinese space mission and in sport we will bring you the latest on

Liverpool against Manchester United and more trouble for Nick Kyrgios.

Let's talk about what is happening in the area of Iraq around Mosul.

This is a city that matters for a number of reasons. First it is where

Islamic State really made us all aware of its power when it was

seized in 2014. Second it matters, because it is one of Iraq's biggest

cities. It matters because this is where the Islamic State chose to

proclaim a caliphate. So symbolically it is significant. The

consequences of what happens in Mosul if they can seize the city

will be profound not just for the strength of Islamic State, but for

the thousands who call the city home. It is feared that tens if not

hundreds of thousands of people will have to flee Mosul, perhaps into

Turkey or into Syria. The BBC's world affairs editor has been

looking at the issues. In 2014 they seemed unstoppable. Their leader

announced he was setting up a Muslim caliphate, covering large parts of

Iraq and Syria. But their extremism alienated people. Especially given

the public brutality of the constant executions they carried out, often

for trivial offences. These men were shot at the weekend. How serious is

this for Islamic State? Well this was the area IS controlled at the

start of last year. Now, 21 month later, it is in retreat. But because

Mosul is Sunni dominated, the operation will be extremely

sensitive. Kurdish troops make up part of the attacking force. The

Iraqi army has Shia majority and there has been hostility between

them and Sunnis in the region. The force is backed by western air

strikes. There are around 30,000 troops against 3,500 Islamic State

troops the. But they have dug tunnels and planted booby trap bombs

and may have chemical weapons. Britain is involved in the Mosul

campaign. Yesterday our aircraft were striking terrorist position and

our army has been helping to train the troops. We are not putting

combat troops on to the ground into this operation. The real danger is

the attack on Mosul could result in a humanitarian disaster. A million

inhabitants may need food and shelter and be used as human

shields. If things go wrong, Mosul could turn into an Iraqi version of

Aleppo and Russia could claim its ferocious tactics there are

justified. A member of the European Parliament who spent three nights in

hospital after a row with a party colleague is quitting the party,

saying Ukip is in a death spiral. Steven Woolfe has been running to be

the next leader of Ukip. But he is not any more. Here he

is explaining what happened. : He rushed at me and there was a blow

that impacted me in the face. I was pushed back into the room and hit my

back head against the back of one of the walls that was there. Prior to

this you were the first person to say you wanted to be Ukip's next

lead. What now for those hopes? Well there are no hopes as far as I'm

concerned. I will be withdrawing my application to be become lead and

I'm withdrawing from Ukip. I'm resigning with immediate effect. If

you want to watch that again it is available on the BBC web-site. Now

sport and in particular some more bad News for Nick Kyrgios has been

suspended for eight weeks and fined after his behaviour in Shanghai. He

didn't try on certain points. He was sharp with a fan who took issue with

that. He has posted a statement on his web-site that you can read in

full. Some of the key quotes, my body finally gave out mentally and

physically. This is no excuse and I know I need to apologise to the fans

and the organisers in Shanghai. He also thanked Andy Murray, who had

this to say on the whole matter, sometimes the mental health of

players is not discussed, because we are supposed to be strong. Kyrgios

has agreed to seek professional help. That will see his ban reduced

and he will be back playing in November. Now football and Liverpool

are playing Manchester United. Jurgen Klopp against Jose Mourinho

at Anfield. The kind of mouth watering match that makes the

Premier League such a big hit. Olly foster has been watching. You

haven't missed. Really? You would think this is one of the fixtures -

Manchester United at Anfield, under the flood lights, it is one that the

Premier League sells itself on. You would not wish to find a worse first

half of football. An absolute stinker. Hard lay chance for --

hardly a chance for either side. Wayne Rooney dropped by Manchester

United for the fourth game in a row and remember he was dropped by

England as well. He has just come off the bench. But very, too early

to say whether he can change the match. It has opened up more in the

second half. Zlatan Ibrahimovic had a header. Coutinho has had a chance

and Can. But it is not a very good match at all. Jose Mourinho has set

up his side very defensively and he has been very animated on the

touchline. He will be happy going to Anfield and getting a point.

Liverpool, if they had got a big win, they could have gone top of the

table. A win for United would jump them up a couple of places. But this

is not one that you will want to remember in a hurry. Kevin

Pietersen, we are trying to work out if anybody's excited about this,

Kevin Pietersen, the cricket Irish Republic said the engines on

footballers these days, feels like I'm watching my son play Fifa 17.

Incredible athleticism, speed and endurance. But this match isn't very

good. Thank you. If after you have heard that you are still minded to

find out how the game is going, go to the BBC sport app and it says,

lives, if you hit that you will get the live page updating with comments

and tweets and so on. Now comments that the chairman of the English FA

has made he said he thinks Premier League play ers who come out as gay

would still suffer abuse. Here is the chairman talking to MPs earlier.

I would be amazed if we haven't got gay players and I'm ashamed they

don't feel safe to come out. There is a very small minority of people

who hurl vile abuse at people who they perceive are different. Our job

is to stamp down hard on that behaviour. I can't give you enough

of a commitment about how much I loathe that sort of behaviour. And

the good news is we are not in denial. We may not have figured out

how to crack it, but there a is deep loathing of that in football. This

weekend there were reports of homophobic chanting at a match and

there are currently no openly gay male professional players in

England. Now later we are going to get a report about making a new UK

polar research ship. This is the ship which after a public vote was

almost called Boaty McBoat face. That didn't happen, but we will tell

you what happened. Great pictures of people lining the streets of

Manchester to celebrate Britain's Olympic and Paralympic teams. After

a summer spent in the Rio sunshine, it seemed Manchester had initially

got the weather memo. Self--ys were the order of day with Britain's

stars. Before the parade a chance to renext. I recognise my achievements.

I am loving every minute, it is a hard four years and it is nice to

think it was all for that moment. But this is Britain and the weather

was bound to play its part, with the crowds in places not as big as

hoped. But those who made the effort had a simple message for the

athletes. It's been so hard to find your way and not see people that are

so excited, wearing all the flags, it is a brilliant atmosphere.

Amazing and it got me out of school! Supporters had done their maths. 147

of the medals came home from the Paralympic team and Team GB smashed

Olympic records. For some, it was their first experience of a parade.

For others, their last. Jessica Ennis-Hill retired last week after

winning silver. She said Rio was the perfect end. In my heart, I knew

this was the right decision. But it is still very difficult to make it

public and say it. You know the messages and the support I have had

over the years it has been incredible. So I can't thank you all

enough. It has been very special. For some, those experiences are just

beginning. Ellie Symonds inspired GB's youngest medallist to get into

the team. Friends maybe, but rivals too. She beat me in some of the

races, so not happy about that. Hopefully that will change in Tokyo.

But no, I support my team mates all the way, the whole of Paralympics

and Olympics GB. We are a great team and we are proud to be British.

Innit seems -- Britain it seems is equally proud.

Welcome back. Our lead story that is Iraqi Government forces and their

allies have started an offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic

State group. 30,000 troops are thoughts to be involved. Coming up,

if you're out side the UK it is world news America and claims from

Donald Trump that the election is rigged at many polling places. Here

in the UK it is the News at 10 with an interview with the new chair of

the child sex abuse inquiry. Alexis Jay is the fourth chair of the

inquiry. The TV network RT says

all its bank accounts It's a Russian state-run broadcaster

that is available internationally. It's posted the letter the Nat West

bank sent to its London "We have recently

undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us and reached

the conclusion that we will no In the past, RT has been sanctioned

by the UK's broadcasting regulator We have had an update from Royal

Bank of Scotland, which owns NatWest.

In the past RT has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator for

biased reporting, but there is nothing to suggest that is connected

to this ruling on its bank accounts. Now one RT presenter based in Moscow

explained the service she says RT provides in the UK. We have been

under some pressure in the UK. We don't think that it is because of

the lack of impartiality, in fact we don't think that any broadcaster

present in the UK is impartial for that matter. But we do believe that

we are bringing valuable alternative position to the British audience and

we hope to continue doing so. Specially given that the BBC has

very sprawling operation in Moscow and are hiring a lot of people to

bring... You know Russian language news to the Russian audience and

hiring producers and reporters, this what is we have been doing in the

UK. And we hope that we will continue to be doing that. And if

you want your news in Russian, do go to the BBC Russia web-site.

China has launched two men into space.

They'll carry out research in the Tiengong 2 space lab

and they'll complete the longest stay in space by Chinese astronauts.

And there's no question that China is committing to space.

There are 181 Chinese satellites and 11 astronauts

It has 20 space missions slated this this year.

Today's launch happened in the Gobi desert in North-western China.

Stephen McDonell was there - this is what he saw.

Seeing this Chinese rocket take-off was every bit as powerful as you

This country has great ambitions, when it comes to the stars.

And there is a feeling nothing can stop

It is not something a journalist is normally allowed to

Our journey here began 28 hours earlier,

driving through the night, deeper into the Gobi Desert.

Visiting a Chinese space launch, meant being

escorted into a remote military zone.

We saw the preparations to catapult two astronauts into space,

where they will spend one month carrying out research.

TRANSLATION: The astronauts will work eight hours

a day, six days a week on this mission.

They will follow the same time zone as ours on earth.

Why would journalists, especially

foreign journalists be allowed inside this

For one thing, this country is proud of its

When it is copping flak, especially in the South China

Sea, this is them showing there are strong nation, getting good

Not often you go to a press conference with astronauts,

This is the bubble they will appear in.

The reason they are behind glass, they do not want to get sick.

If you are blasting off to spend one month

on the space station, you would not want to do it with the flu.

TRANSLATION: Being an astronaut is my dream and my duty.

Although the job is full of challenges and risks,

In two days' time they will be on board the space station, orbiting

They said they could not wait to look back down on the planet

If you're wondering why China isn't sending astronauts to the

international space mission, there are concerns about that and from

that story to another, you remember the story of the polar ship that had

its name put out to a public vote and it was voted as Boaty McBoat

face. Now it has been called Sir David Attenborough.

News of the investment in polar science was almost ecliped by the

vote to name the ship boaty McBoat face. Now it has been named Sir

David Attenborough. It is very humbling if you have any knowledge

of Antarctic exploration or the navy, you can think of some very

distinguished names that have been carried by ships. That my name

should be among them now is a very humbling realisation. Sir David took

part in a ceremony to begin the ship's construction, winching a huge

section of the keel into place. But this is a Boaty, a submersible that

will be used. With the first mission scheduled for 2019, Sir David and

Boaty will set out to explore together. Just checking to see if

that boring Liverpool/Manchester United game is over. It is not over

yet. But it is a couple of minutes away. Still 0-0 and also the

president of European council tweeting, had a good phone call with

Theresa May and we agreed she will update us on Brexit article 50 at

this week. He is talking about the latest European Union summit. It is

taking place on Thursday and Friday outside source will be live at the

summit on Thursday. The first time trooem time Theresa May will attend

as a Prime Minister. Thank you for watching. See you soon.