:00:10. > :00:13.where the Prime Minister has formally declared victory over
:00:14. > :00:18.the Islamic State group in the city of Mosul.
:00:19. > :00:23.I declare from this place, I declare to the whole world the end,
:00:24. > :00:29.the failure and the collapse of the so-called caliphate.
:00:30. > :00:32.We'll hear from our reporter in Mosul, and get analysis from BBC
:00:33. > :00:40.President Trump's son admits he met a Russian lawyer who promised
:00:41. > :00:45.to reveal damaging material on Hillary Clinton.
:00:46. > :00:48.This comes as US officials continue to investigate alleged Russian
:00:49. > :00:52.meddling in the presidential election.
:00:53. > :00:55.All this week we'll be looking at the New Silk Road -
:00:56. > :00:58.the trillion dollar rail project linking China and Europe.
:00:59. > :01:02.Our China editor has a series of special reports.
:01:03. > :01:08.The judge hearing the case of the terminally ill baby
:01:09. > :01:24.And sport and walked out after a Wimbledon classic. -- Rafa Nadal.
:01:25. > :01:37.The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi has declared victory over the
:01:38. > :01:43.Islamic State group in Iraq's second city most all. Here he is speaking
:01:44. > :01:43.earlier. TRANSLATION:
:01:44. > :01:48.Our victory today is a victory against darkness, against brutality
:01:49. > :01:53.And I declare from this place, I declare to the
:01:54. > :01:56.whole world the end, the failure and the collapse of the so-called
:01:57. > :02:00.The terrorist state of Daesh which was declared here in
:02:01. > :02:06.Our victory today was made possible by
:02:07. > :02:11.the Iraqi people who sacrificed their lives to put an end to this
:02:12. > :02:19.evil entity which will end up in the dustbin of history.
:02:20. > :02:21.Mosul's significant not just because it's Iraq's
:02:22. > :02:27.It's also where this man, the leader of IS Abu Bakr
:02:28. > :02:30.al-Baghdadi declared the group's so-called caliphate three years ago.
:02:31. > :02:33.The campaign to retake Mosul began in October -
:02:34. > :02:38.you can see how the Iraqi army gradually gained territory -
:02:39. > :02:42.areas in red show IS control, and green is the Iraqi army.
:02:43. > :02:45.But the end of the fighting doesn't mean the end of the suffering.
:02:46. > :02:49.More than 800,000 people have fled the fighting and the the UN
:02:50. > :02:52.estimates it will cost at least $1 billion to restore things
:02:53. > :02:58.Our correspondent Jonathan Beale has been with the Iraqi army
:02:59. > :03:01.as they advanced in Mosul - he called in a few hours ago.
:03:02. > :03:04.Even though Prime Minister Abadi has declared complete victory
:03:05. > :03:07.against IS, it doesn't certainly seem like it on the ground.
:03:08. > :03:12.There is plenty of evidence today that we
:03:13. > :03:16.have seen of an IS presence but it is, as I say,
:03:17. > :03:20.much less intense than it has been in recent days.
:03:21. > :03:24.And of course Prime Minister Abadi came here
:03:25. > :03:27.yesterday and his office indicated that he would declare victory.
:03:28. > :03:31.He said at the end of that day that victory was just around the corner -
:03:32. > :03:35.But we've seen this in the past, where the
:03:36. > :03:39.Iraqis tend to claim victory perhaps even when there are still pockets
:03:40. > :03:44.of resistance in places like Fallujah as well.
:03:45. > :03:49.So I think we should treat it with caution, but there is
:03:50. > :03:52.no doubt that IS is on its last legs in Mosul, but certainly so are
:03:53. > :04:04.the civilians who have to rebuild this city and rebuild their lives.
:04:05. > :04:11.The BBC has also been talking to Lieutenant General Stephen J
:04:12. > :04:21.Townsend. Here is his reaction from Baghdad. This is a brutal evil
:04:22. > :04:25.enemy. A very determined one. One of the things I learned is this fight
:04:26. > :04:33.is going to take longer than we anticipate. Also that fighting in
:04:34. > :04:36.cities, I already knew this as a professional soldier, I already knew
:04:37. > :04:41.how difficult it was to fight in major urban areas, but I never saw
:04:42. > :04:47.fighting on this extended duration and scale. Before. We are applying
:04:48. > :04:51.all those lessons to the fight that we are already engaged in, in the
:04:52. > :04:59.global capital of Isis in Syria. Newsnight Presenter Rasha Qandeel,
:05:00. > :05:08.for more on the story. Probably the most difficult sense
:05:09. > :05:11.they started being formed in 2004 but the problem is it might not be
:05:12. > :05:17.the end of the organisation or the group as it is known for now because
:05:18. > :05:19.the way the group usually goes when it is surrounded, is going
:05:20. > :05:25.underground and reappearing somewhere else. It will probably be
:05:26. > :05:30.a third location we have not heard. The problem with this is they take
:05:31. > :05:34.civilians as human shields or they disguise as civilians on the way out
:05:35. > :05:40.of any city. This will be difficult and also now because it is
:05:41. > :05:44.surrounded by the Iraqi forces, so that might be the announcement of
:05:45. > :05:49.tonight might mean the end of the eye S in Mosul but it might not be
:05:50. > :05:55.the end of the organisation in Iraq or Syria. This must make authorities
:05:56. > :06:01.in Iraq and Syria very nervous. Yes. The problem with this is that has to
:06:02. > :06:05.be a support by the coalition forces higher than it used to be before,
:06:06. > :06:11.the problem with this is the US is using something called a bubble
:06:12. > :06:16.carrier and this is different weapons, so the risk on the
:06:17. > :06:22.civilians will mount up much more than it was before, especially with
:06:23. > :06:27.the preparations. And the civilian toll in the battle for most was
:06:28. > :06:35.huge. Yes, and even in the last week or so, what we have been told by our
:06:36. > :06:40.correspondence is that when you trap a lot of people in a very small area
:06:41. > :06:46.the risk is higher and higher, and what has happened in the last week
:06:47. > :06:51.is one and a half kilometres up to two kilometres, square kilometres,
:06:52. > :06:55.and then going back to 800 and battle from street to street until
:06:56. > :07:00.we have reached the positive situation as called by the Iraqi
:07:01. > :07:06.Government. That does not mean they cannot reappear somewhere else, as
:07:07. > :07:14.happened last April. So the problem is there needs to be a post-battle
:07:15. > :07:18.in most soul to secure other places and to secure safe passages for
:07:19. > :07:22.civilians. And looking at the pictures of what state Mosul is left
:07:23. > :07:24.in, it is not just the physical rebuilding it is the psychological
:07:25. > :07:30.impact on the people who are left and prospects for getting back and
:07:31. > :07:36.carrying on living peacefully. It is the full package. The problem is for
:07:37. > :07:44.the Iraqi Government but also for the coalition is there generations
:07:45. > :07:49.to come that are going to be affected by what they have seen in
:07:50. > :07:56.the last since 2004 and hugely since 2014 since the Islamic State have
:07:57. > :08:08.announced seizing a lot of cities, most will is one of them. This is
:08:09. > :08:11.going to be having a huge impact on the psychology of those children and
:08:12. > :08:19.of course on the direct death toll of civilians.
:08:20. > :08:23.The Silk Road was an ancient trade route between China and Europe -
:08:24. > :08:24.the world's first global superhighway.
:08:25. > :08:26.China is spending almost a trillion dollars on recreating that
:08:27. > :08:30.The new Silk Road would consist of a maritime route starting
:08:31. > :08:33.in China which winds its way past Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka
:08:34. > :08:37.At the same time, the project also involves a land based network,
:08:38. > :08:39.snaking West through central Asia and Russia.
:08:40. > :08:42.Our China Editor Carrie Gracie has been looking into this -
:08:43. > :08:57.They call them the ships of the Desert. For centuries the camel
:08:58. > :09:03.trains of the silk Road dominated trade between China and the West.
:09:04. > :09:19.Now China wants to recreate the silk Road. This time by train. When he
:09:20. > :09:22.started here 34 years ago China sold the world next to nothing. Now he is
:09:23. > :09:33.a foot soldier for a trading superpower. I asked how that had
:09:34. > :09:37.changed him. TRANSLATION: We are under a lot of
:09:38. > :09:41.pressure. Expectations are high but there is also a lot of hope. We need
:09:42. > :09:53.the train to develop faster and better. The pressure is coming from
:09:54. > :09:58.the top. Not led by merchants, but by a president. Chinese emperors
:09:59. > :10:02.once claimed to rule all under heaven. With the United States no
:10:03. > :10:09.longer leading on trade, President Xi has seized his chance. He calls
:10:10. > :10:15.his vision the belt and road. China's vision is so vast it may be
:10:16. > :10:19.decades before we can tell whether it is a worthy successor to the
:10:20. > :10:25.ancient silk Road. But what we can say is that no other country
:10:26. > :10:33.offering a big idea right now this is the most ambitious bid to shape
:10:34. > :10:40.our century. Already China shapes our material lives. This market, one
:10:41. > :10:45.of the biggest in the world. But selling abroad and building at home
:10:46. > :10:50.is no longer enough to keep this giant economy growing. Now it plans
:10:51. > :10:56.to build a broad two. A win-win for all, says China. But when the
:10:57. > :11:04.talking is done Chinese traders drive a hard bargain. The world
:11:05. > :11:12.buying much more from them than the other way around. Red tape can make
:11:13. > :11:15.importing a nightmare. The Government can change the law at any
:11:16. > :11:20.time so there is no real concrete law. It's a very grey area at the
:11:21. > :11:27.moment. If the Government made it a little clearer on how to go about
:11:28. > :11:34.it, it would be a bit easier. But the new silk Road is China solving
:11:35. > :11:38.china's problems. Money and muscle heading west on a journey across
:11:39. > :11:44.three continents. Bidding to redraw the map and command the century.
:11:45. > :11:47.Most of that report came from the east coast of China -
:11:48. > :11:50.but Carrie is going to be travelling the length of the new Silk road
:11:51. > :11:56.Today she's in Dunhuang, in the west of China.
:11:57. > :12:00.It kind of sees itself as the power that in the days of the old camel
:12:01. > :12:03.routes was the dominant power in Asia, and it wants to get back to
:12:04. > :12:07.That, it feels, is its natural role and, in fact, as the
:12:08. > :12:09.world's biggest trader, in a way this is a dominant position
:12:10. > :12:13.So it's kind of saying President Trump
:12:14. > :12:17.is retreating to a certain extent from US leadership of the world
:12:18. > :12:21.economy, retreating from trade pacts, retreating from a free-trade
:12:22. > :12:25.And this is China saying we are going to be the champions
:12:26. > :12:28.of that, we are going to be the champions of globalisation.
:12:29. > :12:31.We are also the champions, of course, of climate change.
:12:32. > :12:33.So they are basically saying, we are the responsible leaders.
:12:34. > :12:35.And that message is questioned by others, by
:12:36. > :12:38.India for example, by Japan, they see this as a push
:12:39. > :12:42.I think at the moment it is very much unclear
:12:43. > :12:47.exactly how effective this enormous project is going to be.
:12:48. > :12:50.It is ambitious for sure, which is a hallmark of President Xi -
:12:51. > :12:54.he has seized his moment, he is an assertive leader,
:12:55. > :12:58.he is pushing this hard - but we haven't seen commercial
:12:59. > :13:03.It is very much a state driven agenda at
:13:04. > :13:06.the moment, and I think that is very much also what feeds the concern
:13:07. > :13:10.of China's neighbours that it is not going to be like the ancient Silk
:13:11. > :13:13.Road that of course grew organically - merchants trading
:13:14. > :13:15.amongst themselves, private enterprise.
:13:16. > :13:29.This is something that is very much driven by China's state objectives.
:13:30. > :13:34.And outside Haque source. We'll be live in New York because tobacco
:13:35. > :13:39.giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay millions of dollars in legal
:13:40. > :13:52.fees after unsuccessfully suing the Australian Government.
:13:53. > :13:57.Metropolitan Police now say they believe around 255 people managed to
:13:58. > :14:03.escape the fire at Grenfell Tower last month. The current estimate of
:14:04. > :14:12.the dead and missing remains at around 80. Those of us involved in
:14:13. > :14:16.this investigation and the wider police operation can't help but have
:14:17. > :14:23.an emotional attachment to this case and we are absolutely determined, to
:14:24. > :14:25.do everything we possibly can. The fire, the truly tragic fire at
:14:26. > :14:30.Grenfell Tower should never have happened. It is our job as the
:14:31. > :14:35.police to investigate it. We will go where the evidence takes us. We will
:14:36. > :14:41.look at all available fences within the criminal law. And if we identify
:14:42. > :14:43.evidence that an individual or an organisation has committed a
:14:44. > :14:45.criminal offence we will do what we can to bring those people or those
:14:46. > :15:01.organisations to justice. This is Outside Source live
:15:02. > :15:03.from the BBC newsroom. Iraq's Prime Minister has declared
:15:04. > :15:07.victory over the Islamic State group The battle for Mosul has
:15:08. > :15:10.taken almost nine months, killed thousands of civilians
:15:11. > :15:20.and displaced more Other stories being reported on
:15:21. > :15:24.around the BBC right now, the High Court hearing the UK has ruled the
:15:25. > :15:28.British Government's sale of arms to Saudi Arabia is legal after it
:15:29. > :15:32.reviewed secret evidence. The court rejected claims the Government was
:15:33. > :15:38.acting illegally by not suspending weapons sales to the kingdom which
:15:39. > :15:42.is fighting a war in Yemen. South Korea has released what it says is
:15:43. > :15:46.the first known footage of women forced to work as sex slaves for
:15:47. > :15:51.Japanese soldiers during World War II. Known as comfort women,
:15:52. > :15:56.activists estimate 200,000 were forced into brothels for Japan's
:15:57. > :16:01.military. And among the most read stories on our website the British
:16:02. > :16:06.Government has released a video giving advice to travellers on what
:16:07. > :16:19.to do if your hotel is attacked by terrorists. It uses the run, highs,
:16:20. > :16:21.tell safety message. This week marks the first anniversary for Theresa
:16:22. > :16:25.May as per minister. On Tuesday she is expected to say we may not agree
:16:26. > :16:29.on everything but through debate and discussion ideas can be clarified
:16:30. > :16:36.and improved and a better way forward found. This is one take from
:16:37. > :16:42.politics saying she is reaching out to labour for Brexit help after
:16:43. > :16:47.election losses. Let's go to Alex Forsyth. How much of a change of
:16:48. > :16:51.tone and style is this? I think it is an acknowledgement from the Prime
:16:52. > :16:54.Minister about the new political reality. She called a general
:16:55. > :16:57.election hoping to get more Conservative MPs in the House of
:16:58. > :17:02.Commons but she ended up losing her majority. So what we're hearing now
:17:03. > :17:06.is a recognition that in order to get anything done she will need to
:17:07. > :17:11.rely on her own MPs but also support from other parties as well. So this
:17:12. > :17:16.is something of an appeal to Labour, which the Labour Party has given
:17:17. > :17:21.short shrift to. Jeremy Corbyn said today do you want to read the Labour
:17:22. > :17:24.election manifesto for some policy ideas? I don't think we will see any
:17:25. > :17:31.political opponents hoping to shore up Theresa May any time soon. But
:17:32. > :17:35.what her allies say is this is a sensible, mature approach to
:17:36. > :17:40.Government because in order to get big issues through like social care,
:17:41. > :17:43.they are going to have to work together. They will hope that
:17:44. > :17:48.appeals to some people on both sides of the House of Commons, but getting
:17:49. > :17:51.it done in reality will not be easy. This is so different to wear Theresa
:17:52. > :17:57.May thought she would be when she called the election. Undoubtedly.
:17:58. > :18:01.The reason she called it was in her own words to strengthen her hand,
:18:02. > :18:04.particularly going into the Brexit talks which have already started.
:18:05. > :18:08.She hoped she would not have to worry about lots of fights in
:18:09. > :18:13.Parliament when she was entering into tricky negotiations with the
:18:14. > :18:17.EU. But in fact she has ended up in a completely different position now
:18:18. > :18:22.where she will rely on every single MP's vote within her own party to
:18:23. > :18:26.get things done. And we know on the huge issue of Brexit there are very
:18:27. > :18:30.divided views within the Conservative Party alone, so her job
:18:31. > :18:33.rather than becoming easier as a consequence of the election, has
:18:34. > :18:40.become much harder. And we are expecting her to say tomorrow, those
:18:41. > :18:42.words about reaching out, is a signal she recognises now she will
:18:43. > :18:45.have to compromise on some issues if she wants to get the business of
:18:46. > :18:51.running the country on a day-to-day basis anywhere near done. Let's play
:18:52. > :18:56.you something the Australian prime ministers said today. He has been
:18:57. > :19:02.visiting Theresa May in London. We recognise that as Britain moves to
:19:03. > :19:07.completing its exit from the European Union we stand ready to
:19:08. > :19:12.enter into a free-trade agreement with the United Kingdom as soon as
:19:13. > :19:19.the UK is able to do so. So once that Brexit has been achieved, then
:19:20. > :19:21.we look forward to speedily concluding a free-trade agreement
:19:22. > :19:29.with Australia and as we said I think we were the first on the phone
:19:30. > :19:33.to offer our support and assistance. And of course as the Australian
:19:34. > :19:38.Premier Mr was saying, Mrs May can't agree any trade deals until Britain
:19:39. > :19:43.has left the European Union. And today senior members of the EU
:19:44. > :19:46.parliament warned Mrs May they might block any final deal. The
:19:47. > :19:50.parliament's Brexit coordinator wrote a letter to newspapers
:19:51. > :19:56.including the Guardian, basically saying the rights Britain is
:19:57. > :20:00.offering EU nationals in the UK are not good enough. Let's go back to
:20:01. > :20:04.Alex Forsyth. Firstly, what don't like they like about what's on
:20:05. > :20:08.offer? What we are hearing is that they are prepared to flex their
:20:09. > :20:14.muscles and they are saying this key issue of the of EU citizens
:20:15. > :20:17.currently in the UK, they say it is a damp squib because it does not
:20:18. > :20:22.resolve any uncertainty. They want complete rights as people have now
:20:23. > :20:25.and what the UK Government has offered is is a settled status to EU
:20:26. > :20:28.citizens. There are still some questions over what that means were
:20:29. > :20:32.family members and who it will apply to. I think what we are seeing is
:20:33. > :20:40.how contentious this Brexit process will be. We have had very positive
:20:41. > :20:44.optimistic words from Australia's Prime Minister and similar from
:20:45. > :20:47.President Trump when he said America wanted to get on with the trade
:20:48. > :20:50.deal, but before they can get to that Theresa May and British
:20:51. > :20:52.Government have a whole host of issues to pick through, not just
:20:53. > :20:55.when it comes to the European Parliament and the fact they are
:20:56. > :20:59.threatening to derail the process if it does not go the way they want,
:21:00. > :21:02.but as we have already talked about, the British Parliament as well, they
:21:03. > :21:08.have a lot of clout now and there are lots of different views on how
:21:09. > :21:11.the negotiations should proceed. So we are at early stages but we are
:21:12. > :21:17.just starting to see how complicated it will be. Just seeing what has
:21:18. > :21:21.come out of the offer to EU nationals already, the tone of this
:21:22. > :21:25.all looks far from cordial. And this was one of the issues we were told
:21:26. > :21:28.from the UK Government perspective they had hoped they could reach some
:21:29. > :21:33.pretty easy consensus on with the EU. This was one of the things both
:21:34. > :21:36.the EU negotiators and the UK Government had said they wanted to
:21:37. > :21:40.resolve quickly. They did not want it to become a hugely contentious
:21:41. > :21:54.issue. On both sides there is a recognition that this
:21:55. > :22:04.involves people and UK citizens in the EU, we're already cracks
:22:05. > :22:08.appearing. There may still be an early resolution but when it comes
:22:09. > :22:12.to the much bigger questions about the UK's financial settlement with
:22:13. > :22:20.the EU, future trade relationships, that will be hard again. Thank you.
:22:21. > :22:25.The tobacco giant Philip Morris has been ordered to pay millions of
:22:26. > :22:27.dollars in legal fees after unsuccessfully suing the Australian
:22:28. > :22:32.Government over its plain packaging law. In 2012 Australia legislated
:22:33. > :22:39.that led cigarettes must be sold in unappealing packages with graphic
:22:40. > :22:43.health warnings. The Court of arbitration has not so far published
:22:44. > :22:51.the amount Philip Morris must pay. Let's go over to New York. What was
:22:52. > :22:55.the original case about? You have a giant international tobacco company
:22:56. > :22:59.arguing that essentially this law restricted its rights to use its own
:23:00. > :23:05.trademarks in a way that they say it was unfair. The court dismissed the
:23:06. > :23:08.claim and here we are with Philip Morris being ordered to pay the
:23:09. > :23:12.Government's legal costs. The question is how much. That has not
:23:13. > :23:15.been disclosed, but certainly in Australia there are reports saying
:23:16. > :23:22.the figure may be as much as 38 million US dollars. I was on Philip
:23:23. > :23:27.Morris's website and they say they do not support the marketing of
:23:28. > :23:34.tobacco products to anyone who is not an adult, but the position of a
:23:35. > :23:38.broader base ban against advertising, they are not in favour.
:23:39. > :23:42.And you can do this playing out of their strategy and their approach in
:23:43. > :23:50.Australia. And do we think Philip Morris will be able to appeal? I
:23:51. > :23:54.think we will have to wait and see whether they want to try and push
:23:55. > :23:58.this case further. They already brought it, lost, will they want to
:23:59. > :24:04.walk away or double down? We will have to wait and see. But again,
:24:05. > :24:06.this is a case where we have seen in the past international corporations
:24:07. > :24:13.win against governments full stop that has not been the case here.
:24:14. > :24:23.India now and a campaign against the goods and services tax and feminine
:24:24. > :24:30.hygiene products is gathering steam. It is argued that the text should be
:24:31. > :24:35.waived. Access to hygiene: product is a problem. And cost is a big
:24:36. > :24:38.issue too. As a result, tens of thousands of girls drop out of
:24:39. > :24:44.school every year when they start the periods. Now in a seemingly
:24:45. > :24:55.women friendly move the Government has made bangles bendy 's and other
:24:56. > :24:58.things tax-free. But many believe these are considered essential
:24:59. > :25:03.products for women then so should sanitary pads. But they are being
:25:04. > :25:11.taxed at 12% instead, a decision the Government defence. If we reduce the
:25:12. > :25:15.tax on sanitary pads it shouldn't be the multinational companies don't
:25:16. > :25:20.pass it on to customers and instead make profits. These big companies
:25:21. > :25:27.have huge profit margins and so to make sanitary pads more affordable
:25:28. > :25:30.this should take a step forward. The Government says cheaper sanitary
:25:31. > :25:35.pads made by small co-operatives will not be taxed. For campaigners,
:25:36. > :25:38.it is not about who makes the products but that the state treats
:25:39. > :25:52.them as a luxury rather than a necessity. Stay with us on outside
:25:53. > :25:58.source. We will have the latest on Donald Trump's Sun admitting he met
:25:59. > :25:58.a Russian lawyer who promised him damaging information about Hillary
:25:59. > :26:12.Clinton. If you are heading to southern
:26:13. > :26:13.Europe and the Mediterranean the heat is