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crane and -- craniums. Next on BBC News, Reporters. | 0:00:00 | 0:00:03 | |
Welcome to Reporters. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:16 | |
I'm Philippa Thomas. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
From here in the BBC Newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
you the best stories from across the globe. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
In this week s programme... | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
They killed the children, and the women. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:30 | |
Life under siege in Aleppo. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
As a fragile Syrian ceasefire takes hold, Jeremy Bowen reports | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
from inside the shattered remains of the city. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
These buildings were built strongly. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
A lot can be restored. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
You can't bring back all those who died and the country that used | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
to be here. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
The scorched earth of so-called Islamic state - | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
Orla Guerin joins Iraqi forces on the road to Mosul, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
the last bastion of IS in Iraq. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
They were driven out of this town in just two days, | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
but the decisive battle is yet to come - the offensive for Mosul. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
After five years of bloody conflict that's cost more than 300,000 lives | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
and seen millions flee their homes, Syria edged a little further | 0:01:14 | 0:01:19 | |
towards a tentative peace as a fragile ceasefire began this week. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
The seven-day truce, brokered by the United States | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
and Russia, began on Monday. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
It's aimed at stopping the fighting between Syrian government forces | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
and a wide range of opposition groups. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
One of the worst-hit areas is the city of Aleppo, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
split between the rebel-controlled east and government-held west. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
Jeremy Bowen entered Aleppo just before the truce began and found | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
the shattered remains of what was once a thriving | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
and beautiful city. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
No-one is taking down the sandbags. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
The war spread to Aleppo in 2012. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
In a divided, destroyed city, after thousands of deaths, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
with hundreds of thousands of lost homes, no wonder | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
they are still sceptical a few hours into a ceasefire. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
This is the west side of Aleppo, controlled by the government. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
Many more have died on the east side, but the pain of death | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
crosses the battle lines. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Not much else unites a country that the war has left in fragments. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
A soldier showed me a shell improvised by rebels. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:30 | |
He said they pack empty cooking gas bottles with explosives, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
weld on a tail and fire them from home-made mortars. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:41 | |
This is C4? | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
So, he is saying that this is C4, which is an explosive. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:49 | |
LOUD EXPLOSION. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:54 | |
You hear a lot of that? | 0:02:54 | 0:02:55 | |
Many, many, many. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
By hundreds, by thousand. | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
Hundreds, thousands of explosions? | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
Very much. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
It was a small violation of the ceasefire, but this man | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
is haunted by years of shelling and by his grandchildren's fears. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
He calls rebels terrorists. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
He lost an eye and his son a leg to a gas bomb attack. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
They murder. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:24 | |
This is murder. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
They kill us. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
They killed the children, and the women. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:37 | |
We don't know what happened to Syria. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
Syria... | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
One day the war will end. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
Peace will start with a ceasefire. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
This Maronite priest, a Christian, hopes that day has come. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:57 | |
Rebels destroyed his church. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Many Syrian Christians support the regime. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
He believes only negotiation will end the war. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
He backs the ceasefire and believes pouring more weapons into | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
the Middle East leads to disaster. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:18 | |
TRANSLATION: From this church, I call on all | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
the countries of the world to stop the arms trade. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
The money spent on weapons could feed many people and build | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
a civilisation of peace. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
On the east side of Aleppo, which is controlled by rebels, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
the cemeteries are overflowing. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
They have faced much greater firepower than the west. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
Air strikes, including barrel bombs, and more recently the power | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
of the Russian air force. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
The ceasefire coincides with Eid al-Adha, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
one of the biggest Muslim holidays of the year and, despite widespread | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
doubts that the ceasefire | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
would last, parents here, like those near the frontline | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
in the west, took a chance. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
TRANSLATION: I took my kids to the swings today. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
It was a risk because I don't believe in the ceasefire at all. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
I don't trust the regime. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
It is always breaking promises. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
But I said the kids should have fun. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
I could not cross into east Aleppo, but this was close to the frontline | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
in the old city - a tangle of medieval alleys that used to be | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
the greatest souk in the Levant. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
Aleppo's old city was an extraordinary human creation, | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
now it is empty and dead. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:38 | |
The destruction here is tragic, but it doesn't match the loss | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
of perhaps 400,000 human lives. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
Now, let's assume the ceasefire lasts. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
First of all for a week, then perhaps for a bit longer. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
The question is what can be built upon it. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
Could there be a political process that inches this country | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
away from war and a tiny bit towards peace? | 0:05:58 | 0:06:04 | |
Or will it be like other attempts at ceasefires, | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
just a time when fighting men can rest, rearm, regroup and get | 0:06:06 | 0:06:13 | |
ready for the next round? | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Aleppo. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
From the war in Syria to the conflict in Iraq now, | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
where the so-called Islamic State is also still proving a major | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
threat to the authorities. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
Two years ago, IS overran Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
and went on to take control of a third of Iraq. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
Since then, IS has lost much of the territory it once held | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
and Iraq's Prime Minister has pledged to retake Mosul | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
by the end of the year. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
The Iraqi army's most recent victory was taking back the town | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
of Qayarra, some 60 kilometres to the south of Mosul. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
From there, Orla Guerin sent this report. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
A parting gift from the so-called Islamic state. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
Oil wells set ablaze, covering their retreat | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
from the town of Qayarra. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
Here, the landscape of liberation. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
Defeating IS will mean a lot more scorched earth. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
By the roadside, remnants of their rule. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
The Iraqi troops who drove them from here are still jittery. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:32 | |
Our journey was suddenly halted when a home-made bomb | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
was found up ahead. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:41 | |
A controlled explosion...this time. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:48 | |
Clearing this strategic town is a key victory | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
in the push towards Mosul. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
Troops are closing in step by step, with help from US | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
and British bombing raids. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
And what happened under the dark reign of IS | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
is now being uncovered. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
We were given a tour of one of their jails. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
A tiny space the prisoners were kept in. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
Locals said up to four men could be crammed into a cell, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
forced to stand. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
They were even handcuffed to the doors. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:26 | |
Here, some of their names and the crimes - | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
smuggling, and trying to escape. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
We don't know their fate. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
For this tribal commander, the fight here is very personal | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
and it is not over yet. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
His village, in the distance, still under IS control. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:50 | |
TRANSLATION: They blew up my house. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
I can see it with binoculars. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
My mother is there. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
I have not seen her for more than two years. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
It is very painful. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
My brothers are also there, in front of me, and I can't | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
reach them, but we hope to retake the village soon. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
Then we get access to a hidden layer built by the extremists | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
during their two years in residence. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
Well, here, deep in the hillside, Islamic State carved out a network | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
of tunnels and rooms. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
This was a place where they could hide, where they could take cover | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
from coalition air strikes. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
It is pretty basic, but we have found some food supplies | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
that they left behind in their hurry to escape. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
And they did have some creature comforts. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
There was a electricity connected here. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
Now, they were driven out of this town in just two days, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
but the decisive battle is yet to come, the offensive for Mosul. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
Many have fled even before it begins. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:55 | |
Makeshift camps in Kurdish territory are already overflowing. | 0:09:55 | 0:10:01 | |
Here they are free of IS, but still prisoners of memory. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
These young boys saw men hanged. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:12 | |
And beheaded. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
TRANSLATION: He was escaping so they cut his head off, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
then they threw him into the water. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
They brought another five people, also dead. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Locals took the bodies and buried them. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
In the coming weeks and months, the desperation here may grow, | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
along with the numbers. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
The United Nations is warning that up to 1 million people | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
could flee Mosul. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
A fresh catastrophe in this broken country. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:45 | |
That's all from Reporters for this week. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
From me, Philippa Thomas, goodbye for now. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 |