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This is BBC World News Today, with me Tom Donkin. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Iraqi security forces launch an attack to liberate | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Mosul from so-called Islamic State militants. | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
30,000 fighters are involved, attacking it from several positions. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
But reaching the city might cost many lives. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The Kurdish forces have been moving forward steadily | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
We're now at a distance of about 300 metres from the nearest | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
IS positions, but this is really just the first stage | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
of what is expected to be a long battle. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
Donald Trump claims the media and Hillary Clinton rigging the US | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
election. More than two years | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
after being kidnapped, 21 Chibok schoolgirls return home | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
to their families. And China's reaching | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
for the moon and possibly Mars, after successfully launching two | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
astronauts into space Hello and welcome to World News | :01:01. | :01:17. | |
Today. The offensive to drive Islamic State | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
militants out of Mosul, their last major stronghold | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
in Iraq, is continuing. 30,000 Iraqi troops and Kurdish | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
fighters are taking part in the offensive | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
on the northern city, Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
joined Kurdish fighters Here's her report | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
from the frontline. At first light, the advance | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
on so-called Islamic State. Zero hour had finally come, | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
bringing an offensive that could decide the fate | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
of the extremists We joined Peshmerga fighters | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
from the autonomous Kurdish region. There name means | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
"those who face death" and they were ready | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
to kill and die today. Well, the offensive | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
is now well underway. The Kurdish forces have been | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
moving forward steadily and We are now at a distance | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
of about 300 metres from the nearest IS positions, but this is really | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
just the first stage of what is expected | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
to be a long battle. It could take months | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to drive the IS fighters First, they have to be flushed out | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
of the villages up ahead. There were only a handful | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
of IS remaining, but the Peshmerga Here's what happened | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
when one attacker approached Before he could reach them, | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
his vehicle exploded. Two more attackers were stopped | :02:54. | :03:16. | |
by air strikes from The Peshmerga say they are | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
fighting a global battle. TRANSLATION: We have | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
a powerful enemy. They are not just fighting the Kurds | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
or the Shia, says the colonel. We want to defeat them | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
for everyone's sake. And this is the territory IS | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
has been forced to abandon. Any civilians were | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
already long gone. There was little enough | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
resistance here. But it will be a very | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
different story inside Mosul. The Kurds are supposed | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
to clear a path to the city, But as they drive out IS, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
they've been adding to their territory and what they have | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
captured they intend to keep. Just one of the ways | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
in which the battle for Mosul Orla Guerin, BBC News, | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
on the front line. Those living in Mosul are facing | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
an impossible decision - The UN says it believes | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
up to 100,000 people may escape to Syria or Turkey, | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
but it's likely many will be head of UNICEF's field office | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
in the Iraqi city of Irbil. Thank you very much for joining us. | :04:34. | :04:50. | |
There are obvious dangers for the Army in Read taking Mosul but what | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
are these humanitarian challenges, helping people physically and | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
mentally affected by living under these Islamic State militants for so | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
long? Thank you for this opportunity. The main concern is the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
safety and well-being of the children. And the families that are | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
fleeing from Mosul. Making sure those children who spent many years | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
with the Isil under extremely physical conditions, making sure | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
that when they come out they find a solidity is and services that are | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
friendly to them, that is the critical priority for now. I guess | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
that is the main challenge, trying to delve into the mind of these | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
people, even young people, who have lived for so long under this regime | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
in Mosul? You have had experience in other conflicts, but anything quite | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
like this? This is extremely difficult and very, very hard to | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
equate with other emergencies. It is exceptionally challenging. Children | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
and communities live under very difficult conditions. We know | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
children have missed their schools under Isis, many of them were not | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
immunised, they are traumatised, have seen a lot of distractions, and | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
it is a condition that none of us wish to be. -- a lot of destruction. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
If there is still meet, we understand this could go on for | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
quite awhile, and some innocent could be used as human shields. Is | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
that a real concern for you? Definitely anything that harms the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
children and the people is a real concern to ours and to all aid | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
agencies working under these conditions. I just want to ask you | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
briefly, how hard is it to get the message into Mosul in terms of | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
letting these people know after what happens when the city is liberated, | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
if it is? Those specific security details are not within the reach of | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
the aid agencies, but the message that comes out of aid agencies and | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
the humanitarian structure is making sure agencies are prepared, put | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
resources in place, teams in place, and focus more on preparedness and | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
response of planning when people are out of the danger and brought into | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
camps and the government is working on that, that is our priority, line | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
of possibility on weight we should be looking. Thank you very much. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
When so-called Islamic State took Mosul, in June 2014, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
it became a symbol of its growing power in the region. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Its leader chose the city to announce a caliphate. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
As our World Affairs Editor John Simpson reports, re-capturing | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Mosul would have huge implications for the region, | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Mosul would have huge implications for the region. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
Back in June 2014, they seemed unstoppable, driving a far bigger | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
force of Iraqi soldiers out of Mosul. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, their leader, announced he was setting | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
up a Muslim caliphate, covering large parts | :08:19. | :08:19. | |
But their extremism quickly alienated people, | :08:20. | :08:31. | |
especially given the public brutality of the constant | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
executions they carried out, often for trivial offences. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
How serious is this for so-called Islamic State? | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Well, this was the area IS controlled | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Now, 21 months later, it's in retreat almost everywhere. | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
But because Mosul is Sunni dominated, the operation | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Kurdish troops make up a sizeable proportion of the attacking force. | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
The Iraqi army has a Shia majority and there's been a history | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
of bitter hostility between them and the Sunnis in the region. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
The force is being backed by Western air strikes against IS positions. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
There are around 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish trips altogether | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
against between 3,500 and 5,000 IS fighters. | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
But the defenders have had time to prepare. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
They'll have planted of booby-trap bombs. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Britain's involved in the Mosul campaign. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
As recently as yesterday, our Typhoons and unmanned aircraft | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
were striking terrorist positions on the outskirts of Mosul. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
And our army has been helping to train the Iraqi and Peshmerga | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
And our army has been helping to train the Iraqi | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
and Peshmerga forces who will be doing the fighting. | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
We're not putting combat troops on the ground into this operation. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
The real danger is that the attack on Mosul could result | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
A million inhabitants may need food and shelter and be | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
If things go wrong, Mosul could turn into an Iraqi version of Aleppo | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
and Russia would then claim that its ferocious tactics | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
EU foreign ministers have strongly criticised Russia | :10:24. | :10:44. | |
A statement issued after talks in Luxembourg condemned Russia | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
for causing untold suffering in eastern Aleppo. | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
Russia and the Syrian government were accused of deliberately | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Moscow has just announced it will observe an eight-hour pause | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
in air strikes on Thursday to allow civilians | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
Speaking after that meeting, the EU High Representative | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Federica Mogherini, said the top priority was for the Syrian | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
regime and Russia to stop the bombing of Aleppo. | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
We say that the European Union firmly believes that there is no | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
This means that the European Union supports and encourages all efforts | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
in all formats to stop, not only the bombing on Aleppo, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
but also supports all efforts to avoid any further military | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
escalation and any further direct confrontation on a military level | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
and also supports all efforts in all formats to agree, | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
implement and monitor an effective ceasefire. | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Now, let's take a look at some of the day's other news. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
The first 14 of around 100 child refugees earmarked | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
for resettlement are on their way to Britain from the makeshift camp | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Most of them are thought to be aged around 16. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
They've been living at the Jungle without their families. | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
One person has died and six others have been injured after an explosion | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
at a factory of the chemical giant BASF in Germany. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
The explosion happened at a river harbour during work on a pipeline | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
route for transporting raw chemicals for shipping. | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Six more people are still unaccounted for. | :12:15. | :12:27. | |
A committee of experts in Austria has decided that the house | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
in which Adolf Hitler was born - should be torn down - | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
and a new structure built in its place. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
They've recommended that the new building is used | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
With just 21 days to go until the US election, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Donald Trump has claimed it's all rigged against him. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Writing on Twitter, he's repeated his unsubstantiated claim | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
that the media is publishing negative stories to help | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
It's the latest in a series of comments where | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
he's called into question the fairness of this election. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
Katty Kay joins us now from Washington. | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
Thanks for joining us. Mr Trump says there has been voter fraud, one big | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
supporter has said the Democrats are cheating, do these claims have any | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
basis? Very little. The evidence for voter fraud in the United States | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
over the past few decades is slim, the Washington Post has done an | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
extensive survey looking at voter fraud between 2000 and 2014 and find | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
a total of 31 cases, of people impersonating somebody else to take | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
their vote away from them, effectively, so not much basis for | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
this. Today we are seeing pushback from constitutional lawyers, as well | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
as from some Republican party state operatives, the Secretary of State | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
for a Republican from self, the chief Republican in state, has said | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
he can assure Mr Trump the voting is not right but will be free and fair. | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
And it is even some dispute amongst the Donald Trump campaign about what | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
he means when he says things like fraud is going on on a large scale | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
already, that the election is absolutely wrecked, including at | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
polling places, so not clear what he means by that, what kind of Rocky is | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
talking about. Not even total clarity in his campaign about what | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
he means. But this message of the rigged election, is that resonating | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
with his core base? It does very much salt. When you speak to trump | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
supporters, the field, -- when you speak to Tump supporters, and there | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
have been sections of United States who have felt the establishment is | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
stacked against them, somehow it is corrupt and they cannot win | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
elections fairly, the conservative movement because they see the media | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
is biased against them, but knew to be seeing the election itself is | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
rigged, but this establishment anger that some high PR not getting a fair | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
shake, I remember hearing that in 2000 and eight at seven appeal and | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
rallies. But to have the candidates themselves -- during that in 2008 at | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
rallies for Sarah Palin, but surprising to hear that voter fraud | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
is taking place. Thank you. There have been emotional scenes | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
in the Nigerian capital, where 21 of the 276 kidnapped Chibok | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
schoolgirls were reunited The girls were taken by the Islamist | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
group Boko Haram in April 2014. It is unclear how the release | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
was negotiated, but an official says talks are underway | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
to free more girls. After 2.5 years, | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
they're free at last! Daughters reunited | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
with their parents. It was a time for celebration, | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
but also reflection. We are so excited, we never thought | :15:50. | :16:17. | |
this day would come. These girls were amongst those abducted by | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
extremist from Boko Haram. One described what she had experienced. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
TRANSLATION: I never thought I would see you again. | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
There was a day when a bomb dropped by jet very close to where I was. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
It is only by God's grace we survived. | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
For 30 days, we were without food, but yet, we are here. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
The parents wanted their daughters to get an education but it was a joy | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
speed. Had cost them their children. -- but it was a choice that they | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
thought had cost them their children. | :16:53. | :16:53. | |
TRANSLATION: I said to her, "Are you really alive?" | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
And she replied, "Yes, I am." We both burst into tears. | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
What did she tell you about her time in captivity? | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
They were told their parents were no longer alive, | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
They never imagined that they would see us again. | :17:03. | :17:15. | |
But officials seek negotiations are continuing, but dozens of students | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
reportedly don't want to come home after marrying fighters. | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
For now, these girls are free to rejoice. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
But recovering will not be easy with so many of their schoolmates still | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
being held. The British Government says it had | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
nothing to do with a decision to withdraw UK banking services | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
from Russian-state broadcaster RT. The broadcaster's editor in chief | :17:46. | :18:02. | |
said that NatWest's decision was final. Micron said they are | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
contacting the company to discuss further. -- NatWest said. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Oksana Boyko is an RT presenter based in Moscow, and joins me now. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Thank you for joining us, do you have any more detail about this? We | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
were not expecting it at all. I think it would be exciting to see | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the bank perhaps reconsider or at least look into the matter, because | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
the letter sent to ours states that the decision is final, they are not | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
in the decision to even the go see it, and that was after more than ten | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
years of having a pretty good relationship with the bank. We were | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
satisfied with services and thought we were good clients. But if they | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
are willing to look into the matter, all the better, but we are looking | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
into alternative options, because as I said, that came pretty unexpected. | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
You have been in the UK, but have run into difficulty, some claiming a | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
lack of impartiality, do you think that is the reason for the closing | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
of this banking system for you? The British government says it is not | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
involved, do you also accept that? Well... I think it is yet to be | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
seen. Again the drop nature of that statement -- abrupt nature of that | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
statement raised suspicions, especially given the bank, Royal | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
Bank of Scotland, is owned by the government, 73% of shares owned by | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
the government, why we suspected some government length. You are | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
right that we have been under pressure in the UK, we don't think | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
that is because of the lack of impartiality, in fact, we don't | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
think that any broadcaster present in the UK is impartial for that | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
matter, but we do believe that we are bringing a valuable alternative | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
position to the British audience and we hope to continue doing so, | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
especially given for example the BBC has a very sprawling operation in | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Moscow, hiding a lot of people now to bring Russian language news to | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
the Russian audience there, hiding a lot of producers and reporters, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
essentially what we have been doing in the UK -- hiring. We hope to | :20:22. | :20:35. | |
continue. Without banking, is it possible to continue long-term? I | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
think it is possible if you bring the international News, you can do | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
that fire the internet, but as we said, we would like to stay in the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
UK and produced local content. I think that is, to be honest, that is | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
the bone of contention here, because, as you noted, not everybody | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
has been happy with the kind of news we bring to the British audience, it | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
is often contradicting not only the line that the British government | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
takes, but also the editorial lines of many British broadcaster. Thank | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
you for joining us, we will have to leave it there. That is a presenter | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
with RT. The country is celebrating | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
after successfully sending two astronauts to its orbiting space lab | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
called Heavenly Palace 2. They'll be there for the next | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
33 days carrying out research. Beijing invited a handful of foreign | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
journalists to observe the launch. Amongst them was our China | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Correspondent Stephen McDonell. Seeing this Chinese rocket take-off | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
was every bit as powerful This country has great ambitions, | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
when it comes to the stars. And there is a feeling here | :21:52. | :22:08. | |
that nothing can stop them. It's not something a journalist | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
is normally allowed It's not often you get to go | :22:17. | :22:17. | |
to a press conference with astronauts and I have to say | :22:18. | :22:37. | |
it's rather exciting. But if I swing around here, | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
you can see this is the bubble Now, the reason they're behind glass | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
is they do not want to get sick. I suppose, if you are blasting off | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
to spend a month living on the space station, | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
you wouldn't want to be TRANSLATION: Being an astronaut | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
is my dream and my duty. Although the job is full | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
of challenges and risks, In two days' time, Jinh Haipeng | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
and Chen Dong will be on board They said they couldn't wait | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
to look back down on the planet in the Gobi Desert, | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
north-western China. Now, Sir David Attenborough has | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
a new accolade to add to the many he's notched up over a decades-long | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
career in which he's brought the natural world | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
into our living rooms. He was guest of honour today | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead in the North | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
of England, where construction has begun on a research | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
ship named after the But as Victoria Gill reports, | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
the ship could have ended up Just reaching the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Antarctic is tough. But at a time of rapid | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
environmental change, So, in a Birkenhead shipyard, | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
thousands of miles from the icy ocean, a polar research vessel | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
is under construction. News of this ?200 million UK | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
investment in polar science was almost eclipsed by the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
online vote to name the ship with the public overwhelmingly | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
opting for the name Despite that, the vessel | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
has been named Sir David Attenborough, | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
in honour of Britain's most If you have any knowledge | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
of Antarctic exploration, or Arctic exploration, or the Navy, | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
you can think of some very, very distinguished names | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
that have been carried by ships. That my name should be among them | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
now is a very humbling realisation. Sir David took part in a ceremony | :24:42. | :24:54. | |
today to begin the ship's construction winching a huge section | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
of its keel into place. But Boaty McBoatface | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
lives on - this is Boaty. It's a robotic submersible that | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
will be deployed from the deck of the vessel, carrying out | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
on the water investigations in places that would | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
otherwise be inaccessible With the first polar | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
mission scheduled for 2019, Sir David and Boaty will set | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
out to explore Earth's A great honour for Sir David. The | :25:23. | :25:37. | |
main headline, the offensive to drive Islamic State forces out of | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Mosul has begun. Kurdish fighters have spearheaded the operation | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
clearing the way Iraqi troops. Don't forgot, you can get in touch | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
with me on Twitter. That is all for now. Stick around | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
The week has certainly started on a marked sunshine and showers | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
theme, quite breezy in places as well, I'm sure | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
No great surprise when you see the chart, because we have a number | :26:13. | :26:16. |