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The headlines: Iraqi forces have taken more ground in the battle

to drive Islamic State militants from Mosul.

As the fight edges closer, the US defence secretary promises

the Iraqi Prime Minister that significant resources will be set

Donald Trump vows to block trade deals if he's elected and root out

We will drain the swamp in Washington, DC.

Also coming up: In the French port of Calais, migrants and police

clash, ahead of the demolition of the camp known as

Just who was behind the massive cyber attack that affected cameras,

The US Defence Secretary has been holding talks

It focussed on the operation to re-take the city

of Mosul from the so called Islamic StateAsh Carter wants Turkey

But Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi - says it will be Iraqis who will

On the ground - the Iraqi military says it has

stormed the town of Qara-kosh - which is southeast of Mosul.

Qara-kosh was the country's largest Christian town - before the war -

that was until IS took control of it in 2014.

The military say dozens of villages on the outskirts of Mosul have

With more, here's Shaimaa Khailil who sent this report

Closing in on Mosul and the so-called Islamic State. But as the

Iraqi and Kurdish forces get closer, the resistance grows fiercer. The

battle for Mosul is in its six day and every day brings more

challenges. This town is 15 kilometres array -- away from Mosul.

It was recaptured from IS biters on Thursday. Today, however, is a

different story. A convoy of Iraqi special forces came under fire from

Iraqi. In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Kurdish forces have regained

control, but there are still pockets of resistance by IS. Friday the Mac

attack took everyone by surprise, not least the Iraqi and Kurdish

forces. With most of the resources focused on Mosul. When the Mosul

offensive started, the Major concern was about IS back -- in the city and

the areas around it but if the attack on Kirkuk proves anything, it

is that the so-called Islamic State will fight back not just in Mosul

but in key cities away from the central battle. The US Defence

Secretary is in Iraq at the moment discussing progress on the Mosul

Operation Herne tried to get Iraq to accept Turkish support. Turkey, says

it neighbours the region of Mosul, has an interest in the ultimate

outcome in Mosul. Many other parties do as well, it is a complicated

city. If Turkey does get involved, that is another element that adds to

the mosaic of players that has come together to fight the so-called

Islamic State. The challenge is not only to recapture Mosul but also to

keep those different forces on the same side as they fight a united and

determined enemy. Meanwhile, hundreds of people

are being treated for the effects of toxic gases after a sulphur plant

was set alight south of Mosul. The fire began two days ago,

when IS militants reportedly set Sulphur dioxide can cause vomiting

and lasting damage to airways If you want more on the fight for

Mosul, go to our website when you will find all the latest

developments and background, including analysis on which factions

and groups are involved in the fighting.

To the US now, where the Republican candidate for US President,

Donald Trump, has been giving more details about what he'd do

in his first 100 days if he won the election.

Speaking at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania,

Mr Trump said he would either re-negotiate or withdraw

completely from some international trade deals.

He vowed to halt billions of dollars in payments to United Nations

climate change programmes and Mr Trump said he would make it

easier to produce oil, gas and clean coal in the United States.

The presidential hopeful also said he'd place restrictions on

The rigging of the system is designed for one reason, to keep the

corrupt establishment and special interests in power at your expense

and everybody's expense. I have no special interest but you, the

American voter. I didn't have to do this, believe me. There is nothing

easy about it. But I had to do it, I love our country, I love the people

of our country, and I felt I had to do it.

Let's get more analysis on this. Donald Trump making this speech in

the significant town of Gettysburg, pitting himself to be the man of the

people. This is Donald Trump attempting to press the reset button

when it comes to his campaign. He says he is the man of the little

person, he is the man of the American worker, he is the man to

Hugh are all American division. Gettysburg was the turning point of

the Civil War and it is where Abraham Lincoln made his famous

speech trying to unite Americans after the Civil War. That is what

Donald Trump seems to aspire to do. He has a few problems with that.

First of all, he is seen as a very divisive figure in this campaign,

even within his own party. Within the last few days, Republicans have

put out an advert saying, we didn't want to many Hillarys in Washington.

The indication is that they fear Donald Trump might not winds,

therefore they want the Republicans to keep the house and the Senate.

What Donald Trump is trying very much here to put some clear policy

guidelines down and look forward and say this is what I would do within

the first 100 days of office, and in doing so, there were some clear

points. Immigration, we knew about the wall, but we didn't know about

mandatory risen sentences for those who breach the wall and come over

here illegally. We heard also about the limits on congressional,

Congress women and men serving. That will go down very well with his core

support who believe Washington are too big. It may go down well with

his core supporters but what about those voters who may not be quite

convinced about Donald Trump? We had 17 days to go and today, he has

unveiled his plans for the first 100 days in office. Many people think it

might be too late and he also unveiled it in a state that he

appears to be losing, it is a swing state. There are other states that

may swing towards the Democrats. So, he knows this has to work. Will it

work? He has pitched himself successfully as the

antiestablishment candidate and Hillary Clinton, among some voters,

isn't popular either, mostly because she is an established political. Who

knows, he might be touching a nerve, but it might be too late. A

fascinating campaign. Thank you very much.

Well, there are just 17 days to go until election day.

If you want more analysis, background - go to our website.

There, you'll find a dedicated election page.

The telecoms giant AT is set to announce a deal to buy

Time Warner for more than $80 billion.

It would give the company control of the cable TV

channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Brothers,

The President of the European Parliament says he is optimistic

that the free trade deal between the EU and Canada

That's despite last-minute obstacles.

Martin Schulz has held talks with leaders of the Belgian region

of Wallonia, who are attempting to block the deal.

Heavy fighting has erupted in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

It comes shortly after the end of a 72-hour ceasefire.

The United Nations said it had been unable to evacuate anyone

from the besieged rebel-held district during the truce

because the safety of its staff had not been guaranteed.

Migrants have clashed with French police at the Calais Jungle camp

It comes as the authorities prepared to demolish the camp. The home is

home -- the camp is home to around 5000 people, including children.

The preparations are well under way. The mad, things are tense.

Throughout the last hour or so, we have had a group of migrants who

have been throwing stones up towards that road which leads towards the

port and also towards Eurontunnel. Some have been rushing towards the

fence and the police have been responding by firing smoke grenades

into the cloud of migrants, there is still smoke behind me, there is

still a situation ongoing this evening. For many people here, the

realisation has dawned that this camp, known as the jungle, will be

shut down. Just hearing some more smoke grenades being fired now. From

Monday, the migrants will have to report to a hangar just down the

road from here, they will have to register and then they will be

bussed into different parts of France, two reception centres. I

have been speaking to charities today who tell me the population of

the jungle is thought to be around 10,000 or so, and they reckon about

2000 people here will not go voluntarily. They may decide to

leave the camp beforehand and try and live rough in other parts of

Calais or in the area or they may decide to resist. Showing you the

situation around here once again. We have the police here monitoring the

situation as we speak. I think they are about to go in and try and bring

some calm to this situation which has been going on for the past hour

or so. They are armed with tear gas. We haven't seen any firing of tear

gas but we have seen smoke grenades being fired. They are heading

towards a large group of migrants in the distance there who have been

throwing objects and I've been shouting towards the police who are

up on the road there, the blue lights behind, they are the lights

of the police. They are currently stationed there, that is the road

leading to the board they are trying to keep the situation under control.

Still to come, a new world record for the New Zealand all Blacks.

Dawn, and a biblical famine is lit up. Now, in the 20th-century. The

depressing conclusion, in Argentina, it is cheaper to paper your walls

with money. As good friends, we have always found a good and lasting

solution. Concorde Bowers out in style.

The US Defence Secretary has promised significant resources or

the reconstructed of Mosul. The US Defense Secretary has

promised significant resources for the reconstruction of Mosul,

once an Iraqi-led coalition has recaptured the city

from the Islamic State group. Donald Trump has outlined a raft

of drastic measures aimed at renewing the United States,

amid signs that his presidential As the fighting escalates around

Mosul, some Iraqi families have made their way to the south of the city,

using different tactics to escape IS fighters. They paint a growing

picture of life in the city which has been under IS control for more

than two years. Just some people's stories as they

escaped IS fighters in Mozilla. Security agencies in

the United States are investigating a series of cyber attacks

which stopped people around the world accessing sites

like Twitter, Amazon The attack focussed on an American

company which provides a connection to the affected sites -

in one of the largest Some of our most popular brands went

a bit quiet yesterday. That is because net flicks, Twitter and

Spotify, amongst others, were affected by one of the biggest cyber

attacks ever. Under normal circumstances, when we type of

internet address into our computer, it gets translated by companies like

Dyn in the US into a language that computers understand. Dyn then

talked to the requested website but yesterday, it was different, hackers

ordered millions of devices and computers to unwittingly send

instructions simultaneously to Dyn. It became overwhelmed and couldn't

translate them all into code. It was -- this cyber attack has shown how

dependent we are on supercomputing just like this. It also showed the

vulnerability of some of our biggest companies and even the vulnerability

of ordinary objects in our homes. That is because ordinarily household

objects like baby monitors, webcams and printers were and wit in actors

in yesterday's cyber attack. Some of them are connected to the Wi-Fi in

our homes and were ordered by the hackers to bombard the Dyn servers.

As we get more and more devices attached to the internet, these

smart devices, unless we stop them being very easily accessed with

default username and passwords, they will be caught it into more and more

of these attacks. As for those who did it, we still don't know. One

group called New World hacking contacted me claiming it was a test

and they would target Russia, if it messed with the US. The internet is

very powerful but that power can be turned on itself, affecting all of

us. Liverpool have moved level on points

with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League after a 2-1

victory at home to It was another impressive

performance by Liverpool, who were only denied top spot

on goal difference because of Sadio Mane and Philippe Coutinho

were Liverpool's scorers. We did really well. We created

unbelievable chances, enough for scoring much more, especially in the

second half. Of course you wish, but, yeah, so it was exciting, until

the last second, and then created a kind of an atmosphere I have never

had in a Premier League game where we don't play United, Everton or

Arsenal with a draw in the last second.

Arsenal are top despite only managing a goalless draw

Arsenal thought they had scored in injury time but Mesut Ozil's

One point though was enough on Arsene Wenger's 67th birthday

The point for Middlesbrough keeps them out of the relegation zone.

Wenger would have preferred all three points but he still

promised to celebrate his birthday

and the point could go top with a draw.

At least you can have a drink on your birthday. When you win, you

deserve it. When you don't win, you needed. In any case, it can't

escape. Here are the day's other

Premier League results. Everton lost just their second

league game of the season, Great goals in the wins for Stoke

and Leicester - worth watching Sunderland are still bottom,

they conceded a 94th In rugby union, thoughts

were with the Irish side Munster's former captain and head coach

Anthony Foley today. He died less than a week ago

and tributes were paid at Munster's match against Glasgow

in the European Champions Cup. The players wanted to make him

proud, and they did just that, Elsewhere in the Champions Cup,

Saracens beat Scarlets, and Exeter are playing

Ulster right now. -- it is 13-12 to Ulster in the

second half. In the Challenge Cup,

Gloucester beat Treviso, but both Newport Gwent Dragons

and Worcester lost in Pool 3. Edinburgh held on to beat

Harlequins by a single point. And Ospreys are playing Lyon

in the evening game - it's Ospreys who are leading

10-0 at the moment. England's cricketers finished

the third day of the opening test and it's all thanks

to all-rounder Ben Stokes. By first helping remove the last

five Bangladesh wickets for just That meant the tourists led by 45

runs, going into the second innings. But they were soon in real

trouble at 62-5, But then Stokes added to his four

wickets by scoring a brilliant 85 with the bat, and by the close

of play, England were 228-8, It wasn't the greatest start, we

were a bit shocked by how many wickets we lost. There was still

time left in the game and it was a matter of occupying the crease,

rotating the strike and put the bad balls away. We have all worked very

hard on making sure that the defensive part of our game is tight

because we all know we can hit the boundaries. If we can get through

the tough periods, the more time we spend out in the middle, the easier

it will get. That is all the sports and now.

It's one of President Xi's goals for China that the country should

But so far, progress has been limited to say the least.

Qualification for the World Cup looks as far away as ever -

with embarrassing defeats to Syria and Uzbekistan.

all that, China has hired one of the most decorated

coaches of all time - Marcello Lippi who guided

If China wants to become a major nation in terms of competing in the

World Cup, they have a long way to go, they haven't participated in the

last world cups and the national team has a poor record so there is a

long way to go there. Beyond that, in order for China to become a major

player in global football, they need to develop their national league and

that also represents a major challenge since they are not great

bridge uses of national talent and it has not traditionally been a

place where the top players around the world want to go to play. China

has hired this big-name manager, can he make a difference? Yes, I think

he can. The most important thing that has changed in the last couple

of years is the arrival of the new Chinese President Hu is a huge

football fan and clearly has decided from the top that China should make

a big push to become a load -- global player. We know China has a

lot of money at its disposal and money can buy you access to the

world's top players in football. However, in addition, what you need

is access to the global football network and getting a high profile

manager like Marcello Lippi who has experience across the world and

fabulous contacts is a great step forward for the country's football

programme, if you will. China has a huge selection of people to choose

from, more than a billion, what do you think it's problem is in finding

talent? Is it a grassroots problem? Well, it is in parts. One of the

things is kids have not traditionally been the deeply

motivated to play football in China and that is something that the

government is trying to encourage. For example, by training up 50,000

new coaches to work in schools. But I think there is a deeper problem as

well which is we know that China has been very successful in developing

Olympic athletes and that party is, as you say, because they have a

billion people to select from, you can find a lot of talent there. But

the development of talented that ball is much more talent thing --

but more challenging. It is more being able to select the right

physique or even engaging in illegal doping, rather than really

developing individuality and forms of expression which is more

difficult for a centralised economy to do. Thank you. That is all from

me and the team. Thank you for being with us here on World News Today.

Goodbye.