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This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Iraqi military has gained control of the last road leading out | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
We've heard three car bombs going off in the distance, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
we've also had a lot of incoming mortar fire, you can hear now | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Turkey's President Erdogan demands international sanctions | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
against the Netherlands, calling it a banana republic, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The creator of the World Wide Web issues a warning about fake news | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
And, Tottenham Hotspur through to the English FA Cup semifinals. | :00:43. | :01:08. | |
Iraqi forces have made more gains in west Mosul, | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the largest city still under the control of the | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
They claim to have cut the last road out of the city. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Government troops, backed by a US-led coalition, | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
recaptured the east of the city in late January, after more | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Now they say a third of the west, which is almost completely | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
But around 600,000 civilians are still believed to be trapped inside. | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
Our Middle East Correspondent Orla Guerin and cameraman Nico Hameon | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
have been travelling with the Iraqi forces. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
A warning, you may find parts of their report distressing. | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Caught below, hundreds of thousands of civilians. | :01:55. | :02:09. | |
This is the place where IS proclaimed its caliphate. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Here it was born, and here Iraqi forces say it will die. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
On the ground, they are advancing, but struggling to hold | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Then, frantic gunfire towards a threat overhead. | :02:24. | :02:41. | |
An IS drone maybe carrying explosives, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
As you can hear, there is a lot of gunfire in the area. | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
There are snipers in position on this street. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
We have cover here, so we won't be moving from this position, | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
but within the last half an hour or so, we have heard three car bombs | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
We have also had a lot of incoming mortar fire. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
You can hear now the sounds of battle. | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
The IS fighters that are in this area are putting | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Troops using every weapon, even home-made rockets. | :03:18. | :03:31. | |
Then, the rush to retrieve a casualty. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
We can't say how many have paid with their lives, Iraqi forces don't | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
But commanders say they have to defeat IS here or fight them | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
And as the fighting rages, more weary civilians leave | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
scarred neighbourhoods, where they have been caught | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Few may have endured more than this man. | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
IS put an anti-aircraft gun near his house. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
An air strike targeting the extremists brought | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
TRANSLATION: Three of my daughters are dead. | :04:21. | :04:38. | |
My daughters were under the concrete of the house. | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
They didn't let me see them before they were buried. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
As well as losing his daughters and his home, he lost his leg. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
He prays God will destroy IS, as they have destroyed Iraq. | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
Let's go to neighbouring Turkey, where President Erdogan has warned | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
the Netherlands it will pay the price after two of his | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
ministers were prevented from a rally in Rotterdam. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Mr Erdogan has again called the Dutch "Nazis", | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
and described the Netherlands as a "banana republic". | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has demanded an apology. | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
Not our usual image of the Netherlands. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
This was the wound the dog left behind as riot police | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
used considerable force against Turkish demonstrators. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
They were angered by the Dutch government's refusal | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
to allow their politicians to attend a campaign rally in support | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
He is counting on the backing of more than a million Turkish | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
citizens living in Europe to expand his powers back home | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
But his Minister for Families wasn't allowed to address them. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
The second Turkish minister turned back by the Dutch government. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
TRANSLATION: In Holland, Holland as a country that speaks | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
of freedom and democracy, we were faced with very | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
It is ugly of Europeans who talk about women's rights and tell us how | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
All this followed President Erdogan's far-stronger | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
language at a rally, denouncing the Dutch as "Nazi | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Those words have infuriated several European governments, | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
including Germany's, mindful of the Nazi | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
occupation of Holland during the Second World War. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
We are absolutely willing to deescalate. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Of course, these utterings of the President of | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
the Turkish Republic, they do not help, and they are | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
But this is also the collision of two electoral campaigns, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
The Dutch go to the polls first, on Wednesday. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
It's been a tense campaign, dominated by the anti-immigration | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
He blames the Prime Minister for allowing immigrants in, | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
It's unclear how the weekend violence and the extraordinary | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
diplomatic crisis with Turkey will influence Dutch voters, making | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
big choices against a background of rising populism across Europe. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Well, I've been speaking to a close ally of President Erdogan. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Egemen Bagis has also served as the Turkish Minister of EU Affairs. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
He began by telling me why his country's government | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
The way members of the governing party are treated are inhumane, | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
It is against the EU and the Council of Europe and the United Nations. | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
What did you make of the language the President is using? | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
He has called the Dutch Nazi remnants. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Is it appropriate to be using that sort of language? | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
The language he uses is a reaction to the illogical actions | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Is it appropriate, given Europe's painful past | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
That is not our mistake or our problem. | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
But Hitler was afraid of the Jews, he was afraid they were getting too | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
strong, and some people in Europe think 5 million Turks | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
is quite a lot for Europe and they are getting too strong. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Are you comparing the modern-day German Government and the Dutch | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
I am not comparing them to them, but they are reminding | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
of the illogical actions of mankind towards others. | :09:10. | :09:10. | |
They should respect that these people have the right to learn | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
from visiting ministers, politicians from both ends, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Nobody is forcing them to meet with these ministers, | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
but those who want to come and meet them and learn from them and ask | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
This is basic democratic right, basic freedom of speech, | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
The President has said that a price needs to be paid, | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
We have already announced that the ambassador who was away, | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
left Turkey a day before this crisis, will not be welcomed | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
We expect the Netherlands, a country with whom we have more | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
than 400 years of relations, to explain and apologise why | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
they acted in a furious way, because our minister was travelling | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
on a diplomatic passport, she the right to go to our | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
consulate, she was 30 metres away from our consulate general's | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
residence and she was not able to enter her own diplomatic property. | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
A close ally of President Erdogan there. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Let's take a look at some other stories for you this hour. | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
The former President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, has adopted a defiant | :10:45. | :10:45. | |
attitude in her first statement since being removed from office | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Following her departure from the Presidential palace, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Miss Park said the truth would eventually emerge | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
She may now face criminal prosecution. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
A bus has veered into a crowd in Haiti, killing 34 people. | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
The incident happened in the town of Gonaives, | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
north of the capital, Port au Prince. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
Officials say the bus first knocked over two pedestrians, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
The driver then attempted to speed away from the scene, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
ploughing into a group of street musicians. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
South African police say a baby whose apparent abduction sparked | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
The baby was discovered by police early on Sunday morning | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
and is now being looked after by social services. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
The police have arrested three people, including the baby's mother. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
At least 48 people are reported to have been killed in Ethiopia | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
in a landslide at a huge rubbish dump outside the capital, | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
Dozens of homes have been buried under the rubble and there are fears | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Desperate residents wait for news at this rubbish | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
A massive landslide swept through the site on Saturday, | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Many of the victims were women and children, squatters | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
who scavenged for a living in the dump. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
Many people are still missing, and today excavators sifted | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
through the rubbish, as authorities searched | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
TRANSLATION: I heard that eight children who were studying the holy | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Koran were all buried somewhere in the middle of the rubble. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
This landfill has been a dumping ground for the capital's garbage | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
There have been smaller landslides in the past, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Authorities warned the landfill was running out of room, | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
But dumping resumed after a new landfill | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
TRANSLATION: We told them not to dump on the top. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
I think the decision by the city's officials to resume dumping | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
waste was the main reason for this accident. | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
I think around 150 people were here during the landslide. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Local authorities have vowed to relocate those who live here. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
But for these families, action has come too late. | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
The creator of the World Wide Web has used a warning about fake news | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
and the abuse of data online. The numbers of dead and wounded | :13:31. | :13:45. | |
defied belief, this the worst terrorist atrocity on European soil | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
in modern times. In less than 24 hours the Soviet | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Union lost an elderly Sikh leader and replaced him with a dynamic | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
figure 20 years his junior. With's we heard gunshots, they | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
started firing. We were all petrified. | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Sentenced to 99 years, due for parole when he is 90, travelled to | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Nashville State prison in an eight car convoy. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
What is it feel like to be married at last? It feels fine, thank you. | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
Will it change your life? I don't know, I have never been married | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
before! The Iraqi military has gained | :14:33. | :14:51. | |
control of the last road leading out of the city of Mosul. | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
The Turkish president has called the Netherlands a banana republic and | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
demanded international sanctions in the worsening dramatic row between | :15:04. | :15:04. | |
the countries. A group of British MPs are warning | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
that the Government has not sufficiently planned | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
for what would happen if ministers can't reach a deal | :15:11. | :15:11. | |
with the European Union When Brexit is triggered, | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
ministers have two years The MPs say not enough work has been | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
done on what would happen For months she has vowed | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
to kick-start Brexit talks But some here in Parliament | :15:24. | :15:37. | |
are fighting to get safeguards written into law before | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
the negotiations begin. Today, the Brexit Secretary tried | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
to reassure MPs and peers that they would get a vote | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
on the Prime Minister's either House of Parliament | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
reversing the decision Peers have defeated the Government | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
twice, and Labour's standing firm. What we say to the Prime Minister, | :15:59. | :16:13. | |
and I wrote to her on Friday, reflect on what the House | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
of Lords has said. they have sent back | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
two important issues. This issue of the EU | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
nationals, reflect on it. Don't have this obsession | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
with getting Article 50 The two-line Brexit bill is still | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
making its way through Parliament. Last week, the House | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
of Lords made their changes. The Government will try to overturn | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
these in the Commons tomorrow. If they succeed, the Bill returns | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
to the Lords almost immediately, and if they give way, | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
the final stage of Royal Assent So, the Government has Parliamentary | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
hurdles to get over this week, but ministers seem confident that | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Theresa May will be able to stick to her original plan, | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
formally telling the rest of the EU that the UK is ready to start | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
negotiating its exit. Attention is turning | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
to exactly what kind of deal, The Prime Minister has said publicly | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
that no deal for the UK is better than a bad deal, | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
but that would mean tariffs on exports, under | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
World Trade Organisation rules. My fear is that what this is really | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
about is us deliberately - not the Prime Minister, but others - | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
deliberately ensuring And no deal pretty soon, | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
and in that event, we jump off the cliff onto WTO tariffs, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
and nobody in this country... The people of this | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
country don't have a say. Mr Davis admits the Government | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
is preparing a contingency plan in case there is no deal, | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
but he doesn't think There will be tough points | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
in this negotiation. But it's in everybody's interest | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
that we get a good outcome. Parliament's debate about the bill | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
isn't quite over, but after months of talking about the talk, | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
formal negotiations The creator of the World Wide Web | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
has expressed concern about the abuse of data online | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
and the spread of fake news. Tim Berners-Lee said | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
that he was increasingly worried about three trends which he says | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
must be tackled. First, he argues that many | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
people have lost control of their personal data, | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
as governments around the world He also says that misinformation can | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
travel easily around the web, pointing out that sites creating | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
fake news are "spreading And finally, he says that | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
as political advertising online has become an increasingly-sophisticated | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
industry, it needs to Dr Bernie Hogan is from | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
the Oxford Internet Institute. It's a really important series | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
of issues that are happening. With respect to the first one, | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
this is partially in reaction to a lot of concerns about data sharing | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
within government organisations, undermining personal | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
protection acts. And there is a lot that is being | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
done that we don't really know And so there is little | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
transparency and little A lot of it comes down to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
the establishment of the source But a lot of these sites that | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
are "fake news" are really fly by night blogs that just popped up | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
one day and are gone the next. And they're not | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
really an established And so that's very | :19:50. | :19:50. | |
different from news that we see with bodies from established | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
series of professionals that abide by guidelines | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
and otherwise take their I think that this is something, | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
at least in the UK, where we should lean on Ofcom in order | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
to think about what is appropriate Although Ofcom doesn't | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
concern itself to the same extent with online | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
news organisations. Unfortunately, this | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
is a global phenomenon, and so this is not about something that | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
abides in Europe or in the UK or in the States, but these | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
servers could be anywhere. So we are somewhat at the mercy | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
of international online platforms, because they seem to have | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
much more control over the quality of this than other | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
international bodies. I mean, | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
we wouldn't really ask the UN A good day at the office the Spurs. | :20:45. | :21:05. | |
Tottenham fans will be happy, their team is true to the semifinals of | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
the FA Cup after a 6-0 victory over Millwall. Son scored a hat-trick. | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
But there were fears over Harry Kane, who limped off after seven | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
minutes. He may have injured the same ankle that kept him out for | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
five games earlier in the season. Spurs join Manchester city and | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Arsenal in the last four. Chelsea or Manchester United will complete the | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
line-up, they play on Monday. It was important for us to play well | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
and score goals and show Now we need to prepare this week | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
for the Premier League game against Southampton, | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
but very pleased, very happy, Leicester City have confirmed | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
caretaker manager Craig Shakespeare will be in charge until the end | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
of the season. The Premier League champions sacked | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Claudio Ranieri a fortnight ago Since then, Shakespeare has | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
led them to wins over Liverpool have strengthened their | :22:06. | :22:21. | |
grip on fourth place with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Burnley. They were far from their best and had to come from a goal | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
down. Ashley Barnes scored in the seventh minute, but Georginio | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Wijnaldum equalised and Emory Chan claimed the three points with a | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
strike just after the hour. It is important because, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
in the past, we have lost those We know it was not our best | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
game, but at this stage, It was all about winning | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
and to get three points. I thought overall we gave a good | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
account of ourselves. They have only been beaten | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
here once this season. The quality of the first | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
goal was fantastic. The second goal we were disappointed | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
in, but a lot of the game we gave The New Zealand head coach | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
Steve Hansen has told the BBC Eddie Jones has instilled a fresh | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
work ethic into England's Barcelona's hopes have taken a blow | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
in the Spanish league. They lost 2-1 two double TiVo. They missed the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
services of their style striker Neymar. Real Madrid are currently | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
level with Real Betis, if they win, they will go top of the league. | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Join a has been knocked out of the Indian Wells tennis by Caroline | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Garcia. The match went the distance, the British player losing on a | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
tie-break in the third set. The Frenchwoman is 25th in the world. | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
Novak Djokovic plays later. The first Test match between New | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Zealand and South Africa in an attempt was abandoned as a draw on | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
Sunday when rain washed out the final day's play. The second Test | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
match starts in Wellington on Thursday. | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
Tributes have been played to Joni Sledge, from the band Sister Sledge. | :24:39. | :25:00. | |
She was 60. Such a familiar sound, the band, made up of four sisters, | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
achieved fame in 1979 with their signature June. Other hits included | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
The Greatest Dancer. A statement from her family said Joni Sledge had | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
loved and embraced life. The main news, the Iraqi military | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
has reportedly cut the last road leading out of the city of Mosul | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
that is still held by Islamic State militants. The US envoy said Iraqi | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
soldiers had taken control of the soldiers had taken control of the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
highway overnight. Pro-government forces have been gradually advancing | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
through the suburbs of Western Mosul. They say they now hold more | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
than a third of its neighbourhoods, at 600,000 civilians are still | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
believed to be trapped inside the West. | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
From me and the rest of the team, goodbye. | :25:53. | :25:59. |