Mosul: Life After ISIS
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The changing sights and sounds of Iraq's second city. Kate Adie introduces stories, wit, and analysis from correspondents around the world: Shaimaa Khalil meets a musician finally able to play his violin again and students returning to their studies in post-ISIS Mosul. John Sudworth finds that reporting from China’s Xinxjang province is difficult, risky and expensive – just the way the authorities there seem to want it to be. In Brazil, Katy Watson joins the queue for a Yellow Fever vaccine amid the panic caused by the latest outbreak. John Watkins delves into Albania’s national archive, where thousands of decaying film reels reveal much about its communist past. And Mike Wendling meets Swedish politician Hanif Bali who wants to close the country’s borders and keep migrants out. As well as being a social media star, the MP is also a migrant himself having left Iran as a child.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, the challenge of reporting in China, |
| 0:08.0 | daily difficulties and our correspondent is followed, harassed and detained in Xinjiang. |
| 0:14.0 | Brazil and its enemy, the mosquito, which delivered Zika virus, |
| 0:18.0 | and now has people queuing for vaccinations against yellow fever. Albania for years an isolated grim communist state but we discover a |
| 0:28.2 | curious and decaying film archive of the time and we meet a social media star in Sweden, an Iranian who wants to keep |
| 0:37.1 | other migrants out. |
| 0:40.3 | The Iraqi city of Mosul was captured by ISIS in June 2014 and it was there that Abbabaka |
| 0:46.5 | al-Baggdadi proclaimed the creation of his caliphate. The ancient mosque where he made the announcement was later destroyed |
| 0:54.0 | blown up by the militants say the Iraqi army along with much of the city |
| 0:58.7 | Dissenting citizens were tortured publicly beheaded women controlled and abused, a reign of terror. |
| 1:06.2 | Only last year did the government regain control and Shima Kaleel has been seeing how Iraqi |
| 1:12.0 | Second City is adjusting to life after ISIS. |
| 1:16.0 | Musil is about an hour and a half |
| 1:17.8 | stride from the northern city of Erbil. |
| 1:20.0 | An hour and a half, if you're lucky with the checkpoints that is. |
| 1:23.0 | We sailed through some of them, |
| 1:25.0 | but are stopped, questioned and asked for permits |
| 1:28.0 | that we didn't even know existed at others. |
| 1:31.0 | Iraqi and Shia flags flutter by the roadside, a clear sign of who's in charge of |
| 1:36.4 | Musil now. As we approach the city, I notice signs on lampposts. Our culture, our pride, declares one. Another says, |
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